Culture
On Drifting Frozen Stiffs And The Coming Of The Neoliberal Apocalypse
Eco-Conscious Home Store In Mount Pleasant Expanding Next Door
Victoria Could Use This Slick London Spin On A 30s Taipei Social Club
"We are perhaps getting close to a saturation point with restaurant interiors that feature dark wood, rounded corners and pink upholstery..."
When A Record Store Owner Picks His Favourite Albums, You Listen
We've done dozens of these interviews over the years but I think this is the first time we've ever asked a record store owner for their selections. The results, unsurprisingly, are pretty awesome.
Artist Katie So On Coffee, Tattooing And The Pleasure Of Being Spooked
‘Ramen Heads’ And ‘Summer Vacation’ Among Cool Films Screening In July
Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Each Neighbourhood Had Its Own Manhole Art
There are over 19,000 different manhole cover designs in Japan. They even make manhole trading cards! While Vancouver does have some artfully embellished manholes we nevertheless believe it would be very interesting to have their designs determined by the individual neighbourhoods in which they are found.
Seventeen Minutes With Mount Pleasant Polymath, Shannon Hemmett
Designer, photographer, videographer, writer, singer and musician (in two bands!) - what doesn’t Shannon Hemmett do? Soon you'll be able to find her centre stage as the frontwoman for her own new project, too. Meet the multi-faceted, super-busy, self-confessed night owl...
Imagining This Awesome Treehouse Near Beijing As A Secret North Shore Hideout
The main space - floored with a tatami mat - is for living/sleeping, while the other is used as a washroom. It's tiny (all told under 100 sqft), but we reckon it's enough to provide the one or two people within (anymore would be ridiculous) with the escape they desire. We'd take ours in the quiet cool of the North Shore's Lynn Valley, permits be damned.
Escaping The Big City With Jesse Keefer Of Galiano’s Chill ‘Bodega Ridge’
We recently caught up with Keefer in between floor tiling, wedding booking and kid-wrangling to ask a bunch of questions and get to know him a little better.
On Living In A Banana Smoothie Republic And The Future Of Football
"Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Donald Trump is president and he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, which was terrible anyway, while we are trapped in collective denial vis a vis scientific reticence as Gregor sits there in his fucking penthouse with a wood burning stove while literally thousands are dying in the streets and nobody can afford to live here."
The Section Of The West Coast Exempt From Provincial Fire Bans
"We booked a campground reservation in the interior before they announced the fire ban, so we're heading to the Fog Zone instead..."
It Costs $2 Million A Day To Maintain The GPS System, So Why Is It Free?
‘Squamish Days’ – A Loggers Sports Festival, 60 Years Running
On ‘Douchebag’ Getting Its Due And Orcas Terrifying A Couple Of Bros
A Moveable Feast Across Quebec City During Its Summer Music Festival
What do Duran Duran, Ice Cube, poutine and excellent donuts all have in common? Festival d'Été, of course!
Vancouver Would Be Cooler If A Japanese Misting Arch Came To Stanley Park
Imagining Australian artist James Tapscott literally "cool" installation much closer to home...
Local Artist Sitji Chou On Cats, Daydreaming And Future Collaborations
Chou’s personality comes through in his personal artwork, which generally consists of playful observances on human and animal behaviour, a knack for storytelling, and a penchant for colour.
On Christy’s Last Lie & Chinatown Awaiting Its Bob Rennie Makeover
7th Annual ‘Khatsahlano Street Party’ Set For West 4th On Saturday, July 8th
The Long, Slow Train That Divides Strathcona Several Times A Day
"Sorry, I'm going to be late. I'm stuck behind the Wrath of Strath..."
The Scout List, Vol. 426
Our agenda of cool things we are doing, wishing we could do, or conspiring to do in Vancouver from June 28 to July 4, 2017
Burdock & Co.’s Julie Sopuck On Her 3 Favourite Albums Of All Time
Today we hear from Julie Sopuck, whose trio of records reveal three unique sides of a proud Prairie gal who found her second home running the show as the General Manager of Main Street's popular Burdock & Co. restaurant.
Feasting Hut In The Scottish Wilds Would Suit The Desolate Okanagan Highlands
All it took was one lousy 48 hour heatwave and we're already pining for the wintry windswept wilds of the middle of nowhere!
Katie Piasta On Saying Yes, Dodging Nerf Bullets And All The Nice Dresses
Piasta recently agreed to open a window (har har) into her own inner world, a place where she is the proud owner of a miniature pony, the men wear platform shoes, and time travel is totally a thing...
On Picking The Wrong Side And Mobs On The Intellectual Landscape
Bowen Trip So We Can Eat Up Everything At Branch & Butter
‘The Atlantic’ Delves Into The Science Of What Makes Things Cool
