Lunch with Lucy
If you want to understand someone, walk a mile in his shoes. If you want to glimpse the innermost workings of a powerful British Columbian, walk to Lunch with Lucy. The monthly feature in BCBusiness is a simple recipe: one cup excellent writer, one dollop decision-maker of consequence, two pinches insouciant banter, and linguine and Gewürztraminer to taste.
May 07, 2012 Lunch with Lucy: People
He has a super soft spot for B.C., but former premier Gordon Campbell doesn’t miss it – yet.
Of all the cultural curveballs discovered on moving from B.C. to England, one has struck Gordon Campbell most acutely: being anonymous. Where it’s normal for strangers to catch one’s eye and smile while walking down a street back home, it’s rare here, notes the former premier, now Canada’s high commissioner to the U.K.
“Here, I’m obviously not visible; no one knows who I am,” he says with a laugh on a February day at Commonwealth Kitchen, metres from...
March 05, 2012 Lunch with Lucy: People
Condo marketing king Bob Rennie attributes his success in real estate
marketing to lucky timing and being born a boomer.
An Americano coffee in hand, Bob Rennie slips into “his seat” – a curved bench commanding a strategic view of fellow diners at the Campagnolo, a tastefully reclaimed space sandwiched between a four-storey SRO and the Ivanhoe Hotel on Main Street. True to the condo-marketing guru’s reputation as a societal broker who eats daily with clients and city movers, he later works the room, saying hello to former NDP cabinet minister Bob Williams as well as to the...
February 06, 2012 Lunch with Lucy: Media, Arts and Entertainment
Sam Feldman thrives on the chaos and
risk of the entertainment biz.
Sam Feldman feels like his career has been a bit of a wager – and that’s just the way he likes it. The 40-year talent agent who manages or represents such stars as Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Michael Bublé, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado and the Chieftains happily admits to a “serious amount of misspent youth” in pool halls and at money games. While he’s graduated to playing only at the odd CEO-style poker tournament in Las Vegas nowadays, Feldman knows risk-taking is still very much in his blood.
January 03, 2012 Lunch with Lucy: People
Fashion agent Liz Bell has made a career of a
personal address book that’s to die for.
It’s impossible to slouch when you’re around Liz Bell, the former model who has been an agent for hundreds of models and actors over the past two decades in B.C. The svelte six-footer – sans vertiginous heels – sits ramrod straight throughout our crab-cake lunch, with a chin so elevated she could be mistaken for being a little on guard. Refreshingly, she is anything but.
“What – do you think I’m nuts?” she lets rip when we talk about the price of haute...
December 05, 2011 Lunch with Lucy: People
A believer in the redemptive power of precision, Pino Posteraro, the city's most decorated Italian chef, likes where Vancouver food is going.
I barely sit down for lunch with Pino Posteraro before he launches, apropos of very little, into what people think of him. “I do have a reputation for being – well, they say ‘intense’ or ‘micromanager,’” the Vancouver executive chef and proprietor says with a wink, adding he knows these are euphemisms for “control freak.”
For Posteraro, channeling your inner Gordon Ramsay is par for the course if...
November 07, 2011 Lunch with Lucy: People
Architect Bing Thom on recognizing the forces
of nature and going with the flow.
Bing Thom is used to venturing into tricky waters – on and off land. Today we’re at Kitsilano Point picnicking on the Vancouver architect’s 35-foot yacht, where a torn sail is evidence of a failed attempt to smooth a crinkle at 22 knots.
“Just lazy,” he says with a sigh, explaining how he yanked a line without turning Sonja’s Spirit to reduce pressure on the sail. “The wind wanted it to go one way, and Bing the other, so the sail simply ripped. It’s a reminder that...
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