While our Eastern countrymen are shivering in snow, we have spring in full swing, as our typical weather swings from sun to rain. Bringing green and colour to our streets and parks and much entertainment in the picks of the week. Eat: Tonight, take a trip to the ‘burbs with Tasting Plates and explore the restaurants…
Don’t Dress For Dinner at Gateway Theatre
Don’t Dress For Dinner, the final show of the Gateway Theatre’s 2015-16 season is onstage now. Adapted by Marc Camoletti, the English adaptation of the French, Pyjamas Pour Six, Don’t Dress For Dinner has all the hallmarks of a classic mid-century farce. Husbands and wives, best friends and mistresses, a case of mistaken identity, slammed…
Star Trek – The Ultimate Voyage Tour
This weekend, Star Trek – The Ultimate Voyage, The 50th Anniversary Concert Tour made the voyage to Vancouver. A diverse audience of sci-fi fans, Trekers, and music lovers filled The Centre for Performing Arts in Vancouver to hear and watch a trip down memory lane. As the CineConcerts orchestra took the stage with conductor Justin Freer…
DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2016 Launches
This week, DOXA Documentary Film Festival debuted its 2016 Festival program guides and teased the film line-up. The 10 day festival brings a world of documentary films to Vancouver. From daredevils to divas, burlesque to basketball, calypso and cameras DOXA brings together films on the most diverse nonfiction topics. Films from Europe, Australia, USA, Middle…
Pemberton Festival 2016 Line-up
This week Huka Entertainment announced the line-up for the 2016 Pemberton Music Festival as well as the Pemby Comedy festival. Highlighted by headliners Pearl Jam as well as Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Billy Idol, Wiz Khalifa, Halsey, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, J. Cole, Kascade, Cypress Hill, Miguel, The Chainsmokers, Mac Miller, Wintersleep, Tyler, The…
Picks of the Week – April 6, 2016
While the adage, April showers bring May flowers doesn’t really apply here, the blooms are well on their way already, and the picks of the week are blooming good Photos: The Capture Photo Festival finds photography exhibits, talks, films, and installations filling galleries around Vancouver continuing until April 28th Showtunes: On Wednesdays at XY sing along to…
Tasting Plates East Village – May 18, 2016
The East Village, along Hastings Street from Clark to Renfrew, is home to a wide variety of food and beverage purveyors. In the few blocks you can taste the world from butchers and bakers, tacos to tapas, with coffee houses and breweries thrown in too. The heart of East Van for over a Century, the East…