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  5. Burlington VT

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    we had really yummy sandwiches at a place called the Red Onion. It's on that pedestrian street...Church st yep

    Was just gonna post about those sandwiches. On Church near the bottom on the left (guessing that would be the east side of the street). Small place that looks like it serves hippie food. I will definitely eat those sammys again.

    On the way back to Ottawa you can drive through that nice island area, what is it the Champlain or something? Bordering New York. Pleasant scenic detour home.

  6. Doug Gouthro & Todd Snelgrove @ Bridgehead for Earth Hour

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    What:

    An Intimate, Unplugged Performance from Doug Gouthro & Todd Snelgrove

    When:

    Earth Hour

    Saturday March 31st

    8:30pm - 9:30pm

    Where:

    Bridgehead

    Fairmont location

    1024 Wellington West @ Fairmont

    How:

    You come and enjoy great music, for free, in a cosy candlelit environment. It's that easy.

    Why:

    A great excuse to hear some good music, see friends and drink delicious coffee, while taking part in a world-wide act of environmental solidarity.

  10. A few interesting Toronto shows just announced

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    Spectrum Road (Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski, Cindy Blackman-Santana)

    Toronto Jazz Festival

    @ Sound Academy

    9 pm, $45

    torontojazz.com

    June 27

    This in conjunction with their Montreal date leads me to believe they'll be at Ottawa Jazz. Hope so.

    In other news, phorbesie and I will be in TO for the Dan Lanois thing next Saturday. Will we be seeing any of you there?

  13. Bob Loblaw & Death Cake @ Cafe Dekcuf

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    Someone tell Whitey!!!!

    Whitey actually made it into the lyrical content of a Bob tune. We have a disco tune called Clam Chowder with the following chorus:

    Get dancing in your nightie,

    Get dancing like Whitey

    Political correcti-righty

    We're all taking Tai Chi

    Worry not, most of our stuff isn't quite so cerebral.

  15. Bob Loblaw & Death Cake @ Cafe Dekcuf

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    1) The Boogiemen and Bob Loblaw have played together twice (including the first setblenders), and to my knowledge Bob has never, ever booked a show and not played it.

    2) Yes, Bob Loblaw predates Arrested Development. Just another example of how influential the band was.

    3) Sorry Dave, but the funk/electronica tag sells a lot of tickets. Asses in seats my friend.

  16. Bob Loblaw & Death Cake @ Cafe Dekcuf

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    Bob Loblaw w/ guests Death Cake

    Saturday, April 7, 2012

    Cafe Dekcuf

    $10

    9pm/19+

    The return of legendary Ottawa freak-rockers Bob Loblaw is upon us. Following a 15-year incubation period the local quartet has been drawn out of hiding and is ready to spill back onto the live music scene.

    Opening the show is the debut of Death Cake, the hard-driving funk/electronica duo made up of two thirds of Ottawa's favourite jammers, nero.

    While Bob Loblaw kept busy throughout the '90's filling just about every club in town, their favourite haunt was always the mighty Whipping Post, where a young nero cut their teeth as frequent openers. It's only fitting then that the re-emergence of Bob Loblaw and the first public performance of Death Cake will occur together within those same hallowed walls above Rideau Street at Cafe Dekcuf.

    Bob Loblaw is:

    Paul Chiles - bass

    JP Cote - guitar

    Mike Essoudry - drums

    Todd Snelgrove - guitar

    Death Cake is:

    Dave Lauzon - guitar

    Jay McConnery - drums

  21. Smoking ban coming to Bluesfest?

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    More work needs to be done to keep young people from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.

    Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but the rate of decline has slowed, the report said.

    'We have come a long way since the days of smoking on airplanes and in college classrooms, but we have a long way to go.'

    —Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human resources

    It says it's particularly important to stop young people from using tobacco because those who start smoking as teenagers can increase their chances of long-term addiction. They also quickly can experience reduced lung function, impaired lung growth, early heart disease and other health problems like asthma.

    More than 80 per cent of smokers begin by age 18 and 99 per cent of adult smokers in the U.S. start by age 26, according to the 920-page report, which is the first comprehensive look at youth tobacco use from the surgeon general's office in nearly two decades.

    "In order to end this epidemic, we need to focus on where we can prevent it and where we can see the most effect, and that's with young people," Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We want to make our next generation tobacco-free, and I think we can."

    Anti-smoking campaigns recommended

    The report details youth tobacco use, health impacts, and tobacco marketing and prevention efforts in the U.S. Officials hope the information will reinvigorate anti-tobacco efforts and spark public activism in reducing death and disease caused by tobacco use.

    The report also recommended anti-smoking campaigns and increased restrictions under the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate tobacco as other ways to prevent adolescents and young adults from using tobacco products.

    Benjamin did not point fingers on why youth tobacco use continues in the U.S. Instead, she wants to see how the nation as a whole can best address the issue, she said.

    "I don't want to focus on blame, I want to focus on prevention," she said. "I want to make sure we're doing everything that we can to prevent kids from ever starting to smoke or use tobacco products."

    The surgeon general's office last issued a report on youth tobacco use in 1994, the first wide-ranging report on the topic by federal health officials. The new report is the 31st issued by U.S. surgeons general to warn the public about tobacco's risks. The first report in 1964 declared tobacco to be deadly.

    Since the 1994 report, smoking among high school students has declined from 27.5 per cent to 19.5 per cent, or about three million students, but the rate of decline has slowed in recent years. About 5.2 per cent, or 600,000 middle-school students, also are current smokers. According to the report, every day in the U.S., more than 3,800 people under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette and more than 1,000 of them become daily smokers. They replace the 1,200 people who die each day in the U.S. from smoking.Company defends cigarette marketing

    The report also examined advertising and promotional activities by tobacco companies, which have been shown to "cause the onset and continuation of smoking adolescents and young adults."

    Tobacco companies have spent increasing amounts of money on marketing efforts to reduce prices, which health officials said in the report could influence access to price-sensitive youth and make cigarettes more affordable.

    Nearly $10 billion was spent in 2008 on cigarette marketing by the nation's five biggest tobacco companies, a 48 per cent increase from what was spent in 1998, when some of the companies agreed with state attorneys general to curtail or stop some of their marketing efforts. That 25-year, $206 billion settlement also pays states for smoking-related health care costs and to support tobacco prevention and cessation programs.

    "We have come a long way since the days of smoking on airplanes and in college classrooms, but we have a long way to go," Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement accompanying the latest report. "The prosperity and health of our nation depend on it."

    In a statement Thursday, Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., parent company of the nation's largest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, which makes the top-selling Marlboro brand, said it agrees that kids shouldn't use tobacco products and that it markets its products to adult tobacco users through age-verified direct communications and at retail stores.

    "Underage tobacco use is a difficult issue, and there is not a simple solution," the company said. "We agree there's still more work to be done."

  22. Radiohead Dates 2012

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    Radiohead is the sort of dopily dissonant, synth-mashing, warbling, British crap that passes for cutting edge these days. Their Internet fans are legion, their pretentious and egotistically dull albums continue to sell, and the people who malign the good name of critics by calling themselves as much incessantly drool over Radiohead like they've got platinum bars shooting out of their jocks.

    ;)

    I thought I was the only one.

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