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The world’s worst pizza topping shares a name with the lead-off track on the band’s first full-length album No Bad Days, recorded with heavy-hitting producer Howard Redekopp (Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, and Mother Mother).

With their penchant for tropical soca beats and Paul Simon, the comparisons to Vampire Weekend are valid. But last time I checked, Vampire Weekend was a pretty sweet band, and clearly BESTiE are of the same opinion.

Fronted by Tristan Orchard (Gemini-nominated filmmaker and the man behind Vancouver music website WinnieCooper. net), BESTiE are quickly establishing themselves as one of the city’s top acts to watch, and certainly one of the most fun. After placing third in last year’s Peak

Performance Project, the past 12 months have seen the band make appearances at SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Sled Island, and Rifflandia.

This Friday, the boys of BESTiE are celebrating the release of No Bad Days with an album release party at Fortune Sound Lounge that also serves as a homecoming after a month on the road touring across Canada.

Make sure to get to the show early to find out why openers NEEDS are banned from nearly every bar in Western Canada.

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This week’s issue of WE Vancouver is all about beer barons in the making. However, on June 1, you can get an idea of how beer barons in the past used to live.

Vancouver Heritage Foundation has added Casa Mia to its roster of 11 gems on the 2014 Heritage House Tour. Built in 1932 for George C Reifel – whose beer empire started in Brewery Creek in the 1900s and survived prohibition by opening a brewery in Japan in 1921 – the house on southwest Marine Drive is Vancouver’s premier example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

“With a distinctive custom design, the home’s plot of land once stretched to the edge of the Fraser River,” the heritage foundation says. “The opulent interior includes a gold leaf covered ballroom complete with sprung wood floors and a stage that served as the second Commodore Ballroom [which Reifel owned] to many of Vancouver’s best known performers, a stunning central staircase with original woodwork, tile and impressive pendant light, a nursery hand-painted in egg tempera by Disney artists, and a gold swan faucet in the ladies powder room.”

Tour tickets are $40 each and are available at VancouverHeritageFoundation.org, or you can enter to win a pair at WEVancouver.com/contests.

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Fair in the Square Victory Square is the place to be for free fun this Sunday, as the eighth annual Fair in the Square transforms the park into a neighbourhood block party with live music, arts and crafts, and a free barbecue lunch.

The event is being put on by the good folks at the Central City Foundation, with volunteers and culinary students from nearby Vancouver Community College helping to cook up literally thousands of free burgers for the masses.

After you fill your belly full of free grub (did I mention the food is free?), check out the artists and artisans displaying and selling their wares. There’s also kids activities, yoga, sword-fighting demonstrations, and contests and prizes too.

Live on the Victory Square stage will be singer-songwriters Christine Magee and Bodhi Jones, folk/rock musicians Patrick Spencer and Wes Regan, musical theatre from Project Limelight, the Portage Freedom Fighters, and Aboriginal ensemble M’Girl. CBC’s Lien Yeung will be hosting the event, which runs from 11am to 2 pm at Hastings and Cambie.

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Now she waits on an increasingly crowded platform watching trains pass by. The record number is nine.

Regular SkyTrains no longer stop at the station due to construction at the station.

Since March 30, the only way to reach Main Street–Science World has been by Train2Main, a special two-car train that stops at all stations between Waterfront and Commercial–Broadway. TransLink recommends those using Train2Main to allow for 10 minutes of extra travel time, but Train2Main has faced unexpected lag times.

“My boyfriend let me know about trying to come home on a Friday night,” said Regan. “The platform is full of people waiting beyond 30 minutes, fighting for even a space to sit.“ In late April, transit police caught a man attempting to walk on the track from Commercial–Broadway to Main Street–Science World during a delay.

Construction at Main Street–Science World began in the spring of 2013. The new east stationhouse was completed May 18 and commuters can only access the train platform there with a new set of stairs and a new elevator. The west stationhouse is now closed for construction and won’t be completed until next year.

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A Train2Main pulls into Main Street– Science World every 10 to 12 minutes.

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“It’s hard to know that Train2Main is a specific train rather than telling people to train to Main for a visit,” said Li. TransLink said it understands the frustration of longer waits but wishes to maintain some form of transit service during construction rather than closing off the station entirely. TransLink spokesperson Jiana Ling says a shuttle train is the best option without sacrificing safety. She recommends commuters visit TransLink’s online channels and traffic media for updates.

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wo young Vancouverites say advice offered in their new ebook can help readers beat the high cost of living in Vancouver.

Celestian Rince, 25, and his girlfriend of five years Stephanie Williams, 27, say by stretching every dollar, they can cut grocery costs down to $230 for both, go on foreign vacations twice a year, and hope to retire by their late 30s.

The couple have almost entirely stopped eating at restaurants and rarely drink coffee or alcohol. Their combined income is about $54,000 a year, and home ownership and becoming parents don’t interest them, with the decision to be child-free a lifestyle choice and not a financial one. They both work downtown, and live in a $732-permonth one-bedroom apartment in a Gastown housing co-op (which will rise to $800 soon) that allows them to walk and cycle instead of using transit.

Both authors are vegan, but Rince said a meat diet would likely only add about 20 per cent to the grocery bill.

The 40-page book is called Incoming Assets: A Guide to Affordable Living in Vancouver and Beyond, and can be found in Kindle format at Amazon.ca. Further tips and a blog are on their website IncomingAssets.com.

The couple’s plans were sharply criticized by many online commentators as hopelessly naïve and unrealistic.

Yet the authors counter every critique at length on their blog.

The most contentious point is housing cost. Some critics said their subsidized housing in Gastown is far too

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Stephanie Williams and Celestian Rince plan to retire by their late 30s by living frugally. Dan Toulgoet photo rare for the average Vancouverite to use as a model, and if the rent was much higher, all their other carefully planned savings would simply be wiped out.

Rince countered that their co-op is for low and moderate income earners, and some critics had confused it with an entirely different sort of welfarelevel social housing.

“In fact, the co-op we live in now is the most costly housing we’ve ever been in,” he said, adding that it shouldn’t cost much more to live in downtown Vancouver than in Surrey, with “micro-suites” available downtown for $750 or less. They moved into their BC government-subsidized co-op in fall 2010, after luckily finding the ad on Craigslist.

More than half of the couple’s income goes towards savings and “passive investments.” They favour indexed funds, which are mutual funds for the market as a whole, find that high interest GICs are best for the short term, and avoid individual stocks and

bonds. For regular savings accounts they use a small Vancouver bank called People’s Trust – with a three percent interest rate, the highest they’ve seen in Canada – and also recommend President’s Choice Financial and Tangerine Financial.

“We think you should never be paying money for a basic bank account,” Rince said.

Rince, who was born in Singapore and moved to Canada at age three, rebuts critics’ complaints that their frugal lifestyle would be too “boring” for most Vancouverites.

“Not everyone wants to live by eating out and go to the theatre at full price,” he said. “We hike almost each weekend, and we buy many discounted tickets to concerts and theatres from box offices.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has $15 tickets for students, the library regularly has free film screenings and talks, and so on. It may be a cliché, but life is indeed what you make of it.”

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Beer ‘nerds’ revel in craft culture Vancouver Craft Beer Week celebrates its fifth year with its biggest and booziest party lineup yet

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On a nondescript sidestreet in East Vancouver’s industrial heart, a steady stream of young and old trundle by with growlers full of their favourite beer. Rain or shine, the tasting room of Parallel 49 Brewing on Triumph Street is a mecca for local hop heads who make the pilgrimage here for the some of the best beers brewed in Vancouver.

This pleasant scene is becoming increasingly common around the city as craft breweries are popping up faster than any other time in our brewing history. Chris Bjerrisgaard, co-founder of Vancouver Craft Beer Week (VCBW), credits the accessibility of an industry that’s full of passion.

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“If wine was the elegant rich kid and macro beer was the jock, craft beer was the Dungeons and Dragonsplaying nerds at the party,” he continues with a smile. “Even though we’re getting a little more popular, there’s no ego there and people like that.”

A celebration of progress This year marks VCBW’s fifth year of showcasing the increasing number of craft beers from around the province. Bjerrisgaard can’t believe how far it has come.

“I don’t think any of us expected it to become so big,” he says. Bjerrisgaard predicts this year’s events will bring more than $3 million to the local economy. “So big in terms of not only the beer week, but of the scene as a whole. I’d like to pretend we were some visionaries who saw that the scene would get this big, but we weren’t – we just did it because we were passionate and the right things happen from that.”

He takes a long sip from his pint.

“The craft beer scene was going to explode anyway, “ he adds.

But there are some who praise VCBW for bringing an extra boost to the craft beer scene in BC.

“I’m absolutely stunned by the pace of the changes and growth here,” says Adam Chatburn, president of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Vancouver, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and responsible consumption of natural, crafted beers.

“It really shows there was an appetite, but it just needed a few people, like VCBW, to make the first move. I think it’s great that VCBW celebrates the new players coming but also some out-of-towners and the older players of the craft beer brewing community.”

“Craft Beer Week does a good job of getting other craft beer drinkers to try our beer or converting other beer drinkers to drink our beer,” says Graham With, brewmaster at Parallel 49 Brewery. “They change the minds of people drinking the macro lager and bigger beers.”

Since VCBW launched one evening in 1999 at craft-beer insitution The Alibi Room, the number of BC’s breweries has nearly tripled with 70 currently operating and another 17 set to open this year.

The right direction And while this boom can be attributed to an unquenchable thirst for craft beer, changing liquors laws are also helping move the industry forward – particularly new legislation that allows breweries like Brassneck

Brewery in Mount Pleasant to have a tasting room.

“It’s been a godsend, really… and I’m not religious person,” says Brassneck co-founder and Alibi Room owner Nigel Springthorpe. “That tasting room is very valuable to us. It’s a great source of revenue which you need in an expensive building and being able to produce our beer.”

Before, breweries were only allowed to serve 12 ounces of beer per customer each day. Now, customers can drink as much as they want (within reason) in a licensed tasting room at the brewery.

However, for some, the new legislation has been a bit bittersweet, like for the soon-to-be-opened Main Street Brewery, who had to redesign their tasting room to the 80-squaremetre limit of the new law.

“Unfortunately, we had already built our tasting room over the allotted 80 square metres,” says Main Street Brewery co-founder Nigel Pike.

“We had to change it all. We literally had to go back to the drawing board.”

Pike says the all the paper work to have the brewery approved by the city have been frustrating, costing them nearly five months.

“And because of the delays, we’ve had to scale back a lot of the trades we’re using and be a lot more handson – I’ve been the carpenter lately,” he says with a sad laugh. “We’ve done a lot of ourselves because all of money got eaten up in rent, waiting for all of this to happen.”

Fortunately, all the patience and work has paid off with their brewery slated to open its big wooden doors on May 28.

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VCBW “We want to have fun and we also want to bring craft beer to a new community every year – this year, we thought why not see if we can grab the hip hop heads and get them swill,” he says. “And if we can do that with different scenes every year and make Vancouver a universally loving craft beer town, we’ve done our job.”

Continued from page 7 “The end is finally in sight.” Pike pauses a bit hesitantly. “Hopefully it’s in sight.

It’s been a hell-of-a-long road. There have a lot of long, long days.

“But in the end it’s all worked out,” he continues. “It’s done and we’ve got a beautiful space. And the craft beer market is booming, which has given us a lot of faith in what we’ve done even though it’s taken a while to get here.”

Chatburn says there “needs to be a complete overall” to BC’s Liquor Control and Licensing Act. “We’re very encouraged by the changes but there are still a lot of changes that haven’t happened yet,” he says. “We need to start from scratch and come up with something that’s truly 21st century and modern and cohesive with an adult approach to responsible alcohol consumption – it’s sorely needed because there are far too many rules keeping us in the dark ages.”

The taste of success But despite the liquor laws, Springthorpe says in their first year, Brassneck has been selling “hundreds of growlers” every day and the tasting room is busy almost every night.

“We’ve been working our balls off,” he says with a laugh. “Today we’re releasing our 50th beer. It’s not our 50th brew, it’s actually our 50th different style of beer.

It’s been really exciting.”

Parallel 49’s 50-person tasting room has been such a success that they’re looking to expand the current space and are even considering at a door man to help control the steady flow of their business.

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Parallel 49 Brewing (co-owner Michael Tod pictured) has produced more than 2.5 million litres of beer since opening its doors just a few years ago. Rob Newell photo busy,” says With. Parallel 49 recently reached a milestone with its 1,000th brew (each brew is 2,500 litres). “Two years ago, we just started making the best, most interesting beer we could and it just grew. I think Craft Beer Week had something to do with that.”

Opening eyes This year’s VCBW theme is hip hop.

Bjerrisgaard, who is an admitted “hip-hop head from the 90s,” says the more than 20 events during the week are about opening people’s eyes to new types of beer.

So what sets Vancouver apart from other craft-beer hubs like Portland or Seattle?

“I think in some senses we’re more exciting because we are immature,” Bjerrisgaard speculates. “Portland is exciting for Vancouverites because we go down there and there’s so much maturity to that scene and there’s amazing stuff happening all the time.

“Up here, it’s exciting because it’s the wild, wild west,” he continues. “You have a pretty established hierarchy and set of rules to play by in Portland. Here, that’s not so much set. There is some old guard, but you can come in and be a Parallel 49 and turn everything on its head, forcing everybody to rethink the beer scene.”

But despite his loyalty to the alternative beer scene, Bjerrisgard says he’s not above the mainstream product.

“I actually drank a PBR the other day,” he admits.

VCBW’s social media coordinator Leah Poulton nods her head.

“I’ve seen him,” she says, laughing.

“I’ve seen him drink that beer.”

“I love craft beer and think it’s a superior product,” Bjerrisgard explains.

“But do I get so worked up that I’ll turn down a PBR? No way, I like beer. I’m a beer fan. It’s beer…nobody’s curing cancer here.”

Vancouver Craft Beer Week events FRIDAY, MAY 30 • The Peak Presents VCBW Opening Night hosted by Prevail, Gossip Night Club, 5-10pm, $49 SATURDAY, MAY 31 • New Belgium vs Steamworks Collaboration Throw Down! The Bimini, Noon-6pm, $49 • Rare Brews & BBQ, Darby’s Pub, 2-7pm, $60 • Pumphouse’s 35th Birthday Celebration, Pumphouse Pub, 3-10pm, $10 SUNDAY, JUNE 1 • Hoppapalooza V, Alibi Room, 5-9pm, $49 • The 5th Element – B-boy & IPA Battle, FanClub, 4-8pm, $20 • Craft Beer Bingo!, Doolins Irish Pub, 7-9pm, $30 MONDAY, JUNE 2 • BierCraft Belgian Showcase, BierCraft Cambie, 6-11pm, $65 • Hyper Local, Merchant’s Oyster Bar, 6-10pm, 66 • Maenam Has Company, Maenam, 6-9pm, $90 TUESDAY, JUNE 3 • Battle of the Bartend-

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Pourhouse Restaurant, 7-9pm, $75 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 • Cicerone vs Sommelier, ARC Restaurant at the Fairmont Waterfront, 6-10pm, $115 • PDX Brewers Delight, Portland Craft, 5-9pm, $55 • The ANZA Presents: Craft Beer vs Kyprios & The Chaperones, Anza Club, 8pm-2am, $30 THURSDAY, JUNE 5 • Brothers in Hip-Hops, The Butcher and Bullock, 6-10pm, $49 • Cider Rules, The August Jack, 6-9pm, $15 • Portside Samples, The Portside Pub, 4pm-Late, $10 (+ tax/fees) FRIDAY, JUNE 6 AND SATURDAY, JUNE 7 • The VCBW Beer Festival presented by CRAFT Beer Market, Olympic Village Event Grounds, 2-7pm, $35

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Adding spice to BC’s craft beer

By Gen Handley They’re the female flowers from the plant humulus lupulus. They’re the artichokelooking ingredient that gives beer a bitter and aromatic flavours. And now, they’re the latest crop being grown in BC as part of a flourishing craft beer industry.

“We want Lillooet to be the hops capital of Canada – that’s our goal,” says Sam Quinlan, co-owner of Bitterbine Hop Company who, with his partner Tim Hazard, has been working hard since 2009 to build one of the only commercial organic hop farms in BC. With two acres right now and possibly four to five in the near future, Bitterbine grows 15 varieties of hops, each type with

its own unique aroma and flavour, acting as the “spice of beer.”

Quinlan and Hazard say the uniqueness of their hops is the product of healthy organic farming as well as of the fertile environment they are grown in.

Sustainability and quality Up the coast in the picturesque community of Gibsons, Persephone Brewing Company began growing their own hops not only to improve the quality of their beer, but to make it more sustainable too.

“We’re growing our own hops in order to produce a high-quality craft beer, which is ultimately what the customer wants from us, and managing our waste products responsibly, and so on and so forth,” says

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Dion Whyte, Persephone’s general manager. “What we’re trying to do is create an awesome experience for our employees, for the customer who comes in and can’t wait to come back, and also for the community.”

Growing demand With the rising popularity of craft beer and more and more craft breweries popping up around BC, Hazard says it’s hard to keep up with the increasing demand.

“Microbreweries are popping up everywhere in Vancouver right now,” he says.

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y crew and I arrived at The Bottleneck a few minutes ahead of schedule for our interview with Bramwell Tovey, conductor and music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. I was a bundle of nerves as I flipped through my cheat sheet, double-checking notes and stats that I had scrawled days earlier in my Moleskine notebook. Two cameras were being positioned, the rented lavalier microphone was set up in between the broad plains of two dining tables and, the lumens of the external lights were being bounced around the room to best capture the upcoming interview.

While I was in the midst of my fact checking, I felt the front door open and the presence of greatness enter the room. Bramwell Tovey has long been a man I have admired and my opportunity to speak with him one-on-one was an event I had long strove for.

I have had the pleasure of attending well over 30 of the VSO’s outstanding performances, including Bramwell’s debut at the helm at the Orpheum. His command and understanding of the symphony’s character is unparalleled and I was excited to see what made the man himself tick.

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also apologetic for a slight cough he was battling. I gave him a brief breakdown of my approach to the tête–à– tête, how I would lead with a quote and my desire to engage in an organic conversation.

He was, as I had suspected he would be, open minded and easy going. I read on the VSO’s website a quote from an previous interview with Montecristo magazine that he had great sense of humour and indeed I had been privy to that information earlier last year when I actually met Bramwell Tovey is the Grammy and Juno award-winning Music Director Bramwell for the first time briefly on Robson of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Marc Andrew photo Street.

When we sat down Bramwell and I sat for the better sense of humour and we both to start the interview, I brought up part of an hour and talked about laughed. It was a brief, but for me, our first encounter, which went everything from the power of music memorable exchange. something along these lines: I saw to our personal upbringings. It felt The official chat began by us Bramwell and his wife enjoying the as though I were catching up with ordering a beer, a delicious tall day when I politely stopped him an old friend. glass of stout and then my lead-in and said, “Excuse me, I hate to inOne question I had always wantquote: A gem by Artur Schnabel terrupt, but I must tell you, I think ed to know the answer to was how who said, “The notes I handle no you’re a genius!” a conductor actually processes the better than many pianists. But the He responded by saying, “Young orchestration of the ensemble. With pauses between the notes, ah, that man, you never have to apologize a bevy of instruments in front of is where the art resides.” for calling me a genius.” you, all awaiting precise instruction, It opened the portal to the orI instantly recognized his unique how does the mind dissect who ganic conversation I had hoped for.

needs to go next and how aggressively, or gently, does each section need to react? Are you, as a conductor, a measure ahead, two measures ahead, or is it a well studied gut reaction?

The answer? A combination of all those possibilities and more.

I knew at that moment, even though Bramwell’s light-heartedness would always deflect to humbleness, he was indeed a genius.

I was highly touched by his personal story, his advocation for the importance of empowering youth with music, his connection with the great Leonard Bernstein, his love of jazz and, his refreshing outlook on life.

As our conversation reached its end, I admitted that I was a few days into a cleanse, Bramwell stated that he was wasn’t imbibing either and we both looked at the beers that sat in front us.

Almost simultaneously, our hands reached for our chalices, we toasted, each took a single sip and he said, “That’s good isn’t it?” I laughed and agreed without a second thought. It was the best way to share a beer with one of the great minds of our city and I will always feel inspired by Bramwell’s honesty, philanthropy and work ethic. An interview very well conducted indeed.

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ntoine Foukal may be a bit younger than many who decide to take that hard turn away from a career choice, but even at 30 he’s experienced the same kind of restlessness that motivates older workers to make a bold move.

In his late 20s Foukal had established himself as a day trader, and while fairly lucrative it left plenty to be desired.

“I didn’t feel like I was building anything except for a bank account,” he said. “It was always a stressful job and one I found was rewarding in only a financial sense – you’re more or less sitting at a computer and finding ways in the markets to make money. And when your success is tied directly to whether you make money or not I found it hard to find satisfaction in it.”

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After leaving his gig as a trader, Foukal tried several times to break into the craft beer industry in Victoria. Eventually he landed a volunteer job with Hoyne and months later he was taken on staff.

Gone is the big money that helped Foukal buy a home and get established,

replaced with a $16 an hour job delivering beer and doing whatever needs doing around the brewery.

For Foukal it’s about the love of beer and finding a path that resonates within.

He has been with Hoyne for just over eight months and it’s yet to feel like work.

“In general I’m more energetic, I’m happier and the days fly by and I enjoy every minute of it, it doesn’t feel like work,” he said.

And while watching his pennies has taken some getting used to, Foukal said there’s both job satisfaction in being in an industry he is passionate about and the understanding that his work now is an investment.

“I see a future in this, I’m hoping this turns out to be an education,” he said, adding he hopes to grow with the company, or perhaps move to another brewery and maybe one day “do something on my own.”

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t’s a testament to the burgeoning craft brew scene in Vancouver that so many pubs, diners and restaurants have opened their doors over the last couple of years with menus that strongly focus on hopsfriendly dining. Some are good, some are forgettable, and a select few not only deliver on stellar line-up of craft beers from both near and far, but also match the quality of their food to their beverage programs. Here are three of my personal recommendations for where to enjoy good brews and fine bites.

Portland Craft This little two-story charmer opened quietly on Main Street several moons ago and has become a neighbourhood mainstay very quickly. As the name might suggest, it’s all about the beer not from here, but rather from just south of the border. Heavyweights like Occidental Dunkel and Ninkasi Believer jostle with Diamond Knot Ale and Skagit River IPA. There’s even a small but serious bourbon list, and a select offering of local spirits like East Van vodka and Victoria gin. But, it’s the food that really hits the mark. Almost everything is sourced from local and ethical suppliers.

Dishes as simple as the lemon-butter green beans are slightly peppery and finger-sucking good, while the house burger is heavenly, with pickled beets, fresh basil and aged cheddar. Don’t miss their sugar doughnuts with rose cream for a sweet finish.

Open until late daily, Monday-Thursday from 4pm, Friday from 11:30am, Saturday-Sunday from 10am. Portland Craft | 3835 Main St. | 604-569-2494 | PortlandCraft.com Craft Beer Market Having what is billed as “Canada’s largest selection of draft beer” is bound to attract a lot of attention for from hops aficionados, with more than 100 beers on tap at any given time at this new False Creek resto. And, while BC is very well-represented, it’s also fun to check out the offerings from Spain, Belgium, Austria, San Francisco and Ontario, among others.

The menu is equally far-reaching, but props go to Corporate Chef Paul McGreevy for crafting food that focuses heavily on local ingredients and insisting that everything, including bread, be made in-house. Ocean Wise lobster salsa with avocado and pico de gallo is a neat twist on a simple favourite, while Red Racer-infused chicken taquitos make good use of the bottles on hand. I don’t often rave about mac ‘n’ cheese, but Craft’s version, baked with cheddar, gouda, mozza and fontina cheeses, studded with bacon and poblanos, and topped with pars-

ley and bread crumbs, is a thing of wonder and big enough to share with two others.

Open Monday-Friday 11am-midnight, Saturday-Sunday 10am-midnight. Craft Beer Market | 85 West 1 Ave. | 604-7092337 | Vancouver.CraftBeerMarket.ca BierCraft It’s the grand-daddy of beerforward restaurants in Vancouver. Operating in both the Cambie and Commercial hoods for almost a decade, it’s still one of the best places to tie on a bib and get hopped on not-so-haute cuisine. The menu of straightforward bistro fare, such as the wedge salad, French onion soup and steak frites, is interspersed with comforting twists like braised beef mac ‘n’ cheese and open-faced vegetable lasagna. The menus are slightly different at each location (Commercial Drive features a solid tapas menu), but the quality is equally stellar. Watch for a new third location coming out at UBC this summer.

Both locations open daily for lunch/ brunch and dinner until late.

BierCraft Bistro | 3305 Cambie St. | 604874-6900 | BierCraft.com/Cambie BierCraft Tap and Tapas | 1191 Commercial Dr. | 604-254-2437 | BierCraft.com/ Commercial Anya Levykh has been writing about all things ingestible for more than 10 years. Hear her every Monday on CBC Radio One’s On the Coast and find her on Twitter @foodgirlfriday and Facebook.com/FoodGirlFriday. FoodGirlFriday.com

Clockwise from top: There’s no shortage of beers available at Portland Craft on Main Street; Craft Beer Market’s bacon and poblano stuffed mac ‘n’ cheese might be the best in the city; There’s draught beer aplenty at both BierCraft locations.

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here is nothing, absolutely nothing, better after a lengthy wine seminar or elaborate tasting than a delicious, refreshing craft beer.

While professionals and fans of craft beer are undoubtedly stoked for Vancouver Craft Beer Week, I can guarantee you that those in the wine trade ain’t far behind. This week, I hop over to the beer side of things, sharing eight of my favourite cold ones around town.

Driftwood Fat Tug IPA | DriftwoodBeer.com It could just be me, but it seems that any place that has a minimum of eight taps is likely to carry the Fat Tug? I often wonder why it’s just so darn popular.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore this beer, but I’d think that it’s seven per cent booziness and notshy-at-all assault of hoppiness wouldn’t be everyone’s jam, but its rampant success in our market seems to prove that a lot of us like our beers bold. Loads of grapefruit here; delicious with Asian cuisine.

Driftwood Farmhand Saison | DriftwoodBeer.com The wee bit of sour mash used in the brewing of this aromatic ale makes it lively and refreshing, but it’s that crack of black pepper in the mix that gives it a lively snap. Bright and friendly, this is my go to when tackling local artisan cheeses.

For the same reasons as the Bottle Rocket, this ISA is truly a session ale that chimes in at a mere four per cent. If you’re not as into the hops as others, this brew’s flavours are a lot more subtle and even-handed, shining with tropical fruit.

R & B Brewing East Side Bitter | R-and-B.com For a North American take on a traditional British bitter, these East Vancouver craft beer veterans unleash plenty of mocha and clove notes while keeping the finish food and refreshing.

R & B Brewing ‘Chef Series’ Nettle, Mint & Ginger | R-and-B.com This. Beer. Is. Crazy. Crazy good, mind you, as part of R & B’s new collaboration with local chefs. This outing is in tandem with Forage’s chef Chris Whittaker and, yup, it tastes like all of those things. A great conversation piece, serve it as an aperitif when friends pop over for dinner.

Brassneck Brewery Brassneck Ale | Brassneck.ca OK, I live a block and a half from Brassneck Brewery, so close that my wife and I refer to our visits there as “heading downstairs.” While I’m a fan of everything of their ever-changing chalkboard, it’s this steadyhanded balance of hops and malt that’s in my glass most often. A nice little dab of toffee on the finish. Available brewery-only.

33 Acres Brewing ‘33 Acres of Life’ California Common | 33AcresBrewing.com A few blocks from Brassneck Brewery is the slick and stylish 33 Acres, where their ‘California Common’ seems to be the crowd favourite. Fruity, toasty and hops that aren’t too intense make this an easy one to quaff on long summer days.

Phillips Bottle Rocket ISA | PhillipsBeer.com While I like my beer hoppy, I’m not always into these ever-climbing alcohol percentages found in a slew of local craft beers. This India Session Ale has all of the citrus and spice flavor, it clocks in at a nice and even 5 per cent alcohol, so you won’t feel exhausted after knockin’ a couple back.

Having trouble finding something, or just want to say hi? Find me via KurtisKolt.com or on Twitter at @KurtisKolt.

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The 12th annual EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival happens this weekend at B.C. Place Stadium. Check out celebrity chefs with live demos, cooking classes from Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, local restaurants, wineries, breweries, plus 250 exhibitors. Eat-Vancouver.com R&B Brewing is releasing a Chef series of five bottled beers, created in collaboration with some of the city’s top chefs and designed to pair well with food. The first in the series features a partnering with chef Chris Whittaker of Forage, who aptly designed his beer to pair with halibut (‘tis the season!). Look for it at your local craft brew retailer. R-And-B.com Opening soon in South Surrey…

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aestro gelatiere James Coleridge of Bella Gelateria has been voted best in North America, winning the Gelato World Tour North America competition with his protégé Salvatore Boccarossa.

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“I had great success in the past winning the 2012 Florence gelato festival using pecan, maple syrup and salt, so I decided to follow a similar strategy of combining sweetness with salt,” said James After researching and talking to local chefs and food experts in Texas, James found that the most popular desserts were peach cobbler and pecan.

Since the state lost their peach crop due to frost, he decided to focus on the pecan.

“We made the cherry sauce using the tart cherries and a touch of lemon for the acidity to give the flavour a lift, but the star of the show is the toasted pecans. The bouquet from the vanilla warms the palette and the pleasant salt taste wows you at the end.”

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Not all seeds are created equal, so which brand is reliable? Or how can we tell a good quality seed? There are a few companies that I trust to provide good seeds based on blogs I’ve read, trusted reviews and fellow gardeners, etc.

What tips do you have for I divvy up my seed order to try people with limited and support them all. gardening space? It’s Seed companies I trust not hard to reap a include The Cottage generous harvest from Gardener, Urban Hara sunny balcony or vest, Matchbox Garden tiny patio. You can & Seed Co., Renee’s grow fruits and veggies Garden and Cubit’s Orin containers or even ganics. But that is not a hanging baskets. If you by Mijune Pak complete list! have a small growing Do seeds expire? Seeds can area, use trellises or stakes to train lose their viability over time. It’s plants like peas, small squash and important to keep them in a cool, cucumbers to grow up rather than dry place in an airtight container. out. Look for patio varieties of The germination rate will decrease tomatoes that are smaller and more as the seeds get older and there is a compact plants. little test you can perform to check.

What are the most common That said, I have some tomatillo mistakes people make when they plants that I started this winter start gardening? I would say one from seeds that were at least seven mistake is not reading the plant tag. years old!

Different plants have different care requirements – light, water, fertilWhat fruits and vegetables izer, etc. Paying attention to those require a more professional or plant tags will help you nurture experienced gardener to take on? your plants throughout the season.

I suppose something like a fruit tree Also over- or under-watering could that requires more care might be limit a new gardener’s success. best left to a more experienced gar-

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Are there any vegetables or fruits just not suitable for urban gardening? I know mushrooms are very porous, so they are not recommended for urban gardening, but anything else? Also, sometimes vegetables grown on proper farmland from rural areas just tastes better, how come? I’m game to try anything, but I have not had success with corn –the rac-

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evelopers who want the City of Vancouver to change its controversial system of making developers pay fees to rezone properties for extra density are at odds with one of the city’s most prolific real estate marketers.

Rennie Marketing Systems owner Bob Rennie told an Urban Development Institute luncheon May 15 that he believes the city is justified in charging for granting additional density.

The city currently takes about 75 per cent of the value of any increase in land value after a rezoning provides for more density.

That levy, called a community amenity contribution (CAC), goes to fund social housing, arts and culture space, daycare centres and heritage restoration.

The city calls the contributions “voluntary” but that elicits laughs from developers who say projects don’t proceed if a developer refuses to pay CACs. Rennie said that if the city did not levy CACs, it would have to increase taxes.

“CACs for the last four years amounted to $339 million,” Rennie said.

“If there were no CACs for the last four years, and the community amenities were still created and the density was still granted, this would result in a tax increase of 6.78 per cent every year for the next ten years, or a one-year tax increase of 54.25 per cent. The choice would be, ‘Let’s not have the amenities,’ and I don’t want to see it pushed so far that something like that goes to a referendum.’”

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Carr also wants a plebiscite on whether

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Rennie pointed to California as an example of a place where property tax increases are severely limited thanks to state voters, in the 1970s, passing Proposition 13.

Developers have not yet agitated for a referendum on CAC levels but they have grumbled.

“They really want to extract big CACs when they rezone,” said Anthem Properties owner Eric Carlson.

“There are huge off-site construction costs such as exterior landscaping. In the old days, you provided asphalt, a curb, sidewalk and the building. Now, there are bioswales [fancy drainage systems that often involve mini-gardens] and little perimeter parks and things like that.”

Carlson is not opposed to the city wanting to improve infrastructure, but he believes it makes development in Vancouver more expensive than in other parts of the Lower Mainland.

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Reel People: Celluloid love

Gleeson anchors Canadian charmer

Inside the reel marriage of director Ben Ratner and actor Jennifer Spence

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hen Ben Ratner and Jennifer Spence arrive in the lounge of the Sylvia Hotel for their Reel People interview, he’s carrying a mint green suitcase and she’s clutching a bag of potato chips.

As soon as the interview is over, Spence – who’s played cyber specialist Betty on Continuum since the sci-fi procedural premiered in 2012 – will be on her way to Hope, where she’s filming a movie-of-the-week (hence the luggage and road-trip snack).

It’s only been a couple of days since Ratner returned from New York City, where Down River, the critically acclaimed feature film he wrote and directed, screened at the SOHO International Film Festival.

Such is life for one of the busiest couples in the biz: auditions, acting gigs, screenings, teaching, travel, and couple time.

But they’re making it work. For proof, one need look no further than the 2014 Leo Awards, which will be handed out this weekend: Ratner’s Down River received a whopping 13 nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenwriting, while Spence is nominated for supporting performances in Down River and Continuum.

Theirs was a relationship born in acting class. It was borderline scandalous, given that Ratner was the teacher and Spence the student (but they’re quick to point out that they didn’t get involved until after she’d left his class).

“In almost 20 years of teaching, I got involved with one

student, and I married her,” says Ratner, laughing.

Ratner was attracted to Spence’s pleasant disposition (“as my grandmother would say, she’s just very easy to like”), while Spence was drawn to Ratner’s openness and worldview. They met in 2009, and married in 2011.

Fast-forward a couple of years to 2013, when cameras rolled on Down River. The drama was inspired by the death of Babz Chula, legendary actress and Ratner’s longtime friend.

Down River’s cast included Gabrielle Miller, Colleen Rennison, Helen Shaver, Ali Liebert – and Spence, as quirky artist Aki. The 16-day shoot didn’t leave much breathing room. When exhaustion nearly knocked Ratner off his feet, Spence was there to steady him. “The whole time, we had each other’s back, and I’ve never had that experience on set where you have somebody you can be that intimate with,” says Ratner.

While Ratner knew what to say to get the performances he needed out of all of his actors, his abilities were heightened when it came to his wife. “I’d ask certain questions and just roll camera and get things to a certain stage, and that was a luxury,” he says.

Spence savoured the opportunity to observe her husband in the director’s chair. “There’s still something about watching him work, and watching him interact with people where it’s just like, ‘wow, he’s really something special, and he really gets it,’” says Spence.

Down River – which premiered at the 2013 Vancouver International

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Ben Ratner directed his wife Jennifer Spence in his film Down River, which has been nominated for 13 Leo Awards.

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“We sit in theatres everywhere we’ve been and we’ve seen that it hits people,” says Ratner.

It’s a journey that Ratner and Spence are enjoying together, even if they’re not always in the same city at the same time.

“In our profession, there’s challenges, and with our personalities, there’s challenges, and it’s

not always smooth, but the most important thing in a marriage as far as I can tell is that, if me and Jen, if we could pick one person to go the movies with, it would be each other,” says Ratner.

“We’re each other’s favourite people,” adds Spence.

Leo Awards weekend is here! For the first time in its history, a record 102 Leos will be handed out over three nights — and Sabrina will be present for all of it. Keep an eye on @sabrinarmf and @wevancouver and WEVancouver.com for red carpet pics, real-time results, and exclusive interviews.

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irector Don McKellar showcases the pastoral charms of Canada’s eastern coast in the crowd-pleasing comedy The Grand Seduction. Set in the tiny and financially ailing fishing village of Tickle Cove, Newfoundland, longtime resident Murray French (Gleeson) leads the charge to seduce a young Dr. Lewis (Kitsch) to become a permanent resident in the town so it can land the contract for a new factory and save the community from economic ruin. The cosmopolitan Dr. Lewis, who spends most of his days giving Californians plastic surgery, is initially dismissive of Tickle Cove’s pleasantries but romance soon blossoms for the big city boy as he begins to welcome the change of pace.

The film also stars familiar Canadian faces like veteran Gordon Pinsent as a grizzled homebody and This Hour Has 22 Minutes alum Mary Walsh. Gleeson brings panache to an amusing script from Michael Dowse and Ken Scott, even though some of the jokes fall flat.

It’s also refreshing to see Kelowna’s own Kitsch in quieter role after such box office bombs as John Carter, Battleship and Savages. The Grand Seduction is unavoidably saccharine at times but the sentimentality is forgiven thanks to stunning cinematography from Douglas Koch, which highlights the majestic beauty of the region’s unique landscapes beautifully. Credit should be given to the movie’s writers for crafting such likeable characters and for McKellar’s keen direction, which balances the material’s folksy lore with real world problems. Despite flaws, the film works mainly due to Gleeson’s magnetic charisma and Kitsch’s likeability.

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(Jennifer Lawrence) from putting cataclysmic events into motion. To accomplish this, he must convince adversaries Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to temporarily put aside their differences.

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LOUD Foundation Scholarship winners Ben Choquette, Jillian Wedel and Daniel Elleker attend the awards luncheon at the Listel Hotel. Gail Nugent photo

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Four worthy recipients – Jillian Wedel, Daniel Elleker, Ben Choquette and Aysia Law – were chosen by the selection committee, made up of notable members of the Vancouver community, after a record number of applications from across the province.

“The LOUD Foundation invests in future leaders of the Canadian LGBTQ community,” said Isabelle Swiderski, co-chair of LOUD Business and the LOUD Foundation.

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Sculptor explores the art of dialogue Marie Khouri’s installation at Equinox Gallery invites people to sit and talk

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et’s sit and talk.

You’ve just read that sentence on either a flat page of newsprint or a digital screen.

Imagine taking each letter in those four words and turning it into a three-dimensional sculpture that is not only a beautiful piece of art but also works as a bench where you can sit and, yes, talk. Now think of those words in context of what they mean – an invitation, human interaction, connection.

But to fully grasp the complexity of the Let’s Sit and Talk exhibit at Equinox Gallery, you also need to know a little more about the artist who transformed these four words, in Arabic, into a hugely compelling, aesthetically graceful, eminently functional sculpture installation.

Marie Khouri was born in Egypt, grew up in Lebanon, fled to Canada at the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war (during which her father was assassinated), moved to Paris, married, had three children and then settled, as a family, in Vancouver eight years ago. The simplicity of that sentence belies the ocean of experiences contained in the life of anyone whose story begins “I grew up in Lebanon…”.

“The Middle East is a place where there’s a permanent conflict,” Khouri says a couple of weeks before the exhibit’s June 7 opening. “Lebanon, since the beginning of time, is a war zone. I wanted to embrace this part of the Middle East but do it on my own terms, in a beautiful way.”

She wants to take that history of destruction and bloodshed and, through the simple act of being invited to sit down and talk, reconstruct and rebuild relationships.

Khouri’s professional background is in business and finance. She speaks five languages but says it’s only when she started to sculpt, at

Vancouver artist Marie Khouri’s deeply personal sculpture installation, Let’s Sit and Talk, is at Equinox Gallery June 7 to July 5. Rob Newell photo the age of 36, that she found her true voice.

“When I touched clay I was able to say things in another way. It just has a depth… It’s more internal, like a therapy. It was opening gates that I’d closed in life. Sculpting is if I couldn’t lie to myself any more.”

Those gates were a protection, a way of shutting out some of the more painful parts of the past.

And yet in that life there has also been beauty, love, understanding and hard-earned wisdom. She needs her sculptures to convey that, too, and she was drawn to the concept of art not simply as something we simply observe but something that plays a tangible role in our lives — a vessel, a chair, a ring.

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She designed the individual pieces of the sculpture first as maquettes small enough to gently cup in the palm of her hand. In each sculpture’s shape you can follow the curvature of her palm and fingers and feel the imprint of a thumb.

Each letter had to remain true to itself so that, when seen from above, you can “read” the sculpture. But she didn’t simply want to create a letter, lay it on its back and use it as a bench. Her letters have no flat surfaces and their undulating, shapeshifting surfaces evoke comparisons with Henry Moore.

Our alphabet can have a lot of hard lines: A, F, T, Z. The letters are a means to an end: functional, practi-

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cal, to the point. Arabic lettering has a rhythm and flow, with intricate designs based on whether the letter is at the beginning or end of the word.

“Middle East artists and architects have this ability to work with curves and I wonder if it doesn’t come from the Arabic alphabet,” Khouri muses.

To make the full-size sculptures, she developed a new technique not used by anyone else. Instead of working with cement, which is porous and heavy, she took large pieces of condensed relative of Styrofoam and started carving. The tactile nature of the work touched her soul.

“When you spend 10 hours a day carving those letters, you’re physically on top of the pieces, inside the pieces, and it’s as if it becomes a part of me…”.

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slowly revealing letters that had so much personal resonance emerge, her own feelings about her past were also drawn out. “With age we become more in touch with our origins, what built us, what’s remained in there,” she says. “I became very nostalgic, very emotional. This is when I realized I was doing something big.”

The individual sculptures, which are light enough to slide into position and are beautiful in their own right, fit into each other like a maze of bleached bones, washed onto the gallery floor by some giant, unseen wave. The project took six months and Khouri couldn’t have done it without a team of fellow artists who helped her with the endless task of sanding and coating the sculptures in a durable, water-resistant finish that she compares to “a talc powder feel.” She also needed the invitation of Equinox Gallery owner Andy Sylvester to make such a project even seem feasible.

When the exhibit opens it will be the first time she’s seen the sculptures in their entirety — she was still carving two letters in the final weeks leading up to the show. She will do five sets; each collector will have one letter plus a maquette of all the pieces. One set will be kept as the full sentence.

Khouri rubs her hand along one of the pieces, feeling the connection to the words and the art itself.

“Regardless of what we go through, life is beautiful…. The pain, the sorrow, the difficulties — everything has made me who I am.

To me, beauty is important. It’s what prevails.”

Let’s Sit and Talk is at Equinox Gallery (525 Great Northern Way), along with sculptures by Dempsey Bob, from June 7 to July 15. The artists’ reception is June 7 from 2 to 4 pm.

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ith more than 50 bands, 40 food trucks, and 10 closed city blocks, the 2014 edition of the Khatsahlano Block Party could be one of the best festivals in Vancouver this summer.

Festival organizers announced the lineup last week, with music curated by Zulu Records including The Poppy Family Experience, The Evaporators, Nu Sensae, Humans, and Jay Arner, among dozens more.

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For the first time, the festival will host outdoor beer gardens at three locations around the festival, but also promises to be kid-friendly and offer something for everybody.

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very day 72-year-old Gary Malo walks into his favourite thrift shop and looks around to see if anything catches his eye. He’s looking for Buddha statues.

“I like Buddha statues, that’s what I look for first,” he said. “They only come in once in a while.”

But the main reason why he goes to the store every day is because of the people who work there. “They find my inner soul,” he said, chuckling.

Clothes and Collectibles first opened 14 years ago and has been providing the West End community with affordable and unique items ever since. All of its proceeds go toward the West End Senior’s Network, which runs programs including at-home care, support for LGBT seniors and language classes.

Clothes and Collectibles is run by three managers and about 20 volunteers. It accepts donations, which works well because of the neighbourhood. Many West End residents are mobile, according to store manager Darlene Dranfield. When they move apartments, they often give items that don’t fit in their new home to Clothes and Collectibles. Dranfield also cites rising rent as a cause of downsizing, which tends to result in donations to the thrift store.

“Ninety-nine percent of our stuff is from local people, mobile families, and through family members passing on,” said Dranfield.

Veronica Cranstonsmith visits the store at least once a day whether she needs to buy something or not. “I need the exercise, otherwise my knees will lock up. I’ve got terrible

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arthritis,” she said. Like many seniors, she enjoys the social aspect of going out to shop.

“I always enjoy going to the mall because I’ve met so many of my friends there, and so many of them are at the store.”

The thrift store makes sense to her from a practical standpoint, too. She explained that she can afford to not try the clothes on — if she doesn’t like it she can simply donate it back to the store.

Besides the exercise and practicality of Clothes and Collectibles, Cranstonsmith has a soft spot for the store. “I try to support them as much as possible. The store does a very good job of greeting everyone and making them feel good. Quite often it’s jammed with people because it’s social exercise for them,” said the 83-year-old pancreatic cancer survivor. For seniors who may live alone and have limited mobility, socializing with others is extremely important, according to Dranfield.

“Part of the philosophy of the store is that yes we are a business and we’re trying to make money to support our seniors. But we’re also a support system for the community. We have people who come in just to have a chat. We have people who come in for a hug. They get a smile. We remember their names. We remember their children,” Dranfield said.

Dranfield noted amazing items have been brought in including hundred year old dish sets from France and penny banks from American banks in the early 1920s. The penny banks are worth thousands of dollars now, according to Dranfield.

For Malo, the store is full of unexpected treasures.

“I like surprises,” he said. “You never know what you’re going to find.”

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pen in slow-motion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier.

Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the earth’s surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): I suspect that some night

soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand on stage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There’s a strong possibility you will be wearing pink and green striped socks and a gold crown.

And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd.

Your mouth will be moving but no words will come out.

So that’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you’ve got and make a splashy impression, you will be well-prepared.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that’s rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cowpie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I’m guessing you’re going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing. In the process, you are preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won’t be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “Dear Diary: Almost everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating.

Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chip-chip-chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud? Why is it I’m not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders? Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defenses were totally stripped away? I think I’ll go with that theory.”

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): About 32,000 years ago,

squirrels in northeast Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got a hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): For German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favorable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): “I should have kissed you longer.” I hope you won’t be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now. I hope you won’t be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like “I should have treated you better” or “I wish I would have listened to you deeper” or “I should have tried harder to be my best self with you.”

Please don’t let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so, you will be free of regrets later. that? Desire, what is that?” Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her poem “Prism.” Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That’s what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner’s mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): You could really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic – someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance, and correct your mistakes.

Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that? Ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body. One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is, will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Now would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with your existing methods. It’s just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment. What’s the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done? What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

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Hard to think it, but this vehicle is actually a member of an endangered breed. Just like the colossal station wagons of yore, the humble minivan is now somewhat under threat, outcompeted by legions of crossovers.

Part of the deal is the whole “mom” vibe that a van projects. It’s a device for hauling around the soccer team, and as such, it doesn’t get a lot of respect.

Well that’s a darn shame. Minivans are some of the nicestriding, most feature-packed machines on the road, and they’re absolutely the ideal road trip companion. Load it up with pretty much anything your can think of – the kitchen sink? Why not? – and hit the open highway.

A perennial favourite, the Honda Odyssey has always been a nice safe choice for a growing family that doesn’t subscribe to the idea that their family hauler need pretend to be a rugged SUV. Refreshed for 2014, it now includes a world-first feature: a built-in onboard vacuum cleaner.

I guess you could say that particular part of this van really sucks. So how’s the rest of it?

Design:

There’s not much you can do, styling-wise, with what’s essentially a box on wheels, but to their credit, Honda’s at least made an attempt. Up front, there’s a new grille, hood and fenders.

Thankfully, in an industry strangely obsessed with making their next generation of cars more aggressive, the Odyssey is still a friendly-faced machine, and quite reserved. From the side, the dominant feature is the chrome-surrounded greenhouse that looks like a fat lightning bolt, if we’re being charitable, or like the designer had hiccups, if we’re not.

Touring-class Odysseys get 18” alloy wheels in a machinedlook finish that seem at balance with the immense amount of sheet metal here. The overall appeal of the car is a sort of utilitarian anonymity, even with the extra chrome of the Touring edition – this isn’t a show-off car.

Environment:

Inside, of course, is where the action is. With a simply tremendous amount of seating and tonnes of cargo room, the Odyssey has space to spare. Anyone also looking at a

Stacking it up against the major competitors, the Odyssey doesn’t have the second-row flexibility of the Dodge Caravan, with its stow and go seating, and the Sienna’s larger rear seats are better suited to longer-legged passengers. The Odyssey provides plenty of comfort, especially for little kids, but removing the second row of seats for the annual garage clear out is a bit of a pain. Maybe we’ll clean the place out next year.

However, with three-zone climate control and full leather seating, the Odyssey is easy-to-clean comfort for up to eight. The rear seats flip away to form an entirely flat loading area, or leave them up and load up the deep trunk.

Up front, the driver and passenger now have a cleaner interface system to deal with, with a new touchscreen handling most of audio functions. Fit and finish are very good, although the use of plastics is not quite up to the near-luxury feel you’re starting to get with some modern crossovers. It would also be nice to see a practical innovation here like the Highlander’s mid-level dashboard shelf.

I’d also like to see far more USB power outlets, not just the one used for connecting to an iPod, but several more out back to charge mobile devices for the kids.

Performance:

With a six-speed automatic transmission and a 248hp 3.5L V6 standard on all Odysseys, Honda’s minivan is about as fast as it needs to be. Interestingly, they’ve programmed the throttle to be very progressive, which makes it easy to get off the line without spilling sippy cups and snapping little necks.

If you floor it, the six-speed auto downshifts and the V6 provides enough thrust to get out of the way or make a tricky merge, but the overall driving experience is far more relaxed. Coming off the line almost feels like setting sail, with the Odyssey gliding up to speed.

It’s a different sort of driving. On a winding country road, the concern is not so much about gripping the curves with maximum gs, as it is not making anyone carsick.

To that end, body roll is relatively controlled in the Odyssey, and it’s easy to set up a smooth rhythm, not slow-pokin’, not hustlin’, but a justright cruising speed. It’s a bit like being the captain of a comfortable cruise-liner.

On the highway, the lack of radarguided cruise-control is missed, and an overactive lane-departure-warning system is a bit annoying (you can turn it off). Other than that, this is what the Odyssey seems born to do: middle-lane cruising, eating up the miles.

It might be good at the short-run school/soccer/music-class excursions, but it’s also an ideal vehicle for long-distance touring. You might not get your thrills behind the wheel, but everybody can share in the great view out the windows.

Features:

At the Touring-level, the Odyssey is crammed with everything from Satellite Navigation to 12-speaker audio, to a push-button smart key, to the aforementioned touchscreen interface system. Honda calls this last HondaLink, and it’s straightforward to use. There’s also a gargantuan 16.2”-wide screen out back to pacify rear passengers.

Safety ratings for the Odyssey are excellent – the IIHS has awarded it the highest possible rating. There’s a blind-spot monitoring system, and a multiple-angle rearview camera to make parking easier.

Fuel economy is quite good, considering the sheer weight of the van, thanks in part to cylinder-deactivation when cruising. Official ratings are 10.9L/100kms in the city and 7.1L/100kms on the highway. Especially when loaded up with kids, expect 10-20% worse than that in city conditions, but it is possible to dip into the 7s on the highway.

Green Light:

Smooth powertrain; composed ride; oodles of space

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Public transportation should be top priority. I am a car driver, but I would gladly be inconvenienced by more bus lanes, not bike lanes. It seems bike riders are allowed to practice anarchy. Most do not yield to pedestrians like motor vehicles must. It is estimated that over 100 collisions a year happen between bikes and pedestrians at the English Bay crossing.

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Tania Palm: Thank you for sharing this difficult time with us. To come to terms with a difficult loss I cannot imagine. You are a strong person for sharing this with people. I cannot imagine or understand your grief.

We nearly lost our son at 25 weeks into my first and only pregnancy. I am only a small person. After finding out I was pregnant we were told I should not be having children and this would be difficult. Finally after a very difficult pregnancy, we had our son three weeks early by C-section under general anaesthetic due to complications.

Then after his birth, we were told my worst fears. I would not be able to have any more children. Although this is no where near the same as a miscarriage, I felt for a long time that I had failed as a woman to be able to carry a child. To have that choice taken from me was difficult to come to terms with.

As our son has grown, I have held him close, savoured every moment, for he is a gift that I may not have had.

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Kids and the outdoors – It’s a natural fit!

According to Robert Bateman – the iconic Canadian naturalist and artist dedicated to reconnecting children to nature – we live in a society where youth recognize 1,200 corporate logos but fewer than 12 species of wildlife found in their communities. A multitude of similar research findings in recent years have often pointed to the same distressing conclusion: kids are losing their connection to nature and becoming increasingly sedentary.

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Less outdoor time for our kids poses a threat not only to our environment: their physical and psychological health is being jeopardized by this lack of connection to nature, as active play in the woods or a nearby park is increasingly supplanted by more sedentary, indoor activities. Research released by Active Healthy Kids Canada found that the average Canadian child spends over six hours each day in front of a television or computer screen. Partly as a result of this shift toward more sedentary activities, childhood obesity is on the rise in Canada, and only 12% of Canadian kids get their recommended 90 minutes of physical activity per day. Research also finds that time spent outdoors can help alleviate symptoms of attention disorders such as attention deficit disorder.

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Meet a tree: This game can be played with as few as two people and you can play it anywhere that trees are found. A forest is best, but any park will do. One partner is blindfolded and the other is the guide. The guide leads the blindfolded partner through the woods on a convoluted route to a tree of their choice. The blindfolded partner then gets to know their tree, by touching as much of it as they can, smelling it, hugging it, feeling little undergrowth around it. After another convoluted walk back to the starting point, the blindfolded partner is free to look around and must locate their tree.

Explore tide pools: There are few things more intriguing than the world beneath the sea. Greater Vancouver is scattered with great beaches, many of which have tide pools - little windows into the undersea world. Take a mask or a pair of goggles and head to your nearest tide pool to discover a strange new world.

Grow your own sprouts: The way that we connect with nature the most in our daily lives is through the food we eat. Sadly, we are losing a lot of connection to our food as it is often mass-produced and imported from afar. When we have to grow, tend and harvest our own food, our connection to it increases significan tly. Growing your own sprouts is easy - no soil or garden required! Grow them on your countertop using a jar. For step-by-step instructions visit www.funsociety.ca/sprouts Maia Green is the founder and Executive Director of FUN Society, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to reconnecting children with nature and saving the world through fun. For information on their summer camps visit www.funcamps.ca

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