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VANCOUVER HAS LOST ITS WAY

The demise of livability in Vancouver is swiftly taking place under our noses and neither city hall nor the provincial government will step up to the plate to solve it. The West End is truly under attack now that the developers have focused their efforts on various towers that will radically change the neighbourhood to resemble

Coal Harbour orYaletown. These mostly offshore developers could care less about the people who live here. The shocking price increase in sales of older residential buildings, up to 400 per cent in three years, is bound to set a precedent and the trickle-down effect will push current residents out of the neighbourhood forever. Now throw in the city’s strangulation of services and

thoroughfares and you have a toxic mix. The closure of Robson Street will strangle transportation, as it has in the past. It is a major thoroughfare for transit.Why not restructure the other side of the gallery as a proper public square instead of the ugly fountain and disgraceful mess of sawdust that it is now? The closure of St. Paul’s takes away services required

by the seniors and other residents, either forcing them out of the neighbourhood or endangering their health and safety, again changing the livability of the West End forever.This is compounded greatly by the removal of the viaduct, the other major thoroughfare in and out of the city, further inhibiting the West End’s access to the hospital, as it’s the most efficient path to the new location. Both Nelson and Smythe streets are essential one-way thoroughfares that have enormous amounts of traffic and were very efficient. Now bike and turning lanes have narrowed them, creating a massive gridlock of traffic on both sides, even reaching over most of Cambie Bridge at times. The bike lane appears for only a few blocks and then disappears, so it’s pointless.What sense was there in placing bike lanes on the busiest traffic ways? It’s only created MORE pollution from stalled cars and made driving feel more stressful and definitely more dangerous. We need to ask ourselves whose future “Vision” this is being created for. –Robert I.

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Party’s over, so shut up already! Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

’Tis the season, eh? If you live in the West End you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. This is the time of year when your already-densely packed neighbourhood explodes into a full-flung summer resort. ’Tis is the season when events attracting thousands of people seemingly roll out constantly in the dear old West End. Mostly, it’s festive and fun. Mostly. Think sporting events like the Vancouver Marathon, the Sun Run, and tennis tournaments. Think Car Free Day, the Pride Parade, and the Summer Cinema Series. Don’t forget the concerts at Malkin Bowl, and of course the big enchilada, the Symphony of Gunpowder (or whatever we’re calling the fireworks these days). Oh, and that ridiculous 4/20 smoke-in at Sunset Beach. Exhaling all that at once, it’s a whole lot of events choking the West End, and you’d be half-baked to ever refer to Vancouver as “No Fun City” anymore. I can guarantee you that many thousands of people have many hours of fun at all of these events, and mostly I’m for it. Mostly. However: it’s one thing for thousands of people to be partying and screaming and dancing when the event is actually happening. That’s great. It’s another thing entirely when some of those people are still partying and screaming and dancing hours after the event has ended. It’s a drunken reality that many West End residents are forced to deal with all summer long. This brings me to my Summer of 2016 Public Service Announcement: when the movie/parade/ marathon/fireworks ends, PLEASE LEAVE AND DO IT QUIETLY.

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The complete ignorance of the leftover party animal in the West End never ceases to amaze me, since the guilty party seemingly has no clue that sound travels, and there are thousands upon thousands of people trying to sleep in apartments right above your babble. When I lived on Beach Avenue, right in the thick of the summer festivities, I dealt with late-night party stragglers almost every night of the summer. Mostly in my boxer shorts, I broke up fights, stepped into domestic quarrels, urgently convinced screaming teenagers that they were about to miss the last bus to Coquitlam, and even witnessed an Old School-like co-ed streaker parade at 3am. People would gather on the front lawn of our apartment building in the middle of the night, yakking it up as if they were on a downtown street corner at noon. One of the worst incidents was the night the Summer Cinema Series showed Pirates of the Caribbean. Hours after the movie ended, there was still some guy down on the street yelling at the top of his lungs in “pirate talk.” To make matters worse, each of his obscenity-laced phrases was repeated word-for-word by his Gilbert Gottfried sounda-like buddy. When I finally stormed down to confront the boozesoaked buccaneers, sure enough there was a dude dressed head to toe like a pirate, but his pal repeating every one of his filthy phrases? A genuine, living, feathered, loudmouth parrot sitting on his shoulder. I kid you not. I chased them away with a golf umbrella. So look, by all means, come on down to the West End and have fun this summer. Just remember those huge buildings behind you aren’t empty. There’s an entire neighbourhood trying to sleep above you. Leave quietly, and leave the talking bird at home. Ahoy and thanks, matey! W

NPA city councillor George Affleck says he wasn’t shocked by the BC information and privacy commission’s damning report on Vancouver city hall because it only confirms that Vision Vancouver is running “the most opaque government” in city history. The first freedom of information audit and compliance investigation of a BC municipality, released June 23, slammed city hall for inappropriate delays, failure to meet legislated timelines 16 per cent of the time, missing documentation, incomplete responses and “curt and perfunctory communication with applicants.” Investigators Tanya Allen and Carol Whittome also found evidence that records were deliberately deleted or hidden and that bureaucrats issued deceptive invoices and went overboard with censorship. “I get the sense that there was meddling happening from the top and that’s not the way it’s supposed to work,” said Coun. George Affleck, blaming Mayor Gregor Robertson. “It should be completely hands-off from politics, and let the staff do their job, do their job properly and be open

A report released by the BC information and privacy commission last week slammed Vancouver city hall for how it responds to freedom of information requests. Dan Toulgoet photo and transparent. Otherwise, you have the perception that you’re hiding something.” In the report, Commissioner Elizabeth Denham called for immediate improvement and a cultural shift. She concluded that a public body “should not act as a gatekeeper of records but instead should be a conduit for providing applicants with the information they are entitled to” under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Evidence showed that “certain city staff treated emails and other records as transitory even when they were not and subsequently deleted records.” In January 2015, the Ofﬁce of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) conﬁrmed that Mike Magee, who was Robertson’s chief of staff until May, mass-deleted his city email and had used his personal company email

account to conduct city business. The report said two ex-city hall employees told OIPC that city staff were directed at least once to rename ﬁles in such a way “that records could not be easily located if a search for responsive records was conducted.” Denham was particularly concerned that city hall had discriminated against journalists. During interviews with OIPC, staff denied they treated reporters differently or had been instructed to do so. “However, OIPC examiners discerned trends when analyzing by applicant type,” the report said. City hall was nearly four times more likely to fail to meet timelines with media applicants compared to others. Evidence showed city hall applies a higher “strategic risk and complexity rating” to requests made by media applicants, which

contravenes the requirement for applicants to be treated equally. “The use of sensitivity ratings to identify requests made by certain applicants such as media is inconsistent with [the law’s] goals of openness and accountability if it results in delaying access simply because of the kind of requester involved,” Denham wrote. “It is in the public interest to protect the ability of media applicants to identify issues, obtain records and disseminate information in a timely manner.” Overall, said BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association director Vince Gogolek,Vancouver city hall exhibited a “we know better” attitude and wilfully ignored the law. OIPC launched the probe last fall and audited a random sample of 290 City of Vancouver files from 2013 to 2015 plus 162 complaints and other files. Immediately after the report’s publication, the city hall communications office released a statement that pledged to act on Denham’s 12 recommendations to improve response times, policies, procedures and training, but it gave no schedule. It also vowed to file a progress report with the OIPC by year-end. Robertson did not respond to an interview request. –Bob Mackin,Vancouver Courier

Broken records define the climate crisis David Suzuki Science Matters

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We’re living in a time of records. More renewable energy came on stream in 2015 than ever – 147 gigawatts, equal to Africa’s entire generating capacity – and investment in the sector broke records worldwide. Costs for producing solar and wind power have hit record lows. Portugal obtained all its electricity from renewable sources for four straight days in May – the longest achieved by any country – and Germany was able to meet 90 per cent of its electricity needs with renewable power for a brief period. Clean energy employment and job growth now outpace the fossil fuel industry by a wide margin. That’s just a portion of the good news. Oil prices have fallen so low that some more damaging activities are becoming unproﬁtable, a record number of coal companies are going bankrupt or ﬁling for bankruptcy, and fewer coal mines are operating in the US. But are the good records enough to help us deal with the bad? Global average temperatures are hitting record highs every recent month and

year, and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are rising steadily, to levels unheard of in human history. Arctic sea ice is vanishing at unprecedented levels, mass bleaching is killing the Great Barrier Reef, and record-setting droughts, ﬂoods, heatwaves and extreme weather are happening around the world. As Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research told the Guardian: “These are very worrying signs and I think it shows we are on a crash course with the Paris targets unless we change course very, very fast. I hope people realize that global warming is not something down the road, but it is here now and is affecting us now.” The Paris Agreement, accepted in December by most nations, offered hope that world leaders are aware of this serious problem and know that unless we quickly employ a range of solutions – from renewable energy to reducing consumption to changing dietary and agricultural practices – humanity is at risk. Despite overwhelming evidence for human-caused climate change, the fossil fuel industry continues to employ shady people and organizations to fool fearful and

apparently blind followers into believing the problem doesn’t exist or isn’t serious enough to worry about.Their messaging follows a pattern: Spread a simplistic lie until it becomes so discredited that few people accept it and then move on to another simplistic lie. The most recent from Canadian industry propagandists like Patrick Moore,Tom Harris (of the misnamed International Climate Science Coalition) and their pals at organizations like the US Heartland Institute is that CO2 is not a pollutant, just a benign or beneficial gas that stimulates plant growth. It’s true CO2 is good for plants. So is nitrogen, but when it runs into waterways and the oceans, it pollutes them. Overwhelming scientific evidence proves that increased atmospheric CO2 is a major cause of global warming.The profound effects of that warming are already here, and new and frightening aspects are also coming to light, such as ocean oxygen depletion. Recent bankruptcy filings for Peabody Energy showed the US coal company owes money to a range of deniers and their organizations, including the also misnamed Calgary-based Friends of Science. It claims the sun and not human activity drives climate

change (and that the world is cooling, not warming), a ridiculous assertion, often repeated by coal companies, that real scientists have thoroughly debunked. Extensive research shows coal, oil and gas interests have pumped huge amounts of money into these denial campaigns, all the while knowing that humancaused climate change is real and dangerous. It’s good that deniers’ voices are being drowned out by evidence and rational arguments and that solutions are becoming better, cheaper and more readily available daily. But we no longer have time to allow compromised politicians, greedy industrialists and dishonest organizations to stall progress.We need record numbers of people to do all they can – develop solutions, write letters, sign petitions, talk to politicians, vote and take to the streets – to demand that governments, industry and society treat climate change with the seriousness it deserves. Humanity’s fate depends on the choices we make today. We can’t let a polluting sunset industry and its minions block progress to a cleaner, healthier future. | Learn more at DavidSuzuki.org. W

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If there had been a natural (or unnatural) disaster in Summerland, BC, on Tuesday June 21, Canada’s critical wine palate would have virtually been wiped out. Thirty of the country’s top wine professionals (Masters of Wine, sommeliers, wine writers and educators) from Vancouver Island to New Brunswick joined forces for the second annual Judgment of BC. This has quickly become one of my favourite tastings of the year. Huge props go to the BC Wine Institute for hosting the event and having the conﬁdence to put our local wines against those from around the globe. BC-based wine writer and educator DJ Kearney did a top-notch job curating the selection choosing highly regarded examples from BC along with international benchmarks.

“This is about checking how we are doing as a young region,” Kearney reminded us before we started tasting. The format is based on the Judgment of Paris, which was spearheaded by renowned British wine expert and journalist Steven Spurrier in 1976. Spurrier was our special guest at the inaugural Judgment of BC in 2015 when the challenge was thrown down to Chardonnay and Syrah. (BC triumphed in the latter flight.) This year Pinot Noir and Riesling were put to the test. To bring some international perspective, wine writers Dr. Jaime Goode and Elaine Chukan-Brown joined us from the UK and US respectively. The tasting consisted of two flights of 12 wines each, six from BC and six from abroad. Tasting the wines blind, each of us placed them in order of our individual preferences. The scores were tabulated to determine a collective ranking. We started with Pinot Noir. Though this capricious grape did show a bit of its finicky side, the best

of the bunch charmed. We aren’t sending shock waves around the world. Burgundy came in first place with Bouchard Père Premier Cru Beaune Clos de la Mousse Monopole 2012 ($66.99). Fine examples from Oregon and Central Otago in New Zealand took second and third place respectively. BC stood its ground holding the fourth to seventh positions. Haywire Canyonview 2014 ($39.90) was the highest rank BC wine coming in fourth place over all. I especially appreciated the Quails’ Gate Richard’s Block 2013 ($55.17) which ended up ranking sixth. The Riesling flight was easier from the perspective that I could have happily drunk any of the wines. In the same breath, this also made them more difficult to rank. The wines ranged in sweetness but from driest to sweetest they demonstrated overall balanced acidities and concentration of flavour. Again, there were no surprises here that Germany took the top spot with the Max Ferd Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2013 ($42.99).

Right behind it, in second place was CedarCreek’s Platinum Block 3 ($22.99), which I’d enjoyed by chance in the vineyard with winemaker Taylor Whelan the day before. This wine also just won Best Canadian White Wine over 15£ at the Decanter World Wine Awards in London so everyone is clamouring for it. Don’t despair if you can’t get your hands on a bottle. The good news is that the Okanagan is producing lots of fantastic well-priced Riesling. Among the others in the lineup, I was particularly fond of the Synchromesh Storm Haven Vineyard 2015 ($35) for a medium sweet style and the Oroﬁno Hendsbee Vineyard 2013 ($22) and Culmina Decora 2015 ($26.99) for drier versions. The results left us with plenty to sip on until next year’s judgment. The only question is which grapes will take the challenge in 2017. W ; #?9 * @?E=+<3< +063 ?: 9<6/+36 7? 3? 10B<&%)?97)

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You would be forgiven for thinking that tasting room design has been mostly about which kind of wood you want on the walls and how shiny the concrete should be. Look closer, though: amid the many superficial similarities lie design subtleties that – unnoticed at first – add up to establish the vibe of each brewery and reflect the surrounding community. Take Brassneck, for example. If the Main Street microbrewery – one of the first craft breweries in Vancouver to have a distinctly “designed” aesthetic – hadn’t decided in 2013 that they wanted their tasting room to force strangers together into conversations about beer, the social nature of the craft beer boom that came after might have been very different. “I have to say, I really tip

my hat to Nigel [Springthorpe] and Conrad [Gmoser] at Brassneck.There was a lot of design intent to making sure that, in some ways, people were uncomfortably forced to be social,” says architect Marko Simcic, one half of the ﬁrm Simcic & Uhrich, which designed the brewery space. “We spent a lot of time talking about how you could get strangers to talk to each other.” They accomplished that through interesting sight lines into the heart of the brewery operations, chance encounters with the brewer, intimate seating areas to discuss the latest seasonal, and by utilizing Vancouver creatives, such as the late woodworker Joseph Peters and illustrator Maggie Boyd, to add detail. In hindsight, the success of the room, and other eloquent spaces such as 33 Acres, helped set the tone for what tasting rooms could and should accomplish. “What’s been really interesting for us has just been seeing its impact on neighbourhood development,” says Bill Uhrich (the other half of Simcic & Uhrich, which also

boasts subsequent work with Strange Fellows, Dageraad, Andina, Faculty, Strathcona and a yet-to-be-named brewery at Manitoba and 5th in its portfolio). “Before the microbreweries started there was the expression, ‘No Fun City’ – Vancouver was a little bit archaic in terms of its approach to nightlife and the pub – and I think the way in which the microbreweries have grown [has] created a much larger sense of community. It’s had a spillover effect.” Not only does the aesthetic of shiny equipment, polished concrete ﬂoors and textured wood walls reafﬁrm Vancouver’s familiar, organic, somewhat masculine design ideals, but it enriches the perception of craft beer as an honest, DIY endeavour, as well. As the industry expands into new markets in smaller cities around BC, these design clichés also offer a proven way for new business owners to attract an audience. “We always remind ourselves that what’s been done in Vancouver hasn’t been done in Abbotsford,” explains Josh Vanderheide, founder and creative director of Ab-

Field House Brewing’s tasting room focuses as much on interior design as it does the brewing of its beer. Jonny Healy photo botford’s newest brewery, Field House. Vanderheide, a former Vancouver resident who moved out to the Fraser Valley with his family three years ago, had worked extensively with craft breweries in his career as a graphic designer, and found himself missing aspects of the scene he had left behind.To recreate it, he and interior designer Jennifer Eden incorporated concepts that are clearly referential to spaces like Brassneck, 33 Acres, Steel & Oak and Strange Fellows, but also worked to transform them into something new and beautiful for their market. “We said, we love these ex-

periences, but what we need to do is run them through a ﬁlter of what would work in Abbotsford in order to be a good business for the community,” says Vanderheide. “We took ideas of modern design, but then we said how do we make it comfortable?” That meant siding the walls of the former car garage with rough, resawn cedar to add Old World texture, wrapping the wood-burning ﬁreplace in unapologetically raw sheet metal, and serving their beer in those ubiquitous mason jars at the reclaimed long table or concrete bar. Fear not, though. Just as these design tropes break out

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Bittered Sling Bitters coproprietor Lauren Mote will receive top honours at this year’s Tales of the Cocktail festival in New Orleans as the first Canadian woman inducted into the prestigious Dame Hall of Fame in front of her international industry peers. With only five inductions this year, including industry leaders Audrey Saunders (Pegu Club, NY), Laura Cullen (Pacific Wines and Spirits,

CA), Cris Delhavi (M Restaurant and Bar, OH), and Angie Salame (Drink Company, DC), Mote joins an exhibition of only 25 women since the program’s inception in 2012. Fanny Bay Oyster Bar is now open in the heart of downtown at 762 Cambie for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. Fanny Bay Oysters.com Central City Brewers & Distillers have launched a new premium spirit, their Queensborough Gin. The spirit features citrus notes from Vancouver Island

spruce tips and citrus peels, as well as local juniper berries. Available at BC Liquor Stores by end of June. CentralCityBrewing.com Mealshare, the local not-for-proﬁt that partners with restaurants to provide meals to kids in need, has announced 24 more restaurants that have joined their growing roster of partners. Dine at the likes of Torafuku, My Shanti, Nook, Tavola, Café Ça Va, Secret Location and more, and when you order the specially marked dishes, a meal is provided to someone in need. See the full list of restaurants at Mealshare.ca

Edible Canada has partnered with Bittered Sling to create a custom Chinook Bitter. The new bitter has a bright citrus kick from fresh and fried grapefruit peels, and is a limited edition of 500 bottles. Available exclusively through Edible Canada, both online and in-store for $9.95 each. EdibleCanadaRetail.com Snowbear Bakery, the popular bakery that specializes in Asian baked goods and custom cakes, has opened a new location on Main Street. Watch for their taro mousse. Facebook.com/SnowbearBakery

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@FoodgirlFriday Kitsilano, that one-time haunt of hippies and starving undergrads, has grown beyond its Naam roots into a bona ﬁde dining destination in recent years. Nowhere is that more evident than in the prevalence of seafoodforward restaurants and retailers in the neighbourhood. With the high season for halibut, salmon, et al, in full swing, here are a few places to try some amazing pelagic delicacies.

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bitter and savoury in every dish. The sableﬁsh hot and sour soup is another winner. When the colder weather comes back, look for the uni and crab curry to return to the menu (ﬁngers crossed).

SUPERMARINE

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during the buck-a-shuck happy hour. It’s also one of the only places in the city you can try chicken-fried crocodile (okay, the only place), and while technically it isn’t seafood, the Humboldt squid, shrimp and grits, and Salt Spring Island mussels deﬁnitely are. Don’t miss the New Orleans-style gumbo.

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Hannah Georgas channels ageless wisdom on ‘For Evelyn’ KRISTI ALEXANDRA @kristialexandra

For some women, it’s Maya Angelou, Betty Freidan or Eleanor Roosevelt. For others, it’s their mother.When seeking the arcane feminine wisdom that can only be earned through the grace of years, musician Hannah Georgas looks to her own grandmother, Evelyn, for whom her latest LP is named. For Evelyn – Georgas’ third full-length record – is mired in textured, poppy synths, electronic beats and dramatic lyrical overtones. Released June 24 via Dine Alone Records, For Evelyn reads like a coming-of-age tale of love loss, existential troubles and the repercussions of doing “Crazy Shit.” “The record is a lot of personal, self-reﬂecting issues; the fears and anxieties versus the power of being independent and being an individual,” Georgas tells the Westender over the phone from her Toronto home. The Ontario-via-BC singer made the move back to her home province after a neardecade in British Columbia, where she studied at UVIC and eventually made the

move to pursue music in Vancouver. “I feel like my grandma is someone who’s been through all that and reached a point in her life where she’s at peace with everything.That’s the reasoning behind why I thought it would be cool to acknowledge her in that way,” she explains. “The record is not about my grandma; I wanted to name it after her because she’s somebody in my life that has been this person who is so selﬂess and patient and I’ve never seen her complain. She’s always just been this open door in my family and almost angelic in a way.” In case you couldn’t tell by the lyrical content of For Evelyn, “angelic” is certainly no way Georgas would describe herself on the autobiographical album. “I should keep my pretty mouth shut/cause every time I do that/it always ends bad,” the songwriter chants on “Crazy Shit,” followed by the chorus, “There’s just something about you/when I’m around you/you make me wanna do crazy shit.” Album opener “Rideback” kicks off to moody, low-toned fanfare as Georgas contem-

Hannah Georgas headlines the Khatsalano Street Party on Saturday, July 9. Contributed photo

plates whether her “whole life is gonna pass [her] by.” Contrary to the album’s lyrics, however, the Georgas is more together than ever, musically speaking. According to her, the 11-track record boasts a more polished sound than her previous releases.

“I’ve been fine-tuning things and I’ve just been diving into making records more and knowing more about myself,” Georgas admits. “I find I take that role of my process of writing and recording on my own, and finding my sound more and more, and progressing, and being more

particular about how I want the music to sound.” That’s perhaps in part to ﬁnding collaborative harmony with the right producer. Teaming up with Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh for a second time since the recording of her self-titled sophomore album in 2012,

Georgas says she and Walsh have found mutual synergy. “We’ve developed a relationship together where he knows me and knows me musically and where I want to take my record,” she says.

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Khatsalano Street Party bucket list KRISTI ALEXANDRA @kristialexandra

Now in its sixth year, the music-centric Khatsalano Street Party shuts down West 4th Avenue from Burrard to MacDonald Street and is slated to draw more than 150,000 attendees on Saturday, July 9. Bringing even more music, grub, and party pursuits than ever before, the day-long fete is packed with activities and music to keep you buzzing from 11am to 9pm. We compiled a catalogue of our old favourites and new attractions to cross off this year’s Khatsalano bucket list.

CHECK OUT THE 45+ BAND LINE-UP

A Vancouver-heavy lineup includes the musical stylings of once-hometown musician Hannah Georgas, Canadian supergroup Mounties (Hawksley Workman, Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat and Ryan Dahle of Limblifter), indie prog-rockers We Are The City and Malcolm Jack – just to name a few. Also expect sonic offerings from local bands Jody Glenham & the Dreamers, Woolworm, and Twin River.

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B in the 10-block-long party, especially if you’re stopping to take a gander at each artisan booth along the way. Since Mill Street Brewing doesn’t want you to go thirsty, they’re setting up ﬁve beer garden locations – the newest locale at the shady cross-street of Balsam and West 4th.

CHOW DOWN ON GRUB GALORE

The aptly-coined “Food Truck Way” will feature more than 50 local vendors serving up a spectrum of culinary ﬂavours.You’ve got all day to sample the variety of cuisine on offer; donuts for breakfast, gourmet pizza for lunch, and Asian fusion for dinner, anyone? Past vendors have included Roaming Dragon, the Aussie Pie Guy, and Vij’s Railway Express.

GET INTO THE LIFESTYLE

It’s no secret Vancouverites live and breathe the West Coast lifestyle. The West 4th Living Stage brings the quintessence of Vancouver to one spot: the day kicks off with a Semperviva Yoga class, strides into two fashion shows led by Vancouver Fashion Week, shows off with a live farm-to-table cooking demo, and shakes it all up with a mixology competition.

KHATS KIDS!

Trafalgar Street will be abuzz with programs and activities from the Kitsilano Community Centre. Performances include Will Stroet, Rockin’ Robin and Canned Hamm.Your young ones can participate in storytime with Hip Baby and the Drama Bugs, paint bird houses, do chalk art, get their face painted, play with balloons, beat drums and get messy in the craft corner.

GET ACTIVE

Where Tough Mudder might seem like too much of a chore, try your hand (and whole body) on an urban obstacle course located between Larch and Trafalgar. Get seriously competitive on the Landyachtz Duelling Cycles – or not-so-seriously competitive with Snack Time Sumo wrestling.

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With 10 blocks of activities, it’s inevitable you’ll get weary after a while. Fall back on the Largest Bean Bag in the World! The Guinness World Record holder is more than 210 feet long with a weight of nearly 1700 pounds. Filled with 35 cubic metres of micro-beads, this chill-spot is a record-breakingly comfy add on to Khatsalano’s Street Party. W

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Summer is here and with it all the promise the countless weeks of sunshine hold: care-free days spent at the beach, budding romance, and long conversations that stretch into those hot nights Jonathan Richman loved so much. But what happens when the party’s over? When the rain inevitably returns? Vancouver’s Winona Forever have found a way to bottle those summertime blues, infusing their quirky pop songs with just enough melancholy to elicit a languid yearning sigh. The band might barely be old enough to drink legally but the precocious guitars and tight drums prove they are both wise and world-weary well beyond their years. Their debut self-released EP Yacht Rock is available on their website (Winona4eva. Bandcamp.com) and makes for a melodic, danceable soundtrack to a summer that will inevitably come to an end. The four-piece recently made it to the semiﬁnals of this year’s CiTR Shindig! contest and will be performing at the Khatsahlano Street Party on Saturday, July 9. We

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playing music. Also, sleeping.

Don’t let the track suits and slav squats fool you, Winona Forever are from East Van, not Eastern Europe. Contributed photo caught up with them to ﬁnd out why exactly they aren’t fond of having their ass cakes slapped at the club. Who are you? Rowan (vocals and guitar), Ben (vocals and guitar), Alex (drums) and Cole (bass). Where are you from? All born in beautiful British Columbia. How do you describe your sound? Sometimes summery, sometimes bummer-y, hopefully dance-y. Who are your major musical influences? Alex: Death Grips, We Are The City. Ben: John Frusciante, Avi Buffalo.

Rowan: John Lennon, Archy Marshall. Favourite sandwich? Ben: The asian barbecue pork belly sandwich from Red Truck Brewery. Rowan: Grilled cheese with avacado. Best live music performance you’ve ever seen? Ben: Sunﬂower Bean at an East Van warehouse-y place last April (they shred). Closest you’ve ever come to death? Rowan: I fell in a lake once. Finish this sentence: When I’m not writing and playing music, I spend my time… Ben: Procrastinating writing and

First record/CD you ever bought? Alex: School of Rock soundtrack. Ben: Beastie Boys, Licensed To Ill. What is your spirit animal and why? Cole: Easy. A two-and-a-half headed snake with a monkey’s body and a jellyﬁsh for a tail cause I’m sick of random-ass swimsuit models spanking my ass cakes at the club. What was the name of the first band you ever played in? Alex:The Metal Pufﬂes, when I was 7. Rowan:When I was 13 I was in a band called Orange Blonde & Connor. Ben: Left-Handed Miracle. Super secret fact about you that (almost) no one knows? Cole: I once promised my best friend that I wouldn’t tell anyone he wets the bed most nights.

“I’m trying hard to work with people who I’m really inspired by,” the 32-year-old singer confesses, giving a nod to director Sammy Rawal. Georgas sought out Rawal to direct the video for “Don’t Go,” which premiered June 2 as a tease to the album. “I met him and I loved his work,” she gushes. “I’m going to make another [video] with him because I was just so happy with it. I have to have this personal understanding with the person I’m working with. It will show if I’m not comfortable, and it won’t look good if I’m not happy.” Evidently, the same goes for her music. Georgas readily admits she originally experienced some growing pains between records. “I remember things feeling hard because I put my last record out in 2012, and then I spent a lot of time and

What was the best crowd you ever played for? Rowan: We played a release show for our Yacht Rock EP, and the crowd decided to start a mosh pit in the basement of the Matador. % +6=/>0<1.16 &.#,:,# 6= the Khatsahlano Street Party, July 9. W

energy on touring. [When] it came down to having to make another record and writing, I kind of hibernated in Vancouver for six months and wrote as much as I possibly could. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make it happen,” Georgas reveals. The ensuing product is an honest, emotionally-charged album full of self-doubt, misery and, ultimately, catharsis. “[Writing] takes an emotional toll. It’s part of what I do… That’s the way it comes naturally to me. I draw inspiration from feeling emotionally connected to whatever I’m writing about. I just tap into something that emotionally and musically inspires me, that’s the way it works for me.” W

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Dancing on the Edge grabs the mic

Acclaimed festival celebrates Canada’s dance pioneers KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

For Frédérick Gravel, it doesn’t matter if the microphone is the hands of a dancer or an actor, as long as the message shakes things up. “They take the microphone, and they just go,” says the Montreal-based choreographer. “Like, ‘I have something to share’, and then it starts." Gravel is describing the beginning of Thus Spoke..., his cheeky, politically charged rock ’n’ roll mashup of theatre and contemporary dance, coming to Vancouver for the Dancing on the Edge Festival (DOTE). In the piece, two dancers and two actors take turns on the mic, philosophizing on everything from mass consumerism and privilege to Stephen Harper and Stalin. Meanwhile, their talking points, crafted by writer and playwright Étienne Lepage, are set to a ripping Hendrix score, and enhanced and often outright contradicted by their movements. “They’re physically doing something that doesn’t really compute with whatever they’re saying. And by doing so, they can kind of say two things at once, or three things at once,” says Gravel, who will be joining the cast on stage for this performance. “They seem really assured in what they are saying, but the body is saying something else.” “It’s a mind fuck,” the

Usually Beauty Fails creator laughs, later, of the choreography. Making its Western Canadian debut July 8-10 at the Firehall Arts Centre, Thus Spoke... is just one of the highlights of DOTE, which, as Canada’s longest running professional dance festival, conﬁdently explores the frontlines of contemporary dance. In fact, for 28 years DOTE has been presenting some of the scene’s biggest risk takers and pioneers. “The goal of the festival is to provide audiences with an opportunity to see contemporary dance work that is usually cutting-edge or pushing the envelope,” says festival director Donna Spencer, of the Firehall. “And it’s also a festival that strives to give opportunities to artists that take risks and to test new work.” DOTE was created by the Firehall to offer an outlet for Vancouver’s most innovative dance artists. Along the way, it has helped shaped the face of contemporary dance in this city by presenting works by more than 400 choreographers – artists like Kidd Pivot founder Crystal Pite and Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar, as well as the physically masterful Company 605 and twisted genius of Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. “At the time that we started it there were so few opportunities for dance presentation – contemporary dance presentation – in Vancouver, and so few venues, that we were getting all these requests. So we decided to create a festival to support them,” Spencer recalls. “And little did we know that it would still be

Thus Spoke uses dance and spoken word to question conformity. Pictured here, performer Anne Thériault. Stéphane Najman photo

going 28 years later!” This year, the festival celebrates the unexpected with more than 30 choreographers and 80 artists over the 10 days. Other highlights include a dramatic duet by Ottawa’s DORSALE Dance (July 14-15), an exploration of distortion by Toronto’s Adelheid Dance Projects (July 15-16) and a premiere by Victoria’s Constance Cook (July 15-16). In addition, DOTE will play host to some of the city’s ﬁnest choreographers, such as Friedenberg, Ballet BC company member Alexis Fletcher, an evening of

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solos by the award-winning MascallDance, new work by Joshua Beamish’s Move: the company, and a ﬁve-man piece by Wen Wei Dance. The festival also features exciting site-speciﬁc programming, such as a performance in the trees of Stanley Park by the Aeriosa Dance Society (July 13-14). Some artists, such Belgium’s German Jauregui – the festival’s lone international act – are presented in “Edges”: groupings of artists that allow you to see two or three performances with one ticket; others, such as Thus

Spoke..., stand on their own. All, however, offer dance that will make you think. “[The festival] has had a tremendous impact on Vancouver dance artists and Vancouver dance companies,” says Spencer, thoughtfully. “Some people have said to me they really think it has been the catalyst for the growth of Vancouver as a hotspot for contemporary dance.” % )61/<1" .1 =>, (-", #;1! July 7-16 at venues around Vancouver.Tickets $28/26/24; $6!!,! 6:6<7627, 6= )61/<1"*18>,(-",'.#"' W

History was made at the 34th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards on Monday. The Jessies are divided into three major categories – Large Theatre, Small Theatre and Theatre forYoung Audiences – and the Arts Club Theatre Company swept all awards in the Large Theatre category, including 10 with their production of *1,"<1. *1,"<1, a Vancouver-made new musical by Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone, based on the poem by Pushkin and the opera by Tchaikovsky, won in nearly every category, including Outstanding Actor and Actress (Alessandro Juliani and Meg Roe), Supporting Actor (Josh Epstein), Lighting Design (John Webber), Set Design (Drew Facey), Costumes (Jaqueline Firkins) Composition (Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone), and Direction (Amiel Gladstone). The creative team of Veda Hille and the Ungrateful Dead (Barry Mirochnick and Marina Hasselberg) were also acknowledged for their Outstanding Musical Direction and Musical Ensemble.The only category they didn’t take went to Colleen Wheeler for her Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role in Peter and the Starcatcher, also an Arts Club production. In SmallTheatre, multiaward winners included UpintheairTheatre’s production of The North Plan with three, andTwenty SomethingTheatre’s 8>, *;=3<"<7 with two. For the full list of winners, go to Jessies.ca. W

Bird’s-eye beaches LAURA BUSBY @westendervan

Escape into the nostalgic and eternal summers of Joshua Jensen-Nagle’s latest series of photographs. In his new exhibition, 9<5$7, )64!, on July 9-23 at Bau-Xi Gallery (3045 Granville), the Toronto-based artist captures his views from high above in a helicopter to reveal how each shoreline is uniquely shaped by both its geological and cultural activity. We caught up with JensenNagle to learn more about his latest dreamy beach scenes. How would you describe your visual art practice? I approach photography with a means to create rather than document. Throughout the years, I have used many different techniques to achieve the ﬁnal image including the use of expired Polaroid ﬁlm in my early works, painting

on photography and rephotographing the images, to most recently dangling out of helicopters and using the highest-end digital camera available.

A consistent theme in your work is beaches and bathers, why is this subject so compelling for you? I reﬂect on my life experiences when I create, and this particular theme stems from my childhood spent at the beach. Each summer, we would stay at my grandfather’s shore house in Mantoloking, New Jersey. It was a simpler, more carefree time that has remained one of my fondest memories from my youth. Since then, I have spent the last 16 years photographing beaches and each time I am able to capture it in a new way. How would you describe your new series of images and where did you travel to photo-

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graph these scenes? Most recently, I have travelled to Australia, Rio de Janeiro, Hawaii and Miami to capture images of the beach from a helicopter. An aerial perspective produces an almost abstract view of the beaches and ocean. You recognize the subject but in a very different way, so what you are mostly left with is an overall sense of joy in the moment.

What can the perspective from high above reveal about the beach for the viewer? It’s interesting that usually people like privacy and would like their own personal space. However you notice that in these scenes people seem to ﬂock together. There is something about it that is unusual and very interesting. It says something about our culture when we are out of our daily routines and relaxing crowds can be comforting.

Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Getting Whisked Away. Your new series shows a distinct divide between water and sand, punctuated with people, what inspired this composition? That is just the vantage point. Photography is all about ﬁnding the right vantage to take the image from and then ﬁnding the right visual composition. I have been photographing this subject from the ground for

so many years, that it is natural for me to move on. You have to keep yourself excited about a subject or the work will suffer. You must have the best vacation advice, which location was your favorite? I get asked this question often. Each place is such a unique experience with its own challenges. People often

say how much fun it must be to travel to these destinations, and while it is exciting, it is also work. So much effort goes into the planning and scheduling of these trips. I am mostly thinking about making images and don’t spend a lot of time relaxing on the beach. With that said, I love Italy! It has so my different dynamic landscapes to work with and the food is great! W

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It’s almost impossible to imagine Peter Mansbridge doing anything else but what he’s doing right now: anchoring the nightly newscast on CBC Television, putting tough questions to the powers-that-be on Mansbridge: One on One, and navigating viewers through all manners of breaking news events. But there was a time when the British-born Mansbridge – now 67, and the longestserving active anchor among the three big networks in Canada – was a high school dropout lugging around bags, fueling planes, and selling tickets for a small airline in Northern Manitoba. “One day, I was announcing the ﬂight on the PA system in the airport, and somebody heard me and offered me a job at the CBC Northern Service Station in Churchill,” Mansbridge tells Reel People, chuckling. “It’s 1968, and that’s how I started at the CBC. I’d never thought about broadcasting. It had never crossed my

mind. Namely, they couldn’t ﬁnd anybody to take the job. That was what it was like in broadcasting in those days, in the ‘60s. There was no line up for jobs.” Mansbridge was in town on June 16 as part of CBC Vancouver’s annual open house. For Mansbridge, it was a blink-and-you’ll-missit pit stop in a week that began in England, took him to Alberta and BC, and then back east again. Since those early days as a CBC disc jockey, Mansbridge has risen through the ranks to reign as the chief correspondent of CBC’s news division, and a steadfast companion to Canadians through numerous paradigm-shifting events, including the Gulf War, the September 11 attacks, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings. Despite his lack of formal media training, Mansbridge says he’d honed his nose for news growing up in Malaysia and listening to the BBC World Service with his family. He based his ﬁrst newscast on “the principles I’d learned as a kid, which was if you’re interested in something, you ask questions, challenge assumptions, tell people what you’ve learned, and that’s still a core to what I do.” Every year presents its crop of strange and exciting stories, and 2016 “has certainly been no exception,”

says Mansbridge, who has served as lead anchor on The National since 1988. “We’re seeing things we’ve never seen before. We’ve never seen a race like this in the US. We tend to say that every once in a while, but this one really is different. It’s just bizarre, and who knows how it’s going to end up, and how many more twists and turns it’s going to take.” Whatever happens down south, Mansbridge says his newscast will continue “to take a hard look at what’s going on and try to analyze it, try to fact-check things.” Mansbridge admits the Trump candidacy took his newsroom by surprise. “At the beginning, we had the same attitude as most American journalists had, which was, ‘They’re talking about Trump here, he’s never going to win, he’s just a joke, and we’ll treat it like a joke,’ and a lot of people did, and this is what they got for doing that,” he says. There are other challenges, says Mansbridge, facing the world in general and journalists in particular, including a “different kind of war than we all grew up, but a war nevertheless, whose impact reaches from the battlegrounds of Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria to the bizarre nature of what we saw in Orlando, and that troubles us all, challenges us as journalists, in terms of the way we tell those stories.”

And then there’s social media, the very concept of which didn’t exist when Mansbridge entered the news business in 1968. For Mansbridge, social media is both a helpful tool and a hindrance. “Any opportunity you have to ﬂood the zone with more information is good, unless that information is bad information. That’s the problem with social media,” he says. “There’s a lot of things that happen on it that give you a head start on a story. There’s a lot of things that set you back because it’s just not true, or it’s twisted so out of shape that it leads you down the wrong path.” When news breaks and the network cuts into regular programming with live coverage, what unfolds on screen is a peek into the machinery of the news, says Mansbridge. “I’ve found over all my years is, if you’re up front with viewers, they’ll trust you,” says Mansbridge. “You tell them what you know with certainty, what you’re unsure about, even when it’s coming from ofﬁcial statements; they will reward you for that in the sense that they will trust you.” W

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TWIN RIVER Vancouver garagepop-indie rockers celebrate the release of their sophomore album Passing Shade with special guests the Highest Order. 9pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $10 at BrownPaperTickets.com

DAVID WARD AND THE GOLDEN FUTURE ORCHESTRA Canadianborn, UK-based singer-songwriter returns to Jazz Fest and with him, he brings the future in a five-part rhapsody, Transitioning with the 12-piece GFO. 12pm at David Lam Park. Admission is free.

HOLY ROLLER REVUE A monthly musical showcase featuring new and established country, roots, folk and gospel artists kicks off with the Wayward Hearts, the Sojourners, Just A Season, Mac Pontiac and Christie Rose. 8:30pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $8-$12 at Neptoon, Basone Guitars and EventBrite.com THE BURNT BANJOS BENEFIT SHOW A benefit to help Pharis and Jason rebuild after a devastating fire featuring an all-star line-up of talented musicians including the Burying Ground, Jenny Ritter, Kathleen Nisbet, Sam Masterton, Ben Rogalsky, CR Avery and Lexi Marie. 8pm at WISE Hall. ENCHANTED EVENINGS – THE JESSICA STUART FEW Every Thursday the power-packed concert series turns the Classical Chinese Garden into a live stage for fiery trumpets, spacious flutes, mainstream jazz and swing and funky folk piano tunes. 7pm at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Tickets $25+ at EnchantedEvenings.ca

COMEDY DAVE WILLIAMSON Headlining comedian from Miami, Florida with appearances at the Boston and San Francisco Comedy Festivals, and star of the web series Nick.com with opening sets from Gavin Matts and Patrick Maliha. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

MUSIC CRAB PARK FESTIVAL An all ages, family friendly event at the north foot of Main Street celebrates 30 years of a much-needed DTES green space with live performances from Red Soul Bluez, the Mike Van Eyes Band, Rachel, Femme Zeppelin, and Davis & the Banned. 1pm-4pm at Crab Park. Admission is free. CANADA DAY PARTY Celebrate the nation’s birthday with Cocaine Moustache, Process and Giants Arise. 9pm at Funky Winker Beans. Cover is $10. MILK CRATE BANDITS A vintage New Orleans jazz type party for Canada Day with the infamous street band and their stolen plastic thrones. 8pm at Slickity Jim’s. Admission by donation. YES WE MYSTIC Winnipeg folkhip-hop outfit swing through town, playing an early show on the Forgiver tour with special guests Harley Small and Peach Pit. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY GRAHAM KAY Award-winning stand-up comedian, actor and TV writer NOW magazine claims has “mastered the art of sarcasm” headlines the weekend with opening sets from John Beuhler and Sunee Dhaliwal. 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

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Twin River, June 30

CANADA DAY 2016 Granville Island is bursting at the seams with culturally diverse national pride where around every corner you’ll find entertainment, artwork and food as well as kid’s activities and the official Canada Day

ceremony, all kicked off with the 17th annual Canada Day Parade. 1:30pm at various venues across Granville Island. CANADA DAY AT CANADA PLACE The popular daytime festival features live entertainment, citizenship ceremony, Expo Pavilion, Discovery Centre for kids, Coast Capital Youth Zone, the evening parade (commencing at Georgia and Broughton at 7pm) and fireworks at dusk. 10am6pm at Canada Place. Admission is free. CANADA DAY FIREWORKS Vancouver’s only two-barge simultaneous pyrotechnic extravaganza lights up the sky in celebration of our nation’s birthday over Coal Harbour. Prime viewing locations include Canada Place, Harbour Green Park, Coal Harbour, Stanley Park and Crab Park. 10:30pm over the Burrard Inlet. CANADA DAY FIREWORKS CRUISE Don your very best reds and whites as DJ Harris and DJ Zach Shore kick off the 25th season of the legendary LGBTQ cruises with Vancouver’s largest floating T-Dance as it sails below the fireworks featuring drag performances from the Unstoppable Conni Smudge and the Reigning Queen Empress Sienna Blaze. 7pm boarding at Harbour Cruises. 7:30pm-11pm sailing. Tickets at CruiseyT.com CHINATOWN MALL The oneday event returns for a special Canada Day market featuring two floors packed with apparel and goods from emerging Canadian brands accompanied by visual art collaborations, AC lounge zone, food and a bar, DJs and surprise musical guests. 1pm-9pm at Fortune Sound Club. Admission is $2.

MUSIC

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TIM PROZNICK’S MILLENIUM QUARTET A musical creation from an improv point of view as the foursome, with roots in jazz, branch off into sonic idioms with influences from artists as diverse as Aphex Twin to Herbie Hancock. 9:30pm at Guilt & Co. Admission by donation.

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JO PASSED Art Signified presents the EP release party for the Vancouver band with special guests A Raincoat’s Room and Wishkicker. 10pm at The Astoria. Cover is $10. GREGORY PORTER Grammy Award-winning vocalist brings his smooth and smoky baritone to the stage continuing the traditions of soul and jazz with special guest the Bruno Hebert Trio. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $69+ at TicketFly.com. All ages show. LEFTOVER CRACK New York punk rockers add a second show to the weekend with special guests Days N Daze and Dayglo Abortions. 6pm at Venue. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon and BPLive.ElectroStub.com

THEATRE/DANCE PERICLES In an ancient and exotic pagan land where a hero sets out to win the hand of a princess, he instead uncovers a terrible secret beginning a thrilling adventure marked by farflung travels, love lost and found and unexpected, and profound redemption. 7:30pm at Vanier Park. Tickets at BardOnTheBeach.org. Runs until Sept. 18. ROMEO AND JULIET Bard on the Beach presents a story of forbidden love at first sight in the timeless tale of two young people who fall deeply in love in spite of the bitter feud that divides their families. 2pm & 7:30pm at Vanier Park. Tickets at BardOnTheBeach.org. Runs until Sept. 23.

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MUSIC FALLING FOR SCARLET Celebrate the women of rock as part of the “Women, Whiskey and Rock & Roll” series the Vancouver poprock outfit with special guests Altermind, Kristina Lao and Lindsay Dixon. 7:30pm at Studio Records. Tickets $10 at TicketWeb.ca

COMEDY THE OUTER-MIDDLE ZONE Venture into the eerie unknown, straddle the line between improbable, impossible, and hilarious in this improvised science fiction mashup of Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, as strange events unfold and ironic twists appear, all based on your suggestions. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $8 at InstantTheatre.com THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe brings their high energy commitment to comedy with a little slapstick shtick, carrying the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip where scenes barrel into tangents and stories smash together creating comedy gold. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE 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 England. 2pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until July 10.

RED Immerse yourself in the grittiness of a fully transformed 1950s New York studio and prepare to be intimately involved in the intense, confrontational interaction between temperamental, visionary painter Mark Rothko and his assistant up close, embarking on an examination of the nature of art. 7pm at Little Mountain Gallery. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets. com. Runs until July 16.

COMEDY THE LAUGH GALLERY WITH GRAHAM CLARK Join the East Van comedian and his pals for guaranteed laughs and a shot at winning thrift store treasures at one of the longest running comedy shows in town. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $5 at EastVanComedy.com QUEER PROV Don’t let the queer deter you – you don’t have to identify to get it! This not-for-profit society dedicated to creating a queer community that creates, supports, enjoys and teaches improv theatre unites every week on Mondays, to set yourself up for a gay ol’ week. 8pm at XY (1216 Bute).

ART PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES Known for his incredible contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso is one of the masters of Modernism and this is the most significant exhibition of his work ever presented in Vancouver. 10am-5pm at Vancouver Art Gallery. Runs until Oct. 2.

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DEAD SOFT Grunge pop-punk from the Vancouver band with special guests Fury Things and Dumb. 8:30pm at The Cobalt. Cover is $8.

TANYA GALLAGHER & THE SOUTHERN SOUL Making the journey from the Southeastern US to the West Coast, the songstress and her bluegrass band take the stage with Australian singersongwriter Rowen. 8pm at Slickity Jim’s. Admission by dontation. All ages show.

FALLS OF RAUROS Folk-black metal from the Portland, Maine band with special guests Wayfarer, Numenorean and Harrow. 8pm at The Hindenburg. Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Neptoon, Highlife, Evergreen Cannabis and TicketWeb.ca JUST SINGING ROUND Multiaward winning guitarist Don Alder joins forces with Yvonne McSkimming, Beverly Elliot and Mark James Fortin for an evening of music presented by Synergy Collective Society. 7pm at Vancouver Rowing Club. All ages show. BLUE CRIME Retrogressive psych packaged in self-proclaimed “moonpop” from the Amsterdam outfit with special guests Eric Campbell & the Dirt and Glad Rags. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Cover is $6. RITTZ Southern rapper known to his parents as Jonathan McCollum, from Gwinnett Country, Georgia appears in support of Top of the Line with special guests Billionaire B and Northwest Division. 8pm at Venue. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Dipt and BPLive.ElectroStub.com

THEATRE/DANCE NEWSIES Direct from Broadway comes the smash-hit, Tony Award-winning musical based on true events, telling the captivating story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York. 7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at Ticketmaster. ca. Runs until July 10.

THEATRE/DANCE ROCK OF AGES This meta-theatrical jukebox musical filled with classic rock and glam metal hits inspire the story behind aspiring LA rocker Drew Boley and his 1987 existence at the Bourbon Room where he works and meets and falls in love with the fresh-faced Midwesterner Sherrie. 1:30pm & 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until July 30. THEATRE UNDER THE STARS Vancouver’s legendary summertime theatre experience is back for another season performing Beauty & The Beast in repertory with West Side Story under the stars at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. Visit TUTS.ca for tickets and schedule. Runs until Aug. 20.

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DIXIE CHICKS Country music superstars and renegade women return to the road with their highly anticipated tour with special guests Anderson East and Josh Herbert. 7pm at Rogers Arena. Tickets $75+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

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COMEDY KEVIN BANNER With a self-professed dark sense of humour, the Sooke comedian tackles tough topics with personable storytelling and self-effacing charm with opening sets from Sophie Buddle and Charlie Demers. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE STRAIGHT OUTTA OZ Broadway actor Todrick Hall puts a twist on the classic creation The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with original songs, a dazzling cast, innovative sets and a great social message, bringing to life the story like you’ve never experienced it before. 7:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $20-$100 at TicketFly.com. All ages show.

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Five Finds: Dinner décor Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

@Jennifer_AGCTK The Vancouver foodie scene is strong. Not only do we boast stellar food and worldclass chefs, our city offers a diverse design aesthetic to suit every dining mood. Whether you’re looking to chill out in a street-style vibe or dress to impress in opulent high-end design, my top ﬁve picks for restaurant decor have got you covered.

1. EL CAMINO’S

A beautiful room – like Chambar’s (on top) or Nightingale’s (on bottom) – is the perfect place to appreciate beautiful food. For more photos, visit Westender.com. Dan Toulgoet photos

3250 Main, ElCaminos.ca Hands down my go-to spot in the city, the Latin American street vibe at El Camino’s sets the tone for a guaranteed good time.The team at Evoke International Design brought urban outdoor elements in with a concrete brick wall, grafﬁti-inspired messaging and a unique custom wood block feature; paired with oversized artwork and an eye-catching back-lit bar, the

energy of the room is vibrant yet coolly understated. Looks like the best tacos and margs in Vancouver aren’t the only reason this little spot is packed every night.

2. THE BELGARD KITCHEN

55 Dunlevy, BelgardKitchen.com Housed within the historic Settlement Building, Railtown staple Belgard Kitchen started with a bone structure that could make a supermodel jealous. Honouring the impressive architectural details of the space (read: skyrocketing ceilings, exposed beams and heritage ﬁnishes), the expansive room has captured the essence of the best living room you’ve ever seen. An oversized leather sofa grounds the seating area by the massive vintage ﬁreplace; a dimly-lit, den-style nook gives the illusion of intimate dining; and, for the ultra-elite experience, there’s a private dining loft above the expansive bar.

3. CHAMBAR

568 Beatty, Chambar.com

The impeccably curated design of Chambar is truly a passion-project for designer Karri Schuermans, who coowns the Vancouver hot spot with her husband, chef Nico Schuermans. Every detail of the space is reflective of a journey or inspiration Karri has had, from tile patterns in a NewYork apartment building to Venetian plaster happened upon during a Venice flood. The design shows a deep respect for the history of our city, using many found or reclaimed antiques and finishing materials, and highlights local talent where possible, most notably in the grand artwork and show-stopping Omer Arbel chandeliers.

4. NIGHTINGALE

1017 West Hastings, HawkNightingale.com Walking into Nightingale evokes old NewYork glamour with a modern minimalist twist.While the beautifully neutral palette exudes a quiet elegance, the subtle details keep your eye wandering the grand space. Playing upon the Hawk & Nightingale

fable, the décor is comprised of paper bird replicas and vintage birdcages, combined with high end gold metal work and luxurious mouldings to add dimension and warmth. In contrast, the striking black bar centres the space and quickly becomes the hub of the room.

5. FORAGE

1300 Robson, ForageVancouver.com The design of Forage was a pairing of two innovators within their industries: chef Chris Whittaker (of Forage) and David Nicolay of Evoke International Design (both recipients of Western Living’s Foodie of the Year award for 2016). The focus for the menu and the aesthetic is sustainability: the space was designed with eco-friendly materials – local wherever possible – in collaboration with BC Hydro and Green Table Network to become one of our city’s greenest restaurants. The best part? A playfully unassuming patio, complete with AstroTurf and picnic tables. W

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Canada punches above its weight when it comes to beauty brands. M.A.C was established here, though it’s no longer Canadian-owned, and Lise Watier, Annabelle and Marcelle have been around for decades. Lately we’re seeing more emerging, perhaps due to the legacy of M.A.C on the East Coast, and to fulfil our desire for all things natural and organic. Vancouverite Sasha Plavsic set up Ilia in 2011 because she couldn’t find natural and organic beauty products anywhere. “I believe Canadians have a superior education to our neighbours down south and perhaps a bit more guts than they used to,” she says. “Combining an educated mind with the ideal of dream, and a good dose of determination can create amazing opportunities beyond our borders.” Here’s our pick of new products from brands manufactured in Canada or with Canadian founders.

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Caryl Baker Visage’s H2O Restore Hyaluronic Hydrating Gel is extremely lightweight – great for summer – and conains hyal-

1 uronic acid for hydration and antioxidant vitamin C. $75, at CarylBakerVisage. com.

2. BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE

Nutricosmetics – skincare that you eat or drink – are a huge trend in beauty now and GliSODIn is leading the charge. All its products, including the latest, GliSODIn The AntiOxidant Enzyme, contain a melon extract superantioxidant that can supposedly reduce inﬂammatory damage that leads to skin aging. $30 –

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Ilia’s Radiant Beauty Balm contains SPF20 and gives UVA and UVB protection, but we mainly like it for the way it makes skin look fresh and dewy. $49, at Kiss & Makeup and IliaBeauty.com

4. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

It’s difficult to find gentle serums for acne-prone skin. It’s even harder to find natural ones. Province

Apothecary’s Clear Skin Advanced Face Serum is said to treat even cystic acne with its plant-based formulation. $26. Visit ProvinceApothecary.com for stockists.

5. SEEING RED

You can’t celebrate Canada Day without red lippie. RMS Beauty has just launched Content, a new shade of its Lip Shine, which is a sheer ruby colour. $31.25, at Kiss & Makeup.

6. ALL IN ONE

Mèreadesso was founded

by ex-M.A.C product developer Linda Stephenson. Its unique selling point is all-in-one products – no separate serum, moisturizer or eye cream. On Canada Day, it launches the Travel Ease + Kit, which contains 14-day supplies of moisturizer, cleanser and body lotion, plus cleansing cloth, in a reausable pouch. $54, at Nordstrom and Mereadesso.com.

7. GEL POWER

M.A.C alumnus Jenny Frankel set up Nudestix with her two daughters,

targeting the millennial market. The brand just launched Gel Color Lip + Cheek Balms in eight shades. They promise to moisturize and give intense colour and shine without stickiness. $28, at Sephora and Nudestix.com. W Aileen Lalor is the resident beauty expert at VitaminDaily.com, Canada’s premiere fashion and lifestyle newsletter. For more stories like this, check out the website and subscribe.

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With Pride 2016 season well underway there is a lot to celebrate and still work to be done to make the world a more inclusive space for all. July starts off with Canada Day. Wherever you are be sure to sing out LOUD! While you can’t do both, there is still time to plan road trip for July 8-10. Your choice of Prince George Pride which LOUD has marched, or cruise the straits to Victoria Pride.

THRIVE SERIES: TRANSFORMING HIDDEN CUSTOMER VALUE INTO SOARING PROFITS Small Business Council, Board of Trade Wednesday, July 20, 7:00-9:00am Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront 1133 West Hastings $50/25 www.boardoftrade.com

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The next weekend, head to Fraser Valley Pride in Abbotsford on July 16th. This volunteer crew knows how to do it up right! Of course there are other festivals where you can be out and proud. With Jazz Fest winding up this weekend with free concerts, there are also free outdoor concerts by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. And of course the 39th Annual Folk Fest at Jericho Beach. There are always some business events, and community events listed here, but please note the 3 in Pink, all raising funds for our 2017 LOUD Scholarship season. So, be seen be proud and be safe always. LOUD Business (formerly the GLBA) is a not-for-profit association founded on our three pillars: Networking, Community and Philanthropy.

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Cherries ripe for the picking Patty Javier Gomez Whole Nourishment

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When you think of cherries, most of us get nostalgic and picture a nice farmhouse, maybe some linens hanging outside to dry, maybe someone with an apron and of course the delectable smell of cherry pie cooling off on a window sill. That’s what I think of anyway. But I think that a lot of us can agree to one point no matter what comes up for you when you think about cherries: they are delicious and nostalgic. It’s one of those foods that’s associated with romance and all the warm fuzzies you can think of (despite a Latin name of Prunus avium, which sounds like some weird zombie virus). Cherries are in season right now and I, for one, am excited! Not only can we beneﬁt from their delicious sweet and tart ﬂavour, but it’s a great opportunity for us to support

a hormone that helps you sleep by helping balance out your circadian rhythm. Here are some of the many beneﬁts that cherries have to offer, besides exploding fun into your taste buds.

MELATONIN

This handy little hormone helps to control your sleep and wake cycles. Although it is more popular in supplement form, small amounts can be found in food sources like cherries.

LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE

Not only are cherries delicious, but they are also a great source of vitamin C and melatonin, which helps regulate your sleep. They’re also in season, so pick some up from the farmers’ market this weekend! iStock photo. local farmers. Currently, the average meal travels 1,200 km from the farm to plate. But as the distance food travels increases, so does the need for processing and refrigeration to reduce spoilage. When we buy food locally, we are reducing the use of fossil

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fuels, which contribute to air pollution and other negative environmental effects. And of course, buying local helps local farmers and businesses to thrive. Your dollar can actually create a healthy food system, reduce your carbon footprint and help support

the local economy. Cherries are not only packed with ﬂavour, but nutrients as well. To me it was no surprise that they are full of vitamin C and antioxidants, but I was tickled pink (ha ha) to learn that cherries are also a good source of melatonin,

Because cherries are jammed with potassium, they naturally help reduce your blood pressure. This vital mineral is also great for maintaining good kidney function and reducing blood clotting.

ANTI-AGING

Ok, so there is no fountain of youth that I have ever come across, but there are certain lifestyle changes and foods we can eat to help us age with grace. Cherries are one of these foods; they are fully equipped with antioxidants that neutralize free radicals, which contribute to ailments associated with aging

like vision loss, hair loss and wrinkles.

BOOSTS IMMUNE SYSTEM

These little delectable treats have so many beneﬁts up their sleeves, like how they help boost your immune system with their vitamin C and also contain antiviral and antifungal properties.

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny During winter, some bears spend months hibernating. Their body temperatures and heart rates drop. They breathe drowsily. Their movements are minimal. Many hummingbirds engage in a similar slow-down – but they do it every single night. By day they are among the most manic creatures on earth, flapping their wings and gathering sustenance with heroic zeal. When the sun slips below the horizon, they rest with equal intensity. In my estimation, Aries, you don’t need a full-on immersion in idleness like the bears. But you’d benefit from a shorter stint, akin to the hummingbird’s period of dormancy.

“Dear Dr. Brezsny: A psychic predicted that sometime this year I will fall in love with a convenience store clerk who’s secretly a down-on-his-luck prince of a small African country. She said that he and I have a unique destiny. Together we will break the world’s record for dancing without getting bitten in a pit of cobras while drunk on absinthe on our honeymoon. But there’s a problem. I didn’t have time to ask the psychic how I’ll meet my soulmate, and I can’t afford to pay $250 for another reading. Can you help? – Mopey Taurus.” Dear Mopey: The psychic lied. Neither she nor anyone else can see what the future will bring you. Why? Because what happens will be largely determined by your own actions. I suggest you celebrate this fact. It’s the perfect time to do so: July is Feed Your Willpower Month.

Of all the concert pianos in the world, 80 per cent of them are made by Steinway. A former president of the company once remarked that in each piano, “243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.” He said it was “proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.” That will be a potential talent of yours in the coming weeks, Gemini. Like a Steinway piano, you will have the power to turn tension into beauty. But will you actually accomplish this noble goal, or will your efforts be less melodious? It all depends on how much poised self-discipline you summon.

Once upon a time, weren’t you the master builder who never finished building your castle? Weren’t you the exile who wandered aimlessly while fantasizing about the perfect sanctuary of the past or the sweet safety zone of the future? Didn’t you perversely nurture the ache that arose from your sense of not feeling at home in the world? I hope that by now you have renounced all of those kinky inclinations. If you haven’t, now would be an excellent time to do so. How might you reinvest the mojo that will be liberated by the demise of those bad habits?

In accordance with the astrological omens, I have selected three aphorisms by poet James Richardson to guide you. Aphorism #1: “The worst helplessness is forgetting there is help.” My commentary: You have the power to avoid that fate. Start by identifying the sources of healing and assistance that are available to you. Aphorism #2: “You do not have to be a fire to keep one burning.” My commentary: Generate all the heat and light you can, yes, but don’t torch yourself. Aphorism #3: “Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.” My commentary: But it may not take a whole lot longer.

You may not know this, but I am the founder and CEO of Proud To Be Humble, an acclaimed organization devoted to minimizing vanity. It is my sworn duty to protest any ego that exceeds the acceptable limits as defined by the Geneva Convention on Narcissism. However, I now find myself conflicted. Because of the lyrical beauty and bighearted charisma that are currently emanating from your ego, I am unable, in good conscience, to ask you to tone yourself down. In fact, I hereby grant you a license to expand your self-love to unprecedented proportions. You may also feel free to unleash a series of lovely brags.

The next 28 days will not be a favorable period to sit around passively wishing to be noticed. Nor will it be a good time to wait to be rescued or to trust in others to instigate desirable actions. On the other hand, it will be an excellent phase to be an initiator: to decide what needs to be done, to state your intentions concisely, and to carry out your master plan with alacrity and efficiency. To help ensure your success during the next 28 days, make this declaration each morning before breakfast: “I don’t want to OBSERVE the show. I want to BE the show.”

“In life, as in bicycling, pedal when you have to, coast when you can.” So says author James Lough, and now I’m passing on his advice to you – just in time for your transition from the heavy-pedaling season to the coasting-is-fun phase. I suspect that at this juncture in your life story you may be a bit addicted to the heavy pedaling. You could be so accustomed to the intensity that you’re inclined to be suspicious of an opportunity to enjoy ease and grace. Don’t be like that. Accept the gift with innocent gratitude.

“When a jet flies low overhead, every glass in the cupboard sings,” writes aphorist James Richardson. “Feelings are like that: choral, not single; mixed, never pure.” That’s always true, but it will be intensely true for you in the coming weeks. I hope you can find a way to tolerate, even thrive on, the flood of ambiguous complexity. I hope you won’t chicken out and try to pretend that your feelings are one-dimensional and easily understandable. In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions.

Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase “nine days’ wonder,” which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public’s fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight. Between now and September 2017, I bet you’ll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim, or stardom – perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up? Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way?

One of my readers, Jay O’Dell, told me this story: “After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, ‘You may as well try magical thinking. Regular thinking hasn’t helped.’ I said to the nurse, ‘Well, why the hell not?’ That was seven years ago.” In bringing O’Dell’s testimony to your attention, I don’t mean to suggest you will have any health problems that warrant a strong dose of magical thinking. Not at all. But you may get wrapped up in a psychological twist or a spiritual riddle that would benefit from magical thinking. And what exactly is magical thinking? Here’s one definition: The stories that unfold in your imagination have important effects on what actually happens to you.

Let’s talk about X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors. By their very nature, they are unpredictable and ephemeral, even when they offer benevolent breakthroughs. So you may not even notice their arrival if you’re entranced by your expectations and stuck in your habitual ways. But here’s the good news, Pisces: Right now you are not unduly entranced by your expectations or stuck in your habits. Odds are high that you will spy the sweet twists of fate – the X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors – as they float into view. You will pounce on them and put them to work while they’re still fresh. And then they will help you hike your ratings or get the funding you need or animate the kind of love that heals.

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How do I tell my best friend I think their boyfriend is a stupid, pathetic, weakwilled loser? I’ve known my best friend for three years, but I have known the loser boyfriend for six. Not only did this guy use me as a pawn to screw around on my friend (long story), but he is generally just a dip. He’s a barista at Starbucks who’s biggest passion is video games. He has no aspirations or dreams and gives up on everything before he’s even made a plan. I got a cool job opportunity which means I will be leaving my home and best friend so, I want to make sure he is OK before I go. His boyfriend has big shoes to fill: mine! I care about my friend and I think he can do better, but how do I go about this diplomatically? One of my favorite people in the world, let’s call her Sandy, was dating a heartless pile for years. The way he treated Sandy was despicable, verbally abusive and just pathetic. (She started off as his mistress, so the relationship was doomed from the start.) It broke my heart every time she called me crying. It broke my heart to hear the horrible things he would say to cut her down. It broke my heart when he would cheat. But, at the same time, all I could do was be there for Sandy, help talk her through it and try to convince her to leave the guy. She is a grown adult and I am not her master. The break-up took two tries. After all, Seinfeld was right: “Breaking up is like knocking over a coke machine.You can’t do it in one push.You have to rock it back and forth a few times and then it goes over.” The point is that even though I hated this man and wanted nothing more than to scoop Sandy up in my arms like she was a wounded sparrow and take her to safety, she had to do it on her own. And, she did. Finally. I understand being protective of your friends, especially friends who you feel are not as strong-willed as yourself.You are like the Big Bad Mama Bear and your friend is your precious cub who you must protect from the gnarly predators of the world. But you don’t want to turn that cub into a helpless wuss, so you have to let that cub make mistakes on his own, lose his dinner to a pack of meaner, bigger bears and perhaps, get his heart broken by sexy macho bear. Now, that being said, it

is clear that you really think this video-game-playingespresso-slinging guy is a loser. But how does your friend feel? Does the barista hurt your friend? Does your friend complain to you about him? Does he ever say that he’s unhappy with the barista? Because if that is happening, you have this great big window of opportunity to let it rip about how bad you think this guy is.

“You can help him, be there for him and love him unconditionally like friends do, but heartbreak and dating shitty losers is a part of being young.” –MishWay You can’t just low blow and insult this guy’s hobbies and his day job – you have to give concrete examples as to why the core of this human being’s soul is a pile of stinking trash.You have to frame your argument as concern for your friend, instead of white-hot hatred for the barista. You also should decide if you want to tell your friend about the whole cheating thing you mentioned. I look at this story like your extra ammo you have tucked in

your back pocket, and it must only be used in a dire situation. This is not about hurting your friend, but helping him, and if he comes to the decision to leave the barista on his own, then there is no point kicking him while he’s down by revealing that barista boy cheated on him months prior. At that point the story is futile. He’s already left the guy. I’m not big on meddling, but it sounds like you really want to get your friend away from Mr. Starbucks, so if you take anything from this, remember that you are not the Mama Bear and your friend is not the Baby Bear.You are friends and equals.You can’t control what happens with his life.You can help him, be there for him and love him unconditionally like friends do, but heartbreak and dating shitty losers is a part of being young. It is what makes you get hip to self-respect after the light ﬁnally turns on.You can’t helicopter parent your best friend’s love life. If you do, he’ll end up an emotional hemophiliac. Just be there for him when he asks it of you and if he gives you the window, go for it. Until that time, hibernate Mama Bear.You seem exhausted. Love, Mish W

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Farmcrest Farms Non GMO Specialty Roasted Chickens

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