Glenn Kubish

I have again begun to appreciate the complexity that it is to eat a cupcake. It started, innocently enough, with a question. "How," asked Brian, a friend at work, " do you eat a cupcake?" (I am wary of these "questions" at work from "friends" ever since being stung by this one: "Glenn, as an outsider, what is your opinion of the human race?!" Yikes. :) The very fact of the cupcake question suggested that the three obvious answers -- remove crown from stem and eat them individually; tip cupcake sideways and have at 'er; and, dive into icing head on-- were not the right answers, so, it was learn-to-do-by-doing time. The crumbless floor was Brian's: Step 1: Detach crown from stem Step 2: Invert crown and reassemble by gently squishing upside-down crown and stem into shape of sandwich Step 3: Eat, enjoy Step 4: Tell someone else Cookie sandwich discovery moment! Once the laughter lessened, a rich lesson was lef...

It remains to be seen what will become of Dave Mowat's idea to illuminate the bridges of Edmonton, achieving for each a signature look and for the city a sense the dark will not overcome the light. But it sure feels like a brilliantly simple win. Who, asked Mowat at Pecha Kucha Night 14 in Edmonton last week, has ever seen a postcard or stopped to take a picture of the Groat Bridge at night? Case made, case closed. Here, thanks to the PhotoShop work of Neil Graham, is what the bridge could look like with a few strands of eye-catching pearls added: The massive High Level Bridge will next year mark a century of standing there, quietly linking the once-separate communities of Edmonton and Strathcona. It is a channel for vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and has a streetcar rail running along the top platform. At night, it is an accurate reflection of Edmonton in the autumn and winter. You can't see it. But what if, besides being lit for utilitarian function...