Living

In Out of Paris , by Zahid Sardar, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 264 pages, $62.

Give growing industry advances a shot

There are so many inspiring ideas out in the marketplace for a kids party.

Alexander Golasovsky, 5, Ross Road elementary Art teacher: Katy Dowling-Smith Favourite art: everything Favourite artist: Douglas Coupland His teacher writes: Alexander loves to draw.

Even before you consider their nutritional value and versatility, lentils have two things going for them: they’re inexpensive and, stored in an airtight container, they’ll last a long time in your pantry.

Riffing on the egg-before-the-chicken debate, let me ask you this: is the ubiquity of televisions in restaurants a reflection of the express appetite of diners or have diners simply acquiesced to the presence of televisions in light of their ubiquity

Martin Testa and Horseshoe Bay residents Linda Watt and Chris Gielnik of special effects company Direct Hit FX demonstrate their newest product during a recent taping of Dragons’ Den.

Yoshie Nakata, Bill Shellard and Fro Forooghian play a game of Scrabble at Mollie Nye House on a recent afternoon.

North Shore Keep Well Society program participants complete a workout at Kiwanis Lynn Manor.

Studio Wild’s Donna Lynne Larson is presenting the Canadian premiere public showing of her film, Walk Talk Dance Sing, a docu-drama about thyroid disease, Friday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at BirnamWood Rising, 1388 Terrace Ave., North Vancouver.