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LANE GAMES

I have no idea whether I am alone in the opinion that follows, whether the subject has been hashed or rehashed over the years, or whether anyone even cares, but I am almost 50 years old and have seen enough of our aging streets and lanes to say something, so here goes.

Why must traffic northbound on Denman Street awaiting Stanley Park or the Lions Gate Bridge be perennially backed up in the left lane while the right lane’s directive to “turn right only at Robson Street” remains some kind of timeless commandment never to be reconsidered?

There are even keen VPD eyes waiting to nab the poor sod who squeaks across Robson Street from that right lane!

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must fine you $168.”

“Oh, I see, officer, and might I venture that Vision Vancouver’s war on the car means that this little rightturn-only lane will surely infuriate commuters for decades to come, just as it is doing now and has done for years?”

Isn’t the sane solution a NO right turn at Robson, and for that matter, a NO right turn at West Georgia during rush hours?

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Fellow Westenders, we’ve had 50 days without significant rain, so I ask that you adopt a tree.Without water trees become brittle and when the winds come, down go the trees. Please pick a tree in your area and commit to watering it every day. I use reutilized bath water to water my trees.

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You may recall, it rained the very next weekend, so we didn’t have to do this for a long, but becauseYOU made the effort then, we have all our trees now and we must help our trees again.Thank you.

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YOUR CITY East Van birthday parties gone wild

How your kid’s big day became such a big deal – and big business

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Creativity from a Tin Can These days, says Grant Lawrence, kids’ birthday parties are an industry unto themselves. Grant Lawrence photo in a bin by the door to save parents valuable time.

When my son first starting receiving invitations to East Van birthday parties, my wife was thrilled and informed me that full-family attendance was expected.

I was stunned. I couldn’t understand why we were both expected to also attend.

I protested, citing a desperate need to drink beer alone, but I was warned that if I didn’t attend Edouard’s second birthday party at the Circus Play Café on East 12th in lock-step with my wife, she would be pitied, judged and eye-questioned by the rest of the dutiful parents in attendance. Over avocado toast and turkey roll ups, they’d glance at my solo wife and discuss in hushed tones how her absent husband must surely be the worst kind of hairy old drunken bastard.

Am I wrong in remembering that, when we were kids, our parents would never go with us to birthday parties?

They’d just drop us off and pick us up a few hours later when we would emerge, loot bag in hand, right?

When my son was invited to a birthday party while my wife was out of town, I decided to test that memory.

First, we rushed over to Dilly Dally. Then I trotted Josh

over to the party on Kitchener Street and knocked on the front door.

A happy, beaming mom answered, a pointy party hat placed jauntily atop her head. Chaos reigned behind her. The house was packed.

It was like a cross between Romper Room and Old School. Simultaneously, over shouting adult conversation, I could hear the sounds of children uncontrollably laughing and sobbing.

“Hello!” I said cheerfully.

“Happy third birthday to sweet little Brooklyn! Here’s Josh and a gift we thoughtfully selected weeks ago. See you later!”

As I turned to leave, the mom’s hand darted out in rapier-like fashion, grabbing my arm. She dug her fingernails into my elbow as her face turned dark and stormy.

She suddenly looked exhausted. Her eyes narrowed.

Through gritted teeth she growled, “You are not going fucking anywhere”. Then she dragged me inside.

For my son’s party, we somehow managed to not invite the entire daycare, but we did rent a bouncy castle. Once the kids were loaded inside, the frothing scene quickly rocketed me back to the mosh pits of the ’90s. At least bouncy castles are padded. Happy fourth birthday, Josh! W

Mobile studio offers a range of artistic possibilities Amy Logan Hidden City

@AmySnowLogan From the outside, Tin Can Studio’s 5.5-metre-long silver trailer looks like a typical vintage Airstream: sleek and self-contained. But it’s home to a surprisingly varied, ever-expanding range of creative and participatory experiences.

Started as an art project that attempted to address Vancouver’s shortage of affordable creative spaces, the mobile studio has since travelled to weddings, festivals and community events across the Lower Mainland and beyond, playing host to everything from dye workshops to political protests.

“The idea was to create a mobile platform where artists could transform the space, make art and bring people together in unusual settings in order to seed creativity outside of a more traditional gallery setting’,” says Caroline Ballhorn, who launched the studio as part of her final project for the Emily Carr University Grad Show in 2010, along with industrial design student Brodie Kitchen. Soon after

its launch, Jenny Lee Craig came on board, and she and Ballhorn have gradually evolved the project into what it is today: “a creative studio that specializes in interactive projects that engage communities,” the pair notes.The Tin Can Studio can “pop up almost anywhere and become a creative hub that invites people in for whatever project might be inside.”

They’ve had an especially busy summer, working on “politically engaged projects, textile workshops and collaborative public art projects.”

They began the season by completing a three-session residency with the mini art festival EMMATalks, where they experimented with short interactive projects around art, political engagement and protest.

The studio also worked on a postcard project called Hello Neighbour and a political cross-stitch workshop in Vanier Park. More recently, they helped create a giant friendship bracelet with youth in Surrey, instructed indigo dyeing and screenprinting workshops, and created a giant paint-bynumbers mural with the Vancouver Mural Fest.

Although they do sometimes rent out the studio for private events, they like to work closely with clients “to design an immersive or interactive experience,” says Ballhorn. Past examples in-

clude hosting a bourbon and blackjack lounge at a wedding, and transforming the trailer into a Tom Selleckinspired cocktail lounge.

They’ve even operated as a pirate radio station.

“The possibilities are endless,” Ballhorn enthuses.

What the duo loves most about their space is its flexibility, they note: “We can pop up almost anywhere and invite people to come in and be creative. People seem to be drawn to our shiny trailer and love to find out what’s inside.”

This month they’ll be working on some private events with “the local movers and shakers at Here/Now Studio in August,” says Ballhorn.

They are currently in talks with North Van Arts Council and are headed to Winnipeg in November where they’ll be building a giant blanket fort with Art City.

The studio also has some secret events they are “keeping under wraps for now as we move into our fall//winter season, so you’ll just have to keep your ears to the ground (or get in touch with us) to find out about those.”

Amy Logan is aVancouver writer, editor and English instructor with an ear for trends in the arts, community and environment. She is a regular contributor to Metro News, and joins the Westender for the summer to explore the artists, creatives, environmentalists and adventurers who makeVancouver tick. W

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“Every kid in the entire daycare and their parents?

No way!”

That’s a censored snippet of my reaction to my wife’s suggested invite list for my son’s fourth birthday party.

Over the course of my life, I’ve tried my best to expunge the ego-wrenching drama of childhood birthdays from my mind, body and soul; mostly because I had a summer birthday and kids rarely ever showed up.

I have a particularly painful memory of sitting alone at a table for eight as my ice cream panda cake slowly slumped over in the sun.

Now, as an East Vancouver parent to young kids, I have been dragged back into the birthday party vortex. Make no mistake: These days, kids’ birthday parties are a full-on industry unto themselves, with an infrastructure of etiquette and rules almost as long as the invite list.

On any given weekend in East Van, children’s birthday parties occur everywhere.

They are as frequent as drum circles in Grandview Park.

There’s a popular kids store on Commercial Drive called Dilly Dally and I swear they must make their rent solely from parents rushing in at the last minute to buy birthday gifts. The presents are easy to spot, since they’re wrapped in Dilly Dally’s signature brown wrapping paper with frilly ribbon, and there’s piles of them at every party. Really, Dilly Dally should consider selling pre-wrapped gifts

The Tin Can Studio trailer has hosted dye workshops, political protests, wedding receptions, and a raft of other events. Monashee Photography photo

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Hollow city Vancouver housing market squeezing out the middle class SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

Tony Smerychynski and his wife Sandra Klaric, both 41, lived in a nice home near 12th Avenue and Cambie Street. When they welcomed baby Sam into their lives almost two years ago, they quickly realized space was going to be an issue.

“We lived over a year and a half in our one-bedroom Fairview condo with him sleeping in the bedroom hall closet,” says Smerychynski.

Purchasing one of the two-bedroom condos they saw on the market would add $150,000-$200,000 to their existing mortgage, and the alternative of renovating their condo required shelling $40,000-50,000 out of pocket. So when Smerychynski, who worked as a water treatment foreman with Metro Vancouver for more than 14 years, was offered a job in Calgary, they packed their bags.

“It was tough, since Sandra and I were in good jobs that we loved in a city we really cared for,” Smerychynski says, resignedly. “But, with a family, it made sense to move [to Calgary]. Sandra gets some time off with baby, and we were able to afford a 1,900-square-foot house in the burbs next to a brand new elementary school.”

A MISSED STEP

Larry Beasley remembers working on housing affordability in the 1980s when he was a neighbourhood planner for the City of Vancouver, and later the city’s co-director of planning. The focus back then was on solving the lack of affordable housing for low-income earners and a growing number of families.

But instead of getting better over the years, the problem seems to be spreading.

“What we were not able to predict is that the housing affordability crisis would spread so far up the ladder to middle-income people,” says the University of B.C. professor of planning. “The issue of middle-income affordability has now emerged as a great issue and it’s been emerging for at least the last five to six years.”

Around 2012, the price

of housing tipped over to the side of unaffordability for most middle-income households, and particularly families with children, Beasley says. The onus is now on local, provincial and federal levels of governments to balance out the scales.

“We have to now start developing a whole sector of secure middle-income housing,” he says.

If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that competition for any newly built affordable middle-income housing will be fierce.

Expo ’86 and the 2010 Olympics shone a light on Vancouver as a picturesque, international city with plenty of wealth and promise. Now that the price of oil is down and uncertainty regarding the future direction of powerhouse countries like the U.S. is rife, investing in Canada and stable Canadian cities – like Vancouver – with healthy economies and environments has become even more attractive.

“Never in the history of the world have so many people been in motion, and they’re moving away from unpleasant, dangerous, unsafe places to safer places,” – or sanctuary cities – says Beasley. Vancouver’s housing strategy will also need to take into account this heavy demand for sanctuary coming from international markets.

WHAT’S BEING DONE

Income levels in the Vancouver metropolitan area increased by about 16 per cent from $68,970 in 2011 to $79,930 in 2015, according to Statistics Canada.

But, according to Metro Vancouver’s housing data book, the average sale price of a single detached home in Greater Vancouver increased by around 21 per cent, from $931,300 to $1,123,900 in that same time.

The difference presents a crisis of affordability.

Much of the City of Vancouver’s recent focus has been on increasing available housing stock by approving new housing infill options – such as laneway and coach houses – and increasing the number of homes allowed on certain lots.The city is also proposing that new housing projects and rentals that require rezoning include 35 per cent family housing. A one-percent Empty Homes Tax was also introduced this year, to discourage homeowners from

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leaving properties vacant.

It’s a start, but policies like these will likely only put a dint in demand, predicts Michael Seelig, an architect, city planner and professor emeritus at UBC. Instead, the focus should be on building more.

“Theissueof middle-income affordability has...emerged asagreatissue andit’sbeen emergingfor atleastthe lastfiveto sixyears.”

“The City of Vancouver has a problem in that they have often been behind on seeing what’s happening ahead,” he notes. Developments like the new Cambie Street corridor housing densification project “should have been foreseen 20 to 30 years ago, but the city was very slow at rezoning and coming up with ideas for developers to have some incentives to build there.”

Once the Canada Line was built, the whole area sprung up within two years, and many condos on offer are out of the price range of middleincome earners, including family households.

Smerychynski and his family came up against a wall when looking for housing near where they work and play that wouldn’t dramatically downsize their lifestyles.

“We’re affordability refugees,” Smerychynski laments.

“We dropped a lot of things we love for a house for Sam. … It’s tough having no support network [in Calgary], we miss the ocean and we miss all of our friends.”

Many of their friends are choosing the exit sign, too.

Out of the 10 couples with kids they would regularly spend time with, Smerychynski says only three are still in Greater Vancouver.

Having now made the move to Calgary, Smerychynski adds: “I’ve realized how hollow Vancouver is getting.”

MAKING IT WORK

ably. She admits, though, that throwing a future partner into the mix would be challenging.

“I could make it work because I make everything work, but I downsized so much [to move into this condo] that if you just have your basics, it’s okay; but basically it [would be a matter of] closet space and both people having to be organized daily.”

Her full-time office job and active lifestyle mean that Melissa is often outside of her home, socializing with friends, playing sports, or riding her bike along the seawall. That helps make small spaces more livable, and could become more common as the population of Greater Vancouver increases, as projected by BCStats, from 2.6 million in 2017 to 3.4 million by 2040 (an

increase of approximately 31 per cent).

“Tall buildings and small apartments are perfectly fine,” says Seelig. “I grew up in an apartment [in Israel,] and I don’t think our livability was reduced.”

In the case of his own family, Seelig recalls: “We brought up two children in a one-bedroom apartment until we moved to our house [in Vancouver] and, believe me, we managed very nicely.

You have to do what you can afford.”

Single-family homes may be becoming idealized notions that have little place in the growing cities of the future, he adds. “That’s been the North American model, but it’s got to change because it’s unaffordable. … We can’t just live in a dream land.” W

Melissa, 44, is on the other side of the equation. She herYaletown purchased her Yaletown condo last year for $107,000 over the asking price.

“There were bidding wars going on,” she recalls. “There was so little inventory when I was ready to buy.”

Melissa, who asked that we not use her last name, is content with her 502-squarefoot one-bedroom-plus-den condo.There’s condo.

There’s enough storage fitt space and she manages to fi her possessions in comfort-

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YOUR CITY Seeking permission to build homes Development permit process stalling housing market, say developers

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Getting a housing project – either rental or condo – through the City of Vancouver’s permitting process has become increasingly cumbersome, leaving some construction timelines to double or triple, says Jon Stovell, president and CEO of Reliance Properties.

Reliance has developed several residential buildings in Vancouver, including affordable suites and microlofts in the downtown core, but Stovell says the availability of affordable housing in Vancouver is being hampered by red tape.

Five to 10 years ago, says Stovell, it took about six months to get a development permit for a new housing build; today it takes closer to 1.5 years. Rezoning properties is likewise bogged down in bureaucracy. It now takes 17 weeks – along with a 50- to 60-page report and thousands of dollars in costs and fees – to get a two-page response to move forward with rezoning, he says.That’s compared with the three to five weeks – and substantially less cost and work – it used to take around half a decade ago.

While it might be hard to feel sympathy for development companies that continue to generate profits from Metro Vancouver’s booming housing market, there is a trickle-down effect to the stymied development process, and it’s hitting lowand middle-income residents and small businesses hardest.

Timelines for office building permits – such as putting in a new boardroom or a kitchen – have gone up by about 400 per cent in the past few years, Stovell says.

“It’s a constant area of activity … and sometimes small business really suffers as a result of not being able to get their business open in a timely fashion.”

At the residential level, too little housing stock on the market and a huge amount of demand is one reason why it has become very expensive to live in Vancouver.

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Jon Stovell, president and CEO of Reliance Properties.

Contributed photo “There are so many areas and neighbourhoods … where we’re just not using the land base properly,” says Anne McMullin, president of the Urban Development Institute, a non-profit association of the development industry and related professions (Stovell is chair of their board of directors). McMullin says it comes down to looking at areas that can be rezoned to allow for new homes and greater density.

A limited residential land base in Metro Vancouver means that the “demand is high, the supply is low, the prices go up,” says McMullin. “In the last five years, condo prices have gone from about $500 to $700 a square foot to about $1,500 a square foot.”

The city’s tendency to focus on developing one area at a time is also problematic, she adds, as developments such as those found in the Cambie corridor plan are putting new housing on the market, but there isn’t enough equivalent competition from developments in other areas to lower prices.

“The limited amount of new rental or sale product in the marketplace means that all project launches these days effectively happen without any direct competitors,” says Richard Wittstock, principal at Domus Homes homebuilding company. “If municipalities are concerned about affordability, it should be their primary goal to oversupply the marketplace … [to] push prices down.”

The City of Vancouver launched a housing affordability task force in 2012 and

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a housing Vancouver strategy in 2016, and released the Vancouver housing and homelessness strategy reset report in 2017, to address concerns raised by the development community and residents. They also added two members to their corporate management team: Gil Kelly was announced as the new chief planner and general manager of planning, urban design, and sustainability in August of last year, and Kaye Krishna was appointed general manager of the newly created development services, buildings and licensing department last June.

One of Krishna’s top priorities is addressing development permit wait times, she says, admitting that the city’s development permit times “have gone up over the years.”

Krishna says she’s been working closely with stakeholders and city staff to create new policies and guidelines to meet the city’s goal of speeding up the production of housing and that the city’s housing strategy reset is scheduled to come forward as a formal document by the end of 2017.

The City of Vancouver received 8,300 permit applications in 2016 – the second highest volume of permit applications to date. Managing that flow will be key to getting more units online and available to residents.

“There’s no doubt that the city is busy,” says Michael Geller, an architect, planner, real estate consultant and property developer. “But, the fact is, there are thousands of units held up in that [City of Vancouver development] process.” W

York Avenue residents face huge rent rises or struggle to find new homes JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Living just a couple of blocks from the beach and Kits Pool, the residents of 2336York Ave. should be enjoying the tail end of another Vancouver summer.

Instead, many of them are scouring the city’s scant rental vacancy listings for a new place to live before October.

They’re the latest to face a wave of “renovictions” sweeping the city, a term applied to the practice of landlords removing tenants due to planned renovations, then bumping up the price of rent when the work is complete, often by a large amount.

The letters appeared in the mailboxes of Lauren Stanley and her fellow residents at the end of July: 60-day termination notices from owner Peter Wall Mansion & Estates so that extensive renovations could take place through the whole building.When the work was completed, rent would be raised by at least $700 per unit.

“I teared up a little bit,” Stanley says, recalling her reaction. “I’ve called the place home for the last three years,” she says about her 630-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment.

“It kind of shocks you when you’re not expecting that,” adds Stanley, who currently pays $1,340 a month and is

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facing a rent increase of more than 50 per cent.The situation sounds even more daunting for one of her neighbours, whom Stanley says has lived in the building for 29 years and faces a new monthly rent of $3,000.

Stanley is one of a group of York Avenue residents who have lodged a dispute with the Residential Tenancy Branch.

Under relocation guidelines introduced by the city in February 2016, their landlord must assist them with finding new accommodation while the renovations take place, but no details have been forthcoming.

No exact figures exist on renovictions and how common they are, with only a selection of stories describing their crippling effects on tenants.

There are tales, too, of unscrupulous landlords removing tenants for renovations, then doing little more than a paint job before jacking up the rent by 40 or 50 per cent.

Tenants forced out have little recourse for justice because the burden of proving any wrongdoing lies with them.

Tenant advocates say the law – namely, the Residential Tenancy Act – has swung too much in favour of landlords.

Lorna Armstrong of the Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre says the root of the problem lies in the vacate

clause, which has become standard in fixed one-year rentals. At the end of the 12 months, a new agreement must be negotiated, which allows landlords to get around the maximum allowable annual increase in rent – in 2017, that’s 3.7 per cent – and raise it by vastly greater amounts.

“Vacate clauses have synthetically raised rates for years well above market value,” Armstrong says.This, in turn, she says, leads to landlords of long-term tenants realizing they are earning much less from rent than comparable units with inflated prices; and a renoviction is one way to bring them up to par.

Armstrong wants to see B.C.’s new NDP government tackle the issue as it promised during the election campaign.

“We are very concerned by these type of evictions, particularly at a time when there is a supply-and-demand issue in the province,” said minister of municipal affairs and housing Selina Robinson in an emailed statement.

“We know that not enough has been done to protect tenants and, over the months ahead, we will be taking more action to deliver on our commitments to renters in B.C.” Calls to Peter Wall Mansion & Estates were not returned before press deadline. W

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Eating in The Six From red-top pizza to cutting-edge Canadiana,Toronto satiates the palate Anya Levykh Nosh

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Vancouver prides itself on its diverse and many-layered restaurant scene. Want poutine, burritos, poké, sushi?

No problem. Authentic Cantonese dim sum? Um, duh.

Contemporary anything?

Throw a rock and hit a dozen neighbourhood picks, why dontcha?

We’re proud, and rightfully so. The only cool kid on the block, however, we’re not.

Toronto’s formerly slightlystodgy and ever-so-pricey restaurant scene has become its own Cinderella story and the city is now bursting with all kinds of ethnic, affordable and delicious eats. Next time you’re in The Six, here are a few places to check out.

CANIS

Jeff Kang is a former Vancouver chef (C, Diva at the Met) who moved to Toronto to take over the reigns at Bosk at the ShangriLa, before opening his own small wood-planked room on Queen Street West. He’s now turning out tasting and prix fixe menus that speak to contemporary Canadian cuisine in a smooth voice that features ingredients salmon and gooseberry to lovage and local duck.The prix fixe offers four courses for $65 and gives you three options for each course.

Go with a friend or two so that you can try everything or just order the seven-course tasting menu for $85. A visit last winter featured a beautiful, aged, whole roasted duck, served with risotto and white truffle.The menus change frequently, so each visit is a new delight. canisrestaurant.com

DESCENDANT PIZZA

You may not be familiar with the term “red top” in

Left: Figo’s Arancini and truffled honey ricotta. Right: Canis’ tortellini with mushrooms and slow-cooked egg. Anya Levykh photos relation to pizza, but you need to be. This is a style of pizza that came out of Detroit and features the sauce poured over the toppings on a super-thick, extra-crispy, square crust. The crust is often baked twice and brushed with butter to give it extra crispiness.You’re SOL if you go looking for this in Vancouver, but Toronto is lucky, they’ve got Descendant. Start with a standard pepperoni to acclimatize yourself to the sauce-on-top concept, then move on to superstars like the truffled mushroom with bacon, caramelized onions, lemon zest, fresh thyme, and white truffle sauce. descendantdsp.com

FAT PASHA

“Really good Jew food” is the slogan here and they aren’t lying. Beautiful “salatim” can be had in trios for

$15, like the garlic labneh with za’atar, chopped eggplant with tahini, or rapini tabbouleh with rye berries.

Naturally, there is chicken liver, hummus and fattoush, an Israeli salad with za’atar pita chips and halloumi.

But it’s mains like the duck schmaltz latkes and roasted half-chicken with tzatziki, mint and tomatoes, or the proper lamb shawarma that will let you you feast like a… well, pasha. Finish with the sufganiyot, fried doughnuts with dulce de leche, sour cream icing and seasonal fruit. fatpasha.com

KANPAI SNACK BAR

It’s all about the Taiwanese street food here, from the intriguing cocktails to the absolutely stellar fried chicken, tossed in a mix of spices and fried to a delicate, paper-thin crunch that shatters like cooled

sugar. That’s not to say you shouldn’t make room for the pork belly bao, the fried chicken skin, the kung pao cauliflower (this one we ordered twice just because), or any of the rice dishes. kanpaisnackbar.com

FIGO

The contemporary, elegant Italian fare has become a top choice for the business lunch set, and the menu is available for dinner as well. Zucchini fritters are served with a lemon cream and honey, delicate housemade ricotta is drizzled with honey and sprinkled with black truffle crumbs.

Classic Napoletana pizzas are well done here, but do try the pastas here, all made in-house. figotoronto.com • Anya Levykh is a food, drink and travel writer who covers all things ingestible. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @foodgirlfriday. W

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Les Dames d’Escoffier – B.C. Chapter has released a new wine, Les Dames Rosé.

It’s made by Mireille Sauvé, a Les Dames member who was a scholarship recipient and went on to become the youngest certified wine sommelier in Canada.The rosé is a pale, Provençal-style wine with chalky minerality and strawberry-rhubarb flavours.

Find at restaurants and private liquor stores. dameswine.com H2 Rotisserie and Bar at The Westin Bayshore Hotel has added items to its daily breakfast buffet.The $32 weekday buffet now includes dim sum, and rotating Indian dishes. At the $35 weekend buffet, guests can build their own Buddha bowl, enjoy rotisserie chicken and get French toast made to order. h2restaurant.com Fancy exploring Burnaby Heights? The Crave dining event is the perfect opportunity. Running through to Aug. 30, special deals at participating restaurants, cafés and patisseries include Chez Christophe’s trio of petit fours for $8.95. Or try five appetizers for $50 in the lounge of The Pear Tree. burnabyheights.com Vancouver Farmers Markets’ annual Tomato Festival will take place this weekend at Trout Lake (Saturday) and Kitsilano (Sunday) markets.

The event features recipes from local restaurants, including Vij’s, Café Medina, Orto Artisan Pasta and Belgard Kitchen.There will be tastings of more than 150 different kinds of tomatoes, canning demonstrations and an “Inglorious Tomato” Instagram contest. eatlocal.org/tomato-fest Hopcott Farms hosts a harvest long-table dinner Sept. 8, at its Pitt Meadows farm.The outdoor, covered event will start with a reception featuring Hopcott’s charcuterie, local cheeses and craft beer from Foamers’ Folly.The four-course dinner

by Restaurant 62’s Jeff Massey will be paired with local wines.

Proceeds will go to Alisa’s Wish Child andYouth Advocacy Centre.Tickets $125 via Eventbrite. hopcottmeats.ca The 14th annual Passions event in support of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation takes place takes place Sept.

27 at Performance Works on Granville Island. It will feature more than 20 of the city’s top chefs, restaurants and mixologists, including representatives from Cibo, Uva, Hawksworth, Maenam, Cin Cin, Cioppino’s and botanist.Tickets $225 ($300 for VIP). drpeter.org W

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Cocktails to call our own Sip the history of Vancouver in these classic drinks Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

@TheAlchemistBC

You can’t call something a classic until it’s been kicking around a while. But there’s more to it than that. A classic has a timeless elegance that feels so right, you can’t quite imagine the world without it. Think Breton stripes, little black dresses, Hemingway’s novels, the Barcelona chair, Frank Sinatra’s velvet vocals and the Manhattan, Old Fashioned or Negroni – the LBDs of the cocktail world.

You might think Vancouver’s cocktail scene is too young to have inspired any classics.You’d be wrong. Here are some signature sips.

VANCOUVER COCKTAIL (1954)

If the city had a signature cocktail, this would be it: a simply perfect mix of gin, sweet vermouth, Bénédictine and orange bitters. Created in 1954 at the Sylvia Hotel, it disappeared sometime in the 1960s, only to be revived in 2006 by bartender and cocktail historian Steve Da Cruz.

Enjoy it: At topVancouver cocktail bars.

HOTEL GEORGIA (1945)

A decade earlier, the swish Hotel Georgia already had a

namesake tipple, a delicate froth of gin, lemon juice, orgeat, orange blossom water and egg white. But it, too, was lost to time until 2011, when Hawksworth Restaurant’s bar manager, Brad Stanton, discovered its ghost lingering in the hotel archives.

Enjoy it: At Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s bars.

BLUE FIG (2004)

When Karri and Nico Schuermans moved from Australia to Vancouver to open Chambar, cocktails were always part of the plan.

In 2004, though, Vancouver didn’t have the cocktail scene Sydney did. So they created one, with the help of an Aussie barkeep named David Fesq. His fig-infused gin martini with a side of blue cheese has been on the menu since the beginning.

“We have people who come from all over for it,” Karri says.

Enjoy it: At Chambar.

CHARTREUSE MILKSHAKE (2008)

This “crushable, complex and refreshing” blend of gin, Chartreuse, crème de cacao, chocolate bitters, citrus and egg white was created

by Lauren Mote, former UVA bar manager and 2015 Diageo World Class Canada champion, back in 2008 at Chow Restaurant. Not only has it appeared in every menu she’s created since, it’s also been picked up by bartenders worldwide.

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Enjoy it: At UVAWine & Cocktail Bar, and bars in Grand Cayman, Munich and Melbourne.

PORT AUTHORITY (2011)

Created by the late Derek Vanderheide, bar manager at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s 1927 Lobby Lounge, who passed away tragically and suddenly on his 35th birthday.

Out of respect, bartenders all over the city put his elegant chocolate-and-bourbon cocktail on their lists. If you see it, order it to honour a beloved member of the city’s bartending community.

Enjoy it: Anywhere you can find it.

HORSERADISH SOUR (2012)

Five years ago,Wildebeest restaurant opened, bringing the bone luge and heart tartare into culinary fashion, along with savoury cocktails.

Josh Pape’s Horseradish Sour features a crisp tartness balanced with an umami-rich profile that goes exceptionally well with oysters and steak.

Enjoy it: AtWildebeest.

AVOCADO GIMLET (2013)

Who needs avocado toast when you can have this instead? Inspired by a visit to Mexico, L’Abattoir’s former head barman Shaun Layton infused gin with olives and rosemary, mixed it with avocado and created a West Coast classic.

Enjoy it: At L’Abattoir.

AVOCADO GIMLET Better than avocado toast: Shaun Layton’s classic cocktail, on the menu at L’Abattoir.

• 1 1/2 ox (45 mL) olive and rosemary-infused Beefeater Gin (see note) • ½ oz (15 mL) Lillet Blanc • 1 oz (30 mL) fresh lime juice • ¾ oz (22 mL) simple syrup • 1/4 fresh avocado, flesh only Combine all ingredients into a shaker tin and fill with ice.

GERARD (2014)

When Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar opened at Sutton Place, then-bar manager Justin Taylor created this scotch-based drink in homage to the hotel’s dark, cosy Gerard bar. Its whiff of smoke and sweet cherry notes “is perfect for sipping while you sit beside the fireplace on a leather couch and reminisce,” Taylor says.

Enjoy it: At Sutton Place Hotel.

INCEPTION (2016)

A white Negroni is cap-

Give it a good, long, hard shake to make sure the avocado blends into the cocktail.

Double-strain with a slightly bigger mesh strainer into a large coupe glass. Serves 1.

Note: To infuse the gin, put a few sprigs of rosemary and a handful of green olives into a large glass jar and muddle gently. Pour the gin over top, cover, and place in a cool dark place for 24 hours. Strain out solids and pour the infused gin into a clean glass bottle.

tured inside an ice sphere and served in a regular Negroni; as the ice melts, the cocktails intermingle in an ever-changing dreamwithin-a-dream of flavours.

When Prohibition’s co-head bartender Robyn Gray created his Inception cocktail, it made international headlines and became an instant classic.

Enjoy it: At Prohibition.

• Want to make them at home? Find the recipes online at westender.com. W

Judgment day for B.C. wines Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

Now boasting three consecutive years, the Judgement of B.C. is a firmly entrenched tradition. This blind tasting pits B.C. wines against counterparts from around the globe as judged by a panel of esteemed local and international wine writers, educators, sommeliers and Masters of Wine.

The third edition took place in Summerland on Aug. 18. This year, we put Pinot Gris and Merlot to the test.

Respectively accounting for 11 per cent and 15 per cent of all grape varieties grown in B.C., these represent the most planted white and red. As previous judgements had considered media darlings Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah, it made absolute sense to take a look at our most commercially important grapes.

The competing wines are selected by DJ Kearney,

director of wine at newdistrict.ca, who does a stellar job choosing benchmark examples. Both flights include six from B.C. and six from abroad. Without any clues of price, origin, producer or vintage, each judge ranks the wines in order of individual preference.

The scores are then collated and averaged to determine a collective ranking. This means that an individual judge may have a very different order than the group consensus.

As exciting as the results are, the discussion around them is even more significant. “It’s not just about how our wines stack up to international benchmarks,” says Kearney, “but also what we learn from this.”

The Pinot Gris flight included wines from $17 to $42. More diverse than price though, was the range of style. Some simple and fruit-driven versus others with a touch of oak; some dry while others with a bit of sweetness. As Boston based wine writer Michael Apstein pointed out, “the inherent

problem with Pinot Gris in general is that, like Riesling, you don’t always know what you are getting.”

Coming out on top was the crowd-pleasing and fruity 2016 Kim Crawford, Marlborough, New Zealand ($19.49). In second place was the 2014 Zind Humbrecht, Turckheim, Alsace ($41). Rich, complex and by no means mainstream, this sits at the other end of the style spectrum.

As opposite as these two wines are, both spoke to the definitive Pinot Gris character of their respective regions. The identity of BC Pinot Gris was less apparent.

Nevertheless, Okanagan’s 2016 50th Parallel ($19.90), which placed third, was a fine showing of freshness, lovely texture and added complexity from judiciously used oak.

The price range for the Merlot was greater ($20-90), though the styles less starkly contrasting. In fact, many of the judges commented on how difficult it was to determine the origin of each wine.

The discussion was more

A blind tasting of BC Pinot Gris and Merlot took place against international counterparts. Michaela Morris photo around whether the oak was overdone or integrated, the finesse of tannin or lack of and if the wine was underipe or overripe.We were all looking for our definition of balance.

The collective champion was the 2013 CheckMate Black Rook ($85) from BC beating out Bordeaux, Napa Valley, Chile and Washington. While I selected Bordeaux for my number one, my top scoring B.C. wine was 2012 La Stella, Maestoso ‘Solo’ which was also

the most expensive at $90. It ranked third overall.

‘Winners’ aside, the most important takeaway is that in this context, B.C. Pinot Gris and Merlot stood shoulder to shoulder with the international wines.

The challenges with these grapes are not necessarily limited to B.C. and the best examples demonstrated that they can rise above these.

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Brew Kid On The Block: Iron Road Brewing Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

@TheGrowlerBC Kamloops may be Canada’s Tournament Capital, but until recently, there haven’t been many craft beer options there. Despite having 10 times the population of Nelson, it somehow has fewer craft breweries.

Richard Phillips and Jared Tarswell decided to do something about that.

Geologists by trade, the pair decided they’d rather brew beer then break rocks for a living (who can blame them), and Kamloops was the perfect place to do it.

Iron Road Brewing is the product of their passion for craft beer. I spoke with Phillips about what he’s got brewing.

Tell me a bit about the process that led you to where you are now.

We began the process a little over a year and a half ago, while thinking of a way to get into small business ownership. Both Jared and I really liked the idea of working for ourselves, and getting away from the standard workweek.

Both of us also needed to find a way to get out of the Lower Mainland, where we acknowledged that home ownership was out of the question.

Why beer? What got you interested in craft beer enough to open your own brewery?

We were inspired by the explosion of breweries in Vancouver, and how great of an experience they provide for patrons who are looking for beer and something to eat.

When I would meet friends for a drink, it was almost exclusively at a brewery, and we believed that there was an untapped market for breweries in other parts of the province.

Kamloops is slowly becoming a craft beer destination.

What makes it a good place to brew?

Kamloops is a town that is very supportive of local businesses, and the locals are a very proud bunch. It’s an ideal town in terms of climate (hot summers, great winters for skiing), and has many outdoor activities that pair well with beer, namely

golfing, mountain biking, hiking and boating.

What has the local response been so far?

The local response so far has been overwhelming.We are very thankful of everyone who has come in and tried the beer.We have gotten some really great feedback from those who have visited our lounge.

People seem to really like our beer, food and atmosphere.

What makes Iron Road unique?

Iron Road is unique in the sense that we are in a unique spot in Kamloops. We are located in a mixed industrial area, where there isn’t many other options for food or beer. We are also located within walking distance of Thompson Rivers University.

Will your beers be available outside of Kamloops?

At first, we plan on focusing on the Kamloops market.We want to make sure that we grow slowly, and make beer that people from Kamloops will enjoy.We hope to expand to accounts in surrounding communities in the next year.

What beers will you be offering?

We will offer a wide range of beer styles, but will have three core brands offered year round: Locomotive Lager, Red Bridge Pale Ale and the Loop Line IPA.We plan on canning these three beers, and we will have a rotating group of beer for sale in 650 mL bottles and out of our taproom.We plan on starting a small barrelaging program with a local winery in town, to create some really unique beer.

Why should people come check out Iron Road?

People should come and check out Iron Road for the great beer and food, but also for our staff. We have a great group of front of house and back of house people, who love to talk about beer. Our brewer, Aaron MacInnnis, is always around and loves to take people in the back to teach them about the brewing process. W

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Last week’s big news for hardcore supergroup Dead Cross was that two of its members were detained by Texas authorities while on tour. Bassist Justin Pearson and guitarist Michael Crain were pictured on Instagram in handcuffs during a van inspection. “Your life can get worse. So can the world,” read a cryptic caption on Pearson’s personal account.

They were later released from custody and resumed the tour, but, for fans, details on the incident are still foggy.

When Westender got on the phone with Pearson just a day before his run-in with the law, the only real hiccup the group had experienced was a flat tire on their way out of L.A. “[The flat was] nothing, man. I’m used to way crazier shit,” he said, as the band pulled into a Dallas tour stop. “Just, like, accidents. Or people robbing us, or whatever.We did see a dead person on the freeway, which was a bummer. It was an accident.

There were brains and shit.”

Dead Cross’ self-titled debut, which unites Pearson and Crain with Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, is a wholly terrifying audio experience.

Songs like “Idiopathic” and “Obedience School” radiate

The heavy metal supergroup boasts Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton (left) and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo (second from right). SAWA photo with nasty, nuclear thrash beats and quickly contorted punk riffs – the 30-minute blur made all the weirder by Patton’s barrage of barks and often operatic, multi-part vocal harmonies.

The singer is the most recent addition to Dead Cross, having joined the act last year following the exit of original frontman Gabe Serbian. Patton tracked his complex parts after the rest of the album was long completed.The group only rehearsed together for the first time shortly before hitting the road.

“I would say that the biggest challenge is adjusting [to the live show], having Mike Crain and I sing some of the backing vocals, trying to harmonize,” Pearson explains, reiterating that while both musicians have screamed their fair share of sets in previous bands like the Locust and Festival of Dead Deer, respectively, neither string players’ voice is

“as versatile as Patton.”

Dead Cross’ political stance, meanwhile, is as viciously pointed as its arrangements. A recent video for “Seizure and Desist” lampoons U.S. President Donald Trump with a grotesque, face-melting animated scene, while “The Future Has Been Cancelled” is a call against blind patriotism (“where does the flagpole end and arrogance begin?”).

“Shillelagh” is a monstrous mosh assault recalling the time Patton was beat up in Ireland by skinheads who thought he was gay.

The topics land all the more poignantly in the wake of the white nationalist march on Charlottesville,Virginia, two weekends ago, which took place just as Dead Cross hit the road. Pearson has since been making plenty of anti-fascist, anti-racist posts on Instagram and Facebook.

While admitting that “it’s kind of anxiety-ridden” to be

touring when politically heavy events take place, it’s somewhat of a familiar feeling for the musician.

“I first started playing music and touring when the first Gulf War was happening – with Bush, Sr. as president – and even the Rodney King riots in L.A.,” Pearson notes, adding that he was also on the road during the 9/11 attacks.

He reflects on the recent wave of hate: “When this stuff happens with Neo-Nazis – the Alt-Right or whatever you want to call it – it was sort of bizarre. It’s 2017 and we’re still rolling through this garbage.”

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Outdoor shows captivate in False Creek JO LEDINGHAM @joledingham

NOMADIC TEMPEST

Lavish, operatic multimedia show performed on tall ship moored at False Creek Paul Kirby and Nans Kelder have been taking theatre to the people since 1970, when they toured their one-wagon, horse-drawn puppet show around Vancouver Island.

That humble beginning grew to six wagons pulled by teams of Clydesdales until Kirby and Kelder bought a farm outside Armstrong, B.C., and briefly settled down.That was the genesis of the famous communal-living theatre company now known as Caravan Farm Theatre.

In the mid-80s, the couple split from the farm/theatre community and formed Caravan Stage Company, a horseand-wagon theatre troupe, and set off to tour the U.S. But even that wasn’t nomadic enough. In 1993 they built the Amara Zee, a 30-metre tall ship replica of a Thames River sailing barge. Aboard this floating stage, they have now entertained thousands across Europe and North America.

Their shows have been variously described as

Cirque du Soleil-on-a-barge, an experimental opera and a multimedia spectacle.

Colourful images are projected onto a large scrim that hangs from the rigging; the costumes are lavish; lighting effects are extravagant.

In Nomadic Tempest, the year is 2040 and the “Drowning Wave” – a result of global warming – has forced four monarch butterflies to flee their home. But two evil SwallowWarts (representing the oil industry) are refusing them sanctuary: “Out, out, damned refugees.”

The story is told by Kanandra, a “Prophet of Exile,” to five “Young Ones,” who are curious about how the apocalypse happened.

The songs are sung in five languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin and Halkomelem, a Coast Salish language) with translations projected on a scrim.

Nomadic Tempest is magical, but the music is definitely in the operatic mode. It’s an unusual choice and, for those who don’t like opera, the music is hard to listen to, in spite of the virtuosity of the singers. While the message is not heavy-handed – “The planet is looking for your heart” – it resonates

most with those already wishing for alternatives to the fossil fuel industry.

A troubling irony remains: At the end of the show, many of us get back into our gasfuelled cars and drive home feeling guilty the whole way.

What to do? What to do?

• South shore of False Creek, just east of the Cambie Bridge, 9:45 p.m.,Tuesday-Sunday until Sept. 3. Free.Tickets for all shows are spoken for but a limited number of seats are available at the door. Bleacher seating or bring a chair or blanket. Not recommended for children 10 and under. caravanstage.org

UNINTERRUPTED

Swim with the salmon with NettieWild’s stunning film Sous le pont/Cambie Bridge/Salmon are dancing/ Salmon are dancing.

Your heart will dance, too, as the concrete underside of the bridge is transformed into a huge canvas for the story of B.C. salmon returning to the river of their birth to spawn.

Award-winning filmmaker Nettie Wild created and directs this spectacular cinematic art installation with images that include salmon the size of orcas swimming directly

into the camera; swaying underwater grasses; golden leaves glittering in the autumn sun; and ruby-red salmon roe with tiny embryos inside drifting lazily in the current.

Uninterrupted – 30 minutes of the most stunning visuals – will make your heart leap like salmon vaulting the falls and allow you to believe, if only briefly, that the world will be alright as long as salmon make their incredible journey from lake to river to the world’s oceans and unerringly back to their gravelly birthplace.

Amazing, too, are the number of viewers – like schools of fish – gazing upwards at the spectacle.

In addition to the show, there is a terrific interactive website that takes you through the lifecycle of the salmon: uninterrupted.ca. It concludes with a staggering statistic: “For every 2,000 eggs laid, only one or two adult salmon will make the journey and return safely to the river.”

Uninterrupted is the trippiest, most profound and most exhilarating show in town.

Interrupt everything to see it.

• Under the north end of the Cambie Bridge until Sept. 24.

Tuesdays-Saturdays at 9 p.m.

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Five Finds: Local designers name their favourite houseplants Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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When styling the perfect room, the details don’t stop with furnishings and hard finishes. For most designers, adding literal life to a space is essential and choosing the right greenery is just as important as the right piece of art. And while we work on an aesthetic level and would love to choose plants simply by how they look, there are other considerations – light requirements, temperature limits, potential growth and maintenance – to factor in.

This week I’ve shared my own go-tos for indoor plants and weighed in with a few local creatives on what their favourite houseplant to work with is, and why.

RACHEL HARRISON OF ROOMCRAFT DESIGN

The (indoor) palm “Palms are a great way to bring the outdoors in. They add a tropical vibe to even the most urban home, which sets a relaxed and beachy tone,” Harrison explains.

attractive planter combinations which add visual interest to any decor.”

Light requirements: Bright window spots are best, especially south or west facing.

Watering: Light. Allow the soil to dry between waterings.

Size: Varies by type.

“I loved using this Butterfly Palm because I find it also keeps a visual reference of warmer destinations for future getaways and daydreams.”

Light requirements: A bright room but no direct sunlight (they can actually get a sunburn!)

Watering: Moderate, allow the top soil to become dry but do not overwater Size: Butterfly Palms (a.k.a.

Areca Palms) can grow up to 2.5 metres indoors, so are an ideal space filler.

JENN’S PICKS:

ERIN SOUSA OF SPARKLE MEDIA

The fiddle leaf fig “I love the freshness that my fiddle leaf fig brings into my living room – it’s the perfect shape and size to fill an empty corner, plus, it’s super modern and on trend.”

Light requirements: A bright room with minimal direct light (early morning direct light only).

Watering: Moderate, allow the top soil to become dry but do not overwater; water less during the winter months.

Size: Another great focal point for any space, the fiddle leaf can grow to almost three metres in height.

Clockwise from top left: The fiddle leaf fig plant. Erin Sousa photo Cactus. Tracey Ayton photo Succulent. Joy Leimanis photo The Bromeliad. Tracey Ayton photo

JOY LEIMANIS OF SPADE & POINTER

Succulents “Succulents are a stylish and easy way to add plant life to any home,” Leimanis explains. As a greenery designer, she shares why these little plants are so versatile: “I love working with succulents not only for their unique appearance, but also

The secret life of department stores Aileen Lalor Style File @AileenLalor

You know where you are with a beauty hall. It’s a large room – a hall, you might say – and it sells beauty products. Same goes for the men’s department, or the lingerie section. But department stores also have secret spaces, with names that give no clue to their purposes.They all sound the same and they’re all a bit different, so we found out the lowdown and now we’re sharing it with you.

HOLT RENFREW: The Apartment This is Vancouver’s newest personal shopping suite, and its swankiest. At 1,200 square feet it’s bigger than most downtown apartments and has its own kitchen, washroom, living and dining areas and a private wraparound patio. Reserved for top clients and visiting celebs, it will also be used for private events and trunk shows. The store also has seven smaller personal shopping suites, and another two in the men’s section.

These are open to all customers, free, by appointment.

H Project A collection focused on storied products, mostly with a sustainable, eco-friendly or

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charitable bent (the ‘H’ stands for Humanity, Health and Habitat). For 2017, Holts is honing in on Canadian talent, and products include the Binu Binu x Smythe five-piece soap set created by design duo Smythe, soap brand binu binu, and Haida artist Bernard Kerrigan.

HUDSON’S BAY: The Room This concept was created for the Bay’s Toronto store in 1937, initially to showcase European designers.

These days, it’s all about emerging and influential designers including Erdem, Thom Brown, The Row and Proenza Schouler.

The Platinum Suite Located inside The Room, this is a private shopping area with dressing rooms, makeup stations and a living-room atmosphere.

It’s also an entertainment space for The Bay, which has hosted designer dinners and showcases there previously.

There’s also personal shopping in the main store and in Topshop and Topman.

Renta, Max Mara, Alexander McQueen and Mulberry at up to 70 per cent discount.There are bricks-and-mortar stores over the border (the nearest is two-and-a-half hours away in Northgate Mall, Seattle).

Here, it’s online only at nordstromrack.com, with shipping starting at $10.95. Real-life stores will be arriving in Calgary, Edmonton, Mississauga and Toronto next year, though there’s no news yet on a Vancouver opening.

Space A collection curated by Olivia Kim, formerly of hip multi-brand store Opening Ceremony, this is meant to have the feel of a high-end boutique.

It focuses mainly on emerging designers and less mainstream, more avant-garde ones. Current labels includeVetements, Acne and Maison Michel.

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Pop-In Kim also creates regular pop-ups that typically last six weeks or so. Collections have been themed around everything from technology to camping and usually include fashion, beauty and lifestyle items. Our standouts were the Goop collection, and the recent KFashion one.

The Rack This is Nordstrom’s offprice – read: discount – retailer. It sells off-season designer wear and accessories from brands such as Oscar de La

JWN Room The private shopping suite in the women’s-wear department, there are eight full-time personal stylists offering their expertise, free of charge. W

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The Cactus I feel like in many ways the cactus is my spirit plant – I’m a sun-seeker, I love hot, dry temperatures and am averse to the rain. My personal aesthetic currently has a very California desert vibe going on, so adding a variety of cacti really helps set that tone. The biggest bonus? These plants are almost impossible to kill. Even during the summer months they require very little water, and even less so while they are dormant in the winter.

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The Bromeliad Design is all about texture, layers and details. That’s why I love using Bromeliads – they offer a lot of layers and organic movement, which makes each one a little different. With the larger varieties like this urn plant [pictured], I enjoy the presence they bring to a room.

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Light requirements: very bright rooms with no direct sunlight.

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Welcome to The Melville by Amacon. This bright and spacious 1024 sq ft unfurnished 2 bed 2 bath + den + solarium is move-in ready. Open concept living with laminate and tile flooring throughout, stainless appliances, large bedrooms, balcony, and beautiful solarium. Living in this suite gives you access to amazing spa like facilities offerings 40ft rooftop pool, hot tub, sauna, gym, party room, and a rooftop sky garden with panoramic views. This suite comes with a storage locker, 1 parking spot and rent includes water and gas.

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Chris Morrissey says she dreams of an apartment building dedicated to housing LGBTQ+ refugees.

Since 2011, the volunteerrun organization Rainbow Refugee has helped more than 100 LGBTQ+ people fleeing persecution to resettle in Canada. Morrissey, a volunteer for the charity, says what’s needed isn’t huge and would help solve one of the biggest obstacles facing recently arrived refugees.

“Of course, the big issue is housing, right?,” she says.

“There’s some temporary housing for people ... who need temporary accommodation, but there’s nothing that’s specifically for LGBT folks.”

Morrissey says she envisions a 12-unit apartment building with bachelor suites and a dedicated staff person who can connect residents to

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Rainbow Refugee supports people who fear persecution where they’re from because of their gender, sexual orientation, gender expression or HIV status. It also helps those who have already arrived in Canada, such as students, to apply for refugee status and operates a sponsorship program through which small groups of volunteers support a refugee coming to Canada.

Morrissey’s vision comes at a time when the need for LGBTQ+ specific services for refugees is increasing. Every week she receives three to four emails from LGBTQ+ people around the world seeking help because of persecution based on their gender or sexuality.

Her idea for a dedicated apartment building would require funding from both the provincial and federal governments, and no formal plan has been set in motion.

In the meantime, the

volunteer-run organization continues to fundraise tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Soroush Matoor is among Rainbow Refugee’s volunteers. As part of a personal and community development course, Matoor is organizing a fundraiser called Free to Be Fabulous on Sunday, Aug. 27 at Club XY (tickets $7 via eventbrite/$10 at the door).

Part of Matoor’s motivation to get involved with Rainbow Refugee is influenced by his background and sexual identity.

“I am from an immigrant family,” says Edmonton-born Matoor, whose parents fled war-torn Iran. “I am a gay man myself ... [and] I’m just really present to how different my life could have been.”

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We are living in the sci-fi universe that writers and futurists of old could only imagine.

Consider the rapid changes of the last few years: we can now watch, buy and read practically anything with a single swipe on our touchscreen devices; social media has changed the way we interact with each other and the news cycle; video stores are mostly gone and malls aren’t far behind; self-driving cars and everyday drone deliveries are a couple of business quarters away, if that.

No joke: the singularity is coming.

Which is why Android Employed, the new locally shot mockumentary web series from Vancouver-based filmmaker Jem Garrard, is must-see web TV. Its conceit – that a new line of androids is working alongside, and in some cases displacing, humans in customerfacing jobs like accounting, babysitting, and teaching – is straight outta the near future.

In the first episode, a mom recruits an android to care for her dysfunctional family so that she can pursue a career in synth music; in the second, an accountant loses his job to a robot and plots his revenge; the third episode explores the consequences of staffing a big budget film production with androids; and in the season finale, a robot diligently attempts to shape young minds in a self-directed kindergarten classroom.

The idea for Android Employed sprung from an article that Garrard read a few

years ago, which laid out the advancements in technology that would need to occur in order for robots to better serve humans. “I thought the idea of this robot adapting to social norms and interacting with people on a personal level felt very much like a comedy, and I hadn’t seen it done like that before, so I started writing this idea out and it naturally fell into a mockumentarystyle piece,” says Garrard, an in-demand director, writer, and producer whose credits include The Switch, Mech-X4, BCWas Awesome, and the Storyhive-funded short film UNIT Bryan, the first incarnation of the Android Employed idea.

Unlike some of the characters in her series, Garrard isn’t afraid of robots or artificial intelligence.

“There’s a great deal of uncertainty around what it all means for the workforce, and what it would mean for humanity, but I think that I’m on the more optimistic side that we’ll figure it out, like we figure out every new technology,” she says in a recent phone interview, adding, “It is a topic that can scare most people, but I wanted to show the challenges but in a light-hearted way, with the inadvertent humour that it would bring up.”

And bring the funny it does.

Android Employed features some of Vancouver’s funniest stars, including Sara Canning (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Peter Benson (What An Idiot), Dave Collette (Marrying the Family), Andrea Bang (Kim’s Convenience), Ryan Beil (both a mainstay in the local improv comedy scene and a dramatic actor), Sonja Bennett (Preggoland), and Veena Sood (The X-Files).

The fact that some of BC’s biggest stars came out for Android Employed is still

a source of amazement for Garrard. “We sent out offers to these people, but because it was such a low-budget show, we thought maybe one or two would say yes,” says Garrard.

“We then we got replies from their agents like, ‘This isn’t something they usually do, but they read the script and they’re down for it.’”

Android Employed’s robots were voiced by Trevor Devall, a sought-after voice actor whose numerous credits include Voltron and the Guardians of the Galaxy television series.

During filming, the robot costume (the midsection of which was comped out by VFX artists with shots from a robot puppet in order to achieve the desired nonhuman shape, according to Garrard) was worn and brought to life by actor and dancer Victor Dolhai.

Dolhai brought “beautiful nuances to the role,” says Garrard. “He really understands movement, and he also memorized every single line in the four episodes so that actors in the cast could work with this robot.”

Every episode in Android Employed’s inaugural season clocks in at 15 minutes or less; Garrard is hoping to take the show to a half-hour format, while continuing to deep-dive into the discomfort surrounding robots and AI. “I think comedy is the best way to talk about some of those serious and deeper issues,” says Garrard. “When it’s presented in a comedy format, it’s easier to digest.When I shoot comedy, that’s what I want to bring to it – that, and a lot of heart.” W • Android Employed is currently available on demand on Telus Optik TV and streaming online at androidemployed.com.

Pets find warm welcome at Yaletown’s Pet-a-palooza GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

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a-palooza event on Aug. 27 bringing puppos of all shapes and sizes to a makeshift track inYaletown.The fourth annual edition of the free, pet-friendly day fair is about more than the planned 30foot dachshund dash, though, with organizers using the Sunday afternoon to spread awareness on nutrition, health and more.

Sponsored by Natural Balance dog food, the trade event will block off traffic on Mainland Street from Davie to Helmcken and 60 local exhibitors will be on hand, from Fergie’s Doggie Delight Bakery hocking dog treats and K9 Gentle Dental promoting oral hygiene, to Danes and Divas presenting a line of boutique collars and bandanas.Various vets and the SPCA will also be around with tips for owners.

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festival was to bring the community together, to support local non-profit and charity organizations and help them raise some funds,” says Pet-apalooza event coordinator Jordan Illington. “And have a fun day out for people and their pets!” she adds over the line from her home in Shawinigan Lake, moments after wrapping a morning walk with her five Great Danes.

Perhaps the biggest attraction will be the series of playful dog races taking place

by Bill Curtis Square.While last year’s Pet-a-palooza only held a “running of the bulls” race for English and French bulldogs, the 2017 event adds the aforementioned wiener dog race and a mixed-breed “puppy stampede” for furballs six months and under.

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By Rob Brezsny Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint #2: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” Hint #3: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. Hint #4: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upsidedown, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.”

That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more healthgiving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise?

Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

One of my favorite Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress, and playwright. In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says: “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

The Witwatersrand is a series of cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 562 square kilometres.

From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50 per cent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured.

What I wish for you is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of selfesteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve success even a little – and would probably undermine it.

Stockbrokers in Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of 10 goats in a parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favourable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

In the coming days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical Song of Solomon into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur: “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets. How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the colour of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

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100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT BC Grown

BC Grown Aronia Berries

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Sunrise Apples

BC Grown Organic Red Bunch Beets from Myers Farm

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

.98lb

GROCERY

Premium Wild Sockeye Salmon Fillets

BC Boneless Pork Chops

value pack, previously frozen

*RWA

15.41kg

28.64kg

6.99lb

12.99lb

*RWA – raised without antibiotics

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Coconut Bliss Organic Dairy Free Coconut Dessert assorted varieties

product of USA

6.49 3 or 4 Pack Bars 6.99 473ml Green & Black’s Organic Fair Trade Chocolate Bars assorted varieties 100g • product of EU

2/7.00 Organic Traditions Nuts & Seeds select varieties 100-454g

reg price 9.99-28.99

25% Off

regular retail price

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha

Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade

Faith Farms Cheese

assorted varieties 380g product of Canada

5.99 Rocky Mountain Flatbread Pizza select varieties

405-430g • product of BC

8.99

480ml • +deposit +eco fee product of USA

3/9.99

3/6.99

Celestial Seasonings Herbal Tea

Ethical Bean Organic Fair Trade Coffee

select varieties

assorted varieties product of Canada

20 Bags • product of USA

6.99 227g Ground 9.99 340g Whole Bean

3.29 Nature’s Path Organic Eco Pac Cereal

Dairyland Lactose Free Milk skim, 1%, 2%, 3.25% or chocolate 2L • product of BC

assorted varieties

4.79

6.99 Danone Oikos Creations, Greek or Supergrain Yogurt

Maple Hill Free Range Large Eggs 1 dozen product of Canada

assorted varieties

assorted sizes

25% off Regular Retail Price

assorted varieties assorted sizes

25% off

Earthbound Farm Organic Frozen Vegetables

Rizopia Pasta

brown rice, organic wild, or quinoa 340-454g • product of Canada

assorted varieties 300-400g

product of USA

reg price 3.69-5.29

reg price 4.69-6.29

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30% Off

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Regular Retail Price

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Regular Retail Price

3.49 Slice 10.99 Party Size

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regular retail price

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Strawberry Shortcake or Peaches and Cream Cake

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Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts

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4.49

WELLNESS assorted varieties

2.99/100g

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New Chapter Multivitamins

Choices’ Own Specialty Grilled Chicken Breasts

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

946ml • +deposit +eco fee product of USA

Ad price 7.49 - 21.74

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.

5.99lb

8.99lb

BC ORGANIC PORK

2.16kg

1.98

13.21kg

19.82kg

1.98lb BC Grown Organic Yellow Watermelon from Secrest Farm

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made in-store

4.37kg

3.98

BC Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Organic Beef Burger Patties

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