Whatever the weather, the movies bring chill-out time—plus thrills from aliens, vampires, a webslinger, and a batguy. Check out our full summer movie preview.
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Get out of town with this week’s issue of the Georgia Straight. We’ve the goods on the best summer destinations in B.C. Plus summer movies, interviews with Kenan Malik, Noah Richler, Wes Anderson, and the BCCLA’s 50th anniversary. www.straight.com
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Russia is at last admitting that Syria is using heavy weapons against its own civilian population. It could hardly do less, given the scale of May 26’s massacre in the village of Taldou in the Houla region: at least 108 civilians killed, including 49 children. But while other countries are expelling Syrian ambassadors, Lavrov is still trying to spread the blame in order to protect Bashar al-Assad’s regime from foreign intervention.
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Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s blockbuster summer show, unfolds in a generous and gratifying way. Subtitled “The Cone Sisters of Baltimore”, it reveals the impulses behind a great collection and grants us access to a number of very fine art works by Henri Matisse and his peers and predecessors. It also illuminates Matisse’s fond relationship with those unlikely, early 20th-century enthusiasts of the French avant-garde, Claribel and Etta Cone.
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Check out our latest batch of video game reviews, including Diablo III, Fez, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead, Episode 1.
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It might have been Jack White’s gig, but one of the most killer concerts of the year was a group effort in every sense of the word.
Read the full review of last night’s show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
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