Playing dead

In the wake of of last year’s popular site-specific theatre experience The Zombie Syndrome, The Virtual Stage presents the sequel, The Zombie Syndrome: On...

Ghosts in Gastown

As Halloween is the best time of the year to scare yourself silly, I thought it best to spook you all with some chilling...

Chic kings and queens of horror

Dressing up for Halloween is fun and all, but what about the other 364 days of the year? Why not channel some of classic...

Rookie of the year

“Hormones suck,” Tavi Gevinson writes in the introduction to Rookie Yearbook Two, “But being a young person doesn’t always.” Like its predecessor, Yearbook One,...

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...