Events and Entertainment

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Heads up to anyone interested in watching some of the best crews in Vancouver battle it out. No winners for this one just bragging rights and the respect.

Now there's such thing as a traffic jam, log jam....well in Vancouver, with all our dog parks , it's pretty common to have a dog-jam. I witnessed one on the weekend at Inter-River park in North Van.

After driving over the Lion's gate for so many years, I finally went down and checked out that trailer park....

On Tuesday April 6th Yukon Blonde will be playing a show at the Biltmore to celebrate the release of their new, self entitled, CD...

The new Blim in Chinatown has trippy window displays going on. Random yet organized in semiotic study of found and pop culture objects. Looks like some great stuff to come in the new location. Alice in poodleland?

Don't forget to come down and check out this amazing night of storytelling tonight! The Rain City Chronicles , Vancouver's newest live storytelling night, is having its second installment at The Western Front.

Just in case you missed this one when it made the interweb rounds late last week, Vancouver skate photographer Brian Caissie (who also stunt-doubles as a filmer) put together this cut from his DV tape archive.

Diane Farris Gallery is hosting a juried show that uses social media as the message and medium. Twitter/Art+Social Media opens Thursday, April 1 (6 to 8 pm) and will present 80 to 100 artists from Canada and around the globe.

'Hey Jef, here's my workspace. When I can't make it up the mountain or out on the ocean, I surf the wonderful site that is Vancouver is Awesome.