Arts and Culture

St. Mike’s last show, Asuncion, runs on unapologetically sharp and borderline discomfiting satire

Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy Asuncion opened at the Luella Massey Studio Theatre. It was produced by the SMC Troubadours and directed by Veronika Gribanova. The play is about Edgar Hirschhorn (James Hyett), a self-styled journalist who lives a socially conscious—perhaps more accurately a socially self-conscious—life on the living room floor of his former TA Vinny’s (Kirk Munroe) […]

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REVIEW: This Unruly Mess I’ve Made or The Heist Again?

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis self-released their second studio album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, on February 26, 2016. There was some advertising before the release, but it was not as hyped as it could have been after coming off their Grammy Award-winning debut album The Heist. Like The Heist, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made features

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REVIEW: American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson

True crime stories, whether produced in the form of a television series, film, or novel, have an inescapable hook for audiences that crave realism. Dramatization aside, audiences are attracted to this form of storytelling because the events are situated in a reality that closely resembles the world they live in. When Netflix’s used actual footage

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Vic Picks

Singles you should be listening to, Courtesy of Vic Records “Take Your Picture with Me While You Still Can” —We Are The City Off their recent LP, Above Club, the Vancouver-based indie band tells the story of a liminal time. Their production—unique, theatrical, and unafraid—hides nothing, shows nothing, and only asks you to be vulnerable

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Pushing Past Boundaries: We Are The City Is Not Your Typical Band

What does it mean when your favourite band disappears from social media? We Are The City, a progressive indie rock band from Vancouver, deleted all of their Instagram photos, tweets, and their Facebook page in the middle of 2015. Many fans were perplexed by their behaviour. “What happened to We Are The City?” was a

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VCDS’ RENT is saturated with brilliant staging ideas—to the point of losing clarity

The beloved musical Rent focuses on a group of bohemian artists living in Alphabet City during the AIDS epidemic. Their living circumstances are jeopardized when, coincidentally, they all decide not to pay their rent. (Who thinks they can get away without paying rent? Silly artists.) Various relationships are formed in this circle. Songwriter and guitarist Roger

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