This Saturday local pop-surrealist artist Camilla D’Errico will be having a release party for a limited edition series of clothing, handbags and art prints at El Kartel. Starts at 9. Goes till late. Pop on by for a drink and some great and affordable Christmas gifts. Preview pics of some of the adorable wares for [...]

To describe something as “big in Japan” has become a cheap T-shirt cliché. Regardless, it’s one of the most apt descriptions one can use when talking about Wrongwroks (wrong rocks). Vancouverite Tony Wong’s line Wrongwroks is available in two stores in Canada. It’s available in 80 in Japan.
Tony got into art and fashion in an [...]

New issue of Ion Magazine just went online. You should be able to grab a hard copy from the following locations by week’s end. This fashion heavy issue features articles on french music sensation Sebastien Tellier, country rock favs Eldorado as well as local artist designed shirt lines Rad Attack and Wrongwroks. You can download [...]

Another issue of Sneeze Magazine showed up in the newspaper box on the corner of Abbott and Water this week. Once again, it makes the cheap laminate flooring in my apartment look that much better. It’s also the first magazine to have photos of Darryl Strawberry, Ricky Henderson, skateboarding and fur suit sex all [...]

Rising artstar, Andrew Salgado, will have his first ever solo exhibition in Vancouver from August 26 to September 7 at the Interurban Gallery on 1 East Hastings. Young Salgado currently has a bit of a buzz swirling around him and recently enrolled in the prestigious Chelsea College of Art in London. The body of work [...]

An extremely ambitious, interesting and slick new site called Lushpad launched in Vancouver over the weekend. Lushpad aims to be an online home for collectors of modern and vintage furniture as well as fine art. Or “part gallery, part auction house and part design magazine,” as Lushpad owner Melanie Carlson puts it. For way way [...]

What are you doing on August 16? Celebrating Stockwell Day or Rumer Willis’ birthday? Eating Halloumi, a delicious cheese that’s made from goat and sheep milk, to commemorate Cyprus gaining independence from the UK? That all sounds just fine but a way better idea would be to dress up like a zombie and lurch around [...]

Check out the latest collaboration between your favourite local shoe store, Livestock, and your favourite local artist, Ben Tour.
Pics of some Livestock shirts that have been Toured after the jump.

Along with Bad Kids Magazine, there’s now a second new tabloid sized magazine on the streets of Vancouver called Sneeze. This one’s a bit more interesting than Bad Kids. It’s distributing online and from a newspaper box, that’s fittingly been tagged, on the corner of Abbott and Water in Gastown, across from the Lamplighter. [...]

A nifty new magazine called Bad Kids turned up on the streets of Vancouver recently. This arty and cryptic tabloid-sized mag has no masthead so one can only guess who’s behind it. Smart money is on Erik Devereaux, Cam Dales and Andrew Andrew Andrew judging by the massive back cover ad for their night ‘Eighteen’ [...]

From July 11 to 13, The Chapel Art Gallery will be hosting Across The Board, “a celebration of board culture.” Across the Board will consist of an art show with the following artists participating: Alex Rothbauer, AmFreshaus, Andrew McGuire, Brent Clowater, Chris Serna, Chrystale Thompson, Colin Moore, Darren Camplin, Denial, Jeff Donomme, Jon Boulanger, Jordan [...]

Robert Dayton has a bone to pick with me. About four years ago I wrote an article about a film he starred in, Male Fantasy, and said he resembled Terry Richardson. Dayton wants everyone to know that he’s had his look since 1993 and it’s inspired by Richard Harris or Lee Hazelwood and not Richardson [...]