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Winter 2013

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MONTECRISTO Magazine: Diane's Lingerie

Style

Diane’s Lingerie

What lies beneath.

At Diane’s Lingerie boutique in Vancouver, the team knows the power of the exquisite, and racks are delicately hung with the crème de la crème of lingerie.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Bittered Sling

Food and Drink

Bittered Sling Extracts

Fun slingers.

After many years spent in restaurants, bars, and catering, Lauren Mote and Jonathan Chovancek decided to get to the heart of flavour by making it from scratch in the form of Bittered Sling Extracts, their ever-expanding range of handcrafted bitters.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Kristin Lehman

Arts

Kristin Lehman

This fair lady.

Kristin Lehman plays the indefatigable Detective Angie Flynn on the unapologetically Canadian crime drama Motive; the series’ second season premieres tonight on CTV.

Style

The History of Denim

Blue jeans, baby.

Fashion academics revel in the sociological landscape that can be mapped on the runway each season. Tracing the history of a pair of blue jeans can tell us more about the last century than any garment created by the style-defining hands of Coco Chanel or Christian Dior.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Naples

Travel

Naples Beckons

Neapolitan: New World

The city of Naples is a mystifying, entrancing, and overall hypnotic place to spend a few days.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: MacAusland’s Woolen Mills Blanket

Wishlist

MacAusland’s Woolen Mills

The blanket.

In the realm of Canadiana home décor, there is one particular striped blanket that gets all the glory. This is not that blanket.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Amsterdam

Travel

Amsterdam

Exhibit A.

Amsterdam has the mind and body of a big bustling city, internationally influenced and brimming with remarkable cultural attractions. But it also has the soul of an old village. The charm is still there, and there are plenty of curiosities to amuse and inspire.

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Community

The Writers’ Exchange

Literacy in motion.

Here at the Writers’ Exchange, it is all about words and what fun reading can be.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: 40 Years of the Cultch

Arts

40 Years of the Cultch

To a fine art.

Heather Redfern is the executive director of the Cultch. She’s been in her chair seven years now, and is continuing to push the company forward into new and exciting territories.