Mount up: Your guide to another semester on Burnaby Mountain

If you’re a chump like me (that was a typo . . . I meant “champ,” of course) and took summer classes, then stop...

No animals were harmed: One meat-lover’s week as a vegan

I love meat. Yeah, that’s what I said. Pulled pork, steak, chicken, seafood, you name it; except for a short flirtation with vegetarianism in...

The fuck-it list: The things you didn’t accomplish over the summer and why they would have sucked anyways

  Well, shit. Summer’s almost over, isn’t it? I mean, sure, you have August, but once you account for all the time you plan to...

The Prayers: The appeal of the spirit and why it’s made

I was raised in a household that practiced Serbian Orthodox Christianity. I learned the Lord’s Prayer in the language, went to church for Easter...

Sexy Librarian: What bestsellers like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey say about women and sexuality

Let me get one thing straight: I have never read nor seen Twilight. At the height of its popularity, I picked up the first...

Pills, Pills, Pills: The Growing Concern Around “Study Drugs”

“I hate that people take ADHD medications to study,” says Katie Ellston*, halfway through our first round of raspberry blondes on a late summer’s...

Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make me a Match

Sheer white dresses, flip flops, tan lines, and more skin and sweat than in even the steamiest of Harlequin novels; the summer fling is...

Mixin’ It Up

14 bartenders, 40 minutes, and $30. The goal: find the most creative ingredients in Chinatown. For some, working in the service industry is a...

Solders of the new frontier: the global hacker culture

Photos by Mark Burnham Along the alley just off of Hastings and Abbott, I find the doorbell hidden in one of the murals on the...

Gentrification: The Changing Demographic of the Downtown Eastside

“Hey, do you like Earl’s?” asks a man with a ragged and unkempt appearance, offering me a $25 gift card to Earl’s that he...