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This blog still exists, in case you are wondering. Maybe you are a regular who is surprised to hear from me again after so long. Or you're here for the first time because I gave you a business card or you clicked my link on Facebook, or you Googled me for some reason.

Drones, squeals, gurgles, and pulses fill the air as Electro busker clips cables and twiddles knobs. Frequencies ascend and descend. People walk by with a variety of expressions on their faces. Some are smiling. Others scowl.

People can wear their East Van pride with one of these t-shirts created by Alex Usow. Its design was based on a series of t-shirts that started with an original "John & Paul & Ringo & George" design.

This week I talked with Bill Gotts, owner of Doctor Vigari Gallery, and we got onto the topic of how his gallery got its name. Who is Doctor Vigari? Doctor Vigari is not an actual person. Bill explained that his first studio was in an old store on Victoria Drive. One night, his friend...

A highlight of the day was when Elder Brenda Wesley demonstrated a Gitxsan dance performed when people share food together. Only a few people accepted her invitation to dance, but as they rose and moved to the drum – which became “the heartbeat of the Earth” – the sun made a brief, magnificent appearance....

Her studio is full of fun, colour, and cheer – just like her attitude. Ceramic artist Suzy Birstein offered the final class of Clay Days for Homelearners today, and as we left, my son said he was sad it was over. But luckily for him, Suzy is offering Summer in the City Art Camps...

Last night my son and I went to the IGNITE! Youth Festival at the Cultch – and I was truly surprised by how good it was. My son heard about the performance yesterday from one of his friends at Windsor House and begged me to take him. The theatre performance was at 6 and...