Dreams - Table of Contents

April Yorke explores dreams in cinema and that strange moment when dreams can’t be separated from reality. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Romeo and Juliet, 1, iv Pe...

Kevin Johns takes on the harsh criticism of X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and suggests that viewers and critics have failed to recognize Brett Ratner’s film for what it truly is: an extended dream sequen...

When co-directors John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton released their CGI-animated feature film A Bug’s Life in 1998, they had no idea the impact their story, about a misfit ant set on recruiting warrio...

Christine Seabrook looks back on the popular artists of the 1960’s and 70’s, including John Lennon and Bob Marley, and contemplates the current state of socially engaged music. It is gen...

A review of Richard Wagner's five-hour-long, musically revolutionary, half-crazed, visionary treatment of the melodramatic medieval love story of Tristan und Isolde, performed by the Metropolitan Oper...

Dream sequences in movies and TV shows have become an embarrassing cliché, and are usually evidence of uninspired, hack writing. In Scrubs, however, Shannon Wood argues, the frequent dream sequences ...

Steve Dominey discusses living out his dreams vicariously through Californication’s Hank Moody. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” From what I remember, kids are asked th...

Terrah Smith argues that in the context of a culture obesssed with celebrity and overnight success stories, it is essential that we value dreams as a way of achieving the improbable. On A...

Illustration by Adrian Steeves Just when you're starting to forget why you head off to work each morning, Chrissy Sudjana reminds you that there is something to look forward to beyond the 9 t...

Lauren Cheal argues that new technologies that are shaping our homes reflect a changing understanding of what living space represents and is capable of doing.    A recent commercial for Rog...

To trigger the taste buds and excite the mind, Holly Hutchings points to some noteworthy culinary inventions and discoveries over the years – all of which began with a dream. Dreams are ext...

Brendan Blom sacrifices his sanity to try to turn his dream of the perfect pastry into reality. Kouign-amann is the platonic ideal of a dessert pastry. Mostly butter and sugar, it usually com...

 Miss O discusses S&M in the bedroom, and explains why she refuses to feel guilty about her kinky sex life. Maybe I should blame Catholic school, or maybe it’s the influence of Barbie, o...

Alexandra Trottier asks, are we truly in control of our sexual fantasies or have we been indoctrinated by patriarchic social standards that fool us into believing our fantasies are something we hav...

Joe Lipsett discusses the proposal to turn Bank Street, between Gloucester and Gilmour, into Ottawa’s Rainbow Village.     On a recent Tuesday evening, March 18, individuals trickle...

  As the dream of Zionism quickly turned into a genocidal nightmare, members of an Ottawa group, Not In Our Name , speak to Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky on growing up Jewish and their ...

Kendall Giberson, explores how Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia has divided many powerful countries.       Many of those observing the evolution of the European Union ...

While Microcredit has become the new buzz word of international development, David Mandelzys argues that if we are truly interested in solving the structural problems of poverty, we need to confron...

Alroy Fonseca evaluates the depressingly poor results of the US invasion into Iraq, highlights the damage caused by war, and calls on those who argued for it five years ago to follow-up on their ...