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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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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

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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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.

With 21,090 artists, boasting 93,420 tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada. Recently relaunched with some fancy new tools for members (free to join!), we’re taking advantage of what they’ve set up by bringing you a fresh batch of music every week featuring local groups who have tracks (entire albums, even!) on the R3 site.

This week we’re proud to bring you Brooke Gallupe from Immaculate Machine as our guest ‘lister! Click below to listen to his playlist containing some of his favourite songs by Vancouver artists and be sure to check out Immaculate Machine this Friday when they play the Biltmore!

Sign up to become a member yourself and you can put together your own playlists, get notifications about what your favourite artists are up to and more.

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 Winston Wong, it’s entitled “Paralympics Opening Ceremony“. Did you watch the ceremony on TV? What was your favourite part? Mine was definitely the Terry Fox tearjerker montage and then Betty and Rolly coming out with torches… so awesome!!!

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A couple of Sundays ago, Blim held their first monthly market at the Heritage Hall on Main Street. Upsizing from the smaller Cambrian Hall location a couple of blocks away in which they’d been running it in the past, the new space is perfect and not only allows for more vendors but a more wide open environment on a busier street.

For our table this month we decided to put our new button maker to use. Our incredibly kind friends at Six Cent Press were nice enough to provide us with a 1.25″ button press so we made up some blank circle templates and had people draw their own buttons, then we cut them out and pressed them for em in exchange for whatever kind of donation they wanted to drop into the box.

And how does that saying go? “Necessity is the father of invention”? I don’t like waiting around and I’m definitely not very good at sitting still, so to burn off some of my energy between people who wanted to draw buttons I decided to make a collection of my own. Lucky for me I had brought along books, the best being one that had a ton of the best images published in the National Enquirer over the years… and the mugshot series was born!

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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 1 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.

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 Robyn Hanson, it’s entitled “Roberto Luongo with the Paralympic Torch
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