The movie theater staple is ever evolving, just like our snacking habits “The butter is the best part,” Summer Adams told me during my first visit to the Eveningstar Cinema in small-town Brunswick, Ma
The other day I was replaying The Crew 2 , driving from Texas to San Francisco in my silver 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR. After passing through the epic canyons and peaks, I finally arrived at the glistenin
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays takes the field at the 34-year-old Rogers Centre. Once a showpiece of new stadium technology, the facility once known as SkyDome is now among the oldest
One of the first artistic acts I remember is cutting things out. As a child, I would draw tiny people and cut them out with scissors, mostly for the purpose of
Curry laksa at One2Snacks, a Malaysian takeout restaurant in the Dynasty Centre, a strip mall in Toronto.Credit...Tara Walton for The New York Times Toronto Dispatch The Story of Multicultural Canada,
If you’re even moderately online, you’ve likely crossed paths with TraumaTok (or its cousin, TraumaGram): Lots of short videos explicating how myriad hang-ups—including perfectionism and hoarding, pe
This is how I got my bike back after it was stolen a few weeks ago.
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— Sean “Mr. X” Marshall (@Sean_YYZ)
Sep 23, 2023
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E arlier this week, Lucy May Walker, a singer-songwriter from Redditch, posted a series of modest proposals for behaviour at concerts under the title Gig
Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture The Virtual Book Channel Film an
Words by Anton Spice Sam Slater hands me a small porcelain cup. We are drinking sencha in a light wood studio on the ground floor of an old piano factory in North-East Berlin and discussing the concep
I watched this talk [1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital devices while living on a boat with little to zero connectivity. It soon became obvious that all the t
This jaded mapping curmudgeon has been in the industry a good few years and as a result has witnessed a few mapping epochs — the dawn of global digital street maps, the dawn of internet mapping and th
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I bought a brown sweater recently. A brown sweater, of course, is boring. Brown is a boring colour, a sweater a boring garment — it pips the much-maligned cardigan to the post because a cardigan is so boring it becomes…
Food Matters How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness? The spice is one of the world’s most elusive, complex and hard to cultivate ingredients. But for many Americans, it still represents a “bori
A Viking village... yes, but built in 2010 for a film, it's a movie set.
Might want to mention that.
Yes, let's buy it and move in, start our own Viking themed settlement!
https://t.co/BkkXcpR2N8 https://t.co/QAJGzhSJyS
— Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt)
Sep 9, 2023
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Beyond Concrete guest editor Brian Sholis talks with Matthew Gandy, author of Natura Urbana, about the ecology of concrete, engineered versus spontaneous
I am amused that BC United is cited offhand alongside New Coke and X as a particularly disastrous rebranding https://t.co/uComJFKS3E
— Stephen Tweedale | @stephentweedale@mstdn.ca (@stephentweedale)
Sep 5, 2023
Tweeted by @stephentweedale
Newsletter The Morning Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer. But we don’t have to be so doctrinaire about it. Credit... María Jesús Contreras By Sept. 2, 2023, 6:51 a.m. ET This weeken
The first thing ever searched on Google was the name “Gerhard Casper,” a former Stanford president. As the story goes , in 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
60% of British Columbians (-1 since June 2021) believe it is a “very good” or “good” idea for Vancouver to host an @MLB team.
https://t.co/5OssIGdmKs
— Mario Canseco (@mario_canseco)
Aug 30, 2023
Tweeted by @mario_canseco
Editor’s Note: This week’s edition of REFRAME features Adrienne Maree-Brown who, in responding to Jeff Chang’s Call on the changing demographics and its…
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. (Photo: yuan2003 / Flickr ) You, dear reader, are on the front lines of a war. It is a
Wu Haiyun Editor Wu Haiyun is a chief editor at Sixth Tone. She has a Ph.D. in cultural studies from East China Normal University, and was a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. This is
Just in time for the PNE, I wrote about the history of Hastings-Sunrise for @MONTECRISTO_Mag.
https://t.co/f2PIgY2JD1
— Kevin Chong (@thatkevinchong)
Aug 26, 2023
Tweeted by @thatkevinchong
A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to
Ginger Goodwin making a speech on Jan. 1, 1916. Source: Cumberland Museum and Archives. The broad outline of Ginger Goodwin’s story is well known to many of…
A so-called flowerheadz vase by Hugh Findletar inspired by the face of his friend Sara Nozza. The vase is one of 12 pieces Mr. Findletar is showing at an upcoming group art show at Bergdorf Goodman in
There’s a common line among urbanists and advocates of car-free cities to the effect that all the nice places people go to for tourism are car-light, so why not have that at home? It’s usually phrased
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Seth Simons | Longreads | August 17, 2023 | 15 minutes (4,165 words)…
Our new issue, “Aging,” is out now. Follow this link for $20 introductory print subscriptions! Israel’s Occupation Is the Obstacle to Peace Bashir Abu-Manneh The Empire Calls Back Alexander Zaitchik C
When the iPhone launched on June 29, 2007, it did so without any third-party apps, much to the chagrin of its customers and the skeptical tech press. The original iPhone only had 15 native apps, and u
Rumors of San Francisco's death have been greatly exaggerated
Great deep-dive from Michael Gennaro on this trope that SF is in terminal decline, killed by liberal decadence and permissiveness. As he writes @CourthouseNews, the reality is more complicated: https://t.co/lSoxWGvReL
— Stephen…
This First Person column is written by Bill Chow, a second-generation Canadian who is a teacher in Mississauga, Ont. For more information about CBC's First…
I have started a new thing where I take a close look at the first 5 minutes of an S1E1, starting with Sex Education. What happens? What do we learn about the characters? Their relationships? What questions are set-up? Let me know what you think! https://t.co/k5OBGIdsym https://t.co/aW4OXBMO6Y
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Getty Images/Marvel Studios/Ringer illustration My first memorable experience with a pop culture jerk was with Vegeta of the seminal anime series Dragon Ball Z . The prince of a near-extinct race of w
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty On Monday afternoon, the official Instagram account of writer and performer Paul Reubens released a statement that he’d passed away the prev
When starting a new job as a software engineer, it’s natural to feel the pressure of delivering immediate value and meeting the expectations of your role.…
S tanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark Z Jacobson tweeted the other day, “Given that scientists who study 100% renewable energy
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