Events and Entertainment

Vancouver Is Awesome is a proud sponsor of thisopenspace.ca , an online platform for booking unique spaces for pop-up shops, exhibits, and events. They’ve hosted hundreds of pop-up concepts in Vancouver neighbourhoods since September 2012.

It's a new dog once a week! Click here to find out how to get your dog posted if you haven't sent in your photos yet! Today's dog featured in Dogtown Vancouver is Martini, Tracy's pup. Here's what she had to say about him... NAME: Martini.

Our Daily Photo #2208 is from Lynn , who snapped a wave in the always picturesque Whytecliff Park.

When I first opened the press release for an art installation called ARTIST CHANGES SIGN, I thought it was a joke poking fun at us for our borderline obsession with the MAIN STREET TURD .

(Image via Flickr: Dakotilla ) We are switching gears a bit today -- while you won't read about any high-flying adventures, you may find a few things to do with your family that leave a more lasting impact.

Every week our friends at The Georgia Straight provide us with a preview of what you’ll see on - and in – their paper that week.

Each year we look forward to the promo video for Vancouver's longest-running music festival, Music Waste . They released their 2015 one today in which a fictional (?) musician tells them to take their stupid festival and shove it. Watch it below.

If you were to create a Venn diagram where one circle was labeled "cheap" and the other labeled "awesome", the middle point where they cross over could be labeled "Vancouver on the Cheap".

Our Daily Photo #2207 is from Tash , who captured this beautiful mural in Strathcona.

Vancouver based singer songwriter Adrian Glynn and the Fringe Percussion deliver a beautiful performance for the Public Salon. https://www.youtube.