Five cures for winter boredom

1. Discover Thug Notes If you’re ever in need of a quick summary and analysis of a classic piece of literature, Thug Notes has your...

We Are The City succeed in both filmmaking and music

“It feels like happiness. It feels like remembering faces and words. It feels like water. It feels like electricity. It sounds like a humming...

PuSh Festival fights winter blues

Over the past decade, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has become an acknowledged and respected event, both locally and internationally.  For their 11th year,...

The best records of 2014

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar) Expanding on the sound of her folksy debut, Angel Olsen’s newest is as exhaustive...

The best films of 2014

10. Men, Women & Children Masterfully written and directed by Jason Reitman, the genius behind Juno, this film perfectly encapsulates our era by examining the...

Samuel Beckett at his best

Written in 1956, All That Fall by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett has never been professionally produced in Canada, until now. First broadcast on BBC...

Ryan Hemsworth resists pop music with Alone For The First Time

Ryan Hemsworth’s 2014 release, Alone for the First Time, maintains his trademark eight-bit, intimate bedroom electronica that fans have come to love, while simultaneously...

The Homesman is a haunting, feminist western

There is an unforgettable moment in The Homesman when a pale woman living in a modest south-western style house during the 1800s takes what...

A Touch of Noir

I don’t know what it is about film noir, but it holds a special som’thin’ som’thin’ for a lot of people in Vancouver. For...

Monty Python take their final bow

Broadcast from the O2 Arena in London to cinemas around the world, Monty Python Live (Mostly) included many of the comedy troupe’s classic sketches...