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Feminists, Save Yourselves: The Problem With the Problems With Lean In
The 1970s was an era of big questions. In an early discussion of how the consciousness-raising groups of nascent second wave feminism would be run, one woman, Anne Forer of the New York Radical Women...
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Turkey is Not Tunisia, and This is Not (Exactly) the Turkish Spring
Admit it, you sort of agree with the Turkish Prime Minister when he says “we have a menace that is called Twitter... To me, social media is the worst menace to society.” Except that Recep Tayyip...
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Ron Deibert on the Business of Cyberwarfare
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"7613","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]In this outtake from our upcoming episode of The Arcade podcast, Ron...
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'I Was a Directionless Acid Freak Until I Found Cooking'
With 2013 shaping up to be an epic year for chef and restaurant cookbooks, thanks to a cosmic number of releases, Hazlitt decided to ring up some some of best in the game for an hour-long chat on...
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Lou Reed’s Livers vs. Dan Aykroyd’s Snuff Movie Scare
What a whirlwind week it’s been for today’s top stars. Jean Stapleton passed away, Michael Douglas unwittingly added to cunnilingus’ PR woes, and the usually elegant Patrick Stewart admitted he’s...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Straight-Talk About Race
Here are some things Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie doesn’t care for: baseball, the idea of African literature, designer heels, baseball, experimental fiction, summer blockbuster films, oh, and baseball....
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The Mirror World: TV’s Funhouse Reflections of America and Britain
William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition is a novel of collapse. As the line between true and false, digital and physical starts to crumble in protagonist Cayce’s quest to find the maker of the mysterious...
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Derek McCormack’s Haunted Library
Shelf Esteem is a weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors, and other word lovers, as told to Emily M. Keeler. This week’s shelf belongs to Derek McCormack, the artist and...
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US Drug Dogs Now Tolerate Pot More Than Canada Does
In Washington State, change starts with the dogs. As the Guardian reported last week, K-9 units in various police departments across the state are being retrained to ignore pot. Roll up a joint. Pack...
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I'm With Miss Pamela
Her Honey-Dripping Beehive, May 30When Led Zeppelin rolled into Los Angeles in 1969, their monstrous reputation—as Dionysian rock stars and potent sexual beasts—was already cemented.Pamela Des Barres...
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Pipeline Empires, Ours and Theirs
So Premier Christy Clark, fresh off her election win in British Columbia, is using her political capital to... let me consult the media cliché dictionary... ah, here we are, she’s drawing a line in...
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In Defence of a Liberal Arts Degree
This time last year, I paraded across a stage in a mortarboard and scratchy polyester gown, along with 4,204 other graduates from the University of Waterloo. My parents insisted on going to the...
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The Irony, Bitterness, and Horniness of The-Dream’s IV Play
“I can give a fuck about the foreplay / I want it now,” The-Dream mutters on the title track of his fifth album, which happens to be called, um, IV Play. There are other ironies. The man born Terius...
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Unrepentant: On Being a Biker Chick Magnet
Boy Scouts get merit patches for knot tying, semaphore and other crafts. At one field day, the Satan’s Choice awarded Campbell a patch on his club vest for performing cunnilingus on a menstruating...
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The Difficult Language of DIY
I’ve been riding the same bike since I was 14. It’s a blue Raleigh that my friend named “Pauline,” and I feel about her the way you would about a trusty horse. However, horse-owners aren’t usually...
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I Love a Man in Uniform: The Rise of Military Industrial Complex Chic
His problem was that I didn’t take off my hat during the National Anthem; that’s what led my girlfriend’s grandfather to grab me by the arm of my beat-up olive-green army jacket I’d purchased from a...
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The Arcade: Episode 2, Black Hair vs. Baseball
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"7682","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]In episode two of The Arcade we speak with Nigerian author Chimamanda...
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People Who Were Important In My Life Who I Will Never See Again
My vocal teacherSang jazz standards in local ensembles and wore ample, flowing gowns. I can picture her dabbing her neck with lavender, and I would not be surprised if she’d once been a groupie for...
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Is This the Third Wave of International Islamic Terrorism?
Two young men hacked another young man to death in the Woolwich neighbourhood of London, England. They were seemingly combatants on opposite sides of an international war, one still as confusing to us...
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Why The Ikea Monkey Shouldn't Go Home
After months of bitter quarreling, sinister threats, online petitions and even a temporary custody dispute, Toronto’s monkey trial finally got underway last week in an Oshawa courtroom. In case you’ve...
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