A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017.
The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse ...
WINNER, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes); Community History Award (BC Historical Federation)
Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, the Commodore Ballroom is one of the best-loved ...
BC Book Prize winner (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize)
In his latest book, bestselling author, musician, and cultural historian Aaron Chapman looks back at the most famous music entertainment venues ...
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner
Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs ...
Raw food diets have exploded in popularity in recent years; some believe that the cooking process destroys nutrients and even produces dangerous chemicals through the interaction of heat with fat, protein, ...
Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician with a special interest in Vancouver's entertainment history. He is the author of The Last Gang in Town, the story of Vancouver's Clark Park Gang; Liquor, ...
Aaron Chapman, author of Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City's Nightlife, takes Global News reporter Squire Barnes on a tour of old Vancouver nightclub sites in this clip.
A lively, wide-ranging visual history of muscular men from around the world.
Over the last 100 years, the image of the muscular man has known no boundaries; it has been the object of envy, admiration, ...
As seen in People and The New Yorker
Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman hasbeen the object of derision, fascination, anderotic fantasy; she is often ...
The story of the legendary Marco Polo can be found in this excerpt from Vancouver After Dark, Aaron Chapman's colorful history of Vancouver's nightclubs, appears in the Vancouver Courier.