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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

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

Where To Have Your Own Silhouette Cut

July 20, 2012/0 Comments/in Culture & Leisure /by Editor

Renowned silhouette artist Karl “Scissorhands” Johnson will be in West Vancouver this Sunday to preserve your profile for posterity.

MONEY WELL SPENT | Do you think that the up-tick of interest in scissor-cut silhouette portraits is a reaction to the fact that camera phone mug shots are ubiquitous and—Instagram aside—so ordinary? Probably not, but handmade silhouette portraits do feel like a fresh and charming alternative to digital. They also feel nostalgic in the way print film photographs and handwritten letters do—only cooler. Read more

Entertain “Kinfolk” Style This Summer

July 13, 2012/2 Comments/in Culture & Leisure, Entertaining, FOOD, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Instead of booking a last-minute summer trip, take a page from Kinfolk magazine —and make the most of staying home.

SUMMER FARE | If you use the school calendar—June through August—as a way to measure summer days and have yet to find the time to get away or relax absolutely, you have six weeks remaining to do something fun and seasonal. But these six weeks will slip away on you like the last six did if you don’t make kicking back a priority. Read more

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Fast Relief: How To Make Embossed Cards Quick

June 6, 2012/6 Comments/in Culture & Leisure, D.I.Y., DECOR & DESIGN, DIY, HOME, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All DIY Stories, View All Home Stories, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

The perfect alternative to E-cards, these beautifully embossed greeting cards are super simple to make.

CREATIVE SOLUTION | Embossing your own stationery is super easy. You will need 90-pound watercolor paper (although you can emboss on lighter papers), a burnishing tool and some sort of template to outline the image. Almost anything with relief will work; I used a metal drain tile from a plumbing store, a simple bracket from a hardware store and a leaf template I found at a graphic arts supply store. Read more

Go {Really} Big Or Go Home At The Cineplex

June 1, 2012/10 Comments/in Culture & Leisure /by Editor

Cineplex cheap movie Tuesday just got cheaper. Here’s how you can see jumbo-screen movies at a lovely, discounted price.

SUPER VALUE | With Apple TV, a local video store (yes, we still have one in our neighbourhood) and Netflix to choose from, my dh and I rarely leave home for a movie anymore—why would we want to deal with crowds and potentially bad seats when we can watch most of what we care to see on our large flat-screen TV with (admittedly dated) in-wall surround sound.

But all that has changed after last week, when friends asked us to join them in downtown Vancouver on “cheap movie Tuesday” to see Snow White and the Huntsman at the Scotiabank Theatre’s UltraAVX. Read more

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The Write Thing: Send A Handwritten Note

May 11, 2012/1 Comment/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Culture & Leisure /by Editor

This perfect Mother’s Day gift costs nothing more than thought and time—plus proves the pen is mightier than the charge card.

KEEPING IT REAL | Wherever you look on the internet today you’re going to be clobbered with last-minute gift ideas. Since when did Mother’s Day (this coming Sunday), an occasion honoring maternal bonds and the influence of mothers on society, become so hyper-commercialized that we now feel compelled to prove our mother love by purchasing the sorts of presents typically reserved for birthdays or Christmas.

Flowers and corner-store cards are one thing, says my friend Tansy Palmer, “but gadgets and gift certificates for Mother’s Day? No way. Mother’s Day is about gratitude and emotional connection not buying stuff.” Read more

Stage Presents: See Live Theatre For Free

May 3, 2012/0 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure /by Editor

Get more out of live theatre performances by working behind the scenes—save on ticket purchases, too.

GIVE & GET | Calling all theatre junkies! If you can’t survive the summer without multiple doses of Bard on the Beach and TUTS: Theatre under the Stars (where you can see Titanic The Musical this summer), are biting your nails until the next batch of Fringe Festival offerings and love all the live-and-in-your-face independent theatre, well, ticket prices will add up. Volunteering is a way to see more theatre for less money and be an insider to boot. Read more

Craft Beers Really Are Quite Simple To Make

May 2, 2012/1 Comment/in CANADIAN CONTENT, FOOD, Food & Drink, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Craft beers are surprisingly simple to make—economical, too. All you need is a little equipment and the advice of a homebrew guru.

DO IT YOURSELF | Vancouver has made a name for itself as Canada’s microbrew capitol. As the trend and palates for craft beer continue to grow, artistic DIYers are brewing up their own spins on flavourful favourites at home for little more than pennies a pint.

Not so long ago my husband and I tried some delicious homebrew. Intrigued, we questioned the couple who’d made it on the ins and outs of their hobby while our silent glances said, “We could totally do that!” And we did. Read more

Turn Slides Into Digital Versions Effortlessy

April 20, 2012/6 Comments/in Goods & Services, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

These companies will turn your stockpile of old media—colour photos, slides and negatives—into new digital versions, saving you both time and effort.

SAVE TIME & EFFORT | What’s on your bucket list? Exotic travel? Learning how to play an instrument or speak a foreign language? What about creating a digital inventory of the gazillions of snapshots and slides you’ve got stashed in drawers and boxes around your house? That fun (hahaha) undertaking is on my list for posterity (plus iPad) reasons but was buried near the bottom until a recent article in the NYT persuaded me to push it to the top. Written by my tech journalist crush Farhad Manjoo, it outlined the various options for converting all manner of old media—photos, videos, cassette tapes, paper documents—to new digital versions. Yeah! Just what I’d been looking for, a relatively painless not-so-expensive fix. Read more

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