Another one bites the dust.A news release yesterday: “After 34 years on Commercial Drive, the People’s Co-op Bookstore must close its doors. Our last…
"Timber Condos to start at $3 million"Further evidence of Coal Harbour as a big building/small population community in this article by Frank O’Brien in Business Vancouver.…
Sunday nostalgia…Mixing all forms of transportation at Chilco and Georgia in 1936, a photo from the interesting collection on the Three…
Another peril of walkingFrom the Auburn News, a western-suburbs paper in Sydney, about a survey conducted by Guide Dogs Australia: “almost half of…
Street Art in OzA totally unscientific survey of mural trends in New South Wales: I didn’t see a single “pictorial” mural, like the…
An App to rat on your neighboursMany Sydneysiders appear to be using a phone app, Outware’s Snap-Send-Solve, to “dob in” their neighbours, mainly about parking infractions.…
Sculpture by the SeaA reason to be in Sydney in October… The cliff walk from Bondi Beach to Tamarama, the first bay to…
Two-wheeled freedom in IndonesiaWhereas cities like Vancouver, or at least the central one-tenth of Metro Vancouver, have moved toward a bicycle culture, fast-paced…
Migration from Main StreetBurcu’s Angels – a good example of a hip independent shop if there ever was one – has left trendy…
New design, Vancouver-styleIf you’re an architectural photographer, or a painter for that matter, or you take pictures of cars for magazines, you…
Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing CrisisMichael Greenberg’s lengthy article in the New York Review of Books is available (maybe just briefly) without the paywall. A…
New Bikes in 1899While looking for something else on microfilm in The Province from September, 1899, I came across an article on new…
Graffiti goodbyeAt Commercial Drive and The Cut: transit, homelessness, and a cheerful goodbye to the Liberals. Three of the big political…
Art Museum additions in OzOh, to live in a country with funding for arts infrastructure… The NSW Government’s $244 million funding commitment to support…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner