Vancouver tightens screws on homeless paper

The Olympics are really exposing some of the darker impulses in Vancouver.  Now there's an effort to keep a local paper off the streets.  Megaphone, has been distributed in Vancouver for 16 years."City...

Calgarians turn parking into park for a day

A group of Calgarians managed to grab some prime street parking spots. But, instead of parking cars, they created a temporary park — complete with grass, trees, and benches.Calling the city’s newest park...

My Blog’s Odyssey in Outer Space

" I never wanted to open an art site on the web. As a visual artist, the conventional way to show my work is to open an exhibition in a gallery (Kibbuts Gallery), to invite friends family critics and...

New Vancouver Toilets Made by CBS

 So, a raft of new public toilets for the City of Vancouver. Great idea! But additionally, something jumped out at me from the press release. "The toilets are supplied by CBS/JC Decaux (formerly...

Guerilla Tree Planting

I just read about the Vancouver Public Space Network and am very excited about their new initiative to repopulate parts of Vancouver with Western Red Cedar trees, using guerrilla gardening tactics. Love...

Myfanwy Ashmore Interview

Check out the Little Mathletics interview with Myfanwy Ashmore where, amongst other things, she talks about her response to Clear Channel pulling her Mario Trilogy videos from the March exhibition of Transmedia :29:59

$18 MILLION IN FEDERAL HIGH LINE FUNDING.

$18 MILLION IN FEDERAL HIGH LINE FUNDINGOn Thursday, August 4, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer and Congressman Jerrold Nadler announced that they have secured $18 million in capital funding...

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