SLASH & AXL of Guns N’ Roses together again (that is, their autographs) as guitarist arrives in Toronto for Canadian Music Week

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(HoundsTV – Toronto) Iconic guitarist and ex-Guns N’ Roses member SLASH touched down in Toronto today ahead of his Canadian Music Week keynote interview.
Slash was met at Toronto’s Pearson airport by at least one professional autograph collector (and his helpers) who are on a mission to get a few guitars signed by the [...]

NEWS: The hunt is on to find Sidney Crosby’s Gold medal winning hockey stick – But was the Glove fair keeps?

photo: Canadian Press via @CdnPress_Images
The stick Sidney Crosby used to score the Gold medal winning overtime goal over Team U.S.A. has gone missing.
After Crosby scored, he ripped off his gloves and threw his stick in the air. As reported by the Toronto Star. “When they cleared the ice, I never got my stick or gloves,” [...]

NEWS: It’s Batman Vs. Superman as their original Comics each sell for $1,000,000 this week

It was a big week for the comic book industry. In a widely reported story earlier in the week, what has long been considered to be the most valuable comic book – Action Comics #1 – the very first appearance of Superman – sold for $1,000,000. This figure surprised a lot of collectors as [...]

OLYMPICS: Which way is better to light the final Olympic flame – 1996 Atlanta and torchbearer Muhammad Ali or Gretzky at 2010 Vancouver games?

(HoundsTV) Talk about blowing it in Vancouver.
That is, the final Olympic torch lighting.
We know our Canadian athletes will hold up far better under the pressure of Olympic competition then these Opening Gala organizers did in Vancouver.
I was sitting with friends watching the 2010 Opening Ceremonies when like the rest of Canada’s largest ever television [...]

NEWS: Toronto mourns the loss of Lee’s Palace building mural – director Edgar Wright says it will be seen again in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie

An outpouring of emotion on Twitter has occurred since Torontoist first posted a story on how the iconic bar / live music venue Lee’s Palace has begun to replace it’s painted building facade which it grew famous for.
The news even reached across the pond to filmmaker Edgar Wright. Wright spent much of this year [...]

Wonder how a film takes $140mil in one weekend – promotion!

photo: A magazine stand inside Chapters book store, Toronto – the weekend New Moon opened.
Its a carefully orchestrated PLAN for a movie saga like Twilight to do $140mil in box office business. Industry watchers were even stunned at the first weekend results.