CBC Musical Nooners are back for the 5th year, providing free lunchtime entertainment outside of the CBC Vancouver broadcast centre on Hamilton Street. Monday to Friday (until August 22nd) you can catch a great variety of some of the best local bands Vancouver has to offer between 12:00pm and 1:00pm.

Photo credit: Steve Chou on Flickr

CBC Musical Nooners Lineup

Hey Ocean! — Photo credit: John Bollwitt for Miss604

For more information on the Musical Nooners series and CBC in British Columbia the tag #musicalnooners and CBC Vancouver on Twitter.

Photo courtesy of the Vancouver Canadians

The Vancouver Canadians continue their annual tradition of inviting your four-legged friend to the ballpark with you on Tuesday, July 22nd as they host Vancouver Canadians Dog Day of Summer presented by Bosley’s by Pet Valu.

The Hillsboro Hops will take on the Vancouver Canadians at Nat Bailey Stadium (4601 Ontario St) at 7:05pm while fans enjoy some great baseball with all of their family members, furry or otherwise.

The first 200 people with a dog will get a $5 gift card from Bosley’s by Pet Valu. There will be plenty for the dogs to enjoy at this game as well, like watering stations, activities and two-foot Fungo hot dogs.

Tickets are just $12.50 for reserved grandstand, or $16 for box seats, and they can be purchased online in advance or at the Nat Bailey box office. All dogs must be on a leash, up to date on vaccinations, and owners should download this waiver or fill it out on-site tomorrow.

For a full list of giveaways and promotions visit the Vancouver Canadians online and follow along this season Twitter and Facebook.

Imagine picking up some of Harbite‘s new Jalapeño flavour chips, crunching into a handful of perfectly kettle-cooked morsels, licking your fingers, reaching again for the bag of BC’s only locally produced potato chip and seeing your awesome photograph front and centre on the packaging!

Harbite Potato Chips is asking its customers to contribute a ‘hot shot’ to be featured on the packaging of their new Jalapeño flavor chips. Along with bragging rights, the winner will receive $500, a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition camera and – of course – free chips.

Hardbite Potato Chips Photo Contest

In keeping with its current family of packages featuring iconic BC locations, photos should capture a favourite summer activity: anything from hiking to surfing, swimming to cliff jumping. Up to three original, high-resolution ‘hot shots’ should be uploaded to the company’s website by July 31, 2014.

A panel of judges will be looking for image quality, composition and how well the picture represents the Jalapeño flavour: exciting, daring and satisfying. 25 finalists will be selected to face off in a public vote and the entry with the most votes on August 31 wins. Which means all through August those finalists will be busy recruiting friends, family and possibly total strangers to vote for their photo.

All entries must be original photos taken in BC featuring a person engaged in a summer, outdoor activity. Photos must be in digital format: high resolution or minimum 2500 pixels wide. They must also be in JPEG format.

Proud to have roots right here in BC, Hardbite is produced in Maple Ridge by a dedicated group of employees who carefully craft every bag of chips by hand with no artificial anything. No GMOs, gluten, trans fats or cholesterol.

For more information visit the Hardbite website and follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Saturday at Pemberton Festival was the busiest to date on the festival grounds, with crowds well exceeding those that flocked to the stages on previous days. The back-to-back lineup of entertainment on all six stages, including Laugh Camp with some of North America’s most popular comedians, had concert-goers on their feet almost constantly as they shifted from one viewing area (or beer garden) to the next.

Photo credit: John Bollwitt for Miss604.com

The sets were long compared to most festival schedules, there was plenty of food options, many beer garden locations, you could bring your own (empty) bottle on site to fill at the free water stations, and there was even enough room for chairs, picnic blankets, and strollers for families that hung back from the stage on the grass. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩

We hopped off the shuttle at the impressive Pemberton Festival grounds yesterday and immediately stopped to take in the panoramic view. Mount Currie on one side, evergreen-covered slopes on the other, vast green fields, and stages in every corner pumping out crowd-pleasing beats.

Photo credit: John Bollwitt for Miss604.com

Pemberton Festival officially began on Wednesday but Friday was the first full day of concerts as thousands enjoyed everything from Blondie covering the Beastie Boys to Kendrick Lamar’s impressive (albeit late starting) set, and the sun popping out from behind the clouds when Soundgarden took to the Pemberton Stage.

Pemberton Festival Tips and Info

There are at least a half a dozen beer gardens (with cocktail bars) on site along with multiple washroom areas (collections of porta potties), hand washing stations with running water, and water bottle refill stations. You can bring in your own empty water bottle and fill it up for free throughout the day. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩