For it’s 40th Season the PNC Christmas Price Index (CPI) has compared the cost for one set of each of the gifts given in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” PNC compares the purchases against the costs from the previous year to produce the Index. With inflation still top of mind for everyone’s budget it’s perhaps a…
BC Place Hosts Whitecaps FC and BC Lions 2024 Anniversary Seasons
BC Place will be filled with excitement for 2024 as, just in time to be added to Christmas wishlists, both the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps have announced their special anniversary season schedules. Vancouver Whitecaps 50th anniversary season, start things off with their MLS home opener, hosting Charlotte FC on March 2, 2024. Cascadia Cup…
Gateway Theatre’s A Year of Blessings: Operation Double Happiness Celebrates the Winter Solstice
As the year wraps up, Gateway Theatre and Five Blessings Collective launch their final installment of the A Year of Blessings audio play series – Operation Double Happiness. This final episode of the popular audio play series is a celebration of the Winter Solstice or Dongzhi Festival. Traditionally observed on the winter solstice, typically falling…
Picks of the Week – December 20, 2023
’twas the week before Christmas and all through the city, entertainment was brewing with plenty to see Lights: Find some festive feels as you brighten up the longest nights of the year with any of the many Christmas and Holiday illuminations around Metro Vancouver like – Bright Nights, Van Dusen Festival of Lights, Heritage Christmas, Martini Town…
The Arts Umbrella Mixed Nuts Brings a Nutcracker Mash-up To Stage
This past weekend, Arts Umbrella School of Dance presented its annual student showcase, Mixed Nuts, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Adding a contemporary twist to Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic, The Nutcracker, the Mixed Nuts show gets an update each year, as past graduating classes make way for new Grad, Senior, Apprentice, Professional Training and Pre-Elementary Dance Companies. With local choreographers and the…
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella Dances On To The Gateway Theatre Stage
In their own little corner of Richmond, Gateway Theatre brings the Tony Award-winning Broadway Musical Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella to the stage. First written and composed for a 1957 TV adaptation starring Julie Andrews, the stage version, with an updated 2013 book by Douglas Carter Beane, maintains the timeless music of Richard Rodgers and lyrics…
Vancouver Foodster x Dine Out Festival Events coming in January
Canada’s largest food and drink festival, Dine Out Vancouver is coming back January 17 to February 4, 2024. While we wait for the restaurant menus and reservations to be announced in January, check out the list of fun, foodie events taking place throughout the festival. During the Dine Out Vancouver Festival, Vancouver Foodster will produce…