The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is underway, ushering in the 2017 Music Festivals season. Sasquatch! Festival is coming up on the US Memorial Day weekend, starting off the festival season in our corner of the continent. Here’s a list of some of the multi-artist festivals in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note: not all the…
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Picks of the Week – April 12, 2017
Let’s hop to it and celebrate the Easter Long Weekend with these picks of the week; Improv: Laugh your chaps off at Western World, the new show at Vancouver Theatresports League, their take on HBO’s Westworld Glass Slipper: Broadway across Canada brings Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday Live: Thursday,…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra – Harry Potter Live Film Series
This weekend, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) played the second edition of the Harry Potter Film Series; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets live. A full house at the Orpheum Theatre was filled with fans of the Potterverse. Plenty of little wizards in robes roamed tried hard to contain their excitement as prepared to watch…
Picks of the Week – April 5, 2017
I guess we need these April showers bring May flowers? Before we picks spring blooms, let’s see what’s in these picks of the week. Champions: The Vancouver Whitecaps play host to Mexican club Tigres in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champion’s League semi-final Folk: Canadian folk-pop act City And Colour comes to the stage Thursday…
Picks of the Week – March 29, 2017
No fooling, we find some entertaining fun in this edition of the picks of the week; Angels: The Arts Club has the Tony Award winning Angels in America: Part 1 onstage at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage through April 23 Dining: Thursday, dine out and do some good during Dining Out For Life a benefiting…
Picks of the Week – March 22, 2017
Finally, Spring is here! At least we can hope for something resembling spring to come along. Let’s see what the Picks of the Week find for us to do Dance: The last weekend of the Vancouver International Dance Festival finds even more entertaining dance throughout the city. Stage: The award winning drama Angels In America: Part One…
Picks of the Week – March 15, 2017
“Beware the Ides of March” … while we’re not worried about a soothsayer’s warning, we’re ready to climb the mid-March hump hopefully putting snow behind us and finding fun in our picks of the week. Jazz: Grammy Award winning trumpeter Chris Botti joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for tonight’s performance at Orpheum Theatre Pucks: The Vancouver Canucks…