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Music review: VSO’s Americana program offers fresh performances, impeccable sound

The digital concert features works by composers George Walker, Jessie Montgomery, and Aaron Copland

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 29, 2020music, VSO, classical music, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Measha Brueggergosman, Otto Tausk

Tune in to four new works over three nights in Upintheair Theatre's The Array, December 3 to 5

House of Rice, rice & beans theatre, Popcorn Galaxies, and Hunters, Tricksters & Mystics debut short commissions

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 28, 2020Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre

Vancouver’s 604 Records launches Comedy Here Often? Podcast Network

The new national platform brings together dozens of Canada’s brightest comedians, including Noor Kidwai

COMEDY, PODCASTSGail JohnsonNovember 27, 2020podcasts, Comedy Here Often? Podcast Network, comedy

Choreographer Crystal Pite, chef Robert Anthony Clark among Vancouverites named to Order of Canada

Philanthropist Yosef Wosk among the other honourees nationwide

NEWSJanet SmithNovember 27, 2020Crystal Pite, Yosef Wosk

East Van Panto: Panto Come Home! takes the holiday fun online from December 17 to 27

The Cultch and Replacement Theatre bring back some of the show’s favourite stars and hit songs

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 27, 2020Partner Content, The Cultch

Comedy duo the El-Salomons caps off the 2020 Chutzpah! Festival, November 28

The married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian duo joins comedian Iris Bahr and local comics for a raucous closing party

COMEDY, FESTSGail JohnsonNovember 27, 2020comedy, Chutzpah Festival, Iris Bahr, fests

Dance review: Chutzpah! Festival continues to push dance-theatre realms, even online

Idan Cohen’s Hourglass and Ella Rothschild’s Pigulim draw from clowing and darker themes

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 26, 2020Chutspah Festival

Theatre review: The Twelve Days of Christmas is a trite take on the holidays

Actor Melissa Oei performs the one-hander’s role with heart

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 26, 2020theatre, Melissa Oei, theatre review

Film review: Zappa documentary captures the contradictory world of a weirdly lovable musician

From a vexing personality to onstage bedlam, a complex portrait of Frank Zappa

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 26, 2020Frank Zappa, Homepage feature

Sweet Thea Holiday Pop-Up hits Main Street, to December 27

Makers from Vancouver and across western Canada have a home for their artisanal goods

CULINARY, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 26, 2020CULINARY, Sweet Thea, Laurie Mercer, holiday market, what's stirring

Imagine Van Gogh comes to Vancouver in February 2021

The immersive exhibition features more than 200 of the Dutch master’s paintings

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonNovember 26, 2020Art and Design, Van Gogh

Elektra Women's Choir brings the songs of the season to your place

Facebook is the venue for this year’s holiday concert

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 25, 2020music, Elektra Women's Choir, choir

"The arts can’t reopen overnight": movie houses, theatres struggle to find a way forward amid closures

From the Rio Theatre to the Massey Theatre, bringing back shows won’t be like flipping a switch

NEWSJanet SmithNovember 25, 2020movie theatres, COVID-19, Public Health Order, The Rio Theatre

Vancouver's TomoeArts joins Burnaby's Satsuki-kai to show diversity of Japanese dance

Program shows the rich range, from rigorous classical to more popular and folk styles

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 25, 2020Japanese classical dance, DANCECENTRE, Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Stir Wine Pairing: Pink bubbles, the Arts Club’s Twelve Dates of Christmas, and punk pizza

Blue Mountain Brut Rosé 2016 is just the thing to go with the local theatre’s livestream and an Anthem pie

Anthem Pizza thrashes onto Vancouver’s food scene with punk and purpose

The cloud kitchen gives back to the community with its hard-core pies

CULINARYGail JohnsonNovember 25, 2020CULINARY, pizza, Chi Pig

Emily Carr University of Art + Design's popular Student Art Sale goes online December 1 to 7

Featuring one-of-a-kind works from photography to ceramics and cards, the event reaches across North America this year

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 25, 2020Partner Content, Emily Carr, ECUAD

Speaking of Dance - Future Memory brings together a world of DanceHouse creators November 26 at 11 am

Jacob Boehme, Hervé Koubi among artists from as far away as Australia, Brazil, and France

WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithNovember 25, 2020DANCEHOUSE, Jacob Boehme, Henry Khoubi, Vanessa Goodman

How a stollen recipe once made for Swedish royalty became a local sensation and is now in the hands of a Newfoundland-born Vancouver pastry chef

The legendary Four Seasons stollen lives on at the new Best Kind Bakeshop and beyond

Ne. Sans opera and dance's Idan Cohen further finds his creative voice in Vancouver

At the Chutzpah! Festival, his Hourglass brings together movement, visual storytelling, and the music of Philip Glass

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 24, 2020Chutzpah Festival, contemporary dance, Idan Cohen

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