Floating Restaurant Raises Funds For Seafood Sustainability
"Hey, didja remember the Kokanees?” bellows a barrel-chested, shirtless man at his sunburnt friends from atop a 50-foot powerboat, engine purring. It’s 4 p.m. on a sunny Friday at the False Creek...
View ArticleDarrin Sjoberg Conquers a Ten Year Meth Addiction
When did you start using drugs? Started smoking weed when I was 13. Got into serious drinking when I was 17 or 18. I started working at my buddy’s club in Abbotsford and that’s where I started snorting...
View ArticleEditor's Note, November 2010
Journalism demands curiosity, rewards attention, and gives you licence to ask people just about anything. Most of us, if questioned about our lives and listened to carefully, speak openly and at...
View Article3 Easy Ways to Give
TOYSOrganization: Lower Mainland Christmas BureauWhat they do: Provide Christmas gifts to children living at or below the poverty lineHow to help: Drop off an unwrapped toy (presents for kids aged...
View ArticleDog Licensing
Asked to recall his worst day on the job, Bill Bruce, director of Calgary's Animal & Bylaw Services, doesn't hesitate. "It was five years ago, a hot summer. The shelter was overrun with cats. We...
View ArticleHellcats Actor Craig Anderson on Underground Comedy
Three guys in blue buttoned-up shirts are squinting into stage lights as they explain the next improv skit to the audience. "This game is called Should've Said," says Craig Anderson, stepping to the...
View ArticleBest of Vancouver 2011: Afternoon Activities
A Tailor-Made SuitHave a bespoke suit made. Brooks Brothers is good enough for President Obama; it should be able to handle you. For its made-to-measure events, the Alberni store flies in fabric...
View ArticleBest of Vancouver 2011: Evening Activities
An All-Access PassThroughout the school year, UBC students perform their own compositions and the work of classical masters at the Roy Barnett Recital Hall at UBC, free of charge. Get a glimpse of...
View ArticleBest of the City 2011: Full Day Activities
A Tour de VancouverRent a retro cruiser from Denman Bike Shop (710 Denman St., 604-685-9755) and meander along the seawall all the way to the Olympic Village. Refuelling stops are many along the...
View ArticleBest of Vancouver 2011: Weekend Activities
An Indoor OasisBuild a living wall in your steel and concrete Water Street loft; Gastown florist Greenstems (in the Woodward's building) will provide the raw materials for greenthumbs and do all the...
View ArticleBest of the City 2011
Are you a Gastown-dwelling graphic designer? Happily sitting pretty? We'll show you how to throw your cash around like you mean it. New on the scene? Skip the brochures: there are many ways to move...
View ArticleFresh Prince of East Van
It's Sunday night at the Railway Club on Dunsmuir. Squeezed together in front of the tiny stage is a crush of 20- and 30-somethings. The women display décolletage, the men facial stubble; others in the...
View Article10 Things To Do Before Summer Ends
1. Ride the Eastside Mural Project: hop on your 10-speed, pack some vegan pakora in the rat-trap, and fire up Google Maps for a self-guided tour of four oversized, community-based artworks....
View ArticleDog Day Afternoon
For eight months or so, I’d been working as a casual writer on the local CBC supper hour TV news. Eight or 10 times a month, they’d call me in when a regular writer was sick or on holiday. The casual...
View ArticleThe Social Network
My lineage includes a gene for a condition called polycystic kidney disease. My father died of it, my aunt, my grandmother—many in my family. I was diagnosed in my early 20s and was told, “Either you...
View ArticleIDSwest 2011 Preview
Art, design and architecture take centre stage starting this Thursday through Sunday at Vancouver's IDSwest 2011 show (September 29-October 2). A long list of carefully curated exhibitors will be on...
View ArticleGoing Going Gone
James and Tina live in Point Grey, in a two-bedroom basement suite in a Vancouver Special. Tina, 34, a former music teacher, is now a stay-at-home mom. James, 35, teaches music and directs the...
View ArticleJeff Wall on Vancouver's Last Good Building
Until about 1970 there was something called old Vancouver, that city still characterized by the wooden houses in which most of its inhabitants dwelt, houses built on a restricted number of plans and...
View ArticleDo Vancouver Men Suck?
Natalie, Elise, and Tracey are drinking pinot grigio in the Commune Café at Nelson and Seymour. Tracey, who's in marketing, wears an electric-blue dress and flicks her bright blond hair over her...
View ArticleDo Vancouver Women Suck? A Reader's Response
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