In conversation with Beth Ditto: ’I just don’t care about standards’The former frontwoman of the band Gossip discusses the body-positive community, the failures of some kinds of feminism, and pop as punk
Under the covers: How Tragically Hip cover bands are paying tributeOne year ago, the announcement that Gord Downie had incurable brain cancer rocked the world—and the rock bands that cover the Hip
Meet Poo Bear, Justin Bieber’s—and pop’s—not-so-secret weaponAs an elite topline writer, Jason ’Poo Bear’ Boyd has produced a pile of pop hits. So why does he still feel like he has plenty to prove?
Geoffrey Farmer’s tour de force at the Venice BiennaleThe most inventive and exciting Canadian project at the art show in years
An iconic Canadian painting gets a facelift and reveals its secretsThe first restoration of ’A Meeting of the School Trustees’ in a century has revealed a much brighter painting with a new, more hopeful meaning
Is Bill Nye a science guy—or is he wearing a science guise?Maybe he won’t save the world. But with a new doc and Netflix show, the Science Guy is, at the very least, saving his career
Review: Four decades of Canadian photographyBlack-and-white street snaps and full-colour studio confections capture photographic fidelity in a National Gallery of Canada retrospective
The real challenges of reviving a Louis Riel operaThe Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?
Where are Canada’s starring artists?Canadian art has its lovers and its haters, but it needs a new funding model—and more Canadian eyes on it
Feist returns, finding ’Pleasure’ in uncertaintyAfter years of darkness, the enigmatic Leslie Feist re-emerges, facing up to herself to produce an intimate, intentional album