Yes, can you believe it! It’s December already! I’m sure everyone’s calendars are filling up but here’s some more fun things to add to the list. Thurday Dec 1 – Head up to Grouse Mountain, the Peak of Christmas, for some wintertime fun, ice skating, sleighrides, skiing, snowboarding, Santa and starting off tonight, the Parade…
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What’s On Weekend – November 24-27, 2011
The Biggest Event this week has to be Grey Cup 2011; BC Lions vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers for the Canadian Football League championship. Thurs Nov 24 – Grey Cup fever is alive and kicking, after the days CFL Player Awards, there are a host of Team Parties throughout the city. – It’s Thursday so that…
The legendary Yale takes a break
This weekend is your last chance to visit one of Vancouver’s best loved watering holes, The Yale. The city’s only surviving building from the great fire of 1886 has stood at the southern entrance to downtown for 130 years. Beginning its life as a rooming house for Canadian Pacific Railway workers the venerable Yale taking…
Guilty Pleasures with Eric Solomon
Perfectly timed to coincide with the release of his new album, Time Bomb, Eric Solomon performs this weekend at Guilty Pleasures concert fundraiser at Five Sixty. The former Vancouver based recording artist returns from his new LA home to perform some of his hi-energy pop to get the crowd primed. Solomon’s influences of 80’s synth pop, funk, soul and…
What’s On Weekend – November 17 – 20, 2011
There’s always something fun in the city…here’s some for this weekend! Thursday Nov 17 – check out the preview launch of the new Rubble Gallery on Powell Street – at the Rio Theatre, catch the second installment of the ‘Friends of Dorothy Film Series‘ hosted by the Queen of East Van, Isolde N Barron, this…
Guilty Pleasures featuring Prince Poppycock
This Saturday night isn’t the first time Prince Poppycock will be a guilty pleasure. During his run on Season Five of America’s Got Talent, judge Piers Morgan said that Poppycock was “becoming my guilty pleasure”. Apparently he was America’s guilty pleasure too as the foppish, baroque dandy made it all the way to the final…
What’s on Weekend – Nov 10-13, 2011
Lest We Forget. The most important event this weekend is of course Remembrance Day, support and honour our Veterans on Friday. Thursday Nov 10 – at the Rickshaw Theatre, Portland’s Blitzen Trapper perform with Dawes – BC band, Yukon Blonde play the Biltmore Cabaret – The Helm, hosts another Thursday edition of We Like Boys with…