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Vancouver: Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival 2007 - I'm There!
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I'm very excited about the huge Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival happening in East Van today. In case you don't already know, this is a street festival, for which Commercial is closed off to traffic from 1st Avenue to Venables, from 10am to 8pm. (m...

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topics: commercial drive
Vancouver Vintage Bike Swap - I'm There!
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On Sunday, I'm headed to the Vancouver Vintage Bicycle Show and Swap Meet (6th annual, no less). It's happening at the Cambrian Hall, right by Main Street. This is right in my old hood of Mount Pleasant and I'm excited to go there before the Comme...

67 views | aggregated: 1 year 24 weeks ago
topics: bicycle, commercial drive, mount pleasant, show
Writing Ideas
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Some things I would like to write about this week: Colin Powell as tragic superhero, advice to Nicholas Sarkozy, upcoming Vancouver events (Jazz Festival, Portuguese Heritage), film reviews ('Touch of Evil', Waitress', Tokyo Drifter', Unforg...

38 views | aggregated: 1 year 25 weeks ago
topics: jazz
1067: Vancouver Underground Jazz Spot (on Granville)
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It's been a while since a culture-related or Vancouver-related post so I thought I'd muse a little about 1067 . 1067, prosaically named after its address on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, is an ultra-cool underground jazz venue that few...

90 views | aggregated: 1 year 25 weeks ago
topics: downtown, jazz
Arcade Fire Live Video from Sasquatch Music Festival 2007, Gorge Amphitheatre
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As promised, I will slowly leak videos and photos that my friends and I took at Sasquatch a week ago (May 26-27, 2007). Here's the first installment - my video of The Arcade Fire, now up on YouTube. They played a great set at Sasquatch - their sound ...

72 views | aggregated: 1 year 26 weeks ago
topics: music festival
2007 Sasquatch Festival @ the Gorge Amphitheatre, WA - Day 1 (Saturday). Manu Chao, Arcade Fire, Bjork
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[PHOTOS/VIDEOS to follow]As promised, here is a breakdown of the recent festival roadtrip from Vancouver to The Gorge in Washington State. It was a great decision to head down to Sasquatch Music Festival. I love these kinds of things and who really n...

87 views | aggregated: 1 year 26 weeks ago
topics: music festival, show
Another Great Clip from Manu Chao Concert in Vancouver
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I found another video clip from the Manu Chao concert I went to [my earlier video and clip can be found right here]. This one is from someone on YouTube. Unfortunately, they were a little further back - I was right up at the stage, but only caught th...

73 views | aggregated: 1 year 26 weeks ago
topics: concert
I was in the paper! 2006-2007 Champions League Final on the Drive [Milan - Liverpool]
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In the spirit of savouring what might be the last week of being unencumbered by work, I headed to Commercial Drive (that's a cool neighborhood here in Vancouver) recently to watch some football, or soccer if you will.The match was the big final of th...

40 views | aggregated: 1 year 26 weeks ago
topics: bar, commercial drive, football, soccer
SHOWS
Sviszgaar Trailer

Two missionaries move into the city and rent out a room to an Eastern European assassin. No matter ...
prayernetworkfilms
active: 1 hour 22 min ago
Sviszgaar - EP1 - "Pilot"

Kevin and Mary have been selected for Prayer Network Film\'s new reality series. This week, the...
prayernetworkfilms
active: 10 hours 6 min ago
 
FILM
Gassy Jack

"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
jumpfilm
active: 2 hours 36 min ago
When Jesse Was Born

Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
tovah-paglaro
active: 11 hours 15 min ago
 
VIDEO JOURNALISM
A Piece of Glass

With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
Kristin
active: 1 hour 2 min ago
COMMON Raps On Spirituality And Supporting Barack Obama

An in-depth interview with hip hop artist COMMON just before his Vancouver performance. We discuss ...
Kristin
active: 8 min 48 sec ago