Events and Entertainment

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) I love it when I come across a photo that truly surprises me, and the more I look at it, the better it gets.

Call the Pacific North West (or ‘Gnarthwest’) what you want: ‘geographically isolated’ or ‘culturally insular’, Vancouver’s location affords us some unique (and awesome) societal and cultural characteristics.

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.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 28,249+ artists , boasting 131,173+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

V.I.A.'s Home Grown features only the most awesome companies in Vancouver. From tiny, single-person operations to the big players, we profile our favourite businesses and interview their owners and operators. citizen brand Established 2011 www.

Vancouver Is Awesome is a proud media partner of the 2012 PuSh Festival ! Throughout the festival the folks who run things will be bringing you intimate features from behind the scenes to the front lines.

It's been a while since I've posted here at Vancouver Is Awesome, but I thought it was perhaps time for a recap. 2011 was a big year for Illustrated Vancouver, and late in the year, I hit the 500th post milestone.

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.

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.

LOCATION: Vancouver It's great to finally come across someone who is as obsessed with the view from their window as I am with mine. With a view like this , obsession is inevitable.