Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Today’s image is courtesy of Bill Kwok, it’s entitled “False Creek Racing Canoe Club“.

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Fortune is having a party this Friday to celebrate the release of this mixed CD they put together featuring Hedspin, Genie, Rico Uno (THAT’S KEEFER SLIMS‘ BUDDY, MR UNO!) and Marvel, and we’re celebrating right here by giving away ten copies to lucky readers. Simply join our newsletter and you’ll be entered to win. If you’re already subscribed, you’re pre-entered!

In case you didn’t make it out to the last Talent Time at the Biltmore, here’s a few photos of the Lucky Charms eating contest that you missed!

I’ve been holding these contests at my house lately but there’s no crowd, I’m the only one who’s entered, it’s usually about 3 in the morning and I’m standing at the kitchen counter in sweatpants.
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WORDS AND PHOTOS: Vanessa Griffiths

If you tend to look upwards when you hear a nose overhead it shouldn’t be surprising that there is an airplane passing over at 3000 feet or below. Our airports are the busiest in Canada, and the approach paths are often (depending on the wind) right down the centre of our city. Having grown up on the West Coast, and having spent my childhood fishing at random beautiful fishing towns, I had the experience of flying as a passenger throughout my childhood. It eventually transferred into getting a pilots license and working commercially myself.

I have to say out of all the trips and places I have been to, the Vancouver area is my favorite place to fly. You really cannot beat or even grasp the beauty of our city from the air. Sunrises, sunsets, the contrast of the ocean, greens, city, and mountains. I have seen it thousands of times but and am always floored by the colours. If you have never done it before I recommend hopping onto one of the great local float operators and doing a city tour or even better yet …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Since before the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games opened, we’ve been very adamant about only reporting on the awesomeness that comes from them. Just the good news, as promised, we brought you daily medal reports as well as a ton of features as Vancouverites caught up in the epic experience of the Olympics coming to our town. Yes, there are serious issues surrounding them and things that need to be kept in check, monitored, discussed and addressed… but not here. Our mission as an incorporated not-for-profit is to bring you only lighthearted, interesting and fun things concerning Vancouver and it’s arts and culture, with the hopes that you’ll come pay our little web site a visit only after you’ve caught up on the real news. We want you to come here and simply be given a reason to smile.

One of the funniest by-products of the Games coming to our city is Real Stories 2010, a series of satirical shorts put together by a few of our city’s most hilarious comedy troupes. My favourite of these is Cameron MacLeod’s series that proposes we re-bid the bid and host the Summer 2012 Olympics here in Vancouver, and we’ll be bringing you all 6 installments of the series over the next few days.

HERE’S PART 3 of 6…

Credits:
Cameron MacLeod – writer / producer / performer
Peter Hadfield – director of photography
Sean Devlin – executive producer

Cameos by DJ Rico Uno, Louise Burns and Dan Code.

Join the Bring The 2012 Olympics to Vancouver! page on Facebook and check out ManHussy.com for more from Cameron.

I got an email from VANOC this morning. They wanted you to know that the puck that Sidney Crosby snuck past Ryan Miller to clinch the gold medal for us is being donated to the Hockey Hall Of Fame. “The gold medal winning puck is a treasure that will attract so many hockey fans to the Hall and we’re extremely happy that it’s on its way here,” said Phil Pritchard, Curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame. “Thanks to the IIHF and to VANOC for making this happen and we look forward to getting the puck and making arrangements for it to take its rightful place with the other memorabilia that represent great moments in hockey history.”

And, just in case you’re ridiculously wealthy, you can bid on the other 4 overtime pucks HERE. Below is a photo of the actual game winning puck…

Image © VANOC/COVAN

I had dinner at Caffe Barney with my friend Lisa last night, and there was a commotion at the table next to ours not long after we ordered. A man had just arrived to join his friends, and he carried with him a long, narrow box.

After he removed an Olympic torch from it, they all whipped out their cameras and passed it around. Lisa and I were watching and smiling, so they offered to take photos of us with the torch, too. It’s exactly as heavy as I thought it might be.

The 2010 Olympic torch: still being passed from hand to hand, bringing strangers together.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Today’s image is courtesy of Dan Fairchild, it’s entitled “Corner Grocery“. Exactly where is this ultra colorful store?

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A few weeks back I shared with you one of my best finds to date from the library.  This week, we rented one of the best T.V. shows ever: Freaks and Geeks!  There’s a bit of a Vancouver connection here as it was one of the first productions starring Seth Rogen. The show only was on for one season, but to me this makes it perfect, a masterpiece!   It’s also not going to mess up your schedule real bad, like trying to watch a whole season of Lost in one sitting.

I checked, and both the VPL and BPL have it, so log in and request it!

Since before the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games opened, we’ve been very adamant about only reporting on the awesomeness that comes from them. Just the good news, as promised, we brought you daily medal reports as well as a ton of features as Vancouverites caught up in the epic experience of the Olympics coming to our town. Yes, there are serious issues surrounding them and things that need to be kept in check, monitored, discussed and addressed… but not here. Our mission as an incorporated not-for-profit is to bring you only lighthearted, interesting and fun things concerning Vancouver and it’s arts and culture, with the hopes that you’ll come pay our little web site a visit only after you’ve caught up on the real news. We want you to come here and simply be given a reason to smile.

One of the funniest by-products of the Games coming to our city is Real Stories 2010, a series of satirical shorts put together by a few of our city’s most hilarious comedy troupes. My favourite of these is Cameron MacLeod’s series that proposes we re-bid the bid and host the Summer 2012 Olympics here in Vancouver, and we’ll be bringing you all 6 installments of the series over the next few days.

HERE’S PART 2 of 6…

Credits:
Cameron MacLeod – writer / producer / performer
Peter Hadfield – director of photography
Sean Devlin – executive producer

Cameos by DJ Rico Uno, Louise Burns and Dan Code.

Join the Bring The 2012 Olympics to Vancouver! page on Facebook and check out ManHussy.com for more from Cameron.

2010 Tampa Pro Street Finals video (watch Vancouver’s Keegan Sauder skate into 3rd place at the 2:11 mark).

The annual Tampa Pro contest held at SPoT has been going strong since ‘95, and the 2010 edition came and went over the weekend. Yes, ‘Couver had a presence. Keegan Sauder took 3rd ($10,000 USD), and Jordan Hoffart raked in $1000 USD for a couple moves in the best trick jam (click here for TransWorld’s Tampa Pro Finals/Best Trick coverage). Congrats, fellas!

The cats rule East Vancouver. They’re everywhere…sidewalks, roads, hiding in doorways, supervising stores, sprawled out anywhere to have a bath. The cats I meet while wandering through East Van are probably all house-pets but it’s not clear who ‘owns’ them. Cats are all about territory, but all space is public to them.

Stay tuned…When the project is finished I hope to have photographed every one of the East Van Cats!