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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS, misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times, food, culture, and entertainment the city has to offer, along with the creative minds behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Instagram at @RICKCHUNG.

Volume 105: Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2013‘s Street Food City II food truck festival downtown in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on January 24, 2013. Hashtag: #SteetFoodCity. More photos available on Flickr and Tumblr.

Om nom nom.

Dine Out has once again teamed up with the Street Food Vancouver Society and the Downtown Vancouver BIA to bring back the popular Street Food City lunch festival, gathering a bunch of the city’s best food trucks all in one place.
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Vancouver is home to a thriving fashion industry made up of individuals committed to its growth and success. Get to know these personalities in The Inseam and discover what makes the Vancouver Fashion scene so awesome.

Photos: courtesy Thai Go

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending KNOWSHOW, a bi-annual tradeshow that showcases some of the best in lifestyle, fashion and action sports labels and retailers. I had the chance to view the Fall/Winter 2013 collections from well-known brands and local favourites, like Lifetime Collective and Herschel Supply Co., as well as up and coming labels like STR/KE MVMT.

Vancouver-based jewelry labels, Alden Rae and Birds of a Feather were showing at the event, so I caught up with their founders. Sisters Miriam and Sophie Alden are both experienced in fashion retail, having established their brands out of an entrepreneurial desire to create something new. They have also both managed to maintain other businesses along the way. Miriam heads up Brunette Showroom while balancing Alden Rae, and Sophie designs a higher end jewelry line, Lisbeth, along with Birds of a Feather. We chat about how it all got started, their influences on one another, and what we can expect from their latest collections.

Valerie Tiu: You have both worked in the fashion industry before. Why did you choose to start your own businesses designing jewelry?

Sophie Alden: I’ve had Lisbeth since 2006. I got into it when I was working at One of a Few. We always had a hard time finding jewelry. Creatively, I wanted to start doing something, and then people started buying it, so I kind of fell into it like that. After doing Lisbeth for a while, I wanted to do something new and separate, which is where Birds of a Feather came from. Price point wise, it’s different and it’s edgier.

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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS, misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times, food, culture, and entertainment the city has to offer, along with the creative minds behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Instagram at @RICKCHUNG.

Volume 104: KnowShow lifestyle and fashion trade show at Vancouver Convention Centre West on January 17, 2013. Hashtag: #knwshw. Photo courtesy of Nicole Soon. More photos available on Flickr. Also: Summer 2011 / Winter 2012 / Summer 2012.

January brings Vancouver’s biannual premiere surf and snowboarding culture focused lifestyle and fashion trade show.

Once again, I walked the showroom floor, looking at all the different hip and fresh new styles coming for the spring/summer season. Check out a couple of quick hits below.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS, misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times, food, culture, and entertainment the city has to offer, along with the creative minds behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Instagram at @RICKCHUNG.

Volume 103: Memories from The Waldorf Hotel on East Hastings from October 30, 2010 to January 20, 2013. Hashtag: #RIPWaldorf / #SaveTheWaldorf. More photos available on Flickr and Tumblr.

And it always will be be (awesome, that is), no matter what. You probably heard the sad news (Bob summed it up optimistically HERE) about the latest incarnation of the iconic Waldorf Hotel.

We’ll stick to the positive stuff and celebrate all the amazing memories we have from the three short years of its newly minted existence as the reopened Eastside cultural landmark.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS, misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times, food, culture, and entertainment the city has to offer, along with the creative minds behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Instagram at @RICKCHUNG.

Volume 102: New Year’s Day 2013 Polar Bear Swim at Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen on January 1, 2013. More photos available on Flickr and Tumblr.

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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering all the INTERESTING THINGS, misadventures, and shenanigans beyond social functions and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times, food, culture, and entertainment the city has to offer, along with the creative minds behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 101: End of the year lunch feast at Minami Restaurant in Yaletown on December 27, 2012. More photos available on Flickr and Tumblr.

Saying goodbye can so hard to do. As 2012 nears it’s end, we look back and reflect on the year that was. I find the week in between Christmas and New Year’s a sort of a weird transitional nexus period. In this spirit, Sophia and I gathered for a post-Christmas lunch to celebrate and close out the year.

On this grey afternoon, downtown was a ghost town with most folks still on their holidays. Yaletown looked so peaceful and eery as we met up at my favourite new restaurant from this year, Minami.
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