If you’re in need of a last minute gift idea before running out to a Christmas gift exchange, there are plenty of great gift shops in Vancouver. Every neighbourhood has it’s own local shop, filled with chachkas and trinkets for a small hostess gift or present. Most feature even more substantial gifts and home accents,…
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Whitecaps Announce 2014 Schedule
Whitecaps FC may not have made the post season but that hasn’t stopped them from making news. Lots of action happening this week, re-signing a number of players and declining the options on others. The MLS schedule was released this week too, just in time to get your favourite fan a Whitecaps Holiday Pack for…
BC Lions 60th Season is ready for kick off
BC Place in Vancouver is ready to start glowing Orange as the BC Lions get ready to kick off their 60th year. BC Lions began in 1954 making them the youngest franchise in the Canadian Football League but the oldest pro-sport club in Vancouver. With 6 Grey Cup wins and having made the playoffs 16…
Vancouver cracks open the Crate & Barrel
Crate & Barrel, the Chicago based home furnishings retailer, opened its first BC location at Oakridge Centre in Vancouver last week. The newly renovated 27,000 square foot space, where the former movie theatre was located, is a gleaming spectacle filled to the brim with home decor, gadgets, nicknacks and furnishings. Many of the furniture pieces…
2012 PNE Prize Home Opens Its Doors
Win A House! Win A Car! For 78 year’s those 6 words have been the calling card of summer at the PNE. This year’s PNE Prize Home is opening today for the first of 6 preview days. The home’s interior has been designed by former ABC’s Bachelorette, turned Celebrity Designer, Jillian Harris. This is a…
Shop the globe at espace d. in Yaletown
On the corner of Richards and Helmcken Streets in Yaletown, Vancouver lies what may seem at first passing to be an unassuming gift shop. Instead espace d. [pronounced es-pass day] is a shop filled with stylish and unique gifts and products from around the globe. After moving to Vancouver French interior designer, Pierre Derreumaux, founded…
CB2 Robson opens
This weekend Canada’s second CB2 shop, and just the 13th chainwide, opened its doors on Vancouver’s Robson Street. Geared towards younger adults the stylish, moderately priced furniture and home decor is perfect for Vancouver’s loft and condo living lifestyle. Unique one of a kind goods are intermingled with the mass produced items and displayed in…