Clair Huxtable is the best
RETRO TV | Clair Huxtable is the best. She’s the TV mom who taught me the most. Our faves are problematic. I know that, but it’s been a hard pill to swallow. Re-examining my love for ...
August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)
MUSIC & MEMORY | Revisiting “August and Everything After”. I first heard Counting Crows on the radio in the spring of 1994. I was wearing one of my Dad’s oversized burgundy dress ...
In defense of stuff (or KonMari sucks)
LIVING | Confession: I have never – not once – come across a thrift store, yard sale, flea market, or so-called “junk” pile that didn’t contain at least one thing I’ve ...
Three types of millennials I’d love to stab (jk, jk)
OPINION | I hate millennials. Not all millennials, just those I’ve had the misfortune to know. I’m only half kidding when I say I hate millenials. (Three quarters kidding? 10 percent ...
Nailed it! My life in Pinterest fails
LIVING | Listen, perfection is overrated. When it comes to decorating, homemaking, and the domestic arts, I make a lot of mistakes. This is awkward because as a semi-hermit with ...
Vancouver Fringe Fest Reviews, ’05
THEATRE | Vancouver Fringe Fest serves up winners and losers at every level. Expect high-brow, low-brow offerings, and everything in between at the 2005 Vancouver Fringe Fest. Here are just a few ...
Cannibal! The Musical at Vancouver Fringe
THEATRE | Trey Parker’s insane offering, Cannibal! The Musical arrives at Vancouver’s Fringe Festival. Cannibal! The Musical doesn’t need any help to sell out a Fringe Fest venue. ...
Emotional infidelity: cheating of the mind
CULTURE | Could you be cheating and not even know it? Is emotional infidelity a real thing? Experts say emotional infidelity is real, but word on the street is divided. People can’t even agree on ...
Sparkle Bunny at the Vancouver Fringe
THEATRE | Vancouver Fringe Fest offers up Sara Bynoe’s Sparkle Bunny: The Last Raver Dancing Sigh. Rave culture was fun. And Sarah Bynoe’s one woman Fringe Fest show, Sparkle Bunny: The ...
Chuck Klosterman is tired, and he hates his new book
BOOKS & CULTURE | Chuck Klosterman is tired. He’s been out promoting his new book Killing Yourself to Live for six weeks and the poor man has had enough. He’s tired of travelling and ...
Borrow a bias? Rent a gay?
CULTURE | Library launches “borrow a bias” rent-a-person program in Sweden. Got “a gay” in your life? You know, one of those handy sentient stereotypes to cart around? Not to worry. ...
Famous high school dropouts (Dose continues to suck)
2018 | Believe it or not, this ridiculous list of “famous high school dropouts” piece was assigned to me as a NEWS story. It published in the news section. While I was at Dose, each ...