Let’s face it: commuting sucks at the best of times, and commuting in Vancouver during next month’s 2010 Winter Games is going to…well, let’s just say it’ll give us all an opportunity to practice our Pranayama breathing techniques.
The folks at TransLink want to get the word out that you really need to “know before you [...]
Hey culture vultures: want to be there tomorrow night when the former (and much loved) CBC Orchestra is reborn as the National Broadcast Orchestra at a gala benefit at Vancouver’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts?
I’ve been given a pair of tickets to give away to a TheseBoots reader. Just leave a comment below or tweet [...]
You know that New Year’s resolution–the one about never drinking again? No, John Lee doesn’t know that one either.
The Vancouver-based Lonely Planet author has just released Drinking Vancouver: 100+ Great Bars in the City and Beyond (Touchwood Editions; $19.95). Must have been hell to research.
Lee’s arch writing style is a good match for a book [...]
Someone over at Heritage House Publishing deserves a bonus for releasing John Lee’s Walking Vancouver: 36 strolls to dynamic neighborhoods, hip hangouts, and spectacular waterfronts just as the city-by-the-sea prepares for the Olympics and its worst case of gridlock since the invention of the automobile.
Local boy Lee is an internationally published travel writer hailing from the UK. He [...]
I opened the mail this week to find a gift from Victoria, BC’s famous Butchart Gardens: admission for four to The Magic of Christmas display–including a ride on the Rose Carousel–anytime this Christmas.
So in the spirit of the season, I’m going to pass it along to one lucky TheseBoots reader.
I wish this magical event had [...]
By the time I discovered the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, BC, the ruts of my family’s holiday traditions were already deep and worn.
(My mother warned me early: “Be very careful what you do with little kids around the holidays. You only have to do something once for it instantly to [...]
Okay: that was really hard.
When I asked you guys to “show me your passion” to win an all-inclusive weekend in Tofino, BC during the upcoming O’Neill Cold Water Classic, I had no idea how you would rise to the challenge!
I got the most amazing poems, photos, videos, tweets, blog posts, heartfelt pleas and borderline erotica [...]
I love the fact that two of the three winners in my recent contest for the Top Table restaurant cookbooks are guys! (Sorry for the delay in disclosing the winners BTW–my hubby’s down with H1N1 and my nursing duties have slowed me down a little.)
I used random.org to pick the winners from everyone who left [...]
I think most surfers flunked out of physics in high school.
Once, many Octobers ago in Tofino, BC, I watched from my hotel room balcony as the wild Pacific waves smashed a driftwood log into millions of tiny matchsticks on the shores of Chesterman Beach. It took about 20 seconds. I didn’t need the lesson twice.
So [...]
FOX’s highly addictive brain-candy series Hell’s Kitchen (featuring chef-tyrant Gordon Ramsay) is winding up its sixth season tonight, and this round’s lucky winner gets a plum gig as head chef at swanky Araxi (under executive chef James Walt) just in time for the 2010 Winter Games.
If you can’t make it to tonight’s viewing party in Whistler, here’s [...]
