Living

EVEN the most distant of bridal fashion followers are aware that Vera Wang is the dress designer of choice for celebs and stylish girls.

PARTNER in Calories and I have adopted a new supper strategy for 2012. We're adopting two new vegetables every month-and already the experiment has yielded some intriguing results.

Keep glitter nail polishes at your fingertips.

Dear Mattie: How do I keep warm with style? Cold in Seymour Dear Seymour: This season, it is easy to keep warm and be stylish. Coats are fun because they are modern, conservative and trendy.

I have long bemoaned the dearth of excellent, authentic Chinese food on the North Shore. Tasty Japanese cuisine, certainly, we have that. We have decent Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, even Malaysian.

- Greene & Greene: Developing a California Architecture, by Bruce Smith (Gibbs Smith Publishers, 192 pages) $56 IN 1907 the Greene brothers completed an addition and restoration on the home of Theodore Irwin, the most expensive project they'd worked

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Theatricks students will perform this audience participation play Jan. 11-13 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 14 at 11 a.m. at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre, 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Admission: $8. Tickets: 604-924-0434.

One family's building woes

Dine Out Vancouver 2012 will take place from Jan. 20 to Feb. 5.

"I understand what you are saying, but my spouse just isn't going to agree." If I had a nickel for every time a participant in one of my workshops said this to me, as the old saying goes, I would be an extremely rich woman.