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By Ken Hegan for The Georgia Straight The Vancouver suburb of Maillardville was a ghost town on Friday night, as 18,000 Franco-friendlies stuffed into GM Place to witness the sold-out singing spectacle that is Celine Dion. Too excited to witness Quebecois royalty by myself, I tricked a beer buddy into accompanying me by bragging that…
By Ken Hegan for The Georgia Straight (1997) Benson & Hedges’ ‘Symphony of Fire’ must be banned. But it’s not the noise, cigarette company sponsorship, or the air pollution that’s thick enough to choke a stone. No, it’s time we stopped the fireworks because they’re so comprehensively LAME. To the ill-timed beat of feeble little…
By Ken Hegan for The Georgia Straight The concert poster said “Remember your first kiss? Imagine it three hours long.” Yeah, I remember my first kiss. We were 13 and standing in a frozen orchard that stunk of dog shit and pulp mill. She wore a Cowichan sweater and the sharpest braces ever devised. Prying…
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