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August 2009

Noel Gallagher quits Oasis → network.nationalpost.com

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has left the popular British rock group.

In a statement, Noel blamed his sudden departure on the turbulent relationship he had with his brother Liam.

“It’s with…

Aug 28, 2009
The Ampersand and Dose.ca present The Essential Mix: 22 free tracks (including Patrick Watson, Dirty Projectors, La Roux and more) from iTunes Canada → network.nationalpost.com


 

TheAmpersand.ca and Dose.ca are offering our readers an exclusive 22-song long playlist via iTunes Canada. 

“The Essential Mix” features some great tracks from artists like…
Aug 28, 2009
Friday round up: Jackson, Shaq, Kimmel, Posey and Popeye → network.nationalpost.com

 

So it turns out that if Popeye were a real guy, he would be absolutely terrifying, at least according to Academy Award-winning special effects make-up artist Rick Baker [via Buzzfeed.com…

Aug 28, 2009
Spielberg signs on for Michael Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' → network.nationalpost.com

The last time Steven Spielberg took on a Michael Crichton novel, dinosaurs came back to life. Jurassic Park and The Lost World, both adapted by David Koepp, earned over $1.5 billion at the…

Aug 28, 2009
Actors' Equity finds no fault with Jeremy Piven's sushi malfunction → network.nationalpost.com

 

By Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters

LOS ANGELES •  Labor group Actors’ Equity said on Thursday an arbitrator has cleared actor Jeremy Piven of wrongdoing in a dispute with producers of…

Aug 28, 2009
Canadian playmate Jayde Nicole at centre of Jenner vs. Francis brawl → network.nationalpost.com

RadarOnline reports:  “The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is looking Friday morning for controversial Girls Gone Wild Founder Joe Francis in connection with an alleged assault on …

Aug 28, 2009
Lawyers have great time at Citadel → nationalpost.com

Just when everybody thought it was safe to get back into the
water, the already murky situation at Citadel Group of Funds just
got a little murkier. And the talk is even murkier days are coming.

Aug 28, 2009
John Mraz: Wafers, seal meat and the end of summer slumber → network.nationalpost.com

 

The summer of speculation finally draws to a close. In the past two months, interested news watchers – if indeed there were any - learned the following:

No one knows whether there will be…

Aug 27, 2009
Chris Selley: How he learned to stop worrying and love the stimulus → network.nationalpost.com

Stephen Harper’s new communications director is John Williamson, whom you may remember as director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, that tireless advocate for every last dime in your…

Aug 27, 2009
Gerry Nicholls: Please make me a senator, please, please → network.nationalpost.com

Despite what I have written or said in the past, I firmly believe Stephen Harper is the greatest, most magnificent, most brilliant Prime Minister in the history of the universe.

And I look…

Aug 27, 2009
Jonathon Narvey: Why South Korea holds the key to Middle East peace → network.nationalpost.com

 

Two seemingly unrelated yet dramatic developments occurred this week. South Korea launched a rocket into space. Meanwhile, the Israelis and Palestinians announced the possible re-start of…

Aug 27, 2009
Don Martin: Doer picks the right time to leave → network.nationalpost.com

Like dinner guests and visiting relatives, the best politicians know when it’s time to leave.

Political leaders who elect to make their occupation a public service instead of a career,…

Aug 27, 2009
South Africa finds its backbone in dealing with 'deviant' Mugabe → network.nationalpost.com

Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: It’s probably too early to hope Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s octogenarian…

Aug 27, 2009
Terry Glavin: Snake oil and propaganda-ad-absurdum from Afghanistan → network.nationalpost.com

After 15 years toiling for daily newspapers and several more years writing books and working as a freelance writer, I confess to harbouring some occasional cynicism about the journalism…

Aug 27, 2009
Peter Goodspeed: Iran's revolution turns on its own → network.nationalpost.com

The Iranian Revolution is eating its children.

This week, Saeed Hajjarian, the intellectual mastermind of Iran’s reformist movement, had to be carried into court by two jailers.

…

Aug 27, 2009
Podcast: Immigration and refugee reform, part one → network.nationalpost.com

28/08/09: It’s no exaggeration to say Canada’s system is in crisis. There are nearly 61,000 outstanding refugee claims. It takes an average of 17 months for a claim to be heard by the…

Aug 27, 2009
Matt Gurney: The legal perils of attacking city hall → network.nationalpost.com

There are strange rumblings out of Toronto city hall. Toronto’s most left-leaning politicians have approved a lawsuit against a newspaper, and surprisingly, it’s not against us here at the Post….

Aug 27, 2009
Them Crooked Vultures video teasers → network.nationalpost.com


We know, based on traffic for a previous post, that there’s quite a lot of demand for a foretaste of the John Paul Jones/Dave Grohl/Josh Homme super-project, Them Crooked…

Aug 27, 2009
Cast of Seinfeld reunites on Curb Your Enthusiam (and a magazine cover) → network.nationalpost.com

 

Larry David has reunited the cast of Seinfeld – Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards – for a “ongoing story arc” during this fall’s season of his HBO…

Aug 27, 2009
Christoph Waltz thankful for "gift" role of Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds → network.nationalpost.com

 

By Bob Thompson, Canwest News Service
 
He’s an overnight sensation after 30 years in the acting game, but Austrian-born Christoph Waltz seems to be taking his new-found fame in stride.
 
…

Aug 27, 2009
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