Tonight is the opening reception for Sherry Cooper’s new series of narrative paintings — Seedlings of Hope on Gambier Island. Come meet the artist at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island, from 7:30 — 9:00 this evening. The show will be running until February 27 so don’t miss out! Check out www.artforcecollections.com for more info!

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” With these words, Winston Churchill concisely described the two-way relationship between human beings and architecture. Three Vancouver artists are sharing one gallery space to put forward their individual interpretations of this dynamic. Relational Spaces is the title of an exhibition taking place from January 11 to February [...]

  Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3 from 5-8 pm New work by Andrea Taylor “Moving Muybridge” waterless lithographs and etchings Eleven fine art prints in the show are painterly lithographs Andrea has recently made based on the 1880’s stop motion human locomotion photos of Eadweard Muybridge Ascending Incline. In this particular series Muybridge uses himself [...]

Intersecting Terrain is an exhibition that explores human imposition upon the environment. Both artists employ traditional landscape techniques with juxtaposition to establish the dialogue of their imagery. Techniques include traditional copper etching, digital printing, screening on canvas to layered digital decals on plexiglass. Daemon Baldwin explores human structure introduced upon the landscape from the patterning [...]

Intersecting Terrain is an exhibition that explores human imposition upon the environment. Both artists employ traditional landscape techniques with juxtaposition to establish the dialogue of their imagery. Techniques include traditional copper etching, digital printing, screening on canvas to layered digital decals on plexiglass. Daemon Baldwin explores human structure introduced upon the landscape from the patterning [...]

Artist: Lone Tratt Title: Ancient Formations I Monotype 8.5” x 8.5” Artist: Wendy Morosoff Smith Title: Reflecting on the Sea Monotype 22” x 16”         Dates of show: August 30 to September 25, 2011 Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 11-5pm Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery 1640 Johnston St Granville Island 604-689-1650 http://www.dundaraveprintworkshop.com/ http://www.dpwshoptalk.blogspot.com/

West Vancouver artist Gordon Smith and his late wife Marion collected a diversity of artworks from leading Canadian artists over their decades-long immersion in the Canadian art world. Many artists are featured in this exhibition, including one of Granville Island’s favourite emerging artists, Lesley Anderson! Lesley Anderson is an artist living and working in Vancouver. [...]

Yum! EBC is seriously representing ‘food’ism on Granville Island! Last week the brand new Edible Canada at the Market officially opened its doors to the public. The 3,500 square foot culinary centre in the heart of Granville Island is home to a vibrant bistro and artisan food retail store. The space is dedicated to promoting [...]

Dundarave Print Workshop celebrates 40 years of Printmaking and the many artists, including co-founder B.C. Binning, that have made art at Dundarave’s Granville Island cooperative Print workshop & Gallery with a juried exhibition that will show it all. Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC is 40 years old this year [...]

The Parable of the Flying Cow and Other Fabricated Stories Name of contributing artist:  Vahid Dastpak This is an exhibition of etchings by Vahid Dastpak. Vahid is a Vancouver-based artist and printmaker and has shown his work both locally and internationally. His enigmatic and symbolic presentations of familiar and yet strange places and narratives attempt [...]

Where: Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery When:  March 28 – April 30th What: Art exhibition A Corporeal Affair is collaboration between Sabina Sutherland and Mikolaj Smolinski. Their work features themes of transformation, animism, and intellect. Comments on the Art Practice itself through the exploration of varied print media. Nick Smolinski artist statement: “My work investigates [...]

Fifth Anniversary and A New Look for Michael Dean Jewellery, Now Featuring 10 Canadian Jewellery Designers Canadian Award winning Jeweller Michael Dean is celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Michael Dean Jewellery on Granville Island!  Michael Dean continues to do what he does best, hand-made jewellery using gold, platinum and silver, which feature diamonds, gemstones and [...]

Starts Friday, February 25, 2011 – 10:00am Ends Sunday, February 27, 2011 – 6:00pm Starting February 25, Granville Island will be showcasing a new exhibition entitled: Trees, Totems and Transformation.  This exhibition is featuring the work of i.e. creative artists Cheryl Hamilton and Michael Vandermeer and Haida carver Clarence Mills. These inspiring artists both articulate [...]

Creativity flows on the Island with hearts to follow. To help people get in the spirit of Valentine’s Day Jasna Sokolovic had people following their hearts with her project called ‘Finders-Keepers”, inspired by a nine-year-old’s vernacular. This fun project launched on February 11th with up to 200 ceramic dispersed across Granville Island, and in the [...]

This contest’s stories were all about Granville Island and the special place it occupies in our hearts. Thanks to our last week’s winners, Morgan Embury, Fernanda Gutierrez and Linda Nguyen for your winning submissions! Stay tuned for more news about this past Saturday’s Insider’s Tour of Granville Island, coming soon….!

When you imagine stories of the heart on Granville Island, many people immediately think of tales of random meetings of soul mates, of sweet or dramatic proposals of love, of the chance encounters of long lost friends. But one day at the Kids’ Boat Building activity two summers ago revealed a different sort of heart [...]

My best Granville Island story involves the 2010 Olympics.  My bf and I traveled all the way from the Richmond celebration site in order to check out some of Canada’s pavilions.  We got to Granville Island at around 11am and waited in line to get into the Atlantic Canada pavilion.  There was such a long [...]

This is a story about a family that lived on Granville Island during the early  1950′s. The family had roots that were over a 100 years old in the area. A mom and dad with three little ones. Two hairy boys and a girl who was pretty in pink. Yes, this is a special family. [...]

It is said the mermaid lures men lost at sea, but what if the mermaid herself is lost? With long waves of red hair she floats through the Granville Island market. She passes faces and objects of desire like sea shells, crystals, witches brooms, flowers, bread, fish, meats and cheese. All blending into a kaleidoscope of magical blessings to [...]

Granville Island is one of my favorite places on earth. I remember coming here with my family for the first time when I was little. Ever since, every single time I enter the island I feel happy. This place reminds me of the reason of why I am where I am at the moment and [...]

Emily’s Story February 5th 2011

Today brings us to the close of Week Three of the Granville Island Storytelling Contest! You can still enter the contest for one more week by going to www.granvilleislandworks.com/contest and filling out the form. Next week’s prizes include the Insider’s Tour of Granville Island, a shopping experience at Edie Hats and a gift bag including [...]

“It was a damp afternoon in the fall. As I stepped off the bus and fell in line with the stylish Emily Carr students, I relished how otherworldly the underside of the Granville Bridge felt. Moss crept and wound itself around pillars and buildings alike; strangely ominous and comforting. As I’d only been living in [...]

So what are you going to do? It’s been raining in sheets for weeks, true Vancouver style, and you’re feeling shrivelled like a prune outside. The layers of gray, wrap you tightly like a shroud, and you’re going further down inside. But you wake up one day, actually it was last Sunday, and you squint [...]

My sister, her husband and my niece visited last summer. The little one is two now and so cute. They live abroad, so we don’t get to see each other very often. So on a sunny Sunday, we ventured to Granville Island and ate ice cream on the benches facing the water and watched as [...]

I live in the suburbs and rarely venture downtown because life always seems to get in the way. But a recent job change has brought me to the Broadway Corridor, a mere 20 minute walk from Granville Island and all the magic that lies upon it. At least once a week, I venture down to [...]

When I walk through the Market I see my late brother and sister-in-law waiting at a table for me to join them for a ham and cheese croissant and coffee. I see the business where my teenage daughter, now all grown up and moved away, got her first summer job and served me with such [...]

“What is it that forms the very heart of Granville Island? You peer in the window of the boat builder’s shop. A shaft of sunlight bounces onto a wooden boat just inside and the dark-veined wood seems to glow with a radiant warmth your fingers are drawn to touch. As you walk through the door, [...]

“In March 2009, I had the opportunity to live in Vancouver for 2 months.  Originally from Toronto but studying in Halifax, I had the opportunity of completing a clinical placement in Vancouver.  I fell instantly in love with Vancouver.  I remember before arriving, my friends  told me I had to check out “”Granville Island””.  On [...]

“I moved to Vancouver from Windsor, Ontario nearly 5 years ago when I began a degree at the University of British Columbia. I was living in a residence for graduate students there and was suffering from terrible loneliness and a paralyzing fear of leaving the campus. I was afraid of getting lost in, what seemed [...]

I love Granville Island early on a sunny Saturday morning.  I like to ride my bike over the Burrard bridge.  I go by the eagle nest to see what they are up to, then head to The Blue Parrot and get coffee in a mug.  I sit outside and enjoy the water view.  Even if [...]

A year and a half ago my mother and I stumbled upon Granville Island while trying to find our way back to my new apartment. Driving up to the glowing red Granville Island sign, I remember feeling such overwhelming excitement. I felt like the whole world was changing from grey to vibrant colors. The sights [...]

This week’s submissions were great! Thanks everyone who contributed. The contest is going on until Feb. 10th with winners chosen every week, so get your story in soon! This week’s prizes include the grand prize Insider’s Tour of Granville Island, a shopping experience at Edie Hats and a gift bag with tickets to the Vancouver [...]

My girlfriend and I moved to Vancouver almost 4 years ago so I could study business at SFU and because we were both fascinated by Vancouver. We both fell in love with the charm of GI very quickly and started to bring our friends and family visiting from Quebec to GI. When i decided to [...]

The Umbrella Shop is one of the places I remember while on our honeymoon!  We were married in March 2004 and decided to come to Vancouver for our honeymoon.  My parents have a small boat on False Creek, so while we were there we ventured around Granville Island.  Why the Umbrella Shop? Over the Rainbow [...]

It is said the mermaid lures men lost at sea, but what if the mermaid herself is lost? With her long waves of red hair she floats through the market. She passes faces, objects of desire, sea shells, crystals, witches brooms, flowers, bread, fish, meats and cheese. All blending into a kaleidoscope of magical blessings [...]

“In the summer he holds my hand and takes me to where the Canadian flag flies every day of the year.  It is our first date and I have been in Canada less than a month. I stand on the hill and look out at the sparkling blue of the harbor, the towering gray buildings, [...]

“A small town in the middle of the city is how I describe where I live.  Our family has lived in False Creek for 33 years.  Our four children went to the elementary school, I worked at the community center and our shopping center was Granville Island. The countless walks along the seawall, the endless [...]

“In high school I took a tourism class and one of the class field trips was to Granville Island. The assignment during the field trip was a Scavenger Hunt around Granville Island. We were split into groups and given a packet with questions and different places at Granville Island that we need to go to. [...]

In the late sixties, while I was in university, my summer job was working for the National Harbours Board, who, at that time, was responsible for the management and maintenance of the Island. Three weeks each summer, I would be on the Island cleaning out the dirt and garbage along the railway switches and doing [...]

I love Granville Island, it has been a place of magic for all of my senses since I was small! As a child, we would go there for the day to explore all the wonderful things in the kids market, then head to the market for lunch (and of course to see all the seagulls [...]

Today brings us to the close of the first week of the Granville Island Storytelling Contest. We had some great submissions, thanks everyone who contributed! Remember, you can still enter the contest over the next 3 weeks by going to www.granvilleislandworks.com/contest and filling out the form. This week’s third place winner is Ocean Tang, who [...]

Granville Island has been part of our family since the very beginning. I remember my husband and I walking the Island before the Market ever opened and being so excited about what it would be like. We took both of our children to Arts Umbrella for years. I finished by degree at Emily Carr University [...]

Top 10 reasons of why I Heart Granville Island 1. It’s the first place I take out of town guests 2. It’s the best place to buy market fresh fruit and vegetables 3. I love to walk through the Art Gallery at Emily Carr 4. I love to sample the yummy Sake at Artisan Sake [...]

This year’s PuSh Festival is a salutation to Vancouver’s 125th birthday celebration, looking at questions of urban experience, the everyday, our history and civic identity. Last night’s gala was a snapshot of what audiences can expect from PuSh this year: diverse, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original performances from the mysterious ladies in white to flamenco [...]

The market square throughout time has always been the pulsing heart of the city, the gathering place for fun, laughter and celebration. It is the hub of trading, where farmers, artisans, musicians, actors and vendors share their creations; a place of peace and of cultural abundance, where neighbours and travelers greet each other and share [...]

When we were raising 3 small children in a Kits apartment Granville Island was our urban escape. We packed a stroller with all the stuff for a full day, took a cooler for our grocery purchases, treated ourselves to donuts and spent the day at the waterpark. To me, it was heaven on earth for [...]

It wasn’t your average, every day run of the mill love story… it’s a story of redemption and kindness and how a ferry driver stole my heart. After a long day of taking advantage of everything that Granville Island has to offer with my toddler, from counting the turtles in the pond, to going in [...]

As a kid I went to Arts Umbrella. As a teenager I would canoe from Beach Ave. to get groceries. As a young adult I worked in & around the boat yard. Its been school, work, home & currently my arts & culture venue and lunch spot. On a cold sunny day I can spend [...]

“Alice in Wonderland, that’s Granville Island! An Island that’s not an island on a creek that’s not a creek. Toy boats take you across the water – and the bridge is everywhere. A woman runs by in a clown outfit with flowers in her hair, and a man plays bagpipes in kilts. Cement trucks with [...]

In 2001, my first date with Elisa was to Granville Island.  It was a beautiful summer day, and I washed and detailed my Mazda Miata before picking her up, to create best first impression possible.  On our drive to Granville Island:  the top was down, the wind was in our hair, and I was feeling [...]

Came out this morning! Grab yours anywhere on the West side or the West End, check out the article and submit a story!

“When I was little, Kids Only market was the best place in the universe!  My Mom would take me there so I could buy stickers for my sticker book.  We would walk over the rainbow bridge inside, and life was perfect. Fast forward 20 years and Kids Only is still a place I visit on [...]

“In 1973 at Mulvaney’s private dining room I had pre-arranged a magnificent seafood dinner with my friend Richard Heindrick the German/South African  Captain. Attending were six major clients including my boss from Toronto who is a true wine connoisseur. ‘Tricky Dick’, wearing a sommelier’s cup and speaking with a French accent welcomed us with great [...]

After a successful round of the Granville Island Works Storytelling Contest last summer that pulled out some really incredible stories, the contest and Insider’s Tour proved to be such a hit that we have decided to do it again! With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we want your stories of love and other adventures, intimate [...]

A couple of us from ZenHouse Media had the pleasure of attending the video premiere gala of Music Saves II, brought to you by our favourite local station, The Shore 104. The Music Saves Project was developed to create awareness of Music Therapy programs such as VAMS (Vancouver Adapted Music Society) & The Canadian Music [...]

Katherine Dempster, intrepid Aussie traveler and new Granville Island lover came back to town after months of traveling to collect her prize from this summer’s Storytelling Contest! We took a lovely jaunt to Maiwa Handprints where the beautiful Lauree showed us all the incredible duvet covers that Katherine could choose from. Cabinets full of naturally [...]

The Sixth Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition or BIMPE VI for short, is moving to its new location for the month of October. Dundarave is opening its doors on Wednesday the 6th and is displaying the prize winners, honourable mentions and a portion of the show. The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (BIMPE) presents original [...]

We were walking and enjoying the sun on the island yesterday and discovered an amazing busking duo! They were theatrical with a jazz/balkan/ukrainian/gypsy sound. They attracted a huge crowd and we almost felt like dancing! Check out one of their songs in this Buskers! video. They are called “Maria in the Shower”.

The Kroma paint people would like to direct your attention to a show at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, located in the Emily Carr north building on Granville Island. It is called HOT TO COLD / COLD TO HOT and is worth seeing for many reasons. The title of the show suggests colour and paint [...]

Great news for Doug Simpson, from Feathercraft Products Ltd.! One of Granville Island’s most ingenious boat builders has been recognized for his amazing work. Check out Feathercraft’s profile for their great story. Following is an excerpt from the BC Achievement Foundation website about Doug’s amazing kayaks. Check out this link for more info: www. bcachievement.com/creative/distinction/recipients.php?year=2010. [...]

We had a great day with the 4 grand prize winners of this summer’s Granville Island Storytelling Contest. Mixing paint, printing t-shirts, blowing glass, tasting beer and cruising around English Bay with Bonnie Lee Charters were just some of the highlights! Video coming soon… Stay tuned.

It is such a delight to see young people buying boxes of tomatoes, keen again on canning.  I remember canning with my mom.  In fact, there were some very old remains of those canning days when we packed up my mom’s house.  Moms of my generation were busy working and passed on other necessary skills [...]

Beautiful, varied, inspired printmaking from around the world, wine and cheese, speeches, a raffle, ladies in extravagant hats and men in kilts- what more could you hope for at an art opening? A few of us from ZenHouse Media attended the opening for the 6th annual BIMPE at the Federation Gallery on Saturday. It was [...]

I didn’t grow up where blackberries grew so this seasonal delight was all new to me.  It was the free part that I first noticed.  They grew in wild places and whoever got there first, picked them when they were ready.  Everyone made blackberry jam.  The old timers were always prepared with long sleeves, ladders, [...]

Wow, the sockeye is so good, plentiful and well priced right now.  I’m reminded how lovely this fish is to look at, being the slimmest, most streamlined of salmon.  And then there’s the uniquely beautiful deep red colour  of its flesh.  I haven’t enjoyed being around a fish this much in a long time. The [...]

Hearing about our sockeye bonanza and the possibility of some off the boat sales at $1 a pound I had  an instant flashback.  It was the ’70′s in Fort Langley when salmon was a dollar a pound that I first learned to clean and freeze salmon.  It involved clean, waxed half gallon milk containers water [...]

As you battle those fruit flies from no where, a few more observations about soft fruit.  For starts, it’s rarely table ready.  There is a reason soft fruit needs ripening at home.  It needs to be picked, stored stored and shipped, even if it is just from 100 miles away.  It can easily take a [...]

There’s something about apricots that just call out to me.  Peaches are easy to love, especially white peaches.  It’s the color of apricots that  comes first.  That pinky orange just glows.  Apricot color, right?  But what to do with these little jewels of color?  First rule: tart fruit needs fat-no way around it.  Other cooks [...]

At long last, we are proud to announce Claire Merriman Campbell as the 1st place winner of week 4! Check out submission #35 to read about a deep love for Lee’s Donuts and the bond between grandmother and granddaughter. Second place goes to Tamara Litke, author of submission #33, and finally Naomi Thomas is our [...]

In the produce business, soft fruit doesn’t mean ripe fruit.  Locally, it’s a term for fruit that needs a temperate climate and grows on trees or woody shrubs.  Small fruit usually means berries or bramble fruit.  Stone fruit are peaches, plums, and apricots.  Confused about what what to put together?  Trust your eyes. Berries, sweet [...]

Granville Island will always be a special place for me, because on a chilly night in early January, my husband proposed to me on top of a grassy hill. He had taken me for a lovely dinner at Dockside, and then suggested that we go for a walk. I protested, because I was wearing a [...]

Use this link to check out one of our few video submissions! http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7988174/21172627

Every year for the past 5 years I take a week off work and volunteer for the Fringe Fest.  I love taking the Aqua Bus over and spending the whole day and night riding my bike around the island.  Finally this year, after 5 years…i can say I know my way around!  Thanks GI for [...]

Donuts Every summer I go to my grandma’s house during the week. She lives about a 2 minute drive away from Granville island and I live in North Vancouver. My grandma and I, while getting groceries the summer I was about 6, decided we felt like getting a donut at Lee’s Donuts and happened to [...]

Just a reminder that the recipes and food tips seen here is from a new edition of the Granville Island Public Market cookbook.  The first book came out in 1985 and while the vocabulary of food may have changed, we think somethings  still hold true.  Here’s a few meat grilling tips to keep in mind [...]

Is it a favourite memory or a lifetime of memories? I’ve been going to Granville Island weekly since it’s opening in 79. My daughters were 4 and 5 years old and every Sunday morning we would head out the door just like going to a place of worship.  ‘Dino’ would make me a cappuccino, the [...]

I’m happily sitting on wet pavement with the sound of 100 children ringing and riding through my skull.  If I close my eyes I can hear them better, individual shouts of glee blending with an overall symphony of celebrated suprises.  I open my eyes and survey the scene, locate my child, then take in the [...]

Fourth place goes to submission #27 and the third place winners are #25 and #21. Scroll down to read, feel hope for the world and have a good laugh!

Donuts! Every summer I go to my grandma’s house during the week. She lives about a 2 minute drive away from Granville island and I live in North Vancouver. My grandma and I, while getting groceries the summer I was about 6, decided we felt like getting a donut at Lee’s Donuts and happened to [...]

Wow, this week we had to make some tough decisions with the best entries ever! This week’s grand prize goes to Andrew Carruthers, for ‘The Great Speed Bump’, submission #31. Check it out if you want to have a good laugh! Second place for week 3 goes to Daniel Swenson for submission #28 about a [...]

The Great Speed Bump In 1979, my first job was working at one of the restaurants on the island. Back then, Granville Island had no market and the roads were pretty much all gravel as there wasn’t much traffic. That year the market opened, traffic control became an issue and towards that goal, the saga [...]

Tomatoes always have a place on the table. On a plate, on their own, they will always shine. Slice or quarter the tomatoes, depending on size or shape. Salt them once plated, sprinkle with a good olive oil and that’s it! When basil is plentiful, put individual leaves on the tomatoes. Chives, parsley, or other [...]

A day on Granville Island is a mental health retreat, like playing hooky or going to a gulf island. Even a ferry trip can be part of the fun. People are in holiday moods, locals and tourists alike, both in laid-back exploration mode. Personal favourite: sipping latte in front of the market watching life on [...]

In 1992 whilst here on a teaching exchange, friends brought our family to see Granville Island one glorious summer day like today. The street performer duped me to join him and planted a big fat kiss on my cheek. My children were pumped full of free food samples and my husband won a kite. All [...]

Granville Island, to me, seemed some sort of escape from what to expect. It stands heaving at the mouth of the water, with its bright colours, and bright people. And it’s the people, I think, that made me bring my boyfriend there for our first date. I grew up in a small, farming town, where [...]

WHO KNEW how big an impact Granville island would have on our lives!  3 years ago while vacationing in Vancouver, we sat on a market bench overlooking False Creek sipping tea and marveling at the beautiful location. We fantasized, “can you imagine living here, taking the aquabus to the market every weekend, those mountains, that [...]

Last year, my beau and I went on a date to Granville Island to buy fudge. We had free tickets on the aquabus so we had a lovely ride over and had a lunch. We spent forever choosing our fudge flavours then went to watch a street performer named Basketball Jones. He was hilarious and [...]

Meet Monika from Sadryna Designs, whose exquisite hand-made leather bags and clothing mixes a European attitude to style with a laid back West coast energy. Ballet dancer and Choreographer Monika has been a resident of Granville Island since 2003. She arrived in Canada from Homburg with her ten heavy duty German sewing machines, who she [...]

We came to Canada in 1957 from the Netherlands. False Creek was filthy with oil from industry, nothing could live there. Now it’s clean and pure and the seals and fish can live here because they cleaned it up and life returned. So there is hope for the world.

At age 7, Graeme goes toe to toe with Rob Feenie at Milan’s Tomato Booth in the Farmer’s Truck Market. Graeme has recognized that on tv (Food Network) Mr. Feenie has ‘fibbed’ about using Milan’s tomatoes. Graeme even goes to Lumiere to check: on the menu, Milan’s tomatoes are highlighted, but the actual tomatoes used [...]

*** Week 3 Storytelling Contest Submission No. 23 from Granville Island Works on Vimeo.

*** Week 3 Storytelling Contest Submission No. 22 from Granville Island Works on Vimeo.

Do Your Homework! Wreck Beach the musical, an Axis Theatre production from 2000:  A piece of local colour, local history.  Perfect (perhaps?) for my parents who at age 89 and 90 have lived all those years in Vancouver.  I was agawk when the performers stood full frontal nude on the stage.  I was really astounded [...]

Congratulations to this week’s “I Love GI Stories” winners! The 3rd place winner this week is Emily Lanax, author of the whimsical submission #20. Second place goes to a very talented writer all the way from Australia, Ms. Katherine Dempster, author of submission #18. Finally, this week’s first place winner goes to a story about [...]

My most fantastic day at GI started with an unexpected greeting from an animal child, followed thereafter with a wild man who sold wild mushrooms, a mouthful better than sex and a message from a pixie… Among other things!

I have a million stories and memories, because I’ve been coming here for 30 years! My Nana, who was always up on the latest innovations, kept raving about Granville Island so finally I went when I was 8 years old. I walked into a wonderland. It was like Habitat and the Children’s Festival all year [...]

It was in the early ’90′s at the Thursday Truck Farm outside the Public Market that Milan from Stoney Paradise farm became “the tomato guy”.  What he had were just a few varieties of heirloom tomatoes that tasted like no others.  What he had were seeds that were developed and preserved by ordinary people over [...]

Straight off the plane from Australia, a young Aussie girl was overwhelmed by the big bustling city of Vancouver. So when her friend finished work that sunny Saturday the two girls went down to the water and caught a tiny rainbow boat across the water to the magical GRANVILLE ISLAND! This is a place where [...]

I was on my way to dinner at the Dockside restaurant with two friends.  We stopped in La Baqette.  I kept looking at this guy in the store buying a whole bunch of stuff.  All of a sudden I realized it was Joe Perry (of Areosmith).  As typical Vancouverites, we did not bother him, or [...]