The Revenant Alejandro González Iñárritu 2015 “You all have stolen everything from us. Everything!” – Elk Dog Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant offers an aesthetically exquisite and beautifu...
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It’s massive: 130 artists, over 50 national pavilions and more than 40 collateral events across the city. It’s also largely irrelevant to the fate of Venice in a world of…
RIDM always has way more films that look fantastic than any one person with other commitments can reasonably see in the space of ten days, which is a great problem…
The wave of police killings of young blacks in the U.S. over the past several years and the recent resistance in Ferguson and Baltimore have made police violence a front-page…
Debriefing Elsipogtog: The Anatomy of a Struggle Miles Howe Fernwood Books, 2015 When is a journalist not a journalist? According to CBC New Brunswick’s Information Morning host Terry Seguin, and…
Highway of Tears Matthew Smiley 2014 Sean Carleton is a member of the CD collective and writes The Popular Front column on pop culture. Highway of Tears is an excellent…
Slick, and tight-fitting, they do indeed feel like a second skin. But that ‘minimalist’ thing gives them a tight timeline for staying comfortable.
A lot gets said about jerseys. They’re part totem, part equipment. So there’s more lore, superstition and custom around them than most other bits of bike kit. I will explain…
Wherein I review all the warm weather, fingerless gloves I’ve ever used and wrecked. Including some I hope I don’t wreck for a long, long time.
Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality Salim Lamrani Monthly Review Press, 2015 Salim Lamrani is a French journalist and academic. His 2013 volume on Cuba and the West,…
Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth About Canada’s Prisons Gary Garrison University of Regina Press, 2014 Writing prescriptively about incarceration is to wrestle with abstractions. Contained in each statistic…
On Palestine Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé Haymarket, 2015 In 2010, Haymarket Books published a collection of interviews and essays from Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé that attempted to make…
Wherein I compare the comfort and usefulness of the various bib shorts I’ve used
Part two of a series on my search for the perfect all-day cycling kit. Base layers.
This follows from part one of my book reviews, posted on this blog. Please see that post for the introduction. These, with either the Pasta Bible or Pasta Cookbook (preferred)…
While I can’t say my collection of pasta making and recipe books is as exhaustive as it could be had I an unlimited amount to spend and equivalent time to…
Cootie Catcher, written and performed by Lucas Brooks, focuses on Brooks’ close encounters of the transmissible kind. Using a cootie catcher, better known to some as a fortune teller, Brooks…
As an American expat unfamiliar with the pop-cultural aspect of Canadian politics, a lot of the jokes in Laureen: Queen of the Tundra went over my head. However, it is…
The New Conformity, from Vancouver circus troupe Cause & Effect, is on its most immediate level a direct commentary on contemporary corporate culture. The performers, clad in identical grey suits,…
