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...

When art and books collide

Tracy Stefanucci is a powerhouse of creativity. Not only has she been publishing a magazine since 2006, but she also operates a local artist-run...

Young Braised’s Japanese Tendencies

I first came across the music of rapper Jaymes Bowman, aka Young Braised, through last fall’s “Snack City” music video. Directed by Metalab’s William...