THE BABY ZOO
March 10, 2010
I keep forgetting to tell you guys about the Baby Zoo! This has nothing to do with anything, but it's something that makes me happy and maybe you'll like it too.
Even back in the days when I thought babies were sticky, noisy emergency-room-visits-waiting-to-happen, and wouldn't hold ...
WHAT COLOUR FOR MONTREAL’S TAXIS?
March 6, 2010
New York is yellow, London black, Hong Kong red (and green and blue, but let’s not complicate things). What colour will Montreal be? After years of wrangling with the taxi commission, Montreal’s government has finally reached an agreement that will see all of the city’s taxis adopt ...
PEEPING TOMS
March 4, 2010
During the seventies, Kohei Yoshiyuki stalked Tokyo parks at night with a 35mm, infrared film and flash to take pictures of copulating couples and, sometimes, the "peepers" who watched them. The photographs were first shown in 1979, at Komai Gallery, Tokyo and have now been collected in a book called ...
CANADA’S DIVIDE-AND-RULE AID POLITICS IN PALESTINE
March 3, 2010
In a uniquely Canadian way—politely, subtly—the Conservative government has made a clear statement in support of Israel’s divide-and-conquer rule over the Palestinian Territories. By slashing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and instead pumping money into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) judicial sector ...
THE DEATH OF RECORD STORES
March 2, 2010
The vinyl, of course, was the first to go.
It didn’t take much to attract the most elite of music fetishists to the sell-off: a 20 per cent discount was enough to leave the vinyl racks of CD Plus ravaged. By the time I got there, all that was ...
THE NEW MIXOLOGISTS
February 26, 2010
You may not have heard of Helene Hegemann, but the 17-year-old German writer is at the centre of a brewing storm around the subjects of copyright and the nature of authorship in the Internet age. Hegemann is the author of a book titled Axolotl Roadkill, which has become a bestseller ...
POSTCARD FROM VANCOUVER
February 25, 2010
Photo by James Giddy
When I moved to Vancouver from Montreal six months ago, I didn’t give much thought to where in the city I wanted to live. I hardly knew Vancouver—what drew me out here were sea breezes and an anglo lit scene. All I cared about ...
VANCOUVER OLYMPICS REAX II
February 22, 2010
Canadian journalists covering the Games have, virtually to a man, accepted the premise that the Games provide an accurate moral, artistic, and technical reflection on Canada as a whole. I don’t remember signing that contract, and if I were going to sign one with a city and ...
FIVE RING CIRCUS: NOTHING RHYMES WITH ORANGE—EXCEPT HEINEKEN
February 20, 2010
Photo by Iva Gruden
"Dank u wel,” says the tall, blond screener. I’ve just passed through security tighter than an Israeli airport and penetrated the massive, Popsicle-orange compound known as the Holland Heineken House. It’s located in the Richmond “Ozone,” about twenty minutes from downtown at the end ...
TWO MAISY WRITERS TRY THEIR HAND AT CHATROULETTE
February 18, 2010
Salvatore Ciolfi
Created by a 17-year-old Russian, Chatroulette is a website that lets you chat with strangers. There are no rules or screen names. All you have is your face staring back at you, and, above that, you staring at a stranger’s face. Its appeal is that if you ...
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