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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Not Quite.

I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World last night and as my series of immediate-reaction tweets indicate, I did not enjoy it. Actually, I did ...

More on Villains

Just a little while ago, I published an article on villains, about how badly written villains are plot twists and not characters, and well-written ones ...

Osheaga Recap Part Deux

Here’s one theory why Osheaga might be such a successful festival: no beer tent. Actually, that’s really just part of a larger story ...

Osheaga Recap

How does Montreal’s Osheaga festival do it? Look, it’s not perfect. Yes, there certainly could have been more washrooms on-site for Saturday. Yes ...

Powerhouse Poetry

A lot of people talk about Paul Vermeersch behind his back. I’ve seen them do it. I’ll be hanging out in the clatter ...

Crossing the Tracks

Lately I’ve been listening to one of my favourite Jean Leloup albums, La Vallée des Réputations, which was released in 2002. It ...

3 Myths About Anti-G20 Protesters

Photo by Stephen Davis. 1) The Toronto lockdown is all the protesters’ fault.Following 1999's spectacular demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle ...

The G20's Entirely Redundant Swag Bags

I rode the Toronto subway alone for the first time when I was ten years old. And I’ve been riding it—usually without parental ...

Close-Up of a G20 Arrest

The arrest at the start of yesterday’s Queer Resistance March against the G20 in Toronto, near Queen and Yonge: I think I was the ...

Cynthia Brouse's Polyanna Moments

Cynthia Brouse, a Canadian copy-editor, teacher, magazine writer, and winner of the 2009 National Magazine Awards' Outstanding Achievement Award, died of cancer on Saturday, June ...

The Art of Personal Space

Nathan Destro and his “personal space protector” on the streets of Johannesburg. Photos by Christo Doherty In New York, bulging sidewalks have led to the ...