After 11 years of bringing you local reporting, the team behind the Vancouver Observer has moved on to Canada's National Observer. You can follow Vancouver culture reporting over there from now on. Thank you for all your support over the years!

Anja Konjicanin

Anja is the Social CEO of The Vancouver Observer and writer with an interest in current events, celebrity gossip and everything pop-culture related.

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'Fractured Land' depicts First Nations' fight to save land from oil and gas industry

On the outside, northern British Columbia is a beautiful place. Look closer, though, and a different world appears. A much darker world. One of drilling, mercury-infested water and cancer. A place...

Lady Gaga brings Monster Ball to Rogers Arena Friday night

“I live for the way that you cheer and scream for me. The Applause.”

Cut it out, #CuttingForBieber

Practically every celebrity has died on Twitter at some point. Sometimes multiple times. #RIP trends are nothing new. Lame, yes. But not out of the ordinary. Bill Cosby, in particular, has come back...

"No Joke" set to premiere in East Vancouver

"The worst comic I've ever seen in my f*cking life". So were the words of one crowd member who obviously wasn't laughing. Audience's faces warped, as if in front of a fun house mirror, as they looked...

Vancouver Public Library ebook borrowing up 85 per cent

Who needs paper when you've got a clean, shiny screen to poke at? It's out with the old, and in with the new at the Vancouver Public Library (VPL), as readers come out in droves to check out VPL's...

What's on at the Vancouver Aquarium | Jan 5 – 11

The Vancouver Aquarium lights up with Luminescence, celebrates conservationists around BC, spotlights animals with backbone and dives into the weekend with the hopes to inspire visitors to explore...

Bif Naked Forever

Bif Naked's just released "Forever: Acoustic Hits & Other Delights" and here, she talks with VO about her life, reflections and musical loves.

Work Smarter with Evernote

The secret to success packaged in a short guide.

Vancouver artist Grimes' "Oblivion" top song of 2012

The end-of-the-year lists are popping up like Christmas trees, and Grimes is the star tree topper. Of the music charts, that is.