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Icons of apartheid jazz at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
July 1, 2015Jazz legends drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim sit at opposite ends of musical expression in the struggle for black liberation in South Africa. Like many other black musicians, Moholo and Ibrahim left the country in the 1960s under apartheid, rather than endure the oppression, violence, and havoc of the time. But if the harmonious beauty of pianist Ibrahim’s lyricism and vibrant, complex rhythms aims to lift and soothe, drummer Moholo’s free-jazz ensembles entwine the heartrending effects of oppression and dislocation into a savage, coiled beauty formed from intense, sinewy lines of abstract sound, scattershot with chaotic tonal clusters…
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Cinephilia: SFU alumnus creates a subversive, anti-romantic comedy
June 29, 2015We know how this story is supposed to go. There is a guy, there is a girl. He is married, and she is too. His wife is boring. Her husband is adulterous. We see them laugh; we see them flirt;…
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Renaissance paintings, multi-media installations, and photography at the Vancouver Art Gallery
June 29, 2015The three current exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums, How Do I Fit This Ghost In My Mouth? An Exhibition by Geoffrey Farmer, and Residue: Persistence of the…
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Comic Connoisseur: Snyder and Murphy terrify readers with The Wake
June 29, 2015The Wake is a sci-fi story which takes place over the course of two generations. In its first half, we are introduced to a team of individuals tasked with learning the origin of a newly discovered and vicious underwater organism.…
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Touring North Vancouver’s booming brewery scene
June 22, 2015Plenty of sun, good friends, and a guided tour to four of North Vancouver’s craft breweries can only make for a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon. Burnaby Tours and Charters, a new boutique tour company, is now offering brewery tours to…
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Patrick Watson’s newest album is MGMT meets the Beatles
June 22, 2015Patrick Watson is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Lancaster, California and raised in Montreal, Canada. His music style has been described as a mixture of cabaret, classical, and indie rock, and he is often recognized for his melancholy lyrics and…
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Cinephilia: Bigger dinosaur teeth can’t save Jurassic World
June 22, 2015Just like I wouldn’t want to go to a surgeon who knows lots of theory but no practical skills, I didn’t like Jurassic World, which recognizes the reasons that it is so bad while failing to practice what it preaches.…
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Of Monsters and Men lose some of their whimsy
June 22, 2015I have found my summer road trip album. Beneath the Skin, Of Monsters and Men’s latest release, is the kind of high-energy music that makes you want to roll your windows down and drive off into the sunset. It is…
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Comic Connoisseur: The Disappearance of Charley Butters is a captivating page turner
June 22, 2015The Disappearance of Charley Butters is not a tale with an abundance of twists and turns. It is a very straightforward mystery — one readers have seen before. It is not a reinvention of the genre or a trailblazing new…
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Steampunk silliness at Bard on the Beach
June 18, 2015Steampunk is one of those things that is quite difficult to describe, but very easy to recognize. Essentially, it’s a sub-genre of science fiction that features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. But it’s more complicated than that: it also…
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