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In case you're all not yet sick of the Ann Coulter soap opera, here's another angle to the whole thing. For me, censorship ...

Earlier this week, in a Kwun Tong industrial building, three young people sat in a smoky studio talking about art, family and music. Every so ...

Last week, a British court decided in favour of British icons Pink Floyd in their lawsuit against their record label, EMI. The issue at hand ...

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From a long view of pop culture, there’s something rather inspiring about Lady Gaga’s coronation as Queen of Pop. The last time I ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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I started working at Luciano's cafe when I realised I really didn't want to work in a fishmonger, after all.  I had lasted ...

Photo by Iva Gruden Olympic correspondent Paloma Friedman is in Vancouver to take in the 2010 Winter Games and related celebrations. Today, she profiles the ...