Subway Anagrams and the Wrath of the Transit System
By James King Modification trends have no formula or pattern; they just erupt online, catch on to a large blogging […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Subway Efficiency Guide
By Liz Clayton Just when you thought crushing people into the closing doors was the most you could do to […]
Park Gallery
What the squirrels are doing about gentrification By Sean Waisglass Gentrification is a natural outcome of the ebbs and flows […]
NewMindSpace
By James King In my hometown, Halloween took the streets hostage as roaming packs of rival eggers, dressed in all-black, […]
Save the Mondragon!
By Josh Hume Winnipeg’s Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse is fighting for financial survival, having had to raise $12,000 by April […]
Photo and the Blog
By James King On January 26, 2006, citynoise.org posted a series of photos from Toronto’s own Kensington market. Whether they […]
Kino = Cool
By Malcolm Fraser It’s a well-known fact, and one often lamented in English Canada, that the Quebec film industry is […]
Atwood for Indies
Maggie MacDonald remixes dystopian lit By Ron Nurwisah Dystopias are nothing new. For as long as people have been thinking […]
The Urbanity of Suburbia
By Liz Worth The city: A cultural mecca often seen as a hotbed of hip up-and- comers, underground movements and […]
Sidewalk Culture
Selling art at street level By Philip Sportel Last summer I sold my art on Queen West in Toronto as […]
Indie Cartography
How alternative culture is putting cities on the map By Shawn Micallef We might see our own hometowns up close, […]
Neighbourliness and Industry in Montreal’s Underground
By Sara Saljoughi In the past two years, Montreal has been a darling of music critics, and this has brought […]