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Welcome to another issue of the Georgia Straight. This week, the Straight's online and print editions feature your guide to spring adventure, including cycling, snowshoeing, and a gondola planned for Squamish. Don't forget to check out Straight.com for daily news and views on everything Vancouver.
Spring into adventure
Our Spring Adventure issue looks at offroad unicycling, bicycling and showshoeing on the North Shore, and a planned gondola near the Stawamus Chief.
/ Lifestyle
Vancouver Cop Watch patrols Downtown Eastside
These people are volunteers with a new citizens' group called Vancouver Cop Watch.
/ News
Social Feed's communal meals make dinner a party in Vancouver
Since it started last May, Social Feed has held more than 40 events in Vancouver, each one with around 20 people, each one selling out.
/ Dining
Vancouver Opera's The Barber of Seville goes Hollywood
Figaro is a film hairstylist, his love Rosina a starlet, in Vancouver Opera's playful rejig of The Barber of Seville on a 1940s movie set.
/ Arts
The Magnetic Fields are electronic but still sardonic
The Magnetic Fields have embraced synthesizers again, but you won't hear them at the band's shows.
/ Music
Jonah Hill returns to school in 21 Jump Street
When it came to adapting the '80s TV show for the big screen, the 28-year-old Superbad actor got a shot at writing and producing.
/ Movies
Things to do
| Music | The Magnetic Fields | Vogue Theatre | March 18, 2012 |
| Sports | Vancouver Giants vs. Kelowna Rockets | Pacific Coliseum | March 16, 2012 |
| Movies | Hugo the Hippo | Pacific Cinémathèque | March 18, 2012 |
| Theatre | The Importance of Being Earnest | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | To April 15, 2012 |
| Et Cetera | Irish Ceili Dance | Victoria Drive Community Hall | March 17, 2012 |
Comment of the Week
Re: "Mounting debt sinks Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company"
B.C. has the lowest per capita provincial arts funding as well as the lowest per capita federal funding in the nation. No matter how much artists sacrifice and audiences value their work, too many politicians do not value their contributions. Perhaps, for example, some of the many millions of tax dollars paying for the Premier's Office could be redirected to solve this financial crisis. [read story]
> Submitted by Colin Miles, 2012-03-09 19:25
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