Our Editor Brian Miller has long been a writer and lyricist and offers up this lyric for your amusement. Of course it needs a melody and a singer to take Vivoscene to fame and fortune, which in turn we’ll use to buy more records (and squander recklessly on rent and food).

Katsura Sunshine, the Canadian born émigré now making a splash on Japanese television, is currently touring North America with a solo performance of an ancient art called Rakugo – a highly stylized form of storytelling. We recently had the opportunity to interview him.

Traditional Japanese Rakugo storyteller Katsura Sunshine embarks on a North American tour, having just received a prestigious appointment as Cultural Ambassador from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan. This guy’s a major talent!

Regardless of how you feel about opera you owe it to yourself to attend the current production of ‘Master Class’, being staged at Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre from September 27 to October 27, 2012. Terrence McNally’s 1995 play explores the life of an artist and much more.

The Vancouver glitterati were in full attendance at the spectacular re-opening of the newly renovated Ermenegildo Zegna store in Vancouver, BC tonight, September 24th. It was an unqualified triumph of fashion, food and music.

Many critics sneer at rockers attempting fashion design, however the intelligence behind the poetic lyrics, widely recognizable riffs and subsequent worldwide success of many rock bands is also the driving force behind their successful clothing lines.