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IF YOU GO LOOKING FOR A FIGHT, YOU JUST MIGHT FND ONE

It really amazes me how some people are quick to insult strangers that they pass by on sidewalks or in other public places, but those same foul mouthed bigoted bullies never take so much as a single minute to evaluate those whom they insult with their words and even consider the

possible repercussions that might occur.

I’m talking to you, the drunken POS who staggered home on Friday night, on Davie Street between Richards and Homer and who called me a “f--king fatso” as I walked home wearing my favourite 2009 World Police and Fire Games red hockey jersey with an aboriginal symbol on the front.

For one thing, you don’t know me nor do you know whom my friends and associates are or whether or not you might see me again someday soon and what could happen when we do meet again.

What’s really lucky for you is that I have worked very hard to live as an outstanding citizen, earning the respect and admiration of many of the Vancou-

ver’s finest police and fire fighters, provincial elected MLAs and federal MPs, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (who even sends me personally signed birthday cards) as well as winning awards and recognition for my service to the community.

I’m not about to toss all that away on a POS like you, but one of these days you might open your mouth to let some nasty words come out, only to get a fist shoved down as deep is it will go. You could be on the receiving end when somebody with a very bad attitude and no respect for the law or human life whips out a gun and turns you into another news story and a cadaver for medical students to dissect and examine.

So, let this be a lesson to you to choose your battles and even your words very carefully in this Olympic world class city which also has a very dark and dangerous side lurking below the polished surface because those nasty words you toss at other people could be your last.

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VPD looks to nasal spray to save drug overdose victims

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For six years now, the 220 officers working out of a small police department in a suburb of Boston have been doing something that Vancouver police officers may one day be trained to do: use a life-saving nasal spray medication on drug overdose victims.

The Quincy Police Department was the first department in the United States to begin using the nasal spray form of naloxone, and it has seen a dramatic drop in the number of drug overdose deaths in the city of 100,000.

Officers responded to 673 overdoses since the program’s inception in October 2010 and reversed the effects of an overdose on 448 people, said Det.-Lt. Patrick Glynn, who oversees Quincy’s narcotics and special investigations units.

“The correlation between administering it as soon as we’re on scene and the success rate is very good,” said Glynn, noting the officers’ use of naloxone helped reduce the drug death rate by 66 per cent in the program’s first year. “There

were a lot of people who didn’t think police officers should be carrying or administering a medication. But once they saw the value of it… well, the numbers speak for themselves.”

The department pioneered the program with the support of the Department of Public Health to combat the growing number of overdose drug deaths in Quincy. News of the program’s success quickly spread, and now several police departments across America are equipped with the medication.

Naloxone, also referred by its brand name Narcan, quickly reverses the effects of opiods such as heroin and fentanyl on the body by restoring breathing within two to three minutes.

The effects last for at least 30 minutes, giving time for emergency responders to arrive.

The medication and its use is making news in Vancouver after the provincial government announced Jan. 28 that firefighters in Vancouver and Surrey can administer naloxone with a syringe.The government also expanded the number of paramedics certified to use the medication.

That announcement came

after the BC Coroners Service released a report in January showing 465 people died in BC last year of an apparent illicit drug overdose.That’s an increase of 27 per cent from the 366 people who died in 2014.The VPD announced last Friday that officers investigated 11 deaths in the past 16 days believed to be a result of a drug overdose.Typically, two to three people per week die of drug overdoses in Vancouver, according to police.

Police Chief Adam Palmer said he believes in the benefits of police using naloxone to reduce drug deaths. But, Palmer said, he will not allow his officers to administer the medication with a syringe. He prefers the nasal spray, saying it’s more “low risk” for officers.

“I don’t want the officers having to inject needles into people but we’re definitely interested in some sort of a nasal spray that they have in the American police departments,” said Palmer, noting he made his intentions known to Vancouver Coastal Health, which has offered to train officers if the spray is approved in Canada. “It makes sense.”

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The problem, however, is no drug company has applied to Health Canada to have the nasal spray approved in this country, said Sean Upton, a spokesperson at Health Canada. But Upton pointed out Health Canada has received inquiries from manufacturers interested in bringing “different formulations” of naloxone to the Canadian market.

“Some manufacturers have indicated that an application may be submitted in the near future,” he said. “In the meantime, Health Canada continues to provide advice to inquiring manufacturers in order to support future drug submissions.”

Upton said Health Canada is concerned about the growing number of opiod overdoses and deaths across the country, noting the department amended the prescription drug list in January to allow non-prescription use of naloxone for emergency use outside hospitals.The new regulation builds on the BC Centre for Disease Control’s “Take home naloxone” program, which trains people to administer the medication, including more than 100 members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.

Mayor Gregor Robertson, who doubles as chairperson of the Vancouver Police Board, said he supports Palmer’s push to have officers carry the nasal spray. He said he will follow up with the health authority to emphasize the need for the service.

“We want to see this happen but obviously it’s up to the health professionals to determine what’s appropriate,” Robertson said.

Vancouver Coastal Health reiterated its support for police to use the nasal spray form of naloxone but said it is not as effective as injected naloxone.

Capt. Jonathan Gormick, spokesperson for VancouverFire Rescue, said about 70 firefighters in four of the city’s fire halls will be the first to receive training on how to administer naloxone.That training should be completed by mid-February, although Gormick said the long-term goal is to have all firefighters certified on how to administer naloxone, which involves drawing the medication from a vial into a syringe.

“It’s a great step forward – it’s awesome,” said Gormick, noting the department responded to more than 2,600 calls last year where someone had gone unconscious after using drugs or alcohol, or a combination of both. “There’s been a general feeling of helplessness when firefighters show up at what’s obviously an opiate overdose and there’s not much we can do besides provide respiratory support.” W –Courtesy ofVancouver Courier

Vancouver homes aren’t worth nearly as much as the dirt beneath them. Grant Lawrence photo

The dirty truth about Vancouver real estate Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

If you’re new to Vancouver, you’ve probably figured out that we love to obsess over two things: rain and real estate. Both subjects tend to drive us crazy, because we can’t really control either one: our rain will fall, and our real estate will rise.

Recently, there’s been a frenzy of conjecture, lament, and flat-out doomsday panic over rising property values in Vancouver, mostly spurred by the recently released Property Assessment Notices, which confirm that over 90 per cent of “single-family homes” in our city are worth more than $1 million.

Vancouver’s ever-growing real estate market was recently the subject of ridicule (again) when a dilapidated, rotting, 86-year-old Point Grey home was listed at $2.4 million.The post went viral, but almost all of the outrage completely missed the point of the price.

The crappy old house doesn’t matter one rotten shingle. It’s the dirt the rotting wood is sitting on that’s worth millions. That simple, soiled fact is what so many people, both within Vancouver and beyond, have such a hard time wrapping their heads around.

The clear and present outrage declaring our 2016 real estate prices out of control and killing this city is omnipresent, but here’s the thing: that same complaint, that same outrage, has crested over three different centuries in this city. Nothing has changed sinceVancouver was incorporated back in 1886.

In our first year, a downtown lot was selling for roughly $400, which received outcries of price gouging, but hey, the railway was coming! In 1891, the same lot was selling for roughly $1,000. By the turn of the 20th century, that same downtown lot was selling for $4,000.The value of the land was doubling roughly every five to 10 years, and it’s never stopped.

Don’t believe me? Ask my dear old dad. He’s an independent land developer who has studied Vancouver property value in staggering depth. His office looks like Carri Matheson’s living room in Homeland. Like Hong Kong, Manhattan, San Francisco, Sydney, or many other cities completely or partially surrounded by water, Vancouver’s dirt is oh-so-limited. Like Manhattan or San Francisco, but unlike, say, Winnipeg, the city of Vancouver does not have endless land on which to build houses, bordered by Burrard Inlet to the north, the Fraser River to the south, and the Strait of Georgia to the west. What you see is what you get. That’s why, when we find a pocket of land (like say the filthy but precious strip of dirt beneath the soon-to-be-removed Georgia Viaduct), it’s a pot of gold, and very contentious. Another reason for the value is obvious: Vancouver is one of the most beautiful and livable cities on the planet. People want to live here and get pissed off when they can’t. Facebook is full of this. Foreign investors arrive (be they from Scotland in the 1890s or China in the 1980s), and help create fierce competition for our scarcest commodity.

Check for yourself: if you or anyone you know owns a “single-family home” inVancouver, you’ll note with eye-popping clarity that your land value is indeed doubling on average every five years (that’s the land, not the buildings).

Here’s the dirty truth: our ever-rising land values have nothing to do with the current record low interest rates, greedy real estate agents, or off-shore investors.The demand forVancouver land has always been here, in one form or another, and it’s not going away.

The trick to Vancouver real estate is to simply get your foot in the door: if you can, start small with a condo, build up your equity over years, and climb the real estate ladder. That’s the real dirt about this beautiful, rainy, real estate-crazed city we call home. W

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It’s time to protect the Great Bear Rainforest’s grizzlies David Suzuki Science Matters

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The agreement between government, industry, First Nations and environmental groups to protect much of the Great Bear Rainforest should be celebrated.

The deal makes almost 85 per cent of the forested land base in this massive region on BC’s coast off limits to logging. Forestry in the remaining 15 per cent will follow “lighter-touch” practices, called “ecosystembased management”. Most importantly, First Nations will have greater decisionmaking authority over industrial development on their lands.

However, while the agreement helps protect grizzly bear and other wildlife habitat, it doesn’t protect the bears themselves, contrary to BC Premier Christy Clark’s claims at a news conference. Hunting grizzly and black bears in the Great Bear remains legal.

The agreement actually contains no reference to grizzly hunting. To slow the hunt, First Nations and others must pony up millions of dollars to buy out existing guide outfitting territories open to foreign big-game hunters. Trophy hunting by BC residents – governed under a different process – will proceed regardless of whether First Nations and their allies purchase and retire foreign hunting quotas.

Had the government been serious about ending the barbaric hunt, it could have banned it outright under the province’s Wildlife Act, or simply ended the open season on grizzlies in the Great Bear, as was done by earlier governments to protect the area’s Kermode “spirit bears”. (Only bears with white fur are protected, even though bears with black coats can carry the spirit bear gene.) Despite the spin, the BC government has never recognized the Coastal First Nations ban on trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Seeing grizzlies feeding on salmon as the fish make their way up the coastal streams and rivers of BC and Alaska is magnificent.

These large brown bears with their characteristic hump and silver-tipped fur scoop salmon from the river in an age-old interplay between ocean, river, fish, bear, bird and forest.

The salmon bring nutrients from the ocean. The bears eat salmon and drag the carcasses into the forest, providing food for other animals, like eagles, and fertilizer for the massive

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rainforest trees.

First Nations-owned and operated bear-viewing operations are booming in the Great Bear Rainforest, creating jobs and revenue.

The trophy hunt threatens these sustainable businesses.

The grizzly bear trophy hunt is a sport like dogfighting, cockfighting and bullfighting are sports – maybe worse. Bears that people come to see and photograph can be legally shot by trophy hunters, armed with highpowered rifles and scopes.

That the BC government

allows it to continue in the face of opposition from First Nations and a huge majority of British Columbians for the sake of profit is disgusting.

I’m not against hunting – and many who oppose the trophy hunt agree that sustainable hunting can be a good way to put food on the table. But shooting an animal – often on its way to feed and thus an easy target – just to hang its head on the wall or put its skin on the floor is not hunting. It’s killing for pleasure.

Government justifies allowing this practice by arguing the hunt is wellmanaged and that grizzlies are plentiful, with only a small number killed each year by hunters. Even if that were true – which it’s not – it’s a poor excuse for an inhumane practice.

Studies confirm earlier research by the David Suzuki Foundation showing the hunt is not sustainable.

A peer-reviewed report by Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and Raincoast Conservation

Foundation scientists in the journal PLOS ONE analyzed the provincial government’s own data and concluded too many grizzlies are being killed in BC They found overkilling of grizzly bears by humans is common and that annual hunting mortality limits set by government are too risky.

Grizzlies reproduce slowly, generally having one or two cubs every three or more years. They also face threats from habitat loss, damage and fragmentation; cascading effects of

salmon collapse and climate change; and death from poaching, vehicle and train collisions and the inevitable adverse impacts of careless human behaviour. Grizzlies have already been eliminated or are currently threatened in 18 per cent of the province, including the Lower Mainland and most of the Interior.

It’s time to stop killing bears for trophies. W David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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Yared Nigussu paints streetscapes and portraits inspired by the city. Dan Toulgoet photo

Home is Where the Art is: Yared Nigussu Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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From the first moment you meetYared Nigussu, you feel the love for what he does; his passion for life and for art is palpable and it is the perfect introduction to the emotion you find within his work.

Yared came to Vancouver to further his career a few years ago by way of France and Ethiopia; he chose the North American urban scene to call his home and inspiration in lieu of the formal traditions of the European art world.

He craved the craziness that the underground art scenes of large cities like NewYork embraced; apparent in the stunning cityscapes he creates, Yared loves the city. He is inspired by the people and strives to give back through his art. Portraiture is also a strong focus forYared, through which he finds an outlet to express not only beauty, but also social issues like money and immigration.

Always looking forward, Yared’s creative philosophy is about provoking appreciation for the beauty in the little things, and views this to be the only way to positively influence the bigger picture.

“You must make space for positivity in order to be able to notice it,” he explains, and shares his day to day personal goals and reflections of, “What did I do beautiful today?”

Yared is currently preparing for an exhibition this coming May at the Kurbatoff Gallery on South Granville. Until then, you can find him in his studio at 2414 Main, or in one of the many inspirational cafés our creative community flocks to.

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Tell us a little about yourself.

My name isYared Nigussu and I am a visual artist. I was born and raised in Ethiopia, earning my degree in art education in 2005. Later I received a scholarship to further my art training in France. After moving to Canada, my career became established and I began exhibiting both locally and internationally. I also won the Canadian Art Battle live competition three years running, from 2012 to 2014.

How did you get started in painting and what led you to where you are now?

Art was my one and the only dream since I was little. It came naturally; no one pushed me toward it or brought the idea of art to me, no one took me to the museum. Even when I was a very little I was attracted by the huge public art displays in the city where I grew up. Most of them were communist propaganda kind of paintings; at that time Ethiopia was a communist country and wherever you went you would see the Marxist and Leninist paintings or sculptures in the main squares.That was a huge influence in my artistic choice and, also, the life of an artists always seems charming and mysterious, so that was another reason for me to follow my path.

Do you have a Vancouver muse? Or a favourite place in or around the city that inspires you?

I am quite new to Vancouver, but in this short time I have met a lot of very interesting people, one of whom being David Suzuki. He is not only a genius but also very kind person. He is my Vancouver muse!

Who is your idol or mentor?

I like the work of Jenny Seville and Amedeo Modigliani.

Finish this sentence: my day is not complete without…

Laughing.

Is there a song or a musician that inspires you to create?

In my studio I like to listen to Tricky, Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation.

Douglas Coupland recently said “a city without strong consistent arts funding is basically a parking lot” when discussing Vancouver’s vast art community. How do you feel about this and how do you think Vancouver compares to other cities in Canada?

I agree with Douglas Coupland. Every city has to give attention for any kind of artistic activities and fund it’s artists to be more creative. Art is hope. Art is the way to show one’s civilization. It shows the collective thinking of the community; artists are the voice and we see the thinking out loud of the city through her art.

Do you have a favourite creative space?

Cafés are my favourite creative spaces. I am not saying the franchised versions, but the small very personalized cafés of the town.There is always some sort of beauty in the café.That’s where ideas are born and I will run to my studio to work.

Artistically, what is your favourite part of the city?

I am fan of Main Street, especially the neighbourhood around Main and 8th where my studio is. Also Granville Island gives me a sense of calm and space to think. W

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Rodin Olio Lusso face oil ($210) available at Holt Renfrew and LYNNSteven, is a much buzzed-about beauty product, concocted with 11 essential oils derived from flowers and other botanicals. This is one gift she is sure to love.

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horseshoe ring from Vancouver’s Poppy Finch ($265) at PoppyFinch.com.

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According to history books, Valentine’s Day was initially associated with romantic love in the Middle Ages, and, by the 18th-century England, evolved into what we know today – exchanges of gifts and cards. In other words, the practice has been around long enough that it’s not going anywhere, so deal with it. Here are a few local finds to help get through this Valentine’s Day with kisses and smiles instead of silent scorn.

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It might not seem like the sexiest gift, but nothing gets as much love as a favourite mug. The charming pastel mugs from Vancouver’s Maggie Boyd Ceramics ($38) available at Charlie & Lee in Chinatown, are the perfect functional keepsake.

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A beautiful, sophisticated 1970s-inspired boho dress from the newly released Olivia Palermo + Chelsea28 line at Nordstrom ($188) will definitely light up her eyes.

Give the gift of protection – and style – with the Blee Inara Enamel Hamsa chain necklace, find a similarly dark pink one on sale at Charlie & Lee for $25 (down from $45).

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Give her the time of day, all day, every day with the Rosefield Bowery watch in soft pink ($130) at Woo To See You in Yaletown.

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Savour the sweet smell of falling in love at the beach with the Brooklynbased MCMC Fragrances.

‘Maine’ is inspired by a day spent on the island of North Haven off the coast of Maine and features Bulgarian rose absolute, local clary sage, wild Somalian myrrh, and French seaweed, on sale at LYNNSteven for $50, (down from $95). W

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Valen-Dine à deux – or not Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday Ah, Valentine’s Day. Its rather bloody and “hearty” early history has been overshadowed in the last two centuries by confetti, chocolate and flowers galore. In case you’ve been living under a rock, that ever-growing rumbling of cooing and fluttering you hear is the approach of the most dove-filled day of the year. And, whether you’re gritting your teeth or trembling in anticipatory delight, there are oodles of places where you can dine amongst the other lovebirds or ignore them altogether – with or without your kids.

HOMEWARD BOUND

Suitable for: Homebodies, the shy, the tired and general all-round slackers.

If the idea of dining out with other courting couples is just too, too much for your delicate sensibilities to handle, but you still want/ need to mark the occasion, L’Epicerie Gourmand is offering a three-course menu that you can order in advance and pick up anytime between Feb. 12 and 14.The $52 menu for two includes beetand vodka-cured wild sockeye salmon gravlax with shaved fennel and creamy dill and caper sauce; Brome Lake duck leg with orange-port demi-glace, potato gratin dauphinoise and seasonal vegetables; and, molten chocolate cake with raspberry coulis. LepicerieGourmande.com

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@FoodGirlFriday The results are in from the Eighth Annual Chinese Restaurant Diners’ Choice Awards, with over 34,000 votes received. Some standouts include Landmark on Cambie for Best Hotpot, Peninsula Seafood at Oakridge for Best Fine Dining, and St. Germain for Best Bakery.The Critics’ Choice winners will be announced on March 2.

Full results from the Diners’ Choice awards can be seen online. ChineseRestaurantAwards.com Bodega on Main has announced that, starting this month, it will donate 15 per cent of every Monday’s food sales to Rethink Breast Cancer, an advocacy, education and community building organization geared at women

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So, it’s time to dine like it’s 1999 and the end is nigh? Yew Seafood & Bar has put together a rather sumptuous menu that should appeal to closet hedonists while satisfying your sustainable conscience.

The evening begins with an amuse bouche of Northern Divine caviar paired with local oysters and bubbles, followed by smoked black cod velouté with black truffle salad or Dungeness crab ravioli with lemon and parmesan foam. Choices for main consist of roasted sablefish with pink lady apples, soy-vanilla vinaigrette, and hazelnut powder, or a duo of Wagyu beef rib eye and braised short rib with Venturi Schulze balsamic butter and fingerling potatoes. Dessert is chocolate passion cake, with passion fruit curd and caramelized milk chocolate mousse. At $97 per person, you could also consider this for an anti-Valentine’s girls’ night out.YewSeafood.com

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Suitable for: Those with a plan and a full wallet, looking to make a grand gesture.

Looking to pop the big question over champagne and caviar? Go big or stay home, right? The folks at Market by Jean-George have some experience with – and spaces in which to hold – such events. Their six-course menu can be enjoyed in the main restaurant, or book one of the private rooms for a more – ahem – intimate evening. Menu includes house-smoked 40 and under going through breast cancer.The move comes after owner Paul Rivas’ sister was diagnosed and went through treatment for breast cancer, and became involved with the organization. BodegaOnMain.ca ChefTret Jordan of Homer St. Café & Bar has been promoted to executive chef of both this and sister restaurant Tableau Bar Bistro. Chef Garett Blundell, former sous chef at Homer St., is the new Chef de Cuisine atTableau.

Edible Canada is extending their Dine Out menu for a limited time.Take advantage of the $30 three-course menu that lets you choose one starter, one main and one dessert off the regular menu.

EdibleCanada.com Ganache Patisserie has re-created a childhood favourite just in time for Valentine’s Day.The Saint

Café Medina is opening up for a rare dinner service on Feb. 14 for their Anti-Valentine’s Day dinner. Barry Calhoun photo Kuterra salmon with Osetra caviar, lemon jelly and potato crisp; roasted beet salad with walnuts and goat cheese fondue; butter-poached seafood bisque with saffron and sourdough croutons; roasted duck breast with sunchoke, radish and foie gras jus, slow-cooked veal cheeks with truffle polenta, roasted bone marrow, and thyme jus; and pistachio champagne velvet bar with raspberry sorbet and red berry leather. Tickets $110 per person. MarketByJGVancouver.com

CASUAL AND NOT TOO SWEET

Suitable for: Palates seeking tastes off the beaten path, and those without a sweet tooth.

Valentin Chocolat S’more cake ($28.95) is composed of dual layers of hazelnut graham cracker crust sandwiching layers of Bailey’s chocolate mousse, moist chocolate cake, vanilla guimauve centre, with caramelized Italian meringue marshmallow topping. Available by pre-order, for pick-up February 12-14. GanacheYaletown.com The Uncommon Café is holding a special Valentine’s cooking class on Feb. 13 at 6pm featuring tarte flambée, aumoniere de saumon, and lava cake. Learn how to create romantic dinner or just enjoy an evening of fine French food with other couples. Tickets $70 per person. Uncommonssary.com Marquis Wine Cellars is launching a series of tutored tastings beginning midFebruary. Hosted by wine educator Pamela Cohen, the classes will each feature five

Overlooking modern Asian cuisine is a definite nonstarter. For those looking for a more relaxed evening – and one that isn’t too sickly-sweet – Wild Rice is offering both appetizer and dinner platters for two on Feb. 14 only. The $35 appetizer platter includes prawn pot stickers, albacore tuna melt on wonton crisp, sweet chili-lime chicken on taro crisp, and braised and barbecue beef and Guinness cheese in a wonton cup. The $60 dinner platter includes prawns in garlic with rose penne, smoked duck breast with garlic-saffron mash, lemongrass pork with banana leaf-cilantro rice, and steamed vegetables.

Special cocktails, such as the or six wines from a specific region. Each class will begin with education on culture, heritage, grape varieties grown and wine making process for that region. Each 90-minute class starts at $25 and also includes same-day discounts should you wish to purchase wines tasted during the event.

Marquis-Wines.com On March 3, the Chefs’ Table Society of BC’s third annual Curry Cup returns to Heritage Hall on Main Street for a fun evening of competition, curry, cocktails, wines and brews. Chefs competing this year include Clement Chan from Torafuku, Justin Cheung from Longtail Kitchen, and Josh Gale from Nicli’s Next Door, among others.

Tickets ($60) include samples of curry from each competitor, wine from Evolve Cellars, beer from R&B Brewing, and cocktails (and mocktails) from Lauren Mote. ChefsTableSociety.com

Magnolia (gin, lemon, berry syrup and Chambord), will also be available. Finish the night with a walk along the River Market boardwalk.

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Suitable for: Those looking to avoid the whole damn scene – or who can’t find babysitting.

For those hoping to dodge the entire heartstrewn (and often thorny) path of love, Café Medina has put together the ultimate anti-Valentine’s Day communal feast for singles, couples, families and friends on Feb. 14. The five-course menu includes sparkling wine, freshly shucked oysters with salmon roe and Sai Woo is introducing a new brunch menu as of Feb. 14, available every Sunday 11am-2pm, as well as a “Late, Late Nite” dim sum menu every Friday and Saturday night from 11:30pm to 1:30am.The brunch menu includes cashew pancakes with cashew cream and Szechuan peppercorn syrup, eggs benedict on scallion biscuit with Chinese sausage and daily housemade congee.

The dim sum menu includes sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf, vegetarian bean curd rolls, mushroom dumplings with truffle oil, chicken and cloud ear mushroom dumplings, and more. SaiWoo.ca The 22nd annual Dining Out for Life is back on Thursday, March 10, once again raising funds in support of individuals and families living with HIV/ AIDS. This year, over 100 participating restaurants between White Rock and Whistler will donate 25

champagne mignonette; torchon of foie gras with poached figs and flatbread; marinated beets and baby carrots with granny smith crisps, pomegranate goat cheese, toasted marcona almonds and sherry vinaigrette; choice of spice duck breast with crispy shallots, pommes fondant, watercress and currant jus, or ras el hanout black cod with burnt orange caramel, Israeli cous cous, roasted eggplant and cured tomato; plus vanilla cardamom cake with pistachio rose water ice cream and sponge toffee. There will also be live entertainment from jazz trio TV Show Band. Tickets $69 per person. MedinaAnti-VDay. Eventbrite.ca W per cent of that day’s food sales to local not-for-profits Friends for Life and A Loving Spoonful. Full list of participating restaurants at DiningOutForLife.ca.

BC Distilled, Canada’s premier craft and microdistillery festival, will take place on March 26, with multiple locations and events throughout the city. Approximately 26 distilleries will be participating, pouring samples of their locally-made gin, vodka, whiskey, liqueurs and more. Proceeds from the festival will go to support the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS). As well, Legacy Liquor will have a pop-up shop on site, selling more than 100 products from participating distilleries. New participants this year include Sheringham Distillery, de Vine Wine & Spirits, Okanagan Crush Pad, and Woods Spirits Co. BCDistilled.ca W

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Nothing is more romantic than forbidden love and the defiant lengths that Romeo and Juliet went to in order to be together.Though this led to their untimely death, they are immortalized as the poster couple of Valentine’s Day. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy takes place in Verona, Italy. Hanging out here for the last few weeks, I’m seduced by Romeo and Juliet’s passionate spirits at every turn. It’s impossible not fall in love in this dreamy city, even if it’s just with Verona itself.Were the young lovers alive today, they would certainly lap up Verona’s amorous atmosphere. And I can’t help but wonder what they would drink.

Alas, the only liquid we can be sure that Juliet knocked back is a coma-inducing potion that inadvertently proved fatal for both her and Romeo. She was also barely a teenager. But had their families stopped feuding before the heartbreaking finale, Romeo and Juliet may have lived to legal drinking

age. They’d be able to go on a normal date and savour the tasty (and less potent) elixirs of the Veneto region.

On the evening of Feb. 14, they might meet in Piazza Bra, the sprawling central plaza that fans out around an awe-inspiring 2,000-yearold Roman arena. An Aperol Spritz at one of the lively outdoor cafés would calm butterflies in their stomachs and stimulate the appetite.

This classic aperitivo brings together Prosecco with Aperol for a bittersweet bubbly cocktail. In a large wine glass with some ice, pour three parts Vaporetto, Prosecco DOC Brut ($15.79 at BC Liquor Stores) with two parts Barbiere Aperol (BC Liquor Stores $21.49) and finish with a dash of soda.

Relaxed and hungry, Romeo and Juliet would then sneak down one of the dark side streets in search of a cozy trattoria serving traditional cuisine.They’d start with some antipasti followed by bigoli (a thick udon-like pasta) with seafood brought in from the fish markets of Venice. A glass of Soave would wash it all down. Complex and creamy with lemon, lavender and blanched almonds notes, the 2012 Roccolo Grassi, ‘La Broia’ Soave DOC ($42 at private wine stores) is highly worthy of the special occasion.

Moving onto the main course, the duo could choose from local specialties like baccala (salted cod) and

polenta or fegato (chicken liver) and onion. But surely they’d opt to indulge in a hearty stew of wine-braised beef, donkey or yes, even horse meat. I imagine Romeo feeling the need to impress and suggesting an opulent and heady Amarone della Valpolicella. However, Juliet in her infinite wisdom would propose something lighter and a little lower in alcohol. They’d settle on the 2011 Tedeschi, ‘Maternigo’ Valpolicella Superiore DOC ($34.99 at BC Liquor Stores). Offering fresh plums, cherries, tobacco and pepper, it’s flavourful enough to stand up to a rich braise but juicy enough to refresh between bites.

After dinner, both Romeo and Juliet may feel slightly over satiated but surely wouldn’t want to part ways.

The solution? A gentle stroll through the meandering streets in search of some grappa (this grape pomace distillate possesses proven digestive properties). They’d duck into a late night bar overlooking the Adige River that circles the city and order something along the lines of the aromatic Maschio Beniamino, Grappa di Moscato ($35.99 at BC Liquor Stores).

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A day in the life of a hungover professional Stephen Smysnuik The Growler @TheGrowlerBC

8:35: Wake up disoriented.

Taste your mouth – it is a wasteland.Your head feels as though a thousand tiny lemmings are chiseling away in unison at the inside of your cranium. There it is.You’re hung-over.

8:36: Writhe between the sheets. Groan intermittently.

8:40: Weigh your two options: 1) Stay put and waste the day or 2) face the day (e.g. the considerable heap of tasks and duties that require immediate attention). Question the previous night’s choices. Try to remember what those choices even were.

8:45: Roll out of bed and shuffle into the bathroom.

Feel the full weight of the hangover. Stare at yourself in the mirror through puffy, squinted eyes and survey the wreckage across the landscape of your face. Give up any hope of getting to work on time. Feel shame and regret.

8:46: Take a shower. Eyes closed, hands clasped loosely at the small of your back, groaning, “Whyyyy?”

9:10: Eat McDonalds breakfast.

9:21: Wait for bus in the rain. Feel the McDs breakfast settle in your stomach like a sloth in the grass.

Shame and regret intensifies.

9:56: Arrive at work. Slump into your cubicle. Boot up computer and stare absently at the screen as the machines blips and whirls, which mirrors your own mental faculties.

10:16: Organize your to-do list. Scroll through Facebook. Switch. Repeat.

10:36: Swear off drinking ever again.

10:37: Or, OK, maybe just from drinking that much ever again.

10:38: On a weeknight.

10:41: Oscillate between worrying and all-out panicking that maybe this isn’t a hangover after all, but a horrible terminal disease, the symptoms of which have finally been brought on by your low immune system caused by excessive drinking.

11:42: Check WebMd.com for symptoms. Further panic.

12:15: Respond to emails.

Squint endlessly while writing, as if squeezing intelligent thoughts into being, but mostly failing.

12:45: Feel pretty good, actually, now that you’ve found a groove. Nausea and fuzzyheaded symptoms appear dissipated. Mood lifts accordingly.

3:44: Eat two slices of pizza.

3:47: Consider drinking a beer. Ask yourself, “Will this help me at all? How will this make me feel?”

lying around in bed for a marathon TV binge with the streaming service of your choosing.

4:15: Drink a beer.

4:37: Pack it in. Percentage of day’s necessary tasks actually completed: 15-20 per cent (generous estimate).

4:35: Finish beer. Consider going back to the office and “burning the midnight oil,” or packing it in and

4:52: Feebly justify your lack of productivity as you wait for the bus. Find solace in the fact that nobody’s really

productive on a Friday… right?

4:53: Right guys? Hello?

5:30: Sprawl onto your couch. Fight the urge to drink whatever beer is in the fridge. Legitimately hear it call your name. Realize that it’s your wife, who is making a snack in the kitchen. Greet your wife.

6:30: Realize that the hang-

over has finally evaporated and you feel like yourself for the first time in well over 24 hours. Consider Friday night’s possibilities.

7:15: Pay the pizza delivery guy $29 plus tip, silently scolding your wife for not pausing the program (Suits.

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12:46: Reward yourself by going for a walk around the building for fresh air.

12:56: Walk around in the rain. Regret taking walk.

1:02 Slump back into cubicle. Note that all motivation to work has been lost, having lost your groove following your ill-advised walk. Plot regaining your groove while scanning your Facebook feed. Put it on your to-do list.

1:04: Realize that you’ve gone this whole time without talking to single person, which lifts your mood considerably.

1:09: Feel a rising panic over your heaping stack of work, which you now realize has no chance of actually being completed today.

1:16: Feel suddenly ravenous, now that your digestive system has dealt with McDs breakfast and is now bellowing for legitimate sustenance.

1:16:30: Break for lunch.

1:35: Eat a salad.

2:10: Slump back in cubicle.

Feel your stomach bellow again and wish you’d eaten more than salad.

2:20: Notice moderate improvement in energy and mood, though hangover persists. Finally get down to the necessary tasks at hand.

3:00: Feel depleted from your burst productivity.

Pick your nose absently and hope no one notices. Feel further shame and regret, which you indulge in for quite some time because it’s getting kinda late in the day to fight it and, actually, it’s kinda nice to wallow in this shame right now. Revert to browsing social media, this time on Instagram, which is more conducive to mindless scrolling.

3:30: Break for another walk around the building. Con-

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SPACE ELEVATOR An evening of experimental jazz from the 19-piece band marking their debut performance under the direction of composer Mike Allen, brining jazz out of the traditional club and into the heart of Mount Pleasant. 7:30pm at Fox Cabaret.

Tickets $12 at EventBrite.ca

DAWN PEMBERTON AND CÉCILE DOO-KINGUÉ A double bill of blues from Vancouver’s vibrant, genuine, soulful singer and the Afro-roots and soul singersongwriter from Montreal. 8:30pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $24 at TicketZone.com

BOOKER T. JONES American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer highly regarded in the ska-rocksteadyreggae scene having backed Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, appears with Jesse Roper and Mud Funk featuring Tonye Aganaba.

7:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $45+ at Red Cat, Highlife, Beat Street and TicketFly.com. All ages show.

LIEBESLIEDER: SONGS OF LOVE Vancouver Cantata Singers perform several classical works in a cabaret-style setting, featuring Johannes Brahm’s Liebeslieder Waltzer and music by John Greer and John Corigliano. 3pm at Orpheum Annex. Tickets $20+ at VancouverCantataSingers.com

ADVENTURE CLUB Canadian electronic dance music duo from Montreal comprised of Christian Srigley and Leighton James play the first of two evenings with special guest Vanic. 9pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $47.50+ at ThisIsBlueprint.com

COMEDY CAMERON ESPOSITO LA comic, actor and writer who Jay Leno famously called “the future of comedy” makes good on promise to get to Vancouver with opening sets from Rhea Butcher and Dino Archie. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $20 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE DANCES FOR A SMALL STAGE 33 – VALENTINE’S EDITION Abandoning the Hallmark holiday’s traditional sentiments of gushy romance, audiences can expect performances embracing the more underrated faces of love – the passionate, twisted underbelly of betrayal, jealousy, and obsession. 8pm at ANZA Club.

Tickets at EventBrite.ca or at the door. Runs until Feb. 14.

COMPANY Robert, a confirmed bachelor, navigates the pros and cons of marriage from encounters with his very different, and often hilarious friends in this groundbreaking modern musical – an intelligent look at relationships, vulnerability, and being alive. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre.

Tickets at JerichoArtsCentre. com. Runs until Feb. 14.

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POLYRHYTHMICS Seattle funk band on tour in support of their latest release, Octagon, with special guests Santa Lucia LFR. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Highilfe, Zulu, Neptoon and TicketFly.com THE SOURCE OF SONG Jon Washburn and Kevin Zakresky conduct the Vancouver Chamber Choir in an a capella program tracing the choral repertoire back to the Georgian chant on which it is based. 8pm at Ryerson United Church. Tickets $27.50+ at VancouverChamberChoir.com

COMEDY SEAN LECOMBER Stand-up comic from Edmonton with appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBC’s The Debaters headlines with opening sets from Katie Westman and Greg Kettner.

8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE BOOM Canada’s own Rick Miller presents “25 years in 100 minutes” in this innovative mixedmedia work weaving characters and events using a selection of archival videos and photography documentary-style, giving spoton impersonations of the most notable figures over two decades of history. 8pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

Runs until Feb. 13.

LITTLE ONE Told from the now adult voices of its two main characters, this story weaves tales of childhood horror and teenage humiliation into a twisted, wryly funny, and ultimately haunting narrative. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca. Runs until Feb. 13.

LUNAR NEW YEAR A concert to celebrate the year of the monkey, featuring pianist Avan Yu, violinst Lucy Wang, and the VSO performing works by Zheng Lu, Chen Gang and He Zhanhao, and Rachmaninoff. 7:30pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $28+ at VancouverSymphony.ca EHM SKY PATROL Honky-tonk, blues and funk band from Vancouver celebrate the release of their album with special guests, the Great Speckled Fritillary and Anni M Fables. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com BURNIN’ DESIRE A Valentine party extravaganza featuring International Blindfold, the punkedout ‘80s glam rockers with a ‘90s grunge vibe, Vancouver surf-rock quartet the Surfrajets, Talk Nerdy To Me and the Food. 8pm at Railway Club. Tickets $10 at the door.

KISS OF THE KING Metal-punk rockers from Vancouver appear with special guests Goodbye Terra Firma, Air Combat, the Fall Of Day and Opposite Shore. 8:30pm at Media Club. Tickets $10 at TicketWeb.ca or $12 at the door.

THE DREADNOUGHTS Vancouver’s favourite polka punk band reunites for the evening with special guests the Skimmity Hitchers, A Total Disappointment, the Generators, Uptown Riot and Obscene Being. 7:30pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $17 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon, Highlife and TicketFly.com COIG East coast ensemble from Cape Breton play the Rogue Folk Club. 8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $24 at Red Cat, Highlife, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitars and RogueFolk.bc.ca

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TAKE TWO A Valentine’s Day dinner and jazz show featuring premiere Canadian jazz vocalists Karin Plato and Laura Crema with special guests Jodi Proznick, Miles Black and Bill Coon. 8pm at Frankie’s Jazz Club. Tickets $60 at CoastalJazz.ca

BRANFORD MARSALIS Grammy Award-winning saxophonist delivers an evening of groundbreaking original works and timeless jazz standards with his critically lauded quartet. 8pm at Chan Centre. Tickets $60+ at ChanCentre.com

HEART STRINGS Celebrate the most romantic day of the year in an intimate setting with the Cordei Duo, harpist Albertina Chan and violinist Janna Sailor performing works from the Romantic era with modern classics. 3pm at Roedde House Museum. Tickets $12+ at BrownPaperTickets.com

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BURLESQUE DUOS It takes two to tango, and the highly-anticipated, ultimate spectacle of partnership and astounding creativity returns for an East Van Valentine’s tradition featuring April O’Peel, Vixen Von Flex, Diva Fandango, Ariel Helvetica, Nicky Ninedoors, Miss Kiss, Camaro Luvroc and Clare Voyeur.

8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $25 at RioTheatreTickets.ca

THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe brings their high energy commitment to comedy with a little slapstick shtick, carrying the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip where scenes barrel into tangents and stories smash together creating comedy gold. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door.

FOUR PLAY The 11th season of this popular festival of one-act plays returns with new work from excited writers running in repertory; original pieces from the students of Studio 58 under the tutelage of award-winning playwright Aaron Bushkowsky.

3pm & 8pm at Studio 58, Langara College. Tickets at TicketsTonight. ca. Runs until Feb. 14.

CHEAP & FUN FOOD TRUCK FEBRUARY Come tingle the tastebuds at the Nat Bailey Farmers’ Market with double the number of fabulous food truck flavours at one of the best winter markets in the city.

10am-2pm at Nat Bailey Stadium (4601 Ontario).

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THEATRE/DANCE KITTY NIGHTS: MY PURPLE VALENTINE This Valentine’s Day, Burgundy and the Purrrfessor write you a big purple love letter with a live rock burlesque tribute to the amazing and sexy sounds of Prince, featuring Iva Handful, Frankie Faux, Audrey Hipturn, Voracious V, Rebel Valentine and Jenny Magenta. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at TicketFly. com or $15 at the door.

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MUSIC LOGIC Maryland rapper appears in support of his sophomore album The Incredible True Story, with special guest Dizzy Wright.

8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $30 at LiveNation.com

COMEDY MERMAID CLUB COMEDY Vancouver comedians Stefan MacNeil, Brad Dorion and Dylan Williamson host an evening of improv comedy. 8pm at Railway Club. Tickets $5 at the door.

QUEER PROV Back for another year of hilarious antics, Vancouver’s unique Queer Improv Comedy troupe hits the stage featuring Pearce Visser, Amy Lucille, Jamie Chrest, Shane Edwards, Aamir Khan, and Josh Rimer. 8pm at XY (1216 Bute).

THE LAUGH GALLERY Graham Clark wants you to come and laugh at his jokes as he hosts this wonderfully eclectic show featuring some of the best and brightest comics in the city. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $5 at EventBrite.ca SICK BOSS MONDAYS Improvisational and experimental jazz accompanied by psychedelic visuals and vintage décor transport you to another space and time, but with delicious craft beer. 8pm at The Lido. No cover.

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BLOOM A provocative cinq-asept, with six artists in residence premiering five-minute sketches of dance, paired with a wine and featuring stand-up storyteller Jennifer Griffin. 5pm at St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Tickets $10 at the door.

NANDAN Vancouver artist celebrates the release of their first EP, Better Late Than Never, with special guest Lucas Cole. 9pm at Railway Club. Tickets $5 at the door.

THE SHEEPDOGS Southern rock, blues, and boogie from the Saskatoon rockers playing the first of two evenings in support of their fifth studio album, Future Nostalgia. 9:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $32.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

BIGMOUTH Valentijn Dhaenens weaves together seminal speeches from everyone from the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden, paying tribute to 2,500 years of oration. 8pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.

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WINNERS AND LOSERS Theatre artists and long time friends Marcus Youssef and James Long open a conversation embracing the ruthless logic of capitalism, and test its impact on our personal relationships and intimate experiences of self. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch. com. Runs until Feb. 27.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE Relive the charm and wit of one of literature’s most beloved romantic comedies in this elegant and lavish production, as a series of tumultuous events threatens the Bennet sisters’ position in society and their prospects of marriage. 7:30pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Feb. 28.

CHES SMITH New York City jazz drummer appears in support of his debut release, The Bell, with special guest pianist Craig Taborn, and violist Mat Maneri. 8pm at Western Front. Tickets $28 at CoastalJazz.TicketFly.com

COMEDY R/IMPROV & ASK ME ANYTHING The Fictionals present an evening of improvisational comedy inspired by the weird world of Reddit with questions only the audience and the internet can answer. 8pm at Café Deux Soleils.

Tickets $7 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE BRIGHT BLUE FUTURE One pivotal night in the lives of four 20-somethings and the decision they make that will affect their futures forever, speaks to the unique struggles of young millennials growing up in the YOLO generation. 8pm at Pacific Theatre.

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POSTSECRET: THE SHOW Projected images, videos, three actors and a guitarist guide the audience through an immersive, poignant journey through the humour and humanity of the personal stories we keep to ourselves, and on rare occasions, share with others. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca. Runs until March 5.

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MATT ANDERSEN & THE BONA FIDE Canadian blues guitarist, singer-songwriter out of New Brunswick appears in support of his latest release, Weightless.

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MYSTERY SKULLS Mastermind electronic artist, producer and singer from Dallas, Texas, plays a rescheduled show with special guest Boissinova. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at Red Cat and TicketWeb.com DRALMS Latest project from Vancouver singer-songwriter Christopher Smith, a more experimental and collaborative sound, with special guest Mu. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com LEAH BARLEY & THE CONVERSE COWBOYS Bluesy-folk tales of love and loss from the Vancouver songstress with special guest Anni M Fables. 8pm at Skinny Fat Jack’s. Tickets $6 at the door only.

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Wanda Sykes: still laughing

Comedy icon joins JFL NorthWest for one-night stand KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Wanda Sykes’Vancouver fans are in for a treat.

Along with fellow headliners Trevor Noah and Lewis Black, the legendary curly haired, crackly-voiced comedian will be in town for this months’ inaugural Just For Laughs NorthWest comedy fest. Only Sykes won’t be doing just any old set. Instead, the sharp-witted comic will be serving up a sneak preview of her newest stand-up special as she lays out material for the as-yet-unnamed hour.

Set to be filmed in Los Angeles in May, it will be the first special for Sykes since 2009’s uproarious HBO session, I’ma Be Me. “I probably have over two hours of material right now,” says Sykes, speaking by phone from NewYork, where she is in town to check out some comedy shows. “But it’s not until I go, alright, what’s in the show, what’s the name, what’s the idea? And make sure I have all the pieces there.Then I go okay, this is feeling kind of special – it doesn’t feel like I’m just doing a set, this feels special […] and I’m there now.”

You might know her best as Wanda from CurbYour Enthusiasm or Rita from Evan Almighty (or as the voice of many a sassy animated character), but Sykes’ stand-up CV is as pure as it is formidable.

Unsatisfied with the relative security of her job as a procurement specialist for the National Security Agency, Sykes began performing at open mics and talent showcases around Washington, DC, in the late ‘80s. By 1992 she had made the leap to New York City, where she met Chris Rock and caught the big break of opening for him at

Caroline’s Comedy Club. In 1997, Rock hired her to be a writer on his show – a stint for which she and the rest of the writing team garnered four Primetime Emmy nominations and one win.

After that, Sykes built a career divided between comedy tours, television roles (where she often plays some version of herself), and movies.

The stage is where she truly reveals herself, though.While Sykes’ time under Rock could be called formative, her material is rooted in her own reality, with the politically minded comic serving up brash and blunt observations on sex, race and bikini waxes that are as enlightening as they are amusing.

Carving out a voice as a female comic in the ‘90s wasn’t as simple as being funny and having famous friends, however. Sykes – now one of the most recognizable and beloved comedians on the circuit – acknowledges that she had to push through the same years of sexism and lack of opportunity that many female comedians encounter.

“Starting out, it was always the club booker didn’t want to put two women on the same show,” she recalls. “For some reason, you could have six guys on a show, but for a spot he’d be like, ‘Oh, I’ve already got a woman on tonight.’

“Like, what does that mean?” she continues, indignantly. “It was always that.

For some reason they thought that if there was more than one woman on the show the audience would, like, run out?

I don’t know… Or we were all going to talk about the same thing, or something?” she says.

“That was the hardest part.”

Despite the roadblocks, though, Sykes can be counted in the exclusive club of comedians who have had their own late-night talk show, with 2009’s strong but short-lived Wanda Sykes Show on Fox. And while the talk show only lasted one season, television has always been a friend

to Sykes. Between 2006 and 2010 she put in 67 episodes on the Julia Louis-Dreyfus vehicle The New Adventures of Old Christine, and can currently be seen on ABC’s hit show Black-ish (playing what she gleefully describes as “the office crazy person”), as well as guest starring on the fifth season of Showtime Comedy’s House of Lies alongside Oscarnominated actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda).

“It was crazy. I got an email from my agent saying, ‘Don Cheadle would like your number; can I give it to him?’” she explains. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, you can give it to him!

You can give him my Social Security number, I don’t care!’”

It’s that lightheartedness and generosity of spirit that has likely helped carry Sykes to her success, while also informing her position as a prominent role model among the LGBT community.

While out privately for many years, Sykes (who had previously been married to record producer Dave Hall) famously came out publicly in 2008 while speaking at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas.The spontaneous announcement was reportedly prompted by anger and disappointment at the passage of Proposition 8 – the California law banning gay marriage – and by the fact that she had just gotten married to her same-sex partner, Alex Niedbalski, a few weeks earlier.

Since then, Sykes has performed as part of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colours Tour for LGBT rights, as well appeared in the Think Before You Speak television campaign, which aimed to address homophobic slang amongst teens. She was also the first African-American woman as well as the first openly gay entertainer to host the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and won a GLAAD award in 2010 for promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians.

“I think [the activism] is

because I actually visit with some of these kids who are in situations where they’re either abused or they’ve been kicked out of their homes for being LGBT, and my heart just goes out to them,” Sykes explains. “I just can’t imagine the people who are supposed to take care of you and love you unconditionally kick you out and turn their backs on you. So I just feel obligated and want to try to help their situation.”

It’s something Sykes experienced herself, as an adult, with her own conservative parents.

“It was hard,” Sykes recalls, of coming out. “At the time my mother was coming to visit and [over the phone] I was like, ‘Hey look, this is the situation…’ and I was surprised that she didn’t know what the situation was. So there was a big fall out, and it was rough for several years.”

Most publicly, Sykes’ parents declined to attend her wedding.

Meanwhile, one year later, Niedbalski gave birth to a pair of fraternal twins, Olivia and Lucas, and Sykes became a mother without having yet reconciled with her parents.

Her feelings about those early years bubble up memorably in Gay vs Black, a poignantly perfect joke from I’ma Be Me that explains how she never had to deal with “coming out as black” to her mom.

Time eventually healed their estrangement, and Sykes says her mom and dad are now loving their new role as grandparents. Neither they, nor the rest of Sykes’ growing family are any more safe from becoming stand-up fodder, though.

“The kids, the whole family’s in the act,” she confirms, with a laugh.

“A lot of [the new material] is just looking at how did I get to this place where I am right now,” the 51-year-old goes on to explain. “Because, really, if you had asked me 20 years ago, ‘Hey, did you think you’d be

married to a French woman and raising white kids?’ I’d be like… ‘No.’” W u Wanda Sykes performs as part of JFL NorthWest on Feb. 24 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton).Tickets at JFLNorthWest.com

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Vancouver gets the last laugh with JFL NorthWest KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Daily Show host Trevor Noah performs Feb. 19 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Contributed photo

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Like Netflix come to life, some of the biggest names in comedy will be all in one place this month, and that place is here.

If you ignore side shows like Bill Burr’s surprise appearance Jan. 17, the JFL NorthWest Comedy Festival – a partnership between Vancouver’s NorthWest Comedy Fest (which presented the likes of Craig Ferguson, Hannibal Buress and Patton Oswalt over the

last two years) and Montreal comedy institution Just For Laughs – officially gets underway Feb. 18-27 with a side-splitting mix of standup, sketch comedy and improv, at venues across Vancouver.

Headliners include Daily Show host and South African superstar Trevor Noah, standup legend Wanda Sykes, actor and author Lewis Black, “YouTube sensation” Miranda Sings, Canadian funnyman Jeremy Hotz, New York-based sarcasmo Todd Barry, Indian

film star Vir Das and more.

In addition, the festival will highlight up-andcoming local talent with the Best of the West series, featuring Instagraham, Hip. Bang!, 10 Speed, The Hero Show, Sidekicks, Phantom Signal, Alicia Tobin’s Come Draw With Me, Kings Head Comedy, The Ryan and Amy Show, Kyle Bottom’s Comedy Bucket, Jokes Please! and Teenage Dirtbag.

The festival has also partnered with the Vancouver International Film Festival

to present The Comedy Film Series at this inaugural throwdown.

The series will take place at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour) and feature the never-before-seen footage of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead:The Story of The National Lampoon, a curated hodgepodge of Comedy Short Shorts, Turkish Star Wars (aka “the most insane remake of all time”), and more. W u Tickets and full schedule info at JFLNorthWest.com

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Todd Barry keeps the crowd work coming KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

With a style of humour that’s drier than a Thanksgiving turkey,Todd Barry isn’t for everyone. But everyone is for him, apparently, as evidenced by his recent, audience-mangling CrowdWork tour.

In 2013, the surly New York-based comedian, actor and nascent podcaster threw the comedy formula (and his material) out the window and toured around doing nothing but crowd work – a style of comedy where the performer grills strangers in the audience like their lives are an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Off stage, Barry is known widely for his voice work and television appearances (Louie, Flight of the Conchords), as well a milestone role in the Academy Award-winning film, The Wrestler.

“I get a lot of work from friends who happen to make stuff,” he says, humbly.

But standup is where you can really see how Barry ticks.

From his self-released 2001 masterclass, Medium Energy, to the 2012 punchline punchbowl that is Super Crazy, Barry consistently masks killer wit behind an understated, deadpan delivery. Fond of setting up a topic and then quickly moving on, he challenges his listeners to go where his vaguely creepy, absurdist sense of humour takes them.

But with CrowdWork, even he doesn’t know where that is until it’s happening. And while he never gets mean, it’s not like Barry is exactly cozying up to the crowd to get on their good side. In each take of the CrowdWork special, Barry oozes mock disdain before he even speaks – (something about the way his lips purse expectantly and his eyebrows rest on his brow bone like two contented seals…?) – so the risks are real.

In fact, for all the feelings of terror in the front row, going out unscripted for an hour should be the most terrifying thing a comedian could do.

Barry says the result was actually the opposite, however.

“It was more relaxing, in a way, to do those shows than it is to do shows with material,” he explains. “Even though it sounds like it should be scarier.

“I guess just because I don’t know if stuff’s going to work or not,” he continues. “It takes the pressure off. [Whereas] if you do a joke you kind of know, ‘Oh, it’s supposed to work right here’. And then if it doesn’t, it’s failed.

“There’s the additional pressure of having to fill the time and come up with shit that keeps people engaged,” he adds, nonchalantly, “but for the most part it’s gone pretty well.”

The experimental concept also came with the support of

comedy superstar Louis C.K., who offered to produce the show and distributed it on his website – so why not, right?

And while Barry is ready to move on to new material – “I didn’t want to be necessarily [known as] the ‘crowd work’ dude,’” he declares, before adding, “which, you could argue, well then don’t do a whole special of crowd work…” – he’s not quite letting go of the adrenaline rush.

For this visit, part of the 10-day JFL NorthWest Comedy Festival, he’s doing a podcast show, two standup sets, and two nights of crowd work. It’s a diverse offering that some might say – between the proliferation of YouTube, Netflix, podcasts, etc. – effectively sums up the zeitgeist of comedy today.

Not Barry, though.

“I just don’t think [comedy] has changed,” he says, of its popularity.

“If it has changed. I don’t know how you measure how it’s changed.There’s always been comedy clubs – I mean,” he chuckles, “comedy is such a broad thing. It’s not like suddenly [now] people want to laugh.” W % 6-,, )4""2 $*"#-"3! 6<* Todd Barry Podcast Feb. 25, stand-up Feb. 26 and 27 (early show), and his CrowdWork show Feb. 26 and 27 (late show). All shows atYukYuk’s (2837 Cambie).Tickets at JFLNorthWest.com.

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History doesn’t stand a chance against this BigMouth KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

If anyone can turn being called a “big mouth” into a good thing, it’s Valentijn Dhaenens.

With just five microphones and his voice, the Belgian theatre artist rather famously stitches together 2,500 years of speeches into BigMouth, his sell-out hit from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe that uses the words of Socrates to Osama Bin Laden, Martin Luther King to George W. Bush to show how some things, incredibly, never change.

“BigMouth is actually a very personal history of the Western world through speeches,” says Dhaenens, who is making his first trip to Vancouver to perform the show Feb. 11-21 at the Cultch. “In my opinion, speeches always try to manipulate people so, in return, I manipulate the speeches – I mix up a few speeches and make one speech of them, or use from the same person different fragments of different speeches.”

Between those speeches, the multi-talented performer

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Belgian performer Valentijn Dhaenens brings 2,500 years of speeches to life in BigMouth, running Feb. 11-21 at the Cultch. Maya Wilsens photo also sings era-specific songs, using a loop pedal to enhance the effect.

“It’s called BigMouth and I wanted the show to be about the power of what we’re able to do with this small hole in our face,” he laughs.

As a co-founder of SKaGeN, one of Europe’s hottest theatre collectives, Dhaenens is no stranger to creating powerful work for the stage, however BigMouth was the first solo show he had ever attempted.

“When you work with other people, you always have to discuss everything […] and I had an urge to work much more intuitively,” he recalls, “so what I did was I promised myself over the course of a year to read at least one

speech a day, without too much of a concept.”

He read upwards of 10 speeches a day and, by the end, had almost 1,000 speeches divided into stacks of war speeches, eulogies, sermons and so on, in the hopes that he would start to notice connections between the widely disparate subjects.

“And that’s actually how it happened,” he continues.

“One of the very first speeches I was attracted to was a Goebbels speech at the end of the Second World War called the ‘Total War’ speech.You can still hear it onYouTube, it’s quite famous, and he’s shouting all the time, ‘Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?’ [Do you want total war?].

“It’s very impressive,” he adds, explaining that Goebbels’ rhetoric galvanized the Nazi propaganda movement.

“So I had this feeling, because it was at the end of the war and he’s trying to get the women involved […] that if I were to do this speech quite the opposite from the original – very softly spoken and slowly, whispering in the audience’s ears – people would get what he’s actually saying more

than if I shouted it.”

A few months later, he came across a D-Day speech

by American general George S. Patton and saw some striking similarities.

“They’re trying to do the same thing,” Dhaenens says.

“They’re trying to persuade people to go to war, but this Patton guy is so different in his techniques,” says Dhaenens. “He uses very short, simplistic sentences – very racist and aggressive in tone and content – so I made a mix of those two speeches.”

Dhaenens approached every speech thereafter in a similar fashion – rather than trying to impersonate famous speakers or speeches, looking instead to present each oration in a new way to reveal hidden meanings, human hubris, and social subtleties.

“You really get a display of how speeches work in a different way,” he says, “even when they have the same goal.” W

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East Van Rock Choir hits the right note ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

There are few things in life that feel better than singing, than really belting it out. When you’re in the shower or in the car by yourself, it’s easy to succumb to the urge to let loose and start wailing. It’s only natural.

Singing in public, however, is generally limited to group renditions of “Happy Birthday” or the national anthem.

Matt Smith wants to change that. The Vancouver vocal coach is the founder of the Impromptu Rock Choir, which meets every Tuesday night in East Van at 7pm at the WISE Hall.

Along with partner Fiona Sizer, the pair is giving people the opportunity to sing their favourite songs in a choir that’s totally casual, and totally welcoming.

“This is definitely not a traditional choir,” says Smith. “We don’t read music, we’re learning by ear, we’re not separated into tenors, altos or sopranos, so you can sit with your friends.”

You won’t have to suffer through “Ave Maria”, either. The repertoire covers everything from classics like David Bowie and the Beatles to ‘90s hits like Oasis to contemporary songs by Arcade Fire or the Killers.

The choir is done on a drop-in basis, so there’s no commitment, and beginners are definitely welcome.

“The only prerequisite is that you enjoy singing, or that you even think you enjoy singing,” says Smith.

The choir works on three different songs every night.

It’s not a vocal class, so don’t expect one-on-one instruction – it’s about singing your guts out and having a damn good time doing it.

And Glee, it’s not.

There’s no big performance the choir is working towards, so there’s no pressure to compete. It’s the social aspect that keeps people coming back, Smith says.

The choir attracts anywhere from 40 to 50 people every week, from all walks of life. After choir

Organizers Matt Smith and Fiona Sizer want you to sing your guts out at the Impromptu Rock Choir, every Tuesday night at the WISE Hall in East Van. Robert Mangelsdorf photo practice wraps up at 9pm, everyone usually heads downstairs to the WISE Lounge for a cold pint.

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“It’s a great place to meet new people in the city,” says Smith. “We have people in their 20s right up to their 60s. It’s a pretty diverse group.”

Nerves are common for the first-timers, but they invariably leave with a smile on their face.

“Tone deafness is actually pretty rare,” says Smith. “[Singing] is a skill, but it’s a lot more built-in

than people think.

“It’s very innate.”

Smith said he decided to start the rock choir after one of his students complained that there was nowhere for her to sing.

“She said she tried out traditional choirs, and they didn’t work for her,” he says. “She wanted to do something different.”

The choir has proven so popular that Smith has

REVIEW // JUNIOR BOYS

Big Black Coat (City Slang) It’s been more than a decade since Hamilton, Ontario’s Junior Boys positioned themselves as indietronica icons with their 2004 debut album Last Exit.

Now a little bit older and a little bit wiser, the Boys seem to be having the time of their life on their latest album, Big Black Coat.

Five albums into their career, it’s clear Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus feel comfortable in their musical skin. As a result, there’s a self-

awareness to Big Black Coat that, arguably, may have been absent previously. They’re not taking themselves too seriously, and the tracks benefit from that sense of play.

They just want you to dance, baby!

Case in point, lead-off single “Over It” – with it’s ridiculously pitch-shifted baritone vocals and puls-

added a second night on Thursdays in North Van. He and Sizer are also hoping to expand to city’s West Side, and possibly to the suburbs, too.

“We’re getting people coming in all the way from Richmond and Delta!” says Smith. W % 1:!:; 53$"-3$;9+9!:.&.4 #-" 3-"* :/#-"34;:-/ 40-9; ;<* '4!; 14/ 8-.7 (<-:" ing synth-pop – is as fun a song as Junior Boys has ever recorded.

“Baby Give Up On It” is another party-starter with shades of disco, ‘80s techno and electrofunk.

Meanwhile, the bananas cover of “What You Would Do for Love” is almost unrecognizable as the Bobby Caldwell classic.

The sexiness is still there, of course. Their trademark breathy vocals and smooth synths make Big Black Coat fuckable from start to finish. But in the morning, the Boys will have you grinning from ear to ear.

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There’s something about Larry Summers that makes him a favourite among Blue Mountain State fans.

In Spike TV’s short-lived, testosterone-heavy college comedy about a fictional university and its football team, Larry – portrayed byVancouver actor Omari Newton – was BFF to the main character. Although Larry didn’t always say much, he made quite the impact on BMS fans, says Newton.

“He’s your textbook superloyal friend who is down for whatever, and for whatever reason, fans really connected to that,” says Newton in a recent phone interview. “I still, to this day, always have some random, usually college age dudes, who come up super-stoked to meet Larry from BMS.” When Blue Mountain State bowed out in 2011 after two seasons, diehard fans wanted more of the BMS boys.

And so, spurred on by a wildly successful crowd-funding campaign that raised $1.5 million USD, Blue Mountain State has returned in the form of Blue Mountain State:The Rise of Thadland.

All of the boys are back for what one reviewer calls a “drugfueled dystopian comedy.”

The film premiered last week onVOD and held the number one spot on iTunes in several countries, including the US. For Newton, BMS holds a special place in his personal

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ly because he was working as an actor the whole time. His big break came at 19-yearsold, when he was hired by Black Theatre Workshop, Canada’s oldest Black theatre company, for a leading role in one of their productions.

Newton worked steadily in the Montreal theatre scene for years, until the stage work dried up and he headed west to try his luck in theVancouver film and TV sphere. Newton calls those first days inVancouver “brutal.”

He shared a one-bedroom on Jervis Street with two other guys, and worked the graveyard shift at a downtown gym.

“I needed a job where I could make enough money, but I also needed to be able to go to auditions,” he says. “I would go to work at 10:30 at night, and I would finish at 6:30 in the morning. It was basically bar staff and gang members who work out at those hours.”

Newton did a lot of theatre during those early days, too: an all-male Romeo & Juliet with Mad Duck Theatre Collective; The Oresteia at Christ Church Cathedral; a season of Bard on the Beach.

Theatre is still important to Newton, but he’s also logged an impressive number of acting credits in the film and television sphere since arriving inVan. In addition to his Blue Mountain State and Continuum roles, there have been scene-stealing turns in Supernatural, Blade: The Series, and Fringe, and his voice can be heard in Wolverine vs. Sabretooth, Max Steel, and Barbie in Rock ’n Royals.

history. It was his first regular role on a television series, and “one of those rare shows where, as much fun as we’re having on screen, we’re having as much fun off camera, and we’re all, to this day, good friends,” recalls Newton, who is also widely known for his long-running role on time travel procedural Continuum.

“The irony is, it’s like college buddies.When I see them, it’s like I went to college with these guys, even though I was 29-years-old and it was a fictional college on TV.” Long before BMS, Newton was a young Montrealer, playing sports and deriving inspiration from Stand by Me and Do the Right Thing.

In high school, Newton was a nerd-jock hybrid: the co-captain of the basketball team and starter for the local football team who also happened to be a proud member of the drama and improv clubs.

“For guys, I feel like, if you’re good at sports, you can do whatever you want,” laughs Newton. “It’s a pass to get away with being a dork. Like, ‘He’s a nerd, but he played great defense, and he started, so we can’t beat him up.’”

Newton’s parents were immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, and while he says he didn’t come from a particularly artistic household, his parents were exceptionally supportive.

They were fine with him pursuing acting, as long as he got a post-secondary degree.

He settled on the communications studies program at Concordia University.

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@WholeNourishBC It’s Black History Month, and as a woman of colour, I have been known to take it pretty seriously (I ask my friends to research a person of colour in history then we drink wine and all share what we learn... yes this really has happened!).

Call me crazy, but thinking about a bunch of folks taking a boat ride across the world to kidnap other humans and enslave them really rubs me the wrong way, especially because it’s still happening in the world today. It makes me wonder how far have we really come?

I think that this is a good time to reflect on and celebrate African-American/ Canadian culture.You may be surprised to learn about the rich presence of African-Canadians that Vancouver once had (but that’s a topic for a different column).This is a food/ wellness column, so let’s talk about what I know best, food.

More specifically, soul food!

You have probably heard of the term, and instantly get flashes of yummy exotic items streaming through your head. Maybe you think of New Orleans, collard greens, cornbread, shrimp perhaps?

You may be surprised to know that’s not how this well-known flavourful genre of food started out.

The actual meaning of soul food is “traditional southern African-American food.” It originated during American

Collard greens, fried okra, black-eyed peas, and pulled pork are soul food staples. iStock photo slavery, when slaves were given the undesirable cuts of meat and leftovers from slave owners – basically whatever the slave owners didn’t want to eat.The slaves worked with what they had and this actually carried on after slavery was abolished, as many former slaves lived in extreme poverty and could only afford the off cuts of meat and offal (internal organs, intestines and such). Eventually farming, fishing and hunting provided them with more choices such as possum, squirrel and rabbit.

So what is an example of “traditional” soul food? Think oxtail soup, chitterlings (pig’s small intestines) and boiled and pickled pigs feet, to name a few.The actual term soul food was not common until the ‘60s where the word soul was used to describe basically everything in African-American culture as a means to reclaim their part of American cultural legacy. Others began to recognize “soul food” as a culinary, cultural, and marketing buzzword and it became the new label for the very best home-cooking passed down

through the generations. If you ask people today what soul food is, I bet most will talk about a home-cooked meal of sorts made with love.

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There have been challenges along the way, too. According to Newton, many of the roles written for black men are stereotypical and demeaning.

“I’ve gotten to the point in my career where there are certain roles I just won’t go for because I find them insulting or embarrassing, so I won’t do it,” says Newton, who recently appeared in The X-Files event series.

Newton might not have formally pursued a career in communications, but communicating remains part of his daily practice. He’s the force behind The Visible Minority Report (Facebook.com/ VisibleMinorityReport), a Facebook page dealing with (according to its description) “issues relating to members of minority groups in a way that is accessible to a widespread audience.”

“To me, art and politics and activism have always been intertwined, so I always took it as my responsibility, if I was ever given a platform, that I would have to speak to things that I saw as ills in society or as corrupt,” says Newton. W

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By Rob Brezsny “Love is a fire,” declared Aries actress Joan Crawford.

“But whether it’s going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” I disagree with her conclusion. There are practical steps you can take to ensure that love’s fire warms but doesn’t burn. Start with these strategies: Suffuse your libido with compassion. Imbue your romantic fervor with empathy. Instill your animal passions and instinctual longings with affectionate tenderness. If you catch your sexual urges driving you toward narcissists who are no damn good for you, firmly redirect those sexual urges toward emotionally intelligent, self-responsible beauties.

Fifteenth-century writer Thomas à Kempis thought that real love can arouse enormous fortitude in the person who loves. “Love feels no burden,” he wrote.

“It attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” As you might imagine, the “real love” he was referring to is not the kind that’s motivated by egotism, power drives, blind lust, or insecurity. I think you know what I mean, Taurus, because in the past few months you have had unprecedented access to the primal glory that Thomas referred to. And in the coming months you will have even more. What do you plan to do with all that mojo?

Gemini novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was fascinated in “life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off.” She knew both states from her own experience. “When you love someone,” she mused about the times the lid had come off, “all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you engage in the following three-part exercise. First, identify a part of your life that has the lid tightly clamped over it.

Second, visualize the suppressed feelings and savedup wishes that might pour forth if you took the lid off.

Third, do what it takes to love someone so well that you’ll knock the lid off.

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I think that may be true. The gap between what we yearn for and what we actually get is never fully closed. Nevertheless, I suggest that you strive to refute McLaughlin’s curse in the coming days. Why? Because you now have an enhanced capacity to love the people you care about in ways they want to be loved.

So be experimental with your tenderness. Take the risk of going beyond what you’ve been willing or able to give before. Trust your fertile imagination to guide your ingenious empathy.

“Only love interests me,” declared painter Marc Chagall, “and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It’s hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it’s a worthy goal to strive toward Chagall’s ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favorable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless.

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love,” said Mahatma Gandhi. “It is the prerogative of the brave.”

That’s my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It’s not enough to be wilder, and it’s not enough to be freer. To fulfill love’s potential in the next chapter of your story, you’ve got to be wilder, freer, and bolder.

“It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another’s, you should ask yourself whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years – because that’s what you’ll be doing much of the time you’re together. How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius? What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures? If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course. How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love? What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist?

“Love isn’t something you find,” says singer Loretta Lynn. “Love is something that finds you.” Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: “You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life. Love is like a lottery.” I think these perspectives are at best misleading, and at worst debilitating. They imply we have no power to shape our relationship with love. My view is different. I say there’s a lot we can do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us, and fulfill us. Like what? 1. We clarify what qualities we want in a partner, and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. 2. We get free of unconscious conditioning that’s at odds with our conscious values. 3.

We work to transform ourselves into lovable collaborators who communicate well. Anything else? What can you do to make sure love isn’t a lottery?

Here’s the counsel of French writer Anatole France: “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” What he says is always true, but it’s especially apropos for you Leos in the coming weeks. You now have a special talent for learning more about love by loving deeply, excitedly, and imaginatively. To add further nuance and inspiration, meditate on this advice from author Aldous Huxley: “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime,” writes Chuck Klosterman. “It’s easy. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.” He concludes, “A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people.” I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That’s why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy.

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you,’” said author Maya Angelou.

She concludes: “There is an African saying: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem?

Sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso described one of love’s best blessings. He said your lover can reunite you with “a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” You Pisceans are in a phase when this act of grace is more possible than usual. The revelatory boon may emerge because of the chemistry stirred up by a sparkly new affiliation. Or it may arise thanks to a familiar relationship that is entering unfamiliar territory.

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@MyszkaWay Last week, Mayor Robertson banned infamous blogger and pickup artist, DaryushValizadeh, better known as Roosh V, from coming toVancouver to head a meeting with his organization Return of Kings.

Return of Kings is a pro-male, anti-feminist collective that offers pickup artist tricks, a return to “masculinity”, as well as musings about the dating and sex inWestern culture.

RooshV has been banned in several countries and has had to cancel meetings all over America.The mayors of Winnipeg,Toronto and Calgary all banned Return of Kings meetings, and the last time RooshV was in Montreal a young woman threw a drink on him and yelled at him to leave her city. Everyone applauded Mayor Robertson’s decision. #TurnAwayReturnOfKings ran throughTwitter followed by an array of celebration emojis from Vancouver residents alike.

RooshV really made his mark with a piece titled, “How To Stop Rape”. In the article, which held a disclaimer warning the reader of the satirical tone and to not take his ideas seriously, RooshV argues that rape should be legalized on private property. Of course, he is not literally suggesting that rape be legal on private property, but is making a comment about personal responsibility during courting and sex. He flips all the responsibility of sex crimes from men to women, and by doing this he argues how the over-powering feminist narrative has not leveled the playing field of sexual responsibility, but simply reversed the blame from one gender to the other.

He’s really just commenting on the controversial, complexity of North America’s rape culture and the distain he, a man, feels being blamed for it. However, this is not what was regurgitated by the media and therefore, not what most people took from his piece.

Roosh became the “pro-rape” guy almost over night. It is really not surprising that this is what happened. People are too lazy to finish reading anything over 500 words, and, moreover, form their own opinions about something so hateful and controversial. It’s easier to read the headline, shake your head in disgust and retweet.

Roosh is angry about his position in this increasingly politically-correct culture, and one quick read through of his other articles such as, “Men Are Nothing MoreThan ClownsTo ModernWomen” or “Ten ReasonsWhy Heterosexual Men Should Leave America” details an undertone of how powerless, insecure and agitated he feels. No one is this

hateful without reason.This does not make him “evil”. (As one of my favorite writers once said, “[The word “evil”] is a dumb way to describe anything that threatens you. It’s funny how that in war, no one declares that they are the evil side.

No one says that.The other guy is always the evil one, and that is the pretense for killing them.”) Return of Kings is the personification of the confused, pissed-off heterosexual male who despises his sudden loss of entitlement. It’s the rantings of someone who suddenly realizes they are no longer winning.

The original Pick-Up Artist bible was The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists written by Neil Strauss nearly a decade ago. I’ve read this book many times. It’s one of my favorites. Unfortunately, the book was often used in a way the author did not intend. Half the readers only digest the beginning of the tale, the section with all the PUA tips for landing chicks, and neglected to read to the second half, when all the PUAs seemingly flawless tricks are nothing but a veil on their failing, lonely, loveless lives. (I mean, it was a bunch of man-dorks in pageboy hats living in a house that Courtney Love frequented when she was high on cocaine.

Would you want that life?)

Pickup Artistry clinics are nothing new and teach socially awkward men misguided confidence and “game”. I think they are stupid, but just like any other group, they have a right to exist. Besides, when did wanting to get laid make you anything but human?We all make really pathetic attempts at sex. I am not offended by pickup artists. I think the tactics they teach are idiotic

and seldom work. However, these PUA leaders are staunch entrepreneurs who were smart enough to capitalize on the human need for sex, companionship and selfconfidence.The greasy suit in me can respect that.

I understand why RooshV is allegedly dangerous. He, himself, may have never committed any crimes against the sex that upsets him so greatly he’s devoted his adult life to griping about it, but Return of Kings is excellent fuel for that 10 per cent of demented, damaged men whose mistreatment by some female figure early on in their developing years has left them thinking women are inherently “evil”.These people are dangerous and, regardless of RooshV’s writing or not, will always be.When I read any article posted on Return of Kings I see a club of misguided men who I desperately want to debate with. I want to understand why they are so mad.

The only way men this distanced and disassociated from, yet still desperately attracted to, women are only going to understand them by having a breakthrough with one.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” Evelyn Beatrice Hall once wrote.

I do not like RooshV or his ideas because they are the opposite of mine. However, I care about free speech more than silencing someone who I don’t agree with. I can live in a world where RooshV writes this laughable garbage, but not one where even he is censored. W

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375g product of Australia

50-150g • product of BC

.89 50g 2/4.00 150g

Coconut Bliss Dairy-Free Organic Ice Cream While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

assorted varieties assorted sizes • product of USA

SAVE

UP TO

5.79 -

28% 6.49

assorted varieties assorted sizes • product of New Zealand

SAVE

UP TO

36%

3/2.49 40g 2.69 180-200g

Vij’s Frozen Indian Meals select varieties

300g • product of Canada

SAVE

34% 4.29

Select Varieties

Avalon Sunset Candles

Assorted Sizes and Varieties

19.99 200ml 39.99 500ml

20% off Regular Retail Price

Gabriel Cosmetics

Zibadel Manuka Honey Chocolate Bars

Make Up, Nail Polish, Eye Shadow, Foundation and More

assorted varieties 1 L • product of USA

20% off

Regular Retail Price

Choices’ Own Pasta Meals assorted varieties

1.00 off

33% 3.99

Regular Retail Price small

2.00 off

Regular Retail Price large

Wild Planet Tuna, Salmon or Sardines assorted varieties assorted sizes • product of USA

33%

WELLNESS Ascenta Nutrasea Fish Oil

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SAVE

UP TO

36%

3/6.00 RJ’s Licorice

assorted varieties

assorted sizes

33% 4.29 8.99 UP TO

UP TO

50g • product of USA

5.49 5.99

Hardbite Potato Chips

31%

SAVE

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

SAVE

product of Canada

assorted varieties

product of USA

Imagine Organic Soup 500-750g

Divina Roasted Garlic, Olives and Roasted Red Tomatoes

assorted sizes

SAVE

assorted sizes product of Canada

assorted varieties

227-340g • product of BC

33%

assorted varieties

Liberté Méditerranée Yogurt

ground or whole bean assorted varieties

SAVE

assorted varieties

36% 3.99 - 7.49

4.29

Ethical Bean Organic Fair Trade Coffee UP TO

Amy’s Frozen Pizza

Nature’s Path Organic Boxed Granola and Qia Cereal

assorted varieties

SAVE

SAVE

6.99lb/ 15.41kg

7.69lb/ 16.95kg

2.99 7.49

GLUTEN FREE Valentine Decadent Gluten Free Chocolate Heart Cake

Uncle Luke’s Maple Syrup

SAVE

225g

4.99

1L jug product of Canada

25% 17.99

Spectrum Organic Coconut Oil and Coconut Spray Oil

BAKERY xxx

xxx • product of xxx

Valentine Cupcakes, Cakes and Cookies

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

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UP TO

assorted sizes product of USA /Philippines/Sri Lanka

3.49 5.99

40% 6.49 - 16.99

Start a New Career Today!

As Choices continues to grow, our team is looking to fill key management roles at all of our Vancouver locations. We are looking for individuals who share our vision of sustainability, healthy living and supporting local growers and communities. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@choicesmarkets.com or visit our website: choicesmarkets.com.

Assorted Varieties

20% off

Regular Retail Price

2/7.00 70g

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