I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories – gritty, dystopian tales on how we perceive gender, sexuality, identity and belonging within everyday life

posted Tuesday, May 28, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories is a collection of tales that are both gritty and unflinching, exuding tenderness and humour, blurring the fine line between fantasy and reality. These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves, questioning assumptions about […]

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An Evening with Birdy O’Day – a story of first love, two lives lived apart, and reconnecting years later

posted Wednesday, May 22, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

An Evening with Birdy O’Day is a funny, boisterous, and deeply moving novel about an aging hairstylist’s first love, whose fevered quest for pop music glory drove them apart, until a chance meeting years later. Roland Keener has lived and worked in Winnipeg all his life. He’s more or less content with the quiet and […]

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Alaska Airlines adds new nonstop flight between Toronto and Seattle

posted Wednesday, May 15, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Travel

Alaska Airlines has announced new service with daily non-stop flights between their hub airport in Seattle and Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Toronto is now the sixth Canadian city the carrier flies to, and furthest east, in addition to western destinations of Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver and Victoria.  In December, they also announced their 30th global airline […]

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – Kathleen Hanna’s memoir recounts the 90s Riot Grrrl movement, and other musings

posted Tuesday, May 14, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk is an electric, searing memoir from Kathleen Hanna, the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hanna takes us from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting […]

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Pity – multi-generational Northern England family saga depicts both a celebration of resilience, and a possibility for change

posted Monday, May 13, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Pity is the debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan, that explores community, masculinity and post-industrialization in Northern England. The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shoveling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. It […]

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BIKE Athletic celebrates the 150th anniversary of the jockstrap with special product releases

posted Wednesday, May 1, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Fashion

BIKE, founded in 1874, revolutionized men’s underwear by being the first to add structure and protection without limiting comfort or mobility. Since that day, over 350 million jockstraps have been sold worldwide. BIKE’s longevity puts it firmly in the pantheons of enduring fashion brands, such as  Brooks Brothers (1818), Levi’s (1853), LEE (1889), and LL […]

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A Good Happy Girl – female deals with past family trauma by hooking up with lesbian couples

posted Saturday, April 27, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

A Good Happy Girl is a poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple. Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking […]

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Rewriting Your Style Story — Blow out old beliefs

posted Friday, April 26, 2024

by: Anthony Tomizza in Back In The Closet

How do you talk to yourself in front of the mirror? Do a series of self-sabotaging comments about yourself bombard you? “I’m too big”, “this makes me look old”, “I can’t believe this doesn’t fit right anymore”.  When I work with my clients, not only do we revamp their clothes and put a good looking […]

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Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration

posted Tuesday, April 16, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Explore the ever-evolving culture of the queer community with this beautifully illustrated, 64-page seek-and-find book. Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration is a fun-filled tribute to LGBTQ+ history and culture from icons to allies, milestones to marches. The seek-and-find illustrations are packed with the faces and places that have graced a story of progress and strength. The detailed […]

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Springfield, Illinois – state capitol, birthplace of Lincoln, and full of Pride

posted Monday, April 15, 2024

by: Bill Malcolm in On The Road with Bill Malcolm

The central Illinois town of Springfield is not only the state capitol, but also the home of Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s greatest presidents. Lincoln’s legacy is everywhere including the National Park Service run village just south of downtown. The downtown area is very walkable and full of signs describing details about the history and […]

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