Hamilton on Broadway

Overrated, overpriced, overcooked. A show shouldn’t be running night after night for years in a row. This is akin to American television shows that run thirty or forty seasons as they get progressively worse. After the original Lin-Manuel Miranda left the show, it should have been a cue to move Read more

AEC Routemaster

Manufactured in the 1950’s and 60’s during the UK’s height of industrial achievement and just before the fall of Empire (of which I was a part of), the iconic red double-deckers served the streets of London until about 2005 when they were retired from service. I was excited to be Read more

2024 Total solar eclipse

The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 strafed North America with moments of darkness over major metropolitan areas. I traveled with a few friends to the Royal Military College in Kingston to watch the event on base. Everyone was excited for the event. People set up telescopes, left cameras Read more

2022 IPRA Canada Finals

The International Professional Rodeo Association based in Alberta held its 2022 Canada finals in St. Tite, a small town of 3,000 in Quebec. I’ve been to the annual Festival Western de Saint Tite in 2021 when it first reopened after the pandemic. The biggest difference between the western festival and Read more

Ottawa Ribfest

Don’t shower before you come here because you’re going to leave smelling like burnt charcoal. The haze of smoke can mean only three things: pork and beef ribs, corn, and a whole lot of chicken. Ottawa‘s 2022 Ribfest was a blast for hungry carnivores. Each stall decorates itself with tables Read more

Nearly-real fake salmon

In January 2022, I stood outside Toronto Metropolitan University’s Digital Media Zone building, where the university’s startups are incubated, in the bitter Canadian winter waiting for Chris Bryson, CEO of New School Foods, to let me into his lab. A bunch of other visitors met up with another startup and Read more