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Local Gift Guide 2023: For the Pets

Delight your four-legged friends this holiday season with our selection of top-notch pet gifts, featuring everything from chic feeding bowls to interactive toys, ensuring your pets enjoy the festivities as much as you do.

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Local Gift Guide 2023: For the Kids

Discover a world of fun for the little ones with our handpicked selection of kid-friendly gifts, featuring everything from imaginative building sets to cuddly companions, ensuring smiles all around.

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Local Gift Guide 2023: Holiday Magic at The Cross

Celebrating 20 years of holiday cheer, The Cross Decor and Design offers an array of unique and delightful gifts, from luxurious candles to cozy home accents, in Yaletown's transformed winter wonderland.

Power 50

VanMag’s 2019 Power 50 List

Politics to real estate to activism to tech: it's our 19th annual ranking of the city's most influential power players.

Bars and Lounges

Calling All Board Game Fanatics

As geeks continue to inherit the Earth, these local bars are thriving. In other words, if you’re more interested in playing games of the board variety than watching the one on TSN, these taverns are for you, Vorhat Oakmane of Mirabar.

Home Decor

Made-in-Vancouver gift guide for the pets

Pets are just as much a part of the family as anyone. Maybe even more so (we’re talking to you, druncle). Here, a takeaway of Vancouver’s best local treats for the one who loves you best.

Home Decor

Made-in-Vancouver gift guide for the home

Escape the poinsettia-printed platters this season. Handwoven blankets, modern wall art, and candles scented with essential oils all create charm that can be enjoyed year-round

Stores

Made-in-Vancouver gift guide for her

Avoid the shop-till-you-drop cycle this holiday. From pyjamas to skin cream to perfect hostess gifts, a roundup of local gifts that now make holiday shopping festive and fun.

Day Trips

Ladner

Sea air, hiking trails and all its natural elements are making Ladner a catch

Restaurants

Eating and Drinking Guide 2010: Best Takeout

Provence MarinasideMix-and-match French Med antipasti, sandwiches, and pastas like roasted-eggplant farro salad, grilled chicken on baguette with tomato aioli, and wild-mushroom ravioli. Or let chef-owners Jean-Francis and Alessandra Quaglia pack up their English Bay picnic for two (antipasti, dessert, fruit, baguette, drink; $35) in a returnable wicker basket with cutlery...

Restaurants

25 Meals Under $25

781 Denman St., 604-568-4554. Nookrestaurant.caThere are many things to love about Nook, a slim, neighbourly room on the Denman strip between Robson and Georgia. The salads are properly dressed, and the crostini are fresh and inventive, but it’s the puffy Neapolitan-style pizza ($13-$15), artfully blistered by the glitzy Woodstone gas...