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Urban Innovation and Sustainability
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Performance on Carrall Street this Tuesday
Art on Carrall - literally about Carrall Street. This is the kind of thing I've been thinking about for years, and now it looks like Althea Thauberger is making art about this street and its complexities.Can't wait to walk out my door and see what sh...
22 views | aggregated: 7 weeks 6 days ago
topics: artist, arts
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Electrical Infrastructure Upgrade
We really need it. There was a major power outage a while back, always shakes us up. The grid can't take it, and won't be able to handle much more when the new developments like Terminus are up, running, filled with people using power. Not to mention...
7 views | aggregated: 8 weeks 6 days ago
topics: gastown
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Urine Smell Overpowers Me
All right, I'm BackEvery year or so I come back to this blog about Carrall Street and report on the same old things. It wasn't inspiring me, so I put my energies elsewhere. Still living here, still involved but it was so much the same old same old, I...
28 views | aggregated: 9 weeks 5 hours ago
topics: gastown
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Everything Takes a VERY Long Time
I was disheartened to hear that the Carrall Street Greenway project won't be completed within this current capital budget, and instead will have to wait until (drum roll) 2012. WTF?The budget status is as follows;In July 2006, Council approved a budg...
13 views | aggregated: 9 weeks 6 hours ago
topics: gastown
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City Strike Grinds On
Carrall Street has been kept relatively clean by volunteers, the United We Can folks, and as a result the whole place doesn't look too bad, or seem too terribly unhealthy, despite the city strike.However, the Carrall Street Greenway has been very aff...
32 views | aggregated: 1 year 8 weeks ago
topics: designer
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Creative Reworking of the Old Telus Box
This Telus box near the bus stop on Carrall and Cordova has been a real eyesore and a problem in the area, as in the past it was a place where dealers and users would congregate. All kinds of things went on between that box and the building behind it...
31 views | aggregated: 1 year 12 weeks ago
topics: design
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August Weekends: Events on Carrall
August weekends featured festivals and events on Carrall Street.In early August the canopies covered the intersection of Carrall and Hastings for the Insite event at Pigeon Park, with bands headlined by the venerable DOA.Then the next weekend was the...
11 views | aggregated: 1 year 12 weeks ago
topics: chinatown, gastown
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What Next for the Boulder Hotel?
This afternoon Vancouver City Council will be addressing the situation of the Boulder Hotel development proposal, which has been in the works for some time now. Incorporating the old Pig and Whistle one-story building into an innovative residential/c...
14 views | aggregated: 1 year 16 weeks ago
topics: gastown
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Electro-Acoustic at ACCESS on Carrall Tonight
Check out the electro-acoustic improv tonight, (Thursday July 26th) at ACCESS artist run centre on 206 Carrall Street. featuringATTN: DIAMOND SHOPPERS (Rachael Wadham & Lee Hutzulak) and GLASS PLATES (Chandan Narayan on prepared autoharp, Jeff All...
32 views | aggregated: 1 year 16 weeks ago
topics: artist, gallery, improv
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What's Happening in Vancouver?
Wondering what to do this weekend? Check out VanCal, a great new site from the prolific Rosie!Check out her new listing of free and near-free Vancouver events here at her new VanCal site. Updates, reviews, upcoming event listings, its all there!Upcom...
71 views | aggregated: 1 year 17 weeks ago
topics: arts, chan centre
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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