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Re: “The future of retail: How Vancouver brands are staying dominant in a digital world,” Sept. 21, 2017. More and more now I deal with the constant logjam that is Vancouver traffic and idiots in the parking lot get to a store. But then I can’t find what I came for, have a hard time finding help to get what I was looking for, and then they don’t have it. Waste of time. But, on the other hand, buying online you have to constantly be on guard for fake merchandise and read all the fine print before purchasing, and it’s a real crap shoot to get a quality item. The pictures always seem to look better than the reality...fed up with it all! I now hate shopping! –Nicole Ravencrow
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Balloon ban not such a blowhard idea Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence
POP! There goes that idea. Last week, a proposed balloon ban for Vancouver parks and community centres was defeated by a vote of 5-2. Green commissioner Stuart Mackinnon was the man behind the motion. Mackinnon’s concern was environmental, citing health hazards for animals in the air, ocean and on land. Before it was defeated, the motion blew up into a crazy amount of coverage, which resulted in parental outrage, tired cries of “No Fun City” and general mockery on social media and talk radio. Balloon artists and birthday clowns took action, leading to a balloon animal-making protest outside of the Trout Lake Community Centre, as well as clowns showing up at the park board vote (which means it’s entirely possible that the motion was voted down because the park board was simply scared shitless.) If you’ve read this column
What we imagine a clown protest might look like. It / Warner Brothers photo before, you probably won’t be too blown away to discover what side of the balloon battle I fall on. Put it this way: who are we to put our kids’ temporary enjoyment in the form of a damn balloon animal ahead of the potential
death of an actual animal? Look, you’re human, you’ve probably had a helium balloon get away on you. Chances are, your reaction was to watch the balloon climb to dizzying heights and then shrug it off. What can
you do? But heads up, butterfingers, what goes up must come down, and chances are your balloon ended up either in a tree or the ocean. According to Mackinnon, wherever deflated balloons land, they can be mistaken for
food by birds, dolphins and other creatures, which means they can choke to death on your balloon. Remember that the next time your kid demands that Sponge Bob helium balloon: you could be killing a dolphin. Nice one.
Balloon clowns will argue (and really, who wants to get in an argument with a clown?) that many no longer use helium or Mylar (the shiny material used for most helium balloons). Instead, socially conscious clowns now favour biodegradable latex. If you’ve ever taken a stroll down certain trails in Stanley Park, though, you’ll know that it takes a long time for latex to break down. That time gap is still a problem for animals. (Also, fair warning: what that person in the bushes is blowing is NOT a balloon animal!) Another argument is that our city has bigger issues to deal with than park rangers chasing after kids with balloons; like, for instance, human health risks surrounding discarded needles in public spaces. Fair point, so deal with that, too. And so the balloon ban motion has burst, but let’s hope the floataway from all of this inflated attention is public awareness: we are all now fully aware that those shiny, happy balloons are in fact an environmental menace. And that’s no clowning around. W
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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets.This week? Julie Bruns.
BOURBON THOUGHTS My thoughts have sat too long in wizened oak Grown too strong to down without blinking A salty response, to counter the choke Of the ages spent drowning in thinking Pour me out a stiff glass of my musings Swirl them round and allow them to breathe Air’s exposure may help in diffusing And afford me cerebral reprieve Sniff the bite of their vigorous essence Dress them up with some bitters and zest Only way to accept their harsh presence Is to sip with a chaser of jest Or swig them burning, straight from the bottle Amber contraband shared on a beach Grin and grimace, embracing throat’s throttle Cerebration drowned out by sea’s reach So allow me indulgence of spirit To pore over as evening grows deep Cast away on an old fashioned lyric As these bourbon thoughts lead me to sleep Julie Bruns is an actress and writer based in Vancouver. She moved here three years ago to pursue her dream of acting, after living for years in Baja California, Mexico, working in tourism. She loves Vancouver’s wild spirit and the way it nurtures creativity and the arts, ever more so as she continues to make her living in them.
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Turning image into word for Vancouver’s vision-impaired Amy Logan Hidden City
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The subtlety of an actor’s arched eyebrow, the grace of a dancer’s curved back, the delicate gold shimmer of a firework burst; there is so much the sighted community takes for granted. For those with vision loss, a play, dance performance or fireworks display can be an isolating experience. Vancouver’s VocalEye aims to break down these barriers. As Canada’s first live descriptive arts service for people with vision loss, the organization offers live audio descriptions of events or performances.Ten minutes before the show begins, describers introduce the characters, costume and location. VocalEye users can hear the description through a handheld receiver and earpiece. Describers, all with a background in theatre or dance, choose a performance in the show’s run, watching it at least three times and taking detailed notes which are later formed into two scripts: introductory notes and action notes. Steph Kirkland, executive managing director, explains that a good description is “vivid and provocative, not too dry but not too flowery. It’s crucial to leave room in the listener’s imagination, so that they can
VocalEye describers Teri Snelgrove and Rick Waines narrating the Vancouver Pride Parade. Rick Lin photo fill in the blanks.” VocalEye has described the Pride Parade, fireworks displays, dance performances, film screenings, festivals, and even an Alice Cooper concert.Their Touch Tours offer participants access to the set and the chance to touch and feel costumes and props. Kirkland has honed her own precise descriptive powers through 25 years in theatre, and her work narrating hundreds of textbooks for post-secondary students with vision loss. After training as an audio describer in 2009 as part of the original Kickstarter team, she started coordinating Kickstarter’s EarSighted program in 2011, and then founded VocalEye in 2012. “When they offered me the chance to start a nonprofit, it was kind of like
having a puppy dropped into my lap,” Kirkland laughs. Attendance figures have grown exponentially, but the limited budget remains challenging. It’s clearly a labour of love. “We are operating way beyond our current resources,” Kirkland admits. “It’s a passion – you just have to submit fully.” At times, the entire team has elected to take pay cuts to keep the venture going. Among many other organizations, they work with the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) – which has a similar mandate of improving quality of life for those in the vision loss community by improving access to recreation and social activities – to reach out to those with vision loss. The City of Vancouver and
Canada Council have also been very supportive, notes Kirkland. She is especially grateful to the Vancouver Foundation, which offered VocalEye a grant early on. “It was a tremendous vote of confidence. We would not be here without them.” VocalEye is currently working on the Arts Club’s Angels in America, Part Two. Kirkland finds the process very rewarding. “It feels like a privilege to describe it. As I work on it, my appreciation deepens.” VocalEye is also always looking for theatre buddies to accompany those with vision loss to performances. Kirkland is offering a free workshop, Lowering Barriers for Blind and Partially Sighted Audience Members, with the BC Alliance for the Arts. VocalEye’s Nov. 4 fundraiser, Tales from the Blindside, features people from the low vision community telling true stories. “Trying to reach those with vision loss can be difficult,” notes Kirkland. “They are often isolated.” But despite the challenges, Kirkland loves what she does. “When I can nail those moments of comedy, convey the physicality, the rhythm,” Kirkland searches for the right words… “For the listener to have the full experience, to have my listener laugh along with everyone else, that’s the pinnacle of reward.” W
How reliable are bike lane counters?
We talk to the man behind the stats TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander
Although I’m a safety-conscious cyclist and a bike-lane enthusiast, I’m not perfect. Last summer, while walking home from a party, I ran up to one of those bike-counting cables stretched across the bike path and started jumping up and down on it. I probably jumped on it 100 times, and so did my co-conspirator. Don’t lie, you’ve thought of doing it too. To ease my guilt, I called up Lon LaClaire, director of transportation for the City of Vancouver.
“I have a confession to make,” I said. “Once when walking home, slightly drunk from a party... I decided it would be fun to jump on the cords. And I was just hoping that there might be some type of way that the system overrides an over-count?” He didn’t get mad. But he did subject me to the nitty gritty of bike counting, which I’ve distilled to a few sentences (you’re welcome). “The counting methods that we use are quite varied,” he says. “We have the hose counters, we have the embedded induction loops, and we also do manual counts – and none of them are perfect, they all have their flaws,” he says, with a laugh. The hose and induction counters usually under-
count, which they know because on-the-ground human counters almost always record more, and “if we see a whole bunch in a one hour period, we would also think something is wrong. If you can imagine,” he continues, “we have enough data right now of what is an expected cycling volume profile over the day, and that follows a pretty regular curve, so anything that falls too far out of that, we would factor that out.” So what’s the purpose of the counters? The counters are set up in spots where the city has invested in new cycling infrastructure, LaClaire explains, and the bike counts help planners know whether the improvements have increased the
number of cyclists. So, what are the busiest bike route intersections in the city? According to the counts from this past July, third place goes to Union Street at Hawks Avenue, with a total of 120,000 bike trips. In second place we have the (oh-so-popular) Burrard Street Bridge, with 187,000 bike trips for the month. First place goes to the bike path by Science World where it intersects with Terminal Avenue. This past July it saw 227,000 bike trips. That’s 7,322.5 cyclist trips per day, an average of 305 per hour. And if that still doesn’t impress you, close your eyes and imagine a bike passing by you every 12 seconds, for every hour, of every day, of an entire month. W
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Foolproof beauty products for ‘max’ makeup looks Aileen Lalor Style File @AileenLalor
We were raised in the ’90s, when the natural look was king.The closest we got to high-maintenance beauty was remembering to re-dye our Angela Chase-inspired locks once in a while (look it up). So to us, the recent trend for “maximal” makeup has been a bit of a shocker.The inch-thick, plasticky looking foundation, Sharpie-scrawled brows and acres of contouring powder just make us want to spit on a tissue and give these Millennials a good old wipe. Yet when it’s done well, this kind of makeup is a form of art.The most skilled people can pretty much craft themselves a new face and know more about how light and shadow work than some physicists.Therein lies the problem. Most of us are not skilled makeup artists, and therefore it doesn’t matter how many posh beauty products we buy if we don’t know how to use them.Well done high-maintenance makeup looks over the top in real life, but fabulous on camera. Done badly, it just looks stupid. So here are the absolute idiot-
proof, klutz-proof easy products to help you get makeup to the max, without looking like Coco the Clown.
PRIMED SKIN
Makeup artists will tell you that you need to wear a primer so that your foundation goes on smoothly and lasts longer. It’s true that it makes a difference, but for lots of women, it’s simply a step too many. Smashbox Photo Finish Primerizer ($50, at Sephora and Shoppers Drug Mart) is a combo of moisturizer and primer that provides enough all-day hydration for normal skin, and makes foundation look better and last longer.
PERFECT FOUNDATION
Influencers are obsessed with Estée Lauder Double Wear because it gives a lasting matte, flawless look and photographs really well.To get a perfect finish, it’s best to
use a sponge applicator like a Beauty Blender.What’s even easier is the Cushion Stick version of the product ($46, at Estée Lauder counters). It has a slightly lighter texture but still offers medium coverage, and the sponge is integrated, so all you need to do is twist the base a couple of times to release the right amount of product, dab it onto your face, then use the cushion to blend.
DRAMATIC CONTOURING
The principles of contouring are straightforward: You put highlighter where you want things to look prominent – for example, your cheekbones – and shader on what you want to recede, like a double chin. Powders can be really tricky to work with, so the best bet for beginners is a cream product that you can blend with your fingertips. NYX Wonder Stick ($14, at Nyx stores and London Drugs, in six shades) is a double-ended crayon with
highlighter at one end and shader at the other. Apply it gradually (it’s easier to add than take away), blend, and watch a tutorial on how to use it. We like StylesbyKK’s tips on Youtube.
BOLD BROWS
We love brow mascaras because they’re so easy to use, but if you have very sparse or non-existent brows, you need something with more heft. Maybelline Eyestudio Brow Drama Shaping Chalk Powder ($11.99, at mass market retailers and maybelline.ca, in three shades) comes in a tube with a wand applicator so you don’t need to faff about with brushes and palettes, and allows you to build dramatically defined brows quickly.
FALSE LASHES
There are two types of people: Ones who can put false lashes on easily; and normal people. Mascara makers will tell you that their product can give a
false-lash effect, but that’s just not true. L’Oreal Paris Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara ($13.99, at mass market retailers, in one shade) comes pretty close, though. You get a lot of length with one coat and it doesn’t get lumpy or clumpy if you apply more layers. Come December, L’Oreal will also be launching Superstar XFiber Mascara, which the brand swears will give a false-lash look.
DUCK LIPS
We’re all for the free-andeasy, do-what-makes-youhappy approach to beauty, but honestly, when they’re overdone, lip fillers look bloody awful, and so does using a lipliner to make your pout look bigger. Rodial Dragon’s Blood Lip Masks ($45 for eight masks, at Murale), which you leave on for 15 minutes, won’t increase volume as much as a trip to the beauty doctor’s office could, but you do get a little tempo-
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It’s back: the time of year our whole design industry waits for. IDS Vancouver, once again taking over Vancouver Convention Centre West, returns this week to bring industry rockstars, designers, influencers, experts and aficionados alike under one roof to see what’s in store for the future of design. Running Sept. 28-Oct. 1, the show offers everything from speaker series to artisanal shopping to cutting edge installations to leading exhibitors.With so much to take in, I’ve narrowed out my faves for this year’s show.
STUDIO NORTH
Studio North brings Canadian and international
designers together to present custom pieces from a variety of disciples of the design world, including furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles and surface design. The gallery-like installation allows the industry, media and design-savvy show-goers to explore the fresh perspectives of the participants creativity. This year’s exhibitors include the 2016 IDS Vancouver Prototype Winner, Chop Value – the name stemming from the use of recycled chopsticks as raw material for product development and design, as well as Vancouver-based furniture designer Will Morrison, who focuses on sustainability with flat-packable heirloom pieces with a non-toxic makeup.
THE MIX
A unique concept new to IDSVancouver this year, The Mix is an international, interactive connection between three leadingVancouver
designers and three established Netherlands-based designers, that includes both on- and off-site talks, show displays and collaborative installations. Vancouver’s Brent Comber partners with Eindhovenbased designs duo Studio OS & OOS to discuss preferred materials, and how geographic factors may play an influential role in their creative processes. We will also see local artist Bobbie Burgers pair up with Studio RENS designers Stefanie van Keijsteren and Renee Menen to talk, among other elements, about how they are each influenced by colour within their work.
THE DISTRICT
One of the most bustling areas of the show each year, The District is the marketplace where guests are able to meet local artisans and purchase new treasures. Some of this year’s most prominent curated artisans include Saige
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SPEAKER SERIES
The highlight for industry attendees is always who’s taking the stage to share their expertise.This year has a stellar lineup to satiate the crowds, with a wide variety of local and international style stars set to speak. Friday, Sept. 29 brings us, among others, Spanish artist/designer Jaime Hayon; Hayon is multi-disciplinary, with his creative services in high demand for commercial interiors worldwide, as well as design of furniture,
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No highmaintenance woman would leave the house without her big blowout, with masses of volume at the roots and a cascade of tousled curls down her back. The former you can achieve with John Frieda Luxurious Volume 7-Day Volume ($15.99, at select food, drug and mass retailers), which you apply in the shower after conditioning and then rinse off. The volume-boost properties last through a few washes, but hair must be blow-dried afterwards to activate the effect. We like the Dyson Supersonic ($499.99, at Dysoncanada.ca, Sephora and Hudson’s Bay). It’s very fast, light, quiet and kind to hair, though also, very expensive. Still, we absolutely recommend it if you have a spare $500 lying around:Your hairdryer is something you use every day, so it’s worth investing in a decent one, and Dyson’s is the best. W lighting and fixtures. TIME and Wallpaper magazines have both included Hayon as one of the most relevant creators of our times. Saturday, Sept. 30 will see world-renowned creative Camille Walala take the Ceasarstone stage to bring us a little peek at what life in Walaland is like (she is also creating the Walaland Central Bar installation in collaboration with Ann Sacks);Walala originally began as a textile designer and expanded her colourful, energetic pattern designs to grace interiors and public spaces across the globe. But the talk I am perhaps most looking forward to is taking place on Sunday, Oct. 1, gathering some of our city’s most talented designers and influencers to discuss the meaning of West Coast luxury. Moderator Fiona Forbes will be joined by an inspiring group of creative women, including Karen Bohn, Gaile Guevara and Gillian Segal to chat everything luxury, from design to decor to entertaining. W
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Hockey’s not the only sport in Vancouver with rioting fans. The Stanley Cup riots of 1994 and 2011 were landmark events in the city’s history, causing dozens of injuries, hundreds of arrests and millions of dollars worth of damage. But CFL fans aren’t so innocent, either. Violence flared on Vancouver streets after Grey Cup games here in 1958, 1963 and 1966, the latter two leading to more than 300 arrests each. It’s one of the many surprising historical facts that emerge from City on Edge:A Century ofVancouver Activism, a new exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver that charts protests and mass unrest in the city through the photo archives of The Province and Vancouver Sun newspapers. Think affordability is a new hot topic? Photos show Vancouverites protesting at the start of the 20th century. Activists for Indigenous rights have been making their voices heard for a similar amount of time, other pictures reveal. The exhibition collects 650 images from the newspapers’ extensive archives, depicting a range of activist moments from labour protests early in the city’s history right up to the local Women’s March against the newly inaugurated U.S. president in January. The images – most of them projected onto screens as large as 20 by 16 feet, others backlit – have been grouped into six rough themes: labour activism, social justice, anti-gov-
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A scene from the 1993 Clayoquot logging blockade. Mark van Manen / Vancouver Sun photo ernment, environmentalism, riots and Indigenous rights. “The fact that we are sitting on unceded Coast Salish territory and there’s only a few claims that have been settled, there was this leverage that Indigenous people had in questioning the land grab from the beginning,” says exhibition cocurator and museum director Viviane Gosselin. But the long history of Indigenous activism revealed by the exhibition is a stark reminder of how relatively little has changed for B.C.’s First Nations over the past century. “These are enduring issues and they change at a glacial pace,” Gosselin says. Assembling the exhibition has been a labour of love for co-curator Kate Bird, a librarian for 25 years at Pacific Newspaper Group, The Province and Vancouver Sun’s parent company. She describes it as her “mission in retirement” to unearth the treasures of the newspapers’ private archives. “I just love this collection and I’m just so privileged to bring these things to light. A lot
of them just haven’t been seen, or not seen since they ran in the paper,” she says. For Bird – who also curated the recent Vancouver in the Seventies book and exhibition from the PNG archives – the power of these photos is in their role as documents; whether supporting known facts or events or shedding light on barely known protests or issues. It also raises concerns over the dwindling numbers of journalists, including photojournalists, who document a city’s history. “It’s terribly worrying,” Bird says. “I think a big aspect of this is documenting. Even though there are so many [protests] that are in the show and were documented, think of how many protests weren’t. And if there aren’t journalists and photojournalists to cover these things, that’ll be a huge loss. It’s a very important part of our society that needs to be brought to light.” • City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism runs Sept. 28-Feb. 18 at the Museum ofVancouver. $19/$16. W
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When Khari Wendell McClelland wanted to understand his great-great-greatgrandmother Kizzy – an escaped slave who made the arduous journey to Canada in the 1850s and about whom there was more family lore than hard facts – he turned to the music that might have accompanied her as she made her escape. The result of this exploration is Freedom Singer, a music-driven theatrical experience (Oct. 7-18 at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre) cocreated by McClelland and Andrew Kushnir that makes a stop in Vancouver next week as part of its national tour. Freedom Singer uses music as a vehicle to understand a distant and sometimes misunderstood past, says Kushnir during a recent phone interview. “[McClelland] felt inspired as an artist to imagine what Kizzy’s life might have been like, and because he’s a musician – he’s a singer-songwriter
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Khari Wendell McClelland (centre) performs in Freedom Singer, coming to Vancouver Oct. 7-18. Dahlia Katz photo – his creative impulse was to find the songs Kizzy may have been singing at that time, and likely the songs that accompanied her as she escaped slavery in the U.S.” (Kushnir directed the production and his Toronto-based theatre company, Project: Humanity, uses journalistic research and verbatim texts to explore social issues.) Prior to Freedom Singer, Kushnir says that much of his understanding of Canada’s role in the Underground Railroad came from that iconic Heritage Minute
episode – but “you can do just minimal research and discover the ways that that mythology and that narrative [of Canada as a pure safe haven] are flawed,” he says. He points to the Komagata Maru incident, the Chinese Head Tax, residential schools and Canada’s own history of slavery as evidence that “there are any number of things that compromise the notion that Canada is a pure haven for those fleeing oppression.”
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Kathleen Hepburn was nine years old when her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but it’s only been in more recent years that the Vancouver filmmaker has dared to contemplate the multitude of ways the disease has impacted her mother and family in the 24 years since. “It’s just been a part of my life for a long time,” says Hepburn, who explores Parkinson’s disease in her feature film directorial debut, Never Steady, Never Still. The dramatic feature (which Hepburn wrote as well as directed) screens at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival after premiering earlier this month at the venerable Toronto International Film Festival. Never Steady, Never Still stars Scottish actor Shirley Henderson (internationally known for playing Gail in Trainspotting and Moaning Myrtle in two Harry Potter
Shirley Henderson plays Judy, a Northern B.C. woman who lives with Parkinson’s disease, in Kathleen Hepburn’s Never Steady, Never Still. Contributed photo films) as Judy, a mother wrestling with Parkinson’s in northern B.C., and Théodore Pellerin as her teen son attempting to come to grips with his slippery sexual identity while working at a job he hates in an oilfield. Parkinson’s is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The film sprung from questions Hepburn had about her own mother’s experience with Parkinson’s, including “what it felt like for her to have this disease, how it affected her and also our family, and my feelings towards her,” she says.
“Curiosity about what this disease has done to us is where [the film] came from.” This curiosity resulted in two cinematic properties: a short in 2015 entitled Never Steady, Never Still (which won Hepburn the award for Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film at 2015 VIFF), and this new feature of the same name, which Hepburn, the cast and the crew shot on location – and celebrated cinematographer Norm Li captured on stunning 35-millimetre film – in Fort St. John and Fort St.
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By one set of criteria – those established by colonial institutions – Vancouver is 200 years old. A baby city, when compared to Canadian kin like St. John’s (434 years), Quebec City (409) and Montreal (375). But while the city of Vancouver might have two centuries worth of candles on its cake, the Coast Salish people have called this region home for nearly 9,000 years. Vancouverites work, live, and play on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, but how many Vancouverites know the history of the land beneath our concrete constructions, or the traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ names of our neighborhoods and waterways? How many Vancouverites know that, 5,000 years ago, the area now referred to as Marpole was actually called c’əsnaʔəm – one of the largest village sites of the Musqueam people? A new feature-length documentary – c’əsnaʔəm: the city before the city – aims to give a voice to a hyperlocal history that is largely unknown beyond the area’s First Nations communities. c’əsnaʔəm: the city before the city is the brainchild of filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and collaborators within the Musqueam First Nation and the UBC Museum of Anthropology’s curatorial team. The film – which screens Oct. 1 and 6 as part of the 2017 Vancouver Interna-
Continued from page 8 Henderson’s prep for the role of a long-term Parkinson’s sufferer began long before she arrived in B.C., says Hepburn. “I told her the symptoms are so varied, one person could be completely still at all times and another person could be constantly having a jerky motion in their body, so she had to be very selective of what symptoms she would choose to work with,” says Hepburn. To aid her lead actor in her prep, Hepburn sent Henderson footage of her mother performing some of the motions that the character of Judy would have to do on screen: putting on shoes, getting up from her chair, falling over, and speaking. “With Parkin-
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Among the film’s teachings: 5,000 years ago, the area now referred to as Marpole was one of the largest village sites of the Musqueam people. Contributed photo tional Film Festival – is built from more than 40 hours of interviews that Tailfeathers conducted for video installations at the three-site c’əsnaʔəm: the city before the city cultural exhibition (on view at Museum of Vancouver, Musqueam Cultural Centre, and Museum of Anthropology). “We filmed over 30 interviews with community members, and it was a really incredible process just to sit in the room and hear so much rich knowledge and history be shared,” says Tailfeathers, a well-respected filmmaker (Rebel, Bloodland, A Red Girl’s Reasoning) and actress who earlier this year took home the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series for her role in On the Farm. Shortly after the c’əsnaʔəm: the city before the city exhibition opened, Tailfeathers sought to repurpose the footage, to give it a life beyond the museum spaces and archives. “I felt that it was my responsibility as an uninvited visitor in this territory, or guest in this territory, to honour the First Peoples whose land I call home,” she adds, as a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as
the Sámi from Norway. “And I felt that it was my responsibility to the rest of the people of Vancouver to make this film, because I had all of the material there, and access to such rich material. I felt I had an obligation to do that.” Tailfeathers’ 75-minute film illustrates the long history of the region while also exploring recent events where the Musqueam people have mobilized to protect their ancestral village sites – events such as the 2012 vigil, in which protesters kept watch at a c’əsnaʔəm burial ground for 200 days after a condo development had begun on the site without proper Musqueam consultation. “The process of editing and sitting in the interviews, I don’t even have words for it,” says Tailfeathers. “I learned so much about this city and the Vancouver area; there are historical sites, ancestral villages, all over the city that I hadn’t even realized were there.” W
son’s, your vocal cords change, and speech can become very muddled,” says Hepburn. Once filming began, it was clear to Hepburn that Henderson had the motions so ingrained in her body that “she didn’t even have to think about it,” marvels Hepburn. Never Steady, Never Still also stars Mary Galloway, Nicholas Campbell, Lorne Cardinal and Jared Abrahamson (star of 2016 VIFF hit Hello Destroyer). Although Never Steady, Never Still is inspired by Hepburn’s family, it isn’t autobiographical. “The story itself is very fictional, but some of the humour that [Judy] has, and the lighter side of things, is definitely inspired by my mom,” says Hepburn, whose mother will see the film for
the first time at VIFF. Hepburn’s hopes for the film are twofold: to educate audiences about Parkinson’s, and to inspire hope and reflection. “I think people recognize the outward effects of the disease, but they’re less aware of the psychological effects,” says Hepburn. “And I want to show people that the persistence of life is quite beautiful even in the most challenging times. The fact that we continue to struggle and continue to care for one another and try to love each other is really beautiful.” W
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Africa. The food menu mirrors the vegetable-forward ethos of sister restaurant Farmer’s Apprentice, so expect items like sprouted lentils on toast with pickled ramps and roasted cauliflower with yogurt and z’atar. Fear not, carnivores, you’ll be happy with the charcuterie boards, “lambchetta,” and fried octopus. grapesandsoda.ca
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@FoodgirlFriday Going for a drink after work is a hallowed tradition dating back to Prohibition days, when even the hooch police needed a stiff one after rounding up a cadre of rowdy bootleggers. While there’s nothing wrong with knocking back a pint or three with the gang, swapping that for a good glass of wine or an inventive cocktail paired with cheese, charcuterie or truffle risotto, can, by God, be equally calming and comforting after a long slog in front of your laptop. Here are a few places for a refined yet still relaxing night of debauchery.
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Yaletown’s The Wine Bar (or TWB, as it’s commonly known) boasts one of the best by-the-glass selections in the city. Thanks to modern technology, there
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The Salt Tasting Room is considered Vancouver’s ;granddaddy’ of wine bars. Dan Toulgoet photo are usually more than 100 bottles you can taste without breaking the bank, ranging from the super-affordable to the super-premium. Pair it with Mediterranean specialities like the frog legs tossed in sea salt, saffron risotto balls, pissaladiere (an onionanchovy tart) or spicy lamb merguez. thewinebar.ca
UVA WINE & COCKTAIL BAR
Home to internationally acclaimed bar maven Sabrine Dhaliwal, the cocktails at this downtown
hot spot are characterized by their eclectic nature. A fan of sours? An adherent to the Old Fashioned? Looking for something more fanciful? Maybe you’d like a flight of bubbles or mineral-rich whites? There are dozens of by-the-glass options here. Best of all, the Italianfocused food menu pairs well with whatever you choose to drink. Roasted bone marrow, octopus in preserved lemon, parmesan potatoes and pizzetta are just a few of the items you can nosh on. uvavancouver.com
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Satoshi Yonemori might be one of Vancouver’s most undersung bartenders. He doesn’t enter competitions, but his gin-based and violet-tinted Ri-Kyu, with caraway, grapefruit juice, cocchi americano (an aperitif) and sencha kombucha, is medal worthy. As for wines, the biodynamicfocused list at this South Granville room offers 3-oz. pours and half-bottle service of grapes from Canada, France, Italy, the U.S. and occasionally South
It’s really more about the sherry than the table wine here (sherry is just fortified wine, after all), and while the extensive food menu of this popular West End tapas bar might classify it more as a restaurant, the feeling here is definitely drinks forward. A lovely little list of sherries are available individually or in dry or sweet flights. The entirely Spanish wine and beer list is one of the best collections in the city, and the smoked Margarita cocktail with Herradura tequila is masterful. Pair it with the roasted pork belly and crispy squid with housemade morcilla or the marinated white anchovies on toast. espanarestaurant.ca
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Another spot that hovers between restaurant and wine bar, this cozy West Side room has a fantastic and accessible Italian wine list that is a perfect match for the many small bites available from the daily chalkboard menu. A rotating selection of cheeses and salumi from the old country share space with everything from fish balls and pâté on toast to duck breast, squash risotto and vitello tonnato. If you’re especially hungry, you can order from the menu next door at sister restaurant La Quercia. laquercia.ca
SALT TASTING ROOM
The granddaddy of wine bars in Vancouver, this Gastown favourite is still going strong after more than a decade of serving up stellar wines, sherries, spirits and beers, all paired with a rotating selection of small-batch cheeses and charcuterie. Sure, there are some salads and desserts, but the focus here is the proteins and boy, are they delicious. salttastingroom.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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@FoodGirlFriday Cacao 70, a chocolatebased eatery, has opened its first “Dippery” location in Gastown at 433 Abbott St. It features soft ice cream and Belgian waffles that can be dipped into various flavours of chocolate, including Earl Grey, matcha, praline, dark and white, peanut butter and black sesame.The store will also sell brewed and chilled chocolate drinks, chocolate bars and coffee. cacao70.com
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Sustainable seafood continues to grow in popularity. Ocean Wise has just announced a partnership with all Sobeys and Safeway locations in Western Canada.You can now find fresh and frozen sustainable seafood options at both chains. ocean.org/seafood Joinery has opened its doors in Squamish.The new restaurant from the team behind The Locavore food truck and Cloudburst Café is a full-service operation that focuses on local and sustainable ingredients. Executive chef Cameron Hunter has cultivated strong local partnerships and Shaun Layton has
Cacao 70’s dipped Belgian waffles. Contributed photo consulted on the bar program. joinerysquamish.com Railtown Café has opened its latest location at 429 Granville St.The new counterservice space has licensed seating for 60 and the same homespun menu as at the other locations, including the epic build-your-own salad bar. railtowncafe.ca Soirette has launched a mooncake collection in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival, featuring Snow Mooncakes made with fresh fruit, tea, and French couverture chocolate. Mini mooncakes are sold as a set of four ($42) or eight ($80) and include flavour combinations such as mango and hibiscus, lychee and jasmine, strawberry and matcha, and blackberry and
passionfruit punch. A deluxe set ($88) includes four mini mooncakes plus an extralarge double cognac truffle chocolate mooncake, with handmade crushed lotus paste, crushed caramelized hazelnuts, salted caramel pearls, and 24K gold leaf. All available by pre-order until Oct. 4. soirette.com Taste of Yaletown is back Oct. 11-27, with 26 participating restaurants, pubs, chocolateries and cafes taking part in the annual dining event. Each business will offer a $25, $35 or $45 menu.This year’s list includes Fayuca, Lime and Moon Pie Co., DD Mau, Provence Marinaside, WildTale Coastal Grill, Xoxolat, and more. Partial proceeds will go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. W
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Despite B.C.’s brief vinous history, our winemakers have managed to explore every popular grape variety, and many lesser-known varieties, as well as the full spectrum of wine styles. Many are savvy to international trends and the most adventurous are delving into the extremes.This includes the controversial and oft-misunderstood category of natural wine. Rhys Pender, master of wine, makes natural wine at his Little Farm Winery in the Similkameen Valley. He suggests that wine drinkers might be confused in asking for a natural wine, when really they’re looking for one that is organic.While a natural wine may be made from organically grown grapes, it goes far beyond this. Rather than a grape growing or winemaking approach, natural wine embodies a larger philosophy that counters the industrialization and over-manipulation of wine. It hearkens back to how wine was made before modern science provided tools to control much of the process.There is no official definition, but natural wine starts with hand-harvested grapes that are grown according to organic or biodynamic principles. Disciples eschew additives, adjustments, filtering, fining and recourse to technology that alters the makeup of a wine. Pender calls natural wine, “a pure reflection of the place, the grape and the vintage.” Jay Drysdale of Bella Wines is also a convert. “Most additives are to make it easier for the winemaker,” he says. Drysdale makes a dizzying range of sparkling wines.Those using the “Ancestral Method” (described in the rosé review
B.C. winemakers, such as Okanagan Crush Pad’s Jordan Kubek and Matt Dumayne (left, Lionel Trudel photo) and Little Farm Winery (right, contributed photo), are delving into the world of natural, orange and amphora wine. on page 15) fall into the natural category.The project was driven by “the desire to know what a sense of place in B.C. was,” he explains. One of the crucial elements for him was switching from commercial yeast (a natural wine no-no), which he found made generic wines, to wild ferments.This means allowing the indigenous yeast on the grape skins and in the winery to kick off fermentation spontaneously. “I am excited about the differences I am seeing,” he states. The only additive tolerated by naturalists is sulphur dioxide (SO2), and sparingly. Many don’t add any. Before you celebrate this as good news, consider that SO2 is used to keep wine fresh (curbing oxidation) and clean (protecting from microbial spoilage that can give nasty smells and flavours).There are plenty of “non-natural” wines with modest SO2 levels. However, leaving a wine unprotected renders it more susceptible
to flaws, especially when coupled with other methodologies favoured by natural winemakers. Indeed, some (though definitely not all) natural wines may be oxidized or demonstrate other faults which annihilate any sense of place. It takes a skilled winemaker who understands the science to avoid this. Things get even crazier with orange wines. Embraced by natural winemakers, this style references ancient times when white grapes were handled just like reds.The skins, and sometimes the stem, are left in contact with the juice anywhere from mere days to many months.This gives a gorgeous array of colours as well as a tannic tactile sensation and a savoury rather than fruity character. Ann Sperling, winemaker and owner of Sperling Vineyards, crafts orange wine from Pinot Gris. Aptly named Amber, it’s macerated for one month. “You go through all
this trouble in the vineyard and throw away 35 per cent of what you harvest,” she explains, referring to modern white winemaking. “The exciting thing about orange wine is that the skin and stems are included in the fermentation.” It’s a complete departure from the B.C. Pinot Gris you know.
Pender calls natural wine “a pure reflection of the place, the grape and the vintage.” The reprise of the amphora, particularly championed by the natural set, is also inspired by antiquity.This clay vessel, which resembles a huge terracotta vase, was used to store and transport wine. Laughing Stock owner David Enns started experimenting with
amphorae five years ago. In 2016, he trialled Syrah, which went straight from picking and destemming into the amphorae as whole berries. He then left them for eight months. “You can’t get much closer from the vineyard to the glass than this,” says Enns. Matt Dumayne, winemaker for Haywire at Okanagan Crush Pad Winery, now works with six amphorae for the winery’s “Free Form” label. He explains that they are much more porous than oak barrels. While oxidation is a risk, he believes keeping solids like skins and stems in contact with the wine gives protection. He is more concerned about breaking the amphorae. “They worry me,” Dumayne admits, referring to the fragility of these vessels, which cost upwards of $4,500 each. Making natural wine can be risky business. Critics argue that the natural approach ends up creating its own set of funky aromas and flavours
that override terroir. Furthermore, natural wines often demonstrate bottle variation, where one is delicious and the next less so. Other caveats include the lack of certification or regulation over the word natural. “Natural” doesn’t guarantee quality and, like any wine, each should be evaluated individually. For most of our B.C. wineries who have indulged, natural wines represent an experimental side project. Experimenting is a necessary and natural part of growing up.While the most extreme of these wines might not represent the mainstream future, hopefully some of the inspiration behind them will: cultivating healthy, chemicalfree vineyards and using science to intervene less, with the goal to make unique and characterful wines that express their origin. Tasting wine from B.C. has never been more exciting.
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You can be forgiven if you have never heard of the wines of Vanessa Vineyard. But here’s a heads-up:When your paths cross, you’ll surely be hooked. The Similkameen winery’s reputation is now set to soar with the news that Howard Soon (pictured, centre) has joined as consulting winemaker. Soon recently left Sandhill Wines, following 37 years at its parent company, Andrew Peller Limited, and is one of Canada’s most admired winemakers. Vanessa Vineyard’s story began a little more than a decade ago, when business partners John Welson and Suki Sekhon came across a rocky 220-acre parcel of southwest-facing grazing land on a mountainside of the Similkameen Valley.With the flourishing interest in Okanagan Valley wine,Welson and Sekhon surmised there would soon be a shortage of grapes to slake wine lover’s thirsts. Investing in a site that could potentially be planted to vine would allow them to sell grapes to producers
After a rocky start – literally – the Similkameen winery’s reputation is growing fast. Contributed / Lionel Trudel photos desperately wanting to appease their growing clientele. Welson and Sekhon contracted the Okanagan’s most respected vineyard planners and managers, Richard Cleave and Robert Golz, who have developed some of the Okanagan Valley’s most prized vineyards. “We brought them in to see if we were crazy or not,” Welson says, laughing. While surveying the rugged site and its terroir, Cleave was resolute in stating that it would be hell to plant vines
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rocks, there were more rocks. Boulders had to be buried and a rock crusher was brought in. Once the rock was pulverized it was placed back into the soil. Equally frustrating was planting. It took double the time expected to plant 75 acres of vines. However, as arduous as stony soils are for planting, they are advantageous for ripeness – rocky topsoil attracts sunshine, harnessing additional heat and producing fruit of enviable weight and sweetness. Within two years,Vanessa Vineyard had its first crop.
their wines at Red Rooster Winery on the Naramata Bench. Under guidance from Sandhill’s master winemaker Howard Soon and Red Rooster winemaker Karen Gillis, the first Vanessa Vineyard label wines came out of the 2012 vintage. Ever since, the wines have been gaining accolades and their portfolio cautiously expanding.This summer, a tasting room was unveiled on the estate in Cawston. Adding more gravity to Vanessa Vineyard’s success was this week’s appointment of Soon as consulting winemaker, after he recently retired from Andrew Peller. “I’ve been there since day one, offering advice, and I’m committed to helping them. I don’t want to work for just anybody; I want to pick my spots,” Soon says. He says he recognized the potential of Vanessa Vineyard’s unique terroir years ago. “Nothing [here] is easy, but it’s worth it,” he says. “The wines are powerful and big, with lots of fruit.” W
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Even if you paid little attention to the headlines covering the fires and floods that hit the Okanagan Valley this year, the perception that bled out from media coverage was one of full-on calamity.The Okanagan is under water; do not go there! Now the Okanagan is on fire; stay away! There were fires this year. And there were floods. And they were devastating to the areas that felt the wrath of heat and water. But what was the impact on the areas less scathed by Mother Nature? Tourism in the Okanagan wears a sizeable economic shoe, in particular within the world of wine, where 800,000 visitors find their way to the valley’s wineries every year. This summer, many of them opted out due to what has been dubbed “lake fear” in the Naramata region. This sounds more like a B-movie horror flick than the reality of a wet and waterlogged spring. But although the high levels of Okanagan Lake created less-than-ideal conditions for a beach vacation, it was still a far cry from “catastrophic.” In fact, looking back on the past few years, these extreme weather patterns are seemingly becoming the norm. On a positive note, the wine is safe. Erratic weather aside, this year’s vintage has wineries across the region pleased. It was a hot and dry July and August, there was no damage to the vineyards from flood or fire, and most of the smoke occurred “pre-veraison” (before smoke-taint impacts the flavour development of the grapes). But even though the vintage was good for grapes, it can be hard to blame the vacationers for those last minute Airbnb and winery-tour cancellations. Smoke hazards change hour to hour and greatly vary from
The view of smoke in the air from Mill Bay, Naramata, on July 8, 2017. Kaleigh Jorgensen photo region to region, something not overtly obvious to a tourist looking at a map. Road reports are obscure if you don’t know the area. And it actually takes some savvy scouring of the Internet to find all of this scattered information, which can be off-putting.
If this really is the new norm, perhaps measures need to be taken to protect wine tourism. If this really is the new norm, perhaps measures need to be taken to protect wine tourism.The B.C. regions need something akin to a Ski Report, with current updates on weather and road conditions, smoke levels and live hazards. Banding together as an industry is integral in order to have a voice loud enough to drown out cries of, “The Okanagan is on fire!” This is not to say the floods and fires are inconsequential though, and a few words with
Heidi Noble from JoieFarm quickly shifted this conversation to the elephant in the room: climate change. This is the third year that harvest has occurred in August, weeks earlier than expected.The past three years have been unpredictable, and have included extremely early bud breaks, late veraisons and shockingly immediate ripeness. Noble puts voice to the blatantly obvious effect of climate change on our land and farming, particularly on a farmer’s inability to follow intuition and make sound predictions for the year. The reality of this weather trend renders our concern about brimstone in the bottle extraneous (sulphur-phobes, I’m pointing at you!), as we now shift our worry to the fire and brimstone on our land; an erratically shifting reality of extreme weather patterns, or, better said, lack thereof. • Thank you to Matt Sherlock (NicholVineyards), Heidi Noble (JoieFarm), and Graham Nordin (Mission Hill) for your candid and helpful commentary. W
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Continued from page 11 2016 Bella Wines, Sparkling Ancestrale Rosé, Brut Natural, Okanagan Valley, $39.90, winery direct The Ancestral Method is based on how sparkling wine was made in the past. It’s bottled partway through fermentation, so the remaining grape sugars continue fermenting in the bottle, which traps the CO2. Made from 100 per cent organically grown, hand picked and wild fermented Gamay, it offers crunchy cranberry, red currant and a lively mousse. While Ancestral Method sparklers are often a little bit sweet, this one is bone dry. 2016 Little Farm Winery, ‘Pied de Cuve’ Riesling, Mulberry Tree Vineyard, Similkameen Valley, $30, winery direct Little Farm’s Pied de Cuve label represents its natural wines. It refers to a technique in which a small portion of grapes are picked several days before harvest, crushed by foot and allowed to ferment outside in the vineyard thanks to the yeast on the skins.This starter batch is then used to initiate fermentation of the main harvest. As it’s unfined and unfiltered, it might be just
A fermenting bottle of Sperling Amber. Contributed a touch cloudy. But have no fear; this Riesling is dry and very zippy with fresh green apple and a tangy lemon backbone. 2016 Laughing Stock Vineyards, Amphora Syrah, Okanagan Valley, $49.99, winery direct Wild fermented, no filtering, no fining and very little SO2 added just before bottling. It’s a pleasure to taste a Syrah without any oak notes getting in the way. The Laughing Stock is a pure expression of all its seductive voluptuous fruit, where succulent dark ripe cherries meet black pepper and violets. This is really delicious stuff. It will be released at the winery in November and poured exclusively by the glass at L’Abattoir. W — ADVERTORIAL —
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Whether it’s the Big Lebowski’s White Russians, James Bond’s Vesper Martini or the French 75s Yvonne knocks back in Casablanca, there’s plenty to drink in when it comes to cocktails and the movies. So when the Vancouver International Film Festival’s sponsorship manager Morgaine Jennings was looking for a fun new idea for the 2017 festival, which begins today, cocktails seemed like the perfect fit. Let’s raise a glass to the VIFFtail. “This program was created to celebrate the city’s creativity, nightlife and fantastic restaurant scene,” Jennings says. “We can’t think of a better way to get into the film festival spirit than sipping on a one-ofa-kind VIFFtail before a screening.” Each participating establishment was challenged to create a cocktail inspired by a movie. Inspiration came from everything from Dune to The Royal Tenenbaums and even Game of Thrones. But wait, you might be saying, GoT isn’t a movie.
No, but the HBO TV series’ director Jeremy Podeswa and cinematographer Greg Middleton will be taking part in the festival’s Creator Talks on Sept. 30. Cocktail aficionados will also want to check out the documentary Schumann’s Bar Talk, which features German bartending legend Charles Schumann as he sips and saunters his way through some of the world’s greatest bars, from the Hemingway Bar in Paris to the High Five in Tokyo. It screens on Oct. 7, 9 and 13, with an afterparty held Oct. 9 at Gastown’s Clough Club. Thirsty yet? Here are the VIFFtails to check out this festival season; note that they will be served until Oct. 14.
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Game of Thrones (2011 to present). Orange from the Summer Isles and chocolate from across the Narrow Sea shaken over ice from the North, then given a minty kiss by a White Walker. Enjoy it at: EXP Bar and Restaurant, 309West Pender St.
ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A TENENBAUM
Made with: Famous Grouse, Cinzano Orancio, Luxardo Bitter Bianco. Inspired by: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Bitter, sweet and stylish, just like the Wes Anderson family drama. Enjoy it at: Homer Street Cafe, 898 Homer St.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Made with: Beefeater gin, green Chartreuse, lime, egg white, cucumber, cilantro. Inspired by: The 2007 Quentin Tarantino slasher movie of the same name. The director plays a cameo role in which he says: “Chartreuse! The only liquor so good they named a colour after it.” Enjoy it at: Chambar, 568 Beatty St.
Made with: pisco, Giffard Abricot du Rousillon, orange juice, lemon juice, Bittered Sling Clingstone Peach bitters, hibiscus drizzle. Inspired by: The 40th anniversary of the disco classic – and a big improvement over the 7&7s (Seagram’s 7 whisky and 7Up) John Travolta drinks in the movie. Enjoy it at: L’Abattoir, 217 Carrall St.
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WINDS OF ARRAKIS
Made with: peppermint vodka, crème de cacao and blue curacao. Inspired by:
Made with: gin, lime juice, orange juice, pine-
apple syrup, ginger liqueur, cinnamon syrup, ginger beer, aromatic bitters, lime bitters. Inspired by: Dune (1984). Arrakis is the fictional desert planet’s official name, and this cocktail would surely quench any thirst in this arid wasteland. Enjoy it at: Long Table Distillery, 1451 Hornby St.
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Made with: gin, lime juice, celery juice, agave syrup. Inspired by: Godzilla (1954/2014). Named for the big, green “king of the monsters” and Japan’s greatest pop culture icon. Enjoy it at: Nuba, 207West Hastings St. or 508 Davie St.
SINGAPORE SLING
Made with: gin, Benedictine, Cointreau, pineapple juice, cherry brandy, Angostura bitters, grenadine. Inspired by: Fear and Loathing in LasVegas (1998). The Singapore Slings Johnny Depp drinks in the movie are the least lethal substances he consumes. Enjoy it at:The Union, 219 Union St. W • The Vancouver International Film Festival takes place Sept. 28 to Oct. 13 at various venues around the city. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit viff.org.
The Always wanted to be a Tenenbaum “VIFFtail” available at Homer St. Café until Oct. 14. VIFF Photo
Always Wanted to be a Tenenbaum This cocktail inspired by the movie the Royal Tenenbaums was created by the Homer Street Café as a “VIFFtail” for the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival. • 1 1/2 oz (45 mL) Famous Grouse blended malt whisky • 1 oz (30 mL) Cinzano Orancio
Meet BC’s newest breweries Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler
@TheGrowlerBC It seems the gospel of craft beer keeps on spreading, and why shouldn’t it? Beer is delicious and we deserve nice things. In the past few weeks a handful of breweries have opened their doors across B.C., bringing our provincewide total to about 145 breweries and brewpubs, which is a healthy number. But if you think B.C. has reached peak craft beer, you are wrong. So very, very wrong. The state of Oregon – home to about 600,000 fewer people than B.C. – currently supports more than 200 craft breweries. San Diego alone (population 3.3 million) boasts more than 170 (!!!) breweries.
So clearly there’s still room for growth. Here’s a look at some of the recent brewery openings around the province.
MARINER BREWING, COQUITLAM
For this week’s column, I had originally just planned to feature Mariner Brewing, but so many more breweries have popped up in recent weeks that I couldn’t ignore them (I’ll have a Q&A with owner Lauren Ang up at thegrowler.ca later this week, so check that out). Mariner Brewing is the first craft brewery in Coquitlam (‘bout bloody time), located not too far from Brewers Row in Port Moody and just a short walk from Coquitlam Central station.The 3,000sq.ft. space features a tasting room and kitchen, and Mariner is hoping to add not one, but two patios by the spring. Check out its Sour Weisse
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initially only offered craft beer from other breweries. It now has two of its own beers on tap alongside a rotating list of B.C. craft faves, and hopes to add more in coming months. The Captain Kölsch (4.5% ABV, 36 IBU) is an easy drinking ale with assertive hopping that’s proving popular with the locals.
(4.5% ABV, 5 IBU), a slightly stronger, dry-hopped take on the traditional tart Berliner weisse style.
Owner/brewer Scott Keddy’s day job is in engineering, but his passion has always been craft beer (a lot of brewers are ex-engineers, so it’s not surprising). His beer obsession led to numerous awards at homebrewing competitions and, this year, he finally decided to go pro with 3 Dogs. The modest brewery is located in a strip mall off 16th Avenue; it’s cosy and welcoming and sure to please the locals. On my visit, Scott already had seven different beers on tap. In particular, I enjoyed his Double Dog Dare (8.7% ABV, 85 IBU), a double IPA with a sturdy malt foundation to support the high ABV and generous
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You can’t miss the colourful mural adorning the exterior of Red Bird Brewing in Kelowna. Instagram photo hopping, resulting in a dangerously well-balanced brew.
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This tiny brewery is located mere feet away from Tree Brewing’s massive production facility and tasting room and is just around the corner from Kettle River Brewing Co., making the
intersection at Baillie and Richter in North Kelowna a must-visit. (Calona Vineyards, Sandhill Wines, and B.C Tree Fruits Cider are all close by, too.) The brewery may be small, but it’s hard to miss with the bold red and white mural painted on the front of the building. Red Bird actually opened up back in August, but
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Located on 224th Street in downtown Maple Ridge, Silver Valley is choosing to focus on English-style ales. It had a soft opening over the weekend but it wasn’t operational the last time I popped by to check on progress – but, from what I could see through the window, the room looks great; very clean and modern. Silver Valley is currently pouring four of its own beers, including The Enforcer (5.0% ABV, 25 IBU), a smooth-drinking English brown ale with notes of caramel and chocolate. W
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but it soon became too much. She says that, like a real family, they sometimes fight but they always make up. “What I’ve learned is that like a real mom, you’ve got to let your kids fly, and cheer them on, and if they fall on their face, you have to be there to pick them back up.” Alma explains that for some people, being in a drag family can have a lot of business attached to it, such as getting gigs, but for herself it’s more about sharing knowledge. “My kids have a lot to offer me, they teach me lots about makeup, putting together outfits, performing. I offer them advice and hopefully help them deal with problems.” Alma says that drag families have changed a lot over the years. Before the rise of drag’s popularity, people looked for a drag mother to show them the ropes because you couldn’t get into drag unless someone brought you under their wing. Nowadays, drag is everywhere, and you can figure out how to do it by immersing yourself in the online culture. She also explained that in the past, a lot of these young people were looking for families in the LGBTQ+ community because they didn’t have a supportive family at home.
Family can have many different definitions, and in the world of drag, people get to chose who they call family. Drag performers often adopt drag children – younger performers who look to more experienced ones for advice and guidance. This is a tradition among drag communities that offers people a sense of safety and comradery. One of these families is The House of Bitches, which includes Alma Bitches and her drag children Ilona, Rich Elle, Eva Scarlett and Jo Durúe. Alma has another drag child who is not a member of the house, Dust. “I’m the mother of the House of Bitches,” Alma boasts. She is 36 years old and has been doing drag for nearly eight years. “One of my kids is 33, so she’s not too much younger than me, but then there are ones that are like 21 and 20. Some of my kids I’m more just friends with and some of them I’m like full mom.” Alma adopted her first drag child, Ilona, one year ago, and the rest shortly after. At first they spent a lot of time together, hanging out, making outfits or performing,
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have a family that supports her for who she is. But many people involved in drag are still looking for that sense of community, which is why chosen family is still so important. Thanks Jem is Alma’s drag mother and mother of the Glam Kids, which includes Rose Butch and Poison Apple.Their drag husband is Ponyboy, who is the drag father of Rose. Jem agrees that drag families are an important way to feel supported by your community. “I didn’t really have a family growing up, and I feel like now that I have roots in Vancouver, I needed to have connections and diversity and inclusion,” Jem says. “Also, people who I felt safe with because I haven’t always been in safe situations.” When Thanks Jem started drag 10 years ago, they were not brought in by a drag family. “When I first started, I felt like I was bullied a little bit,” they say. “I was very androgynous, I’ve always been two-spirited, and, with Millennials, they have a [better] sense of [non-binary] gender identities. But when I grew up, there wasn’t as much of that, so I didn’t really have anybody who showed me the ropes.” Jem chose their drag children based on perform-
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interests and retire from my life as a West End realtor. My 15-year Sales Associate Roger Ross will take on the job of continuing to serve our wonderful West End clients in achieving their dreams of owning a perfect West End home. For three decades, I have enjoyed this magical, intriguing and incredible experience selling the West End. I cannot thank my clients enough for giving me such a stellar career. I am grateful for every award and accolade; but most of all what I have enjoyed most was the look of contentment in my clients’ eyes when they made the best possible deal. It has been the greatest honour of my life representing my clients to the very best of my abilitity. As Aretha Franklin sings in her gospel song, “Ive Been In The Storm Too Long”, there is a whole new life opening up for me now. I will be in New York for music concerts and basking in the ancient ruins of Athens’ Plaka, But I will still remain on English Bay, assisting Roger and our regular clients avoid the pitfalls of Vancouver’s new real estate situation, which is challenging us all like never before. Vancouver City Council has turned its back on the West End. Their devastating disregard for our
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neighbourhood has almost ruined our cherished way of life, I plan to stay involved in our beautiful West End community. In the near future I may initiate an English Bay Residents Association to protect us from overdevelopment. In the meantime, Roger will continue to offer his Sutton Platinum Award-winning service in union with celebrated and iconic West End realtor, Maggie Chandler. He will also work with other Vancouver five star realtors to continue our brand of no nonsense, honest and first rate, expert real estate service to West Enders. I could never have imagined when Roger convinced me thirty years ago to obtain a realtor’s license where it would all lead. I am grateful for the friendships I have made, the business I have enjoyed and the respect I was given over the years. Many clients have become close personal friends and for this I am forever grateful. I feel blessed beyond any words I can express. The public has no idea how much work a serious realtor does on a daily - and nightly - basis. Realtors work long hours and sacrifice their personal time, not to mention their social life, for clients. We realize in this panic driven market, buyers and sellers are stressed to the max. Choices
they make now impact their future. Every decision has a serious set of consequences and nobody wants to be caught up in the frenzy that has become second nature in our city. I have had tough decisions to make as well. In one instance, I refused to sell 67 suites that would have brought me hundreds of thousands in commission. A realtor’s ethics is always on the line. The decisions one makes determine the direction of the business and one’s own life. I believe that it is especially important to put people before profit, always. Many “offers” have come my way in my decades on the scene: leaky condos, underhanded developers, with pocketfulls of money to be made. But what makes an honest realtor is simply that, honesty. I have dedicated my life and my business to this foundation. As I write this, I flash back to my years selling the West End. Many precious memories flood through my mind. I have enjoyed working with so many wonderful people over the years. I will most certainly miss them. Roger and Maggie will carry on providing their finest and acclaimed and honest service and sage advice to our clients. Please wish me well when you run into me on Denman St. Thank you!
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When do you know you have become a man? First fuck? First beer? First fight? Who knows. I Googled it, and an article about Charlton Heston from the Knights of
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Here in the land of free we leave it up to the individual man to decide, but some ancient traditions weren’t so open-minded.
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The South Pacific NiVanuatu have a tradition called “land diving”, and it’s only for the men of the tribe.This ritual has been in practice for 15 years, and has been documented by National Geographic. Every spring, the Vanuatu men get together to build these 100-foot-high wooden structures from twigs and sticks. Once the rickety, homemade towers are constructed, the men will scale the structure in preparation for the dive.You see, the men have to measure exactly how much slack they need for their big jump. Once at the top, the men take turns jumping off the tower, head first, with only a vine tied around their leg for safety.The whole point of the ritual is to appease the Gods in hopes of a bountiful yam crop that harvest, and second, to impress the women of the tribe with his manly venture. Young boys are encouraged to participate in the jump to prove that they are ready to become men. Boys as young as five years old will join their elders at the top of the tower and fling themselves off. If you have the perfect amount
Land diving in Vanuatu. Wikipedia photo of slack, your shoulders will touch and you will survive. I have no idea what the success rate is of this seemingly fatal ritual, but I’d bet that Vanuatu’s signature dish is “Boy Skull Soup.”
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The Mardudjara Aborigines of Northwest Australia are perhaps best known for a special kind of brutality saved exclusively for their penises. The story of Mardudjara circumcision is enough to make your dick throw up a little… and not in the good way. At age 15, Mardudjara boys are taken by tribe elders to a holy spot to perform the lengthy ritual. A fire is lit and the boy is instructed to lie down while the elders sing and dance around him. Another group of men, ap-
propriately named “mourners,” hover around the boy while a boomerang is placed between his teeth.The tribal elder mounts the boy like he’s about to ride cowgirl, pulls up the boy’s foreskin, and twists it like a wad of gum.When the mourners “wail and cry,” two elders take turns sawing back and forth until the boy’s skin is cut off.The boy is then forced to kneel on a “shield” that is put over the fire in some makeshift attempt to “purify his wound.”To add to the trauma, the boy must then swallow his foreskin whole; under no circumstances is he allowed to “chew” it.The Mardudjara believe that by literally ingesting your former boyhood, or foreskin, it will help you grow into a better man. That’s not even the worst of it. Once the physical wounds heal, the newly appointed “man” must return to the holy spot so an elder can straddle him yet again.This time, it’s to insert a small, wooden rod into the boy’s urethra.Then, the elder splits the underside of the penis from the frenulum to the scrotum like an Israeli butterflying a hot dog to fit it into a pita.The ritual closes with the young man squatting and pissing in front of everyone like a female dog with his freshly altered worm. Worst circumcision ever. W
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Welcome to Leap of Faith, a new weekly blog hosted by veteran religion reporter Alicia Ambrosio, exploring faith, spirituality andVancouver’s sacred spaces. Other than the occasional creak of the wood floor – which is to be expected in a building more than 100 years old – not a sound is made by the four people walking around the upper hall of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Vancouver’s West End. In part, this is because it is just after 8:30 a.m. But mostly it is because they are walking a labyrinth and silence is the rule of this ancient practice. Labyrinth designs appeared as far back as the Bronze Age on the Aegean Islands of the Mediterranean. Over time, they appeared in Roman mosaics and, eventually, Catholic churches. The earliest church labyrinth, from the Basilica of St. Reparata in Al-Asnam (Orleansville), Algeria, dates back to the year 324. Labyrinths eventually appeared in cathedrals across Europe, most notably the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Chartres, France, and the Basilica of Saint Vital in Ravenna, Italy. The Christianized labyrinth became a prayer tool. Because there is only one way to and from the centre of a labyrinth – and, unlike a maze, there are no dead ends – a person can walk without paying too much attention to their surroundings.This, it is believed, frees the mind to meditate on other things, or just be silent. Labyrinths have experienced a bit of a resurgence thanks to Dr. Lauren Artress, an Anglican priest and canon
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Continued from page 7 The discussion is more relevant than ever in the age of Trump, says Kushnir; Freedom Singer was on tour in Winnipeg when there was an influx of Americans crossing the Manitoba border to seek refuge in Canada. “There is value in the mythology, and there is value in the ways that Canadians have stepped up and have taken care of those facing oppression, but it’s a complicated story,” says Kushnir. “What brought me to this project, given my interest as an artist, is how complicated a story can we tell, and can we celebrate and also reflect and discover the ways in which we could be better?” At its core, Freedom Singer is the musical journey of one man determined to connect with his ancestor – through
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St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Vancouver’s West End is home to a permanent labyrinth, and welcomes people of all faiths. Dan Toulgoet photo at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She founded Veriditas, an organization aimed at reviving the use of the labyrinth, in the late 1990s. Her work seems to have paid off. At St. Paul’s, Sharon Connaughty, a member of the church’s Labyrinth Guild, tells me there was a sevencircuit labyrinth at St. Paul’s as early as 1966 but it fell out of use. In 1997, the priest of St. Paul’s, Rev. April Stanley, approached the congregation about having a replica of the Chartres labyrinth painted on the floor of the hall above the church.The congregation agreed and set to work along with the help of experts in sacred geometry.The labyrinth will celebrate its 20th anniversary in October. The church’s five-member Labyrinth Guild makes sure someone is on hand whenever the labyrinth is open to the public. “Humankind has a natural
tendency to the spiritual,” Connaughy says. “Our ministry is to provide the atmosphere and tools for walkers to have their own spiritual experience.” When I arrive at the labyrinth on a Wednesday morning, a volunteer greets me at the entrance to the labyrinth room and explains the etiquette: shoes off, silence please. She shows me where to find a booklet with some suggested prayers and, when I indicate that I am ready, she shows me to the entrance of the labyrinth. At first I feel silly walking shoeless along the floor of a church hall completely foreign to me. I suddenly remember a series of prayers from my own faith tradition and realize this might be the perfect time to say them. Only later, when I notice I have somehow arrived at the opposite side of the room from where I started and I can not remember how
I got there, do I realize that I have indeed been absorbed in silent prayer and relatively free of distracting thoughts. When I complete my walk, Sam, the volunteer, comes over to chat with me:Was I drawn to any specific part of the labyrinth? How did I feel while walking? She explains that each part of the central flower design has a different meaning and the “petal” I was drawn to is the petal of abundance. She hands me a sheet with suggested prayers for people like me who are drawn to that part of the labyrinth. The explanation of the significance of each petal strike me as being a bit New Age-y. Sam does not seem offended when I gently change course
to talk about what I felt while walking. At two points during my walk I stopped and realized I had no idea how I had arrived where I was standing. Convinced I had somehow made a mistake, I looked over the path I had walked and the next few metres ahead of me and it all made sense again. It seems this is quite normal and is supposed to be a reminder that someone else is in control – God, the universe, love, the Great Mother, etc. – and put life back in its proper perspective. The labyrinth at St. Paul’s attracts a variety of people, some who might not otherwise set foot in a church. Often people turn up to walk the labyrinth after the loss of a loved one, during stressful periods, or when agonizing over life decisions. Connaughty says she walks the labyrinth after she attends morning service at the church. She uses the time to contemplate what she heard during the service. “I see it as walking meditation... I like metaphor and paradox and I’m not inclined to sit in a lotus position,” she says. Rev. Ross Bliss at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, who was a parishioner of St. Paul’s and a regular labyrinth walker before he he became a priest, says, “Prayer is an embodied activity, something physically happens when you pray,” and the labyrinth is a physical aid to prayer. “It’s a simple, simple concept,” says Bliss.You walk in whichever way you want and and you pray in whichever way you want. Christ Church Cathedral
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has a portable labyrinth, a replica of the Ravenna labyrinth, that is brought out for use several times a year. Bliss has seen the effect of his walks in his spiritual life. “It’s a calming practice, calm and centred. It’s healthy,” he says. Anyone from any faith tradition, or even from no particular faith tradition can walk a labyrinth. “Whatever your spirituality is, it invites you to be before God,” he says. Both Bliss and Connaughty say more often than not they find they leave a labyrinth walk with some new clarity on whatever issue has been on their minds before. In Christian circles, the labyrinth is not without its controversy. Despite being found in Catholic churches throughout history, some Christians believe the labyrinth is a neo-pagan, New Age ritual that should be avoided. The Catholic Cathedral of Chartres debunks this on its website, telling visitors that the labyrinth is not a “magic sign” but a tool that “intelligently” facilities mediation, and that the only energy to be found in labyrinth is within the people who walk it. • The Labyrinth at St. Paul’s is open Tuesday-Friday, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-noon and Sunday 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Special labyrinth walks accompanied by music take place on the second and last Fridays of each month.The 20th anniversary of the St. Paul’s labyrinth will be celebrated Oct. 13 with a labyrinth walk from 7-9 p.m. accompanied by jazz clarinetist James Danderfer. W
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Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.
Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were pink underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently – perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.
It’s high time to allow your yearnings to overflow… to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of nonrational joy… to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”
One of the oldest houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment.
The United States has a bizarre system for electing its president. There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. You’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed.
I found this advertisement for a workshop: “You will learn to do the INCREDIBLE! Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a very different approach is preferable for you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future.
Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level.
In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch, and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing.
A queen bee may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher. If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favourable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized.
You’re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself – or both. This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential.
In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats!
There are enough authorities, experts, and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts, and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies.
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