Winter Olympics Countdown

If you need a fix until Friday's opening ceremonies, all this week Entertainment Weekly will be featuring a Top 5 List from Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton. Today it's the Top 5 Most Memorable Olympic Figure Skating Falls, which of course, since it's figure skating, will include some Canadians. Making the cut are Kurt Browning from the 1992 Olympics (and still with hair) and pairs Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini from the 1984 Olympics.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/08/olympics-scott-hamilton-figure-skating-falls/

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

On Sunday, the home team cleaned up well at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Buble (Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden).

Best Traditional Folk Album: Louon Wainright III (High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project).

Best Spoken Word Album: Michael J. Fox (Always Looking Up)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Neil Young (Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972)

Although the award was not presented on Sunday, Leonard Cohen received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Now, go do some shopping.

Just Because It's Cold Outside Doesn't Mean You Can't Look Foxy Underneath

Montreal-based company La Fee Verte has lingerie sleepwear to pretty yourself up with to get you through the dark days of winter and beyond. Every item is made from environmentally conscious fabrics.

To see styles, go to http://www.lafeeverte.com/

Purchase online here: www.catrionamackechnie.com or myfinelingerie.com

The Week's Round Up

The new season of fan and critical fave Being Erica premiered last night on SoapNet. Catch re-airings of the episode this week.

If your life is feeling insufficiently Shatnertastic this week, it's about to improve significantly. Out on DVD for the first time, Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), the master thespian plays a veterinarian/cowboy who has to save a town from blood-thirsty tarantulas. Bonus wacky interview with the King of Cheese in the extras.

And now the craziest story of the week, unexpectedly out of sleepy Winnipeg: the University of Manitoba shut down a Facebook-based fight club operating on a campus squash court. Both students and part-time staff were involved. If you've ever spent a winter in the 'Peg, you might understand what the cold can do to people.

Read more: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/facebook-fight-club-kod-82037812.html

Canadians Are Superior And Here Are Some Awards To Prove It

This month, actor and comedian Eugene Levy will receive an ACTRA Award of Excellence. ACTRA is the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. Levy also chairs the Telefilm Canada's Features Comedy Lab, whose goal is to get more Canadian comedy to the screen. The actor is a member of the Order of Canada.

On April 18th, rocker Bryan Adams will be honoured with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at this year's 39th Annual Juno Awards telecast. Adams is being recognised for his charitable and fundraising efforts. The singer has had a long history as a humanitarian, co-writing a Canadian charity single on 1985 in support of Ethiopian famine relief, and more recently, performing in Karachi to raise money for the 2005 victims of the earthquake that devastated South Asia. Adams has also set up a namesake foundation that funds children's education and sells his photography to raise money for cancer research.

On this side of the pond, catch the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on January 31st when Michael Buble will be competing for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, and Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) is up for Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song. His debut full-length album, Thank Me Later, is expected to be released in March.

Hey Baseball Fans, The New York Mets Get a Canuck

Jason Bay, formerly of the Red Sox, just signed a four-year deal with the Amazins' to be their new left fielder. He'll be #44. The deal with the 31-year-old is worth almost $66M.

He was traded to the Sox in 2008 and due to his low key demeanor and dependability (he is a Canadian, after all), he earned the nickname Every Day Bay. Last season with the Sox, he hit 36 home runs.

Bay is not totally new to the team, having been a Mets minor leaguer. He's also a familiar face to Mets GM Omar Minaya, who was the Expos GM in 2002 and traded Bay to the Mets, who kept him for a few months. Now the team and its GM will get a second chance with the BC native.

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7147621&c_id=nym&partnerId=ed-3105063-117184720&source=ed-3105063-117184720

A Fantastic Light Show In Georgetown

A family in Ontario constructs a beautiful light show every year in their front yard. The display, set to music, features 37,000 lights.

http://www.canadianexpatnetwork.com/

You can also find it on YouTube (Georgetown Light Show).