Events and Entertainment

Here's a press release that got our attention this morning: Happy Planet's release for their Grow For Food campaign! It arrived in a steel bucket, and it came with gardening gloves and soil.

Vancouver is Awesome is a proud media partner of Running Vancouver, a 6-part web documentary series by Pacer Films which follows three local runners as they train for and run the 2013 BMO Vancouver Marathon & Half-Marathon.

WORDS: Polina Bachlakova Real Estate. Development. Condos. Those are three terms that seem to constantly be on the tips of Vancouverites' tongues - especially for those in the arts.

Each week we sift through the nearly 8,000 entries that our friends at the Canadian Design Resource have made since 2005, selecting one particularly awesome Vancouver-centric design that they've featured and sharing it with you here.

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

In the third year of this series, expect me to photograph and write about more of the film and TV productions which showcase our city and sometimes put a celebrity actor or two in the frame.

UBC Botanical Garden is Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanical garden. The original mission of the garden was research into the native flora of British Columbia.

IT'S FITNESS FRIDAY ! For the next 3 months I'm blogging about my adventure to complete the 36 classes in 90 challenge put on by and in partnership with Barre Fitness ! Hopefully you'll join me and be motivated to get fit! I'll be sharing recipes, ex

Vancouver is home to a thriving fashion industry made up of individuals committed to its growth and success. Get to know these personalities in The Inseam and discover what makes the Vancouver Fashion scene so awesome.

Every day we share a photo from our Flickr Pool and a photo from our Instagram hashtag ( #vancouverisawesome ) shot by our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).