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Community garden coordinator, rainy-day sourdough baker, and occasional film-club host in Vancouver. Usually somewhere between a seed library, used-book shop, farmers’ market, and the seawall, with a...
Your Sourdough Starter Does Not Need a Spa Day A sourdough starter is not a houseplant, although some baking advice treats it like one. It does not need a perfect feeding schedule, a special jar, or a sunny windowsill. Mine copes quite wel...
A hiking mishap became the gothic spark for Rhys Bowen’s new novel The origin story behind Rhys Bowen’s new novel, The Castle in the Glen, is wonderfully specific: a hiking mishap on Scotland’s Isle of Skye helped shape the book’s gothic a...
ACTORS’ “Youth” Finds a Darker Pulse in Vancouver Vancouver’s ACTORS released “Youth” on July 17, and it lands somewhere between post-punk urgency and the colder, more spacious side of synth music. I have not seen the official video yet, s...
A Community Garden Is More Than Its Plots I came across a short video from Cedar Cottage Community Garden’s 10th anniversary celebration, featuring T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss speaking about the garden and its community. It is a modest piece o...
A good local result for the women’s race: Skylar Schneider of L39ION of Los Angeles won Wednesday evening’s Gastown Grand Prix, with Bryony Botha second and Yarely Salazar third. I like seeing downtown streets used for serious racing, even...