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This weeks events around Metro Vancouver include storytelling in Indigenous Cities and a concert from Turning Point Ensemble.

Strange New World Music Tune your ears to the great unknown as we explore the vast spectrum of modern music from across our planet. From regional folk traditions to wildly experimental underground scenes, this show is a great celebration of the invisible magic that unites us all: RHYTHM. Speak your languages. Sing your truths. Earth People, wander to many rhythms and be free ) )) ))) The first hour of Wandering Rhythms is a boundless sonic stew of new worldly sounds, while the second hour touch...

Michelle Cyca: How would you describe your literary tastes? Jen Sookfong Lee: I mostly read novels — my favourites are really immersive novels that have a lot of different layers in terms of setting and character, and all those fictional elements. I look for something that will suck me in and not let me go. The last one was Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz, which is a pandemic novel. Oddly, she wrote it before any of this happened. It’s not that she was predicting the futur...

by Craig Takeuchi on February 26th, 2021 at 10:30 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2 The commercial success of the Hollywood rom-com Crazy Rich Asians proved to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it propelled the careers of its stars—including Asian American actors Constance Wu ( Fresh Off the Boat) and Awkwafina ( The Farewell), and Asian British actors Henry Golding ( A Simple Favor) and Gemma Chan ( Captain Marvel)—in Hollywood, an industry in which Asian stars have struggled with limited vis...