Although the 2012 U.S. presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has been the longest, most expensive, and bitterest such contest on record, there is one thing all...
Back to BloodBy Tom Wolfe. Little, Brown and Company, 704 pp, hardcover
We may like to think that we’re so clever and classless and free, but Tom Wolfe knows the real score....
Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide (Second Edition)By Glenn Kay, Chicago Review Press, 438 pp, softcover
There’s no doubt it’s finally fall. With the days getting shorter and the...
Life, argued Oscar Wilde, imitates art.
While the idea—like most opinions—is debatable, there are times when it’s an absolute truism. Take, for example, the case of Arthur Conan...
The Presidents ClubBy Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. Simon & Schuster, 641 pp, hardcover
As authors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy make clear in The Presidents Club: Inside...
Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), the disaffected cable news anchor in Aaron Sorkin’s highly-anticipated new series, The Newsroom, (premiering at 9:00pm, Sunday, June 24th, on HBO) owes...
Considering that Ethel—a new documentary about Ethel Skakel Kennedy—is a family affair, you know there’s not much chance of straying far from the official Camelot canon.
Still,...
Set your phasers for fun as Star Trek beams down to Vancouver for this year’s Pacific National Exhibition.
Located in the Rollerland building, the Star Trek show will offer 20,...
As the hub of Vancouver’s Italian-Canadian community, Commercial Drive is a great place to walk, shop, people-watch, or just enjoy a nice cup of coffee on a patio.
It’s also a...
John Irving can command a room.
He’s not as tall as you’d expect, yet he’s somehow larger than life. And when he strolls up with his movie-star good looks and fit wrestler’s...