Friday Dance Break: A Private Dancer

Friday Dance Break: A Private Dancer

Why don’t more people dance alone, on the subway, in the street? I keep waiting for someone to catch me at this because I am shameless…I don’t care where I…

Friday Dance Break: Seapunk

Friday Dance Break: Seapunk

…the progenitors of the seapunk aesthetic style — all yin-yangs, aquatic imagery, and 3-D renderings cribbed from ’90s fashion and early web memes — appear for all the world to…

Friday Dance Break: This Must Be The Place

Friday Dance Break: This Must Be The Place

How can you improve on this original? Apparently if you add Sean Penn and Frances McDormand and build a movie around the perfect notes that Byrne and others achieved in…

Friday Dance Break: Daddy Cool

Friday Dance Break: Daddy Cool

“He was a fantastic person, quite bizarre,” said Seine. “He had a big heart but he was also explosive.” Born Alfonso Farrell, he was brought up amid Aruba’s rich musical…

On the Matter of Pen and Processing

On the Matter of Pen and Processing

Recently I gave a talk to Catherine Bush’s Plenary Class at Humber in Toronto. One of the things I talked about was the way in which my own writing has…

Friday Dance Break

Friday Dance Break

Because we need to see these moments. Because strong women are not an illusion. Because a volta is sexy. Because Cate Blanchett is sexy. Because it’s raining. Because the outfits.…

From the Archive: Refus Global Manifesto

From the Archive: Refus Global Manifesto

We are the offspring of modest French-Canadian families, working class or lower middle class, who, ever since their arrival from the Old Country, have always remained French and Catholic through…

Virginia Woolf: Why?

Virginia Woolf: Why?

When the first number of LYSISTRATA appeared, I confess that I was deeply disappointed. It was so well printed, on such good paper. It looked established, prosperous. As I turned…