Bananas - Table of Contents

A gallery of all of our new cover artist's original art for (Cult)ure.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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. ...

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, ...

(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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. �...

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...

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...

(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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...