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Re: “Robson Street closure: Can we compromise?” May 12, 2016. Unfortunately, Vision has their head so stuck in their a… They will do anything to make congestion a nightmare, thinking that will push people out of their cars. I’m living in the West End, by St. Paul’s, now for me to

reach Robson, I have to drive four blocks north, thanks to a no-rightturn on Jervis where the city decided to put a big concrete divider right by a future construction site. The city really doesn’t care if you spend an extra 15-20 minutes to drive around. To me, that should be part of the “greenest city” project. They want you out of

your car, turning an ecological project into a dictatorship. –Jean-Philippe Matte

urbia seemed to be the answer to all urban ills. Now architects want us to believe that density is the new answer to what ails the city. So we get Gregory Henriquez boasting that density is great. But he himself lives in a singlefamily house, certainly not in a high-density neighbourhood. So isn’t this another case of great for everybody, but not for me and my family? And how many of those proposing closure of Robson live in the West End and have to deal with the weird weekends and special events? Traditionally this has been a renter area, and renters in Vancouver don’t vote, so whatever was done to the West End had few political ramifications, and seemingly still doesn’t. –West End resident

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Re: “Deluge of Davie density driving rental renaissance,” May 12, 2016. I am a long time West End resident, and this area has long been high density, even when sub-

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Seductive Salt Spring Island Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

You may be one of those people so familiar with Salt Spring Island – the largest and most popular of the Southern Gulf Islands – that you refer to it as Ol’ Salty. I’m not one of those people. I’ve barely set foot there, having mostly ignored the decades of hype, but the occasion recently presented itself for a family trip. We decided to taste for ourselves if Salt Spring is indeed the Garden of Eden so many of you converts say it is. To get to Salt Spring Island with the most direct route possible outside of summer peak season, you must embark on a three-hour tour, leaving from theTsawwassen ferry terminal, then enduring what many locals refer to as “the milk run”: the ferry stops at three other Gulf Islands before eventually arriving at Salt Spring, the boat’s ﬁnal destination. And while the journey is long, it’s worth the reminder that the rusty ol’ Queen of Nanaimo winds you through utterly spectacular oceanic scenery. Somehow, just because you’re on a BC Ferry, too many of us tend to take our world-class backdrop for granted. Upon arrival, you get that heavenly, relaxing, stressdraining feeling of pulling off the ferry and driving up and onto an island of gently winding roads lined with lush foliage. Before you know it, you’re in Ganges, the hopping hub of Salt Spring, a village chock-ablock with a cross-section of the island’s 10,000-strong population: ﬁrst-generation hippies-turned-eco-seniors (I’d be willing to bet there are more grey pony tails on Salt Spring than anywhere else in Canada), real estate refugees from Vancouver’s housing wars, blue collar tradespeople, millennialhippie buskers from the Maritimes, and maybe a sighting of one of the island’s growing collection of famous artists. Everyone from Rob-

ert Bateman to Raffi to my old CBC Radio late night hero David Wisdom call Salt Spring home. We were staying at the southern end of the island, down in Fulford Harbour, an easy 20-minute drive from Ganges. On our utterly pleasant trip down island, past numerous honour-based farm stands offering everything from rhubarb stalks to fresh bacon, it struck us that Salt Spring is truly an isle of indulgence. There is a gloriously gluttonous, homemade supply of just about everything you can think of to make you feel temporarily awesome: wine, beer, cider, coffee, charcuterie, and baked goods abound. Salt Spring Island has clearly become so renowned that the very name of the place is great branding. Case in point: there’s Salt Spring Cheese, Salt Spring Apples, and Salt Spring Soapworks. The popular Salt Spring Coffee is celebrating 20 years this year, and the extremely refreshing, locally-sourced Salt Spring Island Ales rebranded themselves in 2009 from their previous Gulf Islands Brewery handle, and thus have significantly increased their marketability to the outside world. The island isn’t just one long tasting trail. Siobhan Francis, who works at the busy Rock Salt restaurant in Fulford Harbour, arrived on Salt Spring on NewYear’s Day 2014. She was booked to stay at a B&B for five days. Two and a half years later, she hasn’t left. “It’s the community that keeps me here”, she says emphatically. “I lived in Vancouver for 10 years, and the interactions and friendships I have here on Salt Spring are far deeper and richer. It’s a balanced place. And my story is not unique”. After a few nights at our absolutely idyllic accommodation at Lydia’s Cottage, high up on a stunning farm, dotted with Syrian sheep, alpacas, and chickens, we had sunk deep into the Salt Spring state of mind. We get it now.Yes, the three-hour tour is worth it. We can’t wait to get back to Ol’ Salty. W

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The City of Vancouver issued Monday the ﬁrstever business licence for a pot shop in the city’s history to operators of a marijuana dispensary that will soon open on West 10th Avenue in Point Grey. Wealth Shop Society at suite 104-4545 West 10th Ave, which shares a parking lot with Safeway, is a new retail dispensary and did not have an existing location in Vancouver. As of Tuesday, it had not opened for business but had set up a website that gave some insight into how it would operate. “We are out to reinvent how things are done,” said the website, noting Wealth Shop is now accepting applications to become a member. “Dispensaries have a bad name in Vancouver. We want to create an approachable, accessible and safe environment for all our members.” The website claimed Wealth Shop only works with trusted suppliers that meet “our rigorous product safety, sustainable and health standards.” Andreea Toma, the city’s

Wealth Shop Society at 4545 West 10th Ave is the first marijuana dispensary in the city’s history to be issued a business licence. Dan Toulgoet photo chief licensing inspector, said Tuesday the society has met all of the city’s new rules to regulate a dispensary, including its staff undergoing criminal record checks and signing a “good neighbour agreement.” Meanwhile, the city continues to issue $250 tickets to those pot shops that refused to close their doors last month. The shops were given six months to close or ﬁnd another location and participate in the city’s business licence application process. As of Tuesday, 30 stores had complied, 61 remain open, 139 tickets have been issued and seven paid. The federal government

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Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson’s family real estate company has been rapidly buying up property, primarily in East Vancouver, and plans to have a portfolio worth $1.5 billion within 10 years. Five-year-old Low Tide Properties (LTP) already owns about $300 million worth of property, about 90 per cent of that in the City of Vancouver, said

CEO Andrew Chang, who has been at the 10-employee company for about a year. Most of the buying has been in Gastown, Strathcona and Mount Pleasant, although the company also has property at False Creek Flats, in Kitsilano and around Burrard Street and West 7th Avenue. Future purchases will likely include real estate along Great Northern Way, Chang said. Wilson’s Point Grey mansion, which is assessed at $63.8 million and is the most expensive home in BC, is not part of LTP’s portfolio. @1!AW QV><:>VYL ;7<(WA<< (W-IWEV75A>

Eating less meat will reduce Earth’s heat David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

Will vegans save the world? Reading comments under climate change articles or watching the film Cowspiracy make it seem they’re the only ones who can. Cowspiracy boldly claims veganism is “the only way to sustainably and ethically live on this planet.” But, as with most issues, it’s complicated. It’s true, though, that the environment and climate would benefit substantially if more people gave up or at least cut down on meat and animal products, especially in over-consuming Western societies. Animal agriculture produces huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, consumes massive volumes of water and causes a lot of pollution. But getting a handle on the extent of environmental harm, as well as the differences between various agricultural methods and types of livestock, and balancing that with possible benefits of animal consumption and agriculture isn’t simple. Estimates of how much animal agriculture adds to greenhouse gases range widely, from about 14 to more than 50 per cent of total global emissions. Agriculture

exacerbates climate change in a number of ways. Clearing carbon sinks such as forests to grow or raise food can result in net greenhouse gas increases. Farming, especially on an industrial scale, also requires fossil fuel–burning machinery, as does processing and transporting agricultural products. Determining the overall contribution is complicated by the fact that livestock agriculture accounts for about nine per cent of humancaused CO2 emissions but far greater amounts of other greenhouse gases, which are worse in many ways but less dangerous in others. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock farming produces 65 per cent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the global warming potential as CO2. It also contributes “37 per cent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 per cent of ammonia, which contributes signiﬁcantly to acid rain.” But methane stays in the atmosphere for about 12 years, and nitrous oxide for about 114, while CO2 remains for thousands of years. Emissions also vary by livestock. Pigs and poultry contribute about 10 per cent of global agricultural emissions

but provide three times as much meat as cattle – which are responsible for about 40 per cent of emissions – and use less feed. Some plant agriculture also causes global warming.Wetland rice cultivation produces methane and nitrous oxide emissions, the latter because of nitrogen fertilizer use. Different agricultural methods also have varying effects on climate. And some people, such as the Inuit, have adapted to meatbased diets because fresh produce is scarce – and ﬂying it in causes more emissions than hunting and eating game. The bottom line is that cutting down on or eliminating meat and other animal products from our diets is necessary for protecting humanity from runaway climate change – and from many other environmental consequences, including water scarcity, degraded ecosystems and pollution of waterways and oceans.The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization reports that global demand for livestock products could increase 70 per cent by 2050 if nothing is done to slow consumption. Worldwide meat-consumption rates show there’s room to cut down in industrialized countries, where the average person consumed 95.7 kilograms in 2015, compared to the 41.3-kilogram global average, and 31.6 in devel-

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After 85 years of calling Dunbar and 28th home, Stong’s Market is temporarily packing up shop. But the family-run grocery store will be getting a face lift and returning home to Dunbar in the winter, settling down the road in an upcoming, newly built complex. The Ivy on Dunbar, set to be completed by Dec. 1, will be built in the heart of Dunbar Village at Dunbar and West 27th. The new mixed-use building will house 50 condominium units and the new Stong’s location. “It can’t come soon enough,” said Colleen McGuinness, president of the Dunbar Residents’ Association. “It’s a very lovely, community place and we think of them as family. I like the idea of them coming home for Christmas.” The new Ivy location will be an upgrade from its former spot, expanding by approximately 8,000 square feet. The additional space will be used for improving the produce section, boosting the “hot and ready” to-go food, and introducing a new café, said Cori Bonina, president of Stong’s Market. Bonina, who is also the great grand-daughter of founder Carson Stong, said the decision to move was out of her hands. “The

landlords were redeveloping and we didn’t have a choice,” she said over the phone. Luckily, Bonina said, the Ivy approached her and suggested Stong’s move in. “It was huge to stay in the area. That’s what’s important to us.” The constant supply of good produce, the unparalleled customer service, and the sense of community that will be missed most, according to regulars. “The visit to Stong’s was a key part in a lot of seniors’ socializing,” McGuinness said. “They got me eating rapini, but I can’t ﬁnd it anywhere else. One time, the fellow at the produce section even gave me a few rapini recipes.” The independent grocer has a history of supporting the local communities where it operates, with the Dunbar location always having been its home base. It supplies all food and drink in the annual Cops For Cancer cycling tour and sponsors several youth soccer and hockey sports teams each year. Stong’s ﬁrst little league baseball team dates back to 1958 and has grown to two little league baseball teams. “Their contribution to youth in Dunbar goes back 58 years – that’s a long time,” McGuinness said. Stong’s will be offering a store-to-door delivery service seven days a week out of its new North Van-

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couver store opening May 28. Customers can order online or by phone through Stong’s Express, which was the ﬁrst online grocery delivery service in Vancouver. Dunbar shoppers can expect a waived $8 dollardelivery fee. Stong’s on Dunbar invites the community to attend its customer appreciation event on Thursday evening to mark the tempo-

rary closing of its historic home. “We just wanted to [say] thank you for supporting us for so long,” Bonina said. The celebration runs from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on May 19 at 4560 Dunbar. Attendees can enjoy cookies and cakes and a ﬁnal hoorah at the iconic neighbourhood ﬁxture. 9 8V7>:A<0 V+ :)A-IWEV75A> 8V7>(A> W

Stong’s Market on Dunbar closed its doors on May 10, but will be reopening down the street on Dec. 1. Dan Toulgoet photo

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Canadian Brewing Awards lands in Vancouver Stephen Smysnuik The Growler

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If you read the headline, you’ll know that the Canadian Brewing Awards are coming to Vancouver. If you didn’t read it – well, how did you get here? Whatever the case, the Ontario-based CBAs are a huge deal for Canadian brewers. It’s the only Beer Judge Certiﬁcation Program-sanctioned event in the country, which means, in some ways, it’s the only one that really matters (if you’re snooty about these things). It’s about as prestigious an event as the beer industry can muster, which will all come together at the CBA Awards Gala on Saturday, May 28, where Canada’s latest winning beers will be announced. I expect BC to do very well. I also expect great merriment to ensue, even from the losers, because the beer supply will be endless. Sounds like fun, right? Well too bad, because it’s for industry people only. Also, it’s sold out. I didn’t mean to kill your buzz, but I think I’ll have to do it again when I tell you that the CBA’s are being held in Richmond. Richmond! And not even at the River Rock Casino Resort – which is actually a really wild time at 1:30am

Delta’s Four Winds Brewing won Brewery of the Year at the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards. Toasting their awards haul are (from left) Brent Mills, Adam Mills, Kylo Hoy and Greg Mills. Gord Goble photo on a Saturday – but at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport, a location that might cause some cynics and conspiracy theorists to think the location was strategically chosen by the CBA’s Torontonian organizers so they could beat a hasty exit as soon as

possible, so as not to spend even a wasted minute longer than necessary in the dreaded and ﬂaky West Coast. Which of course isn’t even remotely true, and the Sheraton Vancouver Airport is a ﬁne place to hold an awards gala. The CBAs will take place over

three days starting Thursday, May 26, and will include a multitude of industry-only goings on, which includes many workshops, a boat cruise, a pub crawl, and of course the awards gala itself – not that you’re welcome to attend any of them.

However, the gala will be streamed live for the benefit of anyone who A) couldn’t afford to make the trip to this year’s event; B) failed to get tickets before it sold out; or C) have a strong aversion to Richmond. And if you want to try the winning beers, you’re in luck. The CBAs are partnering with the BC Craft Brewers Guild to throw the Best of BC event as part of Vancouver Craft Beer Week on May 29 at Central City on Beatty Street. All CBA winning beers from BC will be available on tap, and all proceeds of the event will go to support the BCCBG. Rob Engman, president of TAPS Media Inc., which produces the Canadian Brewing Awards, along with TAPS Magazine, says that there were over 1,200 submissions this year from breweries across the country – the most yet. The CBAs brought in over 40 BJCPcertified judges from all over Canada, the US and Europe to evaluate the large number of entries. “We’ve had double digit increases every year in the submissions,” Engman says. “I think there were 84 entries 10 years ago, so that’ll give you and idea of the growth. “I think it’s somewhat reflective of the growth of the brewing industry in Canada, and also reflective of what we’ve done to make the

judging and the awards more relevant and credible.” Brent Mills, brewmaster at Four Winds Brewing – AKA 2015’s CBA Canadian Brewery of the Year – says it’s been hard to tell if winning the top award has impacted sales at all. The brewery had been growing steadily before they won, and it continued on to what seemed to be the same path they’d been on since opening in 2014. What the award did do, he says, is light a ﬁre under the butts of everyone at Four Winds to prove to the country that they actually deserve it. “I think we’re a good brewery, and we may have deserved that award, but now it’s show the country that we deserve it and improve everything that we do,” he says. “We’re not going to settle down be like, ‘Oh, we won! We’re great!’ It’s going to make us have to be better because everyone’s eyes are on us. “It put us on the map for sure.” W Tickets for The Best of BC are $50 and include beer samples and canapés, along with a year subscription to TAPS Magazine. Tickets are available through the Vancouver Craft Beer Week website.

Hastings-Sunrise fixture Red Wagon reopens ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

Red Wagon owner Brad Miller in front of the Hastings-Sunrise eatery. Robert Mangelsdorf photo

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When Brad Miller first opened the doors to The Red Wagon five and a half years ago, the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood he calls home was a very different place. Largely bereft of quality dining options, the stretch of East Hastings Street was a culinary desert, and somewhat sketchy once the sun went down. Red Wagon, however, represented an oasis, offering classic dinerstyle comfort food with an instantly recognizable attention to quality. Not surprisingly, a perpetual lineup quickly formed at the corner of East Hastings and Garden. “When we first opened, it was still pretty rough around the edges here,” he admits.The restaurant was even robbed twice in those early days. For Miller, who grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Hastings-Sunrise’s working-class grit was part of its appeal. “It kind of reminded me of home that way,” he says. “I fell in love with the diversity, the energy. It was the first neighbourhood inVancouver I really connected with.”

So too did Hastings-Sunrise connect with RedWagon. “The first brunch weekend, we were blown away by the support for us in this neighbourhood,” says Miller. “I can’t imagine the RedWagon anywhere else in town. It just feels like home here.” Following RedWagon’s success, the culinary cultivation of Hastings-Sunrise soon took root, as restaurants like Campangolo Roma,Tacofino, Jackalope’s andWhat’s Up? Hot Dog! began to sprout. Miller himself opened a second restaurant, the “blue collar” French brasserie BistroWagon Rouge nearby on Powell Street. The demographics of Hastings-Sunrise began to change as well. “I see a lot more younger people, a lot more strollers, more young families nowadays,” says Miller. “It’s changed considerably in the time that I’ve been here, and definitely for the better, I think.” This week, Miller re-opened a refreshed and revamped Red Wagon after a month-and-ahalf-long renovation. Just as Hastings-Sunrise has evolved, so too has RedWagon. The most instantly recogniz-

able change is the interior.The 80-year-old building’s floors were ripped up and replaced with black and white checks, the drop ceilings were removed to show off the room’s original cedar beams and the lunch counter has been replaced with a proper bar. But the biggest change will be the added dinner service, with hours extending to midnight fromWednesday to Sunday. Miller and chef MatthewThompson will be offering “elevated classic diner offerings,” along with a new cocktail program, local craft beer selection, and bar snacks. Meanwhile, the weekend brunch menu will be offered all day, every day. “We’re not changing up so much,” says Miller. “We don’t want to alienate anyone – we’re not going silver service – but we want to be more of a full-on family restaurant, all day long.” If RedWagon’s new dinner service proves successful, Miller hopes to make the move to 24hour dining in the near future. “That’s definitely something I wouldn’t have been able to do five, six years ago,” he says. “But I think the neighbourhood is ready for it.” W

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Caliburger comes to BC Anya Levykh Fresh Sheet

@FoodGirlFriday Caliburger is opening its first Western Canadian location in early June on Thurlow Street off Robson. The popular global chain features fresh burgers, sandwiches, fries and shakes, along with mobile ordering technology and video games. They are also licensed, meaning the shakes can be spiked with a bit of bourbon or rum or Bailey’s. CaliBurger.com The regional finalists have been announced in the Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship. Alex Hon from West Restaurant and Corey Hess of Royal Dinette will move on to the national final on Sept. 17. Fanny Bay Oysters is opening Vancouver’s first “tide-to-table” oyster bar and shellfish market this June in the downtown stadium district.The new 50-seat restaurant will be located at 762 Cambie Street and will be open for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.The restaurant and market will be an Ocean Wise certified partner. FannyBayOysters.com Jean-Sebastien (JS) Dupuis has joined the talented roster at Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar as beverage director. Dupuis was formerly at Bearfoot Bistro, Tableau Bar Bistro and Homer St. Café and takes over from Justin Taylor, who has taken over the general manager role at The Cascade Room. Chef Faizal Kassam, formerly of Cibo Trattoria, will be opening his first restaurant, Terroir Kitchen, on Saturday, May 28, on Marine Drive in West Vancouver. The restaurant will serve tapas-style plates of French, Spanish, Italian and North African origin. All dishes are priced under $30 and the wine list focuses on local and European vintages. TerroirKitchen.com

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Nourish Café has opened a new location in Point Grey and added a cooking school to their premises. What started as a salad delivery company in 2014 is now a thriving healthy-foods eatery. The new café is open Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and the cooking school will have classes from 4pm to 8:30pm starting in June. Expect a summer kids cooking program as well. NourishVancouver.com

The Red Wagon is ofﬁcially open again after a brief hiatus for renovations. The comprehensive brunch menu is now available all day, seven days a week and hours have been extended to midnight Wednesday to Sunday. Look for bar snacks and elevated dinner offerings after 5pm, as well as local craft beer and prosecco and white wine on tap. RedWagonCafe.com

chef Joanathan Chovancek will be making a three-course brunch to pair with the three cocktails.Tickets $75 each and can be purchased through Eventbrite.

Liberty Wine Merchants will be hosting free wine tastings throughout the month of June in honour of Provence Rosé Month. Taste classic rosés from the Côte de Provence, Côteaux Varois en Provence, and Côteaux d’Aix-en-Provence appellations. LibertyWineMerchants.com W

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Charlie’s Little Italian on Main Street has launched a new brunch menu, with eight unique eggs benny options, including a Bolognese benny, a vegan benny with tofu “eggs,” and a smoked salmon benny. CharliesLittleItalian.com Faubourg Paris is launching macaron classes at their Kerrisdale location. Held every Tuesday from 10am to 2pm, the six-person classes will start with a French-style breakfast and a bit of theory, followed by a hands-on cooking class. Each class is $150 per person and includes continental breakfast, lunch, a box of macarons, a kit to make another batch of macarons at home, and a booklet with everything you need to know about macarons. Faubourg. com/Macaron-Classes On May 28, Bittered Sling will be partnering with Brennivín Aquavit to hold a one-day pop-up brunch at Legacy Liquor Store.The “Bitter Brunch” will feature unique cocktails inspired by Bittered Sling’s co-founder Lauren Mote’s travels to Iceland last year. Co-founder and

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What’s new is old in Okanagan wine Wineries embrace organic, biodynamic and natural winemaking methods TREVE RING @treve_ring

The British Columbia wine industry is booming, contributing $2 billion annually to the province’s economy. We number more than 250 wineries now and our wines are being exported around the world, and gaining attention from inﬂuential critics and buyers. With all this forward growth, where are we going next? It’s quite simple, really. We’re going back to our roots, looking back – way back – to the beginning of wine. Wine has been made for thousands of years, before pesticides and chemicals

were embraced and prior to heavy-handed manipulation in the winery were used. In BC, as globally, there is a growing movement to return to some of these simpler, more honest wines. Much like we’ve seen with foodstuffs, people are paying attention to what they’re putting in their bodies. Think about it: why make great effort to buy organic vegetables and free range chicken and GMO-free breads made from heirloom grains, only to serve it with a chemically enhanced, additive-heavy and highly manipulated bottle of wine? Though few in number, the results have been mighty and now numerous local producers have embraced organic, biodynamic and natural winemaking techniques. Summerhill Winery was the ﬁrst to fully embrace and promote organic wines since the

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Cipes family purchased the property in 1986. Their cellar was certified organic in 2007 and they have gone on to receive Demeter Biodynamic certification for their Kelowna home vineyard in 2012. Okanagan Crush Pad is another producer who has made the commitment to these minimalist practices in a big way. Through their Haywire and Narrative wines they have embraced wild ferments, low-to-no additives and fermentation in historic vessels such as concrete. Naramata’s Lock & Worth Winery has been dedicated to low intervention since they began, focusing on single vineyard, small production wines utilizing wild yeast, and eschewing fining or filtration for the purest expression of site. And Bella Wines is releasing Methode Ancestrale sparkling wines with zero

additives, going so far as to hand bottle and tag. Even some of our larger producers are making one or two cuvées of more natural wines. CedarCreek has made an amphora Cabernet Sauvignon naturally, left for eight months on the skins in special neutral unlined clay pots. Stag’s Hollow released a natural Viognier-Marsanne that spent two weeks on the skins before a year on the lees in older acacia barrels. All are small lots that have yielded highly promising results – enough that all these wineries and many others will be devoting more resources and attention in the future, to looking back. Here’s what you need to know about some of the terms popping up on BC wine bottles...

SUSTAINABLE

This is not a regulated term and it differs from

place to place. Generally sustainable winemaking signals a closer connection to the land, farming and winemaking practices. Often chemicals are reduced or eliminated in the vineyard and winery, water and machinery use is monitored closely and every effort is made to produce wine in a clean manner.

ORGANIC

Organic farmers use no fungicides or pesticides in the vineyard, relying on natural fertilizers and biological pest control.

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This holistic philosophy of farming can include tending vines according to the astronomical calendar and using herbs, minerals and manure for sprays and composts. Emphasis is placed on the integration of crops and livestock, recycling of nutri-

ents, soil maintenance, and the health and well-being of the animals, the farmer, the farm, and the earth

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A hot topic, the definition of natural wine is also debated. Generally it indicates wine made without any chemicals, and with minimum technological intervention in growing grapes and the winemaking process. The term is used to differentiate from organic wine and biodynamic wine due to the differences in cellar practices; in most places, organic and biodynamic winemaking allows for sulfites and other additives to be added throughout the process (sugar, yeast, acid, etc.) Some natural wine producers and organizations also mandate dry farming, hand picking, and an absence fining or filtration. W

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Few of us have forgotten the extraordinary summer of 2015. Even in the more temperate reaches of Vancouver, it was hot and dry with smoke from forest ﬁres reaching the city. The interior, where most of our wine hails from, experienced all of this in greater magnitude. Climate change is clearly at play here. And while the realities are sobering, the effect on BC’s growing season has generated much enthusiasm, especially around the 2015 vintage. Spring and summer temperatures have been trending upward in BC’s wine region for the last few years. In particular, it’s warmer earlier. Precocious weather patterns encourage everything to happen sooner, from bud break and ﬂowering, to veraison and ripeness. The 2015 harvest was the earliest on record, two to three weeks earlier than normal. Winegrowers

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Hotter than normal temperatures led to an early harvest in the Okanagan Valley in 2015. iStock photo started picking late August and most of the grapes were off the vine by October. “The whole season seems to have shifted back a month” explains Grant Stanley, winemaker at 50th Parallel Estate in Lake

Country. “I was hopeful that we would have an extended, longer season as the result of these warmer springs,” he admits, joking that he had to cut his vacation short to make it back for harvest.

Overall, vines like the warmth, but there are limits. It’s about how hot, when it’s hot and for how long. When temperatures start climbing above 35 C, vines shut down and essentially the grapes stop

ripening. (Just think about how less productive you are in the scorching heat.) Both 2014 and 2015 were hot with approximately the same number of days over 35 C. However, Mike Clark, managing director and winemaker at Clos du Soleil in the Similkameen Valley, recounts that despite 2015 being a very hot vintage, 2014 was more challenging. “Because of heat spikes there was more uneven development that year,” he recalls. Michael Bartier who is the consulting winemaker at Harper’s Trail in Thomson River concurs. “In 2015 we saw more ripeness and more in advance because the vines shut down less.” This didn’t mean that 2015 was any easier. British Columbia is deﬁned as a cool climate. More descriptively, it’s a short hot season where everything is compressed. Hot days give fruit intensity while cold nights provide lots of acid. The challenge for our winemakers is always about ﬁnding balance in the

extremes. It’s an exercise in waiting for the acidity to drop to palatable levels, coaxing ripeness of flavour and ensuring sugar doesn’t creep too high. But with the rising temperatures, vineyard practises need to be adapted. In 2015, it was crucial to keep on top of irrigation to avoid water stress, manage crop levels to control potential alcohol and keep grapes (especially white varieties) shaded to avoid cooked flavours. After all that work leading up, “it’s really September and October that make or break a vintage,” declares Master of Wine Marcus Ansems, winemaker and owner of Daydreamer Wines. While 2015 was hotter overall from April to August, September and October were cooler than normal. Grapes that were still hanging on the vine continued to develop ripeness and flavour and those lower temperature helped retain acidity. “That is what saved the vintage as it were,” Stanley asserts.

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@FoodgirlFriday If you think the Okanagan is all about the wine, think again. One of the biggest draws for yours truly is (surprise, surprise) the food, speciﬁcally the dishes found at winery restaurants in the South Okanagan. While Vancouver has many restaurants that follow the local-seasonal-sustainable formula to various degrees, the restaurants of the Okanagan tend to live or die by the concept. Any restaurant worth its grapes has a strong preserving program, encompassing pickling, canning and freezing at a minimum. It’s hard not to when the farm that supplies your produce tends to be – almost literally – a stone’s throw away. “We get most of our produce from Le Petit Clos,” says chef Lee Humphries, who is director of culinary operations for Vintage Hospitality, which operates several South Okanagan restaurants, including The Sonora Room at Burrowing Owl Estate Winery (BurrowingOwlWine.ca). “They grow exclusively for the restaurant [at Burrowing Owl] and everything is picked fresh daily and delivered by 10am.” Humphries, who joined Vintage last year, spent most of last season working with The Sonora Room’s current executive chef Damian Mischkinis and sous chef Ian

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Bohun to revamp the menu. The trio has worked together before, at C Restaurant and Heather Hospitality Group in Vancouver, and this year Mischkinis and Bohun are running the show. The pair have created a menu that gives off a distinct ﬁne dining edge, but is eminently approachable on the plate. Ingredients are allowed to speak for themselves, but are never left without their wingmen. Roast duck salad ($18) is a shining example. Yarrow Meadows breast is seared with currant, and rests over local greens. It comes with housemade bread fashioned from hops from Firehall Brewery in Oliver. The bread is toasted and topped with tapenade and a slice of brie from Upper Bench Creamery in Naramata. The whole plate is dotted with a slightly sweet wine jelly. Paired with the Burrowing Owl’s 2012 Pinot Noir, it’s a heady combination. “We want to support our local producers and growers as much as possible,” says Mischkinis. “Even our Arctic char comes from down the road,” referring to DelicaSea’s land-based closed containment aquaculture operation in Oliver. The ethical and sustainable harvesting methods used by the family-run company mean that even the ﬁsh waste isn’t wasted. Instead, it’s sold as fertilizer to local growers. Thanks to the winery’s extensive library, dishes are not matched so much to

individual wines as they are to the overall concept. With hundreds of wines to choose from, there’s nothing that doesn’t have at least two or three excellent pairing options. Over at Miradoro Restaurant at Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, (Tinhorn.com/ Restaurant) that elevatedyet-casual concept is also in evidence, albeit with a Mediterranean bent. The restaurant just celebrated its fifth anniversary and executive chef Jeff Van Geest, who has been there since it opened, expounds on what he calls the real definition of casual fine dining. “It’s about being approachable, yet being able to offer the best service, the best ingredients, the best preparation of those ingredients, for an incredible experience, but also be a place where local growers can meet and chat about their grapes after a long day. They’ll come in with their hi-viz vests and work boots on and feel at home,” he laughs. “We want to be a place where locals come to eat [as well as tourists]. We think about what people we know think about us. For instance, Bill Eggert at Fairview Cellars is our neighbour and comes in a lot, so we often talk about, what would Bill think? You pick someone you know and think about them when you do these things. It becomes personal that way.”

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Van Geest works closely with his sous chef Courtenay Welter, who has been with him since the restaurant opened. “I’m extremely lucky to have her in my kitchen; she’s one of the hardest-working chefs I know and she’s supertalented,” he says. The pair have fashioned a menu that focuses on Spain and Italy, with some Moroccan influences, but that uses mainly local ingredients. Grilled Cache Creek flank steak ($38) is served with local oyster mushrooms, and charred sweet Walla Walla onion cups that hold a delicate black garlic aioli. Served with frico, an Italian potato and cheese pancake similar to a latke, it’s a rich dish that gives hits of sweetness and spice that make for a perfect pairing to Tinhorn’s 2Bench Red. Walnut baklava with yogurt semifreddo is another hit, with its elegant sweet and tangy notes that play perfectly with a port or other fortified wine. Oliver isn’t the only place that’s developing into a dining destination. In nearby Okanagan Falls, home to

more than a dozen wineries, Liquidity Wines and Bistro (LiquidityWines. com) is serving up some impressive wines and dishes, thanks to executive chef Rob Walker. The contemporary winery overlooks Vaseux Lake and the décor matches the food and wine concept. Wines like the amazing Pinot Gris are paired to stunning and deceptively simple dishes like the carrot salad. Liquidity also has exclusive local growers and has a strong preserving program. Heirloom raw, pickled and roasted carrots sit over a bed of fermented carrot puree and fresh greens, with herbs snipped from the kitchen garden, blood orange marshmallows, and an aged chili pepper vinaigrette ($14). It’s a symphony of textures and ﬂavours, contemporary yet entirely comfortable. Even more homestyle dishes like the beef shortrib grilled cheese sandwich ($17) off the lunch menu is dressed up with a smoky cherry-plum ketchup that Walker made last year with late-harvest fruit. Sit on the patio overlooking the valley, take in the brilliant art on the walls, and inhale happiness with each bite. W

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Smoke & Oak Bistro at Wild Goose Vineyards Barbecue takes centrestage on the patio of this Okanagan Falls winery. Pair with some of the stunning Rieslings for an afternoon al fresco feast. WildGooseWinery.com

Terrafina Restaurant at Hester Creek New owners Erwin Huber and Cindy Evans have brought on Jenna Pillon to serve up the classic Tuscaninfluenced menu of pizzas, pastas and mains, as well as an eclectic brunch menu. TerrafinaRestaurant.com

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Cruising the Golden Mile ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

Although it often gets overlooked in favour of Kelowna and Penticton to the north, the South Okanagan has never been hotter, and for good reason. Located between Oliver and Osoyoos in the South Okanagan valley lies a geographical anomaly responsible for some of the best wines in the province. The Golden Mile Bench is an alluvial terrace that stands close to a 100 metres above the valley floor offering a southeasterly aspect and warm temperatures perfect for growing grapes. Last year, the BC government made the Golden Mile Bench the first official sub-appellation for BC wine, allowing winemakers to better market the region’s distinctive terroir. There’s more than 20 wineries along this stretch of Highway 97, so visiting all of them on your own would likely result in a DUI. Fear not, because Rich Cooper of Heat Stroke Cycle in Osoyoos has come up with easily the best way

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A wine-lover’s guide to Okanagan events There’s no wrong time to visit the Okanagan, but if you want to time your trip with some of the wine season’s best events, let this list be your guide. Note: Most of these events are ticketed and/or limited, so book ahead to avoid disappointment. MEYER FAMILY REUNION & SPRING RELEASE PARTY When: May 21, 1-6pm Where: 4287 McLean Creek Road, Okanagan Falls Meyer Family Vineyards presents its annual spring release party and ﬁrst ever Wine Club Family Reunion (everyone welcome). Enjoy their new release wines, savour a delicious barbecue prepared by chef Jordan Ash from Flambé Catering and take in the stunning views from the McLean Creek Road Vineyard. Later, sip on a glass of your favourite MFV wine and enjoy live music featuring the very talented duo of Aidan Mayes and Mandy Cole. MFVWines.com

2016 ARTIST SERIES RELEASE PARTY FOR THERAPY VINEYARD’S 2015 FUMÉ BLANC When: June 9, 4-5pm Where: 940 Lower Debeck Road, Naramata Help Therapy Vineyards celebrate the annual release of their Artist Series Wine and get the rare opportunity to chat with winemaker Steve Latchford and artist Shandra Smith. TherapyVineyards.com FIFTH ANNUAL PARTY IN THE PARK When: July 8, 5-9pm Where: Kenyon Park, Okanagan Falls Join Meyer Family Vineyards to celebrate summer in the heart of wine country. All 14 of their premier wineries will be pouring a selection of wines at a festival tasting, followed by barbecue buffet dinner prepared by chef Jordan Ash of Flambé Catering. Enjoy the sounds of local band My Kind of Karma while enjoying the views from the shores of Skaha Lake. MFVWines.com

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leg Aristarkhov and his wife Svetlana had travelled to some of the world’s ﬁnest wine regions before they unexpectedly discovered the rich wine culture in BC’s own Okanagan Valley. With a desire to get into the business themselves, the couple settled on the Naramata Bench in Penticton, and ﬁve years ago purchased a sixteen-acre plot. Today, Moraine Winery, named in celebration of the surrounding geology (an exposed face of clay carved from glacial sediment forms the cliff on which the winery sits), is now a family business. The vineyards – known for their fruit-driven Pinots and Rieslings of distinction – are named for the Aristarkov’s daughters, Anastasia and Sophia. “Our main task is providing quality right from the grapes to the bottle,” says Oleg. “We say high quality, but want to keep the price affordable so that people can enjoy local wine.” It is the attention to detail and devotion to exceptional customer service that has put Moraine on the map receiving accolades from the International Pinot Competition, Finger Lakes International Wine

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Competition and the BC Wine Awards. Head winemaker Jacqueline Kemp’s passion for balanced, elegant wines led her to Moraine, after studying in her home country of New Zealand and training in Burgundy, France. Oleg’s goal to make superior wine from premium fruit sourced entirely from Moraine’s estate meant a signiﬁcant investment in a Euroselect destemmer, some of the best winemaking technology available. Delicately removing the stems from grapes without damaging the skins, it allows for whole berry fermentations, an incredible advantage evident in many of Moraine’s fruit forward reds. While it is the Pinot and Riesling that make the most noise with consumers, Moraine’s Cliffhanger series - blends made from Pinot Gris/Gewürztraminer and Merlot/Malbec - are worth noting, both with price points below the $20 mark. And, word is spreading, as Oleg points out. “Our Viognier 2015 and Malbec 2014 sold out just three weeks after release.” With summer right around the corner, the team at Moraine is looking forward to the ﬁrst time production of Gamay grapes, from which they hope to make a lovely rosé, just in time for sunset sipping on the tasting room’s patio. —by Kristyn Anthony

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OKANAGAN WINE FIFTH ANNUAL PAELLA, WINE & LIVE MUSIC AT QUINTA FERREIRA ESTATE WINERY When: July 17, 11:30am3:30pm Where: 6094 Black Sage Road, Oliver Join Quinta Ferreira Estate Winery for delicious food prepared by chef Jeff Van Geest from Miradoro Restaurant at Tinhorn Creek.The event features live music, paella, and wine tasting overlooking the community of Oliver. SUMMER LOBSTER LUNCHEON AT TOWNSHIP 7 VINEYARDS & WINERY When: June 19, 1-3pm Where: 1450 McMillan Avenue, Penticton Celebrate Father’s Day and the start of summer at Township 7’s Naramata Bench winery. Join them for a tantalizing afternoon of new spring wine releases paired with freshly caught Maritime lobster supplied by Roch Lobster Catering. Enjoy a three-course alfresco luncheon of savoury cuisine and our aromatic wines with your family or good friends in their picturesque vineyard. Live acoustic guitar by local musician Rick Van Camp. Township7.com MILE HIGH WINE & MUSIC When: Aug. 13, 4-7pm Where: Silver Star Mountain Resort Being a mile above sea level awakens your senses – inhale the aromas, savour the atmosphere, watch the people, listen to the sounds and touch nature at Mile High Wine & Music, presented by Valley First. The Okanagan Wine Festivals and Silver Star are proud to bring back Canada’s highest outdoor wine tasting, with 30 different BC wineries, cheeses from Dairy Farmers of Canada, unique café and wine pairings from Starbucks Canada, and the Trips’ unique blend of lively bluegrass and country music to entertain you. Bring your friends and meet new ones in this stunning outdoor setting. The event is held rain or shine. Please wear comfortable shoes dress appropriately for mountain weather as you enjoy a unique outdoor event full of fun, wine and music. Stay the night with great Mile High Wine & Music packages and let the mountain air sooth your spirit. SkiSilverStar.com BRITISH COLUMBIA WINE AWARDS & RECEPTION When: Sept. 29, 7-9:30pm Where: Laurel Heritage Packinghouse, Kelowna BC’s oldest wine judging competition – the British Columbia Wine Awards – heralds the arrival of the Fall Okanagan Wine Festival. This event celebrates the wine industry with a seated

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AN EVENING WITH An evening of original music from the soul featuring three of Vancouver’s finest vocal talents, Tonye Aganaba, Khari Wendell McClelland and Emily Chambers. 8pm at The Waldorf. Tickets $10 at EventBrite.ca

NO SINNER Vancouver blues-rock trio fronted by Colleen Rennison celebrates the release of Old Habits Die Hard, with special guests Schelter and Old Soul Rebel. 7pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Neptoon and TicketWeb.ca

BUZZCOCKS Legendary punkers from the UK celebrate their 40th anniversary with special guests Residuels. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $35 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

MOTHER UPDUFF An all out psychout featuring performances from the Vancouver lo-fi garage-psych rock band, with special guests Revenge of the Trees, The Psychic Alliance and Redrick Sultan. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com or $15 at the door.

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE Psychedelic rock band from San Francisco bring their signature shoegaze to town. 8pm at Commodre Ballroom. Tickets $30 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon and TicketWeb.ca

BIG BLACK DELTA Jonathan Bates, formerly of Mellowdrone and M83 plays tunes from his latest solo album Trágame Tierra. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com

Wit, TODD SERIOUS MEMORIAL SHOW A memorial show for Todd runs until Serious, former front man of the June 11 East Van punk band the Rebel Spell, his band with special guests SoundCity Hooligans and Want. THEATRE/DANCE 8pm at the WISE Hall. $15 at the door. 19+ only. CHE MALAMBO A thrilling, percussive dance and music spectacle from CHARLES BRADLEY & HIS EXthe gaucho tradition of Argentina TRAORDINAIRES American R&B features 14 stomping, drumming singer whose style is consistent and roaring percussionists directed with the revivalist approach of by French choreographer, Gilles Brifunk and soul from the ‘70s and nas. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets ‘80s appears in support of Changat TicketFly.com. All ages show. es. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $35 at Ticketmaster.ca and VIRGINS Not just one musical, LiveNation.com but three one-act musicals on one bill, sure to make you laugh with ART D’ECCO Gulf Islands artist tales of socially conscious teens, a makes his debut in support of forthjournalist working on a story about coming LP Day Fevers for an early porn and reality TV style competishow with special guest Louise tion. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Burns. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets at TicketsTonight.TicketTickets $10 at TicketFly.com Force.com. Runs until May 21.

YOUNG EMPIRES Toronto indie rockers appear in support of their debut album The Gates, with special guest Blajk. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $ at LiveNation.com DIANA ARBENINA & THE NIGHT SNIPERS Russian rock band plays a Canadian headlining spot. 7pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $60 at PicATic.com

COMEDY IVAN DECKER One of Canada’s leading young comedians, Decker is a hilarious voice for the millennial generation with careful dissection of everyday trials matched with brilliant timing and intelligent observation. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE 5 @ 50 Ruby Slipper Theatre and Zee Zee Theatre join forces to proudly present the North American premiere of Brad Fraser’s ensemble tour-de-force about friendship, addiction and co-dependence, a darkly comic portrayal of turning 50 in contemporary society. 8pm at PAL Studio Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheatreWire.com

EVENTS RECOLLECTING 86 Expo 86 was a game changer for the city, come out to celebrate and reconnect with friends and architects Bruno Freschi, Alan Hart, Clive Grout, and Peter Cardew for drinks and conversation around the impact of Expo 86. 6pm at Museum of Vancouver. Tickets $15 at MuseumOfVancouver.ca

LAURENT BOURQUE AND STEPH MACPHERSON Toronto singersongwriter tours western Canada and co-headlines with the Victoria singer-songwriter. 8pm at Café Deux Soleils. Cover is $10. ART BERGMANN Vancouver punkrock legend plays tunes from The Apostate with special guests Gerry Hannah and the New Questioning Coyote Brigade and Mac Pontiac. 7:30pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $18 at Art-Bergmann.EventBrite.ca LOUIS CHILD Chicago electronic music duo stop by on their first headline tour, with special guests Yurie and LeChance. 10:30pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $20 at FortuneSoundClub.ElectroStub.com

COMEDY CEDRIC NEWMAN Jamaican-born and Montreal-bred, stand-up comic comes armed with a heavy-hitting style, fine-tailored to make you laugh so hard it hurts with opening sets from Randee Newmeyer, Brett Martin and Lisa Person. 8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

REVOLUTIONS An immersive performance in a 7,000-sq.-ft. warehouse is a visually astonishing and mind-bending, telescopic journey through dust, human chemical relationships and geological time. 8pm at 3681 Victoria. Tickets at FightWithAStick.ca. Runs until May 22 and again May 25-29. REVOLVER THEATRE FESTIVAL A diverse set of emerging and established Canadian artists explore new forms of storytelling and theatre arts in main stage productions and cabaret-style shows presented by Upintheair Theatre. Runs until May 22 at The Cultch. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com, RevolverFestival.ca. Runs until May 22. WIT When Professor Vivian Bearing is diagnosed with cancer, she approaches her therapy with the same academic rigor applied to her work, but as her treatments progress, her intellectual armour gives way to her need for human kindness in this poignant story of unwitting redemption. 2pm & 8pm at Pacific Theatre. Tickets at 604-731-5518. Runs until June 11.

NICOLA BENEDETTI AND DALE BARLTROP Violinsts lead the VSO in a program of Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, Turkish and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony. 8pm at Chan Centre. Tickets $49+ at Tickets.UBC.ca ANA BON-BON Accordion-playing chanteuse, musical hostess and songwriter returns to Vancouver with her cocktail lounge show, Amazeball, with special guests the Naughty Gentlemen, Kitty & the Rooster and Mike Soret and his Broken Horns. 8:30pm at WISE Hall. Tickets $13 at Highlife, WISE lounge and BrownPaperTickets.com BLACK MOUNTAIN Vancouver rock band returns home on their world tour in support of their fourth studio album IV, with special guest Ashley Shadow. 8pm at Commodre Ballroom. Tickets $23.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com U.S. GIRLS Illinois-born, Toronto-based artist Meghan Remy brings her brand of art-pop to town in support of Half Free, for an early show with special guest Fiver. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at TicketFly.com

THEATRE/DANCE EXPRESSIONS FESTIVAL 2016 Arts Umbrella presents the annual showcase celebrating the boundless creativity of young talent with an expanded twoweek run, in a collection of inspired performances and exhibitions highlighting the talents of Canada’s next generation of theatre artists. Visit WaterFrontTheatre.ca for tickets and schedule. Runs until May 22.

SAINT MOTEL LA-based four-piece bring their indie-pop sound to town. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $22.50 at Red Cat and Ticketmaster.ca CARAMELOS DE CIANURO Venezuelan rock band appear in support of 8, with special guests Caracas. 9pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $45 at Ozonico.ca

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. CRAFTY COMEDY Jonny Paul hosts this open-mic night of comedy with some of the funniest stand-up comics in Vancouver, a collection of seasoned vets and bright-eyed newbies along with the joke contest and Roast the Host challenge. 9:30pm at 12 Kings Pub.

THEATRE/DANCE DIVA’S DEN Annual Women for Women centered strip show that encourages professional and amateur performers to get on stage in a safe, supportive environment that is trans inclusive, a core fundraiser for Vancouver Dyke March. 7:30pm at Penthouse. Tickets at Little Sister’s, JQ Clothing and BrownPaperTickets.com

MODERAT Three-piece electronic music project from Berlin appear in support of their third studio album III, with special guests Telefon Tel Aviv. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $30 at Red Cat, Highlife, Zulu and TicketFly.com. All ages show.

COMEDY 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 Don’t let the queer deter you – you don’t have to identify to get it! This not-for-profit society dedicated to creating a queer community that creates, supports, enjoys and teaches improv theatre unites every week on Mondays, to set yourself up for a gay ol’ week. 8pm at XY (1216 Bute).

CHEAP & FUN KARAOKE MONDAYS DJ Christa Belle and Trevor Risk host this weekly send-up of karaoke with no cover, cheap drinks and questionable talent. 9pm at The Cobalt.

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MATT CORBY Australian singersongwriter on tour in support of Telluric. 7pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $29.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

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IMPROV X COMICS AKA BOOM! POW! Grab your shield and join the comedy action as The Fictionals present an evening inspired by Captain America: Civil War, creating new superheroes, defeating villains and discovering just what Archie Andrews is hiding from Betty and Veronica. 8pm at Café Deux Soleils. Tickets $7 at TheFictionals.com

NEXT MUSIC FROM TOKYO VOL. 8 The annual tour introducing Canadians to the most creative and skilled bands out of Japan’s indie underground scene returns with Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, Dalljub Step Club, Nengu, and Regal Lily.7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca or $15 at the door.

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Grammy-winning hip-hop duo from Seattle on tour in support of their new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, with special guests Raz Simone and XP. 8pm at PNE Forum. Tickets $60+ at LiveNation.com

EVENTS URBAN FORAGING PLANT WALK Join indigenous Metis herbalist Lori Snyder for a wild plant walk through East Van to discover new perspectives on how we see and interact with plants in the city as Snyder shares her knowledge and experience in foraging and wildcrafting. 6:30pm at Homestead Junction (649 East Hastings). Tickets $25 at HomesteadJunction.ca

CHEAP & FUN NERD NITE Embrace your inner nerd and come out for great conversations, great drinks and a great time with fellow nerds. This edition sees the nerds take over the aquarium to discuss “The Blob” with Dr. Philippe Tortell, Dr. Richard Dewey and Michael van den Bos. 6pm at Vancouver Aquarium. Tickets $8+ at Vancouver.NerdNite.com

NOTHING BUT THIEVES UKbased alternative rock band appears in support of their selftitled debut album with special guests The Wrecks. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $18 at LiveNation.com

THEATRE/DANCE FLICKER An innovative dance piece by the Dancers of Damelahamid combines West Coast graphic design with a unique sceno-graphic hybrid of projected environments and liveaction shadow dance, inspired by the flicker – a woodpecker from the Northwest Coast carrying cultural significance in coastal art forms. 8pm at The Cultch. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until May 29.

DEVIL IN THE WOOD SHACK Official kick-off for the Vancouver band’s Sea to Sea Canadian tour in celebration of their self-titled vinyl release, with the Staggers & Jaggs, Low Down Mamas, Reds and Skum Shine. 8:30pm at The Astoria. Cover is $10.

COMEDY MARK NORMAND With appearances on Inside Amy Schumer, Conan and the upcoming season of This Is Not Happening, the New Orleans comic brings his brand of stand-up to town with an opening set from Chris James. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE! Scott Aukerman’s popular podcast and television show stages this special live performance, totally improvised and featuring Paul F. Tompkins and Lauren Lapkus with special opening act Neil Campbell. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $35 at TicketFly. com. All ages show.

THEATRE/DANCE 1-ACT FESTIVAL Back with its ninth annual innovative theatre series, this year’s short, sharp and original shows feature empowered and energized female voices in a presentation of three exciting new and developing pieces Swan Song, Almost a Stepmom and Fall-Out Picnic. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at ShiftTheatre.ca. Runs until May 28.

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BILLY ELLIOT Based on the acclaimed film, and supported by the music of Elton John, the inspiring tale of courage, ambition and overcoming adversity is the journey of an 11-year-old boy who falls in love with ballet in 1984 London. 7:30pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until July 10.

THE TOURIST COMPANY Fourpiece alternative pop-rock band from Vancouver celebrate the release of their EP Mercury at an early show with special guests Isobel Trigger and Adam Hanney & Co. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12.50 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com

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Occupant: I am a creative entrepreneur who runs an agency called KIMBO Design. Before becoming a marketer, I was an artist, and I believe that this artistic background comes through vibrantly in my work.

This week we get a glimpse into the personal style of one of Vancouver’s top creatives. From artist to creative strategist, Kim Pickett demonstrates the marriage of artistic ﬂow with innovation, both in her career and her home.

Major selling feature: The excellent central location. I also have a great view of both the Vancouver Art Gallery and all the beautiful architecture of the city.

What is it: A downtown condo in the Scotiabank Building, surrounded by the creativity and natural beauty of the city.

First thing I changed: The kitchen. It was dated and conﬁning, so I removed the hanging shelving feature to open up the space, and

connect the kitchen with the living room.

That one conversation piece: My small den, which I call “the creative cove.” I have a collection of objects loaded with sentimental value in there. The décor: Eclectic West Coast modern, with a healthy dose of ﬂare, energy, and signature KIMBO style. The story behind the art/ antiques/collectibles: I am honoured to house the collection of music (and turntables) that belonged to my best friend Tasha, who

passed away last year; this collection really shows the presence of her soul, containing over 20 years of diverse music. On the walls of the den I have a mask collection – I purchase a unique mask each time I travel to a new place. Then there’s my electric piano. I wanted to be a concert pianist at one time, but gave up hope after I competed against some 11-year-old prodigies. The classical music industry was too competitive for me so, ironically, I decided to go into advertising and design.

Neighbourhood haunts: The Vancouver Art Gallery is only two minutes away, and I frequently visit it to get

inspiration for client work. To create good branding and advertising, you absolutely must be inspired. Nordstrom is also just a skip and jump away. I love browsing through the latest designer fashion collections. I’m a follower of fashion because of how it relates to my work, and staying at the vanguard of design and consumerism is necessary to be a good marketer. Compared to your last place: I was previously in the Woodward’s Building, which is a totally different part of the city. Where I am now, it’s a little quieter, and more central. I miss the interior design of the Woodward’s,

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How many times have you wanted to throw on some forgiving sweatpants instead of a restrictive pair of jeans? A local brand has devised a solution to that dilemma with a line of performance denim that makes everything from laying on the couch to actually doing something physically challenging both comfortable and stylish. Dish & Du/er Performance Denim is targeted for people with an active lifestyle, who want to hop on their bike, take a spin to yoga, then go for dinner, all in the same pair of jeans. The company launched in 2013, but ofﬁcially opened its new ﬂagship store last

month with a high-proﬁle West Hastings location across the street from the Woodward’s Building. The new store/head ofﬁce includes a jungle-gym apparatus with monkey bars and a swing set that shoppers can climb on to help ensure the pair they pick has the right movement for their activeliving needs. Founder Gary Lenett, who has over 25 years in the denim industry with his former denim brand Dish Jeans, was inspired to launch the line by his own love of cycling. The long-time fashion industry insider ditched his car for a two-wheeler for his daily commute a few years ago and has never looked back – but what he needed was the right pair of pants to wear on his bike and in the boardroom. “It started with cycling,”

Lenett explains at the packed opening of the store’s new location, where the team from Origins Parkour performed for the crowd. Lenett tried out commuter styles from other brands, but wasn’t pleased with the results – instead opting to make his own. After 25 years in the clothing business, making jeans for many of the best-known names in the business – including Levi Strauss – Lenett says he was almost ready to hang up his hat, but the performance denim concept reinvigorated his love for the denim industry. “I was done if this hadn’t come up, I was done,” he says. Lenett credits his lengthy background with Dish Jeans with helping him launch a new line at a time when it’s extremely tough to do so.

To bring Dish & Du/er denim to the market, he partnered with Abid Hafeez, his long time New York City-based friend and performance fabric expert, who has worked with brands such as Under Armour and Puma. Their goal was to create a line with a huge assortment of functional styles for men and women that merged function and fashion. The line includes only two types of technical fabric: L2X (leisure to extreme) and N2X (nature to extreme) – both types combine coolmax and Tencel fabric technology to offer moisture management, temperature control and anti-bacterial properties. The stretch fabric denim allows for maximum range of motion, so you can wheel through the city effortlessly, but still comfortably go for dinner. W

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The loss of singer Todd Serious (AKA Todd Jenkins) to a rock climbing accident on March 7, 2015, had a tremendous impact on the Vancouver punk rock community. Besides being the charismatic and articulate lead singer for the band the Rebel Spell, Serious was an outspoken political activist, environmentalist and animal rights advocate, who walked his talk to the last inch, going so far as to single-handedly convert the band’s tour bus to run on veggie oil. He was also a supporter and champion of other musicians. Jeff Andrew – political folkie and friend to the band, who co-wrote “The Tsilhqot’in War” with Serious – says that “he pushed people to do their best and to live up to the potential that he saw in them.” Serious’s enthusiasm for Andrew’s music was “a big inspiration to keep doing it,” Andrew says. “That was one of the really devastating things about losing him, the thought, ‘Shit, what am I going to do now, I don’t have Todd pushing me.’ It left this hole that a lot of people felt.” Elliot Langford, the ﬁnal bassist for the band says he

found Serious “inspiring.” “Like, during Occupy, Todd was there, the whole time, in the kitchen, working for Food Not Bombs,” he recalls. “He had his priorities that were unconventional by societal norms but that made sense to me, and I was always like, ‘Well,Todd’s 42, and he’s still touring Canada, making no money, playing in a band, so I guess it’s all right for me to be doing that at 29!’” As big an impact as Serious’s death has had, the person on the Vancouver music scene who has likely felt the loss most acutely is the Rebel Spell’s guitarist, Wretched Erin. She and Serious co-founded the group, along with original drummer Stepha, via an ad she placed in a local paper back in 2002. Besides Serious, she was the only other consistent member of the band, whose career spanned over 12 years, four LPs, and one EP. Erin – meeting ,A<:K AWCA> with her bandmates at Lanalou’s, where the Rebel Spell played in April 2014 – says she still ﬁnds it difﬁcult to talk about what losing him meant to her. “This question gives me so much anxiety to answer,” she says. “It’s like, I always thought it was important in life to make a point – in, say, a romantic relationship – of not basing your identity on somebody, to have your life outside of it. It 4I<WZ: a romantic relationship, but having him suddenly die made me realize that my identity

The Rebel Spell pose for a promotional photo near Todd Serious’s home in Lillooet for their 2014 album, Last Run. From left: Serious, guitarist Wretched Erin, bassist Elliot Langford and drummer Travis. Gabrielle Kingston photo and my whole world 4I< built upon this guy, basically. So it’s been a huge adjustment to just in a second lose that.” The remaining members of the Rebel Spell - Erin, Langford, and drummer Travis – are getting ready to put on two shows in memory of Todd Serious: May 20 at the WISE Hall and May 21 at 1739 Venables (a show that is already sold out).The dates were chosen because they’re on the weekend closest to Serious’s birthday, May 24. Various guest vocalists - including Stepha, former bassist Chris Rebel, collaborators Jeff Andrew and Lexi Marie, Nick Shrubsole of Kitchener punk band Broadcast Zero,

and Serious’s brother Cory – will join the band to give voice to Serious’s lyrics, and to provide a positive closing chapter to the Rebel Spell’s history. Erin in no way promises that she will keep it together for the shows. “And that’s okay,” she says. “I was never a person to cry in front of people, but I’ve deﬁnitely gotten used to having breakdowns in front of people, now, and then I clean myself up and move on.The one thing about this trauma, versus other bad things that have happened in my life is that never in my life have I felt so many people care so much about me.Which is a

weird trip – like, it felt inappropriate at times, because it’s not all about me, but I deﬁnitely have had a lot of support.” Serious used to tell her, during times when she was depressed, that it was important to “keep busy,” and she’s been doing just that. She even has a new band in the works, an all-girl group called Alien Boys, who should start gigging sometime this summer. But grief has a way of blindsiding you. “I feel like it’s actually just hitting me now, honestly, the past couple of weeks,” Erin says. “I felt like I couldn’t grieve before, because I couldn’t comprehend what

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There’s a disheveled charm to Colby Morgan’s music; the East Vancouver rock ‘n’ roller is a little bit ragged and that’s just the way he likes it. From driving rock anthems like “Right About Me” from his self-titled 2015 LP to maudlin folk ballads like “Wastin’ Time,” Morgan’s music is just at home at a kitchen party as it is at a campfire. This Saturday, Morgan will be headlining the Astoria, where his down and dirty, bluesy rock is sure to find a receptive audience. Backing him up as always will be the Catastrophes, an impressive array of local musicians that includes Eric Campbell of the Dirt fame on guitar. We caught up with

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Who are you? Colby Morgan of Colby Morgan and the Catastrophes. Where are you from? A sliver of a river district called Ruskin, BC. How do you describe your sound? Energetic beer-soaked rock and roll with some sex sweat, dark ballads and a bit of John Lennon. Who are your major musical influences? Neil Young, Radiohead, Father John Misty, Van Morrison and the Clash. Favourite sandwich? The croquet-madame from the Red Wagon.

Best live music performance you’ve ever seen? Radiohead at Thunderbird stadium. When Thom Yorke sang “Rain down, rain down” in the bridge of “Paranoid Android” it started raining. It was a religious moment. Blew my mind. Or watching My Morning Jacket at the Orpheum. Fifteen knee slides in a cape across the stage was amazing. Such a killer live band.

Closest you’ve ever come to death? There’s been a few. Putting my car on two wheels around a corner. Or hanging 10 on the front of a car doing 70km/h. Or almost hitting a moose on tour last summer. Cars and I are a dangerous combination. Finish this sentence: When I’m not writing and

happened. I still am confused. I don’t understand what death is.Todd was very adamant, it was even in the lyrics, that when you die, you’re dead, you’re gone, there’s nothing left. But he’s not dead and gone, because his ideas live on. And not everybody has that when they die.” W REBEL SPELL PRESENT A TRIBUTE TO TODD SERIOUS May 20 at the WISE Hall (19+) and May 21 at 1739 Venables (all ages). Both shows at 8pm. Tickets $15 at the door, or $10 in advance. TheRebelSpell.com

Super secret fact about you that (almost) no one knows? I’m actually two small children in a long coat. That’s why I’m so tall and wobbly.

Justin Wong photo playing music, I spend my time… Drinking coffee, smoking and listening for song lyrics from passersby. First record/CD you ever bought? “Travelling Without Moving” by Jamiroquai. What is your spirit animal and why? I’m a lion. Kinda lazy. Messy hair. I get angry when I don’t eat for a while. I also prefer the heat. What was the name of the first band you ever played in? Oh man. Brothers By

Choice. We thought punk was all about being British. We picked that because we wanted our name on posters to be BBC. So dumb. We played our ﬁrst show in a half pipe at the Maple Ridge Community Centre. I was 15 years old. I started out on bass. Long shorts, high socks. What is one place you will never play again, and why? We are banned from Pat’s Pub, apparently. But we’d probably play there again if the ban was lifted.

What was the best crowd you ever played for, and why? We played Red Gate studios. We went on around 2:30 in the morning. It was mayhem. Everyone was ready to go wild. We were standing on our amps, Climbing what was ever around us. Eric Campbell took down the whole projector screen. I broke my guitar and crowd surfed. Our drummer Joe Chipman kicked the kit over. They were really with us that night, also doing wild stuff it wasn’t just us. Everyone had a great time. 9 8V!G0 OV>*IW IWC :)A 8I:I<:>V?)A< ?A>+V>Y I: :)A =<:V>(I VW .I:7>CI0L OI0 DF 4(:) :)A ;A<: /A5AW*AL =!! UIWC< NW RIWAL :)A ;>V$AW UIWC< IWC .EV::0 M " :)A -(>*(W<J 6VV>< I: '#BH?YL :(E$A:< &FH I: :)A CVV>J W

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Of ‘Heaviness’ and hope KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

A Dancers of Damelahamid member performs in Flicker, running May 25-29 at The Cultch. Lisa Yu photo

Follow the ‘Flicker’ Dancers of Damelahamid present a conﬂuence of contemporary and First Nations forms KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

There was a time, not so long ago, where every step of a Gitxsan dance ceremony was a step away from extinction. For 67 years, the potlatch ceremonies of the Pacific Northwest were banned in Canada, and collective acts such as feasting, gift giving, and dancing were treated as imprisonable offences. So, when the ban was finally lifted in 1951, every subsequent ceremony became an act of preservation, every single gesture and movement needed to be accurate, needed to be authentic, to wrest ancestral traditions from the clutches of colonial repression and pass them down to the next generation. It was amidst that era that Margaret Grenier began learning coastal dance. Grenier is now the leader and artistic director of the Dancers of Damelahamid – the Gitxsan dance company her parents, Ken and Margaret Harris, founded five decades ago to help restore their cultural traditions – and attributes her love of the art form to her parents. “The reason why I’ve worked with the Dancers of Damelahamid is it’s something that was in many ways passed down to me from my parents,” the soft-spoken

dancer, who took over the company in 2002, explains. “And they did several decades of work, starting in the 1960s, which followed the potlatch ban being lifted. And at that time the focus was really in revitalization and bringing practices back to communities.” Her parents also launched Prince Rupert’s longrunning Haw yah hawni nah Festival, which brought together dancers from throughout the Northwest Coast in an annual public celebration, and is credited as having played a signiﬁcant role in British Columbia’s First Nations dance revival. Not content to carry on in only a preservationist capacity, however, Grenier, who also serves as artistic director of the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, has slowly and subtly taken things further – expanding the accessibility of the company’s public programming, while subconsciously incorporating her own experiences (with contemporary dance companies like Karen Jamieson Dance, for example) into her choreography. “At the time, several decades ago, there really was a strong need [to] focus on tradition and to look at how things have been practised,” says Grenier. “But there’s also a need for that practice to be open to inﬂuences that are taking place within each generation,” she explains. “In some ways, for myself, it’s really to take the work that [my parents] did and move it forward.” Flicker, premiering May 25-29 at The Cultch, is the Dancers of Damelahamid’s most avant garde blend of coastal dance and contempo-

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rary influences yet. Building on ideas explored in their 2013 signature work, Spirit Transforming, which stripped the Gitxsan masked dances down to their most minimalistic elements, Flicker delves even deeper into what makes Gitxsan dance unique, while fearlessly innovating within the form. “I feel like Flicker is [the product of ] what we learned from that process of stripping down to the essence of asking ourselves these questions,” says Grenier. “What it is that makes this form distinct, and what do we carry forward in that way.” At the onset of Flicker, the audience is enticed as though stepping into a story.Then, the titular “flicker,” or woodpecker, of the piece’s name, leads a young man to a river to perform a cleansing ritual for the journey ahead. Combining live-action shadow dance, powwow, coastal dance, contemporary indigenous dance, multimedia projections, and West Coast graphic design, Flicker is a rich spirit world brought to life.The bird at the heart of the story was chosen to represent duality, and as masked dancers journey across the piece’s mystical, shimmering landscapes, they use the cloak of the flicker to move in and out of the realm of their ancestors. “I think that in many ways [Flicker] is an exploration of new ideas,” says Grenier. “And then also, even in all these different aspects – the choreography, the regalia, the music – I think that this piece really ties into [...] the idea that our identities as indigenous people are complex, and we’re influenced by many different things.”

For Grenier, placing Flicker in conversation with mainstream contemporary dance marks an exciting, ongoing shift in the very definition of what contemporary dance is. “What I feel like what is happening is there is [...] a broadening in terms of what is defining itself as contemporary dance,” she explains. “So rather than it being a set of two different forms coming together, seeing if you can take a little bit of one thing and a little bit of another, it’s the sort of redefining of contemporary dance [to not] necessarily mean [only] one form of dance background.” While pieces like Flicker are created to be intellectual and spiritual conversation with contemporary audiences, though, Grenier says that the dancing itself has always had – and will always have – a deeper purpose. “We have a fairly recent colonial history in BC and there is a lot of brokenness in communities.There’s a lot of poverty,” Grenier says, quietly. “I grew up in the north and I know not just the poverty of it, but also the spiritual and cultural poverty that goes with that. So by practising dance and art, I think that feeds something that you couldn’t otherwise. And also helps me to process in a healthy way all of these things, and hopefully transform them and share that.” W

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With her debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, author Jennifer Manuel puts herself out on a limb. Both Manuel and her protagonist, a middle-aged nurse named Bernadette, are white, and yet together they boldly tell a story from the outskirts of a coastal First Nations community that depicts – with remarkable intimacy – the tenuous balance that exists between native and non-native neighbours. In the novel, Bernadette is packing up to retire and leave the small community she has served for the past 40 years, when a young man she cares for goes missing. In the ensuing community crisis and tense introspection, a question of privilege arises: can an outsider like Bernadette truly belong? Manuel is an award-winning short story writer and a long-time activist in aboriginal issues, having taught at schools on Tahltan and Nuuchah-nulth lands and worked in areas as remote as the setting of her novel. We caught up with the Vancouver Island resident by phone to learn more about the backstory of this tragic yet inspiring tale: Who are some contemporary First Nations authors whose writing informed this story? Ooh, quite a few.Two I can think of off the top of my head would be Eden Robinson, whose book Monkey Beach is set up in Kitimat, and is a really unflinching look at the various struggles that have come out of the legacy of colonialism for First Nations people.The other author that really, I think, tells the most powerful tales of the kinds of things that I was addressing would be Lee Maracle. She’s from the Sto:lo Nation and her books, I find more than anyone else’s, address how much the legacy of colonialism has affected women. For instance, she’s got a book called Daughters are Forever, and that looks specifically

at the guilt that some First Nations mothers feel when they’re caught up in a cycle of dysfunction that arises directly from residential schools and the reserve system. How do you present your characters’ flaws without seeming to pass judgement? It requires constantly re-evaluating what you’re thinking and why you think it.That’s part of the point of the book – I presented this woman as having been there for 40 years because 40 years is so long, and I could make the point that even somebody who has been there for 40 years will still harbour assumptions.That’s almost a statement about myself, too. Even as I’m writing this book, no matter how much I try to analyze myself, my assumptions will still potentially be in the book.That’s why I wrote it from a first-person perspective, because it’s not this over-arching narrator who’s saying this is the way it is. It’s from her perspective and her perspective is flawed. What do you think will be the main difference between books written about First Nations culture now, compared to before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission? When I looked at old books that had been written in the past by other novelists about First Nations people, I was often appalled.They appropriated so much, and so I wanted to write a book that wasn’t appropriating their voice, but [rather] giving a non-First Nations voice to their experience, and how flawed the perspective is of the outsiders that go in. [...] So, I think that books written after the TRC will have a much different flavour in terms of recognizing what is coming from a non-First Nations viewpoint about our history and about our relationship. Part of our society and history is a shared narrative, so we do need to have a dialogue where both voices are talking honestly. y {The Heaviness of Things that Float’ is out now on Douglas & McIntyre. $29.95. W

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Fiona Forbes and Mary Zilba parlay friendship into LadyPants Productions Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

Take one award-winning broadcaster and one charttopping reality star.Toss ‘em in a blender with years of network experience, a timetested friendship, and a pinch of weed, and voila!You’ve got LadyPants Productions, the new venture from Fiona Forbes and Mary Zilba. Separately, Forbes and Zilba are established personalities in the Vancouver media scene. Forbes has conducted upwards of 30,000 interviews over the course of her career, most recently as the host of Fiona Forbes on Shaw Television (for which she’s nominated for a 2016 Leo Award for her interview with John Cleese of Monty Python fame). Zilba is a pop star, producer, and television personality, best known for her participation in the first season of Slice’s The Real Housewives of Vancouver. The duo has been best friends for nearly a decade (“We bonded over bad breakups, as girls do,” says Forbes in a call with Reel People and Zilba), and now they’re redefining what it means to be BFFs with LadyPants Productions. “It’s so funny when people say LadyPants out loud,” laughs Forbes. “It’s particularly funny when we’re signing a serious business contract,” adds Zilba. “Pull up your lady pants!” LadyPants has more to show for itself than its zany name. On April 20, Zilba and Forbes announced LadyPants’ first three shows: a slate of digital series that all explore some aspect of cannabis culture. These series include Baked: Cooking with Mary Jean, which features Vancouver’s Mary Jean Dunsdon (the pinup model, comedienne, and pot activist otherwise known as Watermelon) cooking an array of dishes that highlight the versatility of cannabis. There’s also Marijuana Minute, a news program hosted by Forbes’ longtime collaborator Michael Eckford (“It’s everything you wanted to know about marijuana but you were too paranoid to ask,” says Forbes), and Stoners in Stilettos, which shines a spotlight on the women who work in the upper ranks of the multi-billion dollar marijuana industry. Though vastly different from each other, the three

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Mary Zilba and Fiona Forbes. Michael Eckford photo series seek to entertain and inform while dispelling stereotypes about the uses and users of cannabis, says Zilba. “Doctors use it. Lawyers and educators use it. It’s people that you would never expect,” says Zilba. “And it’s a miracle plant when it comes to the way that it’s helping diminish seizures in patients, and helping people overcome their illnesses.” With full legalization of marijuana just around the corner, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about cannabis safety and best practices, according to Forbes. These concepts are central to Baked, where Dunsdon advocates for proper portioning while she’s demonstrating cannabis culinary techniques. “You hear stories all of the time about people taking too much when it comes to edi-

bles,” says Forbes.Thus, the ﬁrst season of Baked includes a “couple of episodes that are tutorials about how you can cook with marijuana responsibly and get the proper dosage so that you can actually eat a whole cookie,” she says. LadyPants is producing these weed-centric shows in partnership with NewYork’s Jerrick Media.The three series will all be available on the Potent.Media web site, with the cooking show scheduled to make its debut in early June, and Marijuana Minute rolling out this summer. Both Forbes and Zilba are veterans of the television world, but they’ve found the emerging digital one to be rich with possibilities and creativity. “I think we’re on the precipice of something very new,” says Zilba. “Companies are now building these

huge verticals and web sites that you go to for education and content. It’s opening up a whole new area of content and programming for us.” Although LadyPants’ initial projects are intended for the digital realm, they’re also developing shows appropriate for traditional network television (and Zilba mentions that they’d love to bring Baked to a traditional network when the timing is right). The LadyPants ladies have been taking meetings on both coasts, and recently signed a ﬁrst-look deal with Great Paciﬁc Media, an arm of Thunderbird Films and Lionsgate. And contrary to the high THC content of the initial shows, LadyPants isn’t only all about the bud. Future projects will touch on a range of topics and themes beyond cannabis culture. At the moment, neither Forbes nor Zilba appear in any of their LadyPants projects, but that could change. “We haven’t cast ourselves in anything that we’ve written because we love being on the other side of the camera, but we have been entertaining doing some things on camera as well as producing the shows,” says Zilba. “You may see us on the tube again in some capacity.” W 8 Baked: Cooking with Mary Jean will hit Potent.Media in early June. For LadyPants Productions updates, follow @fionaforbes and @maryzilba on Twitter.

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Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts Directed by Jodie Foster Subtlety gets tossed out the window in Jodie Foster’s fourth feature directorial effort. However, Money Monster features an engaging premise, propped up by some strong performances, and is thoroughly entertaining despite some narrative sloppiness. George Clooney stars as Lee Gates, a bombastic ﬁnancial TV host who has a close professional relationship with his longtime producer Patty Fenn (Roberts). It all seems to be just another day in the studio until an irate man named Kyle Budwell (Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell) storms the set, takes the entire crew hostage, and demands they keep the live cameras rolling. It turns out one of Gates’ lock-of-the week stock picks was a bit of a dud after the company in question suddenly lost millions of investor dollars. Of

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Single-family lots in East Vancouver are gradually densifying through city bylaws that allow legal suites and laneway houses, but builders say the

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There has been a loud buzz about whole grains for a while now, especially ancient grains. Which is hilarious, because just like the name suggests, they have been around for thousands of years. In fact, before it became mainstream to us, these “newcomers” to the foodie world were being served up prehistorically all around the world. But I guess it’s only when we adapt it to our western diet that it becomes mainstream and “new.” Whole grains are intact, ground or ﬂaked and should be the grains you choose to incorporate into your diet. Most people only know some of the staples, such as oat, wheat, rice, barley and corn. But it’s a great time to expand your culinary repertoire by adding some history into your diet. Enter ancient grains, which are full of trace minerals, protein and nutrients. Adding these types of grains

Amaranth gets around. It’s higher in minerals than most veggies and one cup provides over half your daily protein needs and is super high source of magnesium. No wonder everyone wants a piece of it.

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into your diet will help ensure that you and your family are getting nourished in a really practical, delicious way.They are high in ﬁbre, B vitamins, and can help you lower cholesterol and blood pressure. They help you feel full longer, so if losing weight is your goal, then eating whole ancient grains is your game.They are also known to be great at balancing blood sugar, not to mention they taste great and can easily be incorporated in many types of dishes. To learn a little more about

our ancient friends, we must go back. Like the name clearly states, they are ancient, which means they have been around for a long time. So long, in fact, that they were used as offerings to numerous gods around the globe. Spelt was offered to the gods by the Greeks and Romans, chia seeds by the Aztecs, and apparently farro is mentioned in the Old Testament. The foodies will be praised in history for bringing these old staples back to life. There are so many different types

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According to Rebecca Wood in her book the New Whole Foods Encyclopedia, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization has promoted amaranth since 1967 because areas that consume large amounts of the “pseudograin” tend to have very little malnutrition.This native plant to Peru is now grown all over South America, Africa, India and Russia.

Quinoa is a complete protein, making it a popular staple in the vegan/vegetarian population. It’s also versatile and delicious. Related to Swiss chard (yes, that’s correct), this distant cousin hails from South America and was often referred to as “gold of the Incas” because its high protein value gave them strength. This grain has grown so high in popularity that the UN declared 2013 the International Year of Quinoa (we humans look for any reason to celebrate literally anything). Not only is it delicious, but it’s also high in manganese and copper.

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These little grains are packed with a pretty decent amount of ﬁbre, protein, vitamins and minerals (such as magnesium, copper and iron). It can help with blood sugar balance and cardiovascular health, among many others.

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny “An oar moves a boat by entering what lies outside it,” writes poet Jane Hirshfield. You can’t use the paddle inside the boat! It’s of no value to you unless you thrust it into the drink and move it around vigorously. And that’s an excellent metaphor for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, my friend. If you want to reach your next destination, you must have intimate and continual interaction with the mysterious depths that lie outside your known world.

The short attention span is now enshrined as the default mode of awareness. “We skim rather than absorb,” says author James Lough. “We read Sappho or Shakespeare the same way we glance over a tweet or a text message, scanning for the gist, impatient to move on.” There’s a problem with that approach, however. “You can’t skim Shakespeare,” says Lough. I propose that we make that your epigram to live by in the coming weeks, Taurus: You can’t skim Shakespeare. According to my analysis, you’re going to be offered a rich array of Shakespeare-level information and insights. To get the most out of these blessings, you must penetrate and marinate and ruminate.

“There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise,” said Friedrich Schiller. The coming days may be one of those times for you. I therefore advise you to dodge any tendency you might have to be impressed with your sophisticated intelligence. Be suspicious of egotism masquerading as cleverness. You are most likely to make good decisions if you insist on honoring your raw instincts. Simple solutions and uncomplicated actions will give you access to beautiful truths and truthful beauty, especially if you anchor yourself in innocent compassion.

To prepare you for the coming weeks, I have gathered three quotes from the Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti. These gems, along with my commentary, will serve you well if you use them as seeds for your ongoing meditations. Seed #1: “He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?” Here’s my addendum: No later than your birthday, you’ll be ready to start from scratch. In the meantime, your task is to find out where scratch is, and clear a path to it. Seed #2: “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” My addendum: Monitor your dreams closely. They will offer clues about what you need to remember. Seed #3: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.” My addendum: Go in search of the miraculous.

“There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries,” said writer Vladimir Nabokov. I hope you have at least one of each, Leo. And if you don’t, I encourage you to go out and look for some. It would be great if you could also get access to alliances that resemble dancing lessons, colorful sanctuaries, lion whisperers, prayer flags, and the northern lights. Right now you especially need the stimulation that synergistic collaborations can provide. The next chapter of your life story requires abundant contact with interesting people who have the power to surprise you and teach you.

“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible,” says author Rebecca Solnit. She is of course implying that it might be better not to beat the possible, but rather to protect and nurture the possible as a viable option – especially if perfection ultimately proves to have no value other than as a stick. This is always a truth worth honoring, but it will be crucial for you in the weeks to come. I hope you will cultivate a reverence and devotion to the possible. As messy or maddening as it might be, it will also groom your powers as a maker.

An invigorating challenge is headed your way. To prepare you, I offer the wisdom of French author André Gide. “Through loyalty to the past,” he wrote, “our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s joy makes way for it.” What this means, Libra, is that you will probably have to surrender your attachment to a well-honed delight if you want to make yourself available for a bright new delight that’s hovering on the frontier. An educational blessing will come your way if and only if you clear space for its arrival. As Gide concludes, “Each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding wave.”

“How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, and now I’m passing it on to you just in time for a special phase of your long-term cycle. During this upcoming interlude, your main duty is to FEED YOUR SOUL in every way you can imagine. So please stuff it with unpredictable beauty and reverent emotions. Cram it with mysterious adventures and rambling treks in the frontier. Gorge it with intimate unpredictability and playful love and fierce devotions in behalf of your most crucial dreams. Warning: You will not be able to rely solely on the soul food that has sustained you in the past. Be eager to discover new forms of nourishment.

“Here’s how every love letter can be summarized,” says Russell Dillon in his poem “Past-Perfect-Impersonal”: “What is it you’re unable to surrender and please may I have that?” I bring this tease to your attention because it may serve as a helpful riddle in the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase when you will have an enhanced ability to tinker with and refine and even revolutionize your best intimate relationships. I’m hoping Dillon’s provocation will unleash a series of inquiries that will inspire you as you imagine how you could supercharge togetherness and reinvent the ways you collaborate.

Fifth-century Christian theologian St. Jerome wrote that “it requires infinite discretion to look for gold in the midst of dirt.” Ancient Roman poet Virgil on one occasion testified that he was “searching for gold in dung.” While addressing the angels, nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire bragged, “From each thing I extracted its quintessence. You gave me your mud, and I made gold out of it.” From what I can tell, Caprciorn, you have been engaged in similar work lately. The climax of your toil should come in the next two weeks. (Thanks to Michael Gilleland for the inspiration: tinyurl.com/mudgold.)

“At this time in my life,” says singer Joni Mitchell, “I’ve confronted a lot of my devils. A lot of them were pretty silly, but they were incredibly real at the time.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius, you are due to enjoy a similar grace period. It may be a humbling grace period, because you’ll be invited to decisively banish worn-out delusions that have filled you with needless fear. And it may be a grace period that requires you to make strenuous adjustments, since you’ll have to revise some of your old stories about who you are and how you got here. But it will also be a sweet grace period, because you’ll be blessed again and again with a visceral sense of liberation.

More than halfway through her prose poem “A Settlement,” Mary Oliver abruptly stops her meandering meditation on the poignant joys of spring’s soft awakening. Suddenly she’s brave and forceful: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.” Now would be a perfect moment to draw inspiration from her, Pisces. I dare you to say it. I dare you to mean it. Speak these words: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.”

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I’m 22 years old, and live with my parents and one of my two sisters. Over the past few years, I finally come to terms with the fact I don’t identify as male. I don’t feel comfortable living how I am at the moment and have often been finding myself worrying about how coming out and transitioning will impact my life. Things like the reaction of my family and friends, to whether it will impact my job prospects, how it will impact my love life and if I’d just be trading one set of anxiety and depression for another. A couple of months back, I plucked up the courage to talk to my parents about it and for a little while I was happy with the progress that was made. But other than telling me that I might want to talk to someone about it, I really have not received much active support from my parents. Furthermore, my dad has never talked about it (even if he’s in the room when I’m talking to my mother about it). I find myself worrying how my sisters will react to it. I often clash with the one who still lives at home. She often winds me up about how I used to play dress-up and do make-up with her when we were kids and teases me about being bisexual. It makes me feel uncomfortable about the idea of talking to her about it, as I worry that she’ll just think of me as some sort of joke. I was wondering if there was any advice you could give me on coming out and moving forward? OK, so you “don’t identify as male,” but what do you identify as? Are you a gay male? A straight female? A bisexual female? A bisexual, gender-neutral person? Asexual? Solosexual? Two-spirited? In today’s fourth-wave feminist platter of progressive party favours, you really can be anything you want. The time is now. However, being anything you want is still going to be difﬁcult. Life is tough no matter what your gender identity, but before you come out, you have to kind of narrow down what you are coming out as. I suggest trying on a lot of hats before you sew one to your head. Technology is going to be your best friend in this trial period. One of the great things about online chat rooms is that you can try on these hats. There’s even this Dutch-made “teledildonic” device called the KIIROO that allows you to use either the male or female toy to have virtual sex with another person. Many men have used this device to have pseudo-gay relations with other men, so they can

see if this is something they actually want to pursue.You can do the reverse or just play around. I’m glad you have talked to your parents about this. I am sorry that your father has zipped his lips. I know that you want nothing more than for him to tell you he loves you and that whatever life you chose will make him happy because he just wants you to be happy. However, what you are telling him may not be something he can accept just yet.You yourself did not even come to this conclusion until you were in your early twenties. It took you nearly two decades to come to your own terms, and you still feel confused. Imagine how he feels. I don’t think your parents are wrong in suggesting you speak to someone.They don’t know what to say and by encouraging you to talk to someone with expertise in the ﬁeld, they are not abandoning you, but looking out for you. They can’t solve this for you and they know that, so they’re doing what they know how to do: put you in the care and support of someone who does. They may even need that guidance as well. My pal Los Angeles-based sex therapist Dr. Chris Donoghue wrote this excellent book called, Sex Outside The Lines:Authentic Sexuality in a Dysfunctional Culture. I have talked about his book before, but it really explores a lot of the things you feel conﬂicted about and it will enlighten you. In fact, I suggest you read as many books about gender transition as you can. Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch

Blues and Drag King Dreams are both classics, as is Minnie Bruce Pratt’s S/He. If your sister has been teasing you about being possibly bisexual your whole life, then she probably has an inkling. Talk to her – she could end up being one of your closest allies in this whole thing. Siblings are not parents.Their sense of protection is less “Iknow-what’s-best” and more “I-got-your-back.” And right now, you need someone who has your back no matter if it’s sporting an army jacket or a halter top. Before you worry about how this transition could potentially affect your job security or friendships, ﬁgure out what you need to be to make you feel like you. Sometimes you have to dip your toe into the pool before you cannonball into the deep end. Get in some chat rooms and talk to people who have gone through what you are feeling. There are so many communities of people who are happy to help you through sharing their own life experience. Buy those books and read them. Talk to your sister. Go out and live in the world with different hats on.What you are doing is risky, but life is a risk. And cut your dad a little slack. He’s just as confused and scared as you are, but that’s only because he loves you so much. Love, Mish

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6.99

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Choices’ Own Salads

assorted sizes

SAVE

33% 2.59 to

New Roots Probiotics

Natural Factors Sleep and Stress Supplements

product of New Zealand

2.59

8.49 to 11.99

26%

assorted sizes

35% .89 to

250 or 750ml • product of Italy

SAVE

8.99

UP TO

assorted varieties

Nature’s Aid Lip Balm

SAVE

Berio Extra Virgin and Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil

SAVE

1.89 to 2.49 assorted varieties

30% 2.79

assorted varieties

SAVE

RJ’s Licorice

product of USA

Healthy Times Organic Cereal

32%

40%

155-198g

assorted varieties

SAVE

product of Canada

UP TO

34% 3.79 assorted varieties

946ml or 3 pack

SAVE

303ml • product of USA

SAVE

Rossdown Fraser Valley Free Run Roasted Chickens

assorted varieties

Annie’s Crackers and Snacks assorted sizes

While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

SAVE

Natur-A Non Dairy Beverages

Barbara’s Cheez Puffs

Olympic Krema Greek Yogurt

SAVE

Simply Natural Organic Barbecue Sauce

9.99

4.49

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Assorted Varieties and Sizes

20% off

Regular Retail Price

2/6.00

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