Director’s Spotlight: Xavier Dolan

By: Tessa Perkins Québécois wunderkind Xavier Dolan is an extraordinary and prolific director. His fifth film, Mommy, won the jury prize at the 2014 Cannes...

What John Green gets right about mental illness in his new novel

By: Winona Young Turtles All the Way Down is the recently released YA fiction novel that is John Green at his most personal. After a...

Busty and the Bass’ Alistair Blu discusses origins, inspirations, and the artistic process

By: Alex Bloom Busty and the Bass is a Montréal-based band composed of nine members: Scott Bevins (trumpet), Mike McCann (trumpet), Chris Vincent (trombone), Nick...

Canzine returns to Vancouver with art, pizza, and witchcraft

By: Natasha Tar Two hours before the doors to Canzine are opened to the public, vendors are bustling about and choosing their tables. The woman beside...

Album Reviews

By: Eva Zhu, Rebeka Roga and Neil MacAlister Visions of a Life by Wolf Alice Every once in awhile, a female-fronted, guitar-prominent rock band will burst...

The Vancouver International Film Festival in review

By: Tessa Perkins and Winona Young Sweet Virginia – directed by Jamie M. Dagg Three men play Texas Hold ‘em in a bar after hours. A stone-faced man...

New Music Friday

By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales, and Edna Batengas https://open.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/3WZUfKu8V7RhOJr6N3SYQn “MotorSport” – Migos, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B Ana Maria Mejia Morales: Here we go. Started off bad. Real...

Ballet BC’s resident choreographer presents world premiere

By: Tessa Perkins Ballet BC’s resident choreographer Cayetano Soto is presenting a new one-act ballet, Eight Years of Silence, during Program 1 of the company’s...

SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ production of The Bald Soprano takes place in modern-day Vancouver

By: Edna Batengas SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) has an upcoming mainstage theatre production of The Bald Soprano. It was originally written in...

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman is a fast-paced account of her adventures abroad

By: Victoria Lopatka What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman is a debut travel memoir unlike any other travel memoir...