The Gazette's casual dining critic Sarah Musgrave interviews Chris (Zeke) Hand (formerly of the Zeke's Gallery craziness) and Ed Hawco (of Blork Blog) about their current project, the Montreal Burger Report, a radio show for CKUT, audio podcast and blog, all about reviewing local restaurants for their burgers.
The article, which was apparently written from the mythical "casual dining headquarters", includes an absolutely adorable picture of Hand taken by Hawco.
You can subscribe to the Montreal Burger Report podcast here.
July 9, 2009 – 12:42 pm
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Posted in Radio
Len Dobbin, the host of the Dobbin's Den jazz show Sundays on CKUT Radio, died Wednesday night after suffering a stroke at the Upstairs jazz bar ... in the middle of the jazz festival.
Dobbin, who also photographed jazz artists and wrote about jazz, was a fixture of CKUT. His show had gone 736 episodes (he would count them), or about 14 years.
He was 74, and he is already being missed by many in the jazz community, his death coming at either the worst or best possible time, depending on your perspective.
You can listen to archives of Dobbin's Den here. Next Sunday's show, which Dobbin was scheduled to host, will instead become a special tribute show hosted by Mike Chamberlain. Details are still being figured out. It runs 11am to 1pm on CKUT 90.3FM.
UPDATE: La Presse has a short obit, as does The Gazette, with some thoughts from Bernie Perusse and James Hale. Hour and Mirror also chip in.
UPDATE (July 14): A memorial is planned for August 9.
CKUT has audio of the Len Dobbin memorial show online in MP3 format: Hour 1-2, Hour 3, Hour 4-5.
UPDATE (Sept. 29): A piece in This Magazine.
October 30, 2007 – 12:10 am
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Posted in Montreal
McGill has a bug up its butt.
The university, whose name has apparently been left unprotected for almost 200 years, has begun clamping down on the use of the name "McGill" by organizations on campus. It started with CKUT, which was blackmailed into dropping "McGill" from its name last month. Now they're reviewing all student-run groups, forcing them into mounds of paperwork to justify using the McGill name in theirs.
Concordia University has had a similar policy (PDF) since 2001, with one significant difference: Concordia's policy grandfathered existing student groups, and as far as I can tell they don't sweat the small stuff: Only for-profit enterprises and large groups bother with approval.
McGill's move is just silly. Well-intentioned, but silly. A student club devoted to stamp-collecting at McGill is obviously going to call itself the McGill Stamp-Collecting Club or something similar, just for clarity's sake. The name implies only that it is at McGill, not that it is run by McGill's administration. Requiring such a complicated process as board approval will only create unnecessary work for volunteers and discourage students from creating social clubs on campus.
McGill says they're "reviewing" the policy. Let's hope they come up with some sane guidelines that have more to do with encouraging a vibrant and active student populace than it does with over-regulation and paperwork.
Just when you think silly disputes only happen at Concordia, McGill University is refusing to hand over CKUT funding until the radio station comes to a formal agreement with the university over the use of the name "Radio McGill".
