In FOOD

Savoury and Sustainable

Chew on This: Savoury and Sustainable at the Fish Counter There’s a new kid on the block – and they’re making solid and seriously tasty strides in making ethical eating accessible to Vancouverites. Which comes as no surprise when you learn that The Fish Counter, located at 3825 Main Street, is the brainchild of “C” […]

In DRINKS

Three Local Micro-Breweries You Have To Visit

If your neighbourhood is smelling like a wonderful mix of hops, barley, clean water and love, it’s due to the fact that breweries and tasting rooms are popping up like crazy – an unprecedented 9 this year alone, with more coming in 2014. We’re stoked and you should be too. Though we’re a far cry […]

In CULTURE

Vancouver Cinematheque Spotlight: Jean-Luc Godard

Beginning tonight, The Vancouver Cinematheque is hosting a retrospective on the work of one of the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of the past fifty-years, Jean-Luc Godard. Often called the cinema’s great modernist, Godard defined the 60’s French New Wave and the modernist attack on bourgeois sensibility. His films are intellectual, allusive, political, obscure, self-conscious, […]

In FASHION

RECAPPED: KNOWSHOW Fall/Winter 2014

Everyone’s favourite lifestyle fashion trade show returns for its 8th year Toques, snowboards and badass kicks? Yup. Mad plaid and distressed denim? Check. Nope, it’s not the après-ski crowd at the most happening fireside lounge at Whistler, but rather the industry go-to for Canadian lifestyle, fashion, and sporting goods retailers: KNOWSHOW. With exhibitors spanning from the likes […]

In FOOD

Top 5 Late Night Eats

Top 5 Late Night Eats – Vancouver   Whether you’re looking to replenish calories from a night of elbowing people at the club or find yourself afflicted with a case of the late-night munchies, these five local eateries will gratify your nocturnal, suppressed urges for food that’s fast and dirty (the good kind of dirty). […]

In FASHION

Sitting Down with Charlie & Lee

Charlie & Lee is an independently owned and operated store located on Union Street in our hometown, beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Everything that they carry is handpicked and carefully curated with love, paying attention to quality designers and up and coming labels, bringing in a selection of goods you would be proud to own. Their […]

In CULTURE

Alive on Arrival

ALIVE ON ARRIVAL By Chad Buchholz November 30th, 2013 When the incarnation of the Waldorf Hotel that the music, art, and party-partaking segment of the Vancouver population had come to know and love shut down last January, it felt like just one more blow in a long line of shots that seemed designed to cripple […]

In DRINKS

Latte Lover’s Guide to Van

Coffee purists may protest at the contamination of quality coffee with frothy milk, but rising popularity of the latte is taking off for a reason – it’s good. Whether you’re into the plain and interesting or a cup topped up with sugary syrups, a barista somewhere in Vancouver has the latte you’ve been waiting for; […]