Living

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.

HARD to believe, but it's been 14 years since the folks behind the perennially successful Okanagan Wine Festival took a leap of faith to unveil B.C.'s inaugural Icewine Festival at then neophyte Sun Peaks, near Kamloops.

NOTICES Emergency Medical Cards: The Keep Well Society has produced medical alert packages containing cards to be carried with individuals and placed prominently at home to provide medical information for emergency care workers.

IT'S the New Year and you've sat down with yourself, your spouse or your family and decided to bring a dog into your lives.

REPRESENTATIVES of Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver are looking to the community to help fill an urgent need for volunteers.