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• Antoine Gratton at Festival du voyageur, Winnipeg Feb 18 2010 It’s as if Elvis was reborn as a French dude…

• Tanya Tagaq w/ Eighth Blackbird at the Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Feb 11 2010 Breathe deeply… inhale, exhale… now read…

• Review – El Perro del Mar and Taken by Trees, Feb 27 2010 Two Swedish bands in town in time for the tail-end of the Olympics make hockey jokes to an appreciative full house at the Biltmore.

• TwitteReview – Closing Ceremonies 2010 Olympics It was awful!

• Day 4 of the Vancouver Music & Fashion Festival A review of the final night.

• Interview – Jewelry Designer Nicole Tirona Rachel Fox interviews jewelry designer Nicole Tirona of It’s Your Life handmade vintage accessories.

• Interview – Defendor’s Peter Stebbings and Nicholas Tabarrok Rachel Fox talks to the director and producer of Defendor about wrangling Mr. Woody Harrelson for, wtf?, a Canadian superhero movie.

• Olympics Report # 9 – First Round of Men’s Ski Cross Men’s ski cross photos from Cypress Mountain on a glorious Sunday afternoon.

• Day 1 of the Vancouver Music & Fashion Festival Local designers battle it out on the runway during the four-day VMFF for a spot at Vancouver Fashion Week.

• Olympics Report # 8 – Women’s Snowboard Half-Pipe Feb 18 2010 Another beautiful day up at Cypress Mountain, where the women’s snowboard half-pipe competition is underway.

• Colbert! Rachel Fox braves the crowds and gets near the front for the taping (digitalizing?) of the first of two Colbert Reports during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Lots of pics, too.

• Olympics Report # 7 – Men’s Snowboard at Cypress Feb 17 2010 Photos from the men’s snowboard half pipe at Cypress Mountain. Go Canada! Whoot whoot!

• Olympics Report # 6 – Alexisonfire LiveCity Vancouver Incident Trouble breaks out at the LivecCity venue in Yaletown. Also – a spontaneous hockey game on Granville Street, and the Norwegian men’s curling team’s checkered pants.

• Olympics Report #5 – Maelle Ricker Wins Gold for Canada in Women’s Snowboard Cross Canadian Maelle Ricker bounces back after a poor showing in the initial qualifying run.

• Olympics Photo Gallery – Bringing Snow to Cypress Exclusive Guttersnipe photos of the VANOC initiative to bring snow to Cypress for the Olympics. Don’t worry about it, it’s only money!

• Olympics Report # 4 – Opening Ceremonies A day late and a dollar short, but still funny as hell – Guttersnipe Olympics correspondent Louise Papais on the 2010 Winter Games Opening Ceremony.

• Olympics Report # 3 – Protest Photo Gallery We have a second Olympics correspondent! Ken Paquette took these shots of the opening day protests on Commercial Drive and in the downtown core.

• Olympics Report #2 – Tragedy at the Olympics Louise Papais on the luge tragedy, the relay runner who just said “No” to Coke, and the possibility of a Terry Fox hologram lighting the cauldron.

• Lullabye Arkestra Release Free EP, Announce Tour Dates The Toronto duo has just released a free three-song EP. Plus – new tour dates announced, and a few photos from the band’s recent Toronto appearance.

• (Some of) Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup Announced Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, St. Vincent, Raekwon, and Cass McCombs are among the performers just announced for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.

• New You Say Party! We Say Die! Video, Tour Dates Still riding high on the release of its third album XXXX, the Vancouver new wave party band is back with a new video and some April tour dates.

• The Simpsons in Vancouver Vancity Buzz reports that Homer and Marge will finally make it to Vancouver in an episode to air Feb. 14.

• We Are the City Win the PEAK Performance Project The months-long musical development project hosted by Vancouver radio station the PEAK FM came to a close last night at the Commodore Ballroom. The winner takes home $150,000.

• New Pornographers Album Release Date Announced The fifth album from the Vancouver band is scheduled for a May 4 release. All the usual suspects are involved, along with a few new faces.

• Man or Astro-Man? Reform, Play SXSW That crazy space-rock instrumental band from Alabama with the great album sleeves and costumes reforms. We knew something was missing from today’s indie-rock scene…

• (500) Days of Summer Director Chosen for Next Spider-Man Dude who directed Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer gets on board after Sam Raimi quits. Does this mean Death Cab for Cutie or She and Him will be on the soundtrack?

• Pemberton Festival Cancelled, Again! We’re starting to wonder if the Pemberton Festival in 2008 was just a dream…

• Fan Death Announce Tour Dates The electro-pop duo that stunned audiences with singer Dandilion Wind Opaine’s French maid outfit on Halloween night has announced tour dates with Vampire Weekend and Little Boots.

• Spider-Man 4 Scrapped Raimi and Maguire walk, Sony decides to go ahead with a 3D reboot. Heck, Stan Lee couldn’t have written a sillier story.

• Spider-Man 4 – Don’t Worry About the Villain, Hire a Decent Scriptwriter for a Change Somewhere in Hollywood, grown men are arguing: the Vulture or Black Cat?

• Lady Gaga Gets Her Own Comic Book! Two of our favourite things come together in one delightful package with the first issue of Fame, due in May on Free Comic Book Day.

• Japandroids Take Vancouver’s East Side to the USA Not only does the Vancouver duo make its network television debut, but singer Mike also sports a T-shirt emblazoned with the names of East Side Vancouver streets.

• Lou Reed Coming to Vancouver The former Velvet Undergrounder joins Sam Beam, Mark Kozelek, Vashti Bunyan and a host of others for Hal Willner’s Neil Young Project as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

• Yet Another 2009 List – The Music Slut’s Top 13 Albums The body’s still warm, so as the corpse of 2009 settles into the cold cold ground the best-of-year lists are still coming in. Here’s one from blogger The Music Slut.

• Guttersnipe Calls on ‘Sauce’ Ban for 2010 Over the last year, you may have heard words suddenly grow an ungainly new suffix: ‘-sauce’ has been added to words such as ‘awesome’ to form the egregious ‘awesomesauce’. Can we stop the sauce in 2010?

• Where is Tiger Woods? Is Tiger Woods the new Osama Bin Laden? The celebrity womanizer and part-time golfer has been keeping a low-profile since the incident with the tree, leading people to speculate on where he’ll turn up next.

• Best Comics of 2009 When Avatar and World of Warcraft are among the biggest entertainment commodities going, the word ‘nerd’ loses its meaning. Thank God for comics, then, to separate the real nerds from the faux-nerds.

• Guttersnipe’s Predictions for 2010 We gazed into the crystal ball to come up with these prognostications for the coming year. Don’t blame us if every single one comes true.

• Vic Chesnutt Dead at 45 Many thought the Athens singer, who’s worked with Michael Stipe and who has had a song covered by Madonna, was reaching a creative peak with two albums released this year.

• Vancouver International Film Festival Opening Party Well, not the actual movies themselves—that would be boring. We mean the gala opening party that kicked off the Vancouver Int’l Film Festival last night. Jessica Bardosh photos.