Events and Entertainment

Why of course there's a Youtube trailer for the event at the Waldorf tomorrow night where 4 of your favourite and smartest-most-funniest Vancouverites will be presenting talks about Youtube videos that inspire them.

Wow! Our friends at 100.5 The Peak have gone and done something super awesome... again. They just announced they're accepting submission for their fourth annual Peak Performance Project, so if you know any BC artists share THIS LINK with them.

A few months ago I concluded a project called A Stranger A Day made to overcome my shyness and talk to people. The challenge: talk to a stranger a day for a year of my life and try to convince them to let me take a picture and share a story.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 28,852+ artists , boasting 136,489+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Wow! My friend Lisa Giroday and two of her friends (Sam Philips and Sandra Lopuch) have gone and done something super awesome. They’ve launched an urban gardening business called Victory Gardens that draws on old idea hatched during wartimes past.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) Vancouver street art is awesome. Love it.

As part of our spring book selection, the Vancouver Book Club is running a poetry-inspired photo contest.

Wow! One of V.I.A.'s Community Sponsors, Telus , has gone and done something super awesome. They’ve announced a commitment to invest 3 billion dollars in BC over the next three years. Read all about it in THIS Business In Vancouver article. Wowza.

The deadline for submitting your $5,000 photos to the Marine Gateway photo contest is coming up this Monday, March 5th! The entries so far have been top notch and we've got a panel of judges waiting to dig into the submissions to draw a first place w

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 .