Sound Off
Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. In his second studio album under the…
Arts & Culture
Point / Counterpoint
Point / Counterpoint is a platform in which two parties discuss pertinent cultural issues from opposing sides. It’s a real debate, and like any honest…
Ten great things
Tis the season for tales of terror! But I have to admit that scary movies just don’t do it for me. Long before corn syrup was…
Places for Peanuts
I looked up at the walls of the Edge Gallery, awestruck. Small postcard-sized drawings were everywhere, covering the walls like tiny freckles. The Edge Gallery…
Todd & the Book of Pure Evil
There’s something uncannily charming about Todd & the Book of Pure Evil. The show debuted last fall on the Space network and was filmed right…
Book review: MetaMaus
It’s been more than 20 years since the original release of Art Spiegelman’s two volume holocaust epic, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, and in that time…
CD Review: Tom Waits, Bad as Me
Tom Waits is notorious for taking listeners to bizarre and gritty soundscapes. His musical prowess has been punctuated with sharp horn melodies, drunken carnival-esque sounds…
My love affair with Death Cab
Death Cab for Cutie, for those of you who don’t know, is a band founded by Ben Gibbard in the late nineties. They’ve released seven…
Essentially a Playlist
With the omnibus crime bill that the Conservative government recently introduced, you’d be forgiven for thinking that our parents have some longstanding hate on when…
CD Review: Dan Mangan
Oh Fortune, the follow-up to the 2009 Polaris Prize nominee Nice, Nice, Very Nice, sees the Vancouverite Dan Mangan show definite growth. He’s dropped the…