Ideas worth spreading in Vancouver

This year’s TEDxVancouver will take place on Saturday, October 18 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. An independent event affiliated with the TED Talks, this...

Our Town: as much as things change, they always stay the same

Sitting at a picnic table beside the main stage tent at Bard on the Beach, Bob Frazer explains that Thornton Wilder and Shakespeare have...

Liam Neeson takes A Walk Among the Tombstones

Aim low; achieve average; feel awesome: this is Liam Neeson’s recent strategy for choosing roles. Your enjoyment of Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the...

How glorious it is: an inter view with The Glorious Sons

Kingston Ontario's The Glorious Sons will soon release a new album, The Union, just days after they play in Vancouver. Brett Emmons, the band's...

Album review: The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt

The fifth album from these New Jersey rockers, Get Hurt marks a change in the band’s tone with a less celebratory mood and more...

Empathizing with evil in The Drop

Leaving uneasy after seeing The Drop, I looked down and noticed red ink had stained my hands like the bloodguilt the hero (and I)...

Art imitates life in a Fringe show about actors who work at a restaurant

Sometimes life imitates art and vice versa in a serendipitous feedback loop. Pippa Mackie is an actor, and she also works in a restaurant;...

Why road trip stories are so captivating

I have yet to encounter anyone who doesn’t like a good old-fashioned road trip. That’s the truly amazing thing about them: there are so...

Fringe Festival highlights

The Fringe Festival is on its 30th run this year, but I only discovered its majesty in 2013. Its small-sized venues provide just the...

In theory: no budget, no crew, no script

Schrodinger’s cat, dinner party antics, and experimental filmmaking collide in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial feature-length debut, Coherence. This is one head trip of a...