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...

Dramatic Fringe

For Body and Light – 3 stars Slow and pensive, this show was poetry in motion. The poetry and music of Ian Ferrier and choreography...

Comedic Fringe

Anatolia Speaks – 3 stars Anatolia is a Bosnian refugee who gives a presentation to her Canadian ESL class. It begins with the basics of...

Sleater-Kinney: the best band you’ve never heard

Never mind the Sex Pistols; forget the Ramones. When it comes to punk rock, there never was a better band than Sleater-Kinney1. Two guitars and...

MFA Students show off their final projects at the Audain Gallery

Enjoy an evening of art, cheese, wine, and mingling with our MFA Graduate students during their opening reception of Lossless on September 10 in...

Album review: The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers

Brill Bruisers, The New Pornographers’ sixth studio album and first in four years, is simultaneously an impressive return to form and a progression of...

Cloudy, with a chance of face

Since his debut at Music Waste in 2011, Cloudface (aka David Reynolds) has become a figure of local music folklore. With only a handful...

The Terrors of terrorism

What do you think when you hear the word jihad? Is it a brown-skinned, long-bearded man screaming “allahu akbar” with a bomb strapped to...