Events and Entertainment

The winner of the 2012 Honda Celebration of Light fireworks competition is Italy! Congratulations to their team and to Brazil and Vietnam's who also put on incredible shows for everyone in English Bay.

Due to the popularity of this post over at Illustrated Vancouver this weekend, I thought I should re-post yesterday's image here as well. For your nostalgic enjoyment, I present a Theatre Under the Stars souvenir program from 1945.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 27,418+ artists , boasting 142,000+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Did you catch the story about the GRILLED CHEESE GIVEAWAY that Christine posted about earlier in the week? It was the result of a Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Vancouver Foundation and the City of Vancouver.

Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation is dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wild Pacific salmon and their ecosystems. We work to bring salmon back, stream by stream through the strategic use of resources and local communities.

Yes, Calgary is Awesome too, especially during the Sled Island Music Festival when I got a chance to interview Chicago comedian Hannibal Buress! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo! Nardwuar vs. Hannibal Buress http://youtu.

This series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots in the summer of 2010 to get over a long post-Olympics funk.

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".

VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS , misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings.

Read All Over celebrates the bookworm in all of us, showcasing readers in Vancouver and the books they love most. Cynara Geissler has a chapbook of poetry called Small, Stunted Ways (Hur Publishing, 2012).