With curiously coincidental timing, both the launch of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign and Amanda Palmer’s incredibly affecting and insightful TED talk about crowdfunding happened…
I’m not sure how relatable this experience is, but during our family’s Sunday morning breakfast ritual I would quite often find my mom poring over…
It was the time in between that the man hated the most. The waiting was when he worried about everything: why was he doing this?…
Mark O’Brien was a virgin until he was 38. He was a poet, journalist and activist; he also had a rare form of polio that…
Edgar’s posters have become the symbol of the No! Downtown Hamilton Casino group, a collection of activists, businesses owners and Hamiltonians that is extensively involved…
Politics and music go way back. In the 1980s Public Enemy challenged the assumption that music should be a form of entertainment and, as writer…
This year a whole bunch of bands decided that rock, in the traditional indie rock sense perfected by the Replacements, was cool again. But more…
I’m pretty sure I remember Fiona Apple saying in an interview that “if you create something, you should feel like you have nothing left.” This…
Indie Game: The Movie is a documentary about independent video game developers, which admittedly sounds fantastically boring. But it’s not. The fact that this movie…
First, the context. About three weeks ago I wrote an article about art and Hamilton that argued the development of a neighbourhood does not do…