http://www.straight.com/content/rss/arts en http://www.straight.com/article-604611/vancouver/2012-push-festival-wraps-strong-attendance-figures The eight annual PuSh Fest had 27 sold-out shows and average house capacity of 80 percent. 604611 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:38:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-604611/vancouver/2012-push-festival-wraps-strong-attendance-figures#comments Jessica Werb http://www.straight.com/article-604146/vancouver/its-jungle-new-animal The aftermath of the production looked a bit like a couple of moulting grizzlies had just finished a food fight. 604146 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:28:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-604146/vancouver/its-jungle-new-animal#comments Janet Smith files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_NewAnimal2_2302.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_NewAnimal2_2302.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-603961/vancouver/chelsea-hotel-knockout The artists in Chelsea Hotel take an unlikely premise and make it work—by throwing gobs and gobs of talent at it. 603961 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:42:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-603961/vancouver/chelsea-hotel-knockout#comments Colin Thomas files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_Chelsea_Hotel_2302.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_Chelsea_Hotel_2302.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601516/vancouver/quest-plastic-beauty In The Silicone Diaries, Nina Arsenault reveals her sex work, her endless surgeries, and her redefinition of what a woman can be. 601516 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:55:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601516/vancouver/quest-plastic-beauty#comments Colin Thomas http://www.straight.com/article-601566/vancouver/art-dances-out-holland For Canadians, it may come as a surprise that one of the Netherlands’ top dance companies hails from not Amsterdam, but a town in the north called Groningen. 601566 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:50:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601566/vancouver/art-dances-out-holland#comments Janet Smith files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_Nederland_Chutzpah_opt.jpeg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_Nederland_Chutzpah_opt.jpeg http://www.straight.com/article-601581/vancouver/moon-rises-folk-afterlife The initial spark for A Blessing on the Moon happened a decade ago when composer and folk musician Andy Teirstein walked into a bookshop in New York and saw a novel of that title. 601581 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:45:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601581/vancouver/moon-rises-folk-afterlife#comments Tony Montague files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_Moon_Teirstein_230.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_Moon_Teirstein_230.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601601/vancouver/stars-life-theres-always-rachmaninoff Pianist Joyce Yang admits she is only just starting to realize how nuts her lifestyle is. 601601 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:40:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601601/vancouver/stars-life-theres-always-rachmaninoff#comments Jessica Werb http://www.straight.com/article-601706/vancouver/witching-hour Exit 22 Theatre Production takes on Arthur Miller's classic witch-hunting play. 601706 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601706/vancouver/witching-hour#comments files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ARTSPIX_Crucible_2303.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ARTSPIX_Crucible_2303.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601676/vancouver/artful-alphabet Twenty-six of the Downtown Eastside’s coolest emerging artists take you through your ABCs. 601676 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601676/vancouver/artful-alphabet#comments http://www.straight.com/article-601661/vancouver/undies-and-corsets The Arts Club's new production is the first time the work of playwright Lynn Nottage will have been staged in Vancouver. 601661 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601661/vancouver/undies-and-corsets#comments http://www.straight.com/article-601641/vancouver/latin-voices A concert of Latin-American music by the Vancouver Cantata Singers. 601641 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601641/vancouver/latin-voices#comments http://www.straight.com/article-601636/vancouver/illuminate-yaletown A multinight street party that’s part of the City and Slope music and mountain festival. 601636 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601636/vancouver/illuminate-yaletown#comments files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ARTSPIX_City2_2303.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ARTSPIX_City2_2303.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601611/vancouver/photo-flashback-refreshing Our city is so well known internationally as a centre for photo-based art that a collective term long ago emerged to describe its major proponents: the Vancouver School. 601611 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601611/vancouver/photo-flashback-refreshing#comments Robin Laurence files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_Presentation-House_2303.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_Presentation-House_2303.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601506/vancouver/artful-science-fuels-mcgregors-meteoric-rise At 41, Wayne McGregor is the hottest dance artist in Europe—if not on the planet—but he is so much more than that, too. 601506 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:28:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601506/vancouver/artful-science-fuels-mcgregors-meteoric-rise#comments Janet Smith files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/ART_McGregor2_2303.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/ART_McGregor2_2303.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-601411/vancouver/legendary-arts-journalist-lloyd-dykk-dies-67 The Georgia Straight’s classical music writer, Lloyd Dykk, passed away overnight at the age of 67. 601411 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:35:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-601411/vancouver/legendary-arts-journalist-lloyd-dykk-dies-67#comments Staff files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/LloydDykk.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/LloydDykk.jpg