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…
Tostitos Canada Nacho Average Food Truck
At first glace, you can tell this is not your average food truck, in fact it’s the Nacho Average Food Truck! It’s bright and bold, just like the flavours inside! Tostitos Canada and acclaimed local Chef Josh Wolfe have teamed up to bring unique and tasty recipes to Vancouver. For just one month the Nacho…
Vancouver Foodster 100 Mile Cocktail Challenge
Nothing is a refreshing on a hot summer night as a cool cocktail, and the summer is the time for fresh, local ingredients. To celebrate the two, Vancouver Foodster introduces the first ever 100 Mile Cocktail Challenge. Running until July 27th, competing restaurants are showcasing cocktails created with at least 60% local ingredients that are…
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,…
Polaris Prize 2014 Shortlist
Canada’s annual celebration of the country’s best music, the Polaris Prize, has released it’s shortlist for 2014. Canada’s music press adjudicate the eligible albums without regard to genre or sales, making it one of the truest celebration of Canada’s music scene. Past winners; Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Feist, Arcade Fire, Karkwa, F*cked Up, Caribou, Patrick…
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…