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‘Drop the mic’: Westender group wins nine provincial awards STAFF WRITER @westendervan

It was a weekend that lived up to its potential.With the Westender newspaper and sister magazine, The Alchemist, up for a total of nine awards at the British ColumbiaYukon Community Newspaper Association’s annual Ma Murray Awards gala, the team ultimately took home a tally of three bronze, one silver, and five golds at the April 29 ceremony at River Rock Casino – tied for the most first place finishes out of any newspaper group in the province.

As the evening began, the paper earned first in its class for Best Special Section for its comprehensive Pride 2016 coverage. “A bright, fun section.Thorough and full of useful information,” wrote a BCYCNA judge. “It engages readers and gives Pride-goers everything they need to make the most of the event.”

In writing awards, editor Kelsey Klassen was honoured with a gold Arts & Culture award for her emotive piece on painter Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. “Art and the Indian Act is an important article because it educates non-indigenous people about the experience of indigenous people in Canada – a history that has long been ignored and disbelieved,” the judge explained. “The writing is artistic, precise and informative. I can only hope the reader learned something.”

Meanwhile, longtime Westender film and television writer Sabrina Furminger took bronze in the same category for her “strong and insightful” piece on Dene lawyer and environmental activist Caleb Behn, followed by the Westender’s resident opinionator, Grant Lawrence, taking home some gold hardware for his Kits

Members of the ‘Westender’ and ‘Alchemist’ teams. Back row, from left: Fiona Morrow, Grant Lawrence, Gail Nugent, Kelsey Klassen, Tara Rafiq and Sabrina Furminger. Front row: Matty Lambert, Lucy-kate Armstrong and Alina Gogoescu. Paul Furminger photo retrospective, Positively 4th Avenue:The rise and fall of Canada’s hippie mecca.

“Engaging, informative, and well-researched […],” wrote the judge. “A great read.”

In door prize news, Lawrence also won a spiffy new Apple watch thanks to his tweet from the event, which emcee Fiona Forbes dubbed “jazzy suit Lionel Richie.” In that moment, we all regretted not taking more selfies.

Over on the design front, in addition to being on a number of the other awardwinning teams, Westender creative manager Tara Rafiq took home a trio of personal awards: Gold for collaborative ad design for her “tantalizing” work with Via Tevere Pizzeria Napoletana; silver for her colourful Denman Liquor Store Pride ad; and bronze for her “clever” Growler craft beer handbook promotional spot.

The Westender also won bronze for newspaper promotion for its “polished and well executed” Best of the City Dining poll campaign, which encouraged readers to vote in the paper’s annual readers’ choice food and drink awards.

And, speaking of food and drink, Alchemist publisher Gail Nugent, editor Fiona Morrow and designer Tara Rafiq were honoured with a first place award for their work on the paper’s gorgeous seasonal craft cocktail guide.The mag also wins the unofficial award for best critique of the night: “A complete winner in every way, cover to cover,” the judging notes enthused.

“Drop the mic.”

The British Columbia Yukon Community Newspaper Association Ma Murray Awards celebrate the best in community publishing from across the province and territory. Newspapers of similar circulation size and writers from any eligible community newspaper compete against each other and are judged by a panel of industry experts.

We congratulate all our fellow nominees. If the talent in the room was any indication, the future of journalism is in good hands. But, it can always use more support, so check out the tweets, ‘grams and videos from the awards by searching the hashtag #mamurray17, and show local journalism some love! W

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Nat (left) and Franco Bastone celebrated 25 years of Nat’s New York Pizzeria last month.

Grant Lawrence photo pizzas for various high school events. Nat’s has repeatedly been nominated for, and won, community outreach awards through the years.

In 2000, they opened their second location at 1080 Denman Street in the West End, which is still there, but has since been sold to a former employee, although Nat’s name remains on the sign.

Nat and Franco Bastone have been partners from the start, but the decision to go with Nat over Franco was “by design, too,” explains Nat. “I studied marketing and what’s proven to work is to keep it simple. Nat is shorter than Franco. Kids remember short names. It worked.”

The cousins based Nat’s on their aunt and uncle’s New York pizza, and on a century-old family recipe that stretches back to Italy, involving the perfect Margarita thin-crust pizza in the Italian colours of red (tomatoes), green (fresh basil) and white (their special, healthier, highmoisture/low-fat mozzarella

cheese that is water-based, as opposed to oil). And the pair believes that, just like marketing, when it comes to pizza, the simpler the better.

“If you walk into any pizza joint in New York and order a slice, it’s gonna be cheese.

You want pepperoni, they’ll sprinkle it on top and put it back in the oven. Same with mushrooms. Out here on the West Coast, you want things like pineapple and pulled pork, and we’ll serve you that, but simple is best.”

Over the years, the Bastones have learned to simply appreciate what they have.

Business boomed in the 1990s, but the Kits neighbourhood isn’t what it once was. “Families can’t afford to live here anymore. I see my customers being forced to move out to Chilliwack and Maple Ridge.” Despite changing demographics, Nat doesn’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon, though.

“I’m pushing 60 now, and I hope to keep making pizza right here until I’m under the ground.”

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He is also philosophical when he looks back on his quarter century of serving up slices in Kits: “We made a lot of money in the 1990s. We don’t make money anymore, but we still make a lot of dough, which means we’ll never go hungry”. W

Julie Emerson (julieemerson.com), writer and artist, lives in Vancouver and on Mayne Island.You may have seen her cherry blossom haiku on Vancouver buses. She is the author of five books, including Twenty-Seven Stings (New Star Books) and The Herons of Stanley Park (with photographer Martin Passchier). This poem is from

her next book, Your Body, comprised of sapphic odes to the human body.

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When “Nat” graduated from Kits High in 1978, his high school yearbook picture featured an 18-year-old with a thick moustache and feathered dark hair parted confidently down the middle, and his grad write-up included: “Nat enjoys having parties in parked cars and plans to own his own Italian pizza joint.”

In 1992, after several pilgrimages to his aunt and uncle’s authentic thin-crust Italian pizzeria in New York City, Nat’s dream came true. He and his colourful cousin Franco opened Nat’s New York Pizzeria at 2684 West Broadway, right around the corner from their old high school.

When you walk into the busy shop today, the walls are covered with decades of history: photo collages of people wearing Nat’s Pizza T-shirts in iconic locations all over the world, family photos, various New York memorabilia, and lots of love for the Canucks and other Vancouver sports teams (several Canucks have been regulars over the years). And then there’s the delicious thin-crust pizza. Last month, Nat’s New York Pizzeria proudly celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Like everything Nat does, the location of the shop, so close to their old high school, is by design. An entire high school full of hungry kids (not to mention their parents) is an automatic built-in customer base for a quality pizzeria.

Nat and Franco have given back over the years by employing hundreds of students from Kits High behind the counter. They’ve also established an arts scholarship, and provided thousands of

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Laef Kucheran is still in Grade 10, but the 15-year-old has developed a website and app that residents can use to learn about their provincial election candidates, and even send them a message.

“The idea is to get it [the information voters need to make an informed decision] all into one place,” says Kucheran, who began working on VoteMate last May for an independent study project at Inquiry Hub Secondary School in Coquitlam.The digital tool breaks down the disconnect between candidates and their constituents, Kucheran says, by making it easier for people to contact party members and find bio and platform information.

Of the 370 candidates registered through Elections BC for the 2017 provincial election, 122 were signed up on VoteMate as of April 25.

Similarly, Election Guide BC founder Michael Dorsey says his website, which listed the bios of 91 candidates and had an average 150 site visits each day as of April 24, acts as a one-stop shop for assessing the platforms of political parties on key issues.

Dorsey sends the parties and candidates a questionnaire to make it easier to compare their positions.

“It can be hard to find information about the individual candidates,” says Dorsey.Yet, he adds, “this is the person who you’re going to send to Victoria, and they’re the one you talk to if you have issues with government. So I think it’s equally important to be informed about the parties and individual candidates.”

Online engagement tools

Election Guide BC founder Michael Dorsey with his daughter.

Contributed photo are playing an increasingly important role in political processes. In this day and age, you’d be hard-pressed to find a political candidate or movement without a website or social media feed – most likely because a strong digital presence can translate into greater voter support.

Barack Obama’s social media engagement is credited with helping him win the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections, and current US President DonaldTrump is known for communicating with the public through tweets. Social media was a key component in the 2011 Arab Spring protests.

And we won’t soon forget the many photos of JustinTrudeau – including the topless boxing images – that circulated on social media during the most recent Canadian federal election.

Online tools break down barriers between candidates and constituents even further by giving members the public the opportunity to get responses to their questions directly from the horse’s mouth.

Hilary Farson, who cofounded Turn UpYVR, a non-partisan organization that bused young voters to advanced polls during the 2015 Canadian federal election, says she would like to see more politicians get involved in online discussions with constituents.

“Some of it is about putting the time and resources into

having more robust online teams so that you have staff and people who are available to respond [to] and engage” with the public, says Farson.

“It’s about prioritization.”

Social media is often where the underrepresented youth vote goes to get their information and become involved in political campaigns, Farson says, and motivating the 18- to 35-year-old demographic to vote is something that political parties should place on their front burners.

Whether social media played a role or not, according to Elections Canada, the 2015 Canadian federal election saw the number of 18- to 24-yearolds who cast a ballot jump 18.3 per cent, from 38.8 to 57.1 per cent of eligible voters, compared with the previous federal election.There was also a 12.3 per cent increase in eligible votes from those aged 25 to 34, although the 55 to 74 demographic remained the most likely to vote, with over 70 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot in the past two federal elections.

One of Kucheran’s hopes is that digital tools will encourage youth to get more involved in elections earlier on.

“The voting age is 18 so that you have the first years of your life to learn what you need to, to make an informed choice,” says Kucheran. “If you don’t use some of those years, what’s the point of that voting age?” W

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Nude-looking makeup is a perennial on runways, but this season, it’s been everywhere.

Perhaps this is due, in part, to the Alicia Keys effect. The 36-year-old singer ditched lipstick, powder and paint in 2016, saying she wanted to look real and raw.

It’s all very well swearing off slap if you have Keys’ complexion and confidence; but, for many women, going makeup-free is daunting – we have zits, unevenness, pigmentation, redness, dark circles and the rest. And that’s where the faintly ridiculous notion of “nomakeup makeup,” which actually requires a dozen or more separate products, comes in.

“When you see another woman and she looks irritatingly beautiful and like she has no makeup on, there’s a 90 per cent chance she’s wearing no-makeup makeup,” says makeup artist Christina Petry (redcarpetreadybychristina.ca).

She says getting the look might sound complex, but it’s actually a 15-minute job, including skincare.

“Once you get into a routine it becomes second nature. The more you do it, the better you get and the quicker you are out the door looking fabulous!”

Here are her tips and product suggestions for getting the look.

The 11-step guide to looking completely natural

1. PRIMER

These are designed to ensure your makeup goes on smoothly and lasts all day. Petry recommends putting some on the back of your hand and warming it before application, which also ensures you don’t apply too much.

2. FOUNDATION

Use a lightweight formulation and apply as little as possible – just enough to even out the skintone.

3. BROWS

“Having great brows is a must,” says Petry. “They make

you look younger and more pulled together. Don’t go overboard – you want them clean and full-looking, with no gaps.”

4. EYE PRIMER

Eye primer gives your eye makeup staying power and reduces creasing.

5. LINER

“For this step, we want to cheat that the lashes are full so the eye looks more open, bright and beautiful,” says Petry. “I suggest a tight line along the top to fill the gaps between your own lashes and give the illusion of more hairs.”

6. MASCARA

8. CONTOUR

The foundation and concealer evens everything out, so you need contouring products to restore definition. “I like using a cream contour, mixed with a little foundation to keep things natural,” says Petry.

9. BLUSHER AND HIGHLIGHTER

Go for a matte blusher that looks like a natural flush and a little highlighter.

“Apply it to the apple of the cheeks, cupid’s bow, inner corners of the eyes, under the brows and on the chin,” says Petry.

10. BRONZER

After curling lashes, Petry suggests applying a mascara with a small applicator, focusing on the roots.

“Gently do a zigzag motion at the base and softly brush through,” she says.

This is for your eyes, not your cheeks – Petry explains that sweeping matte bronzer across the lid and temple will stop your lids looking flat and make your peepers appear bigger.

7. CONCEALER

11. LIPS

Apply lightweight, buildable coverage under the eyes, around the nose and mouth and on any blemishes. Set concealer and avoid creasing with a tiny amount of powder.

Ensure that the lips are hydrated and exfoliated, then apply a touch of liner in a colour close to your natural hue. Finally, add a gloss, stain or balm. W

Last year, we all fell (back) in love with the ’80s, thanks to Netflix’s splendid Stranger Things.We’ll be on Team Winona forever, but her character’s particular brand of demented-mother dressing doesn’t really rank in the style stakes. Instead, we’re inspired by the preppy look of teen heroine Nancy Wheeler.

It’s twinsets, turtlenecks, denim skirts, high-waisted pants and button-down shirts.

It’s also surprisingly easy to find and wear, thanks to fashion’s current obsession with everything ’80s. Of course, Stranger Things is a very fall/ winter show (Season 2 doesn’t air until Halloween), and now it’s spring/summer, so this is what we imagine a preppy princess like Nancy might wear when the temperature soars.

GETTING’ SHIRTY WIT IT

Nancy’s look is pretty and girlish, but it’s not ultragroomed likeWinona in Heathers (her best film).The Stranger Things cast have to be ready to burn, maim and generally kick monsters’ asses at a moment’s notice, so there needs to be some concession to practicality.

Sure, this shirt is pink and lacy, but it has a varsity-style trim at the wrists and waist, so it’s not sickly sweet.

SHORT AND SWEET

Chino shorts like these

ones are practical for monster chasing.We can’t see Nancy in beige or taupe. Instead, she might go for these pink winners, which are comfy, stretchy, and high-waisted.

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The quintessential ’80s cover-up is the jean jacket and, happily, they’re back in style now, though slimmer-fitted than the original version.This one is perfect to throw on during an Indiana summer.

GOOD JEANS

Relaxed, high-waisted jeans can look a bit soccer mom.To avoid that, pair them with fitted, tucked-in tops (not baggy tees or voluminous blouses) or crop tops and make sure they finish just on the ankle.They look great with this season’s kitten heels.These from H&M get extra points because they’re from the brand’s new Conscious collection, all of which is made from sustainable materials.

WATCH OUT

In the ’80s, there were gaudy Swatches and nerdy Seiko calculator watches.

Nancy wouldn’t have worn either – her style is more the kind of dainty, feminine arm candy you rarely see these days (a Fitbit, it ain’t). In fact, those kind of plain itty-bitty timepieces can look dated and dull, so instead, go for one like this, with a slender leather strap that wraps twice round the wrist. W

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Someone asked me the other day about Korean tacos in Vancouver. Where, in fact, could you find them?

Traditional Korean restaurants don’t do tacos. The long-closed Cartel Taco truck used to have excellent bulgogi tacos, but these days, apart from Damso in the West End or food truck Disco Cheetah, there aren’t a lot of places to indulge in Mexican-Korean fusion.

When Tako opened late last summer, it seemed like a great addition to the southeast end of Gastown, right next to the Stadium-Chinatown SkyTrain station and across from Rogers Arena.

Just off the strip of Abbott that’s home to places like Fresh Slice, it purported to offer a bit of upswing on the take-out front, as well as convenience for commuters and concert-goers. Sure, you can eat in at one of the cemented bar stools or on the patio in good weather, but this is mainly a to-go operation.

I finally got around to visiting last month and my first

Top left: Tako’s spicy pork burrito. Bottom left: assorted tacos.

Above: Tako’s entrance off Expo Boulevard. Dan Toulgoet photos emotion after trying some of the dishes was pity for all those who end up here.

The prices for the tacos are cheap, absolutely, at $2.95 to $3.45 each, but the adage about getting what you pay for hits hard here.

In case you’re wondering why Tako is named after the Japanese word for octopus, it’s not. Tako is short for Taqueria Koreano (cue the eyerolls). The flour tortillas are fine, neither better nor worse than most joints around town, seeing as they’re not made in-house.

It’s the fillings that cause

the stomach to turn. The “Seoul” taco with deep-fried chicken was my first choice.

Alas, this is not the stuff of which KFC (Korean Fried Chicken) dreams are made.

The admittedly crispy and crunchy exteriors of the tiny chunks covered up deeplychewy and stiff pieces of chicken that obviously seized in fright before meeting their ends. The lavish drizzling of gochujang didn’t help hide the unfortunate lack of flavour in the meat itself or excuse the stale tortilla chips that sit underneath when you order this as a side. The

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prawn was worse, and resembled every lacklustre and forgettable fish taco you’ve ever eaten in this city. The drizzle of chili mayo didn’t hide the rather squishy state of the batter.

The burritos seem to offer more bang for the buck, being large and considerably less offensive.

But, at $9.50 each, I find myself wishing for a lot more flavour in the kimchifried rice. Kimchi can be a spicy-fermented thing of beauty, but this tasted like someone’s night-before science experiment, hastily

tossed with white rice. The bulgogi, with tender strips of beef, was juicy and had some flavour, which, when combined with the corn, cheese and lettuce, made for a reasonably filling meal.

The same bulgogi appears in the quesadilla ($8.95), also filled with kimchi, corn, red onion and cheese.You can get a kimchi-free version, but then, instead of mayo, it’s drizzled with the gochujang that appears on almost every dish. It’s probably the best (read: least off-putting) thing here, although the gochujang seems like the res-

lar meat and beer festival returns on Sunday, July 23, with more than 50 top chefs from Vancouver and Whistler cooking up meat-centric dishes for ticket-holders.

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octopus salad with cauliflower, chickpeas, zucchini and tomato jam; roasted carrots with cumin seeds, yogurt and mint; halibut in saffronlemon broth with spring peas, leeks and radish; lemon curd and sponge cake with lavender honey and raspberry; and more. homerstreetcafebar.com

Slickity Jim’s, the popular breakfast and brunch spot on Main Street, is expanding its hours and partnering with the owners of Narrow Lounge and The Emerald to offer a new late-night menu Tuesday through Saturday. Look for all-night happy hour every Tuesday, $10 burger and beer on Saturdays, plus a new dinner and cocktail menu. skinnyfatjack.com Homer St. Café and Bar’s head chef Chris West has launched a new spring menu, along with a daily fresh sheet for lunch and dinner.

New dishes include charred

Prado Café in Gastown has expanded its offering to now include healthy breakfast and brunch items, cakes, and housemade sandwiches, similar to what is on offer at the café’s Fraser and Fir Street locations. Look for items like poached egg on toast with minted peas and smashed avocado, arugula and artichoke salad, granola, and Belgian liège-style waffles. pradocafevancouver.com Virtuous Pie is launching a limited brunch run Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 2pm, May 6 through to June 11.The plant-based menu (available for dine-in only) will feature breakfast pizzas, bowls, tacos, calzones, sides, a house caesar with Odd Society East Van vodka,

taurant’s way of pointing out that you are, in fact, eating Korean food. The side of rice cakes on a skewer ($2.50) is heavily doused, creating a sickly sweet and moderately spicy effect that doesn’t cover up the rubbery texture of the tubes.

There’s also poutine, but, really, at this point, why bother? I took one for the team and tried the spicy pork ($8.45). The employee behind the counter said it was pork belly, but damned if I could tell. Stringy, lacking in flavour, and doused with the same monotonous level of spice as almost every other dish on the menu, it was a far cry from versions I’ve tasted at several food trucks around town. Even the fries couldn’t keep their end up and offer something that didn’t taste microwaved.

I know that busy commuters and those heading to a rock concert may not always be looking for high-end, locally sourced whatever; but surely, SURELY, we can offer them something better than this? I hear the arena has upped its game in the food department. I’d seriously suggest you check it out instead. If not, there’s always Fresh Slice. W Food: ★★★★★ Service: N/A Ambiance: N/A Value: ★★★★★ Overall: ★★★★★

mimosas, and more. virtuouspie.com Terroir Kitchen has launched a new, permanent brunch menu every Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 2pm. Chef Faizal Kassam’s new menu includes slowcooked venison ragu with two poached eggs, classic panettone french toast in marsala sauce, smoked sablefish, cotechino, a daily frittata, and more. terroirkitchen.com Tickets are still available for the popular Spot Prawn Boil at this year’s BC Spot Prawn Festival at Fisherman’s Wharf on Saturday, May 13.The annual, free, family-friendly festival includes chef demos, children’s activities, beverage samples, fresh-off-the-boat spot prawns available for sale, and, of course, the spot prawn boil. spotprawnfestival.com W

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The perfume of spring arrives in your drink Why elderflower is the flavour you want to add to cocktails right now Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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New Zealand’s claim to wine fame is Sauvignon Blanc of course. It accounts for over 70 per cent of the production and 85 per cent of its exported wine. The exuberant style is recognizable – grassy, gooseberry, often cunningly tropical, but always fresh, crisp and vibrant.

What’s not to like? May 5 is International Sauvignon Blanc Day so fans will rightly be guzzling their favourite Kiwi Savvies with gusto.

While I don’t want to be accused of trying to sway you away, I do want to encourage sipping beyond New Zealand’s flagship grape, as well. There’s a small slice of the pie left over for equally delicious Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Syrah, for example. What I appreciate in all of these is the purity of fruit that echoes the pristine environment from which they hail. Though New Zealand’s climate is cool, the growing season is long, allowing intense flavors to build up slowly all while retaining a thirst-quenching backbone of acidity.

If you wish to immerse yourself in its vivid flavours, you can sign up for the Great New Zealand Wine Tiki Tour on Thursday, May 4 from 7-9:30pm at The Terminal City Club. Tickets are $65.

Or just commit to branching out with one of the recommendations below.

2015 Matua, Pinot Gris, Gisborne $15.49 BC Liquor Stores When you’re looking for something less pungent and a little richer than Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand has you covered with Pinot Gris. The Matua is an affordable option. Still lively and clean it offers plenty of luscious pear, nectarine and peach blossom aromas and flavours. Finishes with a kiss of sweetness.

2014 Dog Point, Chardonnay, Marlborough $53-60 Private Wine Stores (Marquis Wine Cellars, Everything Wine, Kitsilano Wine Store)

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The second most planted white in New Zealand, Chardonnay, takes a distant back seat to Sauv Blanc.

Here’s a case for paying it a lot more attention. Lemon curd, apple and discreet white peach can be coaxed from the glass, but it’s the flinty, nutty nuances that really create intrigue. Midweight with bright acidity and well-integrated oak, Dog Point is a serious, and seriously good Chardonnay.

2015 te Pā, Pinot Noir, Marlborough $29.99 BC Liquor Stores New Zealand has positioned Pinot Noir as its sequel to Sauvignon Blanc and the te Pā is a fine follow-up. Lovely notes of ripe strawberry and red cherry with subtle baking spice and a touch of vanilla.

The texture is soft and silky.

Give it a slight chill before pouring a glass.

Think of the elderflower as spring in a glass. And thank goodness for that – after a dreary winter that felt like it would never end, aren’t you craving bright, fresh flavours and floral fragrances? Of course you are.

The elder – a genus of shrubs and trees called “Sambucus” – grows all over Europe and North America and produces a tart, dark purple berry. But it’s the elder’s flowers that we love best: frothy white blossoms with a sweet muscat-like flavour that is especially delicious in cocktails.

It’s been popular in Central Europe and England for centuries, used in syrups, teas, ciders and soft drinks, even candies.

It’s easiest to use in syrup format, and you can find inexpensive elderflower syrup

The Lady O’Keefe at UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar is an elderflowerthemed star of the bar’s new warm-weather list. See recipe at Westender.com. UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar photo at IKEA, or slightly more elevated versions by Monin and Giffard at gourmet stores.

You can even make your own elderflower syrup, providing you can find the blossoms.

(One good source isYarrow Elderberry Farm in Chilliwack.) Then, just add it to water, soda water or lemonade for a refreshing non-alcoholic drink.

Or you can go straight for a boozy kick with a liqueur.

If you’re worried it’ll have the soapy potpourri notes you get in other floral liqueurs like crème de violette, don’t be: elderflower is much more subtle.

2014 Burn Cottage, Moonlight Race Pinot Noir, Central Otago $69.47 Marquis Wine Cellar exclusive Besides posing as the backdrop for the Lord of the Rings movies and boasting the first commercial bungee jumping outpost, the regional of Central Otago has gained a reputation as New Zealand’s hot spot for premium Pinot Noir. Moonlight Race captures the essence of the area with its lush and full expression replete with black cherry, thyme, violets and licorice.

2015 Te Mata, Syrah, Hawke’s Bay $36 Private Wine Stores (New District) Syrah represents a mere one per cent of wine production in New Zealand so you’ll need to be persistent tracking down the rare bottle that makes it here. I promise it’s worth it.

They’re usually compared to France’s restrained examples but in that pure fruited New Zealand way. The Te Mata is co-fermented with Viognier which seems to boost its gorgeous floral edge. Snappy black pepper notes follow leading to a polished and layered palate of supple plum and black raspberry.

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In fact, elderflower liqueur is so popular among cocktail lovers that it has been nicknamed “bartender’s ketchup.”

France’s St. Germain is the ubiquitous elderflower liqueur in our market, although Giffard’s version is also available in private retailers such as Legacy Liquor. You could also try the elderflower liqueur produced by Odd Society Sprits, if you can get your hands on some of its very limited supply. It is sweet, light and very pretty, though not overly complex, perfect with prosecco and lemon. And we can’t wait until Sheringham Distillery on Vancouver Island

gets its elderflower gin to market.They brought a sample to the recent BC Distilled festival and it was showing great promise: a journey of flavours that travelled through piney juniper and briny seaweed and finished with lingering elderflower.

But, you may be wondering, what can you actually do with all this floral flavour? Syrup or liqueur, elderflower makes a great addition to light, bright citrusy cocktails. Add it to a Tom Collins or a gin martini, a French 75 or vodka sour.

Mix it into a margarita or create your own cocktail with white spirits such as gin, akvavit, vodka or tequila.

It plays beautifully with tart flavours like lemon, rhubarb or grapefruit, as well as berries and stone fruits. It is perfectly pretty paired with sparkling wine. Or you can try the springlike Lady O’Keefe cocktail created by UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar’s assistant bar manager Lily Duong (see recipe at Westender.com).

Elderflower is said to be good for you, too – it has antiseptic, antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties. But what it’s really best for is recovering from winter. Here’s to the essence of spring! W

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@TheGrowlerBC The provincial election is just a week away and brewers across the province are hoping that once the dust settles, they’ll see a change to regulations that currently

make it really, really difficult to operate a brewery on a farm.

Under a new policy passed by the provincial government in 2016, breweries operating on farms located on the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) are required to grow 50 per cent of the “food product” used to make their beer onsite.

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BC farms, but breweries, meaderies and distilleries are not. So a farm-based winery doesn’t have to grow a single grape, so long as it buys at least 50 per cent the grapes it uses from BC farms, but farm-based breweries need to grow at least half their grain onsite, even though they generally require much more farmland than wineries and cideries to grow their fermentables.

As a result, for a brewery to operate on ALR land (which covers pretty much all farmland in BC), it would likely need hundreds and hundreds of acres to grow the grain necessary for even a modest operation.

“If you have one bad crop, you’re out of business,” says Brian Smith, CEO and coowner of Persephone Brewing Company in Gibsons.

The award-winning brewery is located on an 11-acre hop farm on the Sunshine Coast, all of which goes into the beer made onsite. But thanks to the recent policy change, Persephone is no longer allowed to operate on ALR land. If the province doesn’t amend the policy, they’ll have to cease operations or move by December 2018.

“It’s a total double standard,” says Rebecca Kneen, co-owner of Crannog Ales in Sorrento. Crannog, which operates on a modest hop farm, was given an exemption to the new policy by the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) last month because it had previously received approval to operate back in 1999, before the policy was instituted.

“We’re OK right now, but the approval is conditional and tenuous,” says Kneen.

One farm that’s considering a brewery under the new rules is the 1,500-acre Fraserland Organic Farms in Delta, which grows about 300 acres of malting barley at any given time as part of its crop rotation (it’s primarily a potato farm).

However, the vast majority of farms in Southern BC are under 70 acres, so that presents some problems.

“You just don’t find a lot of farms like that in BC, outside of the Peace River region,” says Smith. “I think [this policy] is a bit lazy, it’s fundamentally flawed. [The Ministry of Agriculture] missed a big part of this.”

No one from the BC Ministry of Agriculture would comment on the policy, or explain why wineries and cideries get a different set of rules. (The spokesperson I talked to said the ministry wouldn’t be commenting until after the election.)

The ministry’s website states that, “The 50 per cent farm products threshold reflects an extensive consultation, and provides the balance of offering farmers a value-added opportunity

on their farm, while ensuring that farming remains an integral part of the overall operation.”

However, both Persephone and Crannog, the only two existing breweries the policy affects, say they were never consulted in any way.

“I’ve talked to hop farmers all over the province, and they weren’t consulted either,” says Smith. “There’s probably three or four that I know of that were waiting to start a brewery that were blindsided by this.”

While Crannog has received an exemption allowing it to operate, Kneen is continuing to fight for the ALR policy to be changed.

For one thing, if the purpose of the policy to protect arable farmland from being converted to industrial uses, it should probably include land use restrictions, which it currently doesn’t.

“It really betrays a lack of comprehension about how breweries operate,” she says.

Even the explanation of the policy on the Ministry of Agriculture’s website seems to contradict the policy itself.

“The 50 per cent threshold is measured by the quantity (volume or weight) of all the ingredients or total farm products used in the brewing and distilling process (e.g., grain, honey, hops, spices and botanicals) and is calculated on an annual basis,” the ministry website states.

However, the policy itself actually specifically excludes hops in the calculation, stating, “For beer, the farm product will be grain and not hops due to the (small) quantities of hops involved in the beer making process.”

Both Kneen and Smith have received support from their local NDP and Green candidates and are hopeful that no matter which party is elected on May 9, the policy will get reviewed and changed.

Smith has organized several Save The Beer Farm events leading up to the provincial election to help gain traction for the cause.

Persephone currently has a petition with close to 4,000 signatories on Change.org, asking current Minister of Agriculture Norm Letnick to amend the policy, allowing breweries to purchase from other BC farms to meet the 50 per cent threshold and to include land-use restrictions to prevent macro breweries from moving onto ALR land and ripping up farmland to build massive facilities just for the tax breaks.

“We’re cautiously optimistic,” says Smith. “This policy is holding back economic development. It needs to be changed.” W

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U2-loving filmmaker finally finds what he’s looking for GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

U2 are kicking off the 30th anniversary tour behind their landmark The Joshua Tree album in Vancouver next week, but the May 12 appearance at BC Place marks another special occasion as well – one with a local angle. For the better part of a decade, BC filmmaker Patrick Stark has been working on One Life No Regrets, a documentary about overcoming his lifelong bout with stage fright. If all goes well, he’ll conquer his fears by grabbing a microphone and singing along with Bono and co when they hit the stage next week. It’s an ambitious, if audacious, request for one single fan to make to the biggest band in the world, and it should be noted that this will be Stark’s third try, following thwarted attempts in 2009 and 2015.

Next Friday, he’s hoping the U2 concert takes place with him, not without him.

“Whatever happens on May 12, I’m very hopeful.

At the same time, life is life.

“Stark says, on the line from his Vancouver home. When the Westender reaches the documentarian, he’s just gotten home from an early morning boxing lesson, a pastime he recently picked up with his 11-year-old son.

It’s a fitting workout routine, considering he’s spent the

last eight years fighting for the chance to perform with his favourite band.

Stark’s first attempt, in 2009, had him trying to catch U2’s attention by setting up a stage outside of BC Place and playing four of the Irish group’s songs with some hired musicians.

It didn’t work.

He came heartbreakingly close to crooning with U2 at BC Place in 2015, getting the okay from Bono during a meeting with the group at Chambar, only to be bumped at the last minute, when the act put together an impromptu tribute to their then-just-passed friend, blues legend BB King.

Stark knows there’s an outside chance they could pull the plug on this agreedupon appearance, as well.

“You just take things as they come, you know?”

Despite the zen-like approach to next week’s concert, Stark has been obsessively tenacious in his pursuit of playing with U2. Now nearly 50, he’d practise singing along to their cassettes in his teens, but could never bring himself to raise his voice in public. Since starting the One Life No Regrets project in 2009, he’s made strides at becoming more confident. That said, chronicling singing lessons, getting life-coaching advice from a number of music industry

Eight years ago, Patrick Stark decided he would try to overcome his stage fright by performing in concert with U2. Contributed figures, and performing on small stages wasn’t initially part of the plan.

“In the beginning, I decided that I was just going to go from zero to singing in a stadium, because I was fearful of singing at any level in front of anybody,” Stark recalls. “If I was going to do it, I was going to do it in the biggest way that I possibly

could and put it behind me!

I didn’t realize it was going to become a lengthy, yearslong journey.”

Over the years, Stark has connected with local rockers like Bif Naked and Loverboy’s Mike Reno to grill them on-camera about their stage experience, and tracked down U2 producers Daniel Lanois and Steve Lilywhite

for advice on how to make his dream come true. Their insight has helped him plug along towards his ultimate goal, and flesh out the film’s philosophical side.

“I was learning one-onone from them, not just on performance but how they dealt with nerves and fear, and their philosophies on regret. It was really quite amazing. There was much more to this than what I thought there was in the beginning.”

After absorbing those life lessons, Stark has gone on to perform on a handful of stages over the last eight years, including in front of a PNE crowd in 2014. In that sense, you could argue he’s already won out over stage fright. But, even after these smaller victories, he still hasn’t found what he’s been looking for: the thrill of performing for a sold-out crowd of thousands. Walking across the stage at BC Place raises the stakes to his liking.

“Everybody does karaoke, but how good will I feel having done karaoke? Will I feel like I’ve risked anything? As they say, without risk, what’s the reward?” Stark explains, before adding, “Phobias have stood in the way of a lot of good things that could’ve happened to me. I was living a safe life, protecting myself and avoiding fear. Avoidance is such a great way to deal

with phobias, but at the same time, how is that living?”

The filmmaker allows that his scheme is a little zany, saying that, initially, in the back of his mind, he was probably trying to talk himself out of it. And he’s come a long way since 2009, but, as the ultimate gig looms, he admits still got those butterflies in his stomach. “I would have to say that, even after working for so long on this, I still feel the fear. As I’m talking about it, I’m stuttering – that’s the fear coming out.”

As for what song he’ll sing next week, that’s still up in the air. Being that the show will have U2 playing all of The Joshua Tree – Stark’s favourite album – he’s focusing his sights on one of its 11 tracks. From the first time he popped a cassette copy of the album into his Walkman during a late ‘80s family roadtrip, to making countless radio requests for “With or Without You” during his shifts at the Dawson Creek Dairy Queen, to spending time singing the songs in the lead up to the upcoming show, Stark’s had plenty of time to practise for what should be his movie’s long-in-theworks final scene.

He marvels: “Just think, to go from singing in the shower and the car to singing with U2 is an epic finish. It’s truly the stuff of dreams.” W

Alex Maher rises from the ‘Aether’ of addiction KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

At its peak, Alex Maher’s addiction was so at home at rock bottom, that it invited the veteran Vancouver musician in to visit twice in one year.

The first time, approximately three years ago, Maher recalls that he was so high on hard drugs that he thought he could safely parkour out the back of his apartment building.That delusion resulted in a shattered heel bone, three months of forced sobriety as he convalesced after surgery in his parents’ home, and the feeling that maybe, after almost a decade of substance abuse, he needed to turn a corner.

But, in reality, it took a second incident – Maher hallucinating that his apartment was on fire and having to be escorted to a waiting ambulance by police – for the reality of rock bottom to finally sink in.

“It had turned into this thing that I didn’t even realize

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was controlling my life,” says Maher, seated at a sunny Eastside kitchen table recently.

“When I got back, all my gigs were still waiting for me, and I went through a period leading up to that where, the more gigs I got, the more money I got to facilitate this crazy affliction. So I was clean for three months – not by my choice – and then I went back into my gigs, had my own apartment, and hit bottom again.

“There was something pulling me out of it this time, though,” he continues. “My [new] relationship with my girlfriend, Lauren, and the why am I doing this again? It had almost killed me once that year.”

Maher adds that he was also coping with the loss of two dear music industry friends to the same vice.

It’s a dark subject, one Maher explores with a prize-fighter’s perspective on Aether – the first solo EP from the talented saxophonist, loop pedalist, and

Musician Alex Maher grapples with a decade of substance abuse on new solo EP. Contributed photo DNA6 and Flannel Jimmy co-founder in almost 10 years, which he released to a sold-out crowd at the Fox Cabaret in February. The majority of the tracks were written during his “dark time”, and serve as lyrical lamentations on isolation and loss. Sonically, however,

the album retains Maher’s trademark velvety vocals, blues-pop guitar riffs, and searing sax solos. “It’s trying to make something uplifting from something extremely sad,” Maher muses. “Kind of like a Green Day song. If you listen to a Green Day song, it’s really upbeat and poppy,

but if you listen to the lyrics, it’s really dark.”

He’ll be performing tracks from Aether, like the soulful “No One Else” (which he cowrote with friend and Carly Rae Jepsen collaborator Ryan Stewart) and sun-soaked “The Light” with his band at Ground Up tonight (May 4) at Guilt & Co. Proceeds from the show go to the Bavubuka Allstarz Foundation, a nonprofit organization that connects youth with music and the arts.That’s in addition to the handful of regular weekly gigs Maher plays, such as the Keefer Bar on Tuesday nights, and the Anza Club open mic on Thursday, which he’s hosted for more than a decade.

In fact, somewhat miraculously, Maher says his musical ability, passion, and professional reputation survived the thousands of days he spent high. “Music was always there,” he says. “It was weird that I was always able to – even when I was at my peak of abuse, I was somehow able to

keep it together for each gig.

My evil addict was good at scheduling, I guess?” he jokes, wryly.

He also acknowledges, with the recent tsunami of fentanyl-laced party drugs and overdoses, that he’s lucky he survived his addiction at all.

Ultimately, Maher’s recovery began in earnest when he joined Daytox – an outpatient withdrawal-management program – two years ago and started doing home drug tests to prove to his loved ones that he was clean. He says he’s been clean since.The 37-yearold also credits his partner, Lauren, new rescue pup Billie, and circle of friends for being instrumental in his recovery.

“That’s what’s going on,” he says, contentedly. “That’s why this album exists.” W Alex Maher performs at Guilt & Co Thursday, May 4 at 10pm. Pay-whatyou-can sliding scale admission at the door. alexmahermusic.com

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Filter through the fake news with these DOXA top picks SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

In this dizzying age of fake news and seemingly fascist regimes, separating fact from codswallop can be a Herculean task – but the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (doxafestival.ca) is here to help you make sense of it all.This year’s festival places truth-tellers, freedom fighters and rabble-rousers on

a pedestal with its jam-packed schedule of feature-length and short documentaries from local, national and international filmmakers.Though each are different in tone and subject matter, DOXA films almost universally hold a mirror up to where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re headed.

Take Charles Wilkinson’s Vancouver: No Fixed Address, about our city’s ongoing housing crisis, or Manifesto,

in which the glorious Cate Blanchett portrays 13 different characters reciting the 20th century’s greatest cultural and social manifestos.

It’s next to impossible to make a wrong choice when setting out on a DOXA adventure – but if you need a starting point, Reel People humbly suggests the following:

LIMIT IS THE SKY - MAY 5

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COMPLICIT - MAY 6 & 14

(HeatherWhite and Lynn Zhang | US/China) Long before your screen of choice arrives at your nearest retailer, it is likely born in China, where 90 per cent of the world’s electronics are produced. In Complicit, we meet the migrant workers who piece together the world’s phones and laptops in egregious conditions (little to no ventilation, no time off, no sleep for days on end) for scandalously low wages. Many suffer grave health consequences, like occupational leukemia and even death, while corrupt corporations place profit over people in order to meet the global demand for the latest tech.This jarring film might compel you to look at your phone and ask yourself, “How complicit are we in the West?”Trailer: https:// vimeo.com/130270727

DRUNKEN LAUNDRY DAY WITH CHARLES BUKOWSKI - MAY 6

(Fiona Tinwei Lam, H. Kristen Campbell, Henry Doyle,Analee Weinberger | Canada) A visual poem from the DTES springs to vivid life in this animated short featuring text written and performed by Henry Doyle and clean and simple line drawings. Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski serves up a cheeky and biting commentary on the middle class, Eastside life, and drinking and reading Bukowski on laundry day.

FOR MY MOTHER - MAY 7 & 14

(Manny Mahal | Canada) In this powerful short, Vancouver filmmaker Manny Mahal employs a single unbroken POV shot to pack a major emotional punch.The film has Mahal retracing a walk his mother, Sital, took in South Vancouver on April 27, 2015 – a day that was to be a paradigm-shifting one for Sital and everyone who loved her.

During the unbroken POV shot, Mahal relates his mother’s remarkable immigrant story: Canucks fan, arranged marriage, kidney transplant, parent – and we get to know the filmmaker, too. A stunning rumination on failure, success, and the impact we have on the people we love.

FATTITUDE - MAY 9

(Lindsey Averill andViridiana Lieberman | US) Why is fat such a dirty word? Why are fat characters

in pop culture overwhelmingly evil – Ursula in The Little Mermaid,The Blob, Jabba the Hutt – or the sassy sidekick who exists to support a slender lead? Fattitude takes aim at our society’s obsession with thinness, and explores the impact that fat shaming has on anyone who internalizes the narrative that fat people are less than human.The documentary explores the history of fat shaming, the multitude of ways in which fat people are discriminated against by legislators, advertisers, clothing manufacturers, Hollywood, and the healthcare profession, and what happens when you don’t see yourself reflected anywhere in pop culture – and also looks towards reclaiming the word fat through “fatshion” and new ways of thinking about body positivity.

A MOON OF NICKEL AND ICE - MAY 9

(Francois Jacob | Canada) Norilsk is a city shaped by its gulag history and yet wiped clean of any trace of it; the Russian city – home to 177,000 and closed to foreigners – began as a prison town in the 1930s.

Today, Norilsk produces more than 20 per cent of the world’s nickel, and yet its history is largely unknown in town. French-Canadian filmmaker Francois Jacob braves the cold, darkness, snow, ice, and remoteness to reveal the truth of Norilsk to its citizens and audiences worldwide, via the head of the local theatre group, miner lifers, high schoolers, and a historian determined to make his fellow citizens confront their dark history.

A Moon of Nickel and Ice is atmospheric, full of sweeping shots of concrete, factory chimneys, and industrial waste; even in summer, a permanent black cloud hangs over the city.

TOKYO IDOLS - MAY 11

(Kyoko Miyake | UK/Canada) In Japan, idols are a billion dollar business. More than 10,000 teenage girls sing and dance as part of the idol circuit in Japan – and their fans are mostly adult men who pay big bucks for the opportunity to shake their hands and take photos with them at hot-ticket events. Tokyo Idols introduces audiences to the teen girls who work the idol circuit – including a 14-year-old who sings and dances in a cat costume for a room full of men, and a 10-year-old who is just getting her start – as well as the adult super-fans who fawn over these young girls but are otherwise unable to interact with women in their daily lives. Tokyo Idols offers a fascinating and unsettling deep-dive into a booming sub-culture. W

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‘For Dear Life’: Let’s talk about death Carmen Pollard documents her cousin’s final years in DOXA doc For Dear Life Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

Death is one of the only certainties in life, and it’s also one of the only topics we don’t talk about with any real honesty.We couch it in euphemisms; we shove our foreknowledge of it to the darkest corners of our minds, where it gathers dust and becomes even more taboo and terrifying.

But the inextricable relationship between life and death takes centre stage in For Dear Life,Vancouver director-editor Carmen Pollard’s feature film that premieres this week as part of the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

For Dear Life follows Carmen’s cousin, Vancouver theatre producer James Pollard, in the three and a half years after his terminal cancer diagnosis. Pollard was the longtime general manager of Theatre Under the Stars and served on the board of directors of the PAL Studio Theatre.

Carmen approached her older cousin with the idea for the film shortly after he received his diagnosis. She recalls telling James that she wanted to “tell a story about [his] experience in the world as someone who knows that they face an imminent death, but is in a culture where everyone is afraid to talk about it and acknowledge it.” At the time, Carmen was already fully immersed in the world of documentary film-

making: she was a celebrated editor with numerous credits to her name, including Mina Shum’s Ninth Floor, and Dirt, for which she won a Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Leo Award in 2009.

James was keen, says Carmen – “He was really comfortable talking about [his diagnosis], and when he did talk about it, he was surprised by how uncomfortable everyone else felt” – but he had three caveats: he wanted humour and lightness, he didn’t want to be seen “out of his mind with pain opiates,” and he didn’t want his story framed as some kind of hero’s journey.

Thus, For Dear Life isn’t a traditional cancer doc about a brave soul on a life-affirming journey into the great beyond, nor is it a dark narrative about a tragic figure raging against the dying of the light. Instead, it is a conversation-starter about a man who “lived until he died,” says Carmen. “He really didn’t want to die, but he also knew he was dying so he didn’t want to shy away from reality. He wanted to still live a really full and interesting life in the process, and he wanted people to be comfortable with the fact that he was still living.”

James isn’t the only person who appears in For Dear Life, nor was he the only one with whom Carmen had a pre-existing relationship: his father is her uncle; his adult children are her kin. And she was poised to be nearby and on-hand during a transformative series of moments in their lives. She didn’t want to intrude, and she didn’t want the presence of her camera to affect their interactions with each other.

“I did check in with people along the way, just to make sure that having the camera there wasn’t influencing how they were experiencing what James was going through,”

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Terminal cancer patient James Pollard being measured for his coffin in a still from ‘For Dear Life’, a DOXA documentary about facing death. Contributed photo says Carmen. “As a documentary filmmaker, you’re in service to the story, and there’s a lot of responsibility around making sure that you’re always putting that first, and there’s also the human side, too, which is as important.”

The process of filming and editing For Dear Life took three years, and gave Carmen more footage than she could possibly use. She accompanied James to medical appointments, to the cemetery where he would ultimately be buried in an unusual bog burial he himself designed, to meetings with his coffinmaker, and into his many revelatory conversations with family and friends.The filmmaking journey afforded Carmen numerous lessons, not the least is “how judgmental we are around death.

I’ve concluded it’s because we don’t understand it, and we’re most afraid around what we don’t understand and what we don’t have control over. Fear breeds judgment.”

Although For Dear Life is packed with intimate moments, one moment you will not see is James’ death, despite the fact that James gave Carmen permission to film it. Carmen didn’t feel it was necessary to include James’ passing in order for the film to make its point. “I felt like that moment was sacred,” she says. James died on May 1, 2016, in a Vancouver hospice, surrounded by his family.

If there’s any takeaway from For Dear Life, Carmen wants it to be this: it’s important to be with people who are dying. “For some people,

the process of dying can be so isolating, and it’s like they die before they’ve died, because people stop seeing them in the same way that they’ve seen them before.” She pauses and smiles. “I look back and I realize that one of the reasons I wanted to immerse myself in this story was because it was an opportunity to spend that time with James.” W For Dear Life screens May 7 and 14 as part of DOXA Documentary Film Festival. DOXA – which runs May 4-14 at venues around Vancouver includes 60 shorts and feature-length documentaries from two-dozen countries. For tickets, visit doxafestival.ca.

Designer Files: 150 days of Dali Chali-Rosso Gallery brings the past and future of art together in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday.

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hosted a media preview of the sculpture and the more than 100 other original Dali works it has brought to Vancouver as part of the exhibition.

Gallery owner and curator Susanna Strem has brought her passion for both the past and the future of art together by partnering with local not-for-profit arts education centre, Arts Umbrella, for the Definitely Dali project.

At the preview, young artists Ava Simard and Sebine Fedder – both students of Arts Umbrella since early childhood – were present and working on live drawing some of Dali’s masterpieces, showcasing their own artistic talents. Both

girls charmed the attendees with their ability to interpret the works of Dali, and also shared how art, and Arts Umbrella, have shaped their lives and artistic futures. For the duration of Definitely Dali, public donations and partial proceeds of Chalio-Rosso gallery sales will be donated to Arts Umbrella to help fund the future masters of our city.

This isn’t the first time the clock sculpture had a date with a major metropolitan city, though. Dance of Time I has previously graced the streets of Paris, Beverly Hills, Shanghai, Mexico City and numerous other global hotspots in similar public

The ‘Dance of Time I’ as seen in Beverly Hills. displays, all generously donated by The Stratton Institute. The foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion

Vancouver is one of upwards of 250 cities partaking in Jane’s Walk – an annual community-led series of walks aimed to get people talking about their cities, held in honour of urban activist Jane Jacobs. Westender sat down with architect and Jane’s Walk Vancouver leader Elizabeth MacKenzie ahead of the May 5-7 event.

“Jacobs was an urbanist and an author,” explains MacKenzie. “Her most notable book was written in 1961, [called] Death and Life of Great American Cities.” (Citizen Jane, a film about Jacobs, recently screened at Vancity Theatre.)

“After Jane died,” she continues, “a group of her friends got together to go on walks on her birthday.The following year a group of other citizens joined, from there it became an unofficial, unsanctioned organisation that regroups every year.

“Jane would have been 101 this year,” MacKenzie adds.

If you are expecting a biography lesson on each walk, though, think again; Jane’s Walks are not about Jane.

“When I first got involved, I assumed that it was all about Jane Jacobs,” says MacKenzie.

“Jane’s Walk is not so much a lecture on what you are seeing, but is more of observation or [an organic] discourse.

“Jane would call them walking conversations.”

This year Jane’s Walk has about 25-30 walks all over the city.There is a schedule online and it is free of charge, with the goal that you just “show up and walk.”

Walks include tours of North False Creek,Vancouver’s public art, and the Arbutus Corridor. Many more will be led across the Lower Mainland.

• janeswalk.org/vancouver W of culture and the arts, and which possesses the world’s largest collection of Dali’s monumental sculptures.

Vancouver now joins the list of temporary homes of the sculpture thanks to ChalioRosso Gallery. In reflection of her gallery’s gift to Vancouver, Strem shares, “Dali had a fascinating relationship with time and memory…

As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday, Canadians may reflect on our history, the passing of time, and our future.The Dance of Time I sculpture, in the shape of a melting watch, challenges us to think about the nature of time – past, current and present.”

The public unveiling will be held at 2pm this Saturday, May 6 at West Hastings and Hornby Street. W

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Beauty can be a mask for ugliness – and sometimes you have to stare into the ugliness in order to rise above it.

This is one of the messages conveyed in the artwork of Tsang Kin-Wah, which will be installed this week on the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Howe Street façade and at its off-site location on West Georgia Street, to remain in place until October.

From across the street or at a passing glance,Tsang’s vinyl installation is decorative and pleasing: large-scale floral and animal patterns, including a dragon on Howe Street and a spiraling vine at the off-site location.

But take a closer look at the flora and fauna and you’ll see

that the figures are actually words, and that the words are jarring and ugly: discriminatory language that appeared in newspapers and political campaigns in Vancouver during the 1887 anti-Chinese riots, the mid-1980s Hong Kong immigration wave and, most recently, the heated exchanges around foreign buyers and the local housing market.

This deceptively decorative artwork is par for the course for Tsang, who was born in China, moved to Hong Kong as a young child, and was educated in Asia and England.

Tsang’s work – which has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia and the United States – combines foul language with beautiful patterns to confront the reality of ignorance that often exists

Detail from Tsang Kin-Wah’s ‘EITHER / OR’ 2017 digital rendering for the site-specific installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite. Image courtesy of the artist within cities that boast of their multiculturalism and diversity.

The purpose of this work is to “bring the hidden voices to the surface, and let the audience realize that those kind of opinions exist in society and we have to face it,” says Tsang in a recent phone interview.

“Otherwise they stay hidden and we risk only seeing them when something bad happens,” Tsang had only visited Vancouver on one occasion before creating his new work, at the behest of VAG associate curator of Asian art Diana Freun-

dl, but notes that Vancouver is “quite famous and popular” in his hometown. “I know that a lot of people [from Hong Kong] have moved to Vancouver for their retirement and a lot of second-generation kids come back to Hong Kong,” says Tsang.Thus,Vancouver “sounds very familiar.”

Tsang wasn’t surprised to discover that racism rears its ugliness in the Lower Mainland, despite finding Vancouverites “very nice.”

He’s seen it in the other socalled multicultural cities in which he’s lived, worked, and exhibited, including London and NewYork. Racism occurs whenever people are closedminded, he says – and his work exists to challenge those shuttered minds.

When Tsang began researching his Vancouver work

a couple of years ago, he was focused solely on topics related to Chinese immigration and racism; but, as time went on, he says other influences seeped into his work. “It’s a very tricky time that we bring this topic to Vancouver, and a crucial moment, because a lot of things seem to be changing in North America, in Europe and some areas in Asia with regards to racism and protectionism,” says Tsang.

“When I was making the work and writing the text, I was trying to stick to that Asian immigrant issue, but I feel like I was affected by things like the election of Donald Trump, and that’s the reason that I feel like my work touches on those issues in a certain way.”

• For more about Tsang KinWah’s exhibition, visit vanartgallery.bc.ca. W

Classical ballet ‘Giselle’ looks to pack a punch among contemporary audiences KIMIYA SHOKOOHI @kimiyasho

They’re bringing classical back.

The rise and mainstream sway of contemporary dance over the last decade has, in ways, come to take precedence over the traditional form – the classical ballet.

But one Vancouver dance company maintains that the old-world underdog still packs a punch.

“I see audiences every time I go that are very enthusiastic,” says LiYaming, cofounder and artistic director of Coastal City Ballet, when asked about the city’s reaction to classical performances. “There is room and a space for traditional classical ballet, and we feel we don’t have enough of it in Vancouver,” he adds.

It’s with that sentiment that Coastal City Ballet is bringing the classical love story,

Giselle, back to Vancouver for the first time in 10 years.The story-driven production will be presented at the Playhouse on May 19 and the Surrey Arts Center on June 9.

Giselle tells the story of a young peasant girl betrayed by her nobleman lover. Unable to withstand the prince’s deception, Giselle dies of a broken heart, only to join the ranks of the Wilis – a corps of restless, vengeful spirits who have died before their wedding day.The spirits seek revenge by luring young men into their lair and forcing them to dance until they die.

Giselle, however, finds a moment of redemption when she spares her betrothed from the grisly fate.

Since its Paris premiere in 1841, Giselle has become the epitome of ballet romanticism. And since the company’s launch in 2011,Yaming and partners have made a point of presenting classical

performances like it annually.

Both shows in last year’s presentation of Swan Lake sold out, prompting the company to look to another well known ballet for this year’s spring production.

“We want to continue to bring the story and the technique of the ballet to Vancouver,” saidYaming, who finds that traditional ballets, like Swan Lake and Giselle, contain a level of technical difficultly well suited for emerging dancers.

Coastal City Ballet aims to provide performance opportunities for emerging dancers from Canada and beyond. It has presented 11 productions to audiences in Greater Vancouver, Regina and Saskatchewan, to date, including six full-length story ballets.

Internationally renowned French choreographer Irene Schneider (Magdeburg Theatre Ballet School, John Cranko Academy) returns to

choreograph Giselle. Schneider and Coastal City Ballet’s collaboration began in 2012 with Hansel and Gretel. Since then, they have collaborated on story-driven classics like a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coppelia, Cinderella and Swan Lake.

Despite its championing of the classical form, the repertory company does make a point of producing a range of productions from original story and contemporary, alongside its annual classical presentations.Vancouver’s contemporary dance scene is a national leader,Yaming says, but he also encourages fans of modern dance to re-embrace the classical form that gave way to the contemporary craze. “They will be surprised,” he says.

• Coastal City Ballet presents Giselle on May 19 at 8pm at theVancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St).Tickets from $30 at vtixonline.com. W

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“So. I’m a piano teacher,” says Elaine (Caitriona Murphy) at the beginning of The Piano Teacher. “And you,” indicating us, “are here for a lesson.” Murphy smiles her winning smile and invites us into Elaine’s studio – a tasteful white-on-grey music room with a gleaming piano centre stage. Set designer David Roberts situates stairs stage left, leading up to an interior landing that will feature later in the story of Elaine, concert pianist Erin (Megan Leitch) and Tom (Kamyar Pazandeh).

In the play, playwright Dorothy Dittrich gives us the most elegant, thoughtful commentary on music: “Music is about relationships,” Elaine tells us. It’s the space between one note and next. It’s about stories, about “home,” “leaving home” and “coming back.” In the

classical tradition, it’s those grand concluding chords or those sweet but subtle resolving notes that bring us such joy. Then the 20th century arrived and, with it, musical dissonance that reflects society’s anxiety, fear and confusion.

The Piano Teacher, however, follows the pre20th-century pattern: Erin, a celebrated pianist, has been unable to play the piano since the tragic death of her husband and son two years ago. She can’t touch the piano, can’t even sit on the piano bench. “Every day I wake up I feel broken,” she says. She feels “choppy, scrape-y and jagged.”

Through the course of the play, Elaine – who turns out to be an extraordinary therapist – and Tom bring Erin “home.”

Elaine, on the other hand, begins to question her own withdrawal from performing to teaching. “Oscar Peterson did not let arthritis stop him,” she says; Dittrich leaves Elaine’s story more open-ended.

Pazandeh is handsome and sensitive as Tom and he does some amazing renova-

tions to that aforementioned landing as the story unfolds.

Plenty of dramatic licence here as the reno is finished by nightfall the day after Tom sizes up the job.

But it is the performances of the two women that make this play so powerful. Murphy simply exudes warmth, kindness and intelligence.

Her character overflows with love of music: “Music is the essence of who we are”, she says. Elaine’s discomfort over the growing relationship between Erin and Tom seems forced, but it does give us a window into Elaine’s own unresolved discontent.

Leitch, as Erin, is huddled, clenched and obviously distraught. She clutches her baggy cardigan to her chest. If The Piano Teacher were a piece of music, Murphy would be in the major key, Leitch the minor. Erin’s hesitancy even to sit backwards on the bench indicates the depth of despair into which she has fallen. And when Leitch finally, gingerly touches the piano – not even the keys – it feels like an amazing breakthrough.

It’s as if the sun has burst

through dark clouds.

Plays – as opposed to musicals – with characters who play musical instruments make me nervous; can they really pull it off? Leitch and Murphy adroitly manage some duets but sound designer Patrick Pennefather washes in a soundtrack including Schubert, Bartok, Haydn and Oscar Peterson when it’s appropriate. A ref-

erence to a buddy of Tom’s prompts the old ’20s pop song, “My Buddy.”

On that note, a feminist quibble: tilting toward fairytale and Hollywood is the Erin/Tom romance. Erin’s healing would not have been diminished by Tom simply being her buddy, not her lover. Where their relationship goes would be better left to our imagination.

That aside, The Piano Teacher, commissioned by the Arts Club as part of its Silver Commissions Project and directed by Yvette Nolan, is a beautiful, intelligent exploration of the power of music and friendship. I was moved by it and loved almost every minute.

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Timber Timbre’s latest album, Sincerely, Future Pollution, is full of garbage. That’s not to say that the creepedout Canadian pop twisters aren’t blowing listeners away with their fourth full-length collection – the nine-song set may be their most adventurous and wide-reaching yet, boldly flirting with flavours of folk, funk, rock, and more.

It’s just that vocalist/guitarist Taylor Kirk spends this latest song cycle steadily oozing out a disillusioned critique on how sludge-stained our society’s become, literally and figuratively.

“I kind of became obsessed with this idea of waste,” he tells Westender, on the line from his Montreal apartment, “Especially in these big places where these cities are growing taller and wider, and are sort of precariously perched on these sewers. I became fixated on this underbelly, all these things that we don’t even consider anymore – the dirt in the world.”

By the sounds of it, Timber Timbre – Kirk, guitarist Simon Trottier, keyboardist Mathieu Charbonneau and drummer Mark Wheaton – have seen their fair share of grime around the globe.

After all, they just completed a European tour, and will spend the rest of the spring hitting a series of North American clubs.

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weary Sincerely, Future Pollution was tracked overseas at an idyllic chateau called La Frette, just outside of Paris.

Kirk penned his dystopian wordscapes in a nearby hotel, where he ruminated on a shared anxiety brought on by terrorist attacks, political absurdity, and over-sharing on social media. His concern is expressed through a calmed but caustic croon; for instance, while describing “desperate elections,” “racial vaccination” and the surrealist image of a cathedral floating into a sewer on the desolate bossa nova, “Western Questions”.

“It was kind of surprising,” he says of the new record’s dark and dour, issues-oriented direction. “I’d never been decidedly political; I’d never written things that were politicized or even just critical in that way.”

Beyond Kirk’s newfound lyrical focus, the Future Pollution sessions also yielded other unexpected results.

“Grifting” is a plastic-soul slap Kirk likens to “Fame”period Bowie, but the songwriter explains that “Grifting” had previously been worked through various unsuccessful incarnations over the years before finding its raunchy groove. When Trottier and Charbonneau first brought instrumental numbers “Skin Tone” and “Bleu Nuit” to the rest of the band, Kirk said the arrangements were quite austere.

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“We ended up making them into porn music, some kind of weird fusion exotica,” Kirk elaborates. “That was a surprise, especially for them.”

Perhaps the wildest part of the album is when the waltzing “Moment” erupts into a dizzying, double-hand tapping guitar solo from Trottier, whose curveball, Guitar Hero performance was augmented with some equally eyebrowraising sonic manipulations by bandleader Kirk.

“He’s playing the guitar and I’m playing his pedals while he’s laser shredding,” Kirk explains of the tag-team effort, adding that this particular moment was delivered in honour of a fallen master musician. “We had just learned that Prince had passed away, and I was really upset about this. I told Simon, do it for Prince!”

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Melissa Etheridge The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter known for her raspy vocals and political activism revisits her greatest hits, from “I’m the Only One” to “Come to My Window.”

8pm at River Rock Casino Resort.

Tickets $119.50 at Ticketmaster.ca

HOME When a favourite local hangout is threatened with a corporate takeover, two young female First Nations managers rally the regulars to save the place they call “home” in this new and original Canadian youth production. Free. someassembly.ca

MUSIC Ute Lemper Accompanied by piano, bandoneon, and bass, the expressive cabaret singer performs nostalgic songs from Berlin in this romantic performance.

8pm at the Orpheum. Tickets from $50 at vancouveropera.ca

SOCIAL Jane’s Walk Festival Vancouver Inspired by writer and activist Jane Jacobs, this walking tour movement invites members of the community to interact and share their stories of the city.

6pm at Vancouver Urban Winery.

Free. Become a walk leader at janeswalk.org

FRIDAY, MAY 5 ARTS HELLO Based on the story of playwright Arthur Miller and his secret son born with Down Syndrome, this play investigates Daniel Miller’s life from his perspective. 7:30pm at KW Studios.

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COMEDY The Empire Strips Back The Geekenders presents another “nerdlesque” hit with this sci-fi adventure production that combines striptease, popular culture, and comedy. 8pm at The Rio. Tickets $20 at riotheatre.ca

OUT OF TOWN Devour! Osoyoos Food Film Festival Celebrating food and film, this festival weekend kicks off with an evening of fresh Okanagan fare prepared by celebrity chefs Michael Howell and Ned Bell. 6:30pm at Black Hills Estate Winery. Tickets $110 at eventbrite.ca

SATURDAY, MAY 6 ARTS Family Lines in Landscape Local artist Veronica Plewman explores the lost stories and mysteries between family generations with her abstract painting style. 2pm at KIMOTO Gallery. Free.

Art in the City Local artists display their paper, sculpture, and glass works at this community exhibition and art market. 12pm at

the West End Community Centre Association. Free.

COMEDY OK Tinder–Swipe Right Comedy This one-hour improv show shares the bizarre, cringeworthy and hilarious stories of Vancouver’s online dating scene. 11:15pm at the Improv Centre. Tickets $15 at vtsl.com

SOCIAL Stanley Park Bowling Club Open House Dubbed the largest club in the country by Bowls Canada, thi s local season opener includes seeing a ‘Golden Bowl’ delivered by an honorary league member.

11am at the Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club. Free.

CVR Canada’s biggest virtual and augmented reality show expo showcases the latest in VR technology with hands-on demonstrations, talks from industry experts, and presentations from companies leading in VR innovation. 10am at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Tickets $65 at cvr2017.com

SUNDAY, MAY 7 ARTS Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone In collaboration with Coast Salish storyteller Rosemary Georgeson, choreographer Olivia C. Davies premieres this series of vignettes inspired by women who have left their ‘nests.’ 2pm at The Cultch. Tickets are pay-what-youcan at eventbrite.ca

MUSIC Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra Legendary composer of hit films like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones, John Williams is paid tribute in this concert conducted by Kathleen Allan. 2pm at the Orpheum.

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SOCIAL Sumo! A Beginner’s Workshop Learn the basic techniques behind the cultural Japanese sport in this exciting beginner mini-competition. 1pm at the Vancouver Buddhist Temple. Free.

physicist and cosmologist delivers a talk on the origins of the universe in this special Q&A. 8pm at the Chan Centre. Tickets from $16 at tickets.ubc.ca

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ARTS Brasilia: Life After Design Director Bart Simpson offers a post-film discussion on his documentary surrounding sustainability and urban planning in the federal capital of Brazil. 7pm at the Museum of Vancouver. Tickets from $13 at museumofvancouver.ca

MUSIC Marc Cohn Known for hits like “Walking in Memphis” and “True Companion,” this soulful singersongwriter celebrates 25 years since the release of his self-titled platinum-selling album. 8pm at Norman Rothstein Theatre. Tickets from $55 at tickets.capilanou.ca

SOCIAL Lawrence Krauss The theoretical

The Gentlemen Hecklers Comedians Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha, and Shaun Stewart take a jab at the classic children’s film, The Wizard, starring Fred Savage. 9:30pm at the Rio. Tickets $12 at riotheatre.ca

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Bird Week Nature Kayak Tour In participation with Vancouver Bird Week, biologist Robyn Worcester and Karen Devitt study the eagles, herons, and cormorants native to English Bay in this tandem kayak adventure. 6pm at Jericho Beach.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 ARTS The Case of the Grinning Cat Known for his maniacal grin and bright yellow coat, the infamous graffiti character of Paris becomes the key to investigating the city’s underground activism culture in this Chris Marker film. 9pm at SFU Woodward’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. Tickets from $11 at doxafestival.ca

Bird on the Beach The Bird Week festivities continue with this guided walking tour along the Stanley Park shoreline. 6pm at Stanley Park Nature House. Free tickets at stanleyparkecology.ca

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What did you get from snooping? Adopteez: Sex with Rocket Mish Way @MyszkaWay

I do not snoop on my partners.Whether it’s during the relationship, or afterwards, I prefer to stay in that sweet little blind spot called “ignorance is bliss.” Why would I go around asking questions I don’t want to hear the answers to? What you don’t know can’t hurt you.

(Had enough clichés yet?)

I only snooped once, and even then I stopped myself.

A few weeks ago, when I was cleaning out the closet in my office, I came across a box of old diaries and photos from a decade ago. Inside was a bunch of left overs from my first boyfriend. Along with crucial items like his birth certificate and passport, I also found a journal (men don’t keep diaries, right) and skimmed for my name. I saw it and slammed the book shut. Not my business. Plus, I’m not into ruining my rose-tinted world.

I know plenty of people who do snoop.They want the truth. Some aren’t even looking for it, and then a text from an ex pops up when you are mapping out the nearest Japanese restaurant on your boyfriend’s phone. Have you ever snooped on your partner?

“I once found a very detailed journal entry my then-boyfriend had written

about tying up and punishing my best friend. He was into kink. He was not a crazy serial killer. Moral of the story? If you’re snooping because you don’t trust the person, you’re probably right.” Melanie, 31, Brooklyn, NY.

“I was 19-years-old and my girlfriend at the time went to work early and left me alone in her basement suite.

Naturally I went snooping. I found her diary and in it she wrote about how she went to a party and had a threesome with a mutual female friend of ours and some random dude, and how she felt so guilty about it. (I also found her sizeable collection of porno mags, which was super cool!) Now, according to the diary entry, this happened within the first month of us seeing each other, but we were sleeping together and definitely exclusive at that point so I was fucking choked.

But I couldn’t just confront her with this, as that would mean I’d have to admit to snooping and I’d lose the moral high ground. I tried to get her to confess. One night while we were lying in bed, we got to talking about regret and I confessed the shitty things that I had done when I was a meth-smoking teenager.Then I asked her, “What’s the worse thing you’ve ever done?” and she tearfully confessed to the threesome. She said she was really drunk and she never let the guy inside her, and

that she wished it had been with me. I told her that I felt really betrayed, but in the end, I forgave her and we didn’t break up. She made it up to me, though.We ended up having a threesome with that same friend a few months later!” Brad, 30, Ottawa, ON.

“This is a weird one, and not about a partner, but when I was a chubby, introverted, closeted teenager I found a box of my mother’s porn magazines. How common is that? I never thought much about how it affected me.

I mean, apart from totally arousing me and forcing me to start using the magazines as bank material.This was ’90s porn, so remember it was all sorts of cocks on rocks.

I remember one magazine printing a petition to show an erection.” James, 29, Vancouver, BC. “I found a naked picture of the girl my boyfriend was cheating on me with. Cool.”

Nicole, 31,Vancouver BC. “I once went snooping in my boyfriend’s phone and found an entire folder of boob photos. It seemed like years worth of one-night-stands and ex-girlfriends. It enraged me, but I couldn’t say a thing because I had been snooping.

Infuriating.” Katie, 27, Los Angeles, CA. • You can share more snooping stories with us by emailing sex@ westender.com. W

Bird Week lifts off with fun ways to stay fit MEGAN STEWART @mhstewart

Birding is a walk in the park, unless you’re watching cormorants from a kayak or listening to songbirds on a bicycle ride.

Then it’s all about cruising.

The outdoor pursuit du jour, bird watching honours observation and patience, a dose of competition, plus reverence for the environment and its winged critters.You may not work up a sweat, but your heart rate will rise when you score that rare find and spot a purple finch or Bewick’s wren in Stanley Park.

Beginning May 6, Bird Week lifts off in Vancouver with a range of tours designed to immerse you in the city’s natural world.You can walk but you don’t have to.There are two kayaking tours, several boat “safaris”, numerous bike rides and lots of walks.

Birding is light, low-impact exercise and one that’s accessible, says Leeann Froese, a lifelong birder and frequent blogger. “The beautiful thing about birding is that it’s easy to do no matter what your activity level,” she says, noting bird watching can include people who use wheelchairs or have mobility impairments.

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enough for a chair, you can roll along a path and take in the surrounding sights and sounds.”

Froese brags (and so can we) that Vancouver has such a wide variety of birds that “it’s simple enough to watch songbirds from our kitchen windows.” Peaceful, right?

That’s also good for the heart and mind.

“We know how we feel when we get outside,” she says. “Spending time in nature actually makes people feel more alive.”

Bird Week may run May 6-13, but several organizations such as Nature Vancouver and the Stanley Park Ecology Society have extensive, yearround calendars catering to birders, whether you’re green, seasoned or hipster. Here are four tours I’d try.

BIKING WITH THE BIRDS

Ladner’s George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary When: 10am May 6, $5 Who: Great blue herons, bald eagles, migrating northbound songbirds Registration is mandatory for this guided, 12km bike tour through the fields of Westham Island to and from the sanctuary for a 45-minute waking tour.

CROW CURIOSITY BIKE RIDE

Slocan Park When: 7pm May 8, free Who: Some of the region’s 20,000 crows Registration is required for this meandering ride hosted

by HUB and the Still Moon Arts Society. Crows thrive in the urban environment we’ve built, and this tour looks into their language, tools, family structures and “wise ways.”

KAYAK TOUR

When: 6pm May 9 and 9:30am May 13, $89 Who: Western sandpiper, cormorants, eagles, migrating shorebirds, sail boats and tanker traffic Registration is required for this two-hour paddle off the shore of Jericho Beach to explore and observe Vancouver’s active harbour and the birds that call it home.

WHAT’S THAT CHIKACHIKA?

8th Avenue bike route When: 7:15pm May 12 Who: Species calls, songs and chirps This slow-paced neighbourhood ride leaves Trimble Park for a tour of the treelined streets near Pacific Spirit Park and begins with an tuning your sense to bird language. W

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Small but mighty, 12-yearold Rocket’s life has been anything but easy.

“He has lived a hard life, he has never been properly cared for before, but he holds no grudges. This boy loves people, kids, too,” says Erin Bain, an animal caretaker at the Senior Animals In Need Today Society (SAINTS) in Mission.

Remarkable, considering what this senior survivor has been through, and continues to endure. Chronic eye issues mean Rocket will likely need eye drops for the rest of his life. He recently had major dental surgery, leaving very few teeth in his mouth. He also takes daily pain-control medication, to help with both his eyes and his front leg, which tends to turn in too far – a direct result of longtime matting, which left the limb slightly deformed.

“Being part Shih Tzu, he requires regular grooming,” Bain confirms, adding that, though maintaining Rocket’s health and well-being may take a bit of work, the payoff is big.

“Rocket loves to play and interact with people of all ages. He likes squeaky toys and treats and does fine on a leash. He is also very good in the car,” she says. “He can be a bit picky with his dog friends, but he could live with another friendly dog just fine. Cats are a no go with Rocket, though – they are too much fun to chase!”

Rocket has had a hard life, but is ready for his forever home.

Ready to find a home of Rocket’s very own, Bain hopes that someone “will love him and care for him they way he deserves.”

“We cannot change the past, but we think Rocket has a bright future,” she says. “His forever family is out there!”

Bain also wishes to remind all readers about a past

SAINTS resident featured in this column. “Ricki the cat is still here. She’s had zero adoption interest. She is a truly lovely girl – I’m hoping someone will step forward soon to give her the happy, secure home she so deserves.

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In 1668, England named John Dryden its first poet laureate. His literary influence was so monumental that the era in which he published was known as the Age of Dryden. Twentiethcentury poetry great T. S. Eliot said he was “the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century.” Curiously, Dryden had a low opinion of Shakespeare. “Scarcely intelligible,” he called the Bard, adding, “His whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is coarse.”

I foresee a comparable clash of titans in your sphere, Leo. Two major influences may fight it out for supremacy. One embodiment of beauty may be in competition with another. One powerful and persuasive force could oppose another. What will your role be? Mediator? Judge? Neutral observer?

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Just this once, and for a limited time only, you have cosmic clearance to load up on sugary treats, leave an empty beer can in the woods, watch stupid TV shows and act uncool in front of the Beautiful People. Why? Because being totally well behaved and perfectly composed and strictly pure would compromise your mental health more than being naughty.

Besides, if you want to figure out what you are on the road to becoming, you will need to know more about what you’re not.

In addition to fashion tips, advice for the broken-hearted, midlife-crisis support, and career counselling, I sometimes provide you with more mystical help. Like now. So if you need nuts-and-bolts guidance, I hope you’ll have the sense to read a more down-to-earth horoscope. What I want to tell you is that the metaphor of resurrection is your featured theme. You should assume that it’s somehow the answer to every question. Rejoice in the knowledge that although a part of you has died, it will be reborn in a fresh guise.

“Are you ready for the genie’s favours? Don’t rub the magic lamp unless you are.” That’s the message I saw on an Instagram meme.

I immediately thought of you. The truth is that up until recently, you have not been fully prepared for the useful, but demanding gifts the genie could offer you. You haven’t had the self-mastery necessary to use the gifts as they’re meant to be used, and therefore they were a bit dangerous to you. But that situation has changed. Although you may still not be fully primed, you’re as ready as you can be. That’s why I say: RUB THE MAGIC LAMP!

You may have heard the exhortation “Follow your bliss!” which was popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell. After studying the archetypal stories of many cultures throughout history, he concluded that it was the most important principle driving the success of most heroes. Here’s another way to say it: identify the job or activity that deeply excites you, and find a way to make it the centre of your life. In his later years, Campbell worried that too many people had misinterpreted “Follow your bliss” to mean “Do what comes easily.” That’s all wrong, he said. Anything worth doing takes work and struggle. “Maybe I should have said, ‘follow your blisters,’” he laughed. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you are now in an intense “Follow your blisters” phase of following your bliss.

The versatile artist Melvin Van Peebles has enjoyed working as a filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, composer, and novelist.

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Peebles told NPR, “I haven’t had so much fun with clothes on in years.” If I’m reading the planetary omens correctly Capricorn, you’re either experiencing that level of fun, or will soon be doing so.

In what ways do you most resemble your mother? Now is a good time to take inventory. Once you identify any mom-like qualities that tend to limit your freedom or lead you away from your dreams, devise a plan to transform them. You may never be able to defuse them entirely, but there’s a lot you can do to minimize the mischief they cause. Be calm but calculating in setting your intention, Aquarius! P.S. - in the course of your inventory, you may also find there are ways you are like your mother that are of great value to you. Is there anything you could do to more fully develop their potential?

“We are what we imagine,” writes Piscean author N. Scott Momaday. “Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”

Let’s make this passage your inspirational keynote for the coming weeks. It’s a perfect time to realize how much power you have to create yourself through the intelligent and purposeful use of your vivid imagination. P.S. - here’s a further tip, this time from Cher: “All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”

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