Style and arts editor Janet Smith is a Carleton University arts-journalism grad who sits on the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Over two decades covering Vancouver's cultural scene, she's witnessed opera performed in giant bird cages and bathrooms, ballerinas banging their heads to heavy metal, giant animatronic dinosaurs scaring the bejesus out of small children, dancers writhing in sticky mud and cardboard boxes, artists smashing the hell out of computers with baseball bats, and more nudity than at Hugh Hefner's last birthday party.