The View From Your Window #105

Reader “M.K.” | Crosstown | Vancouver, BC | 3:20pm | SHARE YOUR VIEW

We love posting the photographs that reveal the views from our reader’s windows. Whether it’s a back alley in the fall or a sandy beach in high summer, we’re always stoked to see what you see from home, work or while on the road. Some of our all-time favourite reader submissions below… Read more

Smoke Break #891: Documentary Short On The Work Of Artist/Metalsmith Gary Schott

Charming as all get out:

The attention to detail in each piece is astounding, from the early detailed sketches and balsa wood models, to the selection of materials, and even the color of fabric—all to create a tiny device, the sole purpose of which is to gently evoke a smile, to express, in the words of the artist, an action of love.

via Colossal.

TAKE ANOTHER SMOKE BREAK

Cool Thing We Want #303: One Sheet Linen 2012 Calendar From Toronto’s “Bookhou”

Mighty desirous of this limited edition 2012 calendar on linen by Bookhou| $20 | Via Poppytalk

GOODS: Butter On The Endive Gets Cooking In Gastown At “The Found & The Freed”

Vancouver | Squamish | Whistler | 778-989-9349 | info@butterontheendive.ca | www.butterontheendive.ca

The GOODS from Butter On The Endive

Vancouver, BC | Join us as Butter on the Endive and The Found and the Freed present a night of food, drink and antiques. Chef Owen Lightly will be cooking seasonal delights to warm the heart and welcome the coming months of cozy times. We’re very excited to be partnering with The Found and the Freed, Vancouver’s hottest pop-up shop that features re-purposed authentic antique collections found across Canada and the States. Drop in before the Sweater Season Event to say hello to the lovely ladies on their official re-opening, on November 18th. Details after the jump… Read more

The Scout List: A Curated Agenda For Discerning Vancouverites

The main objective of this website is to scout out and promote the things that make Vancouver such a sweet place to be. We do this with an emphasis on the city’s independent spirit to foster a sense of connectedness within and between our communities, and to introduce our readers to the people who grow and cook our food, play the raddest tunes in our better venues, create our most interesting art, and design everything from what we wear to the spaces we inhabit.

The Scout List is our carefully considered, first rate agenda of super awesome things that we’re either doing, wishing that we could do, or conspiring to do this week. From our calendar to yours… Read more

Foreign Intelligence Briefing #385: Asteroid To Get Uncomfortably Close On November 8

There are plenty of asteroids out there – literally millions – so why is this one so special? Well, seldom does a space rock the size of a dozen cruise ships come between the earth and the moon, and this one – gulp – will (the last time was in 1976, and we didn’t even know about it until after the fact). 2005 YU55 – which I’m nicknaming “please don’t, sweetheart” – is going to hopefully pass inside the moon’s orbit of our planet in a little under a week. Scientists are saying that there’s no cause for alarm, so…thanks. Freak nasty NASA animation after the leap… Read more

SWAG: Submit Your Photos And Win A Trip For Two To The “Clayoquot Oyster Festival”

We’re giving away a weekend for two to Tofino’s legendary Clayoquot Oyster Festival. The package – valued at roughly $1000 and arranged with the aid of our friends at Tourism Tofino – includes two nights of luxurious accommodation at the Pacific Sands Beach Resort (Nov. 18-19), two tickets to the Mermaid’s Ball, two tickets to the Oyster Fest Gala, two tickets to the Remote Passages Oyster Farm Tour, and an Oyster Trio for two at the award-winning SOBO restaurant. (note that transportation to and from is not included, but man is the winding drive ever awesome!)

To enter the contest, you need to do a few things…

1. Express your keenness in the comments below.
2. Visit the Oyster Fest’s Facebook page and “like” it.
3. Submit two of your own photographs (only two) to Scout’s Flickr Pool. Photo 1 should be of something delicious (it doesn’t need to be an oyster). Photo 2 should involve BC’s coastline in one way or another. Both should include captions detailing the what and the where, and both need to be taken by the person entering the competition (duh).

The deadline for submissions is this Monday, November 7th at noon, so get out there and start shooting! Our crew will narrow down the entries to our favourite 5 combinations that afternoon and then post them for our Facebook fans to “like” at their leisure until noon on Friday, November 11th. The person whose images garner the most “likes” in the time allotted will be declared the winner (and will have 7 nights to pack for what will likely prove to be a weekend to remember). In the unlikely event of a tie, Scout will cast the deciding vote. All clear? GO!

A few images from our most recent trips to Tofino to get your juices flowing…

GOODS: “Cibo Trattoria” Presents The Often Elaborate And Esoteric Food Of Lombardy…

Cibo Trattoria is located in the Moda Hotel at 900 Seymour Street in Vancouver, BC | 604-602-9570 | CiboTrattoria.ca

The GOODS from Cibo Trattoria

Vancouver, BC | On Wednesday, November 9th, Cibo’s monthly travelogue of food from the various regions of Italy takes us to Lombardy.  This diverse region stretches from the Alpine meadows near the border of Switzerland to the cosmopolitan city of Milan and on to the Po Valley – the heart of Italy’s rice production. Executive Chef Neil Taylor’s menu showcases this widely divergent cuisine, and you can check it out after the jump… Read more

GOODS: David Suzuki At “C” To Celebrate The Restoration Of A First Nations Fishery

C is located at 2-1600 Howe St on the False Creek seawall in Vancouver BC | 604-681-1164 | www.crestaurant.com

The GOODS from “C” Restaurant

Vancouver, BC | On Thursday, November 10th, C Restaurant is throwing a dinner hosted by sustainability titan David Suzuki. The evening is a fundraiser for the DSF and C’s burgeoning not-for-profit, the C Blue Foundation, a grassroots initiative by Harry Kambolis and Chef Robert Clark to raise essential funds to protect lakes, rivers, streams, beaches and oceans. The DSF and C Restaurant collaboration has netted an exceptional partner, the Lake Babine First Nation reserve fishery. Back when Rome was a mere village, the Lake Babine people operated traditional salmon weirs on their lake and river, harvesting hundreds of thousands of sockeye a year. Tragically, their traditional fishery was extinguished in 1906 by the Canadian government, to make room for an industrial coastal fishery. It devastated an entire way of life. This past summer, the Nation recreated their fishery, in partnership with Skeena Wild Conservation Trust, Raincoast Trading of Vancouver, and RiverWild Seafoods of Terrace. It has become the second largest sustainable sockeye fishery in British Columbia. Read more

TEA & TWO SLICES: On Cheating BC Businesses, Blackface And Breaking People

by Sean Orr | Former Canuck Raffi Torres faces criticism after dressing as Jay-Z for Halloween. Because if Wayne Simmonds went as the Pope everyone would be super offended. Pfft.

In any event, it couldn’t possibly be as offensive as when a Top US foreclosure law firm threw Halloween party where staff dressed as foreclosed-upon Americans.

Some B.C. employers cheating on minimum wage.The irony is that they can’t police it because of “a massive cut in staff”.

It’s confusing when local corporate media seem to only really care about issues when there’s a special needs child involved, as though they’re somehow more deserving of our pity than others. Let me explain. The piece is called Breaking People, and it details how BC’s drastic cuts to the social safety net is breaking people (a typical neo-conservative reaction while the government is simultaneously cutting corporate taxes). The truth is that Donny and Marlene could just as easily be one of the many marginalised people that The Sun-Province-Post so often dismiss with both thin and broad strokes of the pen.

And when that fails, they just make shit up: Occupy Vancouver activists say no rat problem at tent city despite media reports. Oh, don’t get us wrong. They’re all over the place! It’s just that they’re not a problem. In fact, they make great companions and are surprisingly warm.

Way to perpetuate the stereotype guys: Of the first 60 charged in riot 21 are from Surrey. Does anyone still think that the Stanley Cup riots had nothing to do with class (or more specifically the decline of the middle class, suburbanization, and the politics of boredom)?

Geoff Meggs: “New VAG show challenges voters to embrace gallery expansion alongside vision of new creative space”. I’d like this better if it read, ‘Voters challenge Vision to embrace creative spaces’. Read more

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