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BC Place Is Shaking. The World Cup Has Come to Vancouver and the City Will Never Feel Quite the Same.
Forty-eight nations. One hundred and four matches. Six games at BC Place. And a city that has spent thirty years being told it is world-class finally finding out what that actually means when the whole world shows up to check.
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Vancouver's Summer Is One of the Best in the Country. Most People Don't Know It.
A city that practically invented outdoor living has somehow failed to market the thing it does better than almost anywhere else in North America. Here is what you are missing.
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A Guide to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival for People Who Think They Don't Like Folk Music
It is not what you think it is. It has not been what you think it is for thirty years. Three days at Jericho Beach in July — here is what you are actually in for.
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Vancouver's Comedy Scene Is Bigger Than You Think. Most of It Is Free.
This city produces working comedians at a per-capita rate that should embarrass every other city in the country. It has also kept the barrier to entry impressively low.
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What Hollywood North Actually Means for the People Who Live Here
Vancouver has been one of the world's largest film production centres for four decades. The industry is bigger right now than it has ever been. Most Vancouverites relate to it as something that occasionally closes their street.
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The Commodore Ballroom Turns 95 This Year. It Is Still the Best Music Venue in the City.
Most cities tear down their best things. Vancouver renovated its finest music room, kept the sprung floor, and has been filling it every week for nearly a century. This is not nothing.
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The Vancouver Art Scene You Are Not Paying Attention To
The galleries, the studios, the artists who chose to stay here because the light is right — Vancouver has a visual art culture that is genuinely strong and almost completely invisible to most of the people who live here.
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The Celebration of Light Is the Most Underrated Annual Event in Canadian Summer
Every July and August, three countries send their best pyrotechnic teams to compete over English Bay. A million people watch from the seawall. Somehow this is still not on everyone's calendar.
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Vancouver's Theatre Scene Has a Visibility Problem. The Work Doesn't.
The Arts Club, the Firehall, Bard on the Beach — Vancouver has a stronger theatrical infrastructure than most cities four times its size. Almost no one outside the theatre community knows it.