How I wrote a novel in three days
WRITING | A version of “How I wrote a novel in three days” was published in the Vancouver Sun, September, 2004. Jump down below the photographed article for a 2018 update and some ...
Sarah McLachlan concert review
REVIEW | Fans loved this Sarah McLachlan concert. While the crowd was too demure to be said to have gone wild when Sarah McLachlan took the stage at GM Place on Friday night, they made it clear ...
Can you write a novel in a weekend?
DEADLINES | Can you write a novel in a weekend? Well, you can try. You could enter the 3-Day Novel Contest over the Labour Day weekend and join hundreds of other would-be-novelists competing for ...
RENT is the best musical ever (according to this Renthead)
CULTURE | Rent is the best musical (ever, IMHO). Rent isn’t Les Mis. It isn’t Phantom. It isn’t even Cats. There are no falling chandeliers, no helicopters, no big fur suits. There’s barely even ...
Vancouver’s Chinatown Festival
VANCOUVER | It’s festival season in Vancouver and this weekend is no exception. The fifth annual Chinatown Festival, the largest daytime summer event in Vancouver’s Chinatown, begins Saturday in ...
Play dressup with virtual paper dolls
VIRTUAL STYLE | Online, paper dolls are having a high-fashion moment It’s hip to be square. It’s trendy to be untrendy. Or retro. Whatever you want to call it, at the moment, there’s no avoiding ...
Life & Limb: Skateboarding book leans to the literary
BOOKS & WRITING | Being a skater isn’t just about admiring Jackass. Skaters are punks aren’t they? They’re skinny kids in flat-bottomed shoes and baggy pants. They do stupid, dangerous ...
Harry Connick Jr concert review, The Only You tour hits Vancouver
CONCERT REVIEW | Harry Connick Jr. manages to bridge the generations. He’s paved the way for contemporary crooners like Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum, and even Diana Krall owes him a little ...
Jessica Simpson concert review, The Reality Tour hits Vancouver
CONCERT REVIEW | Jessica Simpson, The Reality Tour. Show designed to connect singer to fans, and reveal her to be the normal girl as seen on TV. Seeing Jessica Simpson in the flesh is like ...
Model Jen Selk mugged on 24th birthday (or not)
MODELLING | Embarrassment abounds. 2018: Ah, the glamorous life of a “model”. The photo shoot was awful. The photographer wanted me to actually “scream” as though I were being mugged in broad ...
The Finn Brothers’ new album
INTERVIEW | Neil Finn on The Finn Brothers’ new album, Everyone Is Here. He’s collaborated with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, two guys from Radiohead, and Sheryl Crow used to be his opening ...
Stylish eyes with model Jen Selk
MODELLING | How many spectacles does one woman need? 2018: Remember how I told you I was a baby model? Yep. As mentioned in a previous post, while I was ostensibly a newspaper office admin ...