The West Coast Women’s Show, the ultimate entertainment, beauty, and health expo, returns to Tradex in Abbotsford next week. Show highlights this year include HGTV’s Colin & Justin in the celebrity speaker series, TLC’s Cake Boss: Next Great Baker Jay Qualls on the Kitchen Stage, and RoseMarie Pierce on the Health & Wellness stage.
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Friday, October 21
from 1:00pm to 10:00pm
Saturday, October 22, 2011
from 10:00am to 9:00pm.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
from 11:00am to 6:30pm
Tickets are currently available and there will be special events happening on Sunday for “Mother Daughter Day”. Children are welcome to attend and those 5 and under are free.
The West Coast Women’s Show will also have martini nights, calendar firefighters, fashion shows, and ‘Dream Date’ contest giveaways. I’m running my own contest as I have a 4-pack of tickets to hand out to one lucky reader (and 3 of their friends). Here’s how you can enter to win these 3-day passes:
Leave a comment here, perhaps listing your favourite Girls Night Out activity. (1 entry)
Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I entered to win 4 tickets to the @WCWomensShow from @Miss604 http://ow.ly/6WQNL
I will draw one winner at 12:00pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
The other day I joined a fan club – a real fan club. I didn’t just “Like” a group on Facebook, I entered my credit card information online, anxiously awaited the delivery then ripped open the small brown box that contained my Codes and Keys mug along with my membership card. I felt like Ralphie receiving his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring (without the crummy commercial letdown in the end). I’m now a DCFC Union member.
Hot on the heels of the release of this latest album, Codes and Keys, Death Cab for Cutie will be playing Rogers Arena Friday, October 21, 2011 with guests, The Hold Steady.
John first introduced me to the brilliance of Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard about a year after the release of Transatlanticism and I was hooked. I scooped up everything I could find from his solo projects, The Postal Service, and the rest of the Death Cab for Cutie discography.
It’s the music, it’s the lyrics, it’s his hauntingly sweet voice that sang “Such Great Heights” at the end of our wedding ceremony. Whether you have the same emotional attachment to the music as I do or you simply enjoy the moving melodies, you’ll want to check out this show — they are fantastic live. Tickets are currently on sale from Live Nation starting at $37.45 to $66.15.
I also have a pair of tickets to give away, here’s how you can enter to win:
Leave a comment on this post naming your favourite Death Cab for Cutie song (1 entry)
Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I entered to win @DCFC tickets from @LiveNationWest & @Miss604 http://ow.ly/6VksW
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 10:00am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
With another year comes another battle downtown over a historic property that is slated for demolition to make room for a high-rise. This time around it’s the Legg Residence on Harwood that’s on the chopping block. Listed as one of Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10 Endangered Sites for 2011, it’s one of only three West End estate homes that remain from the turn of the last century.
Circa 1914. Photo credit: Heritage Vancouver and Phillippa Wenstob – via Heritage Vancouver on Flickr
What is the threat to the Legg Residence?
The owner of the Legg Residence is seeking to negotiate a Heritage Revitalization Agreement with the City and is planning on restoring this important heritage home located in Vancouver’s West End. [source]
Why is the Legg Residence significant?
The Legg Residence is one of the few surviving grand estate homes built in the West End at the end of the 19th century. This house was under construction in July 1899, just 12 years after the arrival of the CPR railway. Gordon T. Legg, who arrived in Vancouver in 1889, was the manager of Union Steamships of BC, and was one of the founders of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. [source]
These manors (like Gabriola on Nicola and Davie, which was most recently the Macaroni Grill) are part of the reason that the West End, in particular West Georgia, was nicknamed “Blue Blood Alley“. They were status symbols that showed off the wealth of the western core of downtown Vancouver at the time which was home to railway executives, coal magnates, and the like. Allegiance to the crown was evident in the architecture and decoration of the homes during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Heritage Vancouver updated their listing of the property this month: “The City has received an application that seeks to demolish the Legg Residence, one of the city’s three remaining grand estate homes from the turn of the 19th century. Heritage Vancouver is now shocked by the alternate proposal to demolish the A-listed building while still allowing a 17-storey tower to be built on the site.” “The demolition of this West End Mansion is absolutely unnecessary and would undermine the credibility of the City of Vancouver’s Heritage Program.”
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According to News 1130, the City will hold an open house on Monday, October 24th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Gordon Neighbourhood House. You can attend to learn more about the proposal and voice your opinions on the matter.
There was a HootSuite deal today but it’s not the one you may have heard rumours about. The makers of the web’s most popular communications dashboard acquired another Vancouver-based company called Geotoko that specializes in geo-analytic software.
HootSuite is a browser-based Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ping, WordPress, MySpace, and FourSquare manager with millions of users on its free and premium version. It allows you to manage your social networks, schedule posts, share across various accounts, have team members contribute posts, is available in over a dozen languages, and even offers legitimate social media training through HootSuite University. It’s been around since 2008 and was originally called BrightKit.
The “Facebook to acquire HootSuites” rumours started when it was discovered that the social network’s Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was in town. TechVibes posted and article and others ran with their imagination from there. Instead of investigating why Zuckerberg was really in town, everyone chased a more sensational notion – including several radio stations and even the TechVibes story got posted to the Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Holmes, CEO of HootSuite, and @Invoker on Twitter, somewhat addressed the issue by saying they weren’t being acquired “anytime soon”. However, a few hours later he offered up a teaser on Twitter that an “acquisition announcement” was being made this morning. That got everyone jumping again.
The big news today is that HootSuite expanding their offering to their users. From the HootSuite Blog:
“The Geotoko technology reports on geo-based social media interactions like key influencers, customer sentiment, and demographic patterns to help businesses draw conclusions about audience behavior, as well as help brands reward customers for checking-in via Foursquare and Facebook Places.”
“This is HootSuite’s fifth acquisition – along with What the Trend, Twapper Keeper, TwitterBar (now HootBar) and Swift App (now HootSuite for Android) – and follows recent news of 3 million in debt bridge financing, LinkedIn Certified Developer program participation, and the advanced Facebook integrations.”
Developed in Vancouver, HootSuite is one of the country’s most prized start-ups having won a shelf-full of awards for its technology, communications management, and apps (available for iPhone and Android). It’s one hot company so really, who wouldn’t want to be a part of its rising success? The fact is, they’re continuing to grow and lead the social media communications marketplace from their offices over in Railtown, where all the best food trucks seem to park.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson with HootSuite swag & Owly the HootSuite Owl via HootSuite on Flickr
The big news headlines about Vancouver-based organizations who are innovative, ahead of the game, and changing how we interact with technology shouldn’t just come when they’re about to be bought. It should be something that locals recognize and realize. We have some amazing talent in this town (including the folks at Nitobi who were in fact acquired by Adobe) and Vancouver is indeed a hub for startups and social media innovation.
This past summer I attended my first Burnaby Heights Hats off Day and I quickly found out why so many call it their favourite event of the year. For over a dozen city blocks along the north side of Burnaby, community organizations, neighbours, and businesses get together and host one fantastic festival. The Burnaby Heights community is coming together once again for Halloween on the Heights this month.
Here are just a few of the events you can find from October 29th to 31st on Hastings between Boundary and Gamma in Burnaby:
Spooky Boogie
A hosted Halloween Dace at the Dance Addicts Studio (4622 Hastings) for ages 7 to 18. Stop in October 30th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm with dark clothing. Glowing touches will be added by the Dance Addicts crew. Participation is by donation to the BC Children’s Hospital.
Halloween Trains in the Dark
Ride the miniature railway in Confederation Park on October 29th and 30th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
Trick or Treating
Local merchants will be handing out candy to costumed little ones on October 31st then families can make their way to Gilmore Community School for a fireworks display around 8:00pm.
All event are billed as “spooky but not too spooky” and are appropriate for children and families.
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