My favourite food gurus and local-eating advocates, authors James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, are now TV stars… Shooting this clip for the Food Network marked the 3rd time the couple have taken part in Slow Food Cycle Sunday… we wrangled them to write the intro for the Almanac, featured them in a locally produced movie…
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Ripple effect of the TELUS Festival’s Black Market Photo trade finally tallied
Hi Brooks from StreetToPeak kept the Black Market Photo trade going and going, finally logging an impressive $1760 in total donations to the Whistler Children’s Centre Father Daughter Dance fundraiser on May 8. At the final tally, $200 worth of tickets to the Olympus Pro Photographer showdown at this year’s TELUS Festival netted $3300 in…
Food and gross-outs at Whistler’s first Pecha Kucha
On Sunday April 18 Whistler hosted its first PechaKuchaNight. Event curator Aki Kaltenbach invited me to join her group of presenters, alongside Hana, the founder of TwoGirlsForking, “Living the Dream” photographer Carin Smolinski, sexy stitchophile Michelle Lee, who is equally passionate about suturing rotting gums as sewing gorgeous wedding dresses, accidental sexpert (and the star of 72 hour…
Living the Dream: Accommodation Wanted
Yesterday, I stopped in at the South Side Diner in Whistler’s Creekside, for a kick-ass burger and a chance to check out a home-grown photo exhibit, Living the Dream, with photographer Carin Smolinski. Sliding into the booth next to us were a couple of the exhibit subjects, residents of “Shanty-town”, a loft in a 2…
Bode, Write a Book
Word is, VANOC Chief John Furlong is considering writing a book in his imminent retirement, but I must admit, if there’s a memoir coming out of these Games that I’d like to read, it would be Bode Miller’s. At a press conference yesterday after his silver medal winning run in the men’s Super-G, Miller was articulate and insightful…
Biathletes dominate the Callaghan but the Big Guns are in Pemberton
Typically, I suffer a burst of motivation during an Olympic Games – it usually gets me as far as one lap around the block or a couple of days at the pool before it fades and I revert to form. But hope springs in the shape of biathlon – where athletes are still peaking in their thirties and…
Beers and cheers at Weasel House
Okay, so my motivation might not have been entirely pure when I popped by Whistler’s Weasel House after the downhill event yesterday to interview members of the Blue Army about their epic efforts to fight back the weather and prepare the race courses for the alpine Olympic events. After all, there was free beer on…
Highlights from the men’s Olympic downhill
Confession: there were a few moments on Monday during the men’s Olympic downhill that I was hoping the guys would ski a bit slower. Seriously, I can’t type that fast. As Canadian medal hopeful, Cowboy Robbie Dixon said, after he crashed and burned on the course: “I was definitely putting some crazy in there. It didn’t…
Rob Boyd is God, but a pantheon of newcomers is chomping at the bit to take the title
Doug Lewis will have a bird’s eye view of the men’s Alpine Olympic downhill tomorrow morning, (weather permitting.) The two-time U.S. Olympian, who made his first top ten placing on the Dave Murray Downhill in Whistler at the World Cup in 1984, will be calling the event for the Olympic Broadcasting Service alongside Chris Davenport and JP…
Playing the waiting Games as Ullr and El Nino battle it out
All that stands between the Dave Murray Downhill and Olympic perfection is about seven degrees Celsius – that’s the temperature drop required to take the current valley conditions (El Nino special) to cold enough to turn a water-logged course into boilerplate ice. “This course is excellent,” FIS men’s race director Guenter Hunjara told a small…
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