Genre-hopping
One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move…
Arts & Culture
Essentially A Playlist
Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at…
Awaiting a Curve ball
A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative…
Blinded by City Lights
Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening…
The noughties in Asian cinema
For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s,…
Creating little worlds
Lake Superior State University — longstanding arbiter of taste and go-to state university for word-banishing — declared the word “epic” banned for 2011. Along with…
The Wall
The back lane is creepy — pitch black in the summer and surprisingly bright in the winter, but creepy all year round. The reason the…
The Rider
The rider sees the cabin; he sees the creak of its door; he sees the shadows that pour in from the lightless house astride the…
Chronicles of Mezzezeh: Part 3
Mezzezeh opened the door to his chamber and there she was, lying on the straw bed. Her hair was long and lustrous and woven into…
Go west
After endless hours of driving we reached the Tsawwassen ferry docks, from which ferries run between the B.C. mainland and Vancouver Island. They are actually…