Tasting Plates: Main Street edition brought out Vancouver’s food fans and friends out on a beautiful, warm spring night to taste their way around the East Side neighbourhood, from Broadway to King Edward. Check in started the evening at Tapas 23, the popular spot was already busy, so upon recommendation of Catherine at the desk,…
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Take the @VanFoodster Taco Challenge
Vancouver Foodster’s latest food challenge brings one of everyone’s favourite Mexican dishes to the forefront. The Taco Challenge features 8 Mexican and Non-Mexican restaurants in Vancouver, North Vancouver and Richmond competing between May 9-31, 2014. Throughout the challenge, participating restaurants will be showcasing Taco dishes that are specially created just for the Taco Challenge. For…
#MetropolisxKlout scores big!
BC biggest shopping centre and Klout joined forces to host the first ever Metropolis x Klout Spring Social, an exclusive VIP event, which I was privileged to be invited to, for the top-500 retail and fashion social media influencers in the Lower Mainland, as determined by Klout. In the Metrotown Grand Court, influencers and our guests…
2014 BC Book Prize Winners Announced
On May 3rd, the 2014 BC Book Prize Winners were announced at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel. Chosen from the 2014 Shortlist, this year’s winner’s were: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little, Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize: and Roderick Haig-Brown Regional…
Equal Play kicks off
Soccer (or football) is one of the most popular and most played games around the world however in many parts of the world girls don’t have equal access to play. What most people take for granted as normal in their backyard are obstacles for many girls around the globe. Equal Play is a campaign to…
Squamish Valley Music Festival adds new artists
August nights just got a bit hotter as the Squamish Valley Music Festival added more great artists to their already stacked line-up. The new artists joining the Festival include: NAS (performing his debut album, Illmatic) The Temper Trap Chvrches Phantogram tUnE-yArDs James Vincent McMorrow Magic! Wildlife Reuben And The Dark “These new artist additions represent…
DOXA Film Festival 2014
It’s just three days until the DOXA Film Festival opens for 2014, so now it the time to check the program and plan your line-up of screenings and events. The 2014 DOXA Film Festival kicks off on Friday May 2nd with the opening event featuring the UK film Virunga at 7pm at the Vancouver Playhouse….