Vancouver Magazine
Burdock and Co Is Celebrating a Decade in Business with a 10-Course Tasting Menu
The Frozen Pizza Chronicles Vol. 3: Big Grocery Gets in on the Game
The Best Thing I Ate All Week: Crab Cakes from Smitty’s Oyster House on Main Street
Wine Collab of the Week: A Cool-Kid Fizz on Main Street
The Grape Escape for Wine Enthusiasts
5 Wines To Zero In On at This Weekend’s Bordeaux Release
If you get a 5-year fixed mortgage rate now, can you break early when rates fall?
5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (September 18-24)
10 Vancouver International Film Festival Movies We’ll Be Lining Up For
Dark Skies in Utah: Chasing Cosmic Connection on the Road
Fall Wedges and Water in Kamloops
Glamping Utah: Adventure Has Never Felt So Good
On the Rise: Meet Vancouver Jewellery Designer Jamie Carlson
At Home With Photographer Evaan Kheraj and Fashion Stylist Luisa Rino
At Home With Interior Designer Aleem Kassam
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.