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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...

Brendan Blom articulates the life of one of the western canon's greatest literary icons - E.B. White. In his review of the Compiled Letters of E.B. White, Brendan explores the relationship between E.B...

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...

   (Cult)ure Magazine contributing writer, Darren Stoltz, reviews No Logo author Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine. When I was handed The Shock Doctrine by a colleague,...

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...

From the curling smoke of a cigarette to the shadow falling across a villain’s face, some things just look better in black and white. Black and white film put up a lot more of a fight again...

On Tuesday, January 22, 2008, Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment. The cause of the young performer’s death has not yet been determined, though speculation suggest...

Some called it a daring, visionary move. Others insisted we were about to witness the demise of one of modern music’s greatest bands. A computer-geek friend of mine told me if he were made responsib...

Looking to breed yourself a super genius?  Dante Kleinberg might just have the answer you are looking for: Prenatal Music! Or... maybe not.   In the fast-paced super-tech world of tomorrow,...

  Christine Seabrook suggests that George Orwell’s predictions about a surveillance-obsessed society have proven true, with surprising results for musicians. While it might not be Big Brother who...

Reza Kazemi, an admitted iPOD owner and Guitar Hero-aholic, discusses the unique pleasures of playing a real instrument in front of an actual live audience. When's the last time you saw some...

The three-year-old videogame Guitar Hero is continuously growing in appeal, but is it more than just a game?  It seems to be impacting society and musical culture in more ways than one.   You...

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...

  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...

   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’...

    Margaret Jackson is convinced that if she loves a show, it means that it is going to get cancelled. Fall is my favourite time of year.  I love watching the leaves change, si...

Erin Jennings addresses the contemporary fascination with the grotesque body in visual culture, and the seemingly contradictory urge to limit possibilities for representing female corporeality.   ...

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 ...

Shannon Wood takes a look at one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's greatest (and often overlooked) episodes. “Strong is fighting! It’s hard, and it’s painful, and it’s everyday....

Facebook is a cultural phenomenon of our time that deserves recognition for its innovative transformation of our social lives, but be aware, as Terrah Smith warns us of its virtual limitations.   ...

Despite their perceived goodwill, Mayor Larry O'Brien's recent Kindness Meters - designed to filter money to charities that work with the homeless instead of giving money to pandhandlers - carry with ...

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...

Tobin Dalrymple took a walk one cold October day with a group of zombies and asked: How can something be dead, deadly and adored all at once? Beneath the stone archway of the Centr...

This month, Will Parker exposes the ups and downs of cooking au naturel. Will stripping down to the basics be enough to leave him satisfied? In terms of experimentation, I’m the type of gu...

Brendan Blomb investigates the myths and realities surrounding everyone's favourite holiday meal: the Thanksgiving turkey. In 1794, a French lawyer with the extravagant name of Jean Anthelme B...

Our complex and ever-evolving Canadian society has made great progress discovering the divinity in the most simple, natural pleasures this world has to offer.  It is this back-to-basics progress that...

Steve didn't watch TV last month; he was busy watching porn. But luckily, he wrote about that. Remember those movies from your childhood? People living in space, robot butlers, clones, fl...

Julie St. Cyr experiments with eHarmony’s dating services.  She’s looking for true love, but finds bad kissers, homophobia and racism.  You’ve gotta hand it to eHarmony’s marketing...

 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...