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• Friday Night Live Party at the ROM May 17, 2013
  Museum adventures after dark. Dancing with dinosaurs. Drinking cocktails among relics while being offered a tasting from a collection of pop-up snack bars. These may not seem like the typical night out, but in an attempt to make a museum space more accessible, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has found a way to capture the […]
  Catherine Romano
• Book Review: a book of variations, by bpNichol May 14, 2013
  Few Canadian poets have ever attained the level of reverence that bpNichol has earned. His creative output ranged from concrete poems and experimental fiction to small press ephemera and scripts for beloved kids’ shows Fraggle Rock and The Raccoons. While most readers are familiar with his most popular work, the nine-volume poetic epic The Martyrology (which […]
  Natalie Zina Walschots
• Poetry Saves Lives: A conversation with Amber Dawn May 9, 2013
  How Poetry Saved My Life is a memoir, a call to action and a celebration of poetry. It’s honest and heartbreaking, it’s funny and exciting and it leaves the reader in a loving place. What more could you want? But enough of this preamble. The goods are in the conversation. I was lucky enough to […]
  Dina Del Bucchia
• The Manor: Raw without the Raunch May 3, 2013
  By Terra Borody Shawney Cohen’s highly anticipated film The Manor kicked off the Hot Docs Festival at Bloor Cinema last Thursday night. The film paints a humble picture of Shawney’s personal life in Guelph, Ontario, where he helps with his family’s business: The Manor strip club and motel. The film begins something like a home video, […]
  CAC
• URBAN/Intersection: Interview with Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author Nalo Hopkinson (Part 2) May 2, 2013
  In the second part of my interview with celebrated sci-fi/fantasy author Nalo Hopkinson (find part one of the interview here) we talked at length about the creative process around her latest novel, the Toronto-based fantasy bildungsroman Sister Mine. We also discuss the merits of writers having a social media platform, the ongoing issue of being an […]
  Ryan B Patrick