Coming up June 14, there’s a showdown of a different kind happening in Vancouver. A day-long event, Vancouver Draw Down celebrates drawing and challenges everyone to try their hand at creating their own art in workshops at Vancouver’s community centres, museums, art galleries, and on the street! Participants can try their hand at mural drawing,…
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Picks of the Week – May 21, 2014
Victoria Day has past and our American friend’s have their Memorial Holiday this weekend, truly kicking off the Summer Season for all of us. BigTop: Cirque du Soleil: Totem continues under the Grand Chapiteau at Concord Pacific Place. Foster Kids: The Queen Elizabeth Theatre will be alive as Foster The People and guest St Lucia take to the…
Coming Soon : Tasting Plates – Latin American Flavours
Early Bird tickets are now on sale for Tasting Plates – Latin American Flavours. June 25, from 6pm – 10:30pm restaurants around town will be offering up tastes of their best dishes to the roaming Tasting Plate participants. So bring your friends and fellow foodies and search out a new restaurant, find your new favourite…
Tasting Plates: Main Street recap
Tasting Plates: Main Street edition brought out Vancouver’s food fans and friends out on a beautiful, warm spring night to taste their way around the East Side neighbourhood, from Broadway to King Edward. Check in started the evening at Tapas 23, the popular spot was already busy, so upon recommendation of Catherine at the desk,…
Take the @VanFoodster Taco Challenge
Vancouver Foodster’s latest food challenge brings one of everyone’s favourite Mexican dishes to the forefront. The Taco Challenge features 8 Mexican and Non-Mexican restaurants in Vancouver, North Vancouver and Richmond competing between May 9-31, 2014. Throughout the challenge, participating restaurants will be showcasing Taco dishes that are specially created just for the Taco Challenge. For…
#MetropolisxKlout scores big!
BC biggest shopping centre and Klout joined forces to host the first ever Metropolis x Klout Spring Social, an exclusive VIP event, which I was privileged to be invited to, for the top-500 retail and fashion social media influencers in the Lower Mainland, as determined by Klout. In the Metrotown Grand Court, influencers and our guests…
2014 BC Book Prize Winners Announced
On May 3rd, the 2014 BC Book Prize Winners were announced at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel. Chosen from the 2014 Shortlist, this year’s winner’s were: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little, Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize: and Roderick Haig-Brown Regional…