I was inspired by the holiday rituals I know best, which are the movies so many of us watch—particularly A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life. It struck me » Read More
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October 17, 2019
I hadn’t known about skincare brand AlumierMD until I was recently invited to receive a beauty facial at Vancouver’s Pan Pacific Hotel. The event was one of the more unusual » Read More
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August 29, 2019
Coriolanus, Bard on the Beach’s final play of its 30th anniversary season, opened to a standing ovation over the weekend. Coriolanus is a difficult, controversial and lesser-known Shakespearean work, yet » Read More
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August 12, 2019
Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver’s signature summer festival, has just wrapped up another spectacular year. The festival’s been going strong for 29 years due partly to the popularity of its » Read More
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July 26, 2019
The Harmony Arts Festival, sponsored by Odlum Brown Limited, is a yearly summer highlight along the beautiful Ambleside waterfront in West Vancouver. Entering its 29th year, the festival never fails » Read More
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July 22, 2019
Vichy Laboratoires recently launched their newest eye care product infused with the highest concentration of their trademark mineralizing thermal water. As its name suggests, the Vichy Mineral 89 Repairing Eye » Read More
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July 19, 2019
It’s hard to believe that 30 years have passed since Bard on the Beach humbly started with only one tent at Vanier Park. They’ve not only made Shakespeare accessible to » Read More
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July 17, 2019
The annual Bard on the Beach festival makes the works of William Shakespeare accessible to all audiences, young or old, scholars or amateurs. Over its 30-year evolution, Bard has taken » Read More
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July 15, 2019
William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is easily one of the funniest in the bard’s canon but also one of the most controversial by today’s standards. Misogyny aside, the tactics » Read More
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April 1, 2019
The Cherry Orchard was Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s last masterpiece. Drawing from her own childhood experiences, Sarena Parmar takes the blueprint of this classic and reworks it with distinctly Canadian » Read More
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March 13, 2019
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the eyebrows must be the window frame. The craze and focus on brows have intensified in the last few years » Read More
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March 1, 2019
On the first night of the Lunar New Year, Douglas and I found ourselves sipping on cocktails featuring the exclusive Hendrick’s Orbium in a former East Vancouver Chinese dim-sum establishment. » Read More
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February 18, 2019
Towards the end of last year, IT Cosmetics and Smashbox sent me a couple of fabulous liquid makeup products, but like many of you lovely readers, I was caught up » Read More
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January 7, 2019
Last month, we were invited to the celebratory dinner of the arrival of one of the world’s rare whiskies, The Balvenie Fifty: Marriage 0962, hosted by The Balvenie and JAK’S » Read More
