The Beautiful View (the English translation of Chula Vista) is four friends who met in high school, started a band in 2007, and played as many live shows as they could in the next four years.

Thanks to Sage Theatre, Calgarians can sample a tasting menu of MacIvor’s marvellous mind in A Beautiful View, a dramedy disguised as a rom-com of a peculiarly Canadian type that asks a hell of ...