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BC Business (Nov)
Noel Hulsman's cover story promises, whether we like it or not, to take us inside The Vancouver Sun. But it's Gregory Crow's police blotter photos of E-in-C Patricia Graham--on the cover posing before the world's largest cork board--which underscore the alleged bleakness of life at the beleaguered rag. The story itself is almost incredulously even-handed, offering a good primer on a bad pub, but shirks any search for solutions beyond an easy jury-is-out verdict on Graham. The front of book revue exhumes a Kootenays craftsman who makes furniture-cum-caskets and peeks into life inside the ad voiceover circuit. A profile of the man steering the ad agency which won the 2010 Bid business offers up a standard David/Goliath angle. An interesting story reports how BC non-profits are negotiating barren times for government funding. Another trots out the requisite pre-election West handwringer. The strong, wide-ranging package on wireless technology provides a capable if somewhat belated survey of WIFI, but misses maybe the most obvious B.C. angle: UBC's recently completed wireless computer network is the world's largest. Bcbusinessmagazine.com
Butter (Fall)
The "style verité" mag celebrates a year with its fall issue. Butter is a valuable, entertaining read if only as a straight-up anthropology of Vancouver's Main Street hipster. As it stands, the mag has verve to spare and the esprit to mix it up with before-there-was-Bushnell callgirl-scribbler Tracy Quan, make an obligatory namecheck of the electro scene, and then wax wide-eyed on the history of the t-shirt. Where the fashion rag really continues to confound is with its reams of relatively ad-free, lush, glossy pages, but we don't want to hate on them. Ryan Roddy and crew just escape being a Vice Mag mimic by staying low-profile in Butter's editorial voice. Here's hoping they can keep their street swerve, but not at the cost of the Left Coast easiness which is their smoothest asset by far. Mmmbutter.com
Vancouver (Nov)
The annual retailapalooza special divvies up the goods in a rich (read: varied) editorial package. The latest It nightclub, and a handful of its patrons and staff, undergo the Steve Burgess treatment. A ludicrous buyer's guide hunts down obscene fancies. Not your standard citymag fare: Kids who dance for dollars on Vancouver streets. A hard-nosed Q&A with a charity eventeer. A service piece uncovers "not only a winemaker but the master and creator of a parallel world" (no joke). Bush league media consolidation? There's unconventional wisdom on order when a scrappy lefty rag dumps a star columnist. The reliably nasty convention watch charticle, this month featuring the World Weightlifting Championship, cautions women to "avoid 'roid stare or dragging knuckles" while "taking comfort in their superior downward dogs." Plus, canine owner Kevin Chong asks who's walking whom. Responsible parents: You'll want to keep unwrapped copies of Vanmag away from the kids, or at least at eye-gouging distance from the multifarious throwing-star fly-in cards and fold-outs. Vancouvermagazine.com
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