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SHARP | EDITOR’S LETTER

THE SUMMER OF JEREMY

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With that said, this winter nearly broke me, and I’m going to tell you why (which is less a discussion of meteorology than a discussion of my feelings—and that’s totally OK as far as editorials go).

This winter felt apocalyptic, like punishment from an angry god for our wicked, profligate ways. I cursed it daily. I seriously contemplated moving to an equatorial country with an unstable government and few job prospects if only to avoid ever having to face wind chills and down coats and fleecelined snow boots ever again. (I could live cheaply! Just a pair of shorts and a fishing spear! I swear I could make it work! Viva whomever!) Going outside was painful. I lived like an octogenarian, in fear of snapping an ankle or torquing a knee on a frozen sidewalk.

I swore vengeance on neighbours and business owners who neglected to diligently salt and shovel. I came to hate my parka and everything it stood for. Those who did escape—to Cuba, Jamaica, Florida—I watched through narrowed eyes like castaways hoarding rations. I see you with your tan and your hair beads and your vitamin D. I know what you did. I was, you could say, not my best self.

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I made two promises to myself in the depths of this snowpocalypse: first, I vowed that I would never spend an entire winter in Canada ever again. Second, that this summer I would not let one glorious moment of sunshine go to waste. Deadlines be damned! I can answer emails from the beach! Even in the muggy, sticky, garbage-perfumed heights of August, I swore, I would rejoice, for surely nothing could possibly be worse than the merciless icy grip of that scourge on our land, the Polar Vortex. Cursed be its name.

And so it was in this state of mind that I set about putting together this summer’s Sharp List, which is designed (somewhat self-servingly) to facilitate the Sharp Man’s appreciation of all things sun-drenched, wave-kissed and breezy. Get to the cottage, the cabin, the lake, the seaside. Spark up the grill, sling a hammock and get your cannonball on. Enjoy the feeling of sun on your skin and wind in your hair and the beading of sweat on a nicely chilled bottle of Sancerre. These are the good times.

I’ll see you at the beach.

THE SHARP MAGAZINE SHOW IS ON THE AIR The Sharp Magazine Show is now on SiriusXM Canada Talks every Sunday at 8pm. Hosted by myself and Ward Anderson (of SiriusXM’s Ward & Al), it’s yet another chance to enjoy everything you love about Sharp, in a funny, conversational format. You can also download all of the episodes at sharpmagazine.com/sharpshow.

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P H O T O : M AT T B A R N E S

JEREMY FREED Editor-in-Chief

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT rules of writing editorials is this: don’t talk about the weather. If you, the person in charge of a magazine, can’t think of anything more interesting to talk about than whether it’s rainy or sunny—on the one page of the magazine devoted entirely to your opinion, on a topic of your choosing—you’re not trying hard enough.

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This summer give in to the reign of the mighty Caesar.

Plus: the Caesar interpreted as a meal.

An investigation of the men’s rights movement and the growing number of zealous converts who are convinced it’s no longer a man’s world.

THE SHARP REPORT ON BEVERAGES

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THE WAR ON MEN

A FEW WORDS WITH MARK WAHLBERG

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What Boston’s favourite son did and didn’t say about his new house, the marathon and hitting 40.

Tough axes, bold swim trunks, high-tech camping gear and 41 other reasons to get outside this summer.

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TOP BILLING You know William Fichtner even if you don’t think you do. Here, the legendary character actor models the season’s most dapper sportcoats.

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HOW TO (UN)DRESS FOR A SUMMER WEDDING

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While we’d never advise upstaging the groom, these finely tailored threads may make you the best-dressed man at the ceremony.

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WISDOM Zach Braff on loneliness, Kickstarter and what it means to be a man.

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WOMEN

STYLE

Yvonne Strahovski makes us envious of Louis C.K.

The suit you need this summer, camo (for guys who hate camo) and 10 timepieces we can’t wait to get our hands on.

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FILM

The Sharp Summer Academy Awards: why let fall movies have all the hardware? We give summer movies the praise they deserve.

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GROOMING Read our fragrance playbook and score.

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HEALTH

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Get fitter than you’ve ever been with these digital workout helpers.

Summer fun on wheels: The new Porsche Targa, a bigger, better Escalade and a guide to Montreal’s race party weekend.

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Sharp goes Hollywood: the hottest spots to eat, drink, shop and people watch in the City of Angels.

SPORTS On World Cup fandom, Canadianness and those mysterious Dutch people.

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LETTERS

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Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall gets in touch with his inner Hawkeye in the name of impressing his kid.

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A HERO IS AS A HERO DOES I just wanted to give a shout out to your sports columnist, Nicholas Hune-Brown, for his recent piece on the new type of sports hero. As a loyal sports fan for going on three decades now, I, too, have noticed this recent return to class among athletes.

These modern heroes, like Jason Collins, who are champions for other causes and not just their teams, are an inspiration to today’s youth and can’t be praised often enough.

An athlete with outstanding abilities and skill may be worth our attention (impressive is impressive, after all), but to earn our respect and adoration? That takes something more.

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EDITORS’ PICKS: FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE You know how you used to leave catalogues in highly visible places, dog-eared, as hints to the people who might be buying you a gift?

Forward this article to them instead. Everything a man could ever want for Father’s Day.

ADDITIONAL CHARGES MAY APPLY In this installment of our new online sex column, Her Position, the fearless Bianca Teixeira shadows a phone sex operator, and finds out a few secrets of the trade. Including, apparently, the fact that phone sex is still a thing.

SAFETY DANCE So often magazines for men end their cultural coverage with film, television and the odd novel. I’m impressed that in your most recent issue you acknowledged the existence of dance, too. You expect to see girls, cars, and fancy gizmos in a magazine like Sharp, but you don’t expect to see a ballet dancer as skilled as Guillaume Coté. I’m not a fan of those hideous Day-Glo sneakers you seem to think we should all be wearing, but he almost makes them look good!

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FOOD THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BBQ You will barbeque this summer. Here’s everything you need to know, have and do to grill like a man who deserves his own cooking show.

The meats, tools, sauces, rubs and, of course, what to drink with dinner.

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DRINK CANADA’S BEST PATIOS Through vigorous research (it’s a hard job, trust us), we’ve updated our list of the best patios across this great, short-on-summerso-you-better-enjoyit-while-you-can country of ours.

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WOMEN A WELCOME INTRODUCTION: MIA MARTINA The pop singer’s first-ever show happened after she already had a hit single. It’s called “Stereo Love,” and if you listen to the radio, you’ve heard it. But, you might not know what she looks like. And you really should.

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SHARP | THE EVENT OF THE SEASON

SHARP: THE BOOK FOR MEN SPRING/ SUMMER 2014 LAUNCH PARTY

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P H O T O S : K E V I N G O N S A LV E S

SUITS, gowns, drinks, a feast and the world’s most progressive sports car: the priorities were once again in proper order at the Sharp: The Book for Men Spring/Summer 2014 Launch Party at the Design Exchange in Toronto.

Invited guests to the exclusive event had a variety of premium options with which to toast the new edition: Zacapa rum, Ketel One vodka, Don Julio tequila, Peroni, wines from Sterling Vineyards, prosecco from Bottega, and a variety of single-malt drams from from Talisker, Oban and Lagavulin.

SHARP | MAN ABOUT TOWN sports car, the all-new BMW i8, which stood on display in the centre of the room.

Though there was hardly a hair out of place in the room, Mankind Grooming’s expert stylists were on hand with cuts and touch-ups courtesy of American Crew, while the Valentino Lounge offered samples of the brand’s newest men’s fragrance.

Upstairs, the Design Exchange’s “This Is Not a Toy” exhibit, co-curated by Pharrell Williams, showcased some of the world’s finest examples of designer toy artwork.

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Raise Your Bar

THE COPPER COLLECTION FROM COCKTAIL KINGDOM

COPPER HAS LONG BEEN AN ESSENTIAL MATERIAL IN the production of alcohol. Distillers from the Scottish Highlands to the Kentucky Hills have always preferred stills made from the stuff for its capacity to conduct heat evenly and its natural ability to remove sulfur compounds that spoil flavour. Now, unless you’re making moonshine in your backyard, none of that really matters, but the appeal of a set of copper accoutrements atop your bar is something any aspiring mixologist can appreciate.

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GUIDE | Wisdom

A MAN W O RT H LIST E NING T O:

Zach Braff

STILL DOESN’T HAVE THE ANSWERS

BY YANG-YI GOH

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IT’S BEEN A QUIET DECADE FOR ZACH BRAFF. After writing, directing and starring in 2004’s sleeper hit Garden State—the millennial bildungsroman that nabbed the former Scrubs star voice-of-a-generation plaudits and a Grammy for its meticulously curated soundtrack—it seemed like Braff was destined for a career as a celebrated auteur, the Mike Nichols to Wes Anderson’s Hal Ashby.

Instead, the 39-year-old chose a lower-key path: he wrapped up his stint on Scrubs, acted in a handful of mostly small, mostly unseen movies, and wrote an off-Broadway play called All New People.

Now, finally, Braff is back with another film of his own making. Funded in large part by a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, Wish I Was Here is as Braff-ian a tale as can be: a struggling actor in his mid-30s searches for his purpose in life while home-schooling his two quirky, adorable children. It’s proof that despite his relative absence from the limelight, these past 10 years have done nothing to harden or change Zach Braff. He’s still as earnest as ever; still the kind of guy who believes that a Shins song can change your life.

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Why did it take so long for this follow-up? You were attached to a bunch of directing gigs over the years, but nothing ever came to fruition.

The headline is that I was doing a TV show. I had a job. It’s like saying to someone with a full-time job, “Why didn’t you ever write your novel?” I mean, I tried.

To make a movie at all is so fucking hard. To make a movie during a hiatus when you’re the lead of a network TV show is even harder.

The other part of it is that I didn’t want to make crap. I wanted to make something I believed in. The classic trope is for a filmmaker to have a hit at Sundance, and then they rush out and take the first paycheque that the studio gives them. More often than not, that second movie isn’t good, because the artistic integrity and passion and love and years of hard work they poured into their first project doesn’t carry over.

Instead, they got handed their star by the studio and had to make all these compromises on their true art.

You co-wrote Wish I Was Here with your older brother. Co-writing with anyone—let alone with a sibling—seems like it invites just the kind of creative compromises that you’ve spent so long trying to avoid.

The film is about family and the relationship between two brothers, so there are

aspects of it that reflect our lives. My brother has two children and is a really great dad, and the main character in our movie is a fun, out-ofthe-box, wacky dad. My brother is also 10 years older than me, so we could span that age difference and comment on our mid-thirties from different perspectives.

My brother is an amazing writer, but when it comes to any writing relationship, you just have to set who’s going to make the final say. That’s what’s tricky. In this case, because I was directing and playing the lead, I’d have to say, “Look, man, trust me.

I’m going to do it this way, because I’m directing it.”

Ultimately, if you don’t have a final decision-maker—if it isn’t 51-49—you’re going to be screwed.

In both movies you’ve directed, the protagonists’ fathers play a central role, and in the case of Wish I Was Here, the protagonist is a father himself. What is it that you find so captivating about the relationship between fathers and sons?

It’s funny you say that. I know nothing about sports— couldn’t care less about sports—but when the father in Field of Dreams comes back to have a catch, I just start bawling. I’m a sucker for father-son relationships.

It’s very moving to me. It’s something that I react to, and I think you should write what moves you if you’re trying to move other people.

That’s why I’m drawn to those stories.

What’s your relationship like with your own dad?

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I don’t want to alarm you, but I feel it’s necessary to start by giving you a little background on who you’re speaking to: I think I’ve seen Garden State roughly 479 times.

[Laughs.] That’s very, very nice to hear.

GUIDE | Women

Yvonne Strahovski

IS MAKING US JEALOUS

BY COLEMAN MOLNAR

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HERE’S ANOTHER REASON WHY LOUIS C.K. IS THE SMARTEST man on TV. Forget the nine Primetime Emmy nominations (and one win) in 2013, he’s a genius because he casts beautiful women like the Polish-Australian Yvonne Strahovski—who you’ve also been watching in the new, predictably addictive season of 24—in roles where they do things like whisk him away in a Maserati to their mansions to have impulsive intercourse—and he still manages to make us feel sorry for him by the end of the episode. Further proof of his manipulative genius: Strahovski emerged from the experience almost as enamoured as her character.

“He’s incredible to watch. Obviously, he’s very funny, and an amazing comedian, but he basically runs the set, too,” she says. “It’s definitely inspiring to see just what you can do with a little money and a lot of ideas and smarts.” Your move, Jack Bauer.

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A WELCOME INTRODUCTION

GUIDE | Film

LEAST QUOTABLE MOVIE Jupiter Ascending Jury’s Citation: With dazzling visuals orchestrated by the Wachowski siblings (including a blond dye job and elf ears for Channing Tatum), it’s perhaps not surprising that absolutely no one will remember—or likely understand—a word from this script. After all, special effects are hard to quote.

BECAUSE SUMMER MOVIES DESERVE MORE THAN JUST THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY MAKE

FRANKLY, it’s unfair. Sure, summer blockbusters often pull in more money than Oprah makes in a year. But they don’t get respect. At least not when it comes to hardware. When was the last time a summer movie won the Best Picture Oscar? Sure, it happens, but not often. (Since 1980 only nine best picture winners were released in months other than the prestigious fall/winter season. The Hurt Locker, for example, opened in June in a whopping four theatres.) You could argue that everyone knows summer is a time for explosions and special effects (and you would be right), but that doesn’t mean those films shouldn’t get some kind of recognition.

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BEST DESECRATION OF A CHILDHOOD MEMORY Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jury’s Citation: It’s refreshing that filmmakers familiar with the once-popular franchise are willing to challenge viewers of this reboot to accept a more realistic interpretation of anthropomorphic turtles by adding disturbing lips to the basic character design.

THE TOM HANKS AND MEG RYAN ONSCREEN CHEMISTRY AWARD Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz, Sex Tape Jury’s Citation: Jason Segel is nothing if not likeable. Cameron Diaz is, too, almost to a suspect degree. However, placing two likeable actors opposite each other does not an onscreen couple make. (See: Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt, Friends with Kids.) Not since Segel and Diaz were last paired in 2011’s Bad Teacher have two actors raised the quality of a film based solely on their joyful, believable chemistry.

EXCELLENCE IN CASTING Dwayne Johnson, Hercules Jury’s Citation: Never has a role been so perfectly embodied. Literally. If Dwayne Johnson doesn’t have the body of a god, then may Zeus strike us down.

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Academy Awards, Summer School Edition

THE SANDRA BULLOCK AWARD FOR FALLING DOWN Melissa McCarthy Honourable mentions: Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill Jury’s Citation: While the comedic abilities of McCarthy are finally receiving the praise they so richly deserve, it’s laudable—and understandable—that in Tammy she’ll finally show her range by mining the comedic potential of a full-figured person falling down. A lot.

GUIDE | Health

The Digital Workout

THE FITNESS BAND REVOLUTION OFFERS YOU A CALCULATED NUDGE IN THE DIRECTION OF WASHBOARD ABS

BY JEREMY SINGER

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WE DON’T BLAME YOU FOR BEING A BIT confused about how a little bracelet is supposed to help you get into shape. But all flashy marketing (and the appearance of these gizmos on the wrists of the young, fit and fashionable) aside, the point of this new wave of wearable fitness technology is to keep you mindful of what you’re doing in your workouts. To whit: by accessing quantitative information about your daily exercise, you’ll be able to see how much progress you’re actually making—beyond flexing your guns in the mirror.

1. JAWBONE UP24

Style Rating: 4/5 Chance It’ll Put Your Personal Trainer Out of Business: 4.5/5 How It Works: Aside from covering the typical information (recording your exercise sessions and calories burned based on the number of steps taken and kilometres traveled, then wirelessly synching all that information to the app), it also makes a valid attempt to keep you hooked with its motivational tactics. Idle alert reminders will buzz your wrist if you’re slacking for too long. ($150)

2. ATLAS FITNESS TRACKER

Style Rating: 3.5/5 Chance It’ll Put Your Personal Trainer Out of Business: 5/5 How It Works: This is by far the closest a device has come to replacing a human personal workout coach. Not only does it measure your calories burned and heart rate, but thanks to inertial sensors and a

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trick algorithm, it can recognize over 100 exercises and tell you how well you’re executing them.

The Atlas then crunches this data into helpful feedback: for instance, it will notice if you’ve worked your biceps too much and advise you when to shift focus to your lower body. ($180)

3. BASIS B1 BAND

Style Rating: 2.5/5 Chance It’ll Put Your Personal Trainer Out of Business: 4/5 How It Works: Not only will the Basis recognize in real time when you’re walking, running or biking, and then offer feedback on your calorie burn, heart rate and perspiration levels for each activity, it can also measure the quality of your sleep by recording your time in REM and deep sleep. For extra incentive, the accompanying app features the “healthy habits” system, which gamifies your health habits, giving you points when you’re good, and letting you “unlock” new habits when you’re ready. ($200)

While a pair of brightly hued trainers might be the height of casual summer footwear style, it seems worth pointing out that they were actually designed for, you know, training. Look for a shoe with a minimal heel-to-toe drop—that’s the difference between the height of a shoe’s midsole and forefoot—that will help you run with the right part of your foot to maximize performance and minimize injuries. These Nike Free 5.0s are among the best. Bonus: they look good, too. ($125) – COLEMAN MOLNAR

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GUIDE | The Traveling Man SH OP

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Ace Hotel opened in January in the historic United Artists building downtown—a neighbourhood that’s benefited from a huge resurgence in recent years. The 1920sera, Spanish Gothic-style building on Broadway was restored to its former glory and then some, offering 182 rooms and 16 suites in utilitarian, minimalist décor; a rooftop bar and swimming pool; an in-house restaurant, LA Chapter, which offers a EuropeanAmerican fusion menu of local and organic ingredients (obviously); and the adjacent heritage theatre, renamed the Theatre at Ace. 929 SOUTH BROADWAY ACEHOTEL.COM/ LOSANGELES

Los Angeles

COCKTAILS AT THE MARMONT, TUSCAN STEAK AND SEVERAL OTHER ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF GIVING L.A. A SECOND CHANCE

BY JULIA PARFENYUK

LOS ANGELES SUFFERS FROM MULTIPLE personality disorder. Only, “suffers” isn’t the right word because the fact that it has so many sides is what makes it great—even if all of them are to varying degrees rooted in the entertainment industry. With over 80 neighbourhoods and districts, it can be easily written off as sprawling, empty at its core and too trendy, depending on where you find yourself. But that’s changing. Well, not the trendy thing, but its neglected downtown is enjoying a much needed resurgence. Some homework is required in order to get the most of your LA getaway. We did that for you.

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Located in the hip(ster) Silver Lake neighbourhood, Mohawk General Store is a collection of cool, selling LPs and architecture books, light fixtures and stationery, jewelry and shoes from brands like Common Projects, Engineered Garments, Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe.

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STYLE | Trends

BLENDING IN

Camo Like You’ve Never Seen It

BY TRISTAN BRONCA

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CAMOUFLAGE, as a fashion trend, is a lot like a monster from a horror film—in a good way. Every time you think it’s dead, it gets right back up. And at some point— whether it’s the sixth unnecessary sequel or the ninth straight season of men in camo pants—you catch yourself liking the damn thing.

The point is this: camouflage is still around, still relevant, and that’s not changing any time soon. Remember that old saying about what to do if you can’t beat something?

But, you don’t have to adopt the trend exactly like everyone else—you might as well do it your own way. This summer, designers have given you every opportunity to do just that, thinking beyond the typical woodland patterns and taking camo in every possible direction: bolder, subtler, more technical, more artful. Consider this camo for men who want camo to blend in.

ZegnaSport

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Mark McNairy New Amsterdam

$250

Jack Spade

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Nigel Cabourn

Saturdays Surf NYC

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STYLE | Timepieces

THE SUPERBOWL FOR WATCH GEEKS

BY ARIEL ADAMS

EVERY YEAR THE WORLD’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS WATCH BRANDS OPEN SHOP IN the tiny Swiss city of Basel for the Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show. If you’re into watches, it’s a chance to spend seven days nerding out on the year’s coolest new timepieces.

We are, and we did. It’s sort of like the Super Bowl, if you replaced Tom Brady and friends with small, bespectacled Swiss men. Here are 10 pieces we saw there that we can’t wait to get our hands on. more esoteric—tougher and more utilitarian—while still easily wearable. $11,200

it into the realm of “high-complication” watches and making it all the more desirable to collectors. The platinum case didn’t hurt, either. This year’s 5960 is the first available in steel with one of the most youthful-looking dials ever seen on a production Patek Philippe. $54,800

crown, the hour hand bounces out from under the minute hand to indicate the complete time.

It’s also a GMT in which a separate pusher reveals a second time zone on command. $19,800

Tudor HERITAGE R ANGER Rolex SE A-DWELLER 4000 As a professional-grade dive watch (it’s rated for 1000 m of water resistance), the SeaDweller exists right in the middle between the Rolex Submariner and the more hardcore Deepsea, both in terms of size and performance. As such, the return of the Sea-Dweller to production came as a welcome surprise.

While the Submariner is a go-to dive watch and many people’s entry into the Rolex brand, the Sea-Dweller is a bit

Hermès DRE S SAGE L'HEURE MA SQUÉE A few years ago Hermès released a watch that could be set to only indicate the time on command, an expression of their philosophy that Hermès owners can control their own time. For 2014 the Dressage L’Heure Masquee continues this concept with a timepiece that only indicates the minutes.

When the wearer presses the

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Patek Philippe ANNUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGR APH 5960 When Patek Philippe originally introduced the 5960 in 2006, it was their first in-house-made automatic chronograph. It also featured an annual calendar and power reserve indicator, taking

While Tudor watches have been around since the 1940s, the last few years have seen the Swiss brand grow in prominence thanks to releases like this one. As a continuation of their Heritage collection (which has taken pieces from the archives and imbued them with modern sensibility), the Heritage Ranger is a field-style watch with military inspiration that’s perfect for off-duty wear. The beautifully finished 41 mm steel case and clean, legible dial are matched to a steel bracelet and three strap options—including one in camo. $2,950

STYLE | Timepieces

Longines HERITAGE 1935

Raymond Weil FREEL ANCER

Longines’ newest heritage watch is a modernized take on a pilot’s watch they created for the Czech air force in the 1930s. The steel, cushionshaped case recalls the sport watches of an earlier era, while the 42 mm size makes it easily wearable for the modern businessman with an appreciation for vintage style. $2,300

The Freelancer has always been a go-to office watch because of its versatility—it looks just as good with a suit as it does with weekend wear.

The newest Freelancer, however, takes a big step towards tuxedo territory with its PVD rose-gold coated steel 42 mm case, and minimalist symmetrical dial. An open window on its face shows off the regulating organ of this Freelancer’s mechanical movement, giving you something further to admire. $2,395

Hamilton KHAKI PILOT PIONEER ALUMINUM The coloured aluminum case signals a modern direction for Hamilton and brings a touch of spring style to their collection.

Unlike steel, aluminum can be coated with bright colours, and also benefits from being extremely light. Inside the watches are exclusive Hamilton H-10 Swiss automatic movements, with an 80-hour power reserve, and each piece is matched to a NATO-style strap. $1,250

Oris 110 YE ARS LIMITED EDITION Known lately for its high-performance diving watches, 2014 marks a return to Oris producing their own in-house-made movements, starting with the calibre 110 in this dressy piece, available in steel and 18k rose gold.

While it’s a manual-wind watch, an impressive 10 days of power reserve means you only need to wind it once every week and a half. $6,500

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Omega SE AMA STER 300

Concord MARINER

The 2014 Seamaster 300 is paradoxical in that Omega chose to reinterpret a classic design from the 1950s in a watch that is really about highlighting the brand’s most impressive technical features.

The Seamaster 300 may have a vintage look, but a high-tech Liquidmetal ceramic bezel and Omega’s new Master Co-Axial automatic movements combine their best timekeeping performance with almost complete magnetic resistance. $6,600

While many of the Swiss watchmakers at Baselworld relaunched models from the mid-20th century, Concord made a bold statement with the rerelease of its Mariner collection, which debuted in the 1980s. Angular and architectural, the Mariner evokes the work of famed designer Gerald Genta in a novel creation with a 41 mm case and Swiss automatic mechanical movement. $2,500

For the most outrageous timepieces we saw at Baselworld go to Sharpmagazine.com/category/style

STYLE | Fragrances

THE PRINCIPLE

THE PLAY

THE PRINCIPLE

THE PLAY

Cleanliness is close to godliness.

Tom Ford Neroli Portofino

Keep the weather in mind.

Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Discover Vulcano

The danger in experimenting with fragrance is coming off smelling wrong: too burdened by a scent that is not your own. This is nearly impossible with Neroli Portofino. It has notes of citrus, mandarin orange and amber, but the effect is one of cleanliness. Total purity.

It’s Fragrance 101: when the weather warms up, you put the heavy fragrances (smoke, dark wood, leather) away and opt for cooler scents. Like this perfect embodiment of warm weather: Italian lemon, ginger and lavender together in a combination that’s pleasantly reminiscent of a gin and tonic.

[$330/100 ML AT HARRY ROSEN]

[$100/124 ML]

THE PRINCIPLE

THE PLAY

THE PRINCIPLE

THE PLAY

Keep it simple, sir.

Terre D’Hermès Eau Trés Fraiche

Give all scents a chance.

Gucci Made to Measure

There’s a difference between being complicated and being complex. The former seems forced, like the acting on a soap opera, whereas the latter is robust and rewarding, even without a lot of moving parts. Terre D’Hermès is deceptively complex: warm, refined and full of citrus notes of all kinds.

It’s fresh, without being light.

Can patchouli be misused? It can and, sadly, often is. But, with skill and temperance, the spicy, floral note adds a touch of worldliness to a fragrance. Gucci has taken that subtle flavour and added notes of citrus, spice and sweet amber to make a cologne that is perfectly suited for warm city nights.

[$130/100 ML]

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LACOSTE L!VE: THE NEWEST FRAGRANCE FROM LACOSTE IS MUSIC TO YOUR NOSE Lacoste’s latest fragrance unfolds a lot like a good concert. It starts, of course, with the opening act. Something a little experimental that you haven’t heard before. In the case of Lacoste L!ve, the opener warms up the crowd with lighter, fruity tones like lime and sweet water. The first impression here conjures the fresh, green smell released when you snap a young branch in springtime.

Once the molecules of those lighter notes waft away, the mic gets passed on to the headliner and a more earthy, muscular combination takes the stage. These more complex components grant the fragrance lasting power.

The subtle spice of saffron, the alluring, dark scent of absinthe and black liquorice. Together they become heady and masculine, the olfactory equivalent of Morrisey and Keith Richards, maybe. But like a good show, this is the part you—and anyone who gets close to you—will remember. A couple of encores and a standing ovation later, the show’s over. But like that chorus that rings in your head for years onward, the impression remains.

– GRADY MITCHELL

06/07.14

LOOK BET TER • FEEL BET TER • KNOW MORE

The Winning Formula

IT’S F1 SEASON. HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. NOW, GET YOURSELF TO MONTREAL.

BY MATT BUBBERS

The Sport

FORMULA ONE IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF MOTORSPORT in the world. The top teams spend around $500 million to field two cars over the 19-race season. From Japan to Australia, Dubai, Monaco, England, Canada and more, this circus travels the world.

In the past, it was a deadly sport with several fatal crashes per season, but F1’s safety record has improved immensely over the past few decades. The last time a driver died on the track was 20 years ago. There are two top prizes: the Driver’s Championship and the Constructor’s. Individual drivers and teams earn points separately for wins and top finishes. At the end of the season, the highest-scoring driver takes home the Driver’s Championship, while the best two-car team takes home the Constructor’s.

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CARS The Wall of Champions

An unforgiving slab of concrete on the outside of the last turn, so named because three world champions all crashed into it during a single race.

The key to a fast lap here is to miss this wall by mere millimetres as you blast onto the start/ finish straight, carrying as much speed as possible.

The Grand

the first-placed car’s PUT ON THE MAP Prix du oil pressure failed

by Expo ’67 and the Canada and the day belonged summer Olympics in to the rookie from ’76, Montreal was a Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. city riding high. But these events Those who were there that day were nothing compared to what say Villeneuve had tears in his happened on October 8, 1978. eyes as he stood on the top of the It was a typically cold, wet podium. Pierre Trudeau handed day. The Mosport and Tremblant him the winner’s trophy. circuits—previous venues for the Not only was it Villeneuve’s Grand Prix du Canada—were sudfirst win, but it was the first ever denly deemed too dangerous. And Grand Prix win by a Canadian so the world’s best drivers came driver. Thousands of screaming to race the world’s fastest cars at hometown fans cheered his name. a brand-new circuit on the Isle It was the defining moment for Notre-Dame in the middle of the Formula One in Canada. In a St. Lawrence River. sport dominated by Europeans, Among the drivers was Quebec our young country proved our native Gilles Villeneuve racing mettle. To this day, the Grand for Ferrari. He’d started racing Prix in Montreal is a pilgrimage snowmobiles to earn money and for any Canadian with a drop of had climbed the ranks to make it gasoline in their blood. to motorsport’s highest level. At A few years after this great 28-years old, with only one season victory, Villeneuve was killed under his belt, he was starting his during the Belgian Grand Prix. home race from third on the grid.

He was among two drivers who Villeneuve’s poor start dropped died that season in a sport whose him back in the pack. As the race brightest stars often died young. progressed, he fought his way The Isle Notre-Dame circuit up to second using his typically was renamed in his honour: le sideways style—much to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. delight of hometown fans. Then,

The Atmosphere

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Legends of Montreal

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER 7 wins

NELSON PIQUET 3 wins

AYRTON SENNA 2 wins

GILLES VILLENEUVE 1 win

The Worst Crash

1982.

Just a few weeks after Villeneueve was killed in Belgium, the Italian Riccardo Paletti crashed into the back of a stalled car seconds after the start of the race.

The 23-year-old was flown to hospital but succumbed to his injuries.

Ask almost any of the drivers, and they’ll say Montreal is among their favourite races. Most respect the circuit, which rewards bold driving. Others praise the festival-like atmosphere—something you wouldn’t find, say, at the race in Korea.

The sold-out crowds here know their sport and come from all over the world to celebrate the race on St-Laurent Boulevard.

GUIDE | The Reluctant Fanatic

PATRIOT GAMES

Every four years, the world’s nations comes together to remind us why their country is way better than yours

BY NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN

For the next month, while the world’s greatest soccer players gather in Brazil, my Toronto neighbourhood will turn into an international fair of soccer fandom—a kind of drunken Epcot Center in which the passionate and occasionally belligerent sports fans of the world fill the streets in their various, Adidas-branded native costumes.

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Portuguese kids in Ronaldo jerseys celebrate round-robin victories over soccer minnows like Bosnia and Herzegovina as if they’d just re-conquered Angola. ItalianCanadians migrate into the core of the city, grinding streetcar service to a stop with their flag waving, while the English pour out of dimly lit pubs, red faced and— inevitably—heartbroken and humiliated.

Crowds of Netherlands fans in orange jerseys suddenly materialize, causing

GUIDE | The Reluctant Fanatic

everyone who sees them to think: “Where the hell did all these Dutch people come from?”

For a Canadian-born sports fan, it’s hard not to feel left out. Canada has made the World Cup just once, in 1986, and we disgraced ourselves by scoring exactly zero goals.

The World Cup is the greatest international party—a onceevery-four-years blowout—and we’re not invited.

The World Cup may be the most jingoistic month of the sporting calendar—no doubt responsible for a huge spike in the sale of car flags and facepaint—but its heady blend of patriotism and sport is hardly unique. In general, international sports tournaments are the best places to find unashamed, full-throated celebrations of nationalism.

In the US, this kind of extreme patriotism is commonplace. I went to a Buffalo Bills home game a few years ago that began with fighter jets buzzing the stadium and the crowd spontaneously bursting into a “USA! USA!” chant—something I was certain only happened on episodes of The Simpsons.

If you’re a Canadian, however, the go-team nationalism of international sporting events is unique. Every two years, Canadians get newly excited about “owning the podium,” suddenly invested in the fate of a few speed skaters from rural Quebec. Each holiday season during the World Juniors, 30 million Canadians’ sense of self-worth is suddenly transferred onto the shoulders of a few teenage boys. When is the last time you heard a national anthem that wasn’t blasted out of an arena? Where else do you chant the name of your country? Canadian readers may have felt a flush of pride when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but no one got day drunk and shirtless, shouting “Canada!” from the window of a moving car.

If you’re a sports fan who’s a little uncomfortable with over-the-top flag-waving, this side of international sports can quickly feel strange. In his famous 1941 essay “The Sporting Spirit,” George Orwell wrote contemptuously about sports, arguing that their increasing popularity was “bound up with the rise of nationalism—that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige.”

For Orwell, international sports competitions were just “war minus the shooting.” Pitting nation against nation on the football pitch created animosity, not cooperation.

“Even if one didn’t know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles,” Orwell wrote.

Writing in 1941, in the midst of a brutal war fueled by aggressive nationalism, Orwell’s view of the situation was understandably pessimistic. Today, however, after a few decades of international competition that haven’t led directly to World War III, we can be more hopeful.

Yes, there’s something strange—even a little pathetic— about taking your sense of national pride from the way a couple of 25-year-olds perform with a ball, but the feeling has its purpose.

Nations are, in Benedict Anderson’s famous formulation, “imagined communities.” They only exist because of semi-regular reminders that we’ve got something in common—a shared morning newspaper, a national radio program, a mutual dislike of some scapegoat country next door. Without those cultural strings tying us together, Canada is just a motley collection of individuals living within some arbitrary geographic borders—often living thousands of kilometres apart from each other, speaking different languages, eating different foods, enjoying vastly different lives.

Sport is one of the things that, for good or ill, galvanizes a haphazard collection of human beings into something resembling a “nation.” Along with a perverse pride in our crappy weather and a collective desire to distinguish ourselves from Americans, a bit of patriotism at the Olympics every couple of years sometimes feels like one of the few threads that keep us together.

And the celebrations in my neighbourhood over the next month are proof that feelings of nationalism don’t need to be exclusive. When the tournament ends, the dudes in Spanish facepaint and women waving Polish flags will go back to being Canadian. They’ll cheer for Sidney Crosby in the Olympics, flip past CBC sitcoms like the rest of us, take selfies when they (inevitably) see Rob Ford at the club.

A little nationalism during a soccer game doesn’t lead to orgies of hatred. There’s room enough in most of our imaginations for multiple communities.

For many Canadians, then, the best option is to engage in a little second-hand fandom. Emphasize some of the distant Hungarian roots on your mother’s side. Watch the games with your German friend. Swear allegiance to Mexico because you visited Cancun once—stayed in a super-nice timeshare—and still insist on lecturing your friends about the merits of high-quality sipping tequila.

Pick a side and cheer. Then hope that Canada eventually makes it back to the party.

Canadian readers may have felt a flush of pride when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but no one got day drunk and shirtless, shouting “Canada!” from the window of a moving car.

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GUIDE | Fatherhood

READY, AIM, FATHER

A man teaches his son about Zen and shooting arrows

BY SHAUGHNESSY BISHOP-STALL • ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL BLOW

ON CAMPING TRIPS AS A KID, my dad helped me make bows and arrows out of whittled saplings and string. The process was more impressive than the result—my arrows tumbling a few feet to the ground. Then I’d go back to throwing rocks at fence posts, slingshotting pebbles at bottles. As a boy, I probably spent more time aiming than doing anything else.

There are very few jobs that entail mostly aiming, and they’re the coolest in the world: big-league pitcher, x-wing pilot, gunslinger. I thought I’d grow into one of them; instead, I threw out my arm, discovered girls and, most tragically, adopted an artistic sensibility. But I never lost the pure love of aiming stuff at other stuff. I always found an excuse, and usually a wager. Mostly that meant shooting pool. The act of aim-then-release is as close as I come to Zen. 90 SHARPMAGAZINE.COM / JUNE/JULY 2014

But such moments are few and far between these days. Having grown into an stressed-out inner-city dad, my hands and heart yearn for something to aim at, other than the next deadline. I put hope in my four-year-old son Zev, who’s got a sniper’s name, a hell of an arm, and likes throwing things as much as I ever did.

That’s not to say we’re identical. Take condos and superheroes: Last summer, Zevvy was invited to an Avengers birthday party, his excitement over the theme rivaled only by the location the party room of a downtown condominium. A perfect Torontonian, he sees himself as a future condo-dweller. And also, apparently, as Captain America.

“You sure? How about Thor? Or even the Hulk?”

He shook his head.

“Well it makes sense. Captain America would probably live in a condo, too.”

“Good,” said Zevvy, defying my sarcasm.

After the party, I took Lil’ America and one of his friends

Five months later, Zevvy and I wind our way through some woods, a bit of nature in the middle of the city. Sure,

I joke about the condos and such, but the kid is one tough little trooper, holding his light-saber steady as he stumbles over frozen mud.

We are looking to meet up with the zombie survival guys, who offered to shoot with us at a hidden archery range. Zevvy likes when we go on adventures, and loves the idea of shooting arrows. Hawkeye has become his second favourite Avenger after Thor. I’m just happy we’re over Captain America. And also I’ve become better with a bow in the past few months; only last week, oddly enough, I was shooting in gale-force winds at balloons in the Scottish highlands.

I figure there must be a reason arrows keep flying into my sphere, and maybe it’s time to finally take a skill I’ve learned a bit, and start to pass it on. This one is definitely in Zev’s wheelhouse. But also, he’s a little dubious; if we’re meeting up with zombie survivalists, it would stand to reason that zombies aren’t too far behind. This has him on a certain edge, and tapping into all his bravery as Connor and the others emerge out of the bush to welcome us.

We hike up to the range and start readying the bows. Zevvy puts down his light-saber and I tell him what I’ve learned: that archery is about minimizing the variables, staying still, breathing calmly, and altering small things minutely to change the path of flight. I think if I could do this in life I’d be stronger and happier. I don’t say this part, but if I could teach it to Zev, even better. I tell him it usually takes three arrows to get your aim: one up or to the right, one down or to the middle, and the third one right on target.

Then you just replicate that last one, again and again…but he’s stopped paying attention. He’s looking out for zombies.

“They’re not real,” I tell him one more time. “But this is.”

He watches as I nock the arrow.

I shoot a few freehand, then Connor gives me this Hawkeye-like contraption. It wraps around my wrist and attaches to the bowstring, releasing the arrow with the touch of a trigger. So I can pull and aim, and Zevvy can be the one to shoot. Connor lifts him up to my height. Then I attempt it with Zev on my back. But these are large alterations to substantial variables and we miss the target twice.

“It’s not even a target,” says Zev. “Sure it is.”

He shakes his head. “It’s blue. A target is round with red and white circles.”

“Some are,” I say. “But a target can be anything. In Scotland it was a balloon. In the zombie apocalypse it was a pumpkin…”

He’s heard these stories and now they’re starting to come together. Becoming real. He squints at the blue piece of Styrofoam and nods. And now I’m down on one knee, next to my boy and about his height…

“Breathe.” I say, as the feathers touch my cheek.

“I am.” He says. “I am always breathing.”

“Good,” I say. “Then pull the trigger.”

He does. And the arrow flies, into the heart of the target.

Read about the rest of Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Zombie Camp experience at Sharpmagazine.com/author/shaughnessy-bishop-stall

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(dressed as Spiderman, who barely counts as an Avenger) to the park. Their loot bags contained a suction cup bow-andarrow and they were anxious to try them out. I fastened the star-spangled shield to a tree for target-practice (pretty much the only thing it’s good for), and tried to help with their plastic bows. The flimsy arrows careened into the grass much like they had with my dad, but it was still fun, and I told Zev we’d do it for real sometime.

“Like Hawkeye?” he said.

“Sure. With real bows.”

“And real arrows? And real targets?”

“Yeah,” I said, suddenly wondering why I’d never shot a real bow-and-arrow before.

••• It’s now October and I’m standing in ankle-deep mud, holding a no-nonsense Take-down Recurve bow. Our instructor, Connor, a young, soft-spoken hunter/philosopher has just finished showing us how to string it (using our thighs for leverage). He shows us how to stand (feet perpendicular to the target, back and neck straight), how to nock the arrow and hold the bow (fingertips on the string, a slight tilt of the handle to cradle the arrow), how to pull it back (elbow at shoulder level, using those big back muscles to draw the feathers to your cheek) and how to aim and shoot (focus on your target, breathe and release). I do it all like he says, and let it fly—about four feet off target, plummeting into the mud—again and again and again.

There are a half dozen of us shooting, and it isn’t until my final attempt that Connor realizes I’ve been nocking my arrow on the wrong side of the bow. My last arrow flies somewhat straight, glancing off the edge of the target. I feel like a brain-dead fool. Fitting, since I’m learning this skill at Zombie Survival Camp.

I’ve written about the camp before, but not this: I have lived in shanty-towns, war-zones and drug-dens; been chased, beat up, shot at; lost in the jungle, the desert, and miles of abandoned mine-shafts beneath the earth—and yet this game of dress-up in the woods somehow shakes me to my core—a dose of PTSD perhaps. And, then, even more surprisingly, a bit of Zen. After eight hours of fighting and running, I am faced with one last challenge—archery. A farmer (who looks a lot like Connor) hands me a bow and three arrows, instructing me to take out the zombie (who looks like a scarecrow with a pumpkin head) in the middle of his field.

I pull back on the bow, trying to control my heart and hands.

The arrow sails into the mud.

I nock another. “Breathe,” says Farmer Connor. I breathe.

My hands become still. I pull back the arrow…

Having grown into an inner-city stressed-out dad, my hands and heart yearn for something to aim at, other than the next deadline.

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The Classic Caesar Drink it as it is (perfect) or use this as the foundation for more adventurous creations featuring rye, gin, tequila, rum, or pretty much any other spirit.

I N G RE D IE N TS:

• 1 oz vodka • 2 dashes hot sauce • 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce • 3 grinds fresh cracked salt and pepper • 4 oz Mott’s Clamato Cocktail • Celery salt

G A RN IS H :

• Celery stalk • Lime wedge

D I R E CT ION S:

P H O T O : C O U R T E SY O F R A N D O M H O U S E

• Rim a highball glass with citrus and celery salt • Fill the glass with ice • Add the ingredients in order listed • Stir well to mix • Garnish

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Hail Caesar!

T H E S H A R P REPO RT O N BEV ER AGE S

HUMBLE OF BIRTH, NOBLE OF LEGACY, RAISE A GLASS IN TRIBUTE TO THE MIGHTIEST BRUNCH COCKTAIL OF THEM ALL Walter Chell was not the first person to combine tomatoes and clams (the Italians call it spaghetti alle vongole, and have been doing it for ages). He was, however, the first on record to do it in a glass—subbing the pasta for vodka and completing the concoction with a splash of citrus and a kick of spice. Chell mixed the first Caesar at the Owl’s Nest Bar in the Calgary Inn (now the Westin Calgary) in 1969 from fresh, basic ingredients. We can all be thankful he didn’t have fettuccine Alfredo on his mind, or things could have turned out very differently.

Forty-five years later, the Caesar has been named Canada’s official cocktail, and it exists in as many variations as there are mistresses in the Italian Prime Minister’s office. We come to praise Caesar—the classic, the novel, the Dutchinspired—and give you everything you need to make the best one you’ve ever had. Plus a little something to eat along with it.

MEET THE EXPERT Clint Pattemore is by all accounts the world’s foremost expert on the Caesar, and his new book, Caesars: The Essential Guide to Your Favourite Cocktail (Appetite by Random House, $20) offers an exhaustive collection of Clamato-centric recipes and lore, According to Pattemore, there are two types of people in this world: those who like Caesars and those who don’t know they like Caesars. And although he may be slightly biased, we tend to agree with this statement.

How to pronounce:

WORCESTERSHIRE THE MOST CUSTOMIZABLE COCKTAIL ON EARTH: From what’s on the rim (celery salt, pepper mixes, bacon bits) to garnishes (basically anything you can stab a stick through or hang off a rim) to the level and variety of spices, the permutations are endless. Think something might work in a Caesar?

Chances are it will.

Worchester is a town in Worcestershire, Britain, where Lee & Perrins’ famous savoury sauce is still made. The name of the town is pronounced wuss-TER. Then simply append “shire.”

CAESAR’S HOPPY COUSIN The directions for turning a Caesar into a Beezer (also known as a michelada in Mexico) are pretty simple: build a Caesar and then add beer.

And vodka, if it’s that kind of party.

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| C OV E R S T O RY | S H A R P M A G A Z I N E .C O M

BY:

A T E X T UA L A N A LYS I S OF THE ACTOR’S WORDS, S I G H S A N D YAW N S

Greg Hudson

P H O T O G R A P H Y BY:

Brian Bowen Smith August images

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Mark Wahlberg wouldn’t have to give interviews. This is according to Mark Wahlberg. But it’s not a perfect world because not only is Wahlberg talking to me, an interviewer, he’s doing so while in the midst of moving house, which, if you think about it, wouldn’t be happening if it were a perfect world, either.

Heaven, if you believe in that sort of thing (which, as a pretty devout Catholic, Wahlberg probably does), is heaven because it’s the one neighbourhood that doesn’t give you a reason to move. This move, however, is about as close to heaven—at least in real-estate terms—as it’s possible to get. Wahlberg’s new home (a 30,000 square foot French-style palace he’s been constructing on a six-acre lot in Beverly Hills since 2009) is nearly three times the size of his current one and features all of the things you’d imagine it would: a basketball court, waterfalls, a two-storey wood-paneled library. And while he no doubt has “people” to help with every aspect of the move, it’s certainly a big deal, both logistically and emotionally. So, here’s a man with his mind on other things, who didn’t want to be working today, answering questions about why he does what he does and how he feels about it all. And for this reason, or perhaps for one or several more that I’ll never know, Wahlberg doesn’t seem like he’s in the mood to talk. He sighs. He yawns. He makes full use of every period at the end of every sentence. When he’s done answering a question, he’s done.

“I don’t care,” Wahlberg sighs, in response to a question about having to talk more about aging now that he’s in his forties. “People can ask me whatever they want. If I answer, great. If not, oh well.”

Indeed. But what his answer lacks in substance, it makes up for in symbolism: it’s a good reminder of what Mark Wahlberg actually is. He’s an actor, of course, but he’s a producer, too, and a restaurateur and a businessman—and he’s been immensely successful at all of these things (see: the new Palais de Wahlberg). Those identities are all about making sound choices and he’s good at what he does because of this. And, right now he’s making a choice: to be vague, disengaged, maybe a bit petulant. Can Mark Wahlberg get away with this? He can.

There is, however, another way to look at it. To choose to hear him not as taciturn, not as curt, but wise: to find meaning in every word of every clipped sentence. Like someone writing a dissertation on the punctuation in a John Donne poem or extrapolating meaning from a haiku, only one about Marky Mark and robot dinosaurs.

Take the above quote, for instance. I had asked him about aging, albeit in an indirect way. Lately, and inevitably, he’s been playing characters with some life experience. He made his name playing upstarts—the naïve porn star Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, the aspiring metal god in Rock Star—and he did it well. But, in his new film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, where he takes over lead-actor/savingthe-world duties from Shia LaBeouf, he has a 19-year-old daughter, and in the upcoming film Mojave, he plays the supporting, mentor role. He’s getting older, and people are asking about it. Wahlberg’s tepid response, that he doesn’t care, that he might answer or he might not, reveals where this man is in his life. At 43 years old, married to a former Victoria’s Secret model, commanding $16 million per film, with four kids and a close-knit extended family, Wahlberg

T H E M E N ’S R I G H T S M OV E M E N T I S M O R E POPULAR IN CANADA THAN ANYWHERE ELSE. ARE THEY JUST A BUNCH OF INTERNET TROLLS? OR ARE THEY INTERNET TROLLS WITH SOME LEGITIMATE CONCERNS?

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THE SHARP LIST ONE DOESN’T EXPERIENCE SUMMER IN ONE PLACE.

It’s like love, or youth. It takes on different meanings depending on the setting. A summer spent at the cottage (or cabin) is different than a summer spent in the city or on the coast. In fact, that might just be what’s so special about the warmest season (aside from the fact that it is, especially in our country, so brief )—it affords you so many different ways to take it in, to relish it. This Sharp List has all the coolest stuff to help you get the most out of summer, no matter where you choose to experience it.

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1 BEACH 2. NAUTICA RUGBY STRIPE TOWEL NAUTICA.COM

Simple, masculine, large enough for two. Need we say more? ($45)

CHRIS CRAFT CAPRI 21 CHRISCRAFT.COM

The best place from which to enjoy the beach is actually not on the beach.

It’s from the water, among the boating set. The Capri 21 is a throwback to the good old days before boats were mere tools to haul wakeboarders around. It’s a dignified vessel, complete with quilted seats and a vertical bow profile reminiscent of 1930s models. ($64,105)

3. CANON EOS 70D

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Unassuming in size and shape, the Canon 70D is no slouch. It boasts built-in WiFi, touchscreen controls and a new autofocus feature in Live View that results in better-than-ever video capturing. But its main selling feature is its sensor: an allnew Dual Pixel CMOS AF sensor capable of 20.2 MP resolution. Feeling splashy?

This waterproof housing from Ikelite will keep your new camera safe down to 60 m. Camera: ($1,150); housing ($1,750)

4. GIRARD PERREGAUX SEA HAWK GIRARD-PERREGAUX.COM

A tribute to the 1940s original, the new Sea Hawk is a sturdy dive watch that can stand up to the rigours of any day at the beach, not to mention some serious Scuba action thanks to 1,000 m of water resistance. ($10,700)

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CABIN 21. ORU KAYAK ORUKAYAK.C OM

Oru just made life easier for urban-living kayak enthusiasts who love to get on the water but don’t have the space to keep a kayak in their condos. By creating a foldable vessel, what was once a two-and-a-half-metre burden requiring a long-box pickup, trailer or roof rack can now be easily collapsed and packed into the trunk of a compact car. ($1,100)

22. LA 100 FLYING PLATFORM

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With Amazon and Google investing heavily in drones, isn’t about time you did, too? The LA 100 is a drone for the people: it’s fully autonomous, meaning you can hook it up, launch it and wait for it to land again five minutes later. Your nephew’s quad-copter can’t hold a match to this. ($1,000)

Is The Wedge (which is shipped in pieces and assembled on site) a condo for the trailer set or a trailer for the condo set?

We’re going with the latter, thanks to its mostly glass front and a bedroom large enough to accommodate a king-sized bed. ($98,000)

23. GLENFIDDICH 21 YEAR OLD GLENFIDDICH.COM

It’s always a good idea to have a special bottle kicking around for long summer evenings on the deck. This single malt from Glenfiddich leads with floral and vanilla aromas followed by notes of ginger and leather on the palate. ($240)

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FINEX CAST IRON SKILLET FINEXUSA.COM

It’s hard to improve on the simple genius of the castiron skillet. But not impossible. The Finex Skillet—which, like so many of our favourite things of late, was born on Kickstarter— improves on the classic design with slight tweaks, like an octagonal shape that improves pouring; a heat-resistant CNC machined, easy-to-grip handle; and a surface that is easier to clean and less likely to stick. ($210)

24. GERBER SPLITTING AXE GERBERGEAR.COM

The smell of fresh-cut wood, destruction through sheer brute force and the chance to swing a sharp metal object make chopping wood every man’s favourite chore.

As with all things Gerber, this axe’s forged steel head and sturdy formed polymer handle are designed to stand up to the rigours of any job. ($60)

29. BEN SHERMAN SPOT PRINT SHORTS

26. BOSS ANCONA POLO HUGOBOSS.COM

The perfect summer polo shirt? You’re looking at it. Breezy linen-cotton blend, a form-fitting body, understated detailing and a refreshing orange hue that refuses to be ignored. ($145)

25. OLE SMOKY MOONSHINE O L E S M O K Y. C O M

By definition, moonshine is illegally distilled. So, are Ole Smoky’s fruitflavoured options (Apple Pie, Blackberry and Lemon Drop) actual moonshine, or is it just a pleasantly sweet spirit flavoured with something like fruit? We’re not entirely sure, but it’s packaged in a jar and tastes like Sunday afternoon and a banjo solo…so, it turns out, we don’t care. ($40)

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27. PANERAI LUMINOR MARINA 8 DAYS ACCIAIO PANERAI.COM

There’s a saying, “In the woods it’s always three o’clock.” But should you need to know the time with more specificity, a rugged steel case and tough leather strap (not to mention 300 m water resistance) make this an ideal timepiece for spending time by the lake. ($8,100)

Time to give those crazy madras shorts of yours a break, and opt for something with a little more subtlety. This sharply tailored pair—with a sophisticated polka-dot print—will do the trick nicely. ($80)

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HOW TO (UN)DRESS FOR A SUMMER WEDDING

there ’ s only one thing better than putting on sharply tailored attire :

taking it off

afterwards .

P H O T O G R A P H Y BY MACKENZIE DUNCAN S T Y L I N G BY MARC ANDREW SMITH

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--VIRGIN WOOL SUIT ($1,695), KNIT TIE ($205), AND COTTON-LINEN SHIRT ($335) BY BOSS; GMT CAPTAIN WATCH ($6,100) BY ZENITH, AT BANDIERA JEWELLERS. RIGHT

--LINEN BLAZER ($650) AND COTTON-BLEND BUTTON-DOWN ($185)

BY SAND; BROWN ALLIGATOR BELT ($700) BY NEO NOUEVEAU BY ANDREW DIBA; COTTON PANTS ($615) BY BALENCIAGA, AT HOLT RENFREW; SUEDE OXFORDS ($495)

BY BOSS.

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SHARP | RANK & FILE

OUR HIGHLY SCIENTIFIC RANKING OF THINGS THAT DO AND DO NOT DESERVE YOUR ATTENTION

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1. CLAMS

4. WEDDING SEASON

7. PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE

This humble bivalve finally gets its day in the sun (not literally we hope!).

Seriously, you never want to eat a bad clam.

An excuse to wear seersucker, two-tone shoes and straw fedoras (not necessarily all at once).

The summer movie most likely to make you regret having children.

2. SHORT SWIM TRUNKS

5. JASON SEGEL IN SEX TAPE Hey, Jason Segel, have you been working out?

At first we hated Upworthy’s click-bait headlines, but you’ll never believe what happened next.

Because your knees are nothing to be ashamed of.

And, really, when was the last time you were on a surfboard?

3. WOMEN IN BIRKENSTOCKS

6. THE CALGARY STAMPEDE The cowgirl outfits mostly make up for the long lines and terrible country music.

The Lilith Fair look makes its triumphant return from the ankles down.

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8. UPWORTHY-STYLE HEADLINES

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9. CARNIVAL FOOD BRINKMANSHIP Just because it can be deep fried, doesn’t meanit ought to be.