The church at Nelson and Burrard is one of only two places in the world offering weekly Jazz Vespers. You’d have to go to Manhattan to find another church with an equally serious commitment to this music.
This Sunday (November 15) Dal Richards’ powerhouse orchestra, a legend on the Vancouver scene, will fill the sanctuary with swinging [...]
Damon Rao, a Melbourne boy, passes on a view of Vancouver from a fellow Aussie who came here to see if we lived up to our reputation.
The verdict?
Yes, Vancouver seems like a good place to live. But would I emigrate? Not in the foreseeable future. Yes, it might have more consistent weather than our southern [...]
Yesterday afternoon, an extraordinary memorial service for Abraham Rogatnick at the Law Courts.
Architect, teacher, curator, soldier, actor, citizen of the world. (You can read a profile of him here in Vancouver magazine.
It was one of the times when those with only one degree of separation came together as part of the family of Vancouver.
Attending lots of conferences this week, so hard to feed the blog. Instead, here’s an email from urban-designer Lewis Villegas. He attended the presentation by NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn, and came back with a few observations and questions:
Renaissance theorist, urbanist, architect and painter Alberti wrote something to the effect that, “the more I think [...]
The United States. (And sometimes, listening to their debates on health care and funding, it seems more foreign than ever.) Actually, in this case, it’s a trip to Seattle.
How to win? Become a subscriber to the Sightline Daily. As a board member of Sightline, I can heartily recommend it. But if you want a more objective [...]
This is irresistible.
Wayne Hartrick of Reputations Corp. has just launched a blog that focuses on the worst PR Blunders by politicians, businesses and celebrities. It’s a resource for anyone interested in reputation management or what President Obama calls ‘teachable moments’.
http://prblunders.com
Celebrate the Vancouver Biennale – Art in Public Spaces with a day of cycling the city – along the beaches, streets and park areas on a specially designed cycling route.
The Vancouver Biennale in partnership with the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition’s MEC Great Rides program announces the launch of the new BIKENNALE Great Ride, Sunday, October [...]
From the 1886 Voter’s List to Lisa Smedman’s Stories of a City, Chuck Davis’s History of Metropolitan Vancouver site provides a year-by-year catalogue of books about this city.
Chuck credits Karen Cannon of the Friends of the Vancouver Public Library for her terrific (and ongoing) work on this project. So far, they’ve made it from 1886 [...]
This weekend’s Blogathon is attracting some good people for good causes. Here are two:
Karen Quinn Fung:
Starting 6am on July 25th, I’m going to be participating in a distributed Internet fundraiser called Blogathon, where I will be writing and publishing one blog post to my personal blog for 24 hours, in order to raise money for [...]
From Fast Company:
Lightshows don’t get much better than “Tetragram for Enlargement,” an architectural installation created by Apparati Effimeri last month for Italy’s Itinerario Festival, a weeklong arts extravaganza.
The designers first mapped the facade of a castle, and then used that map to create light projections. From there, things get wild and wobbly, as the projection [...]
