Jun 7th, 2012
With respect, the Scissor Sisters are not ones to compromise their rainbow-tinted vision. The "Filthy, Gorgeous" hitmakers used a flexed male derrière as the cover of their last album, the...
May 29th, 2012
It really is fitting for this day and age: an argument on whether or not to tell the truth—whether or not to call a spade a spade. In a time when unemployment insurance is called "employment...
May 29th, 2012
Punk band White Lung is as beloved by the Vancouver scene as the smell of PBR. To anyone who attended the release party for their new LP Sorry, Thursday night at Biltmore Cabaret, it’s easy to see...
May 23rd, 2012
From performing naked, to releasing their own mixes of years-old records, to writing a “goth” album for their newest release, This Machine, The Dandy Warhols have become known for consistently doing...
May 16th, 2012
The biggest challenge in talking about slut-shaming and feminism, it seems, is finding people who are willing to engage in the topic.
May 15th, 2012
Jesusa Ricoy-Olariaga has learned much from the mothers who send their pain down the telephone wire to her position at a birth trauma helpline. She’s learned not only the “whats” of birth rape,...
May 8th, 2012
Women today are as likely to develop PTSD from giving birth as modern solders are from military combat, due to the "rape"-like procedures used in some hospitals.
May 5th, 2012
May 25 to 27, local women will form a band, write a song and perform it—in three days. A family of campers and mentor Kathryn Calder (of the New Pornographers) talked to VO about the experience.
May 1st, 2012
Imagine a woman lying on her back, immobilized with fear and a numbing drug, as a stranger penetrates her with his hand and touches her with sharp objects, against her consent. What has just been...
Apr 28th, 2012
Brooklyn indie-poppers The Drums will be hitting Vancouver in less than two weeks, at Venue on May 8. Everything about the band is classically simple, from their music, to their clean-cut American...
