aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Another post-election surprise served up. The Liberal spin shop employs an astonishing 223 people (including seven new staffers just this year) to mould and monitor the news, with a budget of $29 million . Totally outrageous! Why do they need to pay...

topics: election, liberal, orpheum, show, shows

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Jos Vestappen, below left, the Executive Director of Early Music Vancouver has patiently nurtured a relationship with great baroque orchestras of the world and virtuoso performers while balancing it all by hiring and featuring local orchestras. Is ...

topics: concert, orpheum

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Jos Vestappen, below left, the Executive Director of Early Music Vancouver has patiently nurtured a relationship with great baroque orchestras of the world and virtuoso performers while balancing it all by hiring and featuring local orchestras. Is ...

topics: concert, orpheum

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Canadian collective Broken Social Scene is continually shifting, adapting to different band members, song styles and tour schedules. But they always come back to one thing. We love, said co-founder Kevin Drew at their February 6 concert, You know t...

topics: concert, orpheum

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

For years I filed Thievery Corporation with the rest of my chill favorites; while I loved their music, I never expected much from their live show. It wasn't until this past summer that I discovered how upbeat this down-tempo band can get. With a ca...

topics: music-festival, orpheum, show, whistler

aggregated from: StuArt's Blog

Bruce Cockburn to release new album / announces north american Tour DatesJanuary 14, 2009 - True North Records set to release new Bruce Cockburn double live CD called Slice O Life on March 31. Recorded during the spring of 2008 on various dates throu...

topics: arts, opera, orpheum, show, theatre

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In my Friday NY Times I found this:In the preface to his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray , Oscar Wilde famously proclaimed that all art is quite useless. The statement seemed so intriguing to a contemporary, an Oxford University student nam...

topics: arts, concert, opera, orpheum, theatre

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In Saturday's fine Eugene Onegin both Tatyana's mother and nurse say:Habit is sent to us from above in place of happiness. I knew I was going to be taking Corey Cerovsek's photograph today as a very pleasant routine or habit that started in 1987. I a...

topics: bicycle, concert, orpheum, symphony, yaletown

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Last night I attended the Arts Club Theatre production of It's A Wonderful Life. I wrote about this last year here. Seeing it for a second time did not diminish my enjoyment as this time I saw it not with my wife Rosemary but with my daughter Hilary ...

topics: arts, granville-island, opera, orpheum, performing-arts

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

It was October 23, 1990. CBS Records was being taken over by Sony Music. Dave Chesney, the local CBS record rep, had been instructed to find a photographer to record Harry Connick Jr's concert the next day at the Orpheum (a somewhat smaller show than...

topics: concert, jazz, orpheum