Entertainment, Media & Sports

Vancouver Canucks' goaltender and BC Lottery Corp. poster boy Roberto Luongo was paid $160,000 last year for endorsing the Crown corp's online poker site and appearing in casino poker tournaments, Business in Vancouver has discovered.

Vancouver-based D&M Publishers Inc., which includes Douglas & McIntyre, has announced plans to restructure under creditor protection.

Salons and fitness centres in B.C. that allow teens under the age of 18 to use tanning beds face fines of $345 per offence. The ban officially went into effect yesterday.

A comparatively robust local economy and the National Hockey League lockout makes Vancouver a prime destination on the concert circuit for major recording artists.

The Vancouver Whitecaps are blaming undisclosed "scheduling conflicts" for the cancellation of an October 16 Vancouver Board of Trade event featuring embattled executive chair John Furlong.

Local VFX companies mum on fallout from Florida-based company's challenges

Vision Critical, the market research company founded by the son of pollster Angus Reid, has a new CEO and is set to move into new headquarters.

Support from companies affiliated with ex-VANOC boss unanimous

Bard on the Beach, the Arts Club Theatre Co. and Pacific Theatre are completing feasibility studies and plan to negotiate with the City of Vancouver to lease a 45,000-square-foot space at 160 West First Avenue.

Bard on the Beach will get a boost to its fortunes next year thanks to the Vancouver International Wine Festival's announcement that its proceeds starting in 2013 will flow to the Shakespearean festival staged each summer at Vanier Park.