Features

• 311 and the Wailers at the Commodore Ballroom, Mar 2 2010 Reggae legend opens for punk/metal hip-hop act

• TwitteReview – Closing Ceremonies 2010 Olympics It was awful!

• Olympics Report # 10 – Women’s Ski Cross It’s a gray day up on Cypress as the first-ever women’s ski cross competition gets underway.

• Strange Magic Dons Olympics Gear! Romila Barryman filmed our photo shoot with Strange Magic a couple of months back at the Biltmore Cabaret. This is the result….

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Golden Globes The best from the Twitterverse on James Cameron’s hair, ‘Ava-dah’, Robert Downey Jr’s speech, Mike Tyson and Mickey Rourke and more!

• What Do You Mean You Missed It? Pt. I We’ve selected some of the most outrageous images from the last year, including Monotonix, Juliette Lewis, Handsome Furs, and many more.

• Letter from Phil Vancouver photographer Bev Davies recently posted a letter from Philip K. Dick on her blog. Adrian Mack puts the 1972 missive from the author of classics of SF paranoia (which have inspired movies such as Blade Runner and Total Recall) into perspective.

• Top 10 Things You Pretended Weren’t Happening In the Last Decade Feeling safe? Secure? Think The Road was ‘only a movie’?

• Adventures in Computer Gaming – Holiday Edition Our computer games correspondent has some solid ideas for gift-giving this holiday season, including Soldak Entertainment’s Depths of Peril.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Romila B Vs the Mayor of Vancouver! Investigative journalism at its finest as our intern investigates the Case of the Broken Frame and confronts his mayoralty Gregor Robertson.

• 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.

• 10 Best Horror Films of the Century (So Far) We choose the scariest, creepiest and most downright thrilling films from the last decade. You argue why Shaun of the Dead should be included.

• Wrap-up – Resilient Cities Conference Oct 20-22 This past week, Kari Dow covered the Resilient Cities Conference in Vancouver. Required reading for anyone concerned about where our cities are heading.

• Thriller ‘Zombie’ Dance at the Roundhouse Over 200 people showed up in zombie regalia to dance to ‘Thriller’ in Vancouver, one of 300 cities to take part in the record-setting tribute to Michael Jackson.

• Resilient Cities Conference – Days II & III Majora Carter offers some hope after a day of doom-and-gloom prognostications. Head’s up – ecological necessity is politically unfeasible and the politically feasible is ecologically irrelevant.

• Resilient Cities Conference – Day 1 A three-day conference on ‘urban strategies for transition times’ seeks to spread ideas about ways cities can respond to adversity. Kari Dow reports from the frontlines.

• More Adventures In Computer Gaming Our Game Master Beatrice Smartt introduces her favourite Logic Puzzle/RPG games. Personally, we think she has a crush on Beethro Budkin.

• Interview – Maria Bamford (June 2008) We were so tickled by Maria’s Vancouver ComedyFest appearances we dug up an interview from last year. The comic discusses her show for SuperDeluxe and online dating.

• One Woman’s Adventures in Computer Gaming The Visitor, Scarygirl, Little Wheel and The Path (pictured) are among Beatrice Smartt’s picks for point-and-click adventure game gems.

• Review – Bassprov and Crush New York’s Crush and Chicago’s Bassprov make it up as they go along on night four of the five-day Vancouver International Improv Festival.

• The Coen Brothers’ Five Greatest Moments Josh Rosenblatt picks his favourite Coen Bros. movie moments. Salma Hayek, if you’re reading this…

• Review – Vancouver Global ComedyFest 2009 Hey, we love gay and masturbation jokes as much as the next guy—but seriously, aren’t there a few other topics that can be spun into comic gold?

• Burning Man 2009 Index As a helpful way of distilling our first Black Rock City experience down into its numerical essence, we’ve come up with an Index. Also – some of the best BM links on the Internet.

• Burning Man 2009 – Breakdown in Black Rock City, Pt. IV Will our agonized protagonist find redemption? Or will he just hear ‘Redemption Song’ played by a hippie with a ghettoblaster? We find out in the last part of Breakdown in Black Rock.

• Burning Man 2009 – Breakdown in Black Rock City, Pt. III Our apologies to anyone bored of hearing about Burning Man, but we have a story to tell. Still, if you skip this part, all the better—it’s kind of embarrassing.

• Burning Man 2009 – Breakdown in Black Rock Pt II The food at Burning Man is a story in itself. But we’re not going to let bacon-wrapped fudgee-Os get in the way of the flogging, pole-dancing and a walk across the desert.

• Burning Man 2009 – Breakdown in Black Rock Pt. I Our correspondent’s first time navigating the desert dreadlock fest results leads to dehydration, a spiritual breakdown and the realization that no one wants his Cliff bars.

• Four Fictional Women I Want To Be (With) Check out the four lucky ladies that made Kate Reid’s laminated list.

• Best Liz & K8 Advice Ep 5: Urine Luck! In this season’s final episode, Liz and K8 talk about their Olsen-style sex tape, what Robert Pattinson ate at Boneta and whether or not Kevin Richardson is a grower. p.s. If you like tinkle play, “urine” luck!

• True Blood – more sex, please, we’re vampires Don’t give her any pish-posh about vampires, maenads, or telepaths—it’s the sex that keeps Liz Stanton coming back for more in the HBO hit True Blood.

• The Curse of Brad Pitt — a character actor in a leading man’s body A better stoner than Sean Penn? A more artful nut than Dustin Hoffman? A—gasp—talent capable of making a Guy Ritchie movie worth seeing? Indeed, writes Josh Rosenblatt.

• Let’s Kill Uncle – Forgotten Canlit Pioneer Rediscovered The Bloomsbury Group will reissue Let’s Kill Uncle, a largely forgotten Canadian novel, next year. The renewed attention is likely the result of an article in The Believer.

• Liz & K8 on John Hughes (’cos he died) Liz & K8 talk about their John Candy crushes, the Home Alone board game and the possible Ferris Beuller threesome, all while trying to put lipstick on with their boobs.