News & Views Beijing intensifies local focus on 2010 Games
Survey shows majority in favour of protection for renters prior to Olympics
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News & Views Nomination race slips under radar of many voters
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Food & Drink New Italian spot hits the ground running
When Chris Stewart and Andrey Durbach, of the West End’s popular Parkside opened their second restaurant, La Buca, in late 2006, … -
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Arts & Entertainment Merging the hilarious with the blasphemous
Veteran U.K. comedian and actor Steve Coogan admits he’s often made it a challenge for audiences to like his onscreen personas. … -
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Life & Style Makeup’s own Hollywood North
Long before actress Alyssa Milano touted the benefits of Sheer Cover in late-night infomercials, mineral makeup was Hollywood’s not-so-closely guarded secret. …
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Burgess turns 50, gets appropriately depressed
Read the articleThis is not a column I want to write. I hope no one will read it. Labour Day is approaching, it’s a relatively sedate time of year, people are away or at least distracted — perhaps this item will pass unnoticed. Lord knows this is a subject I had hoped to avoid, personally and journalistically. It certainly wasn’t my idea to turn 50.
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RANT/RAVE
Read the articleThis is my first time calling your line and I hope you can help me — you’re my last resort. I live on Barclay between Bute and Thurlow, and for the last few years there has been a security or apartment alarm going off incessantly, all the time. It will ring for a couple of minutes and then go off. I just hope these people realize how they’re impacting the hundreds and hundreds of people who live in this area, who have shift work, who need to sleep during the day.
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Cycling advocate calls for improved bike lanes in Vancouver
Read the articleI’m a kamikaze cyclist,” says Gil Penalosa during an after-breakfast walk through Chinatown, while he pauses to take a photo of the new bike lane on Carrall Street. The resulting snapshot will become part of Penalosa’s photo collection of bikeways and walkways, taken during his international travels. Some of them were presented — with his trademark quirky humour — as part of a talk about strengthening pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, at a packed SFU Harbour Centre lecture hall last week (August 20). In the days following the SFU presentation, Penalosa met with city politicians and appeared in a guest speaking engagement at the Canadian Urban Transit Association’s youth summit on sustainable urban transportation.
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‘Flying University’ offers an alternative education
Read the articleSchool doesn’t always teach us everything we want to know. A group of Vancouver academics, artists, and activists is looking to turn that around with the launch of the Vancouver Flying University, a new community project that opens with an exhibit at Gallery Gachet (88 East Cordova) during the first week of the SWARM arts festival on Friday, September 5.
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News & Views Burgess turns 50, gets appropriately depressed
This is not a column I want to write. I hope no one will read it. Labour Day is approaching, it’s …Read the article -
Arts & Entertainment Kander & Ebb’s showtune genius revued
Responsible for some of the naughtiest musical theatre of the 20th century (Cabaret, Chicago), as well as some of the most …Read the article -
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Health & Wellness Our perceptual filters shape the world
If presented with the autopsied brains of a diverse array of people, no expert would be able to distinguish from the …Read the article -
Business Well, here is another example of a lack of civic civil
Well, here is another example of a lack of civic civility in our neighbourhood. Yesterday I noted a man peeing into …Read the article
