Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/24-hour-paralympic-torch-relay.html.The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay will arrive in Vancouver March 11th and make a 24-hour loop around downtown until the Opening Ceremony March 12th.
Location
Robson Square, with the relay looping around Howe, Georgia, Granville, Smithe, Bute and Robson
Time
2:00pm March 11th until 2:00pm March 12th, 2010
Events
Robson Square will host live entertainment as well as sponsor activities, sport demos and cultural craft displays. You will be able to skate for free on the ice rink and the free zipline will open up again March 12th at 10:00am....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/yes-vancouver-philanthropy-workshop.html.Y.E.S! Vancouver (Young Executives for Success) is hosting a workshop March 23rd featuring panelists that will discuss how philanthropy fits into their lives.
Stand Up! Leveraging Business Knowledge & Personal Passions
Panelists include Chris Breikss of 6S Marketing Inc., Heather White of 2020 Communications, Judy Brooks of Blo, and philanthropic leader Matt Hill of Run for One Planet. The moderator will be Katrina Carroll-Foster, Co-Founder of Y.E.S! Vancouver and owner of WiseWinston.
I’ve had the opportunity to speak at a Y.E.S! event before so I can say that this networking group is inspiring, motivated, and probably some of the friendliest...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/livecity-vancouver-back-for-paralympics.html.The Olympics are gone but the excitement of the Paralympics is about the take over the town as LiveCity returns. One of the most popular attractions during the Olympics, LiveCity’s downtown location will re-open March 12th featuring pavilions and performances you might have previously missed due to long lines.
Location
Georgia at Cambie Street
Hours
Friday, March 12 – Sunday, March 14 and Thursday, March 18 – Sunday March 21, 2010 from 1:00pm – 9:00pm.
Cost
Free! Family-friendly Paralympic Games celebration site.
Pavilions
2010 Canada Pavilion, CentrePlace Manitoba and the newly re-named Vancouver Paralympic House
Performers
The Trews,...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-history-tidbits-malkin.html.There are names you see around town yet rarely place them or their historical significance. From Abbott to Tatlow or Shaughnessy, Malkin is right up there.
W.H. Malkin was a a major food wholesaler (Malkin’s Wholesale Grocers was at 57 Water Street) who became the Mayor of Vancouver 1929-1932. He slipped into the Mayor’s office between two of L.D. Taylor’s seven terms as Mayor of Vancouver and remained an important business figure in the City.
He oversaw the construction of the iconic Marine Building and was also the first Mayor of an amalgamated Vancouver, when Point Grey and South Vancouver officially became part of the City. Malkin was...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/team-up-and-bring-home-the-cup-contest.html.Team Up and Bring Home the Cup is an initiative to give exposure to every hockey-loving region in Canada. Those involved with community hockey are being asked to submit an essay or video describing what hockey and team spirit means to their amateur team. Readers will then get the chance to vote on the submissions and the winner will get the chance to host a party with the Stanley Cup and Mark Messier in their hometown hockey community.
The contest began in 2009 with the HRS Huskies from St. Lazare, Québec being the first ones to experience the grand prize, which also includes a home theatre system, Pepsi products, Lay’s products, a 52 inch LCD TV,...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-paralympics-opening-ceremony.html.The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay is en route, making its way to Vancouver for March 12th. This morning I had the chance to speak with Patrick Roberge whose production company, Patrick Roberge Productions (PRP), has been tasked with presenting us the the Opening Ceremony.
Photo credit: Kanpeki Yume on Flickr
Having closely watched several recent Olympic opening ceremonies, I asked Patrick how the Paralympic ceremony compares. He said that the structure is similar, having the same protocol requirements such as the athletes parade, raising of the flag, and lighting of the cauldron. “Then we have the opportunity to make the show that...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/oscar-parties-in-vancouver-2010.html.With the Olympics behind us I’m unsure if Vancouverites are taking a much-needed rest or if they’re aching to get back out and party. For the latter, this weekend’s 87th annual Academy Awards just so happen to offer such a opportunity.
Photo credit: carsten_tb on Flickr
Lamplighter
The Lamplighter Public House is offering up a prix fixe $40 menu for Oscar night. Doors at 5:00pm for the event Sunday, March 7th.
OPUS Hotel
The OPUS will feature a red carpet event Sunday evening alongside a 3 course Oscar Dinner available in Elixir Bistro for $30 (with optional wine pairings for $20). You can sip & mingle for $25 from 5:00pm until 10:00pm....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/massive-attack-plays-vancouver.html.Massive Attack will play a concert at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park May 29th, 2010.
While the show is a ways off, this will be one hot ticket. If you aren’t familiar with Massive Attack, you may at least recognize the theme to House which is a sample from the duo’s song Teardrop [YouTube].
Massive Attack with Guest Martina Topley Bird
Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park, Vancouver
Saturday May 29th at 7:00pm
Tickets on sale on Friday March 12th at 10:00am through LiveNation
Luckily I have been given two tickets to give away to a lucky reader. As the Malkin Bowl is an amazing outdoor venue with a lot of history in Vancouver, to enter to win the tickets,...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/obscura-day-2010.html.The Atlas Obscura is an online directory resource for unique, intriguing, amusing, and peculiar attractions around the globe. Being a fan of historic and cultural oddities, I figured this would be a great thing to cover.
On March 20th they are hosting “Obscura Day” highlighting the best destinations from South America to the North Pole. It just so happens that the Vancouver Police Museum has been put on their map to represent our city.
“We were approached by Atlas Obscura a few weeks ago,” said Chris Mathieson, Executive Director of the Vancouver Police Museum. “They had received a fantastic review of the Police Museum by one of their international...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/before-and-after-aerials.html.Continuing my Then and Now photo series of Vancouver I went on the hunt for aerial images this morning. Funny thing is, after hosting the Olympics in your town “aerials” bring up images of athletes on skis and not views from a plane. It was a pleasant surprise however the following all feature pictures taken from planes around Vancouver and as usual, the “then” photos are courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives‘ online photo collection.
Stanley Park Entrance
Looking at South toward the city
1919
Photographer: Stuart Thomson, Item #CVA 1123-6
2009
Photo credit: ecstaticist on Flickr
Kitsilano
Looking North across False Creek from...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-torch-relay-video.html.Just when I thought I had wrapped up my Vancouver 2010 coverage, I discover an amazing video on YouTube by director Trevor Meier, featuring the Olympic Torch Relay. Comissioned by VANOC, they have an entire series of videos from the relay, the following is from Days 64 – 70.
The Torch Relay was one of my favourite, if not the best, highlights of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. I was lucky enough to ride along in my hometown of Surrey and that memory will be with me always. The Paralympic Torch Relay began today and the flame it will find its way to Vancouver again March......
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-cherry-blossom-festival-2010.html.With the cherry blossoms already making an appearance during our Winter Olympics, the city is gearing up for the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival taking place throughout the month of April.
Cherry Blossom Festival Events
2010 Haiku Invitational: Write & submit a haiku about cherry blossoms until May 31st.
Bike the Blossoms: Partnering with the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition these will be bike tours for cherry blossom viewing around town.
Birthday Blossoms: Celebrate Vancouver’s 135th birthday next year by purchasing & planting a tree this year so that it will be in bloom to celebrate in 2011.
Check out the Vancouver Cherry...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/first-weekend-club-last-train-home.html.The First Weekend Club is a non-profit organization and cross-Canada movie club that is dedicated to promoting and raising awareness for great Canadian films. I am pleased to announce that I have signed on as a partner with the First Weekend Club and will post monthly features about their screening series along with other special offers and events.
This month’s Canada Screens feature is the documentary, Last Train Home which will be shown tomorrow night at the District 319 theatre.
The film then opens March 5th in Vancouver (The Ridge), Richmond (SilverCity Richmond Hill), and The Varsity (Toronto). This screening is currently sold out but First...
The fourth book in my series for CBC Canada Reads is The Jade Peony, by Wayson Choy.
Let’s cut right to the chase: This was an okay book, but not a favourite by any means. Of the four books I’ve head, it’s sitting solidly in third place. Nikolski and Fall On Your Knees both had some resonance with me through their stories and memorable characters, while Generation X inspired an intense repulsion. The Jade Peony was just… meh.
The novel is told through the eyes of three children in the same family in the roughly 5 to 15 age range, living in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s. On the face of it this could have had very similar results to Nikolski and Fall On Your Knees, which featured multiple points of view and stories that connected in different...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/coming-up-the-art-of-being-together-by-l%e2%80%99arche.html.A few months ago I was asked to emcee an event put on by L’Arche, an international organization that supports those with developmental disabilities. I gladly accepted and The Art of Being Together will take place this Saturday in Burnaby.
The Art of Being Together
Saturday March 6, 2010 from 1:00-5:00pm
6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC
From the Finalists Gallery: “Meditations on Integration” by Rocio Graham
For the last 35 years, the people in the L’Arche Greater Vancouver community have experienced each other’s joy, pain and the challenges of walking together every day. We need to be together to build mutual...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-paralympics-guide.html.The Paralympics are coming to Vancouver, March 12th until the 21st, as our city hosts the world once again celebrating athletes who are the very best in their sport. In case you were wondering just what exactly the Paralympics entail, I thought I would put together this quick reference guide.
Paralympic History
“In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. Four years later, competitors from the Netherlands joined the games and an international movement was born. Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-paralympics-whistler-concerts.html.The Olympic flame will be lit again for the Paralympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler starting March 12, 2010 which means the party isn’t over yet. You will have time to check out some of the pavilions once again and many acts will be hitting stages during the Paralympic medal ceremonies.
Whistler Concerts
March 13, 2010 – Kathleen Edwards
March 14, 2010 – The Weakerthans
March 15, 2010 – Antoine Gratton
March 16, 2010 – The Trews
March 17, 2010 – Justin Hines
March 18, 2010 – Serena Ryder
Nightly – DJ Chili Thom
via The Straight
From March 19 to 21, Whistler event medals will also be...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/oscar-nominated-district-9-prize-pack.html.District 9, co-written by Vancouver Film School graduates Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, is up for Best Picture this weekend at the 87th annual Academy Awards.
It’s no secret that Vancouver Film School students are mighty talented and this Oscar nod is a pleasant (and warranted) surprise. To celebrate, VFS has given me a District 9 prize pack to give away to a reader this week.
The District 9 DVD, autographed
Mini poster autographed by Director/Co-Writer Neill Blomkamp and Co-Writer, Terri Tatchell
1 InFocus Newsletter – District 9 Special Issue, autographed
To enter to win this prize pack, please leave a comment naming your favourite movie...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/hearts-for-haiti-2010.html.Hearts for Haiti: An evening of Art and Jazz is an upcoming event that involves an art auction in support of the Canadian Red Cross‘ relief efforts in Haiti.
Over 50 pieces of art will be available for auction at the Pacific Palisade Hotels on Robson, including paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
Marla Guloien, a local jazz artist, will entertain throughout the night as well. The fundraiser takes place March 6th, 2010 with doors at 7:30pm. Tickets are $25 and they include a drink and appetizers.
Hearts for Haiti is on Twitter @heARTS_4_haiti and you can also find them on Facebook....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-the-final-tally.html.On the very last day of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games I cried twice. Once, when Sidney Crosby’s goal got past a stellar Ryan Miller, and once again when Neil Young was singing as the flame disappeared from the Olympic cauldron. It’s been seven years in the making and even though it’s gone, I did my best to document every waking moment.
I promised to cover the Games so here are some numbers…
Events attended: 3 (women’s hockey, pairs figure skating, alpine)
Posts: 118 (in total about Vancouver 2010)
Comments received: 2180
Posts about pavilions: 17
Flickr photos: 608
Athlete press conference photos: 21
Tweets: 841
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Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/vancouver-2010-day-17-closing-time.html.My Day 17 involved packing up and heading to the BC International Media Centre one last time. Lugging my laptop across town, going through the security screening, and taking photos at a press conference with Jasey-Jay Anderson followed by the gold medal men’s curling team.
Then of course, we watched the hockey game.
John and I headed home to watch the closing ceremony together, curled up on the couch, tears streaming down my face as throngs of red and white revelers cheered outside our window. Words cannot express how I have felt over the last 17 days, even though I’ve been writing my way through the Games. Thank you, Vancouver....
It started a couple weeks early for me with a gentle welcoming invocation
by an elder of the
Musqueam Nation. It’s
done, finally. What happens on the morning after? Maybe we can all wear less
red.
I’m a blogger and photographer and I really ought to have been doing an
Olympic Diary series, except for
I’ve been distracted. But
I can’t let these last weeks living at the center of it all pass
unremarked. This is way too long and stuffed with network-clogging photos.
My Take
You don’t have to ask me because Vancouver’s own excellent Frances Bula
totally nailed it in
Hey, it’s okay to be grumpy about the Olympics.
I wouldn’t have chosen to put them on, there’s a lot about it that’s
nauseating, but it was impossible not to enjoy and I’m pretty sure it will
have given...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/stephen-brunt-video-essay-for-ctv.html.Stephen Brunt, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, put together a remarkable video essay about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Since I cannot embed the video from the source, you can watch it on the CTVOlympics website.
I did manage to find another article by Brunt which is in the same vein. Here’s an excerpt:
“… the show got off to an unequivocally awful start. Hours before the cauldron was lit, a luger was killed during a practice run, raising questions about the safety of the state-of-the-art track built specifically for these Olympics. A technical glitch marred the climactic moment of the Opening Ceremony, and freakishly warm...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010-day-16-wrapping-up.html.It’s the very last day of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and I’m pretty sure I’m never going to forget this experience — or find something to top it in the near future.
Day 16 yesterday started off with a press conference with our men’s short track speed skating team. They collected gold the night before while Charles Hamelin and François-Louis Tremblay picked up individual medals as well.
This morning, it was announced that Hamelin would be our country’s flag-bearer in the closing ceremony. He’s the only person to win two gold for Canada and in a Winter Games where we dominated the gold count, it’s pretty...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/george-stroumboulopoulos-at-vancouver-2010.html.Since last year, whenever George Stroumboulopoulos has found himself in Vancouver he has also graciously found the time to do a little interview with me.
Strombo & his Miss604 button – Photo credit: John Biehler on Flickr
We met up on the corner of Howe and Smithe this afternoon and chatted about why he’s in town and the ultimate power of Olympic hockey.
Thanks to John Biehler for filming this for me, I wasn’t about to trust an iPod with the audio again.
One thing’s for sure, this town is crazy for the Olympics and given the crowd that gathered during our chat, they kinda really like Strombo as well....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010-fan-fashion-trends.html.It’s funny what you can get away with wearing when your city is hosting the Olympics. From body flags to body paint, here’s a glimpse of some of the fashion trends you may only get away with during Vancouver 2010.
Canadiana
Hand-marked letters, painted faces, stapled-on flags, and those popular white boots that look like Calgary ‘88 leftovers.
International Flavour
While we might see Team Canada jerseys in Vancouver year-round, the international jerseys have made the crowd that much more colourful.
Oddities
Hula hoops downtown in February, spandex in Whistler, faux-fur suits, and people getting crafty with their hair....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010-day-15-recap.html.Day 15 of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games was another big one for Canada. Our short track speed-skaters collected more medals, our womens curling team got silver, and the men’s hockey team beat Slovakia to move onto the gold medal game on Sunday.
As for my personal experience yesterday, it was just a regular day at the media centre. I walked through security, got wanded, told the guard I would “miss this”, he thought I was strange, and I carried on. It’s true though, the security screenings (I go through about 2-6 a day) are a part of my daily routine during the Olympics.
Photo credit: John Biehler on Flickr
Aside from the peculiar...
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010-canadian-womens-hockey-team.html.This afternoon’s press conference with the Canadian womens hockey team regarding their gold medal win last night was heavily focused on two topics: the way the women celebrated last night and the future of their sport in the Olympics.
The Future of Womens Hockey
IOC President Jacques Rogge commented on the unlevel playing field in womens hockey and that blowouts (I’m assuming like the 18-0 Canadian win over Slovakia) are not conducive to fair Olympic play.
At the press conference the ladies addressed this, noting that when men’s hockey started out it was Canada and the Soviets that dominated but that the rest of the world caught up....
Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/followformation-for-the-olympics.html.With many programs out there to help you sort and filter the abundance of Twitter “noise” out there, the Vancouver service FollowFormation has come up with a solution. Using the concept of Twitter lists, they have a simple user interface that allows you to pick one of their lists, select how many people you’d like to follow, click a button and be done.
As it stands, Followformation is the easiest way to follow the top Twitterers by subject matter or topic. [Mashable - July 2009]
If you’re just getting started on Twitter, FollowFormation’s recommended lists are a good place find people of particular industries or categories to...
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