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THE NASTY WOMEN OF IMPROV

Tetsuro returns Storyteller Tetsuro Shigematsu tackles Japanese internment PLUS: FISH LEATHER // BUS LINES // CRAFT BEER MONTH // BLUEPRINT BASH // SHANE KOYCZAN // HOCKEY NOSH

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Your City 3

What’s in a letter? Grant Lawrence makes the case for the SFU Clan to change their name.

Eat & Drink 8

Cheers to Canadian Club 40 Year Old, Canada’s oldest whisky.

Health 13

Why are monks allowed to brew beer? Leap of Faith explains alcohol and world religions.

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HAPPY TRAILS

Best wishes to [retiring West End realtor] Rob Joyce. I doubt I would have purchased back in 1992 if not for Rob’s confidence that I could do it.

Had I not, I’d be in the same position as thousands upon thousands of my neighbours who are struggling because of rat faced (too strong?) greedy, soulless landlords.

I’ll be eternally grateful to Rob, and offer best wishes to the charming Roger Ross.

–Victoria Joss

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Seaplanes full of sightseeing cruise-ship passengers droning over Vancouver every few minutes, property developers in helicopters lining up their next condo tower: living in Vancouver sounds increasingly like living in an aerodrome.

And the world’s Greenest City?... Gimme a break.The hospital copters are essential, and the flights to the Island are acceptable, but the majority is frivolous and self-serving.

If you want to do more than just rant, you can sign the petition at vancouvernoise. com.–Anonymous

STUMPED

Was surprised to see the tree on Bidwell Street removed. Previously, I saw a city notice stating no trees on Davie and Bidwell could be taken out. Any news on this would be appreciated.–Frank

A BIRD DEED

Recently I saw a bird hanging out in the tall grass just off of Main Street. I called the city and they put me in touch with O.W.L. Rehab.Volunteers Anglela and Caitlin were there in 10 minutes – I mentioned happy hour was on, but no they were there solely for the bird. It was a seagull named Louis – not their speciality as they look after raptors, but they scooped him up anyway.

He was likely dehydrated as he put up little struggle, and they took him away to have some electrolytes and maybe give him a cleanup.Thanks for your work! –Anonymous

and I haven’t ridden it in years. –Sarah Leary The No. 8 Fraser beats them all. I’ve seen men fighting men, men fighting women, women fighting women, people fighting imaginary people, panhandlers, barfing, urinating, defecating, shooting up, smoking crack/cigarettes/cigars/misc, people drinking paint, people covered in bed bugs, chronic masturbators, rats (actual effing rats), syringes and bloody feminine hygiene products. All packaged neatly into the No. 8. –Christopher Raymond What about the 14, 16 and 95? I have to take them every day and it is outrageous the shit that goes on. I feel bad for the drivers. –Bobby Long

VANCOUVER’S WORST BUS ROUTE?

Re:“Bus Lines: No. 20 captures city in mobile microcosm,” Sept. 22, 2017.

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Correction: Last week’s article “Leap of Faith: A labyrinth is a great way to get lost – in meditation” stated that the original labyrinth at St. Paul’s was installed in 1966. It was 1996. It also referred to a St. Paul’s staff member as a volunteer.

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Should SFU can the ‘Clan’ name?

The university’s NCAA sports teams raise eyebrows on each U.S. trip, leading to professor’s petition for change

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The Clan. When you read those words, what is the first thing you think of? Is it the storied 50-plus years of Simon Fraser University athletics, or is it an extreme right-wing hate group from the United States?

It’s that confusion, that question, that potential offence, that prompted SFU philosophy professor Holly Andersen to launch a petition in August, asking her university to change the team name to something less confusing and controversial.

The petition currently has more than 400 signatures.

To be clear: Simon Fraser was an explorer with Scottish heritage. Back in 1808, with a lot of help from Interior First Nations bands, he was the first white guy to successfully navigate one of North America’s great West Coast rivers – which now bears his name – to the sea.

The university on top of Burnaby Mountain not only adopted the explorer’s name but all things Scottish, including its world-class bagpipe band, its mascot and the name “Clan” for its

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Does this photo look outrageous to you? Cornelia Naylor photo sports teams. In the Scottish case, “clan” simply means a group of close-knit families.

You watch Outlander, right?

When I first heard of the brouhaha emerging around the nickname, I’ll admit that my knee-jerk reaction was defensive. I have Scottish roots, so I understand the meaning behind the name, and “the Clan” seemed to be a far cry from what I felt were far higher profile offensive team names, like the Washington Redskins or the Edmonton Eskimos.

The problem with SFU’s Clan teams is that Simon Fraser University is the only Canadian school playing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

That means the SFU Clan teams play lots of games in the States, and lots of teams from the States play games at SFU. According to some SFU sporting alumni, the name has been cause for concern from our southern neighbours for decades.The SFU student body is now much more multicultural than it was 50 years ago and so is the Lower Mainland. For many, the word “clan,” no matter how it’s

spelled, references only one thing: the Ku Klux Klan.

Shad is a celebrated, Juno-winning hip-hop artist who graduated from SFU in 2011 with a master’s degree in liberal studies. Shad is an African-Canadian who was born in Kenya.

“Obviously, SFU didn’t name its teams after a racist terrorist organization, but that’s the automatic connection the mind makes every time,” Shad told me.

“I mean, I definitely never refer to myself as a ‘proud Clansman,’ and the idea of a gym full of Canadians screaming “GO CLAN!” as they oppose a small group of visiting African-Americans is like something from Chappelle’s Show. Everyone would probably be more comfortable with a rebrand.”

Strangely, the person who didn’t seem all that comfortable was Holly Andersen, the SFU professor who launched the petition.When I called her to ask a few clarifying questions for this column, she told me sharply that, “You should do more research before contacting me,” and then promptly hung up.

FRESH CHOICES

Why so abrupt? Maybe because SFU and its sports teams have been part of B.C. history for a long time. It takes guts to stand up to tradition.

Why should SFU have to change to appease confusion from southern neighbours or younger Canadians? I discussed the issue with my wife over breakfast.

“Everyone knows change is hard, but what is the harm in moving toward a name that is inclusive to more people?

Why stick with a name that stirs up negative or frightening feelings?” she said.

“It’s important for universities to remain relevant and evolve with our times, and to show students they are willing to do that. Changing the name doesn’t change your proud Scottish traditions, Grant. It proves that SFU, and ScottishCanadians, are forward thinking. Maybe just like Simon Fraser himself, hmmm?”

My wife is never wrong, so it looks like it’s time for a name-change, SFU. The Highlanders? The Bravehearts? The Real McKenzies?

Wait, that last one is taken.

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The Tai Chi people are back now that the tourists are gone!

I can hardly contain my excitement.

The ancient man with the unusually short legs stands at the very edge of the sea again.

Every bird, duck and cormorant, Every one of us, is going about his or her morning business, investigating what was left by the high tide last night under the moon, wobbly and bloated from too many insincere cruise passenger compliments.

I am listening in my neighborhood.

The real sounds are creeping back as the crows and trees catch-up on gossip: “Those damn herons and their monopolies.

Half the time, they aren’t even occupying their nests, so where’s the foreign ownership laws when you need them, eh ? Caw. Caw. Caw?” I’ve cleared my mind so I can concentrate on the seeing instead of the being seen of the summer tourist months.

I live in a neighbourhood once more, and can see the figures leaning against walls, or lying on the street as solidly as a Group of Seven painting.

Oh look, there she is!

The Russian woman in the purple cardigan going to the Orthodox Church.

Well, it has been converted to a condo containing a church but nonetheless, she is back, bless her, going to church, at the same time as the old man is doing tai chi on the beach.

I am mystically enthusiastic about these Adams and Eves, who remind us to pray for the everyday in our inadequate short legs and old fashioned sweaters.

Remind us, To give thanks for the ordinary consolations, like the sea, like the trees, like a West End neighbour with whom to share your small human sorrows on an autumn day, when all the tourists are gone away.

Leslee Silverman is a proud West Ender and a Governor General Laureate. She is currently with SFU’s Writer’s Studio.

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Fish leather makes a comeback Amy Logan Hidden City

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On a recentThursday evening, a group gathered on the docks

by Granville Island to learn about making leather from fish skins.

Skins that would be discarded as waste were scraped and tanned.They could then be fashioned into anything from handbags to high-end sneakers, acting as a modern alternative to exotic leathers.

Rebecca Graham, a local artist, weaver and maker who led the workshop, discovered the world of fish leather while learning about traditional leather and tanning: “I got interested in all leather. It’s a cornerstone of ancestral skills from all over the world, and yet we’re so removed from the process now that we can’t really honour or appreciate it.”

The community learning circle was part of the Land and Sea project, an initiative of the environmental group EartHand Gleaners, in which artists, fishermen and community members from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities “weave together coastal materials and processes,” from fish leather and nettle to linen and net-making.

Fish leather may be new to some, but it has a long history in B.C. First Nations cultures. Graham notes that her friendTracyWilliams, who is Skwxwu7mesh, says that her elders tell her fish leather was used for shoes. Another friend, Rosemary Georgeson, who is Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene,

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Rebecca Graham photo explains that her father, a fisherman, said their ancestors used to make things out of fish leather and she assumed he was telling “tall tales.”

Up the coast, there are makers in Alaska who are creating beautiful objects out of fish skin, and, next year, Graham hopes to invite June Pardue, a salmon sewer from Alaska, to share her skills.

Graham says she has a photo from a museum in Japan that shows an ancient pair of boots made out of salmon, with the dorsal fins on the bottom; “the panel beside them says the dorsal fins were left on to act like rudders on the ice.”

Fish-leather tanneries in Germany (Mermaid Leather) and Australia (Heze) are currently making fish leather for an expanding high-end market.

AlexanderWang, Prada and Dior have all used fish leather in their designs. A group in Alaska is also hoping to start a fish-leather tannery.

Partnering with Skipper Otto’s, a community-supported fishery, has been fascinating,

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I’ve lived in Metro Vancouver for almost a decade and I barely know the West End. Yes, I realize I’m the assistant editor of a publication called the Westender.

Honestly, after the SkyTrain ride downtown, it seems like a major pain to get on a bus to head up Davie or down Robson. It’s that extra step that makes the West End feel a little like a village detached from the city, somewhere you have to live to truly appreciate.

On paper, it’s a neighbourhood worth appreciating. Bordered by the beach, Stanley Park and downtown (along Georgia and Burrard), it has to be one of the most scenic urban areas in North America.You’ve also got one of Canada’s most vibrant gay districts on Davie Street and some fabulous casual dining around Denman and Robson.

So, it was finally time to get on that damn bus.The No. 5/6, which does a loop around Davie, Denman, Robson and Yaletown, seemed like a nobrainer tour of the area.

I hop on at theYaletown end of Davie and head west.

There’s a good indication of the West End demographic on board: older couples, solo men, and noticeably whiter; an after-effect, perhaps, of the times when the West End was more British and Robson was known as Robsonstrasse.

Storefronts, billboards and crosswalks adopt a more rainbow hue as we head through the Davie Village.There’s also a pleasant shock of green as we pass the local community garden, 100 plots occupying a block that developers must be salivating over. Make no mis-

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notes Graham. “Going down to the docks and chatting with the fishermen, getting a glimpse into a different world – their livelihoods are based on the land and sea and that means a huge shift in awareness and knowledge. It’s such a contrast with the cityscape around us, I get more information than I can take in.”

The biggest challenge, Graham says, has been finding their footing in the supply chain and getting the skins needed to make the leather.

“Lots of Skipper Otto’s fish are so beautiful, they go to the consumer as is. I saw some troll-caught chinooks that were iridescent blue and silver – gorgeous.” Nevertheless, she just got two boxes of chum skins from Skipper Otto’s that were cold-smoked for lox. As Graham points out, smoking is a form of tanning, so she’s doing some testing to see if she can complete the process with vegetable tannins. If it works, it will be amazing leather, she says. “The chum are huge with thick, strong skins.”

Graham adds that the most important part of the recent workshop was when they spoke about honouring the salmon. She says she saw Ronnie Deane Harris (a.k.a.

Ostwelve) speak at the Bill Reid Gallery for the opening of the Intangible exhibition a few weeks ago, and he talked about his passion for theWild Salmon Caravan, and that for the first time, his people inYale have no dried salmon this year.

“I hope that our work with the salmon leather can benefit the salmon in some way.”

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The bus ride up Davie Street is a colourful one. Jan Zeschky photo take, development is coming to the West End.You can spy the occasional crane and hole in the ground between the 1960s high rises that populate the area.The biggest projects include the Jervis on Davie, and a planned 56-storey tower at Burrard and Nelson.

I step off at Davie and Denman to marvel at the proximity of pubs to beach. I’m also here to meet my friend Chris, a longtime West End resident who’s agreed to ride along with me. As we bus along Denman, Chris talks about stores closing, new ones opening and closing within months, and chains like A&W moving in. Development is encroaching, she adds, but at a slower pace than elsewhere.

Approaching Robson, we enter a fabulous cluster of Japanese and Korean restaurants. Chris has a theory for this enclave of Asian cuisine, which has its origins in the four-month-long bus strike of 2001. She believes it led droves of Asian ESL students to seek out digs as close to their colleges as possible, with many finding homes in the West End. Cheap and homey restaurants soon followed.

What’s most noticeable about riding the 5/6 loop is how peaceful it is. It’s rush hour and we’re travelling through one of the most congested cities on the continent – and there are seats available.

It’s TransLink’s least overcrowded route, according to its latest performance review.

The bus drivers I talk to love driving it.The chatter on board, meanwhile, is almost neighbourly. It’s like I’ve stumbled into a… community.

“It’s a local, small-community bus ride. Local people doing local things,” says West End BIA executive director Stephen Regan later. “You can find people on the streets any day of the week, any time of day … they’re going to work or to their doctor’s appointment, or they’re meeting their friends, often on the bus.”

It’s that community feel that keeps people in the West End well into retirement.That, and a refusal to let go of certain dreams. Chris says that mindset is evident in the elderly, batik-loving would-be hippies; and in the straw hat-wearing cyclists trundling along Nelson, imagining they’re in the south of France, when they’re actually inducing murderous rage among trailing motorists.

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Left: Nova short-sleeved hoodie dress, US$320, from California lifestyle brand AviatorNation.com.

Above: Vancouver label Oak + Fort’s latest showroom at Century City mall in L.A. Right: L.A. brand Tigra Tigra makes comfortable clothing with quirky twists. Hand-embroidered silk mashroo snap shirt in black with good luck symbols, US$360, from Tigratigra.com. Contributed photos

California love: Vancouver’s Cali connection Aileen Lalor Style File @AileenLalor

There’s an undeniable connection between Vancouver and California (above and beyond the three-hour flight).

Increasingly, it’s present on a commercial level – we love our California brands here, from Vans to Fitbit, and Vancouver brands, including lululemon and Saje Wellness, have used California as their entry point into the US market.

For Saje, it’s all about a shared attitude. “Both in California and Vancouver, there’s a real shift happening with the way we see our own health, a transition from health being a doctor’s

rich, the brand’s e-commerce manager. That translates to a casual aesthetic that’s common to both places; we have our yoga pants and hoodies, and so do Californians. “L.A. gravitates towards effortlessness and ease,” says Michael Africa, marketing and PR manager for Vancouver-based label Oak + Fort, which has three stores in California.

“What does well for us there is anything that’s easy to put on and get out the door.”

Vancouver’s fashion brands often open in New York first because that’s where the magazines are and, therefore, the credibility. But there’s a huge concentration of celebrities on the West Coast, and that can give a bump to a brand’s profile.

“One of the big pros in L.A.

responsibility to realizing it is really our own,” says cofounder Kate Ross LeBlanc, co-founder of Saje Wellness, which now has more than a dozen stores across California, with more to come.

Vancouverites and Californians also have in common their love of the outdoors – hiking, skiing, surfing and extreme sports. Cali brand Vans hosts its Park Series pro skateboard tour in just two North American cities: Vancouver and Huntington Beach, Calif. L.A.-based retro fashion brand Aviator Nation also does well with customers here. “I certainly think you see a common appreciation for the outdoors and that lifestyle amongst people up and down the entire coast,” says Curtis Ul-

is the celeb power,” says Africa. “The best influencers and most famous stylists are there. Jessica Alba has worn our pieces – that only happened after we expanded into California. When a celeb wears our clothing or a star stylist dresses their clients in it, and then those pieces appear in magazines or on Instagram, we often find our

online orders are impacted.”

Commercial concerns aside though, why do so many Vancouverites love to spend time in California and vice versa?

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Moving into 2018, I checked in with a few style experts to chat about colour trends for the coming year.

Erika Woelfel, vice president of colour and creative services at BEHR, speaks to the brand’s recently revealed 2018 palette and Colour of the Year (In the Moment – a cool, tranquil, spruce blue), while design darling Amanda Forrest (see sidebar below) shares her faves from her collaboration with The FAT Paint Company, and how she’s pairing them for the upcoming season.

What colours are you feeling inspired by for the coming year?

Amanda: Sensual earth tones reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour have got me really excited for the season ahead. Colours like deep plum, luscious teals and my paint colour Can’t See Me Camo are all perfectly paired with this past season’s pastels.The mix of light and dark give the colour combos strength and presence while feeling luxurious.

Do you have any favourite colour combinations or trends for 2018?

Amanda: Absolutely! Anything camo-green coloured paired with blush. I would love to design a room around these colours with a little gold sparkle thrown in for good measure.

What do you feel your clients are most excited

Amanda Forrest about when it comes to colour selection?

Amanda: Clients are generally afraid of using too much colour, but navy has been a great all around colour for both men and women. I have used it on painted cabinetry, on dining room ceilings and in dining rooms.

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BC Craft Beer Month highlights Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

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Pretty much every month is craft beer month in B.C., but if you had to pick one to make it official, October is a good bet. It’s hop harvest time, and, obviously, there’s the association with Oktoberfest, a.k.a. the greatest inebriation celebration on Earth. Closer to home, it’s the time of year when the patio furniture gets put away and it once again becomes acceptable to hunker down in your favourite dingy pub for days on end.

There are dozens of beer events of every description taking place all over the province as part of B.C. Craft Beer Month, so here are our picks for which ones are worth your time.

HARVEST HAUS, OCT. 5-14

Speaking of Oktoberfest, Vancouver’s biggest Bavarian beer bash returns with a new home next to Sole Food Street Farms at 88 Pacific Blvd. The new digs are 50 per cent bigger, so there’s so much room for activities! There’s beer pong, lip-synch competitions and axe-throwing, which seems like a totally safe and normal activity to partake in while drinking heavily. harvesthaus.com

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The North Shore is becoming a pretty hot destination for cold beer these days. In addition to local favourites like Deep Cove, Bridge, Hearthstone, Green Leaf and Black Kettle, a pair of newbies – Beere Brewing Company and Streetcar Brewing – are set to open

any minute now. Seems like a good time to launch a week-long craft beer festival then. The North Shore, of course, was home to the first-ever modern microbrewery in Canada, the now defunct Horseshoe Bay Brewing, so it makes sense the craft beer scene is exploding.

There are dozens of events going on all week long, but the one we have our eye on is the Endless Biking Beer Crawl on Saturday, Oct. 7. This guided beer tour will take you to six North Shore breweries where you can sample beers and collect stamps on the North Shore Ale Trail passport for a chance to win one of three prize packages. Full details at vancouversnorthshore.com/ craftbeerweek.

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The AGM and after party at the Vancouver Alpen Club on Oct. 19 are strictly industry-only, but the craft beer seminars all day on Oct. 20 at the Croatian Cultural Centre are open to the public. Some of B.C.’s top brewers will be leading classes on subjects like dry-hopping techniques and barrel-aging. bccraftbeer.com

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Probably the most fun beer event of the year, because this is the one beer fest where the brewers who make your favourite craft beers are on hand pouring and partaking. This year, the featured beer style is the Single Malt And Single Hop, also known as the SMASH. More than 60 B.C. breweries are taking part, each with their own version of the SMASH, which can be anything from a pilsner to a

Harvest Haus returns Oct. 5-14. Contributed photo fresh-hopped wild ale. The Growler will be there, too, pouring our very first collab brew that we made with the super awesome folks at Faculty Brewing. Hopefully, you’ve already bought your tickets to the event, because if not, you’re out of luck: this one was sold out ages ago.

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Queers and Beers takes over the Cobalt with a crafty pre-Halloween soiree that’s spilling out into the back parking lot. In addition to great local craft beer, there will be cider from Left Field and Merridale, as well as DJs, food trucks and pinball. The night finishes up with Man Up’s Amateur Hour queer variety show and dance party. Tickets at bpt.me/3096992 W

Booze businesses showcase diversity of Fraser Valley produce JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Despite the reputation of Vancouver’s dining scene, many residents don’t realize that some of Canada’s best produce is grown just a short drive away.

Hemmed in between the Cascade and Coast Mountains, the Fraser Valley – just a 30-minute drive east along Highway 1 – yields an abundance of crops and opportunities for livestock rearing.

The city of Abbotsford alone contains almost 1,300 farms and is regarded as Canada’s agri-business hub, with the country’s highest gross farm receipts at $20,441 per hectare – three times higher than the second-placed region. Agricultural activity in Abbotsford brings in $1.8 billion every year.

What’s truly staggering is the diversity of what can

be grown in the Valley; and what’s impressive is how a growing number of start-up farmers and entrepreneurs – many of whom are now in the liquor business – are finding new ways to bring this local produce to local people.

That can be as simple a concept (and as difficult a practice) as turning your blueberry farm into a blueberry winery, as Ripples Winery did. Refusing to conform to spraying guidelines in order to keep its crop organic, Ripples began fermenting its berries and now offers a range of wines, from a rich, sweet portlike sipper to a table wine that has fooled many a taster into guessing which grape varietal they were drinking.

Further west, Debbie and Garnet Etsell initially grew pumpkins when they bought their 67-acre Mt. Lehman farm in 1999. Then they tried corn. Then sheep; then

Field House Brewing bounty.

Jan Zeschky photo turkeys. The turkey business stuck and, after their son Andrew completed a viticulture degree at the University of California Davis, so did 13 acres of vines. Although the turkey business operates year round, Singletree Winery now takes up most of the family’s efforts. It plans to eventually expand the vine-

yard to 30 acres.

“It’s the most labourintensive farming we’ve ever done, and we’ve done the crops, dairy, sheep,” Debbie Etsell says.

“But I would say it’s also the most rewarding … It talks to the terroir and the land and the weather and everything given to you for that year.To be able to taste the rewards of your hard work, too, and we have so many different varieties… not like the corn,” she adds with a laugh.

The Fraser Valley shares climatic similarities with the wine regions of Austria and Germany that favour coldclimate varietals, and while Singletree makes a Pinot Noir, whites like Grüner Veltliner and Siegerrebe fare best.

Happily, Singletree’s Chardonnay pairs “spectacularly” with turkey, Etsell says.

Bridging the gap between producer and consumer like

few others is Field House Brewing, a brewery that opened in Abbotsford in early 2016. From the get-go, the brewery has sought to incorporate local ingredients into its beer as well as in the food it serves.

A few months ago, owner Josh Vanderheide and his team went all in on this philosophy by taking over operations at a seven-acre farm in Greendale, east of the city. Field House has already harvested produce including beets, squash, cabbage, strawberries and lavender, as well as greenhouse-grown tomatillos for its kitchen’s salsa verde.

Hops have been planted and are awaiting maturation, as are a string of grape vines brought over from Italy.

The brewery’s farm team, led by Alex Clark, is now planning out the farm’s first full season so its yield can be maximized; in the meantime,

Clark is working in Field House’s Canteen kitchen, learning from Red Seal chef Bonnie Friesen how her produce will be used in dishes.

“We’re trying to create this better translation of agriculture and food all the way to retail, to the plate, or the glass in our case,”Vanderheide says.

Part of that is smoothing the path from farm to plate.

“It’s a problem not of supply or demand but logistics,” Vanderheide adds. “That’s what we’re passionate about: How can we get more people invested in local food out here?

“Because we have the best local food. It’s insane what we have access to here.

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Organic wine: The tamer side of ‘natural’ Michaela Morris By the Bottle

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Last week, I exposed B.C.’s wild side and the winemakers going down the natural wine path. At the core of these fringe wines is the work done in the vineyard. “Healthy vineyards with balanced ecosystems do not need as much intervention,” asserts Jay Drysdale of Bella Wines. His like-minded colleagues agree.

Organic viticulture is a pillar of natural wines, though far from exclusive to them.

Nor is it the only end goal.

“We’re doing it for better winemaking but also to live in better world,” says Ann Sperling, owner and winemaker at Sperling Vineyards.

Since she and her family took over the Kelowna property in 2009, they have been farming organically and will receive certification as of the 2017 harvest. Sperling has also

helped eight wineries across Canada convert to organic (or biodynamic) practices.

One of Sperling’s clients was Clos du Soleil Winery in the Similkameen Valley. Its vineyards have been certified since 2012. “It’s disappointing that more vineyards aren’t organic,” laments winemaker and managing director Michael Clark. “Especially when so much of the other produce here is.”

Like the Okanagan, the Similkameen is very dry. It has the added bonus of regular, persistent winds that keep the vineyards clean. In both valleys disease pressure is low, making organic farming very feasible.

Nevertheless, Clark believes that the fear of losing crop to disease holds others back.Yet he observes fewer problems with disease in his vineyards than neighbouring ones. Organic viticulture emphasizes the health of soil, nourishing it properly so that it can support stronger, more resilient vines than those grown conven-

Clos du Soleil Certified organic vineyard. Contributed tionally. “It’s actually more challenging to farm conventionally than organically, adds Clark. “The harm to the soil outweighs any benefits.”

While there are currently around 10 certified organic vineyards in B.C., Von Mandl Family Estates recently announced its decision to convert and certify all its vineyards to organic viticulture within five years.

Its 1,100 acres represent just over 11 per cent of vineyards planted in B.C. Surely this is

the turning point for our local industry.

Cynics argue that farming organically costs more.This may be the greatest misconception. All interviewed claim that the amount per acre is the same.What does cost extra is the certification. Summerhill C.E.O. Ezra Cipes estimates $5,000 per year for its vineyards and a whole lot of additional paperwork.

Once committed, those accredited are required to log every detail.While this is too onerous for some, in Sperling’s perspective, “It’s good business practice and gives traceability.”

For staunch naysayers, the Certified Naturally Grown (C.N.G.) is a convenient option. Echoing organic principles, it prohibits the use of synthetic or man-made fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, as well as GMOs. “The paperwork burden is low, the audit is done by peers and the fee is a sliding scale,” explains Cipes, who has pioneered the

Canadian whisky comes of age Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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Only in Canada, you say?

Pity. Everyone else will have to travel to the True North to get their hands on the oldest Canadian whisky that has ever been poured.

“In Canadian whisky, you’re never going to find a 40-year-old whisky – not until today,”Tish Harcus tells us as we stand outside the Windsor, Ont., warehouse where row upon row of barrels stand stacked upon each other.

And with that, the Canadian Club global brand ambassador plunges a copper whisky thief into a dusty barrel and withdraws a few drops of the golden liquid that will make history.

The Canadian Club 40Year Old (available at select retailers this month) is not only the oldest whisky ever released by a Canadian distiller, at a suggested price of $249.95, it is one of the most expensive, too.

It is one of several rare old whiskies that are hitting the market this fall, most of them part of Corby Spirit and Wine’s inaugural Northern Border Collection Rare Release, which includes Pike Creek 21Year Old, Lot No. 40’s 12Year Old Cask Strength, Gooderham & Worts “Little Trinity” 17Year Old Three Grain and J.P.Wiser’s 35Year Old. (Their prices range from $70 to $165.)

All of this represents a coming of age – quite literally – for a style of whisky that has sometimes been underestimated on the world stage. Canadian whisky has

often been dismissed for its easy-drinking nature, but now it’s being lauded for the soft, sweet spice that makes it such an elegant sipper.

Of course, Jack Farrell couldn’t have known that back in 1977 when he put a few barrels of corn distillate aside. CC’s master distiller was known for trying new things, but neglected to say what his plan was for these barrels before he died.

“We were saving this and didn’t know what they were going to use it for,” Harcus says.

“In the past, they blended an aged spirit, so we were going to blend it, but when we tasted it we realized this whisky is perfect the way it is.”

They also decided it was the perfect dram to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, which is why all 7,000 bottles of it are only being sold

within our borders.

Straight from the barrel, the liquid is a powerful 60% alcohol by volume. Even so, it has juicy aromas of dark plums and dried figs – that “pruniness” is a bit of a signature for CC – as well as sweet caramel, toffee and vanilla. On the palate, it is voluptuously velvety, and absolutely bursting with spices such as cloves and nutmeg.

It’s the sort of flavour profile one expects from rye, yet this is 100 per cent corn.

And every drop of golden colour and most of the flavour comes from the barrels – no caramel or other additives have been mixed in.

“We wanted to make it as pure as it was over 40 years,” Harcus says.

In the bottle, it will be a somewhat gentler 45% ABV, with the same complex plumand-spice character, but

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certification in B.C. Summerhill’s annual C.N.G. contribution totals a mere $129.

Unsurprisingly, Summerhill was also at the forefront of introducing biodynamic viticulture to B.C. This builds on the foundations of organics with the aim of creating a vineyard that is a completely self-sustaining ecosystem. It verges a little on that wild side we spoke of, or at least the esoteric, timing vineyard and winery tasks with lunar rhythms and using very specific and elaborately concocted natural vineyard preparations to fertilize the soil and fight vine disease.

While Summerhill’s Estate vineyard is the only Demeter biodynamic-certified vineyard in B.C., Clos du Soleil is actively pursuing certification.

Others, like Sperling, are not certified but are avid practitioners. “Organics outlines what you can’t do, biodynamics gives you tools that you can add to your kit,” Sperling explains. W

without the fiery burn.

“We were going to bottle it at cask strength, but we talked to our whisky experts and they recommended taking it down to 45,” Harcus says.

Speaking of the bottle, it’s a gorgeous heavyweight decanter that is a fitting vessel for the best of a brand known as “the godfather of Canadian whisky.” It would look very nice on your bar cart or home bar.

But it’s what’s inside the bottle that really counts. And what’s in it is a few drops of history, and a taste of the future.

“Forty years.Think about this liquid. For 40 years this liquid has gone into the wood and pulled out the flavours and spices and tannins,” Harcus says. She takes another sip and smiles. “It was worth the wait.” W

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@FoodGirlFriday Thomas Haas has launched a collection of pumpkin desserts, including pumpkin cake with amaretto bavarois, crunchy caramelized pumpkin seed croquant and roasted pumpkin mousse ($36); classic pumpkin pie with Chantilly cream and butter crust or topped with caramelized apple ($36); pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies ($3.50); and pumpkin-shaped chocolate lollipops. thomashaas.com Market by Jean-Georges will be offering a special three-course Thanksgiving menu from Friday, Oct. 6 to Monday, Oct. 9, for $65 per person.The menu includes an amuse bouche of beet panna cotta, followed by celeriac velouté with seared scallop, green apple, and black truffle crème fraîche. Main is roasted turkey breast with pomme purée, sage stuffing, glazed carrots, and cranberries. Dessert is pumpkin pie with pumpkin spice ice cream. marketbyjgvancouver.com Work off your Thanksgiving feast with Milano Coffee’s Yoga For Coffee Lovers, taking place Oct. 14 at 7 a.m. at the roasting hub in Mount Pleasant.Vancouver yoga professional Kent Brun, producer of The Kent Brun Podcast: Professionals Talking Yoga, will lead a one-hour alignment based vinyasa yoga class overlooking the park, followed by an “award-winning espresso-based drink of your choice.”Tickets $15 at eventbrite.ca.

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1 Hour Photo captures painful picture of the past Tetsuro Shigematsu follows Empire of the Son with a new father figure TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

No matter how clean someone leaves their home before renting it out, they can’t help but leave behind some clues.

So when Tetsuro Shigematsu moved into his friend’s family home in North Vancouver and found a white porcelain mug emblazoned with the logo of Japan Camera, his curiosity was piqued. Later, he found hand towels embroidered with the same logo.

“What was my friend Donna’s connection to this business I could scarcely remember?,” the theatre artists asks, seated in an Eastside rehearsal space while preparing for his new play, 1 Hour Photo.

Shigematsu is perched on an old sofa surrounded by tattered, mismatched furniture. Minutes before, he had burst through the door down the hall having just wrapped a solid morning rehearsal.

His investigation of the mug led him to an archetypal figure that he, and anyone who saw his sold-out 2015 play, Empire of the Son, would be forgiven for being fascinated by: the father.

Born of a different generation, Shigematsu’s friend’s father, MasYamamoto, had owned a chain of one-hour photo finishing shops in North Vancouver and Victoria, and the towel and mug had survived as mementos into the digital age. Shigematsu was initially inspired by the objects to write a play about a family business, but his focus quickly shifted.

Through 36 hours of one-toone interviews withYamamoto, the playwright was drawn into the elder man’s experiences of Japanese-Canadian incarceration during World War II, his first love and his experience as a first aid attendant during the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in the Canadian Arctic at the height of the Cold War. Produced by Donna Yamamoto (MasYamamoto’s daughter and Shigematsu’s

friend and past collaborator) through the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre company, 1 Hour Photo made its debut at The Cultch this week and runs through to the 15th.

Shigematsu’s last play, the deeply emotional Empire of the Son, was based on interviews between him and his own father in the final months of his father’s life. In a somewhat obsessive pattern, Shigematsu began interviewingYamamoto soon after his father’s death.

“The similarities between Empire of the Son and 1 Hour Photo are not lost on me,” he admits, “because once again I’m talking with an older Japanese man, interviewing him.”

And, picking up where Empire of the Son left off, this new piece is the story of Mas Yamamoto’s life and Shigematsu’s experience interviewing him.

“Even though I had the opportunity to write any play [I wanted to] when I was commissioned [to write] a new work, it did occur to me that, subconsciously, I was addressing some sort of deepseated psychological need to continue sitting at the knee of an elder and playing the role of the attentive son.”

Describing the interviewing sessions as a “strange ritual,” Shigematsu says that the act of oral story telling is not common in his experience of Japanese culture.The term ‘gaman,’ means to endure suffering without complaint, he explains, and is the Japanese version of the proverbial stiff upper lip. Gaman is a cultural imperative, he says, and that, combined with the shame felt

by Japanese Canadians during the internment, means that he hasn’t heard much about this dark time (which marks its 75th anniversary this year).

“People talk about story telling as being this universal mode of transmitting knowledge, and … that may be true, but I always say,” his voice tightening, “that particular tradition is not evenly distributed… [Younger Japanese] people don’t know these stories because, [seniors] don’t want to burden the young people, they just want to move on.”

After the success of Empire of the Son, The Cultch was excited to welcome Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre back for the premiere of 1

Hour Photo.

The company has a strong vision that permeates throughout the play, says Cultch executive director Heather Redfern, and “a very poetic way of telling stories that is also quite straightforward that I love.”

“There’s also an authenticity to the stories,” she adds. “I think that Tetsuro is an incredibly empathetic performer, artist, [and] writer.

Working with everyone in that company, you have this tremendous sense of their ability to empathise with the lives of multiple generations.”

Empire of the Son toured nationally and told the story of a creative first-generation Canadian negotiating a fraught relationship with his immigrant father. It stood out to critics because of Shigematsu’s ability to convey the complexities of an inter-generational relationship, as well the methods he used to tell it: real-time video projections, audio recordings, old letters and photos.

In 1 Hour Photo, using sourced family photographs, rare footage and audio from his interviews, Shigematsu will introduce the audience to Yamamoto’s first love, Midge, whom he met at the age of 14 while incarcerated at a camp in Lemon Creek, B.C. Living in what Shigematsu describes as “hastily built shacks,” and “under extreme privation,”Yamamoto fell in love.The pair were eventually separated when released from the camp, andYamamoto went on to have a happy marriage with another woman.

But Shigematsu was struck by how often Midge’s name came up during the interviews.

“Midge became a kind of symbol for Mas, in terms of trying to become the kind of person he believed would be worthy of someone as brilliant as her,” he explains. After a decade of struggle following the end of the war, and the challenge of finishing high school as an adult,Yamamoto eventually earned three university degrees, got married and had three children.

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Looking back on the development of the show over the past two years, Shigematsu says he eventually understood what compelled him to sit with Mas and do the interviews. Central to his investigation was the question of how best to die, and how best to live.

“As different as they are, the answer is exactly the same: which is surrounded by loved ones and without regret,” he says.

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Blueprint for the future SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

When Alvaro Prol founded Blueprint Events in Vancouver in 1997, he did so in a city that had grown complacent, with derisive but revealing nicknames like “No Fun City” and “Blandcouver.”

With diligence and constant adaptation, though, a company specializing in nightlife in the No Fun City managed to not only survive but thrive – and, this Thanksgiving weekend, Blueprint Events will celebrate its 20th birthday.

Over the last two decades, Blueprint has grown from a fledgling promoter of one or two club nights per month to a full-scale entertainment juggernaut, hosting more than 600 shows every year.

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Blueprint has witnessed plenty of growth in its 20 years, according to Prol: within itself as an organization; within its featured

artists; within Vancouverites themselves. Central to Blueprint’s success is its ability to meet all of that growth with action and roll with the punches, he says. “One of our goals was to grow with the artists, not just to say, ‘Hey, I own this small club in Gastown,’ and then not be able to grow with them as they grow in their careers.”

They’ve also had to adapt to all of the challenges as-

sociated with living, working and playing in an increasingly expensive city. “People used to move around differently in this city, and live in this city. Now people have to move to the suburbs to get a nice home,” says Prol, who contends that improvements to the “infrastructure of nightlife” culture – including ridesharing and transit times – are “going to help the nightlife industry.”

“There are some things that I think Vancouver needs, but it’s come a long way,” he adds. “I like where we’re headed. I think Vancouver’s due to become a little bit more fun than it is.”

This long weekend, Blueprint celebrates its 20th birthday with #BP20YR, four days of festivities taking place across downtown Vancouver that culminate in a bash at Pacific Coliseum on Oct. 7 with Diplo, ZEDS DEAD, Showtek, Baauer, Felix Cartal and Kempeh.

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Feminism bites back in Vancouver’s improv scene TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Amy Shostak is an internationally renowned improviser, but when faced with sexist remarks during an improv scene on stage, she struggles with how to flip the script.

As both an organizer of the Vancouver International Improv Festival (Oct. 11-14), and an instructor at Blind Tiger Comedy, Shostak is taking decisive steps to make improv a more inclusive space for trans people, women and femmes.

Sitting at a café in the Olympic Village with the characteristically confident posture of an actor, Shostak recounts an experience where she was relegated to a stereotypically feminine role.

Once, during an improv skit, one of her teammates said he needed a doctor.

Shostak promptly entered the scene, assuming she would fill the role. Instead, her team-

Left: Vancouver International Improv Festival co-organizer Amy Shostak. Right: Nasty Women Improv performing at UBC. Contributed photos mate greeted her by saying, “Nurse, could you go get the doctor?” Put on the spot, she acquiesced.

“What else could I have said?” she recalls. One of the issues, she says, is that, in improv, in order to keep a scene rolling, the standard response to your teammate’s suggestion is supposed to be “yes, and...” As such, sometimes improvisers feel pressure to accept a story line or instruction even when it marginalizes themselves or others.

The 32-year-old is among a group of performers pushing back. Shostak’s newest course, Women Centre Stage, is aimed at women and non-binary performers at the intermediate level, which, among other things, explores how performers can say “no” while on stage, and encourages participants to explore diverse stories, valuing female, trans and non-binary experiences.

Shostak and Blind Tiger Comedy’s efforts to create

empowering and inclusive improv spaces have inspired offshoots, too. The latest is a group called Nasty Women Comedy, an all-female, multi-racial improv troupe, which includes seven alumni from the progressive improv school. This troupe will perform at the improv festival on Oct. 12, and, thanks to its runaway success, has secured a regular performance night at the Biltmore Cabaret.

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“Melanie Wood. Shut up and say something.”

This isn’t what most people say when they answer their phones – and, if it were coming from anyone else but director Melanie Wood, it would probably cause some serious confusion at the other end of the line.

ButWood is the director of Shut Up and Say Something, a feature-length documentary that screened this week in the highly coveted BC Spotlight Gala spot at the 2017Vancouver International Film Festival – and the contradictions of that idea of simultaneously shutting up and expressing something meaningful are at the heart of her buzz-worthy film.

Shut Up and Say Something is a deep-dive into the poetry and pain of spoken word artist Shane Koyczan. Koyczan seized the attention of the world on Feb. 12, 2010, when he delivered his rousing poem, “We Are More (Define Canada),” as part of the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Since then, theYellowknifeborn, Penticton-raised poet has drawn tens of thousands of eager fans to theatres and auditoriums across the country to hear his searing poems that give voice to the inaudible and the imperceptible: the bullied, the awkward, the visibly different (as he does in his anti-bullying poem To This Day, which has more than 21 million views onYouTube).

Koyczan is at once giving, vulnerable, and powerful in his poetry, and Shut Up and Say Something takes audiences

Shane Koyczan. Contributed beyond the words that Koyczan delivers from stages across the land, and into his private world, where we see “how much of an emotional toll the kind of work Shane does takes on him,” says Wood, who was brought to the project by filmmaker Stuart Gillies, himself a friend of Koyczan’s.

“We listen to the poetry and think, ‘Oh, wow!’ – but imagine speaking a poem that brings you to tears 10 nights in a row in 10 different theatres. It’s accessing that emotional depth that really amazes me, and I learned more about that kind of talent, or gift, when I was working with him.”

The film (which won VIFF’s #mustseeBC competition) overflows with Koyczan’s poetry, both via footage from performances and in animated segments. It also demonstrates the ways in which his ability to evoke all manner of cathartic emotions is both a blessing and a curse. “Shane is a guy who delves into his dark moments and stays there, partly for his own creativity and partly it’s just his character,” says Wood. “Sometimes he, self-admittedly, can be very difficult to work with because he spends so much emotional energy in the creative part of what he does, that he also has to spend the same amount of time recuperating from that.”

There are plenty of big emotions in Shut Up and Say Something, but the film’s most gut-punching narrative arc begins with Koyczan’s desire to connect with his estranged biological father. Koyczan (who was raised by his grandmother, upon whom he dotes) had only met his father a handful of times before filming began, and Wood notes that it was challenging “trying to navigate the very intimate relationship between a father and son where, in lots of ways, you feel like you ought not to have been there, and yet in the process I think some of those meetings between him and his dad self-admittedly wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t have been there.”

No spoilers as to how it ultimately plays out, but the final eight minutes of Shut Up and Say Something might just be the most devastating eight minutes you’ll see at VIFF this year. Bring tissues.

Given how she answered the phone – and the amount of time she spent with Koyczan over the course of filming – what does the titular directive mean to Wood? “The way I interpret that is, we really have to stop all the noise in our brains and reach out and connect to people who mean something to us,” she says. “We can’t just wait for relationships to repair, or for family to come to us.We have to take ownership and say something and make connections. ... In this world where everything is fractured ... all we have is each other.” W • Shut Up and Say Something screens again Oct. 8 at the Vancouver Playhouse as part of the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival.

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On Saturday night, the newlookVancouver Canucks will hit the ice for their first game of the 2017-18 NHL season.

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A 1873 Joseph Haier painting, Monks in a Cellar, depicts the sometimes sleepy moments of brewing. Contributed photo Wine is actually built into several Jewish rituals. Every week, after lighting the shabbat (sabbath) candles, Jews are supposed to take a drink of sweet shabbat wine as a symbol of joyful celebration.

At Passover, four glasses of wine are drunk at specific points during the seder meal, each tied to a key moment in the relationship between God and the Jewish people.

However, drunkenness is frowned upon. In fact, a person who is under the influence is forbidden from saying prayers until they are sober again.

Meanwhile, for faithful Muslims, alcohol is strictly off limits. Three different verses of the Qur’an deal with alcohol and gambling, and none is very positive.

One verse prohibits praying while intoxicated. Considering a faithful Muslim must pray five times a day, that puts quite a limit on when and how much one would be able to drink. A second verse says there is “great sin” but also some benefit, or profit, in alcohol and gambling. The third verse dealing with the issue calls intoxicants and gambling the devil’s handiwork. That third verse is generally accepted as God’s final word on the matter.

There are other religions that outlaw alcohol along with other substances. Buddhists and Sikhs have to stay away from booze, cigarettes and other intoxicants because they are believed to draw the person away from remembering God. Followers of certain branches of Hinduism also abstain from alcohol.

Meanwhile, Rastafarians have a longer list of items to avoid: alcohol, meat, shellfish, milk, and coffee are all off limits because they are believed to diminish the life force within each person.

The typical Rasta diet is based on fruit and vegetables produced without the use of artificial chemicals.

Given that most of these religions have some sort of rules around alcohol, how do we explain Catholic monks brewing beer in their monasteries?

In the sixth century, when St. Benedict of Norcia, the founder of western monasticism, wrote the rule for his new community, he decided that his monks should live off the work of their hands.

At the same time they should be prepared to welcome the stranger and help the poor and needy.

Since grains were a crop well suited to the area where the first Benedictine monasteries were established, the monks grew wheat, barley and other grains that could either be used for bread or beer. At the time, beer was considered safer to drink than water, and it was something hearty and refreshing they could offer to travellers and pilgrims who turned up at the monastery door looking for a place to stay. It also happened to be quite helpful during Lent – the 40 days before Easter – when the monks were required to fast.

Today, several monasteries around the world still brew beer. In fact, Trappist monks even have a certification process for their beer.

Authentic Trappist beers are brewed and sold mainly in European monasteries – the only North American monastery actively brewing and selling beer is in Spencer, Mass. – but some are exported and can be commonly found in B.C., including Chimay, Orval, Rochefort and Westmalle.

Also available on local liquor store shelves is the German Paulaner Munchen, which was founded sometime before 1634 by monks in Munich. The monastery was eventually dissolved and the brewery was taken over by a private company. Its Salvator beer is still brewed using the original monastic recipe. W

EAT AND DRINK:

• Bacon – A one-of-a-kind new food stand on the 300 level will feature succulent treats like bacon nachos and a bacon avocado sandwich.

• Poke bowls – One of the city’s hottest food trends will make its Rogers Arena debut.

Sushi will also be available in the main concourse area for the first time.

• Family zone – A new area outside section 102 will include food options at sizes and prices designed to fit family tastes and budgets, including a 25-cent lemonade stand.

• Food cart alley – Adjacent to the Family Zone, food carts will rotate from game to game.They’ll feature food options from top local names as well as in-house creations.

COO Jeff Stipec got his start with the Canucks as a 20-yearold student usher at the Pacific Coliseum in the early ’80s and

A new food stand on the 300 level will feature succulent treats like bacon nachos. Contributed photo remembers how the liquor laws of the day prohibited fans from drinking in their seats – or even in the main concourse – during games. Before puck drop and during intermissions, fans would head down to the bowels of the arena to drink and smoke.

Today, Rogers Arena is smoke-free and the beverage options have changed significantly. “On any given night, we’ll have three sommeliers here on staff,” says Stipec.

“They provide their expertise on different wines for our fans to enjoy while they’re watching a game in some of our different premium areas, whether it’s our loges or Encore or even the SportsBar.” Other beverage options around the arena now include cocktails, wine on tap and craft beer – and special initiatives are designed to get fans to the rink well before game time.

“When the puck drops, we want our building full of fans cheering for the Canucks,” says Stipec. “We’re doing everything we can to get this building filled, get people in place, give them a reason to come down here early.

“On opening night, we’re going to open up at 5:30. For a full hour, we’ll feature our happy hour pricing for both beverages and food items.

Then for every game going forward, from 6:00-6:30, we’re calling it theThirsty 30. For 30 minutes immediately following the opening of doors, you’ll be able to get specially priced beers, food – everything throughout the facility.”

As in past years, opening night festivities will also include a free beer or other beverage courtesy of team sponsor Labatt.

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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.

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In October of 2016 a 6.6-magnitude earthquake shook the town of Norcia, Italy. Several historic buildings, including the medieval basilica and monastery of St. Benedict, were destroyed.

The Benedictine monks of Norcia were lucky, though – their brewing equipment and several vats of pre-quake beer were safe in the basement of the monastery.That basement brewery would help fund the rebuilding of the monastery and other historic buildings in the town.

However, had the monks belonged to a different religion, this type of fundraising would have been strictly off limits.

For most Christians it is perfectly acceptable to consume and handle wine, beer and spirits. According to the Bible, the first public miracle Jesus performed was turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana. At the last supper Jesus blessed and shared a glass of wine with his closest followers, and, because of that, wine features prominently in the communion rites of many Christian churches.

There are a few Christian denominations, though, that have taken a different view of Jesus’ use of wine. For Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists and Methodists, alcohol is a potentially dangerous substance to be avoided. They believe the wine referred to in the Bible was some sort of unfermented grape juice.

In the United States, the Methodist church officially supported the temperance movement and, as a result, moved towards replacing their sacramental wine with water or unfermented wine.

In 1868, Thomas B. Welch, a Methodist communion steward in New Jersey, took it upon himself to make sure his church always had a supply of unfermented sacramental wine. To make it last longer he used the newly invented technique of pasteurization. Thus was born Welch’s Grape Juice.

One might be tempted to think the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) would have a similar view on alcohol, but that is not the case.

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“If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you.

But I’m here to tell you that an influencer equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity. Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13.

Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina – a distance of about 19,000 miles – except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian – a grey area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favourable time to close the gap.

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You wouldn’t expect a five-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Picasso’s Guernica or sing Puccini’s opera, La Bohème. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault you and your companions for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature, and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership. I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency.

Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness?

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Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way.

In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing.

More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next ten months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics.

And the coming six weeks will be quite favourable for formulating your plans and planting your seeds.

In my opinion, you’re not quite ready to launch full-tilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.

You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power.

Actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote three autobiographies. Speed skating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ono published his autobiography at age 20. The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.”

To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny.

If you go to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage – and then metaphorically drink it! In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion.

If a late-night TV talk show called and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that? It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do. So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question. Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul.

A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?

“Intensify” is one of your words of power these days. So are “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.

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