Finally! Maple-coated films like Blackfly (1991) Beaver Family (1929) and Being Caribou (2004), are all freely available online. And those are just three of my favourites from the “B” section of the National Film Board of Canada’s new Online Screening Room. As part of it’s 200th (? me so crazy) 70th anniversary the NFB launched [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘cheap fun’
December 20, 2008
Recessionomics
Despite the headlines that more of us are pinching pennies as the recession picks up speed, I haven’t noticed many of my friends or family changing how much they’re spending. To find out if the newspaper headlines match what’s really going on, I went to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto to talk [...]
October 30, 2008
stealing my bike
The black plastic-y key for my $14.99 bike lock kept bending slightly until it was nearly T-shaped. This summer, it finally snapped in two when it was inside the lock, leaving me to fish out the bit inside with a safety pin. Luckily I found a second key stashed in one of my many boxes of [...]
March 23, 2008
A dress a day #3
When rummaging through racks of used dresses it’s easy to get lost in the heady mix of stained musty goodness. But keeping the “classics” in mind will help you get a lock on vintage dynamite. I spied this red, button down, shirtdress, with it’s classic chain print, while rummaging through Birmingham’s aptly-named Vintage Clothing store in Digbeth. [...]
March 20, 2008
A dress a day #2
There’s something special about being given a dress once owned and worn by a woman you admire. Here’s a hand-me-down 80s vintage number. Sans labels, it was bestowed on me by a hard-working, farmer’s wife from Tunstall, Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria, England. The centre of this tiny village’s life, she defines all that is great about the Women’s Institute. [...]
