Scanning the city and web, here’s what my picks of the weeks in the following categories. Sounds : At the Orpheum Theatre on March 15 & 16 at 8pm, the Vancouver Symphony’s A Celtic Celebration featuring guest performers Leahy will surely be a highlight for many people’s Saint Patrick’s Day. Sport : The Canucks vs…
Category: Entertainment
Celebrities Re-opens After Renovations
Vancouver’s legendary Celebrities Nightclub reopened this week after a months long closure to renovate and recreate the old venue. Management Blueprint Events has taken care to recreate all the things people loved about the club and at first glace it seems quite the same but after examination it is different; newer, cleaner, brighter and flashier….
CelticFest Vancouver 2013
Can you hear the pipes? Starting this weekend you should be hearing a lot of pipes and Irish jigs around Vancouver as Celtic Fest gets under way. The celebration of Celtic heritage kicks off this Saturday March 9th with free entertainment and family fun at The Village at False Creek (Olympic Village) from noon until…
Squamish Valley Music Festival unveils 2013 line-up
Last Friday night at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver brandLIVE and Livenation Canada debuted the line-up for the 2013 Squamish Valley Music Festival. The evening featured performances by Yukon Blonde and Diamond Rings, both Canadian artists are in the line-up for the August 8-10 multi-stage event. Headlining the festival, which is fast becoming one of…
Inaugural Canadian Screen Awards 2013
Sunday night saw the debut of the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by Martin Short from Sony Centre in Toronto and broadcast on CBC. Replacing the formerly seperate Gemini – Television Awards and Genie – Film Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards celebrated the best in Canadian film, English language television (French tv has its own ceremony)…
And The Oscar goes to…2013 Academy Award Winners
The 85th Academy Awards, officially renamed The Oscars, ceremony celebrating the best of film in 2012 was televised on February 24, 2013. From the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, the broadcast was hosted quite admirably for the first time by the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane, who kept the evening’s proceedings moving along fairly wittily, without being…
Brit Award Winners 2013
The 33rd edition of the British Phonographic Industry’s annual pop music awards, The Brits, took place Wednesday evening at The O2 Arena in London. For the third year in a row, the event was presented by funnyman James Corden. Leading the nominations were Mumford and Sons and Emeli Sandé with four nominations each, but Sandé…