The Rickshaw Theatre is grimy. Within the first few steps inside, your nostrils are injected with the smell of stale beer, sweaty t-shirts and dusty denim dudes. Leather jackets can be heard bending, rubbing together throughout the venue — the sound of crinkling fabric is omnipresent. To some, this environment may seem offensive or vulgar. […]
Classical music concerts can be so boring. I love them, lest anybody misunderstand. But, after years of regular concert hall attendance, it’s hard not to become cynical. Classical is the only kind of music where the ensembles basically all play the same works. The really good ensembles are distinguished by playing that music more competently, […]
A sea of pink flooded into Vancouver’s Rogers arena on Monday night. Fans of all ages were suited up for the occasion: pink pants, pink shoes, pink ties, pink tees, pink onesies, and undies, hats, wigs, eyelashes, and facial hair freshly dyed hot pink to honour the return of their queen, the one and only […]
Josh Tillman is known for his terribly smart dialogue. He never shies from onstage banter with the crowd, doing so better than most professional standup comics (opener Kate Berlant, a comic, faced a tough crowd before Tillman took the stage). Performing on a North American solo tour, Father John Misty performed in front of a […]
“You can’t be afraid to read your own writing,” Amber Dawn says. The local poet and award-winning author tells herself this before doing public readings. To prepare, she even records her readings to play back and to show herself: It’s okay, I can do this; this is my story. But no matter how prepared she […]
Allowing novelist Cormac McCarthy to follow up as perfect an adaptation of his literary nihilism as the Coen brothers’ masterpiece No Country For Old Men (2007) by trying his own hand at a medium he’s never worked in was perhaps a doomed venture from the start. But there’s no denying that the result is a […]
French cooking holds one of the top places in the upper echelon of culinary delicacies. Its decadent food could turn just about anyone into a drooling mess. As such, Haute Cuisine (2012) is not a film to be watched on an empty stomach. The film, directed by Christian Vincent, is loosely based on the true […]
Hollywood’s singular obsession with the Holocaust, and World War 2 has never been something that I have given much thought. Strangely enough, it is America that has made the most films worldwide about these subjects. These American made images have had a large impact in shaping our ideas of the Holocaust. And I say shaped […]
The zombie genre has been bludgeoned to death – no pun intended. Endless movies and endless video games of mindlessness surrounding a bad guy that could be defeated by simply climbing over a fence. However, it’s not often you see “historic” zombies flicks. Zombies in another time period? An awesome idea, but in some ways, […]
The Rickshaw Theatre is grimy. Within the first few steps inside, your nostrils are injected with the smell of stale beer, sweaty t-shirts and dusty denim dudes. Leather jackets can be heard bending, rubbing together throughout the venue — the sound of crinkling fabric is omnipresent. To some, this environment may seem offensive or vulgar. […] 