BC: North by Northwest

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Metis Artist Lisa Shepherd

A new show at the ACT Gallery in Maple Ridge is a collaboration between two Metis artists who only recently discovered they were cousins. Lisa Shepherd is a bead artist, and one half of that collaboration.

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Haley Landa on challah bread

Our baking columnist offers advice on one of her favourite things to bake in September.

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Reinventing "Giselle"

Dancer/choreographer Joshua Beamish has reimagined the classic ballet "Giselle" for the modern world of dating apps and Instagram likes. Matthew Parsons met up with him and Catherine Hurlin, who dances the title role, to learn more.

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Deep Into Edgar Allan Poe's Darkness

Deep Into Darkness is an immersive theatre experience based on the last moments of Edgar Allan Poe. The piece takes place in more than 20 rooms at the Cultch in Vancouver, and allows the audience to roam freely, observing whichever parts of the story appeal to them.

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Matthew Parsons watches The Clock

Christian Marclay's "The Clock" is a classic of contemporary art: a 24-hour film that also functions as a timepiece. Matthew Parsons caught an hour of it at the Polygon Gallery, where it's showing until September 15.

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Filmmaker Ali Kazimi on the Komagata Maru

Last week, the federal government announced the removal of former Vancouver MP Harry Herbert Stevens name from a federal public building in Vancouver. Stevens was partially responsible for denying the passengers aboard the Komagata Maru entry into Canada in 1914. Documentary filmmaker Ali Kazimi made a film called "Continuous Journey," about the Komagata Maru incident. Guest host Jason D'Souza talked with Kazimi about Stevens' legacy.

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Karun Thanjivur on meteors

If you're out at the right hours, you might still be able to catch the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked Monday night. Guest host Jason D'Souza talked with Karun Thanjivur about it on the weekend.

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Electronic art with Garnet Hertz

Garnet Hertz runs the Studio for Critical Making at Emily Carr University. His latest piece involves a dozen Google Home smart speakers, a disassembled television/VCR combo, and—just maybe—Homeland Security.

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A Graphic History of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

A conversation with illustrator David Lester and Sean Carleton of the Graphic History Collective.

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Hermit of Desolation Sound: Chapters 1-12

Grant Lawrence has been back on North By Northwest this season with another serialised tale from the wilds of coastal British Columbia. It's about a hermit philosopher named Russell Letawsky. Here's the entire saga, in twelve parts.

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Ian McEwan

award winning author Ian McEwan talks about his latest novel Machines Like Me, and much else.

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Opera Mariposa

Sisters Jacqueline and Stephanie Ko talk about the illness they live with and that lead them to found an opera company.

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Kevin Spenst

Poet Kevin Spenst talks about exploring his experience of growing up with a father dealing with a mental illness and how he explores that in his poetry.

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Haley Landa on strawberries

Haley Landa has some advice for introducing her favourite seasonal fruit into dishes both sweet and savoury.

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Paper Dresses

If you're at Oakridge Centre in the next couple of weeks, you might catch sight of some unusual garments.

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Faust at Vancouver Opera

Conductor Jonathan Darlington and soprano Simone Osborne talk with Matthew Parsons about Gounod's masterpiece.

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Percussionist Julia Chien

Julia Chien doesn't just play the timpani and the marimba. She's recently expanded her menagerie of instruments to include the typewriter and the desk bell as well.

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Sandhu Singh

Sandhu Singh is an artist based in Victoria. His work is in a solo show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria until May 4.

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Duty, Honour and Izzat by Steven Purewal

Steven Purewal's book tells the story of Punjabi soldiers in WW1.

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Hermit of Desolation Sound: Chapters 1-5

Grant Lawrence is back with another serialized tale from the wilds of Desolation Sound.

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Re-imagining photography with Dan Jackson

Dan Jackson's new exhibit shows what happens when you stop thinking of photography as a way to document reality and start thinking of it as a mode of expression.

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"Brideships" at the Vancouver Maritime Museum

Artist Tracy McMenemy has a new exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum about 60 women who arrived in Victoria from London, essentially to be married off to husbands.

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Genevieve Blanchet's award-winning marmalade

Genevieve Blanchet didn't expect to win silver at the world's most prestigious marmalade competition when she submitted a jar at the last minute. But win silver she did.

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Rob Butler on Herons

Ornithologist Rob Butler meets Sheryl at Stanley Park to observe some herons.

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Haley Landa on milk

Our food columnist and baker-in-residence Haley Landa has some thoughts on dairy products.

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