BLOGGERS RULE at the Vancouver Opera... Live Blogging for Rigoletto! Opera is one of the most intercultural art forms.  It forces its audience to listen to foreign languages, as it tells stories from different cultures.  Okay, it also presents a lot of stereotypes and racial chariactures t...

Dance Review: Cock-Pit Why men should watch men dance special contribution by Devon Cooke Wen-Wei DanceScotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street, Vancouver)Feb. 24-28, 2009 I spent a fine Friday evening last week watching Cock-Pit, a suitably suggestive and ambiguous title for Wen Wei Wang's equally...

Yellow Fellas... Western Canadian premiere at Vancouver Asian Film Festival If you don't know the name Tetsuro Shigamatsu... maybe you've heard his voice.  Tetsuro was the host of the CBC radio show "The Round Up" after the departure of Bill Richardson. I first met Tetsuro many moons ago, when ...