Sip and Sample at Taste BC 2012
Tuesday night on the 24th was the sold out Taste BC event at Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. It was a fantastic night with lots of wine, spirits and beer from local breweries and wineries in the area paired with some tasty treats. The ballroom was packed, hot and buzzing. There were over 50 tables featuring [...]
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! No need to stress about big gifts… think cute, sentimental and flirty! Here’s a list of our favorites from local Vancouver artists and designers: 1. Obakki Leighton Tank & Scarlett Short $125 2. luluanddrew Heart of Gold $20 3. Lemonni Valentines Day Card Set of 6 – Love is… $16 4. Brooklyn Designs Sterling Custom Initial & [...]
We love: LUPrints
The LUprints workshop is located in the small mountain town of Pemberton, British Columbia. LUprints textiles are manufactured with the utmost care, and attention to the small details that only a hand-made product can profess. LUprints began as a grassroots project during a local food festival in 2006 and has since grown into a full [...]
Pinch, Fold and Pucker
Impress your friends with home made har gow, cha siu bao and all kinds of dumplings! Wild Rice Executive Chef Todd Bright, a master of the art of new-style dim sum, will be conducting three intimate cooking classes in dim-sum making at the newly opened Wild Rice in New Westminster’s River Market on Monday, December [...]
‘After Jerusalem’ at Performance Works
I don’t know about you, but the holiday season typically means that I dust off my copies of The Miracle on 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Love, Actually (seriously). Typically, these films have become so engrained in my holiday tradition that if I don’t watch them then the holidays pass through me without [...]
In Flanders Fields – Remembrance Day 2011
Today at 11am we will all share a moment of silence, respecting and observing the end of World War I on November 11th, 1918 at 11am. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid [...]
