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Two Chances at Evil Dead: The Musical

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on October 31, 2009

Evil Dead: The Musical

This Halloween season, it seems like all of Vancouver has been buzzing about Evil Dead: The Musical.

A musical version of the horror movie classic, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, this gory stage production has been a cult hit in Toronto and New York, and it’s doing just as well in Vancouver. So well, in fact, that the engagement at downtown’s Vogue Theatre has been extended two weeks to November 14.

You can see the Vogue Theatre production of Evil Dead: The Musical (which has the infamous “Splatter Zone” seats that can leave you covered in “blood”) or catch the show at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in south Vancouver.

Evil Dead: The Musical is at the Vogue Theatre until November 14, 2009. Get ticket and cast information here.

Evil Dead: The Musical is at the Norman Rothstein Theatre until November 7, 2009. Get ticket and cast information here.

MOV Goes Psycho October 30, 2009

by Dana Lynch in Town on October 29, 2009

One of the more chilling animals in Ravishing Beasts at MOV

One of the more chilling beasts in Ravishing Beasts at MOV

MOV (Museum of Vancouver) has created the perfect Halloween social for adults this Friday, October 30: MOV Goes Psycho, an evening of drinks (there’s a cash bar), music (live DJ), tours of their latest, eerie exhibition, Ravishing Beasts, and a screening of Hitchcock’s masterpiece of horror cinema, Psycho.

Pairing Psycho with Ravishing Beasts—MOV’s exploration of taxidermy—is perfect, since not only can taxidermy be creepy in and of itself, it also plays a significant role in the film.

According to mystery writer/film critic Alan Vanneman, Hitchcock was fixated on “inanimate objects that suggest life,” particularly fetishisms of death like taxidermy, and routinely used taxidermy suggestively in his mise en scene. That Norman Bates is a taxidermist by “hobby” who likes “stuffing things” is pretty apt foreshadowing for the other dead things he’s keeping, and seeing the film along with the exhibit will no doubt add nuances of meaning to both.

All of which means you’ll have plenty of cocktail conversation to break the ice at the bar….

Tickets to MOV Goes Psycho are $15. Doors open at 7pm; screening is at 9pm.

Ravishing Beasts at MOV – The Strangely Alluring World of Taxidermy

by Dana Lynch in Town on October 29, 2009

Ravishing Beasts at MOV. Photo by Rebecca Blissett

Part of the Ravishing Beasts exhibit at MOV

“Strangely alluring” is the way MOV (Museum of Vancouver) describes its latest, provocative exhibit, Ravishing Beasts, an investigation into taxidermy that displays—for the first time in decades—the museum’s extensive taxidermy collection.

(Don’t worry: No animals were harmed to create the exhibit. Most of the pieces were donated to MOV by Vancouver residents between 1894 – 1950.)

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Comfort Food for the Hip and Fabulous

by Remy Scalza in Food & Drink on October 29, 2009

Can mac-n-cheese be sexy?

At Society, a new restaurant and bar in Vancouver’s Yaletown warehouse district, it just might be. Society, which bills itself as a dining lounge, is based on an unusual premise: down-home comfort food served in a hip, sensual setting, complete with DJ and velvet sofas

“It’s a sexy room. It’s a sultry room,” says John-Paul Lamb, who handles marketing for Glowbal, the restaurant group behind Society and several new, high-energy restaurants in Vancouver, including Italian Kitchen and Coast. “We want it to be a playroom for Yaletown, a spot where you can come and spend the whole evening.”

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Vancouver’s Haunted Theme Park: Fright Nights at Playland

by Remy Scalza in Town on October 29, 2009

haunted-mansion For most of the year, Playland, an amusement park just outside of downtown Vancouver, is pretty much your average family theme park: roller coasters, cotton candy and plenty of chances to win a big stuffed monkey at the ring toss. But during the last part of October, Playland indulges its darker side: Haunted houses are brought in, Jason masks are donned and the lights are dimmed low for the yearly Halloween spectacle known as Fright Nights.

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Vancouver’s Haunted Theme Park: Fright Nights at Playland

Two Chances at Evil Dead: The Musical

MOV Goes Psycho October 30, 2009

Ravishing Beasts at MOV – The Strangely Alluring World of Taxidermy

Comfort Food for the Hip and Fabulous

Vancouver’s Haunted Theme Park: Fright Nights at Playland

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