A chilling, innovative, and sometimes darkly comedic look at the rise of modern day fears and the scars of fascism, Christian Petzold’s Transit takes a premise that has been mined in the past with tasteless results and turns it into something immediate and important.
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When Transit first came to Calgary, he was surprised at the reception he got. Some told him that the city wouldn’t be receptive to his particular brand of hip-hop; that it just wouldn’t work. Those people were wrong. Since first moving to Calgary from Victoria for university, he has become a voice of the city and built a solid fan base here.
Methinks the people most delighted to see a Toronto Transit Commission strike, which was just announced 30 minutes ago, is Citytv. Seriously, the news has only been on since 11:00 PM and they have announced the breaking news 4 or 5 times already.
There are very few days in the year when I’m not on the TTC at least once. On a regular basis I spend at least 40 minutes on a streetcar…
The New York Times has an excellent little article on how some people in the U.S. have started using cell phone jammers, which really made me laugh a little. As…