Up until not very long ago, I was always stuck having the same tired conversation with gym clerks and cellphone-company sales reps. That Armenian kid Arda, who folds towels at my ghetto, fogged-up 24-hour gym, or those tall guys in dark striped shirts and lots of hair gel, who peddle phones and daytime minutes in [...]
I don’t recall when or why I started thinking that astrology wasn’t just one of many weird things my father believed in but actually pretty cool. My entire childhood, I was told that the reason I was so restless, impatient and fidgety was that the upper (archer) part of my sign, Sagittarius, was shooting arrows [...]
Dawoud Bey is hands-down my favorite portraitist. Since I stumbled upon selections of his works online, a few years back, I’ve been praying the photo gods that exhibitions of his large-scale color portraits of teenagers and other marginalized folk would make it to Montreal. No luck so far, but I can only imagine how much [...]
See, it is small wonders like these that feed my love for the Stans. The New York Times reports Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has announced he is going to shut down an American air base in his country. I had a little dance when I heard that on the radio. Go Stans, go! Which brings [...]
