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It's Sunday February the 26 around 10:41AM and

Vancouverite Sunday Styles, Vol. 8

OLYMPICS The Province goes for Gold (ouch) with "Canada's Greatest Olympian" (Cindy Klassen) on the front and "Winnipeg Jets" (Klassen and Gold Medal winner Clara Hughes) on the back. This is in an effort to bury the idea of closing down a lane of the Lion's Gate Bridge during the 2010 Olympics for Olympic only traffic during the rush hours.

And Coca-Cola really knows how to party. They sent out a press release stating, "Only 1,447 days to go before the start of Vancouver 2010!" and "introducing a commemorative can in western Canada, available
for a limited time only. The 'Celebrating the Beginning' Vancouver 2010 cans feature a graphic of a downhill skier coasting down the trademark Coca-Cola wave."

Lastly, Italy's wines didn't get a lot of hype during the Olympics, which is something B.C.'s wine regions should seriously think about for 2010.

FASHION
Tiffany's is coming to Vancouver, opening a 5,000-square-foot store downtown this November. 5,000 square feet to sell tiny little diamonds. Amazing. Just think you could get something for Mandy Moore & Zack Braff's fake wedding in person rather than online. Mmmm....Fake wedding. [Via Metroblogging Vancouver]

FILM
While the gang from Infinity Features supports producer William Vince and the 5-time nominated Capote next Sunday at the Oscars with a red carpet party at Steamworks, brother Robert Vince gets some press on the next Air Bud movie - Air Buddies. It doesn't get better than this does it: "When dad BUDDY and mom MOLLY are dognapped, their five adorable pups, the AIR BUDDIES, must save the day" [Via Cinematical]

The trailer for Art School Confidential is up. Seriously, Malkovich and the guy who brough us Ghost World & Bad Santa. And the film "The Hills Have Eyes" is doing some pretty awesome guerrilla promotions.

MUSIC
Exquisitlely Bored in Nacogdoches shows us the way to World Party's "Is it Like Today" on Letterman circa 1993. What the hell happened to them?

Nice to see that American Idol Kelly Clarkson still going strong. Not so nice to see that the cuties from Vancouver's Cherrybomb have to rename themselves Yellow Light because of some hick cover band from Regina. Meanwhile, while it's not here in Vancouver, the Sasquatch! Music festival at the Gorge is pretty sweet looking.

I'm not even sure what to make of Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs doing a 60's cover album. But I like the facat that Hoffs still looks great and that Sweet is calling himself "Sid" and looks like a hobo. [Via Stereogum]

FOOD & DRINK
Heineken is bad enough. But Heineken Light? Of course at the same time you now have Diet Mountain Dew too. You might as well find out where the last remaining cans of New Coke are.

Well, I guess if they get to promote this crap, we can at least link the Guinness blog? (I love that you get the behind the scenes of their great last tv spot.)

McSweenye's has this incredible piece about six cereals arguing over which one should replace Cheerios for baby finger food. And definetly check out Andrew Morrison's Westender column this week - dishing out the crib notes on a bunch of new dinning spots around town (Century, Rare One, Bistro 1734, Limerick Junction, Ocean Club, and Chocoatl)

AD TALK
Pretty sure Nike will regret spending much time on that totally useless skier Bode Miller. Perhaps that is why they are hedging their bets with a Micheal Jordan ad called 2nd Generation. I don't care how amusing it is to hear the term, "Meatballing" I can't believe that IKEA is spending time proting their kitchens with a Swedish Chef campaign. French Connection seems to be getting a lot of mileage out of thier new kung fu kissing girls spot.

I think the prize for the most insane campaign this week has to go to Nutrigrain. The ad is described like this on Boards: "A Christopher Walkenesque marionette helps a man 'plan his snack'." hilarity ensues.