Thursday, September 2 2010 | Vancouver smart city living magazine: events, lifestyle, restaurants, shopping, fashion, arts and more
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An Eat Pray Love Day in Vancouver

By Desiree Daniel | Image: Refuel | Published: September 01, 2010
Have an Eat Pray Love day like Liz and Julia in Vancouver
The buttermilk fried Polderside farm chicken at Refuel is one of the mouth-watering highlights in my Eat Pray Love experience.  

Taking a page out of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, one Vancouver mom takes a day off (the mom equivalent to a year) to seek her own Eat Pray Love experience in the city of glass

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Vancouver's struggling punk music scene gets cinematic boost from 'No Fun City'

By Jenn Laidlaw | Image: Flickr / Luis Markovic | Published: August 30, 2010
Documentary No Fun City sheds light on Vancouver's underground punk music scenes

No Fun City launches cross-country film tour at the Rickshaw on September 4, 2010

  No Fun City is becoming the talk of the town. The Vancouver-made documentary, which takes a look at the city’s struggling underground punk music scene, will embark on a cross-Canada and overseas tour this fall due to growing demand from the film festival circuit. A launch event on Saturday, September 4 at the Rickshaw Theatre will kick off the tour and help raise some needed coin to keep the film’s momentum up as it hits festivals in Vancouver, Montreal and London, England.
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DIM Cinema illuminates Canadian film

By Deanne Beattie, Sad Mag | Image: Brandon Gaukel | Published: August 27, 2010
Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk of DIM Cinema on Canadian film

Monthly experimental film event at Pacific Cinémathequè strives to keep Canadian film alive in Vancouver

  “You probably couldn’t name 10 Canadian filmmakers,” Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk challenges me. “That aren’t Atom Egoyan, I mean. Most people on the street, I don’t think, could name 10 Canadian filmmakers.”
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Yaletown's Bombay Brow Bar popped my cherry

By Elianna Lev | Image: Elianna Lev | Published: August 27, 2010
Blogger Elianna Lev delightfully loses her eyebrow virginity at Bombay Brow Bar

Eyebrows weren't my strong point until I checked out, or rather, experienced, Bombay Brow Bar

  There was a point last year where three women in my life separately told me I needed some work done. It had nothing to do with personal growth from within. No, it had to do with my eyebrows.
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Barbara Adler plays the BC Memory Game

By Rebecca Slaven, Sad Mag | Image: Tina Kulic | Published: August 26, 2010
Barbara Adler on her storytelling project, The BC Memory Game

Barbara Adler takes her storytelling project, and her accordion, on a memorable trip across the province

  Barbara Adler pauses in the middle of our photo shoot. “What would you think if you saw me wearing a wolf pelt?” she asks. I would think it captivating, beautiful and bursting with a story—just as Adler is herself.
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Outdoor concerts run through September

By Jenn Laidlaw | Image: Jenn Laidlaw | Published: August 26, 2010
outdoor concert, live music, Malkin Bowl

Catch live music alfresco all around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland through September

  Sure it’s the end of August and our minutes of daylight have been ticking away since June 21, but take one look at the outdoor concerts still to come across the Lower Mainland and you just might shriek with newfound glee. Apparently concert organizers in this city have agreed to make the most of an Indian summer and line up the outdoor shows right past the September equinox and into fall.
 

Vancouver outdoor music venues and upcoming shows

Music lovers know that some of the best concert venues in this city are shared with mosquitoes, bats, sound curfews and sometimes even Mother Nature’s giant tear drops, but these beautiful wide open spaces are also place to stretch out on a blanket, escape the city and dance to the rhythms and under the fiery glow of a late summer setting sun.

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Video: What to expect at Feast of Fields

By Jenn Laidlaw | Image: Flickr / Taz | Published: August 26, 2010
Feast of Fields Local Food

"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." —Adelle Davis

  Feast of Fields has all the elements for the perfect adult summer party—gourmet food, wine, beer and glorious open fields. It is an open-air, wandering buffet; a sensory orgasm. It is delicious.
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The public art of Richard Tetrault's Vancouver

By Jenn Perutka | Image: Photos by Jenn Perutka and Esther Rausenberg, edited by Jenn Perutka | Published: August 25, 2010
Vancouver artist Richard Tetrault and his favourite murals

Vancouver artist Richard Tetrault takes Granville on a tour of his city through the vivid public murals that decorate its walls, and speaks of the funding cuts that threaten the local arts community

  As a Vancouverite, you have most likely been in the presence of artist Richard Tetrault’s art. His vivid translations of the city and its culture through his murals are key pieces to the identity of Vancouver.
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Six Vancouver DJs prove video didn't kill the radio star

By Jess McMahon | Image: Christine McAvoy portraits. Lead by ukumillion.com | Published: August 16, 2010
Vancouver radio station DJs

Granville gets the dirt on six Vancouver DJs as they take us to their favourite locales around town

  Whoever said video killed the radio star? Well, it was a band called The Buggles. Who? Exactly. Radio is far from dead. In fact, radio is so much alive that it’s becoming increasingly popular, thanks to better-than-ever contest giveaways, social media interactions, broke-a$$ iPods (kidding!) and, most of all, the awesome DJs that make sure you’re listening to great tunes while sharing the latest news, gossip and laughs.
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Urban modern-day ‘Robin Hood’ takes over Queen Elizabeth Park

By Jennifer Laidlaw | Image: Jenn Laidlaw | Published: August 12, 2010
The Itsazoo production of Robin Hood at Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver

Itsazoo uses the natural landscape of Queen E Park to stage this modern-day telling of 'Robin Hood' with a local spin

  Itsazoo’s production of Robin Hood is anything but traditional. Using the natural landscape of Queen Elizabeth Park to set the stage for this fairytale with an urban modern twist, a troubadour guides spectators through gardens, down hills and up stairways while narrating in between acts via song.