Roots Music Revived Folk music, including bluegrass and sometimes tinged with distinct blues notes, is back in the popular music limelight.
Chef Andrew Richardson of CinCin From Araxi in Whistler through the French Laundry in the Napa Valley, Michelin starred restaurants in Newcastle, UK, and now, at CinCin, a talent comes home.
Santoku Knives Japanese knives as we know them today (and they are most acutely used in everyday practise by highly skilled chefs), cannot really be discussed without a history lesson.
The Vancouver International Wine Festival As it enters its 35th year, the festival has become one of the world’s premier wine events.
Winemaker Angelo Gaja Angelo Gaja is a person full of vigour and great stories, and in conversation it is easy to forget that he is responsible for basically putting his home region of Piedmont, and the village of Barbaresco in particular, on the ultra-fine wine map.
Fresh Ideas Start Here Jenice Yu has a simple goal: “I just want to get people to eat more fish.” That is why she decided to open a retail store, located in Market Crossing, down there on Marine Way.
DeWitt Timepieces Every watch is built, in its entirety, by a single master watchmaker. The DeWitt Manufacture, located in the environs of Geneva, even creates its own dials in-house.
House Wines With a close proximity to a world-class wine region, a number of Vancouver restaurants are partnering with Okanagan and Similkameen wineries to develop branded house wines. It’s a marriage of terrior, cusine, and culture, all from the West Coast.
Frank Ocean and Prince Monday evening, July 9, 2012. If you had a television on but were not in the room, only heard a bit of the music from Jimmy Fallon’s show, you could be forgiven for thinking Prince had made another limelight comeback. But it wasn’t Prince; it was Frank Ocean singing “Bad Religion”.
Honest Performances Musicians all strive to put their own mark on the song, but the earnestness of the basic sentiment is proving, quicksilver-like, hard to exactly capture.
