School of Rap

If L.L. Cool J is the “professor, the teacher, the hip hop dean” then he must standing before a classroom of Midwest college students. According to CNN, McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota is the very first to offer a diploma in Hip Hop. That’s right! The classes combine hands on music and textbook history lessons in a three-semester course. Toki Wright and DJ Freddy Fresh are among two of the instructors teaching this years accredited diploma program.

All I can picture is a classroom full of kids reading Ego Trip’s Book of Rap Lists and cramming for a pop quizzle. All jokes aside though, if KRS-One’s Temple of Hip Hop can be officially accepted by the United Nations as a culture, well there’s no reason why we can’t study it like one.

Instructor Toki Wright (left) and hip hop Columnist Davey D. (right) at the program kick-off ceremony in June.

oh messy life

How disgusting our city has become. Here's to resolving the garbage strike before Toronto's rats give birth. Yuck.

Summer.

I know, I know, it's been a minute. 

My excuse? 

The summer sunk her teeth in.

Drained dry, not a drop of juice to blog with.

However, I did take pictures. 

Let's get caught up old friends.

A fist fight fell on my foot.

Home-wrecking girls at NXNE minimalist art parties. 

 I make the capital liquid.

Ferocious forest dweller.

Rod Barahas is the ghetto bird.

Canadiana.

Sir Greek and Sir Sub is now open.

Shout out to cupcakes and Jeff.

I can't stand the rain.

This just in: It's sunny again...

And it gets even better, Saturday is going to have a high of 24 degrees celsius!

Bike ride? Harbor front? Dutch Dreams? Ronnie's Patio? Trinity Bellwoods? What are you going to do with your glorious day Toronto?

Okay Blue Jays! Let's Play Ball!

Hello baseball fans, It's that time again.
The Season Opener: The Detroit Tigers go up against the home team tonight at 7:15 pm.

You can bet your ass the Ghosts will be there to cheer 'em on... Although, we do advise against betting, on The Jays that is.

The season is looking bleak, best not to spring for those season tickets. We're sitting in the nosebleed 500's with shoddy Star Passes and putting the rest of our dough into $10 draft beers. The Jays could lose every game and we're still getting jiggy to an Alex Rios reggaeton batting song.

See you at the Dome.

Kyoto cities

Last week, Nicolas Sarkozy collected proposals from top architectural firms responding to his vision of a greener Paris. Sarkozy's ambition to apply the Kyoto Protocol to the City of Lights, while integrating the troubled suburbs is an ambitious one. The project, called Le Grand Paris, would include a massive expansion of the métro to reach les banlieues and would add many green spaces. As would be expected, many people doubt this will ever come to terms and others feel huge modern development and changes in infrastructure would disfigure the charm of this medieval city.


The crucial part of these proposals is that someone is thinking in terms of sustainability and perhaps other major cities will take a hint. Toronto, we're waiting for you to step up to the plate.

World Baseball Classic '09

Hellooo baseball fans, welcome to The World Baseball Classic, here in Toronto! Saturday afternoon commenced the first game of the Pool C (Canada, U.S.A., Italy and Venezuela) round one, at the Rogers Center.

I hit the stadium Saturday night for the Venezuela vs. Italy game at 8:00 pm. We had decided to root for Venezuela with the super-star lineup including, Bobby Abreu, Miguel Cabrera and lastly Magglio Ordonez, who was booed violently by Venezuelan spectators for (I assume) political reasons unknown to me. (As a sidenote, I wikipediaed Ordonez in search of answers but came up short; instead I learned that he has a family of 4, one son and two daughters, two of which are named, get this, Magglio Jr. and Maggliana. Obvious symptoms of a psychopathological condition know as, megalomania).
I digress, Venezuela preformed effortlessly as expected, but wouldn't you know it, those damn Italians sure put up a good fight. Mario Chiarini dove for a hit to right field that had us stupefied and it was amore, we ditched the Latinos for the Guidos and got behind the underdogs.

You can catch all the action tonight as our own Jason Bay, Justin Morneau and Matt Stairs along with the rest of team Canada go up against Italy at 6:30 pm.

This is not a celebrity blog.

Roberto Alomar is legend. Proof? Um, hellooo, Toronto Blue Jays World Series Championships 1992 and 1993. This is why I am hesitant to believe current allegations against him in a 15 million dollar lawsuit introduced by a Miss Ilya Dall (his ex), who claims he knowingly had uprotected sex while infected with AIDS.
I ask, why then would a full-blown AIDS victim be hired on for spring training staff in the upcoming season?

I suggest we get all Missy Elliott and support our man Michael Jackson style, because a shady sex-scandal cannot erase a considerable contribution to pop music or major league baseball.

Give us your 2 cents Toronto.