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Pacific great blue herons have returned to a large urban colony next to Stanley Park every year since 2001.

They court, make nests, lay eggs and hatch chicks that are part of a shrinking population that lives year-round in the Lower Mainland. Tune into the park board’s “heron cam” to see them in action. Dan Toulgoet photo

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Re:“Are you Uber excited,” March 16, 2017 Uber customers only pay about 40 per cent of the cost of their ride, with the loss being covered by investor money. Uber doesn’t keep their rates artificially low because they enjoy losing money, they do it to gain market share and drive competitors out of the industry.Time and time again they have unilaterally lowered prices, and hence

driver wages, in an effort to bankrupt less well-funded competitors.

This predatory pricing is unethical and anti-competitive. It’s just another reason that Uber is a lousy company with a good product, but a product which is easily duplicated.Their advantages in the market are being wellfunded and they are exceptionally aggressive in ignoring local laws and employment standards.

There are any number of ways that the City of Vancouver and the province could have worked together to expand transportation options in Vancouver. Capitulating to an unethical company like Uber is a lazy, lousy way to deal with the current lack of consumer choice and service.

–Citizen Five The current companies have no desire to get better.

They are inconvenient to

the users. I won’t defend Uber, but services like [Uber] are much more convenient. If I had the choice of “non-Uber ridesharing company but with an Uber-like app” or a taxi, unless the taxi is literally stopped in front of me, I’d be pulling out my app and summoning the ride sharing company; even if the costs were the same. –Balur

THINK PINK

Re:“Scientists study pink snow in North Shore mountains,” March 13, 2017 –web only It fits the narrative of climate change, so let’s go with it! There’s no way this could just be an abnormal natural event. It’s those damn humans again...for sure. -Jay B

THE GREAT DEBATE

Re:“Vancouver park board votes to ban whales and dolphins at aquarium,” March 9, 2017 -web only Ban the whales? How about if the federal government AND the Vancouver park board return Stanley Park to the real owners.

First Nations. Not only would it be managed properly but it’s the start of a good will gesture for “Canada’s 150”. –Verlie McCauley

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a new weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? SFU Writer’s Studio scribe Stephen T. Berg.

APPROACHING THE 45TH AMERICAN PRESIDENCY I leave Planet Earth Poetry at the Hillside Coffee after listening to an enjambment of poets fervently consider the current state of the American presidency, and on my way home remember I need to prepare and marinate the chicken for tomorrow night’s dinner, that’s the chicken I bought from Drumpf Meats earlier in the day that I thought (although I didn’t ask) was fresh-fresh, but was in fact alternatively-fresh, as I found remnant formations of ice crystals in the cramped cavity, and the oblique neck, stuffed within, was polar-stiff, and the gelid giblets, notably the orange-hued heart, was glacial-cold, meaning this or more: that the bird hadn’t come straight from the abattoir to its place behind glass, but had spent time in cryogenic rime, and I remembered too, that a chicken can live without its head for an ungodly duration, which beyond all reason, made me approach the fridge with unimpeachable apprehension.

Stephen T. Berg is a poet and writer, currently enrolled in The Writer’s Studio Online (SFU). His poetry and prose have appeared in magazines such as Orion and Geez. His chapbook, There are no small moments, was published by The Rasp and the Wine (2014). For more of his

work, visit growmercy.org.

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Trans-inclusive signs rolled out at Vancouver City Hall New trans-inclusive signs are going up at washrooms at Vancouver City Hall and other city-owned facilities.

City manager Sadhu Johnston made the announcement March 17, noting “everyone has the right to safe and inclusive washroom facilities.”

“This change is another step forward towards ensuring equality and inclusion for all,” Johnston said in a news release. “This updated signage aims to help trans, gender variant and two-spirit individuals feel safer accessing the washroom facility they most identify with.”

The updated signs read

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“Trans people welcome,” and that messaging will be in other city facilities in the coming months.

The new signs are one piece of a larger strategy rolled out by council last July called Supporting Trans Equality and an Inclusive Vancouver.

The five main pillars of that strategy cover areas including public space, facilities and signage; programs and services; human resources; communications and data and community consultation and public partnerships.

–John Kurucz,Vancouver Courier

A long detour on the South False Creek seawall might be frustrating to pedestrians and cyclists, but the City of Vancouver is asking for people’s patience a little bit longer.

When the city embarked on improving the oldest section of the seawall, it didn’t expect to discover there were water pipes underneath the path, says director of transportation Lon LaClaire.

Since these pipes were also showing signs of aging – this section of the seawall was created 30 years ago – it made sense to replace them at the same time the separated bike and pedestrian paths were being created.

“At first we thought it would be a minor project with targetted intervention,” LaClaire said. But when the community consultation process began, the project grew in scope as the public weighed in on the changes they’d like to see, including the creation of separated pedestrian/cycling lanes.Then the water project was added, requiring major disruption.

“We have to bring big equipment into a small space,” LaClaire said.The deep trenches required for the pipe work made safe passage impossible.

He knows the long detour is cumbersome, but says the engineering department is working hard to finish the project by the time warmer weather returns. If the work isn’t finished on time, the

A long detour along the South False Creek seawall became necessary when a waterworks project was added, the City of Vancouver says. Dan Toulgoet photo seawall will be reopened and finished later.

The stretch of seawall between the Granville and Cambie bridges was created in 1975 through a former industrial area; Granville Island was just being developed. Fast forward to today and in the summer there are upwards of 5,000 cyclists a day “and probably more walking,” La Claire says.Without separated lanes, this was leading to accidents and conflicts between the pedestrians and cyclists sharing a narrow space.

“Older people especially felt uncomfortable,” he says.

As well, the former flagstone surface was considered a trip hazard, hence the decision to create a flat, paved surface.

To create the separated paths, a row of cherry trees had to be cut down. LaClaire said the trees were planted 30 years ago; not only is the lifes-

pan of a cherry tree around 20 years, but the ground around the trees was tightly packed.

Those trees will be replaced by a row of cherry trees that will act as a separation between the bike and pedestrian paths, further reducing potential conflict. “In a year or two, they’ll be far more substantial than the trees that had been there for 30 years.You’ll see a bigger tree canopy and they’ll have a healthy life ahead of them.”

As to concerns that there will still be conflicts between cyclists out for a Sunday ride and commuter cyclists, LaClaire says the city is making changes to enhance the seaside bypass route through this area.

This week or next, Charleson Road, which runs parallel to West 6th Avenue, from School Green Road and Moberly Road will be closed.

Only the number 50 bus, pedestrians and cyclists will be allowed. Signage on the seawall will be improved to let commuting cyclists know how to get to an alternate and safe east-west route.

While this stretch of road is sometimes used by people trying to avoid traffic on West 6th, primarily people who live in the area will be affected, LaClaire says.The city met with staff at the Parent Advisory Committee at False Creek Elementary School, who agreed to the street closure. It will complicate access to the school but also make the area safer for children because there will no longer be through traffic, he says.

Barriers will soon be installed to prevent cars from travelling on the road.The barriers will allow for a single lane for buses going in both directions.This should not be a safety hazard because there is enough time between buses.

LaClaire says some cities discourage traffic by creating tracks for buses, which are wider than a normal car track.

Vancouver hopes that the barriers will be enough of a deterrent.

“There’s nothing that will stop people from driving through the barriers except a sign that says they can’t,” he says. However, given that the stretch of road runs alongside Charleson Park for 500 metres, drivers who break the law will be breaking it for quite a distance, making them more prone to being caught. – Story courtesy of the Vancouver Courier

Car2Go puts brakes on Horseshoe Bay ferry, Grouse Mountain drop-offs

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Commuters who relied on car sharing to get back and forth to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal inVancouver will have to hitch a ride another way after Car2Go announced this week it is cancelling both the ferry and Grouse Mountain dropoffs at the end of the month.

Members of the Car2Go car-sharing service got notice of the change last week, in an email that noted members will no longer be able to drop off cars in those locations starting midnight March 30.

The news has left many regular users of the Horseshoe Bay drop-off and pickup site upset and scrambling for alternatives.

Dana Heerschop, a nurse who lives on the Sunshine Coast and works at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, said she’s used Car2Go for “at least 50 per cent of my commute” over the past year and a half. “I’m very disappointed,” she said. “It’ll

be a huge increase to my costs if I have to drive myself to and from work.”

Heerschop said while she can often take a vanpool in to work, her shifts usually don’t end at a time when she can take a vanpool home. Public transit can take a lot longer – and sometimes means missing ferries, she added.

Julie Hughes, a counsellor who lives on Bowen Island and works downtown several days a week, voiced similar frustrations. Hughes said on days she’s working, she often returns later in the evening, when transit isn’t operating at peak service levels. “I pretty much use Car2Go every time,” she said.The cancellation will have a huge impact on her family, she said, because she will likely have to take her own car to work now and pay for parking inYaletown.

Hughes said she was surprised to get the news this week and has written to the company to complain about the change.

Dacyl Armendariz, spokes-

woman for the Texas-based Car2Go, said the company decided to make the change because too many of the cars were “sitting unused for long periods of time” at both locations.While cars were well used by commuters during the work week, they tended to sit in the Horseshoe Bay lot on weekends, despite an additional charge paid to drop off cars there on weekends.

That meant the cars weren’t available for use in Vancouver and North Vancouver during busy weekend days.

Karen Mahoney, a Gibsons ferry commuter who works at Vancouver General Hospital, said she was happy to use Car2Go instead of driving. “It was actually cheaper for me to use Car2Go,” she said. It was also convenient not to search for or pay for parking on busy Vancouver streets.

Mahoney said she’s disappointed the company couldn’t come up with another solution to keeping the Horseshoe Bay service viable – whether through higher fees for those

pickups and drop-offs or some other method. She plans to write to the company, urging them to reconsider. “I will tell them to please rethink this because it was actually working well,” she said.

Car2Go is the only carsharing company to have oneway pickups and drop-offs available at the ferry terminal, having started that option in 2013. Unfortunately for those who used the share cars, competing car-share company Evo has no plans to move in when Car2Go moves out.

“It’s not our intention to expand to Horseshoe Bay,” said Tai Silvey, director of Evo. “We focus on dense areas.You need enough people to move the vehicles about.”

Evo will continue to offer its drop-off and pickup at Grouse Mountain, said Silvey.

This is not the first time areas have been cut from Car2Go. In 2016, the company chopped Richmond from its service area and shrunk its North Vancouver zone. –Story courtesy of the North Shore News

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The romance of amaro Odd Society’s Mia Amato is just the latest in BC’s bumper crop of the potable bitter

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Whitening skincare has a troubled reputation. The perception, at least in North America and Europe, is that it’s a practice born of cultural pressure, in which women of colour attempt to make themselves look more Caucasian. More than that, it’s described as skin-bleaching, considered to be dangerous and damaging to skin.

But increasingly, women all over the world, of all ethnicities, are turning to what’s described as ‘brightening’ skincare. But is it just whitening by another name?

Dermatologist Dr, Frances Jang, of Skinworks (Skinworks.ca), says the goal of modern brightening products is generally to make skin look more even-toned, not paler. “There’ve been a number of studies looking at pigmentation problems like dark spots, freckles and hyperpigmentation. Blinded observers looking at images of people with pigmented skin described those people as appearing less healthy and older,” she says. “If you think about it, that’s really the purpose of foundation – to make the skin look more even.”

There are a couple of different ways of dealing with unevenness, depending on your budget, how fast you want results, how much time you can devote to treatments, and whether you can cope with having red and peeling skin.

Dr. Jang says you should start by consulting with an expert, and that the best approach is often to combine dermatological treatments such as intense pulsed light (IPL) or laser with topical skincare including exfoliant, serums and creams.

One ingredient to look out for is hydroquinone. “It’s the gold standard in lightening, but it’s not for the faint of heart – it will cause drying and peeling – so I like patients to take regular breaks from it.”

Other ingredients that can be found in drugstore and clinical-grade products include retinol, licorice and kojic acid.

There’s also the ubiquitous vitamin C. “It has many benefits,” she explains. “It’s an

antioxidant that has anti-redness abilities, some collagenstimulating properties, is anti-brown-spot, and offers infra-red sun protection that’s not covered by sunscreen.”

Since dark spots are mainly caused by sun damage, sunscreen is essential for prevention. Dr. Jang suggests using about half a teaspoon to cover the whole face. “Most studies to assess sun-protection level are done with an amount of product that consumers never use,” she explains. “I usually suggest that people take half the amount, rub it in, wait a while, and then apply another layer. It’s also important to remember that sunscreen doesn’t start working immediately, so put it on half an hour before you go into the sun. And finally, find a broadspectrum product – minimum SPF30 – that you actually like using.You’re going to be applying it every day, whether it’s sunny or not.”

BRIGHT STARS 1. L’Oreal Paris Bright Reveal Brightening Scrub Cleanser ($12.99, at drugstores) Exfoliation removes pigmentation-containing dead cells from the surface of skin, reduces blackheads and overall dullness, and boosts absorption of other skincare. This has perlite (a natural mineral) to scrub, plus glycolic acid to chemically remove dead cells. Skin looks brighter and more refined with twice-daily use.

2. Laneige Brightening Sparkling Water Capsule Mist ($36, at Sephora) The latest Korean trend is facial mists, which are designed to refresh and hydrate skin. This one has a blend of fruit acids that supposedly boosts turnover for brighter skin, and carbonated bubbles to increase circulation. Use it as toner or over makeup for anytime hydration.

3. Omorovicza Instant Perfection Serum ($160, at omorovicza.com) This Hungarian brand specializes in hi-tech skincare using concentrated natural extracts – in this case, narcissus stem cells, which are said to brighten, even out the skin, and reverse sun damage.

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4. Dr Dennis Gross C + Collagen Brighten & Firm Vitamin C Serum ($100, at Sephora) A serum that promises to brighten and tighten with vitamin C, antioxidants and amino acids, as well as tackling fine lines, rough texture dark spots, and lack of radiance.

5. White Seed Pure Vitamin Concentrate ($25, at THEFACESHOP and thefaceshop.ca) As well as pure vitamin C, this concentrate has white lupin seeds and white daisy flower extract. Apply only to dark spots, after serum.

6. Shiseido White Lucent All Day Brightener N ($75, at Shiseido counters and Sephora) This moisturizer is designed to remove existing pigmentation and make skin resistant to dark spots, thanks to time-delivered vitamin C, antioxidant vitamin E, and Shiseido’s patented 4MSK, which supposedly stops melanin formation.

7. ZO Medical Melamim Skin Bleaching & Correcting Crème ($80), Melamix Skin Lightener & Blending Crème ($80) and Retamax Active Vitamin A Micro Emulsion ($190) This combination is the big daddy of pigmentation correction products, and Dr. Jang’s skincare pick for moderate to severe issues.

Available only from physicians, Melamin and Melamix contain four per cent hydroquinone. Dr. Jang recommends applying the former in the morning and the latter (combined with Retamax, a potent retinol lotion) at night.

8. Retinol Renewal Treatment ($20 as an add-on to any facial, or $59 as a 20-minute standalone, at Collective Skincare) There are a lot of retinolbased over-the-counter products that are gentler than prescription ones, but they take longer to work.

As an alternative, Collective Skincare offers this treatment, which has one per cent retinol and a collagenboosting peptide. After application, a warm mask is applied to drive ingredients further into skin. Six sessions, two weeks apart, are recommended, and the treatment is also said to give anti-aging benefits. W

Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

@TheAlchemistBC First there’s chocolate – dark and rich. Then spice – a whole caravan of exotic flavours and aromas from faraway lands. The bitterness lands next – astringent, clean, pleasantly mouthwatering. Throughout, delicate florals, dried fruits and an underlying sweetness keep everything in balance.

There’s plenty to love about the new Mia Amata amaro from Odd Society Spirits, and not just because it counts Brazilian aphrodisiacs among its botanical makeup.

“I wanted to make it a modern-style bitter,” says Mia Glanz, the bartender who created it. “It took three years of work. I discarded an original recipe and started again.”

In European countries like Italy, France and Hungary, amaros have been enjoyed for centuries as an aperitif and digestif, straddling the fine line between medicinal and palatable. The name itself is Italian for “bitter,” and bitterness is indeed the defining characteristic. But amaros can also be sweet and fruity, spicy, herbaceous, floral and citrusy – a whole range of complex flavours captured in liqueurs, fortified wines or herbal spirits.

Traditionally, they’re drunk as a shot after a big meal or as a sipper beforehand.

But these days, they’re more likely to be used in a wide range of cocktails.

Bartenders love working with the deep complexity of amaros, and Vancouver bartenders love discovering highquality local products. So it’s not much of a surprise that

Bartender Mia Glanz with her Paper Plane cocktail.

Dan Toulgoet photo the Mia Amata sold out within a week of being launched back in February. (It should be back on the market now.)

“A lot of bartenders really like it,” says Glanz.

And it’s just the latest in a collection of exceptional homegrown amaros that have hit the market in the last couple of years.The first was the citrus- and herbal-forward Amaro No. 1 Linnaeus from Vancouver’s Long Table Distillery, made in collaboration with the Apothecary Bitters Company. Last March, the grapefruity The Woods Amaro, from North Vancouver, was the surprise hit of the BC Distilled festival.Then, last summer, Goodridge & Williams Distilling launched three amaros under the BitterHouse label: the orange-flavoured aperitif LaDame, the Campari-like DaMan, and the rhubarb-scented Rubato.

Now they’re joined by Mia Amato.

For Glanz, making an amaro was a logical next step.

Not only is she a double major in biology and anthropology (or ethnobiology) at the UBC, but she worked with her dad – Odd Society founder and distiller Gordon Glanz – as he developed his Wallflower gin and Bittersweet vermouth. “I helped my dad on the vermouth, so I know about proportions and ingredients,” she says.

“The vermouth was a stepping point.

“Gin, vermouth and amaro fall on a continuum. Gin is lightly flavoured with botanicals.Vermouth is the next level of intensity – a wine base with 20, 30 botanicals. But amaro is pure alcohol that is macerated with as many as 40 botanicals.

It’s a lot more botanical-rich than a vermouth.”

Glanz’s Mia Amata contains 35 botanicals, many of which she learned about during her studies. Among them are myrrh gum from Somalia, kola nut from West Africa, candied plum from Persia, mace from India, magnolias and elderflowers from BC, and aphrodisiacs from Brazil.

The texture is similar to a liqueur, and there is a fair bit of sweetness underpinning the bitter botanicals.

“Of course, you can enjoy it on ice after a meal.You definitely want to have it after a meal, because it’s sweet and complex,” says Glanz. Alternately, you can swap out the amaro in your favourite classic cocktail and enjoy it that way.

“I really love amaros,” says Glanz. “They’re all so different, and it’s fun to guess what’s in them.”

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RECIPE // THE PAPER PLANE UPDATED Mia Glanz puts her own spin on the modern classic cocktail.

• ¾ oz (22 mL) lemon juice • ¾ oz (22 mL) Aperol • ¾ oz (22 mL) bourbon • ¾ oz (22 mL) Mia Amata amaro Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. ¬ x ¥ ~ into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Brewer vs Brewer: Aussie Invasion edition Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

@TheGrowlerBC Australia and Canada have always had a natural affinity for each other. Perhaps it’s the shared colonial heritage that’s responsible for that connection. Or maybe it’s the fact that both countries are sparsely-populated outposts at opposite ends of the Pacific; one encased in ice, the other scorched by the sun.

Personally, I think our common love of beer could have a lot to with it. Don’t believe me? Well, take a look at who’s brewing your favourite craft beer or pouring your next pint. Don’t be surprised if they have a funny accent and a penchant for wearing flip-flops.

It’s true! Hordes of Aussies, working holiday visa in hand, land on our fair shores every year, and the ones that don’t end up in Whistler working the ski lifts seem to gravitate towards the craft beer industry. In fact, plucky antipodeans like Dean McLeod at Victoria Caledonian Brewing (and previously with Lighthouse Brewing), Daniel Murphy at Canoe Brewpub and former Steamworks brewer Caolan Vaughan have all had a role in the growth of the BC craft beer scene.

As it turns out, Australia is also undergoing its own craft beer revolution. From its humble beginnings in the gastronomic capital of Melbourne, craft beer has spread to every state and major city.

I sat down with fellow Aussies Mike Roberts (head brewer at OldYale Brewing) and Joshua McGrogan (Field House Brewing’s tasting room manager and “Director of Experience”) to chat about what drew them to Canada (women, as it turns out), their perspective on BC’s craft beer scene, and what’s brewing Down Under.

Also, before I get any angry emails, I realize Josh isn’t technically a brewer, but he’s Australian, he knows his beer, and he was available.

Growler: So how the hell did you guys end up in Canada?

Mike Roberts: I was travelling Europe and I met a bunch of Canadians travelling around, and they said if you’re ever in Canada, come stay with us… so I ended up coming out to Canada. I had plans to go back to Australia and study to become a brewer – I was working at a brewery in Edmonton – and I stopped in to visit some friends in Vancouver, and met a girl at a party.We did the longdistance thing, and she moved down to Melbourne for a year, then we moved back here and got married.

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We caught up with Joshua McGrogan (left) and Mike Roberts at Old Yale Brewing’s new tasting room. Lou Lou Childs photo Joshua McGrogan:Yeah, similar story. I graduated from university at the end of 2012 with a bachelor’s of commerce and decided to move to England, to London. I ran a gastropub there, and that’s where I met my now fiancée, and we moved [to Abbotsford], where she’s from.

Mike: Yeah, almost every person you meet from back home, you ask them, what brought you here, and they answer, “I married a Canadian girl.”

Joshua: Australia and Canada, our cultures are very compatible, and in a lot of ways we’re very similar.We both definitely have a love for beer.

Mike:Yeah, we mix really well, we have similar drinking habits, and when Canadians and Australians get together, it’s always a good time.

Growler: So what’s the beer scene like in Australia right now? We’ve seen unprecedented growth here in BC in the past five years, but a lot of that had to do with the liquor laws finally changing. Has there been that same sort of growth in Australia?

Mike: Australia has similar issues with taxation, so it’s very tough to turn a profit for a craft brewery. All the taxation laws were written by Foster’s, basically, back in the day.

So they’re made for large-scale [operations], so it’s just tough to do small batch. But [unlike BC] the laws haven’t really changed much, they are still lobbying for changes.They’ve made it easier here, so you’ve seen that explosion, but it’s happening [in Australia], just not as fast. [The craft beer scene] started in Melbourne and blew up there, way earlier than Vancouver.The food and coffee scene and wine scene was always there, so beer just fit right in. And now other big cities are following. Sydney, Brisbane is really taking off, Adelaide is great, Perth is crazy, there’s some great breweries there.

Joshua: A lot of the craft breweries there are huge, though. Even the ones that are just your local brewery… they are pumping out a lot of beer.

Everyone is doing large-scale packaging too.You’re just starting to see the first growlers coming to Australia. And even craft beers are still sold in 24-packs. Smaller bottles, like the 650mL bombers we have here, you barely ever see those. People still tend to buy beer in volumes.

Growler: That’s because it’s so hot out and everyone is so thirsty!

Mike: That’s part of it, for sure!Yeah, the drinking culture is different. It’s a little more adult, almost, except that we get hammered all the time, so we’re like children in that way. In Melbourne, there are places where you can drink in public, so you can just take beers down to the park. I’ve taken kegs down to the park or to the beach.They give us a little more flexibility, I suppose. Here, if you have even an empty bottle in the car, they can fine you for it, and it seems ridiculous.

Growler: What have you noticed as far as trends in beer styles in Australia?

Joshua: Well, yeah, Australia is really hot, a lot hotter than over here. So there’s a lot of craft lagers, kolschs, and we have a beer called summer ale, which is not really a style…

Mike: It’s an Australian made-up thing!

Joshua: Yeah, it’s basically a pale ale, but they call it summer ale. A lot of the beer styles are made for drinking lots of beer when it’s hot, so they’re really, really light flavour profiles.Which is great! Lately, every time I go back, I’ve seen more [breweries] popping up and they are being more adventurous with things that are going crazy over here, like lots of wild yeasts, Bretts, sours, big hoppy IPAs. So that stuff is starting to catch on. A lot of those guys are keeping track of what’s happening over here, because it seems to start in North America, and that’s what’s really of interest.

I think [Australia] is definitely a bit behind the trends, but it’s slowly catching up.

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Mike: I knew about the big American breweries.

The brewery I worked at in Melbourne [Mountain Goat Beer] had a sister-brewery thing going on with Brooklyn Brewery… and if you’re into craft beer, you know about the American breweries. But as far as Vancouver, I don’t think many people do know. Australia is in a bit of a bubble, too.

We’re so far removed from everywhere else.We’re a bit isolated.

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In Australia, breweries serve all of Australia. So they are pumping out big volume, as far as possible. Like, back home, all my favourite craft beers were made in really, really big breweries, like Little Creatures, Matilda Bay. It’s not really common to have a local brewery. I think Australians are still catching on to craft beer, because there’s not enough [smaller] breweries around experimenting and trying new things.

Mike: It’s uber-local here, isn’t it? The population in Vancouver is smaller than Melbourne, but you have way more breweries; they’re just producing less beer. So they can experiment and try new things.

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berries are still a few weeks off, the fruits of another type of harvest are ripe for the picking. Inundated with wine samples, I’ve been busy tasting through a bevy of recently released bottles, many of which are first-time entries to BC. Now that’s the kind of downpour I like!

My forecast for spring includes lots of whites with the occasional fresh sea breeze, frothy pink bubble, and a red that references lamb over lion.

2014 Fillaboa Finca Monte Alto Rías Baixas ($37.99, BC Liquor Stores) The fashionable Albariño grape, from Spain’s verdant and cool-ish northwestern zone of Rías Baixas, perfectly captures the freshness of our nascent spring. Vibrant and scented, it offers nectarine, grapefruit and a touch of honey carried by a steely mineral backbone. And here’s that invigorating, salty sea breeze I was referring to.

2015 Fontanavecchia Taburno Falanghina del Sannio ($21.99, BC Liquor Stores) Let me introduce you to another stunning newcomer.

Falanghina hails from Italy’s beautiful and bountiful southern region of Campania. Think of a profuse southern Italian garden with fragrant flowers, apricot trees, and ripe herbs like mint and basil. Lots of fleshy, ripe fruit on the palate, balanced by juicy acidity.

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Chez Christophe is ready for Easter with a new line-up of chocolate art, including farmyard classics and five new bunny figurines, including a royal guard, a chef, a carrot, a hockey player, and a lumberjack. Figurines range from $24.95 to $32.95 each.

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2015 Blue Mountain Chardonnay ($20.90, winery direct) Okay, so not new to the market (Blue Mountain is actually considered a veteran in BC), but I love this newly released 2015 Chardonnay.

It’s what I call an all-season white. Round and textured, it would provide comfort in winter, yet it has that light-on-its-feet sensation you feel when spring arrives.

Its creaminess and touch of peach beg for height-ofsummer corn, while notes of apple and pear hint at autumn’s bounty.

Paltrinieri Piria Lambrusco di Sorbara ($21.90, BC Liquor Stores) Like spring slowly blooming, this wine is just working its way into BC Liquor Stores, but I promise you’ll see it popping up on more shelves soon. Based on the charming Lambrusco di Sorbara grape, Piria is a unique sparkler, sporting Big news from the Okanagan. Chef Rob Butters of RauDZ in Kelowna has announced that the restaurant will be taking over operation of Terrafina at Hester Creek Estate Winery.

Current chef Jenna Pillon will be staying on, and the menu and room will be going through a refresh, with opening scheduled for April.

TerrafinaRestaurant.com Burdock & Co. will host a ramen and noodle pop-up with sister restaurant Harvest Community Foods on March 22-24 and 29-31. From 12-2pm each day, Harvest will dish up its hearty ramen and noodle bowls to Burdock’s customers. BurdockAndCo.com On Tuesday, Mar. 28, Wildebeest partners with Brasserie Dunham for a special brewmaster’s dinner.The five-course menu includes chicken liver parfait with foie gras, boudin noir, pheasant roulade, grilled flat iron steak, and dessert.Tickets $75 per person.Wildebeest.ca On Thursday, Mar. 30, the 23rd annual Dining Out for Life takes place at dozens of restaurants from Whistler to White Rock, and across the Lower Mainland. This annual fundraiser in support of men, women and children

an appealing deep-pink hue; gorgeous aromas of violets and lilacs; flavours of crunchy redcurrant, strawberry and raspberry; and a lively, mouth-filling mousse. Unmistakably dry, it’s palate cleansing, hunger inducing, and essential springtime sipping.

2014 Château la Besage Grande Cuvée Bergerac ($18.99, BC Liquor Stores) And then there are some wines that simply go with lamb. Merlot based with some Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, Château la Besage is a full-bodied red that refreshes rather than tires. Bright green herbs offset plum and tobacco, with vanilla and coffee nuances chiming in, and finishing with a firm grip.

Unpretentious and great value for the money, it’s whet my appetite for BBQ season in a big way.

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On Wednesday, Apr. 26, Campagnolo Roma will present the next edition of its Quinto Quarto supper series, celebrating the whole animal. The six-course menu includes Humboldt tentacle yakitori, lamb tongue on spent mash crackers, chicken skin crackers, pig foot brodo with cotechino ravioli, whole roasted pig’s heads, goatmilk rice pudding, and beef tendon marshmallow with pork blood torte. Tickets $80 per person, including beer pairings from Driftwood Brewing. Call 604-569-0456 or email info@campagnoloroma.com.

On Saturday, May 13, the 11th annual Spot Prawn Festival returns to False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf.

In addition to being able to purchase a bag of freshoff-the-boat prawns, each $17.50 ticket includes a time slot for you to receive the annual spot prawn meal and drink samples from R&B Brewing and Evolve Cellars. Tickets available through Eventbrite. ChefsTableSociety.com W

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From left: Trafiq owners Shauna MacNeil and her husband Sergio Salamonovitz, plus the café’s signature Chunky Monkey bread (below); organic, honeycomb-flavoured soft-serve ice cream from Kul Cup; Lisa Lou’s Chocolate Bar owner Lisa Gardin at work; All India Sweets owner Steve Ram with assorted buffet treats, including the gulab jamun fried milk balls. Dan Toulgoet photos

The sweet side of Main Street

From ice cream to Filipino treats, Main Street can satisfy all your sweet teeth

chocolate bars from scratch, including “Sue,” a chocolate bar with sour cherry, pistachio and crispy rice. Don’t forget to check out the bon bons. lisalouschocolatebar.com

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LISA LOU’S CHOCOLATE BAR

One of the newest edible arrivals on Main Street, Lisa Lou’s is the brainchild of pastry chef Lisa Gardin.The little shop joins block neighbours Campagnolo,Torafuku, Bodega, Pizzeria Farina and Kobob Burger, and, as the name might suggest, offers everything chocolate. Gardin makes everything from ice cream sandwiches to truffles to

I’ve always had a special fondness for soft ice cream.

It brings back that childlike feeling of happy innocence… okay, maybe I wasn’t so innocent. Nonetheless, soft serve is finally available at somewhere other than McDonald’s or Dairy Queen. On Main Street, you can find it at Kul Cup. Made from all-organic ingredients, this very smooth and creamy ice cream comes in more than 20 iterations, with toppings ranging from fresh pineapple and organic granola to black sesame, honeycomb, macarons, espresso and even mini-wheat breakfast cereal. kulcup.com

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Located just off Main on Quebec, this popular ice creamery serves up classic flavours that are rich, organic and delicious. While the salted caramel is a personal

favourite, you shouldn’t miss the matcha or oatmeal brown sugar. Vegans, take note: the vegan chai is excellent and there are also another three rotating vegan flavours to choose from. earnesticecream.com

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The Chunky Monkey bread alone is worth a visit.

What started out as a way to use up day-old croissants now requires a special batch to be made just to meet demand.

These thick slices of what is essentially bread pudding are heavily laced with dark chocolate and banana puree, plus a rich ganache. For something lighter, try a slice of the lemon-lavender cake with lavender whipped cream.

For floral palate enthusiasts, there’s nothing better. trafiq.ca

FRENCH MADE BAKING

Just hidden off Main on Kingsway is this charming little bakery run by French pâtissiers and husband-andwife team David and Catherine Introligator. Organic flour and free-run eggs (from Rabbit River Farms) are standard, as is Valrhona or Cacao

Berry chocolate. Don’t look for bread here, apart from some really good baguettes.

Instead, focus on the macarons. Flavours like blackcurrant and violet, rose and lychee, and passionfruit and vanilla are part of the regular lineup, while seasonal offerings have included rooster-shaped jasmine macarons for Chinese NewYear. Don’t miss the afternoon tea with the housemade croissants and hazelnut spread. frenchmadebaking.com

LUCKY’S DOUGHNUTS

What goes better with coffee than a doughnut? Especially a big, scrumptious PB&J from Lucky’s, located inside 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters.The brash, bold flavours of the doughnuts here keep a steady stream of regulars lining up day and night.The aforementioned PB&J is exactly what it sounds like, a magnificent square of raspberry jam-filled dough topped with a salty-sweet peanut butter glaze.The crème brulée is another standout, but it’s the apple-bacon fritter, with large chunks of apple and a gluttonous amount of bacon, all dressed with a maple glaze, that gets my heart – and cholesterol – soaring. luckysdoughnuts.com

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A doughnut is a doughnut is a doughnut, right? Well… not quite. Cartems specializes in the denser cake doughnuts, although yeast versions are also available. If you can, snag a honey-parmesan or three.The pepper gives this salty-sweet combo a nice kick. Cartems also usually has around eight to 10 vegan and/or gluten-free options at any time, including a stellar smoked maple-walnut. cartems.com

It may have moved across the street into a slightly smaller space, but this long-standing icon of Little India is still a Main Street institution, known for its vegetarian buffet and – more importantly – for its amazing selection of Indian sweets. Try the gulab jamun, fried milk balls soaked in honey syrup, or the jalebi, fried coils of dough made from lentil flour and dipped in sugar syrup. For something more savoury, try the ras malai, a drier, milky ball often topped with pistachios. allindiasweetsrestaurant.com

GOLDILOCKS

This popular Filipino bakery has been around for over 30 years, but only arrived on Main Street recently.

If you’re looking for a good version of an ensaymada, a popular sweet brioche baked into a muffin shape and topped with grated cheese, this is the place to go. It’s also one of the few places in the city where you can find an ube (purple yam) cake.

The Goldilocks version uses an ube chiffon with ube jam and whipped cream. Other specialities include cassava, leche flan, and a sweet sticky rice pancake called bibinkang galapong. Get it topped with ube or chocolate ganache for kicks. goldilocks-can.com

SWEET REVENGE

Sometimes, all you want is a slice of old-fashioned pie or cake. Sweet Revenge has been on Main Street for 16 years and counting. This tiny room specializes in desserts “like grandma used to make” and delivers deliciousness in every slice of chocolate pudding cake, berry trifle, and white chocolate cheesecake.

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In the 1990s, graffiti artists had plenty of space to practice their artwork.Today, due to both construction and regulation, the “free walls” where street artists can practice and paint are a diminishing resource, and artists say this is a problem that the city needs to address.

“It’s important to have space for street art because it’s important to have space for all art,” says local graffiti artist Take 5. “We have to look at why there are these sort of pervasive attitudes that see graffiti as a threat.There has really been no space for dialogue between the artists and the policy makers.”

Take 5 started doing graffiti in 1992, when the skateboarding community overlapped with the graffiti community, and there was plenty of mentorship and space to hone their skills.

“Both of these subcultures take place in the street, so it was a natural overlap for graffiti artists to start introducing themselves to skateboard artists, and many skateboarders became graffiti artists,” he explains.

Take 5 is a master of wildstyle graffiti – a geometric, oldschool style that involves taking letters and bending them to the point where they are almost illegible. He recalls the days when there were plenty of free walls for artists to practice on, from behind the Ivanhoe on Main to the Lonsdale Quay parking lot in North Vancouver, and the community flourished. Now, the tunnel at the Leeside skate park is one of the few remaining examples and, due to space constraints and competition, is hardly ideal.

“That is a terribly small space and it’s inaccessible to a lot of people, so there is constant turnover there, which creates conflict among the graffiti artists because they’re competing for space on this quick turnaround,” Take 5 explains. “We need more space where people can practice their skills in a safe environment, free from prosecution and interference

from the city as to what the content should be.”

Seeing events such as last year’s Vancouver Mural Festival, which centred around buildings in the Mt. Pleasant and Main Street areas, as a starting point,Take 5 hopes that the city will engage more artists in conversation about how to turn Vancouver into a world-class city for art – one that includes graffiti.

“I think that’s what’s really great about the mural festival, [is] they are [representing] an all-encompassing body of work, and it’s not just exclusive to one typical style of art,” he says. “It’s very dangerous when we say that one kind of art is allowed and one is not.”

Nick Gregson is a 32-yearold mural artist from East Vancouver. He volunteers with the city on the Arts and Culture Policy Council and does community outreach by teaching art techniques to youth. He currently has about 10 murals around Metro Vancouver, and is working with the city to have more public art spaces available.

“I think there needs to be space set up for all types of art,” Gregson says. “There needs to be a place for tags, a place for [graffiti], and a

Muralist and activist Nick Gregson is fighting for more areas for public art. Dan Toulgoet photo place for murals.”

Gregson thinks that the city’s attitude to public art is improving, thanks to cityfunded projects such as the mural festival, and he encourages people who have ideas about public art to contact him so he can bring them into future meetings.

“Street art has come a long way.That term wasn’t even around before,” he recalls.

“I think that the society is a different age group now and [millennials] are starting to

take over. I think that our age group identified with this type of art.”

Gregson agrees that the city needs to have more sanctuary areas for artists to work, like the walls at Leeside. He thinks that having more free walls will cut down on the number of murals being tagged. He also believes that businesses over a certain size with free wall space should be required by the city to have public art.

“I think [public art] gives artists a voice, and it reflects

the culture of the city,” he says.

It also provides an outlet.

“People do graffiti for a lot of different reasons, I think. A lot of people are just angry at society and want to do some vandalism, and that’s the way they get their voice heard,” Gregson explains. “It’s great because I’m kind of a quiet person, so it’s a good way for me to express myself.”

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MAIN STREET / MT. PLEASANT Continued from page 8 Kat Thorsen is an artist and art therapist who teaches wheatpaste graffiti to at-risk youth. She finds that street art is a great way to inspire youth, and the temporary nature of graffiti teaches them how to let go of their artwork.

“Share it with the community, but not in a way that you’re attached to the end product,” she tells them.

Wheatpaste is a style of graffiti (made famous by political artists like JR) that involves plastering pre-drawn art to walls, and has seen a surge in popularity amongst artists in Vancouver.

“It’s cheap, doable and quick. So if you’re prepared, you can be really quick about it,”Thorsen says.

The paste is made from flour, water and sugar, mixed with boiling water and white glue.Thorsen uses newsprint, which yellows over time, and then she draws with China markers and acrylics, which don’t fade. Once the art is ready, you brush a heavy coating of wheatpaste on the wall, slap the poster on, and then brush over it again.

Other than the white glue, which isn’t essential, wheat paste is organic.

Thorsen says that some pieces stay up for years, because the community really connects with them, but certain pieces are torn down within hours.

“There’s no attachment to the outcome of my art for me. It’s about people being allowed to interact with it,”

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n a city that wraps itself in shades of grey, it’s the dark brown brew that truly stirs our souls. Canadians drink more coffee than most people in the world, and if we were painting it out on a map, you could colour Vancouver’s Mt. Pleasant area the most coffee-est of colours. Commercial Drive might be awash in the aromas of roasts, but Main Street is truly the city’s bottomless cup. In fact, a quick tally of businesses in the Mt. Pleasant BIA reveals 13 that can clearly be identified as casas de café – and that’s just on the blocks between 2nd and 16th Avenues. Further up and down the bustling thoroughfare, you have at least a dozen more.

So where do you start? Personal preference being king among cups, it helps to know what each coffee house specializes in. Are you looking for Italian roasting expertise or an assiduous AeroPress experience? Ethical beans and/or gourmet accompaniments? There’s something for everyone, if you just follow your nose.

Artist Drew Young works on “The present is a gift” mural at the Belvedere Court at Main and 10th Avenue, as part of last summer’s Vancouver Mural Festival. Dan Toulgoet photo Thorsen said. “The teaching part of that, too, is that [the students] can’t own that piece.

They have to let the public do what they want to it.”

Thorsen believes that for some people, constantly creating is the best way to keep your mind focused, and wheatpaste is a good way to do this because it isn’t permanent.

“There’s this feeling that wheatpaste is a bit more gentle in the community,”Thorsen says. “It allows you to be aggressive and ‘guerrilla marketing,’ but at the same time, you’re not ruining someone’s space.”

She also feels that the city is lacking in spaces for public art, and that it should be a

priority to create more free walls in the city, as it beautifies communities, helps people express themselves, and creates conversations.

“Public art is a fingerprint, it’s a dialogue. It’s like saying, ‘We dare to speak,’” she explains.”We don’t always know who’s doing it and that’s what I love.We don’t need to know.

It could be someone who’s been doing art for 50 years, or it could be someone who just wanted to express themselves that day and say, ‘I’m here.’

For me, it’s a very important part of the city.

“There’s that element of balancing getting permission, and just going for it,” she adds.

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Thirty-five years ago, Don Larson had a dream. The Downtown Eastside activist noticed an unused stretch of shoreline at the north foot of Main Street. The beachfront boasted spectacular views of Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains.

That such natural beauty could exist so close to the mean streets of Main and Hastings stuck with Larson, and soon the C.R.A.B. movement was born: Create A Real Available Beach – a waterfront park for the residents from one of Canada’s poorest postal codes.

Two years later, protesters took over the land in dozens of tents, occupying the otherwise empty site once known by the First Nations as LuckLucky, or “Grove of Beautiful Trees.” For two and a half months the campers remained, demanding that the area become a park for the neighbourhood to enjoy.

Many local musicians and politicians came down to join the campers in solidarity. By some miracle, the feds and the port eventually relented. The Vancouver Port Authority handed over seven acres of waterfront to the park board in the form of a longterm lease. By the summer of 1987, a beautiful oasis was created: Portside Park, which in 2004 was renamed CRAB Park at Portside, in honour of Larson’s miraculous grassroots movement.

On the eve of CRAB Park’s 30th anniversary, Larson, age 70, once again finds himself in a scrap to maintain the jewel he fought so hard to create.

Announced over a year ago, the Port of Vancouver has plans to extend their existing terminal westward, creating land where there was none, with seven acres of infill into the ocean directly offshore from the park. That doesn’t sit well with Larson.

“The park board seems to be in collusion with the Port

of Vancouver, which doesn’t seem to be accountable to anybody. The port just does what they want, when they want”, says Larson. “This is a place where people from the wasteland of the inner city can go and clear their heads, not find more noise and pollution and industry, which is what this expansion will bring, in direct view from the beach.”

Barb Daniel, the president of the nearby Four Sisters Housing Co-operative, has been extremely active in the recent battle over CRAB, and she agrees.

“The port claims the expansion won’t impact the park because it won’t touch the park. That’s like saying I’ll put a steel mill across the street from your house, but it won’t have any impact on you.”

Daniel doesn’t put much faith in the public consultations the port has been hosting for the past year, either. “The ‘consultation’ process is no more than a show. From pre-design to the present, the port has

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never wavered in its plan to proceed with zero regard for the dire consequences to the community”, says Daniel, who presented both the port and the House of Commons (via MP Jenny Kwan) with a petition of over 12,000 signatures against the expansion.

When I asked Robyn Cristanti, the port’s director of public affairs, for her reaction to the protests surrounding their expansion plans, she had this to say: “It’s to be expected that not everyone will be satisfied with our process or its outcome, but we are completely committed to a thorough, robust, sciencebased project and environmental review that incorporates community concerns, and ensures the project will not go ahead unless it can be demonstrated it has no significant adverse impacts that cannot be mitigated.”

It remains to be seen if the concerned citizens of the Downtown Eastside can once again pull off a seaside stunner and keep their view and park as they like it, but Larson isn’t holding his breath.

CRAB Park’s monument to the murdered and missing women of the Downtown Eastside. The view beyond will be obscured if the port’s expansion proceeds as planned. Grant Lawrence photo “We’ve already placed a commemorative boulder in the park for the murdered and missing women of the Downtown Eastside”, says Larson. “If the expansion goes ahead, I’d like to see the port donate $125K for a totem pole also dedicated to those women. And I’d like the port to contribute a further $250K to renovate the caretaker’s building and

turn it into a cultural facility.

Most of all, I want the park deeded over permanently to the City of Vancouver.”

You have to hand it to Larson and Daniel. As their historic plaque in the park at the foot of Main Street reads, their “perseverance, resistance, and the struggle for inclusion in the Downtown Eastside” refuses to die. W

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‘Game of Thrones’ composer Fashion and film: a love story brings winter in springtime MICHAEL WHITE @bequietmichael

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Although Ramin Djawadi has been on tour since February, it’ll be spring by the time the Game of Thrones composer brings his immersive multimedia experience behind the popular high-fantasy program to Vancouver. But, to use the show’s ominously prescient early tagline, winter is still coming to Rogers Arena this April.

While Djawadi has been bouncing around North American stadiums to showcase the symphonic, stringsand-woodwinds-loaded score from the first six seasons of Game of Thrones, he’s showcasing the music using locally sourced choirs and orchestras.

Hours of material has been cut from the stage show, but you can expect to hear the signature, moody march of the main titles, as well as the “Rains of Castamere” – a slaughter ballad summing up the infamously bloody Red Wedding scene from season three. He notes that a special version of the latter has been prepped just for the tour.

“It was quite tricky to put the set list together, because there’s so much music to choose from,” he tells Westender, on the line from a Charlotte, North Carolina, tour stop. “We let the story arc guide us a little bit.The idea was to have a nice story arc from season one to six, making sure that we highlight all the different families and the characters.”

Though Djawadi’s prolific career has had him score films like Iron Man, recent sci-fi seriesWestworld and war-themed video game Medal of Honor, he’s worked tightly with Game of Thrones showrunners D.B.

Ramin Djawadi is touring music from the hit HBO series. BBPhoto Weiss and David Benioff since the show premiered in 2011.

“They sent me the first two episodes of season one, which I watched and fell in love with immediately,” he says, adding that he composed the House Stark theme before being offered the main titles. Since then, he’s brought whimsical sounds to multiple scenes of sex, violence, magic and betrayal. Djawadi doesn’t root for any particular character, choosing to immerse himself in the drama all at once.

“My work process is that I always work on multiple pieces at the same time,” he continues. “Game of Thrones is the perfect playground for me, because I can work on the Lannister theme for one section, let it sit for a bit, move on to the Starks, and then come back. I don’t know if I really have a favourite. I just like the variety.”

In addition to the music, fans can expect a brand new visual experience.Without spoiling too much, set pieces and video projections will

transport you to the forests of Westeros, where a solo violinist will be bowing beneath a Weirwood tree. Djawadi also talks up a wintry moment where a special-effects snowfall introduces a flautist and a vicious battle narrative.

All told, he and various visual designers have spent the last three years putting together the eclectic concert, and the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience should be a treat for longtime followers of the program, but there’s even more drama in store for fans once the tour wraps. It was recently announced that the show’s seventh season starts up on July 16.

When pressed for spoilers, the composer explains he hasn’t even seen – let alone scored – the new episodes.

While he’ll eventually get the inside scoop, he’s excited to see what’s next for revived character Jon Snow and all the rest. “You never know what’s going to happen next,” he says.

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They may not be questions any of us have asked ourselves before, but they bear contemplating:Would Breakfast at Tiffany’s be as iconic a film without Audrey Hepburn’s tiara and black Givenchy dress?

Would Annie Hall have been as much of a cultural event in 1977 if Diane Keaton hadn’t worn her own thrown-together menswear ensemble to the set? And what is RearWindow, first and foremost: one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most impeccably constructed mysteries, or a peerless showcase for costume designer Edith Head’s myriad gowns worn by Grace Kelly? Or both?

These are some of the discussion points film scholar Michael van den Bos is bringing to Hollywood Haute Couture, a celebration of fashion in (mostly) American cinema, from the 1930s to present day. In addition to personally selected clips accompanied by van den Bos’s illuminating introductions, the one-time event includes a live fashion show fromVancouver designer Roxanne Nikki, plus an exhibit of pieces taken from the collections of costume historians Claus Jahnke and Ivan Sayers (including garments worn

by Julie Christie and Barbara Stanwyck).

Westender spoke to van den Bos about the retrospective, which he spent more than a year researching and curating.

You’ve been voraciously consuming movies for decades.

Did they spark your interest in fashion in the first place?

So much in my life – my interests other than film – came from film. If you’re passionate about any particular art form and you delve into it, it certainly can expand your interests, your mind. My love for movies began when I was a

fashions] do say something about the characters, but the scenes aren’t about the fashion.

So, what I’m getting at with Hollywood Haute Couture, all the clips I’ve chosen – the fashion has to be the thrust of that scene, it has to be significant to the drama or the comedy in that scene.

Good costuming made Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy synonymous in the ’50s and ’60s. kid – it goes back a long, long time. Eventually you go, “Wow! Why am I so attracted to Grace Kelly in RearWindow?”Well, she looks pretty damn hot in Edith Head’s costumes.

Fashion is such an integral component of filmmaking – it’s right up there with having the right actors, the right script, cinematography, direction, music, all of that, because as many of the great costume designers in film have said, ‘Costume is character.’ It reveals so much about a character, or can be contradictory and hide something about a character.

And movie fashions have a history of making a huge impact on culture in general without necessarily meaning to.

Right.The show isn’t necessarily examining specifically how fashion – or costume – impacts the character or the drama. For example, in Bonnie and Clyde, from 1967, Faye Dunaway has a very specific look that became kind of a rage in the late ’60s. And it’s still very stylish. Even though it’s supposed to take place in the 1930s, it was in all of the fashion magazines and women were emulating it. And the “Annie Hall look” was groundbreaking in how it impacted women’s fashion.Within the stories of those movies, [the

Do you think latter-day cinema, especially in the 21st century, has depicted fashion as effectively as it did in the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s?

Probably not so much.

There’s a much more casual approach. Say, your generic romantic comedy today – there’s a costume designer and the fashions are going to be integral, and in some cases you get something like Clueless, about teenagers in Beverly Hills, and fashion is such an important ingredient of that movie because it speaks so much of the characters. But in many instances, if you go back to a romantic comedy in the ’30s, ’40s or ’50s, it seemed like costume designers and filmmakers were pushing the fashion a little bit more.

Everything is heightened. In my research, you go back and read interviews with costume designers in films – whether it’s within the last 10 years or going back to the ’30s – and what’s consistent is they say the fashions they create wouldn’t necessarily work in real life.

They’re designed – and in some cases, say, Marilyn Monroe;WilliamTravilla designed [the costumes in] about eight of her movies – they’re engineered for the actor. Maybe something like Sex and the City, which comes [out of the] designer showrooms, might be an exception. W • Hollywood Haute Couture takes place Sunday, Mar. 26, at Vancity Theatre, 3:30pm. « y µ µ

Drag, burlesque find inspiration in millennial favourites VERONNICA MACKILLOP @vmackillop

If there are two things that go well together, it’s nostalgia and performance art, but it’s how artists combine them that truly has the power to intrigue.

Take B-Roll:Toy Story – a Toy Story-themed drag show organized by Dayne Tank (aka Dee Blew) – at the Penthouse Night Club on March 27. Or, We All Float Down Here: A Burlesque Tribute to Stephen King, hosted by Geekenders Nerdlesque at the Rio Theatre on March 25.

Both shows are heavily influenced by nostalgic fiction, and hope to draw crowds seeking the familiar, anew.

“With B-Roll, the best shows are usually the ones that are

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from the middle-millennialage-range childhood, or our teen years,”Tank says. “We’ve really figured out that cartoony stuff that you don’t usually see in a drag show is the best.”

Tank has held seven B-Roll shows to date. He started the event with his boyfriend, Xavier De Salaberry, eight months ago, with the help of entertainer Samantha Mack, who got them their slot at the Penthouse on the last Monday of every month; drag artist and host Jane Smoker; and Sarah Watson, who is the stage manager for every show.

The first show that Tank and De Salaberry put on was inspired by the movie Kill Bill.

Since then, they have riffed on the likes of Harry Potter, Pokemon, and Batman.Tank selects a drag performer from

‘B-Roll’ host Dayne Tank. the city to play each role he has in mind, and his selections are based on the persona that the performer has created for themselves.

“If people think they’re funny, I want to put them in a funny role. Or, I want to do the complete opposite and be like, ‘Look, they can do this, too,’”Tank says. “We usually typecast it a bit.”

Tank believes that fiction

influences performance artists by providing inspiration to take their performance to another level. “It puts almost a different layer of expectations or goals for your performance, where you want to create that level of amazement,” he says. “In a drag show, specifically, people don’t want to see just stuff that happened – they want to see a fantasy, they want to see an exaggerated idea.”

Geekenders also sees fiction as a source of inspiration, according to performer and troupe artistic director Fairlith Harvey.Their Stephen King burlesque tribute show aims to use burlesque to deconstruct fear.

“Burlesque came from parody in the late 1800s, and the really cool thing about the Stephen King show is we’re

deconstructing what people find scary,” Harvey says.

According to Harvey, the show is hoping to draw in crowds who have maybe never experienced burlesque before.

“We like to call it gateway burlesque,” she says.

The show will feature tributes to several popular Stephen King stories, such as It, Cujo, The Shining, Misery, Christine, and a few less popular stories such as “The Lonesome Death of Johnny Barrel” from Creepshow.

“It’s gonna be quite a show,” Harvey says, with a laugh. “There’s one number from a short story I’ve never even heard of, so there will be something for all Stephen King fans.”

Harvey assures that the show may not necessarily be

too scary, but she is positive it will be really weird.

“I think it will challenge people to find sexuality in what they’re watching,” she says. “Burlesque isn’t there to give you a sexual thrill in the same way that stripping is.

Burlesque is meant to make you think and hopefully challenge your idea of what [you think] is sexy.”

And, like the B-Roll crew, Geekenders also believes that people love seeing things that they have previously connected with.

“Nostalgia is really powerful for people,” Harvey says.

“If they have a pop-culture reference they can connect a performance with, they have their entire experience with that thing to inform their reaction to it.” W

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Its title doesn’t exactly conjure warm fuzzies, but wrestling rom-com Chokeslam has a lot of heart. And chokes. And slams.

The Regina-shot feature film – written and directed by Robert Cuffley (Walk All Over Me, Ferocious), and starring GVRD-born powerhouse Amanda Crew as Sheena DeWilde, a disgraced wrestling star gunning for a comeback, and Chris Marquette as her lovelorn ex – screens in Vancouver next month as part of a limited theatrical release.

It also features WWE Hall of Famer Mick “Mankind” Foley, professional wrestlers Lance Storm and Chelsea Green, and a strong Vancou-

ver contingent of Eadweard star Michael Eklund, Agam Darshi (Sanctuary, Played), and Niall Matter (Primeval NewWorld).

Part love story, part redemption tale, and funny through and through, Chokeslam offers a sideways, surprisingly heartfelt look at the calamities wrestlers face in and out of the ring.

“Wrestling rom-com” isn’t exactly a category on Netflix, so how does Chokeslam’s star define its genre? “A physical romantic comedy – and not physical in the sexual sense, but physical in the action sense,” says Crew, laughing, on the phone from Los Angeles, where she portrays Monica Hall on the HBO sitcom SiliconValley.

Chokeslam was a transfor-

mative experience for Crew.

Beforehand, much of what she knew about the wrestling world came from Total Divas, an E! reality show that follows the women’s division of the WWE. “Each episode is probably 30 seconds of wrestling and then 22 minutes of drama,” says Crew, whose lengthy filmography also includes Bad City, The Age of Adaline, and Table 19. “My experience with wrestling before the movie was just these beautiful, fit girls arguing about screen time.”

But in order to become Chokeslam’s wrestling powerhouse Sheena (who wrestles under the name Smasheena), Crew endured a rigorous training regimen that saw her lifting weights and building strength. “I was always that typical cardio queen who

stuck to the treadmill out of fear of, ‘If I lift weights, I’m going to get big and bulky.’ And now, I’m such an advocate for women lifting weights,” she says. “When you’re having a bad day and you’re able to just destroy a workout, you feel so fucking good. And I just wish every woman could feel that feeling, because it is so empowering and it does translate into your life.”

Crew performed all but two of her own wrestling moves in Chokeslam. She received guidance and inspo from legend Foley (“He was the sweetest man ever”) as well as Vancouver-born wrestling pro Chelsea Green, who currently can be seen in Pop TV’s ImpactWrestling.

Through Green, Crew

learned that wrestlers are next-level tough. “After we finished filming, Chelsea was wrestling in Japan, similar to my character, and she broke her collarbone. She had to be airlifted out. And I remember when that happened, I was like, ‘Oh, my god, she’s done.

That’s the end of her career.’

And no: She’s such a fucking badass that she healed and she got back in the ring after she recovered.”

Another revelation for Crew:Wrestling is “the most physical dance you can do.

I thought wrestling was this whole pre-rehearsed dance, like they knew all of the moves that they were going to do, and it’s not the case,” she says.

“They’re talking to each other in the ring. It’s improvised.

They know who’s going to win,

but that’s pretty much it.They really put their bodies on the line and sacrifice their bodies.”

As Sheena/Smasheena, Crew was allowed to explore anger and volatility – emotional states not typically written for female protagonists. “It’s definitely a rare thing in movies and TV for women to be the protagonists and also have flaws. I think so many people are scared to give flaws to women, because women are supposed to be likeable and pretty. And to me, that’s such a shame and a waste. I think that propels this idea that women need to be perfect, and also why men might not feel the need to be perfect.”

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I’m a 26-year-old virgin, but I rarely feel any bitterness about it. I’ve always felt there were more important achievements in life besides sleeping with someone.

After admitting to being a virgin, some people no longer wanted to know me, so it’s starting to feel like an albatross around my neck.

I don’t feel emasculated because in the sport of sex, I’m proud of my weighty penis. It’s the rest of my body I worry about. My torso is covered in scars from rapid weight gain and weight loss, and my face can only manage a smirk instead of a smile, due to teenage Bell’s palsy.

Not too bad, but it causes me self-image grief. The question is, should I hop on a train and go to see an escort?

I was against the idea, thinking it felt like a forfeit, but I feel out of options. Would a sex worker really care if I’m out of shape and socially awkward?

I wish I could say I didn’t

care, but with a 27th birthday approaching, it feels like I desperately need to be rid of it.

Thanks, John First off, congrats for blowing my mind with the term “weighty penis.” I’m being 100 per cent sincere.

That descriptor is still leaving me speechless. It takes a real punch in the face to shut me up, so well done.

There is nothing wrong with going to a prostitute.

If you want to do it, go. Just make sure you’re prepared to pay. (Any sex worker worth her salt is a great negotiator.) The more you put in, the better client you are and the greater experience you will have. I hate it when people talk about “prostitutes” like these women are arcade games you plunk a few quarters into for quick stimulation. These women are people – human beings with the ability to feel. (Want total silence and zero awkwardness? Fuck a Realdoll.)

Yes, going to a sex worker is a business transaction:You are not their friend; you are their client. That being said, their job is to “party” with

Don’t let a lack of sex hold you back. iStock photo you and make sure everyone has a great time.

If you want discretion and a luxury experience, I highly recommend going to a brothel. I just spent the weekend at Dennis Hof’s infamous Alien CatHouse in Amargosa Valley, Nevada. I

was doing a piece for Hustler on their newly appointed Madam, who also happens to be a friend of mine. The girls working there really impressed the hell out of me.

I can’t explain it: They are the ultimate combination of saleswoman and sex kitten.

The brothel offers tact and privacy. Half the girls who work there don’t even advertise their faces to the public.

Furthermore, county laws require that the sex workers are tested by a doctor each week, so you are guaranteed safety, free of STIs. The girls

at the brothel are professionals who have seen it all.Your scars, smirk and self-deprecation will just be another lap around the block. A sex worker may “care” that you are out of shape or socially awkward, but unlike a civilian, she would never let you know that. That’s the beautiful delusion of this business transaction. Enjoy the fantasy you paid for.

Now, if you can’t make it down to the land of legalized debauchery, then go through an escort agency. It’s the easiest way to get a professional experience. If you have time to do some research, you can dive into a Craigslist K-hole and find your perfect escort. I heard some girls even advertise through Tinder now. Paid sex is everywhere. Finding someone won’t be an issue.

Don’t become Steve Carrell in that Judd Apatow movie (though he did end up married to Catherine Keener.) This is real life, not a movie. Treat yourself for your 27th year of life and go get yours.Your weighty penis needs to find its way into a vagina.

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‘Adopteez’ Pet of the Week: Easy as 1-2-3 NOA NICHOL @adopteezpleez

The tale of Asher, Rollie and Pan reads like a real-life Incredible Journey – with the “happily ever after” yet to come.

Nearly three years ago the tiny dogs – Chihuahuas Asher and Rollie and Yorkshire Terrier-cross Pan – were dumped, for reasons unknown, in a former gravel pit in the Aldergrove/Abbotsford area. Fortunately, a caring local who lived across the street from the abandoned quarry noticed the trio and, along with his daughter, attempted to come to the dogs’ aid.

“He heard a car pull up at 2:30 in the morning, heard the door shut and then the car pulled away,” says Surreybased Dhana Metta Rescue Society founder and directorYuana. “He immediately heard the dogs barking but it was dark and he couldn’t see them. In the morning he and his daughter went out and saw them there.”

Asher, Rollie and Pan, Yuana continues, were terrified – and evasive.

“They were eventually able to capture the two Chihuahuas, but not theYorkie mix,” she says. “That’s when the daughter contacted us. She saw how fearful the two dogs they had got were, and she knew she could not help them.”

Dhana Metta stepped in and immediately set out to catch the third dog.Traps were set and volunteers worked on rota-

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Rollie, Asher and Pan come as a team. Karla Wakefield photo tion, performing checks of the area every four hours.

“We even set up nightvision cameras to see if we could watch where he went,” Yuana explains. “It is a very dangerous area for small dogs and, as the days passed, I cried over the thought that he could be dead, eaten by predators. It was really intense, stressful time.”

After 10 days of searching in vain, she decided to place an ad on Craigslist, hoping that someone in the vicinity had found the third dog and had him in their care. The very next day she received a phone call from City of Chilliwack Animal Control.

“They said that aYorkie mix had been brought in as a stray from that exact area but they couldn’t get near him as he would bite,” she recalls.

“They transferred him to our rescue and we put him with the other two – the recognition was immediate.Tails were wagging, butts were wiggling – they were so happy to see each

other. I remember thinking, ‘We did it, we got him!’ It had us all in tears.”

Fast-forward to today, and life has become much brighter for the so-called “gravel pit dogs”. Despite his aggression early on, Asher is the friendliest of the three, extremely affectionate and loving. Rollie and Pan continue to slowly but surely come out of their shell, often looking to their pal Asher for cues.

As for this story’s true “happily ever after” – that,Yuana says, will materialize when these deserving little dogs get the forever home they’ve been waiting so long for. “We know it’s a tall tale for most people, but we would like these three to stay together,” she says.

“It’s a hard call, but they need each other. It’s what we – what they – wish for.”

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It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance.

Too much NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. } v x resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. o ~ z v z xµ § x « ¥ o µ hµ¬µ¤ « y that you consciously co-create may not be µ z y v ¥ o v x z ~ µ

If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You z x ¡ o x ~ ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

When I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At ~ o v y ~ surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me. k v x z ¥ z experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas.

If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating v z ~ µ z o u this counsel may be too extreme for you to honour. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

You are on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A z x z x } x z v z¥ v z v temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

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Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if o y § z I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Dingdong. Let freedom ring!

William Boyd writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the x z x ~ characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety per cent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to v z µ z I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the centre of your µ ¦ z ~ v guidance more than ever in the coming months.

And at this particular moment, it is beginning to y } x x x x it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

The empty space at the end of this sentence v | µ « hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just SHUT UP and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think – or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2.

“Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3. “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because ~ z ~ z µ {« | from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

Are you fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can o ¥ y up to at least 51 per cent. (Eighty per cent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking v z o ¥ v z y z ±³ µ { ~y µs v z } x x v z that makes you nervous about what everyone v z w v z o ¥ o y v z z y z 51 per cent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects.

(Ninety per cent is better.)

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