The theatre performance du jour in Toronto is Soulpepper’s adaptation of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker. Having just finished their opening night performance, the three actors return to the stage to take their bows. A sparse standing ovation springs up for the 2005 Nobel Prize winner’s 1959 classic. The audience members process what they’ve seen. “That… Continue reading Leading Men
Going Undercover
Since I became a journalist 10 years ago, I’ve had three dozen needles poked into my arm over two days, lived homeless for a year, stolen cars, hopped freight trains, panhandled and had the crap beaten out of me more than once. Through dumb luck and willfulness, I’ve wrung stories out of murderers, drug dealers,… Continue reading Going Undercover
On the Record
By Ann Ruppenstein. Camera by Jennifer Fong
Where Angels Fear to Tread
When Will Braun attends Hope Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, he sits right at the back, where he feels most comfortable. Braun, a left-leaning activist, organic farmer, and editor of geez magazine — a quarterly launched in December 2005 — was raised in the southern Manitoba Bible Belt and felt frustrated with the insularity of the Church. “But… Continue reading Where Angels Fear to Tread
Circ Stud
Scott Bullock puts his hand to his ear and mimics a telephone conversation: “Oh, I’ve got a great idea for a magazine!” “Great, when are you planning on going to print?” “Next week!” Bullock mimes hanging up the phone. “Click,” he says, deadpan. The impromptu dramatization was sparked by our discussion about the value of… Continue reading Circ Stud
