John Cage once said, "I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through …

"What ever we had to lose we lost, and in a moonless sky we marched, Flag #41." Sarah Rahbar, 2009. This year, rabid American patriots …

Twenty-nine hours of Twin Peaks. The thought would make even David Lynch shudder, and he directed it. Recently-opened art house cinema Blue Sunshine (3660 St. …

At a certain moment in the evolution of the species the God of the whole universe decided to visit planet earth as a human, so …

Haitian women sell their goods at a roadside market. Haiti is not a country that’s best known for its artistic output. In fact, the images …

Last weekend I was trolling through my various book-related news feeds and came across this well-written review by Randy Boyagoda in The National Post of …

Recently returned from a brief jaunt to Toronto, which has me thinking about walking cities and psychogeography, and my own obsession with the poetics of …

Beijing is at least two cities. There’s the Beijing of the hutongs, a largely low-slung, grayscaled cityscape lying along the occasionally meandering little streets one …

Diamond Rings plays at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire on Thursday, September 30. There is always too much to do at Pop Montreal. You can’t go …

Four decades have passed since the end of formal racial segregation in the United States, but as anyone can tell you, informal segregation remains a …

Because we love good fiction and want to promote homegrown talent, Maisonneuve generally includes a large author photograph with each short story we run. It's …

The well is plugged—"effectively dead"—nearly five months to the day after the explosion that killed eleven workers and spewed over 200 million gallons of oil …

Step one: fire When I first moved to Montreal in 2002, the city was littered with vacant lots, many of them in very prominent locations. …

When I was a child the noise of toilets frightened me. I did not want anyone to hear the sound of my urine striking the …

On the topic of things I’ve been quietly considering, I want to talk a bit about blogging. I understand that this is lame and destined …

Vancouver’s cityscape is defined not as much by gorgeous architecture or dynamic streetlife as by the natural beauty that surrounds it. You can’t escape the …

I have no grounds on which to base the following rant. Indeed, I have no facts, no statistics, no actual numbers or evidence of any …

People love to talk about the future, even when it terrifies them—and even when that future might render humanity obsolete. Abou Farman's "The Intelligent Universe," …

Fine, fresh, fierce As regular readers likely know, I spend my daytime hours working in Communications and Marketing for Dalhousie University here in Halifax, a …

In most cities of the developed world, mechanical street sweepers are a fact of life. Even New York’s carless commuters are fluent in strategies to …