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Bananas - Table of Contents

The Nina Charest Image Gallery
(Art/Arts)
A gallery of all of our new cover artist's original art for (Cult)ure.
Friday, 26 June 2009
Cutting Kids or Cultural Censors: Which is crazier?
(Books/Arts)
Reading can apparently give kids dangerous ideas. Do young adult books tackling the subjects of self harm and eating disorders unwittingly encourage readers to engage in such behaviours? Cold...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
The Crazy Index
(Cinema/Arts)
These people are cuckoo bananas. Celebrities do a lot for us. They tell us which causes are worth caring about, how not to dress, and how to deal with people who bother us. Of course, with all o...
Monday, 01 June 2009
Woody Allen’s Bananas
(Cinema/Arts)
Kevin Johns examines the early Woody Allen film, Bananas.  As a teenager, Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935) was already working as a professional joke-writer for televisio...
Thursday, 18 June 2009
You Like the Monkees? You Must be Bananas!
(Music/Arts)
In the mid-1960s, there were accusations that the hit group The Monkees was essentially a fake band.  As it turns out, the accusations were true, but there's more to the story. Yes. I like the M...
Sunday, 07 June 2009
First Listen: Wilco (The Album)
(Music/Arts)
Kris Millett listens to Wilco’s yet-to-be-released new album, currently streaming on their website, and contemplates whether the band will receive the “Kiss of Death.”   Sometimes I t...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
B-A-N-A-N-A-S, or This Ain’t Your Hollaback Article
(Music/Arts)
Have you ever wondered why Gwen Stefani starts spelling out the word "bananas" during the bridge of her hit single "Hollaback Girl"?  So has Dante Kleinberg. Bananas.  They're sweetly delicious...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
First Listen: Dala’s Everyone Is Someone
(Music/Arts)
(Cult)ure gives a listen to the new album from Canadian singer/songwriter duo Dala. The third act of a Hollywood romantic comedy invariably begins with a sad-music-montage. The couple who have o...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Banana Peel Ballads: the Comedic Music Genre
(Music/Arts)
Christine Seabrook examines a genre of music that is often overlooked. Rather than set our hearts aflame or inspire us to political action, these songs have a totally different aim: to make us laugh. ...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
No Exit Upstage: A Promising Beginning to the Ottawa Fringe Festival
(Theatre/Arts)
Wayne Current reviews the opening night of Scratch Cards Productions’ Fringe Festival performance, No Exit Upstage, about roommates auditioning for the same role. The Ottawa Fringe Festival, ...
Monday, 22 June 2009
Ottawa Fringe, Oreo, and Beer Tent Reviews
(Theatre/Arts)
(Cult)ure’s man-on-the-scene at the Ottawa Fringe Festival attends a performance of the play Oreo, and then hits the beer tent! When it comes to reviewing Ottawa’s Fringe Festival, I’m...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
More Fun at the Fringe: Satanic Panic (or the Death of Al Pacino)
(Theatre/Arts)
(Cult)ure’s Fringe Festival correspondent attends the opening night of Garkin Productions’ Satanic Panic (or the Death of Al Pacino). Sunday June 21 was the opening night of Satanic Pan...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Once upon an evening, dreary, Nevermore proved brilliantly eerie
(Theatre/Arts)
Magnetic North Canadian Theatre Festival's Nevermore: The Imaginary life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe reviewed. This year's Magnetic North Canadian Theatre Festival at the NAC featured...
Monday, 29 June 2009
Ask Miss Smartypants - June 8, 2009
(Advice/Culture)
Image by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, One of my colleagues took a sudden leave of absence. I know why Joe went away (it's a family issue), but I don't know how much everyone else kn...
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Ask Miss Smartypants - June 29, 2009
(Advice/Culture)
Dear Miss Smartypants, So last year I was a college freshman. This summer I'm living on my own for the first time ever. It's going pretty well, and I think I'm doing okay with it. There's just on...
Monday, 29 June 2009
Ask Miss Smartypants - June 22, 2009
(Advice/Culture)
Art by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, I was at the Bytowne the other day, and I saw a trailer for some movie about Inuit people. At the end of the trailer, there's this song that I ...
Monday, 22 June 2009
Ask Miss Smartypants - June 15, 2009
(Advice/Culture)
Image by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, My girlfriend and I have been together for closing in on three years now. Lately, more and more people have been asking me when we're gonna g...
Monday, 15 June 2009
Accomplished, athletic, and extraordinarily intelligent – Canada’s newest astronauts
(Culture/Culture)
On May 13, 2009, two incredibly gifted and handsome men walked on stage to be named Canada’s newest astronauts. Self-proclaimed “great friends,” the two were nothing but smiles. ...
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Folies quotidiennes, bonheur perpétuel
(Culture/Culture)
Comme chacun a la liberté de créer sa propre routine personnelle, chacun a également la liberté de s’en échapper. À chaque lundi, le réveille-matin sonne et résonne en nous indiqua...
Monday, 22 June 2009
Bananas and Books: Extinction within 10 years?
(Culture/Culture)
Who is shaping the information we consume and the ways in which we get it?  Why do we make the choices we do?  And what is going to happen to our decision making as we rely more and more on potentia...
Monday, 15 June 2009
Food, Fun and a Touch of Glamour at Le Cordon Bleu
(Food/Culture)
(Cult)ure chats with Le Cordon Bleu’s Pamela Bakalian about the famous cooking school’s upcoming event, Apéritif à la française, to be held Friday June 5. Le...
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
Bananas – How to Use ‘Em
(Food/Culture)
Did you know that Brisbane, Australia holds the record for the longest banana split at 7.3km? In this fun, banana-packed article, discover how bananas can be used as another household meal staple. ...
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
Don’t go Wasting my Flavour
(Food/Culture)
The world of food flavourings is a complicated place. Will Parker attempts to determine what these various additives mean, and why they just taste so good. Do you remember when y...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Don’t Feel Guilty About Foie Gras
(Food/Culture)
A dispatch from the trenches of the struggle against the anti-pleasure brigade. If there is a food in this world that is better than sex, it’s foie gras. I’ve had the pleasure of sampl...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Bananas: A Matter of Taste, and Family
(Food/Culture)
Lauren Cheal argues that the food choices we make say a lot about who we are. She believes that arguments and concerns about other people’s food preferences are rooted in our attempts to define our...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Another Kind of Condom
(Sex/Culture)
Widespread safe sex campaigns geared to the heterosexual population focus on the traditional male condom. In doing so, social barriers faced by women to negotiate safer sex aren't accounted for in STI...
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
The 2009 (Cult)ure Magazine and Ecology Ottawa Post Earth Day Extravaganza
(Activism/Politics)
On April 30th, 2009, (Cult)ure magazine teamed up with Ecology Ottawa to host a post earth day extravaganza party, marked with electrifying bands, delicious cupcakes, raffle prizes, video installation...
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Breaking New Ground in Guatemala
(Activism/Politics)
A group of Canadian volunteers recently discovered the true cost of a cup of coffee.  The bitter bean is sowed with sweat, harvested in inequality and brewed for us at a pittance of its value.  The ...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Will the real feminists please stand up?
(Activism/Politics)
Two "honour" killings, one in Mississauga and the other in Ottawa, occur less than a year apart. While some feminists describe them as a multicultural issue, honour killings are about much more than t...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Quelques effets insolites de la crise économique
(Politics/Politics)
La récession n’aurait pas seulement un impact sur nos portefeuilles. Nos habitudes de vie ainsi que nos comportements en seraient aussi affectés. Petit tour d’horizon des conséquences pour le m...
Thursday, 04 June 2009
How City Hall Makes the National Capital Region a Poor Sports Marketplace
(Politics/Politics)
Can the public sector properly manage sporting facilities or facilitate the operations of major sports organizations? Kendall Giberson looks at how municipal governments in Ottawa and Gatineau have ...
Monday, 08 June 2009

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