Ai Wei Wei projection graffiti, Hong Kong. Photo by Cpak Ming This month, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opened a new exhibition ...

My eighteen-year-old sister Jessica has been on over thirty-five airplanes and jumped out of all of them.Without wings, she dives back towards the ground ...

Ai Wei Wei has become a cause célèbre in Hong Kong since his arrest by mainland Chinese authorities on April 3rd. In the ...

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," is undoubtedly the most memorable quote in the American Declaration of Independence; one could argue that "happiness" (read ...

A DJ at the Green Room. Photo by Flickr user Nika. There used to be a bar on St. Laurent Street in the Mile End ...

Every so often a musician comes along that captures the mood of a city, or at least a certain subset of its time and population ...

Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Warren township, by Albert Kahn Associates and Chrysler Corporation, 1941. Photograph by Hedrich-Blessing. © Chicago History Museum, HB-06539-C When you think of the ...

Election signs in Calgary, 2006 Canada is in the midst of yet another federal election, one that will, if the current trends hold steady, result ...

“Where is home for you?” I was recently asked this question, and I found myself speechless and confused. The only answer that came to mind ...

“These are what we call ‘deep cuts,’ in the album world” – Kim Deal Twenty-first century music culture is rife with seemingly contradictory realities. For consideration ...

Debbie So putting the finishing touches on a bench destined for McGill campus. University students are not typically expected to make changes to campus furniture ...

Photos by Peter Morgan (top), and MatHelium (bottom) Hop in any cab in any city of the world and you’re likely to be treated ...

Photo by Sarah Carr I couldn’t quite glimpse Hosni Mubarak from my balcony in Garden City, but simply knowing that his portrait was nearby ...

Why haven’t we forgiven Chris Brown? I’m not suggesting that we should, mind you. But pop culture has a rather fascinating ability to ...

An Afghan National Army soldier keeps a casual watch from inside a guard tower at a Base in the Panjwai District west of Kandahar City ...

Photo by Liliana Amundaraín In this era of unbridled individualism, it is ironic that tailors are disappearing from public life. They are our best ...

Photo: “Maamm Bolduc” from Majamonster on flickr The best poutine in Montreal is a highly debated subject. Many a happy, drunken night has ended in ...

Something about booze loosens the tongue and blurs the hard, critical lens through which we see the world. In glazed-over states, we begin to speak ...

Question: Is music losing? I choose my question carefully here. Obviously, if it were restricted just to “are the major labels losing?” then, duh, the ...

Above: Quebec pop group Karkwa, stars of Karkwa - Les Cendres de Verre. The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) starts up this Thursday in ...