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Hollywood North: Schwarzenegger pumping iron and making movies in Vancouver
Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Vancouver filming the comedy Why We’re Killing Gunther with first-time director Taran Killam, is proving he is a man of the people by working out at a very-public downtown...
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The Bachelorette's Daniel Maguire represents Canada in different summer games
He’s no Michael Phelps but he fills out a Speedo pretty darn well and he’s just as meme-worthy. Vancouver’s Daniel Maguire is representing Canada this summer in a different kind of competition, as a...
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Album of the week: Stranger Things, Vol. 1 by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein
SOUNDTRACK Stranger Things, Vol. 1 (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack) Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (Lakeshore Records) By now if you haven’t checked out Netflix series Stranger Things (which is...
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The Tragically Hip in Kingston on CBC: Where to watch in Vancouver (updated)
The Tragically Hip wrap their epic trans-Canadian Man Machine Poem Tour in Kingston on Aug. 20. The concert is being broadcast nationally on various CBC platforms, including on television at 5:30 p.m....
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Is Doctor Who about to film in Vancouver?
The Hollywood North rumour mill has the long-running BBC hit Doctor Who likely coming to Vancouver soon for location shooting. British film and TV blog CultBox reports that star Peter Capaldi told...
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Town Talk: Cypress Challenge ride tops $2 million for pancreatic cancer
Cyndi Ankenman greeted Myriam Glotman at a reception for the Cypress Challenge that has raised $2 million to help fight pancreatic cancer. KEEP GOING: Betty Ergas’s death to pancreatic cancer resulted...
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Prison Break star: B.C. film crews 'on par with greatest'
Prison Break actor Robert Knepper had complimentary words for the B.C. film industry this week, labelling local crews as some of the best in the world. The acting veteran, perhaps best known as...
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Q&A: Motive show runner Dennis Heaton bids farewell to beloved crime drama
Motive series finale Aug. 30, 10 p.m. | CTV We may never find out who or what killed CTV hit crime drama Motive. It certainly wasn’t poor ratings (the show had an average viewership of 1.2 million per...
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Silicon Valley's T.J. Miller revels in Ridiculous
T.J. Miller’s Meticulously Ridiculous Tour Sept. 7, 7 p.m. | Vogue Theatre Tickets and info: $32.50, ticketfly.com After a hit TV series and a string of successful movies, T.J. Miller finds himself in...
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French comedian Gad Elmaleh goes for the Anglo angle in Vancouver
Oh My Gad Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m. | Vogue Theatre Tickets and info: $35, voguetheatre.com It’s a good bet that the only thing more stressful for a standup comic than following Jerry Seinfeld on stage would...
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Canadian screenwriters see red after recent CRTC funding rule changes
Canadian screenwriters would really like to do a thorough re-write of a recent Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decision that changes how Canadian a television show needs to...
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Town Talk: Auto dealer Moray Keith added bounce to new Cadillacs
HIGH FLYERS: Dueck auto dealer Moray Keith held a showroom party recently to launch Cadillac’s XT5 and CT6 models. Symbolizing manufacturer General Motors’ revival from government bailouts and decades...
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Bachelorette Canada star Jasmine Lorimer talks finding love on reality TV
The Bachelorette Canada Sept. 13,9 p.m. | W Network Canada, meet Jasmine Lorimer. The Ontario-born and now B.C.-based beauty may be the new star of the reality television show Bachelorette Canada,...
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Sprinkler system floods Supergirl shoot at downtown library
The cast and crew of the Supergirl television series were chased out of the downtown central branch of the Vancouver Public Library when the building’s sprinkler system was accidentally triggered...
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Aftermath, Van Helsing lead Vancouver's apocalyptic sci-fi charge
Aftermath Starts Sept. 27 | Space (Canada) and Syfy (U.S.) Van Helsing Starts Sept. 23 | Syfy (U.S.) Wayne Brady is better known as the quick-witted funny man who lights up TV game shows like Whose...
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Skydance Studios stages opening in Surrey, 400-plus jobs anticipated
Skydance Studios officially opened its new Surrey facility at 12091 88th Ave. on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, Minister of Technology, Innovation and...
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'What happens if you become pregnant?'— Zach Galifianakis grills Hillary Clinton
“What happens if you become pregnant are we going to be stuck with Tim Kaine for nine months?” “As Secretary (of State) how many words per minute could you type?” Zach Galifianakis asked all the tough...
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Town Talk: Large but little-known Persian art collection revealed
FULL HOUSE: One of the more striking contemporary-art collections hereabouts has nothing to do with Michael Audain, Bob Rennie and suchlike. Its close to 1,000 pieces that have so filled Iran-born...
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Nomadic death folk metal?! Tengger Cavalry makes it swing
Tengger Cavalry The Rickshaw, 254 E. Hastings | Saturday, 10 p.m. | Tickets/Info: $14.50 at rickshawtheatre.com Tengger Cavalry can lay claim to being the world’s best known nomadic death folk metal...
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Streams of dreams: Vancouver International Film Festival reimagined
The 35th Vancouver International Film Festival Sept. 29 – Oct. 14 | Various venues & times | Tickets/info: $10 – $900 viff.org Autumn, which brings cooler, shorter, typically rainier days, invites...
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