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John Korsrud the artistic director of the Hard Rubber Orchestra brings together the best musicians he can find and puts them together in one room.

Here's what it looked like near the corner of Hastings and Seymour way back in 1886, as they were clearing the area so that it could become city blocks (and now SFU's downtown campus).

The afternoon talk radio market in Vancouver is about to get a little bit hotter. Roundhouse Radio just announced that Janice & Cory is launching this Monday February 1st, filling their 3-6pm slot. If you haven't yet tuned in to Roundhouse at 98.

Aimee Eva King, DinnerPartyYVR hobby chef. Meet Aimee King, a DinnerPartyYVR veteran. Last year, she turned her home into La Cocina Española—the Spanish Kitchen—serving a selection of tapas and a big, beautiful paella.

Now here's a great view of Brockton Point from the foot of Thurlow Street back in 1885, c/o the City of Vancouver Archives.

Taking you back almost 40 years...

The date was May 23, 1887 when the very first C.P.R. passenger train rolled into this photo taken between Richards and Seymour.

Almost every day over on our Facebook Page we post a photo from the City of Vancouver Archives' holdings, looking back on our city throughout the decades.

It’s not all doom and gloom in the local media. Bad news dominates almost every news cycle in the world but even we can’t accuse mainstream outlets in Vancouver of focusing only on the bad stuff.

In 2016, we'll be profiling a new pooch each week for our Dogtown Vancouver series. Click here to check out some of the dogs we've already featured in the series.