Friday, February 18, 2011
Story published in the Vancouver Sun February 18, 2011. BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN Melissa Etheridge isn’t afraid to put fear in its place. Of course, we’ve known this since the early ‘90s. Ever since the raspy-voiced Kansas native rocked her way onto the charts in 1993 with her breakthrough recording Yes I Am, fans and […]
Story published in the Vancouver Sun on February 4, 2011. BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN “I can’t tell you how happy I am that we weren’t squashed like a bug.” John McCrea sounds thrilled. Over the phone from a hotel room in Memphis, Tenn., the vocalist for the Sacramento-based alt-rock band Cake is taking in […]
Story published online at UsMagazine.com on January 10, 2011. Article features reporting by myself.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on December 16, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN The masses couldn’t have picked a more worthy winner when they crowned Carrie Underwood as the 2005 American Idol. In just five short years, the country starlet has not only lived up to her title but charged ahead full […]
Published in the Vancouver Sun on October 29, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN Sufjan Stevens has become his own subject of lyrical analysis. The 35-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist looked inward Thursday night, revealing his many different faces to a sold-out crowd at the Orpheum Theatre. Stevens’ latest 11-track record The Age Of […]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on Saturday, September 25. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN Tegan and Sara are like twin human Bellagio fountains. They put on a comedic, synchronous ballet of song and banter that charms the pants off everyone from a seven-year-old Miley Cyrus fan to a 55-year-old jazz aficionado. That was […]
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on September 23, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN For the second year in a row, Olio Festival organizers are shaking out their ceramic piggy banks and putting their hard-earned pennies toward nearly 50 different music, art, film and comedy acts. The Vancouver event, which features both local and international […]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Story published in the Vancouver Sun on September 9, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN After a decade of promoting technology-inspired sights and sounds, Vancouver’s New Forms Festival plans to celebrate its 10th anniversary by highlighting some of the city’s pioneering media artists. The theme for this year’s eight-day event is Traversing Electronic Narratives. According […]
Story featured A1 in the Vancouver Sun, April 4, 2009 VANCOUVER — Tears and arguments broke out Sunday as hundreds of first nations teenagers from all over North America were turned away from a casting call for New Moon, the sequel to last year’s vampiric blockbuster Twilight. Some of the young people, who had flown […]
