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Dundas, Ontario’s Caribou - Dan Snaith’s one-man recording visionary - brought his four-piece band to town on a cool Devil’s Night to an oddly decorated and packed Richard’s on Richards.
With the now classic dual-drum setup front and centre facing each other in a twisted new gladiator style and room in the back for […]

I only met Brian Burke once in my life and the former Canucks GM never gave me any brilliant one-liners, but during his second tour of duty in Vancouver he was known to drop a number of golden nuggets.
He offered to drive players who made, in his opinion, unreasonable demands to the airport.
When the Sedin […]

Photos courtesy of Teresa
Teresa really works her macro lens, because her close up shots are amazing. I love how her photos are incredibly random, and seem to be products of random spurs of imagination and ideas. I take great pleasure in seeking out the talented photographers that roam the streets of Vancouver, thus I hope […]

For the past 5 years Sean Devlin has been busy in Vancouver as both a comedian & filmmaker. This September he performed at the prestigious Bumbershoot Arts Festival. His first feature film, 2004’s “Zach & Avery” is screening at The Vancity Theatre on Saturday November 3rd @ 2pm. You really have to click on the […]

Mushrooms. Fungi. Fantastic foodstuff or forest fodder? Are some mushrooms really the “Food of the Gods”, responsible for the spark that began the evolutionary track from primate to human as ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna has suggested? Perhaps they are what some consider to be the World’s Largest Organism? A specimen found in Oregon actually measures […]

There’s definitely a boxing buzz growing in this city and I like it.
Three months ago the River Rock Casino in Richmond held the first Rumble at the Rock event to a sold out crowd–by all accounts a huge success.
Since then there have been other boxing cards including one recently at the Croatian Cultural Center featuring […]

This is for those who are simply sick of costumes or the over the top dress-up Halloween. Here’s a comprehensive list of alternatives. Cuz our readers are like that, and so are we. So, this is for all who refuse and want to be a little different. I know you’ve been inundated with party ideas. […]

As an alumnus of Simon Fraser University and an avid supporter of SFU athletics, I sort of conditioned myself to hate everything UBC.
In my opinion, SFU football was better (at least when I was a student) and so was every other sport.
We didn’t have Men’s baseball, but if we did, it would’ve been better too.
UBC […]

There’s plenty of things happening this weekend. BR is taking it upon themselves to give you some of our favorite ‘Pickins’. And this is only one of many blurbs you’ll find here in the next few days, so get ready! Oct.27th, you are the cast and Yote is the set. I present a full movie-inspired-decor, […]

This Saturday, October 27th when you are done battling zombies on Commercial Drive, head downtown and find a place of reprieve from all things ghastly in the night. You’ll dodge a few of the ‘undead’ down on Granville Street (or nurses in hot pants, guys in granny dresses, etc), but by poking into the rear […]