Fiction

  • Sloan at Tinhorn Creek Winery in Oliver

    Canadian rock icons Sloan played Tinhorn Creek Winery in Oliver, B.C. Saturday Sept. 8. It was a great show. I knew I should have brought my camera, but I snapped some iPhone shots just for fun. Slideshow and video after the bump.

  • A lesson in plagiarism

    The risk of plagiarism and story recycling is becoming a boogeyman in the industry. Take the recent dramatic fall of well-known science writer Jonah Lehrer, who was busted plagiarizing on his Wired.com blog, Frontal Cortex, and fabricating quotes in his book, Imagine. The 31-year-old, who was a regular writer for The New Yorker and Wired,…

  • Relaxing at the sushi shop

    Walked around lovely downtown Kelowna and snapped a few photos. I’m trying to shoot regularly again — I spent years as a freelance reporter/photographer. But years of desking has made me fat and uncreative behind the lens. But enough bellyaching. Here’s my favourite shot from today.

  • Concerning the word ‘alleged’

    Legals are a remarkably tricky, case-by-case area of journalism. That’s why I’m usually loathe to give any in-depth advice on them. I don’t feel comfortable about bumping against the line of what we can legally print. In fact, I don’t think it’s safe for any reporter or editor to get too comfortable in this area.…