Archive for the category "reviews"

The History Boys at The Arts Club

October 6th, 2008 @ 3:20pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
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After catching The History Boys last week at The Arts Club Granville Island Stage, I have to agree wholeheartedly with Jon from Beyond Robson who wrote, “the play is easily the most intellectually engaging thing I’ve seen on a Vancouver stage in years, and is almost flawlessly delivered by director Dean Paul Gibson and his [...]

Blog Review Roundup: Fitness World, Ceilis, Stella, Afterglow, and Kilian

September 30th, 2008 @ 6:43pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in marketing, reviews, vancouver
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As a blogger, and someone who writes about Vancouver, events, music and pretty much everything else under the sun, I often get approached to review products and services. On the other hand, sometimes I am the one requesting a review product in exchange for a write up on my site (ie. Fitness World). I wouldn’t [...]

The Arts Club, 45 Seasons Strong

September 18th, 2008 @ 8:07am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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The Arts Club has kicked off its 45th season with Doubt, which will be running at the Stanley Theatre in South Granville until October 12. The Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of Doubt – Photo by David Cooper. Last year I visited the Stanley (my favourite little theatre in Vancouver) to watch The Producers and [...]

Global Metal Movie Review Celebrating Canadian Film

June 20th, 2008 @ 9:30am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in canada, movies, reviews, vancouver

Photo credit: Raul on Flickr We turned the corner from East Cordova onto Main Street and gathered under the brightly lit red marquee. Once past security we entered the lobby of the District 319 Theatre and were greeted by two lovely ladies, one of which was Marina from Row Three. We were handed a door [...]

Sex and the City Movie Review

May 30th, 2008 @ 12:55am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in movies, reviews, vancouver

As I mentioned yesterday, I was able to screen the Sex and the City Movie a few days ago and as a result a bite-size version of my review below is appearing in today’s 24 Hours newspaper. Rush on out to pick up the free daily if you simply need more Miss604… in print! Now, [...]

Statistics Tracking Tools Reviewed

May 28th, 2008 @ 4:00am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, internet, reviews

Being the liveblogger for my friend Dave‘s “Fuck Stats, Make Art” session that I attended at Northern Voice, I know full well that none of my content revolves (or should revolve) around statistics. However, for many reasons stats tracking is important to me, here are a few: I do have ads on my site for [...]

Liveblogging Tools Reviewed

May 27th, 2008 @ 8:21am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in blogs, geeky, live blog, reviews, wordpress

It’s been almost a year since I wrote How to Live Blog, and in that time I’ve completed over 15 live blogs at a dozen events (brining my live blog total close to 30). Everyday tools are being devised to help make this process a little smoother, fancier, and attract more viewers however I still [...]

Blo in Yaletown

December 21st, 2007 @ 2:35pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in reviews, vancouver, yaletown

I realize right off the bat that the title may be misleading for those Google searching something else in Yaletown but “Blo” is actually the name of a “Wash. Blow. Go.” salon on Hamilton. Wash. Blow. Go. Under 30 dollars. Just over 30 minutes [BloMeDry.com] At first I scoffed of the idea of a hair [...]