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"Mo and the Rickshaw bring the integrity and determination that the Vancouver scene should be proud of."

Vancouver's largest free music and arts fest features live concerts, Indigenous cultural sharing, beer gardens and food trucks, and more.

Khatsahlano Street Party is Vancouver's largest free music and arts festival, with multiple stages, food trucks, beer gardens, and more.

AN ODDITY IN THE OPENING CREDITS for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962) has gone largely unremarked, probably because it is so cursory. A minute or so into the credit sequence, which is accompanied by the stately largo from Vivaldi’s Concerto for Viola d’Amore and Lute in D Minor, a fly suddenly enters at the lower right-hand side of the frame, meanders a bit before pausing on the name of an actor (Giulio de Stephanis) as if to inspect it, and then skitters off as quickly as it had em...

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The best concerts to catch in Vancouver this month.

Who are the 15 people tasked with improving the local scene?

Check out the CD & Digital Artist Samplers from our October/November 2023 Issue. Stream the COMBINED playlist: Download the DIGITAL SAMPLER tracks for

Cher would definitely approve.

On this edition of the 5 songs you must hear this week, Metric Returns, Bend Sinister and The Struts channel the 70s, and the son of a famous ska-punk musician does his own thing.