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Vancouver’s most popular annual food-related festival starts this week and runs for 17 days. It’s a great event, with a multitude of excellent dining choices and events to choose from ( see my Dine Out guide from last week) .

• It’s the ‘80s all over…except the blow is slightly sweeter now. Licorice Parlour on Commercial Drive is offering customers “snorts” of chocolate powder for $2 a sniff.

Tourism Vancouver’s Dine Out Vancouver Festival starts Jan. 16, but reservations to restaurants and tickets to events are in full swing! The standard pri x fixe menu has been the root of the festival since it started, but sure has it grown.

I remember when I was sick as a kid, my parents would force-feed me ginger ale and Lipton chicken noodle soup while covering me head to toe with Vicks VapoRub (which I still crave every time I am under the weather).

Vancouver-headquartered Aritizia continues its domination of the retail landscape with the opening of a Wilfred store.

Acura has just released its most powerful and technologically advanced car ever built in a form of a full-size luxury sedan.

Take power lines, slopes and ground cover into account

ARIES (March 21-April 19) In his novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who "had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimensi

You do not have to be an excellent writer to publish a memoir. You just need a really good story.

The pop-up concept has allowed the Vancouver duo behind Hey Jude to get their feet wet in the fashion business without going overboard.