Art, Music & Pop Culture

Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity

Looking around North America these days, it’s hard not to conclude that much of what was revered as independent culture is suffering from a major identity crisis. Publications that once thrived on “alternative” issues, for ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

By Chris Turner

Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of The Simpsons knows that the long-running cartoon is topical, wickedly satirical, subversive, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and has oodles of street cred among disaffected youth who came of age in ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Old Toronto Houses

By Tom Cruickshank and John de Visser

Though Tom Cruickshank and John de Visser’s Old Toronto Houses focuses exclusively on the domestic architecture of the city that Canada loves to hate, any reader interested in the ideas and building styles that preoccupied ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Mad About the Bay

By John Fraser and Elizabeth MacCallum, William Harris, illus.

The sound of lapping water always sends me into a delicious stupor. Add to that the persistent ding of sailboat masts and you have a moment of perfect communion. At its best, that’s the feeling ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt 1973-1996

By Joe Rosenblatt

The Voluptuous Gardener by 1976 Governor-General’s Award-winning poet Joe Rosenblatt does not live up to the hyped controversy already surrounding it. Before it could go to press at the Winnipeg printer that publisher Beach Holme ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The City After the Automobile

By Moshe Safdie,with Wendy Kohn

In 1961, when Jane Jacobs wrote about the “attrition of cities by automobiles,” Moshe Safdie had just begun his now-famous career as one of Canada’s most imaginative and successful architects. More than 35 years and ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Before the Gold Rush: Peace, Love and the Dawn of the Canadian Sound

By Nicholas Jennings

There may be only one thing missing from Nicholas Jennings’ Before the Gold Rush: an account of how an almost incoherent Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins got involved in the recording of the 1970s Canadian album Xaviera! ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

A Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

By John David Hamilton and Bonnie Dickie

Winnipeg was once thought to be Canada’s version of Chicago, a nexus of train lines where freight and people would be transferred for passage between east and west. Victim today of some of the highest ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Hamilton Sketchbook

By David Collier

A self-described Prairie artist who’s also traveled across Canada, David Collier’s Hamilton Sketchbook ($22.95 paper 1-89597-48-3, 160 pp., Drawn & Quarterly) is the latest in a series of published sketchbooks from the renowned comics publisher. ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

It Pays to Play

By Peter White

In the postmodern tradition of taking the most irreverent “cultural bottom feeders” and elevating them to the lofty heights of intellectual discourse, curator and writer Peter White, scores with It Pays to Play, an exhibition ... Read More »

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

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Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

Old Toronto Houses

Mad About the Bay

★ The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt 1973-1996

The City After the Automobile

★ Before the Gold Rush: Peace, Love and the Dawn of the Canadian Sound

A Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

Hamilton Sketchbook

It Pays to Play

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