Living off the City
By Josh Hume If you want to know where to get free food and drink in your city, just ask […]
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.
Review: Resist #50
Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
The Tide Turns in Time
How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.
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Art That Won’t Be Boxed In
Outsider Art in a Box By Holland Gidney Had you stumbled sleepily into the tiny gallery/closet half-hidden at the back […]
Good Gentrified Grub
By David Silverberg I’m eating farm-fresh food on the second floor of a hipster boutique hotel in Toronto’s Parkdale district. […]
Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta
By Scott Lingley One warm night this summer, a gaggle of diverse artists converged on Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square […]
Cut and Paste…And Go to Jail?
By Jonathan Culp Have you ever read a zine that was made partially or entirely out of magazine clippings? Have […]
Bad Bands and Good Career Moves
Thesis and antithesis in Canadian indie rock By Terrence Dick The yin and yang on the spectrum of professionalism in […]
The Trickle Down Gourmet Prepares a Hogtown Recycling Feast
By Shaun Smith n September 2002, the City of Toronto began introducing its green bin organic household garbage program. According […]
Edible Artistry
A few morsels about six artists whose muse is food Food has long been the subject of paintings and photographs. […]
Food Hacking
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Food For Thought
Independent eateries give cities some identity By Liz Worth There’s a certain kind of feeling that goes along with being […]
All-You-Can-Grow Buffet
How some city dwellers are rebelling against the tyranny of the grocery store By David Silverberg If you live in […]
Lockpick Pornography
This novel starts out strong, with a crash course into the main character’s mind. He smashes TVs if someone in […]