aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Are you a critical thinker looking to meet with like minded individuals to share information and good conversation? Are you a self-righteous windbag who knows it all and is looking for real-world validation over your usual Internet diatribes? Well ge...

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].During the last provincial election, the BC Liberal Party stated in black and white that ...

topics: bc-government, bc-rail, business, candidate, concert

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

Now Available: Tickets for Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner- It's the 12 Anniversary of the little dinner that could. January 31st, Sunday 2010Floata Seafood RestaurantVancouver ChinatownContact Firehall Arts Centre:phone 60...

topics: arts, documentary, jazz, museum, olympics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Pi Theatre and Rumble Productions bring one of Haruki Murakami's books, after the quake, to life on the stage for the next two weeks at Studio 16 on 7th ave near Granville St. When I learned the Canadian premiere of this adaptation was opening in Van...

aggregated from: Vancouverite

FridayEvery week I kick off this feature with a film to see, or maybe to just plain avoid. Someone go wake up the studios, cause there is nothing worth seeing this week. Which means another week of Paranormal Activity ruling the box office. And that'...

topics: bc-lions, cheese, downtown, film-festival, lions

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

From Friday October 30th until Sunday November 1st, check out the selection of vampire films playing at the Vancity Theatre on Seymour st. There are 11 films screening over the weekend, including former VIFF hit Let the Right One In (pictured) and a ...

topics: film-festival, theatre

aggregated from: Vancouverite

FridayKick off your 3-martini Friday lunch in style. 11:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency (655 Burrard St) you can go deep inside the vast right wing conspiracy and do lunch at the Fraser Institute. It's a lively discussion on how awesome the new HST Tax is...

topics: theatre, wine, yaletown

aggregated from: VanRamblings

With just three days to the end of the 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, Mr. Know-It-All and 'Showbiz' Shayne are hard at it, catching as many of the remaining VIFF films as is humanly possible. Your dynamic duo managed to...

topics: activist, documentary, environment, environmental, film-festival

aggregated from: VanRamblings

Weekends are always tough for cinephiles, at the annual Vancouver International Film Festival. On weekends, VIFF draws novitiates to the Festival, and almost inevitably they talk. The weekenders play with their iPhones or Blackberries or Sa...

topics: film-festival, theatre

aggregated from: VanRamblings

As is the case with most film critics, in the first week of any Festival, VanRamblings' star burns luminous and bright. By the time the second week rolls around, though, we're weary. Most films critics 'pull out' in the second week. VanRamb...

topics: downtown, downtown-eastside, film-festival, theatre, writer