Vancouver Magazine
Opening Soon: A Japanese-Style Bagel Shop in Downtown Vancouver
The Broadway/Cambie Corridor Has Become a Hub for Excellent Chinese Restaurants
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Wine Collab of the Week: The Best Bottle to Welcome a Vancouver Spring
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The Orpheum to Launch ‘Silent Movie Mondays’ This Spring
5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (March 27-April 2)
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
4 Fashion Designers From African Fashion Week Vancouver to Put on Your Radar
Before Hibernation Season Ends: A Round-Up of the Coziest Shopping Picks
These winning local products defy categorization.
Though it’s the sneaky repurposing of pulp novel covers into freshly bound notebooks that wowed our judges, we’d also like to applaud Paperbacknote’s clever repurposing of the old books’ interior pages as well. The brand creates coasters and origami-inspired artworks out of old chunks of Archie Comics and the like, giving forgotten reads a new life on multiple fronts. But back to the winning product itself: cheeky retro paperback covers wrap fresh, crisp blank pages, carefully hand-bound and ready and waiting for writers to craft a new story (or grocery list, let’s be real) of their own.
$25, paperbacknote.com
We’re suckers for a beautiful bouquet, but these arrangements smell even sweeter: all net proceeds go to a new charitable cause each month. Most of the blooms and foliage are grown locally or hand-cut from florist Megan Davis’s own garden—a low impact on the planet, a high impact on social change.
$30, perennialgatherings.com