International degrees seek a path to employment
Vancouver is ripe with engineers and doctors driving cabs or dishing out pizza to kids at night. [Read more]
Falling for Animals
My earliest childhood memory is of grass. I’d fallen face down on the brown-green Los Angeles fuzz and frantically summoned my 18 months of coordination skills to get up and toddle away from an angry goose that believed my little pig-tailed self was a threat. [Read more]
Now what…?
What else is there to say, when all has already been said? I’m talking of course about Jack Layton. [Read more]
Spencie’s View
Fringe Fest seeks to increase fundraising
Theatre lovers have plenty to be excited about as the 27th annual Vancouver International Fringe Festival kicks off September 8. “It’s a celebration of theatre,” says David Jordan, executive director of the Fringe Fest. “Theatre does happen all year round, but what we try to do isn’t just to put the theatre on, but to celebrate it at the same time. It’s a social event.” [Read more]
Old West Vancouver neighbourhood infused with new world culture
Neighbourhoods in and around Vancouver’s lower mainland don’t look the same as they used to 10 years ago, not to mention 50 years ago. [Read more]
Latin American films show both sides of life
Movie lovers can indulge themselves with southern sights and sounds at the 9th annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF). [Read more]
Congolese street music hits Vancouver
Street music in Kinshasa, Congo is supplied by the handicapped, and a few years ago Florent de la Tullaye and Renaud Barret, two French film-makers exploring the urban jungle, were introduced to a group of polio victims, who played and performed on their motor tricycles. [Read More]
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Rio theatre welcomes premiere of local film Neutral Territory
Screenwriter Joel Mark Harris’ fate was sealed from the get-go when he embraced his good friend Josias Tschanz’s native Swiss culture. Harris was prepared to have his butt handed to him during schwingen – a Swiss-style throw-down where two men, wearing leather hosing, duke it out in sawdust….and all that tussling around led to their first movie. [Read more]
Jericho Wharf
The demolition of Jericho Wharf is proceeding and will result in restoring the original beach. The project will cost nearly $3 million, but it has been expensive to maintain the structure; it creates environmental damage from the 70 year old creosote-coated pilings threatening marine life and swimmers. [Read more]