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Real Live Action: Destroyer
It was the evening of April 22 and there was an undeniable buzz of excitement on the street as I arrived at the Vogue Theatre….
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It was the evening of April 22 and there was an undeniable buzz of excitement on the street as I arrived at the Vogue Theatre….
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The cliché that “Vancouver never plays itself” — popularized six years ago in a video essay by Tony Zhou that has close to 2 million…
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On May 16, as the scent of apple blossoms and bulbous rhododendron shrubs played with the calm evening air, I made my way to the…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…