Twenty-nine hours of Twin Peaks. The thought would make even David Lynch shudder, and he directed it. Recently-opened art house cinema Blue Sunshine (3660 St ...

At a certain moment in the evolution of the species the God of the whole universe decided to visit planet earth as a human, so ...

Haitian women sell their goods at a roadside market. Haiti is not a country that’s best known for its artistic output. In fact, the ...

Last weekend I was trolling through my various book-related news feeds and came across this well-written review by Randy Boyagoda in The National Post of ...

Recently returned from a brief jaunt to Toronto, which has me thinking about walking cities and psychogeography, and my own obsession with the poetics of ...

Beijing is at least two cities. There’s the Beijing of the hutongs, a largely low-slung, grayscaled cityscape lying along the occasionally meandering little streets ...

Diamond Rings plays at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire on Thursday, September 30. There is always too much to do at Pop Montreal. You can’t ...

Four decades have passed since the end of formal racial segregation in the United States, but as anyone can tell you, informal segregation remains a ...

Because we love good fiction and want to promote homegrown talent, Maisonneuve generally includes a large author photograph with each short story we run. It ...

The well is plugged—"effectively dead"—nearly five months to the day after the explosion that killed eleven workers and spewed over 200 million gallons ...

Step one: fire When I first moved to Montreal in 2002, the city was littered with vacant lots, many of them in very prominent locations ...

When I was a child the noise of toilets frightened me. I did not want anyone to hear the sound of my urine striking the ...

On the topic of things I’ve been quietly considering, I want to talk a bit about blogging. I understand that this is lame and ...

Vancouver’s cityscape is defined not as much by gorgeous architecture or dynamic streetlife as by the natural beauty that surrounds it. You can’t ...

I have no grounds on which to base the following rant. Indeed, I have no facts, no statistics, no actual numbers or evidence of any ...

People love to talk about the future, even when it terrifies them—and even when that future might render humanity obsolete. Abou Farman's "The ...

Fine, fresh, fierce As regular readers likely know, I spend my daytime hours working in Communications and Marketing for Dalhousie University here in Halifax, a ...

In most cities of the developed world, mechanical street sweepers are a fact of life. Even New York’s carless commuters are fluent in strategies ...

For some inexplicable reason, I've been asked to guest-judge at Santropol Roulant's Iron Chef Cook-Off this Thursday, September 2. I like to eat ...

It was late on a chilly March afternoon as I wandered through a small plaza near Houhai Lake in Beijing. The air was struggling to ...