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RENT is the best musical ever (according to this Renthead)

CULTURE | Rent is the best musical (ever, IMHO). Rent isn’t Les Mis. It isn’t Phantom. It isn’t even Cats. There are no falling chandeliers, no helicopters, no big fur suits. There’s barely even ...

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Vancouver’s Chinatown Festival

VANCOUVER | It’s festival season in Vancouver and this weekend is no exception. The fifth annual Chinatown Festival, the largest daytime summer event in Vancouver’s Chinatown, begins Saturday in ...

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Play dressup with virtual paper dolls

VIRTUAL STYLE | Online, paper dolls are having a high-fashion moment It’s hip to be square. It’s trendy to be untrendy. Or retro. Whatever you want to call it, at the moment, there’s no avoiding ...

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Life & Limb: Skateboarding book leans to the literary

BOOKS & WRITING | Being a skater isn’t just about admiring Jackass. Skaters are punks aren’t they? They’re skinny kids in flat-bottomed shoes and baggy pants. They do stupid, dangerous ...

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Harry Connick Jr concert review, The Only You tour hits Vancouver

CONCERT REVIEW | Harry Connick Jr. manages to bridge the generations. He’s paved the way for contemporary crooners like Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum, and even Diana Krall owes him a little ...

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Jessica Simpson concert review, The Reality Tour hits Vancouver

CONCERT REVIEW | Jessica Simpson, The Reality Tour. Show designed to connect singer to fans, and reveal her to be the normal girl as seen on TV. Seeing Jessica Simpson in the flesh is like ...

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The Finn Brothers’ new album

INTERVIEW | Neil Finn on The Finn Brothers’ new album, Everyone Is Here. He’s collaborated with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, two guys from Radiohead, and Sheryl Crow used to be his opening ...

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Finger Eleven is in touch with fans

MUSIC INTERVIEW | Despite ‘generic’ label, Burlington boys have a decidedly original attitude. Finger Eleven isn’t your typical rock band. Its been called everything from generic to boring by ...

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Canada and Shania Twain

CULTURE | Canada and Shania Twain. There’s just something embarrassing about her. Something that goes beyond her country roots and big-hair days. Shania Twain produced the most successful female ...

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FeFe Dobson concert review

CONCERT REVIEW | Pop-rocker gives a lunchtime concert at Killarney secondary. It’s lunchtime on the last day of school at Killarney Secondary, but the students here aren’t eating, signing annuals ...

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An Ocean Apart book review

YA NOVELS | An Ocean Apart book review. An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922 by Gillian Chan (2004). An Ocean Apart is the fictional diary ...

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Cats in movies (the Vancouver Sun apparently loves them)

CULTURE | 2018: I am so deeply ashamed of this piece and pieces like it. What the fuck was I even talking about in this anti-feminist monstrosity of a listicle? The fatphobia is out of ...