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DEVELOPER DOUBLESPEAK

I was walking on Denman Street in English Bay yesterday and noticed a giant billboard on a lot about to be developed. It was one of those “don’t need to be a millionaire” ads and it shared the story of a lady who purchased an apartment in the “Brewery District”. It sounded interesting and I wondered where the Brewery District was. It turns out that it’s “developerspeak” for Sapperton, which is a small neighbourhood on the border of NewWestminster. I’m thinking that if this is the best the developers could come up with to counter the growing anger at the affordability crisis inVancouver then things are worse than I thought, unless of course your idea of living the dream is living in a small apartment in Sapperton. –AK

GALLERY GUIDANCE

Re:“Vancouver Art Gallery reveals new wooden design”, Oct. 1, 2015. This architectural concept is safe at best, with the local yokels allowing themselves to be roped in with a BC lumber-industry come-on. It’s an embarrassment of parochial propor-

tions. One would assume an art gallery to be a piece of art in itself – but not inVancouver: just down the street from the CBC’s regressive snooze and the Telus thing-with-knobs-on. Frank Gehry! Please! –Claus Lao Schunke Lovely – this is a remarkable building.We need something iconic that is not green or blue glass. It reminds me of something Japanese, and I love the indoor and outdoor spaces. Wonderful! –Leeanne Barr It reminds me of the boxy, almost windowless cedar houses and house-makeovers of the ‘70s. It will age as badly as they did. –Ian McLeod

WORLD-CLASS?NO THANKS!

Re:“Slow is Better”, Rant/ Rave, Oct. 1, 2015. Fellow ranterWm. Baird Blackstone – who references my letter, “Keep art out of the street” (Sept. 17, 2015) – should be aware that the editor chooses captions for letters. I was not suggesting that art should be kept off the streets, per se but even if we were talking Rembrandt’s “NightWatch”

rather than a bunch of benches on a road, I’d be suggesting artwork be on the sidewalks and promenades adjoining the Art Gallery, not blocking a major thoroughfare from bus trafﬁc (I had not mentioned cars).While Mr. Blackstone is impressed with a one-day shutdown in the metropolis of Koblenz, Germany, I’m referring to buses being diverted to the hinterlands of the city for months during the summer, inconveniencing seniors, mothers with buggies and people not wanting to take a tour.We too, have our Denman Street Car-Free Day, which is a highlight of the summer, enjoyable to most. For the record, I was being facetious when referencing the would-be status ofVancouver being a world-class city.We are not, I don’t want us to be. “World-class” is code for raising rents for housing and businesses. Just walk down Denman, Davie, Robson and Granville and you’ll lose count of the number of businesses that have closed; how many people have ﬂed the city because they can’t afford to live here? Yes, we do need to operate “more effectively” no matter how we care to describeVancouver. –Victoria Joss

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Mayor wades into federal campaign Conservatives no-show at public forum MIKE HOWELL @howellings

Build a subway along the Broadway corridor. Build more housing that is affordable. Build, build, build. Whenever Mayor Gregor Robertson talks about the major challenges Vancouver faces as a city, he goes into broken record mode: transit and housing, transit and housing, transit and housing. He sang that tune over and over during his reelection bid in the 2014 civic election campaign and he’s doing it again as voters prepare to cast ballots in the Oct. 19 federal election. The mayor’s motive is obvious: The feds are loaded with the kind of cash that can improve how people live, work and play in Vancouver. So it wasn’t terribly surprising to see Robertson sit on a panel with three federal candidates last Thursday at the Annex on Seymour Street to present his case on Vancouver’s needs. His participation, however, was unprecedented. Since Robertson was elected in 2008, he has been careful not to wade into provincial and federal campaigns, saying he will work with whichever party wins power. But there he was asking questions of Vancouver-Centre Liberal candidate Hedy Fry, Vancouver-East Green candidate Wes Regan and Burnaby-South NDP candidate Kennedy Stewart; the Conservatives failed to send a representative. In his opening remarks, Robertson noted all four of Canada’s mainstream parties pledged money for housing, transit and infrastructure. But he wanted more detail, more specifics on what Vancouver can expect from a new government in Ottawa. So, did he get it? “It was helpful to get more detail from the NDP, Liberals and Greens today but disappointing not to have the Conservatives represented to hear their next level of commitments,” he told reporters after the forum. “We’ve heard clear commitments on housing, transit and infrastructure from the three parties today, and they keep elevat-

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ing their commitments, which is heartening.” Much of what Robertson heard from the candidates in the way of policy and promises is posted on party websites. The NDP, Liberals and Greens are committed to a national housing strategy, investing in transit and upgrading infrastructure such as bridges and roads. The three parties have pledged billions of dollars to cities, which they say have been paid little, if any, attention by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. They accuse the Harper government of favouring the oil and gas sector and funding Conservativefriendly ridings such as Surrey, where Conservative candidate Dianne Watts recently promised $700 million towards a rapid transit line in that city. The three parties say they want to build partnerships with cities. The Greens and NDP are committed to having an urban affairs minister in Ottawa while the Liberals look to renew a working group in Vancouver comprised of politicians from city hall, the BC legislature and the House of Commons. All of it sounds promising for Vancouver. But to see those promises through, there is the obvious challenge: Knocking off a Conservative government that despite its critics in Vancouver has managed to avoid a major tumble in the past decade and received enough support across the country to keep a secure footing in Ottawa. Kennedy Stewart, an SFU politics professor on leave who once ran against Fry in Vancouver-Centre before moving to Burnaby, made a pointed crack at the Harper government: “It’s too bad the Conservatives aren’t here. Maybe that’s why they don’t elect anybody in cities.” That’s been a common theme across Canada, with analysts suggesting cities’ progressive politics don’t match up with Conservative policies and values. Drug policy in Vancouver, which has led to the opening of North America’s only supervised injection site and the city’s move to regulate marijuana dispensaries, are examples. Vancouver’s lone Conservative MP, Wai Young, was unavailable for comment despite repeated requests for interview. Young’s

Candidates from the Liberals, NDP and Greens attended a public forum in which Mayor Gregor Robertson (right) posed questions of them regarding their parties’ views on city issues. The Conservatives did not send a representative to the event. Dan Toulgoet photo

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YOUR CITY VIADUCT REMOVAL COST JUMPS $70M The cost of demolishing the Dunsmuir and Georgia Street viaducts has jumped to $200 million from $130 million, but after two years of studying the plan, Vancouver city planners are more confident than ever that removal is the best option. “We’ve never studied anything so much,” said Lon LaClaire, manager of strategic transportation planning at the City of Vancouver. “This is the biggest thing we’ve ever done, so the level of due diligence is really high.” He said one of the most compelling reasons to remove the viaducts is that the structures are more vulnerable to an earthquake than first thought. Engineering studies found that if even a moderate earthquake hit today, the viaducts could topple, potentially falling on the SkyTrain line and the roadway that runs under them (Pacific and Expo boulevards). It would cost between $60 million and $65 million just to ensure the viaducts don’t collapse during an earthquake. LaClaire said the project’s cost has increased from $130 million two years ago to $200 million today in part because of inflation. But the city

expects development fees to easily cover that cost. Traffic volumes into Vancouver’s downtown have been falling over the past 20 years, and, even with the transit funding gridlock, LaClaire said the city still expects the Evergreen Line and a new B-Line on Hastings Street to continue the trend of fewer cars on downtown streets. The decision to move St. Paul’s Hospital to False Creek is one factor the planners have not studied yet, LaClaire said, although they have taken into account the transition of False Creek Flats to more office use as the area is redeveloped. Retired transportation director Ian Adams recently said that, based on his calculations, the viaducts’ removal would result in “rush-hour conditions for six to eight hours a day” along the redesigned Pacific Boulevard. But LaClaire said that all of the work the city has done so far shows the downtown road network can handle the removal of the viaducts. Travel time will increase by one to three minutes, however, because the viaducts will be replaced with a road that has three intersections with traffic lights. –Jen St. Denis, Business in Vancouver W

An ode to beer league hockey Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

WHACK! OK, that shot is definitely going to leave a mark.THUMP! So is that one. And that one. Agonizing saves are just some of the ironies of being a goaltender in a beer league hockey game.You feel pain whether you get hit by the puck in an unprotected nook, or whether the puck misses you altogether and the other team scores yet another goal. One form of pain is physical; the kind where you find yourself wondering, “so that’s what a broken kneecap feels like, eh?”The other is mental, realizing that you are uselessly uncoordinated, flopping around on the ice like a “Wounded Moth” (that’s in quotations because it’s actually one of my unfortunate goalie nicknames. Others are “AngryYard Sale”, for my occasional habit of losing my temper and throwing goalie equipment all over the ice. And then there’s “Neck Burn”, for the amount of times the red goal light blazes behind me throughout a game).

Christine McAvoy photo If you couldn’t guess, the 2015/2016 beer league hockey season has started up again for this, my 12th season between the pipes for the Vancouver Flying Vees.We’re a mostly arts-and-medicine based hockey club, with various musicians, writers, comedians, doctors, and other friends from various walks of life, all suiting up in the stinky blue and green. My old Smugglers bandmate Nick “Lock-Eye” Thomas (currently rocking out in the Tranzmitors,Vicious Cycles, and Evaporators) has been on the team for our entire dozen-year duration as well. Our former bassist Beez was on the Flying Vees for a few years, until he had a heart attack in the middle of the dressing room ﬂoor. He survived, thanks to our doctor

teammate Kevin “Rosie” Rowan.These days Beez takes a lot of pills and skates for a team in a division many below us. Pat “Comedy” Kelly, host of the hilarious CBC Radio One show This Is That, is back for another season on the Flying Vees’ blue line, alongside his defense partner Bruce “Pounds” Dyck, who just played his last show ever drumming in his Vancouver punk rock band The B-Lines. Another long time Flying Vees stalwart returning for a run at a championship is Chris “Nitz” Mizzoni, a die-hard Toronto Maple Leafs fan, children’s author, and animator for “My Little Pony”. Our captain is the toughest guy on the team, a high school teacher named John “the Silver Screen” Silver.

An exciting new rookie to the Flying Vees is none other than roots-rocker and leather worker Dustin “Dusty” Bentall, who will hopefully hit some high notes on the score sheet, what with our number one goal-scorer Ken “GoalA-Game” Hegan, a senior copywriter at Blast Radius, on the injured reserve list with a broken ankle. As I mentioned, we are so incredibly lucky to have a healthy plethora of doctors on the hockey team. If you’re injured during a game, all you have to do is hobble across the dressing room for an instant examination. Don’t like the diagnosis? Shufﬂe down the bench for an immediate second opinion. All we really need now is a local beer rep to sign up. Those painful saves? They become bruises the size and colour of eggplants after a brutal 6-0 loss. Back in that cinderblock dressing room, the score is quickly forgotten.The joyous sound of cracked beer and crackling conversation makes every stopped puck, and every missed puck, worth it, year after year. Grant Lawrence is the author of “The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie”. W

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Vancouver-based artist Tara Galuska uses a variety of materials to create her work. Dan Toulgoet photos

Home Is Where The Art Is: Tara Galuska Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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When I speak with clients about the importance of art in the home – how it creates the emotion within a space – I urge them to consider a collection that includes mixed media. An eclectic blend of art styles within your personal gallery allows the mind to explore creativity within your own home.We engage differently with the visual movement of an illustration or painting, for example, than with the strong tactile elements of a carving or sculpture. It’s fun to bring these different opportunities together under one roof and wander into the realm of artistic possibilities. I recently chatted with local artist,Tara Galuska, about

her craft and was introduced to an art form that, for me, combines the interactive elements of illustration and sculpture.Technically speaking,Tara is a paper artist; that initially conjured imagery of origami in my mind, but when I viewed Tara’s works, I was immediately invited into a place of delicate and whimsical imagination.With patience beyond my wildest dreams, Tara creates art by “writing poetry with paper”. Born in Zimbabwe and raised (and trained) in Sydney, Australia,Tara has been a Vancouverite for four years now, engaging in and strengthening the local arts scene. She has become a growing ﬁgure on the art radar not just with her own work, but also through active involvement in the advancement of the arts with movements like Papergirl Vancouver (PapergirlVancouver.com).

When I asked what brought her to our community, it’s all about love.Tara’s husband is from here and she went on to share that “my art is my love letter to the world.” I love Tara’s perspective that collecting art isn’t about just ﬁlling up the walls, but rather an appreciation for the beautiful, for the handmade and for the unique.

What is your favourite accessory (for home or personal)? I simply adore sparkly shoes and consider them a must have for all seasons and occasions! How would you describe Vancouver’s artistic/creative community? I believe that community in all areas of life is essential and speciﬁcally connecting with and fostering a sense of community with artists and other creatives is a very high priority

Freshly squeezed style Niki Hope Style File

@NikiMHope Eliza Faulkner’s spring 2016 show was like a glass of freshly squeezed juice – a bright and delicious collection of clothes that prove the young designer, who was raised on Vancouver Island, is one to watch. She presented her spring line at Vancouver Fashion Week on Tuesday, Sept. 29, dubbed BC Day with the runway showcasing – along with Faulkner – the work of Allison Smith of Allison Wonderland, Aniimiism by Cassie Dee, Taran Cheema’s TKC Design Inc., Connally McDougall, and Soﬁa Mendez Schenone. As the night’s opener, Faulkner says she didn’t have any pre-show jitters, mostly because there wasn’t any lastminute fretting. “For me it felt really relaxed, I don’t know about everyone else,” Faulkner

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says. “I had the collection done in July.” Her laid-back vibe came through in Tuesday’s show, where she sent down the runway a collection that balanced femininity and comfort, conveyed in her offshoulder rufﬂed blouses and dresses, which she paired with casual white Lacoste sneakers from Town Shoes. “I kind of use them in every collection,” Faulkner says about the sneaks. “I like doing dresses and really pretty things, but I like the idea of being able to wear them everyday.” Spring features wide-leg trousers, a denim motorcycle jacket, midriff-baring blouses, airy skirts, sleeveless dresses. Most of the clothes were designed with clean whites, jet blacks, raspberry pinks, apple reds, and soft blues in denim, linen, and cotton. The few patterned pieces in the capsule collection included a sophisticated, sweeping black-and-white

dotted blouse, a sleeveless dress in the same fabric, and a sky-coloured tie-die dress. A particularly charming number was a white offshoulder blouse paired with a white loose-ﬁtting A-line skirt – one of the few looks worn with heels. Faulkner drew from the romantic sensuality of the 1970s, studying vintage Laura Ashley dresses that deﬁned the era’s airy Victoriana zeitgeist, but Faulkner cleans up the look with clean tailoring. “I wanted softness, clean lines, and classic silhouettes,” Faulkner explains. At her VFW show, Faulkner added a dash of subtle modern edge to some of the looks by throwing a chain (literally) necklace on a few of the models. The ever-industrious designer went out and picked up a chain from Canadian Tire and turned it into edgy necklaces for her minimalist styling. “The collection is very soft and feminine; I just wanted

for me.The main ways I connect to and build my community of like-minded folks has been through Papergirl and THRIVE Studio. I’ve also met some of the best people ever at art openings and other fun creative events. It is amazing who you might meet when you leave the house!

Some people collect old cameras and typewriters. Do you collect anything? I collect houseplants to kill! I guess that is a bit of an exaggeration as I have had some luck in the last year, but I’ve murdered countless houseplants in my quest to become queen of the plants and live in a home that is like a beautiful jungle.

his teeth she will rush down the hallway and wait on the bed for our arrival. Once she has ﬁnished kneading the covers between us she runs out to the door to join her cat sister Daisy for the rest of her evening. A great way to end the day!

If you could describe your artistic style in one word, what would it be? Whimsical.

for someone goes to bed at around 2am or sometimes works through the night.

If you could speak to a room of youth who were considering careers in the arts, what would your advice be? If you are an artist or need to work in the arts you know it already.This knowledge might only be a whisper in your life right now but I urge you to listen to it. By ignoring it, I strongly suspect that you are potentially doing a disservice to the world by not following the urge to embark on a career in the arts. Don’t leave this life by being stingy with what you were put here to do. Feeling scared? Realistically consider what the worst thing that can happen to you if you embark on a career in the arts. I myself take comfort in the fact that there have been no death certiﬁcates issued reading “Cause of death: Art!” W

Finish this sentence: My day is not complete without… Our cat Bijou tucking my husband and I into bed! When she sees Bill brushing

Do you have a favourite creative space? I feel so lucky to have a dedicated room in my home to do my work in! Some of the best things about it are the sloping wall, the peace and quiet and the cozy chair in the corner for my cats to take naps in. Not only do I love being able to pop my head out and say “Hi!” to my husband Bill, it’s also very conveniently located

something to make it more street,” she explains. Faulkner realized her dream of becoming a fashion designer at 19, when she was accepted to study fashion design at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London. She couldn’t ﬁnd work after graduating so she resigned herself to small-town life, working in the back room of her mother’s shoe shop in the Cowichan Valley and writing about style for the local newspaper. She kept creating clothes at night, selling them to family and friends. From those ﬁrst dresses – made in a cabin on Vancouver Island – her namesake line has since gained recognition across North America. In 2014 she was nominated in the Emerging Talent Category at the Canadian Art & Fashion Awards and ELLE Canada named her One of the Top Ten Canadian Designers to Know. Marisa Tomei, Nikki Reed, and Kelly Clarkson have all worn her clothes. Not bad for a young woman from the Island. W

Vancouver designer Eliza Faulkner brought her brand of youthful minimalism to Vancouver Fashion Week’s BC Day.

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DINING OUT Anya Levykh Fresh Sheet

@FoodGirlFriday Lips Resto, which opened in the West End in May 2015 has gone through a re-boot and re-opened as Village Bistro. The new menu has moved away from the original sharing plate theme and now claims to be focused on “bistro-style comfort food with Canadian ﬂavours.” VillageBistroBC.com Taste Canada—The Food Writing Awards winners have been announced, andToﬁno’s The SoBo Cookbook has won for Best Regional/Cultural Cookbook in Canada. Congratulations to chef Lisa Ahier of SoBo and her writing and cooking teams!TasteCanada.org

Clockwise from left: David Hannay, proprietor of Brix and Mortar in Yaletown, shows off the newlyrenovated restaurant (Dan Toulgoet photo); Provence Marinaside’s bouillabaisse (Emrys Horton photo); Zend Conscious Lounge GM Brook Cairns has an Eden Elixir at the bar (Dan Toulgoet photo).

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@FoodgirlFriday The crispness of autumn inevitably leads to sharper appetites and the beginning of the busy dine-out season. Helping to launch it all is the 11th annual Taste of Yaletown dining festival. Running Oct. 15-29, with more thanover 25 restaurants participating, the festival offers diners prix ﬁxe menus of $25, $35 or $45, with a portion of proceeds directly beneﬁtting Greater Vancouver Food Bank. If you’re wondering where to start, here are some newcomers to the neighbourhood, as well as local stalwarts who are always worth revisiting. See the full list of participating restaurants, with all menu details, at YaletownInfo.com

BRIX AND MORTAR

1138 Homer, BrixAndMortar.ca The long-running (15+ years!) Brix Wine Bar and Restaurant has gone through

a transformation, and in its place is Brix and Mortar. The new space houses a new concept, although it’s still wine-friendly. Contemporary Canadian might best describe the new menu. Try starting with the lamb bacon salad off the $35 menu. The bacon is cured in-house, and dressed with radishes, pear, local gouda and a bourbon vinaigrette. Local salmon as a main, with warm potato salad and fresh Dungeness crab, is a good choice. Or if you’re ﬁxed on lamb, the shank, with white risotto and grilled asparagus, might be the way to go.

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1066 Mainland, LimeAndMoon.com This popular Bowen Island bakery just recently expanded onto the mainland (quite literally; they’re located at 1066 Mainland Street). Famous for its organic, high-quality pies, the bakery is offering a special $15 sweet or savoury meal. Choose a classic tourtière with salad and espresso or tea, or just have pie for lunch, along with ice cream and a hot bev-

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ZEND CONSCIOUS LOUNGE

1130 Mainland, ZendLounge.com Another newcomer, Zend is a vegan restaurant that serves up organic, plantbased fare and healthy non-alcoholic beverages. Even enthusiastic omnivores can ﬁnd something agreeable here on the $35 menu, such as the spiced corn and “de-fried” bean tacos with guacamole, pico de gallo and gueso fresco. Finish with the triple chocolate torte for something more decadent. As for liquids, the alkaline water is free, but almond milk with red maca and ginseng ($8) is worth checking out as well.

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naside has been successfully dishing out its trademark southern Mediterranean fare for well over a decade (13 years and counting). Come check out the beautiful new room (and the stunning wine wall) while indulging in the $45 menu. Start with the trio of smoked ﬁsh – trout, mackerel and salmon – laid out with green salad, gherkins and pearl onions, or the lovely Caprese salad or spicy merguez sausages. Mains include the famous bouillabaisse or lamb top sirloin, as well as wild mushroom ravioli. Dessert is your choice off the regular menu, but I would heartily recommend the clafoutis.

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1118 Mainland, MinamiRestaurant.com Another more established restaurant, Minami serves up contemporary Japanese cuisine and aburi sushi (the latter is usually pressed and lightly seared with Frenchbased sauces). The regular menu is $45, but there is also a $35 vegetarian menu. Both

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The Growler’s fourth issue is out on Nov. 1. For this issue, we’ve once again invited two brewers to discuss beer – its brewing and its culture – for the benefit of you, our dedicated reader. This time, we spoke to Danny Seeton and Matt Anderson, celebrated homebrewers who’ve unwittingly shaped Vancouver’s craft beer culture. Both were early members of the city’s first home brewer’s club, VanBrewers. They’re also roommates – essentially the Joey and Chandler of Vancouver craft beer. Since they’re already spending time arguing on about beer, we figured we might as well record some of it, which we did, in the backyard of their South Vancouver rental suite. Seeton is now works in the industry as the assistant brewer at Parallel 49. Anderson has opted to keep it a hobby. GROWLER: It seems like, because Graham [With, Parallel 49’s head brewer] was a part of the home brewing scene, when Parallel 49 happened, they brought that scene into the brewery’s circle. MATT ANDERSON: Totally. DANNY SEETON: It dropped the beer culture down in age group, easily. GROWLER: The millennial beer culture kind of congregated around Paral-

Brewers Matt Anderson and Danny Seeton discuss the birth of Vancouver beer culture. Jonny Healy photo lel 49 and everyone kind of grabbed on to it. DS: Timing-wise it lined up, for sure. MA: Absolutely. I’d agree with that. They took a chance on Graham getting a younger brewer. Everybody else was pretty well established by then. DS: It lined up for Graham for sure. MA: The homebrew association started in this house because Katy [Wright, Graham’s longtime partner] and Graham were living here at the time. They started getting way into brewing, and then they were just talking about it all the time. Their other friends were like, “We don’t

give a shit about this – ” DS: “We’re sick of it.” MA: “ – talk about it with someone else.” So they just went on Craigslist I think and just said, “Are there any homebrewers out there? There must be. Do you want to meet up and talk about beer?” DS: The US homebrew industry was so much bigger. We just listened to podcasts and looked at blogs from those guys. They were like, “Just talk with your local club!” And you’d look up Vancouver homebrew club and there was nothing. Nothing. MA: Which is insane. DS: Every couple of months, or every month

probably, I’d be looking that up on Google. Then one time I looked it up and there was a homebrew club. And, oh! There was this meeting happening. I thought, had I missed this the whole time, and not known it was a thing? But it had just started. It was the first meeting. But yeah, Graham and Katy’s friends told them, “You need to get a club to deal with all your beer talking.” MA: “Somebody else! Anybody else!” DS: “Yeah, give us a break.” MA: So that was the start of the club, and like 10 weirdoes showed up for that. And now those

people are our best friends it seems [laughs]. And now that club has grown from, yeah…I guess, when we officially signed papers to the government to be a non-profit society, we had 14 members maybe? DS: Yeah, less than 20. MA: Now we have 160 or 170. We’re the biggest club in Canada. So obviously the timing was right to start a homebrew club. And you see the quality of the beer has gotten so much better since then. There’s people who were bringing garbage beer three years ago. They would ask your honest opinion, you’d tell them – DS: I would give them a brutally honest opinion.

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MA: – and now they’re working at breweries and making amazing beer. GROWLER: Right. You’ll do this at the homebrewer’s club, but no one will do that in the beer industry. MA: [sighs] Yeah. DS: I don’t know. I’ve sat down with brewers when they come by and they’ll bring some beer. I’ve sat down with them, tried their beers, and said, “That’s interesting. Have you thought about going this way?” And they’ll go, “That’s what we tried to do, but it didn’t happen.” MA: I’ve only been brutally honest with Graham and you, because you’re good friends of mine. GROWLER: But the rest of the world doesn’t do that. DS: Um, have you read Ratebeer? [laughs] MA: Well, the trolls on Facebook are different. DS: You have a beer on Ratebeer. MA: I do? DS: At Yaletown.* MA: Oh yeah, yeah. But that got a good rating. I’m flawless. DS: But it’s brutal. I can’t go on there. I can’t look at any of our own beers on that. It’s just heartbreaking. MA: That’s a different thing. The trouble with that is it’s people who don’t know shit, talking shit. Ed. note: Matt and Danny won the first VanBrewer Awards in 2010. For the grand prize, they had the opportunity to brew that beer – an oak-aged Imperial stout – at Yaletown Brewpub. W

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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

THE LONE BELLOW Southernborn, Brooklyn-based indie folk trio play tunes from their second album, Then Came The Morning, with special guest Anderson East. 9pm at The Imperial. Tickets $20 at Red Cat and TicketWeb.ca

54-40 One of Canada’s all-time favourite alternative rock bands from Tsawwassen, play their annual hometown (sold out) show, celebrating 35 years of making music together. 8:30pm at Commodore Ballroom.

LIANNE LA HAVAS British folk/ soul singer-songwriter-guitarist, plays the early show in support of her second album, Blood. 7:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $31 at Red Cat, Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

ARIEL PINK AND BLACK LIPS American rockers on tour in support of Underneath the Rainbow co-headline with American indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, on tour in support of his new solo release, pom pom with special guest Hinds. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon and TicketWeb.ca

CASH CASH American electronicdance band from New Jersey play the late show with special guest Tritonal. 10:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $40+ at Ticketmaster.ca

SLASH FT. MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS Rock’s epic supergroup, currently in the midst of their World On Fire Tour, in support of the recently released album of the same name. 8pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets $35+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com. All ages show.

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

COMEDY K. TREVOR WILSON The child actor turned stand-up comic, with a pit-stop as a national tennis doubles champion, has appeared on A&E’s Breakout Kings, CBC’s Billable Hours and holds the title as the only two-time winner of the Toronto Comedy Brawl. 8:30pm at The Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

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.

JOYCE ISLAND Vancouver singer-songwriter Lisa Joyce brings her alt-country, indiefolk rock outfit to the stage with guests, Elliot C. Way, Rodney DeCroo, Ben Arsenault, and Mac Pontiac. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $8 at Red Cat, Highlife, Neptoon, Zulu and TicketFly.com

COMEDY JOHN CULLEN The charismatic performer brings a range of life experience to the stage, from past lives as a curler, high school teacher, and drummer, that will make you wonder who’s having more fun – him or you. 8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE ABRACADAVER CABARET Kelsey Savage hosts the return of the annual devil’s playground for delving into the macabre, with a cast of dancers, actors, magicians, circus performers, musicians and poets featuring Melody Mangler, Mama Fortuna, and Voodoo Pixie, all inspired by a shared passion for horror. 8pm at WISE Hall. Tickets at AbracadaverRituals.BrownPaperTickets.com or at the door. EMPIRE OF THE SON Tetsuro Shigematsu wrote and stars in this story of his personal relationship with his father. Separated by a generation, but connected by blood, Tetsuro and his father speak different languages, possessing different values, but what has ultimately kept them apart are their similarities. 8pm at the Cultch. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch. com. Runs until Oct. 24.

THE ENIGMAS Local garage rock legends return to the local stage with special guests The Wasted Strays, and Making Strangers. 8pm at WISE Hall. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Highlife and BrownPaperTickets.com SCARLETT JANE Toronto countrypop duo of Andrea Ramolo and Cindy Doire play in support of their new self-titled release. 8pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $18 at LiveNation.com DANNY ECHO An evening of bluesy indie rock ‘n’ roll with some of Vancouver’s best local bands featuring headliner Danny Echo with special guests The Walk-Ins, The 3 A.M., and China Syndrome. 9:30pm at Railway Club. Tickets $10 at the door. FRANKLINS DEALERS Guitar driven, riff rock band from Vancouver take the stage with special guests Downtown Riot, and Lillian Carr. 7pm at Venue. Tickets $12 at TicketZone.com or $15 at the door. VACATIONER American electronic-pop band, play an early show in support of their latest release, Relief, with special guest Great Good Fine Ok. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca THE CRIBS English indie rockers play tunes from their latest album, For All My Sisters, with special guests The Flintettes and Fashionism. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $17 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

Scarlett Jane, Oct. 10 GREG BROWN Legendary American folk musician from Iowa performs a set of his infamous tunes, some covered by the likes of Willie Nelson, and Santana. 8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $30 at tickets. capilanou.ca or $33 at the door.

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. Final performance.

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 until Oct. 11.

CHEAP & FUN MOVIES IN THE MORGUE: HALLOWE’EN SPECIALS Come watch the creepiest movie, The Shining, in the creepiest place possible at the Vancouver Police Museum. 7pm at 240 East Cordova. Tickets $10 at VancouverPoliceMuseum.ca

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET After a three-year absence, this prestigious young quartet returns to the stage, continuing the Czech tradition featuring mature works from three different composers. 3pm at Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets $48 at EventBrite.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 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. 2pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Oct. 18. ROMEO + JULIET Studio 58’s season begins with a fresh, unique interpretation of the Shakespeare classic, where the two starcrossed lovers are young women who meet in Andy Warhol’s Factory circa 1965. 3pm at Studio 58 at Langara College. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Runs until Oct. 18.

THE WINE + THE WAVE AUSTIN, Texas based country-rock duo stop by on their Raising Hell Tour. 9pm at Media Club. Tickets $14 at Red Cat and LiveNation.com

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.

THEATRE/DANCE 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.

EVENTS TURKEY TROT The family-friendly 10K course runs along the False Creek Seawall, the perfect way to burn off those extra Thanksgiving calories and, new this year is a Kids Fun Run and Preschooler Dash. All funds raised to benefit the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. 8:30am at Performance Works on Granville Island. Visit TurkeyTrot. ca for details and registration.

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GANG OF FOUR English post-punk rockers play their stripped down mix of punk, funk and dub in support of their newest release, What Happens Next. 8pm at Venue. Tickets $29.50 at Red Cat and Ticketmaster.ca

NEW POLITICS Danish rock band co-headline with Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, on their North American fall tour with special guests The Griswolds, and Lolo. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $29.50+ at Red Cat and LiveNation.com. All ages show.

STEVE HILL Juno Award winning guitar hero from Montreal takes his one-man band show on the road from coast to coast in support of his latest album, Solo Recordings – Volume 2. 9pm at Railway Club. Tickets at 604-681-1625.

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Detroit-based melodic metal band play tunes from their latest release, Abysmal, with special guests Iron Reagan, Harm’s Way, and Maruta. 7pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $24.50 at TicketFly.com THE DARKNESS British glamrockers on tour in support of their fourth album, Last of Our Kind. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $36.50+ at Red Cat, Scrape, Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com JERUSALEM IN MY HEART The live audio-visual performance from Montreal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh hits town in support of the second full-length album, If He Dies, If If If If If If. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $12 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY JOHN HODGMAN Known for his work on The Daily Show and his appearances as “PC” in the Mac commercials, Hodgman crawls out of the TV to take the stage with Vacationland, his latest one-human comedy show. 7pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $29.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca

THEATRE/DANCE A SIMPLE SPACE This dizzying collection of works in new circus pushes physical limits to the brink, exposing the reality of failure and weakness in this simultaneously raw, frantic, and delicate performance where seven skilled acrobats thumb their noses at the rules of gravity. 7pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch. com. Runs until Oct. 24. DEUX ANS DE VOTRE VIE Multiaward winning Francophone theatre company Theatre la Seizieme, launches its season with this dark and quirky comedy about finding great love at any price by Quebecois playwright Rebecca Deraspe. 8pm at Studio 16 (1555 West 7th). Tickets at Deux-Ans.BrownPaperTickets.com. Runs until Oct. 24.

BOB MOSES Brooklyn-based DJ/ producer duo originally from Vancouver, return to play in support of debut full-length release, Days Gone By. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet and TicketWeb.ca VIET CONG Infamous as of late, the Calgary rockers play the first of two shows in support of their debut full-length, self-titled release with special guests Needs. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca DEL BARBER Alternative country prairie troubadour joins forces with Newfoundland folk-pop duo, Fortunate Ones for an evening of original song. 8:30pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $24 at TicketZone.com SKYLAR SPENCE Electronic music project of American musicianproducer-vocalist Ryan DeRobertis hits town on the Prom King Fall Tour, with special guests Kero Kero Bonito, and James Deen. 9pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $18 at Red Cat, Zulu and BPLive.ca

COMEDY MICHAEL KOSTA Known for his humour and sarcastic wit, Kosta brings a sports background to comedy, as heard daily on Crowd Goes Wild on Fox; with appearances on Chelsea Lately, The Tonight Show and Conan, and his first stand-up special on Comedy Central. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE UNWRAPPING CULTURE Dance company Co.ERSAGA, in collaboration with Thailand’s revered Khon dancer, Pichet Klunchun, perform and construct a dialogue around the inquisition into “what and who creates culture?” in this new creation, unwrapping a fascinating journey of complex tradition and contemporary global societal issues. 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight. ca. Runs until Oct. 17.

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CIVIL TWILIGHT Four-piece alternative rock band from Cape Town, South Africa play tunes from their latest release, Story of an Immigrant, with special guests Dreamers, and Hillfolk. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com

VANCOUVER HALLOWEEN PARADE & EXPO Three days of arts, concerts, performances, cosplay, films, comics, anime, games, make-up, and costumes to kick off Halloween celebrations culminating in the annual downtown Halloween parade. Visit VanHalloween.com for details. Runs until Oct. 18.

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JIGGERY POKERY Vancouverbased visual artist Angela Grossman presents a duo solo exhibition in collaboration with emerging multi-media artist Drew Shaffer. Utilizing found objects and ephemera, the two address the role performance plays in the assumption and persistence of gender identity (Grossman), while focusing on emotional and psychological needs and desires of contemporary culture (Shaffer). Opening reception 6-8pm at Winsor Gallery. Runs until Nov. 14.

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Tetsuro Shigematsu walks in the shadow of his father KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Tetsuro Shigematsu is sitting at a table in his rehearsal space in Chinatown, flipping a blank page in a binder back and forth. This is the script, he says, looking up from the book briefly. Inside the binder is a stack of paper covered in text, highlighted sections and scribbled notes, but he lingers on the blank page. For two years, Tetsuro has been working on Empire of the Son – a one-man show about his relationship with his father. A Huffington Post columnist, award-winning writer, and former host of The Roundup on CBC, Tetsuro was the first visible minority host of a daily network radio program in Canada and has been hailed as “the voice of our Azn generation” by Ricepaper Magazine. But today his thoughts and emotions are caught up entirely in the past.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

Born in Japan in 1931, his father, Akira Shigematsu practiced a type of parent-

ing made common after the Second World War: stoic, gruff, and aloof. Separated by language, experiences and values, the British-born Tetsuro says their relationship was often ringed with acrimony – his father never said I love you, never cried, they never really talked and never hugged – and at the centre of the rift was the two men’s startling similarities. Both were public radio broadcasters: For 20 years Akira transported his Japanese listeners to Canada with tales of First Nations origin stories and Cabbage Patch dolls as an announcer for the CBC’s External Services division. For the segment of Japan – the salarymen riding in crowded subways and sleeping in capsule hotels – whose fantasy of Canada was wide-open spaces and cowboys and salmon, Akira was their voice. And for a time, his show was the second highest-rated program in its category in the world – Tetsuro remembers bags of fan mail being delivered to their house. But Tetsuro also remembers the day his father’s headphones were taken away, a casualty of Mulroney-era cutbacks, and replaced with hazardyellow ear protectors and a

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mail cart to push. Tetsuro never listened to his father’s show. And yet, despite pursuing art school and comedy and “losing himself in the world”, the Vancouver-raised creative would go on to do the same thing: digesting Canada’s current affairs and quirky interests for his listeners on the CBC; romanticizing and philosophizing Canada’s

banalities out of the same studio that his father once worked in. Meanwhile, the 44-yearold Spike TV star (you can catch Tetsuro battling Vikings on DeadliestWarrior) also never said I love you, never cried, never hugged. And he was okay. He was good. All was well, he’d say, his face steady as a Kuniyoshi samurai.

When Akira’s health started failing, though, Tetsuro realized he knew nothing about his father, and that his children, Mika and Taizo, would know nothing about their grandfather. He began interviewing Akira, asking him about his experiences in pre- and post-war Japan, his time on the radio, and his own father. Having a microphone between the men bridged the silence and they began talking for the ﬁrst time in their relationship.

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In 1993, Tetsuro wrote Rising Son, a one-man play about his relationship with his father. At the time, it was seen by no more than 100 people, but contained ideas that would launch his career as a writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and pave the way for his future with the CBC. Writing and performing Rising Son – the story of a man haunted by memories of his childhood in war-torn Japan who sees his ideals of a better life for his children subverted – would also inspire Tetsuro to study Butoh dance with Kazu Ohno in Japan and poetry with Allen Ginsberg in New York. But Rising Son also insulted Akira. “My son makes fun of my accent for a liv-

ing,” he would tell people. It would be 20 years before Tetsuro would feel compelled to visit the subject again. This time though, he would seek his father’s blessing first. Empire of the Son is ostensibly a play about two generations of broadcasters, a father and son, connected by blood and kept apart by the very things they have in common. It is also the story of an immigrant family and its intergenerational conflicts, as told through a blend of family video footage, audio from Akira’s old CBC recordings and interviews, and miniature worlds projected on the screen. It centres around a son’s freewill and frustration, around the small moments in their lives and the bigger picture, and around Tetsuro’s own experiences with fatherhood. Most importantly, it seeks to answer why Tetsuro never cries – something his young son asked him about around the time he stared writing the play. Produced by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and making its world premiere at the Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch, anticipation for the show is so high that the entire original run from Oct. 6-17 sold out a week in advance and an additional five nights had to be added.

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ARTS It is billed as a funny, poignant story that will blur the lines between performance art and theatre, but the play was really a way for Tetsuro to expand on his interviews with his father, to immerse himself in his research – the interviews also comprise part of his PhD candidacy at UBC – and share his father’s stories with the world. Akira became a central ﬁgure in not only the play, but in the playwriting process – on speed dial for Tetsuro to ask questions as they arose. Tetsuro became so at ease with calling him that he was actually inspired to include live phone calls with his father as part of the play. As they were building Empire of the Son, though, Akira’s health worsened – complications due to strokes, type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease began making the timing of things uncertain, and Tetsuro, director Richard Wolfe and dramatist Heidi Taylor had to face what would happen if Akira passed away before the show. Or during the show. They began leaving a blank page at the beginning of the script as a placeholder for what remained unwritten.

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In addition to his time on-air in Canada, Akira Shigematsu also worked as a broadcaster for the BBC. Contributed photo

THE MEN IN BLACK

As Tetsuro is describing all this – the changing script, the funny phone calls, the ideas of involving his father in the show – he ﬁnally stops, takes a deep wavering breath and says quietly that it can’t happen – it won’t happen – because his father passed away just days earlier, on Sept. 18.

Since the beginning of Empire of the Son, Tetsuro had been preparing for this day. Akira’s wishes were for his body to be donated to the department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at UBC (coincidentally just down the way from where his life’s work of recordings also sits, preserved on vinyl in the university’s special

collections). When the men in the white van came to the house to take his father’s body away, though, Tetsuro wasn’t ready. Simultaneously stalling and seeking closure, he asked the undertakers if they had a few minutes to talk to him, to answer his questions about what they see every day, about death, about

family. As they stood in the kitchen with his sisters and mother looking on, Tetsuro asked the two strangers – young men, half his age, in black suit pants and button down shirts with tattoos peeking out from under the sleeves – if they can tell right away if someone was loved. They said yes; most people they see have passed away alone. He asked them if anything about his family seems special or unique. They said that he and his sisters seem very calm, very relaxed. He asked them if their job ever gets to them. One answered that he had only been doing it for four months, and that he’ll stop when he starts having dreams about it. Tetsuro interviewed them for over an hour before ﬁnally they said they had to leave and quietly wheeled his father’s body out into the rain. Two nights before Akira passed, Tetsuro had found himself at his father’s side, attending to him. As they sat there, his father resting as the medication left his body in the ﬁnal stages of palliative care, Tetsuro asked him how he was doing. He said, in Japanese, that

he felt good. He was happy. And then a long silence descended once again. “I had this impulse,” Tetsuro says of that moment. “That I should say it. Say it now; now’s my chance. But he had never said it to me, so I just… didn’t know how.” Instead Tetsuro settled for “Goodnight, dad, try to get some rest,” and Akira drifted off to sleep. He never woke up again. When Empire of the Son began, Tetsuro says he made a commitment to stay as close to the truth as possible: if his father died before opening night, they would begin at the end of his life, with the event that just happened. They would begin with the blank page. So, as Tetsuro stares at it, that blank page marks the beginning of a play and the end of a man’s life. But perhaps it also marks the space where a father and son can ﬁnally say I love you, a space where the words aren’t really necessary – even though they’ve been there all along. W

EMPIRE OF THE SON

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Matthew Good finds his comfort zone Iconic ‘90s altrocker returns with ‘Chaotic Neutral’

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Matthew Good Band’s debut album, Last of the Ghetto Astronauts. Even though the Vancouverarea group was one of Canada’s most celebrated rock acts of the late ‘90s, the outﬁt’s titular frontman doesn’t speak about those early days with much fondness. “In the beginning, it’s all tension,” the 44-year-old Good reﬂects. “If you can imagine one of those weekends when you’re young where you go out and do stuff, you get no sleep and you’re kind of operating in a parallel universe – that’s your life. When you’re a young musician and you’re working on things, you’re playing live, going on tour and playing anywhere, that’s what your life is like. Like you’re in a dream state.” Good remembers those days as a non-stop blur of activity in which he would tour relentlessly, often working on writing songs the moment after he got off-stage. He was known for his bristly demeanour, struggled with depression and anxiety, and was eventually diagnosed with biopolar disorder during a stay in a psychiatric hospital in 2006. Good remembers his reaction to that initial diagnosis: “Well, that just explained the last 35 years of my life!” These days, he spends his time very differently. With the band having dissolved

Matthew Good says he’s in a better place since being diagnosed with bipolar disorder nearly 10 years ago. Contributed photo back in 2002, Good moved to Maple Ridge with his family a few years ago. During this phone conversation with Westender, his young daughter can be heard in the background, and the songwriter has to brieﬂy pause the conversation in order to start up a new episode of the kids’ show Blue’s Clues. In addition to overhauling his personal life, Good has developed a more easygoing approach to music. During the recording sessions for his latest solo album, Chaotic Neutral, he allowed longtime producer Warne

Livesey to take the reins. “Instead of sitting at the board while things are going down and being very involved and hovering like I usually do, I was just kicking back,” Good says. “I’d come in from getting a cup of coffee or something and he’d have drums and bass [already ﬁnished] and I’d be like, ‘Alright, good!’” This relaxed studio experience translated into an album that channels the full emotional breadth of Good’s style. The cinematic alt-rock of opening cut “All You Sons and Daughters”

evokes the cathartic muscle of his ‘90s hits, while the catchy chorus repetitions of “No Liars” make it an instant singalong, and cuts like “Tiger by the Tail” and “Cold Water” are graceful slow-burners that highlight his plaintive vibrato. This diversity of moods is reﬂected by Chaotic Neutral’s title, a Dungeons & Dragons term signifying characters with unpredictable personalities. The 11-song LP also features a piano rock rendition of Kate Bush’s 1985 single “Cloudbusting.” When debecome a gateway drug for an entirely new generation of metal fans. –Robert Mangelsdorf

sound out of place on one of At The Drive In’s later albums. The ﬁve songs that comprise New Bermuda clock in at just under 47 minutes and largely eschew any kind of traditional verse-chorus-verse format, each instead building to crescendo before moving to diminuendo and then to coda. These are dynamic, anthemic metal masterpieces that completely transcend the genre. But there’s nothing Wagnerian about the songs on New

Bermuda: these are metal epics, but they are nuanced. “Baby Blue” starts off with delicate David Gilmour-esque guitar work, slowing building until it climaxes three-and-a-half minutes in with an unholy roar. “Gifts From the Earth” begins as a Sunny Day Real Estate song sung by the devil himself punctuated by the requisite metal shredding only to ﬁnish with acoustic guitars and piano seemingly stolen from an Oasis album. The end result is something that is both violent and delicate, furious and melancholy. Much like Mastodon’s 2004 album Leviathan, Deafheaven’s New Bermuda has the potential to crossover and ﬁnd an audience with non-metal fans. In doing so, it too will

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New Bermuda (ANTI-) From the opening notes of Deafheaven’s New Bermuda – with the ringing church bells and bludgeoning beats that open “Brought to the Water” – it could be easy to dismiss this as little more than cliched death metal. After all, the requisite hallmarks of the genre are all here: the incomprehensible lyrics, the pummelling double-kick, the palm-muted power chords. However, it takes the band mere minutes to reveal that they will not be creatively constrained by the trappings of their genre. Noise gives way to melody, and the pulverizing drums open up to punctuate an anthemic refrain that wouldn’t

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ciding to include this song on the record, Good had to overcome his trepidation at covering such a classic artist. He explains, “People in my circle heard it and were like, ‘Y’know what man, that’s not a bad bit you did there. I don’t think that necessarily crosses the line as being offensive.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but it’s still Kate Bush. It’s sacrilege.’” The humility and chattiness that Good displays when talking about the album shows how far he’s come since the tension of his early career. “It’s just

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All Across This Land (Vagrant) Blitzen Trapper have always worn their ’70s rock inﬂuences on their sleeves, but with their latest effort, All Across This Land, the Portland band may have ﬁnally crossed over from kitschy alt-country to the kind of cliched FM radio fare usually reserved for pickup truck commercials. All Across This Land is Blitzen Trapper’s eighth full length album, and gone is the rollicking jangle and weirdness of the band’s early work that help propel 2007’s

Wild Mountain Nation and 2008’s Furr to much acclaim. Whereas the band’s early work helped bring relevance to their Southern rock inﬂuences through their experimentation with synthesizers and drum machines, no such creative impulses are present on All Across This Land. Instead, Blitzen Trapper travel down the well-worn path of banal, formulaic radio rock. The title track kicks off with a “Woo Hoo” that

a moment in time,” Good says in regards to Chaotic Neutral. “I make a record and it represents a moment in the span of my career. I’ll go on to make another record after this in a couple of years, and it will be what it will be. I kind of just take it as it comes.” W

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could have been sampled from The Steve Miller Band, while “Mystery and Wonder” cranks the cheese to 11 with lines like “Mystery and wonder / If we only had each other / Mystery and wonder / Is there lighting without thunder?”. Had Tom Petty wrote “Rock and Roll (Was Made For You)”, he would have had enough good sense to make sure it never left the studio. There’s nothing on All Across This Land that wasn’t done better decades earlier by the likes of everyone from John Mellencamp to John Denver. After eight albums, Blitzen Trapper appear content to take the money and run. –Robert Mangelsdorf Rating: !!!!!

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@WholeNourishBC The nights are getting colder, the days darker and everything is beginning to get damp and wet. It’s time to get your woolies out and cuddle up with some warming foods to beat the cold. Traditionally, the cooler months would mean fresh, local food becomes scarce, but luckily we live in a city and province that is thriving. BC has an amazing array of different veggies and fruits to enjoy all year round. I personally start living off kale and root veggies during the cooler months, roasting foods in my oven or slow cooking in my crock pot. Summer’s departure doesn’t have to be depressing, and lucky for us, we are still getting warm enough weather to still enjoy a crisp outdoor meal full of variety. This fall, I invite you to explore some local foods that will not only warm your body but also your soul (cue corny music here). Fall into the taste of this cool season with these tasty local foods that you can enjoy this month.

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Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny If I warned you not to trust anyone, I hope you would reject my simplistic fear-mongering. If I suggested that you trust everyone unconditionally, I hope you would dismiss my delusional naiveté. But it’s important to acknowledge that the smart approach is far more difficult than those two extremes. You’ve got to evaluate each person and even each situation on a case-bycase basis. There may be unpredictable folks who are trustworthy some of the time, but not always. Can you be both affably open-hearted and slyly discerning? It’s especially important that you do so in the next 16 days.

As I meditated on your astrological aspects, I had an intuition that I should go to a gem fair I’d heard about. It was at an event center near my home. When I arrived, I was dazzled to find a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones, and beads. Within a few minutes, two stones had commanded my attention, as if they’d reached out to me telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. The explanatory note next to the chrysoprase said that if you keep this gem close to you, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.” Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, took them home, and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the coming weeks.

George R. R. Martin has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They have sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series Game of Thrones. Martin says the inspiration for his master work originated with the pet turtles he owned as a kid. The creatures lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he has testified. I think the next seven months will be a perfect time for you to make a comparable leap, Gemini. What’s your version of Martin’s turtles? And what valuable asset can you turn it into?

The editors of the Urban Dictionary provide a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it’s a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home. It has no ceiling or walls or carpets, and contains annoying insects and random loud noises. There’s a big yellow ball in the sky that’s always moving around and changing the temperature in inconvenient ways. Even worse, the “outside” is filled with strange people that are constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this description match your current sense of what “outside” means, Cancerian? If so, that’s OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside.

We all go through phases when we are tempted to believe in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental, and random thought that our monkey mind generates. I am not predicting that this is such a time for you. But I do want to ask you to be extra skeptical toward your monkey mind’s fabrications. Right now it’s especially important that you think as coolly and objectively as possible. You can’t afford to be duped by anyone’s crazy talk, including your own. Be extra vigilant in your quest for the raw truth.

Do you know about the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the Battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, his army technically defeated Roman forces, but his casualties were so substantial that he ultimately lost the war. You can and you must avoid a comparable scenario. Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn’t wreak turmoil and bewilderment. If you want to avoid an outcome in which both sides lose, you’ve got to engineer a result in which both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser.

If I could give you a birthday present, it would be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which treasure I’m referring to? Think about it as you fall asleep on the next eight nights. I’m sorry I can’t simply provide you with the instructions you’d need to locate it. The cosmic powers tell me you have not yet earned that right. The second-best gift I can offer, then, will be clues about how to earn it. Clue No. 1: Meditate on the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs. No. 2: Ask yourself, “What is the most unripe part of me?”, and then devise a plan to ripen it. No. 3: Invite your deep mind to give you insights you haven’t been brave enough to work with until now. No. 4: Take one medium-sized bold action every day.

Galway Kinnell’s poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the snow on Oregon’s Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day, the sun ... But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now is a good time for you, too, to refresh your awe and reverence for the wild darkness – and to recall that half your life belongs to it. Doing so will bring you another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.”

The last time I walked into a McDonald’s and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing that the restaurant chain serves up is appealing to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, however. In cow-loving India, McDonald’s only serves vegetarian fare that includes deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available. Mexicans order their McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a McDonald’s in Singapore, you can order McRice burgers. This is the type of approach I advise for you right now, Sagittarius. Adjust your offerings for your audience.

You have been flirting with your “alone at the top” reveries. I won’t be surprised if one night you have a dream of riding on a Ferris wheel that malfunctions, leaving you stranded at the highest point. What’s going on? Here’s what I suspect: In one sense you are zesty and farseeing. Your competence and confidence are waxing. At the same time, you may be out of touch with what’s going on at ground level. Your connection to the depths is not as intimate as your relationship with the heights. The moral of the story might be to get in closer contact with your roots. Or be more attentive to your support system. Or buy new shoes and underwear.

I haven’t planted a garden for years. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that pleasure. So eight weeks ago I was surprised when a renegade sunflower began blooming in the dirt next to my porch. How did the seed get there? Via the wind? A passing bird that dropped a potential meal? The gorgeous interloper eventually grew to a height of four feet and produced a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day I muttered a prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. I predict a comparable phenomenon for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

The coming days will be a favorable time to dig up what has been buried. You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose deceptions, see beneath the masks, and dissolve delusions. But it’s my duty to ask you this: Is that really something you want to do? It would be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion and suppressed energy, but it could also stir up a mind-bending ruckus that propels you on a healing quest. I hope you decide to go for the gusto, but I’ll understand if you prefer to play it safe.

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@MyszkaWay Thank you, Cosmo. Thank you for allowing Carina Hsieh and Laura Beck to write this embarrassing, psychotic confession you are calling an “article”, titled, “19 Very Real Things Only Women Stalking Someone Understand”. (Somehow they couldn’t quite make it to 20? But I digress.) After reading this my eyes rolled back so hard they kissed the top of my cranium. The so-called article examines the realest of real (or “literally”, if you don’t understand what that word means) when it comes to Instagram stalking. Things like accidentally liking a photo of someone you don’t follow (and describing that as “literally worse than death”) or “clicking on the profile of every girl who likes your crush’s profile” (and getting caught) or “when you stalk a person a ton and then you have to pretend you had no idea what they were up to” (when you see them in the scary, scary other world known as “real life”.) As I said, there are 19 of these and as you scroll down the list, it starts to read more like something Robert Dewey Hoskins would have done to Madonna’s profile, had Instagram been our bread and butter in 1996. Cosmopolitan is trying

it’s best to rebrand itself as “feminist” (because being a feminist is now “cool”, despite how little understanding one has about the ideology.) But since the days of Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan has sold copies based on ridiculous sex tips and outrageous techniques like “try doughnuts on his dick!” Sex mixed with pure shock value. Kind of like the Lady Gaga of women’s health magazines. I understand the point of this article is to make other people (who project their insecurities about love, romance, relationships and dating) feel like they are not alone in their social media stalker habits and that it’s totally OK. Well, guess what? I’m here to tell you that it is NOT OK. In fact, it is fullon demented. Social media has changed dating. Dr. Helen Fisher said it best when she told me that friends with beneﬁts, casual dating, hook-up culture, googling dates before hand and so on are actually cautious techniques in this era of what she calls “fast sex/ slow love”. “We’ve got a long period of early adulthood to experiment, or what I call ‘commitment lite’, to see what works for us by hanging out, sleeping together, and getting to know someone before committing to them entirely,” she said to me. “By the time we marry, we should have picked quite correctly.” However, what Fisher neglected to note is that dur-

ing this “commitment lite” phase, the insecure, newly dumped, freshly single and totally fucked (which is, at some point, all of us) turn to Internet stalking as a masochistic coping mechanism. I would argue that Internet stalking is worse because the screen allows the stalker endless hours of obsessing into Internet black holes of information. Unless they slip up and accidentally double click on a photo, then no one has to have an inkling about what they were up to. I understand that one could argue that Internet stalkers can only see what is made willingly public by a user whereas actual stalkers can break physical boundaries. Absolutely. But the obsessiveness is mirrored in both cases and that is exactly what’s concerning. Bottom line is this: we are slowly becoming a willing nation of stalkers. I see no harm in checking out someone before a date, especially if it’s a random, that’s just common sense. However, if you ﬁnd yourself nodding along to more than ﬁve of the 19 signs written in that Cosmopolitan “article”, you have reached a whole new level of psycho hose beast. W

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100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT Quebec Organic Cranberries

JD Farms Fresh Grade A Turkey

Organic California #1 Garnet and Jewel Yams

227g

Fresh Hand Peeled Ocean Wise Shrimp

BC Organic Organic California Red and Green German Butter Seedless Grapes Potatoes from Across the Creek, Pemberton

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Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bars

Olympic Yogurt

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Nutiva Organic Hemp Seeds or Chia Seeds

8” Apple Pie

assorted varieties

HEALTHCARE New Roots Mushroom Supplements

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Dairyland Whipping Cream and Cream

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Choices’ Own Cranberry Sauce, Cranberry Stuffing, Specialty Turkey Gravy or Vegan Miso Gravy, Stuffed Specialty Turkey Breast, Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Winter Root Vegetables.

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Let us help save you some time this Thanksgiving, visit our Deli Department for these delicious seasonal dishes:

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Orange Brandy or Shiraz

33%

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Old Dutch Restaurante Tortilla Chips or Potato Chips

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The Funky Gourmet Cranberry Sauce

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assorted varieties

9.99

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Farmers Market Organic Pumpkin Pie Mix, Organic Sweet Potato, Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Purées

2 pack • product of USA

SAVE 3/5.97

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32%

assorted varieties

Everything You Need to be Thankful for!

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Wholly Wholesome Frozen Pie Shells

assorted varieties

41%

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36%

Stahlbush Island Farms Frozen Vegetables

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650g • product of Canada

6.997.99

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500g • product of Canada/USA

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Organic Fresh Whole Chickens

18.99lb/ 41.87kg

2.98lb/ 6.57kg

2.27kg/5lb

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3.99lb/ 8.80kg

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

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