As the Academy Award nominations briefly usurp global terror headlines, I recall how watching events unfold in Paris last week was a
A special three-day ritual unfolds every year in my hometown. It’s called the Vancouver Folk Music Festival or, as it’s lovingly referred
Watching Dark Sisters, the opera by American composer Nico Muhly inspired by breakaway polygamous Mormon cult leader Warren Jeffs, was eerily resonant.
As a Vancouverite, I have always been particularly obsessed with winter solstice. I blame this on Seasonal Affective Disorder and the fact
As the Palm Springs International Film Festival wraps up and Thursday’s Oscar nominations loom, I remember the words of my old friend
So then … the Oscars are guilty of being a tad too monochromatic and a chorus of notables from Spike Lee to
When a last minute e-mail alerted me to a change in curtain time for the opening night of Robert Lepage’s 887, I
In this season of sad anniversaries, as the 12-year-old ghosts of the invasion of Iraq enjoy a violent adolescence, the consequences of
Iraqi cellist Karim Wasfi’s video of his musical improvisations at the site of last month’s bombing in Baghdad became an online sensation – with
It’s a long way from Lebanon to Vancouver. I contemplate this as I wait to meet the Lebanese foreign minister, Gebran Bassil,