Life in Storage

Enjoy the latest installments of Life in Storage, provided to Grab News courtesy of its creators, Artist Jon Dugay and writer R Daniel Lester. This nicely crafted strip can also be seen at its own website www.lifeinstorage.com where you can learn more about DuGuay and Lester, and their creation, through their blogs....

Exotic Language for Crystalworks

Royalty are known to frequent the Crystalworks Gallery when visiting Vancouver. World travelers that they are, they are said to rank the gallery highly in its genre, though the question really is whether there is any place comparable. Certainly it is the first in the world to showcase museum- sized crystals and minerals...

A Yearning for Roads Better Taken

It’s no surprise that the biggest newsmaker in the past few years in Vancouver has been homelessness. Hardly a day goes by when Vancouver’s infamous Downtown Eastside isn’t in the paper or in the news.  Dubbed "Canada’s poorest postal code" the Downtown Eastside has become a fishbowl for locals, journalists, and tourists alike...

Ideas Bravely Expressed in Jennica Harper's Poetry

Jennica Harper’s What It Feels Like for a Girl is a book length poem that takes us through the teenage life of a 13-year-old girl. The poem navigates the reader through the friendship between two girls as they stumble their way through the confusing world of puberty, sex, pornography and popular culture. The story is written from a parallel perspective, the one side being the narrator’s thoughts and the other an event at a school dance where her best friend Angel does a sexually provocative dance...

Fiona's Secret World: Antony Rolland

A prime delight in my business is discovering local emerging talent and introducing customers, local business people, and visitors to the city, to these artists. Presenting Antony Rolland who believes we are all talented. He said this to me when describing his own process of self discovery. During an interlude of boredom, while working in the French military, he picked up a square sided wooden ruler and began fashioning a sculpted cane from it. This turned out to be a critical incident in his life as an artist...

Could New Westminster become Stratford West? Could the oldest city on the country's Pacific Coast some day rival Ontario's Niagara on the Lake in cultural cachet as the Mecca for things stage in Canada? Could a new city theatre organization...

The Cat in the Back in the Hat

From the Cap to the Nat (or How Editing Ken McIntosh's History of Professional Baseball in Vancouver Made Me a Fan). One of my life's singular glory days unfolded during a lunch hour when I was about ten, back in Golden, BC...

Simma Holt: Rosie the Riveter of Canadian Journalism

The history of journalism is Canada in built on a foundation of people with strong ideals who paved the way for the journalists of today. The birthplace of Canadian journalism was in Halifax where the first newspaper, Halifax Gazette...

"So I was going somewhere on a Sunday morning"...
Check out our new comic art feature by Anya Vetrova...

Christopher James - Giving Magic to the World

Mysteries do not always present themselves in obvious ways. Christopher James, for example, is a young man you would probably not suspect, if you saw him on a street corner or a transit bus, of being a magician...

Vancouver Shopping by Appointment

My Japanese friend Aya allows me to correct her pronunciation when she speaks English and to show her how to make an /r/ sound in consonant clusters where she tends to use the /l/ sound. So, when she said one day, “There are a lot of clouds over there”...

The Eatery

Stepping into The Eatery at 3431 West Broadway means leaving busy Vancouver streets behind and entering a cool, grown-up playground. Large painted puzzles depicting Campbell's Soup containers adorn the dark red walls, as do suggestive signs...