“Gold and shadow is the music of Dane Letourneau and friends…it is also an arbutus in the blazing glory of the afternoon, the contrast of pavement and path…. Sun melting into everything you see, or warm earth between your fingers,” writes Dane Letourneau of Gold and Shadow on the band’s website. The Nanaimo based band […]
Author Archives: Lia Light
Book Review: Red Zone
“The Language of Unerasure”: Red Zone by Kim Goldberg An empty mattress. A field of flowers all around. The image is startling, surreal, unexpected, and a little beautiful. But on closer look, the field is shown to be just a vacant lot. The graffiti-scrawled back wall of some anonymous urban structure comes into focus […]
Getting Vocal About Local
In 2005 two Vancouverites, Alisa Smith, and J.B. MacKinnon, decided to eat nothing but local food for one year. The experiment was initially documented in a series, and published online at www.thetyee.ca where it became an instant hit. Smith and MacKinnon’s lovingly written chronicles of finding sustenance close to home was colourful and entertaining, and […]
From Good to Great
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Niels Gram sees the truth of this old saying played out weekly at Community Futures Nanaimo, where he works as a small business developer. Since June of 2006, Gram has […]
Book Review: Ride Backwards on Dragon
Ride Backwards on Dragon is a gift of words from a time of silence. Ride Backwards on Dragon is what happened when professional non-fiction author, Kim Goldberg, fell from voice and view, and into liuhebafa: an ancient martial art similar to tai chi, which focuses on transforming the energies of the body. In the end, […]