Identity - Table of Contents

Kevin Johns explores how issues of art, religion and sexuality are interwoven into Craig Thompson's masterful graphic novel, Blankets.   The rough and jagged bark of adolescence, pushin...

Brendan Blomb describes what it was like growing up reading Herge's legendary comic, Tintin, in Canada.   Belgium is not a country whose citizens are known for superlative achievement or cel...

What went wrong? In a word: September. When Hollywoodland premiered last fall, it did so in the midst of a very specific buzz. It seemed that Ben Affleck, who had not been seen on the silver ...

Joe Lipsett discusses the often over-looked importance of horror cinema in contemporary culture. (This) is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its direct...

Madonna’s 1985 single "Material Girl" is undeniably a pop masterpiece. Its driving bass line and hypnotic melodies are the stuff of mainstream major record label dreams. On its release, the song per...

Almost all songs, particularly love songs, refer to the existence of a person other than the singer: you, she, him. Most of the time the listener assumes this person is an abstraction, the idea of a p...

  If the Ottawa theatre community were a family, it might look something like this. Just like people, every theatre has a unique identity all its own. From the world’s busiest auditoriu...

More than any other series, The X-Files epitomized 1990s television. Over the course of its run the show won 16 Emmys, dozens of additional industry awards, and made superstars out of its leads David ...

Canadians are nice, polite, and respectful. Canadians are smarter than Americans. Canada is a cultural mosaic. Canada is governed by ideals of peace, order, and good government. And Canada is ...

I have an addiction. It consumes my life now, every afternoon at 1 pm. I used to only indulge once a week. Sometimes more, if I could track down a hit or two online. I was unlucky enough that my...

Or, How the Bible Belt Cancelled Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip So it’s official. As of the fifteenth of May, Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is really dead and buried. This announce...

Ace reporter, Bryan Q. Denton, provides of round-up of recent news items not to be missed! This month in Apocalypticish Doom: Your Morning Ritual! Grad Student Bludgeons Four Hours to Death with...

Dear Ottawa, I’m not going to lie. It took me a really long time to miss you. I moved here last Fall and it was such a strange experience. People were nice – are nice – all the time. Always. ...

A two-year stint in Kyoto, Japan, as an English Teacher was drawing to a close and  pressure was mounting to accomplish all the goals on my ‘to do in Japan’ list.  Thus, shortly after climbing M...

Doug McNish is a Toronto-based vegan chef and activist. He is notable for his colourful tattoos of vegetables and other food-related motifs, and his outspoken but cheerful and engaging demeanour. His ...

In the midst of much controversy over health risks and human rights accusations, China's booming organ transplantation business has proven to be remarkably sustainable. However, could Canada be d...