Doolin’s Irish Pub is presenting its 4th annual “East Coast Good Times” lobster dinner on Wednesday May 19th. John and I attended last year and it was a bib-tying, finger-licking, codfish-kissing good time.
For this year’s event they have offered up ten seats to Miss604 readers so I’ll be drawing 5 winners who can each bring a guest for dinner. The menu will include a whole lobster served with vegetables on the side and plenty of Alexander Keith’s ale. There will also be the traditional Newfoundland Screech-In if you care to partake.
If you would like to attend the East Coast Good Times lobster dinner here’s how to enter:
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What: East Coast Good Times lobster dinner
Where: Doolins Irish Pub, 654 Nelson Street
When: Wednesday May 19th, 2010 at 6:00pm
More info: @doolins on Twitter
Update The winning lobster-fest diners are taraden, Jenn W, Jessica, Pete, and Steve Keenan. Have a great dinner!
Fine print: Total value of each dinner (for two) is about $100. I will draw 5 entries at random on Sunday May 16th.
Tickets for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards are now on sale for their gala event June 1st.
Proceeds support the YWCA’s programs throughout the Lower Mainland and are eligible for a tax receipt. Admission includes dinner as well as the awards ceremony at the Westin Bayshore.
You can also enter to win tickets to the event as well as a two-night stay in the YWCA Hotel by entering the contest online (via the purple box on the website).
The nominees were announced a few weeks ago however public voting for the “Connecting the Community” award is still open. Visit the online poll to cast your vote for any of the nominees, across all categories.
As the social media sponsor for the event I’ll be there June 1st posting real-time updates and photos of the ceremony.
Related posts: Nominations Open, Connecting the Community & Nominees Announced
Craigdarroch Castle, legacy of the Dunsmuir family, has been perched overlooking Victoria since the turn of the 20th century. Nowadays its red spires are barely visible over the stretching Garry Oaks but it’s definitely a main attraction on many tours and personal trips to the capital city.
History
The Dunsmuirs are pillars of BC’s industrial history and I’ve profiled them once before, in this post from 2009. Aside from amassing real estate up and down the West Coast of North America, patriarch Robert Dunsmuir was a coal magnate and along with his wife Joan, had two sons and eight daughters. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
The Vancouver Transit Adspace Re-appropriation Project or V-TARP is an art-in-transit installation that “intends to reclaim the highly sought after mindspace used by corporations to communicate with the public, by collecting artworks from across the globe and installing them in the transit adspace.”
You’ll notice overhead pieces on buses and SkyTrains already by two Vancouver artists, Jerm IX and Vegas however not one has been officially sanctioned. The duo place their work in vacant transit ad spaces, often providing thought-provoking or clever messaging.
In some cases they encounter resistance such as in one experience that Jerm IX posted about on the V-TARP blog. A disgruntled SkyTrain rider was opposed to him installing the “I’m not lovin’ it” piece next to an actual McDonald’s ad on the SkyTrain. “As an after thought, this was a positive experience,” wrote Jerm IX. “After all the point of V-TARP is to create or continue the dialogue around the use of public space. That angry man was passionate and aggressive, which made everyone on the train take notice of both of our actions. Almost everyone else was smiling and clearly had no problem with my sign install.”
Vegas told me in an email, “Placing art on the SkyTrain is an idea I’ve been playing with for a couple of years (London has poetry on the tube), making the move back over here in January gave me time and opportunity, & in Jerm IX I have the perfect partner.” In another blog post there is a quote from Jordan Seiler, “While the actions of one person might be seen as that of a vigilante, the actions of many become a protest. Because of this I think large scale projects like V-TARP encourage a conversation around the issue of commercial/public use of our shared environment.”
Photo credit:
V-TARP on Flickr
Vegas said that they have received wide-spread support for the art pieces, some of which have remained in place for weeks. If you would like to submit your work to V-TARP you can find out how on their blog.
Should you have any photos of the pieces, please feel free to add them to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.
The Olympic and Paralympic Village in Vancouver will open to the public for a community showcase Saturday, May 15th.
The real estate development known as Millennium Water is hosting the Grand Opening celebration. They’ll have live music, activities, snacks, and more. The Olympic and Paralympics medals will also be on display and more than 35 Olympians (including Ashleigh McIvor) will be on hand for meet and greet opportunities.
Grand Opening events:
10:00am – 5:00pm. Enter off West 1st Avenue & Manitoba Street or Millennium Water at the Seawall.
Autograph sessions with Olympians:
11:30am – 12:30pm, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, 3:30pm – 4:40pm at the Salt Building.
Self-guided tours:
Pick up an “Avenues of the World” passport at the presentation centre to run a self-guided tour of the community. You can also enter to win a $20,000 grand prize or one of ten Electra commuter bicycles.
This is the first chance the public will have to check out the community since it hosted Olympic and Paralympic athletes earlier this year.
Update Last Saturday, May 15th, an estimated 15,000 people gathered for the Grand Opening of the Olympic Village at Millennium Water on Southeast False Creek. Home to our Olympic athletes during Vancouver 2010, Avenues of the World, a collection of new residences were finally back on the market. Approximately 200 suites were released and 38 units were sold by Sunday evening. [source: Press Release].
