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VOTE FOR THE CANADA YOU WANT ON OCT. 19

We collectively face a global problem: global warming that must be dealt with in a timely manner as many scientists have agreed we must wean our economies off of fossil fuels and transform energy sources into green sustainable low carbon solutions. It will not be damaging to our economy if we make the switch. In fact, wind and solar are expected to become trillion dollar industries and we will take a huge economic hit if we don’t join in on this opportunity for growth and future jobs. But it will have far reaching and irreversible consequences if we do little or stall this needed change. We owe it to the future generations to prevent this worldwide catastrophe, a threat far more threatening than any religion or terrorist group. It’s time we step up and vote, to make sure our government will heed the call of so many worldwide do what is necessary politically. Every vote matters, every voter is crucial to make this change.

On Oct. 19, let’s get out in record numbers to vote for a Canada we believe in. –Jaeme Grosvenor We are at a crossroads in Canadian history. Now, more than ever, we stand a real chance at taking back our democracy. To repeal Bill C-51, to stand up to super-treaties like the Trans Paciﬁc Partnership that are about to destroy what we take so much for granted, to honour and restore the CBC, to help the families of so many missing and murdered First Nations women, to stand up for the environment and recognize our collective rights to clean air, water and land. Sadly, there are dozens of other examples, too. We now have a real chance to vote for change. I am voting for a future where equality, education, health and the environment matter, not just for the privileged elite, but for all Canadians, including those who aren’t yet Canadian but would love to someday call our beautiful land home. It’s our moral duty to stand up for what matters, to become

true stewards of our land, and to show the world that the hope in our hearts is shining again. Stand up and vote. It’s really that simple. The alternative is truly a life that is poor, brutish, nasty and short. –James Kawano

SLOW IS BETTER

Re: “Keep art out of the street”, Rant/Rave, Sept. 17, 2015. Ranter Victoria Joss has her priorities skewed if she thinks Vancouver might aspire to be a world-class city if only it were “to operate more effectively”. Koblenz, Germany, this past Sunday was walk-about heaven for us when its entire aldstadt was closed to vehicles: thousands of folks wandered about in aimless joyful spaziergangs. Slow. Is. Better. Fact is Vancouver’s patchwork approach to culture and art and motorized vehicle transport prominence will likely condemn it to be young and brash and bratty well into the next millennium. –Wm. Baird Blackstone

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Vancouver Art Gallery reveals new wooden design

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TheVancouver Art Gallery revealed plansTuesday for its ambitious 230-foot-tall, 310,000-square-foot wooden building on the block bounded by Georgia, Beatty, Dunsmuir and Cambie streets. The design would take up two-thirds of the city-owned Larwill Park site and comprise layers of unevenly stacked gallery spaces, workshops, a research centre, a restaurant and a 350-seat performance space overlooking a dramatic tree-ﬁlled courtyard.The other third of the land is expected to be sold and developed into ofﬁce towers. The design prioritizes pedestrian scale and communal spaces with echoes of Arthur Erickson’sWest Coast modernism and subtle First Nations aesthetics, and is likely to be controversial not only in its appearance, but in its proposal to narrow Cambie Street and widen the sidewalks. However, the design will more than double the art

gallery’s current exhibition space to 86,000 square feet, with 40,000 of that dedicated to the museum’s permanent collections – currently holding around 11,600 pieces and “bursting at the seams” within the gallery’s location at Robson Square. In designing the concept for the new museum, Swiss architecture ﬁrm Herzog & de Meuron – the studio behind the “Bird’s Nest” stadium of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games as well as theTate Modern power plant conversion in London in 2000 – took into consideration the site’s history as a civic events space across from the Beatty Street Armoury, as well as its relationship with the 1950s-designed Queen ElizabethTheatre.The design proposes to alter the theatre’s current streetscape and turn the landing area at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton into a shared, landscaped courtyard with ample walk-through access from all four sides. Herzog & de Meuron partner-in-charge Christine

Binswanger said the design is meant to reﬂectVancouver’s urban relationship with nature while offering a counter to the city’s ubiquitous glass towers. “People are a bit fed up with what they’ve seen coming up in recent years,” Binswanger told the Westender. “I don’t want to be negative about all of it, but the big chunk of building stock that happened here is not so interesting to many people.We’ve seen this in other places,” she continues, “where, with one project that has different architectural ambition, then all of a sudden others want to follow and it can create a wave.” If successful, Binswanger said the project would be the tallest wooden building inVancouver. Research is still needed to determine the feasibility of the design as well as the best way to treat the wood, however Binswanger saidVancouver is in a unique position to explore the concept. “I’m really conﬁdent because it is a knowledge that exists in this part of the world, and it just makes so much sense from a

Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen S. Bartels is congratulated at the unveiling of the wooden design for the new gallery on Tuesday. Dan Toulgoet photo historical standpoint, economically, and also architecturally. But at the same time we don’t do this conceptually,” she asserted. “It’s really about the physicality of the wood; this is a building that will change over time. Almost like the building itself is nature.” The gallery will need to raise $350-million to complete the project by its goal date of 2021, andTuesday’s announcement marked the beginning of the Gallery’s capital funding campaign. Private sector donations are expected to generate

roughly $100 million towards the project, while the federal and provincial governments have not yet been approached for more money.To date, the VAG trustees have raised $73 million, with $50 million coming from the province in 2008, and $23 million coming from the pockets of the individual trustees. “Our senior levels of government are increasingly looking to make sure that big projects have the kind of public support that we are going after,” saidVAG board chair Bruce

MunroeWright. “We think that this conceptual design will unlock the imaginations of our public. [And] we thought it was important for our board to make a very meaningful statement about what we want to do to help make this project a reality.” As of Sept. 30, the entire presentation, including some preliminary concepts from the research and development process, will be on display for free on the main ﬂoor of the Gallery. Details will also be online at VanArtGallery.bc.ca/future. W

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HEALTH IS WHERE THE HOME IS

TOWN HALL Canadians will head to the polls on October 19. Come and join our federal election town hall. Hear what VANCOUVER GRANVILLE candidates and others have to say on seniors care and healthy aging.

Wednesday, October 7 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.)

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Vancouver vs. Victoria Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

In your heart of hearts, where would you prefer to live, Vancouver or Victoria? I had that exact question presented to me a few months ago when a potential job opportunity came up on the other side of the Strait of Georgia. I thought about it long and hard, but a few determining factors kept me rooted to this city: my current job, my Vancouver mortgage, and my wife’s professional need as a touring musician to be as close to a major international airport as possible. But Victoria kept creeping back into my mind. A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to ferry over to the Garden City to host the Western Canadian Music Awards at the historic McPherson Playhouse (which is nice, but no Orpheum). The big winner of the night was Tanya Tagaq, the acclaimed throat singer from Nunavut, who took home three trophies. And home isn’t far: Tanya

Is the grass greener on the other side of the water? Tagaq has recently moved to Victoria. Let’s compare.With the rainy season upon us, the first stat that may be of great interest to you is this:Victoria gets twice as much sun and half as much rain as Vancouver. Other perks:Victoria’s housing prices are high, but aren’t Vancouver-crazy.Transit, taxis, and the general cost of living across the board, is cheaper in Victoria. Downtown Victoria has far less density, is easily walkable, and rarely sees a traffic jam (you’ll find that on the highways on the outskirts of town during rush hour). The Garden City is filled with independently-owned restaurants, clothing shops, and bookstores.The neighbourhoods – Cook Street Village, James Bay, Fairfield

– all feel extremely livable and relaxing, most with great proximity to the ocean and parks.Victoria’s Chinatown is the oldest in Canada.Walking under that giant, ornate, Gate of Harmonious Interest, you really do feel transported to another age. On the ﬂipside, what about the old cliché that Victoria is nothing but “the newlywed and the nearly dead”? There might actually be something to Victoria’s two major demographics being the young and the old: when I was in town, the Rifﬂandia Music Festival was raging. By night, the entire city was crawling with 20-something hipsters in Cowichan sweaters. It felt like a cross between South By Southwest and Danger Bay. During the day, the town felt

more like a cross between Cocoon and Coronation Street. Victoria’s ocean beaches are unswimmable: the harbour is too industrial; the ocean temperatures on the outer rim are bone-numbingly freezing that close to the open Paciﬁc Ocean, even at the height of summer.Vancouver has safer, divided, and designated bike lanes.We have big league sports teams and mega concerts.Victoria serves high tea at 4pm.Vancouverites get high at 4pm(ish). Legendary Victoria punk rock band NoMeansNo were honoured at the awards show, and in their acceptance speech, they probably summed it up best, speaking of the initial creative positives about isolated island living, but noting that they eventually had to leave to follow their career dreams to the next level. In other words, for the upwardly mobile middle stages of life, living by the schedules of ferries and seaplanes can be the ultimate deal-breaker. Besides, how can I write a column called Vancouver Shakedown if I lived anywhere else? In my heart of hearts, Victoria is awesome, but Vancouver is home. W

Uber eager to bring rideshare service to Vancouver TYLER ORTON @reporton

The chief adviser to Uber says it’s a “shame”Vancouver isn’t on board with his company’s ridesharing and transportation service but he knows new technology can create conﬂict with various levels of government. David Plouffe, who was speaking to the Vancouver Board of Trade Sept. 25, said Uber’s goal is to “build a city of the future” that works with tourism, grows wages and eases congestion. “We’re eager to engage with local government, provincial government to ﬁnd a way forward so that we can bring rideshare here,” said Plouffe, former senior adviser to US President Barack Obama. “Once we’ve kind of established the rules of how we can operate, then let’s work together on job-training programs, let’s think about how to move people with disabilities around better in the city.” Uber customers use smartphones to order and pay for rides in vehicles, mostly with non-professional drivers behind the wheel. Efforts to break into the

Vancouver market have been met with resistance in the taxi industry.Vancouver cab companies launched a lawsuit in November 2014 seeking an injunction against Uber to prevent it from operating within the city. Although it was not operating in Vancouver at the time of the lawsuit, Uber brieﬂy provided services to locals in 2012. But Uber pulled out of Vancouver after the BC government’s Passenger Transportation Branch determined the company was operating as a limo service and was required to fall in line with regulations covering that industry, such as charging a minimum of $75 per ride. Plouffe told a packed ballroom the taxi industry doesn’t want its drivers to have other options but Uber would provide both professional and amateur drivers with other ways to make money with more ﬂexible hours. “In the history of humankind, anyone who has a monopoly doesn’t want to give it up, so I understand their perspective,” he said. W –Courtesy of Business in Vancouver

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My Digs: Heather Ross {natural eclectic}

antiques/collectibles: Most of the art is my own work, though I love to mix others in as well. Black and white photos and a few old decayed mirrors mix with my larger more evocative abstract paintings. I do have a great eye for picking up old ﬁnds, as I do it full time for my shop. Every now and then I fall in love with an item and it comes home with me. I just reupholstered a great old settee with grey linen, and it tuned out fabulously. I love old glass and ceramics, so have charming collections of old bottles, ginger jars, and rustic vases.

Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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When you are the owner and curator of one of the city’s most desired décor boutiques, an established stylist, photographer and soon-to-be published design book author, it’s no surprise that your digs would be fabulous. Such is the case with this week’s industry insider sharing her personal space with us: Heather Ross. A renowned ﬁgure in the Vancouver interiors scene, Heather has created a charmingly elegant yet comfortable space to live, create and entertain nestled in the heart of Kitsilano. What is it?: I have a smaller corner garden suite condo with French doors on both sides that open onto a lovely secluded patio. It’s a typical older Kitsilano building situated walking distance to both my boutique and the beach. Occupant: I’ve had a home décor shop at located at West 6th and Fir in Vancouver called Heather Ross {natural eclectic} for 15 years now. I am also an artist, stylist and a photographer and am about to have a coffee table book published called The Natural Eclectic. It’s on a design aesthetic inspired by nature, so naturally, I love living close to the community gardens and Kits beach. Major selling feature: My condo has a very private enclosed 800 sq. ft. patio,

Downsides: My place is too small for me, really. As a creative person who is always making things I would love more space! I need a separate project room to be messy in, so I can close the door and hide it from others!

Heather Ross’ Kitsilano home features soft tones and an eclectic collection of antiques. Heather Ross photos sheltered by ponderosa pines and tall bamboo out front. The location is also amazing, so close to everything I need. First thing I changed: I ripped out the carpet and put in hardwood ﬂooring. I cannot fathom how anyone lives with carpeting! Plus I painted all the walls, of course, to light and fresh tones to brighten it up. I held off painting the solid ﬁr French doors for a few years, but eventually they went all white too. I just don’t prefer woods in the red tones at all, I am all about the

blonde, beauty ash tones and greyed down woods. Feature I brag about: I love that I have my own little private gated entrance that makes my apartment feel more like a home than an apartment. I am an avid gardener so I turned it into my own little paradise. On the sprawling deck I have a mix of succulent planters, ﬂower trees, rusty old patinaed furniture and beach ﬁnds throughout. That one conversation piece:

I suppose my open concept shower. People always wonder or worry if the water goes everywhere. It does just a little, but I don’t mind.The ﬂooring is all tile, and water does evaporate after all. The décor: Not surprisingly, my aesthetic is eclectic. I like the juxtaposition of some clean white lines offset by battered old textural items. My space is not girly at all, no froufrou chandeliers, yet there is an softness and elegance to it.True to my signature palette, I prefer colors

that are serene and echo the landscape we live in. I love linen tones and earthy textures, and have found objects from my foraging adventures throughout my home. I love to curate little vignettes as well, cameos within my home to delight the eye, but I do so with restraint so that my place is not too cluttered. Most importantly my place is personal and peaceful, I am not into having into having place that is a showpiece or feels untouchable to others. The story behind the art/

Neighbourhood haunts: I live in such a great hood! Fifth Avenue cinemas,Tractor Foods, YYOGA, Rain and Shine Ice Cream are all just steps away. I even have a thrift store very close by to cull through for the occasional treasure. Compared to your last place: My last place was a 100-yearold home with a lovely garden in the coveted area of Main and 25th. Favourite apartment/house/ condo activity: I love to putter in the garden, especially with tea in the late morning, which is the sunniest time of the day. During long dry stretches I will actually work on my paintings out on the patio too. W

Fashion biz keeps this fashionable brunette busy Niki Hope Style File

@NikiMHope Vancouver fashion ﬁrecracker Miriam Alden is bringing her brand of cheekilyphrased sweatshirts and on-trend threads to Vancouver Fashion Week. Alden is a ﬁxture in the local fashion biz, distributing a handful of stylishly affordable and mid-range brands through her sales agency, the aptly-named – given her trademark long brown hair – Brunette Showroom, located in East Van’s Parker Building. Alden’s Fashion Week show is on Friday, Oct. 2 at 7:40 pm at the Chinese Cultural Centre and will include labels she represents, such as BB Dakota, Desigual, Lisbeth Jewelry, Glamorous UK, and Seychelles Footwear, as well as the popular sweatshirt line she recently

launched, which feature funny sayings like: “Fries before guys,” “Paris made me do it,” and “I deﬁnitely did not wake up like this.” The bold sweatshirt concept started when Alden and her company’s VP Ryan Pugsley wore sweatshirts with the phrase, “Brunette is the new black.” They made the sweatshirts for their own amusement, as a nod to their wholesale clothing business, and had no intention of launching a collection. “People would say, ‘That’s so cool; you should sell them,’” Alden says, explaining where the idea originated to create an entire ﬂeet of sweatshirts for the line called BITNB (Brunette is the New Black) Clothing. Meanwhile, in the run-up to her fashion week show, Alden and her team (there’s three staffers, including the main brunette) are enjoying putting together the looks and the music for the event. The styling for the show was inspired by 1960s

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Miriam Alden (centre), owner of fashion wholesale company Brunette Showroom and the creator of her own line of cheekilyphrased sweatshirts, BITNB Clothing, is bringing her brand of edgy style to Vancouver Fashion Week on Friday night. Contributed sex kitten – think Sienna Miller in the movie Alﬁe with black cat-eye eyeliner and a nude lip. This is Alden’s second season at Vancouver Fashion Week, which features clothes from local and interna-

tional designers. What makes Alden’s show unique is that as a clothing wholesaler, as opposed to a designer, she is showing looks that people can go and immediately scoop up from the local boutiques she distributes to, in-

cluding Plenty, LYNNsteven, Courtney Boutique, Kiss and Makeup, and Wishlist. Hard to believe, but the stylish and statuesque brunette wasn’t always a fashion phenom. “I think it’s because I spent the majority of my life in a barn, so I didn’t really care,” Alden laughs. An equestrian, Alden spent her days riding her horse rather than standing in front of the mirror.The self-described tomboy even played football on her high school’s boys’ team, only hanging up her jersey when the guys got too big to go up against. But clearly, Alden isn’t afraid to tackle whatever comes her way in the fashion business, which, contrary to popular belief, is a lot more grunt work than glamour. Alden launched Brunette Showroom six years ago with a small loan from her dad, retired newspaper publisher Brad Alden, which she paid back within six months.

Not just surviving, she has thrived, celebrating her company’s sixth anniversary this week. The fashion dynamo credits her father’s business acumen and advice with helping her along the way. “Everything that comes out of my dad’s mouth is something that is thoughtful,” Alden says. “Anytime I need real advice, even if I don’t want to hear it at all, I know he’ll tell me the truth.” A pop-up fashion truck that she bought with her friend, Privilege Clothing owner, Donni Rae Edmondson, is her latest project. Called WEST – Fashion Truck, Granville Island is expected to be the ﬁrst stop on the fashion express, likely around the beginning of November. In the meantime, between her break-out sweatshirt line, busy wholesale biz, and Fashion Week, Alden already has lots to keep her trucking. W BrunetteShowroom.com

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Three breweries that offer more than just a good pint Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday October means the return of BC Craft Beer Month, and there are now – thankfully – dozens of local, craft, micro (even nano) breweries offering hoppy delights of all sorts. Not many such breweries, however, offer extensive (if any) food menus to go along with their liquid offerings, but three new openings are starting a new trend.

TRUCK STOP AT RED TRUCK BEER COMPANY

295 East 1st Located at the site of the original Vancouver Brewery at the mouth of historic Brewery Creek, Truck Stop offers the requisite 24 taps with a rotating selection of the brewery’s seasonal, limited edition and classic beers. The food menu, which you can enjoy in the 120-seat space that includes a fairsized patio, is classic diner fare with a few West Coast twists. Dishes like buffalo fries with blue cheese and tomato might be for the more adventurous, but the barbecue pork belly sandwich ($13)

is a sweet-and-spicy mountain of meat that is well drizzled with sriracha mayo and stuffed with slaw. For more temperate palates, try the corned beef hash with eggs and Texas toast ($10). RedTruckBeer.com

CENTRAL CITY ON BEATTY

871 Beatty This new pub from the local brewery and distillery is about all things barbecue, and offers great deals on platters of brisket or pulled pork ($16 each), as well as daily specials like whole barbecued chicken, beef short ribs, and even lamb ribs.The cornbread is stuffed with a jalapeno-laced ricotta and is moist and delicious, as are the burger bowls. Finish with the gin and citrus panna cotta for a boozy treat. As for the drinks, in addition to its own extensive offerings, this brewery pub also offers a surprisingly decent wine list, with a healthy by-the-glass selection, as well as solid cocktails, like the Seraph Gimlet with key lime, soda, lemon and egg white, or the Forbidden Fruit brunch cocktail with Hangar One Spiked Pear, Calvados, orange Curaçao and Prosecco. CentralCityBrewPub.com

BIG ROCK URBAN BREWERY & EATERY

310 West 4th The latest addition to the local brewery scene, Big Rock just opened their brewery a handful of weeks ago, and the Urban Eatery opened as part of the package. The menu here is comforting and inventive. Chicken liver mousse is made with brandy and served with beer jelly and flatbread made from spent grain. The flavours from the beers are infused into a number of dishes, like the hop salt served with the crispy chicken skins, or the Big Rock-infused kielbasa that’s part of the charcuterie board. That kielbasa also makes an appearance in the banh mi, which is loaded with the chicken pâté, prosciutto, Korean barbecue sauce and fennel slaw. The drinks list here also extends to a good selection of local wines and spirits, as well as some interesting cocktails, and spirits flights that are a steal at $10 for four tastings. BigRockUrban.com Listen to Anya Levykh every Monday on CBC Radio One’s On the Coast. Find her on Twitter @foodgirlfriday and Facebook. com/FoodGirlFriday. W

Clockwise from top left: Big Rock Urban Eatery; Corned beef hash at the Truck Stop at Red Truck Beer Company; The bacon breakfast burger at Central City on Beatty. Dan Toulgoet photos

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Restaurant rock stars get hall of fame nod ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

BC’s culinary rock stars gathered for an epic night of feasting and feting at the annual BC Restaurant Hall of Fame awards gala on Monday. In all, 12 people were inducted into the hall of fame this year in ﬁve categories: Active Restaurateur Award; Industry Award; Builder Award; Coffee and Beverage Award; and the Friend of the Industry Award. Among the inductees was Sue Singer, president and founder of Paciﬁc Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA), who received the Builder Award. Singer opened the private culinary school in 1997 at the entrance to Granville Island and says she is thankful PICA is being recognized by the BC hospitality industry. “I am most proud of two things: the PICA staff who are individually and collectively some of the most genuine, nicest and hardestworking people I have the pleasure to work with,” she said in an interview with Westender before the gala. “I am also most proud of

Left: PICA founder Sue Singer received the Builder Award at this year’s BC Restaurant Hall of Fame awards on Monday. Contributed photo Above: Hall of Fame inductees Andres St. Jacques of Bearfoot Bistro and Chris Whittaker of Forage. Gail Nugent photo our graduates – to know that we helped get them get started and to see the accomplishments so many have achieved, it is extremely heart warming.” While the restaurant industry, cooking styles and technology have changed drastically in the past 20 years, what hasn’t changed is the need for aspiring chefs to have a solid technical skill set to build on. “When [PICA] opened its, there was no Food Network or Chef TV shows,” said Singer. “Chefs were certainly not the rock stars they are

today. I remember some of our students, after watching the food shows, thought this could be them if they got training. We continue to say to this day, ‘When you graduate you are not a chef, you have mastered the skills to work in a kitchen. It can take years of hard work to earn the title Chef. Be respectful and learn, learn, learn.’” In its nearly two decades of existence, PICA has produced more than 2,800 grads working in more than 35 countries worldwide – not to mention just about every kitchen in the city. Among

the school’s more high proﬁle grads are Mark Rausch (co-owner of Criterion in Bogota, considered to be Colombia’s best restaurant), Laura McLeod (owner of The Old Apothecary bakery in Halifax), and Mark McCrowe (Chopped Canada star and Gold Medal Plates ﬁnalist). Winners of the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame’s Active Restaurateur Award included Neil Wyles of Hamilton Street Grill, Andre St. Jacques of Bearfoot Bistro (Whistler), Jamie Henderson of Keg Restaurants, and BC

craft beer pioneer Paul Hadfield, owner of Spinnakers Brew Pub in Victoria. Hadfield, an architect by trade, opened Spinnakers in 1984 as the first brew pub in Canada where beer was brewed and served on the same premises. It took Hadfield a year and half of lobbying the government to change liquor regulations to allow this radical concept, which has since proved popular across North America. More than 30 years later, Hadfield still operates Spinnakers (where his daughter Kala is now a brewer) and is

largely recognized as one of the fathers of the West Coast craft beer revolution. Winners of the Industry Award included Pat Allabarton on Milestones and Franco Coccaro of La Bussola for Front of House, as well as Amber Anderson of H.A.V.E. Café and Chris Whittaker of Forage for Back of House. Whittaker launched Forage inside The Listel Hotel on Robson close to four years ago with a menu that took the locavore trend to a new level. About 70 per cent of the menu comes from the Paciﬁc Northwest, within about 100 miles, give or take. Another 20 per cent comes from the rest of BC and Canada, with the remainder accounting for items that just can’t be found locally – like lemons and sugar. Dennis Green of the tourism and hospitality industry job search website Go2HR.ca was recognized with the Friend of the Industry Award, while Pete Boeda and Barney McKenzie of Bean Around the World were honoured with the Coffee and Beverage Award. W

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@FoodGirlFriday Bodega on Main, the latest opening from Paul Rivas of The Parlour, is now open for dinner nightly from 5pm. Favourites from the former La Bodega, like the patatas bravas, are on the menu, as well as new additions like cured meats imported from Spain. BodegaOnMain.ca The long-running (15 years and counting) Brix Wine Bar & Restaurant, and its sister property George Ultralounge, is going through a metamorphosis. George has closed down to undergo renovations and will be reopening as part of the new Brix & Mortar, a new ﬁnedining concept that will take over both spaces as one new cohesive unit. Brix will stay open during the renovations. BrixVancouver.com On Oct. 2, Sai Woo is opening Woo Lounge, their downstairs lounge space. Expect dedicated craft cocktails and a live DJ on Friday and Saturday nights from 7pm onward, as well as a separate bar menu. SaiWoo.ca BC Craft Beer Month is back for October and BC Craft Brewers Guild is launching a month full of craft beer events, kicking off Oct. 1 at Central City on Beatty. Taste seasonal and specialty craft beers from 24 local brewers. Tickets are $20. BCCraftBeerMonth.com Want to learn to cook from the best? Twelve of Vancouver’s top chefs, including Meeru Dhalwala of Vij’s and Robert Clark of The Fish Counter have signed on to teach a series of adult cooking classes in order to raise funds for EarthBites, a local non-proﬁt initiative that teaches schoolchildren to connect with food and nutrition. See the full list of classes at EarthBites.ca.

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at their peak, usually within 24 hours.Wet hopped beer is only available at hop harvest time and BC Hop Fest is the ﬁrst festival to exclusively showcase 17 of BC’s best breweries and their fresh beer offering. BCHopFest.ca The 11th annual Taste of Yaletown is back Oct. 15-29, with almost 30 restaurants offering set menus for $25, $35 or $45. Participants this year include the new Brix & Mortar, Lime and Moon Pie Company, Minami, Provence Marinaside, Sushi Maro,Yaletown l’Antipasto and Zend Conscious Lounge, among others.YaletownInfo.com W

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Buying Bordeaux 2012 Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

Warning: The subject matter of this article pertains to the release of 2012 Bordeaux vintage. As such, the wines recommended are not inexpensive. Every year in early autumn, BC Liquor Stores releases the latest vintage from Bordeaux. This renowned French region is a benchmark for ultra-premium cellar-worthy reds featuring Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Avid collectors in particular clamour for the highest rated wines and most illustrious châteaux. Bordeaux is characterized by vintage variation though. This means the character and quality of the wines are affected by the vagaries of weather. In 2012, growers were presented with a number of challenges to achieving fully ripe grapes. In order to make good wine, producers needed to make a severe selection, which comes at

a cost. The successes are honest expressions of the year; ripe with a just hint of green lending an inviting freshness. So are the wines worth lining up for? If you want a shot at the best, then you might have to. Barbara Philip, Master of Wine and Category Manager for the Wines of Europe at BC Liquor Stores made her own selection and brought in about 50 per cent less than usual. “It appears demand will far outweigh supply for the 2012s at the release and I expect everything to sell through quickly,” she said. Triple-figure price tags are common in the world of Bordeaux. Stellar years like 2009 and 2010 offer fantastic wines at all price points including plenty in the sub-$50 category. In more challenging vintages such as 2012, deals are more difficult to find. I combed through the double-digits and did come up with a few standouts (along with one more excessive splurge). For those die-hard Bordeaux fans, see you early

in the morning on Saturday, Oct. 3 at selected BC Liquor Stores.

2012 Château Haut-Bergey %-TN; ! >8IIT;=ABM4NTN &?#E UJTN;8 ! $5W While the release focuses on the reds, this is a great opportunity to pick up some first-rate dry whites. These oft-unsung gems of Bordeaux represent some of the greatest triumphs of 2012. A blend of Sauvignon Blanc with Sémillon and aged in oak for added complexity, the HautBergey exudes lemon curd, honeysuckle, savoury herbs and fleshy nectarine. A cellar-worthy white.

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aromas, ripe and alluring cassis notes and good fruit concentration. It definitely has short-term cellaring potential of five to seven years.

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PWSP "MOT1N8 98 #38DT-18J ! >8IIT;=ABM4NTN &?#E UJTN;8 ! $0W Pure and precise aromas of blackcurrant, mineral and earth press all of my Bordeaux buttons. Medi-

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The rise and fall (and rise) of Brewery Creek JESSE DONALDSON @westendervan

Then clouds will vanish, life seems brighter, The sorrows gone, the burdens lighter, And Albion’s sons and Deutschland’s Kaiser Their quarrel cease And live in peace For Lager Beer has made them wiser. -Vancouver Breweries Advertisement, 1896

IT STARTED WITH A ROAR Long before it evolved into the beer geek mecca it has become today – a neighbourhood which hosts many of the city’s finest up-and-coming breweries, including Main Street, Brassneck, and 33 Acres – Brewery Creek was the heart of turn-of-the-century Vancouver’s vibrant local brewing scene, a name given both to the district, and the river which gave it life. Carving a swath through Mount Pleasant, the original creek was just one of the many freshwater streams flowing downhill to False Creek, following an indirect route one block east of Main, and beginning in a boggy area known as The Tea Swamp (near 15th and Sophia today). For more than 10,000 years, it served as a gathering place for local First Nations people, its waters sustaining the largest trout and salmon populations in the region, its shores teeming with migratory birds and plant life. With the arrival of European settlers, the creek (as yet unnamed) became one of the region’s most important water supplies; by the 1860s, its waters were being transported more than two miles by flume to supply Stamp’s Sawmill,

Left: Vancouver Brewery employees on the banks of Brewery Creek, circa 1890. Image Courtesy of the Vancouver Achives. Vancouver’s ﬁrst (and at that time, only) industry. Naturally, an abundance of freshwater was attractive to early industry, and consequently, as settlers expanded outward, the area provided a perfect staging ground for new ventures, resulting in the creation of the city’s ﬁrst suburb: Mount Pleasant. “This was our special preserve, our forest retreat, our playground, and my own personal conception of a fairyland on earth,” wrote early resident Gladys Schweisinger, in a 1960 pamphlet for the Vancouver Archives. “We waded in the stream of

the brook, and climbed back and forth over the many logs which had conveniently fallen across its deeper pools, joining rock to rock, and affording walkable bridges.We met our young friends in the Ravine. We played house there.We made up stories and told them to one another.We exchanged conﬁdences, and we dreamed dreams of the future.” Before 1880, Mount Pleasant was mostly untamed wilderness. But, by the end of the decade, as Vancouver’s population exploded, the banks of Brewery Creek were suddenly packed with all manner of businesses – including a

tannery, slaughterhouses, and eventually, multiple breweries – and its roar slowed to a trickle as industry dammed every inch of its length. The Vancouver Brewery opened its doors in 1888, at the corner of 7th and Scotia. The brainchild of Germanborn saloon owner Charles Doering, it was only the second brewing operation in town (J.A. Rekab’s City Brewery had opened the year before) and it immediately garnered glowing reviews. “[It is] a most substantial brewery,” gushed the 1888 City Directory, “in fact, the largest on the Paciﬁc

Coast, replete with machinery furnished by the Albion Ironworks, capable of brewing over 1,500 gallons a day.The cellars contain seven large vats holding 480 gallons each, an elevator and all of the latest improvements required to carry on an extensive trade.” Doering was among the ﬁrst to build a dam on Brewery Creek, harnessing its power to drive a 40-foot water wheel to mill his grain. And before the year was out, other operations sprung up along its banks, including the Lion, the Stadler, and Henry Reifel’s San Francisco Brewery. By the early 1890s there were four

independent brewers operating in the area. In spite of this newfound competition,Vancouvery Brewery remained the region’s most popular operation. In 1892, Doering entered into a partnership with brewmaster Otto Marstrand to create a number of exciting new products, among them Cascade Ale (“The Beer Without Peer”, from which today’s Cascade Room takes its name), and Alexandra Ale, which they launched to great fanfare in the summer of 1892. “Alexandra Beer will no doubt be the popular beverage this summer,” wrote the Vancouver DailyWorld, “and the handsome delivery wagon, built for this firm by the Columbia Carriage Works, will be kept busy.There will be no excuse hereafter for sending thousands of dollars out of this province yearly for lager when equally as good an article can be produced at home.” The early 1890s were the boom years for Mount Pleasant’s breweries. Some (including Reifel’s first venture) failed, while Doering went on to achieve substantial success – locally, provincially, and internationally. By this time, Mount Pleasant was a bustling suburb, and Doering was a rich man. In fact, demand was so extreme,Vancouver Brewery had to expand several times, finally purchasing the Thorpe & Co Soda Works next door, and opening a brandnew operation in early 1903.

BREWERY CREEK GOES FLAT By the 1900s, the tides were turning. Of the independent breweries that had opened during the 1890s, only four remained; the rest had closed, been acquired, or, had more than likely amalgamated with

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Above: An ad for Cascade Beer, 1919. Image Courtesy of the Vancouver Achives. On right: Barry Benson of R & B Brewing. Dan Toulgoet photo. one of the other local companies. Amalgamation was seen as a savvy move by businessmen of the early 20th century, allowing them to centralize operations, cut costs, and corner the market. Doering’s brewery, for example, merged with Red Cross (the renamed City Brewery), and following a series of further amalgamations in the early 1910s, became part of a provincial consortium that controlled approximately 95 per cent of the local supply. However good these mergers may have been for business, they signalled the end of commercial brewing in Brewery Creek; by 1922, only Vancouver Breweries remained – as a consortium comprising a handful of other

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brewers and (brieﬂy) distillers – but had moved their facilities out of the region. And virtually overnight, Brewery Creek vanished from the public discussion. Part of this was due to the fact that the creek itself had disappeared from view, its roar buried forever beneath pounds of dirt and asphalt, as part of an early1920s False Creek reclamation scheme which drastically changed the face of the city. Part of it was due to the onset of Prohibition; in the wake of a federal ban on alcohol, many breweries shut their doors. Others, like the Reifels, turned to bootlegging. “Though it is now underground, Brewery Creek is still alive,” archivist JS Mathews noted, without irony, in the

1930s, “you can hear it at the manhole beside 31st Avenue.”

ALIVE AND BREWING By the 1980s, Mount Pleasant had gone into decline. Named as one of city’s “neglected neighbourhoods” in a 1984 article in the EastEnder, it was considered an inner-city area by residents, one rife with prostitution, homelessness, and drug abuse.

“It was way heavier industrial back then,” recalls Barry Benson, who co-founded R+B Brewing in the neighbourhood in 1997. “Very dirty.There were needles in the back alleys, there were Ladies of the Night on the street, there were grow-ops all around. It was sketchy. People were walking in and stealing our stuff. One day, we were sitting in the coffee shop next door, and we

saw some guy walking down the street with a computer in his hand. And it turned out, it was our computer.” Undeterred, Benson and partner Rick Dellow went on to brew the neighbourhood’s ﬁrst commercial batch of beer in more than 70 years, and their 4th Avenue facility remained Mount Pleasant’s only craft brewery for the better part of two decades. It was a modest, two-man operation, one of only a handful of local breweries, including Storm, Russell, and Granville Island. Back then,Vancouver’s Craft Beer Scene was still in its infancy, and, as Benson recalls, the drinking habits of 1990s Vancouver were vastly different than those of today. “The market was really tough,” he recalls. “People had 10 taps, and they were all Molson, and Molson is paving their parking lots and giving them hockey tickets, and they’re saying: ‘Why would I try anything else? Nobody wants to drink craft beer. You’re way too expensive and you have too much ﬂavour.’ It was a really tough haul getting your beer in anywhere.” Today, local brewers command roughly 20 per cent of the provincial beer market. The Brewery Creek neighbourhood has gone through a series of revitalizations,

starting in the early ‘90s with the creation of the Brewery Creek Historical Society. In 1986, the park at 15th and Sophia was officially named Tea Swamp Park. In 1993, the city’s first live/work artist space opened in the Vancouver Breweries building at 6th and Scotia. In 1996, council provided incentives for developers to commemorate the now-lost water body, in exchange for relaxed building restrictions. And now, after almost 100 years, the Brewery Creek district itself is roaring back to life once more, providing a new generation of thirsty Vancouverites with the chance to enjoy locally-made beer from seven different neighbourhood operations, each with their own distinct style. EvenVancouver Breweries is back on the map. Its former garage has been fully restored and now serves as the headquarters for the Main Street Brewing Company. It’s a place which would no doubt make Doering, Reifel, and Marstrand proud, a place where, in the words of the 1892 VancouverWorld, “men seemed never to tire in the arduous but enjoyable work of drawing beer without stint – and fine, creamy-topped, clearbottomed beer it was.” – with files from Bruce MacDonald W

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BC Craft Beer Month event guide ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

2015 marks the fifth instalment of BC Craft Beer Month, and what a wild five years it’s been for the craft beer industry. Last year saw 22 new breweries open up in BC, with an additional 20 estimated to have opened by the end of 2015. With more than 90 craft breweries currently in operation across the province, British Columbian beer lovers have never had it so good. And it keeps getting better.This month sees craft beer events pouring across the province in support of the local craft beer industry, culminating in the big shebang on Oct. 24: the BC Beer Awards. Here’s your guide to Vancouver-area BC Craft Beer Month events. For full province-wide listings, visit BCCraftBeerMonth.com. Thursday, Oct. 1: BC Craft Beer Month Launch Central City on Beatty St. (871 Beatty) is hosting the kickoff party for BC Craft Beer Month from 6-10pm. Meet the movers and shakers from the BC beer industry and taste some of their finest work while you’re at it.Tickets are $20 and include four BC craft beers.

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Saturday, Oct. 3: BC Hop Fest The divine vine takes centre stage at the inaugural BC Hop Fest, Canada’s first fresh beer festival. Held on the fertile Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford where sun, water, and gentle breezes contribute to one of the best hops-growing environments in the Pacific Northwest, the BC Hop Fest celebrates the hop harvest, the resurgence of BC’s hop growing industry and fresh hopped beer produced by 15 spectacular BC craft breweries. Fresh beer tastings, hop farm tours, food trucks, entertainment, and main stage presentations highlighting “all the things you can do with hops” will provide a fun-filled afternoon to start off BC Craft Beer Month. Totally worth the drive. Wednesday, Oct. 21: Seasonal Craft Tap Takeover The Devil’s Elbow (562 Beatty) is hosting this event, which features 20 different seasonal brews on tap.Tickets are $30 and include five drinking tickets and your own drinking jar.There will be live music too, courtesy of Devil’s Elbow’s in-house band,The Hot Devils. Thursday, Oct. 22: Craft Year, Craft Beer The Craft Council of BC is celebrating everything

handmade and artisanal as part of Craft Year 2015, and that includes beer! More than 10 local breweries will be on hand offering samples, with food by EastSide Beer Food. Tickets start at $35 and include six beer samples, appetizers, and a souvenir tasting glass. The event takes place at VanDusen Botanical Garden, so try to keep it classy. Saturday, Oct. 24: BC Beer Awards & Festival This is the big one, the red carpet night that caps off the entire month’s worth of events and another year of craft beer success.This year’s theme is the TheYear of the Sour, and BC brewers have been challenged to create their best example of this enigmatic style. In addition to the awards ceremony hosted by CBC’s Stephen Quinn, the event features a craft beer tasting festival (of course) with more than 50 BC breweries (and ciders!) taking part. It all goes down from 4-9pm at the Croatian Cultural Centre. Last year’s event sold out and this year’s likely will too, so don’t leave it until the last minute,Vancouver. Partial proceeds will beneﬁt the Greater Vancouver Food Bank, so that’s nice. W

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Reflections of a one-year-old Growler Stephen Smysnuik The Growler

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Well look-y here. It’s been one whole year since I’ve started this column, which means one whole year since I made the conscious decision to become a Beer Guy. Time flies whilst pummeling holes in the liver, having moderate amounts of fun. OK, I’m being disingenuous. My liver is fine. And I’ve had quite a bit of fun – it was enormous fun in the beginning.The Beer Guy stuff was enlightening in November; got kinda heavy in February; a little bloat-worthy in April; and totally exhausting by August. Sober October is imminent. Since throwing myself headlong in to craft beer nerdism, I’ve blown through the palate progression at an accelerated speed.When I started this, I didn’t know an ESB from a Marzen. I learned quick. I’ve also learned what a mash tun is. I’ve learned how to spell “mash tun.” I’ve learned that Stateside Craft on the Drive had a great American beer selection, and was an excellent cave-like arena to hide away from the rain (and my troubles). I’ve learned that Main Street Brewing is the best neighbourhood pub Vancouver has ever had. I’ve learned that nine per cent beer is a terrible thing to drink multiples of in succession, on any day of the week, but especially on a Tuesday. I’ve learned that the sort of consumption (I thought) necessary to be a Beer Guy results in higher-than-normal triglycerides, which, at 31, is certainly something to be avoided. I’ve also verified the naive assertion I made around this time last year, that the craft beer industry is made up of

some of the friendliest, most open-minded people around. It’s an environment where even the assholes are lovely. The other side of that, however, is there’s not much appetite for criticism, and the industry in general is quite sensitive to it. “If you don’t have anything nice to say…” and all that. I’m not totally sure why that is, but like any creative industry – which this certainly is – thoughtful criticism is essential for individuals to improve, and for the craft and industry in general to improve. But then, the beer is getting better without it, so I could be wrong. It’s hard for me to gauge this, since my palate has evolved at the same time as the beer province-wide, but last week I overheard a couple of beer judges, evaluating beers for the BC Beer Awards, remark that there are way fewer lousy entries this year than last. That’s encouraging news. I’ve learned that, as the scene has gets bigger, the beer culture has become less about the beer and more about the culture. This summer’s Vancouver Craft Beer Week is the best example – organizers readily admit that festivals focus is less on the beer and more on the experience. I’ve said it before, and every day I see evidence for it: craft beer culture is the ﬁrst truly authentic homegrown cultural movement Vancouver has seen in about 20 years. There’s a depth of passion here, a liveliness that Vancouver’s typically known for having. But that passion always been here, and it’s coalescing in this community. It’s a tight-knit community, too, of like-minded and intelligent people that care about the beer and care about the culture as a means to elevate

the social landscape for Vancouver. It’s not a radical movement either. It doesn’t need to be. It’s an extension of the aesthetics and attitudes that already exist here, and on the West Coast in general. It has the benefit of feeling like a counterculture without any of the antagonism from the Establishment normally reserved for countercultural movements. Because of this, the beer industry has this pervading spirit of optimism – a sense of possibility. It helps that there’s a lot of money floating around for new breweries. Wealthy older men, eying retirement, are interested now. This has positives and negatives for the industry, but on a personal level, it’s mighty inspiring (and certainly attractive) for someone working in media, which is dominated by a doom-andgloom complex. This is probably why I’ve learned that generous servings of beer are very effective at (temporarily) eradicating my low-level and persistent anxiety, which then returns double the next morning. Hence “moderate amounts of fun.” Anyway, these are my favourite beers I’ve tried in the past 12 months: ' .<"0#<<3 2;80# ' .0!5IFH0! *#0!I D%F00(03 ' .#G$HB443 ,7H<7"?03 Hopfenweisse ' *4F# 6G73! 9F>H<&4!0 Wild IPA ' *F""?0! ) 6<#?45C Shiva Session ' A<?0! DF&0#"44!0 =-2 ' 1<G7 DH#00H /#0BG7" Vanlandian Collaboration Hopfenweizenbock (collaboration with Occidental Brewing) ' D&G77<C0#! ,D/ 5<!C ' DH#<7"0 *0??4B! E4><770 (that first batch especially) 9F3"0 <554#3G7"?:+ @I<7C! for having me. W

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UB40 Grammy Award-winning British reggae-pop band and one of the world’s best-selling music artists, with hits like “Red, Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling In Love” return to Vancouver with members of the original line-up. 9pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $59.50 at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

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THE UNDERACHIEVERS Brooklyn hip-hop duo return to Vancouver on their Forevermore Express Tour with special guests Pouya and The Buffet Boys, Kirk Knight, and Bodega Bamz. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet, DIPT and TicketWeb. ca. All ages show.

BURNING PALMS Arizona psychrock band play tunes from their self-titled debut release. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

COMEDY SARAH TIANA Known for her breakout performance in Reno 911 and as the host of the Justin Bieber roast, the comedy writer brings her stand-up to town with stories of growing up a southern belle, and modern dating life in LA. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE HEATSTROKE One stolen wad of cash, two couples vacationing in sunny Spain, and three airline bags mixed up at the airport leave both the police and the thieves vying for the prize in this hilarious heist farce from Eric Chapell. 8pm at Metro Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.MetroTheatre. com. Runs until Oct. 3. THE WAITING ROOM A moving story about family, healing, and hope this production is the highly anticipated collaboration between John Mann (Spirit of the West) and Canadian playwright Morris Panych; drawn from Mann’s own experience as he navigates life before and after a diagnosis. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub. com. Runs until Oct. 31.

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MUSIC TELEKENESIS AND SAY HI Indie rockers from Seattle share the stage to co-headline this early show, with special guest Savvie. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $14 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca THE BOOM BOOMS Vancouver’s favourite indie soul and funk band play tunes from Love Is Overdue with special guest Michael Bernard Fitzgerald. 9:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $20 at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com BRAIDS Experimental post-rockers from Montreal return to town in support of their latest release, Deep In The Iris, with special guest Tasseomancy. 9pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca THE BINZ Come get sauced with Vancouver’s post-punk rock n’ rollers as they celebrate the release of their latest EP with special guests What’s Wrong Tohei? and Spring Breaks. 9pm at Pat’s Pub. Tickets $10 at the door only. DIE MANNEQUIN Electronic-punkmetal band from Toronto take the stage for an early show with special guest Fake Shark Real Zombie. 8pm at Venue. Tickets $12 at BPLive.Electrostub.com

THEATRE/DANCE 4OUR This deeply moving exploration of family dynamics, cross-generational relationships, and the singular moments that shape our life’s journey is an emotionally resonant production highlighting the power and the formation of memory in the arc of life, from celebrated Vancouver choreographer, Joe Laughlin. 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.TicketForce. com. Runs until Oct. 3.

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THE BEST LAID PLANS: A MUSICAL Based on Terry Fallis’ award-winning satirical first novel, the story of the speechwriter for the leader of the Liberal Opposition and his unlikely plan to convince a crusty old Scot to let his name stand in an election he’s supposed to lose is a hilarious depiction of how even the best laid plans can go awry. 8pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Oct. 3. DISGRACED Conversations around faith and politics lead to startling conclusions that burn with tension and release when a Pakistani-American lawyer and his artist wife, host a dinner for his African-American co-worker and her Jewish art curator husband in the Canadian premiere of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Oct. 18.

EVENTS HARVEST HAUS Vancouver’s largest Volksfest returns bringing folklore from the first century to the Great White North, combining modern fare with authentic European harvest traditions, featuring a keg-tapping ceremony, Bavarian musical performances, and food stalls stocked with pretzels, bratwurst, sauerkraut and schnitzel. Tickets $25+ at HarvestHaus.com. Runs Oct. 1- 3, and Oct. 9-11.

ART BOOBIES & WIENERS: MENAGE A TROIS Back for a third year is the infamous immature and explicit nude art show featuring over 100 artists, along with Art or Bust, a charity fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and selections of sexy drawings from Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. 12-5pm, 7-11pm at Hot Art Wet City. Admission is free. Runs until Oct. 24.

TOBIAS JESSO JR. Vancouverborn pop singer-songwriter plays for a hometown crowd in support of his debut release, Goon, with special guest Wet. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

COMEDY DARYL LENNOX Stand-up comic from Vegas, by way of LA, Seattle, and Surrey, brings his unique approach to comedy back to town as seen on his album, Blind Ambition, and appearances on Conan, A&E’s Evening at the Improv, and comedy festivals worldwide, with an opening set from Sunee Dhaliwal. 8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE ARE WE COOL NOW? An innovative rock music/theatre fusion from Amiel Gladstone and Dan Mangan is the story of one couple reflecting on their place in the world and with each other during the course of a road trip, exploring contemporary relationships with humour and insight. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at Tickets. TheCultch. com. Runs until Oct. 10. ROMEO + JULIET Studio 58’s season begins with a fresh, unique interpretation of the Shakespeare classic, where the two star-crossed lovers are young women who meet in Andy Warhol’s Factory circa 1965. 8pm at Studio 58 at Langara College. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Runs until Oct. 18.

NICK DIAMONDS Better known as the Islands frontman, Diamonds takes to the road in support of his latest solo release, City of Quartz with special guest Lyla Foy. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca THUNDERCAT Virtuoso bassist and singer-songwriter from LA, on tour in support of his latest offering, The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam. 8pm at Alexander Gastown. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet and TicketWeb.ca

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE A high energy comedic production that carries the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip, this group builds, demolishes and builds again in an absurd patchwork of scenes and stories favouring discovery over structure. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE RIGOLETTO Vancouver Opera kicks off the season with a thrilling production of Giuseppe Verdi’s sensational melodies, heartbreaking drama and vivid characters in this dark, tender drama of love and revenge featuring soprano Simone Osborne, opposite baritone Gordon Hawkins. 2pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at VancouverOpera.ca. Final performance. ANNAPURNA Twenty years after Emma walked out on her cowboy-poet husband Ulysses in the middle of the night, she tracks him down in the wilds of Colorado for a reunion charged by rage and compassion, bringing back the best and the worst of their former bond. 2pm at PAL Theatre (581 Cardero St.). Tickets at TicketsTonight.caRuns until Oct. 10.

PATRICK WATSON Montreal based singer-songwriter tours in support of his fifth studio album, Love Songs for Robots. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $35 at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com NEIL YOUNG The legend himself swings through town with Promise of the Real, in support of his 36th studio album, The Monsanto Years on The Rebel Tour with special guest, City and Colour. 7:30pm at Rogers Arena. Tickets $35+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com. All ages show.

COMEDY QUEER PROV Having outgrown the stage at 1181, QP moves to its new digs with a bigger show on a bigger stage with a bigger bar, and bigger laughs! Pre-show mixer at 6:30pm. Show at 8pm at XY (1216 Bute). No cover.

EVENTS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 34th annual celebration of the pick of the world’s top film festivals as well as lesser known films, with 550 screenings of 350 films from 70 countries; one of the largest presentations of Canadian film in the world. Visit VIFF.org for tickets and schedule. Runs until Oct. 9.

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BATTLES Experimental rockers from NYC return to Vancouver in support of La Di Da Di, their third studio album. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

ANGEL OLSEN American folk singer-songwriter from North Carolina, stops by on tour in support of her latest release, Burn Your Fire for No Witness. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR Post-rock band from Northern Ireland, on tour in support of their latest recording, Heirs with special guests Mylets and Blis. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca MIKKY EKKO Singer-songwriter from Louisiana, known to his parents as John Stephen Sudduth and best known for being featured on Rhianna’s 2013 single, “Stay” plays tunes from his debut studio album, Time. 9pm at Venue. Tickets $15 at Red Cat and LiveNation.com PEACHES Canadian electronic musician and performance artist now residing in Berlin, plays tunes from her new album, RUB. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $28.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com TOVE LO Swedish indie-pop singer-songwriter performs on her Queen of the Clouds Tour with special guest Erik Hassle. 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $29.50 at LiveNation.com

THEATRE/DANCE ALIEN CONTAGION: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents this all-new, immersive, and spinetingling theatrical adventure where the audience is responsible for saving the human race from the brink of distinction after a UFO crashes on earth and the alien pilot is reported missing. 6:30pm onward at a secret rendezvous revealed the day before the mission. Tickets at TheVirtualStage.org/tickets. Runs until Nov. 1.

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MUSIC L TEN ELEVEN LA post-rock instrumental duo of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty, known for their combining of bass with heaving looping, aided by an effects pedal, play tunes from their sixth studio album, Fast Forward, with special guest Sego. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $12 at BPLive. Electrostub.com THE STANFIELDS Five-piece folkpunk-rock band all the way from Halifax, play tunes from their new album, Modem Operandi. 7pm at The Roxy. Tickets $12 TicketZone.com MUSIC FOR A THOUSAND AUTUMNS The Turning Point Ensemble opens the 10th anniversary season, performing Alexina Louie’s “Music for a Thousand Autumns”, and Dorothy Chang’s “Three Windows”, as well as new commissions by Anthony Tan and Farangis Nurulla-Khoja. 8pm at Orpheum Annex. Tickets $12+ at TurningPointEnsemble.ca

THEATRE/DANCE EMPIRE OF THE SON Tetsuro Shigematsu wrote and stars in this story of his personal relationship with his father, who is now dying. Separated by a generation, but connected by blood, Tetsuro and his father speak different languages, possessing different values, but what has kept them apart is their similarities. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Oct. 17. A DOLL’S HOUSE The landmark production from the “godfather of modern drama” returns to the JAC for the first time in over a decade; the story of Nora Helmer, a symbol for women fighting for liberation and equality throughout the world, first performed in Stockholm in 1880 from the pen of Henrik Ibsen. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com. Runs until Oct. 24.

EARTHLESS San Diego instrumental rock trio hit the stage with special guests We Hunt Buffalo and The Highway Kind. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $18 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon and TicketWeb.ca WIL Returning to the city where the singer-songwriter, multiinstrumentalist made his mark, playing tunes from his fifth studio album, El Paseo, with special guest George Nixon. 7pm at The Roxy. Tickets $10 at TicketZone.com COODER, WHITE & SCAGGS Legendary country guitarists Ry Cooder and Ricky Scaggs, along with vocalist Sharon White collaborate to deliver an evening of blues, gospel and bluegrass. 7:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $45+ at TicketFly.com

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THEATRE/DANCE LOVE BOMB It’s June’s first performance in years, and a concert of emotion erupts when an uninvited guest prompts the music to take on a life of its own. A rock concert within a play, this Shameless Hussy Production stars Deb Pickman and Sara Vickruck with original songs from Steve Charles. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at Tickets.FirehallArtsCentre. ca. Runs until Oct. 10.

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Life after sperm Men near extinction inVancouver-shot mockumentary screening atVIFF Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

In the ﬁlm biz, “what if?” questions often lead to some wildly entertaining results – and ﬁlmmaker Mark Sawers began his latest project with a couple of doozies. What if, in the 1950s, women started to be able to procreate spontaneously, without sperm? And what if these women only gave birth to girls? As women begin to outnumber men, and the remaining males die off, what would happen to many facets of modern society: governments; religion; technology; war; the drudgeries of daily life? And what would life look like for the last man ever born? Sawers delves into these questions (and more) in the

locally shot mockumentary No Men Beyond This Point, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will soon screen for the hometown crowd as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. There’s a grain of truth to his starting questions. Species exist on this planet where females are able to reproduce asexually via a process called parthenogenesis, says Sawers, who also directed 2012’s Camera Shy. Sawers ﬁrst learned about parthenogenesis – otherwise known as “virgin births” – in an article he read years ago about female Komodo dragons who were laying viable eggs without insemination from their menfolk. “I remember having this moment of angst, of connecting with this poor Komodo dragon that no longer has any purpose in life,” says Sawers in a recent phone chat. “I think it’s been something that’s been lurking in my subconscious for a while, this notion of, ‘What is our purpose really beyond supplying sperm? Oh my god, are men necessary?’”

And so, to address these questions in feature-film format, Sawers adopted a two-pronged approach. The first prong is a classic journalistic style: a staple of documentary filmmaking. No Men Beyond this Point features “interviews” with “experts” and “world leaders,” and an abundance of “archival material” (namely photographs and footage, the bulk of which – probably unsurprisingly, given the multitude of quotation marks in this paragraph – had to be created specifically for the film). The other prong of No Men Beyond This Point is the “present-day” story of Andrew Myers (portrayed by Patrick Gilmore), who – at 37-years-old – is the youngest man alive. Audiences see Andrew working as a housekeeper for an all-female West Vancouver family. Andrew wrestles with longing, copes with stares and varying degrees of pity and prejudice, and reflects on what it means to be the last of a gender on the brink of extinction. Gilmore “has this everyman, Jimmy Stewart quality

Patrick Gilmore plays the last man born on earth in No Men Beyond This Point. to him, and that’s what I wanted,” says Sawers. “He has a gentle quality that you would see why women would want him around.” So, what exactly does an alternate present in which men are on the way out and women have been setting the course for decades look like? The short – spoiler-free – answer is: It’s different, but not in a completely terrifying way (unless the concept of a world without iPhones scares you to the core). Sawers started his exploration of the idea with the notion that men and women react to conflict in different ways. Men react with a fight-orflight instinct, and women react with tend-and-befriend, according to Sawers. “So I took that controlling idea and said, ‘Okay, why would [women] have a military?’ And if you don’t have a military, you don’t have the technology that comes out of all of the military advancements, like the internet, which came out of defense spending,” says Sawers. “You could make the argument that, without that defense spending, you might

not probably have a digital world. Maybe eventually, but there wouldn’t be the need.” As Sawers started to flesh out his fictional alternate reality, he started to feel like a bona-fide documentary filmmaker. “You’re exploring stuff and you’re investigating and you’re talking to people and you’re getting information, and it’s shifting what you’re going to film as a documentarian,” says Sawers. “It took on this weirdly real approach, even though it’s a completely fake world, I still had to explore it.” Although the mockumentary makes some potentially controversial statements about what a women-driven world would look like (ie, Abrahamic religions are gone, and Paganism is all the rage; “You’re going to probably be a little bit more respectful of nature, considering that’s what’s causing you to reproduce”), Sawers says he hasn’t yet encountered anyone offended by his choices. “People seem to just think it’s logical,” says Sawers. “Nobody’s been arguing

with me about what I’m suggesting. I thought there might be a little bit more of, ‘Well, why do you think that’s going to happen? Why wouldn’t we discover the Internet?’ But it just makes sense.” No Men Beyond This Point features more than 125 local actors, among them: Kristine Cofsky, Tara Pratt, Cameron McDonald, Rekha Sharma, Loretta Walsh, Jill Morrison, Enid-Raye Adams, Ben Cotton, and David Lewis. The local factor makes the VIFF screening a rather special one for Sawers. “With VIFF, it’s so great to screen the ﬁlm for the community that you made the ﬁlm in,” says Sawers. “This is just about pure joy of making a movie with your friends and your colleagues, and then being able to show it to your friends and colleagues. Just a child-like desire to put on a show: that’s how VIFF is for me.” W

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The line between fact and ﬁction is mighty blurred in Nick Citton’s My Good Man’s Gone. On the one hand, the feature is clearly a work of ﬁction: A brother and sister from the big city roll into an Arkansas town (popula-

tion 89) to figure out what to do with everything their estranged father left behind when he slipped and died in the bathtub. But that Arkansas town – fittingly called Story – and the festival of the dead it hosts each year is very much a real one, and its people and places feature prominently in writer-director Citton’s work of fiction, which screens at the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival. Citton ended up in Story because the father of one of his leads (Cheryl Nichols) used to be the town’s sheriff. “She said, ‘It’s a physically beautiful part of the country,

and I think you would really like it,’ so we went back on a research trip, and I basically interviewed the whole town,” recalls Citton, screenwriter of 2013 VIFF hit That Burning Feeling. “I knew the production value would go through the roof if we shot there.” Because of the town’s unique character, Citton and his small crew didn’t have to alter much in order to adapt the town to the script; quite the opposite. “When we got to the town, people would come out of the woodwork, and we got a jail for free, and we got a high school for free, so I really wrote to the place, even

when we were there shooting,” says Citton. Story had an impact on Citton – but it wasn’t hard to say goodbye. “The night before we left, we literally drove from house to house and said our goodbyes to the whole town,” laughs Citton, who divides his time between Vancouver and New York. “It really felt like an experience I wouldn’t normally be able to have.” W

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The Sandwich Nazi spotlightsVancouverbased escort-turnedbread-slinger Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

There are more than a few similarities between Salam Kahil, the Lebanese-born Vancouverite who owns Surrey sandwich shop The Charcuterie, and The Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame. Both have ardent fans who’ll endure epically long lines to get a taste of the wares. Both have idiosyncrasies that are downright off-putting to the uninitiated. Both have strict policies about behaviour and manners, and both will ban you forever (“No soup for you!”) if you dare to break even one of the rules. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end – and despite The Soup Nazi’s global fame, our local deli owner is far more interesting. You can learn all about Kahil in The Sandwich Nazi, which screens this week as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. Helmed by Vancouver director Lewis Bennett, The Sandwich Nazi follows Kahil over a couple of years, and reveals a man who is far more complex than his sexu-

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Deli-owner Salam Kahil is the subject of the documentary, The Sandwich Nazi. ally explicit stories, frequent full-frontal nudity, giant sandwiches, and shop rules might lead you to believe. He’s a former escort. He donates massive quantities of sandwiches to the homeless on the DTES. He lived through a horriﬁc car accident. He’s working through the childhood sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of his brother (and we see him interacting with his brother during his ﬁrst

trip back to Lebanon since 1990). “I ﬁrst learned about Salam from Reddit, where people were posting stories about being in the deli, and I couldn’t believe some of the stories, because they were so out there,” says Bennett. “I went in as a customer to see what the experience was like, and was blown away from the get-go.” Kahil has posted on his Facebook page that he doesn’t like the documentary

(“We’ve been trying to meet with him to ﬁnd out what his concerns are, because we didn’t make a documentary to make him mad at us, but he won’t return my calls,” says Bennett) – but even without Kahil’s blessing, the ﬁlm is a compelling and entertaining character study of a 604 icon. W

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Those expecting legendary tough guy Robert De Niro to shed his character’s nice guy persona and go all Taxi Driver at the end of The Intern will be sorely disappointed. In fact, the actor has rarely been as saccharine as in his latest workplace comedy opposite Anne Hathaway. De Niro stars as a widower, looking to keep busy, who enrolls in a senior internship program at on online fashion boutique run by Hathaway. She is reluctant at ﬁrst about the prospect of a retiree following her around all day until his wisdom and experience begin to offer some muchneeded business acumen. The ﬁlm, from writerdirector Nancy Meyers, eschews her typical mature romance-driven plots, as seen in Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated,

for an apprentice/mentor story that examines the generation gap and gender equality. Sure, Rene Russo offers some titillation as the office masseuse but The Intern seems bent on loftier themes and that proves to be its undoing. Buried under a veritable mountain of pedestrian gags, lazy writing and awful music cues, two convincing performances from De Niro and Hathaway are undermined until things turn poignant in the movie’s final third; however, it’s a slog to get there. The most unfortunate misfire about the movie is how it squanders an extremely timely issue in favour of curiously flat characters and a screenplay that offers merely superficial charms. For all its potential, The Intern relies solely on the talents of its leads but doesn’t give them anything meaningful to do. W – Thor Diakow

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The rolling conga drumbeats and snake rattles heard on the Boom Booms’ tracks conjure up scenes of tropical escape, so it’s not hard to discern by listening to them that the six-piece indie soul outﬁt likes to travel. In fact, the local sextet often leaves Vancouver before penning an album, whether their adventures take them to New York City, New Orleans, Mexico, Cuba… the list goes on. Since the band hit the road with its latest album

Love is Overdue nearly a year ago, the Boom Booms are home to celebrate seven years of making music. “Writing songs was just a hobby of mine, really, until I went to South East Asia. [I was] travelling around and wrote a bunch of songs and I just decided to record them,” reveals lead vocalist Aaron Ross over the phone from his East Vancouver home. Called Butterﬂy Man, Ross’ solo album became the Boom Booms’ unofﬁcial debut, and ultimately what launched the band’s career. Seven years and two studio albums later, the Vancouverbased group is still drawing on its journeys to write music. From motorbiking across South America and driving from one US coast to

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another in their signature yellow school bus, the Boom Booms always bring home a piece of culture from any place they go. “I think we took a lot of inspiration when we went to Cuba and saw the music culture there and how live it is; how much everybody really knows and loves and feels the music. People dance, sing, and it permeates the entire culture,” says Ross, who is joined by his brother Sean on keys, bassist Geordie Hart, guitarist Tom Van Deursen, drummer Richard Brinkman and drummer/percussionist Theo Vincent. “It was really like a revelation so we wanted to do that with our own band and we felt like that was something that was lacking in Vancouver.”

The troupe’s sophomore album, Love is Overdue, reveals themes of love and culture, all while boasting tight arrangements and a mastery of songwriting. Produced by Grammy Award-winning Chin Injeti, Love is Overdue is a 13-track record full of jazz cuts, Motown-style throwbacks and, ultimately, emotional complexity. But as much as the brightly tuned guitars, funky R&B grooves and dreamy chimes may evoke images of distant, azure-blue beaches, the Boom Booms have a soft spot for their hometown. Evidenced by their yearly block party, the East Van Summer Jam, the guys care about giving back where they grew up. In recent years, they’ve rounded up several other music acts all in effort to raise cash for

is often written off as a precocious youngster despite her now being 25 years old – writing tracks laden with pop production, and it’s easy to lose sight of the universal elements of her work. It’s exactly this kind of heartbreak that 40-yearold Adams has carved a career from. An undeniable knack for well-written words to so skillfully convey it all is the one

thing they share; where Taylor is pissed, Ryan is just sad. Reportedly, Adams set out to capture the feel of Springsteen’s Nebraska and “Shake It Off ” echoes the most stripped and intimate of some of Bruce’s best. As Adams’ voice dusts the surface, one barely recalls its origins as a princess protest. The arena pop-rock feel of “Style” in Adams’

charity. Having drawn a screaming crowd like a ‘60s boy band would – think of them as the Beach Boys with a philanthropic twist – it wasn’t difficult to fill the piggy bank. “There started being enough people that we actually started making money off this thing, but we thought, ‘We don’t really see it as a moneymaking venture, so let’s donate it to charity,’” Ross explains. “We did that for one year, two years, three years, and the last time we did that, which was 2012, we had about a thousand people in the alley and we raised $14,000 for charity.” Organizations benefitted by the Boom Booms’ block parties include CLICK (Contributing to Lives of Inner-City Kids), the St.

hands, is twisted into some kind of echo chamber ready to ﬁll a stadium, as he swaps muted riffs for the real thing. “Wildest Dreams” blends Adams’ penchant for alternative country so seamlessly it sounds like it could have been nestled somewhere between Jacksonville City Nights and Ryan Adams. “Blank Space” is laid bare, and sounds eerily like Simon

James Music Academy, and a few international charities. Ross chalks the success up to the universality of music – with it, he and the band are able to accomplish just about anything. “That’s another thing that attracted me to music,” he says. “It’s just like a master key. If you have a guitar in your hand, you can open any door.” And, for the ﬁrst time, the doors opening for the Boom Booms are those at a well-known Granville Street venue. W

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celebrate their seventh anniversary at the Commodore this Friday (Oct. 2), playing songs from Love is Overdue and more.

& Garfunkel, with Art picking guitar. When word of the project ﬁrst broke, Swift took to Twitter saying, “Ryan’s music helped shape my songwriting.” Though from Swift’s pen, it’s Adams you can trust to tell you “How You Get The Girl”. –Kristyn Anthony Rating: !!!!!

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Musician John Mann (left) performs and actor Jonathan Young (right) stars in The Waiting Room, running Oct. 1-31 at the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage. Emily Cooper photo

Above: Illustrator Robert J. Bull and his sister Andrea Bull are tackling misconceptions about autism while raising funds for the Canucks Autism Network with their children’s ABC book, Animal Appetites. Right: Illustrations by Robert Bull. Contributed photos

Autistic artist creates children’s book with sibling Kelsey Klassen BC Book Club

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When it came time to create her children’s book, Animal Appetites, Andrea Bull faced two challenges: not only was it her ﬁrst time writing and selfpublishing a book, but it was the ﬁrst time working on such a project with her brother. Her brother, Robert J. Bull, was diagnosed with autism at age four. In the days before the autism spectrum existed, he was categorized as “medium functioning”. According to Andrea, he can read, do basic math, take care of his hygiene, and get himself to and from work by bus at a level she compares to a 10- or 12-year-old. Only 18 months older than him, Andrea says she easily connected with Robert when they were kids. “It aways seemed pretty normal to me,” says Andrea, speaking with Westender by phone. “If he didn’t understand something I would

just explain it a different way – because I didn’t have any perspective, I guess,” she adds with a chuckle. At the beginning of the project, Andrea, now 29, had simply planned to make a book of her brother’s many drawings as a Christmas present for their parents. But when the Vancouver audiologist started to dabble with the words to a book of ABCs and began giving Robert her alliterations to illustrate, clarity, including giving Robert the exact right size of paper to draw on, became the key. “If you ask him to do something or you’re asking him for help, you have to be really clear.You can’t make any assumptions,” explains Andrea. “Like, if you tell him to water the plants, he’ll go out and water the plants but he’ll water them for eight hours. You have to tell him, ‘Go out and water these plants for this many minutes,’ and if you give him all the parameters then he’s good.” The results amazed her, and Andrea now hopes, with one in 68 Canadian children living

with autism or some form of autism spectrum disorder, that holding a copy of her brother’s book will offer families grappling with new diagnoses solace and inspiration. “I’ve seen his art for years, and I never expected what I got back,” she says. “Which just goes to show you, you give someone the right opportunity and anything is possible. Even someone who believes in him 110 per cent, I never thought that he’d be able to do this. “It is a good example to other families, especially families with new diagnoses, where it kind of feels like the world is caving in: there’s lots of things that they can do and be successful at.” The siblings went on to not only complete the book, but launch a successful Kickstarter, which got the Staff Pick seal of approval and exceeded their funding goals, raising $8,816. Launching just in time for October’s Autism Awareness Month, the book – a colourful ABC of animals eating their favourite snacks, written by Andrea and illustrated

independently by Robert – is meant to raise money for the Canucks Autism Network as well as demonstrate the capabilities and talents of children and adults with autism, with copies of the book available for $10.95 at AnimalAppetitesBook.com. “Rob and I hope to help others understand that autistic children and adults are capable of incredible things – they may just require a different kind of support to achieve them,” says Andrea passionately. “Even if Robbie doesn’t understand the full scope of our project, he understands that it will help people, he understands that he can do something, and so why not, even it’s a limited understanding of something. They can still very much participate.” W

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Writing a play about colorectal cancer wasn’t exactly on Morris Panych’s to do list. The Canadian playwright/ director came onto the project at the request of his friend, Spirit of the West singer John Mann, who had just completed a solo album about his experience with cancer. “I had already said yes before I even listened to the album, because John and I had worked together before and I love his music, and I knew it would be really fun and interesting,” says Panych, speaking by phone during a break in rehearsals. “He approached me with a whole album and said I want to do a play out of this, and take the story of these songs.” Commissioned by the Arts Club four years ago, The Waiting Room tells the story of J (played by JonathanYoung) as he navigates the world of hospitals and grapples with the big questions that arise during a health crisis. Penned sometimes right from Mann’s hospital bed, songs like “Angry Sore” and “These Are The Instructions” capture the anger and contemplation of the unknown, with Panych ﬁlling in the timeline with his trademark dark humour. “The whole thing is absurd because the way medicine works and the way

hospitals work is it’s all a bit Kafkaesque,” says Panych. “One’s identity is seriously put on hold when they’re in the hospital – you literally become your bracelet – and I think that that really is a scary and interesting experience for most people who go through it.” Mann beat the disease but, sadly, another health battle is acting as a tragic underscore leading up opening night. “John’s got early onset Alzheimers,” says Panych, “so his involvement within the show has been evolving over the last year. He can do certain things, but he gets thrown really easily and confused.We’ve had to re-jig the show and how involved in it he is.” A veteran actor and performer, Mann will still be singing the songs for The Waiting Room, but will be sheltered from the audience by a band (Brad Gillard, Eric Reed, Shari Ulrich). “Initially I wanted him to be performing as an actor, but those things started to change really rapidly and it’s an ongoing situation,” says Panych. “But that’s not really the story we want to tell. Quite honestly, the story we want to tell is about the journey with colorectal cancer, because it’s fun and charming and strange and bittersweet, and all the things that really embody John’s lyrics and music.” W

Best Laid Plans nails political song and dance KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

This review won’t be a recounting of happenings in The Best Laid Plans: A Musical – it will be a directive to go see it. Because it’s the world premiere of a new Canadian musical, and those are rare; because it’s election season, and this will remind you of all the ironies and intricacies of Canadian politics; because it’s Canadian in the best ways possible (bears! The Senate!); but most impor-

tantly, because it’s funny. Based on Terry Fallis’ satirical 2008 novel – winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour – and adapted by Vern Thiessen, Benjamin Elliott and Anton Lipovetsky for the stage, The Best Laid Plans chronicles what happens when a reluctant, unseasoned candidate beats out a habitual, “unbeatable” MP. All sides of the political spectrum are on notice, but the story hones in on a battle between Liberals and Conservatives in a smalltown Ontario riding.

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Andrew Wheeler (left) stars in The Best Laid Plans, on until Oct. 3 at the York Theatre. Tim Matheson photo

The real federal election will take place on Oct. 19, but we should all imagine that the path to Ottawa is lined with laugh-out-loud

musical numbers, crusty Scots, tearjerking ballads, and bad news bears (literally, a grizzly bear that has terrible intentions).

It’s not perfect: Drew Facey’s set design is slightly off-putting in its sparseness, and there are two plot holes and a puzzling ﬂip-ﬂop of character, but the cast – peppered with well-known names from the Vancouver theatre community – was spot-on and singers Andrew Wheeler (as candidate Angus McLintock), Daniel Addison (as Liberal speech writer Nick Fontaine) and Steffanie Davis (as LGBTQ supporter Kris Cadogan) deserved the opening night standing ovation in spades. Developed and produced

over three years by Touchstone Theatre and Patrick Street Productions, The Best Laid Plans is packed with hummable tunes and ribald political ‘pun’ditry (“caucus”, “private members bill” – there’s really so much to work with). You’ll leave the York Theatre feeling a little bit more Canadian, and a lot more inclined to keep an eye on Parliament Hill. ( .*+ ,+#! %")- 0'"&#$ / Musical runs until Oct. 3 at theYork Theatre (639 Commercial).Tickets from $19; TheCultch.com. W

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From inside a glass-plated, cantilevered room hanging above a reception area, Darren Entwistle remarks how he feels like he’s in a tree house. “Do you know how we built this (room) originally?” the Telus CEO asksed during the grand opening of Telus Garden on Sept. 17, the telecom giant’s new 24-storey headquarters at 575 West Georgia. “Popsicle sticks.” While the popsicle sticks only stuck around during the modelling process, Entwistle said they still gave way to the tree-house feeling people get when walking into the different cantilevered rooms throughout the building. The new head office is Vancouver’s first tower to be certified under new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum standards. A project must meet strict limitations on energy, water usage and carbon emissions to receive LEED certification. For instance, rainwater is collected as it hits Telus Garden and is recycled into

Telus officially opened its new $750 million headquarters in downtown Vancouver on Sept. 17. the water system to help the toilets ﬂush. Nearly 300 solar panels sitting at the top of the 500,000-square-foot development will produce about 65,000 kilowatt hours annually. And building tenants, which include Amazon and Capstone Mining, will have access to 28,000 square feet of outdoor space such as gardens and patios. Entwistle said the design was meant to evoke a tree house sitting in the middle of a natural environment.Veggies grown in the building’s outdoor gardens will be sold to employees (proceeds will go to charity) while tropical trees and a koi pond dot the landscape in the lobby. “Isn’t that beautifully transparent? That sort of fusing of

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny The next seven weeks will NOT be a favorable time to fool around with psychic vampires and charismatic jerks. I recommend you avoid the following mistakes, as well: failing to protect the wounded areas of your psyche; demanding perfection from those you care about; and trying to fulfill questionable desires that have led you astray in the past. Now I’ll name some positive actions you’d be wise to consider: hunting for skillful healers who can relieve your angst and aches; favoring the companionship of people who are empathetic and emotionally intelligent; and getting educated about how to build the kind of intimacy you can thrive on.

You may have seen websites that offer practical tips on how to improve your mastery of life’s little details. They tell you how to de-clutter your home, or how to keep baked goods from going stale, or why you should shop for shoes at night to get the best fit. I recently come across a humorous site that provides the opposite: bad life tips. For instance, it suggests that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying for jobs you don’t want. Put your laptop in cold water to prevent overheating. To save time, brush your teeth while you eat. In the two sets of examples I’ve just given, it’s easy to tell the difference between which tips are trustworthy and which aren’t. But in the coming days, you might find it more challenging to distinguish between the good advice and bad advice you’ll receive. Be very discerning.

On a windy afternoon last spring I was walking through a quiet neighborhood in Berkeley. In one yard there was a garden plot filled with the young green stems of as-yet unidentifiable plants. Anchored in their midst was a small handwritten sign. Its message seemed to be directed not at passers-by like me but at the sprouts themselves. “Grow faster, you little bastards!” the sign said – as if the blooming things might be bullied into ripening. I hope you’re smart enough not to make similar demands on yourself and those you care about, Gemini. It’s not even necessary. I suspect that everything in your life will just naturally grow with vigor in the coming weeks.

“I am rooted, but I flow,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves. That paradoxical image reminds me of you right now. You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid as a river. Your foundation is deep and strong, even as you are resilient in your ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This is your birthright as a Cancerian! Enjoy and use the blessings it confers. (PS, If for some strange reason you’re not experiencing an exquisite version of what I’ve described, there must be some obstacle you are mistakenly tolerating. Get rid of it.)

Should I offer my congratulations? You have corralled a gorgeous mess of problems that are more interesting and provocative than everyone else’s. It’s unclear how long this odd good fortune will last, however. So I suggest you act decisively to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that your dilemmas have cracked open. If anyone can turn the heartache of misplaced energy into practical wisdom, you can. If anyone can harness chaos to drum up new assets, it’s you. Is it possible to be both cunning and conscientious, both strategic and ethical? For you right now, I think it is.

Let’s say you have walked along the same path or driven down the same road a thousand times. Then, one day, as you repeat your familiar route, a certain object or scene snags your attention for the first time. Maybe it’s a small fountain or a statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin or a wall with graffiti that says “Crap happens, but so does magic.” It has always been there. You’ve been subconsciously aware of it. But at this moment, for unknown reasons, it finally arrives in your conscious mind. I believe this is an apt metaphor for your life in the next week. More than once, you will suddenly tune in to facts, situations, or influences that had previously been invisible to you. That’s a good thing! But it might initially bring a jolt.

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The 20th century’s most influential artist may have been Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, and was still churning them out when he was 91 years old. A journalist asked him which one was his favorite. “The next one,” he said. I suggest you adopt a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Libra. What you did in the past is irrelevant. You should neither depend on nor be weighed down by anything that has come before. For now, all that matters are the accomplishments and adventures that lie ahead of you.

A windbreak is a line of stout trees or thick bushes that provides shelter from the wind. I think you need a metaphorical version: someone or something to shield you from a relentless force that has been putting pressure on you; a buffer zone or protected haven where you can take refuge from a stressful barrage that has been hampering your ability to act with clarity and grace. Do you know what you will have to do to get it? Here’s your battle cry: “I need sanctuary! I deserve sanctuary!”

Your fellow Sagittarian Walt Disney accomplished a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animation and made movies that won numerous Academy Awards. He built theme parks, created an entertainment empire, and amassed fantastic wealth. Why was he so successful? In part because he had high standards, worked hard, and harboured an obsessive devotion to his quirky vision. If you aspire to cultivate any of those qualities, now is a favorable time to raise your mastery to the next level. Disney had one other trait you might consider working on: He liked to play the game of life by his own rules. For example, his favorite breakfast was doughnuts dipped in Scotch whisky. What would be your equivalent?

October is Fix the Fundamentals Month. It will be a favorable time to substitute good habits for bad habits. You will attract lucky breaks and practical blessings as you work to transform overwrought compulsions into rigorous passions. You will thrive as you seek to discover the holy yearning that’s hidden at the root of devitalizing addictions. To get started, instigate free-wheeling experiments that will propel you out of your sticky rut and in the direction of a percolating groove.

Have you made your travel plans yet? Have you plotted your escape? I hope you will hightail it to a festive playground where some of your inhibitions will shrink, or else journey to a holy spot where your spiritual yearnings will ripen. What would be even better is if you made a pilgrimage to a place that satisfied both of those agendas – filled up your senses with novel enticements and fed your hunger for transcendent insights. Off you go, Aquarius! Why aren’t you already on your way? If you can’t manage a real getaway in the near future, please at least stage a jailbreak for your imagination.

Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions consists entirely of 316 questions. It’s one of those rare texts that makes no assertions and draws no conclusions. In this spirit, and in honor of the sphinx-like phase you’re now passing through, I offer you six pertinent riddles: 1. What is the most important thing you have never done? 2. How could you play a joke on your fears? 3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself. 4. Name a good old thing you would have to give up in order to get a great new thing. 5. What’s the one feeling you want to feel more than any other in the next three years? 6. What inspires you to love?

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@MyszkaWay I am a 24-year-old lesbian and I recently broke up with my girlfriend of a few years. We had a great relationship, but things just went south and after a lot of back and forth, I finally ended it. We had been living together, so breaking up was that much harder. Anyways, it’s been a few weeks and though I have gone on dates with a few people, I just found out my ex is already seriously dating another girl. How the hell did she move on this quickly and how do I shake these jealous feelings? It takes all my strength not to troll this new girl and compare her to myself. How do I kick this? –Ex Hell Dear Ex Hell, Do you know what a “cleanup woman” is? I didn’t until a few years ago, thanks to Reverend Jen Miller and her book Live Nude Elf:The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen. A “cleanup woman” (or man, person, whatever your gender ﬂuidity) is the erson who comes along after the original lover has either broken up with or mistreated their partner. “This person is usually similar to the original lover, depending on the psyche of the heart-broken,” according to Reverend Jen. This situation usually makes you realize a thing or two. “Love is like the human appendix,” she writes. “You take it for granted while it’s there, but when it’s suddenly gone you’re forced to endure horrible pain that can only be alleviated through drugs –

especially when the ‘cleanup woman’ marries the ex and they live happily ever after.” When I read this years back, I immediately began to make a list of all the “cleanup women” who have dusted off my ex-boyfriends. The list includes blondes, skinnier blondes, nicer blondes, calmer blondes, and less psycho blondes who have all been the “cleanup woman” for my bullshit. And then, after comparing myself to them relentlessly, like most people do, I thought about the men who have dusted me off after the horrible back-and-forth-fucked-up mess that seems to be a young, 20-something’s love life. Remember, everyone is someone’s cleanup woman and everyone is someone’s trashy treasure. That’s just how it goes. This guy I know once said that people in relationships are like roads: sometimes you run parallel with one road for years, sometimes weeks and sometimes just days, but you learn from them and then, you have to move on. Jealousy is fucking annoying.We are all insecure about certain things in our lives and usually it comes out after a break-up in ﬁts of jealousy, like making fun of the new girlfriend’s haircut or job. Anything really to make yourself feel better about having this person become a substitute for you. It’s not a competition. It’s not about you.You dumped your girlfriend and she is moving on.You can not control what she does or who she does, so why bother even looking into that part of her life? Trolling an ex’s social media accounts is stupid because it asks questions

you do NOT want to know the answers to. Besides, current social media is so baby-proofed for heart-break it’s almost a joke. Use the “Hide” and “Mute” functions to your greatest advantage: hide her on Facebook, mute her on Twitter and unfollow her on Instagram. (She will never see it, and if she does, it means she is one of those narcissistic psychos who has an app that tells her when people unfollow her, in which case, you don’t want to invest with this type of person long-term anyway.) Oh, and delete your Snapchat (because you are not in high school). Trolling shatters hearts and diminishes sanity. Ignorance is bliss. Sometimes you will ﬁnd out things you do not want to hear by proxy, especially if you share the same network of friends.You can not help that. However, no one is going to feel sorry for you when you are staying up all hours, clicking through Facebook albums and cursing out some new, innocent girlfriend who really did nothing wrong to you but date your ex. Better she’s dating a random and not one of your friends, right? So, remember that new girlfriend is just cleaning up the mess that you left and really you should be thanking her for swooping in and washing the dirt off your hands. This is the normal cycle of life and love. It’s going to be OK. I promise. Love, Mish W

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100% BC Owned and Operated MEAT

PRODUCE BC Roaster Russet Potatoes

California Organic Raspberries

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previously frozen, value pack

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Salt Spring Organic Fair Trade Coffee

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53%

6.99

454g • product of BC

10.99

31%

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32%

assorted varieties

Happy Planet Organic Orange Juice and Blends

300-600g • product of BC

assorted varieties

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28%

6.99

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2L • product of Canada

125-200g • product of Canada/Britian

29%

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30%

4.99

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29%

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Olympic Sour Cream and Organic Cream Cheese

6” Pumpkin Pie

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V.I.P. Liquid Laundry Detergents

GoBio Organic Bouillon Cubes or Vegetable Broth

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assorted sizes

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assorted varieties

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Pearl’s Frozen Perogies

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