Phantom of the Arena
Heard but not seen: Vancouver Canucks Hockey Organist Mike Kenney is one of a very few remaining live keyboard performers in NHL arenas.
XL-Games: Harper’s Pipe-Dream?
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues to apply pressure on the USA to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, which will carry Canadian oil-sands crude to US markets.
Pussy-footing around Sochi
Russian police continue to harass the protest-rock group, “Pussy Riot” who have dared to speak out against Putin’s authority; arresting members of the band in trumped-up theft charges in Sochi.
Skating on thin ice
Japanese figure skate, Takahashi, performs in the Olympics to “Sonatina for Violin” by discredited composer Samuragochi who hired a “ghost writer” to compose the piece and who also faked deafness to gain fame and comparisons to Beethoven.
The Olympics are going to the dogs!
Stray dogs are wandering through the Olympic sites in Sochi. Rumours say that officials are poisoning them to avoid any embarrassing interruptions at Olympic events.
Sochi Security Breach?
Russia’s plans to display 2 captured Orcas at the Sochi Olympics have provoked international outrage
Couch-Surfing!
Large winter waves have eroded beaches at Oahu’s North Shore surfing mecca, Haleiwa, causing some houses to collapse
New Year, New Meaning to “Penguin Plunge” in Antarctica
“I assume the Penguin Plunge will be a spectator sport this year!” Travellers on a Russian research ship stuck in ice at Antarctica since Christmas Eve will have to wait at least until New Year’s Day for rescue.
New Winter Sport?
By Popular demand! Boxing Day Sales have been extended to Boxing Week Sales
The Cats Come back!
Putin frees the dissident Punk Rockers “Pussy Riot” in what has been described as a pre-Olympic PR stunt
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 