Jaw-dropping Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón has never been a filmmaker known for his thematic subtlety — a fondness for overly eager and heavy handed metaphors separates his...

Absurdist theatre takes the stage

The School of Contemporary Arts brings you Ubu Cocu, SFU theatre’s fall mainstage production. Directed by Nicole DesLauriers, Ubu Cocu is about a sometimes-king...

October brings crisp words and stories

Colourful leaves cover the ground and the air is crisp; autumn is here, and with it comes the annual Vancouver Writers Festival. For six...

Album Reviews: The Head and the Heart, Basia Bulat, and a throwback to Joy Division

The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still By April Alayon Seattle’s six-piece indie-folk group recently released their sophomore album Let’s Be Still, moving away from...

Art au naturel

During the evening of Oct. 3, I visited Hot Art Wet City on Main Street to peruse the gallery’s’ most recent exhibit: Boobies &...

Tilting toward one another

With two world premieres by Jorma Elo and Emily Molnar and a remount of Johan Inger’s Walking Mad, Tilt is an evening of three...

Annual anthology emerges from The Writer’s Studio

After a one-year crash course in the craft and business of writing, The Writers’ Studio graduates are presenting their work in the 13th annual...

SFU welcomes new Writer-in-Residence

Award-winning author Madeleine Thien grew up in Vancouver and even attended SFU as a student. Her prose is lauded as “elegant” and “deeply empathetic”...

Album Reviews: Miley Cyrus, Oneohtrix Point Never, and a throwback to Bjork

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz You can’t blame Miley for trying. In the midst of weekly PR disasters — the latest being the ongoing feud between the...

Don Jon tackles porn addiction

The latest actor-turned-director, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has created a film that really should not work as well as it does. Don Jon feels like a...