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Aground-breaking documentary film, Hip Hop Eh, explores the rise of hip hop culture in Canada, omitting none of its complex history or constant struggle.

Buildings will house art studios

Contest offers $100,000 prize

5 I Playland returns BY WILL MCDONALD Vancouver's most popular summertime attraction is open again with the usual fear-inducing rides like Atmosfear and longer running hours.

On Wednesday, I wrote that a group of swimmers planned to protest the summer closure of Lord Byng Pool in West Point Grey while wearing nothing but their bathing suits. They protested and our picture is the proof.

$60-million project will transform Kitsilano secondary

A group of unhappy swimmers is planning to protest outside Lord Byng Pool Wednesday morning (July 4), wearing nothing but their bathing suits. That's slightly more modest than their birthday suits, but I still hope the weather holds out for them.

Seventy-five per cent of teachers who cast ballots on a contract ratification question last week voted yes, according to the B.C. Teachers' Federation. The BCTF and B.C.

One summer, Shannon Bosa got a job as a hostess at the Joe Fortes restaurant in downtown Vancouver. On a particularly crazy Saturday night, a visiting chef from Toronto dropped by. I remember him walking in, she says, almost 15 years later.

The 2012 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival had many "special" moments, says spokesperson John Orysik, including the very successful move downtown. "But there is one moment that we wanted to share with with you," he wrote in an email on Sunday.