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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Doug "Donut" Proulx dies, leaving behind a legacy as a Vancouver punk legend (opens the original)
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Friends and fans are reporting the passing of Douglas Proulx tonight. Vancouver music fans knew the local punk rock legend best as the drummer for the hugely influential Death Sentence. No cause of death has been given. Known by his stage name Doug Donut, Proulx also sat behind the kit for West Coast bands that included the Pasties and Mr. Pink, as well as doing session work for artists ranging from Mudgirl’s Kim Bingham to former Age of Electric frontman Todd Kerns. In addition to his work as a
Ed Sheeran proves too chickenshit to take the easy stand with Macklemore (opens the original)
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Imagine carving yourself out a career based on being safe, bland, and generally devoid of opinions on anything except the magical elixir known as Nando’s Peri-Peri sauce. And then having the world as you know it suddenly blow up in your face for playing things safe, bland, and not having the balls to come out and take a stand when it’s needed. Welcome to the shitstorm Ed Sheeran currently finds himself standing in. First, in the spirit of fairness, a quick defence of the man whose back catalogue
On Our Radar: The Fomites might sound punk as fuck, but "Insidious" shows a sense of humour (opens the original)
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If you’ve checked out the Fomites “Insidious” on Bandcamp, then you already know the Vancouver three-piece doesn’t exactly blast off the starting line. Things start out sounding more like a Deutsche Grammophon dinner party than a booze-and-blow blowout at Fat Wreck Chords. How often have you heard a speed-obsessed skate punk band kick off a song with 30 seconds of funeral-service violin and viola? And then things abruptly downshift from beautifully classy to completely trashy in the time it take
Eight standout wines to celebrate a summer that's quickly slipping away (opens the original)
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We’re in the final stretch of summer, which means you’ve got a week to do all the stuff that you mean to do in June, July, and August. That includes, in no particular order, buying fruit kabobs in your birthday suit on Wreck Beach, hanging with friends on Main Street patios where one quick drink leads to six, and rewatching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for the 10th time with a fifth of whisky and a dry-cured Italian cheroot cigar (poncho optional). With the season (which, admittedly, never see
Convinced that Vancouver's summer just sucked? There might be a reason for that (opens the original)
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First off, it pretty much goes without saying that, flashing back to the middle of June, no one was praying for a heat dome in the summer to come. One of those every decade is more than enough. But as for hoping for weeks of sweltering, hotter-than Georgia-asphalt weather, it was, for most of us, “Bring that shit on”. Here's why: there are few things greater than a Vancouver summer where you’re in shorts and a T-shirt on the Keefer Bar patio at 1 a.m. and the night feels like Havana (the city, n
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