How Ron Sexsmith ended up singing with Leonard Cohen in an Indigo basement

Day 613:59Canadian music legend Ron Sexsmith looks back on a remarkable career with a 60th birthday concert at Massey Hall Canadian songwriting legend Ron Sexsmith has turned 60, and will be celebrating the milestone with a concert at Massey Hall Thursday. A favourite of legends like Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, Sexsmith has headlined the iconic … Read more

Bleak, beautiful Oppenheimer tells us about our apocalyptic future

There are few figures in American history as mythologized as J. Robert Oppenheimer — in no small part due to the man himself.  So building a cohesive story about him — the physicist who helped define an entire scientific field so new and arcane it was called “boys’ physics”; the precocious child-genius who delivered a … Read more

TD Jakes: ‘We like our heroes dead’

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Features Reporter Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Bishop T.D. Jakes preaches at the Joint New Year’s Revival at First Baptist Church of Glenarden International in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on January 5, 2024. | Screengrab/YouTube/ TD Jakes Ministries Megachurch pastor and businessman T.D. Jakes lamented that “we like our heroes dead” during a … Read more