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WHOLE LOTTA LOUD

In my West End neighbourhood at Jervis at Pendrell, I have been assaulted daily for two weeks now by various people pressure washing their sidewalks, parking lots, a swimming pool and so on. The noise and activity is objectionable on three counts: one, it is continuous for several hours; two, it is mostly a wasteful activity when

directed at sidewalks and parking lots; three, now that we have water restrictions in place, it ought to be illegal. In a few weeks, developer Intracorp will start demolition of three houses and an apartment building, then dig and drill a deep hole, then begin construction of a 19-storey tower, and we will have this noise to contend with

for month upon month. I propose that the city review its noise bylaws; that it take into account the density of the downtown peninsula, the echo chamber effect of all the towers, where noise rebounds and affects hundreds more residents per city block than it would in a more open, semi-suburban neighbourhood. Noise is an invisible

cause of stress; if noises were made visible everyone would be up in arms about the pollution. As the city gets noisier, we assume this is just the way it has to be. We would all be better off if we became more aware of and vigilant about noise. Complain to your councillors and mayors: that’s one noise I think we need to make loudly and often. –Michael Cox

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Lonely Vancouver: Just say hello Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

Hello! A few days ago, I was at a busy, downtown café, and witnessed a social interaction that took two pleasantly unexpected turns. A 20-something couple walked in.They were really good looking, but that’s beside the point.They purchased their coffees and snacks, then turned to survey the tables, looking for somewhere they could sit together. Every table was taken, mostly by solo individuals buried in their laptops, myself included. The ﬁrst unexpected moment was when a bookish woman proved she wasn’t completely self-absorbed in scrolling her Facebook newsfeed like the rest of us. If you don’t count the laptop, she was sitting alone. The woman looked up at the couple through a pair of vintage eyeglasses and quietly said, “Hello, you two can take my table, I’ll go sit at the bar.” The couple thanked her as she gathered up her things and began to make her way over to a stool to continue her lonesome laptop plunking. The second unexpected moment was when the male half of the couple turned towards the table-giver-upper, and said, “Hey, would you like to join us?”The woman turned, smiled, and replied, “Um, no, that’s ok…” Thinking about it further in the instant she adjusted her glasses, she decided to seize the moment. “Actually, yes. Sure.Thanks!” She sat back down at the table with them.The smiling, handsome couple introduced themselves and she did likewise, and the three of them delved into an amicable conversation over coffee and banana bread. I tried not to stare on in shock as I pretended to type on my laptop while eavesdropping. By all indications, it wasn’t a hustle, it wasn’t a proposition for a three-way, and they weren’t missionaries from a religious cult. This was just a straight-up, friendly conversation amongst Vancouverites who had just met and were

sharing a table. According to some medical sociology studies, people who do just that – engage with strangers – live healthier, happier, and longer lives. We all know that the type of social interaction I witnessed in the café is all too rare in this city.We’ve heard it before: Vancouver is often considered the “coldest” town in Canada when it comes to friendliness, but we don’t stand alone in the epidemic of urban loneliness. Studies have shown that up to one in ﬁve city dwellers in North America suffers from social isolation. To combat that, a few years ago a campaign called “Just Say Hello” was launched with some serious pep when celebrities like Oprah, Julia Roberts, and Jimmy Kimmel got behind it.Videos were made, songs were written, and hashtags were created. David Beattie, a Vancouverite originally from South Africa, thought “Just Say Hello” was a great idea and tried to launch a localized version of the campaign at cafés in Vancouver. He tried to pilot the project at his local by placing a sign on a table that read, “Just say hello.” He sat down and reportedly waited for over two hours, until deeming the test run a complete ﬂop. The Metro Vancouver Just Say Hello Facebook page has just 129 likes and hasn’t been updated since October. Most of the posts on the page have zero likes. Hello? Sure, the concept can be corny, and it depends on the neighbourhood. In the West End, saying hello could infer you seek something stronger than conversation. In the Downtown Eastside, saying hello might infer you seek something stronger than coffee. On Robson Street, if you tried to say hello to everyone you pass, someone might call Mental Health Emergency Services. In East Van, saying hello to strangers has actually been encouraged to thwart property crime and build up community rapport. Why not try it? It’s a oneword remedy to shake Vancouver’s chilly reputation: just say hello. I saw it work before my very eyes. Say hello with a smile and you never know where it may lead. W

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An infamous crow briefly made off with evidence at the scene of a police shooting at an East Side McDonald’s parking lot on Tuesday. Police have released few details but confirmed officers shot a 28-year-old man after he allegedly confronted them with a knife. The man is in hospital being treated for non-life threatening gunshot and knife wounds. The parking lot is the same one where officers shot and killed Christopher Ray, 52, on Oct. 29, 2012. More than 20 officers were at the scene, including one who was forced to chase down a crow that picked up a knife with its claws and flew a short distance before dropping it back in the parking lot.The crow also tried to make off with a pair of eyeglasses in the lot and steal gear belonging to a television camera operator. Locals identified him as “Canuck,” a crow that has become an online sensation. Const. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer,

Canuck the crow, seen here in a photo taken in January, drew the ire of police after he flew off with a knife from a crime scene in East Vancouver on Tuesday. Facebook photo said police were in the area shortly after 1pm on an unrelated call when they were alerted to a car burning in the McDonald’s parking lot at Hastings and Cassiar.The car, which had a Quebec licence plate, was destroyed in the fire, which heavily damaged a van in the neighbouring parking stall. “When officers went to deal with the car fire and keep the public away until firefighters could arrive, they were confronted by a man armed with a knife,” Montague said in a statement. “The man allegedly

came at the officers and shots were fired.” The Independent Investigations Office is investigating to determine whether police committed any offences in the shooting. –Mike Howell,Vancouver Courier

BRITISH COLUMBIANS HAPPY WITH COMMUTE: POLL

It’s one of our favourite things to complain about: our daily commutes. It appears, however, that most workers in BC are actually happy with their travels to

and from work or school, according to an Insights West study released May 24. Almost two-thirds of those surveyed said they feel their commutes are pleasant. This includes 24 per cent who called their trips “extremely pleasant.” Almost one-in-three respondents called their commutes “annoying.” Among those who say they are happy with their trips, those who are able to walk to work or school are the happiest, with 96 per cent saying they ﬁnd their trips pleasant, followed by those who bike, at 95 per cent. Those who drive and those who take public transit report lower levels of satisfaction, at 62 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively. Some of the main reasons drivers say they are unhappy with their commutes are bad behaviour on the road (62 per cent) and trafﬁc (58 per cent). Transit users say they are unhappy with overcrowding inside vehicles (71 per cent) and wait times (64 per cent). –Emma Crawford Hampel, Business inVancouver

Feeding humanity in a warming world David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difﬁcult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of global emissions from farms range widely. The US Environmental Protection Agency puts them at 24 per cent, including deforestation, making agriculture the second-largest emitter after heat and electricity. Agriculture contributes to global warming in a number of ways. Methane and nitrous oxide, which are more potent than CO2 but remain in the atmosphere for shorter times, make up about 65 per cent of agricultural emissions. Methane comes mainly from cattle and nitrous oxide from fertilizers and wastes. According to the World Resources Institute, “Smaller sources include manure management, rice cultivation, ﬁeld burning of crop residues, and fuel use on farms.” Net emissions are also created when forests and wetlands are cleared for farming, as these “carbon sinks” usually absorb and store more carbon than the farms that replace them. Transporting and processing agricultural products also contribute to global warming.

We need to eat. So what’s the answer? That obesity is epidemic in parts of the world while people starve elsewhere, and that an estimated one-third of food gets wasted, shows improving distribution and reducing waste are good places to start – but won’t be enough to significantly curtail agriculture’s contribution to climate change. Reducing meat and animal-product consumption and production – especially beef – would cut emissions, but wouldn’t get us all the way. Some suggest finding better ways to feed as many as nine billion people by 2050 means rethinking our agricultural systems. Industrial agriculture has made it possible to produce large amounts of food efficiently, but comes with problems, including pollution, reduced biodiversity, pesticide resistance and consequent increased chemical use, destruction of forests and wetlands, and human health issues such as antibiotic resistance. Soil loss and degradation, increased drought and flooding and changing growing patterns caused by climate change add to the complexity. Some say the best fix is genetic modification – to produce more nutritious plants that can withstand pests and a changing climate. Others note that when humans try to improve on or override nature, the out-

come is often not what was expected. And a US National Academies of Science report concludes, “GMO crops have not, to date, increased actual yields.” Failing to recognize that everything in nature is interconnected has led to numerous unintended consequences, from DDT causing bird deaths and toxic buildup in the food chain to widespread antibiotic use facilitating the evolution of “superbugs”. The growing ﬁeld of agroecology – working with nature – is one solution. Many researchers argue it’s more efﬁcient, less environmentally damaging and more equitable for farmers and local communities than industrial methods and GMOs. The goal, writes University of California-Berkeley agroecology professor Miguel Altieri, “is to design an agroecosystem that mimics the structure and function of local natural ecosystems; that is, a system with high species diversity and a biologically active soil, one that promotes natural pest control, nutrient recycling and high soil cover to prevent resource losses.” A study by the Rodale Institute, a research organization devoted to organic farming, concluded global adoption of agroecological practices such as “cover crops, compost, crop rotation and reduced tillage” could “sequester more carbon than is currently emitted.” About 40 per cent of Earth’s land surface is used

for agriculture, entailing massive geophysical alteration, so working with nature as much as possible to maintain or restore balance to natural systems makes sense. Agroecology appears to be a better way to feed humanity than doubling down on industrial agricultural, from many angles: reducing pollution and chemical use, enhancing rather than degrading soils, increasing biodiversity, protecting water, growing healthier food and creating more equitable food systems. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein quotes former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter: “Today’s scientiﬁc evidence demonstrates that agroecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live – especially in unfavourable environments.” He further notes, “agroecological projects have shown an average crop yield increase of 80 per cent in 57 developing countries, with an average increase of 116 per cent for all African projects.” We are part of nature, so harming it hurts us. The planet provides resources to feed us. We must learn to use them sustainably. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. DavidSuzuki.org W

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WEST END Paul Taylor is the executive director of Gordon Neighbourhood House in the heart of the West End. Dan Toulgoet photo

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Paul Taylor and Gordon Neighbourhood House connect the West End with food ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

It’s lunchtime on Friday and the Gordon Neighbourhood House in the West End is bumping as usual. The small community centre is easy to miss, sitting under the shade of weeping birch and cherry trees, tucked into a quiet corner of a small pedestrian plaza along Broughton at Nelson. But inside, the centre is full of life and joyful commotion. A group of seniors gossips in the computer lounge, catching up on all the neighbourhood’s comings and goings. Children dart in and out of the front door, engrossed by a game of tag. Upstairs, there’s plenty of conversation in the community lunch room as delicious cabbage soup and carrot bisque is served up, along with tuna sandwiches and saltines. Nearby, a trained chef offers a tutorial on how to make your own salad dressing with fresh herbs and greens from the many nearby community gardens Gordon Neighbourhood House manages. Throughout all of this, dozens of West End residents come and go, picking up their groceries for the week.This is what food bank day at Gordon Neighbourhood House looks like, and you could forgiven for thinking there was a party going on. “The key is to celebrate food,” says Paul Taylor, Gordon Neighbourhood House’s executive director. Food – and its ability to connect people – is the cornerstone of Taylor’s philosophy of community building at Gordon Neighbourhood House. “Food has the ability to bring people together, it’s an equalizer,” he says. “We

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use food to facilitate cultural exchange, dialogue and community.” Before the food bank moved to Gordon Neighbourhood House, residents had a onehour window once a week to access food donations, forcing them to line up down the street, exposing them not only to the elements, but to judgment and shame. “No one was talking. No one was socializing,”Taylor observed. So Taylor worked with the Greater Vancouver Food Bank to extend the window to four hours, and created foodrelated programming to entice members of the community from all walks of life.

“The key is to celebrate food.”

–Paul Taylor, Gordon Neighbourhood House

Taylor knows what’s it’s like to have to stand in that line up. Growing up in Toronto with just a single mom to raise him, his family relied on the food bank to keep their cupboards from going empty. “I want to make sure people are treated with dignity,” he says. “This is their house, and they are welcome here.” The food Gordon Neighbourhood House serves is fresh, non-expired, healthy, and locally-sourced whenever possible. Nutrient-devoid, chemically enhanced, sugarand sodium-laden foods (or as Taylor refers to them, “foodlike substances”) are avoided. “We have this idea that people don’t deserve to have beautiful things if they don’t have a lot of loot,” he says. Since joining Gordon Neighbourhood House in 2013,Taylor has helped launch dozens of food related initia-

tives. The community centre now manages five off-site urban farms and eight community herb gardens throughout the West End (with another 10 on the way), which provide fresh produce for their many meal programs, and is the only neighbourhood house in Vancouver with a farmer on staff. There are also pop-up produce stands, soup-making socials, community kitchens for single mothers and community pot lucks. On weekdays, Gordon Neighbouhood House offers affordable meals through its lunch program, which let people pay what they can. In addition to providing food for the community, Gordon Neighbourhood House also offers demonstrations and cooking classes to promote food literacy. “We’re empowering people, giving them ideas for things on their own, and give them some knowledge to take home with them,” says Peter Nguyen, Gordon Neighbourhood House’s own chef. At the same time, Nguyen says he’s learned things from the Chinese elders in the community about foods he was unfamiliar with. “It’s an exchange, it works both ways,” he says. On May 19, Gordon Neighbourhood House hosted the first annual Vancouver Food Summit, which brought in speakers from across North America to talk about food security issues on a local and global level, in the hopes of building an inclusive food movement. “We have a right to food,” Taylor argues. Canada has endorsed the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes food as a fundamental human right. However,Taylor sees very little being done by the government to improve food access for those with low income. “We’ve signed this international covenant, but what are we doing about it?” he says. “This is an issue that effects us all.” In the West End, where one third of people are now considered low income, there’s no shortage of mouths to feed,Taylor says. Many low-income and fixed-income residents have had to forego the basics to make ends meet as the cost of living in Van-

couver spirals out of control. The 2016 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found that Vancouver was the third most unaffordable city in the world, behind only Hong Kong and Sydney.The average detached house in Metro Vancouver now sells for $1.4 million, while apartments average $475,000, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Meanwhile,Vancouver’s rents are rising the fastest in the country, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, at 4.6 per cent. The average one-bedroom in Vancouver proper now rents for more than $1,600 per month (RentBoard.ca). Meanwhile, the average Vancouver household income is 4.1 per cent lower than the national average at $73,390, completely out of step with the runaway real estate market. As a result of Vancouver’s increasing unaffordability, food bank usage has skyrocketed by more than 25 per cent since 2008, and this past year BC set a record as more than 100,000 people used a food bank in the month of March – the most ever in the province. Of those, 32 per cent were children. “So many people in the West End are struggling to keep up with high rents,” says West End

NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert. “A lot of young families are leaving as a result.” By connecting with people through food, Gordon Neighbourhood House can also connect community members with other services and help they might need. “What Gordon Neighbourhood House and Paul have done is connect to the community through our stomachs,” says Chandra Herbert. “It’s a unique way of thinking about bringing the community together.” Likewise, Gordon Neigh-

bourhood House is very much a product of its community. The many programs the centre offers would be impossible without the tireless efforts of the legion of volunteers who want to make their home a better place.Whether it’s tending the crops, working the counter at the Attic Thirft Store on Davie Street, or organizing the many social events Gordon Neighbourhood House puts on,Taylor says West End residents are always willing to lend a hand. “It’s energizing to be around them,” he says. W

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West End dining reborn Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday Last year, I wrote about the evolution of dining in the West End over the last century. Despite the oft-quoted maxim, “The closer to the water, the worse the food,” this vibrant neighbourhood has managed to turn out more than a few handfuls of delicious and innovative restaurants that have stood the test of both time and Vancouver’s notoriously ﬁckle dining public. The newest arrivals on the scene are the proverbial canaries in a coal mine – they’re harbingers of what’s to come. From casual take-away options to revitalized old-school glamour and the abolishment of tipping, here are a few places that are signalling the next phase of restaurant culture in the West End.

VERIFOOD

The name sounds like something chosen to represent a multi-national corporation, but it doesn’t get more mom ‘n’ pop than this.

The West End’s iconic Sylvia Hotel recently renovated their dining room. Contributed photo The name derives from the Italian word for “authentic” (verace) and this is as real as it gets. Vittorio and Lucia Checcacci moved here from Florence about a year ago and opened Verifood three months later. They brought with them Lucia’s grandmother, Luisa (yes, an actual nonna), as well as their two young children. The concept is simple; authentic, handmade Italian pastas made daily and served up in the casual café space or sold as take-home meals. The lasagna uses DOP parmigiana and a classic

Tuscan béchamel that’s smooth as silk. Ravioli ﬁlled with ricotta and spinach has a simple butter and sage sauce that sings, and the gnocchi are pillowy and comforting, especially with the four-cheese sauce. Get it with a side of the fried Tuscan bread balls ﬁlled with ricotta and cream cheeses, prosciutto and arugula. No liquor license, but a handful of quality coffees round out the menu (just don’t expect any frappuccinos here) and there’s usually a fantastic olive oil cake for dessert. %',3&)55/2!,0

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The “ritual” here is new and otherwise unheard-of in Vancouver’s restaurant scene. Tipping is not only discouraged, it’s completely absent at this casual, comfort-driven eatery. Don’t worry, though, because everyone who works here actually earns a living wage (around $21 per hour) and receives benefits, which include vacation pay and MSP coverage. Any money left on the table is donated to A Loving Spoonful, a local not-for-profit that provides meals to people living with HIV/AIDS. It’s a revolutionary concept, and time will prove it financially viable – or not. In the meanwhile, there’s the food, and it’s both new and

familiar in equally pleasing measure. Remember those apple pie pockets from Mickey D’s? The rhubarb and apple pies here are built along the same lines, but tastier, and with better ingredients. How about tater tots in a Twinkie shape, served with tomato chutney? Or Hawaiian buns ﬁlled with teriyaki pork? More grown-up items round out the menu, including stellar yam-stuffed ravioli with sweet and spicy pecans, and soy-braised beef brisket. Several vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are also available, and some menu items can be modiﬁed to suit dietary restrictions. Just don’t forget the cocktails. Muddled mimosas are solid patio sippers and go well with the Bananas Foster French toast on the brunch menu. Speaking of… the menu changes quite frequently, so expect some variations with every visit. % -&0.4#'4!15.+,3215"

THE SYLVIA HOTEL

It’s hardly new, but the grand old dame of the West End, the Sylvia Hotel, claims to be Vancouver’s original cocktail bar, and is, according to some sources, the birthplace of the city’s eponymous mixed drink. With almost 100 years under its belt, the heritage building was in need of a facelift, which came earlier this year courtesy of owner Jill Davies. The lounge was also given a makeover, and the new menu is full of classic cocktails and easy bites, both large and small, like the halibut and scallop ceviche tacos, beet and quinoa salad, or the classic Sylvia burger. A good collection of wines by the glass rounds out the beverage menu, and the banana bread pudding is a shareable dessert if you’re looking to generate some heat (both literally and ﬁguratively) on your date. % *(#+&4$50,#215" W

Ancora’s executive chef Ricardo Valverde. Jennifer Gauthier photo

More West End eats The diversity of styles and cultures when it comes to dining in the West End can only be touched upon, but here are a few more places that are pushing limits in their own imitable ways.

EXILE BISTRO

The execution has smoothed out since this ethical eatery opened two years ago, and the cocktail menu might be the only one in the city that can boast health benefits to go along with its wild, foraged and sustainable menu. ExileBistro.com

MOLLI CAFÉ

This Mexican-inspired coffee shop and luncheria serves up some pretty amazing tacos, tortas and quesadillas. MolliCafe.com

TIMBER

Chef/owner Chris Whittaker of Forage opened up his second room a few months ago, and has been churning out excellent modern Canadian comfort food ever since. TimberVancouver.com

BEACH BAY CAFÉ AND PATIO

New chef Felix Zhou has reinvented the menu at this clean, bright room overlooking English Bay and is focusing on the casual, seafood-forward dishes that best exemplify

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Across the street from St. Paul’s Hospital on Helmcken lies one of the city’s tiniest and tastiest rooms. Chef Kris Barnholden turns out beautifully plated dishes that play with elements that are foraged, fermented, and sculpted into delicious flavours that soothe the palate and the stomach. Latab.ca

ANCORA

Peruvian-Japanese cuisine in a fine dining setting overlooking the water, with solid cocktails and stellar wines? Yeah, totally predictable. (You get that was sarcasm, right?) Chef Ricardo Valverde takes two disparate cultures that have some history together and makes beautiful seafood. AncoraDining.com

THE FAT BADGER

Where would the West End be without a proper British pub that serves up British pale ale and mini Yorkshire puddings stuffed with succulent roast beef? España owners Ed Perrow and chef Neil Taylor opened this casual British pub in the old Le Gavroche space, and the bubble and squeak, and bangers and mash, have been flying off the plates nightly. TheFatBadger.ca

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Jim Deva Plaza to open for Pride ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

A new pedestrian plaza at the corner of Davie and Bute honouring local LGBTQ activist Jim Deva will be open in time for Pride weekend, the City of Vancouver has conﬁrmed. Karen Hoese, the city’s assistant director of planning for DowntownVancouver, said the city is working hard to get the $2.3 million project completed in time for the end of July. “Ground is broken and were targeting to have everything done by Pride,” she said. “It’s meant to be the heart of Davie Street, so it’s a priority to have it ready in time.” Once completed, the pedestrian plaza will feature outdoor catenary lighting strung across what was Bute Street, with a public toilet, moveable seating, outdoor electrical outlets, water connections and storage to allow for public events and programming. “There could be arts and crafts, public markets, farmers’ markets aren’t out of the question, either,” said Hoese. The plaza will also feature the Jim Deva Soapbox for open air public-speaking, inspired by Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park.The feature is intended as a tribute

Artist’s rendering of Jim Deva Plaza. City of Vancouver illustration to “Deva’s achievements and support of freedom of speech,” Hoese said. The plaza project hasn’t been without controversy, however. A pilot program that blocked off the stretch of Bute to vehicular trafﬁc for 14 months generated complaints from residents and local businesses who were concerned about drug use and public urination at the site. However,West End NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert said he’s hopeful design changes by the City of Vancouver to include better lighting, public toilets, and ongoing public programming will address the issues. “We heard from seniors that they didn’t feel safe because the area attracted drug dealing,” he said. “But I think having programming there, instead of

it just being empty all the time, that will go a long way.” The plaza will also be monitored and programmed by a special oversight committee made up of community members.The innovative stewardship strategy is the ﬁrst of its kind in Vancouver, and if successful, could be applied to other public spaces. “We’re pretty excited about the model,” said Chandra Herbert. “Involving the community, you get a better outcome – we all have a stake in making this work.” The plaza will be the site of the Davie Street Block Party on July 29, as well as theTerry Wallace Memorial Breakfast on July 30 as part of theVancouver Pride Society’s annual festivities. “[The plaza] is a great tribute to Jim,” said Chandra Herbert. “We miss him.” W

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he clock struck 4:32pm when shoppers in line at Independent Grocers on Davie Street were taken by surprise. The shop, which has operated on the corner of Davie and Bute for close to 40 years, decided to pick up the tab for its customers on May 13, shocking everyone who thought they’d be pulling out their wallets after unpacking their grocery baskets. “We took a rope and roped off all the people that were in line at the till at that time, and then we just stopped them for a couple minutes and made an announcement,” says Independent Grocer manager Lyle Miller. “We said we’re going to give everyone on this side of the line free groceries thanks to Market Moments, and away we went!” Market Moments is a Canada-wide, fourweek campaign led by Loblaws, in which customers are approached in-store and given prizes. Miller took over the Loblaws-owned grocery store in 2012 as a franchisee, and has since turned the market into a hub for community activity. “I think from when we changed from Supervalu to Independent, we’ve gone 180 degrees and turned towards community involvement,” Miller explains. The store routinely hosts the annual Pride weekend’s pancake breakfast, serving about 550 people each time, and are participants in Pride’s Friday Night Street Party. As for why Miller and his coworkers jumped onboard the Loblaws-inspired giveaway? To create a sense of community and to give back to those who’ve been patronizing it

TOP: Independent Grocer manager Lyle Miller makes a surpise announcement at the store. In total, the store paid for more than $1,650 worth of customers’ groceries on May 13. LEFT: Shoppers at Davie Street’s Independent Grocer celebrate upon learning that the store was paying for their groceries.

for years. “For the most part, we have daily shoppers in here,” he reveals. “They’re in here for their daily groceries. There were a couple younger people who had a couple buggies full of stuff which was surprising, I was shocked. We’re [often] more like that convenience factor.” In the end, Independent Grocers gifted more than $1,650 in groceries to their cus-

tomers. Getting a shocked smile and a thank you from his regulars was well worth it, Miller expresses. “I think it surprised some of our community members. They were like ‘What?! You’re paying for my groceries today?’ and we’re like, ‘Yeah, no worries, we got it today.’” According to Miller, some of those clients are everyday buyers or those who come in at

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Vancouver Craft Beer Week is back and better than ever

Stephen Smysnuik The Growler

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No hyperbole: Next week will be the loudest, brashest, most drunken and all around most fun week for craft beer of the year.Yes, it’s Vancouver Craft Beer Week. The weeklong festival is celebrating its seventh year with its biggest iteration yet, with eight events over 10 days and tens of thousands of people celebrating all nooks and crannies of craft beer fandom. There’s something for the rabid beer geek; something for the celiac; something for the brawny college kid that just wants to check out the bands; and everyone in between. And that’s exactly the point. VCBW is and always has been designed as a populist event.

“That’s why we started – to bring craft beer to the masses, if you will, to try to get more people drinking it by making it accessible to everybody,” says VCBW cofounder and events director Leah Heneghan. “Having a festival of this size with 350-plus beers at it, there’s so many beers for people to try that they wouldn’t normally be exposed to… Everybody is going to ﬁnd beers that they like at the festival for sure, even if they think they don’t like beer.” VCBW will have the most breweries at one festival inWestern Canada, and Heneghan says they’re expecting 18,000 people to attend over three days. But the hook organizers are banking on this year is a full lineup of BC musicians held over three stages, including the winners of the joint CFOX/VCBW contest #willplayforbeer. Which means this is a festival for the everyman and everywoman, and not a tasting event designed for people who are precious about beer tasting. For the ardent, hardened beer snobs – or for those just don’t care to be around 6,000 intoxicated people – here’s a rundown

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Vancouver Craft Beer Week is back May 27-June 5. Contributed photo of what exactly is happening throughout Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

VCBW OPENING NIGHT

Friday, May 27, 6-10pm, Roundhouse Arts Centre ($60) VCBW’s launch party will include 32 breweries and cideries, with over 50 beers and ciders available to sample. CRAFT Beer Market is supplying the canapés, KINDSnacks will dole out

the desserts, while Out of Nowhere, one of the top ﬁve ﬁnalists from the #willplayforbeer contest, performs.

COLLABORATION FEST!

Saturday, May 28, 1-5pm, Big Rock Urban Brewery & Eatery ($50) This ﬁrst-time event will feature 15 collaboration brews from local breweries, one cidery and a distillery. Tickets include samples of

every beer, the chance to vote for best of the bunch, canapés and behind-thescenes access to the brewery.

BEST OF BC

Sunday, May 29, 1-5pm, Central City on Beatty ($50) The Canadian Brewing Awards are in town this same week, so they’ve teamed up with the BC Craft Beer Guild to feature the top winning BC beers in 20 different styles. What exactly they’ll be

pouring is a secret until the night before the event, but if 2015’s CBA- winning beers from BC are any indication, it’ll be a mighty solid lineup. Tickets include beer samples and canapés provided by Central City.

BIEFCRAFT BELGIAN SHOWCASE

Monday, May 30, 6:30-11pm, BierCraft Cambie ($80) This is one of VCBW’s most popular and longest-

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VANCOUVER CRAFT BEER WEEK running events, and tends to sell out. It will feature a variety of Belgian beer styles: Abbey ales,Trappistes, saisons, Flemish reds and more, from the old world and new.The ticket is inclusive of all food and beers samples.

from 20 BC breweries. The ticket includes eight ﬁveounce beer tasters and tapasstyle food throughout the evening. This event sold out last year, and why not? Fruit! Fruit! Fruit! Fruit!

FEATS OF STRENGTH HERCULEAN BEER PARTY!

Thursday, June 2, 5-9pm, The Lamplighter Public House ($20) Cider is growing in popularity in the local beer scene, and VCBW is embracing the trend – and accommodating the gluten-intolerant among us – with this tasting/barbecue cookout. Twelve BC cideries will be pouring while chefs work the ’cue, cooking beer can chicken. And fear not, gluten lovers! Beer will be available too. Tickets include samples of every featured beer and cider, along with a ticket for the door prize rafﬂe. Beer-can chicken will be available for an additional cost.

Tuesday, May 31, 5pm-late, The Cobalt ($20) And here we knock off both the weirdest and hoppiest event of Beer Week. Brewers, cellarmen and –women, bartenders and others will compete in semi-ridiculous feats of strength that may or may not include “shirtlesstotem-poling.” Not even sure what that is. But there will also be phonebook tearing, keg lifting, arm wrestling and more. Copper & Theory has curated the mostly hopforward beer list and Tacoﬁno will be on site. Music will follow to soothe the broken egos of the competitors who lose.The ticket includes six sample tokens.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Wednesday, June 1, 5-10pm, Devil’s Elbow Ale House ($40) Back for its second year, Forbidden Fruit will feature a cross section of fruit beers, Belgians, sours and more

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THE VCBW FESTIVAL

Friday, June 3, 4-9pm; Saturday, June 4; Sunday, June 5, 1-6pm, PNE Fairgrounds ($35-40) The Big One. The Best One. The One. The main event is presented by the Donnelly Group this year, who will have an expanded “Donnelly Zone,” dubbed

the Publican Quarter, which will include one of three music stages, a barber shop, games and, naturally, beer. But there will be beer elsewhere too, obviously – over 400 beers, in fact, from over 100 breweries. The Beer Can Derby will be there with a 15-metre track raising money for charity by racing cars made out of beer cans. There will be loads of live music, the full lineup of which can be viewed at the VCBW website. And of course there will be large crowds of people, the overwhelming majority of who will be having a great time, because it’s a great festival, and we urge you to go. Saturday is typically the busiest day, so go that day if you’re planning to get your party on. Sunday tends to be slower, and is better for people who tend to care about beer a bit more and want to interact with the brewers. VCBW has added a Friday night for the ﬁrst time in several years, so its unknown at this time how that will play out. My guess? It’s Friday night at a beer festival. If it’s a warm day out, it’s going to GO OFF. Play safe folks. Note: All prices exclude taxes and fees. W

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Bands play for brews at VCBW

KRISTI ALEXANDRA @kristialexandra

Live music, bottomless kegs, and unlimited tap selections are the stuff of dreams for many musicians.Thanks to Vancouver radio veterans CFOX, this heavenly Happy Gilmore-style montage is about to be a reality for three local acts that scored big in the #willplayforbeer competition. Pairing up with Vancouver Craft Beer Week, CFOX is bringing three bands to the stage from June 3 to 5 at the PNE Fairgrounds for the 2016 festival. The radio station hosted a competition via social media to vote for the top three bands who would, in theory, “play for beer” and open the CFOX mainstage playing host to several other musical acts. Of the 10 participating bands, Westender caught up with the three winners – all of whom are ready to go bottoms up for Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

THE BRASS ACTION

Six-piece brass-punk outﬁt the Brass Action is no stranger to crowds. One could say its own band, a sextet of skaloving rude boys, is a crowd itself. But they have no qualms about drawing an even bigger one with their Vancouver Craft Beer Week appearance. “We’re always looking for more people and to grow our party.We always like for our shows to be a night that

we go out and drink and have lots of fun,” exclaims singer Ryan Clare, noting they heard about the #willplayforbeer contest from their personal graphic designer, Steve Kitchen, who’s also known for his work on Parallel 49’s beer labels. Rounded out by Garrett McLaughlin, Richard Mitchell,Tyson Sully, Evan Kelly and Mael Thébault, Clare leads the high-energy, horndriven punk ensemble. “We’re more in it for the exposure than anything else,” Clare confesses. “In the end, I thanked [Steve] for pointing us in the direction of the competition, and he was like, ‘Well, it was a little selfish because I just wanted to listen to some ska and drink some beer.’” While Clare and co. attest they’re not a “money making machine” or a touring band with a lust for fame, the troupe has released two fulllength albums and two EPs since 2011, and even made a cameo in Horns, the 2013 dark fantasy horror film starring Daniel Radcliffe. The band is currently working on its third EP, set to be released in the next year, including covering a few notable ska songs.To find out which ones they are, you’ll just have to catch them at Vancouver Craft Beer Week where they’re sure to try a couple out on the crowd. The Brass Action performs the CFOX Mainstage on Friday, June 3.

DISCO FUNERAL

Disco Funeral is a band whose sound is famously elusive, and trumpeter Scotty Vigue makes no plays at denying it.The six-piece outﬁt has been blending elements of jazz, funk, metal, ska, and cheese – yes, cheese – in the four years they’ve been jamming together. “It really is [a mix of] everything, especially if you hear our entire discography,”Vigue tellsWestender. “Every song is completely different from the next.There are some general dance songs that make people want to move; there’s some really psychedelic songs that make you just stand there and watch and listen; and some really big band songs; big riffs; big numbers.We have musical ADD in a way, where that really beneﬁts us.We have a goal of making a good song, no matter what [genre] it is.” Vigue is joined by bandmates Justin Reist on vocals, Johnny K on guitar and bass, Dave Malcolm on guitar and bass, Kaelen Jarvis on keys and Jae Kim on drums. With so many members and musical tastes, it may seem a tad tricky to nail down any one vision for a song. Difference of opinion is no issue for the sextet however,Vigue says. “We really encourage each other, and everyone gets their space.There is no one member that does more than the other,” he attests. One thing they

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Dakota Pearl, June 5 certainly have harmony over is the shared love of some dairy. As evidenced by their party song “Nice Shoes, Let’s Cheese,” the guys have no qualms about a ﬁne fromage. But what does it mean? “I guess ‘cheese’ would more be a slang term for ‘Have fun,’ ‘Let’s do this, let’s go off.’ Sometimes we throw out wheels of brie and camembert at our shows,”Vigue confesses. When taking a break from cheese, you can listen to select tracks from Disco Funeral’s independently-released four-track EP on the band’s Soundcloud page (Soundcloud.com/discofuneral). Disco Funeral performs the CFOX Mainstage on Saturday, June 4.

DAKOTA PEARL

Don’t let the whimsical name fool you.While some may conjure up thoughts of ancient Aboriginal talismans or a divine treasure, the guys’ true inspiration in naming their band was a potato. “A Dakota Pearl is a potato,” frontman Adam Leggett tells Westender with a laugh. “We live in Pemberton, which is known as the spud capital of Canada. So we ironically named our band after a potato.” Perhaps the deeper takeaway is that the four-piece alt-country rock troupe is inspired by its Paciﬁc Northwest surroundings, taters et al. Dakota Pearl — made up of singer Leggett, Dave Trimble, Gavin McDermott and Bryce MacDiarmid — has been making a go at their altcountry sound for a couple years, after laying their 23-

year stint as Whistler-based punk band Slush to bed. So how much of the band’s sound is inﬂuenced by their Pemberton roots? “Pretty much all of it,” Leggett admits. “It’s all based on the scenery that’s around us and the lifestyle that we live and the people that we know… The new songs are heavily storybased and based on emotions and trying to connect with people and tell stories that each and every one of us has lived.” Told like a true cowboy, Leggett and his band penned storytelling tunes for their self-titled debut.The 10-track record is available on their website (DakotaPearl.com) for free, or for $1 on the group’s Bandcamp page. “We think, if you’re a fan and you want to support the band, then you can pay for it. If you just want to listen to some music, I would much rather have someone listening to our tunes than have someone not listen to our tunes because they’re worried about spending money on it,” Leggett reﬂects. “Nowadays people don’t want to spend money on music,” he says. “They’ll pay for live shows happily and they’ll go out and buy your merchandise, and its like who cares… I’d rather people hear it than not.” That said, having people hear them is the best they could’ve hoped for in scoring a coveted spot on the CFOX Mainstage during Vancouver Craft Beer Week, Leggett says. But they certainly won’t be turning down any beers. Dakota Pearl performs the CFOX Mainstage on Sunday, June 5. W

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VANCOUVER CRAFT BEER WEEK Good for Grapes plays the VCBW main event, June 3. Contributed photo

For the Record: Good For Grapes

ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

With soaring harmonies and revelatory choruses, Good For Grapes know how to bring their audiences to epiphany. So it was for good reason the Vancouver folk rock band were the winners of the 2014 Peak Performance project, landing the top prize of more than $100,000.The win propelled the band forward, and last year saw the seven-piece release The Ropes, their second full-length LP, on Torontobased label Pheromone Recordings. Not bad for a bunch of former buskers who formed after a chance meeting on the ferry to Victoria. On June 3, Good For Grapes will be gracing the main stage at Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s main event at the PNE Fairground.We caught up with frontman Daniel McBurnie and guitarist Graham Gomez to talk about “turbo jazz” and the many splendoured beauty of Canmore, Alberta. Who are you? We’re Good For Grapes, a group of young people playing folk/ rock tunes. Where are you from? Vancouver.

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How do you describe your sound? Daniel: It’s pretty

lively, rich and melodic music. We love exploring harmonies and layering in the studio with strings/brass.

Who are your major musical influences? Daniel: Lyrically Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jackson C. Frank. Musically we’re more inspired by bands like Fleet Foxes. But I’d say most of the inﬂuence comes from folk revival bands of the ‘60s onto which we throw our own chaos. Favourite sandwich? Graham: Breakfast sandwiches are practically my vice. Why have neatly partitioned breakfast items when you can pile it all on bread and get every element in one messy bite? Best live music performance you’ve ever seen? Graham: I don’t know about best ever, but some of us just recently caught a local group by the name of Big Evil at this tiny allages room called Franklin Studios. They’re a ﬁve-piece that plays what I can only describe as turbo-jazzrock-fury. They took us completely by surprise and

were truly one of the most musically impressive groups I have ever seen.

Closest you’ve ever come to death? Daniel: Touring Canada in the winter. Finish this sentence: When I’m not writing and playing music, I spend my time… Daniel: If I’m not writing/playing music (or thinking about it) I might be biking, making beer, doing arts/crafts with my roomies, or devising a way to beat the house in blackjack. First record/CD you ever bought? Graham: The ﬁrst CD I purchased with my own money was YTV Big Fun Party Mix 2000. I liked the 10-second sample of “First Date” by Blink 182 they played on TV. I console myself by remembering the second or third CD I bought was Cream’s greatest hits. What is your spirit animal and why? Graham: Type “Wat” into Google image search. That woman is and always will be my spirit animal.

What was the name of the first band you ever played in? Graham: When I was 1214ish, I was in band called “Delayed.” I don’t know why we were called that. I don’t think any of us owned a delay pedal, or even knew what that was. Super secret fact about you that (almost) no one knows? Daniel: We’re all engaged, to each other. What was the best crowd you ever played for, and why? Graham: That is a very tough one to choose. One that always stands out in my memory is the crowd at Canmore Folk Festival a few years ago. There was this one guy who would yell “Play something sexy!” in between every song. By the end of the show it caught on and the whole crowd was joining in. It was quite the scene. In general they were a ton of fun, and at the time were one of the largest crowds we had played for. That festival has forever instilled in me a love for the city of Canmore, AB. W

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Vancover folk rock band plays the Vancouver Craft Beer Week main event on Friday, June 3, at the PNE Fairgrounds. For tickets, visit VCBW.ca

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

MAC DEMARCO Vancouver singersongwriter and musician plays tunes from his 2015 EP, Another One, with special guests James Ferraro and the Courtneys. 6pm at Malkin Bowl. Tickets $39.50 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

VEDA HILLE Vancouver multitalented singer-songwriter and musician releases her 20th studio album Love Waves, a love letter to Bowie and Eno written in Berlin and recorded in East Van with John Collins (New Pornographers). 8pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets. TheCultch.com

THE SO SO GLOS Brooklyn rock band swings through town in support of their latest release, Kamikaze, with special guest The Dirty Nil. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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

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 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 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.

SAVAGES London based rock band plays tunes from their latest release Adore Life with special guest Head Wound City. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $26.50 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca LA LUZ Surf-rock band from Seattle play an early show in support of their latest release Weirdo Shrine with special guest Sick Sad World. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $14 at TicketFly.com

SOUND ECLECTIC Vancouver 19-piece vocal ensemble presents its spring showcase, Fascinating Rhythm. Along with a five-piece band, Sound Eclectic present a variety of music ranging from gorgeous classical through swinging jazz to well-loved pop hits. 7pm at the Granville Island Waterfront Theatre. Tickets from $22 at SoundEclectic.ca

CHELSEA WOLFE LA singersongwriter and musician appears in support of Abyss with special guests A Dead Forest Index. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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JEAN ROHE Brooklyn based singer-songwriter plays tunes from Jean Rohe & the End of the World Show in an intimate, all ages setting. 9pm at Slickity Jim’s. Admission is by donation.

TITUS ANDRONICUS American indie rockers play an early show in support of their latest release, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, with special guests La Sera. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $16 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

DIAMOND SPYDER Vancouver electrometal rockers appear in support of Dragon Slayer with special guests Lardhorse and Bad PR. 9pm at LanaLou’s. Cover is $10. All ages show.

WITHOUT MERCY Canadian metal titans from Vancouver hit the stage in celebration of their new EP with special guests Neck of the Woods, Dead Asylum, XUL and Obsidian. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Australia garage-psych band on tour in support of their latest release Nonagon Infinity with special guests Dead Ghosts and The Prettys. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. SOLD OUT.

RICH HOPE Vancouver’s finest blues and rock guitarist, singersongwriter and stellar performer returns for an evening of music and debauchery with special guests Sh-Shakes. 7pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Neptoon and TicketWeb.com

CAR 87 Vancouver ‘80s punk rockers hit the stage with support from Rebuild/Repair, Motorama and Social Lies. 8:30pm at Pat’s Pub. Cover is $10.

YEASAYER Brooklyn experimental rock band appear in support of their fourth studio album Amen & Goodbye with special guest Young Magic. 8pm at the Imperial. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

FUNKY BEACH PARTY 3 Kick off the fast approaching summer with the return of Funky Beach Party this time in a bigger venue with Disco Funeral, the Maneuver and Warless. 9pm at The Hindenburg. Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Highlife and TicketZone.com

THEATRE/DANCE MAN UP: MUSICALS Third annual May Musicals Megashow features drag performances of all kinds from Vixen Von Flex, Karmella Barr, Rose Butch & Grimm, Brokeback Brothers & Ponyboy, Ruby Slickeur and Sasja Smolders. 9pm at The Cobalt. $8 before 10pm, $13 after, at the door only.

Webb’s Holiday Acres children’s camp Weekly overnight summer/spring sessions for 6-14 yr olds • Riding instruction for all levels • Half mile track and trail riding • Petting zoo • Heated pool • Home cooked meals • Fantastic staff • Camp fires and sing songs • Dance on the last night Also availa ble • Hay rides for ranch st yle we ddings, birt • Trampoline hday parties with pony • Arts and crafts rides and cl ub/group • Games events in th e season

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BREAKBOT French producer and DJ joins Life Musik with special guests Woodhead and DJ Wmnstudies. 10pm at Alexander Gastown. Tickets $20 at TicketWeb.ca OH WONDER London-based alternative-pop duo of Anthony West and Josephine Vander Gucht play tunes from their self-titled debut release with special guest LANY. 9:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $25+ at Red Cat, Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

JON DORE Ottawa born comedian, host, and actor named one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety, renowned for his offbeat humour and unique bait-and-switch style performs with Tommy Campbell. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $29 at YukYuks.com

ART NEW NARRATIVES: AN ENVIROART EXTRAVAGANZA Popcorn Galaxies presents this multidisciplinary event challenging the current cultural narratives of the climate crisis while exploring the volatile relationship between art and environmental activism. Twenty artists in nine site-specific performances allow the audience to curate their own outdoor scavenger hunt followed by a free social gathering with live music. 8:30pm at SFU Woodward’s. Admission is by donation. Runs until May 29.

PRONG Industrial, hardcore metal from the NYC band on their No Absolutes Tour with special guests Saints of Death and Crnkshft. 7pm at Venue. Tickets $20 at Scrape, Zulu, Enter The Vault and Evergreen Cannabis Society.

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improve 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. Cover is $7.

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 live-action shadow dance, inspired by the flicker – a woodpecker from the Northwest Coast carrying cultural significance in coastal art forms. 2pm at The Cultch. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Final performance.

THEATRE/DANCE BIKE MARIONETTE SHOW Try your hand at puppeterring in this interactive presentation of the story of Mount Pleasant as told by the real life characters inspiring the animation of these unique puppets made from recycled bike parts. 7pm at RIDE ON Bike Shop (2180 Main). Admission is free.

EVENTS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Ten professional performing artists from as far reaching as Mexico and the Netherlands descend upon Vancouver for the six-day festival featuring 87 shows in six of Granville Island’s indoor theatre venues, as well as creative family activities like bicycle spinart, origami, circus skills, face painting, giant board games and a special appearance from Splash n’ Boots!, straight from Treehouse TV. Visit ChildrensFestival.ca for tickets, show times and venues. Runs until June 5.

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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. Final performance.

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STEPHEN FEARING Canadian folk singer-songwriter and founding member of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings plays tunes from his sixth solo album, That’s How I Walk. 7pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $24 at Highlife, Rufus’ Guitars, Tapestry Music and RogueFolk.bc.ca

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BARONESS Heavy metal outfit from Savannah, Georgia, tours behind Purple with special guest Heiress. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $25 at Ticketmaster. ca and LiveNation.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).

Thursday, June 2. Bar opens at 6pm. Join us for presentations on Expo 86’s transportation theme & a performance from Gamelan Bike Bike. PLUS: FREE bike valet!

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MUSIC THE CURE Legendary English rockers return to Vancouver on their first major tour since 2008 with special guests the Twilight Sad. 6pm at Deer Lake Park. SOLD OUT. REBECCA WENHAM Music on Main presents this musical force of nature, with a vibrant and intense cello performance in a concert of transcendent music by Caroline Shaw, Sarah Neufeld, and Ana Sokolovic. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $29 at MusicOnMain.ca FATHER Atlanta based rapper and head of Awful Records returns to town on the I’m a Piece of Sh*t Tour. 10pm at Alexander Gastown. Tickets $15 at Beatstreet, DIPT and TicketWeb.ca THE SMOKERS CLUB TOUR The Smokers Club Tour rolls through town, playing a new venue featuring performances from Cam’Ron, The Underachievers, G Herbo, Smoke DZA and Nyck Caution. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $40 at TicketWeb.com THE KILLS Indie rock duo of American Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince play tunes from their latest release Ash & Ice with special guest L.A. Witch. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $35 at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

ART LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES Vancouver artist of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent showcases this provocative exhibition of new and existing paintings, drawings, sculptures and installation works that confront colonial suppression of First Nations peoples. 10am9pm at Museum of Anthropology. Admission is free. Runs until Oct. 16.

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ONLY A VISITOR Avant pop music set against adventurous trio vocal arrangements from the Vancouver outfit reminiscent of Bjork and the Dirty Projectors with opening sets from Iceberg Ferg and Rabbit Fighter. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Cover is $10.

BRAND NEW Punk rock band from Long Island, NY, tour behind their recent single, I Am A Nightmare with special guests mewithoutYou and Greater Pyrenees. 6:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $42.50 at TicketFly.com. All ages show.

DISCHARGE Influential British hardcore punk band headlines with special guests Toxic Holocaust, Mass Grave, Old Derelicts and World View. 6pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $28 at TicketFly. com

LINDSAY ROBERTSON Vancouver singer-songwriter celebrates the release of her second album Red Light Letters with special guests Jesse Waldman and Meghan Alford. 8pm at WISE Hall. Cover is $15.

THE LUMINEERS Folk-rock band moves their performance from Orpheum Theatre on the Cleopatra World Tour with special guests Soak and Sleepwalkers. 5:30pm at Deer Lake Park. SOLD OUT.

TODD KERNS Member of the Age of Electric and bassist for Slash takes the stage unto himself for an acoustic show. 8pm at The Roxy.

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GABRIEL RUTLEDGE With appearances on Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, this stand-up comic from Olympia, WA, unleashes the laughs with opening sets from Jason Cheny and Dan Quinn. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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. 8pm at Pacific Theatre. Tickets at 604731-5518. Runs until June 11. 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. 1:30pm & 7:30pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until July 10.

ART IMAGINE THIS DAY For one night only, Make and Hayo Magazine have joined forces, inviting a mix of local talent and international photographers to exhibit limited edition prints with 100 per cent of the proceeds benefitting Imagine 1 Day, an organization dedicated to building schools and transforming communities in Ethiopia. 7pm-10pm at Make Gallery (257 East 7th).

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CHEAP & FUN TRANSPORTING EXPO 86: BIKES, BEERS AND BALI Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Expo with an evening of presentations and musical performance from Gamelan Bike Bike, recalling Expo’s central theme: transportation. 6pm at Museum of Vancouver. Tickets $15 at MuseumOfVancouver.ca

ART EAT YO SELF A group art show tribute to anthropomorphic cannibalism featuring animals and inanimate objects consuming themselves in a disturbing, yet satisfying exhibit. 12-5pm at Hot Art Wet City.

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Three Vancouver-made swimsuit lines you need to try campaign, and eventually opened a brick-and-mortar location on Main Street, where she sells her versatile and ﬂattering swim collection. Church’s concept for Nettle’s Tale was born out of personal experiences with body image and swimsuit shopping.

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Vancouver swimwear (and sportswear) designer Beth Richards is a Toronto transplant who brings a hit of edgy street style to her stunning swimwear line, which ranges in price from $75 to $265. “I’ve always been drawn to the Bardot era of beach culture and wanted to infuse my love of art, design and architecture into a garment,” Richards states on her website. “As a whole, when I looked at the designer swimwear industry, I felt it had a lot of growing up to do. There was a lack of sophistication and unﬁltered cool but mostly I was hoping to create something interesting and versatile that I could

Vancouver swimwear brand Nettle’s Tale recently opened a brick-and-mortar location on Main Street. Contributed photo wear out after a beach day.” Ethically made in Canada from Italian fabric, the suits are engineered for athletes and include UVB protection. Richards’ reputation goes beyond her adopted hometown with a line that is carried in the United Kingdom, China, France, Russia and beyond, as well as through the mega-online

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retailer Revolver. Standouts from this season’s robust and most exciting collection yet include the soft sky-blue darling ruffled one-piece called Sophia. The suit is also available in black or white. Her trademark knotted bikini tank tops are also still available – with a flattering fit and an urban feel, the suits offer a tough-yet-sexy

alternative to the typical two-piece. The designer also sells a range of sportswear, including the Cara top and the Pilar dress, in an expansive collection that is not to be missed in the hunt for quality summer swimwear.

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range from $59 to $227) is a brand with a holistic ethos that celebrates every body shape – not just with its swimwear, but beyond to its marketing materials. The West Coast-shot lookbooks include women of various ages, shapes, and sizes. Julia Church launched the Vancouver-made Nettle’s Tale through a crowdfunding

This sultry and sophisticated Brazilian-inspired line (think a hearty dose of cheek popping out) is the brainchild of designers and sister duo Robyn Fenner Rush and Cami Tessa Rush. Known for trademark highwaisted styles, this season’s collection includes ruched bikini ﬁts, reversible bottoms, and simple-but-sultry one-pieces (I’ll be scooping up that basic one-piece in black at Charlie & Lee for $70). The streamlined collection of sleek and sexy swimwear continues to make waves at local boutiques, including El Kartel, Charlie & Lee, Still Life For Him & For Her, and more. The collection of suits, which feature well-crafted twoand one-piece suits, are sure to brighten up the beach this summer. W

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The first thing I did after my latest trip to Italy was book an appointment with the dentist. Purple teeth aside, I’m more concerned about my enamel. Or what’s left of it. Tasting wine can be tough, especially 500 Nebbiolo in five days.That’s 100 wines a day, and they were all before lunch. Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely love Nebbiolo. In fact, it’s one of the few grapes I would undertake such a marathon tasting for. It offers complex, enticing and evocative aromas capable of transporting me to the Langhe hills of Piedmont where it rules the vineyards. But easy going it ain’t, especially in its youth. Nebbiolo is powerful, with firm, prominent tannin and lots of acidity. Though I was well aware of the potential mouth-ache, I couldn’t turn down the invitation to taste the latest releases of Nebbiolo’s most renowned denominations. The idea was to form an overall impression of the current vintage of each. As the wines were presented blind, I trolled though the lists afterwards to discover the identity of my top picks. While the vintages I tasted are months away from making it to market, I’ve noted those stand-out producers that are represented in British Columbia with previous vintages. We kicked off with 2012 Barolo. Usually Nebbiolo’s most structured and weighty expression, it was an intimidating way to start. Here is where vintage comes into play though. 2012 is considered “classic” and less marked by extremes of heat, so wines showed freshness with well-defined aromas and flavours. Those seeking power may complain there isn’t enough stuffing but I appreciated the elegance and overall svelte figure. Barolo fans should check out Azelia and Alessandria Fratelli stocked at BC Liquor Stores along with Elvio Cogno, Ceretto and Vajra sold at private wine stores. Lulled into a false sense of security, I tackled the Barbaresco bullishly as it’s typically finer-boned and more approachable than Barolo. But the 2013 vintage is a different beast. Following a difficult start, the warm days of August through October were crucial in getting Nebbiolo to ripen fully. The resulting wines demonstrate surprising richness and have generated great excitement. The only caveat is that right now they have tough tannin

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Could there be too much of a good thing? Michaela Morris photo that I don’t always expect from Barbaresco. The Roero presented also hailed from 2013. The wines stand in the shadow of Barolo and Barbaresco as they tend to be lighter though beautifully fragrant. Those that managed to demonstrate this without masking the lovely fruit in drying oak were charming. (Overall I preferred the 2013 Roero to the 2012 Roero Riserva.) Matteo Correggia is a staple at private wine stores around Vancouver and consistently offers top-notch wines a good price point. We concluded with 2010 Barolo Riservas and 2011 Barbaresco Riservas. In Italian wine speak, riserva means wines that are aged longer. In theory they are made from the best grapes that merit the extra ageing. In this instance, many actually lived up to that expectation. The 2010 Barolo Riservas will be your last crack at this highly touted vintage. The wines definitely need time in the cellar. While 2011 doesn’t have the same acclaim; it was actually a very successful year for Barbaresco specifically. The first three wines of the morning came from Marchesi di Gresy, Cantina del Pino and Produttori del Barbaresco (as I learned later). Even though my mouth felt torn to shreds, palate fatigue gave way to pure enjoyment. I hold these three producers in high esteem and the wines showed brilliantly. The former is available at private wine stores while the latter two can be found at BC Liquor Stores. Don’t let my dental woes discourage you. The wonderful world of Nebbiolo promises pleasure not pain.

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‘Rust’ celebrates the beauty of rot and decay KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Sleeps: Growth and Decay in the Making of Art, runs with the rust angle, gathering up works by five international artists who use materials like salt, mould, rust, flowers and moss spores to question the value, causality, instability and lifespan of art. The gallery already had some fun riffing on the rock motif with its February exhibition, Like a Rolling Stone:An Exhibition about Rock and Rock, which conflated geology and rock music.This time, the show is all about what rots – and it is presenting an interesting dilemma for the woman handling the artwork. “It’s a delicate process,” laughs curator Cate Rimmer.

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NeilYoung knew what’s up. In the middle of “My, My, Hey, Hey” from his iconic Crazy Horse album Rust Never Sleeps, the godfather of grunge wails that “rock ’n’ roll can never die, there’s more to the picture than meets the eye.” He was singing about the tenuous immortality of rock gods, but he could have been singing about the latest exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Taking its name from the critically acclaimed 1979 album, the exhibition, Rust Never

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SHIFT Theatre is back this weekend with its signature 1-Act Festival, and it’s taking things up a notch. This year, the festival, which presents one-act plays by local playwrights and theatre-makers, has moved from the Cultch’s Culture Lab to its new digs at the Firehall Arts Centre, and has focused its ninth season on female-created work, while also expanding its scope to include musical guests and workshops for a more festival-style atmosphere. The weekend will consist of nightly performances of the jury-selected plays, and one matinee, as well as a yoga workshop and curated readings on the Saturday, with donations being accepted for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. “Each evening, all four performances – Swan Song, Almost a Stepmom, Fall-Out Picnic and Dream Interlude – are all locally developed, original, written by a woman who is on stage speaking her own words,” explains SHIFT artistic director Nicole “Coco” Roberge. We caught up with Roberge to ﬁnd out more about 1-Act’s female focus, and putting “festive” back in festival. Where did the decision come for this year’s focus on female-created works? From me! [Laughs]. When I received about 20 submissions from playwrights for the festival, I looked at all of them and there was just such an impressive number of powerful female voices, and I am personally very keyed into, I guess, creating a platform for emerging and under represented playwrights. Also I would like to see more roles for women on stage that are empowered, nonvictimized roles, so yeah, it was not a decision going into the submission process that was made in advance, [but it] emerged as a theme. So

it’ll be different next year! What is a one-act play? A one-act play is basically a performance that lasts between 10 and 60 minutes and doesn’t have a break, so the narrative is often truncated. It’s theatre for the modern attention span! [Laughs] Every single night an audience member will see all four shows in under two hours, so you’re deﬁnitely getting bang for you buck. How is this year different than what you’ve done in previous years? We are just ﬁnalizing the workshop that we’re going to put on Saturday in the Firehall studio, and we’ve got a reading that afternoon with some brand new plays by more women. [And] we want to put the “festive” back in festival – it’s gotta be a party, it’s gotta be a celebration for the community to share together. So there’s music before every show, there’s ruckus busking – curated busking in front of the Firehall – right on the sidewalk, and then after each show there’s also post-show music out on the twinkly-lit patio. What kind of atmosphere are you hoping to achieve? The tag line for this year’s festival is “Empowered women, empowering words,” and I think that says a lot. But further to that I think it’s just as important to remember that our company is called SHIFT Theatre – we want to shift focus, shift perceptive and it’s a festival, it’s gotta have a celebratory atmosphere even though, at its foundation, the festival this year we have a message to send about women voices. And of course the festival not just for women, it’s for everybody! SHIFT Theatre’s 1-Act Festival runs May 26-28 at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 East Cordova). Donations to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre will be accepted throughout the event. For tickets and info visit ShiftTheatre.ca W

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There are some things they just don’t teach you in acting school. For starters, there’s no class in how to conduct yourself in the stretch of time between being dressed by the wardrobe department and shooting your scene. No one tells you to be extra-careful when you’re taking a sip of coffee from craft services. No one describes for you in graphic detail what the ramifications could be if you spill even a single drop of coffee on your wardrobe. This is the kind of lesson you can only learn on a live set – and for Vancouver actress Luisa D’Oliveira, this is a lesson she learned in the first hour of her first speaking role. The gig was a TV movie about hurricane hunters. D’Oliveira was playing a babysitter whose charge runs away right before the titular hurricane hits. It was her big break, and she was pumped and prepared. She was dressed by wardrobe, helped herself to a coffee, took a sip of said coffee, and – Well, disaster struck, and it wasn’t a hurricane. “It wasn’t until I had spilt it that I went, ‘Oh my gosh, I have wardrobe on, that means I have to take care of it, and what if this is the only shirt? What if I just ruined my only piece of wardrobe?’ And that thought had never occurred to me before,” says D’Oliveira. “It’s the silliest little thing, but it’s a huge

Vancouver actress Luisa D’Oliveira stars in The CW’s hit sci-fi series The 100. Contributed photo deal when you’ve never done it before, and things like that actually do halt production.” Luckily for D’Oliveira, the wardrobe department had a Tide-To-Go pen at the ready, and the actress learned a valuable lesson about what it means to be a working actress on a busy set. In the years that have passed since the coffee incident, D’Oliveira has guested, recurred, and co-starred on a number of hot shows, including The GoodWife, Cracked, Rookie Blue, Supernatural, and Motive. As Emori on The CW’s The 100, D’Oliveira has become favourite of fans, as

well as a disability advocate. In a recent episode of the hit show (which aired its third season ﬁnale last week), Emori – whose hand is disﬁgured; D’Oliveira wears a prosthesis for the role – makes a bold proclamation that struck a chord with fans. “Jaha [portrayed by Isaiah Washington] tells me that I can correct my defects in the City of Light, and I tell him, ‘I would, if I had any,’” she says. “That’s a very clear statement that I don’t see my hand as a defect. It’s who I am.” Emori’s statement spawned the hashtag #disabilitiesarenotdefects, and D’Oliveira received numer-

ous messages from individuals for whom Emori’s statement was meaningful. “There have been so many incredible tweets from fans reaching out saying how Emori has helped them feel okay,” says D’Oliveira. She gives full kudos to The 100’s scribes for writing the lines in the ﬁrst place. “That has been one of the most signiﬁcant things that I feel like my work has achieved.” D’Oliveira honed her drama skills in elementary and high school, but she needed to convince her practical parents, and herself, that acting was a viable career path. She studied science for one year at Capilano University, and then switched over to arts for her second year. Neither course of study engaged her. Eventually, she circled back to acting. She auditioned for Cap’s acting program, was accepted, and has been engaged in the industry ever since. Career highlights include The GoodWife, where she played a young lawyer going up against Julianna Margulies’ character, and a co-starring role as a detective on CBC’s Cracked. For those kinds of characters, D’Oliveira draws upon her time in the science sphere to inform her inner world. “It’s the same for all procedurals: there’s the interpersonal interactions, but there’s also this undercurrent of analysis and thinking about what it is that you’re trying to do when it comes to the case, or the murder, or the robbery, or the surgery,” says D’Oliveira. “It’s a different kind of work that needs to go into it, and I enjoy it.” D’Oliveira is nominated for a 2016 Leo Award for Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for her nine-episode arc on Motive. She learned a lot from watching series lead Kristin Lehman in action.

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny To convey the best strategy for you to employ in the coming weeks, I have drawn inspiration from a set of instructions composed by aphorist Alex Stein: Scribble, scribble, erase. Scribble, erase, scribble. Scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble. Erase, erase, erase. Scribble, erase. Keep what’s left. In other words, Aries, you have a mandate to be innocently empirical, robustly experimental, and cheerfully improvisational – with the understanding that you must also balance your fun with ruthless editing.

“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being,” wrote Taurus memoirist May Sarton. That’s a dauntingly high standard to live up to, but for the foreseeable future it’s important that you try. In the coming weeks, you will need to maintain a heroic level of potency and excellence if you hope to keep your dreams on track and your integrity intact. Luckily, you will have an extraordinary potential to do just that. But you’ll have to work hard to fulfill the potential – as hard as a hero on a quest to find the real Holy Grail in the midst of all the fake Holy Grails.

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now,” said novelist Doris Lessing. “The conditions are always impossible.” I hope you take her advice to heart, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, there is no good excuse for you to postpone your gratification or to procrastinate about moving to the next stage of a big dream. It’s senseless to tell yourself that you will finally get serious as soon as all the circumstances are perfect. Perfection does not and will never exist. The future is now. You’re as ready as you will ever be.

French painter Henri Matisse didn’t mind being unmoored, befuddled, or in-between. In fact, he regarded these states as being potentially valuable to his creative process. Here’s his testimony: “In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows.” I’m recommending that you try out his attitude, Cancerian. In my astrological opinion, the time has come for you to drum up the inspirations and revelations that become available when you don’t know where the hell you are and what the hell you’re doing.

Proposed experiment: Imagine that all the lovers and would-be lovers you have ever adored are in your presence. Review in detail your memories of the times you felt thrillingly close to them. Fill yourself up with feelings of praise and gratitude for their mysteries. Sing the love songs you love best. Look into a mirror and rehearse your “I only have eyes for you” gaze until it is both luminous and smoldering. Cultivate facial expressions that are full of tender, focused affection. Got all that, Leo? My purpose in urging you to engage in these practices is that it’s the High Sexy Time of year for you. You have a license to be as erotically attractive and wisely intimate as you dare.

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others,” wrote editor Jacob M. Braude. Normally I would endorse his poignant counsel, but for the foreseeable future I am predicting that the first half of it won’t fully apply to you. Why? Because you are entering a phase that I regard as unusually favorable for the project of transforming yourself. It may not be easy to do so, but it’ll be easier than it has been in a long time. And I bet you will find the challenge to reimagine, reinvent, and reshape yourself at least as much fun as it is hard work.

“Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason,” says author Rebecca Solnit in her book The Far Away Nearby. That’s a thought she had as she contemplated the possibility of riding a raft down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Here’s how I suspect this meditation applies to you, Libra: There have been other times and there will be other times when you will have good reasons for not embarking on an available adventure. But now is not one of those moments.

Russian poet Vera Pavlova tells about how once when she was using a pen and paper to jot down some fresh ideas, she got a paper cut on her palm. Annoying, right? On the contrary. She loved the fact that the new mark substantially extended her life line. The palmistry-lover in her celebrated. I’m seeing a comparable twist in your near future, Scorpio. A minor inconvenience or mild setback will be a sign that a symbolic revitalization or enhancement is nigh.

Norway is mountainous, but its neighbor Finland is quite flat. A group of Norwegians has launched a campaign to partially remedy the imbalance. They propose that to mark the hundredth anniversary of Finland’s independence, their country will offer a unique birthday gift: the top of Halti mountain. Right now the 4,479-foot peak is in Norway. But under the proposed plan, the border between countries will be shifted so that the peak will be transferred to Finland. I would love you to contemplate generous gestures like this in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s a highly favorable time for you to bestow extra imaginative blessings. (PS, the consequences will be invigorating to your own dreams.)

I believe that every one of us should set aside a few days every year when we celebrate our gaffes, our flaws, and our bloopers. During this crooked holiday, we are not embarrassed about the false moves we have made. We don’t decry our bad judgment or criticize our delusional behavior. Instead, we forgive ourselves of our sins. We work to understand and feel compassion for the ignorance that led us astray. Maybe we even find redemptive value in our apparent lapses; we come to see that they saved us from some painful experience or helped us avoid getting a supposed treasure that would have turned out to be a booby prize. Now would be a perfect time for you to observe this crooked holiday.

Sometimes the love you experience for those you care about makes you feel vulnerable. You may worry about being out of control or swooping so deeply into your tenderness that you lose yourself. Giving yourself permission to cherish and nurture can make you feel exposed, even unsafe. But none of that applies in the coming weeks. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, love will be a source of potency and magnificence for you. It will make you smarter, braver, and cooler. Your words of power will be this declaration by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani: “When I love / I feel that I am the king of time / I possess the earth and everything on it / and ride into the sun upon my horse.” (Translated by Lena Jayyusi and Christopher Middleton.)

In November 1916, at the height of World War I, the Swedish schooner Jönköping set sail for Finland, carrying 4,400 bottles of champagne intended for officers of the occupying Russian army. But the delivery was interrupted. A hostile German submarine sunk the boat, and the precious cargo drifted to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The story didn’t end there, however. More than eight decades later, a Swedish salvage team retrieved a portion of the lost treasure, which had been well-preserved in the frosty abyss. Taste tests revealed that the bubbly alcoholic beverage was “remarkably light-bodied, extraordinarily elegant and fantastically fresh, with discreet, slow-building toasty aromas of great finesse.” I foresee the potential of a similar resurrection in your future, Pisces. How deep are you willing to dive?

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Recently, a friend of mine showed me a Facebook post by a girl we both know. Let’s call her Angie. It read: “A gross man child made a bunch of rape threats to me on Twitter so I did some very basic Google searches and eventually called his girlfriend at work to have a conversion about it. Jamie, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry I interrupted your shift at the South Illinois Dairy Queen to tell you that your boyfriend threatened to ‘manhandle’ me.” I’m not a huge fan of “call-out” culture; that type of “activism” invented by radicals and progressives and made possible by social media. I understand that it is important to bring issues of racism, sexism, and any other “-isms” to the public, but this is armchair activism. I wonder if sometimes the public performance of the call-out starts to mean more than the actual call-out itself. It’s a slippery slope. It’s tricky. I’m treading lightly when I write this – that’s what you have to do when stating anything publicly, because, you know, sometimes the call-out of an armchair activist can cause enough retweets that you lose your fucking job. But call-out culture has also given voice and support to people who are normally silent, and not believed.This can be a productive raising of awareness. However, no group of people is inherently devoid of malicious intentions. I can get down with “calling in.”This is what the progressives call confronting the person who offended you face-to-face and without an audience (what the rest of the world would call an intimate conversation).This is not always an option. But if Angie could ﬁnd some random Twitter user’s girlfriend just with simple Googling, then anyone can ﬁnd my grandmother’s email address.We are all so accessible now. (Even my grandmother, who thinks her computer is the weirdest typewriter EVER.) Two years ago, a young gaming journalist and video blogger got sick of all the trolls onYouTube leaving her overtly sexual comments and telling her that she deserved to be raped and pillaged. She began researching a few of the repeat offenders and to her surprise, these were not 35-years-old men, but mostly teenage boys, presumably still living with their mothers. “[Young boys] don’t know any better, so responding to them rationally didn’t resolve the situation,” she told The Guardian. So, Pearce used Facebook to contact the boys’ mothers and revealed exactly what their little angels were

saying. Most of the mothers were disgusted, referred to their boys are “little shits” and took care of it. Pearce got a bazillion retweets and some mild celebrity. I would imagine Pearce’s online harassment tripled, but at least she took charge in the way she wanted and those boys got reprimanded for writing cheques their prepubescent wieners couldn’t cash. I can see why Pearce decided to contact their mothers given that they were minors.They deﬁnitely knew better – if they didn’t, they would have stayed away from the R-word, which they fucking knew would get a rise. But Angie’s “oppressor” is a grown man, just like she is a grown woman. And if it was so simple to obtain the phone number of his girlfriend at her South Illinois Dairy Queen job, then it would have been just as easy to CALL THE MAN AND TALK TO HIM. Because what does this have to do with his girlfriend? Nothing. NOTHING. Angie’s personal issues with this man are not another woman’s problem. Imagine you’re slinging Dilly Bars at Dairy Queen, chewing your hair, waiting for closing time, and you get this call from some random girl who starts telling you that your boyfriend threatened to “manhandle” her on Twitter. How is his girlfriend responsible for his actions? Either Angie thinks the Diary Queen is controlling her man like a puppeteer and has the ability to reprogram his shitty behavior (she doesn’t), or Angie wanted to rat him out, hopefully resulting in some kind of negative re-

percussions. An eye for an eye. You threatened ME on Twitter? I’ll ruin your relationship to your girlfriend. I’m sorry, I meant, an eye for a scrotum. Everyone has the capability to be a hateful selﬁsh piece of shit.We have all done spiteful shit and will probably again in the future.That’s life. People disagree. People act rude and stupid. People inﬂict pain on one another. Call-out culture has created a civilization of armchair activists attempting to shame the unwilling into conforming to their personal values. I’m all for free speech: if you want to say something, say it. I love debate and discussion.That’s why I wish Angie had just called up the man she had an issue with instead of involving an innocent bystander and parading the results on social media. Look, it sucks when people threaten you on Twitter. It’s annoying and vile and barbaric, especially when the threats are sexual.There’s this writer here in Vancouver named Lauren Southern. She’s controversial and pisses off all the feminists because she questions their political logic. I once saw Lauren tweet something very “Lauren.” One so-called feminist wrote back, “If [Lauren Southern] was being raped, I would make a special trip to her house to laugh and watch.” Again, no group of people is inherently devoid of malicious intentions. W

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Organic California Broccoli

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Fresh Halibut Steaks

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3.99lb/ 8.80kg

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Choices' Organic Milk skim, 1, 2 or 3.8%

7.99 to 8.99 Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade Whole Bean Coffee

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assorted varieties

85g • product of Switzerland

39%

plain and vanilla 650g

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product of BC

4.49 to 5.49

39%

Eden Organic Canned Beans

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assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of BC

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Happy Planet Organic Lemonade or Organic Raspberry Iced Tea with Lime

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4.99

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1.79/100g

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Tabouleh Salad

Zazubean Organic Chocolate Bars

1.65L • product of Canada

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Daiya Frozen Pizza, Macaroni & Cheese and Cheese Cake

Olympic Greek Krema Yogurt

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assorted varieties

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23%

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454g • product of Canada

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1.69 to 19.99

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Choices’ Own Lemon Potato Wedges

assorted varieties

assorted sizes product of USA

assorted varieties

23%

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Whole Imported Rib Eye

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product of USA, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Philippines

4.99

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