On a hot August Saturday, a few hundred Vancouverites donned their summer finery and headed to Van Dusen Botanical Gardens for The Garden Party Vancouver. Surrounded by the Garden’s lush greenery, guests were met entered The Garden Party’s grove to be greeted by a presentation of high-end cars from Mile’s End Motors. Bright white tables…
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Picks of the Week – August 27, 2014
August is coming to a close but not before leading right into the Labour Day Long Weekend. The Picks of the Week include: ElectroPop: Swedish electro-pop outfit, Little Dragon take to the stage at The Vogue Theatre tonight with and opening DJ set from DAM-FUNK PNE: As this year’s Fair at the PNE comes to…
Picks of the Week – July 16, 2014
Mid-July and there’s lots happening in this heatwave…this week’s picks of the week include theatre, street hockey, BC Lions football and great parties and concerts. Festival: The big draw of the week is surely the Pemberton Music Festival, a couple hours up the Sea-To-Sky highway you’ll find Nine Inch Nails, Outcast, Soundgarden, Deadmau5, Kendrick Lamar,…
Picks Of The Week – July 2, 2014
It’s already the start of July! Keep the excitement and celebration of Canada Day going with more fun leading to your weekend with my Picks of the Week!! Play: At Vanier Park, Bard on the Beach debuts Equivocation by Bill Cain, running until September 19th on the Howard Family Stage Pitch: Spend a sunny evening…
Gorilla Theatre at Vancouver TheatreSports
The law of the jungle has taken control at Vancouver TheatreSports League at The Improv Centre on Granville Island. TheatreSports’ latest show sees the League returning to its roots with, one of founder, Keith Johnstone’s original improve games, Gorilla Theatre. Gorilla Sports has a free-flowing format in which each of the players act as director…
XXII Olympic Winter Games via Twitter (infographic)
Sochi Olympics have come and gone and the Paralympics are underway. Olympians have returned home or continued onto their World Cup season and the folks at MedaMiser took a look back over the whole Olympics to see what was trending. They reviewed over 4 million tweets to see who was the most popular athlete at…
The 50 Greatest Winter Olympians
Over the next two weeks at the Winter Games more athletes will be making their mark in Olympic history, some have already made an impact this opening weekend. While getting into the Olympic spirit, the editors at The Active Times have assembled a list of the 50 Greatest Winter Olympians. With the help of an…