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Sarah Silverman takes a moment to blast Paris Hilton at the MTV Movie Awards last night, while Paris sits in the audience. It’s the kind of thing we all wish we could do once before we die. And isn’t Jack Nicholson just shocked! Thanks for living out our dream, Sarah.

Two years ago, Flightplan was opening while I was in Toronto at the film festival. I found out a day late that I had been across the street, in the Cumberland Theatre, from one of my idols, Jodie Foster, who’d been sequestered in the Four Seasons doing Canadian press. I easily could’ve passed her somewhere […]

After I raved one too many times about how good 30 Rock is, my peeps asked if I’ve ever seen the late great Fox show Arrested Development. I never bothered to catch that train, I said. Bother, they replied, handing over all three seasons on DVD. For weeks now, my nights have been filled with […]

An oddly cool day on the web for Metro, as the city is linked to a painful skateboard fall that goes prime time tonight, and preparations continue for the world lacrosse championships. But don’t worry, all’s not big and extreme on the east coast, as a couple travel mentions make clear. Full links for these […]

CBC radio’s excellent show The Current devoted a major section to Halifax this morning. Considering the city’s Commonwealth Games snub and resistance to the Twisted Towers, host Anna Maria Tremonti wondered if Halifax is going through an “identity crisis.” She convened a panel of Haligonians (councillor Sheila Fougere, former Heritage Trust president Alan Parish and […]

Which came first: the computer, or the prank? Almost certainly, the prank. But did not the computer perfect the prank? We assert, yes. And, what is more, we offer this handy computer pranking reference from Wikipedia as proof (oh, wiki…so much better than encyclo.) It also explains the picture sitting just off to the right…. […]

In honour of the weather, which has finally produced a good ol’ fashioned Canadian blizzard, and in honour of my forthcoming attempt to get home, I give you, Ktrak. Turns any bike into a snowmo-bike, it does. I’ve also heard that it pushes the tempo. You be the judge.

In case you missed it Friday night: