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…
Author: Jay Minter
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…
Capture Photo Festival Launch & Inaugural Lind Prize
Friday evening the 3rd Annual Capture Photography Festival got underway with an opening exhibition at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. The show featured the finalists for the inaugural Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, presented by Presentation House Gallery. The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize is a new award, supported by Rogers Communications to recognize Mr Lind’s…
Friday Find: Shishinori Japanese Eatery
Located in a strip of shops along Cambie, the unassuming Shishinori Japanese Eatery is a little gem of a Japanese restaurant. Overwhelmingly cute, bright and pristine there aren’t very many tables in the tiny spot but the ample menu offers a variety of items. A large lunch trade of dine in and take out workers in…