Heather Bissonnette is down in Gastown at 355 Water St., at the new location of the Mavi Jeans store. There were a lot of fashionistas down at the grand opening party, as well as just ordinary people searching for that pair of perfecting fitting pants. According to many there, Mavi jeans just simply fit and look […]
City Lights- Pangea Day
February 28, 2009 – 6:05 pm
This is something I had thought about for ages and didn’t realize had actually been done. How awesome. Pangea Day is a four hour program of short films, live music, and visionary speakers. The event is broadcasted live from six nations worldwide, in seven languages, to millions of viewers all over the globe who experience it […]
City Lights- Movers & Shapers Exhibit
February 27, 2009 – 9:22 pm
Ishra Sharif is at the Vancouver Museum to check out last year’s exhibit, Movers & Shapers 2008. Movers & Shapers was exhibited in both 2004 and 2007. 2008’s exhibit was the culmination of the two previous years; it profiled twice as many designers as in previuos years, twenty, and the designers’ spaces were larger, with more events surrouding […]
Novus Free Talk-Victoria Day
February 21, 2009 – 12:15 am
May long weekend is coming!! Let’s get excited. With a false Spring showing its face, I think I speak for all of us when I say we are eagerly anticipating the real thing. Victoria Day has always been the jumping off spot for the onslaught of warm weather and here we look at what Vancouverites […]
City Lights- H&M Store Opening
February 20, 2009 – 9:09 pm
H&M has long been a fashion staple. I remember the day when I set foot in Europe eight years ago to be blown away by the store and so utterly disappointed to have to return back to Vancouver a year later where such a thing did not exist. (Not even in North America yet). But […]
City Lights-REM, Modest Mouse, & the National
January 31, 2009 – 11:58 pm
Here we revisit one of the greatest gigs to have started off Summer ’08. Our Host Sarah Westwood talks to the crowds out at REM, Modest Mouse, and the National about their favourite band there and their opinion of the Vancouver music scene. For the very first time, REM, Modest Mouse, and the National are […]
Seeing Eye to Eye
January 29, 2009 – 5:04 am
Ryan Lowe and City Lights are out at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown for the show, Seeing Eye to Eye, a charity event where all the proceeds go towards Operation Eyesight, an organization that focuses on eye health in the developing world. Seeing Eye to Eye is an evening full of our favourite things: […]
Novus Free Talk-New Years Resolutions
January 29, 2009 – 4:05 am
New Years resolutions….if you haven’t made any by now, don’t bother, because it seems, from the footage here at least, that most of us aren’t even planning on trying. What is going on Vancouver? Not that I blame us for not trying to make ourselves better people, but the lack of imagination when asked if […]
BCSPCA- Toy Drive
December 20, 2008 – 11:19 pm
Shauna Baker and City Lights are out at the BCSPCA Toy Drive to find out just what’s going on in the name of pets. Rhonda Sherwood, SPCA, Chair of Vancouver Community Council, describes her involvement with the SPCA Toy Drive as coming from “something I was really ignorant to…the value of toys for animals, especially shelter animals. […]
Rogers Santa Claus Parade 2008
December 17, 2008 – 7:52 pm
Shauna Baker, City Lights, and 300,000 people are out in the cold on a December 7th afternoon to participate in the holiday extravaganza that is the Rogers Santa Claus Parade. 2008 is the fifth year of the Santa Claus Parade, and spectators are lined up thick along the parade route, starting at Boughton and Georgia […]
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