In an activist life, a legacy of grace - June Callwood 1925 - 2007

June Callwood died on April 14, age 82, after living with cancer for several years.

Playing house

A new book urges us to get imaginative and create “mini environments” in the home.

Sophistication is in the cards

Cognito: Modern Wisdom for Dining and Social Etiquette is a trendy-looking, tastefully packaged deck of protocol cards just in time for the fast-approaching festive season’s endless parties and its endorsement of good will among men and women

Wiggle extravaganza

It’s time for the annual Wiggle extravaganza of wild wigs and far-out fashion, hosted by NYC’s drag sensation The Lady Bunny.

Vancouver's menswear gets a Brazilian boost

Leave it to two ambitious young Vancouver companies created by people who came from somewhere else to identify a niche that needed filling and do something about it, with impressive results.

Model behaviour

In our red-hot market, the display suite has become as much a study in cutting-edge design as in the art of selling space.

Bed-in for Peace

Give peace a chance! Until Sunday (October 15), Boys' Co and the Elliot Louis Gallery are staging a Bed-in for Peace in the store window at 1044 Robson Street.

Handbags for men come fashion full circle

To any guys out there who still think that carrying a purse is effeminate: the 20th century just called and wants its fanny pack back.

Polli & Esther's Closet

As the cool weather starts to creep in, poor people are especially affected. That includes men with HIV/AIDS who are living on a fixed disability income. New clothing is rarely an option.

Layered lads rock the room

If there’s one trick to wearing this season’s late-1970s/early-1980s–tinged, rock ’n’ roll–indebted men’s clothing, it’s piling it on.

Slick new kicks

You could, like the song says, get your kicks on Route 66. Or you could head out to one of the local shops carrying a range of shoes that take their cue from the soccer field, basketball court, running track, or skateboard park.

Main Street attracts fashionable boys and men

Fashion walks the streets, and guys eager for a more of-the-moment look might want to check out one street in particular””Main Street””where the mainstream and marginal mix it up.

Echo on Main

The retro-hip look without the coin.

Out in surreal El Salvador

Fashion shows never start when they're supposed to, and this one is no exception. We're on Latin American time, and south of the Rio Grande, 11 p.m. is apparently the new 9 p.m.

Local shops help guys sex it up with Pride

Men who want to be part of the eye candy come Pride Day can check out a number of stores in and adjacent to the West End that are stocked with all the current trends in gay apparel.

Congratulations to Graham Bingham

Graham Bingham has received one of Vancouver's gay community Hero Awards under the Business Citizen of the Year category in May.

Tough guise

When a friend I'd known since high school killed himself a few years ago, we were all shocked. He was an even-tempered, feet-on-the-ground kind of guy whom people depended on and who never lost his cool.

Dad deserves class, from skin care to silver

Many years ago, the comedian Bill Cosby said, “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.”

El Kartel

If your dad has a youthful, maverick bent and likes things chunky, funky, and just a little bit dangerous, El Kartel (121A–1025 Robson Street) carries something you're definitely not going to find anywhere else in town.

Concrete poet

A VAG retrospective of Arthur Erickson is potent evidence that his playful urban landmarks are as visionary as ever.

Punk meets Pacific in reconstructed couture

According to Raif Adelberg, the Sex Pistols were the first boy band.

Mastermind Japan

When is a T-shirt worth $848?

Testosterone 101

Get up to speed on this misunderstood hormone.

Priape

If you're desperately seeking a pair of designer jeans that are trendy and sexy, it makes sense that you'd head for a retail outlet billing itself as "Canada's favourite gay store".

Swedish Tiger claims catwalk

Tiger of Sweden is marking new territory.

Welfare Denied

NGOs take plight of homeless to UN

Soccer and Britpop give shop its stylish kick

Glyn Roberts, 46, is the owner of Tenthirtyeight (1025 Mainland), a sport-inspired streetwear boutique that led the trend 11 years ago when it opened just as the Yaletown scene was starting to take off.

Home is where the art is

Constantin Brancusi said that architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Warming up to sculpture

Sculptural must-haves.

With Momentum, here come the groomed

"Let's be honest; I like men," says Graham Bingham, a likable man himself.

Momentum

Actor Harrison Ford recently made headlines when he bought a whole bunch of short- and long-sleeve T-shirts made by a New York-based apparel company called 429.

First Nations male role models strike a pose

Photographer Suzette Amaya has put together a fetching collection of black-and-white photos of Native Canadian men who are not fashion models but who, in Amaya's eyes-and lens-are positive role models for other First Nations men.

Poverty and prejudice, not drugs, fuel B.C.'s HIV rise

There are people in Vancouver with HIV/AIDS who are dying without ever having access to health care. So says Paul Lewand.

The reason?

"About 50 percent of our members live in poverty."

Bitchin' kitchens

The kitchen is the hottest room in the home these days, and it's taking over.

Hip cuisine served up with dishes to match

Some creative Vancouverites have cooked up a new concept for the growing number of foodies out there.

Winter style

All you need to be on the cutting edge of fashion this winter.

Research says HIV-positive men at higher risk for Meth use

New spice instead of old

Here are some Christmas-gift recommendations, with plenty of time to spare, so that you don't end up buying something nasty at the last minute that makes the guy in your life look like a cast member of Barney Miller.

Obakki's got your back —and your butt, too

Let's be honest. Most guys straight and gay alike who are into fashion are into it for two reasons: sex and status.

Men's Vogue

The inaugural issue of Men's Vogue is out on newsstands—North America's version, that is.

Prefab moves out of the trailer park

Glidehouse isn't just fab; it's prefab.

VAG offers open art transplant

When really rich people want to show off their homes, they don't depend on the furniture and fixtures to do the trick. They do it with art.

Gays targeted for attacks

A gay man is stabbed 146 times. A transsexual is strangled, and her body thrown out the window. A lesbian is kicked, punched, and spat upon in a movie lineup on a busy street in front of dozens of bystanders who watch and do nothing. None of these incidents occurred in a dangerous neighbourhood in a big American city or on the mean streets of a Third World metropolis. These are just some of hundreds of fatal and nonfatal assaults targeting gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual people in easygoing, queer-friendly Vancouver.

Fall updates on the traditional suit

In times of social upheaval, like now, people yearn for something they can depend on, and fashion falls into step.

Fashion to sustain us

For the last century, the majority of apparel manufacturers have been right up there with automobile makers when it comes to environmental destruction and social degradation.

Suitability

A new fashion season can be an evolution so gradual you're hardly aware of it, or, as is happening this fall, it can be a complete revolution. But relax, it's a refined one.

Water works

New from Vancouver's Absolute Spa (various locations), the Y-Spa Travelling Case for men ($108) contains four products that make you feel like you're in a spa even when you're on the road.

Cheeky details

Sportswear International has called Parasuco one of the 10 most influential denim designers in North America, and gave the Montreal-based company an award for most innovative denim.

Encore for the golden age of radio

The more gadgets that appear on the market, the more interesting the persistence of certain others becomes.