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August has a wonderful sense of slow, languorous living. The days fold into longer warm evenings, a time to enjoy the celestial lightshow of the Perseid meteor showers or the storied constellations.

Celebration of public art culminates with street festival Aug. 20

Lovers of homegrown cinema, rejoice! The 35 th Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is mere weeks away, and its line-up includes 10 locally produced feature films.

Even disregarding the fact that Fitz and the Tantrums ' "HandClap" single has climbed near the top of the Billboard rock charts this summer, the band's current North American tour might be one of the hottest you'll catch this year.

“At the end of the day, if you really look at it, we’re just three guys who play club music to make people dance,” says Tim "2oolman" Hill of A Tribe Called Red during a phone call with Westender .

Inaugural event to transform Vancouver's streetscape with large-scale public art

Yes. I admit it. I was one of the people who saw Pokemon Go launch in the United States and then waited expectantly for it to be available in Canada.

Vancouver actress plays villain in second season of Netflix’s Project Mc²

We've preached here before about how much we love salads for dinner during the summer months, and this is yet another favorite at our house.

Even as we see exhilarating portraits of Olympics and other “glorious” events in the world, I find it hard not to notice that there is still much suffering in this world (including in the favelas where the trickle down beneficial effect of Olympics i