Category: doppelvancouver
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INTERVIEW: street artist WKNDSnack on the return of the Vancouver 2010 mascots
Even though downtown streets are emptied out and boarded up, four furry mythic Vancouver icons have triumphantly returned to the city. The 2010 Winter Olympic mascots – Miga, Quatchi, Sumi, and Mukmuk – are back and currently on display on a boarded up storefront downtown. And they’ve emerged having changed with the times, leaning […]
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That Time DOCTOR WHO visited Vancouver
Despite the strong Brit pedigree of the 15-ish actors that have played Doctor Who over the past six decades, there’s one Time Lord that doesn’t belong: the Doctor Who that came to Vancouver. In the mid-‘90s, there was an effort to bring Doctor Who to American audiences. Doctor Who-producer BBC partnered with Universal and FOX […]
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Inside Vancouver’s abandoned WATCHMEN set
Zack Snyder’s mostly faithful-to-a-fault adaptation of Watchmen (2009) is something of an oddity among the superhero TV shows and movies that have shot in Vancouver: namely, that there are zero obvious traces of the city shown on screen. Set is an alternate 1980s timeline, filled with superheroes, Snyder brought Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s dense […]
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ALPHA FLIGHT x Expo 86
Vancouver hosted their first world’s fair, Expo 86, and those six months changed the city forever. The international fair transformed the city from “a sleepy provincial backwater” into “a city with global clout,” according to a Wikipedia entry that needs a citation. Expo 86 also gave us Skytrain, Science World and a McDonald’s that was […]
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BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW x Bloedel Conservatory
Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory never looked like so haunting. So dark. Also, so devoid of fun birds. Shot in 2010, the cult sci-fi horror flick Beyond The Black Rainbow is set in a trippy, sci-fi asylum/institute circa 1983, where an evil doctor is experimenting on a girl with mysterious powers named Elena (played by Eva Bourne). […]
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X-FILES x Ovaltine Cafe
It’s almost unreal that the Ovaltine Café still exists. Even more that the timeless diner doesn’t look like it’s changed much since it opened in 1942. The cafe’s legendary menu prices are a blast from the past. That the Ovaltine and its iconic neon seem frozen in time has made it a popular filming location, […]