Archive for January, 2010

Contrary to our original plan of simply gleaning peripheral stories here and there, we’ve actually got quite a bit of coverage of the 2010 Games planned for next month. We’ve got folks attending a bunch of Cultural Olympiad shows, we’ll be blogging from our Awesome Showcase at Shine delivering stories from out-of-towners and their experiences in our city and even though we got denied media accreditation some of us might even be attending some sporting events as fans with point and shoot cameras. Go figure.

All of that being said, I think what I’m most excited to report to you is that our DAILY FLICKR PICKR series of photos that we post from our Flickr pool will be all Olympics themed until the closing ceremonies. Every day we’ll be bringing a new image that one of our readers has uploaded to our pool that is somehow Games related, making our Olympic coverage your Olympic coverage! I believe we’re still allowed to use the “O” word up until February 12th but if I am mistaken then you will see this title change from “Your Olympic Coverage” to “Your Fun Time Non Summer Sporting Contest Coverage” soon enough.

So join our Flickr pool and upload your photos!

Today’s DAILY FLICKR PICKR is a photo courtesy of Nathan Veldhoen, and the title is “Olympic Athlete Village”:

The Zolas had their belated CD Release party at the Biltmore on the 27th, with Henry & The Nightcrawlers and We Are The City opening up…check out more photos after the jump… Read more

Just in time for Valentine’s day, CocoaNymph is announcing the launch of four new bonbon favours. Individually handcrafted in our chocolate studio in Point Grey, they are Rachel Sawatzky’s homage to love. Each truffle is decorated with a hand painted heart, making Read more

I’m kind of reluctant to share this secret of mine…but have you heard of a little thing going on in Vancouver called Social Bites?

Hobby Chefs and Foodies unite in this evening of dining in the living rooms of complete strangers. Four Read more

In my previous life writing for a skateboard magazine, I found out it was not common for photographers to print their own photos.  Printing can be really finicky and is a skill onto itself ,especially with colour; it’s best left for the experts.   From what I understand there are only a couple places in the city where they print really well, one of them being Custom Color.

Being the type of person who regularly would get photos processed at Costco, I wondered how did they find out about this place?  The community of photographers in skateboarding and snowboarding in Vancouver is pretty close knit so after asking around, it appears as if patient zero is none other than Dano Pendygrasse…

Here’s what Dano had to say about Custom Color:

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Our friends at the UBC Botanical Garden sent us info on all of their programming that’s happening during the Games and they’ve assured us that, if you’re concerned about traffic, three buses run right past their main entrance on SW Marine Drive. Check the info below and get out there!

Contrary to our original plan of simply gleaning peripheral stories here and there, we’ve actually got quite a bit of coverage of the 2010 Games planned for next month. We’ve got folks attending a bunch of Cultural Olympiad shows, we’ll be blogging from our Awesome Showcase at Shine delivering stories from out-of-towners and their experiences in our city and even though we got denied media accreditation some of us might even be attending some sporting events as fans with point and shoot cameras. Go figure.

All of that being said, I think what I’m most excited to report to you is that our DAILY FLICKR PICKR series of photos that we post from our Flickr pool will be all Olympics themed until the closing ceremonies. Every day we’ll be bringing a new image that one of our readers has uploaded to our pool that is somehow Games related, making our Olympic coverage your Olympic coverage! I believe we’re still allowed to use the “O” word up until February 12th but if I am mistaken then you will see this title change from “Your Olympic Coverage” to “Your Fun Time Non Summer Sporting Contest Coverage” soon enough.

So join our Flickr pool and upload your photos!

Today’s DAILY FLICKR PICKR is a photo courtesy of Carol Browne, and the title is “The Olympic Line Street Car”:

It’s a new dog every day, click here to find out how to get your dog featured here if you haven’t sent in your photos yet!

Today’s dog featured in Dogtown Vancouver is Zadie, Niki S’s pup. Here’s what she had to say about her…

NAME: Zadie. BREED: French Bull Dog. HOOD: East Van/Commercial Drive. FAVORITE SNACK: Anything – we mean it. OTHER INFO: Zadie is 6 months old. Also known as El Chupacabra when she decides to massacre fields full of goats (see photo evidence attached).

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There are some seriously incredible things going on in February, and one of those incredible things is the Real Vancouver Writers series at W2. Every Wednesday in February Real Vancouver will showcase local writers doing short readings of their work and/or interacting with a moderator, taking questions from the audience and will include book sales, signings, a multimedia component, music, cash bar, raffles and giveaways.

The official word:
Located at 112 East Hastings Street across from the refurbished Woodwards Building in Downtown Vancouver, the Real Vancouver Writers Series consists of 4 weekly events showcasing local Vancouver writers, publishers and creative literary artists at the W2 Community Media Arts Centre.

These evenings are designed to show the city and the world real and diverse Vancouver culture and real creative individuals in the literary and publishing communities at a time when the eyes of the world are on our city.

Countless millions of people will want to know what real Vancouver culture looks like.

We are determined to take the opportunity to show the world just how amazing, diverse, talented and fun our literary and publishing culture is!

These events will occur every Wednesday during February beginning at Read more

Over the next few days I’m going to be sharing some of the Google maps that have been put together by the city as a part of their Open Data Catalogue project. Originally it was a bit Jonny Mnemonic and I was struggling to find actual uses for the data they were providing (which is available in all sorts of computer languages and database formats) but with their 2.0 launch it’s definitely something that normal folks are able to benefit from.

This one’s a lot like a project we’re working on… it’s a map marking all of the parks in the city…

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Contrary to our original plan of simply gleaning peripheral stories here and there, we’ve actually got quite a bit of coverage of the 2010 Games planned for next month. We’ve got folks attending a bunch of Cultural Olympiad shows, we’ll be blogging from our Awesome Showcase at Shine delivering stories from out-of-towners and their experiences in our city and even though we got denied media accreditation some of us might even be attending some sporting events as fans with point and shoot cameras. Go figure.

All of that being said, I think what I’m most excited to report to you is that our DAILY FLICKR PICKR series of photos that we post from our Flickr pool will be all Olympics themed until the closing ceremonies. Every day we’ll be bringing a new image that one of our readers has uploaded to our pool that is somehow Games related, making our Olympic coverage your Olympic coverage! I believe we’re still allowed to use the “O” word up until February 12th but if I am mistaken then you will see this title change from “Your Olympic Coverage” to “Your Fun Time Non Summer Sporting Contest Coverage” soon enough.

So join our Flickr pool and upload your photos!

Today’s DAILY FLICKR PICKR is a photo courtesy of Ryawesome, and the title is “Cut-Outs of Olympiads”:

Cool! CBC Radio 3 just uploaded an Artist Series podcast with Tegan Quin that you can download HERE. And when you’re done read our interview with her HERE and listen to our Guest Playlist with her HERE and check out the photos from the Tegan and Sara show at the Orpheum HERE. It’s a Tegan overload!!!