Posts tagged with “nuba”

Vancouver’s food culture is no joke – the abundance, variety and accessibility of different cuisines available here is phenomnenal, and simply irresistible to those of us who can’t help but take advantage several times a week. Eating out with friends, buying lunch at work and ordering take-out for cozy-time with the couch are all common and favourite activities for most of us. But if you’re like me, you probably feel that same small pang of guilt each time you stuff yet another Styrofoam container or greasy paper take-away bag in the garbage. We love our food and we love our food to go, but at what cost?

Sample Tiffin, photo courtesy TheTiffinProject.com

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Vancouver is arguably the most beautiful and expensive city in the world to live in. For most, the goal is simply to live IN it. We all have to work, and work hard to keep up with Our Lady of VanCity, but there are a select few who know the score. Why not live in the world’s most liveable city and hold down one of the raddest jobs she has to offer? We all know somebody who goes to work smiling. What are these jobs and how do people get them? More importantly, are they as awesome as they sound… VOL.4 HIGHLIGHTS: Secret supper clubs, winning and subliminal boobs.

photos: Kelsey Klassen

You know the guy who does that addictive Secret Mommy stuff you heard at the Biltmore a few weeks ago? How bout the owner of Ache Records, the experimental record label that boasts Death From Above and Hot Hot Heat releases, whose displays you’ve seen in Scratch Records, Zulu Records, Red Cat Records, Audiophile, Zoo Zhop and Dandelion Emporium. Do you remember staring at the designs for Said the Whale and thinking, ‘Oh that’s by the same guy whose art I saw on Main St. last night?’ (Obviously)

If I didn’t already know the well dressed gentleman waiting for me at the bar in Nuba, this week’s Undrudgery might not have existed. I would have never made the connection between the prolific Vancouver artist, musician, designer, illustrator and businessman if I hadn’t seen him in action myself. Andy Dixon. Now you know.

I sat down with Dixon and some 1516 to find out how all this happened.

photos: Kelsey Klassen

When did you start down this path?

It’s not that easy to trace back in those terms. I’ve been playing music since I was 12 in bands and stuff but that didn’t make any money until we started touring, and then it was just enough money to pay for that tour. But then I had to go back to high school so I didn’t really have to worry about it.

What was the band?

d.b.s. – kind of a kid punk band. When the band started gaining in popularity, one of the things we had to deal with was album art, t-shirts….I was the most artistically inclined. I was that quintessential kid that just drew all day and made comic books and shit so I was elected to do that and I started to really like that process of coming up with a visual representation of someone’s music.

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Every week V.I.A. Giveaways will give you a chance to win … something. Watch this space and if you’re a real keener, follow @VIAGiveaways on the Twitter for even more good times and random free stuff! This week is all about the V.I.P. experience, which to me means being on that magical piece of documentation known as “the list” and the feeling of self-righteous awesome that can only be had from breezing past those other people who are not. Oh, yeah. Technophiles will undoubtedly appreciate an evening with one of Vancouver’s Most Awesome, Douglas Coupland, at the Waldorf Hotel (complete with $30 gift certificate to Nuba!). Electrophiles will get a charge from being at the über-exclusive opening launch party for Vancouver’s newest hotspot, The Electric Owl. Both of these awesome V.I.P. events are happening this Thursday, which is so obviously, like, the new Saturday.

Join esteemed author and visual artist Douglas Coupland, who will be hosting an interactive presentation on Marshall McLuhan and YouTube at The Waldorf Hotel. For more information go HERE. I have two pairs of passes and two $30 gift certificates. You get the message?

Like most Canadians, this was my introduction to Marshall McLuhan.

Ms. McAvoy alluded to this pretty awesome event HERE, and of course she’ll be taking fotos, too. I can’t take your foto but I might be able to get you in, as I have two pairs of passes to this shindig. The American Hotel on Main Street has been roosting a new venue as part of its renovation, and on Thursday The Electric Owl will be hatching. Check out this really great article at Scout Magazine for more information about the renovation and the new nightspot which will be featuring…. izakaya cuisine.

All night.

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Tickets to Pecha Kucha Night, drinks at Chambar, a water saving kit and music from Christopher Smith!

Bob has written lots on Pecha Kucha (and even presented!) before. It’s one of those events I have heard nothing but good things about and always wanted to attend but haven’t yet – usually because it sells out. If you’re not in the loop, it’s pronounced PEH-CHA KOO-CHA, and the very special green-themed edition on Wednesday, June 23 “will feature 13 local instigators that are on stage with 20 slides x 20 seconds to deliver inspiration and insight on the broad topic of sustainability and Vancouver’s ambition to be the greenest city by 2020.”

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Win 2 tickets to see Agora and a $50 gift certificate from Nuba!

Vancouver is Awesome has 5 pairs(!) of tickets to give away for Alejandro Amenábar‘s (The Others, The Sea Inside) new film Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, at a special sneak peak this Wednesday, June 9. One of these lucky winners will feel extra lucky they left a comment and played the game because they will get to have a lovely Lebanese meal thanks to the awesome people at Nuba. $50 at Nuba will get you a lot of the crispy cauliflower, among other things.

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Win tickets to Heritage Vancouver Society’s Inaugural Long Table Social and Dinner for Two at Nuba!

The Kids Are Alright.

Vancouver is awesome and it has been for a while. Celebrate Vancouver’s heritage at a unique event being put on by the Heritage Vancouver Society entitled Heritage and the Arts at the Page Building, 330 Pender Street. Join building owner and evening host Eric Cohen for a brief history of the 1907(!) Vancouver gem and see firsthand the original architectural features he is painstakingly restoring.

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