Here is what happened to me during Hurricane Sandy: I did not get the least bit wet, but I did get the most bit anxious. …

Over the past 30 years, Vancouver has transformed itself from provincial outpost to globally-renowned metropolis – a crucial link in the Pacific Rim necklace of …

Eaton’s in 1984. Photo by Gregory Melle Columnist Alan Fotheringham called it an “unending urinal wall.” That somehow filtered down to the Vancouver population as …

Security forces intervene during the protests at US Embassy Cairo. Photo by Gigi Ibrahim. There are probably at least a few in your city, hiding …

Dan Handel, Curator of First, the Forests. © CCA, Montréal. Handpicked from 250 applicants who pitched projects to curate at Montreal's Canadian Centre for Architecture, …

Photograph by Ana Lee Smith. Today marks the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement that seized the public's attention last fall with its focus …

The Duets for Abdelrazik album launch in June. Photo by Thien V. On a spring night two years ago, a group of human-rights activists hosted …

There’s always a disconnect between the way a city is portrayed on screen and the day-to-day reality of its existence. New York isn’t actually surly …

You can tell you’re in Palermo by the names of the streets: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica — every one of them running parallel to …

Sports Arena, Los Angeles, Night Two – April 27 The tickets say “7:30 p.m.” but no one’s expecting the band to start then. You always allow …

Robyn Eckhardt asks a deceptively simple question on Eating Asia: what is street food? The answer seems obvious, because street food is food that is …

Wait, that’s not an Olympic sport! Photo courtesy UK Department of Culture, Media, and Sport Texted, tweeted, teasing browsers of a hundred “sneak preview” slideshows …

Art by David Cristobal. We’re always reading on the internet how impersonal emails can be, and how computers generally pull us further from one another, …

Photo by Engin Kurutepe For an intercontinental journey, F.’s directions were fairly straightforward. “Head to Eminönü,” she’d said, introducing a thicket of tongue-challenging Turkish umlauts. …

Van Gogh's Grass and Butterflies. Van Gogh was given permission to paint in the overgrown garden behind the asylum where he lived in southern France. …

It's not available online, but in Saturday's Globe and Mail, the paper's On the Stands column included a nice summary of our current cover story, …

Chandler Levack: Who created “Crew Up”? What’s the genesis of the phrase? Cadence Weapon: It’s gotta be Adam Wilcox, Thom Gillies from TOPS or John …

If you live in Montreal, you’ll eventually be asked the question: “Which way is the underground city?” You will probably be walking along Ste. Catherine …

Last night at the National Magazine Awards, Maisonneuve won the prestigious Magazine of the Year. The following text is, roughly, Maisonneuve editor-in-chief Drew Nelles' acceptance …

I quit smoking. Ah, how it feels, to be able to say I quit smoking. I don’t have a serious history of attempting to quit. …