After weeks of controversy over East Vancouver's Rio Theatre losing the ability to screen films after gaining a liquor licence, the B.C. Liberal government is changing the rules.
Vancouver city council voted today (January 31) to request that the B.C. provincial government allow the Rio Theatre to continue showing movie screenings without alcohol service.
It perhaps speaks to a certain yearning for the past that Alex MacKenzie’s The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing has attracted so much interest in its travels around the world.