Word: downtowners
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Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British...
Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia...
...Washington resident who drops her two tots off at daycare a block from the White House every morning, I must admit to being perhaps unhealthily obsessed with homeland security. I take comfort in the police cars on the corners of downtown streets. I like seeing frail old ladies frisked at the airport. I want my luggage x-rayed, hand-searched, and torn apart by dogs if that?s what it takes to keep my plane from being blown out of the sky by some misguided holy warrior looking to spend eternity with a gaggle of doe-eyed virgins...
...spite of our bad reputation and my own hesitation, having a close circle of female friends was the best part of my fall. We have a book group and several breakfast clubs. We dine out and venture downtown. We’re big on dating and Degas, know the Starbucks staff by name, and are happy doing most anything together, simply NO BOYS ALLOWED. These same three words, in careful pink cursive, decorated the front of my backyard barn, circa summer 1996. While there may no longer be such signage today, testosterone is once again being checked at the door...
...missed virtually all of last season after earning league Rookie of the Year honors in 2004, likes to slash to the hoop for buckets, while Lang is more of an outside shooter. In Dartmouth’s win over Army on Wednesday, Lang nailed 5-of-7 from downtown and scored 17 points, and he scored 24 against Harvard in a 76-74 loss in Cambridge last year. “I think Lang is one of the top three or four shooters in the league,” Stehle said. “[Dartmouth’s] record...