hedley bontano, Author at bontano

Mailbox Plus, 2017 Davie Street, Vancouver

In this age of corporate behemoths, I try to support independent businesses. Sometimes, though, it seems like the independent businesses want me to go to the behemoth. Mailbox Plus, 1027 Davie Street, Vancouver, is one of these.

Free Trip to Egypt is a documentary film project dreamed up by Egyptian-Canadian-Swiss software entrepreneur, Tarek Mounib.

Escalator photo by Arthur Edelman on Unsplash

In which Hedley resists the efficiency imperative of Uytae Lee’s CBC critique of escalator-walking.

Recent dining adventures in Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC

As 2017 ends and the next year begins, a a brief summary of books read in the past year. It’s a shorter list than usual.

Another year, another stack of #95books, or as near to it as I get.

I spent another year tweeting my books using the #95books hashtag. I shall herewith provide the summary for 2015.

It’s been almost eight months since i wrote positively about my initial experiences of Calgary. If you recall, number eight on the list was the locally-ubiquitous Black-billed magpie.

Now that the weather is a bit better, I can leave the city on my bike and enjoy a reduced likelihood of hypothermia. Yesterday, I did that for the first time.

Here, book lovers, is my 2014 reading list. I hope that, as I have had my literary world broadened through my exposure to other readers, some of you may also discover new writers through my list.

After so many years of wet Vancouver snows (roughly one week of each winter), I’d forgotten how pleasant a dry, powdery accumulation can be.

Yes, there are some obvious drawbacks to Calgary, and I’ll probably complain about all of them at one time or another. But one doesn’t have to dig too deeply to come up with things to like, either. Here are my top ten, so far.

In 1974, a destined-for-cult-status campy rock musical written and directed by Brian De Palma was released to a great flood of inattention: Phantom of the Paradise was a bit of a flop. De Palma’s eighth film was successful in only one North American market, which just happened to be my market at the time – Winnipeg.