Doing Away With Double Standards

Local state rep. calls for affordable health care

By James Walling

Selflessness is a rare quality in a politician. Compassion and understanding are rarer still. Based on recent developments, it would seem as though state Rep. Jim Moeller (D-Vancouver) possesses all three. Then again, maybe it’s all just for show...

Truthiness and factiness

Blurring the lines between fiction and fact

By Jack V. Booch

When attempting to explain away the astonishing array of historical inaccuracies in the Showtime drama The Tudors, writer/creator Michael Hirst proudly proclaimed, "Showtime commissioned me to write an entertainment, a soap opera, and not history." My instant reaction was incredulity - why call the damn show The Tudors at all if biographical detail is less important to you than populist pap? Why not call it One Medieval Life to Live instead?

Put your money where your writer is

D.K. Holm needs your support

By James Walling

D.K. Holm has been a critical institution here in the Northwest for more than two decades. He's written for - and often about - a vast array of influential local and meta-arts organizations. More importantly, he writes for The Vancouver Voice. And he's got cancer...

From Grange halls to gigabytes

A call for choosiness in the information age

By Jack V. Booch

It used to be that the greatest difficulty faced by anyone eager to learn about the wider world was the accumulation of dependable source material. Not so anymore. Choice has become the deciding factor in the makeup of individual intelligence...