2013 Arts in Vancouver

A preview of arts in the coming year By Ljudmila Petrovic Vancouver gets a bad rep for its lack of fun, but also for its lack...

Top Five Films of 2012

The most memorable films of the past year By Will Ross 5. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb) A man puts tape on...

Top Ten Albums 2012

The best music makers of the past year By Max Hill 10. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes Fans of Steven Ellison’s last album under his...

Miriam Margolyes brings the women of Charles Dickens to life

  The worldwide tour of Dickens' Women celebrates the bi centenary of Dickens' birth By Monica Miller Photos by Prudence-Upton Although she is best known to youth as...

SFU Author Spotlight: Poetry Abound

By Monica Miller Catherine Owen is a Vancouver poet who completed her BA and MA at SFU (1997–2001) in English Literature, writing her thesis on...

good kid, m.A.A.d city, great album

   By Max Hill good kid, m.A.A.d. city is punctuated by the voicemail messages its 17-year-old protagonist receives. His mother prays for him and tempers her...

Lincoln boldly challenges a broken world

Spielberg's latest feature succeeds as more than a biopic By Will Ross Even Steven Spielberg’s detractors agree on this much: his movies make people feel good....

Discovering the world of Hayao Miyazaki

Cinematheque and Vancity Theatre scheduled to screen films from the masters of Studio Ghibli By Monica Miller I watched my first Hayao Miyazaki movie around age...

Throwback Review: You better go back and Check Your Head

The Beastie Boy's third album is some of their best, most eclectic music By Colin O'Neil If you still think the Beastie Boys were only about...

WGSN makes bold trend predictions

New movements in style involve technology, animals and modernism By Caroline Brown Illustration by Eleanor Qu What are the trends in fashion, art, and architecture? What is...