Articles tagged with: Vancouver
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Broadcaster, writer, actor, lecturer, addictions expert, Community Liaison at Langara College, and blogger David Berner talks to Joseph Planta about his career in broadcasting, the state of Vancouver politics, and more.
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Public policy adviser Amanda Sussman, a former adviser to cabinet ministers Elinor Caplan and Bill Graham, talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, The Art of the Possible: (A Handbook for Political Activism) (McClelland and Stewart, 2007).
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Author, historian, and Geist contributor Daniel Francis recently spoke to Joseph Planta about his book, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Subway, 2007).
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Cold-Cocked On Hockey (Biblioasis, 2007) is a new memoir from writer Lorna Jackson, who discussed her book-length appreciation of hockey with Joseph Planta.
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The indomitable Christopher Gaze talks with Joseph Planta about the 17th season of Bard on the Beach, the plays they’re putting on (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Troilus and Cressida), and other things Shakespeare.
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Spirit of the West’s John Mann, opening tonight as the Emcee in Cabaret, talked with Joseph Planta about his starring role in the Arts Club Theatre Company’s latest. Mann discussed the Kander and Ebb musical, performing on the stage, his tour-de-force performance in last year’s Miss Saigon, and the legendary role that won Joel Grey a Tony and an Oscar.
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Political strategist Jonathan Ross, of TDH Strategies, talked with Joseph Planta about the current Liberal leadership race.
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Kim Bolan, the Vancouver Sun reporter who has spent 20 years covering and who sometimes found herself part of the Air India bombing story, talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).
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In a wide ranging chat, Jerry Wasserman, theatre critic for The Province, actor, professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia, and editor of Vancouverplays.com, talked with Joseph Planta about his website, being a theatre critic, and the vibrancy of the arts scene in Vancouver.
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Noted historian and bestselling author Jean Barman talked with Joseph Planta about her latest book Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point (Harbour, 2005), a fascinating book about inhabitants of the park who were displaced in order to create the constructed ideal of an urban oasis.
