After a long 6 and a half years the newly erected complex at 1 Kingsway is opening its doors tomorrow Friday December 11, 2009. East of Main heard the news this afternoon from the VPL Twitter feed [Thank you!]. For the neighbourhood and I’m sure for the tenants it was a long awaited wait - as it [...]
Half of the block on the southwest corner of Main & Broadway went up in flames early this morning. Speculation is rife in the hood. What happened? How’d it start? EastOfMain sent our 10am photos of the aftermath to the Georgia Straight. As of 5pm, most of the ruins have been levelled with a bulldozer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So we thought of adding this section as we thought the best way of describing ‘East of Main’ is through everyday stories. Here are some ideas we have BUT please feel free to post yours as well:
You know where to get the special late nite ‘bubble tea’ near to Granville/Davie
You can projectile your bubble tea [...]
