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Vancouver Art Gallery presents its largest Emily Carr exhibition in decades

The largest solo Carr presentation in over two decades opens in February.

We Tried It: North Van's Copperpenny Distillery is worth a Dine Out stop

Come for the gin, stay for dessert.

Rain or Shine turns up the temperature for December

A winter scoop that mixes caramel comfort with a little heat from a local chilli favourite.

Bowie Ball 2026 – Things to do in Vancouver – Georgia Straight

Bowie Ball returns! Don’t miss Vancouver’s annual tribute to the life and legacy of David Bowie as it returns to the Rickshaw to raise money and…

Witches Harvest Halloween Market – Things to do in Vancouver – Georgia Straight

A Halloween artisan market

The best non-alcoholic drinks in Vancouver (and where to find them)

The “low-to-no” future is bright.

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce go head to head as The Two Popes

Rival pontiffs hammer out the fate of the church in Fernando Meirelles's colourful film.

37th Annual Jessie Awards see theatre community determined to challenge the status quo

At the Monday night ceremony at Bard on the Beach, winners and presenters celebrated theatre as a tool for social change.

Grounds for Coffee is opening a second Vancouver location on Commercial Drive this spring

Its famous cinnamon buns are coming to Little Italy.

BCGEU campaigns for public inquiry into money laundering in B.C. and possible links to overdose deaths

The call comes in the wake of the collapse of a high-profile prosecution into money laundering following the RCMP's E-Pirate investigation in 20…

Dario Argento's restored Suspiria hexes the Cinematheque

All the titles in this mini-fest arrive as 4K restorations, as if your retinas weren't excited enough already.

VIFF 2018: Seder-Masochism

Covering millennia of religious wars, plus lots of plagues and pestilence, it also has the highest body count of any film in the festival.

MUTANK'S Stephen Reynolds riffs on the majesty of German metal fests, the crossover power of D.R.I., and the benefits of tribalism

Montreal proves a great breeding ground for one of the country's great new punk-metal bands

Director frames Winter's Tale with ancient themes for Bard on the Beach

It's one of Shakespeare’s less frequently performed plays, there’s more nuance to this story than to some of the Bard’s earlier works.

Waxing Esthetician

You've been my esthetician twice now, and it feels a bit odd to ask someone out for drinks as they're tearing hair from your body, but you seem…

Vancouver Week in Widescreen: The Apology is not to be missed

Tiffany Hsiung's doc has been hailed as one of the best films ever produced by the NFB.

Vancouver's top pastry chefs employ the art of science

They’re the industry’s unsung heroes, the ones who toil away in the shadows but whose artistry and talent make people ooh and ahh.

To Keep the Light – Things to do in Vancouver – Georgia Straight

After assuming her ailing husband’s responsibilities as a lighthouse keeper, Abbie (writer-director Erica Fae) is horrified to discover a Swedis…