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Print Matters is a celebration of the printed form and all the awesome local people who bring it to you: literary journals, publishers, magazines, hand presses, and independent booksellers.

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".

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) What an awesome photo this is. Long exposure, beach, balancing rocks down at English Bay, blue light of the evening.

Hometown: Montreal, Quebec Age: 61 Favorite Documentary: Corral Dream Collaboration: David Lean He might not be from Vancouver, or currently call the west coast home, but Stephen Low's new film Rocky Mountain Express depicts the grueling construction

The Vancouver Book Club's Spring Selection is Rob Taylor's poetry collection The Other Side of Ourselves and to get you into the right frame of mind we're running a photo contest in the weeks leading up to the April 29th event .

This series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots in the summer of 2010 to get over a post-Olympics funk.

Here's an interview I did at SXSW in Austin, Texas with Vancouver, BC's GRIMES! Doot doola doot doo ... Nardwuar vs. GRIMES http://youtu.be/bTZvZ4DThoc Stay tuned for another interview next week and if you can't wait then head over to NARDWUAR.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) I grew up in North Van, born and raised through my early teens at the base of Grouse Mountain. Awesome part of town, no doubt.

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 .

In case you're not closely following federal politics and missed out on the announcement an hour ago that the government is doing away with the penny this fall, well HERE YOU GO ! Seems like this would be the perfect time for you to take all of those