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So You Like to Grill You Say?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by jlegere

It’s almost time to light up the grills! In a few weeks’ time, the smell of barbecue will be in in the air, tempting your taste buds and making your mouth water. Wouldn’t you like that entincing smell to be coming from your own backyard?

ISBN: 9780376020673
Publisher: Oxmoor House
CAD $23.95

SMOKE: A Guide to Smoke Cooking for Everyone and Any Grill is your how-to-guide to smoke cooking. If you’ve never attempted smoke cooking that’s OK! Jamie Purviance includes a range of cooking methods from basic starter tips, to some more advanced cooking techniques.

Of course a book about grilling wouldn’t be complete without some hunger-inducing food pictures!

First off, The Mesquite Grilled Cheeseburger:

Psych! You only get one. Consider it a teaser until you go and buy the book!

Posted in Cookbooks, General News, Recipes | Tagged grilling, jamie purviance, oxmoor house, smoke, smoke cooking, so you like to grill you say | Comments Off

Looking Forward to Camp?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by jlegere

Do you remember your first experience at a camp? Maybe you had the best time of your life. Maybe you met your sweetheart at camp. Or maybe, like these kids, you absolutely hated it!

ISBN: 9781419702792
Publisher: Abrams
CAD $13.95

P.S. I still Hate It Here is all about kids at camp. This book contains a hilarious collection of letters, that kids actually wrote, to their families back home.
Here’s and excerpt from the book:

DEAR MOM,
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY I NEED A NEW PEN MY OTHER ONE BROKE.
AND A NEW LOCK AND MORE STAMPS.
Signed your loveable son David The Great

Kids are great at saying just the right thing to make us laugh, and this book is no exception.

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EVENT ALERT: TORONTO

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Tracey Boisvert

Event: Dr Sketchy’s Toronto: Draw Kiki!

Venue: The Pilot, 22 Cumberland Street, Toronto

Date: Saturday, 5th May

Time: 6–7.30pm (doors open for drinks and food from 5.30pm)

Entry: $5

Dr. Sketchy’s Toronto presents a very special Anti-Art class as part of Toronto Comic Arts Festival. They’ve teamed up with graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero and are stepping back in time to 1920s Paris for a special Sketchy’s with themed poses, performances and prizes to celebrate the new graphic novel biography of Kiki’s life by TCAF featured guests Catel & Bocquet.

Catel & Bocquet – the award-winning French comics creators will be on hand to tell you a little about Kiki’s life as the muse of photographer Man Ray and lead the way with the life drawing. In between sketching you’ll get a chance to grab a drink and food and take in some great music.

This isn’t about being an amazing artist, as long as you can put pencil to paper and move it around that’s good enough for us! Artists of all experience levels can enter to win cool prizes from the publisher SelfMadeHero. Bring your own pens, pencils or try our art supplies, courtesy of Midoco.ca

So join Dr. Sketchy’s for a fun evening of life drawing with one of Toronto’s finest burlesque performers, two of France’s finest comics creators and North America’s newest graphic novel imprint, SelfMadeHero. Arrive early to secure the best tables!_______________________

Dr. Sketchy’s Toronto is presented in association with North America’s newest graphic novel imprint, SelfMadeHero and Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

Founded in 2005 by artist provocateur Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art school is the world’s premier alt.drawing movement. Artists draw glamorous underground performers in an atmosphere of boozy conviviality. Found in 2005 in a dive bar in Brooklyn, Dr. Sketchy’s has now spread to over 100 cities around the world.

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WARNING! Spoiler Alert!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by jlegere

You know that movie that everyone has seen? Everyone but you? Have no fear! This book is here to solve all of your movie watching problems!

ISBN: 9780762773848
Publisher: Globe Pequot
CAD $14.50

Spoiler Alert is a great way to catch up on pop culture. It’s also the perfect way to prove to your friends that you know what you’re talking when it comes to movies. Robb Pearlman gives away the ending of every movie you can think of to date! Sure, you could always watch the movie and find out. But that’s time consuming and a maybe even a waste of time. Don’t you just want to know?
For example, if you haven’t already seen it, at the end of The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg…. Just kidding! We’ll let the book tell you all about it.

Don’t you just want to know?

Posted in Geek Culture, General News, Movies, Popular Culture | Tagged Globe Pequot, robb pearlman, spoiler alert | Comments Off

Pinterest Giveaway!

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Elina

Have you checked out Manda Group on Pinterest yet? Get to it!
This week we are running a giveaway for our friends who re-pin from our board.

What are we giving away?
An autographed copy of Chai Tea Sunday by Heather A. Clark!

This wonderful book is so engrossing you won’t want to put it down. The story follows Nicky Fowler from her home in Toronto to an orphanage in Kenya where she volunteers her time as a teacher. In this new setting, Nicky learns much from her experience as she teaches those around her.