Issue 51

Welcome to… Kingston, Ontario

Mapping the scene in Canada’s smaller towns and cities 1. AKA Autonomous Social Centre 75 Queen Street,   akakingston.org Co-op space […]

Shotgun Jimmie, Transistor Sister

Remember the rise of East Coast 1990s bands, like Thrush Hermit and Eric’s Trip? Then you’ve got a pretty fair […]

Doctor Ew

Doctor Ew, also known as Drew Smith of the Toronto band The Bicycles, has produced one delightfully depressive 30-minute debut […]

Lady Lazarus, Mantic

Lady Lazarus knows the power of minimalist beauty.  The one-woman band consists of nothing more than Savannah, Georgia musician Melissa […]

Weekendpictures.ca

Created by Steven James May, a Media Production student at Toronto’s Ryerson University, Weekend Pictures is a vlog of off-the-cuff […]

Atlengthmag.com

At Length styles itself as an antidote to the limitations of print media. Originally a print magazine for extra-long works, […]

Audiosmut.ca

Simultaneously a podcast, radio show (on McGill University’s CKUT 90.3 FM) and a website, Audio Smut gets into the politics, […]

Dragnetmag.net

Culled together by two editors living on opposite ends of the country (Victoria and Toronto), Dragnet’s first issue features a […]

Message in a Tin

Like so many worthwhile but unlikely projects, the idea for Cigar-Tin Stories, “came from something obsessive.” Kingston author and painter […]

Book Bombing

The Philadephia-based public installation project Book Bombs started when printmaker Michelle Wilson wrote a note to her friend Mary Tasillo […]

Editor’s Note

So far, 2011 has been an exhausting but exciting year for Broken Pencil. We started the year with our 50th […]