Vancouver Magazine
Care to travel the world, one plate at time? Visit Kamloops.
Flaky, Fluffy and Freaking Delicious: Vancouver’s Top Fry Bread and Bannock
The Best Gelato in Canada Was Made in a Hotel Room (and You Can Get it Now in Kitsilano)
Wine Collab of the Week: The Best Bottle to Welcome a Vancouver Spring
Naked Malt Blended Malt Scotch Whisky Celebrates Versatility and Spirit
A $13 Wine You Can Age in Your Cellar
5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (March 20-26)
5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (March 13-19)
Looking for a Hobby? Here’s 8 Places in Vancouver You Can Pick Up a New Skill
What It’s Like to Get Lost on a Run With a Pro Trail Runner
8 Things to Do in Abbotsford (Even If It’s Pouring Rain)
Explore the Rockies by Rail with Rocky Mountaineer
The Future of Beauty: How One Medical Aesthetics Clinic is Changing the Game
Before Hibernation Season Ends: A Round-Up of the Coziest Shopping Picks
On the Rise: Adhere To’s Puffer Jackets Are Designed With the Future in Mind
Lighten up your city commute with a cartoon-like electric car. These puppies max out at 60 kph, but who cares? The City of Vancouver has a new bylaw that allows the cars on any road with a speed limit of 50. Which means people might actually buy these energy-saving putt-putts.
You’re a diva. You’re divine. You’re gambling with high-rollers in an Italian villa. Actually, you’re in Burnaby at the Grand Villa Casino, which boasts two floors teeming with 1,000 slot machines and 50 tables. Learn to love it; slot-pumping in chrome hallways is the new (nickel-a-pop) escape. Gatewaycasinos.com and Bclc.com
Colossal, sweeping wooden arches—possible thanks to the innovative Fast & Epp engineering team—make the $178-million Richmond Oval an architectural boon, but the 8,000-seat speed-skating venue will need to become multipurpose after the games in order to justify its creation (6200 River Rd.). On the opposite side of the practicality spectrum, Canada Line, the new SkyTrain connecting Richmond, YVR, and downtown, is the most eagerly anticipated and tangible gift to the city. Coal Harbour to the airport? 20 minutes. Servicebegins in November. Canadaline.ca
Tiqa, Canada’s first captive-born beluga, made waves with aquarium-goers—and also with conservationists,who’ve had no luck increasing wild beluga populations. She’s also something of an attention hog. Blow her a kiss on your way to the Frogs Forever exhibit, with 26 species of an animal being decimated by environmental chaos. The redeyed tree frog is particularly alarming.
A sweeping addition to the convention centre, with six acres of “living roof” and 400,000 varieties of indigenous plants, breathes new life into the old Expo 86 site. The state-of-the-art building boasts seawater heating and cooling systems, on-site water treatment, and a marine habitat built into its foundation, making the renovated centre one of the greenest in the world.
Planting is under way on the roof of the Pan Pacific, where chef Daryle Nagata is building a herb garden of biblical proportions. The plots will take up more than 3,000 square feet (roughly the size of six Vancouver condos), and will produce over 100 varieties of edible plants: dwarf apple trees, wasabi, alpine strawberries, marshmallow plants, and edible tulips are just a few.
It was a long time coming, but the material girl finally burst in (and quickly out) of our scene October 30. GM Place flooded with 55,000 locals hungry to be part of the city’s first glimpse of the world’s most celebrated diva.
Number 42 has become one of the Canucks’ leading lights. We scooped the 25-year-old forward from Toronto, which makes the points he’s racking up all the more satisfying.
In her past life, Jae Kim was a New York lawyer and Democratic Party fundraiser. After hitting town, she was drafted by the Vancouver Foundation, where she serves as president of the new Streetohome project, drawing funds from philanthropists to aide the homeless.
Direct from New York City, the new CEO of TransLink is at the helm of a burgeoning transportation system that will open up the city at last. First on the docket: the SkyTrain’s Canada Line and a new bridge to replace the Pattullo.
