News Desk May 25, 2014 I don’t think I’ve ever been as heartbroken by anything as I was, last night, by the (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wijFaBQnfMI), whose twenty-year-old son, Christopher, a college student at the University of California Santa Barbara, had been murdered the day before.…
they’re talking about pitchers hitting dingers & throwing no-hitters on CSNBA, which I think is my cue to link this! http://t.co/LLwNfDNGdj
— ruhee.js (@ruhee_) May 25, 2014
Great column, Cathal... I'd go one step further & question why national anthems before each & every game @cathalkelly http://t.co/2vLjfqG0OG
— Mason Wright (@thismason) May 27, 2014
There are three things you should know. First: I'm not biracial. "What are you?" people ask, and they expect me to say something thrilling and tribal. I answer, but still they press. "Where are your a
After seven years, @everyword is about to complete its mission of tweeting every word in the English language. http://t.co/ElJ2MuHM8F
— Romenesko (@romenesko) May 25, 2014
“The Athletics … had no idea they were about to run into a Canadian buzzsaw.” http://t.co/rYx6dEpHFc (cheers, @CrashburnAlley)
— ruhee.js (@ruhee_) May 25, 2014
Without fearless, trustworthy arts reviewers, we're left to waste the night away. People in the arts always prefer the puff, eh Lorde? Old friends, both senior
I wrote a bunch more about @metafilter here: https://t.co/9Qj3DgmYK9 & we're formalizing our fundraising here: https://t.co/yFb9f8VA1P
— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) May 21, 2014
“‘Maybe he’ll get a chance to come in and get Ortiz.’ Now that would make a good little story. So here it is.” http://t.co/puOrC8Tvdu
— ruhee.js (@ruhee_) May 21, 2014
The Financial Page May 19, 2014 Illustration by Christoph Niemann The most expensive housing market in North America is not where you’d think. It’s not New York City or Orange County, California, but Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, Vancouver is a beautiful city—a thriving deep-water port, a…
Today is Bike to Work Day — an event that’s all about trying to get more people to ride bicycles more regularly. If you don't feel like wearing a helmet while biking, that's fine And here’s some advice that might help with that goal: Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets. For most bikers, this…
What follows is an account of an instance where I, a person of relatively sound mind and body, could not believe the evidence before my own eyes. It might not…
As soon as you leave baggage claim, the apologies begin. "We are in the process of building a world-class airport for Los Angeles," one announcement offers by…
For Ted, it was a predictable morning at the local fair trade coffee shop. Co-eds filled the place, desperate for their caffeine fix, using high voices to order Starbucks sizes that weren’t even appli
Bowie's last day - we had permission for a year, so our Space Oddity video comes down today. One last look: http://t.co/z6umXHoPCk
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 13, 2014
Culture From pinball to porn to online poker Jesse Walker | From the June 2014 issue For decades moral guardians have warned us about the alleged evils of video games. They make people violent. They make people gamble. They're too addictive, too hypnotic, too bloody, too risque. If they aren't…
Evan Spiegel, one of the founders of Snapchat, which has drawn considerable attention as investors and entrepreneurs size up the potential for new ways to exchange messages on a mobile phone.Credit...Jae C. Hong/Associated Press What happens on the Internet stays on the Internet. That truth was laid…
Two episodes into the series, True Detective dropped a reference to one of the strangest, most compelling tales in the canon of weird fiction: Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories published in 1895. Knowing this book is key to understanding the dark mystery at the…
What do @edclef 's "Proteus" and French Impressionism ca 1874 have in common? Eron Rauch has the answers http://t.co/2V2KrT2jmV
— videogametourism.at (@vdgmtourism) May 5, 2014
In some cities, the urban jungle of steel and concrete suffocates all flora and fauna, except for the mightiest of weeds and pigeons. In Vancouver, however, nature is dominant, and the architecture reflects this unequal relationship. The city glows green from the emerald skyscrapers that litter…
Cover Story The Economist covers of 2025. Written and edited by Edward Carr Mini crossword Our wordplay puzzle Archive 1945 How The Economist reported on the final year of the second world war, week by week How Ozempic could change beauty standards A handpicked article read aloud from the latest…
Research: Well-written fiction lets us identify w/characters — which short-circuits our tendency to stereotype http://t.co/X1c6nxkpvk
— Vancouver Public Lib (@VPL) March 15, 2014
Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us describe the archetypal computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We imagine him as a largely…
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Is a signature still useful? Published 7 May 2014 Share page About sharing Image source, Thinkstock ByJon KellyBBC News Magazine There have been calls to phase out signatures from the banking industry. But have our own personal autographs really had their day? Does yours have a big, swooping "y" and…
Essay Lou Gehrig and the Yankees hosted the Cubs in the 1932 World Series.Credit...Associated Press The Cubs were a juggernaut: 322 victories over three seasons, winning the pennant in each of those years and going on to take the World Series twice in a row. The team was built to endure, too, with…
VANCOUVER, Canada — Walking back alleys in Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside, Kevin Thompson, 43, tells stories from roughly two decades of cocaine and…
On the abuse of 'time = money' by car and transit fans alike: http://t.co/knsvYrUlwc @andrew_leach @MikePMoffatt @jjreade @freakonomics
— neil21 (@neil21) May 7, 2014
AMC / USA If you looked at the critical acclaim its original series have received over the past decade or so, you might think AMC is the top basic cable network on television. Between Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead, critics have spent hundreds of thousands of words peeling apart these…
Okay, PT readers, time to move on from the Spaxman piece before Godwin’s Law comes into play. Here’s another chewy piece to get you going … . Exit, Voice and Loyalty for a Vancouver in Decline . Meg Holden, Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University (mholden@sfu.ca) Personal caveat: I believed…
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