Events and Entertainment

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED! Save the date! On January 13th, 2011, Vancouver Is Awesome will be presenting a charming night of comedy and music at the Waldorf Hotel... Full lineup announcement coming soon. Until then, save the date!

WOW! A serious post-Christmas miracle just arrived in the form of a $1000 donation which came from the proceeds of the WINTER IS AWESOME fundraiser party that Troy Kelly and Jeremy Harrison put together for us at Ginger 62 last week!!! HUGE thanks to

Hello, Baby Santa Claus here. For many people Christmas time is the time of year when you spend time with friends and family to relax. For others though, it's a time to get rad.

I started this project called A Stranger A Day to overcome my shyness and talk to people. The challenge: talk to a stranger a day and try to convince them to let me take a picture and share a story.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). Airn Macfarlane presents us an image whose protagonists intrigue me.

By now I hope you've either picked up a printed copy of the joint issue of the magazine that we did with Discorder from one of the many LOCATIONS that stock it or you've DOWNLOADED the PDF from us for FREE.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 24,434+ artists, boasting 109,890+ tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

By now I hope you've either picked up a printed copy of the joint issue of the magazine that we did with Discorder from one of the many LOCATIONS that stock it or you've DOWNLOADED the PDF from us for FREE.

UBC Botanical Garden is Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanical garden. The original mission of the garden was research into the native flora of British Columbia.

Check out this video from Strombo 's Holiday Special! Kardinal Offishall, Maestro, Vancouver's own Moka Only , Michie Mee (!), Buck 65, Saukrates and D-sisive covering Kurtis Blow's classic Christmas Rappin' . http://www.youtube.