Common Pursuits

Home & Food

Habits for Cold Weather (and Hot Cocoa)

Wintertime rhythms and hot cocoa for four.

by Emily Morrice

3 min read

Newsletter

CP Monthly for January 2021

Sidewalks, barley risotto, and an empty hotel.

by Common Pursuits Staff

Community & People

Learning The Steps of The Sidewalk Ballet

An experience of "the ballet of the good city sidewalk" in Montreal.

by Matt Civico

5 min read

2020 Year-in-Review

Our top posts from 2020 for readers' enjoyment!

by Matt Civico

3 min read

Technology & Science

Manual Competence & Analogue Joys

It’s a strange experience in 2020 to value the constrained experience of an old Walkman more than the everything-right-now proposition of Spotify.

by Matt Civico

4 min read

Community & People

Second-Round Lockdown

Toronto just went back into lockdown. It's frustrating. We are tired of this pandemic. But going into lockdown the second time is not the same.

by Lester Liao

3 min read

Technology & Science

Towards Technopoly: The Improbable World

Postman describes the dangers of an instant and functionally unlimited media environment.

by Matt Civico

6 min read

Newsletter

CP Monthly for November 2020

Nonobvious conversation tips, soup au pois, and earthy wisdom from the village pub.

by Common Pursuits Staff

3 min read

Ideas & Culture

A Time for Poetry & Time for Poems

I read the words, but I don't read the poems, not really.

by Matt Civico

4 min read

Home & Food

Disney Retrospective: Ratatouille

What is often called snobbery is potentially an ardent devotion to what is good, if only we have the will to see.

by Lester Liao

6 min read

Ideas & Culture

The Ordinary Pleasures of the Fine(r) Arts

After pulling my brushes from their toolbox, I begin, as always, with a simple outline in pencil.

by Paoyun Tang

4 min read

Ideas & Culture

Recovering Childlike Creativity

Most people do four things that keep them from creating and making.

by Helen Davies MacIntyre

3 min read

Newsletter

CP Monthly for October 2020

Subscribers-only: The (ageing) Boss, crispy chicken parm, and an invitation.

by Common Pursuits Staff

4 min read

Ideas & Culture

Love Coffee — but not like that

Coffee does much more than get us through the day (or night), but it can't be rushed.

by Lester Liao

4 min read