After 11 years of bringing you local reporting, the team behind the Vancouver Observer has moved on to Canada's National Observer. You can follow Vancouver culture reporting over there from now on. Thank you for all your support over the years!

Lincoln Kaye

Lincoln Kaye is Vancouver Observer's Senior Correspondent for Culture and
Features. In half a century of reporting, he has served as a magazine correspondent in Asia, a food and travel writer, a music, film and theatre critic and a forest fire lookout.

VIFF chinoiserie: Taiwan island fever, mainland navel-gazing

Taiwan's Hsiao Ya-chuan upholds Hou Hsiao-hsien lineage; PRC documentarian world-premieres her narrative film debut; director-producer duo Nai An and Yang Mingming co-star in feminist tragicomedy

Tunefully Born Again!

"Book of Mormon" mass-baptizes QE audience into joys of raunchy musical humour

Van disciples greet gurus' Guru

South Indian percussion star Trichy Sankaran packs Roundhouse for fusion fete

Xtreme room service @ Nigredo Hotel

City Opera reprises Nic Gotham/Ann-Marie MacDonald's jazzy one-act psycho-thriller

Step to rear; mind gaps; hang on tight

"Tales of an Urban Indian" hijacks Translink bus for a bumpy, lurching ride

Black paint on a blackboard

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

Doomed to repeat it? Indelible history

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

Lounge lizards' lair; new life for old den

Tyrants Media revives iconic Noir venue for jokes & jams

Marion Bridge; pro-Life menage à trois

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

Gee-Whizzery

SIGGRAPH 2018: Virtual circus comes to town