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The Raccoon drawing from City Critters has been turned into a tee and only available at Walrus on Cambie. If you are going to Pecha Kucha tonight the shop will be open before and after the event.

BLVD is a community-minded skateboard shop located on 1340 Commercial Drive – it's The Drive's first full-on skateshop. I recently caught up with owner and VIA contributor Kevin Kelly for an in-depth "Open House" Q&A you can find right here .

Right now we're doing a cross-promotion through Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ and my local t-shirt brand, Crownfarmer, where we're giving V.I.A. readers free shipping on all orders! The discount code is VIA102009 . Enter it upon checkout at Crownfarmer.

A couple of weeks ago Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Inc made the move from our office that we were sharing with Take Five Trading , where we had been operating for the past year or so, into a new spot with the dudes at Proper Design .

Our friends/sponsors over at Six Cent Press are now selling button making machines! Have a look ...

Not only does Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Pile Driving have an awesome name but whenever I see this little tug boat sitting on one of it's barges (in front of Science World, Convention Centre, etc) it kinda makes me want to camp out and wait until it gets lowered into

Mel Yap finds a unique niche in anything he wants to do. Lucky for us his niches lay in the arts, photography and music. They all carry a certain depth and complexity and yet they are palatable for most to enjoy.

We won "Best Navel-gazing Web site" in the Straight's Best Of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Editor's Picks: Media !!! Here 's the section that has a quick piece on us and the other winners in this category.

If you've lived in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­for at least a year (or your whole life), then you're likely familiar with the Georgia Straight 's totally awesome Best of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­issue that they do every year highlighting the best of the best that this city has to of

Have you ever seen MONTECRISTO magazine? It's a lifestyle quarterly focused mostly on Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­stories, "designed for the discerning, cultured Vancouverite".