Putty Hill – Review

Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill has about it a quality of quiet observance, as if in mourning not only for the passing of Cory, the fictional teenager for whom the residents of the titular suburb of Baltimore offer their informal remembrances in the film, but also for the dreams of a community. In North America dreams […]

Vancouver’s Kingsway: Love And Hate

Before my Ex and I moved to Knight and Kingsway a few years ago to take possession of an apparently once beautiful heritage home – stuccoed over in the 70’s by a maniac – I harboured the same prejudices and fears about the East End as any Kits type: Were there no gourmet cupcake stores? […]