Survival - Table of Contents

Brendan Blom takes a look at the recent history of chess, global politics, and popular culture - from James Bond to Vladimir Putin.     In Chapter Seven of the 1957 James Bond novel From...

With critics losing their posts left, right, and centre, April Yorke wonders if we can survive without them. I was about 13 years old when I started reading film criticism in earnest. My pare...

Lauren Cheal investigates the risks taken by writer-director Andrew Stanton and the team at Disney/Pixar that make the mechanical world of Wall-E come to life. Wall-E is the latest feature-len...

Khiem checks out the experimental Japanese trio Boris. There are two elements to an artist: the live set and the music. Some artists can only do one, others can only do the other, the best ...

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual camping festival held in Manchester, Tennessee. With a 24-hour schedule, these keys to survival will help you get the most out of this unique entertai...

Ottawa band, The Love Machine, discuss with Christine Seabrook what they've learned, where they've gone wrong, and the steps they're taking to continue to survive and achieve success. “I ...

Miss Smartypants by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, I share an apartment with two friends, a guy and girl, that have been a couple for about as long as I've known them. The trouble s...

Janis H. Walsh, a self professed 'old broad', provides some advice on how to move beyond mere survival, towards true fulfillment.   (Cult)ure suggested some slants we writers might take on t...

Alex Trottier runs down her top six favourite spring/summer must-haves. There are a lot of awesome spring / summer fashion trends to choose from this year, but here is a list of what I...

Michelle Crozier looks at how nature vs. nuture factors in, and gets thrown out, when you become a parent. Another baby is born. The father and mother have carried out their roles with succ...

Mike Verdone recalls the exact moment when, as a child, he came to the realization that adults can be complete idiots. Once upon a time when I was a precocious eight year old, I attende...

Bonita Slunder looks at the evicted white farmers in Zimbabwe in 2008 and the expulsion of the Acadians in Nova Scotia in 1755 with the ghost of Hegel whispering, "We learn from history that we do not...

In our age of over population, Elitza Palazov wonders why we still have children. Infants can see about 30cm, the distance from a feeding baby to its mother’s face. Nature knows best: ...

Wacheke Michuki suggests that women who reject traditional gender norms are not necessarily doing so as a feminist act, but, rather, as part of a quest for personal excellence. In everyt...

Jerome Bastien, writer for (Cult)ure  examines Bill C-10 and its censorship of free speech. Could this bill work to prevent artists, academics or journalists from creating work that will inspir...

In his book Disciplined Minds , Jeff Schmidt argues that graduate and professional schools are filtering and brainwashing institutions that mould accepting students into obedient professionals – ...

  Nature hardly remains natural when we introduce the infrastructure that comes with ecotourism, but could commodifying Ontario's provincial parks be the very thing we need to keep Canadian i...

  In light of the aftermath of the recent electoral debaucle in Zimbabwe, Kendall Giberson takes a look at how dictatorial regimes around the world manipulate the sytem in order to ensure the...

For years, federal cash has supported a vision for Iqaluit which includes residential schools, new laws, non-traditional foods, alcohol, roads, mineral exploration and the destruction of ecosyste...