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Satire and shock with The Book of Mormon
April 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2293" align="alignright" width="618"] Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus.[/caption] This is not your grandmother’s musical. Full of shameless profanity and politically incorrect references, I would expect nothing less from the creators of South Park. Elder Price dreams of being sent from the Missionary Training Centre of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to spread God’s word in Orlando, but instead he is paired with the clingy, awkward Elder Cunningham and sent to Uganda. Cunningham desperately tries to become best friends, but Price just feels ripped off. In Uganda, they meet a village of people struggling with AIDS,…
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Fan Expo Vancouver was all about the fans
April 10, 2015Being funneled into the Vancouver Convention Centre shoulder to shoulder with Deadpool and Elsa, you can’t help feeling overwhelmed. After passing through the proper authorities — fake weapon prop check being one of them — I found myself herded down…
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Chad Brownlee ends his When the Lights Go Down Tour in Vancouver
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2277" align="aligncenter" width="817"] Photo courtesy of The Windsor Star.[/caption] I’ve never seen so many cowboy boots stomping in unison on the Commodore’s ballroom floor. Ending his Canadian tour at home, Chad Brownlee was joined by Canadian Country Music Award…
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Laugh in the face of death with Famous Puppet Death Scenes
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2274" align="alignright" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Jason Stang.[/caption] Not since the animated interludes of Monty Python have I seen something so brilliantly absurd. The Old Trout Puppet Workshop has compiled the best death scenes from an imaginary repertoire of…
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Rubacava’s new EP is one hell of an album
April 7, 2015Every so often, a down-to-earth musical group magically appears that rattles your bones and makes you think, ‘Wow, I guess not all Vancouver bands sound the same after all.’ Rubacava, led by BFFs Sylvie Bridgman and Dan Ponich, is one…
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Clear imagery, cryptic meaning in Safely Home Pacific Western
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2245" align="alignright" width="661"] Photo courtesy of Goose Lane Editions.[/caption] Travelling through time and across continents, Jeff Latosik’s second poetry collection, Safely Home Pacific Western, is an explorative journey. Latosik reflects on his own life and experiences while questioning humankind…
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Diverse movement at the Vancouver International Dance Festival
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1958" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Photo courtesy of VIDF.[/caption] Ferenc Fehér The Vancouver International Dance Festival presented a diverse line up of artists this year, and offered many free shows as well as ticketed events. Hungarian choreographer and performer Ferenc Fehér’s…
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Cinephilia: Inherent Vice is a convoluted tale of ’70s debauchery
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1984" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.[/caption] Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Inherent Vice is a labyrinth with no way out; the more you think about its plot and try to piece together all…
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An alien race clashes with humanity in Home
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1960" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Dreamworks Animation.[/caption] Tim Johnson’s Home is a computer animated science fiction-comedy film about an alien invasion with an interesting twist. Themes such as friendship, accepting differences, and finding a place of belonging are…
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Walk the Moon sell out the Commodore with their energetic, ’80s-inspired pop music
March 27, 2015[caption id="attachment_1963" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Navjot Sidhu.[/caption] Walk the Moon from Ohio brought their energetic, danceable music to the Commodore Ballroom on March 22 as part of their Talking is Hard tour, and showed us all why it’s…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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