Paul’s Voice: Making Culture a Daily Habit
When an independent business marks 25 years, it’s a time for celebration. In hundreds of cities...
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Author: Paul Byrne
MGMT father-son Okanagan Life reunion
Elvis Presley. Jerry Lee Lewis. Isaac Hayes. Alex Chilton. Justin Timberlake. Andrew VanWyngarden....
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Style meets taste in the vineyard
[BlockQuote quote=”Inspired by Old World traditions and New World sustainability, winery...
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Brain Insight Hits all the Right Notes
A monstrous amount of scientific evidence is showing that the human brain is most active when listening to or playing music. So it seems fitting that this column appears in the music issue of Okanagan Life because from my musical perspective …
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25 Years of Memories
Do you remember who was on the cover of the first issue of Okanagan Life? If you don’t have that memory, you might be surprised to know that your brain most likely does. In this instance, we can find out who was on the cover. In fact, 25 years of Okanagan Life memories can be tested, coached and adjudicated …
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Social Media Showdown
I just read yet another blog predicting the demise of magazines. I’m a little confused because, in reality, the T-shirt I’m wearing has more views than his website. I leave the blogger-dude, wondering how I ever found him, to summon up the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Internet—Google herself. I gasp out loud at the news that there are 627 million results for “the death of magazines” search. Sigh. I tear up, move my Mac out of the splash zone and begin reading the awful results. I get through a little more than half before it occurs to me that Okanagan Life …
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Forget everything you thought you knew about advertising
Forget everything you thought you knew about advertising … “The most effective advertisements are the ones consumers don’t even realize they have seen.” He must be mad! Yet Dr. Mark Changizi seems sane enough. Does his statement sound crazy to you? Or is it possible …
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Hockey Valley
No question we’re obsessed with the national sport. Check out our Okanagan hockey highlights …
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Does Okanagan Living Make Us Happier
In this corner, San Luis Obispo, the happiest place in America as named by National Geographic writer Dan Buettner; and in this corner, the Okanagan, thought of as one of the happiest places in Canada by its citizens, media and country. Looks like we’ve got us another gold medal game—a happy-off!
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Duncan Keith: Slam Dunc
Was he dreaming of a day like this when four-year-old Duncan Keith laced ’em up for the first time in Fort Francis, Ontario.
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