At the corner of Commercial Drive and Franklin Street, you’ll find this on the north wall of Storm Brewing. It makes me think, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. No idea if that’s the intent. This mural is not that one that was almost removed by the City of Vancouver: Brewery’s mural ‘beloved by locals and visitors alike’ gets official reprieve …
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Normally I notice a book’s language if it’s bad. The language in The River Has Roots jumped out at me because it was good! Amal El-Mohtar has a wonderfully lyrical voice. The River Has Roots was luxurious and a great pleasure to read. 4 stars and recommended!
Paraphrasing 99% Invisible: Always read the sign!
Back in the last millennium I graduated from the Electronics program at BCIT (the British Columbia Institute of Technology). I was very happy. It was my goal in high school and I had achieved it!
My mother was even happier!!! When she got her copy of this photo she went straight to the local newspaper, the Quesnel Cariboo Observer, and …
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I pass this mural regularly. It’s at the north east corner of Templeton Street and Hastings Street in Vancouver. I couldn’t find any information on it. “Everything Is Sacred” is written in English and a language Claude AI identifies as Halkomelem, a language of the Coast Salish peoples.
It’s on the Hastings side of the Hastings East Rectifier Station. Hats …
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I’d been going to the Hastings Community Centre for over a year before I truly noticed this wonderful mural. It was just a bunch of colour out of the corner of my eye, then one day for no particular reason I saw it.
I’d love to know more about the Indigenous figures, but all I could find is this from …
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Some photos from my ride around the Stanley Park seawall this morning. The weather was amazing, though cold. That’s what extra layers are for. I only had to share the path with a handful of cyclists, so no getting stuck behind someone or being the person holding someone up. Perfect! The only other folks out that early were mostly runners.…
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I got my e-bike in February 2023 (OMG, I’ve been riding for 3 years!). A tad over a year later on March 21st I logged my first 1000 kilometers. I was very excited. My rides were relatively short and I kept watching the odometer as the kilometers accumulated bit by bit. I was so aware of my mileage I extended …
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My first trip to Ireland was in the 90s and I was a big Guinness fan. Guinness lore said nothing compared to a Guinness poured in Ireland and I enjoyed confirming this for myself. In the name of accuracy I gathered as large a sample size as I could from across the country.
I also toured the Guinness Storehouse in …
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Queen Demon is the second book in Martha Well’s The Rising World series. I really enjoyed the first book, Witch King, which I read in July 2024. Queen Demon starts where Witch King left off and I struggled to remember all the backstory and characters. It made the first third of the book …
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