Beebe Cline, White Rock Realtor

  a nod for gastropod Proving once again that Vancouverites are (quite literally) starved for well-designed restaurants serving uncomplicated, delicious food, is the new Gastropod in Kits.  With a décor reminiscent of Chicago’s famous Avec, (think pale wood, a wall of backlit wine bottles, white granite bar) its design is as refreshing as its dishes, like ...

  passport to privilege Nearly one in five vitamin v subscribers will need to renew a Canadian passport this year. And that means thousands of you wasting copious amounts of time waiting on line at government offices when you could be bikini shopping instead. Thankfully, one vitamin v subscriber tipped us off that if you renew your passport online, they escort ...

book club What did we get up to over the holidays you ask? We had our nose deep into the 500 pages of Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a brilliant new book that’s part trip through the literary canon, part murder mystery, and all page-turning cleverness. That she’s been called a female Nabokov by the New York Times (who named this, her fi ...

  glass with class And we thought it must be from Italy…shame on us, but how delighted we were that the innovative Float series of glassware is from Vancouver firm, Molo Design. Of particular note is the stunning Float Tea Lantern (from $179), a clear glass column that shows off the colour of the tea to luminous effect. And if tea’s not your bag? It also w ...

  soak up the sun-rype You’re a jet-set gal on the go but you always make time to eat right. Right? \nNo need to fret about getting your favourite fruits into your sleek new clutch purse: Sun-Rype’s Fruit To Go bars are a convenient and healthy snack, perfect for a multi-tasker like you! \nA busy gal like you doesn’t have time for imitations: ...