Events and Entertainment

Cool! Our friends at Vancouver's own Rare Disease Foundation have gone and done something super awesome: they've released tickets for their 3rd annual fundraiser gala happening April 21 at the Ferrari Maserati showroom.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 29,185+ artists , boasting 138,570+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

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

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 .

Sweet! Our friends at Art Not Ads have gone and done something super awesome: they've launched their community-driven crowdsourced photo project, Captures.

Print Matters is a celebration of the printed form and all the awesome local people who bring it to you: literary journals, publishers, magazines, hand presses, and independent booksellers.

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!) What an awesome photo this is. Long exposure, beach, balancing rocks down at English Bay, blue light of the evening.

Hometown: Montreal, Quebec Age: 61 Favorite Documentary: Corral Dream Collaboration: David Lean He might not be from Vancouver, or currently call the west coast home, but Stephen Low's new film Rocky Mountain Express depicts the grueling construction

The Vancouver Book Club's Spring Selection is Rob Taylor's poetry collection The Other Side of Ourselves and to get you into the right frame of mind we're running a photo contest in the weeks leading up to the April 29th event .