Pop Boffin
The title of Pop Boffin refers to someone who has an intellectual and emotional enthusiasm for pop culture. Creators Lara […]
Issue 15
Queen of the Universe
I turned thirty not very long ago. So did Jeannette, publisher of one of Canada’s most enjoyable zines. Maybe it’s […]
Speck
Speck recharged. Bleek dropped out of the scene for a while there, but has relocated to Vancouver. He is obviously […]
Geist
It doesn’t help me not to think about Harper’s when ex-Harper’s editor Paul Tough is announced as a new contributing […]
Public Works
The folks at Public Works are out to “interrupt our regular stupor” by organizing culture jams around Vancouver, and then […]
You Are What You Eat
I was utterly titillated by the feelings of recognition this chapbook gifted me with. Anna Nobile’s poetry about growing up […]
Ottawa, 1995: The End of Winter
By Jeremy Milks It was the end of winter in Ottawa, 1995, and I was still young then and living […]
Burning down the house: Rufus meets Dan
Introduction Despite an intense campaign by local queer business groups, Vancouver is still a repressed and prohibition-minded town. The few […]
From Ganagoque to Norway: Greg Watson’s Orange Alabaster Mushroom Psychs Out Europe
An isolated farmhouse somewhere between Kingston and Gananoque, Ontario, is home to probably the only neo-psychedelic music guru working in […]
An Unlikely Bard
If this were played on a stage now,/I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Stratford […]