In 2010, in the wake of his last film Fierce Light, Canadian award-winning documentary filmmaker Velcrow Ripper had a burning question. In what he saw as a world engulfed in environmental and social crisis, he wanted to know: “how could the crisis on the planet become a love story?” The question, while seemingly light – [...]
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IVY LEVAN is the truculent pumpkin ripping the music rule book into itsy bitsy shreds. Some call her Ivy, some just call her the Dame; but however you refer to Ivy Levan, there’s no denying she’s the No.1 name on the music industry’s lips when it comes to blues-infused punk and seditious sonic palettes. The [...]
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Looking at Halley Zien’s art, you might not expect the petite brunette with girl-next-door looks and a seemingly happy-go-lucky demeanor to be behind the visceral, even grotesque images that fill her work. But we all learned early on not to judge a book by its cover. There’s a whole lot more to most of us [...]
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Some young boys start bands. These young boys make wood. I’m really into that ‘furniture from the woods’ look. You know, the kind that sits pretty and expensive in speciality boutiques, that looks like it could have been logged away from the forest, the natural grain of the raw material left in a close to [...]
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The idea behind HENRY is so simple it’s revolutionary: bring the act of narration — a private, emotional experience between author and audience — to the digital age. “It was born from a transformative in-person reading experience,” co-founder Katherine Bernard says. She and boyfriend (and fellow writer) Shayne Barr attended a reading from short story [...]
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Kate Power is one of those rare breeds, embodying the best of seemingly opposing worlds. She’s a dreamer and doer, artist and entrepreneur, intellectual and creative, heartfelt activist and savvy businesswoman. Just as at ease in the city she now calls home as she is in the wilds of her native British Columbia, Kate welcomes [...]
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There’s an old Spanish saying that I found tucked inside a pack of matches: “Tell me who you run with and I’ll tell you who you are.” They say that life is all about relationships; don’t find jobs, find people. Brooklyn resident David Gensler has made his entire livelihood off of relationships — both in [...]
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Natalie Suarez is the impossibly chic lady behind the highly addictive “Natalie Off Duty,” her blog that four years ago began quite literally in her parents’ backyard. Before starting her own, Natalie was the main model for her sister Dylana’s blog, “Color Me Nana.” “She was like: ‘you’re the model, go pose for me!’” The sisters [...]
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In 2010, The Guardian’s Paul Lester wrote, “Pop was once a home for misfits and weirdos, troublemakers and problem children, anxious, paranoid individuals who skulked on the periphery and instead of clambering desperately towards the mainstream would really rather be “on the run to”, in the immortal words of Howard Devoto, “the outside of everything”. [...]
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