Rekha Sharma, who plays Tory Foster on the SciFi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica,” did not always want to be an actress. Born in Vancouver, Canada, to Indian parents born in Fiji, she leaned more towards the musical punk side of her creative mind after developing a love of music. [...]
Mats Sundin to become NHL’s highest paid player?
July 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
Canadian Press reports that the Vancouver Canucks have offered Mats Sundin a two-year contract worth $20 million. Number 13 has spent the last 13 years of his 18-year career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team with which he’s set countless club records. Should Sundin accept the deal, he would become the league’s highest-paid player, [...]
Report: Hossa signs one-year deal with Red Wings
July 2, 2008 2 Comments
The Globe and Mail is reporting that former Pittsburgh Penguin forward Marian Hossa has signed a one-year, $7.4 million deal with the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings. Hossa was with the Penguins last year when they got mopped up by Detroit in the Stanley Cup Finals. A former first-round pick of the Ottawa Senators [...]
Brett Myers sent down
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The first-place team in the National League East just sent their opening-day starter down to the minors. That’s right, the Philadelphia Phillies were forced to send right-hander Brett Myers to the AAA Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. Myers is 3-9 this season with a 5.84 ERA. “We’re in a playoff race, and I have to be there [...]
Teenage Zombies
July 2, 2008 1 Comment
Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys, which was released in April, is a video game designed to look like a comic book, with scenes shown as comic frames with text bubbles for speech. It plays like a standard 2D platformer, Zombies are the heroes battling villains in the form of alien brains that [...]
For one musician, breast cancer at 24 aligned priorities
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Standing under a blend of vivid stage lights, decked out in expressive clothing and listening to the buzz of the audience would seem like a surreal moment for most, but for her, it’s everyday. Asha Mevlana, a soft-spoken violinist with a hint of rock n’ roll swagger, is living out her dream as a professional [...]
Don S. Davis, a true artist, at 65
July 2, 2008 1 Comment
When Blast commissioned an interview feature with Don S. Davis, it wasn’t simply because he was an interesting character actor who our readers know, love, and largely grew up with. It was because I was inspired by the amazing range — actor, stunt man, painter, sculptor, set designer, writer. He was never really a leading [...]
The new TV star
July 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
So many young actors are struggling each day to get their “big break” and make it in Hollywood. Therefore, it is refreshing and a little annoying to see that dream stories are still happening there. The dream for Daren Kagasoff was to be an actor after deciding that it was truly his calling. The 20 [...]
OH MY GOD THE TOP GUN ANTHEM IS COMING TO GUITAR HERO III!!!
July 1, 2008 1 Comment
*Ahem* The Grammy Award-winning anthem from the 1986 Top Cruise classic “Top Gun” will be available as a free download for Guitar Hero III starting July 3. The instrumental, riff-heavy movie theme represents a film that created a generation of 20-something and awkward 30-something guys who play beach volleyball, serenade women at bars to “You’ve [...]
Hit Paraders
July 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
Indie Rock Sub Pop June 17, 2008 Don’t be fooled by the fact that At Mount Zoomer, the sophomore full-length album from Montreal quintet Wolf Parade, contains just nine songs. While that may appear to be a measly output on the surface, what the tracks lack in number they make up for in scope. At [...]
Josh Hamilton has come a long way
July 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
The Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton, who the Tampa Bay Devil Rays drafted with the first overall pick in the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft, is currently batting .312, with 19 home runs, and a Major League-leading 80 RBI’s. Not to mention, he plays a very demanding centerfield position and plays it well. ‘Who cares?’ you [...]
Palo Alto’s Email Center Pro
July 1, 2008 1 Comment
Email has become a huge part of our lives. In fact it pairs with instant messenger applications as leading ways we communicate with friends, family and clients. It’s just a great way to get your message across without spending hours talking with someone over the phone. It has greatly expanded dramatically in the new millennium. [...]
