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Globe 100 for 2008
The Globe and Mail book review section selected its top 100 books for 2008 on Saturday. Included in the list were two of my favourite books of the yea...
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Matt White: A romantically charged perfomer
This busker - turned rock star opens up for Sheryl Crow on her Western Canada Tour. Matt has been heralded as one of Rolling Stone Magazine s 10 ...
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Becky |
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My Debt To Ballet BC - An Apologist's View
Subject: Tragic - Ballet BC terminatedDear Friends,We have our work cut out for us. The cancellation of the CBC Radio Orchestra, huge cuts within the...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Vote for "Broken Family" in CBC Radio contest
Donna Lee entered a film in the CBC Radio contest called Migrations. She is in the semi-final, and needs a push from all you good folks.I first met ...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Community Profile: Ziggy Books
The Drive is home to a brand new bookstore with an interesting story of it's own to tell.The owner, Kali Jones, was recently found herself in a dilema...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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San Miguel Allende, The Cessna Citation & I Fall For An Ex Ballerina
It is hard to believe that only 10 years ago a magazine (Nuvo) sent both Sean Rossiter and I to do a story in San Miguel Allende, Mexico. The story hi...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Miku Restaurant Launches
Miku Restaurant has replaced the Spotted Prawn on Hastings Street and has brought with it, new vitality to the Financial District's restaurant scene. ...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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UMTV Bumper - Brent Ray Fraser
WPvideo 1.10Visual artist Brent Ray Fraser will be on UMTV, Monday, November 10th, 2008....
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Inniskillin Wines - Vidal Icewine Commemorative Edition
Store goers celebrated the Olympic Sprit with Inniskillin Wines, proud official supplier of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games!Customers at ...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Spoken Word: Floetics - Tonight!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008Time:7:00pm - 9:30pmLocation:Bump N' Grind CafeStreet:916 Commercial Drive, VancouverCity/Town:Vancouver, BCView MapGoogle...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Ray LaMontagne to Hush the Vogue
Ray LaMontagne is set to play the Vogue on November 8, so folk-lovers prepare to have your hearts pierced with soulful musicality. LaMontagne has been...
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Beyond Robson |
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FemBots "Calling Out" CD and Ticket Giveaway
Canadian rockers, the FemBots, are back with their fourth album, Calling Out and to help celebrate the occasion they're playing at the Railway Club ...
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Beyond Robson |
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Grunt Gallery: Books and Tea Party
When I visited an anonymous art gallery today, it reiterated the feeling of how various galleries can be stale and cold. In fact, it may have even onc...
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Beyond Robson |
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Music Notes: Porteous off to folk awards
Musician also boasts some Stellar NeighboursTom Harrison, The Province Published: Tuesday, October 2...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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The Four Faces Of Pam
They seek him here, they seek him there,those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in Heaven, is he in Hell,that cursed, elusive Pimpernel.Watching Les...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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I Am My Family on the CBC
Rafael Goldchain's remarkable collection of photographs, I AM MY FAMILY: Photographic Memories and Fictions, has been causing quite stir! The book has...
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RAINCOAST BOOKS |
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Vancouver Sun: Joseph Wu creates origami baby beluga whale
I like Joseph Wu... he is a great origami master - now he creates a baby beluga for origami. He has brought origami into mass popular culture with...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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VIFF 2008: Bright Lights, Big City ... In Search of Festival Fare
With 193 features to choose from, not to mention almost 100 non-fiction films, and 62 shorts, those in attendance at the 27th annual Vancouver Interna...
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VanRamblings |
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Chad VanGaalen - Ticket & CD Giveaway
Chad VanGaalen must be one of the few reasons I'll still openly admit to being raised in Calgary (that and maybe the upside down church... oh and that...
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Beyond Robson |
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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...
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Carrall Street Journal |
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Sorel Etrog at Buschlen Mowatt Gallery
World renown artist Sorel Etrog stopped into the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery on Thursday night.In his honor, guests sipped on Etrogtinis, perused his famo...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Vision Vancouver nominates 4 Asian councilor candidates + 1 First Nations school board candidate
Louie, Chow, Jang and Dhaliwal are nominated by Vision Vancouver to run for a diverse Vancouver City Council. Campaign sign for the j...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Vision Vancouver nominates 4 Asian councilor candidates
Louie, Chow, Jang and Dhaliwal are nominated by Vision Vancouver to run for City CouncilIt was a very happy party for the Vision Vancouver nominations...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Works by Cynthia Cleator at the Beaumont Studios
The Beaumont Studios opened their doors on Thursday night for an artist's reception featuring new works by Cynthia Cleator.The exhibition, titled C...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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4th Ave. Boutique Grand Opening Gala
One of the things I do to chase away the Monday blues (aside from reading my favourite fashion blogs with a huge mug of tea or coffee beside me) is pe...
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Stylefinds |
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Q & A with Rafael Goldchain
The photographs of Toronto-based artist Rafael Goldchain have been exhibited in Canada, Chile, the United States, Cuba, Germany, Italy, the Czech Rep...
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RAINCOAST BOOKS |
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Spend on Trend 2008
*Article by Modern Mix Vancouver*Photo by Grace Lau PhotographySince 2004, Spend on Trend has been an annual weekend mini-tradeshow and retail exhibit...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Stylefinds at Spend On Trend
Stylefinds scoped out some of the best homegrown design that Vancouver has to offer at Spend On Trend on Friday night. The sale happened on September ...
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Stylefinds |
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SWARM 08 Featuring Andrew Salgado
Local artist Andrew Salgado invited me out to his art opening at the Interurban Gallery, featuring the works of his series Boys' Night Out. Last nigh...
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Beyond Robson |
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Bavubuka Foundation Fundraiser at Canvas Lounge
On Thursday night, Canvas Lounge in Gastown hosted a fundraiser for the Bavubuka Foundation, an organization which is dedicated to creating spaces and...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Washington DC: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Of all the memorials on the National Mall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is perhaps the most controversial of all. Just might as well as the US ...
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Chow Times |
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I'm Not August In August But I Try
retrato.(Del lat. retractus).1. m. Pintura o efigie principalmente de una persona.2. m. Descripci n de la figura o car cter, o sea, de las cualidade...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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The List featuring DJ Dove with DJ Rhiannon at OPUS Bar
DJ Dove from NYC returned to Vancouver on Thursday night to rock the OPUS Bar as part of the List' series of VIP and invite-only events. DJ Rhia...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Salon Review The Man Who Made Vermeers
A great review of Jonathan Lopez's excellent history THE MAN WHO MADE VERMEERS: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren runs today ...
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RAINCOAST BOOKS |
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Yaletown block party worth checking out
It's hard living in Vancouver and not having an issue with Yaletown. We've blogged about some of the great stuff there like Goldfish, The Hamilton S...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Daniel Eatock Thumbprint
Self-professed outsider designer, quasi artist, conceptual maker of material things Daniel Eatock visited the Princeton Architectural Press ware...
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RAINCOAST BOOKS |
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Adrain Tomine Tote Bag
Optic Nerve cartoonist/illustrator/author/New Yorker cover artist and Raincoast blog favourite Adrian Tomine has designed this cool tote bag for New...
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RAINCOAST BOOKS |
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The Wrist Man After The Fireworks - Gets A Headache
Yesterday I went to a fireworks party at Marv Newland's. Like a good snob that I am I arrived early so I could enjoy pleasant conversation with people...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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facebook, Flickr & The Loneliness Of Social Networking Sites
Since March 9, 2008 I have been haunted by an image that was published in the New York Times Book Review. I removed it and put it on my bedside table....
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Buck 65's beat astrology
Only a particular sort of artist can keep a few thousand interested all on his own. Buck 65 has made a career of it and brought the Pemberton fest its...
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StuArt's Blog |
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LOLcat Art at Clack Clack Empire
Clack Clack Empire held an opening for a LOLcat art show featuring the works of Seattle-based Marianne Goldin on Monday.The clothing and effects store...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Paintings by Curtis Santiago
Musician, promoter, and now visual artist, Curtis Santiago, is currently exhibiting his works at Grace Gallery, Main Street at 3rd. Friends and sup...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Art Up High with Doris MacDougall
The Vancouver Lookout, one of the highest points in BC, opens their doors to the public on a monthly basis for an artist's reception at The Armstro...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Harry Aoki intervew featured in The Bulletin
Harry Aoki is interviewed in the Bulletin, a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and cultureJohn Endo Greenaway is the editor of Bulletin,...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Delia Brett - Contact High
Last year I attendended the popular Vancouver intitution of dance, Brief Encounters. I was charmed by the performance of the intriguing Delia Brett wh...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Ear to Ear - Music Piracy and the Listener
When was the last time you downloaded a piece of music? Now another question; when was the last time you listened to a mixtape (or mix CD)? And no, mu...
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Beyond Robson |
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Marco Toro the ‘Prince of Pop'
On Friday night, artist Marco Toro, the Prince of Pop,' helped inaugurate the new Eye Candy Designs Art Gallery on Beatty Street.Toro, who lives in...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Death And The Maiden - Redux
My favourite writing pathologist, F. Gonaz lez-Crussi begins in The Flowers of Evil in the Garden of Biology , a chapter from his 2004 book of essays...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Tequila Kitchen Art Exhibition
Tequila Kitchen on Mainland Street next to Section (3) has transformed their dining space into an art gallery!On Wednesday night, the popular Yaletown...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Romance On The BC Ferries
Except for the problems of colissions and sinkings I would think that being a captain of a BC Ferry would be just about the same as captain of a barge...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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