Events and Entertainment

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver families. Every Wednesday I post a roundup of upcoming family-friendly events and activities.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). I'm pretty excited today, I'm going to my first Canucks game of this season.

My first attempt at writing a review of Michael Christie 's breakout book, The Beggar's Garden , involved a whole lot of me trying to skirt around the fact that I know Mike personally, and that I know him through skateboarding.

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” It’s been said many times by many comedians. I believe the original usage dates back to the great Carol Burnett.

Every Sunday at noon and 6PM 100.5 The Peak plays a feature that we record with them called Vancouver Is Awesome! Here's the one from this week about Beaver Lake in Stanley Park and the Rain City Chronicles storytelling nights... 100.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Last week we reported on the Whistler-Blackcomb Deep Winter Photo Challenge. ..

Vancouver's very own The Pack A.D. has been on the road for the past ten months touring their latest Album, We Kill Computers .

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

You might remember a while back we helped spread the word about BetterTogether.