B.C.-based production designer Danny Vermette talks about creating a world for the horror film that's about to smash the box office.

Consider that a warning that you’re in the wrong place if looking for songs about Hope restrooms, Trans-Canada flat tires, and the famously hellish drive from Toronto to Thunder Bay. Instead, the 12 ...

When most people think about music in video games, they usually think about popular songs playing in the background of games ...

For a good reason. And the Straight just ran a feature article about it. It. Give thanks. I'd like to tie-in the name David Garrick (aka Walrus) who was a life long friend of David Suzuki and at times ...

The Chinatown Storytelling Centre has added a new chapter to its growing collection of community stories. The cultural institution recently unveiled the Learning Lab, a 4,000-square-foot immersive ...

I hereby confess that I constantly tear down posters that people put up on utility poles in residential neighbourhoods. I don't want to see your dog walking business or your roofing ads everywhere I ...

It’s been really, really fun to where I don’t know why I kept this secreted away for so long.” “I randomly caught Phantom playing a short set at the Vault in Nanaimo a couple summers ago and was ...

I want to go back to school to get a master's degree, but people are telling me this won't work anymore. Is there any truth to this?

Etienne Flinn walks his dog to the patio of a cafe on the West Side to meet the Straight. His long hair is tied up in a ponytail. Minutes later, his bandmate, Soren Mourne, arrives. She’s wearing ...

In this supernatural Indigenous thriller from the director of Wildhood, siblings Mise'l and Antle journey into Sk+te'kmujue'katik (the Place of Ghosts), a primordial forest that exists outside of time ...

Technically speaking, Marie Dresselhuis is on her own as she drives solo down the West Coast of North America for her first ever tour. But the Vancouver singer-songwriter is quick to make the case ...

A short, weak VPD officer resented that I'm bigger, better looking than he is and grabbed me by the arm and elbowed me in the back right side of my head. It is exactly the spot where the tumor is, in ...