At every wedding I’ve been to this past year, the event space has been decorated with family portraits—black-and-white photos of grandmothers and grandfathers, pictures of parents with giant smiles and ‘70s hairstyles. Meanwhile, the bride and groom wear family relics and heirlooms: jewelry passed…

Communism, Chinese hip hop and global street culture converge on a Richmond bubble tea shop. What’s going on here? In Metro Vancouver, the popular Taiwanese beverage is being elevated to the level of lattes and cocktails as it finds new cultural homes.https://t.co/IaIjSwD6IS — The Tyee…

Bhaskar Sunkara. Photo: Matthew David Roberts . E very successful magazine, like every successful revolution, condenses an atmosphere. The atmosphere may be

The winners of @rvkgrapevine's Music Awards 2019 have been announced, and @OlafurArnalds has been named the Artist of the Year 🔥 #icelandmusic #icelandicmusic https://t.co/hXOnAtk6XM — Iceland Music (@IcelandMusic) January 7, 2019 Tweeted by @IcelandMusic

"Literature does not exist only to provoke feelings of happiness or to placate us with its pleasure; art should also challenge and perturb us." Amen sister. @AnakanaSchofiel in @GuardianBooks https://t.co/nN727CQieZ — Gregory McCormick (@mcco12mtl) January 7, 2019 Tweeted by @mcco12mtl

Profiles With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency. December 27, 2018 Burnett, like Trump, feels like an outsider, an associate says: “In the reality-TV business, you’re never part of the true…

When director Stephen Hopkins’ gritty urban thriller Judgment Night came out in 1993, it was released to mixed reviews and a modest box office take ($21 million on a $12 million budget). A harrowing, stripped-down actioner following a group of Evanston suburbanites (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr.,…

Thursday marked one of the most important days in congressional history for diversity. A record 102 women took office, 35 whom were newly-elected. They include Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim women to serve in the House of Representatives, and Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids, the first…

Future generations will look back at this, @nathanng -- just as ours does now on the past: "‘It’s like collecting baseball cards’: One TTC fan wants to memorialize all 464 Metropasses online": https://t.co/rX5BKRvBVx via @TorontoStar — Bob Georgiou (@ScenesFromACity) December 26, 2018 Tweeted…

Let me describe what I hear as I sit in a coffee shop writing this article. It’s late morning on a Saturday, between the breakfast and lunch rushes. People talk in hushed voices at tables. The staff make pithy jokes amongst themselves, enjoying the downtime. Fingers clack on keyboards, and glasses…

Self portrait of Deana Lawson and her daughter, Grace, in 2017.Credit...Deana Lawson The furniture may be covered in plastic and the wall paint peeling, but when the photographer Deana Lawson poses her African-American subjects in humble rooms, she sees the survivors of a history of slavery and…

Our Executive Director speaks with the @VancouverSun about East Van's vibrant community of artists & the future of affordable studio space: https://t.co/a7XiAsf9AJ Join us for the last day of the Eastside Culture Crawl, Sunday 11-6! pic.twitter.com/5ILh4YEbOv — Eside Culture Crawl (@CultureCrawl)…

Bill de Blasio was two weeks into his term as New York mayor when he stood with weeping parents at the street corner where eight-year-old Noshat Nahian was killed while walking to school and pledged to end the city’s “epidemic” of road deaths. Noshat was crossing the seven-lane Northern Boulevard in…

In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of her 1984 book The Second Shift, sociologist Arlie Hochschild was asked if we had made progress on the “double burden”—labor done both in the home and in the workplace—experienced by a growing number of women joining the workforce in the 1980s. Hochschild expressed…

Midway through this year, like many others before her, Twitter user @FUTANARIA ventured a take on ghosting. “Ghosting is abusive and can be potentially

Book review: by Graham Allison (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2017) Let us start by observing that perhaps the two greatest classicists of the last

Donald Knuth at his home in Stanford, Calif. He is a notorious perfectionist and has offered to pay a reward to anyone who finds a mistake in any of his books. Credit...Brian Flaherty for The New York Times Profiles in science Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his…

Russia December 21, 2018, 1:31 PM In the fall of 1992, after he cut a deal with U.S. banks to work off nearly a billion dollars in personal debt, Donald Trump put on a big gala for himself in Atlantic City to announce his comeback. Party guests were given sticks with a picture of Trump's face glued…

My column is on the front page of the @TorontoStar today, my first ever A1 byline. A big deal! It’s my year-long investigation & expose of inflatable Santas. Shocking revelations. Thank you for reading the Toronto Star. 🎄 https://t.co/LDNdKED6wk pic.twitter.com/YFHOvAMHt9 — Populist Yule Log…

Now THAT is quite the comparison to live up to! @biancawylie: “Meet the Jane Jacobs of the Smart Cities Age.” https://t.co/TjpAPWxZ7c — Zack Taylor (@bigcitypolitics) December 21, 2018 Tweeted by @bigcitypolitics

No, it will not be easy. Yes, it will be rewarding. (Eventually.) Credit...Tallulah Fontaine By Dec. 10, 2018 “I’d like to write a book someday.” Like many writers, I said this for years before finally deciding to commit to the long and grueling process of publishing my first book, which is about…

With dwindling numbers due to snags in lobster traps and collisions with ships, the right whale is looking for a way to make a comeback Tom Cheney; Photography by Nick Hawkins October 29, 2018 Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter! A North Atlantic right whale rests at the ocean’s surface. With an…

Profiles Outside a Lawson portrait you might be working three jobs, struggling. But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen. Photography by Deana Lawson April 30, 2018 “Nikki’s Kitchen” (2015). Imagine a goddess. Envision a queen. Her skin is dark, her hair is black.…

My thoughts on @spacing for reforming Toronto’s Municipal Land Transfer Tax. https://t.co/MLBOy8m2SS @imfgtoronto @TorontoCouncil @JohnTory #topoli — Zack Taylor (@bigcitypolitics) December 17, 2018 Tweeted by @bigcitypolitics

But forget salt and shovelling, Toronto needs some heated sidewalks. Montreal is getting ‘em. https://t.co/bKdN3UogrX — Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt) December 17, 2018 Tweeted by @GraphicMatt

By the Book Michelle ObamaCredit...Illustration by Jillian Tamaki The former first lady, whose new memoir is “Becoming,” admires Zadie Smith’s novel “White Teeth” for its complexity and humor: “Even if a book takes on serious topics, I think it should still be fun to read.” What books are on your…

Whale spotted near #Courtenay Airpark https://t.co/bPqfip2n3Q — Comox Valley Record (@CVRecord) December 19, 2018 Tweeted by @CVRecord

In today’s @WSJ I share a dirty secret: I’ve taken up an analog hobby - #knitting! Don’t worry, I used #socialmedia like @Youtube and @Ravelry to do it. https://t.co/oJfUhG5dvA — AlexandraSamuel.com (@awsamuel) December 17, 2018 Tweeted by @awsamuel

Firefox 64 – Adieu le RSS. https://t.co/8zFAOTbqes — scripting.com (@davewiner) December 13, 2018 Tweeted by @davewiner

Now preserved as Walnut Canyon National Monument, it is full of breathtaking vistas; from its rim, you can see the curve and flow of volcanic rock that runs hundreds of feet below. Climb below onto its trails for a closer look as curved divots in the rock walls emerge—home for a thriving…

EmailReddit9.3k SHARES A few nights ago I saw Jack White in concert. It was a wonderful night, and a big part of that was due to a new rule he has imposed on all his tour dates: no phones. When you arrive, you have to put your phone into a neoprene pouch, supplied by a company called Yondr, which…

B-Cycle Austin https://t.co/3x12HIBTex pic.twitter.com/qIJtfyQz2e — Neal Jennings (@nealjennings) November 28, 2018 Tweeted by @nealjennings

Challenging those faux-profound bits of knowledge so often taken for granted I still remember the first debate I ever did. It was in a high school classroom that smelled of deodorant. Our school ran a debate club on-and-off throughout my adolescence, and I loved the idea of taking part ever since I…

I went on a date today with a man who actually asked questions. It was mere minutes after I read this while I was waiting in the pub, so was even more pleasantly surprised https://t.co/zTN9wmWAcY — Juno Mac (@fornicatrix) November 25, 2018 Tweeted by @fornicatrix

Sometimes I just feel like a bad joke. At the time my wife and I were beginning to date, I owned a broken bed. The box spring had a biggish crack on one side, which caused you to feel like you were be

Social media are doomsday machines. They distract, divide, and madden; we can no longer hear each other, speak coherently, or even think. As a result, our social, civic, and political ligands are dissolving. Everywhere, people consult their screens to affirm what they already think and repeat what…

Lying on Tinder: Why this prof wants to make it illegal to dupe people into sex online | CBC Radio https://t.co/37r7KKyJVS — Anakana Schofield (@AnakanaSchofiel) November 21, 2018 Tweeted by @AnakanaSchofiel

During the 2018 Ontario elections, a campaign pamphlet for Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate Raymond Cho was distributed with the words “為人民服務” – “Serve the People” – in bold. The phrase is one of the most iconic Maoist slogans – but in this case, it was used as a crude translation of Doug…

Ken Liu is, more than anything, a writer. He's won a number of awards for genre fiction, and his latest book, The Wall of Storms , just dropped this week. But