The Call of the Wild re-made again, a festival of strong documentaries and a boy’s space adventure in Terra Willy

New Movies
Volkmar Richter
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Fantasmes à bout de souffle

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Marcus King Band brings Southern Blues North of the border for the first time

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire, superb, The Assistant, too restrained, Sonic the Hedgehog, fun times

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Wrinkles in the mind

Feb 11th, 2020
Bringing essays to life: Foster-Wallace, Suzuki/Cullis on PuSh stages

Notes from (deeeep) Underground

Cultch recruits Vancouver audiences into Burkett's "Forget Me Not"
TheatreLincoln KayeFeb 9th, 2020

Pillars of salt that sing and dance

Electric Co., Touchstone & City Opera PuSh LatinX & Old World refugee musicals
TheatreLincoln KayeFeb 5th, 2020

Unruly Harley Quinn, morality by The Traitor and Elijah Wood’s psychic adventure in Tofino

Also two queer films and dancing to fight colonialism as part of Black History Month
New MoviesVolkmar RichterFeb 6th, 2020

Travel

"Noises Off," laugh cues on

Arts Club brings West End farce to Stanley Alliance stage
TheatreLincoln KayeFeb 1st, 2020

"Voices Appeared" to silent Maid

Orlando Consort sets Dreyer's Saint Joan masterpiece to 15th century scores
MusicLincoln KayeJan 30th, 2020

Mostly Oscar contenders this week: including Corpus Christi and three classes of short films

New MoviesVolkmar RichterJan 30th, 2020

Testosteronic tutus

Virtuosic vamps of Les Ballets Trockadero in one-night-stand @ QE
DanceLincoln KayeJan 28th, 2020

Films about race and poverty in Paris, low-life exuberance in London and Werner Herzog re-tracing a friend’s quest

Also: damning memories from and since the Viet Nam war, an innovative dance choreographer in 3-D, the latest unhinged act by Nicolas Cage and a new but unseen version of The Turn of the Screw
New MoviesVolkmar RichterJan 23rd, 2020

Mt. St. Hille's pyroclastic gems

Veda Hille self-celebrates a life well-lived in idiosyncratic solo show "Little Volcano"
MusicLincoln KayeJan 22nd, 2020

Unstable Genii in Love => ∞

Moscovitch’s "Infinity" -- Quantum entanglements with Strings attached
TheatreLincoln KayeJan 19th, 2020

News

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“Charitable” Fraser Institute accepted $500k in foreign funding from Koch oil billionaires

Alexis StoymenoffApr 25th, 2012

Fraser Institute co-founder confirms 'years and years' of U.S. oil billionaires' funding

David P. BallApr 26th, 2012

Ride hailing, electric vehicles, self-driving cars: Ford Canada looks to future

Laura KaneMar 29th, 2017

Opinion

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Open Letter: UBCIC calls for the immediate cessation of the expropriation of lands for the doomed Site C Dam

Vancouver ObserverJun 8th, 2017

Lessons from the UK: why Canada needs proportional representation

Warren BellMay 10th, 2015

Please treat Indigenous women like your sisters

Dylan WaismanApr 16th, 2018

City

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Your water wise summer starts early this year

Vancouver ObserverApr 18th, 2018

Two good kids films (though one is better for adults) and then rampant juvenilia with Hellboy

Volkmar RichterApr 12th, 2019

Fantasmes à bout de souffle

Lincoln KayeFeb 17th, 2020

Culture

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Conflicting toy movies and two films to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day

Volkmar RichterJun 20th, 2019

3 more films for the holiday season: Little Women, Song of Names and Spies in Disguise

Volkmar RichterDec 27th, 2019

Life

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Your numerology cycles March 16–31

Cassandra MacLeaneMar 11th, 2019

Your numerology cycles July 16–31

Cassandra MacLeaneJul 16th, 2019

Your numerology cycles December 1–15

Cassandra MacLeaneDec 3rd, 2019

Environment

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Guy Dauncey gets ready for a "solar tsunami"

Jenny UechiMay 6th, 2014

Money and influence cast long shadow over province's decisions on Fraser River, records suggest

Jenny UechiFeb 19th, 2015