Austra’s Thursday night performance at the Rickshaw in Vancouver was a confident reminder of how much of the long-running synth-pop project’s power rests in Katie Stelmanis’ voice. Commanding the ...

In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family’s life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story ...

After going public with his cancer diagnosis, Jonny Bones—punk scene MVP, member of the Still Spirits and the Bone Daddies, and suburban horror movie host—was the centre of a packed, emotional benefit ...

Dr. Mariana Brussoni presents a keynote entitled, "Embracing Uncertainty and Making Friends with Outdoor Risky Play". Dr. Brussoni emphasizes that studies have shown that outdoor play promotes ...

What’s In Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting creatives about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their ...

After a half-dozen years on Commercial Drive and five decades of serving Vancouver, long-running independent music store Rufus Guitar & Drum Shop will close on January 31.

Join us for a night of shredding and jamming with students around the lower mainland! The party kicks off with a Rail Jam in our Midway Park at 3:30pm presented by UBC Ski and Board. After your shred, ...

For this unique show, leading jazz vocalist Laura Crema has put together a set of some of Lorenz Hart’s most memorable songs written for stage & screen, which she will be performing with a quartet.

Vancouver Opera is bringing the mischievous comedy back to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre this February, and it has all the ingredients of a perfectly orchestrated mess: disguises, bad decisions, and the ...

Model Olivia Wray didn’t enter the industry through the traditional runway route. Instead, she stepped in through retail and wholesale, and that background continues to shape how she sees fashion’s ...

The ruling ABC party was shown the door in the byelection and it’s unclear whether it’s improved its position.

They have an unhealthy obsession on how people different from them think or do, they go on about the "woke" universities when they are stuck & bored , & angry in their dead end jobs, lonely & single & ...