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

You know those times when you’re going for a walk on the seawall, but you don’t want to take a purse and you don’t have pockets so you make the call to leave your iPhone at home and then something amazing happens, like a parakeet lands on your head or Lady Gaga and Owen Wilson walk by you holding hands and you’re totally pissed that you don’t have your iPhone for its camera function? Problem solved, and in a fashionable way: Vancouver designer Erin Templeton has just shelved her Fall 2012 iPhone leather carry cases, just in time for the arrival of the 5. Pick yours up for $32 at her eponymous shop at 511 Carrall Street, just east of the Millennium Gate in Chinatown.

EVERY COOL THING WE WANT

UBC Farm’s Spring Workshops Make a Strong Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty

A full run of practical, well-built sessions that move from soil to kitchen, giving you a reason to start something new.

2026 CSA Guide: The Best Produce Box Programs in Vancouver. Score Before It’s Too Late!

Looking for a CSA in Metro Vancouver? Our 2026 guide breaks down the best produce box and farm share programs, with pricing, pickup details, and honest recommendations.

We Want to Jetset to Montreal for the Menu Extra & Dan Climan Pop-Up This July

This summer the Montreal artist, who sports cred as an Emily Carr School of Art + Design graduate, is growing his food-art relationship with a series of lux, collab pop-up we can only dream of attending. Time to buy a lottery ticket!

We Want to Quench Our Thirst for Spring with KPU’s New 桂 Reverie Beer

Our appetite for tasty and creative craft beer is bottomless. So the moment news of what students enrolled in the Diploma in Brewing and Brewery OperationsKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have been brewing up lately landed in our inbox, we got awfully thirsty...