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Applications are now being accepted from provincial opera/music companies for the 12th annual Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award. Administered by the Cultch, this $60,000...
Battery opera’s artistic producer David McIntosh hopes that a 10-fold increase in ticket prices for an upcoming theatrical production will help foster a dialogue around the real...
Local artists and arts supporters plan to take to Vancouver streets on October 28 in a silent protest against the B.C. Liberals’ arts funding cuts. Billed the Grey Relay,...
Moonwood Aubade (Arachnidiscs) Before beginning this review, a small vocabulary lesson. Aubade (pronounced oh-BAWD) is defined by my trusty ITP Nelson dictionary as “A song or...
New Jersey-based Edel Rodriguez, the illustrator of the Vancouver Opera's 2009-2010 posters, has seen these works taken to a new—and appropriately Vancouver—medium: the snowboard...
The Royal B.C. Museum is gearing up for its fifth annual Artifact or Artifiction fundraising gala on October 8. The event sees 20 unusual items from the museum's collections on...
A recent University of British Columbia study published in the Journal of Urban Health has found that the presence of an outreach van on city streets helped sex-trade workers feel...
Painter Gordon Smith will receive a "Freeman of the Municipality of West Vancouver" honour today (October 5). The 90-year-old West Vancouver painter, who was named as a laureate...
Owl City Ocean Eyes (Universal) What can one infer from a musician who states in his liner notes, “All praise & glory to Jesus Christ, to whom I owe everything”—yet...
Surviving college or university without incurring debt may seem impossible to many students, but it can be done. Just ask Murray Baker, who graduated from the University of...

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