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Easy Listening

January 27th, 2010
JANUARY 27TH, 2010 Easy Listening If your idea of making a playlist is selecting “shuffle,” we can do you one better. Providing maximum music with minimal effort is Slacker Personal Radio. Now available in Canada, the subscription-based site offers a slew of stations for whatever genre tickles your eardrum. Choose from the likes of indie hits, hip hop, '60s rock, or create a custom s ...

Valentine's Day Gift Guide Vancouver

January 26th, 2010
JANUARY 26TH, 2010 Valentine's Day Gift Guide Vancouver The Olympics may eclipse Valentine's Day this year, but we still have love for the saccharine celebration with a slew of offbeat and saucy gift ideas. Herewith, our picks: An inscription vase (from $135) let's you write a love message (and erase it) and a porcelain love charm ($15) says it too, but with fragility. At Walrus, ww ...

Muff Maintenance

January 25th, 2010
JANUARY 25TH, 2010 Muff Maintenance Land down under, lady business, love box—whatever cutesy name you have for it, it requires some tender loving care. Enter I Love My Muff. The Vancouver company has created a four-step system for keeping your secret garden smelling fragrant. The wash, spray, lotion and on-the-go individual wipes that make up their maintenance kits ($38) are all n ...

Cup of Plenty

January 23rd, 2010
JANUARY 23RD, 2010 Cup of Plenty Things you dream of:a) A week - make that two - in Cabo.b) Getting your roots done.c) Finishing a cup of coffee before it gets stone cold. Perfect for Valentine's Day, this handmade "Hold Me" felt-wrapped mug ($42) will keep your cuppa warm while you wake, dress, feed, and get the brood out the door every morning. Now you just need something like this to ...

Thai This

January 22nd, 2010
JANUARY 22ND, 2010 Thai This Vancouver's hottest temple of Thai food, Maenam, just refreshed its menu (and our cocktails) as we pulled up our chairs for a sneak peek. Still on are the crispy, battered B.C. Golden Mantle oysters ($8), lest there be riots in the mean street of Kitsilano. We recommend the hot and sour Sloping Hills pork soup ($16 for two), the Jungle Curry of sable fish ...

Bacci's Blowout

January 21st, 2010
Enjoy your weekly dose of vitamin daily steals & deals from our fabulous sponsors. Ready, set, shop! Bacci's Blowout Don't miss Bacci's one-day-only Loft Sale this Sunday. Women's collections (like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Paul Smith, Rick Owens and more) are up to 80 per cent off. Unbelievable deals abound: shoes $50, boots $100, belts/scarves $25, ...

Home Pages

January 21st, 2010
JANUARY 21ST, 2010 Home Pages You know we're fond of free online magazines, and we've got another to add to your bookmark bar that'll have you dreaming of new home décor. Lonny, a hybrid of London and New York, is the product of two staffers from the dearly departed Domino magazine. Bringing interior design inspiration to the digital masses, it functions like a paper mag with pages ...

Drama-rama

January 20th, 2010
JANUARY 20TH, 2010 Drama-rama Our favourite avant-garde performing arts festival is back to bring us wackiness and wonder before the Winter Games descend. Herewith, our pick of the PuSh Festival plays: The Show Must Go OnIn the new SFY Woodward's building, 20 Vancouver locals bring to life Parisian choreographer Jérôme Bel's signature work, which The New York Times called “sly, witt ...

River Rock ‘n' Roll

January 19th, 2010
January 19, 2010 River Rock ‘n' Roll The boys in The Hangover may have tangled with Tyson and kidnapped a tiger, but that's amateur night compared to your wild girls' weekends in Vegas. Easier than corralling a group of gals to find their passports, River Rock Casino Resort has plenty of bright-lights-big-city action. Perfect for a bachelorette party, a birthday, or post-breakup boy ...

Eh Bay

January 19th, 2010
JANUARY 19TH, 2010 Eh Bay Nothing is quite as iconically Canadian as the Hudson's Bay Company (it predates the Confederation by two centuries, after all) and now they've expanded into hip new territory with their first Hudson's Bay Company store, here in Vancouver. Stationed on the main floor of its downtown flagship, the special shop-in-shop has the look of a sleek, modern cottage ...
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