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Preview: Michael Hingston – The Dilettantes

August 12, 2013
It’s a classic tale: the little guy fights for survival as big business encroaches. Except in Michael Hingston’s latest novel The Dilettantes, the little guy is The Peak, a university

Beat the Sun

July 30, 2013
Early shows. If they took place somewhere where curtains could be drawn, or in a basement club, there could at least be the illusion of night time. But The Electric

David Bowie “Valentine’s Day”

July 30, 2013
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4R8HTIgHUU[/youtube] David Bowie has always pushed buttons – even at 66 years of age, he managed to get his video for “The Next Day” banned from YouTube (although, it was

Japanther “Something To Do”

July 14, 2013
A graffito-tagged hodgepodge of animations splatter across the first few seconds of Japanther’s video for “Something To Do”. The crude little cartoons, like the ones found all over Japanther’s art,

Preview: Mark McLean – The Atheist Who Went To Church

July 13, 2013
Two years after the release of his debut novel Losing Dominion, Vancouver-based writer Mark McLean revisits themes of journeying, searching (however literal or metaphorical), personal reflection and familial relations in

Pissed Jeans “Romanticize Me”

July 9, 2013
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tzKE31JQXY[/youtube] Figure skating! That’s what you think of when you hear the words “pissed jeans”, right? The Pennsylvania Sub Pop quartet’s video for “Romanticize Me” opens in more expected fashion

The Cult of Urban Bohemia

July 8, 2013
“THIS IS A GOOD DAY,” Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s t-shirt read. But June 22, 2013 wasn’t just a “good day”: to borrow a phrase that graced the Dandys’ website once

Preview: This Day in Vancouver

July 7, 2013
One day at a time. A lot has happened in the relatively young, 125-year history of Vancouver, and that’s how Jesse Donaldson wants to show us as much of it

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