1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver is a pretty self-explanatory Scout column that gives equal weight to the common attributes and obscure intangibles that make our city well worth living in. Getting to a thousand is a pretty ambitious goal, but we believe in our city and we’re already well under way.
The Floating Respite Within Easy Swimming Reach of Kits Beach
Kits Beach would be a shoe-in for our 1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver project if it wasn't so damn obvious. This makes more sense.
All That Colourful Art on the Walls at ‘The Magnet’ Is Not What It Seems…
Downtown's beer-forward restaurant is a trove of quirky details from bar to bathroom. Here's a cool thing to look out for...
This Mt. Pleasant Restaurant Honours Its Veteran Staff Members in a Really Cool Way
Wallflower Diner recognizes and celebrates its long-serving crew members by affixing their names to the long edge of the wooden bar.
The One Delicious Day of the Year We Actually Looking Forward to Meat Sweats
The annual Brewery and the Beast festival of meat and beer easily cracks our 1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver list.
Our Favourite Event of the Summer? The Powell Street Festival
The annual festival in and around Oppenheimer Park offers up full plates of Japanese-Canadian arts, culture, and fabulous food.
Get Your Eating Pants Ready! Italian Day is Coming
The annual celebration of Italian heritage is one of our great entertainment assets -- 14 blocks of delicious things to eat, drink, see and do!
From Humble Beginnings Came This Outstanding, Week-Long Beer Festival
Our '1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver' series continues with a no brainer: Vancouver Craft Beer Week
Sunshine, Concrete Couches and Ping Pong Next to a Brewery on a Bike Route
The new double-triangle bike route hangout on Vernon Drive (at Union Street) is the chillest place to take a break during rush hour.
One of the Coolest, Most Fleetingly Delicious Facts of Life in Vancouver…
What's free, delicious, hard to get, impossibly sweet, juicy and incredibly versatile? Local blackberries!
Catch This Well-Timed, Beefalicious Skylight Smoke Show on Commercial Drive
A lot of smoke, a skylight and the right time of day combine for magic at La Mezcaleria
It Offers Workers Truly Spectacular Commutes
Coming Home After A Long Time Away From It
The Constant Hum & Spectacle Of Seaplanes
That One Day When Summer Suddenly Arrives
The Social Seating Experiment At Timbertrain
A Hidden Arcade Of Cool Classics In Strathcona
Its A Natural Amphitheatre For Amazing Sunsets
Arthur Erickson’s Soothing Waterfall Building
Tuesday Nights At The Vancouver Art Gallery
Hunting Titles & Smelling Deep At MacLeod’s
CRAB Park: A Hidden Gem On The Waterfront
The View Of The City From This East Van Alley
Its Scattered ‘Living Fossil’ Monkey Puzzle Trees
A Hot Wheels Illusion On The Dunsmuir Viaduct
A Glance Up Cambie Between Water & Cordova
A Local Abundance Of Wild, Delicious Shrooms
The Purple Lights Of Our Ancient Basements
A Vintage “Tin Can Studio” Of Mobile Creativity
