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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Author and Mayne Islander Julie Emerson.

At its peak, Alex Maher’s addiction was so at home at rock bottom, that it invited the veteran Vancouver musician in to visit twice in one year.

U2 are kicking off the 30th anniversary tour behind their landmark The Joshua Tree album in Vancouver next week, but the May 12 appearance at BC Place marks another special occasion as well – one with a local angle.

Carmen Pollard documents her cousin’s final years in DOXA doc

Charles Wilkinson arrived in Vancouver in 1969 fuelled by idealism and a search for community. His first order of business was to jump into the waters off Spanish Banks, a pivotal moment for the then 16-year-old Calgary native.

Your true self is divine. Most of you go through life without knowing this. Your true self is your atman (soul) which is a part of Brahman the Supreme Being.

Beauty can be a mask for ugliness – and sometimes you have to stare into the ugliness in order to rise above it.

They’re bringing classical back. The rise and mainstream sway of contemporary dance over the last decade has, in ways, come to take precedence over the traditional form – the classical ballet.

In this dizzying age of fake news and seemingly fascist regimes, separating fact from codswallop can be a Herculean task – but the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival is here to help you make sense of it all.

Sound of drums, jazz music and lovely voices filled the Robson Square May 1 as elementary and high school students gave a free public concert.