personal preference art : Tralee Pearce on Calgary's new cool
It's hard to shake a reputation, but one place that's doing a better job than most is the city formally known as Cowtown.
"The New Calgary, with a going-out ethos that may be fuelled by the current oil surge, looks very different from the steakhouse- and cowboy-bar stereotypes that linger stubbornly in the Canadian imagination," writes Tralee Pierce in Saturday's Style cover, Cool Calgary.
The city's chic index is rising as fast as the price of oil.
Join the Conversation Monday at 2 p.m. with Style writer Tralee Pearce who will be on-line to take your questions and comments on the Calgary scene. You can also leave a question or comment in advance. The questions and answers will appear at the bottom of this page.
While there's little chance popular joints such as Cowboys nightclub will disappear any time soon (not to mention the Stampede, which opened Friday and runs through this week) the city's culture is changing thanks to restaurants like Belgo, a 180-table Belgian brasserie staffed by Québécois recruits who've been scouted and given moving expenses and one-year contracts.
But the transformation runs much deeper than eateries. Today, glossy lifestyle magazines such as Calgary Inc., Opulence and City Palate entice readers with city fare. There's the hipster scene is emblemized in Art Central, Kensington for shopping at indie boutiques like Purr and Inglewood for cool vintage shops.
Tralee has been at The Globe since 2001 writing on various fashion, lifestyle and entertainment topics for the Style, Review, Focus and Toronto sections. She's gone everywhere from the fashion runway in Milan to a N.B. potato farm to meet the "first Canadian boomer." Before coming to The Globe, she freelanced in Toronto and worked for a Now magazine's sister paper in Ottawa. She got her start in journalism in 1992, interning at the Ottawa Sun.
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by Tralee Pearce
"The New Calgary, with a going-out ethos that may be fuelled by the current oil surge, looks very different from the steakhouse- and cowboy-bar stereotypes that linger stubbornly in the Canadian imagination," writes Tralee Pierce in Saturday's Style cover, Cool Calgary.
The city's chic index is rising as fast as the price of oil.
Join the Conversation Monday at 2 p.m. with Style writer Tralee Pearce who will be on-line to take your questions and comments on the Calgary scene. You can also leave a question or comment in advance. The questions and answers will appear at the bottom of this page.
While there's little chance popular joints such as Cowboys nightclub will disappear any time soon (not to mention the Stampede, which opened Friday and runs through this week) the city's culture is changing thanks to restaurants like Belgo, a 180-table Belgian brasserie staffed by Québécois recruits who've been scouted and given moving expenses and one-year contracts.
But the transformation runs much deeper than eateries. Today, glossy lifestyle magazines such as Calgary Inc., Opulence and City Palate entice readers with city fare. There's the hipster scene is emblemized in Art Central, Kensington for shopping at indie boutiques like Purr and Inglewood for cool vintage shops.
Tralee has been at The Globe since 2001 writing on various fashion, lifestyle and entertainment topics for the Style, Review, Focus and Toronto sections. She's gone everywhere from the fashion runway in Milan to a N.B. potato farm to meet the "first Canadian boomer." Before coming to The Globe, she freelanced in Toronto and worked for a Now magazine's sister paper in Ottawa. She got her start in journalism in 1992, interning at the Ottawa Sun.
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by Tralee Pearce
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