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Weekend Listen | Forged: The true story behind the Norval Morrisseau art fraud
Rock star Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies is doing rock star things — like buying paintings. And what better painting for an iconic Canadian rocker to buy than one by Norval Morrisseau, one of th…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Friday wrap on After The Hunt, Kiss of The Spider Woman, and Frankenstein
This week on the group chat, critics Hoai-Tran Bui, Reanna Cruz and Jackson Weaver chat with guest host Amil Niazi about Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo film ‘After the Hunt’ featuring Julia Roberts, the mu…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
How Marc Maron's WTF podcast changed the game? + Why is Rush back!
Marc Maron’s groundbreaking podcast WTF is over – he dropped his very last episode this week, more than 15 years after it launched. Culture critics Dominic Tardiff and Niko Stratis join Elamin Abdelm…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
D'Angelo's impact on music and pop culture, and the new podcast -- Forged
Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter D’Angelo died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Elamin is joined by music critics Jay Smooth and David Dennis Jr. to look back on D'Angelo's legacy, and ho…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Controversial 'Slave Play' production hits Toronto + Sora 2 backlash
With the controversial theater production ‘Slave Play’ coming to Toronto, Elamin Abdelamhmoud is joined by culture critics El Jones and Matt Amha with their thoughts on this most recent staging of th…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
We like you too, John Candy
More than three decades after his death, Canadian actor and comedy trailblazer John Candy is currently enjoying a renaissance thanks to a new documentary and book about his life and legacy. The book’…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Roofman, Lurker, and how believable is the dog in the thriller Good Boy?
Elamin Abdelmahmoud talks about new movies out this week with culture critics Sarah-Tai Black, Roxana Hadadi and Jourdain Searles: the horror film Good Boy, starring a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrie…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The doubt surrounding Amy Griffin’s memoir The Tell, and what MTV’s Catfish taught us about the Internet
One of the bestselling books of the year has to be The Tell by Amy Griffin. It's a memoir about how MDMA-assisted therapy helped her unearth this buried childhood trauma, but a New York Times investi…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Mariah Carey's new album, and why she's still one of the most iconic singers of our time
Elamin is joined by culture critics Pablo The Don and Michael Blackmon, along with Juno nominated singer Tanika Charles to discuss ‘Here For It All’ - the new album from Mariah Carey, and why she rem…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
The pressure on writers to write the next bestseller, and the Japanese film Demon Slayer
There’s a mounting pressure on writers to turn their debut books into bestsellers, but it hasn’t always been this way. The Walrus writer Tajja Isen and author Jen Sookfong Lee join Elamin to talk abo…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago