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As the tension builds towards tomorrow night’s Ockham national book awards, Graeme Lay shudders to recall the time the award for best novel went to a bogan – and Steve Braunias barges his way in at the end of the story, and adds a highly unusual postscript...

Happy Birthday this week to: Jul 31 1923 ● Seth Avett → Turkish immigrant who co-founded and became chief executive of Atlantic Records, a dominant force in jazz, R&B and pop/rock and a prime force in moving Black American music into the mainstream...

RYAN BOWMAN, MyToba.ca This is the second in a five-part series leading up to the Real Love Summer Fest, which will take place at Gimli Motorsports Park from June 6 to 8. For tickets and more information about the festival visit www.reallovewpg...

In these waning days of 2013, extinction is being proposed for certain overused words and phrases. The New York Times’ Timothy Egan urges elimination of “artisan,” “brand,” and “end of the day.” The Wall Street...

Whoot Weekly January 24, 2002 by Steve Angelucci Once a daytime door-to-door Bible salesman and a night-time honky-tonk entertainer, Willie Nelson just wanted to be a Texas country singer. Through a Nashville stint in which e established himself...