Michele from Rara Avis Dancers on the 10th Annual Dance Extravaganza

The Rara Avis Dancers are getting ready to present the 10^th Annual Dance Extravaganza (and Yuletide Market) on December 5^th. I spoke with Michele from the Rara Avis dance troupe about the events history and what people can expect this year. On top of the show there is also a Yuletide Market, you can drop by the Grand Forks Secondary School at 5:30pm to check out the market and doors for the show are at 6:30pm. The Dance Extravaganza begins at 7pm. You can purchase tickets at Thistle Pot Gifts.

For more information about the event visit Mountain FM’s event page here.

Peter Evdokimof on Morning Rocks

This morning Peter Evdokimof joined me on Morning Rocks to talk about the upcoming youth concert coming up on December 1st at the Brilliant Cultural Centre. The concert will feature ages K-12's work in Russian music, poetry and dance. Admission is by donation and doors are at 5pm. 

Josh Hutcherson and HAIM on Saturday Night Live

         I am a massive Saturday Night Live fan, honestly if I am home alone I re-watch old episodes, when I am at home in Nova Scotia I drive my family crazy trying to make them laugh by showing them old clips from episodes I know they have not watched (they never find them as funny as I do) and I have no problem spending my Saturday nights at home waiting for ‘SNL’ to come on.

         Last night’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ was by far my favourite episode of the season, with one of my current favourite bands HAIM and Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson it was an incredible episode. I think this episode was great for multiple reasons:

1.   There was no shortage of jokes about host Josh Hutcherson’s height, he is 5’5 and as you can see next to his Hunger Game’s co-stars quite small. This was taken in stride, in one sketch Hutcherson is a character names ‘lil’ peanut’. Adorable.

2.   The host and band are still pretty unknown. Yes, Hutcherson is in one of the biggest movies of the year; but I bet you wouldn’t recognize him (unless you are a 14 year old girl) on the streets though! HAIM is blowing up, but still unknown to most people. I think this is a magical combination for SNL; it is harder for the episode to get overhyped and it lets the stars and cast shine without as much pressure.

3.   The sketches did not rely too much on recurring sketches from the past this episode. There was a free flow to the episode with great sketches that incorporated some of the new cast members.

I am no SNL expert, but I thought this week’s episode was brilliant. Here is my favourite sketch which incorporates two 80s songs we play on Mountain FM and HAIM’s ‘Don’t Save Me’.

Josh Hutcherson - Josie Sketch (Your Love... by IdolxMuzic
[HD] Haim - Don't Save Me - SNL 11-23-13 by IdolxMuzic

Click here to see the music video for HAIM’s ‘The Wire’ it was the song they opened with last night on SNL.

Ron Burgundy’s Tribute to Rob Ford

Instead of Will Ferrell doing the typical pre-promotion for the upcoming release of Anchorman 2 he
made an appearance on Conan tonight as Ron Burgundy. Check out his interesting tribute to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford with a potential new campaign song for the disgraced political figure.

This appearance is the perfect fit, Ferrell scratch that Burgundy announced that Anchorman 2 would be a thing in 2012. He even busts out his trademark jazz flute!

Here it is:

Celebrating Children's Day - Michelle Pierce on Morning Rocks

It is Children’s Day, as you can see if you open up Google (it is featured on today’s doodle). If you are

looking to take part in a great event right here in the Kootenays for Children’s day you can check out the celebration going on at Kootenay Family Place Neighbourhood House. Michelle Pierce joined us on Morning Rocks this morning to give us all the details.

You can also visit Mountain FM’s event page to learn more.

KMART's 'Show Your Joe' Commercial

American retailer KMART is taking some heat for their new Joe Boxer Holiday commercial.

KMART’s recent commercials have been some of my favourites. In radio school you are forced into copy-writing classes to learn the art of writing great commercials and the strategies behind good creative writing. Naturally I fell in love with KMART’s ‘Ship My Pants’ commercial (below) the first time I saw it, every time I watch it I still lose it laughing at the old man’s line, “I just shipped my bed.” Seriously, it is up there with the panda cheese commercials (also below).

This holiday season KMART has released a new commercial for Joe Boxer boxers with a string of hunky men performing ‘jingle bells’ like never before and I love it! Seriously, I think it is enough to warrant a KMART comeback for all us Canadians who will be forced to sit around waiting for this gem of an American commercial to come on American channels feeds. Not because it is sexy, actually the more I think about it the less attractive I find all the studs in the video, but because it is funny. Yes, I understand why some people are offended by video and even why people think it is in bad taste but it beats the hell out of all those Cellino & Barnes and University of Phoenix ads we are forced to watch all the time through American cable channels.

What do you think? Good fun? Should Vicky’s ‘Angels’ be the only holiday show offs on tv?

I am amazed it has taken this long for this to happen...

KMART’s ‘Show Your Joe’ commercial

KMART’s ‘Ship My Pants’ commercial…

The top ‘Panda Cheese’ commercials…

#TUNETUESDAY: November 19, 2013

Okay, today’s #TUNETUESDAY pick is a little baffling, it is my second favourite track from Kanye West’s album ‘Yeezus’ and is called ‘Bound 2’. I was super shocked at how much I liked this song the first time I heard it, scanning through the album on my drive into work. It was stuck in my head all day. Some of the lines in the track made me laugh out loud, I couldn’t get over how badly I wanted to get back in my car after work and put it on repeat.

Yesterday, Kanye premiered the video on Ellen and I am a little blown away by it for different reasons. One, the horses and majestic views that open the video are pretty cheesy… but beautiful so I don’t mind looking at them. Two, Kim K is gorgeous. Nothing more to say on that front, I think she has the most amazing body and clearly has no shame showing off her post baby curves as she rides on Kanye’s bike nearly naked through various backgrounds (and really why would she?).

I would not advise watching this video at your desk (like I am) you may just find yourself blushing a little (I did) and then showing your fellow co-workers and debating what it all means. I really hope this video does not have the ‘Jenny from the Block’ effect, I love Kim and Kanye together; regardless they are now bound together until the end of time in this video and baby North West.

Hot and confusing, just the way I like it…happy Tune Tuesday!

Viral Video: 400-Pound High School Running Back

I would hate to be called ‘the fridge’ but this kid really should be embracing the nickname. Tony Picard is ahigh school senior and at 6’5 and 400lbs he is a running back that is every other team’s nightmare. Yes, young Tony Picard already is larger than the Chicago Bear’s William ‘Refrigerator’ Perry who weighed in at 355lbs while playing pro football. Picard has not decided on a college yet, but will be helping lead his high school from Yakima, Washington to the State Finals.

Big boy, eh?

UPDATE: Vote Red Mountain for Powder Magazine's Ski Town Throwdown 2014

Ski Town Throwdown 2014 is on! 

Help Red Mountain take home the title again this year by voting today on Powder Magazine's Facebook page!

Here is the bracket to see everyone Red has taken on so far, it will help you size up the competition!

At the time of my very early morning vote Red was leading by votes. Red had 6 votes at 6:59 am and Alaska's Eaglecrest had 2 votes.

Get your vote in now!

Update: 10:47am -> Red leads with 738 votes to Eaglecrest's 601 votes.

Update: November 19, 5:32am -> Red is down with 2130 votes to Eaglecrest's 2250 votes.

Your Call: UFC 167

Last week we talked about UFC 167 a lot leading up to the big GSP (Georges St-Pierre) vs. (Johny 'Bigg Rigg') Hendricks match up, after a controversial GSP win on the weekend we took to the phone lines to see what you had to say about the fight.

For more on the results of UFC 167 click here.

For more on GSP's decision to step away from fighting (for now at least) click here.

Thanks to our callers who all are taking home tickets to 'Caged Rage 7: Stairway to Heaven' coming up November 30th at the Element.  

Sunday Funday: CFL Semi-Finals and Going 1-1 in the NFL

My Sunday’s are spent puttering around my little apartment cleaning up a week’s worth of untidiness and

baking a little snack to help sweeten up the week. I never really sit and watch things (except for American Horror Story, that is my current television obsession) especially football, but I love having a little background noise on around the house so I am not left to think about doing more than a total surface clean of the apartment. Who needs anything more than Lysol wipes, having all those other cleaning products under the sink is enough right?

Anyways, during yesterday’s marathon football viewing party I was fortunate enough to catch this lovely Seahawk’s moment, part of Seattle’s 41-20 crushing of the Minnesota Vikings. We ended up going 1-2 on the day, I am a Seahawks fan so I went to bed half happy last night. The Stamps lost their Western Final match up the Roughriders (urg!) 13 to 35, if you have ever listened to ‘Sport Shorts’ you know exactly how I feel about the Saskatchewan Roughriders. And, my boyfriend’s team, Kansas City took their first ‘L’ of the season against Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos 17-27.

Better to start a losing streak now than later in the season, right?

Until next Sunday I am just going to watch this on repeat… go Seahawks!

Full day results from the NFL:

Sunday, November 17
Jets 14 Final Bills 37	Ravens 20 Final Bears 23
Browns 20 Final Bengals 41	Lions 27 Final Steelers 37
Raiders 28 Final Texans 23	Cardinals 27 Final Jaguars 14
Redskins 16 Final Eagles 24	Falcons 28 Final Buccaneers 41
Chargers 16 Final Dolphins 20	Packers 13 Final Giants 27
Vikings 20 Final Seahawks 41	49ers 20 Final Saints 23
Chiefs 17 Final Broncos 27

Tonight’s Monday night game kicks off at 5:40 with the Patriots visiting Bank of America Stadium and the Panthers.

And from the CFL:

Tiger-Cats	36	Final
Argonauts	24

Roughriders	35	Final
Stampeders	13

*Thanks google for the scoreboards!