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steals and deals

April 6th, 2007
Enjoy your weekly dose of vitamin v steals & deals from our fabulous sponsors. Ready, set, shop! wine time Drink to your health, your wealth and everything else with Wolf Blass’s new 2004 Bilyara Reserve Cabernet ($16.99/750 ml, SKU 948273) and 2006 Bilyara Reserve Chardonnay ($15.99/750 ml, SKU 515411). Both come in the world’s first shatterproof, lightweight bottles ...

queen for a day

April 6th, 2007
Herewith, an afternoon of shopping and drinks on Toronto's Queen Street West. drink Clafouti Patisserie & Café, 915 Queen Street West, 416-603-1935 Francophiles will love Clafouti's perfectly sized and ultra-flaky croissants, mouth-watering brioche and piping hot café allongé. It's clearly the café for Queen Street West's hipster types (enter Maggie Gyllenhaal l ...

art house

April 4th, 2007
Marie Antoinette is so last season. This month's bravest biopic is the Vancouver premiere of Klimt, which stars the inimitable John Malkovich as the famed art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, best known for "The Kiss." Set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and featuring the gorgeous Saffron Burrows, there's plenty of eccentricity, sex, lots of gold leaf, and, naturally, a tragic ...

spring a-head

April 4th, 2007
So you're trying to channel 1960s Brigitte Bardot with your vintage silk scarf tied like a headband. Only you're not quite so chic when you're picking it up off the floor every three minutes. The genius silk headbands ($35) from New York's

plastic fantastic

April 2nd, 2007
By calling their store The Fabulous Find, these entrepreneurs must have confidence. And so they should with the speed at which the vintage scores are rotating (a white ball chair lasted four hours). While we love the vintage Marimekko children's curtains from Finland, and mid-century light fixtures and chandeliers, the real score here is sleek melamine dishware and c ...

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