Our fearless editor-in-chief, Jules Octavian, reflects on a life well-lived, the spaces in-between, and planting trees without expecting shade.
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The Brownlow School
Literary editor Gregaro McKool wonders what his home town of Brownlow Ontario is for.
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Jules Octavian Loves You
Audio Version Here Jules Octavian is hopelessly in love with you, Eastern Ontario. And when I say Jules Octavian is in love with you, what I really mean is that you should be very flattered. Jules is no ordinary gentleman. He is a gentleman and that is unique enough. He’s…
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River’s Place
Audio Version Here River’s ‘studio’ is straight-up the kind of place my parents warned me about. They’d tell me that they didn’t immigrate to Canada so I could hang out at grow ops on the rez without cell service. Yet last week I parked my car beside a cornfield, said…
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Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #2: Real Men
Audio Version Here Greater Napanee is greater for many reasons and if Avril is #1 then our men are #2. That’s right, I said it: Greater Napanee has real men. Our independent country spirit raises them right. Our men know how to play hockey, fix the car, and catch you…
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Gentrification
Audio Version Here. The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week….
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The Art Show
Since art editor Walter Liu couldn’t find the local art scene the local art scene found him. And they’re not so sure they like what they found.
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That Naked Dream — or — Men Writing Women
Audio Version Here Writing something down makes it real. Until you do it’s just a collection of thoughts in your mind, likely incoherent. It’s in the act of writing that you’re forced to work out the incongruities your mind glosses over and from there the story truly takes shape. It’s…
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Everyone’s Got Cholera
Audio Version Here Cornelius Krieghoff was the first artist to capture the Canadian landscape in oil paint. That’s what my Canadian Art History teacher told me in art school, anyway. She also told us that the landscape somehow informs all Canadian cultural output. My family is from Hong Kong. I…