The 1981 film
My Dinner with Andre features actors Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory. Not to be confused with the thematically similar
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,
My Dinner with Andre shows its two stars having dinner in a fancy restaurant and talking about life.
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On a list of the all-time great action movies, it ranks somewhere outside the top four million. Regardless, it’s a classic. The dinner conversation is wide-ranging, but general themes emerge. Gregory’s character has travelled the globe in search of meaning and sensation and has found them in various locales, forms, and sometimes-bizarre rituals. Shawn’s character is more domestic he argues that meaning is to be found anywhere, frequently near at hand. In effect, both men are talking about ways of seeing the world.
Concrete barriers coming to Stanley Park Drive to keep cars and bikes apart
Concrete barriers will replace traffic cones in July 2021 to better separate vehicle and bike lanes on the road through the park.
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Cones will be replaced by barriers in July during the 3rd phase of the 2021 spring and summer park plan
Posted: May 05, 2021 3:44 PM PT | Last Updated: May 5
A cyclist and motorist cruise along Stanley Park Drive on June 22, 2020.(Ben Nelms/CBC)
For the first phase, by the middle of May, the system of cones and other traffic management equipment will be re-established from Pipeline Road to Second Beach, with parking lot entrances, access to the Stanley Park Causeway, and intersections unaffected a significant change from the controversial configuration for 2020. There will be signage and traffic management techniques to direct vehicles and cyclists through these areas.
The seawall will remain open for cyclists to provide them with the option to ride on either the seawall or Stanley Park Drive.
2021 bike lane configuration on Stanley Park Drive. (Vancouver Park Board)
Then by the middle of May, during the second phase, Park Board staff will consider changes to the segment of Stanley Park Drive from the roundabout (intersection of North Lagoon Drive, Stanley Park Drive, and Pipeline Road South) to Pipeline Road. Several configuration options for this major segment will be reviewed with stakeholders on the east side of the
VANCOUVER Two businesses located in Stanley Park are petitioning the B.C. Supreme Court to stop the return of a controversial bike lane on Stanley Park Drive. The owners of The Teahouse Restaurant and Prospect Point filed their petition on April 8, arguing that the Vancouver Park Board s decision to close one lane of traffic on the road to create a bicycle path was not reasonable, rational or logical. “The Vancouver Park Board did not identify or evaluate the harms to the interests of many park users that would be negatively impacted by this lane closure before making their decision,” said Brent Davies, owner of The Teahouse, in a news release about the court filing.
While COVID-19 and the decline in tourism were contributing factors to their financial losses, the businesses argue these difficult conditions were significantly compounded by the changes to Stanley Park Drive, and the partial and complete closure of the parking lots serving the restaurants.
Without a passing lane, the single lane of Stanley Park Drive retained for vehicles resulted in slow-moving congestion, especially when vehicles followed the Stanley Park Horse-Drawn Tours carriage. The reconversion of one of the two lanes for cyclists will likely result in the closure of the North Shore entrance and exit onto the Stanley Park Causeway, and continue the closure of the park’s access from Beach Avenue.