Launch - Table of Contents

Joshua Cicerone discusses his hit monthly webcomic, Bob Hate Andy, with (Cult)ure’s Kevin Johns.   Launched a mere nine months ago, Joshua Cicerone’s webcomic Bob Hates Andy has qui...

Shannon Wood explores the intrigue and evil in Canadian supernatural author extraordinaire Kelley Armstrong's new release, Personal Demon. The latest incantation to the Otherworld follows a new half d...

Resident list maker April Yorke slices through five winning writer-director debuts from the past twenty years. When RKO landed wunderkind Orson Welles for his feature length debut, it must have s...

After 2000 years under the Christian horizon, John Lennon tries to take us back to Pagan times, asking his listeners to “imagine there’s no heaven,” and only one English Teacher, Kris Millett, h...

Christine Seabrook looks at the long tradition of re-recording old hits into new cover versions, and makes some predictions regarding potential targets for remakes in the future. The la...

  Frederick Hidell discusses how Wikipedia, YouTube and BitTorrent launched his obsession with legendary songwriter Bob Dylan.  When Bob Dylan stepped on stage at the Newport Folk Festiv...

Kris Millet suggests Kathleen Edwards’ new album, Asking for Flowers, is exquisitely recorded, but stuck in Nashville middle gear.   Since the Black Sheep Inn denied (Cult)ure�...

   How an obsession with Project Runway helped man’s man Steve Dominey launch a new persona. People define themselves through pop culture.   If you love Pearl Jam, then you won’...

  Kevin Johns examines the long history of television shows making the jump to the big screen, including this summer’s Sex and the City, The X-Files: I Want to Believe and Get Smart. Wi...

Dante Kleinberg explains why an entire generation is searching for the nearest TV camera, ready to tap dance, yodel, shout “No deal!”, or sing “I Will Always Love You” at the top of their l...

Starting next month, Miss Smartypants will take on your problems, issues, and grammatical confusion. Boy-girl stuff? She's got an opinion about it. Forgot what happened in that movie that time? She'll...

Plus-sized fashion hasn’t gone far since the days of leggings and oversized t-shirts. Fortunately for curvy girls, the launch of Addition Elle and Loulou’s new capsule collection, along with the i...

It starts with a dream… followed by the development of a new product… and then… the product launch! Holly Hutchings introduces a number of recent food product launches that beg the question:...

Marc Kelly examines the university education system and how students can break boundaries and strive for authentic independent thought.   The University When I was a growi...

Jackie Bloom gets upset with styrofoam and calls for action!         Illustration by Adrian Steeves Everything is wrong with styrofoam. You know, that white junk that you to...

Bernadette Johnson explores corporate campaigns involving HIV/AIDS, and reminds Canadians that they themselves can become a force for change. See how OXFAM worksho ps can shake us from our state of...

Depuis son accession à la présidence de l'État cubain en février dernier, Raul Castro a introduit une série de mesures « progressistes ». Doit-ton voir cette politique des « petits pas » c...

As the Caledonia dispute unravels, Jerome Bastien argues that the rule of law is being violated by the very institutions who are in charge of upholding it. Has political correctness gone too far? ...

   Alroy Fonseca overviews the main issues relating to Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt, and argues that it should be banned. On 28 March, 2008, sealers launched th...