The Italian Film Festival Summer Series ends with a free screening on August 7

June is Italian Heritage Month, and in Vancouver, that means a magnificent celebration of art, music, cinema, food, and amore, lots of amore. Italian...

Touring North Vancouver’s booming brewery scene

Plenty of sun, good friends, and a guided tour to four of North Vancouver’s craft breweries can only make for a very enjoyable Sunday...

Patrick Watson’s newest album is MGMT meets the Beatles

Patrick Watson is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Lancaster, California and raised in Montreal, Canada. His music style has been described as a mixture...

Cinephilia: Bigger dinosaur teeth can’t save Jurassic World

Just like I wouldn’t want to go to a surgeon who knows lots of theory but no practical skills, I didn’t like Jurassic World,...

Of Monsters and Men lose some of their whimsy

I have found my summer road trip album. Beneath the Skin, Of Monsters and Men’s latest release, is the kind of high-energy music that...

Comic Connoisseur: The Disappearance of Charley Butters is a captivating page turner

The Disappearance of Charley Butters is not a tale with an abundance of twists and turns. It is a very straightforward mystery — one...

Steampunk silliness at Bard on the Beach

Steampunk is one of those things that is quite difficult to describe, but very easy to recognize. Essentially, it’s a sub-genre of science fiction...

Cinephilia: Greg is an unlikely hero in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

If Me and Earl and the Dying Girl were a person, I would wrap my arms around them and squeeze as hard as I...

Pixar succeeds with adult-oriented hit Inside Out

Life is like a long bike race: a grueling trek to the finish that consists of exhilarating ups, depressing downs, and moments of uncertainty...

Comic Connoisseur: Quantum and Woody cap series with side-splitting hijinks

Quantum and Woody are the worst crime fighters ever created. There is no duo in comics today that can match the hijinks of these...