Alienated in Vancouver

There are few local musicians whose careers have spanned the range that Stephen Hamm 's has. From the raucous proto-grunge of Slow and T...

Here's how stupid my current cold has me: I have to leave my job near Stadium Station this morning for a meeting near Clark Drive, at ou...

I missed it when I interviewed Jeffrey Lewis the other week - that he's done an album of Tuli Kupferberg covers. He might have said, ...

I usually don't have much to say for Remembrance Day, but seeing Sonny Dean post about " 1916 " on Facebook made me remember t...

So Martin Scorsese responded in more detail to his comments about about Marvel movies not being cinema, but theme parks. Along the way, t...

Folks: Jeffrey Lewis is the subject of a big, new feature I did for the Straight site (and several old ones on this site). Really enjoy...

Sometimes I have dreams that could be movies, or novels, or such - that have a really interesting logic to them, that could end up being use...

It is very cool to hear that a) Keithmas is celebrating its 10th anniversary and that b) it is spreading to Calgary, for the first time! Th...

News broke this week that the SBC Restaurant has had its liquor license revoked , and that all gigs there have been cancelled, seemingly pe...

Maybe my favourite of the sorta-recent Hammer horror movies is The Resident. It's got a very interesting story, some rich psychology...

...so if I'm going to write about China Syndrome's new video, I should also mention Sunday Morning 's one, too! Quite hauntin...