Can a painting ever contain an entire person? The works of Gerardo Peña, also known as Periko The Artist, leave room for their subjects to move and change, resisting the idea that any of us can be reduced to...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland "several weeks ago," according to...
The past two weeks have been nothing short of fucking delightful. We’ve sneakily delivered cakes loaded with candy, googly eyes, neon sprinkles, and all manner of sugary bits and bobs by Arts Editor, and secret confectionary genius, Emily Nokes,...
Every workplace has its own acceptable volume of certainty. In one team, saying “I think this is right” sounds appropriately careful. In another, the same sentence is heard as weakness, while the person who speaks without qualification becomes the...
That dumb Mayor Katie Wilson recall petition has a court date. In last week’s Slog AM, I mentioned that a Bruce Harrell supporter and her husband filed papers to recall Mayor Wilson. The charges will be heard in King...
Some people come back from two days in the hills looking like a different animal. Not tanned, not simply well-slept. Reset, as though a technician went in overnight and defragmented the hard drive.
The people around them usually find this...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consider this your official alert that you’re close to getting too much of a good thing. To safeguard the lovely momentum you’ve built lately, be vigilant that genuine abundance doesn’t bloat into plain old overload....
There is a person everyone has met at least once. The one who notices the new hire eating lunch alone and quietly sits down. The one who remembers the date of your mother’s surgery and sends a message that...
There is a particular kind of shame that can settle over later life.
You have reached an age that was supposed to bring perspective. The frantic decades are behind you. Yet when someone asks what gives your days direction, no...
Projects translating genetic insights for specific medical uses are pushing to put personalized care into practice.
The projects are all funded by Genome British Columbia, which facilitates the integration of genomics into society.
Two projects aim to improve access to personalized...
