From Mountain Peaks to City Streets, City & Slope Festival is ready to mark the 2nd anniversary of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Set to take over the three local mountains and downtown core from February 9th – 12th 2012, City & Slope brings together Cypress Mountain, Grouse Mountain and Mount Seymour into one bundled…
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Andrew Allen – New Song, New Tour
BC Singer-Songwriter Andrew Allen has some news for the new year. With the BC Winter Games being hosted in his home town of Vernon in February he was proud to have been asked to write the theme song, Your Time To Shine, which is now available on iTunes. He will also be performing January 21st…
What’s on weekend – Jan 5-7, 2012
Happy New Year! Here we are with the busy Holiday season behind us and already a week into 2012. Thursday Jan 5th: – ongoing until Jan 21st at The Cultch, Blackbird Theatre are presenting Waiting For Godot – MOV: Museum of Vancouver has a Curator’s Talk and Tour of their current exhibit Neon Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver…
Top 12 Concerts of 2011
If you are a regular reader you’ll know I attend a lot of concerts. I thought I would take a look back at my favourite shows of 2011, excluding festivals. In no particular order, here’s the top twelve: – Chromeo at Commodore Ballroom – Elton John at Save-On Memorial Centre – Heart at Queen Elizabeth…
What On Weekend – year end 2011
With Christmas upon us, most people will be spending time with family and friends. However next weekend is the weekend we should be planning now…if you haven’t already. Let’s take a look at what’s happening around town for the festive party season! Ongoing Festive Festivities: – ongoing, through the Holidays are a number of festive…
JayZ & Kanye West : Watch The Throne
JayZ & Kanye West – Rogers Arena – December 17, 2011 What do you get when two of hip-hops biggest ever artists join forces? Probably one of the biggest concert events of the year! JayZ and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne tour wrapped up in Vancouver this weekend. Debuting on two cube-like stages at opposite…
Prince : Welcome 2 Canada
Prince – Rogers Arena – December 16, 2011 Coming out of smoke amidst a virtual thunderstorm, a golden sequin clad Prince, took to the Rogers Arena stage to even more thunderous applause as the opening bars of Gold began to play. The stage, set in-the-round, was the iconic symbol Prince used in place of his…