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Michelle Sproule grew up in Kitsilano and studied Business Marketing in Australia and at the University of Victoria before receiving her graduate degree in Information Sciences from the University of Toronto. She lives in beautiful Strathcona and enjoys wandering through the city’s streets and alleyways with her two very best friends, a beat-up camera and a 50mm lens.
We Want a Self-Fertilizing Planter Made of Upcycled Lobster Shells
The Shellworks team has created a versatile bioplastic made by mixing vinegar with the biopolymer found in crustacean exoskeletons.
Get Comfortable in This Decadently Designed, High End Supper Club
What is strikingly beautiful, ridiculously far away, fuelled by booze and boasting room for 225 supper clubbers? Alice & Fifth.
Remembering a Prolific Restaurateur’s Counter-Service Experiment in Chinatown
Sean Heather launched this small coffee and sandwich shop (cheffed by Lee Humphries) at 75 East Pender St. in May, 2010.
Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?
Do you think you know Vancouver's restaurant scene well enough to identify this spot? Give us your best guesses in the comments...
The Lengths One Wine Advertiser Went to Circumvent Government Restrictions
After the Israeli government banned wine ads on TV, the oldest winery in the country had to get smarter about marketing...
‘Tree Houses’ on the Edge of the Wilderness
Milan-based Peter Pichler Architecture has imagined a series of sustainable hideaways in the Italian Dolomites.
Chris Bjerrisgaard Does ‘The Dishes’ in Victoria
Let the Marketing Director for Vancouver Island Brewing and Vancouver Craft Beer Week take you for a whirlwind Victoria crawl.
Your Olive May Have Been Shaken Long Before Your Martini Ever Was
Israeli company AFRON has a special machine that shakes the hell out of olive trees to make short work of harvest.
Sneaking a Peek Inside What Would Soon Become the West Side’s Best Pizzeria
For this edition of Throwback Thursday, we return to the very beginnings of Kerrisdale's much-loved, 55-seat Bufala.
Dig This Stylish Vietnamese Eatery in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Neighbourhood
Di An Di, which means "Let's go eat!", is a two-zoned space that is bright and modern without surrendering traditional flavour.
We Want One of These Plinko-Style Bottle Opener Boards
This hand-made, wall-mounted bottle opener from Maryland's LeRoy Woodworks looks like it would fun to mess around with.
Picking Grapes with Michael Hiram and Scott Mitchell
We asked the guys who run the wine program at Kitsilano's Annalena to map out his affections for British Columbian wine.
Bolivian Ad Campaign Trades Shrimp For Pork in Remake of ‘Forrest Gump’ Scene
To imprint a message about the diversity of pork preparations, Bolivian creative agency Athos channeled the shrimp-obsessed Bubba...
The View From Your Window #187
We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!
The Mt. Pleasant Restaurant That Got to Live Two Very Different Lives in the Same Address
There were two visions for Habit Lounge, the first launching (bright and minimalist) in 2005 and the second (dark and moody) in 2008.
Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?
Do you think you know Vancouver's restaurant scene well enough to identify this spot? Give us your best guesses in the comments...
We Want to Sleep in the Cockpit of a 747 Permanently Parked at YVR Airport
As much as we appreciate the luxury and convenience of the airport's Fairmont Hotel, it wouldn't hurt to give it some direct competition.
‘I’m Drinking It For You’ Might Be the Greatest Beer Advertisement Ever
Advertising agency BBDO created this irresistibly charming beer ad (and song!) for New Zealand's DB Export.
Forbidding Concrete Exterior Hides ‘Tranquil House’
Japanese architecture firm FORM / Kouichi Kimura artfully makes a fortress-like home next to a factory and a highway seem liveable.
Volkswagen Van Driven Out of the Alpine Forest It Was Lost in 40 Years Ago
A VW enthusiast hears of a 1955 VW van lost in the mountains and sets about resurrecting it from its woody resting place.
Camilo Romero Does ‘The Dishes’
We asked the bartender at Mt. Pleasant's Como Taperia to take us on a tour to some of his favourite spots across Vancouver.
What Canadian Weather Reports Once Looked Like
Long before green screens and computer graphic representations of radar, CBC weatherman Percy Saltzman used chalk.
Five Years Ago This Week, This Pretty Wine Bar Opened in Cambie Village
For today's Throwback Thursday, we go back and time to revisit the arrival of Angela Maida's beautiful wine bar on Cambie Street.
Popular Neighbourhood Pizzeria to Open New Location
The crew from Gooseneck Hospitality are opening a second Bufala in North Vancouver's Edgemont Village this September.
Picking Grapes With Stephen Whiteside of Dachi
We put our Picking Grapes questions to Stephen Whiteside, sommelier and co-owner of East Vancouver's Dachi.
You Need To Try This Pina Borracha in Railtown
It'd be a 'stiff' drink if it weren't for all the char-speckled juice. Pair it with Stu Irving's wild prawn tacos with sunflower sprout chimichurri.
We Want a Copy of the ‘Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America’
Featuring "Fuck-Tailed Flycatchers" and "Great Blue Morons", this new book is a taxonomic takedown of winged and evil elusiveness.
Dining Room Once Hidden From the Nazis Marries Art Nouveau With Red Meat
Protective walls hid the long lost magnificence of the murals from the outbreak of the Second World War to the 1980s.
