Move over pizza and fried chicken. Take a break, salad and sushi. It’s time to talk about burgers. The origin of hamburgers is international, fascinating and, to an extent, controversial. But there is no contention about their popularity in North America. The most recent data from Technomic, which analyzes food-service data, indicates that almost half…

“To the grey rebellion!” It’s a toast shared between the six retirees at the centre of Netflix’s latest sci-fi dramedy offering, but the scene could just as easily have been footage from the show’s wrap party.  The cast of The Boroughs includes a constellation of septuagenarian stars, including Geena Davis, 70, Alfred Molina, 72, Alfre…

"Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you." That was how Stephen Colbert’s alter ego, Stephen Colbert, welcomed his audience to the premiere episode of The Colbert Report in 2005. Posing as a satiric right-wing pundit and cable-news host, he would deliver ”truthiness,” a word the comedian coined…

Hockey executive Brian Burke chats with Alan Frew in the latest instalment of Life Frew Music, a podcast series hosted by Canadian rock legend Alan Frew and produced in partnership with Zoomer.com and ZoomerRadio.ca. Known as one of the sport's boldest and most influential voices, Burke peripatetic career has taken him all over the hockey…

Sally Field is back. Not that she ever went away. But after igniting her career in ’60s sitcoms (Gidget, The Flying Nun), then going on to win the Best Actress Oscar twice, for her powerhouse heroines in Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), she felt her stardom was fragile. You could hear…

“Mary had neither genius nor taste, and though vanity had given her application, it had given her a likewise pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.” Poor Mary Bennet, “the only plain one in the family” (according to her own author Jane Austen) is…