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I had never actually seen the musical Mamma Mia! before. I knew it was filled with music from legendary Swedish pop band ABBA. I also knew it has continually been a smash hit on Broadway, which made me somewhat trepidatious—could VOS Musical Theatre bring that big, ballsy, bursting-with-disco-fever musical production to life on our sweet, smallish […]

I felt when I left the house tonight that I could easily have stayed home and been content listening to the rain on the roof with a cat on my lap. Still, I had asked my editor a month ago if I could review Alice’s Gift; I was intrigued by the subject matter. It turns […]

Zone 91.3 radio host Jon Williams has raised over $10,000 for local mental-health related charity by creating and selling T-shirts with his radio sign-off slogan printed on them. “The whole point of what I hope to achieve in radio is to impact and be positive within the community and to lead by example,” says Williams. […]

Graduation Speech Maintenance Required (Black Numbers) 4/5 “Getting lost in the music” is the perfect way to explain what happens when spinning Graduation Speech’s new five-song EP, Maintenance Required. The EP is a great way to get the day started, to pass time waiting for the bus, or to get re-energized during a work break. Maintenance […]

Millennials suck and germophobes can start carrying their weight in garbage in today’s society: I was sold listening to Jim Jefferies on his Night Talker Tour as he strolled through Victoria and stopped at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Saturday, November 16. As an aspiring comedian, it’s immensely helpful to see a professional work the […]

The comforts of our daily lives may hinder many of us from seeking anything beyond our conventional ways of living. With a career in capturing thrilling moments, Squamish-based extreme filmmaker Bryan Smith chooses a different path. Searching for the globe’s wildest locations, he captures impressive athleticism among the remarkable landscapes of remote locations left untouched […]

It’s been over a decade since leaving the band Lillix, and in that time Vancouver’s Louise Burns has established herself as a great songwriter in her own right. She proved this on Friday, November 8, when she hit the stage at Lucky Bar the day after releasing her fourth album, Portraits. When the doors opened, […]

Billy Bishop Goes to War is a fictional retelling of the real-life exploits of a WWI fighter pilot. RJ Peters portrays Bishop, and 17 other characters, and his stage presence is explosive. Gabriel Macdonald delivers an equally robust supporting performance, along with piano accompaniment to their frequent duets. Although produced by a small theatre, incredible […]

Local director Alan Penty has adapted British playwright Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play Rope by mainly staying true to its structure, and he does it well, with the production examining just how dark humanity can be. It’s what I like to call a “back-seat thriller”: the audience is never jump-out-of-their-seats frightened—instead, eeriness claws at us throughout the […]

I’ve been an appreciator of the theatrical arts for as long as I can remember, and I have a habit of picking apart and analyzing shows even when I’m not reviewing them (much to the chagrin of those near and dear to me). Yet, after seeing Shakespeare’s Othello at the Phoenix Theatre last night, I have […]