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Credit: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images Mystery Date: Our 1994 Juliana Hatfield Cover Story Juliana Hatfield has a love-hate relationship—with herself. Song to song, interview to interview, she can be cloyingly precocious one moment, frighteningly honest the next. Rob Sheffield puts the puzzle together. Written By Rob Sheffield Share this article: A version of this article originally appeared in the March 1994 issue of SPIN . In hon...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. With her highly anticipated third album slated to drop “while the sun is out,” 33-year-old artist Tahliah Debrett Barnett (aka FKA twigs) is set to soundtrack 2021’s summer of love. But that’s not all the British musician has to celebrate right now—she is, quite literally, soaring. “I’ve been kind to myself and allowed this time for rest and recalibration,” twigs tells Vogue, mid-flight a...

DOXA Documentary Film Festival Pivots to... Drive-In Theatre! Films on the gig economy, Fanny, and a mysterious bitcoin death are all on offer at the PNE Amphitheatre. Dorothy Woodend is culture editor of The Tyee. She was previously the DOXA festival’s director of programming. Reach her here. SHARES Fanny: The Right to Rock, which chronicles the story of rock queens from the 1970s, will screen at the DOXA festivals first ever drive-in theatre. If you wanted to do drive-in movies the old-fas...

Poly Styrene Doc Pays Tribute to the Person Behind the Persona The punk rocker’s story feels eerily familiar in a modern era of celebrity culture backlash. Showing at DOXA. Frederick Blichert is a freelance journalist and film critic. His writing appears in Vice, Paste Magazine, Xtra, Motherboard and elsewhere. Reach him here. SHARES Watch the trailer for ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ above.  This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored co...

The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: April 28-May 2 The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: April 28-May 2 Including Austra at Roy Thomson Hall, Hot Docs, the May Day Rally and the Storytelling Festival By Kevin Ritchie Our picks for the top things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 29-May 2 including Austra at Roy Thomson Hall, Hot Docs, the May Day Rally and the Storytelling Festival. Hot Docs The annual film festival for non-fiction lovers kicks off today but ...

Hot Docs 2021 reviews: directory Keep checking back as NOWs movie critics continue to review films throughout the festival By NOW Staff Courtesy of Hot Docs NOW’s film department has been busy watching selections from Hot Docs 2021’s virtual festival. Most films begin streaming on the festival’s opening day, Thursday (April 29) at 10 am. Keep checking back for more reviews. And remember a >>> sign indicates a critic’s pick.

by Steve Newton on April 24th, 2021 at 1:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Theres no shortage of music films to see at this years DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online from May 6 to 16. Youve got Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, a look at the life of the first mainstream Black woman in British punk rock; Sisters with Transistors, about the history of women in electronic music; and the world premiere of The Rumba Kings, which celebrates the rich tradition of Congolese rumba. Also worth con...

Wellington City Council fines contractor after polystyrene waste scattered along coastline 14 Apr, 2021 04:36 AM 3 minutes to read Ōwhiro Bay resident Jade Lorier with a few of the polystyrene balls. Photo / Supplied NZ Herald Wellington City Council have handed out a $200 fine after an "irresponsible" driver allowed a load of polystyrene balls to scatter across more than 7km of Wellingtons south coastline, including a marine reserve. "We were alerted to a widespread scattering of polystyrene ...

on films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 9-18. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in every important sphere of life. The San Francisco International Film Festival could not be held at all in 2020. It reappeared this year, largely online (with additional live screenings and performances at a drive-in theater), inevitably diminished in size. In 2019, the San Francisco festival screened 163 films, including 46 narrative and 40 documentary features ...

Punk Rock evolved as a backlash against the free love and peace mantra of the hippy movement, as Cait O’Riordan explained to Philip Boucher-Hayes, sitting in for Claire Byrne on the Today programme. The former bass player with The Pogues shared her knowledge and her personal stories about the musical and social phenomenon that was punk rock. It’s part of Today with Claire Byrne’s series of introductions to music you may not know, or as Philip Boucher-Hayes put it, "music you might otherwi...