Suki’s Hair Salon and Knot Theory Fashion House team up in the first Bold Alopecia Movement (BAM!) hair and fashion show, to raise awareness for alopecia areata, a hair loss condition that affects 2% of the global population (four times the population of Canada). The BAM! Fashion Show will be held on Wednesday, June 19th…
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The XX marks the spot!
The xx – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – May 24, 2013 On a night with multiple shows happening around town The xx show at the Queen E certainly had a lot of buzz around it. The British trio arrived onstage, in their usual dark attire, like shadows emerging from a brilliant blaze of lights. The stage…
Ben Howard makes Vancouver part of his Every Kingdom
Ben Howard – Orpheum Theatre – April 17, 2013 British singer-songwriter Ben Howard has made the most of his trip to the West Coast for his Coachella Music Festival performances last weekend. He’s added in a quick tour of the Coast, wrapping up in Vancouver at the Orpheum Theatre. The historic Orpheum was a perfect…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are ‘English Electric’
OMD – Commodore Ballroom – April 5, 2013 The sold out Commodore Ballroom was packed with a wide cross section of demographics as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) returned to Vancouver. Like many in attendance I’m old enough to remember their original heyday in the 80s and 90s, lead singer Andy McCluskey sounded every…
Inaugural Canadian Screen Awards 2013
Sunday night saw the debut of the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by Martin Short from Sony Centre in Toronto and broadcast on CBC. Replacing the formerly seperate Gemini – Television Awards and Genie – Film Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards celebrated the best in Canadian film, English language television (French tv has its own ceremony)…
And The Oscar goes to…2013 Academy Award Winners
The 85th Academy Awards, officially renamed The Oscars, ceremony celebrating the best of film in 2012 was televised on February 24, 2013. From the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, the broadcast was hosted quite admirably for the first time by the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane, who kept the evening’s proceedings moving along fairly wittily, without being…
55th Annual Grammy Awards
Sunday night, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences h0noured their own with the 55th Annual Grammy awards presented at the Staples Centre in Los Angele. Hosted by LL Cool J the show featured performances by Taylor Swift, Elton John & Ed Sheeran, F.U.N., Miranda Lambert & Dierks Bentley, Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z, Mumford…