Month: January 2020

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Black History Month Film and V-Day Overview

January 31, 2020 admin 0

​The Film Detective is a media streaming network and film archive that restores and distributes classic films. It has announced a weekly program dedicated to Black History Month throughout February on Sling, STIRR, and DistroTV. Every Wednesday at 6 PM EST The Film Detective’s flagship channel will feature a lineup dedicated to Black History Month. Titles from pioneering African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux will receive a spotlight throughout February, including God’s Stepchildren (1938) and Within […]

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Goodnight to the Queen of Suspense

January 31, 2020 News Editor 0

Mary Higgins Clark, one of the bestselling authors in the world today, has died. She was 92. Her publisher, Simon & Schuster, confirmed her death with a tweet late on January 31st: It is with deep sadness we say goodbye to the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark, author of over 40 bestselling suspense titles. She passed away peacefully this evening, January 31, at the age of 92 surrounded by family and friends. It is […]

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This Just In: If the Shoe Fits: The Story of a Real Life Cinderella by Emma Fletcher

January 30, 2020 admin 0

Most people don’t recall memories earlier than age three, unless those memories evolved from traumatic experiences. Perhaps this is why Emma Fletcher has such early memories. “Refreshingly candid, this inspirational autobiography sees actress Emma Fletcher recalling her incredible life story. Overcoming early trauma and a great deal of heartache has led to a life of compassion and maintaining a smile on her face at all costs. However, Emma’s fascinating life story, is not that of […]

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Biography: Free and Fearless by Phil Moser

January 30, 2020 admin 0

I hope to take the reader on an adventure of a lifetime that will put one’s everyday problems in their proper perspective.” — Philip Moser Brittany Moser was a spirited talented woman that lived life to the fullest. After becoming a flight attendant, she was grounded by a rare and incurable disease. She decided to go on the adventure of a lifetime and asked her best friend, her father Philip, to go with her. That’s […]

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This Just In: 50 Shades of Neigh by Stephen Coghlan

January 30, 2020 admin 0

With the threat of World War 1 and its technological horrors looming, the heir apparent to the deadliest warrior kingdom, and home to honest-to-god Centaurs, must find a new path for her peoples before they are massacred in the trenches. Journeying to America, she searches for a future free of death, but will her absence leave the kingdom vulnerable to her conniving siblings? You can order 50 Shades of Neigh here. Visit Stephen Coghlan on […]

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A Death In The Family

January 30, 2020 admin 0

Fifty-seven Canadians were killed when Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 was shot down in Iran. According to a piece in the Montreal Gazette by Jason Magder, those killed included newlyweds, students and young professionals. Perhaps just as important is the fact the victims were also sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, parents and friends from every walk of life. Stories on the tragedy were presented by nearly every major Canadian news organization including the Toronto Star, the Ottawa […]

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Canada’s Black History

January 29, 2020 admin 0

Little Burgundy in Montreal was called the Harlem of the North. Its wildly successful jazz club was called Rockhead’s Paradise. They would bring acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Billy Holiday to town. Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver was a vibrant neighborhood with a largely black population. Jimi Hendrix’s grandmother lived in Hogan’s Alley and he visited her on a number of occasions. Africville was a thriving black community in Halifax for close to 160 years. Amber […]

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This Just In… Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Donna Marks

January 29, 2020 admin 0

Are You Trapped in the Addiction Maze? Addiction is a black hole that threatens to engulf our entire society. In the U.S. alone over 100 million people are addicted, and according to the World Health Organization, over 3.3 million people die from alcohol related deaths alone each year. Billions of dollars spent on prevention and treatment have yet to slow the ever‐rising rate of addiction‐related deaths. The current models have failed. Exit the Maze arose […]

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Times New Roman #Trending

January 27, 2020 News Editor 0

We still don’t know why, late on Monday evening #TimesNewRoman started trending on Twitter. No one seemed to know. (And a lot of the noise was just people trying to figure it out.) But the reactions were priceless. https://twitter.com/PaulCrenstorm/status/1221952157479579649 #TeamHelvetica — TWEETS IZ WATCHIN' (@MercedesBoy) January 28, 2020 https://twitter.com/AustinMacD73/status/1222031036311392256 Times New Roman is trending, it is time pic.twitter.com/DM9ENb8F0l — Abacus Finch (@ClarenceDarr0w) January 28, 2020 And then, of course, because it’s January 2020, things had […]

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Solving the Misinformation Pandemic

January 27, 2020 News Editor 0

It’s National News Literacy Week and it’s all about solving the misinformation “pandemic,” says Allan Miller, founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project. From CNN: “We all bear responsibility here,” Miller said. “I would like to see a new kind of ethos of personal responsibility around … how we share and consume news and information, so that people begin to become part of the information solution, instead of being part of the misinformation problem.” […]