The 2025 edition of the Matriarchs Uprising festival is, by design, the biggest yet. While festivals traditionally go all-in for their 10th or 25th anniversaries, the seventh iteration of the ...

Tomorrow (February 14), communities will gather for the Women’s Memorial March to honour and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and Trans individuals (MMIWG2S+). The ...

How would you sleep at night if that was your child murdered or missing? And, know this; they are all our children because we are suppose to be one Human family.

Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

When we were trying to get near Carney in the crowd, you chatted with me briefly about how we both had copies of Carney's book, Value(s). I asked if you've read it yet and you said some, but that it's ...

People are getting hired without qualifications left, right, and centre. Wow. Nobody needs actual skills. They just need to wear make-up, become tall, have a big ego, and your company... well, your ...

I can't help it, but I am amazed by her abilities to express herself firmly and uphold the law. I am aroused and attracted by it. Pam Bondi, I hope you carry handcuffs on you and are up for some ...

Although the wall-of-sound wail has its place, everything from old jazz to heavy metal seeps into the band’s sonic chemistry; a fusion made even more obvious on La Lune’s new music. A new single, ...

“He survived the war and came back to Canada and wrote a book of poetry about his experiences, and published it through the Air Force,” Paylor says. “I read it cover-to-cover, and it really touched me ...

COMEDY WORLD is a Pro Standup Show every second and fourth Friday of the month at the legendary China Cloud Studios. Hosted by lifelong comedian Colin Cowan (NBC's Trial & Error, CBC's This Is That, ...

Mongrels” makes its hometown debutGet the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Jerome Yoo’s Mongrels will have a week-long Vancouver ran at the ...

Spend Valentine’s Day under the stars at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. This adults-only soirée blends romance and science with live music, cosmic storytelling, space-themed trivia, and an insightful ...