Off the 'Cuff

Last year, we did an interview for Global-TV about Sins of the City, showing the cameraman a few of the highlights of the naughty little tour. Naturally, the stories of Detective’s Sinclair and Ricci came up and we showed them a picture of the two of them, in an opium den under Chinatown. The next [...]

Frequently, at the end of the Sins of the City tour, I’ll ask participants about their favourite part of the tour. The top answers are usually pretty predictable: opium dens the old brothel district Blood Alley the ping pong ball the tunnels under Chinatown Each one has a special place in my heart (especially the [...]

We talk a fair bit about the tunnels under Vancouver’s Chinatown on the “Sins of the City” walking tour.  Real? Speculation? Check out this article about tunnels under Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysterious-chinese-tunnels.html I’ll post soon about the “truth” behind our own tunnels…

I’ve always found that writing press releases is a challenging process. Finding just the right words, in the minimum necessary space, is surprisingly difficult. (Especially when you’re used to giving rambling two hour tours on a subject…) I’ve attended, and given, countless workshops about this stuff, but it’s still a grind to get something together [...]

Over the last three years, our Sins of the City walking tours have been incredibly popular and have resulted in big increases in museum visitorship over the summer and also lots of free publicity. Today, I’m going to provide some links to some of the things people have had to say about the Sins tour [...]

The item below was written by us and was originally published in the Vancouver Police Department’s 2007 Annual Report. “The truth is not always pleasing–and it is the truth that during the last ten years the drug evil has required more strenuous handling by the Force in Vancouver than in any preceding years…The illicit drug [...]