For some inexplicable reason, I've been asked to guest-judge at Santropol Roulant's Iron Chef Cook-Off this Thursday, September 2. I like to eat food, and …

It was late on a chilly March afternoon as I wandered through a small plaza near Houhai Lake in Beijing. The air was struggling to …

My award for the most underlooked gem in Montreal goes to the Jacques Cartier Bridge Building. Built around 1930, it looks like an art deco …

I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World last night and as my series of immediate-reaction tweets indicate, I did not enjoy it. Actually, I did …

Took a drive into the sprawl / To find the places we used to play One of rock and roll’s most unfortunate tropes is the …

Just a little while ago, I published an article on villains, about how badly written villains are plot twists and not characters, and well-written ones …

Here’s one theory why Osheaga might be such a successful festival: no beer tent. Actually, that’s really just part of a larger story. Big, multi-stage …

How does Montreal’s Osheaga festival do it? Look, it’s not perfect. Yes, there certainly could have been more washrooms on-site for Saturday. Yes, the food …

Part of the brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window was the way it acknowledged voyeurism as part of urban life. In the city, …

A lot of people talk about Paul Vermeersch behind his back. I’ve seen them do it. I’ll be hanging out in the clatter of some …

Lately I’ve been listening to one of my favourite Jean Leloup albums, La Vallée des Réputations, which was released in 2002. It’s folkier than most …

Let’s begin with a premise that presumably we can all agree upon: literary criticism in Canada is struggling. Book review sections in our national press …

Should an uprising against bad tunes ever take root, this issue’s main feature, “The Music We Hate,” just might be its manifesto—and our cover image …

That's me, with my press credentials clearly visible. Photo by Simon Hayter. He’s good. Photojournalists were strapping on gas masks and helmets when I arrived …

Kettling at Queen and Spadina from braden goyette on Vimeo. This isn’t exactly great cinema, but it shows a basic timeline of events leading up …

Photo by Justin Giovannetti We just got back to our computers and are frantically writing this message. It is 4:45 a.m. on Monday morning. We …

Photo by Stephen Davis As of yesterday I’ve learned two things: One, the police lie.  I listened while their press statements came out and directly …

Photo by Stephen Davis. 1) The Toronto lockdown is all the protesters’ fault.Following 1999's spectacular demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, and 2001's …

I rode the Toronto subway alone for the first time when I was ten years old. And I’ve been riding it—usually without parental supervision—ever since. …

The arrest at the start of yesterday’s Queer Resistance March against the G20 in Toronto, near Queen and Yonge: I think I was the only …