4TheRcrd Mag.

In the months leading up to Italy’s parliamentary elections, abortion has become a prominent issue on the election agenda. Former Conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the running for office, recently gave the United Nations a strong anti-choice message that a fetus should be protected “from conception until natural death.” In December, popular conservative journalist Giuliano [...]

{IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Chromosome with DNA} After the human genome was sequenced several years ago, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would see dollar signs in this. A California-based online company, 23andMe, is offering the general public genotyping services. You pay $999, receive a kit in the mail, which basically consists of a test tube in [...]

{Editors Note: this is an adaptation of an announcement for the “Resisting the University” festival starting March 3rd to the 7th — we saw it as legitimate to circulate; so here goes.} SDS at UBC are hosting a Week of Resistance! They’ll be discussing a slew of social issues relevant to “student life” or “academic [...]

A few weeks back, I was given the gift of Feist. More accurately, I was provided with a ticket to see Feist with Ron Sexsmith at the Orpheum on February 12. It all seemed too good to be true, this joining of beloved Canadian musicians with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Skepticism aside, I scurried into [...]

Let’s get decisive shall we? I read that the city has changed their Plaza “design [at Queen Elizabeth Park] a whopping 85 times after the contract was signed. They say work was delayed for three months because the City hadn’t fixed the concrete slab underneath the plaza.” Is that what our taxpayer’s dollars are going [...]

February 25th No Promises presents: Big Monday & TXBK’s Tour Kick Off! Misery Signals playing as The Failsafe, A Textbook Tragedy, Savannah, Callahan @ The Astoria Hotel, 769 East Hastings Street (No Minors) $12 9:30pm – 1:00am doors at 8:30pm www.myspace.com/miserysignals www.myspace.com/atextbooktragedy www.myspace.com/savannahcore www.myspace.com/callahanband ALTAR EGO and MONDAY NIGHT KHAOS present: The Drunken Idiots, Dirty [...]

{EDITORS NOTE: In this day and age of Film Festivals, Grammy, Oscars, and Emmy awars, among others — a good question to ask is “just what is the experience of the film maker” and, in that spirit, here’s a first-hand account of such a thing and more.}  Television. How uninspiring, right? The Banff Television Festival [...]

Set in the 16th century and based on true stories of Moghul rule, Jodhaa Akbar traces the rise of Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, generally thought of as the greatest Emperor in Moghul history. It focuses on a political marriage of alliance between Akbar and his Hindu Rajput wife Jodhaa and the political issues such a high-profile, [...]

Over the weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Northern Voice blogger conference with some friends of mine and had a wonderful experience sitting in on the various talks given on a wide range of topics from design theory to photography technique, and the value of stretching your artistic horizons, and how this all [...]

I’m talking about a revolution. Vancouver is facing the most horrible and violent Dark Age a city has ever faced. As the sun shines on your face in the local coffee shop, you may just turn the page on this article. Well done says Gordon Campbell, well done say the Bush family. The government we [...]