Percy Williams: The Western Gazelle

Do you know who that bronze statue is in front of B.C. Place? He was the World’s Fastest Human. He was the first Canadian to win two Olympic Gold medals in track. He was born and raised right here in Vancouver. He was a champion, a hero, an icon. He was Percy Williams. The identity […]

Slave Ambient – The War on Drugs – Album Review

You know you’re doing something right when people compare you to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. While the vocal similarities between Adam Granduciel and these three famous American singer-songwriters are very clear on Slave Ambient, The War on Drugs’ latest effort should not be dismissed as just another collection of songs by just […]

The Second Wedding of Doctor Geneva Song, by Robert N. Friedland – Review

Have you ever felt like you have slipped into someone else’s perverse dream? Not the nice kind, but the type where you feel as though you have been plunged into a bubbling, sticky mess of shallow characters, and the details of their sex lives? You don’t? Well, try reading Robert N. Friedland’s latest book The […]