Update: January 23, 2020 Yes! There is now. News broke today that Uber (and Lyft) start serving Vancouver on Friday, January 24, 2020. So there you have it folks. Original story: At the moment there is no Uber in Vancouver. …
Basho Café: A Gorgeous East Van Japanese Eatery
Update: Basho Café has reopened as YAMA Cafe. Upon first glance, YAMA looks and appears to function fairly similarly as Basho, as it was taken over by one of Basho’s employees. Here is my review of Basho from September 2016, months …
Eating local in East Van with Habibi’s Foods
It’s the first week of July and you can taste the summer in Vancouver right now. The veggies in the garden are leafing out nicely, the tomatoes are producing little green orbs, and the bees are happily abuzz. The local …
Can You Identify This Mystery Song?
Update: mystery solved! The mystery song is Ammunition by All Good Children, a band from Hamilton, Ontario. Thanks to everyone who had fun helping us solve this mystery! Big thanks to Stephen Quinn and Lisa Christiansen from CBC Radio One’s On the Coast …
Tulips in Holland: Keukenhof in May
When you think of Holland, you think tulips, and when you’re in Amsterdam in the spring, a visit to Keukenhof in May seems like the most natural thing to do, regardless of whether your Dutch colleagues roll your eyes when you mention …
Vancouver’s Chinatown isn’t Pretty
Vancouver’s Chinatown isn’t pretty, but no one can deny that it has character. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in all of Vancouver, it’s steeped in local history. For a photographer, there are few urban spaces in Vancouver that deliver the same sense of stimuli. If …
Love letter to spring in Vancouver
Those who claim that Canada doesn’t experience a proper spring have clearly never been to Vancouver. That’s the first thing that popped into my head when I was walking home on Thursday after a short run through my East Vancouver …