Alienated in Vancouver

(photo by Dan Kibke) It's cold and windy - the sort of wind that howls in trees and corridors, knocks a few things over here and there....

Though it is nowhere in our city at present, The Wrestler 's US release appears to have started this week; it's the film that suppos...

I've been enjoying my recent nights at the Railway - from seeing Nick Jones do Slim Whitman and David M. revise a certain old hit by Ric...

Hey, y'all! Any of you with a craving to hear a Vancouver punk "fuck band" cover "Gilligan's Island" or the them...

...whose wife, linguist Carol Chomsky , died this week of cancer.

A follow-up on the homeless woman who burned to death trying to keep warm. Her name was apparently Tracey.

Drunken girls stalk Granville Street with stocking'd legs exposed from high heels to thigh, sharp little steps through three inches of p...

Four fun shows for those of you with an interest in unusual music: at 7:30 PM, Solder and Sons will feature Set Sail to Sea , Burrow Owl, an...

(Edited for accuracy after the story was updated online): ...a 47-year old homeless woman at the corner of Hornby and Davie has burned to de...

I am going to the Hotel Vancouver with an envelope in my hand - some important business that I must complete. I discover that, due to econom...

Well, so much for Bob Ostertag's Throw My Shoes, Too : there is apparently a new online video game called " Sock and Awe ," in...

Pauline Oliveros performs at FUSE, by Femke van Delft Last month, Pauline Oliveros , pictured above, played two sets of dreamy avant-accordi...

I've always known people had shitty tastes in movies - I mean, I used to work at a Rogers Video, for one, so I know all too well what so...

Okay, folks, this is going to be fun. You'll need a digital camera, your shoes, and a willingness to make a statement in defense of free...

The Hanson Brothers at the WISE Hall, by Femke van Delft By the way, avid Al-stalkers and idle local music geeks, I’ve got a little Music N...

...I apparently was so busy writin' for The Skinny that when I disappeared from that venue, rumours of my death started to circulate. Pl...

Ah, human ingenuity! It's apparently too ambitious to work on ending the problem of homelessness, but inventing a stopgap shelter for th...

...a documentary about rock gig posters? Hm, that sounds kind of interesting! ( Starts tomorrow at the Vancity Theatre ; official site here...

Pointed Sticks by Femke van Delft Here's some cheery news: the Pointed Sticks have put up two free Christmas downloads , "Power Pop...

Members of the Subhumans apparently mobbed the stage at the Hanson Brothers concert the other week and engaged in a hockey brawl with the ba...