Paul Gambaccini profiles the British-born keyboard player and songwriter Rod Temperton, who enjoyed big disco-era success as part of Heatwave before writing hits for American R&B/pop stars like Donna Summer, George Benson, Aretha Franklin, James Ingram, Patti Austin, Herbie Hancock and, most lucratively, Michael Jackson.
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In the opening round of the 2016 Waste Management Phoenix Open, LDRIC the golf robot gets a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th hole.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords. Wouldn’t have been awesome if the robot jumped up and down with human emotion, freaking out the engineers?
Rogers, in partnership with Seneca College, announced today the next round of GenNOW interns, continuing to give students in their final year of Seneca College’s Broadcasting – Radio program the unique opportunity to gain real work experience as on-air radio announcers in Canada’s most competitive radio market, while simultaneously earning a course credit.
Beginning Monday, Feb. 1, Navjot Virk, Romika Leslie, and Kayla Pappaianni will each take over the microphone on KiSS 92.5, hosting overnight shifts from the station’s downtown Toronto studio for 12 weeks. Virk, Leslie, and Pappaianni will be introduced on The Roz and Mocha Morning Show on Monday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 a.m. ET before taking turns on the airwaves overnights.
“We are proud to host the GenNOW internship program to invest in the development of future radio announcers with hands-on training and feedback,” said Julie Adam, Senior Vice President, Rogers Radio. “Based on the caliber of the students in the program every year, we have recognized that there’s a very bright future ahead for local radio.”
Students enrolled in the GenNOW course will receive both an on-air announcing internship experience and a Seneca College course credit – earned entirely on-site at the KiSS 92.5 studios.
Through this internship experience at KiSS 92.5, GenNOW interns will be able to develop their announcing skills while receiving unequalled access to mentoring sessions from KiSS 92.5 on-air personalities and the programming team. Students will participate in a series of on-air exercises to become intimately familiar with the skills it takes to succeed in a radio career.
“Year after year, the success of GenNOW interns confirms the value of this program in fostering successful radio announcers,” said Jim Carr, Co-ordinator and Professor for Seneca College’s Broadcasting – Radio program. “Rogers is one of the only media companies to invest in up-and-coming radio talent, and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the future.”
Rogers Radio and Seneca College have partnered to bring the GenNOW internship to the Broadcasting – Radio program students since 2012. Past GenNOW interns include KiSS 92.5 personality Will Menzies, 680News news anchor Scott Burnett and former 680News news reporter Jeremy Buch.
PBS’ Blank On Blank is uncovering lost interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation – people who helped make the world we live in today. And some guest animators are bringing these conversations to life.
One of those people is Sally Ride. These days, just about every space mission has women on it. It’s just not a big deal. But in 1983, it was very much a big deal – that’s the year Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
Back in 1963, Russia sent Valentina Tereshkova as the first woman to fly to outer space. But it took two more decades for the Americans to follow suit.
At the time, journalist and icon of the feminist movement Gloria Steinem had an ABC interview series, called ‘In Conversation with…” As part of that program she interviewed Sally Ride – and we found the tape in Smith College’s archive dedicated to the life and work of Steinem – The Gloria Steinem Papers, part of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Now at the time of this interview, as far as the public – and it turns out the press – were concerned, space was for clean-cut alpha males with names like Buzz. Then Sally Ride came along.
Kendrick Lamar is an amiable guy with a quick smile, but he’s at his most effusive onstage and in the recording booth. Out of the spotlight, in the company of strangers, he can be diffident; glad-handing isn’t his thing. But surreal times call for extreme measures, which is why Lamar devoted several weeks on either side of the new year to an industry charm offensive. He taped a concert for the venerable PBS live-music broadcast Austin City Limits and made the rounds to NPR, The New York Times and other press outlets. In short, Lamar has undertaken an old-fashioned Grammy lobbying campaign. He makes no bones about his desire to run the table at the awards. “I want to win them all,” he says.
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Last week Charlotte Cornfield finished up a successful month-long date residency at The Cameron House in Toronto where she was joined onstage by many friends and guests, including Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Tim Darcy (Ought). Now, she is ready to take the show on the road with a string of tour dates to support her upcoming album Future Snowbird. The tour kicks off on March 3 and the Toronto songwriter returns home on March 11 for a very special album release show at The Burdock to coincide with the album release date.
To help kick off the tour, Cornfield recently treated listeners to “Big Volcano, Small Town”, a true ‘on-the-road’ track from her upcoming album. “I wrote this song while I was travelling with my friend Adrienne in the Pacific Northwest one summer,” says Cornfield. “We were taking greyhounds and checking out little towns and hanging by the ocean. I remember feeling so nomadic, like I could go anywhere and anything could happen.”
On Future Snowbird Cornfield sings clever, heart-wrenching songs in a lived-in, streetwise drawl. Set for release on March 11 via Consonant Records, the album grew from Cornfield’s time living in New York and the background noise of her moments in the city: a formative relationship, a vicious bout of psoriasis, and an overall constellation of ups and downs.
The album was recorded live off the floor at Rooster Studios in Toronto with Cornfield’s longtime bandmates Sam Gleason, Damon Hankoff, Kathryn Palumbo, and Sam Rosenberg, and produced and engineered by Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith, The Rheostatics), with guest performances by Tim Darcy (Ought) and Johnny Spence (Tegan & Sara). The result is Cornfield’s strongest statement to date, each song a moodscape all its own.
Recently Charlotte Cornfield completed a residency at the prestigious Banff Centre, where she recorded and collaborated with Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, and Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene. Aside from her work as a solo artist, Charlotte Cornfield has held down the drum chair for Ben Caplan, Peter Nevins, and Adrian Underhill. She recently began working on a new project with Tim Darcy of Ought, and beyond her own discography she has a vault of recording and performing credits as a drummer and singer with The Provincial Archive, Anais Mitchell, The Reverend John DeLore, and The Keys. Her songs have appeared in films and television shows internationally, and she’s shared stages with the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Sun Kil Moon, and Lake Street Dive.
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD TOUR DATES
Mar 3 – Kingston, ON – Sleepless Goat
Mar 4 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo
Mar 5 – Ottawa, ON – Pressed
Mar 10 – Hamilton, ON – Casino Artspace
Mar 11 – Toronto, ON – Burdock
Mar 12 – Peterborough, ON – The Spill
Mar 17 – Guelph, ON – Ebar
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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