Nature, wilderness, “wilderness,” the great outdoors – from painting to literature to photography, the Canadian landscape and human’s (or man’s, more accurately) relationship to it has been an ingrained theme in “Canadian” identity since the country’s birth. But there is a far more private and immediate “natural” space that has never quite received the same exploration […]
“THIS IS A GOOD DAY,” Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s t-shirt read. But June 22, 2013 wasn’t just a “good day”: to borrow a phrase that graced the Dandys’ website once upon a time, it was a “good goddamned motherfucking great” day. In the summer of 2000, Portland, Oregon quartet The Dandy Warhols released their third […]
The godfather of Canadian hip hop is as fresh as ever. Maestro Fresh Wes’ album Orchestrated Noise, which he describes as a conceptual extension of his breakout album Symphony in Effect, is an unusual achievement. The album feels at once modern and yet entirely respectful of its role as a continuation of a sound that […]
Japanese cartoons on the silver screen for a whole month. Hell. Yeah. The Cinematheque is presenting a series-feature on the works of Studio Ghibli: the pinnacle of anime, the cream of the sakumotsu (crop). A deep twenty-five year-old pool full of beloved characters, storylines, and yellow japanese subtitles. With the most recent From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) […]
Don’t go in that water! NO! Don’t do it! I know it seems like a great idea when your head is light with beer fumes, but trust me, you don’t want to go in there. Stay on the beach! Alright. I told you so. Now the top half of your body is being whipped around […]
Nature, wilderness, “wilderness,” the great outdoors – from painting to literature to photography, the Canadian landscape and human’s (or man’s, more accurately) relationship to it has been an ingrained theme in “Canadian” identity since the country’s birth. But there is a far more private and immediate “natural” space that has never quite received the same exploration […] 