4TheRcrd Mag.

After a long hiatus Teen Angst nights are back!
In case you’ve never heard about this night Teen Angst: A Celebration of Inadvertently Hilarious Adolescent Writing, as it’s now called, is an event for those of you that ever wrote journals, poetry, letters, short stories, songs (anything, really) and kept it. Think about this- why did […]

He’s really not as scary as he looks. Just don’t piss him off.

I read the BC Strategy on Tobacco recently. Apparently, BC has the lowest smoking rate in Canada (with an average smoking rate of 16% of the population versus 21% for the country). However, BC ranks second lowest when it comes to North America, after Utah. Why Utah? Large Mormon population is your answer.There are […]

16th Annual Vancouver International Storytelling Festival
February 1-3, 2008
The Vancouver International Storytelling Festival celebrates its 16th year with “a feast of tales and tales of feasts”…a three-day-long cornucopia of performances by professional storytellers, on the theme of food for mind, body and soul. Local favourites like Pepe Danza, Melanie Ray and Lucia Frangione join […]

[AUTHOR]
Jarek SS. Krysinski. “Capital Exploits and Prerogatives: Women’s Labour and Bodies in the World Tea Affair.” Simon Fraser University.
[TEASER FOR ARTICLE]
The controversy in this paper is that the number #1 consumed beverage in the world — namely Tea — is wrought with the most conflicting human rights issues. The central thesis in this paper implies […]

THE HUMAN BOMB – PURPOSEFUL VIOLENCE BY WOMEN
AND WOMEN’S AGENCY IN TERRORISM
Female high school students agitated in their classrooms and a few young women committed terrorist acts. Others aided male terrorists by hiding weapons, passing messages, and offering refuge to men under suspicion.
– Findly & Haddad, 1985: 357
[D]etermining what state support for terrorism is […]

Here are rants for Friday, January 04. Do people really need to hear about exercise being good for them, is it not self-explanatory?
If you haven’t heard of jPOD check it out, we’re talking Douglas Coupland way higher than Microserfs ever was, and far more current than you’d expect him to be — this is […]

Looking for a book that is out of print? Or that much talked-about title abuzzed in the media? BUT not willing to submit yourself to the outrageous CAD prices despite the parity between the US and us? Some global chain book stores are trying to use some arcane excuse, but I would rather just support […]

In celebration of International Jewish Book month the JCCGV is hosting their annual Jewish Book Festival. It begins this Saturday, November 24 and I have 10 tickets for Opening Night to give away!
The first 5 groups to reply and tell me how many years the festival has been running, in addition what event appears the […]

…I am working on many articles at this moment and, when I feel like publishing them, you’ll be the first to know.  So stay tuned.