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Stay in A Beautiful Apartment Not A Hotel

Put your visitors in a beautiful high-rise apartment in downtown Vancouver for less than the price of a hotel.

TRAVEL ADVISORY | When guests are coming to town and a pullout couch won’t do, Vancouver Extended Stay offers fully equipped apartments that feel like home—but better! These suites give you far greater value for your money than a traditional hotel without compromising on quality.

Located just off Robson Street and two blocks from Burrard Street, Vancouver Extended Stay is situated in the residential towers of The Residences on Georgia and The Palisades. This neighbourhood is one of the most vibrant in the city; it’s where visitors want to be. Read more

Where To Find Baker’s Twine In Metro Van

December 19, 2012/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Goods & Services /by Editor

Wired and curly have been the most popular ribbons for adding pizzazz to presents; now bakers twine is giving them a run for their money—here’s where to buy it locally.

HOLIDAY 2012 | Blame it on Kinfolk—the magazine that celebrates all things beautiful, simple and uncontrived—or on the makers and lovers of plain-made and plainly presented goods in places like Portland or Brooklyn, or even Etsy, but bakers twine, the string commonly used by pastry shops worldwide to tie up their boxes of baked goods in a way that makes them easy to carry, is the ribbon du jour for stylish Christmas presents. Read more

Studio Sessions At The Eastside Culture Crawl

November 4, 2012/1 Comment/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure /by Editor

Doing the Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver’s longest-standing open studio event, calls for getting strategic.

SHOPPING AROUND | With 427 artists showing their artworks and wares at 82 different locations, it’s hard to know how to attack Vancouver’s 15th annual Eastside Culture Crawl, which starts November 16 at 5 p.m. and continues through Sunday.

If you’re like me, there’s no way you have more than an afternoon to spare gallivanting around these studios so you’ll need to get strategic. Read more

Where The Ghouls Are: The Secret Souls Walk

October 22, 2012/4 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure /by Editor

In Vancouver, The Secret Souls Walk is our favourite spooktacular interactive Halloween adventure.

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MAKE ME SCREAM | There are plenty of public opportunities to get your BOO! on this week, including houses so haunted they’ll scare the bejesus out of you (Dunbar Haunted House and Fright Nights At Playland are among our favourite scariest). But I’m happy to report that my all-time personal favourite eerie Halloween activity is the torch-lit Parade of Lost Souls Secret Souls Walk, which takes place on Saturday, October 27th, at a mysterious locale somewhere among the back alleys, streets and open spaces around the Commercial Drive area. Read more

It’s Pea Coat Weather! Our 6 Top Jacket Picks

September 10, 2012/3 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Classics & Trends, FASHION, Fashion & Beauty /by Editor

Fall is pea coat weather. Here are six hot jackets that can handle the oncoming chill. (LOOKBOOK)

BUY RIGHT | While it may not possess the enduring absolutely-have-to-have status of an archetypal trench coat, the classic pea coat (it’s actually a jacket) is one of those iconic fashion items that enjoys recurring cachet. Read more

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Must-See BC: Ann Rose Picks Her Top 3 Spots

August 20, 2012/6 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Go Here Now, Travel, TRAVEL, View All Travel Stories /by Editor

What’s on your provincial Travel Life List? Westworld magazine editor Anne Rose picks three of her top spots.

OUR CANADIAN LIFE | Can familiarity really breed dismissal? When it comes to travel, there is always the possibility that locals, wherever they live, will think that only destinations far from home are remotely exotic and rare.

British Columbia has plenty of peerless places the rest of the world flocks to see, and if you haven’t taken the time to visit any of them, you don’t know the whole story about where you live. Anne Rose, editor-in-chief at Westworld magazine, has travelled extensively close to home. Here she shares with Frugalbits readers three superior ways to experience what’s exotic about Canada’s westernmost province. Read more

Products We Love From Local Molo Design

July 23, 2012/0 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure, DECOR & DESIGN, HOME, View All Home Stories /by Editor

The latest architectural offering from molo, Canada’s magicians of light (both natural and manufactured)—plus four of our favourite molo products.

PRICELESS | This little story has nothing to do with our ongoing conversation about saving money, time or energy, but it is about celebrating hometown design heroes—molo’s Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen—and visually devouring their latest creation, an activity that’s absolutely free. Read more

The Write Stuff: Notebooks From Daiso

July 4, 2012/0 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Goods & Services, HOME, Organizing, View All Home Stories /by Editor

If it’s a proper notebook you need, there is no better—or less expensive—place to buy one than at Daiso, our favourite $2 store.

CHEAP & PERFECT | Say what you will about the note-taking capabilities of a laptop, smartphone or tablet, sometimes it’s more satisfying—and quicker—to write stuff on actual paper. For me, jotting works best on notebooks that are both attractive and quirky, and the best selection of these kinds of notebooks I know of is at Daiso, my favourite dollar-style store. Read more

3 Quick Canada Day Desserts

June 29, 2012/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Food & Drink, HOLIDAY /by Editor

Let us not eat cake! Three fast and furious desserts for Canada Day dinner that will leave you plenty of time to man your fireworks viewing station. (RECIPES)

DEAD EASY & QUICK | With forecasters predicating only the slightest possibility of showers on Canada Day, we’re betting you’ll want to get outside on July 1st, not drag around in the kitchen. To the rescue, then, three delicious-beyond-all-reason desserts with almost no prep time—after all, who’s got a minute for laborious productions when there are fireworks to view! Read more

Gluten-Free Cloud 9 Flour Is Heavenly

June 22, 2012/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, FOOD, Food & Drink, View All Food Stories /by Editor

With this made-in-Canada gluten-free flour, Gwyneth Paltrow’s oatmeal raisin cookies are even more heavenly. (RECIPE)

BUY RIGHT | Everywhere you look these days in supermarkets, on restaurant menus and in deli display cases you’ll find gluten-free options. This is great for anyone with celiac disease, a serious gastrointestinal disorder marked by an inability to absorb the protein gluten. It’s good news, too, for those simply sensitive to wheat or who have “wheat belly,” extra body fat carried in the mid section and attributed to the wheat strains grown today (they supposedly contain more protein than they once did). Read more