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Team writing: novel contest winners spill secrets

WRITING | Three days. Two authors. One book deal. Team writing for the win! The 3-Day Novel Contest is one crazy-ass Canadian initiative, but every year, another winner is born. And last year, ...

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Stephens Gerard Malone Q&A

BOOKS | Dude writes like a lady? Stephens Gerard Malone thinks he has every right to lie about his identity to get published. Men can’t write convincingly about women. At least, that’s what a ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Vancouver’s for sloths (and Dose sucked)

2018 | In the summer of 2005, the fact that Dose sucked felt so normal, I barely thought about it. Now, I think back to my time at Dose as the biggest mistake of my young life, and certainly the ...

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Memoirs worth reading?

BOOKS | Everybody thinks they’re interesting. Few people actually are. So are memoirs worth reading? Sometimes? Basically, memoirs are a bit of a crap shoot. That said, some people do have good ...

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Leslie Feist is coming up

MUSIC | Canadian everywoman Leslie Feist is straight up blowing up. Leslie Feist is hard to figure out. In many ways, she’s exactly what you’d expect from a folky singer/songwriter: she’s smart, ...

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3-Day Novel Contest under new management

WRITING | The 3-Day Novel Contest isn’t yet a money-maker, but new independent owners say, hey, you never know. Some writers spend years working on their novels. Decades, even. And sometimes that ...

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Bully: It’s the Pits

BOOKS | An interview with Paul Labonté, the artist/maker behind dog photo book Bully: It’s the Pits. The 107 is a bus line in Montreal. It’s also the adopted moniker of Paul Labonté (Paul 107), ...

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The city versus suburbs debate

CULTURE | The city versus suburbs debate is all about spin, but which environment is truly “better” and can better even be quantified? When you pit cramped quarters, noise, and crime against open ...

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Broken Flowers movie review

FILM | Broken Flowers is a snooze-fest. I screened Broken Flowers on July 27th, 2005 at the 5th Ave. Cinemas in Vancouver. That was just about a week ago, and already I’m struggling to remember ...

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Interview with Lee Marshall (behind the voices)

VOICES | Interview with Lee Marshall. In 2005, Dose had me profile several voice actors for a series called “behind the voices”. Most of my work went to waste because the profiles were cut down ...