AltWeeklies Wire
Olympic Closing Ceremonies Get Surrealnew
It was only natural that tonight’s Olympic closing ceremonies would feel like a strange, flaring, echoing dream. The walk to B.C. place for the 5:30 p.m. start was only a couple of hundred yards from where I’d just seen Sidney Crosby score one of the biggest goals in Canadian hockey history.
The Georgia Straight |
Brian Lynch |
03-01-2010 |
Sports
Extreme Kayakers Take on 'Machiavellian' Legislationnew
Mikkel St. Jean-Duncan and his friends in the Endangered Creeks Expedition have challenged developers' definition of "navigable waters" with their own, rather liberal, interpretation in a new self-titled documentary.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Rita Cant |
02-19-2009 |
Recreation
Leonard Cohen's Son Talks About His Dad's Visual Artnew
Though his son says he "doodles" every day, Leonard Cohen is only now opening his visual archives to the public.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
12-09-2008 |
Art
Ask a Mexican: Special Canadian Editionnew
The Great Brown South meets the Great White North.
Ecoholic: Canada's Nuclear Wastenew
I hear there are weapons made of Canada's old nuclear waste. Is this really a sound way to divert our radioactive trash?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
09-22-2008 |
Advice
Where's the Beef Tax?new
Eating meat is like driving a Hummer, but no pol has the guts to push a carbon tax on it.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-15-2008 |
Food+Drink
Belugas Charm in Manitoba's Churchill Rivernew
There's only one place in the world where you can watch hundreds of beluga whales cavort in the wild, their gleaming white bodies arching above the surface of the water.
The Georgia Straight |
Lauren Kramer |
08-29-2008 |
Travel
Who's Who of Toronto's Microbreweriesnew
With an ever-increasing number of microbreweries cropping up on the smoggy horizon, Hogtown is well on its way to becoming Hoptown, and it’s not just the pigs who think this is good news.
NOW Magazine |
Graham Duncan |
08-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
Halifax's Ocean Entertainment Tastes Success with Popular "Food-porn" TV Programsnew
It all started in 1997, when Michael Smith was running the kitchen at the Inn at Bay Fortune on PEI. In the garden overlooking the sea, gathering herbs for an evening's service, the chef suddenly thought to himself, "this is so goddam perfect, we should make a television show."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Jessica Linzey |
08-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
Six Reasons Why Harbourfront is Toronto's Hottest Summer Destinationnew
It's a shore thing.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
07-28-2008 |
Travel
A Quiet Canadian City & the First Local Food Foray on the Continentnew
Markham -- an affluent and multicultural city of 300,000, but still close to farmland -- is going back to the future, and is well on its way to becoming Canada's first post-exurban eco-city. In June, the city becomes the first in North America to steer its food services toward local, sustainable and fair trade purchases.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Art Meets Hockey: A Marriage Made in Canadanew
"You don't usually associate art with hockey, but it's inherent in our identity as Canadians." We explore the new survey show, Arena: The Art of Hockey.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sue Carter Flinn |
05-13-2008 |
Art
Street Bloggingnew
Filmmaker Daniel Cross goes online to tell the stories of Canada's homeless.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
06-16-2006 |
Tech
