Tell The World Our Cinematic Story
By: Daniel Reynolds There’s this great visual metaphor in the new film Dallas Buyers Club involving a painting of some wild desert flowers, holes hammered roughly into drywall, and the […]
Category Archives: Culture
Living with Addiction: My 12 Step Recovery from Criterion
By: Daniel Reynolds So there I was descending the basement stairs of the giant HMV near Yonge and Dundas. This is back when it still had stairs that took you […]
The Redemption of Rob Ford?
By: Daniel Reynolds So, here’s the first thing that happened: I started thinking about the past six months of our mayor Rob Ford; the allegations, the denials, the admissions, the […]
Learning How To Speak Code
By: Kaitlin Traynor So, here we are. On the internet. Magical, isn’t it? An endless freefall of humanity and cats. More so cats. Much like our feline cyber lords, I’m […]
Godspeed You Flack Emperor: Does the Polaris Prize Matter?
By: Patrick Grant I remember the beginning of my relationship with vinyl records very vividly. It began when my mom told me that we had a turntable sitting in our […]
Look At Me Riding: A Week with Grand Theft Auto 5
By: Jordan Ferguson On Christmas Eve 2012, as tradition dictated, I did a gift exchange with a woman I’d recently separated from. the first since we stopped cohabitating. She gave […]
And We Won’t Stop, Cause We Can’t Stop: Happy 40th Birthday, Hip-Hop
By: Jordan Ferguson Last week Detroit rapper and Kanye-affiliate Big Sean swung by Funkmaster Flex’s radio show on New York’s Hot97. The subject at hand was Sean’s upcoming album release, […]
Character is Not Cheap: The End of Honest Ed’s
By: Daniel Reynolds Let me just get this out of the way off the top: I am pro-development. Usually. I do think there are a lot of unscrupulous builders and […]
Microsoft’s Xbox One: The Future of Gaming or Tone Deaf to Consumers?
By: Kellam Templeton-Smith After their post-E3 about face, charmingly dubbed the Xbox 180 by some, I decided to scrap my original draft and reassess what Microsoft brought to the table […]
Comeback Machine: Sony’s Playstation 4 at E3
By: James Cooper I was going to write a bunch of words about how Sony dominated E3 this year, and how Microsoft shit the bed by slapping their fans in […]
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