Month: November 2015

  • Toronto Film Festival and All the Crying Men

    Toronto Film Festival and All the Crying Men

    Crying male protagonists appeared in the first two films that I saw in this year’s TIFF. It came to my mind that maybe I should look for a trend, the unexpected snivelling men trend, men who are bawling tears or men who have no difficulty blubbering or even very comfortably bewailing in full agony. Therefore as a man who secretly finds a reason to cry…

  • Iranian Fusion Band "Circle" CD Release – Toronto

    Iranian Fusion Band "Circle" CD Release – Toronto

    This is the band that we introduced in our Persian magazine and we claimed that they got very close to adapting our beloved poet Sepehri’s poems into their songs. A challenge that most Iranian musicians wont even dare. 180 Shaw Street, Toronto 647 – 773 2158

  • Canadian Couple Cancels Wedding to Help Syrian Refugees

    Canadian Couple Cancels Wedding to Help Syrian Refugees

    A Toronto couple cancelled plans for a big, expensive wedding and asked guests at their small city hall ceremony to donate money in lieu of gifts — all to help them raise thousands of dollars to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian were planning a traditional wedding for March with all the trimmings, at a cost of tens…

  • 15 Books That President Obama Bought at a Local Bookstore

    15 Books That President Obama Bought at a Local Bookstore

    On a recent Saturday, President Obama and his family went to a local independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, and purchased 21 books. Here are the books the president bought, ranked from most popular to least popular (based on the number of Amazon reviews).   On a recent Saturday, President Obama and his family went to…

  • A Family Portrait That left on the Moon

    A Family Portrait That left on the Moon

    On April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke took his first steps on the Moon. He was 36 at the time and is the youngest human in history to ever walk on the lunar surface. But that’s not the only achievement of Duke’s that lives on in American history. While he was on the…

  • The Loss of High Culture

    The Loss of High Culture

    This loss of high culture is not an American phenomenon alone. English intellectual and artistic life has fallen off greatly since the generation of Evelyn Waugh, Isaiah Berlin, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. England now appears to be Mick Jagger’s country. The English novel, as written by Martin Amis, Ian -McEwan, and Salman Rushdie, attracts more publicity…