Business

I went to the Arc'teryx office in North Van this week for a visit and found... A jam packed bike room! They take Bike To Work Week pretty seriously over there. Also, completely unrelated, I found this awesome sticker on their door:

SBC Skateboard mag ran a print feature about Vancouver's Antisocial skateshop in their Road Trip Issue (#10.5, December '08), and just posted it on the interweb... Some 2007 footy from the ol' Antisocial mini...

I came across this amazing piece of garden handywork while in Richmond this weekend.

Six Cent Press is a local company specializing in the manufacturing of custom pin back buttons / button packaging & turn style vending machines; they've been involved in the Vancouver community since ‘01 and continue to reinvest in this project /

I stopped into Timebomb Trading again last week to check out Randy Laybourne 's progress on his mural there... It's all inked in, just needs some color! Next post on this will be detailed shots of the whole thing and possibly a video.

Have you ever lost a knob off of your stove and wondered where you might ever find another one that's just like it? Or maybe the element burned out? Or the rack got warped or rusted or something? Or maybe you don't use an oven, but that spinny thing

Who works in Gastown, besides a cadre of fashionistas, furniture snobs, and maple syrup merchants? Techies! Each year, our friends at New Media BC bring us the PopVox Awards (from vox populi , Latin for "voice of the people").

Chances are at least some of you readers work in digital media and might not have heard about this . We've added all of the events to the calendar in case you're interested...

I took a tour of the Timebomb Trading offices yesterday and was really stoked on not only the hospitality but the awesome collection of art installs they've got on the walls there. Also, not-so-coincidentally, I ran into V.I.A.

V.I.A. Imprint is an ongoing feature concerning book and magazine publishers, book stores, and all things print in this city of ours. At the bustling Gastown corner of Abbott and Water is a heavy-duty and well fortified news box.