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Tanya Tagaq: True Detective, the brilliance of Jodie Foster, and creating the series’ score
What started as a meeting about Tanya Tagaq creating the score for the new season of “True Detective” ended with her being cast in her first acting r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jake Johnson on Self Reliance, getting fired, and New Girl + LU KALA has Nothing But Love
Jake Johnson (New Girl, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Jurassic World) has a new film out called “Self Reliance” that he directed, wrote, and sta…
1 year, 11 months ago
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Ava DuVernay on her new film Origin + Amelia Curran pays tribute to influential songwriter Ron Hynes
The latest film from director Ava DuVernay (Selma, 13th, A Wrinkle in Time) is called “Origin.” It follows writer Isabel Wilkerson as she writes the …
1 year, 11 months ago
June Clark: Unrequited Love, her relationship with the American flag, and the artistic appeal of rust
In the late ‘60s, the visual artist June Clark fled the United States to Canada so her husband could escape the Vietnam draft. She wasn’t an artist w…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope, coping with grief, and the 30th anniversary of the band
The feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney was a huge part of the post-riot grrrl movement. After the sudden death of one of the member’s parents turned t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Green Day: Dookie, American Idiot, and why their new album Saviors is the best they’ve ever recorded
When a band kicks off their career with a hit single about getting stoned and watching TV, it might be surprising to see them 30 years later as one o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Venus: The first Indigenous winner of Canada’s Drag Race
Fresh off her win of Season 4 of “Canada’s Drag Race,” Venus tells Tom about the surreal moment she won, what it means to her as a Metis person, and …
1 year, 11 months ago
Nikki Giovanni: Poetry, influencing the birth of hip-hop, and why being talented means being lonely
Considered one of the world’s greatest living poets, Nikki Giovanni carved out a revolutionary legacy during the civil rights era with poems that upl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Matty Matheson: The Bear, his passionate Emmys speech, and bringing his kitchen experience to the show
This week, Matty Matheson made a memorable acceptance speech at the 75th Emmys where “The Bear” swept up several awards, including best comedy series…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jasmeet Raina: Overnight internet fame, misunderstandings about his Sikh faith, and his new show Late Bloomer
From 2009 to 2018, Jasmeet Raina was known online as Jus Reign. His viral videos about being a first generation Indo-Canadian millennial amassed more…
1 year, 11 months ago