The real story is truer than fiction, Marj once thought. But where is the truth in an imaginary love story that grows from a correspondence between two old women, separated by the distance between New South Wales and Quebec?

Hockey players’ nicknames from The Canadian Hockey Atlas

Okay, so if the seventies were pierced ears, than what were the eighties and what were the nineties?

Last summer, Vancouver Public Library workers composed Strike Haiku during their 88-day job action.

Jim Slater would be judging the competition for Bindertwine Queen that afternoon and wanted to drive over to the festival in his new tractor and park in front of the crowd, but his wife said that it was the Contestants’ day and not his day, and so he

Poem from a 1990 tract from North Carolina that portrayed Santa Claus as the devil.

Daniel Francis recently spoke to Joseph Planta from THECOMMENTARY.ca about his book, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Subway, 2007). Listen here.

Every day she sits down at a table by the window and cuts long pieces of hair and sews them together onto mesh caps and backing strips.

When we carved and ate Andre he was blue: all but his teeth, that shonelike whitecap Andes in the sun.

List of objects destroyed by the Vancouver Police Department and the City of Vancouver at the Woodward’s Squat

My father never wanted anything. Everything was a fight, Mom said. He didn’t want the telephone and he still doesn’t know how to talk on it.

A series of narratives and rants written collaboratively in the exquisite corpse form (write a sentence and pass the paper to the next person).

This postcard was produced as part of The Lesbian National Park Rangers, a performance by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, which took place in July 1997. Dempsey and Millan dressed as rangers and patrolled the streets, trails and canoe routes in and

"Leonard thinks that his father has a lot to worry about. God is probably going to have Leonard stabbed at a urinal tonight, which will probably lead to his whole family suffering from depression." From the winner of 29th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest.

Geist is proud to present a clip from the World Premiere of a new film by Ivan E. Coyote and Veda Hille. Commissioned for Out On Screen’s new Queer History Project, this is the first in a series of creative partnerships that draw out Vancouver’s forg

1 The disease effects a silent spinal coup and slowly shuts down the nervous system. 2 Frequent migraines and numbness in the fingertips of the third and second fingers of my right hand and the second finger of my left hand.

There was a gap in History where there should have been a great man. The important events had moved into place, their gears locked, everything was ready but he didn’t show up.

The ten most looked-up words in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary 2003-2006.

1. Remove harbour pins/securing hooks. 2. Release grips clear off the boat. 3. Check boat is clear to be lowered.

Things found in the Toronto Transit Commission’s Lost and Found.