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Senior Sales Representative for an office supplies company by day, for four minutes tonight Dan transforms into a hip hop legend.
Read More“As any advertising executive knows, any publicity is good publicity.”
Read MoreI anticipated sweaty-palmed basement-dwelling mouth-breathers and greasy-haired anti-social weirdos. Set phasers to stunned.
Read MoreThe Dependent reviews the Sasquatch! 2010 music festival, with barely a mention of music.
Read MoreChris is reprimanded for the controversial theme of the last show.
Writing Credit: James Masters
Vancouver has a bicycle subculture. But can it build a culture of cycling?
Read MoreA look beneath the sheets at the hidden, and often misunderstood world of the Lower Mainland’s Swinger Community.
Read More“When you’re on a first date, a few seconds of silence can seem like hours.”
One man’s heroic quest to conquer a lifetime of social anxiety, and transform himself from Loser to Ladies’ Man.
Read MorePrevious scientists’ efforts to obtain an accurate hipster count have been confounded by physical appearance, grouping habits and migration patterns.
Read More“I’m told we’re in a war for a just and equal society. If we wish to win that war we will not win it by engaging in the tactics we most despise,” said David Eby, Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties association.
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