Bhangra love takes over Vancouver

  Vancouver, get ready to dance your heart out. The 10th annual Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration is a lively festival that will showcase music and...

The Last of the Unjust adds to an impressive body of work

Few filmmakers’ careers are defined by one film as Claude Lanzmann’s has been. His 1985 sophomore documentary Shoah, a nine-hour film on the extermination...

Some people write for the hell of it

  Admittedly I’m not the most qualified person to be reviewing a book of poetry. (For souring me on the literary form, I blame years...

Ts’msyen Transforming shapes the past into high art

  Morgan Green shows me a fierce tattoo of an eagle with its wings spread along the length of her right arm. It’s crafted in...

Totem explores the infinite potential of human existence

Chronicling the evolution of the human species from amphibians, to apes, to the present, Totem is a new Cirque du Soleil production that fuses...

Spaces and Reservations presents a reality of life

It’s a story that isn’t a story. There are no plot twists and no special effects. It’s not a drama showing unfaithfulness, it isn’t...

Young and Serious

“No one’s serious at seventeen.” This line from Rimbaud’s 1870 poem “Novel,” which features in François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, proves a passé perspective...

Coffee, Tragedy, History: Blaq Sheep Coffee

You may be scratching your head as you read the title of this new column: Coffee, Tragedy, History? This, dear reader, is (I hope)...

Atwood’s Pauline honours First Nations writer

Pauline Johnson was a writer who has often been left out of the canon, but as a performer and vocal First Nations woman, she...

Launching artists into their careers

It’s time to launch your artistic project! Why? There is a multidisciplinary festival for young professional artists. According to festival coordinator Mallory Gallant, the festival...