I was wondering about this the other day when I was being flattered by a NY state official pal of mine for Canada's stability. Is it possible that periodic managable bubbles are an important part of wealth creation:  •  In 2004, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman, said the rise in home values was …

There was a yodling cowboy who sold records on TV in the 70s - not, not Boxcar Willie... Slim Whitman, that's it - and he recommended his songs to get you through "these troubled times". Evan Rail, a beer blogging pal who has a real job travel and beer writing including for The New York Times …

Here's an idea. Sell the cheap for more than we could last year because we call it "new" - that's what we are facing for 2010:  •  "I was just in New York, and there are two new restaurants just doing mac and cheese," says McCauley, a consultant, food blogger and cookbook author. "One is called … read more »

No question on this at all:  •  Why? The song has no introduction. The green. The only good thing that happened for Poloroid in the whole ten year span. The dream girl TV audience. The riding outfits on the backup Andre 3000s dubbed "The Love Haters." Like all good pop, it is meaningless so that … read more »

I think the truly biggest moment in pop culture waa that I got old. I mean I still buy CDs and am wary of giving in to the kids' desire to use iTunes. When I asked if you got a poster with the album they just stared and stared. Then... I bought a banjo. Which made me an old fart. So in one decade … read more »

Drilling down one little bit more, as the tenth anniversary of 2000 comes closer, it strikes me that one of the weird things about the decade, other than how the internet has come to rule our lives without a peep over the downsides, is that the West and the world world received a number of huge …

It has begun. Decade ending summations. Expect lists. Expect panels of talking heads. Rather than going to the Rick Mercer well one more time as The Globe did, Canadians deserve better. So we really should make our own lists. Today, we start with the general cultural trends of the decade …