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Gathie Falk "Grapefruit" 1970

Arts

Gathie Falk

Everyday beauty.

In the entrance to Gathie Falk’s East Vancouver house, a stack of red ceramic apples from her acclaimed fruit series sits on a table. The piece is a marker of her success—it’s among her best-known and most beloved works—but it’s also a symbol of the bright outlook that has defined her life.

Christo in a scene from Walking on Water, courtesy Kino Lorber

Arts

Film Review: Walking on Water

Immaculate Conception.

A compelling behind-the-scenes look at the arduous and often tempestuous process of bringing Christo’s latest artwork to life.

South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff

Travel

South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff

Look Back, Look Ahead.

A gated 20,000-acre resort, conservancy, and residential community, Palmetto Bluff is found along the Atlantic coastline and on the May River in Bluffton, which borders the state of Georgia.

Sculpture of a man with attributes of a jaguar. By Royal BC Museum.

Arts

Maya: The Great Jaguar Rises

Stone Diaries.

A major exhibition of more than 300 Mayan artefacts dating back some 3,000 years opens at Victoria’s Royal BC Museum.

Dance Umbrella Artistic Director Artemis Gordon

Arts

Arts Umbrella Dance Company Artistic Director Artemis Gordon

Be Moved.

The dancers who have come through her doors at Arts Umbrella Dance Company (AUDC) have gone on to become some of the country’s top tier performers.

Ziip Beauty handheld tools

Wishlist

ZIIP Beauty

Microcurrents.

From jade rollers to cleansing brushes, today’s beauty industry is all about handheld tools. And leading the charge is the nanocurrent and microcurrent Ziip, an electrical facial device managed from a smartphone.

Werner Herzog's Meeting Gorbachev

Arts

Film Review: Meeting Gorbachev

Old World Order.

Werner Herzog turns his attention to the eponymous world leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev—a man who, by almost any measure, is one of the most significant political figures of the 20th century.

Yeti Out Rexy Remix Coach

Style

Yeti Out’s Tom Bray

Coach Rexy Remix Pop-Up.

In Yeti Out’s hands, Rexy the T-Rex becomes the nose of a smiley face that features Chinese character eyes and the collective’s own signature circumflex working as cheeky dimples.

South Africa's Cape Winelands

Food and Drink

South Africa’s Cape Winelands

Vines of Good Hope.

Carved by the ages, South Africa seems as old as time—a captivating landscape jutting sharply into the colliding path of two mighty oceans.

Cohen Centre for Social Enterprise

Creating community for mental health.

A mental health resource centre located in the historic Dominion Building, the Cohen Centre ribbon cutting and fundraising gala took place on Saturday, May 11 2019.

Wishlist

Celebrate Mother’s Day In Style

No brunching allowed.

Enough with the fighting for a seat at brunch, this Mother’s Day, do something a little different to show mom how much you care.

Personal Essay

Essay

Glowing Up

The Complex Relationship Between Women and Makeup

My personal relationship with beauty will always be complex and imperfect. I cannot ignore the commercial aspect of applying eyeshadow and buying that new blush. But with my makeup on, I feel like a person who is capable, whose highlighted and powdered face indicates that I actually like myself. At 42, this is a magical feeling.

Twenty One Tonnes

Wishlist

Twenty One Tonnes Bulawayo Gourd Basket

Basket connection.

Sold by Los Angeles- and Vancouver-based online boutique Twenty One Tonnes—a trove of quality handcrafted goods from artists located around the world—these pieces are a lovely complement to laid-back West Coast tastes.

Arts

Serge Bennathan

River Dance.

We meet the choreographer in rehearsal for Poesía in advance of its world premiere by Ballet BC.

Moving Still

Arts

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India

Female Forms.

The history and trajectory of conceptual photography in India is explored in a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Panama City

Travel

Discovering Panama City

Surprises and Delights.

Exceptionally mixing history and culture, Panama City offers a little bit of everything. Here, there is no such thing as a wrong itinerary; each corner reveals new surprises and delights just waiting to be found.

Photo credit: Netflix

Design

Production Designer Lieselotte Soper

I put a spell on you.

The ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ designer loves her job so much, she even lives in Greendale.