Vancouver photographer and multimedia artist Roy Arden has watched Vancouver tear away at grand ambition for way too long. “There is a provincial, almost pathological Canadian...
It opened on Thursday, April 13, 1950, with a screening of Henry V, starring Laurence Olivier. There were searchlights and a pipe band, and patrons wore fine cashmere coats and...
Veteran Vancouver arts administrator Brent Gibson died Monday (April 2), of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 59.
Gibson was a publicist and then executive...
Published by the Dial Press, 272 pp, $29.95, hardcover
Given the number of frustrated novelists in journalism, you might think there would be more fiction about the profession....
By A. B. McKillop. McClelland & Stewart, 791 pp, $37.99, hardcover
If you’re looking for a bow tie that exemplifies Canadian history in the second half of the 20th...
School’s out, and it’s a perfect Vancouver summer evening, but the eight parents around the coffee table at the Macqueens’ East Vancouver home are having a crisis meeting. None...
Dave Watson's Rambling into eternityPart 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5
Dave Watson defied conventional wisdom. Take that old theatre saying: dying is easy; comedy is hard...
Life lived between takeoffs and landings
Flying into Vancouver on a clear fall afternoon is something. If you're coming from the east, you might well skim the Coast Mountain peaks...
Finding the university's centre proves elusive.We enter the endowment lands forest through Little Australia, down Queensland Road, across Adelaide, toward Tasmania Crescent. The...
When news broke this month that former B.C. Finance Ministry
senior aide Dave Basi is alleged to have taken $50,000 from two
Vancouver Island developers to help them remove...
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