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The Sphere in Las Vegas is getting rave reviews. But it wouldn’t be this successful without a Canadian company

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Back in 1987, a Lebanese immigrant to Montreal named Fred Jalbout and his brother Bassam, formed a company called Saco Technologies. Starting out by manufacturing special panels required by the nuclear power plant

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Is it time to re-evaluate U2’s Pop album and PopMart tour? Maybe.

October 30, 2018 Alan Cross 3 Comments

U2’s imperial phase–that period of their career where they could do nothing wrong–extended from the release of The Joshua Tree in March 1987 through to the end of the touring cycle for Achtung

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U2 Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Fine in Brazil

December 16, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments

In a case dating all the way back to 2003–further, if you want to talk about what happened in Brazil with the PopMart tour–Bono and Larry Mullen have been ordered to pay a