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Wendy Dallian

Rufus Wainwright blows Centre for the Performing Arts off its axis

With his signature tousled hair, dark painted eyes, and an elaborately feathered coat with a beautifully edged, thirty-foot train stretched out behind him, he slowly walks across the stage towards his

Billy Connolly at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

After two and a half hours of continuous laughter, our cheek muscles had spasmed and froze into ear to ear grins.

Woman With the 5 Elephants

“Why do people translate? It's the yearning for something that keeps escaping, for the unrivalled original, for the final, the essential,” says Svetlana Geier.

Megamind vs Skyline

Conspiracy theory: if you look close enough at pretty much any two things, you can find some sort of connection: take the movies Megamind and Skyline.  One is animation, has an antagonist that'...

Circle Craft Fair at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

"Western Canada’s largest one-of-a-kind gift fair, the Circle Craft Christmas Market. If it's handmade, you'll find it there."

Stuart MacLean and The Vinyl Cafe

"There are moments during a performance when I leave the ground and I become wrapped up in the moment, but the same thing happens in my writing some times. I think maybe that's the most fun: those mom

The Hobbit comes to Capilano University

“I know I made the right decision but it's because I got involved in my own life”. That's the journey of this play. Stuart Aikins

The Woman With A Broken Nose

"I wanted to make a film about overcoming scars and wounds, and offering some kind of hope and positive energy without closing ones eyes to reality as it is." Srdan Koljevic

Serbian Film Fest in Vancouver

Last year I had my first taste of the Vancouver Serbian Film Festival and it was an instant addiction.