Martin comes from a long and mostly honourable line of journalists, editors, and writers. When not busy crossing the Ts and dotting the Is, he sometimes tries his hand at a little writing. He hopes someday to pen the Great Canadian Screenplay. And contrary to popular opinion, he doesn’t really mind dogs at all.
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A massive tornado swept through southern Oklahoma City early this afternoon (Monday), flattening hundreds of homes, causing fires, injuries, and an unknown number...
Perhaps it’s fitting that a film about death and the dying should close the DOXA festival. One would hope, though, that Stopping for Death: The Nurses of Wells House Hospice didn’...
Director Ben Kalina opens his documentary Shored Up with an oceanside shot of a beach that seems to be overdue for a bit of litter maintenance. Then the camera spots some larger...
Vancouver is right in the path of one of the largest and most important migratory-bird corridors in the Americas, the Pacific Flyway, which stretches from Patagonia, at the...
The Talking Heads’ David Byrne sings: “under the rocks and stones, there is water underground...water flowing underground”, and at the start of director Caroline Bacle’s Lost...
The Georgia Straight has won award nominations in three categories for the 31st annual Western Magazine Awards, the WMA Foundation announced today (May 2).
Straight contributor...
A power outage this afternoon (April 26) between Cambie Street and Nanaimo Street has affected a large part of East Vancouver and into the downtown area.
According to B.C. Hydro's...
Back in 1965, then–U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson had this to say of the billboard-advertising industry: "I have never seen such a goddamn group of selfish, eager hogs." This...
Georgia Straight readers love to post (and read) items in our popular I Saw You feature, where smitten strangers and people thrown together in usually random, brief encounters try...
Laughter, hugs, a few tears, and some great film moments were on the shooting schedule at a memorial for film scholar and long-time Georgia Straight movie reviewer Mark Harris on...
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