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Re: Why Grant Lawrence won’t go see a Canucks game with you, April 20, (online) Yes. Totally agree. I went to three games this past season and will only go to future games at Rogers if I’m given free tickets, and only then if the seats are good (so I don’t have to deal with the drunks). I live a 15-minute walk from Rogers but it’s much easier to watch it at home home or a pub with real friends. –Paul

YOU’RE MAKING A ‘MISHTAKE’

This rant is directed at Mish Way, whose column I’ve read twice and both times have been left wondering why I bothered. A couple of weeks ago she declared that men should not wear shorts unless they feel that they could make a living modelling them. While she obviously feels she can get away with that kind of generalization for men, I bet she’d rather set her hair on ﬁre than make a similar

opinion on what women shouldn’t wear. This week she rehashes a sex column from over half a century ago with it’s obviously outdated advice and opinions for men. She’s suitably disgusted but I wonder if she’s picked up any of the myriad magazines giving crap advice for women on how to keep their man etc. If I may change her last point slightly, I wonder if males 30 years from now will thank men over 60 for putting up with the current anti-male shit. –Andrew

MARATHON BLUES

Re: Rant//Rave, April 23 The letter “Sun Ruckus” of April 23, page four is excellent. Having a marathon run is ﬁne, but there are two issues. As mentioned, the routes chosen seem to inconvenience people far more than is necessary. There are routes that could be implemented that would inconvenience everyone else in the city much less.

I have noticed as I try to get to work by bike or transit on weekends, that there is a marathon run almost every Sunday from April to September. With so many marathons held and because of the routes chosen, this becomes more than inconvenient, it becomes a nuisance for too many people. How would people feel trying to get to work if marathons were held on a Monday? The inconvenience and nuisance to locals, visitors, tourists, transit drivers, taxis, HandiDart needs to be addressed because marathons are happening with such frequency. –Kim Patrick O’Leary

BLADE RUNNERS

It’s a beautiful spring weekend, and you’re going out for a bike or blade. Please take a moment to review the rules of the road and safe practices, and resolve to pay attention and be considerate, because by God, if you take me out, I’m taking you with me. –Anonymous

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Having done serious time as both a touring rock musician and an author of books, I can’t help but notice a stark contrast between the two careers. In the music world, you show up to the club and load in through a dark, urine-soaked alley, greeted with a grunt from a hungover soundman who could double for Charles Manson. Our band would count ourselves lucky to be offered a warm six-pack of beer. On the contrary, as an author, when you arrive for a reading or a signing at an independent bookstore, you enter through the front door, and are often greeted with a warm hug from the proprietor, along with a chilled glass of chardonnay and an artisan cheese plate. Guess which one I prefer? Independent bookstores are the curated, coursing lifeblood of the book world, and they are an endangered species.That’s why, just like the roaring worldwide success of Record Store Day every April, a special day in May has been declared for independent bookstores. It’s about time. Like Record Store Day, the bookstore day concept was cracked open in the US, back in 2013, with something called Indies First.The idea is that authors volunteer at their favourite local independent bookstores as guest booksellers. Authors greet customers, recommend books, and offer readings and signings, along with various other special

events and activities.Vancouver author Janie Chang (Three Souls) heard about the American initiative and thought it would be a perfect event for BC bookstores. Before she knew it, the idea quickly became a major page-turner across Canada. Canada’s ﬁrst-ever Authors For Indies Day is this Saturday, May 2. At press time, more than 600 Canadian authors, including bestselling scribes like Joseph Boyden, Terry Fallis, and Ann-Marie MacDonald, are all taking part in over 130 participating independent bookstores from coast to coast. Here in the Lower Mainland, more than a dozen shops are actively celebrating, with packed schedules throughout Saturday.You’ll ﬁnd author JJ Lee (The Measure of a Man) at Black Bond Books in New Westminster, Arno Kopecky (The Oil Man and the Sea) at the People’s Co-op Bookstore on Commercial, and Zsuzusi Gartner (Better Living Through Plastic Explosives) at the Kits location of Pulp Fiction, just to cherry pick a few from their busy lineups. Many kids bookstores are involved, too (check out the entire schedule at AuthorsForIndies.com). Vancouver-after-dark author and recent BC Book Prize winner Aaron Chapman (Live at the Commodore, and Liquor, Lust and the Law) will be at Book Warehouse on West Broadway. As a writer of local history, he can’t say enough about the local bookstores. “You can’t really say you have a neighbourhood unless you have a neighbourhood bookstore,” says Chapman. “The bigger chains may not often

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John Vaillant andGrant Lawrence are both participating in Authors for Indies Day. focus on important local subjects, and more importantly give the spotlight to them.” Myself and the internationally bestselling author John Vaillant (The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar’s Children) will be among several authors celebrating Saturday at the North Shore’s last-standing independent bookstore, 32 Books in Edgemont Village. Even though he’s achieved mainstream success,Vaillant has long been a passionate supporter of the independents. “Indie bookstores and booksellers are the local carriers of community and culture” says Vaillant. “They are a pub for stories and ideas, and some of them even serve beer,” …as if you needed any added incentive. If you’re a lover of books and community, and a supporter of independent businesses, I hope to see you at one of our many excellent but endangered local bookstores on Saturday.They deserve your support. I’ll even promise to save you some cheese. W ) ($"'! &"-$,'., *# !+, "/!+%$ of two award-winning nonﬁction books:Adventures in Solitude and The Lonely End of the Rink.

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Like a mid-trick Ollie, the future of the Mount Pleasant skatepark hangs in the balance.The Vancouver Park Board decided Monday night to defer its decision to tear out the 430-square-foot concrete landscape on West 16th Avenue. Instead, the NPA-majority board voted for more public input and a revised report, one that looks more closely at a transparent, noise-dampening wall. “Perhaps the options up there […] are maybe a little extreme at this point,” said Park Board chairman John Coupar of the NPA. “There may be other ways to mitigate the noise that we haven’t fully considered before if we’re able to ﬁnd a way forward, perhaps that solves a problem for everybody and is respectful of the tax dollars we’ve already spent.” Because of three dozen neighbourhood noise complaints (some potentially from the same residents) and $26,000 worth of extra nighttime surveillance spanning the three years since the park was built, a staff report recommended planting grass in place of the skatepark or simplifying the ramps and rails to appeal to only the newest beginners. Tearing out the park would cost $40,000 and downgrading it $25,000.The park cost $80,000 to build. The possibility of a new skatepark at Jonathan Rogers O Granville Island

Park – potentially the city’s 10th just nine blocks north – hinges on the future of the West 16th Avenue spot. Vision Vancouver Commissioner Catherine Evans asked if there is really “such a thing as a beginner skateboard park” since anyone on a skateboard can make the most of a basic curb. Despite standing room only at the meeting hall on Beach Drive, commissioners did not formally hear from any speakers before deciding to seek more feedback and revised recommendations.The 60-minute debate was punctuated by comments and applause from the crowd. Evans and Green Party Commissioner Michael Wiebe argued the board should hear from citizens who signed up to speak. “I did want to hear from people from both sides,” said Wiebe. “You’re asking for consultation – they’re sitting right in front of us.” The four NPA commissioners voted to send the report back to staff. “I’m very hesitant to make an irrevocable decision of either removing this park tonight or signiﬁcantly downgrading it without ensuring we’ve really worked with the community to ensue all options for noise compliance,” said NPA park board vicechair Sarah Kirby-Yung. “I’d really like to see the Skateboard Coalition be an active partner in looking at some solutions.” The president of the Vancouver Skateboard Coali-

tion, Jeff Cole, said there are potential “solutions that would make this park work for everyone.” But he questioned if the adults jumping the fence at night and drawing noise and nuisance complaints are at the park to skateboard. It’s too dark to skate, he said, but skaters are being “scape-goated” as the culprits for spilling into the park after bars close. “A person that hops the fence and is drunk gets blamed on the skateboard park.That’s a park board issue – that isn’t a skate park issue,” he said, echoing the feedback presented in a 2013 report that found skaters were assumed responsible for grafﬁti, littering, smoking and urination in the park. Another earlier staff report established the noise at Mount Pleasant Park does exceed acceptable levels.The city measured the noise from the skatepark over the course of one weekend and found it could be louder than the accepted 55 decibels during the day and 45 decibels at night. Six houses are directly affected by the loudest noise. When the noise spiked on a Sunday, however, the report found the excess decibels “were reached less than one per cent of the time.” “On the other hand,” the report states, “noise from the skateboard park will be less intrusive than indicated […] on many occasions since trafﬁc noise levels can be well above the background noise level.” W Courtesy ofVancouver Courier

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Cycle chic Ride in style this summer Niki Hope Style File

@NikiMHope Solange Knowles rolled up to her New Orleans nuptials in a striking ivory pantsuit and cape last year, demonstrating just what it means to ride in style. The pre-wedding spin shows exactly what Molly Millar, style editor at Momentum Magazine, believes about bike riding – that you can wear whatever you want, in any circumstance, and still ride in style, safety, and comfort. Forget the spandex, the futuristic shades, the aerodynamic helmet, the $5K feather-light bike. Forget it all, because you don’t need it, she says. In fact, all of those high-tech bike clothes can sometimes just be another barrier to entry for potential riders who believe they need a whole lot of gear to get going. “You just don’t need anything special,” Millar insists. “All you need is what you are wearing normally [to] hop on your bike and go.” That said, there are stylish options that are geared toward making a ride more comfortable without looking technical. Millar mentions Levi’s Commuter denim line, which started as a men’s collection, designed for the urban cyclist to provide greater mobility. The jeans are cut for a slim ﬁt, equipped with a reﬂective seam, reinforced crotch, and U-lock holder at waistband, and are meant to take cyclists from the street to their everyday lives seamlessly. Levi’s recently introduced a women’s style in the jean, which is water and dirt repel-

lent and has a higher back for increased coverage.The Commuter collection also offers riding clothes that go beyond denim, including jackets and trousers. Vancouver-based Dish Jeans also has a line of performance denim called DU/ER (pronounced “doer”), which is targeted for riders with an active lifestyle, who want to hop on their bike, take a spin to yoga, then go for dinner, all in the same pair of pants. Ligne 8 is another brand making regular clothes, with a few technical additions, that Millar says is worth checking out. Quality rain gear is a must for our wet part of the world, though there isn’t any one piece that will keep riders completely dry, Millar says. There are some good options, including riding capes from companies like Cleverhood and fashionable rainwear by Happy Rainy Days.The capes act as a tent, keeping the lower part of the body from getting hit with buckets of rain.They can be easily rolled up and tucked away in a basket or bag. With the warmer weather comes flowing skirts – Millar recommends bike skirt garters to keep them from flying up in the wind. But she cautions against wearing tight skirts on a bike. “You will be riding in your underwear,” Millar laughs, explaining the dangers of skin-hugging dresses. Another local cycle style enthusiast, David Phu, has been capturing fashionable riders on film since he started the Vancouver version of the Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog in 2010. “It’s like when you are people-watching, but when they are on wheels it’s more fun,” he says, describing his sartorial efforts, which include Cycle Chic Films, a series of short films chronicling everyday Vancouverites

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Top: Solange Knowles rides a white bike and matching pantsuit to her wedding. Bottom: Vancouver’s Dish Jeans has a line of performance denim for comfy cruises around the seawall. Contributed photos who love to ride in their own style. Phu shares the same views as Millar, when it comes to cycling clothes, saying that much of what has been created in the last few years is the old story of companies coming up with solutions to problems that don’t exist. He wants to see Vancouver

follow the culture of Europe and Asia when it comes to cycling in everyday clothes, as a means to get around in style. “In other cities, it’s something that you don’t even think about,” Phu says. “You just hop on no matter what you are wearing.” W

Vancouver’s retail climate continues to heat up and swell. As Nordstrom begins hiring for its fall opening, Holt Renfrew recently announced plans to enhance and expand its Vancouver ﬂagship location, adding close to 40,000 square feet of retail space.The store will be updated throughout, increasing in size by 30 per cent. Construction at Holt Renfrew Vancouver will begin in August.The store will remain open throughout renovations, with the expansion to be completed by the end of 2016, according to a Holts spokesperson.The expansion will include a new storefront along Howe Street, updates to its street front and façade along Dunsmuir Street, and renovations throughout the store, which has had a Vancouver location since 1975.

ALLSAINTS COMES TO VANCOUVER

AllSaints, the British high-street fashion retailer, will be opening its first BC location at Pacific Centre. The 2,237-square-foot retail unit in the newly expanded mall is scheduled to open on June 17.This will be AllSaints’ first Canadian store outside of Toronto and will feature the women’s and men’s fall collection as well as the new

women’s and men’s bag collection that launches this autumn. AllSaints will join retailers Ted Baker London, TUMI,Weekend Max Mara, B2, BOSS Store, Kate Spade, Microsoft, PANDORA, and Rockport in the extended mall. Abercrombie & Fitch will also be opening its ﬁrst store in the province at Paciﬁc Centre later this summer.

CHUCKS KICK IT WITH MISSONI

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star meets European fashion giant Missoni for a new collection this spring.The line, Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Missoni, embraces two different graphical and executional elements that run through the collection. Also, in addition to offering hi and ox versions, the Missoni print is available on a new silhouette, the Chuck Taylor All Star Lux. Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Missoni collection is available at Hudson’s Bay, Brown’s Shoes, Little Burgundy,Town Shoes, Gravity Pope, Groovy, and Boutique X2O.

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If there ever were an escape within the city, the home of Alexandra Norris is it. Perfectly nestled in the heart of Strathcona, Alex has created a space that invokes a love for nature, found objects, and story. After receiving a guided tour of her home and treasures, it’s no surprise to me that Alex spends her time crafting beautiful pieces for her businesses, Wild Horse Gardens and the soon-to-be-launched Strathcona Soap Company. What is it: The second floor and attic of a house built in the late 1890s. Maintained, yet never fully renovated, it still has its original foundation, window frames and floors, and a layer of beach-glass stucco. A classic Strathcona home. Your bio: Retired BC treeplanter vet, Emily Carr and UBC alumni.Vancouver-born and -raised.Teacher, gardener, artist, traveler, motorcycler, pianist, bicycler and business owner. I taught special education in Northern BC, and a stray mama dachshund with her five pups found me in the process! Most recently I have been working on the launch of my new business: Strathcona Soap Company.This project is in development right now and I am so excited about launching the website. Stay tuned! First thing I changed: I cleaned it up (with help)! I replaced all of the broken window panes, removed all the garbage, and redid all of the drywall that the previous occupants had deliberately destroyed (with help). I left the spray paint on the floors because I like the colours; there is a fading silhouette of a dancing pizza slice somewhere... Someone told me I should paint over the floors and and mouldings, instead I have been manually scraping the trim paint offrevealing these amazing layers of green paint with ancient

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Feature I brag about: I really like that it was made with solid materials that have lasted over a century with continued use. It still has the original clawfoot tub.The walls aren’t airtight, there’s no central heating system or A/C, and it makes me feel more connected to the earth. My personal favourite is a small solar panel on the roof that I use to charge my phone, grind my coffee and such, it’s just awesome technology. The décor: Honestly I don’t know what to call it; Cabin in the City?The subjects in the author Lloyd Khan’s body of work inspire me. I don’t really care for modern home accents, it just comes across as synthetic and wasteful. I deﬁnitely like having the feeling of the outdoors inside. Some people come in here and are uncomfortable – I only just got a couch last year. Others love it to pieces. My idea of comfort is different than most, we only get the heat going in the dead of winter when a glass of water can freeze. My longtime boyfriend, Corey, hangs his vintage chainsaw above his door, the space is sprinkled with his handmade knives and motorcycle tanks. The story behind the space: The granddaughter of the man who originally built this house tracked me down and gave me a photo of the front of the house when it was ﬁrst built. It shows two white horses standing in the front yard with a few people casually around them. Apparently the yard for the house went all the way to the end of the block and was originally used for horse grazing.That’s part of why I called my residential gardening and plant sales businessWild Horse Gardens. I love that there are so many stories attached to this space.This house has sheltered many artists and has fostered a lot of creativity in it’s time. Downsides: Because the house is so old it needs a lot ofTLC, all the time, never-ending TLC. It’s a labour of love. Apart from that, there isn’t

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Bao Down delivers solid send-ups of Asian street sammies two-level premises have been gutted and re-born with 25 seats surrounded by reclaimed wood, white subway tile, and the ubiquitous exposed brick, as well as some rather interesting ﬁghting pigs and birds on the back wall upstairs. The counter where you order gives a glimpse into the even tinier kitchen, which turns out a largely take-away volume, although the seats upstairs seem to be becoming increasingly popular. The menu is as simple as the design. Six bao ($5-$6 each), six street sandwiches reminiscent of banh mi ($10-$12), and a few sides make up the sum, but not the total of its parts. The Bao Chicka Bao Bao (yes, the name has paid for itself in sheer titillation factor as people practically sing it out as they order – I caught myself almost doing it) is pretty good, with local, free-range chicken breast (nicely juicy thanks to its bath in fried lemongrass and

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12 Powell 778-379-3611 BaoDown.Ninja Open Monday-Wednesday, 11am-8pm; Thursday, 11am11pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-midnight Those steamed, pillowysoft white buns often call to me, in the deepest watches of the night, when a craving for starch and deep-fried protein descends. And, until recently, ﬁnding decent bao in the city after dim sum hour was well-nigh impossible. With the opening of Bao Down in Gastown by brothers-in-law Matthew Adolfo and Greg Edwards, however, that late-night craving now has no justiﬁcation for going unanswered. Living in the former Lily Mae’s space, the tiny,

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garlic). Palm sugar and ﬁsh sauce glaze complete the process, as do the toppings of fresh cilantro, pickled carrots and scallions, and a pungent garlic scape mayo. Even better was the Flip Side, a sweet soy-marinated and grilled pork shoulder packed with crispy garlic chips, pickled onions and a shoyu-ﬁsh sauce dressing. The Phrench Dip was my favourite. This was a fun take on a traditional banh mi, with Snake River Farms’ local wagyu in a hoisin glaze and dressed with cilantro, bean sprouts and more of that excellent garlic scape mayo. Instead of the classic jus, a deeply-pleasing pho broth is used, with hints of soy that work well with the sweetness of the meat. If they’re available, get the chicken wings ($13). Available in sweet or spicy versions, these are not quite as good as those of Phnom Penh-fame, but they are tasty nonetheless. The spicy version was a bit too heavy

on the heat for my palate (I don’t like to burn the buds), but the sweet version had good balance, Kimchi fries ($8) are another solid choice (nothing wrong with cheese, spicy cabbage and potato, let me tell you). Clam chowder ($5) with surf clams, coconut milk, lemongrass and corn was excellent, and excellent value. Bao Down is licensed, but don’t look farther than a couple of chilled brews at the moment. I didn’t notice any dessert, but those chicken wings are sweet enough to do the job for now. W % =.:# 068: 2.@8?E .@.#8 /461:8 46 ,-, A:1B4 +6.&! +6 DE. ,4:!D :61 C61 E.# 46 <>BDD.# 3$441"B#;$#B1:8 :61 ):5.744?*549()441'B#;)#B1:8* Food: !!!!! Service: !!!!! Ambiance: !!!!! Value: !!!!! Overall: !!!!!

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It doesn’t always have to be about eggs and pancakes. We’re in Vancouver, so why not dim sum? Dynasty is one of my favourite upscale Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. Award-winning dinner-only dishes like the Spicy Typhoon Shelter Sticky Rice with crispy bread crumbs and braised duck with mushrooms need to be pre-ordered. DynastyRestaurant.ca

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A sure sign of spring for me is the arrival of asparagus. When these green shoots poke through the ground, my cooking repertoire changes radically. Move over meat braises and roasted root vegetables and make way for steamed asparagus tossed in butter and served with fresh halibut. Asparagus often inspires my entire meal. It serves as a superb base for salads but is equally tantalizing grilled alongside a juicy steak.When I am feeling nostalgic, I wrap asparagus in ham and smother in a lemony hollandaise sauce (this retro creation is too tasty to ever go out of style). Asparagus season also tends to coincide brilliantly with the appearance of morel mushrooms and the ultimate spring risotto combines the two. However it’s incorporated into a meal, asparagus always makes its presence known. With powerful ﬂavours and a slight bitterness, this vegetable is considered tricky to match with wine. Pshaw! Choices abound. Overtly grassy and zippy Sauvignon Blanc is a natural partner. New Zealand and Chile make great hunting ground for affordable and assertive examples.When Sauvignon meets Semillon the two can produce a fuller-bodied wine that will take on more robust dishes.This blend is beautifully demonstrated by the whites of Bordeaux.With

particularly buttery or cheesy preparations, an unoaked fruity Chard works like a charm. And for something different, try a dry Muscat. Savvy winemakers in the French region of Alsace have been suggesting this combo for ages. Crisp and herbal Italian wines likeVerdicchio and Pecorino are a couple of other off the beaten track gems worth experimenting with. And yes, you can have your asparagus and drink red too. In fact, it’s the ideal time to sip on Cabernet Franc. Producing a lighter red, this unsung grape can be stunningly fragrant with earthy and herbal qualities and bright crunchy acidity. Some of the ﬁnest come from the Loire Valley and will be labelled by appellations names of Chinon, Saumur-Champigny and Bourgueil. 2013 Emiliana Adobe Reserva, #5UL:NOOU. ! #UKUR0UO<U &U008.G #5308 ! $TTIQ2 No detectable oak here just ripe tropical fruit balanced by fresh citrus. A fuller-bodied and great-value white that will stand up to asparagus smothered in decadent hollandaise sauce. 2011 Domaine Baudry, ‘Les SLC-8UH/+ ! #53ONO (?#G VLUO<8 ! $Q2IT2 This medium weight, punchy red offers crunchy blackcurrant, tobacco leaf and peppery notes along with a subtle smokiness. It’s the wine to crack when steak and asparagus are destined to meet on the grill.

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Continued from page 9 Check it: I was chatting with the lady cutting my hair. This was the ﬁrst time using this barber and we found that we got along well enough and she snipped away at my hair. The conversation shifted to the subject of my employment. “Oh, I’m a beer writer.” “Oh, that’s fun!” Snip snip snip. “What do you think of Kronenburg Blanc?” I should have seen this coming. It seems that any time the subject of beer comes up with a cute Caucasian female in her 20s or 30s, the words “Kronenberg Blanc” are usually uttered. It’s one of the few beers my wife will drink, because of all the macro beer available in this province, it tastes the least like goat piss. I’m not too familiar with it, but because mainstream beer drinker has embraced it, I’ve judged it – and those that drink it – accordingly. None of this I could say to my friendly barber, of course, without completely alienating her and ruining the conversation (and possibly my hair cut). So I said: “It’s the only beer my wife will drink. It’s not bad!”

“It’s my favourite.” Snip snip snip. “I like Shock Top too. Do you like Shock Top?” To which my eyes sort of rolled around in my head like I’ve just be Tasered, and, without even thinking, I mutter in a very low register: “Uh, I’m not a Philistine.” She stopped snipping for a moment and looked at me through the mirror. Either I had offended her or she hadn’t heard me and was waiting for me to answer. In her eyes, I was either very mean or sort of crazy. And I’m staring down at my lap, ashamed and embarrassed, partly because I have divulged to a complete stranger the extent of my pretentiousness. Only my wife knows the extent of that, and I had preferred to keep it that way. But mostly I was ashamed because it was made abundantly clear, whether the barber heard me or not, then that the subject of my pretension (i.e., beer) isn’t worth being pretentious over. Snobbery is generally a pitiful attitude, although it makes a sort of sense when people are snobs about politics or literature or similar subjects that elevate our culture. But beer? I mean, no one should be snooty about beer.

It’s beer! If there’s a subject that should breed a spirit of modesty and sincerity, I’d think it would be beer (despite what Budweiser thinks). Then again, the focus should be on quality beer – quality everything – and not mass-produced syrupﬂavoured Shock Top with it’s embarrassing marketing campaign.What a tragic waste of money, spending it on Shock Top! I doubt my barber would care to hear me wax on about this sort of thing. She probably wanted get on with her shift without facing a barrage of relatively trivial opinions regarding the state of the beer industry. So I say: “It’s really best that we don’t talk about this. I’ll just end up sounding like a jerk.” Her look says, Too late for that.Then she shrugs and says, “It’s OK.You’re just really opinionated.” So she did hear me.The conversation was stilted after that. I’d go back to her though. She cuts decent hair. I went to the bar after, ordered and drank a Jerkface 9000, Parallel 49’s latest – excellent beer for the snobby and the non-snobby alike – and resolved to be more accepting.This was a week ago. I still have a lot of work to do. W

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Dan Deacon happy to be stuck in the middle LOUISE BURNS @_louiseburns_

According to Dan Deacon, being in the middle is just ﬁne. “I like being in the middle. I feel like I’m in the middle in a lot of ways,” says Deacon over the phone from a tour stop in New Orleans. “I’m too pop to be experimental music, but too experimental to be pop music. I make dance music electronically, but I don’t make EDM. I make music you dance to, but not in a dance club.” Deacon is speaking of a 12-year career that has seen him making the kind of

records that cannot be easily classiﬁed. From his 2003 debut Meetle Mice featuring bizarre bleeps and bloops under random synthesized chaos, to 2012’s America, a grandiose, electronic love letter to the geography of his country, Deacon is impossible to pin down with any kind of label. Deacon temporarily lost his voice in 2013, an event that changed his entire approach to making music. He began contemplating the temporary nature of the voice, an “instrument that expires”. While his work has never been predominately deﬁned by vocals or melody, the electronic producer

REVIEWS // BRAIDS

Deep in the Iris (Flemish Eye) Most of Braids’ repertoire has felt like reaching in the dark for the light switch.They have an inherent leaning toward layers, textures and sonic emotions that can often blend in with the vocals so much that the music becomes murky.This is not necessarily a bad thing, but on their third record, Deep in the Iris, we see the Montreal-via-Calgary trio let the mud settle, allowing a clearer, more focused approach to their music prevail.

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Lead vocalist Raphaelle Standell takes centre stage more than ever, delivering an honest, raw lyrical assault, touching on subjects such as slut-shaming, abuse and ﬁnding strength in unlikely places. In “Miniskirt”, Standell could almost be a young Tori Amos,

made a conscious decision to shift his focus toward the voice as his primary writing tool. “As you get older, you [start to] lose your voice. I started thinking how if there was any instrument like that, I’d start writing heavily for it. Like if trombones were being phased out over the next few years, I’d start writing on trombone,” he says, matterof-factly. “But voice is the only [instrument] that has a different parameter, which is lyrics. No other instrument has lyrics, so why would I underuse that?” The result of this realization is Gliss Riffer, a splatter painting of synthesizers,

syncopated beats and sonic textures that evoke madness, sorrow and joy all at once. But what really separates Gliss from its predecessors is the more expansive production and lyrical theme, both of which are centered around one simple idea: learning to relax. “I was very much someone who would wait till the last minute to do something, [then] light a ﬁre in my ass and get it done,” says Deacon of his old ways. “It’s a terrible way to live, and there’s no reason to attach stress or anxiety to things I like doing.” It is not difﬁcult to imagine why stress is so prevalent in Deacon’s life. Not only

delivering the lyrics “In my position I’m the slut, I’m the bitch, I’m the whore, the one you hate”. It’s an unlikely feminist anthem, ﬁlled with a controlled angst over simple synthesizer arrangements. In “Getting Tired”, a soft and dreamy piano plays with a feathery shufﬂing drum pattern as Standell contemplates a stagnate relationship. A press release said the band retreated to various rustic locations to write and record Iris, where they allowed themselves to be “bare and vulnerable before one another”. As a result, the band comes across as

relaxed, focused and more human than ever before. – Louise Burns

is he an electronic producer and touring artist, but also composer, curator and multimedia artist (“Drinking Outta Cups” with Liam Lynch, anyone?). In the past few years, he has scored parody commercials for Adult Swim, a ﬁlm for Francis Ford Coppola (Twixt) and even created a smart-phone synchronized-light show app for his live shows. He is a highly intelligent being with workaholic tendencies, all of which has brought him here, to the middle of his career where everything feels just right. Dan Deacon is ﬁnally learning to relax. “A lot of people think relaxing is sitting on a beach,

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Behold, the power of the voice of Brittany Howard.The Alabama Shakes frontwoman has pipes like a torrential rainstorm in the middle of a hot southern summer, often leading to comparisons with the likes of Janis Joplin and Howlin’ Wolf. As a result, Alabama Shakes are often ﬁled under

“throwback”, or “blues revivalists”, all of which hold some validity, but with their follow up to 2012’s Grammy-nominated debut, we see Alabama Shakes veering off the path of the gloriﬁed past. Songs like “Sound and Color” and “This Feeling”

staring into the ocean, or meditating, and sure, that’s relaxing. But [relaxing] can also be jumping up and down with hundreds of sweaty people losing your mind.” he says. “We all chose to do these things! I’m building my own fucking boat, [so why] be mad at myself for sailing it?” W

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are laid back in a relaxed ‘70s soul pocket, ﬁnding all the right angular moments of a shimmering guitar or distorted organ to bring new light to an often overused reference point. “Don’t Wanna Fight” and “The Greatest” surge forward like a garage punk explosion. However versatile the band may be, this is Howard’s show, and as she howls, screeches, screams and croons, you get the feeling that you’re hearing a voice coated with every colour in the spectrum of human emotion. – Louise Burns Rating: !!!!!

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Left: Bau-Xi Gallery at night. Below: Bau-Xi director Riko Nakasone (left) and owner Xisa Huang (right) prepare for the art gallery’s highly anticipated 50-year retrospective. Rob Newell photo

50 years of Bau-Xi One of the country’s leading contemporary art galleries celebrates ﬁve decades of ﬁne art KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Of the billions of brush strokes that have rasped across canvases in Vancouver these past 50 years, many of the greatest have echoed in the white-walled halls of Bau-Xi Gallery. In fact, some of Canada’s most important artists – Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Roy Kiyooka, IanWallace – have exhibited at Bau-Xi Gallery, and it has quietly staked its claim as not only the longestrunning contemporary art gallery inVancouver, but the firstWest Coast gallery ever to expand east toToronto. And now, on May 7, it’s time to pause, reflect, and celebrate. Founded in 1965 by Paul Bau-Xi Huang – a talented autodidact and émigré from China – Bau-Xi Gallery was created to fill a need. At the time of his arrival,Vancouver had only one contemporary art gallery, the New Design Gallery, founded by Alvin Balkind in 1954. The New Design Gallery was the anchor ofVancouver’s vibrant yet small creative community, but it was physically unable to keep up with demand, and emerging artists like Paul were starved for a

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second serious venue to show their work. “Paul couldn’t get a show for himself at that gallery because there just wasn’t any space, for him or for all the others… So he opened his own gallery,” says Xisa Huang, Paul’s business partner and former wife. “He had no money and little English, but he had a wonderful eye for art, and the artists respected that and trusted it.” The two met at an art show at the New Design Gallery in 1968, and it wasn’t long before Xisa (pronounced “Zeesa”) was taking part in the day-today of running of Bau-Xi. In order to fulfill their mandate of supporting emerging and establish Canadian artists, however, the pace the duo had to set for the first 15 years was excruciating. “He started out with a show every two weeks,” recalls Xisa. “Every second Monday morning, we’d take down the show, hang a new show, label it, light it, clean the floors, and have the opening that night. And then do it again.” Meanwhile they were also starting a second gallery inToronto, and hand-printing newsletters and invitations in the basement to keep their clientele across Canada informed. “That’s unheard of,” clarifies Riko Nakasone, sitting next to Xisa in the solo gallery upstairs. Riko has served as director and curator of the South Granville location since 1999, when Xisa finally took a step back at age 60. “I don’t know how you did it,” whispers Riko. “I don’t know how I did it!” counters Xisa with an incredulous laugh.

After the gallery moved from its original location of 555 Hamilton in 1975, it reopened in a temporary space on First Avenue while Paul finished building the current location at 3045 Granville in 1979. Now a bustling row of shops and galleries, South Granville was considered a risky choice at the time, with the retail landscape consisting mostly of laundromats and camera repair shops. Amidst it all, the Huangs’ three young children joined the mix, literally growing up underfoot in the galleries. It’s a scene artist SylviaTait remembers fondly. “They had three babies,” saysTait, “ and I can remember them, at that first gallery, being in the play pen downstairs.The babies were always part of the whole scene, which was just so great. “Hippiedom...” she adds, with a chuckle. (Those babies,Tien, Phen, and Lieng Huang, are now all involved in affiliate gallery affairs, be it running Bau-Xi’s Toronto operations, or managing the 2002 Foster/White Gallery acquisition in Seattle, while Paul spends most of his

time now in China pursuing his art.) Tait, an abstract artist, has been represented by BauXi since 1977, back when she was still doing “bizarre” wooden cut-outs and hardedge colour studies. For her, the gallery has long represented a safe space for her to explore and evolve, without having to leave the comfort of her North Shore studio. “They’re a mediatory. Where else do you get that?” says Tait. “It’s absolutely important for me, because I’m not a meeter and greeter.To have them as an interim – to get the client together with the artist – is just something I could never do myself.” Tait also credits Riko and her team with helping guide her direction: giving valuable feedback and allowing her to see her work hung on the gallery wall from a new perspective. “Riko has such a good eye, and she’s so sensitive,” says Tait. “She’s like an orchestra conductor! She dreams about how she’s going to hang paintings.” It’s a sentimentTom Burrows shares. “Riko is very good at what

she does,” says Burrows. “It’s a treat to have her hang my work.” Burrows, who resisted gallery representation for much of his career, joined the roster at Bau-Xi in 1995. He met Paul long before that, however – before Bau-Xi Gallery existed even – shortly after Paul first arrived inVancouver. “I wasn’t an artist myself at the time,” explains Burrows. “I met him hanging around [artist]Toni Onley’s studio, as a guy from China who didn’t have much English, who seemed to have a really positive attitude, and people were respecting it.” After the gallery opened, Burrows says it served as his classroom. “In the beginning years I would go by there and get a real education as a young artist,” says Burrows. “It was a much more contained art scene back then, and they had all the big guns at one time. “A city needs more than one gallery and it needs a dialogue,” he adds, “and the Bau-Xi presented that.” Burrows is just one of the many artists whose career highlights will be showcased in the 50th anniversary celebrations, starting next week. On the main floor will be works by current Bau-Xi artists. For example, acclaimed landscape painter KenWallace recently dropped off a piece made specifically for this show. Meanwhile, the second-floor gallery will host a retrospective featuring works from Xisa and Paul’s personal collections, as well as from select artists’ archives, comparing then and now. For the past few weeks, Riko has been going to the

artists’ homes and pulling pieces – in some cases right off the walls. As the gallery slows down to look back, though, it has an equally exciting future to behold, currently representing some of the country’s most sought-after talent, like Drew Burnham, Bobbie Burgers, Cori Creed, and Lisa Birke. But 50 years doesn’t happen easily, and it doesn’t happen for everyone. Riko says Bau-Xi has survived in a cutthroat and competitive industry by prioritizing relationships, and building a loyal, stable group of artists and clients. “I think Xisa and Paul have laid a very strong foundation of integrity, in terms of dealing with the clients respectfully and honestly,” she says, while sharing with a laugh that a client once offered her a hefty bribe in an attempt to buy a painting that had already sold. “And the artists know that they will be paid for the painting in a timely manner, and exactly what was agreed upon.” (Something Bau-Xi artists will point out is an uncommon and much-appreciated arrangement in the industry.) “I think that if you last this long, you have to have that kind of reputation,” she concludes. “That’s the foundation that the gallery is built on, and that’s why we’re still here.” W

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COCO LOVE ALCORN Canadian jazz and pop singer, daughter of jazz singer John Alcorn appears in support of her latest project The Spirit Sessions. 7pm at Backspace (1318 Grant St.). Tickets $20 at the door.

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS FT. PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA The perennial classical music favourite vividly portrays the four distinctive seasons of the year under the artistic direction of violinist Monica Huggett. 8pm at Chan Centre. Tickets $16 at Tickets.UBC.ca

WAXAHATCHEE Brooklyn-based pop singer-songwriter on tour in support of her brand new release Ivy Tripp with special guests Girlpool and Knife Pleats. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $14 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and TicketWeb.ca

PAUL LEWIS The Vancouver Recital Society presents an evening of Beethoven with the English pianist. 7:30pm at Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets $25 at Tickets.VanRecital.com

BEETHOVEN’S SEVENTH Violinist Ray Chen, with the VSO performs a program of Marcus Goddard’s Wheel of the Cosmos, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D Minor and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major. 8pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca

COMEDY CHAD DANIELS The Minnesota comic whose devilishly naughty nature shines through like comedy gold with his arsenal of incisive, uproarious material. 8:30pm at The Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BURLESQUE FESTIVAL Put on your pasties as the annual burlesque revue kicks off for a weekend of performances across Vancouver featuring headliners Midnight Martini, Iva Handfull, Toni Elling, Mr. Gorgeous alongside local favourites April O’Peel, Burgundy Brixx, Lola Frost and others. Various Vancouver venues. Tickets at NorthernTickets.com. Runs until May 2. DOGFIGHT: THE MUSICAL Based on the movie of the same name starring River Phoenix, the award-winning production follows three young marines on a boys night out who cross paths with an awkward, idealistic waitress who teaches them the power of compassion. 8pm at CBC Studio 700. Tickets at DogFight.BrownPaperTickets. com. Runs until May 3. IN THE HEIGHTS The Tony Award winning musical about home, family and finding where you belong set in NYC’s vibrant and tough Washington Heights neighbourhood. 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until June 7.

ART BLAME IT ON THE RAIN A major solo exhibition by Torontoborn, NYC-based artist Julia Dault reveals the importance of balancing spontaneous gesture with responsiveness to rules, logic and the constraints of materials. 12-6pm at Contemporary Art Gallery. Runs until June 28.

WHITE NOISE FT. LCAW Deep house music producer-DJ from Munich performs with special guests Pat Lok Wmnstudies. 10:30pm at Electric Owl. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beat Street and TicketWeb.ca BIG JOHN BATES May Day tour kick-off and record release party for From the Bestiary To The Leathering Room with special guests Reverend Heathen Strange Fellow & The VaudeVille Vagabonds, The Still Spirits and DJ Thee Swingin’ Creeper. 8:30pm at The Hindenburg. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and Hindenburg.ca CASSIE & MAGGIE MACDONALD East coast Celtic sister duo on tour in support of their album Sterling Road. 8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $20 at Highlife, Red Cat, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitar Shop and RogueFolk.bc.ca

Human Resistance Program, May 1 at Funkys. HUMAN RESISTANCE PROGRAM The long awaited return of Vancouver noise metal legends, with Tendonitis, Ritual Dictates, and DJ Cam Pipes. 8pm at Funky Winker Beans, tickets $10 at the door. MONKEY JUNK Swampy blues-rock trio from Ottawa take the stage with special guests David Gogo and Mojo Stars. 7pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $20 at RioTheatreTickets.ca TAPESTRY INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S CHOIRS Vancovuer’s Elektra Women’s Choir, Norway’s Cantus, California’s Canzona Women’s Choir, and Manitoba’s Esprit de Choeur perform the first night of two concerts. 7:30pm at Ryerson United Church. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca

Tough Age, May 2 at The Astoria.

COMEDY CHAD DANIELS Award-winning comedian from Minnesota who has appeared on Kilborn, Ferguson and Conan with two stand-up comedy albums under his belt, and performances at Just for Laughs in Montreal. 8pm & 10:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $20 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE SWEENEY TODD Vancouver Opera presents Stephen Sondheim’s story about lethal obsession on the streets of 19th-century London starring bass-baritone Greer Grimsley and mezzo-soprano Luretta Bybee. 7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at VancouverOpera.ca. Runs until May 3. FAREWELL, MY LOVELY The first theatrical adaptation of the Raymond Chandler favourite has all the crooks, dames, smoking guns and crystal balls with more dead bodies than your average graveyard in the world of LA private eye, Philip Marlowe. 8pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until May 2. STATIONARY: A RECESSIONERA MUSICAL An indie rock musical about the moment when big dreams meet reality checks, tackling post-recession existence with ukulele in hand. 8pm at Historic Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until May 2.

CHEAP & FUN JANE’S WALK VANCOUVER Get to know your city, exploring neighbourhoods and connecting with neighbours as part of this global movement of free, locally led walking tours inspired by writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs. Event is free, for more info check out JanesWalk.org

VOICES OF VANCOUVER Vancouver Cantata Singers perform a showcase of favourites from Vancouver composers in the stunning Blusson Atrium, under the direction of Paula Kremer. 8pm at The Spinal Cord Centre (818 West 10th). Tickets $25 at Tinyurl.com/Vancouver-Voices CARACAS Latin punk rockers play the opening week of Big Rock Brewery’s restaurant and live music venue with special guest Kyle Fury of Los Furios. 7:30pm at Big Rock Eatery. Admission is free. All ages welcome. TOUGH AGE The scrappy pop-punk rockers – the newest addition to the Mint Records Roster – play a record release party with Energy Slime, Needles//Pins, Fountain, and Milk (fka Watermelon). 10pm at The Astoria. Tickets $8 at the door only.

THEATRE/DANCE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BURLESQUE FESTIVAL Now in it’s 10th year, the VIBF features local favourites and headliners Midnite Martini, Toni Elling and Mr. Gorgeous. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets at TicketFly.com. Runs until May 3. MIDSUMMER A piece of musical theatre, for those who don’t like musical theatre is the tale of a lawyer with a penchant for expensive wines and the husband of another woman. 8pm at Studio 16. Tickets at Midsummer-Play. BrownPaperTickets.com. Final performance.

CHEAP & FUN BUDGET BUFFET Come have hangover breakfast in the same spot you got drunk with all you can eat cereal featuring your childhood favourites. Captain Crunch, anyone? Caesars and Mimosas on special. 10:30am-2:30pm at Biltmore Cabaret. $5 per person.

MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL The Rogue Folk Club presents Irish fiddle virtuoso co-headlining with the American master guitarist. 8pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $28 at Highlife, Red Cat, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitars and RogueFolk.bc.ca

THEATRE/DANCE DOGFIGHT: THE MUSICAL Based on the movie of the same name starring River Phoenix, the award-winning production follows three young marines on a boys night out who cross paths with an awkward, idealistic waitress who teaches them the power of compassion. 8pm at CBC Studio 700. Tickets at DogFight. BrownPaperTickets.com. Closing performance. AN OUTFIT FOR THE PARTY Playwright and director Mohammad Rahmanian turns out an interpretation of the play Invitation performed completely in Farsi starring Soha Sanajou. 6pm at Historic Theatre. Tickets at TheCultch.com

EVENTS EAT! VANCOUVER FOOD AND COOKING SHOW A three-day showcase of the city’s extraordinary culinary culture includes handson workshops, exclusive guest chef dinners and 250 exhibitors including celebrity chefs celebrating all things food, drink and cooking. 10am-5pm at BC Place. Tickets at Eat-Vancouver.com. Final day.

CHEAP & FUN DAWN CHORUS WALK Come out and learn who’s who in the morning chorus. Learn tips and tricks to identifying the sounds that many birds make in the spring, hosted by Dr. David Bradley of Bird Studies Canada. 10am-12pm at Queen Elizabeth Park (Parking lot outside of Seasons Restaurant). For info contact dbradley@BirdsCanada.org

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CHEAP & FUN SICK BOSS MONDAYS AT THE LIDO Every Monday night in Mount Pleasant there’s avantgarde, improvised jazz and rock accompanied by warped analogue visuals, good (craft) beer and German pretzels. 9pm at The Lido. Admission is always free. STANLEY PARK OWL PROWL Join local birding experts, Al Grass and Robyn Worcester for a night to hoot about with a presentation on natural history and identifying owls in the area, followed by a walk in the park after dark to look for them using owl survey techniques. 7:30pm at Stanley Park Ecology Society. Admission is free. 90S KIDS TRIVIA The music edition night of ‘90s trivia will have you singing everything from Shaggy to Len, hosted by Arash Memarzadeh and Tyson Storozinski with DJ Thomas Maxey. 7pm sharp at The Waldorf Tiki Bar. Admission is $5.

ART SCIENCE AND ART: THE FLATHEAD EN PLEIN AIR EXHIBIT A collection of 13 original paintings from BC’s Flathead River Valley, the site of a 2012 documentation by scientists and artists of its rare species, breathtaking landscapes and natural beauty. 6-8pm at Science World. Admission is free.

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INTER ARMA Experimental metal band out of Virginia, on tour to support their latest release The Cavern with guests Yautja. 8pm at Electric Owl. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Zulu, Scrape and TicketWeb.ca

DAN DEACON Baltimore-based electronic musician-composer brings his renowned interactive live show back to town in support of latest release Gliss Riffer. 8pm at Electric Owl. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Donny, Danny, Jordan, Jon and Joey bring their iconic ‘90s boy band hits back with special guests TLC and Nelly. 7pm at Rogers Arena. Tickets at LiveNation.com. All ages show. SEOUL AND BALLET SCHOOL Montreal ambient pop-trio coheadline with the Berlin based alt-pop trio. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Zulu and NorthernTickets.com

COMEDY COMEDY AT THE BILTMORE Veteran comic Dan Quinn hosts a weekly send-up of the best comedians on the circuit, featuring a different headliner every week. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com

THEATRE/DANCE PIPER KERMAN Meet the woman behind the Netflix hit Orange Is The New Black, speaking as part of the Unique Lives & Experiences series. 7:30pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at Vendini.com MISS SHAKESPEARE/J. CAESAR Tracey Power (Chelsea Hotel) is re-imagining Shakespeare and redefining gender roles in this saucy, new, original musical, playing in repertory with an allfemale, futuristic adaptation of J. Caesar. 8pm at Performance Works. Tickets at TicketsTonight. ca. Runs until May 29.

EVENTS WOMEN 4 WOMEN SPEED DATING Forget the internet, come meet women in real time – like the olden days! Your ticket includes a complimentary beverage, door prizes and karaoke starting at 10pm. 7pm at Lux Lounge. Tickets $25 at EventBrite.ca

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MUSIC SLEATER-KINNEY Portland rock trio and Riot Grrrl pioneers on tour in support of their upcoming release No Cities To Love with guests THEESatisfaction. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $39.50 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Psychadelic rockers from Austin, Texas on tour in support of their upcoming release Space is Still The Place hit the stage with guests Talk in Tongues. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $13 at LiveNation.com RITTZ American rapper from Georgia (aka Jonathan McCollum) on tour in support of his latest effort Next to Nothing with guests Emotionz, Northwest Division, Status Crew and J Dohe. Tickets $20 at BPLive.ca EAST INDIA YOUTH English electronica musician on tour in support of his latest release Culture of Volume. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Zulu and NorthernTickets.com

THEATRE/DANCE PARADIS-PARADISE Asian Heritage Month Festival brings back the sensational performance conceived and created by Candian choreographer and dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino and French bruiste/noise musician Emmanuel Mailly. 8pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets. com. Runs until May 9. IN THE HEIGHTS Tony Awardwinning musical about home, family and finding where you belong set in NYC’s Washington Heights. 2pm & 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until June 7.

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BORODIN QUARTETS II A rare chance to hear a triumph of modern Russian music with all fifteen of Dmitri Shoshtakovich’s string quartets in concert, presented by Friends of Chamber Music. 8pm at Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets $45 at FriendsOfChamberMusic.ca THE MATADORS Horrobilly rockers from London, Ontario hit the stage with special guests the Dusty Aces and Butch Haller. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon, Highlife and NorthernTickets.com GAY NINETIES Local indie rockers play a FREE show with special guests Oceanographers and Dan Moxon. 8pm at Venue. RSVP at BPLive.ca

THEATRE/DANCE DISSOLVE Bring your teens and bring yourselves to the awardwinning and heartbreaking one woman theatrical tour-de-force about sex starring the hilarious Emmelia Gordon. 8pm at Studio 1398. Tickets at ShamelessHussy. com. Runs until May 9. INTO THE WOODS The Brother Grimm hit Broadway with an epic fairytale where worlds collide when everyone’s favourite storybook characters meet in this timeless, yet modern classic. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight. ca. Runs until May 16.

ART IT’S NOT ME YOU SEE A group show exploring glitched or obscured identity in a time of constant surveillance through the fantasy of anonymity in drawing, painting and collage. 12-5pm at Hot Art Wet City. Admission is free. Runs until May 30.

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Want to see remarkable in action? Tell Lisa Durupt she can’t do something, and then watch her soar. When, at the age of 16, she lost all of her ﬁne motor skills for three weeks due to multiple sclerosis, she didn’t give up her burgeoning hockey career. She kept at it, and two years later, she was offered a hockey scholarship in the States. Later, when a shoulder injury derailed her post-secondary plans, and she discovered a passion for acting via an elective, Durupt – who had never before studied anything arts-related – decided to dive headﬁrst into acting.Within a week, she’d enrolled in nine

dance classes, and was studying music, stage combat, and acting. “My mom joked, ‘you want to be an actor?You and three million other people’ – which, for me, the minute someone says ‘you can’t do this,’ my brain goes into, ‘okay, just wait and see,’” says the Winnipeg-born,Vancouver-based actress in a recent interview. “I’ve always been the person that starts something late, is the last to ever be chosen, but is the last person standing.” And where Durupt is standing now is fully entrenched in a busy career, one that began in the Winnipeg stunts scene (“The athletic side of me liked that part, but I loved the creative side of actually the straight-up acting better”) and is now ﬁrmly rooted in Vancouver ﬁlm and television biz. Durupt will next be seen in Preggoland, the laughout-loud comedy written by and starring Sonja Bennett that premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and won the award for Most Popular Canadian Feature Film at the Van-

couver International Film Festival. In Preggoland, Bennett stars as Ruth, an irresponsible thirty-something who fakes a pregnancy in order to fit in with her social group. Durupt plays Hillary, Ruth’s sister. “It’s freaking amazing, because everyone talks about writing, but not everyone does it,” says Durupt. “Sonja actually did it, and did it really well.” The film also stars Machete star Danny Trejo, and James Caan as Hillary and Ruth’s father. “He’s just this grumbly grandpa who is so passionate and will fight for all of his choices,” says Durupt of Caan. “He was funny. He would bark a little bit, but he reminded me of my grandpa, so a couple of times I gave it right back to him and he kind of realized, ‘we’re cool, we’re good,’ and then he would sit there and spill stories about things like when he lived in the Playboy mansion.” Hillary is the kind of comedic role for which Durupt regularly auditions (requiring a similar skill set to what she employed during her four

Lisa Durupt (left), Sonja Bennett, and James Caan star in Preggoland. The Vancouver-shot comedy begins its nationwide theatrical run on May 1. seasons on Less Than Kind). It was comedy that ﬁrst brought her and Bennett together in audition waiting rooms years before Preggoland. “We went up for some of the same roles, because you get that when you’re blonde, and perky,” laughs Durupt. “I call it the Quirky Corner. You get shoved in the Quirky Corner, and you’re like, ‘okay, so I talk a lot, that’s fair.’” While Durupt enjoys co-

medic roles, she doesn’t like people telling her she can’t do more than that. “I think Vancouver is slowly ﬁguring me out, but originally it was, ‘oh, she only does comedy,’” says Durupt. “I do ‘ridiculous’ well, which is not necessarily something you want to be known for in Vancouver, because it’s all sci-ﬁ and serious, but if someone says, ‘here’s a bunch of props, make me laugh,’

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AI, Ultron (a menacing CG creation voiced by a petulant James Spader), and his super-powered underlings – the speedster Quicksilver (AaronTaylor-Johnson) and reality warping ScarletWitch (Elizabeth Olsen). As one might expect, armageddon is the order of the day. Fortunately, the film dispenses with any onerous getting-theteam-back-together montages and instead deposits us in an exhilarating, everyone-accounted-for pre-title sequence that bests the original’s climax in terms of both fluidity and invention. And while the breakneck pace occasionally relents as globe-hopping ensues, it only does so in the service of each member enjoying their own well-crafted arc. Ultimately, one has to marvel at a super-hero flick that manages to satisfy as both storytelling and spectacle. –CurtisWoloschuk

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2905 West 37th Avenue, $4,780,000

• Brand New 5,383 SQFT 7 Bdrm, 8 Bath Home • Stunning Architectural Craftsman-Style Masterpiece • 4 Bdrms Up, 1 Down, Plus 900 SQFT 2 Bed, 2 Bath Legal Suite • Three Car Garage • Beautiful Landscaping, Built-in Water Fountains & BBQ • Stunning Oak Floors, High-End Appliances, Wok Kitchen • Mackenzie Heights/Kerrisdale – Near Best Schools and Right on Bike Route • Completion February 2015

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• Gorgeous Beautiful Renovated 1 Bedroom in Sought After “Lancaster Gate” – One Block to Denman • 644 SQFT, North West Corner With Lovely Tree Views • Lots of Light, Stunning Designer Renovation • Beautiful Laminate Wood Floors Thru-ought • Outdoor Pool • Storage, Parking Rentable • Commercial Leasehold till 2073 • Rentals allowed! Welcome Home!

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• Gorgeous, best unit in building at “The Horizon” • Second From The Top, South West Corner With Protected Ocean Views! • Junior 1 Bedroom With Partition Wall For Bedroom • Stunning Renovation with Beautiful Hardwood and Tile Designer Floors • Built-in Halogens Thru-ought, Quartz Counters, Jacuzzi Tub in Bathroom • Stunning Rooftop Deck, Pool and Rec Area, Parking and Storage Available • Commercial Leasehold till 2073 • Rentals Allowed,Welcome Home!

• Like-New 1270SQFT “Tudor-Style” 4Plex • 3 Beds, 3 Baths & Single Garage • Euro High-End Kitchen W’ Granite Counters • Warm Hardwood Throughout • Large Sunny Private Patio, Balcony Off Master & Covered Porch • Walk to Lord Tennyson School 1 Block • Few Blocks To Broadway UBC Express Bus • Gorgeous Home On Pretty Tree-Lined Street

• Renovated Largest Floorplan in Georgie Award Winner! • Best Building in Central Westend • 2 Bed, 2 bath 950SQFT Lots of Light • Beautiful Bathrooms, Granite Counters • Huge Windows With Great Views of Mountains & City • New Pipes, 1 Parking, 1 Storage, Rentals Yes, Pets No. • Updated Gym, Cedar Saunas • 2-3 Blocks to Robson, Davie, Denman, Parks & Shops • Welcome Home!

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NEW LISTING: 1206-1420 W. GEORGIA STREET – THE GEORGE: $479,900

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jane’s walk sPeCIal One of the early stratas in the West End this 70’s post and beam was built as condo and planned for home ownership. All large suites with 2 and 3 bedrooms in the mix the subject property is an oversize one bedroom with office space and balcony on quiet side overlooking garden and featuring only one common wall. Upgrades include expanded and upgraded kitchen, refurbished bath, engineered wood floors and more. Laundry can be installed. Great storage, underground parking. Unique space with large rooms enhanced by 9 ft ceilings. Subject to probate. $369,900

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ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY Jane would be proud of this 20 unit strata in popular West End location steps to Stanley Park English Bay, all shops and services and across from elementary school. Just a stroll on Saturday to Farmers Market and year round community gardens.Spacious two bedroom two bath with updated baths, gas fireplace, wide plank wood flooring, granite counters and s/s appliances offers covered balcony and only one common wall. Laundry can be installed. Good storage and underground parking. You’ll love the roof deck for sun and entertaining. Pets welcome. $479,000

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vIew fRom The ToP! See much of the neighourhood as well as water views to English Bay, sailboats & sunsets from your two bedroom two bath sub-penthouse home in coveted West of Denman location. Enjoy walks on the beach, strolls in the park & all shops, services & great restaurants on your doorstep. This home features smart floor plan with minimal hallway & great airflow in every room from this zen like corner suite. Total upgrades include red oak floors, solid wood cabinetry, granite & stone counters, custom roller blinds, spa like rain forest shower & more all in rainscreened, replumbed strata. VIEW NEXT WEEK.

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WEST END/COAL HARBOUR: Rainscreened, completed in 2002 • Ultimate downtown spacious living with everything at your doorstep! • Amazing location - everything within minutes surrounded by seawall, Coal Harbour waterfront with seaside recreation, restaurants, marina & leisure; Robson St. retail & entertainment district, Stanley Park, Denman St & Financial District • Ultra spacious SW corner 684 sqft 1 bdrm + large den (with windows) features granite countertops, breakfast bar, generous rooms, plenty of natural light, den is great for an office /or small guest suite, insuite storage & W/D, perfect floorplan, great entertaining space, 1 prkg & 1 sep. storage locker • Fabulous gym • Rainscreened concrete construction! Great investment property too. Great condition with city views • Call Ann for more information & viewings. GROUP WEST COAST REALTY

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NEW YORK STYLE 2 LEVEL LOFT $479,900 602-1238 SEYMOUR ST

CASH FLOWING LEGAL MT PLEASANT DUPLEX $1,579,900 852/854 E 14TH AVE

Step inside this large, designer Yaletown 1 bdrm & den loft (857SF) in the trendy “Space” tower • Live/work zoning - great to run your business or just have an awesome home or weekend “getaway” • 12TH FLOOR IN ACTUAL HEIGHT, as suites below are all 2 levels as well! • Incredible 16’ ceilings, SW views of city & beyond • Huge gym, party room & secure outside BBQ concourse • Insuite storage & laundry In large walk-in closet • Sleek newer euro kitchen & appliances & bath • Recent walnut floors & designer paint • Office/den overloooking the action • Seawall, great restaurants & SkyTrain seconds away! • 1 parking, pets & rentals OK!

A renovation done to perfection, effectively a 5 yr old home finished with quality workmanship & materials • Main offers 3 bdrms, 9’ ceilings, living room has gas fireplace & built ins • Open kitchen features vaulted ceilings, cherry cabinets, s/s appl & ceasarstone counters • Family room off kitchen opens to large south facing deck • Up offers 560 sqft of unfinished attic space • Down is legal 2 bedroom suite w/ its own address, meter, 8’2 ceilings, polished concrete floors, s/s appl, w/d, electric fire place, separate front and back patio and gardens • All new concrete work, windows siding, drainage, wiring, plumbing, electrical service, landscaping & fencing.

THE OLIVE $419,000 406-3225 TUPPER ST

• Great 1 BR + den w/ gourmet kitchen w/ granite counters, quality cabinetry, KitchenAid s/s appl. • Fabulous north views & a balcony ideal for BBQs • Unit has a cozy living room with wide plank h/w flooring & fireplace • Great lifestyle unit in South Cambie steps to transit, shopping, cafes & restaurants • Pets & rentals welcome

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Spacious 2 bed, 2 bath home in LONDON PLACE. South-facing balcony with fabulous views to English Bay. Nothing to do, just move in.

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$688,000 $688,000

This is a rare find Custom Penthouse loft space in Yaletown. This amazing corner unit has 16 ft. soaring ceilings, two-level loft and a gas fireplace. Take a soak in your own private hot tub and enjoy the spectacular views that offer a luxury penthouse lifestyle.

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501PACIFIC PACIFIC1 bed 1 bed 501 and and den! the heart of den! IN theInheart of Yaletown,a ablock block from Yaletown, from thethe seawalland andsteps steps George seawall toto George Wainbornand andDavid David Lam Wainborn Lam parks,find findthis thsopen openplan plan parks, 588sq.ft. sq.ft.West-facing West-facing 588 apartmentthat thatcomes comes with apartment with bedand andden denwith with granite 11 bed granite counters,S/S S/Sappliances appliances counters, and and laminate laminate floors.floors.

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INVESTOR ALERT! PRICED TO SELL AND A GREAT LOCATION JUST A FEW BLOCKS TO THE BEACHES AND SEAWALL. Fantastic studio apartment with great income potential. With light renovations and a bit of paint, this suite could be a fantastic revenue property. A great well-run concrete building that has undergone many updates & improvements and a great rooftop pool for summer entertaining. This is a leasehold prepaid non-strata so your maint. fees inc. tax, heat, hot water and all the other mentioned items.

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1108-1205 HOWE ST. Gorgeous unit at ALTO offering a great layout, 10’ ceilings, large balcony, and huge spa-like bathroom! Designer finishes include Electrolux wood-paneled appliances, custome floor to ceiling cabinetry, and polished stone countertops. Practical pluses include: oversized parking stall, storage locker, rooftop garden, party room, and billiards room. Live close to everything in one of the nicest boutique buildings Downtown. Just move in and enjoy the lifestyle!

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@PlayOutdoorsVan It used to be only during playoff season when our favorite NHL players would don their unruly man-beards. Forgive and forget was the unspoken rule because this trend had an expiry date. Gone are the days. Men have taken it upon themselves to make a universal decision for both sexes that it is now cool to sport an overabundance of face fur even during the hottest months of the year.The “lumbersexual” is the latest outdoorsy trend to hit our city streets.

It comes as no surprise that the lumberjack is of Canadian origin, so is that the reason for its popularity here in the North? The trend has spread so fast and furiously that the lumbersexual beard can be seen on too many men throughout North America. Even men who would normally never consider anything but a close shave are ﬁnding themselves chomping at the bit to let it grow. According to Greg Reamsbottom, the lead singer of The Hairfarmers, it takes a minimum of six weeks to reach even a respectful length.

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carrots, chives, and scallions to name a few. There are many beneﬁts to growing your own food, getting down and dirty with the earth can help relieve stress, put a smile on your face, keep you grounded and help decrease food costs, and who doesn’t want to save money on food? Growing your own food will also reduce the use of fossil fuels resulting in pollution that comes from the transport of fresh produce from all over the world (in planes and refrigerated trucks) to your grocery store. There are many different options for us apartment dwellers, you just have to get involved and put in a little elbow grease and love.

CONTAINER GARDENING

Apartment dwellers will be happy to know that container gardening is cheap and easy! Take a walk through alleyways to check out the abundance of containers that people don’t want anymore, and if that’s not your jam, you can check out Craigslist in the free section or pay a cheap price to get all the materials you need. If you have money to burn then any hardware store will be able to hook you up with the tools

Use outdoor planters to convert your balcony into an urban garden. Thinkstock photo. you need.You could also just sift through your recycling and check out Pinterest for creative container gardening.

SHARE GARDEN SPACE IN A FRIENDS YARD

Have a friend with a yard? Ask to get in on that action! Share the space, hard work and beneﬁts of having a beautiful bounty of fresh produce. There’s nothing like hanging outside with friends with a beer in one hand and shovel in the other. Try it.

JOINING A COMMUNITY GARDEN

Not only is this great for growing your own food in the city but a great way to promote community building and development. Meet your neighbours and share in the joy of creating your own food. Be warned, these community gardens are quite popular and

for some there are waiting lists. If you are too impatient to wait, you can create your own!The City ofVancouver has some helpful info on their website with everything you need to know to start your own community garden.

GROWING FOODS FROM SCRAPS

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny Chris Moneymaker was employed as an accountant in Tennessee. On a whim, he paid $39 to enter an online poker tournament. Although he knew a lot about the game, he had never competed professionally. Nevertheless, he won the tournament. As his award, he received no money, but rather an invitation to participate in the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Can you guess the storybook ending? The rookie triumphed over 838 pros, taking home $2.5 million. I don’t foresee anything quite as spectacular for you, Aries, but there may be similar elements in your saga. For example, a modest investment on your part could make you eligible for a chance to earn much more. Here’s another possible pot twist: You could generate luck for yourself by ramping up a skill that has until now been a hobby.

EBay is a multi-billion-dollar e-commerce business that has been around for almost 20 years. But it had an inauspicious beginning. The first item ever sold on the service was a broken laser pointer. Even though the laser pointer didn’t work, and the seller informed the buyer it didn’t work, it brought in $14.83. This story might be a useful metaphor for your imminent future, Taurus. While I have faith in the vigor of the long-term trends you are or will soon be setting in motion, your initial steps may be a bit iffy.

Poetically speaking, it’s time to purify your world of all insanities, profanities, and inanities. It’s a perfect moment for that once-in-a-blue-moon scour-a-thon, when you have a mandate to purge all clunkiness, junkiness, and gunkiness from your midst. And as you flush away the unease of your hypocrisies and discrepancies, as you dispense with any tendency you might have to make way too much sense, remember that evil is allergic to laughter. Humor is one of the most effective psychospiritual cleansers ever.

I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods. The shopper ahead me had piled her groceries on the conveyor belt, and it was her turn to be rung up. “How are you doing?” she said cheerfully to the cashier, a crabby-looking hipster whom I happened to know is a Cancerian poet and lead singer in a local rock band. “Oh, I am living my dream,” he replied. I guessed he was being sarcastic, although I didn’t know for sure. In any case, I had a flash of intuition that his answer should be your mantra in the coming weeks. It’s time to redouble your commitment to living your dream! Say it 20 times in a row right now: “I am living my dream.”

As I awoke this morning, I remembered the dream I’d just had. In the dream, I had written a horoscope for you. Here’s what it said: “The Kentucky Derby is a famous horse race that takes place on the first Saturday of every May. It’s called ‘The Run for the Roses’ because one of the prizes that goes to the winning horse and jockey is a garland of 554 roses. I suspect that your life may soon bring you an odd treasure like that, Leo. Will it be a good thing, or too much of a good thing? Will it be useful or just kind of weird? Beautiful or a bit ridiculous? The answers to those questions may depend in part on your willingness to adjust your expectations.”

Don’t calm down. Don’t retreat into your sanctuary and relax into protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you’re dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement. I’m not exaggerating, my dear explorer. You’re on the verge of tapping into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath the frustration. You’re close to unlocking the deeper ambitions that are trapped inside the surface-level wishes.

American author Stephen Crane wrote his celebrated Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage in 10 days. Composer George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 16 days. On the other hand, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed ten years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is -- and should be! -- a phase more like Díaz’s than the other three creators’. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you’re working on can’t be rushed.

In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness.

“An escalator can never break,” mused comedian Mitch Hedberg. “It can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.’” I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg’s, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way.

I’ve got a tough assignment for you. It won’t be easy, but I think you’re ready to do a good job. Here it is: Learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your so-called imperfections. I also suggest you cast a love spell on yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror, and your favorite creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds, or engage in unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas?

When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, “Oprah” was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is “Orpah,” a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing “Orpah,” and often turned it into “Oprah.” The distorted form eventually stuck. But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring “Orpah.” For you Aquarians, it’s a favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes.

What I propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve. Once you’ve compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom.

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@MyszkaWay Living in America without my cushy, Canadian health insurance has forced me to rely on home remedies. I think we are spoiled in Canada and it has turned us into germ-susceptible babies.Your guts feel horrible? Go down to the free clinic and get sorted within the hour.You think you have chlamydia? The Sex Clinic on 12th is a dream. I remember waiting outside their doors before opening hours like it was Black Friday. But America offers nothing. I went to Planned Parenthood last year and it took almost six hours to get examined, get my medicine and pay my massive fee. (I didn’t realize that Planned Parenthood works on a sliding scale, so always lie about how much money you make if you actually earn over the poverty line.) Laying on the doctor’s table with my legs spread, the nurse could tell I was Canadian just from looking up inside my vagina. The string of my IUD was a different color. In America, you fuck defensively. I don’t take my health for granted living in the USA. It’s just not an option. I’ve acquired some great American tricks to improve your health and apparently, semen is the ultimate at-home anti-depressant. According to a study conducted by researchers at SUNY Albany, semen is known to contain mood-altering chemicals like oxytocin, cortisol, serotonin, endor-

phins, estrone and melatonin which play in a factor in one’s overall happiness. Only 3.0 per cent of a load is sperm and the rest water, sugar and a various amount of over 50 different compounds including immunosuppressants (to keep women’s immune systems from destroying sperm).The semen study surveyed 298 college women and found that those who have oral sex or engage in unprotected sex were “happier than those who practiced safe sex.”Women who practiced safe sex were just as depressed as those who were abstinent.Vaginal tissue is very absorbent and sucks up all the good compounds. (So, where were all the gay men in this study? The anus and mouth are equally as absorbent as the vaginal tissue.That’s why British kids were dipping tampons in vodka and sticking them up their assholes to get drunk.) Is semen absorption really what’s altering these college girl’s moods?Those who were having oral and unprotected sex on the regular were probably in a relationship that has reached the phase of “we no longer need condoms”. Perhaps the excitement of this was contributing to their over all happiness and not the semen serotonin? After all, one of the study’s conductors noted, “It may very well be the case that the anti-depressant properties of semen are dose dependent, and that repeated insemination may be necessary to get the effects.”Were the abstinent people surveyed abstinent by choice or just couldn’t ﬁnd anyone worth banging? College is a gross place full of men who think it’s acceptable to

wear flip flops outside of their dorm rooms. Also, were the women having protected sex in relationships or single?Were they happy with their current relationship status?These are college-aged women.What person isn’t a roller coaster of emotional bullshit in their early twenties? And what about lesbians? Happy dykes should beg their male friends for loads so they can mix the liquid into their smoothies every morning? Semen saved my life.Well, semen and juicing. Aristotle believed in the perfection of semen. It was the substance of the soul and never, ever to be wasted (relax, drama queen, there isn’t exactly a shortage of supply). Some people have even used bull semen to condition damaged hair.The Taoists were all about saving semen and tried to avoid ejaculation to conserve its powerful essence (AKA blue balls). I think that semen is an anti-depressant in the same way that urinating on a jellyfish sting is a painkiller or inhaling your own feces will get you stoned. Before the world got all advanced with science and chemicals, we had to rely on our bodies and the earth. Maybe I’ll start stockpiling semen when I get really paranoid and worried about the apocalypse but for now, I think exercise and Jim Beam is my anti-depressant. W

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Continued from page 24 It was in Grade 12 that Reamsbottom began to grow his own beard. “The universe says facial hair is man’s natural state, so have hair,” he says. “Just be sure to wash it and yes, use shampoo but leave the beard crap for the hipsters.” When asked what his wife thinks of kissing this lumbersexual, he says, “It’s like getting licked in the face by a sheepdog”. Assess whether this outdoorsy man trend is right for you by drawing up a list of pros and cons. Be sure to consider your lover’s opinion in your decision as the growing out stage is more painful for your partner than for you. Some things to consider: Are you man enough to, A), look like a lumber jack everyday, B), regularly groom your jungle of facial hair, C), keep your beard clear of food and scraps, D), hit the woods and become a hermit for a minimum of six weeks while your beard gets to an acceptable length,

Greg Reamsbottom, lead singer of The Hairfarmers. Lumin Pictures Inc Photo and E), wear a ﬂannel shirt to work. Tanya and Mabel, two women responsible for shaving mustaches during Movember lay it on the table. “The beard is here to stay, the ‘stache is yesterday.” Based on this statement alone, men should run for the mountains and not return until their beards have past the prickly stage and are silky and soft to the touch. Only then are men allowed to come out of hermit status to showcase a

forest of facial hair. What grows in the forest should technically stay in the forest. For now, the lumbersexual beard is a statement and clearly makes men feel like they rule the true north strong and free. I guess the verdict is this: let it grow guys, but hibernate for a minimum of six weeks and prove you are worthy of sporting this mountain man look before you start strutting your stuff through the streets of Vancouver. W

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