Responding to complaints about the obscured view of the Olympic cauldron, officials have improved access to the dominant symbol of the Vancouver Games.
There's no television remote control in sight at Whistler Children's Art Festival. Kids of all ages get out into Creekside's country air for theatre, dance, acrobatics and plenty of fun. Live music is performed to the backdrop of Whistler mountain.
Five Canadian cities will host free, one-day “festival-style events” in February, in celebration of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, with performances by musical acts including Sam Roberts Band, David Usher, Barenaked Ladies, and Simple Plan.
Never before have Olympic host locals had so much art, music and culture to choose from. The 2010 Cultural Olympiad, launched last year, will reach right through until the end of the Paralympics.
Welcome to Vancouver — free yoga for everyone! Yogawear retailer Lululemon and yoga class operator YYoga announced Tuesday they will offer more than 1,200 free yoga classes to visitors and residents during the 2010 Olympics.
Olympic athletes should be careful in Vancouver. For years, the rest of Canada referred to the city as Lotus Land, a nickname born of both envy and mockery. It alluded to Odysseus’s encounter with the Lotus Eaters, named for their somewhat lazy and dreamy state from the plant they ate.