The beautiful weather the past few months has afforded me with the opportunity to regularly walk to work. On my way I pass by the mass of parking lots beside Rogers Arena to and from the seawall. For years they have hosted little more than cars and concrete, but now a large area of it […]
The Penny Arcade Expo, more commonly known as PAX, is a convention held in Seattle every year for a whole weekend. Surrounded by video and tabletop games; game developers and players all come together to share in their love of the industry, exchange news and knowledge, and most importantly – to play games together. Penny […]
Fraser Nixon’s debut novel, The Man Who Killed, is a sleek, tightly-executed neo noire which follows Mick, the disaffected antihero, on an odyssey through a prohibition-era Montreal of opium dens, rusty ports-of-call, and high-class corruption that freely consorts with the world of petty gamblers and morphine addicts. Yet, underlying the familiar but well-adapted noire tropes […]
There isn’t much I like better than kicking off a new month by seeing a show I’ve been dying to see for months, on a weekend night. It helps kick things off on a high note and wipe away my unjustifiable, slothful lack of production and excessive-partying guilt (and resulting debt) of the previous month. […]