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Here at East of Main, we get real excited about Vancouver’s film fest each year. Hours of circling and double-circling the program + a healthy dose of gut instinct (trust us, our VIFF hunches have been pretty much right on in the past) = [...]

Friday was another busy day for East of Main at the Olio Festival - 4 venues, 5 shows. Thoroughly enjoyable and whoever’s in charge of this fest was wise to put all this stuff close by together. By bike, it was a breeze to get around.
Apollo Ghosts - Friday @ Anza Club
Wasn’t really sure what [...]

Thanks to the folks who organized Olio Fest - a great way to showcase the amazing talent we have in this city. Vancouver is not the easiest city for live music and alternative venues. It can be real easy to bitch about as ‘no fun city’, but then something like Olio comes along to show [...]

Classics, cranks, comics, love, music, and so much more … I’m so impressed with your book choices, people! Here, my fellow geeks, is the full list of books you suggested for our Ovaltine Book Club. These are in random order and have little blurbs from the intertubes to help you choose, but please do your [...]

After you learned to dart past bouncers in those ubiquitous wristband lineups, this weekend’s Juno Fest turned out to be inexpensive, had tons of variety, and really strong performances from local and out-of-town bands. I wish I could say the same for the Juno awards in general, but they were a yawn moment - [...]