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The Return of Vintage Neon Signs
A blonde in a green bathing suit leaps from a motel sign in Mesa, Arizona, splashing down into electric blue water. She’s been diving, over and over, for about 57 years—minus a blip in 2010 when a...
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Leisure Center
Acutely avant-garde store Leisure Center is situated in a Casper Mueller Kneer Architects–designed former warehouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown. With an aesthetic that melds art deco with futuristic...
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Herschel’s Homecoming
Herschel Supply Co. has made its mark internationally, its backpacks and luggage populating airports, city streets, and campuses around the world. And the Vancouver-born brand now has a new home at...
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Ian Gillespie
When Ian Gillespie was a boy, living with his parents in Port Coquitlam, B.C., a visit from a cousin changed his life. From his bedroom in the small bungalow where his parents still reside, Gillespie...
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Chef Andrea Carlson of Vancouver’s Burdock & Co.
The humble turnip: it’s usually not the first thing that springs to mind when people are asked to name their favourite vegetable. Yet it was one bite of a fresh turnip, newly harvested from the fields...
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The Curious Case of Patricia Piccinini
When Patricia Piccinini talks about her sculptures, her eyes soften, but her body tenses. Like most mothers, she wants to advocate for these children of hers, but she knows they are at the mercy of the...
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Chef Hidekazu Tojo
Think back to the first time you tried sushi. If it was in North America, chances are a California roll was among your initial bites of this delicacy—it’s the gateway sushi for many. California rolls...
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Chef’s Table: Seigo Nakamura
Flame-seared sushi. It seems like an oxymoron, but giving the kiss of fire to impeccably fresh seafood is the alchemic key to creating an innovative style of sushi known as aburi. Shari, or seasoned...
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Heat Laliberte’s One Arrow Meats
If, as Anthony Bourdain once said, the professional kitchen is a place where some people find a new family, Heat Laliberte found his upon moving to Vancouver in 2004 at age 20, following a tumultuous...
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Foundation of Change
One morning in July 2013, David Suzuki’s wife, Tara Cullis, was swimming in the ocean in front of their Point Grey home in Vancouver. Suddenly, she couldn’t breathe. She barely made it to shallow...
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Assouline’s New Book Corner at Leisure Center
When was the last time you visited a bookstore? Publisher Assouline wants to give you the same cozy, stimulating experience with its “book corners”—the only Canadian one newly installed at Leisure...
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Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson of Published on Main
When executive chef Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson begins conceptualizing a new menu item at Vancouver’s Published on Main, he turns to his flavour library for the building blocks. Stored in the...
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The Coveted Story
When staging and property stylist Enjy Fouad noticed a surge in demand for home renovations and improvement projects during the pandemic, it gave her an idea. “My focus was naturally shifted to...
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The Excellence of Art Advisory Firm Howard495
Krista Howard, founder of Howard495, has always been artistically inclined. Growing up in B.C.’s Interior, she sculpted often and made little creatures that she sold in a local art gallery shop. She...
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Sara Roka On Her Fashion Journey From Vancouver to Milan
When Sara Roka packs for a weekend away, her case will contain “two dresses and eight pairs of shoes,” the fashion designer says. And in what was originally planned to be the office in her apartment in...
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Elio Volpe Brings Campania to Cambie Village
Combining the finest ingredients from its Pacific Northwest home with the time-honoured traditions of Southern Italian cuisine, Osteria Elio Volpe is the latest addition to Vancouver’s culinary scene...
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West Coast Darling Burdock & Co. is Getting its Own Cookbook
The humble turnip: it’s usually not the first thing that springs to mind when people are asked to name their favourite vegetable. Yet it was one bite of a fresh turnip, newly harvested from the fields...
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Foundation of Change
One morning in July 2013, David Suzuki’s wife, Tara Cullis, was swimming in the ocean in front of their Point Grey home in Vancouver. Suddenly, she couldn’t breathe. She barely made it to shallow...
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Manny Jacinto Wants to Be a Force for Change
The other day, Manny Jacinto desperately needed a social media detox, so the Filipino Canadian actor turned off his phone and took his dogs to spend the balmy June afternoon having a picnic in the park...
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How Vancouver’s Haven Became an International Streetwear Brand
Arthur and Daniel Chmielewski, the brother duo behind Haven, cut a fine figure in their attire, composed almost entirely of clothing from Haven’s eponymous in-house line. They seem almost...
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