With a new single dropping today, the Scarborough band looks back at the 1990s by Richard Trapunski on April 12th, 2021 at 6:30 PM 1 of 6 2 of 6
Barenaked Ladies really wanted to be on the cover of
NOW Magazine.
“You know, we were 20-year-old kids from Toronto,” says singer-guitarist Ed Robertson. “Getting on the cover of
NOW was a huge fucking deal for us.”
Before Robertson and his now-departed-BNL co-leader Steven Page made that dream come true in 1991, they’d set up with their acoustic guitars and busk in front of the
NOW office on the Danforth.
But it wasn’t just
NOW. That was their go-to move.
by Craig Takeuchi on April 11th, 2021 at 8:00 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5
It was March 1, 1987, when Seattle-based Starbucks opened its first international location and do you know where it was?
At Waterfront Station in Vancouver.
That opening marked a milestone for that company, as well as a shift in Vancouver’s café scene from which numerous coffee shops would spring.
Although at one time Starbucks seemed to be on almost every street in the city, the company has become a victim of its own success. During the pandemic in June 2020, the coffee company announced it would be closing a few hundred stores, with up to 300 (initally announced as 200) in Canada.
Covid has taught me that people will fuck you over for a roll of toilet paper. They can be nice and thoughtful and kind but as the pandemic starts to end they are returning to “normal”; bitter, critical assholes, putting some serious hard labor into looking for the tiniest flaw to get over-angry about.
by Charlie Smith on April 11th, 2021 at 6:50 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
The story of Mi’kmaq artist Jordan Bennett’s public-art exhibition in downtown Vancouver is well-known to those who closely follow the visual arts.
A photograph of a 19th-century porcupine quill basket triggered a series of events that led to a colourful lens-based work of art on the wall of the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard Street.
This image is particularly evocative in light of current conversations about colonialism and the repatriation of First Nations cultural property.
Bennett shares the fascinating story of the creation of
al’taqiaq: it spirals in an interview with curator Kate Henderson in the Capture Photography Festival magazine.