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This is a PSA for those who may have missed the last heads-up post .

Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be 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.

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 Kyuubi, Joanne C's pup. Here's what she had to say about her... NAME: Kyuubi.

The winner for CiTR's SHINDIG should be announced right about now at the Railway Club. Its between (pictured clockwise from top left) KIDNAP KIDS , HALF CHINESE , HIDDEN TOWERS & PRO NAILS .

MY!GAY!HUSBAND! edits Karen O's All is Love (from the Where the Wild Things Are sndtrk) U-TERN mixes Chromeo's Night by Night

I don't know why this hasn't ever been posted before but after sharing our first WEEKLY PLAYLIST with you I remembered that there was actually an awesome classic video for the Smugglers song, "Vancouver B.C.", which was the first track on our list.

There are so many awesome photos that you've added to our FLICKR POOL that we can no longer pick just one a week, so from now on we're going to be showcasing one every single day! Day #78 is a photo courtesy of j..a..i..m..

So the way this MENTAL BEAST deal is going to work is that one day there'll be an audio clip (the radio show and the tunes) and the following day there'll be video then the following day it'll be audio and the following day video... and so on.

I told you about THIS gingerbread competition last week, they've released the designs online and are taking bids! Check em all HERE . Gala event goes down December 10th at the MOV...

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