Wednesday morning found me standing in line at a busy downtown cafe. The guy in front of me had a Globe and Mail tucked under his arm, and I caught a glance of the headline: “Parliament has the power.” That’s right! House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken had ruled the day before on the long-simmering question [...]
Andrew Morrison is a local food critic, intellectual, father, and blogger. He’s made regular contributions to Vancouver Magazine and Western Living, and now earns his bread as a food critic for The Westender. His success can be traced back to humble days as a waiter and amateur blogger, serving up daily news and opinion on the Vancouver restaurant scene
I suppose it’s only fitting that one of my first forays into the world of online journalism should end by spending an afternoon with a trio of gay nuns.
Indeed, how I came to be seated in a Moxie’s on Davie Street at five o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, beside three men in whiteface, habits, and [...]
It’s midnight on a cool September evening in Vancouver. At Howe and Robson cars and buses rumble down the pavement and a few groups of inebriated youths wander towards the nightly gong show on Granville. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Then from somewhere down Howe there comes a crowd of twenty or more bicycles, sprawling across two lanes of the road, riders shouting and singing.
Council took another baby step towards the introduction of rapid transit down the Broadway corridor to UBC this past week, unanimously approving new guidelines for approaching the mega project.
Along with the new guidelines, council unveiled six transportation options for the public to choose from. These included combinations of above-ground SkyTrain, at-grade light rail and rapid [...]
“Make no mistake; there are few circumstances in the universe more harrowing and perilous for a young, single male than calling a woman he doesn’t know.”
A while ago I wrote a piece for this website about the growing popularity of homebrewing in Vancouver. What I didn’t reveal then (though you may have guessed) is that I make homebrew myself. I’ve been at it three years now. My first batch, like everyone’s first batch, was miserable stuff. I’d skim-read John Palmer’s [...]
The annual pot holiday came and went in a cloud of marijuana smoke and crumpled Doritos bags today, and once again local police showed an astounding ability to look the other way. Even though it’s illegal to have, smoke and sell weed, hundreds of people did all three, and in great quantities, on the steps [...]
For those of you in the know, my search for the best Sunday morning benny in the West End has left me a little discouraged. This week I could barely bring myself to go, and was only motivated by a Chris Richards text message threatening my loved ones if more benedicts weren’t rated.
Plus, I’d received [...]