Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Complete Trailer Park Boys: How to Enjoy the Trailer Park Boys When Your Cable Is Out

A good fan guide should do two things: give devotees of a TV series a chance to revisit great characters and moments from favourite episodes, and provide background information about the show. The Complete Trailer ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Chainsaws: A History

By David Lee

Odds are this is the first time the chainsaw and the coffee table book have been combined. That pairing’s not a bad thing. And neither is this book. Given the chainsaw’s importance in helping to ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Jesus of Hollywood

By Adele Reinhartz

It’s tempting to praise University of Ottawa professor Adele Reinhartz’s Jesus of Hollywood, an evenhanded and thorough survey of representations of Jesus in popular cinema, simply for all the ways it doesn’t go wrong. In ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Was She Pretty?

By Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton’s newest book of illustrations is all about The Ex. In it, the Toronto-born, New York-based artist and writer introduces us to people like June, whose ex-boyfriend “kept his love letters in a kitchen ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe

By John Bell

Given that the superhero genre has dominated the comic book medium for more than half a century, it’s not all that surprising that a history of Canadian comics would bear a subtitle stating that our ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The World of the Polar Bear

By Norbert Rosing

“The Arctic experience in winter is mostly about learning to love the cold,” a young Inuk told Norbert Rosing at a Winnipeg library in February 1983. “Luckily, you don’t have to go all the way ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto

By Jonny Dovercourt, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, eds.

Thoughtful, inspired, inclusive, careful to avoid deadly academicism as well as showoffy wackiness, and above all infused with a kind of I’ll-be-in-your-band-and-you-can-be-in-mine boho largeness of spirit, this second volume of musings on Toronto (after 2005’s ... Read More »

December 18, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist

By Greg A. Hill, ed.

Published in conjunction with the first solo exhibition of work by a native artist at the National Gallery of Canada, Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist provides readers with a stunning retrospective of the Anishnaabe artist’s works ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

A Nut at the Opera

By Maurice Vellekoop

Graphic artist Maurice Vellekoop, a contributor to just about every major North American magazine in the last two decades, describes his latest book-length work as a tribute to his late mentor and friend, Paul Baker, ... Read More »

May 8, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Christmas Days

By Derek McCormack; Seth, illus.

What are the things that make Christmas Christmas in Canada?” Derek McCormack answers this question in his first non-fiction title, Christmas Days. Set out like the Advent calendars McCormack remembers from his childhood, the book’s ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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