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Olympic Winos: Great grapes at Vancouver 2010

Vancouver's Winter Games have an official credit card, cola and cold medicine, so it shouldn't come as… [more]

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Olympics for Procrastinators: So you still wanna come to Vancouver

Like birthdays and anniversaries, Olympics tend to be the kind of thing that sneaks up on you.  Next… [more]

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Vancouver side trips: Eagle capital of the world

Maybe Ben Franklin had it right.  Turkey booster until the bitter end, Franklin railed against the choice… [more]

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Hockey Gold for Canada at the 2010 Olympics

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the Inside Vancouver blog, as part of special coverage of the 2010 Winter Games. You couldn't have asked for a more fitting finale to the Vancouver 2010 Games - Canada vs. U.S.A. in a gold medal hockey game on Canadian soil. I took in the action today at LiveCity Downtown, perhaps the best place in the city to see the game outside of Canada … [Read More...]

Trading for Gold: Vancouver’s Olympic Pin Traders

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the blog Inside Vancouver, as part of special coverage of the 2010 Olympic Games. Inside the Olympic superstore at the Bay this afternoon, it was pure pin-demonium. The Bay is one of three official Coca-Cola pin trading sites in the city of Vancouver. The collecting and trading of Olympic pins dates all the way back to the first modern Olympics … [Read More...]

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I'm an independent journalist whose work appears in The Washington Post, Wine Spectator, The Dallas News, The Sydney Morning Herald and other international publications.  I've lived and reported from throughout the world, including Australia, South America, Europe and the United States, and I'm currently … [Read More...]

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The Dark Side of Japanese Dining: Izakayas

There was a time, not too long ago, when the closest thing to Japanese food you could find outside Japan was Benihana.  Then the came the sushi craze, introducing North America to the wonders of the California roll.  Now Vancouver - long a pioneer when it comes to Asian cusine - finds itself in the … [Read More...]

Exploring British Columbia’s Ice Wine Country

The guys who make ice wine are kind of like the Ice Road Truckers or Ice Pilots of winemaking. They don't harvest their grapes until the dead of winter, when temperatures dip to 15 degrees below freezing. Usually, they work at night, when it's so cold that the clusters shatter off the vine and the grapes … [Read More...]

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  • Hockey Gold for Canada at the 2010 Olympics
  • Trading for Gold: Vancouver’s Olympic Pin Traders
  • Olympic Winos: Great grapes at Vancouver 2010
  • Speed Skating Fervor at the 2010 Games
  • Vancouver Street Food: An Olympic Guide

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