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John Lucas

  • Copywriter and Freelance Arts Journalist, Freelance
Vancouver
As seen in: The Georgia Straight, TMCnet, NOW Toronto, Montecristo Magazine, ECentral Sports
Covers:  Music, Arts, Comics, Esports, Video Games, Cannabis, Health, Tech, Literature, Design
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From the Archives: Sigur Rós at Deer Lake Park (2013)

From the Archives: Sigur Rós at Deer Lake Park (2013)

johnlucas.ca — By coincidence (or maybe not), the harder Sigur Rós played, the harder the rain fell.
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From the Archives: Tom and Matt Berninger (2014)

From the Archives: Tom and Matt Berninger (2014)

johnlucas.ca — Tom lasted eight-and-a-half months on the road before the inevitable firing, long enough for him to capture his brother and the rest of the National at their best (and occasionally their worst) with the handheld camera he just happened to have with him.
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From the Archives: Mother Mother (2017)

From the Archives: Mother Mother (2017)

johnlucas.ca — You'd never know it from his on-stage swagger-he looks as comfortable in the spotlight as the natural-born rock star his voice and six-string chops suggest he is-but Ryan Guldemond considers himself an introvert.
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Rogen and Goldberg add cannabis beverages to their Houseplant portfolio

Rogen and Goldberg add cannabis beverages to their Houseplant portfolio

CannCentral — “Weed has been, I would say, an integral part of our day-to-day lives for the last 20 years."
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IJESPORTS takes an academic look at competitive gaming

IJESPORTS takes an academic look at competitive gaming

ECentral Sports — As far as editorial boards go, IJESPORTS boasts an impressive one. The list includes academics from the United States, the U.K., China, Sweden, Germany, and elsewhere. They include experts in fields ranging from osteopathic medicine and psychology to computer science and marketing.
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For SpeakEasy's Marc Geen, growing cannabis carries on a family farming tradition - CannCentral

For SpeakEasy's Marc Geen, growing cannabis carries on a family farming tradition - CannCentral

CannCentral — It may be a new world, but Geen chose a moniker that looks back to an earlier, less enlightened time Marc Geen's great-grandfather arrived in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley at the turn of the 20th century.
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From the Archives: Chester Brown (2011)

From the Archives: Chester Brown (2011)

johnlucas.ca — Chester Brown must have known what he was getting himself into. In creating Paying for It, the Toronto-based cartoonist was setting himself up for criticism, not just of his work but of himself and his chosen lifestyle.
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Espo aims to bring ESports fans straight to the heart of the action

Espo aims to bring ESports fans straight to the heart of the action

ecentralsports.com — Have you ever dreamed about receiving one-on-one coaching in terrorist-hunting tactics from your favourite Rainbow Six Siege player? Ever wished you could rock that one killer jersey that was gone three seconds after it went on sale? Espo is hoping to make your dreams (and wishes) come true.
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Psych album of the week: Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs (1970)

Psych album of the week: Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs (1970)

CannCentral — As a pop album, it's a disaster. As a document of Syd Barrett's splintering psyche, on the other hand, it's fascinating.
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MedCare Farms’ Garin Heslop got into the cannabis business by accident

MedCare Farms’ Garin Heslop got into the cannabis business by accident

CannCentral — After a traumatic motorcycle crash, Garin Heslop was prescribed powerful pain meds. Then he discovered a green alternative.
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There's no cure for pain, but cannabis could be a powerful tool for harm reduction

There's no cure for pain, but cannabis could be a powerful tool for harm reduction

CannCentral — A growing body of research seems to point to cannabis as a means by which opioid users can decrease their dependence on more harmful drugs.
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Vancouver's Jill Barber rekindles songwriting flame en français

Vancouver's Jill Barber rekindles songwriting flame en français

Georgia Straight — Jill Barber accomplished something pretty significant recently: she wrote a song. Perhaps that doesn't seem so extraordinary. After all, songs are Barber's stock-in-trade. No less an authority than Kris Kristofferson once described the Vancouver-based musician as "a damn good songwriter".
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From the Archives: Jason Pierce of Spiritualized (2012)

From the Archives: Jason Pierce of Spiritualized (2012)

johnlucas.ca — No one has ever accused Jason Pierce of taking shortcuts.
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CannaReps dispels ignorance | Cannabis Education 2020

CannaReps dispels ignorance | Cannabis Education 2020

CannCentral — The Canadian cannabis industry has a critical failure, and it starts at the top. The issue, says CannaReps founder Adolfo Gonzalez, is quality control.
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Interpening: what it is and why you should care

Interpening: what it is and why you should care

CannCentral — Because before you pull out your credit card, you want to know you're dealing with someone who knows their stuff.
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Girl power! Meet five of the most important women in ESports

Girl power! Meet five of the most important women in ESports

ecentralsports.com — Google the phrase "women in ESports", and what you'll find is pretty telling. One of the first hits, for example, is a YouTube video titled "Why are there so few women in esports?" Another of the top results is an article bearing the headline "The Divide Between Male & Female Esports Players: Should There be All-Women Tournaments?"
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From the Archives: Howard Shore (2010)

From the Archives: Howard Shore (2010)

johnlucas.ca — I have a very extensive catalogue of old articles that I think are worth revisiting. Here's one of them. (This article originally appeared in The Georgia Straight.) Many film scores have embedded themselves deeply in popular culture. Who can hear the music from Jaws or Psycho, for example, without instantly being flooded with images from those classic movies?
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From the Archives: Die Antwoord (2010)

From the Archives: Die Antwoord (2010)

johnlucas.ca — It's a safe bet that no one watching the "Enter the Ninja" video had ever seen anything like it before. While Ninja spits head-spinning rhymes about decapitating haters, Vi$$er does a Lolita routine in a bedroom plastered with pictures of her bandmate and crawling with rats.
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Fan Expo guest Todd McFarlane talks about the Spawn movie and why he'll never work for Marvel or ...

Fan Expo guest Todd McFarlane talks about the Spawn movie and why he'll never work for Marvel or ...

Georgia Straight — If there's one thing no one could ever say about Todd McFarlane, it's that he lacks self-confidence. When the Georgia Straight connects with the Canadian-born comic-book creator and entrepreneur via telephone from his long-time home base of Phoenix, Arizona, he sounds beyond delighted to let us know how his day is going.
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Graphic novels by Sarah Leavitt and Jamie Michaels explore Canadian history from different perspe...

Graphic novels by Sarah Leavitt and Jamie Michaels explore Canadian history from different perspe...

Georgia Straight — It was a provocative act, and what it provoked was a pushback that turned into a riot. At Toronto's Christie Pits park on August 16, 1933, during a baseball game that included a team made up predominantly of Jewish and Italian players, some members of the so-called Pit Gang displayed a large blanket with a swastika on it.
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Anthony Daniels tells a tale of man and droid in I Am C-3PO

Anthony Daniels tells a tale of man and droid in I Am C-3PO

Georgia Straight — To determine just how much of a Star Wars geek you are, consider the following phrase: " I Am C-3PO." If your mind automatically filled in the rest-"human-cyborg relations"-the odds of you being a true-blue fan of the Skywalker saga are very high indeed.
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Said the Whale is paying it forward

Said the Whale is paying it forward

Georgia Straight — On August 13, a Twitter user going by the handle @grypewater had a burning question: "How is Said the Whale still a band?" Dean Watson probably didn't think his snarky tweet would get a serious response from the artist in question, but then he doesn't know Tyler Bancroft, who decided to take the Edmonton graphic designer's question at face value.
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Spring Books: Zucked author Roger McNamee lays bare the threats of Google, Facebook, Amazon

Spring Books: Zucked author Roger McNamee lays bare the threats of Google, Facebook, Amazon

Georgia Straight — Mark Zuckerberg has never been known for taking a particularly restrained approach to business. The Facebook founder and chief executive has instead lived by the company's notorious motto, "Move fast and break things"-making decisions that can affect the lives of the platform's 2.32 billion users and either apologizing or deflecting blame when those decisions have negative consequences.
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Erwan Larher channels Bataclan terror into literature

Erwan Larher channels Bataclan terror into literature

Georgia Straight — It was a Friday night like any other, or at least it started out that way. For lifelong rock 'n' roll devotee Erwan Larher, it offered the chance to be a part of what promised to be a sweaty night of loud music by a cool touring band.
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