4 Days at Safeco

As part of my trip to Seattle, I visited Safeco Field to catch some baseball. The New York Yankees were in town to play the host Seattle Mariners from Thursday to Sunday, and I caught all four games between the two teams. If a picture is worth 1000 words, then my photo gallery from the [...]

Weekend Reading and Entertainment: 08/29/09

While I work on a few upcoming blog posts, here is a collection of stories I’ve come across over the past little while: – I wrote about the Pete Yorn show I saw in Seattle last week. – Richard Florida always tweets interesting stuff. This week he posted stories about the vision of former New [...]

Pete Yorn in Seattle

For most of the past couple of weeks, I’ve been on vacation, hence the lack of blogging. For 8 of those days, I visited Seattle and Portland. That trip, and observations/thoughts stemming from it, will be the subject of a few upcoming blog posts. Officially, I had three objectives when planning a summer vacation. First, [...]

Roots Music Infused With a Punk Ethos: Edmonton Folk Festival 2009

Following my trip down to Calgary for their Folk Festival two weeks ago, I made a much shorter trip this past weekend to attend the Edmonton Folk Festival on Friday and Saturday. I didn’t attend Thursday or Sunday on account of other commitments, but I managed to catch a number of talented acts – some [...]

Weekend Reading and Entertainment: 08/07/09

Here is a collection of links to interesting items I’ve seen over the past week, many of which I tweeted about. – My four part blog series covering the Global Youth Assembly, along with my Flickr set. – A new report produced by Accenture called Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools for the Next Generation of Public [...]

Global Youth Assembly 2009: In Review

Over the past few days, I blogged about Craig Kielburger, the Apathy is Boring panel on politics, and Governor General Michaelle Jean at the Global Youth Assembly. I have also posted photos on Flickr and a video of the Governor General showing off her dance moves. Now, to wrap up, here are thoughts from sessions [...]

Michaelle Jean Rocks the Global Youth Assembly

Friday night at the Global Youth Assembly featured a special appearance by Canada’s Governor General, Michaelle Jean. The Governor General appeared in Edmonton as part of her Youth Dialogues series. She spoke, listened to the crowd, and then finished by showing off her dance moves (video provided later in this post). I was impressed with [...]

Global Youth Assembly: Apathy is Boring, Politics is Not

Friday afternoon at the Global Youth Assembly featured a panel discussion on politics and building community. Hosted by Apathy is Boring (Executive Director Ilona Dogherty emceed), it featured Edmonton City Councillor Don Iveson, Edmonton community activist and past/present candidate for office Lewis Cardinal, and community activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam. This is the only session I’ve seen [...]