Spark

Single

Olympics Torched!

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2008

The beleaguered IOC’s latest headache comes courtesy of Vancouverite Geoff Berner’s scathing new single, "Official Theme Song for the 2010...

Mike Birbiglia Shares Secrets

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2008

New York-via-Massachusetts comedian Mike Birbiglia strikes a one-two punch based on his blog, My Secret Public Journal. (birbigs.com) A hil...

Vinyl

Seven Inches of Blood (with Jay Reatard)

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2008

Over the course of his ten-year career, Jay Reatard (nee Lindsey) has become one of the underground’s most obsessed-about musicians, in lar...

Novel

Literary Breakdown

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

Jill Murray loves breakdancing. There’s just one problem. "I'm not very good at it. I injure myself constantly,” she says. "But I love it a...

DVD

It’s Better to Burn to Shine

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

Burn to Shine’s Seattle stop for volume five finds the DVD series looking and sounding its best. Producer Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and direct...

Compilation

Special Education

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

Rock, funk, trippy keyboards, tight horn sections and dense percussion are all ingredients in once and future Afrobeat, but they also apply...

Short Films

Oscar and AnimEh

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

As we celebrate Haligonian Ellen Page’s Academy Award nom for Juno, the Canucks up for "Best Short Film (Animated)” enjoy relative anonymit...

Seven-inches

Vinyl Destination

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

With CDs slowly plummeting to their death and MP3s being so impersonal, it’s refreshing to know that vinyl sales rose 15 percent last year....