"Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' "- Margaret Cho...

Five things you may or may not already know: Jaws opened on 409 screens on its first weekend in 1975, which was considered a huge number for what was then a "wide" release. Blockbusters often open on 10 times that number now. If the Earth were reduced to the size of a billiard ball, it would be just...

"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."- John Lahr...

"Acting should be like punk in the best way. It should be a full-on expression of self - only without the broken bottles." - John Cusack...

[Surf's Up, as published in the St. John's Telegram on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Click here to read more columns.] I've been reading a lot lately about the future of the cloud – and it doesn't have anything with the weather. "The cloud" has become a leading way of describing what the internet is be...

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."- Gloria Steinem...

Andreae Prozesky, who writes the Food Nerd column in the Scope here in St. John's, has made me want to make my own ricotta, which up until I read the piece was not an ambition of mine, in the slightest....

[Surf's Up, as published in the St. John's Telegram on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. Click here to read more columns.] We start this week's column with some sites that may help travellers – one for dreamers, another for shutterbugs on the move – and hop over a variety of others, from the Habs to the ...

Accents and acting are always a hazardous mix; all Newfoundlanders know the guffaws or groans when someone tries, and fails, to come close to a local accent. (It's not that hard, Air Farce be damned.) The BBC's Magazine has a piece for movie buffs, taking its spark from Tom Cruise in Valkyrie. A bit...

Arcade Fire played an inaugural ball for Barack Obama campaign staffers; the set included a cover of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (Lest we forget, Win Butler, the singer of the Montreal-based group, is from Texas.)...