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The audience breathed a sigh of relief when it was over.
Have I got a graphic novel for you!
An ode to an East Van cat hit by a car.
Don’t get fooled – Safety Not Guaranteed is full of quirky indie movie clichés.
It’s the Terminal City All-Stars vs. the Rat City All-Stars at Minoru Arena in Richmond, June 9 2012.
A new graphic adaptation of a classic science fiction author’s short story gets a thumb’s up.
Fool that I am, I thought this might be better at least than The Hunger Games…
A look back at Rickie Lee Jones’ 1981 album.
The Innkeepers movie review This is a terrific little horror flick. I used the adjective “little” not to demean but to denote the film’s low…
Classic albums of the eighties: Payolas No Stranger to Danger The Payola$ were a Vancouver band that started out punk, went new wave and featured…
Remembering the 1979 debut album by Carolyne Mas Carolyne Mas released her debut album in 1979. Critics hailed the New York-based singer as “a female…
Graphic novel review—Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City by Guy Delisle The original French version of Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem (out now on Drawn and Quarterly, hardcover,…
Volume Two of Dark Horse’s Manara Library features some typically lewd nude females, but also historical tales of surprising depth.
Graphic novel review—Unterzakhn by Leela Corman One of the great jokes in, or on, American pop culture is the infiltration of Yiddish idioms into American culture.…
Watch out world, here comes Lena Dunham and her new HBO series…
Photos—La Rotunda del Mar by Alejandro Colunga in Puerto Vallarta On our trip into the town of Puerto Vallarta a week-and-a-half ago, we came across…
An interview with Doug Sulipa Set in the New Jersey store owned by director Kevin Smith, AMC’s Comic Book Men features four guys who work…
John Carter 2012 movie review Discovered at the right age—say, 11 or 12—the John Carter novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs are manna from heaven (or Mars).…
