Posts Tagged ‘ vancouver ’

The riots here in Vancouver after the Canucks lost Game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday pretty much broke my heart. When I woke up Thursday morning, I found a Twitter message from Amy Swenson asking me if I'd like to write about it for a sports site run by women writers. It...
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One of the sad publishing-industry events in Vancouver in 2010 was the shuttering of Duthie Books, one of the last great non-used indie bookstores in town. I admit I had mixed feelings about its closing. I loved the idea of Duthie's, but I'd often felt kind of intimidated going in there. And the rhetoric coming...
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One of the things I love and hate about my city is the passion people put into complaining about it (myself included). To an impressive extent, the complaining is in a productive context and isn't just aimless whining. But it can seem at times like the default attitude here is that everything sucks. Last winter...
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I didn't know what to expect when I got us tickets to the grand tasting hall at the Hopscotch Festival, the Vancouver beer and whisky event. I was hoping the place would be filled with vendors who know their craft. See, we enjoy our whisky chez Werker. And so we wanted to go and...
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Last Thursday I spent the day doing very ugly arts and crafts with all sorts of interesting people as part of the Exhibition at the CreativeMix conference here in Vancouver. It was the first time in many, many years that I had to prepare a visual display for something, and here's the story of...
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When we moved to Vancouver eight years ago, I followed Greg's lead when we were choosing a neighbourhood to live in. I was young, and it was a mistake. We bought a house in what I now think of as the deep West Side*, a quiet area with single-family homes, sleepy streets and housing...
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Last week a woman in Indiana shot off a quick blog post in response to a report in the Chicago Tribune about an Iranian Muslim cleric who said immodestly dressed women corrupt young men and spread adultery, and consequently cause earthquakes. "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt ...
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I've been invited to speak alongside Rob of Lotus Events and Got Craft?, and Erin of Collage Collage when the Museum of Vancouver screens Handmade Nation next week. I'm so excited! If you're unfamiliar with the film, it's a documentary by Faythe Levine about the resurgence of craft. The people she interviewed are in the...
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I've spent much of this afternoon trying to write about the Olympics – not in the I-was-there way I've been doing, but to sum up my emotional experience of the Games. I can't do it. It's too much. But I can sort of cobble some thoughts together. Vancouver is my home. It's the home I chose...
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Where Vanoc (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) has done an utterly terrible job of engaging the people of Vancouver leading up to the Olympics, there is one thing that's made people feel included and excited: the torch relay. Last night the torch went through the University of British Columbia (some hockey events will be held...
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