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DON’T BLAME THE VICTIM

To the “worker” at the Tinseltown McDonald’s, when you questioned me about why I was asking management to evict an aggressive man from the restaurant, it wasn’t because I – as you suggested – provoked him by coming across as “superior.” It was because he was verbally threatening a man for talking loudly.

I have seen this man for years and I know he has a condition

where he talks loudly. I said to the aggressor, “If you just leave him alone, he will quiet down.”

The fact that the aggressor then chose to see me as a white colonialist worthy of a beating because I was on “his land” doesn’t excuse that he was threatening your client and now me.When I calmly said to the man “You can say what you want, but if it is violence, I’ll call security and have you removed,” the ag-

gressor got more threatening and started moving in on my corner seat. He was yelling loud enough to scare other patrons in the line. At that point I gathered my stuff and called the management who got on the phone.

For you to then make a judgment based on my camera bag, myWhitecaps scarf, and the fact I looked middle class to you does not give you the right to decide that somehow,

in your Marxist/Freirean interpretation of socialist hierarchy, that some assumption of my white privilege was the root of why the aggressor was getting violent.

Talk about victim blaming.

The reality is: No matter a person’s mental state, race, or heritage, nobody has the right to verbally abuse and threaten anyone in a public place. If they do, they get a time-out outside, escorted by security, where they can vent without harm.

If I threatened people in a restaurant myself that eviction is the least I would get as well.This way of dealing with threatening people isn’t a colonialist territorial assertion of white privilege and classist hierarchy on my part. It is a safety issue; you reverse racist busybody!

Your socialist failure to recognize that fact in your earnest advocacy for the many street people at that McDs is going to get someone hurt; when you keep trying to be peace maker and confront those who take appropriate action to notify authorities.You are dangerous. Next time I’m just going to keep my mouth shut and see how you ineffectively deal with it.

I’ll make the witness report after someone gets bashed.

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YOUR CITY

No help from feds or province on city’s new rental project

An East Van crow named Canuck became an Internet sensation after being photographed with a knife.

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The making of a murder of crows Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

When it comes to crows, depending on whom you talk to in this town, those ever-busy black birds are either loved or loathed. I don’t have to tell you that crows are omnipresent on every street, power line, roof, alley, and park, doing what they do best: surviving and thriving by basically stealing from us, or snatching up whatever edibles we discard. Our booming crow population often has me clawing at the question: do crows, which are supposedly a very smart animal, do anything worthwhile for us, or do they just drive us squawking mad?

Let’s take a quick tally.

Take a look at just about any lawn in the city, from east to west. Most grassy areas are torn to shreds, covered in ugly divots, as if Happy Gilmore had a fit with his nine iron all over your lawn.

It’s the crows that are gorging on the plague that is the chafer beetle, which has been a major Lower Mainland issue for several years (I know raccoons and skunks dig up the juicy lawn bugs too, but in my neighbourhood, the only culprits I see going grass gonzo are crows, often working in what I’m told are family units).The crows that hang out on our block are so dastardly, without prompting, my toddler refers to them as “naughty birds.”

And how about every spring, when parent crows dive bomb unsuspecting humans, just because the sidewalks we innocently walk along happen to proceed directly under a crow’s nest filled with young’uns? Or when you leave food unattended outside for over eight seconds, only to have it stolen from a crow the minute you turn your back?

Or that spring, in the early hours every morning outside my old apartment in the West End, when a murder of roughly 50 crows sat in one tree going cuckoo, all loudly cawing at once, waking up

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the entire block at 5am for a week straight? What was up with that?!

Not everyone in Vancouver is a crow critic.The crow and its shiny black plumage has been adopted as the unofficial bird of East Vancouver. Several businesses have embraced its shadowy image, including Black Rook Bakery and the Storm Crow Tavern. “As the crow flies” means something completely different in East Van, when you look up during the evening rush hour and see the sky blackened by thousands of crows heading home to Burnaby for the night. Local comedian Charlie Demers once shared a photo of a crow wielding a knife, gripping the blade in its sharp little beak. Charlie called it “the most East Van photo ever.”

According to a few of Vancouver’s best birdbrains, all of that obnoxious crow behavior can be directly interpreted as high-level avian intelligence.

Biologist Dr. Rob Butler is Vancouver’s leading crow expert. He regularly hosts a popular lecture series called The Society of Crows, where he shares all sorts of feathered secrets, from the crow’s ability to problem solve, to their confirmed memory for human faces (especially humans that have done them either right or wrong, so behave or beware), and how many crows will rally when a single nest is threatened (something called “mobbing”, which is likely what happened outside my West End apartment), or when they act as good parents by protecting their young when they dive bomb you.

Robyn Worcester of the Stanley Park Ecological Society loves our crows too, saying that the birds are “opportunistic omnivores that are highly adaptive and merely responding to our impact on the landscape.”

Robyn also suggests it’s possible the crows are doing us a favour by chowing down on the chafer beetle at such a rapid rate.

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The city’s push to build more affordable rental housing in Vancouver continues to be done largely without investments from the provincial and federal governments.

But Mayor Gregor Robertson said the city’s ability to negotiate the construction of rental housing through rezoning deals and other programs with developers are practices not meant to dissuade senior governments from contributing housing money.

“It doesn’t take them off the hook,” he told reporters Tuesday at a news conference to announce the construction of a 135-unit rental tower geared towards families.

The 15-storey building to be constructed at Quebec Street and First Avenue will see 40 per cent of units rent for approximately $900 to $1,500 a month and targeted at households earning $36,500 to $56,000 a year.The remaining 60 per cent will be rented at what the city defined as “modest market” rents, which could range from $900 to $2,000 a month, depending on the size of the unit.The deal came as a result of negotiations with Concert Properties, which is developing a 6.4-acre site on the edge of the former

The 15-storey rental tower at Quebec Street and First Avenue will include 44 two bedroom and 29 three bedroom suites.

Olympic Village to include a park and four other condo buildings that will be sold at market rates.The rental building, which will be turned over to the city when completed in 2018 and then managed by a nonpfrofit, will include 44 two-bedroom and 29 threebedroom suites.Two in-home daycare units will be on site.

“This is one of the first projects that is getting out of the ground that will create that modest family housing that we’ve been working towards over the past couple of years,” said Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer, noting there is a dearth of new two and three-bedroom apartments in Vancouver.

While the mayor sees the project as a positive move to build more family housing, he pointed out that money from senior governments can lower costs of a construction project,

create more housing units and make rents more affordable.

“If the provincial and federal government come to the table, then we can make it even more affordable, we can have welfare-rate housing -- if that’s possible,” said Robertson, referring to the $375 shelter rate given to people on income assistance.

For several years now, the city has largely been going it alone to create more rental housing in Vancouver. It launched a program in 2009 to provide incentives for developers that included waiving development cost levies and allowing an increase in density to get more rental housing built.

Several thousand units were built.The 15-storey rental tower at Quebec Street and First Avenue was not part of that program, however.

The majority of the city’s

purpose-built rental stock was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s and is badly in need of renewal. Much of that stock was built under a federal government program that offered tax benefits to developers.

That program was scrapped in the 1980s.

“There’s lots of talk about the federal government getting back into rental housing, or affordable housing, so we’ll see what comes out of that in terms of infrastructure money,” McCauley said. “The mayor is correct:You can really only get to deepest affordability by having other levels of government participate.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government delivers its budget March 22. Robertson has requested the federal government provide $500 million to build up to 3,500 units of new housing on 20 city properties worth $250 million.

In February, Premier Christy Clark announced $355 million over five years to construct and renovate more than 2,000 units of affordable housing in B.C. It remains unclear how much of that money will be spent in Vancouver and what exactly it will be spent on, although the province is expected to leverage the $355 million with federal funding. W –Courtesy ofVancouver Courier

Clean water not to be taken for granted David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers and streams are its circulatory system, providing life’s essentials for people, animals and ecosystems. Canada has onefifth of the world’s freshwater, a quarter of its remaining wetlands and its longest coastline.With this abundance, it’s easy to take water for granted.

Many of our daily rituals require its life-giving force.

Yet, do we recognize our good fortune in having clean, safe water at the turn of a tap?

Not everyone in Canada is so lucky. On any given day, more than 1,000 boil-water advisories are in place across the country. Imagine having to walk to your local church every morning to fill plastic jugs with clean drinking water for your family. Or having to drive to your town’s fire station or community centre to collect bottled water. Imagine having to boil water for everything you do at home – cooking, cleaning, washing.This is the sad reality for people who live in communities with boilwater advisories, some for decades at a time.

Water problems are dangerous. In May 2000, bacteria in Walkerton, Ontario’s water supply caused seven deaths and more than 2,300 illnesses.

A public inquiry blamed the crisis on flaws in the province’s approval and inspection programs, a “lack of training and expertise” among watersupply operators and government budget cuts.

In 2001, nearly half of North Battleford, Saskatchewan’s 14,000 residents became ill from contaminated water. An inquiry concluded provincial oversight was inadequate and ineffective.

Indigenous communities continue to face a widespread drinking water crisis, with people on First Nations reserves 90 times more likely than other Canadians to lack access to clean water.

Health Canada reports that 131 drinking-water advisories were in effect in 87 Indigenous communities at the end of 2015, not including British Columbia. Places like Shoal Lake 40, Grassy Narrows and Neskantaga have been under boil-water advisories for decades. In BC, the First Nations Health Authority reports that 28 drinking-water advisories were in effect in 25 Indigenous communities as of

January 31, 2016.

How can this continue in a water-rich country like Canada?

Canada recognized the right to water at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012.Yet our government has failed to live up to its commitment. As a 2015 UN report points out, “The global water crisis is one of governance, much more than of resource availability, and this is where the bulk of the action is required in order to achieve a water secure world.”

We are the only G8 country, and one of just two OECD countries, without legally enforceable national drinking-water-quality standards. Federal water policy is more than 25 years old and in dire need of revision.We have no national strategy to address urgent water issues and no federal leadership to conserve and protect water. Instead, we rely on a patchwork of provincial water policies, some enshrined in law and some not. Meanwhile, highly intensive industrial activities, agribusiness and pollution are putting water supplies at risk.

The federal government will deliver its first budget on March 22 – World Water Day.

The David Suzuki Foundation’s Blue Dot movement is also taking a stand on World Water Day, helping communities across Canada call on the federal government to make good on our human right to clean water by enacting a federal environmental bill of rights.

Canada’s environment and climate change minister has a mandate to “treat our freshwater as a precious resource that deserves protection and careful stewardship.”The government could take a big step toward accomplishing this by recognizing our right to a healthy environment, including our right to clean water.

The government should also implement legally binding national standards for drinking water quality equal to or better than the highest standards in other industrialized nations, and set long-term targets and timelines to reduce water pollution. And it should fulfil our right to water by addressing the drinking water crisis in Indigenous communities and establishing a Canada Water Fund to foster the clean-water tech industry and create a robust national water quality and quantity monitoring system.

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Five must-see runway shows at this weekend’s VFW Niki Hope Style File

@NikiMHope Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) launched its 27th season this week, where it will feature more than 100 runway shows before it comes to an end Sunday.

The week-long fashion event is being held at the

Chinese Cultural Centre at 50 East Pender with more than 100 designers from 38 countries taking part, along with a handful of locals.

With a goal to help young designers ready to carve out a spot in the often rough fashion trade, VFW sponsors more than 20 designers to help get their work in front of the public, says Jamal Abdourahman, VFW producer and founder.

He admits it’s been a long learning curve since he launched VFW in 2001 when he was producing low-budget runway shows in nightclubs.

Today, the operation has evolved into a fashion event that attracts global designers, local artisans, and a burgeoning fashion scene.

Here are five designers to check out at VFW this weekend:

BETHANY WILLIAMS

Saturday, March 19, 7:15pm This designer’s threads scream “street style”: like it’s

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literally pouring upwards and seeping into the seams. But the London College of Fashion graduate has more than just street cred, she is in the midst of a fashion revolution of sorts with her sustainable, UK-made Breadline collection.The line has her collaborating with the food bank and grocery chain Tesco to develop an exchange of fresh fruit and vegetables for waste items from the food bank-users’ households.The collected waste materials, plus recycled cardboard and “Tesco Everyday Value” branded organic prints, all donated by Tesco, are used to help create the clothes (along with fabric materials). As well, 30 per cent of profits from the Breadline will go towards the Vauxhall food bank, continuing the cycle of exchange. All this positive planet energy, plus intriguing menswear and womenswear to feast on during the not-to-be missed runway show.

Danny Reinke’s clothes have an earthy charm.The influence of his fisherman father are evident in the rich textural details of his work and utilitarian accessories such as backpacks and hats. He also has a passion for “upcycling.”Try not to miss the fine handiwork of this European craftsman for a runway show that will likely invoke the feeling of life by the sea.

ALEX S. YU

Sunday, March 20, 4pm Alex S.Yu was the darling of previous fashion weeks, with his entire collection selling out at a pop-up shop after his first show.Yu is back again to show his latest collection.

Steeped in whimsy, humour, colour, and fun, call Yu what you want, but you could never call him boring.

His show is sure to make an impression and remind you not to take clothes – or life, for that matter – so damn seriously.

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Saturday, March 19, 8:45pm With a childhood spent in an idyllic fishing village near the Baltic Sea, it’s no surprise

TINSQUARE

Sunday, March 20, 5:50pm Elegant minimalism, impeccable tailoring, sophisticated silhouettes – all ways to describe this must-see line. It’s hard to nail down one striking look from Parsons graduate Tamara Sui’s collection of images because, simply, there are so many.The NewYork-based womenswear brand Tinsquare is just a year old, but it’s already garnered a showcase at NewYork Fashion Week.

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CTV News anchor Tamara Taggart shows off her tasteful East Van home. Janis Nicolay photos

My Digs: CTV’s Tamara Taggart Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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Tamara Taggart has become the face of our city in so many ways. Arguably the most beloved news anchor in Vancouver (and winner of Westender’s Best of the City award for Best Local TV Personality), Tamara has used her influence to become a public figure for many of the key social issues our community faces. In a time in which many of us try to tuck away our struggles and present an impossibly perfect image of ourselves to the world, Tamara bravely took the “screw that” attitude and has shared her personal journeys through cancer and raising a son with Down Syndrome.

Through her openness and advocacy, Tamara has become a figure of inspiration – not just for her social activism, but also for her personal style. This week Tamara opens her doors to us, and we get to see how a busy mom of three with an amazing career makes a stylish space look easy. The Taggart home exudes the comfort of a family dwelling with an effortlessly glamorous appeal.

What is it? A 3,000-sq.-

ft character home in East Vancouver; four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a sweet city garden.

Occupant: I co-anchor CTV News at 6, my husband is a musician and producer, our kids are five, seven and eight, and we have a new puppy.

Major selling feature: The space and our neighbourhood.

First thing I changed: We painted all the walls white, it brightened everything up.

We also started the garden from scratch, including trees – which was important for extra privacy.

Feature I brag about: Our neighbourhood, it’s the best.

That one conversation piece: Outside, it’s our climbing roses. Inside, it’s our comfy white couch – people think white is ridiculous with kids and a puppy but bleach is my best friend.

The décor: I like to change things up, but the basics stay the same: I like white and bright. Changing pillows, art and vintage bits creates a whole new look depending on my mood.

The story behind the art/ antiques/collectibles: My

husband’s father was an incredible artist; we’re lucky to have some of his pieces on our walls.The same goes for his sister – her art is sprinkled throughout – I love that our kids are surrounded by their family’s creativity. Most of our vintage pieces are from

my grandparents.We have their first stereo from the ‘40s in our living room. I love it.

Downsides: There’s always something that needs fixing!

Neighbourhood haunts: Too many to list. We love

Favourite apartment/ house/condo activity: Just hanging out with the doors wide open and kids running all over the place. W

that we can walk for a coffee, dinner, groceries, wine and the playground (not in that order!)

Compared to your last place: Bigger…and this place feels like our forever home.

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05 Rare Tea Bar owner Pedro Villanon pours some tea at his West Fourth teahouse. Dan Toulgoet photo

Vancouver’s top teas Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday “Hey, wanna meet up for a coffee or something?” asked a friend the other day.

Since I don’t drink coffee – and my friend is very much aware of this – I rightly interpreted her statement to mean, “Hey, wanna chat over some tea?”

She wasn’t being insensitive or forgetful. That phrase has become the standard “let’s hang out” invitation, regardless of the actual beverage involved. Coffee culture in Vancouver is, after all, as much a part of the city’s make-up as yoga, sushi and loving/hating the Canucks.

STEAM TEA HOUSE

This tiny tea house is located in Donald’s Market on East Hastings, and it’s standing room only, but the tea is fantastic, and worth multiple visits.

SteamTea.ca Times are a-changin’, however, and what was old is once again new, as tea – that humble concoction of leaves steeped in hot water – makes

a play for its portion of the city’s psyche.

“Tea, after water, is the number-one beverage drank globally,” says Reza Nasooti, tea sommelier and director of business development for Urban Tea Merchant. An exclusive retailer of the TWG brand of teas, which focus on ethically and organically grown teas with no pesticides, chemicals or artificial flavours, Urban Tea Merchant also has seen a rising interest in their afternoon tea service, which uses the teas to infuse the savoury and sweet food items.

“It’s a tea gastronomy experience,” explains Nasooti.

It’s an experience that is growing in demand, judging by the number of new spots that have opened in the last five years. The rapid expansion in the number of tea houses is just a small indicator of where the city’s palate is heading. Retailers like David’s Tea and Teavana first popularized tea on a mass scale, and their flavoured, fruit-forward teas have now become almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks coffees.

In the same way that Starbucks presaged the advent of more farmer-focused, singleorigin coffees – like those championed by Stumptown, 49th Parallel and Third Wave

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Shaktea.

Contributed photo – so have these tea chains been the means of bringing into focus places like Urban Tea Merchant, O5 Tea and Shaktea. The latter, which has been a Main Street institution since 2005, was one of the first places in Vancouver to source its teas directly from small-lot growers all over the world, focusing on estate-grown, fair trade and sustainable teas.

“David’s Tea and Teavana have gotten people interested in tea, and we love them for that,” says Pedro Villalón, co-founder and managing partner of O5 Tea in Kitsilano. “But, I think Vancouver is now more educated in terms of culture; people are more excited about things like matcha and Pu-ehr.”

Villalón has noticed that excitement grow as the pal-

ates of his customers have developed over time.

“We wanted to create something that didn’t exist at the time. Nobody becomes a geek overnight,” he says.

“When we started, we asked people, ‘What’s your favourite tea?’ and the answer was strawberry-shortcake sencha or passionfruit-mango rooibos. We didn’t have any of that, so then we asked, ‘What do you drink in general? Not just tea, but beer, wine coffee, etc.’ We wanted to provide something that would make people happy, even if they didn’t know what they were drinking.”

The questioning paid off.

Matcha turned out to be a major hit.

“I believe it’s the easiest to appreciate for people who are not familiar with tea.

It’s energizing, like espresso, frothy and rich,” he explains.

Pu-ehr, the dark, fermented and aged tea originating in China’s Yunnan province, is also popular, especially with those who have a fondness for whiskey and single-malts.

“People want to get more engaged with the land and the farmer,” says Villalón.

“Most people believe that quality means consistency, but craft beer taught us, and what Third Wave, and wine has been teaching us forever, is that quality means being phenomenal each and every time. Each and every harvest will be outstanding, but each and every harvest will be different, will have its own unique qualities, just like with wine.”

The interest in tea has manifested in academia as well. Vancouver Community College launched a single course as an introduction to tea five years ago, and has since expanded that into a full tea sommelier certification.

“There’s a tremendous amount of interest in the program and in tea consumption,” says Donna Hawrelko, program coordinator at VCC. “It’s a whole new metamorphosis in the culture. It’s becoming more popular to meet for tea, in

the way people meet at Starbucks for coffee. They want to experiment with tea and it’s becoming the equivalent of pairing foods with wine; they’re looking at how to pair, testing their palate.”

Enrollment in the tea sommelier program has increased tenfold since it first opened, with both young people straight out of school and those looking for a career change signing up before heading off for jobs as consultants, importers and hospitality workers.

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This indigenous plantinspired teahouse in Gastown is run by motherdaughter duo Michelle and Paisley Nahanee of the Squamish Nation.

Classic rooibos and green teas are paired with local juniper berries, stinging nettle and other local plants for fresh, earthy and unique flavours. The small-batch sodas are also worth checking out.

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Andy and Sophia Chen, co-founders of Soffee Café on West 8th. Jennifer Gauthier photo

Afternoon tea guide One of the best ways to experience tea is with a classic afternoon tea repast. Here are a few places to indulge in whimsy, fine food, and, yes, fine tea.

SHAKTEA

Lovely, light fare and one of the most reasonably priced afternoon teas (under $20) in the city. Lots of gluten-free and vegetarian options as well. Shaktea.ca

URBAN TEA MERCHANT

LA PETITE CUILLERE

Located in Mount Pleasant’s old Brewery Creek neighbourhood, this charming space serves up dainty morsels in an elegant and cozy space stacked to the beams with a massive collection of antique china.

The small tea selection ranges from traditional blends to more experimental varieties that are blended in-house. LaPetiteCuillere.ca

NEVERLAND TEA SALON

Whimsy is in full force at this Kitsilano tea house that smacks of Victorianera sensibilities with its mismatched tea sets and princess parties. Oh, and the tea isn’t bad, either.

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High-end cuisine infused with their own line of TWG teas makes for a fancy afternoon experience.

Choose from over 250 teas to go along with your fancy treats. UrbanTea.com

SOFFEE CAFÉ

This small, family-run tea house in South Granville offers a unique afternoon tea service that includes white wine seared scallops, roasted stuffed mushrooms, caprese salad, finger sandwiches and, of course, premium teas, sourced from Kuzmi in Paris, as well as organic espresso. SoffeeCafe.com

Tea set from La Petite Cuilliere. Jennifer Gauthier photo

Villalón echoes the growing interest in food and tea pairing. “I am seeing a really warm welcome from the fine dining and bartending community,” he enthuses. “They are really embracing tea as a source of flavouring and pairing with food. People like Jefferson Alvarez have been especially gracious, as well as Lauren Mote, Grant

Sceney, and every one from Keefer Bar, who have been instrumental in introducing tea among the local bartending crowd. It’s about expressing flavours, and they understand about stories, complexity and tasting notes. I think tea is becoming a much more important part of the bartending and culinary arts world.” W

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BC’s best craft beer tasting rooms you forget about the day beyond its windows. The lighting’s low, the walls are painted a soothing teal. The wraparound bar provides a sense of community and connection with whatever strangers are sharing the space with you. The only problem is that it’s not the most easily accessible place by transit.

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For the better part of three decades, beer has been as much about marketing as about the beer itself. And for all of craft beer’s conscious efforts to do everything differently than macro beer, the industry is still a product of how it presents itself to the world, beyond the brew.

Tasting rooms are a massive part of that.They are, for better or worse, worlds unto themselves, and beer drinkers from major North American beer cities are acclimatized to that (except Victoria, for some reason).You go for whatever unique experience each brewery has to offer.You buy a tasting flight.You soak in the aesthetics. Maybe you talk to the brewer.You probably get all pissed up and stagger on to the next place.

And some breweries are better at it creating these worlds than others. Here’s a list of the nine best in BC, based primarily on personal preference following a year of “research,” with observations and opinions from friends and strangers I’ve met along the way.

I’ve placed less emphasis on the beer (although that is important) and more on the overall vibe and aesthetics.

Only brewpubs and brewer-

R&B BREWING

Brassneck Brewery’s tasting room helped kickstart the tasting room craze. Lucas Finlay photo ies with lounge endorsements were considered.

FIELD HOUSE BREWING

The Fraser Valley’s latest and greatest brewery has dropped the mic, as far as tasting room design goes.

This place is impeccable, like an EQ3 showroom display set to beer. It’s the sort of place to while away rainy day hours reading by its fireplace, or playing chess (or checkers?), or pondering Abbotsford’s impending cultural millennial revolution that Field House clearly is anticipating.

MARTEN BREWING CO.

Another staggeringly impressive location, built almost completely by hand by Stefan and Pearl Marten.The Vernon brewpub is modern, classy and encompasses everything I naively assumed Vernon was not. It’s attached to the Naked Pig (also owned and operated by the Martens), an excellent Southern-inspired barbecue house.

BNA BREWING

With a wide open setup, huge leather couches, expensive wooden tables and stuffed animal heads hanging from the walls, Kelowna’s

BNA Brewing is like enjoying a pint in a One Percenter’s personal residence.

Thanks to management’s conscious decision not to serve shooters here, it’s also weeded out the Bro Culture that so many of us find distasteful about Kelowna, replacing it instead with the smart, sophisticated types we tend to forget actually live out there. Like, y’know, the majority of folks who live there year-round.

FOUR WINDS BREWING

Like Field House, Four Winds’ Ladner tasting room is the sort of place that lets

The brand new Brewery Creek tasting room isn’t yet open at the time of publication, but man, I tell you this place is one of the most original venues in Vancouver. It’s cave-like without being dark, featuring all reclaimed-wood furniture built specifically for the tasting room, and a wall of vintage speakers playing vinyl records. Oh yeah, and a pizza oven.

BRASSNECK BREWING

I mean, obviously. This is the place that kick-started the whole tasting room craze in Vancouver, and for good reason. The long wooden tables, the crowded space, the general sense of gladtidings of everyone who walks in there. If there’s one space that encapsulates BC craft beer, you know this is it (don’t you?).

MAIN STREET BREWING

I’ve praised this tasting room enough times already,

but whatever. High ceilings. Lots of light. A great clientele. Friendly staff.

Long wooden tables. It’s a relaxing, reliable venue for social outings of any and every kind (except Trump supporter rallies).

CUMBERLAND BREWING

I walked by the patio of Cumberland Brewing a couple weeks ago. The patio was crowded, despite ominous overcast clouds threatening rain. Everyone for the most part stared at me as I walked down, smiling. Some of them had hippie dreads.

Almost all of them looked like they work in the forest for a living. A group in the corner was jamming with acoustic guitars, but they weren’t hired to play. It was like they’d all discovered Beertopia, and were inviting me to stay. I haven’t yet, but hell, maybe one day I will.

PARALLEL 49 BREWING

Obviously, there’s nothing aesthetically pleasing or sophisticated about this place.

The walls are green. The tables are all wobbly. The windows are barred. That’s part of P49’s charm…that, and the lively neighbourhood pub feel, attracting all walks of life to have a good time, and a carefree time only.

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L’Abattoir’s wine director, Lisa Haley. Viranlly Liemena photo

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To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, L’Abattoir’s wine director Lisa Haley moderated an industry forum focusing on the females shaping Vancouver’s restaurants. The initiative, which raised $2,000 for the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, was more “State of the Nation,” rather than battle of the sexes.

Haley moved to Vancouver from Montréal two years ago. She feels that by comparison, the Vancouver restaurant community “is so much more welcoming, friendly and inclusive.”

Nevertheless, it’s still maledominated, especially as you climb higher up the ladder.

While the number of female sommeliers working in restaurants is increasing, they’re still very much in the minority. As a snapshot, in the 17 years that the Vancouver International Wine Festival has been giving out its Sommelier of theYear

award, only two recipients have been female (Barbara Philip when she was wine director at the Fish House and Cannery restaurants in 2003 and Samantha Rahn from Araxi Restaurant in 2013).

At the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers competition in BC this year, there wasn’t a single female competitor.

Yet it is a field that women find appealing. Jill Spoor, wine director for Fairmont Pacific Rim truly loves her job: “It’s absolutely rewarding to find something you can specialize in like wine and then share that passion.”

Furthermore, job opportunities are available.

Haley recognizes that being a female sommelier specifically can be an advantage. As some restaurant owners and managers seek to balance their organizations, “they are really looking to have a woman on their team,” asserts Haley.

Despite greater acceptance and opportunities, genderbased adversity is an ongoing reality. Haley assures me that “the guest who would prefer

to speak with the male sommelier” still exists and makes himself known. And while chauvinistic attitudes from coworkers seem to be declining, they haven’t completely disappeared.

The greater challenge these women are finding, however, is being respected as businesswomen. At meetings with agents as well as winery representatives from around the world, Haley reports being completely ignored even when introduced as the wine buyer.

“I have also been made to feel invisible,” says Spoor.

As galling and unacceptable as this behaviour is, it’s countered by an overall encouraging environment.

Both Haley and Spoor are quick to praise the mentors and allies, male and female, who have helped them along the way. This is the culture that needs to be nurtured.

Which brings us to the subject of motherhood. The long and often excruciatingly late hours can take their toll on anyone but are particularly incompatible with raising children. Nessa van Burgen,

who was a wine buyer for a number of significant Vancouver establishments for more than 15 years, had both of her daughters while working in restaurants.

“It becomes very tough when you decide to have a family,” she admits. Besides giving due credit to her spouse, she stresses the importance of finding a good company that is going to be supportive. Restaurant owners Meeru Dhalwala (Vij’s and Rangoli) and Karri Schuermans (Chambar) are among those who adapt and show flexibility so that they can keep mothers in the restaurant industry.The sommelier role in particular can be more accommodating than many of the other positions in restaurants, as Haley points out.

“There are so many ways to structure the job,” she says. “You don’t need to be there until 1am.”

Clearly the sommelier profession isn’t for everyone.

But it shouldn’t distinguish between male and female.

“The only true difference is how we’re perceived,” remarks Haley. W

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No one who’s ever listened to Daughter would accuse the band’s music of being blithe. With songs mired in depth, texture, and melancholic lyrics, the Londonbased ambient indie-rock trio have a sound that lends itself to the dramatic.

So it comes as no surprise that their current fame is partially due to the several primetime television spots the band’s music has been featured in.

“When we released the first record (IfYou Leave), I think is when we started getting all this demand for getting our songs in these shows. Any kind of opportunity to have a song that was written for a specific purpose to be used in another way was very interesting,” says Igor Haefeli, guitarist/bassist for the band.

Indeed, TV producers found them interesting, too.

Daughter tracks have been featured in TV shows such as Mistresses, Skins, Our Girl, Forever,TeenWolf, Reign, and Grey’s Anatomy – just to name a few.

It could be the band’s larger-than-life ambient sound – almost impossibly pulled off by just three members – or singer/guitarist Elena Tonra’s tendency to write earnestly and with enormity.

“From the lyrical point of view, I just think that when [Elena] writes, she’s feeling melancholic or negative because that’s her way of exorcising those things,” Haefeli

UK indie act Daughter are Remi Aguilella, Elena Tonra, and Igor Haefli (from left to right). Contributed photo says of his bandmate.

“Putting the music to that, conceptualizing that and making it more abstract, you make it something more positive and put a spin on the negative. On the music side, we’re influenced quite a lot by melancholic artists and movies and books so I think that’s sort of what happens.”

It’s not just the music itself that’s cinematic in nature, however. With Daughter’s most recent release, the band’s sophomore album Not To Disappear, was the output of three mini-films to complement three singles from the record.

“I think we were very sensitive to image, and especially connecting our music to image was something we’ve always been interested in,” Haefeli reveals.

“Having the opportunity to make some more interesting, more creative videos that aren’t just for a promotional purpose but had an artistic intent was something we were happy to be able to do.”

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“We started our first EP with a couple guitars and some recording stuff and a

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[It was] quite heavily vocalbased to begin with, there were different vocal textures and [we] really sort of grew into that sort of sound.”

That solidification of musical identity, Haefeli says, has more to do with translating their songs to the stage than being featured on the tube.

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THE IRISH ROVERS CelticFest presents the iconic, rousing ambassadors of Irish music and good cheer for this must-attend show as they band delivers their last world tour. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $35+ at TicketFly.com. All ages show.

DAUGHTER Indie rockers from England appear in support of their latest release, Not to Disappear.

8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $27.50+ at Red Cat and LiveNation.com. All ages show.

ULTIMATE GUITAR EXPERIENCE Legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth celebrates the re-releases of his most successful albums with special guests Jennifer Batten and Andy Timmons. 7pm at Venue. Tickets $30 at Scrape and TicketWeb.ca

THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Texas instrumental-rock band tours in support of their latest release Another Language with special guest Vinyl Williams. 9pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $17 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

PIXAR IN CONCERT The VSO, under the direction of Gordon Gerrard brings your favourite Pixar characters to life in this visually stunning, high-definition, multimedia family friendly show set against the extraordinary music of the films. 7pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca

RADIATION CITY & DEEP SEA DIVER Indie rock outfit from Portland, Oregon co-headlines with the Seattle trio. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com GOOD FOR GRAPES Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Surrey folksters and special guests Small Town Artillery and Servo.

8pm at Studio Records. Tickets $12 at TicketWeb.ca JOY Self-described psychedelic savages from San Diego appear with special guests Pharlee and Doctor Claw. 9:30pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $10 at the door only.

COMEDY SIMON KING High-energy and edgy comedy from this prolific writer and workhorse performer known for appearances at the world’s most prestigious comedy festivals, regular airplay on Sirius/XM, Pandora and CTV/Comedy Network as well as his critically acclaimed comedy album Unfamous. 8:30pm at The Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE ONEGIN Life is quiet on the Larin family’s Russian country estate, until the charismatic Evgeni Onegin ignites the romantic longings of its residents in this passionate new musical (based on the poem

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BOY BREAKING GLASS Local indie rockers play tunes from Vesta in an intimate performance.

9pm at Guilt & Co. Admission by donation.

FLOPHOUSE JR. Alt-pop, country trio from Vancouver play tunes from Welcome Mat. 9pm at Skinny Fat Jack’s. Admission by donation.

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KYTAMI Electronic/hip-hop violinist from Victoria blends classic fiddle styles with heavy bass and electronic beats with special guest JF Killah. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, Highlife, Beatstreet and TicketFly.com

BRICKHOUSE Vancouver’s favourite blues-funk band celebrate the release of their newest album, Future. 8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $20 at RioTheatreTickets.ca

THE THICK OF IT Electric hard rock and acoustic ballads from the local rockers with special guests Goodbye Terra Firma, the Suicide Ring and Return of the Stern. 9pm at Railway Club. Cover is $10.

BURNING GHATS Grinding blasts, D-beats and slow riffs from Vancouver Island with special guests Anion and Wormwitch. 9:30pm at SBC Restaurant. Cover is $10.

THE SHIT TALKERS High energy punk play in support of Where Is The Trust, with Bound by None and War Amp. 9pm at Funky Winker Beans. Cover is $10.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Japanese experimental-psych rockers appear with special guests Orphan Goggles. 8pm at The Cobalt.

Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca KAWEHI Hawaiian pop singersongwriter appears in support of her EP, Interaktiv. 8pm at Alexander Gastown. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

THEATRE/DANCE BALLET BC – PROGRAM 2 New work from rising French choreographer Medhi Walerski, builds on themes established with Prelude and questions how to balance order and chaos while looking at the human need for celebration, blurring the lines between the audience and the stage. 8pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at BalletBC.com.

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THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Buddies In Bad Times Theatre returns to Vancouver with this production from three of the country’s most gifted creator/ performers who uncover a rich history of LGBTQ culture not often shared and shine new light on contemporary gay culture. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Runs until March 19.

EVENTS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL The 16th annual celebration of movement, choreography and expression features artists from China, Spain, the US, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Lithuania, Mexico and others, performing techniques and styles from butoh and aboriginal, to flamenco, hiphop and ballet with cutting edge contemporary dance. Visit VIDF.ca for details. Runs until March 19.

SONIC BOOM MUSIC FESTIVAL Vancouver Pro Musica returns with its 29th year of contemporary classical music over the course of four brilliant evening performances, a truly unique musical experience in three acoustically beautiful venues in Vancouver.

Visit VancouverProMusica.com for details. Runs until March 20.

ANIMAL BODIES Local rockers take the stage with special guests Actors and Shitlord Fuckerman with DJ Christa Belle and DJ Bürger. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $8 at Red Cat, Neptoon and TicketFly.com STÖRC Vancouver punk band hits the stage with Invisible Ray, Cawama and the Dead Zones. 9:30pm at Railway Club. Cover is $10.

COMEDY STEVE BYRNE Half-Korean, half-Irish Pittsburgh writer and comedian behind TBS’s Sullivan & Son brings his stand-up to town with an opening set from Gary Cannon. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $24 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE RECLAIMING HOPE Theatre for Living presents this series of theatrical dialogues that tour different Vancouver venues to engage communities about identifying and transforming the fears that hold us back from healthier selves and environment. Visit TheatreForLiving.com for details. Runs until March 27.

GA TING A powerful and emotionally charged story centres around an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with their death of their son, as they invite his Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral. 2pm & 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

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STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a program of heartwarming songs and ballads, and foot stompin’ jigs and reels from Elspeth McVeigh, Mark Sullivan and Craig McGregor. 2pm at Hycroft Manor.

Tickets $20 at UWCVancouver.ca WACKEN METAL BATTLE ROUND NO. 3 Come join Vancouver’s finest up-and-coming metal bands duke it out, featuring Meridius, God Said Kill, The Fall of Day, Drop Dead Fred and Majora. 7pm at Red Room.

THE POSTMODERN CAMERATA: ETERNAL LIGHT The vocal and instrumental ensemble perform their second concert, a program featuring works by Dominus, Aeterna, Fratres & Lobet den herrn.

4pm at Dunbar Heights United Church. Tickets $25 at BrownPaperTickets.com

COMEDY 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.

THEATRE/DANCE GO, DOG. GO! Carousel Theatre for Young People brings PD Eastman’s classic children’s book to life on stage in a zany, tonguewagging, tail-spinning musical, fun for the whole family. 11am & 2pm at Waterfront Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.CarouselTheatre. ca. Final performances.

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THE LAUGH GALLERY WITH GRAHAM CLARK Join the East Van comedian and his pals for guaranteed laughs and a shot at winning thrift store treasures at one of the longest running comedy shows in town. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $5 at EastVanComedy.com 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).

MERMAID CLUB COMEDY A live stand-up and improv show featuring Vancouver comedians Stefan MacNeil, Brad Dorion and Dylan Williamson as they handpick some of the city’s best and invite them to the Mermaid stage. 8pm at Railway Club.

Cover is $5.

ART FROM THE STREET A joint exhibition brings together Norman Fox’s photography and Jeff Wilson paintings, each presenting a unique view of the often overlooked beauty of the people and landscapes in the Downtown Eastside. Runs until May 1 in the gallery at Firehall Arts Centre.

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PHANTOM SIGNAL Original comedy-horror radio performed live on stage with the top-drawer trio, this week joined by David Jordan of the Fringe Festival, with Aaron Chapman and the Voodoo Radar Orchestra. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TheatreWire.com

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DE DANNAN Deemed “the Rolling Stones of traditional Irish music”, the Irish folksters play in support of Wonder Waltz as part of CelticFest.

8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $36 at Highlife, Rufus’ Guitars and RogueFolk.bc.ca

WACKEN METAL BATTLE ROUND NO. 3 Come join Vancouver’s finest up and coming metal bands duke it out, featuring Exterminatus, the Mountain Man, Slaughterhauser, Saints of Death and Occasionally Dropped. 7pm at Red Room.

AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI American singer-songwriter leads his stripped-down band through a selection of songs encompassing his career with guest literary stylist Derrick Brown. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca HOT JAZZ JAM A night of live and hot New Orleans jazz and dancing featuring The Bayou Ramblers, and open to musical guests. 9pm at Backstage Lounge. Cover is $12.

COMEDY KINGS HEAD COMEDY It’s the most fun you can have on a Tuesday night in Vancouver for $5. Join an array of local and international comedians in this weekly stand-up showcase. 9pm at King’s Head Pub. Cover is $5.

THEATRE/DANCE DOOST (FRIEND) A unique ensemble of artists and adherents of the Nimatullahi Sufi order explore the universal essence of mystic poetry in this story about heritage, compassion and community. 8pm at The Cultch.

Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch. com. Runs until March 26.

RETURN TO GRACE A tribute to some of the greatest musical moments of a generation chronicling the King’s beginnings in Memphis through the ’68 comeback special to the historical Aloha from Hawaii concert. 8pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at Ticketmaster. ca. Runs until March 27.

KEITH APE AND TOMMY South Korean trap artist shares the bill with rap’s rebellious underground queen from Vancouver. 10pm at Venue. Tickets $22.50 at Blueprint.

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THEATRE/DANCE LOST WORDS What makes a play so controversial that authorities ban it from the stage? Explore that and more in the final performance with a focus on Canada and Canadians from Pi Theatre in collaboration with the frank theatre company. 7:30pm at The Emerald.

Admission by suggested donation of $10 at PiTheatre.com/tickets THE OUT VIGIL A modern fable steeped in maritime lore questions our ability to accept the natural world for all that it is, both beautiful and terrifying, taking on a bold new form of poetic naturalism allowing for the marriage of fact and folklore, music and magic, the modern and mythical.

1pm (pay what you can) & 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.com. Runs until March 26.

THE CROWD A wedding, an arrest, a celebration, a snitch. A little gang warfare and Beyonce’s greatest hits. Tina and Bobby, the beloved couple from Tough! and Moss Park continue the struggle to find their place in the world in this fast-paced tragicomedy from Canadian playwright George F. Walker. 8pm at Studio 58. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Runs until April 3.

ANTHONY DAVIS Renowned jazz pianist appears in support of past piano present as part of the continuing series, 88 Tuned Bongos. 8pm at Western Front.

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COMEDY CHARLIE DEMERS Canadian writer, comedian and political activist, author of The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things who often appears on CBC’s The Debaters appears with Mark Nesbitt and Levi McCachen. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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Opera might have been banned in Rome in the early 18th century for being too sexy, but that didn’t stop George Frideric Handel from creating music filled with lust, madness and death.

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by Handel in Italy in 1709, when the German composer was just beginning his brilliant operatic career, the secular cantata cunningly bypassed the papal decree by using mythological legends as its stars.

In it, Handel tells the story of the god Apollo. Fresh off a vigorous dragon slaying, and puffed up with hubris, the renowned archer claims that his skills with a bow and arrow are better even than Cupid’s.This arrogance is soon shattered, however, upon spotting the virginal and enchanting Dafne. As a suitor, Apollo employs all manner of charms to win her affections, but she ultimately rejects his advances to preserve her honour. As Apollo becomes more forceful (ie:

Douglas Williams plays the role of the archer Apollo in Handel’s tragic cantata, Apollo e Dafne. Katherine Griswold photo

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rapey) the terrified Dafne’s only means to escape is to transform herself into a laurel tree before his very eyes.

For a 40-minute piece, singer Douglas Williams says the experience ends up feeling more like a chamber opera in its dramatic scope and storytelling.

“There’s this whole arc of frustration,” the bass-baritone explains, “and [Apollo] ends with the most plaintive aria of despair at the end, where

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he has nothing to hold but these laurel leaves. So I think the piece has this wonderful overall shape to it and this incredible storytelling and development of character for a piece that’s only 40 minutes long, with two characters.”

Williams, a 34-year-old, Grammy-winning soloist with a four-century repertoire, will be in Vancouver this weekend to perform as Apollo in Early Music Vancouver’s production of the exuber-

ant piece.The Berlin-based, Connecticut-born artist is known for his appearances in two landmark new operas: Acis and Galatea with Mark Morris for Lincoln Center and Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Sasha Waltz at the Dutch National Opera, and is back across the pond to appear in a series of engagements from San Francisco to Chicago.

Fending off his musical overtures in the role of Dafne will be Opera Magazine “star-to-be”Yulia Van Doren, a prize-winning soprano who has been presented as a soloist in virtually all of the North American early music festivals.

Meanwhile, Juno Awardwinning Vancouver ensemble director Alexander Weimann will be leading this amorous adventure, accompanied by his Pacific Baroque Orchestra.

For Williams, this will be the third time he has picked up Apollo’s bow, including a stint in a 1950s, Mad Menesque staging of the tragic lust story, but he says it’s a role he keeps coming back to because of its celebration of the voice.

“I love singing Handel.

It’s written very well for the voice so it allows you to sing beautiful long legato lines.

And it’s often very exciting and virtuosic music, which is certainly a part of this piece.

“It’s not like 19th-century opera,” he continues, “where you have an orchestra with so many different instruments providing all of these different colours. Here, you have a chamber orchestra […] and so with these lesser forces you have to create all the different colours.There’s a lot of opportunity to make individual choices about what colour of the voice you’re going to use.”

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The truth will out, according to Shakespeare’s Merchant of -=M'@=. But the Bard never said it would be easy.

Toronto artist Minh Ly demonstrates that firsthand with Ga Ting (Family) – a play where homophobia and racism clash head on, and regrets are only amended through hard conversations In the emotional production from frank theatre (making its Vancouver debut at the Cultch), an elderly Chinese couple is faced with not only the sudden loss of their son Kevin to suicide, but with the fact that Kevin was gay.

When Kevin’s Caucasian boyfriend shows up uninvited to the funeral, all three are forced to confront their deeply entrenched beliefs.

It’s a scenario that the now-32-year-old playwright found himself personally troubled by as he wrote.

“I’ve always wondered, if something ever happened to me, if my story would be told in some way,” Ly reveals, speaking by phone before rehearsals in Vancouver. “At that time, I wasn’t officially out to my parents, and you know, if I got hit by a bus one day, would there be someone to tell my story?”

In Ga Ting, both the partner and the parents believe (to a fault) that they know Kevin best. It’s a disconnect that plagues many families, Ly feels.

“Once you reach adulthood, you’re on your own and you lose, or at least I lost, a bit of communicating with my parents. [In Ga Ting] the boyfriend is the one who shares with the parents who he thinks the son really is,” Ly continues. “And of course the parents believe they know their own child, especially the dad. So conflict arises from there.”

Ga Ting was Ly’s first play,

and his parent’s ultimately learned the truth about his orientation during its initial run in Richmond in 2014.

Building on feedback, Ly says he has since reworked his script, taking a more balanced approach to the parents’ point of view, while pushing his characters (under director Rick Tae), deeper into the central issues of racism within the gay community and homophobia within the Asian Canadiancommunity.

As an actor, though, Ly also saw Ga Ting as a chance to draw attention to the lack of diversity in Canadian theatre.

“I had this image of a pair of older Asian actors on stage with a middle-aged white guy, basically,” says Ly, of his initial inspiration. “And I thought it would be interesting if something opened that way […] because I have probably seen that once in my life,” he adds. “I have seen younger coloured actors on stage, whether they be Asian or black or whatever, but I rarely see older Asian actors on stage. So that initiated how this play got started. I wanted to write something that put them front and centre.”

Ga Ting, which alternates between English and Cantonese (with surtitles), stars veteran actor and former Vancouver city councillor BC Lee, alongside Hong Kong film star Alannah Ong and Jessie Award-winner Brian J Sutton. As the boyfriend, Sutton is a new addition to the cast, while Lee and Ong are reprising their roles as the parents.

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Here come the Hearties Hallmark Channel’s Vancouver-shot series brings back the family drama

American women.They’d on Hallmark Channel and travelled from all over the CBC-TV. States to converge in this The television show is white tent, to stand on plybased on a series of books wood planks

by Alberta author while the Janette Oke. rain pelted Set in 1910, the down on hit series stars Erin the canvas Krakow as Elizabeth roof and Thatcher, a young the portable teacher from a heaters did wealthy Eastern famlittle to warm ily who migrates to the space. teach school in a coal But they mining town that were there has been devastated because they by an accident that Actress Erin Krakow were dedicated killed most of the men.

Hearties, and this is what Australian Daniel Lissing Hearties do. (who plays a Mountie), Lori Hearties is the term adLoughlin (Aunt Becky from opted by fans of When Calls Full House), and Jack Wagner the Heart, a wildly popular (Melrose Place) also star.

Western family drama that In addition to the out-offilms in Langley and airs town stars, When Calls the

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It was one of those winter days when the rain was relentless and unforgiving – but for the nearly 200 people who gathered in a big white tent on a farm in Langley, the atmosphere was anything but gloomy.

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Heart is packed with Vancouver actors, including Martin Cummins, Johannah Newmarch, Loretta Walsh, Erica Carroll, and Pascale Hutton (Arctic Air).

To say When Calls the Heart is a hit with fans is an egregious understatement. Since launching in 2014, When Calls the Heart has grown to become Hallmark’s top-rated show – and these Hearties, who number 30,000 strong on social media and work to get the show trending on Twitter each week, are integral to the success of the show.

Their passion was front and centre at January’s Hearties Family Reunion, an event organized by Hallmark during which 175 fans descended upon the set in Langley (specifically Jamestown, a recreation of a frontier Western town) and participated in set tours, Q&As, and autograph sessions with the cast, crew, and creators.

“You are in our mind at every moment in the process,” Brad Krevoy, one of the executive producers, told the crowd in the tent, adding that the writers have a photo of a group of fans in the writing room that they pull out whenever they hit a wall.

“They ask themselves, ‘What would the Hearties want to see?’”

Later, in the Jamestown saloon set where the cast and crew signed autographs for Hearties (who’d travelled

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The Hearties have not gone unnoticed by Hallmark.

“The fact that you’re there keeps them [Hallmark Channel] thinking about us even more,” Krevoy told the crowd.

What’s the appeal? Why have these fans come from all over the States to a tent in the Langley mud?

“It’s the family values,” said Heartie Sarah Wilkins, who drove up from Washington State to visit the set with her mother and infant son. “The actors are wonderful, too. It’s brought a lot of people together.”

When Calls the Heart is one of countless Hallmark projects currently filming in Metro Vancouver. In 2015 alone, Hallmark shot more than 69 productions locally, including original movies for the Garage Sale Mysteries, Murder She Baked, Gourmet Detective, and Signed, Sealed, Delivered franchises. W v When Calls the Heart airs Sundays at 9pm on Hallmark Channel.

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“They only want to make things that they want to watch.They’re very dismissive of the show and this audience.Think about it: What other show is anything like this show? If it’s doing well, why not make another one like it? We have a lot of cop shows, a lot of procedural shows, a lot of darker stuff.”

He sighed. “Especially in this genre, you kind of at times want to give up on it, because it’s so hard to sell.”

Landon Jr. knows the family drama genre. His father was Michael Landon, star of Little House on the Prairie, another frontier family drama.

“Because of my father, I grew up in the family genre, so it’s really near and dear to me,” says Landon Jr. The Hearties make it worthwhile. “They’re 30,000plus strong now.You just don’t anticipate anything

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Soon we can stop living off root veggies and start looking forward to the different types of food that will be out and ready to tantalize our taste buds. BC has an amazing array of different veggies and fruits that are set to come our way this spring. If you are like me, and like staying with the local theme, then you already know that farmers’ markets offer a variety of fresh foods from up and down our lovely coast. Also, it’s a great day spend outdoors.We are still in winter market season, but soon enough there will be tons more markets popping up, making it more convenient for everyone to get their fresh produce party on.

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By Rob Brezsny Artist Steven Spasuk works exclusively with an unusual medium: soot from candles and torches. He spreads the stuff across a blank canvas, then uses various instruments to sculpt the accidental blobs into definitive forms. I’ve seen the results, and they’re both well done and intriguing. What would be the metaphorical equivalent, in your world, of using soot to make beautiful and interesting things? I think you’re primed to turn waste into building blocks, rot into splendor, and lead into gold. (See Spazuk’s work at Spazuk.com.)

Carl Sagan said that science thrives on “two seemingly contradictory attitudes: an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.” Whether or not you are a scientist, Taurus, I recommend that you practice this approach in the coming weeks. It’s the tool that’s most likely to keep you centered and free of both rigidity and illusion. As Sagan concluded, this is “how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating,” said British author W. Somerset Maugham. “It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” Now would be an excellent time to take that advice to heart, Gemini. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you not only have a license to engage in rowdy fun and extravagant pleasures; it’s your sacred duty. So get out there and treat yourself to an orgy of naughty adventures – or at least a celebration of meaningful thrills. You can return to the rigors of discipline and order once you have harvested the healthy benefits that will come from escaping them.

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It’s time for maximum discernment and caution.

(P.S.: One of the monsters may ultimately become a non-monstrous ally if you are wary toward it now.)

On a social media site, I posted the following quote from self-help teacher Byron Katie: “Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.” One commenter took issue with this. “’Pushing buttons’ is a metaphor that’s long past its expiration date,” she wrote. “Can’t you come up with something fresher?” So I did. Here are a few potential substitutes for “push our buttons”: tweak our manias, prank our obsessions, glitter-bomb our biases, squeeze our phobias, badger our compulsions, seduce our repressions, prick our dogmas. Whichever expression you prefer, Leo, find a graceful way to embrace your fate: Your current job is unconditional love.

The job of everyone else in your life is to tweak your manias and prick your dogmas.

In the coming weeks, you will have maximum power to revise and reinvigorate your approach to cultivating intimate relationships. To aid your quest, I offer this paraphrased advice from Andrew Boyd: Almost every one of us seeks a special partner who is just right. But there is no right person, just different flavors of wrong.

Why? Because you yourself are “wrong” in some ways – you have demons and flaws and problems. In fact, these “wrongs” are essential components of who you are. When you ripen into this understanding, you’re ready to find and be with your special counterpart. He or she has the precise set of problems you need – is the person who is wrong for you in just the right ways.

In her book ',. #+"3.5 %62(3, Anne Michaels says, “We become ourselves when things are given to us or when things are taken away.” If she’s right, does it mean we should be grateful for those times when things are taken away? Should we regard moments of loss as therapeutic prods that compel us to understand ourselves better and to create ourselves with a fiercer determination? Meditate on these possibilities, Libra.

In the meantime, I’m pleased to announce that the things-getting-taken-away period of your cycle is winding down. Soon you’ll begin a new phase, when you can become a deeper, stronger version of yourself because of the things that are given to you.

“I’ll make love when the lust subsides,” sings Denitia, one-half of the electro-pop band Denitia and Sene. That would be a good motto for you to play around with in the coming days, Scorpio – in both literal and metaphorical ways. I’ll enjoy seeing how your emotional intelligence ripens as the white-hot passion of recent weeks evolves into a more manageable warmth. As fun as the intensity has been, it has blinded you to some of the possibilities for collaborative growth that have been emerging. You may now be ready to explore and appreciate sweeter, subtler pleasures.

“The poems I have loved the most are those I have understood the least,” said TS Eliot. I’m going to steal and expand upon his idea for the purpose of giving you an accurate horoscope. In the coming days, Sagittarius, I suspect that the experiences you love most will be those that you understand the least. Indeed, the experiences you NEED the most will be those that surprise and mystify and intrigue you. Luckily, life will be ingenious in bypassing your analytical intelligence so as to provide you with rich emotional stimuli for your soul.

Capricorn painter Henri Matisse made the following testimony about his creative process: “At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness – I re-enter through the breach – and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.” I recommend this approach to you in the coming days, Capricorn. You’ve been making decent progress on your key project. To keep up the good work, you should now find where the cracks are, and let them teach you how to proceed from here.

“We all lead three lives,” said Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, “an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.” I suspect you’ll get big glimpses of your third life in the coming weeks, Aquarius: the one you’re normally not aware of. It might freak you out a bit, maybe unleash a few blasts of laughter and surges of tears.

But if you approach these revelations with reverent curiosity, I bet they will be cleansing and catalytic.

They are also likely to make you less entranced by your imaginary life and better grounded in your actual life.

“The greatest illusion is not religion,” says aphorist Michael Lipsey. “It’s waking up in the morning imagining how much you’re going to get done today.”

But even if that’s often true, Pisces, I suspect that you have the power to refute it in the coming weeks.

Your ability to accomplish small wonders will be at a peak. Your knack for mastering details and acting with practical acumen may be unprecedented. For the immediate future, then, I predict that you’ll largely be able to get done what you imagine you can get done.

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Los Angeles-based writer Melissa Broder just came out to the public as herself. For the last few years, she has been hiding behind the extremely popular Twitter handle @sosadtoday where she made dark jokes about her crippled self-esteem and heavy anxiety disorder.

“I think So Sad Today was a way to open the lid of a kettle that was boiling over,” Broder says. “I felt that I couldn’t be real about what was going on inside me, because we walk around and we’re supposed to keep it together. Even in therapy I try to keep it together. I needed a place to let it rip.”

Her nihilistic Twitter feed resonated with the public, but especially with young girls who found her ability to joke about sexual rejection, lost love, depression, bad sex and pathetic masturbating could actually be therapeutic, or even funny.The willing vulnerability was refreshing. Broder, an acclaimed, published poet, finally revealed it was her behind the handle due to the release of her new book of essays, So Sad Today Personal Essays (Grand Central Publishing). “[The book] is kind of like testing to see how much honesty I can get away with,” Broder continues. “It’s like, OK, if I reveal this shit and own it, then what I am saying to myself is: It isn’t so bad.You aren’t so bad. There’s redemption in it.We’re as sick as our secrets, and all that.”

I sat down with Broder is pick her brain about the essays.

What made you want to write? I started writing poetry in third grade. I was a spacey kid and not great at school, but my third grade teacher Mrs. Hovey told me I was good at this one thing so I kept doing it. I’ve always felt itchy about reality.The ability to be content with one’s circumstances, the present moment, whatever life brings, eludes me.Writing has always been a way to divert that narrative – to have something that is mine. If time is a forward arrow then the act of writing is a reprieve in a way. It doesn’t stop time, but it makes little pockets in the arrow so you can ride it differently.

Your anonymous Twitter, So Sad Today blew up for a reason: anxiety, nerves, and depression are ramped amongst millennials like an STD. You became a dark comedy, an anxiety populist. Looking back, how do you feel about your sudden popularity? I’ve never been an “It Girl,” so getting popular was obviously really fun. I love the

dopamine.What was maybe most fun was that I never intended for So Sad Today to be popular. I’ve tried to be cool in other arenas of life for sure. But So Sad Today was really a lastditch effort to survive a dark time in my life, anonymously, in a dusty corner of the Internet.

So I felt like damn, telling the truth is good. Now I just love having a place to go when I compare my insides to someone else’s outsides. Like if I’m walking down the street and see a hot, young surfer couple and immediately feel like nothing compared to them – just obliterated by their effortless loveliness – I can tweet about it and get pieced back together by the roar of strangers. Both the dissolution and the validation are ephemeral, superficial even, but I guess it works to fight fleeting with fleeting.

One of my favorite essays was the one about your affair with the younger guy. Are you in an open-marriage and what is your perspective on maintaining a solid relationship? [Laughs] You mean affairs with younger guys? I’ve had a few. I was in an open relationship and marriage for a long time.We weren’t “poly.”We weren’t “swingers.”

We didn’t speak on any panels, go on any cruises, wear any rubber bracelets or maintain any excel spreadsheets. Just two people who love each other, grappling in an honest way with the questions of longing, time, mortality and keeping things fresh.The whole story is in the book.We were monogz for five years, then non-monogz for five.

Currently we are monogamous again! But that will be up for debate at our April state of the union. I don’t profess to know very much except about longing and waiting for a text, and then I know a lot. Monogamy isn’t easy. Open relationships aren’t easy. Being single isn’t easy.

You chose to start the book with an essay about never asking to be born. How bringing a child into the world seems unethical. So, I’m assuming you will never have children, or have you overcome these feelings? I don’t know if these feelings are something to overcome. I think they are more something to accept. I still struggle to accept how I feel. Is it okay that I don’t want to have children, and have never wanted to have children, and as time passes feel no greater urge to do so? I struggle with trusting my own instincts, especially when they are counter to the biological majority.

People say that I would be a good Mom, but just because I might be ok or even good at something doesn’t mean I want to do it. And I think that’s the hardest part for me to own: that I don’t want to do it.

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