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Bibliophile: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

By: Meliorist • Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon
Picador, New York 2000
“They had been walking for hours, in and out of the streetlights, through intermittent rainfall, heedless, smoking and talking until their throats were sore. At last they seemed to run out of things to say and turned wordlessly for home, carrying the idea between them, [...]

Things in history you should know: Prohibition

By: Kelsey Ehler • Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

As we all know, outlawing a particular substance makes no one ever want to consume it ever again, let alone abuse it. Such was the reasoning of the Temperance movement in our fine country, the cause of choice for well-meaning busybodies everywhere at the turn of the century – nineteenth to twentieth, that is. Otherwise [...]

Living with disabilities

By: Meliorist • Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I’ve been deaf in both ears since birth….

U2 – An Obituary

By: Alice Stamper • Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Their saving grace is ironic. December 2, 2001 Bono, the Edge, Adam and Larry were in a plane accident where they were killed to death. They were returning to Ireland after the last show of their Elevation tour in Miami when their plane was lost over the Atlantic. Nobody knows the exact details, as there [...]

Flirting with flame

By: Sarah Fulcher • Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Kate Tupper is a welder-turned-artist who was born and raised in Nakusp, BC. For several years, she has been simultaneously building her art practice and her business, Spark Tart Designs. Tupper’s work is individual and intriguing, but one thing’s for sure, she wields a wicked welding torch.
Her interest in metalwork began in high school shop [...]

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