In search of a relatively flat cycling route that would show us an interesting cross-section of Halifax, we found our way to ...

Calvin Trillin, in the introduction to 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, by Alice Waters: Although I tend to prefer eating in the upstairs café at Chez Panisse rather than in the ...

I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations ...

Writing yesterday about being in Lincoln Centre with Salman Rushdie prompted me to recall the other time, the very same week, we ended up in the same room. Catherine was 4 months pregnant when, in the ...

Back in the day, text adventures were games with a natural language interface. Zork (1977) was the first well-known one. This surfaced a long-forgetten memory from when I was a teenager, likely about ...

This ad, in this month’s Rural Delivery, is perfect: it explains the service, it explains why it’s important.

It’s an awfully long time since Upstreet closed, and stopped making their Libra non-alcoholic beer. I spotted this cache in a ...

Jack LeClair died on Saturday. Jack was a neighbour, around the corner on King Street, for all the years I’ve lived in downtown Charlottetown, a fellow “downtown liver,” as our mutual late friend and ...

As we turned onto the Hollow Mountain Road this afternoon on our way to the Delaps Cove Trail, we saw a car ahead with its 4-way flashers on. We rolled up to see if they needed help, and discovered a ...

Tonight it was The Mandalorian and Grogu at King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia with young L. Unrelenting creature-vs.-spaceman action, with adorable space-Beanie Baby sidekicks. The 100+ ...

These problems would seem to be very much of today, a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets. But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography, when the average camera ...