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Most of us know that the impact of a bad fall increases with age, and while caution is warranted, experts say it’s possible to protect one’s self from a bad fall, and at best, avoid one altogether.

Seniors can best protect themselves by staying physically, socially and mentally active. A combination of lifestyle choices and community helps support healthy habits, says Julie Demers, General Manager of Legacy Senior Living’s Leo Wertman Residence. Demers, who has a background in Kinesiology, says the luxury, boutique-style Independent Living residence offers more than 13 exercise classes per week as well as a brain fitness class.

“One of my biggest focuses, because of my background, is making sure

“Healthy eating is also important,” Demers says, who notes that the in-house Chef uses Ocean Wise certified fish, locally sourced meats and organic vegetables from the UBC Farm. A dietitian has also reviewed their menu and heart healthy options are always available and clearly marked. that the residents are having an adequate amount of exercises, not just physically, but for their brain, cognitively. We have brain fitness once a week,” she says.

Along with brain fitness classes, the Independent Living residence in Oakridge offers weekly continuing education seminars, meditation, a wine and painting night, a poker club and a book club, among other activities.

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The residence offers private, air conditioned suites and community members are free to move about and leave the premises as they wish.

The individual emergency fobs and pull-cords in the en-suite washrooms and under-cabinet floor lighting offer increased safety. The main floor amenities boast marble accents and a grand piano. On a whole, the Leo Wertman residence offers resortlike living, with a solid emphasis on healthy lifestyle and safety.

Despite the importance of cognitive fitness, healthy eating and built-in safety measures, Demers says the biggest key to a healthy lifestyle, and preventing falls, is exercise. Although she says the majority of older adults understand this, Demers notes that it can be hard to get back into the habit if someone has already had a fall. She has seen how friendships between residents at the Leo Wertman Residence offer support and accountability during recovery.

Seniors can best protect themselves by staying physically, socially and mentally active.

“If they don’t see their friend at yoga one day they will be questioning why they weren’t there. It’s quite

nice because they have an informal buddy system,” she says.

Eighty-four year old Diana Filer moved to the residence after she had a fall in her home that resulted in a broken hip. Although the vivacious former CBC broadcaster recovered well, she decided that independent living would offer a better standard of living during her later years.

“When it’s time, it’s time,” she says.

“I was fortunate in that I recovered from my fall. Others are not as lucky.

After seeing my son and his wife looking after ailing relatives for 15 years, I did not want to place that responsibility on my family... I like the resort-like atmosphere [of Legacy Senior Living] and the fact that there is lots to do including exercise programs seven days a week.”

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FIREWORKS FARE

As far as I could tell, city employees were busy covering the garbage receptacles with plastic before the fireworks at English Bay, but no signs were posted to advise people why it was being done. Hmmm?

There were also people selling food that they carried in to the event from their homes or purchased in lots from outside businesses. I noticed three home-cooked meals for sale and about five outside purchases in the small area that I was in. I was under the impression that people had to get a licence to ensure food safety, but I guess not asVPD were standing in front of people selling ethnic food with a large sign posting their prices.

I love the fireworks, but it has become unorganized, soon it will be known as theVancouver fireworks, swap meet and unlicensed foods event.

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If the majority of the spectators are coming from out of town (many with the intent of causing problems), then it’s time the “festival” was shipped to them.Then we can show up on their doorsteps, trample the flowers, piss in the bushes and leave our garbage all over the place.The West End has hosted long enough; it’s time for another ’burb to try it and see just how “family friendly” it is. –Shawn Bourgeault My former colleagues who work at stores on Davie Street would tell me stories of people coming in at early hours of the morning for protection from gay-bashers. I was shocked to learn the incidents were recent. – AlbertYee There are police standing at Davie and Bidwell with automatic rifles. Is this the “inclusiveness” gesture so many privileged white community members wanted to see? I’m boycotting the parade this year. Loved the Dyke March and trans parade.

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Inside Sugar Mountain Tent City Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

“Westender? Never heard of it.”

So goes my first attempt at chatting with one of the residents of Sugar Mountain, the six-week-old tent city that has sprouted up at 1131 Franklin St. in East Vancouver. It’s a large, vacant, city-owned lot tucked behind the Powell Street overpass on the edge of Strathcona. Across the street is the towering old Sugar Refinery, hence the camp name.

I cycle past the camp every day and I read the banners: “homes not shelters,” “we are people, we need answers,” and “support the ten year Tent City 2007 – 2017.”

Curious, I showed up at Tent City last week. The entire camp is contained within a chain link fence, with the only access being through a heavy, rolling gate. Tarps cover most of the fencing for privacy. About 30 tents are placed neatly along the inside perimeter. The grass is brown, like the rest of the city, and the camp is tidy.

There is no natural shade.

There’s a communal kitchen in the middle of the lot. Two porta-potties sit near the entrance, along with a row of large cans for recycling, compost and garbage. It feels well organized. When I arrive, a man is working on a bicycle. A few other bikes surround him.

From outside of the gate, I wave to a trio sitting at what appears to be a front desk of sorts; three chairs and a table under a pop-up canopy near the centre of the lot. I ask if I can come in. They beckon me forward and I squeeze myself through.

I introduce myself to JDog, a big, younger guy, and Dennis, an older fellow in a red baseball cap. Both are

polite but guarded. A young pregnant woman sits between them and glares at me.

She doesn’t shake my hand or offer her name. When I inform them that I’m a member of the media, my visit inside Sugar Mountain Tent City ends quickly.

“Get out,” states the woman, simmering with anger. “You twist our words.

You are not allowed here.

Leave now.” I try to explain that I’d like to chat with some of the residents, to report their stories, her story. “NO!” she shouts. She seems to be in charge. J-Dog rises from his chair and leans in. “Did you hear what she said? Go! Get out of here!” I look down at Dennis, who lightly shrugs his shoulders. Later, through the fence, Dennis tells me that he’s worried that if he talks to me, he’ll be kicked out.

I wander across the street to Rising Sun Motorcycles, a cool independent motorcycle shop run by Samson Lang, a born-and-bred Vancouverite.

“It’s not that bad, to tell you the truth,” says Lang, when I ask him how it’s been, operating a business across the street from Tent City. “The construction site up the way has been broken into, but we haven’t had any major issues.

The fire department and the police stop by daily, monitoring the safety of the camp and all that. People from over there have asked me for water and electricity, but I’ve turned them down because it’s just not feasible for me to provide that kind of stuff.”

Just as I am about to pedal off, I meet Amanda, who is leaving Sugar Mountain, also on a bike. She’s friendly, and tells me with a wry grin that she, too, thinks the press is a bunch of lying scumbags. I persist. As we pedal downtown together, she explains that she’s only slept within the confines of Sugar Mountain for about five nights. She really likes it though, because it’s safer than

Vancouver’s condo prices just keep rising The summer real estate market slowdown is well and truly with us, with unit sales sliding and days on market increasing. But somebody forgot to give the condo sector the memo that school is out.

Despite the lazy pace of market activity, condo sale prices are continuing to soar.

The median price of all 92 condo units sold July 24-30, in Vancouver West (West Side and downtown peninsula) and Vancouver East (Downtown East and East Vancouver), was $714,000.That compares with $692K just the week before.

But if you break that out

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along the city’s East-West divide, that median sale price is $799,000 for Vancouver West, which saw 60 of those 92 condo sales, and a relatively affordable $589,500 on the East Side.

The priciest condo to trade hands that week was a beautiful two-bedroom, 1,769-square-foot home at Coal Harbour’s Bayshore Gardens development close to Stanley Park.This 10thfloor, upgraded unit with breath-taking harbour and mountain views was snapped up for exactly its list price of $3,388,000 after eight days on the market.

–Joannah Connolly, REW.ca.

the streets, it’s fenced in, and there are strict rules, which include no fighting, no garbage and even a “bed time.”

Amanda is a mother of two and once owned a home in Chilliwack. According to Amanda, when her husband sold it, he took the money and the kids, and now she’s homeless in Vancouver. Despite all of that, she thinks Vancouver is a beautiful city. Amanda also

says that the answer to the crisis is “homes not shelters,” just like their banner reads.

Back at Rising Sun Motorcycles, Samson Lang agrees.

“There’s a housing crisis, yet there [are] vacant lots all over the place. The city is sitting on its hands.”

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Residents of Main Street’s “Ten Year Tent City” relocated to “Sugar Mountain” in June. Grant Lawrence photo

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We non-drivers are seasoned experts in public transport.

It’s an unpleasant experience at the best of times. At rush hour in the height of summer, it might actually be hell on earth, unless you’re someone that enjoys being squished into a sweaty man’s armpit at 8am (hey, we’re not judging).

There are two varieties of underarm B.O.-buster: Antiperspirants, which reduce your sweating; and deodorants, which contain antimicrobial ingredients that kill stink-producing bacteria and fragrance to mask the smell.

People have all sorts of concerns about them, particularly antiperspirants because they contain aluminum, which has been linked in some studies to Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer.

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The obvious answer to the problem is a regular shower, clean clothes and a liberal skoosh of antiperspirant. But it’s not as simple as that.

These days people are wary of antiperspirants, both for eco reasons (aerosol sprays contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone) and for health ones. It’s easy to reduce the environmental impact by switching to a stick or roll-on, but the health piece of the puzzle is more complex.

We delved deeper into the rumours by talking to Dr. Roohi Qureshi, founder of Leaves of Trees (maker of one of our favourite natural deodorants) and also a chemical engineer and medical doctor. She says: “There isn’t really good scientific data to support these concerns [about Alzheimer’s and breast cancer] at this time. The National Cancer Institute states that there is ‘no scientific evidence’ link-

ing antiperspirants to breast cancer and the Alzheimer’s Association states ‘studies have failed to confirm any role for aluminum’ in causing the disease.”

Nonetheless, the demand for natural deodorants is rising, even though conventional products appear not to be harmful. Why is this?

Qureshi believes there are two reasons. “It’s in large part due to increased consumer awareness about what goes on one’s body, the skin being the body’s largest organ,” she says. “At the same time, there are now natural deodorants available that are effective in the way they work – the product actually keeps [people] smelling fresh.”

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What is it?: A cool Chinatown loft that checks off many of the boxes I’ve looked for in a place to call home (but never had in Vancouver): wall-to-wall windows, polished concrete floors, open-concept layout.

Occupant: I’m an interiors and lifestyle designer, and the design columnist for the Westender.

This is a funny switch of roles for me to be featuring my own home this week, as I usually showcase other sweet pads around the city for this column. I live here with my eight-year-old daughter Sienna and our three-year-old bat-rat-looking chihuahua, Biggie Smalls.

Major selling feature: I think the open concept layout with modular secondbedroom walls was the big seller on us moving into this space. I don’t often gravitate toward traditionally structured spaces, so this condo allowed for two bedrooms while still offering a wide, open feel. Plus, I’ve always loved this neighbourhood and places to live around here aren’t easy to come by.

First thing I changed: I’m a no-exceptions whitewalls kind of girl and this place, while offering very cool bones, had beige walls when we moved in. To me it didn’t suit the space or my taste, so I had the whole unit (walls, ceilings, trims and doors) painted out in a fresh white. People always ask which white to go with, and as simple as it sounds, the Dulux un-tinted pure white base paint is my ultimate go-to. Whatever the lighting, be it natural or incandescent, it never reads too warm or

yellow (my biggest fear when painting walls white), yet it likewise never takes on the blue-ish tint that many people often dislike in a cool, crisp white.

Feature I brag about: The polished floors are my fave. Not only do they pull the clean, industrial vibe I’m into, but from a functional family-home point of view I think they can’t be beat; durable, easy to clean and yet visually chic.

That one conversation piece: With wall-to-wall windows/patio doors and a great south-facing patio, the view and openness make this place hard to beat. It’s always the first thing guests comment on.The view looking south up Main, as well as easily over False Creek and downtown, is pretty unique, and definitely one I take advantage of over morning coffees or evening cocktails.

The decor: I like my home to tell my story, in which by spending time in my sanctuary you will learn a lot about what I value, what I love and who I am. If I had to define the aesthetic of this space, I’d say bohemianglam with a cheeky edge.

The story behind the art/ antiques/collectibles: Many of the pieces – especially the more glamorous ones – are family heirlooms that I inherited from my grandmother, who embodied the essence of chic.

I’ve paired these high-end antiques that have personal meaning with cool artifacts and finds from my favourite vintage shops and bold art with (lots of scores from Canadian art house Citizen Atelier or stellar vintage finds) to create a home that truly captures our personality.

Downsides: As with most downtown accommodations, size mat-

ters and there’s not much of it. When working with a small space, I’ve found that the modular walls and oversized windows definitely help compensate and make it somewhat easier to forget that we are living in 700 square feet.

Neighbourhood haunts: Chinatown is a major hub for great eats and drinks.With almost anything you want at your doorstep, it’s hard to narrow it down! For decor, my ultimate go-to is Space Lab, which has cool treasures, custom goods and both a coffee shop (Aubade Coffee) and barber shop (Bootleg Barbers) housed in the same space. In the mornings I love to hit up The Uncommon Cafe for the best breakfast (or lunch) and house-roasted java in town (Poco Común Coffee Co.), or the freshly launched Kokomo for a healthy smoothie start to the day. Evenings take me many places in my hood, but I can’t beat the patio and bevies at the Keefer Bar, food and wine at The Belgard Kitchen or the atmosphere at Mamie Taylor’s.When I’m feeling the need to get my butt in shape, nothing beats Tight Club – the best (and worst) part is that they aren’t even a block away, so all my excuses are thrown out the window.

Compared to your last place: My last place was a beautiful Edwardian 1905 character house that I had bought with my ex-husband to raise our daughter in. Many of the decor items are the same from that space to this one, although it’s fun to see how they read differently in a modern urban space, versus a traditional home.

Favourite home activity: Entertaining! I’m a funny mix of super social and the ultimate homebody, so whenever the occasion arises to host a group, however big or small, I’m the first in line with open doors. W

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DINING OUT Anya Levykh Fresh Sheet

@FoodGirlFriday L’Abattoir’s Lisa Haley has been promoted to the role of restaurant director.The former assistant GM and wine director was voted Sommelier of theYear at the 2017Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. labattoir.ca Sad news for fans of Charlie’s Little Italian on Main Street.The restaurant held its last service on Sunday, August 6 and is now permanently closed. Part of the Cascade Company group of restaurants, which includes The Cascade Room,The Union and El Camino’s, the cosy eatery has been serving up casual Italian fare since 2013.

Look for the staff to transition to the other locations and stay tuned for news on what will be coming to this space.

Chancho Tortilleria, a new Mexican eatery, has opened at 1206 Seymour St. The corn tortillas are made in-house daily on a special machine from Mexico. Look for various carnitas and vegetarian tortillas. Open Monday to Saturday, 11:30am until food runs out (around 5pm). chancho.ca TWG Tea has decided to steep and chill. The premium tea purveyor has added almost a dozen new tea-based milkshakes to their summer menu, with multiple ice cream and sorbet flavours, including Sakura, Earl Grey, Crème Brulée and more. twgtea.com W

Feast your way through the South Okanagan Eat and drink your way from the Similkameen to Summerland Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday The haze is still lingering over Vancouver, but in the south and central Okanagan the skies are (for the most part) their usual ridiculous bright blue.

The distant fires have put a bit of a damper on the tourism scene, but this is due more to perception than reality. Summer isn’t over yet, and hitting the road to the sunniest part of BC is never a bad idea. Here are a few places to check out as you wind your way through the southern valley.

What better way to start your trip than with wine, and lots of it?The Similkameen is a warm bowl of a valley in the south that is home to some of the best fruit and vegetable farms in the Okanagan.Within the last handful of years, it’s also developed a reputation for its small-lot wineries. Places like Little FarmWinery (tastings by appointment only, littlefarmwinery.ca), run by Master of Wine Rhys Pender and his wife, Alishan Driediger, focuses on a few single varietals, like Chardonnay and Riesling, that best grow in the gusty, desert-like heat of Cawston.

Newcomer Vanessa Vineyard (vanessavineyard. com) also recently opened a tasting room. Growing grapes since 2006, the conversion

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from grower to vintner came in 2012. Favouring heavier varietals like Meritage, Merlot and Syrah, the rocky terrain at this hillside winery allows for better heat retention through the night, making for a better growing season.With almost a dozen wineries in the area, there is more than enough for a few days of tastings.Visit Similkameen Independent Growers (similkameenwine. com) for a full list.

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Farmersdotter (farmersdotter. ca), a local grower of organic garlic, maker of artisan garlic sea salt and baker of pie and bread, now has guest cabins on its property. Do pick up some organic Russian Red garlic while you’re there.

Moving along Highway 3 (also known as the Crowsnest Highway), you’ll hit Osoyoos, home to more fruit farms, a few wineries, and some swanky places to stay. Walnut Beach Resort (walnutbeachresort.com) sits right on Lake Osoyoos and offers apartment-style suites, lots of pool space for the kidlets, and a restaurant, Pointe 49 Kitchen and Bar, run by chef Natasha Schooten, that offers everything from Ocean Wise ceviche to flatbreads, burgers and slow-smoked ribs. Closer to town, check out Watermark Wine Bar at Watermark Beach Resort (watermarkbeachresort.com) for a great local wine list and fun share plates.

Head north and you come to Oliver, home to BC’s first official sub-appellation, the Golden Mile that runs along Highway 97 and includes such renowned wineries as Burrowing Owl, Hester Creek,

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At the latter, you will find the famed Miradoro and executive chef Jeff van Geest, who dishes out some of the region’s most innovative and delicious plates, like Moroccan-spiced beef crudo or any of the delicious Napoletana-style pizzas (the mushroom is a fave).

Miradoro isn’t the only big dining game in town. The Sonora Room at Burrowing Owl has long been a dining destination.The new resto on the bench is Terrafina at Hester Creek (terrafinarestaurant. com).The Tuscan-style restaurant was recently taken over by chef Rod Butters of Kelowna’s RauDZ and Micro, along with his partners.While the Italian focus remains, the menu has been reworked into dishes like the cauliflower and saffron soup, cherry-smoked steak, and grilled arctic char (from just down the road) with farro-pancetta salad. For a more casual experience, there ain’t no place better than El Sabor de Marina (facebook. com/elsabordemarina) for the best roadside tacos (literally, it’s an outdoor stand on Highway 97) north of Mexico.

Burrowing Owl and Hester Creek both offer luxe guest suites, but if you’re looking to

Top: Miradoro at Tinhorn Creek. Bottom: Vanessa Vineyard.

Contributed photos save money for all those dinners, check out Maple Leaf Motel and RV Campground Resort (mapleleafmotel.ca). If you’re not into the whole RV and tent scene, there are very nice renovated rooms in the motel that are air-conditioned and include a nice pool for a

mid-day cool-off.There’s also a barbecue if you want to fire up your own steaks.

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B.C.’s gold medal gin Here’s a local spirit to add a tonic to your liquor cabinet Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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British Columbia’s artisan gins are in a tricky place.

Some are interesting, but not exactly delicious.

Some taste good, but aren’t exciting enough to warrant the high price tag that the difficulty of making local hooch demands. Some have such powerful cereal notes you know the distiller really wants to be making whisky instead. Some taste like per-

fume, others like vodka.

And then there’s Queensborough gin from Surrey’s Central City Brewers + Distillers.

Beautifully balanced and infused with B.C.-grown spruce tips and juniper berries, it’s the only Canadian gin to have won double gold at the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. It also took gold at the 2016 San Diego International Spirits Competition and the SIP Awards, an international consumer tastings competition.

Clearly, Central City has a winner on their hands.

“I think it’s done well at international spirits competitions so quickly because of our focus on using highquality distilling methods and the best local ingredi-

ents, as well as its smooth profile,” says Central City’s head distiller, Stuart McKinnon. “It makes it an excellent choice for mixing cocktails, which is what most people do with gin.”

Queensborough – a nod to the original name of New Westminster – is a traditional London Dry-style gin with a pleasant floral nose, notes of pine, rosemary and jasmine on the palate, and a long, smooth, citrusy finish.

It’s largely theVancouver Island spruce tips that give it that citrusy flavour, though some citrus peels are also used in the botanical mix. Meanwhile, the juniper berries – which are the essential ingredient that makes it gin and not flavoured vodka – come from the Interior and impart those deliciously piney notes.

The base is a wheat-based neutral grain spirit (NGS),

Vancouver’s best craft beer patios Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

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Central City gin. which means in B.C. it can’t technically be called “craft.”

(Under the province’s rules, a craft distillery must use 100 per cent B.C. agricultural ingredients and both ferment and distill them on site.)

That said, most London Dry gins, including those actually made in London, are made with NGS; the idea is

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Cove and Phillips Brewing, under their Fermentorium label – are making spirits. And why not, when they already have the raw materials close at hand?

In any case, McKinnon sees lots of opportunity for both brewers and distillers.

“Similar to what is occurring in the craft beer industry in B.C., I strongly believe there is an opportunity for collaboration between craft distilleries,” he says. “I also see more creativity and experimentation happening from craft distilling, just as we see in craft beer.”

Which is all well and good, but for now, we have a nice smooth award-winning gin that will see us through the last hazy days of summer. And we’ll happily drink to that.

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85 W. 1st Ave. CraftBeerMarket.ca/vancouver There are so many beers on tap at Craft Beer Market that, if you were to have a different pint every day, it would take you almost five months to try every single one.That’s more than 140 draft beers for those keeping track at home.

In addition to the best tap list in the city, the patio is pretty sweet, too. Housed in the historic Vancouver Salt Co. warehouse, Craft’s patio opens on to Olympic Village Square, with views of False Creek, Downtown and the North Shore mountains. If you’re looking for a few road pops for the walk home, Legacy Liquor Store is right next door, and it might have Vancouver’s best craft beer selection.

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to have a smooth and, well, neutral base that lets the botanicals dominate.

Those who ferment and distill their own grains often end up with something closer to genever, the Dutch spirit from which gin evolved.

Genever is rounder, fruitier and grainier than London Dry. It can be delicious, but will rarely offer the clean botanical bite we crave in gin.

Whisky, on the other hand...

Central City, which only began distilling in 2013, is also making whisky and for that it is sourcing, milling, fermenting and distilling its own grains. Basically, it’s just taking the process they use for their Red Racer and other beers one step further by putting it through a copper pot still and then into barrels.

They’re not alone. More and more craft breweries – includingYaletown, Deep

1950 Triumph St. Parallel49Brewing.com Thankfully, the renovations to P49’s tasting room were completed just in time to take advantage of summer. Gone is the familiar featureless white cell that looked more like a tire showroom than a brewery.

In its place is a thoroughly modern tasting room with long metallic communal tables extending out onto the sidewalk patio, allowing punters to soak up some much-needed Vitamin D with their pints.

One of the most eye-catching aspects of the redesign is the brightly graffitied food

The newly launched Parallel 49 patio. Dan Toulgoet photo truck that sits inside the tasting room.

The best part? There are 20 draft taps now, all of them (well, most of them) pouring P49 beers. In fact, in order to make enough beer to feed those taps, P49 has installed a separate 10hL brewhouse just for small-batch brews. I imagine they’re brewing 24/7 to keep up.

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295 E. 1st Ave. RedTruckBeer.com Tucked away in an industrial area at the foot of Mount Pleasant, Red Truck Beer Co. is an oasis among the bodyshops and grey concrete boxes that surround it. Red Truck’s Truck Stop features a tasting room, restaurant and expansive patio, all of which are open to the elements on sunny days. Clearly no expense has been spared here, as is evidenced by the massive branded water tower rising above the brewery or the eponymous red truck that is suspended from the ceiling inside. Indeed, few craft breweries look this sharp. In addition to Red Truck’s staple brews, you’ll also find one-offs like the Ginger Lemongrass Saison or the Ryzenshein Kettle Sour Gose.

Be sure to check out their weekly live music and their outdoor concert series this summer; Lee Fields and The

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203 Carrall St. SixAcres.ca Six Acres’ patio might be small in size, but score a table and you’re set for the day with front row seats to the non-stop parade of humanity that is Gassy Jack Square.

It was also one of the first establishments in this city to support the local craft beer scene, so major props there.

The beer list is extensive and varied, with nine local craft taps and dozens of American and European imports, so you’ll have no difficulty finding something you haven’t tried before.The food, whisky and wine offerings are similarly impressive.

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Queer Film Fest issues ‘Love. Resist’ rallying cry Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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Welcome to the Resistance.

You need look no further than social media to see that resistance is having a moment.

Resist is the hashtag du jour when tweeting one’s displeasure with the current occupant of the White House, but it’s hardly specific to American politics. As far as words go, resist is a mighty one: loaded with history, heroes and hope, it’s long been a rallying cry to push back against systems of oppression, tyranny and totalitarianism.

So, in a volatile era, when it’s normal for the POTUS to tweet out bigotry-laced communiqués at three in the morning, and marginalized communities face rising tides of hatred all over the world (including a rapid increase in hate crimes against people of colour and LGBTQ+ communities south of the border), resistance is the perfect theme for the 2017 edition of theVancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), a fest rooted in celebrating and empowering the global LGBTQ+ community.

VQFF is the second largest film festival in the city, and the only one in town whose guiding principle is to illuminate queer lives through film. For its 29th edition – which kicks off on Aug. 10 with a screening of the 2017 Sundance Award-winning film I Dream in Another Language (Sueno en Otro Idioma) –VQFF will screen 65 documentaries and narrative films from 17 countries, including seven Canadian premieres and a considerable concentration of cinema produced here in the 604.

Resistance is centre-stage in VQFF’s promotional material for 2017: the festival’s program guide bears an illustration of a clenched fist combined with a human heart, accompanied by the words “Your heart is

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Resist.”

“With the current political climate, if there’s any time to put resistance into our art, it’s now,” says Anoushka Ratnarajah, who shares theVQFF artistic director mantle with writer Amber Dawn.The duo began their tenure as coartistic directors in March, and met with Reel People in the VQFF office late last month, surrounded by stacks of glossy VQFF program guides.

What does resistance look like for a festival as purposedriven asVQFF? For Ratnarajah – who previously held the festival administrator position at Indian Summer Festival – resistance “looks like so many of [VQFF’s] films. It looks like direct action. It looks like love stories. It looks like queer people just being characters already fully realized in an existing storyline. It does also still look like coming out, but it looks like so much more than coming out. It looks like the intersectionality of our experiences. It looks at the breadth of our experiences. Resistance can mean anything.”

As incoming film festival ar-

tistic directors, resistance also meant ensuring that traditionally marginalized voices were heard, according to Dawn.

“The barriers that exist within all the film industry affect queer cinema, too. And it’s not unique to film, but film is a particularly gate-kept art-form, and it’s our job to do a lot of research and look at international festivals really closely,” she says.

The festival receives a high percentage of film submissions from white, cisgender men, Dawn adds, and far fewer from women filmmakers, especially women of colour and trans women.

“Every artistic director should consider relationship-building, and building trust with whoever has been underrepresented within their festival,” says Dawn, who previously held the artistic director position from 2009 to 2012. “That should be a priority.”

Immediately upon being hired, Dawn and Ratnarajah cast their gaze to festivals around the world in order to uplift and amplify underrepresented voices. “It’s great to look at Sundance and the

Berlinale, and of course we do.

We want excellence and those film festivals showcase excellence. But we also looked at all the quote-unquote underdog festivals, or the festivals that don’t have an international reputation, to see who’s producing work for those festivals,” says Dawn.

The result is a schedule that represents the breadth, depth and diversity of the global LGBTQ+ community and provides ample opportunities for validation, connection, and education – which are all essential to sustaining the resistance movement and inspiring change. “To see any kind of large-scale change happening where we are actually able to have places where people are safe, and not just meeting the bare minimum of safety but actually able to have fulfilling lives, that involves a huge cultural shift, and art has an integral role in that cultural shift,” says Ratnarajah.

Dawn identifies Dream Boat, a documentary about an annual gay cruise from German director Tristan Milewski, as one of her festival highlights because it touched

her in ways she did not expect.

“On the surface, it’s men in cute outfits partying on a boat, looking gorgeous,” she recalls, “but then they start talking to each other, and they’re all from very different experiences, and they start talking about how lonely it can be to be a partnerless gay man, how important love and intimacy are in their lives, and how hard it is to find.

“If anyone thinks men’s party culture is vacuous,” she adds, “watch this film.”

For Ratnarajah, a standout is Maybe Tomorrow (Baka Bukas), a narrative dramedy from Filipino director Samantha Lee about best friends who fall in love with each other. Ratnarajah says Maybe Tomorrow is VQFF’s most millennial film. “We have a concept of millennials being particularly North American, but there are millennials all over the world, and to look at what young folks in the Philippines are struggling with, how they celebrate with each other, where they gather, the kinds of friendships and love-ships that they share with each other, it’s really great,” Ratnarajah says.

Lee will be in attendance for both VQFF screenings of her film.

Locally produced fare includes the Leo Award-winning documentary Antonette, which follows trans poet Antonette Rea as she rehearses for her soul-baring stage show at the 2016 PuSH Festival; A Small Part of Me, about a trans teen in Squamish who is navigating the foster system and preparing for a play; Stay Gold Man Up, a celebration of Vancouver’s monthly multigender drag spectacular at the Cobalt; The March Sweater, wherein five local elders speak on life, love, and aging; and The Coast is Queer, the annual crowd-pleasing program of local short films from an array of genres. (For Reel People’s top picks for VQFF 2017, see page 13).

And tying it all together is that thread of resistance, says Ratnarajah, because “resistance looks all kinds of different ways. It looks like two Thai fathers trying to get dual custody of their son in Thailand [Fathers, directed

by Palatpol Mingpornpichit].

It looks like Victoria Cruz, a trans activist in NewYork City, trying to solve the unsolved mystery of Marsha P. Johnson’s death [in David Frances’ The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson]. It looks like Nisha Ganatra making Chutney Popcorn, which is an archival film that we’re bringing back this year for a screening at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza, and was the first film that I saw where I was like, ‘Oh my god, a South Asian lesbian, I can’t believe this!’”

“We all access resistance, or are coming to resistance, from different places,” Ratnarajah adds. “There’s no one way to do it, and there’s no better way to do it.” W The Vancouver Queer Film Festival runs Aug. 10-20 at venues around Vancouver.

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VQFF Vancouver Queer Film Festival guide I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en Otro Idioma) Opening Gala Screening Thursday, Aug. 10 | 7:00 PM Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Opening Night Party Thursday, Aug. 10 | 9:30 PM Queen Elizabeth Plaza | Membership Required | 19+ Signature Move Friday, Aug. 11 | 7:00 PM | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

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Maybe Tomorrow (Baka Bukas) Saturday, Aug. 12 | 6:30 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village Fathers Saturday, Aug. 12 | 9:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin Saturday, Aug. 12 | 9:30 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Heartland Friday, Aug. 11 | 9:00 PM | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Gentlemen of the Shade with Jen Sookfong Lee Sunday, Aug. 13 | 1:30 PM Waterfront Theatre

DTF: Down to Fright | Shorts Program Friday, Aug. 11 | 9:30 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

Chosen Family Story Hour with Vivek Shraya, Alan Woo, and Monique Gray Smith Sunday, Aug. 13 | 3:30 PM Waterfront Theatre

Signature Move Saturday, Aug. 12 | 2:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall | Repeat Screening Sunday, Aug. 13 | 4:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en Otro Idioma) | Repeat Screening Saturday, Aug. 12 | 4:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

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In the Picture with Vivek Shraya and K Ho Saturday, Aug. 12| 5:00 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall | Youth Gala Screening

The Troublemakers Film Project | Shorts Program Sunday, Aug. 13 | 6:30 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts The Geopolitics of Queer Shorts Program Sunday, Aug. 13 | 6:30 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village Small Talk (Ri Chan Dui Hua) Sunday, Aug. 13 | 9:00 PM | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Dream Boat Sunday, Aug. 13 | 9:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village Intergenerations Social Monday, Aug. 14 | 5:30 PM Jim Deva Plaza | Free social with pop up performances Stay Gold, March Forward Shorts Program Monday, Aug. 14 | 7:00 PM Vancity Theatre Discreet Monday, Aug. 14 | 7:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village Jewel’s Catch One Monday, Aug. 14 | 9:00 PM Vancity Theatre Play the Devil Monday, Aug. 14 | 9:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village Centre of My World Tuesday, Aug. 15 | 6:30 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village IndigiFemme: Body Sovereignties | Shorts Program + Live Performance Tuesday, Aug. 15 | 7:00 pm Vancity Theatre IndigiFemme: Sex Sovereignties| Shorts Program + Live Performance Tuesday, Aug. 15 | 9:30 pm Vancity Theatre

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Centre of My World Satuday, Aug. 19 | 2:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

FREE CeCe! | Centrepiece Gala Screening Wednesday, Aug. 16 | 6:30 PM Vancouver Playhouse Theatre

How to Get Over Book launch with T’ai Freedom Ford Satuday, Aug. 19 | 4:00 PM Vancouver Public Library – Strathcona Branch

Maybe Tomorrow (Baka Bukas) Wednesday, Aug. 16 | 7:00 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village

Taxi Stories Saturday, Aug. 19 | 4:30 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts The Revival: Women and the Word Saturday, Aug. 19 | 7:00 PM York Theatre

Chutney Popcorn Wednesday, Aug. 16 | 9:30 PM Queen Elizabeth Plaza Free Outdoor Screening Body Electric (Corpo Elétrico) Wednesday, Aug. 16 | 9:30 PM Cineplex Odeon International Village The Migrant Mixtape Shorts Program Thursday, Aug. 17 | 7:00 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts A Million Happy Nows Thursday, Aug. 17 | 7:00 PM | Cineplex Odeon International Village Taxi Stories Thursday, Aug. 17 | 9:00 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

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Body Electric plays Wed. Aug. 16 at the Cineplex Odeon International Village. Contributed photo Seventeen (Siebzehn) Thursday, Aug. 17 | 9:00 PM | Cineplex Odeon International Village Antonette & Tobin: Local Trans Stories | Shorts Program Friday, Aug. 18 | 5:30 PM SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts The Coast Is Queer Friday, Aug. 18 | 7:00 PM York Theatre

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Outsider Arts: Vancouver’s marginalized creatives form festival TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Karen Irving is an outsider artist. Self-taught from the get-go, the Vancouver-based creative turned to painting in 2005 after contracting a rare and life-threatening infection.

“I don’t really like telling this story because it identifies me as [having been] ill, but it’s the truth,” she says. “I was supposed to die, but I didn’t.”

Irving was off work and recovering from the nearfatal illness when her doctor suggested that she put her thoughts and feelings down on canvas. Fast forward 12 years and, this weekend, the enthusiastic artist is showing her art in the first-ever Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Centre, Aug. 11-12.

Pierre Leichner, artistic director of the festival, says the inspiration for the festival came partly from Europe’s long tradition of honouring outsider artists.

“Europe has had a longer tradition of outsider art,” he explains, noting that Paris and London, among other cities, hold similar festivals.

Not only are marginalized artists negatively impacted by their exclusion from the

Artist and Outsider Arts Festival organizer Karen Irving in her studio. Dan Toulgoet photo mainstream art world, but Leichner says that when their work isn’t on display, the public misses out, as well.

As a core organizer of the event, Irving, 52, has helped recruit more than 50 visual and performing artists, all of whom lack access to mainstream art education or institutions.

Reached by phone, Irving told Westender that her moti-

vation to help with the show comes from her gratitude for the arts community.

“I really try to get myself immersed with the neighbourhood and give back with what I can do myself, as an artist,” she says.

Irving’s transition into visual arts was rocky. Initially, she declined her doctor’s suggestion that she try painting. Instead, after recovering

from her traumatic illness, she left her job in finance and went travelling. But, in London, England, a window display of a multi-colour leather dress caught her attention. She snapped a picture and, when she got home, began to paint.

“I did everything selftaught. I used sponges from the house, I didn’t know what I was doing, I just was

completely alone,” the enthusiastic painter recalls.

Irving began working with different paints and tools, getting tips from the salespeople at her local art supply store, while simultaneously beginning a new career as a project manager at Vancouver Coastal Health.

Things were going well for the self-professed “workaholic.” She was making $80 an hour but working 80 hours a week. She lived in South Granville, bought high-end suits and went to fancy dinners.

Soon, four years had passed and her painting skill had progressed, developing into a sophisticated technique using knives, acrylics and oils. With the encouragement of others, she donated a few of her paintings to a charity auction at her work.

“I wasn’t planning on being an artist; I just was doing it for myself,” Irving says. But everything changed when she brought her work in.

“People in the office were so excited, and I sold $11,000 worth of art to my colleagues, and I didn’t [even] have a website.”

Then, tragedy struck again. Irving contracted Crohn’s disease, was forced to stop working and found

herself with little money.

“God doesn’t give you anything more than you can handle, but I wouldn’t wish this journey on anyone else,” she says with a heavy sigh, recalling how she had to rebuild her life and identity.

She lost her friends and could no longer afford to live in her neighbourhood, so she moved to the Downtown Eastside, where she encountered the community-run art space Gallery Gachet, located a block away from her new home.

She quickly became a member of the organizing collective, and then a board member.

“That save, save, saved me, because I met other likeminded artists,” Irving says.

“Now I’m so grateful … Now I’m an artist. Now I have a fabulous life and I wouldn’t trade it. And so I’m where I’m supposed to be, but I never would have thought that in a million years.” W • The Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival runs Aug. 1112 at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Opening reception Friday, Aug. 11 at 4 p.m. Free.

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and trans activists, including Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox, who subsequently executive produced this film about CeCe’s trial and life as an activist and educator. Aug. 16 & 18

It’s difficult to make a wrong choice at the 29th edition of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Aug. 10-20), but if you need some recommendations, we’ve got you covered:

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SIGNATURE MOVE

(Jennifer Reeder, USA) A stand-out comedy at this year’s SXSW, Signature Move stars co-writer Fawzia Mirza as Zaynab, a queer (and semicloseted) second generation Pakistani woman in Chicago.

When Zaynab meets Alma, an out Chicana woman, Zaynab must literally grapple with her choices in life and love - and a few tough women wrestlers, too. Aug. 12

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: TODRICK HALL

(Katherine Fairfax Wright, USA) Cameras roll as wildly talentedYouTube and Broadway starTodrick Hall launches his most ambitious project yet: the full-scale original musical Straight Outta Oz. Part tour chronicle and part biography, director Fairfax delivers a moving coming-of-age story at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Aug. 12 & 13

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SMALL TALK (RI CHANG DUI HUA)

(Hui-chen Huang, Taiwan) Winner of Best Documentary at the 2017 Berlinale, Small Talk follows the director as she attempts to understand her mother (who divorced her violent husband, brought up her daughters alone, became a Taoist priestess, and had many relationships with women) through a series of gripping conversations. Aug. 13

FREE CECE!

(Jac Gares, USA) In June 2011, Chrishaun Ree “CeCe” McDonald was brutally attacked.While defending her life, her attacker was killed, and CeCe was incarcerated in a Minnesota men’s prison. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered support from media

(Doris Yeung, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Netherlands) Billed as one of the most ambitious and nuanced films in the fest (largely due to the fact that it was filmed in three different countries), Taxi Stories tells the stories of a closeted cab driver in Beijing, a trophy wife and her Indonesian maid in Hong Kong, and a young pedi-cab driver in Jakarta. Aug. 17

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(Chanelle Aponte Pearson, USA) Race, queerness, and polyamory are investigated with honesty and affection in this award-winning web series turned film festival hit from Chanelle Aponte Pearson, who set out to represent Bed-Stuy as she sees it: Black, queer, and home to the activists and artists that make the Brooklyn neighbourhood vibrant and unique. Aug. 19 • Full schedule at queerfilmfestival.ca. W

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A Two Gents for the 21st century JO LEDINGHAM @joledingham

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

At Bard on the Beach. Held over until September 20, 2017 Tickets from $21 at bardonthebeach.org

Story Story Lie creator Jo Dworschak has turned lying into a game show. Contributed photo

Story, Story, Lie is full of it

Can you spot the liar? Popular storytelling event a game of deception Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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In this dizzying era of alternative facts and fake news, spotting a lie when it’s masquerading as truth is an essential survival skill.

It’s also the aim of one of the most inventive events on the Vancouver arts calendar: Story Story Lie, which makes a monthly game show out of telling tall tales.

Story Story Lie is the brainchild of Jo Dworschak, who was inspired to launch a monthly storytelling event in Vancouver after enjoying similar spoken-word events while travelling overseas.

Vancouver has plenty of storytelling events on the calendar, but Dworschak’s event comes with a competitive twist: performers share intimate, hilarious and embarrassing stories that seem too tall to be true – but only one of the stories actually is just that.

Only Dworschak and the

assigned liar know who the liar is; the four other storytellers don’t know, nor does the audience. During the show, audience members are encouraged to inundate the storytellers with questions in an attempt to reveal the liar, and then text to their guesses to Dworschak.

The first audience member to correctly identify the liar wins (according to the press release) “respect, admiration, and an amazing prize,” and the winning storyteller is the one who’s tricked the most people.

“What they’re trying to do when they’re telling a true story is make it seem like it’s a lie,” says Dworschak. “If they’re telling a lie, they’re trying to make it seem like it’s a true story.”

All of the stories must be original, but that’s where similarities begin and end.

After one year of Story Story Lies, Dworschak (who both produces and hosts the monthly shows) says she still hasn’t identified a single thread that runs between the winning stories.

Over the course of Story Story Lie’s first year, one liar told a seemingly mundane story about why he’d been late for work one day; another related an improbable but believable tale about hijacking an airplane. Dworschak

told a story about the first lie she ever told: in kindergarten, when she’d claimed credit for an unsigned piece of art that wasn’t hers and her proud mother hung it up in their front hallway where it remained until Dworschak was in high school.

When Dworschak told this true story as part of Story Story Lie, “most people thought I was lying,” she chuckles.

Story Story Lie celebrates its one-year anniversary on Aug. 11 with an all-star show at the Fox Cabaret.

Dworschak has invited back five of Story Story Lie’s trickiest storytellers: Mark Hughes (Comedy Shocker) Zain Meghji (Daily Hive), Suzy Rawsome (Comedy Basement) Burcu (Burcu’s Angels) and Nic Enright-Morin (Been around the Word).

This will be Story Story Lie’s final show at the Fox Cabaret; due to consistently sold-out crowds, Story Story Lie’s September show will take place at the Rio Theatre, which can accommodate at least 100 more audience members. W Story Story Lie’s anniversary show takes place on Aug. 11 at the Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10-$12

Finally someone has the wit and the nerve to do something about the unsatisfying conclusion of The Two Gentlemen ofVerona.That someone is director Scott Bellis. Not only does he bring the curtain down on a really provocative note but he cast an adorable Basset hound (solemn-looking Gertie) as Crab.

As with many of Shakespeare’s plays in which the so-called happy ending doesn’t sit well, especially with women, Two Gentlemen presents the same problem: we spend the early part of the play watching Proteus (Charlie Gallant) sighing for love of Julia (Kate Besworth) then suddenly falling for Silvia (Adele Noronha), the betrothed of his best friend Valentine (Nadeem Phillip). That gets sorted out but just as Portia deserves better than Bassanio in The Merchant ofVenice, so Julia deserves better than Proteus. And arguably, Silvia deserves a better mate than Valentine. His forgiveness of Proteus, who has attempted to rape Silvia, might be seen as Christian charity but it’s ludicrous: Proteus is just a jerk and undeserving of forgiveness.

Written in Shakespeare’s 20s, Two Gentlemen is an early comedy with ideas that he used and re-used for years to come: sudden romantic turnarounds (think of Romeo pining for Rosaline until he lays eyes on Juliet); a lover wooing on behalf of another (Viola/Cesario in Twelfth Night) and young women cross-dressing as young men (too numerous to count).

With sumptuous gowns on the gentlewomen, a wonderfully layered raggedy costume on the Hostess (Olivia Hutt) and very ‘Three Musketeerish’ getups with broad, plumed hats on the outlaws, costume designer Mara Gottler makes the actors look fabulous.The set, designed by scenic designer Marshall McMahen for both Two Gentlemen as well as The Merchant ofVenice, works equally well for both; in Two Gentlemen, the windows in the stone towers are green-shuttered in rustic Verona, but open up to reveal sparkling crystal chandeliers when the action moves to cosmopolitan Milan. Sound design by Julie Casselman is subtle, unobtrusive and perfect for the various dance scenes.

And, oh, the dances! Choreographed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, the first is all puppy love between Julia and Proteus; the second, featuring Valentine and Silvia is elegant and super-romantic; the third is a boisterous, heyday dance with the Hostess and Launce (Andrew Cownden). Absolutely stunning is the masked dance with slow, courtly choreography and dazzling costumes.

Phillip and Noronha are well cast as lovers; he, initially boyish, matures as his character Valentine comes to some self-awareness

over the course of the play.

Noronha brings dark-eyed beauty and dignity to Silvia.

Launce and Speed (Chirag Naik), servants to Proteus and Valentine respectively, are the source of most of the considerable humour. Naik is wired and sprightly while Cownden, Gertie in tow, is a bit of a sly country bumpkin and very, very funny. On the night I attended, Gertie had us in gales of laughter with her sad eyes and, at one point, the unabashed licking of her nether parts. Director Bellis gives Cownden some good extra lines including one that Launce admits was not written by Shakespeare. If you want a play about “Jews and Christians,” says Launce, “you should see The Merchant ofVenice.”

You should see The Two Gentlemen ofVerona; it’s audacious, entertaining, brilliantly conceived and executed.The pick of the Bard 2017 litter.

Hats off to director Scott Bellis for his intelligent and witty re-interpretation of the play and hats off to the cast, design team and crew who make it work. It wouldn’t surprise me if this take on the play were to be picked up by other theatre companies and The Two Gentlemen ofVerona, seldom mounted these days, is given new life.

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Cry of Silence gives voice to all-Asian rock JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

White kids on guitars? It’s getting kind of tired, guys.

Thankfully there’s a new wave of all-Asian heavy rock taking shape in Vancouver that’s bringing a bit more diversity to the scene.

It’s led by Cry of Silence, a four-piece started by ChineseCanadian Ed Lam around 10 years ago.The all-Asian lineup wasn’t intentional, but came about around 2009 after some personnel changes.

“People came up to me and said this is a neat concept…

I’ve never seen an all-Asian band rock out hard like this,” says Lam, who fronts the band on vocals, guitar and keyboards.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona’s masked dance, featuring choreography by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. David Blue photo

“Many people thought it was a great idea to inspire the Asian demographic that way.”

Lam says the reason there hasn’t been more Asian rock groups is mostly cultural, with the concept of playing live on stage not being that traditional.With few Asian touchstones, it’s notable that Cry of Silence draws its influences from U.S. rock of the 1990s, with the grunge menace of Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots and some spiky Green Day punk-isms all apparent.

But Lam hints at the notion that many Asian-fronted bands are overlooked in Canada and the U.S. “We have a really huge Asian population in Vancouver, but at all the festivals and

shows that happen around Vancouver and I find there’s not enough players out there in terms of Asian representation,” he says.

Cry of Silence are doing their part to turn that around, having put on shows with a strong Asian presence, including one with Portland, Ore.’s The Slants last year.

This Friday sees an allAsian affair at 333 on Clark Drive, with the all-Filipino It Ends With Us and Taiwanese punksters Cras supporting Lam’s band, which also features Isaac Feng (lead guitar) and Ed Naoe (drums, sometimes switching places with his twin brother Emerson).

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A few years ago, as they ventured three hours down a logging road in Haida Gwaii, deep into the Pacific Northwest wilderness, Brianne Miller and her friend discovered that, even there, humans had left their mark.They managed to pick up a couple bags of garbage as they walked along the coastline.

“It was literally one of the most remote places I’ve ever been; there’s nothing between Haida Gwaii and Japan, but we still found garbage,” Miller laments. It made her realize that “we need to tackle waste at the source.” And the idea for a zero-waste grocery store began to take root.

Miller founded the Zero Waste Market, recently rebranded Nada, with the “goal of cultivating a better world by changing the way people shop for groceries.” For the last year and a half, the monthly Nada pop-up shop has been held at outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia, steadily building a strong base of environmentally aware consumers. Organic dry goods, olive oil, coffee and homemade baked goods, as well as locally made soap are available for sale in bulk, eliminating extra packaging and waste. Instead, customers bring their own bags and bottles or purchase reusable containers on site.

“We deal with phenomenal businesses doing cool things,” Miller notes. “Many are female-led or Indigenous-run local businesses with a focus on sustainability.”

Miller believes it’s important to “connect people to their food, and share why we source from a particular company.” All of the products have a story, and team members boast an encyclopedic knowledge of how and where products are sourced.

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Another formative moment in Miller’s journey towards zero-waste advocacy occurred while she was doing her masters in marine biology.

As part of her marine mammal observation in Northern Quebec, she was studying the region’s whales, focusing on how they were impacted by human-generated underwater sound from construction and shipping. A local construction company was working on a huge building, and the pile-driving they were doing reverberated deep into the earth, disturbing whales in the waters nearby. Her job was to watch for whales and, when one came through, she would signal the workers to stop.

By herself, in the middle of nowhere, directly observing human impact on marine animals, she started to think about what she could do personally to save the environment. After listening to “hundreds of hours of podcasts,” she began to get more interested in local food systems and supply-chain sustainability, directly linking a lot of the problems to the food system, including fertilizers, shipping, underwater noise, changes in habitat use, and climate change. “The zero-waste grocery idea was a summary of everything I’d learned,” she says. Soon after, she got a job in Vancouver doing marine mammal work,

and she started the zerowaste market on the side.

Through SFU’s Accelerated Business Program and RADIUS Slingshot Accelerator program, which offers an investment pool for social ventures, Miller “learned about business, did tons of market research, and did a lot of work on the backend.”

Through pop-up shops (like the one this weekend at the Vancouver Mural Festival) and product testing, Nada has gradually honed its offerings to a finely curated ethical selection.

A brick-and-mortar store could be up and running as soon as January.They have a lease and a location in East Van. Miller says that our culture’s interest in sustainable living will “only increase as people become more educated about environmental problems.We live on a planet with finite resources, and I believe that every small action counts.” W

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@MyszkaWay When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up. I wanted to be pretty, mature, curvy and hot. Growing up seemed like heaven: cars, boobs and boys.

Freedom from my awkward innocence. I was dying to get the hell out.

Physically, I stayed a kid a lot longer than most of my female classmates.While the “hot girls” were developing cleavage in their cotton training bras, I was a surfboard who was so behind in her development that she had to have 12 baby teeth pulled just to be up to speed.What a horrible thing to do to an ugly duckling who was still years away from her period.The summer before high school I had massive gaps in my smile like I had drank nothing but Coca Cola since birth. I could put my four front teeth over my bottom lip. Four perfect chiclets. No boobs, no period, no teeth.This is when I stopped believing in God. Before the tragic tooth excavation, I was still a pretty weird looking kid. Cute, if you like mice more than actual humans. I was skinny with pale hair, even paler skin and I had big, dark eyes that took up half my face. Regardless of my awkward looks, I did manage a false confidence and strong attitude (which I carried on throughout high school). I stuffed my shyness away because when you don’t have beauty on your side, you have to find other avenues to

get respect from your peers.

Especially the boys.

“Flirting” came in two forms: teasing or note passing.Teasing was the best way to flirt because it was long form. An epic saga that started at recess and didn’t end until summer break. A girl could always tell the flirtteasing from the real-teasing.

Flirt-teasing was innocent, playful and often left you pawing back and smiling like a Southern pageant queen blushing off a compliment.

Note passing was less tedious than teasing and straight to the point. It was all business, kind of like Tinder. “Do you want to go out? Check ‘YES’ or ‘NO’”. “Do you like Brandon? Check ‘YES’, ‘NO’ or ‘MAYBE’.” Of course all of this was practice.We were pretending to be adults, because our flirting never went anywhere.We held hands, pecked one another, and the really advanced kids sucked face (or just told everyone they did).You got more action as a toddler playing “doctor” then you did in the the sixth grade. “Going out” meant that you held hands in the hallway.

My crush was my friend Dane. Remember when “liking” someone was big shit?

I still remember Dane’s black and white sneakers, his glasses and his fuzzy, blond crew cut. He was short and spry. Dane didn’t walk, he bounced. And he wore the khakis his mom bought him.They were very M.C. Hammer meet professional baseball player.

Dane and I passed a lot of notes because we sat across

from one another. Every page in my Duo-Tang had a notesized bite taken out of the bottom corner.We jammed as much gossip as we could onto those tiny pieces of paper.

I have this cloudy memory of Dane passing me a tiny, folded flap of paper and it finally getting flirtatious.This wasn’t the typical “Do you like me” note flirting, but nuanced and contentious. It was as heavy as heavy gets when you are a kid. I can’t remember, how it ended, but what I do remember is that initial feeling. It was the first anxiousness of crushing on someone and knowing you really meant it. Dane gave me butterflies and I had no idea what to do with them.

I don’t think I ever told him I liked him. It was easier to joke with Dane during a game of Capture the Flag, or help him with the crushes he had on my friends with cleavage.That was always the safe position: the friend. It was easier to flirt from the sidelines. No one even knew you were playing. I wonder what Dane is doing now? I can remember my childhood best friend’s home phone number, the name of every grade school teacher I ever had, and my Halloween costume of 1996, but I can’t remember Dane’s last name.

I wish I could text my 11-year-old self and ask her what really went down with Dane.Was she unintentionally using the nice guy to practice for her teenage future, or did she really like like him?

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They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.

This is the Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or v ¯ w} } ~ } m u ~ to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer ~~ p ~ } } ~ } ~ tw dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-thepalms disappearance from the game of life. It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist.”

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ls } w~ } } } } s w ~} muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. w} s w } the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water.

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Are you willing to accept that?

Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If s w v s t s } { w } feelings, then the cures for those feelings will s ~} s w } ¯ w see what you need to do to escape at least some s w ~w{ ¯ ¤ s w ~ ~~ ~ my dear. Remember your near-misses and total z ~ ~¯ ~ s w u s w ~ } relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.

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