Vulture's Abraham Riesman has a wonderful long interview with Scott Thompson about arguably his most famous character, the flamboyant and out Buddy Cole.

Buddy Cole doesn’t care about what you think of him. Played by actor-comedian Scott Thompson, Buddy’s one of the most famous characters to come out of the Canadian sketch-comedy troupe the Kids ( Read more... )

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• Anthropology.net describes an effort to digitize tapes recording Navajo oral history.
• Centauri Dreams remembers Vera Rubin.
• D-Brief looks
  
• Dangerous Minds shares a 1984 TV clip featuring George Michael and Morrissey talking about Joy Division.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a gas giant exoplanet might be indicated by a protoplanetary ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams looks at the advanced microelectronics that might last a space probe the two decades it would take to get to Proxima Centauri.
• Dangerous Minds links to a 1980 filmed concert performance by Queen.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the discovery of potassium in the atmosphere of WASP-17b.
• Language Hat looks at the Carmina of Optatianus, an ( Read more... )

CBC News' Greg Ross and Laura Fraser cover this light news item from North York.

A pack of furry, pint-sized grinches have stolen the Christmas spirit from Mel Lastman Square ( Read more... )

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Enzo DiMatteo's interview with the two parodists who satirically proposed the redevelopment of some of Toronto's most iconic buildings as condos is worth reading.

They call themselves Glo'erm and Tuggy, and last week the "urban interventionists" (aka Daniel Rotsztain and Mike Stulberg) provoked a timely discussion about the state of the city by ( Read more... )

There is humour to Tricia Wood's Torontoist article on the absurdity of Toronto transit politics, but I wonder. Theatre reviewers who see this, how would you rate this ongoing drama?

I’m starting to think the Scarborough transit extension plan has the City stuck inside an absurdist play. Every time we’ve convinced ourselves we know what we are ( Read more... )

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• Bad Astronomy notes that a NASA probe has photographed the site on Mars where the ESA's Schiaparelli lander crashed.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about being an immigrant, of sorts, in the United States.
• C.J. Cherry announces that work on her history of the Alliance-Union universe is continuing.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper looking ( Read more... )