Overheard in the coffee shop: God talk
Another churchgoer walked in. I buried my head in my hands, laughed out loud, and left. I may be petty and easily pigeonholed as bitter.… Read More
Theatre review: The Glass Menagerie
Is Tennessee Williams’ memory play a poetic hymn to the departed or a pained sacrifice made to silence a guilty conscience? Read More
Navigating Netflix: The Warriors
Inevitably, someone will soon adapt The Warriors into a play or give it a gritty reboot starring Colin Farrell. Read More
Booze at the Broadway
Sitting down with a glass of wine or a local craft beer to watch a great foreign film makes perfect sense. Read More
Is: Terry Moore
Independent comics legend Terry Moore answers some questions in the present tense. Read More
5 ChekhovFest reviews
Seeing this many Chekhov plays back to back, I’ve started to question the line between style and life. What if Chekhovian tragedy is just realism with Russian names? Read More
Night at the popera
Pop Nuit is the New Music Festival’s popular music sidecar, where it allows pop music to ride along and wear funny goggles. Read More
Theatre review: Chelsea Hotel
Leonard Cohen fans will love it. Theatre fans, well... do you like Leonard Cohen? Read More
The blasted city as blank canvas
Before the Giuliani era, New York was a bubbling crucible of filmmaking innovation as chronicled in doc Blank City. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Good Morning, Vietnam
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket are all classic, gritty, dark, and violent but Good Morning, Vietnam took a different angle. Read More
Is: Danny Vacon of The Dudes
Danny Vacon, frontman for The Dudes, one of Calgary's most beloved and enduring rock and roll institutions, answers some questions in the present tense. Read More
Five reasons to check out Chekhov
This week the 13th Master Playwright Festival kicks off with an all-you-can-eat buffet of Russian playwright, author and census taker Anton Chekhov. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Heroes
The best of Heroes is definitely contained in season one but there is still a lot of great story to be found in the balance of the series. Read More
Is: Joe Harris
American comic book writer Joe Harris discusses his two current projects - The Great Pacific, and The X-Files: Season 10. Read More
Madness to the abstinent: Sandinistas and Nicaraguan rum
It’s dynasties, dictatorships, uprisings and Nicaraguan history peppered on a real-time account of a 13-shot rum challenge. Flor de Cana distills a great rum, the five and all years higher. Read More
Is: Marc Nobleman and the story of Bill Finger, Batman’s secret co-creator
Pop culture researcher Marc Nobleman discusses how one of our best known icons was created by a man whose name you've never heard. Read More