Summer is the season for getting out and enjoying the great outdoors. Swimming, biking and hiking are just a few of the many outdoor activities popular with Vancouverites, Fjällräven is planning to help you get prepared for your next hiking adventure. Next Wednesday, July 30th, the Swedish retailer’s flagship store on Broadway in Vancouver welcomes outdoor…
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Tasting Plates Lonsdale – Recap
For a second summer, Tasting Plates drew a big crowd of foodies across Burrard Inlet to taste the flavours of North Vancouver’s Lonsdale district. Still one of our favourite Tasting Plates, we hoped this year’s edition lived up to its 2013 predecessor…it did. In spite of a raining summer evening, 300 Tasting Platers checked in…
Picks of the Week – July 23, 2014
Late July and summer events are in full swing, and many Vancouver Pride events are kicking off throughout the week. My Picks of the Week include, Tasting Plates, Queer Arts Festival, Taste Victoria, Vancouver Fetish Weekend, Phillips Backyard Weekender, Vancouver Pride Run & Picnic, Whitecaps, Shorefest and Celebration of Light. Eating: Tonight, kick off your…
Taste Victoria Festival of Food & Wine
The sixth annual festival of food & wine, Taste Victoria starts July 24, kicking off 4 days of great local flavours. The Festival gets underway this Thursday with Taste the Difference, an evening tasting of more than 30 local wines & food prepared by Vancouver Island’s top chefs. Taste is a festival with a conscience, working…
Phillips Backyard Weekender 2014
Atomique Productions and Phillips Brewery have once again teamed up for the Phillips Backyard Weekender, three great days of music. While the loading dock and parking lot of a brewery doesn’t seem like the first place one would think of for a concert venue but the Phillips Brewery backlot in Victoria it is a great…
Picks of the Week – July 16, 2014
Mid-July and there’s lots happening in this heatwave…this week’s picks of the week include theatre, street hockey, BC Lions football and great parties and concerts. Festival: The big draw of the week is surely the Pemberton Music Festival, a couple hours up the Sea-To-Sky highway you’ll find Nine Inch Nails, Outcast, Soundgarden, Deadmau5, Kendrick Lamar,…
Kobo Town gets Harrison Festival dancing
Kobo Town – Harrison Festival of the Arts – July 12, 2014 On the opening day of the Harrison Festival of the Arts, the nightly “Evenings In The Hall” concerts series got underway with a lively performance by Toronto based, Kobo Town. Lead by Trinidadian-Canadian Drew Gonsalves (pictured left), the band plays a blend of…