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 ...
Become a better you with books
BOOKS | Self-help books for the back-to-school season. Forget Bridget Jones and her hook-a-man manuals. Let die the Susan Powter days of your mother. Self-help books have finally jumped into 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 ...
The Sweet Edge review, and Q&A with Alison Pick
BOOKS | The Sweet Edge, by Alison Pick, is a book that would probably appeal to almost anybody – if only they knew it existed. It’s the first prose offering from celebrated Canadian poet Alison ...
A day in Gibsons, BC
TRAVEL | British Columbia is beautiful, but a day in Gibsons, BC isn’t something I’d particularly recommend. City: Gibsons, BC Population: 4,205 Location: A 40 minute ferry ride from ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...