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Spring Festival and Plant Sale at the UBC Botanical Garden

Spring Festival and Plant Sale at the UBC Botanical Garden

The UBC Botanical Garden's annual Plant Sale is back for its 20th year! This year they have more food plants than ever before and a wide selection of rare, unusual, native and garden favorite plants and shrubs.

Terminal City Rollergirls

The Terminal City Rollergirls have a bout coming up on May 15th at Minoru Arena in Richmond! HERE 's the posts we did about their last one and below is a video of the Bad Reputations VS Riot Girls match up from the last date.
Here comes the bride...

Here comes the bride...

Spring has sprung and the flowers are in bloom, which also means it's time for wedding season! And what would a beautiful bride be without some primping and pampering? Mika Makeup , run by Vancouver make-up artist extraordinaire, Karin Shoji , gets b
Rain City Chronicles podcast part 2

Rain City Chronicles podcast part 2

Hey, remember the Rain City Chronicles storytelling night we shared with you not long ago? They've posted the second half of the podcast from the night! HERE 's all of the info on the event as well as a link to the first podcast (in case you missed i
Vancouver's Most Awesome: Moka Only!

Vancouver's Most Awesome: Moka Only!

He's been a part of our hiphop scene from its infancy, throwin' down countless freestyle battles around town and graf writing to helping blow it up to its highest levels, going platinum and coppin' Junos.
Win free tickets to the Bloodied But Unbowed world premiere!

Win free tickets to the Bloodied But Unbowed world premiere!

Our good friends at Skull Skates have supplied us with one pair of tickets to the world premiere of the film Bloodied But Unbowed during the DOXA Festival! To be entered in the draw to win these tickets, simply leave a comment telling us what punk ro
Hannah is Good, Hannah is Great!

Hannah is Good, Hannah is Great!

If Dan Mangan is Vancouver's boyfriend, Hannah Georgas is surely Vancouver's girlfriend. If you have been living under a rock, that is your only excuse for not knowing about this talented siren and her brand new album This Is Good . ...
The Hour taping in Vancouver... hey ho let's go!

The Hour taping in Vancouver... hey ho let's go!

On Tuesday May 18th and Wednesday May 19th, our friend George Stroumboulopoulos will be filming The Hour in Vancouver at the CBC building on Hamilton! I believe this is the fourth time he's brought his show here, I had the great pleasure of attending

1/2 Of The Flying Decenzos

Last summer, Ryan Decenzo got epic with a nollie down the famous El Toro set in Lake Forest, CA. Ben Oleynik has just posted the latest exclusive monthly feature over at SkateNewSpot.com .
Artsy!Dartsy! Weekly!

Artsy!Dartsy! Weekly!

Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.