Eating Dirt revisited
In honour of Charlotte Gill’s recent nomination for the Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction and in anticipation of her upcoming reading at Project Space on the 28th, I thought I’d post these two versions of the cover for the issue that first featured Eating Dirt. For whatever reason, we decided against them but they [...]
Façadism revisited
This is the current state of one of the west end of Vancouver’s great heritage buildings. Known as “Maxine’s Hideaway”, it spent its last days as a dinner/dance club. But the building has seen many incarnations over the years and was mentioned in connection with the city’s rum running history in Helen Eady’s “9 O’Clock [...]
Speaking of public art…
Timothy Taylor’s piece in VR #28, “Chaos and Planning”, was recently criticized for its lack of a mention of the public artworks of Doug Coupland. While the article was not intended as a comprehensive survey (its focus being mainly about policy and its effects) we would like to go on record as really loving this [...]
Circle of Wind
Vancouver composer Colin MacDonald has been quietly and tirelessly melding his love of the saxophone with a passion for minimalism and Balinese gamelan tradition. His new CD Circle of Wind, released earlier this year on his own Cryptic Music label may refer to the technique of circular breathing, the technique of sustained blowing used by [...]
Speaking of Skylines…
If you’ve picked up the fall issue of Vancouver Review and seen Marian Bantjes’ Centrefold then this image might resonate. It is “The Shard”, a new tower going up along London’s skyline. While our Centrefold re-imagines the north shore of False Creek with a host of new and striking architectural forms, London’s doing it for [...]