Events and Entertainment

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 for a year of my life and try to convince them to let me take a picture and share a story.

If you're a parent then you're going to want to hop on over to our friends at Hip Baby's new WEB SITE that they launched. They're now offering FREE shipping anywhere in Canada on orders of $100 or more.

This week The Olio Festival hits Vancouver and one of the bands playing is The Pack A.D., who's new LP "Unpersons" just came out last week.

Over the past few months I've been participating in the behind-the-scenes action at the Polaris Music Prize serving as one of the 224 esteemed members of the jury for 2011 .

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 26,769+ artists , boasting 123,654+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Thrice weekly I bring you personified pieces of our city.

If you haven't heard, CBC has started a new show called Cover Me Canada ...and it just so happens that a few familiar faces are on the TV.

The second episode of the soon-to-be-closed-institution-of-Vancouver video store, Videomatica, miniseries is out! 8 episodes are being released in the coming weeks and while the store hasn't set the exact date they're shutting down operations we can

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) I feel like today's photograph is already a concise post all in itself.

THE OPENING is all about introducing the fascinating, quirky and wonderful people working in and around the visual arts in Vancouver.