When the Straight profiled Marina Hasselberg for her revelatory debut Red a couple of years ago, the Vancouver cellist made a refreshingly candid admission. Some artists are content to go through the ...

The last time I saw Caveman & the Banshee, the band was at the Biltmore, doing a trance-inducing, effects-laden, spacy variant on psych rock, with songs structured around the pounding basslines of the ...

The new play from Mitch and Murray Productions asks some difficult question about our relationship with the internet.

A dazzling embroidery of ideas on Black history, identity, and aesthetics gives shape to artist Kahlil Joseph’s eagerly awaited debut feature, an expansion of his acclaimed 2019 Venice Biennale ...

In his dramatic feature debut, RaMell Ross uses a subjective camera to depict persecution and resistance at a racist Florida reform school. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the ...

Sacred Date Night is an intentional pause to reconnect with your partner through curiosity, care, and honesty. Held every other Friday Feb–Apr, this in-person series guides couples of all genders in ...

Shop unique finds from local and BIPOC-owned small businesses while enjoying live music, community activations, and festive spring surprises. This market is part of River District in Bloom – a ...

Whatever your feelings on the upcoming FIFA World Cup, you can’t deny it’s going to be the talk of the town this summer.  If hosting seven actual football matches and setting up screenings for every ...

The night we've all been waiting for! The Grand Finale of Drag Fight Club: Spring Break Brawl! The competition was spread over 3 events and drastically changed from the winter main edition. Having ...

It is time to nominate my favourite chicken restaurants again!!! Wheeee! Whooo! Who will win? What are the best chicken restaurants in Vancouver? I cannot wait to find out! Let the chicken win!

The Woodward's complex on Hastings Street is dying, stores/banks have moved out of the complex and the place can't find companies to fill all the empty retail spaces. So the city steps in and rents ...

Of course, being a small company with a small budget and hiring seven dancers isn’t easy, Enquist admits. That’s one of the reasons that Fall (se) Circ (us) is a one-night-only performance that takes ...