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Bartifacts / False Creek

So, About That Lethal Weapon Hanging Above the Bar…

Talia sat behind the bar at Ancora and noticed a bayonet from the 19th century hanging out with the top shelf booze. This is its story...

Opening Soon / False Creek

The Tuck Shoppe Opening New Location on Granville Island This Summer

The Union Street staple (home of the ridiculously delicious French Onion Beef Dip sandwich) is expanding into the Net Loft.

Lexicon / False Creek

This Is Now a Permanent Facet of Vancouver's Public Art Collection

"I was all for taking the viaducts down until I realized we'd lose the Hot Wheels optical illusion of the Trans Am Totem..."

Cool Things We Want / False Creek

We Want to Customize Our Very Own Search and Rescue Denim Co. Apron

Regardless of your industry or hobby, the newly launched Custom Apron Builder by Search and Rescue Denim Co. is really f*cking fun!

Heads Up / False Creek

Get Your Weave On at Workshops Led by Local Artist Amanda Wood

Round two of the Weaving 101 workshop runs weekly from February 6th to 20th at Granville Island's Silk Weaving Studio.

Foreign Intelligence Briefs / False Creek

Dig These Oddball Houseboats Made of Airplanes, Tractors, Buses and Ambulances

Formerly homeless eccentric Englishman Hamish McKenzie likes to think of himself as a "boat renovator"...

Definitive Records / False Creek

The Musical Education of Faculty Brewing’s Mauricio Lozano

The Head Brewer and learned craft beer lover's picks range from political punk and uplifting island vibes to good ol' fashioned grunge.

Cool Things We Want / False Creek

We Want to Glide Above False Creek on This Newfangled Beast of a Machine

Developed in Puerto Rico, the Lift eFoil allows its rider to cruise silently above the surface of the water at speeds up to 40 km an hour.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Imagining Public Baths in a Clean False Creek

If the Danish city of Aarhus can open public baths in their once filthy waterway, why can't we do something similar here?

Spaced / False Creek

This Tiny Cabin for Beer Island, Please

With solar panels on its A-frame, the stilted construction has very little impact on its immediate environment and did not require building permits because of its diminutive size.

Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver / False Creek

The Most Deliciously Beastly Entry in The Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver

The annual good time on Northeast False Creek brings together many of the city’s best restaurants to do their carnivorous best to impress a sold out crowd of meat-loving beer drinkers.

Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver / False Creek

Is This the Most Picturesque Spot Currently Brewing Beer in Canada?

In our first addition/amendment to our ever-evolving Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver, we focus on a veteran brewery with a superb location.

The Dishes

Search & Rescue’s Will Fosdick Does ‘The Dishes’

10 Places

The apron aficionado behind Search and Rescue Denim fills us in on his favourite places to eat and drink around Vancouver.

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / False Creek

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.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had This Art Project That Gave Out Free Hot Dogs

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm transformed an old VW bus into a bizarre, oddly obese food truck of sorts, and we want it for our sea wall.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If it Had a Weird Village of Spherical Homes

Made of concrete strengthened with fibreglass and originally subsidized by the Dutch government, these futuristic homes from 1984 are awesome.

Restaurant Porn / False Creek

Omar’s Place in London Would Suit Chinatown’s Newly Built ‘Brixton Flats’

If a restaurant design rhymes, then London's Omar's Place fits the same stanza as Chinatown's Kissa Tanto and Yaletown's Fayuca...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Tiny Islands for Hanging Out On in False Creek

With good weather approaching, we saw this 215 sqft island designed for Copenhagen's harbour and got covetous about it.

Restaurant Porn / False Creek

We Want This Beautiful Restaurant in Helsinki for Northeast False Creek

The fine but casual, two-storey 'Roster' in Finland would fit right into Vancouver's soon-to-be newest neighbourhood.

Vancouverites / False Creek

Burning Questions with Local Artist and Educator Justin Langlois

We turn the questions on the artist whose "Should I Be Worried?" installation currently queries the city from False Creek.

Opening Soon / False Creek

Four Top Vancouver Chefs to Launch New Fast Food Concept on Granville Island

Chefs Angus An, Hamid Salimian, Joël Watanabe and Robert Belcham have joined forces to open Popina Canteen this summer.

Lexicon / False Creek

The (Now) Famous Local Ingredient Few Vancouverites Were Aware of 12 Years Ago

"One of the best, most delicious harbingers of summer in Vancouver is the beginning of the spot prawn season..."

Lexicon / False Creek

The Most Delicious Thing on Granville Island Costs Only $2.10

"One doesn't leave Granville Island Public Market without at least a half dozen Honey Dips from Lee's. What we're you thinking?"

You Need To Try This / False Creek

You Need To Try The Bartenders Malt by Auchentoshan

When a dozen of the world's best bartenders come together to create a whisky with the likes of Auchentoshan, you need to give it a shot.

Cool Things We Want / False Creek

We Want This Japanese-Inspired Teapot by Lupa Ceramics

This beauty by local ceramicist Kristine Aguilar is the perfect teapot for daily brewing our way through every day of winter.

Opening Soon / False Creek

Waterfront “Vaporetto” to Launch on Granville Island this Winter

Cinara & Autostrada owners Lucais Syme and Dustin Dockendorf aim to have the Venetian-inspired eatery open by mid-February.

Read This / False Creek

Books on Making Zines, Swiss Design Revolts and Fascinating Illustrations

Our friends at Emily Carr University Library – put together a selection of books on idiosyncratic works and artistic processes...

Heads Up / False Creek

ArtBreakers Illustration Market Set For Olympic Village, October 14-15

Creekside Community Centre is set to host a unique market experience showcasing local illustrators, animators and designers.