Hannah Moscovitch (photo from Hannah Moscovitch) Not one normally drawn to psychological thrillers, Little One intrigues me, in large part because its playwright, Hannah Moscovitch, has such an impressive track record. She has not only won multiple awards for her…
Lori Goldberg in front of one of her paintings. (photo from Lori Goldberg) Lori Goldberg is one of the artists whose work has been chosen to be part of a special project in aid of what will be Abbotsford’s first…
On Jan. 26, Robyn Driedger-Klassen (soprano), Joseph Elworthy (cello), Mark Ferris (violin), François Houle (clarinet) and Mark Fenster (baritone) will be joined by Lani Krantz (harp) and Kozue Matsumoto (koto) in a performance of Renia Perel’s Songs of the Wasteland.…
The faces that Larry Cohen creates communicate a range of emotions. (photo by Olga Livshin) Larry Cohen has been working with pottery, on and off, for about 30 years. “A long time ago, I tried to make money from it,…
In a Blue Moon tours the Lower Mainland, and beyond. (photo by Barbara Zimonick) From the première of Strange Bedfellows on Broadway in 1948 to today’s Skylight, audiences have enjoyed the plots of mismatched individuals thrown together who somehow weave…
Helen Mirren at the Moët British Independent Film Awards in December 2014. Mirren starred in two 2015 films with Jewish characters or themes. (photo by See Li via commons.wikimedia.org) Jewish characters and themes popped up everywhere in movies in 2015,…
From left to right are artists Larissa Blokhuis, Kirsten Rankel, Maria Keating, Sonya Labrie, Joanne Andrighetti, Hope Forstenzer, Mona Ungar and Scott McDougall. (photo by Denise Relke) From antiquity, glass has been used for utilitarian and ornamental purposes. The current…
One of the ways to thank God for blessings, says Rabbi Ilan Acoca, is through singing. Shabbat Shira, which takes place Jan. 23, tells of the Israelites breaking into song as a way to thank God for the parting of…
Tal Brody, left, with Richard Poritz at the Vancouver screening of On the Map. (photo by Kyle Berger) It was a warm Israeli summer in 1965 when Tal Brody made the journey across the Atlantic to visit Israel for the…
“Ganesha,” from Dina Goldstein’s Gods of Suburbia series. (photo © Dina Goldstein) You have to speak more than one language if you want to read all of the articles on Vancouver photographer and Pop Surrealist Dina Goldstein’s art. English, of…
