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Re:“The upside of growing up in downtownVancouver,” July 31, 2017.Web only I love this neighborhood.

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What is with you morons that have to circle Robson Street onto Beach Avenue then up to Davie Street and then loop around again with your loud, straight pipes and modified mufflers? This disturbs the peace of everyone on the beach, the patios and apartments around you. I guess you get a big rush everytime you set off a car alarm.

Interesting enough is the fact that you’re the only one on the motorcycle or in the car with the radio blaring, looking around to see if anyone is noticing you.Yes, we notice you alright – as a complete inconsiderate idiot! Grow up and get a life!

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in one bedroom apartments because we love it here in our community! Look at Davie Street construction.

All the buildings along Davie from Jervis to Nicola Street are coming down; my building is next on the chopping block – bought by a Hong Kong developer for $33 million who could care less about our community.

There are people who have lived in my building for over 20 years.

–Shells Brun I moved here from England, have loved the opportunity to live in the West End.The burbs are overrated.There is not enough housing for all sizes of families in the West End. It’s a North American thought that you must move out to the burbs, but in Europe families thrive in downtown cores where there is less isolation. Maybe North America will wake up to the idea that living in a big box and driving for hours is the silliest of silly notions.

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Poem of the week

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? David Roth.

SEAWALL 6AM The dull-arced ocean curls White fingers over green, decaying.

Tidal slip coats sand grey-slick and ochre boulders ashen.

Stopped Still I breathe porcelain clouds Into a graphite sky Incised by flickered flight.

David Roth lives in the West End. He writes short fiction with some regularity and poetry infrequently.

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YOUR CITY Trip the lights fantastic Just when it seems that Vancouver’s skyline couldn’t be changing more quickly, Science World is taking it to the next level.

In a new interactive art installation, OH!, people are invited to touch a responsive, small-scale model of the Science World dome, and thus influence the nighttime lighting on the actual Science World building in real time.

The data captured by the sensors on the model is sent

through a wireless network to Science World and processed by software that is designed to control which lights are lit up on the Science World dome.

Users can swipe and tap the model in a variety of patterns, resulting in a unique light display on the dome.

Tom Cummins, director of exhibitions at Science World, says he and colleagues have had the idea for the exhibit for a long time and he’s excited the project is seeing the light

of day – or perhaps, more aptly, the light of night. “It’s an experiential learning opportunity designed to ignite wonder and spark that curiosity and ... that’s what we [at Science World] are all about,” he says.

In test runs leading up to the public launch, Cummins says the exhibit has been a hit. “I think people love the opportunity to touch a piece of Vancouver’s iconic architecture,” he says.

Created in partnership with Tangible Interactions,

the exhibit will be set up in the Olympic Village and open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays in August from 9-11pm.

The free installation is open to the public and the model dome will be located outside Tap and Barrel in Olympic Village, at 1 Athletes Way. Since its launch coincides with PRIDE weekend, Science World will light up with rainbow colours and will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the first weekend.

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ORATOR Even the most remote slices of paradise are often hampered by pesky “cottage rules.” Grant Lawrence photo

Long live cottage rules Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

Maybe you’ve seen the video of the summer. “Cottage Rules” has lready been viewed and shared hundreds of thousands of times. Like many hilarious videos that go viral, we’ve shared it because we can relate to it.

“Cottage Rules” is a threeminute skit courtesy of the CBC’s Baroness von Sketch show, starring an all-female Canadian comedy troupe. In the sketch, a group of women show up at a cottage, totally hyped and ready to have a wild weekend filled with swimming, beer drinking, chip eating and general cottage fun.

They are greeted by their female host, the cottage owner, who immediately sucks the wind out of their party vibe by laying out dozens of idiosyncratic “cottage rules.”

The guests’ enthusiasm wanes with each new rule. It’s funny, and works viciously well in two ways.

First, if you’ve ever been a guest at a cottage (or a cabin, as we call it here on the West Coast) you can probably immediately relate to visiting a rustic slice of paradise that is hampered by so many rules – and your anal-retentive host – that you can’t wait to get the hell out of there on the first added sailing of the weekend.

Second, anyone who has ever played host at a cottage might immediately recognize themselves in the owner-character. If you are a cabin owner and you didn’t see yourself, good for you. However, you likely found yourself cringing with embarrassment. I know I did. I immediately shared the clip with some of my best friends, all of whom have spent plenty of time at my family cabin. I simply asked, “Is this me…?”Their response after viewing: “Yup, pretty

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much.” Ouch.

Beyond the joke, and in defence of owner-characters everywhere, the problem is off-the-grid cabins and cottages are often so ridiculously ad-hoc and jerry-rigged that seemingly annoying rules exist so the place doesn’t burst into flames or collapse into the lake. And then there are the rules that are just plain crazy.

Imagine this: I once visited an Okanagan cabin with a group of friends. Upon arrival, our hosts informed us that once we retired to our sleeping quarters, we were not to leave them again for any reason whatsoever until morning, not even to go to the bathroom.This was because their baby was a very light sleeper and the cabin had paper-thin walls. Even the slightest sound could wake their precious sleeping child. One of my friends who was stuck sleeping in the basement had to go the bathroom so badly that he ended up peeing into a bottle of their laundry detergent.

At my cabin, we’re hypersensitive about fire in the summer.That means no smoking of any kind, especially near our leaky propane tank. Once, my best friend (he of the aforementioned email response) decided to treat us all by barbecuing salmon on cedar planks. You’re supposed to soak the planks for at least 24 hours before putting them on the barbecue. He soaked them for about 20 minutes.

Within five minutes my barbecue was engulfed in a giant cedar-plank-fuelled fireball, the flames licking at the side of my cabin. I dumped an entire bucket of water onto the barbecue to douse the flames and save the cabin.

The dinner and barbecue were ruined.

These days, it’s my threeyear-old son who eagerly applies his own slightly mixed up cabin rules to our bewildered guests. “If you have a poo in our potty, DON’T flush!” W

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YOUR CITY Vancouver mosque unites Muslim, LGBTQ+ communities TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Amidst a backdrop of increased anti-Muslim sentiment,Vancouver’s Unity Mosque provides a space where queer Muslims are safe to pray and connect.

El-Farouk Khaki, founder of both the Vancouver and Toronto Unity Mosques, was a speaker at Vancouver’s Spirit Pride conference last weekend. He’s hoping to increase people’s understanding of Islam, specifically amongst the LGBTQ+ community.

“Part of this growing tide of Islamophobia has been to marginalize people within the Muslim tradition who ... are not seen as being part of the dominant discourse,” he says.

“When there’s been an article, an interview, or social media [featuring] LGBT Muslims, we are actually attacked by other LGBT folks, and told things like go back to Iran and go back to Saudi Arabia.”

Interviewed by phone before the event, Khaki said that Unity Mosque is open to everyone, but for safety reasons, the locations of where they meet are not posted publicly.

“Security is always an issue.We want to know who is coming into our space,” he

Vancouver Unity Mosque founder El-Farouk Khaki with LGBTQ+ activist Imtiaz Popat. Contributed photo says. “A lot of our folks are survivors of spiritual trauma or are recovering from spiritual trauma and the last thing they need is a homophobe or misogynist to, sort of, invade.”

Specifically, Khaki worries about racist attacks. At one point his main safety concerns were around Muslims who didn’t agree with Unity Mosque’s opinions on gender and sexuality, but the growing anti-Muslim sentiment seen in the past year has him concerned.

“In the last year or so,

what we’ve been seeing is anti-Muslim sentiment articulated, and we see this in comments and online and in various media.”

The Vancouver-raised immigration lawyer has lived in Toronto since the late ’80s, but has remained connected in Vancouver. After cofounding the Toronto Unity Mosque in 2009, he helped bring the group to Vancouver.

“The Unity Mosque is queer-affirming, which means that about 40 to 50 per cent are not LGBT-identified,” he

says. Unity Mosque groups have formed in other cities, too, including Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa and KitchenerWaterloo.

With Khaki living in Toronto, it’s up to others to run the Vancouver chapter.

Anti-fascist and LGBTQ+ activist Imtiaz Popat attends the once-monthly Saturday evening gatherings.

“It is very women-inclusive, so men and women pray side-by-side together, and then we pray in a circle afterwards ... it’s not just for

Muslims, anybody’s welcome to participate,” he says.

Popat says about a dozen people attend, including members of Vancouver’s trans community.

“In terms of safety, anybody can go to any mosque, but for trans folks it’s very difficult, you know. If you’re trans and Muslim [the Unity Mosque is] probably the safest place to go and pray where you are welcome.”

The Unity Mosque doesn’t have a permanent space in any of the cities where it’s active, and while Khaki hopes to establish a permanent, designated space for the Toronto chapter in the coming years, Popat says he would like to see more groups gathering in suburbs such as Surrey and New Westminster.

Both Popat and Khaki say that non-Muslims can support their movement by speaking well of them and attending their events.

“Our space is open to everybody regardless of how they identify,” says Khaki.

“We are not out seeking converts, we are seeking understanding ... we are not here to actively convert, we are here to create safe and healing spiritual space for people.” W

City preps for heat wave It’s all hands on deck this week asVancouver prepares for the forecasted heat wave.

Temperatures are expected to reach record highs this week.

According to Environment Canada, a massive ridge of high pressure is building over southern BC throughThursday, bringing with it several days of hot weather with daytime temperatures expected to reach the mid to upper 30s in some areas.

The city will be rolling out additional water fountains, opening cooling stations and stocking community centres with extra water and sunscreen for homeless residents, as well as ensuring that water fountains and cooling stations are near some of the large events – Celebration of Light, Pride Parade and Powell Street Festival – taking place this weekend.

Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services is working with city staff on locations where temporary water fountains can be attached to fire hydrants.

Locations will be on the city’s website and on theVanConnect app. Misting centres will be available atThornton, Emery Barns, Oppenheimer and Andy Livingstone parks. –Story courtesy of theVancouver Courier

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A two-spirited First Nations man, a hermaphrodite from Mexico, a former crystal meth addict, a gay man from Montenegro who’s faced numerous death threats, a 30-year-old transgender artist focused on perfecting her Barbie doll-like appearance who’s finally learned how to love herself; these are just some of the diverse and necessary voices in the Pride Living Library.

The project, currently in its first year, aims to gather stories from Vancouver’s LGBTQ+ community and share them with the public, giving voice to marginalized and often hidden histories full of powerful truths. Eight history-holders workshopped and then shared their stories, which were recorded on film and can be viewed at various Pride events throughout the Lower Mainland, including the Vancouver Pride Parade this weekend (Aug. 6).

Susan MacRae, a local writer, instructor and artist, offers one of these voices. She decided to share her experience of working as a home care worker for men with AIDS in the early ’90s. “It was an intense experience. I haven’t really talked about it for 20 years,” she says.

In June of this year, she notes,Trump did not declare

Pride month, and she feels there seems to be a renewed threat to gay rights. “I thought, I better fight back.”

As MacRae puts it, there is a whole generation that doesn’t know “how terrible people were.”

In 1993, she decided to move down to Oakland to live with her partner. It was the height of the AIDS crisis and prejudice against homosexuality was so rampant that the US had only just lifted the ban on deviancy. Prior to 1992, they could deport a person for homosexual activity, MacRae points out.

“One day, we were driving and I saw a man who was dying of AIDS looking for food in the dumpster.”The image stayed with her and, soon after, she started volunteering at the Center for AIDS. She remembers reading the gay newspapers: “Page after page of men who had died of AIDS. XtraWest was the same at the time – every two weeks it was filled with obituaries of talented intelligent men. A whole generation; my generation.”

The story she chose to tell for the Living Library is about Fred and Robbie, a young Filipino couple in their early 30s that she did home care for. Robbie was dying of AIDS. “He was so vulnerable, so sweet, still a boy in some ways. But he was abandoned; his parents wouldn’t come.

They were Catholic and the father was in the military.The

mother wanted to come, but his father wouldn’t allow it.”

The reality that someone could be abandoned just because of his sexuality hit home. “I had come out at 22, and I had to accept myself for who I am.When you are around death so much and you see people not accepting, it wakes you up. It teaches you not to be ashamed. I had a great deal of shame at that time, it was overpowering.

But I had to accept myself on a profound level.”

MacRae’s brother had died in a tragic accident when she was 20, and being able to care for people who were dying, to provide them some comfort and dignity, was “really good for me. I’m thankful for it. I got to know them on an intimate level very quickly.”

The gay and lesbian community had a complex relationship, but they did help each other, says MacRae. The whole experience was “like living through a war that was happening right in front of you,” but there were also moments of incredible beauty.

In her story for the Living Library, she talks about seeing Fred carry Robbie downstairs to the den during the day and up to the bedroom at night. He was down to about 90 pounds and close to death. “Gay relationships were not recognized at all, but that is love. I’ll never forget watching Freddie carry him up the stairs. I saw what real love is.” W

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Summer style: Four perfect party skirts Wedding season is about halfway through and if you’re in

your 20s or 30s, you’ve probably been to a couple already this summer. Our usual go-to is a pretty frock, but, this year, we’re making a case for the party skirt.Why?You can style skirts a few different ways, so you can actually wear the

same one to several parties without causing your gazillions of Instagram followers to die of shock. Skirts can be dressed up with a pretty camisole and heels or down with a tee, flats and a denim jacket.

If the weather’s a bit nippy,

you can wear them with a sweater, statement tights and booties.This season, in terms of style, anything goes: maxis, minis and midis, flared and fitted, in bright shades and muted ones, printed and plain.

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Knee-length lace skirt, $59.99, at H&M and hm.com.

Prairie Dog Rose tiered skirt, $495, at Coach.

Wilfred Terre skirt, $160, at Aritzia and aritzia.com.

Floral embroidered mini skirt, $75, at Topshop at Hudson’s Bay and thebay.com.

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Five Finds: Get bold in the bedroom Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

@Jennifer_AGCTK Our homes are our sanctuaries, yet it seems that the entertaining areas of a house often take top priority for design, leaving our intimate spaces relegated to last on a neverending design to-do list. One of the most essential elements of creating a haven at home is focusing on the private spaces that we look to for rest and rejuvenation.This week we look at what the coming months are offering for sleeping in style. From mattresses to duvet covers, it looks like things are about to get bold in the bedroom.

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This season marks the Canadian launch of fashion powerhouse Ted Baker London’s luxurious bedding line.

With four different collections within the launch, the product lineup includes comforter sets, throw pillows and coverlets to either coordinate or mix and match to create the ultimate in on-trend sleeping scenes.The pink floral collection embraces the summertime vibes with the ombre palette, while the oversized flower pattern carries the set into the height of fall fashion. Stunning now yet enticing for the seasons to come, this collection hits all the high points of luxury bedding.

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Holt Renfrew’s new beauty hall is twice the size of the old one It took six months to turn the former men’s department on the lower level of Holt Renfrew Vancouver into this swanky beauty hall. The new space is 16,000 sq. ft., twice the size of the old one and has 29 counters, from brands like Charlotte Tilbury, Chantecaille, Sulwhasoo and Darphin. There are also products from an additional 23 labels, such as our alltime favourite mask maker, Nannette de Gaspé.

Nine luxurious private “cabines” provide facials and skincare treatments, and the skylight gives heaps

of natural light – all-important when you’re choosing makeup colours. Highlights include the beautiful Christian Louboutin counter and the Jo Malone “doll’s house”, a replica of the brand’s London headquarters. And then there’s the Cle de Peau Synactif facial.

We tried it years ago and got more compliments than on our wedding day.

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Smoke Shop ONE STOP SHOP for all your VAPES & SMOKING NEEDS Left: Ted Baker London’s bedding line is now available in Canada. Right: The Endy mattress aims to change the way Canadians sleep. Contributed photos Prices vary by size.

With more than 20 years of our lives spent in bed, opting for a pillowcase that works hand-in-hand with our beauty routine feels like a no-brainer.

The Slipsilk technology uses Grade 6A long-fibre mulberry silk to reduce friction and retain your skin’s moisture, to provide an anti-aging, antisleep-crease and anti-bedhead sleep… seriously, what more could you ask from a pillowcase?

LIGHT SLEEPER

Samantha Pynn X Simons Fall 2017 Collection; available exclusively at Simons. Prices available in store.

When an HGTV superstar launches yet another stellar home collection for one of Canada’s largest retailers, get ready for a revamp. Design darling Samantha Pynn has just unveiled the upcoming fall bedding line she designed for Simons. Using fresh whites with patterned pops of colour, the pieces are an easy transition out of summer and

will keep life light and bright in the bedroom well into the winter months.The full collection will be available in store this September.

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The Endy Sleep Mattress; available at ca.endysleep.com.

Prices from $675.

The bedroom is nobody’s sanctuary without a good night’s sleep. Embracing the infamous “keep it simple” model, Canadian brand Endy offers just one mattress model (and similarly, one pillow) in a full range of sizes, designed with four main principles in mind: comfort, firmness, temperature and motion.The mattress design has three levels: a gel-infused top coat for comfort and temperature control, a middle layer to gently transition energy from comfort to support, and a bottom layer of high-density foam to maintain optimal posture and support.The breathable, hypoallergenic and micro-quilted cover – hand sewn in Montreal – is

easy to remove to make cleaning and care a cinch.

SLIP INTO SOMETHING COMFORTABLE

Sheets on the Line Pure Linen Collection; available at sheetsontheline.com.au. Prices vary by size.

The ultimate classic sheet material, pure linen keeps you cool in the warm months and warm when it’s cool outside.The organic, perfectlyimperfect aesthetics of linen bedding have made it a must-have amongst designers for years, and is one of those magical materials that gets softer and more inviting over time and washings. Sheets on the Line offers a wide array of pure linen bedding, with generous top sheets that offer a wide border on all four edges (read: no more hunting for the top!) and tailored corners that allow it to look just as chic as a lightweight bedcover.The fitted sheets are designed with deep pockets to give space for even pillowtop mattress. W

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The craft beer pedestal Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

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I think every craft beer nerd probably has a bucket list; a list of beers they want to try before they kick said bucket.

Last year, I had the opportunity to cross one of the beers off of mine. My wife and I were in Amsterdam to celebrate our anniversary and we ended up in one of the city’s many amazing “brown cafés” – the tiny, historic beer and gin bars that are tucked into every nook and cranny of that incredible city. After sampling a Cantillon gueuze with euphoric delight, the bartender asked me if I was interested in trying something off the menu. My hair stood on end, because I had a feeling about what he was going to offer me.

“I have a few bottles of Westvleteren 12,” he said in a hushed tone.

For those unfamiliar, “Westy 12” as it’s known, is one of the world’s most highly sought-after beers, and generally considered

to be among the best.

It’s brewed by a trappist monastery in Belgium, and only released once a year.

Those who want to purchase Westvleteren 12 must line up at the monastery’s door and may only purchase a single case of 24 each.

“Y-y-yes, please,” I whimpered, sweat now beading my forehead.

Now, technically this whole transaction is a big no-no. The monks expressly forbid the resale of Westvleteren 12, and, if you are lucky enough to purchase a case at the monastery, you must also agree that you will not sell it.

The modest, plain brown bottle arrived, with only a yellow cap to identify it. The bartender poured the dark hazy elixir into a goblet and the head dissipated almost immediately. I inhaled deeply, letting the sweet plummy aroma fill my nose. I took a sip and was flooded with complex flavours of dried fruit, caramel and molasses, and finally a bracing rush of characteristic alcoholic warmth (this a quadrupel, after all, clocking in at 10.2% ABV).

It was… merely fantastic.

I’ll be honest: I was disappointed.

Don’t get me wrong, it was a truly incredible beer.

But in my mind I had built this beer up to be something more. I was expecting a transcendental experience, an epiphany, orgasms and fireworks.

And that’s a lot to ask of a beer.

Now, that’s not the fault of the good monks at the Abbey of Saint Sixtus, of course. It’s on me for having such unrealistic expectations of this beer. I had put it on a pedestal, and by doing so, ensured that it would only disappoint me.

A friend of mine had a similar experience after he managed to track down a bottle of Russian River’s Pliny the Elder – arguably the beer responsible for the entire West Coast’s obsession with IPAs. With much anticipation, he poured himself a glass and was greeted with what he felt was a rather uninspiring beer. Again, there were no orgasms or fireworks. Only disappointment.

He’s since convinced

Belgium’s Westvleteren 12 is considered one of the rarest, most sought-after beers in the world.

Wikimedia Commons photo himself the bottle was old or possibly light struck, which it may very well have been. So he’s decided that to experience this beer in all its glory, he’s going to get it from the source and make a pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, California. I truly hope it’s worth the trip.

The funny thing is, when I think about my best beer memories, none of them involve beers that are likely to end up on anyone’s bucket list.

There’s the cold pint of Coopers Sparkling Ale I had with my dad after a hot day spent walking through his old haunts in Sydney, Australia, where he grew up. There were the endless Big Rock Grasshoppers I shared with my wife and in-laws backstage at the Edmonton Folk Festival one summer. There was that time my mom and I both shotgunned cans of Lucky together at my 30th

birthday (and she spilled beer all over herself because she had no idea what she was doing).

Good company, good thirst and good times seem to be the constants, as is the complete absence of expectation. There may be a lesson in there somewhere.

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In true Vancouver fashion, all good things must come to an end with not one, but two condo towers.

The West End’s iconic Cloud 9 Revolving Restaurant and Empire Landmark Hotel at 1400 Robson St. is going to be torn down to make way for the structures, with Sept. 30, 2017 marking the last day of operation for both businesses.

Sales manager, Christina Ko says she’s been hearing disappointment from several customers. “They’re very sad about this. A lot of them have memories in regards to a special day, whether it’s anniversary, birthday or even

proposals. We have lots of proposals up there,” she says.

Ko says the sky-scraper will come down, but she’s not sure how.

“They are planning on building two towers of condos. It’s coming down.

They’re not going to blow it up, because we have residential behind us ... I would assume they would tear it down piece by piece.”

To commemorate the final days of the pre-Expo ’86 relic, the hotel has put together a special “grand finale” package, and the restaurant’s menus will have “quite a few items that are very exotic.”

Built in 1973, the Empire Landmark Hotel is the tallest standalone hotel tower in

Metro Vancouver, and views from the revolving restaurant up top supposedly pale in comparison competitors.

“It is a special venue.

We do have the best view in town ... no obstructions, there [are] no tall buildings close to us. It’s a beautiful sunset right now,” says Ko, who spoke to Westender late afternoon Tuesday.

The grand finale package starts at $399 per night, but Ko says there are other, less expensive ways to enjoy the view. The lounge, for example, is a popular place to enjoy a drink.

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Finally, the heat is on, and not just in that ’80s Glen Frey kind of way. Sunshine, blue (grey?) skies and busy beaches are now a reality, meaning that, shortly, everyone will start complaining about how flipping hot it is. (Vancouverites…if we’re not complaining about the weather, we’re not living, amiright?)

No need to boil over, though. Frequent and plentiful applications of these sweet, icy treats will help you keep a cool head and a chill laissez faire ‘tude.

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Recently opened in the Little Mountain neighbourhood at Main and 33rd, this ice cream parlour serves up handmade, gluten-free ice cream sandwiches and scoops. Check out the Kong (chocolate cookie, banana ice cream) or the Salty Peanut or the tangy pink grapefruit sorbet. Takehome is also possible, but do check out the back patio.

It’s a great place to enjoy a little quiet and sun while you’re beating the melt. innocenticecream.com

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Mango soft serve, anyone?

It’s just one of the innovative treats you’ll find at this popular little chain in Vancouver and Richmond.

From freshly-brewed iced tea with coconut jelly to matcha ice cream sandwiches, there’s a lot to explore at this little sweet shop. 720sweets.com

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It might be one consonant short of Willy Wonka territory (come on, sound it out), but it’s definitely not short on flavour. Chinatown’s newest gelato shop is all vegan, all the time. In fact, it’s Vancouver’s first entirely plant-based gelato shop. It’s also organic and sports some rather intriguing flavours, such as strawberrymalbec, mojito, and saffron orange.There’s even a sugarfree vanilla for those trying to avoid all sins. umaluma.com

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Fresh Ideas Start Here (FISH) has launched a new FISHbar at both its Kitsilano and Burnaby locations. Enjoy small or large bowls filled with smoked Coho salmon or wild sockeye, yellowfin tuna, local octopus, shoyu ikura, smoked uni, herring roe, and more, over brown or white rice, topped with fresh and pickled vegetables, fried onion chips, and more.The build-your-own poké bar also offers up stuffed inari pockets, pressed onigiri, Japanese beverages, and more. Bowls start at seven dollars. eatfish.ca La Mezcaleria has launched new lunch, brunch and dinner menus at both its Gastown and Commercial Drive locations under executive chef Mariana Gabilondo.

There are also new cocktails from beverage director Ryley Zucca. lamezcaleria.ca Bauhaus has launched a new summer tasting menu.

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Filipino fare is the latest trend sweeping food-obsessed cities from coast to coast. It’s not surprising, then, that attention would eventually turn to the highly delicious sweet side of the cuisine. Flavours like pandan, halo halo, mango, taro, chocolate and avocado are available as giant milkshakes, ice cream, stuffed waffles and more. I really recommend trying the taro milkshake with a side of taro cake. facebook.com/flipsidedessertsvancouver

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Shaved ice sounds remarkably bland, but is incredibly refreshing and delicious when made well. At Doolami, you can find some of the city’s best shaved ice.

It’s light, fluffy and topped with local and exotic fruits at peak freshness, meaning it’s practically health food, right? Try flavours like the mango shaved ice with mango pearls and fresh lychee or wax berry, or cherry (now that it’s in season). weibo.com/doolami W

What started out as an ice cream cart three years ago has now opened as a bricks-and-mortar ice cream parlour, in the finest French tradition.Wait, French? Oh yes, mes cheris, French artisan ice cream is a thing and it’s beautiful. And it comes with pastries, natch. Beautiful sorbets, dairy and vegan ice creams, parfaits topped with seasonal, local fruit and housemade marshmallows and meringues, plus cookies, macarons, and profiteroles, is what you have to look forward to at this romantic little shop on the West Side. laglace.ca

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Available as four courses for $79 or six courses for $99 (optional wine/sake pairings an additional $54/$79), dishes include poached and torched salmon vichyssoise with potato ice cream, leek and trout roe; goat cheese agnolotti with summer squash; tuna and avocado with radish and pineapple; beef short rib with sweet corn puree; duck leg and breast done two ways; and dessert. bauhaus-restaurant.com Mister Ice Cream has brought the black trend to Vancouver with their new coconut ash flavour that features activated charcoal, coconut bits, coconut milk, and cream. The vegan version is made entirely with coconut milk. There is also a new black waffle cone. madebymister.com

The Irish Heather has brought back its long-missed weekend brunch service. Every Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 3pm, enjoy the Full Irish with corned beef hash, poached free run eggs and hollandaise; corned beef eggs benny; and more. irishheather.com W

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I might be going out on a limb here. Merlot is British Columbia’s most planted grape, Pinot Gris the most prolific of the whites and Pinot Noir our media darling (deservedly so). However, I’m proposing to toast BC Day, and our local

wine industry, with Syrah.

I’m a huge Syrah fan in general. Rather that biasing me toward backyard examples, this actually makes me extra critical of them.There are certain things I want out of Syrah. I am a sucker for telltale intriguing aromas that range from floral to peppery and sometimes even gamey. I also go weak at the knees for seductive dark fruit countered by a savoury element and assertive

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For this reason, it is really only viable in the southern reaches of the OkanaganValley and the neighbouring Similkameen.

I applaud the wineries that

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Intense aromas of dried sage, spice and boysenberry follow through on the juicy and savoury palate.This has become a reference for Syrah in BC. 2015 Laughing Stock, Syrah, Okanagan Valley BC VQA $36 winery direct (2014 $42-45 at Everything Wine, New District, Kitsilano Wine Cellars) Co-fermented with three per centViognier, a practice associated with the Northern Rhône

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The sweet seduction of salt Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

@TheAlchemistBC As we get set to celebrate BC Day on Aug. 7, let’s raise a glass to the province’s greatest unsung local ingredient, the one that can transform our cocktails from ordinary to sublime: Salt.

Throughout history, this tasty and essential mineral has been used as a currency, a preservative and a flavour enhancer.

Wars have been fought over the stuff. And there’s a whole ocean of it on our doorstep.

Still, it wasn’t until a few years ago that Andrew Shepherd of Vancouver Island Salt Co. started harvesting sea salt by boiling vats of seawater over open fires. Now a handful of other local sea salt companies have popped up, including Saltwest Naturals of Sooke and Clever Crow in the ComoxValley.

As it turns out, our waters produce a delicately flavoured salt that’s especially good in cocktails – not just for rimming the glass, but as part of the drink itself.

Wait, you say. Salt in drinks?

Doesn’t that go against the, er, grain, so to speak?

Counterintuitive as it might seem, what salt does in a cocktail is boost flavours, especially sweet and tart ones. It makes tomatoes and strawberries taste more tomato-y and more strawberry-ish. It smoothes the acid edge of lime juice. It absorbs the hit of chilies and spice. It harmonizes ingredients and makes them sing.

“The salt just gives it this pop,” says bartender Olivia Povarchook of Vij’s restaurant, who has created an update on the classic Salty Dog called the Smoking Dog. “You wouldn’t even know it was there. It’s the supporting player.”

Kaitlyn Stewart of Modern Dinette says she tends to use salt to “enhance other flavours, much like you would in cooking.” In her pisco-based Summertime Sadness cocktail, a pinch of salt heightens the flavour of strawberries and complements the spice of

The Cascade Room’s Burrard Gimlet cocktail, made with salt water (see recipe online).

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That said, salt doesn’t work in every cocktail. Just as you wouldn’t pair a tannic Cabernet Sauvignon with potato chips, you wouldn’t put salt in an oaky brown-bitter-stirred cocktail. Salt enhances bitterness, and not usually in a nice way, which is why you rim a Margarita glass with salt and not, say, a Manhattan.

“Salt and vegetation go hand in hand,” Povarchook says. “And clear spirits absolutely will absorb saltiness really well.”

Think white spirits such as gin, tequila, pisco and vodka, as well as the fresh, mouthwatering flavours of citrus, herbs, vegetables and fruit.

As for how to add salt to your drinks, you have a few options.You can hew to tradition and use it to rim the glass (run a wedge of lime or lemon around the rim, then dip it in a saucer of salt).You can add a few grains of salt to the drink itself (do it Salt Bae-style for full effect) and shake or stir it. Or you can add it in liquid form.

At Tofino’sWolf in the Fog, bar manager Hailey Pasemko can use seawater from pristine Clayoquot Sound in her cocktails. InVancouver, Cascade Room general manager JustinTaylor makes his own salt water withVancouver Island sea salt for his Burrard Gimlet, transforming what is often a sharp, one-note drink into something sublimely complex and refreshing.

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Vancouver Mural Fest paints portrait of diversity 10 murals by 10 different artists who have 10 different backgrounds. If they want to paint a pretty picture, they paint a pretty picture. If they want to do something a bit more intense, then they do that.That’s diversity.”

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There are plenty of canvases for East Vancouver artists to work with, but they’re not going to be found in your local supplies store. Instead, lift your eyes to the sky and look at the city around you.

Whether it’s an exposed brick building on the Main Street corridor, or a Mount Pleasant alleyway full of derelict, paint-peeled walls in need of a touch up,Vancouver Mural Fest co-founder David Vertesi sees plenty of untapped potential in the city. Last year, he helped co-ordinate a vibrant facelift for the city, inviting several dozen local artists to produce colourful creations on storefronts and structures across town. Billed as “the city’s largest annual free public art celebration,” the sophomore edition has over 50 more murals going up between Aug. 7 and 12.

“We’re really trying to transform how art is seen in Vancouver,”Vertesi tells Westender shortly after meeting up outside of Gene coffee shop on Main, adding that this popular spot’s slate grey outer coating will soon be revamped by a wraparound piece from Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett. Elsewhere, you’ll be introduced to murals designed by comics illustrator Johnnie Christmas, painter Jeska Slater, graffiti tag-inspired artist Naks, and many more.

“We have this insanely amazing, thriving arts and culture community,”Vertesi notes of his local scene.

Building off the foundation laid in 2016, the second annual Vancouver Mural Festival finds the non-profit Create Vancouver Society expanding its program, and addressing concerns over the inaugural event. Acknowledging that the fest takes place on contested land,Vertesi explains that they’ve focused on including more Indigenous artists this year to combat cultural erasure.This includes the Haida

“You don’t just have one mural and be like, ‘We want this mural to represent the diversity of the community.’”

Top: Artist Sandeep Johal with an older completed piece. Bottom: British artist David Shillinglaw working on his 5th Avenue mural, entitled “A crouton floating in a cosmic soup.” Dan Toulgoet photos crest-inspired mural that Corey Bulpitt is scheduled to paint onto the DTES’s iconic Pigeon Park Savings, as well as Corlett’s mural on Gene: a cosmic canoe journey inspired by his Klahoose,Wuikinuxv and Kwakwaka’wakw ancestry, not to mention an interest in sci-fi. Corlett acknowledges in an artist statement that his work is going up on unceded Coast Salish territory, and as a visitor, he’s respectfully “passing through with my

paddles up.”

“It’s really interesting how it intersects with public issues,”Vertesi adds of the broader social implications of the outdoor project, “and although we’re primarily an arts advocacy kind of event, we really wanted to see where can we make positive impacts on some of those ideas.”

An ensuing walking tour with Vertesi winds along the alleyway between Main and Quebec, from Broadway to

Second – a key area for the festival, as a number of artists are set to coat businesses with a variety of back lot scenes.

The large-form blanketing, exploring a number of artistic styles and cultural backgrounds, is Create Vancouver Society’s attempt to make their party inclusive to all.

“You don’t just have one mural and be like, ‘We want this mural to represent the diversity of the community,’” Vertesi insists. “No, you have

While including a large breadth of local talent, organizers have also invited artists from outside of BC to take part in Mural Fest, such as Spain’s Cinta Vidal and Russia’s Marat Morik. Austrian provocateur Nychos had been set to put up a piece behind the Fox Cabaret, but his proposed mural – an anatomically deconstructed fetus – proved to be too risqué a public art piece. A compromise could not be reached between the artist and organizers.

Though Vertesi applauds Nychos’ technique, he explains: “I think it would have been a very difficult piece for people to get behind, even though I understood where he was coming from. He was trying to create something that was about life, because for him it represents life. He’s all about looking inside, like, ‘That’s what we really are.’”

Despite this pre-launch disappointment, there’s still plenty to see at Mural Fest this summer. Dovetailing with CVS’s ongoing talks with the city to create legal, safe-space walls for graffiti artists, a Mount Pleasant Graffiti Jam being held on Aug. 12 will find 13 artists spray-painting a parking lot in honor of a Holden Courage, a local artist who passed away in 2015. In addition to the murals, a popup tattoo shop will take place

at Burrard Arts Foundation on Aug. 12; a concert series has synth-pop project Operators, among other performers, hitting the Cobalt later that night; and members of the THRIVE Art Studio for women will hold a panel discussion at the Mural Fest headquarters on opening night.

THRIVE member Sandeep Johal missed the application deadline for a mural in 2016, but managed to contribute an intricate and geometric chalk Mandala on a sidewalk at Main and 7th.This year, she’s taking her art to the side wall of Broadway eatery Chutney Villa. Reflecting her South Asian heritage and working off past projects that dealt with gender inequity and violence, the mural will picture warrior goddess Durga riding a tiger.

“I’m interested in looking at women who are able to be powerful and do good things for other women, or for other people, despite maybe any kind of oppressive circumstances they’ve been in themselves,” Johal explains during a phone call with Westender.

Vancouver Mural Fest is looking to break down barriers by making art accessible to all. If silently strolling through an art gallery seems too stodgy for some, the Block Party’s alleyway beer garden could act as a more relaxed area for an arts discussion. On the flip, you can likewise just wander the streets one day with your eyes aimed high, taking in all the colours and concepts at your own pace.

Remember, the art exists to enjoy outside of the fest’s summer timeline, too.

“I think it can be intimidating to just walk into a gallery and be like ‘Oh, what do I do?’” Johal says. “I think public art is great because it can engage so many different kinds of people – different ages, different ethnicities. It can get people really excited about the place that they live in. I live in Mount Pleasant, so every day I’m out with my son and I see these beautiful murals. My spirit lifts all the time.” W

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Twocultures,onefamily Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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History contains much more than what’s printed in textbooks. Countless important stories go untold, usually for reasons associated with that old adage “history is written by the victors.” In postcolonial Canada, this has meant a very narrow view of history, with innumerable First Nations and immigrant stories lost to time and prejudice.

But history, whether articulated or untold, lives on in the people whose lives have been impacted by it; sometimes it just needs a fearless few to pull that history into the light.

Such is the case for the Grant family, the subject of the feature-length documentary All Our Father’s Relations.

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Larry and Howard Grant (right) meet their uncle in All Our Father’s Relations, which examines the intersections in First Nations and Chinese-Canadian history. Contributed photo

tions – which was directed by AlejandroYoshizawa and produced by Sarah Ling – shines a needed spotlight on the long and fascinating interconnected histories of Chinese and First Nations communities in British Columbia through the lens of the Grant family.

The family’s story began in earnest in 1920, when Hong Tim Hing arrived in Vancouver from China after paying the Chinese Head Tax

– the racist entry fee that was meant to discourage Chinese immigration. He worked and lived at Lin On Farm, a Chinese market farm located at Musqueam Indian Reserve 2, where he met Agnes Grant, who would become his wife.Together, they would have four children, but, due to stipulations in the Indian Act, the family was divided between Chinatown and the Musqueam reserve. And

because of well-founded fears that he wouldn’t be allowed to re-enter Canada, Hong Tim Hing died without ever visiting the relatives he’d left behind in China.

All Our Father’s Relations – which had its premiere at the 2016 Vancouver Asian Film Festival – serves to explore “the complexities of being Indigenous and Chinese during a time when there were many policies that fractured both of their communities,” says Ling during a recent phone interview.

The documentary follows the Grant siblings – Helen Callbreath, Gordon Grant, Larry Grant, and Howard E. Grant, who are now Musqueam elders – as they journey to China for the first time to visit their father’s ancestral village, Sei Moon, in Guangdong province.

Yoshizawa and Ling had been working on a different project with Larry Grant in 2013 when they learned that his family would be venturing forth on this trip.The filmmakers immediately recog-

nized the potential to tell an impactful story. “I just knew it was the perfect opportunity to help them capture that moment and tell their story on a broader level,” says Ling, and the family agreed. “I don’t think any of us knew the full scope of what the documentary could be, and we took that journey together.”

All Our Father’s Relations cuts between scenes from the Grants’ journey to Sei Moon – which took three days and culminates with an emotional family dinner at which they meet a brother of their father’s they never knew existed – and the interconnected history of the Grants’ parents, the mutually beneficial and respectful relationship between the Chinese and Musqueam communities, and the racist legislation that kept the Grant family apart.

“Policies really influenced where they could live and physically separated their parents,” says Ling. “To see the government be so intentional in creating these divisions of the family unit was quite

revealing.”

Much of All Our Father’s Relations’ historical narrative is told through animated sequences.The Grants were consulted during every stage of production –from storyboarding to post-production – which Ling notes is “central in working with families, and Indigenous communities in particular.”

All Our Father’s Relations will screen on Aug. 10 at VIFF’s Vancity Theatre.This particular screening will incorporate Chinese subtitles and feature a Q&A with the filmmakers and members of the Grant family.

“I really hope that this film can help people reflect on their own experience, whether they are a settler on Indigenous territories, or an Indigenous person who has relationships to other communities in Canada, to build deeper connections to where we are located, to learn more about the territories that we’re on, and to ultimately build real and authentic connections to Indigenous peoples and foster those relationships,” says Ling. W

Powell Street Festival finds roots in displacement TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Vancouver’s longest-running annual arts festival is pushing back against displacement in the Downtown Eastside.

Whether it’s by shining a light on the forced removal of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, or by supporting the interests of current low-income DTES residents, the Powell Street Festival (Aug. 5-6, powellstreetfestival.com) doesn’t shy away from its social-justice roots.

Executive director Emiko Morita says the now 41-yearold event began as a celebratory reclaiming of Oppenheimer Park. Founded in 1977 by Japanese immigrants and young, third-generation Japanese Canadian university students, the first festival celebrated 100 years of Japanese immigration to the area. It

also marked the 35th anniversary of the forced removal of Japanese Canadians from the Downtown Eastside, then known as Japantown.

“The gathering itself became an act of empowerment,” says Morita. “The history of the festival is one that, at its core, is social justice.

Even to this day.”

Evidence of the festival’s dedication to social justice is easy to spot. Morita says the society was involved with the city’s Downtown Eastside planning sessions, where members advocated for economic and community development that would allow low-income residents to remain in the neighbourhood.

The festival also partners with local organizations to create low-barrier employment opportunities for residents during the festival.

This year’s programming reflects the tradition

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of young, socially aware Japanese Canadians.Yoshié Bancroft, a Vancouver-based actor and playwright, will be presenting an “intimate, site-responsive” play called Japanese Problem.

The play is a re-enactment of the incarceration of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, when the federal government passed an order to forcibly remove 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes on the West Coast. Pre-existing anti-Asian racism was piqued in Vancouver following Japan’s invasion of Pearl Harbour, and white farmers, merchants and political leaders widely believed that residents of Japanese ethnicity were acting as spies for the Japanese government.

Bancroft was inspired to create the play after learning about the internment during a historical tour of Hastings Park, which is also the PNE’s

fair grounds.

“I think that there is a large gap in the knowledge, even amongst my contemporaries,” she says. “When I tell [my friends] that people were interned literally in East Van they’re shocked and I think that that’s a problem.”

Even though she’s a Japanese Canadian who grew up in Vancouver, Bancroft never learned about the internment until adulthood.

Her parents immigrated to Canada from Japan after the internment she says, so her family wasn’t directly impacted by the atrocity.

The full-length version of Japanese Problem will show at Hastings Park in September, and Bancroft’s team has built a special set for the 20-minute previews scheduled for the festival this weekend (running Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm and 3:30pm at the Vancouver

An archival photo showing stalls for incarcerated Japanese Canadians at Hastings Park in the 1940s. Photo courtesy Nikkei National Museum. 1997.8.9

Japanese Language School).

“We’ve recreated a livestock stall which was designed to reflect what some of the stalls at the time looked like, with blankets and whatnot along the side of the stalls for privacy. A lot of the [Japanese] Canadians that came into the livestock building would bring their

own bedding and hang it between the stalls for privacy,” she says.

“As you watch the historic re-enactment you can see the toll it takes on the actors that are performing it, which brings it to life in the present day and parallels some [other] atrocities that are happening today.” W

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If last year’s inauguralVancouver Bach Festival was curated to remind people of the mass appeal of the festival’s namesake – a program of the 18thcentury rock star’s greatest hits, if you will – this second year is deliberately more challenging. “[Last year], we had the B Minor Mass, we had The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, GoldbergVariations, to start. All pieces that, if you know Bach,

you know those pieces, because they’re kind of the iconic works,” says festival artistic director MatthewWhite, of Early MusicVancouver (EMV).

“This year, we decided to try a festival that was slightly more challenging, to see if people would be as interested, and if they would trust us.”

White admits that he wasn’t sure, last year, how the classical music festival would be received; attendance for the summer concerts tripled to about 5,000 people under the new

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It’s a credit to the power of Bach as a headliner. But what of Martin Luther – the revolutionary philosopher and music lover who played a seminal role in the Protestant Reformation (a major 16thcentury European movement aimed at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church)?

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Back in 1999, Roger Lodge scored a job hosting a new reality show called Blind Date.

This was pre-Apprentice, preKardashians, pre-Bachelor.The idea of watching normal people embarrass themselves onTV was still thrilling and kind of insane.

Blind Date was the original dating reality show and it was cruel, pairing attractive, levelheaded women with porn-obsessed accountants. Sometimes they would cut the subjects some slack and give them someone they might actually fuck, but they only did that so we could see some necking and they could make a wacky comment in a cartoon air bubble.

They would send the subjects on weird dates, like going to the park to do finger-painting then off to a fancy Italian dinner.

Blind Date always delivered.

It was painful, real and mortifying. I miss the days when realityTV was all about normal people fucking up.

One of the greatest episodes of Blind Date involved two 21-year-old UCLA students named Lauren and Bill.They were both complete wastoids.

After a makeshift massage (where Bill kneaded Lauren’s

Continued from page 13 Early Music Vancouver is honouring Bach and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year with a program that celebrates music’s ability to transform and persuade, featuring easy-listening opportunities like Bach’s St. John Passion – one of the most famous Lutheran oratorios ever written (Aug. 11) – alongside more complex musical conversations, like the LutheranVespers: Songs For Troubled Times, which were written following Europe’s devastating Thirty Years War

of your worst dates were, and they turned out to be even shittier than what happened to Beth.

body like it was poisonous dough), they went to a restaurant and immediately began throwing back shots. Bill had a disgusting chin strap beard, and let Lauren shave it off at the table if she promised him a kiss. After they slobbered on one another, Bill screamed, “boo-ya” and “YOU LOVE IT” in his date’s face. Lauren was tipsy, but Bill was bum wasted and she dodged his goodnight kiss like it was a diaper full of baby shit. Even though he had been burned, Bill still screamed, “YOU LOVE IT” in Lauren’s face a few times before stumbling off onto her lawn.

Another one of the best (worst) episodes of Blind Date was with Beth and Mark.

Beth was a makeup artist who liked to brag about how much she could drink. Mark was a lizard-loving hyper-nerd who said the last two girls he dated treated him “like a God.” Mark showed up in a wild striped shirt and wore his leather driving gloves the entire date, while mumbling about his OCD and how he was once abducted by martians. Beth wanted a guy with “pizzazz,” but soon found herself in the restaurant bathroom yell-whispering into her Nokia that she had been set up with a geek.The hug goodbye at her front door was so, so painful.

Recently, I asked what some

“I once had a girl start talking about her ex-boyfriend after a few drinks. She would not shut up about him.Then, she got really wasted and called him in front of me., over and over again like a complete psycho.When she started slurring her words, I put her in a cab and told her to go home.

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and reportedly had a large influence on Bach.

“Martin Luther was a huge influence on Bach, and the music of the 17th and 18th century and beyond, in fact” says White. “So we thought we couldn’t let the 500th anniversary year pass without at least three or four or five concerts being connected in some way to Martin Luther’s legacy.”

Other highlights include Bach’s Italian Concerto – two of the composer’s most iconic works for keyboard – as well as an opportunity to hear works by Mendelssohn, Moscheles and Bach

(Conversions, Aug. 4) on a recently restored fortepiano that was donated to Early Music Vancouver.

“Last year the festival was very, very well received and very well attended,” says White. “It said to all of us that there is an appetite for classical music. … So this second iteration is, I like to think, a slightly more balanced and challenging festival that offers a lot of music that people won’t know so well.”

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“I once had a guy nod off on our first date.”

“The first time I slept with a guy, I woke up the morning after to find him nudging me while he stuck my vibrator up his ass.”

“A guy once asked me to go get himWendy’s while he jacked off.”

“I once had a dude ‘vlogging’ on our first date. He asked me, very loudly,if I liked sex.”

“I had a man tell me that his greatest fear was women falling in love with him.Then he told me that I have the same name as his mother.”

“I once had a girl leave our date to go have sex with two other guys. She announced this before she left.”

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By Rob Brezsny In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely, and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers, and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear.

“Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

The RIKEN Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures.

In the next eleven months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

Leo actor Robert DeNiro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality.

Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone -- just to those you trust.

Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These selfinflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness -- an upside to the uproar.

What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic.

How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles.

I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be.

If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself.

When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

Your eyes are more powerful than you realize.

If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history.

I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn -- from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck.

Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: 1. tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. become more skilled at mothering yourself.

August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans.

It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense.

Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most.

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August 3 - August 9, 2017 W 15

HAPPY BC DAY Prices Effective August 3 to August 9, 2017.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT

BC Grown Organic Red, Green Leaf and Romaine Lettuce from Myers Organic Farm

BC Grown Organic Peach from Nature’s Fresh Fruits

3.98 BC Organic Apricots from Harkers

BC Grown Corn on The Cob from RGR

907g package

10/7.00

6.98

19.82kg

8.99lb

5.99lb Choices’ Own Pork Sausages

BC

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

Free Range Loin Lamb Chops from New Zealand

*RWA made in-store

17.61kg

ORGANIC PORK

*RWA 30.84kg

7.99lb

13.99lb

*RWA – raised without antibiotics

GROCERY

DELI

Kettle Brand Potato Chips

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha Beverages

170-220g product of USA

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

3/7.98

6.49 3 or 4 Pack Bars 6.99 473ml

3/9.99

454g • product of Canada

product of Canada

assorted varieties assorted sizes

reg price 6.69-15.49

25% Off

regular retail price

Ad price 5.02-11.62

Blue Monkey Coconut Water

3.99

select varieties

Large 1 Dozen

product of BC

2.99 650g 7.99 1.75kg

smooth or crunchy

365g • product of Canada

8.99 Regular 12.99 Organic

3.99 Balderson Aged Cheddar Cheese 280g • product of Canada

6.99 1 Year Aged 7.99 2 Years Aged

2/3.00 45-48g

assorted varieties

assorted sizes

20% off Regular Retail Price

Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts

6.99 227g 11.99 454g 44.99 2.27kg

20% off Regular Retail Price

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380g

Great for long weekend BBQ.!

4.49

2.99

Autism Speaks Canada Fundraiser July 29th – August 12th

Regular Retail Price

assorted sizes

Hamburger, Hot Dog and Slider Buns

assorted varieties

20% off

Hair, Facial Care and Body Care assorted varieties

BAKERY

739ml • product of USA

assorted sizes

Alba Natural Products

4.49 to 5.99/100g

Seventh Generation Natural Non-Toxic Dish Liquid

WELLNESS assorted varieties

4.49/100g

Little Qualicum Cheese

assorted varieties

Larabar Energy Bars

Natural Factors Probiotics

Natural Pasture Comox Camembert or Brie

assorted sizes • product of USA

assorted varieties product of USA

Nutra Sea Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplements

5.99

Earthbound Farm Organic Frozen Vegetables

Nuts To You Almond Butter

8.49 Organic 250ml 11.99 Regular 750ml

Mt. Lehman Goat Chevre

6.49

Large 18 Pack

product of Italy

11.99

444-550g product of Canada

4.49 Extra Large 5.99

Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Salt Spring Island Chevre

assorted varieties

520ml • +deposit +eco fee product of Thailand

Olympic Natural Yogurt

4.99

Daiya Dairy Free Frozen Pizza

with or without pulp

4/7.00

Happy Days Okanagan Soft Goat

product of USA

product of USA

1 Dozen

BC Local Artisan Cheese:

assorted varieties

Nature’s Farm Free Run Large and Extra Large Omega-3 Eggs

Prana Organic Dried Fruit or Prana Nut Mixes

Coconut Bliss Organic Dairy Free Coconut Dessert

480ml • +deposit +eco fee

Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade Coffee assorted varieties

12.99 Regular Whole Bean 13.99 Decaf Whole Bean

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.

value pack

13.21kg

907g package

1.48 each

BC Organic Lean Ground Beef

BC Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts value pack

Autism Speaks, along with Autism Speaks Canada, has grown into the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization and has dedicated over $200 million to funding research and innovative programming for individuals and families impacted by autism spectrum disorder.

This summer, Choices is helping to raise funds for Autism Speaks Canada.

You can donate at any Choices Markets location by purchasing an Autism Speaks puzzle piece for $1 during our fundraising campaign, which will take place between July 29th and August 12th.We’ll also have charity BBQ’s at most Choices locations on July 29th to support fundraising (ask in store for details). /ChoicesMarkets

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