aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Not exactly, but the streets did feel a little empty after that fateful Sunday where we supposedly reverted back to No Fun City. Sure, the cops closed down the liquor stores at 2pm the day of the gold medal game, and sure, that very Sunday, bars sh...

topics: beach, bistro, diner, liquor, olympics

aggregated from: Vancouverite

In honor of St. Patrick and my third generation Irish heritage here is a wonderful video of what Granville Street will look like in about 10 hours. It will be like during the Olympics, only less red and white. Same amount of vomit, just more green st...

topics: chinatown, olympics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

I didn't even know the Paralympics existed until this winter -- and sadly, I think I'm not alone in that realization. I'm finding the whole topic of the Paralympics really fascinating these days. It is literally the second-largest international sport...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

It's been 11 days now since the closing of the Olympic lanes on Broadway and various other major thoroughfares in Vancouver, and I'm still in a state of mourning. As a cyclist and transit user, there was nothing better than whizzing down Broadway nar...

topics: olympics, translink

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

There has been back-and-forth talk for years about whether the Vancouver Art Gallery should move to a new site in order to construct a larger, more eye-catching art gallery in which to showcase more of the gallery's collection than can fit in the cur...

topics: concert, downtown, false-creek, gallery, museum

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Paralympics aim to keep Vancouver's party going -- but they're going to need to break out the strong stuff as Disabled again on BC Liberals' Hit List.Province slashes gaming grants to arts, culture, sports groups. Hey, that gold medal game was great ...

topics: arts, business, liberals, olympics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Olympics are over, now start praying. We are, it seems, fighting to stay asleep. Wherein Allen Garr accidentally comes up with a great 90s instrumental post-rock album title. Could Vancouver and Seattle bid for World Cup? Holy shit people relax, it...

topics: gallery, olympics, premier, translink

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Recently my friend Rattan Mall of the Indo Canadian Voice phoned me up to ask me what kind of responses the Chinese community has over the lack of multicultural representation in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic.I told him, ot...

topics: olympics, political, vancouver-2010, vanoc

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Olympics have made curling cooler than ever. Uh, yeah -- okay, Dad. Meantime, everyone will be making a fuss about how those teens died because they were on the 'party drug' ecstasy. Not much I'm afraid will be made about the fact they are a product ...

topics: burnaby, olympics

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

Winter Olympics invited countries from around to the world to multicultural Vancouver, but cultural diversity was missing in the Opening and Closing ceremonies.Apparently the opening ceremonies did feature performers of cultural diversity. But we mi...

topics: arts, busted, mayor, olympic-games, olympics