December 29th, 2010 After two years of publishing monthly issues, Steel Bananas is going quarterly. With the editorial staff scattering all over Canada and the U.S. pursuing academic and artistic careers, the monthly format simply didn’t suit our busy schedules, or our vision for the content and reach of the zine. So, this is our →
November 22nd, 2010 From a low-key high-brow performance art festival on last month’s cover to. . . Jersey Shore? I don’t think I anticipated such a thematic chasm between the latest issues. I also didn’t expect to receive a submission from Toronto’s favourite pop culture peeper (I mean, critic) Hal Niedzviecki. This month’s issue boasts an →
October 23rd, 2010 This month’s cover features Canadian performance artist Karen Elaine Spencer in fragments peeling onions atop a ladder. If you’re in Toronto this week, you can see her sitting in Union Station, offering an antithesis to the movement of the crowds as part of this year’s 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. This festival →
September 15, 2010 Greetings Voters, It’s getting chilly out, schools everywhere are bustling with startin’ up festivities and just about everyone I know is pretty much booked up until November with Stuff To Do. Busy As Hell is the mantra of the month as we all settle in to what I’ve heard numerous people refer →
August 15, 2010 When I told people that the best weekend of the year invariably happens for me in my hometown at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, I didn’t honestly expect that anyone would actually want to make the trip. This year, as things went, three of my fellow SB staffers made the long pilgrimage →
July 15, 2010 The July 2009 issue of Steel Bananas, last year’s NXNE/Fringe issue, represented what is still our most significant jump in readership to date. For one reason or another, with the publicati buy cheap cialis on of that issue we saw our readership double and we haven’t slowed down since. Maybe people were →
June 15, 2010 Karen, Curran, Alex Armstrong, and I have just returned from the book launch of the fabulous Shannon Bell’s Fast Feminism. All I can now think about are female phalli. Bouquets of female phalli. And big toes. Grown in vats. Like in a fucking Lovecraft story. I don’t know if I should feel →
May 15, 2010 Well my darlings, summer is frightfully nigh! Now that university classes are out, it seems like we can all get out and enjoy some of that newfangled sunshine everyone keeps talking about. Unfortunately, I’ve been made to understand that the city of Toronto has some kind of prohibition going on as far →
April 15, 2010 It’s April. Words are sometimes insufficient. Karen Correia Da Silva Editor-in-Chief Steel Bananas →
March 15, 2010 Brothers and Sisters: Rejoice, for the Vernal Equinox is NIGH! NIGH! When we think about March we think about spankings and bike rides. We have been to rock and or roll shows for Canadian Music Week for the last 6 days in a row, and have learned that goats are fantastic pets. →
February 15, 2009 What can I say about February? It’s one of those contentious months with staggered reading weeks so university students don’t throw throw themselves off of the Bloor street viaduct, Valentine’s Day meets love-holiday-haters everywhere (does anyone actually buy those cheesy Hallmark bears?) and Family Day touts its obvious holiday mandate of helping →
January 15, 2009 Karen Correia Da Silva Editor-in-Chief Steel Bananas & Starla Bontecou →
December 15, 2009 Well, we survived 2009. I guess this warrants a sentimental retrospective of what has made this year so awesome for SB, but I’ll leave it to the eager archive scrollers and search engine fiends to familiarize themselves with the oodles of fun we’ve had for the last twelve months. Instead, I want →
November 15, 2009 My, my! November has been a crazy month for SB thus far! We started off the month at Canzine 2009, we just launched our first print project, GULCH, with Tightrope Books on the 12th at the Trash Palace, and we’re looking forward to the third installment of the Monthly Eggplant Reading Series →
Oct, 15th, 2009 Good evening kiddies. I hope you weren’t enjoying your stroll along the internet too pleasantly, because I have some… Horrifying news for you. Yes kiddies, the air is getting colder, the leaves are swirling to the ground, the air foggier, the moon more full and rotund. You know what this means kids? →
September 15, 2009 When Karen and Curran asked me to write the Note from the Editor for this month’s issue, I was quite surprised. Why was I surprised? They just asked the freakin’ photo editor to do it. And that’s why I love Steel Bananas so much – although our Moose of the month is →
July 15, 2009 So with The Chief out and about busy working on her thesis, this month’s installment of everyone’s favorite Post-Pomo Variety Show was left in the hands of this guy. Apart from the minor nervous breakdown and several bouts of tears, I had a lot of fun doing it. But damn, I need →
June 15th, 2009 I love new shit. Whether or not that manifests itself in my drooling over the new Vena Cava collection this month is neither here nor there. This month, SB had the pleasure of running around town for Luminato 2009, checking out both public installations and ticket-only shows in order to critique the →
May 15th, 2009 Jesus Christ, I am tired and overworked. I’ll be honest, I’m far too tired to write any personal anecdote about sunshine etc. because I’m tired. Life is beautiful, I am overworked from doing things I love, this issue has a shit-ton (to use the technical term) of awesome goodies – an interview →
April 14th, 2009 Plantains! There’s something so lovely about waking up with the sun on your face. My new apartment has an east-facing window and every morning for the last month of sunshine I’ve been waking up early in its bright warmth. A close friend of mine dared to call me a tropical plant for →
March 15th, 2009 Oh My, this has been the busiest month for us Steel Bananas folk. We’ve been running around like crazy people, attending shows, checking out new talent, and trying to keep up with personal projects while, for most of us, also keeping up with homework. This issue emerged from the sleepless haze of →