The Conversationalist

This week I chatted backstage with one of my greatest heroes, Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah Harmer.

Hey You! What’s that new fragrance you’re wearing? Girl, you smell good! It’s been a busy week for me, back from Toronto and right into my lively life, with an interview with Canadian songstress Sarah Harmer, the opening of the Image+Nation film festival and successfully completing a 30K training run in preparation for the Philadelphia [...]

Marc Johns is a Victoria-base illustrator whose playful drawings hover between fluffy irony and resounding great truth. He manages to say a lot with only a few strokes of his brush. And that is a respectable feat. This is how Marc self-describes: “Hi, I’m Marc. I’ve been putting my drawings on the interweb since around [...]

David Usher is that dreamy Canadian rocker that everyone knows about, and loves. He’s the kind of guy that might sit beside you at the bar, and you’d be able to chat about anything. In fact, three minutes into the conversation, you’d just assume that you were talking with a long time friend. I sat [...]

Art is a product and a process that expresses emotion or sentiment through various mediums such as song, painting, literature, photography, video or beyond. Some brave individuals choose their own body as their medium. Nina Arsenault is one of these individuals. She chats with The Conversationalist about the redesign of her body, the contradictions of [...]

This Sunday’s Sermon: In 1995 the world stood in wide-eyed wonder as a 21-year old girl sung about “going down on you in a theatre.” Despite argument over  improper application of the term, Ms. Morissette’s “Ironic” music video is a slice of 90′s iconography. The queen of pain and self-help songwriting has been unapologetic in her [...]

[preface] Canadian writer and journalist Lawrence Scanlan took a one-year ‘radical’ sabbatical to investigate the concept of charity and volunteerism. He gave one month to twelve different community organizations. This is the tale of his adventure.

Here’s the final installation of the 2010 “Queer of the Year” contest! If only I could express my love for these boys! I want to lock them up in my closest and let them out to party with me on Saturday nights… but I won’t.

The people of spoken! The Queer of the Year has been chosen. But all of these guys are wonderful.

Our boys are participating in a big gay triathlon! And there’s drama on set! As always, you can check out the extra action at www.queeroftheyearcontest.com…

Hey hey! Our queers have been doing a lot of fabulousness! Check out who makes the fiercest drag queen?

The guys has a super, amazing, fun time getting stylized and photographed by some Montreal professionals yesterday. Check out their hot shoot! Then go vote for your favorite: www.queeroftheyearcontest.com