Things I’ve written – here, there and everywhere
FEATURED WRITING
Hitler? There’s an app for that.
Tablet Magazine – Developers are creating Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini iPhone apps that offer little more than propaganda. And Apple’s gatekeepers approve them.
Compelled to “Do Jewish”
Ethnic Aisle – On circumcisions and mixed-faith relationships.
A Soviet Soup Tastes Like Freedom in the New Country
The Forward/Jew & Carrot – A traditional Soviet Georgian soup is “reclaimed” as a Jewish Shabbat meal.
A Desperate Campaign to Remember Soviet Jewish War Heroes Races Against Time
The Forward – A Soviet Jewish war veteran and his “museum” in a cramped Toronto apartment
Runway Robot Debuts Old Stereotypes
Bitch Magazine – The Japanese runway supermodel robot meets Battlestar Galactica
Oh, Canada! [PDF]
Saveur Magazine – Culinary historian Elizabeth Driver’s new Canadian cookbook bibliography
Graphic Truths
Walrus Magazine – Explores the trend towards non-fiction graphic novels (journalism, memoir, historical fiction…)
Post-Dictatorship: Ten Tyrants Who Have Reached Retirement [Download PDF]
Walrus Magazine – The cozy “retirements” of some of the last century’s most notorious dictators
FOOD | BOOKS
Raising Animals That Are Deer To His Heart [PDF]
Edible Toronto – Profile of Ontario elk farmer John Rietkerk
Apples to Oysters: From Bonavista to Vancouver [PDF]
Edible Toronto – Book review and interview with author Margaret Webb
Anita Stewart’s Canada: Celebrating Our Gastronomic Mosaic [PDF]
Edible Toronto – Book review and interview with author Anita Stewart
Delving Between the Covers of Canada’s Culinary Culture [PDF]
Edible Toronto – Book review and interview with culinary historian Elizabeth Driver
BOOKS | INTERVIEWS
LIGHTER FARE
Unwrapping the Path [View as PDF]
Precedent Magazine – Guide to downtown Toronto’s underground Path system
How-To: Hibernate | Look Smart | Get Outside | Relax
Precedent Magazine – Hot products column, each on a different theme
Jagged Little Crystal
DesignLines – Piece on ROM Crystal
Flower Power
DesignLines – Piece on “flower shop row” along Avenue Road
AROUND TORONTO
Dressing Up and Laying Low [PDF]
DesignLines – Profile of Toronto designer Jeremy Laing
An Evangelist of the Rhyme [PDF]
Eye Weekly – “Poeming” random strangers during Random Acts of Poetry week
The Knights of the Around Here Table [Opens PDF]
Eye Weekly – Going medieval with the Society for Creative Anachronism
Laying a Turd [PDF]
Eye Weekly – Street art by subterfuge – the Power Plant Gallery gets ambushed
MISCELLANY
Tick-Tock: Ovarian Reserve Testing
Fashion Magazine – Report on the state of ovarian testing
Culture Trends: Dance
Fashion Magazine – Dance trends overview and interviews with Karen Kain and Bengt Jorgen
Wonder Women: Leanne Franson
Shameless Magazine – Profile of Montreal comic artist Leanne Franson
In Motion, At Rest
Other Voices – short fiction contest winner
