The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Originally printed in the September-October issue of Converge magazine. Photos by Royce Sin and Ryan Wong for Converge magazine I’m lounging in a plush leather seat in the lobby of a moderately swanky apartment building turned hotel. As I wait for Joseph Vincent to arrive, I look over my notes […]
Catchy electronic pop making mid-20’s Adam Young, more widely known as Owl City, isn’t about to let summer go out with a damp fizzle. With his latest album “The Midsummer Station” on the rise, and his dance-inducing collaboration with B.C.’s Carly Rae Jepson closing yet another great season, he’s taking the good […]
Opening today at Pacific Theatre is The Spitfire Grill, a bluegrass-style musical where a young woman is released from prison and goes to a small mountain town to start again. With rich themes of forgiveness, redemption, and new beginnings, this play makes a great opening to this faith-based theatre’s season. […]
They Call ’em Rogues kicks off what we hope to be a long lasting bromance with the Vancouver International Fringe Festival with a dynamic, big hearted hit, The Best, Man. In this laugh-out-loud and hand-to-mouth-I-can’t-believe-he-said-that face (a box of chocolates will never be the same again), writer Arlen Kristian Tom keeps […]
As the saying goes, all wonderful journeys must inevitably come to an end. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the rousing final chapter in his Batman trilogy, which began with 2005’s Batman Begins and spectacularly continued in 2008’s The Dark Knight, is a propulsive ten tonne juggernaut of a motion picture; slightly lumbering out […]
An understandable shockwave of geek-rage exploded in early 2010 when Sony Pictures, amidst rumours of cost-cutting and ongoing arguments over creative direction, scrapped series helmer Sam Raimi’s gestating Spider-Man 4 in favour of a full-on reboot. After all, while 2007’s Spider-Man 3 was a somewhat messy (studio-compromised) disappointment, the film still earned a robust […]