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It's Monday September the 21 around 9:14PM and

Tales of the City: Bourdain in the House Y'all

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Vancouver Magazine has one great new feature. Tales from the City is a nicely typeset, spread of why magazines still offer something in the world. Because it looks awful on the web. End of story. Take this example from John Burns in what they are calling Volume 3:

A few years back, I spent a day touring the city with TV chef Anthony Bourdain. He is as acerbic in person as he is on the tube, and the hours passed in a happy blur of cab rides and comped shooters. In the early evening, we found ourselves drinking champagne at the Opus Hotel. Jim Byrnes was playing the blues as leggy PR types and U.K. travel scribes mingled. Suddenly, the smell of smoke. All eyes turn to Bourdain. "Hey," he said, "for once it's not me!" A CBC cameraman who'd been hounding Bourdain has leaned into a candle and set his jacket ablaze. An immaculate blond raised an eyebrow. "Is that young man on fire?" Her companion sipped her campers and shook her head. "Some people."

Here's Volume 4.

Previously on the Vancouverite:

Sunday Night Five: Bourdain, Wine Labels, French Election, Mao, Kristi Gordon.

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