aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Never heard of this! Why!?Hidden near English Bay, along with the HR McMillan Space Centre and The Vancouver Maritime Museum, is the Museum of Vancouver, which is definitely an alternative to the Vancouver Art Gallery hands-on and interactive versu...

topics: artist, author, design, documentary, gallery

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Dandelion Records & Emporium, a design store located on Main and Broadway (2442 Main Street), is a place that I can honestly lose myself in for hours while admiring their nice selection of stationary. Not only do they carry amazing stationary, they a...

topics: design, yaletown

aggregated from: Vancouverite

I can see now why I don't hit up Maclean's home page too often. I never noticed before that Maclean's sort of completely ripped off the design of The Daily Beast? ...

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]Last week I watched the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre with NDP Leader Carole James and MLA Bruc...

topics: arts, bc-government, business, candidate, design

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

This past summer I went to 'Park This!' which was a panel discussion on bicycle parking options at the Museum of Vancouver. It bemoaned this city's far below average bicycle parking options. I have long found Vancouver to be an easy city to bike arou...

topics: bicycle, commercial-drive, design, museum, park

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

So, I don't know about you guys, but over the years I've found some real gems in Vancouver alleyways, free sections of apartments, and thrift store free bins. A few days ago I found this book placed carefully on a chair in the alleyway outside my a...

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Ahhhh, Christmas 1951. Let me just through another Yule Log on the fire and pour myself a hot toddy. Oh, and get my pack of Pall Mall cigarettes. Sweet: 1. Cure for throat-scratch was, duh, Pall Mall Cigarettes2. Santa smoked back then. Yeah he did...

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Some months ago the Vancouver Public Space Network held a competition in which entrants were supposed to design a public square for Vancouver's citizens to gather in the downtown core. But, wait a tic--don't we already have a public square? Built in ...

topics: design, downtown, gallery, jazz, plaza

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Wait, what, cold, windy weather has turned the Olympic flame, in the Olympic Fail: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic flame has been extinguished a dozen times so far due to cold, windy weather, said torch relay officials.But while 2010 relay boss Jim Richar...

topics: design, olympics, vancouver-2010

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Origami Master Joseph Wu also has a sense of humor to accompany his nimble fingers and creative mind.A few years ago he created a design called When Pigs Have Wings which I first saw at the Pacific Origami Conference at the Hotel Vancouver in Novem...