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VFS Summer Intensives: The Business of Screenwriting

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Disclosure: Review — I am not being paid to attend, or cover the VFS courses. I found this to be a unique opportunity and decided to sit in for a few hours each day upon invitation of VFS staff. Please review the Policy & Disclosure section for further information.

This week I have gone back to school, kind of. The world-renown Vancouver Film School has invited me into their Summer Intensives classes, which are brief crash-courses, each representing a slice of a full multi-month program and course load. The intensives run for eight hours, five days this week and should they desire, students can […]

Vancouver History: Chief August Jack Khatsahlano

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This Saturday is the Khatsahlano Music + Arts Festival along West 4th Avenue. The namesake of the festival, and the community of Kitsilano, is August Jack Khatsahlano. August Jack became known for working with Vancouver’s early settlers and for recording his peoples’ oral history. August Jack, hereditary Chief Khatsahlano, was the last of forty great […]

Blogger Profile: Jon Strocel

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Over the years I have profiled bloggers from the Northwest Territories to the Fraser Valley, anyone that interests me and that I hope will interest you as well. A few years ago I started asking a standard set of questions and I’ve sent these out to a few local bloggers for this week’s series. Click, […]

Harley Davidson Precious Metal for Rethink Breast Cancer

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Harley Davidson presents Precious Metal next week at the Salt Building in the Village on False Creek with proceeds going to Rethink Breast Cancer, an innovative charity bringing awareness about breast cancer to young people. Happening Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 6:00pm, the fundraiser will be hosted by Nira Aurora from The Beat 94.5 and […]

Vancouver Then and Now App

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A few years ago I began a “Before and After” series where I would compare photos from the Vancouver Archives with Google Map locations today. It featured old buildings that were still standing, stores that used to be hotels in Vancouver’s formative years, and glass towers in the place of old theatres. Vancouver is a […]