It took 10 years, over 50 thousand human skeletons, and a family of four to construct. It’s Prince Scwarzenburg’s ossuary at the All Saint’s Church in Sedlec near Kunta Hora, Czech Republic. The ossuary was finished in 1870, but most of the bones date back to Kiunta Hora’s black plague of 1378.

Last Tuesday at the Media Club, I was fortunate enough to catch an act by the name of Language Arts. How rad of a name is Language Arts? Very fitting, as Kristen, the band’s Spanish guitar playing front-woman, is a really talented lyricist and emcee. Backed up by stand up bass, keys and some hella [...]

Damn, life is crazy. One day you are young and free, the next you wake up and suddenly all this responsibility comes crashing down. Like a poor bird that mistook your freshly cleaned window for open air, it makes a loud crashing sound that reverberates off the walls of your brain, worse than the [...]

Jamie is a working artist. You know, the real deal - he actually makes his living entirely off of selling his paintings. If you’re in the Vancouver area, check him out. He can be found on the steps in front of the art gallery or roaming around various other parts of the city. Don’t be [...]

To promote the up-and-coming Simpsons movie, a few lucky 7-Eleven convenience stores across North America have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts. Literally every detail has been thought of to bring the Kwik-E-Marts to life: Buzz Cola, Squishee machines and even Krusty-Os, among other things. This is one of the coolest and most clever marketing campaigns [...]

Last night, I watched A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, a sobering 2006 documentary. Created by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack and produced by Mongrel Media, the film addresses the grim realities facing civilization as a result of the insatiable demand that the western world has created for oil.
The world’s top experts all agree that [...]