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Dine Out Vancouver 2012 - the favorites

Every year, Vancouver hosts Dine Out, a two-week food festival at the city’s best, brightest and up-and-coming restaurants. What makes this any different than another night out at Vancouver’s foodie finest? Well, with Dine Out, participating restaurants prepare a special chef’s choice menu at an affordable price. This means that those of us with less pocket money (cough…me!…cough) can afford to check out some of the city’s swankier places. This year is Dine Out’s 10th, which means that the fest

Use Cuppow to turn any canning jar into a travel mug

Ok – so maybe I’m just thirsty lately, but I have been spotting some really great beverage-consuming products [https://blog.mogo.ca/the-best-bottle-opener-weve-ever-seen-with-video/] out there. This week, the Cuppow (kapow!). It’s an insert that you can fasten to nearly any canning jar to turn it into a to-go coffee cup. This is awesome for me, because I forget about 1inch of coffee in my mug over the weekend… nearly every week. The glass jars are easy to clean, and this is a pretty cool look,

Sorry, George. Lucasfilm sends us a letter, and Mogo listens

The other day, Mogo got an interesting letter from a pretty big player in the world of entertainment: Lucasfilm. As you had (previously) seen on our homepage, we showed a pretty-similar-to-a-Star-Wars-character on a much-needed break. Well, the people at Lucasfilm noticed what we were up to and (really nicely) asked us to take it down. We were happy to do so and were glad that our playful homepage got some important eyeballs on it. Check out the letter below, and keep you eyes peeled for new

Here's what the books do in Toronto's Type bookstore while you're sleeping

Here is a beautiful video done by the people who run Type Books [http://typebooks.ca/] – a great bookstore in Toronto. If you’ve ever wondered what all those stories get up to at night, click through to see a page turning ballet. It took many volunteers and a painstaking way of shooting, but the results are really fantastic. From the video’s creator: > After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent m