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The Safe Amplification Site Society has already run a handful of all-ages shows out of Astorino’s on Venables Street, but the organization makes it official on Saturday (April 27...
If you hadn’t noticed yet, Electric Owl is offering free local shows on the first Wednesday of the month, augmented with cheap beer and a 10-buck burger-beer combo. It started...
Our friend, photographer Heinz Ruckemann, has sent along these pics from the big Juno blowout in Regina this weekend, including a fine image of Carly Rae Jepson in her winningest...
The much anticipated second season of Continuum premieres on Sunday. The show has been a worldwide smash for Showcase and production company Reunion Pictures, but there’s a...
In acting, they say, dying is easy and comedy is hard. So where does that leave cunnilingus? “I haven’t done a dramatic cunnilingus scene yet in my long, storied career, but I...
It was slightly less than a year ago that musician and producer Todd Simko passed away, leaving the Vancouver music community in shock. In memory of their old bandmate, four of...
In anticipation of the new Stooges album at the end of the month, here's Iggy Pop in his best comic performance since he rolled around in a dress being Billy Bob Thornton's bitch...
It was only a short visit, but veteran actor Scott Hylands covered a lot of ground when he came to the Georgia Straight a couple weeks ago. Hylands was here to discuss his small...
Oh girls, what have you done?  In “The Old Woman in the Woods”, the longest of the films playing in today’s Made in B.C. shorts program at the International Film Festival for...
Starring Yui Murata, Eva Llorach, and Michael Rogers. Rated R. The premise here is that 26 young genre directors were each given a letter of the alphabet and then told to do...

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