aggregated from: Oldtown News

Oldtown NewsVancouver BCXTRAWEST and QMUNITY SELLING REAL COMMUNITY OUTI just can't believe how Xtrawest and Qmunity appear willing to sell out their own community for a few crumbs of social service space and with that more povertarian jobs. The late...

topics: coal-harbour, downtown, downtown-eastside, park-board, west-end

aggregated from: Vancouver Condo Info

Plans to build a 20 story tower in the west end met some resistance yesterday, as local residents held a protest against the proposal.The rezoning would allow developers to build a 20-storey tower on the site and take advantage of the city's Short ...

topics: condo, developers, housing, west-end

aggregated from: Oldtown News

Oldtown NewsVancouver, BCVANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPICS and SEX TRADEI've been thinking lately about the Vancouver, BC sex trade and the Vancouver/Whistler Olympics and how things will go once February hits. How will business be is what many Vancouver Sex W...

topics: downtown, olympics, vancouver-2010, west-end, whistler

aggregated from: Chow Times

Of late, Suanne and I had been trying to make our dining out a learning experience. This all started from our gastronomic tour of Spain. In the tour, we had taken on an entirely new perspective of food. We had come to appreciate the origin of the c...

topics: arts, cooking, dining, downtown, north-vancouver

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

I took the photograph above of architect Arthur Erickson as he entered his VAG when it was inaugurated in 1983. For two months I taught two photography classes at Focal Point on West 10th avenue in June and July. My classes were from 2 to 5 and fro...

topics: arts, gallery, park, photography, theatre

aggregated from: theleftcoast.ca

The following press release arrived from Spencer Herbert, MLA for Vancouver-West End as well as opposition critic for Tourism, Culture, and the Arts. And before you get on your anti-arts these suckers don't deserve any tax-payer money during difficu...

topics: mla, west-end

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Do you have a mobile device that can read PDF files? If so there s a new map in town that you can easily load on whatever portable device you might have. It s not one of those cheesy maps either, this one is nicely illustrated in gorgeous 3d glory....

topics: kitsilano, west-end, whistler

aggregated from: Chow Times

I just gotta get a few more old posts out of the way before I start on the Spain series. Suanne reminded to do it because she knows that if I don t blog about it now, I will never get down to doing it.This is a follow-on post from the Lets Go For D...

topics: menu, restaurant, restaurant-review, seafood, west-end

aggregated from: Price Tags

We haven t had a new passerelle on the blog for awhile so thanks to Brent Toderian for passing along this announcement:A tubular, covered bridge for pedestrians and cyclists will span Calgary s Bow River, according to newly released architectural d...

topics: design, mayor, west-end

aggregated from: West End Residents Association

The West End Residents Association was mentioned in a Vancouver Observer story about the first day of the Burrard Bridge lane re-allocation trial....