Hearts on plaid sleeves
They say we’re living in a post-ironic age, that irony died on 9-11 and post-modern cynicism just isn’t doing it for us anymore. For our…
Arts & Culture
Six so so so super sincere songs
The Smiths — “Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want” Three “pleases” and not even one “pretty” from Morrissey, a grown man whose…
CD Review : The Famines “Free Love is a Sales Technique”
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…
CD Review : Various Artists “Traffic”
Balanced has grown from a small Canadian prairie imprint to a sizable enterprise boasting alternative sounds including broken beat, down tempo, hip hop excursions and,…
Not quite a love story
Twenty years after Roger & Me, Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore’s latest attack on American greed. Beginning with a comparison of modern America…
Essentially a playlist : So sue me…
I like to come up with playlist themes ripped from the headlines, but as easy as it would have been to do a “burning man”…
Beats without borders
Hip hop has long been a platform for political messages. Starting out in the Bronx in New York City, MCs would use powerful rhythmic vocals…
A new noise
Crowds. Lights. A new noise. I stumble into the Toad on Osborne. The vast hum of the outside world recedes behind me, overcome by the…
A rainbow of chaos
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
TV in the cinema
TV is often hailed as the greatest mass communications advance of the 20th-century, but viewers worldwide are being challenged to do away with it this…