Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Ghostface Killah / The People North West

  Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 27

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2017

  Putting on a live show is always a crapshoot — there's always a good chance that things won't work out. This was one of those shows.   On p...

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  Jim Gaffigan / Ivan Decker

  Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 24

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2017

  Jim Gaffigan is playing the long game, and it has been working for him — at age 50, he's hitting his peak. Where most of the ten comedians...

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  Sarah Silverman / Charlie Demers

  Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 25

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2017

  Even though she never really had a ground-breaking starring role like Lucille Ball or Mary Tyler Moore — she's more so known for her myriad...

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  Jen Kirkman

  Just Keep Livin'?

  PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2017

  "Women is not a kind of comedy. Women is a kind of people." – Jen Kirkman   When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I read every men's m...

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  Iliza / Ivan Decker

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 17

  PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2017

  The JFL NorthWest comedy festival returns to Vancouver with the likes of Trevor Noah, Jim Gaffigan and Sarah Silverman on deck. Meanwhile,...

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  Matmos / Jeff Carey / Bully Fae

  Western Front, Vancouver BC, December 8

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2016

  The famed Western Front was the perfect venue in which to see this challenging triple bill, headlined by Matmos. The Front is a historic ar...

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  Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld

  Never were the way she was

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld met back in 2006, but it took them close to a decade to find the time to record an album together. They wer...

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  Esmerine

  La Lechuza

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Inspiration is an elusive notion, the result of an intangible interplay of serendipitous happenstance that leads to humanity's greatest dis...