The year’s biggest competitive cycling event in Vancouver, the Gastown Grand Prix, returns Wednesday starting at 5:30, with one of the most challenging turns on the circuit located right in front of the Angel store, which is open until 9 p.m. on July 15.
The professional women’s race will feature 35 laps of the circuit for a total of 42 kilometres, with 50 laps for 60 km for the pro men’s race.
For the first time this year, the event will begin with a youth race at 5:30 p.m., showing off the talent of about 50 of the best girl and boy cyclists who may become future participants in the men’s and women’s races, which offer $50,000 in prize money, including $12,000 for each of the first-place men and women racers.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you purchase $169 worth of Desigual clothing…
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s video features highlights from 2012’s Gastown Grand Prix, followed by a video of the whole race from the viewpoint of one of the riders:And here’s Around & Around by The Rolling Stones from 1964:
Angel is offering 20% off all Desigual summer shorts for men this week. We have a half dozen styles in denim, dark blue cotton, a subtle grey check and two with cool Tropical Prints:
If you’re already a Desigual fan, here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming for Spring-Summer 2016, which was recently shown at the Barcelona 080 fashion show:
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of the Barcelona brand Desigual in Western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you spend $169 on Desigual clothing:
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Also appearing at the folk festival this year will be former Fairport Convention member Richard Thompson. Here he performs Shoot Out the Lights with Elvis Costello:
Here’s another of his songs about a motorcycle, 1952 Vincent Black Lightening:
And lastly, here is his song about The Wall of Death, a sideshow amusement at fairs — men would ride motorcycles in a halved sphere, going round and round, defying death:
This is R.E.M.‘s version of Richard Thompson’s song:
Angel is having a 20% off sale for Canada Day, July 1st, to celebrate Canada’s 148th birthday. The day’s celebrations include free jazz concerts on Granville Island and end with a fireworks display on Burrard Inlet, near Canada Place (two blocks from Gastown) starting at 10:30 p.m. tonight.
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If you’re already a Desigual fan, here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming for Spring-Summer 2016, which was recently shown at the Barcelona 080 fashion show:
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of the Barcelona brand Desigual in Western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you spend $169 on Desigual clothing:
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s classic Canada Day music videos are a live concert from 1970 by Canadian icon Joni Mitchell, who is recovering from an aneurysm, Neil Young live from 1971 and k.d. lang singing the classic Leonard Cohen song Hallalujah:
We still have a few sizes of this shirt in stock at Angel as of December 2015.
We have Desigual bathing suits and bikinis at Angel in Vancouver, Canada.
We have some cool Desigual clothing for the hot weather expected this weekend, when temperatures are expected to hit 30 on the coast and up to 40 in the interior of British Columbia.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you spend $169 on Desigual clothing:
Buy $200 and get 10% off. Angel also has a 10% off sale on all Desigual shoes, Desigual for kids, plus 20% off Desigual coats from last season.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is a jazzy version of Gimme Shelter by the fabulous Lisa Fischer — I saw her and her band perform this last night at the Vancouver Jazz Festival:Lisa was a well-known background singer for such famous artists as Luther Vandross and Tina Turner, which was captured in the great documentary 20 Feet from Stardom. Since 1989, she has toured with The Rolling Stones and regularly performs a rockin’ duet with Mick Jagger on Gimme Shelter:
The streets of Gastown will be filled with music Wednesday night as hundreds of performers will play for free at Make Music Vancouver, and people will be dancing in the streets with this Brazilian drumming/dance group Bloco Energia:
It will take place Wednesday June 24th from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. More info about the groups playing at the festival is online here.
Powell & Water Streets will be shut down to traffic to allow the streets to be transformed into sidewalk stages and dance floors, showcasing hundreds of amateur and established musicians, and celebrating music in all its diversity. The first-ever edition was a resounding success, bringing 150 bands and 20,000 spectators to the streets of Gastown on June 21st, 2011.
Make Music Vancouver was inspired by La Fête de la Musique, an event launched in France in 1982, and has since gone global, taking place each year in over 450 cities worldwide today. It is being organized by Vancouver en Français and the Alliance Française de Vancouver, both non-profit cultural associations.
Make Music Vancouver is part of a global live music celebration that takes place every year in more than 100 countries. It started in 1981 in France, when a study revealed that a large part of the population, including half of all children, played a musical instrument. The French Ministry of Culture decided to bring people out on the streets to share their music – they called it “La Fête de la Musique.”
The Gastown event is non-commercial — none of the musicians is being paid to play. Even the organizers are donating their time and skills.
Le Hot Club de ma Rue, who will play at Make Music Vancouver, will play the Montreal Jazz Fest this summer. Below is their song, Si tu savais (If You Knew)
Each band will play 45-minute sets, many of which are showcasing their latest songs.
Angel will be open Wednesday night until 8. We have a huge selection of the Barcelona brand Desigual.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you spend $169 on Desigual clothing:
Buy $200 and get 10% off. Angel also has a 10% off sale on all Desigual shoes, Desigual for kids, plus 20% off Desigual coats from last season.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is Dancing in the Street from 1964 by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas (the song was co-written by Marvin Gaye):Here’s the goofy version by Mick Jagger & David Bowie from 1985:The video is even goofier without the music, just some grunts and other sound effects:And since Vancouver is going to get its first heat wave of the summer this weekend, here’s Heat Wave, another big Motown hit from 1965 by Martha & the Vandellas:
You’ll get a free Desigual Maxi bag if you spend $169 or more on Desigual at Angel Vancouver, located in Gastown
We’ve just received a new shipment of Desigual from Spain, which included dozens of Desigual maxi bags. They’re a large cloth bag with a reinforced bottom, a zipper closure and hand straps, as well as a shoulder strap if you’re heading to the beach and want to bring along a change of clothes, some cold drinks and food.
We’re giving them away to Angel customers who spend $169 on Desigual. Minutes after the bags arrived today, we gave away the first one to a man from Switzerland who bought an Explorer jacket.
We also received a few new men’s shirts, T-shirts, women’s tops, a cool jumpsuit and a new purse designed by Christian Lacoix for Desigual — the purse matches a Lacroix/Desigual dress & coat we already had in stock. We also have a pair of light-cotton blue-and-white pants designed by Lacroix.
And don’t forget about our Father’s Day sale — 15% off the men’s Summer 2015 collection by Desigual. The sale ends at closing time Sunday June 21.
Here are the new Desigual items that arrived today:
Buy $200 and get 10% off. Angel also has a 10% off sale on all Desigual shoes, Desigual for kids, plus 20% off Desigual coats from last season.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran, who performs a concert this Friday night in Vancouver:Ed surprised a fan this week when he was at a shopping mall, appearing at a record store, and heard someone singing his song — he joined the girl and sang a brief duet with her:Ed recently was an unexpected wedding singer for a surprised couple in Australia:Here’s an acoustic version of the song:And here’s Photograph, a new song by Eddie with home video footage of the red-haired lad growing up (he just turned 24):
We have some great Desigual shirts, T-shirts, shorts, jackets and pants for Father’s Day this coming Sunday. And the good news is, all our Summer 2015 stock of Desigual for men is on sale at 15% off until closing time on Sunday (June 21), including this new Desigual shirt called Pinup, which features tiny images of pin-up girls, the kind that once appeared on calendars:
Below are photos of some of what we have in stock. Did you know we have the most extensive collection of Desigual for men in Western Canada?
Desigual AYESELOLAIL shirt. $99. Spring-Summer 2015 collection, now at Angel Vancouver in Gastown.
Desigual ROLL T-shirt. $74. Spring-Summer 2015.
Desigual ROCK CAN ROLL shirt. $64. Spring-Summer 2015.
Desigual GUARISM cotton shorts with cargo pockets. $104. Spring-Summer 2015.
We still have limited sizes of these men’s blazers, shirts, sweaters, T-shirts and polos in stock from Desigual’s Spring-Summer 2014 collection. Click on the photos to enlarge and put your cursor over a photo to see the price:
Desigual MIGUELITO T-shirt, red stripes with blue stripe. $124. Spring-Summer 2014. photo by angelvancouver.com
Buy $200 and get 10% off. Angel also has a 10% off sale on all Desigual shoes, Desigual for kids, plus 20% off Desigual coats from last season.
We expect to have some Desigual maxi bags arriving soon, which we will give away with every purchase of $169 or more.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is the Foo Fighters playing an outdoor concert in 1998 at Edgefest in Vancouver; the song is their classic Everlong:
Update Feb. 2018: Here’s 18-year-old Elise Trouw of San Diego performing a mashup of Everlong and a 1978 song What You Won’t Do for Love by Bobby Caldwell, with Elise playing all the instruments in this live looping session:
Currently starring in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie (with Lily Tomlin &Sam Waterston), Fonda was in Vancouver for Greenpeace’s Toast the Coast event on Saturday at Jericho Beach. She said she was here to support First Nations people and others wanting to raise awareness of the environmental issues surrounding oil drilling in Canada’s Arctic and expanding the pipelines to the West Coast of Canada and to the U.S. You can read her interview Friday with CBC here.
The former fitness guru, now 77, looked fabulous. Fonda was wearing a dark brown fringed leather buckskin jacket Friday night. And her hair, as always, was perfect.
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Angel Vancouver is an official Desigual retailer. We have the largest selection of the Barcelona brand in Western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids.
You can fit a lot of tennis balls in a Desigual maxi bag, which will be arriving soon at Angel Vancouver.
This week’s special offer: Buy $200 and get 10% off.
Also: 10% off all Desigual shoes, 10% off Desigual for kids, plus 20% off Desigual coats from last season.
We expect to have some Desigual maxi bags arriving soon, which we will give away with every purchase of $169 or more.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is That Summer Feeling by Jonathan Richman, whom I saw perform in Vancouver on Friday night at the Biltmore, where he got us to sing the chorus:Jeremiah “Jerry” Harrisonwas an original member of Jonathan Richman’s band, The Modern Lovers, while Harrison was an architecture student at Harvard. Harrison later joined TheTalking Heads.
Jonathan did this song Friday night, along with some dancing:The Modern Lovers were a proto punk band that had a minimalistic sound inspired by The Velvet Underground, such as this song, Roadrunner, from 1972:Here’s another song from 1972 written by Jonathan, Pablo Picasso, with Jonathan on lead guitar/vocals, Jerry Harrison on bass and former Velvet Underground member John Cale on piano:David Bowie did a much punchier version of the song in 2003, with Lou Reed on guitar, stage left:And one last song from Jonathan, When I’m Walking, where he sings, “Just wanna wander and walk around” — it doesn’t get simpler than that:
Vancouver is experiencing a heat wave this week, sending people to the beaches. We have tons of new Desigual tops, shirts, shorts, sandals and bathing suits for the beach from the Summer 2015 collection, shown below….
Desigual OSFORD YAMILETH backpack, $99, for the beach this summer, 2015. Say Something Nice!!
Desigual PALMERAS boys swimsuit. $54. Spring-Summer 2015
We have this Mexican-inspired jacket and skirt (see photo below). Designed by Christian Lacroix for Desigual Summer 2015.
Angel Vancouver is an official Desigual retailer. We have the largest selection of the Barcelona brand in Western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids.
You can fit a lot of tennis balls in a Desigual maxi bag, which will be arriving soon at Angel Vancouver.
This week’s special offer: Buy $200 and get 10% off.
Also, we expect to have some Desigual maxi bags soon, which we will give away with every purchase of $169 or more.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is Done, a new song by Vancouver singer-songwriter Frazey Ford, filmed in Vancouver’s east side. She’ll be playing the main stage of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival on Friday July 17, 2015, with a full horn section:Here’s Neil Young‘s beautifully pessimistic On the Beach from 1974:This is rebel rocker Eddie Cochrane‘s live version of Summertime Blues from 1959:
Angel has a number of new Desigual dresses designed by Christian Lacroix for Summer 2015, including a number inspired by Mexico (put your cursor over photos for prices):
Desigual AUSTRIA dress, $149,designed by Lacroix and worn by Canadian model Chantelle Winnie. 2015
Angel has this Mexican-inspired jacket and skirt, designed by Christian Lacroix for Desigual 2015.
Angel Vancouver is an official Desigual retailer. We have the largest selection of the Barcelona brand in Western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids.
You can fit a lot of tennis balls in a Desigual maxi bag, which will be arriving soon at Angel Vancouver.
This week’s special offer: Buy $200 and get 10% off.
Also, we expect to have some Desigual maxi bags soon, which we will give away with every purchase of $169 or more.
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
Today’s music video is Belgian musician and songwriter Selah Sue singing Alone:Selah makes these “on the road” videos on the streets while she’s touring Europe: Here’s Selah performing Can’t Take My Eyes Off You two years ago with Canadian band Walk Off the Earth, who played a Vancouver concert last weekend:The song was a 1967 hit by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, produced by Phil Spector:The Four Seasons emerged from the vocal harmony groups of the 1950s doo-wop era. Here is a live performance of their 1963 hit Walk Like a Man, with everyone doing Sixties dance moves while wearing Sixties sweaters:
The year’s biggest competitive cycling event in Vancouver, the Gastown Grand Prix, returns Wednesday starting at 5:30, with one of the most challenging turns on the circuit located right in front of the Angel store, which is open until 9 p.m. on July 15.
Just arrived: New Desigual Maxi Bags, which we’re giving away if you purchase $169 worth of Desigual clothing…
Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The photo above shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
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