4TheRcrd Mag.

After a decade-long battle, the owners of the Lee Building on the corner of Main and Broadway will be forced to fold their hand and remove the over-sized billboard that sits on the roof of the seven-storey landmark. Seen from kilometres away, the billboard is recognizable from almost any vantage in the northern part of […]

After a couple of false starts, former Vancouver Canuck power forward Todd Bertuzzi makes his return to GM Place as a member of the Anaheim Ducks.
Ever since a blockbuster trade sent Alex Auld Bryan Allen and Bert to Florida for Roberto Luongo, Lukas Krajicek and a draft pick (Sergei Shirokov), the Canucks’ former No. 44 […]

In celebration of International Jewish Book month the JCCGV is hosting their annual Jewish Book Festival. It begins this Saturday, November 24 and I have 10 tickets for Opening Night to give away!
The first 5 groups to reply and tell me how many years the festival has been running, in addition what event appears the […]

For all you experimental music fans, one of our city’s finest DIY art spaces is hosting the premiere of Andre Cormier’s Piling Sand - Piling Stone II - a new work for viola, cello and live electronics this Saturday night at Blim. The acclaimed duo Suna no onna will start soft and steady playing with […]

Here’s another battle y’all gotta go to. Dancers must perform a 1-2 minute choreographed routine or freestyle that best suite the music given. All forms of dance are welcome, just as long as you can perform to the music selected by our DJ. But note, it will be HIP HOP songs/beats. So […]

As we approach the next Sin City Fetish Night this coming Saturday Nov. 24th at Club 23 West Cordova, it is a good time to reminisce about prior events — and catching up on stale posts. Days before our recent Halloween, this intrepid reporter did the rounds at all of the fetish boutiques in Vancouver […]

So Ang Lee did it again. This man has an obsession with impossible relationships, really. Even in a cartoon plot, The Incredible Hulk, Lee purposely close to examine the impossible love between a mutating scientist with the “sooper-hawt” daughter (the beauteous Jennifer Connelly) of his nemesis. And of course who could forget the one that […]

Photo courtesy of the BCLC.
I don’t buy the school of thought that says poker isn’t a sport.
Of course the definition of sport means different things to different people but as long as there is some semblance of competition, in my opinion, it qualifes.
Further adding to my theory is the fact that the World Series […]

Here’s more dirty filth on our splendid Police Department and their, shall we say, gray and violent history. I’ve stumbled upon something very troubling yesterday. A few days ago, a retired Judge, a lovely man by many accounts, by the title of Honorable Commissioner William Davies, heard opening statements from 15 lawyers acting for the […]

It’s no lie, Finch’s makes the best sandwich in town.
Located at the corner of Pender and Homer, just under the Backpacker’s Inn, is Finch’s. Ostensibly a place for brunch and lunch, it takes a few mere seconds after entering to know that meticulous care has gone into the details, and it pays off in […]