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FENCES barbed wire fences were made malicious the known angle for tearing flesh planned in pencil on blueprint they could have been sculpted with clever hands to show angels or something like that Italian Michelangelo would have done Celeste Musseau, 27, works in a library and reads non-stop.

She has held 26 different jobs in her lifetime (never fired!).

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For Dustin Bentall, leather is better Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

When he was a teenager growing up on the North Shore, Dustin Bentall acquired his first pair of Dayton boots. He loved the ruggedness of the leather footwear; the heaviness, the look, the feel and the durability. Dayton Boots itself has become a trademark of longevity inVancouver, having lasted over 70 years at their location on East Hastings Street.

Dustin Bentall – a long time local musician – hopes to follow in Dayton’s lasting footsteps with his own, newly launched Dust Leather.

Dust Leather is not Bentall’s first foray into working professionally with cowhide. A few years ago, Bentall took his lifelong love of the product and created B.B. Gun Leather with partner Spencer Baker.

Entering the dusty confines of their tiny workshop in Strathcona – filled with old tools, Mexican blankets, a pot bellied stove, and yes, a BB gun – was like stepping into the pages of a Louis L’Amour novel.The OldWest aesthetic came to Bentall naturally.

His love of the medium was inspired from his years of hanging around the Bentall family ranch in the Cariboo, always admiring the leather cowboy gear that seemed to last forever. B.B. Gun leather found immediate success with handmade bags, purses, belts, and guitar straps, and lasted from 2013-2016.

“B.B. Gun was a great success for three years of my life, but it ultimately began to consume all of my time,” Bentall lamented. “My music career was beginning to suffer for it and I wanted to give that some focus as well.”

Dustin Bentall at work in his shop. Kendel Carson photo Bentall has done that, with a new album partially complete. He’s also currently on tour with his dad Barney’s Grand Ol’ Opry-like touring road show, the Cariboo Express (this year’s finale is at theVogue on Saturday, Nov. 25). Dustin has been working on launching Dust Leather between gigs.

“It’s all me this time around,” Dustin told me over the phone from his new home on Bowen Island. “I’ve learned from some of the mistakes and growing pains that B.B. Gun experienced and have moved forward with this new venture. I’ll specialize in woman’s bags, men’s messenger bags, belts, guitar straps, purses and wallets.”

When I enquired about Bentall’s prowess with a sewing machine, he was quick to correct my assumption. “Everything I create is handmade and hand-stitched by me. No machines. I use thick, high-quality leather, so a sewing machine couldn’t even puncture it. As a guitar player, it can be hard on my hands, let me tell you.”

Bentall’s handcrafted work is his personal and professional reaction to our modern day consumerist culture.

“Today’s lifestyle focuses way too much on throwaway material possessions,” he

stated. “We buy it, use it, break it and chuck it. It’s sad to say, but there’s a lot of crap out there that is made to break down after a certain amount of time, so you have to just go out and buy a new one. I want to create the exact opposite of that. I build products that are made to last a lifetime, and look better as they age.”

The one irony to Dustin’s hands-on, old-time approach is that he markets his products 100 per cent online, both at dustleather.com and through some of the most modern sharing platforms. “It’s true,” Bentall admitted with a chuckle.

“There won’t be a storefront or anything. Dust Leather is an online-only business.”

Social media also plays a big role.

“Instagram is a huge and highly effective medium for physical goods in general.We now live in a very photodriven lifestyle, and Instagram allows me to get my products to those who desire it, all through my phone to @ dustleatherco.”

Bentall often collaborates with different Vancouver photographers for the best possible imagery, creating a modern reach for a very old art form. And, speaking of old, Bentall still owns his original pair of Dayton boots. W

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An update to the West End’s No. 5/6 bus situation. Jan Zeschky photo

TransLink will boost service for overcrowded 5/6 route

Westender readers among many passengers complaining about packed buses JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

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TransLink has heard the complaints of regular passengers on the No. 5 and 6 bus routes and will increase service in December.

My October column on the two-bus loop around the West End, downtown andYaletown generated a fair amount of reader feedback, mostly saying I was wrong about how pleasantly spacious the bus was around rush hour.

Honestly, that was my experience on the two occasions I rode the route around peak times. And, honestly, I was as surprised as you were.

TransLink’s stats for 2016 backed up my experiences, ranking it joint first as Vancouver’s least crowded route with zero overcrowding hours during the year.

However, conditions can change quickly on transit; as a regular passenger aboard the No. 84, on which passenger levels see-saw between “comfortable” and “2-3 bus wait,” I know this, and appreciate I should have taken this into account when writing about a bus route through one of the most densely populated areas of North America.

I forwarded on several readers’ concerns to TransLink. A lot of the anger seemed to be the result of service changes made in late 2016 to the Nos. 5, 6 and C23 servicing the West End. TransLink media relations adviser Jill Drews told me that the changes involved merging the C21 and C23 into one C23 route, which now accesses the West End via Beach Avenue instead of Davie Street. An expanded No. 6 route now services Davie, right intoYaletown.

“These changes were supported by 70 per cent of people surveyed as part of the Downtown Bus Service Review in 2013,” Drews said.

But according to several readers, this has been the

main cause of overcrowding on the route, along with late arrivals, buses simply not stopping (displaying the message, “SORRY, BUS FULL,” in what TransLink refers to as a “passup”) and two or three buses often showing up at the same time.

Other new complications included the stop near the Yaletown-Roundhouse Canada Line station, which throws airport commuters and their baggage into the mix.

TransLink data has seen this congestion play out, Drews said, with ridership data confirming overcrowding on the 5, 6 and C23 during the morning and afternoon rush hours and on the 5 and 6 on weekend evenings.

“TransLink planners are always monitoring ridership data.We base service changes on this evidence,” Drews said.

“Yes, we are aware of crowding, especially during peak times, and we will be adding more trips on these routes as part of our regular December service changes,” she added.

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Sea level rise: Parsing First Nations oral history for evidence of floods TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Ask Squamish Chief Ian Campbell what he thinks about global sea level rise, and he’ll tell you that it’s something his ancestors have already lived through. Based on the oral teachings passed down to him from his grandfather, Campbell can almost picture the “great floods” that might have covered the land thousands of years ago.

“Growing up, I really thought that what I was learning was matter of fact, that everyone had access to this information,” says Campbell.

Campbell – who had been in court challenging the Kinder Morgan pipeline just prior to our interview – says he wants the history of how the Squamish dealt with sea level rise to become common knowledge.

It’s possible that the great floods Campbell is referring to are linked to the melting of ice sheets or glaciers at the tail end of the last Ice Age. John Clague, professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at SFU, says that, during the last Ice Age, the Lower Mainland was submerged below sea level, weighed down by thick ice sheets. “As the ice disappeared over the land 12-13,000 years ago, the land rebounded. It bobbed back up like a cork in water,” he says.

“As it did, the land eventually rose, what is now the Fraser Valley became land area, and that’s the time I think First Nations people first occupied

parts of the Fraser Valley.”

Although not yet published, Clague says his latest research indicates that there was a “monster flood” in the Lower Mainland about 12,000 years ago, when a glacier-dammed lake emptied suddenly, sending a flood of water down the Fraser Canyon.

“Most peoples prior to the Industrial Revolution have tales of flood ...The biblical flood is an example. One has to be a little careful about linking it to some specific event in the past, but, having said that, I’ve been doing some work on a ‘huge flood’ that came down the FraserValley” during a time when Indigenous people would have inhabited the area.

Returning to Indigenous oral history, Campbell relates that “sea levels rose drastically … flooding out most of the coastal peoples, and many people perished. Populations were decimated and a handful of our people survived by going to places like [Mount Garibaldi] to find safe haven.”

After his grandfather passed away, Campbell says he continued learning from other local elders, including the Musqueam, who relayed similar stories about landscapealtering floods.

According to Squamish knowledge, the great floods happened as a result of selfish behaviour. “The young people turned their backs to the old laws, and they weren’t listening, they were wasting, they were greedy,” Campbell says.

“Our people were exhausting resources like sea lion colonies,

Theoretical changes in local sea levels between 13,500 and 12,500 years ago. John Clague / Richard Franklin diagrams elk herds, different things and they weren’t sharing them.”

Elders warned the young people that they needed to take care of each other, but the young people persisted in their ways, and then came the flood.

With so much land under water, the Squamish people gathered on three major peaks – Garibaldi, Mt. Baker and Icecap Peak (near Lillooet) – says Campbell.The waters were rocky, with strong currents. Canoe groups would get separated easily, fish stocks

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Campbell says that not everyone believes the story that was passed down, but even non-believers can understand it as a cautionary tale.

“It’s an oral tradition which recounts the values and the principles and the structures that were necessary for us to survive those major events,” he explains.

According to Clague’s knowledge, gathered through Western scientific research, “in the post-Ice Age world, you do get huge floods on the Fraser River, and maybe one of those floods over the past 10,000 years ago was so big, so unprecedented, that it was actually what the oral traditions [such as Campbell’s]

are referring to.”

One of the important takeaways, says Campbell, is that population growth is cyclical, that everything changes, and that people must adapt.

Adapting, of course, is what a coastal city likeVancouver will have to do.

Scientists at both the provincial and federal level have conducted extensive research on sea level rise. According to Environmental Reporting B.C., the sea level has risen an average of 3.7 centimetres inVancouver between 1910 and 2014. Looking ahead, a report from Natural Resources Canada projectsVancouver’s sea level to rise 60-70 centimetres (roughly two feet) by 2100. However, Christian Schoof, a UBC professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, says that by 2100 we can expect “a metre of sea level rise” or more due to “significant uncertainty” over how the Antarctic ice will respond to climate change.

On a municipal level, the City ofVancouver has been preparing for sea level rise for several years. However, the majority of its plans have focused on the technical aspects, using modelling to simulate storm flooding and mapping which areas of the city will be affected by sea level rise.

Brad Bedelt, assistant director of sustainability, says the city will begin community and neighbourhood consultations soon. Last month, the city met with members of the Musqueam andTsleil-Waututh nations to share research findings and discuss how they can partner effectively in addressing the coming changes. (Bedelt says the city hopes to meet with Squamish Nation soon.) “[It was about] getting some of their thoughts as to how the city can respond to sea level rise, and then really identifying how we can work together going forward.We know this is going to be years of work together,” Bedelt says.

Westender reached out to the Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations to hear their perspective, but interview requests went unanswered.

However, Campbell says that, in partnering with governments to address sea level rise, he wants to see a nation-tonation relationship.The fact thatVancouver’s First Nations reserves are close to the water makes the need for a strategy even greater.

Sea level rise consultant John Englander says there are a number of ways to respond to changing sea levels, including constructing buildings on stilts or concrete pilings, erecting flood protection walls, building on floats and, finally, large-scale retreat – in which people move away from the coastline.

Due to the price of land in Vancouver, Bedelt says retreat isn’t the city’s preferred option.

Neither is building concrete flood walls. “It’s difficult to move people away. InVancouver, we don’t have a lot of space as it is, and the value of land here is so high that retreat is a difficult option here … So, at the moment, we’re looking at ways to protect or adapt our neighbourhoods,” he explains.

One option the city is considering is to convert hard-walled shorelines to a more natural shoreline, with flood protection embedded in the landscaping. As Bedelt describes it, this could mean replacing hard, vertical seawalls with a specially engineered shoreline that slopes downward to ease wave action.

“Right now, the seawall around False Creek has quite a … hard-wall edge to it, which has served us well for nearly a century,” says Bedelt. “But a more natural approach would take that hard edge and replace it with an edge like you might see in parts of Stanley Park, where you’ve got the coastal tide pools and the benching, replacing the kind of hard infrastructure edge with a more natural shoreline.” W

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Cooking with beer: La Mezcaleria’s Four Winds oyster tostada Robert Mangelsdorf The Growler

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Although born in Mexico, La Mezcaleria’s chef Mariana Gabilondo has spent more than half her life in Canada.

The flavours of the West Coast provide a constant source of inspiration as she puts her own spin on Mexican classics at La Mezcaleria on Commercial Drive.

“I spent most of my time on Vancouver Island,” she says. “I came to Vancouver a year ago and have fallen in love with La Mezcaleria. I love the food and the opportunity to serve it here, and the chance to use and see the best products from B.C. on our tables.”

By Chef Mariana Gabilondo, La Mezcaleria

• 1 cup agave syrup (or honey) • 1 whole ancho chili, seeded and sliced thin • 1 whole pasilla chili, seeded and sliced thin • 1 serrano pepper, thinly sliced • 4 garlic cloves • 1 red onion, sliced thin • 1 lime • ½ bunch cilantro, chopped • 12 six-inch corn tortillas, preferably yellow corn (or better yet, a package of readymade tostadas!)

• 1 avocado • 2 handfuls of your favourite mixed greens or shredded lettuce • Salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients • 2 bottles Four Winds Pale Ale • 500mL shucked oysters

To make the chili honey glaze: Pour the beer into a small saucepan and gently bring

That includes the best B.C. craft beer, namely, FourWinds Pale Ale, which features prominently in her recipe for Beer and Chili Glazed Oyster Tostada.

“I wanted something with hop and body for a fall dish,” she explains. “Most traditional Mexican beer is lighter in the summer or very dark for the late winter. But for the fall here in Vancouver, I love the ales, and they handle the strong rich flavours of Mexican sauces beautifully.”

BEER AND CHILI GLAZED OYSTER TOSTADA

Smoke and spirits Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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“Twenty years ago in Mexico, mezcal was for poor people.

Fifty years ago it was for poor people in the villages,” says Mica Rousseau. “Now it’s a super trendy spirit in the big food and cocktail cities. Now we are producing mezcal not for the Mexican market, but for the rest of the world.”

Rousseau, the head mixologist at the Four Seasons Mexico City, is in Whistler this week, sharing his love for mezcal at the Cornucopia food and wine festival.

The 2016 winner of Diageo World Class Mexico even poured his own delicately smoky small-batch mezcal at an intimate master class held Saturday at the Four Seasons Resort and Residences.

Mezcal, he told the gathered group, is still produced much the same way it’s been made for 200 or more years.

Like tequila, it is made from the piña, the pineappleshaped core of the agave plant. But that’s just about

where the similarity ends.

“In Mexico we have around 350 different agaves.

We only use 25 agaves for the mezcal, and one for tequila, the blue agave,” Rousseau says. Those plants can take 10 to 30 years to reach maturity, and the piña can weigh 20 to 50 kilograms.

While tequila is almost entirely produced in Jalisco, mezcal is produced in nine regions in Mexico, some 85 per cent of it in Oaxaca.

Each has different terroir, and the mezcals from each taste dramatically different.

In part that’s because 80 to 90 per cent of mezcal production relies on wild yeasts for fermentation. These are the yeasts that live in the environment; there is no way to replicate their flavours anywhere else in the world.

“This is super-artisanal distillation,” Rousseau says. “[It doesn’t] use modern technology.”

That’s true also of the equipment used in mezcal production. Where the agaves for tequila are steamed in modern autoclaves, for mezcal they are slow-roasted in wood-fired stone pits for two

Mexico City’s Mica Rousseau.

Hannes van der Merwe photo to three days. That’s where all that luscious, smoky flavour comes from.

The piñas are then pressed by a stone wheel turned by a horse, and fermented in vats before being distilled in stills that could have been made from old washtubs and metal pipes from Home Depot.

There are even a few ancestral stills around, rough assemblies of clay pots and bamboo pipes.

Mezcal was, for centuries, a rustic spirit enjoyed straight or with a spritz of lime and a sprinkle of “sal de gusano” – a garnish of salt, chilies and ground worm larvae.

Today, it is even more popular in the big cities, especially with creative bartenders such as Rousseau, who love its

This dish isn’t complete without some Four Winds Pale Ale. Jennifer Gauthier photo fully pour into a blender (be careful, as the liquid is warm) and blend until the glaze is smooth. Store glaze in the fridge.

to a boil. Simmer to get a nice dark hoppy liquid, until liquid has reduced by half.

Add the agave, garlic and the ancho and pasilla chilies. Add a pinch of pepper and a half teaspoon of salt. Cover and simmer for a few minutes to soften the chilies. Care-

To make the oysters: Heat a little oil in a large pan. Fry the oysters at me-

smokiness, its spice, its notes of chocolate and pineapple.

“When I make a cocktail, I try to use a mezcal that is very friendly,” Rousseau says.

“If it is too smoky, it can kill the balance, the profile of the drink. And the magic of a cocktail is balance.”

He adds: “It works well with pineapple, green tomatoes, cinnamon, apple and other spices like chipotle chilies. Citrus, of course.With pumpkin it’s good, and saffron.”

Happily, the newfound popularity of this ancient spirit has inspired young people to return to the villages to make their own mezcal, transforming once-poor communities into culinary tourist destinations.

“Young people come back to their grandfathers to learn the business because there is money to be made,” Rousseau says. “Small villages that were empty 10 years ago, now we see them filled with young families and schools.”

Rousseau continues his week at Cornucopia with Mezcal y Maize, a series of aprèsstyle cocktail-and-taco parties at the Four Seasons Whistler.

The festival also features seminars and other events until Nov. 19. For info, visit whistlercornucopia.com. W

dium to high temperature.

When golden on one side, turn them over and add the sliced red onion. Allow the onion and oysters to fry together for a few minutes until the oysters are fully cooked.

Deglaze the pan with the chili honey glaze (use as little or as much as you like), and adjust salt to taste.Turn off the heat and add a squeeze of lime over the oysters for a nice tangy flavor.Toss everything with cilantro.

To serve: Place a layer of greens and some avocado slices on a tostada or tortilla, and spoon some oysters and onions on top. Garnish with thinly sliced serrano peppers and maybe a pinch of rock salt.

Serve immediately with your favourite salsa. W

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Kitsilano’s new restaurant reality

From hippie hangout to finedining bastion

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Homer St. Café and Bar has officially re-opened, after being partially closed for several months due to a flood.

Executive chef Tret Jordan and head chef Chris West have created a brand new fall/winter menu to coincide with the reopening. Look for dishes like smoked cod and potato “bacalhau,” house-smoked pork loin, wild boar and tomato ragout, and potted cheesecake, as well as new cocktails. homerstreetcafebar.com

Left: Cacao’s Ocean Wise albacore ceviche with arepa crisp. Dan Toulgoet photo. Top right: Mak n Ming’s Japanese-French fusion.

Contributed photo Bottom right: Fresh baking at Aphrodite’s Organic Café and Pie Shop. Contributed photo a-shuck program, as well as favourties like gumbo, pork ribs, jambalaya and fried chicken.

Closer to Burrard, the area around Cypress and West 1st houses luminaries such as newcomer Cacao, the progressive Latin restaurant from chef Jefferson Alvarez, which was recently named as one of Canada’s top 30 restaurants. Check out a Tuesday night, when the kitchen releases its latest “experiments,” along with innovative cocktails from barman Sergio Grandalfo.

Across the street, AnnaLena continues to feature line-ups and crowded rooms

for its modern Canadian dishes, such as the gingersoy pork belly, oyster with compressed apple and shaved foie gras, and cured bison tartare with egg yolk gel. For something more casual, check out the nearby Corduroy on Cornwall, with its comfort-based menu of fried chicken and waffles, stellar pizzas and affordable and delicious cocktails.

Heading west along West 4th, you hit a dining mecca that houses one of the city’s best restaurants, Maenam.

Chef Angus An’s revelatory Thai menu is a constant delight and exploration, thanks to rotating seasonal

dishes like the uni “sundae” and staples like the grilled Thai sausage. A few blocks away is Au Comptoir, that eminently likable French bastion of Gallic delights, such as riz de veau, bavette pommes dauphines, and the addictive manchons de canards frites (deep-fried duck wings). For more classic fare, look no further than the grandfather of locavore dining, Bishop’s, with its deeply local menu and extensive wine list.

Continuing west, you finally hit the environs of West Point Grey, around Alma and West 4th. Here you’ll find La Quercia,

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I used to live in the heart of Kitsilano. I loved my rooftop patio, the short walk to the beach and shopping at all the independent stores. While I’m pretty happy in my Fraserhood digs these days, with all the great coffee shops and restaurants, I sometimes venture out to visit my old neighbourhood. Kits hasn’t lost its luster and drinking there is even better than when I called it home.

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This is one restaurant that keeps me coming back to Kits. Chef Angus An’s food offers so much depth, flavour and nuance. He also takes the wine program just as seriously. The selection is currently under the direc-

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Kevin Brownlee, opening bar manager at AnnaLena, has left the restaurant to assume the role of Bacardi’s portfolio ambassador for B.C. No news yet as to who will replace the much-lauded mixologist, so stay tuned.

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Places like The Naam will likely live in perpetuity as a reminder of Kitsilano’s colourful free-love and batikweaving origins. Today, however, the neighbourhood’s dining scene has evolved into a multi-layered and everchanging mosaic that speaks to the wide demographic that inhabits this now-slightlytony West Side corner of the city. Four hoods-within-thehood showcase the diversity and deliciousness available for your dining pleasure.

On Yew, the sloping street that leads up from Kits beach to West 4th and beyond, the first two blocks off Cornwall are now home to some seriously good dining options. At Mak N Ming, chefs Makoto Ono and Amanda Cheng plate beautiful and innovative Japanese-French dishes that are available via smaller and larger tasting menus.

Don’t miss Cheng’s amazing seaweed brioche when available; it’s worth a visit on its own. Closer to the water, Nook, the popular Italian pasta and pizza spot that originated in the West End, serves up a solid Aperol Spritz alongside some of the best buratta in the city. For more casual – and raucous nights – there’s always Chewies. The popular oyster bar has a daily buck-

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tion of Tess Whitford and is completely appropriate for the complex, intense, often spicy fare. Whites focus on aromatic varieties, many sporting modest alcohol as well as un- or lightly oaked wines. I’d happy drink the by-the-glass pour of 2015 Vincent Raimbault, ‘Belair’ Vouvray Sec with just about anything on the menu.

There’s also a page of reds including plenty of light to medium bodied examples with soft tannin.

ANNALENA

annalena.ca I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I didn’t make it to AnnaLena for the first time until this summer. It wasn’t for lack of trying. But given that I’m fairly last minute, it was always booked. Anyway, I was finally able to plan ahead and ended up being completely charmed. It’s classically Vancouver with fresh local ingredients and a quirky wine list of offthe-beaten track gems. This

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one of the city’s best Italian restaurants and a tasting menu that, at around the $50 mark, is one of the best deals in the city. Next door, L’Ufficio serves up small bits and naturalist wines by the glass. From the cheese and charcuterie boards, to plates like vitello tonnato, there are many reasons to extend your stay at the bar. For a sweet finish, or a sweeter start to the day, Aphrodite’s Organic Café and Pie Shop is the place to satiate your lemon-ricotta cravings (when available). The apple pie is always a favourite, but don’t miss the pecan if it’s on the menu. W

sommeliers. I would definitely opt for the “dealer’s choice” wine pairings here.

(That means letting Maniwa choose for you.)

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includes local and international bottles that are mostly sustainable, organic and biodynamic with a healthy dose of natural and orange wines for those who are so inclined. I thoroughly enjoyed every sip of the 2015 Bernard Defaix, Chablis 1er cru Côte de Léchet.

It’s still on the list even if the delicious halibut I had isn’t.

I am sure it’s been replaced with something equally tasty and look forward to returning to find out.

MAK N MING

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a column of confessions but I haven’t actually been to Mak n Ming yet. However, it is top of my list the next time I dine out anywhere, not just in Kits. Getting into Mak n Ming might be difficult now given that they just made it to the number four spot on enRoute magazine’s Best New Restaurants in Canada list (canadasbestnewrestaurants.com). While that is a great endorsement, I’ve wanted to check it out ever since I learned that Roger Maniwa was taking care of the drinks program. He belongs to that large group of my favourite Vancouver

winecellarsbc.com The one thing I miss in my new environs is not having a wine store just steps away.

Kitsilano Wine Cellar is literally just around the corner from my old apartment. So now it’s a destination store when I am looking for wines not found on B.C. Liquor Stores shelves. I make an evening of it and take a pre-dinner stroll through the aisles to check out what’s new. I usually make a beeline for the Champagne as they typically carry cool small growers like Henri Billiot, Pierre Peters and Varnier Farnier. From there, I head to the rest of the French section, which is well stocked with Beaujolais and Loire Valley gems.

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Parq Vancouver has launched several new menus at its various properties. Honey Salt has launched a new weekend brunch service, featuring dishes such as bacon and egg sliders, tourtiere, poke bowls, monkey bread, a smoked salmon board, and more. At 1886, dim sum is now available daily for lunch and dinner, including items such as the XO Crystal Lobsterpan-fried dumpling, deep-fried durian pastry, barbecue pork puff, and Shanghainese soup dumplings. parqvancouver.com On Tuesday, Nov. 21, the Gather Dinner Series, celebrating the friendship between Mexicans and Canadians, will hold itsVancouver edition at Yaletown’s Fayuca. Presented by the Mexico Toursim Board, the dinner will see Mexican chefs Jair Tellez and Hugo Duran joining Fayuca chef Ernesto Gomez to collaborate on a five-course dinner that will bring together the local produce, indigenous flavours, and techniques of the two countries.

Tickets, via Eventbrite, are $76 per person, including gratuity, pre-dinner snacks, three savoury courses, and dessert.

There will also be optional beverage pairings available at an additional cost, including Bichi wines from Baja California. arrivalagency.com No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews has announced the first half of the 2018 dates for its popular monthly dinner series.

The new dates, for Jan.19, Feb. 23, March 23, April 27, and May 25, will each offer eight guests a 10-course interactive dining experience with chef Lee Cooper. Tickets for each event are $275 per person and include dinner, premium wine pairings from sommelier Lisa Haley, a welcome package mailed in advance, keepsake gifts, taxes and gratuity. Tickets for a special New Year’s Eve edition, at $550 per person, are still available. Tickets for the Jan.19 event go on sale Dec. 1. gaolersmews.com W

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Theatre returns to Kitsilano Neighbourhood House Community theatre gets a boost with a new $18,000 lighting setup TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Before Brent Fidler mounted his production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House hadn’t been used regularly as a theatre space since the 1980s.

Fidler, a veteran producer and winner of a Leo Award for best actor, is the artistic director of Theater Crossing, a company he founded while living in Los Angeles. Now a Vancouver resident, Fidler’s success in bringing theatre back to Kitsilano Neighbourhood House is the result of perfect timing and a touch of good luck.

“I was teaching meditation classes there in February” of this year, he recalls. “I got to know the staff a little bit as I’d be talking, and I noticed that their community hall wasn’t being utilized to its full potential… it’s a beautiful space, a gorgeous [formerly] Greek Orthodox church.”

Fidler approached the

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house’s executive director, Allen Smith, and inquired about the space.

Reached by phone between meetings, Smith tells the Westender he had been hoping to re-open the space to community theatre.

“Kitsilano Neighbourhood House used to have a theatre running, and quite a well known one, in Vancouver, many, many years ago, and for various reasons that finished,” he says. Since then, the building has been renovated, but, at the time of the renovations, the then executive director opted to keep the main hall conducive to theatre productions.

“When I came on board [in 2016],” Smith says, “it was like, ‘Yes, here’s a theatre, what are we going to do with it?’ And then one day we were approached by Theater Crossing to say, ‘Hey, this is a good theatre setup – let’s do something with it.’”

The partnership between Theater Crossing and Kitsilano Neighbourhood House is mutually beneficial.

Fidler created an actor’s equity collective to help finance the production (and which would share in any profits) and the neighbourhood house receives a share of the ticket revenue. It also provides staff for the box

The Kitsilano Neighbourhood House community hall, which can now be rented as a theatre space, used to be a Greek Orthodox Church. Contributed photo office, front of house and concession.

The current show includes eight different actors, with Fidler playing both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the split personalities of a well respected man whose alter-ego is tempted by the dark side.

But the hall wasn’t exactly ready and roaring to go when the two groups joined forces.

As part of its commitment to community programming,

the neighbourhood house paid $18,000 for a state of the art LED lighting system.

Smith says the non-profit plans to recoup some of the cost from theatre grants and ticket sales, but would not reveal anything more, saying that the board of directors is still working through the funding details.

Fidler says that the current production isn’t drawing as much of a crowd as he had

hoped, but the show has been receiving standing ovations. Nevertheless, the space fills a need in the theatre community, where Fidler says production companies can pay $3,000 per week to rent a theatre, a rate influenced by Vancouver’s high rents and operating costs.

Smith says the neighbourhood house’s return to theatre has the potential to fill several other community

needs, as well.

“We’re a community facility, and Kitsilano and the West Side [are] a little bit different [from the East Side] and the arts here aren’t really being promoted,” Smith says. With colder weather on the way, he sees the potential for attracting local crowds, who wouldn’t have to travel far to see live theatre. Furthermore, he hopes to make the shows accessible to lower-income residents. “Hopefully some can come who wouldn’t normally,” he says, adding that the neighbourhood house had already given subsidized tickets to some community members, making The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde accessible to everyone.

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• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde runs Tuesdays through Sundays until Nov. 19 at the Kitsilano Neighbourhood House (2375 W. 7th Ave).

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ARTS // CULTURE

Making art accessible to the art-curious

Studios open doors for 21st Eastside Culture Crawl JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

They come crawling back for more every year.

Maybe it’s because, for the past 20 years, the Eastside Culture Crawl has always delivered more.

Rain or shine, artists across Strathcona, Chinatown, Railtown and other pockets of East Vancouver will once again be opening their studio doors to the public for four days starting today.

At the inaugural event in 1997, 45 artists displayed their work.This year, it’s more than 500 – a significant achievement for a not-for-profit initiative designed to break down the barriers between the artist and art-curious.

It’s particularly significant for Victoria Mitchell, who had to break down some of her own barriers to participate in her first crawl as an exhibiting artist.The Vancouver painter only went full time recently after spending 22 years as a registered massage therapist.

Mitchell confesses that she’s

Becki Chan will be showcasing her jewellery and leading demonstrations of her craft. Becki Chan photos

Victoria Mitchell, with ‘Knot,’ is taking part in the crawl for the first time. Victoria Mitchell photo been shy about displaying her work from a young age. It was the death of her father last year that gave her the impetus to dedicate herself to painting.

“When my dad passed away early last year, I decided, OK, this is a new start. He always wanted me to go out with my art and bring it out and let people see it,” says Mitchell, whose art follows anatomical themes informed by her RMT experience.The sense of liberation involved in revealing your art to the world is something she is now keen

to embrace. “I’m still quite shy about it, but I’m ready to take it on. I’m really looking forward to the communication with different people, with their different views and feelings of what they see. …

Whatever can touch somebody else and they can relate to is just really cool,” she says.

The crawl has become a huge event for Vancouver artists. It exposes their work to a much broader segment of the public than, say, a gallery opening. But it’s also a potentially lucrative day

of sales for artists, many of whom are finding Vancouver an ever tougher city to afford to create in.

“More and more I see that what the organization has done with regard to the crawl, [which] is to build capacity for artists to be able to survive,” says Esther Rausenberg, executive director of the Eastside Culture Crawl and a photographer who has exhibited in the event for most of its lifetime.

“I know that, in general, many of the artists who

participate in the crawl make enough to cover studio rent for a year, so it affords them the ability to do their work.”

The Eastside Culture Crawl doesn’t collect annual figures, but Rausenberg points to the $350,000 in sales at October’s Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, which runs over three days and features fewer artists.

It can also be a hugely rewarding day for those crawling from studio to studio. As well as being able to talk to the artists directly, participants can witness demonstrations and take part in workshops. “[The culture crawl] makes the public feel comfortable to visit all the different artists’ studios. Because I think a lot of the time people feel intimidated to go in and a lot of the time they’re not open,” says Becki Chan, who will be showcasing her angular jewellery. Chan will also be

demonstrating how she carves wax into ring designs, and the process of casting.

People keep turning out for the crawl because it is unfailingly different every year, Rausenberg says. As well, walking between studios opens up parts of the city that some Vancouverites may have never visited.The journey becomes part of the event, even if it does mean braving the November weather.

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Five designers to watch at this year’s Eastside Culture Crawl Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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With the annual Eastside Culture Crawl kicking off today, having a game plan for who and what to see during the four-day art and design festival is essential.

More than 500 local creatives are opening their studios and welcoming more than 30,000 visitors this weekend, showcasing artistic talents ranging from handcrafted furniture to mixed media artwork to artisanal

housewares and beyond.

If you’re looking for local offerings to amp up your style at home, we’ve nailed down our “must-see” shortlist, and asked our five faves to share a little about their creative inspiration and why they feel the crawl is an integral part of Vancouver’s artistic community.

AMANDA BULLICK OF BRUTALLY BEAUTIFUL

651 E. Hastings St. Map code: A13 How would you describe your work?

“Pondering the cycles of life, death and rebirth, my work aims to conjure a feeling of

earthy connectedness as well as a sacred sense of magic; like altars honouring the dearly departed and the stories of their wild lives that they took with them.The natural world, although it is all around us, never ceases to dazzle with its quiet secrets and mysteries. If you look hard enough there is beauty all around us, even in the decay.”

MIRIAM AROESTE

1000 Parker St., Studio 221 Map code: D3 What keeps you inspired to continually create?

“So many things... travelling, talking to interesting people, other artists, observing

life from different lenses. I love newness and the way it stimulates my senses. I create based on what I feel in the moment drawing attention from my own stories and experiences.”

JUSTIN WILLIAMS OF BISON FURNITURE + DESIGN

1000 Parker St., Studio 101 Map code: D3 Why do you think the culture crawl is an important part of our creative community in Vancouver?

“The crawl helps connect the general public with local makers.With the vast amount of information and images available on internet/

social media, it’s such a rare opportunity to see and feel something in person. It also helps keep artist places like 1000 Parker St. alive, which is especially important in a city like Vancouver, where spaces available for public or creative use are rapidly disappearing.”

JAMES KEMP OF HAND EYE DESIGN CERAMICS

112 E. Hastings St., Studio 140 Map code: B17 How would you describe your work?

“My work is bodily and exploits basic human senses.

It’s physically non-kinetic in its final state, but, as it operates through an evoca-

tive nature, using textures and form, its gestures engage with our primal human anticipation of movement.”

LOUISE FRANCIS-SMITH

1000 Parker St., Studio 108 Map code: D3 What keeps you inspired to continually create?

“I am inspired by and drawn to the juxtaposition of perceived beauty alongside the harsh reality of the undervalued and neglected. I love light and the complexity of what my images reveal or uncover. Put simply, when I photograph, I feel completely alive.” W

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Prepare for a ‘Red Light Winter’ Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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Riverdale fans who’ve been intrigued by the surprisingly nuanced character of Moose Mason will want to snap up a ticket to Red LightWinter on Granville Island – but only if they’re allowed to watch R-rated fare.

Actor Cody Kearsley – who portrays the bi-curious jock on The CW’s hit series about Archie Andrews and his eclectic group of pals and foes – launches his new theatre company,Vagrant Players, this month with a week-long run of Red LightWinter, the searing drama from American playwright Adam Rapp that was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006.

“This show is rated R, and we’ve been warning people not to bring kids to it,” says the Okanagan-raised,Vancouverbased actor and theatre artist in a recent phone interview.

The R-rating is printed on

Red Light Winter stars Cody Kearsley (centre) and Albert Nicholas as college buddies who wind up in a searing love triangle with a Dutch sex worker. Contributed photo the show’s tickets: for coarse language, nudity, sexuality and violence – none of which is “gratuitous, but it’s absolutely needed for the story,” notes Kearsley. “There’s absolutely meaning behind it.”

Red LightWinter follows two college buddies (portrayed by Kearsley and Albert Nicholas) who take off to the Netherlands and are thrown

into a bizarre and tortured love triangle with a sex worker (Alexandra Voicu).

Riverdale is dark, but Red LightWinter is (in the parlance of season one Veronica Lodge) full dark, no stars.

Kearsley describes Red Light Winter as prototypical Adam Rapp: “It’s very raw and very visceral and it’s very in your face. He doesn’t let the audi-

ence off the hook at all. It’s funny, but it’s also brutal. It’s as dark as it is funny and it’s as beautiful as it is tragic. It’s all encompassing theatre.”

Red LightWinter is the inaugural production for Vagrant Players, which Kearsley says will provide a safe haven for emerging artists and actors who crave risk-taking theatre and diverse voices, but might feel rootless in the Vancouver theatre scene. It’s why he chose the name Vagrant Players in the first place.

“Vagrant is another name for outcasts, and I feel like, as artists, we don’t really belong in society a lot of times, and when we’re not filming, we’re sitting around picking up odd jobs and figuring out where our next meal is coming from,” Kearsley says.

“I really wanted this to be an artistic shelter for artists to come and create art together and allow the community to be there with us to support and listen to these stories.”

Just because Kearsley is making inroads into Vancouver’s theatre scene doesn’t mean that he’s leaving

Riverdale (“I love being on set, and I’m looking to expand my career in that,” he says, adding that when he read in a recent Riverdale script that (spoiler alert for fans who haven’t seen this season) Moose was going to be shot by the Black Hood, he’d assumed he’d been killed off), but it does mean that he’s determined to make theatre – his first love – an even bigger part of his life.

“My biggest passion right now is to help build the theatre industry here,” says Kearsley. “The experience you get on stage is unlike anything else.”

As for the audience’s experience of Red LightWinter, Ke-

St. Paul’s Hospital’s signature fundraising event turns 20.

Contributed photo room enhancements and art classes, notes Vollet. “We take care of some of the things that maybe people don’t think about, but are appreciative of when they have to go to the hospital,” says Vollet. “Lights of Hope is one of those things that really impacts not only

the people who are in the hospital at the time of the lights being put up, but also throughout the year.”

The premise of Lights of Hope – adorn the hospital with lights; seek sponsorships and donations; fund life-saving programs – is deceptively

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Annette Hurd is one such volunteer. Hurd held the position of Lights of Hope logistics manager from 2000-2009; her daughter, Jamie, is now the logistics manager, and Annette continues to volunteer her time, in large part because both of her children were born at St. Paul’s.

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The display has grown by leaps and bounds since its earliest edition (to more than 100,000 lights this year, spanning 10 kilometres), as has the amount of money raised: from $70,000 in 1998 to a whopping total of $31 million over the two decades – and every single penny has gone directly into patient care, says Dick Vollet, president and CEO of the St. Paul’s Foundation.

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Sliding Drawers: Linda Sin’s style evolution Aileen Lalor Style File @AileenLalor

If clothes make the person, what do our wardrobes past and present reveal about who we were and are? This is

the second instalment in our ‘Sliding Drawers’ series, asking Vancouverites to dive in to the evolution of their personal style. Want to nominate your style journey or the evolution of someone you know?

Email a brief description to editor@westender.com with “style” in the subject line.

LINDA SIN

44, owner of Middle Sister, Kitsilano “I was born in Seoul and moved with my family to Edmonton when I was two.

I grew up in the 1970s and my mum used to make our clothes when we were little.

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I remember a hideous shiny polyester pantsuit – my older sister and I had the same, but mine was lime green and hers was lavender.

“In my early teens, I became fascinated by fashion.

It was the ’80s and Madonna and Cyndi Lauper were popular, but I wasn’t bold enough to wear those styles.

I was really shy, and also my parents were quite authoritarian and we basically wore what my mom bought us.

And then I got into the preppy trend – Ralph Lau-

ren, Benetton and Esprit – I embarrassingly adopted all that like it was the best thing.

“In my later teens, music started infusing my style – alternative music, a lot of black, very baggy, plaid, with Doc Marten boots. I don’t dress like that now but it was the first time I’d had that feeling of actively liking the clothes I wore. At that time, people weren’t body conscious. Nobody talked about being slim or overweight. I was petite and I remember going to buy my first pair of

Levi’s. They were way too big but I was just like, ‘whatever, I’ll wear a belt.’

“I maintained that style till 1995, when I finished university and moved to Seoul to work. I could only find tailored clothes and so out of necessity I had to wear things that fit me. I realized, first of all, that clothes were actually supposed to fit, and secondly that I liked more feminine, fitted styles and they suited me. I lived in an area that was full of independent boutiques, and I was teaching students from all over the world who were wearing every kind of style. I shopped like crazy.

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STYLE // DESIGN I remember coming home for a holiday and my best friend saying to me, ‘Oh my god, you’re wearing clothes that fit you!’

“I moved back to Canada after two years and came to Vancouver, but it took me a long time to start a career in fashion. I had all sorts of other corporate jobs. But I always loved clothes and fashion. I got over my aversion to standing out and fell

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“I wanted to open up a boutique and carry Korean designers, but was a bit afraid and I didn’t really know where to start. I learned as much as I could about the retail industry, went to Seoul Fashion Week, contacted designers, and then opened up Middle Sister in 2015.

“Now I’m in my 40s, I’m

conscious of not wanting to wear certain things – I won’t wear super short skirts or crop tops. It’s not like when you’re younger and anything goes. But that doesn’t mean my style has stopped evolving. I used to wear heels all the time, but then I discovered sneakers, and that changed my life. Owning my own boutique has made me open to different styles too, especially as I’m exposed

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I’m wearing clothes I would never have thought of when I was young. I wear things that maybe aren’t as flattering, but I still think it’s stylish and, plus, I really don’t care what anyone else thinks. The only thing I consider is if I like it, and whether it feels good – though these days, I make sure it fits too.” W

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Continued from page 11 “I’m proud to be part of such a great event and a fundraiser that does so much good for the hospital and everybody who needs to go there,” says Hurd, who adds that you don’t need to contribute money in order to make a difference. “Yes, of course, the money is needed, but the help is also needed, and that’s how anybody can be a part of it. If you want to come and help, please do.”

Lights of Hope’s setup day (which this year falls on Nov. 16) tends to be an especially magical day, says Hurd, who describes people setting up lawn chairs across the street in front of the old 7-11 to watch the hospital’s

transformation in real time.

Setup day has grown to become something of a street party in recent years, with food trucks, hot chocolate, fireworks and choirs. “When those lights go on and everything’s working, that’s pretty special, and everybody that has worked on it gives themselves a pat on the back because, really, look what we’ve done,” says Hurd.

Of course, work doesn’t stop once they switch on the lights. Maintenance is a huge issue, especially in a city where “there are a lot of bad rain storms, and electricity and rain don’t usually work well together, so there’s a lot of daily upkeep,” says Hurd.

One thing that they haven’t experienced is a lot of vandalism, and Hurd suspects that’s because “people

respect [the lights]. It’s not just somebody putting a lot of lights in their yard. It’s there for a reason. It’s to help everybody. We raise money to buy equipment and everybody at one time in their life may be using that hospital, or they know someone who has used it.”

St. Paul’s Hospital is slated to relocate to an 18.5-acre property in False Creek Flats (exact date TBD), but the move won’t spell the end of Lights of Hope, says Vollet.

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“Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent.

From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

The next ten months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

I predict that during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.” - 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.

People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” - filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon – but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.”

Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself with devotion and ingenuity?”

This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days.

Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool.

Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique.

Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succinct nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement.

Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

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WEEKLY SPECIALS

Prices Effective November 16 to November 22, 2017.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT Organic Seedless Long English Cucumbers from Mexico

Organic California Grown Peeled Mini Rainbow Carrots from Cal Organics 340g bag

made in-store reg price 9.99lb/22.02kg

reg price 4.98

reg price 3.98

Buy One Get One Free

22.02kg

Organic Chickens

BC Organic Sturgeon Steaks

Buy One Get One Free

Buy One Get One Free

California Grown Satsuma Mandarin Oranges ORGANIC PORK

BC Grown Organic MacIntosh Apples from Harvest Moon

39.66kg

4.99lb

17.99lb

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

907g (2lb) bag

3.98

4.98

GROCERY

DELI

Ten Acre Popcorn assorted varieties

28 or 80g • product of UK

reg price 2.99-4.99

Buy One Get One Free Prana Organic Chia Seeds assorted varieties 200-300g

Que Pasa Organic Flavoured Tortilla Chips

Ritter Sport Chocolate Bars

Rocky Mountain Frozen Artisan Pizza select varieties 405-430g product of Canada

assorted varieties

350g • product of Canada

1.79

Medium Firm

2.69

710ml

100g • product of Germany

156g • product of Canada

reg price 6.99

2.49 to 2.99

2/6.00

Kii Naturals Artisan Crisps

GlulteNull Bread

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

150g product of Canada

625-737g • product of Canada

5.49 Uncle Luke’s Organic Maple Syrup

Olympic Organic Kefir assorted varieties 2L • product of BC

assorted varieties

250ml • product of Canada

8.99

Buy One Get One Free

5.99

8.99 Sunrise Soyganic Tofu

Choices’ Own Fresh Soup

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

5.99

5.99

While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.Product may not appear exactly as depicted.

9.99lb

11.00kg

BC

1.36kg (3lb) bag

100% Grass Fed New York Steaks Aged 21+ Days from Australia

100% Grass Fed Free Range Beef Meatballs

Traditional Medicinals Organic Tea

Level Ground Fair Trade Organic Coffee

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

20 Tea Bags • product of USA

BAKERY Buttter Tarts

454g • product of Canada

4.99

2–6 pack

12.99

or 8” Pecan Walnut Pie

Firm or Extra Firm

Karthein’s Organic Sauerkraut or Kimchi assorted varieties

assorted sizes • product of Canada

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Beverages

reg price 6.59-13.99

25% Off

4.99

7.99 180 Softgels 14.99 360 Softgels

Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts and Hemp Oil assorted varieties assorted sizes

25% off

Regular Retail Price

Kitsilano

2627W 16th Ave,Vancouver 604.736.0009

Cambie

3493 Cambie St,Vancouver 604.875.0099

235g

5.99

WELLNESS Now Vitamin D3 1000 IU

assorted varieties

assorted varieties 1.89L Tetra product of USA

regular retail price

Earth’s Choice Organic Cheese

Choices’ Star of the Season Program

Renew Life Probiotics assorted varieties assorted sizes

25% off

November 15th – December 24th

Regular Retail Price

Your donation of only $2 supports the growth of healthy communities. Now in its 14th year, Choices’ Star of the Season Program enriches the lives of families all across MetroVancouver, the FraserValley and the Okanagan. Kindly donated by Calabar Printers, Choices’ Holiday Stars may be purchased between November 15th and December 24th for a donation of $2.00.

For more details on each neighbourhood house, please visit our website, www.choicesmarkets.com.

Organika Vitamins and Supplements

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assorted varieties assorted sizes

25% off

Regular Retail Price

Kerrisdale

1888W 57th Ave,Vancouver 604.263.4600

2.99 to 8.99

Yaletown

1202 Richards St,Vancouver 604.633.2392

Commercial Drive

1045 Commercial Dr,Vancouver 604.678.9665

Burnaby Crest

8683 10th Ave, Burnaby 604.522.0936

Burnaby Marine Way

8620 Glenlyon Pkwy, South Burnaby 778.379.5757