2010
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Thursday, December 30, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Q's Top 20 Albums of 2010#3 to #5 / #6 / #7 to #9 / #10 to #20...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Q's Top 20 Albums of 2010#6 / #7 to #9 / #10 to #20...
ON THE BEST OF Q TODAY:...
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More and more, students are friend-requesting their teachers on Facebook. But should teachers accept those friend-requests? Most school boards...
MONDAY Andrea Martin TUESDAY Robert Plant WEDNESDAY David Sedaris THURSDAY Chilly Gonzales FRIDAY Sarah Silverman...
Friday, December 24, 2010 | Categories: Columnists
Here at Q, we're reflecting on the year that was... Lisa R and Arif honour the wild-hearted charms of...
We're counting down to number one each day on Q, through December 31!...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today on Q, Jian talked to Chris Paine. He's the writer and director behind the acclaimed 2006 documentary Who...
For my money, and let's keep in mind that I have very little actual money, the breakout Canadian web personality...
Monday, December 20, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
She's 65-years-old and still nabs top Hollywood roles, but Dame Helen Mirren's outlook for older female actors is dire. Earlier...
Friday, December 17, 2010 | Categories:
Well, 2010 is waning...and have you noticed things are starting to have that year-end, list-o-rama feel? You can't swing...
MONDAY Russell DeCarle TUESDAY Stephen Dorff WEDNESDAY Bill Carter THURSDAY Billy Connolly FRIDAY Jonah Lehrer...
Friday, December 17, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today, Jian spoke to celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. While he may have once been known as the "Queen of Mean,"...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today, Jian spoke to author Suzanne Gordon about the film Black Swan and the dark underbelly of the ballet world... starvation...
From a long list that includes "make text bigger or smaller", "upgrade your browser", "shortening a URL", "cropping photos" and...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
What does WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange have in common with Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker? Listen to Jian Ghomeshi's...
Today, Canada's own glam electro-popper Diamond Rings (aka John O of The D'Urbervilles) was our Friday Live guest. He performed a...
MONDAY INXS TUESDAY Rae Spoon WEDNESDAY Ted Fishman THURSDAY Wendy Goodman FRIDAY Perez Hilton...
Friday, December 10, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Links to what we're checking out behind the scenes on the show... Friday Live performer Diamond Rings showed us the...
Friday, December 10, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
The rumours are true... Q is finally going to Winnipeg! Q in Winnipeg is already SOLD OUT! Stay tuned for...
Athletic-style training is taking off for the pre-verbal set. That includes everything from baby gyms to competitive soccer for toddlers....
Thursday, December 9, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
(Ellen DeGeneres by Annie Leibovitz, taken from Hide/Seek) Today, we spoke to Jonathan Katz, the co-curator of Washington's National Portrait...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
In today's opening essay, Jian talked about how people can still remember how they felt, three decades ago today, when they...
If you and a friend were to appear before JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN (aka the PC guy) what disagreement would you have him...
Tuesday on Q, Kenny Rogers! A trippy hit from his brief psychedelic period. From the future file... two sides to...
MONDAY Jeremy Fisher TUESDAY Kenny Rogers WEDNESDAY Kat Von D THURSDAY Bob Martin FRIDAY Diamond Rings...
British food writer and TV presenter Nigella Lawson spoke to Jian today about her ongoing passion for cooking, how she's...
Is there something you've been meaning to say that might benefit from a little soundtrack to heighten the emotion,...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
On Tuesday's show we heard from journalist and media critic Jennifer Posner, author of a new book Reality Bites...
Scotland's sweetheart, KT Tunstall, dropped by Studio Q today to chat about and perform from her third record, Tiger Suit....
Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku is a 16-year-old singer... a stylish, blue-haired pop princess who's topped the charts there, sold...
On Friday, Montreal-based "supergroup" Wolf Parade performed live throughout the show in the band's first broadcast session in five years!...
MONDAY Amy Sedaris TUESDAY KT Tunstall WEDNESDAY Feist THURSDAY Nigella Lawson FRIDAY Sarah McLachlan...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Well, you may already be familiar with the idea of UNESCO World Heritage sites: places of special cultural or physical...
I've been trying to figure out which other TV shows would be good teaching aids for economics professors but, yeah, THE...
Well, there have been many battles in the so-called mommy wars -- cloth versus disposable, to vaccinate or not,...
Today on Q Jian spoke to Jeet Heer about a controversial article in the Maclean's magazine annual university ranking issue. It appears...
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Just announced: Q is coming to Vancouver on December 2nd. There will be live musical performances from Black Mountain and...
MONDAY Judah Friedlander TUESDAY Jerry Stiller WEDNESDAY Canada Reads Panelists Revealed THURSDAY Cee Lo Green FRIDAY Mandy Moore...
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
National Novel Writing Month is currently in full swing across North America. And that means thousands of people are trying...
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Talk show host and blogger Dick Cavett was on Q today, talking about his new book, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed...
The TLC network is promoting its new reality series "Sarah Palin's Alaska" as a non-political, family adventure show....
Thursday, November 18, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Today, Luke Doucet and The White Falcon (his guitar and his band) performed live in Studio Q, from the...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Back in September, Q was honoured with a gold distinction at the 2010 New York Festivals International Radio Awards,...
Today, British singer/songwriter (and frequent Q guest) Adele talked to Jian about her forthcoming album, 21. On the line from London,...
Today Jian spoke with biographer Charles Foran about the campaign to honour the late Mordecai Richler with a public monument in the...
MONDAY Roch Voisine TUESDAY Adele WEDNESDAY Alex Gibney THURSDAY Les Stroud FRIDAY Dick Cavett...
Today on Q, Jian talked to Andrew Steeves, co-publisher of Nova Scotia's, Gaspereau Press. That's the small press that published...
AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis Legendary rocker Elton John joined us on Q this week to talk about a musical collaboration...
I can't tell if I should be freaked out by the obsessive "Adult Fans of Lego" in Jess Gibson's compelling...
AP Photo/Sang Tan It was BBC reporter Michael Buerk presenting a story on the Ethopian famine in October 1984....
Monday, November 8, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Or does education enrich young people to come up with great ideas, if slightly delayed? Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal...
MONDAY Russell Peters TUESDAY Bob Geldof WEDNESDAY Elton John THURSDAY Nora Ephron FRIDAY Tony Sheldon...
AP Photo/Charles Krupa "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Together Wherever We Go", "Maria", and "Send in the Clowns"...what would Broadway...
Thursday, November 4, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today on Q, Jian spoke to musicians Peter Gabriel and Salman Ahmad about their newly-released song for Pakistan flood relief,...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
"Pet Pharm," a new doc airing on CBC TV this Thursday, explores the burgeoning trend of prescribing psychoactive drugs --...
Well, for all of the dread and pain they cause in real life, serial killers get a lot...
I don't mean to be a downer...but...have you ever had a break-up like the ones depicted in the Vimeo Award-winning...
Monday, November 1, 2010 | Categories:
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MONDAY Winnebago Man TUESDAY Measha Brueggergosman WEDNESDAY Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir THURSDAY Bryan Adams FRIDAY Stephen Sondheim...
If we held a YOUTUBE SOCIAL right now, and I held the remote, I would show you the JEFF LEWIS FIVE MINUTE...
American singer/songwriter Josh Ritter dropped by Studio Q today for a performance, and to chat about his storied new album,...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Wikileaks is once again back in the news, after the whistle-blower website released nearly 400,000 pages of classified field...
Today on the show, Jian announced the Canada Reads Top 40. A few weeks ago, the challenge was put...
Today on Q, University of Calgary professor Rebecca Sullivan debated Regina Leader Post tv blogger Gord Craig on the...
MONDAY Margaret Cho TUESDAY Guest Host: Terry O'Reilly WEDNESDAY Guest Host: Jonathan Torrens THURSDAY Josh Ritter FRIDAY Lara St. John...
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The National Ballet's Karen Kain debated former dancer and current New Republic dance critic Jennifer Homans on that question...
Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Justin Bieber joined us on Q late last week. He was surprisingly easy to book. Granted, this was not the...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
English rockers Gorillaz came through Studio Q today to chat about their new record, Plastic Beach. The conversation eventually turned...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Madmag.com The San Francisco based Electronic Frontier Foundation has new evidence that the U.S. government is monitoring Facebook users....
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem was on the show today discussing Susan Faludi's provocative cover story for this months...
Check out the uncut QTV interview with M.I.A. below. And let us know what you think -- do you...
MONDAY Rick Springfield TUESDAY Gloria Steinem WEDNESDAY Gorillaz THURSDAY Karen Kain FRIDAY John Waters, Stars, and others LIVE from the Gould...
That's the argument made by Gail Dines in her new book, Pornland. She says today's porn depicts too much violence...
Friday, October 15, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
AP Photo/Chilean Presidential Press Office, Jose Manuel de la Maza At the start of Wednesday's show, Jian reflected on the...
What do YOUR parents think of your profession, passion, pursuits, or whatever else it is you do with your time?...
Retired NHL great and current Liberal Member of Parliament Ken Dryden dropped by Q today to talk about his forthcoming book,...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Robert Plant recently stopped by Studio Q for a chat. Check out the uncut video here....
MONDAY Arcade Fire TUESDAY Ken Dryden WEDNESDAY Hayley Wickenheiser THURSDAY Steve Martin FRIDAY Eric McCormack...
Thursday, October 7, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Image courtesy Jimmy_Joe This morning on Q, Jian kicked off the show by asking the crucial question: do you...
Thursday, October 7, 2010 | Categories: Columnists
Feeling a little overexposed? Facebook, Twitter, Google, Foursquare leaving little to the imagination? Looking to enjoy some relative anonymity while...
This year's Mercury Prize-winning band The xx chatted about their success and performed live today in Studio Q. Watch their...
Writer, chef, culinary traveller (and vocal critic of vegetarianism) Anthony Bourdain squared off on this topic on Q this morning...
Sunday, October 3, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
UPDATE 10/06 @ 1 p.m.: Tickets for Q LIVE at the GOULD sold out in less than two hours!...
Greetings Q listeners. It's Jian here, blogging -- in my dual role as Canada Reads host. The 10th anniversary of...
MONDAY Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Safran Foer, Q Contest TUESDAY Phil Collins WEDNESDAY The xx THURSDAY Dave Bidini FRIDAY David Sedaris...
Yes, you may know him as the haunting, howling voice of seminal rock band Led Zeppelin... Songs like Stairway...
Click below for the UNCUT video of Jian's exclusive interview with Neil Young and Daniel Lanois....
MONDAY Teenage Fanclub TUESDAY M.I.A. WEDNESDAY Andrea Martin THURSDAY Robert Plant FRIDAY David Suzuki & Sturla Gunnarsson...
Q has been on the air for about 3 1/2 years now...and we've been chasing an interview with Neil Young...
Thursday, September 23, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
The experimental Brooklyn collective Dirty Projectors sat down for a chat, and performed live today in Studio Q. After the...
Calling all fellow university dropouts...would you have stuck around if you'd been given the opportunity to dance for your...
MONDAY Shaun Majumder TUESDAY Polaris Music Prize winner Karkwa WEDNESDAY Ray LaMontagne THURSDAY Live from Yonge-Dundas Square FRIDAY Neil Young...
Friday, September 17, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
A new TV show for kids produced by a shoe company is under fire in the U.S. The Campaign...
Or is it the dirtiest? Today on Q, lawyer and columnist Ezra Levant faced off against environmental journalist Andrew Nikiforuk...
I'm going to lift this week's "pressing" cyber question directly from the week's DL-approved site: "How great would you feel...
Monday, September 13, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Bodies, a wildly popular exhibition of real human cadavers, is coming back to Canada this week under a cloud of...
MONDAY Aamir Khan TUESDAY Chilly Gonzales WEDNESDAY Mike Leigh THURSDAY Nicholas Campbell FRIDAY David Rakoff...
Friday, September 10, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
AP Photo/Francois Mori Visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel sat down with Jian today to chat about his career,...
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
CBC/Ryan Couldrey Three members of acclaimed Montreal band Karkwa stopped by Studio Q today for their English-language broadcast debut....
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
This month's Wired Magazine cover story posits that THE WEB IS DEAD. They say that the wide-open-worldwide-web is in serious...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
More and more, students are friend-requesting their teachers on Facebook. But should teachers accept those friend-requests? Most school...
MONDAY Kris Kristofferson TUESDAY Andre Agassi WEDNESDAY Cesar Millan THURSDAY Johnny Reid FRIDAY Julian Schnabel...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
AP Photo/Shakil Adil Since floods began ravaging Pakistan more than a month ago, an estimated 1,600 people have died...
MONDAY Adrian Grenier TUESDAY Theo Fleury WEDNESDAY Harvey Fierstein THURSDAY Clara Hughes FRIDAY K'naan...
Friday, August 27, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today, we spoke to Carol Bishop Mills (a member of the Board of Directors of the National Down Syndrome...
PHOTO: Ryan Couldrey/CBC Manotick, Ontario's Hollerado is the band that graciously lent its tune "Fake Drugs" to be used as the theme...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today's Q debate took on the state of Canadian TV, and -- bluntly put -- whether or not it's...
Today, we talked to music/cultural critics Sady Doyle and Ann Powers about rapper Eminem's newest hit "Love The Way...
MONDAY Enrique Iglesias TUESDAY George Stroumboulopoulos WEDNESDAY The state of Canadian TV THURSDAY Callum Keith Rennie FRIDAY Michelle Forbes...
On Q today, writer John McWhorter argues for the re-release of the so-called censored eleven -- eleven Looney...
This past weekend, news leaked that the Ontario provincial government would end the current ban on holding mixed martial...
MONDAY Bobby McFerrin TUESDAY Forrest Griffin WEDNESDAY The Body Shop THURSDAY Eli Roth FRIDAY Omid Djalili...
Today on Q, bestselling author Anne Rice joined us. She discussed her recent decision to renounce Christianity, in the...
A columnist for The Guardian newspaper, Priyamvada Gopal, says this cover of Time magazine "comes perilously close to...
(AP Photo/Sang Tan) Canadian actress Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) talks to guest host Jonathan Torrens about her Halifax roots...
Here it is! Jian's full, uncut interview with Sir Paul McCartney, from Friday's edition of Q. ...
MONDAY Zoo Story TUESDAY Nneka WEDNESDAY Ellen Page THURSDAY Elizabeth Gilbert FRIDAY Anne Rice...
On the release of their much anticipated new album, Jian caught up with the band in Montreal. Check it out on The...
Should Essence Magazine have hired a woman of colour as its new Fashion Director? Today, Jonathan Torrens hosted a...
RYAN COULDREY/CBC Wednesday on Q, Margaret Atwood dropped by to talk to Stephen Quinn about the book tour for her...
MONDAY Arcade Fire TUESDAY Old Spice Man WEDNESDAY Gemma Arterton THURSDAY Hugh Hefner FRIDAY Paul McCartney...
The versatile and talented Canadian actor passed away July 26th, after a thirty-five year career in film and television, including roles...
Today, Stephen talked to the artist behind the Dancing Auschwitz video that has been creating controversy for the past couple of...
Monday, July 26, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Image courtesy alex-s In light of the firing of CNN's Octavia Nasr after she shared her opinion on Twitter,...
MONDAY Dave Zirin TUESDAY Jill Hennessey WEDNESDAY Margaret Atwood THURSDAY Brian May FRIDAY 'Airplane' at 30...
Friday, July 23, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Images courtesy Frank Ockenfels 3 With the premiere of the its fourth season coming up on Sunday, Mad...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
And should the Church embrace contemporary art -- including its criticisms of religion? That's what Q guest Reverend Jennie Hogan...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Boston Globe writer Alex Beam is complaining that Canadian-produced cop dramas that show on U.S. TV -- like Flashpoint, The...
(AP/Peter Morrison) Pop culture audiences seem to have high tolerance for misbehaviour. From Woody Allen to Roman Polanski, Britney Spears...
Monday, July 19, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Q's host Jian Ghomeshi is taking a break to travel (and do some international volunteering!) until the end of August. So...
Beloved Canadian folk singer/songwriter Stompin' Tom Connors joined Jian today for a rare interview about his career. He shared insights...
MONDAY Atom Egoyan TUESDAY Douglas Coupland WEDNESDAY Ryan Knighton THURSDAY The Sadies FRIDAY Brian May...
On today's show Jian spoke with author Hephzibah Anderson about her new book, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year...
Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian kicked off the show today with an ode to Giant Hogweed... the towering, sinister, invasive weed that's cropping up from...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
(AP Photo/Isaac Brekken) Today on Q, we spoke to Kate Durbin, co-creator of Gaga Stigmata, an online journal dedicated to...
Monday, July 12, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
July is comedy festival season in Toronto and Montreal, so this week, we're revisiting two comic classics on Q:...
MONDAY Salman Ahmad TUESDAY Tegan & Sara WEDNESDAY Tracy Morgan THURSDAY Mia Wasikowska FRIDAY Stompin' Tom...
When you hear the name Hitchens in the same sentence as God, the effect is usually subversive. But not...
The pride of Newmarket, Ontario, Tokyo Police Club dropped into studio Q today to play a few tracks from the...
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel celebrates fifty years of publication on Sunday, but not everyone agrees on its literary merits....
Cyndi Lauper dropped by Studio Q today for what was supposed to be a 15 minute chat about her new album, "Memphis...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 | Categories:
Well, the flags have stopped wavin', the vuvuzelas have silenced, and a new champion has been crowned. Today on Q, we convened...
Are they valuable forums for free speech, or snake-pits of abuse and attack? Some news sites - including the...
Monday, July 5, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Recently a Hooters waitress was allegedly fired for being overweight, then a Citigroup bank employee was let go for...
MONDAY Macy Gray TUESDAY Steve Poltz WEDNESDAY Cyndi Lauper THURSDAY Angelique Kidjo FRIDAY Tokyo Police Club...
Friday, July 2, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
On today's show, we spoke to Jamie Keiles, the 18-year-old behind the Seventeen Magazine Project. For one month, she lived...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
You may have already seen the video above. Since it was shot last weekend it's become a viral video...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today on Q, we revisited our conversation with American broadcasting legend Larry King from May 2009, upon yesterday's announcement that he...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
On the heels of the International Whaling Commission's meetings last week, we checked in with Dalhousie University biologist Hal Whitehead...
Monday, June 28, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
We convened a special Q Media Panel today to talk about media coverage of the G20 in Toronto. Were the...
MONDAY Karen Elson TUESDAY Foodie Culture WEDNESDAY Len "Uncle Leo" Lesser THURSDAY Canada Day Best of Q FRIDAY Simon Rich...
Friday, June 25, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
On Friday's show, uber-activist Ralph Nader joined us to talk about the G20 and his novel, "Only The Super-rich Can...
Friday, June 25, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today on Q, Jian talked to the musical duo Evelyn Evelyn, a performance art project that depicts a singing...
Thursday, June 24, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
...or is it exactly what we need to make visual art more accessible? The show is coming to Canadian TV...
Thursday, June 24, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
In the Q mailbag, we often receive requests to post interviews with some of our most notable guests. Now,...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök is trying to embed poetry in a super-strong bacterium, and in turn, have it create...
There's word that yet another one of Toronto's favourite independent bookstores -- This Ain't The Rosedale Library -- may be...
Monday, June 21, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
The streets are deserted here in downtown Toronto today like Christmas Morning... but with cops instead of carolers on every...
Monday, June 21, 2010 | Categories:
It's Monday, which means another double shot from our classic podcast Q: The Interviews! This week, we revisit conversations with...
MONDAY Anthony Daniels TUESDAY Sarah Harmer WEDNESDAY Christian Bok THURSDAY Bruce McDonald FRIDAY Evelyn Evelyn...
Well, we just got the sad news this morning that Sebastian Horsley has died. As the Guardian reports, he was found...
Thursday, June 17, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
On Thursday's program, The New Pornographers' singer/songwriter Carl Newman told Q host Jian Ghomeshi that he thought that the pop...
With Toy Story 3 hitting theatres Friday, Q Screenboy Jesse Wente asks if animated films are going the way of the blockbuster...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Stephen Hill, a.k.a. Steve Driver, murdered a fellow male porn star with a samurai sword. Days later, he fell...
Last week, I gave all the Macs out there CUPIDTINO. This week I give all you PCs SOLUTO. While it...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Friday's Q Media Panel featured Margaret Wente of the Globe & Mail, Judy Rebick of rabble.ca, and Tony Burman of...
Monday, June 14, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
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Monday, June 14, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Greetings you stylish bunch, This week on Q: The Interviews, we bring you style... with a whole lot of substance.Many...
Friday, June 11, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
The new Karate Kid movie's opening this weekend, starring Jaden Smith. But check out this new video from the original Karate...
MONDAY Rufus Wainwright TUESDAY Azar Nafisi WEDNESDAY Anthony Bourdain THURSDAY The New Pornographers FRIDAY Martha Wainwright...
Tomorrow, movie theatres will welcome the latest '80s artifacts to the screen. "The A-Team" and "The Karate Kid" have both...
Despite their forty-year legacy, twenty-odd albums, and ranking third for the most consecutive gold or platinum records ever -- trailing...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
If you love something, let it go.... like Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Handel's Messiah, and every Impressionst painting. Today...
Would you ever join a dating site where choice of computers was the key to romantic attraction? Well, if youre...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
The trailblazing reporter Helen Thomas, once known as the Dean of the White House Press Corps., has retired following widespread...
Monday, June 7, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Today, we're excited to debut a brand new podcast called Q: The Interviews. Over the years Q has been...
MONDAY Belinda Carlisle TUESDAY Ayaan Hirsi Ali WEDNESDAY Gord Downie THURSDAY The National FRIDAY Samantha Bee...
Should city dwellers be allowed to raise chickens? The latest flashpoint in the great urban chicken debate is Calgary, where...
Jian caught up with the always-provocative performance artist Marina Abramovic today. She was recovering from a two-and-a-half month exhibition at...
On June 18th, the FDA in the United States will hold a hearing on a new drug called Flibanserin, which claims to...
Elvira Kurt's number one pick for Q's Cultural Hall of Shame this week? The two-year-old chain-smoking toddler whose video has been making the...
Check out our QTV Video Treat of the Week: Jian interviews Broken Social Scene about their brand new album, Forgiveness Rock...
MONDAY Pam Grier TUESDAY Sebastian Junger WEDNESDAY Shad THURSDAY Michael Franti FRIDAY Cowboy Junkies...
By the way, did anyone actually quit Facebook on Quit Facebook Day, May 31? If so, lemme know. As...
Thursday, May 27, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Anne Murray sat down with guest host Jann Arden in Studio Q today for a wide ranging interview about the...
At first glance, hotly anticipated UJAM is worth the big buzz it is generating at Techcrunch Disrupt, a three-day new...
MONDAY Harry Connick Jr. TUESDAY Who Wrote Shakespeare? WEDNESDAY Cloris Leachman THURSDAY Anne Murray FRIDAY Chely Wright...
MONDAY Sidney Poitier TUESDAY Band of Horses WEDNESDAY a ha THURSDAY Katherine Jenkins FRIDAY David Gray...
Yes, some TV fans are grieving this week as they lose both Jack Bauer -- whose long series of...
Today on Q we talked about this year's Cannes film festival. Macleans film critic Brian D. Johnson noted that there are no...
Today we hosted a Q debate on what do with classic children's books that are deemed racist. From "Tintin...
Are you a member of the emerging Bieber resistance? If so, check out the SHAVED BIEBER extension for your Mozilla Firefox...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Are you one of the 400 million or so people around the world who use Facebook? If you are, Facebook...
Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh recently wrote that it's rare for a gay actor to pull off playing a straight character....
Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Welcome to the new Q site! The finer points of design and function are still in the works, but we...
In a recent commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia, President Obama warned graduates about the fragmented nature of the new media landscape....
Lifelong friendships are seen through an amnesiac lens after his buddies whack a guy on the head in a...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
If you've been watching Canadian coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs, by now you're used to seeing "O Canada" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" broadcast...
One of the acting profession's legendary families lost another member this week, with the death of Lynn Redgrave. She...
Friday, April 30, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
Hallucinogenic drugs may be synonymous with the '60s and the counter culture, but that may be about to change. Scientists...
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
MIA's controversial new music video has been the talk of the Internet this week. The video for the singer and...
What are your favourite pop song moments? Think small here people, like the bass lick from You Can Call...
I was thrilled that K'naan agreed to do this. I know that he rarely does interviews these days and...
Deaf actress Marlee Matlin wants her reality show, MY DEAF FAMILY, on TV, so after being turned down by...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | Categories: Q Blog
The rise of male studies. At a time when many womens' studies programs are becoming gender studies, a new player...
Today on Q we heard from anthropology professor Lionel Tiger. He's part of a new group of academics called "The...
Late last month, the legislature of Iceland unanimously passed a law that makes stripping illegal. Specifically, the ban makes it...
Today's Q guest Stuart Heritage says no. He hates them with a passion and considers them a cruelty inflicted on...
As fascinating and horrifying as documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth and the recent WATERLIFE are, do they translate into...
Today the Q media panel took a look at the coverage of the Helena Guergis scandal. She's the recently ejected...
Hi, I'm Rachel Matlow, the producer of the Twin Peaks story today. Even though I was only ten-years-old at the...
"Twinkies As Addictive As Crack Or Smoke"... "Fatty foods are like heroin and cocaine"... On the show today, guest host...
Was Pink Floyd the soundtrack to your youth? Any memories you'd like to share? While you reminisce, check out...
Hi, I'm Rachel Matlow, the producer of the "David After Dentist" story/debate on Q today. I (like MANY of you)...
Is it necessary to actually know what people think is wrong with you? Or would you rather they keep...
This Friday, "Clash of the Titans" arrives in all its 3-D glory in movie theatres. Starring Liam Neeson as Zeus...
On Monday's program, we spoke to two leading chefs, with very different opinions about the local food movement. London-based Peter...
On Friday's show, we spoke with Academy award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme about his new Neil Young concert documentary, "Neil Young...
The visit of conservative pundit Ann Coulter to Canada became the media story of the week - and the focus...
Today we talked to Pulitizer Prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan. As fashion editor for The Washington Post, she's assessed the...
Ben Stiller - who stars in "Greenberg," a movie out this Friday - is just the latest comic actor...
On Friday's show, we talked to Stephen Ashton, a district councilor for Tofino, BC -- a picturesque sea-side community on...
With songs like Life in Quarantine and Germaphobe, the FULLY SICK RAPPER is a really sick rapper. That's sick...
Advice columnist David Eddie was on the show today, doling out common sense from his self-declared inexpert point of view....
Today, Q's sports-culture panel looked at the NHL's ongoing attempts to curb head injuries. While no one is disputing that...
This week began with International Women's Day, a day which few in Canada's media marked with any major stories. Our...
Before the historic launch of the TV version on Showcase this Friday, check out the humble web series beginnings...
Pearl Harbour. Roswell. The death of Princess Diana. 9/11. For every dramatic or decisive cultural moment in history, there's a...
We spoke with Details magazine editor-at-large Jeff Gordinier today as part of Q's "Manscape" series. Jeff suggests that there's a...
The Hurt Locker won big at the Oscars, but few people have actually seen it. War movies may be...
It was a big night for The Hurt Locker, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges at the Academy Awards. What did...
A surprise line in this week's Speech from the Throne has set off a cross-country debate about the national anthem,...
I'm not sure if one of these meeting calculators has ever been known to actually lead to a decrease...
The 2010 Genie Award nominations were recently announced. The Genies might not get the same press as the Oscars,...
Precious enters this year's Oscar race with a total of six nominations. The film is the harrowing story of an...
Q's Media Panel reconvened on Friday's show to talk about the biggest media story around: coverage of the Olympics. After...
What would your favourite website sound like if it could express itself musically? Just punch the URL into the...
With director Martin Scorsese's latest flick, Shutter Island, new in theatres, Q Screenboy Jesse Wente runs down the best...
Comedian Guy Earle joined us on today's show. While hosting a comedy night at a Vancouver club, Guy Earle took...
From the opening ceremony to the nightly news, Canada is front and centre on the world stage right now. What...
Well, you heard our opinionated Q media panel debate their media stories of the week. One of which, was the...
The March issue of Vanity Fair has being stirring up a lot of controversy... Check it out here . Many...
Canadian-born celebrity journalist and gossip site editor Bonnie Fuller said on Q that she believes people's attraction to gossip is...
Click through to see my Great Canadian Olympic Donut. It's a high-calorie power supplement guaranteed to propel our athletes...
Sure, a wonderfully done accent is something we can admire in a performance, but they are so often so poorly...
Today Matt Wacowich was on the show, co-director of the documentary "Jump: the World's Greatest Streakers." He was joined by...
One of the biggest videogames of 2010 arrives in stores today, and it's got an unusual back story. "Bioshock...
Hello Q land, Peter Mitton here, producer of the Americanization of Mental Illness story on Monday's show. One thing journalist...
For those of you suffering from a little POST AVATAR DEPRESSION (is that really a legit condition?) take refuge...
It's Kathryn here at Q. Call me crazy, or lazy, or a bad steward of popular culture, but I somehow...
Well this year's Oscar nominations have finally been revealed. Forgive Q's Screenboy Jesse Wente if he seems dubious. With...
A new documentary about America's obesity crisis is in the works. Academy Award winning filmmaker Barry Levinson is directing... and...
Last night seemed like it was going to be a big night for Canadians at the Grammys. With all the...
As you may have heard, one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of the past century -- author J.D....
...whatever became of me...I'm living on the air in... IIn my defense, when I blogged MENTAL BEAST a few...
The first image I saw after Haiti's disastrous earthquake was of a stunned and injured young girl, just rescued from...
On Friday, Mel Gibson returns to the screen for the first time in six years, with the movie "Edge...
On Friday, Q featured a special program dedicated to relief efforts for Haiti and the Haitian people. Given that Haiti...
If you want it then you shoulda put a ring on it ... When the book "Marry Him: The Case...
One of the guys, Paul Sak, behind the SARCMARK tells me there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm in...
Today on Q we got some straight talk from English professor Anne Trubek on the state of handwriting. No, she...
Awards season in Hollywood has begun in earnest. Time to prepare ourselves for nights filled with champagne, fancy gowns,...
Bob Barker, the former Price is Right host and television legend, joined us on Q Thursday to talk about his...
On Wednesday's show, we featured a debate about cigarettes in films marketed to young movie-goers. This issue was reignited recently...
Forget Jay and Conan, here's Carey Wass. He's the host of LATE NIGHT IN THE BEDROOM, a Toronto-based talk...
Chins around the world are wagging as Jay Leno's return to 11:35 pm seems imminent, and NBC walks away...
Friday on Q, Globe Columnist Margaret Wente, Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, and activist and author Judy Rebick debated the...
When we talk about civic engagement I think there's an incredible amount of skepticism in the media about the lack...
I've been laughing til I cried for the last few days as I worked my way through a new book...
Sure...I can understand when the taps start flowing during acknowledged tear jerkers like Titanic, Diving Bell and the Butterfly...even...
On the occasion of young Canadian Michael Cera's latest movie, Q Screenboy Jesse Wente names the top five Canadians...
Q welcomes in the new year, with our complete list of the Top Twenty Albums of 2009! 1. Wilco -...
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