Have you seen the new Tegan and Sara video that our fashion editor Toyo Tsuchiya styled? larry. everywhere!

Jeremy Shaw first gained notoriety for dosing his friends with the powerful hallucinogen DMT. He recorded the results for an eight-screen installation that was shown in galleries around the world. His most recent work is a poster campaign in Vancouver that started last March. Since then, 25 different designs have decorated the city’s lamp posts [...]

Justin Gradin makes Vancouver a more interesting place. He runs Cassette or Die, an anachronistic micro label that only releases music on cassette. He fronts the band Random Cuts, a rock outfit where two of the band’s members are mannequins. And for years he ran The Emergency Room, a now defunct studio, jam space and [...]

Here’s what you’re missing if you haven’t made it down the The ION POP SHOP yet.
Alonzo Wang showed up and put on an impromptu performance. This awesome homeless guy came in and starting showing off his sweet moves for us.

We’re on the corner of Carrall and East Hastings in The Pennsylvania Hotel. [...]

The debut EP from Babe “The Pride of East Vancouver” Rainbow came out today on Warp Records. Check out the creepy video for Shaved made by the boys at Salazar.

Babe Rainbow – Shaved from Salazar on Vimeo.

Holy shit! Winter 2010 is here. We’ve talked about it, voted about it and fought about it, but the Olympics are finally coming to town. I’m not a big fan of talking about “what’s in the issue” with the editor’s letter. Pretty much all other magazines do that and it’s like, “Thanks for reiterating what’s [...]

Skills, Drills and Thrills! Check out this collaboration we did with Little Burgundy.
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Check Stefana Fratila’s adorable music video!

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We’ve come to the end of the year. H1N1 hasn’t wiped us all out. North Korea didn’t hit us with nukes. The polar caps didn’t melt. And the economic crash didn’t leave us all unemployed. I predicted at the beginning of the year that come December we’d all be forced to join roving hordes of [...]

[REC] is easily one of the scariest movies of the millennium. The sequel, [REC]2, is even scarier. You’re forgiven if you haven’t caught [REC] yet. It is, after all, a low budget Spanish horror film that never had North American distribution. [REC] was a film festival darling, though. So much so that the rights to [...]

Last year’s Halloween editor’s letter about the time I waterboarded a friend of mine for fun upset a few people. It was a joke, okay. No one at this magazine has ever drowned anyone and me and my friends don’t physically torture each other for fun. Emotionally? Well that’s a different story. So this year [...]

Raif Adelberg’s body is covered in tattoos but the cutest is of a peanut on his palm. It’s there as a reminder to never to let things slip through his hands. Darker by comparison, he has the Charles Manson quote “I can never be in love. Because I am love,” tattooed on the inside of [...]

I’m trying to get fatter. I’m not emaciated or anorexic or anything; I’m actually pretty normal sized. I just want to get fat so I can have a distinguished gut. To accomplish this I’ve started exclusively drinking Bakon, the bacon-infused vodka, and invented a new meal between brunch and lunch. I’ve also stopped lying about [...]

Warning, this interview may contain spoilers!
Screw objectivity. Eli Roth is awesome. He’s almost singlehandedly responsible for reinvigorating the horror genre back in 2002 with Cabin Fever. Yes, his directorial debut was an entertaining, low-budget, gore and boobiefest. More importantly though, Cabin Fever was wickedly successful and let Hollywood studios know it was okay to make [...]

Summer is in full force. This means nothing but reruns on TV and soulless films that will make you stupider by merely thinking about them. This also means “A hotdog from 7-11 and a tallboy of Budweiser” is an acceptable answer to the question “What did you have for breakfast?” After you load up that [...]

Aries
A chance hand-brushing incident with a stranger on a bus leads to an afternoon of surprises. You share a meal, accompanied by anecdotes about near-death experiences and hilarious critiques of fellow passers-by. The day will conclude with an act that you previously deemed reprehensible: your reaction to it will determine whether you are audited this [...]

I’ve got some pretty serious news I need to relay. Consider yourself lucky that you get to read it here first before the major news networks inevitably run with it. This is going to be my last issue with ION and I’m leaving to pursue my true passion: DJing.

We have now been printing for six years. Man, are we old. Up until recently we were still talking about how long the magazine had been around for in months. It was only last year we stopped having week-a-versaries.
We’ve come a long way from a magazine that you wouldn’t take home even after 12 beers. [...]

We talked to Pascal about Martyrs during the Toronto International Film Festival. This movie is so sick, nasty and disturbing we thought no one would ever distribute it… we were wrong. Martyrs is out on DVD now.
Every year the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival does an amazing job screening [...]

In case you’re not the kind of person who pays really close attention to movies and follows the UK street art scene, there’s a really interesting case of life imitating art going on right now. In Alfonso Cuarón’s brilliant film Children of Men—about the worldwide chaos that ensues when the human race loses the ability [...]