The Verses Festival of Words is back for its 15th year, running April 10 to 20 at Chill X Studio. This year’s theme, “Amplify,” speaks to the heart of what the festival has always done best—creating ...

While Kim’s was partly based on Choi’s time spent working at convenience stores, Son of a Preacher Man is an even more explicit dig into his past—his father and grandfather were both pastors and he ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter.You can’t catch a bus in Vancouver without tripping over a struggling indie musician trying to ...

Most of my sluggish feelings disappear when I go for a walk. I have to force myself out. It can be rainy, sunny, windy, night, day... it does NOT matter. As long as I walk outside, I feel incredible!!

As revered as the music has been over the decades, the true power of Motown, suggests Vancouver’s Krystle Dos Santos, is the way it helped reshape the fabric of America. “Motown started in 1959,” says ...

Dorval is a genre-bender, mixing in folk, soul and hip-hop influences with an alt-rock swagger and her striking vocals. Our own Mike Usinger was rocked by a recent single of Dorval’s. Plus, according ...

Join Graham Clark- ("Constantly hilarious" -Vulture) and his funniest friends for a night of laughs, trivia, prizes and laughs. Plus a pledge to you is that you will be home in bed by 10:30 pm!

When you hate, you generate a reciprocal hate. When individuals hate each other, the harm is finite; but when great groups of nations hate each other, the harm may be infinite and absolute. Do not ...

It's no longer funny when everything feels like a giant bad joke. So here's a truth: I LOVED her. Probably still do. So I hope she reads this and feel some of that back.

You were chatty after the show and had a laid back, friendly vibe. I got shy and my friend wanted to leave, so the conversation wrapped up. IDK if you are just that gregarious in general, but I ...

It’s time to take chances, run risks and keep our performers on their toes! In Twist of Fate our hilarious hosts will constantly stir the pot—adding points, spinning challenge wheels, swapping teams, ...

Bought a cheap record player recently and it’s so nice to be able to listen to old records, of mine and my parents, that I haven’t listened to in years (decades). So nice to listen to music in a ...