For the 3rd edition, Victoria’s Rock The Shores festival expands to three days and this week made their first line-up announcement. Performing at this year’s festival will be: Billy Talent, Our Lady Peace, The Wallflowers, Tom Cochrane with Red Rider, Gord Downie, The Sadies, 54-40, Loverboy, Monster Truck, Sloan, USS, Current Swell, Kongos, July Talk,…
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49th Academy of Country Music Awards winners
Sunday night, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas welcomed the who’s who of country music as they gathered to celebrate their own at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan returned as hosts for the second year (4th year for Shelton), making use of their good rapport…
Van Foodster Culinary Scavenger Hunt – recap
This weekend the first Culinary Scavenger Hunt, presented by Vancouver Foodster took place in downtown Vancouver. A couple hundred food fans gathered at XOXOLAT to check-in and receive their Scavenger Hunt card, then were off on a mystery food tour around the town. Unlike Vancouver Foodster’s other food tour, Tasting Plates, the patrons did not…
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival takes bloom
Every spring Vancouver streets and parks come alive with brilliant displays of Cherry Blossoms. From April 3rd to 28th, the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, coinciding with Sakura Days Japan Fair, April 5 – 6 at Van Dusen Garden, fills the city with activities: talks, walks, concerts, fashions shows, tea ceremonies and special restaurant menus. Kicking of with…
2014 Juno Awards Winner
This weekend Junofest heated up Winnipeg, a welcome break from one of the coldest winters on record. Three days of JunoFest concerts, fan fests, charity hockey game and gala awards banquet was concluded with the televised June Awards from the MTS Centre on Sunday night. Hosted by Serena Ryder, Johnny Reid, and Classified the awards…
Van Foodster Tasting Plates Gastown Edition
If you’ve never been on one of Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates events then now this spring is a great time to warm up your taste bud and get tasting. Tasting Plates : Gastown Edition takes place from 6pm to 9pm on April 23rd. Like all Tasting Plates each participating restaurant will be serving up a…
Gesamtkunstwerk opens in Vancouver
Loosely translates at “a total work of art”, Gesamtkunstwerk is a new exhibition now open in Vancouver that takes people into the thinking behind Westbank’s new development, Vancouver House. Starting with a never-before displayed Arthur Erickson sketch from his “Project 1955” designs for Vancouver, moving on to a study on Vancouverism and then the evolution…