Arts & Culture

False Dichotomies is a continuing column that unfairly pits two things against one another to determine, definitively, which is better. This week: watching the entire Oscar telecast vs. spending a year in prison for...

Walking through Kristjana Wood’s exhibition is much like going through a nature interpretation center or an aquarium. These exquisitely rendered paintings each focus on a single living subject, among them animals, plants, insects and...

What does the 30 Years' War — which involved most of 17th century Europe — have in common with contemporary society, particularly one viewed through the lens of Marxism? If you were to answer,...

Attending concerts has never been my calling. Instead, I had always chosen to listen to music free of charge, by blasting terrestrial radio stations and illegally downloading tunes (gasp!). I finally broke down last...

While the images of the Vancouver Olympics are no longer being broadcast on “Canada’s Olympic Network” (biggest surprise: TSN and Sportsnet are buddies, and not competitors), one image that I can’t shake is the...

Why would anyone want to listen to an L.P. of a 30-year old demo tape from a band who never exactly changed the world? The band in question is Cerritos, California’s Channel 3, and the...

Devin Townsend recently wrote 60 songs, which he states have "four distinct styles," each "accountable" for a different musical persona he projects. However you may want to interpret that, Addicted is the second entry...