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Tomahawk Barbecue evolves with the times

BY STEPHEN THORNE

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orth Vancouver’s Tomahawk Barbecue has survived the Great Depression, a world war, the fast-food revolution, the diet craze, progress, regress, life, death and dry rot.

More than survived, it’s thrived.

Generations of customers keep coming back for the “Yukon-style” bacon and eggs (Yukon-style means “big”), the fresh turkey sandwiches (turkeys cooked onsite nightly), the Skookum Chief Burger (that’s organic beef from a ranch in Salmon Arm, B.C.) and a selection of freshly baked pies made from 100-year-old family recipes.

But an institution like the Tomahawk doesn’t rest on its laurels. For a home-style restaurant to work for nearly 100 years, it has to constantly adapt and evolve with tastes and the times.

So these days you’ll also find on the Tomahawk menu a Granola Yogurt Medley, a

selection of green salads and a veggie burger comprising mushrooms, brown rice and low-fat cheeses – along with fresh tomato and lettuce.

“We really are a dinosaur,” says a grinning Charles Chamberlain, whose dad Chick opened the Capilanoarea diner in 1926.

It was the region’s first drive-in – before burgers, it offered “sandwiches in the car,” a novelty in 1920s-era Vancouver.

But Chick Chamberlain’s timing couldn’t have been much worse. The stock market crashed and the Depression kicked in just three years later. Still, the family persevered.

Those principles of perseverance, adaptability and patience to do things right have stayed with the business through thick and thin. “ We’re definitely not complacent about it,” says Charles – Chuck to his family, friends and customers. “As with anything, you’ve got to stay on top of things.”

The Tomahawk is part-

museum, and features an impressive collection of West Coast native artifacts donated or traded by local Squamish and other First Nations with whom Chick Chamberlain, the son of British immigrants, had close relationships.

Chick fell in love with the coastal peoples and culture.

In tough times, he’d provide meals on barter, or less, collecting the odd piece along the way.

“During the Depression, everybody had to help one another – it didn’t matter colour, race, creed, anything,” says his son.

Eventually, Chick started serving on the local band council — the first white man to do so — and the only one for years. Now descendants of those First Nations friends bring their grandchildren into the restaurant to see the work of their forebears.

Charles (Chuck) Chamberlain started his apprenticeship at the Tomahawk when he was just seven years old, clearing carhop trays on

How working together can help keep kids safe from digital dangers

Carol Todd remembers when teenagers’ insults were written on the bathroom wall or on paper and could be washed away or torn up.

Then, bullying was a schoolyard event. The trials of adolescence stopped at the bedroom door, and that room was a refuge from the outside world.

Now, bullying is a wider, more enduring problem through the use of technology and social media, says Todd.

“Something physical or face-to-face could happen at school and they come home, turn on their devices and, boom, it’s right there — pictures, videos, words, the story.

And it isn’t just one-to-one anymore. It’s one-to-100,000.”

Todd knows how difficult growing up in the digital age can be. Her daughter Amanda took her life on Oct. 10, 2012 — just before her 16th birthday — after relentless online

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bullying by a suspected perpetrator in the Netherlands.

Todd, a teacher, has channelled her grief and skills into educating the public about online safety and security through her foundation, the Amanda Todd Legacy Society, and through her involvement in a free education program offered through Telus called Wise Internet and Smart-

phone Education, or Telus WISE. Cyberbullying, says Todd, can affect anyone. Nearly 75 per cent of American adults have witnessed online harassment and 40 per cent have experienced it, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

Cyberbullying among kids is intensifying. Recently, Telus, with partners MediaSmarts and PREVNet, surveyed 800 Canadian youth.

Forty-two per cent said they had been cyberbullied in the previous four weeks; 60 per cent had witnessed cyberbullying in that period.

What’s more, 33 per cent of youth said they do not report cyberbullying because they don’t believe adults give advice that helps – suggesting adults must educate themselves on the issue and how to equip youth with methods to intervene.

weekends.

He’s 7 1 now and still works 17-hour days, seven days a week except Christmas and Boxing Day, when the place closes and he and his 24 staff – some of whom have been there more than 20 years – take a much-deserved break.

By 1960, dry rot was getting the best of the original log building, so the family moved the business to a new building across the street.

Business took a nosedive in the 1980s with the rise of various diet crazes.

“That was just horrendous,” says Chamberlain.

“Not just for me, but other restaurants, too. Nobody was eating any bacon or toast, the mainstays of the business. But we carried on. We didn’t change too much.”

These days, the Tomahawk goes through a tonneand-a-half of bacon a month.

The Mixed Grill, a menu item spawned by a customer who’d bring in a baking sheet after his Sunday soccer game and ask Chick Chamberlain to “load ’er up”

with whatever was available, serves up nine slices of bacon along with two free-range eggs, two slices of Klondike toast, an organic hamburger patty, aged cheddar cheese, a wiener, onions and fresh sautéed mushrooms.

In an era of cheap fast food, never-ending deadlines and a relentless demand for instant gratification, the alcohol-free Tomahawk just keeps chugging along like it’s in some sort of time warp.

On weekends, customers

queue for more than 30 minutes to enjoy servings that cost from $8 to $15 a plate.

Robert Mackay is 83 years old and he’s been coming to the Tomahawk since 1950.

He’s down to once a month now, but the Yukon-style breakfast remains his favourite.

“We love the novelty of the place,” he says. “We enjoy the atmosphere. It hasn’t changed much. They’ve modernized the restaurant . . . but the food is still just great. It’s always been great.”

Early on, Carol Todd recognized where the change would have to begin. Speaking in 2013 at a Winnipeg roundtable sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Todd said it couldn’t be left to police and governments to prevent cyberbullying; social media and organizations like telecoms needed to take a leading role.

Telus WISE hadn’t been created, but as a long-time customer, Todd knew the company and its reputation well, and admired its presence and practices. When it launched Telus WISE, she says, “It was really good to hear that a telecom was taking control and doing something positive.”

Todd signed on as a program partner and ambassador.

Telus WISE is the brainchild of Darren Entwistle, company president/CEO, who believes social responsibility is both a duty and a sound business practice. Entwistle recognized that creating an educational, actionable and

free resource to help all Canadians, not just Telus customers, would be critical to helping people adopt the most current Internet and smartphone safety practices.

Program director Shelly Smith, who has been with Telus WISE since its inception nearly three years ago, says the multilingual effort has reached hundreds of thousands of Canadians through workshops, seminars and online resources.

“We’re all aware of the benefits that connected technologies bring to our work and personal lives, but we also have to be aware of and prepared for the risks,” says Smith.

Telus WISE addresses issues such as cyberbullying, identity theft and smartphone safety in classroom visits, adult education programs, information guides and online at telus.com/wise.

“We need to make sure there are safety nets in place, and those include education,” says Todd. “It needs to be ongoing, and we need to educate adults just as much as we

need to educate the kids.”

Solving issues confronting smartphone users is a threepronged effort requiring prevention, intervention and reaction, says Todd. She believes Telus is doing an outstanding job on prevention, particularly through its WISE workshops.

Most youths have an Internet-connected device and multiple social media accounts. Kids today may be tech savvy, says Todd, but they are as naive and vulnerable as ever.

“When your child turns 16, you don’t give the car keys to them and tell them to go drive to their heart’s content. You give them lessons. You make sure they’re safe. We should be doing the same thing with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.”

Don’t lecture, she urges parents. And don’t be quick to punish mistakes.

“The keys are communication and trust,” she says.

“Parents and their kids need to have open conversations – conversations without judgment.”

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Chuck Chamberlain, owner of North Vancouver’s Tomahawk Barbecue, jokes with servers Leona De Lange Boom and Kyla Majeau. The iconic restaurant has relied on sterling customer service to thrive for nearly a century.

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Re:“Lets get real about going green,” Rant/Rave, Jan. 7, 2016.

Joan Chandran wants Mayor Robertson to stop building bike lanes and solve the homeless issue first. At the same time she wants a truly greener city.

How about asking folks to get out of their toxic,

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Founded in Vancouver in 1923 by General Victor Wentworth Odlum and Colonel Albert Malcolm “Buster” Brown, Odlum Brown remains a private and wholly employee-owned company that today encompasses 250 employees with offices in Vancouver, Kelowna, Chilliwack, Victoria and Courtenay. The firm has also been an annual winner of the prestigious Canada’s Best Managed Companies designation since 1999.

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Vancouver’s hospitality industry has lost an incredible and much-valued member of the community this week. Chef Tina Fineza passed away on Jan. 7 after a year-and-a-halflong battle with breast cancer.

Tina was a true “chef’s chef.”

While many chefs are lauded by the public for the press they receive,Tina was also admired by other chefs for the incredible flavours she produced and her significant mentoring of the next generation of cooks. Her thoughtful critique and work ethic made her a much-loved instructor

city’s first food truck. Most recently,Tina worked with Earls as a product developwith her business and life ment chef and part of their partner, Annette RawlinChefs’ Collective team. son, however, that had the On a personal note, I first biggest impact on met Tina in 2009 at our local restaurant The Flying Tiger. scene.Tina’s work Her enthusiasm creating recipes for her work, her and launching new constant and infecrestaurant menus tious smile, and her led to long-standing open and generous successes like Les nature made her Faux Bourgeois, unforgettable to Habit, Commune everyone she met, Tina Fineza Café,Terra Breads, including me.Tina East of Main, Boca will be remembered Latin Foods and La Mezcale- not only for her numerous ria. She also helped launch and important contributions Vancouver’s first authento the industry, but, more imtic taqueria (La Taqueria) portantly, for the many lives and re-vamped the menu she brightened along the way. for Roaming Dragon, the Forza Tina. W

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Tina’s early professional years were filled with stints working under luminaries such as Rob Feenie and Frank Pabst at Lumière, and Michael Noble at Diva at the Met, and doing a stage with the legendary Charlie Trotter in Chicago. In 1999, Tina went on to work as chef de cuisine at Bin 942 for five years, crafting award-winning modern tapas. In 2006, she opened The Flying Tiger as executive chef, creating the city’s first modern Asian street food menu.

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There’s something deeply paradoxical about a spaceage movie being so damn nostalgic. If you’re any kind of StarWars fan, (the original trilogy, not the Jar Jar Binks prequel disasters) and have seen StarWars:The Force Awakens, you’ll know exactly what I’m getting at. The latest entry into the franchise is a joy, made by fans for fans, clearly understanding what we want to see, and how we want to see it.

If you’re of a certain vintage, you’ll likely remember where you were when the first three StarWars films came out. I was too young to see the original movie in a theatre in 1977, but begged my mom to take me to The Empire Strikes Back in 1980.

(Mom obliged, but thought the movie was too violent.

She waited in the lobby of the Stanley Theatre for its entire duration).

My fondest StarWars memories revolve around Return of the Jedi. The movie came out on Wednesday, May 25, 1983. It opened in but one location in the entire Greater Vancouver area: the Vogue Theatre on Granville Street, on 70mm film in sixtrack Dolby Stereo sound.

There was an absolute frenzy of anticipation for Return of the Jedi unlike any other film in history to that point, and Vancouver was just as swept up as anywhere else. Fans camped out in front of the Vogue for days in all manner of costumes to see the first showings. I was 11 years old in May of 1983, and as desperate as anyone to see the movie. We weren’t allowed to go to the Wednesday premiere, but my friend’s mom agreed to drive us downtown on the following

Saturday morning: four boys, all of us in Grade 6.

We arrived at the theatre for the Saturday matinee hours early. I’ve never forgotten looking up at that huge, iconic, vertical VOGUE sign with the blazing marquee beneath: RETURN OF THE JEDI. The line up of excited kids already stretched down Granville, past the Movieland Arcade, around the corner onto Smithe Street, across the alley and onto Seymour. Luckily, the capacity for the Vogue was over 1,000, and we got in.

If you can imagine it, the scene in the theatre before the movie started was an out-of-control frenzy of anticipation. The audience seemed to be made up almost entirely of kids, and the air was filled with flying projectiles: popcorn, paper airplanes, movie programs, garbage, and whatever else kids felt like chucking. Ushers had already given up. We managed to snag seats in the centre near the back, directly below the balcony.

Moments before the movie began, some nerf herder in the first row of the balcony dumped his entire cup of Coca Cola on me. I was pelted with ice and thoroughly soaked with sticky syrup, but I didn’t move.

You could have dumped two tons of tauntaun shit on me and I wouldn’t have budged.

I wasn’t going to miss that movie for anything. When the lights went down, our screaming drowned out the famous John Williams score. I sat there for the entire film, coated in a sugary glaze, and loved every second of it.

Just like Han Solo, I’m 33 years older and crankier now, so I waited until the first rush of crowds ebbed before I saw StarWars:The Force Awakens. It was as if the Millennium Falcon had flipped to light speed and taken me back to 1983. I would have almost welcomed someone dumping a Coke on me again. Almost. W

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@Jennifer_AGCTK For this month’s Home Is Were The Art Is, I caught up with Andrew Hibbs - the man and the creative mind behind the hottest (and one of the only) neon-bending studio in the city, Endeavour Neon. Andrew’s work is revitalizing the old school craft, with his signs used as major installations in some of the city’s most notable locations: TELUS Gardens, Vogue Theatre and Kit and Ace to name a few.

This highly visible return to the glory of neon has inspired a new wave of design trends for residential clients as well; Andrew can take any quote, image or original idea and turn it into bright light custom art, and it is this level of unique customization that is driving the direction of not only his business, but the industry as a whole.

Endeavour recently teamed up with local artist Dana Mooney for a highly publicized and well-received collaboration. Creating a line of art that combines the expressive abstract style of Mooney doubled with playful quotes like “beach please” and “let’s pop bottles” in Andrew’s crafted neon, the collaboration solidified the expanding place neon has within current design.

How did you get started in neon bending and what led you to where you are now?

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I watched my dad bend neon out in the shop in the back of our house my whole life and was always very fascinated with it. I loved working with my hands and at the age of 13, my dad let me start pumping the neon, which is putting the gas in the tubes; at 16 my dad gave me the repair business and I started bending neon from there. Two years ago my dad passed on to me the neon side of the company and I took [the business] to being more artsy and personal rather than just commercial.

Do you have a Vancouver muse? Or a favourite place in or around the city that inspires you?

I love the outdoors so much and really get inspired by the beauty this city has to offer, I try to take every moment in, and love driving up into the mountains to hike and camp.

What is your favourite accessory (for home or personal)?

My favourite accessory would be my Apple watch – I never leave the house without it. It helps so much when I am bending neon and calls come in. I am able to multitask, and it definitely makes my life a lot easier.

When it comes to style/design, what is the one thing you covet the most?

I try to be unique and different. I love when people send me ideas that I haven’t even thought of, or have never been done, things that really break the mould. Like neon chandeliers, or abstract art.

Do you have any predictions for the future of your industry?

I think that neon will just keep taking off and become more and more artistic, and less known as just commercial signs, and that is what I strive for.To bring a new life to neon.

How would you describe Vancouver’s artistic/creative community?

I would say that Vancouver’s creativity and artistic style is very multicultural as that is what Vancouver truly is. The nice thing with neon art is that it can be diverse, from something so modern, to something so classic. It’s very versatile to fit everyone’s ideas and style.

Who is your idol or mentor?

My mentor and my idol is my father. He is the hardest working person I know in his professional and personal life, I strive to be just as good in my neon career as he was.

Finish this sentence: my day is not complete without…

Something going wrong.

As bending neon never goes smoothly, there’s always something that happens, but in the end seeing the artwork completed and lit up trumps any frustration that comes with this job.

What do you wish more people knew about artists?

I think art is really a way to express yourself, and in neon I am able to help people do just that, bringing an idea to life with my little twist on it. W

Most millennial brides want to break with tradition when it comes to committing to the perfect gown.

Sarah Frood, who co-owns Union Bridal in Gastown where the focus is on catering to West Coast brides, says 30-something brides are hunting for free-spirit styles for the big day.

“Girls want to be comfortable, and they want to feel like themselves,” Frood says. “Vancouver girls want a wedding that is reflective of them, but they don’t want to break the bank.”

The looks in their quaint shop are inspired by a bohemian vibe, which Frood loosely defines as, “the essence of it having an effortless feeling to your day.”

It isn’t about a specific location, or décor, but rather an overall ethos of relaxed – but still gorgeous – authenticity.

“It’s reflective of you and you can be on a beach in Mexico or at the top of the gondola in Squamish, or in a bar in Gastown. It’s got an effortless vibe to it, I think. It doesn’t have to mean that you have got a flower crown and you are a hippy.”

Frood opened Union Bridal in the fall along with Emily Milardo. Both women had weddings last year. At the time they didn’t know one another, but after their respective nup-

Union Bridal co-founder Sarah Frood specializes in contemporary wedding dresses that appeal to modern style sensibilities. Dan Toulgoet photo tials each considered opening their own bridal shop.

“We both found it really hard to find a wedding dress in Vancouver, that just kind of fit our personalities, our styles,” says Frood, who ultimately bought her dress online from a French designer.

Eventually, they ended up meeting through a mutual friend and became business partners.What they have opened is a bridal shop that offers about 40 dresses, from five to seven designers at any time (including trunk shows – where a specific designer brings in their entire collection for brides to try on).

Looking to the year ahead, Frood says 2016 bridal trends include plunging necklines, which she loves for the drama. Lace is holding strong this year again, she says, with

many styles including nude slips underneath, helping the lace stand-out. Sophisticated low/open backs and off-theshoulder dresses are also key looks this year.

Union Bridal carries hippy-esque lines Daughters of Simone and Rue de Seine (a dress from this line, called Elea, looks like something Kate Moss would wear to her nuptials); classic romantic dresses by Alexandra Grecco; dramatic, yet contemporary gems from Houghton Bride (I’m crazy about the Galina – with its plunging neckline and loose fit).

Toronto designer Anais Anette’s modern romantic collection will be in the shop for a trunk show from Feb. 19 to 21. French bridal line Elise Hameau will also be at the studio next month, from Feb. 26 to 29.The dresses range in price from $2,500 to $8,000.

Frood sums up her love of the French line: “You know how everyone talks about how French women dress? It’s effortless; it’s easy to wear but it’s really elegant. I think that is why I gravitate toward that style.We are hoping that Vancouver brides will love it.”

Meanwhile, she is enjoying her new role of helping modern brides delicately break bridal style traditions.

“It’s a time when it’s an opportunity to be different because it was so traditional in the past,” she says. “Now people are starting to kind of break out of those traditions, so it’s kind of an exciting time in bridal right now.” W

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Comedian Charles Demers expounds on his socialist roots in a painfully funny one-man show at the PuSh Festival. Simon Hayter photo

Charles Demers: the ‘leftover’ socialist Comedian serves up food for thought with theatrical life story at PuSh Festival KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

While The Leftovers is best known for being a Judgment Day-themed HBO show, capturing the depressing existence of people who must carry on after watching everything they love disappear, it also serves as an appropriate, if inadvertent, metaphor for Charles Demers’ political reality.

The Vancouver comedian watched in horror this past fall as his beloved democratic socialist party, the NDP, gradually lost their way, their 2015 federal election chances, and effectively vanished from the national political conversation.

Demers had been inspired to pen his autobiographical one-man show, simply called Leftovers, about being a lifelong political outsider prior to that, however, during the height of the Stephen Harper regime. At the time of writing in 2014, there were still orange aspirations that the NDP would not only retain their stronghold in Quebec but also make gains and be able to advance some of their left-leaning ideas politically.

The Neworld Theatreproduced play – a theatrical hybrid of standup and

storytelling – premiered at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby last March, poking fun at this optimism and laughing at the realities of being a socialist in a capitalist world – stuck with the “leftovers” of the 20th century – while holding on to hope that better days were ahead.

Then the Liberal party – Canada’s centre party – swooped in on its path to victory to comfortably occupy territory that more traditionally belonged to the left: Legalized marijuana. Prescription drug cost cutting. A Minister of Climate Change.

An enhanced Canada Pension Plan. Deficit spending. More roads, schools and seniors’ homes. Long, flowing hair.

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Overnight, things seemingly did get better, but at the NDP’s expense, leaving a large group of anti-Harper “winners” inexplicably disappointed.

So, Demers returns to Leftovers, making its Vancouver debut with the 2016 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, to humorously explain why.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON

Charles “Charlie” Demers was born on July 1, 1980.

That being Canada Day (and coinciding closely with the defeat of the Quebec referendum six weeks earlier), his mother Robin – a hilarious, generous, “Tommy Douglas Christian” – saw the date as a symbolic

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birth story for her son.

It would become a running theme in his life; one of the first to apear in Leftovers.

“The way that my mother enters the world of the piece is through her two expectations for my life,” Demers says. “Expectations is maybe a strong word,” he amends with a smile. “These were never there in an overbearing way, but two things she kind of said from the beginning was that I would be a comedian, and I would be the prime minister of Canada.”

Seated in the plush seats of theYork Theatre, where just one night earlier audiences had been laughing along with his latest pop-culture skewering script for the East Van Panto, the fiercely intelligent 35-year-old has exceeded his mother’s first hope: three books (including a BC Book Prize nomination), a recurring role on CBC’s The Debaters, a breakthrough CityTV news comedy show called The List, Just For Laughs festival appearances, a stint writing about theatre for this very newspaper, and a position teaching creative writing at UBC – all born out of a finely tuned talent for standup and sketch comedy.

Sadly, Demers was unable to share those milestones with his mother. She died from leukemia when he was just 10 years old – a difficult subject he explores in his recent book of essays, The Horrors. But, having been born in 1951, during the roll out of

Canada’s Old Age Security Act, the creation of universal health care and the building up of the so-called “welfare state” after the Second World War, it’s easy to see how her ideologies came about, and the influence they had on her son.

Conversely, though, as Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberalism and Ronald Reagan’s right-wing conservatism rose in popularity, Demers says his generation witnessed the decay of those very systems.

“My whole life has been the dismantling of that postWorld War II apparatus,” he says, “And I talk [in Leftovers] about the years that we had together, during most of which she was very sick and was dying. […] Those intimate moments and intimate memories were deeply private and personal, but were also social and were reliant on the public sphere, whether it was provision of medical care that she received, or the fact that she was receiving disability payments.

“And so, in relation to my mother,” he continues, “the show ends up being about what’s most personal and private in our lives, the values that we’re raised with, and how those values come out later on in life. But also about living in society, the way in which that society looked after my mother and me, and what the erosion of those values meant [to] the world that her son was supposed to one day be prime minister of.”

A LIFELONG LOSER?

Life as a “shrill leftist” hasn’t been easy on Demers.

In fact, months after the federal election has faded to the new normal, Demers says he is still not recovered from how it all played out.

“I’m finding myself very disoriented by a world where a lot of the people around me are very happy politically. Where even I have to grudgingly admit that there are things that I’m very impressed by or happy with myself,” he explains, “while at the same time finding that all these things are being, I guess, delivered by the wrong team.”

For many a mild-mannered Canadian, this level of political distress likely seems alien. Demers has been involved with “radical left politics” since he was 15, however. It has shaped his friend groups, his work … it’s even how he met his wife.

So, with the rise of Justin Trudeau, he and Leftovers co-writer Marcus Youssef felt it necessary to incorporate some of Demers’ newfound conflict into the show. “[After Trudeau], there was a feeling of, ‘Wait a minute, why aren’t you happy.

You won…’” he laughs. “But in some ways […] the defeat of the NDP this past fall, and their total political capitulation leading up to that, really actually drives home all of the deepest fears of this piece in a much more effective way than doing it when

Harper was in power.

“We’re […] in a place, politically, where all of our expectations have been managed to such a degree that it’s hard to even picture what someone to the left of Justin Trudeau would look like,” he continues. “Which is such a weird thing because he ought to be the middle of the road.

That’s the centre party! And yet to so many people it feels like Che Guevara is running Canada,” he finishes with a laugh. “I think a lot of people are just left with this feeling of, what is the left for?”

The young father adds that Canada’s new twoparty outlook has left him questioning how to raise his two-year-old daughter.

“Am I going to burden her with this job of hoisting up the losing side of every political argument for the rest of her life?” he asks, with a healthy dose of selfdeprecation. “Are we going to raise a next generation of people who will only ever be frustrated and defeated their whole political lives?’”

Pop these leftovers in the microwave and find out. W

LEFTOVERS

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When Aakash Odedra was 21 years old, he discovered his name had two As. Prior to that, the dancer, who was diagnosed as dyslexic as a child, thought his name was spelled Akash.

Even throughout his schooling, Odedra says he and others around him unknowingly spelled his name incorrectly. It wasn’t until he was preparing for a trip as an adult that the A finally appeared.

“I had looked at my passport a million times and, literally, it appeared in front of me, which was really strange,” Odedra admits with a laugh, speaking by phone from Leicester, England. “How could you have gone through your whole life and lose the most basic, fundamental part of your personality, your identity? How could you not know that?”

When he did finally find the missing vowel, Odedra – who says he long felt defined by his reading difficulties versus his intellectual abilities – says his life began to change.

“Before that, I was almost washed away by the waves, wherever the situation took

me,” he recalls, softly. “[Now], I could notice things, I could command things, rather than, you know, not having control over what I perceived or the information I got.”

The rising dance star has incorporated that, and other moments from his personal history, into a double dance bill called Inked and Murmur, coming to town as the opening show of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

Odedra may not be a household name in Vancouver, but the light-footed BritishIndian dancer has made waves overseas since making the switch from the classical Indian forms of kathak and bharata natyam – of which he spent 20 years mastering – to contemporary dance in 2011.That year, at the age of 27, Odedra had three solos created for him by three of the UK’s top contemporary choreographers: his mentor, the legendary Akram Khan, as well as Russell Maliphant and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

With no contemporary training, Odedra literally taught himself the new movement vocabulary by performing and touring those pieces, which not only seamlessly

incorporated his Indian heritage into new styles, but also cemented him as a visually stunning new performer to watch.

Two years later, after branching out with his own diverse choreography (including creating three pieces for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Tour, as well as a show inspired by the music of James Brown at the Apollo Theatre in NewYork), he co-created Inked and Murmur.

In Inked, (choreographed

by Laurence Olivier awardwinner Damien Jalet), Odedra first explores the impermanence of the body, using the traditional Trajva tattoos that marked the hands of his Rajput grandmother as the inspiration.

Dancing on a nine-metre by five-metre piece of paper, Odedra swirls and swoops, contorts and transforms himself to mark the space around him, and his body, with thick black ink.When finished, the audience is left with a piece of art that evokes the legacy of his grandmother, as well as Odedra’s own rite of passage.

Continuing with his own experiences, Odedra then uses Murmur to catalogue his coming to terms with dyslexia.

Dancer Aakash Odedra opens the PuSh Festival with Inked and Murmur. Kajal Nisha Patel photo Through choreography

by Australian Lewis Major, warped realities come to life in the deliberately theatrical performance, which at times sees Odedra frantically chasing flying paper, at others, vigorously shadow boxing. For Odedra, it captures a world where he can rarely trust what he sees.

“Visually, through the eyes of a dyslexic, when you look at a board or an object it warps, it changes, it’s dynamic,” he explains. “So if I was to look at a board, the letters would change around.

Your visual interpretation of the world is different.”

The scenes are further augmented with spoken dialogue and dynamic lighting and animations, taking audiences through his early frustrations with the written language to his ultimate liberation through dance.

“Dance becomes an expression of the internal thought,” says Odedra.

“Something which is deep inside you that you can’t articulate – or I couldn’t articulate – in words. And

rather than going on a negative path, it sort of took me in a direction where I was able to use this tool as a positive outlet for myself.

“There shouldn’t be a negative stigma attached to dyslexia,” he adds, “because, for me, it’s a sign of intelligence and, for me, dyslexia became a blessing not a curse.” W ! Inked and Murmur runs Jan. 19 to 20 at theVancouver Playhouse.Tickets from $36; PuShFestival.ca.

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Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is like a splash of brandy in your boring mid-winter coffee.

For the past 12 years, the dynamic, curated, multi-disciplinary event has emboldened the arts calendar with exciting, often ingenious, programming to lasting local impact.

And this year will be no exception, from the exciting reunion of local dance punks Holy Body Tattoo (see page 9), to the world premiere of transgender poet Antonette Rea’s life story.Truly every show deserves consideration, but here are five specifically wild and wonderful options at this year’s festival.

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Jan. 14 to Feb. 13 at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage Former Just For Laughs host Rick Miller translates 25 years of Baby Boomer history into one jam-packed one-man show. Part documentary, part rock concert, Miller offers his snappy insight into major events, from the Vietnam War to the moon landing, which changed the world.

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Jan. 25 to 26 at the Fox Cabaret The Brooklyn-based vocal octet, which includes Music on Main composer-in-residence Caroline Shaw, expertly illuminates the potential of the human voice through everything from opera, to Appalachian yodelling, to Tuvan throat singing.

The draw: The promise of hearing Shaw’s Pulitzer Prizewinning composition, Partita for 8Voices.

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970 cult classic film, El Topo, will get a new soundtrack at PuSh. Contributed photo The draw: A sweeping history lesson in 100 minutes, complete with soundtrack.

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Jan. 20 to 24 at Performance Works One of four shows from France, this family-friendly, one-man “miniature circus” reveals the obsessive, funny, scary world of acclaimed circus veteran Etienne Manceau.

The draw: Watching the ordinary transform before your eyes.

EL TOPO

Jan. 22 at the Fox Cabaret As part of Club PuSh, the festival’s social and experimental hotspot, Stefan Smulovitz and his Eye of Newt ensemble create a new soundtrack to El Topo, the bizzarro ‘70s desert masterpiece by cult film director and Dune visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky. If you want a primer, just plug his name into Netflix and enjoy.

The draw: I believe that’s obvious.

L’IMMÉDIAT

Feb. 4-6 at theVancouver Playhouse A blend of dance and slapstick circus comedy, the seven acrobats of Association Immédiat propel movement into the adventurous and avant garde as they twist and turn through an ever-collapsing stage set, comprised of piles of junk and furniture.

The draw: Seeing French performers turn an episode of Hoarders into fine art.

Meanwhile, watch this space for more PuSh coverage throughout the festival’s run. W

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Legendary dance company returns with GodspeedYou! Black Emperor live KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Having GodspeedYou! Black Emperor perform live as your soundtrack doesn’t happen overnight. Especially when you’re a small, defunct cult dance company from Vancouver, looking to bring back a work (the 2005 hit show monumental) that hasn’t been performed in 10 years.

In fact, it is a process that began in 2005, the moment Holy Body Tattoo broke up.

You see, music by GodspeedYou! Black Emperor formed the score for monumental the first time, but in the form of tracks. As time passed and talk got more serious about resurrecting the show, Holy Body Tattoo founders Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras felt a remounting would only really be worthwhile if the elusive Canadian post-rock band signed on to perform, too.

It took about five years after their final performance, however, for the reputation of Holy Body Tattoo to reach the heights necessary to be able to interest a band like GodspeedYou! Black Emperor.

It took even longer for GodspeedYou! Black Emperor, which was two years into its own indefinite hiatus when Holy Body Tattoo dissolved, to get back together themselves and start touring again.Then it took a further four years for Gagnon and Gingras, who were simultaneously enjoying their own solo careers while liaising with the necessary producers and managers, to actually negotiate and coordinate a tour.

Did we mention they have been managing the return of monumental, Holy Body Tattoo’s largest work ever, from

Holy Body Tattoo will perform its 2005 hit monumental at the PuSh Festival, this time accompanied by post-rock giants Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Chris Randle photo opposite sides of the country?

The legend begins again with this year’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, but it started in a studio in East Vancouver.

Gagnon and Gringas first met while performing with Vancouver’s influential EDAM (Experimental Dance and Music) scene in the ‘80s.

By the early ‘90s, the dancers were bringing a fearless punk sensibility to their new company – earning Holy Body Tattoo a reputation for “balletic yet brutal” choreography that functioned as a commentary on modern culture.

“For me the whole Holy Body Tattoo [thing] was pretty punk rock, and that’s what I came from,” says Gringas, speaking by phone from Montreal, where her company, Animals of Distinction, is overseeing monumental. “It was trying to harness that energy and sense of rebellion and just, you know, spirit of pushing boundaries.

“I’m just really grateful I had something physical to

put all of that energy into!”

Gringas adds with a laugh.

In a few short years, the company had collected awards and accolades, as well as international acclaim, and left an indelible mark on Canadian dance (which only grew more apparent in their absence). monumental, however – having been built out of concepts from earlier works such as White Riot and Our Brief Eternity, could be considered Holy Body Tattoo’s opus.

In the piece, nine dancers stand on white plinths, jerking and flailing to the elegiac GodspeedYou! Black Emperor score (spliced together at the time from tracks from the band’s first major release, F# A# !, with the help of former band member Roger Tellier-Craig) like a stressed out, societal stop-motion animation, until the whole artifice begins to fall apart.

“The work really is about pushing the performance language, to create a sense of humanity through effort,

through extreme repetitiveness,” explains Gagnon, speaking by phone from the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby. “Exposing a sense of humility,” he adds.

“We push it to a place where really, you realize everyone, no matter what, is equal. And it really speaks to how far we are willing to go, and when we go that far, what is the cost, and what do you have left?”

Critics raved, but by the end of the show’s run in 2005, Gagnon admits it was time for a change.

“After monumental, we both felt we needed to go back into our own sphere of work and really deepen other avenues of our psyche, artistry, and try to develop other aspects,” he explains. “And we had different needs – we needed time to regather, re-explore, redefine in order to be able to get us, interestingly enough, into the same room again, realizing that we had something more to offer.”

More to offer, indeed.

As urban culture continues

to grapple with loneliness, stress, poverty, mental illness, inequality, individuality and desire – not to mention the veritable resurgence of all things ‘90s – the piece has possibly even grown in relevance.

“The work really speaks about the physical anxiety of our urban culture, and universal themes such as conformity, non-conformity.

You know, trying to find a voice in what we want,” explains Gagnon. “Even though our external world may have technologically advanced, we internally are still struggling with a very similar, if not worse, barrage of information.”

Gagnon adds that he and Gringas had always hoped for a second life for the piece, but that it took the support of people like David Sefton, one of the original presenters of monumental, and producer Sarah Rogers, to bring the band and the dance company together.

“In the last five years those

two have been working incessantly to be able to create a reopening of the work,” says Gagnon. “And also, in order to work with a band that has an international career like this, we needed to have a tour organized before the show opened.”

So, a tour they’ve delivered.

In addition to its launch at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre this month, monumental will also be at Quebec City’s Grand Théâtre de Québec in April, as well as at international stops like the Adelaide Festival in Australia.

Most excitingly, monumental’s entirely new troupe of dancers (including Vancouver’s own Shay Kuebler), will be joined onstage by the eight-piece instrumental band for the first time.

For fans of the original, the choreography hasn’t changed, but the soundtrack has had to be reworked to remove some outside music and accommodate live performance, as well as incorporate some of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s newer tracks into the show.

“It’s pretty epic,” says Gringas of the music, appreciatively. “They’ve never done anything like this before. They’ve done, I think, scores for films and stuff before, but never with another element of live dance. I think it’s completely foreign and strange and weird territory for them,” she laughs. “But I have to say it’s been thrilling to have everyone in the room and hear that music live and see this new cast of dancers just fully, very passionately dive into the choreography.”

Some might even call it monumental, but that would be an understatement. W

MONUMENTAL

takes place one night only, Jan. 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets from $45; PuShFestival.ca

Pemberton Festival dates and ticket sales announced

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Canada’s largest music and comedy camp-out is ready for 2016, bringing some of the biggest names back to the photo-ready foot of Mount Currie.

While the lineup hasn’t been released yet, Pemberton Music Festival announced Tuesday morning it will be rocking the picturesque Pemberton Valley north of Whistler from Thursday, July 14 through Sunday, July 17.

Early bird discount tickets go on sale this Friday, Jan. 15, at 10am PST, with ticket prices starting at $270 for a four-day,

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general admission pass, and camping passes available for an additional $199. Four-day VIP passes start at $699, with a choice of camping or shuttle, and if Super VIP is more your style, those start at $1,499.

Last year, the festival drew more than 115,000 fans and featured 113 artists – including performances by Kendrick Lamar, the Black Keys, J. Cole, Hozier, Missy Elliot, and Kid Cudi.

AJ Niland of Huka Entertainment anticipates that this year will be even bigger.

“Last year we had massive growth,” the festival chairman told Westender. “I mean, we were up 80 per cent over the

previous year. I couldn’t have predicted it if I wanted it. If we see that kind of growth again […] it would put us up there in the highest ranks of the festival world.

“We know we’re going to grow,” he continues. “We just don’t know by how much, so we’re preparing to handle as much as potentially comes.”

As such, one of the biggest changes to the festival experience will come in the form of camping.

Most notably, festivalgoers will now have a choice between the energetic north campground, and the quieter south campground.

Working off feedback from

last year’s festival, Huka has also revamped the camping pass system. Instead of purchasing an individual camping pass and maneuvering to be close to your friends, passes will now be sold per campsite and accommodate up to four people.

Camping passes will be available for purchase with a festival ticket, while campers coming up with a car will need a $29 parking pass per vehicle. Shuttle passes will also be available for fans staying in Whistler, and are $99 per person.

For tickets and additional info, head to PembertonMusicFestival.com. W

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THE CORPS Vancouver punkrock quartet perform in support of their recent single “So Far Away,” with special guests Sidekick Lifestyle, and Tender Hearts. 8pm at The Cobalt.

Tickets $10 at the door.

OLD MAN CANYON Vancouver altpop project fronted by Jett Pace, appears in support of his latest release, Delirium. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $16 at Red Cat, and TicketWeb.ca

MARK DRESSER Celebrated American bassist performs with some of Vancouver’s best music improvisers - JP Carter on trumpet, Peggy Lee on cello, Dyan van der Chyff on drums, Chris Gestrin on piano, Ron Samworth and Aram Bajakian on guitar and John Paton on the sax. 8pm at Western Front. Tickets $15 at Dresser.

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J.P. CORMIER Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Cape Breton takes the stage in support of his latest release, The Chance. 8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $24 at Highlife, Red Cat, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitars, and RogueFolk.bc.ca

TCHAIKOVSKY AND THE MERMAID One of the most important and in-demand violinists in the world today Augustin Hadelich, makes his much-anticipated return to the VSO for a lavish rendition of this rarely-performed orchestral masterpiece. 8pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca

THE IVORY SLEEP Progressive pop-rock from accomplished guitarist Nigel Tung with special guests Clouds of Analog, One And The Same, and Jim McPherson. 9:30pm at Railway Club. Tickets at the door only.

VANESSA CARLTON American pop singer-songwriter tours in support of her latest release Liberman, with special guest Skye Steele. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $25 at LiveNation.com WOODEN HORSEMEN Folk and blues Americana band celebrate the release of their EP, Sentient, with special guests Camaro 67, and Kutapira. 9pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY ILIZA SHLESINGER The youngest comedian to hold the title of NBC’s Last Comic Standing with two Netflix specials (War Paint, Freezing Hot), and the host of Excused with appearances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Chelsea Lately, with opening sets from Hunter Hill, and Ivan Decker. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com VANCOUVER SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL Back for its third year, Vancouver Sketchfest has harvested a (gluten free of course) crop of some truly amazing sketch comedians, a one-stop-shop for all your comedy needs featuring performances from Morgan Brayton, Gossamer Obsessions, Vanessa Gonzalez, Peter n’ Chris, The Ryan and Amy Show and many more. Check out VancouverSketchFest.com for various venues/showtimes/tickets.

Runs until Jan. 16.

SCOTTY P AND THE VIRGINS Vancouver trio celebrate the release of their latest album with special guests Dried Out, Sexy Decoy, Rambone & the Wet Reality, and Total Ed. 9pm at The Astoria.

Tickets $5 at the door only.

THE CROOKED Sultry country from this folk-noir duo, with special guest Shiloh Lindsey. 8pm at Skinny Fat Jack’s. Admission by donation.

LYDON, BUGGE & HØIRUP Three of Denmark’s finest take you on a merry ride through the varied traditions of Danish folk music and song. 8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $24 at Highlife, Red Cat, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitars, and RogueFolk.bc.ca

THEATRE/DANCE THE MIRROR TEST This fictionalized account of writer/performer Kevin Kokoska’s own experience at a California weight loss camp is a one-person performance asking you to come and truly take a look at yourself. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at TheCultch.com. Runs until Jan. 16.

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL David C. Jones directs this musical based on the 1988 cult classic, the deliciously dark tale of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy teenage misfit who discovers she’s capable of more than she thinks. 7:30pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.

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PUNK ROCK RIOT Six bands bring six perspectives in this quarterly mash-up of punk rock featuring Legion of Goons, the Binz, Schatzis, the Psychonauts, The Salvos, and Paranoi. 9:30pm at Railway Club. Tickets $10 at the door only.

RUFFLED FEATHERS Vancouver chamber rockers play an early show with special guests Parlour Panther and Coldwater Road.

7pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at EventBrite.ca or $12 at the door.

IMUR Eclectic, inspired, and innovative electronic duo implement techniques weaving production and instrumentation with special guests So Loki, Raiel, and Tee Krispil. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com VENOM INC. Metal band out of Newcastle play a re-scheduled show with special guests Necrophagia, Chapel, and Holocaust Lord. 7pm at Venue. Tickets $30 at Scrape, Red Cat, Zulu, and ElectroStub.com DAVID BOWIE MEMORIAL AND GLAM PARTY Celebrate rock’s greatest chameleon, fashion icon, provocateur and hero, David Bowie, who sadly passed on Sunday after an 18 month battle with cancer. DJ Chris Strebly spins Bowie tunes, with secret performances all night. 8pm at Xi Shi Lounge at the Shangri-La. Free entry.

LOVE: BOWIE A very special encore edition dance party to celebrate the life of iconic musician David Bowie. DJs Christa Belle and Trevor Risk are playing Bowie music all night, with special guests, make-up booth, and live visuals. 10:30pm at Fox Cabaret, $8 at the door before 11pm, $12 afterwards.

COMEDY IAN SIROTA A sharp tongue and a take-no-prisoners approach blended with observational humour has garnered this American comic two Gemini Awards, sharing the stage with Seinfeld, Robin Williams, and Dana Carvey amidst actor/writer credits for Comedy Inc., and Comedy Now. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT Ryan Beil and Taz VanRassel (of The Sunday Service) host this no-holdsbarred, high concept, spit fest as some of the city’s best comedians battle it out. 8pm at Fox Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at EventBrite.ca

THEATRE/DANCE ELECTRO SWING CIRCUS Sophie Buddle hosts this interactive live circus with stilt walkers, a snake charmer, juggling clowns, side show contortionists and more featuring performances from Mona Monae, Melody Mangler, Stanislav Galimkhanov, Quinn Beasely and music from Blackberry Wood. 9pm at The Imperial. Tickets $25 at Mintage (1714 Commercial), Woo Vintage (4393 Main) and TicketWeb.ca THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT Fresh out of jail, and intent on staying clean, convict Jackie finds navigating the straight and narrow a formidable task in this gritty New York tale masterfully combining earnest storytelling and uninhibited humour, while taking on addiction, sex, and honour.

8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.com. Runs until Jan. 30.

SONNY LANDRETH American blues musician, Clyde Vernon “Sonny” Landreth, all the way from southwest Louisiana brings his famous slide guitar sounds with special guest Wailin’ Al Walker. 7pm at The Imperial.

Tickets $30 at Highlife, Zulu, Red Cat, Beat Merchant, Neptoon, and TicketWeb.ca MATCH BOX BLUES BAND Treat yourself to an evening of blues with some of the city’s best, featuring Jhan Dudley, John Burton, Bruce Mortimer, Martin Eade, with special guests Bob Voytcheff and David Friedman. 8pm at Cottage Bistro. Admission by donation.

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe brings their high energy commitment to comedy with a little slapstick shtick, carrying the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip where scenes barrel into tangents and stories smash together creating comedy gold. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE KITTY NIGHTS 8TH ANNIVERSARY BASH Titill-8, Stimul-8, Fascin-8, Celebr-8! April O’Peel, Burgundy Brixx, Ginger Avenue, The Viva Vancouver Showgirls, and The Purrrfessor bring you a wild night of feline fun with a live game show, and cat costume contest! 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at the door.

EVENTS DINE OUT VANCOUVER The city offers up its best in dining for a 17-day festival of culinary events and experiences, from brunch crawls to a cocktail masterclass with hundreds of restaurants participating in special dinners, with pairings and set menus at incredible value. Visit DineOutVancouver.com for details.

COMEDY PHANTOM SIGNAL Tales too terrifying to take seriously are at the heart of this live comedy-horror radio show featuring the talents of Jayson McDonald, Andrew Bailey, and Tara Travis. 7pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $10 at the door.

QUEER PROV Back for another year of hilarious antics, Vancouver’s unique Queer Improv Comedy troupe hits the stage featuring Pearce Visser, Amy Lucille, Jamie Chrest, Shane Edwards, Aamir Khan, and Josh Rimer. 8pm at XY (1216 Bute).

THE LAUGH GALLERY Graham Clark wants you to come and laugh at his jokes as he hosts this wonderfully eclectic show featuring some of the best and brightest comics in the city. 9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $5 at EventBrite.ca

THEATRE/DANCE BOOM Canada’s own Rick Miller presents “25 years in 100 minutes” in this innovative mixedmedia work weaving characters and events using a selection of archival videos and photography documentary-style, giving spot-on impersonations of the most notable figures over two decades of history. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

Runs until Feb. 13.

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WHAT’S ON Tu/19 MUSIC KHARI WENDELL MCCLELLAND A suite of songs from the revolutionary past as interpreted by the freedom singer backed by a full band and choir featuring Marcus Mosely, Will Sanders, Tonye Aganaba, Dawn Pemberton, Juhli Conlinn, and Kristie McCraken. 7:30pm at CBC Studios. Tickets at CBC.ca THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Bluegrass, country, folk, and blues from the Americana trio out of Santa Cruz, CA, in the first of two performances with special guests Miss Lonely Hearts. 7pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $23.50 at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

THEATRE/DANCE THE RIVALS Blackbird Theatre celebrates a decade on the stage with this wickedly witty, joyfully irreverent production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic masterpiece, a tale of mistaken identity and overwrought romance. 2pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Jan. 23.

EVENTS PUSH FESTIVAL The international performing arts festival, one of Vancouver’s signature events, returns to expand the horizons of artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. Visit PuShFestival.ca for details/tickets/schedule.

CHEAP & FUN DROP IN ROCK CHOIR: EAST VAN Swing by for a casual evening of fun with fellow singers (no musical experience required!), covering contemporary songs in a very non-traditional community choir. 7pm at WISE Hall, and the bar will be open.

VANCOUVER HOT CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL Back for its 6th year, this sweet event coincides with Dine Out Vancouver, satisfying all the chocoholics in town. Visit CityFood.com/HotChocolate for details. Runs until Feb. 14.

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MUSIC SAXOPHILIA The saxophone quartet of Julia Nolan, Kris Covlin, Daivd Branter, and Colin MacDonald plays the ‘Wednesday Noon Hours’ series featuring a program of works by Glaser, Lang, Oliver, Torke, MacDonald, and Nordine.

12pm at Roy Barnett Recital Hall (UBC). Tickets $5 at the door only.

CHROME SPARKS Brooklyn transplant, aka Jeremy Malvin, hits the stage in support of his latest EP, Parallelism, with special guest Meishi Smile. 9pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $15 at Beat Street, Red Cat, Zulu, and FortuneSoundClub.com

THEATRE/DANCE INKED & MURMUR Two dance performances from one of art’s brightest contemporary lights from choreographers Damien Jalet, and Lewis Major. A double bill using dance to explore issues that vex us all, focussing on conceptions and misconceptions of reality. 8pm at Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets at TicketFly.com.

INTIMACY Inspired by real life encounters, this bespoke work is a collection of anecdotes, unashamed disclosures and intimate life stories shared by strangers in the street. 8pm at Orpheum Annex. Tickets at TicketFly.com.

Runs until Jan. 23.

EVENTS YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER An immersive exhibition exploring the hottest topics in Vancouver today – housing affordability, urban density, mobility, and public space. Throughout its run, visitors can engage in a series of programs, workshops, happy hours, and debates. Visit MuseumOfVancouver.ca for details.

Th/21 MUSIC NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS Folk singersongwriter from Missouri brings his band to town in support of their latest, a self-titled release with special guest Paper Bird.

8pm at Commodore Ballroom.

Tickets $25 at TicketWeb.ca RAT FIST Loud, fast rock from the LA band, who play the official Knowshow after party with special guests, Vancouver hardcore punk outfit, Brass. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $5 at the door.

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THEATRE/DANCE VU Circus artist Etienne Manceau, of Compagnie Sacékripa delights with his comical, one-man, wordless show that demonstrates wonderful ingenuity in creating art out of the everyday. 10am & 12:30pm at Performance Works. Tickets at PuShFestival.ca. Runs until Jan. 24.

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Ancora marks the return of fine waterfront dining Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday ANCORA WATERFRONT DINING & PATIO

1600 Howe 604-681-1164 AncoraDining.com Open Tuesday-Sunday, 3pm-midnight.

There’s an old adage about restaurants that has historically proven itself in Vancouver: The closer you are to the water, the worse the food. There have been a few exceptions, but, with the opening of Ancora on False Creek, that maxim now thankfully proves to be condiserably less true.

Ancora is building on the surprising change in terminally-casual Vancouver, of fine dining making an actual comeback. This isn’t a passing fancy anymore, as the success of fellow newcomers Giardino and Masayoshi show. But forget your preconceived notions of what is meant by fine dining. No stuffy service, no tablecloths.

Instead, lots of light and a

Left: Chef Ricardo Valverde with a scallop and prawn ceviche tiradito style. Above: Dungeness crab causa, with Yukon Gold potatoes, Kalamata olive emulsion, quail egg, huancaina sauce, and crispy yam. Jennifer Gauthier photos. clean design that emphasizes the waterfront setting.

The space – which formerly housed the awardwinning C Restaurant – has seen some upper window additions that turn the second floor mezzanine into a space that people might actually prefer.

The service is formal, but only in the sense that it’s excellent. The FOH team under GM and wine director Andrea Vescovi (formerly of Blue Water Café), who also oversees sister restaurant Beach Bay Café, is smooth, friendly and unobtrusive.

Vescovi has put together a

rather stunning wine list, but have restaurant director Tara Thom (another Blue Water alumnus) take you through it if you can. Her warm personality adds just the right level of laughter and cheer to the experience.

Executive chef Ricardo Valverde oversees the menu, along with raw bar chef Yoshi Tabo (two more Blue Water alum). Here’s where things get really interesting. This isn’t just a seafood restaurant, it’s a seafood restaurant that focuses on PeruvianJapanese cuisine. (Pause for jaws to close.)

It’s not that outlandish.

Peruvian-Japanese cuisine, thanks to the laudable immigration policies of Peru more than 100 years ago, is a bona fide cultural fusion, much like Filipino-Chinese cuisine. Valverde originally hails from Peru, and he has infused the selection of Ocean Wise seafood with some rather bold and unexpected flavours. Dungeness crab causa ($17) are whipped and chilled Yukon Golds topped with crab, Kalamata emulsion, quail egg and crispy yam chips. It sits in a lush huancaina sauce, a classic Peruvian spicy cheese sauce made from queso fresco and

aji amarillo peppers. It’s not a typical flavour profile, but, if you can get past the unexpectedness of the combination, it works perfectly.

Some of the bold flavours go a little far, like with the sablefish ($34) topped with chermoula, roasted fennel and wild leek. The chermoula, a popular middle eastern marinade primarily used for seafood, is so dominant that it completely overpowers the silky and beautifullyprepared black cod. Hiccups like these are the exception, however.

Mussels off the holiday lunch menu are so plump

and perfect, they practically burst in the mouth.

The scallop and pork belly, with sunchokes grown in Vescovi’s garden, is lush and lovely. And the raw bar, run

by Tabo, is stunning. The “Glacier,” a large shareable platter of chilled seafood, is loaded with sustainable jumbo prawns, mussels dressed with Peruvian escabeche, ceviche, oysters, causa, sashimi and tartare. At $72 for two, it’s a bit dear, but oh, so delicious.

Pastry chef Amy Lin is another Blue Water find, and a good one. Spiced picarones ($11) are traditional Peruvian fried doughnuts, tiny and round, served with dulce de leche and spiced almonds.

Ancora is a bit “spendy,” as one friend put it, but it’s worth every penny, and this restaurant is going a long way to making that old adage nothing more than an outdated cliché. W Food: !!!!!

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Venturing off the beaten track Michaela Morris By the Bottle

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Beyond my predictions of last week, I harbour a hope that in the year ahead your thirsty curiosity will lead you to explore all the interesting nooks and crannies where wine is made.

First stop, England. What, this grey and drizzly country makes wine? Yup. Though skeptics may have snickered behind their backs, the stiffupper-lip Brits stuck to their guns. Having identified the soil in South East England as having the same unique chalk found in the Champagne region, they focused on high quality sparkling wine fashioned after their famous French neighbours.

The recent warming effect of climate change has helped tremendously. Now we can enjoy Brit bubble in BC. The Coates & Seely Hampshire Reserve Brut ($7075) is available at selected private wine stores. Lean and rapier-like, it charms with orchard apples and delicate floral notes.

China is another country that likely doesn’t leap to mind however it’s among the top ten largest producers in the world. The industry is young but those invested are taking it very seriously.

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The Chinese have a welldocumented fascination with the wines of Bordeaux so it may come as no surprise that Cabernet Sauvignon is China’s most planted grape.

The next step is to identify what grapes will actually do best and where. Check in on China’s progress with the 2005 Chateau Changyu Castel Cabernet Gernischt ($19.99) at BC Liquor Stores. Cabernet Gernischt is one and the same as Chile’s Carmenère grape, originally another Bordeaux variety.

You might think it’s pretty normal that we make wine in BC. We’ve practically been raised on the stuff.

But when you’re guzzling back your Okanagan Pinot Gris remember that people in other parts of the world are shocked to learn that Canada produces wine.

What may surprise you is where BC winemakers are venturing, like Shuswap, the Kootenays and Lillooet. The latter is a couple of hours drive northeast of Whistler and BC’s newest wine region. Established in 2011, Fort Berens crafts a handful of wines from estate fruit grown in the beautiful Fraser Canyon. My favourite of the line-up is the bright and pretty 2013 Fort Berens Pinot Noir ($26-28 at BC VQA stores).

Venturing off the beaten track doesn’t mean just seeking out the newest wine regions. Many countries have a long history of viticulture, yet political or religious circumstances may have curbed quality, production or export.

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Here’s how Big Beer’s going to screw craft this year Stephen Smysnuik The Growler @TheGrowlerBC

Look folks:We’re heading straight into what’s very likely going to be a tumultuous year in the beer industry here in Canada, but especially the US. Macro brands – herein referred to as Big Beer – will do their best to squeeze out the pesky (yet popular!) small- and mid-size breweries, or snatch up the big ones, or generally try to maintain its position of lofty authority, which it will do, but only because it’s meaner and has more money.

It makes sense. Budweiser’s market share is at half of what it was a decade ago, according to aWall Street Journal story published in late 2014.That same report found that consumers under 30 years of age are purchasing craft beer at one-and-ahalf times the rate of people over 30, which means those cursed Millennials are increasingly dedicated to seeking out craft brands over macro brands.

Which means the segment is going to grow and grow and grow.The Brewers Association in the US announced that in the next five years they expect to see craft beer market share jump to 20 per cent, up from the current 11 per cent. Numbers for 2015 haven’t been published yet, but there were over 450 microbrewery openings across the US in 2014.

Comprehensive numbers aren’t readily available in Canada, but in BC there were 20 new breweries in 2015, the same number as 2014, which was up from 10 breweries in 2013 (and we know of at least 15 new ones to open up before the end of this summer).

So, yeah, Big Beer wants in on that action and wanted it, like, yesterday.This will play out largely in the US, but with the purchase of Mill Street andTurning Point late last year, Canada has its part in this drama too.

Here’s what’s going down:

BIG BEER WILL BUY LITTLE BEER

This is obvious. It’s already happening. Anheuser-Busch

Continued from page 12 Very little of Turkey’s wine makes it outside its borders.

The first wine I’ve tried is the 2013 Suvla Kabatepe Red from Gallipoli Peninsula ($28-30 at selected private wine stores). Here international superstars Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are blend with Karasakiz, a rare native grape to Turkey.

Now I only hope that soon we’ll be able to taste wines featuring more of Turkey’s

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InBev already owns Goose Island, Elysian, 10 Barrel and Blue Point. Heineken owns Lagunitas. And so on.

BIG BEER WILL MAKE ITS OWN CRAFT BEER

Yes, the title is a little misleading. Big Beer has already made Blue Moon and Shock Top, but it’s likely that AB InBev will create some other sub-standard brand of craft beer, complete with additives and artificial flavours.

But wait…you disagree that ShockTop is craft beer?Well, just take that up with Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who dismissed a class action lawsuit filed against MillerCoors for labeling Blue Moon a craft beer.

The Brewers Association defines a craft brewery as one that produces six million barrels or less per year (approximately three per cent of the US annual sales) and that less than 25 per cent of the brewery is owned or controlled by an person or organization that itself is not the craft brewer.

But according to the Daily Beast, that’s not good enough for Curiel, who wants a better template for what does and does not constitute craft beer.

Which means, at this point, Blue Moon, ShockTop and Bud Light Lime and everything else can all be legally designated “craft beer” until the industry comes up with a more comprehensive, detailed definition.

So Big Beer will continue to create and market “craft-y” brands to that significant hefty percentage of the beer swilling public that is not yet properly educated on the wonders of craft beer, but maybe wants to try something a little, uh… fruitier? Orange-er? More Mohawk-y?

produce less than 15,000 barrels, or sell beer only in one state, which will make business difficult for bigger craft brands like Stone, Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn, etc.

Historically, breweries and distributors have been separate in the US, following the threetiered system that was imposed after Prohibition: one set of companies could make the beer, another would distribute it, and the other would sell it.

The rise of craft culture in North America is due in part to the breaking down of this model – small brewers have been selling directly to customers through tasting rooms and brewpubs for years. But in most states, breweries can’t own distributors (except, in Colorado, where AB InBev bought two distributors since 2014, and Oregon, where it purchased Morgan Distributing).

The incentive plan is voluntary.The Journal reports that 38 per cent of AB InBev-aligned distributors are signed up, but the company “aims to double participation” over the next three years.

There’s a good chance this will happen – Big Beer is what has kept the bulk of them profitable for the past three decades.

MERGE AND CONQUER

According to TheWall Street Journal, AB InBev launched a new incentive program that could offer independent distributors in the US up to $1.5 million in annual reimbursements – but only if 98 per cent of what they distribute are AB InBev brands.

Participating brewers can only carry craft brewers that

The Great Merger of 2016, where AB InBev took over SABMiller, is a clear sign of Big Beer’s waning grip on consumer tastes and, like a bloated Axl Rose, a mad attempt to stay on top…although we expect Shock Top will sell rather well, unlike Chinese Democracy.We’ll see how that reunion goes. I’m hedging bets on total disaster.You? Anyway, we now we live in a world where AB InBev owns 30 per cent of the world’s beer market, so expect seismic levels of marketing across North America to hawk their bullshit.

Of course, it won’t really matter as long as craft brewers continue to create badass new beers, innovate (which they will) and turn people on to craft (which they will).

And this struggle will continue ad infinitum, or until the Russians finally invade and take us over, imposing the much-feared Vodka State. Be prepared. W

reportedly fabulous indigenous varieties.

And when is the last time you had a wine from Moldova? Despite making wine for millennia, Moldova’s recent history did little to encourage quality. When Russia (Moldova’s biggest export market) placed a ban on wine from Moldova in 2006, it turned out to be just the incentive Moldova needed to improve. The 2013 KVINT Solaricco Fresco ($12.99 at BC Liquor Stores) is made from Pink

Traminer (a close relative of Gewurztraminer), Aligoté (a less-common grape in Burgundy) and Moldova’s very own Viorica variety. Aromatic with jasmine tea, apple blossom, pink grape fruit peel and candied rose petals yet dry and juicy, it packs personality for the price.

I encourage you to bust out of your comfort zone and crack into at least one of these. Chalk it up to the purposes of science if nothing else.You may be pleasantly surprised. W

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Getting children excited about food and gearing them into the direction of healthy eating habits while they are young and flourishing can put them at a great advantage and support them as they grow into adults. Getting them on the right path will fuel their bodies and brain with nutrients and nourishment, while cultivating bad habits can lead them down a path of allergies, learning difficulties and behavioural problems.

Now all of our children are precious little snowflakes and not every child’s problems or adversities can be solely fixed by a good hearty homemade meal, however, it is a good place to start.

As parents, it is up to you to fill your bundles of joy with all the goodness that nutrition has to offer their growing bodies.

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Our brains are made up of 60 per cent fat, so an intake of healthy fats is very important for overall brain function, especially when your brain is still developing and when you’re learning. You can ensure adequate intake of a variety of healthy fats by eating plenty of raw seeds and nuts like flax, hemp, pumpkin, etc, as well as wild salmon two to three times a week (or even supplementing with fish oils).

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By Rob Brezsny You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: if you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence. The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

“Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories.

Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.

Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness.

And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do.

But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

“Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 per cent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

“I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

“If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

“Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (PS, this breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.

“It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals.

On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form – maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities.

Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy.

Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

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@MyszkaWay Is sex addiction really that bad? On the scale of addictions, how bad is sex for you in comparison to, say, heroin or vodka?

–Sexy and Addicted I’m so sick of everyone and their parade of “addictions” they self-diagnose as personality disorders. We are in a time of utter decadence and luxury (which, if we look at history, means we are on the verge of a cultural collapse). The average middleclass person in the First World seldom worries about being invaded or gunned down by anyone except ISIS and our decadence, luxury and acceptance of all things our enemy deems full of prostitution and vice is only helping cock their rifles and rage.You know when personality disorders were at their statistical lowest? During the Second World War, when everyone was so afraid of being bombed into oblivion they did not have time to have a pity party about “me.” (Just ask Dr. W. Keith Campbell.)

I think sex addiction is a lazy excuse for stupid behavior. As Dr. Michael Bader once said, “Traditional addictions like those to alcohol or heroin always involve the presence of tolerance and withdrawal; that is, increasing amounts of the substance are required to achieve the same effect, and in its absence the addict suffers an increasingly painful psychophysiological state as the body and brain rebound. But when it comes to sex addiction, physiological tolerance and withdrawal are usually not present, and if they are, they don’t govern the addict’s life in the same way that, say, opiates do.”

If you don’t have sex with three people in one day you are not going to go into physical withdrawal.

When you go cold turkey on opiates, you are depriving your body of the large surge of opiates and dopamine it has been fed on the regular.

Suddenly, you’re working at normal human speed again.

They call it kicking because the muscles in your limbs actually feel like they will crawl out of your skin if you don’t slam them around a bit. It really sucks. But it’s just 72 hours until the physical part quells.

Are you really addicted to sex itself? What does sex mean to you? If it’s just the orgasm, then couldn’t you just masturbate all day and feel satisfied? If your “addiction” requires another human being, then there is more going on here, involv-

ing the chase, the catch, the conquer, and of course, the “love.” Being desired is what you crave, even if it’s only for 15 minutes. We’ve all been there before. We just do not all chose to stay chasing that feeling for life.

Sex compulsion and need is very real, but it is not a physical addiction like that of booze or dope. Unlike an alcoholic who is so dependent on booze their already barely surviving liver may collapse without the alcohol, no doctor is going to tell you your genitals will erupt if you don’t have a fuck a day.

However, if the love and attention is what you are addicted to, you may have a case.You would have to hire genius lawyers spawned from Satan himself to win over a jury, but anything is possible.

I’ve mentioned her before many times, but Dr. Helen Fisher has spent her life studying the human brain in love. What she discovered is that when in romantic love the brain regions that become active are the same as when one is addicted to cocaine, heroin or any other physically dependent drug.

These areas are the nucleus accumbens and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), two primitive parts of the brain involved in the production and distribution of dopamine. As a neurotransmitter, dopamine is a central component of the brain’s reward system. The need for more dopamine motivates the person to do whatever it takes to get that feeling again. Fisher insists that romantic love is

an addiction. This is why losing it can leave us depressed or suicidal. Some even end up institutionalized, or commit murder.

However, Dr. Bader noted that when sex becomes labeled as an addiction and not a behavioral choice, the psychological origins and meanings become superfluous. This is why the 12-step treatment approach is overwhelmingly unsuccessful for “sex addicts.”

“Unlike heroin, sex naturally engages issues of intimacy, power, autonomy, and love,” wrote Dr. Bader.

“Sexual arousal always has meaning. In fact, sexual excitement of any kind is impossible unless its mental and social context is specifically conducive to it.”

Are you in love with the satisfaction you get every time you fuck some new stranger or are you in love with the sexual champion you have become? Are you filling a void from a torment you have not addressed since it happened or are you playing God on the genitals of the world? What is the deep need you are masquerading as a “sex addiction”?

Every impulse you have is not fantasy. It is a reality that you can understand, overcome and get control of if you so desire. If you don’t, then happy fucking! W

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