Earlier this week I was sitting in my history class stressing out because I hadn’t had a Latin American encounter of any kind for what felt like ages. I was desperately trying to come up with a plan: make a piñata, listen to more Silvio Rodríguez, call my mom. And then, from across the classroom, Carlos [...]
Pop culture’s latest rap-rock disaster hit the web this week, as Lil Wayne teamed up with AT&T to release his new single via Facebook. Although the track ended up leaking online over the weekend, the hip-hop star performed the single for the first time in a live feed on the website Wednesday night. The live video [...]
If it’s not clear by now, the theme of this blog can be summarized in one short sentence: food is always more than caloric sustenance, and never just about taste. What food is can’t be summarized in a short sentence. Well, actually it sort of can. Food is every conceivable thing other than those two [...]
According to a recent online survey conducted in the UK, I have at least ten years before I will feel my most attractive. The majority of women surveyed chose 32 as their most beautiful age. A similar 2008 survey, published in The Times of India, suggested 34 was the sexiest age for women. These results were [...]
Vancouver is well known for its high cost of living. Recently the economy has taken a downturn and the housing boom has slowed. I am not sure how this will effect renters but I will explore this.
I told you so. And by “you,” I mean all the ears I blabbered on and on to about Jenn Grant‘s debut Orchestra For The Moon, and how she was going to be the next Canadian indie idol. You see, it seems the Halifax singer-songwriter has gone from being a Canadian folk secret to an artist surrounded [...]
This Tuesday, Kevin Smith‘s latest film Zack and Miri Make a Porno will come to DVD. It’s a film about lifelong platonic friends who are broke, disillusioned with their dead-end jobs, and cohabitate in financial squalor. Much like the global financial crisis they need to come up with a “stimulus package” and thus decide to [...]
A banana has transformed Hong Kong’s politics. A banana was hurled in the direction of chief executive Donald Tsang while he was giving his annual policy address in October 2008. The man who threw the banana peel was Raymond Wong Yuk-man, a legislator and chairman of the radical and newly formed League of Social Democrats [...]
I was very pleased about the outcome of the last federal election. The Conservatives increased their seat count and it appeared as though none of the opposition parties would have any incentive to force another election anytime soon. “But didn’t you want a Conservative majority?” I was asked the next day, after expressing my approval [...]
The grapefruit is out. The recession is in. According to Reuters, recession diets are one of the top food trends for 2009. And just like caterpillar eyebrows and skinny-jeans, the recession diet is a trend not worth hopping on the bandwagon for. Simply put, a recession diet means consuming ‘cheap’ foods. With the economy heading [...]
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