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Jazz Fest Our picks of the 32nd annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival; plus Scott Bradlee’s postmodern pop ALSO: HEALING GARDENS // CHINATOWN // ROSY ROSÉS // TACOMA BREW TOUR // BARD ON THE BEACH // KARIN KONOVAL

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Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew • Aiyyana Maracle • Barry Ace • Cease Wyss • Dayna Danger • George Littlechild • Jessie Short • John Powell • Michelle Sylliboy • Mike MacDonald • Raven John • Richard Emery Duck Chief • Richard Heikkilä-Sawan • Robert Houle • Rosalie Favell • Thirza Cuthand • Ursula Johnson • Vanessa Dion Fletcher • Wanda Nanibush Dare to be challenged. Risk being changed.

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media art curation, including Kent Monkman, Thirza Cuthand &Chandra Melting Tallow

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Byron Chief-Moon & JP Longboat choreograph dance on corporate capitalism & decolonization. ... and more

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HOUSING CRUNCH

Re:“Vancouver housing market ‘Ain’t seen nothing yet,’” June 15, 2017 Totally agree with [writer] Joannah Connolly that planning only 1,400 residential units on the available 450 acres of False Creek Flats, i.e. a mere three homes per acre on average, is totally insane, given our housing crisis. The City seems to have the idea that zoning for residential vs. light industrial is a binary choice when, in fact, most light industrial on the ground floor(s) is perfectly compatible with constructing residential units on the floors above.Think of the new MEC offices or Emily Carr University on Great NorthernWay, if those had been built with multistory residential floors above. Ditto for the new car dealerships and Long & McQuade onTerminal Ave. Ditto, too, for the new building at 369Terminal,

which has no residential floors component but, ironically, contains the offices of BC Housing on its lower floors. Vancouver may not have very much bare land available for housing, but we sure have plenty of wasted air space in light industrial zones that could be better used.

–Gerry Polman Of course they’re going to say there isn’t enough [housing] to meet the demand – they’re developers.You can build supply until the cows come home but it will never solve anything if they sit empty.

All you’re building are big safety deposit boxes in the sky and masking the real issues. Look up at night, you will see very few lit up apartments. At the rate we’re going, soon the only culture left inVancouver will be in its yogurt and the only people left will be the tourists and the homeless.

–Shelley Grace Preston

Poem of the week

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? A return to our pages by Catrina McCrae.

9 TO 5

and it turns out that we had “it” backward all along the streets that had spoke to me zipped up their cracks and my cement footprints were sanded down. the humid air melted my toes and my toenails peeled back like warm stickers the familiar feeling of lacking, unbearable inside a pulsating city that moves and it moves but I’m stuck in a line of slugs in suits on their afternoon slimes.

Eyes glazed over with briefcase bullshit and their shoulders collide with my head scrambling eggs in my thoughts I suppose I should buy some ketchup.

Well I’ve got my cup out and I’m begging for change but my change comes in a bad haircut and a ten dollar watch, and time is clucking at me.

I’m stacking up on coffee cups and empty bottles of hard beer and wasted flirtations with strangers who ask my name twice Our reservations and dedications to simple conveniences taking priority This is the second poem by Catrina McCrae (@CatrinaMcCrae) to be featured in Poetic Licence.You can see her previous work at westender.com.To submit your own poetry to Poetic Licence,

email editor@westender. com with Poetry Column in the subject line. Include your poem, full name, contact details and bio. Only those selected for the column will be contacted. W

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Revitalization needed in Chinatown, merchant says Area business owner says historic neighbourhood’s economy will suffer without development SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

Local writers have contributed to the ultimate BC beach book. Grant Lawrence photo

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“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer.” – Toni Morrison.

Maybe you’ve noticed: it’s been another wet Juneuary in Vancouver, but the good news is BC’s most glorious season is officially upon us.

You know what that means: the English Bay slide, folk music at Jericho, and, eventually, juicy blackberries on the vine, the only virtue of that most prickly of pests.

For some, the rush of warm memories at this time of year come in the form of tastes, sights, or sounds; most of my fondest memories of summers past, though, are the marvelous scents of our season of bounty on the West Coast.

When I was a kid, I grew up near Dundarave Beach. I can still smell the tar on the dock pilings melting in the hot sun, the pungent seaweed exposed by a dropping tide, and the mouth-watering scent of the spices and fats in

Vera’s burgers sizzling on the grill at the original Dundarave concession stand.

Earlier this year, I was invited to contribute summer recollections just like those to an official anthology of sorts.

It’s called The Summer Book: A treasury of warm tales, timeless memories and mediations on nature by 24 BC writers. It’s out now, and it might be the perfect perennial addition to your beach bag.

The Summer Book was the brainchild of Mother Tongue Publishing’s Mona Fertig. It seems Fertig has figured life out. She spends her summers on Savary Island, the sandy paradise of at the north end of the Salish Sea.The rest of the year she’s on Salt Spring.

“The book is a result of an idea of mine, an attempt to create a small counterbalance to the madness in the political world, especially American politics,” says Fertig. “I wanted to create a featherweight to offset all the angst and despair. Positive stories, essays, and creative nonfiction featuring skilled BC writers, all previously unpublished. I wanted it to be fresh, uplifting and contemplative.”

Some of the other contributing writers include

JJ Lee, Briony Penn, Brian Brett, Des Kennedy, and Eve Joseph to name a few. The Vancouver launch of The Summer Book is this Friday at the Sylvia Hotel and features nine of the 24 authors reading short excerpts. Fertig has her reasons for choosing the West End landmark for such an occasion.

“Just like The Summer Book, the Sylvia Hotel is a treasure. It’s right by English Bay Beach, it’s full of character, and it has literary history.”

You can count on me being at the Sylvia for Friday’s festivities, raising a cold beer to summers present, past and future. Hopefully there will be some strawberries involved. Is it too much to ask that they be dipped in chocolate? W • The Summer Book launch is this Friday June 23 from 4-6pm at the Sylvia Hotel, 1154 Gilford Street in the West End. Free hotel parking, cash bar, and readings from several BC writers, including our own endless summer scribe Grant Lawrence.

June 17-29

Chinatown, one of Vancouver’s most historic neighbourhoods, is being pulled in multiple directions by development, heritage and business pressures. Dan Toulgoet photo Turning down the proposal was a mistake, according to Kam, because of the potential for developments like this to provide more options for people interested in living and working in the area. His customers remain mostly non-native English speakers of Asian descent, many of whom are seniors, he says, but he wonders how long they will stick around without a new influx of residents.

“I want to see a more vibrant Chinatown,” he says over the phone. “I don’t want to see it stagnate in this area; I want to see it grow.”

City staff is consulting with the public and putting together an update to the Chinatown economic revitalization and development policies adopted in July 2012. According to the city’s website, that update will likely be presented to city council within the next few months and will include recommendations to temper land speculation and the pace of development. It will also present council with recommendations on capping building heights to 75 feet on Pender Street and 90 feet in Chinatown South; encouraging more mixed use building space on second floors where seniors’ and social housing isn’t provided; and, enhancing

the character fit of properties.

Vancouver city councillor Kerry Jang hopes the update will help strike a balance between the competing interests in a highly split community.

The 105 Keefer St. proposal “really brought together all the angst and indecision,” of community groups and leaders “into one place,” says Jang, who decided to err on the side of caution by voting against the proposal. “What I’m hoping will come out of this is for people to say that we have to compromise.”

For Kam, who is also a director of the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association – a group comprised mostly of small business owners in Chinatown that supported the 105 Keefer development – Chinatown’s future depends on its ability to continue to attract businesses, visitors and residents.

Kam doesn’t see an influx of new housing options pushing out low-income residents, and believes gentrification is “a natural process of how society grows.”

“The old way of Chinatown is outdated,” he states. “We have a mix of rich people and poor people living together… I don’t see that as detrimental.” W

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Looking out the window from his pharmacy at Hastings and Main streets, Sammy Kam has a clear view of some of the challenges facing the community where he’s owned and operated Sam’s Pharmacy for the past 21 years.

“When I first started, it was quite peaceful,” says Kam. “Then, ever since the middle or late 1990s, we have illegal drugs in this area – heroin and cocaine – and the population has changed a lot because a lot of illegal drug users come to the area to get their fix.”

Kam sees the value in Chinatown continuing to be a cultural area, but also recognizes that Chinese merchandise and cuisine is now sold throughout Greater Vancouver. “There’s Chinatown everywhere,” says Kam. “So it’s important to have us keep up with the rest of Vancouver.

If we don’t have a revitalization of Chinatown, I think Chinatown will die because of the drug problem.”

Kam would like to see more housing options, such as market condos, built in Chinatown to increase the number of residents and potential customers who frequent stores like his.

Last Tuesday, Vancouver City Council voted 8-3 against a proposal for a 12-storey mixed-use building at 105 Keefer St. – just around the corner from Kam’s pharmacy – that included commercial space on the ground floor, 106 market condos and 25 units of social housing targeted to seniors.

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Healing the inner landscape with therapeutic gardens Amy Logan Hidden City

@AmySnowLogan Like the gardens she creates and nurtures, master gardener Judy Zipursky has a presence that is at once calming and vibrant. After 34 years as an occupational therapist in the mental health field, she’s now retired, but she hasn’t stopped giving back. “As a therapist, I incorporated gardening into my programs whenever I could,” she says.

“It is therapeutic on many levels to be responsible for growing a garden and seeing flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables mature. It can give one’s life a sense of hope.”

After taking the Master Gardener program at VanDusen Gardens, she became involved in creating a series of healing gardens about 14 years ago. Master gardeners currently assist with 16 different healing garden projects throughout the Lower Mainland, from the North Shore to Langley, with the

majority in Vancouver.

Since then, Zipursky has been a part of healing gardens in places ranging from longterm care facilities to hospitals. She has also helped with a garden at a facility for pregnant women facing addiction issues, where she witnessed first-hand the difference a life-filed plot of land could make. Instead of staring out at a concrete patio, these women were surrounded by flowers and grasses, offering a sense of hope and possibility. “I am interested in the concepts of creating sanctuaries and sacred spaces that one can feel at peace in,” Zipursky says.

One project especially close to Zipursky’s heart is the Tupper Greenway Project. Flanking Sir Charles Tupper High School in East Vancouver, the block-long healing garden commemorates the fatal swarming of 17-year-old Tupper student Jomar Lanot, a gentle, guitar player from the Phillipines, in 2003. His death highlighted racial tensions, galvanizing the multicultural student body, teachers and surround-

The Charles Tupper Greenway is in need of gardeners. Amy Logan ing community. Creating the garden was a way for the community to heal and hundreds came to help out.

It officially opened in June 7, 2008, after the four-year collective effort of students and staff, the City of Vancouver, and master gardeners.

After reading an article in the Courier about the school’s attempts to find hope in tragedy, Zipursky was inspired to offer her services, and she hasn’t looked back.

Every month for the last nine years, she and other master gardeners work with community volunteers to maintain the garden. Once a deserted and underused space, the greenway has blossomed into a gently winding series of flowerbeds, herb gardens and berry patches.

Over the years, students from the school’s art classes have added pottery plaques and mosaics – one class grew and tended a vegetable

‘Unbelievable’ unravels stories that create our culture New Museum of Vancouver exhibition makes us think twice about what we know JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Two sides to every story, right?

Wrong.Things are never that black and white.That’s made patently clear in Unbelievable, a new Museum of Vancouver exhibition that explores the many stories that surround us and create our culture and community.

The museum took a deep dive through its vaults for exhibits that range from the mysterious (a child’s coat made of cat fur) to the bizarre (a chair made of cattle horns) to the iconic (the original Stanley Park totem).

If that sounds like a scattershot selection, it’s not to do with the fact that the exhibition was hastily assembled – though three to four months is a short span for such a show to come together.

It’s more to do with the symbolic value of these items, the tales they summon, and those tales’ basis in fact – or otherwise, says Greg Dreicer, the museum’s director of curatorial and engagement.

Dreicer says Unbelievable is very much an exhibition of its time, which partly explains its relatively quick birth. It was inspired by the so-called “post-truth” era we recently entered, spurred by the inter-

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A bronze replica of Girl in a Wetsuit and the original R from the Ridge Theatre are two Vancouver icons on display at MOV. Jan Zeschky photo net empowering individuals, for better or for worse.

The imminent anniversary of Confederation was also an influence, with its varying time scales: Canada 150, Vancouver’s Canada 150+, and the fact, as Dreicer points out, that it’s only 145 years since BC became part of the country.

“So, it’s a time to explore what we – whoever ‘we’ is – think about Canada and BC and the stories we’re telling about it,” he says.

The history between colonists and First Nations resonates powerfully in many of the stories these exhibits tell; most notably in the original totem pole that stood in Stanley Park. (The one that millions of tourists photograph every year? It’s a fibreglass replica.)

There’s an unsettling piece of symbolism here in how First Nations culture has been

appropriated and recast.While the culture was suppressed, pieces of its iconography were cherry-picked and used to promote the new, colonial culture.The totem appears in the City of Vancouver coat of arms to this day.

What’s more, the totem isn’t even Coast Salish in design; it was originally commissioned for a Kwakwa_ ka_’wakw chief in Alert Bay around the turn of the 20th century.

Many other exhibits in Unbelievable reveal stories within stories in the same way. As if mimicking these manyfaceted artifacts, the exhibition’s walls are dotted with mirrors and shiny surfaces that reflect, dull and distort what’s on display.

Other well known Vancouver symbols making an appearance include the illuminated red ‘R’ that sat atop the Ridge Theatre

(again, replaced by a modern version today) and a full-scale bronze-cast model of Stanley Park’s Girl in a Wet Suit, in itself a cheeky copy of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid.

Its presence in the museum’s collection is a mystery.

Occupying a central position in the room is a printing press dating back to around 1880, originally used by the local Daily Advertiser. It points to the rise of “alternative facts” and a growing distrust in the media, the traditional distributors of facts.

The stillness of the old press, which once gave physical form to thousands of stories, is almost unnerving.

Dreicer says he hopes it will make people think about the crisis in local journalism and where our facts come from.

It also turns the lens back on the museum itself and its responsibility toward the truth and the community – which isn’t as cosy a word as most people believe.

“Stories include people or exclude them. It’s the same with community.This idea of community, people think it’s inclusion but it’s also automatically exclusion,” Dreicer says. “The stories we believe, that’s what determines our community.The role of museums is to help people explore what their community is, who’s left in and who’s left out.

“There are a lot of unbelievable things of all kinds around that.”

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garden – and the garden has hosted festivals, plant swaps, and concerts. There’s always someone using the greenway, from a musician practising cello, to mothers visiting with each other while their children play.

But sadly, notes Zipursky, the master gardeners will be forced to pull out of the project next year, after 10 years of commitment, because they don’t have enough volunteers helping out. Numbers have dwindled to about three community members.

“We desperately need new gardeners,” she appeals.

She has created the Vancouver Tupper Greenway Garden Meetup (see meetup.com) to encourage volunteers to join and get

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involved in their community.

For Zipursky: “An extra bonus for me is getting to work in these gardens and the wonderful people I have met over the past 14 years. They have nurtured my own soul and lifted my spirits. “ At one end of the Tupper Greenway, surrounded by benches and the gentle arch of a cherry tree’s sweeping branches is a stone with words from Lanot’s notebook carved into it: “Culture is the root of our lives; love is the most powerful force.”

• Amy Logan is aVancouver writer, editor and English instructor. She is a regular contributor to Metro News, and joins the Westender for the summer to explore the artists, creatives, environmentalists

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We love our Ray-Bans – in fact, we have a pair perched on our heads right now. But when we stepped off the SkyTrain into the glaring sunshine, popped our shades on, and realized everyone around us was wearing the exact same frames, we knew it was time for a change.

We aren’t gravitating

toward mainstream fashion brands, though. Instead, we’re looking at eyewear specialists at every end of the price spectrum. On the more affordable side is Ollie Quinn, which recently opened four Vancouver locations. Also new in town is Bailey Nelson, whose first Canadian store has just arrived on Robson Street.

There are also ultra-hip international brands like France’s Peter and May, the UK’s Finlay & Co, Italy’s Retrosuperfuture and Austra-

lian Le Specs – a favourite of celebs like Gigi Hadid. And don’t forget our lovely local success stories like onlineturned-IRL retailer Clearly.ca, eco-friendly brand Kuma and C4 Eyewear, which donates a portion of its profits to charity.

Here are six pairs of sunnies we’re after right now.

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When considering the Vancouver art scene – a community rich with talent, creative minds and thriving careers – a name that often comes up in conversation is Zoe Pawlak. Zoe has not only been one of the longtime forerunners of our city’s fine arts scene, but also a pioneer of her industry, leading the way into fresh mediums and bringing with her a new level of artistic collaboration for Vancouver. After establishing her career on the West Coast, Pawlak has followed her family, her art and her heart out east and is currently residing and creating in Montreal.

Initially embraced by art lovers for her stunning canvas and paper works, Zoe has joined forces with the likes of Jeff Martin for a furniture line and Burritt Bros. for an exclusive rug collection; now, as she furthers her reach into beautifying interiors, Zoe has recently launched a capsule collection of painted mirrors.

I caught up with Zoe and had the chance to discover a little more about what inspires her to take creative risks. Her full collection of mirrors can be explored online at zoepawlak. com/mirrors/ We are familiar with the ‘public Zoe.’ Tell us five things people don’t know about you:

Some people still don’t know that I have kids. I have two kids! I think people perceive me as being utterly fearless, when, in fact, I spend quite a bit of time deliberating over what to do and where to go next. I quit drinking nine months ago. I love to pray, write and sing; all fairly introverted activities for an extrovert. I am presently learning how to coach basketball.

We’ve seen your art transition through so many aspects of the creative world. What inspires you to test your boundaries?

Having spent the last decade in clients’ homes and working with interior designers, I see a lot of beautiful spaces. I’ve also been to many design shows. When I see something missing in the market, I want to make it. I couldn’t find any mirror that applied fine-art imagery

on a surface in a palate that I loved and was still functional. There is a thread that runs through all the work I am making. My aim is to have a cohesive career and I want this to be felt in this collection as well.

What, if anything was the biggest challenge you encountered working with a reflective surface, versus your previous surface materials.

Photographing them!

What differences do you note as an artist when delving into new media compared to more traditional formats like paint?

The mediums are all new to me. When I paint, I have full autonomy. The process of making the mirrors was collaborative in that it required that I trust many craftspeople along the way to do their part of manufacturing. W

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Small and savoury lunches come to your local corner store Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday Growing up, the “corner store” always referred to the slightly dingy mom-and-pop store that sold bulk candy, pop and some canned goods.

The Coca-Cola signs would be out front, and the chest freezer would be full of individually packaged Popscicles and ice cream bars. Cigarettes and lotto tickets would become pretty standard, as well as long distance calling cards.

This wasn’t a place you’d visit to pick up groceries, unless it was Christmas Day, you desperately needed butter, and nothing else was open.

These days, that type of corner store is still alive and well, but the concept has also undergone a radical makeover and has been reborn as a community builder that has never seen the inside of a Sysco truck.

Take, for instance, Le Marché St. George

(marchestgeorge.com). Since opening in 2010, owners and husband-and-wife team Pascal Roy and Janaki Larsen have offered artisan, local groceries and dry goods, along with fresh-baked goods and some excellent coffee.

This quiet store at the corner of St. George Street and East 28th Avenue is just a block off Fraser, housed in a heritage building that is parthouse, part-business (the owners lived upstairs when it first opened). It’s also a café that serves up light sandwiches, flatbreads, quiche and other lunchy fare, with 16 seats spanning both the airy interior and the sidewalk patio.You can find goods like Grain flours, Johhny Hetherington ketchup (made here in BC), as well as Salt Spring preserves, like the blueberry-basil jam or the Meyer lemon and lavender marmalade.You can find local rhubarb when it’s in season, and even some Turkish hammam-style beach towels. The pottery that used to be sold in the store has moved to the new atelier (7e7) nearby, which also sells Larsen’s ceramics and pottery, as well as clothing and new works from local

artisans that rotate seasonally. Back at Le Marché, however, I would settle into the cushioned banquette seating and enjoy one of the flatbreads (Alsatian bacon and onion was quite tasty) and a raisin bun with a cup of coffee or tea, and get to know the neighbourhood.

Not too far away, The Federal Store (thefederalstore.com) is a new iteration of a re-visioned corner store.

What was formerly your typical corner store selling candy and smokes was taken over by local residents Colette Griffiths and Christopher Allen. After much renovation and rebuilding, this quirky, cheerful space opened in November 2016, and has been making the neighbourhood happy ever since. In addition to a nice range of artisan goods, the brunches here are becoming legendary, thanks to dishes like the quesadilla with potato hash, bacon, cheese, spicy beans and fried eggs. Both brunch and lunch are usually available until 3pm, so you could enjoy one of the burgers or else a simple continental breakfast with one of the house-baked goods (the blondies are good any time of day) and a cup

of the house signature coffee blend, created in partnership with Ozone.

Meanwhile, in the heart of Chinatown, Pazzo Chow (pazzochow.com) has been offering Italian groceries, dry goods and meals since 2013.

Owner Maya Sciarretta sells her own kombucha and Sugo brand of sauces in the store (the Puttanesca is, aptly, orgasm-inducing), but you can also find Brown Paper Packages ice cream sandwiches and cones, especially the lemon-olive-oil, made with oil sold in the shop, as well as pastas, breads, and a collection of sweets that make the idea of buying “just one thing” laughable. A recent potato-and-bean salad with leaves from Sole Food Farms was dressed with a zippy balsamic dressing and fresh dill. There’s a daily mealto-go, as well as items you can eat in-store; although, be warned, the shop’s one table gets filled quickly. With everything made fresh daily, there’s no harm in going early and often.

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Kambas, who began her career as a dishwasher at Chambar in 2004, worked her way through the kitchen ranks to the position of executive chef in 2010. She has also served brief stints at Sooke Harbour House and Market at the Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver.

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breakfast and lunch items from chef Dawn Doucette. caffeartigiano.com On July 1, Ancora will offer their Glacier seafood tower for $150 per person, and will include a complimentary bottle of Dom Perignon champagne per couple.The seafood tower and champagne package will be available 2-5pm.The regular dinner menu will be available from 4pm onward on Canada Day. Advance booking required. ancoradining.com The Cheese and Meat Festival returns to Vancouver on Sept. 30 at The Roundhouse Community Centre inYaletown. Taste samples of local charcuterie and cheeses paired with wine, beer and cider. There will also be a pop-up shop and various seminars. cheeseandmeatfestival.com W

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Here’s to a rosy summer

Top picks from this year’s Provençal Rosé release.

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You may be well ahead of me and have already tasted

through the entire range of newly released rosés. Pink fever starts earlier and earlier each year.The state of the weather doesn’t even seem to matter.We hearty British Columbians will drink pink, and buckets of it, especially between April and October.

There was a time when I could barely scrounge together enough rosés to merit an article, even in the height of summer. Now the shelves

are overflowing and delicious examples can be found year round.We’ve come to trust that the candy-floss colour doesn’t necessarily equal sweet.

Certainly the style of rosé on the rise is decidedly dry.

Hue matters too, and pale prevails.This is epitomized by the pinks from Provence.

Here, rosé has long been a priority, accounting for 80 per cent of the production.

It is impossible to visit this enchanting French region without falling under its spell.

And the desire to bring home the pétanque-playing, patiosipping lifestyle has surely helped us embrace the wines.

Every year a fresh new batch from the most recent vintage arrives on our shores.

Some brands have become staples, and it’s like the welcome return of an old friend.

Because rosé popularity continues to increase, there’s always a new one at the party as well, which I can never resist checking out.

To officially kick off the summer, here are five of my faves from Provence’s 2016 vintage. Expect more pink recommendations from around the globe as the summer heats up.

2016 Domaine Saint Ferréol, ‘les Vaunières’ Coteaux Varois en Provence AOP $17.99 BC Liquor Stores Year after year, les Vaunières gets my vote for value for money. It delivers everything I want from a Provençal rosé; that barely-there colour and dryness, of course, but also a lightness and subtlety of personality.Yet it’s still pretty, replete with summer berries and a welcome undertow of minerality on the palate.

2016 Opaline, Coteaux Varois en Provence AOP $21.99 BC Liquor Stores A classic blend of 65 per cent Grenache rounded out with 20 per cent Syrah and 15 per cent Cinsault. Pure sweet raspberry leads the way with some bright cherry, sunkissed apricot and grapefruit thrown in for good measure.

Juicy, fresh and lingering, it lures you to take another sip.

2016 Roubine, ‘La Vie En Rose’ Cotes de Provence AOC $22.99 BC Liquor Stores Roubine is the debutant and will be hard not to buy based on appearance alone.

It looks like a fancy perfume bottle. I’m not sure if it’s the suggestive lacey flowers painted on the glass, but there is a strong hint of roses on the nose. Intriguing flavours of orange water, nectarine and anise join in. Here, the rare Tibouren grape plays the starring role with Cinsault lending support.

2016 Elodie, Côtes de Provence Sainte Victoire AOP $23.99 BC Liquor Stores Lots of evocative Herbes de Provence aromas bring you directly to the South of France.Then fresh flowers, watermelon and cherry waft from the glass. Elodie has an appetizing salty edge, and is slightly more powerful than its cohorts. A great choice with ‘robust’ summer fare like tuna or pork.

2016 Mirabeau, ‘Pure’ Côtes de Provence AOP $28.99 BC Liquor Stores Reserved but sly, the Mirabeau starts off as gentle as a summer morning. Faintly floral with violets and lavender as well as red currants.

More mineral than fruity on the palate, yet there is sneaky concentration and a gorgeous silky smooth texture. It simply exudes elegance.

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Robson Street gets its just desserts In recent years Vancouver’s been undergoing a French revolution of the culinary sort. Along with our claim to creating Canada’s best croissants (merci, Batard and Beaucoup bakeries), macarons (Maison Ladurée, mais oui) and crêpes (we’re looking at you, Le Marché St. George), we’ve been awarded with yet another gem: L’Éclair de Genie (1210 Robson St.).

Founded in 2012 by awardwinning French pastry chef Christophe Adam (additional shops have since popped up around the globe, in Italy, Russia and Japan), the Lower Mainland marks the pâtisserie’s first foray into North America, bringing with it an assortment of bonbons, chocolate tablets, various chocolate and nut-based

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spreads – and, of course, outof-this-world éclairs. Among the 250-plus flavours imagined by chef Adam to raise the pastry’s profile beyond its current (in Canada, at least) dollar-doughnut-shop-slashconvenience-store standing: caramel salted butter, lemon yuzu and raspberry vanilla. But don’t worry: for the purists among us there’s also a rich chocolate with traditional crème offering, plus several éclairs that place local ingredients squarely (or, rather, oblong-ly) in the spotlight.

Says Adam, “We will start with 10 kinds of éclairs and introduce two new ones each month, like every other store.

And we serve coffee.”

Coffee and doughnuts?

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The Growler guide to Tacoma Fire up Michael Kissinger (guest writer) The Growler @TheGrowlerBC

Beer makes people do strange and unexpected things.Things like spend a few soggy days and nights in Tacoma,Wash.

The enjoyably gritty port town on south Puget Sound doesn’t attract the same volume of IBU-addicted tourists as Portland or Seattle, but the former stomping grounds of Neko Case, Gary Larson and Bing Crosby holds its own as a craft beer destination.

In fact, there are so many breweries, brewpubs, taphouses and mead halls – I may have made that last one up – that the city’s barley ambassadors have devised a “South Sound Craft Crawl” to guide adventurous imbibers on their vision quests.

And that is exactly what this ruggedly handsome dude and his special lady friend did on a recent fact-finding mission.

LAY OF THE LAND

First things first.Where to stay? The peeps at Tourism Tacoma put us up at Hotel Murano, which is a pretty spiffy boutique hotel in the middle of downtown but with rates considerably lower than you’d find in Seattle or Portland.

There other places to stay, of course, but this one seems the most happening. Plus it’s decorated with heaps of glass art… if you’re into that kind of thing. Because you should know: besides beer,Tacoma loves its blown glass.

This is likely because the town is also the birthplace of internationally renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly, whose work can be found in the permanent collections of Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass, the University of Washington Tacoma campus, the courthouse and numerous public art displays.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was a Taco Bell in Tacoma with an original Chihuly. He’s that beloved.

It should also be said that Tacoma is a hilly city, but it’s definitely walkable.Taxis and Uber are also options. But the handiest form of transportation for craft beer tourists and local lushes to get around is the Tacoma Link Light Rail transit line, which connects the city’s Theater District and Tacoma Dome Station, with six stops and breweries-aplenty in between. And it’s free, which leaves you more money to spend on delicious beer.

FUEL FOR THOUGHT

As I’ve learned after many years of dedication and self-sacrifice, a day of beerrelated research needs a solid foundation, so we headed over to Bluebeard Coffee in the beard-friendly enclave

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Tacoma’s Wingman Brewers.

Michael Kissinger photo of Sixth Avenue to fuel up on caffeine and carbs. Nearby record stores, comic book shops, a doughnut maker, artisanal ice cream parlour, a bar that serves gourmet hotdogs and a greasy diner that proudly proclaims its support for LGBTQ rights indicates that this is one American neighbourhood that probably didn’t vote for Trump.

CRUISING FOR A BREWING

We begin our Tacoma craft beer journey at the beginning – Harmon Brewing Company.

Taking its name from the old furniture factory building it inhabits,Tacoma’s flagship brewer launched in 1997 and now operates a number of facilities around town, including the Tap Room, the Harmon Restaurant and the family-friendly, bike-themed eatery Hub. Owner Pat Nagle acknowledges his hometown sometimes has a bit of a selfconfidence problem, but it’s turning around. “For years, we were thought of as a joke,” he told us. “You know, ‘the aroma of Tacoma’ and all that.

But it’s gotten a lot better.”

And he’s right. Beer does make things better. And helping the Harmon cause is head brewer Jeff Carlson, an affable guy who likes scooters and, inexplicably, Quebec’s Unibroue, makers of La Fin Du Monde and Maudite.

He also makes some damn fine beers, including the crisp and light-bodied Mt.Takhoma blonde, which nicely balances German Pilsner malt with a touch of white wheat and Liberty hops.Then there’s his mind- and taste bud-boggling 11th St. IPA, a once-a-year brew that celebrates Tacoma’s 104-year-old-and-counting 11th Street Bridge with 15 varieties of hops and 115 IBUs of bitchin’ bitterness.

Around the corner and up the hill from Harmon Restaurant, you’ll find 7 Seas Brewing. Puget Sound natives Travis Guterson and Mike Runion first set up shop in nearby Gig Harbor in 2009 and this summer took the wraps off 7 Seas’ downtown Tacoma outpost, inside an 80,000-sq. ft. building that originally housed the legendary Heidelberg Brewery.

The gleaming taproom – featuring custom wood tables and bars, a view of the brewing operations and two areas for independent vendors selling food and coffee – sports 48 taps pouring such delights as the unfortunately named Ballz Deep Double IPA, Red Rye Lager and pucker-worthy and personal faveWater Chopper Gose.The room really is a sight to behold, with a playful selection of beers to match.

Back down the hill and a block from the Tacoma Dome station, Wingman Brewers is an outlier in every sense of the word. Its modest digs resemble a quirky uncle’s workshop garage, similar to Vancouver’s Storm Brewing, with a regular clientele who hunker down at the bar for a post-work pint or three. Although the customers might appear to be no-nonsense, Wingman’s lineup of beers isn’t afraid to veer off the beaten path, whether it’s the Miss-B-Haven Tripel, Peanut Butter Cup P-51 Porter or Kewl Hand Cuke cucumber saison.

After Wingman, we hopped back on the free transit line and hightailed it to Odd Otter Brewing, based on name alone.The taproom has a neighbourhood pub feel and operates like one, hosting everything from live music and karaoke to trivia and yoga.When we paid a visit, a veterans’ group was having a meetup to discuss post-service employment. Beer-wise, the offerings were just as wide-ranging: Glitter Bitter Grapefruit IPA, Poppa Otter’s Bacon Porter, Ottermelon Hefeweizen.

Karaoke and otter-themed puns not your bag? Within staggering distance you’ll also find Pacific Brewing and Malting Co., Tacoma Brewing Company, Dystopian State Brewing Co. and Dunagan Brewing Company.

Not surprisingly, food is a second thought for most of the breweries. So we ended our day of craft beer cruising at the newly opened Rhein Haus.This massive Bavarianthemed beer hall with indoor bocce courts, which has a location in Seattle, isn’t a craft brewery, but it does boast an extensive beer menu, featuring ample local content including the 7 Seas Gose, which we gladly reacquainted ourselves with.

Most importantly, it serves a feast of booze-absorbing, hangover-preventing grub such as currywurst, schnitzel, bratwurst, frankfurters, pretzels, flammkuchen (German pizza) and about a dozen other things that sent my paleo diet back to the stone ages.

Don’t judge me.

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the fizz for summer Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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Some of Europe’s most talented bartenders are lounging around the swimming pool at Le Logis, the 16th-century chateau in France’s Cognac region that Grey Goose calls home.

It is hot – the mercury hovering around 30 C – and humid, with thunderstorms threatening to break later on.

The bartenders are, needless to say, thirsty.

So what are all these refined palates drinking?

Fizzes, of course.

In the last couple of years, Grey Goose has been promoting the fizz as a responsible, low-alcohol way to enjoy the brand’s premium vodkas. It’s a good idea, especially in the summer heat: coolly modern, elegantly sophisticated and satisfyingly thirst quenching.

But trendy as it might be, the fizz is actually one of the world’s oldest cocktails, mentioned as far back as the 1887 edition of professor Jerry Thomas’s Bartenders’ Guide.

It is essentially a sour freshened up with soda water. It could be made with any spirit (though gin is the classic), plus citrus juice and a sweetener, shaken and topped with soda water.

It’s similar to a Tom Collins, although, traditionally, the Collins is sweeter and served on ice in a tall

The Grey Goose Le Grand Fizz, La Poire variation, at Le Logis in the Cognac region of France. Joanne Sasvari photo 12-ounce glass, while the fizz is served without ice in a smaller eight-ounce glass.

As the cocktail historian David Wondrich writes in his book Imbibe!: “The Fizz is, essentially, a short drink: It’s meant to be drunk down with dispatch.”

The fizz is also similar to a Gin Rickey, which uses lime instead of lemon juice, and a French 75, which is made with sparkling wine instead of soda water.

Truly, though, we could just call them all fizzes and be done with it.

The fizz is a quintessentially simple cocktail, which means there are also endless variations on the theme.

For example, there’s the silver fizz, which is shaken with an egg white; the golden fizz, shaken with an egg yolk; and the royal fizz, shaken with a whole egg.

Thomas himself offered recipes for six different fizzes, including the Ramos Gin Fizz or New Orleans Fizz,

which was invented back around 1887 by a Crescent City bartender named Carl Ramos. It is a decadent concoction of gin, lemon-lime juice, heavy cream, orange flower water and a splash of seltzer water, all shaken till you feel like your arms are going to fall off.

So popular was the drink that by Mardi Gras in 1915, Ramos reportedly had 35 shakermen working full time to keep up with demand.

The Grey Goose version is much simpler than that, thankfully. It is a quaffable mix of vodka, elderflower liqueur and lime juice, topped with soda and served on ice in a large wine glass; there are also easy variations made with Grey Goose’s flavoured vodkas La Poire, Citron and L’Orange.

Back at the chateau, that’s given the bartenders a nice, clean palette to work their own variations on the theme. Luca from Milan replaces the lemon with grapefruit juice and adds a spritz of salt water; Frantz from France uses peach instead of elderflower liqueur and ginger beer instead of soda water; Nouri from Berlin switches out the lemon juice with yuzu, lemon acid and verjus, adds pop rocks for the fizzy sensation, and serves the drink in an oyster shell.

They’re all deliciously flavourful drinks, and with no more than an ounce of spirits and maybe a splash of liqueur, perfect for a backyard barbecue or garden wedding reception.

So go ahead, create your own variation on the fizz.

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Vancouver Int’l Jazz Festival Luthiers’ craft buzzes with genre-blurring bravado resonates loudly

GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

“It’s a beehive,”TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival co-founder John Orysik tells Westender of his state of mind when he’s reached by phone one week away from the start of the event. Buzz is building around the concert series, too, of course, with the 32nd annual instalment set to bring 1,800 musicians into the city for some 300 shows between June 22 and July 2. As Orysik sorts out last-minute staging details, he explains that music fans are likewise swarming to Vancouver each year to explore all that the jazz fest has to offer.

For some, that could mean seeing Brazilian folk and bossa nova favourite Seu Jorge reinterpreting the back catalogue of the late David Bowie at the Orpheum, or maybe Herbie Hancock collaborator Buster Williams popping off post-bop bass lines at Pyatt Hall. Audio adventurists could consider catching local sax drone soundscaper V.Vecker spiral off into the unknown at the Imperial.The bottom line is that there’s something for everyone here, even if you don’t know it yet.

“We want to stretch people’s ears.You can be in your comfort zone at the jazz festival, but sometimes we like to make you feel something different,” Orysik says of the wide-open possibilities within the lineup. “Jazz is a music that has evolved in and of itself over the years.There are so many genres that it has impacted, and other genres that have impacted jazz, so we want to be inclusive.We want to have those genre-benders like V.Vecker – the experimenters as well as people who would be in a traditionalist camp.”

Like the music it promotes, the jazz festival has also evolved since its inception in the ’80s.While the sched-

Postmodern Jukebox features a rotating cast of musicians performing their YouTube famous spins on the hits. Braverijah Gregg ule is rife with global talent, organizers are pumping up a bunch of British acts, like the electronics-spiked Laura Jurd Dinosaur, through their specialized “Made in the UK” concert series, now in its sixth year. 2017’s debut of the “Spotlight on Italy” series celebrates anything from rising sax players to tributes to film maestro Ennio Morricone.

Cultural cross-pollination abounds at the Orpheum on June 28 when iconic brass master Branford Marsalis mixes jazz and classical with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. It’s the first time the jazz fest has worked with the VSO in this capacity, this fusion pushing both Vancouver institutions into brave new territory.

“We’re not a festival that plays it safe all the time, and I think that’s important, because life’s not safe,” Orysik says, with vigour. “You have to improvise, you have to create new ideas and challenge people.”

For instance, American pianist Scott Bradlee’s early obsession with jazz and blues tones didn’t exactly mesh with the pop-centric tastes of his peer group at the time, but the young musician would ultimately catch their attention by recasting those Top 40 cuts

with vintage flavours.Years later, while under-employed and down on his luck, Bradlee gave genre mash-ups another try. His second attempt at throwback covers ended up making him aYouTube star, with his uploads now routinely racking up hundreds of thousands of views.

“It was my last ditch effort to get some kind of work in NewYork,” Bradlee recalls over the line from Los Angeles, where he’s rehearsing with his band, Postmodern Jukebox. “I put up a medley of myself playing a bunch of ’80s hits as ragtime and it went viral. Once that happened, it was off to the races.”

Ringleader Bradlee is currently working with a rotating cast of over 40 musicians, who converge in his studio and on-stage to transform recent hits into sepia-toned standards.Throughout the band’s history, they’ve delivered Can-Con reggae-pop act Magic!’s “Rude” as a shala-la-heavy sock hopper, and injected a Dixieland swing into the Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.”The project’s most recent upload is a simmering, torch-ballad take on alt-rock nerds Weezer’s early crunch-up “Say It Ain’t So”.

When Postmodern Jukebox

hits the Orpheum on June 30, Bradlee expects Vancouverites will have a ball trying to sort out all of the stylistic twists.

“There’s kind of a lightbulb moment that happens for people when something that they’re familiar with gets blended with something that’s new,” Bradlee explains.

“It’s almost like the Shazam app, where you’re trying to figure out what the song is, and then it dawns on you.

That’s kind of what our audiences experience. ‘Wait a minute, I know this song, what is it? Oh my god, it’s Miley Cyrus...but it’s doo wop!’”

He adds of his genre gymnastics: “It’s really interesting to me how a song’s meaning changes.That’s kind of the point of Postmodern Jukebox, in a sense:We’re taking these songs, stripping them of their production values – if they have auto tune or something idiomatic to the time – and really focusing on what constitutes a song.”

The definition of “jazz” will be stretched to its limits throughout the two-week festival, as well. From the ticketed shows at opulent theatres and intimate clubs, to free outdoor concerts being staged at David Lam Park and the newly christened Art Gallery Plaza facing Georgia street,Vancouver music fans will get the chance to expand their musical horizons in countless ways.While Orysik still taps his toes to traditional jazz, it might actually be diversity that truly defines what the Vancouver International Jazz Festival is all about.

“It would be boring to go out to a festival where it’s essentially one genre, back to back, day after day. I don’t know, I’m just past that,” the veteran organizer says, adding, “There’s just so much impactful music out there.

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From the student dorm to the stadium stage, the global popularity of the guitar is indisputable. So it’s curious that their construction remains something of an unrecognized art.

Perhaps that’s because it takes a certain type of person to build a guitar from scratch; someone like Andy Powers, who has been doing it since he was a kid.

“It isn’t so much a profession as an obsession,” says the master luthier for Californiabased Taylor Guitars. “We get really hooked on building these magic boxes that make sound,” he adds with a laugh.

Powers will be making a keynote speech at a luthier conference on Friday, the opening event of the weekendlong Vancouver International Guitar Festival (June 23-25, vancouverguitarfestival.com).

Whether you thrash or pluck, rock six strings or 12, this inaugural event is set to resonate loudly with fretboard fanatics of all genres.

The feast of axe action at the Chinese Cultural Centre includes workshops and an exhibition featuring guitars by more than 80 luthiers from across the world, many of whom will be on hand to explain their creations and their craft – which could be described a refined blend of artistic feel and engineering prowess.

“Some days you feel like a scientist or you feel like a mathematician because you’re calculating all the structural requirements. […]

Other times you’re just trying to mimic what you see in creation, in the outside world, into this little microcosm,” Powers says.

“It’s this real holistic approach, where you’re bringing everything you can think of to the table and building the best

Master luthier Andy Powers will be speaking at the inaugural Vancouver Int’l Guitar Festival. Taylor Guitars photo instrument you can.”

Many luthiers are stretching traditional guitar shapes into ever more artistic forms, while others mix space-age materials such as graphene with traditional materials that have served well for centuries, like the wood of coniferous trees.

It was access to such raw materials – specifically Sitka spruce – that drew pioneering Canadian luthier Jean Larrivée from Toronto to BC in the late 1970s. Despite closing his Vancouver plant in 2013, Larrivée maintains a successful base in California, where he now lives.

He may be 73, but age hasn’t slowed down his hunt for the right materials. He still goes out on the road for four months of the year to source the right wood, whether it’s Canadian maple, Indian rosewood or Austrian spruce.

After 50 years in the business, Larrivée knows when something sounds right.

“When somebody strums a guitar – I don’t even have to play the guitar – I know certain woods that make those sounds,” he says.

Larrivée’s evident dedication to the craft – as well his company’s golden anniversary and his role in establishing the craft of guitar making in Canada as part of the “Group of Seven” luthiers – will see him honoured with the 2017 Luthier Industry Builder Award at Friday’s conference. W

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The end of June is both an overwhelming and exciting time for local concertgoers, with over 1,800 musicians converging on our concert halls and clubs as part of the annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (June 22-July 2). And while there will be plenty of homegrown, Canadian talent being showcased, they call this an international event for a reason.

Take Brazilian folk sensation Seu Jorge, for instance, who kicks off the two-week event on June 22 with a David Bowie-tributing performance at the Orpheum.

The globe-spanning schedule runs the gamut, whether it’s putting the spotlight on Milanese sax prodigies, expressionist future jazz combos from the UK, or Scandinavia’s finest experimental percussion masters.There’s going to be 300 sets taking place around town, so picking a show can be a little tricky. Here are Westender’s top picks for the talent-packed 32nd instalment of the fest.

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July 1 at the Roundhouse Performance Centre While the annual Made

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in the UK series of concerts (spread throughout the course of the festival) brings back favourites like Phronesis, part of the fun of the event is discovering up-and-comers. English trumpeter Laura Jurd has been issuing albums since the beginning of the decade, but boldly fired off the experimental Together,As One full-length with new quartet Dinosaur last fall. Don’t let the fossilized name fool you, the foursome’s mélange of brassy scale runs, wild rimshots, and dreamcasting electric piano lines are fleshed out, fresh, and fun.

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July 2 at the Roundhouse Performance Centre Whether swinging through the classics, rumbling through Sonny Sharrock numbers with his Bushman’s Revenge project, or exploring his kit with a free-form tom-tom assault as part of Scandinavian combo Puma, Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen is one of today’s percussive titans. For anyone looking for a lightning bolt jolt of rhythm, Nilssen’s sure to put on an experimental, taphappy clinic in Vancouver.

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June 25 at the Imperial With a catalogue of over 500 albums to his name,

Syria’s dabke dance master Omar Souleyman may be one of the most prolific artists to ever hit the jazz fest.

His genre-crossing approach mixes elements of Levantine folk music with a blitz of house beats, with eastern reed instruments like the mijwiz being supported by squelching synths and slammed-down drum machine patterns.The former wedding singer’s latest collection, To Syria,With Love, is as fist-pumping as it is passionate.

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June 30, July 1 at Frankie’s Jazz Club As part of the fest’s “Spotlight on Italy” series of shows, North Vancouver-born pianist Tony Foster is inviting Campania six-stringer Pasquale Grasso on stage to play some cinematic classics. Riffing off of Foster’s 2016 collection, Project Paradiso, the international partnership will be celebrating the work of Italian film score master Ennio Morricone and Italian-American movie maestro Henry Mancini. A playful, rosy-cheeked romp through the Pink Panther theme is a given.

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REVIEW: Shakespeare goes Fellini in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ JO LEDINGHAM @joledingham

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If there were parallels to be drawn between the life of a city dweller and that of British Columbia’s salmon, filmmaker Nettie Wild has paved the way for us to make the connection.

Her new documentary, Uninterrupted, is scheduled to premier June 28 at 10pm as a technically savvy cinematic feature projected across the Cambie Street Bridge.With it,Wild and her team hope to change the way those in the urban environment view a species most are only used to seeing as lunch or dinner.

“What I saw changed my life,”Wild says, of the first time she witnessed the mighty salmon migration off the banks of the Adams River.The river, which runs from BC’s Monashee Mountains southward into Shuswap Lake, is considered one of the most important sockeye salmon breeding areas in North America. “When you’re there, you see this huge heartbeat of nature just pumping its way up the river.We’re not talking hundreds of salmon, we’re

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Vancouver filmmaker Nettie Wild’s art installation, Uninterrupted, projects swimming salmon against the backdrop of the Cambie Street Bridge. Dan Toulgoet photo talking millions.”

The decision to showcase the movie using outdoor screens affixed to the bridge was only natural given the intangible nature of the film.

This simply wasn’t a film meant for the traditional, rectangular screen format, and the process through which Wild, an award-winning artistic director with several titles to her credit, and her team pieced the film together was no orthodox challenge.Working with up to six different cameras in the river at various times, including one that captures footage at a dizzying 2,200 frames per second, the filmmakers had to bolster their equipment to land the complex shots of moving salmon in a running current.

The team also worked

closely with several First Nations communities along the migration route.

The result is a 25-minute film – seven years in the making – that blends documentary filmmaking, art and captivating camera work to tell a classic tale of the circle of life.

“When you push yourself as an artist to [capture] the familiar in an unfamiliar way, there’s a chance you’re going to surprise yourself,”Wild says. “And if you can surprise yourself, there’s a chance you can surprise your audience.

We really want people under the bridge to have the same reaction we had shooting.

“Seeing is believing on this one,” she says.

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At Bard on the Beach until September 23, 2017 Tickets from $21 at bardonthebeach.org/604-739-0559 If you’re looking for a fresh take on Much Ado About Nothing, director John Murphy is your man. The action is still in Messina but it’s no longer the 16th century.

It’s 1959 and the heyday of Italian filmmaking. The characters are almost all associated with the film industry: Leonato (Andrew Wheeler) is head of a film studio; Don Pedro (Ian Butcher) is a famous director about to blow into town. Beatrice (Amber Lewis), Hero (Parmiss Sehat), Claudio (Julien Galipeau) and Benedick (Kevin MacDonald) are all film stars.

It’s all very La DolceVita (Fellini’s iconic 1960 film) but it’s about to go very sour.

Don John is now, in Murphy’s reworking of the text, Don Pedro’s sister Dona Johnna (Laara Sadiq). Consumed with envy for anyone else’s happiness, Dona Johnna conspires to turn Claudio and Hero’s newfound bliss into blister.

With a tip of the hat to Fellini, Murphy starts the play off in what is virtually black and white: costumes (Christine Reimer), set design (Pam Johnson) and props. It’s all very slick and

stylish and so cool. Through the open tent at the back, English Bay and the North Shore mountains look completely surreal in contrast to all that monochrome.

Gradually, as the romances ramp up, colour is introduced.

Of course, the text is considerably altered with phrases like “on time and under budget,” “soundtrack,” and “Action!”. But the best of the Bard is still there and the verbal sparring between Beatrice and Benedick – sworn never to love, never to marry – is entertainingly abrasive, with Beatrice scoring the most hits.

The Benedick/Beatrice relationship is at the heart of Much Ado and, within the context of the movie-making community – plagued with affairs, breakups and divorce – Beatrice and Benedick’s cynicism makes sense. When Leonato says Beatrice will never be “mad” with love, she replies, “No, not ‘til a hot January.” As for Benedick, he tells everyone, “I will live a bachelor.” It takes trickery to get these two together.

There are problems in the play that must be overlooked to make it work: Hero’s father and her would-be groom, Claudio, turn on Hero and cast her out on very slight evidence that she is “a contaminated stale.”

One minute she is celebrated as purity itself; the next she is little better than a whore.

The other problem, as written by Shakespeare, is that early in the play Benedick

is a bit of a lightweight and not a great match for clever boots Beatrice. Fortunately, in this production, MacDonald gains stature later in the play and we are willing to concede that although they will be constantly sniping at each other, they are well matched.

Never much one for the various fools in Shakespeare’s play, I did find Ashley O’Connell’s Dogberry pretty funny, with the character’s insistence on it being noted that he has been called “an ass.”

And while I had some early reservations about Don John becoming Dona Johnna, Laara Sadiq, in a startling blond, smooth wig, is as wicked as any Don John. Her walk, her stance, everything about her is nasty and edgy. Gone, however, is the understandable jealousy the bastard Don John has for his legitimate brother.

Replacing that is anger that, being a woman, she has not had the career opportunities her brother has had.

There’s music: David Adams sings, in Italian, a song that eventually gets to “Hey nonny nonny”. There’s dance: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg choreographs everything from jive to a hot and sexy tango. It’s all very handsome, hugely entertaining and a great start to the 2017 Bard on the Beach season. W • For more reviews go to joledingham.ca

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FRIDAY NIGHT KICK OFF & CHARITY RACES FREE MUSIC FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL BEVERAGE GARDEN Actress Karin Konoval (left) and Towan, the real-life orangutan that inspired her performance as ‘Maurice’ in Planet of the Apes. Contributed photos

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Before Karin Konoval could fully inhabit the character of a mature male orangutan in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, she first had to find him in the eyes of a realworld counterpart.

Rise was to be the launch of a new Planet of the Apes film series. Konoval had been cast as Maurice, a loyal and expressive male orangutan who forges a close friendship with protagonist chimpanzee Caesar (portrayed by Andy Serkis).

Almost immediately upon being cast, Konoval (Travelers, iZombie, When Calls the Heart) immersed herself in research and practice: reading books, watching videos, and training hard so that she could maneuver quadrupedally, climb, long call and sign, as orangutans do. Konoval’s performance would be recorded via motion capture technology; the Vancouver actress and dancer would need to move, gesture, think and react like an orangutan in order to deliver an authentic performance.

“I’ve always been a 5,000 per cent worker,” says Konoval in a recent phone interview. “I dive in full bore, and I leave no stone unturned in trying to find a character’s integrity.”

But despite all of her study and training, “I was missing that thing that I feel as an

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actor [where I go], ‘OK, the character has landed within me, now I’ve got it,’” she recalls.

Enter Towan, then a 41-year-old orangutan living at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Konoval had come across a web video of Towan absorbed in the act of painting. “Here was this incredible orangutan painting with the same level of focus and clarity as any human artist would,” marvels Konoval, who is also a painter.

And so, the actress boarded a bus to Washington and observed Towan in his habitat through a window. After a time, the roles reversed and Towan began to observe Konoval from a distance, too – until he decided to take a closer look. “He literally came right up and his face was two inches from mine on the other side of the window,” Konoval says. For 20 minutes, he studied Konoval “thoroughly inside out, and I just basically let myself be studied, and everything came into focus in those 20 minutes. It sounds kind of simplistic, but that’s exactly where Maurice began.

“I can’t even tell you what it was that he gave me in that, but it was like he was revealing himself to me at the same time that he was seeking to know me,” adds Konoval, who says that she carried the energy of that single day with her through the filming of Rise. “He was searching me clean, and in being searched clean, he gave me Maurice.”

You can spot glimpses of Towan (who died last year at the age of 48) and his kin in all of Konoval’s performances in the Planet of the Apes films, the latest of which – the locally shot War for the Planet of the Apes – opens in wide

release next month.

Serkis returns as Caesar in the highly anticipated film, which also stars Woody Harrelson as a ruthless colonel leading a human army.

War for the Planet of the Apes features several Vancouver actors in key ape roles, including Aleks Paunovic (Van Helsing) and Sara Canning (A Series of Unfortunate Events).

Konoval credits screenwriters Matt Reeves (who also directs) and Mark Bomback with penning a script that “tracks a journey of a mature male orangutan with complete orangutan integrity. What they’ve put on the page is so gorgeously simple and refined and precise and entirely in keeping with everything that I’ve been learning about orangutans on the side the whole way through.” For his portrayer, Maurice is a beautiful character to explore because “he does nothing gratuitous,” says Konoval.

“He’s the watcher. He’s the observer. If he takes an action or communicates a thought in whatever way he does, it’s very precise.

He doesn’t lose his temper wildly for no reason, and the depth of what he commits to as a character is very much in keeping with what I’ve observed in the orangutans I’ve come to know.”

“The richness of their psyches, their psychology, their emotional life – it’s so rich and subtle and precise, and it’s really wonderful to be able to explore this through the character of Maurice,” she adds. “It’s also amazing, as an actor, to get to explore a journey of a character of another species and gender through three films.”

• War for the Planet of the Apes opens on July 14. W

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FRIDAY, JUNE 23 Jurassic 5 Alternative hip-hop group touring new material.

With special guests Lazy Syrup Orchestra. Doors 8pm, Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $45. commodoreballroom.com Talk Felty To Me This “improvised dirty puppet show” is gratuitous, over the top – and definitely not for minors.

10:30pm, Havana Theatre.

Tickets $10. havanarestaurant. ca/theatre

SATURDAY, JUNE 24 Canadian Multiculturalism Day Celebration A multicultural fair showcasing the ethnic diversity of our city, featuring exhibits, performances and more.

11am, Central Library. Free. vpl.ca

Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish A First Nations fairy tale for all the family, told through mask and music. 11am, 1pm, UBC Botanical Gardens. Free, register at axistheatre.com/thowxiya

Part of the Indian Summer Festival. 7pm, St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church. Tickets from $30. eventbrite.ca

SUNDAY, JUNE 25

2017 Heller Lecture Historian and bestselling author Ross King speaks about the art and life of Claude Monet, coinciding with the opening of a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 7pm, UBC Robson Square. Tickets $30/20. vanartgallery.bc.ca

Greek Day The grand finale of the month-long Greek Heritage Festival. A car-free five-block stretch of Broadway between MacDonald and Blenheim will feature Greek food and drink, vendors and entertainment.

11am. greekday.com Chocolate History and Tasting Workshop An intensive twohour workshop to enhance your chocolate comprehension. 1pm, L’Atelier Vancouver Coworking.

Tickets $30. geoseph.com Horns at the Atrium The Hard Rubber New Music Society presents a free concert in the resonating inner courtyard of the Woodward’s building. 2pm open rehearsal, 5pm performace, The Atrium, 351 Abbott St. Free. hardrubber.com

MONDAY, JUNE 26 Let’s Hear It For Yaletown: Free Outdoor Jazz Kicking off five days of free jazz at lunchtime and after work. 11am-1pm, 5-7pm, Bill Curtis Square. Free.

Yaletowninfo.com Arundhati Roy Indian author reads from her second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A book signing will follow.

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The Long, Long Table A unique communal dining experience around a 220-seat dinner table, with a menu inspired by Canadian cuisine. Dinner time, Civic Plaza, Surrey. Tickets $40 at llt2017@eventbrite.ca

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 Postcards From Canada An exhibit of original postcard-sized works of art from across Canada in celebration of the country’s 150th. Postcards will be auctioned off. Noon, Fort Gallery, Fort Langley. Free. fortgallery.ca Learn to Fish Learn the basics of freshwater fishing in this two-hour session with the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, including hatchery roles, fish identification, tackle, rod rigging, casting, and hands-on fishing. For ages five and up.

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FITNESS Dish & Duer relaunches in Gastown with indoor performance playground MEGAN STEWART @mhstewart

Sometimes, playing by your own rules means building a treehouse indoors.

This inventive attitude has been the mark of Vancouver’s darling athleisure line, Dish & Duer, since founder Gary Lenett launched the clothing company four years ago because he didn’t want to peel off rumpled, clammy commuter gear after cycling to the office. He combined those sweats with his suit, so to speak, and it may be a wellknown creation story around these parts, but the results don’t fade with memory.

What followed was a pulledtogether but relaxed clothing line celebrated as “performance denim.” It stretches, wicks away sweat, looks really,

Dish & Duer’s expanded Gastown location features a swing, treehouse and climbing bars. Gail Nugent photo really good, and does double duty in the boardroom and on the bike – or climbing wall, hiking trail, sail boat…. you get it.They’ve also expanded their women’s line.

One year after opening a flagship store in Gastown, Dish & Duer is once again playing by its own rules by not only changing how customers buy clothes, but changing

how we shop. In fact, they barely call it a shop. It’s a playground.

“We wanted our store to be a space where people could run, jump, swing and play with a feel of the outdoors brought inside,” says Robin Rowley, the company’s director of customer experience.

“As they move through the store in our clothes, they’ll be able to feel what makes our fabrics so different – plus the incredible stretch and comfort mean they’ll actually want to be running around in new jeans.”

Dish & Duer caters to the kind of clientele that seeks urban and wild adventure in equal measure, which is why the renovated space at 118 West Hastings has jungle gym features like monkey bars and a swing, but also allows

customers a peek into the dayto-day business operations of the start-up.

They get their clients, Rowley says. “Most of our staff would rather be out adventuring than shopping.”

And now back to that ladiesware I mentioned.

Although the men’s line still makes up the bulk of styles, from chinos to shorts to jackets, the options for women have seen two major shifts.

First, Dish & Duer created fashion-forward silhouettes like a high-rise straight leg and another with a skinnier cut. And they also introduced some of the men’s line, including washes, design details and hardware, but cut it to fit women’s bodies.

“We wanted to give women more options,” says Rowley.

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Dish & Duer has eight brand ambassadors, most of them photographers and all of them men. That changes now. Jennifer Clarke, the fashion line’s chief operating officer, is stepping out of that role and into two new ones. She’ll stay with the company as one of its first female ambassadors while also wearing the cape as the continent’s only full-time stunt woman. As stunt double on Supergirl, Clarke will also rep the brand she helped grow like so many treehouses.

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It must be tough being a teenager with an iPhone.

Not only is your brain melting down to that of a goldfish, but you have to worry about predators trying to get into your pants through virtual lies.The internet is a pervert’s playground. Lock up your profiles, kids.

I was listening to a podcast yesterday called“Small Town Murders.”The episode focused on the story of Herbert James Coddington, an undiagnosed autistic pedophile who kidnapped two young girls.

Coddington would pose as a producer and go to local talent agencies, claiming that he was scouting young talent for an anti-drug commercial.

Two elder ladies running a small, private talent agency took his bait.They ended up dead in some trash bags, while their teenage clients were raped for a days before the police broke into Coddington’s home. Lovely.

One of the hosts of the podcast told a story about a similar modelling agency scam that happened to his young daughter.

Friends had suggested that his daughter enter into a modelling contest. It seemed harmless, and she could make some great money just posing for pictures.The host’s wife did some research about the legitimacy of the contest, and everything checked out so she said, “What the hell.”

Their six-year-old daugh-

ter won the contest. Smiles all around.Then, a few days later, his wife received a strange message from a man thanking the family for being involved in the modelling contest, and clarifying the amount his agency received as a “finders fee.”

The host’s wife was confused, so she Googled the man’s name. Spoiler Alert: the man is a “level two sex offender” who was convicted for the systematic torture and rape of a 12-year-old victim.

Terrified at this news, the host’s wife phoned the company who had sponsored the contest to notify them.

The contest directors had no clue that the company they were working with was owned and operated by a convicted pedophile. None! That is how easy is it for a sex offender to slip through the cracks and back into society.

Sextortion is real, and, perhaps surprisingly, a serious issue for 30 per cent of Canadian boys. In March, the Toronto Sun reported that online sex extortion of young boys has risen 89 per cent since 2014. Reports involving girls jumped by 66 per cent.

Last month, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection launched a new campaign called Don’t Get Sextorted.

Along with providing information about what sex extortion actually is (essentially, blackmail) as well as some places to go for anonymous help, the campaign’s aim is to get young boys to send memes of naked molerats rather than photos of their junk.

The campaign’s cheeky, cheesy PSA plays along with

the pervy adolescent mind, equating the veiny, hairless mole to their own “manhood.” Gross, but effective.

The site provides a slew of memes free for download. It’s mole meme to the rescue.

Last December, a creep in Minnesota was finally arrested after years of sextortion. Anton Martynenko, 32, reportedly tormented more than 150 teenage boys, threatening to expose the nude photos and videos his victims had sent him when he posed online as a teenage girl.

He would also blackmail the boys into performing sex acts with him.Two of his victims later committed suicide.

Martynenko is now locked up and will remain that way for 38 years. (This is not enough jail time if you ask me.)

I don’t know if the mole meme will work, but it’s an important call to action. Moreover, it’s creating awareness for a problem we normally associate with girls. Although many young women have fallen victim to sextortion, boys are not always the predators, but in many cases the victims.

Bottom line:The world is a dangerous place for everyone, no matter what your gender, and the internet is even worse because it’s full of frauds.

Smarten up. Use your mole meme like a switchblade, boys. W

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I’m reporting from the first annual Psychic Olympics in Los Angeles. For the past five days, I’ve competed against the world’s top mind readers, dice controllers, spirit whisperers, spoon benders, angel wrestlers and stock-market prognosticators. Thus far I have earned a silver medal in the category of channeling the spirits of dead celebrities. (Thanks, Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein!) I psychically foresee that I will also win a gold medal for most accurate fortune telling. Here’s the prophecy that I predict will clinch my victory: “People born in the sign of Taurus will soon be at the pinnacle of their ability to get telepathically aligned with people who have things they want and need.”

While reading Virginia Woolf, I found the perfect maxim for you to write on a slip of paper and carry around in your pocket or wallet or underwear: “Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.” In the coming weeks, dear Gemini, I hope you keep this counsel simmering constantly in the back of your mind. It will protect you from the dreaminess and superstition of people around you. It will guarantee that you’ll never overlook potent little breakthroughs as you scan the horizon for phantom miracles. And it will help you change what needs to be changed slowly and surely, with minimum disruption.

Now that you’ve mostly paid off one of your debts to the past, you can go window shopping for the future’s best offers. You’re finally ready to leave behind a power spot you’ve outgrown and launch your quest to discover fresh power spots. So bid farewell to lost causes and ghostly temptations, Cancerian. Slip away from attachments to traditions that no longer move you and the deadweight of your original family’s expectations.

Soon you’ll be empty and light and free – and ready to make a vigorous first impression when you encounter potential allies in the frontier.

I suspect you will soon have an up-close and personal encounter with some form of lightning.

To ensure it’s not a literal bolt shooting down out of a thundercloud, please refrain from taking long romantic strolls with yourself during a storm. Also, forgo any temptation you may have to stick your finger in electrical sockets. What I’m envisioning is a type of lightning that will give you a healthy metaphorical jolt. If any of your creative circuits are sluggish, it will jumpstart them. If you need to wake up from a dreamy delusion, the lovable lightning will give you just the right salutary shock.

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Signing up to read at the open mike segment of a poetry slam? Buying an outfit that’s a departure from the style you’ve cultivated for years? Getting dance lessons or a past-life reading or instructions on how to hang-glide? Hopping on a jet for a spontaneous getaway to an exotic hotspot? I approve of actions like those, Virgo. In fact, I won’t mind if you at least temporarily abandon at least 30 per cent of your inhibitions.

I don’t know what marketing specialists are predicting about colour trends for the general population, but my astrological analysis has discerned the most evocative colours for you Libras. Electric mud is one. It’s a scintillating mocha hue. Visualize silver-blue sparkles emerging from moist dirt tones. Earthy and dynamic! Cybernatural is another special colour for you. Picture sheaves of ripe wheat blended with the hue you see when you close your eyes after staring into a computer monitor for hours. Organic and glimmering! Your third pigment of power is pastel adrenaline: a mix of dried apricot and the shadowy brightness that flows across your nerve synapses when you’re taking aggressive practical measures to convert your dreams into realities. Delicious and dazzling!

Do you ever hide behind a wall of detached cynicism? Do you protect yourself with the armour of jaded coolness? If so, here’s my proposal: In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to escape those perverse forms of comfort and safety. Be brave enough to risk feeling the vulnerability of hopeful enthusiasm. Be sufficiently curious to handle the fluttery uncertainty that comes from exploring places you’re not familiar with and trying adventures you’re not totally skilled at.

“We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars,” writes Jack Gilbert in his poem “Tear It Down.”

He adds: “We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows.” I invite you to meditate on these ideas. By my calculations, it’s time to peel away the obvious secrets so you can penetrate to the richer secrets buried beneath. It’s time to dare a world-changing risk that is currently obscured by easy risks. It’s time to find your real life hidden inside the pretend one, to expedite the evolution of the authentic self that’s germinating in the darkness.

When I was four years old, I loved to use crayons to draw diagrams of the solar system. It seems I was already laying a foundation for my interest in astrology. How about you, Capricorn? I invite you to explore your early formative memories. To aid the process, look at old photos and ask relatives what they remember. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your past can show you new clues about what you might ultimately become.

Potentials that were revealed when you were a wee tyke may be primed to develop more fully.

I often ride my bike into the hills. Today as I approached this place there was a new sign on a post. It read “Do not enter: Active beehive forming in the middle of the path.” Indeed, I could see a swarm hovering around a tree branch that juts down low over the path. How to proceed? I might get stung if I did what I usually do.

Instead, I dismounted from my bike and dragged it through the woods so I could join the path on the other side of the bees. Judging from the astrological omens, Aquarius, I suspect you may encounter a comparable interruption along a route that you regularly take. Find a detour, even if it’s inconvenient.

I bet you’ll be extra creative in the coming weeks.

Cosmic rhythms are nudging you toward fresh thinking and imaginative innovation, whether they’re applied to your job, your relationships, your daily rhythm, or your chosen art form. To take maximum advantage of this provocative luck, seek out stimuli that will activate high-quality brainstorms.

I understand that the composer André Grétry got inspired when he put his feet in ice water. Author Ben Johnson felt energized in the presence of a purring cat and by the aroma of orange peels. I like to hang out with people who are smarter than me. What works for you? W

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Rocky Mountain Frozen Gourmet Pizza assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of Vancouver

6.49 to 8.79

SAVE

UP TO

32%

Yves Burgers, Hot Dogs and Chicken Burgers assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of Canada

2.79 to 4.29

SAVE

31%

Armstrong Cheese

Rico N’ Lalo Frozen Treats

Olympic Yogurt and Organic Kefir

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

4 pack • product of Canada

SAVE

31%

1.75kg-2L • product of BC

4.49

UP TO

21%

Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade

select varieties

64%

2/4.00

SAVE

UP TO

33%

28%

SAVE

UP TO

33%

9.99 Earth Island Vegenaise, Vegan Tartar Sauce and Vegan Thousand Islands Dressing assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of USA

to 27% 3.99 5.49 UP TO

SAVE

29%

assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of USA

125-213g • product of USA

2/6.98

SAVE

UP TO

33%

SAVE

reg price 2.69-41.99

UP TO

25% Off

36%

regular retail price

assorted sizes • product of USA

1.79 Singles 6.99 4 pack

SAVE

UP TO

41%

WELLNESS WELLNESS Genuine Health Fermented Proteins and Supplements

Choices’ Signature 9” Fruit Pies

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

+deposit +eco fee • product of USA

assorted sizes product of USA

4.99 to 6.99

BAKERY

MaraNatha Nut Butters

assorted varieties assorted sizes

assorted varieties

4.49 each

11.99

Glutenull and Otari Granola and Cookies

Boylan Craft Sodas

Castor & Pollux Pet Food and Treats

assorted varieties

400g • product of Canada

assorted varieties

34%

Choices’ Own Individual Quiche

assorted varieties

3.99 to 4.99

GH Cretors Popped Popcorn

SAVE

3.99 to 4.59

Salt Spring Organic Fair Trade Coffee

200-220g • product of New Zealand

UP TO

2.99/100g

assorted sizes • product of Canada

+deposit +eco fee • product of USA

assorted varieties

SAVE

500-600g • product of BC

Nature’s Path Organic Boxed Cereal

assorted varieties 946ml

SAVE

Choices’ Own Specialty Chicken Skewers

7.49 to 9.99

SAVE

Whittaker’s Chocolate Bars

assorted varieties

While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.Product may not appear exactly as depicted.

22.02kg

value pack

at our Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, Cambie North Vancouver, and South Surrey locations

GROCERY

SAVE

Choices’ Own Lamb Sausages

Sockeye Salmon Fillets

ORGANIC PORK

4.98

5.99lb

8.99lb

California Grown Cauliflower

170g package

value pack 13.21kg

19.82kg

Wash Before Use / Laver Avvant Utilisation www..wolfesgreendirrtfarm.com Certified Organic by / Certifié Biologiq ogique par PACS 16-757

Organic Raspberries Imported

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Australian Grass Fed Free Range Top Sirloin Steaks Aged 21+ Days value pack

Nature’s Way Calcium Magnesium Citrate

5.49 to 8.99

10.99

Choices Preferred Shopper Card

Assorted Varieties

Assorted Varieties

19.99 500ml

Assorted Sizes

20% off Regular Retail Price

Ecoideas Superfoods Maca Powder & Chia Seeds

Assorted Varieties Assorted Sizes

20% off Regular Retail Price

Natural Factors Probiotics Assorted Varieties Assorted Sizes

20% off

The Choices Preferred Shopper Card allows our customers to receive discounts on specially labelled products and accumulate points when they shop. Points can be redeemed for discounts off your next purchase or donated to your local food bank. Please check with your nearest Choices location for food bank details.

Regular Retail Price

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