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Some a**holes have sprayed graffiti over several murals along Commercial, including some beautiful one-of-a-kind art works.

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I was one of many unfortunate [people] to fall on our icy streets in December, and break my wrist. I was, however, one of the fortunate ones to receive excellent care at St. Paul’s Hospital, from Emergency, to my orthopedic doctor, to the expert care in the physiotherapy dept.

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VANCOUVER GOTH: A CLARIFIED HISTORY LESSON

Re:“Back in black: Goths of a new millennium” Great to see some of the local media giving some acknowledgement to the Goth and alt scene, which has been historically and chronically under-recognized by the local arts reporting media!

There are some errors in this article regarding the

history of events in the city.

The club night Sanctuary did not grow out of the allages event Resurrection; they were two entirely separate events, and Resurrection started as an all-ages alternative to the 19-plus Sanctuary well after Sanctuary had begun. Additionally, after several multi-year residencies at the Purple Onion, Sonar, Celebrities and the Red Room, Sanctuary left its Sunday spot to move to a weekly weekend spot on Fridays at the Lotus. It was at this time Descent began by taking over Sanctuary’s old spot at the Red Room on Sundays. However, they did not replace Sanctuary, as Sanctuary continued to run regularly on Fridays at the Lotus and then Saturdays at Club 23 West for six more years before going on hiatus, and then later reopening as a monthly night under the new name Madhaus, where it still currently operates as a monthly Saturday night two-room party at the Hindenburg in Gastown.

While Descent inherited Sanctuary’s old spot at the Red Room and has been there now for far longer than Sanctuary was, and has truly made the Sunday spot at that venue their own with an almost 10-year residency since inception, they otherwise did not take the place of Sanctuary. Sanctuary was still running for not just six years on weekend

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nights after Descent started, but its six busiest years, with Sanctuary eventually being replaced by their new incarnation, Madhaus.

Other than that, great article and insight into the personalities which make up the highly diverse goth scene of the city!

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Lessons from the longest paternity leave ever Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a new weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? “Unknown” Vancouver poet Maurice Redmont.

AN EMPTY HOURGLASS

Last week, I returned to my job at CBC Vancouver for the first time in over 15 months.

I took a full paternity leave to spend time with my now one-year-old daughter and my three-year-old son.Yes, I know it’s a period of my life that I’ll look back upon and cherish. But, man, it was hard work, and I learned a lot. Allow me to share.

If you’ve ever heard me on CBC Radio, you’ll know I’ve spent the last 18 years or so talking up Canada’s hottest new bands. Being on paternity leave made me realize there are a lot of similarities between looking after tiny children and talking to bands every day. I spend a lot of time looking at disheveled people in stained clothing, repeatedly asking them when they think they’re going to have something coming out.

There’s also all the grunting and unintelligible half-sentences (and those are just my questions).

Very late at night, during my paternity leave, I also finished my new book, which

Grant Lawrence reflects on the past 15 months, which he spent on paternity leave with his two kids. Contributed photo

is about my old band.Writing the book made me realize that being in a touring rock ’n’ roll band inadvertently prepared me to be a parent: Sleepless nights, tantrums, barf, and the shitting of pants are really nothing new for me.

In the first few months of my parental leave, I spent most of my time with my three-year-old son, Josh, while my newborn daughter clung closely to my wife.

Josh and I did everything to-

gether, while I observed him doing his very best to master the English language. He still gets confused occasionally, like when he loudly mixes up the words “lasagna” and “vagina.” That can make for some awkward moments at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

When Josh wasn’t by my side, he was at his daycare.

Even then, on some days I would prolong my drop-off or pick-up just to hang out with him and the other kids,

because when else would I have the time? One day, the teachers were asking all the kids about their favourite food. Josh proudly looked up at me, pointed, and blared out, “MY DAD LOVES BEER AND PILLS!” The teachers glared at me while I suddenly felt like Daycare Johnny Cash. They’re probiotics, people! Sheesh!

Nearing the end of a long parental leave, cash can get pretty tight. In my case, that meant I would wander around the house in nothing but my boxer shorts and a Mac jacket, not having showered in days, looking for stuff to sell on Craigslist. (Word to the wise: Three-year-olds are terrible wingmen when someone comes over to buy something from your ad.

“But Dad – wait! You said that was so broken!”)

But if there’s one lesson I’ve learned above all others over the past 15 months, it’s this: Going to work is actually the break.That’s right – it’s staying at home and parenting your child that’s the hard part.

What I really gleaned was a newfound and massive respect for stay-at-home parents. It’s beyond any other full-time job, because it’s not about you, it’s about them. And one more poopy nappy. W

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the avant-garde dance of a sacred demon sleepwalking naked Maurice Redmont was born in Vancouver 71 years ago and has been writing poetry for 56 years. He is, in his own words, “unknown and without reputation. I walk the back alleys and deserted streets of the city after midnight for inspiration.”

To submit your own poetry to Poetic License, email editor@westender.com with Poetry Column in the subject line. Include your poem, full name, contact details and bio. Only those selected for the column will be contacted.

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Sixteen-year-old Ana Monfared has been reading her slam poems at Café Deux Soleils for over a year. Her poetry puts her in touch with her emotions, she says, giving her a space to vent and share her thoughts about things like experiencing racism and why she hates Archie comics. “It’s very therapeutic,” says the Grade 11 student. “This is a place where I can speak and be heard, especially with a lot of political issues.”

Politics and world events may well be nudging more people toward poetry as an immediate and accessible outlet for sharing their views with others.

“Because of Trump, because of pipelines, because of what’s going on in this

world right now, a lot of folks are turning to poetry to express themselves,” says Billeh Nickerson, a faculty member in Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Nickerson was one of the artists who presented at last year’s annual Verses Festival of Words, which is scheduled to take place during national poetry month this year, from April 20-30, and will feature 40 events, including performances from local poets.

“I think it’s very telling that there’s a rise in this form of self-expression,” says Verses artistic director and Vancouver Poetry Slam coordinator Jillian Christmas. “I think people find it fun to commune with people, share stories and learn about others… We are in a time where we’re hungry for this kind of engagement.”

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rise in poetry’s popularity is fun. Many poetry and literary events, such as launch parties for issues of the magazine Poetry is Dead, also feature music, art, comedic performances and beer. “The other nice thing is that there are so many events, that now I am becoming out of touch,” says Poetry is Dead founder Daniel Zomparelli, who added that he’s pleased to now be able to “discover new things and… be a participant instead of always an organizer.”

Increased participation from youth in high school and university writing programs is adding fuel to Vancouver’s poetic flame.The Vancouver Youth Slam and WordPlay, run through the Vancouver Poetry House, are likewise doing a lot to engage youth in spoken-word activities.

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Youth Slam, said he’s seen first-hand the positive impact of youth events like the slam competition at Café Deux Soleils and the Hullabaloo youth stream within the Verses festival. “I didn’t really have that outlet when I was their age, and I can see that it’s a great thing to have for our youth,” he says. “It gives young poets a chance to get up and say what’s on their minds and speak for themselves without censorship.”

Monfared, who was in this year’s Youth Poetry Slam Finals on March 27, says she plans on continuing to perform and will be leading her high-school poetry team next year with two friends. She also has ambitions to publish a chapbook of poetry soon.

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Neu, fashion student Jasmine Siu’s collection, is inspired by Japanese androgyny. Jasmine Estella Siu photo

I feel like kids can lead the revolution in terms of gender neutrality, because they don’t label and are open.”

Wong’s collection is inspired by modern street style and athleisure, and also ’90s TV shows such as Boy MeetsWorld and Saved by the Bell. “One of the main considerations was functionality. Kids need clothes that are comfortable and practical for the school and playground,” she explains.

A love of the work of artists Banksy and Anonymous was Fearnley’s inspiration for Xeno Vellum. “It’s got this grungy, glitchy, dystopian feel,” they explains.

“In terms of actual pieces, there’s one that can be worn as a shirt or a dress, and there’s a lot of layering. I’m really interested in technical apparel, so there’s an element of that, too.”

Siu coined a new term – genderful – for her line, Neu. “I want people to feel that it’s safe to be yourself,” she says. “The patterns are based on Japanese androgyny, and pieces combine elements that are traditionally masculine and feminine, so they’re more versatile. For example, masculine shapes such as boxy T-shirts can be cinched to change the silhouette.”

Siu’s biggest fashion inspirations include Vivienne Westwood. “I like her fearlessness and the way she encourages femininity in menswear and vice versa,” she says. She’s also a fan

of iconic Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto.

Chuang is similarly inspired by Yamamoto’s aesthetic. “A lot of his stuff is considered unwearable, but it’s so influential,” she explains. Her collection is Non Sequitur “Play of Thought.”

“It has a masculine aesthetic, but it’s not menswear,” she says. “It’s really for anyone who wants that particular look. Garments are more traditional men’s pieces, but design elements such as softness and draping, and the proportion of pants, are more typically feminine.”

All KPU students are encouraged to take a commercial approach to their work and to consider whether there’s a real audience for the pieces they create.That comes not just from a business perspective, but also to promote eco-friendliness. All the students are creating nonseasonal lines, and Siu and Chuang describe their labels as slow fashion. “There’s enough wasteful fashion out there,” says Chuang.

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My Digs: a fresh start Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

@Jennifer_AGCTK A new home is always a symbol of a new beginning, but with this week’s My Digs we’re showcasing the story of a true fresh start. When I first met my client, who was moving into a blankslate Mount Pleasant condo, she explained that she was taking the first steps toward restarting her life after a divorce. Our main vision for the space was to create the ultimate “bachelorette pad” – a place where she could rediscover herself and all the things she finds beautiful.

The first step was to evoke a strong sense of a bright future, so we played up

the vibe with ultra-bright white walls, which play off the high-gloss-white inline kitchen. (This also served to make the small space feel more open.)

Then it was finding an inspiration piece to pull the décor together: On Craigslist, my client found a stellar vintage-finish area rug, in muted jewel tones, for the living room, which set the style for the rest of the design. Whites, greys and pale pinks became our girly neutrals, while the accessories and art reflect the inspiration palette of rich amethyst and sapphire colourways, which add pops of strength and personality.

We blended a wide variety of design aesthetics, from vintage mid-century finds to streamlined modern, to create a story-filled home that

offers room for my client (and her adorable pooch) to rest and rejuvenate, as well as play and entertain.

The open-concept layout allowed for a large great room looking out onto the patio, which we layered with patterns to keep the visual interest high while staying true to our design palette. In the bedroom, however, we brought in heavy textures to create a sense of luxe and intimacy. The overall space was outfitted with unique light fixtures – some custom made – to add a little extra to the finishing touches.

In its details and its entirety, the condo represents both the strength and softness of a woman’s heart. It remains one of my favourite projects to date because of its style and story. This is truly “her digs.” W

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Gender fluidity is discussed and written about everywhere now, and no wonder –millennials are all about the freedom to explore and live without labels. Some brands are beginning to work on genderless fashion. And, of course, androgyny recurs every few seasons as a runway trend.

But according to Al Fearnley, a 25-year-old fashion student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), there continues to be a lack of clothing for people who, like “them,” identify as non-binary. (“Them” is the preferred pronoun of many non-binary people.)

“It affects me and I know it affects others – it makes me feel excluded and uncomfortable, pigeonholed and forced to choose the men’s or women’s department,” says Fearnley, who wasn’t the only student who noticed this issue.

“I have friends who identify as LGBTQ and, like everyone, they see clothing as a direct representation of identity,” explains classmate Jasmine Siu. “The absence of choice means they are unable to express that.”

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Wong’s label, static/quo, is for children – as most of her designs have been over her four-year course. “I find childrenswear more exciting because there are fewer restrictions,” she says. “Dressing in whatever you want is less of a taboo when you’re a kid.

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Local restaurants offer contemporary takes on Canadian cuisine Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday In this multi-city series, Anya Levykh explores what Canadian cuisine means in different parts of BC, as well as in the rest of Canada.

Wrestling with the concept of what makes a dish distinctly Canadian could give you a moose-sized headache. Depending on the season, region and chef, almost anything, it seems, could be considered. With such wide-ranging criteria, how do we distinguish our culinary ethos from that of Italy, France, India, Japan, Greece, et al? Is it simply using Canadian-based ingredients? Is it the recipes?

Yes. And no.

Like Canadian values, I don’t think our cuisine can be pigeonholed into a single checkbox or list. There’s a lot more involved than just using Saskatoon berries or serving up yet another iteration of poutine. Last month, I visited Victoria to explore some local odes to Canadiana. In that spirit, I’ve rounded up a list of Vancouver restaurants that seem to be redefining what Canadian cuisine is all about. This is not an exhaustive list, but it’s a pretty good start.

BURDOCK & CO.

Chef/owner Andrea Carlson has been quietly dishing some of the city’s most innovative and delicious food for several years now.

Her unique, plant-forward, locavore menu doesn’t eschew animal proteins, but it doesn’t revolve around them either. Instead, there’s a strong sensibility that seems to say, “Seasonal doesn’t equal spare.” Take the rice congee, for instance. Made with rice grown in Abbotsford by Masa Shiroki (of Granville Island’s Artisan Sake Maker), it’s an unctuous dish made more so by the addition of a fried egg and house-made sea urchin XO sauce. The flour used in the sourdough bread is milled in-house. The fried chicken with pickle mayo is so good that it’s often sold out. And who knew a celery root salad could be this exciting? Pair it with something tasty from the list of naturalist wines chosen by wine director Matthew Sherlock. burdockandco.com

FARMER’S APPRENTICE

Chef/owner David Gunawan has won plenty of awards for his farm-to-table cuisine. The prix-fixe dinner menu is available as either an herbivore or omnivore meal for $55 per person. The seven-course meal might in-

clude a beet and blackberry salad, Berkshire pork, quail egg with sunchoke, beeswax ice cream, and more. Even the weekend brunch menu (à la carte) offers up some interesting twists on eggs and hash, like spaghetti squash with ricotta, eggs and honey, or the rutabaga “pastrami.” farmersapprentice.ca

JUNIPER

Executive chef Josh Gale has a solid pedigree after helming the stoves at restaurants like Wildebeest, Fable and Nicli’s Next Door.

Who better to reinvent the Cascadian-themed menu at Juniper? Earthy dishes like roasted bone marrow with grilled octopus sit along more delicate items like nori-crusted tuna with broccolini gomae and ryeberries.

Barley risotto with roasted root vegetables might not sound exciting, but a little brown butter and Parmesan give a welcome richness. It’s a menu that teeters toward fine dining without tipping over, making it a perfect match for the gin-forward cocktail menu run by Max Borrowman. junipervancouver.com

TIMBER

Chef Chris Whittaker’s first restaurant, Forage, was a natural testament to his personal interest in sustainable harvesting, fishing and

hunting. Then, two years ago, when Whittaker opened Timber, Forage’s more casual little sister, he redefined what “comfort food” meant in a Canadian sense.

Almost outlandishly rich and rustic, the food here is on the extreme end of “casual” in terms of taste, but high value in terms of quality. Deepfried cheese curds and pepperoni sticks might sound like nothing much, but when they’re cultivated and made in-house, they’re realized into something more refined and infinitely delicious. And, yes, there is poutine on the menu, and the smoked pork gravy and bits of chicharron (deep-fried pork rinds) are eye-rollingly good components. As are the lamb-bacon BLT and the Turtle Valley bison burger, natch. Cocktails are available, but sip from the excellent draft and whisky selection instead. timbervancouver.com

SALMON N’ BANNOCK

There’s nothing more Canadian than food that’s inspired by First Nations cuisine. Owners Inez Cook and Remy Caudron have created dishes that speak to their origins, and it’s a tasty story. Bannock is baked inhouse daily, and can be ordered on its own with a side of cedar jelly. With a menu that focuses on wild fish and game, except to see dishes

like wild-boar meatballs and bison back ribs. The bannock even shows up as a flatbread topped with squash, parsnips, mushrooms and peppers. And don’t miss the game sausage with sageblueberry preserve. It’s a nice nosh of a dish that’s perfect with a glass of wine from from Nk’Mip Cellars. salmonandbannock.net

THE MACKENZIE ROOM

Chef Sean Reeve takes a decidedly playful attitude to his seriously locavore menu. Almost everything comes from this province, and almost everything that can be made in-house is done so. The menu changes frequently, depending on what’s available, but the mastery of a simple mixed vegetable dish served with a bagna cauda (a warm dip made with anchovies and garlic) makes for a heady experience in this hyper-casual room. And if you’re worried about pretentiousness, think again. It’s really hard to be pretentious when serving up a pig’s head on a large wooden board. Instead of deciding what to get, just go for the “I Want It All” menu – at around $57 per person (minimum of four guests), you get the whole kit and caboodle off the daily menu (pork head not included). themackenzieroom.com W

Provence Marinaside is holding its ninth annual Poisson d’Avril, a monthlong celebration of everything fishy and fun. As part of the celebrations, the restaurant will offer a three-course prixfixe menu for $57 per person.

Options include seabream carpaccio, fish soup, smoked cod brandade, grilled halibut, swordfish or whole Mediterranean fish, and dessert.

Optional wine pairings are also available in full- or halfpours for $30/$18 (Canadian wines) or $35/$20 (Old World wines). provincemarinaside.ca The annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (VCBF) is back, meaning that Cocktails & Canapes is once again offering its special sakura-themed lunch boxes. Order 10 or more for delivery within Vancouver, or pick up individual orders at all VCBF events, including Cherry Jam, Bike the Blossoms, Spring Lights Illuminations, and The Big Picnic.

Pre-order your Blossom Bliss sandwich or vegetarian sakura box, as well as sweet popcorn and a match-cherry blossom shake. Meawnhile, Masayoshi is celebrating the return of the cherry blossoms with a special sakurathemed 10-course omakase (chef’s choice) menu, including baby eel shooter, firefly squid carpaccio, sashimi, sushi, smoked tuna salad, golden-eye snapper, octopus shabu shabu, and sakura mochi crepe, among other dishes. $120 per person. Reservations required. masayoshi.ca In other sakura-related news: Aburi Restaurants – which includes Miku, Minami, and Gyoza Bar – will be offering various cherry-blossom-themed drinks and dishes through to April 14.

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BC’s legacy craft beer brands change with the times RYAN INGRAM @westendervan

The neighbourhood has changed significantly since September 1997, when R&B Brewing poured its first beer.

At the time, co-founders Barry Benson and Rick Dellow were the only people making craft beer in the East Van ’hood now known as Brewery Creek. Today, the area now counts eight breweries and brewpubs, with even more in the works.

Likewise, the province’s craft beer industry is unrecognizable from 20 years ago.

From 2011 to 2015, the number of licensed breweries in the province doubled to more than 120, according to BeerCanada.The sudden competition between breweries and the dizzying array of new beer styles has understandably left some of BC’s trailblazing old-guard brewers wondering where they fit in.

Benson first began to notice the effects of the craft beer revolution’s most recent wave when the popularity of growler fills rose and R&B’s off-sales dropped. It was also tougher to get consistent lines for their kegs at restaurants and pubs, as rotating taps between emerging breweries became more frequent.

“So it wasn’t that much to have the respectability of a decade of good brews behind you,” Benson explains.

But the biggest change came just in the last few years, with Brassneck, 33 Acres and Main Street all opening up within walking distance, and R&B couldn’t logistically or financially create space for a tasting room in its building.

Benson admits, delicately, that the brewery fell into “a bit of trouble.”

“Our business plan was 20 years old,” he says. “Our business model was not where the industry is now.”

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So, in 2015, Squamish’s Howe Sound Brewing purchased the East Van brewery, providing the capital for a massive renovation. In addition to shiny new brewing equipment, Howe Sound’s investment allowed R&B to acquire the space next door, where they knocked down walls to finally build a tasting lounge: the R&B Ale + Pizza House. The impressively comfortable 60-person space feels somewhere in between your best buddy’s rec room and a neighbourhood pub, with 11 taps, including a few that are tasting-room-exclusive experiments.

“The vibrancy in the neighbourhood in the last 20 years has exponentially increased,” says Benson, noting that the new space has finally let the brewery become a bigger part of the neighbourhood, as well as the craft community.

The purchase also allows R&B to exist as a brewery that still brews its own beer onsite (plus Howe Sound’s lager, occasionally).

The brewery will see more changes soon, too, as their core line-up of six-pack bottles – including Raven Cream Ale – will be swapped out for two new, very modern Vancouver-themed four-packs of cans: Dude Chilling Pale Ale and Stolen Bike Lager.

And while six-packs of Ravens migrating will likely startle some longtime craft consumers, there are even bigger brewery changes on the horizon for one of the province’s biggest legacy craft breweries.

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Cue that Michael Jackson song from FreeWilly, because the killer whale from Vancouver Island Brewing’s decades-old logo has finally been released. The brewery’s

orca-free relaunch kicked off this month, and it’s already making a big splash.

Vancouver Island Brewing has been in the midst of a dramatic makeover that began last year when the brewery’s longtime owner, Barry Fisher, announced he had sold to Ontario businessman Bob MacDonald. The moves that followed the purchase have marked the most drastic example of an older brewery adapting to today’s craft beer revolution. “[Vancouver Island Brewing] spent so many years looking back that the industry passed them by,” says Chris Bjerrisgaard, VI’s new Marketing Director.

Bjerrisgaard, formerly of Parallel 49, Central City and a founder of Vancouver Craft Beer Week, is up to the daunting task of turning the legacy brewery, which has been around since 1984 (originally named Island Pacific Brewing), into a major player. “Frankly, from a marketing guy’s point of view, this is the dream job,” he says. “This is the test to see if you’re as good as you think you are. Can you take a brand that’s been in decline in an up market and turn it around?”

At the helm of the new VIB is former Central City president Tim Barnes, along with former Parallel 49 brewer Danny Seeton, who is designing new recipes for the brewery.

At the DNA level of the new VIB philosophy is figuring out “Where next?” The new core lineup will see three “legacy” bottled products with drastic updates, plus four brand-new canned brews.

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It’s a Woman’s World InternationalWomen’s Day, on March 8, empowered us to share and inspired us to listen to stories from around the world.We took the sparks of those conversations and asked sixVancouver women to go deeper with us, and open up about their identities, their passions and their projects. Here they are, in their own words, on femininity, feminism, gender, race, beauty and how they spend their energy at work.

by Kelsey Klassen and Megan Stewart

Jackie Kai Ellis

Pastry chef and owner of Beaucoup Bakery and Café; author of the upcoming memoir The Measure of My Powers

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Aboriginal relations manager for the City of Vancouver; member of the Nisga’a and Kwakwaka’wakw nations

y family was very much a woman-in-charge sort of family, and there was nothing my mom and grandma couldn’t do. They brought home the majority of the income, as well as cooked and cleaned, took care of the children.

I didn’t even know that sexism was a thing until my mid- to late 20s, because the thought hadn’t even crossed my mind that women weren’t equal – if not, in some ways, superior. I didn’t realize until I was in an art-director position at an ad firm. I was quite high up and I was hiring copywriters for a project I was working on, and the copywriter was really kind to me in a group setting, but when I would give him creative direction on the phone, he was quite rude. This was almost a decade ago now, so I don’t remember exactly what he said, but he would kind of be like, Look, honey. I’ve been in this business for a long time.Why don’t you just take my word for it and just print it as is. And I was like, I’m the one who’s in contact with the client, and they say it’s not good enough and I agree. So, what’s the problem? And then he asked to speak with a man.

Growing up, I was very afraid of being unintelligent or being stupid, of not amounting to anything – you name it. Not being pretty enough. I had very mixed messages, because back when I was growing up, Asian people weren’t beautiful, right? In my Asian family, I was considered quite pretty for an Asian person, but when I’d go out into the world, Asian people just weren’t pretty at all. And so I would have, strangely enough, insecurities about not being pretty enough, but being too pretty to the point where people in my family would say, It’s a good thing that you’re pretty, because you’re so stupid you’re never going to make anything of yourself, and you’re going to have to marry someone that’s

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’m leading our efforts to make Vancouver the world’s first city of reconciliation. I work across all of our departments and city staff to build our reconciliation goals into their work plans.

In our indigenous communities, I’ve always noticed that women were not just the caretakers but the voices of really complex social issues: family dynamics, the betterment of the community.

And these were issues that I just didn’t see too many of our male counterparts picking up and carrying, you know? The burdens and the work that indigenous women carry is much different than the work and the burdens that indigenous men choose to focus on.

Our roles were really as thinkers and to ensure that things were done in a heartfelt way. It’s really hard today to talk about how things were pre-settlement, because we don’t know too much, but I just get this sense, from being an indigenous woman and seeing and hearing from my aunties and my grandmas, [...] that there’s just an obvious difference between the women [and the men] and the role that they play in our community.

I hate to make this broad characterization, but it seems like women are on the ground doing the hard work.

Traditionally, indigenous communities had roles for genders and for ages, and we’ve lost sight of those roles because of colonization.

Maybe the intersection with some of today’s discussions around feminism and advocacy for indigenous women is about reclaiming those roles – not even reclaiming roles so they have community recognition, but reclaiming the roles at the individual level.There’s so much trauma that our communities are dealing with because of colonization, and because of the impacts of residential schools, that a lot of the work that we need to do in the community starts with the individual.

And the work that women need to do, personally, often takes a backseat because of their need to care for their children, to care for their parents and our elders, and even our community, ensuring that the cultural needs or ceremonial purposes are taken care of.

So, there’s a unique level of care that an indigenous woman has to provide, and there are a lot of roles that women need to play, but first we need to reclaim them and better understand them so that it’s intuitive and well understood in a modern context.

–As told to Kelsey Klassen.This interview has been edited for length.

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Producer, writer and actor; creator of the transgender sitcom The Switch

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or me, it was around puberty. Puberty was just a disgusting process. A lot of people can’t fathom why they would ever change, ever transition, and I think part of the problem is they’re

Lucille Caballero photo rich. I was so afraid that that would be true, and at the same time I felt horribly ugly in every other instance, that it created this really strange perception of myself in the world. But now I can see, at the age of 38, that it actually helped me a lot… that it developed a lot of my creativity in different ways and helped me to understand that intelligence is as varied as people are.

–As told to Kelsey Klassen.This interview has been edited for length. thinking of themselves transitioning away from where they feel comfortable. Imagine waking up tomorrow and starting to go through the wrong puberty. Do you suck it up? Or go to the doctor and say, You need to fix this!

The question of choice comes up a lot. Sometimes it’s the case of, If you’ve chosen to live the rest of your life as female, then stop fucking complaining about whatever you have to put up with, whether that’s being recognized as trans or being viewed as a woman. But there’s a couple of problems with this. I mean, one, [gender] is as much of a choice as sexual orientation, which is not very much. But the other part is, every cis person [someone who identifies with the sex they were born as] also chooses, every day.We all are making choices about how we present our gender – what feels comfortable for us.

I don’t have a choice about my gender identity, but I do have a choice about if I’m going to be in the closet or not. And what is the nature of that choice?You see that people can come out to lose their jobs, lose their family, lose their relationship, and be put in incredible physical danger. And they will stay out. And that tells you how bad being in the closet is.

It’s the slow psychological destruction of a person, to try to live in the wrong gender. I’ve seen what happens when people try to go back into the closet and it usually does not end well.That’s an understatement – it usually does terrible things to that person’s mental health. I’ve seen people who have to do it because they realize if they stay out, they’ll die.There’s a huge disparity in experience, of course, around class and race and ability, but specifically, with trans people, whether or not you “pass” as cis. It has a huge impact.

Recently, I started to give myself permission to present in a more feminine fashion. I had presented as butch for the first part of my transition, and part of that was because I wanted to prove to other trans women that it was possible. Sorry, it just felt right for me at the time, but I held onto it for years because I wanted to prove that you could do this. But now, I see more and more younger trans women who can present as androgynous or butch, and they’re just revelling in it. And then I felt like, okay, well, now I can just kind of relax into wherever I want to be.

–As told to Kelsey Klassen.This interview has been edited for length.

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Writer, poet, social-justice activist and diversity workshop leader living with multiple sclerosis; contributor to upcoming anthology The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth

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hat is womanhood or feminism? It’s about knowing who I am, my flaws and strengths from an ego-less place. My power came from my mom and dad, and right now it is definitely coming from my mom, my sister, and also from both women and men in my life. I am also very, very privileged that I had the kind of parents I do, and that in their migration story they chose Canada. Because of this mix of chances, I am privileged to have had choices. Not every person has choice. I consider myself extremely blessed, even with an incurable disease. After being told I had MS 15 years ago, my life became even more about purpose and about living it to its fullest.

Now, I just talk to strangers, I just start talking to people!

Maybe this is an age thing, and maybe me coming into my womanhood… I am confident, I don’t give a shit about grey hair; in fact, I love my grey hair!

The first woman of colour I heard speak was Glenda Simms [a past-president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women].When I heard her, I was like, Wow, I want to be like her.

I decided to go back to university… I got interested in women’s studies. In the late ’90s, I didn’t see anything that spoke to my identity as a person of colour, and so as I went through this time – I was always very vocal about racism and how does racism play out in the feminist movement. It never represented me.Where were my voices? I credit my university days as a time when I learned to be an advocate.

Intersectionality, I’d never heard of it at that time. I started a student organization called Society for Indian Classical Arts because I was really into learning Indian classical dance, and I felt the traditional dances were just as good as ballet, just as serious as ballet. I started up a women-of-colour collective; there was not one on campus before.That was all part of my activism... Where are my foremothers? is what I would say.

I was always mindful of the clothing that I wore… the hijab didn’t change me, I was still the same person, but the question I was exploring was Does this really connect me to God, and the answer I came to was no. I am not against the hijab.What I am against is if wearing it is forced. I don’t like to use the word God; I now say the divine. In Arabic, the word Allah is gender-neutral and is neither male nor female.

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Athlete in the Rollstuhlbasketball-Bundesliga (a co-ed, semi-professional wheelchair basketball league in Germany), recently retired from Canada’s national team

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It dawned on me that I am the most happy right now because I’m doing everything I love and I am most free in my identity. I found who I am outside of working in government. I came back to who I am, which is a writer.The MS is unfortunate, but it gave me another layer of understanding and freedom that maybe I wouldn’t have had.

–As told to Megan Stewart. This interview has been edited for length.

am an athlete. It’s what I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. It’s been my job and my life. For the last seven years, it’s been how I earned my living.

My knee is sufficiently wrecked that I can’t play able-bodied sport, and any running and jumping and pivoting is really difficult.

I don’t use a chair except on the basketball court.

Retirement from Team Canada was an incredibly difficult decision to make, and I cried when I said the words.You put on a Canada jersey and – even talking about it now, I’m getting a little choked up.You put on that jersey and it means so much, walking into the stadium at a Paralympic Games… There aren’t really words.That, I will miss incredibly. I won’t get to do that as an athlete again.

I was always seen as a tomboy. I really didn’t do anything to dissuade anyone from thinking otherwise. I was interested in being outside and I played with the boys all the time – it was more fun. I don’t know that it affected my sense of being a girl. My mom was very sporty. My grandmothers on both sides were both very accomplished women, both my aunts were very successful.

I had those role models and I never really questioned it. I never really thought there was any other way to be. My dad, he always encouraged me. He always expected me to do what my brother did… When I went out to the baseball diamond or the soccer field or the basketball court, just because I was a girl didn’t mean I couldn’t play.

–As told to Megan Stewart.This interview has been edited for length.

Harsha Walia

Social-justice activist and political organizer with the Downtown EastsideWomen’s Centre and No One Is Illegal; author of Undoing Border Imperialism

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ow do I identify? Hardest question ever! It depends on the day – primarily as a South Asian, Punjabi immigrant here on Turtle Island.The identity of being a South Asian immigrant is also a shift in identity, because it becomes such a homogenizing pan-identity in the context of being far away, so what I grew up with was a much more specific identity. I came from a mixed-class, mixed-caste, mixed-ethnic background, so those identities were much more specific to me prior to migration. Also, there is the understanding of myself as a settler here on Turtle Island.

Right now, with all the conversations around both Canada 150 and reconciliation, they very superficially make a gesture towards indigenous presence without, in any significant or substantial way, altering power structures.Turtle Island is a phrase that many indigenous communities use to reference North America, and for me as an immigrant, I recognize Canada continues to be a colonial entity that is establishing its unjust jurisdiction on indigenous people’s land.

Gender binary is a construct, and I am weary of gender essentialism, and that for people who are socialized into being women, people who are femmes, people who are trans identified and two spirit, I don’t think there is any social capital at a systemic level.There is the really superficial discourse of, Oh you can get a free drink at a bar, which is hardly anything when it come to the systemic nature of how patriarchy works.When we look at all the kinds of expectations that are put on mothers to be super-human, to work in the wage economy and labour in the completely unpaid domestic sphere, there is absolutely no social capital or power to

experience in patriarchy. And also, a free drink at a bar doesn’t protect you from rape, so the kinds of sexual violences that are placed on women and femmes and trans people are severe and incomparable to the imagined benefits and privileges.

Most of my role models are people I have met. I am cautious about placing on a pedestal people whose full story we do not know. Most of my role models are people I am in community with.

For me, my idols are those whose full humanity I can experience and understand. It’s also seeing how people embody their principles and their struggles. It’s so many women in this neighbourhood! Beatrice Starr, who passed away a few years ago, was the matriarch in this neighbourhood. My role models are women like that.

I get a lot of strength from being in social movements that are based in relationships… It is so necessary for me to be connected to other people. Coming back to this idea that we live in this world that is so neo-liberal, so isolationist – so for me, it is so necessary to challenge that idea of the individual in my own life, because capitalism wants me to believe I can somehow affect change as an individual, that I can set my whole purpose as an individual, and I just don’t think that is possible… My bigger priority is how to engage in this work with other people.

There are over 24 contributors to my book, and that was a very intentional decision. If I am going to be writing about social change and if I am going to be organizing, I want to be doing it with other people’s voices and contributions being lifted up.

–As told to Megan Stewart. This interview has been edited for length.

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Vancouver actress soars in chilling ‘Bellevue’ Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

If you haven’t yet watched CBC Television’s Bellevue, it’s not too late to get hooked.

Five of eight episodes have already aired, so you’ve got a manageable binge ahead of you, and not long to wait

until the season finale.

Bellevue – which stars Academy Award winner Anna Paquin (The Piano, True Blood) as Annie, a brilliant and hot mess of a detective investigating the

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disappearance of a teen girl in the fictional mining town of Bellevue – popped up on CBC last month with little fanfare. The serialized thriller ticks all the boxes of a winter-season sleeper hit: atmospheric and eerie, with nuanced characters, sex, religion, social commentary, and an overarching narrative driven by a couple of seemingly unrelated crimes.

While Annie investigates the disappearance of Jesse Sweetland (portrayed by newcomer Sadie O’Neil), captain of the Bellevue hockey team and a closeted trans girl, she’s also haunted by the murder of a teen girl from nearly two decades before. That particular homicide was the obsession of Annie’s father, a gifted cop who killed himself; following his suicide, a mysterious “Riddler” began leaving creepy riddles for Annie in a mailbox in the woods. The riddles stopped years ago, when Annie, still a child, failed to figure one out. In the wake of Jesse’s disappearance, they’ve returned.

Bellevue was co-created by Adrienne Mitchell (Durham County) and Jane Maggs. Its cast includes Shawn Doyle (House of Cards), Allen Leech (also known as Tom Branson on Downton Abbey), Billy MacLellan (Bomb Girls), and busy Vancouver actress Sharon Taylor.

In this competitive era of peak TV, Bellevue holds its own against its cable and Netflix peers because it leans into the differences between us, says Taylor, in a recent phone interview. “I think what makes it special is there is so much beauty in being different,” she says . “The show is different for CBC.We’re addressing a very current issue – a transgender teen goes missing – and that’s different. And Anna Paquin’s character, Annie, is a different kind of female

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protagonist. She’s a mess, as well as being super-passionate and driven.”

Taylor plays Virginia, a no-bullshit cop who works alongside Annie in the Bellevue PD. “Virginia is trying to build a case, and you can’t build a case unless you do it properly so that you can take it to trial, but Annie can potentially ruin the entire case by being so impulsive and going off the cuff,” says Taylor, whose lengthy filmography includes The 100, Continuum, Smallville, and Stargate: Atlantis.

“There’s a nice juxtaposition between the two women.”

Bellevue isn’t the first time Taylor has played a cop; she’s worn a badge multiple times, like in A Mother’s Instinct, Asteroid: Final Impact, and Jason Bourque’s upcoming feature film, Drone, which stars Sean Bean and Patrick Sabongui and has its Vancouver premiere on April 17 as part of VIFF Vancity Theatre’s Canadian Film Week festivities. “When I was in grade 12, I was either going to be a police officer or an actor,” chuckles Taylor, whose Drone character is named Agent Jenkins – the third Agent Jenkins she’s played. “Now I’m an actor

that pretty much only plays police officers.”

Taylor and her Bellevue compatriots shot the eightepisode debut season last fall.

Filming occurred throughout the Montreal suburbs and in Thetford Mines, an old asbestos mining town in southcentral Quebec. “It was quite overwhelming to film [in Thetford Mines] because it’s a real mining town,” recalls Taylor. “It was like filming in a real-life Bellevue.”

Of Paquin, who also serves as an executive producer on Bellevue, Taylor says there’s considerable overlap between the Oscar winner and her Bellevue alter ego. “Annie will put herself in harm’s way to get to the truth, and that’s how I see Anna, too,” she says. “She’s not only a powerhouse actor, but she’s a defender of tolerance and human rights. She’s a fierce and funny person.” W •Bellevue airs Mondays at 9pm on CBC. Binge past episodes at cbc. ca/bellevue. Tweet your reactions to @BellevueonCBC, @SharonCTaylor, @AnnaPaquin, and Reel People (@sabrinarmf).

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Vancouver is a city of film festivals, but few of them are family-friendly. Not so with Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, which returns this month for an entire week of kidcentric programming. The festival opens with The Sun at Midnight, about an artsy city kid (Devery Jacobs) sent to live with her grandmother in the Northwest Territories; and closes with Louise by the Shore (France), an animated feature about a septuagenarian’s vigour for life. In between, there’s PlayYour Gender, Kinnie Starr’s documentary about the gender gap in the music industry; Considering Love and Other Magic, in which a teen girl (Maddie Phillips)

tries to help a boy (Ryan Grantham) who thinks he sprang to life from the pages of a short story; and Pat & Mat, a dialogue-free animated comedy from the Czech Republic. Also on the schedule: animation workshops, aYouth Media Conference, and an all-youcan-eat pancake breakfast.

April 2-8 at VIFF Vancity Theatre and Roundhouse Community Centre.

Tickets and schedule at 2017.r2rfestival.org.

It’s not often that Telefilm Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts come together to support a film.

But then again, Alexander Carson’s O, Brazen Age isn’t exactly an ordinary film.

O, Brazen Age seeks to smash our expectations of what a Canadian indie film should look or sound like, combining experimental structures with traditional narrative as it follows a group of Toronto artists in their twenties. Critics and film fans lost their minds over the film when it premiered at VIFF 2015; now, O, Brazen Age enters limited-release territory via wholly unique “pop-up premieres” in six cities across the country. In Vancouver, the film will be preceded by craft beer plus live music from Terence Jack, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. April 4 at VIFF Vancity Theatre.Tickets at viff.org.

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WINE Continued from page 8 On April 7, Minami will be hosting a Sakura Sake Event, an interactive multicourse dinner that features saukra-cured halibut crudo, cherry-wood-smoked Brome Lake duck breast, sakurachampagne granite, and more. Tickets $150. The signuature sakura roll ($19) will also be available at both Miku and Minami, as well as various cocktails and sodas at all three restaurants. mikurestaurant.com | minamirestaurant.com | gyozabar.ca Jinya Ramen Bar is opening a new location in the Telus Garden building at 541 Robson St.The 80-seat spot is expanding on the original menu to also offer small plates and a larger Japanese spirits list. jinya-ramenbar.com Railtown Catering is once again offering its Easter-to-Go package for pick-up or delivery on April 16. The package is available as either ready-to-eat and ready-to-bake, and includes a choice of honeyglazed ham or lemon- and rosemary-crusted lamb.

The full complement of side dishes includes salads, scalloped potatoes with Gruyère, multiple vegetable dishes, bread and butter, and dessert. Serve four to six for $189 or 10 to 12 for $299.

Delivery charge not included. A portion of the proceeds from each dinner will be donated to Mission Possible, a non-profit that delivers street-level care to those with immediate and critical needs in the Downtown Eastside. railtowncatering.ca

Farmer’s Apprentice has revived its weekday lunch service for spring and is now open Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 2pm.The new lunch menu includes an open-faced smoked salmon sandwich, milk-braised pork shoulder, tagliatelle, three-egg omelette with mushroom marmalade, and more. farmersapprentice.ca The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC is launching a new series of food programming over the spring and summer that will allow guests to try Jewish cuisine from around the world and learn about the history behind the foods.The season kicks off with a supperclub evening on April 2.Tickets $40. jewishmuseum.ca Wildebeest has launched a new list of nine cocktails that offer different takes on an Old Fashioned. The “Refashioned” list includes cocktails using everything from gin and tequila to rum and bourbon, including four versions of the classic cocktail. wildebeest.ca Cibo Trattoria and Uva Wine and Cocktail Bar have announced that Jonathan Chovancek is taking over as new executive chef, alongside chef de cuisine Josh Gonneau. Both join GM Mark Taylor and bar manager Sabrine Dhaliwal. cibotrattoria.com Missing the raw vegan fare of Gorilla Food? Miss no more. The eatery has re-opened after a lengthy (two-year) hiatus. Its new location, at 637 E. Hastings St., is open daily, from 11am to 7pm, for delivery, take-out and dine-in. gorillafood.com

Underdog wines that deserve the spotlight Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

I’m always happy when a good wine garners deserved praise, and even happier when this translates to commercial success.Yet many great bottles fly under the radar. If a winery hasn’t received glowing accolades from a famous critic, or if it has limited resources to invest in promotion, it may remain virtually unknown, no matter how delicious its wines.

While we have a tendency to gravitate toward the known or the safe bet, it’s also human nature to champion the underdog, and there are plenty of these in the world of wine. Supporting them often means venturing off the beaten track. Besides limited marketing budgets or small production, wines made from obscure grape varieties and in eclipsed regions, as well as less mainstream or popular styles, definitely fall into this category.

If your curiosity is piqued, check out local wine festivals like Top Drop (May 23-24; topdropvancouver.com) and Garagiste North (Apr. 22; garagistenorth.com). These are geared toward encouraging the underdogs.

Below are a few tasty small-fries for which I’m enthusiastically cheering.

Unsworth Charme De L’Ile ($23 from unsworthvineyards.com; prices vary at private wine stores) Vancouver Island isn’t usually the first wine destina-

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tion that comes to mind. The handful of wineries that exist there eke out small quantities. Charme De L’Ile is a burgeoning specialty, and the name can only be used for sparkling wines using island grapes. It’s made in a similar manner to Prosecco, where a second fermentation in closed tanks gives the wine its scintillating sparkle.

I can’t help but think of such little-known island wines as David going up against Italy’s colossal Goliath.

2015 Little Farm Mulberry Tree Vineyard Riesling ($25.99 from littlefarmwinery.ca; prices vary at private wine stores) As the name suggests, this local property is tiny (only four acres of vineyard).

Furthermore, it’s in the Similkameen Valley, which is often bypassed by wine tourists racing to the Okanagan. They’re missing out!

Little Farm’s cute red barn doubles as a winery and wine shop. I highly recommend making the detour and committing to an appointment to taste their rosé, Chardonnay,

and this unequivocally dry, thrillingly piercing Riesling.

Larmandier-Bernier Latitude Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut ($73.99, BC Liquor Stores) Famous Champagne house Veuve Clicquot produces about 10 million bottles per year, while the biggest of all, Moët et Chandon, makes upward of 26 million. This affords them a robust marketing budget to keep their Champagnes front and centre. By comparison, Larmandier-Bernier crafts a mere 130,000 bottles made exclusively from their own grapes (thus referred to as a Grower Champagne). They use all of their resources to achieve this complex and refined 100-per-cent Chardonnay Champagne.

Casalone la Capletta Grignolino ($26 at private wine stores, including Liberty Wine Merchants) Grignolino faces a number of challenges. This littleknown grape, in addition to not being the easiest to pronounce, is pale in colour and light in body, which goes

against the fashion for red wines. Finally, the acidity is bracing and the tannins are dry. Lean rather than rich, Grignolino’s appeal emanates from its gorgeous scents of rosehip, iris and pepper, and its crunchy red-fruit flavours. Mouthscrubbing with charcuterie, the Casalone is particularly refreshing when served with a slight chill.

2013 Valdipiatta Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (Prices vary, at private wine stores) I would never suggest that the much-visited region of Tuscany is Italy’s underdog. However, among its three most highly regarded Sangiovese-based denominations,Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is far less known than Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classico – which is what compelled me to visit the zone this past week.

I found that quality varied widely, but I was happy to discover Valdipiatta’s elegant and slyly seductive Vino Nobile, replete with ripe cherry, tobacco and minerals.

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their friend, Rose Butch, at Man Up’s Amateur Hour.

“We weren’t seeing our bodies on stage, I wasn’t seeing anyone plus-sized, and I wasn’t seeing femininity explored, or anything really going between masculine and feminine,” says Sjerdal.

“So when we had the opportunity to perform at Amateur Hour, we were like, Okay we’re gonna go and it’s gonna be this, like, gender explosion and we’re gonna say ‘Screw the binary’ and come up with something new that people hadn’t really seen.”

Grimm’s and Rose’s performance must have connected with some people who were feeling the same way, as they went on to win Amateur Hour, then both received the title of Mr./Ms. Cobalt – Rose in 2015 and Grimm in 2016.

“We need more variety,” says Sjerdal. “It’s really cool to see folks that aren’t just interested in seeing male-to-female or female-to-male, but seeing what other kinds of transformations we have and what people interpret drag as.”

Sjerdal says their drag experience is much different from a “traditional” drag queen or drag king, because they are exploring gender and femininity as a person who is already feminine presenting. “I think because I am a female-bodied person and I am a queer person, I don’t experience the same cultural aspects that most drag queens do,” they said.

“But in terms of the actual art of drag, I feel like we’re all on the same playing field.

I still do a physical transformation with my body; it’s just in a different way.”

Sjerdal says transforming into Grimm is like becoming a different person, even

though their face and body are already feminine. “Sometimes when I’m shopping, it’s a fine line [between] ‘Is that for Grimm or is that for me?’”

Sjerdal believes drag is a really interesting way to explore femininity. “In a patriarchal society that doesn’t value femininity, I think that we can actively make the point [of] showing just how feminine we can be. Or I can take what you think is going to be traditionally feminine and put on a beard. There’s something about really thinking about gender that I think is important.”

Helen Proskou, also known as their drag persona, Femanáde, started performing at Man Up a little over a year ago, and found that they were accepted into the community fairly quickly. “The community is really accepting.You can really be yourself.”

Femanáde’s drag is hard to define.They can do nonbinary performance, to male transformation, or female transformation. “I like that I can change gender roles: I can be a woman, I can be a man, I can be a lion. I would say my drag is non-binary, not really a drag queen or a drag king.”

For Proskou, drag is a way to explore their own gender.

“When I do male drag, there’s the physical transformation: I bind, stuff myself with a packer; I work on my stance, how I talk, how I move, how I gesture. [When I’m] female, I’m more dainty, dance-y, lovey-dovey.

I accentuate everything and make my hair really big.”

Proskou feels there is equal opportunity for all drag performers in the city – you just have to put yourself out there and ask. “All my life, I’ve always had to prove myself. I come from a really

small town where there’s, like, five black people,” they said. “I keep going, ‘I want to show people it gets better if you work hard.’”

Ady McLeod, AKA Ruby Slickeur, started exploring drag two years ago, when she wanted to bring elements of drag and gender performance into her burlesque. “I had been interested in doing more queer shows. I found that in the burlesque scene, it was kind of tough to bring queerness into my performance, especially because I am quite fem,” she says.

“At the time, burlesque was incredibly heteronormative, due to the outward perception of the audience, and I was getting more and more aggravated about that.”

For McLeod, drag was a way to explore her femininity after coming out of a bad relationship. “I was kind of lost, and it was easier to throw myself into discovering who I was as a performer,” she says.

Coming into drag as a burlesque performer, with elements of clowning in her performances, McLeod’s drag experience has been quite a bit different from Femanáde’s or Grimm’s. She hasn’t had many opportunities to do drag outside of East Van, and has trouble with other performers accepting her as a queen. “Part of that is probably because drag isn’t the main medium I use to perform. I think that there’s a possibility of a little bit of intimidation [as well],” she says. “I’ve been in a lot of gay male dominated places where there’s kind of like ‘ew gross’ towards the female body and female nudity.”

McLeod says the biggest difference between herself and other drag performers is that her performances

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“I think that performers like Grimm and Rose Butch and Ponyboy, who are starting to bridge that gap, are starting to learn from both queens and other queer performers, but it would be cool to see that expanded. I feel like this is just the beginning.”

McLeod and Sjerdal both

find it can be hard to relate to drag queens because they are not a part of the gay male experience. “I saw [some of the queens] much more easily interacting with other gay men or drag queens – even the more masculine-presenting drag performers,” she says. “I’ve seen a lot of drag queens feel more comfortable approaching a masculine energy, because it’s what they’re used to.”

McLeod thinks drag is a really interesting way for women to approach their relationship with gender.

“Why can’t women explore their own femininity through drag and yet

men can? I think that’s a stupid boundary to make.

I’ve heard drag queens say that lady queens aren’t real queens, and I think that’s setting another boundary on women being able to explore their own relationship with their gender.”

McLeod thinks more women should approach drag as a potential art form through which to explore femininity and what “ultrafeminine” means. “I think that’s what drag serves to do, is blow up gender in a way that allows us to explore its elements. I think that more women should look into doing that.” W

East Van drag competition continues to grow VERONNICA MACKILLOP @vamackillop

The Mr/Ms Cobalt Drag Competition is back for another year of celebrating the diversity of drag in East Van, and this year the show has more competitors than ever.

Six years ago, Isolde N. Barron, the Queen of East Van (Cameron MacKenzie), and her husband/wife Peach Cobblah (Dave Deveau), saw a need for a positive queer space in East Van, so they created the Mr/Ms Cobalt Drag Competition.With Peach as the host and Isolde as the head judge, the duo made a space for drag performers to show off their talent as well as learn along the way.The winner receives a $500 cash prize, and 12 bookings across the city.This year’s is the biggest show yet, with 19 competitors.The competition happens every Sunday from April 12 to May 5.

According to Deveau, the duo’s main goal is to mentor performers and create an inclusive LGBTQ space. “It’s really kind of a love letter to the community. The reason this happened is because people started coming to the Cobalt and they made it an exciting queer space – and here we are, six years later.”

The audience is an important part of Mr/Ms Cobalt, as it becomes, in essence, a fifth judge. Each week, every audience member votes for their favourite performer, the judges tabulate the scores (including the audience vote), and send one to three performers home at the end of each round. “Drag should never be about doing it for yourself; it has to be about doing it for that roomful of people,” says Deveau.

Deveau adds that the show is a great way for people to step outside their comfort zones – a sentiment that 2016’s Mr/Ms Cobalt, Grimm (AKA Molly Sjerdal), agrees with. Sjerdal says they did the competition last year to try something new and

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“I will get back to you as soon as I can, Scooby-Doo. I’ve got a plan just for us.

Don’t worry, baby, we’re not in a rush.”

This is the outgoing salutation on Reggie Watts’s voicemail.True to his word, the anomalous quipster called back immediately after I left him an admittedly less compelling message. During our 40-minute conversation,Watts and I discussed his improv origins, his philosophy about religion and, of course, Beyoncé.

With your extensive music education and penchant for comedy performed ‘on the fly,’ have you ever gone scripted?

Watts: I was involved in music as a kid, and I was always just interested in any performance-based stuff. I would get involved with doing sketches for student government – we had a competitive dramatics program that allowed us to travel all over the States in various acting categories, and I always chose to improvise. Everything I was doing was improvisational and revolved around comedy and music. So, as far back as I can remember, I’ve just been doing what I do.

Often I’ll hear a rapper get into that flow state, stringing a series of profound verses together, and marvel at what

Comedian Reggie Watts. Kris Krug photo the brain is doing to achieve it. But if you’re constantly thinking a certain way, does it just build off of itself and it becomes momentum?

That’s exactly it.You start thinking and speaking that way, and that becomes your secondary language. It’s not as mysterious to a person that does that all the time, but it’s a little more magical when it comes from the creativity and spontaneity of one’s imagination.You don’t know what’s going to happen, but with experience and the passion for wanting to, it just evolves naturally.

Do audiences generally accept a certain amount of fallibility?

Yeah, they know that it’s not a perfect science. They know you will not always be perfect. That’s part of the

journey; they understand that. If [performers] were perfect all the time, it would totally suck.

If it’s our flaws that make us who we are, then obviously some of those fallibilities are almost more important than the punched-in-perfection that this pristine digital era we live in now offers. It almost makes the ‘skips in the record’ more valuable, in a way.

Absolutely. It’s relatable.

It’s something that you can put your head around, which is something that people value. It’s not necessarily something that a lot of stars may be into. A Beyoncé type – they want to appear perfect all of the time. And that’s one way of doing it.

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Rose Butch and Grimm, past winners of the Mr/Ms Cobalt Drag Competition. Contributed photo

kind of scary: “It’s a safe environment to try new things in. All of the judges, and everybody in the crowd, just wants to see you do well.”

Sjerdal says winning has opened up many doors for Grimm, and pushed them in ways they wouldn’t have pushed themselves if it not for the competition. “It’s great to get the opportunity to work with [new] people and show what an East Van drag weirdo looks like,” they say.

Grimm will be judging every week of the competition this year. “I’m excited for the variety – I just love watching drag and getting to meet a whole bunch of new performers,” they say.

Grimm will be sitting on the panel with head judge Isolde N. Barron (MacKenzie) and a rotation of other judges that include previous winners, frequent audience members, local businesspeople, West End performers and those who heavily influence the East Van drag scene.

MacKenzie is excited for another opportunity to help performers improve. “We want committed performers who can grow and take notes each week. For me, it’s all about performance and it’s about a connection to the audience.”

MacKenzie says he loves the competition because it’s about so much more than a performer’s appearance.

“They, of course, have to look good, but at the Cobalt, that’s subjective. It’s open to such a vast interpretation.

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While eating dinner one unremarkable night in 2014, fellow musicians and Vancouver transplants Tom Landa and Robin Layne had a remarkable revelation.

“Vancouver has a folk festival and a jazz festival and

a Celtic festival and a Jewish [arts] festival,” Landa recalls the two of them thinking.

“Wouldn’t it be great to have a world music festival?

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And so, in 2015, the pair staged the inaugural Vancouver World Music Festival. By Landa’s own admission, it was a modest event: a single night at the Imperial, four bands, all of them local and known to one another. It was, more than anything, a test – of the city’s interest, of other artists’ interest, and of the organizers’ own ambition.

“This is going to be a labour of love,” Landa and Layne told the festival’s would-be participants. “We have no money, we have no grants.

Let’s just see if we can put the first year together.

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was great – the response and support from everyone was amazing. In the end, it was successful and everyone got paid. But we wouldn’t have been able to do it had it not been for people saying yes.”

Last year’s sophomore edition was a modest step up: two nights at the Rio Theatre, and performers from beyond the environs of BC, as near as Seattle and as far as Mexico.

And this year, the fest has grown again, to three nights at venues across the city.

In addition to Landa’s and Layne’s Latin-fusion-themed ensemble, Locarno, performers include H’Sao (Afro fusion, from Montreal), Farnaz Ohadi & the Mashregh Ensemble (Flamenco, from Vancouver by way of Iran and Spain), and the sprawling BC World Music Collective, which brings together local artists who have settled in the province from Africa, Brazil, Cuba and elsewhere.

Also a first this year: free, all-ages daytime workshops at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, where Layne is a percussion instructor. He and Landa have aimed to include an un-

Latin-fusion ensemble Locarno. Contributed photo der-19 component in the festival from the beginning. “I envision this being a partnership that will continue,” says Landa. “Part of our mandate at the festival is to have some community outreach, and part of the [school’s mandate] is to provide musical education to underprivileged kids. It seems like a very natural partnership for us.

We want to make sure that youth can come to this show for free, and also that they’re involved in playing in it.

We have a lot of friends in the community who teach there, so we’re showcasing some of the students as well as Robin’s youth marimba

ensemble, the East Van Marimba All Stars.”

Landa adds that this latest component is, with continued luck, a signpost of how the festival will evolve in years to come. “Eventually, if we can do it the way we envision it, we’d like to take it outdoors – a two- or threeday event where the whole thing can be all-ages and family-friendly.”

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COMEDY Continued from page 15 Does anybody really buy that, at the end of the day?

I think they want to believe in someone that has no mistakes or is perfect to a degree, that would help them in their process. It’s a young person’s thing. To find an idol, you dig and imagine that they’re perfect. It’s cool, but limited.

Ultimately, it’s an act of humanity showing its youth.

We build our idols up with religion, which, as society ages, we see a decline of.

I think that there’s an intelligent, consciousnessenriching ability about what religion is. Religion is a social, spiritual operating system. And some people realize that it can be crafted and it’s not just one rigid

way. That’s really the important aspect. That’s the evolution of [religion]. All of the major religions still have a mild version of the [original] religion, which becomes the glue rather than rigidity.

Somewhere along the line, religion became about money and power, which is ultimately about establishing control over people.

It relates to art as well, in that religion, art, or anything that has a resonating message, people will have a tendency to want to follow the leader. There’s a little bit of sheepishness programed in all of us. We are all leaders, and we are all followers.

People just really lean on the follower part and forget that they can be their own director. It’s trouble when any religion seeks to prey on the weakness of [the urge to

follow] and doesn’t support to the reminder that they have their own power as well. In a way, when I’m doing my improvisations, that’s what that’s about. Nothing is what it seems; nothing is rigid.You realize that you can contextualize and you can see different angles constantly.You create your own meaning in the world, and that’s really important for me to bring across.

If Anton Lavey hadn’t called it Satanism and went instead with “Humanism,” he would have a better rap? Because what you just described is basically [Laveyan] Satanism.

(Laughter) Well, a lot of the tenants are [good], but when people hear ‘Satanism,’ they’re like, ‘Ah, fuck. We’e fucked.’ It was Herbert Hoover who used the term “rugged individu-

alism,” and that idea about rugged individuals meaning Learn as much as you can about the world and yourself.

Learn as many things as you can so that you can do a lot of things for yourself and then share that knowledge with other people. If everybody is doing that, then we’re all becoming the best versions of ourselves. The most important aspect is empathy.

Gratitude?

Yeah. Gratitude, passion – all of those things.

You can definitely be very self-contained.You can share your knowledge with other people, but it’s not that fun if you know a lot of stuff but you’re unable to find joy in relating to other people.

Whatever anyone calls it – Sufism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam – it’s all just an operating system in its

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various groupings. They’re all just planning systems for people: training wheels. The religions should be looked at as a starter to get the human acclimated with culture and think about things in different ways. But, hopefully, they take that and evolve it on their own. One might even include elements from other religions and other thoughts systems. That’s the hope, anyway. So many people just stop at the template and are content – which is not necessarily bad, but if they’re aware that they could think of things in other ways and not take advantage of that [knowledge], then that’s a little bit of a loss.

Any artists you would like to work with?

I met [electronica music artist] John Tajada the other day. He’s a huge hero to me.

I love his music and I would love to make something with him. But producers can be strange people, especially if they have their ways of doing things. [Also] Michael Mayer, the head of Kompakt Records. I just think that electronic music is ultimately the best form of music – it’s totally open and there are no limits. Its ability to be very anonymous appeals [to me]. It doesn’t have to be personality-driven. Sometimes I just want to dance. I don’t care that it’s Gwen Stafani or Beyoncé hitting the lead – that’s not interesting to me.

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CRAFT BEER Continued from page 9

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The beer names – from Sombrio Citrus Session to Carmanah Ale – cover the geography of the Island, while each can and bottle will feature different longitude and latitude coordinates that will cue up to different Vancouver Island locales.

Piper’s Pale Ale will be the only VI legacy beer that keeps its name, but will feature changes beyond its hip new tartan packaging.

With a near-complete revamp set to kick off, Bjerrisgaard doesn’t mince words when it comes to the brewery’s loyalists. “The customer who’s going to bemoan us isn’t buying enough of the beer, and that’s really the long and the short of it,” he says.

“We need to shift our demographic.We need to think long and hard about the kind of customer we want and need.

And hopefully the ones that we do have will join us, but we’re willing to risk it.”

The bottom line, Bjerrisgaard emphasizes: “Unless you’re willing to do bold moves, we’re not a relevant craft brewery anymore.”

A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS

No man is an island, and

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that’s true for breweries competing in BC’s craft beer market. Even when they literally have “Island” in their name.

Although established in 1984 – the same year as Vancouver Island Brewing – Granville Island Brewing has also been affected by the rippling waves of the local craft beer revolution.

Longtime head brewer Vern Lambourne left Granville Island in 2015 to co-found The Parkside Brewery, the fourth brewery on Port Moody’s Brewers Row.While Granville Island found a replacement in local boy-makes-good-beer Kevin Emms, who studied brewing in Edinburgh, and had earned a reputation creating recipes at Coal Harbour Brewing and Deep Cove Brewers.

Emms says the appeal of Granville Island was “being able to join a company with a rich history that’s done a lot for Canadian craft beer.”

While the line-up of core beers has seen some additions, like Infamous IPA, as well as a Small Batch Series, it hasn’t changed dramatically over the decades. But that doesn’t mean Emms isn’t given room to experiment.

Although most of Granville Island’s beers aren’t brewed at the Granville Island brewery itself, the

brewery does serve as a test kitchen for Emms, allowing him to create what could be the company’s next big beer.

Or just what he feels like drinking. Case in point: Ugly Duckling; a New England IPA hybrid, Emms describes as “fascinating” and “hilarious” in appearance, quaffable – but only available at the Granville Island tap room, for now.

Emms emphasizes that the brewery – purchased

by Molson Coors through Creemore Springs in 2009 – is still targeting craft consumers. “Granville Island Brewing, considering it has started to offer more flavorful, authentic beers to drinkers that didn’t have a lot of choice… is still very much engaged in doing that,” albeit on their own terms.

Emms says Granville Island’s strategy to attract craft beer drinkers is to find a balance between honouring the past and staying on trend. A perfect example of that philosophy is Granville Island’s Burly Goat Dopplebock, a Canadian Brewing Award silver-medal winner.

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Ask Mish: Is there room to bone in the ‘friend zone’?

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I’ve been hanging out with this guy for almost six months now, but we are not a couple. Well, not really.

We’ve never been sexual. Let me explain.

We met through common friends and kind of clicked right away. I’ll admit that I did have a little crush on him, and he probably had a little one on me, or else we wouldn’t have been so attracted to one another right off the bat. Within a few months, he became my go-to. We talk every day. We hang out all the time. It feels like he’s my boyfriend/best friend, but minus the sex.

There was a point earlier where I tried to move things in a sexual direction, but it just didn’t work. I don’t know if I played it wrong, or if he

just didn’t want it, or if the timing was a mess. Whatever the case, it wasn’t enough to destroy our friendship. That never changed.

Lately, though, I’m feeling frustrated. I thought I could kick these feelings of wanting more than friendship, but I don’t know what to do. Furthermore, I don’t know how I would ever approach the subject. It feels like I missed my moment. I get jealous when he flirts with other girls, and that makes me feel stupid. I don’t want to feel possessive like this, but I do.

The funny thing is, he does the same to me! This guy recently asked me out when we were at a bar with some friends, and my “friend” ended up getting all huffy, and we got in a drunken fight about it. Our relationship is not normal. I can see that, plain and simple. I have no idea what to do, but more importantly, I don’t want to lose him in any capacity. Help me.

Once you have officially entered the “friend zone.” it’s hard to exit it. But there’s a reason one enters it in the first place, and in your case it’s as much your own fault as the other person’s. Good friends rarely make the jump into a romantic relationship, simply because there’s something to lose. Strangers are strangers – they have no value in our lives beyond the moment we sneak out of their bedroom the next morning.

Friendship is valuable, and less fragile than you think.

Don’t beat yourself up about missing your chance with this guy. If it was going to happen romantically, one of you (preferably him) would have gathered the stones to make a move. It never felt right, but being together in another capacity did, so friendship ensued.

You are single. Think about how many relationships have blossomed into “the one.”

None. How many great

friendships do you have that are still going strong to this day? Exactly. One is harder to obtain than the other.

You both made the mistake of “friend-zoning” one another. Had you kickstarted this whole thing by sucking face and not fawning over your common interests, maybe you could have had some awkward sex that turned into intense sex and perhaps even a breakup?

When you get past that point of no return and become close friends, there’s way too much at risk for both parties to lose, and making an aggressive sexual move becomes more and more out of the question. In your initial phase of getting to know one another, the one with the crush (you) should have made an advance early on. In this way, you blew it.

But really, it’s not a big deal, because if he was the guy for you and you were the girl for him, it would have happened

with the help of a few beers.

The jealousy you share for one another is natural in codependent relationships. (You will admit it’s slightly codependent, yeah?) It’s fucking weird that you two get intimidated by one another’s romantic prospects, yet it also makes perfect sense.You’ve used each other in lieu of a romantic relationship, so anyone who tries to threaten that bond must be nixed. Do you get jealous when your best female friend goes home with her boyfriend? Do you seethe and shudder when your best friend from grade school tells you he’s getting married to the girl he loves? Do you silently rage when your sister talks about her relationship?

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To say there’s a public misconception around rats is an understatement, and the BC SPCA’s Jodi Dunlop is on a mission to change that. “The truth is rats make lovely, lovely pets,” says Dunlop . “They’re social, they’re affectionate, they’re clean and loving and, despite how some of us humans may feel about them, they love their people fiercely.”

As of late, the Vancouver SPCA has received an influx of pet rats – two of these sweet creatures, Charlee and Cynthia, have been waiting nearly a month to find their forever home. Both female and albino – all white, with pink eyes – they were surrendered as part of a group of, incredibly, 48 rats. “The person who owned all these animals started off with just a pair – a male and a female – and you can guess what happened,” she says. “Rats can have many, many babies.

So between those two, nearly 50 were produced.”

While male rats can be neutered, the procedure tends to be an expensive option that not many people opt for. A better measure of prevention, says Dunlop, is to ensure pet rat pairs are of the same gender – problem solved. “Since rats are extremely social creatures, it’s nice to keep them as pairs so they can play and keep each other company,” she explains. “If you’re only able or only want to have one pet rat, that’s totally fine, but be prepared to spend that extra time with it yourself.”

No exception to this rule, Charlee and Cynthia are highly bonded and wish to

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go to therapy for jealousy issues.You just need to deflate your co-dependent relationship with your non-boyfriend best friend.

The good news is that he is just as bad, so your window of opportunity for a heart-to-heart conversation is wide open. Take it. I suggest you and he get together (on one of your many “non-date dates”) and just dive right in. Be calm, kind and curious about the nature of your relationship. When it doubt, pose things as a question, not a fact. Lay it all out on the table. The only time that talking fucks up a relationship is if it happens at the wrong time during sex.

Having an honest conversation with your friend is the only way to get it out.

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be adopted together. According to Dunlop, these two rats, both of whom are just shy of four months old, are “super-friendly attention seekers” – so much so that staff and volunteers can’t believe they’re still at the SPCA. “We bring them to our reception area each morning and they spend time running between two of us on the couch we have there, getting treats and cuddles,” she says. “We’ve had our spring break programs for kids these past couple of weeks and the campers are enamoured with them.”

While keeping rats like Charlee and Cynthia as pets is relatively easy, Dunlop does like to have potential adopters come to the shelter to see how the SPCA keeps these animals happy, healthy, safe and comfortable. “They all have two-storey cages, as providing them with lots of room to scurry around is important,” she explains. “We give them hammocks and rope toys to climb and hang from, but people need to realize that these social creatures need to be spent time with beyond the confines of their

cage, being handled, played with and cuddled.They’ll even curl up on you and sleep on your chest or shoulder while you’re watching TV.” Dunlop adds that, due to rats’ pleasant, social personalities, she’d “recommend them over a hamster or a gerbil as a pet any day.”

Asked why she thinks Charlee and Cynthia have not yet been claimed, Dunlop can only guess that they’ve been passed over thus far because of their looks. “We see a lot of people come in for hooded or fancy rats, which are white and cream or black or brown, and these albino girls do not fit that bill,” she says. “But, honestly, you couldn’t find a nicer pair.”

In fact, Charlee and Cynthia only seem to have one vice: potatoes. “They love their hash browns,” says Dunlop, laughing. “They’re true sisters in that they are devoted to each other, but they will scrap over breakfast!”

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Since I expect you’ll soon be tempted to indulge in too much debauched fun and riotous release, I’ll offer you a good hangover remedy. Throw these ingredients into a blender, then drink up: a thousand-yearold quail egg from China, seaweed from Antarctica, milk from an Iraqi donkey, lemon juice imported from Kazakhstan, and a dab of Argentinian toothpaste on which the moon has shone for an hour. APRIL FOOL! I deceived you.

You won’t have to get crazy drunk or stoned to enjoy extreme pleasure and cathartic abandon.

It will come to you quite naturally – especially if you expand your mind through travel, big ideas, or healthy experiments.

Hire a promoter to create gold plaques listing your accomplishments and hang them up in public places. Or pay someone to make a thousand bobble-head dolls in your likeness, each wearing a royal crown, and give them away to everyone you know. Or enlist a pilot to fly a small plane over a sporting event while trailing a banner that reads, “[Your name] is a gorgeous genius worthy of worshipful reverence.” APRIL FOOL! What I just advised was a distorted interpretation of the cosmic omens.

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The dragon that stole your treasure will return it. Tulips and snapdragons will blossom in a field you thought was a wasteland. Gargoyles from the abyss will crawl into view, but then meekly lick your hand and reveal secrets you can really use.

The dour troll that guards the bridge to the Next Big Thing will let you pass even though you don’t have the password. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just described is only metaphorically true, not literally.

According to legend, Buddha had to face daunting tests to achieve enlightenment.

A diabolical adversary tempted him with sensual excesses and assailed him with vortexes of blistering mud, flaming ice, and howling rocks. Happily, Buddha glided into a state of wise calm and triumphed over the mayhem. He converted his nemesis’s vortexes into bouquets of flowers and celestial ointments. What does this have to do with you? In accordance with current astrological omens, I hope you will emulate Buddha as you deal with your own initiatory tests. APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t completely honest. It’s true you’ll face initiatory tests that could prod you to a higher level of wisdom. But they’ll most likely come from allies and inner prompts rather than a diabolical adversary.

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Endangered species: black rhino, Bornean orangutan, hawksbill turtle, South China tiger, Sumatran elephant, and the Leo messiah complex. You may not be able to do much to preserve the first five on that list, but PLEASE get to work on saving the last. It’s time for a massive eruption of your megalomania. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating for effect. There’s no need to go overboard in reclaiming your messiah complex. But please do take strong action to stoke your self-respect, self-esteem, and confidence.

Race through your yoga routine so you have more time to surf the Internet. Inhale doughnuts and vodka in the car as you race to the health food store. Get into a screaming fight with a loved one about how you desperately need more peace and tenderness. APRIL FOOL! A little bit of selfcontradiction would be cute, but not THAT much. And yet I do worry that you are close to expressing THAT much. The problem may be that you haven’t been giving your inner rebel any high-quality mischief to attend to. As a result, it’s bogged down in trivial insurrections. So please give your inner rebel more important work to do.

Research shows that a typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day in meaningful conversations. I suggest you boost that output by at least 10 per cent. Try to engage your best companion in four minutes and 24 seconds of intimate talk per day. APRIL FOOL! I lied. A 10 per cent increase isn’t nearly enough. Given the current astrological indicators, you must seek out longer and deeper exchanges with the people you love. Can you manage 20 minutes per day?

In a way, it’s too bad you’re about to lose your mind. The chaos that ensues will be a big chore to clean up. But in another sense, losing your mind may be a lucky development. The process of reassembling it will be entertaining and informative. And as a result, your problems will become more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. You won’t really lose your mind. But this much is true: Your problems will be more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. That’s a good thing! It may even help you recover a rogue part of your mind that you lost a while back.

You say that some of the healthiest foods don’t taste good? And that some of your pleasurable diversions seem to bother people you care about? You say it’s too much hassle to arrange for a certain adventure that you know would be exciting and meaningful? Here’s what I have to say about all that: Stop whining. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, there will soon be far fewer reasons for you to whine. The discrepancies between what you have to do and what you want to do will at least partially dissolve. So will the gaps between what’s good for you and what feels good, and between what pleases others and what pleases you.

You should begin work on a book with one of the following titles, and you should finish writing it no later than April 28: The Totally Intense Four Weeks of My Life When I Came All the Way Home . . . The Wildly Productive Four Weeks of My Life When I Discovered the Ultimate Secrets of Domestic Bliss . . . The Crazily Meaningful Four Weeks When I Permanently Anchored Myself in the Nourishing Depths. APRIL FOOL! I lied. There’s no need to actually write a book like that.

But I do hope you seek out and generate experiences that would enable you to write books with those titles.

If you were a passenger on a plane full of your favourite celebrities, and the pilot had to make an emergency landing on a remote snowbound mountain, and you had to eat one of the celebrities in order to stay alive until rescuers found you, which celebrity would you want to eat first? APRIL FOOL! That was a really stupid and pointless question. I can’t believe I asked it. I hope you didn’t waste a nanosecond thinking about what your reply might be.

Here’s the truth, Aquarius: You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when the single most important thing you can do is ask and answer really good questions.

You now have an elevated chance of finding a crumpled one-dollar bill on a sidewalk.

There’s also an increased likelihood you’ll get a coupon for a five per cent discount from a carpet shampoo company, or win enough money in the lottery to buy a new sweatshirt.

To enhance these possibilities, all you have to do is sit on your ass and wish really hard that good economic luck will come your way. APRIL FOOL! What I just said was kind of true, but also useless. Here’s more interesting news: The odds are better than average that you’ll score tips on how to improve your finances. You may also be invited to collaborate on a potentially lucrative project, or receive an offer of practical help for a bread-and-butter dilemma. To encourage these outcomes, all you have to do is develop a longterm plan for improved money management.

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