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- The Best Books of 2011
- Spark: You Haven’t Come A Long Way, Literature
- Eat Your Apples
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- The Wonder of a Coat of Paint
- A Modern Classic
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- Here Is New York
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- So, last week I drove across the country…
December 2011
- Smash It Up Thank You #5
- Nuts and Bars
- Advent
- Christmas traditions
- Smash it Up Thank You from Burns Lake
- Kindness
- You don’t know Kim…
- Vegetarian?
- The Price Check app: is it turning bookstores into ‘showrooms’ for online shopping?
- A Christmas Thank You from This Great Society
- When Reality TV Goes Wrong
- Merry Christmas Mix
- Columns, Christmas trees, and copies
- Smash It Up: Week Two Thank You’s
- Burns Lake
- December: The Great Outdoors
November 2011
- Poetry Workshop: Translation and Re-creation
- The Greeks, God, Copland, Cohen, & Kanye…and Davies
- TEDxSFU
- Zaac Pick: Whitewater
- Writer Crush: Mindy Kaling
- Smash It Up Shout Outs & Thanks
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- Make it New
- Illustrations are cool Christmas gifts
- Happy Friday
- Keep This Society Great
- The Exquisite Corpse
- Train Up A Child
- Bite-Size History Bits
- Melancholia
- Mood Boards and Note-Taking
- From England, with love
- Marathon
- Thinking through the Self
- Making My Mouth Water
- New Faces at the Society (and a Thanks)
- A Reluctant Review of Coldplay’s ‘Mylo Xyloto’
- Issue 24 — Technology
October 2011
- Hallo’whoop-de-doo – the cry of the one you’re dressed as…
- Poem of the Week
- My Favourite Podcasts
- Do It Now!
- The World of Hair Fairs
- Gearing up for Craft Fairs
- Confessions of a Common Reader
- Pure Delight
- The Radio
- Sweet ‘n’ Sultry Saturday
- Alternative Jewelry Box DIY
- The Urban Thumb
- Shut Up Saturday
- My Apple Journey
- The Voice And The Words
- Writer Crush: Amelia Gray
- Spoof Saturday
- Oh, Wedding Day
- Take Luck
September 2011
- Audiobook Love
- Everybody Getting Along
- A Review of Dan Mangan’s ‘Oh Fortune’
- Bon Iver, Bon Iver
- VIFF
- Poems to Make Your Sunday Better
- Science Saturday
- Study Distractions
- Sometimes Life’s Okay.
- I Heart Sloane Crosley
- Autumn’s Top Ten
- Stop the Spray Part III
- Square-Sheet-O’-Saturday
- My New Music
- Down at the Library Saving Lives: Part 4, Gustave Flaubert
- Autumn’s Salvation
- Music Monday
- In Memoriam
- Sins Saturday
- Ask, Listen: Preserving the stories that formed us.
- Write it Down: Rescuing Your Ideas
- Fall Movie Preview
- Stop the Spray Part II
- A Week In Kansas
- Summer’s End Saturday
- Some Reflections on Death
- New issue out today! Death
August 2011
- Travels with Steinbeck
- Belonging To Your Life
- Stop the Spray Part I
- And The Word Was Good [part 5]: For The Storm
- Secret-safe Saturday
- Happy Birthday, TGS!
- Istanbul on a Kurus
- California Dreamin’
- Optimism: Not for Sissies
- Buoy, That Was Fast
- And The Word Was Good [part 4]: The Small Press
- Steed Saturday
- DIY Fabric Chandelier
- Moving Stuff Around
- Cycling in the City Part II
- Getting Personal
- Doo-wop
- And The Word Was Good [part 3]: Electric Literature
- Confessions: Tourist
- My August (sort of) Personal Challenge
- Fasting and Feasting
- Cycling in the City Part I
- ¡Vamos!
- Settlers Saturday
- Yum, Food
- Colour
- The Cabin
- I’ll Bring the Sun
July 2011
- And The Word Was Good [part 2]: Red Lemonade
- an xxcellent hipster parade
- DIY: Mason Jar Lights
- Who Are We?
- The Tree of Life
- PuSh+
- 2378
- And The Word Was Good [part 1]
- Slacker Saturday
- Embrace Summer
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- Ritual and Real Life
- Reel Recommendations
- Opera on the Lake
- Souvenir Saturday
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- Something to Cry About
- I Would Like to Call it Beauty
- Mundane Monday vol.6
- That Brooklyn Muse
- Surname Saturday
- A Fresh Take on Art
- Stifled Genius: Daniel Dale Johnston and the Search for True Love
- Books & Bicycles
- Little Objects for the Soul
- Summer Live
- Stars and Stripes
- Split-frame Saturday
- Happy Birthday Canada!
June 2011
- On Narrative Empathy
- The Nomadic Life
- In the Land of Memory
- Adventures in Grilling
- Explore Your Neighborhood!
- Sleepy Saturday
- Tattoos as Art
- Down at the Library Saving Lives: Part 3, Mikhail Bulgakov
- Time and Time Again
- Spirituality, Erotic Energy, and Sister Aimee
- Around the Table
- Gently Down The Stream
- Sandy Pool Saturday
- Make Something this Summer
- To the City
- Summer Reads
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- Put a Lobster on it
- Summer Surrealism
- Samedi de sachant ces chansons
- Knitting Gifts
- I Don’t Speak French
- Hollywood is Boring
- Heaven is a Place on Earth
- Mundane Monday vol.5
- On Going Smash
- Sketch-it-Out Saturday
- Socks!
- Roadtrip
- The Song of the Summer
May 2011
- Zen Tuesday
- BIN
- The Long Weekend
- Sequined Saturday – the Finely Feathered among Friends
- How I Like to Spend Thursday Evenings
- Art House (Part 2: Walking + Falling)
- The National Parks Project
- On Basketball and Failure
- For All Fellow Art History Buffs
- The Weekender: The Apartment Hunt
- Steampunk Saturday – The Curse of Robert Kenney’s Collodion
- Welcoming Wedding Season
- Stifled Genius – The Average Times of Denny Blaze
- Walk of Shame
- In Praise of Stupid Ideas
- Mundane Monday vol.4
- The Weekender: Practice, Practice
- Super Saturday! – Andreas Nothiger
- DIY in Ottawa
- Down at the Library, Saving Lives. (Part 2: Henry Miller)
- Mixtape Love
- Put an Egg on It
- Areas of Grey
- The Weekender: Holding On
- Discover Pine Point
- Fight of the Century: Keynes, Hayek, the Economy
- “What’s New?” Wednesdays: Robert Adams
- Canadian Voices I Love
- Mundane Monday vol.3
- The Weekender: Working Stiff
- Our May Issue is Here!
April 2011
- Creative Transparency
- Art House (Part 1: Ken Lum)
- “What’s New?” Wednesdays: The Garden of the Gods
- Ain’t Nobody Who can Sing Like Me
- Gallery Hop
- The Weekender: A Rabbit Tale
- Easter Egg Decorating: Not Just for Kids
- Stifled Genius – The life and times of Michael Larson
- “What’s New?” Wednesdays: Caring About Politics
- Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winner for 2011
- Mundane Monday vol. 2
- Down at the Library, Saving Lives. (Part 1: Helen Keller)
- “What’s New?” Wednesdays: Rooting for a Favourite
- Writing for People who Read
- Mundane Monday vol.1
- Crochet an Afghan. Really.
- Robert, Gil, Me and the Devil
- “What’s New?” Wednesdays: Walt Whitman
- Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Detained by Authorities
- Vancouver International Poetry Festival: April 18-23
- We’re Going Smash: The TGS blog
March 2011
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