Events and Entertainment

If you're on Twitter you know that at the end of each week people put together "Follow Friday" lists of their favourite people they're following and share them with everybody.

Skateboard culture is deeply rooted in this fine city of ours. Not only does Metro Vancouver produce some of the world’s finest wood-wheelers, it’s also a major migratory destination for skaters from all over Canada.

Good friend of V.I.A.

For 12 hours on a cold and rainy September Sunday, 60 resilient photographers braved the elements to capture their interpretations of 12 randomly drawn themes with only 12 exposures of 35mm film.

A snapshot of my prized postcard collection. I love a good postcard. In fact I've been collecting them for years. Friends send them from tropical destinations and when away I schedule time to dip into souvenir shops to hunt for a snail mail gem.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). But this week only, one photo from our pool will be chosen to end up printed in VancouverIsAwesome/Discorder magazine.

As you probably know, Gastown's Fortune Sound Club has been putting on many top notch shows lately. Props to them for hosting Alabama rapper Yelawolf who I was able to secure an interview with a few weeks ago. Doot doola doot doo...

Body Worlds and the Brain is, to me, the perfect intersection of art and science.

I don't know if you noticed but it snowed last night and the forecast for the next several days is filled with negative numbers.

This clip has been making it's rounds on Youtube for quite some time now, if you haven't seen it, it's pretty moving. There is a local connection here as two Vancouverites spent five months at the mission and are now returning.