Warren Kimmel (Shylock), left, with Charlie Gallant (Bassanio) in Bard on the Beach’s Merchant of Venice. (photo by David Blue) It is always hard as a Jew to watch Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, which has been characterized at one end…
Journalist Jesse Brown takes a humourous look at his homeland in The CANADALAND Guide to Canada (Published in America), written with Vicky Mochama and Nick Zarzycki. Jesse Brown has emerged in the last few years as an important voice in…
“I am very proud to be its founding artistic director,” said Moshe Denburg of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. “It’s like watching one’s child succeed in the world!” But success is not something VICO takes for granted and Denburg said the…
Designer Yifat Jovani (photo by Tim Matheson) Israeli designer Yifat Jovani sewed clothes for her Barbie doll as a child, but didn’t launch her own fashion line for women until she moved to Vancouver 11 years ago. Love brought the…
Salvador Litvak was in Vancouver for a Shabbaton at the Kollel last month. (photo from Salvador Litvak) At a Kollel Shabbaton last month featuring Accidental Talmudist and filmmaker Salvador Litvak, no one was asking that age-old Jewish question, “When do…
Artists Michael Abelman and Victoria Scudamore share the walls at Zack Gallery in the exhibit Sea to Sky. (photo by Olga Livshin) In the exhibit Sea to Sky at Zack Gallery, the artists’ works complement each other. Michael Abelman’s seascapes…
In Bittergirl, Cailin Stadnyk, Katrina Reynolds and Lauren Bowler play women who have just been dumped by their boyfriends – maybe they can get back their men if they lose some weight? (photo by Emily Cooper) Have you ever taken…
Si Kahn plays at the folk festival, which runs July 13-16. (photo from sikahn.com) While Charlotte, N.C.-based folk musician Si Kahn – who’s coming to play at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival next week – may have called the United…
LINK Dance Foundation will perform Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? at a few intersections in Vancouver during Dancing on the Edge. (photo from DOTE) As part of this year’s Dancing on the Edge festival, which takes place July…
Bob Bossin as Davy in Davy and the Punk. (photo by Derek Kilbourn) For legendary Canadian folksinger Bob Bossin, who has called Gabriola Island home since 1991, it all started with “The King.” “It was Elvis,” he told the Independent…
