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What is (a) Punk? New Acquisitions Screening
Leading up to the screening, I found myself mulling over this very question: what is punk? To me, punk was discovering The Ramones or The…
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Shindig 2020 Night 3
Bodies, painted by the soft pink and blue of scattered strobe lights, wandered, clustered, swayed, ricocheted off and leaned against one another as four local…
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Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Launch
By the time I reached Massy Books for the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2019, all the chairs had gone. That’s understandable — it’s a…
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The Ministry of Human Resources
While the Matador may look like an inconspicuous home from the front, circle around to the back entrance on any given weekend evening and it…
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Hell Night with Gorbman & Aaron
If you’ve spent any amount of time around Vancouver’s comedy circuit, you’ll know Aaron Read can be counted on for queasy laughs. Take Hell Night,…
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Kingfisher Bluez 12th Annual Christmas Party
Have you ever gone to a concert and had a great time, but just wished that there were thirteen more bands performing that night? If…
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Ezra Collective
I’d not yet entered the Fox Cabaret, but I knew what I was about to be in for: some good jazz music. You could already…
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Some Thoughts on Live-Streaming Music
As COVID-19 and the public health guidelines in response are sweeping through nearly every aspect of society, people (privileged enough to have the means to…
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The Sunday Service Present: In Your Home!
here are not many things in life that can be counted upon quite as steadfastly as The Sunday Service. Week after week, through very occasional…
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