Happy Canada Day! I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! Ongoing Activities: – Vancouver International Jazz Festival , continues through the weekend with more music at over a dozen venues around the city, many of them free. – visit Vanier Park for Bard On The Beach now presenting Taming Of The Shrew and Macbeth. –…
Category: Entertainment
39th Daytime Emmy Awards
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,…
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…
Make Music Vancouver
Who doesn’t like something for free? Make Music Vancouver, makes its 2nd edition even bigger than its first, spreading out from Gastown to Yaletown in Vancouver. Modeled after the French Fete de la Musique event, France’s Culture Minister encouraging amateur musicians to take to the streets to “Make Music”. Make Music Vancouver takes over the…
MMVA 2012 – Winners
Sunday night, Toronto’s entertainment district came to a halt near the MuchMusic Headquarters as they took over the street to put on another spectacular MuchMusic Video Awardsshow, hosted this year by ‘party-rockers’ LMFAO. Each year the MMVAs have grown into a truly impressive concert and entertainment showcase amazingly packing a massive multi-aspect main stage into…
Polaris Music Prize 2012 – Long List Announced
This week the Polaris Music Prize left their Toronto offices for the first time to announce the Long List of nominees for this year’s prize. From Vancouver’s Waldorf Hotel, the Long List of 40 artists, as chosen by the jury of 200 independent music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across the country, was unveiled featuring…
What’s On Weekend – June 14 – 16, 2012
Ongoing Activities: – visit Vanier Park for Bard On The Beach now presenting Taming Of The Shrew – although the weather hasn’t been spectacular, 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 September 16th on Vulcan Way,…