Jennifer Ruffelle

Go Local With Two of Hearts

In the wake of last week’s building collapse, the challenges and exploitation of offshore garment manufacturing has been harshly and unavoidably brought into the Canadian market conversation. Loblaw’s low-price label,

The West Coast Style Revolution…

  It’s been almost two years since MSN Travel awarded post-Olympic Vancouver a bronze in their “Least Fashionable Cities in the World” event; however, the undated critique remains active on

A Familiar Comfort

Continuing 2013’s apparent theme: “Remind me again, Doc Emmet Brown – what year is it?” Depeche Mode have once again managed to narrowly avoid break-ups, lawsuits and overdoses, releasing their

The Future You Anticipated Has Been Cancelled

It’s sound check. All four members of the group are on stage, promptly at the scheduled time, prepping for the sold out gig. Lead vocalist/bass player/self-confessed “shit-dancer”, Andy McCluskey, has

Dirty Bookish Scoundrels

Andrew Shaffer’s Literary Rogues – A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors is a deliciously naughty bit of trash lit for the beach bound cultural aficionado (or those who would like to be).

The Next Day Is Today

Quietly and unexpectedly emerging from a ten-year pseudo-hiatus that had been rife with almost-forgotten rumours of illness, stroke, disability and the ongoing saga of “is he/isn’t he with Mick Jagger?”,

Flume Keeps Rising

As a global community, we tend to reserve a special place in our hearts for anyone who has the honour of taking a chart-topping position away from Justin Bieber. This

Long Live the Accordion

On a typical, misty Vancouver day, just hours before her packed show at The Railway Club, I met with Ingrid Gatin at Daniel, Le Chocolat Belge on South Granville.  

Extraction Exceeds Expectations

Heather Redfern, Executive Director of The Cultch described March 5th 2013 as, “The most exciting night of the year”.  A brimmingly-full house filed into the East Vancouver cultural centre to witness the

Easy, Promiscuous Listening

If there’s always room for a sultry ’80s-eque slow jam on your mix tape, you will definitely want to pick up Andrew and Daniel Aged (aka inc.) before picking up

Try Deez On For Size

If you hadn’t heard of Darwin Deez (aka Darwin Smith) prior to this week’s release of his second album, that makes two of us. Let me walk you through my

The Sweet Sound of 1000 Lives

I’ve listened to many a sexy voice in my time, but, with 1000 Lives, Winnipeg’s Ingrid Gatin elevates sultriness to a veritable art form – accordion, twangy piano and all.