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Stand Up for Mental Health founder David Granirer. (photo from smhcomedysociety.org) Stand Up for Mental Health (SMH), a program started in Vancouver that teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental health issues as a form of therapy and to destigmatize…
Berlin’s Nana Schewitz brings her show Florida! Ya Kill Me! to Vancouver May 31-June 2. (photo from Nana Schewitz) Florida! Ya Kill Me! is a “love letter to aging,” says Berlin-based drag artist Nana Schewitz, who created the show with…
David Wallace, J.D. Dueckman, Matt Ramer and Rachel Craft in Metro Theatre’s Moonlight & Magnolias, which runs to May 18. (photo by Emma Chan) Gone With the Wind (GWTW) is my all-time favourite movie and, if adjusted for inflation, the…
The Options Israeli music cover band closes the Festival of Israeli Culture on May 26. (photo from the JCC) This year’s Festival of Israeli Culture takes place May 21-26, with the main event at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater…
Veretski Pass – Joshua Horowitz, left, Cookie Segelstein and Stuart Brotman – will be joined by clarinetist Joel Rubin to present the world première of music from their new album, Makonovetsky’s Scion. (photo from Klezcadia) Victoria will host Klezcadia, a…
“Our thoughts are influenced by our core belief system. Our opinions are shaped from things we have seen and heard in the past and those opinions affect what we see. The problem is our thoughts are not always necessarily true,”…
My new favourite dessert: Inbal Baum’s Coconut Cream Malabi. Baum is one of the contributors to June Hersh’s new digital cookbook, Cooking for a Cause. (photo by Ingrid Weisenbach) I have a new favourite dessert: malabi. At least Inbal Baum’s…
Little Richard, left, and Jackie Shane. A still from the film Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, which closes the DOXA Documentary Film Festival on May 11. (image from NFB and Banger Films) An incredible voice, a charismatic performer,…
Lindsey Tyne Johnson has a new show at the Zack Gallery: The Irish Mazzaroth & Hebrew Spelled Backwards. It comprises two separate parts. Hebrew Spelled Backwards debuted at the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2023. It is a series of illustrations…
Ed Asner gives a remarkable performance in Tiger Within, which is part of the online Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, April 15-19. (tigerwithin.info/press-photos) I had the privilege of interviewing Ed Asner several years ago. It was an experience I (and my…
