by Sean Orr | Now we are just getting cocky: We’re not surprised: Vancouver again named best city. Indeed, gay bashings, missing and murdered women, gang violence, traffic, antiquated liquor laws, lack of venues, the lowest minimum wage, the highest cost of living, bed bugs, a bankrupt transit authority, Olympic debt, racism, incompetent/corrupt police force, ineffective justice system, ghettoized poverty, a disproportionate electoral system, and the fact that people would rather watch TV than go to a play or a concert aside, I totally agree.

Inmate Beaten After Accusing Bacons of Hoarding Pumpkin Pie. Is this a reality show yet? It’s like Jersey Shore meets CSI Miami.

NPA councillor not amused by Vision Vancouver’s “Bike Lanes Make Me Hornby” T-shirts. What is this, Victorian England? “Oh my! Such vulgarisms!”. Seriously Anton, you should try out for the role of the mother in Sense and Sensibility. Just because you haven’t been horny in a decade doesn’t make this an issue.

Sarah Palin chats up Vancouver’s well-heeled. In what kind of perverse world do we live in that someone who only reads the back of Starbucks cups, couldn’t name a single newspaper and uses the words ‘gosh darn’ that she should address a group called The Bon Mot Club? Well played irony, you win again. Also, as if you needed another reason to boycott Earls…

Beyond Robson reviews the Cobalt. Which is no longer called the Cobalt. Wendy who?

Ache Records celebrates a decade. I believe this has moved to Red Gates on W. Hastings.

Catalog Gallery.