Alienated in Vancouver

Last year, for reasons I am unclear on, I didn't much enjoy either of soprano sax experimenter Evan Parker's gigs at the 19th Vancou...

You saw it here first.

Folks, you won't believe it, but it looks like Blim , the little gallery space that could, has been shut down! I just received this some...

Something about jazz organ almost always makes me feel like I'm in a hockey rink: is this a uniquely Canadian perceptual distortion? Joh...

One for the cryptid-heads out there.

Remember Iraq, the war in the back of your mind? You couldn't and can't stop it, you can't change it, and you can't quite fo...

Ah, well. It might be fun if you haven't seen many of the previous Romero Dead films, or if they didn't mean much to you. Me, I...

...because I'm too tired/wasted/sweaty now, and my apartment is too messy, and requires my attentions before I go to bed. Alan Bishop of...

As people around the world starve, live in poverty, and die in wars, scientists are working on genetically altered cats which don't pro...

I didn't believe my eyes at first: literally, I thought I was hallucinating. There was a streak of motion along the corner of the wall, ...

Okay, folks: here’s my jazz festival lineup – you can look up the artists and sometimes hear samples on the official site . June 24th: Free ...

There's so much 9/11 conspiracy stuff to be found out there, and so much of it is bunk that pretty much all of it starts to seem susp...

I just wanted to say it.

You all are paying attention, right? Mike Graham has finally been cajoled, Gerry Hannah is in town, and Brian "Wimpy Roy" Goble ha...

Well -- not much trace of Ornette Coleman remains in this man's music, and I certainly had hoped to see him in a band setting, rather th...

... was peeking at the "Coming soon to DVD" section in the bottom right corner of Roger Ebert's main page . Three films to be ...

Here's a convoluted one, a tour through a blogger's conscience: 1. I went to see the talented, engaging slide guitarist Ellen McIlwa...

I liked this film exactly as much as I hoped I would, and I had high hopes for it. An early work by Gillo Pontecorvo, best known for The Bat...

Sales of clean urine, to avoid being busted during workforce drug tests, are doing well in Alberta, apparently. What I want to know is, whe...

It took me awhile to get into what Antibalas were doing last night at the Commodore. Their opening song had what seemed a kind of simple, re...