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You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld

VANCOUVERISFULLOFCOLOUR-BLINDDRIVERS

Over the last few years,drivers running solid redlights have been getting muchworse! I thought Crayola wasin charge of inventing colours,butVancouver has one of itsown, maybe “Who Gives aShit Red?”. Many drivers justmight need a pair of En-Chroma glasses to assist withidentifying colour. As well,day in and day out, I see busdrivers with their “honk-and-run” strategy with regards tored lights.

I must make a couple ofapologies though.While walk-ing across East 1st atWood-land last Saturday right about4:20pm, (where a three-car ac-cident severed a light standardearlier this year) a driver slowlycoasted into me about fourmeters away.You guessed it –the light was solid red. I trulydidn’t know how baked he wasand I should have realized andnot tested his motor skills soearly in the day. I’m sorry.

There must be a good finefor light-running and a goodreason to curb it, no? Focuson speeders, but change itup a bit and put an officer on

the corner anywhere betweenMain and Commercial andthe city will make a fortuneon one of “Vancouver’s InlandHighways”; and maybe have afew less accidents.

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People have brown lawnsall over, but you thought itwas so important to have yourpatio clean enough to eat off,that you wasted all that water?The City should turn offyour taps. Inconsiderate slobslike you make it harder forthe rest of us. (And just howclean does concrete have tobe, anyway?)

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The more she online dated,the more isolated and lonelyHannah Maté felt.

Messages like these weremessing with her head:

Burnaby man, with whomOK Cupid said she was a 64per cent match: “Girls, what’smy weakness??” he texted,quoting lyrics by female hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa.

Maté quoted lyrics back:“Men! OK then.”

Him, straying from“Shoop” by Salt-N-Pepa:“Entertain me sugar tits.”

Maté had received so manyintroductory message frommen about her body, sex andripping her apart for sayingshe was hoping to meet a manwho identified as a feministor a feminist ally, that shewas losing interest in meetingsomeone.

Then she shared some ofthe photos and absurd mes-sages she received on Face-book, heard from girlfriendsabout their similar experiencesand from guy friends whowere shocked at how brutal itcan be for women online.

She started her blog, HeySup Girl?: Celebrating theReal Shit Dudes Say on On-line Dating, a year ago, morerecently moving it to theTum-blr platform and maintaininga related Facebook page.

Maté has been amazed howoften men who don’t receivean immediate reply to aninitial text attack.

She has awarded worstmessage to a doozy received

by a friend. A man texted“Hey hows [sic] it going?” oneevening.The friend hadn’tresponded by the followingafternoon.

His reaction: “Wow such ashame how shallow you are.Try growing up and maybe aguy will want a relationshipwith you instead of just useyou for a quick fuck. I hope thenext guy you fuck gives youHIV you fat slut and maybe ifyou don’t actually look like anarmadillo guys would hit onyou in person and you wouldnt[sic] have to useTinder.”

Then there was this non-starter: “Hey cutie.You looklike my step-sister… I’vealways had a crush on her ;).”

Maté blurs men’s faces,includes submissions of inap-propriate real life encountersand also posts the puns andcome-ons that amuse her.

On why she continues todate online, Maté says she’smet wonderful people.

“Everybody wants con-nection and everybody wantsto meet somebody,” said the

26-year-old university stu-dent and resident of Com-mercial Drive.

Maté isn’t the first localwoman to use her awfulonline dating experiences tofuel community or creativ-ity. Stephanie Henderson,co-founder and co-artisticdirector of ResoundingScream Theatre created aspeed-dating style produc-tion called Listen To Me thatran last December, after re-ceiving too many unwantedphotos of erect penises frompotential suitors.

Sharing once-upsettingmessages has diminished theirpower to bring Maté down.

“It’s made my experiencebetter because I know nowthat it has nothing to do withme… and that other peopleare experiencing it too, andalso that it’s going to makegood material for my blog,too, if I respond in a funnyway,” she said. W

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At a time whenVancouverpolice officers rarely fire aconductive energy weapon– commonly referred to bythe brand nameTaser – thedepartment plans to buy 200more of the stun guns andtrain almost the same numberof officers to use the weaponby the end of 2016.

With 128 officers alreadytrained, including membersof emergency response teams,the department wants a totalof 200 cops to know how touse theTaser before the end ofthis year. By the end of 2016,the goal is to have 300 officerstrained and have oneTaseravailable for every two patrolmembers on shift.

“It doesn’t mean we’ll beusing it a lot more, but we’llhave it more available,” saysPolice Chief Adam. “It’s a toolthat we don’t use on a regularbasis, but when we do needit, it’s very important to haveit. It’s like a firearm.We don’tuse that very often either, butofficers do have to have it. Soin those most serious circum-stances, it’s nice for officers tohave another option.”

The increase in training willmean purchasing 100 of the$2,000-a-pieceTasers this yearand another 100 next year to

add to the 150 in stock. It willalso mean equipping officerswith a weapon made infamousby the RCMP in 2007 attheVancouver InternationalAirport, where Mountiesfired it several times at Polishimmigrant Robert Dziekanski,who died of a heart attack fol-lowing the jolts from the gun.

TheVPD’s use of theTaserhas dropped significantly afterDziekanski’s death. In 2006,VPD officers fired the weapon93 times but have only fired itan average of nine times peryear between 2010 and 2014.

Palmer said it was “faircomment” that officers wereprobably “a little shy” to usetheTaser back then and ac-knowledged “with any of theseless-lethal options, there’s noguarantee that somebody willnot die.” He added, though,that “we’re reducing thatchance” with the use of aTaserbecause “there’s less likelihoodsomebody’s going to die than ifshot with a bullet.”

TheVPD has tied thetraining and need for moreTasers to a series of initia-tives to include more training,particularly for new recruits,on how to respond to a personin a crisis and have theVPD’srecruiting unit give more valueto applicants with backgroundsin working with people suffer-ing from mental illness.

Lawyer Douglas King ofPivot Legal Society said hebelieves theVPD’s move toadd moreTasers and increaseits mental health training isa response to reducing thenumber of times police shootand kill a person sufferingfrom a mental illness.

King represented the familyof MichaelVann Hubbard,who suffered from schizo-phrenia and was shot andkilled by aVancouver policeofficer in 2009. An inquestinto Hubbard’s death foundthe 58-year-old man threat-ened police with a utility knife.King noted police didn’t haveaTaser, a weapon that couldhave been used on Hubbardand saved his life.

“I think the departmentrecognizes that the num-ber one way it’s going to bescrutinized, and probably theworst publicity it can get, is ifone of its officers shoots andkills somebody,” King said.“But theTaser can’t be seen asa substitute for de-escalation.It can be, possibly, a positivesubstitute for a firearm. Butthe last thing we want is offi-cers turning to aTaser insteadof adequately addressing thesituation, especially whendealing with someone withmental health issues.”

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On Sunday night, thousandsof people streamed out ofJericho Beach Park undera procession of homemadelanterns, illuminating smileson faces smeared with sun-screen, face paint, ice cream,beer suds, and corn butter.The glorious summer sunhas set on the 38th annualVancouver Folk Music Festi-val, and what a time it was.

Full disclosure: for thepast few years, I have hadthe honour of emceeing themain stage, which has givenme a distinct vantage pointof the comings and goings atthis festival, not to mentionthe best seat in the house forthose million-dollar sunsets.

This year, more than 60artists from 15 differentcountries entertained crowdson seven different stages.The grass throughout thepark was more like hay, butthe trees were leafy green,providing the cool shadewe needed from the blast-ing sun.The ocean water at

Jericho Beach, just outsidethe main gate, was like arefreshing bath that hun-dreds splashed around inbetween sets. It was one ofthose weekends, one of thoseevents, where it felt great tobe a Vancouverite, to reveland celebrate in all we have,backed by a live soundtrackfrom across the planet. And

you could see and hearthe awe for our surround-ings from just about everymusician to take the stage,performing while looking outonto shimmering BurrardInlet and our Howe Soundmountains.

Musical highlights in-cluded young New Zealandthrowback crooner Marlon

Williams, Nova Scotia banjoplayer Old Man Luedecke,hilariously drunken Brit-ish protest singer Beans onToast (a cross between BillyBragg and the entire castof Trainspotting), Ontariosinger Basia Bulat, UK pip-ers Ross Ainslie and JarlathHenderson, and Malianacoustic super funk band

Bassekou Kouyate andNgoni Ba, who absolutelyrocked out on ancient lutes.Somewhere, James Brownand Jimi Hendrix were smil-ing.

Foodie highlights includedthe oatmeal chocolate chipcookie from Sweet Thea,handheld pies from theAussie Pie Guy, and actualroasted yak from theYak andYeti Bistro. And while frozenmangos and bananas areyummy, this festival screamsfor a fruit stand selling sea-sonal BC produce.Whoeverbrings that to the festival inthe future could taste someseriously juicy profits.

Festival etiquette, was, asalways, on the tip of tongues,and an oft request for meto repeat from the mainstage were complaints aboutdancers blocking views of theseated (I just said, “look, ifsomeone’s in your way, tellthem to folk off”). But forthe most part, all was fine,and the stunning weatherfirmly put the feeling of folkfest love in the air. Severalcouples were celebratingwedding anniversaries. Onepair met at the festival inearly 1980s, and this pastweekend, 33 years later, they

were in the crowd with theirthree grown daughters.

Cultural events at thefestival stretch well beyondmusic. One of the most in-teresting and heart-warmingprograms I heard about froman organizer named An-nika was the “Open ArmsInitiative”, which brought agroup of 38 recent refugeesto Canada from places likeSyria, Rwanda, Afghanistan,Nigeria and Mongolia tothe festival. Annika and herco-workers gave them freepasses, fed them, showedthem around, and simplymade them feel welcome asnew Canadians.That’s a verycool thing to do, and doesn’thappen enough for our new-comers.

As if echoing that wel-coming sentiment, oneVancouverite I met namedHannah commented on theunusual amount of no-baggage-attached eye contactand smile exchanges thatexists between attendees atthe festival.

“It’s the exact oppositeof public transit,” she said.She wished Vancouver couldbe like all the time. Now,wouldn’t that be nice?

See you next year! W

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Said The Whale perform at the Vancouver Folk Festival last weekend. Grant Lawrence photo


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On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near FortMcMurray, Alberta, ruptured,spilling five million litres ofbitumen, sand and waste waterover 16,000 square metres– one of the largest pipelineoil spills in Canadian history.Two days later, a train carryingcrude oil from North Dakotaderailed in Montana, spilling160,000 litres and forcingevacuation of nearby homes.

At the same time, whileforest fires raged across largeswathes ofWestern Canada– thanks to hotter, drier condi-tions and longer fire seasonsdriven in part by climatechange – Canadian premiersmet in St. John’s, Newfound-land, to release their nationalenergy strategy.

The premiers’ CanadianEnergy Strategy focuses on en-ergy conservation and efficien-cy, clean energy and reducinggreenhouse gas emissions tocombat climate change. Butdetails are vague and there’sno sense of urgency.We need aresponse like the US reactionto Pearl Harbor or the SovietSputnik launch!

The premiers seeminglywant it both ways. Despite itscall to “Build on the ongoingefforts of individuals, business-es, governments and othersto improve energy efficiency,lower the carbon footprint,and improve understandingof energy in Canada,” thestrategy promotes fossil fuelbusiness as usual, includingexpanded pipeline, oil sandsand liquefied natural gasdevelopment, including morefracking.

The premiers’ plan is a non-binding framework, describedas a “flexible, living docu-ment that will further enableprovinces and territories tomove forward and collaborateon common energy-relatedinterests according to theirunique strengths, challengesand priorities.” It doesn’tinclude specifics on how torevamp our energy productionand distribution systems, butbuys time until the next elec-tions roll around.

Although the languageabout climate change andclean energy is important,the strategy remains stuck inthe fossil fuel era. As ClimateAction Network Canada ex-ecutive director Louise Co-meau said in a news release,“Governments discriminateagainst smoking and toxicsin food and consumer prod-ucts.What’s needed now isdiscriminatory policy againstfossil fuels if we are going todrastically reduce the carbonpollution putting our healthand well-being at risk.”

Fossil fuel development hasspurred economic devel-

opment, created jobs andprovided many other benefits,but the risks now outweighthose benefits.The costs indollars and lives of pollution,habitat and wildlife degra-dation, pipeline and railcarspills, and climate change – allgetting worse as populationsgrow, energy needs increaseand fossil fuel reserves becomeincreasingly scarce and dif-ficult to exploit – have becomeunsustainable.

Even job creation is no lon-ger a reason to continue ourmad rush to expand develop-ment and export of oil sandsbitumen, fracked gas and coal.Many fossil fuel reserves arenow seen as stranded assetsthat will continue to declinein value as the world shifts toclean energy and the scrambleto exploit resources gluts themarket.The Climate Ac-tion Network points out thatClean Energy Canada’s 2015report on renewable energytrends showed that “globalinvestors moved USD$295billion in 2014 into renewableenergy-generation projects –an increase of 17 percent over2013.”

Yet, many of our leadersare still pinning their hopeson rapid oil sands expansion,massive increases in frackingfor liquefied natural gas andnew and expanded pipelinesacross the country – with ben-efits flowing more to industrythan citizens.

It’s refreshing to seeprovincial premiers at leastrecognizing the threat ofclimate change and the needto address it through conser-vation, efficiency and cleantechnology, but we need afar greater shift to keep theproblems we’ve created fromgetting worse.There aremany benefits to doing so,including more and betterjobs, a stronger economy,healthier citizens and re-duced health-care costs, andgreater preservation of ourrich natural heritage.

The recent spate of pipelineand railcar oil spills, along withdisasters like the 2010 Deep-water Horizon explosion in theGulf of Mexico, are the resultof rapid expansion of fossilfuel development, as industryand governments race to getthe dirty products to marketbefore demand dries up.

Canada’s premiers shouldtake these issues seriouslyand commit to a faster shiftfrom fossil fuels as they con-tinue to develop their energystrategy.They must alsostress the importance of hav-ing similar, stronger actionfrom the federal government– and so should we all. W

Written with contributionsfrom David Suzuki FoundationSenior Editor Ian Hanington.

Premiers’energystrategydoesn’tgofarenoughDavid SuzukiScienceMatters@DavidSuzuki

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Within design, the place-ment and curation of an itemranks just as important toits success as the selectionof the item itself.When youtranslate that to a retail set-ting, the location, design andlayout of a boutique directlyaffects the consumer percep-tion of the shop’s productline.The move from onelocation to another has theopportunity to transform the

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I recently had the op-portunity to check outEQ3’s stellar new digs andchat with Kevin Milligan,store manager and my go-to source for style withinmodern furnishings.Workingin overdrive since the move,Milligan filled me in on thereason behind the move, thereception the shop has re-ceived to their new locationand how their clients haveresponded to the change.

In one of the quickest

move turnarounds I’ve seen,EQ3 closed its former doorsjust north of Broadway onGranville on June 21 andreopened in their incrediblenew space at 2536 Granvillejust one week later.Whilethey remained in their SouthGranville neighbourhood –literally a few blocks awayfrom their old spot – thetransformation is drastic.

In the words of Milliganhimself, the move has tran-sitioned the feel of the shopfrom “a furniture store to adesign destination”.

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New digs for EQ3

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The design centre at EQ3 on South Granville. Dan Toulgoet photo

The Deighton Cup cel-ebrates more than just ahorse race, it’s also a spec-tacle of fashionable frocksand dapper gentlemen.

Organizers have carvedout a way to honour thosewho take the time to puttogether their best bird-likefrocks and most dapper en-semble for the cup with theStyle Stakes best-dressedaward.

And there are no short-age of potential winnersat the summer gathering,known for flowing cocktails,fine food, and people-watching. Last year’s femaleStyle Stakes winner Shan-non Heth says the DeightonCup is a rare chance to seeVancouverites dressed up.

“I was very impressed.I would say… you kind oflooked around and I was[thought] ‘Wow, there isnot a single person here injeans’,” says Heth, a publicrelations director with herown company who man-aged to edge out the many

other colourfully-dressedattendees for last year’s win.

It was her tailored pinkand red floral Antonio Mar-

ras dress with a sweetheartneckline from South Gran-ville’s Boboli (bought last-minute during a summer

sale) and a perfectly pairedpink wide-brimmed hatwith a burst of orchids onthe underside that pushed

Heth over the finish line forthe win.

The winning hat mayhave been her lucky charmthat day – flown in fromIreland, no less. The mil-liner, Jennifer Wrynne, hadpreviously worn it to theRoyal Ascot in England.

“When I emailed herI said I wanted some-thing very traditional andsomething in line with whatpeople would wear to Ascotand she said happened tohave this one that [she]actually wore.”

Heth pulled from tradi-tion with the sizable hatand slim-fitting dress butadded chunky jewelry topull it into the modern age.As last year’s winner, Hethisn’t eligible for this year’sprize, but is now (alongwith her male counterpart)considered a Deighton Cupstyle ambassador. This timearound, the fashion plateplanned to pick up herheadpiece from HastingsHattery in Vancouver.

Male Style Stakes winnerDavid Hennessey came outon top with a seersuckersuit, pink button-up shirt,and vibrant tie. The Van-couver actor was styled for

the event by his friend andstyle coach Bobbie Long.

The Deighton Cup wasabout more than just thepeople-watching and tak-ing home a hefty prize forHennessey. He loved thedelicious food and the otherrace – the one on the track.

This year’s Style Stakesprizes will include one-of-a-kind bags from Aunts& Uncles and $500 cashcourtesy Market OneMedia. Winners will alsoget to present the DeightonCup trophy to the winnerof the day’s last race andhave their names engravedon the Deighton Cup forposterity. Five fashionindustry judges will choose10 finalists (five women andfive men) from the photoentries. These well-coifedindividuals will be broughtbefore the crowd of 3,000on the Style Stakes stage toflaunt their looks. W

No horsing around at Style Stakes

Alison Lammerts of MarketOne Media (on left) presents Deighton Cup Style Stakes winnerShannon Heth and Gallant Satorialist winner David Hennessey with their prize cheques.Robert Mangelsdorf photo

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I’m rooting for these guys.Please don’t let them close.

I mentioned Acacia FilloBar in my very first articlein Westender “The Forget-Me-Nots” of Vancouver’srestaurant scene” in May2013. I called it one of myfavourite mom-and-poprestaurants flying under theradar downtown. The sadthing is, is I haven’t writtenabout them since then, andword around town is thatthey’ll only survive a few

more months with the riseof rent and general cost ofbusiness. It is already a lo-cal favourite in the neigh-bourhood, but they needmore support.

It sounds like a typicalrestaurant story in Vancou-ver, but if a restaurant isdedicated to serving goodfood, I’m all for promotingit – and Acacia Fillo Bar isworth promoting.

The small 20-somethingseat café opened in 2006 inthe West End and it is eas-ily overlooked. It is ownedand operated by VeraEftovska-Ivanova and herhusband Ziggy Ivanov andthey specialize in house-made Bulgarian banitzas,fillo, and homestyle baked

goods. I don’t even knowthem, but I actually feellike they’re cooking for mein their home when I eathere.

First off, how many Bul-garian restaurants have youtried in Vancouver? Exactly.The market for it is alreadyso small, so hold on to thelimited amount available.

Although this isn’t aBulgarian-specific eatery,they offer some Westerndishes and oven roasts. It’sone of the few places inVancouver serving ban-itza – a traditional Bulgar-ian pastry filled with awhisked mixture of eggs,sirene cheese (sheep milkfeta), and other fillingslike spinach, in between

sheets of fillo. It’s typicallyserved for breakfast withyogurt, but it’s available allday here. They also servea variety of savoury fillo

pastries alongside deliciousroasted potatoes and yams.The Morning Glory Muffinwith apple, carrots, wal-nuts, coconut and raisins is

my favourite baked good,so don’t miss that either.

It’s nothing fancy, veryhomestyle and simple,and the prices are reason-able and affordable. It’s acharming place and notbecause of its ambiance,but the honesty behind thefood. I appreciate their ef-forts and hope that it won’tbe my last time writingabout them.

So please, help these guysout, it’s a few minutes walk-ing distance from EnglishBay beach and an excellentoption for picnics. W

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WILDTALECOASTALGRILL1079 Mainland604-428-9211WildTale.caOpen daily for lunch,dinner and weekendbrunch, until late.

For such a renowned portcity,Vancouver, sadly, hasalways had a noticeabledearth of accessible seafoodrestaurants. Fish and chipsa-plenty, yes, and high-end

spots like Blue Water Caféthat deservedly win awardsfor their elegant and expres-sive dishes; but when itcomes to casual restaurantsthat offer quality seafood inthe West Coast style, mostof my fingers are wiggling invain for places to tick off.

WildTale, which justopened a few short monthsago in the old Glowballocation inYaletown, is aremediating step in the rightdirection. Opened by JohnCrook and Erik Heck, thepair behind the popularFlying Pig, the restaurant isall about simply-preparedseafood, at reasonable prices.

The amazing chef’s fresh

sheet features everythingfrom lingcod and giant, localscallops, to ahi tuna andsteelhead. Pair with yourchoice of two sides – choosefrom a nice list of starchesand vegetables – and enjoy aplate that rings in around themid-$20s.

My halibut was perfectlycooked; flaky, no translu-cence, and beautifully moist.I chose the whipped potatoesand asparagus to go alongwith it, and added on the $3lobster supplement for themash.The potatoes were sosilky and pure that I con-veniently decided to ignorehow much butter must havebeen used. Scallops were an-

other winner. Seared lightlyand seasoned simply, this ishow to serve such a delicatemorsel.

The scallop, shrimp andhalibut ceviche was lovelyand simple, and a steal atunder $9, but I was con-fused by the packages of Ritzcrackers that came with it.Really? I wasn’t sure if thiswas a joke at first, but ourserver informed us that theowners had been playingaround with this dish andhad an impulse. Inspiredflights of fancy can pay offwell, but, in this case, thespiced wontons that camewith the rather bland ahipoke ($10) might have been

a better option.The excellentHawaiian ahi in the latterwas entirely overwhelmed bythe avocado and yellow pep-pers, and needed more citrusto come alive.

Likewise, the sauce thatcame with our fresh oysters,redolent of cocktail saucemixed with mayo, wouldhave been better servedwith the prawn cocktail. If Iwanted to hide the taste ofthe oysters, I’d have orderedthem deep-fried.

On the whole, however,the menu here is full ofexcellent choices, and theprices won’t give your wal-let a hangover.That might,instead, come from the solid

cocktail program.The housetake on the classic French 75is light, refreshing, and muchtoo easy to down in groupsof five. Pair (one) with theceviche and call it a night.

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Clockwise from left: WildTale owner and chef Erik Heck serves up delicious, casual seafood; Thedungeness crab crusted halibut penne puttanesca is a crowd-pleaser; WildTale’s patio spills outonto Mainland Street in Yaletown. Jennifer Gauthier photos

The West End’s best kept secret: Acacia Fillo Bar

Bulgarian banitza, a pastry made from eggs, cheese, spinachand fillo. Mijune Pak photo

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The flavour wheel of craft beer nerdism

Image by Anja Werner, BuiltBrave.com

Here’s another preview ofthe newest edition of TheGrowler Craft Beer Hand-book, available Aug. 1 at abrewery near you.

If you think you hate beer,chances you haven’t triedthe right beer. Or, rather,you haven’t tried the rightbeer for you. Like with wineor food, the human palateprogresses through experi-ence.With beer, people tendto follow a similar path.Weexamine the course here ina thoroughly unscientific piechart, culled from anecdotalevidence we’ve gatheredfrom BC beer enthusiasts.*

PHASE 1: LAGERSThis is typically the entry

point for beer drinkers be-cause, until very recently, it’sbeen the most widely availablestyle in Canada.We’re talkingmacro lagers here: Kokanee,Budweiser, Canadian, Coronaetc. People are often lured in– and turned off – because ofthe weak flavour profile.

PHASE 2: AMBER ALES/ RED ALES / STOUTS

This is the best startingpoint for people who getserious about beer.Theseare malt-forward brews, withfew hops, so they’re sweetand smooth with subtle,approachable flavours (thinkPhillips Blue Buck). Stoutsoften hit this stage via the in-famous chocolate stout, or bythe world famous Guinness.

PHASE 3: WHEAT ALES/ FRUIT ALES

Interchangeable with

Phase 2. Wheat ales areusually light and sweet,again with low hops/bitter-ness, which makes it idealfor newbies. At this point,people are adjusting to thecommon beer ingredients.Think Kronenburg Blancor any radler.

PHASE 4: PALE ALESThis is where people start

moving away from sweetflavours and toward higherIBUs. These beers are oftenstill malty, but with enoughbitter-ness to start peopleon the hops rabbit holethat leads into craft beerfandom. Other hoppy ales,including red ales, cyclein here too. Think SierraNevada Pale Ale, Parallel49 Gypsy Tears.

PHASE 5: IPASHops, baby.This is the

stage where people tendto get locked in and startwaving the craft beer flag.The India Pale Ale Phaseis vast because the style isabundant and so versatile,which means there’s a lotto explore here. People canget hung up here for longstretches.

PHASE 6A:IMPERIAL IPAS

When chasing the hopdragon leads you to themost hops possible.You’rechasing IBUs to get your fix,but the high alcohol contentof these beers leads to an af-finity for Big Booze Beers ingeneral, which leads to...

PHASE 6B: IMPERIALANYTHING

Big booze-y, flavour-ful beers are the trendhere. Drinking only thesebeers leads to trouble, so

people tend to explore areaspreviously explored, or theymove on rather quickly.But because this area hasa variety of different styles,there’s plenty to explore. Anappreciation for stouts oftenaccompanies this phase.

PHASE 7: BELGIANSThe appreciation for high

alcohol and experimentalbeers usually leads here,where the palate develops ataste for yeast: freaky yeasts,tame yeasts, it’s all about theyeast and bold flavours.

PHASE 8: SOURSThis is the peak of the

Belgian style, with thefunkiest of all yeasty beers,Lambics, leading intoan exploration of NorthAmerican sours. We’re intrue expert phase here.

PHASE 9:LAGERS AGAIN

Here, you’ve overdosedon flavour and high ABVs,and you’re craving light,sessionable beers. Or,you’ve crossed back overvia the German sours (e.g.Berliner Weisse) and think,“Hell, maybe Germans domake good beer!” We’retalking well-made, qual-ity lagers here: Kölschs,Pilsners, and so on.

*Some people skip steps,or get stuck in places, ornever move on, or chart theircourse in a haphazard way.There’s no set time for howpeople move through it either– it could take a decadeto complete the cycle, or itcould take six months. Also,credit goes to Chris Bjer-risgaard for coining the term“flavour wheel of craft beernerdism.” W

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Sometimes I go throughphases. Right now, Spainis constantly on tip of mytongue. It may be the tapasculture that suits my summermood and fits my desire tograze and nibble rather thansit down to a complicatedmeal.Whatever it is, I’m en-joying my Spanish summerfling for many reasons.

BUBBLESBecause summer is the

reason to celebrate... I haveproclaimed loud and proudthat Spain is where I look tofirst when I need an inexpen-sive bubble fix. I can counton Cava, even at $15, to de-liver good quality sparklingwine. But I’m not alwaysracing to the bottom of thiscategory.When craving a bitmore finesse and nuance,I’m willing to spend a fewmore bucks.

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This Cava had me at theinitial smoky, flinty sniff.One sip sealed the deal. Em-

phatically dry with invigo-rating lemon peel and juicypear, it’s sure to cleanse thepalate between fried tapasbites.

SHERRYSherry deserves an entire

article, which I promise tofulfill. In the meantime, castaside any negative connota-tions of sweet swill you mighthave.There are many differ-ent styles of sherry but thesefortified wines from south-west Spain were traditionallymade dry, like this one.

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Manzanilla is aged forseveral years under a protec-tive yeast called Flor givingunique flavours of breaddough, blanched almondsand a salty tang. I knowit sounds weird but it willmake sense if you drink achilled glass of La Gitanawhile snacking on almondsand green olives.

INDIGENOUSGRAPESSpain’s characterful na-

tive grapes please my palateyear round. However, in thesummer I’m thankful thatthe roster includes some

thirst-quenching whites. Forthe ultimate refresher, checkout Albariño. Crisp and aro-matic, it thrives in the coolwet northeastern region ofRías Baixas.

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This new find could easilybecome my house white.Luscious and ripe withguava, peach and melonbalanced by zesty lime and asteely minerally backbone. Itbegs for the freshest of fishperhaps prepared with a Thaitwist.

AFFORDABILITYI never, ever want to

pigeonhole Spain into thecheap and cheerful category.So let it be known that thisprolific giant produces greatwines at ALL prices.Thatsaid, when I am down to mylast few dollars, I turn toSpain to cheer me up withinexpensive yet distinctivewines.

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From the arid plains ofValdepeñas, the Pergolas

Tempranillo exudes riperaspberry and strawberrywith clove, orange and aslight earthiness. Soft in themiddle but finishes firm.Trywith saucy barbecued ribs.

FRIENDLYREDS FORTHE BARBECUE

I could have chosen manywines here.Whether you’regrilling steak or flippingburgers, Spain has plenty ofreds to match. However, Iwanted to prove the point Iwas trying to make above.Besides succeeding in theimmediately drinkable, un-der $15 category, Spain alsoboasts serious age-worthywines that are no less charm-ing.

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Complex aromas ofsmoke, meat, vanilla andcoffee. Dense and full yetelegant and polished, thisRioja is totally appealing nowespecially with grilled lambbut has the stuffing to keepgoing for five-10 years. W

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In 1955 aVancouver car salesmantook his love of filming trains andwildlife and turned it into a businessthat has thrived for 60 years.

Leo’s Camera Supply – named afterfounder Leo Rajotte – has been offer-ing the top-of-line equipment fromthe same block on Granville Street indowntownVancouver for six decades,keeping pace in an industry that hasevolved at the speed of light.

“When the kids came along he de-cided to change careers to somethingthat could support the family andhis passion for film,” says son RogerRajotte, who now owns the familycamera shop and distribution business.

Legendary street photographerFoncie Pulice was a customer back inthe day. Pulice, whose life and workwere featured in a Knowledge Net-work documentary, would take photosof people bustling down GranvilleStreet, and then offer to sell them thepicture if they were interested. Pho-tographer Fred Herzog, famed for his

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One of the reasons Leo’s Camerahas stayed in the picture for all of theseyears is because of its knowledgeableteam of staff – many of whom havebeen with the company on average formore than 10 years.

“We were considered the larg-est camera store in the west in the’60s and ’70s, and today some of thestrengths that we always focused onin the last 20 years is having a corestaff that are very knowledgeable andask questions the same way dad did,”Roger explains. “That was a goal– toget staff members that know how tointegrate with people rather than justbe sales staff.”



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The company has also made otherimportant strategic moves that haveenabled Leo’s to flourish in an industrywhere many others have had to close.One of those smart moves was open-ing a distribution arm of the company,which supplies other retailers.They’vealso stayed ahead of the curve when itcomes to the products they stock.

“We search the globe for technol-ogy,” Roger says, adding the “mirror-less” cameras – small-bodied with aninterchangeable lens and no mirrorreflex optical viewfinder are a storefavourite.

Since Leo first opened shop in themiddle of the last century, the camerastore has been a family-run business.

Son Roger started with the com-pany when he was 20 in 1971,eventually taking over the busi-ness with his sister in the 1980s.

When the siblings took over thecompany, Leo and wife Naydeengot a chance to enjoy their GoldenYears by travelling the globe. Not sur-prisingly, Leo spent many of the tripsfilming exotic locales before his deathin 1999.

What’s really made the companylast all of these years, especially whenso many competitors have crumbled,Roger says, is that they have main-tained Leo’s commitment to customerservice.

“Dad loved the business, the chanceto talk to new people. He had a real

interest in other people that came inand what they did in their everydayregular lives,” Roger recalls. “In thebeginning, he was the only salesper-son for five years, then they branchedout. His real goal was to find out whatpeople were about more than anythingelse… it wasn’t just what’s the latestgreatest. He wanted to know moreabout people.”

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DESIGN

Admittedly, the new store-front is stunning. Housed in amassive glass front space thatused to be occupied by threeseparate lacklustre shops, thenew EQ3 boasts an expansive,bright open concept plan withskylights, and a combina-tion of chic polished concretefloors and the signature EQ3hardwood.The layout allowscustomers to view the full spec-trum of the product line, theMarimekko shop-within-shopand the inviting new DesignCentre with one vast glance.The flow of the store has beendramatically improved sincethe previous location, invit-ing guests through the variousroom vignettes in the mainspace and into the tabletopgoods and Marimekko room,which has a more intimatesense without feeling closed off.

With their doors now open,Milligan filled me in on whatdrove the move and how thenew hood has been treatingthem.With the success of thebrand, EQ3 was outgrowingtheir old location; while theSouth Granville locale suitedthe store, the multi-level previ-ous storefront simply didn’tkeep up with the style needs ofthe company.They wanted toremain in the same neighbour-hood, and the transition to theSouth side of Broadway putthem within the design cor-ridor, direct neighbours withthe other big names in the in-dustry likeWest Elm, CountryFurniture, Pottery Barn andAnthropologie.The move hasbeen a success, with a strongpositive response from clients,

a dramatic increase in walk-by traffic (it’s hard to resistthe striking massive windowdisplays) and a warm welcomefrom their new neighbours,who have been popping intothe new shop to check it outand offer their support.

As a designer, the EQ3move to a larger shop mademe wonder about the futureof design and what place new,contemporary furnishingsholds within it; the industryseems to see a continuousgrowth with the big namesin modern design, and yetdesigners are seeing a notableask from customers fowrlocal handcrafted goods.When I chatted with Milliganabout his thoughts on this, Ilearned the importance thatEQ3 places on local design. Aproudly Canadian companyfounded inWinnipeg, EQ3’sheadquarters are still basedthere and all their upholsterygoods areWinnipeg made; thebrand ensures that the locallyCanadian elements are at theforefront of their design. Inresponse to consumer demandfor customization, EQ3 hascreated an upholstered goodscollection that can be customordered in a variety of legoptions and over 100 stun-ning fabrics and leathers tochoose from.While it isn’t thehyper local handcrafted goodsthat have takenVancouver bystorm, the level of custom-ization available within theupholstery collection at EQ3suggests that the mainstreammodern furnishing industryhas taken note of consumerdemand and is making stridestoward the personalization ofdesign. W

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RICHARDTHOMPSONStill (Fantasy)

Still, the latest album fromBritish folk hero/formerFairport Convention-ist, was produced by Wilco’sJeff Tweedy, though youwouldn’t necessarily pick upon that.The production issparse, allowing the songsto lean heavily on arrange-ment and performance and,of course Thompson’s deep,whiskey warble. “BrokenDoll” is an explorationinto creepy balladry, whererhythmic guitar lines andelaborate percussion provid-ing a groovy-gothic back-

drop to Thompson’s croon.“Patty Don’tYou Put MeDown” could easily be abar-band blues rock classic,with a sing-a-long chorusand country rock sensibili-ties.

Thompson’s British folkveins come through in“Winding Road”, whichrolls back and forth like an

old sea shanty, and “BeatnikBlues”, which favours sparseproduction and acous-tic instruments, allowinghis guitar work to shine.Thompson is known forhaving a cheeky side, whichcan be heard on “Long JohnSilver”, a song about, whatelse, a pirate, and would notbe missed, had it been leftoff the record.

Having settled in to thetitle “obscure” or “cult art-ist” for 40 years, RichardThompson delivers anotherastonishing record thatproves why he is, and alwayswill be, the songwriter’ssongwriter. –Louise Burns

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The image ofVerucaSalt’s Louise Post and NinaGordon bouncing up anddown like marionettes in theirvideo for 1997’s “VolcanoGirls” remains an iconic pieceof mid-‘90s nostalgia.Theirbratty, two-part harmoniesand ability to make their dis-tinctive voices come togetheras one helped define theirspecific brand of grungy pop-rock with a side of sass.

Founding member Gor-don departed the band in1998 for a solo career. GhostNotes marks her return, analbum title that gives a winkand a nod to any proverbial

skeletons in the closet be-tween herself and Post.

“The Gospel According toSaint Me” begins with Gordonsinging “I wanted to live, soI pretended to die”, address-ing her absence head-on.Thechorus is a classic major-chorduplifting wall of melody andguitar, ending on the upliftingmantra “It’s gonna be bright”.

Lead single “Laughing inthe Sugar Bowl” is a choppy,glossy pop rock classic filledwith a quick-delivery, call andanswer melody, this time sangby Post over thick Gibson SGpower chords.

The Queens of pop rockare back, and quite franklydon’t care much about whatyou think.Their formulahasn’t changed, but grownstronger despite theirlengthy hiatus.Veruca Salthas, and always will be theGordon-Post union, andtheir return to form feelslike a welcome home pres-ent from a long, lost friend.

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The Okanagan has longenjoyed a reputation as theland of wineries, jet skis andhot, dry summers. Only inrecent history has it becomeripe land for some of Can-ada’s top musical talents.Ladyhawk,Yukon Blonde,and members of Baptists arejust a few bands that havefirmly planted roots in theland of the Ogopogo.

Kelowna is the Okanagan’sEmerald City, where musi-cians, skateboarders and art-ists reside in a dusty pool ofCanadian desert magic.Thisis where we reach DannyMarshall, guitarist of doom-punk group Baptists, as hestrolls through a farmersmarket on a sunny weekdayafternoon.

“Somebody’s singingHotel California in a hot-assparking lot,” he laughs, de-scribing the comical pleas-ant scene, one which wouldnot normally be associated

with one of Canada’s lead-ing hardcore punk bands.

Last year, Baptistsreleased Bloodlines, athunderous, apocalypticmind-explosion of a recordproduced by Kurt Ballouat his GodCity Studios inSalem, MA, the same placethey recorded 2013’s Bush-craft. A few months later,they played at the openingparty for Rain City Record-ers, a studio opened by TheHive’s Jesse Gander and StuMcKillop.Their perfor-mance was recorded, filmedand released onYouTubeas “Rain City Sessions”,and caught the attentionof a one Mr. David Grohl.The former Nirvana drum-mer and head Foo was soimpressed by Baptists drum-mer NickYacyshyn, that heposted the video on the FooFighters’ Facebook page,declaring himself a new fan,and praising the skills ofYacyshyn.

“Not that he was unno-ticed by any means before,

but he’s getting a lot of rec-ognition that he absolutelydeserves,” says Marshall,still in awe. “It’s fuckingDave Grohl! Nirvana wasthe first band I ever got intothat made me want to playmusic.Those albums stillobviously hold up and arebetter than anything since.The drummer from THATband!? I think that’s coolshit, I’ll never get sick ofhearing about it.”

The video also now servesas a way for the band toshare their live show withthe masses, something thatcan hopefully make up fortheir inability to tour asfrequently as their peers.

“We don’t tour thatmuch. I have two kids anda wife, Andrew’s a fosterparent, and we’re not goingto get out there a ton,” saysMarshall. “To have a reallygood account of one of ourshows is kinda cool, ‘causewe don’t get to [play livefor] everybody we want.”

Baptists are about “half

way done the next album.”With Marshall being theonly member of Baptistsliving in Kelowna, and theprimary songwriter, theyrely on voice-memo riffsand home demos to kill timebetween monthly jams.

“It’s kind of weird nothaving anybody to reel mein,” he says. “I kinda wishI had them to tell me ‘thatpart is so shitty, take thatpart out!’ I need some qual-ity control over here!”

When the time comes,they will return to Salem towork with Ballou at GodC-ity. Having been a memberof metalcore band Convergeand producer of bandssuch as Coliseum and TrapThem, Ballou has workedup a tantalizing resumé ofpunk, hardcore and beyond.

“It’s not really a secretthat we’re HUGE Convergefans. I would say every songthat Baptists writes hassome similarity that youcan find between the twobands.We’re a fast punk

band with a really busy,really good drummer. Thatalone is kind of a formulathat they built!” Marshalllaughs. “He’s the best. He’sa genius. And not just in anoverused sense of the word.He’s a retired biomedicalengineer. He’s nuts!”

The holy wrath of Bap-tists continues to grow,but in the mean time, allmembers are keeping busywith various side projects.Marshall andYacyshyn arestarting a new project withmembers of LA’s Oblitera-tions and Waingro. Bass-ist Shawn Hawryluk is amember of Ladyhawk andSlow Learners, vocalistAndrew Drury plays bass inTotal Isolation andYacyshynhas SUMAC. Marshall alsoplays in Erosion and “coupleof Kelowna projects I’m try-ing to get off the ground.

“All the Vancouver bandsfor me are wrapped into aweekend a month,” He says.“Other than that, I’m justsitting here for 27 fucking

days of the month, twiddlingmy thumbs, more or less!”

Thumb-twiddling aside,the band will continue towork on the next record,and are currently sortingout tours in both EasternCanada and Europe. Butright now, it’s just Danny,the farmers’ market and thecity of Kelowna. So what’sbehind the magic of one ofBC’s most fruitful cities?

“I honestly don’t thinkit’s just musicians. I’m askateboarder [as well], andthere’s a whole bunch ofreally good skateboardersfrom here too.You eitherfind a hobby or you boreyourself to death… I thinkthere’s a lack of other thingsto do so people kind of windup picking something andobsessing over it.” W

The holy roar of BaptistsLOUISE BURNS@_louiseburns_

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YUMI ZOUMA Indie dream-popband from New Zealand, ontour in support of their newEP release with special guestMesa Luna. 8pm at Electric Owl.Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

JAMIE XX UK electronic musicDJ, producer andmember ofThe XX, plays two shows in onenight, in support of his debutsolo release In Colourwithspecial guest Young Marco.7pm & 10:30pm at CommodoreBallroom. Tickets $25 at Red Cat,Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

QUARTERED Five-pieceprogressive metal band fromVancouver take the stage withguests Over The Coals, TheseColours Don’t Run and Ugly Men.9pm at Red Room Ultra Bar.Tickets $10 at TicketZone.com

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MATT BILINSKIMaking a nameon the comedy circuit for thepast 12 years, Bilinski drawshumour from his own life, nomatter how embarrassing orincriminating, building a solidreputation for witty, creativeand clever material. 8:30pm atThe Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 atTheComedyMix.com

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LOWER DENS Indie rockers outof Baltimore, on tour in supportof their latest release EscapeFrom Evil. 7pm at Electric Owl.Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

BUILT TO SPILL American indierockers from Boise, ID on tourin support of their latest releaseUntethered Moonwith specialguests Slam Dunk. 8pm atCommodore Ballroom. Tickets$26.50 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

SHANNON AND THE CLAMSOakland-based garage punk trio,on tour in anticipation of theirupcoming studio release withspecial guests Dead Soft andLes Chausettes. 7pm at BiltmoreCabaret. Tickets $14 at Red Catand TicketFly.com

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Americanblack metal band from Phoenix/LA takes the stage with specialguests Bushwacker, Kafirun andIllithid. 8pm at The Hindenburg.Tickets $10 Scrape Records,TicketWeb.ca or $15 at the door.

TALIB KWELI Brooklyn rapper,lyrically-gifted and socially awareperformer debuts newmaterialand old favourites in support ofhis latest release, Radio Silence.8pm at Venue. Tickets $30 atBPLive.ElectroStub.com

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THE PIPELINE PROJECTWithmultiple pipelines aimed atthe BC coast, a fresh spill in theBurrard Inlet and a devastatingone along the California Coast,global warming and speciesextinction, mass media andcorporate hegemony, thisproduction asks, “How are wemeant to live?”. 8pm at VancouverEast Cultural Centre.

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THEDEIGHTONCUP The seventhAnnual Deighton Cup includes eightraces, the Cocktail JockeyMixologyCompetition, charity roulette andblackjack and the Style Stakesfashion competition for the best-dressedmanandwoman. 12-6pmatHastings Racecourse. Ticketsfrom$35, benefitting Variety-TheChildren’s Charity.

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MEATBODIES LA indie rock outfitfronted by Chad Ubovich of MikalCronin/Fuzz, on tour to supporttheir self-titled debut release withspecial guests Dead Ghosts andSh-Shakes. 8pm at The Cobalt.Tickets $10 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

UNKNOWNMORTAL ORCHESTRAPsychedelic rockers out ofPortland, OR, on tour in supportof their new releaseMutli-Lovewith special guest Vinyl Williams.8pm at The Imperial. Tickets$17.50 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

KEB’ MO’ Band American three-time Grammy-winning bluessinger-songwriter-guitarist, ontour in support of this latestoffering, BLUESAmericana. 7pmat Vogue Theatre. Tickets $25 atTicketFly.com. All ages show.

JAZZ VESPERS The Maria HoQuartet performs a summerconcert with a selection of songsfromMaria’s new album, Smile.4pm at St. Andrew’s-WesleyUnited Church. Admission bydonation, all ages welcome.

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THE LATE SHOW Veteranimprovisers come together tobring you a fast and fun mixof classic improve games andmodern long form formats.Be prepared for continuoussurprise and hilarity with thesespontaneous scenes, all basedon your suggestions as per adesignated theme each week.9pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets$8 at InstantTheatre.com

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THINGS THAT GO BOOM Inhonour of the Fireworks Festival,Kitty Nights shoots off some sparksof their ownwith a truly dazzlingnight of explosive burlesquefeaturing Seattle’s PersephoneIllyri, the stunning Audrey Hipturnand go go goddess Androsia Wilde.9pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets$9 at TicketFly.com

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RATATAT Electronic/instrumentalrock duo from Brooklyn take thestage in support of their latestreleaseMagnifique. 8pm at VogueTheatre. Tickets $37.50 at Red Cat,Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

ILOVEMAKONNEN OVO artistand Atlanta rapper makes hisVancouver debut with specialguests Sailor Gerry, DJ Cherchezand Andishae the DJ. 10pm atFortune Sound Club. Tickets $25at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet andDIPT.

DANZIG American heavymetalrockers fromNew Jersey, on tourin support of their forthcoming10th studio albumwith specialguests Cancer Bats and Pennywise.8pm at Commodore Ballroom.Tickets $47.50 at LiveNation.comand Ticketmaster.ca

ANITA ECCLESTON ANDANDREW SMITH Jazz duoperform an evening of everythingfrom uptempo to cool, ballads,duets and funky mixes, whilekeeping the crowd entertainedwith their onstage banter. 9pmat Kino Café (3456 Cambie).Admission by suggested donationof $10 at the door.

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QUEER PROV The Bobbers havereturned to the Davie Village andare performing hilarious queerimprov comedy every week with awhole new format and a new cast!8pm at 1181 (1181 Davie).

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SHOREFEST Kicking off theHonda Celebration of Light,two stages at Sunset Beach andEnglish Bay will play host to overtwenty different bands over thecourse of three separate evenings,including local favourites, artisanvendors, delicious eats and livemusic culminating with a nightof fireworks over English Bay.2pm-11pm at Davie & Denman.Admission is free.

MOUNT PLEASANT PARKFESTIVAL The annual family-friendly evening is back foranother year, with a WesternTheme, live entertainment, photobooth, petting zoo, food trucksand bring your lawn chairs andblankets for a showing of Rangoat dusk. 6-10:30pm at MountPleasant Park (3161 Ontario).Admission is free.

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KISS&TELL A re-mounting of theDrawing The Linephoto-basedexhibition that debuted in 1988,features images of lesbian sexuality,identity, and sexual practice fromtheKiss & Tell Collective. Theexhibit went on to be referencedby theOxfordDictionary of Artas the quintessential example ofLGBT art. 7:30pmat RoundhouseCommunity Centre, as part of theQueer Arts Festival. Artistswill bein residence for a talkmoderatedby Janine Fuller and videos byLornaBoschman. Admission is bydonation.

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THE NATURALS Your live bandon demand; this power trio isVancouver’s pre-eminent livekaraoke band, with the audiencea rockstar experience with acatalogue of over 400 classics,from rock anthems to ballads.9pm at Railway Club. Tickets $5at BrownPaperTickets.com

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THEATRE UNDER THE STARSCelebrating 75 years of songand dance filled summer nightsin picturesque Stanley Park,TUTS presents Hairspray: TheBroadway Musical, providingtheatrical delight in the outdoorsplendour of Vancouver’s iconicpark. 8pm at Malkin Bowl.Tickets at Tuts.ca. Runs untilAug. 22.

‘TIS PITY SHE’S AWHORE Acomplex tragedy brimmingwithpassion, deception, intrigueand revenge; John Ford’smostfamous drama is re-imagined in1930s Italy, a dark and unnervingstory ofmoral corruption withinamafia family. 8pm at JerichoArts Centre with a post-showtalkback. Tickets at Vendini.com.Runs until Aug. 8.

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SUMMER CINEMA Grab a lawnchair, a blanket and a buddyand head to Stanley Park for thissummer’s incarnation of moviesin the park, this week featuringthe rock & roll classic Grease. Allmovies start at dusk at SecondBeach. Admission is free. Runsweekly until Aug. 25.

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THE CASUALTIES New York Citystreet punk band on tour insupport of their latest release,WeAre All We Have. 9pm at Venue.Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu andBPLive.ca

CORINNA ROSE & FAMILIARWILD The banjo wielding singer-songwriter fromMontreal isjoined by the Vancouver bandfor an evening of pushing theboundaries of folk and symphonicmelody. 9pm at Skinny Fat Jack’s.Tickets $8 at the door.

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PRIDE PARTY COVENANTHOUSEFUNDRAISER A night of musicby Mark Woodyard, comedywith Nick Pound, food & drinkspecials, door and raffle prizes,all benefitting Covenant House,aiding homeless youth, a largepercentage of which are LGBTQ.6pm at Steel Toad Brewpub &Dining Hall. Tickets $20 includea complimentary beer and allproceeds to Covenant House.

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DIDO AND AENEAS Early MusicVancouver presents the first everpresentation of Henry Purcell’siconic baroque masterpiece,based on Virgil’s epic, TheAeneid, widely acknowledgedas one of the greatest operas ofall time. 7:30pm at Chan Centre(UBC). Tickets $17.50 at Tickets.UBC.ca

IMAGINE DRAGONS Grammy-Award winning rockers from LasVegas, on tour in support of theirlatest release Smoke & Mirrorswith Toronto’s Metric. 8pm atRogers Arena. Tickets $34.50 &up at LiveNation.com

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Motion picture magic

They’re separated bycenturies and geographicaldistance, and yet EadweardMuybridge and MichaelEklund share an inextri-cable link.

In the trippy sphere ofcause and effect – where asingle act can set somethingbeautiful or mundane orhorrible in motion – Muy-bridge (born in Englandin 1830) lit a spark that,more than a century later,impacted the trajectory ofEklund’s life.

The Saskatoon-born,Vancouver-based actorwould likely not be a LeoAward-winning screen ac-tor today had 19th centuryphotographer Muybridgenot conducted exhaustiveinvestigations into move-ment and photography.

Muybridge’s studies ledto motion picture projec-tion, and, ultimately, toshowbiz as we know it. So ifyou consume film or televi-sion or work in the indus-try, you’ve got Muybridgeto thank, too.

But if you haven’t heardof Muybridge, you’re notalone.

Eklund hadn’t either,at least not until Vancou-ver director Kyle Rideoutand producer Josh Epsteinapproached him to playMuybridge in Eadweard, adrama about a transforma-tive and tumultuous periodin the eccentric photogra-pher’s life.

“We all know the nameThomas Edison, and heusually gets the credit, butwe’ve never heard Ead-weard Muybridge’s story,and he was actually thebeginning of all of it,” saysEklund in a recent phonechat.

Muybridge is finallyhaving his moment in thespotlight, thanks to Eklund(who ultimately took therole) and Rideout andEpstein (both graduates ofLangara College’s distin-guished Studio 58 theatretraining program).

To date, their locally-shot period piece – filmedover 29 days in 2013 andfeaturing an impressiveroster of BC talent, includ-ing Eklund, Sara Canning,Charlie Carrick, Christo-pher Heyerdahl, Torrance

Coombs, Aleks Paunovic,Ian Tracey, and JonathonYoung – has won five LeoAwards and scooped up aboatload of accolades onthe film festival circuit.

There was a best act-ing nod for Eklund at theAlhambra Theatre FilmFestival, and the audiencechoice award for best nar-rative film at the NashvilleFilm Festival.

It’s played to packedhouses in Edinburgh andMunich, Maui and Brook-lyn, Newport Beach andCleveland.

And on Aug. 31, Ead-weard will finally play forthe hometown crowd in aspecial red carpet screeningat the Rio Theatre.

It was in a similar theatrethat a five-year-old Eklundgot his first taste of moviemagic (and where Muy-bridge’s long-ago workaffected his life journey).

“I remember walking intothe movie theatre with myeyes open and my mouthopen and thinking, ‘what isthis magical place?’” saysEklund. “I knew somethingwas going on when I wentto the theatre that day, andI remember sitting down inthe movie theatre seats andthat’s when I was seducedby the magic of film.”

The film? Lassie Returns(adorable, right?).

“I was five-years-old,and that was the firsttime I remember wantingsomething,” says Eklund.“I didn’t know what atthe time, but I wanted todo that, and that’s whenI started to realize that Iwanted to be an actor andthat I started to have tothink about how to get that,at five-years-old, comingfrom Saskatoon, Saskatch-ewan.”

It was a slow start.Eklund couldn’t get cast ina school play, although heauditioned every time.

After high school, hewent to art school to bea painter, but “I realizedit was too much of anintroverted art form for me.When I sat in my studioand painted, I could feelthe world was passing meby, and I knew that it didn’twork for me.”

Eklund decided to em-brace whatever fears he hadand make a go of acting.

He moved to Vancouver,took classes, answered opencasting calls (including onefor an audience-participa-tion dinner theatre), and

wooed his first and onlyagent, Deb Dillistone, whohe’d heard was the best inthe city.

“It took me six months,but then I finally convinced[Dillistone] to take on thisprairie kid with no experi-

ence,” says Eklund. “Shestarted sending me out onauditions, and just by usinginstinct, I started work-ing. That’s when the noesstarted turning into yeses.”

And there have been a lotof yeses, among them: 88

Minutes, Battlestar Galactica,DaVinci’s Inquest, Intelli-gence, Bates Motel, Cruel &Unusual, Gotham, and TheCall, with Halle Berry, forwhich Eklund won a LeoAward for best supportingperformance by a male in a

motion picture.Eklund’s 2015 releases

include WWE’s action-thriller Vendetta (directedby Vancouver’s own SoskaSisters), Mr. Right with SamRockwell and Anna Ken-drick, and the final season

Michael Eklund gives lifeto one of cinema’s forgottenfounders in Eadweard

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Saskatoon-raised Vancouver actor Michael Eklund portrays the innovative and eccentric photographer Eadweard Muybridge inEadweard. The Vancouver-shot film celebrates its hometown premiere on Aug. 31 at the Rio Theatre. Robert Gilbert photo



EADWEARDTickets for the Aug. 31screening of Eadweard atthe Rio Theatre are avail-able at RioTheatre.ca/movie/eadweard/.

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of Continuum, which willbegin its Canadian run onSept. 4.

Sixteen years into hisacting career, Eklund iscommitted to learning,chasing new work (“Whenyou’re not working, you’retrying to find more work.It never stops. And enoughis never enough”), andpursuing roles that test hisboundaries.

“[If] you have a goal thatyou’re reaching for that takesyou out of your comfortzone, something that scaresyou, you’ve got to face thefear,” says Eklund. “If youembrace it, then you’re goingto find talent that you didn’teven know you had.”

Which brings us to hischaracter in Eadweard:passionate, divisive, and– despite the white beard –many shades of grey.

“[Muybridge] was ob-sessed and he was dedicat-ed, and I think those werethe qualities that made meidentify with him,” saysEklund. “As a man and asan artist, when you’re satis-fied, you’re basically com-mitting artistic suicide.”

Also, Muybridge “had alot of pain. I like charactersthat have pain, that are go-ing through something, andhe had a lot of that.”

The film follows Muy-bridge as he pursues hisresearch into motion andphotography, a pursuit thatwas fraught with academicpushback and controversy.

We see him employingcameras to capture motionin stop-motion photo-

graphs, working with shut-ter speeds and developingpractices that we take forgranted now.

We even meet an oppor-tunistic Edison, who mar-ried Muybridge’s pioneer-ing discoveries with sound.

“Edison put sound tomoving pictures. He madeit exciting. He made itentertainment. Eadweardwas more of a scientist.He studied motion,” saysEklund. “[Muybridge’s]work wasn’t ready to moveto the level of entertainingpeople, which is why hisname wasn’t as known, buthe was the pioneer of it all.”

Muybridge is notable foranother, more sinister, rea-son: He was the last personin the United States to beacquitted on the grounds of“justifiable homicide” afterkilling his wife’s lover.

Eadweard builds towardsthis pivotal moment, anddelves into Muybridge’scomplicated relationshipwith his wife, Flora (por-trayed by Canning, whoEklund describes as riding“that line of playfulness andpain at the same time. Shehas that quality where shecan sit on the pain and hideit, which the character ofFlora needed because shewas going through a lot”).

The film required Eklundto undergo a significantphysical transformation.Muybridge’s hair turnedsnow white at a youngage following an accident.Archival photographs ofMuybridge reveal a promi-nent white beard.

“I remember when I firststarted talking with [Ride-out], one of his first ques-tions was, ‘Can you growa beard?’ And my answerwas, ‘I don’t know if I cangrow a beard like EadweardMuybridge, but I can try.’”

Growing the beard wasrelatively easy. Findingsomeone who could bleachEklund’s hair and beardsnow white was a differentstory.

Eklund and companyfound their champion hairtech in Wendy Keown fromYaletown’s Avant GardeSalon. “She took on thechallenge and helped createthe Eadweard look,” ravesEklund. “It was very impor-tant to the film.”

It’s because of people likeKeown that this upcomingscreening is, for Eklund atleast, better than all of therest.

“You can screen it inother cities and nobodywas really involved andeverybody likes it and it’sfun and fine and dandy, butwhen you bring it home towhere it was made and haveall of the people that tookpart and donated their timeand their talents to it andwe get to show it for thefirst time, I think that’s themost important screeningto me,” he says. W

Above: Eklund (sans beard) has starred in dozens of locally-shot movies, including The Call, op-posite Halle Barry. Top right: Eklund as Eadweard Muybridge opposite co-star Sara Canning inEadweard. Contributed photos

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Seemingly defying gravity,Michael Nicoll Yahgulana-as’ newly unveiled sculp-ture “Sei” rises from theground at the centre of thenew McArthurGlen outletmall near YVR, beforearching to one side, hang-ing motionless in the air.

Named after the seiwhale, the second-largestbaleen whale species foundin BC waters,Yahgulanaas’work evokes the form of itsnamesake in mid-breach.The abstract sculpturestands more than 12 feettall, and stretches outalmost as long as a schoolbus.

“I love the idea of one ofthe largest animals in theworld breaching [from theground], and propellingitself into the air,” saysYahgulanaas.

Like much of Yahgulana-as’ work, “Sei” combines

contemporary abstractdesign with the familiarmotifs of traditional Haidaartwork.

Yahgulanaas – whopreviously served as theelected Chief Councillorof the Old Massett FirstNation – says he wants tobridge the gap betweensettler society and FirstNations peoples by com-bining elements of both inhis artwork.

“We need to get settlersociety to see us as peo-ple,” he says. “It’s not aneffort to get even, or passjudgement. We need to berecognized as human.”

Only by dehumanizingnative peoples were Euro-pean settlers were able tomorally justify things likethe residential school sys-tem,Yahgulanaas notes.

He says his work seeksto connect the two cul-tures, without judgement.

To that extent,Yahgula-naas designed the sculp-ture – which stands on thetraditional territory of theMusqueam First Nation –with reflective copper andstainless steel surfaces.

“I want people to seethemselves in the work,”

he says, “and in those sur-faces, they can see them-selves reflected.”

Copper is a traditionalmedium of the Haida peo-ple, and here at the centre

of an upscale shoppingcentre,Yahgulanaas saysthe material brings conno-tations of wealth. Mean-while, the ovoid shapesand formline designs are

meant to be “familiar,yet strange; powerful, yetfriendly.” The end result isan impressive, accessiblework of public art thatprovides a doorway into

Haida culture.The sculpture itself is an

engineering marvel, weigh-ing in at more than 8,000pounds. That requiredYahgulanaas and his cre-ative partner Barry Gilsonto employ a team of morethan 20 people to bringthe design to life.

“They very much havean artistic claim on thisproject,”Yahgulanaas saysof the many tradespeople,computer drafters andengineers who worked onthe sculpture. “It takesa whole team to bringtogether a work of thisscale.”

“Sei” sits atop a con-crete base connected to aneight-metre-long subter-ranean cantilever thatallows the sculpture tohover above the ground.Underneath the copperand stainless steel panels –which are specially-coatedto slow down oxidation– two massive steel tubesform the backbone of thesculpture.

“For the first time I havea great deal of satisfactionthat the 3D form accuratelyreflects the 2D drawings,”saysYahgulanaas. W

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Named after the sei whale, the second-largest baleen whale species found in BC waters,Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ work evokes the form of its namesake in mid-breach.Contributed photo

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Now there are a few differ-ent stories on how kombuchacame to be and where itstarted.What we know forsure it that it has been aroundfor centuries, maybe evenmillennia.

Kombucha (not be mis-taken with a seaweed tea alsocalled kombucha in Japan)has been called by many dif-ferent names throughout thecenturies; IndianTea Fungus,Gout Jelly-fish, Champagneof Life, just to name a few

Referred to by the Chineseas the “Tea of Immortality”,it was brewing in almostevery household during theCultural Revolution, but hassince fallen out of the dailyroutine of the modern Chi-nese lifestyle.

Folklore has long held thatkombucha has anti-agingproperties and could evenbring eternal life.

It was observed that Geng-his Khan carried a flask filledwith a fermented vinegarybeverage and the drink wasvery popular in Russia andEurope until the SecondWorldWar, when sugar and

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Now you are probablythinking that the fermentedtea and yeast would pro-duce alcohol, and it does.However, the bacteria in theculture converts the alcoholto organic acids, so no, youwon’t get drunk.

Unfortunately, despite thehype and what seems to be alot of physical evidence andpersonal experiences withkombucha, there isn’t a lotof scientific research actuallyproving all the hype.

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Vancouver startup Zinc-Nyx Energy Solutions hasbeen developing a zinc-based flow battery that usesfuel cells and containersfilled with liquid electrolyteto store and release electric-ity originating from wind orsolar generators.

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TheLatinmotto“Carpediem”shouldn’tbetranslatedas“Seize theday!”, saysauthorNicholsonBaker. It’snotabattlecryexhortingyouto“freakinggrabtheday inyourfist likeaburgerata fairgroundandtakeabigchompingbiteoutof it.”Theproper translation,accordingtoBaker,is “Plucktheday.” Inotherwords, “youshouldgentlypullontheday’sstem,as if itwereawildflower,holding itwithall thepracticedcareofyour thumbandthesideofyour finger,whichknowshowtonotcrusheasilycrushedthings–sothat theday’sstemundergoes increasingtensionanddrawstoatightness,andthensnapssoftlyawayat itsweakestpoint,andthe flower is released inyourhand.”Keepthat inmind,Aries. Iunderstandyouareoftentemptedtoseize rather thanpluck,but thesedaysplucking is thepreferableapproach.

When I talk about “TheGreatest Story Never Told,”I’mnot referring to the documentary film aboutsinger LanaDel Rey or the debut albumof the rapartist Saigon or any other cultural artifact. I am,instead, referring to a part of your past that you havenever owned andunderstood, a phase from the olddays that you have partially suppressed, an intenseset ofmemories you have not fully integrated. I sayit’s time for you to dealwith this shadow. You’refinally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as acrucial thread in the dramaof your hero’s journey.

The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is creditedas being one of the earliestmathematicians andscientists. Hewas a deep thinkerwhose thirst forknowledgewas hard to quench. Funny story: Oncehewent out at night for awalk. Gazing intently up atthe sky, he contemplated themysteries of the stars.Oops! He didn’t watchwhere hewas going, and felldown into awell. HewasOK, but embarrassed. Let’smake him your anti-rolemodel, Gemini. I wouldlove to encourage you to unleash your lust to beinformed, educated, and inspired – but only if youwatchwhere you’re going.

Charles Darwin is best known for his book TheOriginof Species, which contains his seminal ideas aboutevolutionary biology. Butwhile hewas still alive, hisbest-sellerwas The Formation of VegetableMouldThrough the Action ofWorms. The painstaking resultof over forty years’ worth of research, it is a tributeto the noble earthwormand that creature’s crucialrole in the health of soil and plants. It provides adifferent angle on one of Darwin’s central concerns:how small, incremental transformations that takeplace over extendedperiods of time can havemonumental effects. This also happens to be one ofyour key themes in the comingmonths.

A researcherat theUniversityofAmsterdamdevelopedsoftwaretoreadtheemotionsonfaces.Heused it toanalyze theexpressionof thewomaninLeonardodaVinci’s famouspainting, theMonaLisa.Theresults suggestthatshe is83percenthappy,ninepercentdisgusted, sixpercent fearful, andtwopercentangry.Whetherornotthisassessment isaccurate, Iappreciate its implicationthatwehumansare rarely filledwithasinglepureemotion.Weoftenfeelavarietyof statessimultaneously.In this spirit, Ihavecalculatedyourprobablymix for thecomingdays:16percent relieved,18percent innocent,12percentconfused,22percent liberated,23percentambitious,andninepercent impatient.

“Whatmakes you heroic?” asked philosopherFriedrichNietzsche.Here’showheansweredhimself:“simultaneouslygoingout tomeetyourhighestsufferingandyourhighesthope.”This isanexcellentwaytosumupthetest thatwould inspireyoumost inthecomingweeks,Virgo.Areyouupfor thechallenge?If so,grapplewithyourdeepestpain.Makea fierceeffort tobothheal itandbemotivatedby it.At thesametime, identifyyourbrightesthopeandtakeadecisivesteptoward fulfilling it.

Actress andmusician Carrie Brownsteinwasbornwith five planets in Libra. Thosewho aren’tconversantwith astrology’smysteriesmay concludethat she is a connoisseur of elegance andharmony.Even professional stargazerswho knowhow tricky itis tomake generalizationsmight speculate that sheis skilled at cultivating balance, attuned to the needsof others, excited by beauty, and adaptive to life’sceaseless change. Sowhat arewe tomakeof the factthat Brownstein has said, “I really don’t knowwhatto dowhenmy life is not chaotic”? Here’swhat Isuspect: In her ongoing exertions to thrive on chaos,she is learning how to be a connoisseur of eleganceandharmony as shemasters the intricacies of beingbalanced, sensitive to others, thrilled by beauty, andadaptive to change. This is important for you to hearabout right now.

You’re entering a volatile phase of your cycle. Inthe comingweeks, you could become a beguilingmonster who leaves a confusingmess in yourwake. On the other hand, you could activate the fullpotential of your animal intelligence as youmakeeverything you touchmore interesting and soulful. Iam, of course, rooting for the latter outcome. Here’sa secret about how to ensure it: Be as ambitious togain power over your own darkness as you are togain power over what happens on your turf.

I’m abig fan of the attitude summedupby thecommand “Be here now!” Theworldwould bemore like a sanctuary and less like a battlegroundif people focusedmore on the presentmomentrather than onmemories of the past and fantasiesof the future. But in accordancewith the astrologicalomens, you are hereby granted a temporaryexemption from the “Be here how!” approach.You have a poetic license to dreamand schemeprofusely aboutwhat youwant your life to be like inthe future. Yourword of power is tomorrow.

A philanthropist offered $100,000 to the Girl Scoutschapter of WesternWashington. But there werestrings attached. The donor specified that themoney couldn’t be used to support transgendergirls. The Girl Scouts rejected the gift, declaringtheir intention to empower every girl “regardlessof her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race,ethnicity, or sexual orientation.” Do you have thatmuch spunk, Capricorn?Would you turn downaid that would infringe on your integrity? Youmaybe tested soon. Here’s what I suspect: If you arefaithful to your deepest values, even if that has acost, youwill ultimately attract an equal blessingthat doesn’t require you to sell out. (PS, the GirlScouts subsequently launched an Indiegogocampaign that raisedmore than $300,000.)

Consider thepossibility of openingyourmind, at leastbriefly, toprovocative influences youhaveclosedyourself off from. Youmayneed to refamiliarizeyourselfwithpotential resources youhavebeenresistingor ignoring, even if theyareproblematic.I’mnot sayingyou shouldblithelywelcome themin. There stillmaybegood reasons tokeepyourdistance.But I think itwouldbewiseandhealthy foryou toupdate your relationshipwith them.

Over 10,000 species ofmushrooms grow inNorth America. About 125 of those, or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others areunappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility isin question. Bymy reckoning, a similar statisticalbreakdown should apply to the influences thatare floating your way. I advise you to focusintently on those very few that you know for afact are pleasurable and vitalizing. Make yourselfunavailable for the rest.

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You’ve heard the hysteria:young people are fuck-ing like dogs. Teenagersand college students inNorth America (despitethe governing from their“helicopter parents”)are blowing, sucking andfucking one another likeit’s just a day at the of-fice. “Hook-up culture!”“Raunch culture!” No onevalues “meaningful court-ing” anymore because weall are just so busy swiping“like” on Tinder, wait-ing to gather a little checkmark of self-esteem from arandom correspondent. Wedon’t value anything morethan a one-night stand.Quick fix medicine. Self-esteem comes in a veryshort-term these days. Or,so we are told.

New York-based, Aus-tralian author Rachel Hillsays this is a lie. In fact,she wrote a whole bookon it called The Sex Myth(Simon & Schuster). Hilldescribes even herself asa fake. A woman who pre-sented her public personaas a “girl about town”who was, in fact, a “secretsexual loser.” So, whenthe most outgoing, seem-ingly sexually successfuland confident friend in hercircle admitted she had notbeen in bed with anotherin a year, her brain did asummersault and puked inshock.

“Everything about sex,”Hill writes in her book,“from the stories we choseto share with our friends tothe people we chose to doit with to the remarkablystandardized sexual play-book that starts with kiss-ing, followed by touching,and finally penetration – isinfluenced by social andcultural forces. Sex is notjust physical, but symbolic,employed as a barometer ofthe success of our relation-ships and the degree towhich other people want tobe intimate with us.”

Hill knew she was notgetting laid like culture wastelling her everyone elsewas and she did not knowwhy (no, she’s not stereo-typically hideous). Thenumbers were not addingup, so she started to inves-tigate. While researchingThe Sex Myth, she foundout that people are actuallyhaving way less sex thanimagined. According to theArchives of Sexual Behavior,our parents were havingmore sex with more part-ners than the 20-somethinggeneration is now.

College-aged peopleare sticking with one solidpartner (literally one isthe average number for18-23-year-olds per year),so then why are we beingtold otherwise?

Why, in an era when sexis talked about as openlyas anything else (hello, Ican say FUCK and SUCKin this column and prettymuch answer whatever Iwant to your deep, crude

reader questions), are thedata and cultural expecta-tions not reflected?

“Forty per cent of col-lege students hook up withthree people or fewer overthe course of four years,”according to Hill’s re-search.

The Sex Myth is a “win-dow into the truth of whowe are as a species”, claimsHill. “It is a window intowho we are as individuals.”

Then, she lays out anexample as told by a cute,gay youngster.

How many times haveyou been rejected bysomeone, someone you didnot even think was thatgreat to begin with, butfound yourself crushinglydevastated? Admit it. It’shappened at least once (ifyou are not a sociopath).

The whole idea of cap-turing attention means,“if I’m good enough foryou, you are good enoughfor me.” If that does notadd up, your ego is curbstomped when rejected.Arguably, even more soby someone you deemedwas punching below yourweight class.

“I’ll think of anotherguy, one who is reallygood-looking, and think tomyself, ‘That guy wouldnever be rejected’,” ex-plains said cute gay. Then,he’ll fuck someone lesserfor a confidence boost. Wehave all been there.

So, look. What I amsaying is two main things:1) Fogies, your kids aren’tfucking like rabbits. In fact,

they are trying to mate uplike penguins. 2) Sex is agame that toys with ourconfidence until we canfind it within ourselves.

I’ve fucked just over20 people. I truly don’teven know. I’d have tothink back. Hard. I’m nowmarried and I believe inmonogamy, so if I stickwith my vows (which I planto), that’s my top score. Ispent most of my 20s inrelationships (cheating,back-pedaling, gatheringconfidence in really regret-table ways), so I’m not likemy cradle-robbing malefriends who are skimmingthe 200 mark.

But who cares? Thepoint is that fucking willalways be sold and told tous, but at the end of theday, you kind of have to getall anarchistic about it, andjust say “fuck it”, and fuckthe way you want to fuck.

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BC OrganicTable Carrotsfrom SimilkameenRiver Organic2.27kg bag

CaliforniaOrganic Red

Seedless Grapes

BC Organic WhiteNugget Potatoesfrom Fraserland

1.98lb/4.37kg

3.98lb/8.77kg

BC Organic Nectarinesfrom Nature’s

First Fruit

11.99lb/26.43kg

westender – july 23, 2015

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