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Greetings Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.

You probably know that Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­band The Payola$ ' big hit song Eyes of a Stranger because it was an integral part of the cut-off jean-shorts and jelly shoes early-80s summers of your youth.

I recently had the pleasure of being invited up to the apartment of Alex and his fiancée Katie (Katie was in Wisconsin) for a Sunday morning chat post- Lost Lagoon stroll .

There seems to be a few places in the lower mainland where you can live in a house on the water. Kind of what Relic (from the Beachcombers) lived in, but a bit more modern and less dilapitated.

In case you missed it, this weekend was the open house for Vancouver's first official laneway house (courtesy of Lanefab Construction ). If you're lucky enough to own a house in the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­area and you've got some extra space...

About a year and a half ago I reported on your BC Place getting a new, retractable roof. I was beginning to wonder when they were gonna start construction when BOOM!, they announce that they're deflating it this coming week.

I got an e-mail from V.I.A. reader, Jacquie B, a couple days back. She wanted to let you all know about this amazing installation that her friends Erica and Alex did on one of the Lions (remember THIS post that Randy shared during the games?).

Design Week Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­is rolling along and last night's keynote speeches were by Helen Walters , Cameron Sinclair and Don Ryun Chang .

A few weeks ago I made this post about things that I leave in my alley, and posed the question of which order the items would be taken in and why. Well, I apologize for the delay, it wasn’t fair to keep you guys in suspense…..

Occasionally I'll come across city workers doing random jobs, improving our streets, and share them with you: - Painting traffic lines HERE . - Snowblowing bugs out of trees HERE .