The world of superheroes has become a lot more progressive in the past decade as old biases and taboos have been shed, and artists and writers alike have taken to delving into social issues like gender orientation. Iconic heroes like Batwoman, Northstar and Green Lantern have come out as being openly gay or bisexual, and […]
Tonight will be a night of many firsts for Texan instrumental prog-metal band Scale The Summit – their first tour with Intronaut (finally!); their first time touring in support of a “perfect record”; and their first time in Vancouver. Let’s show them a good time, shall we? We got guitarist and co-founder Chris Letchford on […]
Summertime is festival time. Whatever groove you desire, whatever pocket of the province you happen to habitat in, there is a festival of delights awaiting to be discovered. This is your primer for the 2013 slate of the best and biggest music festivals BC has to offer. Vancouver International Jazz Festival When: June […]
There were a number of reasons why the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble’s presentation of Speaking Strings Utter Things intrigued me, not the least its rhyming name and the promise of seeing something I’d never seen before. It was that type of random cultural mash-up of old-meets-new and East-meets-West that would be weird anywhere else but […]
Nicholas Treeshin’s short film, Leave Us Alone, is set on a piece of farmland and involves aliens. At fourteen minutes long, it’s hard to dive into the details without spoiling the entire film. But, I’ll give it a try anyway. The film begins in a dusty small-town bar in rural Middle of Nowhere. A cop […]
The animated Spanish film Wrinkles (Arrugas) tells the story of Emilio (voiced by Álvaro Guevara). Emilio is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s and has recently been placed in a retirement facility when his son decides he can no longer take care of him. Or rather, when his son decides that he no longer wants […]
The world of superheroes has become a lot more progressive in the past decade as old biases and taboos have been shed, and artists and writers alike have taken to delving into social issues like gender orientation. Iconic heroes like Batwoman, Northstar and Green Lantern have come out as being openly gay or bisexual, and […] 