Living

This Monkey's Gone to Heaven is quirky, bizarre and just a little gross.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the 1980s, two performance artists did a project entitled A Year Tied Together at the Waist. For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never farther than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope.

I' m a 36-year-old woman who has never had a relationship last longer than a few months, and even then, those relationships were casual.

Kozakura 280 Carrall St. 604-720-3145 KozakuraGastown.ca Open Mon.-Sat., 5pm-late. Open for lunch Mon.-Fri.

Thank you, readers, for your messages in response to my recent Cheap Thrills column . Clearly, it hit the spot with many of you – which isn’t surprising, as more than 30 per cent of wines sold in BC are less than $13 a bottle.

TWG Tea , a luxury international tea brand with 56 locations in 17 cities around the world, is opening its first North American location this fall in Vancouver, in the former downtown Urban Tea Merchant location (1070 West Georgia).

AKA, the nightmare before Christmas

We’ve talked about fall fashion before in Style File, but with reference to what’s on runways. If you head to Dior or Gucci for seasonal pieces, more power to you. The rest of us mere mortals shop on the high street.

For the last year, I’ve been content with my status as a single, emotionally celibate woman. I’m an old-school, ride-or-die monogamist with protective walls around my heart.

Taste of Yaletown (ToY) is back for its 12th annual edition, starting this week and running through to October 27. Thirty restaurants, cafés, distilleries, bars, bakeries and more are offering special menus for either $25, $35 or $45.