Georgia Straight

The punk scene in Vancouver had a convoluted, love/hate relationship with the mainstream press. In the earliest days, there were few allies in the two daily newspapers, or the Georgia Straight. The Province’s Jeani Read showed some interest, but The Sun’s Vaughn Palmer was less than enthusiastic. That left the weekly Georgia Straight paper, which started life as a hippie counterculture publication in the late sixties, but by the mid-seventies it had started its transformation into the entertainment guide it is today.