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Taking care of Whiskers: free petsitting community a mouse click away JOHN KURUCZ @johnkurucz

The debate over whales in captivity has been renewed by the deaths of Qila and Aurora at the Vancouver Aquarium. iStock photo

Please, no more belugas at the Aquarium Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

Make no mistake: Whichever side of the debate you’re on, what happened last month at the Vancouver Aquarium was a tragedy. Its two remaining resident beluga whales died within nine days of each other. The first to pass was daughter Qila, aged 21; next was her mother, Aurora, aged 29.

An investigation has been launched into their sudden deaths, the Aquarium promising to leave “no stone unturned.” That includes the unlikely possibility that saboteurs somehow poisoned the whales. At press time, no conclusive evidence had been released, and the staff and caregivers continued to mourn the belugas for which they cared so deeply.

Many years ago, an interaction with Kavna (another Aquarium beluga, who died in 2012) was the inspiration behind Raffi’s multi-generational hit “Baby Beluga”: Baby beluga in the deep blue sea / Swim so wild and you swim so free Heaven above and the sea below / And a little white whale on the go The painfully obvious irony in those lyrics is that Kavna – like Aurora – spent most of her life in captivity.

Qila, meanwhile, was the first beluga to be born into a Canadian aquarium, never knowing what it was like to swim wild and free.

As recently as July, scientists and animal behaviour experts were warning that Qila was exhibiting signs of stress and boredom. She had been observed swimming

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one length of her tank upright, the other upside down, surfacing at the same place to breathe each time.

Lori Marino, a doctor from New York’s State University who has extensively studied brain-behaviour relationships in whales, told the Vancouver Sun that the Aquarium was “trying to convince you that this circling behaviour is normal.

It is not. When you see this kind of repetitive behaviour, you know that the animal is not thriving.”

That same month, Aquarium veterinarian Marty Haulena told the Sun that Qila was a “very healthy” beluga, noting that her weight, appetite and X-rays were normal.Yet four months later, Qila was dead.

This double tragedy finds the Aquarium at a crucial crossroads. For years there have been plans in the works for a costly expansion of the beluga whale “habitat.” Until the cause of the whales’ death is confirmed, a possible silver lining is that those plans appear to be on hold.

What’s further troubling, however, is that the Aquarium is still actively involved in an international beluga-breeding program; it owns five whales that are currently “on loan” around the continent, as part of what Peter Hamilton of Vancouver’s Lifeforce Foundation has called a “cetacean slave trade.”That means it’s possible the Aquarium may proceed with its expansion, bringing some of the belugas back to Vancouver to fill the tanks.This is not the right decision.

If anything good comes out of the deaths of Aurora and Qila, let it be the end of beluga whales in captivity at the Aquarium, and the end of a sad and much-toolong chapter of Vancouver history. W

Yngwie Meowmsteen is sleeping a little easier these days, knowing he has an extended network to watch him nap.

That piece of mind comes by way of PetFam, a free, online pet-sitting exchange developed by the tabby cat’s mom and East Vancouver resident Adrianna Hepper.

Hepper’s model follows a community-first ethos, where no money is exchanged.

Once participants sign up online, they join a private Facebook group meant to link users who live near one another.

Hepper then sends users tips on how to vet and screen potential matches, and pets’ medical conditions or other special needs are identified.

She recommends each pet-care scenario involve between four and six suitors to allow more flexibility and options for travel decisions that sometimes need to be made within a few hours.

“It’s a true sharing-economy venture,” says Hepper, 40.

“The onus is on the person exchanging information to do the very best they can that the other person is somebody that they would like to exchange with. PetFam helps to facilitate those connections.”

PetFam was launched in May and the Facebook

Adrianna Hepper (right) is behind a new online pet-sitting network used by Jen Liu and her five-year-old Bluenose pitbull, Chloe. Dan Toulgoet photo group boasts close to 200 members, predominantly from Vancouver. Some users are based in Seattle and Los Angeles.

An entrepreneur and consultant by trade, Hepper conducted a series of online polls among 250 Facebook and Reddit users prior to PetFam’s launch.The biggest takeaways from that exercise suggested 70 per cent of respondents asked family or friends to look after their pets, while the number-one stressor was having to continually ask the same people to do so.

“When I describe the concept to the user, it’s like a light goes on in their eyes,” she says. “When they get it, they get it. They understand that this immediately addresses the pain that they feel and it solves it for them.”

All pets are fair game on PetFam. As of now, the site predominantly features cats and dogs, but also includes a few mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and parakeets.

Hepper may move to monetize the service if there’s sufficient future uptake. That business model could in-

clude a yearly fee that would change the system so users can instantly see each other’s general location.

When and if that time comes, Hepper isn’t sure yet.

“It’s in a bit of a testing phase right now, but it’s in the back of my mind,” she says. “For right now, we’re becoming more and more comfortable with this idea of reaching out to strangers in our communities for the things that we need.”

For info, see PetFam.com.

–Story courtesy of theVancouver Courier

Dunbar darkroom will shutter on Vancouver photographers MEGAN STEWART @mhstewart

It’s lights out for the darkroom at the Dunbar Community Centre.

Despite a petition to save the small photo-printing lab in the basement of the West Side community centre, the darkroom will close after the end of the fall programming session.

Because too few people sign up for classes and buy monthly memberships to use the dedicated, single-use space, the Dunbar board of directors decided the windowless room will be repurposed, possibly for storage, though its future remains undecided.

“We would be overjoyed if the darkroom was bursting at the seams,” says Kathy Mullen, the vice-president of the Dunbar Community Centre Association. “That would be a really good news story in Vancouver, where these [darkroom] facilities are few and far between. We

can’t keep throwing more money at it when there are just not many users. It means we have to put our efforts elsewhere, which is sad.”

Low turnout is measured in foot traffic and class attendance, says Mullen.

Only two people are registered with a monthly membership, which costs $55 for unlimited access to the darkroom during regular operating hours. In the past 15 months, the majority of programming was cancelled because of low interest, says Gerald Massing, the president of Dunbar’s board of directors.

“We are running a 50 to 60 per cent cancellation rate on the darkroom, which is higher than we have in other areas,” he explains.

Mullen says the darkroom was promoted in the community centre’s monthly programming guide.

The Dunbar community centre was built in the ‘50s and is one of the oldest in Vancouver. Mullen said the

floorplan is not as flexible as more modern centres and is limited by many small, closed-off rooms, including an unused and otherwise useless apartment once lived in by an on-site caretaker.

She could not say with certainty when the darkroom opened, but it may have been when the centre was last renovated in the 1980s.

Photographer August Bramhoff started an online petition at Change.org, asking that the darkroom remain open. She runs the orientation sessions and also instructs classes, both for which she is paid. She also volunteers additional time to maintain the space.

Mullen is sympathetic to the remaining users, and especially Bramhoff, but says paying to keep the darkroom open could no longer be justified.

“We’ve tried a number of different ways to bring people in. The reality is the market is just shrinking and shrinking,” she says. “Our

role is to bring in as many people in to the community centre and offer as wide and varied programing that the community wants as we can. As a board, we look at what is being offered, who is coming in and for what programs. We bring in new programs and we try new things. We listen to our patrons when they are saying what they want and don’t want. We look at this on an ongoing assessment.”

Mullen said she was sympathetic to Bramhoff’s concern and effort to protect the darkroom.

“She puts a lot into this and really cares about it. For her, it is professional and it is personal,” said Mullen. “We think we’ve given it a really good try and we wish it was successful.”

With the closure of the Dunbar darkroom, the West End will be the site of the last remaining community centre darkroom in Vancouver.

–Story courtesy of theVancouver Courier

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Above: Pieces from the Museum of Anthropology’s 6,000-piece textile archive, like this silk robe from Western China, are now on display for the exhibition ‘Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures’. Right: Curator Dr. Jennifer Kramer. Dan Toulgoet photos

MOA exhibit shows how clothing transcends time and place AILEEN LALOR @aileenlalor

All humans, from any era or culture, have had to cover their bodies in clothing.

This commonality was the thinking behind Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures, a beautiful exhibition that opened last month at the Museum of Anthropology.

It has already attracted a varied audience – not just those with an interest in anthropology, but artists, weavers, knitters and fashion fans. “I wanted visitors to

be able to sit and imagine, and look at the colour and diversity of symbolism and expression, and absorb it viscerally,” says Dr. Jennifer Kramer, the exhibit’s curator. “The idea was to create an intimate relationship, so that people could relate – not see these as artefacts from far-off times or places that are different from us… but to actually make and see all these connections in how humans are the same.”

Kramer selected pieces from the museum’s 6,000-piece textile archive.

One-hundred and thirty-four

made the final cut, including chilkat weavings, Tibetan robes (chuba), Indian patalu (heirloom saris), and Peruvian tunics that are decorated with visual representations of music. “We purposely chose pieces that could be unfolded, that could be hung from the ceiling to show their full impact,” says Dr. Kramer.

“As a result, we were selecting clothing that was draped around the body: sarongs, saris, voluminous robes that would amplify the body of the wearer, and blankets.”

She and designer Skooker Broome came up with a

hanging-display concept that emphasizes the “unfolding layers” metaphor and also allows visitors to walk among the textiles. “We wanted to fill the space and not put the pieces on staid models,” she says.

While there is politics in clothing – inequality of power, trade issues and child labour, among other issues – the exhibit doesn’t aim to be didactic; hence, the minimal captioning of the displays.

“We do write our politics and connections on our clothes. It comes up [in the exhibit], but I leave it floating there.We wanted to leave the

breadcrumbs in the warps and wefts. For example, we put the Tibetan pieces in one spot and the Chinese in another, but you can stand in the middle and see both.”

Layers of Influence also demonstrates the blurred lines between cultures and the ways they influence each other: Indonesian hinggi (noblemen’s ceremonial cloths) with what look like European heraldic symbols; a Tongan bark cloth that bears the Christian dove of peace; a silk, cotton and gold wedding sari from India, painstakingly mended

by Kramer’s colleagues in Vancouver.

In April, the textiles will be taken down and returned to storage. But I, for one, hope their message lingers: that we are all human, more the same than different, and that there are no solid boundaries between cultures. It’s an important thing to remember right now. W Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures is at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC (6393 NW Marine), until Apr. 9.

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I was granted the honour of participating in last month’s Holiday Home Tour for Hope, an annual charity event and gala hosted by the Nite of Hope that raises funds in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The three-day event allowed attendees to tour five homes, each styled by a designer in a stunning holiday setting.

While I love the festive season, my take on traditional holiday décor is more understated; especially within such grand spaces as those featured on the Tour, the charm of tinsel and nostalgic green-and-red ornamentation is lost to me. I wanted to create a holiday style for the home assigned to me that would be reflective of the interior décor I had just updated in a separate project for the homeowner, and follow the vision of a minimal-

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Scenes from Jennifer Scott’s recent table setting for the Holiday Home Tour for Hope. Contributed photos ist, masculine elegance.

Styling this home left me with a few key tips on approaching Christmas décor and the essentials needed for creating the ultimate holiday soirée.

Here are the Coles notes on nailing that whole hostess-withthe-mostess thing.

shoe-crammed hallway as the entrance for your home, don’t forget to address the space. It’s the first welcome your guests have, so adding the right art or a few curated decorations will make it feel like part of the party.

MAKE A GRAND ENTRANCE

While a mishmash of decorations from Christmases past can be cute, committing to a colourway instantly adds

Whether you’ve got a massive foyer or a tiny,

PICK A PALETTE

polish to your holiday décor.

Aim for a palette that suits your current style, allowing the space and the decorations to work together.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

Here’s where that old saying “Less is more” becomes crucial. Be selective in the decorations you choose, and think about how to achieve the biggest impact with the smallest number of pieces.

Allowing open (undecorated) space offers room for your favourite ornamentation to really shine. Beyond the tree, opt for only one or two holiday-themed pieces per area, to give the essence of Christmas without overwhelming your home.

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When choosing your table-setting, think about

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Hosting a party will keep you busy, so take one thing off your to-do list and create a dedicated bar area where people can fetch their own drinks, rather than you spending the night topping everyone up.

Stick to the décor theme when styling this area.

Choosing a few barware items that match the style and palette of the party is a simple way to make it look ultra-chic. W

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the world’s 56th) is 3,000 square feet, with a tea salon that serves a full menu of savouries and sweets for up to 50 diners. There’s also a retail boutique, and patisserie counter made of antique brass. The shop offers more than 500 teas from every tea-producing region of the world, plus limitededition and seasonal blends.

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DINING OUT

Homey Korean fare brightens up the Lonsdale strip Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday MARU KOREAN BISTRO

125 E. 2nd, North Vancouver 604-566-6292 MaruKoreanBistro.com Open Mon.-Sat., 11am-3pm and 5pm-9:30pm

It looks tiny from the outside, but then you step through the door and realize this relative newcomer to the Lonsdale dining scene is larger than it first appears. Maru Korean Bistro is housed in a former banquet facility, and the room has been redone in a modern minimalist style, with Korean chalk drawings along the walls.

It feels spacious – almost too spacious at the front, where a large greenhouse window lets in oodles of natural light.

Initially, I wondered why there seemed to be a row of tables missing between two facing banquettes. Then I realized the surplus space was needed for the trolleys.

Yes, when there’s more than a dish or two to deliver, it all comes out on one of those handy bar carts. The ease and simplicity of such

Above: Maru Korean Bistro chef Bobby Shin.

Right: KFC Korean Fried Chicken Bao. Dan Toulgoet photos a system makes me wonder why more restaurants don’t do this, until I remember the average square-foot price of retail space. Given the proportions here, that’s obviously not an issue.

Maru is a first-time venture for chefs Bobby Shin and David Jo, who opened Bap’s Kitchen – a catering service specializing in Korean food – a couple of years ago. The website describes the food here as “home style and casual,” and it’s an accurate summation.

Korean “snacks” and lettuce wraps make up a

significant portion of the menu – and, yes, KFC (Korean fried chicken) is right at the top. Maru’s version ($8.50) is divine: a plate full of boneless, breaded, succulent morsels that dribbled their juices down our chins.

Served over a bed of creamy coleslaw (a tad too creamy for my taste), the dish also includes cylindrical rice cakes that are lightly crisped on the outside and silkysmooth within. The whole is garnished with chili threads, sunflower and sesame seeds, and green onion.You can order it in a mild soy-garlic

sauce or a fiery Korean chili concoction. Both are good, but I prefer the former, since it also has a hint of heat but doesn’t burn the taste buds.

Kimchi, squid and onion pancake ($8) is another must-try. The pancake is served pizza-style, sliced up on a round plate, with lovely fresh squid and a vinegar-soy sauce. The rice cakes can also be tried in the “Royal” ddok-bokky ($9.50), a dish of soy-marinated sirloin alongside sautéed and green onion, garlic chips, nori flakes and sesame. The beef could have been more tender, and

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the rice cakes are steamed instead of fried, making the whole dish rather soft on texture (which wasn’t balanced enough by the minimal sprinkling of garlic chips), but it was full of umami and comfort.

The kalbi (grilled short ribs) were much better. This is under the SSAM (lettuce wraps) menu, and is enough for two to share if you get the “meal” size ($20). The ribs arrived sizzling on an iron skillet, along with scissors for cutting. Traditional sides like rice, potatoes, kimchi, bean sprouts with corn, and

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@FoodGirlFriday Early bird tickets for the 2017 edition of Vancouver Craft Beer Week Festival (Jun. 3-4) are now on sale for $34.99 (up to $39.99 after Mar. 1). VancouverCraftBeerWeek.com Yew Seafood + Bar is offering unlimited oysters in its lounge for $30 on December 5, 12, 19 and 26, from 3-6pm.

Varietals on offer include Fanny Bay, Effingham, Kusshi, Chef’s Creek, Royal Miyagi and more.YewSeafood.com The Cascade Group has launched a spirited fundraiser for December: the Hot Buttered Rumraiser.

The Cascade Room’s GM, Justin Taylor, has created a hot-buttered-rum mix that’s being sold at the Cascade Room, Charlie’s Little Italian, El Camino’s, the Union, and Main Street Brewing.

Each 250mL jar ($12) consists of brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, nutmeg, clove, ginger and salt (no alcohol). Proceeds will go to support the Fawkes Academy, a school that specializes in individualized education programs for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. In addition, the Cascade Room will donate two dollars from the sale of every Hot Buttered

pickled vegetables – including some lovely carrots and cabbage – came along for the ride, as well as some stellar, slightly spicy miso-tomato soup that’s loaded with crunchy cubes of zucchini, silky tofu and onion.

Larger dishes – like a hot stone bowl of bibimbap ($11$12), or yukgaejang (spicy beef soup; $12) – are also worth trying, especially on a cold, wet night. If you’re feeling adventurous, try the six-course tasting menu ($40) and leave the choosing to the chef.

While friendly and accommodating, service was a bit hit-and-miss. Tea and water often weren’t refilled without waving someone over, and while wiping down the table next to us one night, a server managed to spray us with cleaning fluid, despite the well-spaced seating.

Nevertheless, Maru has a lot going for it – enough to make it worth crossing a bridge. W Food:!!!!!

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Rum cocktail throughout December. TheCascadeCompany.com Don’t miss the final weekend of a holiday pop-up shop at the East Van location of Les Amis du Fromage (843 E. Hastings). Artisan Edibles and chef Ann Kirseböm will be there with a range of gourmet jellies, chocolates, chutneys, antipasti and sauces. Dec. 9-11, 10am-6pm. BuyCheese.com Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s winter pop-up terrace at Reflections is now open and offering a menu of signature holiday dishes, including lobster-prawn rolls, turkeysage sausage rolls, a roast beef striploin platter, cheese fondue, gingerbread-spiced doughnut balls and more.

RosewoodHotels.com L’Abattoir is offering winter holiday lunches Dec. 7-9, 14-16, and 21-23, 11:30am -2:30pm. The special menu includes oxtail consommé with soft-poached egg and potato dumplings, baked pasta with confit duck, sticky toffee pudding and more. Labattoir.ca Joe Fortes is also offering a special New Year’s Eve menu. For $60 per person, enjoy your choice of a shellfish trio (Atlantic lobster, jumbo scallops and prawns) or a prime rib feature. Call 604-669-1940 for reservations. JoeFortes.ca W

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Magnum style: big bottles for big parties Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

Have you ever admired those bigger bottles on the shelf, wondering when it would be appropriate to crack one?

There is no better time than the present, because surely you have a seasonal shindig coming up soon.

The math is simple: If a 750ml bottle is perfect for two people, then 1.5 litres —or a magnum, as a 1.5L bottle is otherwise known – works out well for four. And when the group is even larger, a magnum ensures more people get a glass. Plus, the sheer magnitude of the bottle lends extra celebratory flair.

Contrary to what you might think, magnums rarely represent a savings, though.

Packaging and production costs can actually add a premium. When it comes to investing in one, I’ll admit I have a double standard.

For less expensive wines, I’m usually not willing to pay more than two times the price of the regular-size bottle. However, if I am going to splurge on something special, I’m actually okay with paying a few extra bucks for the wow factor.

Call it a thrill tax.

Below are my magnum picks for festive fêtes; a red and a white for those casual drop-in gatherings, and some elegant ideas for fancier dinner parties. Whatever the soirée, the whole idea is that you spend less time opening

bottles and more time socializing and sipping. That must be worth something.

2014 Woodbridge, Sauvignon Blanc, California $23.49 BC Liquor Stores This is worth the super size, as you’ll actually save $1.50 by going bigger. A well-known brand under the Robert Mondavi umbrella, the Woodbridge Sauvignon Blanc is a crisp, simple party-pleaser with fruity aromas and flavours of lemon, grapefruit, kiwi and green apple. Easily matched with whatever snacks are being passed and perfect for a selection of cheeses.

2007 Anciano, Tempranillo, Gran Reserva, aged 7 years, Valdepeñas DO, Spain $25.99 BC Liquor Stores One of the more characterful, value-driven reds available in magnum. Long aging in wood and then in the bottle results in a mellowed and earthy wine.

Nuances of mushroom and tobacco are offset by dusty raspberry, cooked strawberry and a touch of vanilla. Extra tasty with lamb skewers and winter stews. n/v Pierre Paillard, ‘Les Parcelles’ Bouzy Grand Cru, Brut Champagne AOC, France $119.99 BC Liquor Stores Really, just one of the best Champagnes for the money currently on our shelves, regardless of which size you purchase. However, there is compelling scientific and empirical evidence that Champagne just tastes

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The wine itself is intense and concentrated, demonstrating slate, lime sorbet, apricot, guava, and lemon pith. Noticeable sweetness that is deftly balanced by

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Evocative nose of rose petal, anise and mint tea, with brooding cherry and a savoury balsam edge.

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The days of massive hopbombed beers seem to be giving way to more experimental brewing styles in the craft beer scene. One of the major trends right now is melding the fruity funk of dank hops with the fruity funk of wild yeast strains.

Yes, there are funky hops and funky yeasts, and together they make some funky beers.

The best way of describing funk is as “something out of the ordinary,” but many describe the smell and taste of these beers as horse sweat, Band-Aid, and barnyard.

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Hops aren’t always bitter.

They can actually bring a wide array of flavours to the beer, depending on timing and quantities. Mosaic hops produce qualities of passionfruit and mango when used in moderate amounts, but when they cross a certain threshold, depending on the timing and amount, BOOM.

Gym socks and B.O. become their primary traits.

Polaris hops can have a similar funk potential. Sirachi Ace hops tend to have a lime zest and peppery flavour when used in smaller quantities, but will taste like herbs or buttery dill if too many are used or if they’re from a bad crop.

FUNKY YEAST

Regular brewer’s yeast is from the Saccharomyces yeast family (Sac for short), which consists of hundreds of strains that have been cultivated to do exactly what brewers want.These strains add predictable traits to the beer and can do anything from adding fruity flavours to drying out the finish. For example,Wyeast 3711 is a standard French Saison yeast that dries out the saison without being too heavy on the yeast aftertaste and tastes quite different from its Belgian counterparts.

Brettanomyces (Brett for short) is from another genus within the Sac family and can be used to brew beer, but produces a funky taste and is much more unpredictable to brew with.

Brett is one of the most prevalent yeasts in the natural

environment and is something brewers try to avoid contaminating their batches with, unless they introduce it on purpose. Brett will run wild and take over a beer’s flavour.This flavour domination is because Brett can eat more complex sugars in the fermentation process than Sac.This ability to eat a wider array of sugars allows Brett to dank up the beer with its unique flavour, and can take months instead of days to finish fermenting.

Sac and Brett can work together and be added at different stages of the brew to help tame the funkiness of the Brett.

There are also different types of Brett and some are more funky than others. Brett C generally produces a dank pineapple flavour. Brett B creates that horse-sweat flavour, and Brett L (Lambicus) can produce that horse-sweat flavour, but sometimes just a general earthiness or funk.

Five dank beers to check out: Brassneck’s Buzzkill; Four Winds’s Operis Brett Saison; Dageraad and Brassneck collab Uncomfortable Silence; Swans’ Master Blaster North American Brett Saison(ishhh); and Strange Fellows’ Greybeard. W

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“I always think, ‘Why is my audience coming to a Christmas concert?’”

This might seem a ridiculous question for Erick Lichte, artistic director of Chor Leoni, to ask himself – especially given that his work spans more than two decades and numerous choirs across North America.

But his internal inquiry isn’t simply a means to try to determine which songs the acclaimed men’s choir should sing each year at its annual (and, inevitably, sold-out) holiday performances. Lichte is intensely curious about the relationship between various styles of music, and between music and the people who listen to it. Not for nothing did the Washington Post remark about the “audacity” of the programs he creates for his concerts.

“I’m not sure the answer, in a place like Vancouver, is the veneration of the nativity of our lord,” he continues, chuckling. “I can’t imagine that, for everyone, there are purely sacred reasons. Of course, the sacred will be there within Chor Leoni’s music program, but my question is, ‘What’s the deeper need? Why do we go to Christmas concerts every year?’ And, frankly, why do I do them?”

It should surprise no one that the majority of choirs attract their largest and most diverse audiences during the holiday season.The month of December and the sound of massed voices raised in song is a combination as time-honoured and elemental as the morning of January 1, migraines and regret.We don’t question the reasons for their existence; we simply know – and expect – them to happen, because none of us can remember a time when they didn’t.

But Lichte, and many others involved with choirs and music in general, knows our reasons for flocking to choral performances amidst the chaos of the holidays aren’t simply reflex actions rooted in tradition, religious or otherwise. For many of us, perhaps more than at any other time of year, music becomes a need – a crucial complement, and/ or a remedy, to everything else going on around us.

“A good portion of our members aren’t church-going people at all.They just love this style of music,” says Gail Suderman, artistic director of Good Noise Vancouver

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Gospel Choir, which, like Chor Leoni, plays to its largest audiences during the holidays. Also like Lichte and Chor Leoni, she and Good Noise aim to attract crowds that are as diverse as possible, encompassing all faiths (or lack thereof), with a repertoire that brings together the sacred and the secular, the obscure and the widely known.

Specific to Good Noise, this means traditional gospel songs and the genres it spawned: soul, blues, rock, even hiphop. “Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Al Green, and then more contemporary artists like Kirk Franklin, who are a sort of urban-gospel,” she says.

“Aretha: she’s the Queen of Soul, but she grew up in the church singing gospel and she recorded some gospel albums.

Elvis – the King of Rock ’n’ Roll – did a couple of traditional gospel albums.”

The result, says Suderman, is that “many audience members say to me, ‘I thought I’d be coming to a church service, but this was like a concert of favourites!’

I’m always looking for those connections.We’ve got a good number of regulars who buy season tickets. But those who come at Christmas – Christmas is a season to celebrate, so people are looking for something to go to that they wouldn’t necessarily go to during the rest of the year.”

“Our Christmas program runs the gamut of styles:We’ve got traditional carols but also

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Good Noise Gospel singer Christine Jackson and Chor Leoni member Paul Larocque are gearing up for a month of uplifting holiday concerts. Dan Toulgoet photo popular-song arrangements, modern compositions,” says Lichte. “And we will butt all of those right up against one another, and I think it makes for a fascinating evening of listening. My goal is for people to feel things, and a complex modern work is going to illicit different feelings than a very direct pop song. And yet if they’re about similar things, one can inform another.

Somebody who’s more into classical music can come to realize the real craft in certain

pop songs. My goodness, if we could all write a perfect threeand-a-half-minute pop song, wouldn’t we all be rich? It’s an art onto itself.”

These are sentiments to which Stephen Williams can relate very well.The director of Capilano University’s Bachelor of Music Therapy program, his work is, in essence, a constant quest to increase the understanding of how music can positively affect people. Many socialmedia users will have seen

videos that show otherwise mute or inert Alzheimer’s and dementia patients suddenly becoming animated when they hear a favourite song from before illness set in.These are extreme examples of the art form’s deep potential for mental and neurological healing, but Williams believes music’s power can be as important to the everyday well-being of generally healthy people, and holiday concerts are a prime example.

“If somebody has any inclination toward sadness, it tends to be in December when they feel it,” says Williams. “Being involved in or attending some musical framework can help regulate that, and to find ways to reach out to friends – or to professionals, where needed – so that whatever is going on about this sadness or mild depression or avoidance can be examined. And that people resist any urge to isolate during the holidays, because that tends not to help in any way.”

Lichte echoes Williams’s thoughts. “It can be a very difficult time of year for many people,” he says. “My hope is that for the hour and 40 minutes of our program, this can be a moment of reflection upon the year that’s happened.

It can be an acknowledgment that we’re in the darkest – and, if you’re in Vancouver, the wettest – time of the year, and that we’re searching for some sort of renewal and some sort of light in all of that. I think those larger humanistic, and maybe ecumenical, reasons – that’s the prism through which I look at this quote-unquote ‘Christian’ holiday music. I try to find music that speaks to that possibly larger need.”

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THE PRETTYS Vancouver garage rockers celebrate the release of their LP Soiree with special guests Girlfriends & Boyfriends, Malcolm Biddle and Highland Eyeway. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $8 at ElectroStub. com

STANDING ROCK FUNDRAISER A fundraiser in support of the water protectors at Standing Rock featuring live performances from Malcolm Jack of Dada Plan, Elliot Way of The Wild North and a host of surprise guests. 8pm at The Cobalt. Admission by donation.

CRAFTMAS An afternoon of Christmas crafting with live local music from John Michael Lind, Caesha McCollum, Lexy Atterton, Rachael Schroeder and Sound of the Sun. 12pm at Big Rock Urban Brewery.

RISE UP WINTER Joyful Voice Community Choir presents its two annual holiday concerts, featuring a delightful mix of holiday classics and contemporary pieces along with traditional carols. 7pm at St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Admission by donation.

A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS William Rowson conducts Christopher Gaze with the UBC Opera Ensemble, EnChor and the VSO in a traditional holiday concert. 7:30pm at St. Andrew’sWesley United Church. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca

COUSIN HARLEY The rocking hillbilly persona of musician Paul Pigat performs classic honky tonk and cow punk with special guests The 24th Street Wailers. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Highlife, Zulu and TicketFly.com

THE ORANGE KYTE Experimental psych rockers from Vancouver present a live music extravaganza with Drew and Bryan of Dead Ghosts on the decks. 8pm at The Lido. No cover.

THE PAPER KITES Australian indie folk-rock quintet plays tunes from twelvefour with special guest Doe Paoro. 7pm at Rio Theatre.

Tickets $25+ at Ticketmaster.ca

THEATRE/DANCE NUTCRACKER Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet captures the imagination with this charming Canadian retelling of the beloved holiday classic, delighting audiences of all ages with its beauty and splendour. 7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at Ticketmaster.ca. Runs until Dec. 11.

HOLY MO! A CHRISTMAS SHOW! A reverently irreverent reimagining of the Nativity story told with gusto and a questionable commitment to accuracy, featuring Lucia Frangione, Anita Wittenberg and Jess Amy Shead.

8pm at Pacific Theatre. Tickets at PacificTheatre.org. Runs until Dec. 31.

CHEAP & FREE BALLOON WINTER WONDERLAND Wesbrook Village on Vancouver’s West Side is celebrating the holiday season with the launch of its first Balloon Winter Wonderland and Holiday Craft Fair. Housed in the 1,600-sq-ft Wesbrook Welcome Centre, the Wonderland is open daily until Dec. 18, from 10am to 8pm. The exhibit features four holiday scenes, made entirely from biodegradable, nitrogen-filled balloons. Entry is free and free parking is available.

SOMETHING TO TREASURE: A GOOD NOISE CHRISTMAS Good Noise Gospel Choir presents its cherished holiday concert with special guests The Alumni Project, performing gospel hits and stirring new arrangements. 7:30pm at Christ Church Cathedral. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com. Runs until Dec. 11.

STEVIE NICKS American pop-rock legend performs on the 24 Karat Gold Tour with special guests The Pretenders. 7pm on Dec. 9 at Rogers Arena. Tickets at Ticketmaster. ca

COMEDY QUINN DAHLE With appearances on The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and Showtime the smart, clean and witty stand-up comic from Minnesota brings comedy to appeal to all ages with his signature improvisational crowd work, with openers Levi McCachen and Kevin Foxx. 8pm & 10:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $18 at TheComedyMix.com

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GIFTS OF LIGHT: SONGS IN THE NIGHT 2016 A beautiful, meaningful and memorable production of art and song, combining pop and classical styles with a dose of dance and comedy in this familyfriendly production. 3:30pm & 7:30pm at Tenth Church (11 West 10thAve). Admission by donation.

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MUSIC YOU BIG IDIOT A Christmas rager to celebrate 2016 in the local punk rock scene with performances from special guests Contra Code, The Greatest Sons, The Corps and Aanthems. 8pm at Media Club.

Cover is $10.

MAT THE ALIEN A SUBculture Christmas party with prizes for the ugliest Christmas sweater with the infamous DJ featuring an opening set from The Librarian.

10pm at Red Room Ultra Bar. Tickets $15 at MyShowPass.com NIGHTMARES ON WAX Experimental DJ and electronic producer performs a DJ set in support of his upcoming EP release The Ground Floor, with special guest Hubbz. 10pm at Open Studios.

Tickets $25+ at Red Cat and Beat Street.

COMEDY PATRICK HAYE With hilarious observations and a musical keyboard comedy piece, the stand-up comic performs with opening sets from Chris Griffin and James Kennedy. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s.

Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE ALBATROSS This driving duet pulls apart a single moment, enabling us to dissect and experience its contents in expanded time in this creative collaboration between Company 605 and Brussels-based choreographer German Jauregui. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca. Final performance.

A PETER N’ CHRIS-TMAS CAROL! The masters of parody and theatrical comedy perform this hilarious retake on the classic Dickens tale in their signature smart, fast-paced, hilarious style. 8pm at Performance Works. Tickets at TheatreWire.com A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN GAY APPAREL Eight actors tackle 30 roles in this parody of Dickens’ classic tale that tells the story of Eleanor S. Crooge, who must come out of the closet before it’s too late.

8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at LeapingThespians.com. Runs until Dec. 11.

JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL A journey of laughter and terror, redemption and renewal, during which Scrooge’s heart is opened, but not before Marley, in this deeply moving story taken from the holiday classic. 7:30pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com. Runs until Dec. 18.

MARY POPPINS Watch Mary fly over the rooftops of London and feel like a kid again in this family musical featuring all the unforgettable songs from the popular film, live on stage. 2pm & 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Jan. 1.

EVENTS SHINY FUZZY MUDDY This curated collection and show of fine art, craft and design is a two-day affair presenting over 30 local artists to meet and share their craftsmanship in an intimate environment.

11am-7pm at Heritage Hall. Admission is $3. Runs until Dec. 11.

CHANTEZ NOEL A concert of festival carols and seasonal works from the Ryerson United Church Choir, in the warm acoustics of one of Vancouver’s most beloved choral venues. 2:30pm at Ryerson United Church. Tickets $20 at ChantezNoelRyerson.BPT.me

COMEDY AUDIO/VIDEO: RIDICULOUS VIDEOS = HILARIOUS SCENES An evening of improv inspired by the worlds of film and music for a hilarious show where video and fantastic comedy collide. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $8 at EventBrite.ca THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe bring 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.

ANDRA DAY American soul/R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of her debut album Cheers to the Fall, with special guest Chloe X Halle. 7pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $30 at LiveNation. com

COMEDY STACKEDMAS A Christmas comedy extravaganza with a stellar lineup of local comics including Sophie Buddle, Kathleen McGee, Harris Anderson, Chris Griffin, Simon King, Kevin Banner, Ryan Williams, Ron Vaudry, Ivan Decker and Ottawa comedian Roman Mancini. 9pm at Yagger’s Kitsilano. Cover is $10.

CHEAP & FUN VANCOUVER CHRISTMAS MARKET This treasured holiday tradition is back, but brighter and merrier in a new seaside location with delicious classic German food and culture, live entertainment and a kids area with Vancouver’s only Christmas Carousel.

11am-9pm at Jack Poole Plaza.

Tickets at VancouverChristmasMarket.com. Runs until Dec. 31

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JAKE SHIMABUKURO Hawaiian ukelele virtuoso performs solo arrangements of classic hits from The Beatles, Queen and Leonard Cohen. 7pm at Chan Centre (UBC). Tickets $35 at LiveNation. com HAYLEY SALES With her eightpiece band, multi-award winning singer-songwriter debuts songs from The Misadventures. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at EventBrite.com

THEATRE/DANCE GASTOWN CABARET SLEIGH ALL DAY It’s time to get festive with the cabaret crew as they present an evening of exciting experiences certain to make your spirits bright, with bellydancing by Scarlet Lux, slapstick songbird Sparkle Plenty and the tassel twirling April O’Peel. 8pm at Guilt & Co. Admission by suggested donation of $10.

CHRISTMAS PRESENCE Join an eclectic gathering of musicians and actors for a night of music, stories, poems and readings for the holiday season, with a rotating line-up featuring the likes of Ron Reed, Carolyn Arends, The Tourist Company and a host of others. 8pm at Pacific Theatre.

Tickets at PacificTheatre.org.

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POTTED POTTER A hilarious 70 minutes of theatre where all seven of the Harry Potter books are condensed into one Olivernominated performance guaranteed to make you roar with laughter, even if you don’t know the difference between a horcrux and a Hufflepuff. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets at TicketFly.com Runs until Dec. 24.

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THE ALBUM LEAF American electronic-pop band on tour in support of their latest release Between Waves with special guests Rituals of Mine. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $18 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beat Street and TicketWeb.ca

Th/15 TOWER OF SONG Vancouver pays tribute to Leonard Cohen with performances from Adrian Glynn, Colleen Rennsion, No Sinner, Louise Burns, The Belle Game and others.

8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $12 at EventBrite.com ROY WOODS Canadian rapper and OVO Sound recording artist from Brampton, Ontario, hits the stage in support of Waking at Dawn on the Unlocked Tour. 8pm at The Imperial. SOLD OUT.

MUSIC EMILY CHAMBERS The Vancouver soul singer-songwriter returns home after a 66-day US tour in support of the release of her debut EP Magnolia, with a spectacular eight-piece backing band of Vancouver’s finest. 7pm at Guilt & Co. Tickets $10 at EventBrite.com A TOUCH OF BRASS QUINTET The Vancouver quintet returns to the Music in the Morning stage with a program of traditional brass music and holiday cheer for a two-date performance. 10:30am at Vancouver Academy of Music.

Tickets $35+ at MusicInTheMorning.org IN FLAMES AND HELL YEAH Swedish heavy metal act coheadlines with American heavy metal rockers on their Forged in Fire Tour with special guests From Ashes to New. 7pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $42.50 at LiveNation.com

COMEDY TIG NOTARO American comedian, storyteller, writer and actor known for her role on Transparent and her Netflix film Tig performs a stand-up set. 7:30pm at Chan Centre (UBC). Tickets at LiveNation.com

THEATRE/DANCE EAST VAN PANTO: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Little Red is bombing down the Adanac bike trail to deliver a basket of goodies to Granny, battling everything from bike thieves to distracted drivers to the Big Bad Wolf. 7pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Tickets at TheCultch.com. Runs until Dec. 31.

THE FIRST OH WELL The East Van Choir Collective put on their annual winter fundraiser show with exciting new arrangements of rock by Kurt Vile, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, The Cars and more.

7pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Highlife, Zulu and TicketFly.com PERNELL REICHERT The lead of the local finger pickin’, slide playin’, razor sharp Pernell Reichert Band plays a solo alt-country rock show in Kitsilano. 8:30pm at The Wolf & Hound (3617 West Broadway). Admission is free.

MUSIC FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE Music on Main presents its annual holiday concert, delighting audiences with an evening of song to illuminate even the darkest of nights, featuring Caroline Shaw, Veda Hille, Rachel Kiyo Iwassa and Adrian Verdejo. 8pm at Heritage Hall. Tickets $25+ at http://MusicOnMain.caMusicOnMain.ca

COMEDY PETE JOHANNSON Former Vancouverite who has starred in his own CBC comedy special as well as appearances on Just for Laughs and NBC’s Friday Night begins a three-night stand, with opening sets from Ed Hill and Charlie Demers. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW: HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR The live, smash-hit epic comedy returns for another round of medieval merriment in a special D&Dthemed event like no other. 7pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $10 at RioTheatreTickets.ca

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It’s a shame that, in a 2007 article entitled 36 Hours in Vancouver, a NewYork Times writer sniffed that “Vancouver isn’t known for its art scene”, and then lazily directed any art-loving visitors towards the Vancouver Art Gallery and its collection of Jeff Wall photographs.

To be fair, the rest of the world wasn’t exactly ‘woke’ to the city’s art scene beyond its photoconceptualist movement at the time, and Jeff Wall is indeed a native son and household name. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a thriving, dare we say worldclass milieu to be explored – something the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is now publicly dedicating itself to celebrating

with Vancouver Special, a provocative triennial series that will showcase a cross-section of the city’s contemporary art every three years To create the first installment, Ambivalent Pleasures, Augaitis and co-curator Jesse McKee (of artist-run centre 221A) visited more than 90 Vancouver studios in their whittling of the list.The result is a show featuring 40 artists – names like Matt Browning, Tamara Henderson, RonTran, Allison Hrabluik, Ryan Peter, AlisonYip and Mark DeLong – and work spanning the six years since the 2010 Olympics.

We caught up with Augaitis just prior to opening day, to learn more about the discoveries in store.

What were some of the themes that emerged for you in this

exhibition as you pulled it together?

We were always taking a camera with us, and so after doing all of our studio visits, and seeing dozens of galleries and so on, Jesse and I sat down and looked at everything visually, to review what we had seen and try to make sense of it.What we found was there emerged these three kind of principal conversations around surrealism, abstraction and conceptual practice. So those are the three grounding points or touchstones in us putting the exhibition together.

Have you divided the exhibition up that way?

No.These are more like filters that, as a viewer you might use to consider each one of these works. So an artist might fall in one of those

realms, or maybe two of those filters will be applicable to an understanding of their work, but it’s not like we begin with this and move on to that. In the installation, we were much more mindful of the relationships between works, and wanted to make sure that there were interesting things going on between one artist’s work and another.

What are some of the dialogues at play there?

As we were going through the exhibition this morning, one of our staff members said to me, “Wow, you see way more colour here than you usually do in Vancouver.”

[Laughs]. And that title, Ambivalent Pleasures, has a place.

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‘The Nutcracker’ takes over Robson Street You can never get enough renditions of The Nutcracker over Christmas, and here’s one more to add to your list.

Winter’s Dance – a whimsical, newly created 15-minute version of The Nutcracker – will be projected onto six, eight-by-eight-foot screens lining the middle of Robson Street between Burrard and Bute on Saturday, Dec. 10.

Organized by the Robson Street Business Association, My Loud Speaker and Small Stage, the performance will be repeating on the screens between 6 and 9pm. In addition, Blenz will be on-site providing cups of hot chocolate to visitors, while shops and restaurants will be offering special promotions or in-store experiences during the event Due to the screens, the street will be closed to vehicle traffic from 3pm to 11pm that day. –Staff

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Filmmaker Deepa Mehta has never shied away from controversial, complex, or otherwise complicated topics.

Mehta’s previous films have tackled misogyny and ostracism (Water), homosexuality (Fire), religious intolerance (Earth), and organized crime in the Indo-Canadian community (Beeba Boys) – and she’s received critical acclaim and numerous awards for her efforts, including a Governor General’s Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for Film and an appointment to the Order of Canada.

With her latest film, Anatomy ofViolence – which had its Western Canadian premiere this past weekend at the Whistler Film Festival – the writer and director takes a sharp look at the rape culture that seemingly permeates modern-day India.

Based on the true incident from 2012 in which a young woman was gang-raped inside a bus in New Delhi, Mehta and 11 actors collaborated on a fictional dramatization that focuses on the lives, values, and poverty of the rapists.

“If you keep on looking at the rapists as just monsters,

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A still from the film ‘Anatomy of Violence’, which examines the confluence of factors leading up to the 2012 gang rape of 23-year-old New Delhi student Jyoti Singh. Contributed photo they become the other, but if you look at them as a part of society with the lens of humanity, then actually we have control,” Mehta tells Reel People, between screenings at the Whistler Film Festival, where the Toronto resident served as head of the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film jury.

Mehta was in Delhi in December 2012, when the world first learned about the horrific gang rape of 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh.

The attack ultimately claimed the young woman’s life and compelled tens of thousands of Delhi residents into the streets to protest systemic misogyny and violence against women.

Mehta was one of the protestors.

“I felt it was horrific and it was brutal, and I didn’t think

about making a film at that point.That was the last thing in my mind,” she says. “It took about three years to actually look back at it, because I didn’t want to revictimize the victim.That was extremely important. And why would I want to make the film? I had to be very clear of that in my own head.”

But Mehta wanted to “widen the dialogue.”

“It has to be about prevention,” she explains. “It’s really important that we just don’t stick to monsters and victims.

We have to talk about how it keeps on happening.”

Thus, Anatomy ofViolence seeks to understand the confluence of events and factors that create perpetrators of sexual violence.

“You have patriarchy, you have misogyny, you have gender inequality, you have a

guy just using physical power – and having the permission somewhere feeling that he can do it,” says Mehta, whose film does not depict the rape out of respect for the victim. “It’s not that he had a genetic monster gene. He’s somebody’s son.

He’s somebody’s brother. And he is what he is because it made him like that.

“It’s not that he’s not accountable for what he’s done, because of course he is,” she continues, “and it’s brutal and it’s horrible and of course he should be punished. But the point is, how do we stop it in the future? How are you going to stop a little rapist being actually nurtured?

“The conversation has started. If we start the conversation, then there’s hope.”

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Starring Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall Directed by Antonio Campos “If it bleeds, it leads”.The popular adage joined the news lexicon of the ‘70s and marked a critical moment in the history of television journalism. Few were more personally affected by this turning point than Florida native Christine Chubbuck.

Based on the harrowing true story, Rebecca Hall portrays the determined reporter who sought community-driven stories about real people and local issues, but battled depression and was pressured to gather sensational tabloid fodder in the midst of dwindling ratings.The pressures surrounding her culminated in a tragic event that is best viewed spoiler-free.

Hall is simply fantastic in the complicated role, giving arguably the finest performance of her career and one to remember during awards season. Director Antonio Campos tackles the delicate

subject matter with sincerity and sensitivity, opting for genuine character study rather than exploitative art.

The film meticulously portrays Chubbuck’s mental state as a slowly crumbling facade by also focusing on the people in her life.These include a handsome anchor (Michael C. Hall), an overbearing boss (Tracy Letts), a flighty mother (J. Smith-Cameron) and a genuinely concerned co-worker (Maria Dizzia).

Christine’s production design, wardrobe, and archaic newsroom equipment match the era impeccably. In addition, Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans’ sometimes haunting score offers an enigmatic effect, and tight editing courtesy of Sofía Subercaseaux gives deliberate pacing. Christine’s shocking finale may unsettle some, but it also serves as an important reminder that this actually happened, and the film’s thoughtful examination of its central figure is heartbreaking yet ultimately engrossing.

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There’s one word that This Life star Lauren Lee Smith uses repeatedly when describing her 17-year acting career: luck.

Technically, she uses both luck and its adjective offspring, lucky. Smith counts herself lucky that she unearthed her passion for acting in the first place; she’s lucky that she found success almost immediately after committing to her career; she’s lucky that she’s worked steadily for nearly two decades.

As lucky as Smith considers herself, though, she also doesn’t completely eschew the impact of her attitude and hard work.

“I think that, for me, it’s a lot of luck and a lot of, ‘This is it, this is what I’m doing,’” says the Vancouver actress in a recent phone interview.

On CBC’s Montreal-shot family drama, This Life – which caps off its second season next week – Smith plays Maggie Lawson, the free-spirited, 30-something “kid” sister of series protagonist Natalie Lawson (portrayed by Stargate Atlantis alum Torri Higginson).

Maggie is the prototypical emotionally stunted younger sibling, which makes her a complete joy to play, according to Smith.

“I love Maggie, because she is completely immature.

She speaks her mind. She makes a lot of bad choices.

There are no limitations with her. She really does not give a crap about anything,” laughs

Lauren Lee Smith as Maggie Lawson in ‘This Life’. CBC photo Smith, whose lengthy filmography includes scene-stealing turns in The L-Word, The Listener, Helen (for which she won a Leo Award), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

“The joy of playing Maggie is I get to act out on all of these crazy things she does

and not feel bad about it in my real life. I get to do it for make-believe.”

Smith’s passion for acting began when she was seven years old and watched The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth in short order.

“I know those both had a

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London Drugs said in an email that once the timeline is determined, “The Hastings NorthTemporary Garden will be transplanted to another site as determined by Shifting Growth, who currently maintains and manages the garden.

We will be giving as much notice as possible to Shifting Growth and will be sensitive to minimize disruption as much as possible during the growing season.”

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tool at her disposal not to be pigeonholed into any one type of role. “Every year I’d make a point to chop my hair off, or dye it black, or grow my hair out and dye it red,” says Smith. “I know it sounds silly, but I think it helped me a little bit because I really jumped around from one genre to the next, and one character to the next, which is,” – here comes that word again – “lucky.”

These days, the new mom – she has a six-month-old daughter – is looking at her life and This Life with gratitude. “When I was 20 years old, to me success was people knowing my name […]. And to me now, I look at my career and I think, ‘Wow, I’ve made a really great life and a really great living for the last 17 years by working.’ And to me, that is success. I couldn’t really ask for anything more.” qzyp |y{ airs Sundays at 9pm on CBC. W

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lot of puppets, but they had a big influence on me,” she chuckles. “I remember with Labyrinth going, ‘What is this world and how do I enter it? I want to do what they do.’”

Smith honed her acting skills in youth theatre programs, but she wouldn’t fully pull the trigger on her acting career until her late teens, when she was working as a model in Korea. “I was reading this acting book, and I said, ‘Okay, that’s it: I’m leaving modeling, I’m going back home, I’m putting all of my attention into acting’ – and I have to say, I got really, really, really lucky.”

Luck came in the form of her first role: Erin Evans on MTV’s cult-favourite boy band parody, 2gether.

“Cut to 17 years later, and acting is the only job that I’ve ever gotten to do. It’s pretty crazy when you think about it. I got super, super lucky.”

Over those 17 luck-filled years, Smith has used every

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A few months ago, bored and lonely, I found myself looking at the Vancouver escort advertisements. I booked an appointment with a Burnaby agency and, since then, have been seeing the same girl on a regular basis. I really like this girl – a lot – but she says this is a business for her, and it is all about money. I do like her and wish we could have met under more conventional circumstances. I’ve gone to several massage parlours since then, hoping to quell the feelings by seeing another woman and realizing I am “paying for it”. It’s not working. Any suggestion on how to cut the emotional ties to her?

Did you ever see that Netflix series Love? There’s this scene where the protagonist has just been dumped, and he’s mad about the “love lies” in popular movies. Thumbing through his Blu-Rays, he pulls out the 1980s classic Pretty Woman and goes,”Pretty Woman is such a lie. A prostitute wouldn’t fall in love with you; she would just steal your shit and sell it for coke.”

Not every sex worker is going to rob you blind for drug cash, but the point is well made: Pretty Woman is fiction. If you ran the numbers on the amount of times a prostitute fell in love with one of her clients, I’m betting the odds would not be in your favour.

Of course you are going to be attracted to this escort.

Duh! She is beautiful, with her Bambi limbs, shimmering

make-up and coconut body spray. But this is her job: to look and smell good, and act even better. She is professional arm candy.

My pal, Lydia Faithful, worked as a dominatrix in Las Vegas’s Alien Cat House forever (she recently was promoted to Madame, which is a huge deal, but I digress). I first met Lydia because I was doing a promotional piece for Broadly, where I was to interview a sex worker and ask her all the questions people were too scared to bring up.

Lydia was game.

Unfortunately, the company sponsoring the piece got their panties in a twist when Lydia got into some real talk, like giving hand jobs to dying men or pissing on submissive sheriffs, and cut some of the good stuff.You can read it online, which I highly suggest you do. Chances are your lady of the evening has similar principles as Lydia.

When I asked Lydia about what her first clients were like, she replied, “They were all married and annoying.”

Lydia was really good at the girlfriend experience, so a lot of clients fell for her and tried to coax her out of the brothel life with promises of money and love. She was not interested. Firstly, they can’t afford her 24/7.

Secondly, she’s perfectly happy with her life as is.

As Lydia told me, there is a power dynamic that the client should not ignore.

“I could never date a client,” she said. “There is no reset button after transactional sex occurs.”

“I’m very much an allbusiness kind of sex worker,” she added. “I don’t date. I don’t have relationships. I might text them to make

arrangements or check in or say, ‘Hey, I’ll be here during this time,’ but I don’t pursue them, exactly. It’s just safer that way for everyone.”

Like in any profession, each individual has their own way of doing business.This escort you have fallen for sounds like a no-bullshit sex worker who sees you as a client and nothing more. She wants to complete her job and move on. She probably finds your pining after her annoying.You have expressed your feelings for her, and she told you this is simply business.What more is there to grasp?

At a certain point, you have to wake up and stop fantasizing about the “what ifs”. Stop imaging you had met her in more “conventional circumstances”.You didn’t meet her that way and time machines are not a real thing. Shake your head out.

You called up an escort to pay her for her services.

Her services are to make you feel awesome when you are with her. I get why you have developed feelings for her, but you need to wake up to the reality of a paid girlfriend. This is her source of income, not pleasure. A good customer knows how to respect boundaries and she has laid hers out for you.

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Art gallery fetes local artists with triennial exhibition Continued from page 12 You can see and you can sense the pleasure that artists engage in through the richness of the colours and the materials that they choose.

A lot of people are working with textiles, other people are working with clay – kind of reaching around the edges of what is the regular “highart world”, if you will, but looking to other forms and other mediums that are not the primary ones to get their hands into.

Why do this exhibition now?

Why was the timing right for this show?

Kathleen Bartels, our director, and I have been talking about the possibility of a biennale or a triennial for some time, and should we do it or not? Certainly the

art gallery has a history of doing these kind of curated exhibitions that take the pulse of the local scene. But we thought, why not make a stronger commitment to it? Commit to doing it every three years and promote it.

And I think, also, as we move as a museum towards a new building, we want to say that the local community is important to us. The emerging artists as well as the more established artists. And we do it in many ways: we do it through solo exhibitions, we do it through dialogues, or by collecting their work and putting it into a bigger context, and this is one more way that we do it. I think it’s to, kind of, proclaim to the world that these people are interesting.

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Vancouver is one of those art nodes in the art world that is looked at. There is a history here, even since Emily Carr’s time, of being engaged internationally. If you think of the Shadbolts and the people of that post-war generation – they were engaged internationally. And certainly the Jeff Walls, Ian Wallaces and Stan Douglases – the photoconceptualists – have put a spotlight on Vancouver by staying here and making work about this place.

Vancouver is part of that international map, and the vitality of the next generations after them is really fantastic.

• Abivalent Pleasures runs now until April 17, 2017 at theVancouver Art Gallery.

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By Rob Brezsny Normally I cheer you on when you devote singleminded attention to pressing concerns, even if you become a bit obsessive. But right now, in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to run wild and free as you sample lavish variety.

It’s prime time to survey a spectrum of spicy, shiny, and feisty possibilities . . . to entertain a host of ticklish riddles rather than to insist on prosaic answers. You have been authorized by the cosmos to fabricate your own temporary religion of playing around and messing around and fooling around.

Adrienne Rich described “an honorable human relationship” as “one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love.’” How is that right earned? How is such a bond nurtured? Rich said it was “often terrifying to both persons involved,” because it’s “a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re in a favorable phase to become an even more honorable lover, friend, and ally than you already are. To take advantage of the opportunity, explore this question: How can you supercharge and purify your ability to speak and hear the truth?

In Goethe’s play Faust, the hero bemoans his lack of inner unity. Two different souls live within him, he says, and they don’t cooperate. Even worse, they each try to rule him without consulting the other. I’m guessing you’ve experienced a more manageable version of that split during the course of your life. Lately, though, it may have grown more intense and divisive. If that’s true, I think it’s a good sign. It portends the possibility that healing is in the works . . . that energy is building for a novel synthesis. To help make it happen, identify and celebrate what your two sides have in common.

The poet Dick Allen described Zen Buddhism as being “so filled with paradoxes that it jumps through hoops that aren’t even there.” I’m tempted to apply this description to the way you’ve been living your life recently. While I can see how it may have entertained you to engage in such glamorous intrigue, I’m hoping you will stop. There is no longer anything to be gained by the complicated hocus-pocus. But it’s fine for you to jump through actual hoops if doing so yields concrete benefits.

For decades, numerous self-help authors have claimed that humans use 10 percent or less of their brain’s potential. But the truth is that our gray matter is far more active than that.

The scientific evidence is now abundant. (See a summary here: tinyurl.com/mindmyths.) I hope this helps spur you to destroy any limited assumptions you might have about your own brainpower, Leo. According to my astrological analysis, you could and should become significantly smarter in the next nine months – and wiser, too!

Born under the sign of Virgo, Mary Oliver is America’s best-selling poet. She wasn’t an overnight sensation, but she did win a Pulitzer Prize when she was 49. “What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself,” she confesses in one poem. “Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago.” I bet that even at her current age of 81, Oliver is still refining and deepening her self-love.

Neither she nor you will ever be finished with this grand and grueling project. Luckily for you both, now is a time when Virgos can and should make plucky progress in the ongoing work. (P.S.: And this is an essential practice if you want to keep refining and deepening your love for others.)

Most high-quality suits worn by men are made from the wool of merino sheep raised in Australia.

So says Nicholas Antongiavanni in his book The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men’s Style. There are now more than 100 million members of this breed, but they are all descendants of just two rams and four ewes from 18th-century Spain. How did that happen? It’s a long story. (Read about it here: tinyurl.com/merinosheep.) For the oracular purposes of this horoscope, I’ll simply say that in the next nine months you’ll also have the potential to germinate a few choice seeds that could ultimately yield enormous, enduring results. Choose well!

Five of my Scorpio acquaintances and 17 of my Scorpio readers have let me know that they’re actively seeking to make new alliances and strengthen their existing alliances. Does this mean that Scorpios everywhere are engaged in similar quests? I hope so. I would love to see you expand your network of like-minded souls. I would love for you to be ardent about recruiting more help and support. Happily, the current astrological omens favor such efforts. Hot tip: For best results, be receptive, inviting, and forthright.

“The awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks,” wrote novelist Terry Pratchett. That’s true enough, but I’ll add a caveat: Now and then the trickle of small chunks of awesome splendor gives way to a surge of really big chunks. According to my astrological analysis, that’s either already happening for you, or else is about to happen. Can you handle it? I’m sure you’ve noticed that some people are unskilled at welcoming such glory; they prefer to keep their lives tidy and tiny. They may even get stressed out by their good fortune. I trust you’re not one of these fainthearted souls.

In his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins words to describe previously unnamed feelings. One is “monachopsis,” defined as “the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.” Then there’s “altschmerz,” meaning “weariness with the same old issues you’ve always had.” Another obscure sorrow you might recognize is “nodus tollens,” or “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense anymore.” Now I’ll tell you two of Koenig’s more uplifting terms, which I bet you’ll feel as you claw your way free of the morass. First, there’s “liberosis”: caring less about unimportant things. Second, there’s “flashover,” that moment when conversations become “real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony.”

In 1983, two Australian blokes launched a quest to tip a drink at every pub in Melbourne. Thirty-two years later, Mick Stevens and Stuart MacArthur finally accomplished their goal when they sipped beers at The Clyde. It was the 476th establishment on their list. The coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to plan an epic adventure of your own, Aquarius. I hope and pray, though, that you will make it more sacred and meaningful than Stevens’ and MacArthur’s trivial mission.

For three seasons of the year – spring, summer, and fall – a certain weasel species has brown fur. During that time, it’s known as a stoat. When winter arrives, the creature’s coat turns to white.

Its name changes, too. We call it an ermine. The next spring, it once again becomes a stoat. Given the nature of the astrological omens, Pisces, I think it would make poetic sense for you to borrow this strategy. What would you like your nickname to be during the next three months?

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2/5.50 414ml 6.99 1L

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assorted varieties

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32%

11.99

30% 3/9.99

750ml

Balderson Aged Cheddar Cheese

26%

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2/5.98 500ml

39% 4.19

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product of Canada

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Oasis Fresh Juice

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Specialty Cheese

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500ml • product of Canada

31%

Liberté Mediterranée Yogurt

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Rise Organic Kombucha

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2/5.50

36%

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17.61kg

GROCERY

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4.37kg

1.98lb

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