Having a little cottage behind her home has always been a dream for Ocea Ringrose. “Growing up as a kid I always loved the idea of having a little coach house or a little studio house,” Ringrose said. “It’s just so cool.” In one year, Ringrose will have that cottage. She and her partner, Colin [...]
Building a laneway house can be expensive. The costs vary depending on the size of the new building and its amenities. An average single-family property in Vancouver measures 33 by 120 feet. Currently the city allows a 500-square-foot laneway house to be built on a lot this size. If you have a larger property, your [...]
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I cheat at limbo. I cheated in kindergarten and ended up getting stuck in the eye by the birthday girl’s party hat. And I cheated at the pub night last Friday … and won a pair of purple pasties! Yes, I’ve learned my lesson indeed. When it comes to beer and boobies, everyone’s a winner. [...]
I was arguing for a while (mostly with myself) about whether or not dancer-style burlesque, which doesn’t include a striptease, counts as burlesque at all. In order to settle the debate, I decided to take a burlesque workshop at a professional dance studio in Vancouver. I enrolled in Rock n Roll Burlesque at Harbour Dance [...]
Meet the Purrfessor. He’s the host of Kitty Nights at the Biltmore Cabaret. Every Sunday night the Biltmore plays hosts to a sexy and glamourous cabaret of burly-q beauties. For $5, audience members watch four different dancers perform two numbers each. I was lucky enough to attend the “Beef and Blow Jobs” celebration on Sunday [...]
Ordinarily a burlesque performance ends like this. But on Saturday night at the Vancouver International Salsa Festival, a burlesque performance ended like this. What’s the idea here? Don’t burlesque dancers perform alone and get (almost) naked? In Vancouver – and in New York, Las Vegas, Toronto and LA too – there’s a new flavour in [...]
Live drumming signals the start of a new exercise in Edmond Kilpatrick’s boys-only dance class. The group of 13 six- and seven-year-old boys wear uniforms of black stretch pants and white shirts, and anxiously wait for instructions. Kilpatrick, a former Ballet BC principal dancer, calls out, “pliez,” and 13 pairs of knees immediately bend. This [...]
Popular reality television shows are providing male role models for boys who are interested in dance. But some feminist scholars say this isn’t enough. Mary Louise Adams, a sports sociologist, said these shows strengthen traditional masculinity and do nothing to produce a liberated form of femininity. For example, female figure skaters are an accessory to [...]
In the green grass, just off Victoria Drive, stands an apple red shed. It represents a full year’s work for the Cedar Cottage gardeners. Unlike so many community gardens in Vancouver, this one is here to stay. The City of Vancouver is enthusiastic about community gardening. The City’s 2010 Challenge calls for 2,010 new shared [...]
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