Every time I see an article lauding Mayor John Tory’s ‘inspired’ idea of turning Toronto into a ‘Music City,’ I get queasy. You see, I came to Toronto in 1976, when it really WAS one, and have watched succeeding local governments and well-heeled blue noses, waving the banners of political correctness and money over art, stomp the culture to death.
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Roxanne Tellier – Music City, My Ass
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags . Nuit Blanche, .Liberty Entertainment, bathhouse raids, Black Hawk Motor Inn, BlueNote, Bob Segarini, BuskerFest, Caribana, CHIN International Picnic. The Big Bop, Chris Sheppard, Club Domino, Colonial Tavern, DBAWIS, Designated Driver, Dufferin Grove, Evergreen Centre, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Gasworks, Jamaica, Kensington Market, King West, Knob Hill, MADD, Mayor John Tory, Music Canada, Music City, OCA, Parkdale, Pride Week, Queen West, R&B and soul, Richmond Hill, Riverdale, Roxanne Tellier, Scarborough, ScotiaBank, the Edison, the Junction, The Morrissey, The Toronto Music Moment., Toronto, Toronto Sound, Velvet Underground, Voodoo Club, WaveLength, yonge street, Yorkville on February 21, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – K-TEL’S SHINING STARS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1974, 1975, 22 Explosive Hits, 8-tracks, Bay City Rollers, Billy Paul, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Malvern, cassettes, CFTR, Chi-Lites, CHUM, Commodores, DBAWIS, Delfonics, Disco, Disco Rock, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dorothy Moore, Earth Wind & Fire, Isaac Hayes, Jaimie Vernon, James Brown, Jim Croce, John Denver, K-Tel, Kiss, Lou Rawls, LPs, Main Ingredient, Maurice White, O'Jays, Pursuaders, Scarborough, Shining Star, Sly & The Family Stone, Soul Train, Spinners, Stylistics, Temptations, The Apollo Theatre, The Carpenters, The Dells, The Dramatics, Three Degrees, Top 40, Toronto on February 6, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – BOOT THE MAYOR, SAVE A CITY
Posted in Opinion with tags Alcohol, Bob Segarini, Brothers Grimm, bully, Canadian Music, City Hall, CMW, CN Tower, CNE, Councillor, crack cocaine, David Miller, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Ford, drunken stupor, Dundas Square, East York, Etobicoke, Ford Nation, Gardiner Expressway, high school, Jaimie Vernon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, John Tory, Johnny Rocket's, Mayor of Toronto, Mell Lastman, Michael Ford, North York, NXNE, Olivia Chow, Queen Street West, rehab, Ripley's Aquarium, Rob Ford, Scarborough, Spadina, tantrum, Taste of The Danforth, The Mirvish's, Toronto, TTC, tumor, Union Station, Ward 2, yonge street on September 13, 2014 by segariniI had another blog prepared and ready to roll today about my favourite topic, music, but in light of the last 72 hours of clown car antics from the family of my city’s mayor, Rob Ford, I couldn’t let it go without comment.
Roxanne Tellier: Big City Love
Posted in Opinion with tags Bloor, Bob Segarini, Church Street, City Rat, College, Country Mouse, Crescent Street, Danforth, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downtown, Facebook, First World Problems, Montreal, Mount Royal, Olympic Village, Petula Clark, Queen Street, Roxanne Tellier, Scarborough, Sue Peters, The Black Dog Pub, Toronto, TTC, Waterfront Trail, Yonge, Yorkville on July 6, 2014 by segariniI have lived on a beautiful, quiet, residential street in Scarborough for 15 years this month. Up the street, just a stagger away, is a busy local pub called the Black Dog, where I’ve seen many a friend play, and drank many a cold pint.
JAIMIE VERNON – MY FAVOURITE YEAR: 1977
Posted in Opinion with tags Alan o’Day, Bay of Fundy, Bob Segarini, Boy scouts, Cabot Trail, Canada, Canadian Music, David Soul, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, East Coast, Grade 8, graduation, Halifax, hardball, hat trick, Hockey, Jaimie Vernon, jamboree, Junior High School, Leo Sayer, Magnetic Hill, Montreal, pre-teen, Prince Edward Island, reversing tide, Scarborough, slow dancing, softball, teenage lust, traveling, Valedictorian on June 21, 2014 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – MY GLACIER WAS GONE
Posted in Opinion with tags age 11, Athabasca Glacier, Banff National Park, bears, Bill Murray, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Columbia Ice Fields, coming of age, Cross Canada, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, elk, Global Warming., Grade 6, Grandma, Ice Age, ice sheet, Jaimie Vernon, Jasper National Park, Lake Superior, Miette Hot Springs, Moose, mountain goats, moving, new home, pre-teen, Saskatchewan, Scarborough, Skylark, Snow, snowmobile, Summer of 1975, Trans-Canada Highway, Whistler Mountain on May 31, 2014 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – Toronto the Good?
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dundas Square, East York, Eaton Centre, Ed Mirvish, Jaimie Vernon, Massey Hall, mayor, music, North York, restaurants, Rob Ford, Scarborough, Theatre, Toronto, Vintage Toronto, York on November 17, 2013 by segariniI am a Torontonian. I was born in East York at East General Hospital 50 years ago this coming Tuesday and raised in Scarborough – both originally neighbouring boroughs of Toronto. I’ve always considered these places suburbs of Toronto anyway and it was made official when they were amalgamated into the new City of Toronto in 1998. I worked for the City of Scarborough for 12 years leading up to the annexing of all the Metropolitan Toronto territories (which also
included North York, York, and Etobicoke). 44 out of my 50 years have been spent living here. I’ve lived in the shadows both Yorkdale and Cedarbrae malls, on the eastern leg of The Danforth, and in the belly of Malvern when it was still radioactive but before it became a hideout for drug gangs and a haven for grow-ops. I’ve communed at the wolf den on the outskirts of the Metro Toronto Zoo and gone swimming in Lake Ontario at the foot of the Rouge River.