“W” stands for Woodwards.
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“$1.49 day, Woodwards. $1.49 day, Tuesday!”
That ditty, played once a month on the radio, was a familiar refrain to anyone living in Vancouver up until the late ’70s. Woodwards Department store was a favorite place to shop. People flocked to the big red-brick building at the corner of Abbott and Hastings Street one Tuesday a month to take advantage of the great bargains offered on Woodward’s monthly $1.49 day sales. I used to go there myself even when I was a...
January 28th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Attractions, Family Friendly, History & Information, Shopping, top-feature
Farmers Insurance Golf Open
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Home town favorite, Phil Mickelson is the favorite and the one to beat at Torrey Pines. With the weather clearing up, the course is going to be beautiful through the weekend. Walk alongside some of the legends in golf in this scenic course on the Pacific Ocean. The golfers will be using both the North and South courses at Torrey Pines in gorgeous La Jolla.
According to the PGA golf pro experts the golfers to follow besides Mickelson this week are:
Robert Allenby
Lucas Glover
John Rollins
Ryan...
January 27th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Attractions, Outdoors & Recreation, Torrey Pines Golf Course
Hermitage Amsterdam Prepares for Next Exhibition
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The Hermitage Amsterdam will be closed from 1 February to 5 March 2010 to prepare for the Matisse to Malevich exhibition.
Hermitage Amsterdam is a branch of the famous Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Ever since it opened last year, the museum has been immensely popular.
The inaugural exhibitions At the Russian Court ends on 31 January. This exhibitions tells the life story of the Romanov Tsars through 1800 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg
The second exhibition...
January 25th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: Announcements, featuredarticle, museums
The Bombadier: Vancouver’s Olympic Streetcar
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It’s almost as much fun as riding the cable car in San Francisco. Or, closer to home, taking the West Coast Express Train out to Mission. Trouble is, the ride is over far too soon. But that’s the point of the new Olympic streetcar, which is meant to transport passengers quickly from Granville Island Olympic sites to the Olympic Village where you can connect immediately on to the Canada Line train that will whisk you to more Olympic venues.
I boarded at Granville Island. Even though...
January 24th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Attractions, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, transit
Extended Restaurant Week – January 24-29th
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Heavy rain fell upon San Diego last week. San Diego Restaurant Week was suppose to begin but many people decided it was safeer to stay home. So with extreme enthusiasm, San Diego Restaurant week will continue for another week. You will be able to enjoy the 3-course menu at most of the restaurants. A sample of the participating establishments are listed below. For a complete list, view the website at SanDiegoRestaurantWeek.com.
Blue Point – Coastal Cuisine located at 565 Fifth Ave.,...
January 24th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010
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Nine days of fashion excitement; exhibitions, shows, launches, shop windows, parties and much, much more! Amsterdam Fashion Week attracts top brands and promising newcomers from the clothing industry, a week that highlights young international designers. The shows on the catwalk are accompanied by a whole series of events Laundry Days in which museums, galleries, meeting and parties join hands.
WHAT: International Fashion Week
WHERE: Westergasfabriek
WHEN: 27 – 31 January 2010
HOW TO GET THERE:...
January 24th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: Announcements, Fashion Week, featuredarticle
Hot Winter with Refreshing Prices at Pestana Hotels until April
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If you like to staying in better Hotels, with all the comfort you can get, but just don’t have that extra money to spend, you will want to check this Portuguese Hotel chain winter promotion.
Pestana Hotels & Resorts has launch a winter promotion campaign for their Portuguese hotels – “Live a hot winter with refreshing prices”.I’m happy to say that Lisbon area has two hotels that have embraced the hot prices that go on until 31st of March (reservations have to be done by 28th of February...
January 23rd, 2010 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Hotels & Places to Stay
Where to Take Your Sweetheart For Valentine’s Day in Boston
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No matter how you really feel about Valentine’s Day, it is a big day. And since this year Valentine’s Day falls on the Sunday of President’s Day weekend, there are lots of options around Boston to celebrate the holiday memorably.
A night of dining and dancing, perhaps a stroll under the stars to enjoy a city-scape view of Boston from the water. A Valentine’s Cruise is undeniably romantic. Odyssey Cruises hosts three Boston cruises on Valentine’s weekend. Cruises depart...
January 22nd, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, featuredarticle, Restaurants & Bars
PUSH International Performing Arts Festival
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The PUSH International Performing Arts Festival began this week, running at various venues until February 6. The PUSH Festival involves local artists and international visitors in residence.
Internationally renown French choreographer Jerome Bel presents “The Show Must Go On” at The Dance Centre, The Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodwards. Jan 20 – 13 at 8 pm
The fantastical story of Edgar Allan Poe, “Nevermore” plays at the Arts Club, Granville...
January 22nd, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, Events, featuredarticle, music, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, Photos, The Arts
Arctic Treasures at Canada Northern House
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Canada Northern House, dedicated to the Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut has opened, and the exhibit is well worth the visit. As you enter, passing the real (stuffed) caribou, you’re greeted by a 1.82 metre Inukshuk and inside, past the shaggy muskox and the handsome white Arctic wolf you’ll see some of the excellent arts and crafts of the northern people. You can even enter a contest to win a diamond, a gold nugget or a hand-woven tapestry.
This free exhibit represents...
January 21st, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, exhibits, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, History & Information, People - Interesting Local People
Visiting the Olympic Hospitality Houses
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With the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games opening soon in Vancouver, many of the hospitality houses are getting ready to welcome visitors. I plan to visit as many as I can and will write about each one individually. Last weekend I went to Canada’s Northern House pavilion, representing the NW Territories, located at 602 W. Hastings St. Later I walked over to BC Place to see Bell’s Ice Cube fan zone, but it isn’t open yet. It will be a 280 square metre structure allowing...
January 19th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: 2010, 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Attractions, Events, Family Friendly, Food & Beverage, Outdoors & Recreation, sports
Let’s Dance! STREET LIGHTS at The Old Globe
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The Old Globe located in the heart of Balboa Park hosts Tony Award-winning shows has stood as San Diego’s flagship arts institution for over 70 years.
STREET LIGHTS, directed by Kristin Hanggi , music and lyrics by Joe Drymala and choreographed by RJ Durell, makes the musical attracted to the younger audience. Street Lights is Currently an Official Selection of the
New York Musical Theatre Festival.
STREET LIGHTS fuses hi-hop, R&B and pop to tell a story about a group of students who...
January 19th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, balboa park, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, theater San Diego
News and Happenings from Around the Region
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News
Do you have a favorite memory or story of Destin, Fla.? Or perhaps you’d like to share recipe. Well, Henderson Park Inn (map) and Beach Walk (map) wants to read it for possibly publication in their upcoming book. Submission are accepted on Henderson Park Inn’s Facebook fan page until January 26.
There’s a new museum in Mount Airy, N.C., that honors one of its beloved citizens. The Andy Griffith Museum has opened next door to the Andy Griffith Playhouse (map). The museum is home to numerous...
January 19th, 2010 | Apryl Chapman Thomas | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: accomodations, Announcements, Events, News, Travel in the South
Mom to LA Laker, Luke hosts Book Signing
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Susie Walton, Mom to Los Angeles Laker, Luke Walton hosts Book Signing
Susie Walton, a recipient of the San Diego Parent Educator of the
Year Award and mom to Luke Walton of the Los Angeles Lakers,
will be holding a book signing and lecture workshop at Martha’s
Bookstore on Balboa Island on January 24th. Walton will be signing
copies of her latest book, Key to Personal Freedom: How Myths
Affect Our Family Lives, which serves as a guideline for parents
who are looking to create more closeness...
January 18th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, book signing, event, featuredarticle, parenting
More than Sports: The 2010 Cultural Olympiad Begins
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The 2010 “Winter Olympics isn’t just about sport. For anyone interested in cultural events there will be plenty of options during the Cultural Olympiads 2010, including music, visual arts, film, theatre, dance performed by Canadian and International artists. Beginning January 22, they continue for sixty days throughout both the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games until March 21.
There are more than 600 ticketed and free performances taking place in sixty venues across Metro...
January 16th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, culture, Family Friendly, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance
One Month to Go and Where’s the Snow?
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It’s the countdown to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and because of the mild, wet weather on the BC Coast, already two venues have been closed. There’s hardly any snow left on Cypress and Grouse Mountains.
Although environment Canada meteorologist promises colder weather is coming, it’s balmy and damp and Olympic organizers are worried. VANOC has decided to shut Cypress Mountain Alpine run two weeks early as a precaution. The snowboard and free style ski slope venue is susceptible...
January 14th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Attractions, Outdoors & Recreation, snow, weather
A Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton at the Patricia Hotel
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Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton (1890 – 1941) is a musical icon. He started playing piano in New Orleans when he was a teenager and went on to become of the most acclaimed pianists and composers of ragtime and jazz. At the age of 28, from 1919 to 1921 Jelly Roll Morton made Vanouver his home and lived at the Patricia Hotel where he played piano in the Patricia Cafe (now Pat’s Pub). This was the beginning of a long lost golden age of entertainment that was centred on...
January 14th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Events, jazz, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance
The National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre: Coming Events
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It wasn’t until recently that I learned about the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre This is a multi-use facility which officially opened on September 22, 2000. The Centre houses the National Nikkei Heritage Centre and the Japanese Canadian National Museum.
The Centre promotes better understanding and appreciation by all Canadians of Japanee Canadian culture and heritage through public programs, exhibits, services and publications. In addition to the Centre’s own programs...
January 10th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Attractions, Family Friendly, History & Information, museums, The Arts
Martin Luther King Weekend 2010 Boston
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The African-American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King was a son of the South, but he also had a strong Boston connection. King lived in Boston for several years while working on his Ph.D in Theology which he recieved from Boston University in 1955. And it was during his Boston years that he met his future wife, Coretta Scott, a voice student at New England Conservatory. Boston University’s memorial to King , an abstract work, “Free at Last “ depicts 50 doves flying...
January 9th, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Events, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, The Arts
Stephen & Sasquatch: Will Colbert Accept Challenge?
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The “feud” began back in November 2009 when comedian Stephen Colbert referred to Canadians as “Ice Holes” and playfully accused us of cheating the US athletes who will compete here in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
“These syrup-suckers won’t let us practice on their Olympic venues,” he said. Soon after, he announced that his show was sponsoring the US Speedskating team.
The city of Richmond BC, site of the Olympic Speedskating Oval, met the challenge and...
January 9th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: Announcements, Attractions, featuredarticle, History & Information, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, News, Outdoors & Recreation
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