Serena Jost's new solo CD recorded live in historic church

Music

Vancouver Observer

Xtreme room service @ Nigredo Hotel

Michael Moore's hope in the Trump era; The Wife’s marriage seems happy and Life Itself can bring tears

Step to rear; mind gaps; hang on tight

Doomed to repeat it? Indelible history

Lincoln Kaye

Sep 14th, 2018

"Japanese Problem" reenacts haunted 1942 legacy of PNE livestock barns

Black paint on a blackboard

Turning Point Ensemble world-premieres Rudolf Komorous' Dada opera "Mute Canary"

MusicLincoln KayeSep 14th, 2018

Lounge lizards' lair; new life for old den

Tyrants Media revives iconic Noir venue for jokes & jams

CultureLincoln KayeSep 9th, 2018

Locally-filmed The Predator, a mommy blogger’s Simple Favor and bad blood Under the Tree

Also Nicolas Cage really flips out over Mandy and The Cakemaker romances his lover’s widow

New MoviesVolkmar RichterSep 13th, 2018

Travel

Powell River: mill town re-tools for new millennium

Lincoln Kaye

To Zero Mile and back

Lincoln Kaye

Scouting behind the lines; a theatrical sally to Ashland, Oregon

Lincoln Kaye

To bee or not to bee?

Lincoln Kaye

PRFF lights up the screen in Powell River

Marion Bridge; pro-Life menage à trois

Touchstone brings witty MacIvor melodrama to West Van's Kay Meek Theatre

TheatreLincoln KayeSep 6th, 2018

A vengeful mom, a demonic nun and Michael Caine’s memories of the swinging 60s

Also: a tulips and Mafia fantasy in Italy and the troubling lives of three skateboarders

New MoviesVolkmar RichterSep 6th, 2018

Opening and closing VIFF films announced along with a high profile line-up

Both The Hummingbird Project and The Front Runner have Canadian connections

New MoviesVolkmar RichterSep 5th, 2018

Reviews of Juliet, Naked (stars and fans), Searching (stories via computer) and Generation Wealth (examining excess)

Also: a Buddhist tale of reincarnation, watching a chaotic childhood and gagging with the horrors of war

New MoviesVolkmar RichterAug 31st, 2018

Squamish Nation celebrates court victory and urges Trudeau to abandon Trans Mountain expansion

Vancouver ObserverAug 30th, 2018

Reviews: The Bookshop, classy, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, gay conversion slammed, and 1945, post-war ill will

Also: Support the Girls, in the serving staff, Papillon, in and out of an infamous prison, Breath, grow up and surf, The Happytime Murders, of puppets, and Little Italy, love and rival pizzas

New MoviesVolkmar RichterAug 24th, 2018

Hummingbirds brighten a dark alley in the Downtown Eastside

When asked to create a design for a blank wall of a highly active alley in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Charlene Johnny Wadsworth immediately thought of hummingbirds.

Charlene WadsworthEmilee Gilpin Aug 21st, 2018