Daniel Robichaud

Gold & Youth “Jewel”

[youtube]http://youtu.be/LcTVLHRHC_A[/youtube] Gold & Youth are a Vancouver-based band that has been making some serious waves with their debut album, Beyond Wilderness.  Their latest single, “Jewel”, features the alluring vocals of

Preview: Jeet Heer – In Love with Art

Over three-and-a-half decades ago, Paris-born artist and designer Françoise Mouly and cartoonist Art Spiegelman began their revolution of the comic book format. Long before Spiegelman published his legendary graphic novel

“Byzantium”: Hunted Through Time

Neil Jordan’s Byzantium makes a fine companion piece to Joe Wright’s Hanna (2011), which also stars Saoirse Ronan as a lethal teenaged girl at a remove from humanity, navigating a

Preview: Ivy Pochoda – Visitation Street

It’s a hard living in the secluded blue-collar neighbourhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, even in summertime. Two fifteen-year-olds June and Val refuse to surrender themselves to the mundanity of their

A God Complex We Can Deal With

Kanye‘s Yeezus is a down’n’out ambush to the senses. Bristling and hypnotic, the overall tone is reminiscent of the angst felt and vented by punk bands of the late seventies.

Coffee and Donut 101

Coffee and a donut*. The go-to. The high-water mark of a Canadian breakfast. And while, yes, it is true that Tim Hortons rarely disappoints with the simple combo they’ve helped

The Planetarium of Past, Present and Future

Site-specific theater offers artists some of the most challenging and engaging obstructions. When done well, it demands that the work draw from that space at that time, and be shaped

Press Play and Hold Your Breath

solo output of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist of the recently defunct progressive rock band The Mars Volta, you would be witness  not only to a staggeringly large body of work, but

The Kid Can Rap

One day they’ll say, “Mac Miller’s all grown up!” But it’s not today. For every moment of honest introspection and unusual production on Mac’s new album Watching Movies With The

Fire Up the Fiddle

Vancouver was hit by a tornado of fiddle and banjo fury on Tuesday night. L.A. bluegrass punk band, Old Man Markley finished up their Canadian tour here at the Biltmore

Community and Growing Up

“Is it like Sesame Street?” I laughed as I overhead the question a few rows ahead of me at the Arts Club Theatre Company’s opening night of Avenue Q. In