She promoted the bikini and blue jeans, 60s pop music and style. Diana Vreeland is fêted in a lively new documentary.

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a film about a young girl who discovers she was adopted and fantasizes that Dolly Parton is her mother. The film is based in the mid seventies. Director Tara Johns ...

Last year, Canada was ranked the word's best G20 country for women (India placed last) supposedly for its fair treatment of women. But the recent suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teen rape ...

BC Hydro may soon be partnering up with local municipalises or energy groups to produce biomass energy for local communities. The company announced today that they are looking for new biomass energy ...

Last week, I attended the "BCBusiness Innovators of the Year" event at the West Building of the Vancouver Convention Centre. I was curious: what does BCBusiness magazine consider "innovative"? Who ...

A few years ago, Johan Fast, a Manitoba-based trucker, heard through word of mouth to his mother that if he wanted to retain his citizenship, he would have to send in a long list of documents to the ...

After launching more than 30 online communities through the Social Signal Company with her partner, stand-up comic and cartoonist Rob Cottingham, Alexandra Samuel recently became the director of Emily ...

The proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (also known as the Kinder Morgan pipeline) is a controversial issue in British Columbia. This information page provides a brief background and ...

Ah, Valentine's Day, the fantasy-filled holiday that comes right after we've managed to get ourselves through another year of Christmas and New Year's Eve! Have you ever wondered whose bright idea it.

City Council made history by voting to support a shift to 100 per cent renewable energy sources, becoming the first city in Canada to take this step. In the motion, which passed unanimously, ...

Welcome to the Vancouver Observer! Wondering who we are? The Vancouver Observer is a community publishing platform for local bloggers, arts and culture critics, real estate watchers, the city's fun ...

Will Ferrell has made some good ones, like Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Get Hard is not an equal. Better to check out John Boorman’s new one, a Hungarian animal rebellion or a creepy teen ...