I started working at Luciano's cafe when I realised I really didn't want to work in a fishmonger, after all.  I had lasted exactly one …

Photo by Iva Gruden Olympic correspondent Paloma Friedman is in Vancouver to take in the 2010 Winter Games and related celebrations. Today, she profiles the …

Nick Paumgarten I landed in Vancouver during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. At the baggage carousel, passengers clustered around a TV to watch …

Olympic correspondent Paloma Friedman is in Vancouver to take in the 2010 Winter Games and related celebrations. Today, she profiles the fan-demonium at the German …

Earlier in the week, I jotted down some quick reactions to the Brad Cran/VANOC fall-out. All the background story you’re going to need to know …

126 posts in, I'm still finding Twitter largely pointless. It's just not enough for me to care about -- Facebook has these big huge profiles …

Yarn bombing, or knitted and crocheted graffiti, is a relatively new phenomenon, but in the last couple of years it has cropped up in most …

The poem state is manic: written as if it talks fast, talks much, talks an ear off; it grasps what it can, perhaps stays too …

Mr. and Mrs. Wong have sold electrical appliances — lightbulbs, wiring, batteries and that sort of thing — from a green wooden stall on Aberdeen …

In 1962, Manhattan advertising executive Martin K. Speckter was unhappy. Unhappy with words, the tools of his trade, and unhappy with punctuation. Bored by the …

Among the plethora of ethnic insults that traffic in food—Germans as “krauts,” say, or Irish people as “potato eaters”—“pepsi” deserves special mention. It’s the only …

She was nineteen and post therapeutic abortion, she had been to the abortion clinic a week ago for the procedure and was bid to see …

This morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences released the complete list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. It’s an interesting list.First …

JD Salinger, literary hero of many youths (including this one) has died. I haven't read a lot of the coverage, but I have seen a …

For the record, just let me say I have never picked up a hot foreign guy in a coffee shop, nor do I have any …

Last week, Vampire Weekend became the biggest band in North America. …well okay, that might be a bit of a stretch. But even with middle …

James Cameron’s mother dreamed of a twelve-foot-tall blue woman. Cameron wanted Avatar’s alien sex scene to be more explicit, Na’vi females had breasts even though …

It’s not hard to see why Kacey Wong’s “Paddling Home” is one of the most popular installations at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture …

Though it remains one of my favourite 00’s movies (and likely, one of yours), I must admit that the ending of Eternal Sunshine and the …

Among the dirty, dirty people I work with are a couple of loyal followers of the Dan Savage Podcast. Needing to filter out their deep …