"It's like seeing Bob Dylan," my friend said as we waited in line to see Joan Didion at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre last week. Didion, who …

Jane Birkin reclines in an oversized sweater. Patti Smith smiles elusively while Anna Karina swings her hips through a Parisian poolhall. Miranda July stares into …

I like bad TV. My roommate tries to get me into the good shows. Like The Wire, and Boardwalk Empire, and Mad Men. And it's …

Lately I've been having trouble sleeping. I don't like it when people talk about their insomnia, usually. Like talking about how much coffee you drink …

Gary Hustwit clearly wanted his new documentary, Urbanized, to get more people talking or writing about cities. But he might not have expected the very …

Top: Istanbul airlifted to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro; Bottom: São Paulo set in Cappadocia Imagine this: you’re walking down a side street in Midtown …

I’m lying on my couch as I write this, tossing aside tissues and drowning myself in cough syrup and Netflix. Yep: Halifax Pop Explosion is over. …

Illustration by Team Macho. Um, in case you haven't heard already, almost fifty exotic animals—lions, tigers, bears, monkeys, cougars, wolves, cheetahs—escaped from a private zoo …

Picture this: You're strolling down a cobblestone street in a well-tailored trench coat. When you look up, your gaze falls upon majestic Beaux-Arts mouldings and …

A few days ago, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek appeared at Occupy Wall Street. Zizek is often criticized as a merely fashionable thinker, and his …

Hockey, and in particular the NHL, is at an interesting crossroads. After a nightmare off-season that exposed the sport's flaws and failures, the coming season …

Know which leafy block to turn down off the numbered avenues of Brooklyn’s Park Slope, squint past the bright spots of sun and deep shadows …

Pop Montreal turned ten this year. It is arguably Canada's best music festival, presenting as it does a relatively diverse array of programming: art, film, …

Between Avenidas Juramento and Olazábal, Calle 11 de Setiembre — September 11th Street — is one of the most beautiful in the upscale Buenos Aires …

I’ve got New York on my mind this week, for both obvious and less-obvious reasons. The obvious, of course, is the tenth anniversary of the …

Where did the summer go? I know that’s not exactly a novel question; we experience time relative to our ability to enjoy it, so it’s …

It comes to me whenever I am in Vancouver: an urge to watch the sunset. Pulled by memories of blue Pacific waters buffeting a tangerine …

Maya Barkai’s crowdsourced art installation has brought pedestrian crossing symbols from around the world to New York’s streets Only a block north from the construction …

Video by Candice Vallantin. Imagine a picnic. Now add tables, chairs, tablecloths, a whole lot of wine and thousands of people decked out completely in …

The other day I said to a friend, "It was actually kind of chilly this morning." She looked at me. "Yes." "Like, I had to …