Experimental, post-punk, industrial, and neo-psychedelia have all come into play over The Legendary Pink Dots prolific career. September 14th, their Year 33 Tour lands at the Rickshaw. The Pink Dots are up to around 50 or 60 albums by now but information as to the exact number is sketchy, however, thankfully the passion has not […]
Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (140,000 and 386 respectively in 2012) VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. They screen films from 80 countries on 10 screens. The international line-up includes the pick of the world’s top film fests and many undiscovered gems. VIFF 2011 included […]
As much of a pioneer as Gary Numan has been in electronic pop, New and Dark Wave, post-punk and gothic industrial, I wish I could say with indisputable confidence that the Hammersmith, Englander has never been one to follow trends or expectations. But in 1992, he did exactly that. An ill-fated funk-and-jazz infused album, Machine […]
We work in them. We live in them. We walk amongst them every day. Buildings. They serve as both the settings of our daily lives and public art. But how much does the average person know about architecture? How did buildings, so ubiquitous, many of them so enormous, come to be? What makes a building […]