Theatre Under the Stars at Makin Bowl, 1954. Postcard via @Rob on Flickr.

An Illustrated History of Malkin Bowl

14 Oct 2021

Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park is Vancouver’s premiere outdoor performance venue. Today it’s mainly used for Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) musical theatre productions and the Concerts in the Park series produced by Live Nation....

An Interview With Legendary Vancouver Artist Tom Carter

20 Jul 2021

Artist Tom Carter is famous for his scenes of Vancouver from the early and mid twentieth century. From the streetcars and neon of Granville Street, to sweeping vistas of the old downtown skyline, to street...

The Orpheum Theatre in 1929. Leonard Frank / Courtesy Vancouver Public Library

The Orpheum and Its Drag Queens

24 Jun 2021

[by Glenn Tkach, creator of the Really Gay History Tour] This is the Orpheum Theatre on Granville Street, just two years after it opened in 1927. It’s been dubbed “The New Orpheum” because it is...

Black History Month: The Remarkable Scurry Family

18 Mar 2021

[By Lani Russwurm] Hiram Scurry escaped slavery and fought in the US Civil War. In 1886, he moved to Vancouver with his wife Martha and six children to open a barbershop in Gastown. Find out...

Vancouver Bookstores: The Forbidden Five

31 Jan 2020

Vancouver bookstores, just like the old books crammed onto their shelves, contain some strange stories of their own. It’s so much fun to wind through the nooks and crannies of these eccentric shops, to find...

The Hollow Tree

24 Dec 2019

[by Glenn Tkach] The Hollow Tree in Stanley Park is one of Vancouver’s most well-known attractions. This photo should give you an idea of how large it is – it has a circumference of about...

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An Illustrated History of Malkin Bowl

An Interview With Legendary Vancouver Artist Tom Carter

The Orpheum and Its Drag Queens

Black History Month: The Remarkable Scurry Family

Vancouver Bookstores: The Forbidden Five

The Hollow Tree

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