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In front of 2088 Barclay Street there have to be 50 cigarette butts stomped into the grass. I’m wondering if the smoker figures there are people for this, or if disposing of the butt properly is beyond comprehension or beneath them? There was a dead bird amidst this refuse but I’m

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The hoarder on my street Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown

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For the past month, I’ve watched a hoarder in my neighbourhood being slowly and excruciatingly extracted from his home. For several weeks, it looked like the house was barfing – out of both ends.The entire front and back yards were covered in stuff: dusty records, antique electronics, broken gadgets, bottles, lamps, paintings, faded newspapers, and those massive stuffed animals that bangers somehow win at the PNE. It was the hoarder’s treasures, collected over a lifetime.

But to most everybody else – including his family members, who had decided to intervene – it was a staggering amount of junk. By invitation, I went through the records. If you’re not into the Pointer Sisters or John Denver, there wasn’t much there.

At least four full-sized dumpsters were brought in to remove the accumulated contents of the home, which had recently been sold. According to one worker, the house was stacked floor-toceiling in every room, hall and stairway. Narrow trails wound through the clutter. From the outside looking in, it was a sad spectacle.The hoarder had lived there his entire life.

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While hoarding is not illegal, it can impact families and neighbours alike. Mike Wakefield/File photo person, hoarding is “not a big issue” in Vancouver, but is something officials deal with systematically on a regular basis. Several years ago, Vancouver became the first city in North America to form something called the Hoarding Action Response Team (HART), to deal with such matters delicately. First, the hoarding team accesses the situation, followed by the fire department and, if need be, Coastal Health.The spokesperson was quick to note that the team considers hoarding a mental-health issue that stems from fear of letting go.

Kristian Olsen is a Vancouver-based television producer who travelled all over North America while working on a show called Confessions: Animal Hoarding, which aired on Animal Planet. He doesn’t mince words when recalling

the experience. “Most of the hoarders we encountered were obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, drugged out, depressed, nose-blind hypochondriacs, who tended to live alone with massive amounts of animals.

None of them realized their behaviour was abnormal.

“Once, we helped rescue an elderly woman from over 200 feral dogs on her property in the California desert,” he continues. “The dogs had completely destroyed her home and she was sleeping in her bathtub. Another time, I stepped into a rabbit hoarder’s trailer in Oklahoma and wondered why my head was so close to the ceiling.That’s when I realized I was standing on a solid foot of rabbit shit.”

Animals weren’t the issue with the hoarder in my neighbourhood, unless you count the rats. “They were

everywhere”, says a neighbour, who wishes to remain nameless. “Living near this situation for several years was as bad as you can imagine. In the backyard alone, there were barrels of old batteries, dozens of half-empty paint cans, tons of random pieces of furniture, and rats. It was like a toxic waste dump.”

The city spokesperson told me that while hoarding is not illegal, an official intervention occurs if fire hazard bylaws are broken (such as blocked access to doors or windows) or if the safety of any of the residents is a concern. If a clean-out is deemed necessary, the owner can be on the hook for the cost.You can take a test on the city’s website to determine if you’re a hoarder, or living near one.

The sheer amount of stuff pulled out of the house down the street scared me silly, and had me reassessing the accumulation of stuff in my own home. If you feel under the weight of a collection gone crazy, or think there’s a problem in your building or neighbourhood, HART can help: It’s time to call 3-1-1.

According to his family members, my hoarder neighbour has been moved to a hotel. I can only hope he feels liberated from his lifetime’s collection, but I’m not so sure.

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Trump family members attend hotel opening amid protests SANDRA THOMAS @sthomas10

There were almost as many members of the media inside Trump International Hotel and Tower on Georgia Street as there were protesters outside Tuesday morning as some family members of US President Donald Trump

gathered for the opening of the $360-million property.

And despite the fact reporters weren’t allowed to ask questions, that didn’t stop one journalist from shouting over the crowd and asking if there were any hurt feelings due to the fact neither Mayor Gregor Robertson nor any Vancouver city council

members were in attendance at the event.

US President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Junior and Eric are executive vicepresidents of the Trump Organization, which has a contract to run the operation of the hotel, owned by Malaysianfinanced Holborn Properties.

In response to President

Trump’s anti-immigration comments during his election campaign, Robertson wrote to Holborn Properties in December 2015 asking them to change the name of the building.

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Poem of the week Poetic Licence

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a new weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Awardwinning poet and author Evelyn Lau, with “Strange Haven”.

STRANGE HAVEN for Alan Hogg I knew you from the start, as if from childhood.

Recognized you, as if we came from the same womb a mother who eclipsed the outer world, the crest of bright sky above Cremona. You escaped the family farm, ducklings drowned in their shallow basin, welts that made you toss and turn for days. At seventeen, fled to the military, the police academy survived in a time before victimhood, before PTSD, before the term survivor.

Of course, it made you strong. So hard I bruised my fingers once, grasping your arm.

It gave you the thread of steel in your voice, the set of your shoulders, level as the horizon.

I could brace myself against you, like scaffolding.

This is the strength I seek in the strange haven of your bed where I crawl some days when you’re away, cupping the small flame of some ancient grief. Memory foam carries me like a cradle, rises and pulses into every hollow of my body, blankets the distant sparks of pain. Your smell lingers in the comforter, like lime and sea salt, stone. Home can be anywhere, even here.

Evelyn Lau is the Vancouver author of 12 books, including seven collections of poetry. Her poetry has received the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award, the Pat Lowther Award, a National Magazine Award, a BC Book Prize nomination and a Governor-General’s nomination. She served as 20112014 Poet Laureate for the

City of Vancouver. Evelyn’s most recent collection is Tumour (Oolichan, 2016).

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Business turmoil redefining Main Street’s niche GREGORY ADAMS @greogoryadamsbc

The closure of Main Street’s R/X Comics at the end of January was no doubt worrisome for Mount Pleasant readers looking to get their fill of superhero stories, and seemed to be part of a growing trend of local businesses in the area shutting their doors. But like Superman (or any number of X-Men that were killed off only to make a speedy in-print return), the death of the medium on Main Street has been greatly exaggerated. Get ready to step into the 8th Dimension, a new venture spearheaded by a pair of former R/X Comics employees.

Though set to open by mid-March, peels of construction paper currently cover the windows and the inside of the structure is currently being gutted for a complete remodel. Standing inside, Nick Paraschos explains that he and business partner Kelly Everaert had been told by the former owner of R/X Comics at the end of December that he’d be closing his shop, and that he’d already talked to the landlord about getting out of the lease.

“He just had, for his reasons, come to the determination that he could no longer run the store. He gave us the bad news and two days later Kelly and I sort of took over,” Paraschos says, adding that there had been outside interest in the spot before he approached the landlord to take on the existing terms

Kelly Everaert (left) and Nick Paraschos at the 8th Dimension Comics (formerly RX Comix) on Main. Dan Toulgoet photo of R/X Comics’ old lease. In addition to supplying new issues of Spider-Man or Saga, hanging onto the storefront gives everyday readers and local artists a chance to connect and converse about their favourite books.

“It’s a meeting spot for a lot of people,” Paraschos continues, as Everaert rips fixtures out of the former “new releases” wall from atop a steel ladder. “There’s six studios that do animation in this area. A lot of their animators come here for inspiration or ideas, or just to have a good time.”

A blowout closing sale at the end of January cleared out thousands of comics and graphic novels that R/X had accumulated since the early ’00s. Hoping to avoid the same kind of clutter, Paraschos says the 8th Dimension’s business model will keep overhead down by avoiding gimmick-heavy collectors-market moves by publishers like Marvel Comics. “We’re not going to be the top shop that has all the high-end, hard-to-find variants,” he says, explaining that the 8th Dimension will instead put the focus on

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While comics aren’t leaving the 2400 block of Main anytime soon, there has been plenty of cultural changeover in the surrounding area over the last couple of months.

The early 2017 announcement of the end of vegetarian eatery the Foundation has had many scrambling through its doors to get one last plate of nachos, while other area casualties will soon include the East Vanity Parlour, Wang On Blinds, and the nearby Hot Art Wet City gallery. Rising property values and rent increases are a factor in the Main Street exodus, but Paraschos doesn’t think that’s the whole story.

“Not everybody is leaving because of rent,” he says, suggesting “space constraint” could be another aspect of businesses pulling out of the area. “Maybe it’s just that they don’t feel like they have the clientele base here. That’s a possibility as well.”

Directly across from the soon-to-be-opened 8th Dimension, a for-lease sign sits in the window of John’s Jukes, a Main street fixture for music and arcade enthusiasts since 1982. Store founder John Robertson says that his business is casually getting off the block within the next few months, explaining that it’s a “friendly” move.

“They would rather be renting to someone that would pay a lot more, but there’s a lot of work that needs to be done on the

building first,” Robertson says of his landlord’s plans for the space, adding, “They’re happy to have somebody here that’s knows [the building]. I’ve been helping keep the building going all these years.”

Pinball machines line the halls of the shop, but Robertson is quick to point out that he’s got plenty of games in storage at the moment that are waiting to be fixed. He’s currently got his eye on a few larger spaces in Burnaby for he and his team to move everything into.

Robertson fondly recalls his time on the block, explaining how it had been a “depressed area” before being revitalized, in part by the opening of the Foundation in 2002. He does, however, cite spikes in car traffic and a lack of nearby parking being a problem for clients that come in from other parts of the Lower Mainland.

Getting off Main will take a bit of visibility away from John’s Jukes, but the owner hopes the to-be-determined resettlement will cut costs and speed up productivity.

Running a niche business means customers will seek out his services, no matter where the store ends up.

“We don’t want to be hard to find,” he says. “I’m trying to be very close to a main street, so the signage would be somewhat visible.”

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PresidentTrump’s dislike and distrust of the media has escalated to the point he’s banned several major American news outlets from attendingWhite House press conferences. PresidentTrump has also famously accused several major media outlets of producing “fake news.” So it was interesting to hear Eric Danziger, CEO of Trump Hotel Collection, at the beginning of the event recognizeVancouver as being home to the world’s largest hockey stick when, in fact, it’s located in Duncan, BC. Danziger also told the crowdTrumpTower is “the first hotel to open in Vancouver in six years.” Hotel Blu opened on Robson Street in 2014.

Outside the hotel, protesters carried signs, chanted, drummed and sang as police and officials watched from in front of the hotel, some behind glass.

Grade 12 student Khalid Boudreau said he wants to see Canada become a “safe haven for Americans fleeing this totalitarian regime.”

Holding a sign that read, “Quite the blind trust you have there,” Boudreau said that whether it was the Underground Railroad – a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape into free states and Canada – or draft dodgers fleeing theVietnamWar, Canada has been a symbol of refuge. –Story courtesy of the Vancouver Courier

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With the fresh vibes of spring on their way, we’ll soon be rejuvenated from winter hibernation and ready to get back into the full swing of entertaining.The new season brings with it the urge to refresh our spaces, and décor for hosting is no exception. Swapping

out your seating is one of the easiest – and among the most cost-effective – ways to add an instant update to a room, whether you go for matching or mismatched selections. In this week’s Five Finds, I present my top choices in the city for chic seats.

1. Mid-century upholstered chair in velvet (Available at West Elm, 2947 Granville St.; $249) Modern dining meets old-world glamour with the velvet option of this clas-

sic mid-century chair from West Elm. The luxe fabric pairs perfectly with the sleek silhouette, and is available in a variety of colours, from elegantly subdued Dove to bolder hues like Wasabi, Berry and Lagoon.

furnishings, lighting and home accents that are both functional and playful. Case in point, the Lucy chair uses abstract lines and a powder-coated copper finish to evoke a fresh feel, while the streamlined shape speaks to high-end simplicity.

2. ‘Lucy’ chair in copper by Bend (Available at Provide Home, 1805 Fir St.; $875) Minimalist design gets a twist of pretty with the Lucy copper chair. LA-based brand Bend is known for creating

3. ‘Baker’ chair (Available at The Cross Decor & Design, 1198 Homer St.; $975) The refreshing neutral palette and curved lines of the Baker chair conjure images of a stunning Scandinavian dining space. Furthering the vision, the Baker is constructed of a beautifully pale solid-oak frame, with an inviting white goat-skin seat.The silhouette lends itself to long dinner parties, offering a rounded back and sleek armrests for hours of conversation that linger long into the night.

4. ‘Tatami’ chair (Available at Bloom Furniture Studio, 495 Railway St.; price on request) High style becomes the ultimate in functionalty with the Tatami chair. Available in six colours, its artistic shape and design-forward details are met by polypropylene constructions, which allows it to be lightweight, durable and eco-friendly.The material also means it can be used for both indoor and outdoor entertaining; it’s resistant to UV rays and rainwater, and is stackable for easy tucking away.

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Vancouver’s best Happy Hours

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When Happy Hour was finally made legal in British Columbia, in 2014, it offered long-overdue compensation to Vancouverites who rightly complain about the provincial and city governments’ continued unwillingness to let responsible adults indulge

CHINATOWN THE EMERALD 555 Gore St., emeraldsupperclub.com Tues-Fri 5-7pm Snacks $5; share plates and salads $10; select beers $4; house wines $5; half-price cocktails.

JUNIPER 185 Keefer St., junipervancouver.com Daily 4:30-6:30pm Food specials $3-$5, “wood boards” $21-$29; beer and cider $5; cocktails and aperitifs $7.

in afterwork libations like… responsible adults. (This annoyance continues to play out in the endless, ridiculous alcohol-sales-in-supermarkets brouhaha.) If we must live in this cruelly expensive city, let us at least forget about it for a few hours without causing further significant damage to the retirement funds we don’t have.

Happily, in the two-plus years since its launch, local restaurants and bars have been steadily upping their Happy Hour game, offering a wider and better variety of drink specials, often accompanied by very good food for very little outlay. Here are what we deem to be the 45 best Happy Hours currently sating our thirsts and appetites.

HY’S STEAKHOUSE & COCKTAIL BAR 637 Hornby St., hyssteakhouse.com Mon-Fri 3-6pm Featured red and white wines $9 each; bottled beer $5; feature cocktails half off; snacks $3-$5.

chicharestaurant.com Daily 5-6pm Tequila or Jameson shots $3; local draughts $5; wine $6; select cocktails $7.

JOE FORTES SEAFOOD AND CHOP HOUSE 777 Thurlow St., joefortes.ca Daily 4-6pm (at bar only) Wine, highballs and Red Truck pints $5 each; $12 oysters (6 per order, per person); small plates $5.95-$13.95.

THE KEEFER BAR 135 Keefer St., thekeeferbar.com Sun-Fri 5-7pm All food 2-for-1 (with purchase of drinks and parties of nine or less); wines and Aprerol spritz $8 each; nightly specials.

MARKET BY JEAN-GEORGES 1115 Alberni St., marketkitchen.com Daily 3-6pm and 9pm-close Draught beer and house wines $6 each; featured cocktails $8; snacks $9-$11.

MAMIE TAYLOR’S 251 E. Georgia St., mamietaylors.ca Mon-Fri 5-6pm; Sat-Sun 3-5pm Draft beer $5; wine $6; the Mamie Taylor cocktail $6; select snacks $1-$2 each.

TABLEAU BAR BISTRO 1181 Melville St., tableaubarbistro.com Daily 2:30-5:30-pm and 9pm-close Select menu items half price; Blonde Bombshell lager, select highballs, wines and sparkling wine $5 each.

THE UNION 219 Union St., theunionvancouver.ca “Late night” Happy Hour Fri-Sat 11:30pm-close; Sun all day Food specials $6-$17; daily beer features.

DOWNTOWN/ COAL HARBOUR BOULEVARD KITCHEN & OYSTER BAR 845 Burrard St., boulevardvancouver.ca Daily 3-6pm Food specials $5-$10; local oysters $2 each; select beers and highballs $5 each; select wines and cocktails $6 each.

CAFÉ MEDINA 780 Richards St., medinacafe.com Mon-Fri 2-3pm House “libation” cocktails $7; draught beer $5; “coffee spikes” $4.

CHEWIES STEAM & OYSTER BAR 1055 W. Hastings St., chewies.ca Daily 3-6pm Craft beer pints $5; select wines $6; select American whiskey $5; oysters $1-$2 (6 per person, per order); select food $10-$13.

COAST 1054 Alberni St., glowbalgroup. com/coast Daily 2:30-5:30pm Draft beer, wines, highballs, Sangria and Caesars $5 each; martinis $8; oysters $1.50 each; small plates and sushi rolls $7.95-$12.95.

HOMER ST. CAFE AND BAR 898 Homer St., homerstreetcafebar.com Mon-Fri 2:30-5pm Wishbone lager, house wines, highballs, snacks and desserts $5 each.

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TIMBER 1300 Robson St., timbervancouver.com Daily 3-6pm $4 pilsner; half off “Snacks” menu.

UVA WINE & COCKTAIL BAR 900 Seymour St., uvavancouver.com Daily 2-6pm Select cocktails $8-$9; select wines $5 glass, $35 bottle; Brio Icelandic Pilsner $7; Angry Orchard cider $6; antipasti $5-$9.

YEW SEAFOOD + BAR 791 W. Georgia St., yewseafood.com “Reverse” Happy Hour daily 8-11pm Select cocktails and small plates $10 each.

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CAMPAGNOLO ROMA 2297 E. Hastings St., campagnoloroma.com Daily opening-6pm Featured pizza and a beer $20; daily drink and food specials.

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GASTOWN BELGARD KITCHEN 55 Dunlevy Ave., belgardkitchen.com Mon-Thurs 3-6pm Food specials $7-$9, daily wine selections and Postmark brewing pint $5 each.

COLONY BAR 2904 Main St., colonymainst.com Mon-Fri 3-6pm Apples $7.95-$8.95; lager and pale ale $3; wine and highballs $4.

CATCH 122 122 W. Hastings St., catch122.ca Tues-Fri 4-6pm; Sat-Sun 5-6pm Select beers, wines and highballs $5 each; select cocktails $7; snacks $4-$10.

CROWBAR 646 Kingsway, crowbareastvan.com Mon-Sat 5-6:30pm Daily beer ($4) and wine ($6) selections; burger and a beer $20; rotating food features half price.

LA MEZCALERIA 68 E .Cordova St., lamezcaleria.ca Tues-Sun 3-6pm Ceviche Callejero $6; Quesito Fundido $8; house wines, draft beers and Paloma cocktails $5 each.

EL CAMINO’S 3250 Main St., elcaminos.ca Daily 3-4 pm and 10pm-close; Sundays 4-10pm Select tapas, tacos and desserts $6-$15.

PIDGIN 350 Carrall St., pidginvancouver.com Daily 5-6:30pm; 10:30pm-late Daily food specials; classic cocktails $7.50; wine $6; tall cans of Tiger beer $5.

LA MEZCALERIA 1622 Commercial Dr., lamezcaleria.ca Tues-Sun 3-6pm Ceviche Callejero $6; Quesito Fundido $8; house wines, draft beers and Paloma cocktails $5 each.

Belgard Kitchen server Tara with Happy Hour bites and beverages. Dan Toulgoet photo SIX ACRES 203 Carrall St., sixacres.ca Daily 11:30am-6pm Select beers $5; Pimm’s cup $5.50.

TACOFINO TACO BAR 15 W. Cordova St., tacofino.com Daily 3-6pm Food specials $5-$10; all draft beer $5; red or white wine $1 off; margaritas $8.

YALETOWN HAPA IZAKAYA 1193 Hamilton St., hapaizakaya.com Daily 5-6pm, plus 9pm-close (Sun-Thurs only) Food specials $3.50-$6.50; draft beer $4; wine $5.

LA PENTOLA 350 Davie St., lapentola.ca Daily 9pm-late Food specials $5; draft beer $4; wines $5; negroni $6.

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A new tea shop has arrived in Yaletown. Cha Le Tea (1207 Hamilton St.) offers a proprietary line of singleorigin, premium Chinese teas. The retail space also features a full-service café serving a rotating list of hand-picked teas, blends, tea lattes and herbal infusions, plus a small-bites menu. Look for a licensed patio to open this spring. chaletea.com After a brief close for renovations, Koffie (1050 W. Pender St.) has reopened with expanded seating and a new pour-over bar. The café still carries 49th Parallel coffee, but now also features a rotating list of guest roasters, starting with Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters and Groundswell Small Batch Roasters. koffie.ca Café Ça Va has expanded its hours and offerings. It’s now open weekdays 9am1am for coffee and croissants, and has a daily happy hour menu from 2-6pm.

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the three-course prix-fixe menu includes a choice of three starters, one of three different preparations of the main, and a choice of dessert, for $40 per person. cafecava.com Six craft breweries and one distillery in the East Village have banded together to create the East Village Brewery and Distillery Passport, a self-guided tasting tour and passport reward program. Stops include Parallel 49 Brewing, Powell Street Craft Brewery, Doan’s Craft Brewing Co., Callister Brewing Co., Bomber Brewing, and Odd Society Spirits. Collect a stamp at each location and receive an East Village-branded growler to add to your collection. eastvillagevancouver.ca On Wednesday, Mar. 8, in celebration of International Women’s Day, women of the hospitality industry are invited to attend Courage and Conviction, a networking event, at Chambar Restaurant. Running 11am3pm, it includes speakers plus complimentary refreshments and snacks. While there is no charge to attend, donations to the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter will be gratefully accepted. Attendance is lim-

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Top Left: Pulled jack-fruit steamed buns.

Bottom Left: Fennel sausage flatbread.

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Pig-out food goes veggie at the Arbor Anya Levykh Nosh

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3941 Main St. 604-620-3256 thearborrestaurant.ca Open daily 11am-midnight So, yes, vegetarian food is popular in Vancouver. It goes with our mountains and lakes, lululemon trackies and smoothie diets. It’s so popular, in fact, that even restaurants that serve meat have begun advertising their “plant-forward” menus. Oh, yes, we serve meat. But not a lot, really.

So. Many. Vegetables.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for it. A self-proclaimed enthusiastic omnivore with carnivorous leanings, I’m inordinately fond of vegetarian dishes as a main, both at home and while dining out.

If you can impress me with a salad, I’m in ecstasy.

But it’s not always about eating healthy. Vegetarian dishes can serve up enough fat and calories to make a traditional burger look positively virtuous.

Take the broccoli popcorn ($8) at the Arbor, Main Street’s newest veg eatery (and little sister to the Acorn, just down the street). Chef Robert Clarke (the Acorn, Bishop’s) fries florets of broccoli – and, oddly, a couple of cauliflower – to a crispy crunch, and lacquers them in a tamarind glaze that, when I sampled it, was slightly too acidic for my taste.The outer

core was almost cheesy in texture, though, like well-baked lasagna, and was set off nicely against diced red onion.The only thing missing was a hint of sweetness. It was a generous bowlful which, between my guest and I, was difficult to finish.

The tacos ($9), on the other hand, lacked any acidity at all. Palm-sized tortillas came loaded with poblanos, criminis, roasted-tomato salsa, avocado mousse, cashew crème fraîche, and jalapeños.

It was rich, succulent and earthy, especially with the add-on of queso fresco ($2).

It really was delicious, but the richness would have been much more manageable with a light squeeze of lime.

Pulled-jackfruit steam buns ($9) were absolute perfection. The buns were pillowy, the jackfruit successfully disguised itself as pulled pork (seriously, if you didn’t know better, you’d think it was the meat of a happy swine), the shitakes were plentiful, and the cilantro sauce was addictive. Another winner was the poutine ($8): a large bowl of hand-cut fries doused in a peppery mushroom gravy that zapped the buds with delicate hits of heat that were complemented nicely by authentic cheese curds.

Flatbreads (read: pizzas) are simple and straightforward, like the mushroom with goat cheese, balsamic, parsley and thyme ($15).

And one of the bestsellers is the Arburger ($9), a nutty’shroomy patty served with lettuce, pickles and house-

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Judging by the packed room every time I’ve visited, the menu is going over extremely well with local residents.This could also be due in part to the stellar service. Nowhere was this more visible than on one lunch visit, when our server was on her own, the room was packed, the take-out counter was five deep, and the card machine had decided to take a holiday.

She was smooth, organized, and got everybody’s plates out in a timely and efficient manner, with a smile and a good memory for the water-chugger at my table. (Ahem.)

The Arbor is also licensed, meaning cocktails and naturalist wines, as well as some choice ciders and beers, are on hand, courtesy of sommelier and business partner Paul McCloskey. I’ve been equally impressed with the zero-proof options, especially an iced rose-petal white tea with lemon ($4).

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Most people visit Tuscany in more clement seasons than winter. The warmer weather is conducive to meandering through the region’s cypresslined hills, picnicking amidst olive trees, eating grapes off the vines, and basking in that famous sun.

That said, even in early February I managed to soak up a few rays – though that wasn’t the purpose of my trip. I spent most of the week with my nose in a glass at the Anteprime, the first official showing of new releases from the most recent vintage.

Tuscany is a hotbed of wine denominations, with Chianti, Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino among Italy’s most renowned. Others that may ring a bell are Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Carmignano and Morellino di Scansano.

All are based on Sangiovese, Italy’s most planted grape.

While tangy acidity and chalky tannins are hallmarks of Sangiovese, these appellations demonstrate its wide range of expression, from juicy, straightforward wines with bright, sour red-cherry notes to more substantial offerings with complex nuances of tobacco, tea, violets and sweet herbs. I like to think there’s a Sangiovese for every palate and budget.

Not all the vintages I tasted are available in BC yet. In the meantime, here are some thoughts to pique your interest about what’s coming down the pipe, with recommendations from previous vintages to keep you sated while you wait.

Chianti is a vast area that covers vineyards extending beyond the historical zone known as Chianti Classico.

Within Chianti there are several subzones with subtle differences, but overall, the wines are uncomplicated and make for satisfying everyday drinking. The warm 2015

and 2016 vintages impart some welcome flesh.

2015 Vicchio Le Calvane Quercione Chianti Colli Fiorentini ($18.99, BC Liquor Stores) The 2015s are already starting to trickle in, and this has the juiciness I desire in my Chianti. Affordable and invigorating, it’s the perfect pizza wine.

Chianti Classico lies in the hills between Florence and Siena, and is a distinct denomination from the rest of Chianti. For me, it’s where I find the most refined examples of Sangiovese.

Even in a challenging 2014 (marked by rain), the best producers made successful wines characterized by freshness, elegance and grace. We have an embarrassment of delicious Chianti Classico riches in BC that constantly crop up in my suggestions.

Here’s yet another.

premium-priced Brunello. Like 2012, the 2011 vintage was also hot, giving lots of robust dried fruit and baked herb.

Rosso di Montalcino is Brunello’s younger sibling.

It’s also made from 100-percent Sangiovese, but is aged only for a year or so before release. The 2015s hit the mark for pure charm and exuberance – I’ll be drinking

my fair share of these when they make their way here.

2014 Castiglion del Bosco Rosso di Montalcino ($25.99, BC Liquor Stores) Though skinnier than the 2015s, the 2014s have their share of appeal. Here, pretty floral notes complement red cherries and raspberries.

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Complement your home bar with versatile liqueurs Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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One could argue that without liqueur, a drink isn’t a cocktail. It’s just booze in a glass.

Liqueurs add sweetness, of course, but they also contribute a cornucopia of complex flavours and aromas: floral, creamy, spicy, nutty, fruity, sour. Meanwhile, herbal liqueurs – including aperitifs, digestifs, vermouths and amaros – add a whole spectrum of appealing bitterness. Each has its own essential role to play in a cocktail.

If you’re aiming to stock your home bar, the best approach is to build a base with your key spirits – gin, brandy, tequila, rum, vodka and whisky (rye, bourbon and/or blended) – then add finesse with a smart selection of liqueurs.

But where to start? The selection can be daunting.

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There once was a time when every home bar had a bottle of crème de menthe.

Chances are those bottles are still kicking around, stickily gathering dust.

Simple one-note liqueurs – such as mint, banana, coconut, passion fruit or apple – have limited use in contemporary cocktails. If you love a cocktail that requires one of these, definitely buy it; otherwise, it’s not a must-have.

As for cream liqueurs, they’re essential for your holiday or camp coffee, but are rarely used in cocktails unless you’re still doing B-52 shots at your place.

Cointreau (or curaçao or triple sec): This versatile orangeflavoured liqueur appears in countless drinks – mainly sours, including the Margarita, Cosmpolitan and Mai Tai. It’s sweet, yes, but it’s a clean, dry sweetness with a zesty orange-peel flavour that adds brightness to a drink.

(Conversely, Grand Marnier is too rich and syrupy for most cocktails, but is delicious on its own.)

Vermouth: A fortified wine flavoured with botanicals, this is a standard in many classic cocktails (and modern ones, too).You can’t make a Manhattan or Negroni without a sweet (red) vermouth; you can’t make a Martini without a dry (white) one. Big commercial brands are inexpensive and work

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After the essentials, you should stock up on liqueurs for the drinks you (and your friends) like most.

Fond of the Aviation?You need maraschino and crème de violette. Love a Vieux Carré? Then Benedictine or B& B is your friend.Yearn for a Sazerac?You’ll need absinthe to rinse that glass.

While you’re at it, go ahead and pick up some limoncello and an amaretto (for the latter, Sons of Vancouver makes a good one); they’re good in cocktails and on their own, and you can even drizzle them over ice cream in a dessert emergency. Don’t forget crème de cassis for those brunch Kir Royales.

Aperitifs and digestifs like Campari, Aperol, Lillet and Fernet Branca also play a starring role in many classic cocktails, so they’re handy to

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Beerstory 101: St. Hildegard

The fascinating and complicated history of one of beer’s most revered figures Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

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In the annals of beer history, St. Hildegard of Bingen holds a unique distinction.The 12th-century German abbess is responsible for the earliest surviving writings on the use of hops in beer, and for that she has been venerated as an unofficial patron saint of beer.

“As a result of its own bitterness,” Hildegard wrote in the Physica, her classic text on health and healing, circa 1150, “[hops] stops putrification when put in [beer] and it may be added so that it lasts so much longer.”

That might not seem like much, but the importance of hops in beer can’t be understated. In addition to flavouring beer, hops kills off a lot of the microrganisms that will spoil beer, while creating an ideal environment for beer yeasts to do their thing.

The earliest proto-beers were more of a boozy porridge, likely discovered when an old loaf of bread was forgotten about in some damp corner and wild yeasts had their way with it. (Hunger will drive people to do desperate things, like tucking into that soggy mess.) As beers became

more refined, there became a greater need to preserve it, which was pretty much impossible until hops came along.The Germans even included hops in the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 – the Reinheitsgebot – which limited brewers to just four ingredients: water, malted barley, yeast and, of course, hops. (Well, technically, it was just water, barley and hops. No one had any idea what yeast was. In fact, fermentation was believed to be an act of God.) In honour of Hildegard’s contribution, Driftwood Brewing recently released its Naughty Hildegard ESB. “We like Hildegard’s style and we can’t imagine beer without hops,” the beer’s label states.

However, as it turns out, her contributions to beermaking might be the least interesting thing about her.

Hildegard was born in 1098 to a noble family in the county of Sponheim, about 100km west of present-day Frankfurt. As a child, she experienced visions of God, which she described as “living light.” She was given over to the care of a nun at the age of eight, who taught her to read and write, and by 14 she was a nun herself.When her mentor passed away in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously

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chosen to lead her Benedictine monastery.

Hildegard also devoted her time to writing musical compositions, poems and plays, as well as theological texts, medical books and scientific essays. She founded two monasteries and travelled extensively around Germany on numerous speaking tours.

She lived into her 80s, and she pretty much never stopped working.

Amazingly, much of that work has been preserved, and for a woman in the highly patriarchal Middle Ages, that’s unique, says UBC historian Arlene Sindelar. “She was a woman who wrote in the 12th century, and that’s not the most common thing. She was somebody who men listened to and had significant authority, mostly in the church.They paid attention to her and she didn’t hold back when she was going to admonish somebody.”

Her most well-known work, the Scivias, details her many visions of God, and made her somewhat of a celebrity in her day. “Any woman who makes this kind of an imprint on a culture, I think part of it is her personality, her drive, her desire to know, her desire to accomplish,” says Sindelar.

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“And she was supported in her fearlessness, I think, by her belief that God spoke to her truly.”

Beer, as it turns out, was never much of a priority for Hildegard, and her role in the development of brewing may not have been as pivotal as some make out. Beer historian (yes, that’s a real thing) Richard Unger notes that there is evidence of hops use in beer in Northern Germany as early as the 6th century, well before Hildegard had written about it.

As it turns out, Hildegard’s writings may not have even been the first to recommend the use of hops in beer, either – they are just the oldest historians have found. “I think her importance lies in other things than her contribution to brewing,” says Unger. “That is a very minor part of what she writes about.”

And yet, Hildegard’s story endures. More than 800 years after she died, she’s revered as a proto-feminist icon, one of the founders of holistic medicine and a Christian mystic, as well as an important figure in brewing. “She’s a giant among women, most of whom sink into obscurity,” says Sindelar.

“But she hasn’t. She invoked the authority of God… She wrote about all these different things, from poetry to recipes to comments on health to these visions she had… and she did not hesitate to speak her mind.”

In other words, she was a total bad-ass, and definitely someone worth raising a glass to on International Women’s Day (Mar. 8).

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancer Robb Beresford performs in ‘Shostakovich.’ RJ Muna photo

Dancing between the LINES SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

When dance master Alonzo King is asked about the inspiration behind his critically acclaimed choreography, he takes a long pause.

When he finally begins to speak again, his words are rich with lyricism.

“I think it’s really about dedicating your life to work, and that the work that you dedicate your life to is a relationship,” says King, on the phone from his and his company’s home base of San Francisco. “In a relationship, you want to honour it by loyalty and commitment, and to the daily effort of that commitment to a living relationship by going deeper, by trying to find more gratitude for the opportunity, by trying to go into areas that you haven’t gone to before, by going to deeper excavations – I think that that, in itself, is inspiring.

“When we step into gratitude, something ignites within us, and we become larger, and we can do more,” he continues. “The two words that inspire me are ‘more’ and ‘better.’”

King is the founder and force behind Alonzo King LINES Ballet, an award-

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winning American contemporary ballet company that makes its return to our city this month as part of the 2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival (its first VIDF appearance was in 2012).

For its Vancouver performances, the company – which formed in 1982 and is now internationally renowned for its inventive collaborations with composers, musicians, and visual artists from around the world – will perform a double-bill of recent work: Shostakovich, in which King’s choreography is set against four string quartets by Soviet pianist and composer Dmitri Shostakovich; and Sand, a poignant work danced to music by Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran, which reminds audiences never to underestimate the power of a single entity, be it a grain of sand or an individual.

The company recently performed Shostakovich in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. King says Russian audiences “went crazy” for the work. “It’s a wonderful thing to be able to go all over the planet and share the work of our brilliant artists,” says King, who adds that audiences have an

important role to play in his aforementioned living relationship with his art. “Audiences are communicators, and it’s interesting to learn and to be able to share.”

Although King speaks about his passion for the craft with profundity and poetry, he doesn’t expect audiences to come to the theatre with the same vocabulary. Just be open, and trust your gut. “When I go to a museum, I like to experience work the same way I meet people: I want to be open, so that means I have to drop pre-conceived notions of good, bad, beautiful, ugly, important, non-important, and I have to allow myself to feel, and to be receptive,” he says.

“Intuition is what people need to bring. We have a lot of scrutiny, and we need to use it. The goal is to see behind appearances.” W

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Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet performs on Mar. 3 and 4 at the Vancouver Playhouse as part of the 2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival.

Tickets $50/$60. VIDF runs Mar. 1-25. Tickets and schedule at vidf.ca.

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Paras Terezakis doesn’t believe in religion, he believes in humanity.

The Greek-born,Vancouver-based choreographer and artistic director of Kinesis Dance Somatheatro is on a journey to find utopia – an odyssey akin to the James Joyce Ulysses quote: “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

One way he’s expressing that is with In PENUMBRA – a work that delves into humanity’s insatiable desire for utopia, through Terezakis’ own journey through the dark side. As it celebrates a 30thanniversary landmark, Kinesis Dance will perform the world premiere of In PENUMBRA at the Scotiabank Dance Centre Mar. 1-4, as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival. (Other highlights include San Francisco’s acclaimed troupe Alonzo King LINES Ballet (see left); a Canadian premiere from Japan’s Dairakudakan and Denmark’s Kitt Johnson; West Coast premieres from Toronto’s Kaeja d’Dance and Montreal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle; and a world premiere from Karen Jamieson and Margaret Grenier.)

The work, translated to mean a shadow within a shadow, evokes the grey area between light and dark, says Terezakis – similar to the shadow formed by the eclipse of the moon. “In the search of this utopia, and in between the shade of this dysfunction, [are some] moments of bliss, some moments of happiness.

Seeing the world around me, seeing my own dark places of being, it made me search for a utopia.”

Terezakis immigrated to Canada in 1977 and has since committed his career

Like the shadow cast by an eclipse, ‘In PENUMBRA’ explores the grey area between light and darkness. Chris Randle photo to producing performance art that tackles the topics and emotions of the human condition. “I love my Greek culture. Greeks are impulsive.We talk with our hands, we talk with our bodies, we are passionate. Coming to Canada was my odyssey, my journey, to prove myself.To speak in another language, to assimilate with my [heritage],” he recalls.

The movements of In PENUMBRA are intricate yet disjointed, almost jarring to the untrained eye. It’s as if Terezakis choreographed his own personal dance with darkness; befriending the shadows of his self-discovery in the name of complete creative vulnerability.The result is an emotive and ambitious 60-minute piece that evokes apocalyptic themes, carried by five contemporary dancers.

“Darkness, for me, has another component. Darkness is something that makes us more aware. Sometimes we are more free in darkness than we are in the light. I use this

as part of my creative process, as well as I work a lot with mythology,” says Terezakis.

Along with Terezakis’ experimental choreography, In PENUMBRA also incorporates audio-visual components into the performance with provocative video, industrial and haunting music, and bold condensed LED lighting.The dancers – costumed in pale monochromatic colours – are cunning in their strength and attention to detail, presenting sharp movement that propels the human condition.

“In PENUMBRA is a celebration for my [company],” Terezakis says. “For 30 years I have been exploring radical possibilities – we were the first company to do open rehearsals to showcase our art.

And now, dance is no longer in little a box. Anything goes.”

• TheVancouver International Dance Festival is on now until Mar. 25. In PENUMBRA runs Mar. 1-4 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.Tickets from $25 at vidf.ca. W

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Theatre for Living’s ‘*(#ÿ"%!&) +'$%’ explores reconciliation from the inside out. Contributed photo

The hard road ‘home’

SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

Despite how easily the word “reconciliation” is bandied about by Canadian policy makers, it’s cumbersome and complicated.

In recent years, “reconciliation” has been used as a catch-all to identify the next step in the fraught relations between indigenous and non-indigenous communities – a relationship whose past includes cultural genocide and residential schools, and whose present includes unsafe drinking water, addiction, youth suicides, and missing and murdered women and children.

Between 2008 and 2015, the concept of reconciliation grabbed headlines as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which was organized by the parties of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. The commission delivered its final report in December 2015, but essential questions remain. Where does reconciliation fit into the past and present? Is it an outcome? Is it a journey?

Where does the work of reconciliation occur? And whose responsibility is it to do the work?

Vancouver’s Theatre for Living will attempt to address the many issues of reconciliation in šx am t (home), a theatre piece created and performed by an indigenous and nonindigenous cast that asks its audiences to imagine what reconciliation really means.

The title of the production – šx am t (home), which sounds like shweh-AHmeht (visit the Theatre for Living website for an audio file) – takes its name from a word in the local h n q min m dialect that means home.

Theatre for Living artistic director David Diamond has been working by invitation with indigenous communities for decades, and says

he started discussing the meaning of reconciliation with indigenous colleagues and elders in the wake of the commission.

“I asked everyone, ‘Is reconciliation just an invitation to assimilate more deeply?’

And the answer almost always was, ‘Yes, of course it is, because every invitation is an invitation to assimilate more deeply,’” says Diamond in a recent phone interview.

Thus, šx am t (home, which was developed by an indigenous and non-indigenous workshop group and cast, “explores our blockages, at really human levels, to reconciliation, and asks really serious questions we don’t have answers to,” says Diamond. “About what reconciliation really means, and how we challenge ourselves and each other to move forward on those issues.”

This is not the first time that Theatre for Living has waded into ponderous waters. Over the course of its 36-year history, Theatre for Living (formerly Headlines Theatre) has tackled topics such as racism, violence, addiction, street youth, intergenerational conflict and homelessness. Theatre for Living’s specialty is forum theatre: The play is performed once all the way through, builds to a crisis and then stops, offering no solutions. The play is then run again, with audience members able to “freeze” the action at any point where they see a character engaged in a struggle, and offer up a solution to the problem.

Audience members are by no means required to engage in this way, says Diamond; there is fun to be had simply in watching the action unfold on the stage, and profound discoveries to be made whether or not you yell “freeze!”

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Clockwise from top left: Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Daisy Ridley as Rey, Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, the cast of ‘Project MC2’, and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Contributed photos

She raw: 5 kickass women in film

In honour of International Women’s Day, we honour five of our favourite screen heroines SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

During the first season of Star Trek, the actress who played Lieutenant Uhura – Nichelle Nichols – seriously considered leaving the show. She’d portrayed far more interesting characters as a theatre actress, and she was unsatisfied in a role that mainly required her to answer the USS Enterprise’s space phone. But it was 1966, and her friend, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., implored her to stay; he told her it was important for the mainstream audience to see Nichols, an African American woman, as a valued member of the crew.

And Nichols did stay. She became an icon and a role model for everyone from astronauts to actresses to President Barack Obama (you can read our 2013 interview with Nichelle Nichols at Westender.com).

That idea – that the images that we see on our screen are important – remains relevant today. “Representation matters” isn’t just a catchphrase for protest signs; when the most powerful man in the world brags about assaulting women, women need heroes, both fictional and otherwise.

In honour of International

Women’s Day, here are five female film and television characters who challenge stereotypes, inspire change, and (in some cases) literally kick ass.

saber with equal aplomb, fix anything, and pilot with the best of them. Rey’s story continues when StarWars: The Last Jedi hits theatres in December 2017.

Jessica Jones (portrayed by Krysten Ritter): The titular character of Netflix’s Jessica Jones is a glorious, foul-mouthed antiheroine. Jessica drinks too much; she lies; she’s full of self-loathing; she’s mutantlevel strong and she will kick you off your ass if you hurt her friends. Survivors of sexual violence and stalking have found a hero in Jessica Jones and a women-centric story arc that turns the table on those who’ve done her wrong. Look for Jessica to resurface in a new season of Jessica Jones and the upcoming Netflix superhero series The Defenders, in which she’ll join forces with fellow Marvel Comics anti-heroes Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist.

Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live: Melissa McCarthy doesn’t wear a cape when she portrays President Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer on NBC staple Saturday Night Live, but she is a goddamned superhero. President Trump is reportedly quite bothered

by McCarthy’s picture- and tone-perfect portrayal of his befuddled and truth-twisting spokesman. Shout-out to McCarthy for making us laugh at the truth (or is it the alt-truth?) during these wholly unfunny times.

Rey (portrayed by Daisy Ridley) in Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Although the original Star Wars Trilogy has plenty of female fans – and respect must be paid to the ass-kicking General Leia Organ, who led the rebels to multiple victories – besides Leia, women were few and far between in the films.

And then came 2015’s Star Wars:The Force Awakens, and its star (sorry, BB-8), Rey. While Rey’s exact origins are still yet to be determined (Is she a Skywalker?

A Kenobi? A clone?), what is clear is that Rey isn’t a damsel in distress. She can wield a blaster and a light-

The girls of Project MC2: Netflix’s original series for tweens – Project MC2 – features four preteen heroines who fight crime on behalf of a secret government organization using science, technology, engineering, math, and moxie. As Vancouver actress Johannah Newmarch (who portrays season 2 villain Carson Lazarus) told us last year, “We don’t have to be just one thing, so why can’t there be a show that celebrates fashion and playfulness and female sisterhood, as well as science saving the world?” Stream it on Netflix.

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman: We’re still a few months out from the world premiere of DC’s Wonder Woman film, which stars Gal Gadot as the powerful

Amazonian princess who embodies strength, courage, and justice (and also has rad accessories like the Lasso of Truth and bulletrepelling bracelets), but we like what we saw of her in last year’s otherwise mediocre Batman v. Superman.

While the Dark Knight and the Son of Krypton engaged in a ridiculous, self-indulgent grudge match, Wonder Woman stayed focused on the task at hand. Between that and the Wonder Woman trailer, we suspect that this might just be our favourite film of summer 2017. W

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Kiss and tell it like it is Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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Laura Adkin took a giant what-if question from her own love life and spun it into an award-winning film.

The film is The Goodnight Kiss, and the question was a doozy:What if I take this new relationship up a notch?

It’s a scary question for a lot of people embarking on a new relationship, and an ambitious one for a directorial debut – especially when you co-wrote the short film with your reallife love interest. And you just broke up. And he’s going to co-star in it anyway.

“We wrote it, and then we broke up, and then we got the funding, and I was like, ‘Oh, okay, crap, I guess we have to make this movie,’” laughs Adkin, a Vancouver actress who’s worked the local screen scene for 15 years, and co-wrote 2015’s IWanna Date U.The other half of Adkin’s “we” is actor David James Lewis, a Leo Award winner whose recent credits include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Travelers.

The premise of The Goodnight Kiss was where Adkin was at in her own life, and in her relationship with Lewis.

“We had just started dating, and it was the first time that I had ever been, ‘This is a person that I’m really into,’ and that freaked me out. I needed

to work through that. Making the movie is what made us get back together.”

The Goodnight Kiss – which has its hometown premiere next week at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival after playing in Edmonton, Austin, and Whistler last year – stars Lewis and Lisa Durupt (Murder, She Baked) as a couple on a first date whose future hinges on whether or not they press their lips together for a paradigmshifting goodnight kiss.

Over the course of 10 minutes, the characters careen through a decade of little joys and major challenges – before one trippy twist that catapults The Goodnight Kiss out of “relationship drama” territory and into a genre all its own.

“I feel like I would call it a dark comedy, because it kind of bends genres a little bit,” says Adkin. “It won a best comedy award [at the Edmonton International Film Festival], so I was like, ‘I guess we’re a comedy?’” For what it’s worth, Reel People sees it as a romantic horror dramedy.

Adkin chuckles as she describes The Goodnight Kiss as a “terrible choice” for her directorial debut. “We had 29 scenes in a nine-page script that covers a 10-year period with two actors who need 21 hair and makeup and wardrobe changes, including aging them up,” says Adkin.

But she’d do it all again, and intends to populate her future projects with anti-hero characters like the ones played

by Durupt and Lewis. “I like stories with anti-heroes.

I like people that you don’t necessarily want to root for,

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@MyszkaWay Growing up, my family always had Archie comics in the house. My younger sister was obsessed, carrying them around in place of a security blanket. Archie, Betty,Veronica, Jughead and Moose came with her everywhere she went.

They were stacked beside the bed, left on the back of the toilet seat, and thrown on the playroom coffee table.

I wasn’t a fanatic like my sister (I was a bit too old for Archie when she was all about it), but I loved the juxtaposition of Betty and Veronica: good girl vs. bad girl.

Any Betty andVeronica Double Digest special issue was my favourite. The books that took place on the beach were always littered with scandals and great outfits. It was even better when Cheryl Blossom showed up: The threat of her redheaded vixen presence bound Betty and Veronica together in the quest to keep

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Archie was so innocent and oblivious, it practically handicapped him in all walks of life, except when it came to women. The chicks adored him. How did a scrawny, freckle-faced nerd with caterpillar eyebrows, a cheesy band and a pretty “meh” athletic career retain the love and attention of every hot girl in Riverdale?

The Archie series was addicting, like emotional heroin for kids. I hadn’t revisited the characters for years – that is until this past weekend, when my sister showed me the new CW teen drama, Riverdale. This live-action TV series is based on the Archie comic book, but it throws the original’s 1950s innocence out the window and replaces it with heavy doses of sex, murder, slut-shaming and scandal.

The whole gang is here: Archie, Betty, Veronica, Cheryl, Miss Grundy, Mr. Weatherbee, even Big Ethel makes an appearance.

But they’ve upped the hunk factor on Archie. After spending the summer lugging concrete for his father (played by 90210 blast-fromthe-past Luke Perry), Archie has developed a six-pack and some serious glamour muscles. Betty stares at Archie’s body from across their neighbouring bedroom windows, while her mother relentlessly knocks on her door, reminding her to get her Adderall prescription refilled. Veronica shows up in town and, unlike in the comics, her rivalry with Betty doesn’t last long. (A feminist twist for the modern generation? At one point, they take down most of the senior football team over an alleged sexual-assault logbook.)

On Riverdale, Veronica isn’t wealthy anymore, but formerly so. He dad ends up in jail and her mother is forced to go from New York socialite to waitress (yet somehow still live in a townhouse with

a butler). Though Archie is a football stud, his real passion is music, and soon Josie & the Pussycats let him in to their rehearsals. Jughead isn’t just a burger-huffing string bean who’s terrified of girls, but a moody, aspiring writer whose alleged “book” about Riverdale narrates the series. (Spoiler Alert: Jughead’s father is the head of a sketchy local biker gang and also played by a former ’90s heartthrob.)

Moose is bi-curious. Like most teenagers mid-20thcentury, they fuck at the drive-in or by the river, yet they also have to deal with modern dating woes like raunchy Photoshopping and false sex rumours. (Do you know what a “Sticky Maple” is? Because I didn’t before episode three, and I’m from goddamn Canada.)

Above all this, though, the true wholesomeness of Riverdale is smashed to pieces when the mysterious death of Cheryl Blossom’s twin brother, Jason, sends a ripple of disaster through the town.

It’s the perfect soap opera: dramatic, over-the-top, campy and grossly addicting. Everyone is overdressed, manicured and attractive.

Veronica’s eyebrows could have their own mini-series.

I forgot how enjoyable it is to watch romantic, dramatic television that unfolds like a play. In a world of cheap reality programing, we get our drama fix from “real people” in “real situations,” but it’s really just a producer putting drunk, crazy people in situations that make them overreact. Riverdale is engrossing because it’s so farfetched. I forgot how much I miss fiction. It can be really satisfying.

Instead of watching another rerun of Chopped, I suggest you test-drive a few episodes of Riverdale. If you don’t find yourself reacting to the episodes like it’s the NFL, then I concede: Go watch Chopped. But something tells me any fan of the Archie series will fall hard for this program. W

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Picked up as a stray last summer, nine-year-old Ricki was immediately deemed “not highly adoptable” due to her condition. Having lost much of her fur to a horrible flea infestation, the medium-sized tabby was covered in scabs in places where she’d scratched herself raw. But staff at the Senior Animals In Need Today Society (SAINTS), in Mission, saw the potential in Ricki, and agreed to take her on as a transfer from the local SPCA. “She’d been put on a hypoallergenic diet, in case she had food allergies,” recalls Erin Bain, an animal caretaker at SAINTS who jokingly refers to herself as one of Ricki’s personal staff. “When she came to us, she was treated for fleas, all her hair grew back, and we weaned her off the hypo diet. She eats regular food now – she loves all different food, she’s not a picky eater.

Maybe she remembers her time on the streets, having no food at all.”

With her health back in order, Ricki’s personality was finally able to shine through.

Still playful in middle age, she often “spunks out and races around, up and over furniture, up and down her favourite scratching post.”

Plus, she’s a people lover – if you sit in her area, she will find your lap. “She loves attention, loves interactive toys – anything engaging or interesting,” says Bain. “She likes to frequent our enclosed ‘catio,’ so she can chase bugs and watch the world.”

Though she currently lives with 10 other cats and “manages,” Ricki, given the choice, would be the only cat in her forever home. “In her dream home, in her perfect world, she is queen feline,” says Bain. “She shows no interest when dogs come to the gate, so we would expect

no real issues – assuming, of course, the dog did not chase her. We don’t know for sure, but she might be a ‘fight’ rather than a ‘flight’ type of girl when it comes to dogs.”

Ricki, she adds, would make a terrific family pet.

“She would do well in any home, though I think an active family would be ideal. She’s not ready for a slow-down retirement just yet; she has years full of fun and games waiting for her and would like to be played with – maybe a kid dangling a shoelace or using a laser pointer. The more people in the family, the more opportunity for getting love!”

Bain is keen to point out that, though Ricki does love attention and play time, she’s a “not-all-in-your-face” independent type – a cat who knows what she wants. She’s also a fan of high-up places: she has a favourite shelf unit at SAINTS, at the very top of which her bed is perched.

“She’d be the cat that sleeps on the top bunk in a child’s room,” says Bain, adding that Ricki would benefit from a high cat tree in front of a window where, after play time is over, she could curl up in a spot of sunshine for a snooze.

To sum up, this lovely middle-aged gal is seeking an indoor-only forever home (a safe, enclosed outdoor space with no chance for escape would be fine) with an adopter who will dote on and love her. “She deserves to be a focal point, a spoiled member of the family,” Bain concludes. “She will give, in return, wonderful companionship, loads of attention and best friendship. Ricki desperately needs more one-on-one attention at this point and, being the strong, loving personality that she is, would bring life to a home.”

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