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Entries from August 2006

TIFF 2006: Early Picks

August 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Film, TIFF

For the past two days, I’ve been working my way through the 440 pages of the programme book and have figured out ten films I’d like to see that fit into my schedule:

Saturday September 9, 2:30pm: The Way I Spent the End of the World (Romania, Director: Catalin Mitulescu)
Saturday September 9, 6:15pm: Indigènes (France, […]

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Jesus Camp

August 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Film

This isn’t showing at TIFF this year, but it looks really fascinating. Chilling, actually. Perhaps it will be one of the Doc Soup documentaries in the fall? I hope so. Check out the trailer.

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World Basketball Championship 2006

August 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Sports

The FIBA World Basketball Championship is going on right now in Japan. At a time when the NBA hasn’t started their season, you’d think this would be all over the sports networks. Not in Canada. Does anyone have any idea if any of the remaining games will be broadcast here? The otherwise comprehensive web site […]

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TIFF 2006: Preliminaries

August 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment · Film, TIFF

It’s almost that time of year again. From September 7-16, Toronto is taken over by celebrities and celebrity hounds, partying into the wee hours and clogging up Yorkville with their bling. Oh, and they show a few films as well.
I’ll be attending for the 12th year, though I’m only seeing ten films again. Without taking […]

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Waking City

August 21st, 2006 · · Special Event

Ok, this definitely has me intrigued. A two-week live action puzzle hunting alternate reality game where I get to discover my city? I’m all over it. Even if it is wedged right in between the Toronto International Film Festival and our long-awaited trip to Slovenia. Thanks, Boingboing and Blog.TO!

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Pick Me!

August 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Faith, Internet, Special Event

Each March, for the past six years, I’ve attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin and have always wondered why there were no panels on faith or spirituality. The Internet has made a huge impact on how people interact with each other and this area in particular has always fascinated me. Will “cyberchurches” […]

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