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Stuart Henderson

About Stuart Henderson

Stuart Henderson, PhD, is a Toronto-based historian, professor, musician, pacifist, and journalist. He is the singer-songwriter for the independent folk-rock band Ghostwalk Creek. His forthcoming book is Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the Sixties and he is presently at work on a history of censorship and the naked body in Canada.

Reviews

Music

Various Artists: The Rough Guide to: Ultimate Musical Adventures

[9.May.08] :. The most successful world-music-for-dummies label that isn't Putumayo!

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Music

Constantines: Kensington Heights

[8.May.08] :. Beautifully recorded, and alive with the unpredictable energy that drives their killer live shows, Kensington Heights demonstrates the band’s maturity, and their well-earned confidence.

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Blitzen Trapper + Fleet Foxes

[7.May.08] :. Blitzen Trapper seem to know just how good they are, and revel in their tightness, their intensity, and their passion. This is a live act it’s hard not to enjoy.

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DVDs

Marc Ribot: Marc Ribot [DVD]

[7.May.08] :. In this too-brief biographical film, French documentarian Anaïs Prosaïc aims to unravel the mystery surrounding this complicated artist

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DVDs

Fine Dead Girls

[6.May.08] :. As a meditation on the tragedy of a broken community and on the viciousness of Croatia’s recent fascistic past, this is thoughtful and incisive, if unremittingly bleak.

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DVDs   Black, White + Gray

Music   Farmer's Market: Surfin' USSR

DVDs   John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain: Remember Shakti: The Way of Beauty [DVD]

DVDs   Terry Jones: Medieval Lives

Music   Various Artists: Our Side of Town

Music   Caribbean Jazz Project: Afro Bop Alliance

Events   Drive-By Truckers

DVDs   A Global Warning?

DVDs   En La Cama

Music   Daniel Lanois: Here Is What Is

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost

[27.Mar.08] :. A dark, slippery love story, a meditation on the risks of embracing one’s muse, a study of the author and his/her “creation”, a quiet reflection on the nature of “human understanding”, this film is many things at once.

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Music   Mark Fry: Shooting the Moon

Music   Steve Dawson: Waiting for the Lights to Come Up

Events   Charlie Hunter Trio

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Miss Julie

[22.Feb.08] :. Much of the power of Strindberg’s staging comes from the juxtaposition between a celebration of life, sexuality, and freedom without, and the claustrophobic horrorshow within.

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Music   Jason Collett: Here's to Being Here

Music   Free Form Funky Frëqs: Urban Mythology Volume One

DVDs   The Gods of Times Square

Music   Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Music from the Motion Picture The Assassination of Jesse James by the Co

Music   Too : Get Off the Stage

Music   Beth Nielsen Chapman: Prism

Music   Various Artists: Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6

Music   Olivier Ker Ourio: Oversea

Music   DJ Axel: Breaking the Law

Music   Playaz Circle: Supply and Demand

Music   Patty Larkin: Watch the Sky

Music   Biréli Lagrène Gipsy Project: Just the Way You Are

DVDs   In the Heat of the Night

Music   Fancey: Schmancey

Music   The Hard Lessons: B & G Sides Vol. 1

Music   The Temptations: Back to Front

DVDs   She's Gotta Have It

DVDs   The Ten

Events   The Fiery Furnaces

DVDs   Christmas Time In South Park

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DVDs

Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition

[29.Nov.07] :. With crisp performances throughout (especially from Kyle MacLachlan, in a role he was born to play), unforgettable settings and cinematography, and inventive, uncompromising scripts from episode to episode, Twin Peaks makes for uncommonly rewarding repeat viewings.

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DVDs   A Mighty Heart

DVDs   20 to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair

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I Was Nineteen

[14.Nov.07] :. In Germany during the final days of the Second World War, peace is hard won, and hatred and distrust linger as the film comes to its close. But, who is the enemy here?

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DVDs   Allegro

DVDs   Species IV

DVDs   Babel: Lest We Be United

DVDs   Greys Anatomy - Season Three

DVDs   The Camden 28

DVDs   All My Loving

DVDs   Howling with the Angels

DVDs   Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection

DVDs   Life After Death: The Movie - Ten Years Later

DVDs   The Abandoned (2006)

 
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