Garden Plots – Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens By Shelley Boyd “A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature.” Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual […]
Spirits are lifted, hearts are mended, and love is sought and won at the What You Will Hotel and Spa. It’s 1913 and in the pampered world of a fine European spa, everyone is falling in love with someone who is not exactly who they seem. Feste, the lobby lounge singer, entertains, Toby Belch and Andrew […]
Since 1983, the old courthouse at 750 Hornby Street has been the Vancouver Art Gallery’s home. The gallery and the area surrounding have hosted many of the city’s defining events. The gallery itself carves a chunk out of the business-based downtown core, combining culture, art, education, history and law in three blocks. While there has […]
Right, let’s try and get through this without mentioning James Blake. Dominic Maker and Kai Campos just couldn’t have had a better start. Hotflush Recordings boss Scuba recognized Mount Kimbie‘s potential and debuted their first two, truly inspiring singles: “Maybes” and “Sketch on Glass” – a deep, seductive and emotional trip into the belly of […]
Doors at 8, show at 9:30. You think I could get it together for show time, considering I get home a bit after 6, but no. I must miss something, apparently. It is part of the process. What I missed last Friday was Devastator’s ripping set at the Owl. I do regret it, from what […]
Garden Plots – Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens By Shelley Boyd “A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature.” Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual […] 