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// FAIR COMMENT //
Celebrity Cashier
Shana Myara thrills to hear her good name
Art Farming
Chad Hershler gets his hands dirty
// POETRY //
You, Arbutus
By Chris Gilpin
// BLUEPRINT BC FICTION //
Mold
By Lee Henderson
Each Year Someone Dies Here
By Shawn Stibbards
// FEATURES //
No Recipe for Funk
Matt Hearn asks how a city can get some flavour
On Its Ear
Belinda Bruce listens to choral innovatiors musica intima
Monster Versus the Olympics
By Colin Upton
// BOOKS //
Short reviews:
McWhirter’s Dirtbags; Weisman’s World Without Us;
Goodison’s Jamaican clan; Boyko’s love, laugh & video games; Warren’s Head Trip; Anton’s Timbuktu;
and missives from Afghanistan
// NINE O’CLOCK GUN //
Star Realtor
Bicky Array wins the Fleecy Award
// CENTREFOLD //
Salmon, Thimble, Snow, Black By Audra Ricketts
Learning to Love Céline Dion By Kristina Kudryk
Aura By Lindsay Funk
// NEWS //
VR is now available at Capers and Choices Markets.
Our Centrefold Editions are now available for viewing and purchase on Web Exclusives.
VR has received THREE National Magazine Award nominations!
Huge congratulations to:
Charlotte Gill for "Eating Dirt", nominated in the Essays category.
Terry Glavin for "Looking for Mr. Bing", nominated in the Essays category.
Mark Mushet for "Close Call/Veda Hille", nominated in the Portrait Photography category.
Fantastic work, people!
April 26, 2008
VR was featured in the Globe & Mail this weekend, as the lead item in James Adams' weekly "Best Magazine Reads on the Racks" column, taking special notice of Matt Hern's cover feature "No Recipe for Funk." Congratulations Matt!
Click HERE to read the clipping.
2007 Western Magazine Awards.
John Moore took first place in the Travel and Leisure category for “Sporting Life,” his philosophical and funny essay about the regional popularity of adventure sports. Our finalists included first-time VR contributor Michael Harris for “No-Name City” in the Arts, Culture and Entertainment category, a piece that went looking for the city’s soul on local theatre stages. We also boasted two finalists in the Gold Award Best Article—BC/Yukon category: Moore’s aforementioned article and Terry Glavin’s “Lost Cities,” a layered investigation (with a personal twist) into the archaeology of Burnaby’s Metrotown.
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