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The Vancouver Auto Show is driving into town with the top down, fresh coat of paint and that new car smell. The show, a must for all car-lovers, will run from March 25-30 2014 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. On March 24 you can enjoy the multimillion dollar cars you’ve dreamed about along with a delectable Preview Gala and awards presentation. New features this year include a live auction on March 29 and 30 with Maynard’s and a VW Playcare Centre throughout the show. The Hagarty Classic and Collectible Alley is back, along with The Exotics and the Green Ride featuring cars from Nissan, Toyota, Cadillac, Lexus, Smart, Infinit, Ford and Tesla. You’ll also want to check out the McLaren 6505 Coupe, which is making its North American début. Pictured: This featured 1967 Mustang, customized by Abbotsford’s 360 Fabrications, is valued at an astonishing $775,000.

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door What is ‘Queerlesque’? That is the question Bonerattle Talent hopes to answer at Heaven’s Door (formerly the Jupiter Lounge) on March 21 in the West End. Although the more obvious answer is that it is a queer take on burlesque, the event aims to expand on that definition by exposing the audience to different artistic styles within the genre. “A Queer Cabaret” will offer a range of entertainment including drag performances, traditional style burlesque, queerlesque solos and duets that promise to challenge gender stereotypes, and extra special boylesque after midnight. In between all of this, guests will have a chance to watch go-go dancers, win door prizes, purchase goodies from local vendors, partake in a free Fantasy Photo Booth, and enjoy the dj stylings of Evilyn13 (known for thrilling crowds at Sin City Fetish Nights and Kitty Nights Burlesque).

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Although you probably aren’t able to pronounce it, on March 22, you’ll be able to see it. Witness “life as a total work of art” at the Gesamtkunstwerk exhibition, designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group and produced by Westbank, in the former storage shed at 1460 Howe. From sketches to models and photography to video, Gesamtkunstwerk will demonstrate how “total design” can change contemporary condo living into something magnificent through art, energy and architecture.

The exhibition will showcase Vancouver’s architectural story, from the 1950s to 2018, so the past, present and future can all be admired in one show. The exhibit will feature a never-before seen 1955 sketch by Arthur Erickson of a futuristic Vancouver, imagery of Rodney Graham’s public artwork of a “spinning chandelier” (pictured) and a model of Vancouver House, which will break ground in about 12 months. This event set to blow your mind through imagination and story telling.

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ou won’t recognize Vancouver in any of the scenes, but the city will have a front-row seat in the creation of the upcoming Star Wars, Warcraft, Jurassic World and Tomorrowland movies.

On Monday afternoon, Industrial Light & Magic officially opened its 30,000 sq. ft. permanent studio at 21 Water Street in Gastown. What started in 2011 as an experiment with 60 staff now employs 133 people with plans to hire about 70 more special effects artists by summer.

“We couldn’t be happier,” said Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilms, which will be working with ILM Vancouver on the seventh Star Wars movie. “It’s really exciting to see what you’ve created up here.”

Lucasfilm president “Traditionally, ILM has always Kathleen Kennedy with trade minister looked for talent around the world Edward Fast. and we’d bring them to San Francisco. Now we can go to where the talent is,” ILM’s president and general manager Lynwen Brennan told a group of journalists in the company’s screening room Monday afternoon.

And that talent is definitely in Vancouver.

Don’t be surprised by all the Star Wars iconography at ILM’s Vancouver studios in Gastown. Artists will be working on episode seven. Martha Perkins photos “It’s a pretty robust eco-system of work here,” Dobbs Beck said.

Supervising producer Randal Shore hopes to be working with local schools to let them know what studios such as his need from graduates. “There’s room for improvement,” he said of the current areas of training. “It’s not only the schools’ responsibility; it’s up to us to work collaboratively with the schools to work on the skill sets we need.”

Knoll hopes that new staff will also want to become “lifers.”

“It’s a great place to work,” Knoll says. “I love the culture of the company.”

Instead of having one person work on one aspect of a project, ILM fosters a sense of community where everyone wants to help

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each other. Creative ideas are always welcome. “A good idea is a good idea no matter where it comes from,” Knoll says.

Hobbs Beck says, “Historically, because of how the technology works, we have deeply specialized disciplines who pass the work down the pipeline.” Now there’s a class of work that can be done by generalists.

ILM also is working on the idea of centres of excellence, wanting each site to develop higher levels of supervision “to give each location the ability to run the show.”

As to the new staff they’ll be hiring in the next few months, Knoll says “it’s a mix of everything.”

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“This community has built up a great amount of talent and because there’s a large pool here, it’s a treat for us,” she said.

John Knoll, the chief creative officer and senior visual effects supervisor, oversaw the Vancouver team that worked on The Lone Ranger and said “the talent is definitely right up there.”

The talent level was so high that many movie goers didn’t realize there were so many special effects until The Lone Ranger was nominated for an Academy award. (During a tour, one of the artists showed how the final scene of a child throwing a silver bullet to the Lone Ranger was created. The director liked the actor’s facial expression as he caught the bullet in one take but preferred the actor’s hand motion in another; the Vancouver team wove them together seamlessly.)

“This from the beginning has been so incredibly exciting,” Vicki Dobbs Beck, the executive in charge of strategic planning said. The studio’s mood is a reflection of the city’s — “Vancouver is so friendly and warm and inspired by nature. It feels so good to see it come together.”

ILM, which is a division of Lucasfilm, was able to make the move into Pixar’s abandoned space — the companies are all owned

by Walt Disney — in part because it knows it has a solid 10 years’ worth of work already booked. “It’s as close as a crucible as you can get so we can make long-term plans,” Knoll said. “It’s a real gift.”

Although there might be lulls, those slow periods will be brief, giving ILM more stability, and more ability to plan for the longterm, than other studios.

While ILM keeps an eye on such things as the exchange rate and tax credits, what really makes Vancouver attractive is the city’s and province’s investment in the industry, providing a critical mass of infrastructure and talented workers that are necessary to pull off such large projects.

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Despite criticism from DTES groups, council passes 30-year plan

By Bob Mackin

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espite hearing from speakers across the spectrum who predicted it wouldn’t solve the twin scourges of poverty and homelessness, Vancouver city council rubber-stamped the 30-year Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan on March 15.

The plan hopes for investment of $220 million from city taxpayers, $300 million through developers and $530 million from other levels of government and non-profit agencies by 2043.

The targets include not only 4,400 new social housing units and 2,200 upgraded single room occupancy units, but also 8,850 middle-income condominiums and 3,000 market rental units. The area around Oppenheimer Park would have a 60 per cent social housing, 40 per cent market rental split and new units as small as 250 square feet.

The plan’s passage at a rare Saturday afternoon council meeting marked the end of an ambitious six days that included another contentious three-day public hearing: the Oakridge Centre redevelopment.

Critics said the plan would accelerate DTES gentrification and displacement.

More than a third of its 18,477 residents are on social assistance and the median income is less than a third of the citywide $47,299.

“Of the 4,400 social housing units the plan is proposing for the next 30 years, which is way too long, only 1,467 would

dents of the many not-for-profits and small be at welfare rates,” said anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson. “The [2005] housing plan businesses that employ the residents.”

Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer said [DTES] would be a predominantly low successfully proposed a package of amendincome area, and after 30 years of this plan ments at the end of the hearing, including it will be a predominantly middle income support for the concept of an aboriginal area.” health and wellness centre and expansion Ann Livingston, who has campaigned of the definition of social housing, based for addicts to be treated medically, said the on B.C. Housing income limits criteria. plan “omits issues” and ignores the needs NPA Coun. George Affleck called the of the estimated 5,000 drug-dependent eleventh hour amendments “frustrating,” residents. but eventually joined fellow NPA Coun.

Said Livingston: “The [Local Area Plan Elizabeth Ball in voting for the plan with Process] discusses everything from heights Mayor Gregor Robertson, Reimer and the to food to childcare to composting to view other four Vision Vancouver councillors corridors to climate change, but the LAPP who were present (Kerry Jang and Tim does not reflect the realities of the [DTES] Stevenson were absent). neighbourhood.”

Green Coun. Adriane Carr cast the lone Strathcona Business Improvement Area dissenting vote on seven of the 14 staff executive director Joji Kumagai said the recommendations. “We will not reach a plan lacks resources for economic developgoal that is adequate enough to supply ment, while Andrew Scott of the Vancouenough social housing to meet the needs ver Board of Trade’s community affairs of the people who live in the Downtown committee called it a good first step, but Eastside,” Carr said. the approval was “premature.”

Reimer, the plan’s main booster, fought Scott thought the proposed conversion of back tears as she told council how she East Hastings from Heatley Avenue to Clark had been accused by developers of being a Drive to a residential/commercial corridor “hostage” of the low-income community was “thoughtful.” However, he said the and vice versa.

Board of Trade is worried about the number “It’s my turn to tell you what I am a of older, earthquake-vulnerable buildings, hostage of,” Reimer said, “and that’s a very the plans to build residences near railyards strong, very deep overriding belief that that handle hazardous goods, and the dwinpeople have an absolute right to plan a dling supply of industrial lands. community plan for their own safe, healthy, Scott said the plan relies too heavily on affordable future regardless of their life towers to achieve density, which, he said, circumstances, regardless of their income, “will quickly impact property assessments regardless of where they live in the city.” resulting in higher property taxes [and] T:10.25” Story courtesy Vancouver Courier. higher taxes will negatively impact the resi-

Community centre negotiations continue

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he president of the Kerrisdale Community Centre Association says a recent update on negotiations between the park board and 12 other associations over a joint-operating agreement makes it appear those talks have hit a wall.

In an open letter to his association, Robert Lockhart wrote, “Over the past several months, there has been little communication from those [12] community centre associations. That is, until now... The talks are stalled!”

Kerrisdale is one of six associations fighting the park board’s new management agreement, which centralizes core programs and introduced the universal OneCard.

The 12 community centre associations have said little until a March update, which reads in part: “We are not in a position to forecast the outcome of this process, but our boards remain committed to achieving an outcome that upholds each community’s autonomy, authority and control over resources to ensure each unique community needs can continue to be met.”

Lockhart said the open letter is encouraging because it appears the 12 associations “have developed some courage in strongly resisting the park board’s takeover efforts.”

But Kate Perkins, spokesperson for the 12 associations and former park board employee, said the Group of Six read far more into the update than was intended.

Perkins admitted it’s been a long haul and confirmed there have been many meetings, but added everyone involved is still committed to building a joint-operating agreement that all sides will benefit from.

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LYNDI BARRETT

Where are you from? Cape Town, South Africa.

Where do you get your style inspiration? From runway shows to street style, I’m constantly looking at fashion content.

What’s in your purse at this very moment? I usually carry my Michael Kors Hamilton purse — it’s tan coloured and ostrich print, and contains my iPhone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, notebook, pen and a Chanel lipstick.

Proudest accomplishments?

• Being able to make a living doing something that I’m passionate about.

• Launching StyleCalling.com.

• Being Framework Magazine’s September cover girl.

• Becoming a Canadian citizen.

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Describe your personal power outfit? A dress that fits perfectly with stiletto high heels. The BCBGMAXAZRIA dress that I’m wearing in the photo is one of my favourites. I always feel my best when I have my hair blown out and my nails manicured. My go-to nail colour is OPI’s Big Apple Red. Most sentimental wardrobe item?

Probably that Michael Kors purse. My good friend and my boyfriend surprised me with it for Christmas a few years ago. It was quite the elaborate plan, and a very happy moment.

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by Kelsey Klassen Favourite: • Drink: Champagne.

• Food dish: Vegetarian pasta at UVA. • Perfume: Tom Ford’s Violet Blonde.

• Blog/magazine: Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, Style.com & WhoWhatWear.

• Local charity: Dress for Success.

• Spot to people watch: Thierry’s patio on Alberni Street.

• Local hidden gem: The Vancouver Art Gallery patio.

Where do you shop for everyday wardrobe staples? The Hudson’s Bay, Club Monaco, Zara and H&M. Dream splurge item? A Hermes Birkin bag.

What fashion event do you look forward to most each year?

The Deighton Cup Weekend at the

Races that takes place every August.

I’ve worked on the PR team for this event for the past few years. I love seeing everyone dressed up for the occasion.

What was your first trophy as a kid?

I sang at many competitions growing up. I won ‘Most Promising Talent for the Western Cape’ when I was 10.

People tell you that you look like...

Amy Adams.

Advice for young fashion lovers?

Get involved, volunteer, and be kind to everyone you meet. The fashion industry is small — your reputation is so important.

Full Q&A online at WEVancouver.com.

Tell us what you think of the new look!

By Kelci Nicodemus

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obin Williams has a pair. Elton John wears them as part of his persona. Steve Martin, Alan Cumming and Bruce Springsteen had theirs custom-made.

They may be some of the most famous people wearing Sara Moshurchak’s eyewear designs but they definitely won’t be the last.

The owner of Eyeland Framemakers can make glasses of any shape with any material. And it’s all by hand.

Nothing is perfect, says Moshurchak, but for her, the handmade frames’ imperfection is what makes them beautiful.

“One of my frames, I call it the ‘epic fail,’” she laughs. She made a shape for a customer and thought it was a disaster.

“But then it ended up being one of my best selling shapes.”

The possibilities are endless for patrons who walk into the Gastown boutique. (It used to be be called Granville Eyeland Framemakers but the name is changing along with the new location at 45 Water.) Moshurchak can make anything into a stylish piece of eyewear, from artwork to wedding dress lace.

“I’m doing [a frame] for my hairdresser using hair,” she says.

Making glasses by hand can be a tedious task; a one-off pair can take up to 20 hours to complete.

“I’ve gotten pretty fast and you learn little tricks for yourself.”

But even with all the work involved, Moshurchak loves what she does.

“I get to do so many different things.”

Moshurchak always knew that one day she’d own Eyeland Framemakers. She was a student at Douglas College when Klaus Sebök, the former owner of the company, came in to do a presentation.

“I remember leaning to my friend and saying ‘I’m going to own that guy’s business.’”

When Sebök retired in 2008, Moshurchak, who’d been diligently working under his guidance for eight years, bought the business.

As for hot styles in eyewear, it ranges from cat eye to bold colours and back again to classic styles.

“People aren’t afraid to do something a little bit more funky,” she says, while pointing out that “your dad’s old glasses” are coming back in. “So lots of tortoise shells and, kind of, horn colours and things like that.”

Eyeland is celebrating its 20-year anniversary and has recently moved from Granville Island to Gastown. Its grand opening is April 10-13. Granville-Eyeland.com

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London Alexander: the Menaissance

By Kelsey Klassen

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he weapons with which they go charging into the world do not just fall into the laps of men; they are forged of steel.

So when you see a musket, the symbol of London Alexander’s empire, think not of its danger and might, but of how it came to be.

The Squamish-based clothing designer grew up like many a West Coast kid, alternating with the seasons between skateboarding and snowboarding.

Instead of family vacations, though, any time off from school after the age of 13 was spent working for his father’s company, installing high-end residential glazing.

There, London honed the work ethic that would see him with his first clothing collection by the age of 18, but $6,000 out of pocket as a result.

In high school, he started a graphic T-shirt line with his cousin, and gave it a name — Big Blingin’.

They’d buy the shirts from their school and screen print them on campus. Those T-shirts have become somewhat of collectors’ items, sold for $15 with irreverent (deep) concepts like a fish jumping out of a pop can, or a pterodactyl with a dolla sign chain. A London Alexander shirt now, minus the graphics and with all the studied intention of a St. Laurent,

sells for four times that.

As a teenager, London would first draw his ideas and, to compenstate for a dislike of painting, fill them in with colour on the computer.

Guaranteed the makers of Microsoft ‘Paint’ had no idea when they created the simple software that it would be the tool that enabled one of Vancouver’s most exciting young designers.

Eventually, he schooled himself on higher end design software, which he’s had to brush up on in preparation for his new role with Lululemon designing menswear.

He recalls hours spent at Reitmans and Winners waiting for his mother to finish shopping. Looking back on childhood photos, he was always well dressed, and, when he decided to enroll in Fashion Arts at Vancouver Community College, his mother wholeheartedly supported the idea.

His dad, a bit slower to endorse the career path, eventually did as well.

His mom Vicki, from Manchester, and dad Darryl, from Trinidad, although divorced, still work together running the glass business, which, until Lululemon came along, still employed London. Both very fashionable (although London would say with a smile that his father was more hit-and-miss), his parents come to all his shows. And his older sister Savannah now works for the brand.

His auntie Donna, a seamstress living in Victoria had worked in the rag trade for years doing private label work.

As a teen, he’d hang out with her a lot, learning about things like warp and weft. One day, he wanted to create a sweater, so she told him she could help him make it. The first thing he designed for cut-and-sew was an inside-out terrycloth hoodie.

He got to pick his fabric, his rib. Then she introduced him to an embroiderer and they put his initials on the pocket. Two weeks later she made it.

It was then that his mind exploded with the big picture; boom went the musket blast.

He’d say he didn’t know what got into him. Others would say it was always inside.

From there he made his infamous “$6,000 kind-of collection” (military jacket, blazer, weird denim pants) under LRMA — short for London Romanus Michael Alexander. He fired Paint back up and pulled in sketches to play. He almost blushes, six years later, as he describes his ambitions.

He was 18, going on 19, with all the wisdom to realize he was trying to launch a clothing line with no experience. He approached local retailers and got told it was kind of cool.

Sort of. But it didn’t sell (of course).

So he went to school. He took his first course in 2009 — sewing, illustration, Photoshop — to make sure it was really what he wanted to do.

That turned into a two-year fashion certificate at VCC, where he met Simon Beach — art director, graphic designer and instructor of Portfolio Design.

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spring style Continued from page 8 When it came to technical proficiency, London was just like any other student. It was clear to Simon, though, that London, with his LRMA collection already under his belt, had an obsessive vision.

He was going to school, developing his second collection, working part-time for his dad and commuting from Squamish.

He’s good at being in his own world. He goes so far as to call himself a hermit.

“A lot of people who know the brand don’t know me. They don’t even know it’s a person, which I kind of like,” he says quietly.

And while it’s hard to talk to him about himself — it’s much more fun to make his eyes flash with a question about fashion — these are the reasons the line has been championed by celebrity clients.

If you go to his website though, theirs aren’t the photos you’ll find prominently displayed. Sitting atop the About page is a black and white portrait of London with an elderly man, short in stature, big in twinkle.

His grandfather Innis was always trying on London’s clothes, and London had always wanted him as a model, so they got him in London Alexander and took some photos.

“It was a monumental moment.

There’s not a lot of pictures — of me and him especially. Or of him even.

So it was perfect.”

His grandfather passed away five months later.

And while those photos, in vivid colour, used to be the first thing you

saw when you went to his website, they were fundamentally based around fashion. And fashion moves quickly, so now the new Spring collection is scrolling across the page.

London says he is going to get the photos framed for his new place, once he gets settled with Lululemon and makes the move to Vancouver.

His dad has mixed emotions about losing his son to the Vancouver clothing giant, but it’s a huge opportunity — one that came in the form of a personal request from Chip Wilson’s son. “[Working for my dad] didn’t make sense with where I want to go with my life. JJ, Chip’s kid, said, ‘Hey man, you interested in this?’

It’ll be a good experience. I’ll learn a lot. Then I can change some things in my brand. I’ll be doing contemporary menswear, athletic wear, yoga wear and I’ll be designing all day, which will challenge my brain.

“They’re trying to open up their own standalone menswear stores within the next two years, with more street influence. I’m into that.”

His own collection won’t be forgotten though. And, as evidenced by his latest runway show, he doesn’t need too much help coming up with ideas.

He says the process always starts with fabrics.

Spring/Summer ‘14 had a light and bright fabric forecast (not a stretch of the imagination), so London did his collection in darks.

He scoured suppliers for grey-ongrey, navy-on-navy, not stopping until he found the right, unseasonably dark florals, cottons and linens.

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“What I’ve learned is that most of the mills in Canada are for womenswear. So I’m using fabric for women and turning it into men’s.”

But the bold blooms lose all femininity once sculpted into masculine, made-in-Vancouver pieces.

He now sources fabric only domestically, which is something he’s learned as he’s gone along — to use what’s available. But he hasn’t learned those lessons alone.

London was on his way to meet with an art director when he and Simon Beach again crossed paths on the sidewalks of Gastown.

Simon joined the team that day, and, two years later, a few things have happened. The name LRMA — a misguided attempt by London to stay out of the spotlight — has made way for ‘London Alexander’.

There’s brand identity and cohesive lookbooks. And the musket logo — inspired by his childhood replica collection — gains context with each focused collection.

Most importantly, London has finally gotten to the stage where he might feel satisfied with a season.

He also has such a successful side company — the Daily Co., which sells only chinos — that he is looking to expand with a women’s line.

Between that and London Alexander, he could live off his brands. But his preternatural maturity won’t allow it. He simply works harder.

And if he keeps going, folding in the strengths of his family, friends and mentors, he won’t need a gun for a logo — he’ll need a sword.

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Quick Q’s with London Alexander What are some London Alexander design tenets?

It has to be wearable. Would I put this on my body? Would my friends put this on their bodies?

Otherwise it’s couture; it’s not ready-to-wear. It’s not a runway piece. That’s completely different, and I understand that. If you make something that nobody is going to wear, then you have no sales. Then you don’t exist.

Advice for the skateboarder sketching at home? A lot of people are biased — go to school or don’t go to school.

I think going to school was good for me. The fundamentals.

That’s all it can really teach you, though. Once you’re out there it doesn’t make sense with what you learned in school. I did it backwards. I just started my own brand. I didn’t intern with anybody.

Where do you like to shop?

Nouvelle Nouvelle, Still Life, Board of Trade.

If a guy is staring at his closet, what’s your advice?

Bottoms last a lot longer. You can have a pair of jeans for years — wear them in, they just look better. I like to mix low-end with high-end. So, right now, I’m wearing an Old Navy crew sweater, with a nice pair of denim and a higher-end sneaker.

Or just reverse it.

What’s a great way to complete the look? Daniel Wellington [watches] are just killing it. The new Puma sneakers are pretty cool; they’re technically my competition, but Wings + Horns; Common Projects are awesome; oh, and Str/ke Mvmnt. Especially if you’re on the go.

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SHOP TALK: Here comes the bridal collection

By Kelsey Klassen

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t the age of 26, Catherine Guadagnuolo was taking a flight, then a train, then a bus, and then walking into the Max Mara head office in Italy to ask for a meeting with a young Luigi Maramotti. The reason? Max Mara representatives had told her they weren’t interested in being carried in North America.

“I was in the clothing business and I had zeroed in on a line called Max Mara,” Guadagnuolo explains. “I had gone to the trade fair and they said, ‘Why don’t you get your store open first.’ They weren’t interested in exporting. So I looked up where their headquarters were, a couple hours south of Milan, and I found myself at the factory saying, ‘I’d like to speak to Mr. Maramotti.’”

Getting an unscheduled meeting with Maramotti was akin to asking to drop in on the Pope. But he happened to be in the office that day, and was intrigued by Guadagnuolo’s nerve, and grasp of Italian.

“I didn’t realize at the time that Max Mara was such an important company within Europe. They’re the top manufacturer in Italy.

But we were about the same age, and he said, “You know what? We’re going to go with you.

We’re going to take this chance.’”

Almost 30 years later, Guadagnuolo, president and founder of Vestis Fashion Group, now helms the most Max Maras in a single city in North America (three Max Maras and two Weekend by Max Maras), and each of her stores is doing more business than the Manhattan location. The kicker? These stores are all in Vancouver.

“I’ve been doing this for 28 years with Max Mara, so they have a certain faith in my ability because [of the] stores. It’s unheard of.

They still talk about it in Italy. We sell more Max Mara in Vancouver than they do in New York.”

The success of her vision has meant that Vancouver is possibly the most Max Marafriendly city in the world.

On March 1, Max Mara unveiled its new

3,850-sq.ft. flagship location at 3025 Granville — the largest in Canada and the product of a four-month renovation of what was formerly the Winsor Gallery.

The store concept was developed by Duccio Grassi Architects, lavished with custom floor and wall finishings direct from Italy, lit like a place of worship by an opulent overhead light well, and lined with an entire wardrobe’s worth of European finery. (Did we mention it’s now North America’s first and only boutique to carry the bridal collection?)

Max Mara is our kind of one-stop shop.

Embodying the prêt-à-porter philosophy that is increasingly popular among bridesto-be (meaning you don’t need to plan six months ahead — the style is in-store and in your size), the price point of the bridal collection is a can-you-please-repeat-that $2,500 to $4,000. And Guadagnuolo was chosen to launch the bridal collection here because of the relationship she formed with the House of Max Mara so many years ago.

The serene private shopping space contains not only 16 styles of wedding gowns but exquisitely twisted tiaras, handmade Sicilian veils, bridesmaid and mother-of-the-bride gowns and other sophisticated extras.

“It’s simple to make a dress blinging and shocking to the eyes. It’s hard to make a simple dress beautiful,” says Guadagnuolo.

“Anybody can distract you. It’s about the bride, not the dress.”

And any bride would feel at ease in Guadagnuolo’s hands. During a media walk-through of the space, she greets customers by name, seems to have an uncanny knowledge of when she has seen them last, and gently guides them to some choice pieces of the bold new collection, which caught the attention of fashion writers with its silhouettes in timberwolf grey, fleshy nude and champagne gold, and electric accents in Persian greens, tomato reds and vivid violets. From sheer knits to cocoon coats, cami dresses to overcoats, the Spring/Summer ‘14 staples are here.

So, now, not only can you trust your entire wardrobe to Max Mara, you can trust your biggest day of your life to them, too.

Max Mara on South Granville is the first boutique in North America to carry the coveted prêt-à-porter bridal collection. With a price point of $2,500 to $4,000 and same-day tailoring, this showroom might just be The One.

Raphael returns One of Vancouver’s biggest fashion industry exports is coming home. Join Luvngrace Entertainment, along with Leone and Madame Moje April 1, in welcoming photographer Raphael Mazzucco back to our runways as they celebrate and support Beauty Night Society, a cause dedicated to changing the lives of women and youth living in poverty through skills development and makeovers. Mazzucco, who has worked with top fashion houses such as Victoria’s Secret, Guess Jeans and Ralph Lauren, will be joined by fashion and beauty superstars at Five Sixty on 560 Seymour, from 6:30pm to midnight.

Hosted by Ronnie Seterdahl Negus, from Real Housewives of Vancouver and Jim Michaels, executive producer of the TV series Supernatural, the night will be a luxury-lover’s dream. Tickets are $50 ($10 for students with ID) with 30 per cent going to Beauty Night.

Vancouver Fashion Week For 24 seasons Vancouver Fashion Week has been celebrating multiculturalism, talent and diversity. Taking place March 18-25 at the Chinese Cultural Centre, this six-day extravaganza brings designers from around the world to the forefront. Collections include Pierre Renaux (Paris), Gabriel Lage (Argentina), Green Embassy (Australia), Pitour (Austria), Susana Bettencourt (Portugal), Yuhsi Takahashi (Japan), mayamay (Slovakia), Martins Paulo (Brazil), Takaokami (Denmark), Evan Clayton (Vancouver), Nina Tan (Vancouver), Noe Bernacelli (Peru), Hong Kiyoung (Korea), Firan & Rose (UK), Birgit Badke (Kelowna), Lisa Loveday (Thunder Bay), Erikó (Colombia), Fever (UK), Angel Eye (UK), Soojin Lee (Korea) and more. Go to VanFashionWeek.com for schedules and tickets.

Keltie Leanne hits all the right angles

By Kelsey Klassen

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espite busy days spent working for one of Vancouver’s most popular radio stations, jewelry designer Keltie Maguire still finds time to handcraft her dreams at night. And just last week she launched Spring 2014, her fifth Keltie Leanne collection, loaded with geometric and eye-catching designs.

New gemstones such as bold green onyx and accents of iridescent moonstone vie for your eye alongside classics like lapis lazuli and turquoise, green amethyst and labradorite.

As with all Keltie Leanne jewelry, the designs are manufactured in her Vancouver studio using 14-karat gold fill and sterling silver, in her signature feminine and modern style.

What makes this self-taught designer (who has a background in jewelry sales) sparkle like gold in a sea of pyrite is her passion.

“I get so excited when a new shipment of gemstones comes, or when I’m looking at gems locally. The colours are so beautiful. I’m like, ‘This stone is so juicy, I just want to eat it!” she laughs.

“They’re beautiful in their natural state, but once they’ve been professionally faceted it really brings out their qualities.”

And hearing her describe each gemstone in her collection is like listening to Jean-Luc Martinez explain why a painting is hanging in the Louvre.

“As much as I’d love to say, ‘I saw this really amazing building while I was traveling Europe,’ most of my inspiration comes from the gemstones.”

In addition to new takes on popular favourites such as the Arc Necklace and Faceted Gemstone Bracelets, we’re springing for the Catching Fire Earrings in Lapis ($80), with vibrant lapis lazuli gemstone, suspended by gold-filled chain inside a hammered gold-filled hoop, or the strikingly simple Chrysalid Necklace ($78), featuring a green onyx pentagon-shaped gemstone on a gorgeous gold-filled chain.

The new collection ranges from $45-$110 and is available at Fine Finds Boutique in Yaletown, and online at KeltieLeanneDesigns.com. As an extra bonus, when you purchase one of the new pieces at KeltieLeanneDesigns. com between now and April 15, you will be entered to win a $100 gift card for the online store.

The Keltie Leanne Spring/ Summer ‘14 collection puts geometry at the top of its class.

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Beth Richards’ punk noir

By Kelsey Klassen

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ooking for the LBD of bathing suits?

Beth Richards — the Vancouver designer who was getting calls from Vogue before Canadian media had even gotten her number — has just what you need to go from the beach to your bike to the bar and beyond.

The punk-pop bad girl turned swimwear star, with roots in skate and rave culture and who “sat on a lot of curbs growing up,” has turned the bathing suit into a bar star. And online luxury retailer NET-A-PORTER was first in line to buy her a drink.

Richards even broke ground as the first designer to be picked up by the site on the merits of a first season alone. But, as is the case with love affairs, one often wants what one can’t have.

“Part of the reason why I wanted to do this and why I take it so seriously sometimes, is that I feel like, in Canada, there really isn’t the right representation of some of the talent that exists in this country. Canadian media has been, I don’t want to say unsupportive, but has been less present in this whole experience. Trying to get the attention of some of the major publications in Canada was a challenge, when we were [simultaneously] being sought out by Vogue,” she explains. “And that was a little sad and a little bit shocking when I first started.”

It’s not like the Toronto export, who lives and works out of her downtown Vancouver studio, is flaunting some fly-by-night success story. Richards has been designing apparel and accessories for lifestyle brands such as Sugoi, Fluevog and Aritzia for the last decade.

In fact, she only last year began going with her eponymous line full time without a second job as back up.

“Looking back, I still wonder how I fit the time in, but it’s clear that this was my passion so it never really felt like work.”

It was actually more like a necessity. Richards says that from the day she moved here, she embraced Vancouver’s beach culture, but found our bathing suit selection lacking.

Wanting to bring a bit of mystery back to skimpy swimwear, and not wanting to wear

American Apparel into her 30s, Richards says she didn’t over-think her new niche.

“There are other women out there who clearly feel the same way — who don’t have their needs addressed in the marketplace.

And more often than not, women buy more than one suit at a time. Which goes to show that once they are comfortable with something they’re willing to buy, much like a pair of jeans. I wanted to be the answer to the modern woman’s lifestyle.”

Inspired by 90s supermodels and the sex symbols of the 50s and 60s (a group of which Richards, with her knowing laugh and blonde Françoise Hardy hair, could easily be a member), her two-year-old line has more classics than the Library of Congress and more signatures than a Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Black-on-black, white-on-black, crosses, halters, keyholes, high waists, higher thighs.

Spring/Summer ‘14, her fourth collection, blends those standards with triathalonstrength bodysuits and T-shirts as you’ve never imagined them.

The jumbled subculture of her childhood is everywhere in her aesthetic: Stussy and Supreme; the riot girl movement; rave stickers and iconography; Big Brother magazine; rap music; 7-Eleven. “That’s how summers were,” the designer recalls with a raspy laugh.

As antisocial as it all sounds, though, her Kelly suit just made it into the window of Selfridges on Oxford Street — among the most coveted retail spaces in the world. Beth Richards, in all her Kim Gordon glory, is accessible.

“I’m lucky and honoured to be in one of the windows on Oxford Street, representing Canada,” says Richards. “It’s like the fashion Olympics in a way. I feel really proud that I can be a Canadian voice for fashion and women… the whole thing. I don’t take it lightly; the industry is fleeting and you only hope that you can be there for the whole ride.”

Until then, Beth Richards can keep doing whatever the punk she wants.

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ver the past week I’ve had the opportunity to try a slew of wines I’d never had before, both at work and at play, that now sit close to my heart. The handful I’m sharing this week are all from the Old World, and lean ever-so-slightly towards the spendy side, at least for everyday wines. I’ll vouch for the fact, however, that these aren’t exactly everyday wines. While they’ll be enjoyable whenever you decide to crack ‘em, they each have their own unique qualities and character that give that extra special ‘something’ you won’t find elsewhere on store shelves.

Saumur les Pouches 2012 Chenin Blanc | Loire Valley, France | $20-25 | Private Wine Stores Yaletown’s La Pentola is one of the participating restaurants in Dining Out For Life on March 25. General manager Ricardo Ferreira and Vancouver actress Alana Lamalice say it’s easy help A Loving Spoonful and Friends for Life reach out to those who have HIV/AIDS. All you have to do it go out to eat at a DOFL restaurant that day. Rob Newell photo

Dine out/help out Dining Out For Life raises money for people living with HIV/AIDS

By Kelci Nicodemus

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he day Alana Lamalice got the results of her HIV test, “I told my doctor, ‘Just give it to me straight.’ You know, ‘Positive? Negative?’”

It was positive and the two years since then have been an emotional rollercoaster for the Vancouver- based actress.

At first, most of her energy went into dealing with the news. “You don’t have enough energy to cook,” she says and yet when you have HIV, “food is medicine.”

That’s where A Loving Spoonful, a non-profit organization that provides free meals to people living with HIV/ AIDS, comes in. A Loving Spoonful helped Lamalice face her disease. Its volunteers delivered healthy food to her door.

The only word that comes to Lamalice’s mind when describing them is “angels.”

“It’s really helped me to the point where I can pick myself up and be stronger in order to continue living,” she says.

On March 25, Vancouverites can help support A Loving Spoonful and Friends for Life, another organization dedi-

cated to supporting people with HIV/AIDS, by going out to eat. More than 100 participating restaurants are donating 25 per cent of any meal’s proceeds that day to support the two charities’ work.

Cities all over Canada and the United States are participating in this event, but Sheena Sargeant, executive director for Dining Out For Life, says that what makes Vancouver special is that “people love to eat out here.”

Sargeant says that this event is BC’s largest restaurantbased fundraiser and since both charities get only 20 per cent of their revenues from government funding, this is a great way to donate.

“You can imagine the impact this one event alone has,” she says. “Some of the best restaurants in the world are right here in this city and we are so pleased that many of them are participating Dining Out For Life restaurants.”

Over 20 years, Dining Out For Life has raised more than $3 million. On Tuesday, March 25, diners can dine-out and post a picture online with the handle @VanDOFL and #VanDOFL and be entered for a chance to win $500.

For a list of participating restaurants visit DiningOut ForLife.com/Vancouver.

Alana Lamalice was in the March 18 episode of Arctic Air. On April 9, she is one of the speakers in a free HIV/AIDS webinar learning series. From 8 to 9am, she’ll be sharing her insights on the topic Caring for Canadian Women Living with HIV. Register online at www4.GoToMeeting.com/register/489179335; the id is 489-179-335.

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Jadot Couvent des Jacobins 2011 Chardonnay | Burgundy, France | $27.99 | BC Liquor Stores While I’ve enjoyed previous vintages of Jadot’s hallmark Chardonnay, composed of grapes grown in the Côte d’Or and Mâconnais, I’m really digging this 2011 highwire act that extends a slightly-tense balance of oak, fresh citrus fruit and lively acidity. As it opens up and a straight-from-thefridge chill dissipates, stone-fruit-like peaches and nectarines confidently step forward.

Jean Francois Bourdy 2008 Chardonnay | Cotes du Jura, France | $35-40 | Private Wine Stores I had this by the glass at Mount Pleasant’s Burdock & Co ($14), and it’s certainly not your grandmother’s Chardonnay. This one’s very dry and akin to taking a mortar and pestle to a mix of limestone, walnuts, green grapes and lemon peel. Biodynamic, fermented with its own yeasts and no winemaker trickery involved. Some call it natural wine, I call it delicious.

Frontaura 2005 Crianza | Toro, Spain | $35-40 | Private Wine Stores Oh, what a difference a little oak and age can make. After 13 months in a mix of French and American oak, the crew from Frontaura lie down this Tempranillo for a couple years so all of its strawberry-patch and fruity-tobacco goodness is swaddled in both spice and a rich, velvety texture. A ribbon of vanilla slips through the finish remarkably well.

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Fina Vini 2012 Nero D’Avola | Sicily, Italy | $25-ish | Private Wine Stores The indigenous-to-Sicily Nero D’Avola grape is always a favourite; this version offering textbook black olive and savoury herbs, showered with purple fruit and lightly cradled by soft oak. Sicilian-style pizza with tomato, onions, strong cheeses and herbs would go down a treat.

I’ve spotted most of these at Kitsilano Wine Cellar and Dundarave Wine Cellar, but if you’re having any issues tracking them down, hit me up via KurtisKolt.com or tweet me @KurtisKolt.

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by Mijune Pak

ou can try a new restaurant in Metro Vancouver everyday and still not try them all. Trust me, I’ve tried… or am trying? The turnover is high and new restaurants pop up like bunnies in Victoria. Rent is high, standards are high, and we spread our love of food around so much that it can be hard to compete in a flourishing restaurant scene.

But if you think it’s tough in Vancouver....

The criteria is the same, but the competition in Manhattan is much higher and the options are endless. The city offers everything, which makes it that much harder to make a decision.

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Any time in New York goes by quickly and every dining opportunity is precious, so use your time wisely. Luckily Cathay Pacific Airways can help with timing; it is the only luxury airline to offer direct flights between YVR and JFK, and even better is that both are red-eye flights.

That means you can sleep comfortably on the plane and arrive early the next morning, saving on a night’s accommodation — money that can then be put towards your dining budget.

I’ve been to New York before, and there are lots of “must tries”, but here are some of my under-the-radar favourites and hidden gems from this round of Follow Me Foodie to New York.

Charlie Bird – It’s an eclectic Italian inspired restaurant with notable wine selections and a wicked play list of old- and new-school hip hop. The live Diver scallops with brown butter and garlic chives, Tuscan chicken liver with balsamic raisins, capers and walnuts, and Farro Salad are not to be missed.

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Top Table Restaurant Group, comprising of West, Cin Cin, Blue Water Café and Araxi restaurants, has been acquired by Aqualini Group. Former proprietor Jack Evrensal will be engaged in a consulting capacity during the transition, and operations remain unchanged.

Vancouver’s first pot-friendly pizzeria has opened on Kingsway. Mega Ill Pizzeria and Café allows patrons to bring in their own cannabis for smoking, as well as renting vaporizers. They will also “medicate” your pizza if you so desire. MegaIll.com Reflections, the al fresco lounge at Rosewood Hotel Georgia, is re-opening April 1 with a new cocktail and dining menu, as well as a proposal package for couples about to get engaged. RosewoodHotelGeorgia.com In other rooftop news… Joe Fortes is reopening its rooftop garden on March 31, weather permitting.

Running now until April 15, Xi Shi Lounge at Shangri-La Hotel is adding an artistic element to its afternoon tea service with its Artist in Residence afternoon tea. Enjoy a Canadian-inspired afternoon tea while enjoying latest works from B.C. photographer Ron Smid. Shangri-La.com/Vancouver On Saturday, May 10, check out BC’s premier micro-distillery festival, BC Distilled. Check out 16 of the province’s leading small-batch distilleries, plus one from the Yukon, along with their gin, vodka, whiskey and other fine spirits, as well as beverages from Bittered Sling Extracts and SIP Soda, and bites from top local restos. BCDistilled.ca Chef Paul Moran, last year’s inaugural win-

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L’Ecole – Restaurant of the International Culinary Center in New York – Like most restaurants where the food is cooked by students of the culinary school, L’Ecole offers excellent value with three-course menus for $44 or four courses for $59. Bobby Flay, David Chang, Wylie Dufresne, and Vancouver’s very own Angus An of Maenam are graduates at ICC. LEcoleNYC.com | 462 Broadway | Manhattan The Raines Law Room – It’s one of New York’s most popular speakeasies, but you couldn’t guess from its ultra secretive vibe and process to get in. Located in a basement, your table is

ready when you receive a call from a private number. The dark, sexy and Victorian-inspired room is ultra posh and the drink list and concoctions will not disappoint.

RainesLawRoom.com | 48 W 17th | Manhattan Zenkichi – From the outside it just looks like a random building made of wooden planks.

It’s certainly discrete, but this modern Japanese restaurant serving authentic izakaya is worth seeking. With an omakase menu starting at $65 and a reasonably priced a la carte menu, it’s appropriate for any occasion.

Zenkichi.com | 77 N 6th | Brooklyn Enter to win two round-trip airfare tickets on Premium Economy Class from Vancouver to New York from Mijune and Cathay Pacific Canada at FollowMeFoodie.com. Follow Mijune’s culinary adventures in The Big Apple on her blog and follow @followmefoodie and #FMFinNY on Twitter for updates, questions, and clues for when qualification questions will be revealed.

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Luksus at Tørst – It’s an “in the know” hot spot. Chef and owner Daniel Burns was previously at René Redzepi’s Noma and Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck before opening Tørst and Luksus. Luksus is a hidden 26 seat restaurant behind the beer bar Tørst. It’s a tasting-menu-only restaurant featuring an exclusive beer menu that would impress any beer connoisseur.

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On Sunday, March 30, La Pentola is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Famiglia Supper Series with a special nose-to-tail heritage pig dinner featuring Tamworth and Berkshire pork from Thompson Heritage Ranch. $55 for 10+ courses. LaPentola.ca Dish ‘n Dazzle returns on May 1 to the Vancouver Convention Centre, presented by the BC Hospitality Foundation and New Zealand Wine. Taste 80 wines from 20 wineries paired up with food from 12 of Vancouver’s best restaurants in support of the BC Hospitality Foundation. Early bird tickets are $69 before April 1 (use promo code wnz14). DishNDazzle.com Looking to get out of town? The Oyosoos 3rd Annual Oyster Festival takes place April 23-27, with tasting events, dinners and more. OooysterFestival.com

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Want to try a great Italian restaurant? Ask for Luigi The Dish

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here are the best meatballs in town? Sometimes, you just gotta ask the right person.

The Italian concept of “the best” is quite simple, really. The best is always right around the corner, at the speaker’s family home. “My mother makes the best meatballs in Italy.” “My grandmother’s sauce is the best in Lazio! Just go around the corner and ask for Giuseppe.”

Or Maria. Or Giorgio. And that’s how Ask for Luigi, Railtown’s newest dining hot spot, came by its quirky moniker.

In case you’re wondering, no one who works there is actually called Luigi. It’s a concept that chef/owner Jean-Christophe Poirier and his partners found indicative of the type of food they wanted to see on the menu and the family-style service they wanted to encourage. Ask for Luigi accomplishes both brilliantly.

I’m not alone in thinking this.

One weeknight saw us queuing in front of the restaurant 15 minutes before opening, along with a couple dozen other hungry souls.

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5:30, the doors opened and Matthew Morgenstern, general manager and wine director, stepped out and announced that he would be bringing people in one group at a time to avoid crowding. It was probably the most efficient operation I’ve ever seen. Within five minutes, the entire crowd was seated, laughing and perusing menus. Some tables had drinks on the way, and there were still a few spots available for walk-ins. Score one for the neighbourhood joint.

Score two is the room, which is a complete one-eighty from its previous occupants (Two Chefs and a Table). The all-white landscape is now cozily panelled in teak, with matching tables and chairs. Coat hooks at the back and an open kitchen reinforce the light-hearted atmosphere, as do the tumblers of wine.

Speaking of wine, that would be score three, thanks to Morgenstern. Leaning heavily on the whites —preferred by both Morgenstern and Poirier, and an excellent match to the food — it’s a rotating list of bottles, several of which have stars beside them indicating they’re available by the glass. See something you want to try with no star? No problem.

Commit to two glasses, and Morgenstern will open any bottle in

the house. “I find white wine is more versatile, especially with the family-style of serving [multiple courses at once],” says Morgenstern. Absolutely try the spritz, an aperitivo made from Aperol, Prosecco and soda water.

As for the food, that is score four, five and six. There’s no regional focus, as Poirier likes to allow for his own interpretations of favourite dishes. Meatballs off the starter menu are studded with raisins and pine nuts, very Sicilian.

The beef is a chuck-brisket blend that is custom ground from grassfed Kettle Ridge stock. Eggplant involtini are stuffed with ricotta, spiced with nutmeg and topped with lip-smacking tomato sauce and golden-baked bread crumbs, along with a heaping dose of grated Parmigiano.

Pastas are all made fresh daily in-house for dinner and brunch (lunch uses artisan noodles from Italy due to time constraints), as are sauces, breads, etc., for all service. There’s even a gluten-free tagliatelle that can be dressed any way you like, and it’s damn fine, made from rice flour, corn flour, potato starch and xantham gum.

But no matter what you try, don’t leave without sampling the panna cotta, currently being served with red wine-braised prunes and

Owner/chef Jean-Christophe Poirier’s anchovies and eggs are must-tries, as are his octopus and suppli. Rob Newell photos

almond biscotti. Some things are just too good to describe. Just go and ask for…well, you get.

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“The No. 1 contributor to buying property right now is that interest rates are incredibly low,” McCredie said. “Even if they go up two or three percentage points, they’re low by historical standards.”

He expects the migration from rural areas into cities to continue across the country and for new immigrants to also favour cities.

The lower Canadian dollar has also had the impact of encouraging Canadians interested in investment property to buy in Canada instead of in the U.S., where properties in so-called “sand states” such as California, Nevada and Arizona have been rising.

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“We will also continue to see a three per cent to five per cent increase in prices,” SIRC CEO Ross McCredie told Business in Vancouver.

The REBGV pegged the benchmark home price for the region to be $609,100 in February, or 3.2 per cent above what it was in February, 2012.

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The CREA expects BC to see an increase in resale activity of 8.3 per cent year-overyear — well above the anticipated national growth of 1.3 per cent. While this means the province will be the biggest contributor to the expected growth across the country, the association said this is due to having had particularly slow sales in 2013, mostly in the early part of the year.

The opposite holds true for Canada as a whole, with 2014 starting out with low levels of growth compared with previous years.

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TUB FOR TWO! Enjoy the space of this terrific one bedroom which will easily accommodate house-size furniture.

You will only find this in an older, mature building. Zen-like, with mtn views from this West-facing quiet condo. Open galley kitchen, dining area leading into the massive living room. Enclosed balcony could be your den, library or flex space. King size bedroom with an extra large walk-in closet for two +. Bathroom could easily fit a double sink along with the original two-person soaker tub.

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603 – 789 DRAKE ST

Spacious 2 bedroom & 2 full bathrooms @ Century Tower with Fresh Air Balcony. Terrific SW corner unit with an open floor plan. Enjoy this incredible location w/ Yaletown, Granville Island & English Bay all walking distance.

Stroll along the sunny seawall to Stanley Park or visit one of your favorite cafes, restaurants or boutique stores. Building has been totally redone in the last few years with warranties still in effect.

Rain-screened in 2012, new windows, new deck membranes, roof, updated lobby & hallways in 2013. Rentals allowed, no pets & $50/month for parking.

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Cosmo. One Bedroom and Den with city and Mountain views.

Rentals allowed.

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$315,000

Fantastic opportunity to live or invest in a spacious 1 bedroom city home. Quiet south-facing garden suite with many upgrades. Situated in a well-maintained building w/ a proactive strata. Recent building upgrades include a new roof (2013), piping (2008), hot water tanks, elevator, common area upgrades & money for a new boiler. 1 parking and 1 storage locker included. Rentals and pets allowed! All this in the heart of the West End, just steps to the seawall, English Bay, shopping and all the great amenities downtown has to offer. www.candiceelliott.com

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Must see, one of a kind, custom built, Yaletown, VIEW SKYHOME @ The 501! • This luxuriously appointed urban oasis combines 2 units redesigned into a spacious 1 Bdrm plus Den • Loads of extras: Home theatre surround sound, 2 gas f/p, s/s appl., a spa-like bathroom with granite heated flrs & built in sound system, separate tiled shower & 2 person jetted jacuzzi tub. The open concept 340sf living/dining rm includes a custom millwork desk, double sided built in wall aquarium, large master with fireplace, English Bay, Marina & City VIEWS & a lg walk in closet • Outstanding building offering 24 hr concierge, 2 guest suites, indoor/outdoor pool, exercise rm, sauna, jacuzzi, 2 parking & 2 lockers!

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• Rare & Unique Townhouse Opportunity in hot Crosstown • 2 level, private entry, one bdrm+den townhome with lower terrace & upper deck plus insuite laundry, parking & storage • Flooded with natural light, space, peace, and greenery • Accessed through a gated landscaped courtyard, enjoy the benefits of a large complex (secured parking, storage, exercise facilities & low maintenance fees) & all the tranquility & privacy of a detached home • Steps to park, shopping, cafes, grocery, skytrain, theatres, restaurants, perfection!

THE OLIVE $428,800 406-3225 TUPPER ST

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

NEW LISTING THE 501, $359,900 510-501 PACIFIC

Cozy, warm & spacious one bedroom + den + nook @ The 501! • Open plan living, dining & kitchen allows for entertaining galore; great flow to the lovely home & shows beautifully w/new stainless steel appliances (GE Profile series), granite counters, black tile backsplash, new track lighting (all on dimmers), new gooseneck industrial strength faucet etc. • The 501 boasts the best bldg amenities in Yaletown: 2 guest suites, beach volleyball court, indoor/ outdoor heated pool, sauna, jacuzzi, gym, 24 hour concierge/caretaker . . . Steps to the seawall, parks & Yaletown core • Truly one of a kind!

NEW LISTING LONDON PLACE, $363,500 306-1177 HORNBY

Completely renoed designer 1 bdrm & den @ London Place • Fantastic open concept + light thruout • Warm & bright designer colors, brand new kitchen w/quartz countertops, new s/s backsplash tiles & appls., gooseneck faucet & double undermount sink • Brand new coffee laminate h/w flrs thruout... Tinted wall to wall windows, commercial grade construction converted to condos in 1994 (built to last Proactive Complex) • Low strata fees incl heat + hot water + free laundry + rooftop patio with views + 2 storage lockers, parking, gym, sauna, hot tub • Pets allowed, rentals with restrictions • Unbelievable central location close to everything!!!

PARK 360, $348,000 2005-7088 18TH AVE, BURNABY

• This 1 bdrm plus den is Cressey built with all the premium finishing including 9’ ceilings, open plan kitchen w/ SS appl., granite counters, engineered h/w floors, custom built-ins & more • Enjoy the large balcony for BBQs & gardening, the unit has terrific easterly views • Building amenities incl. fully equipped exercise room, sauna, steam room, swirl pool, lounge & recreation room w/ billiards table • Great access to transit, be downtown in minutes • Shopping is convenient with Metrotown, High Gate Mall and Big Bend strip mall on Marine Way.

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West End 2 Bdrm 2:00 - 3:00 1720 Barclay #103 Beautifully renovated garden two bedroom patio suite at Lancaster Gate Apartments - just off Denman and known for its very high quality.

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1720 Barclay #103, 2 bdrm, $299,900, Sat 2-3 only 1655 Nelson #210, 1 bdrm, $328,000, Sat 3:30-4 only 1878 Robson, 2 bdrm, $479,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 1631 Comox, Split level, 1 bdrm + den/2bdrm $349,900, Sun 2-4 704-1250 Burnaby St, Studio Sat/Sun 2-4 301-1250 Burnaby St, 1 bdrm, $238,000, Sat/Sun 2-4 104-1010 Chilco St, 2 bdrm, $595,000, Sun 2-4 205-2630 Arbutus St, 1 bdrm, $438,000, Sat 2-4

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news

If you could talk with the elephants

SPCA’s Rosemary Conder speaks out against phajaan

By Martha Perkins

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ogs have been bred as domesticated animals for hundreds of years so when we ask Fido to catch or heel or shake a paw, it’s in a dog’s nature to respond.

Elephants are born to live in the wild. As Rosemary Conder recently said in her Public Salon presentation, they share a lot of human attributes — “they have deep emotional bonds, they touch to greet each other, they flirt, they grieve and play jokes on each other” — but they are not bred to do as we command. That attribute has to be beaten into them.

Conder volunteers at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand when she’s not working as the chief development officer of the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She’s witnessed the results of phajaan, which translates into “breaking the spirit.”

What usually happens is the mother elephant is killed and her baby is taken into captivity. “They

Mae Lanna is one of the rescue elephants that Rosemary Conder befriended in Thailand last March.

She volunteers at a sanctuary for elephants beaten into servitude. Jodi Thomas photo

June was 71 when she was found emaciated and tied to a tree. This photo, with Rosemary Conder, was taken a few months before June died. are tormented and tortured until their spirit is broken” and will also display what can only be described as post-traumatic stress disorder.

She befriended a 71-year-old

elephant named June. June spent 45 years dragging logs in logging camps and 20 years carrying tourists before she was tied up and abandoned because she was no longer able to do either task.

It’s hard to fathom an emaciated elephant but that’s exactly what June was when she was rescued\.

“Just because we don’t see the suffering it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening,” Conder said.

She encourages people to help

involved, Rosemary Conder suggests the following organizations: 1. Elephant Nature Park (light volunteering and spending time with elephants). ElephantNaturePark.org 2. Boon Lott’s Elephant Sanctuary (not volunteering but spending time with elephant) BLESelele.org 3. Wildlife Friends Foundation of Thailand (intensive volunteering and spending time with elephants) WFFT.org.

put an end to phajaan by only seeing elephants in the wild.

On her last visit, she was rubbing June’s cheek before heading back to Vancouver. June suddenly pushed Conder’s arms open into a hug. It turned out to be a final farewell; June died last August.

Describing her profound admiration for elephants, Conder said “they have a capacity to remember and, I hope, forgive.”

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health and wellness

Four morning rituals that will improve your day

By Leanne Gerich

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It is investing $3 million in San Diego-based PatientTouch Solutions. The investment is intended to help increase the adoption of the company's PatientSafe app, which can be used by health professionals to communicate and access patient records electronically.

It is the second investment in the telemedicine field for Telus in recent weeks. On March 3, Telus announced it had acquired Med Access Inc., a Kelowna-based electronic medical record (EMR) company, for an undisclosed amount.

PatientSafe developed PatienTouch, a mobile application that nurses, physicians and other health professionals can use to communicate with each other while caring for patients.

It also gives them access to a patient's electronic medical records.

Telus will be the Canadian reseller of PatientTouch, and will also market it globally to other telecoms.

ach day, you have an opportunity to set off on the right foot, making the rest of the day less stressful and more enjoyable.

Every morning, we wake up with determination and positivity. Sleep cleanses us from the previous day. All the hardships we faced are now in the past.

Throughout the day, situations happen, stress returns and we are faced with the choice to enjoy or dislike this new day.

If you start your day out right, you will already be one step ahead of the gang. The following four tips can increase your daily productivity, while making you happier and therefore healthier!

1. Wake up 20 minutes earlier than you currently are. Set your alarm to wake up 20 minutes earlier than you usually do. Stand up, stretch your body slightly, enjoy your shower, start your day out right.

2. Lemon Water. Before taking a shower and especially before drinking your coffee, squeeze a quarter of a lemon into a glass of room temperature water. Even better – boil some hot water and drink warm water with lemon (warm up the body from the inside). Lemon cleanses the blood and liver, while alkalizing the body and strengthening the digestive juices in the stomach.

3. Breakfast. Of course we know that breakfast is important, but I don’t think we necessarily need a big meal.

Breakfast is good for starting up our digestive system for the day, while stabilizing our blood sugar. It also provides nutrients that we so badly need after fasting all night. Try to hard-boil five10 eggs at the beginning of your week.

Cut up half an avocado every two days, with some tomato slices and cracked pepper. Pack two hard boil eggs, with those vegetables in a container to grab and go! Or if you have five extra minutes (good thing you woke up early), enjoy your meal at home. This meal plan is great for people like me, who need to stabilize their blood sugar right off the get-go. Another great idea for morning rituals are green smoothies.

Blend one banana, frozen berries and a handful of spinach in either water or your favourite dairy alternative.

Add chia seeds to boost the nutrition further. Adding cashews or almonds is a great way to stabilize the blood sugar.

4. Plan. What is on the agenda for today? Write down one to three priorities for that day. Maybe you need to pick up some groceries, clean the bathroom in the evening, finish a paper for work, or some other errand.

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Irreverent dads

Reel People: Shorts CBC has grounded Arctic Air. On Monday evening, Arctic Air executive producer Gary Harvey confirmed that the adventure series — currently airing its third season episodes on the national broadcaster — had been cancelled. “So there we go now.

It’s official. #ArcticAir is cancelled,” he tweeted. Arctic Air was shot in Greater Vancouver, as well as on location in Yellowknife. The final episode will air on April 8.

Peter DeLuise makes first foray into directing for web with Vancouver’s Parked

Also on the CBC chopping block: the Toronto-shot crime procedural Cracked.

Sources cite government budget cuts and the loss of NHL broadcast exclusivity as the primary factors behind these latest cancellations. (Previously announced cancellations include The Ron James Show and George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight).

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tay-at-home dads get the web series treatment in Parked, a new Vancouver-shot web series that’s burning up the ’net with its irreverence.

How irreverent? At the beginning of the first episode, three dads are sitting at the entrance to a park, chugging beer and aiming darts at a stuffed animal as kids play behind them. As the episode ends, one of the dads is dashing home in a panic, having just remembered that he left his twin preschoolers all alone in his apartment.

Parked is the brainchild of S. Siobhan McCarthy, a busy actress, producer and writer, and Adam O. Thomas. McCarthy was inspired to pull the thread on stay-athome dads after watching her son’s father go through a tough time in similar circumstances. “I would hear the constant sadness that would come from my son’s dad: ‘It’s really lonely, it’s not the same, I try to go to mommy groups, I don’t fit in, this is a horrible experience,’” McCarthy said in a recent phone interview.

Parked’s irreverence — which includes salty language, raunchy scenarios involving drugs and porn, and episode titles such as “80 Lays” and “The Filthy Anus” — sets it apart from other dad-centric properties.

“There are some dad shows out there that are very precious, and we never wanted to be too precious,” said McCarthy.

And the web — with its pioneer spirit and lack of regulation — allows for an abundance of irreverence.

That irreverence was particularly attractive to Peter DeLuise, the veteran actor, director, and son of comedy icon Dom DeLuise.

DeLuise had directed more than 160 hours of television, but had never directed for the web before stepping up to helm Parked.

With episodes such as “80 Lays”, don’t expect Parked to be a paean to Today’s Parent. The new web series about dads stars David Lewis, Kirby Morrow, Chris Gauthier, Matty Granger and Sean Amsing. Photo courtesy of Parked As a father himself, DeLuise found the subject matter riveting — especially the part that addresses the impact that having a child has on friendships with childless friends. “When you have a child, your friends who are childless, somehow their problems are totally different and suddenly foreign,” he said. “You think you’re the same person but you don’t realize how a child changes you.”

Parked was financed by the Independent Production Fund, the BC Film and Media interactive fund, and an Indiegogo campaign.

Once funded, the team shot the entire season over three weekends this past November and December.

“It was not unlike what I imagined making a student film would be like, except we had professionals doing it and volunteering a lot of their time,” DeLuise recalled. “We were savvy with regards to characters and locations, and we got an enormous amount of production value for very little money.”

Another VIFF favourite begins its Vancouver theatrical run next week. Three Days in Havana — about an insurance executive who gets caught up in an assassination plot while visiting Cuba — screens at Cineplex Tinseltown beginning March 28.

The film was co-written and co-directed

by Tony Pantages and Gil Bellows and stars Bellows, Greg Wise, Rya Kihlstedt, and Christopher Heyerdahl.

Peter DeLuise directed Parked over three weekends in Vancouver.

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The fruit of those three weekends of labour are six full episodes (ranging from six to 10 minutes apiece), and more than 20 mini episodes. Since launching on February 28, the first episode has logged nearly 15,000 views. Episodes will air well into the summer.

It took four years for McCarthy to bring Parked from concept to internet reality. From the get-go, McCarthy — an expert in digital marketing — has intended for Parked to be strongly interactive. For example, in the final episode, when the characters are taking Instagram photos of each other, subscribers will be able to click and view the actual Instagram photo, too.

It helps that she has YouTube sensation Freddie Wong in her corner. Wong is the #1 most subscribed director on YouTube, and he appears in an upcoming episode of Parked as an IT guy.

“I’ve always been really impressed with his mindset of just give it away, make everything be possible to be downloaded,” McCarthy says.

Parked stars Kirby Morrow as Tim, David Lewis as Jesse, Sean Amsing as Davinder, and Matty Granger as Josh.

Watch Parked online at DailyMotion.com/ parkedtheshow.

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It was a good weekend at the box office for Down River. The critical hit of the Vancouver International Film Festival opened at Fifth Avenue Cinemas on Friday to a sold-out house. “We held our ground in the theatre and will be carried over for another week for sure,” writer-director Ben Ratner told Reel People. “As long as people continue to buy tickets, we will stay in the theatre.” The locally shot drama was inspired by the life and passing of Vancouver acting legend Babz Chula. Down River’s journey continues beyond Vancouver, too: it opens in Toronto on March 21, and Ratner recently inked a deal with a worldwide sales company. “[There] is much ahead for Down River,” said Ratner.

Emmy Award-winning executive producer and director Michelle MacLaren is the featured guest in a special question-andanswer presentation hosted by VIFF’s Film and Television Forum and the Directors’ Guild of Canada. The veteran of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Hell on Wheels will dissect some of her favourite scenes from her expansive body of work. March 27 at Vancouver International Film Centre. More at VIFF.org.

Winter is coming, and so is a thrilling partnership with Vancouver’s Pyrrha Jewellery. When season four of Game of Thrones premieres on April 6, keep an eye out for the jewelry that the kings, queens and conspirators are wearing. Pyrrha’s talisman necklaces and rings, made of sterling and bronze, are being featured in the hugely successful HBO series, as well as in an official Pyrrha for Game of Thrones collection. Starting on April 4, you can wear your allegiance on your hand or neck. The collection features the House of Targaryen’s dragon of Westeros, the House of Stark’s dire wolf, the House of Tyrell’s rose, the House of Lannister’s lion and the House of Greyjoy’s kraken.

The April 8 screening of Not Business As Usual at Vancity Theatre will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Sharad Khare, the founder of Imagination Dialogue. Speakers include W. Brett Wilson (Dragon’s Den), Joel Bakan (writer of The Corporation), Mark Brand (Save-On Meats), Sandra Odendahl (RBC director of sustainability). Doors: 5:30pm; film: 6:30; panel and Q & A: 7:40; reception: 9. Tickets are $18 and available at VIFF.org.

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movies

Old-school thrills boost Need for Speed NEED FOR SPEED

Starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper Directed by Scott Waugh

Maxwell McCabe-Lokos stars in The Husband, a darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son after his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a 14-year-old.

Cuckold comedy resists easy laughs THE HUSBAND

Starring Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Sarah Allen Directed by Bruce McDonald All marriages have their hurdles to overcome. In the case of Henry (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) and Alyssa (Sarah Allen), there’s the fact she’s currently seeing out a jail sentence for having slept with one of her 14-year-old students. Meanwhile, Henry is left to play single parent to their infant son while contending with considerable self-loathing and coming to terms with his understandably complicated feelings towards his wife.

Notably inconsistent throughout his career (and occasionally in the course of the same film), Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo) is at the top of his game here, demonstrating a confident directorial hand as he boldly renders Henry’s downward spiral in dark comic tones that never undermine the film’s raging emotions. Having also handled screenwrit-

ing duties, McCabe-Lokos turns in a remarkable physical performance. With his clenched, defensive posture, he resembles a turtle trying to retract into a shell that’s unceremoniously abandoned him. His finest exhibition of physical comedy is also steeped in pathos. As Henry attempts to rid himself of the mattress that Alyssa and her lover soiled by clumsily dragging it from his house, it becomes plainly apparent that it’s his cross to bear.

And while that visual metaphor is easy to spot, Henry’s exact objectives are frequently inscrutable.

Rarely is a film guided by a protagonist so angry and confused, making for a remarkably unpredictable and wholly engrossing watch as scenes careen in odd new directions and catharsis assumes strange forms. With their tragicomic character studies, McDonald and McCabe-Lokos make the inspired choice to focus largely on imperfections.

In the process, they turn out a gem.

— Curtis Woloschuk

It may be based on a successful video game franchise but director Scott Waugh’s Need for Speed dispenses with digital trickery in favour of practical car chases and incamera stunts.

The filmThor maker himself Diakow has cited Steve McQueen’s Bullit, cult hit Vanishing Point and even the action comedy Smokey and the Bandit as inspiration for his new high-octane adventure; it’s not hard to find various nods to such classics throughout the flick.

Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul makes the tricky transition from small to big screen as a street racer fresh from a prison stint after being framed by a wealthy business associate. He soon embarks on a high-stakes cross-country race to avenge the death of his friend and former partner.

It’s easy to enjoy Need for Speed’s campy acting, laughable script and heavy handed exposition as a sense

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reishi and Michell revel in detailing how long-term partners come to complement one another (for better and worse), lending Nick and Meg the air of a deadpan stand-up duo.

Fittingly, the film doesn’t build to a grand romantic gesture but rather free falls to a frank cataloguing of failures and disappointments. Broadbent and Duncan land the finish with panache, allowing Kureishi to suggest that even once the bloom is off the rose, it’s still possible for the stem to remain sturdy and prickly as hell. — Curtis Woloschuk

of camaraderie and good natured fun overshadow the film’s weaker moments. The movie boasts a talented cast of young and charismatic performers including Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots and the underrated Rami Malek, who steals the show in a memorable scene that sees him strip his way out of a corporate office.

But, the real stars of this ‘vehicle’ are the cars themselves. The production crew amasses an assortment of the most luxurious sports cars one can think of and proceeds to do what every audience member who goes to see the film wants — race the hell out of them. It may not be sophisticated but the reverent homage is palpable.

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Unflinchingly funny, honest portrait of marriage “People don’t change,” laments Nick (Jim Broadbent). “They do,” counters his wife, Meg (Lindsay Duncan). “They get worse.”

Such melancholic sentiments permeate every fibre of this well-observed dramedy from director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi. In fact, it’s Nick’s inability to hold his sharp tongue that’s forced him into early retirement, leaving him the time (but scarcely the money) to embark on a 30th anniversary encore of their Paris honeymoon.

Alas, the return to the site of such promise only reinforces their discontentment with the hands that life subsequently dealt them. They launch witty broadsides with impunity but save their most cutting remarks for one another.

Kureishi’s incisive writing ensures that every memorably acerbic quip is countered by a moment of unsettling honesty. The increasingly fraught script also displays a keen understanding of how behaviour becomes more entrenched and even amplified over time, often leaving us teetering at the precipice of self-parody. (Jeff Goldblum appears as Nick’s former colleague who’s devolved into the caricature of a scholarly sophisticate.) Likewise, Ku-

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izzy Karp grew a great appreciation for German expressions as an English student at the University of Toronto.

“German words are so impactful in modern stories... especially fairy tales and children’s lit and there’re a lot of concepts we take for granted, like schadenfreude, being joyful about someone’s misfortunes,” she said.

Now the producer of the Rain City Chronicles series has joined forces with edible pop-up producer Ken Tsui and the German sausage purveyors in Chinatown, Bestie, for a storytelling and supper event called Das Lexikon at the Vancouver Alpen Club, March 22.

“I’m really interested in historic and under-used spaces in the city. I’ve always been obsessed with the Alpen Club,” Karp said. “It feels like a time capsule.

There are lots of collections of German books and photos and other antiques throughout the space and you don’t feel like you’re in Vancouver at all.”

Karp unearthed intriguing German words to inspire “meaty” tales from a roster of nine storytellers.

“Like katzenjammer, which is a really bad hangover or a general state of depression and it is actually translated into a cat’s wail,” she said. “[And] kummerspeck, which translates directly to guilt bacon or the guilt that you feel after stress eating.”

The immersive experience builds upon Rain City’s previous two Tales from Public School events — one at Strathcona elementary, the other at Templeton

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Rain City Chronicles’ Lizzy Karp (L) joins forces with edible pop-up producer Ken Tsui and Chinatown’s German sausage purveyors Bestie for Das Lexicon, March 22 at the Alpen Club. Supplied photo secondary in November — that included meals and quizzes in their cafeterias. Bestie’s chef Colin Johnson will serve meat and veggie bratwurst and Black Forest cupcakes, and the Alpen Club will sling German beer while new connections are made.

“Rain City Chronicles, we’re all about diving into and exposing different communities in the city,” Karp said.

Web entrepreneur Boris Mann will share his experiences of growing up as the son of German immigrants in Vancouver, writer and storyteller Wong Wing-Sui will share a fight story, actorturned-storyteller Melanie Ray will talk

about a haunted house she once lived in the Fairview neighbourhood, and writer Jenn Farrell will take the meaning of torshlusspanik, or the fear of growing older, to a dark place.

Other storytellers include comedian Paul Bae, writer Ryan Knighton and musician Colin Cowan. Stories will be served with a side of German drinking songs played by a Bavarian-style “oompah band” and a selection of Krautrock.

Das Lexikon starts at 6:30pm at 4875 Victoria. RainCityChronicles.com.

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The NSX! The NSX! Type “Acura” into the old Google-ometer and you’d think Honda’s upscale brand had invented teleportation. In a way, they sort of have, with a new half-hybrid sports car that promises to resurrect one of the most beloved performance badges of the 1990s.

The problem is, as shiny and fast as the upcoming sports car might be, it’s just not important. Mid-engine supercars are neat, and I certainly look forward to not actually being allowed to drive the thing (and possibly being told to stop licking its paintwork), but they’re not the kinds of cars Acura sells in any number.

This seven-seat machine is. Totally new for 2014, the Acura MDX is a vehicle that will more directly affect everyone’s lives, not least those of the folks working in the Acura dealership.

It’s the backbone of the company, the real flagship of the brand. It’s the heavy lifter that carries that Acura banner into the battle for sales – where excellence really counts.

Design

As far as that whole “totally new” thing goes, you might not really have noticed the changes. Let’s walk through them together.

Up front, the MDX retains the beaky prow of a robotic snapping turtle, but now it’s a robot with eyes formed of LEDs. They’re not just the year-round Christmas lights that Audi first popularized either: these clustered “Jewel Eyes” actually work slightly better than regular xenon headlights, and run cooler than the more conventional projector headlamps.

They also give the MDX something of an insectoid look, but it’s the sole rough edge on a smoothed-over shape that does everything it can to be inoffensive. Bulging fender flares, plasticized wheel-arches, and big chrome wheels? You won’t find those here.

Instead, you get a very conventional, very conservative, handsome but anonymous shape. To my mind, it’s a bit like that line of business attire from Arc’teryx – sensible, capable, no shouting please.

Environment

As the MDX rides on an entirely new platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that things have been shuffled

around inside a bit. Noticeably, width is down, giving a little less elbow room for side-by-side seating.

The old car ran on the old Odyssey chassis, and was a bit more capacious.

However, rear seat room is up, particularly in the third row. It’s also easier for small fry to clamber back there with a new button-operated folding system, and they have a bit more space to fill with Lego and Skylanders and what-have-you.

Acura includes a pair of entertainment systems for your unruly rear-seat passengers, with a single DVD player available as part of the Technology package, and an extrawide screen on the Elite car. This can also run in splitscreen mode, meaning no squabbling over what to watch.

Up front, driver and passenger get really comfortable seats, with lots of power adjustability and a little bit more lateral support than in the main Japanese rivals.

Where the MDX once relied on a graphing calculator’s worth of buttons, it’s now controlled by a large touchscreen. It’s easy to use, but you wonder if they shouldn’t maybe have kept the heated seats and so forth as regular buttons.

Performance

Just like any newly released model, the MDX has even more power than before. Formerly propelled by a lusty 3.7L V6 with 300hp, the new truck now gets 290hp from a 3.5L powerplant. Wait, I must have read that wrong.

Nope. This year’s MDX gets less power overall.

The rationale for the mild reduction in horsepower is simple: less filling, still drives great. Acura has shaved the weight off with the new chassis, and can therefore get away with fewer horses under the hood without hurting performance.

The drive is very good. While the six-speed automatic isn’t as slick as the octo-boxes in some of the Germanic competition, it does feel durable and reliable, and is plenty smooth. The V6 is frankly excellent, with plenty of power and smoothness. Passing and acceleration are not a problem at all, and you’d never notice that a few horses have been put out to pasture.

Handling has also been positively affected by the reduction in mass, although the power steering has a little too much lightness to be really sporting. Not that anything in this

segment is supposed to handle like a roller-coaster, but there’s a very slight amount of play in the steering – one small way the old model was superior.

The actual grip levels are great, with most of the credit going to Acura’s comedy-named Super Handling All-WheelDrive. This provides not just good handling, but super handling. It says so right in the owner’s manual.

Despite being quite large, though nimbler than the old vehicle, the MDX’s trick torque-vectoring rear axle can shunt power to an outside wheel, helping rotate it through a corner. You’ll hardly be burning up the back roads on the school run, but the system is very good in the wet, and should help bring a little extra driver confidence behind the wheel if the weather turns snowy.

Features

One way Acura tries to entice you away from the prestige associated with a BMW roundel or a three-pointed MercedesBenz star is by bundling features together in easy to understand groupings. The MDX comes in four flavours spanning from just under $50K to $65K, and they all make sense.

Just the basic luxuries (and you even get a heated steering wheel as standard)? That’s simply the MDX. Need navigation to get where you’re going? That’s the MDX Navi.

The top level Elite trim is incredibly well-equipped, with everything from the aforementioned split-screen DVD to satellite navigation, to ventilated seats, to a 12-speaker surround sound system. It’s also outfitted with several safety systems including a surround-view camera to assist in parking, and a collision warning and lane-keeping system.

Fuel economy has improved as a result of the weight-loss, with official ratings now set at 7.7L/100kms highway and 11.2L/100kms city. Expect city mileage to be slightly higher, but the highway mileage is just-achievable with careful driving.

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ence a milder version of this mythic event, Scorpio. At a time when you’re not feeling your best, you could create a thing of beauty that will last a long time, or initiate a breakthrough that will send ripples far into the future.

British accent. He had to take voice lessons to restore his original pronunciations. I suspect you have a metaphorically comparable project ahead of you, Capricorn. It may be time to get back to where you once belonged.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): “When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet,” says Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron. “You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time.” That’s sound advice for you, Aries. You are almost ready to plant the metaphorical seeds that you will be cultivating in the coming months. Having faith should be a key element in your plans for them. You’ve got to find a way to shut down any tendencies you might have to be an impatient control freak. Your job is simply to give your seeds a good start and provide them with the persistent follow-up care they will need.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): There should be nothing generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius.

If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn’t stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton’s Clown Poison.

And if you’re a lipstick user, you shouldn’t be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn’t make sense to seek out romantic adventures you’ve had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Every now and then, you’re blessed with a small miracle that inspires you to see everyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting to you as they were before numb familiarity set in. The beloved people you take for granted suddenly remind you of why you came to love them in the first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal sides of themselves that are quite entertaining. So are you ready and eager for just such an outbreak of curiosity and a surge of fun surprises? If you are, they will come. If you’re not, they won’t.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): “Thank you, disillusionment,” says Alanis Morissette in her song “Thank U.” “Thank you, frailty,” she continues. “Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence.” I’d love to hear you express that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that I don’t think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty, nothingness, and silence. Not at all. What I do suspect is that you will be able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower, and inner beauty.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): I bet your support system will soon be abuzz with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get deeper and feistier and prettier.

Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying your ambitions.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): Barbara Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies. What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favorite couch covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary. I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own personal formula — and then apply it with zeal during the next eight weeks. What is the exact nature of the comforts that will best nourish your creativity?

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): The Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that scans millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the course of time. For instance, it reveals that “impossible” appears only half as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don’t know, but I can say this with confidence: If you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used to be.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): The Tibetan mastiff is a large canine species with long golden hair. If you had never seen a lion and were told that this dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that’s exactly what a zoo in Luohe, China did.

It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the charade when the beast started barking. Now I’ll ask you, Virgo: Is there anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked to believe that a big dog is actually a lion, or the metaphorical equivalent?

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): In T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator seems tormented about the power of his longing. “Do I dare to eat a peach?” he asks. I wonder what he’s thinking. Is the peach too sweet, too juicy, too pleasurable? Is he in danger of losing his self-control and dignity if he succumbs to the temptation?

What’s behind his hesitation? In any case, Libra, don’t be like Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your finicky doubts out of the way as you indulge your lust for life with extra vigor and vivacity. Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should eat the peach. Just go ahead and eat it.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young has been making music professionally for over 45 years. He has recorded 35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he wrote “Cowgirl in the Sand,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and “Down by the River.” I suspect you may soon experi-

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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Before she died, Piscean actress Elizabeth Taylor enjoyed more than 79 years of life on this gorgeous, maddening planet. But one aptitude she never acquired in all that time was the ability to cook a hardboiled egg. Is there a pocket of ignorance in your own repertoire that rivals this lapse, Pisces? Are there any fundamental life skills that you probably should have learned by now? If so, now would be a good time to get to work on mastering them.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Actor Gary Oldman was born and raised in London. In the course of his long career he has portrayed a wide range of characters who speak English with American, German, and Russian accents. He has also lived in Los Angeles for years. When he signed on to play a British intelligent agent in the 2011 film *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,* he realized that over the years he had lost some of his native

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WHITE, AUTO, A/C STK# HY10683

$15,888

2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GLS TOURING SPORT, HATCHBACK, RED STK#HY10690

$9,888

2011 HYUNDAI VERACRUZ GLS AWD, GREY, FULLY LOADED STK#131053A

$24,995

HATCHBACK, WHITE, LOCAL, WARRANTY STK#HY10717

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$14,995

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WEEKLY SPECIALS 100% BC Owned and Operated Prices Effective March 20 to March 26, 2014.

We reserve the right to limit quantities. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

Grocery Department

Meat Department

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

SAVE 3.19 750g

27%

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

30%

37%

8.49

340g product of Canada

Two Leaves Organic Tea

SAVE

33%

Meadowvale Creamery Butter

20%

from

3.99

13%

31%

1.79

34%

Daiya Frozen Pizza

3 varieties

assorted varieties

Health Care Department

package of 6

Pacific Foods Organic Soup assorted varieties

2.99

Wholesome Country Sourdough Bread

3.99

500ml

• Iron gluconate with B vitamins & vitamin C offers enhanced absorption.

Megafood B Complex Dailyfood

44.99

90 tablets

MegaFood Balanced B Complex promotes energy and health of the nervous system.

575g

Inno-Vite Magnesium Citrate

11.99

Wholesome Flaxseed Bread

assorted varieties

38.59

• Helps to prevent iron deficiency (anemia).

Gluten Free

434-471g product of Canada

Floradix Herbal Iron Extract

2.99-5.99

739ml product of USA

5.99

340g • product of Canada

20% off

All Regular or Mini Muffins

2/6.98

Simply Pure Cheese

5.99

Coarse Sea Salt

Bakery Department

40g product of Thailand

SAVE

Bulk Department

3.99-4.49

assorted varieties

6.99

product of Netherlands

Choices’ Own Individual Quiche

Simply Natural Organic Pasta Sauce

6 pack product of Canada

350g

product of Mexico

710ml • reg 6.49

reg 4.99-5.49

assorted varieties

SAVE

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

4.99

100g product of Germany

1kg product of Canada

Penotti Organic Chocolate Spread

3.99-5.99

Green Asparagus

Blue Monkey Coconut Chips

454g product of Canada

Cascades Extreme Paper Towels Family Pack

SAVE

1.39

3.59-5.99

27%

15 sachets product of USA

3.98 454g

Choices’ Own Fresh Soup

assorted varieties

SAVE

5.99

SAVE

Deli Department

Anita’s Organic Mill Flour

assorted varieties

Organic Strawberries

product of Mexico

assorted varieties

SAVE

each

12.99lb/ 28.64kg

100g product of China

Efruti Fruit Juice Gummies

assorted varieties

4.98

Wild Coho Salmon Fillets

2.59

SAVE

Earthbound Farm Power Bowl Salad: Organic Blueberries and Quinoa with Baby Spinach

4.99lb/ 11.00kg

2.99

156g product of USA

Want Want Super Slim Rice Crisps

330g product of Canada

Granville Island Fair Trade Organic Ground Coffee

29%

32%

3.99

38%

SAVE

SAVE

product of USA

Anita’s Organic Morning Rush

SAVE

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Way Better Snacks Tortilla Chips

Liberté Classique Yogurt

Produce Department

100 capsules

regular or sandwich

• Promotes superior bone health.

5.49

• The most bioavailable form of calcium and the necessary co-factors in the correctly balanced ratios.

454 - 525g

320 - 480ml • product of USA

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