Ken Scott’s Starbuck: Where the Greatest Losers are the Greatest Winners
We’ll be hearing a lot more about Ken Scott. So see Starbuck. (Those of you able to attend TIFF can see it there.) And then see La Grande séduction.

Nathan Hellner-Mestelman talks about his book Cosmic Wonder on CTV News Montreal with Mutsumi Takahashi. Watch here
Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe
Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
April 2024
$24.95 | ISBN: 9781773901596
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Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is an avid writer and science communicator, aged 16. A contributor to Sky's Up and the former SkyNews magazine, he is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and does outreach at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. His work has been featured in the Lonely Planet Anthology, Physics World Magazine, and Math Horizons, and his recent award-winning film, Universe Versus You, has been screened at film festivals internationally. He lives in Victoria, B.C. [Photo: Park Photo Studio by Matt Kim]
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We’ll be hearing a lot more about Ken Scott. So see Starbuck. (Those of you able to attend TIFF can see it there.) And then see La Grande séduction.

My father died twenty years ago and I cannot listen to Leonard Cohen without mourning him. As I write, I’m listening to his copy of Cohen’s album Songs from a Room. “What is a saint?” Cohen asks in Beautiful Losers, and he answers himself, “I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”
Who would do that in any other city? I thought happily. It seemed promising—but this wasn’t the day I fell in love with the city.

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
One is always tempted to go naked in Greece: heat and history seem to demand it, and Irving Layton probably did, even though in the first Olympic games athletes wore protective jock straps, nudes on vases notwithstanding.