The West Coast Style Revolution…

  It’s been almost two years since MSN Travel awarded post-Olympic Vancouver a bronze in their “Least Fashionable Cities in the World” event; however, the undated critique remains active on the MSN website, lending itself to legions of journalists, bloggers and wannabe fashionistas who continue to refer to this article as “proof” that the lower […]

Breaking Heart-strings with a Broken Hand

Seeing the chandeliered interior of the Orpheum Theatre fill its seats with hoodie-clad, tattooed under-30s on Wednesday night was a strange sight indeed. The sheer majesty of the place seemed to evoke a respectful manner from the audience that I feel would normally be lost amongst the sticky floors and broken toilet doors of the […]

Good Institution, Bad Religion

“Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there’s no mutual component to your relationship, and relationships are important. So, faith plays an important role, but faith in people you don’t know, faith in religious or political leaders or even people on stages, people who are popular in […]

Grab Onto the Current

Seabed is a piece of work probably best listened to in some sort of isolation tank somewhere with a built-in subwoofer sound system. It is such a defined record, and such an intricate sounding record, that it can take you to another world, albeit only if you allow it to take you there. I imagine […]

Charming, Attractive, and Driven

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on the 2007 novel, explores a young Pakistani man’s drive to achieve the “American dream” while almost completely disregarding his own culture and country of birth. Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed) graduates from Princeton (summa cum laude, no less) and lands his dream job with Underwood Sampson where his job is to effectively dismantle […]