“Dear Zachary”: Touching and Enraging
June 25, 2013
When a loved one dies, the web of grief reaches far and wide and everyone they have ever touched is impacted. When Kurt Kuenne’s friend Andrew Bagby was murdered in
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They Might Be Giants “Black Ops”
June 25, 2013
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bN-dlW4568[/youtube] Directed by Craig J.Clark “Black Ops” is the first single from They Might Be Giants‘ newest album Nanobots. You are advised to watch “Black Ops” in a darkened room.
“Somm”: The Hardest Test You’ve Never Heard Of
June 24, 2013
If you thought studying for your SATs was difficult, a new documentary by director Jason Wise called Somm will put things in perspective. The movie title is a reference to
Riding In Cars With Courtneys
June 22, 2013
Here’s a hot tip for bands: keep a joke book handy in case of technical difficulties. Or, concertgoers, think of a joke or two in case bands call on you
Book Giveaway: Enter to Win a Copy of Shelley Boyd’s Garden Plots – Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens
June 20, 2013
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
Win Tickets: Twelfth Night at Bard on the Beach – July 4, 2013
June 20, 2013
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
Vancouver Art Gallery to Relocate
June 20, 2013
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.
From the Top
June 20, 2013
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
Say It With Me… Parquet Courts
June 20, 2013
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,
How Happy Became Homosexual and Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts
June 19, 2013
Language, like culture, is continually subject to a biological evolution – the result is often spontaneous, surprising and remarkable, as long-time author and logophile Howard Richler has always known. The
A Fearsome Education
June 19, 2013
We have created countless pages and reels of film dedicated to documenting World War II’s military action, and the systematic destruction of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
Baumbach Captures Millennial Malaise
June 19, 2013
The mileage you get from Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha will vary according to how willing you are to see another movie about over-educated, under-employed white people floundering for their adulthoods
