Word: toronto
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These days some of the best jazz singing is turning up in the pop-record racks. Nineteen-year-old Esthero, singer of a Toronto trip-hop duo that bears her name, is the newest member of the school of so-called blue-groove vocalists (it includes Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full...
...fireworks companies have folded. Zambelli is in an elite group of "the country's foremost players," according to John Conkling of the American Pyrotechnics Association. How elite? Zambelli did the Statue of Liberty celebration in 1986. It did four presidential inaugurations, the Desert Storm troop return, the Pope in Toronto and, perhaps most important, the Elvis Presley stamp unveiling...
...invited, although the official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment industry in those countries as by any genuine fear of being culturally swamped," says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "It's basically protectionism." No surprise then that the major initiative discussed was a proposed international news TV network to rival CNN. But CNN already has global rivals such as the BBC World Service, and overthrowing Mickey and Mickey D's may take a little more than...
...ticket price for a Toronto Raptors home game
...paper, he had a horrific childhood. Growing up near Toronto, he dropped out of school in his early teens after his father lost his accounting job and the whole family had to work nights in a wheel factory; for a time they all lived in a Volkswagen van. He describes the van part, at least, as being not all that bad, and discounts the easy conceit that there's an A-to-B line between childhood scars and his comedy, or anyone else's. Then again, he once did a bit in his stand-up routine that went like this...