Art, Music & Pop Culture

From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia

By Ian Dejardin (ed.); Sarah Milroy (ed.)

A strong affinity for the natural beauty of western Canada and First Nations culture is clearly visible in the work of Emily Carr, one of Canada’s best-loved artists. Her point of view resonates strongly today, ... Read More »

April 13, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science

By Zoe Cormier

One doesn’t expect a volume entitled Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll to double as a science textbook, but “Guerilla Scientist” Zoe Cormier’s debut attempts a unique twofer: it wants to have its MDMA-laced cake ... Read More »

March 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

By Timothy Caulfield

Like Holden Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield has a hate-on for phonies. The difference between the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye and the writer of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? is that the latter ... Read More »

February 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Harold Town

By Iris Nowell

Harold Barling Town, Canada’s “enfant terrible” over the course of an artistic career that spanned the 1950s to the ’80s, was a celebrity in his day. A compulsively prolific artist with a theatrical, over-the-top personality, ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Rumours of Glory

By Bruce Cockburn

Story goes that back in the early 1980s a reporter asked Eddie Van Halen what it felt like to be the best guitar player in the world. “I don’t know,” Van Halen quipped. “Ask Bruce ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

By Richard Rosenbaum

The first two entries in ECW Press’s new Pop Classics series – short, informal examinations of various pop culture phenomena – traverse a broad gap between nihilistic pseudo-porn satire and human-sized adolescent warrior turtles. At ... Read More »

April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls

By Adam Nayman

April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Christopher Pratt: Six Decades

By Tom Smart

Christopher Pratt is widely acknowledged as an important Canadian painter, but he has long been viewed in the shadow of his better-known East Coast compatriot, Alex Colville. This gorgeously designed book seeks to redress the ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Metal on Ice: Tales from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes

By Sean Kelly

Near the end of Metal on Ice, Toronto musician Sean Kelly writes that, in almost every book about Canadian music he’s ever read, his “heavy metal and hard rock heroes have been relegated to footnote ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

3-d Paper Crafts

By Joanne Webb, Ron Broda, illus.

The 3-D paper crafts in this book are flawlessly executed by Ron Broda’s experienced hand. Broda used this technique, which involves gluing together embossed layers of paper, in the popular Have You Seen Bugs? The ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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