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Opera Of The Material World 20 May 2013 | 10:24 pm
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Occupy The Dept Of Justice 20 May 2013 | 08:48 pm
Victims of illegal foreclosures and other outraged citizens have taken their protest to the doors of the US Department of Justice today, armed with furniture as well as banners, anger and wit. ...
Victoria Day Doo Dah 20 May 2013 | 03:05 pm
Happy Victoria Day! (And to our readers outside Canada, psst, it’s Victoria Day) Queen Victoria: longest reigning British Monarch, first to be crowned Empress of India (a tad presumptuous), last of ...
Cakewalk 14 May 2013 | 03:01 pm
It must be Friday. Two colleagues are making rounds of the cubicles. They carry thin cardboard boxes, limply open, full of slices of spongy and creamy cake wrapped in cellophane. A friend with a camer...
Maywa Denki – Dedicated To Whimsy 14 May 2013 | 02:08 pm
Innumerable species play, and many – certainly many primates – laugh and tease and jest. But are we alone in our ability to grasp, appreciate, and delight in the absurd? How stands the octopus on Dada...
Are You A Hippie, And If Not…Wherein Not? 14 May 2013 | 01:59 pm
In this 1968 episode of Firing Line , William F. Buckley and sociologist Lewis Yablonsky attempt to put Hippie-ism, in the persons of a gooned and pugnacious Jack Kerouac and Ed Sanders of the Fugs , ...
Legendary Maritime folksinger and feminist Rita MacNeil has died, at the age of 68 17 Apr 2013 | 03:35 pm
The Cape Breton singer died on Tuesday as a result of complications from surgery. She recorded 24 albums over her career, and her song “Working Man” will live on as an evocative and emotional tale of ...
BC Film And Television – All Quiet On The Western Front? 17 Apr 2013 | 12:23 pm
A precipice has been steadily building over the last five years and with the collapse of the global economy, parity of the Canadian dollar and an aggressively competitive marketplace, BC’s film and te...
Explosions Rock Boston Marathon 16 Apr 2013 | 01:06 am
Two people were killed – including an 8-year-old boy – and at least 100 were injured as two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, today. The attack occurred without warning, and ...
Why the Vatican? Because Mussolini 14 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm
CGP Grey provides a pithy tour of the worlds only elected, non-hereditary, absolute monarchy.… Read the rest
