Events and Entertainment

Since the Games ended I've been hearing about the street lamp banners being auctioned off here and donated there but I was seemingly always just missing my opportunity at getting my hands on a pair of them.

On a recent camping trip we picked up this sweet book from a roadside market that had one of those rotating bookstands with short stories about the goldrush, BC history and guidebooks on roughing it in general...

My obsession. It was real. In 1996, The B-52s frontman Fred Schneider put out a solo album, Just... Fred . In the years since, finding this album - out of print, I am sure - has been a minor obsession . As buying Just...

Imagine 2020. In just ten years, Vancouver will be the greenest city in the world. A vision this bold cannot be realized alone. That's why the city is inviting you to talk green to them.

Every once in awhile I stumble across something in our city that's so incredibly awesome that it's hard to contain my excitement over it. One of my favourite things in the world is being able to share these things with you through V.I.A.

Have you Tasted the Love yet? There's still time to enter Vancouver is Awesome's giveaway to win one of five (it was six but @VIAGiveaways Twittered one away) $50 gift cards to Mr. Mike's .

For what it's worth... I personally f**king love their show.

* Wed, Aug. 25 @ Fortune Sound : Emerging hip hop MC & producer and one time Vancouver resident, Shane Eli returns on the strength of his release the Push . Shane was once a part of the now defunct Vancouver * Sat, Aug.

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” It’s been said many times by many comedians. I believe the original usage dates back to the great Carol Burnett.

I've made a couple of posts about the local footwear company, Native , that has been putting out classic silhouettes in foam-injection molded-EVA for a couple of seasons now.