“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, so goes the final line of Robert Towne’s screenplay for the classic 1974 film in which the titular “Chinatown” is more of a defeatist state of mind than an actual
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DOXA Twoview
Shaun has done a little bit of DOXA in a review, and now so am I. So here is a double on two documentaries I saw at DOXA this year. Dear Jackie – Starting out
Continue ReadingDOXA: WE DON’T DANCE FOR NOTHING
I was fortunate enough to visit Hong Kong before both the pandemic and the 2019 Freedom protests that rocked the former island colony to its core. I observed many things while there: dense urbanism, endless
Continue ReadingTalent on Tap – Dear Audrey Arrives At DOXA to Pay Tribute
When beautiful people come into our lives you never want them to leave. They make you feel complete and they become your oxygen. You can never see your life without them and that bond goes
Continue ReadingDOXA: DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME Review
I haven’t listened to the radio regularly in years and I don’t mean just Top 40 either. All the adult contemporary and “favorites” FM stations seemed hell bent on playing the same handful of earworms
Continue ReadingDOXA: LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL Review
“The only difference between you and I is one bad decision.” Even with more recent public health (and climate) crises occupying headline space, the ongoing Opioid crisis continues to simmer in the Vancouver psyche. Every
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