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The CowgirlsOur interview with Combustion Comedy Festival’s Julie Dumais.
Courtesy of PROJECT Project
Next Week the Combustion Festival, Toronto’s alternative, experimental, and innovative improv show returns to the Comedy Bar for its third anniversary. Our resident comedian John Hastings sat down with Festival Curator, Julie Dumais (also the co-founder of local comedy troupe: PROJECT Project), to talk about what exactly is going to happen from May 24th-29th.
The season finale of The Bench this Sunday at 9:00 p.m.
Courtesy of The Bench
Our comedian friend, Patrick Smith (who we interviewed last month) is one of the stars in Second City’s The Bench. This Sunday, they are hosting their season finale – a pay-what-you-can deal called National Toast directed by Jen Goodhue. If your Sunday is looking free so far, swing by for some laughs at the John Candy Box Theatre. You won’t be disappointed.
–The Cowgirls.
Kelly Cutrone Aftershow followed by the launch of Fora magazine.
Courtesy of Mushy Pony.com
By-passing the lineup of Kelly-crazed fans and entering through the “bloggers” entrance at MTV certainly made for an exciting Monday afternoon. Our ‘plus one’ (Kim McCormack of I Heart the Music) joined the Cowgirls upstairs for the taping of the Kelly Cutrone Aftershow followed by a sneak peak into the new Toronto online beauty magazine, Fora. Here’s what went down in pony town.
A breakdown of the Olympic ads that kept our nation strong.
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Were our 14 gold medals simply predetermined fate for Canada? Of course not. The red sea of fans that surrounded each Olympic event (and flooded the streets of Toronto last night) was clearly a driving force for our athletes. But where did all this Canadian pride come from? And where did our notoriously humble nature go?
Out the effing window.
The powerfully moving advertisements contributed greatly, but to give them full credit for our Olympic spirit would be cold and ignorant. It’s our love that did it. Our love for Canada, our love for our courageous athletes such as Joannie Rochette, and our love for each other. Our Head Cowgirl once belonged to the branding industry, so she took some time to decode her favourite Canadian Olympic ads. Here are her picks for bronze, silver and gold:
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