Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ My Most Secret Desire

The top three things to know about comix artist Julie Doucet are: the 39-year-old francophone made her reputation with the autobiographical underground series Dirty Plotte, which painstakingly inked out her chosen territory of obsessiveness, body ... Read More »

February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Up North: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land

By Lisa Rochon

“Canadian architecture matters.” So argues Lisa Rochon in her new book, supporting that idea with a provocative argument. Yes, says The Globe and Mail’s architecture critic, most of what’s being built in our country is ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

On Songwriting

By Bob Snider

Toronto folksinger Bob Snider stretches the definition of a book in his new work. On Songwriting consists of the relatively short title essay accompanied by the lyrics to, and the stories behind, 10 of Snider’s ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By Guy Delisle

Frank Sinatra sang about waking up in the city that never sleeps. For a two-month period in 2001, Quebec animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle woke up in one that apparently never dreams. Delisle’s travelogue, Pyongyang; ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Substance Over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture

By Andrew Gruft, ed.

Contemporary architecture is more in the public eye today than it has been in a generation. Still, between the media’s star obsession and the design field’s global enthusiasms, most Canadians would be hard pressed to ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination

By Lance Berelowitz

Incorporated in 1886, Vancouver is a young city, even by New World standards. And to author Lance Berelowitz, the city is full of youthful potential. “If Paris is a movable feast,” writes the architect and ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

By Laura Penny

"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you, I would be talking to a living being instead of hanging on hold and being ... Read More »

May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Paul Moves Out

By Michel Rabagliati

Quebec graphic designer Michel Rabagliati’s second book, Paul Moves Out is a warm-hearted sequel to his autobiographical graphic novel Paul Has a Summer Job. Appropriate for both young adult and adult readers, Paul Moves Out ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The 60s: Montreal Thinks Big

By André Lortie, ed.

Every generation comes to love its grandparents’ taste, and the architecture and planning of the mid-20th century is far enough behind us to warrant a new look. Yet while modernism is back in vogue for ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Canada’s House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home

By Margaret MacMillan, Marjorie Harris, and Anne L. Desjardins

Now we’re looking good. A couple of years ago, a page turned in Canadian popular history. In retrospect, we can see that CBC Television’s Canada: A People’s History and Douglas Coupland’s Souvenir Of Canada books ... Read More »

November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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