By Amber Harper-Young VANCOUVER – Since opening in April of 2013, Chris Bentzen’s gallery, Hot Art Wet City, has shown…
Alicia Tobin, Graham Clark, Hot Art Wet City, Vancouverite, We Know Nothing About Art
by Sebastian Buzzalino Julien Baker’s delicate folk songwriting feels like a long-forgotten favourite sweater. She is emotive and resilient, leaving…
Posts by Category: • Comedy
By Graeme Wiggins VANCOUVER – There’s an old Saturday Night Live skit that popularized the distinction between things that are “funny ha-ha”…
comedy, puddles the clown, Rio Theatre
By Graeme Wiggins VANCOUVER — We can all agree that working retail sucks. Between entitled customers, power-tripping bosses, and the annoying…
Alicia Tobin, BC, British Columbia, Come Draw with Me, Hot Art Wet City, JFL Northwest, Retail Nightmares, Stop Podcasting Yourself
By Colin Gallant CALGARY — die Laughing (lowercase is stylistically intentional) is Calgary’s deadliest new monthly party. The death toll…
AB, Alberta, die Laughing, stand-up comedy, Wine-Ohs
By Team BeatRoute VANCOUVER — Sometimes you need to smile to keep from crying. It’s been a long, hard few months,…
BC, British Columbia, JFL Northwest, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Trevor Noah
By Graeme Wiggins VANCOUVER — “I think I first started writing about depression in my act when I was sort…
Aparna Nancheria, BC, Biltmore Cabaret, British Columbia, JFL Northwest, JFL Northwest Comedy Festival
By Amber Harper-Young VANCOUVER — Early in his career, Nashville native comedian Nate Bargatze moved to Chicago in 2003 to…
BC, Biltmore Cabaret, British Columbia, JFL Northwest, Nate Bargatze
By Graeme Wiggins VANCOUVER — Chris D’Elia is not into being pigeon-holed. While you may know him from the sitcom…
BC, British Columbia, Chris D’Elia, JFL Northwest, Vogue Theatre
By Graeme Wiggins VANCOUVER — With a young child, a weekly podcast, a fairly rigorous tour schedule, and a desire…
BC, British Columbia, JFL Northwest, Tom Segura, Vogue Theatre, Your Mom's House
By Beth d’Aoust VANCOUVER — A prankster at heart, Todd Glass is famous among friends for surprising guests with absurd,…
BC, British Columbia, JFL Northwest, Todd Glass, Vancouver Yuk Yuk's, Yuk Yuk's
By Sebastian Buzzalino They may sound ultra-Canadian but Greek rockers Maplerun are making a rare cross-Canada tour this month, bringing…
Maplerun