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Fifty Years in Review
A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery. Read more
Pacific Meats & Frozen Foods, Inc.
"I fed an eight-year-old a hot dog that I’d dropped in the sink and then shortchanged him because we were out of five-dollar bills." Read more
My Father's Picasso
"You know what I think it's worth?" Goldie said. "Fifteen bucks for the frame." Read more
Don't Look Down
"Now you are looking up from the bottom of the lake. You are walking past the townhouses in April under the budding trees, and drowning." Read more
VIFF 2015: Rainbow Island
An optimistic film about tradition and change on a small Iranian island Read more
Rinkside Intellectual
Stephen Smith investigates the hockey lives of Barthes, Faulkner, Hemingway, which were marked by dismissal, befuddlement and scorn. Read more
The Wise Baby
Did the baby understand? Not just ‘go potty’ or ‘bad boy’ but circular concepts of loss and betrayal and identity and love? Read more
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