Newly opened, the Vanilla Pod Restaurant at Poplar Grove Winery is one of the Okanagan’s most gorgeously situated winery restaurants. I’m eager to try it out. Poplar Grove’s founder and executive winemaker, Ian Sutherland, and president and owner, Tony Holler, join yours truly …
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Summer in the Okanagan means time to kick back and read. Check out these titles by Okanagan authors: Bear of a Honeymoon, by Laurie Carter; The Bridge, Don’t Look Back, by Faye Cyr; Fall of a King, by James Fuller; Financial Fitness…
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Lori Mairs is an Okanagan artist who truly embraces the saying “go big or go home.” She spent the first 24 years of her adult life in service to people with developmental disabilities. But one snowy night near Christmas, at exactly midnight, she quit her job. After some discussion with her great aunt…
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Did you know that music can influence your wine purchases? In a new study, researchers played German music in a store for a day and 73 per cent of the wine sold that day was German. The next day when French music was played…
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“I’m an administrative goddess on steroids,” says Renata Mills—and she needs to be. Along with her...
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Ordinary, extraordinary Okanaganites – Pigeon-holing? Not so much my style. But a few months ago,...
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Okanagan communities fall into three loosely defined geographic regions. The Central...
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Sure, the Okanagan’s got unique places to explore and activities to try. But even more fascinating about this landscape are the regular folks — the ordinary, extraordinary people you walk by every day. The ones I found are happy to tell you why they’re here, and about the places and spaces they occupy in the Okanagan.
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I find shopping painful. My wife would rephrase that. To her, I’m just a painful shopper. But...
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