Mike Usinger
Senior Editor at The Georgia Straight
Senior editor at the Georgia Straight. Fledgling teacher. Yes, that is my vintage neon Pabst Blue Ribbon sign, and, no, you can't have it.
Articles
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6 days ago |
straight.com | Mike Usinger
What’s In Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting Vancouverites about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their custom-made Big Chill Retropolitan 20.6-cubic-foot refrigerators. SarinnI’m the front person and lyricist for Alien Boys, a DIY political punk band here in Vancouver, B.C. We’ve been around since 2016, which is wild to think about, and we have toured around Canada and the US.
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1 week ago |
straight.com | Mike Usinger
As someone who loves the Tragically Hip, Banff, hockey, and the sight of PM Mark Carney dancing to Down With Webster, I swear to God I am not a bad Canadian. But when it comes to camping, I’m pretty much whatever the Great White North equivalent of Benedict Arnold is, with a favourite spot in the States I’ve been hitting for years.
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1 week ago |
straight.com | Mike Usinger
Surprisingly, amaretto was never the end game, which is funny considering that the famed almond-flavoured liqueur is what first put Sons of Vancouver on the distillery map. The decision to start making the Italian classic on Canadian shores was, however, a calculated one. Before the North Vancouver distillery could think about jumping into the whisky game—which requires product sitting in barrels for years before it’s ready for bottling—it had to do something to get the money flowing.
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2 weeks ago |
straight.com | Mike Usinger
The challenge was a daunting one: improve on a celebrated past without destroying the spirit of a neighbourhood institution. So predictably, not everyone was happy when Reuben Major took over the long-running Havana on Commercial Drive. “I remember, on a couple of occasions, people coming right up to me in the restaurant and actually being really upset,” Havana’s CEO admits, in an interview at the restaurant on a sun-soaked weekday morning.
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2 weeks ago |
straight.com | Mike Usinger
What’s In Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting Vancouverites about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their custom-made Big Chill Retropolitan 20.6-cubic-foot refrigerators. The History of GunpowderWe are The History of Gunpowder, an eight-piece freakout orchestra from Vancouver. We have a big ol’ horn line, violin, pedal steel, and some synthesizers. We live to put on fun, envelope-pushing shows.
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