PANORAMA

Calendar
Our annual Fall Arts Preview; a discerning guide to what's worth seeing and doing this season

Top Stories
Frank Giustra's $100-million gift, celebrity property scouts, and cricket

Q&A
BC Lions star Geroy Simon on catching a football and eating barbecue

You Are Here
A condo in New Westminster under $300,000—a bargain?

Nutshell
Online auctions have nothing on the live version. Going once...

Vancouver Life
Mac Parry's shiny happy people


DEPARTMENTS

Womb Mates
A couple's desperate effort to have a child finally led them to the internet and Craigslist.com
By Vanessa Richmond

Trunk L'Oeil
What happens when a painter and a photographer meet on a maple stump? Visual magic
By Michael Turner
(Editor's note: this article is not available online.)


VANMAG'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY: SPECIAL SERIES

Mac's World
Vanmag's founding editor spans the magazine's 40-year history and the city's wide range of intriguing people. An intimate profile of Malcolm Parry
By Sean Rossiter

1967: The Unlikely Revolutionary
Forty years ago this city was celebrating peace and love and Expo 67. Not me, though. I was babysitting, cheerleading and watching Star Trek. It was my thoroughly square mother who became the unlikely revolutionary
By Anne Novak

1977: Born in the USA
Faced with the choice between a couple of years in Vietnam and a couple of years in the slammer, I chose Vancouver
By Daniel Wood

1987: Genesis X
I was designing baby cribs and preparing for an art show. Then I got a message on my answering machine...
By Douglas Coupland
(Editor's note: this article is not available online.)

1997: Easy Come, Easy Go
Ten years ago, the city was full of optimism and prosperity. Does 1997 hold a lesson for the Vancouver of 2007?
By Jim Sutherland

2007: The Great Beyond
What kind of city will Vancouver be 40 years from now? That's up to us. Let's hope we make the decision in an informed, farsighted way
By Matt O'Grady


EATING + DRINKING

Fine Dining: A brief history
Ten moments in the last 40 years that changed the course of Vancouver's culinary destiny. Plus, a history of the Pre-Arugula Era
By Jamie Maw

A La Carte
Shopping with Brenda Cortes Castrejon from Dona Cata, South Cambie goes gourmet, and a knife that will sharpen your cooking skills
By Murray Bancroft

Drink
Oh, the things we used to drink back in 1967. Cracklin' Rosé, anyone? Calona Red? Cherry Cream?
By Christina Burridge



ENDMARK

Social Butterfly
Before the days of In Touch, Entertainment Tonight, and Tmz.com, gossip was dished by society columnists who charted the comings and goings (and triumphs and indiscretions) of the city's elite. For 15 years, nobody did it better than Valerie Gibson in the pages of this magazine
By Malcolm Parry