Citations:No Fun City

English citations of No Fun City

Proper noun: "(informal, usually pejorative) nickname of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"

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• 2001, "Hellions, Fresh Hells and Hal", The Nerve, Volume 2, Number 6, November/December 2001, page 19:

  And if you still can't get out, the ring binding makes it an easy read on the long ride to No Fun City.

• 2002, Elizabeth Nolan, "Vancouver's Underground Stars Light up the Night", The Nerve, Volume 3, Number 3, May/June 2002, page 4:

  Where did this wealth of visual expression come from, and how did it blossom in No Fun City, of all places?

• 2005, Ferdy Belland, "Hezzakya", The Nerve, Volume 6, Number 6, Issue #50, June 2005, page 16:

  The legion of stoner rockers are found scattered across the world by hundreds of thousands, like leftover sensimilla seeds on an open gatefold cover of Paranoid... alas, not so much here in No Fun City.

• 2005, "Boy Howdy", "Midnight Dragon is Off the Wagon and On The Rails", The Nerve, Volume 6, Number 11, Issue #55, page 14:

  That it's taken this long for the demon boogie to rise again in No Fun City is a fucking shame – Midnight Dragon have made the wait a worthwhile one to say the least!

• 2013, The Canadian Writer's Market, 19th Edition: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers (ed. Heidi Waechtler), McClelland & Stewart (2013), →ISBN, page 37:

  Celebrates independent art and culture in “No Fun City” — Vancouver, BC.

• 2015, Patrick Johnston, "Rugby notebook: ‘Fandamonium’ the word of the day at Canada Sevens announcement, Olympic qualifying and more", The Province, 27 February 2015:

  The Winter Olympics brought people out on the street and showed that even in No Fun City, we could find ourselves having endless fun.

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• 2003, "Vancouver takes aim at no-fun reputation", The Record, 9 June 2003:

  It's been dubbed No Fun City by some, but Vancouver is set to shake its reputation for having a comatose night life -- zonked by midnight like the early-rising outdoor enthusiasts who live here.

• 2005, Gregory Adams, "Cadeaux gets the dance party started", The Georgia Straight, 7 April 2005:

  Andow adds: "The whole 'No Fun City' thing is bullshit. Instead of waiting for things to get better why not enjoy yourself and have fun?"

• 2006, John Lorinc, The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation, Penguin Canada (2006), →ISBN, page 293:

  Vancouver's newfound sense of cosmopolitanism has prompted local politicians to begin easing up on the web of outdated regulations that restrict nightlife, rules that long ago earned it the sobriquet "No Fun City."

• 2006, Mark Hume, "Vancouver's 4 a.m. bars create havoc for police", The Globe and Mail, 8 November 2006:

  At the time, council was trying to overcome the label of "No Fun City" attached to Vancouver after police, fearing violence, urged people to stay away from a New Year's Eve celebration and after a number of civic festive events were cancelled for budgetary reasons.

• 2007, "Slowly but surely the fun is being put back into the entertainment district", The Vancouver Sun, 9 June 2007:

  Finally, we are starting to find the middle ground between No Fun City and unacceptable public disorder.

• 2008, "Parks board candidate wants officials to get moving on skateboard strategy", The Province, 5 November 2008:

  Think Vancouver's No Fun City? Try being a teen who wants to stay active doing something other than play^[sic] soccer.

• 2010, "Olympics Bring Change to Winter Host Vancouver", Miami Herald, 3 January 2010:

  Even more unrecognizable in a city once called No Fun City, will be the constant parties.

• 2010, Rick Reilly, "Oh, Canada", ESPN, 15 February 2010:

  Call Vancouver "Van City" or even "The Van" but do not call it the name it hates: "No Fun City."

• 2010, Kevin Fylan, "No pressure, London - 'No Fun City' shows how it's done", Reuters, 1 March 2010:

  At times there was a Mardi Gras atmosphere in downtown Vancouver, and this in a place sometimes described by residents themselves as No Fun City.

• 2010, Nate Peterson, "Olympics blog: So long from Vancouver", The Aspen Times, 1 March 2010:

  After Vancouver wakes up from its hockey triumph this morning, and shakes off its collective hangover, life will go back to normal in a place that can no longer be called No Fun City.

• 2010, Alexander Varty, "The Fugitives are anything but ordinary", The Georgia Straight, 25 May 2010:

  Eccentrically We Love contains a song called "City of Rain", but the underlying message is that even in No Fun City the sun's eventually going to shine.

• 2011, Costas Spirou, Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy, Routledge (2011), →ISBN, page 79:

  Vancouver had a reputation as a "No Fun City," and this initiative was intended to alter that perception.