Events and Entertainment

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. We interview some of our favourite local artists, and 'Last Week in Music' highlights some of the concerts happening around the city.

Andrew Pommier always seems to have a bunch of stuff on the go and it is great to see some locally. He has some storefronts at various skate and surf shops across Canada and right now Second Wave over in North Van has one up. Nice treat to see.

Hello friendly Vancouver Is Awesome readers, My name is Lizzy Karp and I am a book lover.

The second annual Drawn Festival opens this coming Friday at the Pendulum Gallery Downtown from 7-9pm. 19 other galleries are participating in this year's celebration of drawing.

If you've been reading V.I.A. for a little while then you should be no stranger to Vancouver's own Douglas Coupland (see all of our posts relating to him and his work HERE ).

With 22,376 artists, boasting 99,212 tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

It's a new dog every day, click here to find out how to get your dog featured here if you haven't sent in your photos yet! Today's dog featured in Dogtown Vancouver is Hudson, David W's pup. Here's what he had to say about him... NAME: Hudson.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). Today's photo was taken by lacheeks and it's of The Malahat Revue performing at CBC yesterday.

The Powell Street Festival Society presents: SPATIAL POETICS IX Friday, July 9th - 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00pm) VIVO Media Arts (1965 Main Street, Vancouver) Tickets $12, $10 students and seniors INFO/TICKETS: 604.683.

I so look forward to the Canada Day weekend at David Lam park during the Jazz Festival . Normally, its a gorgeous place to have a gig and its normally gorgeous weather. Ha, last weekend seemed like so long ago, eh? Well, least it didnt rain.