The often overlooked and under-rated world of daytime television honoured its own on June 23rd with the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Broadcast for the first time on HLN, the awards honoured the best in daytime drama, information, talk, game shows and children’s programming. As with many major award shows,…
Author: Jay Minter
Whitecaps FC keep the ball rolling
June is a good month for soccer. There’s lot’s of football on TV with Euro 2012 into the quarter final stage and after a two week lay0ff, the MLS Whitecaps FC returned with three home games in two weeks. Earning 7 of a possible 9 points from the homestand, Whitecaps haven’t lost since early May,…
Scissor Sisters bring the Magic Hour to Vancouver
Scissor Sisters – Commodore Ballroom – 20June2012 The Scissor Sisters won me over the first time I saw them, way back in 2004 at Richards On Richards, and they’ve never let me down since. The quartet always give one of the best live performances, their reputation now precedes them so the audience is in such…
What’s On Weekend – June 21 – 23, 2012
Ongoing Activities: – visit Vanier Park for Bard On The Beach now presenting Taming Of The Shrew and Macbeth. – it’s officially summer now so time for summer markets, head outside every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night this summer visit one of the three night markets in Richmond and Vancouver. Summer Night Market runs until…
Voices In The Park
Saturday, September 15th, Brockton Fields in Stanley Park will be packed with people celebrating fantastic music at Voices In The Park, benefiting a great program; The Sarah McLachlan School Of Music. Lead by the brilliant Sarah McLachlan, a one of a kind line-up of music will be onstage, Stevie Nicks, Jann Arden, Chin Injeti, The…
Rdio New Release Tuesday – June 19, 2012
Tuesday is new release day as Rdio adds new singles and albums to the line-up, ensuring their library – and your’s – is continuously growing and evolving. Keep watching the New Release listing throughout the day as it evolves as more people listen and popular choices rise. This week features some sure to be huge…
UrbanEars Medis – review
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure to use a pair of Urbanears Medis Plus for a couple of weeks and I’m very impressed. I’ve tried lots of earphones and these are without a doubt my favourite so far. Like the rest of the Urbanears line, the Medis are a great sounding, great fitting and stylish earphone…