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The notion of “Main Street” as most of us know it is a virtual byword for a world that no longer exists — some small-town shopping district from some long-ago yesteryear, where proud merchants sweep their storefronts as polite couples and their well-behaved children walk past, probably en route home from church.

Of course, Vancouver is no small town, and although Vancouver’s own Main Street is rich with history (its name dates back to the early 1910s, when it was changed from Westminster Avenue), it’s now nothing if not forward-looking. From its live-work spaces and galleries, to buzzing restau-rants and music venues, to countless retail shops selling everything from locally designed fashions to imported house-wares, Main Street is an artery teeming with creative energy and a desire to bring something different to the city.

That said, maybe Main Street isn’t so unlike that quaint vision of the past. An uncommonly large number of its businesses are independently owned by ambitious local entrepreneurs, and the Main area’s relatively affordable housing and plentitude of quiet, tree-lined side streets have made it an increasingly attractive place for young families to call home. The difference now is that it’s not uncommon to see those families happily sharing a communal table during Sunday brunch with, say, a clutch of art students while a tattoo-clad server smilingly delivers plates of destination-worthy grub.

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Serenity Turner and her “almost two-year-old” son, Robinson Turner (left), perfectly illustrate why Mount Pleasant is an increasingly popular community for young families to call home. Friendly, close-knit, and with plenty of shops and amenities, Mount Pleasant makes parents and kids alike feel like a valuable and welcomed part of their environment. How long have you lived in the Main Street area, and what attracted you to the community?Serenity: I’ve lived in the Main Street area for seven years. I was attracted by the afford-able rent, good restaurants, and independent clothing stores.

What do you think the neighbourhood of-fers that others in Vancouver might not?Main Street offers me — in terms of my personal, professional, and family life — a sense of community that’s similar to living in a small town. I greet my neighbours by name

and run into other familiar faces at the local community centre or park. There are lots of opportunities to support local businesses, farmers and designers; I can pop into Home Grown Grocers around the corner from my house, visit my neighbourhood butcher and chat about which cut of meat will work best, or stop into one of the many restaurants for a quick bite to eat with my son, or late-night drinks with friends.

You hope to open a bakery. Would you base it in the Main Street area?I’d like to open a bakery or some food-ser-vice-related business in the Main Street area. I feel like there’s a very supportive commu-nity of local businesses on Main Street that’s interested in diversifying and expanding the appeal of the neighbourhood. Main Street is family-friendly, forward-moving, and a very desirable area to live in. The idea of being able to live and work within one community is very appealing to me.

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NIGHTLIFEA short drive or transit ride from downtown, yet a world away from its choked sidewalks of weekend club-hoppers, Main Street at night is a perfect nocturnal complement to its daytime self: a vibrant, unique hotbed of fun and creative expression that stands proudly apart from the mainstream norm. Although the community’s streets might seem relatively quiet even at the peak of a Friday or Saturday night, don’t be fooled — people come to Main not to pose on corners or in doorways, but to fully engage with their friends and hosts inside the numerous clubs, restaurants, galleries, and arts venues that line the streets.

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AUTUMN SHIFT FESTIVAL Main Street becomes car-free between Broadway and 12th for this family-friendly festival celebrating the change of seasons as well as “the shift in attitude towards sustain-ability, local eating and an increased interest

in urban gardening.” Live music, improv and comedy acts, merchant and farmers markets, local artists, kids’ activi-ties and more. Sept. 25, noon-6pm.

DANCE DANCE PARTY PARTYA weekly hour-long, women-only aerobic dance party with the three rules: “No boys, no booze, no judgment.” Thursdays to Dec. 16 at Mount Pleasant Community Centre (1 Kingsway), 8:15pm. Drop-in admission $7. Info: DDPPVancouver.wordpress.com.

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MOUNT PLEASANTTo many, Mount Pleasant is the heart and soul of Main Street, where everything great about it — its energy, creativity, and variety — is concentrated into a small number of city blocks. Indeed, arriving from east or west at the intersection of Main and Broadway is many newcomers’ introduc-tion to the neighbourhood, and there are few shopping experiences in the city more rewarding than setting off on foot, north or south on Main, and simply waiting to be surprised. In-the-know Vancouverites come from all over to enjoy award-winning restaurants and one-of-a-kind shops, or simply to take a window seat at one of the countless cafés and watch the world go by. Mount Pleasant experienced a devastating loss last year when an early-morning fire destroyed some beloved businesses. But, in keeping with the community’s resilient spirit, their owners are ready to make a triumphant comeback (see page 24).

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Nick Devine (left) and Nigel Pike (right) are pioneers of a sort in Mount Pleasant. At a time when the neigh-bourhood wasn’t considered a place for destination-worthy dining, they — along with co-owner Wendy Nicolay — opened Habit Lounge in 2005. Its immediate success not only made it possible for them to open the Cas-cade Room next door two years later, it encouraged many other restaura-teurs to set up shop on Main, too.

The Main & Broadway area was a relatively unproven territory for destination dining when you opened Habit Lounge. What made you want to take a chance on it?Nick & Nigel: As a group living in and around this neighbourhood ,we really loved the vibe. There’s a real genuine sense of community here, so it seemed right to open up Habit here.

What do you think being located in Mount Pleasant has done for Habit’s and the Cascade’s success that other neighbourhoods might not have?People in this neighbourhood love their neighbourhood, and as a result they’re very supportive and loyal to us. We’re so fortunate to have this great customer base; we strive to pay back that support by keeping our restaurants at the top of their game. It seems to be working!

Where are some of your other favourite places to spend time in the Main Street community?It’s diffi cult to pin down a chosen few — we have such a good variety of great places — but here’s a few. To shop at: Lark, Ark, Exhibit, Mine, Vancouver Special, Umeboshi, twigg&hottie, Eugene Choo, F as in Frank, Front & Company, Antiso-cial, Red Cat Records, Neptoon Records, Happy Bats Cinema, and the Brewery Creek Liquor Store. To eat and drink at: Latitude, Grub, 8 1/2, Public Lounge, the Whip, the Narrow Lounge, the Cobalt, Nyala, Crave, Cafeteria, Locus, the Reef, and great coffee shops like Gene, JJ Bean, Kafka’s — too many fantastic places to list. Sorry to anyone we missed off!

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MODULUS FESTIVAL Four days of classical and experimental music, as part of the Music on Main concert series. Performers include 10-fl autist col-laboration Flauto Perpetuo, Juno-nominated throat singer Tanya Tagaq, ukulele player James Hill, composer Lisa Bielawa, and Grammy-winning soprano Susan Narucki. Sept. 30-Oct. 3Heritage Hall (3102 Main) and Roundhouse Community Centre (Davie & Pacifi c). Ticket prices vary. See MusicOnMain.ca for more info.

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Street. Also includes music, kids’ activities, street performers, and more. Oct. 2-3, 11am-6pm. More info: TheDrift.ca.

DRUMS/SURFER BLOOD Double-headlining concert of indie-rock buzz bands from Brooklyn and Palm Beach, respectively. Oct. 5 at Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway), 8pm. Tickets $17 from Ticketmaster.ca, Red Cat Records, and Zulu Records.

BOYS’ LIFEA new production from Penguin Pool Theatre. Details unavailable at press time; see LittleMountain-Gallery.com for info. Oct. 11-22 at Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th).

TEENAGE FANCLUB Veteran Scottish indie-rock band returns to Vancouver for the fi rst time in fi ve years, in support of their latest album, Shadows. Oct. 16 at Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway), 8pm. Tickets $20 from Ticketweb.ca, Red Cat Records, Zulu Records, Scratch Records, and Highlife Records.

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Open for business: Aaron Kafka in his new café, Kafka’s Coffee & Tea. Photo: Doug Shanks

Mike Zalman will never forget the morning of November 12, 2009. The restaurateur was awoken at an ungodly hour that Thursday with a phone call delivering the news that his popular Main Street diner, Slickety Jim’s Chat n’ Chew, and several neighbouring businesses had gone up in fl ames.

“It’s hard to describe — you watch your business burn down. There’s not a lot you can really do,” Zalman says, remembering when the massive fi re (its cause undetermined to this day) devastated a large potion of the 2500 block of Main, between Broadway and 10th Avenue.

But time is a healer, and Zalman, like most of the merchants affected by the fi re, has

landed on his feet. After tediously cataloguing the loss of the restaurant’s unique contents (anyone who’s ever dined at Slickety’s will recall the quirky knickknacks that covered the walls), Zalman is preparing to open a new Slickety’s, hopefully by December, at Main and 18th.

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Meanwhile, the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area (MPBIA) is encouraging redevelopment of the fi re-razed block that in-cludes independent entrepreneurs as well as artist and community spaces. “It comes down to trying to fi nd… independent businesses that can keep it grassroots, that can keep it community, that will give Main Street that diverse fl avour that people like,” says MPBIA president John Boychuk.

Entrepreneur Aaron Kafka has helped fi ll that bill with his eponymous café, Kafka’s Coffee & Tea, which opened in mid-July. Kafka had taken over the lease for the space (formerly occupied by another independent coffee shop, Lugz) approximately one week before the fi re. The disaster forced him to postpone realizing his dream for six months. All things considered, he says, he escaped the fi re relatively unscathed.

And he won’t have to wait long for more independent business owners to join him in revitalizing the block. Next door, Karen Unger-Stricland is frenetically overseeing construc-tion in her leased retail space, former home to vintage-goods mainstay Burcuz’s Angels

and, later, clothing store Militant Penguin. Her endeavour, called Bird on a Wire Creations, is scheduled to open in late September. It well sell work by local artisans and craftspeople, and also serve as a family-friendly community space offering crafting workshops.

Unger-Stricland says she feels “incred-ibly blessed” to have been selected from hundreds of applicants hoping to lease the space, which is owned by a private citizen. “This was probably always the location,” she says, standing around a table laden with construction materials.“It has such a sense of community.”

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Mike Zalman looks forward to reopening his popular eatery, Slickety Jim’s, soon. Photo: Doug Shanks

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THE VASELINESScottish indie-pop duo, famously covered by Nirvana, makes Van-couver debut in support of Sex with an X, their fi rst album in 20 years. Oct. 23 at Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway), 8pm. Tickets $20 from Ticketweb.ca, Red Cat Records, Zulu Records, Scratch Records, and Highlife Records.

PABLO BRONSTEIN: INTERMEZZOA performance and lecture by the London-based artist, with dancer. Oct. 28 at Western Front (303 E. 8th), 8pm. Admission free (fi rst come, fi rst served). Info: Front.bc.ca.

BEST COASTVancouver debut from acclaimed L.A.-based indie-rock trio led by singer-songwriter Bethany Cosentino. Oct. 29 at the Cobalt (917 Main), 9pm. Tickets $12 from Red Cat Records, Zulu Records, and Scratch Records.

DEAN WAREHAM PLAYS GALAXIE 500 The New York-based singer-song-writer, currently of Dean & Britta, revisits the songs of his infl uential fi rst band, which broke up in 1990. Nov. 15 at Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway), 8pm. Tickets $20 from Ticketweb.ca, Red Cat Records, and Zulu Records.

INHABITANTS: RESIDENCY + PERFORMANCEJuno-nominated Vancouver avant-garde quartet Inhabitants performs a new composition commissioned by the band’s trumpeter, JP Carter, and devel-oped over a weeklong period. Nov. 5 at Western Front (303 E. 8th), 8pm. Info: Front.bc.ca.

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THE EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL 14th annual, three-day event in which hundreds of artists on Vancouver’s Eastside — bounded by Main, 1st Ave., Victoria Dr., and the Waterfront — open their studios to the public to show and talk about their work. Nov. 26-28 at various venues. Full list of par-ticipating artists and more info: EastsideCultureCrawl.com.

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It may lack the identity and compactness of its southern counterparts, but North Main has lately been changing in ways that are comparable to the evolution of Mount Pleasant and South Main in recent years. Credit, as always, goes to a handful of visionary trailblazers who are willing to risk setting down roots in an untested or unloved location. The 15-block expanse between 7th Avenue and Hastings now

offers dozens of shopping, dining, and browsing attractions you may not have known were there, from art galleries and performance spaces to home-furnishing boutiques and highly rated restaurants. And with Chinatown currently experiencing the most significant influx of new, adventurous entrepreneurs in decades, it may be time for North Main to acquire its own contractive nickname. NoMa, anyone?

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NORTH MAIN PEOPLE Q&AVancouver native Rachel Zotten-berg (right) opened Grace Gallery in 2007 as a place for artists from the city and internationally to exhibit their work, and to encour-age stronger social ties among the arts community. She not only works and plays on Main Street — she lives there, too.

Why did you choose to open Grace Gallery at Main & 3rd — a slightly out-of-the-way location?Rachel: I was born and raised in Vancouver, and I’ve always loved the city’s industrial areas. Main Street is the artist district of Vancouver — many artists actually live and work here. I live in the Lee Building [at Main and Broadway], which is truly the most beautiful building in the city. I moved here to be a part of something and to help create something, Have all my dreams come true? No. Do I have new ones? Hells yes!

What are some of your favourite hangouts in the Main Street area?Now, this I can talk about forever. The Whip — there’s nothing I can put my fi nger on, but if I have a spare hour, I’d like to be there. I go to Cuppa Joe to see Dave, whether I’ve been up all night working, I’m on holiday, or rush-ing to my most important meeting. He knows exactly what I like to drink, and will also pep-talk me while he steams my soy milk. Other great restaurants include the Cascade Room, Cafeteria, Habit Lounge, Pad Thai...

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