NEWS — Vancouvers iconic Rio Theatre has announced its reopening this weekend as a sports bar. A post on Twitter shows a photo of the theatres sign saying, Screw the arts, were a sports bar now. Reopening Saturday, Jan. 23. The post adds the venue will be open from 3…
image copyrightGemma Correll Comics are not just about superheroes. Emily Oomen meets the artists shaping graphic medicine – a genre focused on the experience of living with illness. Ellen Forney was in her twenties and working as a professional cartoonist when she stumbled into the world of graphic medicine. The…
Photo: Aviron Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV, with Hulu, Netflix and others adapting Wattpad writers’ labors into titles like The Kissing Booth and Light as a Feather. But it looks like…
For anyone hoping a decentralized web is in our immediate future anyone who has, say, recently observed the measurable ways in which big tech oligarchs play an active role in shaping our democracy, perhaps theres good news: On Tuesday, privacy-focused browser Brave released an update that makes it the first to…
China was the first country in the world to be struck by coronavirus and its economy is the first to recover. It expanded by 6.5 per cent in the final quarter of 2020, making it one of the few countries to be able to chalk up growth for the year.…
NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE – JANUARY 19: One day before being inaugurated as the 46th president of the … [+] United States, President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center January 19, 2021 in New Castle, Delaware. The reserve center is named for…
Peloton was popular before the pandemic with a wealthy subset of home exercisers, but with the quarantine, it has become something of a phenomenon in a certain socioeconomic bracket. There are Peloton message boards (Joe Biden has a Peloton, Peloton Forum reported this week), and the companys celebrity instructors have…
The vibe is very different from Trump’s inauguration in 2017, when the real-state mogul promised to have “the biggest celebrities in the world” at his swearing-in, only to deliver a relatively modest roster of country singers, cover bands and mostly unknown acts. In addition to the lower wattage at Trump’s…
President-elect Joe Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Rachel Levine for U.S. assistant secretary of health Tuesday morning. Levin would be the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate which has just begun confirmation hearings for Biden’s cabinet choices according to the Biden-Harris transition team.…