PANORAMA

Calendar
Days in the life of a month.

Top Stories
Mexican workers at Hastings Racecourse, a real-life Barbie and the Battlestar Galactica geeks.

Q&A
City councillor Kim Capri on playing politics and playing football.

You Are Here
What’s not to like in this Kitsilano palace? Well, perhaps the price.

Nutshell
The Vancouver Sculpture Biennale is over, but five pieces will stay behind. We review them, and suggest where they should be located.

Vancouver Life
Shiny happy people.

Best Buys
Bright baubles and pretty plates. By Rebecca Philps


FEATURES

Stanley Park
How, in a few dreadful hours, Stanley Park was devastated—and how it will be reborn. By John Vaillant

Ellison's Quest
At Prince of Wales Secondary in the 1970s and ’80s, Tom Ellison was a handsome, charismatic rebel with a gift for making the girls in his Quest program want to please him. I was one of them. By Jane Green



EATING + DRINKING

18th Annual Restaurant Awards
New categories,improved judging methods: our 18th Annual Restaurant Awards are bigger and better than ever. May we have the envelope, please…

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Green Giant
When John Bishop opened his West Fourth room in 1985, local ingredients were rarely used. How one man started a revolution. By Andrew Morrison

On My List
As every restaurateur knows, one key to a memorable dining experience is a great sommelier. Here, five of the best share their secrets. By Christina Burridge


ENDMARK

Poetic Licence
William Wordsworth was a poet laureate. So were John Masefield, Cecil Day Lewis and
Ted Hughes. Canada’s first poet laureate (George Bowering) was a Vancouverite, and now the city has installed its own versifier, George McWhirter. He’s written a sonnet for us to mark the occasion.

Available on newsstands April 24, 2007