ECIAD's First Green Footsteps

" Today, Emily Carr becomes the first Canadian art college to sign the international Talloires Declaration . The declaration is a commitment by institutes of higher learning to a ten point action plan for becoming environmentally sound places of teaching and learning. ...

Drama on the Bus

" Setting: Eastbound #99 B-Line (Young man realizes the bus has past his desired point of exit) Young man: (to bus driver) Hey, I need to get off back there. Can you let me off? Bus driver: No, sorry. Young man: Why not? Bus driver: I can't. Young man:(under his breath)...

War on the Poor

" I was at an emotional memorial for Frank Paul yesterday, and I realised that although most Canadians point to drugs as a cause of poverty, the media rarely points to race. I was suprised to find this National Council on Welfare survey provide options relalting to First...

Bye-bye Biltmore

" Growing up in East Vancouver the neon lights of the Biltmore are just as much of my growing up as the smorgasbord place and those two Dragon restaurants (remember it had a massive neon dragon out front??). Or the Lunatic Fringe. I never went into those places but I always...

World Naked Bike Ride This Saturday

" We at Beyond Robson salute the bicycle. We at Beyond Robson like transportation that makes our city less noisy and less polluted. We at Beyond Robson believe that exercise is good, even for us. We at Beyond Robson don't believe that Wreck Beach and the janitor's closet...

Pink Mountaintops are the new Black Mountain

" Yesterday is the new today. Not content on climbing the peak of popularity and seeing the world with Coldplay, Steve McBean quickly descended to the other side and began recording a new Pink Mountaintops album so he could do it all over again. I saw them play last month...

A Syndicate of Gentlemen

"No, its not the latest hype band out of Brooklyn, its the title of an article in this week's Courier. Its part of a series on Vancouver street names, and this entry deals with the group of land speculators that account for most of the street names in Strathcona. But it goes...

Gastown's Own 'The Living Room'

" Welcome to The Living Room, an online sitcom filmed live in Gastown's own Video Monster. Starring Sean & Kevin, the show appears to be part scripted and part improv, and it's not that bad. It's better than most of the video podcasts / video casts / whatever it is that...

30 Days of Sustainability

" Despite being completely under wraps the last couple of weeks, little snippets of 30 days of Sustainability are slowly filtering through. (18 days of sustainability still left!). Not a festival and not really a conference, 30 days is - I am going to quote from their site...

Respectfully

I've seen this guy in the city too and had the same reaction. Brilliant messaging: "Riding my bike I saw this massive query. It says, "Respectfully, if you do not recognize that Canada is participating in murder and blocking natural development can you be conscious?" ...

Mutiny at the Cafe

"Like the four shining heroes raising Old Glory at Iwo Jima, like Martin Luther nailing his ten declarations to the chapel door, like , John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their hands at the Olympics in defiance; every act of resistance is a battle won, no matter how big or...

Local Photobloggers and Photo blogs

" Rhonda Fast at Static Photography posted a great list of local photobloggers and photo blogs a couple of weeks ago that I have been meaning to link to. Vancouver has such a weatlth of talented artists and photographers so I'm stoked that she has posted this. Image...