Laugh It Out at The Improv Centre

Vancouver's answer to the Vegas Sphere: a 360 dome at the Space Centre where Pink Floyd, blue whales and the cosmos wrap the entire ceiling in 10K and Dolby Atmos, watched flat on your back from a reclining seat.

Towering totem poles against sea and forest, a half-price Thursday, and the trip to UBC that's actually worth it.

The largest Emily Carr survey in over twenty years fills the Vancouver Art Gallery with her swirling BC forests and coastlines.

Candid on-stage conversations with novelists, poets, and thinkers across cozy Granville Island theatres, the perfect trade for a grey October afternoon.

A 440-seat professional theatre on Granville Island where the recently redone lobby bar looks directly at False Creek.

Ten days of world cinema downtown, from festival-circuit premieres to local debuts, with a walkable spill of late dinners and drinks to argue about them.

A 1929 Granville Street ballroom with a dance floor literally built on tires, and Billboard's vote for one of North America's most influential clubs.

Vancouver's 1981 indie record shop, where the bins reveal more about a person than any dating app ever will.

A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, by-donation Tuesdays and free every first Friday of the month.

Eighty-plus unfiltered indie shows across Granville Island, most of them an hour or less, so you can see two in a night and argue about them over a waterfront drink.

A 1927 gilded dome in Vancouver, home of the Vancouver Symphony, and the most beautiful room you'll be seen in all year.

A warm 200-seat theatre in Port Moody's Newport Village, with dinner steps away and acoustics regulars actually brag about.

Friday improv musical at Hollywood Theatre. yes, they're making it up.

& Juliet at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Thursday October 1.