Nick Paumgarten I landed in Vancouver during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. At the baggage carousel, passengers clustered around a TV to watch ...

Olympic correspondent Paloma Friedman is in Vancouver to take in the 2010 Winter Games and related celebrations. Today, she profiles the fan-demonium at the German ...

Earlier in the week, I jotted down some quick reactions to the Brad Cran/VANOC fall-out. All the background story you’re going to need ...

126 posts in, I'm still finding Twitter largely pointless. It's just not enough for me to care about -- Facebook has these big huge ...

Yarn bombing, or knitted and crocheted graffiti, is a relatively new phenomenon, but in the last couple of years it has cropped up in most ...

The poem state is manic: written as if it talks fast, talks much, talks an ear off; it grasps what it can, perhaps stays too ...

Mr. and Mrs. Wong have sold electrical appliances — lightbulbs, wiring, batteries and that sort of thing — from a green wooden stall on Aberdeen Street for ...

In 1962, Manhattan advertising executive Martin K. Speckter was unhappy. Unhappy with words, the tools of his trade, and unhappy with punctuation. Bored by the ...

Among the plethora of ethnic insults that traffic in food—Germans as “krauts,” say, or Irish people as “potato eaters”—“pepsi” deserves special mention. It ...

She was nineteen and post therapeutic abortion, she had been to the abortion clinic a week ago for the procedure and was bid to see ...

This morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences released the complete list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. It’s an interesting ...

JD Salinger, literary hero of many youths (including this one) has died. I haven't read a lot of the coverage, but I have seen ...

For the record, just let me say I have never picked up a hot foreign guy in a coffee shop, nor do I have any ...

Last week, Vampire Weekend became the biggest band in North America. …well okay, that might be a bit of a stretch. But even with middle ...

James Cameron’s mother dreamed of a twelve-foot-tall blue woman. Cameron wanted Avatar’s alien sex scene to be more explicit, Na’vi females had ...

It’s not hard to see why Kacey Wong’s “Paddling Home” is one of the most popular installations at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale ...

Though it remains one of my favourite 00’s movies (and likely, one of yours), I must admit that the ending of Eternal Sunshine and ...

Among the dirty, dirty people I work with are a couple of loyal followers of the Dan Savage Podcast. Needing to filter out their deep ...

The shortlist for the Charles Taylor Prize was released January 5th, and it consists of four books: The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s ...

It’s easier than ever to come across as though you are always watching, but not without being willing to spend a substantial chunk of ...