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Dialogue and dance merge in Other Woman
Confessions of the Other Woman ... At Performance Works until March 11 ... Tickets: 604-692-0885 urbanink.ca
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Coca is good for what ails you — in Peru
CUSCO, Peru — Things, as they say here in Cusco, go better with coca. That’s because the Peruvian city and UNESCO World Heritage Site is perched vertiginously at 3,400 metres in elevation, and nothing combats the effects of altitude sickness quite as effectively as this leafy member of the plant family Erythroxylaceae.
State of the Arts: Band-hopping Grdina makes most of Jazz Fest
Gordon Grdina will play six of the 11 nights of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 21 to July 1, in four different groups.
Oh, the humanity!
Vancouver improv troupe the Fictionals are bringing their brand of irreverent comedy to the Rio Theatre with Improv Against Humanity.
InFocus part 3: It ain’t easy making green (WITH VIDEO)
In the third episode of the Courier’s five-part video series exploring Vancouver’s standup comedy scene, comedians discuss the sobering reality of making a living as a standup comic in Vancouver.
Hired Belly: Familiar space, unique menu
The first thing that struck me about Burdock and Co. (2702 Main St., 604-879-0077) is that it feels as if it’s been there for years.
InFocus part 2: All hands on Decker (WITH VIDEO)
In the second episode of the Courier’s five-part video series exploring Vancouver’s standup comedy scene, comedian Ivan Decker takes viewers on a tour of his glamorous lifestyle, including preparing for shows, writing in notebooks, surfing the Internet and taking public transit.
InFocus: Local comedians hone craft away from industry spotlight (WITH VIDEO)
There were roughly 700 people parked in the seats of the Vogue Theatre last Friday night. It was an impressive turnout for the first Simply Dope Summer Comedy ...
Kababayang Pilipino looks forward to 20 more years of celebrating Filipino arts
Filipino arts group Kababayang Pilipino celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend by welcoming Jonah Martin, a senator from the Philippines, to this year’s galas performance titled “Kinabukasan.”
Movie review: Celebrity man-children run amok in This is the End
Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill and a dozen or so other celebs play themselves in This Is The End, a film which gives equal weight to the issues of mortality and man-boobs.
State of the Arts: Electric Company Theatre looks back to the future
Electric Company Theatre is lighting up the planetarium with its latest production, You Are Very Star, June 12 to 29.
Theatre review: Sister act
Guardian theatre critic Clare Brennan wrote on Sept. 17, 2011: “The writer Blake Morrison first described this notion as ‘bonkers’ when Susannah Clapp, this paper's senior theatre critic, suggested it to him 10 years ago.”
Riley Park: Print's charming (VIDEO)
As part of the Courier's Vancouver Special neighbourhood series on Riley Park, we visited the Regional Assembly of Text to talk paper, fonts, buttons and the lost art of letter writing.
State of the Arts: Circus comes to 10th annual In the House Festival
Peter Boulanger isn’t sure whether his circus company’s 34-foot tall marionette will make it to the In the House Festival.
