Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots

Gangsta culture and guns

I found myself up at Lawrence West and Dufferin today. As I headed towards the Lawrence subway station on the Dufferin bus, I saw a rather disturbing t-shirt dedicated to the theme of no snitching as I passed by the Lawrence Square Mall (Lawrence Heights, the infamous “Jungle,” sits just to the north). “Warning: Snitch [...]

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Thu, October 4 2007 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off

'No end in sight' – a good film but about the wrong issue

No End In Sight, a documentary by rookie filmmaker Charles Ferguson about the botching of the Iraq occupation, is a decent, well-meaning film for the most part (it screened at the Bloor tonight as part of the Doc Soup series). It will open in theatres on Friday. The film has come in for considerable critical [...]

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