If you’re a film buff, you have no doubt heard the scores of composer Howard Shore: Silence of The Lambs, Spotlight, Crash, Hugo, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Aviator, Philadelphia, Mrs. Doubtfire… What you may not know is that this award-laden composer is Canadian. Born 1946 in Toronto, the

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.” True to form, in his Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the artist describes a ‘typical’ walk through New York. ‘When I’m walking around New York I’m always aware of the smells around me: the rubber mats

The Heat Dome is not it. Want proof? A good friend and his daughter just baked cookies in their car. 🔥 Rolling into a cold pool sounds idyllic if: a) one can find a pool that isn’t stuffed with people, and b) one has the energy to drag oneself out

Beautifully broken. This is just one of the descriptors applied to the poetic art of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of golden joinery. Kintsugi, Vancouver artist Naoko Fukumaru writes, ‘is a five-hundred-year-old method of restoring damaged ceramics, seen as enhancing their beauty and value by celebrating their imperfection and impermanence.  Kintsugi