Olympic Village (under construction)
Flickr photo is one of many I took on a warm, early fall Sunday morning down in False Creek.
Flickr photo is one of many I took on a warm, early fall Sunday morning down in False Creek.
The Vancouver Sun reports that parent company Kraft is closing the Dickson’s Coffee near Cambie & 8th Avenue. Thirty employees will lose their jobs, and the neighbourhood loses the aroma of fresh roasted coffee beans. I even noted the coffee scent in a story I wrote 18 years ago. The intersection of Cambie and West […]
BowMac neon sign circa 1996, photo by SqueakMarmot Like so many dads with young kids do every day, I parked quickly at the Toys R Us on West Broadway, to make a quick dash into the store to purchase a gift. I parked on the roof and took the stairs down to the street. The […]
A got a smile out of this shot, which I took at a liquor store in my neighbourhood.
What do you say when someone representing a brewery calls and asks you if you want a night out on the beer? Err… yes? Finally, blogging has paid off for me. Years of tapping the keyboard resulted in a lovely reward: beer. Mmm. Actually, it was a pretty cool roll-out of the new Rickards White […]
I attended the Metro Vancouver sustainability breakfast for the first time this morning. The topic was bottled water, why we should ban it, how to wean schools off it and what constitutes “pure” drinking water. I learned a bunch of facts which I can hardly sum up in this post, but here are a few […]
The work of the Vancouver City Planning Commission has reached a feverish pace as we come to the end of our 2007-2008 program we’ve labeled, A City Built for Change. Tomorrow night a lecture takes place at the Vancouver Museum (aka The Planetarium) featuring Professor Robert Kronenburg, Head of the Dept. of Architecture, University of […]
Nude cycling protesters photo courtesy Carrall Street Journal I love my city. It can be an obnoxious place sometimes. Nude cyclists protest at police station Naked cyclists converged on Vancouver's main police station Saturday after a man was arrested with his three-year-old son during a nude ride earlier in the day. Naked Bike Ride spokesman […]
Vancouver political junkies rejoice: Frances Bula is back on the net at www.francesbula.com after a short, post-Vancouver Sun hiatus from her City States blog. Frances admitted being a little surprised by the popularity of City States. Her newspaper editors insisted that readers didn’t want all that information. Blogging proved to her otherwise. Readers wanted all […]