You’re either in or you’re out. The annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2019 starts today, with hundreds of restaurants across Metro Vancouver – including 24 on the North Shore – offering exciting fixed-price menus (from $15 to $45) in an effort to encourage people to go have a night on the town during the traditionally slow month of January. The festival runs until Feb. 3. Read our preview story here and click here for a full list of North Shore restaurants taking part.
They’re back and they’re still gyrating. The Comic Strippers, a male stripper parody and improv comedy show, returns to the North Shore with a performance at Centennial Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. Don’t worry – there’s no extreme nudity, only extreme hilarity. Tickets: $44
The band itself may not be big, but the sound sure is. Bill Dobinson’s Virtual Orchestra is performing at Kay Meek Centre at 2 p.m. tomorrow. His Big Band, Ballad & Boogie concert will feature the big band sounds of Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, with the songs of Judy Garland and some Boogie and Latin music. Dobinson will be bringing full orchestra sound with a twist – he’ll be performing it all on an electric keyboard. Tickets: $25
Join journalist and author Travis Lupick as he discusses the history of harm reduction in B.C. at North Vancouver City Library tonight from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Last year Lupick published Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction and he’ll deliver a history of harm-reduction activism coupled with our response to the opioid crisis gripping the continent today. Drop in event, no registration required.
Boo for the bad guys, cheer for the good guys, and experience community theatre at its best in The (Not So) Little Mermaid, a traditional British pantomime combining music, comedy and family-friendly entertainment showing tonight (7:30 p.m.) and tomorrow (2 and 7:30 p.m.). The SMP Dramatic Society production is showing at St. Martin’s Hall. Tickets: $14-$21
