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6/21/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/21/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Q's Media Panel assess how the media handled recent news stories of national and international interest. Comic and actor Billy Crystal, who voice acts in the new film "Monster University". PLUS Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
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6/20/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/20/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Why TV's Sesame Street has now included a Muppet character whose father is in jail. A Tribe Called Red, who combine instrumental dance music with First Nations sounds. One of the most imaginative and in-demand dance figures today, choreographer and dancer Mark Morris.
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6/19/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/19/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Esteemed director Guillermo del Toro on his new movie, "Pacific Rim". Former hotel employee and author of "Heads in Beds", Jacob Tomsky, reflects on whether the New York Hilton's decision to end room service is an inevitable trend.
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6/18/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/18/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Jerry DeWitt, the author of "Hope After Faith," on his conversion from preacher to atheist. And, Sebastian Junger on his moving documentary "Which Way is the Front Line from Here," about the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington.
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6/17/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/17/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Amir Soltani, the activist and graphic novelist behind Zahra, a virtual candidate who fictionally competed online as a contender in last Friday's Iranian presidential election. Brooklyn-based indie giants The National perform from their acclaimed new album, "Trouble Will Find Me". Designer Christian Louboutin on his career and how his theatrical, red-soled, high-heeled shoes became status symbols the world over.
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6/14/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/14/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Canadian rocker Reignwolf performs live. Canadian comedic actor Will Arnett. Former Irish president and UN Commissioner of Human Rights Mary Robinson on her memoir, "People Matter". Hong Kong actor, director and martial arts master Jackie Chan. PLUS Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
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6/13/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/13/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: One woman's legal fight against the unauthorized uploading of personal sexual images, aka revenge porn. Afghan-American writer and physician Khaled Hosseini on his new novel, "And the Mountains Echoed". Punk musician turned archivist Ian MacKaye.
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6/12/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/12/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Former Microsoft-exec Jamen Shively on branding marijuana. Performance artist extraordinaire Marina Abramovic on her latest work, "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic", featured at Toronto's Luminato Festival. Entertainment producer and philanthropist Mick Ebeling on his work with graffiti artist TEMPT ONE on the EyeWriter, a device that helps people with disabilities draw.
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6/11/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/11/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: An hour-long special with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Jian interviewed the music legend at her home in Los Angeles and the result is a wide-ranging conversation on everything from why she stopped singing to originality versus plagiarism in the music industry.
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6/10/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/10/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Journalist Andrew Potter on the appeal of authenticity to the voting public and why populist politicians are not necessarily authentic. Actor Willem Dafoe on his varied career and his part in a performance work by Marina Abramovic, "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic". Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, son of the late abortion rights advocate Dr. Henry Morgentaler, on loosing a complicated father and a publicly polarizing figure.
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6/7/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/07/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Actor John Malkovich on his one-man play "The Infernal Comedy", which he'll be performing at Toronto's Luminato Festival. Q's Media Panel with rabble.ca's Judy Rebick, John Cruickshank, publisher of The Toronto Star, and Jonathan Kay of the National Post. PLUS Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
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6/6/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/06/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Journalist and food culture author Michael Pollan of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" on his latest book, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation". Cinematographer Christopher Doyle on Chinese cinema and his exhibit "Away with Words". Torquil Campbell's Rant or Rave column.
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6/5/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/05/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Deaths, a changing climate, an influx of inexperienced climbers, and tensions between climbers are tarnishing the natural splendour of Everest. Respected climber and blogger Alan Arnette on the issues surrounding the world's tallest peak around the 60th anniversary of the first recorded ascent of Mt. Everest.
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6/4/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/04/2013 - Gill Deacon guest hosts. Kimberley Motley, the only foreign defense lawyer currently working in Afghanistan, on how she's trying to change Afghan society through the legal system. Indie rock duo Imaginary Cities perform from their sophomore record Fall of Romance. Ko Koens, co-editor of Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power & Ethics, on why "slum" or "poor" tourism appeals to many people and why it reveals a much greater problem within the tourism industry.
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6/3/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 06/03/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: The Detroit Art Institute is one of the top art museums in the U.S., but the economically-troubled city is now considering whether to sell its collection in the event that Detroit goes bankrupt. Annmarie Erickson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the art museum, makes her case against the move. American Apparel's Dov Charney. Given the lax regulations that led to the deaths of over a thousand garment workers in the recent Bangladesh tragedy, is Charney right to be critical of other international manufacturer and proud of his own "sweatshop free" practices? Q's Sports Culture panel, today with writer Dave Bidini and broadcaster Scott Russell on the bodychecking ban in peewee hockey, wrestling and the Olympics.
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5/31/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 05/31/2013 - Gill Deacon guest hosts. Live performances throughout the show from pianist and singer Michael Kaeshammer. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Oscar-winning screenwriters (The Descendants) on their new coming of age movie, The Way Way Back. Brandon Wade, CEO of the controversial dating website Seeking Arrangement.
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5/30/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 05/30/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Russian journalist Masha Gessen on the situation of jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina, who has been hospitalized after more than a week on a hunger strike. Writer Lionel Shriver on her latest novel, "Big Brother", a harrowing story of adult siblings and family responsibilities, inspired by her own relationship with a brother who died of obesity-related causes. Writer Naomi Novik, best known for her Temairie science fiction series, on Amazon's controversial move to publish fan fiction as e-books.
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5/29/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 05/29/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Melodic popsters Barenaked Ladies perform from their new album, "Grinning Streak". It marks their 25th anniversary as a band. Kevin Poulsen on Strongbox, a digital initiative he developed with the late Aaron Swartz, that allows people to submit documents and messages in complete anonymity as an aid to investigative journalism. Comic actor and writer Seth Rogen, and his collaborator Evan Goldberg, on "This is the End", their movie meta-take on a group of Hollywood actors (including James Franco, Jonah Hill, and Rogen playing versions of themselves) confronted with the apocalypse.
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5/28/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 05/28/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: U.K. writer Laura Bates, founder of the site Everyday Sexism, explains the pressure that she and her contributors are putting on advertisers to remove ads on Facebook pages involving violence against women. Q debate: is it ever okay for journalists to pay sources? Gawker editor John Cook defends his website's choice to start the crowd-sourced "Crackstarter" fund to release the video purporting to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford engaged in drug use. Jeffrey Dvorkin, former news head of both NPR and CBC, argues against. Senior pastor and author John S. Dickerson on the dramatic decline of evangelicalism in North America, which he argues comes from the lack of major evangelical role models, combined with recent social movements.
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5/27/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 05/27/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: City & Colour AKA Dallas Green performs a preview from his new album, "The Hurry and the Form". Michael Koschitzki of the protest group Occupy Barbie-Dreamhouse on why he believes that believes Barbie's new walk-in tourist attraction promotes oppressive gender stereotypes and a shallow lifestyle to young girls. Afghani-American writer and physician Khaled Hosseini on his new novel, "And the Mountains Echoed", which follows several sets of Afghani brothers and sisters in their homeland and abroad.
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