Events and Entertainment

Minoru "Brian" Hirano first generation Japanese -Canadian is known to family and friends as Min, Minphis Panther or Mini-bar. Min loves Vancouver and resides downtown.

So you've heard that Vancouver is celebrating it's 125th birthday this year? And you've also heard that in order to celebrate, the City Of Vancouver has developed a year-long program called Vancouver 125 headlined by two giant parties ( Birthday Live

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Every Sunday at 9 PM at the Hennessey dining lounge on Broadway, local comedians Emmett Hall, Ryan Beil, Taz VanRassel , Kevin Lee , Aaron Read and Craig Anderson put on a hilarious comedy show.

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.

Giants of the Forest - Aidan Knight Our fifth episode of Giants Of The Forest (click HERE to read about the project) brings us into some thorny trees in Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park on a rainy day with our dear friend, Aidan Knight.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 24,525+ artists, boasting 110,865+ tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). There is something magical about the drive through West Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay along Marine Drive.

A couple weeks back I reported that the 2011 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival was about to launch and what I forgot to mention was that Vancouver Is Awesome is a media sponsor of this year's festival along with the Georgia Straight and CTV

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). I've seen a lot of photos of Ken Lum's Monument for East Vancouver since it was installed about a year ago.