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nized crime, then the City and the police need to do something about it.

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VANCOUVER ONLY HAS ITSELF TO BLAME

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POT SHOPS SMELL FISHY

It seems like every where you go in this city, there’s another pot shop opening up. One, two, even three to a block! It’s amazing to me that there are that many people in this city with a marijuana prescription.

For this many pot shops to survive economically, every man, woman and child in the city would need to be smoking up 24-7.

Prescription pot smokers would have to out-number cigarette smokers, because it seems like there’s way more pot shops in Vancouver then there are tobacconists.That doesn’t seem right to me…

The police recently shut down a pot shop in East Van because it had ties with the Hells Angels. I wonder, how many of these quasilegal businesses are merely money laundering fronts? It

wouldn’t surprise me given the complete lack of regulation.

It’s harder to open a bar or even a restaurant in this city than it is a pot shop.

Even food trucks are better controlled than pot shops.

That doesn’t make sense, does it?

I don’t have an issue marijuana per se, but if these so-called businesses are merely fronts for orga-

Re:“The dearth of downtown bookstores”,Vancouver Shakedown, Jan. 21, 2016.

Grant Lawrence laments that there “is not one newtitle bookstore [...] in the entire downtown core” of Vancouver. I want to add that, at one time, less than 10 years ago, there were numerous full-service, independent bookstores.Think of Duthie Books, Blackberry Books, Book Warehouse, Mystery Merchant, etc.

Yes, high rents and increased competition in various forms contributed to this bleak state of affairs.

Vancouverites in general like to rant and rave about the importance of supporting local community and culture. However, when push comes to shove in actively supporting the bookstore, the will is not there to get up and out of their comfort zone to walk a few blocks to the bookstore. It is a “scandal” indeed.

–Ria Bleumer, former manager of Duthie Books and former owner of Ardea Books & Art.

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VPD plans to install cameras in police wagons

BC Civil Liberties Association says move ‘makes sense’ MIKE HOWELL @howellings

Grant Lawrence weighs the pros and cons of ‘Dryuary’ from the perils of his hospital bed. Jill Barber photo

Risking the rewards of “Dryuary” Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

You’ve almost made it.There are just a few more days left.

Dryuary is nearly over.

If you’re like me, you may be repeating those phrases to yourself as you crawl through the month of January like a lost soul on a scorched desert without a cold beer and wine store in sight.

“Dryuary” is a yearly tradition that has slowly seeped through much of the Western world, including here in Vancouver. As tough as Dryuary can be, you can count me amongst its supporters and participants. Essentially, you treat the first month of the year as a booze break, full stop.You give your liver, your waist line, and your wallet a respite from the non-stop socializing that can seriously foam up during the holidays.

You know, those parties and gatherings and meetups and open houses that begin around late November, where you could knock back say, one to 14 drinks at festivities that chug straight through to New Year’s Eve? If you’re even a light social drinker, that’s one long, boozy ride. It’s entirely plausible that you drank alcohol every night of December (not judging, just saying).

Look, I’m no stranger to booze marathons. I was in a touring rock band for 17 years of my life, and I maintain to this day that being a touring musician is the only job in the world where you show up for work contractually expecting to find free booze waiting for you. It’s the only job in the world where you not only are allowed to do your job drunk, but often encouraged to do so, with alcohol being available before, during and after your performance. If you’re playing every night, that’s a very slippery slope, down which I

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saw many musicians slide.

Those cautionary memories are another reason why I willingly partake in Dryuary, but as a professed beer lover, who lives in the heart of “Yeast Van”, and plays on a beer league hockey team, it’s tough. I’ve mentioned this before, but on my bike ride to and from work, I pedal past upwards of eight independent breweries, all with tasting rooms and easy-topurchase six packs, bombers, and growlers to go. The temptation is great, but once you get on that Dryuary train, you owe it to yourself to hang on until it pulls in to the February station.

And hey, if this is your first Dryuary, be warned: while there are the aforementioned and obvious rewards (besides weight loss, financial savings, and a time-out for your liver, you’ll also likely experience an uptick of positive energy, better sleep, and sunnier ways) you should know there are pitfalls to be avoided when arriving at Dryuary’s final February station.

I’ll just pour it out there: Dryuary 2015 landed me in the hospital. Let me rephrase that: immediately after Dryuary ended, the celebratory booze binge I went on during a Palm Springs vacation (while simultaneously dealing with a touch of toddler-induced stomach flu), put me in the hospital.

It was a delirious case of alcohol-and-flu-induced dehydration that resembled a cross between The Hangover 4 and The Exorcist.You could say I painted the town brown. Indeed, I found my cold beer and wine oasis in the desert, but it kicked my ass straight to an emergency room in the United States, which was extremely traumatic for my dear wife.

So please, do join me in celebrating Dryuary, but you’ve been advised: be very careful on the backend, in more ways than one. Now stay on that train! You’re almost there! #dryuary W

The Vancouver Police Department plans to install security cameras in the back of all nine of its wagons as a measure to minimize further deaths and injuries of prisoners, says a report going before the Vancouver Police Board Thursday.The move is in response to recommendations from separate coroners’ juries involved in inquests where two people died in 2014 after being found unconscious in the back of Vancouver police wagons.

“During the first half of 2016, the VPD will research options with regard to acquiring the cameras, how best to operationalize the process of monitoring the cameras, and the required technology to implement the cameras and to record, download and store the images, along with all associated start-up and ongoing costs,” the report said. “Introducing cameras in the wagons is a significant undertaking with many obstacles that the VPD will attempt to overcome.The most obvious obstacle is that of funding

The Vancouver Police Department operates nine police wagons. None are equipped with cameras. Dan Toulgoet photo to acquire the cameras and potentially store video.”

Gregory Douglas Lloyd, 43, died in February 2014 in hospital five days after police arrested him for breaching court-ordered conditions not to consume alcohol or be in a one-block radius of an apartment in the 2100-block of Triumph Street. After parking the wagon at the Vancouver jail on East Cordova Street, police discovered Lloyd with a shoelace around his neck. It was tied to wire mesh covering the inside of the wagon’s door.

His death was ruled a suicide.

Cheryl Ann Cowan, 58, died in December 2014, eight days after going into medical distress while in a wagon.

Police arrested Cowan after responding to a 911 call of a woman causing a disturbance at a family member’s house.

Cowan’s cause of death was “severe anoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest,”

according to documents released by the Independent Investigations Office. Police didn’t know she was unconscious until an officer opened the door of the wagon parked at the jail. Nurses, jail staff, a doctor and firefighters all responded to Cowan, who regained a pulse after treatment from paramedics. She was on life support in hospital until her death, Dec. 23, 2014.

Juries in both inquests recommended cameras be installed in the wagons to ensure the safety of prisoners when transported to jail.The VPD is currently replacing all nine of its wagons and says its goal is to equip all of them with cameras.

Josh Paterson, executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, said he welcomed the VPD’s move to install the cameras, saying it makes a lot of sense provided the footage is used, stored or deleted

in accordance with privacy laws. Paterson said the footage should also be made accessible to any prisoners who may later have a complaint against the VPD for the manner in which they were transported or handled by police.

“It makes sense that there should be some way of having some accountability later on if things go wrong in those tightly confined spaces,” said Paterson, noting video evidence can be crucial in cases involving the police. “It doesn’t answer every question – sometimes it raises more questions. But overall, it’s a massive help for holding police accountability but also for exonerating police, if there are false accusations. It goes both ways.”

Following Lloyd’s death, the police department installed “Lexan glass” over the wire mesh screens on the inside of the wagons’ doors.

The VPD’s medical service provider at the jail also hired staff with experience in emergency wards. Police now remove prisoners from the wagons at the jail “as soon as practicable,” said the report, noting police previously conducted the necessary paper work on the prisoner before unloading the wagon. W –Courtesy ofVancouver Courier

Paris changed everything, so why are we still talking pipelines?

David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent. In light of this, I don’t get the current brouhaha over Kinder Morgan, Keystone XL, Northern Gateway or the Energy East pipelines.Why are politicians contemplating spending billions on pipelines when the Paris commitment means 75 to 80 per cent of known fossil fuel deposits must be left in the ground?

Didn’t our prime minister, with provincial and territorial premiers, mayors and representatives from nonprofit organizations, parade before the media to announce Canada now takes climate change seriously? I joined millions of Canadians who felt an oppressive weight had lifted

and cheered mightily to hear that our country committed to keeping emissions at levels that would ensure the world doesn’t heat by more than 1.5 C by the end of this century.With the global average temperature already one degree higher than pre-industrial levels, a half a degree more leaves no room for business as usual.

The former government’s drive to make Canada a petro superpower distorted the Canadian economy into greater fossil fuel dependence, with catastrophic consequences when the price of oil collapsed.The lesson should have been learned long ago: Heavy dependence on a single revenue stream like fish, trees, wheat, minerals or even one factory or industry is hazardous if that source suffers a reversal in fortune like resource depletion, unanticipated cost fluctuations or stiff competition.

Pipeline arguments are especially discouraging, with people claiming Quebec is working against the interests of Alberta and Canada because the leadership of the

Montreal Metropolitan Community – representing 82 municipalities and nearly half the province’s population – voted overwhelmingly to reject the proposed Energy East pipeline project, which would carry 1.1 million barrels of oilsands bitumen and other oil products from Alberta to refineries and ports in the east. Some have thrown out the anti-democratic and, frankly, anti-Canadian notion that because Quebec has received equalization payments it should shut up about pipeline projects.

National unity is about steering Canada onto a sustainable track and looking out for the interests of all Canadians.

Continuing to build fossil fuel infrastructure and locking ourselves into a future of increasing global warming isn’t the way to go about it. Shifting to a 21st century clean-energy economy would create more jobs, unity and prosperity – across Canada and not just in one region – than continuing to rely on a polluting, climatealtering sunset industry.

Leaders in Quebec should be commended for taking a strong

stand for the environment and climate – and for all of Canada.

The Paris target means we have to rethink everything.

Energy is at the heart of modern society, but we have to get off fossil fuels. Should we expand airports when aircraft are the most energy-intensive ways to travel? Why build massive bridges and tunnels when we must transport goods and people differently? The global system in which food travels thousands of kilometres from where it’s grown to where it’s consumed makes no sense in a carbon-constrained world.

Agriculture must become more local, so the Peace Valley must serve as the breadbasket of the North rather than a flooded area behind a dam.

The urgency of the need for change demands that we rethink our entire energy potential and the way we live.

It makes no sense to continue acting as if we’ve got all the time in the world to get off the path that created the crisis in the first place.That’s the challenge, and for our politicians, it’s a huge task as well as a great opportunity. W

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Imagining Vancouver’s future The Museum of Vancouver’s newest exhibition looks to empower residents to shape their city’s future ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

Vancouver is growing, and with growth comes change.

Every day, close to 100 people move here; some from other parts of the province, some from other parts of the country and some from other parts of the world.

According to BC Stats, this growth will balloon Metro Vancouver’s population by 38 per cent to 3.4 million over the next quarter century. In Vancouver proper, that means an additional 160,000 people will be calling the city home by 2041.

However, with the skyrocketing price of real estate and rock bottom rental vacancy rates sitting below one per cent, the question of where to house the Vancouverites of the future remains unclear. Just this week, the US group Demographia named Vancouver the third most unaffordable city to live in, in the world.

“The city is undergoing massive change, so we’re at crossroads right now,” says Dr. Gregory Dreicer, the Museum of Vancouver’s director of curatorial and engagement.

“The decisions we make today about how to accommodate that growth will affect this city for generations to come.”

Museum of Vancouver’s newest exhibition, Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, presents more than 20 different visions for the future of Vancouver from the city’s leading architects, urban planners and designers. Among the multimedia scenarios is a model for a 2,500-foot vertical city; a strategy for a post-disaster transportation network that caters to bicycles; and a proposal for a network of floating barge parks.

“The whole reason behind it is, if you asked any Vancouverite what is their biggest fear or anxiety about living in Vancouver, affordability or affordable housing would be at the top of the list,” says Dreicer, “And related to that, even though people might not say it, is transportation, density, public space.

“All of these things are closely related for people.”

The scenarios presented in the exhibition represent solutions as well as provocations; thought experiments designed to challenge how

Clockwise from right: Dr. Gregory Dreicer is the Museum of Vancouver’s director of curatorial and engagement.; “The GRID” proposed by Erick Villagomez; The 2,500-foot “Vertical City” proposed by Henriquez Partners Architects; The “Harbour Deck” proposed by HCMA Architecture + Design. we look at the city around us, and broaden our minds to the possibilities of what Vancouver could become.

“Some of them are wild concepts, fantastic ideas,” says Museum of Vancouver spokesperson Myles Constable. “It couldn’t be more apropos.”

THE CHALLENGES

What draws many to Vancouver – the proximity to mountains and ocean – has also contributed to its growth woes. Hemmed in on all sides by rock and water (as well as protected agricultural land and an international border), if Vancouver is to grow, it will need to grow up, and that means more densification.

Suburban, low density, single-family homes still make up the vast majority of Vancouver neighbourhoods, notes Dreicer. Downtown is already the second-most densely populated area in North America after Manhattan, so that increased population will have to settle in surrounding areas.

“For a lot of people,Vancouver is the downtown,” says Dreicer. “But 90-95 per cent of the land is suburban lowrise or industrial, and that’s where the future lies.”

What form that will take remains to be seen. And the expectations of what housing should look like vary greatly among Vancouverites.

“The idea of ‘home’ is very much rooted in what you’re used to, what you grew up with,” says Dreicer. But given that 35 per cent of Vancouverites were born outside of BC – the fewest native-born residents of any major city in North America, proportionally – what people grew up with differs dramatically, and so too does their notion of what a home looks like.

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For many Vancouverites, the single-family detached house is what they think of as normal. But that mode may be outdated and incompatible with our rapidly growing city.

As one enters the exhibition, one must first pass through an oddly familiar, though seemingly out-ofplace room. Designed to look like the omnipresent condo sales offices that pop-up and then quickly disappear from storefronts around the city, the “presentation centre” uses the ubiquitous visual language of real estate marketing not to sell you a condo, but instead to sell you the idea of Vancouver’s future.

In a city where half of all conversations seem to begin with real estate, it seems fitting the exhibit would begin here.

“We want to shift the conversation from real estate to Vancouver,” explains Dreicer.

“Real estate is a part of it, but it’s a bigger story then that.”

Lining the wall are hundreds of photos of every single common style of housing found in Vancouver; postwar bungalows,Vancouver Specials, turn-of-the-century heritage homes, condo highrises, even a homeless person’s tent. Every one of them is someone’s home.

“We’re asking people, what’s your future, what are you going to choose?” says Dreicer.Traditional low-density modes of housing present great challenges to building the Vancouver of the future, encouraging sprawl and an inefficient use of resources.

But while highrises can provide more affordable housing, they can also bring with them issues of overcrowding, social isolation, and a lack of public space.

“Whatever it is we choose, it’s going to impact us, it’s

going to impact our children, and even our children’s children.”

THE VISIONS

Focusing on the themes of affordability, transportation, density and public space, the 20-plus scenarios presented in the main exhibition area ofYour Future Home each provide a different path into the future.

Co-curated by Vancouver architect Bruce Haden, the exhibition was put on in partnership with the Vancouver Urbanarium Society, a Vancouver-based non-profit comprised of architects, designers and urban planners who aim to “foster intelligent city building.”

The visions vary greatly in scope. Some provide a stepby-step illustration of how densification will look on a block-by-block basis. HCMA Architecture + Design’s proposed recreational platform in Coal Harbour reimagines the Vancouver waterfront with access for swimming and recreation. Projected on screens are illustrations that demonstrate just how unaffordable Vancouver has become, with an imaginary line moving eastward across Vancouver, marking where the average price of a home is $1 million or more.

Perhaps the most impressive is the 2,500-foot Vertical City scenario from Henriquez Partners Architects.The model presents what Vancouver would look like if the downtown section of Granville Strip was flipped 90 degrees into the air and reimagined as a vertical structure.

The imposing tower has a tiny footprint compared to the earthbound original, and soars 10 times as high as any of the buildings around it.

But an increase in that order of magnitude is not unheard of, Constable notes.

“When the first skyscrapers were built 100 years ago, they were 10 times the size of the buildings that came before them,” he says. “The Vertical City is not necessarily realistic suggestion. It’s trying to teach us a lesson in scale.”

Given that Vancouver is such a young city, it has the advantage of being able to easily re-invent itself, according to urban designer Scot Hein, one of the founding members of the Urbanarium.

“We didn’t have a 19th century [in Vancouver], so we don’t have the old buildings that cities like Seattle or Portland does, so the fabric here is relatively new,” he says.

“In some ways we miss that contextually, because it’s part of the richness of those cities, but in some ways we’re not encumbered by that, as well.”

The vast amounts of overseas investment that has flooded the Vancouver real estate market in recent years has made some owners very rich and provided valuable capital to build infrastructure and amenities, but has also made Vancouver one of the most unaffordable cities to live in on Earth.

“We’re a victim of our own success right now,” says Hein.

“We need to think about creatively deploying that capital…to create the Vancouver we want.”

THE WAY FORWARD

Whatever path Vancouver takes, it will be decided by its residents, Hein notes.

Given that many Vancouverites weren’t born here and thus have a short memory of how the city came to be, the exhibition also tells the stories of eight instances when the

people of Vancouver directly impacted the future of their city.

“People are pretty passionate about this city,” says Hein.

“These are seminal moments of advocacy. And that’s important, because it shows people can make a difference, they should have faith hope and courage that they can influence their city.

Arguably the most dramatic instance of citizen-led advocacy was the opposition to the so-called Project 200 that would have seen a large freeway carve its way through East Vancouver and downtown, destroying Chinatown and cleaving the city in two.

“We want people to figure out and become aware about the issues Vancouver faces,” says Dreicer. “We want them to know they can have an impact.”

Throughout Your Future Home, visitors are asked to participate. One exhibit asks you to draw your version of a skyscraper, another asks you describe what the word “home” means to you.

As part of the exhibition, the Museum of Vancouver is also presenting a series of debates and public talks designed to engage the public directly in the conversation.

When it comes to what form the Vancouver of the future will take, Dreicer says it is imperative that Vancouverites use their voice.

“There are many different solutions, and every individual has a chance to take part,” he says. “This is your city.” W

YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER

The Museum of Vancouver’s newest exhibit is on display until May 15.

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Designers and décor enthusiasts are jointly rejoicing at this week’s launch of the collaboration between design guru, Amanda Forrest, and local go-to for fabulous finishing treatments,The FAT Paint Company.

New Westminster-based and globally sought-after, FAT Paint has been redesigning the chalk paint industry with its line of paints that are easy to work with in both application and end-appearance customization (their paints are renowned with DIYers for the ability to distress with ease, giving each project its own unique look).

Victoria and Bradford Lambert, the brother and sister duo behind the brand, both hail from creative backgrounds and sought to produce a versatile chalk-style paint by artisans, for artisans.

The result has led them from (literally) a kitchen project to a 2,400-sq.ft. headquarters and production space, with

international stockists.

Forrest, who has 15 years of experience reigning as the queen of the Canadian design scene, recently partnered with FAT Paint to offer her edgy-meets-chic twist to their palette.Thriving on the style expertise she brings to the design and lifestyle industries,The Amanda Forrest Collection is comprised of six stunning colours that create a dramatic effect both together and as a solo statement.

What I love best about the fresh line is the notable vibrancy and individuality behind each colour; says Forrest of the collection,“[the] colours are all inspired by my personality and personify my creative drive, passion for business and love of travel”.

The concepts behind each colour are explained below; if your inner DIYer is enticed, purchasing information is available at TheFatPaintCompany.com.

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sand, this shade is as hot as the Caribbean sun.

Tip: The colour of fun, Orangeapalooza’s saturation is rich and deep giving it visual interest to hall tables, dining chairs and table lamps.

COUTURE LINEN

Couture Linen covets fashion and the attention to detail found on a beautifully crafted blazer or a beaded formal gown, knowing what looks best and priding itself on being a well mannered colour even at the nest of social events.

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The FAT Paint Company has partnered with celebrity interior designer Amanda Forrest for a new chalk paint collection. Contributed photos (See more online at Westender.com) commands attention and is best partnered with greens and navy; the perfect colour for a media cabinet, accent tables or picture frames.

Tip: Navy State Of Mind is a grounding colour. Its classic hue will stand the test of time on vanities, kitchen cabinetry and any mantle.

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The boss of her world, strong to the point and always unwavering. As crisp as a pin striped suit and sky high heels.

Leah Alexandra’s layers Niki Hope Style File

@NikiMHope Vancouver designer Leah Alexandra advises women to stack and layer when it comes to incorporating coveted pieces from her timeless collection of rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Put on a row of rings, grab at least a couple of bangles and a moonstones bracelet, stagger a couple of necklaces, the knockout designer says during an interview in her second-floor Gastown studio on a wet West Coast day.

It might be gloomy and grey outside, but inside the headquarters of Alexandra’s namesake line the feel is bright and airy, with blondewood floors, white walls, and exposed brick.The space has the same upbeat, contemporary, simple-chic feel as her beloved line, which is charming enough to have caught the eye of Nordstrom’s seasoned team of buyers.

But the designer didn’t initially jump at the chance to be carried by the US retail giant.While Alexandra was flattered the company wanted to include her in its impressive arsenal of brands, she worried about the impact it would have on the local boutiques (The Cross Décor & Design, LYNNsteven,Walrus, Blue

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She has a quiet soft demeanor only intimates will discover. Its understated elegance is gentle and classic

mirroring the lady at heart.

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Destined for tropical inspiration with an umbrella drink in one hand and toes in the

She is a real team player with a masculine side. Her ability to lead and inspire through life experience has granted the gift to mentor others creatively exploring in a multitude of mediums.

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Definitely not your typical jewellery store.

A sneak peek at the delicate Leah Alexandra pieces expected to be in stores and online in March. Dan Toulgoet photo Ruby,Vincent Park) carrying her line.

“I didn’t sleep for a month,” Alexandra says, recalling her agony over the decision.

Ultimately, she is glad she said yes to Nordstrom because it boosted her brand’s profile overall.

“It helped everyone,” she says. “It ended up being a win-win.”

It also worked out because the jewelry line is expansive enough to have a variety of her pieces featured at a number of locations. Alexandra uses non-toxic metals in her coveted creations, including sterling silver, 14-karat goldfill, 24-karat gold vermeil, and hand-selected gemstones and freshwater pearls.

The many shops clamoring to carry the line speaks to the appeal of the line Alexandra launched a decade ago from the dinning room table of her

one-bedroom apartment.

Next up for Alexandra, she is launching a new 50-piece spring collection – expected for early March – with soft rose, lavender, blue, and turquoise gems.

One of the bestsellers in the current collection is the Labradorite prism necklace, a long chain with a stunningly moody blue/green stone that begs to be layered. Alexandra’s collection of necklaces come in various lengths, allowing for easy layering.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it might be worth suggesting your sweetheart (or, if you’re single, for yourself) make a stop at one of the retail shops that carry her line, or check out her online store (LeahAlexandra.com) or the beautiful Gastown studio, where you can escape from the everyday into a jeweled sanctuary. W

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What’s better than fine food to go with your fine wine? The 2015 Vintner’s Brunch had plenty of both, as will these events at this year’s Wine Fest.

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Rediscover la bella Italia at this year’s Vancouver Int’l Wine Fest Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday The annual Vancouver International Wine Festival is back Feb. 20-28 for another week of wine tastings, seminars, galas, dinners and perhaps even a few routs. The focus this year is on Italian varietals and wines, meaning there’s never been a better time to immerse yourself in the food and wine traditions of la dolce vita.

Note I mentioned food first. Italian wines are remarkably food-friendly, thanks to the fact that practically the entire culture is based on the happy balance between both elements. And, while certain dinners almost guaranteed to be legendary – like the Ruffino dinner at Cin Cin – are already sold out, there are still plenty of delicious opportunities to indulge in some seriously indulgent wine and food. Even better, you can gain some education, at no additional charge, on what is it precisely that makes both chefs

and sommeliers so infatuated with la bella Italia. Here are a few events that should increase your understanding—and waist size.

ranging wines of Veneto. From Prosecco and Pinot Grigio to Merlot and more, it’s a pairing journey you won’t forget. $200 per person.

WINES OF VENETO AND SICILY

CARPINETO: VINTAGE TUSCANY

Tuesday, Feb. 23 Fairmont Pacific Rim: Giovane Café Noted young wine experts and friendly rivals Stefano Maggini of Feudo Maccari and Edoardo Montresor of Cantine Giacomo Montresor, will explore the richness of these two noted wine regions in an evening of story, wine, food and perhaps even song.

Fairmont Pacific Rim executive chef Nathan Brown has created a special menu to pair with the six wines from Montresor and Feudo Maccari to be served that evening. $175 per person.

Tuesday, Feb. 23 Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar Join winery owner Antonio Zaccheo of Carpineto winery in Tuscany as he presents nine of his award-winning wines, paired with Boulevard exectuvie chef Alex Chen’s seafood-focused menu. The dinner includes smoked albacore tuna crudo, shaved veal tongue, Humboldt squid putannesca, red wine-braised beef shank cannelloni, slow-cooked venison, and pistachio-blood orange tiramisu. $200 per person.

FROM BUBBLES TO PASSITO

Saturday, Feb. 27 Vancouver Convention Centre West Think a dinner is the only place to learn about food and wine pairing? Think again. Join famed wine educator DJ Kearney as she takes you on a food and wine

Tuesday, Feb. 23 Vij’s Restaurant What? Indian food with Italian wine? But, of course!

Join Giusti Wine and Vikram Vij for a special multi-course dinner served with the wide-

SIGNATURE PAIRINGS

journey that travels around the world, with stops in Canada, Italy and France, among others. Wines from Seghesio Family Vineyards, Culmina, Gruet and Inland Trading Co. will be paired with dishes from top Vancouver chefs. Each chef and winery principal will discuss what makes their pairing unique and ideal. $65 per person.

TASTE ITALIA!

Saturday, Feb. 27 Vancouver Convention Centre West Taste wines from all 60 participating Italian wineries at this year’s wine festival, along with a massive Italian-inspired buffet from Vancouver Convention Centre chef Blair Rasmussen. From prosciutto and crostini to fritto misto, short rib brasato and wild mushroom risotto, this is a perfect opportunity to explore the amazing diversity and food-forward taste of Italian wines. $115 per person.

in a beautiful setting. Enjoy wines from Farnesi, Ruffino, Bottega, Mionetto, Zonin and more while feasting on bites from The Dirty Apron. $69 per person.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL TASTING ROOM

Feb. 25-27 Don’t forget the Acura Tasting Room, where you can indulge in hundreds of different wines from dozens of wineries from Italy and other wine regions around the world. There is no better educational – and gustatory – experience. $75-$95 per person.

Anya Levykh is a freelance food, drink and travel writer who covers all things ingestible.

In addition to obsessively collecting cookbooks, she is a judge for theVancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @ foodgirlfriday. W

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For full details on all events during the wine festival, visit VanWineFest.ca.

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Tacofino Gastown is celebrating their one-year anniversary by selling halfprice fish tacos on Saturday, Jan. 30. All proceeds will be donated to Potluck Café Society, a Gastown-based non-profit organization that helps create jobs for people with barriers to employment and provides healthy food options. In addition, Tacofino will also donate one dollar for every use of the hashtag #tacoversary shared to Instagram and Twitter on the 30th. Tacofino.com/Gastown Blue Water Café’s Unsung Heroes menu is back for the 12th year in a row. The special collection of à la carte dishes are available Feb. 2-29 and celebrate lesser-known but highly sustainable – and local – seafood items like red sea urchin, periwinkle, jellyfish and more. Expect to see limpets added to the menu this year. Ten per cent of proceeds are donated to Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise ocean conservation program. BlueWaterCafe.net Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Chapter is once again offering scholarships for BC women interested in beginning or continuing training in the culinary, beverage and hospitality fields. All scholarships are awarded based on merit, ability, commitment and passion, and may range in value from $300 to $2,000 depending on funds available, program requirements and approved candidates.

Find more information at LesDames.ca/ScholarshipProgram Following last year’s successful San Sebastien experiment, Salt Tasting Room is launching the “Italian Gas Station Experiment” for the month of February. Partnering with Urbani Foods, Salt will be offering complimentary samples such as Venetian tea sandwiches, arancini and fresh sausages sous vide (all popular gas station snacks in Italy) to guests who purchase any glass, flight or bottle of wine. Available daily, 4pm-6pm. SaltTastingRoom.com Okanagan Crush Pad has added to their spirits line with the introduction of a special gin created for Vikram Vij and wife Meeru Dhalwala. Vij’s Bolly Water is a grape-based spirit in the classic London Dry style, with a flavour based in juniper berries. Available at Vij’s Restaurant and the winery.

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BC breweries battle it out in court Stephen Smysnuik The Growler @TheGrowlerBC

Oh sure, BC’s craft beer community is swimming in glad tidings and brotherly love – but it’s not all hugs and kisses! No, this is still an industry, which means business. And with business comes legal squabbles and disputes. Cease and desist notices! Lawsuits! Anger! Here are some of the most memorable legal squabbles to emerge from BC’s beer industry so far.

Molson Coors vs Sea to Sky Brewery Sea to Sky Brewery is – or was – a 15-barrel brewing company in Whistler that planned to open in March

by Kevin Winters (formerly of Missions Springs Brewing Co.).That was, until Molson Coors’ lawyers sent the new brewery a letter stating that they (Molson Coors) had applied to register a mark on the name “Sea to Sky.” It turns out that last year,Winters and Co. did a trademark search for Sea to Sky, which came back clean.While in the process of opening the brewery, Molson Coors filed for the trademark.

Neither party was aware of the

other’s intentions. Molson Coors doesn’t currently hold the mark, butWinters has decided to change the brewery name anyway, but at the time of publication it was still nameless.

Sleeman vs Red Arrow Sleeman sent a cease and desist to Duncan’s Red Arrow, claiming that the latter’s brewery logo was too similar to that of the Sleeman-owned Old Milwaukee – in particular, the use of lines around the border. Red Arrow made a modest change to the logo, rounding out the bottom edges and changing the offending lines, to which Sleeman agreed. Incidentally, Red Arrow’s founders originally planned to name the brewery Arrow Brewing, but changed it to Red Arrow after the owners of Invermere’s Arrowhead Brewing called and politely asked them to reconsider.

Okanagan Crush Pad vs Lighthouse Lighthouse was forced to change the name of its Switchback IPA after Okanagan Crush Pad, a BC winery, called attention to their mark on the title “Switchback,” which is the name of their Switchback OrganicVineyard in Summerland.

Lighthouse changed the name to Shipwreck IPA.

Middle-Earth Enterprises vs Parallel 49 P49 changed the name of their IPA after JRR Tolkien’s estate, Middle-Earth Enterprises, filed a cease-and-desist over P49’s use of the title “Lord of the Hops.” P49 might have been able to keep selling Lord of the Hops, since the name and label – featuring an ominous blue-haired wizard – was vague enough to not overtly reference Lord of the Rings. It was the beer’s tagline, “One beer to rule them all,” that gave it away. P49 complied and launched Filthy Dirty instead.

Parallel 49 vs Three Ranges Brewing Last year,Valemount’s Three Ranges Brewing was forced to change the name of its pale ale, Mile 49, after Parallel 49 issued a cease-anddesist. Owner Michael Lewis considered fighting it, as Mile 49 was a geographical location near Valemount, referring to the 49th mile railroad marker from the Alberta going West.

He eventually decided fighting would be far too costly and changed the beer’s name to DeRailed Pale Ale.The beer’s label reads, “Just as you’re picking up steam, a piece of paper can fly in the door and knock the track out from under you.”

Red Truck vs Phillips Ah, the legendary squabble. In 2007, Red Truck Brewing took Phillips Brewing to court, claiming that Phillips’ Blue Truck Ale’s name was too similar to Red Truck’s name. Red Truck won, forcing Phillips to change their name to Blue Buck, which helped launch Phillips into the stratosphere of BC beer (they’re easily the biggest craft brewery in the province right now).

Labatt vs Phillips But Blue Buck’s troubles haven’t ended there. In 2012, Labatt opposed Phillips’ registration of the trademark for Blue Buck, filed through the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Opposition proceedings deal with instances where a company opposes another company’s attempt to register a trademark.The proceedings are still ongoing and have not gone to court. Findings for this case weren’t immediately available but it’s not difficult to infer why Labatt, a brewery that produces and sells a product called “Blue,” might oppose the registration of Phillips’ trademark of a product called “Blue Buck.”

Sleeman vs Dead Frog In 2008, Sleeman (yes, them again) sued Dead Frog over the latter’s use of clear bottles for its packaged product – specifically Dead Frog’s use of embossed clear bottles, which, according to Sleeman’s lawyers, were too similar to the bottles Sleeman used.The suit was eventually settled out of court.

Beachcomber Brewery vs Vancouver Island Brewery In 2013,Vancouver restaurateur Mark Brand was planning to open his new Sunshine Coast brewery as Beachcomber Brewery. He sent letters to the folks at Vancouver Island Brewery, who had been selling beer called Beachcomber Summer Ale, asking them to change the beer’s name. VIB didn’t have a trademark on Beachcomber, but had earned sufficient goodwill after three years on the market. Brand eventually stopped pursuing VIB and renamed the brewery to Persephone.

Bear Republic vs Central City In 2010, Bear Republic filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement of two brands – Racer 5 IPA and Red Rocket Ale – after Central City began marketing Red Racer in the US. Bear Republic won after a two-year legal battle, forcing Central City to change Red Racer to Red Betty in American markets.

Steamworks vs EVERYONE Ah, this old chestnut. In 2012, Steamworks owner Eli Gershkovitch used his trademark of the term Cascadia to stop BC breweries from selling beers called Cascadian Dark Ale. Steamworks had previously brewed a Cascadia Cream Ale, but at the time this was going down, it was no longer brewed (though it was promptly rushed into production after news of this was published). Gershkovitch called breweries directly and said he was willing to send out demand letters if the breweries did not cease use of the name. Given the costs of going to court – a recurring theme here – these breweries backed down, and started calling these beers Black IPAs (or simply CDAs) instead. Eventually, Steamworks agreed to license the term for $1. W -With files from Darryl Green and Barley Mowat.

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In last week’s Growler column “Brewer vs Brewer: The new brewery edition,” we published an interview featuring Andina Brewing’s Andres Amaya. It was in fact his brother and business partner Nicolas Amaya in the interview. We regret the error.

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Why on earth I joined the Masters of Wine Study Programme Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

I distinctly remember hearing the term “Master of Wine” at the first wine course I ever attended. It was presented as a designation reserved for an elite few who are able to taste a wine blind (without seeing the label) and magically guess where it comes from, right down to the specific vineyard. It sounded intriguing yet impossible and I had no intention of pursuing it. I was simply working in a restaurant to pay my way through university and just wanted to learn a little bit about wine.

Somewhere along the way, I was bitten by the wine bug and ended up adopting it as my career. I also eventually discovered that an MW goes well beyond ‘nailing’ the identity of a wine. Furthermore, as Peter Marks MW wisely asserts, “wine can never truly be mastered.” Instead the title recognizes a candidate’s mastery of the entire world of wine. It’s been compared to undertaking a PhD and requires the same dedication, persistence and hard work.

The advantage is you get to taste a lot of wine throughout the process.

So after years of working in an industry I love just as much as the drink itself, I decided to sign up for the Masters of

Homework has never looked so good! Michaela Morris photo Wine Study Programme.The study is self-directed and the time frame is counted in years.

Eventually I’ll sit (and maybe re-sit) a four day examination which includes essays on everything from grape growing, winemaking, quality control, the business of wine and contemporary issues of current trends.

Besides theory papers, there is indeed a series of blind tastings. For each, think 12 wines in just over two hours. But this ain’t a leisurely sip-a-thon.

Based on appearance, smell and taste, we must answer questions about the wine’s provenance, grape and how it is made along with assessing the quality and commercial appeal.Taste like a detective and prove like a lawyer is the strategy.

If we pass the theory and

blind tastings, we must then complete a research paper…

I know; most people just want to drink the stuff. Believe me, that’s what I ultimately love most about wine. But I’m equally enthralled by the intellectual aspect and challenge.

So, is the reward those coveted MW letters?

“Being part of the community is the true prize,” declares Jean-Michel Valette MW. It’s not about arrogance and elitism.Those who have succeeded are counted on to make the world of wine a better place for all.

There are fewer than 340 Masters of Wine around the globe.Three are based right here in British Columbia and are truly raising the bar of our local wine scene.They’re also the most down-to-earth, unpretentious lot I know. Barbara

Philip MW is the Category Manager for the Wines of Europe at BC Liquor Stores.

Those fantastic bottles on BC LDB shelves from France, Spain, Italy have much to do with her keen selection.

Besides being a top-notch wine educator, Rhys Pender MW makes wine with his wife Alishan Driediger in the Similkameen Valley under the Little Farm label.Then there is my mentor, Markus Ansems MW, who earned his title just last year. He’s the winemaker and owner of Daydreamer Wines in Naramata.

Let me be crystal clear. I am not a Master of Wine.Yet. True mastery takes time and the road ahead is long. But I intend to enjoy every step (and drop of wine) along the way wherever it ends up leading me. W

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The coolest cocktail event of the year is coming to Science World on Feb. 4, and if you miss it, you’ll never forgive yourself.

More than 25 of Vancouver’s best bartenders are teaming up for Science of Cocktails, a charitable event to help give under-privileged kids a chance to experience Science World through its class field trip program.

The lineup is, quite frankly, ridiculous: Lauren Mote (UVA, Bittered Sling), Grant Sceney (Fairmont Pacific Rim), Tarquin Melnyk (Bambudda), CooperTardivel (Hawksworth), Giancarlo Quiroz Jesus (The Diamond), ArthurWynne (The Mackenzie Room), Amber Bruce (Keefer Bar),Thor Paulson (L’Abattoir), Kevin Brownlee (AnnaLena), and many,

Tarquin Melynk and his team at Bambudda have created the Powell Street Sour for the Science of Cocktails charity event at Science World on Feb. 4. Contributed photo food and beverages.” many more. It’s a who’s-who of The theme of the night theVancouver cocktail scene, is science, so expect the and will likely be the only place bartenders to be pulling out you’ll ever be able to hit up all all the stops to impress the that talent in just one night. guests: nitrogen charging, Tickets start at $145, rapid syphon extraction, but the cocktails and the vacuum sealing, all manner food (provided by Railtown of foams and emulsions.

Catering) are all free once “These are really high-conyou’re in the door. cept cocktails,” says Melnyk.

“There’s actually a lot of “We’re taking a lot of the value,” says Tarquin Melnyk, same techniques used in mobar manager at Gastown’s lecular gastronomy and applyBambudda. “You’re not ing them to our drinks. People sipping on PBRs, these are cocktails that normally range are realizing they should take their drinks as seriously as from $12 to $20, and it’s an open bar, unlimited access to their food and bartenders are

stepping up their game.”

Melnyk and his Bambudda team have created botanical foam made from a mixture of macerated plants that mimics the omnipresent egg white foam used in so many cocktails. It’s just one element of the Powell Street Sour he and his team will be serving on Feb. 4.

The science isn’t just limited to the cocktails, however. In the main event area, there will be dry ice and liquid nitrogen demonstrations, science stations that challenge your palette and your sense of smell, and plenty of illusions to mess with your cocktail-filled brain.

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Timing is everything: Brandon Wolfe Scott GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

They say timing is everything, and 2016 is looking good for Brandon Wolfe Scott so far. The local musician is beaming as he’s couched with an afternoon Americano at an off-Main coffee shop, and for good reason: two years after tracking The PostcardWriter, a collection of tear-in-yourbeer-style country tunes, his first-ever solo record is finally about to hit stores.

He also hits the road this month, but here’s the thing: the tour’s not in support of his solo set, but rather with his well-traveled, full-time indie rock project,Yukon Blonde. Judging by the genuine smile stretching across the bespectacled songwriter’s lightly bearded face, he’s

taking the scheduling snafu in stride.

“It is kind of unfortunate,” he allows matter-of-factly, before shooting off optimistically, “That’s the thing about doing solo projects. In a weird way, it’s kind of a nice outlet to do something, but I don’t know how much time I’m going to have to focus on it. I’m glad it’s getting out there, which is nice.”

While eager to link up with his backup players at some point, the relaxed approach makes sense. He admits, for instance, that some of these songs have been rattling around in his repertoire for the better part of a decade. Others were originally cooked up for laughs under the guise of Dusty Summers, an alter ego that initially had him handling cattle rustlin’ C&W with a humorously booming baritone.

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Blackstar (ISO Records) It’s hard to review the Thin White Duke’s latest effort outside the context of his passing on Jan. 10.

Since it’s only natural to look back at David Bowie’s work with increased fondness knowing that one of the greatest creative forces of our time is no longer with us, it’s also natural to look at his latest, final work in the same light. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Blackstar shot to the top of the Billboard charts following Bowie’s death, making it the first of his albums to ever reach No. 1.

So is this his best album?

Hardly. But that’s not really the point.

On Blackstar, Bowie

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writes his own epitaph, providing closure on his long and illustrious music career, both for himself and his fans. Recorded in relative secrecy after he was diagnosed with incurable cancer a year and a half ago, Blackstar sees Bowie struggling with the reality of his impending, inescapable death. On the album’s sprawling, mystical opener, he imagines his own execution. On “Lazarus”, he faces his own mortality, tell-

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“In between tours I would be writing these funny little country songs for my friends, just for them to hear,” he explains. “I think it was a nice way of putting on a mask.

I don’t feel self-conscious showing songs to people that way, where I put on a real low voice. I showed a couple friends, and they were just like, ‘Dude, you should just do these songs.’”

Though Scott cites influences like Sons of the Pioneers and Glen Campbell, whom he’d listen to as a youth with his mouth harpplaying grandfather, he knew he’d have to tone down his jokey impression of the genre if he were to play from the heart. Notching his vocals up an octave into his natural range helped, too.

“I had some pretty hokey lyrics going on,” Scott confesses, listing off titles to ing us “This way or no way / You know I’ll be free”.

The seven songs themselves are hit and miss, however, and suffer from a certain computer-generated sterility. “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” and “Girl Loves Me”, in particular, both suffer from some distractingly wonky electronic jazz drums.

Throughout the album, Bowie’s age and weakness are apparent in his voice, and it’s clear that producer and long-time collaborator Tony Visconti likely did much of the heavy lifting, musically speaking. But while Blackstar is far from Bowie’s best work, it’s an absolute must-listen for anyone seeking to understand this enigmatic creative genius.

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early tunes including country Christmas strummer, “Snow on My Stetson.”

“One was called ‘Rope and Ride.’ It’s about this guy who really wants this woman to keep up with his manliness, that kind of weird redneck mentality. I just changed them into polite love songs.”

A “serious breather” from Yukon Blonde, brought on by years of heavy touring, led Scott to booking a winter vacation at Zeus member Jason Haberman’s home studio in the Roncesvalle neighbourhood of Toronto, where they cleaned up the tunes that would become The Postcard Writer. Though lacking his regular bandmates, Scott was assisted by pedal steel player Matt Kelly (City & Colour), vocalist Carleigh Aikins (Bahamas) and more.

“I wanted to get away from everything,” Scott says

of the EP’s musical direction.

“I didn’t want loud, trashy rock and roll...I wanted it to be chill.”

Fittingly, The Postcard Writer is a pleasantly airy collection. Intricate, back porch-approved acoustic guitars are plucked tenderly on tracks like the independenceseeking “Anymore,” and the wistful “Heartless.” “Sleepin’ ByYour Side” is the record’s most overt nod to old time country, a slippery pedal steel supporting Scott’s melancholy, motel-locked narrative about longing for home.

The title track likewise examines life on the road, with Scott softly singing about how he’ll be dropping a thoughtful message in the mail for his lover. While the idea may seem antiquated to anyone firing off messages 24/7 on their smartphone, Scott explains that it’s one of

JUST JEFFREY

Coffee, Tea & Me (La Ti Da Records)

Jeffrey McCloy is an anachronism. The former New Town Animals and current Tranzmitors frontman clearly belongs in another time and another place; specifically, 1960s England.

McCloy has long worn his anglophile leanings on his sleeve – if not his lapel – and on Coffee,Tea & Me we see him striking out on his own, putting on the Brit with gleeful abandon.

From the early Who and Kinks to the Jam and the Vapors, the musical influences aren’t hard to pick out. This is a mod revival, and a campy, tongue-in-cheek one at

that. There’s songs about football, drinking tea (like, every other song), and evil widows who live at the end of the lane. It’s all silly, nostalgic fun, and McCloy absolutely nails it, thanks in no small part to his own self-awareness. “I look out of place but I feel no disgrace,” he confesses on the album’s closer, “English Way Of Life”.

Unlike previous projects that saw a full band backing

the record’s most autobiographical tracks.

“That’s a total obsession I have. Every new place I go, I have to get a postcard for my girlfriend. We have hundreds on our wall. Getting something tangible in the mail is sort of a lost thing, these days. I always find it extra fun to do.”

With Yukon Blonde’s Canadian tour kicking off in just a couple of weeks, it seems like Scott’s girlfriend will be tacking up a few more romantic messages quite soon. W

BRANDON WOLFE SCOTT’S The Postcard

Writer is available now via Nevado Records, while Yukon Blonde play the Commodore Ballroom Feb. 5.

him up at all times, on Coffee,Tea & Me the focus is largely on McCloy’s vocals.

On songs like “Cellular Devices” or “Believe What You Must”, the sparse arrangements allow his hilariously affected yet oddly charming voice to take centre stage.

When he does bust out the full band on numbers like “Kids These Days” and “World Made For Me,” no one is stepping on McCloy’s toes; the drums are tastefully understated and the keys give him plenty of space to breathe. These are pop songs after all, complete with the requisite harmonies and key changes, and damn if they aren’t catchy.

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FOND OF TIGERS Seven of Vancouver’s leading musical creatives join forces in this avant-garde, post-rock band, performing in conjunction with PuSh Festival. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $22+ at TicketFly.com

CORB LUND Canadian countryrocker from Edmonton plays the first of two nights in support of his latest release Things That Can’t Be Undone. 9:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $35+ at LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.ca

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Portland-based psych rockers on tour in support of their latest release, Multi-Love, with special guest Lower Dens. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, and TicketWeb.ca

LITTLE WILD Four-piece rock outfit from Abbotsford play an early show with special guests Alea Rae and Hollow Twin. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com

THE EGYPTIAN CONCERTO Gordon Gerrard conducts pianist Louis Lortie and the VSO in a program of Beethoven, on this the first of three evening performances. 8pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca. Runs until Feb. 1.

THE WOOD BROTHERS Roots and blues duo, Oliver and Chris Wood of Nashville, on tour to support their new release Paradise, with special guest Liz Vice.

8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and TicketWeb.ca. All ages show.

ARKELLS Juno Award-winning Canadian rockers from Hamilton, Ontario, long-listed for the 2015 Polaris prize play the first of two SOLD OUT shows with special guests Dreamers and Modern Space. 8:30pm at Commodore Ballroom.

THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Psychedelic-funk band from Austin, Texas tour in support of their latest release, Space Is Still The Place. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $10 at LiveNation.com

SAINTSENECA Indie-folk-rockers out of Ohio on tour in support of their latest release, Such Things, with special guests Des Ark and Goodwood Atoms. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

JOHNNY REID Scottish-born, Canadian-bred and Nashville country artist plays tunes from his third studio album, What Love Is All About, with special guests Natalie MacMaster, JJ Shiplett, and Aaron Goodvin. Tickets $65+ at Ticketmaster.ca

THE ROYAL STREETS Folk-rock band out of Kitchener-Waterloo stop by in support of their threesong EP, Story Weekend, with special guests Coldwater Road and Clay Pigeons. 8pm at Railway Club. Tickets $10 at the door.

HALLOW MOON Vancouver garage-rock-psych band play tunes from the recently-released HM, with special guests Nothingness, and Paul Stewart (of Summering). 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for best female comic the past three of five years, this comic’s sharp edge compliments her playful, happy air in a hilarious act.

8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets at $15 TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE MONUMENTAL For one night only, Vancouver’s The Holy Body Tattoo dance company unites with post-rock giants Godspeed You! Black Emperor for a live performance turning movement into metaphor, dance into poetry, sound into substance.

8pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Tickets $45 at TicketFly.com PRIDE & PREJUDICE Relive the charm and wit of one of literature’s most beloved romantic comedies in this elegant and lavish production, as a series of tumultuous events threatens the Bennet sisters’ position in society and their prospects of marriage. 7:30pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Feb. 28.

THE BRASS ACTION High-energy horn-driven dance-ska band takes the stage with special guests Brehdren, Sweet Leaf and Kownterpoint. 9:30pm at Railway Club.

Tickets $10 at the door.

DISCO FUNERAL East Van funk band hits the stage amidst burlesque, and a black art light show featuring performances from Redrick Sultan, Army of Peace, and more. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Admission by donation.

THEATRE/DANCE LEFTOVERS Stand-up as a storytelling tour de force from the best-selling author and one of Canada’s finest comics, Charlie Demers, who in the best tradition of political comedy, uses humour as a pointed weapon, cutting through decades of bullshit into the core of malaise, and the many questions it raises. 8pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Jan. 30.

COMMON GRACE A provocative and relatable family drama follows the story of Colleen, forced to return home for her father’s funeral and faced with figuring out if she can fit into the world she’s spent running from. 8pm at Pacific Theatre. Tickets at PacificTheatre.org. Runs until Feb. 14.

ART GAMES PEOPLE PLAY American visual artist and actor Michael Soltis presents an exhibition of work comprised solely from vintage board games, in an effort to examine the evolvement of technology, and give new life to old memories associated with tangible objects. Opening reception 6pm at Kimoto Gallery (1525 West 6th Avenue). Runs until Feb. 27.

JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS A stylish, elegant take on bluegrass that is sophisticated yet stripped-down, known as much for their blend of storytelling and side-show humour as for their original material, instrumentals, and newly arranged traditional songs. 8pm at St. James Community Hall.

Tickets $24 at Red Cat, Highlife, Rufus’ Guitars, Tapestry Music and RogueFolk.bc.ca THE EAGLE Rock Gospel Singers LA-based indie-gospel group appear in support of their debut album, Heavenly Fire, with special guest Lovecoast. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $15 at Red Cat and LiveNation.com THE INVOLVERS Vancouver composer and musician sylvi macCormac plays an afternoon show with her band Horizon, in support of her 20th anniversary project, The Feather Songbook & CD, a benefit for Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. 1:30pm at Havana Theatre. Admission by suggested donation of $5.

COMEDY COLIN KANE LA insult comic who in acknowledging the line, regularly steps right over it with his in-your-face delivery and off-the-cuff crowd work tackles sex, relationships, race – and anyone brave enough to sit in the front row. Opening sets from Gary Anderson and Katie-Ellen Humphries. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com.

THE OUTER MIDDLE ZONE Behind the dark curtain lies another dimension, inspired by The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits where some of Vancouver’s top improvisers bring you astonishing tales full of suspense, chills, hilarity, and all the surprises your all-too-human brain can handle.

10:30pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $8 at InstantTheatre.com

THEATRE/DANCE 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. 4pm & 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.com. Final performance.

LAPIN BLANC, LAPIN ROUGE Each night a different artist gives himself over to this strange, innovative experience imagined by the author, Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, who upon refusal of military service was unable to leave his country, propelling him to write a play to travel the world.

8pm at Studio 16. Tickets at Seizieme.ca. Final performance.

MISS UNDERSTOOD Antonette Rea is a formidable presence with a remarkable story to tell – from middle class husband and father to drug-addicted trans woman sex worker – in her own words, her incredibly real and raw poetry. 4pm at Performance Works. Tickets at TicketFly.com. Runs until Jan. 31.

AURELIO MARTINEZ Garifuna singer-songwriter, percussionist, and guitarist from Honduras performs in his native tongue, the compelling sounds of traditional music fused with Latin rhythms.

8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $25+ at Tickets.

CapilanoU.ca EMERSON STRING QUARTET Grammy Award-winning chamber music group from New York City returns to Vancouver to present a program of Haydn, Bartók, and Dvorák. 3pm at Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets $48 at FriendsOfChamberMusic.ca

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 COMPANY Robert, a confirmed bachelor, navigates the pros and cons of marriage from encounters with his very different, and often hilarious friends in this groundbreaking modern musical – an intelligent look at relationships, vulnerability, and being alive. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre.

Tickets at JerichoArtsCentre. com. Runs until Feb. 14.

COMEDY 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 ANTHROPOLOGIES IMAGINAIRES Distinguished composer and vocalist Gabriel Dharmoo mixes musical styles to create discourse and dialogue in this boldly original, yet whimsical and humourous performance bringing an imaginary world to an audience looking inward at themselves. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets at TicketsTonight.

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THE SOFT MOON California post-punk artist on tour in support of his latest album, Deeper, with special guest Left Spine Down. 8pm at Venue. Tickets $13 at BPLive.ca

THE KNOCKS NYC-based electronic music duo return to Vancouver with special guest Cardiknox.

7:30pm at The Imperial. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beat Street and TicketWeb.ca

HOT JAZZ JAM An evening of live jazz music and dancing, transporting you back to the early 20th century New Orleans featuring the Rossi Gang, a young jazz quartet. 9:30pm at Backstage Lounge. Tickets $12 at the door.

TROYE SIVAN Twenty-year old Australian actor and singer-songwriter kicks off a North American tour in support of his full-length debut, Blue Neighbourhood. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $24.70 at LiveNation.com

JULIA HOLTER Indie singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist from LA, on tour in support of her latest release, Have You In My Wilderness, with special guest Circuit Des Yeux. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

COMEDY DAVID CROSS American standup comedian, actor, writer and voice artist known for his work on Arrested Development, and Mr. Show performs on his Making America Great Again! tour presented as part of Just For Laughs NorthWest. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $45+ at DavidCrossTour2016.com SAY WHA?! Ever read a poorly written novel and thought, who publishes this crap? Eric Fell, LeeAnn Keple, Jacob Samuel and Michael John Unger hit the stage for some hilarious readings of deliciously rotten writing. 8pm at Cottage Bistro. Tickets $10 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE HUFF One of Canada’s rising theatre stars, indigenous writer Cliff Cardinal presents this awardwinning show, a raw and darkly comic tale of a First Nations boy who is lost in a torrent of solvent sniffing, sexual abuse and suicide. 7pm at Firehall Arts Centre.

Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca.

Runs until Feb. 6.

CENTURY SONG A wordless chronicle of the ages, with the subject nothing less than the 20th century and the star, powerhouse soprano Neema Bickersteth, who uses her voice and body to move us through the decades, sonically exploring the many identities our history connects her to. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Feb. 6.

BLACK SABBATH English rock band from Birmingham, and pioneers of heavy metal fronted

by Ozzy Osbourne hit Vancouver one last time on The End tour.

7:30pm at Rogers Arena. Tickets $49.50+ at LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.ca AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO Hawaiian multigenre ukulele player tours in support of his latest album, Travels. 8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $30 at LiveNation.com

THEATRE/DANCE ETERNAL A radical adventure in time, the subject at first appears to be love, but creator Daniel Fish has a wild card up his sleeve, in this cunning piece of avant-garde theatre based on the Charlie Kaufman-penned film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

8pm at Western Front. Tickets at PuShFestival.ca and TicketFly. com. Runs until Feb. 6.

THE UNFORTUNATE RUTH Identical twins Ruth and Ruthie share an undeniable psychic connection, but only one of them was actually born. This exploration of parallel universes full of heart and hope features shadow puppetry from Mind of a Snail! 8pm at Studio 1398. Tickets at Tickets.

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SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Experimental-psych Welsh rockers return to Vancouver with special guest Dead Meadow. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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MODERN SPACE Five-piece Toronto-based rock band play their second Vancouver show in a week in support of their EP, Before Sunrise, with special guest Derrival. 9pm at Media Club. Tickets $12.50+ at LiveNation.com

COMEDY PHIL HANLEY Hot off the premiere of his Comedy Central special The Half Hour with appearances on Late Night with Seth Myers, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Hanley blends a unique mix of original material and crowd interaction for performances unpredictably reflective, delivered with sharp accuracy. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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THEATRE/DANCE RELATIVE COLLIDER A dance performance as pleasurable to contemplate as it is to watch, as longtime collaborators Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard move in time to a metronome, dictated by patterns of numbers and random spoken text cues. 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Tickets at PuShFestival.ca. Runs until Feb. 6.

A NIGHT IN VENICE Considered one of the most beautiful of the Strauss operettas and the only to premiere outside of Vienna, this romantic comedy casts an array of colourful characters with a plot packed full of as many twists and turns as the city of Venice itself. 7:30pm at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

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An early morning breakfast for robust discussion, and our monthly #LOUDlunch. On Friday, February 12th, we will be hearing from Dara Parker, Executive Director of Qmunity.

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Eric Craig and Naomi Wright star in the Arts Club Theatre’s production of Pride and Prejudice.

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From the beloved 1995 BBC miniseries to the Bollywood musical, Lizzie Bennet YouTube vlog and Bridget Jones’s Diary homage… (not to mention the serviceable fan fictions, dubious zombie and vampire updates, comic book adaptations, and creepy Colin Firth statues) there is no shortage of Pride and Prejudice to be found in popular culture.

Still, in a true testament to the enduring allure of Jane Austen’s 19th-century romcom, fans are surely fanning their faces in excitement over the upcoming Arts Club Theatre Company presentation.

Director Sarah Rodgers certainly is.The theatre veteran, in fact, still can’t get enough…

“First of all, my family is British, so I grew up a Jane Austen fan,” says Rodgers.

“I read Pride and Prejudice in Grade 9 and I think I read it every year after that […]

And I grew up watching every movie, every miniseries. Like many women on the planet,” she adds, with a genuine school-girl giggle. “It really is a dream come true to direct this piece.”

Rodgers, a 12-time Jessie Award nominee who just last summer helmed theTheatre UnderThe Stars hit Hairspray!, is bringing Austen’s 1813 novel of manners to life at the Stanley Industrial AllianceTheatre this week. It’s not some dusty adaptation that wallows in the drama of it all, however. In this version, penned byVictoria playwright and 2014 Governor

General’s Award-finalist Janet Munsil, the fat is trimmed from the 300-some-odd-page prose, leaving only a tightly witty script.

“It’s a fantastic script.We are so lucky to have this version,” raves Rodgers. “[Munsil] has written a comedy, and she’s also written a very economical script. If you were to sit and read aloud the novel, it takes 12 hours,” Rodgers explains, “so [Munsil] has distilled a 12-hour read into two hours, and it is concise, witty, moving, charming. She has all the best lines in it.”

And those lines – that dialogue – is where the Austen magic happens. For those who don’t know the story by heart, Pride and Prejudice follows a year in the life of intelligent, headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, of the many Bennet sisters.

When Elizabeth encounters the wealthy, brooding Mr. Darcy, assumptions are made and poor first impressions must be overcome, mostly through sharp verbal repartee.

“I think it is one of the most romantic love stories of our time,” says Rodgers, appreciatively. “I also think it is an incredible depiction of human nature and character.

I think we can all relate to first impressions that were wrong.”

For this, her fourth time directing for the Arts Club, Rodgers has chosen a diverse cast – from ethnicity to age and experience – to fill the play’s many roles.

“I have some terrific old veterans in there,” she says, with excitement. “Scott Bellis, and David Marr, and Katey Wright. I also have theatre royalty with Shirley Broderick,” she adds. “And then I have a student from Studio 58; I have recent grads from UBC and Studio 58; I also have, just among the Bennet sisters, an African-Canadian ‘Lydia’, a Filipino ‘Mary’, and our ‘Georgiana’, Darcy’s

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sister, is half Japanese.”

“It was very important to me,” Rodgers continues, “in presenting this beautiful production – this English piece – in today’s world, to have diverse casting.”

In more nods to modernity, Rodgers has also played with convention by incorporating her love of conceptual design into Alison Green’s set workup, while also adding some live music into the mix.

The story itself, though, stays as its meant to be.

“It’s set in 1811 – it’s set right in Jane Austen’s time period – and I’m honouring the time period,” Rodgers affirms.

“I love the time period. I love the costumes.The entire piece is about etiquette and the class system, so you need to keep it in its time period.”

It’s a style of production that Rodgers feels the Arts Club – Western Canada’s largest theatre company – is now uniquely positioned in Vancouver to produce.

“With the closing of the Playhouse [theatre company in 2012], we really only have Blackbird Theatre and the Arts Club to bring us the classics,” Rodgers explains.

“And also, with the success of such a fantastic large company, they’re able to produce a classic production that has 17 actors in it. How fortunate are we, in Vancouver,” she states.

“We’re so blessed to have the Arts Club, and as a director, this is a gift.To go to work every day and work with 17 professional actors, it’s really amazing.We’re all pinching ourselves and we’re all very thankful.” W

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

runs Jan. 28 to Feb. 28 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tickets from $29; ArtsClub.com

Most of the grown-ups that you encounter in your daily life have probably graduated from kindergarten. Aubrey Arnason is not one of them.

You wouldn’t know it to look at her. She has every other grade under her belt, and she’s certainly thrived in her career as an actress, writer, producer and lifestyle show guru who co-hosted two series for Shaw TV: TheWedding Belles and The Proposal.

But despite her Leo Award win and other accomplishments, she’s not a kindergarten graduate. She wasn’t ever a kindergarten student; her elementary school journey began in Grade 1.

Arnason didn’t think she’d missed out on anything until a few years ago, when she mentioned this gap in her education to a friend who happens to teach kindergarten – and her friend suggested otherwise.

“She looked at me and started laughing, and she said, ‘That makes sense,’” says Arnason in a recent phone interview. “She just thought that some of the life skills you learn in kindergarten, I don’t really have, once you get to know me. She’s like, ‘You walk to the front of the line, you go places without a ticket, you don’t think about this or that, you have terrible handwriting’ – and so I started laughing and I go, ‘That’s kind of funny.’”

Funny enough, in fact, to be the foundation for an original narrative short film, entitled Kindergarten Da Bin IchWieder, that Arnason wrote, co-directed, and starred in last year.

Kindergarten Da Bin Ich Wieder was created as part of the 2015 Crazy8s (that annual filmmaking carnival in which six teams are selected to shoot and lock a short film in eight days) and screens this week as part of the 2016 Vancouver Short Film Festival.

In Kindergarten Da Bin Ich Wieder, Aubrey Arnason plays Audrey Ragnarson (get it?), a television jingle writer who is forced out of her job and into kindergarten when her scandalous gap in education is revealed.

Arnason shares the screen with Daniel Arnold (Lawrence & Holloman), Noel Johanson (Unleashing Mr. Darcy), and 11 five-year-olds.

Actress Aubrey Arnason’s lack of kindergarten education inspired the short film, Kindergarten Da Bin Ich Wieder.

“I learned not to underestimate kids ever,” says Arnason.

“Those five-year-olds had more energy than any of us, and they were magic.”

Arnason co-directed Kindergarten Da Bin IchWieder with frequent collaborator and actress-comedienne Kalyn Miles.

“I didn’t want it to have a [Billy Madison] feel, or a romcom feel,” says Arnason. “I didn’t want [Audrey] to be a woman, or to be sexual at all.

I wanted it to be a fable, and that’s where the idea to give it a storybook feel came from.”

Speaking of storybooks: Once upon a time, Arnason was a little girl growing up in Winnipeg, watching wornout VHS tapes of Grease and Olympic gold medal skating, and spending all of her free time figure skating at the local rink.

Arnason’s dad, Chuck, had spent a few years in the NHL, and operated a driving range and golf course. Her mother worked with her dad and sewed all of her skating costumes.

“Because my dad had done something that most people don’t do… they were more about dreams and aspirations,” says Arnason.

After what Arnason describes as three tough teenage years (“I went from being a figure skater and my mom having my schedule, to my parents waiting up all night wondering if I’m coming home”), she turned it all around and entered the theatre program at the University of Manitoba.

At some point in her journey, Arnason transferred her passion from theatre to film and television.

“What I love about television and about film is that there are so many different types of people and so many different types of roles, and they all come together to cre-

ate one thing,” says Arnason, who graduated from the acting program at Vancouver Film School.

“From the production assistant blocking off the street, to the dudes who haul all of those heavy things off the trucks, to the make-up girls in the trailer: it’s a whole town in itself. It takes a village to make a film, and that’s what I love about it.”

Sometimes the village can be quiet, especially for actors waiting to land auditions and book roles.

It was during those stretches of quiet that Arnason began to develop her own projects.

This is how she came to create, produce, direct, and cohost Shaw TV’s TheWedding Belles (about entrepreneurs working in the wedding biz) and The Proposal, in which she got to play on-screen co-conspirator in numerous marriage proposals.

“This industry has taken me in so many directions and given me so many different experiences that I couldn’t have possibly fathomed on my own,” says Arnason. “Sometimes when you don’t get exactly what you want, you get something else that’s pretty amazing.”

Arnason is currently producing and directing Hip HopWith Travis Lim, a 13-part half-hour series about the 14-year-old world champion hip hop dancer and his crew, and working on a short film about hockey-playing kids in 1980s small-town Canada.

“I can’t seem to do anything original,” she chuckles.

“It all comes from somewhere in my life.”

Kindergarten Da Bin IchWieder screens this week as part of the 2016Vancouver Short Film Festival.The sixth edition of this celebration of shortform cinema runs Jan. 29-30 atVancityTheatre.Tickets and schedule atVSFF.com. W

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Every few months, the Western Front locates an intelllectual thought-rocket on its literary radar, and invites the person to speak in Vancouver.

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This volunteer (remember, someone chose to do this) walks through the streets like this for as long as they can stand having turnips thrown at them.

OK Spain, that seems a little cruel and unusual. But hey, they do manage to get a volunteer every year, so someone is having fun doing it. I guess this just shows us how versatile turnips can be?

Because turnips have active compounds called goitrogens, which are known to interfere with thyroid function, anyone suffering from any kind of thyroid issue should avoid having them in their diets. But for the rest of us, we can reap its many nutritional benefits by adding turnips to our dietary repertoire.

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Turnips are a fibre-rich source of viatmins and minerals, but should be avoided if you have thyroid issues. iStock photo vitamin is needed for protein synthesis. By getting more turnips in your life, you are literally doing your body good. Vitamin K also acts as an anti-inflammatory, lowering your risk of chronic diseases leading to potential circulatory problems.

FIBRE

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By Rob Brezsny Do you know Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights?

At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she’s interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

In June 1942, the US Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on US forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

People turn to you Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer!

It’s a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant – that it’s strong exactly because it’s flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower.

Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

When winter comes, pine trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time being, look UP to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and high-minded people.

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you’re burning to reveal.

Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.

We all go through phases when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t comprehend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion -- not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health.

According to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression.

This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 AD. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter.

If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

“It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies – and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

“Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge.

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The other day I was sitting on the toilet trimming my pubic hair and it dawned on me that my pubes had developed as much as style as the hair on my head. My pube style was a part of my own personal feel-good confidence but also a part of my sex appeal.There’s a whole goddamn industry built around being able to wax, bejewel and style your pubic hair, so I decided to ask a few of my vagina-holders around North America about their pubic style.

NAME: Jess AGE: 28 CITY: Brooklyn, NY PUBE PROFILE: I find pubic hair aesthetically pleasing and it makes me feel like a grown woman.That being said, I can, however, find it uncomfortable and I’m rather fond of bikinis. I suppose I have a ‘60s approach at the dawn of the bikini: I wax the sides but I also remove anything below the labia majora for my own personal comfort. I take about an inch off the top in account for the low rise of bikinis and because I have an adorable freckle dead set center that is the beauty mark of my vagina.

NAME: Courtney AGE: 30 CITY: Seattle,WA PUBE PROFILE: My pubes are light brown and not super thick, so I let them grow wild and they don’t look too intense, really. Not that I’m against having wild and crazy bush, I just wasn’t blessed with one. During the two weeks of summer that we get here in Seattle, I’ll shave the parts that show outside my bikini. I can’t wax cause I’m a wimp and I think it hurts too much. My stripper friend taught me to use coconut oil as a skin prep and moisturizing agent, then to apply antiperspirant (I prefer to use Dove, hippy shit won’t cut it here) to the area immediately after shaving to reduce the red bumps you normally see after shaving this sensitive area.The antiperspirant is antimicrobial and moisturizing, which will reduce ingrown hairs later on as well. It works, I swear!

This tip seriously changed my life. Smooth as a baby’s bum every time. Other than that I’ll occasionally give the old butt hole area a shave if I’m feeling sexy but hold off on the Dove

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NAME: Zohra AGE: I’ve had pubes for years CITY: NewYork, NY PUBE PROFILE: Tastefully natural. Having grown up with a religious upbringing where cleanliness was of the utmost and then growing up in the era of porn ladies with infantile Vs, I felt the pressure from all the things a little punk gal would like to rebel against – parental religious expectations and expectations of dudes. So I am au naturel mostly, but not in that ‘70s wild woman porn way. I keep it trim, and in the designated areas.

NAME: Josie AGE: 26 CITY: Los Angeles, CA PUBE PROFILE: I wear it shaved down around the sides into a small fuzzy diamond shape. I’m into my bush, it makes me feel more womanly.

I actually went completely bush-less from 13 til about 21 years old, when I all of the sudden felt uncomfortable and even a little juvenile about having no pubic hair.

NAME: Anita AGE: 34 CITY: Vancouver, BC PUBE PROFILE: After years of spending money on so-called good waxes (which none of them were), I practice my own maintenance now. I hated forking out $40 plus tip and ending up with the pubic hair of a prepubescent girl. I hated having to talk about my job or boyfriend while lying on my side with my ass cheeks spread and I hated the random comments regarding “keep-

ing it up.” In all due respect, those estheticians have jobs, which they do and did things for me that I wasn’t flexible or brave enough to pull off and out myself (and trust me, I tried). But all in all, after every wax, no matter what I had asked for, they always gave me the same thing, that tiny and sometimes totally crooked vertical line of hair.

I’m so over it! Pubic hair is not repulsive, it’s sexy and I don’t agree it should look a certain way. I do my best to keep mine trimmed and neat, shave the sides, a bit off the top, give it a nice geometric shape (rectangle, triangle or a diamond) and then suffer with a small amount of razor burn.

Yippie! Oh man, in the summer those sweaty bike rides, the jean shorts rubbing…very unforgiving. But hey, I get over it.

NAME: Tina AGE: 34 CITY: San Francisco, CA PUBE PROFILE: Basically I shave everything that underwear doesn’t cover. I also trim around the vagina and shave around the butt sometimes, and trim the whole bush. It changes seasonally. I do a lot more upkeep in the summer than the winter.The guy I’m with doesn’t give a fuck, so I basically do whatever makes me feel good. I’ve gotten Brazilians before and I hated it. It made me feel weird during sex and when it grew back in it was super itchy. W

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WEST 57TH ANNIVERSARY Prices Effective January 28 to February 3, 2016.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT Organic Fair Trade Extra Large Hass Avocados from Pragor Cooperative, Mexico reg price 3.98

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Organic Red Bunch Beets from California

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Moccia Urbani Risotto Balls

pre frozen package of 2

320-350g reg price 9.89

reg price 20.63lb/45.48kg

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1846 Beef Outside, Inside and Sirloin Tip Roasts

GROCERY 200-220g product of USA

37% 2/5.00

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250ml

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assorted varieties 85-93g product of USA

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100g • product of China

Protein, Hydrator, Energizer, Pre-workout, Endurance and Recovery Assorted Sizes and Varieties

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Earth’s Choice Organic Beans

Assorted Varieties

6.99 474-560ml

Select Sizes and Varieties 60 Capsules

Assorted Sizes and Varieties

assorted varieties

1.99/100g

GLUTEN FREE Brownie Cheesecake Bites 120g

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Organic Country French Bread white or 60% whole wheat

assorted varieties 398ml • product of North America

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Jason Naturals Mouthwash

olive oil

7.99 - 13.99 coconut oil

170-200g product of Canada

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Havarti Cheese

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assorted varieties

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Earth’s Choice Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

Tre Stelle Shredded Cheese

Jason Naturals Toothpaste

assorted sizes product of USA

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New Roots Probiotics

Regular Retail Price

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Botanica Liquid Phytocaps Supplements

25% off

assorted varieties

3/5.97

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Stahlbush Island Farms Frozen Vegetables

Hot Kid Rice Crisps

WELLNESS Vega Sport Products

42%

1.75kg product of BC

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Calbee Snapea Crisps

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assorted varieties

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plain or vanilla

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chicken or beef

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Olympic Krema Greek Yogurt

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Clif Bars and Luna Bars

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Ground or Whole Bean assorted varieties

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Choices' Own Pot Pies

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Alter Eco Organic Fair Trade Chocolate Bars

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Mighty Leaf Artisan Tea

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Lean Ground Pork

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Organic Fair Trade Haden Mangoes from Apromalpi, Peru

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Happy Anniversary West 57th!

Saturday, January 30th | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Join us at our Kerrisdale location (1888 W.57th Ave) on Saturday, January 30, to celebrate 16 years in the local community. We’ll have cake and coffee on hand and a variety of sales throughout the store. We hope to see you there!

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