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Vancouver Comedy and Arts Festival – final shows

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment on February 13, 2013

Margaret Cho brings her show Mother to the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts Feb 16 2013. Photo courtesy Vancouver Comedy and Arts Festival.

The Vancouver Comedy and Arts Festival kicked off last week. But if you missed Martin Short, Tig Notaro, Reggie Watts and other great shows, don’t worry. There’s still plenty of great comics coming up, including Bob Saget, Margaret Cho and Marc Maron.

Here’s a rundown of who you can still see.

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Vancouver Comedy and Arts Festival – final shows

Win tickets to Vancouver Dine Out Fest’s wildest party – Dinner at the Birdcage, Jan 31

by Remy Scalza in Events on January 21, 2013

Combine great food and cocktails, a New Orleans-style supper club and Vancouver’s most fabulous drag queens and what do you get?

Quite possibly one of the can’t-miss events of the 2013 Dine Out Vancouver Festival (For details on how you can win free tickets, read on).

On Jan. 31 the Vancouver FanClub hosts Dinner at the Birdcage, a culinary drag spectacular starring the city’s celebrity drag queens. Over a three-course dinner and cocktails, soak up the sights and sounds of 11 outrageous performance numbers on FanClub’s stage from the likes of drag legends Joan-E, Carlotta Gurl, Coco and others.

Haven’t been to FanClub yet? The brand new venue on Granville Street brings together live music on one of the city’s best stages with a southern-style barbecue menu and great drinks. French colonial doors, wood floors and a second-floor balcony looking down on the action all lend a New Orleans music hall feel. It’s a fantastic (and still relatively undiscovered) place to grab a drink and a bite to eat and see some great live blues and jazz shows.

FanClub is serving a deluxe barbecue menu for Dine Out, the citywide restaurant festival running Jan. 18-Feb. 3 that features hundreds of discount menus, plus dozens of creative culinary events. Continue reading:
Win tickets to Vancouver Dine Out Fest’s wildest party – Dinner at the Birdcage, Jan 31

Airline lets Vancouver Passengers Choose Seatmates on Facebook

by Remy Scalza in Town on June 6, 2012

Photo credit: Oscar von Bonsdorff | Flickr

If you fly often enough, chances are you’ve had the seatmate from Hell: the guy who won’t stop talking; the baby that won’t stop crying; the little old lady who insists on showing you each and every photo of her 11 Pomeranians.

But what if you could turn the tables? What if you could preview your potential seatmates in advance and choose one you actually like?

That’s the idea behind an unique initiative recently launched by KLM airlines called Meet & Seat. Passengers in certain test markets, including Vancouver, have the option of using Facebook and LinkedIn profiles to select the seatmate of their dreams.

Brilliant? Creepy? Crazy? Let us know what you think below.

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Airline lets Vancouver Passengers Choose Seatmates on Facebook

Paralympic sledge hockey tickets still available…but act fast!

by Julie Ovenell-Carter in Events on March 13, 2010

Goal 4 for Canada's sledge hockey team!

I just saw my first ever sledge hockey game–Canada vs. Italy–at UBC‘s Thunderbird Arena and I’ll make this short: get online right now and snatch up the last few remaining tickets for this great Paralympic sport!

There are only a few games still available and you won’t get to see Canada play, but this is the best fun you’ll have for $20 for a long time.

Oh, and the final score was 4-0. Go Canada!