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Rachel Fox

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  Interview – Jewelry Designer Nicole Tirona

  Rachel Fox interviews jewelry designer Nicole Tirona of It’s Your Life handmade vintage accessories.

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  Interview – Defendor’s Peter Stebbings and Nicholas Tabarrok

  Rachel Fox talks to the director and producer of Defendor about wrangling Mr. Woody Harrelson for, wtf?, a Canadian superhero movie.

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  Colbert!

  Rachel Fox braves the crowds and gets near the front for the taping (digitalizing?) of the first of two Colbert Reports during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Lots of pics, too.

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  Interview – Richard Crouse Pt II

  Remember the time Kris Kristofferson defended Sinead O’Connor against 30,000 angry Americans? What about the nude pictorial with Sarah Miles for The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea…

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  Review – Anvil at the Venue, Vancouver, Feb 13 2010

  Rachel Fox gives as good as she gets amidst a frottage-happy crowd of middle-age sausage owners on ‘Anviltine’s Day’.

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  Interview – Warren Sonoda

  Rachel Fox talks to the “King of Canadian Music Videos” about his movie with Samantha Bee, the ancient Hamilton vs. London feud, and Dave Foley’s penis. A Guttersnipe exclusive!

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  The Fox Guide to Valentine’s Day Movies

  A list from Rachel Fox, who DOES NOT plan on ending up on the couch eating ice cream on Feb 14.

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  Interview – Richard Crouse

  The Canada AM film critic trades Oscar quips with Rachel Fox in this no-holds-barred interview from the Victoria Film Festival.

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  The 16th Victoria Film Festival

  Films – and footwear – are the focus of the ‘Cousin Oliver’ of the Canadian Film Festival circuit. In between gastronomic pursuits, Rachel Fox reports.

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  Review – Motley Crue at GM Place, Vancouver, Jan 24 2010

  The Bad Boys of ’80s Hair Metal entertain non-fan Rachel Fox at ‘the predictable sausage-fest’. Jordana Meilleur photos

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  Review – The White Ribbon

  The latest dark and broody flick from master of dark and broody Michael Haneke grabs reviewer Rachel Fox and doesn’t let go.

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  Review – 100 Monkeys at the Venue, Jan 17 2010

  Jackson Rathbone fans threaten to tear the roof of the Venue with their screams. It’s all in a night’s work for the Twilight star, on tour with his jam band 100 Monkeys.

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  Interview – 100 Monkeys

  Jackson Rathbone. Twilight. There, are you happy, Google? 100 Monkeys swings through Vancouver on its 100 Dates tour.

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  Japandroids East Van Tshirt Mystery Solved!

  If you caught the Vancouver duo on Jimmy Fallon, you might have coveted singer Brian King’s East Side street name-dopping T. Well, look no further than Main…

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  Arts and Crafts, Blim Style

  Our intrepid undercover reporter Rachel Fox gets the scoop on the supposed DIY ‘arts and crafts movement.’ Is it as innocent as it seems, or a cover-up for encroaching Socialism in the arts sphere? Photos by Jessica Bardosh

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  Review – Sloan at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Dec 15 2009

  Canadian alt-rock institution plays the last show of its winter 2009 tour in support of a new EP. Rachel Fox considers tossing her panties stage-ward.

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  Interview – Sloan’s Jay Ferguson

  Groupies, stalkers, laundry—Rachel Fox asks the tough questions.

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  Whistler Film Festival – The End

  If a new crop of movies at this year’s Whistler Film Festival is any indication, Canadian film might finally be moving beyond the provincialism encouraged by government funding and the damn cold.

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  Whistler Film Festival Days 3 & 4

  Awards awarded, Woody Harrelson’s superhero movie Defendor, Sook-Yin Lee and free bacon are all part of this past weekend’s Whistler Film Festival. Rachel Fox dishes.

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  Whistler Film Festival Day 2

  Hugh Hefner, a rock ‘n’ roll vampire movie starring Iggy Pop and Jessica Pare, the best worst movie ever, and how to survive a film festival by Rachel ‘Gimp’ Fox.

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  Whistler Film Festival Day 1

  It’s Ivan Reitman’s festival—unless son Jason (’Up In the Air’, ‘Juno’) shows up. Also, on-site reporter Rachel Fox makes a Brady Bunch analogy.

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  Review – Fantastic Mr. Fox

  ‘[Wes] Anderson has made a sophisticated children’s film that is faithful to his oeuvre,’ writes Rachel Fox of the director’s new animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox.

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  Review – Billy Bragg at the Commodore, Vancouver, Nov 21, 2009

  One of the great things about a Billy Bragg concert is how he brings many facets of his personality to the stage, writes Rachel Fox.

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  Review – In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed

  Rachel Fox calls her review of this book of erotic fairy tales ‘She Bop’ after the Cyndi Lauper song about female, uhm, self-pleasuring. Whoot!

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  Review – The Bravery at the Venue, Vancouver, Nov 11 2009

  In ‘Land of the Free, Home of The Bravery’, Rachel Fox finds the Bravery not lacking in the potential rock-star boyfriend department.

• GAZE at the Toast Collective

  “People need real art, not shit from IKEA,” says one of artists with the Toast Collective. Unless of course it’s that shower curtain everyone seems to have.

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  Review – 2012

  A disaster movie in every sense of the word, 2012 destroys the Sistine Chapel, the White House, and the remains of John Cusack’s credibility.

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  Review – The Raveonettes at the Venue, Vancouver, Nov 5 2009

  The Danish duo brings out the heavy breathing in our reviewer…

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  Review – The Damned United

  Rachel Fox gives a big thumb’s up to the new football (okay, ’soccer’) movie, thanks largely to Michael Sheen’s performance but also because the costume department so obviously raided her father’s closet.

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  Lists – Horror Movies

  Also – guttersnipe’s guide to the best horror films of the 2000s, and Stephanie MacDonald’s top 10 horror of, like, ever.

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  Review – Gossip at the Commodore, Oct 22 2009

  Two bands, two coasts, but one message. Welcome to Lesbian Church!

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  Review – The Secretaries at the Black Frog, Vancouver, Oct 21

  I Wanna Be A Secretary! writes Rachel Fox, after seeing the Edmonton duo, augmented by the Brassholes, last night.

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  Review – Islands at the Rickshaw Theatre, Oct 20 2009

  Rachel Fox finds much to like about the Rickshaw Theatre, and last night’s headlining act Islands. Lead singer Nick Diamonds even made an entrance worthy of a Future Rockstar Boyfriend.

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  Review – Where the Wild Things Are

  Rachel Fox on the children’s classic that comes with impossible-to-fill expectations.