Cover Stories

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing From Duke Ellington to Lee Press On and the Nails, Swing has come home By Rick Flebbe & Judy Keeler A new wave of music came to play Whistler in the mid-90s.

It’s the boots, stupid! If the ski boot fits... it’s because a bootfitter spent some time making it resemble your foot. Three of the best in the business work in Whistler. By G.D.

Loving the Aliens How 1,600 Austrians, 20,000 cases of Carlsberg and 50 million TV ski racing fans turned Vail’s 1999 World Alpine Ski Championships into a two week reprieve for North American ski racing...

The mean streets of Vancouver Nightlife in the city may follow Whistler’s lead, or it may be another world By David Branigan Vancouver. This city has forever changed in the waning hours of our century.

Hand-crafted potential The Old Mill is the artistan village Whistler has dreamed of By Bob Barnett Step into Robert Proulx’s studio and there is an immediate sense of potential.

The food we eat From local organics to big business bio-tech By Stephen Vogler "You are what you eat." I don’t know who was first credited with this saying, but it certainly rings true. Not just figuratively, but literally, even chemically.

Shadows of Whistler: Kenneth R. Racey and friends in Alta Lake By B. Max G_tz Whistler’s recent history has been one of constant change.

How do I wed thee? Let me count the ways… Whistler tops for tying the knot By Velvet Jones and Amy Fendley Some people have an innate fear of flying.

A portrait of Whistler and its bears Michael Allen’s black bear research goes a long way toward telling us how well we are co-existing with nature By Amy Fendley He arrived unannounced. Standing in the office of the Blackcomb Mountain manager.

Whistler’s big gay heart Every one comes out for Altitude 99 By Oona Woods Somebody get out the paintbrush, it’s that time of year when an anonymous person transforms Whistler Cay Heights into Whistler Gay Heights with a sweep of the brush.