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CLOSING TIME Re:“WestValley Market to Close,” Mar. 9, 2017 –From Facebook Graham Bingham: “So sad!

I’ve shopped here regularly for the last 30 years. West Valley is a West End institution. I’ll miss the friendly staff and the great product selection.”

Deborah Graham: “I’ve shopped here since 1977 and always appreciated being able to find items unavailable anywhere else in the neighbourhood. I’ll miss this place!”

Alaina Brianne: “Aw, I so appreciated having you there. and you will be dearly missed! It was always nice to be able to purchase exotic favorites from home! Inka Kola in Particular!”

Amanda Rositch: “This breaks my heart. I pretty much only shopped there when I was living in that area. They always had things I couldn’t find elsewhere & the staff are the nicest people you could meet.”

Hansee Harrington: “I used to walk all the way from the west of Denman, when I lived there, to buy one specific brand of locally produced yoghurt. I haven’t found anywhere else that carries it since. The west end won’t be the same without them.”

FEEL THE BURR Re:“The tarnished halo of the Canucks’ Alex Burrows,” March 9, 2017 You say “let’s not get crazy” when referring to Burrows’ number in the rafters. I for one do not think that is really all that crazy. He made every

player he played with better, including the twins and Kessler. He was an important spark to the team. He played with passion and full tilt ALL the time.Yes, let’s not get crazy, but putting his number in the rafters is no more crazy than putting Smyl’s in.

–Appaulled WHALE OF A TALE Re:“Vancouver park board votes to ban whales and dolphins at aquarium,” Mar. 9, 2017 –Web only The Vancouver Aquarium should review legal options.

Stanley Park is on federal land leased by the City of Vancouver. Does the park board actually have legal authority to ban whales? The aquarium should review the terms of their lease agreement with the park board. Can the park board suddenly make major changes to the lease agreement without the aquarium’s consent?

Since the park board has unilaterally imposed a major change to the lease conditions, the aquarium may be free to break the lease. Perhaps it is time for the aquarium to move to a less hostile location, such as Squamish Nations land on the North Shore.

At very least the actions of the park board should be a cautionary tale for any businesses considering doing business on park board property.

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So, are you Uber excited?

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Uber is finally coming to Vancouver. Last week, the provincial government announced that the extremely popular international ridehailing service will likely arrive in BC by the end of the year, despite staunch opposition from the taxi industry and City Hall.

For all of its fancy cosmopolitan efforts, Vancouver is rather infamous for being the last major city in North America to give the green light to a service like Uber or its closest competitor, Lyft. It was becoming an embarrassment – especially if you’ve used it in, say, San Francisco or New York.

With all due respect to our cab drivers (if you can find one), it’s about time.

Uber and similar services are quite simply a major upgrade in ease of transportation for residents and tourists, and that helps our nerves and our economy.

It’s likely that our neverending winter finally drove the Uber decision through.

If you, like me, tried to catch a cab during Snowmageddon (November to present), you were probably shit out of luck. As recently as a very snowy March 6, I attempted to book a Vancouver taxi through the company’s app.

I received a message back that its server was down – which was, to be polite, frus-

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a new weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Vancouver comedian and actress Sara Bynoe, with ‘Main and Empty.’

MAIN AND EMPTY one week before I got fired from waiting on tables at East Van’s favourite late-night eatery across from the neon light store/ drug front down from ten coffee shops in four blocks next to stores with silk screened ironic t-shirts locally made jewelry and retro records filling my arms with local brew, sangria and the mix of the day, black beans on basmati, coconut milk and quinoa, mango, tofu, peanut sauce, large nachos the size of my torso Not everyone is happy about the provincial government’s plan for ride-share legislation, but Grant Lawrence certainly is. Shutterstock photo trating. I went old-school and called the number that I’ve had memorized since the 1990s. I was immediately put on hold due to high call volume, and was informed by a recorded voice that the hold time would be roughly 20 minutes. Who knew how long it would take for a taxi to arrive? This was on a Sunday afternoon. In 2017. Give me a break.

For those who have heard of the Uber brand but are unaware of exactly what it is, it’s pretty simple: If you need a ride somewhere (say, in the 528 cities worldwide where Uber already exists), you can download the app for your smartphone. Type in where you are and where you want to go, and the app will tell you how many Uber cars are near you and how much it will cost to take

you to your destination. The rides are paid through your phone, and the fares are a lot cheaper than cabs. It’s supposed to be a wallet-less experience.

So, who are the drivers?

You. Me. Anybody with a car that is properly licensed through Uber (and, when the service finally arrives here, through the province of BC). The Uber site famously offers an attractive entrepreneurial sales pitch: Work that puts you first. Drive when you want, make what you need. In other words, no beholden shiftwork. Not to sound too rah-rah, but Uber is a (very) successful example of the sharing economy we now live in, and you can’t stop progress.

Full credit to Vancouver cab companies: They are the last civic taxi monopoly still

standing. To soften the blow of the inevitable, the province has offered $1 million in cash to the industry to develop its own updated app, as well as Uber-free zones at taxi stands, for street hailing, or for picking up anyone calling by phone.

Uber isn’t perfect. As my wife aptly pointed out, one of the criticisms for users is that there aren’t enough properly equipped vehicles for those with ambulatory disabilities.

But, of course, Uber is onto that, and apparently has several pilot programs in cities around the continent using wheelchair-accessible vehicles.

Change happens, and our needs as citizens evolve. It’s a shame that ride-hailing has become a political hot potato in Vancouver. But unlike your average Uber driver, this decision is really late. W

two guys are sitting at a back table drinking one p.m. beers one hides behind Buddy Holly glasses the other shields with a sleeve of tattoos we talk while white people with dreadlocks listen to hip hop while the smell of spray paint loiters in the alley while the new cook burns the chili and I’m shedding dreams like onion tears after three rounds they left behind torn napkins empty cigarette boxes an insulting 6% tip and a note YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL The Westender included Sara Bynoe in their list of Vancouver’s most hilarious people twice. She has an MA in creative and life writing, and her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, TheTyee, and several poetry magazines. She also edited the anthology Teen Angst:A Celebration of REALLY BAD

Poetry (St. Martin’s Press).You can find her onTwitter and Instagram @SaraBynoe.

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Narcan kits becoming a party essential VERONNICA MACKILLOP @vmackillop

Are you prepared when you go out? With the increasing threat of fentanyl being found in party drugs, people are taking extra precautions when it comes to their party habits, including having a Narcan kit on hand to prevent opioid overdoses.

According to the province’s chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, cocaine was found in 46 per cent of all fentanylrelated deaths in BC in 2016.

This number is higher than heroin-related deaths, only 30 per cent of which contained fentanyl in the bloodstream.

Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid pain medication similar to morphine, has also been found in other drugs, such as MDMA, oxycodone, and Xanax.

Many party spaces now have people who are Narcantrained in attendance carrying naloxone kits. Narcan/ naloxone can be used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose when administered within three to five minutes of the onset of symptoms.

Man Up, a monthly party and drag show hosted at the Cobalt Cabaret in Vancouver, always has a Narcantrained “buddy” at its shows.

February’s buddy, Emily Groundwater, thinks that the crisis has started important conversations about how to party safely in the city. “It’s created a wonderful dialogue for safe party spaces,” Groundwater said, speaking in the Man Up dressing room before February’s

A man walks past a Vancouver bus shelter with a poster promoting naloxone kits. Dan Toulgoet photo show. “I also see it happening not just with the buddy system, but in other party spaces around the city, such as the Red Gate.”

At Man Up, the buddy on duty carries a “buddy kit”.

The kit contains bottled water, tampons, granola bars, condoms, lube, and a naloxone kit. Groundwater said that the buddy system helps everyone feel safe at shows.

“Most of the time, people just need a bottle of water or help getting a cab,” she said, adding that the buddy system is more frequently called upon at busier shows, such as Halloween or Pride.

Groundwater added that the key to staying safe is to never use drugs alone. “Always be with a friend,” she advised. “Especially if you’re taking substances. It’s just generally not a safe idea to be doing [drugs] alone.”

With drug overdoses claiming a staggering 914 lives in BC in 2016, Groundwater

said that the chance of overdosing or ingesting something other than what you thought it was is high.

“Having somebody there to make sure you can navigate the night is very important.”

Narcan kits can be purchased at almost any pharmacy for $20.The naloxone itself can be purchased separately for about $30. Provincial harm-reduction program Toward the Heart – a division of the BC Centre for Disease Control – has a Take-Home Naloxone (THN) program that offers free Narcan kits to anyone who considers themselves, or the people around them, to be at risk of experiencing an overdose.

According to the program’s website, there are 476 THN distribution sites in BC, from which 32,858 kits have been distributed. Of that, 6,157 kits have been reported as used to reverse an overdose since the program started in 2012.

Toward the Heart provides

an online training manual to help people learn how to properly respond to an opioid overdose. The manual outlines risk factors, overdose prevention tips, an explanation of naloxone and how to administer it.

Dr. Jane Buxton, harm reduction lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control, warns that using alone is very dangerous. “People should talk to each other and work to reduce stigma,” she said over email. “Also, help people make a plan, talk about how to use more safely and help each other find and access resources.”

A THN kit contains the following: a pair of gloves, a breathing mask, two alcohol swabs, two needles, three doses of naloxone, a list of SAVE ME steps, and a form to fill out when the kit has been used.

Caleb Tiessen, 21, has taken it upon himself to purchase a kit to keep himself and his friends safe. “When I go to parties, I make sure I tell the host of the party, I make sure I tell all my friends that I have a Narcan kit,” Tiessen said. “So it’s for everybody and anybody.”

Tiessen said that $50 is a small price to pay for a kit and that everyone should carry one and be informed.

“I think everyone should be educated on the symptoms of opioid overdoses,” he said.

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HIV, STI rates among gay, bi, queer men examined in new Vancouver study SARAH RIPPLINGER @sripplinger

Men in Vancouver at higher risk of contracting HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) are being recruited to participate in a study that aims to identify ways to prevent the spread of these diseases.

Called Engage, the fiveyear study is the largest of its kind in Canada and is collecting information about the spread of HIV and STIs in the gay, bi, queer and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) communities in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Findings will be used for disease prevention initiatives and could inform future health care policies.

“One of the challenges is that HIV treatment has made HIV a much less frightening illness” today, compared to 20 years ago, when a diagnosis was often seen as a death sentence, said study co-principal investigator Dr. David Moore.This, along with issues around mental health and substance use, could be leading to more liberal sexual behaviour among gbMSM, Moore said, and is something that Engage will examine.

To complete the Vancouver arm of the study, which launched within the past month, researchers are partnering with local community organizations, such as the Health Initiative for Men, Positive Living BC and YouthCO. A commu-

nity engagement committee has also been formed that includes representatives from Engage and men from various gbMSM communities, such as trans men and men from different cultural backgrounds.

While gbMSM account for over 57 percent of new HIV diagnoses, according to a 2014 study by the BC Centre for Disease Control, the causes and behaviours behind the statistics are complex.

“Engage is trying to give us a better understanding of why we have not seen decreases in gbMSM that we’ve seen in other populations,” said Jody Jollimore, principal knowledge user with Engage and director of policy and provincial engagement with the Community Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health in Vancouver. “This study enables us to increase our ability to get a handle on what the situation is.”

Something that Jollimore said has been identified as a way to save lives is pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, a prescription medication taken by people at high risk of contracting HIV to prevent them from becoming infected with the disease. At a cost of $1,000 per month – the medication is not publically funded in BC – it is also something many individuals cannot afford.

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Kokoro stands out from the ramen multitude KOKORO RAMEN

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It seems like you can’t throw a rock these days without hitting a ramen shop.The popular noodle-soup joints are becoming more ubiquitous than sushi, and are showing remarkable staying power. (Of the more than one dozen that have opened in the last couple of years, only two have closed.)

Kokoro Ramen opened in November of last year.

Located in the busy Victoria Drive hub at East 41st Avenue, it sits proudly on the northwest corner, not bothering to hide its blushes with bamboo-covered windows or any of the like. It’s all to the good:Walk in and you immediately appreciate the light and airy feeling from the tall, wide row of windows on one side. Pale wood banquettes and tables encircle a central communal dining bar that seats patrons around a ledge that holds flowers, utensils

Kokoro’s Very Veggie Ramen. Dan Toulgoet photo and other mise en place. One wall is covered in bold arches of colourful paint, adding a nice focal point to the room.

Kokoro means “heart” or “spirit,” and there’s plenty of that on the menu.The vegetarian ramen ($10.50) has a base of kombu (seaweed), shitake mushrooms and coconut milk – a smooth, slightly creamy broth that comes topped with seasonal vegetables. (On a recent visit, that included kabocha squash, broccoli, corn, zucchini and carrots).The chicken-broth ramen ($12.50) is also a little creamy, and rich in umami; topped with torched chashu pork, kabocha, broccoli, corn, snap peas and seaweed, it’s a

Better with bitters

In the sixth and final piece in our series on building your home bar, we look at the essential made-in-Vancouver bitters for every bar Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

@TheAlchemistBC It’s right there in the original description of a cocktail, dating back to 1806: “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters – it is vulgarly called a bittered sling.”

In other words, bitters are what make a cocktail a cocktail. And that makes bitters an essential part of any home or professional bar.

Bitters are concoctions of spices, herbs and other botanicals, originally created as medicinal tonics, but now used mainly as flavouring additives. They’re bitter, yes, but they can also be herbal, spicy, floral, sweet, juicy, smoky, savoury and really, really complex.

Thousands of bitters have been created over time; in the golden age of the cocktail, back in the 1860s, many bartenders created their own.

But because they are typically alcohol-based infusions, bitters were banned during Prohibition and most were subsequently lost to history. One bitter slipped through a loophole, though, and until recently that was the only bitter you were likely to find in Canada: the mildly spicy Angostura.

But now, dozens of bitters are once again available, all designed to add flavour and complexity to cocktails. Some have been recreated from historic recipes and others are newly crafted by top bartenders. Some are even made right here in Vancouver.

In fact, says Sam Unger, “Some of the best bitters in the world come out of this city.”

She should know. She and her father Philip Unger are the founders of Ms. Better’s Bitters, one of three world-class bitters brands created here.

The other two are Bittered Sling, created by bartender Lauren Mote, and Apothecary Bitters, from bartender Cole Benoit. All three are handcrafted, small batch, innovative and very Vancouver.

Unlike Mote and Cole, though, the Ungers are not bartenders: Unger is an artist who works with olfactory environments; her dad develops food products at a facility in Port Coquitlam.

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delicious, light and remarkably healthy dish.

Speaking of health, owner Yasu Hiro serves his ramen in either black bowls (for traditional recipes) or white bowls (for more nutritious options).

The kitchen also enjoys a bit of whimsy. A visit with my daughter saw her ramen topped with two hearts cut out of seaweed sheets. (I got one as well, so that I wouldn’t “feel left out.”)

Tonkotsu shoyu is the house ramen.Tonkotsu refers to a broth based entirely on pork bones that is not skimmed – rather, the fat is emulsified into the broth, making it extremely rich, thick and porky. Shoyu is soy sauce that bitters after Philip Unger found a century-old recipe book that included a recipe for Angostura. Every time they created something new, like their Pineapple Star Anise or Lime Leaf bitters, they’d drop by Bambudda (sadly, now closed) in Gastown to get bartenders such as Tarquin Melnyk to test them.

“We kept bombarding Tarquin and bringing him things,” Unger says with a laugh. “It was when we brought him the vegan foamer that he said, ‘This time, I think you’ve got something.’ ” “All the other products are amazing, but this gave us a foot in the door,” says Melnyk. “It stands alone in its category.” The foamer is now being used in bars from San Francisco to London, Italy and Hong Kong.

The foamer replaces egg whites in drinks like sours, flips and fizzes. It is easy to use, food-safe and ecofriendly. It is also wonderfully frothy, and avoids that unpleasant eggy aroma (which is why drinks shaken with egg whites almost always have a splash of something aromatic on top).

Which brings us back to bitters.

After two and a half years of tinkering, Ms. Betters Bitters officially launched in January 2016. A year later, the Ungers have created some 80 products, of which

is added to the tonkotsu for extra depth of flavour.The saltiness of the soy helps cut the fattiness of the broth.

Kokoro’s version lives up to the descriptor. It’s dark, rich, salty and delicious. Paired with that torched chashu and the requisite slow-cooked egg, it’s an excellent way to ward off the rainy-day megrims.

For something different, try the Typhoon ramen ($12).

The kitchen only makes about 30 portions daily, but it’s worth coming early to order it.This is a mazemen-style ramen, meaning no broth.

Instead, it’s just noodles, green onion, house XO sauce, spicy miso, chashu, seasoned ground pork, wood ear mushroom, chilli-pepper threads and vegetables. Get it with the egg ($1.50) and go to town.

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That’s a lot to chose from, so which do you actually need for your own home bar? Melnyk recommends starting with the Orange Tree, Chocolate, and Batch 42 Aromatic bitters, which all just happen to go together perfectly to create the best Old Fashioned you’ve every tried.

The Orange Tree “is like if you’re being dropped into an orange tree from a balloon,” Unger says. It starts with a floral orange blossom aroma, continues with a green leafy note, followed by a juicy burst of orange fruit and, finally, the woodsy bitterness of bark.

The Chocolate has a healthy shot of chili in it, adding bite to brandy or bourbon drinks, while Unger describes the cinnamon aromatic bitters, which are made with 48 different botanicals, as “Angostura on steroids.”

There are plenty of other choices, though, from the cooling Cypress Bowl to the spicy Black Pepper Cardamom to the juicy and refreshing Green Strawberry Mah-Kwan that, to Unger, tastes of nostalgia.

But whatever bitters you choose, it will surely make your cocktail experience a sweeter one.

For more info on Ms. Better’s Bitters and the Miraculous Foamer, visit msbetters.com.

They are also available for sale at The Modern Bartender and Sips Cocktail Emporium. W

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@FoodGirlFriday Felix Zhou, chef and coowner of Heritage Asian Eatery, has won both the Peoples’ and Judges’ Choice awards at the fourth annual Curry Cup competition.

His dish, a Yarrow Meadows duck curry with potato rösti, will be available at his restaurant through to Mar. 17. EatHeritage.ca Chef Angus An of Maenam, Freebird, Fat Mao and Longtail Kitchen is expanding his restaurant empire with a new dry noodle bar on Granville Island. Located in the Net Loft, Sen Pad Thai will offer various stir-fried noodle dishes, similar to pad Thai, along with sides and snacks like Thai chicken wings, papaya salad, desserts, and Thai sodas and iced tea.

Look for the opening midApril. SenPadThai.com The ninth annual Chinese Restaurant Awards results have been announced. Heritage Asian Eatery won the critics’ choice for their pork belly bao, and Dynasty Seafood Restaurant won critics’ choice for both the spicy garlic Dungeness crab and the baked minced pork pie

with black pepper. Dynasty also won Restaurant of the Year. Executive chef Alex Chen of Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar won the Inspiration award. See the full list of both critics’ and social media’s choice winners at ChineseRestaurantAwards.com.

La Mezcaleria on Commercial Drive is now open on Mondays starting at 5pm. In addition, the restaurant is now offering a late-night happy hour from 9pm to 11pm that mirrors their early happy hour menu, but with the addition of an $8 feature cocktail. Get wine or beer for $5, the popular queso fundido for $8, seafood ceviche for $6, and more.

LaMezcaleria.ca Bodega on Main is now open for brunch on weekends from 11am to 3pm.

The new menu offers playful twists on Spanish dishes, such as breakfast paella, cava pancakes with dulce de leche and salted Marcona almonds, “pollo” and waffles with brandy syrup, breakfast bocadillo, tortilla omelette, morcilla blood sausage, and even yogurt and granola with Marcona almonds, sliced apples and organic honey. There is also a new cocktail list, created by consultant Katie Parkinson. BodegaOnMain.ca W

RECIPE // Tarquin Melnyk for Ms. Betters Bitters photo.

THE LAST WALL This Mexican-influenced variation on the classic Last Word cocktail was created by bartender Tarquin Melnyk to highlight the fresh, juicy Ms. Better’s Green Strawberry Mah-Kwan bitters. “It has the biggest wow factor when people are trying bitters for the first time,” he says.

• 1 oz (30 mL) mezcal, preferably Siete Misterios

• 1 oz (30 mL) green Chartreuse • 1 oz (30 mL) Luxardo Maraschino liqueur • 1 oz (30 mL) fresh lime juice • 2 dashes Ms. Better’s Green Strawberry Mah-Kwan bitters Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice; shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Domaine de Beaurenard is a small, highly regarded property in the Southern Rhône appellation of Châteauneufdu-Pape, France, that has been in the same family for seven generations. Victor Coulon, who represents the eighth generation, paid a visit to Vancouver last week.

He is surely only in his 20s, but speaks like someone with decades of experience.

He received his diploma in agronomy in 2012 and now works in all aspects of his family’s estate, from the vineyard to the winery, as well as sales and marketing.

“I like it all,” he says.

Coulon wholeheartedly embraces the traditions passed down from his ancestors. Domaine de Beaurenard is one of just a few properties in Châteauneufdu-Pape that still uses all 13 authorized grapes in the blend. (Most stick to the main four: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Cinsaut.)

But he’s equally on board with recent evolutions. His father converted the property to organic farming and, since 2011, it is also Demeter-certified biodynamic. This holistic approach to farming takes organic viticulture to a whole other level. Coulon believes that using biodynamic practices and having a diversity of grape varieties are key in

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How does it feel to be responsible for such a heritage? “Big pressure!” Coulon exclaims. “At some point, I felt it was too much, but then I decided I just have to make my own contribution to the process. I think about how lucky I am to be able to continue it.”

My conversation with Coulon got me thinking about BC’s own, very young industry. Most of the province’s wineries are still first-generation, although at some of the earliest established properties, the second generation is lending more than a helping hand.

When Summerhill Pyramid Winery founder Stephen Cipes decided to step back from his business, he hired a professional management company to help run the property. “They were treating it like a widget factory rather than something with heart and soul,” says Stephen’s son Ezra. Driven by a sense of duty and responsibility to their family, he and his brothers decided to get involved. Ezra gave up pursuing a music career and is now CEO of Summerhill.

Rather than being a burden, he finds the responsibility freeing. “It gives you a real

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Similar to Château du Beaurenard, most of Summerhill’s vineyards are certified organic, and the Summerhill vineyard in Kelowna is Demeter-certified biodynamic as of 2012.

I guess carrying on a family legacy is all about adopting an attitude of ‘blessing over burden.’ It also helps when that heritage is some-

thing you’re proud of. And, as Ezra points out, wine is way more compelling than widgets.

2013 Domaine de Beaurenard Châteauneuf-du-Pape ($62.99, BC Liquor Stores) There are a few bottles of

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Meet the mad scientists of craft beer Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

@TheGrowlerBC Contrary to what your local craft brewery’s Instagram feed might suggest, making beer is anything but glamorous.

There are no poignant shafts of light to catch motes of dust floating in the air – just fluorescent tubes incessantly flickering overhead.

It’s long, hot, backbreaking work. And it’s dangerous!

There are thousands of litres of boiling wort, pressurized gases, confined spaces and metal bits and pieces jutting out in every direction.There’s all this math and chemistry involved, too, and that’s no fun either.

Except, that for a certain breed of individual, it is fun.

Ask any brewer what they love about their job, and they will likely tell you it’s the thrill of experimentation, the satisfaction of creating something from scratch, the challenge of taking something and constantly refining it to make it better, and, of course, the joy

in sampling and sharing your own handiwork.

It should come as no surprise, then, that many BC craft brewers were, in fact, scientists in their previous lives.

After decades in academia, they traded Bunsen burners and centrifuges for mash tuns and brew kettles.Today in their beer laboratories, they conduct their experiments, combining water, grain, hops and yeast to create delicious craft beer, using many of the same scientific skills and techniques they used in their previous careers.

JAMES WALTON, STORM BREWING

It has been said that a messy office is the sign of creative mind, so judging by the looks of James Walton’s shambolic workspace, the man is a certified genius.There are beakers of tinctures and extracts sitting on every available surface, and the ground is near ankle-deep with a tangled detritus of hoses, buckets and random brewing equipment.

Here in his laboratory at the north end of Commercial Drive,Walton has not-so-quietly become a visionary force

Category 12 Brewing brewmaster Michael Kuzyk holds a PhD in nuclear physics. Contributed photo in the BC craft beer scene over the past 20-plus years.

Walton has never been shy about letting his freak flag fly.

With his spiked hair, platform KISS boots, and leather everything, he definitely puts the “mad” in “mad scientist” – and that’s just the way he likes it.

As a bored teen in Port Alberni,Walton first began experimenting with beer after reading about brewing in an encyclopedia, of all places.

He managed to malt his own barley and eventually created something resembling beer.

It was barely drinkable, but it had alcohol in it, and for a 15-year-old without a fake ID, that was good enough.

Walton eventually earned a degree in mycology from UBC (yeast is a fungus, after all), going on to manage a massive mushroom farming operation in the Fraser Valley before moving on to the much cleaner environment of pharmaceutical manufacturing.

But, as exciting and lucrative as pumping out intravenous bags and cough syrup was, Walton’s passion lay elsewhere.

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“A lot of people thought I was crazy, because no one else was doing craft beer back then,” he says. “But within a few months I knew I’d be successful.”

Unlike many other breweries, Storm Brewing started small and is determined to stay that way.Walton estimates he’s brewed more than 250 different beers since he first opened in 1994 and, thanks to the size of his operation, he’s able to oversee each and every batch.

“I don’t want to take over the world,”Walton says. “I just don’t want to sit in an office.”

Walton says he draws upon his scientific training, particularly his background in organic chemistry, on a daily basis. And nowhere is his penchant for experimentation more evident than in Glacial Mammoth Extinction, believed to be Canada’s strongest beer.Walton ice distills the beer, slowly freezing it so flat ice crystals form and settle out.The end result is sweet and syrupy, not unlike port wine, and weighs in at a hefty 25% ABV.

BART LARSON, MT. BEGBIE BREWING

To hear Mt. Begbie Brewing owner and brewmaster Bart Larson tell it, his decision to pursue a career in science sounds like it was motivated by having nothing better to do.

“Yeah, I don’t know how I got into science,” he says. “It was more of an aptitude thing, I guess. I was in high school and I preferred science to art at least, you know. I just enjoyed mathematics, chemistry, physics.”

He’s just being modest, of course. Larson didn’t just “get into science.” He holds a PhD in nuclear physics and has worked on some of the world’s most advanced particle accelerators in his quest to discover the secrets of the universe. For real.

So what made him decide to leave the Los Alamos National Laboratory and return to his hometown of Revelstoke and open a brewery, you ask? “I’m a BC boy,” Larson says. “Growing up here, you just can’t think of anywhere better.”

Since there weren’t a lot of nuclear physicist jobs in Revelstoke (shocker, I know), he decided to turn his lifelong hobby of brewing into a business.

For Larson, brewing has always appealed to his analytical side, and he admits he’s “probably more of a scientific brewer than an artsy kind of brewer.”

“Scientists, we like technology, and we’re not afraid to experiment, and we like solving problems and troubleshooting, so I think that’s why brewing appeals to us,” he says. “It’s that manner of thinking.You’ve been taught this way, like, this is how to

approach a problem. Knowing the scientific method and how to troubleshoot a problem, isolate a variable and do a proper series of tests, you can figure out what you really need to know or what’s really going on.

“Plus, you’re making beer, which is great!”

MICHAEL KUZYK, CATEGORY 12 BREWING

With a PhD in microbiology and biochemistry, Category 12 owner and brewer Michael Kuzyk’s work in the field of human disease research helped to advance the understanding of cancer and metabolic disorders. But after years of working his way up the research ladder, he found himself at a point where he wasn’t really doing anything scientific anymore.

“My research career kind of forced me into more of an administrative role,” he explains. “I was away from the lab and I felt like I was really missing out on that experimental day-to-day work. I was just really 100 per cent writing grants and doing administrative work.”

He had an outlet, though.

Kuzyk had started making beer as a poor grad student in the 1990s because he couldn’t afford it otherwise. Lacking any scientific challenges at work, he found himself falling down the homebrewing rabbit hole, as it helped scratch that scientific itch his previous desk job could not.

“My friends were always kind of joking – I thought they were joking, I guess – that I should open up my own brewery,” says Kuzyk. “Then I’d just kind of laugh it off, like, how do you do that?

But I felt the need to kind of reinvent myself, you know, as I got to midlife crisis range, and I began to think that I didn’t have to work for other people all my life.”

Kuzyk, too, discovered that his scientific background was invaluable in his new life as a brewer.

“I think if you’d talked to me four years ago, I would have felt like maybe I was leaving behind or turning my back on my training,” he says. “I’m really happy about how much it’s used every day. From the sanitary method perspective, as a microbiologist, sterile technique is just drilled in you. Just understanding what is going on at the microscopic level, none of what goes on feels like black art.”

Kuzyk has fully embraced his role as “mad scientist,” and his scientific background has formed the inspiration for Category 12’s entire marketing and branding strategy.

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When you mix a creative eye with a green thumb, the beauty of nature is brought to life. Joy Leimanis, founder and designer at Spade & Pointer, has channeled her passion for plants into a collection of planters and succulent art for the home. Aptly named after her two loves – her gardening tools and her dogs (Pointers, of course) – Joy has created a business with Spade & Pointer, where she can share the art of greenery with her fellow urbanites.

Tell us a little about yourself: My name is Joy Leimanis and I’m a Vancouver local with a passion for entertaining and beautiful things. I work as a project manager by day, greenery designer by night; I create potted succulent art to fulfill my need to be in touch with nature, and bring an approachable element of that to our urban lives. When I’m not at work, I’m either in the garden, out exploring the city or hiking on one of the local mountains.

Succulents from Spade & Pointer. Contributed photo How did you get started and what led you to where you are now?

Greenery has always been my passion.Throughout high school and university, I worked in garden centres and learned a lot from my time there. It also helps that my husband works in the landscape industry, so having a home filled with plants is normal for us. I’ve always loved creating beautiful planters and, just recently, with encouragement from friends and family, I turned this passion into something more.

Do you have any predictions for the future of your industry?

I think that succulents are going to continue to be huge in home décor because they are such an easy-to-care-for plant and they fit in well with the modern aesthetic. All

you really need to keep them alive is a bright, south-facing window and a bit of water every few weeks. I also see people continuing to seek out handmade groupings that have been designed to work together – visually, they are an artistic addition to a space, but they also add a local, personalized element rather than just something picked up at the nursery.

What is your favourite creative website?

Succulents seem to still be on trend for weddings and, strangely enough, because of that fact I find a lot of inspiration from wedding websites like Green Wedding Shoes and Style Me Pretty. They are a great resource for plant colour combinations and inspiration for incorporating other materials like driftwood and precious stones.

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It probably comes as no surprise to learn that trench coats were big news on Spring/Summer runways.

The mid-season classic hokey-pokeys on and off catwalks every couple of years, and even if it’s not strictly in fashion, it’s always in style.

What defines it? Our favourite hoity-toity online men’s magazine, Gentleman’s Gazette, says its distinguishing features are a tan or khaki colour, buckled belt and wrist straps, that it should be double breasted with a double yoke across the back of the shoulders, epaulettes and is waterproof.

It was invented by one Thomas Burberry more than 150 years ago and remains a staple.Why? “It’s double breasted, so it’s practical.The belt keeps the warmth in and the cold out, and the double yoke and wrist straps protect you from the rain.The epaulettes are handy to stop

shoulder bags slipping down and they make your shoulders look bigger and your waist smaller,” says fashion historian Ivan Sayers. And what’s the appeal in fashion terms? “It’s got this international and glamorous feel and the association with Hollywood – it was worn by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Katherine Hepburn,” he explains. “And ultimately, it’s just a good design.”

Yet, for 2017, brands decided it was ripe for reinvention. Balenciaga oversized the shoulders, Marni deconstructed it, Michael Kors gave it a gorgeous asymmetric hemline and Hermès turned it pink. Here are our favourite four from the high street, with apologies to Mr. Burberry.

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Goth DJ and meet-up organizer Teela Hudak (left) with friends at her club night, Descent, at the Red Room. Jen Elliott photo

Back in black: Goths of a new millennium MICHAEL WHITE @bequietmichael

The 1980s was arguably the last decade when belonging to an identifiable tribe was a defining factor of being a young person.The hallways of high schools were topographic maps upon which one could see the staked territories where each distinct group clustered – their names, in retrospect, almost as comical as the laundry list of cliques recited by Principal Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “The Sportos, the Motorheads, geeks, sluts, Bloods, wasteoids…”

Arguably the most recognizable subculture of the ’80s – and the one most likely to be used in a sitcom flashback to instantly establish time and place – is Goth. Although relatively small in number, they seemed to be everywhere then, because they were impossible not to notice: ghostwhite skin shockingly contrasted against black clothes, black makeup, black fingernails, dyed black hair (usually teased and crimped into an enormous nest, in tribute to aesthetic godparents Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux).

They tended to cling to dark corners and preferred nighttime, hence a supplementary moniker: “batcaver.” Goths looked like trouble but were usually anything but. Like so

many misfits, they didn’t feel at home in the world, so they created their own.

Goth seemed to disappear with the era that birthed it, but the truth is more complicated: Although it did shrink, it also dove deeper underground, and mutated into something that looks and sounds different than before.

Disciples remain everywhere, including in Greater Vancouver, where Teela Hudak is one of the culture’s most active true believers. Her club night, Descent – at the Red Room, where she DJs under the name Surreal – marks its 10-year anniversary in August, and last month she hosted the first Descent Goth Meetup in her home base of New West.

Hudak, who is in her 30s, is too young to have experienced Goth’s first incarnation. “My involvement started when I turned 19,” she explains. “I’d dressed Goth as a teenager, but I didn’t know a lot of Goths – there was just my core group of, like, five people. I found out much later that there actually was an all-ages Goth night that was running at that time, called Resurrection, that started in Surrey and eventually moved to Playdium at Metrotown, and then it got rebranded as [a 19-plus club night called] Sanctuary.This was almost 10 years ago.”

Sanctuary proved popular

Goth pioneers Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux, in the mid’80s. Contributed photo enough that it enjoyed a 12year run; Descent now takes its place as, says the club’s Facebook page, “the one true underground Goth night of Vancouver.”There, Hudak and her fellow DJs spin the vintage likes of the Cure, Bauhaus and the Sisters of Mercy, but also latter-day acts whose sound adheres closer to metal and electronica, including Razed in Black, Combichrist and Aesthetic Perfection. (Tellingly, Hudak’s entry points to Goth, in the ’90s, were Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, whose sonic and sartorial hallmarks have a much more detectable influence upon current bands than their ’80s forebears.)

Although she concedes that, at least locally, it isn’t as

prevalent as it used to be (“In the 15 years I’ve been around the scene, probably five years ago was the strongest I’ve seen it”), Hudak says Goth is “a lot more sizeable than most people realize.

“Part of the nature of people in the Goth scene is that they’re not the most social people in the world sometimes,” she explains, laughing.

“There can be some reluctance to go out. For an average club night, you can have anywhere from 50 people to 200, but not everyone enjoys a club atmosphere. It can be too overwhelming, too loud.”

Although she and her colleagues aim to make Descent as welcoming as possible to everyone (“We don’t enforce a dress code. I’m very passion-

ate about my subculture and my music, and I don’t want someone to be discouraged from coming to check it out”), Hudak’s recognition of a nightclub’s not-for-everyone environment spurred her to host the first Goth Meet Up in February. Promoted via Descent’s social-media outlets, it was held at, of all places, a Boston Pizza.

“Mostly because I was looking for a location that was flexible in terms of group size, easily accessible by transit, and wouldn’t necessarily care as much if we were there for a few hours.”

The meet-up drew between 30 and 35 people. “People talked about their experiences, where they work, what they’re passionate about, there was some discussion about music.

One of the tables was quite engaged in the history of the scene in Vancouver, its current state, which events are happening and are worth going to.

There was a bit of talk as well about what kind of non-club events people would like to see in the future. People got excited about an alternative craft fair or something to that effect.”

Hudak says the age range at the meet-up – the youngest was 17, the oldest in his 40s – puts lie to the notion that Goth, or any youth-identified subculture, needs to be shed like a pair of leather trousers

when a person transitions into adulthood. “I know a lot of people – some of them still come to the clubs – who are in their 50s. One gentleman who attends my night is upward of 70.The beautiful thing about Goth clubs is they’re not like a normal club:You can have that age range and nobody cares.”

The reason Goth engenders this dedication into old(er) age, she says, is because it “basically boils down to a basic attitude and a set of preferences. Most people I know, if you remove music and fashion, would still be identifiable in certain attitudes that they have. I’m not saying black humour is exclusively a Goth thing, but I don’t know a single Goth who doesn’t have some appreciative sense of black humour…

And there’s also just more of an acceptance of,There’s a darker side of life and that’s OK. And being open to the quote-unquote ‘bizarre.’What most people find bizarre and off-putting, a Goth would probably look at and think, ‘Wow, that’s really neat’ or ‘That doesn’t really appeal to me, but I can appreciate why other people like it.’

“Goth isn’t a fashion statement. I mean, it is, but it’s more than that – it’s more of a lifestyle choice and a culture.

People who ascribe to that culture end up staying in it for the duration.” W

This story is the first in a five-part series called UndergroundVancouver, delving into little-known subcultures in and around the city.

Next week: UndergroundVancouver explores graffiti, murals and the city’s hidden street artists.

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In November 2013,Vancouver duo Japandroids posted to their Facebook page a thankyou note to their fans: “Time for us to disappear into the ether for a while.”

They were true to their word: It was their last message for three years – a lifetime in terms of social media. In that time, they didn’t play shows, give interviews or release any new music. With no outward signs of activity, fans were left to wonder what had happened to the buzzed-about indie-rockers.

But even though they kept a low public profile, guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse were busy mapping out a sound that veered away from the backto-basics rock ’n’ roll minimalism of their past work.

“Part of the fun this time around is: anything goes,” says King, sitting down with Westender in Dude Chilling Park. “We’re not going to worry about how we’re going to play it and how it’s going to sound live. We’re just going to do what we think sounds good, is fun and serves the song, and go from there.”

On previous albums (2009’s Post-Nothing and 2012’s Celebration Rock), Japandroids gleaned maximum emotional impact from a basic setup of triumphant drums, distorted guitars and cathartic shouts. This time, they threw out the rulebook,

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giving themselves free rein to add overdubs and expand their instrumental setup for their recently released third LP, Near to theWild Heart of Life. “We expanded on what we did before and didn’t really accept the limitations of our prior work,” says Prowse. “There’s kind of an endless amount of stuff you can dump on top of a track to keep making it bigger and keep pushing it sonically.”

The expanded musical palette isn’t the only change in Japandroids’ world. Since their last album, King moved to Toronto, marking the first time he and Prowse collaborated while living in different cities. To kickstart the writing process for this album, they rented a house in New Orleans for a month, with subsequent meet-ups taking place in Vancouver, Toronto and Mexico City. “I see all those four cities reflected in the record,” says King. “Being in those different cities has an exciting and inspirational effect on the band and what comes out of it.”

Near to theWild Heart of Life came out in January through two prestigious indie labels: Arts & Crafts in Canada, and Anti- in the rest of the world. As promised, it combines Japandroids’ ecstatic rock sound with widescreen, outside-the-box arrangements. “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner)” is a static-drenched shoegaze ballad, while the travelogue “North East South West” accentuates its stomping country leanings with acous-

tic strumming. “Arc of Bar” is an epic tale of drunken debauchery featuring female backing vocals and a heavily effected guitar loop; King points to this seven-and-ahalf-minute cut as the most radical departure from the band’s usual wheelhouse.

“Of all the songs we’ve ever written and recorded, it’s our most original song,” the singer says. “I feel like we’ve finally started – at least with this song – to leave some of our past influences behind and create something that’s totally ours. It’s very us.”

The guys see Near to the Wild Heart of Life as the beginning of a new chapter in their career. “It’s almost like the second time we’ve made a mission statement,” King observes. “There’s a lot of chance and risk involved in making a record. We were more open to that this time.

Sometimes you have to just let fate steer you.”

And if some listeners are left alienated by the album’s exploratory tendencies?

“There’s not much you can do about that, and on some level you have to do what’s exciting to you,” Prowse muses. “We’re pushing ourselves. If people don’t like it as much, that’s okay. But at least we’re excited about it. I think that’s the most you can hope for.” W Japandroids play a sold-out show Monday, Mar. 20, at Commodore Ballroom.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 16 ARTS Art Battle Artists within the community are recognized in this fun and competitive live painting event. 7pm at Red Room. Tickets from $15 at TicketFly.com #/II+ ;+GG?C ;FG1 @6I%/H2 "6IJ Director Ang Lee translates Ben Fountain’s novel onto the big screen with jarring imagery of war and celebration. 2:30pm at Vancity Theatre. Tickets from $10 at µ Å ¡ Program 2 Ballet BC celebrates Canada’s 150th with work by four Vancouver choreographers: Wen Wei Wang, Company 605, Lesley Telford and Crystal Pite. 8pm at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets from $21 at BalletBC.com

MUSIC #/1 "/I3 Boasting past collaborations with iDA HAWK and Tove Styrke, the masterful remixing from this rising EDM artist lends a summer feel-good vibe. 8pm at Venue.

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COMEDY (02 A2GBI2H6G @24JI2DC À la commentary style, 1987’s The Running Man is given the comedy degree by this trio of seasoned critics. 9:30pm at the Rio. Tickets $10 at RioTheatre.ca

SOCIAL St. Portside Eve Party St. Patrick’s Day festivities begin early in Gastown with live music provided by Jono and Drake. 9pm at the Portside Pub. Tickets $10 at MyShowPass.com

FRIDAY, MARCH 17 ARTS '*.H2 (6/JF Tradition meets reinvention in this dynamic performance using Canadian-made Taiko drums. 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets from $23.95 at TicketsTonight.ca $6G4F.-2D "25 K2CB Canadian digital entertainment is honoured in this three-day festival with workshops, panels and an awards ceremony. 9:30am at Performance Works. Tickets $11 at Eventbrite.ca

"/2D3FC Featuring local actor Julia ¸¨ ¨ ¸ £° | £ the story of two teens on a road trip to the big city set to the music of ’70s Canadian Pop. 6:30pm at the Cinematheque. Tickets $11 at TheCinematheque.ca

"FF32G @FDC2H2G Expect sweet harmonies, driving rock, and thrilling bass from an evening with this local blues ensemble.

7pm at Guilt & Company. Tickets are pay-what-you-can at the door.

Quiet City Experimental music is the theme of this intimate concert with performances by Crawling Human, John Chantler, and Smalltime Magic. 9pm at VIVO Media Arts Centre. Tickets $11 at Eventbrite.ca

Paul Lewis Now regarded as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire, Paul Lewis will perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, along with works by Bach, Chopin and von Weber. 3pm at the Chan Centre. Tickets from $25 at ChanCentre.com

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"2 <GF, 9FB0/G1 &5F.B &DB Comedian Abdul Aziz gives a unique dissection of the world’s greatest works of art. 8pm at Hot Art Wet City.

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OUT OF TOWN 9FDH KFCB2D?C 8E2G/G1 9/10B A sports fanatic husband attends the opening performance of a new play, leading to one chaotic but jocular evening. 7:30pm at The ACT Theatre. RCTheatreCo.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 18 ARTS )6H6DE6G Also known as ¨ £ ¡° ¨¥ ¨ Bharatanatyam dance features both solo and duet performances from Sujit Vaidya and guest Nadhi Thekkek. 8pm at the Scotiabank Dance Theatre. Tickets $22 at TicketsTonight.ca Refuge Based on the award-winning CBC Radio documentary “Habtom’s m¨ ° Refuge tells the story of Eritrean army deserter Ayinom Zerisenai who has landed in Nova Scotia. But questions about his past begin to haunt Pamela, who has taken him under her roof. 8pm at the Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets from $23 at FirehallArtsCentre.ca

MUSIC :6DB+G =FC2E0 The “Welsh ¸ ¡ ££ ¦ £ a concert of his original folk ballads and sentimental lyrics. 8pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $28 at RogueFolk.BC.ca

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SOCIAL !2IB/4 K2CB The Paperboys, Ceilidh, the North Shore Celtic Ensemble and more are set to perform at Western Canada’s largest annual Celtic celebration. 12pm at Robson Square. Free.

OUT OF TOWN Dan Jason The Salt Spring Seeds owner and avid gardener promotes the latest edition of his book on foraging. 10am at the North Vancouver City Library. Free.

SUNDAY, MARCH 19 ARTS & 92, :FFG 8-2D (F0FJ. Following Japan’s catastrophic earthquake in 2011, this documentary recounts the inspiring story of the coastal town’s survivors. 6:30pm at Vancity Theatre.

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MUSIC Parisian Elegance The “City of q ¡ ¦ ¨ £ £¥ mate show for piano and strings.

3pm at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Tickets from $15 at FriendsofChamberMusic.ca )6D60 <2GG23+ M KD/2G3C Performing the music of Brooklyn jazz singer Blossom Dearie, Kennedy brings the legend back to life. 8pm at Frankie’s Jazz Club.

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The Last Laugh Part of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, this documentary explores the lines separating acceptable comedy and humour about the Holocaust.

7pm at the Rothstein Theatre.

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;F-2 ;2BB2DC M @26DB "/IIC Create thoughtful and lasting letters for your loved ones in this six-week class that will inspire you to live fully. 6:30pm at Mountain View Cemetery. Tickets $25 at the door.

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The Daisy Theatre Over 40 marionettes enchant the stage in this dark and whimsical performance.

8pm at the Historic Theatre. Tickets from $19.05 at TheCultch.com

NFG?B K26D B02 K/C0 Perfect pan searing in this cooking class that teaches the basics of preparing seafood from white wine mussels to salmon Wellington. 6pm at the Uncommon Café. Tickets from $52 at Eventbrite.ca

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7I.H2C LGC2H5I2 The eclectic music of Grimes is interpreted for harp, viola, clarinet, and keyboard in this performance highlighting the work of 13 Canadian composers. 8pm at the Fox Cabaret.

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Madeleine Thien The accomplished author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing hosts an intimate evening in support of children’s literacy. 6:30pm at Queen’s Park Centennial Lodge.

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The Lure Part horror and part mu ¦¨ ° m ¢ carnivorous mermaid sisters who ¥ ¦ £ ¨ ¥ ¢ £ £Å 6:45pm at The Rio. Tickets $10 at RioTheatre.ca

(02 AD26C+ )EFFG Participating venue of Good France, this supper series edition features a threecourse French menu conceived by chef Alison Ramage. 5:30pm at Save On Meats. Tickets $95 at Eventbrite.ca

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$6G4F.-2D 'D56G "/G2D+ Sample international and BC wines in this entertaining seminar led by £ £ ¨ ¥ ¸ ¨ £ ¥ ¨ ¥ Lisa Cook. 3pm at the Settlement Building. Tickets $40 at MyShowPass.com Sunday Paella Series Executive chef Alex Chen recreates the ¨ ¢ ¸ ¨ ¥ three-course meal. 6pm at Boulevard Kitchen. Tickets $57.82 at Eventbrite.ca

Reactivating: Art and Archives In this panel discussion with Kay Higgins, Lorna Brown, and Marcia Crosby, feminism is examined by considering the past. 7pm at the Belkin Art Gallery. Free.

MUSIC 72B.G/6 6G3 B02 $/E2DC From Spanish to rockabilly, this Cana¥ ¨ §¨ ¥ §£ ££ ¡£ £ seamlessly to produce a thoroughly unique sound. 8pm at the WISE Lounge. Tickets by donation at the door.

OUT OF TOWN Connexion This illuminating and diverse exhibit celebrates 40 years of artist Hank Bull’s work – from props to social sculptures. 10am at Burnaby Art Gallery. Suggested donation $5 at Burnaby.ca

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=6E6G3DF/3C The Canadian rock band comes home with songs from their new album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life. 9:30pm at the Commodore. Tickets $25 at TicketFly.com

7.II K2CB/-6I $> A selection of original 10-minute plays are produced, developed, and performed in this festival promoting the local theatre community. 8pm at Little Mountain Gallery. Tickets $15 at the door.

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$6G4F.-2D K6C0/FG "22J 8E2Ging Gala Art Institute of Vancouver alumni present their Fall/Winter collections in anticipation of VFW. 7:30pm at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Vancouver. Free tickets at Eventbrite.ca

Allan Rayman Known for his rich vocals, the mysterious Toronto artist presents his latest album Roundhouse 01. 8pm at The Rio. Tickets $23 at RioTheatre.ca

Angels in America Passion, politics, and the divine converge in this Tony Kushner play set during the AIDS epidemic. 7:30pm at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Tickets from $29 at ArtsClub.com The Refugee Hotel Vancouver during the 1970s is the setting for this dark comedy centred around eight Chilean refugees. 8pm at Studio 58. Tickets from $19.75 at TicketsTonight.com Post No Bills Soloist Kitt Johnson delivers a thought-provoking masked performance set to eerie ambient noise. 8pm at the Roundhouse Performance Centre. Tickets $30 at Vidf.ca

MUSIC :/I2C #I64J In tribute to American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, this trio performs a selection of his most popular songs from “Blue p ¸ ¨ ¡ ° o ¨ £ Å 8pm at Frankie’s Jazz Club. Tickets $15 at Yelp.com

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With more films being made in Maple Ridge, the city decided to celebrate BC talent by hosting its first-ever film festival.

The ACT Arts Centre and The Ridge Film Studios have teamed up with the support of the City of Maple Ridge to host the inaugural Maple Ridge Festival of BC Film, which will be taking place Friday, Mar. 17, to Sunday, Mar. 19, at the ACT Arts Centre in Maple Ridge in order to highlight films made in our own backyard.

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Vancouver theatres screen ‘1984’ in solidarity with US Considering that we live in a world where realityTV star and human Cheeto Donald Trump is ruler of the most powerful country in the world, white supremacists are now called the alt-right, mainstream media outlets are labelled fake news and outright government lies are rebranded as “alternative facts,” it’s not surprising that George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 has landed back on the best sellers list nearly 70 years after it was first published. Plus, who can resist a story about a totalitarian state where the government persecutes independent thinking and war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.

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According to organizers, the screenings are part of “a grassroots movement promoting free speech, unity and dialogue.” Donations will be collected atVancity’s 9pm screening to support the BC Civil Liberties Association.

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Brian Markinson and Angels in America go all the way back to 1993.

The busy actor had just replaced Kevin Spacey in Lost inYonkers on Broadway when the curtains rose on Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes down the street. “We were on different dark nights, and I got to see Angels when it opened,” says Markinson, over lunch in North Vancouver earlier this month. “My connection to it was very visceral.” Kushner’s play ended up winning numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.

Fast-forward to 2003, when Markinson appeared in the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries Angels in America. Markinson played the character of Martin Heller opposite Al Pacino’s Roy Cohn.

This month, Markinson returns to Kushner’s Hercu-

lean text yet again, this time in the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Millennium Approaches is the first part of the play; the second part, Angels in America: Perestroika, will open the Arts Club’s 20172018 season in September).

Markinson will portray Roy Cohn, the role that Pacino played in the miniseries and for which Roy Leibman won a Tony Award for Best Actor in 1993.

Markinson has strong feelings about Angels in America.

It’s in his top five plays of the 20th century (“I put it in the same breath as Death of a Salesman or A Streetcar Named Desire”) for a myriad of reasons, chief among them that it manages to be “a very intimate play, as well as being epic.”

Angels in America delves into the early days of the AIDS crisis, when individuals in power breezily dismissed it as “gay cancer” and tens of thousands of lives were lost.

The play contrasts the lives of five individuals struggling with identity issues alongside the crippling effects of stereotypes and an incurable diagnosis.

Stage and screen veteran Brian Markison has spent his career playing complicated characters. Contributed photo Markinson remembers those days well.The Illinois native was working the New York theatre scene when the AIDS epidemic hit the city. “I lost teachers. I lost classmates. It was a very, very scary time.” Markinson’s wife, Nancy, was on the front lines of the crisis.

“My wife worked with people with AIDS, and she would go into their apartments and she would grocery shop for them and care for them,” says Markinson.

Theatre might be Markinson’s first love, but the Vancouver-based actor is a familiar face to television

and film audiences around the world. His lengthy credit list includes Mad Men, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, CharlieWilson’sWar, multiple Star Trek series, and, most recently, key roles on Chris Haddock’s CBC spy thriller The Romeo Section and Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – an astounding success considering he didn’t step onto a film set until he was 30-years-old. “I thought I was going to go [to LA] for 10 weeks [for a play], but all of a sudden, I had agents and managers and work in television.” Markinson ultimately spent a decade in

LA, and had “a very good run.”

Markinson grew up in the Chicago suburbs and studied acting in London and New York City. He’s worked with many of the greats, including Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Mike Nichols and Aaron Sorkin.

He considers himself a journeyman: “There’s something great about being a journeyman; you have a career and you build a reputation over a period of time and a body of work. My life and my reality are far beyond what I ever expected for myself, because I wasn’t ambitious. It was enough for me to work.”

Whether he’s on screen or stage, Markinson gravitates towards darker, heavier characters, like that of the father who murdered his eightyear-old son in an awardwinning episode of NYPD Blue. “David Milch, who created NYPD Blue, said to me, ‘This guy is not outside the realm of human experience or behaviour,’” recalls Markinson. “And so I always look at these guys as damaged in some way, and how do I challenge an audience to empathize with a person who maybe on the surface would

seem abhorrent and a monster and irredeemable?”

Roy Cohn, the character he plays in Angels of America, is one such character. Cohn is one of the few characters in the play based on an actual person; he was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and represented Donald Trump during the latter’s early business career. “[With] Roy Cohn, it was never fight or flight. It was always fight,” says Markinson. “It was, ‘Say a lie long enough and loud enough, and it becomes the truth.’” Markinson’s challenge is to find the humanity, even in a villain like Cohn, and “get out of the way of [Kushner’s] beautiful words.”

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches’ cast also includes Lois Anderson, Damien Atkins, Ryan Beil, Craig Erickson, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Gabrielle Rose, and Celine Stubel.

Kim Collier directs the production. W Angels in America: Millennium Approaches runs Mar. 23-April 23 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre. Tickets at artsclub.com.

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Yeah, maybe this makes me sound like an old hag, but I am what I am. At least, when I was single, I didn’t use terms like “bread crumbing”.

We said “flirting.” Or, “Good at texting, bad in real life. So, pass.”

When you accept the terminology, you accept the behaviour along with it. It’s now a “thing” to be expected. Who knows?

Maybe this is all a hoax, but something tells me these terms are real.

“BREAD CRUMBING”

According to Thought Catalog, “bread crumbing” is when one sends out flirtatious but non-committal text messages in order to lure a sexual partner into giving them attention without expending too much effort.

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Are you guilty of any of these? iStock photo to give a virtual blow job just by licking your phone.

Teledictonics allow men and women to fuck through their laptop while hooked up to Fleshlights and vibrators like horny lab rats. Pretty soon, a “date” (oh, excuse me: a “hangout”) will consist of connecting with someone via video chat, but just texting while you look at one another and lick your MacBook.

“MOONING”

When someone “moons” you, they turn off the

notifications for your messages because they don’t care about you, but possibly would like to use you for comfort, or sex, later on.

Apparently, the term refers to the half-moon symbol that appears when you turn notifications off on a textmessage thread.

“TUNING”

“Tuning” is basically just manipulation via text.

Let’s say you hook up with someone and go on a few dates, but realize you’re

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It’s anyone’s guess what Johnny’s life was like before he arrived at the BC SPCA’s West Vancouver branch in mid February. All interim shelter manager Krista Unser knows for sure is that this goofy sixmonth-old craves the kind of structure that seems to have been missing in his last home.

“Johnny is a surrender from Quesnel who was transferred to us through the Drives for Lives program, which moves animals around the province to different BC SPCA shelters in order to give them a second chance at finding their forever home,” says Unser. “We believe he was a high-energy puppy who was failed, in that he didn’t get the attention he required from the people he lived with. He may have been kept primarily outside, either loose or tied up. He still needs to learn good doggy manners: how to stay calm and focused, how to meet new people and dogs politely, and how to discover the world around him without being so frantic.”

Though he may not have a mean bone in his body, this black-and-brown Dobermanhound mix lacks the discipline needed to engage with the world in a safe and nonreactive way. Unser calls him a “stunted puppy,” who was not given the chance to learn the things most dogs are taught at a young age. Happily, the

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to make any big, sudden movements. I’ll frighten him away!”This goes for all genders. Let things happen naturally.

“EXING”

“Exing” refers to someone who is so obsessed with their ex that they create situations – both online and “IRL” – that create tension or drama with said person.When I was

21, I was a total “exer.” I did horrid, embarrassing things to ruin my ex-boyfriend’s potential new relationships.

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Goofy, six-month-old Johnny needs your to help him realize his full doggy potential. Contributed photo SPCA has picked up the slack, with staff starting to teach Johnny the skills he needs to be a great companion.

Much of the work, however, will likely be up to his adopter.

“We see a lot of possibility with Johnny – he’s super playful and loves his stuffies and chew toys. He’s also very curious and loves to engage with people,” says Unser.

“But he does require a home with someone who’s wanting and willing to work with him through positive reinforcement-based obedience, lots of mental stimulation and plenty of outdoor exercise.”

Though an experienced caregiver would make the ideal adopter for this dog, an active first-timer, with the desire to train and build a strong and lasting bond with this handsome boy, would be fine.

Johnny would also do best as the sole pet in an adult-only

home. (Older children are likely OK.) Barking, for now, may also pose a bit of an issue. He’s also highly social: “Plenty of interactions with other playful and friendly dogs will go a long way in teaching him the doggy skills he’s been working on building up.”

Unser adds that anyone who is thinking about, or actively looking to rescue, a puppy should not be deterred by Johnny’s temporary shortcomings – he is, after all, still young and still learning.

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