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WOLFE'S HIMALAYAS Accomplished photographer and adventure travel TV host Art Wolfe presents "Between Heaven and Earth," a 90-minute multimedia presentation tracing his many treks through the Himalaya region, documented with his photographs. It's Aug.

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Marie Campbell, a triathlete and cardiac nurse at BC Children's Hospital, has combined her two loves, cycling and caring for children, and organized a charity cycling event, the second annual Triple Crown for Heart, July 30.

The City of Vancouver's food cart program now has 97 carts in operation and a free iTunes app to track vendors. It's been one year since the city expanded its street food program.

A big book sale will be held Friday, Aug. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the South Granville Seniors Centre (1420 West 12th Avenue at Hemlock). The event promises a large selection of books, all at $2 or less.

Paths to Plazas laneway night markets continue in Mount Pleasant July 23 and 30. Sixty Blim market vendors will sell their wares in the lane just beyond the historic Lee Building at Main and Broadway, July 23.

None of B.C.'s 85 MLAs has agreed to take the MLA Welfare Challenge. Raise the Rates, a coalition of more than 20 organizations from around the province that are concerned with the level of poverty and homelessness in B.C.

The Illuminares Lantern Festival 2011 is looming and lantern-making workshops are running now until July 30, the day of the spectacle that happens this year at Harbour Green Park in Coal Harbour and Canada Place.

A recording contract and $10,000 in cash prizes are up for grabs at the Canadian finals of the Karaoke World Championships July 21 at the Edgewater Casino on False Creek (750 Pacific Boulevard). $10. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Hopefully the only rain the city will enjoy during Pride Week is of the male kind. Despite the cool, damp weather weve been suffering, Pride has a tradition of heating things up, so fingers crossed.