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Vancouver Chinatown Night Market Opens May 18, 2012

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on May 15, 2012

Vancouver Chinatown Night Market. Photo: Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association

This Victoria Day weekend marks the summer-season opening weekend for two of the three Greater Vancouver summer night markets: the Richmond Night Market (back for 2012 at 8351 River Rd., near the River Rock Casino) and the Vancouver Chinatown Night Market. (The other Richmond market—the Summer Night Market at 12631 Vulcan Way—opened last weekend, on May 11.)

While the two Richmond night markets duke it out for best “big” summer night market, the Vancouver Chinatown Night Market can pride itself for offering something the other markets can’t: a true, intimate neighbourhood feel, right in the heart of historic Chinatown.

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Vancouver Chinatown Night Market Opens May 18, 2012

Summer Night Market in Richmond Opens May 11, 2012

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on May 11, 2012

Summer Night Market in Richmond. Photo: Dana Lynch

Like practically everyone else in the Lower Mainland, I love our summer night market tradition: eating Pork Sui Mai with toothpicks, sharing twirled “Hurricane” potatoes, browsing cheap sunglasses after dark…. I love the intimacy and neighbourhood-feel of the Chinatown Night Market (opening for Summer 2012 on May 18) and I love the carnival-like, night-bazaar atmosphere and incredible selection of food at the enormous Summer Night Market in Richmond.

But this year, the massive Summer Night Market—the night market that’s been at 12631 Vulcan Way since 2008—will have some major competition: the “original” Richmond Night Market is re-opening on May 18 (at 8351 River Rd., near the River Rock Casino), and will have just as many vendors as the Summer Night Market.

Maybe that’s why the Summer Night Market is opening today, May 11—to get a jump on the competition!

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Summer Night Market in Richmond Opens May 11, 2012

Documentary Film Festival Coming to Vancouver: DOXA, May 4-13

by Remy Scalza in Entertainment on April 29, 2012

Yemen. 2011. A struggling Yemeni tour guide is trying to keep his travel agency and hotel afloat while revolution breaks out all around him. When gunfire and rocket attacks cut one tour short, he returns home to the capital only to find pro- and anti-government forces facing off in the streets. Will he join the revolution or go about business as usual?

This is the central dilemma in The Reluctant Revolutionary one of more than 100 documentaries from around the globe being screened at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival, May 4 – May 13 at venues around Vancouver. Themes range from the Arab Spring and dissidence in China to sex workers, psychedelic drugs and grizzly bears. For documentary fans, it’s a unique chance to see award-winning works from Canada and abroad, world premieres and groundbreaking interactive productions.

DOXA (which is a philosophical term meaning a belief tested by debate) kicks off on May 4 with a special interactive documentary called Bear 71. Continue reading:
Documentary Film Festival Coming to Vancouver: DOXA, May 4-13

Vancouver International Burlesque Festival 2012

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on April 26, 2012

Photo: Vancouver International Burlesque Festival

Burlesque has a unique place in adult entertainment today. It’s “naughty” but still “nice” because, with it’s tongue-in-cheek sexiness and (frequent) inversion/subversion of gender tropes, it appeals to women as much as (if not more than) men, and to people across the sexuality spectrum. There’s a subversive element to the best of today’s burlesque, and that makes it as exciting to watch as it is titillating.

To catch some of the very best burlesque, check out the 7th annual Vancouver International Burlesque Festival, May 3- 6, 2012: three nights of bawdy theatrics, humour, dance, and showmanship with some of the best local and international burlesque performers around.

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Vancouver International Burlesque Festival 2012

Catch Vancouver artist Angela Grossmann’s ‘The Future is Female’ at Winsor Gallery until May 6

by Taraneh in Entertainment on April 26, 2012

Black Bra Blue Background collage, 33 x 25.5” framed 2012. Photo credit: Angela Grossmann

Angela Grossmann, hailed as one of Vancouver’s best artists, is back with her first local solo show in 7 years: “The Future is Female.” Described as captivating, brazen and unsettling, Grossmann’s collection of oil paintings and mixed media collage shows at Winsor Gallery until May 6.

“The Future is Female” tackles the basic female body image conventions, cutting through clutter like consumerism, shifting cultural tastes and cosmetic surgery.

“I’m interested in those chance moments when a woman or girl takes on a power beyond all of that rubbish,” says Grossmann. “It might be the swing of a hip or the way a leg stands that is so beautiful, so extraordinary… I’m just trying to figure it out: why is that so captivating, so beautiful?” she asks. “I’m going after beauty.”

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Catch Vancouver artist Angela Grossmann’s ‘The Future is Female’ at Winsor Gallery until May 6

Vancouver Chinatown Night Market Opens May 18, 2012

Summer Night Market in Richmond Opens May 11, 2012

Documentary Film Festival Coming to Vancouver: DOXA, May 4-13

Vancouver International Burlesque Festival 2012

Catch Vancouver artist Angela Grossmann’s ‘The Future is Female’ at Winsor Gallery until May 6

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