Powell River celebrates its progressive roots
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to be performed at PRISMA. In 1913, the ballet caused a riot in Paris and unleashed a mad torrent of modernity on the members of Parisienne high society…
Ronald Reagan’s remarkable mission to Moscow
The American president's loathing for nuclear weapons and his desire to see new freedoms in the Soviet Union framed his trip…
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens…
Marxism “the opium of the intellectuals”
On the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, let's admit Marxism has nothing useful to say to the modern world…
Entertainment as diversity propaganda
Television has taken it upon itself to correct social wrongs. But it doesn't fairly represent the mosaic of our society…
Discovering Monet’s lifelong fascination with architecture
London’s National Gallery exhibit offers rare glimpses into the artist’s examination of the play of light on human structures…
Rolling the gender boulder up the broadcast hill ignores bigger issues
The CRTC should be far more concerned about the role of women within the telecommunications industry than in TV…
New book offers vision of a safer urban future
Cyber City Safe: Emergency Planning Beyond the Maginot Line explores cybersecurity, modern emergency planning and green city living…
Why authoritarian populists are destined to fail
A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress…
A gentle giant of a man, a larger-than-life icon
A new documentary about pro wrestler André the Giant paints an engrossing portrait…