Archive for: March, 2010

Celebrate spring with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

Celebrate spring with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

“It’s appreciating the beauty in life that makes life worth living”- Linda Poole, Festival Director.
Every year, we in Vancouver are fortunate enough to enjoy the pretty colors that come along with spring.  One of these very familiar colors is the soft pink of cherry blossoms that cover our trees during the season.  If you actually [...]

Record Review: Yukon Blonde s/t

Record Review: Yukon Blonde s/t

So much of the past decade’s best music seem to follow a trend of incorporating a largely folk or country influence into the alternative music scene. Bands like Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses are a couple of the more notable names that embrace the down-home vocal twang and organic, acoustic-based, organ-supported songwriting nature that [...]

The Frock Swap 4.0: Out with the ‘old’ & in with the ‘new’

The Frock Swap 4.0: Out with the ‘old’ & in with the ‘new’

” [it's like] borrowing clothes from your best friend’s closet, except in this case it’s more than 100 closets!”
If you’re logic is much like the average girl when it comes to clothes, than you must sit and stare at your closet for some few odd minutes and think one of two things – “I really [...]

Nico Vega

Nico Vega

Here’s a lil ditty on Nico Vega:
They are an American band from LA consisting of vocalist Aja Volkman , guitarist Rich Koehler and drummer Dan Epand. The get compared to the White Stripes because they don’t have a Bass player… but let’s not compare.

I love sharing.
This is my ultra fave song of [...]

Update your Spring Wardrobe with just $50!

Update your Spring Wardrobe with just $50!

 
If you like what your hearing in our fashion articles and you definitley like what you’re seeing, then you’ll want to get to this shopping op!
With designers like Adhesif and the store, Planet Claire which sells all the designers (Nicole Bridger, Flora and Fauna, and Hawks Ave) we featured in our Annual Fashion Show this is [...]

An Evening with The Cool Kids + Pac Div

An Evening with The Cool Kids + Pac Div

Words by Justin CF Lintag
Photography by Christopher Vallejo
10:15 PM Wednesday night @ Venue on Granville. Hip-hop enthusiasts start slowly filing in trying to be fashionably early for once, and for one reason only – to see the opening act for the evening. South Cali straphangers, Pacific Division, weren’t just the openers, they were [...]

concert announcement: MASSIVE ATTACK

concert announcement: MASSIVE ATTACK

Massive Attack is on tour in support of their newly released album Heligoland. Kicking off their in Toronto they will make a stop on May 29th in Stanley Park’s MALKIN BOWL, ending at Sasquatch Fest on the 30th.
Tickets for this event can be purchased on www.livenation.com

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Cultural Olympiad Review: K’Naan

Cultural Olympiad Review: K’Naan

written by: JAMIE CESSFORD
photos by: ALEX YELIZAROV

As I’m sure most of you know, the Olympics brought a wide variety of cultural events with them to help promote the games (as if they needed any). While there was plenty of less mainstream events to attend (like the gay, hiphopera re-envisioning of Romeo and Juliet that was [...]

Static Creates a Buzz

Static Creates a Buzz

written by KATRINA PERALTA
photos by ALEX YELIZAROV
When it comes to finding ourselves a career path, a lot of factors come into play to ensure we find exactly what we’re looking for. Certain people, events, fortunes and mishaps in our lives become a big part in whom and what we are destined to become.

Meet MC Static [...]

Jeff Martin Joinery

Jeff Martin Joinery

Written by AMANDA PANES
Photos by ALEX YELIZAROV
An email from a furniture designer sparked my curiosity and led me to Parker Street Studios in East Van. Just off Clark Drive, in an industrial neighborhood, Jeff Martin met me by a sunny yellow door, where I was greeted by his warm smile and firm handshake.
Jeff explained a [...]

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