Living

Since January 1 our eyes have been hurting due to constant rolling when we head to the gym.

While we all love summer vacation and cosy winter mini-breaks, there’s nothing more alluring than escaping Vancouver’s unreliable spring for some other place’s sun-soaked one.

About five years ago, I had a bed-bug scare due to an old “Pantera Live” VCR that an old punk gifted me. (Read that story HERE .) When the bed-bug man came over to blast my place with “heat treatment”, he told me that chemicals no longer work.

On March 1, the long-awaited Andina Brewing Company finally opened its doors on Powell Street, much to the relief of the Amaya family.

The folks at Vancouver’s HugABull Advocacy and Rescue Society may not know much about Coco, but they all agree she’s highly deserving of a second chance.

In the months before the Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s subterranean bar, Prohibition , opened, head bartender Brad Stanton spent countless hours obsessing over every detail, from a state-of-the-art ice-maker to stylish copper bar tools.

While this article coincides with International Women’s Day (Mar. 8), I’ve been meaning to profile the wine program at Chambar since it passed into the capable care of Kaela Augustine, Laura Starr and Maude Renaud-Brisson last year.

From IKEA to Bang & Olufsen, we can’t get enough of the Scandi aesthetic. Now, another name enters the fray: COS , which opens its first Vancouver store at 18 Water Street in Gastown soon.

Big news from the Fairmont Pacific Rim . After closing its restaurant, Oru, last month, the hotel has announced that a new concept, called Botanist , will be succeeding it.

Virtuous Pie 583 Main St. 604-620-0060 virtuouspie.com Open Sun-Thurs, 11am-10pm; Fri-Sat, 11am-11pm So, here I am, writing about a plant-based eatery for the second week in a row. Am I becoming a vegetarian? A vegan? Sorry. Nope.