This month in Vancouver magazine:

PANORAMA

Calendar
A discerning guide to what's worth seeing, hearing, and doing this month

Top Stories
Michael Bublé’s return; winged migration at YVR; and the sweet smell of composting success

Q&A
Marta Chiavacci explains how she became Italy’s top sommelier

You Are Here
Will a 400-suite development rejuvenate Kingsway and Knight?

Vancouver Life
Malcolm Parry’s photo gallery of shiny, happy people

Best Buys
In the new Gastown, swank eateries and chic boutiques abound


DEPARTMENTS

Heritage on the Rocks
The demolition of an Arthur Erickson-designed house in West Van raises troubling questions
By Michael Harris

FEATURES

Citizen Hern
Matt Hern wants to make Vancouver safer. And he has some fascinating and unexpected ideas about how to achieve that goal
By Charles Montgomery

Spirit of the West
Vancouver is the country’s least traditionally religious city; still, our citizens seek their own forms of spiritual sustenance
By Tyee Bridge

Near Escapes
Desperate for some down time? Here are six exotically restorative destinations guaranteed to recharge your batteries
By Rebecca Philps

COVER STORY

Carnal Knowledge
To the chagrin of vegetarians and cardiologists, more and more rooms are featuring
high-calorie red-meat dishes. Five-inch-thick porterhouse, anyone?
By Charlene Rooke

EATING + DRINKING

Food
The staff at Boneta have attentive service down to a fine art
By Fiona Morrow

Drink
An exclusive, brilliantly original winemaking club has taken the U-Vin concept to new heights
By Fiona Morrow

A La Carte
Shopping with Dino Renaerts of Diva at the Met; a great garlic press; and a Dunbar bakery’s good karma
By Nicola Pender


ENDMARK

Cheque, Please
If a tree fell in the forest and there was no one to hear it, would it make a sound?
If Jamie Maw had not spent the last decade and more critiquing, encouraging, and documenting the dining scene, would this city have evolved into one of the continent’s premiere culinary destinations?

Available on newsstands March 1, 2008