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Just a comment on this week’s Torstar/Postmedia closures. [Editor’s note: It was reported on Monday that Postmedia and Torstar had swapped 41 newspapers, with plans to close 36 of the titles, at a loss of 291 jobs.]

I live in what was B.C. Housing and is now charity-run social housing. Poor. And free papers are the only papers some people here have access to. I always see my neighbours reading MetroVancouver, Westender and 24 Hours.

Internet in Vancouver is expensive. I would not own a computer if it weren’t for funding I got from a program the B.C. Liberals closed down after.

The [Financial Post] doesn’t get delivered here. Hell, even the Vancouver Courier only has one box in the whole area.

But don’t mistake lack of access to news as a lack of interest in news. I have better conversations about Vancouver real estate in my lobby than I do on Twitter.You want interesting insights into the nuances of transportation issues? Right here.

We live with the immediate and ongoing effects of the

decisions – or lack of them – by politicians in a way that others don’t.We have no insulation.

No buffer.When B.C. government decided to just “transfer” us, Metro not only wrote about our building but published

something I wrote about it.

Anyway, my point is local and free press play an important role in the community, especially for those with no access to Internet or paid subscriptions.

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Poem of the week Poetic Licence

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week: Kathryn Wilder.

CHOICES We come and we stay and then we go And in our short visit We make a mark As significant as a pebble on the beach As significant as the sun We have the choice July 1994 Kathryn Wilder was born in North Vancouver. Travel Bridge and palmistry are a few of her passions.

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NEWS // ISSUES

Slow to reform, quick to explode Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

How old were you in the fall of 1985? I was 14. That’s when I went down to the West Vancouver Memorial Library and signed out a newly released EP on Zulu Records: Against the Glass by a band called Slow.

I got home and dropped the needle onto Slow’s nowbeyond-classic song “Have Not Been The Same.” Mind blown.The outrageous twinguitar riffage sounded like they were ripping my parents’ speakers apart.When the lead vocal punched in, which was something more like a tortured bellow, I remember feeling like I was listening to something dangerous and unhinged, so much so that I looked over my shoulder to see if anyone else was around; as if I was doing something that I shouldn’t be.

Then I cranked it.

I marveled that Slow, a purely visceral rock ‘n’ roll band that sounded like a fresh cross between T-Rex, the Sex Pistols, and the Stooges, were from Vancouver. I eventually learned that they were Point Grey kids, practicing in a basement near Locarno Beach, on the other side of Burrard Inlet from where I endlessly spun that record.They were that close!

I never did see Slow perform live. On the night that Slow made their destructive mark on Expo 86 – BC Day, 1986, a famous incident of indecent exposure and lewd gestures that I wrote about for Expo’s 30th anniversary – I was once again across the way, this time on the other side of Expo, enjoying a Fats Domino concert

Slow’s original 1985 Zulu release (left), and the new 2017 gatefold reissue (right). Grant Lawrence photo with my parents. Slow’s final show was a few months later at the Town Pump, coincidentally on the final day of Expo. I missed that, too.

Over the course of the next three decades, the legend that is Slow has steadily grown into hurricane-force reverence. Many rock pundits consider Slow to be Vancouver’s all-time greatest band.

Luckily, the five members of Slow – Tom Anselmi, Stephen Hamm,Terry Russell, Ziggy Sigmund and Christian Thorvaldson – are all miraculously still alive, and Slow has reformed after a stunning 31 years of dormancy.

I recently spoke with lead singer Tom Anselmi from his home in Los Angeles. I asked him if the reunion was part of a plan to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the break up, arriving a year late.

“Absolutely not,” Anselmi replied. “There was no plan whatsoever to do anything ever again with Slow. But all of the sudden, things just happened. And when the five of us finally got together in the same room for the first time in decades, there was an undeniable energy. Slow is strangely more magical now than it ever was before.”

Slow’s bassist, Stephen Hamm, has been a towering

mainstay in the Vancouver music scene for years. Anselmi and guitarist Christian Thorvaldson first courted Hamm and drummer Terry Russell during a lunch-hour jam session in the band room of Lord Byng Secondary School in West Point Grey.

“For several years now, Terry and I had actually been talking about re-issuing Slow’s back catalogue,” Hamm told me over coffee in Railtown. “I had everyone’s blessing, but it just wasn’t happening for one reason or another.Then Tom took an interest and it all came together. He’s the lynchpin, really.”

A re-mastered, re-designed, and re-issued Against the Glass came out this fall, and it sounds incredible.

The record cover remains exactly the same: it features the five members squinting in the sun, staring out of an industrial elevator of some kind. That cover that I had stared at and analyzed countless times is the reason I met Hamm in Railtown. We walked west down Railway Street past food trucks and their lineups of Millennial hipsters hunched in the rain while waiting for their gluten-free beiju flatbread tacos. Just before Gore Street, we stopped.

FRESH CHOICES

“This is it,” said Hamm, who nodded his head toward what is now a gated parking lot filled with Mercedes, Porches and BMWs. By chance, as someone was entering, we were able to slip inside the lot.The old industrial elevator is gone, but the exact iron-wrought window the members of Slow posed beside 30 years ago is still in place.

Minds were blown, pictures taken.

When the possibility of Slow rising from the ashes began to take shape, they knew they’d have to find their second guitarist, Ziggy Sigmund.They had originally plucked him out of the punk scene 32 years earlier for the double-guitar attack. “None of us had seen Ziggy in years,” Hamm told me. “So we called [long-time Vancouver Sun writer] John Mackie.

John answered and said ‘Yeah! Ziggy’s sitting on my couch right now, hang on!’”

For many, the reunion is cause for nostalgic celebration. For Anselmi, it’s all about celebrating the present – looking forward, not in the rearview. “Slow is something that is happening now. Slow is writing new songs now.

And yes, there will be a new album from Slow.” Case in point: Slow is fielding offers from festivals all over the world, and are already confirmed to play their first-ever gig in Australia in 2018.

There will also be three reunion shows in Vancouver this weekend, at the Fox Cabaret, Friday and Saturday night, Dec. 1 and 2, with an all-ages show added for the Sunday afternoon of Dec. 3. Those shows will be their first public Vancouver performances since playing the Town Pump on Oct.13, 1986, the last day of Expo.

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This week’s Bus Lines takes us through Vancouver’s original suburbia. Jan Zeschky photo

Normal neighbourhoods, abnormal price tags on the No. 2 JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Vancouver’s affordability challenges are well documented, so do we really need another comment on how bad things are?

I was wondering that as I mapped out the route of the No. 2 bus, which runs from the lofty towers of Burrard Street’s business district downtown to what I had always envisioned as the stately mansions of the Dunbar neighbourhood.

I write “envisioned” because I’ve never properly explored these southern areas. Of late, I know them mostly from the many reports on evaporating communities: the businesses unable to pay inflated rent or property tax; the character homes demolished to make way for monster houses that potentially sit unoccupied for most of the year.

What intrigued me about this route was whether bus ridership was evaporating, too; if more “residents” were out of town or simply taking the Lamborghini to Whole Foods instead of the bus. Do these areas still need bus service?

Yes, says my driver, who regularly commandeers the No. 2. The route is generally pretty quiet but ridership ramps up around rush hour. It’s still a commuter line. That said, the annual number of boardings declined by 100,000 between 2012 and 2014, according to TransLink figures, before a slight bump back up in 2015. The No. 2 absorbed sections of the No. 22’s route last year.

There’s only about a dozen people on board as we scoot south over the Burrard Street Bridge.

When we take a right into Kitsilano, I’m suddenly struck by the number of squat, faded 1950s- and 60s-era low rises lining Cornwall Avenue. Normality becomes the theme of the journey.

Heading south on MacDonald, we whip past side street after side street of detached and duplex houses, with the occasional strip of shops: grocer, deli, florist, bakery, dry cleaner. It’s the city’s original suburbia.

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How to stay warm and look cool Aileen Lalor Style File

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Last winter was tough on weakling West Coasters.

“I fell on my arse because I tried to walk down a snowy hill wearing Wellies,” I whined. “Yeah, that reminds me of the time my car froze to the drive and I couldn’t move it for three months,” my hardy Albertan friend replied.

Of course, Vancouver isn’t set up for snow because typically we don’t get much of it.

But this year’s forecast looks like last year’s, and since the city has vowed to prepare better, so should we. How to weatherproof our wardrobes without compromising our look or raiding our skiwear?

Take tips from the experts – our brave friends in cold climes who are dealing with this shit all the time

BEST FEET FORWARD

Montrealer Frederic Boyadjian says you need breathable, waterproof footwear that fits snuggly.

He also suggests zippers rather than laces. “Without zippers, you’re obliged to unlace to slip in and out of your boots, and unlaced

laces in winter always end up lying in the puddle of melted snow you unavoidably carry indoors, which in turn gets the laces wet, and there’s nothing worse than tying damp, stinky, dripping laces,” he says. He likes Italian brand Olang’s boots because they have spikes on the soles that can be flipped out to grip icy pavements and tucked away when they’re not needed. Their thick soles also give you a little extra protection from slushy puddles pretending to be snow. Highly insulated, breathable and waterproof, they keep feet toasty when the temperature drops as low as -30C. They also look good – chunky and rugged, but not as if you’re about to go hiking.

ALL ABOUT THAT BASE

Base layers aren’t just for hiking and skiing. The best ones are thin, so they don’t spoil the line of your clothes, and breathable, so you don’t get sweaty pits and bits. Multiple people recommended Icebreaker Merino, which offers various different weights and styles of leggings and tees for men and women. Ruby Tan is learning to be an outdoor guide in New Zealand and

Indygena, as recommended

by Montrealer Vanessa Prinsen. “I was very happy with the coat I bought last year. It was surprisingly hard to find something that looked cool but didn’t have fur (fake or not). Kept me toasty through a Montreal winter. Now I need to try it in Edmonton,” she says. The brand’s Ayaba jacket is long, with a high neck so you can ditch the scarf, and a detachable hood.

It’s supposed to be waterproof and effective to -30C. And while it does use real duck down, it’s humanely sourced as set out by the Responsible Down Standard.

Cryos Cashmere Beanie, $129.99, at The North Face and Thenorthface.com

Olang Dada boots, $270, see OlangCanada.com for stockists and to download the size guide.

KEEPING IT REAL

Indygena Ayabe Parka, $525, at MEC stores and Mec.ca swears by Uniqlo’s Heat Tech. “I’m surprised at how well it holds up for adventures in the back country. It keeps you warm and is quick to dry,” she says. It’s less pricy than most base layers, can be washed and tumbledried, and is designed with style in mind – little touches like slightly shorter sleeves that won’t peek out from under sweaters.

HEADS UP

The idea that we lose 50 per cent of our body heat through our heads is apparently nonsense – according to a British Medical Journal

report, it’s more like 10 per cent tops. But we still need a hat. Beatrice Joliot, who lives in Geneva, Switzerland, says a cashmere beanie is the best option. We found one from The North Face that’s soft, warm, and stylish, though, like most cashmere, it’s dryclean only.

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Gloves need to be thin enough so you can retrieve your Compass Card or fasten a button while wearing them, but heavy enough to give warmth. Joliot likes Swedish brand Hestra, which has two

collections: Dress gloves in wool-lined leather that keep you toasty to about -3C, and sporty ones that can be triple layered (liner, base and shell) for extreme weather.

THE BIG COVER UP

Puffer coats are in style this season, which is good, because they’re really the only thing that will keep biting winds at bay. Canada Goose comes recommended by some (as does Uniqlo) for its Ultra Light Down jackets – they pack so small that Joliot says she can get three in a suitcase. We’re hankering for a jacket from

Ultimately, our frozen friends say, there’s only so far you can go in the effort to look stylish. “I grew up in Winnipeg and just spent the last decade in Edmonton,” says Tia Harvey-White. “For me, keeping warm wins every time over fashion.

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Designer Files: The architecture firms building a stylish city Restaurant forTorafuku; and in spring 2017 they were selected to present their work as a recipient of the Architectural League of NewYork’s EmergingVoices Award.

Their breadth of work – which includes commercial, mixed use, restaurants, residential spaces in both urban and remote environments and also agricultural projects – has been widely recognized by worldwide design publications, including recent releases from renowned publishersTaschen, Gestalten and Phaidon.

Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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This week we are shining the spotlight on some ofVancouver’s top architecture firms.

Often out of the public eye, yet responsible for so much of our city’s stunning urban landscape, these four design “dream teams” are creating work that is beautifully impacting the aesthetic ofVancouver.

EVOKE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN

Since 2000, Evoke’s interdisciplinary approach to design has made it one of the most sought-after firms in the city. The company, founded

by Robert Edmonds and David Nicolay, offers not only architectural expertise, but also spatial, interior and graphic design. It is the marriage of these elements that gives their clients an encapsulating experience.

Outside of an impressive client roster that includes Pixar, the Kit + Ace North American offices and stores, Bel Cafe at the Hotel Georgia and Heirloom restaurant, Evoke is also responsible for conceiving and opening some of our city’s best neighbourhood haunts, like El Camino’s,The Union Bar Restaurant and Main Street Brewing, to name a few.

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Contributed photos The signature style of Evoke remains clean: modern interiors and custom-designed furniture combined with simple, vibrant graphics.

SCOTT & SCOTT

With a history of working with various prominent Canadian firms, husband-and-wife duo David and Susan Scott branched out on their own in 2012 and have since become an award-winning boutique firm.

In 2014 they were awarded an Architizer A+ award for the design and construction of their Alpine Cabin project; in 2016 they were both awardedThe Royal Architectural Institute of CanadaYoung Architect Award and the Restaurant and Design Award for Best Americas

MCKINLEY BURKART

This Calgary-based boutique architecture and design firm recently opened an impressive new office in Vancouver.

The move intoVancouver was a natural progression for the company, as both founding partnersWalker McKinley and Mark Burkart have ties to our city and their client roster – which includes big local names like Aritzia, Stanley Park Brewing and the team behind Herschel Supply Co. – is well rooted here.

The firm also supported its interest in making the new Vancouver office part of the city’s creative community by including artwork from notable local artists such as Ben Skinner and Anthony Redpath.

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EAT // DRINK

Cosy up to these new Vancouver noodle bowls From Taiwanese beef noodle to Japanese chicken ramen, there’s much to slurp Anya Levykh Nosh

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Vancouver isn’t short of good noodle soup. From ramen to phō, udon to koh soi, we’re rich in choice, flavour profile

and noodle style. From Japan, Thailand and Vietnam to the many regions of China, you can taste a different country/ region each night and not run out for at least a couple weeks.

And, like the supply, our appetite is endless, meaning there’s always room for newcomers.

Here are two recent additions that are worth a slurp.

RHINOFISH NOODLE BAR

Since chef Hung opened a handful of years ago, locals

have expressed their consistent appreciation and devotion to niu rou mian, more commonly known as Taiwanese beef noodle soup.There haven’t been many other contenders for this dark and lush broth, until Rhinofish opened this past summer.The first solo venture for chef/owner David Wu, the specialty here is, naturally, the soup.The beef broth is incredibly earthy, dark and aromatic. Instead of rice wine, Wu uses red cooking wine, and the almost-feral aroma is quite prominent.The beef is tender, almost falling apart at the touch of the chopsticks, and the bok choy and carrots are perfectly cooked, with ample bite. It’s a dish that’s deceptively simple, but makes for a filling and fairly satisfying meal.The small pork belly bao ($5.50) with Asian sauerkraut and peanut powder was too simple, though.There wasn’t enough sauerkraut in mine to give any contrast in flavour, and the peanut powder was largely tasteless. Better were the chicken nuggets ($7.50) with Nanjing sauce.These were tender, juicy morsels nicely offset by the dipping sauce.The parmesan and truffle oil option ($8.50) didn’t attract me (I prefer actual truffles, as opposed to “flavoured” oils), but seemed like a popular item at neighbouring tables.Wood ear mushroom with plum vinaigrette ($5) were a fantastic starter; sour, earthy and slightly sweet. rhinofishnoodlebar.com

MARUTAMA GAIDEN

The famed broth of Marutama in the West End (and its second downtown

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@FoodGirlFriday Chef Julian Bond, head of Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, was crowned Chowder Champion at the recent 10th annual Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown at the Vancouver Aquarium. This year featured an “all-star”

Online from vmwc.ca (no fees), call 604-878-1190 or from any choir member at the door.

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Top left: The fried sauce dry noodle with minced pork at Rhinofish. Top right: Rhinofish’s Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Bottom: Rhinofish chef/owner David Wu. Dan Toulgoet photos location near the main library) needs no introduction to anyone who’s ever visited and sampled that heavenly chicken-based ramen. The third location, which just opened last month on Main Street, claims to offer something a little bit different. While still in its soft-opening phase (and waiting for a liquor licence), the classic shoyu with cha-shu is the main feature for now. This is a kotteri-style of broth – rich,

opaque, cooked low and slow with plenty of chicken bones (including feet for extra calcium and fattiness), and flavoured with soy sauce.

The noodles are made inhouse and the soup is simply dressed with fresh green and red onion, seaweed, and an optional marinated and slowcooked egg. At this location, look for a massive hot pot to appear soon, good for at least two to share, featuring chicken meat balls and thigh, assorted vegetables and

fungi, and your choice or ramen noodle or rice. At $30 per person, it’s an investment, but judging by the sizes generally on offer, you won’t leave without a wheelbarrow or at least a crutch of some sort. In the meantime, don’t miss the “mega” chicken karaage, which is an entire leg, fried and drizzled with lemon. Crispy on the outside, explosively juicy on the inside, one piece ($7.50) is practically a meal on its own. marutama.ca W

edition, as each competing chef had a previous Chowder Chowdown title to their name. Chef Bond’s “Witches’ Brew” chowder featured a pea base with bacon and sidestripe shrimp. Best beer pairing went to chef Yosuke Okubo of Hapa Izakaya, for his “Rhode Island” chowder with dashi broth and shinko dumplings with little neck clams. The chowder was paired with R&B Brewing’s Stolen Bike Lager, a sakeinfused brew with smoked green tea, orange peel and ginger. ocean.org

word on the culinary direction after that point.

as veal medallions, osso buco, roasted sablefish and cioppino. cioppinosyaletown.com

An update on the sale of Commercial Drive institution Havana to the owners of Belgard Kitchen and The Settlement Building… the new owners are planning a minor renovation in early 2018, but the theatre will remain as is for the foreseeable future. From the email: “There may be a small closure for renovations, but the space will reopen.

The gallery will see some strategic changes to curation and begin to showcase works with a more modern feel.” The main restaurant will continue to operate as is until the renovation, but no

Nicli Antica Pizzeria is opening a second fullservice location, this time in Edgemont Village in North Vancouver. The opening is slated for some time in spring 2018, and will have 50-60 seats. niclipizzeria.com La Glace Ice Cream has introduced several new flavours for the holiday season, including two available in take-home milk-glass keepsake jars: Pain d’Epices (spiced gingerbread) and Eggnog & Rum. Each 500 mL glass jar is $15. In-store only, enjoy Mont Blanc (chestnut and rum) and Candy Cane (peppermint cream and crushed candy cane), as well as gingerbread cookies, peppermint meringues and marshmallows, miniature cones, and other stocking stuffers. laglace.ca Cioppino’s will be open for lunch service from Dec. 5-22,Tuesday to Friday.The new lunch menu includes beef carpaccio, calamari alla ligure, lobster bisque, various pasta dishes, as well as mains such

TWG Tea is offering a set festive menu now until Dec. 31. For $42 per person, enjoy grilled Wagyu beef with foie gras beef jus and black truffle, with mashed potatoes and charred pears, as well as a chocolate-hazelnutYule log for dessert, and tea (optional cocktails and mocktails available for an additional $16/$12 respectively). twgtea.com On Thursday, Dec. 28, chef/ owner Nevada Cope of Ritual will host a multi-chef collaborative dinner in support of local farmers and individuals dealing with food insecurity.

A Night of Too Many Chefs will feature a five-course dinner with dishes prepared by chefs TJ Conwi, Bruce Nollert, Jack Eng, Brendan Robson, James Thompson, Alessandro Vianello and others.Wine and spirits pairings from Andrew Doyle of Lone Tree Cellars.

Funds Raised will be donated to the B.C. Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program.

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In the festive spirits

RECIPE //

A round-up of holiday cocktails from aroundVancouver Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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CANDY CANE FIZZ This festively fizzy cocktail was created by Justin Taylor of The Cascade Room. Note that the Giffard Menthe-Pastille, which is similar to a white crème de menthe, is available at Legacy Liquor and other select private retailers.

• 1 oz (30 mL) cachaça • 1 oz (30 mL) Giffard Menthe-Pastille • 2 oz (60 mL) heavy cream • 1 egg white • 2 oz (60 mL) soda water or as needed • ¼ bar spoon (2 mL) candy cane dust (crushed candy canes) Place cachaça, menthepastille, cream and egg white

in a cocktail shaker without ice and shake vigorously until you built up a rich, thick, sturdy foam, about a minute.

(This is called a dry shake.)

To make it even frothier, remove the coil from a Hawthorn strainer and add it to the shaker; it will act as a sort of egg beater.

Add some ice to the shaker and shake again, vigorously, for another minute if you can.

Place about an ounce of soda water in the bottom of a Collins or highball glass, then add the contents of the shaker.

Carefully add a bit more soda, until you have a crown of foam peeking above the lip of the glass. Sprinkle candy cane dust on top. Serves 1.

Fa la la la. It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas at The Cascade Room, where the holiday cocktails are merrily flowing.

“Cascade has always done mulled wine,” says manager Justin Taylor. “So we thought we might as well do a holiday eggnog and a seasonal Collins.

This year it’s sage instead of rosemary and fresh-pressed cranberry. And the Candy Cane Fizz. I literally woke up and thought: Candy Cane Fizz, that would be a great drink.”

The festive fizz is based on a classic Ramos Gin Fizz, but made “as wintry as possible,” Taylor says. “It’s just good,” he adds. “Simple and good.”

It’s richly creamy, lightly fizzy, delicately minty, with a dusting of crushed candy cane atop a foamy crown – you can have your sugar plums, I’ll have this instead.

Of course, Cascade isn’t the only place in town getting into the holiday spirit.

Here are some more seasonal sips to enjoy around Van-

couver between now and the New Year.

UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar: Rum Pa-Pa Pomme, created by bar manager Sabrine Dhaliwal (Appleton VX rum, manzana verde apple liqueur, cinnamon, lemon, Bittered Sling Plum and Root Beer bitters, and a whole egg).

Notch8 at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver: Snow Cap (Ciroc Red Berry, sherry, simple syrup, blackberries, lemon, cherry bitters).

Yew Seafood + Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel: The famous Moose Mug Eggnog and new Moscow Moose cocktail.

Donnelly Group pubs: Hot Scotch-olate (The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve, coconut milk, chocolate syrup).

Fairmont Vancouver Airport: Cranberry Cinnamon Blast (vodka, cranberry shrub, house-made cinnamon syrup, fresh lemon and a splash of soda).

Gotham: The Dark Matter, a boozy cold-brewed Christmas coffee (coffee bean-infused rum, cinnamon syrup, Cynar, orange-and-walnut bitters).

Miku: Golden Hour Manhattan, created by Stephen

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Fat Mao: Chinatown Bourbon, created by bartender James Welk (house-infused spiced lime leaf bourbon, maraschino liqueur, simple syrup, lime juice and Angostura bitters).

Fairmont Waterfront: Mistletoe Martini (vodka, elderflower liqueur, cranberry juice, lemon and organic honey).

Maenam: Bitter Broadway, created by bar manager JD McIntyre, a festive twist on a Negroni (oaken aged gin, lime juice, vanilla simple syrup, Odd Society bittersweet vermouth and Peychaud’s bitters).

Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar: Aquas Caliente, translated as Watch Out It’s

Hot! (mezcal, Noilly Pratt, Ancho Reyes chili liqueur, crème de cacao and Kahlua).

L’Abattoir: Punch the Smoking Bishop, created by bar manager Katie Ingram (Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon, fullbodied red wine, Sons of Vancouver No. 82 Amaretto, oloroso sherry, black tea, orange, cinnamon, clove, star anise and Bittered Sling Zinger Crabapple bitters).

Medina: Pomme de Moluccas, created by bar manager Marc Slingsby-Jones (aged rum, apple brandy, spiced Moluccas syrup, cinnamon sugar).

Wildebeest: Cashew on the Flip-side, created by bartender Will Ford (rum, dessert wine, cashew milk, whole egg, house-made winter spice syrup). W

Resurrection Spirits arises in East Van

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A new artisan distillery opening up in B.C. isn’t exactly news these days.There are already 51 of them around, with another 13 in the works and as many as 80 licenses floating around out there, according to B.C. Distilled founder Alex Hamer.

What is news, though, is when that distillery is coowned and operated by one of Vancouver’s best bartenders.

“What I tried to do is understand distilling from our perspective,” says bartender, distiller and co-owner Brian Grant, who you may know from his years behind the wood at Pourhouse, or from the boxing ring – he’s a trainer at Eastside Boxing Club, where he works with at-risk youth.

“It’s spirits for bartenders.”

His Resurrection Spirits has become a sort of mecca for the cool cocktail kids since its tasting lounge opened in “soft” mode a few weeks back. On Dec. 2, it’s opening for real, and is sure to be a serious draw for everyone who is serious about spirits and cocktails in this city, especially now that star mixologist David Wolowidnyk has come on board as bartender and apprentice distiller.

Grant got interested in distilling a decade or so ago when he couldn’t find the bitters he wanted for Pourhouse and started making his own.

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“That planted a seed,” he says.

He took a distilling course at Dry Fly Distilling in Spokane,Wash., and it was while he was there he came up with the name for his distillery.

“We’re resurrecting the history of distilling in North America, and it’s also a play on resurrecting spirits,” Grant says.

It took a few years, but eventually he partnered with Peckinpah restaurateur Tyson Reimer and defence lawyer Adrian Picard, and they took possession of a 3,700-squarefoot site in the East Village.

Then Grant worked with noted distilling consultant Laurent Lafuente (who also worked with The Liberty Distillery) to develop recipes for rye whisky, eaux de vies and seasonal specialty products.

Rye is the big deal here.

Most B.C. craft distilleries, especially the ones that want to make whisky – which is just about all of them – use barley, which is both less expensive and easier to work with.

“We’re one of the first to be using rye as our main input,” Grant says, noting that the rye they’re using is an organic grain from Armstrong. (In B.C., to be considered craft and receive the related tax breaks, 100 per cent of the product a distillery uses must come from within the province.)

So far, the results are promising. It’ll take three years of barrel aging before they can call it a whisky, but Resur-

rection’s $44 white rye has proven popular already.

“It’s palatable and mixable, but with that rye flavour profile,” says Grant. “It’s not a whisky because it’s not aged, and it’s not a vodka, because it tastes of rye.”

Grant also plans to make fruit spirits from Okanagan apples, pears, peaches and raspberries.

“I’ve done a pear eau de vie already.That will probably be released in January. I’m excited to release that one,” he says.

He’s also looking at making seasonal liqueurs and bitters, even if they’re just for the sleek, charred-oak-barrelthemed 50-seat tasting lounge, where 80 per cent of the products they serve must be made on site.

“We don’t have a full bar licence, we have a lounge licence,” Grant says. “It limits us, but it forces us to be more creative and make our syrups and liqueurs in house.”

Does B.C. need another distillery? Probably not. But does it need Resurrection Spirits?You bet. W

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Global experts get giddy over B.C. wine Brewer vs Brewer: The German edition Michaela Morris By the Bottle

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On Nov. 5 I touched down at Kelowna airport to a winter wonderland. Until then, I had never seen the Okanagan Valley in the snow.

As soon as the icy air hit my face, I started thinking about the international guests I was about to meet.Would this frosty scene simply fuel the stereotype that Canada is only capable of making icewine?

I had nothing to fear.The B.C.Wine Institute carefully orchestrated a three-day program that was designed to delve far deeper into B.C. wine than I ever had myself.

Dubbed Wine BC BootCamp, this inaugural event included 30 wine professionals from across Canada and around the globe.

“The goal was to give some top somms and wine influencers an in-depth look at the exciting things that are happening in the B.C. wine industry,” said Cawston-based master of wine Rhys Pender, who co-hosted a series of seminars with Toronto-based master sommelier John Szabo.

Activities included a tutorial on soils, a blending session, a blind tasting of B.C. wines against international counterparts and a showing of older vintages.

Pender kicked off with an overview of B.C.’s regions and sub-regions, introducing some of our most planted grapes.

When we got to the third wine, Gray Monk’s aromatic and off-dry Gewürztraminer, Jasper Sun, director of wine at the Jing An Shangri-la in West Shanghai, piped up: “This is exactly the style of wine we need with our food.”

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B.C.’s first ever wine boot camp drew 30 wine professionals from around the world. B.C. Wine Institue photo B.C.’s diversity and overall quality was the biggest surprise for the international delegation.

“It is dynamic, experimental, exciting, with huge potential,” commented Szabolcs Menesi, head sommelier at Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong. “I loved the way how the wines had the soul of the terroir.”

Riesling, Cabernet Franc and Syrah seemed to be the favourite varieties across the board. “The quality of Syrah grown and produced in the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys stands alongside some of Washington state’s best,” enthused Washington wine writer Eric Degerman, president and CEO of Great Northwest Wine.

There was equal appreciation for our bubbles, with Menesi referencing Ann Sperling’s and Degerman giving a nod to Bella Wines and the team at Okanagan Crush Pad. For Caroline Brangé, sales rep for Flint Wines import company in the U.K., it was the Similkameen Valley that stood out. “The wines were showing more precision, complexity and depth,” she said.

Sommelier Jon Kleeman also noted a distinctiveness to these wines. He has experience pouring B.C. wine by the glass at London’s Social Eating House restaurant. “In our

market, the wines will work well as great value premium wines,” he said.

Menesi who previously worked in the U.K., agrees that the adventurous consumers there are ready for our wines. But “to fit B.C. wines into the Hong Kong market is not an easy task,” he added, noting that Burgundy and Bordeaux are still very much the focus. Nevertheless, he sees hope in the new generation. “I am always very happy to make people discover fantastic wines that they have never tried or heard of before, like B.C. wines,” he said.

Closer to home, Degerman believes that trade and consumers in Washington and Oregon are fascinated by B.C. wines. “Unfortunately, the political boundary makes it difficult to folks to buy them,” he lamented.

Brangé also questions our local producers’ willingness to export. “I understand the winemakers position:Why sell abroad for cheaper when I can sell out from my cellar door?”

Beyond Martin’s Lane, which her company imports, she has only come across Le Vieux Pin and Tantalus in the U.K. “We need more, please please please!” she begged.

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When it comes to modern, North American craft beer, there are really three main brewing traditions that have influenced what we drink today.

Generally every beer on tap at your favourite craft brewery can trace its lineage to England, Belgium or Germany.

The English gave us maltforward milds, stouts and porters, as well as the pale ales and IPAs that would form the basis of the hop-forward North American styles.

The Belgians gave us rich dubbels and spicy tripels, sour lambics and oud bruins, and refreshing saisons and witbiers.The Belgian tradition emphasizes bold flavours and experimentation, which have become hallmarks of North American craft brewing.

And then there are the Germans. Arguably no other culture on Earth is so obsessed with beer.They were the first to use hops to flavour and preserve beer.They revolutionized brewing again with the Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian purity law of 1516.

But despite having such a rich brewing tradition, the biggest impact German brewing has had on North America has, sadly, been the introduction of the lager and industrial brewing practices that allowed macrobreweries to dominate the beer market for the past hundred years.

However, with more than 40 different native styles, ranging from smoked rauchbiers to tart and salty goses, German beer has much more to offer.

Eric Moutart of Steel & Oak Brewing and Evan Doan of Doan’s Craft Brewing Co. are two of the province’s leading brewers of German styles, so we got together at the Vancouver Alpen Club to crush some pilsners und speak some Deutsch.

The Growler: What drew you to German beer styles?

Eric Moutart: I’ve always

liked drinking them, but what really got me was the previous brewer at Steel & Oak, Peter [Schulz], who started it. He’s from B.C. but he trained in Germany, and he came and he knew all the German ways of doing things. So he started brewing those styles because that’s what he knows and he showed me and I fell in love with them.

Evan Doan: I also love drinking German beers but it was my brother John that got me into them. He’s travelled to Germany multiple times, he’s fluent in German, and we were test-batching for the brewery and he suggested we try some German beers.We were very much into IPAs, double IPAs, triple IPAs at the time. And we tried out a number of German styles and recipes and it just clicked.We try to make it as traditional as possible; we make all the water adjustments and use all German ingredients.

The Growler: It’s interesting.

It seems everyone is trying to be as weird and experimental as possible. But you guys, by exploring these really well established styles, and trying to keep things traditional, are actually doing something very untraditional, in B.C. at least.

Moutart: We did a collaboration with [German craft brewery] Freigeist Bierkultur, and I was emailing [brewer] Sebastian [Sauer] and he wanted to do something crazy, like, “What if we add rhubarb to a gose” – that’s what he’s doing in Germany because that’s what sets him apart.

But here, everybody does a gose, and everybody adds something to it. So let’s go real traditional, and we did a steinbier. And he was hesitant at first until he saw hot rocks, fire, and he was like, “Yeah, I can get into that!”

The Growler: Steinbier’s roots are ancient, you’re putting hot rocks into the wort to heat it.

Moutart:Yeah, you get this great caramelization and a nice mineral quality from the rocks.

The Growler: What makes

German beers German, other than the fact they’re made in Germany with German ingredients?

Moutart: Most of them are super drinkable, you can crush one after the other, where North American beer styles are ones that are delicious, but you only want one of them and then move on to something else. [The Germans] know what they’re doing.These breweries will often have one or two recipes and that’s it, and they’ve been doing it for 300 years or more.

The Growler: When I think of German beers, the first thing that comes to mind is balance.

Would you agree with that?

Doan: Absolutely.They have a degree of flavour profile that when you take a sip, you know that it’s German. It’s more on the piney, semi-floral, a little bit of fruit – but not a lot – on the hop character.

But bready and up-front malt character that cuts off really nice so there isn’t any lingering sweetness. It’s just perfectly balanced. And it’s really hard to get.

The Growler: What’s your favourite German style?

Doan: Pilsner, hands down. It’s everything I love about a beer. It’s light, crisp, easy-drinking, you can have multiple of them and not get wasted – it’s sessionable. I love the hop character and presence and bitterness that pilsner provides that really sets itself apart from other styles.

Moutart: I’d also say pilsner.That’s the one I always go back to. And pilsners vary a lot, but I tend to go to the higher end of the bitterness – which are still very smooth – but I definitely prefer that to Czech pilsners, which are great, but they have that sweetness to it.

It’s just not the same as a nice crisp German pilsner.

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Canada’s coolest film fest Whistler beckons with Oscar hopefuls and indie gems, including Prodigals with star Sara Canning Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

Whistler Film Festival bills itself as Canada’s coolest film fest – and while it could be considered thoroughly uncool to introduce oneself as cool, Whistler Film Fest isn’t wrong to do so.

Judging by the line-up for the 17th annual event – which runs Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 at venues around Whistler – being cool in 2017 means programming 46 feature films and 41 shorts from 15 countries and an array of genres.

Being cool means including Hollywood fare (like James Franco’s buzzworthy The Disaster Artist, about the shit-show behind the worst movie ever made), indie gems (like the Canada-France co-production Mobile Homes, a Cannes Film Festival alumnus that stars Imogen Poots as a worn-out mother working in a trailer park), and more woman-helmed films than ever before: 30 per cent of this year’s feature films are directed by women.

Cool also means bold-

Actress Sara Cannning getting in the pre-Whistler spirit at Vancity Theatre. Dan Toulgoet photo faced names like Bill Pullman (everyone’s favourite alien-battling POTUS who will grace Whistler’s screens in The Ballad of Lefty Brown, a Western about a merciless cowboy on a revenge journey) and Kyra Sedgwick (whose directorial debut, Story of a Girl, is one of our top picks) participating in intimate “Inside The Actor’s Studio”-type conversations in front of live theatre audiences.

It’s a festival where you can be equally nourished as a film fan and an industry insider: where distribution deals are made in hotel lobbies; where Oscar hopefuls generate interest (last year’s fest opened with La La Land

and this year’s will kick off with Darkest Hour, which stars Gary Oldman as a newly elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill, exploring a peace treaty with Nazi Germany); where cinephiles gather for a celebratory retreat in the snow.

That confluence of coolness is the reason that local director Michelle Ouellet was eager to premiere her second feature film, Prodigals, at Whistler Film Festival. Says Ouellet in a recent phone interview: “I tracked Paul [Gratton, WFF’s programmer] down almost a year ago, because the film was finished and I said, ‘You’re the first person

that I’m showing this to, do you want this?’”

She’d premiered her feature film directorial debut, Afterparty, at Whistler in 2013, and calls the festival her “favourite.”

“I go up every year, regardless of whether or not I have a film. I love the stuff that they program.”

Based on the play of the same name by Sean Minogue, Prodigals stars David Alpay (Ararat,The Tudors) as Wesley, a dreamer who left his hometown of Sault Ste. Marie (also known as “The Soo”) for Toronto five years previous, but returns to testify in the trial of an old friend who’s charged with

murder. Wes mainly hopes to reconnect with Jen, the exgirlfriend he abandoned but still loves, who is portrayed

by Vancouver-based actress Sara Canning (A Series of Unfortunate Events).

Prodigals is set entirely in “The Soo,” but it filmed on location in both Sault Ste. Marie and Vancouver (“The Soo itself was super cold, and Vancouver was super rainy, so there were some weather challenges, but we had a visual effects company do weather matching,” says Ouellet).

The drama features Vancouver talent in co-starring and supporting roles, including Brian Markinson (who recently portrayed Roy Cohn in the Arts Club’s two-part production of Angels in America), Jameson Parker, David Kaye, Nicholas Carella, and Andrew Francis, as well as cameos by busy local actors Hilary Jardine (Van Helsing), Omari Newton (Continuum), and The 100 star Richard Harmon. (Harmon, whose character sports thick eyeliner, is credited as Eye Makeup Witness.)

Ouellet – who directed the Vancouver-shot web series The True Heroines and Paranormal Solutions Inc. – says Prodigals represents a marriage of two of her favourite sub-genres: legal thrillers and reunion films. “What I find really appealing about reunion films is somebody coming in as an outsider and reintegrating themselves in their friends and family,” says Ouellet. “And I thought, ‘Why not put those genres I love together?’”

It’s Canning’s character

with whom Alpay’s Wesley has the most electric reunion. (The onscreen pairing is a bit of an Easter egg for fans of TheVampire Diaries, on which Canning played Aunt Jenna and Alpay played Atticus Shane: “He was on the show after me, and we were ships in the night on that show,” says Canning).

“I’m always really fascinated by place, and what the push and pull of home is,” says Canning over tea in Yaletown. The actress – whose recent credits include War for the Planet of the Apes, Remedy, On the Farm, Hello Destroyer and Eadweard – grew up in a small village in Newfoundland, and describes herself as “quite restless. I love my life abroad and I feel at home in many cities, but I go home to Newfoundland every year, and there always is that sense of belonging.”

Canning feels that sense of belonging at the Whistler Film Festival, too. In 2014, she was part of the festival’s Talent to Watch program for a rom-com thriller called I Put a Hit onYou. “It feels like a very intimate film festival, but at the same time, it also feels like a lot of the Vancouver film community is at an early Christmas party.” W • Canning, Ouellet, and cohorts will be reunited when Prodigals screens Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 at Whistler Film Festival. Peruse the festival schedule at whistlerfilmfestival. com – and check out our top picks below.

Left: Shiva Negar in Becoming Burlesque. Amanda Matlovich photo. Middle: Dave Franco & James Franco in the Disaster Artist. Justina Mintz photo Right: Eric Roberts and Katie Boland in Never Saw it Coming. Contributed photo

Top picks for the 2017 Whistler Film Festival We’ve established that Whistler Film Festival is indeed Canada’s coolest film festival – and because we too are cool, here are some of our own cool picks for our nation’s coolest film fest (because we’re cool like that). Cool?

Becoming Burlesque: In the feature film directorial debut from Toronto director Jackie English, a mixed heritage Canadian Muslim woman named Fatima (portrayed

by Shiva Negar) gets sucked into the world of burlesque dancing during a moment of existential questioning and

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Dec. 2 & 3 Story of a Girl: Veteran actress Kyra Sedgwick makes her feature film directorial debut with this searing, gut-punching drama about a teen girl contending with the long-term impacts of a viral sex video. Starring Ryann Shane, Sosie Bacon, and (no six degrees here) Kevin Bacon. Dec. 1 & 2 The Disaster Artist: Fans of what is arguably the worst film ever – The Room, from Hollywood outsider turned

cult hero Tommy Wiseau – will probably want to scoop up tix for the Western Canadian premiere of The Disaster Artist. Written and directed

by James Franco and based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, the biographical comedy-drama is a fictionalized account of a film where the fact that it happened at all boggles the mind. (Bonus for Roomaficionados: The Room will screen up in Whistler as part of WFF’s “From the Vault” programming). Dec. 1 & 2 The Lears: A witty comedy-

drama from WFF alumni Carl Bessai (No Clue; Bad City) in which King Lear gets a modern-day makeover: World-renowned architect Davenport Lear (Bruce Dern) summons his four grown-up children to a weekend retreat to announce that he has decided to marry his personal assistant – an announcement that sends his progeny into greed-fuelled tailspins. With Sean Astin and Anthony Michael Hall. Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 I, Tonya: This pulled-fromthe-tabloids drama about disgraced figure skater Tonya

Harding, who was suspected of smashing the legs of rival Nancy Kerrigan in the lead-up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, was directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and stars Suicide Squad stand-out Margot Robbie. Dec. 2 & 3 Another Wolfcop: In this sequel to the Saskatchewanmade cult favourite – about a hard-drinking local cop who transforms into a donuteating lycanthrope when the moon goes full – Lou Garou (an ill-tempered and occasionally very hairy officer

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Arts Umbrella is moving on up into Emily Carr’s former space TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

At 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, the main rehearsal studio at Arts Umbrella’s Granville Island building is packed with more than 30 young-adult dancers sprawled out on the floor. Even while stretching, they move mindfully, careful not to bump into each other. But soon, all of this will change.

With Emily Carr University of Art and Design leaving Granville Island, Arts Umbrella has been named as the next tenant for the coveted 50,000-sq.ft, purpose-built arts education space.

Among the students stretching in the over-crowded studio is 23-year-old Maya Tenzer, an alumna of Arts Umbrella’s graduate training program.

Despite the fact that the studio – and Arts Umbrella as a whole – is tight on space, Tenzer and other alumni are welcome to drop in for dance classes, free of charge.

Tenzer dances professionally for a few small companies in Vancouver and also teaches beginner ballet. Next year she will move to Europe, where she’s been hired to dance full time in a prestigious company. And, although she won’t be there to see it,Tenzer says she’s excited about the school’s move to the south building of Emily Carr’s former campus (the north building will eventually house other, multiuse tenants).

“The fact that Arts Umbrella is not for profit, everything is about giving to the students.

So to see the organization get the chance to expand based on those principles is really exciting, because it doesn’t feel like growth for the sake of growth. It’s growth so they can help more people, and expand what is already very strong.”

The new space on Johnston Street is a 30-second walk from Arts Umbrella’s current home.The move will more than double Arts Umbrella’s combined Granville Island and East 7th spaces, giving the non-profit 50,000 square feet of floor space on which to move and create.

Granville Island is federal land, managed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). It was first dedicated as a space for urban experimentation and creative activities in the 1970s, and the land is leased to tenants at

rates far below market rental rates.

That Arts Umbrella has lasted in its current setup as long as it has is a curious thing, given that it’s almost a 40-year-old institution, its dance program is world renowned, and it has provided arts education to more than half a million young people – including myself.

From the age of 11 to 14 I danced intensively at Arts Umbrella. I didn’t have a stereotypically slim dancer’s body, but artistic director Artemis Gordon told me that if I wanted to become a professional dancer, I could do it. Ultimately, if you chose to commit to your craft, there were adults around you who would commit to you just as hard.

Although I quit mid-high school to pursue a social life, my time at Arts Umbrella instilled a sense of purpose, awareness and possibility.

Fifteen years after my time there, Gordon is still leading the organization with the same ethos.

Interviewed in her cramped office, she explains how her current 5x8-ft office serves as a multipurpose space. “This office is the teacher’s lounge, my office, the teacher’s meeting room, the kids’ meeting room, and, at any point in the day, there might be five or six people in this room, and you can’t really get through the door because the door is too small,” she says. “And my closet turns into the guest teacher change room, and what’s amazing is that some of the guest teachers that we have are some of the top dance people in the world... it doesn’t deter them from coming, though.”

Paul Larocque, Arts Umbrella CEO, says the organization’s new home will require major renovations and he has begun “quietly” fundraising behind the scenes. In addition to the seven dance studios, there will be a 160-seat theatre with a sprung floor, the theatre program will grow from one studio to five, and the media and visual arts programs will have eight studios. “There were plans to look at expansion on this current site, but that would have had to disrupt the programs on site,” he says.

Until recently, he continues, ECUAD has served as an arts and culture anchor on the island, and Arts Umbrella looks forward to filling those shoes. W

store and a gas station – and a whitewashed Gryphon office/showroom for a future development on this plot.

A Save-On-Foods stretches along 41st, while across the road a Chinese grocer remains resolutely open.

There’s a Chinese bakery, an exercise studio, a medical centre and a Bosley’s pet store. So far, so normal.

That normality includes signs of community. I walk north up Dunbar and come across a community garden; it looks a bit forlorn, but, to be fair, it’s late November. Across the road there’s another community garden, “brought to you by Wesgroup,” (awww) which will

soon make way for the 5505 Dunbar development (ah).

On this strip there’s also a florist, a takeaway pizza joint and a café called Q Coffee, where I’m greeted by a buzz of local chatter.

Older folks, young families and nannies with their charges come and go, trading greetings and small talk. I realize I’ve stumbled into a small neighbourhood hub.

The staff confirm that the customer base of the café, which they say has been on the go for around 15 years, is steady and mostly made up of regulars.

I saunter across the road and around one of the residential blocks. The houses,

while large, aren’t exactly palatial. The only abnormal things here, of course, are the price tags: A quick search of real estate listings brings up several detached houses, most of them priced upwards of $4 million.

Affordability has clearly left Dunbar’s shores and development continues to creep in; but there’s still community here that’s striving to thrive, rallied around groups like the Dunbar Residents’ Association.

Back at the intersection, I try the door to the Gryphon showroom, only to find it locked. I guess this particular piece of the neighbourhood isn’t for normal folks. W

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What started as a business association for Vancouver’s LGBTQ+ community has since spawned a more broad social networking resource and a community foundation, says newly elected LOUD cochair Blair Smith.

“It’s growing into an organization of people who want to support the foundation as well as to network,” he says.

A number of members “who have retired actually have time and resources and knowledge to give back and they really enjoy meeting younger business people,” he adds.

Formerly the Gay and Lesbian Business Association, LOUD supports business people with networking and advertising opportunities, and its philanthropic arm provides scholarships for people making a difference in the LGBTQ+ community.

Individual business owners, employees, students and

Left: 2017 LOUD Scholarship Award recipient Zdravco Cimbaljevic with awards emcee Caryl Dolinko. Contributed photo. Right: Previous scholarship award recipients (from left) Justin Saint, Madeline Goodman and Leah Nusgart. Contributed photo non-profits can register for the LOUD business association, with some of their membership fees going toward the LOUD foundation, a separately registered charity.

And you don’t need to identify as LGBTQ+ to join or to receive a scholarship.

“We’re a non-partisan association. I can’t think of anything we discriminate on, which makes sense – leadership by example,” Smith says.

“For our scholarships we don’t ask anything to do with sexual orientation or preference.We ask people how they contribute to building their communities, and it’s up to them to describe what their community is.”

For example, Smith says he’s sure the foundation has

“given scholarships to people who don’t identify on the spectrum, but they helped start GSAs [Gay-Straight Alliances] in their high school.”

Smith, a real-estate agent, helped establish the organization’s foundation in 2009, and since then he has sat on the board most years.

“I’ve always been a strong believer in community and supporting businesses that support your community, and shopping local ... it’s kind of a natural fit.

“It’s a way for the business community to be involved with the not-for-profit and non-profit charitable aspect of our community, whose needs are many.”

Gina Best, the other newly elected LOUD co-chair, runs

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She says she first got involved with LOUD nearly a decade ago, because most of her friends were gay men, and supporting the LGBTQ+ business community made sense to her.

“The question is why wouldn’t I [get involved], rather than why!” she says.

“I’m a woman in business, I know what it’s like to be a minority.”

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LGBTQ+ community for many years, Best says. She wants to see that continue.

“I would like to see more of the business side of it come back. I think they [the previous board members] have done a tremendous job doing great things with the scholarship and the foundation... I would like to see the business side come back, and that’s the message I’m getting from the membership as well.”

Smith and Best’s election as the new co-chairs comes on the heels of Graeme Boyd stepping down from the board, after more than a decade of service.

Despite their differing focuses, Best says that her and Smith’s plans for LOUD are complementary.

“There hasn’t been a focus on the business side for the last few years as much as the philanthropy side, so it’s just time to shift it a little bit, so that’s kind of where my focus is, and Blair [Smith] is taking care of the philanthropy side,” Best says.

Ever passionate about the LOUD foundation, Smith says that during its first year in 2009, it gave away $7,000 in scholarships; in 2017, that amount has more than tripled.

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It might not snow, but Vancouver will definitely be aglow this Christmas season.

Making its debut among the city’s many illuminating events is the Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival, a first-in-Canada display that brings the ancient tradition of Chinese lantern craftsmanship to the PNE. From Dec. 15, a total of 35 displays will be featured across 14 acres of the exhibition grounds, falling into traditional themes of the dragon, white pagoda, kylin (a mythical beast and favourable omen) and huabiao, the jade structures of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

It promises to be a lavish, eye-popping festival, and Westender recently got a sneak peek of the displays under construction.

Chinese cultural festival attaché Bin Zhu was in town to explain the significance behind the displays, and that of lantern festivals in general, which have a history going back two millennia.Traditionally lit on the 15th day of the

Left: Chinese cultural festival attaché Bin Zhu. Jan Zeschky photo. Right: Scenes from the Chinese Lantern Festival, coming to the PNE on Dec. 15. Contributed photos first month of the Chinese calendar, the lanterns were created to gain the favour of Taiyi, god of heaven, and assist in prayers for a good harvest.

The festivals take place in every major Chinese city to this day, and now Zhu, through his company Sichuan Tianyu Culture Communication, is spreading the tradition across the world, including cities in Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Even when they’re not illuminated, these handcrafted silk lanterns – from flowers to moons, fish, penguins and, of course, dragons – pop with vibrant colour.

Particularly impressive

will be the centrepiece of the festival: a 20-metre-high Buddhist pagoda whose columns are constructed from 10,000 pieces of china woven on to a metal frame. A crane is scheduled to lift the columns into place later this week.

As well as wandering through the lavish displays, attendees will be able to hear storytellers relate the traditional tales behind five lantern vignettes, said PNE spokesperson Laura Ballance.

“It’s going to be such a unique experience.We’re hoping to get families of all ethnicities, bringing their kids to come and listen to the stories,” she said.

The project has been

“many years in the making,” she said, adding that it’s hoped this will be the first instalment of a new annual tradition for the city.

As part of the festival, two shows will also take place every night at the PNE Amphitheatre, featuring Chinese acrobatics, plate spinners and folk dancing, among other performances. W • The Chinese Lantern Festival runs Dec. 15 to Jan. 21; 5-10 p.m. (SunThu) and 5-11 p.m. (FriSat); $19 adults/$14.50 seniors/$13.50 children aged 4-11. vancouverlanternfestival.com

A new, high-flying entertainment experience is heading to Vancouver.

Park board commissioners have approved a special event permit for a gourmet cirque cabaret show that will run over five months between Nov. 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019 at Queen Elizabeth Park.

The event is described as “a fully immersive entertainment experience featuring international circus artists, comedy, singers, magicians and a four-piece musical ensemble, complemented by an all-inclusive four-course gourmet meal.”

The three-hour event is staged inside an antique magic mirror tent, called a Spiegeltent, that seats approximately 300 people. Shows would take place 7-10 p.m. four to six nights a week in the park’s south parking lot.

Gourmet cirque cabaret was first introduced to North America by German company Pomp Duck and Circumstance in NewYork in 1995.

A permanent show,Teatro ZinZanni, has been running in Seattle since 1998.

Event producer Scott Malcolm, principal with Bacio Rosso Entertainment, proposed bringing the experience,

Teatro ZinZanni has been running in Seattle since 1998.

Vancouver has approved a similar show in Queen Elizabeth Park starting November 2018. Michael Craft photo called Bacio Rosso – A Feast for the Senses, to Vancouver. It will be the first gourmet cirque cabaret hosted in Canada.

Green Party commissioner Stuart Mackinnon voted against granting the permit, saying he has long had concerns about the commercialization of public spaces. He also voiced concerns over the length of the show’s run and potential impacts of noise and traffic on the neighbourhood.

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Kirtan and the music of yoga ALICIA AMBROSIO @aliciaambrosio

It’s Saturday night on Commercial Drive and I’m bumping elbows in a room full of locals out for the evening.

There is a faint scent of spice and incense in the air and a quiet buzz in the room. I am not, however, at one of the Drive’s popular restaurants for dinner.

Instead I’m sitting crosslegged on the floor of UnityYoga Teahouse, sipping hot chai along with a few dozen other people waiting to move into the studio space for this evening’s Kirtan session.

Kirtan is a Sanskrit word.

It means to narrate or recite.

In practice, it is a call-andresponse style of singing or chanting. Both the Hindu and Sikh religious traditions use the call-and-response style to praise God. Bhakti yoga – known as the yoga of devotion – employs Kirtan as a form of chanting meditation and a way to be close to the divine.

Kirtan Vancouver hosts bi-weekly Kirtan sessions called EnChant at UnityYoga Teahouse.

In the studio space where the session takes places, yoga blocks and bolsters are arranged around the room in a semicircle to be used as seating. My companion and I claim two remaining spots against the back wall and scan the room.

The average age of the group looks to be fairly young – 20s and 30s, though there are a handful of participants clearly over 50. And the crowd is diverse:There are women wearing flowing yoga wear and men in lumberjack shirts with distinctive beards. A few participants look like students who have just emerged from their books, and there are a couple of young men in khakis and button-up shirts.

Kirtan Vancouver’s EnChant sessions are normally led by

Most of the leaders of Vancouver’s Kirtan community follow the Bhakti yoga tradition, however their space is open to anyone interested in chanting and meditation. Facebook photo about four of its core team members.Tonight, however, is special: Swami B.A.Tirtha from the San Diego Ashram of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) is visiting. He will help lead tonight’s session and, between chants, offer a few thoughts to ponder.

Ani Kansal, one of the organizers, welcomes everyone and gives a brief explanation of what to expect before picking up the drum he will be playing and handing things over to a man who goes by the name Brihat. Brihat will be leading the first chant and playing the harmonium (a small pump organ).The words of the chant are projected on a screen next to the Kirtan musicians, and three mantras will be chanted during the two-hour session.

Soon the room is filled with a melodic chanting, accompanied by the unique sound of the harmonium, hand cymbals and drum.The melody starts slow and reflective, and, over about 20 minutes, builds to a frenzy before slowing again and trailing off.

The atmosphere is relaxed: everyone seems to have a cup of tea or a water bottle with them, and participants are free to wholeheartedly take part in the chanting, or just listen quietly. Some people sit in the lotus position with their eyes closed, others sway and raise their arms with the music.

Some get up and quietly leave the room whenever they need to.

In between chants, the Swami Tirtha takes a few moments to share some thoughts with participants. He references the Bhagavad-Gita – an ancient Indian text in which Krishna reveals himself to a warrior and lays out the main components of Karma yoga – but the few thoughts Tirtha shares could fit into any spiritual tradition.

Most of the 10 directors of Kirtan Vancouver identify with the Bhakti yoga tradition and see Kirtan as their spiritual practice, but they try to create a space where anyone of any religious tradition – or none at all – can get into chanting meditation.

Seated on the floor eating a light vegan meal after the session, Kansal explains the philosophy behind Kirtan Vancouver with a quick Bhakti yoga history lesson: He says Kirtan used to be a practice restricted to certain castes of Hindus. About 550 years ago, a Kirtan practitioner named Sri Chaitanya began to feel that it was unfair to restrict the practice of Kirtan to a select few when there were so many people who could benefit from it. Chaitanya opened the practice of Kirtan to everyone and is considered a father figure for Bhakti yoga.

That is why Kirtan Van-

couver, “is not restricted to a religion and is available for anyone to adopt in their daily practice if they want and we often help people with that,” Kansal says.

However, unlike many of the other Kirtan Vancouver organizers, Kansal was exposed to the practice as a child. His grandfather first identified with the Bhakti yoga tradition in India and passed the practice on down the family tree. Kansal’s daughter is a fourth generation Bhakti practitioner.

Practising Kirtan and Bhakti yoga affect every aspect of Kasal’s life. He said it gives him a “balanced consciousness, and because of that balance of spirituality, it helps [me] be balanced and grounded.”

Janeen Mills, a soft spoken 27 year old, was introduced to Bhakti yoga while taking her yoga teacher training.

Her training offered “just a snippet” about Bhakti yoga, so when she saw on Facebook

that a fellow student was attending a Kirtan Vancouver session she came along out of sheer curiosity.

“I felt so welcomed,” she said of her first Kirtan experience.Yoga had already become a spiritual practice for Mills and Kirtan seemed to her like a natural extension of what she was already practising.

Mills said she went on a Bhakti retreat to learn more about the tradition and spirituality behind Kirtan. She said embracing the practice of Bhakti yoga had been transformative. “I never thought about the food I eat, my words, my thoughts. I learned that what I do affects others… I don’t drink anymore, I stopped eating meat,” she explained. Mills also makes meditation a part of her daily routine, finding a quiet spot at work during her break. “If I don’t meditate, I feel it.”

Mills, who said she grew up with no religious background, added, “I never understood

why people go to church, but now I do.”

The Bhakti yoga tradition promotes non-violence, and teaches that “food also carries consciousness,” said Kansal.

Those who have committed themselves to Bhakti yoga adopt veganism and look for ways to serve those around them. Every Kirtan Vancouver session ends with a light, vegan meal served free of charge by volunteers. At least once a year, the group offers a free vegan meal and free yoga classes to people living in the Downtown Eastside. W • EnChant takes place every two weeks at Unity Yoga Teahouse.

Doors open at 6 pm and admission is free, but donations are encouraged. Kirtan Vancouver also hosts a monthly Kirtan Session at One Yoga For the People (150 W. Hastings St.).

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Vancouver company puts seldom-used goods to work TYLER NYQUVEST @bizinvancouver

Letting unused goods gather dust in a musty storage room might soon be a thing of the past.

As the sharing economy grows and businesses try to reduce waste, one company is looking to revolutionize the way consumers share items, in order to keep them from disappearing into landfills or sitting unused.

Vancouver-based Quupe is a sharing platform that allows users to rent personally owned items like sports equipment, technology, video games and more to service users. “[Quupe] allows neighbours to rent things from each other, things like kayaks, power washers – those things that sit around and don’t really generate value or use for most of the year,” says company co-founder Angela Hamilton. “The concept was to get things out of storage

and get it into people’s hands who want to use it and have cool experiences.”

The company’s four cofounders met at the Centre for Digital Media. Quupe launched in February and occupies an office in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

“We are hoping … that our app will be what helps make that shift for people, so when you think about trying something new, you don’t necessarily need to go and buy a whole thing,” Hamilton says.

The company has just a handful of employees but is looking to expand once it has established itself in the Vancouver market.

The platform comes at a timely moment in history as the sharing economy and its companion economic model, the recycling-based circular economy, become more established.

“Since the late 2000s, the term ‘circular economy’ [CE] has been used more

frequently as societies become increasingly aware of the need to move away from the linear economy based on ‘take, make and waste,’” says Martin Charter, director of Britain’s Centre for Sustainable Design. “A growing drive to ‘design out’ waste, enable product life extension and move away from built-in product obsolescence will eventually cement the role of CE into the wider sustainability agenda.”

Hamilton says her company can change the way big businesses regard their products and help consumers to make savvy choices. “[Quupe] encourages people to think twice about their consumption habits….

What we are seeing now is a shift away from the heavy consumer-focused lifestyle in the ’80s and ’90s.… People now are more willing to pay for experiences rather than physical objects.” –Story courtesy Business inVancouver

I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks. I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges.

And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however. It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

You were born with the potential to give the world specific gifts — benefits and blessings that are unique to you. One of those gifts has been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems.

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Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! You’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. That means you’re free to experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes to help you celebrate. 1. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.” - W. Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” - Friedrich Nietzsche.

I suggest that you take a piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary fantasies in their proper place. And what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish risks.

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In his book Life: The Odds, Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215-to-1. They’re 60,000-to-1 that you’ll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you’ll date a model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than usual.

That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic creators, and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done work to transmute their own darkness.

What might you do to take better care of yourself in 2018, Virgo? According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here’s a good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what makes your body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting.

Here’s another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an ideal time to get this project underway.

Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness. 4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire.

You won’t fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero. The monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And you’ll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely!

“What is love?” asks philosopher Richard Smoley.

“It’s come to have a greeting-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time ‘loving’ someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person has some concrete need or irritates us.” One of your key assignments in the next ten months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul. You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature, robust love.

You know that unfinished task you have halfavoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing. To gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable.

In an ideal world, your work and your character would speak for themselves. You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and appreciation you deserve. You wouldn’t have to devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next ten months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won’t be so #$@&%*! important. Your work and character WILL speak for themselves with more vigor and clarity than they have before.

There used to be a booth at a Santa Cruz flea market called “Joseph Campbell’s Love Child.” It was named after the mythological scholar who wrote the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

The booth’s proprietor sold items that spurred one’s “heroic journey,” like talismans made to order and herbs that stimulated courage and mini-books with personalized advice based on one’s horoscope. “Chaos-Tamers” were also for sale. They were magic spells designed to help people manage the messes that crop up in one’s everyday routine while pursuing a heroic quest.

Given the current astrological omens, Pisces, you would benefit from a place that sold items like these. Since none exists, do the next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and inspiration you need. You can and should be well-supported as you follow your dreams on your hero’s journey.

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