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THE LAUREN OFFERS LITTLE FOR WEST END The Lauren at Comox and Broughton Streets (Westender, Sept. 18-24, 2014) is being marketed as the “first purpose-built market rental tower for close to 30 years” but the 22-storey rental tower at St. Andrews Church three blocks to the east was built only 10 years ago.

Rezoning of The Lauren site was contentious and bolstered neighbourhood demands for an updated West End Community Plan, a plan that now prohibits similar tower development in the centre of the West End. The Lauren was approved under the City of Vancouver’s STIR program and received a huge 375 per cent increase in density and forgiveness of $1.7 million in Development Cost Levies.

The developer did very nicely thanks to Vancouver taxpayers who will pick up the future tab for municipal

infrastructure this project should have helped finance.

The Lauren contains six units under the provincial government’s SAFER program with a rent subsidy to eligible seniors and rents starting at $1,175 per month, but these units are offered for only five years.

While the developer has promoted his benevolence, what will become of the surprised seniors at the end of the five-year period?

During the rezoning process, city council and the public were told by the developer that market studio and one-bedroom apartments would rent for between $860 and $1,465 per month. Instead, these same units range from $1,400 to $1,800, with townhouse units at up to $3,200.

It’s convenient for the leasing manager to sing the building’s praises, but while the project was approved as “affordable rental housing” the units are instead some of the priciest rentals in the West End. There is little “afford-

able” about this project, and little in it for the community.

–Virginia Richards, longtime West End resident

VIRGIN DIARY Re: “Sex with Mish Way: Virgin territory” (Oct. 2) Sounds better than how I lost mine. I lost mine at 14 in a cold, dark, wet shed. It sounds really dubious but I can assure you it was consensual. My boyfriend at the time and I had no place to do the deed, so shed it was.

–Amelia

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I am particularly interested in the music and entertainment.

The music is way easier to find out what is on every day.

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Opinions differ on Drive bike lanes

Pushy cop awaits fate

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The video has been shown over and over on television news channels and on the Internet: A rookie cop shoves a defenseless woman to the sidewalk in the Downtown Eastside.

The cop’s name is Taylor Robinson, a constable with the Vancouver Police Department who graduated from the Justice Institute six months earlier.

The victim’s name is Sandra Davidsen, a woman with cerebral palsy and muscular sclerosis who lived at the Lux social housing building at 65 East Hastings.

More than four years after the incident outside the Lux, Robinson remains on the job and has yet to learn what type of a penalty, if any, he will receive for his actions on the afternoon of June 9, 2010.

But that day is coming.

Robinson will learn his fate Oct. 17 when an adjudicator presiding over a public hearing returns to courtroom 109 in the Robson Street courthouse to decide on a penalty.

The adjudicator is Wally Oppal, whose name is well known in the Downtown Eastside after he presided as commissioner over the

Cycling advocacy group HUB wants to see better bike infrastructure along Commercial Drive, but some business owners in the area aren’t convinced. While East Vancouver is home to a number of residential bike routes, there is little access to businesses in areas like Commercial Drive, says Erin O’Melinn, executive director of HUB (formerly the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition).

Currently, the closest streets with bike lanes running parallel to Commercial Drive are two blocks west on Woodland and four blocks east on Lakewood. There are few east-west connections, as well: Adanac and East 10th – nearly 20 blocks apart – are the only bike routes that come close to intersecting with the popular shopping district.

“It’s difficult to access,” said O’Melinn. And due to heavy traffic and narrow sections of pavement, Commercial Drive can be a dangerous place to cycle.

HUB is advocating for the addition of separated lanes to Commercial Drive to provide cyclists with safe, easy access

to local businesses.

According to O’Melinn, 10 per cent of residents in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood currently rely on their bikes as their primary source of transportation.

“And this is in a neighbourhood without bike infrastructure,” she said.

However, not everyone sees the bike lanes as a positive for the neighbourhood.

Nick Pogor is the executive director of Commercial Drive Business Improvement Association, and he says any bike lane options that displace parking spots would hurt businesses.

“We’re all for bikes and alternative modes of transportation, but businesses along the street need parking, on both side of the street,” he said. “I think it would really change the character of the street in a negative way, because the mom-and-pop stores wouldn’t survive.”

Pogor said the BIA would be interested in placing bike lanes on side streets that are closer to Commercial than the current options.

However, separated bike lanes may actually improve business, HUB contends.

According to O’Melinn, a

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A cyclist battles traffic along Commercial Drive.

Cycling advocacy group HUB would like to see bike lanes placed along the street, but some business owners are cool on the idea. Rob Newell photo recent study conducted along the busy Toronto shopping district of Bloor Street found that merchants vastly overestimated how many of their customers use cars. Meanwhile, studies done in Seattle and New York have suggested bike lanes there have had a positive effect on business.

“The impact is almost always positive when bike infrastructure is placed on commercial streets,” said O’Melinn. “A parking spot [accommodates] just one

customer, but a bike rack is 10 people.”

With a review of the Grandview-Woodlands Community Plan currently taking place, O’Melinn is hopeful the City of Vancouver will see fit to consider adding cycling infrastructure to the Commercial Drive corridor. She says some businesses she’s talked to in the area support separated bike lanes, including a number of the coffee shops.

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Missing Women Commission Inquiry. One of his recommendations was that police receive training to recognize the special needs of vulnerable people.

Now retired from the bench, the former judge of the BC supreme and appeal courts will consider the range of discipline requested by lawyers who outlined their arguments Monday at a oneday hearing.

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner wants Robinson suspended without pay for up to 10 days.

Davidsen’s lawyer, Douglas King, requested 15 days while lawyer David Crossin, acting on behalf of Robinson, argued for a two-day suspension, saying it was a “fit and proper” penalty and in line with what a VPD superintendent concluded in a separate investigation.

The police complaint commissioner’s office announced Oct. 3 that Robinson admitted to the allegations of abuse of authority and neglect of duty under the Police Act related to shoving Davidsen, whom he claimed was going for his gun. She was shaken but not injured, according to a case summary of the incident.

–Story courtesy of Vancouver Courier

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Vancouver taxi drivers are concerned unlicenced, on-demand chauffeur app Uber will cut in to their business. Dan Toulget photo

Taxi app Uber shut out of Vancouver, for now KELSEY KLASSEN kelsey@westender.com

Behind the friendly little icons on your smartphones, a multi-billion-dollar political battle wages between Silicon Valley tech-giant Uber and the global taxi service rank and file.

Founded in 2009, Uber is an on-demand chauffeur service that allows private drivers to connect directly with passengers via a GPSbased app. It operates in lieu of government-regulated taxi services, outside their lucrative licensing structures, and threatens to render the traditional taxi system obsolete.

To date, Uber has launched in over 200 cities.

In Vancouver, where cabs can be hard to come by, the roll out of the semi-secret service in the summer of 2012 was hailed as a godsend by local media and celebrities, only to be ushered out the door just as quickly by BC’s Passenger Transportation Board in November of the same year. The PTB demanded Uber charge a minimum of $75 per trip (as applies to limousines), regardless of distance travelled or duration, effectively shutting Uber out for the first time in its expansion history.

Despite greenest city goals and a growing reputation as a tech hub, Vancouver has, according to Uber co-founder

and CEO Travis Kalanick, been one of the hardest markets to crack; but the $18-billion app has faced similar roadblocks around the world.

Protests in Paris and London and an all-out ban in Germany have been rounded out with Barcelona authorities announcing plans to impound Uber vehicles, and Madrid threatening fines of up to €18,000 ($25,300 CAD) for drivers and passengers caught using the service. Uber has also been banned in New Orleans, Miami, and Brussels.

In Canada, modified versions of Uber have taken root in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, and the company recently met with the City of Edmonton. But this weekend in Ottawa, an unlicenced version that began operating last week was hit with an undercover sting, and two drivers were charged with operating a cab without a taxi driver licence. The drivers face fines of $650 each, and additional bylaw charges are possible.

Back in Vancouver, the cab companies and regulatory boards had seemingly put the issue to bed. But in September, Uber began staging its comeback, tweeting about its intention to return with the hashtag #VancUber and advertising on Facebook for drivers, thus rekindling the debate.

While proponents argue free market capitalism, critics

warn of a unlicenced wild west where passengers are at the mercy of potentially dangerous drivers and unmetered pricing determined by supply and demand.

Last week, Uber appeared in front of Vancouver City Council, where spokesperson Chris Scafer entered a plea to allow innovative new technology to compete with the city’s cab monopoly.

Also present were two dozen Vancouver cab operators who collectively dread the impact Uber would have on their livelihoods. In cities where Uber operates, cab operators have reported income losses as high as 60 per cent, while 20 per cent of each fare ends up in Uber coffers in California.

There is also the fear that taxi licences, which are sold by the provincial government, will lower in value. Initially available for a reasonable fee, their restricted numbers can drive the trading price as high as $800,000 each.

After hearing Uber’s pitch, council voted Oct. 1 to delay Uber’s entry into Vancouver for at least six months while it looks into the impact that it could have on the taxi industry.

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NEW KIN’S STORE OPENING OCT 18 SAVE THE DATE OCT 25th GRAND OPENING EVENT DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER (Denman & Comox)

Vancity signs on to anchor City’s new tech centre ROBERT MANGELSDORF editor@westender.com

Vancity has signed on to be the anchor tenant of the City of Vancouver’s first “Technology and Social Innovation Centre”, to be housed in the former Vancouver Police Building near Main and Hastings.

Under the arrangement, Vancity will lease the second floor of the building and act as facility manager. The remaining space will be subleased to “a broad range of

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entrepreneurs, social innovators, and non-profit organizations,” according to a City press release. The ground floor of the centre will function as a community space for various events and programs, services, and training.

Vancity will contribute $1.5 million towards upgrading the 100,000-sq. ft. facility.

“The new centre will focus on social innovation and involve a diverse mix of people in initiatives that make a positive impact and benefits the community for the long

term,” said Derek Gent, executive director of the Vancity Community Foundation.

The Vancouver Police Building at was built in 1953 and housed the entire department – more than 750 officers – until 1961, when VPD opened a second facility in Oakridge.

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COVER Charles Montgomery is the author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design.

How to build a Happy City As the municipal election approaches, Vancouver is at a crossroads. Author Charles Montgomery discusses the way forward.

ROBERT MANGELSDORF editor@westender.com

Author Charles Montgomery has travelled the globe in an attempt to nail down the ephemeral concept of happiness, and how the environments in which we live affect it. His book, Happy City:Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design explores the close relationship between how we have shaped our cities, and how our cities have shaped us.

Montgomery, who grew up in Duncan, uses Vancouver throughout the book as an example of successful urban design, and for good reason.

For decades, Vancouver has topped global polls as being one of the most liveable cities in the world. The city’s vibrant downtown core, with its mixture of residential and commercial uses all in close proximity to nature provides unique opportunities for recreation and social interaction.

But this didn’t happen by accident.

City planners long ago recognized that future growth in Vancouver couldn’t take the form of suburban lowdensity sprawl, as was the case elsewhere in North America, due to the city’s unique geography, the lack of freeways, and restrictions preventing the conversion of farmland to residential uses by the Agricultural Land Reserve.

The “Vancouverism” model of urban design that resulted, therefore, encouraged mixeduse podium developments in the downtown core, with ground-floor commercial units and medium- to highdensity residential units above, allowing residents to live close to work, and businesses to thrive.

“The Vancouverism model is unique and copied by other cities,” explains Montgomery. “It combines density with other values, like views of nature and visually inter-

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esting streetscapes.”

Those planning decisions have had a profoundly positive effect on our day-to-day lives, he explains in Happy City, and the result has been a largely happy populace, despite our seasonal lack of vitamin D. A 2008 study published by the Scandinavian Journal of Economics confirms what most of us already know: The longer we commute, the unhappier we are. Certainly the proximity many Downtown Vancouverites have to their place of work contributes to their well being.

Similar studies, which Montgomery details in his book, have also demonstrated how positive social interactions with people on the street, feelings of autonomy and independence, financial security, and closeness to nature all positively impact one’s sense of well being.

A well-designed city, he argues, can deliver all of these outcomes.

So it’s no wonder Essential Travel magazine recently named Vancouver one of the top 10 “Happiest Cities in the World” to travel to, or that it is a perennial contender for world’s most liveable city.

However, as Vancouver prepares itself for the upcoming municipal election in November, the city finds itself at a crossroads. How will we maintain and increase our standard of living when faced with decades of anticipated population growth?

By 2040, Metro Vancouver expects more than 150,000 new residents in Vancouver proper, requiring close to 100,000 new residential units.

As well, an additional 1.2 million residents are expected throughout the Metro region in that span.

So where to put those people?

The downtown core is reaching a critical mass for density. This means surrounding low density residential

CHARLES MONTGOMERY’S RECIPE FOR A HAPPY CITY • The city should strive to maximize joy and minimize hardship.

• It should lead us towards health, rather than sickness.

• It should offer us real freedom to live, move, and build our lives as we wish.

• It should build resilience against economic or environmental shocks.

• It should be fair in the way it apportions space, services, mobility, joys, hardships, and costs.

• Most of all, it should enable us to build and strengthen the bonds between friends, families, and strangers that give life meaning, bonds that represent the city’s greatest achievement and opportunity.

• The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century.

neighbourhoods are being eyed for development. Then there’s the question of affordability.

Urban planning decisions made in the next few years will shape the city for generations to come.

So how does Vancouver ensure it continues to be one of the world’s most liveable cities?

“I think the future is a suburban future,” says Montgomery. “There simply isn’t enough room in downtowns, and you’re seeing all kinds of push back.”

That means retrofitting suburbia to create walkable

mixed-use village and town centres.

For Montgomery, the Vancouverism model as it was applied to the downtown core may be a square peg in a round hole for neighbourhoods like East Vancouver, which Montgomery himself calls home.

He favours what he calls gentle densification as opposed to high rises: Allowing homes to be split into suites, laneway cottages, and legalizing basement suites. This method of infill will allow residential neighbourhoods to accommodate new residents without losing their character.

Allowing the subdivision of massive residential lots to allow for narrow townhomes, as was done close to 100 years ago in cities like San Francisco, New York City, and central Toronto, is also an option.

“More choices in housing, more walkable services, resulting in more people out on the street,” he says.

But as housing in Vancouver is increasingly out of reach of the working class, emphasis must be placed on affordability.

“The crisis in Vancouver is affordability,” says Montgomery. “It’s seen as a safe place to park your money. So it’s not simply a supply and demand problem.”

One possibility might be alternative forms of tenure, like house-sharing.

Montgomery himself co-owns a home. He and his partner bought a detached house with another couple in East Vancouver, an area in which he would otherwise not be able to afford to buy.

By co-owning, both parties are able to accumulate wealth through their equity in the home, while living close to their places of work in the downtown core.

Providing incentives for untraditional mortgages like Montgomery’s is one option to offer flexibility and afford-

ability in the housing market.

Subsidized housing, rent restrictions, and eased restrictions on “mortgage-helper” suites are others.

Expanding cycling infrastructure is also a no brainer for Montgomery. In Happy City, he details how cities as diverse as Bogota and Copenhagen have successfully integrated bicycle infrastructure, with far less consternation experienced here in Vancouver.

According to a 2007 study in the Netherlands, where roadways are shared by all modes of transportation, 68 per cent of cyclists surveyed reported feeling “joy” while on the road. Drivers came in second with 51 per cent, while transit riders came in at 22 per cent.

Expanding cycling infrastructure benefits everyone, Montgomery contends.

More cyclists means fewer cars on the road, and fewer people crowding the SkyTrain platform or bus shelter.

Cycling infrastructure is also vastly cheaper to build and takes up far less space.

But it isn’t a matter of one or the other, Montgomery says.

“Some people say there’s a war on cars, but I don’t believe it,” he explains. “I don’t think anyone wants to get rid of all cars, but people want more freedom to move as they want to.

“Unless you make room for people to walk and bike safely, and unless you privilege people who take transit, who share space on the road, then we’re all going to be stuck in traffic blaming each other. If you want to maximize choice, you have to privilege certain ways of moving, instead of just one.”

While Montgomery certainly doesn’t claim to have all the answers, the link between urban design and our own individual happiness is one he would like his fellow citizens

to carefully consider.

“There’s so many ways we’ve gotten it wrong, and there’s various reasons for that,” he says. “Humans are not well-equipped to maximize happiness. We have a tendency to simplify complex problems.”

Which why the process by which the path forward is charted is so important.

In Montgomery’s backyard, the City of Vancouver is currently undergoing a review of the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan, which will identify areas for future development and ultimately shape the future the future of the neighbourhood.

Leading the process is a citizen’s assembly of randomly selected residents who have been tasked with bringing the concerns of the community to the planning table.

“There are groups out there already that are saying the citizen’s assembly doesn’t represent them, but I don’t buy that,” he says. “Ensuring the citizens assembly is wellinformed, empowered, and listened to, I think it could be a great example to our civic leaders.”

As the election approaches, Montgomery says he is looking for candidates that acknowledge that urban design matters, and who can express why it matters and what they can do about it.

“We need brave new policies,” he says. “We need to ensure affordable housing, not just for the middle class, but for everyone.” W

TEDX VANCOUVER • Charles Montgomery is one of 11 speakers participating in TEDx Vancouver on Oct. 18 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, along with Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, and former Vancouver Whitecap Jay DeMerit. For details, visit TedXVancouver.com

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How the electric car changed my life KELSEY KLASSEN kelsey@westender.com

When my husband signed the lease on his Nissan Leaf in February, I knew as much about electric cars as the leasing agent, which is to say, next to nothing. My husband owns a recycling company, and has always driven environmentally friendly vehicles, and the Leaf was the culmination of years of research and a decade of waiting for the market to catch up with his dream of driving a pure electric vehicle.

But this was to be our only car, and I’m a reporter, so naturally I had questions; questions that could only be answered by actually driving one for a few months.

Since then, the car has become such an obvious way to get around that I almost forget what all the fuss was about.

Except for the part where it has totally changed my life.

Driving an electric vehicle has connected us with our community in ways that gas vehicles inherently did not.

When we pull into a parking spot – charging stall or not – people invariably start asking questions.

When was the last time a stranger in Vancouver started making friendly conversation with you that wasn’t druginduced or related to dating?

After five years of living in Vancouver, meeting these people and engaging in discussions about cars, the environment, and their day is a foreign and all together delightful part of the EV experience.

Often, the first question people ask is about the range; and it’s no wonder. It seems every article about electric vehicles begins with the same doom and gloom: “They’re great cars, except for the range issues.” The same could be said about gas vehicles – they’re great, except for the gas issues.

I’ll put it this way – I don’t know very many people who drive more than 140 kilometres in a day, and if you do

(my husband just took the car to Oregon), there are charging stations. When you need to charge the battery, just like when you’re about to run out of gas, you “fill it up”. And in the meantime, you enjoy quiet, fume-free commuting.

During the first month, I experienced what is commonly referred to as range anxiety.

The car was new to me, so I didn’t know if I could trust the GPS range maps and charge gauges, or even the kilometre signs on the side of the road. A 50km trip to visit my parents was the first time I took it out of the city, and I was nervous.

But instead of getting stranded on the side of the road, I made it, and discovered that my hometown has a charging station. Right in the centre of town! Huzzah. I parked there and walked the 10 minutes down the hill to my parents’ house and enjoyed my dinner, knowing by the time I was done, my car would be back up to 100 per cent.

Which leads me to another way the Leaf – the poor man’s Tesla – has changed my life: I exercise more and drive less.

Since not every business has the means or opportunity to put a charge point right outside their building (although, anecdotally, doing so is good for business, as EV owners tend to spend money in the area around charging stations as they wait for their cars to juice) we often have to walk a few blocks to our final destination.

Also, many local community centres have charging stations, so we have gotten in the habit of going to Hillcrest pool or the West Van aquatic centre in the evenings and swimming for an hour or two while the car charges.

But isn’t it an inconvenience to have to charge the car, people ask?

I look at it much like owning any other battery-powered device. I don’t resent charging my laptop and cellphone, so why would I resent charging

my electric car – this incredible machine that gets me from point A to point B without any emissions? We usually plug it in overnight, roughly every second night, so that it’s ready to go when we wake up in the morning. If you forget, there are 550 public, Level 2 (240V) charging stations across BC. One of the biggest developments the local EV community has been waiting on, though, is the installation of a DC fast charger in Vancouver. These charge the car in half an hour, and they already exist nearby

in Surrey, Squamish, and Langley. The charger is coming in early 2015, though, and will be located at Empire Field near the PNE. And, according to Sean Pander, Director of Sustainability for the City of Vancouver, the city has largely been spared the expense of this type of infrastructure.

“It actually hasn’t cost us very much,” he says. “We worked very closely with BC Hydro... and worked very hard to get the provincial incentives in place, both for electric vehicle charging infrastructure,

as well as personal incentives for electric vehicles.”

But the recent decision by the province to end financial incentive programs such as purchase and charge point rebates has left City Hall thinking more could have been done.

“It is quite a disappointment for us because we think there’s a role for government incentives when it comes to transforming a market,” says Pander. “ You don’t have to keep them forever, but I think it was too early. The mayor wrote a letter of strong encouragement to maintain the incentives. It was working, but it wasn’t done yet.”

So that leaves education and accessibility to do the rest. Case and point: While no amount of zipping my parents around in an electric car and pointing out every charging station will convince them to make the switch (despite a savings of almost $250 a month in fuel), something really special happened with my 17-year-old sister-in-law. She learned how to drive on our electric car.

She is part of the first generation to do so, and couldn’t stop talking about the car to her friends at school.

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In 2013, Choices collected over $4,500.00 – all of it donated in support of community elementary schools. Please see your local Choices to determine which school will receive this year’s proceeds.

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It’s a common occurrence, he says. Laker – the CEO of high-tech recruitment firm Mindfield – moved his company’s headquarters to a renovated heritage building in Gastown in March.

The renovated brick-andbeam building features three floors of glass offices and comes complete with the requisite foosball and ping pong tables. The office also sits directly across the street from the Salvation Army, in an area rife with open drug use.

“It’s very real down here, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing,” he says.

Blueprint marketing director Nate Sabine works in his new Gastown office. Blueprint is one of many businesses in the area looking at ways it can give back to the neighbourhood.

Photo supplied While Gastown has become one of Vancouver’s most desirable neighbourhoods in recent years – home to the city’s hottest restaurants, bars, and boutiques – it remains on the doorstep of the Downtown Eastside.

Here, the city’s poorest citizens cross paths with the wealthiest.

However, Mindfield and other like-minded businesses that have recently moved into the neighbourhood are choosing not to ignore the crushing poverty and addiction they pass by everyday, but instead do something about it.

Laker says while Gastown has a lot to offer businesses

– including easy transit access, relative affordability, and a creative, vibrant atmosphere – the area’s social issues shouldn’t be overlooked.

“That’s the neighbourhood we’re in,” he says. “But we don’t want to ignore it, we embrace it.”

To that end, Mindfield has instituted a company-wide program that sees employees provide lunch line support daily for the Salvation Army.

“It’s done wonderful things for employee engagement,” Laker says.

Mindfield’s office also features a beer and wine bar for employees and their friends. The booze isn’t free,

however: Imbibers (at least, the ones who aren’t employees) must donate one pair of socks to partake.

“We’ve collected at least 1,000 pairs of socks since we moved in,” says Laker.

Mindfield is far from the only business in the neighbourhood that is giving back.

Restaurateur and so-called “Mayor of Gastown” Mark Brand launched the A Better Life Foundation in 2012 to help provide meals and job skills to those in need, setting the bar for other area business-owners.

Entertainment firm Blueprint – which moved into its new home on West Cordova last month – is also looking to give back.

Nate Sabine, Blueprint’s director of marketing, says the company is looking at setting up its own community outreach initiative.

While the company was attracted to Gastown by its creative energy, Sabine says the visible social issues need to be addressed.

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GASTOWN SHOP HOP Fall was made for fashion and next Thursday, Oct. 16, the stylish set will gather for the semi-annual Gastown Shop Hop. With 44 shops and 15 restaurants in the mix this season, expect to discover why Gastown – where independent boutiques line the streets, bringing exclusive labels and local designers together to create a distinct shopping destination – was named one of Complex magazine’s 50 most stylish neighbourhoods in the world.

Hosted by these same boutiques, the event celebrates the start of the biggest season of the year with music, treats, and special promotions.

For one night only, retailers will open their doors until 9pm to showcase their latest looks. Think eyewear, accessories, and shoes, as well as home décor.

You can choose your own adventure – stop by your favourite shops or follow the Shop Hop map, found at participating retailers. Shop the in-store specials and receive dining vouchers to satisfy your appetite at the end of the evening in some the area’s best restaurants.

Store entrances will be marked with gold balloons.

Tiffany & Co. is so much more than a name. The brand has, over the course of its 177 years, grown to become not just stylish, but rather the symbol of style.

Tiffany is universally synonymous with glamour and grace, with women of the world vying to receive the treasure of that ‘little blue box’.

The iconic company has been able to create a status symbol with their collections; not status primarily based upon monetary value (as the pieces range over a broad spectrum of price points), but moreover a status of educated elegance. The Tiffany clientele understands the unspoken statement behind wearing designs that represent both sophistication and refined exuberance.

As a girl, I remember coveting and saving for key pieces from the Tiffany sterling silver collection: The classic Return To Tiffany charm bracelet and keychain were my most valued possessions, seemingly able to make the adolescent uniform of jeans and a tee seem beyond fabulous. As a young woman, the quintessential Tiffany diamond engagement ring was the be-all and end-all of any proposal story.

There have been Tiffany & Co. pieces to accompany many different times, budgets, and memories in my life – something the brand has managed to excel in is offering timeless pieces that not only represent, but last, a lifetime.

Now, as Tiffany & Co. enters a new chapter under the leadership of a fresh design director – Francesca Amfitheatrof – we see a collection that puts a modern twist on the New York roots of the company.

Tiffany T embodies the edge and energy of New York City to become the icon for a new era; graphic lines for the strength of the city’s architecture, combined with a chic minimalism that leaves the pieces open for interpretation in the eyes of those who revel in the arts and culture.

I had an opportunity to take a tour of the Tiffany T line, chat with the team about how Amfitheatrof ’s vision is taking a bold approach to the established traditions, and explore the pieces for myself to discover the endless possibilities.

What I found most striking about the collection was its versatility; the pieces, while strong, are streamlined – allowing for a mix and match approach to how they are worn. While I definitely have fun with over the top

statement pieces, I’m a huge fan of simple yet stunning jewellery that can be worn everyday without ever looking tired. With Tiffany T, the designs encourage layering, creating an opportunity for each individual to reflect their personality within the line. Simple silhouettes combined with an array of finishes make stacking the geometric rings and

it’s no surprise that the 18k gold Tiffany T cuff with a white ceramic face stole my heart. It is a substantial piece that can be worn alone as a stunning bold statement, or I’m picturing it mixed in with the Tiffany

T bangle and the Tiffany T (chain) bracelet to create a boho-meets-glam rock ‘n’ roll effect.

My other fave is the Tiffany T ring in 18k rose gold.

Sleek and simple, the ring is delicate enough to be worn in multiples without appearing too heavy, yet it has the strength to be worn solo and still catch eyes.

Tiffany T is a rich mix of options, making an ultimately chic appeal ridiculously easy. Strong yet sensual, this collection – in the words of the brand itself – is unapologetically modern. W Left: Tiffany T square bracelet, cut-out cuff, and large chain bracelet in 18K yellow gold.

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Despite coveting the collection in its entirety, there were a few pieces that stood out and spoke to my own style. Whether for fashion, accessories or home decor, anyone that knows me can attest to the fact that the white and gold palette combo is my weakness. I love it. So

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ShirakawaGastown.com Itoh Dining is a highly-regarded restaurant group in Japan that runs several fine dining spots, including one that is a partnership with legendary Japanese chef, Nobu Matsuhisa. When I heard they were coming to Vancouver to open a teppan spot in the late Boneta space in Gastown, it seemed like great news.

The new restaurant, Shirakawa (“White River”) would feature the extremely expensive and rare kuroge wagyu beef on its menu, likely the only restaurant in BC to offer this particular delicacy.

If you’ve never heard of kuroge wagyu, you’re not alone. It sells wholesale for $100 per pound, making it out of reach for most restaurants and consumers.

Why so expensive? Simply put, these cows live the high life. Daily massages, classical music for their listening and relaxing pleasure, maybe some beer or sake aperitifs – it’s all good times until the chopping block.

The result of all this fine living makes for extremely well-marbled and buttery meat that is fork-tender almost before you cook it.

The best method of preparation involves a teppan (Japanese iron griddle) to sear the meat to no more than a medium-rare state. A little salt, and you’re good to go.

Shirakawa delivers on the kuroge, which sells for $60 for two ounces or $100 for four ounces. They prepare it in the correct manner, and serve it with a wasabipepper sauce on the side.

So far, so good, and maybe if you’re willing to drop that kind of coin for less than a handful of meat, it’s worth trying at least once.

The rest of the menu, unfortunately, falls short of the bar set by the high quality of the ingredients, and, even with the radically lower prices (most plates range from $4 to $16, with only a couple over the $20 mark), the value just isn’t there.

Ebi abo ($7.50) was a thinly laid out salad of halved prawns and avocado in a wasabi and tobiko cream. The prawns were bland, as was the wasabi cream. Ginger-soy marinated chicken wings ($8) were crispy on the outside and promised good things, but the meat was undercooked and, again, the flavour was bland.

The better choices would

Shirakawa in Gastown is the first North American restaurant launched by Japanese high-end restaurant firm Itoh Dining. The house specialty is kuroge wagyu, but for those who can’t afford the Bentley of beef, affordable options like maguro sumiso populate the menu.

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The sushi on the menu is decent, and, if you’re really

itching to try the wagyu but don’t want to shell out the big bucks, it’s available by the piece.

As for beverages, there is a small but select list of premium sake, and the brews are craft and mainly local. Unfortunately, there are other places in the city to indulge in quality hooch

and Shirakawa needs to first up its game to match its ingredients in order to attract customers way from other haunts.

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I love turkey and I love Thanksgiving, but once in a while it’s nice to switch things up. Besides, traditions are meant to be broken, and to be honest, we broke Thanksgiving traditions long time ago anyway.

When we think of Thanksgiving we think of a spread of roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.

But it’s actually not what the Pilgrims ate during the festival holiday.

Instead they would rejoice in the local harvest, which the Native Americans helped gather.

There is no official documentation, but carrots, beans, peas, and cranberries were likely, as well as corn and sunchokes, which the Native Americans were growing. Corn would be served as porridge and there were no potatoes, which are originally from the Andes.

As for the turkey? What turkey? If hunting was successful, whole deer would be roasted over campfires and venison would be the protein, along with seafood.

Yes, seafood.

Apparently seafood was common since it was easily harvested along the shoreline in New England.

Needless to say, back then it wasn’t quite about what you were craving, but what was available during the season.

See! “Eating local” and “farm-to-table” is nothing new.

Thanksgiving wasn’t even a one-day event, but a three-day festival of eating,

Who needs turkey for Thanksgiving when you could have braised duck from Dynasty Seafood Restaurant on West Broadway. Mijune Pak photo hunting, and celebration of the harvest. So while traditions are made to be broken, I think we broke the wrong ones because frankly, I’d like to revisit this three-day idea.

The beauty of living in Vancouver is the multiculturalism, and if venison has already been replaced with turkey, then let’s also try something else.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still enjoy the “familystyle” tradition, and if you want to try something new this holiday, consider pre-ordering the braised duck stuffed with wild mushrooms in a sweet soy sauce at Dynasty Seafood Restaurant in Vancouver.

If you would rather revert back to old traditions and celebrate with venison and

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Guild (BCBG), has struggled Don Moore, western sales to cobble together a definitive specialist for Canada Maltanswer to that question. The ing, who’s worked in the BC government has asked the beer industry for nearly three guild for a definition, and he’s decades, says it’s really about been working on this project the soul of the brewery (and APPROVAL REQUIRED The enclosed proof is sent for your approval.

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He cites Sierra Nevada Brewing as an example. The California-based company brews a million barrels every year, but they value taste and quality before anything else.

Which means craft beer is that which is driven by a brewery’s devotion to quality first, business second. But this makes for a rather flimsy official definition that no governing body – especially the provincial government – would accept.

There are other factors to consider. In order to join the BCBG, a brewery must be majority owned in BC; the money and the jobs must remain in BC; and the amount produced must not exceed 160,000 hectolitres per year.

But, again, these points don’t a craft beer make. Unlike the term “microbrew”, craft beer isn’t defined explicitly by its output. Again, look at Sierra Nevada. In BC, the 160,000 hectolitres is a guideline imposed by the provincial government (of course!) for tax purposes.

Corporate or foreign ownership is a red herring as

well. Granville Island Brewing is owned and operated by Molson Coors and functions for the most part as a macro brewery when mass-producing its pale ale and lager (among others). But Vern Lambourne, GIB’s brewmaster, also creates legitimate and well-regarded craft beers with its Under the Bridge and Black Notebook series. In the US, Blue Moon, owned by MillerCoors (a joint venture between Molson Coors and SABMiller), and Shock Top, owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, are considered “crafty” because they’re brewed in “traditional” craft beer fashion. But any beer drinker worth his barley knows these beers are produced to target an increasing percentage of the beer-swilling public and are, in fact, actually quite shitty.

All this to say I don’t envy the BCBG in any way, and I wish Beattie and his troops all the best in coming up with a definition that takes all this into account. I, on the other hand, am done twisting my mind into pretzels over this and I…well, now that I mention it, have a craving for salty snacks that must be satiated immediately. Beer! W

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Rosewood Hotel Georgia has announced that they are opening the much-anticipated underground vaulted cocktail lounge Prohibition this December. The 3,000-sq. ft. space will be reminiscent of jazz speakeasies from the 1920s. The bar menu will feature vintage cocktail creations, housemade bitters, and an impressive champagne list.

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Thanksgiving is hands down my favourite holiday. It’s all about gathering for a decadent feast with family, close friends and the inevitable but welcome orphan. What else is necessary but wine?

Even if company is few, I always crack at least a couple of bottles. (Any dregs are a bonus and can be polished off with leftovers the next day.) You can hedge your bets by serving a white and a red to increase your chances of pleasing everyone’s palates.

Just don’t fret too much about finding the perfect match.

Side dishes like sweet yams, bitter Brussels sprouts, and tart cranberry sauce call for easy-going, food-friendly wines that can handle the delicious onslaught of flavours.

Gëwurztraminer has become the go-to Thanksgiving wine but there’s plenty to explore beyond this. Aromatic fruity whites such as Riesling, Viognier, Albariño, Torrontès and Pinot Gris have all graced my table.

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The latter is key for cleansing the palate between bites and I promise it’ll help you eat more. Pinot Noir is a classic, Beaujolais is always welcome and Valpolicalla is likely the direction I’ll be going, but Rioja and Grenache-based wines (think Côtes-du-Rhône) also work well.

This Thanksgiving I’ll be counting my many blessings in Italy. Though dinner will be turkey-less, there’s sure to be plenty of wine. As for my recommendations below, all will shine with turkey and its traditional trimmings. But for those of you who’ll also be celebrating with less conventional fare, I’ve included additional pairings.

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THE DRUMS Indie-pop band from Brooklyn, composed of Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham. 7pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $18 at Red Cat Records, Zulu Records, and BPLive.ca.

THE GROWLERS California based rock band on tour to support their latest release, Chinese Fountain.

8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $17 at Highlife, Neptoon, Red Cat, Zulu, and Ticketweb.ca.

PUP Toronto punks play tunes from debut album, with guets Tough Age. 7pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and BPLive.ca

UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY performs Wagner, Haydn, and Bartok. 8pm at Chan Centre for Performing Arts. This is a free event, tickets available at box office from noon on the day of the performance.

THEN & NOW Fundraiser for Megaphone magazine features a diverse lineup of Vancouver songwriters and artists including Shaun Verrault of Wide Mouth Mason, Hot Panda, Cityreal, Tonye Aganaba, The Wild Romantics, Badgerchild, Chersea Music, and more. 8pm at WISE Hall.

Tickets $12 at Picatic.com/ThenNow, $15 at the door.

#BP17YR Blueprint Events’ 17-year anniversary features electronicdance group Above and Beyond.

7pm at Pacific Coliseum. Tickets $58.50 at TicketMaster.ca. All ages.

MUTUAL BENEFIT American folk-pop singer-songwriter, on tour to support his debut full-length release Love’s Crushing Diamond.

With special guests Julie Byrne and Colin Cowan & the Elastic Stars. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $15 at TicketWeb.ca and Red Cat and Zulu Records.

DEL BARBER Independent folkrock singer-songwriter from Winnipeg performs with special guest Blake Berglund. 7pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $20 at Roguefolk. bc.ca, or at Highlife Records, Prussin Music, or Rufus’ Guitar Shop.

COMEDY KYLE BOTTOM Standup comedian has performed at Vancouver’s International Comedy Festival, on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and JFL’s Home Grown Comedy Competition. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. $15 at TheComedyMix.com.

TOP TALENT SHOWCASE Check out Vancouver’s next top comics as they develop their craft. 8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. $10 at YukYuks.com.

THEATRE/DANCE RENT: SING WITH SOUL Produced by Jaclyn Tsuei and Xiang Gu, with director Craig Decarlo and music director Christopher King. 8pm at the Orpheum Annex. For tickets, call 1-877-8400457 or visit TicketsTonight.TicketForce.com. Playing until Oct. 11.

CARRIE Cult rock musical based on Stephen King’s novel. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Playing until Oct. 25.

MY RABBI Two boys from Saskatoon find friendship despite growing up on two sides of a religious divide. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre.

Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca.

Playing until Oct. 18.

PRONG New York metal act touring their newest release Ruining Lives, with special guests Golers and more. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $18 at Scrape, Enter The Vault, and Ticketweb.ca.

ANGUS & JULIA STONE Australian brother-sister folk-blues group performs with Conner Youngblood.

7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets at NorthernTickets.com.

THE DERELICTS Punk legends from Seattle play with Class of 1984, The Tubuloids, and Major Buzz. 8pm at Funky Winker Beans.

Tickets $15 at the door.

SOULSUCKER Local rockers celebrate release of their new album, with guests 88 Mile Trip, Motorama, and The Injectors. 8:30pm at Pat’s Pub. Tickets $10 at the door.

COMEDY KERRY UNGER Edgy Alberta comedian headlines, with Kelly Dyer and Jy Harris. Shows at 7 and 930pm at Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver. Tickets $19 at YukYuks.com.

COMICS ON COMICS Vancouver comedians tear through old, awful and forgotten comic books at Hot Art Wet City. Hosted by Brent Constantine and featuring Stuart Jones, Andrew Maclachlan, John Cullen, Cam Macleod, Randee Neumeyer, Brad Dorion, and more. 8-10pm at Hot Art Wet City. Tickets $6 at HotArtWetCity. com.

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ROYAL CANOE Canadian indie pop band from Manitoba hits town with Rubblebucket. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $15 at Red Cat and Highlife Records, and online at TicketWeb.ca.

JOEY BADA$$ American hip hop artist performs in support of his new album, B4.DA.$$. With guests CJ Fly, Kirk Knight, and Nyck Caution. 9pm at The Vogue Theatre.

Tickets $30 at NorthernTickets.com.

THE REBEL SPELL Local political punks celebrate new album, Last Run. With guests Royal Red Brigade, The Binz, and Selfist. 830pm at 333 Clark (all ages). $10 at the door.

COMEDY KERRY UNGER Edgy Alberta comedian headlines, with Kelly Dyer and Jy Harris. Shows at 7 and 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver. Tickets $19 at YukYuks.com.

KYLE BOTTOM Standup comedian has performed at Vancouver’s International Comedy Festival, on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and JFL’s Home Grown Comedy Competition.

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

THEATRE/DANCE CIRQUE MUSICA A thrilling concert that blends the world’s greatest Cirque performers with live symphonic music. 8pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca.

4000 MILES Nicola Cavendish stars in this touching story about a sprightly 91-year-old New Yorker and her 21-year-old grandson.

Shows at 2 and 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Playing until Oct. 12.

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by Jaclyn Tsuei and Xiang Gu, in collaboration with director Craig Decarlo and music director Christopher King. 8pm at the Orpheum Annex. For tickets, call 1-877-840-0457

The King Khan and BBQ Show, Oct. 12. or visit TicketsTonight.TicketForce. com. Final show.

THE DAISY THEATRE Renowned puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett with new variety acts and characters. 8pm at The Cultch, ages 19+. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com.

BUTT KAPINSKI Private eye Butt Kapinski invites you to co-star in a film noir fantasy. This filthy, funny, fully-interactive ride is riddled with sex, sin, shadows, and subterfuge.

8pm at The Cultch’s Culture Lab. Tickets at TheCultch.com. Final show.

CARRIE Cult rock musical based on Stephen King’s novel. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Playing until Oct. 25.

BLUE BOX Arts Club Theatre Company presents Blue Box, based on Chilean writer and performer Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life. Arts Club Revue Stage, Granville Island.

Tickets at 604-687-1644 or visit ArtsClub.com. Playing until Oct. 25.

ON DEATH’S DOOR: PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents Andy Thompson’s all-new ghoulish, interactive, roving theatre adventure at a top secret location in Vancouver.

Performances begin every 30 minutes from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Visit TheVirtualStage.org/tickets for tickets and details. Playing until Nov. 2.

EVENTS BAKERS MARKET A gathering of professional, amateur, student, and Mommy bakers who get together to buy and sell their baked goods to the community. Hand-made chocolates, brownies, cupcakes, cake pops, scones, organic muffins, gluten-free, vegan baked goods, preserves, tarts, granola, cakes, and more. 11am-3pm at Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, 7646 Prince Albert.

MUSIC THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Garage rock duo from Montreal performs with Nervous Talk. 8pm at Electric Owl. Tickets $17at TicketWeb.ca, or Red Cat, Zulu, and Highlife Records.

LONGWALKSHORTDOCK EDM artist performs with Stylust Beats and guests Willisist, Dissociate, Kid Kurse, 22:22, and Kommon. 10pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $20 at Zulu, Red Cat, Beat Street, Highlife, Puff and FortuneSoundClub.com.

NOAH GUNDERSEN Seattle-based, country-folk singer-songwriter, on tour to support his latest release, Ledges. With special guest Caroline Rose. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $12 at TicketWeb.ca and Red Cat, Zulu, and Highlife Records.

CORDEI Harp and violin duo presents a varied program of French repertoire and pieces by celebrated Vancouver composers Michael Conway Baker and Owen Underhill. 3pm at Roedde House Museum. Tickets $10, email info@ roeddehouse.org.

KIVEN Powerful Los Angeles rock quartet performs with Rags & Ribbons, and Ghost Parade. 8pm at the Railway Club. Tickets $7 at the door.

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By Ramen recording artists from Columbus, Ohio. 7:30pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $24.50 at Red Cat Records, LiveNation.com, and all TicketMaster locations.

THE TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD ORCHESTRA West-Coast bohemians with a taste for acoustic merriment, a rambling and rootsy ensemble that communes over a melting pot of eras and cultures. 7pm at the Emerald. Tickets $10 at the door.

WILDCAT! WILDCAT! LA pop band with guests White Hinterland.

8pm at Media Club. Tickets $12 at TicketWeb.ca, or Red Cat and Zulu Records.

COMEDY LAUGH GALLERY Graham Clark (CBC’s Debaters, Stop Podcasting Yourself) hosts this weekly comedy night. 9pm at Havana Restaurant (1212 Commercial). Tickets $5 at EventBrite.ca.

THEATRE/DANCE EDUCATING RITA Life-affirming story about a working-class hairdresser who enrolls in a literature course. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

Playing until Oct. 25.

THEATRE/DANCE STAR WARS: REVEAL OF THE JEDI Geekenders burlesque show features a sexy Star Wars sendup. Tickets available through RioTheatreTickets.ca, and more information on Geekenders is at Geekenders.ca or Facebook.com/ Geekenders.

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE Local improv group’s weekly live show features two halves of fast-paced, absurd and hilarious improv. 9pm at The Fox Cabaret. $7 at the door.

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MIKE DOUGHTY Singer/songwriter features a duo with longtime foil Andrew “Scrap” Livingston on cello. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

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BANKS American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, with guests Movement and Lil Silva. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $25 at LiveNation.com, or any Ticketmaster outlets.

NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC documentary screening and live performance. Shows at 6pm and 9:45pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $58 at NorthernTickets.com

ALT-J Indie rock band from England plays songs off newest album, This is All Yours. 6:30pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at TicketMaster.ca.

AB-SOUL American hip hop recording artist from Carson, California, with special guests. 8pm at Fortune Sound Club. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu, and Beat Street Records, as well as TicketWeb.ca.

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THEATRE/DANCE CARRIE Cult rock musical based on Stephen King’s novel. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Playing until Oct. 25.

ON DEATH’S DOOR: PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents Andy Thompson’s all-new ghoulish, interactive, roving theatre adventure at a top secret location in Vancouver. Performances begin every 30 minutes from 6:30 to 8:30pm.

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MY RABBI Two boys from Saskatoon find friendship despite growing up on two sides of a religious divide. 3pm at Firehall Arts Centre.

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BLUE BOX Arts Club Theatre Company presents Blue Box, based on Chilean writer and performer Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life. Arts Club Revue Stage, Granville Island.

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NICK SWARDSON Best known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series Reno 911!, Minnesota comedian brings his Taste It Tour to town. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $39.75 at NorthernTickets.com.

THE COMEDY CABARET Sketchcomedy duo Schtuptown (composed of Goldie Hoffman and Ruven Klausner) present a variety show featuring a rotating roster of hilarious local and touring talent. 8:30pm at Skinny Fat Jacks (behind Slickity Jims). Free event.

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THEATRE/DANCE THE MUTED NOTE Unaccompanied trombone and voice boldly interpret the poems of the late P.K. Page through song and dance. Adapted to an intimate duet specially designed for vocalist/dancer Susanna Hood. 8pm at Western Front. Tickets available at Front.bc.ca.

EVENTS LUNCH POEMS Featuring Tim Bowling and Donato Mancini. Everyone is welcome to enjoy poetry in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, whether you are new to poetry, or have had a long romance with it.

Noon at SFU Harbour Centre’s Teck Gallery. Free event, all ages.

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INTRO TO BASIC SQUARE DANCING Learn basic level of Modern Western Square Dancing with world renowned caller, Anne Uebelacker. The music is contemporary, the dress is casual, no experience or partner necessary.

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DON ROSS Fingerstyle guitar legend performs with special guest Thomas Leeb. 7pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $24 at RogueFolk. bc.ca, or at Highlife Records, Prussin Music, and Rufus’ Guitar Shop.

VANCOUVER CUBAN MUSIC FESTIVAL A four-day celebration of superb Afro-Cuban music kicks off in Granville Island. Visit IslandOfMusic.com for full festival lineup.

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TANYA TAGAQ Polaris prize-winning Inuit throat-singer appears with Severn Cullis-Suzuki as part of the Beyond Words series.

7:30pm at Telus Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets $20 at TicketsTonight.ca.

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VIFF We’re only halfway through the Vancouver International Film Festival and there’s still great music movies to be seen. Hopefully you already caught Nas: Time is Illmatic – a documentary exploration of the hip-hop album’s legacy 20 years later.(If not, there’s still a chance to see it at the Vogue Oct. 16).

And there’s more: N:The Madness of Reason; the late Raymond Borremans was a French intellectual and musician, fascinated

by Africa and dedicated to its people. His great project, unfinished at the time of his death in 1988, was an African encyclopedia, but he got only as far as the letter N. This documentary speaks for him in memoriam. Oct. 9, Vancity Theatre.

Dominguinhos; a celebration of music and the story of a fascinating life, this documentary introduces viewers to Brazilian musician Dominguinhos (1941-2013): His life, his art, and the culture that sustained him.

The famed accordion player is hardly known in these parts but his music is ripe for crossover discovery. Oct. 9, Vancity Theatre.

Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story; tormented by bedbugs, an ostracized woman learns an unexpected lesson about acceptance. Oct. 10, Vancity Theatre.

God Help the Girl; a jubilant indie musical from Belle & Sebastian lynchpin Stuart Murdoch about three young Glaswegians starting a band.

Oct. 11; SFU Woodwards.

In Search of Chopin; VIFF favourite Phil Grabsky’s latest in his beautifulsounding series on composers (In Search of Mozart, In Search of Beethoven) takes a look at one of the all-time greats. Oct. 12, SFU Woodwards.

Jalanan; a first-time Canadian filmmaker has made the most successful documentary in Indonesian history. Daniel Ziv’s Jalanan (“Streetside”) has shone a light on urban poverty, garnered political attention, and made stars of its subjects: Three street musicians in Jakarta. Oct. 12, SFU Woodwards –Kelsey Klassen

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on Main Street Exile co-owner Chris Young says the new music store is meant to fill the hole left by NJAM, a popular gear store that closed in 2010. Rob Newell photo LOUISE BURNS music@westender.com

More often than not, the mere mention of the acronym “NJAM” will leave any local musician with a look of misty-eyed nostalgia. Not Just Another Music Shop was Vancouver’s most unique and truly best music store, filled with a dazzling array of vintage instruments, affordable used gear, locally made pedals and boutique amps. In 2010, after 25 years in business, it locked up its South Granville location for the last time and Vancouver’s music gear nerds were left with nowhere to go.

But here we are, four years later, with Exile on Main Street.

Exile Electronics Ltd. opened its doors on Sept. 1 to shine a light on Vancouver’s music community. Co-owner Chris Young explains: “Three of the four partners are former NJAM employees. We all got laid off a few months before it closed. So I think we were just sitting around and kind of missed it, and thought ‘Let’s pool our efforts and do it together’.

I thought of an idea for a stripped down version of [NJAM] so less of the cheap stuff and more of the nice stuff, as much as we could.”

Upon entering Exile, you are greeted by a well-stocked wall lined with guitars and basses, each of a reputable brand, including the rare

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Perhaps the one thing missing here is innovation.

Less borrowing, more creating. New Testament sounds a bit too polished, a bit too thought out. And what makes Owens shine is when he is unpolished – the salty superstar. This album is good, but you know it could be great. –Louise Burns

CHRISTOPER OWENS

A New Testament (Turnstile ) Known for his work with the now-disbanded band Girls, New Testament is Christopher Owen’s “sophomore effort” as a solo artist. Utilizing the Girls-era influence of 1950s and ‘60s pop, but also taking a page from the Great American Songbook, it’s brimming with sepia-toned, well crafted songs.

Owens is undeniably a very talented man with all the panache of a super star: He can sing, write, and has just enough self-awareswagger to make even the most jaded music fan feel something.

1960s Gibson EB2 bass, regal in its resting place. A 1963 Fender Stratocaster and 1968 Fender Telecaster in a beautiful copper finish bask in the corner, waiting to relive their glory days. Impressive vintage stock aside, Exile also take focus on locally made and Canadian products.

“We have the Halcyon [acoustic guitars] on order…

They’re made in Vancouver, a small two-man operation out of a house just off Hastings.

Ed Bond (Tinker Guitars) and his partner are former Larivee guys. We’re definitely looking into synthesizers.

There’s a local company who do modular synthesizers called Intellijel, so we’re trying to work out a deal with

He also knows how to tastefully drop a hint of influence, whether it be gospel in “My Troubled Heart” (whose intro sounds eerily similar to George Michael’s “Faith”), Elvis (hello, “Suspicious Minds” solo in “Oh My Love”), and the loveydovey lyrics delivered with a dash of salt to keep it from turning saccharine. Most of the time.

Rating: ★★★★★

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Indian Ocean (Nettwerk) Frazey Ford was born in Castlegar, but could easily be mistaken for a Southern Belle. With a smokey vibrato like a hummingbird at sunset, her music captures the soul of the South through the hands of a West

them. [The founder] is quite an ingenious fellow. Some of my local friends who are into that stuff say he’s one of the biggest guys in that world and he’s here in Vancouver.”

Young also owns his own pedal company, Union Tube & Transistor, whose clientele includes Neil Young, Daniel Lanois, and Jack White’s Third Man Records. This is the only store in Canada to carry the Bumble Buzz, the pedal built for Third Man. In addition to a wide variety of pedals, Union is currently working on building their own boutique tube amps. Stay tuned.

Exile also provides repair services for pedals and amps, and handles guitar repairs in collaboration with the infaCoast songstress.

Most will recognize Ford’s unique voice from her work with Vancouver folk trio The Be Good Tanyas, or her 2010 solo debut Obadiah. Indian Ocean brings more rhythm and funk to her usual velveteen folk and neo-soul, thanks to bringing in Al Green’s backing band The High Rhythm Section, one of soul’s most infamous studio groups, as her back up players.

Rich harmony, electric organ and one of the greatest rhythm sections in history, all subtly enhance the songs. From the cool and contemplative “Season To Season” to the sass-groove of “Done”, the album remains true to Ford’s folk

mous North Vancouver-based Paul Iverson.

Above all, Exile exists to support the Vancouver music community. Whether you’re looking for a new set of strings on a Sunday (they’re open seven days a week!) or an Omnichord (like yours truly), you’ll find it here. And if they don’t have what you’re looking for, they’ll find it and bring it in for you.

Exile are Bob Main, Jon Wood, Kate Wattie and Chris Young.You can find them at 3720 Main, or on the cyber web at 21exile22.com Bring your concert posters, they’re redecorating!

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and neo-soul sensibilities, but the added hands of some of history’s finest players makes for a very special album.

Enjoy with a Sazerac at sundown, and cheers to one of our country’s finest. –LB Rating: ★★★★★

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Beerlesque celebrates DIY spirit KELSEY KLASSEN kklassen@westender.com

Within Vancouver’s do-ityourself movement, the coming together of craft beer and burlesque is surely kismet.

As people who translate their identities into art for a living, Vancouver’s brewers and dancers quite naturally join forces each year to celebrate with Beerlesque – an annual fundraising romp for the Roundhouse Community Centre.

Presented by Vancouver Craft Beer Week, more than 20 breweries (Parallel 49, Bomber, Driftwood, Russell, Fernie, Deep Cove, R and B, Spinnakers, Steamworks, Moon Under Water) will serve up their finest wheats, ambers, and IPAs at the Roundhouse Oct. 10, while food carts fill plates and dancers fill thoughts.

When the Westender caught up with headliner Melody Mangler, co-founder of the Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society and Vancouver’s longest-running burlesque show, the veteran performer was busy sewing costumes for her latest crop of students.

“It comes with the class that I teach,” she explains.

“Everybody gets a costume handcrafted by me.”

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Mangler might shrug off the labour of love as no big deal, but a costume is to a burlesque dancer what a cover is to a novel: It’s the first thing that catches your eye, and the last thing that matters when you get to the end. But in between, it has to do its job.

“I really feel like, when she’s doing a solo act, a burlesque dancer’s dance partner on stage is her costume,” Mangler says. “So I like to approach burlesque that way.”

For Beerlesque (which will also feature dancers like Nicky Ninedoors and Lola Frost), Mangler says she has an idea of what road she is going to sashay down, and it happens to be a garden path.

“I’m pretty sure I’m going to be doing my signature rose act,” she hints, “which includes quite a few transformations and unexpected surprises. I can’t give too much away, but it is a lot to do with the costume piece,” she adds.

But Mangler wasn’t born with the gift of the stitch and the snap tape; she actually learned how to sew from her husband and business partner Norm Elmore, who picked up his skills as the son of a Home Ec. teacher.

A giant laugh escapes her fi-

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ery, tattooed frame as Mangler recalls when she and Elmore were running their nowdefunct R-rated game show at the Cobalt, and she was its punk-rock Vanna White.

“My costumer was a burlesque dancer,” Mangler explains, “and she kept trying to push my costumes more scanty, a little bit at a time.”

That was all it took. The trained actress began researching burlesque, and fell in love with the art form. She started working it into the game show, and eventually the burlesque took over.

Since then, Mangler has established herself as one of Canada’s greatest burlesque beauties. Her first time performing outside of the country in 2009, she took home Best Début at the Burlesque Hall of Fame – the first Canadian ever to do so. And over the past 11 years, her not-for-profit society has produced more than 200 shows and helped create the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival.

“I fell more in love with [burlesque] than going to auditions and trying to be something else for other people,” Mangler says. “It really is the Beerlesque headliner Melody Mangler in her signature rose DIY nature of the art form costume, which features flowers from the burlesque dancer’s that inspires me the most.” WT:10.25” wedding. Derek Jackson photo

In the lead up to its 10th anniversary, Vancouver’s longest-running interdisciplinary performing arts series is inviting past artists to reimagine their collaborations on Oct. 16 and 17 at Guilt & Co. The risky series pairs artists together to create an original performance in two weeks.

Featured artists: Musician Barbara Adler, performance artist Nita Bowerman, dub poet Scruffmouth, dancer Cristina Bucci, and more.

Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7pm Tickets: $20-$25, BriefEncounters.ca. –Kelsey Klassen

STICKBOY Four of Vancouver’s most prominent mural artists are provoking discussion around the issue of bullying with powerful paintings on exterior walls of buildings in Vancouver.

The murals are part of an awareness campaign leading up to Vancouver Opera’s world-premiere production of Stickboy, composed by Neil Weisensel with libretto by spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan. Work begins Oct. 9 outside 101 East Hastings (Nick Gregson), 1000 Parker (Carson Ting), Bomber Brewing at 1488 Adanac (Ben Tour), and 3106 Cambie (Ola Volo). –KK

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CBC resets the western genre with dark, complex, women-driven Strange Empire Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

Westerns have long been told from the perspective of the fortune-hunting white male living the “Go west, young man” dream.

Sure, women (not to mention minorities) sacrificed and bled for Canadian westward expansion, too, but we haven’t heard their stories – at least, not until now, and we’ve got the national broadcaster to thank for this historic moment.

In the aftermath of wellpublicized budget cuts, CBC Television is making a bold statement with Strange Empire, the groundbreaking series from the mind and pen of veteran TV scribe Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik (Durham County).

Set on the AlbertaMontana border a couple of years after Confederation, Strange Empire goes where no western has gone before, delving deep into the dark and twisted lives of a trio of complicated women.

There’s Kat Loving (portrayed by Cara Gee of Empire of Dirt fame), a would-be rancher turned

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Melissa Farman, Cara Gee, and Tattiawna Jones star in CBC’s Strange Empire. righteous gunslinger; Dr. Rebecca Blithely (Melissa Farman), a cold and curious surgeon raised in a laboratory as an experiment in female intelligence; and Isabelle Slotter (Tattiawna Jones), a driven, purportedly psychic madam and wife to Captain John Slotter (Aaron Poole), the lone male lead whose extreme choice in the pilot episode – to kill off all of the men of a stagecoach party, thus stranding the women in Janestown, his mining camp – sets the high drama in motion.

Though it’s filmed in and around the Aldergrove studio that once housed Arctic Air’s interior sets – and, according to the unit publicist who accompanied Westender on a recent set visit, 60 per

cent of Strange Empire’s crew worked on the nowcancelled adventure drama – that’s where similarities to any of the CBC’s other series end.

The characters occupy a grey zone of moral ambiguity more befitting an HBO or Netflix show than the safe family fare we’ve come to expect from the national broadcaster. Strange Empire’s heroines and heroes can each, in turn, be violent, vile, vulnerable, vain, selfless, kind, and seductive, sometimes all of these in a single moment.

“The mortality rates made life not life. Life was survival and in order to survive, you had to make really difficult choices you had to live with, and in many ways, those

choices were either going to turn you into a hero or a villain, most likely both,” says Farman, seated in one of Janestown’s whorehouses, referred to in the conceit of the show as “cribs.”

Finstad-Knizhnik says she always wanted to do a western, because “I like genre, and for writers, genre is a wonderful scaffold for all sorts of stories.”

In Strange Empire, she gets to tell stories from our nation’s past that have long gone untold: About women, miners, railroad builders, Civil War refugees, mystics, the Metis, and the grim realities of life and death in the wilderness.

“It was a great thing to essay upon, the western in Canada, because it’s a

very American genre, and we haven’t really looked at it,” says Finstad-Knizhnik.

“We’ve always had this very starched and tidy idea of our history, and it’s not really very tidy. There are all these stories, particularly from this era, that were never told, and they do need telling.”

Her actors are reveling in the nuances of their untidy characters.

“With [Finstad-Knizhnik], she’s fascinated with the minutiae and motivation.

Everyone says they are, not many people actually are, and even fewer are to the extent that she is,” says Poole, his character’s signature black cowboy hat perched on his head. “There’s a lot of empathy and you can understand why [my character] makes the choices that he does. I’m not a caricature. I have a black hat, but that’s about where it ends.”

Despite the fact that Strange Empire is largely populated by women, the actors and show-runner are loathe to label it a “women’s western” or feminist drama.

“It’s not about being a woman, and it’s not ‘Rah, rah, rah, girl power in the Wild West’ at all,” says Gee. “The three women aren’t exactly on the same team, and they are varying degrees of good and evil, and they’re complex, as women are, and as men are,” says Gee. “This is a story about the people who were actually there and whose stories have been completely written over. The dark, moving truth of that.”

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It’s the date movie of the decade. David Fincher’s Gone Girl is a blistering vision of modern marriage that works best as a satire on contemporary relationships and media scrutiny. Based on the provocative bestseller by Gillian Flynn (who also adapted the screenplay), the story opens with Nick Dunne (Affleck) arriving home to realize his wife Amy (Pike) is missing.

A police investigation and media circus ensues as Nick’s apparent indifference about his wife’s whereabouts leads to sneaking suspicion, but this is after all a Fincher flick so nothing is as it seems.

The less revealed about the subsequent plot the better (for those unfamiliar with the source material) but twists abound and some are downright shocking.

Thankfully, the veteran director skillfully saves these potentially clichéd moments from crumbling into silliness. Aided by his longtime cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and teaming up once again with composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Fincher meticulously crafts an eerie, atmospheric world that is so heightened at times, it almost feels like fantasy.

Casting is always key and the major players each hit the mark. Affleck legitimizes himself as a dramatic actor while Pike’s stunning performance will be immortalized as the one that made her a household name.

Strong support from Kim Dickens, Neil Patrick Harris and a scene-stealing Tyler Perry also add to the immense appeal of the film.

Gone Girl is a rarified cinematic treat which represents a masterclass in filmmaking that pushes boundaries and will have couples conversing for months to come.

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Although we will miss the summer glow and the abundance of fresh summer foods, we have so much to look forward to with the new varieties this season.

Fall is a time for building and nourishing, it’s cool outside and your body wants to keep warm. This is a great time to incorporate soups, stews, chilis and other comfort foods into your diet, these are also great ways to introduce new fall produce into your kitchens.

Get out your slow-cookers, park your Dutch ovens on your stove, and create some goodness to share with friends and family.

Here is what you can look forward to:

ROOT VEGGIES

Beets, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, onions, celery, and so much more. Available all winter long, these gems are packing tons of nutrients that they absorb from the soil, making the high in fibre, antioxidants, B vitamins, vitamin C, and slow digesting carbohydrates which make you feel full and regulate blood sugar.

PUMPKIN

Pumpkin seeds are high in zinc which are great for your nails, skin, and hair and, for the fellas, great for you prostate. Make pumpkin soup from your leftover jack-o’lantern, roast those pumpkin seeds and, add your favorite spices.

APPLES

Take a day-trip out to the apple orchard to pick your own and sip on some hot apple cider. Apples are a great source of fiber and are so versatile because of the many varieties that are locally available to us. Bake a pie, make apple sauce, dry in your oven for a great on the go snack, the possibilities are endless.

TURNIPS

Not only is the vegetable itself full of minerals and vitamins like B Vitamins, zinc and manganese, but it’s greens are also packed with loads of calcium! Like potatoes, turnips can be boiled, roasted or mashed.

Add herbs and spices to liven it up at your next meal.

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Not only is this one of the healthiest veggies around, packing iron, and vitamins A and C, but it is so versatile.

You can bake, steam, sauté, or juice it, or add it to your favorite smoothie.

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RECIPE // ROASTED ROOT VEGETABLES Roasted root veggies with a zing. This dish goes great alongside roasted chicken and a salad, and makes a great addition to any potluck/holiday feast!

1 onion 4 carrots 1 bulb of garlic (crushed) 3 large potatoes 4 parsnips Sea salt Pepper 2 Tbs fresh or dried thyme and/or rosemary Extra virgin olive oil 2 Tbs apple cider vinegar Preheat oven to 400F 1. Make sure the veggies are thoroughly washed.

Chop the onion, potatoes, carrots, and parsnips and add to roasting or baking pan.

2. Drizzle veggies with olive oil, vinegar, and herbs and spices to taste.

3. Bake at 400F for 45-60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.

4. Add crushed garlic after 30 minutes.

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The IV Wellness Boutique is the first dedicated intravenous nutrient therapy lounge in Vancouver. Located at 1060 Homer, the boutique is the creation of naturopathic physician Dr. Heidi Rootes and her partner Robin Szakacs.

IV treatments have become increasingly popular thanks to sports stars and celebrities like Rihanna spreading the word. The treatments provide therapeutic doses of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids – all of which are said to boost energy, improve physical performance and brainpower. The IV therapy is more concentrated than traditional supplements and is used to address conditions such as weak immune systems, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and athletic injuries.

Vitamin C, for example, is essential to collagen formation and healthy muscles, tendons and ligaments, preventative for injury and helping improve and maintain endurance.

At IV Wellness the medically-supervised therapy plans are tailored to each client.

“All of the vitamins, minerals and amino acids that we use are water soluble, which means that they do not build up in the body and are safe unless used in extremely high doses, which we do not use,” explains Rootes. “In addition, all our IV treatments are administered by a licensed physician with special training in IV vitamin therapy. Each time a patient comes in, they meet with the doctor who reviews their health history and

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Client Kyle Eastick is hooked on the treatments.

“I feel regenerated and more alert. My workouts are extended and my intensity and consistency is better,” he says. “It takes 45 minutes every eight weeks. I’ll continue to do this on a regular basis because it really works.”

Another client, Genieve Burley, has an extremely busy lifestyle taking care of two kids, teaching weekly yoga and ballet classes, and training for a half marathon. She says the IV treatments are her version of a time out.

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Vancouver home prices crept higher by about 0.3 per cent in September thanks to strong sales in the month, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported Oct. 2.

The benchmark home price in Metro Vancouver is now $633,500, up about $1,900 from the benchmark price at the end of August.

“Gains in home values are being led by the detached home market,” REBGV president Ray Harris said.

“Condominium and townhome properties are not experiencing the same pressure on prices at the moment.”

Sales helped fuel home price stability.

REBGV statistics show that residential property sales in Metro Vancouver reached 2,922 on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in September 2014. That’s 17.7 per cent more than the 2,483 sales in September 2013.

The strong sales also helped another key indicator: The sales-to-active listings ratio, which rose one percentage

point to 19.7 per cent, compared with August.

Conventional real estate wisdom is that a market is considered to be a buyers’ market when the sales-toactive-listings ratio is below 13 per cent. A balanced market exists when the ratio is between 13 per cent and about 21 per cent, Harris said earlier this year.

It is then considered a sellers’ market when the ratio is above 21 per cent for at least a few months, he added.

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Today’s Drive: 2015 Hyundai Sonata Hyundai delivers all sorts of stuff you’d expect to find only in a higher echelon of automobile BRENDAN MCALEER westender.com

You know who makes a decent cup of coffee? McDonalds. I know, I know, not a patch on that artisanal, hand-roasted, high-falutin’ stuff, but as a decent cup of joe, McDonald’s has really stepped up their game of late.

You can even get espresso-style drinks at the Golden Arches, which brings me around to the car we’ve got here in front of us. It’s early on a weekday morning, I’ve got a small coffee in my hand, and I’m looking at Hyundai’s wellpriced, economical-to-run family sedan. The two are

not dissimilar.

This limited-trim model comes with all sorts of stuff you’d expect to find only in a higher echelon of automobile. Adaptive cruise control?

Heated rear seats? A ninespeaker, 400-watt stereo?

Geez, that’s a lot of stuff.

And yet, it’s a Hyundai, a brand that’s based on value.

I take a swig of coffee, plonk the cup in the Sonata’s (huge) cupholders, hit the push-button starter, and slot the transmission into drive.

McDonalds knows a thing or two about pleasing the masses. Let’s see if Hyundai does, too.

DESIGN

The previous Sonata was quite the looker, and by that I of course mean that it was styled six ways from Sunday. There were all kinds of sharp creases and flowing surfaces going on, but the key feature was a large, open, Audi-style grille up front. The hybrid model in particular looked a bit like a wheeled basking shark.

This new car is much more reserved, although it has a few interesting touches like that strip of chrome that runs right out along the hood to the headlights.

The multi-spoke wheels are attractive enough, and seem to have been borrowed from the Genesis lineup.

You still get a sharply creased styling line, a double-swoosh of LED lighting up front, and a strip of chrome down either flank, but the Sonata plays a far more cohesive tune than before. It’s perhaps a little less exciting, but everything seems to flow together a little more evenly. Practice makes perfect.

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Inside, it’s much the same story. The interior seems simplified, bringing the controls together into a thin row of buttons with the airconditioning controls below and a touchscreen above.

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But despite all the gee-whizz gizmos, Hyundai managed to put together an interior that’s uncluttered. If we’re bringing it back to the coffee analogy again, there’s an evenness to the flavour, without too many highs and low.

The epithet for this is to call it bland, but the Sonata’s straight-forward simplicity works.

I’m less of a fan of the seats themselves, which are very firm, front and rear. There is, however, plenty of space to be found, with rear legroom slightly up year-overyear. A huge panoramic sunroof contributes to the feeling of airiness.

The trunk is the size of BC Place.

With wood trimmings and little bolstering to the seats, you immediately know that this isn’t the sporty one (you might need the turbo model to scratch that particular itch). Perhaps then a better test would be to hit the Trans-Canada at 8:30am. Hello gridlock.

PERFORMANCE

Fewer horsies under the hood mean that the Sonata now gallops a little more leisurely down an onramp. The 2.5L fourcylinder engine makes 185hp at 6000rpm, five fewer than last year’s model. Torque has been increased at the lower end of the rev range, and now sits at a peak of 178lb/ft at 4000rpm.

The turbocharged 2.0L kicks things up to 245hp and 260lb/ft.

However, in the volume-selling normally-aspirated model, performance is punchy enough in normal and sport modes. Leave it in eco, and the six-speed automatic and soft pedal response aren’t much fun. Mind you, we’re wading up to our door handles in crossovers at the present, so a brief discussion of how the Sonata handles that particular challenge.

The suspension is very smooth, as is the shifting of the transmission. The direct-injection engine is really quite noisy when cold – the high-pressure injectors in most cars like this always sound like a sticky valve – but

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smooths out when up to operating temperature.

Once traffic gets moving, wind-noise is almost completely absent.

Steering errs on the side of ease-of-effort over feel, but placing the car in sport mode actually firms things up to a pleasing degree. There’s also some surprisingly good lateral grip, meaning that a zip up the Sea-to-Sky would be a scoot rather than a wallow.

Just like its interior and exterior appearances, the Sonata’s drive is polished – polished to the point that there’s not a lot of excitement to be found. It has to be said that the adaptive cruise control is not as refined as other marquees either.

However, as a smooth and easy to drive car with an impressive suite of safety features and a stereo that doesn’t distort a note even when cranked right to the pegs, the Sonata does its job well. Call it a smooth blend.

FEATURES

Limited trim on the Sonata includes a host of items that is literally too long to fit on a single computer screen. Of particular note are the aforementioned heated seats at all four corners, rear air vents, 8” touchscreen navigation, and nicely tucked away USB connections. Parents will also appreciate the rear sunshades.

The navigation is easy to use and very high in resolution. Touchscreen functions work well to, for the various menus, and the voice commands worked just fine as well.

Fuel economy is rated under the new 2015 five-cycle method at 9.8L/100kms in the city and 6.7L/100kms on the highway. Real world fuel consumption split the difference at 8.9L/100kms, not far off the stated mixed-mileage figure.

GREEN LIGHT

Reserved, broadly appealing styling; sensible interior; long features list.

STOP SIGN

Few polarizing elements; very firm seats; unpainted rear backup sensors look unfinished.

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Premium-style features for the cost of a coffee.

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Rat sex, and the female orgasm Sex with Mish Way

@MyszkaWay Professor Jim Pfaus of Montreal’s Concordia University studies female rats. More specifically, he studies the neurological changes in female rats when they are mating. He’s interested in how female rats feel desire, stimulation. He’s the rat sex guy.

I came across Pfaus’s work in Daniel Bergner’s 2013 book What Do Women Want: Adventures In The Science of Female Desire. Bergner’s coverage of various scientists studying female desire is fascinating and ground-breaking, but Pfaus’s work with the female rats was particularly intriguing to me, because not only did he find that female rats are capable of desire, but that their reason for wanting sex is based on pure pleasure.

How long has female pleasure been ignored from the mix of variables of scientific research about sex? Got three hours for me to spout it all off?

Rats, like all animals, do not fuck with the conscious motivation of reproduction. They have been designed by evolution to perpetuate their species, but the individual rat does not sit there and think, “Today, I would like to get pregnant and have a million babies.” A rat’s sex drive is based on immediate reward: A desire to bang and get off. We’re talking the battle between seretonin, dopamine, and opioids in the brain.

Pfaus did a bunch of studies. Basing his work off

Martha McClintock’s earlier studies on sex with rats (she pioneered the idea that female rats had the will to fuck, they were not just passive vessels as they had been thought of up until the ‘90s), Pfaus set up a cage with a Plexiglas divider big enough for a female rat (not a male) to crawl through.

A female rat would determine the pace of sex (like McClintock had discovered years earlier), she would pop in and out of the divided sections, prolonging the sex for as long as she could. She would also always choose a chamber that reminded her of the sex she just did, even when the chamber not associated with sex was much more pleasant than the prior. Pfaus wasn’t sure about clitoral orgasms in rats, until he had one of his students take a tiny brush and stimulate a female rat’s clitoris for a moment or so, then put the rat back in it’s cage. Almost immediately, the rat climbed up the cage, clamping her teeth down on the student’s sleeve, trying to tell her, “More!” The student brushed the rat again and put her down. She crawled up and begged again. It went on.

This is the thing: The rat’s clitoris had been completely ignored by science for decades. This totally active, nerve-rich protuberance that distinctively stuck out of the animal’s genitals was viewed as unnecessary to the animals mating process because, like the human clitoris, doesn’t serve the body to reproduce, but for pleasure.

The scientific language surrounding heterosexual

mating has largely ignored a woman’s pleasure. If you are a woman who has gone through menopause and can no longer make babies, your sexuality is basically invisible.

Last month for a research piece in VICE, I tried out Foria: A THC-infused, coconut oil pre-lube designed to help women who have trouble orgasming relax enough to get in that zone. Foria’s creator, Matthew Gerson, told me his carefully designed product has been most successful for women past menopause. I used it on my vulva as well as ingested it orally, because being slightly stoned makes sex all that much better. Foria is the only thing on a market today of it’s kind: An aid to female sexual dysfunction with the prime concern being pleasure. It’s not approved by the FDA and you can only get it in California, but Foria has become a sensation and curiosity worldwide.

Fucking isn’t just for function.Yes, reproduction is beautiful and I think being a mother is the most incredible job in the world, but sex is also about pleasure. And focusing on only reproduction excludes so many couples who don’t identify within heterosexuality.

Regardless, the pleasure conversation has been opened up. Even science recognizes the importance of female pleasure.

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By Rob Brezsny Situation No. 1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha! This diversion can’t slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical sword!” And then brandish a few charismatic swipes of your sword to prove that you mean business. Situation No. 2: If angst and worry are preventing your allies from synchronizing their assets with yours, say this: “Begone, dread! For with the power of my wicked crazy songs, I am the destroyer of fear.” And then sing your wicked crazy songs. Situation No. 3: If you’re finding it hard to discern the difference between useless, ugly monsters and useful, beautiful monsters, say this: “I am a useful, beautiful monster!” Your kind will flock to your side.

In her poem “Advice to Myself,” Louise Erdrich speaks of the human heart as “that place you don’t even think of cleaning out. That closet stuffed with savage mementos.” I invite you to use her observations as a prod, Taurus. Now is an excellent time to purge the savage mementos from your heart, and clean the whole place up as best as you can. You don’t have to get all OCD about it. There’s no need to scour and scrub until everything’s spotless. Even a half-hearted effort will set in motion promising transformations in your love life.

I hope you will learn more in the next eight months than you have ever before learned in a comparable period. I hope you will make a list of all the subjects you’dlove to study and all the skills you would love to master, and then devise a plan to gather the educational experiences with which you will reinvent yourself. I hope you will turn your curiosity on full-blast and go in quest of revelations and insights and epiphanies, smashing through the limits of your understanding as you explore the frontiers of sweet knowledge.

Three times a week, I take a hike along a rough path through an oak forest. I say it’s rough because it’s strewn with loose rocks. If I don’t survey the ground as I move, I’m constantly turning my ankles. Or at least that was the case until last week. For two days, with the help of a rake, I cleared many of those bothersome obstacles off the trail. It took several hours, but now the way is smoother. My eyes are free to enjoy the sights that aren’t so close to the ground. I recommend that you do similar work. Stop tolerating inconveniences and irritations that hobble you. Get your foundations in shape to serve you better.

American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was ahead of his time. He created the genre of the detective story and mastered the art of Gothic horror tales.

According to the Internet Movie Database, 240 films have referenced themes from his work. British writer Aldous Huxley wasn’t a fan of Poe, though. He said Poe was “too poetical – the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.” Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you may be at risk to lapse into a diamond-ring-on-every-finger phase yourself, Leo. While I am all in favor of you unveiling more of your radiant beauty, I’m hoping you won’t go too far. How about wearing diamond rings on just four of your fingers?

Republican Jody Hice is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. To bolster his authority, he repeats quotes by revered figures from American history. One of his favorites has been a gem from the sixth US President, John Quincy Adams: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” The only problem is, those words were actually written by country singer Dolly Parton, not by Adams. Don’t get fooled by a comparable case of mistaken identity, Virgo. Be on the alert for unwarranted substitutions and problematic switcheroos. Be a staunch fact-checker. Insist on verification.

“I am naughtiest of all,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson in a playful letter to Maggie Maher, dated October 1882.

In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to let that same declaration fly frequently from your own lips in the coming week. Feel free to invoke other variations on the theme of naughtiness, as well: “I am exploring the frontiers of naughtiness,” for example, or “You need to be naughtier” (said to a person you’d like to get naughty with), or “Being naughty is my current spiritual practice.”

“There’s a way not to be broken that takes brokenness to find it,” writes Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem “Cinco de Mayo.” I suspect this describes your situation right now. The bad news is that you are feeling a bit broken. The good news is that this is a special kind of brokenness -- a brokenness that contains a valuable secret you have never been ready to learn before now.

Allow yourself to feel the full intensity of the brokenness, and you will discover a way to never be broken like this again.

In a competitive game show on Japanese TV, 13 people had slabs of meat tied to their foreheads.

They then poked their heads up from below, through holes in the floor of an elevated platform, where a hungry lizard was stalking around. But not one of the contestants stuck around when the lizard came to nibble the meat; they all ducked down out of their holes and fled to safety. That was probably wise, although it meant that the prize went unclaimed. Now I’m wondering, Sagittarius, about what might happen if a similar event were staged in your neighborhood.

I suspect there’s a chance you would will yourself to stand calmly as the lizard feasted on the meat just inches from your eyes. As much as I admire that kind of poised courage, I want you to know that there are better ways to express it. Be on the lookout for noble challenges with goals that are truly worthy of you.

Director Michael Bay makes big, loud, fast, melodramatc action films, including Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the four Transformers movies. The critics hate him, but he’s unfazed. “I make movies for teenage boys,” he says. “Oh, dear, what a crime,” he adds sarcastically. I love that stance. He knows what he’s good at, and makes no apologies for doing it. I recommend that you cop some of that attitude right now.

While walking in San Francisco, I passed the Pacific Heights Health Club. The sign out front said, “Birthday suits tailored here.” It was a witty reference to the idea that working out at a gym helps people get their naked bodies in good shape. I’d like to interpret the sign’s message in a different way, and apply it to you.

The time is right for you to get back in touch with your raw, original self, and give it the care and the fuel and the treats it has been missing. Who did you start out to be? What does your soul’s blueprint say about who you must become? Home in on your source code and boost its signal.

Horror novelist Stephen King has sold more than 350 million books. But when he was young and destitute, still honing his craft, his self-confidence was low. His breakthrough work was Carrie, about a teenage girl who develops telekinetic powers. But when he was first writing that manuscript on his old manual typewriter, he got so discouraged that he threw his first draft in the trashcan. Luckily for him, his wife retrieved it and convinced him to keep plugging away. Eventually he finished, and later sold the paperback rights for $400,000. I hope you have an ally who will go digging in your garbage to fish out the good stuff you unwisely discard. Or maybe this horoscope will convince you not to scrap it in the first place. W

Oct. 9: John Lennon (74) Oct. 10: Mya (34) Oct. 11: Emily Deschanel (37) Oct. 12: Hugh Jackman (45) Oct. 13: Sacha Baron Cohen (42) Oct. 14: Usher (35) Oct. 15: Nietzsche (170)

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