PANORAMA

Calendar
Days in the life of a month.

Top Stories
Closed-circuit TV on the Granville Mall, a big little film about spiders, and the future of the recently sold Caffè Artigiano.

Q&A
Director Rachel Talalay on horror films, visual effects, and making a CBC/BBC movie—in Romania.

You Are Here
Is Gastown undergoing a real-estate revival? Is a condo on Powell a good deal? Well, yes and no.

Nutshell
Bugs, teeth, faces, bones, knots: Vanouver is home to five highly respected forensic scientists.

Vancouver Life
Shiny happy people.

Best Buys
New digs for Cartier and Nike, a local label lands at Leone—and a homegrown fountain of youth. By Rebecca Philps


FEATURES

Sex and the City
An Angus Reid poll reveals that some of our practices and attitudes have changed radically over the past decade—and some, surprisingly, not at all.

Love for Sale
Intimate profiles of four sex trade workers from very different walks of life. By Michael Harris

My Life in Porn
A former porn store clerk returns six years later to see how the Internet has affected business—and to confront her own past. By Brooke Thorsteinson

One Night Stand
Burlesque, I figured, was simply a matter of disrobing onstage in time to raunchy music. Now really, I thought, how hard can it be? By Emily Wight


DEPARTMENTS

Bruce Almighty
Bruce Allen has parlayed his career as a rock manager (for Bryan Adams, Martina McBride and Michael Bublé) into a pulpit as "the voice of the people." By Chris Smith

EATING + DRINKING

Clubland
Night fever is alive and well in Vancouver—inside 10 of the town's happening club. By Rebecca Philps; photographs by Shannon Mendes

A Bit of the Irish
Sean Heather (proprietor of The Irish Heather and Shebeen) knows all about the timeless appeal of Irish whiskey. By Christina Burridge

Shop with a Chef, Hot Buy and Mini Review
Shopping with Gastropod's Angus An, a zester for life, and a tempting new Thai restaurant. By Murray Bancroft and Chris Gonzalez


ENDMARK

Front Man
When it opened, in 1927, the Hotel Georgia was a Beaux Arts showpiece with a ballroom fit for the Jazz Age. Now it's closed its doors to complete a major refurbishment and to add an exclusive condo tower to the site. Portrait of a hotel in transition, and its long-serving bellman John Hykawy. By Rosemary Poole

Available on newsstands February 20, 2007