Community

Plan part of Davie Street Revitalization

In honour of Vancouvers annual gay pride week, the city will be painting the streets of Davie Village in the West End red and orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

1: The number of Japanese-style spaghetti restaurants on Robson Street. 6: The number of pink bus stops in the Davie Village. 1: The number of trees with a door on them on Nelson Street.

As part of the Courier's Vancouver Special neighbourhood series on the West End, we spent some quality time with former professional wrestler the Honky Tonk Kid.

If there are any performers who are perfectly suited birthday suited, that is for Wreck Beach, its Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi (pictured) of Kokoro Dance .

Theres a reason Natalie Maines, Loudon Wainwright III and Kathleen Edwards are called headliners: because its their names dominating the headlines for the 36th Vancouver Folk Music Festival .

The warmth and rawness of the Canadian landscape will radiate off the stage of the Biltmore Cabaret in glorious three-part harmony, when Vancouver folk band Factories & Alleyways releases its highly praised debut album, Canadiana.

With their eyes on the stars and feet on the ground, Public Dreams has decided that this years Illuminares Lantern Festival will be its last. After 25 years, its going to celebrate how far its come and how many lives its lived.

Are you active in your community and also a bit of a poet? If so, you could be Canada's next "community idol".

This summer the Better Business Bureau is once again warning people to be on the alert for scammers.