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I have to confess, I am not an art aficionado. I appreciate great art, but I’ve never really obsessed on it. Recently, though, for the first time, my knees buckled on seeing a work of art.

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Kathryn Wilder.

First look at the traditional displays being readied for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Chinese Lantern Festival

After its second tour of Europe this year, Vancouver-based dream-pop band Youngblood made its way down the West Coast before capping the trip off with a star-studded sold-out performance at the Biltmore Cabaret on Saturday night.

And four other events that make Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­awesome this week

We’ve established that Whistler Film Festival is indeed Canada’s coolest film festival – and because we too are cool, here are some of our own cool picks for our nation’s coolest film fest (because we’re cool like that).

Whistler lineup boasts Oscar hopefuls and indie gems, including 'Prodigals' with star Sara Canning

There was always something very serene about Elijah. He was African-American with a partly-white beard, had served in Vietnam but never talked about it, and came to the services at Rainbow Mission on the Downtown East Side.

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? P.M.

Paul Bae really wants you to know that he lives and works in Vancouver.