aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

It was on Saturday that I was finally able to take Rebecca and Lauren to see the show Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum at the Vancouver Art Gallery.Rebecca kept asking me, Is that an original? ...

topics: gallery, kerrisdale, museum, vancouver-art-gallery

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

In 1967 my Argentine Merchant Marine Victory Ship, the ELMA R o Aguapey docked in New Orleans. It was December 24th. I was the only passenger. I had never spent Christmas away from my family. I felt a tad sad so I decided that the solution was to go...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Lock them up until they're clean. Where is the logic in thousands of people taking drugs that turn their lives into a miserable shuffle toward death? Where is the logic in warehousing addicts in a neighbourhood where drugs are sold on every block? W...

topics: business, coal-harbour, federal-government, gastown, kerrisdale

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

A week ago on Saturday, Rosemary and I took my first cousin Willoughby Blew and his wife Chris to Lillooet to visit my eldest daughter Ale. For me it was glorious as I was en familia which is a Spanish term which sort of means happily with f...

topics: kerrisdale, photography

aggregated from: Chow Times

The bad thing about having a food blogger dinner at Long s is that we can t stay long. We already over extended our welcome at Long s when we stayed over 2 hours. Long s was kind enough not to shoo us away.As a matter of fact, they were rather re...

topics: kerrisdale, restaurant, restaurant-review, richmond

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Of late Rosemary and I have been filing our family Pictures. Until Rebecca was born 11 years ago our files were lose in groups called early 70s or early 80s. But as soon are Rebecca came along and then Lauren I began to take so many pictures that we...

topics: burnaby, kerrisdale

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Of late Rosemary and I have been filing our family pictures. Until Rebecca was born 11 years ago our files were loose in groups called early 70s or early 80s . But as soon are Rebecca came along and then Lauren I began to take so many pictures th...

topics: burnaby, kerrisdale

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

For many of my 30 years in Vancouver, I was plagued by Italian cars with a slipping clutch. My mechanic, Girolamo Clemente, would say, It could fail today, in a week, or in a year. I can't tell you when. So I became used to nursing a slipping c...

topics: kerrisdale, opera

aggregated from: condohype

This weekend it was sunny and it snowed, and Oprah didn t buy the penthouse. Vancouver is a crazy place. I love it to death, never mind my occasional mad rant. Isn t being a curmudgeon is part of who we are? Whether it s Kerrisdale NIMBYs, Bu...

topics: kerrisdale, real-estate

aggregated from: Stylefinds

Wanny Tang, a Vancouver Fashion Week veteran, hosted her store's launch party last week. There were fashionably dressed people, requisite glasses of bubbly, and a fashion show of the spring line.Karen's ThoughtsFor me, the best in show were the cut-...

topics: design, fashion, kerrisdale