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Cool Thing We Want #359: The Wolverine 1000 Mile “Blixen Boot” From Charlie & Lee

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #191: False Creek Had A Giant Trampoline Bridge

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #190: No Rain Ever Fell Directly Upon Our Heads

Cool Thing We Want #358: A “Mt. Pleasant Athletic Club” Shirt From Lark On Main St.

Cool Thing We Want #357: Leather iPhone Satchel From Chinatown’s Erin Templeton

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #189: We Put A Big Fir Tree In Every Roundabout

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #188: We Could Walk It As Diversely As Berkeley

Cool Thing We Want #356: A Wall Of Locally Developed “Stact” Modular Wine Racks

Cool Thing We Want #355: The “Sunflower” Bookcase Chair By He Mu And Zhang Qian

Cool Thing We Want #354: “Triple Distilled Diagram Of Alcohols” By Pop Chart Labs

Cool Thing We Want #353: French Linen Aprons Made At “The Window” On Hastings

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #187: We Had A “Mosaic Man” To Work Our Hoods

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #186: There Were Open Air Libraries In Its Parks

Cool Thing We Want #352: The Big Letter “S” Currently For Sale On South Granville

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #185: It Had A Local Version Of The Chap Olympiad

Cool Thing We Want #351: Rad 3D Ceramic Rocket Ship Espresso Cup By Craig Kaplan

Cool Thing We Want #350: BC T-Shirt From Forsya On Main St. In Time For Canada Day

Cool Thing We Want #349: Awesome Song Icon Posters By Swedish Artist Viktor Hertz

Cool Thing We Want #348: Whale Cheese And Charcuterie Knives From Much & Little

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #184: One Of Us Would Make A Growing Calendar

Cool Thing We Want #347: Reclaimed Wood “Mixtape” Table By Designer Jeff Skierka

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #183: It Had Its Own Free Food Forest Like Seattle

Cool Thing We Want #346: Awesome “Royal Tenenbaums” Dolls From Etsy’s Dangercat

VANCOUVER WOULD BE COOLER IF #182: A Street Cart Made Sausages From Cupcakes

Cool Thing We Want #345: A Writer’s Map Of The United Kingdom By Geoff Sawers

Cool Thing We Want #344: “Enlightenment” Book Lamp From Dutch Firm Studiomeiboom

Cool Thing We Want #343: Beautiful Hand-Painted Bug Book Covers By Rose Sanderson

Cool Thing We Want #342: Gorgeous, Made To Order Leather Shoes From Hunter Mayer