Living

A home and the land it sits upon are inextricably joined in a marriage that can be as fulfilling as it can be fruitless.

Dine Out Eats Hit the Street: One of this year's signature festival events, Street Food City marks the first time that Dine Out Vancouver has included a street food category in its roster of prix fixe restaurant menus.

- ABC's from the Wilds of Africa by Warren Ackhurst, African Animal World, $17.95 - African Animal Alphabet by Beverly and Derek Joubert, National Geographic Little Kids, $18.

BANANAS are pretty amazing little yellow beings - perfectly packaged to take along as a snack, delicious raw and fantastic baked into any number of yummy things.

AT this time of the year it's a little hard to get inspired to think about gardening and even those sublime vistas in the garden aren't that sublime after you've looked at them from the window a hundred times since the beginning of winter.

REPRESENTATIVES of the B.C. Pharmacy Association and Metro Vancouver are urging community members to make a new year's resolution to bring their unused medications back to their local pharmacy.

Pension reform, poverty and elder abuse among last year's big issues

"I just want my dog to love me," said a new client at the beginning of a behavioural assessment. She called me to help because her dog had been expressing an increasing level of aggression.

THE theme for this year's national Non-Smoking Week, Jan 15-21, is breaking up is hard to do, but breaking up with tobacco this new year is easier for British Columbians thanks to B.C.'s Smoking Cessation Program.

ONE thing's for sure about the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival: executive director Harry Hertscheg knows how to put on a good show.