Events and Entertainment

Some months back a friend/co-conspirator of mine took me out for frozen yogurt to tell me one thing: "I've landed my dream job as an editor!". Then another thing: "It's called OpenFile.ca and it's the future of hyperlocal news!".

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 23,877 artists, boasting 107,260 tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

The top 5 artists in the Peak Performance Project for 2010 were ANNOUNCED recently and the top three will be playing a show together on November 18th, 2010, when the final announcement will be made as to who wins the $100,500! Leading up to the showc

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.

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

photo by the lovely christine mcavoy Here at VIA we were thrilled to see our current Vancouver Book Club pick all around town.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). I think this is the first time that I've chosen one of Allen Rowley's photos for our daily flickr pickr.

Read All Over celebrates the bookworm in all of us, showcasing readers in Vancouver and the books they love most. I try to be a writer: I have, combined, 3.

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a hotbed of artistic activity. But many artists in this neighbourhood lack the financial means to take their work to the next level.

Inspired by Jef Choy 's ongoing love affair with things-found-or-left-in-the-alley I find myself regularly doing double-takes when I see things that other people have left behind. Occasionally, I will even find things myself. Cute Potential: Maximum.