#SeenOnTheDrive: The Cut

I took this pic and suddenly there were three other people doing the same.

Photo of the Day: Peter Valentine

Commercial Drive looking North from onboard Skytrain.

Picture of the Day: Red Sky @ Night

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Literary: Joe Rosenblatt & Catherine Owen

Just making sure the People know about the Vancouver Book launch of "Dog" . Poets Joe Rosenblatt and Catherine Owen will be reading from their amazing new book.
When: August 3rd 2:30-5pm
Where: Timbre 2068 Commercial Dr.
Also featuring the photographs and songs of Karen Moe....
Hope you can drop by...
Catherine Owen is a Vancouver poet. Her poems have been published in journals across Canada and her books include - Somatic-The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions, 1998, nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award), Black Milk, Starvation Landscape, and The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak & Wynn, 2001, nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award). She also has a CD out - Cusp - and is working on the play Circe and Cougars with La Leona Productions. She is currently completing a book of sequences, FYRE, a West Coast collection, Seeing Lessons and Frenzy, featuring poems on the fusion of metal music and the troubadour culture.
Joe Rosenblatt was born in Toronto in l933. He started writing seriously in the early sixties, and in l966 his first book, The L.S.D. Leacock, was published by Coach House Press. Since then he has published more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His selected poems (1962-1975), Top Soil, won the Governor-General's Award for poetry. Another volume of selected poems, (l963-l985), Poetry Hotel, won The B.C. Book Prize, l986 for poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals in North America.

Denizen of the Day: Pietro Aiello

Pietro has lived near Commercial Drive for 56 years. He has had dozens of children and grandchildren born and raised just a few blocks away from the Continental Coffee shop where we met him.

Car Free Day Pics

Had a great time on Commercial Drive this weekend for Commercial Drive, Car Free Days. Realtor and Commercial Drive - Live! sponsor Charlie Kiers, my good friend Carol Anne McMillan and I handed out free cherries (the first of the season), free cookies and free CD's.


Here are a few memories from the day.

If anyone has pics from the day, they'd like to share, please feel free to pass them on.

Commercial Drive Postcards Are On The Way!

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I've been busy trying to put together these postcards among all the other things I've got on my plate. This is a montage of all the pictures my friend Peter Valentine and I have taken since starting the blog. Hopefully you will see some familiar faces. By the way, the smily woman on the left in the photo at the bottom left hand corner is Laura Fisher, who heads up the www.liveonthedrive.ca site - the "other" definitive Commercial Drive site. She and i went in on the postcards together, along with realtor Charlie Kiers to produce the cards. Watch for them on the street soon!
Tell me what you think of them.

Live On The Drive

I took advantage of a Sunday afternoon without rain to snap some pictures. It was a great day on the Drive for sure.




As i walked, I ran into a group of BCIT students practicing some street interviews.
I stopped and let them ask questions.


After that, I gave Brooke, my interviewer (seen here), a Commercial Drive T-shirt, compliments of the Commercial Drive BIA.

Picture of the Day by Steven R. Duncan

A sunny moment on a brooding day.

Taken across the street from JJ Bean Coffee (2206 Commercial Drive).

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Picture of the Day by Steven R. Duncan

Picture of the Day by Steven R. Duncan

Mintage Clothing
1714 Commercial Drive

Denizen of the Day

Name: Carly
Occupation: Hostess at the Libra Room
The "always friendly" face at the door, enjoying herself on a rare night off.

Picture of the Day by Steven R. Duncan

Marcello's Restaurant

Picture of the Day

944 Commercial Drive

Denizen of the Day

Name: Queen
Occupation: On a mission from God
Queen believes that God has told her to take up the cause of children who are used and abused. If something isn't done to rescue and protect them a major earthquake will take the lives of many, many people.
This was taken today at about 1pm on the Northbound Victoria bus.
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Live on the Drive: Libra Room Grand Opening Party

A great time was had by all last night as the Libra Room had its grand Renovation & Expansion party. The night was also a celebration of the restaurant's new menu, and website! www.thelibraroom.com.

Musician and teacher Judy Lea!



Libra Room owner Rico Bondi giving thanks where thanks is due.






As Monica Lee sings: "Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be MC's"


John Korsrud and the gang.


The ever-smooth Goby Catt, front man for the Catt Pack.


The remarkably talented Bruno Herbert. Taking a break to enjoy the night.



Dan Lunn, from Swarm and CR Avery & the Boomchasers with Jesse Waldman of the Monica Lee Band


Just one of many of the night's lovely hostesses.


Where do bartenders hang out on their days off? Other bars, of course!
Bruce, barkeep at Falconetti's with Miriam Reid, who helped create the new decor!



Libra Room promoter, Joée Brassard-Desjardins.

Picture of the Day

A winter scene in miniature outside Wazubee's.

Picture of the Day: Cat & Mouse

This wee mousy took quite a beating at the paws of the orange terror seen here. It was quite the epic struggle in Nature.

Picture of the Day: A Sign of the Season (or the Times?)

Another imaginative display at this great store.
Dandelion Kids
1206 Commercial Drive

Picture of the Day

Commercial Drive
Originally uploaded by entheos_fog

This great photo is one of several you can find at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/sets/72157600821483483/
taken by Jeremy Hood.