Events and Entertainment

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. We post weekly guest playlists comprised of Vancouver artists and ‘Last Week in Music’ highlights some of the best concerts happening around the city...

We've been seeing all kinds of photos of folks walking across Vancouver's sweet rainbow sidewalk in the West End over the past couple of weeks.

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

Vancouver Ink exposes you (and your friends') Vancouver-themed tattoos! We have an obvious fascination with pride-of-place and how it manifests, and getting a tattoo showing your pride and love for something is perhaps the ultimate commitment.

Have you heard of Love, Vancouver greeting cards? Designed by local artists, with much of the proceeds going to local causes? CHECK THEM OUT!

A few months back we released a totally silly iPhone app with our friends at Company Policy and 49 Digital . Eyes on the World is entirely free, free of advertising, and it essentially allows you to add googly eyes to your photos, then share them.

THE OPENING is all about delving into the fascinating, quirky and wonderful visual arts in Vancouver.

All of this (actually deadly serious) business with George Takei and others CALLING for the International Olympic Committee to move the 2014 Olympics from Sochi back to Vancouver reminded me of a (not-at-all serious) sketch series that some local com

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".

Okay, so maybe there are no other jam, cheese, salsa and pickle competitions around these parts but I think that's a part of the beauty of the one that the Vancouver Farmers Markets hosted this week in partnership with the PNE (which is opening on Au