Yes, #YYCisOpen despite the adversity that all those nifty local businesses have to encounter. The flood knocked the power out in most of our inner-city hotspots and drenched many storefronts, but to top it all, it threatens their viability. Small shops and eateries in the core are facing the challenge of recouping lost revenue from…
Ready for GlobalFest? I’m volunteering there this year! Have a quick listen to Danny Lutz’s “Chanson Thème”, this year’s “compulsory piece” that all of the firework presentations at GlobalFest in August are going to feature: Maybe this can be your background music while you browse YAA! đ To freshen up your mind and kindle some…
Summer in Cowtown is the prime “festival season” as it is a “construction season”; the vibrancy is meant to be taken in through participation, not realizing you have missed out on the fun after hearing about it through post-festival media coverage! Here is a set of festival listings that I have found to be useful…
The physical impact of the flooding in Calgary remains yet to be fully seen, but the awareness for the bond we have to our city is an aspect growing more prominent day by day. Let this video be a source of hope that’s needed to carry out the recovery – All credits go to Robert…
Urban planning here in Calgary need to account for the parking crunch; in Japan, bike storage is gobbling up prime real estate that is hard to come by in such an urbanized country. Engineers created underground parkades to solve the car crunch, so now they have devised a method to park all those bicycles and…
(A friendly note – please enjoy all of our blogger’s contributions on the 2013 Alberta Floods that can found HERE) It started with a flood, and it will end with a flood. The surging water was able to lash out a flood of physical damage; this disaster has been declared by Premier Redford as the largest flood…
On the same Sunday when I went to Shogun Teppanyaki Grill, I also went and ordered poutine from the Family Fry Guy when 4 food trucks went to Otafest this year. Cheese curds…..mmm…… Being the mascot of the food truck, the specialty is of course on everything fries! I ordered poutine with their option of melty…
“Butter chicken” pizza….. As I was volunteering at the World Partnership Walk, there it was, the food truck I had missed at Otafest! I knew that Avatara Pizza‘s food truck was coming as @WPWCalgary had told me about the food selection, but I didn’t expect the lineups that accompanied it; but then lineups and the rain can’t…
Hopefully by now you are in touch with the goals of the World Partnership Walk (WPW) through the articles that Malika and Sarena have both written. So on the Sunday morning that is June 9th, I volunteered there along with Malika (we saw Sarena later on) and off the day began! Without further ado, please enjoy this vertical wall…
The presence of LGBTTIQ (an all-encompassing definition meaning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer that is more commonly shortened to LGBT) youth are demonstrated through an upsurge in awareness trends such as gay-straight alliances in High Schools and pride parades such the upcoming Calgary Pride 2013. Through these tides, however, the potential counterbalancing stereotypes…
This revolution evolved from Youth Are Awesome’s inaugural food truck post to now the array of high-quality reviews that are proudly produced for our blog website. (This includes our YouthAreEating Youtube channel too!) Eat St. of the Food Network fame has heard this trend’s reputation and came to Calgary to capture this sensation. The range of options have…
Spring in Calgary means an awakening for all of us to start enjoying the street life that we have. Taken a look at this display of vibrancy from GlobeTrotterAlpha on Youtube with footage taken last year! Update (6/5/13) –Â There is also a Stempede edition from last year too: These tours are super long, but super…
UPDATE (6/29/13) –Â Now instead of the Heritage Park project, we’ll be helping out with flood clean-up in Sunnyside. Yay! đ UPDATE (6/26/13) –Â In the wake of our flooding (see all of YAA’s coverage here), the project at Heritage Park has been cancelled. We are looking for an opportunity for our volunteers who have signed up…
Okay, it’s not quite what you’re thinking. Yet it fits perfectly with the Japanese theme of Otafest (officially my favorite convention now, hehe). Shogun Teppanyaki Grill was my lunch choice on the Sunday of that long weekend, partly because I didn’t have a volunteer shift that day (no free food), but mostly because four food trucks…
Post-con blues? Don’t worry, there’s always photos to help with coping! Without further ado, here are a bunch of various photos I snapped up at Otafest of the various things that personally made my day. Enjoy. đ Until next Otafest… đ