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–Patty Sudan on our beaches pouring HOUSING CRISIS PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BUS FUSS out people’s beers.

Re:“Black Lives Matter HITS HOME I am running very short –LyleWagner criticizesVancouver Pride Re:“‘No Fixed Address’ of patience with the youngSociety,” May 18, 2017 tacklesVancouver’s housing er folks getting on the As a queer POC [person crisis,” May 18, 2017 There’s no particular buses with your big back of colour], the presence reason for the police to I just finished reading packs on your back hitting of the police as an instituget special treatment and the Westender’s review of everyone sitting in the face tion, regardless of queer recognition in an event No Fixed Address. I haven’t as you wend your way to people on the force, strikes seen it yet, but it does like Pride, other than our the back of the bus, only to a real palpable fear in ingrained deference to seem like a much needed stand in the back exit doors uniforms. It’s a profession, me. I’ve witnessed many analysis of the current on your cell phones blocktimes where queer POC not a community.

Vancouver housing crisis. ing anyone from getting have been victimized by –Citizen Five However, I found some off. It’s literally a fight to the VPD; had they been of Mr. Wikinson’s comget past you to get off the I am so happy the police white, without a doubt ments quite condescendbus, and even then, you’re they would have been want to be in, and will be ing. For example, “We are oblivious as to what’s going treated differently. Why in the parade in uniform still at the spot where we on around you. Please, get do they strongly feel they again as they have been just don’t really get it yet.” off your cell phones and need to be represented in for many years now. What Really? Well, rest assured, get your backpacks off the parade when they have, Mr. Wilkinson, as someone progress from the era your backs and carry them when the police viewed the over the years, inflicted who has been renovicted such violence and misprotests that preceded the twice in the past eight years in front of you and stand clear of the back exit doors. parades as something to be treatment on our comand is now paying 80 per Show some respect for the munity, and continue to controlled and quelled. cent of her income for an rest of the passengers your do so? Also, over the years, apartment, I certainly get –Christopher Koene travelling with. This is not the Pride Parade has been it all too well. I also get the your private space! A revery exclusionary to those I don’t blame them for fact that, at 70 years old, I minder, also, that the front who are POC, indigenous, not wanting an armed will be forced to leave the seats are for passengers trans, even bi. The rainbow city I was born and raised paramilitary force at a pawith needs and the elderly. flag may fly high and rade. It begs the question, in, and have to relocate Read the signs. If you see proud, but remember that why are the police armed to some little town in BC rainbow isn’t very kind to the teeth here anyways? where I know absolutely no an elder person getting on, get out of your seat and ofor accepting of our POC The UK seems to manone, simply because I can fer it to them.You’ll be old age just fine with unarmed queer/trans brothers and no longer afford to live in one day, too. police. Meanwhile we have sisters.

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YOUR CITY Park board made right decision banning whales Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

It was the right thing to do.

You know it and I know it. Vancouverites can now exhale with relief and move forward with a clean civic conscience: no more new whales at the Vancouver Aquarium.

In case you missed this whale of a tale, last week, the Vancouver park board courageously voted six-to-one to ban new cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) from being brought in to the Vancouver Aquarium.

The remaining three (a false killer whale, a porpoise and a dolphin) will be “allowed” to live out their lives at the aquarium, according to news outlets.

The minor but very vocal public outcry against the park board is misguided. The defensive rhetoric by Vancouver Aquarium officials is offensive.

Staff and supporters at the aquarium whine that the ban will adversely hamper their Marine Mammal Response Program (which mostly deals with harbour seals). Their rare shining star is the captive Chester, the false killer whale, “rescued” on Chesterman Beach on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. It was a miracle that he lived. It’s depressing that he has to live out his life in a tank.

And therein lies the hypocrisy of the rescue pro-

gram. If the animal is held captive for the rest of its life, what’s the point?

Helping stranded whales rejoin their families in the wild is one thing. Exploiting them in cages for the viewing public is entirely another.

We have no right to do that.

That is not humane, and it’s no longer about public awareness.

UBC professor Dr. Michael Seear aptly pointed out in the Vancouver Sun that “every small child knows about dinosaurs without ever having seen one – captive animals are not essential for education.”

Mark Leiren-Young brilliantly points out in his 2016 book, The KillerWhale Who Changed TheWorld, that humans have spent an inordinate amount of time obsessed with finding intelligent life on other planets, and yet there are highly intelligent beings on this planet which we tend to forsake: the cetaceans.

Don’t buy the analogy? Then check this out: a four-year-old orca’s brain is already five times the size of an adult human brain.

Dolphins and whales have complex languages and traditions that get passed down, generation after generation (that’s something we humans call “culture”). We’ve never been able to figure out whale languages, which are distinct from pod to pod, as different as English and Japanese, yet they can seemingly figure out our gibberish pretty quickly.

And they’re a matriarchal society where grandmas rule.

They’ve been on the planet

a hell of a lot longer than us, too.

The problem, which Leiren-Young pointed out to me, is in the case of a humancaused disaster like a major oil spill.What to do with affected cetaceans that need to recover? What to do with whales like Chester, beached and supposedly too young to learn the culture and tradition of his pod? Maybe the answer is a private sanctuary, a sea pen somewhere off the

north coast of Vancouver Island, where the whales can recover without their privacy being invaded by millions of humans.

The era of whales at the Vancouver Aquarium is over.

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VANCOUVER CRAFT BEER WEEK

It’s a family affair

Success for many BC breweries is all relative Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

@TheGrowlerBC For many craft brewers taking part in Vancouver Craft Beer Week (May 26-June 4), making beer is a labour of love. There’s long hours, loads of stress, and it can take years to recoup the massive start-up costs associated with opening a brewery.

Having your family by your side, supporting you every step of the way, can often mean the difference between failure and success.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that so many breweries in this province are family-run businesses. But while working with family has its advantages, it also comes with its own set of unique challenges.

BUILDING A LEGACY

It was on a visit back to his native Colombia that Andres Amaya received the advice that would change his family’s lives.

Despite Andres’ successful career in hotel management, his father clutched his arm and implored him and his brother Nicolas to strike out on their own and start their own business. “And do it by the time you’re 50.”

You need stability late in life, he told Andres, and if you lose your job, no one will hire you if you’re an old man.

And work together, because you can trust family. Blood is thicker than water.

Andres took his father’s advice to heart, and when he

L-R: Brent, Adam, Nick and Greg Mills of Delta’s Four Winds Brewing Co. keep it all in the family. Jennifer Gauthier photo returned to Canada, he and Nicolas began brainstorming ideas for businesses. At first they considered buying a franchise, perhaps a Tim Hortons. But one afternoon, as they were drinking craft beer in Nicolas’s basement, Nicolas had an idea.They both loved craft beer, so why not do something they love, and open a brewery?

That was five years ago, and in February that idea became a reality with the opening of Andina Brewing on Powell Street in Vancouver. It would not have been possible were it not for the efforts of their entire family.

Their wives, Claudia Lievano-Amaya and Rocío Lievano-Amaya, who are also sisters, handle the brewery’s marketing and accounting, respectively. Andres and

Rocío’s son Santiago is the brewery’s assistant manager, and their daughter Daniella is currently studying business management with an eye to join the family business as well. Even Nicolas and Claudia’s nine-year-old son Esteban helps out by bussing tables when it’s busy.

“I love that I get to drink beer and work with my family,” says Andres. “I feel a little more free.”

Part of their motivation to build a business together, Nicolas says, is that they want to create something they can leave to their children.

“We know we’re working together for the same goal,” he says. “So we have that trust.That’s one of the best thing about working with family, the level of trust we have.”

Understandably, Andina has become the centre of the Amaya’s lives.They’ve celebrated birthdays and anniversaries here.There was even a wedding proposal.

They hope to extend that familial feeling to everyone who visits their brewery.

“Everyone’s an Amaya at Andina,” says Andres.

“You come as guests, stay as friends and leave as family.”

CIRCLE AND SQUARE

Cédric Dauchot and Chloe Smith of Townsite Brewing in Powell River first met in Montreal 11 years ago while working together at the French brewpub chain Les 3 Brasseurs.

With a newborn in tow, in June 2011 they took the leap of a lifetime to open a brewery of their own,

deciding to move to a town that Smith had only visited once when she was 13 years old. Dauchot, who grew up in Belgium, had never been to Powell River at all.

But they were determined and they had each other, and soon they had a success on their hands.

“It was very exciting to build [Townsite] from nothing,” says Dauchot.

“Everything came together perfectly.”

For Dauchot and Smith, working together has always been a perfect fit. Because they’ve always had a working relationship, that role was already defined.

While the two have very different personalities, their differences complement each other, they say. It’s evident they share a great

deal of mutual respect for each other – a vital ingredient in both a successful business relationship and a marriage.

“I think it works because Chloe is very circle and I am very square,” says Dauchot. “She has the creativity and inspiration, and I’m more of an engineer. In some ways, we’re opposites, but it works out.”

That’s not to say it’s all sunshine and lollipops. The workload can be overwhelming at times, especially in the summer months when the brewery is operating at full clip. Thankfully, they find a way to keep things in perspective.

“I think any business owner has times where they think, ‘Fuck this! This is way too much work!’ I think everybody struggles with that,” says Smith.

“Luckily, we make beer for a living.”

Dauchot and Smith have two kids now, both of whom are growing up in the brewery. They each have their own broom, and love spending time in the brewery’s family-friendly tasting room, doing chalk art all over the walls. It’s a comfort to have the kids so close, says Smith.

“They seem to really like it here,” she says. “It’s never an issue getting them to come down.”

Despite spending nearly every moment of every day together, the couple says they don’t tire of each other’s company. They may be circle and square, but they have a lot in common.

Namely, beer.

“At the end of the day, we’re just big craft beer geeks and so talking about beer 24 hours a day is what we actually want to do,” says Smith.

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BROTHERLY LOVE

When Four Winds cofounder and brewmaster Brent Mills decided to start his own brewery, there was never any doubt that his business would be a family venture.

Brent’s grandfather founded Mills Paint, where it became a family tradition for everyone to work at the paint shop.

Today, if you work at Four Winds, there’s about a one in five chance your last name is Mills.

While Brent takes care of everything beer-related, his father Greg helps manage the business side of things, his brother Adam handles the sales and marketing, his other brother Sean works in packaging, cousin Nick is the brewery’s jackof-all-trades, and uncle John is the sales rep for the BC Interior. Brent’s sister

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Brooke doesn’t currently work for the brewery, but he says he’d like to change that and bring her into the fold as well.

“Working with family isn’t a new thing to us,” says Greg. “Not every family should run a family business, but they all get along so it works out quite well.”

That said, working with family does have its challenges.

“There’s definitely an unspoken level of communication where we just understand each other,” says Adam. But that can create difficulties. For one thing, their employees don’t posses the Mills family ESP. “There’s 30 other people involved now, so we know we have to work on our communication skills, to make sure everyone is on the same page.”

They all admit that as much as they think of their employees as family, the staff does get treated differently than family. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

“If we make a mistake, we yell at each other, and no one takes it personal because we’ve been yelling at each other since we were born,” Brent says. “But you’d never do that to staff.

It’s hard not to take those things personally.”

He also admits that he prioritizes his staff ’s wellbeing over that of his relatives.

“If it’s a family member at work, it’s whatever, but if it’s staff, they’re going to get attention,” says Brent.

“I don’t know if I care about my brothers’ enjoyment of work as much as someone who’s not related to me.” W

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VCBW event guide VCBW OPENING NIGHT

Friday, May 26, 6-10pm @ Roundhouse Community Centre. Tickets: $49 (includes 15 four-ounce drink tickets) Kick off Vancouver Craft Beer Week with a whole lot of craft beer, what a concept!

Close to 20 breweries and cideries will be on hand at the Roundhouse Community Centre inYaletown, pouring their deliciousness for the masses.There’s live music and food, too!

COLLABORATION TAP TAKEOVER

Saturday, May 27, noon-5pm @ Big Rock Urban Brewery & Eatery. Tickets: $49 (includes beer samples and food) The talented folks at Ravens, Bridge, FourWinds, Steel & Oak, Bomber, Persephone, Red Racer, Powell Street,Twin Sails, Field House, Callister and Dogwood are teaming up to release a bevy of limited edition collaboration beers. Stick around for live entertainment, beer-inspired canapés and brewery tours.

BREWERS ROW BLOCK PARTY

Sunday, May 28, noon-5pm @ The Parkside Brewery. Tickets: $25 (includes a 12-ounce beer)

If you haven’t yet made the trip out to Brewers Row, this is a great excuse to hop on the SkyTrain and check out four of BC’s best breweries located mere metres from each other.

FEATS OF STRENGTH

Sunday, May 28, 4-10pm @ The Cobalt. Tickets: $10 in advance, $20 at the door Festivus has come early with this annual display of superhuman strength.The finest human specimens from the craft beer industry will be on hand to compete in pushup competitions, phonebook and The Growler tearing (seriously??), keg-stacking and “shirtless-totem-poling,” whatever the hell that is.

BIERCRAFT BELGIAN SHOWCASE

Monday, May 29, 6:30-11pm @ BierCraft. Tickets: $80 (includes 15 beer samples and food) It’s a well known fact that Belgium makes the best beer in the world, and the best of the best will be available for one night at BierCraft Cambie.

We’re talking abbey ales,Trappistes, saisons, strong blondes, strong darks, Flemish reds, dubbels, tripels, you name it.

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Elevated Vietnamese hits West 4th Chi offers light, fresh fare with a modern twist

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1935 West 4th 604-336-3010 chirestaurantbar.com Open Wednesday to Monday, 11am-2:30pm and 5pm to late.

We’re a bit snobby in Vancouver when it comes to certain ethnic cuisines.

The introduction of virtually any style of food at a higher level – save French, naturally – usually elicits some raised eyebrows and unspoken skepticism as to that cuisine’s relative merits.

Vietnamese fare in Vancouver has had a bit of an uptick lately, with the opening of places like Anh and Chi, and House Special. Chi Modern Vietnamese is another step in their cocktailfriendly direction. Opened by chef and MasterChef

Clockwise from top left: Chocolate mousse with kalamansi curd; Vit xāo chao, AKA Duck Oriental; Chef Chi Le was a finalist for MasterChef Vietnam; Interior of Chi Modern Vietnamese.

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Vietnam finalist Chi Le last fall, this 50-seat restaurant in the heart of Kitsilano offers something a little extra to

those smart enough to walk through the door.

Le is something of an oddity on Vancouver’s restaurant

scene. She is not a professionally trained chef; in fact, she is a former jewellery designer who, without her

knowledge, was signed up for MasterChef by a friend.

As a busy mother of four, Le was a solid home cook who ended up as the show’s runner-up, then went on to write two cookbooks (one in Vietnamese, one in English) and eventually open her own eponymous restaurant.

The menu is fairly diverse and changes seasonally, as Le uses local, seasonal ingredients as much as possible.

It’s also not entirely authentic. The goal here seems to be to offer contemporary Vietnamese in the same way that Maenam across the street offers up modern Thai.

Innovative twists abound.

Take the crispy duck rolls ($9), for instance. These feature sous vide Brome Lake duck with rice noodles and herbs, double-wrapped in crispy skin and then rice paper, and served with some fish sauce for dipping.

They’re beautiful to look at and delicious. Glutinous rice dumplings ($13) are also tasty, stuffed with pork, shrimp, mung bean and sprinkled with green onion.

At only three small dumplings for a serving, however, the price is a bit steep.

Garlicky green beans ($17) are another higherpriced yet excellent dish.

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the top to charge close to $20 for what is essentially a shareable side. As with the braised pork belly ($18) that we scarfed down at an indecently fast pace, the heat is well-regulated. Small, thinly sliced rings of chilli pepper lace most of the dishes and are easy to brush off if you’re a spice wimp.

Do not miss the sablefish clay pot ($23), an aromatic, slowly simmered bowl laced with caramelized fish sauce that hits some lovely rich and salty notes.

As for those cocktails, the slightly peppery Saigon Gin ($11) boasts lovely lemongrass and basil notes, rounded out with the infusion of green tea. For teetotallers, the zero-proof ginger beer ($6) is a refreshing, zippy glass full of lime leaf, lemongrass and an astonishing amount of ginger.

The food here is fresh, innovative and satisfying.The cocktails are well made and pair well with the menu. Some prices seem a bit high, but the service is solid and the room is pleasant. It’s worth a repeat visit or three. W

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better than a pig on a spit, crawfish on the boil, and a cold, hazy IPA in your glass.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Tuesday, May 30, 5-10pm @ The Devil’s Elbow. Tickets: $40 (include eight four-ounce beer samples and food) Inspired by the Portland Fruit Beer Festival, 20 B.C. breweries will be pouring fruit beers, fruit wheat beers, Belgians and sours.

ROSE CITY RAMPAGE

Wednesday, May 31, 6-10pm @ Portland Craft. Tickets: $60 (includes 16 beer samples and food) Portland Craft is celebrating five years of craft beer excellence with all your favourite beers from down the I-5, including Gigantic, Deschutes, Pfriem and many more. The brewers and owners will be on hand for a chat, too!

IP-HAZY WHOLE HOG COOKOUT AND CRAWFISH BOIL

Thursday, June 1, 6-9pm @ Lamplighter. Tickets: $49 (includes beer samples and food) Few things in life are

Food: ★★★★★ Service: ★★★★★ Ambiance: ★★★★★ Value: ★★★★★ Overall: ★★★★★

VMF MEETS VCBW

Friday, June 2, 7-11pm @ Vancouver Mural Festival HQ (877 East Hastings). Tickets: $20 Vancouver’s art and beer scenes come together at this super fun (and super exclusive) party. Tickets are going fast!

VCBW FESTIVAL

Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, 1-6pm @ PNE Fairgrounds. Tickets: $39.99 (includes souvenir tasting glass and two drink tokens) Here it is, the big one!

The VCBW Festival is back for Year 8 with more than 100 breweries and cideries on hand pouring 300-plus delicious sudsy beverages.

There’s also art installations, live music, DJs, food trucks, market stalls, brewing demonstrations, and a super fun games area with pinball and foosball, a pop-up barber shop and tons more. So much fun! See you there!

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The frozen cocktail is finally getting the respect it deserves Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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Who hasn’t wasted a hot summer afternoon knocking back frozen margaritas on a sunny patio somewhere? It’s almost a rite of passage. But it isn’t, generally speaking, a quality drinking experience.

Or at least it didn’t used to be.

At Wildebeest, the bartenders, led by co-owner and bar manager Josh Pape, have been whizzing up a selection of tasty frozen treats that are as well crafted as anything else the cocktail-forward restaurant serves.

“We just really like the playful nature of it,” Pape says. “Not to mention that it’s something most people do poorly and we could do better than anyone else.

“The point is always to make something very delicious,” he adds. “We only work with cocktails we would be proud to serve and that fall into the ethos of the restaurant.”

Wildebeest’s new drinks are part of a trend that’s been sweeping the continent for the past couple of years.

We’re not just talking frosé, the pink wine slushy that was the hot drink of summer 2016. It started a few years back in New Orleans, cocktail capital of North America, when bartenders took slushy machines that had churned out sweet frozen daiquiris for decades and filled them with craft cocktails instead. Soon bars everywhere hopped on the trend.

It’s not just nostalgia for guilty pleasures like the piña colada.These are classics in a new-old format.

The first frozen drinks were invented around 1950 as something deliciously boozy to do with the new Waring blender. In 1952, the book Electric Blender Recipes by Mabel Stegner included directions for a strawberry daiquiri made with rum, sugar, lime and frozen strawberries. Soon, fruity slushies were everywhere.

In 1971, when a Mexican restaurant in Texas found that its frozen margaritas were so popular the bartenders couldn’t keep up with orders, the owner converted a softserve ice-cream machine into the world’s first large-scale margarita maker.

By the 1980s and ’90s, every chain restaurant in North America had a slushy machine and was churning out frozen daiquiris and margaritas. Un-

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fortunately, these drinks were often overly sweet and made with poor-quality, inexpensive spirits, which is what gave slushies their bad reputation.

Today, instead of cheap, syrupy drinks,Wildbeeest uses its “Cadillac of slushy machines” to make elegant variations on classics like the Negroni.

“We use the same ingredients we’d use in any of our classic cocktails,” he says.

“And we use good booze.”

Pape suggests home bartenders do the same. He has a few other tips, too.

“Any time you’re blending or puréeing anything, it’s best to work with less liquid up front,” he says. “That’s because you will add about a cup of ice per cocktail, which can water it down substantially.”

Also, it’s best to start with crushed ice rather than whole cubes – this will not only speed up the process, but also deliver a more consistent slush.

“The other thing is, I

would try to work with a similar structure to any other cocktail,” Pape says.That means the same amount and proportion of spirits and other ingredients.

The best drinks to adapt to a slushy format are the kinds of cocktails that are typically shaken, such as the entire family of sours.The worst are the stirred, spirit-forward ones.

“I wouldn’t do a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned,” Pape says. “Something that was shaken with juice would work best.”

Because frozen drinks need to have a high sugar content to maintain their consistency, he suggests adding a bittering agent, such as tea or bitters, to the drink, then adjusting the tartness level with citrus flavours after it’s been mixed.

Finally, always use quality spirits and fresh juice. “And be diligent about the quality of ice you’re using,” he adds.

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The Watermelon Negroni, prepared by bartender Sarah Hawkins at Wildebeest. Dan Toulgoet photo

WATERMELON NEGRONI This refreshing summertime recipe from Josh Pape at Wildebeest balances the bitterness of Campari with a splash of simple syrup, which keeps the texture consistent. It’s designed for one portion; if you’re serving more, just multiply the ingredients by the number of servings. But remember, you’ll also need about 1 cup (250 mL) ice per serving, so make sure everything fits into your blender.

• ¾ oz (20 mL) Beefeater gin • ¾ oz (20 mL) Campari • ¾ oz (20 mL) Cinzano Rosso • ½ oz (15 mL) simple syrup • 3 x 1.5-inch (3 cm) cubes of watermelon • Place ½ cup (125 mL) cracked ice into the blender with the watermelon and simple syrup. Blend until smooth.

• Add the other ingredients and another ½ cup (125 mL) of ice. Blend for 45 seconds and pour into a fancy glass (or a plastic cup).

• Garnish with a slice of watermelon.

• Serves one.

Northern Lands wine adventure Michaela Morris By the Bottle

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So far this year, my wine travels have taken me to Germany, France, England, Italy (four times) and Edmonton.

Edmonton? No, I didn’t mistakenly overshoot the Okanagan by a few hundred kilometres. I was there to soak up the city’s thriving food and wine scene at Northern Lands (northernlands.ca). This five-day festival is the brainchild of journalist and wine personality Gurvinder Bhatia.

Created in 2015, it brings together wineries, craft brewers and distillers as well as chefs from all across Canada. The idea behind Northern Lands is “to move more towards the European philosophy of wine as food and wine and food together as part of our cultural identity,” explains Bhatia, “and highlight Edmonton as a culinary destination.”

While the festival focuses on Canadian wine, this year’s edition featured Italy as special guest. Through a partnership with Vinitaly International (vinitalyinternational.com), Northern Lands welcomed over 40 Italian wineries along with scientific director Dr. Ian D’Agata, the world’s foremost authority on Italian wines.

Add this to the 60 Canadian wineries, breweries and distilleries, as well as the 35 participating chefs. That’s a whole lot of tastiness and talent together in one city.

Between the educational seminars, gala tastings, secret wine parties and collaborative dinners, Bhatia was thrilled with the turn out.

“Over 5,000 tickets were sold and 30 per cent of the ticket purchasers were from outside the city.”

And behind the scenes, a baker’s dozen of wine professionals gathered for three days during the festivities to judge Northern Land’s Canadian Wine Competition.

Bhatia managed to assemble some of the country’s best palates, like Masters of Wine Barbara Philip and Rhys Pender, as well as international experts such as London-based Stephen Brook, contributing editor of Decanter Magazine.

While I always appreciate my Canadian colleagues’ opinions, it’s a treat to get a foreign perspective on our wines. From Atlanta, Cathy Huyghe, co-Founder of Enolytics and wine columnist at Forbes.com called icewine and sparkling wine our ambassadors, representative of much more to come.

“It was thrilling to see the beginning of what we can look forward to – the

Rieslings, the Syrahs, the Pinot Noirs – as Canadian wines mature and become more widely available,” raved Huyghe.

My favourite moment was after a long Pinot Noir flight. Boston-based, Michael Apstein columnist and wine reviewer for WineReviewOnLine.com looked at me with sheer amazement remarking how fantastic the whole line up was.

As for the official results, all three of our wine producing provinces had their victories. Nova Scotia was awarded Best Bubbles for the Benjamin Bridge Methode Classique Brut 2009 ($45.99, BC Liquor Stores) while Ontario took runner up with the Henry of Pelham Cuvee Catharine Brut NV (not available in BC).

Ontario can boast Best Riesling with the Tawse Quarry Road Riesling 2015 which also won Best White of the entire show. This gem is

soon to be available in BC for $25.15. In the meantime, you can enjoy runner-up Monte Creek Ranch Riesling 2016 ($16.99, winery direct).

BC’s shining moment was a huge tip of the hat to 50th Parallel Estate. The winery cleaned up, winning not just Best Pinot Noir, but also Best Red overall and Best In Show with their Unparalleled Pinot Noir 2014 ($50, winery direct). As if this wasn’t enough, their Estate Pinot Noir 2014 was named runner-up ($29, winery direct) Other highlights included Best Syrah with Painted Rock Estate Grown Syrah 2013 ($39.99, BC Liquor Stores) and Best Pinot Gris, Poplar Grove Pinot Gris 2016 ($17.99, BC Liquor Stores).

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Nobody bothers to have pedicures in winter. Why would we? Our feet are swathed in socks and boots and no one save our nearest and dearest will see them – and who cares if they know we’re part human, part hobbit? But as the days grow longer and the sun gets brighter, it comes time to reveal our trotters to the great Canadian public. And there, we have a problem, or in fact, several: gnarly toenails; overgrown cuticles; dry, cracked heels; and (whisper it) perhaps a tiny bit of toe hair.

We love to start sandal season with a perfect pro pedi, but if time and money is an issue, you can get your feet close to their best at home. According to Patricia Senft, owner of Yaletown salon The Ten Spot, there are seven stages to a proper pedicure: soaking; nail shaping; cuticle work; callus removal; exfoliation; mas-

sage; and polish. Here are her tips for getting your DIY pedi right.

or 70-per-cent isopropyl alcohol solution for 10 minutes.

SOAK STAR

TO THE EDGE

“Removing hard skin and cuticle tissue is much easier and safer after soaking, and it also makes the nail more flexible and easier to trim,” Patricia explains. All this requires is a five-minute soak in a basin of hot water, into which you can put essential oils and Epsom salts, or a squirt of nice body wash.

CUT IT

Ingrown toenails can cause severe pain and infection. Senft says the key is not to cut the nail too short. “Cut them straight across and slightly round the corners to avoid them poking into the sides,” she says. “Avoid doing ‘bathroom surgery’ at home to relieve pain – see your nail tech for minor bothers and the doctor in other cases.”

You can also reduce your risk of infection by disinfecting all metal tools. Senft recommends washing them in soapy water, then popping them in a 10-per-cent bleach

Cuticle clipping is best left to the experts too, but you can gently push them back with an orange stick, then apply oil to keep them soft and moisturized.

SCRUB STEP

We think baby softness is the ultimate goal of a pedicure, but Senft says the hard callus actually has a function. “Anyone who regularly performs activities that are the cause of their callus (runners or dancers for example) is going to have hard skin. This is there to protect your feet,” she says.

She recommends leaving all major removal to the experts – don’t take a blade or callus shaver into your own hands (or feet) – and sticking to gentle exfoliation at home.

WAX OFF

Most women are more Neanderthal than Barbie doll when it comes to toe hair. The easiest way to remove it is by waxing. Cut

your wax strips to toe size, heat up the wax till it’s a honey-like consistency, apply it to the toe in the direction of hair growth, pat the strip onto the toe, pull it off and repeat till all the hair is gone.

RUBBED THE RIGHT WAY

Exfoliating your face preps your skin to receive more moisture and the same goes for your feet. After you’ve removed the dead skin, massage in lotion or cream.

PAINT BY DIGITS

Before you apply polish, clean your nail with polish remover, even if your nails are nude – it removes oils that might stop polish adhering. Always apply base coat – Senft says it’s like doublesided sticky tape to hold your colour. She also says no to shaking polishes because that can create air bubbles that thicken it. And here’s a pro tip we hadn’t heard before: “Don’t wait for your first coat to be completely dry to add the next one.

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Art Walk celebrates 25 years KIMIYA SHOKOOHI @westendervan

David Drummel makes the kind of art you want to touch.

More often than not, he is the one insisting that you do.

His latest projects – The Acrobat and Going Nowhere – are works that are machine-operated, set into motion with a push of a button and inspired by the age of automatons (see famed 18th-century Swiss watchmakers Pierre Jaquet Droz and Henri Maillardet for Drummel’s sources of inspiration).

It’s this kind of interactivity between observer and art that has allowed the visual artist and automaton enthusiast to refine and improve his installations through the years.

“The little kids, they’re all over it – they love it,” Drummel said.

It’s also the kind of feedback, exchange and general community-building that has inspired Artists in Our Midst – a group dedicated to the promotion of visual arts in Vancouver – to expand its annual West of Main Art Walk, held May 27-28.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the group is putting on its largest-ever art walk, spanning from Point Grey to Main Street and from Granville Island to 41st Ave.This year, more than 50 artists are expected to share their art in garden studios, cafés, shops and community centres.

“We’re pleased to have so many different kinds of art,” says Mary Downe, vice-president of Artists in Our Midst.

“It’s harder for younger artists to have a studio.We wanted to encourage younger artists to join.”

The weekend-long art walk aims to provide the community with an opportunity to meet local artists, view samples of their art and even peek into the studios where artists spend most of their time crafting their works in solitude.

“Usually you’re working away on your own,” says eco-artist Alice Phillips. “It’s really important for artists to get to show.”

Phillips, who is participating in her 15th Art Walk this year, will be showcasing felt displays stained with natural dyes. She credits the Art Walk with having connected her neighbourhood to her art.

“It’s a very positive experience,” Phillips says. “People

really appreciate being invited in.”

The entire premise behind the walk dates back to 1993 when artists in Vancouver’s West Side opened their studio

to the public to galvanize a dialogue about art and community that has continued since.

This year’s Art Walk also features a silent auction with all proceeds going to the West

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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR

At Pacific Theatre until June 10, 2017 Tickets from $23.95 at pacifictheatre.org / 604-731-5518 Outside Mullingar is unapologetically sentimental, but it might charm your socks off because it’s just so darned Irish.

We know that middleaged misfits Anthony and Rosemary – farmers on adjoining tracts of land – will get together, but it’s their getting together and all that ass-backwards, contradictory dialogue that will keep you engaged. “Come by the house sometime,” says Rosemary. “I will,” says Anthony. “You won’t,” replies Rosemary. And they both know she’s right. He won’t.

It’s the wry acceptance of mortality in the play that’s so un-Canadian; meanwhile, in a continuous line throughout Irish literature it persists. “I’ll soon be gone,” say the old timers, pragmatically, and no one denies it.

They’re not looking for sympathy; they’re stating an unavoidable truth.

L-R: Ron Reed, John Emmet Tracy, Rebecca deBoer and Erla Faye Forsyth star in Outside Mullingar. Matt Reznek photo And, although it may be stereotypical, the holding of grudges also seems embedded in Irish culture.

New York-born but of Irish descent, playwright John Patrick Shanley is not known for being charming or, for that matter, Irish. In a 2014 NewYork Times interview before Outside Mull-

ingar opened, Shanley was quoted as saying, “I didn’t want to be labelled as an Irish-American writer.” But a trip with his aged father to the family farm outside Mullingar in the Irish Midlands brought Shanley to a realization: “I’m Irish as hell.”

And, being Irish, Shanley

is in love with language: the swirl of it, the sound of it, the scratchiness of it and, most of all, how confounding it can be. Fathers who cannot say “I love you too” to their sons; lovers who hide behind taunts when what they really want to do is fall into each other’s arms.

Directed by Angela Kon-

rad, with dialect coaching

by Adam Lane Bergquist and set design by Carolyn Rapanos, the Pacific Theatre stage becomes a farmhouse outside Mullingar, and the actors – Rebecca deBoer (as Rosemary), John Emmet Tracy (Anthony), Ron Reed (Tony) and Erla Faye Forsyth (Aoife) -– become believably, abrasively, delightfully Irish.

Anthony, at 42, is still a bachelor, although it is clear he longs for Rosemary, who has waited years for him to make a move. A longstanding feud over land has kept his and Rosemary’s families at odds, but time is passing. It’s now or never.

And it’s Rosemary, firstly tearing strips off Anthony’s father Tony, who, miserable old fart that he is, plans to leave the farm on which Anthony has toiled his whole life to a distant nephew in America whom he has never met. Then, once Tony dies, Rosemary turns her fiery attention to Anthony.

Outside Mullingar opens in old Tony’s kitchen following the funeral of Rosemary’s father. Anthony has invited Rosemary and her mother Mary back for tea. Tony is

not amused, but takes wily advantage of the situation to try to wheedle back a small portion of land he sold years ago to Rosemary’s father.

The situation goes sideways with old Mary and Tony at each other’s throats. Rosemary has refused to enter the house, but rather stays outside in the rain, smoking her father’s pipe.

Reed is all salt and vinegar and pig-headedness as Tony, but his character’s deathbed scene with his son will melt the hardest of hearts. Forsyth, as Mary, is crotchety and not about to be bullied by Tony.

Tracy’s Anthony is awkward and defensive (“cracked,” his father says) while deBoer’s Rosemary – bodacious in a floral frock in Act 2 – is raging and increasingly urgent while Anthony dithers. When the ice melts, it’s sweet.

Stellar ensemble acting and a plot that, despite its obvious resolution, holds some good surprises. In fact, one of them is really quirky; you will not see it coming and it’s guaranteed to leave you buzzing.

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Peter Kelamis brings a searing, sneering intensity to his evildoer role on Freeform’s hit sci-fi series Beyond, but he’ll be wielding a wholly different set of skills when he hosts the Leo Awards Gala on June 4.

Kelamis – who plays The Man in the Yellow Jacket on Beyond, and is a familiar face (and voice) thanks to scenestealing turns in Stargate Universe and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic – will call upon his years on the standup comedy circuit when he steps behind the podium for the glitziest of the three annual Leo ceremonies, which recognize excellence in BC’s homegrown film and television industry.

“I’m going to be more Ricky Gervais and less Academy Awards,” chuckles Kelamis in a recent phone interview. “It’s going to be less serious, and fun. That’s my goal.”

Decades before this Leos gig, the Vancouver actor was the star of his family’s living room, mimicking comedy masters he watched on TV like Rich Little and Tim Conway. “It was the most amazing thing in the world to me, that you could make people laugh,” recalls Kelamis. Early on, he figured out how to harness this ability and “work it for things.”

“I’d do a Tim Conway impression for my parents, and they’d laugh, and I’d go, ‘Why don’t we go to Dairy Queen?’ And they’d go, ‘Oh, sure!’”

He was eight years old when he declared his career intentions, although his comedy aspirations pushed up against something just as impactful from a galaxy far, far away.

“I remember going to see Star Wars: A New Hope at a birthday party, and all of the other kids were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be incredible to be Luke Skywalker?’ And I remember saying, ‘No, it would more incredible to be Mark Hamill playing Luke Skywalker!’” Kelamis takes a beat. “They all looked at me funny.”

Haters gonna hate, but Kelamis has achieved success on the comedy circuit and as an on-screen and voice actor.

His lengthy filmography is

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Vancouver actor and comedian Peter Kelamis hosts the 2017 Leo Awards. Peter Wood photo a diverse bag of studio and indie fare, and includes The X-Files, Smallville, The Killing, 50/50, The Cabin in the Woods, and No Men Beyond This Point. “I don’t think I’ve ever had two days on set that have been exactly the same,” says Kelamis. “I’m always surprised by something when I get there, and I always come home with a story, usually a cool one.”

Kelamis still works the stand-up circuit whenever he’s so inclined. “Sometimes I go far too long between doing stand up, and you start second-guessing yourself,” he admits. “There’s something about the gratification of a live audience that’s both terrifying and gratifying at the same time.” Also gratifying: the infectious energy that comes from being in the mix with other comedians.

“You realize how skilled these comedians are getting up there with nothing but a microphone and a voice box and making you laugh,” marvels Kelamis. “I still respect the craft so much.”

Kelamis isn’t just a Leo host; he’s also up for an award for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for his work on Beyond. The series – now rolling into its second season – follows a young man (played by Burkely Duffield) who awakens from a coma after 12 years and discovers that he’s at the heart of some kind of sinister conspiracy.

As one of Beyond’s primary villains, Kelamis’ The Man in the Yellow Jacket “does some very nasty things,” he says. “You don’t really know where his loyalties lie, although he does have loyalties. They’re not really clear and present.”

The Man in the Yellow Jacket (so named because of his ever-present dandelionhued apparel) isn’t the kind of role Kelamis often gets the chance to play.

“Usually if there’s an assassin or some kind of sociopath, they tend to pick a certain type of person, whether it be big or physical because he’s enforcing an

agenda,” says Kelamis. “I’m not this big, huge, hulking, imposing individual, and the fact that [series creator] Adam Nussdorf went against type was something I really appreciated.”

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do with socioeconomic experiences, [and are] not just based on gender lines,” Boulay said.

The average income in the West End is close to $38,000 per year, as opposed to East Van, which has a median income of $25,000 per year.

According to Boulay, the West End had a strong community effort in the ’80s, which included a lot of gay men, to push sex workers and lowincome folk to the DTES. “It’s so depressing to see that so much of this comes down to capitalism and inequality of gender,” Boulay said.

Boulay said that queer, trans folk of colour can have negative experiences in even the most radical of East Van spaces, but it sometimes is worsened by the different kinds of sexual culture that are predominant in the West End. “I think it’s pretty well known that there is a lot of particular expectations in gay male culture about what you have to look like to be a part of the community,” she said.

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So, let’s just cut the fat on this one. I’m a gay male in his mid20s who has been in a monogamous relationship for the past three years. My partner is understanding, patient, loving and of course, hot. What this boils down to is that I have had this deep fantasy about “cocooning”. Cocooning is a fantasy I have come up with myself and it drives me insane.

In my imagination, I would be the caterpillar and a group of men would be the “silk”.

Without being too graphic, the caterpillar would be bound with his legs and arms behind his back, while the rest jerked off onto the caterpillar creating the “silk”. It’s basically a big circle jerk, fun and willing, but at the end, the caterpillar has to lay still, and then break free from the silk (now dried semen), just like a caterpillar emerging from a cocoon.

I know it sounds crazy, but this is my ultimate fantasy, and it has been for a long while. My partner and I are very open and do some crazy shit, but he has a tendency to be jealous. Whenever we have tried to do group sex it always results in some kind of blow up later.

Anyways, I can’t stop thinking about the cocoon circle jerk and I really, really want to do this. However, I also don’t

want to freak him out, anger him or start a giant fight over this. Obviously, I want my partner involved in the execution of this fantasy. Do you think exposing this fantasy is going to ruin my relationship?

Is there anything I should avoid saying when I bring this up to my boyfriend? How do I make it clear that it’s not the other dudes that interest me, but the overall fantasy? Please help.

I really appreciate people with very specific sexual fantasies. It’s like someone gifting you a piece of homemade furniture versus crap from IKEA. Homemade is handcrafted, one of a kind, yet slightly fucked up. In a word: special.Your fantasy is a homemade coffee table with a few dents in the side.

It’s precious, like some stupid drawing a kid did.

Everyone has their specific sexual fantasies. My buddy Jim Goad wrote a very detailed article about this thing with teeth, or lack thereof. He gets hard for women who have the right kind of fucked-up teeth (imagine the upper right cuspid missing, not an entire jaw of rotten chompers). Is this common? Probably not.

The point being is that we’ve all got our thing.There is no use in struggling to figure out why this is your ultimate fantasy (everyone is some kind of fucked up), so let’s work on getting you into that cocoon.

If you and your boyfriend have been together for three lovely years, then I’d like to assume that you trust one another. I don’t think he’s going to leave you over your fantasy. He’ll probably ask, “What is wrong with you?”

(In a loving tone, of course.)

And then let the idea marinate for a bit.

Give him time to think.

Don’t expect an answer right away. I don’t know how kinky you two get, but if it’s usually on the vanilla spectrum he may be blindsided by the cocoon. I mean, it’s really just a circle jerk with very specific rules.

The guys jacking off onto you don’t have to know that you are pretending to be a caterpillar.

Partners usually get jealous in group sex because too much attention is paid to the wrong body. In your cocoon fantasy, you are just laying there, being jacked off on, so the likelihood of your boyfriend becoming jealous is slim. Just don’t gaze up at one dick too long.

I say tell your boyfriend.

Go for it. Just explain it exactly the way you did to me: “The other dudes don’t interest me, but the overall fantasy.”Your words, not mine. Drill this idea into his head and he could possibly be down with making your dreams come true.

I wish you luck, my little caterpillar. And I hope one day you emerge from the silk a butterfly. W

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Barr wants to use her reign as Ms. Cobalt 6 to bring the knowledge and diversity of East Van to the West End and create spaces that showcase performers of colour from both communities.

“I think bridging that gap will create more community ties and give people a new perspective that they may not have had a chance to experience before. Drag is ever changing and will continue to evolve and push the boundaries of entertainment,” she said. “I really want to bring more culture into drag, I want to be unapologetically black in my performances and give a place for other performers of colour to show their talents.”

Barr said she is grateful for having opportunities to perform all over the city and see the differences in crowds. For example, she feels that East Van crowds often have a more open attitude to performances.

“I feel like [in East Van],

Karmella Bar (on top) owns the stage at the Mr./Ms. Cobalt Drag Competition. Ray Mceachern photo you can be very authentic to who you are, whereas in the West End, people are more scared of being judged,” she said. “For the Cobalt, I would do something more soulful, and in the West End, I would pick a fun dance song that I know I like and I know the crowd will like.”

Cinnamon Winters, a host at East Van parties at Vancouver Art and Leisure, and the Fox Cabaret, as well as a performer in the West End, believes that although crowds in East Van tend to be more diverse, the West End is changing and becoming more accepting of different identities.

“There’s definitely more of a mixed crowd in the West End now than people think,” she said. “Like it is primarily gay men, but it’s becoming a lot more mixed and more friendly than people stereotypically think it is.

“There are a lot more people that don’t identify on the gender spectrum anymore, so it’s really changing. Maybe 10 years

ago there was [a bigger] difference, but I would say it’s more inclusive everywhere now, from my experience.”

Historically, Vancouver’s LGBTQ+ communities have seen many connections between both sides, Boulay said. The AIDS crisis was something that created a lot of community solidarity. Things started to change during the gay political movements in the late ’60s-’80s. Those movements created more specific neighbourhoods known for being either gay or lesbian.

Boulay thinks that LGBTQ+ communities coming together from both sides of the spectrum would help create a more inclusive queer community.

“Being around people who are different from you, so you’re not always in this echo-chamber,” Boulay said. “It helps you think about different experiences and who could benefit from what kind of space, and what accessibility looks like. These conversations are very important to have.” W

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By Rob Brezsny

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“Sin” is a puerile concept in my eyes, so I don’t normally use it to discuss grown-up concerns.

But if you give me permission to invoke it in a jokey, ironic way, I’ll recommend that you cultivate more surprising, interesting, and original sins. In other words, Aries, it’s high time to get bored with your predictable ways of stirring up a ruckus. Ask God or Life to bring you some really evocative mischief that will show you what you’ve been missing and lead you to your next robust learning experience.

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And you don’t have to pay a penny unless they all come true! Check ’em out! Oracle No. 1: Should you wait patiently until all the conditions are absolutely perfect? No! Success comes from loving the mess. Oracle No. 2: Don’t try to stop a sideshow you’re opposed to.

Stage a bigger, better show that overwhelms it.

Oracle No. 3: Please, master, don’t be a slave to the things you control. Oracle No. 4: Unto your own self be true? Yes! Unto your own hype be true? No! Oracle No. 5: The tortoise will beat the hare as long as the tortoise doesn’t envy or try to emulate the hare.

Generation Kill is an HBO miniseries based on the experiences of a reporter embedded with American Marines fighting in Iraq. Early on, before the troops have been exposed to any serious combat, they’re overflowing with trash talk. A commanding officer scolds them: “Gentlemen, from now on we’re going to have to earn our stories.” Although you are in a much less volatile situation right now, Gemini, my advice to you is the same: In the coming weeks, you’ll have to earn your stories. You can’t afford to talk big unless you’re geared up to act big, too. You shouldn’t make promises and entertain dares and issue challenges unless you’re fully prepared to be a hero. Now here’s my prophecy: I think you will be a hero.

In your mind’s eye, drift back in time to a turning point in your past that didn’t go the way you’d hoped. But don’t dwell on the disappointment. Instead, change the memory.

Visualize yourself then and there, but imagine you’re in possession of all the wisdom you have gathered since then. Next, picture an alternative ending to the old story – a finale in which you manage to pull off a much better result. Bask in this transformed state of mind for five minutes. Repeat the whole exercise at least once a day for the next two weeks. It will generate good medicine that will produce a creative breakthrough no later than mid-June.

You’re being invited to boost your commitment to life and become a more vivid version of yourself. If you refuse the invitation, it will later return as a challenge. If you avoid that challenge, it will eventually circle back around to you as a demand. So I encourage you to respond now, while it’s still an invitation.

To gather the information you’ll need, ask yourself these questions: What types of selfdevelopment are you “saving for later”? Are you harbouring any mediocre goals or desires that dampen your lust for life? Do you tone down or hold back your ambitions for fear they would hurt or offend people you care about?

“Dear Dream Doctor: I dreamed that a crowd of people had decided to break through a locked door using a long, thick wooden plank as a battering ram. The only problem was, I was lying on top of the plank, half-asleep. By the time I realized what was up, the agitated crowd was already at work smashing at the door. Luckily for me, it went well. The door got bashed in and I wasn’t hurt. What does my dream mean? –Nervous Virgo.” Dear Virgo: Here’s my interpretation: It’s time to knock down a barrier, but you’re not convinced you’re ready or can do it all by yourself.

Luckily, there are forces in your life that are conspiring to help make sure you do it.

As long as you keep Syria, South Sudan, and North Korea off your itinerary, travelling would be food for your soul during the next 28 days. It would also be balm for your primal worries and medicine for your outworn dogmas and an antidote for your comfortable illusions. Do you have the time and money necessary to make a pilgrimage to a place you regard as holy?

How about a jaunt to a rousing sanctuary?

Or an excursion to an exotic refuge that will shock you in friendly, healing ways? I hope that you will at least read a book about the territory that you may one day call your home away from home.

By now I’m sure you have tuned in to the rumblings in your deep self. Should you be concerned? Maybe a little, but I think the more reasonable attitude is curiosity. Even though the shaking is getting stronger and louder, it’s also becoming more melodic. The power that’s being unleashed will almost certainly turn out to be far more curative than destructive. The light it emits may at first look murky but will eventually bloom like a thousand moons. Maintain your sweet poise. Keep the graceful faith.

Life is inviting you to decode riddles about togetherness that could boost your emotional intelligence and earn you the right to enjoy lyrical new expressions of intimacy.

Will you accept the invitation? Are you willing to transcend your habitual responses for the sake of your growth-inducing relationships?

Are you interested in developing a greater capacity for collaboration and synergy?

Would you be open to making a vulnerable fool of yourself if it helped your important alliances to fulfill their dormant potential?

Be brave and empathetic, Sagittarius. Be creative and humble and affectionate.

“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion,” wrote author Anne Sophie Swetchine. “In maturer years, for every one we lose.” While that may be generally true, I think that even 20-something Capricorns are likely to fall into the latter category in the coming weeks. Whatever your age, I foresee you shouting something akin to “Hallelujah!” or “Thank God!” or “Boomshakalaka flashbang!” as you purge disempowering fantasies that have kept you in bondage and naive beliefs that have led you astray.

“There are no green thumbs or black thumbs,” wrote horticulturalist Henry Mitchell in a message you were destined to hear at this exact moment. “There are only gardeners and non-gardeners.

Gardeners are the ones who get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises.

It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way.’ You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.” Happy Defiance Time to you, Aquarius! In the coming weeks, I hope you will express the most determined and disciplined fertility ever!

I believe it may be the right time to tinker with or repair a foundation; to dig down to the bottom of an old resource and consider transforming it at its roots. Why? After all this time, that foundation or resource needs your fresh attention. It could be lacking a nutrient that has gradually disappeared. Maybe it would flourish better if it got the benefit of the wisdom you have gained since it first became useful for you.

Only you have the power to discern the real reasons, Pisces – and they may not be immediately apparent. Be tender and patient and candid as you explore.

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