People always ask about the easiest way to keep your finger on the pulse of a city. Do you get your fixed gear bike out and trawl the streets? Do you plunk a lawn-chair down in front of city hall or the bar at Fortune Sound?
You could, or you could just follow these people on Twitter
Noted Jimmy Edgar fanatic, back room slow jam DJ extraordinaire and RBMA connection. You can always listen in to Nina’s analogue gospel.
While not as verbose and declamatory as he can be on paper, Coupland’s unique stream of consciousness is always worth it for his unique insight into the 604.
Well, how many former juice company owning mayors do you know? If you’re gonna go to the top why not go all the way there?
Blogger, podcaster, WordPress preacher and notorious Canucks fan, Rebecca Bollwitt pulls no punches as this city’s most vigilant twitter ambassador.
Vancouver’s prince of pot may be i solitary confinement but you can still keep up on his goings on and the fight to get him out of prison thanks to his wife.
Ex-smuggler, CBC Radio 3 host and man about town, Grant may be a polarizing figure but you can trust him for a no-bullshit bird’s-eye view of the Vancouver indie scene.
Activist, photographer, writer, creative dude with fingers in many pies. Worth it for the photos he posts alone.
Owner of the Nordic Trax label, long time Vancouver clubland fixture and the guy who will tell you if you’ve still got coke on your nose. A view straight from the darkest heart of Vancouver’s clubland trenches.
Local gay icon, founder of the multimedia experience known as the House of Venus and one fierce individual.
Canadian dubstep pioneer, ex- CBC Radio 3 host, coffee addict, label owner and your faithful Scout.