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SpongeBob Comes to the Vancouver Aquarium Everyone’s favorite sea sponge has found a new home at the Vancouver Aquarium. SpongeBob SquarePants is the star of the new 4D theater experience at the aquarium. Summer mornings through September, guests can catch the antics of SpongeBob and his marine companions in a short, interactive film shown inside [...]

Unleash your Inner Artist! While I am creative, in that I write and pretend that I am amazing singer…. I am most definitely *not* an artist. I can’t for the life of me draw, paint, sculpt or do any of what I consider the really cool arty stuff. If I could, I would most definitely [...]

Too Hot? 5 Ways to Cool Down Fast Feeling the heat? Love it or hate it (Are there really people who hate it?), Vancouver’s hot summer weather has finally arrived. So what to do when it gets too hot to handle? Hot in Vancouver: 5 Way to Cool Down Fast 1. Dive into the ocean. [...]

Summer Concerts: Enchanted Evenings at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden One thing I adore about summer in Vancouver is the way great entertainment gets taken outside, with the outdoor Theatre Under the Stars at Stanley Park, the open-backed tents of Bard on the Beach, and the Enchanted Evenings Concert Series at Chinatown’s exquisite Dr. [...]

Vancouver Summer Gardens: Queen Elizabeth Park I often think that, given all the hype Vancouver beaches get every summer (rightly so—our beaches are amazing), people forget about our other, equally gorgeous outdoor spaces: Vancouver’s gardens. I know I’m not alone in loving Vancouver’s gardens; they attract millions of visitors every year. And summer is the [...]

A Vancouver Moment: Waiting for the bus Everyone knows that Vancouver is the darling of the international pollsters, holding a top spot on both the Economist’s World’s Most Livable City index and Mercer’s annual Quality of Living survey.   But for those who live here, it’s not always roses and sunshine.  There are the taxes, sky-high [...]