This weekend the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series made its inaugural stop in Canada. The HSBC Canada Sevens saw 192 athletes, from 16 countries play 45 matches of sevens rugby at BC Place over two full days, Saturday and Sunday. For an inaugural event, the reception for Rugby Sevens was beyond the expectations, selling more…
Author: Jay Minter
Friday Find – Hungry Guys
While fast food is plentiful in the Granville Entertainment District, finding something satisfying and healthy is a little less easy. The recently opened Hungry Guys Kitchen solves that dilemma. The menu of Burritos, Salads and Bowls sounds simple but the combinations of flavours are endless. We’ve already visited a few times since they opened, in December, and…
Colour in the Country at Abbotsford Tulip Festival
March 25th is the kick off of the first Abbotsford Tulip Festival. The 2016 festival is the only tulip festival in BC as well as only tulip celebration in Canada located on a farm. Visitors will find 10 acres planted with 2.5 million bulbs bursting with the brilliant colours of over 50 tulip varieties. “Our…
Picks of the Week – March 9, 2016
While spring is still officially a couple weeks away, but this week’s picks of the week have a green hue to them as we move towards St Paddy’s Day Puck It: The Vancouver Canucks take the ice against Arizona Coyotes at Rogers Arena tonight, then Saturday night play host to Nashville Predators. Ivories: Wednesdays at XY…
CelticFest 2016 is coming
From March 10 to 17, Vancouver will be even greener as the 12th Annual CelticFest brings the Emerald Isle to the city. While Ireland is often most associated with the Celtic culture, CelticFest celebrates culture from all of the Celtic Nations; Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall & Brittany. The Celts shares their culture with the parts…
Tasting Plates Marpole – March 30, 2016
Marpole is one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods but it’s often overlooked as a ‘hood filled with low-rise apartment blocks that you pass-by on your commute. On March 30th, Vancouver Foodster Tasting Plates Marpole looks to change perceptions by making us take a moment to experience what the Marpole food scene has to offer. Centred on…
Friday Find: Mashup at Vancouver Art Gallery
Until June 12th, the Vancouver Art Gallery is completely taken over with a single exhibit MashUp: The Birth Of Modern Culture. This ground breaking exhibit covers not just all four floors of the VAG but covers a century of modern culture. Like the Renaissance or Age of Enlightenment before, the 20th Century has seen a…