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“Re: Reimagining the cemetery with artists, wild meadows and walking tours,” Sept. 7, 2017 Growing up in the east end of London, I used to listen to my father rage about the amount of land devoted to cemeteries: “More land for dead people than living children.”

Every weekend his mother would take him to visit the graves of his father and much younger brother.

I think that experience must have influenced him profoundly.

But when I got to Paris, at age 14, on an exchange visit, the first place the host family took me to see was Pere Lachaise.

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

B.C. IS BURNING headline in the sun: heatwave breaks all records. while we sniff the back pages, smoke hangs off the mountains like a guilty dusty shawl. while we drive, and talk of home renos, cat food, and peaches. while the sun bleeds, and the tinderbox grows. we make a few necessary alterations: no atv’s on the back roads, no chainsaws, no ciggy butts, no ciggy butts, no ciggy butts. but these all seem temporary as the clouds, and while we wait for the rains to dissolve the immediacy of our problems, we fail to grasp how it got to this. like the sun that point in the distance has inched along, until upon us: hot and full of air.

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According to board member Valerie Arntzen, in the mid-1990s, wooden boat aficionado Alison Marshall decided she wanted to build a Swampscott Dory, but she needed a place big enough to do it. Dave Bradford of Alder Bay Boats helped her find a location on Granville Island with another aspiring boat builder, calling the space the Boat Room. In 1995, they started a non-profit society with 40 members.

In 2001, theVancouver Maritime Museum offered space at the Heritage Harbour, and Sam McKinney built and donated a floating workshop. “A new era for the club was born,” notes Arntzen.

The club’s relationship to the Maritime Museum is still going strong.The museum offers the club dock space as well as event rooms for meetings and celebrations. It also includes the club in any event that involves the dock or boat building.

The club works on small wooden rowing or sailing boats under 14 feet, “as that is as big as will fit in our shop,” says Arntzen. They get a lot of inquiries regarding the history of small boats on the B.C. coast, and have had historical boats donated to them “that have been great assets to our club.”

“It’s really about learning together,” Arntzen adds. Some members have no experience with tools or building but have “an amazing amount of enthusiasm.” Others have years of boat-building under their belts. “The club seeks people who want to learn about or share their knowledge of small wooden rowing and sailing boats,” she explains.

One of the club’s longterm goals is to develop a wooden boat centre in Vancouver. “We would need partners and a lot of capital in order to pull this off but the dream is still alive,” says Arntzen, pointing out that

Vancouver is a port city with a long maritime history.

Club projects have included the restoration of the Gartside Pram, an 8-foot row boat that had not been worked on for several years.When a group of new members and board members joined, the burst of fresh energy helped the club finish in a year. It was then sold so they could “add to the coffers and plan for another project.”

They also worked on the Ragna, a 12-foot Riff sailing dinghy designed by prolific American boat builder Paul Gartside, using strip plank construction. “Everyone learned a lot from this build and she is one of the prides of the fleet,” says Arntzen.

Their newest build is a Providence River Boat, which will be a 12-foot gaffrigged sailing/rowing dinghy as well. “This one is a real challenge, as we don’t have a proper set of plans.” It was built in 1875 as a crabbing boat by a man named Buttonswan. Members have been poring over various pictures and carefully planning the next step. “She will be a beauty when she is done next year,” Arntzen says.

And, last week, the club rowed their boats over for the annual Granville Island Wooden Boat Festival to set up for display, and took part in the first annual Heritage Dock Classic Race.

Some of the most rewarding aspects of being involved in the club are not only building boats mostly with hand tools, but also “keeping the maritime traditions of building, rowing, sailing alive, and connecting with other like-minded people here and afar,” says Arntzen.

The goal is to foster interest in and enjoyment of the craft. And, she notes, the club especially loves it when parents bring their kids, “because that is our future.” W

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Celebrating 30 years of Nardwuar on the radio Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

If you’ve ever found yourself spinning your radio dial on Friday afternoon, maybe you’ve been lucky enough to land on UBC’s campus station, CiTR Radio, 101.9 FM. First-timers might be totally befuddled – Rock 101 it ain’t – but after a while, you’ll have little doubt what you’re listening to: It’s the extremely high-pitched Nardwuar the Human Serviette Radio Show, which has been on the air every Friday afternoon on CiTR for the past 30 years this fall.

Long before Nardwuar became an international YouTube star (and before that, a MuchMusic personality) thanks to his earnest, hilarious and deeply researched interviews with Snoop Dogg, Henry Rollins and various prime ministers, presidents and porn stars, the West Van-

couver media impresario and musician rocked the radio like no other host before or since.

It all started back in 1987, during Nardwuar’s second year attending UBC. His first-ever radio interviews were with Toronto band Rheostatics and Vancouver punk stalwarts DOA. Rheostatics member Dave Bidini can instantly recall the interview: “It was our first time we’d ever been out west, and one of the first true band interviews we’d ever done. He was 100-per-cent the same then as he is now: electric, funny, friendly, bent.We felt we had finally met our match.”

Nardwuar graduated from UBC in 1990 with an arts degree (his dad wanted him to become an engineer), but Nard never left CiTR Radio. He still drives out every Friday from his home in West Van, where I was lucky enough to attend both elementary and high school with him. Thus, I’ve witnessed first hand his development into a respected

One of Nardwuar’s greatinterviewer over the decades. est skills is catching his Of course, that respect was hard earned. Rheostatics interviewees off guard with his insatiable curiosity. The aside, many rock stars’ first very first interview I ever impressions of Nardwuar tuned into on the Nardwere often horrible. wuar show was with Johnny American punk icon Jello Freedom, an obscure and Biafra drew all over Nardextreme hemp enthusiast. It wuar’s face with a permawent pretty much exactly like nent marker (and yet, years this (because Nardwuar, an later, Jello signed Nardincredible archivist, still has wuar’s band to his record the clip, and sent it to me): label). Canadian rock star Nardwuar: “…Could you Chris Murphy from Sloan make a condom out of stormed out of his first hemp?” interview with Johnny FreeNardwuar (and dom: “You could yet Chris now make a condom drums for out of hemp Nardwuar’s because anything band when you make out of they play petroleum you could Toronto), and Blur’s make out of hemp.” drummer Dave RownNardwuar: “Is tree infamously bullied hemp dangerand physically harassed ous? Like, if you Nardwuar on camera injected an erect (and yet Rowntree, penis with hemp, now an elected Britwould there be ish politician, wrote problems?” a public apology to Johnny Nardwuar in 2011, Freedom: admitting to a cocaine addiction!)

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“Uh… well… I don’t know why anyone would want to do something as foolish as that!

You know, I’m sure if you injected coffee into an erect penis there’d be problems.”

In other words, every Friday for 30 years, Nardwuar’s show has been bizarre, honest and passionate gonzo radio at its best and worst.

At its worst, Nardwuar will book me as last-minute guest in a segment we affectionately call “Who Cancelled?”

At its best, Nardwuar’s show stacks eclectic guests that stick around, Johnny Carson-style, to interact with the next guests and the listener-callers Nardwuar puts on the air with little to no warning. The show becomes a variety-pack circus with Nardwuar as ringmaster.

Nardwuar: “Caller? Are you there, caller? Do you have questions for Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters? Go ahead to Dave Grohl, caller!”

We’re very lucky to have Nardwuar’s unique presence on our media landscape: In

1999, Nardwuar suffered and recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage. In 2015, he suffered and recovered from a stroke. In 2016, he successfully underwent heart surgery.

Nardwuar is celebrating three decades on the air with a “marathon” of best-of interviews strung together for 20 hours straight, starting on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. and ending the next day at 5 p.m. Expect to hear everyone from Jay-Z to Mikhail Gorbachev, from Destiny’s Child to Wesley Willis, and countless in between. Listen if you dare at citr.ca or at 101.9 FM. If that wasn’t enough, Nardwuar continues the celebration on Saturday, Sept.

23 with a live all-ages gig at The Hall at 1739 Venables (at Commercial) featuring his band the Evaporators (which itself has been rocking for more than 31 years), Owl Empire, and Nardwuar’s Video Vault.Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 7:01 p.m.

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Bus Lines: No. 20 captures city in mobile microcosm JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

It’s not often a woman sits down beside you on the bus and immediately starts talking about how good she is at blow jobs. But then, there aren’t many bus routes like the No. 20, and there aren’t many streets in Canada like East Hastings.

The woman in question – who doesn’t give me her name, despite our suddenly intimate conversation – says she’s going to ride a few blocks west because she’s not making enough cash in this part of town. Like several others, she ghosted onto the bus at the stop between Princess and Jackson.

She’s looking for enough cash to buy a cooler or a beer on this warm, sunny fall morning. “That way I can forget about hungry I am,” she adds, before asking if I have any change.

She exits near Main, as another dozen or so people ghost on board past her, finding a temporary escape from the streets.

Riding the No. 20 along the two-kilometre stretch

between Campbell and Cambie in Vancouver is always a sobering journey; a first-hand glimpse of the ongoing tragedy known as the Downtown Eastside. It’s here that homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness are most concentrated in the city, and where the fentanyl crisis has hit hardest.

By contrast, after passing through the area, the bus route terminates with a short loop downtown amid some of the most expensive real estate in North America.The other terminus is in one of the sleepiest parts of the city, at its southern edge, just a few hundred metres from the Fraser River near Marine Drive.

In between is a spectrum of the city’s broad cultural and ethnic patchwork.

It’s like all of Vancouver life is on the No. 20, minus the super-rich who’d rather take the Lamborghini.You see tailored suits alongside secondhand rags; babies in expensive double strollers beside the elderly with walkers; and representatives of five continents (no penguins to make it six, sadly).

The southern section of the route takes in comparatively hidden areas of Vancouver that have yet to see much gentrification, apart from the elevated price of housing.

From its suburban terminus, the No. 20 heads due north up Victoria Drive – which could well rank as the city’s most ethnically diverse street – for almost five kilometres.The quantity and diversity of restaurants the bus passes are dizzying – from a variety of Chinese and Vietnamese to Filipino, Lebanese and Hungarian – while the bus itself turns into a mobile melting pot of ethnicities.

This skews a little more Caucasian as we transition onto Commercial Drive, which is not exactly a slouch on the diversity front either.

Then we turn onto Hastings and head west. An Irish docker on his way home from an early shift confirms that the route gets a bit rougher on Hastings.

“I’ve seen a guy get aggressive with a woman who caught his eye, a ‘what are you looking at?’ kind of thing,” he says.

“It’s safe but it’s just pretty sad,” says a stroller-comman-

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I step off the bus at Carrall and make my way through the busy sidewalks, past the ubiquitous patches of pavement where locals spread out clothes, books and day-to-day wares to sell what they can.

Up ahead, a few transit security staff are directing passengers at a bus stop that was temporarily closed last Tuesday for safety reasons: namely crowds on the sidewalk spilling into the path of the bus, resulting in several recent near misses.

There was local uproar over the closure, with advocates demanding the stop be reinstated to aid those with mobility issues.

It got me thinking: Is transit a privilege or a right? Driving is seen as a privilege, and, in these days of rapid densification in Metro Vancouver, it seems like transit is becoming the direct opposite; more of a need than an option.

The stop was reopened last Thursday.

“We have taken several steps to address safety concerns raised by our bus opera-

tors.This includes increased patrols in the area by transit security and transit supervisors, and instructing our buses to travel at reduced speeds near this stop,”Translink said in a statement.

“We believe these additional measures will allow us to continue service at the location in a safe way and will continue to closely monitor safety at this location once service is restored.”

Navigating this stretch of road has an obvious effect on those behind the wheel of the bus.

“It’s definitely the worst route. Ninety-nine per cent of bus drivers agree,” says a driver we speak to, sporting a grey beard and twinkling eyes.

“You get the freeriders, the alcoholics, people bringing their food...” He throws his hands in disgust, but keeps smiling.

The smile could be a necessary façade.When I get back on for the final stretch into the downtown core, another driver tells me after four years of driving the Hastings routes — the 14, 16 and 20 — he had to take a “mental break” on quieter routes.

Stopping suddenly to

avoid pedestrians, negotiating with non-paying customers and dealing with occasional threatening behaviour can take their toll, he says.

“Vancouver is the worst city in Canada for pedestrians not heeding traffic signs,” he says, adding that he has a duty to protect as many as 150 passengers that cram on board.

“I can’t stop on a dime.

If someone walks out in front of me, I’m going to hit them.” W

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People have been talking about the death of town centres for decades. Out-of-town malls pull away shoppers.

Rents are prohibitively high.

Millennials are too busy Instagramming to venture out of the house. And online shopping will have us all trying on clothes Jetson-like through VR headsets, as tumbleweed blows down Robson Street.

Yet according to data released last year by Statistics Canada, the e-commerce proportion of total retail sales in the first nine months of 2016 topped out at just 2.3 per cent in January.There’ve been some high-profile bankruptcies –Toys ‘R’ Us was a shock – and Robson Street has seen major closures including Gap andThe Body Shop. But homegrown retailers including Aritzia, Oak + Fort and SajeWellness, all of which have strong e-commerce, are opening stores all over the place.Vancouver’s department store scene – supposedly on its uppers for years – has seen a boost with the opening of Nordstrom and an ongoing major renovation for Holt Renfrew.

And now, online-only brands are taking things into real life, including Clearly, Everlane, and the biggest fish of them all, Amazon, which has eight bricks-and-mortar bookstores in North America and recently acquiredWhole Foods.

“Amazon has been a disruptor to the [retail] industry... It represents all that online can provide in terms of possibilities,” says Darren Dahl, BC Innovation Council professor and senior associate dean and director of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, UBC. “Its move into physical indicates that a mixed [digital and bricks-and-mortar] model has potential – at least at this point in time. Amazon experiments and pushes boundaries – one of the many reasons it is so successful.”

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What’s been the motivator for these online-only brands to move into reality? After all, surely it’s cheaper to have an online-only store, with no rents, taxes and overheads, and lower staffing costs? It’s a question of scale. If you’re online only, there’s so much competition that it’s hard to differentiate yourself.That’s not necessarily a problem if you’re an Etsy shop that needs to sell a few hundred dollars worth of product to make a profit. But if you want to expand, you need a constant flow of new customers.

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Clockwise from left: Indochino, a Vancouver-based menswear company, started online but opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in 2014. Dan Toulgoet photo.

Amazon is in the testing phase of its Prime Air project, which will use drones for same-day delivery. Contributed. Lush’s revamped Robson Street branch has the largest demo sink of any of its North American stores. Contributed based company that makes made-to-measure menswear.

It started online, but opened its first real-life store in 2014.

Now, it has 17 showrooms across North America and has just opened a new head office at Granville and Robson, twice the size of the old one.

“One of the challenges that most online-only businesses run into is the cost to scale,” says CEO Drew Green. “For example, Amazon is one of the best retailers in the world but had 17 to 19 years of being unprofitable because of the cost of acquiring customers. For us, retail has been the most efficient way to reach a new demographic. I can’t tell you what’s going to be the trend in retail in 10 years time, but one thing I’m confident in saying is that we’ll see very few online-only brands.”

MIXED MESSAGES

Green believes modern retailers need to offer a seamless and complementary blend of online and bricks-andmortar retail. Real-life stores can offer experiences that online can’t, but need to be more efficient. Online stores have the efficiency, but need to include a personal touch.

“We wanted to become an experience-based brand rather than a product-based one,” he says. “Shopping with us involves measurements, fabric choices, personalization and customization.You can do that online by yourself, or you can be guided through it by a style guide in the showroom. If you go get a suit from an off-therack or ready-to-wear store it’s a stale experience. For us, it’s entirely different: It’s appointment based, it’s one-to-one,

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and in up to four weeks you get a garment that fits you perfectly.”

Beauty brand Lush just reopened its expanded Robson Street store, which now has more space, a bigger focus on consultation, and the largest sink of any of its stores in North America – perfect for demo-ing bath bombs.

“We’re focusing on expanding existing North American shops in order to heighten the customer service experience and provide more space for customers to get hands on with our continued product innovation,” says Brandi Halls, director of brand communications. “Creating a ‘sensory playground’ is something that we’ve become famous for the world over and, though it is costly, it’s something that we think is worth investing in for years to come.”

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One of the big beneficiaries in the rise in online shopping is Canada Post, which saw a 23 per cent rise in parcel volume in Q2 of 2017, versus the same period in 2016. To meet online shopping demands, it now has three concept stores including one at 495 Georgia St. These have fitting rooms that allow customers to try their online purchases on as soon as they receive them, and return them on the spot, a bit like... a shop.

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Large chains can absorb Vancouver’s notoriously high commercial rents and taxes but indies can’t, which is why they’re a rarity in prime shopping spots like Robson Street

ONLINE REALITY

And what about the flipside: replicating the real-life experience online?

Lush is mainly trying to do so by incorporating more video on its website so you can see what its products do in real life. Halls says: “We are always looking for ways to elevate our digital experience because we know that so much of our brand needs to be experienced in person.” Amazon is trying to emulate the immediacy of bricks-and-mortar shopping with same-day delivery and is working on its Prime Air drone service. Most retail websites and apps now have online chat functions so you can get real-time assistance and guidance from a person, or book in-store appointments. And social media means customers

can feel like they have real and significant relationships with their favourite brands – or can publicly call them out for anything from bad service to ethical issues.

Then there’s augmented reality, which allows you to try before you buy. Last year, Sephora launched its impressive Virtual Artist app, with which you can try on makeup looks and go through tutorials that show you how different techniques work on your own face. Apps have also been developed for trying on accessories, from scarves to engagement rings. However, the fashion industry at large hasn’t adopted these, and Dahl is skeptical too. “People are trying to do all kinds of things to make online shopping close to the real thing.

We might get to this Minority

Report scenario eventually, but we’re a long way off,” he says. According to him, the crucial factor for online success is simply having a decent returns policy.

SOCIAL NETWORK

The final part of the shopping mix is the mall as meeting place, and shopping as entertainment and a social experience. Some e-commerce brands are trying to recreate that with community sections on their websites and apps, yet still we head to the high street.

“You journalists like to make it seem like the sky is falling in but in-person communication is always going to be important,” says Dahl.

“We can say the end of movie theatres should have happened long ago but people still go to them. It’ll be the same for retail.” W

shops. We offer a very personalized service and our clients are very particular about how they want to be served,” she says.

As well as service, indie stores can offer the kind of quirky, unique or fashion forward product selection that big brands can’t – at Wardrobe Apparel, looks are hand-picked and pre-ordered straight from designers’ showrooms. What does the future hold for Gastown retail?

Canada Post’s concept store at 495 Georgia St. allows you to “There is still a majority of try on and immediately return online purchases. Contributed independents in Gastown, so it has managed to keep its off-the-beaten path vibe – for She believes service is the key and the Pacific Centre. “This now anyway,” says Thompson. city is a bit out of hand in terms to success for indie businesses.

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Available at West Elm, pricing varies by size A quick way to warm up a space for the season is to add softness underfoot.

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Yōshoku just in time for fall Homestyle Japanese fare arrives in historic Japantown Anya Levykh Nosh

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Top: Dosanko’s tonkatsu (panko crusted pork belly). Middle: Co-owner Nathan Lowey. Below: Tempura vegetables. Dan Toulgoet photos

There’s a sense of homecoming here. Dosanko, the new Japanese restaurant from chefs and husbandand-wife team Nathan and Akiyo Lowey, lives in the former Fat Dragon space on Powell Street. The latter was a much-loved and sadly short-lived barbecue joint owned by the same team behind Campagnolo and Campagnolo Roma. Nathan worked under Campagnolo chef/owner Robert Belcham at both restaurants. The couple has now taken over the long-term lease from Belcham, giving them at least handful of years before they need to worry about increasing rents.

The room hasn’t changed much from its Fat Dragon days, meaning the exposed brick and wood-panelled walls and banquettes are

still in place. Dosanko boasts some well-placed fairy lights, a long, deep, reclaimed-wood bar along one side and a play area for the kidlets at the back, along with some comfy sofas for lounging (the Loweys are parents to two young children).

Yōshoku isn’t very wellknown in Vancouver, despite its long history here. This Westernized style of Japanese cuisine is not about the three popular monopolies of sushi, izakaya or ramen.

This is very simple food that your grandmother might have made – if she was Japanese and a dab hand in the kitchen.

The star plate here is the tonkatsu ($18 for five ounces/$22 for seven).

Heritage local pork is purchased whole and butchered in-house. The restaurant is currently going through two whole pigs each month.

You can order the loin or shoulder, but if the belly is available, go for it. This is meat butter at its finest.

The fat is silky and light, the meat is tender, and the whole is panko-crusted and deep-fried to a cutting crispness. It also comes with

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a bowl of warm, toasted sesame seeds and a pestle, so that you can grind the seeds at the table then add them to the tonkatsu sauce.

The warm, nutty aroma permeates before you start the attack, and gives a satisfying taste and textural contrast to the meat.

And don’t forget the koji salt. Made in house, this fermented soy culture is turned into a salt and served in its own dish alongside the tonkatsu.

Use it well and often – it’s amazing; a drool-inducing umami explosion that is addictive enough that we (politely) begged to buy some to take home. Alas, retail is not yet available, but there was a hint of something happening down the road.

Tempura vegetables ($8) make a great starter, but watch out for the shishito pepper, which can occasionally have some bite thanks to the seeds. Zangi ($9) is a heavily improved version of the standard chicken karaage on offer at most casual Japanese eateries. Here, the batter is almost non-existent, but makes itself felt in texture and light saltiness. The

flesh is juicy and plump, a testament to the Loweys’ commitment to using local, organic and ethically raised meats. The chopped pork in the Japanese curry ($17) is another excellent plate.

Served over rice with a savoury tomato-based sauce and topped with melted cheese, it’s the perfect antidote to the oncoming chill in the air.

Even better are the desserts ($8). Java lovers will adore the coffee jelly parfait, but I fell deeply for the matcha milcrepe – a cake made up of thin layers of sweet crepes alternating with green tea and white chocolate cream and topped with local cherries.

Lunch is all about onigiri (stuffed rice balls), sandwiches on housemade bread, and donburi bowls.

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Big news out of the Okanagan: Andrew Peller Ltd., an Ontario-based wine producer, has bought three major B.C. wineries: Gray Monk Estate Winery just north of Kelowna, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards and Black Hills Estate Winery in Oliver.The deals are expected to be finalized within the next month.

Araxi alumni Darin Newton has been announced as the restaurant director at the soon-to-open Il Caminetto in Whistler. Newton will be working closely with executive chef James Walt and will begin the hiring process for key positions in early fall. ilcaminetto.ca Provence Marinaside has launched a breakfast happy hour, with $6 cocktails available with any breakfast order. Offered Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., the “hair of the dog” drinks menu includes specialty coffees, a Caesar and a Bloody Mary, and four cocktails. provencemarinaside.ca

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EPH Photography On Saturday, Sept. 30, noted Vancouver chef/ owner David Gunawan of Farmer’s Apprentice and chef/co-owner Mark Perrier of Osteria Savio Volpe will host a late summer harvest dinner with organic farming pioneer Michael Ableman at Salt Spring Island’s Foxglove Farm. The evening includes a sparkling wine and canapé reception, guided tour of Foxglove Farm, multi-course familystyle menu paired with B.C. wines, and a copy of Ableman’s book, Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier. Tickets, via Eventbrite, are $149 per person. W

I’m super lucky to travel to Italy multiple times a year.

For work! I essentially won the lottery by obtaining a spot on Collisioni’s Wine Educational Board (wineducationalboard.com) under the leadership of the amazing Ian D’Agata. While headquarters are in Barolo, we travel all over Italy.

Our most recent wine mission took us to the lesserknown region of Marche.

If you like Tuscany, you’ll love Marche. Located to the east across the Apennines, it has always been a bit off the main drag which may explain why even today it is less travelled. Getting there from Tuscany by train took an entire day. But it’s worth the trek.

Like Tuscany, the region extends from the mountains across a series of picturesque hills which eventually collapse into a gorgeous coastline. The beach at Portonovo is one of Italy’s most beautiful. Marche also has the right mix of sleepy and vibrant

towns along with an incredible quality of sunlight that intensifies everything. And there is a massive network of fascinating caves carved out of limestone.

All of the above actually contributes to the character and quality of the region’s wines (which is very high overall). Marche’s calling card is Verdicchio. Alas, the wines don’t have the same cachet as Italy’s most famous exports, yet Verdicchio is one of its most interesting white grapes.

Pronounced ver-DEEkyoh, it gives wines that are very crisp, lemony and herbal with intriguing hallmarks of almond and fennel.

Though most examples are aged in stainless steel, some see a judicious amount of oak making for a stimulating range of expressions.

The diversity of Verdicchio is further demonstrated by its two distinct geographical denominations: Castelli di Jesi (which translates as castles of Jesi) and Matelica (pronounced very similarly to the heavy metal band).

Jesi is the Verdicchio that sees the sea; Matelica is the Verdicchio of the mountains.

Jesi stretches across hills

Italy’s off-the-beaten-track region of the Marche is a treasure trove of incredible wine. Contributed photos looking out towards the Adriatic Sea and the vineyards enjoy a steady marine breeze. It’s quite a vast zone but the wines tend to be fruity and floral in nature with notes of peach and pear joining Verdicchio’s signature traits.

The 2015 Umani Ronchi, ‘Casal di Serra’ Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore DOC ($17.99 BC Liquor Stores) is an affordable staple that I have happily recommended plenty of times.

A step up in complexity, concentration and persistence is the 2014 Andrea Felici, Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico Superiore ($34-39 Liberty Wine Merchants, Marquis Wine Cellars). This was

one of my favourite discoveries during my visit last year. I was thrilled to find that one of our savvy importers was already bringing it in.

Then there is Bucci. Not just an historic producer, it’s truly one of the top.

I recommend both the 2014 Bucci, Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico ($33 New District) and the 2013 Riserva ($56 BC Liquor Stores).

The Riserva is one of Italy’s greatest whites. I was treated to a vertical going back to 1992 and (collector alert) I was blown away by just how well this grape can age.

Really, I encourage you to try any Verdicchio you can get your hands on.

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the spirit that makes it such an appealing place,” says esteemed Australian beer writer James Smith, of The Crafty Pint (craftypint.com). “I may be biased, having chosen... to abandon our families in the UK to live in Melbourne, but it really is a wonderful city that embraces – encourages you to embrace and explore – all that’s good in life.”

Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

@TheGrowlerBC There’s a funny rivalry that exists between Melbourne and Sydney. Australia’s two most populated cities have a long history of jockeying for the world’s attention, each believing they are Australia’s greatest gift to the world. It can get a little nasty.

In recent years, you could be forgiven for thinking Sydney has come out ahead, though. It’s bigger, it had the 2000 Summer Olympics, it has the opera house and the bridge and the beaches and the postcard-perfecteverything.There’s no denying Sydney is a gob-smackingly beautiful city.

Even Melbournians will cheekily concede that fact: “Well, it’s certainly a pretty city.”

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Contributed photo Sydney has the good looks and overpriced real estate, Melbourne has quietly established itself as superior in almost every other way, and it knows it.

Melbourne has Australia’s best food, its best coffee, and arguably its best wine (from the nearbyYarra Valley).The city’s multicultural makeup has helped establish it as the

artistic capital of Australia: Melbourne is plastered with incredible street art and pretty much every Australian band that isn’t Tame Impala calls the city home.

As one might expect, craft beer has also become an important thread in the city’s cultural fabric.

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For decades, Melbourne’s beer drinkers suffered with fizzy, flavourless lagers designed to quench thirst on hot summer days and be drunk en masse. Pubs were “blokey” and not welcoming to women.

But the many Aussies who travelled overseas soon discovered the beer culture that existed in places like Europe and North America, and wondered why they couldn’t have that at home.

Cameron Hines was one of them. It was a trip to B.C., of all places, that piqued his interest in craft beer. Hines returned to Melbourne from his travels and with his good buddy Dave Bonighton, founded Mountain Goat Brewery.

“The name comes from the fact that they had this metaphorical mountain to climb to get started,” says Mountain Goat Brewery general manager Mick Bentley.

Banks turned them down.

Investors scoffed. But stubborn as the name suggests, Hines and Bonighton were able to raise $100,000 from friends and family to make their dream a reality.Today, 20 years later, Mountain Goat is one of Australia’s most widely distributed craft beer brands.

Housed in a massive warehouse in the Richmond neighbourhood, the space is inviting, if somewhat cavernous, with a tasting lounge adjacent to rows of soaring fermenters.The room has plenty of personality, with robotic sculptures welded from discarded brewing equipment and a bar made to look like a precariously high stack of beer cases. On sunny days, they throw open the rolling bay doors and the party spills onto the street.

Mountain Goat may not take itself too seriously (a typically Australian trait), but the beer is seriously good. In particular, the Silence of the Rees In-Breed Coconut Porter (6.3% ABV, 25 IBUs) was a flavour bomb of roasted coconut, chocolate and vanilla, designed by brewer Alana Rees to resemble a lamington, a traditional Australian coconut cake dessert.

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A short bike ride away in the neighbouring suburb of Abbotsford is Moon Dog Craft Brewery, sitting in the literal shadow of the massive

Carlton United Brewing complex, makers of Australians most popular lager,Victoria Bitter.

While many craft breweries have taken a somewhat adversarial approach to the big bad macros, Moon Dog gets along quite well with its neighbour.

“They’ve been a big help to us, actually,” says Mark Waghorne, Moon Dog’s head of sales. “They’ve helped us with lab results, sold us equipment, we’ve done collabs with [CUB-owned] Matilda Bay Brewing.”

The vibe at Moon Dog is the furthest thing from corporate, though.

Located in a non-descript alley like some secret craft beer PeeWee’s Playhouse, the divey tasting room is festooned with palm trees, Christmas lights, random neon, old mismatched furniture and weird shit everywhere. It’s absolutely fantastic and utterly unpretentious, so you can’t help but instantly feel at ease.

The beer is fun, too. Many Australian craft breweries are still pretty conservative when it comes to their beer styles, but not Moon Dog. In fact, the first beer it ever brewed was a barrel-aged imperial red ale.

I was most impressed by Mr. Mistoffelees (6.7% ABV, 12 IBUs), a wild ale aged on oak for seven months, resulting in a mildly tart beer packed with tropical fruit flavours and gobs of brett funk.

“Five or six years ago there weren’t a lot of people here who were educated in craft beer,” says Waghorne. “The summery, fruity beers are still a big part of the market, but the younger demo is a bit more adventurous.”

HAWKER’S DELIGHT

When Mazen Hajjar decided to move to Australia from Lebanon four years ago and open up Hawkers Beer, Melbourne was the only place he considered setting up shop.

“It’s 10 years ahead of Sydney,” he says. “Also, the colder weather here drives better beer.”

Hawkers, located in the leafy suburb of Coburg, is betting the Australian public is ready for craft beer.The brewery is currently undergoing a massive expansion to effectively triple its size, and is planning to add a tasting room by the end of the year.

“Craft beer only makes up about two per cent of the market here, so we are trying to educate the public,” Hajjar says. “Most people love good beer, they just haven’t been exposed to it.”

Hawkers’ first beer, the aggressively-hoppedWest Coast-style Hawkers Pale Ale (5.2% ABV, 50 IBUs), became a smash hit for the brewery from moment it was released in 2015.

“In two years, we’ve upgraded our capacity seven times,” he says. “I knew we’d be successful when I saw one of our empty bottles in the street!”

CANADA MOOSE

Thanks in part to the success of Mountain Goat (as well as other trailblazers like Cooper’s, Little Creatures and Stone &Wood), upstarts like Tallboy and Moose in Preston don’t have to do the legwork of converting the public to craft.

That said,Tallboy and Moose’s most popular beer is its lager-esque Tallboy Cream Ale (4.9% ABV).

“We do a wide range of interesting things,” says Toronto-raised co-owner Steve “Moose” Germain, “but the cream ale is paying the bills.”

For North American craft beer drinkers,Tallboy and Moose will feel very familiar.

The tasting room is uncluttered and the beer list features everything from Berliner weisse to cask-conditioned English bitters.

One thing you won’t find atTallboy and Moose – or in many Australian craft beer tasting rooms – is the growler-fill station.While not completely illegal, growler-filling is fraught with legislative red tape, and most breweries opt out.

Strong beers are also noticeably absent. AtTallboy and Moose, all of the beers clock in at under 6.0% ABV, due to restrictive Australian liquor laws.

Punitive taxes are imposed on beer based on alcohol content, so stronger beers are generally prohibitively expensive.

Wine, on the other hand, has no such restrictions in place.

“About one third of the cost of producing beer is tax,” says Germain. “If you want a pint of double IPA, it’s a $16 pint.”

The likely reason, of course, is that the notion of moderate drinking is still somewhat foreign to much of Australia (although thankfully that’s changing, and craft beer is a big part of that).The Melbourne Cricket Ground still won’t sell beer stronger than 3.5% for evening matches due to the absolute bedlam that would invariably ensue.

If you’ve been to Garfinkel’s inWhistler on aTuesday, you know what I’m talking about.

GETTING AROUND

If you plan to do some brewery-hopping in Melbourne, public transportation is the way to go.The city’s ubiquitous green trams are perfect for getting around in the city, while the extensive train system connects the more far-flung suburbs.

For B.C. craft beer fans spoiled by the myriad of walkable beer options at our doorstep, there may be some disappointment with how spread-out Melbourne’s breweries are. But it wasn’t so long thatVancouver was a veritable craft beer wasteland. In the past five years, our beer scene has grown leaps and bounds, and what’s exciting about Melbourne is that it too is poised for a craft beer explosion.

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It’s the cool new cocktail lounge Vancouver has been waiting for. Too bad it’s all the way over there in Victoria.

Foxtrot Tango Whisky is a happening little hotspot in the newly refurbished Doubletree by Hilton on Humboldt Street.

It’s across the street from the Chateau Victoria where, a few years back, you might have stopped by Clive’s Classic Lounge and met Shawn Soole, one of B.C.’s best drink makers. Now he’s here at FTW, keeping good company with Shane Clarke and Jill Tulloch of Clark & Co., Victoria’s other cool new(ish) cocktail bar.

“I am ecstatic. I am beyond ecstatic,” says Soole, who is not a man gener-

ally known for effusions of giddy delight. “I didn’t compromise anything with this opening. My partners at Clarke & Co. let me do it.”

For years, every bartender in town had been eyeing the Doubletree space; when it came available, though, the property offered it to Clarke and Tulloch. They in turn approached Soole and asked him if he wanted to be part of it.

Since leaving Clive’s, Soole had been consulting on one project after another and for a while managed Little Jumbo, which had seemed like a dream project until it wasn’t. He was wary at first.

“I sat down with Solomon (Siegel, general manager of Pagliacci’s restaurant), who is my guru, and he usually talks me out of any stupid idea I have. And he said, ‘Dude, you’ve got to do it.’”

How fortunate that he did. The vibe at FTW is cool 1950s Los Angeles, or as Soole describes it, “the sort of place where you’d expect Frank Sinatra to go for a three-martini lunch.”

Its cocktail program hits that sweet spot between classic and innovative,

where the drinks are comfortably recognizable, but made modern and new.

And how refreshing it is that “classic” here doesn’t mean the same old preProhibition drinks we’re so familiar with, but mid-20th century rickeys, gimlets and the like.

“The cocktail program is definitely rooted in 1950s classic cocktails,” Soole says.

“But we take every cocktail, pull it apart, elevate it and put it back together.”

There’s a clarified milk punch and an updated White Russian, a carrotenhanced gimlet, a whole selection of Boilermakers, another of Hawaiian drinks, and a Cuba Libre made with local Phillips Fermentorium cola, lime leaf bitters and lime acid, then bottled.

“You drink it out of a bottle and it tastes like a Cuba Libre,” Soole says.

One thing the bar does not have is fresh mint, because so much of it gets thrown out; instead, they use Silk Road’s Casablanca tea and crystallized mint leaves.

Another thing the bar doesn’t have is food. (OK, they might offer popcorn at some point.) “We’re just a

bar-bar, which is very unique in B.C.,” Soole says.

The space did come with a kitchenette, but they’ve turned that into a cocktail lab for making syrups, emulsions and infusions, for crushing ice and dehydrator citrus slices, and for experimenting with new cocktails down the road.

Instead of compromising with food, they’ve focused on compiling one of the best spirits selections in B.C., and have launched the Devil’s Dram Club, limited to 100 people who pay $400 membership dues for access to a rare, exclusive secret spirit selection.

“For me, doing FTW was about bringing it back a little bit, where we’ve gone from hotel bars to casual bars, but we haven’t had the middle bit, the rum bars and the single spirit bars,” Soole says.

“I just adore this space.”

It might just be worth the ferry ride over the water. W • Foxtrot Tango Whisky Bar is located in the Doubletree by Hilton Victoria at 777 Humboldt St. ftwbar.com

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• 1½ oz (45 mL) Sheringham Akvavit • ½ oz (15 mL) Bols Ginger Liqueur • ¾ oz (22 mL) Carrot Lime Cordial (see below) Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and

double strain into a large chilled coupe. If you like, garnish with a ribbon of sweet pickled carrot on a skewer. Serves 1.

Note: To make the Carrot Lime Cordial, mix 1 cup (250 mL) lime juice, 1 cup (250 mL) carrot juice and 2 2/3 cups (500 g) granulated sugar in a saucepan over medium heat; bring to a simmer, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Pour into bottles and keep chilled for up to two weeks.

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Restaurants drawn to forgotten strip of Main “We’re the centre hub of Vancouver ... We’re everywhere but we’re nowhere.”

Patryk Drozd

Often overlooked, the two blocks south of the viaducts attract restaurateurs, entrepreneurs and diners JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Gentrification doesn’t spread in an even wave.The 900and 1000-blocks of Main Street are proof of that.

While some post-millennial condo developments have sprouted up, this small stretch of road is still dominated by a triangle of historic hotels: the American, Cobalt and Ivanhoe, which date back to the first two decades of the 20th century.

Amputation from Chinatown by the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts has long lent a stubborn, gritty edge to this area. Importantly, that’s kept real estate prices and rents relatively low, which in turn has fostered an incoming wave of restaurateurs and entrepreneurs eager to find a corner of Vancouver to call their own – while they can.

Now a hotspot for the city’s bubbling restaurant scene, the two blocks are home to draws like The American pub, Bodega on Main, Boxcar, Pizza Farina and Torafuku.

But the slow change began back in 2008 when Robert Belcham and his partners set up Campagnolo next door to the Ivanhoe.

“You have young entrepreneurs who want to start a business, so they go to a part of town where the rents and leases are the cheapest,” Belcham says. “So this is how these disenfranchised neighbourhoods get reinvigorated. ...They want to start something interesting but they don’t have much capital to start with.They start with

Clockwise from left: Campagnolo was the first new restaurant to move into the area in 2008; it was followed by the Cobalt, Boxcar and Pizzeria Farina; and Bodega on Main. Jan Zeschky photos

something small. And that’s what we did.”

Belcham and his partners bought the building outright with the aim of having Campagnolo pay it off. So far, it’s working.

“We were young and idealistic, it was a ‘if we build it, they will come’ kind of idea... in hindsight it was a massive risk, but it’s definitely paid off for us.”

Following close behind Belcham were two young service industry veterans looking for a place to call their own.

Patryk Drozd and Ezra Kish found what they were looking for at the ground level of the Cobalt Hotel, where

the old hotel bar was being used for metal gigs.With small reserves, Drozd and Kish transformed it into what they thought Vancouver was lacking: a dive bar that wasn’t the Roxy.

The area’s neglect was part of its charm, Drozd says.

Despite being very central, it’s very overlooked.

“We’re between Chinatown, Strathcona, Upper Main Street,Yaletown, False Creek area.We are the centre hub of Vancouver,” Drozd says. “If you’re not taking a bridge and you’re going somewhere in Vancouver, you’re probably driving right past us.

“We’re everywhere but we’re nowhere,” he adds, with a laugh. “It’s like the armpit of Vancouver. It’s vital but no one ever thinks about you.”

After a few years, Drozd and Kish turned the long room adjoining The Cobalt into The Boxcar, which keeps an interesting craft beer and cocktail list.They later took over a couple of other nearby properties and set up Pizzeria Farina and redeveloped The American pub.

It’s notable that these businesses are in keeping with the feel of area.There’s The Cobalt’s pleasant shabbiness, The Boxcar’s faded-glory feel; from across the street, Pizza Farina looks like a cheap and cheerful post-club pie hangout, not one of the city’s best pizza joints; and The American promises an old-school, no-frills pinball and arcade experience, while Belcham’s in-house Monarch Burger pop-up adorns its cheeseburger with (gasp!) processed cheese.

Belcham, too, has been careful to complement the

neighbourhood rather than change it.

“We’ve always tried to be part of the betterment of the neighbourhood.We hire people from the neighbourhood as much as we possibly can.We never wanted to come here and take over,” he says, adding how they’ve been involved with the nearby farmers market from the beginning of its seven-year run.

This slower, more organic approach to neighbourhood revitalization seems to be what allows Campagnolo to flourish just a door down from the Ivanhoe. It’s a curious mix that lends no small amount of charm to the area.

But change is coming to this part of town, and fast.

The new St. Paul’s Hospital campus, still at the planning stage, is set to occupy the 7.5-hectare site to the east of the blocks.

Meanwhile, the Northeast False Creek Draft Plan places this part of Main Street into one of its three “districts” of the new project. Once the viaducts come down, the

900-block Main Street will once again be united with Chinatown, with around 725,000 square feet of new floor space including up to 300 social housing units.

“These blocks will contribute to the social and cultural connectivity of the area.They will connect the historic communities of the Downtown Eastside, Citygate and the False Creek Flats to the new Creekside Park and False Creek Waterfront,” the report states. In light of these changes, the future of Main’s historic hotels is unclear – particularly the decaying SRO Cobalt Hotel, which is owned by Paul Sahota – the owner of the recently evacuated Balmoral Hotel.

Kevin McNaney, director of the Northeast False Creek Project Office, highlighted the Cobalt Hotel’s heritage status and said the city was committed to maintaining its SRO count.

But Drozd seems philosophical in his resignation that the building will disappear one day soon to make way for something shinier.

“It’s not pretty. It’s going to come down.We all know that.

I think the city’s ready for it.

It’s an old building, right?”

In the meantime, make the most of your feast of food options in this still-gritty neck of the city. And if you can’t choose, there’s always the Ivanhoe. W

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If you’ve ever been moved by Gill Scott Heron’s music, be prepared for Western Front’s new exhibit to move through you and awaken a deep, tonal tenderness. Another time, this time, one time is an audio-visual exploration of Scott-Heron’s 1977 song “We Almost Lost Detroit.” Created and conceived by a Brooklynbased duo, Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks, the artists will kick off the month-long exhibit with a live musical performance at Western Front on Thursday, Sept. 21.

Speaking to Westender by phone while travelling on the train from New Jersey to Penn Station, NewYork City, Jemison explained the intricate structure of their show.

Another time, this time, one time is part of a series called Mikrokosmos, in which she and Hicks pick apart a song, and build new material with it.

With their investigation into “We Almost Lost Detroit,” they focus on one particular vocal phenomenon called melisma. A melisma is “what happens when someone sings a single syllable that spans multiple notes,” Jemison says.

“It’s one of the foundational elements of R&B music” (for a contemporary example, think Mariah Carey).

The performance is structured around the performers learning each melisma – or

melismatic gesture, and performing them in sequence, several times, and then creating new songs with the segments.

Accompanying the audio is a video, partly animated and partly filmed in Brooklyn.

The installation, which will remain on display at Western Front until Oct. 28, includes an audio component, and a series of photographic prints with mixed media elements, including text pieces and velvet.

Although Jemison says the performance is “very simple,” its emotional impact on both its creators and listeners is complex.

Reached by phone in his Brooklyn apartment, Hicks told Westender that he wakes up thinking about the piece.

A week prior to the exhibit’s opening, on the other side of the continent, Hicks is still refining the audio segments.

“This is the baby,” he says.

“I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it.”

Listening to a preview track titled “Strategies for…” it’s clear that Hicks has laboured over the composition. It’s a melancholic work of repetitious wizardry, including minor chords on the piano, a gently-thudding bass line, and Hicks’ confident soulful voice.

It pulls you in without warning and leaves you desperate for more when it ends.

“We have moments where we’re just like ‘man, this is like, heavy,’” Hicks says. “We know that these vocal gestures hold some sort of tonic or active ingredient.”

From an outsider’s perspective, it’s tempting to say the exhibit will be a

commentary on how black identity gets overlooked in America. That the picking apart and expansion of one song, written by a legendary black artist, is a metaphor for the attention required to understand the impacts of anti-black racism. However, both Jemison and Hicks are more focused on the emotional resonance and musical structure of their work.

“Gil Scott-Heron was a master storyteller and visionary and almost all his songs are political, and almost any of them would resonate today,” Jemison says, assertively. But “the way that we break apart the song, we’re dealing with a lot of sort of individual words that are isolated, such that the original song that existed is not necessarily identifiable in the actual performance. It was important not only that the song carried a resonant political message, but also that it had the formal properties that were interesting to us.”

For his part, Hicks says he wants people to experience the pleasure of hearing the voice doing familiar things, that when taken out of context, becomes something else.

“It’s a beauty that I do feel really strong about it,” Hicks says. “I would love for people to come away, basking in that feeling, that sort of sensation.”

However, he also hopes it will help people understand the impact of R&B music.

“There is a popularity to R&B and blues throughout time that has proved to colour a lot of other musical styles, and I think when we lift these gestures out of any context

and isolate them, there is a way in which people might be able to see just how vast that [musical] language is.” W • Another time, this time, one time runs from Sept.

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MAIN STREET / MT. PLEASANT The Main event: Planning for more people, parking and property taxes SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

Trolley cars and low-rise buildings dominated the cityscape at Main Street and Broadway at the turn of the 20th century. Barely more than 100 years later, the stage is set to tunnel part of a Millennium Line extension to Arbutus Street under that same intersection.

To the north,The Independent, a 21-storey mixed-use development at 7th Avenue, is ushering 258 new units of housing into the neighbourhood.The proposed Catalyst development – which was referred to a public hearing at Tuesday’s city council meeting – would add 145 units of affordable housing on that same stretch. Meanwhile, property taxes are up, and many small businesses – a key thread in the fabric of the Main Street culture – are struggling to cover expenses and pay wages that account for the rising cost of living.

We asked Michael Wiebe, co-president of the Mount Pleasant BIA – which represents business and property owners from Ontario to Guelph streets and 7th to 16th avenues – what all this change means for people,

properties and maybe figure out if there are properties in the neighbourhood where they can do a subsidized rate to get businesses started for the first couple of years… It’s tough for businesses to find employees to work at wages they used to work at… [They sometimes need] to find someone who can take under $15 an hour… [but that means those employees] can’t live in the neighbourhood.

Main: Mount Pleasant is preparing for an influx of new residents brought on by developments like The Independent at 7th. Dan Toulgoet photo Inset: Mount Pleasant BIA co-president Michael Wiebe. Contributed

parking and property taxes in the neighbourhood he’s called home for the past 10 years.

How are new developments, such as The Independent at Main, impacting the business and residential community?

Wiebe: It’s going to change significantly… [The area will see] a lot of people and a lot of trucks; and, its going to bring more people

to businesses… So we’re hoping that we can continue to keep greengrocers and the other small local businesses in Mount Pleasant that support the [likely multinational] businesses that go in [the 70,000 square feet of retail space on two floors in The Independent].

Is the area becoming gentrified and what will this mean

for its future?

[The City of Vancouver] needs to find ways to continue to allow people to live in the neighbourhood, because people and businesses are getting priced out… It’s really hard to be a young [and non-franchised] business and try to enter [and set up shop in the neighbourhood]… The city needs to look at some of the city

How are the new developments in the area affecting property taxes?

The assessed value of the 216 business properties in the BIA area in 2015 was $440 million, and that jumped up to $794 million in 2017. So that’s quite a jump. The area from 2nd to 7th avenues [consisting of 29 properties between Quebec and Scotia streets] doubled from $132 million in 2016 to $265 million in 2017… So the problem is Mount Pleasant is now paying more of the tax burden, which is being passed on to small business owners because the property values in that area have gone up significantly… The area west of Ontario just got approved for 11 storeys, which means

that property taxes nearby [along Main Street] went up… It’s great for the property owners, but it means small businesses that are in older buildings have to pay more tax, which makes it harder for them to stay.

What plans are in the works to manage traffic and improve access to parking?

We’re looking at mass transit with the new SkyTrain, and how that’s going to work… All four BIAs along the Broadway corridor are looking to get a lawyer right away so that we can be involved in the discussions [about the Millennium Line extension] right from the start… We talked with HUB [cycling coalition] about creating a full bike plan for the neighbourhood… We understand that people are using more modes [of transportation] now, so [in our transportation plan] we are looking at car share services, the Mobi bike share, and how to make the area more pedestrian friendly. Parking is always a tough one…

We continue to work with the city to make sure there’s enough parking for people when they come to Mount Pleasant. W

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Piano Man: Playing in the key of Paul KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Chances are if you walked along the seawall near Spyglass Place this summer, you heard him: an older gentleman, dark sunglasses shielding his eyes, walker parked practically at his side, pressing ragtime classics and classical music out of the keys of a battered but friendly looking outdoor piano.

The piano sits in the square as part of the seasonal Pianos on the Street program. Paul Peter Fraser sits in the square to share his love of music.

On a sunny day recently, his back turned to the keys as he takes a break to chat, the octogenarian explains that he started taking formal piano lessons in 1949, but his education started earlier, on the family farm growing up in Saskatchewan, under the tutelage of his self-taught and talented sisters.

He doesn’t remember the type of piano he first played, but the first piece of music he ever learned was a melodic piece called “The Clock.”

He hums it as he recalls the tune, a smattering of silver rings catching the light as his hands move.

Fraser is a regular at this spot when the pianos are out (he plays at the Ivanhoe Pub open mic on Sundays, as well), making his way down from his nearby apartment – itself stocked with a Korg electric piano and roughly 700 pieces of sheet music – to earn a little money each day for “cigarettes and booze.”

A handful of loonies, toonies and a sole five dollar bill already line his lucky leather hat.

There was one day, he says, where he made $60 – but that required him to play for almost eight hours on the street.

As he pats his shirt looking for something to smoke, Fraser explains that he doesn’t practice as much as he used to, but he still regularly buys and reads music.

“I read music because I want to learn new music.The way I look at it, the day you

stop learning is the day you die. And I don’t want to die till I’m about 150 years of age,” he says, with a laugh. “I want to keep going.”

In addition to keeping him spry, his fingers stumbling only slightly as he stops to whip off a lively rendition of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer,” his craft is clearly also keeping him sharp.The pianist easily recites the names and details of old employers, family friends, his stint in the army, evenings at the ANZA Club – another Main Street open mic haunt – and his exploits performing on the radio and as a church organist.

Fraser explains that his mother was one of 13 children, and that he’s named after his mother’s favourite brother, Paul – an RCMP officer.

When he comes around to talking about his father, though, he lingers in the memory for a while.

His father, a fireman and former U.S. Marine, died suddenly when Fraser was a teen. He remembers the doctor coming to their house in Burnaby and his dad quickly being transferred toVancouver General Hospital.

“That night, my mother and his sister – his favourite sister from Saskatchewan, Margaret, was out for a visit – and other people went to visit him in the hospital. And I didn’t go,” he says, remorse making his voice thick. “I stayed home and played music, ’cuz I thought dad would be out the next day.”

The next morning, though, Fraser says the phone rang 21 times. He counted.

“It was the doctor and he said, ‘Your dad died.’ I went back to bed and I went to sleep,” Fraser recalls.

“My dad had realized before he died that I was pretty good at what I did,” he adds, shifting the subject to a happier thought. “At first he thought I was wasting my time [with music], but then he realized.

Because my two sisters were extremely good on the piano.”

Fraser and his sister Naydeen both excelled at their Royal Conservatory and London College of Music piano exams. His sister, he brags, once earned the second highest score in Canada. “Second only to Glenn Gould,” he states, proudly.

In fact, Fraser, who struggles with mental illness, seems to be most comfortable extolling the talents and accomplish-

ments of the other people in his world. Most of his stories, told in rapid succession as the sun starts to make its descent over Burrard Inlet, end up being about someone else.

But the music is about him.

“I’m bipolar and I’ve taken every medication under the sun,” he asserts. “And music is the best medication I can take. It gets me in a different mood.” W

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Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, is a sprawling, epic, two-part play that is both reverent and irreverent, brutal and tender, serious and sardonic. It’s also the most celebrated, most theatrical look at what it was like to be homosexual back in Ronald Reagan’s USA. Part One: Millennium Approaches, produced by the Arts Club under Kim Collier’s imaginative direction in March 2017, set the stage: two couples – gay lovers Prior and Louis, and Mormon husband and wife Harper and Joe Pitt.

Prior is dying of AIDS and Louis, unwilling to watch Prior die a pain-wracked death, abandons him.

The other couple is also in trouble: Harper is miserable in her marriage to Joe, who secretly suspects he is gay but knows he can’t be both

Mormon and homosexual.

At the end of Part One, an angel descends into Prior’s hospital room to tell him he is a prophet. “The Great Work has begun,” the angel announces. Prior does not know what that means, nor do we.

Part Two: Perestroika picks up where Part One left off.

Joe has begun an affair with Louis; Valium-addicted Harper has lost her grip on reality; and Prior, in hospital, is being cared for by his friend and ex-lover Belize, an African-American nurse.

Prior, covered in sores and deteriorating rapidly, has begun hallucinating and at one point, his fantasy intersects with one of Harper’s. Impossible, we know.

In the midst of all these entanglements is a real-life character, controversial lawyer Roy M. Cohn, who is also dying of AIDS but, in order to conceal his homosexuality, claims he has

Lois Anderson, Damien Atkins and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff in the Arts Club production. David Cooper photo cancer. So riveting is Brian Markinson’s performance, there are times when Cohn – a cohort of Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover – seems to be the main character. At other times, it feels like Cohn is the object of Kushner’s personal vendetta and the raison d’etre for the play.

The ghost of Ethel Rosenberg – convicted of and executed for espionage as a result of Cohn’s questionable arguments – haunts the

play. Does he feel remorse?

The word is not in Cohn’s vocabulary.

Performances are superb: Damien Atkins is an appealing, lost and terrified Prior who, in spite of everything, retains his sense of irony and deathbed humour. Ryan Beil, as Louis, regains some ground at the end of the play but his callous, selfabsorption causes too much heartache for us to feel much sympathy for him.

As Joe, Craig Erickson is

fearless and shows the depth of Joe’s despair: loving and caring for Harper but knowing he can never make her happy. Celine Stubel is almost translucent as Harper. As Belize, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff gets a lot of Kushner’s funniest lines and when he stands up to Cohn’s bullish, coarse, racist, homophobic diatribes, Jackman-Torkoff finds an appreciative audience.

Gabrielle Rose opens the play as Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov but is at her most impressive as Joe’s mother who, although Kushner mocks Mormonism, shows true Christian charity in her loving care for poor, suffering Prior.

All but Atkins are multi-cast but Lois Anderson, appearing and reappearing as the Angel, is extraordinary – not merely in her long (and often mystifying) monologues but also physically.Wearing huge, feathered wings, she hangs

by wires high above the stage.

Slowly treading the air, she’s like a restless horse. Her costumes (one white, one black), by Nancy Bryant, are dazzling, as is John Webber’s lighting on Ken MacKenzie’s simple but beautiful Greekcolumned set.

Angels in America: Perestroika is huge. It’s lush.

It’s spectacular – and it’s long at three hours and 50 minutes with two intermissions. There are scenes that are completely breathtaking; others that are absolutely mystifying.

But finally, Angels in America is about forgiveness.

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people of mixed backgrounds will hit Vancouver this weekend, providing space for celebration as well as discussion on the nuances of hybrid identity.

“Don’t think of us as a special little subset of the Canadian community or demographic, but we’re actually growing – we’re one of the fastest growing demographics,” Chiba Stearns says.

The word “hapa” is a Hawaiian term, used to describe people with a mixed race identity, and people outside of Hawaiian culture have latched onto it, says Chiba Stearns.

“When I found out about the word hapa, it just kind of sparked something in me,” he says.

Half Japanese, and part English, Scottish, Russian and German, Chiba Stearns knows first-hand what it’s like to be mixed race. Hapa Palooza is the kind of festival he wishes he had had as a kid.

This weekend’s festival features performances by singersongwriter Desirée Dawson and self-described “outsider artist” Jay Peachy on Saturday at Granville Island. On Sunday, Hapa Palooza will team up with Word Vancouver literary festival to present panels and workshops on mixed-race voices.

Within current racial tensions in both the U.S. and Canada, Chiba Stearns says artists and writers of mixed race can help increase crosscultural understanding.

“When we look at the idea of what multiculturalism has become in Canada, really it kind of comes down to the idea that we are just mixing and blending, and our cultures are starting to kind of

Hapa Palooza co-founder Jeff Chiba Stearns (left) and Métis/ Icelandic writer Carleigh Baker. Contributed photos blend together,” he says.This is “creating a very interesting fabric in creativity, you’re finding a lot of artists are weaving this into their work... it’s a way to combat the idea of ‘what is purity?’”

Carleigh Baker, a Métis/ Icelandic writer will be presenting on a panel at the Hapa Palooza and Word Vancouver festival. Her presentation will focus on the responsibility she holds as someone who has come into her Indigenous identity later in life.

As a mixed-blood writer, Baker says she straddles two worlds, and is committed to helping emerging writers of mixed background understand their role, as well as to help non-Indigenous folks understand topics such as cultural appropriation.

“I’m what some people would call white passing... that is something I need to consider when I’m writing.

But also it’s something I can help educate others on right now. Issues of representation – that’s my job, to help bridge the gap,” she says.

Her journey to discover her roots – her father is Cree Métis and her mother is Icelandic – has influenced her creative writing. In her new book of short stories,

Bad Endings, “Moosehide,” features two Métis characters who go on a canoe trip in the Yukon’s Peel Watershed to try to connect with their lineage.

“They desire this connection to nature, to the land, but…as privileged members of society they can sort of parachute in and leave whenever they want,” she says.

Baker doesn’t consider herself a representative of the Métis community, and is committed to only speaking from her own experience.

Although “Moosehide” is fictional, Baker says it’s informed by her own experiences of reconnecting with her Métis roots.

“Those are the stories that I have to tell, it’s not always through direct essay writing, through direct politics, fiction has a great ability to educate through this kind of sideways approach.”

The Hapa Palooza festival takes place on Sept. 22-24, at a variety of locations and various times. Admission is free, but registration is required for the Sept. 22 opening gala.

• Carleigh Baker will speak at WordVancouver’s Hapa Palooza panel on Sept. 24, at 11 a.m., at Perspective Point (Peter Kaye Room),Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch. Free. W

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Get Your VIFF On: Getting the best out of the 2017 film fest

VIFF executive director previews the city’s biggest film fest Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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If you’re a Vancouver-based cinephile, this is the most wonderful time of the year for reasons beyond the return of pumpkin spice lattes: the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival is only days away, with its packed schedule of indie gems and Oscar hopefuls from all over the globe.

VIFF 2017 is gargantuan: 342 short and feature-length films from 69 countries (including 11 world premieres, 39 North American premieres and 47 Canadian premieres), creator talks with filmmakers and showrunners (including director Jeremy Podeswa and cinematographer Greg Middleton from Game of Thrones, Carlton Cuse from Bates Motel, and David Slade from American Gods and Black Mirror), the Sustainable Production Forum (a groundbreaking confluence of activity around the environmental impact of film production), and panels on virtual reality, augmented reality and creating content for YouTube.

Last year, in honour of its 35th birthday, VIFF re-imagined itself by rolling out a new Film-plus model, grouping films and interactive experiences into an interconnected network of streams (Panorama, Sea to Sky, True North, Impact, Next, Gateway, Music/Art/ Design, and ALT) and welcoming creators and fans of emerging mediums into the fold. VIFF’s efforts resulted in 135,000 admissions, a 25 per cent increase in new attendees, and doubledigit growth in its younger

A still from Loving Vincent, which took seven years to make, with each of its 65,000 frames hand-painted by one of 115 professional oil painters. Contributed photo demographics, according to Jacqueline Dupuis, VIFF’s executive director.

This year, VIFF builds on this Film-plus model by beefing up content within the streams to entice audiences with immersive experiences and films that are “worth people leaving their homes for,” says Dupuis.

Whatever your genre or area of interest, VIFF has you covered. Dupuis notes an uptick this year in the number of films exploring socio-economic turmoil, mass migration, populist movements and resistance (Says Dupuis: “It’s really interesting to see these themes explored in films from different perspectives, some more balanced than others”). Many such films can be found in VIFF’s Impact stream (comprised of documentaries that the VIFF program guide describes as “powerful agents for change”), including artist-activist Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow, which was filmed in 40 refugee camps in 23 countries and highlights the conditions currently faced by more than

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65 million displaced people the world over.

This year’s fest places a premium on locally produced content, beginning with the opening gala screening of Meditation Park, a feature-length drama from award-winning Vancouver filmmaker Mina Shum (Double Happiness; Ninth Floor) that had its world premiere earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Meditation Park is set in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighborhood and centers on a 60-year-old woman (played by Cheng Pei Pei) whose world is tilted on its axis after she discovers a pair of pink panties in her husband’s pocket. The film also stars Tzi Mah, Sandra

Oh and Don McKellar. “It’s a film about honour, about family, and about tradition,” says Dupuis. “It’s complex in nature, and really sweet and fun at the same time.

We’re thrilled to have an opportunity to celebrate a local film and a local filmmaker, not to mention a female filmmaker, in that really important placement within the festival.” (The fest closes with Wonderstruck, Carol director Todd Haynes’ inventive drama that follows the fortunes of two deaf 12-year-olds living 50 years apart.)

Locally produced fare falls into VIFF’s Sea to Sky stream. It’s tent-poled by the BC Spotlight gala, which this year features the world premiere of Melanie

• The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival runs Sept. 28-Oct. 13 at venues around Vancouver. Tickets and schedule at viff.org.

Watch this space for Reel People’s top VIFF picks and interviews with local filmmakers.

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try to do that,” says Dupuis.

“It came through in the strength of the films.”

Dupuis is also enthusiastic about the launch of the VIFF Live, a performance program featuring collaborations between musicians and visual artists.

VIFF Live debuts on Oct. 10 with a screening of The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantastia, featuring the world-renowned Kronos Quartet performing live the score composed by Jacob Garchik. The film was co-directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, and is a paralleluniverse reimaging of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

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Wood’s Shut Up and Say Something. The documentary invites its viewers into the private world of spoken word artist Shane Koyczan, who rose to global fame after he performed his stirring poem “We Are More (Define Canada)” as part of the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The Sea to Sky stream also includes hometown and world premieres from ElleMaija Tailfeathers (c’əsnaəm: the city before the city), Peter Ricq (Dead Shack), Jason James (Entanglement), Cody Brown (Gregoire), Scooter Corkle (Hollow in the Land), Wayne Wapeemukwa (Luk’Luk’I), Latiesha TiSi-Tla Fazakas and Natalie Bolla (Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters), Kathleen Hepburn (Never Steady, Never Still), Boris Ivanov (On Putin’s Blacklist), Ana Valine (Once ThereWas a Winter), and Kyle Rideout (Public Schooled).

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Leap of Faith: Cosmic cleansing at the sound bath ALICIA AMBROSIO @aliciaambrosio

Welcome to Leap of Faith, a new weekly series hosted by veteran religion reporter Alicia Ambrosio, exploring faith, spirituality and Vancouver’s sacred spaces.

I have been known to arrive late when attending church.

It’s my thing. I’ve mastered the art of slipping in stealth quiet and taking the first seat by the door.

It is a skill that serves me well as I arrive at a dimly lit Fraser Street studio, a few minutes late for my first gong bath.

Soraya Romao, the gong bath specialist leading the session, sits cross legged on a raised platform guiding bathers through a chant meant to help them “tune in.” She follows this with a “pranayama” or breathing exercise intended to help calm the mind and body.

About 20 minutes into the hour-long session she instructs us to lie down on our mats.

Before silence descends on the room she tell us not be surprised if unexpected memories – negative or positive – come back to us during the session.

“The gong brings up the mud, and there is no lotus with no mud.” It is the ego purging

itself of its accumulated gunk, essentially.

Gong baths, also known as sound baths or sound healing, developed out of Kundalini Yoga.Yogi Bhajan – born Harbhajan Singh Puri in what is now Pakistan – brought Kundalini to North America in 1968 when he accepted a job teaching yoga at the University ofToronto.

He began teaching Kundalini yoga publicly during a visit to Los Angeles in 1969 when he realized this form of yoga could answer people’s yearning for an encounter with the divine – something he saw them trying to achieve with the help of mind-altering drugs and psychedelic experiences.

Yogi Bhajan’s sessions began with a period of sharing spiritual teachings, then moving through a series of poses, and ending with him playing the gong for 11 minutes.

In Kundalini tradition, the gong is believed to vibrate at the same rate as the cosmos, so listening to the gong re-aligns your energies and provokes deep relaxation.

Yogi Bhajan instructed some of his early followers to learn and teach the use of the gong.

Thus was born the gong bath.

“It seems passive, but there’s

Gong bath specialist Soraya Romao leading a workshop at her East Vancouver studio. Slavo Vidovenec photo lots of thing happening,” Romao tells me on the phone a few days before I attend her gong bath.

She says the sound of the gong stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation of both mind and body. Being in such a deep state of relaxation allows the mind to purge itself of the built-up gunk trapped in the ego, according to Romao.

Lying on our mats as Romao prepares to strike her gong, there is a stillness in the room. It is broken by the gentle sound of wood chimes.

She lets the sound fade before turning to the gong and giving it a tap with her mallet.

Immediately the sound of traffic outside the studio fades away.The pitch of the gong changes depending on how and where the mallet makes contact; at times it sounds like a siren, or like a vibrating piece of metal (which it is) and sometimes it just sounds like a gong. At times the gong is so overpowering it is difficult to think.

Romao also uses Himalayan singing bowls, chimes and a conch during her sessions. At

one point she tiptoes among our mats carrying a large Himalayan singing bowl, bending down over each bather’s head to give us a one on one experience with the cosmos.

Whether or not you believe the bowl is aligning your energy, it is a surprisingly pleasant sound and, yes, relaxing.

The bath ends with Romao gently guiding bathers back to the present.We return to a seated position and she closes the session with a meditation and chant intended to help bathers “carry” the vibrations they have just experienced once they leave the studio. She says the real yoga happens “on the street, where you have to learn to see that the other person is you.”

Romao, who has been teaching Kundalini yoga for six years and using the gong just as long, says she sees what she does as a service to others: She helps people relax and realize they are part of something bigger than themselves.

“I have had people with cancer and [multiple sclerosis] come to me [for gong baths] and they’re scared.They leave happy and calm because they realize this is not an end, and this body is just this body, there is something else to this.”

She says gong baths, Kundalini yoga, and meditation can also help addicts realize that “they are not their addiction.”

People facing the regular stresses of daily life also find something valuable in Romao’s gong baths. Karen Bowen has been coming to Romao’s gong baths for two years.

After a gong session, “I feel really relaxed and happy. It takes a weight off,” she says.

She has seen the effect of the sessions in the rest of her life.

“I’m definitely calmer and happier,” she claims.

Gong bathing is an emerging practice inVancouver.There is a small handful of gong specialists offering sessions at various yoga studios and community spaces in the city. However, demand is growing.

Romao offers a gong bath every Monday evening at the Bridge and Enrich Lives Society studio.That session drew so many people she had to add aWednesday evening session.

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The NHL preseason takes a unique twist for the Vancouver Canucks this week.The team’s veterans have travelled to China to play the NHL’s first-ever games in the most populated country on Earth, against the Los Angeles Kings.

The games are part of an initiative by the NHL to grow the game of hockey in Asia.

The goal is to win some new fans and encourage participation from a small fragment of China’s massive population of 1.3 billion people.

Vancouver and L.A. were easy choices to take part in the venture thanks to the large ethnic-Chinese populations of the two Pacific Rim locales.

The trip adds to the Canucks’ always-gruelling travel schedule, but the players made the 9,000-kilometre journey in fine style aboard the Crystal Skye.

Crystal Skye is the world’s largest luxury charter jet – a Boeing 777-200LR with just 88 seats, compared to more than 300 in a typical commercial configuration.The brand new jet launched just last month and is one of the world’s longest-range commercial airliners. It charters for about US$55,000 per hour according to Doug Gollan at forbes.com.

With daily high temperatures of close to 30C in Shanghai, humidity was an issue when the Canucks took to the ice for their first practice on Tuesday.

Mercedez-Benz Arena was built in 2010 and seats 18,000

The Vancouver Canucks and L.A. Kings are the first teams to play an NHL game in China. Contributed photo people.This was the first time it was used for a hockey game – it was constructed as a concert venue.

Saturday’s game in Beijing will take place at Wukesong Arena, which was renamed Huaxi Live last July. It was built as the basketball venue for the 2008 Summer Olympics and seats 14,000 fans for hockey. It has hosted hockey regularly as the home of the HC Kunlun Red Star hockey team in the KHL, which is now in its second season and is coached by former Canucks bench boss Mike Keenan.

It’ll be interesting to see what kind of attendance these games can generate. Red Star became the most-watched club team in Asia in its inaugural

season, officially averaging 5,137 fans for its games in Beijing according to IIHF.com.

The trip provides a unique team-building experience for the veteran group that features seven new faces this year.

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Psychologists say most people need a scapegoat – a personification of wickedness and ignorance onto which they can project the unacknowledged darkness in their own hearts. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to neutralize that reflex and at least partially divest yourself of the need for scapegoats. How? The first thing to do is identify your own darkness with courageous clarity. Get to know it better.

Converse with it. Negotiate with it. The more conscientiously you deal with that shadowy stuff within you, the less likely you’ll be to demonize other people.

What is home? The poet Elizabeth Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home. What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance?

What influences feel like gifts and blessings?

Those are all clues to the beloved riddle “What is home?”

You’re most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods. The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can’t afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: “As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire.” Now here’s Homer Simpson: “Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old.”

Filmmakers often have test audiences evaluate their products before releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending. You might want to try a similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo.

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So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression?

I’m not sure if there’s a final, definitive answer, but I can tell you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau’s view will be your

predominant truth.

“When you do your best, you’re depending to a large extent on your unconscious, because you’re waiting for the thing you can’t think of.” So said Scorpio director Mike Nichols in describing his process of making films. Now I’m conveying this idea to you just in time for the beginning of a phase I call “Eruptions from Your Unconscious.”

In the coming weeks, you will be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from the depths of your psyche. At any other time, these simmering bits of brilliance might remain below the threshold of your awareness, but for the

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Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes. Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year.

In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival

revelry.” In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks.

Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III lose his composure. He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you’ll be host to an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage that you can use to free yourself from long-standing worries.

“The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.”

I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you’ve got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve

down into hidden abysses. Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands.

I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “Get off your high horse and ‘lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented, and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Ellen Page for example, the coming weeks will be a time to lay

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