Commercial Drive

Where to begin with describing the Drive? It's brash. It's got opinions. The pedestrians are anything but and will walk into the street as if every day is Car Free Day. Located in Vancouver's east side, the neighbourhood officially known as Grandview-Woodland has been the nexus of a wide variety of different ethnic and cultural groups since its heyday as a Vancouver's counter-culture scene. Since then it has seen waves of first Italian, then Portuguese, Latin American and East Asian immigrants settling and making the neighbourhood home. It's not so much a melting pot and more of a Jackson Pollock painting with each blob of paint be it Chinese, Ethiopian, lesbian, or crust-punk adding its own unique voice and presence to a larger whole.

Error loading image!
14

Black Dog Video

Address
1470 Commercial Drive
Website
Visit Website

I get it. The year 1997 called and it would like its neighbourhood recommendation back. Though despite its anachronism, Black Dog has carved a reputation for itself in this counter-culture neighbourhood as a stalwart of the times of yore and boasts a well-curated selection of rare and critically acclaimed films going back to the early days of film making. So unless you're good at futzing around BitTorrent to get that 1950's Italian Neorealistic epic that will impress your Tinder date with your worldliness,I recommend you walk uphill both ways in the snow and rent an optical disk from here.

Black Dog Video
Error loading image!
Black Dog Video
Error loading image!
Black Dog Video
Error loading image!
Black Dog Video
Error loading image!

St. Augustine’s

Error loading image!