Kweli Waxes Lyrical at Bar None
April 6, 2013
In his first verse in “So Low”, Talib Kweli raps: People I knew before celebrity swear they see the change in me I tell ’em change is god, you gotta
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Otters, Emotions, and Self-Help
March 27, 2013
I hate self-help books. Something about the chapter titles and the snappy lists makes my teeth feel plaque-y. I swear there’s something inimitably vile about self-help gurus; with politicians, for
A Night of Sexual Science Fiction
March 19, 2013
What wackiness!! What verve!! Broken Sex Doll’s the kind of thing that demands a couple exclamation points. After all, it’s a sci-fi musical sex comedy – if it doesn’t hit
Simply Magical
March 11, 2013
After Vitaly’s performance, we head straight to the bar, order something seasonal – an Imperial IPA, it turns out – and talk through the illusionist’s entire show from front to
Ghostface & Sheek Worth The Wait
March 4, 2013
It’s lucky Ghost and Sheek are still some of the best around. Otherwise, the show sure wouldn’t have been worth losing Thursday night sleep over. Our bad time begins in
A Wealth of Passionate Perfection
February 27, 2013
The 2013 Crazy8s Gala Screening is the kind of thing that makes you proud to be a Vancouverite. Premiering during a time of tense economic uncertainty for the industry, the
Valentine No More than the Sum of its Parts
February 25, 2013
To simplify to a borderline traitorous extent, Aristotle argued that a “thing” is more than the sum of its parts; a syllable, for example, is not just the individual letters
Murder Murder at the Red Room
February 25, 2013
“Smells like f***in’, like some f***in’ piss, yo,” the guy with the gangster lean says, strutting to the end of the bathroom and back before pulling his shirt off and
A Stunningly Beautiful, Sumptuous, Lavish Affair?
February 13, 2013
As if Joe Wright wasn’t enough, the Danish, too, seem to have caught sumptuitis (sump-choo-eye-tis). Perhaps what keeps these films alive is the opportunity for critics to use otherwise largely
Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido – Gladiators of Contemporary Dance
February 3, 2013
As the audience expectantly murmurs their way into their seats, Pieter Ampe is on his back on the hard floor, legs straight up in the air, feet flattened out above
Simple Togetherness
January 6, 2013
After we have clapped, and TJ Dawe has bowed, and Donna with the Firehall has announced that talk-backs with Dawe and Gabor Maté will begin in about five minutes, the room
White Christmas Sparkles at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage!
December 7, 2012
Stepping out of White Christmas’ heady, holiday-magic, simpler-times fantasy onto a rain-slicked Granville St. is a bit of a letdown. Christmas is a vibrant, pleasant little illusion, an energetic, extremely
