It's time for Vancouver's close-up

This year for the first time, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival will be on the big screen - its own 320-square-foot (30-square-metre) display, set up to magnify the talent onstage for those sitting far off on the grass. The new screen seems a good symbol of recent efforts to make the festival more visible to its community, which not so long ago wondered whether this annual jamboree might join the list of cultural projects that have failed to make themselves indispensable to Vancouver.

Young choreographers show their edge: It's all about fusion

DANCING ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCEAt various venues in Vancouver on Monday and TuesdayDonna Spencer, the producer of Vancouver's Dancing on the Edge Festival of Contemporary Dance, has the pulse of her city. A visitor to DOTE always gets an introduction to the newest generation of local choreographers. The current up-and-comers seem to prefer a high-energy, hybrid style, judging from the work of Amber Funk Barton and Shay Kuebler.

Opinion divided on twins joined at head

Medical opinion is divided over whether twin girls born joined at the head in Vancouver last year can be separated.The eight-month-old girls, Krista and Tatiana Hogan, live with their parents in Vernon, B.C., but returned to Vancouver on Tuesday for a CT scan at Children's Hospital.

Vancouver convention centre a money pit

B.C. Finance Minister says the price tag is expected to hit almost $900-million, almost $400-million more than it was originally estimated to cost

City makes final effort to avoid garbage strike

Vancouver's garbage collectors could be in a legal strike position as early as today.Vancouver's two main unions, CUPE Locals 15 and 1004, have been negotiating with the Labour Relations Bureau this week at the Labour Board to determine what essential services are.

Jurors will be home by Christmas, judge jokingly predicts

The prosecution of Robert Pickton in the killing of six drug-addicted prostitutes from Vancouver's skid row will be concluded during the week of Aug. 7, the trial judge told the jury yesterday.

When in Richmond, eat as the Chinese eat

This week, The Dish launches its long march to Richmond, one soup dumpling at a time.The city of Richmond, located on a series of islands 20 minutes south of Vancouver, is said to be a culinary oasis that serves up some of the finest Chinese food in North America. The dining scene is particularly noted for its diversity, with the influence of Shanghainese and Taiwanese cuisines rising as immigration from Hong Kong has waned.

Mugging suspect sought in attack on nurse

The RCMP are looking for a man who attacked a nurse in the parkade of Surrey Memorial Hospital.The assault happened on June 20, but police are just releasing information now on the crime, including a composite sketch of the suspect.

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Vancouver's 7 'Burbs: Port Moody

Van Horne, that American scoundrel, took the wind out of our glory and extended the line to Vancouver in 1887, the year after the first official transcontinental train made it to the original terminus, Port Moody. ...

Pickton jury hears about alternative theories

Jurors at the Robert Pickton have been given much to think about with the return of one of the Crown's key witnesses.

In the last throes, judiciously

David Michael Green pens another amazing post. Here is an excerpt:. Sheehan has, with this single bold stroke, completely reshuffled the deck for Pelosi, Congress, Bush, America, Iraq and the world. A coldly dispassionate look at the ...

Found White Dog - Vancouver BC

This American Eskimo Dog was found recently in Vancouver BC.

Vancouver Fireworks the Celebration of Light

Photo credit: uncleweed on Flickr. Love?em or hate?em, the HSBC Celebration of Light fireworks nights are back for another go this summer. It?s outdoors, it?s midsummer and it?s free, not sure how much better things can get except for ...

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VANCOUVER ? The budget for the Vancouver convention centre expansion project has ballooned to $883.2 million, $83 million higher than the figure the provincial government used as recently as February, Tourism, Sports and Arts Minister ...

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Hi from Vancouver, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. We're here, stumping for the U Sphere cause, talking to the college admissions community from throughout the world. Some notes:. UBC is gorgeous, and there's a ton ...

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it seems that the sign in the above image is from Vancouver Canada (it does look like the bottom row of letters says "District of North Vancouver")Omni Brain speculates (here) that it focuses the driver's mind much more than would a ...

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