Did William Shakespeare really pen Titus Andronicus? Does it matter? The play's unremitting violence is what's often brandished by the con side of the debate, ...

The modern bicycle was invented in the 1860s, but it wasn’t until the “safety bicycle” was introduced in the 1890s that cycling really caught on. ...

On a recent trip to the West Coast, Caitlin and I went to see fireworks at Vancouver's English Bay. We expected to pick our way ...

Last December, Anne Hays, the founding editor of Storyscape Journal, noticed a shocking imbalance while reading the latest issue of the New Yorker. After a ...

A friend of mine told me that she planned to take music lessons. She had never played an instrument before, but she wasn't intimidated. I ...

The village of Reine in Lofoten, Norway. Photograph by Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia. A few weeks ago I found myself staring at a video report on ...

A few months ago, I was having drinks with a fellow music writer who admitted to me that she strongly disliked Joel Plaskett. That she ...

I first heard of Have Not Been the Same from my friend and coworker, James. I was telling him about this book I had just ...

Eight years ago, I was an undergraduate student in Montreal, living in a two-room apartment that had nice wood floors but no natural light. One ...

Given the last several years of eighties dance-pop revivalism, it was inevitable that we would eventually move on to that decade's other great musical form: ...

Photograph by Patrick Alonso. Click here to download or stream an audio recording of "Last Man Standing," written by Anna Leventhal and appearing in Maisonneuve's ...

A scene from Lewis Klahr's film Altair. When I walked down the stairs to the Segal Centre's CinemaSpace in Montreal on May 18, I had ...

Though I’m a regular AV Club reader—and was even before my brother started writing for them—it’s rare that one of their articles strikes a nerve ...

Montreal, Quebec. Monday morning. Downtown doctor's office. A patient finds herself in a sterile doctor's office, earbuds in, dangling her legs over the side of ...

One, two, three, four: pianist Don Naduriak sets the tempo at Montreal's Upstairs jazz bar. After a few measures, the trumpet player, Eduardo Sanchez, takes ...

I’ll be returning to Montreal for a visit in late July — the same hot, humid time of year I left for Hong Kong three ...

“All rock and roll is homosexual” By the time I became a fan of Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers in the late nineties, the ...

“When will misogynistic and homophobic ranting and raving result in meaningful repercussions in the entertainment industry?” – Sara Quin “If Tegan And Sara Need Some ...

Megatransecting Mexico City In 1999, American biologist J. Michael Fay set out on a project to map and survey the vegetation of Africa’s entire Congo ...

Election results in Toronto in 2008 (top) and 2011 (bottom) Red is Liberal, blue is Conservative, orange is NDP Canada held its 41st federal election ...