Events and Entertainment

Mayor Gregor Robertson helped open up the special " Extra-Ordinary " edition of Rain City Chronicles tonight at the Vancouver Playhouse, reminding the audience that he is, indeed, awesome.

Do you love Vancouver's expanding street food culture? Do you feel that instagramming what you eat is a special kind of public service? Do you also enjoy, at times, linking said instagrams of your meals to your twitter or other social media feeds? If

Just thinking about the Olio festival gets me all nostalgic. I remember way back when they held their first festival in town, many, many years ago. I think you needed to be a member of a long defunct newsgroup to get the invite.

I'm thinking we should maybe start a regular feature where we share super cute random photos shot in Vancouver (beyond the cute photos in Van City Kitty and Dogtown Vancouver, of course). This photo though, it's not so random as it is cute.

This is pretty cool. The CFL and Scotiabank have teamed up to put together a contest where they're helping worthy causes through their "Gamechangers" campaign.

We've partnered with Olio 2012 to bring you previews of the annual festival's music, comedy, and fashion rosters, about to descend on every awesome neighbourhood in Vancouver between September 19 to 23! Watch for daily previews here over the next few

Last night at the Roundhouse Community Centre the City of Vancouver Book Award was announced along with the presentation of the 2012 Mayor's Arts Awards. YVR ( Oolichan Books ) is W.H. New's tenth book of poetry.

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".

Last week Detroits Big Sean played an all ages gig at The Vogue Theatre. Backstage, after the concert, he granted me an interview. Doot doola doot doo ... doot doo! Nardwuar vs. Big Sean http://www.youtube.

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