"He didn’t even expect the boy to make it as far as he did, the thing was pretty damn heavy after all, but the boy plucked it off of the floor without even a grimace, like he had actually been inspired by the little speech-thing he’d been given and was now imbued with some sort of power."
Read MoreThe poem beginning “the hardest part is knowing,” reveals the shame of all educated feminists who remain victims of themselves: that struggle between the intellect knowing better and the body self-destructing at the hands of learned behaviors. She writes “at the end of the day / ––theory fails / to account for disjunction / between bodily urges and / rational thought.”
Read MoreIf you attended our Secrets launch you may have indulged our call for confessions and left a secret or two behind for us to peruse. Some secrets appeared on our Instagram before we passed them on to Curtis AuCoin, who turned them into a poem. Here's the result, accompanied by images from AuCoin's series "What's Personal, What's Secret."
Read More“I learned that I have no control over what other people think.” Patrick shares of his takeaway. “What am I afraid of? What people will say about me or not like me, but is that any of my business?”
Patrick asks me if I’ve ever watched a variety show where contestants are put in booths full of bills of money flying around. I have.
“That’s what my life feels like right now. I love jumping out of bed in the morning because I’m excited to work on so many things. My career is not work—it’s my art, and that’s one and the same.”
Read More"So began my search for Jean Armour. Over the next couple of years I read many biographies about Burns as well as his extensive collections of letters, poems, and songs, trying to piece together a picture of Jean from the fragments written about her. She emerged as a footnote in the life of the poet, a blurry image that wouldn’t come into focus, a stereotype of the devoted, long-suffering wife."
Read MoreFor our first theatre review after a nice, long break during the holidays, writer Charmaine Li considers Jennifer Haley's The Nether in terms of its minimalist approach to exploring the sinister trajectory of online existence. “A dark and at times disturbing piece, The Nether wonders when our darkest thoughts stop being thoughts and become sin.”
Read More"We also see a distorted concept of loyalty in intimate groups, in families, cliques and communities. For example, one person might break up with their girlfriend, and expect their friends to be mean to their girlfriend. But in fact that’s the opposite of loyalty—real friendship and real loyalty and love means helping people negotiate and helping people be self-critical. The problem now is that we have a very high bar that must be reached to be eligible for compassion."
Read MoreCome celebrate your failed resolutions with Volume 4 of our SAD Comedy series January 20th at the Hive in Gastown. Featuring your hostess with the mostess Jackie Hoffart and the comedy stylings of: Ivan Decker, Sophie Buddle, Matty Vu, San Aung, Ashlee Ferral, Diana Bang and Katie-Ellen Humphries.
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