Events and Entertainment

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver.

We've got another table to give away at the BLIM Community Market on Sunday, Oct. 21st! Want to flock your wares at the market? Email andrea@vancouverisawesome.

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver families. I’m always on the lookout for fun stuff to do, so if there’s something happening that you think I should know about, don't hesitate to contact me .

ReVIEWS, preVIEWS, interVIEWS, and overVIEWS: here's where you'll find out what the Vancouver Book Club team thinks about the literary scene in Vancouver. What you should read, where you should go, who you should sit up and notice.

Last week we let you know about Compassion Into Action , an annual event spearheaded by Nature's Path Organics aimed at raising food to donate to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank, used by 27,000 people each week.

The Vancouver International Film Festival has just reached the half way mark, with one more full week of films to feast on.

ReVIEWS, preVIEWS, interVIEWS, and overVIEWS: here's where you'll find out what the Vancouver Book Club team thinks about the literary scene in Vancouver. What you should read, where you should go, who you should sit up and notice.

If you were to create a Venn diagram where one circle was labeled "cheap" and the other labeled "awesome", the middle point where they cross over could be labeled "Vancouver on the Cheap".

Houston rapper Riff Raff was in Vancouver for a few days last week shooting videos, doing a gig a Fortune Sound Club and recording some tunes at Triangle Park, where I had a chance to do an interview with him. Doot doola doot doo...

Laurence Olivier once said that “ in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, great theatre is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture “.