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Movie review: McConaughey keeps shirt on in tender Mud

 
Matthew McConaughey
 
Every once in a while audiences need a reminder that Matthew McConaughey can do more than take his shirt off (you heard me, Magic Mike fans). Jeff Nichols' Mud announces it loud and clear.
 
 
 
 

Entertainment

 

State of the Arts: rEvolver Theatre Fest serves up Feast for the senses

 
The old green house next to The Cultch is being bulldozed at the end of June and Robert Leveroos wants to give its basement, which has sheltered numerous...
 
 

Theatre review: Leiren-Young brings memoir to stage with a little help from his friends

 
Never Shoot a Stampede Queen...At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until May 25
 
 

Review: Clowning around with beauty myths

 
Cucci & Cabana is a clown show in the style of Mump & Smoot but, rather than speaking in gobbledygook as Smoot and Mump do, Cabana and Cucci speak French...
 
 

Actor hopes Vancouver will say Noh to traditional theatre

 
Acclaimed Japanese actor Tsunao Yamai will be introducing Vancouver to Noh this weekend.Noh is a traditional form of musical theatre rooted firmly in ...
 
 

Video: Haiku Night in Canada: Canucks Playoff Haiku parts 1 to 6

 
Tender is the groin that stretches across the goal crease… the Courier continues its series of Basho-inspired haiku honouring the Vancouver Canucks...
 
 

Video: Haiku Night in Canada: Canucks Playoff Haiku part 2

 
Like an untamed colt, the Courier continues its series of Basho-inspired haiku honouring the Vancouver Canucks’ playoff run.
 
 

Movie review: ‘Man in a can’ surprisingly resilient

 
Iron Man...Opens Friday at Dunbar and Scotiabank
 
 

Video: Haiku Night in Canada: Canucks Playoff Haiku pt. 1

 
Spring means cherry blossoms and Stanley Cup playoffs in Vancouver.
 
 

State of the Arts: Filmmaker figures out father issues at DOXA

 
It was meant to be a documentary about her 73-year-old father’s relationship with his 23-year-old Filipino girlfriend he met online.
 
 

Theatre review: Prodigal son returns

 
I don’t know that the Bible needs a new book, but Jesuit priest and playwright Bill Cain has some ideas about what that book should look like.
 
 

West Point Grey: The British Ingestion (with VIDEO)

 
As part of the Courier’s Vancouver Special neighbourhood series, we visited The Diner in West Point Grey, where Stella Shurety and her family have...
 
 

Movie review: Plenty of pain, little gain

 
Pain and Gain: Opens Friday at Scotiabank
 
 

Western Front hosts ‘unproducible’ Stein production

 
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” is a typical quote from Gertrude Stein, who was famous for her love of word play and experimental language...
 
 

Theatre review: Young audience gets royal treatment

 
Arthur: Boy King, At Waterfront Theatre until April 28, Tickets: 604-685-6217, carouseltheatre.ca
 
 

State of the Arts: Performance Art Trap thinks inside the box

 
Several federal ministers slid into bed with Radix Theatre in Ottawa in 2009 within the privacy of a six-foot by eight-foot cardboard box.
 
 
 
 

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Dining

 

Hired Belly: HAVE helps out have-nots

 
Much of the Downtown Eastside news these days concerns the alighting of contentiously named Pidgin on the borders of Pigeon Park.
 
 

Food Crawl: Virgin olive oil diaries

 
Potentially the best thing to come out of the popular “low-carb” lifestyle is the championing of healthy oils. As grains become passe for ...
 
 

Sweet Spot: Better living through chocolate

 
On a sunny Wednesday evening, I find myself in a small back room beside a stainless steel beast radiating heat and noise, a combination of whirring and...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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