How to write a concert review in 9 steps by Shawn Conner.
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Shawn Conner Posts
Cool Pam Grier heats up Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 Elmore Leonard adaptation Jackie Brown.
After gobbling up year-end of lists, I made up my own…
On the last day of a week-long winter vacation, I stumble across Mexican-brewed IPAs, porters and more.
With the announcement of a new Doc Savage movie starring Dwayne Johnson, is the thirties pulp character heading for a resurgence?
Maria Semple on her novel Today Will Be Different, growing up with a scriptwriter dad, and learning to love Seattle
Next Music from Tokyo promoter Steven Tanaka on idol music, female bands in Japan, and drinking with the boss
Animals, screening as part of VIFF’s 2017 Altered States series, has one truly memorable WTF? moment. But there’s more to the Greg Zglinski head-spinner than that
American Swing documentary review Whatever happened to the swingin’ ’70s? The makers of a new documentary are glad you asked. American Swing is about the…
That time I found myself at an art gallery opening hosted by a (former) Rattled Rooster.
Cat silhouettes, duck pictures… and what’s that on top of the fridge?
In 2009, I was doing things like interviewing Suicide Girls at sex trade shows (the Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show in Vancouver, to be exact) for my then-blog over at lavalife.com…
In 2008, a freak Christmastime snow-storm sent us scurrying from Vancouver to Mazatlan, and a stay at the El Cid resort…
This 2008 post combines a few of my favourite things: relationship troubles, a visit to a winery, and American Thanksgiving…
In 2008, while writing a blog for Lavalife.com, I discovered that comedian Maria Bamford was doing the online dating thing. (I think she talked about it in her stand-up, or one of her comedy shorts.) Naturally, I wanted to know more…
From the don’t-look-for-it-it-isn’t-there-anymore-files… Miraloma on the Cove
Questionable Christmas gifts from my mom, who excels at such things.
Guided by Voices and Soul Asylum at the Hilde Performance Center, Plymouth, Minnesota, Aug. 19 2017
