Brawls, Bigfoot & the boonies
Stan Walchuk, Jr. is a biologist but don’t imagine some guy in a white lab coat. Walchuk took his first… FULL STORY
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Break a leg, literally
42nd Street Music by Harry Warren / Lyrics by Al Dubin Book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble Based on… FULL STORY
#81 A fan of Fen
REVIEW: J. Fenwick Lansdowne by Tristram Lansdowne (editor) Portland, OR: Pomegranate Communications, 2014 US $65 / 9780764966705 Reviewed by Briony Penn… FULL STORY
Ormsby #80: The sanity of diversity
To say that Wade Davis has had an extraordinary, brilliant, and in the end very lucky career, says reviewer David… FULL STORY
#80 Davis nominated for Ryga Prize
REVIEW: Wade Davis: Photographs by Wade Davis Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2016. $39.95 / 978-1-77162-124-3 Reviewed by David Mattison *… FULL STORY
Retrosexual Mouthpiece turns timely
Mouthpiece created and performed by Nora Sadava and Amy Nostbakken Vancouver East Cultural Centre Historic Theatre Jan. 31 – Feb…. FULL STORY
The voice of Joyce
After twenty-six years of publishing an environment news magazine, the Comox-based Watershed Sentinel has released its inaugural book, Beyond Banksters:… FULL STORY
Ormsby #79: In praise of grass
His new book recalls tramping 1,000 kilometres through the grasslands of southern B.C. from the border to the Cariboo and… FULL STORY
#79 Emptying the Grasslands
REVIEW: Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia By David Pitt-Brooke Madeira Park: Harbour, 2016 $32.95 / … FULL STORY
#78 Godiva, Zulu and Nanaimo bars
REVIEW: Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada by Jack Knox, Foreword by Ian Ferguson Victoria: Heritage House, 2016. $19.95… FULL STORY
Stonewall win for Coyote
Ivan Coyote has increasingly incorporated music into their public appearances and encouraged the use of the pronoun ‘their’ in place… FULL STORY
Volker Gerling’s wandering cinema
Portraits in Motion Created and performed by Volker Gerling PuSh Festival York Theatre, Jan. 24-26 * Life affirming. Enthralling. Considerate…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #77: Rubber chicken & sexism
Ginny Ratsoy reviews a surprisingly engaging account of smalltown politics and one woman’s unsuccessful bid for the job of mayor…. FULL STORY
Not Nash-ville
Big is beautiful. Or can be. Big Fit Girl: Embrace the Body You Have (Greystone $22.95) by Louise Green makes… FULL STORY
#77 Rubber chicken, pot shops, sexism
REVIEW: Surviving City Hall By Donna Macdonald Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2016. $22.95 / 978-0-88971-320-8 Reviewed by Ginny Ratsoy * In… FULL STORY
Handcuffed by History
Gordon Cruse’s new, self-published study of adolescent criminals in detention, Handcuffed by History (Granville Island 2017), tracks the life adventures… FULL STORY
#76 Trump’s wall foretold
Claudia Casper’s futuristic third novel, The Mercy Journals (Arsenal 2016) foretold Trump’s threatened wall between the U.S. and Mexico. It… FULL STORY
Conga & bongo drum in jazz
Trevor Salloum touts his book, The Conga and Bongo Drum in Jazz (Mel Bay 2016), written with Bobby Sanabria, as… FULL STORY
Ormsby #75: Before the flood
Through the eyes of mail-order bride Else Seel, who arrived in the community of Wistaria from Berlin in 1927, Sherwood… FULL STORY
Bullshit Valleau & friends
For Sage Birchwater’s Chilcotin Chronicles (Caitlin 2017), the veteran reporter and former back-to-the-lander says “The people and stories of the… FULL STORY
