Lifestyle & Culture
Welcome to Flickspin's Lifestyle & Culture section. From restaurant and cafe reviews to winery tours and globetrotting travel, we're covering the finer things in life, the places you want to visit and eat if you have a spare five minutes (or five months!)
Been to a great cafe recently? Visited a terrible tourist trap? Let the rest of our community and the world know by reviewing your favourite (or least favourite) places, events, and restaurants right here at Flickspin.
Latest Related Blog Posts
115th Anniversary of the American Parking Garage
GREG MAFFETT
When whatever replaces cars replaces cars, we won't have parking garages. Until then let's celebrate!
Grandma's dumplings
BLYTHE SEINOR
Grandma's dumplings aren't just about the taste, they're about the experience. They're about sitting at the bench telling Grandma your news, making her giggle, giving her cuddles, and watching her shaky old hands stir the pot.
Latest Short Stories
Comedious Commentarious : Cell Phone
STEPHEN J. VATTIMO
I was inspired to write this short humorous story by the incidences of high tech social rudeness that have become socially commonplace. I want my reader to experience how someone's self absorbed actions can ruin some other person's special moment.
Latest Poems
Latest Articles
Death of a dictator
BLYTHE SEINOR
Blythe Seinor has to search for the people's reaction to news of a dictator's death.
Neighbour's attack strikes terror into the heart
BLYTHE SEINOR
For former Coast journalist, Blythe Seinor, neighbour's attack struck a little too close to home.
Down Under on the underground
BLYTHE SEINOR
Where cramped carriages, shock preachers and sleepy commuters offer a glimpse into every day Korean life.
Latest Fact Files
Hula Hoop Australia
BAY OLIVER
Can't find a website selling Australian Hula Hoops online? Well, there's a good reason for that...
10 Places to Chow Down in Kitsilano, Vancouver
JESSICA ROBERTS
Where to fend of those hunger pangs or coffee cravings in Kitsilano, Vancouver
10 Things to do in Vancouver on a Rainy Weekend
JESSICA ROBERTS
What to do when the weather has turned grey and rainy.
Latest Reviews
Get the low-down on Coffee in Brisbane
LUKE MCGOVERN
A review of a website focusing on the coffee scene in Brisbane.
The Bell Curve
GREG MAFFETT
Any book that stephen jay gould hated this much...has to have some merit.
Latest How-tos
How to Install Pool Cover Reel
JASMINE BOULSEN
Installing a cover reel in your pool is very necessary. It makes pool cover set up more convenient especially to pool owners who have big-sized swimming pools.