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Back to SearchHow creative artists fight back after getting ripped off
Montreal-based graphic artist Raymond Biesinger has a new book out called '9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off.' He describes it as an informal guide…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
From the charts to podcasts, the state of rap in 2025
Hip-hop radio veterans Mastermind and Jay Smooth, along with music industry academic Michelle Santosuosso join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss the ris…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Friday wrap on All's Fair, Die My Love, and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Critics Teri Hart, Roxana Hadadi and Jackson Weaver join guest host Amil Niazi to discuss the new Kim Kardashian legal drama ‘All’s Fair,’ and how mo…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
BONUS Sombr and the debate over concert criticism
The recent TikTok drama between Sombr and one of his fans got a lot of people talking. The 20-year-old pop star responded to a 25-year-old fan after …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The memes of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Canada in Eurovision?
How did a song about a shipwreck become one of the biggest songs of Gordon Lightfoot's career? Music critic and writer Niko Stratis and writer Conor …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Canadian literary festivals are having urgent conversations, and Rosalia is redefining global pop stardom
Literary festivals bring people together who love books, and they also move a bunch of merchandise. But what’s the deeper work happening here? Stepha…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Halo is coming to PlayStation. Are the console wars over?
Tech culture journalists Alyssa Mercante and Jonathan Ore join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about Xbox’s decision to make its exclusive game, Halo, av…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The heartbreak of fandom and why it's about more than baseball
If the World Series showed us anything this year, it’s that the game was about so much more than baseball. Elamin Abdelmahmoud sits down with Morgan …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Friday wrap on Welcome to Derry, Bugonia, and Dream Eater
Sonya Ballantyne, Beatrice Loayza and Laura Hall join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about the horrifying return of Pennywise the clown in HBO’s ‘W…
5 months ago
BONUS How Misty Copeland changed ballet
Misty Copeland took her final bow last week, retiring from a 25 year career at American Ballet Theatre. A decade ago, she made headlines when she bec…
5 months ago