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Influential leader yet to be replaced 20 years after his death

You’re already sweating and flushed from the heat, so why not go the extra mile and pile on some steamy dance? Dance doesn’t get much steamier than Flamenco – and Flamenco doesn’t get more authentic that Sonidos Gitanos, a dance troupe from the regio

July is generally a quiet time for the Vancouver theatre scene (most of the companies are in rehearsals for their fall seasons), but Theatre Under the Stars capitalizes on the warm weather to perform in the open air.

Throughout history, tyrants have banned “degenerate” artists or artworks under the argument that they posed an imminent danger to the social fabric. The theme of Queer Arts Festival 2014 , ReGenerations , is a defiant response to that.

Vancouverites are faced with a tough dilemma this week.

Woodland Park was full of girls late Thursday morning. Some sat cross-legged around their drums, intently watching Joy Mullen — better known in the local music scene as “Joy on Drums” — hit her snare.

The area doesn’t have an established name like Main Street or Commercial Drive. Nonetheless, businesses are enjoying plenty of traffic on the stretch of Fraser Street between Kingsway and King Edward Avenue.

Roots of Christian meditation go back 1,600 years

There is much talk in the media these days about labour shortages and that thousands of jobs in British Columbia and the rest of Canada will have to be filled over the next 10 years by non-Canadians — meaning new immigrants and/or temporary foreign w

SHUCK AND AWE: Fourteen oyster shuckers including two-time world champion Michael Moran and six bartenders from around the province, participated in Bearfoot Bistro’s fourth annual World Oyster Invitational and Bloody Caesar battle.