Sammy Younan Girth Radio Presents… Canada’s currency is getting a face-lift. Best pun I can do under the circumstances. Viola Desmond will grace Canada’s $10 bill starting in late-2018. (And that’s not all. According to the Globe and Mail: “Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, will move from the $10 to a higher…
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Sammy Younan Girth Radio Presents… Super exciting to attend last night’s premiere of Bodyguards: Secret Lives from the Watchtower. Directed by Girth Radio’s own Jaren Hayman (Seal 6 Radio!), narrated by Kim Coates and produced by Jeremy Bieber (if the last name is familiar it’s Justin’s Dad). So yes Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun are…
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Today’s Hidden Gem requires the clapper.
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On November 7, 2016 we lost Leonard Cohen.
The world is poorer when we lose poets (Unfathomably we lost Bowie and Cohen in one year; I feel defenseless). Rufus Wainwright is synonymous with Hallelujah (so many fantastic covers really but Rufus gives Hallelujah pathos, Leonard gives it weight because dude had weight, poets…yo). Yet rather than the traditional cover…this is Rufus’ Hallelujah with 1,500 singers. Woah. Choir! Choir! Choir! is a venerable Toronto institution. If you’re ever in town join em; that’s the way it works: show up and sing…lend your voice to the choir.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks creating movies, storytelling and the Knicks with Ryan Kipp a writer/actor/director/editor.
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Finally!! We all have these beats…songs that are faint memories and we don’t have enough to google. (How amazing would google become if you could hum or sing a song and it would be like…oh! I know that one here ya go! Here’s to the brave future we all want to occupy!).
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No Diggity remains one of hip hop’s most popular jams. At Pacific Junction Hotel bar (home of Girth Radio!) it gets dropped on the jukebox often. Actually a bit too much. There’s so many ways to cover this tune and Chet Faker does a fine job.
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The 71st season of the National Basketball Association begins on Tuesday October 25, 2016. KG, Kobe and Duncan are retired (you can toss Stoudemire into that mix and mercifully Mo Williams and Landry Fields are gone which…if you’ve seen em play is not a tragedy) so for the first time this’ll be a new look NBA.
I am ready! Are you?
