Discollection's Closing Sale Starts Next Week
Almost two months now I wrote about a sale at Discollection, a vintage clothing store on Hastings in Vancouver. Now comes word via email that the store is closing its doors, and is having a final 'fill...
View ArticleReminder: Canucks Outsider Live and in Video Tonight
Tonight the Canucks play the hated Dallas Stars in Game 6, and I'm going to be part of the group at the Canucks Outsider featuring my ill-informed punditry. Watch it live at...
View ArticleGame 7 Prediction: Conflict-Avoidance Edition
I can say with 100% confidence that one of either the Dallas Stars or the Vancouver Canucks will move on to the second round of the 2007 NHL playoffs. It's a coin toss, as Dave put it on Saturday's...
View ArticleRound 2 Predictions? Consensus Says Ducks in 6, Sacha Says 5
After the Canucks won in the two most exciting periods I'd seen in a long time (the second and the third), I'm still left with a few questions:who's playing hurt? Remember when Naslund played hurt and...
View ArticleMy Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Selected for 2007's One Book, One Vancouver...
Almost missed this amidst Canuck Fever, but the Vancouver Public Library has announced that My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki has been selected for Vancouver's city-wide book club. Here's the description...
View ArticleVancouver Public Space Network Explains Use of Olympics Flag in Event Poster
While waiting for the bus at Broadway Station, I happened upon a poster advertising a debate and discussion about Project Civil City, an initiative by Mayor Sam Sullivan to clean up this Stinktown. No...
View ArticleWelcome to True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time
I only heard about it on the radio, waiting for the SeaBus to come in, but a part of me doesn't want to see The Goal. The part that doesn't to want to believe that any professional hockey goalie, much...
View ArticleRuth Ozeki and Sheila Baxter Both at the Library, But I Can't Make Either...
Because I had promised to play floorball tonight, I'm missing out on two interesting literary events, both happening at the Vancouver Public Library:Rose Ozeki reading from her book, My Year In Meats,...
View ArticleFred Herzog and Citizen History
You have a few days left to visit the Vancouver Art Gallery to see Fred Herzog's photographs from the 1950s of Vancouver and Vancouverites, which shows a short interview of the photographer and another...
View ArticleRichard's Week of Floorball: Introduction
As the 1st annual BC Floorball Federation Challenge, held at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver on Saturday May 26th, approaches, I wanted to write a little bit about my experiences playing the...
View ArticleRichard's Week of Floorball: Nordic Rivalry Edition
Thanks to the fine folks at BC Floorball for the link back to yesterday's introduction to the series. Referring to me, they say "as soon as he realised Sweden is a top nation in Floorball he knew he...
View ArticleRichard's Week of Floorball: Video
As promised, some video of floorball in action. Izzard's video gives you a sense of what it's like to play pickup floorball in a gym, except we don't play to a Chemical Brothers soundtrack. For tricks...
View ArticleRichard's Week of Floorball: Everything I Know I Learned From Basketball
Stewart already addressed the issue I had about floorball, that is that tricks have more value than fundamentals. This is true of all sports, really, but it's also true that teams that best exploit the...
View ArticleRichard's Week of Floorball: Recovery
The 1st annual BC Floorball Federation Challenge this past Saturday was a major success! I was placed on Team Sweden, and despite claims of coincidence, I suspect conspiracy—I started participating in...
View ArticleGiro di Burnaby To Be Held on July 19th
Just found from Tourism Burnaby that the 2nd annual Giro di Burnaby will be held on July 19th this year. I was at last year's event, and it was pretty amazing seeing the speedy racers whiz by. I took...
View ArticleBurnaby Heights Celebrates Hats Off Day Tomorrow
Tomorrow the Burnaby Heights neighbourhood closes down a long stretch of E. Hastings street to hold its annual Hats Off Day, a celebration of the many great restaurants and other assorted interesting...
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City Making in Paradise at Simon Fraser University's Harbour Centre with Mike...
[Cross posted from my personal weblog.]On Thursday night, Karen and I attended City Making in Paradise, a panel session at Simon Fraser University's Harbour Centre, which featured an introduction of...
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Vancity Bike Share Launch
[Cross-posted from my personal weblog.]This morning, Roland, Karen and I went to the launch of Vancity Bike Share, to wait in line and eat pancakes served by Libby Davies, Gregor Robertson, and Shane...
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A Welcome Change From Urban Drudgery
This morning, instead of working from home as I had promised, I ducked out to ride around my neighbourhood for a half hour before the deluge predicted by Claire Martin. A half an hour turned into an...
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West Coast Express Trip from Waterfront to Port Moody Stations
[Cross-posted from my personal blog]Last night, heading home, I decided but didn't commit to hopping on SkyTrain going in the wrong direction. That is, at Waterfront Station, many people go Westbound...
View ArticleNova Bus Almost Loses Wheel
As some people know, I've been interested in the new fleet of Nova Buses purchased by TransLink, which have an unusual single seat behind the driver and seats in the back that face backwards. I like...
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Metro Vancouver Bemoans Low Search Engine Ranking
I saw this first at Miss604, Roland took a photo of the article from The Vancouver Courier and a photo of the Google search, but apparently officials at what was, until this month, formally known as...
View ArticleMy Bike Commute is 10.8 KM One Way, 8.5 the Other Way
You know how people exaggerate the olden days by saying they had to walk to school uphill both ways? Well my biking commute is almost like that: on the way to work it's downhill most of the way save...
View ArticleBC Floorball Announces League, Drop-Ins with Drills, and Youth Program
Last night floorball started back up again at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver, this time with a twist on the original drop-ins I was participating in earlier in the year. Now they have full session...
View ArticleWe Are Traffic: My First Critical Mass
Last night I biked from work over to the lions side of the Vancouver Art Gallery and participated in my first Critical Mass. Billed as a decentralized large group bike ride with no pre-determined route...
View ArticleImproving at Floorball
Last night was the third night of floorball at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver, where as usual we had 20 minutes of drills and warmup and played what seemed like an unending game. I got one or two...
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Google Transit for Vancouver's TransLink Launches Officially Tomorrow
[Cross-posted from my personal blog]The other day, Paul Hillsdon tantalized us combination transit geeks and web geeks with a graphic showing Google Transit and TransLink together, implying that...
View ArticleNDP Releases TransLink Governance Review Panel Submissions Through Freedom of...
As the B.C. Legislature debates Bill 43 to turn the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority into the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority and altering its governance structure and...
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Collaboratively Mapping Vancouver's Public Spaces
[Cross-posted from my personal blog.]Last night I attended my first meeting of the Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN) Mapping & Wayfinding group. They are a group of mapping enthusiasts who want...
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Celebrating 4 Years of Urban Vancouver (With an Upgrade!)
Today we celebrate the 4th anniversary of Urban Vancouver's launch with an upgrade of the software that powers it to the latest and greatest, Drupal 5.7. With it we've improved the back-end a little...
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