When you ask Wayne Meadows about how many corkscrews he has in his collection he says he doesn t have an exact number and it doesn t matter. I tell everyone the same thing: 3,000 plus or minus 1,000, he says. If you said who has the rarest ones I probably have a lot of rare ones.
For Meadows, it s not the amount, though surely he has one of the largest collections. It s about the quality; he figures his collection is valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The trick is endless people invented endless corkscrews, he says, explaining the huge variety.
That s why he has rarity upon rarity, including the world s only steam-powered corkscrew, cork picks (which predate corkscrews) and plenty of corkscrews which are the last or one of the last of their kind. His collection of bar corkscrews is the largest in the world.
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Here’s the East Vancouver version of mission impossible when it comes to a COVID-19 Spring Vol. 2: getting a spot on a craft-brewery patio.
To go searching for a table between the hours of 2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, and all day weekends, is to go home convinced that you live in a city where everyone else has what you don’t.
Like a house, apartment, or windowless walk-out “garden suite” that rents for less than $1,500 (plus utilities) a month. Or a Tesla, Mercedes, Ferrari, or any other grotesquely stupid status car driven by those with more money than sense. Or a job.
Strange & Deranged offers luxury eclectic decor at its new flagship store
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Strange & Deranged offers luxury eclectic decor at its new flagship store
Discerning homeowners with a taste for the eclectic can now shop this luxury home decor brand at its new flagshipstore in Paragon. by Melody Bay / December 30, 2020
Strange and deranged might not be words one would usually associate with decor, but this uniquely- named local brand is far from what its moniker suggests. Specialising in luxury home decor that includes eclectic handmade and artisanal items for discerning homeowners, Strange & Deranged has opened its flagship store in Paragon.
In Search of 100-Mile Beer
The Tyee wondered if BC had any truly local brew. What we found is the makings of the next beer revolution.
J.B. MacKinnon is an independent magazine journalist and writer, and co-author of
The 100-Mile Diet (Random House, 2007, with Alisa Smith), a bestseller that is widely credited as a catalyst of the local foods movement. SHARES Longwood Brewery’s Harley Smith (foreground) and Peter Kis-Toth harvesting hops south of Nanaimo.
Photo: Longwood Brewery.
When James R. Anderson, a colonial statistician, set out in 1891 to complete the first survey of British Columbia’s agricultural products, there were good reasons to doubt that craft beer made from local ingredients would be among them.