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The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, by Gord Hill – Book Review

The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, by Gord Hill – Book Review

Gord Hill’s latest work, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book (published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012), lays out the mass anti-capitalist (and usually anarchist) events that have transpired over…

Basement of Wolves: a novel by Daniel Allen Cox – Book Review

Basement of Wolves: a novel by Daniel Allen Cox – Book Review

I’ve never been a genuine Hollywood fan. Even the Oscars fail to allure me, because I don’t own a television. And I never keep up with tabloid news…

A Little Distillery in Nowgong, by Ashok Mathur – Book Review

A Little Distillery in Nowgong, by Ashok Mathur – Book Review

A Little Distillery in Nowgong details the Khargat family history over an 80 year period and is narrated by a child not- yet- born into this family. The…

A La Music

Album releases are some of the strangest parties I’ve ever been to

Album releases are some of the strangest parties I’ve ever been to

Album releases are some of the strangest parties I’ve ever been to. If you show…

Headwater, C.R. Avery, The River and the Road – Live Review

Headwater, C.R. Avery, The River and the Road – Live Review

The triple-feature at the Biltmore Cabaret last Friday played out like two completely different evenings:…

Derek Donley from Bereft – Interview

Derek Donley from Bereft – Interview

Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists, save empty space, and you.…

GAUNTLET HAIR with openers Dana Buoy – Live Review

GAUNTLET HAIR with openers Dana Buoy – Live Review

Well, you’ve gotta hand it to Gauntlet Hair. For a band that only recently started…

Tony Dekker from the Great Lake Swimmers – Interview

Tony Dekker from the Great Lake Swimmers – Interview

Vancouver Weekly: What was it like putting together New Wild Everywhere and how does it…

Out 'N' About

Blue Box: A hot monologue simmering with romance and politics

Blue Box: A hot monologue simmering with romance and politics

Carmen Aguirre’s brilliant monologue, Blue Box, delves into the actor’s intriguing life as a Chilean freedom fighter. This dramatic production is also punctuated with tales of romance, salsa…

V.I.P.F. Daily Dispatch: Day Six, Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship Finals

V.I.P.F. Daily Dispatch: Day Six, Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship Finals

Saturday night, The Rio Theatre played host to the culmination of the second annual Vancouver International Poetry Festival. There’s an emotional vacuity that results from the ending of…

Henry and Alice: Into the Wild – Theatre review

Henry and Alice: Into the Wild – Theatre review

Henry and Alice Lane need a vacation. A different vacation. Usually they would venture off to Europe or somewhere exotic but Henry wants to try something else, something…

Must See Films

The Avengers – Film Review

The Avengers – Film Review

Now predicted to break the $1 billion mark after just nineteen days, The Avengers has proved a joy to audiences, critics,…

Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters – Film Review

Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters – Film Review

If there’s a response one might expect to be fairly universal among audiences ten minutes into Morten Tyldum’s film Headhunters, it’s…

The Forgiveness of Blood – A film by Joshua Marston – Review

The Forgiveness of Blood – A film by Joshua Marston – Review

Tradition and modernity clash in Joshua Marston’s latest film. The director of Maria Full of Grace, makes his return to feature…