Events and Entertainment

For a while now I've been trying to put my finger on exactly why it is that myself and so many of my peers, friends, colleagues, etc absolutely love Creative Mornings, Pecha Kucha, Rain City Chronicles and what seems like a recent surge of other in-r

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 29,506+ artists , boasting 140,667+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Earlier today my family and I found ourselves on one of the beaches near Habitat Island in False Creek (which I'll be telling you about in the coming weeks) with The Playground editor's daughter, Sadie, and Sadie's father (and husband of said editor)

Are you on Instagram posting awesome photos of this city of ours? I've noticed more and more people tagging their photos with #vancouverisawesome so I just wanted to let you know that if you shoot a great one, tag it with that! I'll feature a collect

The Pacific Salmon Foundation held it's 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Auction Wednesday night at the Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre and I had the pleasure of donning a tie and attending along with more than 500 other supporters.

The Bassment is a weekly article bringing you coverage of the best in Hip Hop and Electronic music from around Vancouver.

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".

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) Been up to the Capilano Suspension Bridge lately? Me neither...

I'm filing this one under "OUR HISTORY" and "SHOPPING", two things that rarely go hand in hand but have found a perfect partnership thanks to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver families. I’m always on the lookout for fun stuff to do, so if there’s something happening that you think I should know about, don't hesitate to contact me .