Roger Michell’s charming romantic comedy Le Week-end is now playing at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas in Vancouver.
Le Week-end is a beautifully observed, funny and poignant story about the nature of love and commitment, as a husband and wife yearn to recapture their youthful fearlessness, lack of responsibility and idealism. In the film, a long-married couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) return to Paris – where they honeymooned long ago – in an attempt to revitalize their marriage. Le Week-end is a funny, bittersweet and emotional ‘portrait of a marriage’ that truly captures both the laughter and the heartache of a lifelong partnership.
In celebration of this theatrical release, Le Week-end wants to give one lucky Miss604 reader One Night in Paris… in Vancouver!
The One Night in Paris (in Vancouver) prize package includes:
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Be sure to Like Le Week-end on Facebook and follow the film on Twitter as well. I will draw one winner at random from all entries on 12:00pm on Saturday, March 29, 2014 so that they have time to catch the film on the big screen.
The dinner at Le Crocodile prize is a $100 meal voucher (expires December 30, 2014). The Sutton Place Hotel voucher is valid until March 31 2015 with blackout dates of December 31, 2014 and February 14, 2015. Movie pass is valid during Le Week-end‘s run of engagement at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Mondays through Thursdays. Prize does not actually include a night in Paris, France – just a fun, French-themed night out in beautifully downtown Vancouver. Must be 19+. Please enjoy responsibly.
The biggest awards in the aviation industry were handed out in Barcelona today and for the 5th year in a row, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has been named the Best Airport in North America.
Excited to announce that we won 'Best Airport Hotel' in NA at the Skytrax World Airport Awards in Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/I9rVLQu9ts
— Fairmont Vancouver Airport (@FairmontYVR) March 26, 2014
According to the Skytrax World Airport Awards in 2013, YVR was the 8th best airport in the world and 1st in North America. It was also ranked 1st in terms of size, topping the table for airports that carry 10-20 million passengers annually.
When the airport won last year I listed some of my top reasons to love YVR, which include its size, free WIFI, artwork, layout, convenience, location, and more. As someone who travels a lot, locally and internationally, I wholeheartedly agree that YVR is the best airport to travel through, and to come home to after each journey.
Update The full results are now online. YVR is ranked #9 in the world for 2014 and once again #1 when ranked based on size.
The Cleveland Dam holds Capilano Lake in North Vancouver, which is used for drinking water and is a part of Capilano River Regional Park. Completed in 1954, it was named for Ernest Cleveland, first chief commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District.
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Looking Down at the Cleveland Dam
Local photographers love peeking over the edge of the dam to snap vertigo-inducing images, making the Cleveland Dam today’s Vancouver Icons photo feature. Also see my Capilano Lake Vancouver Icon feature for more photos of the park and surrounding area.
The Sonic Boom Festival is a multi-day celebration of music by BC composers. Each year a composer in residence is featured along with talented musical ensembles and dozens of new works by emerging and established BC composers.
What: Sonic Boom 2014 Festival of New Music by BC Composers When: March 26th to March 30th, 2014 Where: Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour and Pyatt Hall, 843 Seymour in Vancouver Tickets: Available online or at the door
Two acoustically beautiful venues on Seymour Street will find themselves surrounded by the sounds of BC’s vibrant, contemporary, classical (New Music) scene. Sonic Boom’s Composer in Residence is John Oliver, the Ensemble in Residence is Erato Ensemble, and the Featured Artist is Heidi Krutzen (harp). There will be events every day throughout the festival.
If you would like to attend, I have a pair of tickets to give away (you pick your performance). Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Since the festival starts tomorrow, I’ll run this for a quick 24 hours and draw one winner at random from all entries tomorrow – Wednesday, March 26, 2014 – at 4:00pm. Sonic Boom is presented by Vancouver Pro Musica, find them on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
Browsing the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s roster of upcoming bus and walking tours I found the mother of all tours – the history of local histories – the Musqueam Tour!
Metro Vancouver is situated within the unceded traditional territories of Coast Salish First Nations, specifically Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Squamish. The Musqueam people have lived on the South Coast for thousands of years and their traditional territory makes up much of the City of Vancouver today.
This spring, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation and the Musqueam Indian Band are developing a pilot project bus tour.
Led by Musqueam youth leaders with stories passed on from Elders, the tour will visit xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, the main village of the Musqueam people; ʔəy̓alməxʷ, a Musqueam village site at the time of the warrior Capilano, which is present day Jericho Beach; and c̓əsnaʔəm, an ancient village and burial site of the Musqueam people.
The bus will travel through Vancouver from the c̓əsnaʔəm site in South Vancouver, stop at several locations in Stanley Park, travel the water edge around Second Beach, English Bay, Kitsilano, and Spanish Banks, stop at the grounds of the Museum of Anthropology, and visit Musqueam including a tour of the Musqueam Cultural Centre Gallery.
What: Learn about historically important sites while also hearing about how thy are used now and how they fit in with modern Musqueam culture. As the bus travels between destinations you’ll learn from Musqueam guides about traditional practices, arts and crafts, songs, legends and even some personal stories. When: Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 9:00am to 1:00pm Tickets: Available online for $40 a piece. Each bus tour will visit 8-10 sites.
