Esther Turan has produced an eclectic range of work. (photo from Moviebar Productions) There is a Hungarian expression that translates roughly as “you are as many people as the number of languages that you speak.” This aptly describes the versatility…
Vancouver singer-songwriter Haley K. Turner will release her first full-length album on May 29. “I have gone back and forth questioning whether now is the right time to release a new album,” she told the Independent. “But here’s the thing.…
Megan Emanuel of the band Hello Victim. She and bandmates Adam Wilson and Spencer Daley released the single “Out of It Alive” on April 2. (photo from Megan Emanuel) Megan Emanuel released a new single this month with her band…
Victoria composer Ari Kinarthy. (photo from Ari Kinarthy) Victoria composer Ari Kinarthy has not let spinal muscular atrophy (type 2), a condition that has confined him to a wheelchair since the age of 6, inhibit his ability to create music.…
Gilad Seliktar, left, and Rolf Kamp in Amsterdam. They are drawing the last hiding place of Nico and Rolf Kamp in Achterveld, which was liberated in April 1945 by Canadian troops. (photo from UVic) A University of Victoria professor is…
Listening to Geoff Berner’s Welcome to the Grand Hotel Cosmopolis will break your heart one minute and stir you to historic rage the next. (photo by Mischa Scherrer) In November 2019, myriad Chutzpah! Festival and Geoff Berner fans (not always…
Montreal-based musician Elizabeth Leslie has a new EP out, Brave Animal, which, among other topics, tackles climate change. (photo from Eric Alper PR) It had always been musician Elizabeth Leslie’s dream to visit Scotland, which her Sephardi ancestors had made…
“Midnight Sun” by Monica Gewurz, who was to show her work at Art Vancouver, which has been postponed. (image from Monica Gewurz) The Jewish Independent last spoke with Vancouver artist and Jewish community member Monica Gewurz when she participated in…
I review a lot of books for the Jewish Independent. Over the years, that has included many children’s books. I do my best in these instances but, as much as I like to let my inner child run free occasionally…
In the play Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad, the character of Eitan, injured in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, lies in a coma. As his estranged parents and his grandmother hope for his recovery, they bitterly dig ever…
