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James Macintyre, poet
A Tyee Series

Canada's Five Worst Poets: Are You Number Six?

TYEE LIST #7: C'mon, show us you can write verse that's even worse!

By Crawford Kilian, 24 Mar 2012

Friends with Kids

'Friends with Kids'

What spawned this uterus worshipping film? Sex, Republican style?

By Dorothy Woodend, 23 Mar 2012

Daniel Rossen

The Lone Grizzly

Daniel Rossen gets by without a little help from his friends.

By Gregory Adams, 22 Mar 2012

Werner Herzog in 'Into the Abyss'

'Into the Abyss'

Werner Herzog is your guide in this peculiar tale of crime and death row in Texas. Plus, a special screening.

By Steve Burgess, 16 Mar 2012

Musicians the Walkmen

In the Name of Love, Sort of

The Walkmen's curious U2 tribute.

By Adrian Mack, 15 Mar 2012

Scene from 'Game Change'

'Game Change'

Palin, McCain, and the presidential race of a lifetime. Political campaigns, the genre that keeps on giving.

By Steve Burgess, 9 Mar 2012

Yukon Blonde

It's Pop Music, So Suck It

Yukon Blonde gets even hookier on new album, 'Tiger Talk.'

By Alex Hudson, 8 Mar 2012

Musician Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K. Versus Boz Scaggs

It's a lot more complicated than you think.

By Shawn Conner, 1 Mar 2012

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Hey 'Comic Book Men,' Where Am I?

I flicked on Kevin Smith's new show expecting to see my geek peeps, but the frames were alien to a woman like me.

By Laura Kane, 25 Feb 2012

Arriety

'The Secret World of Arrietty'

Again, a film that feels like real childhood memories. How does Miyazaki do it?

By Dorothy Woodend, 24 Feb 2012

Vancouver musician Rodney DeCroo

Woods, Wires, Whiskey, and Poetry

Rodney DeCroo's latest takes him back in more ways than one.

By Ron Coldham, 23 Feb 2012

Neil Young guitar

Neil Young Gets Back on the Horse

He's hanging with the wrong crowd again. Right on!

By Adrian Mack, 16 Feb 2012

Frankie Rose

Frankie Rose Makes Life Tougher for Journalists

With Interstellar, 'lo-fi fuzz pop' just doesn't cut it anymore.

By Alex Hudson, 9 Feb 2012

Stan Douglas, Granville Riot

Portrait of a Riot

Artist Stan Douglas, on immortalizing the 1971 Gastown showdown, his harshest critics (police) and what the image stands for today.

By Alexander Alberro and Stan Douglas, 8 Feb 2012

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Make It the Canadian Webcasting Corporation

That's my proposal. Beat the inevitable by turning the CBC into the CWC.

By Crawford Kilian, 8 Feb 2012

YACHT

The Braniac Groove

YACHT brings performance art you can dance to.

By Shawn Conner, 2 Feb 2012

Old Rio Theatre

Where Can You Go for a Real Movie Experience Anymore?

Real as its popcorn butter, Vancouver's Rio Theatre is a classic worth defending.

By Dorothy Woodend, 27 Jan 2012

Band Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings' Alt-Rock Wet Dream

The sad-sack grunge revival continues apace.

By Alex Hudson, 26 Jan 2012

Julia Holter

Just Me, Some Music, and the Air Between Us

Julia Holter's "Marienbad" inspires a resolution.

By Thom Wong, 19 Jan 2012

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Can David Cronenberg Still Provoke?

'A Dangerous Method' is tinged with Cronenbergian weirdness. But where is the man who got under our skin again and again?

By Peter Tupper, 18 Jan 2012

Tyee Multimedia

The Perfect Pop Song

From 'Jessie's Girl' to 'Melody for Lovers,' we're still swooning.

By Adrian Mack