The latest edition of Born to Run DMC, the “hip-hop rock party” hosted by Mizz Brown and Paul G of Yo! Jamz, looks like it’s going to be a big one. Thursday’s issue of the Grid featured a glowing endorsement, and Paul’s been fielding guest list requests and an unexpected wealth of attention ever since. […]

You probably know my good friend Neil Pasricha as the author of the acclaimed Book of Awesome series. His first book, for example, recently celebrated its hundredth week on the Globe and Mail’s list of bestsellers, where the paperback version of his second book just debuted at number one. But before all the books and […]

I promised I was going to do this earlier, and if I hadn’t overestimated the amount of time and energy I’d have during my first week back at work, I might have kept that promise. Either way, in the spirit of “better late than never,” I’m glad to tell you that What’s Matt Been Drinking? […]

I’ll be the first to admit that I grossly overestimated the amount of time and energy I’d have at the end of the day when I went back to work. I’ve always been fairly good at wringing a little extra time from every day and putting it to good use. I figured I could just […]

“Your little one sounds like she’s hungry,” the woman in line behind me at the drug store volunteered without provocation. “No,” I smiled. “She fed half an hour ago. She just doesn’t like sitting still in long lines. Thank you, though.” I’m new to this parenting thing, and when it comes to good advice, I’m […]

I love taking our kid to the pediatrician! Kate and I have only been parents for a couple of months, and we do tend to worry about our daughter’s health and well-being. Even when things seem fine on the surface, I often catch myself worrying about hypothetical problems I don’t even know about, just because our […]

Hey, remember that DJ podcast I’ve been talking about launching? I think I’m going to try and post the first episode on Thursday morning. There’s nothing like starting the week with a bold promise, and I invite you all to mark your calendars and stay tuned to see if I follow through. I’m going back […]

A lot of you kids are probably too young to remember this, but there was a time just a few years ago when social networks like Facebook and Twitter didn’t even exist. If you wanted to share your opinions on the web back then, you had to get yourself a blog. I had a blog […]

Everyone’s a DJ, the free monthly night we host at Disgraceland, returns two weeks from tonight. As always, we’re looking for sixteen DJs to spin twenty-minute sets each. No experience is required, any kind of music will do, and you can sign up online through our website. The schedule for April will be updated as […]

By now, you’ve probably heard about all the racist tweets from kids who saw The Hunger Games and were disappointed to discover that a character named Rue was black. Despite the fact that the novel describes the youngest tribute, whatever that is, as having “dark brown skin,” remedial readers everywhere flocked to Twitter to complain about […]