Skate and Lifestyle brand Globe tugs at our heart strings with their latest commercial promoting their ingenious speakerboard. Powered by Boombotix, the skateboard doubles as a sleek ghetto blaster when synced with your mobile device.

We’ve rounded up our favourite Levitation Fest performances – read the reviews and look through the photo gallery.

Levitation Festival returns to Vancouver from June 16-18 thanks to Austin’s The Reverberation Appreciation Society and our city’s very own, Timbre Concerts. We’ve put together a sampler playlist to get you amped up for this year’s diverse and impressive lineup.

Local filmmaker John Bolton explores the uncanny parallels between contemporary classical composer Mark Haney and his muse, Canadian stuntman Ken Carter (the Evil Knievel of the North), in the musical docudrama Aim for the Roses. We chatted with Bolton to learn how the film evolved from a performance piece (a choreographed interpretation of Haney’s underrated concept album of the same title) to a rich, eccentric and emotional character study that will tug at the heartstrings of all the dreamers of the world.

May 5th marks the return of DOXA, Vancouver’s Documentary Film Festival. Over two weeks, the city will host the screenings of over 80 films from around the world (that’s a whole lot of documentaries). We here at dutil. have a special sneak peek of some the films you should absolutely check out.

Mashup, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current exhibition, cleverly captures modern culture’s modus operandi.

For students of an independent-heavy mentality, community is superfluous. It's extra, it's garnish. It's considered strength to stand solitary, to be your own well-oiled machine.

There is something so relatable to the fear of writing in the first page of a fresh notebook or deciding what you will draw into the first page of a new sketchbook, even taking a new passport picture offers a crippling glimpse at what could be a fresh start.

Our flagship store located in Vancouver has a community topography often judged for cold attitudes and emotional irreverence. But there are some pockets of this city that let in just enough warmth to relax even the coolest personalities.

"Food helps us to stay connected to each other in a more personable way without phones and all the other things that disconnect us from having one-on-one interactions with each other."