Jacks of All Trades
July 22, 2013
A small yet devoted crowd came to The Railway Club on Thursday for the CD release of the Oneyedjacks, one of the staples of Vancouver’s punk scene since the early
Arman Kazemi
A Magical Performance by Vancouver Opera
March 12, 2013
If Mozart lived in Yaletown he might have written an opera about a 30-something year old yuppie on a quest to rescue a damsel in distress from the clutches of
The Best Movie I Have Ever Read
February 8, 2013
The logic of the camera and montage overtakes poetic volition in Jonathan Ball’s Politics of Knives. Indeed one of the many tropes of cutting in Ball’s latest poetry collection relates
An Old Take on a Classic Proves Unexpectedly Fresh
October 24, 2012
The impressionistic Parisian skyline that graced the screen over the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage last Saturday night promised concertgoers that Vancouver Opera’s latest mounting of La Bohème would be staying
Brother Ali Casts Shadows in Vancouver
October 24, 2012
Ever since his third LP, following 2003’s Shadows on the Sun – a ground-shaking event for those who were there – Brother Ali has been pushing the social and political
Solveig Just Came to Say Hello
October 6, 2012
When French DJ Martin Solveig walked into the Celebrities sound pit Saturday night for his first Vancouver show, it was technically his second show in the city that night. Madonna
Existence: It’s a Fact of Life
October 5, 2012
“It’s about time”. But also about that other thing. The title of Stuart Ross’s latest poetry collection, You Exist. Details Follow. couldn’t be more self-explanatory. In each poem, Ross distills
Canadian Identity an Unlikely Force in this Adrenaline – Packed Noire
September 4, 2012
Fraser Nixon’s debut novel, The Man Who Killed, is a sleek, tightly-executed neo noire which follows Mick, the disaffected antihero, on an odyssey through a prohibition-era Montreal of opium dens,
Summer Festival is What Dreams Are Made of
August 30, 2012
Last Saturday was your typical summer affair around the shores of Trout Lake – families and couples bathing in the late August heat, lake water lapping against the sound of
