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

DON’TBLAMETHEVICTIMTo the “worker” at the

Tinseltown McDonald’s, whenyou questioned me about whyI was asking managementto evict an aggressive manfrom the restaurant, it wasn’tbecause I – as you suggested– provoked him by comingacross as “superior.” It wasbecause he was verbally threat-ening a man for talking loudly.I have seen this man for yearsand I know he has a condition

where he talks loudly. I said tothe aggressor, “If you just leavehim alone, he will quiet down.”

The fact that the aggres-sor then chose to see me as awhite colonialist worthy of abeating because I was on “hisland” doesn’t excuse that hewas threatening your clientand now me.When I calmlysaid to the man “You cansay what you want, but if it isviolence, I’ll call security andhave you removed,” the ag-

gressor got more threateningand started moving in on mycorner seat. He was yellingloud enough to scare otherpatrons in the line. At thatpoint I gathered my stuff andcalled the management whogot on the phone.

For you to then make ajudgment based on my camerabag, myWhitecaps scarf, andthe fact I looked middle classto you does not give you theright to decide that somehow,

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in your Marxist/Freireaninterpretation of socialisthierarchy, that some assump-tion of my white privilegewas the root of why theaggressor was getting violent.Talk about victim blaming.

The reality is: No mattera person’s mental state,race, or heritage, nobodyhas the right to verballyabuse and threaten anyonein a public place. If they do,they get a time-out outside,escorted by security, wherethey can vent without harm.If I threatened people in arestaurant myself that evic-tion is the least I would getas well.This way of dealingwith threatening peopleisn’t a colonialist territorialassertion of white privilegeand classist hierarchy on mypart. It is a safety issue; youreverse racist busybody!

Your socialist failureto recognize that fact inyour earnest advocacy forthe many street people atthat McDs is going to getsomeone hurt; when youkeep trying to be peacemaker and confront thosewho take appropriate actionto notify authorities.Youare dangerous. Next timeI’m just going to keep mymouth shut and see howyou ineffectively deal with it.I’ll make the witness reportafter someone gets bashed.

-Stephen Emery

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When it comes to crows, de-pending on whom you talk toin this town, those ever-busyblack birds are either loved orloathed. I don’t have to tellyou that crows are omnipres-ent on every street, powerline, roof, alley, and park,doing what they do best:surviving and thriving bybasically stealing from us, orsnatching up whatever edibleswe discard. Our boomingcrow population often has meclawing at the question: docrows, which are supposedlya very smart animal, do any-thing worthwhile for us, or dothey just drive us squawkingmad?

Let’s take a quick tally.Take a look at just about anylawn in the city, from eastto west. Most grassy areasare torn to shreds, coveredin ugly divots, as if HappyGilmore had a fit with hisnine iron all over your lawn.It’s the crows that are gorg-ing on the plague that is thechafer beetle, which has beena major Lower Mainlandissue for several years (I knowraccoons and skunks digup the juicy lawn bugs too,but in my neighbourhood,the only culprits I see goinggrass gonzo are crows, oftenworking in what I’m told arefamily units).The crows thathang out on our block are sodastardly, without prompting,my toddler refers to them as“naughty birds.”

And how about everyspring, when parent crowsdive bomb unsuspectinghumans, just because thesidewalks we innocently walkalong happen to proceeddirectly under a crow’s nestfilled with young’uns? Orwhen you leave food unat-tended outside for overeight seconds, only to haveit stolen from a crow theminute you turn your back?Or that spring, in the earlyhours every morning outsidemy old apartment in theWest End, when a murder ofroughly 50 crows sat in onetree going cuckoo, all loudlycawing at once, waking up

the entire block at 5am for aweek straight?What was upwith that?!

Not everyone inVancouveris a crow critic.The crow andits shiny black plumage hasbeen adopted as the unofficialbird of EastVancouver. Sever-al businesses have embracedits shadowy image, includingBlack Rook Bakery and theStorm CrowTavern. “As thecrow flies” means somethingcompletely different in EastVan, when you look up dur-ing the evening rush hourand see the sky blackened bythousands of crows head-ing home to Burnaby forthe night. Local comedianCharlie Demers once shareda photo of a crow wielding aknife, gripping the blade inits sharp little beak. Charliecalled it “the most EastVanphoto ever.”

According to a few ofVan-couver’s best birdbrains, all ofthat obnoxious crow behaviorcan be directly interpreted ashigh-level avian intelligence.Biologist Dr. Rob Butler isVancouver’s leading crowexpert. He regularly hosts apopular lecture series calledThe Society of Crows, wherehe shares all sorts of featheredsecrets, from the crow’s abil-ity to problem solve, to theirconfirmed memory for hu-man faces (especially humansthat have done them eitherright or wrong, so behaveor beware), and how manycrows will rally when a singlenest is threatened (somethingcalled “mobbing”, which islikely what happened outsidemyWest End apartment), orwhen they act as good par-ents by protecting their youngwhen they dive bomb you.

RobynWorcester of theStanley Park EcologicalSociety loves our crows too,saying that the birds are“opportunistic omnivoresthat are highly adaptive andmerely responding to ourimpact on the landscape.”Robyn also suggests it’s pos-sible the crows are doing usa favour by chowing downon the chafer beetle at such arapid rate.

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Grant LawrenceVancouverShakedown@GrantLawrence

The making of amurder of crows

An East Vancrow named Ca-nuck became anInternet sensa-tion after beingphotographedwith a knife.Facebook photo

The city’s push to build moreaffordable rental housing inVancouver continues to bedone largely without invest-ments from the provincial andfederal governments.

But Mayor Gregor Rob-ertson said the city’s ability tonegotiate the construction ofrental housing through rezon-ing deals and other programswith developers are practicesnot meant to dissuade seniorgovernments from contribut-ing housing money.

“It doesn’t take them off thehook,” he told reportersTues-day at a news conference toannounce the construction ofa 135-unit rental tower gearedtowards families.

The 15-storey building tobe constructed at QuebecStreet and First Avenue willsee 40 per cent of units rentfor approximately $900 to$1,500 a month and targetedat households earning $36,500to $56,000 a year.The remain-ing 60 per cent will be rentedat what the city defined as“modest market” rents, whichcould range from $900 to$2,000 a month, depending onthe size of the unit.The dealcame as a result of negotia-tions with Concert Properties,which is developing a 6.4-acresite on the edge of the former

OlympicVillage to includea park and four other condobuildings that will be sold atmarket rates.The rental build-ing, which will be turned overto the city when completed in2018 and then managed bya nonpfrofit, will include 44two-bedroom and 29 three-bedroom suites.Two in-homedaycare units will be on site.

“This is one of the firstprojects that is getting out ofthe ground that will create thatmodest family housing thatwe’ve been working towardsover the past couple of years,”said Mukhtar Latif, the city’schief housing officer, notingthere is a dearth of new twoand three-bedroom apart-ments inVancouver.

While the mayor sees theproject as a positive move tobuild more family housing, hepointed out that money fromsenior governments can lowercosts of a construction project,

create more housing units andmake rents more affordable.

“If the provincial and federalgovernment come to the table,then we can make it evenmore affordable, we can havewelfare-rate housing -- if that’spossible,” said Robertson,referring to the $375 shelterrate given to people on incomeassistance.

For several years now, thecity has largely been go-ing it alone to create morerental housing inVancouver. Itlaunched a program in 2009to provide incentives for de-velopers that included waivingdevelopment cost levies andallowing an increase in densityto get more rental housingbuilt.

Several thousand units werebuilt.The 15-storey rentaltower at Quebec Street andFirst Avenue was not part ofthat program, however.

The majority of the city’s

purpose-built rental stock wasconstructed in the 1960s and1970s and is badly in need ofrenewal. Much of that stockwas built under a federal gov-ernment program that offeredtax benefits to developers.That program was scrappedin the 1980s.

“There’s lots of talk aboutthe federal government gettingback into rental housing, oraffordable housing, so we’llsee what comes out of thatin terms of infrastructuremoney,” McCauley said. “Themayor is correct:You can reallyonly get to deepest afford-ability by having other levels ofgovernment participate.”

Prime Minister JustinTrudeau’s government deliversits budget March 22. Robert-son has requested the federalgovernment provide $500 mil-lion to build up to 3,500 unitsof new housing on 20 cityproperties worth $250 million.

In February, Premier ChristyClark announced $355 millionover five years to construct andrenovate more than 2,000 unitsof affordable housing in B.C.It remains unclear how muchof that money will be spent inVancouver and what exactly itwill be spent on, although theprovince is expected to leveragethe $355 million with federalfunding. W

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Earth’s oceans, lakes, riversand streams are its circulatorysystem, providing life’s essen-tials for people, animals andecosystems. Canada has one-fifth of the world’s freshwater,a quarter of its remainingwetlands and its longest coast-line.With this abundance, it’seasy to take water for granted.Many of our daily ritualsrequire its life-giving force.Yet, do we recognize our goodfortune in having clean, safewater at the turn of a tap?

Not everyone in Canadais so lucky. On any given day,more than 1,000 boil-wateradvisories are in place acrossthe country. Imagine having towalk to your local church ev-ery morning to fill plastic jugswith clean drinking water foryour family. Or having to driveto your town’s fire station orcommunity centre to collectbottled water. Imagine havingto boil water for everythingyou do at home – cooking,cleaning, washing.This is thesad reality for people who livein communities with boil-water advisories, some fordecades at a time.

Water problems are danger-ous. In May 2000, bacteria inWalkerton, Ontario’s watersupply caused seven deathsand more than 2,300 illnesses.A public inquiry blamed thecrisis on flaws in the prov-ince’s approval and inspectionprograms, a “lack of trainingand expertise” among water-supply operators and govern-ment budget cuts.

In 2001, nearly half ofNorth Battleford, Saskatch-ewan’s 14,000 residentsbecame ill from contaminatedwater. An inquiry concludedprovincial oversight was inad-equate and ineffective.

Indigenous communitiescontinue to face a widespreaddrinking water crisis, withpeople on First Nationsreserves 90 times more likelythan other Canadians to lackaccess to clean water.

Health Canada reports that131 drinking-water advisorieswere in effect in 87 Indig-enous communities at the endof 2015, not including BritishColumbia. Places like ShoalLake 40, Grassy Narrowsand Neskantaga have beenunder boil-water advisoriesfor decades. In BC, the FirstNations Health Authorityreports that 28 drinking-wateradvisories were in effect in 25Indigenous communities as of

January 31, 2016.How can this continue

in a water-rich country likeCanada?

Canada recognized theright to water at the UnitedNations Conference onSustainable Development in2012.Yet our government hasfailed to live up to its commit-ment. As a 2015 UN reportpoints out, “The global watercrisis is one of governance,much more than of resourceavailability, and this is wherethe bulk of the action isrequired in order to achieve awater secure world.”

We are the only G8country, and one of just twoOECD countries, withoutlegally enforceable nationaldrinking-water-quality stan-dards. Federal water policy ismore than 25 years old and indire need of revision.We haveno national strategy to addressurgent water issues and nofederal leadership to conserveand protect water. Instead,we rely on a patchwork ofprovincial water policies,some enshrined in law andsome not. Meanwhile, highlyintensive industrial activities,agribusiness and pollution areputting water supplies at risk.

The federal governmentwill deliver its first budget onMarch 22 – WorldWater Day.

The David Suzuki Founda-tion’s Blue Dot movement isalso taking a stand onWorldWater Day, helping communi-ties across Canada call on thefederal government to makegood on our human rightto clean water by enacting afederal environmental bill ofrights.

Canada’s environment andclimate change minister has amandate to “treat our fresh-water as a precious resourcethat deserves protection andcareful stewardship.”The gov-ernment could take a big steptoward accomplishing thisby recognizing our right to ahealthy environment, includ-ing our right to clean water.

The government shouldalso implement legally bindingnational standards for drink-ing water quality equal to orbetter than the highest stan-dards in other industrializednations, and set long-termtargets and timelines to reducewater pollution. And it shouldfulfil our right to water byaddressing the drinking watercrisis in Indigenous com-munities and establishing aCanadaWater Fund to fosterthe clean-water tech industryand create a robust nationalwater quality and quantitymonitoring system.

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No help from feds or provinceon city’s new rental projectMIKE HOWELL@howellings

The 15-storey rental tower at Quebec Street and First Avenuewill include 44 two bedroom and 29 three bedroom suites.

Clean water not to be taken for grantedDavid SuzukiScienceMatters@DavidSuzuki

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Vancouver Fashion Week(VFW) launched its 27thseason this week, where itwill feature more than 100runway shows before itcomes to an end Sunday.

The week-long fashionevent is being held at the

Chinese Cultural Centre at50 East Pender with morethan 100 designers from 38countries taking part, alongwith a handful of locals.

With a goal to help youngdesigners ready to carve outa spot in the often roughfashion trade, VFW spon-sors more than 20 design-ers to help get their workin front of the public, saysJamal Abdourahman, VFWproducer and founder.

He admits it’s been a longlearning curve since helaunched VFW in 2001when he was producinglow-budget runway showsin nightclubs.

Today, the operation hasevolved into a fashion eventthat attracts global design-ers, local artisans, and aburgeoning fashion scene.

Here are five designersto check out at VFW thisweekend:

BETHANYWILLIAMSSaturday,March 19,7:15pm

This designer’s threadsscream “street style”: like it’s

literally pouring upwards andseeping into the seams. Butthe London College of Fash-ion graduate has more thanjust street cred, she is in themidst of a fashion revolutionof sorts with her sustainable,UK-made Breadline collec-tion.The line has her col-laborating with the food bankand grocery chainTesco todevelop an exchange of freshfruit and vegetables for wasteitems from the food bank-us-ers’ households.The collectedwaste materials, plus recycledcardboard and “Tesco Every-dayValue” branded organicprints, all donated byTesco,are used to help create theclothes (along with fabric ma-terials). As well, 30 per cent ofprofits from the Breadline willgo towards theVauxhall foodbank, continuing the cycleof exchange. All this positiveplanet energy, plus intriguingmenswear and womenswear tofeast on during the not-to-bemissed runway show.

FIRAN&ROSESaturday,March 19,8:25pm

Featuring custom-madeclothes from British designerAddy Joseph, Firan&Roseshowcases classic tailoringwith rich designs for fall.The beautiful silhouettes mixtradition with contemporaryplayfulness.The collection,called Pause, is, accordingto the designer’s statement,about transitioning and creat-ing form and elements thatcharacterize the multiple lay-ers of one’s individualism.

DANNYREINKESaturday,March 19,8:45pm

With a childhood spent inan idyllic fishing village nearthe Baltic Sea, it’s no surprise

Danny Reinke’s clothes havean earthy charm.The influ-ence of his fisherman fatherare evident in the rich texturaldetails of his work and utilitar-ian accessories such as back-packs and hats. He also has apassion for “upcycling.”Trynot to miss the fine handiworkof this European craftsman fora runway show that will likelyinvoke the feeling of life bythe sea.

ALEXS.YUSunday,March 20,4pm

Alex S.Yu was the darlingof previous fashion weeks,with his entire collection sell-ing out at a pop-up shop afterhis first show.Yu is back againto show his latest collection.

Steeped in whimsy, hu-mour, colour, and fun, callYu what you want, but youcould never call him boring.His show is sure to make animpression and remind younot to take clothes – or life,for that matter – so damnseriously.

TINSQUARESunday,March 20,5:50pm

Elegant minimalism,impeccable tailoring, sophisti-cated silhouettes – all ways todescribe this must-see line. It’shard to nail down one strikinglook from Parsons graduateTamara Sui’s collection of im-ages because, simply, there areso many.The NewYork-basedwomenswear brandTinsquareis just a year old, but it’salready garnered a showcaseat NewYork FashionWeek.The use of restrained colour-blocking and unconventionaltextures, such as gatheringleather, laser cutting acrylicand embroidery on technotextiles, all make for dynamicyet wearable clothes. W

Five must-see runway shows at this weekend’s VFWNiki HopeStyleFile@NikiMHope

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Tamara Taggart has becomethe face of our city in somany ways. Arguably themost beloved news anchorin Vancouver (and winner ofWestender’s Best of the Cityaward for Best Local TV Per-sonality),Tamara has usedher influence to become apublic figure for many of thekey social issues our commu-nity faces. In a time in whichmany of us try to tuck awayour struggles and presentan impossibly perfect imageof ourselves to the world,Tamara bravely took the“screw that” attitude and hasshared her personal journeysthrough cancer and raising ason with Down Syndrome.

Through her opennessand advocacy,Tamara hasbecome a figure of inspira-tion – not just for her socialactivism, but also for herpersonal style.This weekTamara opens her doors tous, and we get to see howa busy mom of three withan amazing career makes astylish space look easy.TheTaggart home exudes thecomfort of a family dwellingwith an effortlessly glamor-ous appeal.

What is it?A 3,000-sq.-

ft character home in EastVancouver; four bedrooms,three bathrooms and a sweetcity garden.

Occupant: I co-anchorCTV News at 6, my husbandis a musician and producer,our kids are five, seven andeight, and we have a newpuppy.

Major selling feature:Thespace and our neighbour-hood.

First thing I changed:Wepainted all the walls white,it brightened everything up.We also started the gardenfrom scratch, including trees– which was important forextra privacy.

Feature I brag about:Ourneighbourhood, it’s the best.

That one conversationpiece:Outside, it’s ourclimbing roses. Inside, it’sour comfy white couch –people think white is ridicu-lous with kids and a puppybut bleach is my best friend.

The décor: I like to changethings up, but the basics staythe same: I like white andbright. Changing pillows,art and vintage bits creates awhole new look depending onmy mood.

The story behind the art/antiques/collectibles:My

husband’s father was anincredible artist; we’re luckyto have some of his pieces onour walls.The same goes forhis sister – her art is sprinkledthroughout – I love that ourkids are surrounded by theirfamily’s creativity. Most ofour vintage pieces are from

my grandparents.We havetheir first stereo from the ‘40sin our living room. I love it.

Downsides:There’s alwayssomething that needs fixing!

Neighbourhood haunts:Too many to list.We love

that we can walk for a coffee,dinner, groceries, wine andthe playground (not in thatorder!)

Compared to your lastplace: Bigger…and thisplace feels like our foreverhome.

Favourite apartment/house/condo activity: Justhanging out with the doorswide open and kids runningall over the place. W

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“Hey, wanna meet up for acoffee or something?” asked afriend the other day.

Since I don’t drink cof-fee – and my friend is verymuch aware of this – I rightlyinterpreted her statement tomean, “Hey, wanna chat oversome tea?”

She wasn’t being insensi-tive or forgetful.That phrasehas become the standard“let’s hang out” invitation,regardless of the actual bever-age involved. Coffee culturein Vancouver is, after all,as much a part of the city’smake-up as yoga, sushi andloving/hating the Canucks.

Times are a-changin’,however, and what was old isonce again new, as tea – thathumble concoction of leavessteeped in hot water – makes

a play for its portion of thecity’s psyche.

“Tea, after water, is thenumber-one beverage drankglobally,” says Reza Nasooti,tea sommelier and directorof business development forUrban Tea Merchant. Anexclusive retailer of the TWGbrand of teas, which focuson ethically and organicallygrown teas with no pesticides,chemicals or artificial fla-vours, Urban Tea Merchantalso has seen a rising interestin their afternoon tea service,which uses the teas to infusethe savoury and sweet fooditems.

“It’s a tea gastronomy ex-perience,” explains Nasooti.

It’s an experience that isgrowing in demand, judgingby the number of new spotsthat have opened in the lastfive years.The rapid expan-sion in the number of teahouses is just a small indica-tor of where the city’s palateis heading. Retailers likeDavid’s Tea and Teavana firstpopularized tea on a massscale, and their flavoured,fruit-forward teas have nowbecome almost as ubiquitousas Starbucks coffees.

In the same way that Star-bucks presaged the advent ofmore farmer-focused, single-origin coffees – like thosechampioned by Stumptown,49th Parallel and Third Wave

– so have these tea chainsbeen the means of bringinginto focus places like UrbanTea Merchant, O5 Tea andShaktea.The latter, which hasbeen a Main Street institu-tion since 2005, was one ofthe first places in Vancouverto source its teas directlyfrom small-lot growers allover the world, focusing onestate-grown, fair trade andsustainable teas.

“David’s Tea and Teavanahave gotten people interestedin tea, and we love them forthat,” says Pedro Villalón,co-founder and managingpartner of O5 Tea in Kitsi-lano. “But, I think Vancouveris now more educated interms of culture; people aremore excited about thingslike matcha and Pu-ehr.”

Villalón has noticed thatexcitement grow as the pal-

ates of his customers havedeveloped over time.

“We wanted to createsomething that didn’t exist atthe time. Nobody becomesa geek overnight,” he says.“When we started, we askedpeople, ‘What’s your favou-rite tea?’ and the answer wasstrawberry-shortcake senchaor passionfruit-mango rooi-bos.We didn’t have any ofthat, so then we asked, ‘Whatdo you drink in general? Notjust tea, but beer, wine cof-fee, etc.’We wanted to pro-vide something that wouldmake people happy, even ifthey didn’t know what theywere drinking.”

The questioning paid off.Matcha turned out to be amajor hit.

“I believe it’s the easiestto appreciate for people whoare not familiar with tea.

It’s energizing, like espresso,frothy and rich,” he explains.Pu-ehr, the dark, fermentedand aged tea originating inChina’sYunnan province, isalso popular, especially withthose who have a fondnessfor whiskey and single-malts.

“People want to get moreengaged with the land andthe farmer,” says Villalón.“Most people believe thatquality means consistency,but craft beer taught us, andwhat Third Wave, and winehas been teaching us forever,is that quality means beingphenomenal each and everytime. Each and every harvestwill be outstanding, but eachand every harvest will bedifferent, will have its ownunique qualities, just likewith wine.”

The interest in tea hasmanifested in academia aswell.Vancouver CommunityCollege launched a singlecourse as an introduction totea five years ago, and hassince expanded that into afull tea sommelier certifica-tion.

“There’s a tremendousamount of interest in theprogram and in tea con-sumption,” says DonnaHawrelko, program coordi-nator at VCC. “It’s a wholenew metamorphosis in theculture. It’s becoming morepopular to meet for tea, in

the way people meet at Star-bucks for coffee.They wantto experiment with tea andit’s becoming the equivalentof pairing foods with wine;they’re looking at how topair, testing their palate.”

Enrollment in the teasommelier program hasincreased tenfold sinceit first opened, with bothyoung people straight out ofschool and those looking fora career change signing upbefore heading off for jobs asconsultants, importers andhospitality workers.

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CAPILANOTEAHOUSEANDBOTANICALSODAThis indigenous plant-inspired teahouse in Gas-town is run by mother-daughter duo Michelleand Paisley Nahanee ofthe Squamish Nation.Classic rooibos and greenteas are paired with localjuniper berries, stingingnettle and other localplants for fresh, earthyand unique flavours. Thesmall-batch sodas arealso worth checking out.TheCapilano.com

STEAMTEAHOUSEThis tiny tea house is lo-cated in Donald’s Marketon East Hastings, and it’sstanding room only, butthe tea is fantastic, andworth multiple visits.SteamTea.ca

05 Rare Tea Bar owner Pedro Villanon pours some tea at his West Fourth teahouse. Dan Toulgoet photo

Vancouver’s top teasAnya LevykhNosh@FoodgirlFriday

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One of the best ways to ex-perience tea is with a classicafternoon tea repast. Hereare a few places to indulgein whimsy, fine food, and,yes, fine tea.

SHAKTEALovely, light fare and

one of the most reasonablypriced afternoon teas (un-der $20) in the city. Lots ofgluten-free and vegetarianoptions as well. Shaktea.ca

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For the better part of threedecades, beer has been asmuch about marketing asabout the beer itself. And forall of craft beer’s consciousefforts to do everything dif-ferently than macro beer, theindustry is still a product ofhow it presents itself to theworld, beyond the brew.

Tasting rooms are a mas-sive part of that.They are, forbetter or worse, worlds untothemselves, and beer drinkersfrom major North Americanbeer cities are acclimatized tothat (exceptVictoria, for somereason).You go for what-ever unique experience eachbrewery has to offer.You buya tasting flight.You soak in theaesthetics. Maybe you talk tothe brewer.You probably getall pissed up and stagger on tothe next place.

And some breweries arebetter at it creating theseworlds than others. Here’sa list of the nine best in BC,based primarily on personalpreference following a yearof “research,” with observa-tions and opinions fromfriends and strangers I’vemet along the way.

I’ve placed less emphasison the beer (although that isimportant) and more on theoverall vibe and aesthetics.Only brewpubs and brewer-

ies with lounge endorse-ments were considered.

FIELDHOUSEBREWING

The Fraser Valley’s latestand greatest brewery hasdropped the mic, as far astasting room design goes.This place is impeccable, likean EQ3 showroom displayset to beer. It’s the sort ofplace to while away rainyday hours reading by itsfireplace, or playing chess(or checkers?), or ponder-ing Abbotsford’s impendingcultural millennial revolutionthat Field House clearly isanticipating.

MARTENBREWINGCO.Another staggeringly im-

pressive location, built almostcompletely by hand by Stefanand Pearl Marten.TheVernonbrewpub is modern, classyand encompasses everythingI naively assumedVernonwas not. It’s attached to theNaked Pig (also owned andoperated by the Martens), anexcellent Southern-inspiredbarbecue house.

BNABREWINGWith a wide open setup,

huge leather couches, ex-pensive wooden tables andstuffed animal heads hangingfrom the walls, Kelowna’s

BNA Brewing is like enjoy-ing a pint in a One Per-center’s personal residence.Thanks to management’sconscious decision not toserve shooters here, it’s alsoweeded out the Bro Cul-ture that so many of us finddistasteful about Kelowna,replacing it instead with thesmart, sophisticated typeswe tend to forget actuallylive out there. Like, y’know,the majority of folks who livethere year-round.

FOURWINDS BREWINGLike Field House, Four

Winds’ Ladner tasting roomis the sort of place that lets

you forget about the daybeyond its windows.Thelighting’s low, the walls arepainted a soothing teal.Thewraparound bar providesa sense of community andconnection with whateverstrangers are sharing thespace with you.The onlyproblem is that it’s not themost easily accessible placeby transit.

R&BBREWINGThe brand new Brewery

Creek tasting room isn’t yetopen at the time of publica-tion, but man, I tell you thisplace is one of the most orig-inal venues in Vancouver. It’scave-like without being dark,featuring all reclaimed-woodfurniture built specifically forthe tasting room, and a wallof vintage speakers playingvinyl records. Oh yeah, and apizza oven.

BRASSNECKBREWINGI mean, obviously.This is

the place that kick-startedthe whole tasting room crazein Vancouver, and for goodreason.The long woodentables, the crowded space,the general sense of glad-tidings of everyone whowalks in there. If there’s onespace that encapsulates BCcraft beer, you know this is it(don’t you?).

MAIN STREETBREWING

I’ve praised this tastingroom enough times already,

but whatever. High ceil-ings. Lots of light. A greatclientele. Friendly staff.Long wooden tables. It’s arelaxing, reliable venue forsocial outings of any andevery kind (except Trumpsupporter rallies).

CUMBERLANDBREWING

I walked by the patio ofCumberland Brewing a cou-ple weeks ago.The patio wascrowded, despite ominousovercast clouds threaten-ing rain. Everyone for themost part stared at me as Iwalked down, smiling. Someof them had hippie dreads.Almost all of them lookedlike they work in the forestfor a living. A group in thecorner was jamming withacoustic guitars, but theyweren’t hired to play. It waslike they’d all discoveredBeertopia, and were invitingme to stay. I haven’t yet, buthell, maybe one day I will.

PARALLEL 49BREWING

Obviously, there’s nothingaesthetically pleasing or so-phisticated about this place.The walls are green.Thetables are all wobbly.Thewindows are barred.That’spart of P49’s charm…that,and the lively neighbourhoodpub feel, attracting all walksof life to have a good time,and a carefree time only.That’s not easy to find thesedays. W

To mark InternationalWomen’s Day on March 8,L’Abattoir’s wine directorLisa Haley moderated an in-dustry forum focusing on thefemales shaping Vancouver’srestaurants.The initiative,which raised $2,000 for theVancouver Rape Relief &Women’s Shelter, was more“State of the Nation,” ratherthan battle of the sexes.

Haley moved to Van-couver from Montréal twoyears ago. She feels that bycomparison, the Vancouverrestaurant community “isso much more welcom-ing, friendly and inclusive.”Nevertheless, it’s still male-dominated, especially as youclimb higher up the ladder.

While the number of femalesommeliers working in restau-rants is increasing, they’re stillvery much in the minority. Asa snapshot, in the 17 years thattheVancouver InternationalWine Festival has been givingout its Sommelier of theYear

award, only two recipientshave been female (BarbaraPhilip when she was winedirector at the Fish House andCannery restaurants in 2003and Samantha Rahn fromAraxi Restaurant in 2013).At the Canadian Associationof Professional Sommelierscompetition in BC this year,there wasn’t a single femalecompetitor.

Yet it is a field that womenfind appealing. Jill Spoor,wine director for FairmontPacific Rim truly loves herjob: “It’s absolutely reward-ing to find something youcan specialize in like wineand then share that passion.”

Furthermore, job op-portunities are available.Haley recognizes that beinga female sommelier specifi-cally can be an advantage. Assome restaurant owners andmanagers seek to balancetheir organizations, “theyare really looking to have awoman on their team,” as-serts Haley.

Despite greater acceptanceand opportunities, gender-based adversity is an ongoingreality. Haley assures me that“the guest who would prefer

to speak with the male som-melier” still exists and makeshimself known. And whilechauvinistic attitudes fromcoworkers seem to be declin-ing, they haven’t completelydisappeared.

The greater challengethese women are finding,however, is being respectedas businesswomen. At meet-ings with agents as well aswinery representatives fromaround the world, Haleyreports being completely ig-nored even when introducedas the wine buyer.

“I have also been made tofeel invisible,” says Spoor.

As galling and unaccept-able as this behaviour is,it’s countered by an overallencouraging environment.Both Haley and Spoor arequick to praise the mentorsand allies, male and female,who have helped them alongthe way.This is the culturethat needs to be nurtured.

Which brings us to thesubject of motherhood.Thelong and often excruciatinglylate hours can take their tollon anyone but are particular-ly incompatible with raisingchildren. Nessa van Burgen,

who was a wine buyer fora number of significantVancouver establishmentsfor more than 15 years, hadboth of her daughters whileworking in restaurants.

“It becomes very toughwhen you decide to have afamily,” she admits. Be-sides giving due credit toher spouse, she stresses theimportance of finding a goodcompany that is going to besupportive. Restaurant ownersMeeru Dhalwala (Vij’s andRangoli) and Karri Schuer-mans (Chambar) are amongthose who adapt and showflexibility so that they cankeep mothers in the restau-rant industry.The sommelierrole in particular can be moreaccommodating than many ofthe other positions in restau-rants, as Haley points out.

“There are so many waysto structure the job,” shesays. “You don’t need to bethere until 1am.”

Clearly the sommelierprofession isn’t for everyone.But it shouldn’t distinguishbetween male and female.

“The only true differenceis how we’re perceived,”remarks Haley. W

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No one who’s ever listenedto Daughter would accusethe band’s music of beingblithe.With songs mired indepth, texture, and melan-cholic lyrics, the London-based ambient indie-rocktrio have a sound that lendsitself to the dramatic.

So it comes as no surprisethat their current fame ispartially due to the severalprimetime television spotsthe band’s music has beenfeatured in.

“When we released thefirst record (IfYou Leave),I think is when we startedgetting all this demand forgetting our songs in theseshows. Any kind of opportu-nity to have a song that waswritten for a specific purposeto be used in another waywas very interesting,” saysIgor Haefeli, guitarist/bassistfor the band.

Indeed,TV producersfound them interesting, too.Daughter tracks have beenfeatured in TV shows suchas Mistresses, Skins, Our Girl,Forever,TeenWolf, Reign, andGrey’s Anatomy – just toname a few.

It could be the band’s larg-er-than-life ambient sound –almost impossibly pulled offby just three members – orsinger/guitarist Elena Tonra’stendency to write earnestlyand with enormity.

“From the lyrical point ofview, I just think that when[Elena] writes, she’s feelingmelancholic or negative be-cause that’s her way of exor-cising those things,” Haefeli

says of his bandmate.“Putting the music to

that, conceptualizing thatand making it more abstract,you make it something morepositive and put a spin onthe negative. On the musicside, we’re influenced quitea lot by melancholic artistsand movies and books soI think that’s sort of whathappens.”

It’s not just the music itselfthat’s cinematic in nature,however.With Daughter’smost recent release, theband’s sophomore albumNot To Disappear, was theoutput of three mini-filmsto complement three singlesfrom the record.

“I think we were very sen-sitive to image, and especial-ly connecting our music toimage was something we’vealways been interested in,”Haefeli reveals.

“Having the opportunityto make some more interest-ing, more creative videos thataren’t just for a promotionalpurpose but had an artisticintent was something wewere happy to be able to do.”

“DoingThe RightThing,”“Numbers,” and “How” weredirected in collaboration withthe BAFTA (British Acad-emy of Film andTelevisionArts)-nominated Iain Forsythand Jane Pollard, and writerStuart Evers. All are seem-

ingly linked by themes ofloss and sadness, and can bewatched as a trilogy – eitherstanding alone or viewedsequentially.The films can beviewed on the band’s website,OhDaughter.com.

Not only does Not To

Disappear mark a foray intofilm, but a developing sonicidentity since the band’sinaugural release, 2013’s IfYou Leave.

“We started our first EPwith a couple guitars andsome recording stuff and a

mic.We started with little son-ic ambition, it was more aboutthe song,” Haefeli admits.

“As we started playingmore and getting into oursonic identity, we sort ofwent towards somethingwhere we were using a lot ofreverb and different effects.[It was] quite heavily vocal-based to begin with, therewere different vocal texturesand [we] really sort of grewinto that sort of sound.”

That solidification of musi-cal identity, Haefeli says, hasmore to do with translatingtheir songs to the stage thanbeing featured on the tube.

“I think that a lot has todo with touring and growinginto our own sound,” Haefeliadmits. “The way we makerecords, we don’t previewthem live, we kind of makethem up in the studio. It’sreally only when we starttouring is when they solidifyas band songs. I think tour-ing for a couple years… issomething we brought intothe new album.We knowwhat we want more.” W

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BOY BREAKING GLASS Localindie rockers play tunes fromVesta in an intimate performance.9pm at Guilt & Co. Admission bydonation.

KYTAMI Electronic/hip-hopviolinist from Victoria blendsclassic fiddle styles with heavybass and electronic beats withspecial guest JF Killah. 8pm atRickshaw Theatre. Tickets $15 atRed Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, Highlife,Beatstreet and TicketFly.com

THETHICKOF IT Electric hardrock and acoustic ballads from thelocal rockerswith special guestsGoodbye Terra Firma, the SuicideRing andReturn of the Stern. 9pmat Railway Club. Cover is $10.

BURNING GHATS Grinding blasts,D-beats and slow riffs from Van-couver Island with special guestsAnion and Wormwitch. 9:30pm atSBC Restaurant. Cover is $10.

THE SHIT TALKERS High energypunk play in support ofWhere IsThe Trust,with Bound by Noneand War Amp. 9pm at FunkyWinker Beans. Cover is $10.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Japa-nese experimental-psych rockersappear with special guests Or-phan Goggles. 8pm at The Cobalt.Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu andTicketWeb.ca

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BALLETBC –PROGRAM2Newwork from rising French cho-reographerMedhiWalerski, buildson themes establishedwithPreludeandquestions how to balance orderand chaoswhile looking at the hu-manneed for celebration, blurringthe lines between the audience andthe stage. 8pmatQueen ElizabethTheatre. Tickets at BalletBC.com.Runs until March 19.

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THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Texasinstrumental-rock band tours insupport of their latest releaseAnother Language with specialguest Vinyl Williams. 9pm atRickshaw Theatre. Tickets $17 atRed Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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THE SUNDAY SERVICEThe award-winning improvcomedy troupe brings their highenergy commitment to comedywith a little slapstick shtick,carrying the audience through akaleidoscopic trip where scenesbarrel into tangents and storiessmash together creating comedygold. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tick-ets $7 at the door.

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GO, DOG. GO! Carousel Theatrefor Young People brings PD East-man’s classic children’s book tolife on stage in a zany, tongue-wagging, tail-spinning musical,fun for the whole family. 11am &2pm at Waterfront Theatre. Tick-ets at Tickets.CarouselTheatre.ca. Final performances.

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PIXAR IN CONCERT The VSO, un-der the direction of Gordon Ger-rard brings your favourite Pixarcharacters to life in this visuallystunning, high-definition, multi-media family friendly show setagainst the extraordinary musicof the films. 7pm at OrpheumTheatre. Tickets at Vancouver-Symphony.ca

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ANEVENINGWITHGREGDULLIAmerican singer-songwriter leadshis stripped-downband through aselection of songs encompassinghis careerwith guest literary stylistDerrick Brown. 8pmat BiltmoreCabaret. Tickets $25 at RedCat,Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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DOOST (FRIEND) A unique en-semble of artists and adherentsof the Nimatullahi Sufi orderexplore the universal essenceof mystic poetry in this storyabout heritage, compassion andcommunity. 8pm at The Cultch.Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until March 26.

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THE OUT VIGIL Amodern fablesteeped in maritime lore ques-tions our ability to accept thenatural world for all that it is, bothbeautiful and terrifying, taking ona bold new form of poetic natural-ism allowing for the marriageof fact and folklore, music andmagic, the modern andmythical.1pm (pay what you can) & 8pmat Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets atFirehallArtsCentre.com. Runs untilMarch 26.

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Opera might have beenbanned in Rome in the early18th century for being toosexy, but that didn’t stopGeorge Frideric Handel fromcreating music filled withlust, madness and death.Take Apollo e Dafne: startedby Handel in Italy in 1709,when the German com-poser was just beginning hisbrilliant operatic career, thesecular cantata cunninglybypassed the papal decree byusing mythological legends asits stars.

In it, Handel tells the storyof the god Apollo. Fresh offa vigorous dragon slaying,and puffed up with hubris,the renowned archer claimsthat his skills with a bow andarrow are better even thanCupid’s.This arrogance issoon shattered, however,upon spotting the virginaland enchanting Dafne. Asa suitor, Apollo employs allmanner of charms to win heraffections, but she ultimatelyrejects his advances to pre-serve her honour. As Apollobecomes more forceful (ie:

rapey) the terrified Dafne’sonly means to escape is totransform herself into a laureltree before his very eyes.

For a 40-minute piece,singer DouglasWilliamssays the experience ends upfeeling more like a chamberopera in its dramatic scopeand storytelling.

“There’s this whole arc offrustration,” the bass-baritoneexplains, “and [Apollo] endswith the most plaintive ariaof despair at the end, where

he has nothing to hold butthese laurel leaves. So I thinkthe piece has this wonderfuloverall shape to it and thisincredible storytelling anddevelopment of character fora piece that’s only 40 minuteslong, with two characters.”

Williams, a 34-year-old,Grammy-winning soloist witha four-century repertoire, willbe inVancouver this week-end to perform as Apolloin Early MusicVancouver’sproduction of the exuber-

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ant piece.The Berlin-based,Connecticut-born artist isknown for his appearancesin two landmark new operas:Acis and Galatea with MarkMorris for Lincoln Centerand Monteverdi’s Orfeo withSashaWaltz at the DutchNational Opera, and is backacross the pond to appear ina series of engagements fromSan Francisco to Chicago.

Fending off his musi-cal overtures in the role ofDafne will be Opera Magazine“star-to-be”YuliaVan Doren,a prize-winning sopranowho has been presented as asoloist in virtually all of theNorth American early musicfestivals.

Meanwhile, Juno Award-winningVancouver ensembledirector AlexanderWeimannwill be leading this amorousadventure, accompanied byhis Pacific Baroque Orchestra.

ForWilliams, this will bethe third time he has pickedup Apollo’s bow, including astint in a 1950s, Mad Men-esque staging of the tragiclust story, but he says it’s arole he keeps coming back tobecause of its celebration ofthe voice.

“I love singing Handel.It’s written very well for thevoice so it allows you to singbeautiful long legato lines.And it’s often very excitingand virtuosic music, which iscertainly a part of this piece.

“It’s not like 19th-centuryopera,” he continues, “whereyou have an orchestra with somany different instrumentsproviding all of these differentcolours. Here, you have achamber orchestra […] andso with these lesser forces youhave to create all the differentcolours.There’s a lot of op-portunity to make individualchoices about what colour ofthe voice you’re going to use.”

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A funeral prompts thespilling of secrets inMinh Ly’s‘GaTing’

The truth will out, accordingto Shakespeare’s Merchant of-=M'@=. But the Bard neversaid it would be easy.

Toronto artist Minh Lydemonstrates that firsthandwith Ga Ting (Family) – aplay where homophobia andracism clash head on, andregrets are only amendedthrough hard conversations

In the emotional produc-tion from frank theatre (mak-ing its Vancouver debut at theCultch), an elderly Chinesecouple is faced with not onlythe sudden loss of their sonKevin to suicide, but withthe fact that Kevin was gay.When Kevin’s Caucasianboyfriend shows up unin-vited to the funeral, all threeare forced to confront theirdeeply entrenched beliefs.

It’s a scenario that thenow-32-year-old playwrightfound himself personallytroubled by as he wrote.

“I’ve always wondered, ifsomething ever happenedto me, if my story would betold in some way,” Ly reveals,speaking by phone beforerehearsals in Vancouver. “Atthat time, I wasn’t officiallyout to my parents, and youknow, if I got hit by a bus oneday, would there be someoneto tell my story?”

In Ga Ting, both the part-ner and the parents believe(to a fault) that they knowKevin best. It’s a disconnectthat plagues many families,Ly feels.

“Once you reach adult-hood, you’re on your ownand you lose, or at least Ilost, a bit of communicat-ing with my parents. [In GaTing] the boyfriend is theone who shares with theparents who he thinks the sonreally is,” Ly continues. “Andof course the parents believethey know their own child,especially the dad. So conflictarises from there.”

Ga Ting was Ly’s first play,

and his parent’s ultimatelylearned the truth about hisorientation during its initialrun in Richmond in 2014.Building on feedback, Lysays he has since reworkedhis script, taking a morebalanced approach to theparents’ point of view, whilepushing his characters(under director Rick Tae),deeper into the central issuesof racism within the gaycommunity and homophobiawithin the Asian Canadian-community.

As an actor, though, Lyalso saw Ga Ting as a chanceto draw attention to the lackof diversity in Canadiantheatre.

“I had this image of a pairof older Asian actors on stagewith a middle-aged whiteguy, basically,” says Ly, ofhis initial inspiration. “And Ithought it would be inter-esting if something openedthat way […] because I haveprobably seen that once inmy life,” he adds. “I haveseen younger coloured actorson stage, whether they beAsian or black or whatever,but I rarely see older Asianactors on stage. So thatinitiated how this play gotstarted. I wanted to writesomething that put themfront and centre.”

Ga Ting, which alternatesbetween English and Can-tonese (with surtitles), starsveteran actor and formerVancouver city councillor BCLee, alongside Hong Kongfilm star Alannah Ong andJessie Award-winner BrianJ Sutton. As the boyfriend,Sutton is a new addition tothe cast, while Lee and Ongare reprising their roles as theparents.

And while it places thetension of being gay andAsian squarely at its core,Ly is quick to point out thatGa Ting isn’t geared towardsonly those communities. Hehopes instead that the playmight inspire families toaddress unspoken conflictbefore its too late. W

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Hallmark Channel’sVancouver-shotseries brings back thefamily drama

It was one of those winterdays when the rain wasrelentless and unforgiving –but for the nearly 200 peoplewho gathered in a big whitetent on a farm in Langley, theatmosphere was anything butgloomy.

The group was comprisedalmost entirely of visiting

American women.They’dtravelled from all over theStates to converge in thiswhite tent, to stand on ply-wood plankswhile therain pelteddown onthe canvasroof andthe portableheaters didlittle to warmthe space.But theywere therebecause theywere dedicatedHearties, and this is whatHearties do.

Hearties is the term ad-opted by fans of When Callsthe Heart, a wildly popularWestern family drama thatfilms in Langley and airs

on Hallmark Channel andCBC-TV.

The television show isbased on a series of books

by Alberta authorJanette Oke.

Set in 1910, thehit series stars ErinKrakow as ElizabethThatcher, a youngteacher from awealthy Eastern fam-ily who migrates toteach school in a coalmining town thathas been devastatedby an accident that

killed most of the men.Australian Daniel Lissing(who plays a Mountie), LoriLoughlin (Aunt Becky fromFull House), and JackWagner(Melrose Place) also star.

In addition to the out-of-town stars, When Calls the

Here come the Hearties

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Heart is packed withVancou-ver actors, including MartinCummins, Johannah New-march, LorettaWalsh, EricaCarroll, and Pascale Hutton(Arctic Air).

To say When Calls the Heartis a hit with fans is an egre-gious understatement. Sincelaunching in 2014, WhenCalls the Heart has grown tobecome Hallmark’s top-ratedshow – and these Hearties,who number 30,000 strongon social media and workto get the show trendingonTwitter each week, areintegral to the success of theshow.

Their passion was frontand centre at January’sHearties Family Reunion,an event organized byHallmark during which 175fans descended upon theset in Langley (specificallyJamestown, a recreation of afrontierWestern town) andparticipated in set tours,Q&As, and autograph ses-sions with the cast, crew, andcreators.

“You are in our mind atevery moment in the pro-cess,” Brad Krevoy, one ofthe executive producers, toldthe crowd in the tent, addingthat the writers have a photoof a group of fans in thewriting room that they pullout whenever they hit a wall.“They ask themselves, ‘Whatwould the Hearties want tosee?’”

Later, in the Jamestownsaloon set where the cast andcrew signed autographs forHearties (who’d travelled

from all over the States: Ohio,North Carolina,Wisconsin,Idaho, Michigan, New Jersey,Tennessee, Mississippi,Florida, and Alabama; therewas even one fan from Chinawho watches the show viaillegal downloads), executiveproducer Michael LandonJr. told Reel People that theshow is popular because it ac-complishes something no oneelse is the television sphereis even trying to do thesedays: turn back the clock toa simpler time and make ashow that the whole familycan watch together.

“[Networks and studios]dismiss it,” said Landon.“They only want to makethings that they want towatch.They’re very dismis-sive of the show and thisaudience.Think about it:What other show is anythinglike this show? If it’s doingwell, why not make anotherone like it?We have a lot ofcop shows, a lot of proceduralshows, a lot of darker stuff.”He sighed. “Especially in thisgenre, you kind of at timeswant to give up on it, becauseit’s so hard to sell.”

Landon Jr. knows the fam-ily drama genre. His fatherwas Michael Landon, star ofLittle House on the Prairie, an-other frontier family drama.

“Because of my father, Igrew up in the family genre,so it’s really near and dear tome,” says Landon Jr.

The Hearties make itworthwhile. “They’re 30,000-plus strong now.You justdon’t anticipate anything

like this,” he says, motioningto the long line of Heartieswaiting for autographs andphotos. “You think you’re go-ing to make a movie or aTVseries, it’s going to air, peoplewill respond to it, and that’sthat. But to see this level ofpassion and care and workand effort…” He broke offto sign a poster for a Heartiewho erupted into tears as shedescribed to Landon Jr. howmuch his father meant to her.

The Hearties have notgone unnoticed by Hallmark.

“The fact that you’rethere keeps them [HallmarkChannel] thinking about useven more,” Krevoy told thecrowd.

What’s the appeal?Whyhave these fans come from allover the States to a tent in theLangley mud?

“It’s the family values,”said Heartie SarahWilkins,who drove up fromWash-ington State to visit the setwith her mother and infantson. “The actors are wonder-ful, too. It’s brought a lot ofpeople together.”

When Calls the Heart is oneof countless Hallmark projectscurrently filming in MetroVancouver. In 2015 alone,Hallmark shot more than 69productions locally, includingoriginal movies for the GarageSale Mysteries, Murder SheBaked, Gourmet Detective,and Signed, Sealed, Deliveredfranchises. W

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Los Angeles-based writerMelissa Broder just came outto the public as herself. For thelast few years, she has been hid-ing behind the extremely popu-larTwitter handle @sosadtodaywhere she made dark jokesabout her crippled self-esteemand heavy anxiety disorder.

“I think So SadToday was away to open the lid of a kettlethat was boiling over,” Brodersays. “I felt that I couldn’t bereal about what was going oninside me, because we walkaround and we’re supposed tokeep it together. Even in ther-apy I try to keep it together. Ineeded a place to let it rip.”

Her nihilisticTwitter feedresonated with the public, butespecially with young girls whofound her ability to joke aboutsexual rejection, lost love, de-pression, bad sex and patheticmasturbating could actually betherapeutic, or even funny.Thewilling vulnerability was re-freshing. Broder, an acclaimed,published poet, finally revealedit was her behind the handledue to the release of her newbook of essays, So SadTodayPersonal Essays (Grand CentralPublishing).

“[The book] is kind oflike testing to see how muchhonesty I can get away with,”Broder continues. “It’s like,OK, if I reveal this shit andown it, then what I am sayingto myself is: It isn’t so bad.Youaren’t so bad.There’s redemp-tion in it.We’re as sick as oursecrets, and all that.”

I sat down with Broder ispick her brain about the essays.

Whatmadeyouwant towrite? I started writing poetryin third grade. I was a spaceykid and not great at school,but my third grade teacherMrs. Hovey told me I wasgood at this one thing so I keptdoing it. I’ve always felt itchyabout reality.The ability to becontent with one’s circum-stances, the present moment,whatever life brings, eludesme.Writing has always beena way to divert that narra-tive – to have something thatis mine. If time is a forwardarrow then the act of writing isa reprieve in a way. It doesn’tstop time, but it makes littlepockets in the arrow so youcan ride it differently.

Your anonymousTwitter, SoSadTodayblewup for a reason:anxiety, nerves, anddepressionare rampedamongstmillen-nials like anSTD. Youbecameadark comedy, ananxietypopulist. Lookingback, howdoyou feel about your suddenpopularity? I’ve never been an“It Girl,” so getting popular wasobviously really fun. I love the

dopamine.What was maybemost fun was that I never in-tended for So SadToday to bepopular. I’ve tried to be cool inother arenas of life for sure. ButSo SadToday was really a last-ditch effort to survive a darktime in my life, anonymously, ina dusty corner of the Internet.So I felt like damn, telling thetruth is good. Now I just lovehaving a place to go when Icompare my insides to some-one else’s outsides. Like if I’mwalking down the street and seea hot, young surfer couple andimmediately feel like noth-ing compared to them – justobliterated by their effortlessloveliness – I can tweet about itand get pieced back together bythe roar of strangers. Both thedissolution and the validationare ephemeral, superficial even,but I guess it works to fightfleeting with fleeting.

Oneofmy favorite essayswas theoneabout your affairwith the younger guy. Are you inanopen-marriage andwhat isyour perspective onmaintaininga solid relationship? [Laughs]You mean affairs with youngerguys? I’ve had a few. I was in anopen relationship and marriagefor a long time.We weren’t“poly.”We weren’t “swingers.”We didn’t speak on any panels,go on any cruises, wear anyrubber bracelets or maintainany excel spreadsheets. Just twopeople who love each other,grappling in an honest way withthe questions of longing, time,mortality and keeping thingsfresh.The whole story is in thebook.We were monogz for fiveyears, then non-monogz for five.

Currently we are monogamousagain! But that will be up fordebate at our April state of theunion. I don’t profess to knowvery much except about longingand waiting for a text, and thenI know a lot. Monogamy isn’teasy. Open relationships aren’teasy. Being single isn’t easy.

You chose to start thebookwith anessay about never ask-ing tobeborn.Howbringinga child into theworld seemsunethical. So, I’massuming youwill never have children, or haveyouovercome these feelings? Idon’t know if these feelings aresomething to overcome. I thinkthey are more something toaccept. I still struggle to accepthow I feel. Is it okay that I don’twant to have children, and havenever wanted to have children,and as time passes feel nogreater urge to do so? I strugglewith trusting my own instincts,especially when they are coun-ter to the biological majority.People say that I would be agood Mom, but just becauseI might be ok or even good atsomething doesn’t mean I wantto do it. And I think that’s thehardest part for me to own: thatI don’t want to do it.

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Carl Sagan said that science thrives on “two seem-ingly contradictory attitudes: an openness to newideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, andthe most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, oldand new.” Whether or not you are a scientist, Taurus,I recommend that you practice this approach in thecoming weeks. It’s the tool that’s most likely to keepyou centered and free of both rigidity and illusion. AsSagan concluded, this is “how deep truths are win-nowed from deep nonsense.”

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating,” said British au-thor W. Somerset Maugham. “It prevents moderationfrom acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” Nowwould be an excellent time to take that advice toheart, Gemini. According to my analysis of the astro-logical omens, you not only have a license to engagein rowdy fun and extravagant pleasures; it’s yoursacred duty. So get out there and treat yourself to anorgy of naughty adventures – or at least a celebrationof meaningful thrills. You can return to the rigors ofdiscipline and order once you have harvested thehealthy benefits that will come from escaping them.

At one point in Friedrich Nietzsche’s book ',24 )8!*.76563,24356, the hero is having a conversation withhimself. “You have wanted to pet every monster,” hesays. “A whiff of warm breath, a little soft tuft on thepaw – and at once you were ready to love and to lureit.” If I were you, Cancerian, I would regard that typeof behavior as forbidden in the coming weeks. In fact,I will ask you not to pet any monsters at all -- noteven the cute ones; not even the beasties and rascalsand imps that have slight resemblances to monsters.It’s time for maximum discernment and caution.(P.S.: One of the monsters may ultimately become anon-monstrous ally if you are wary toward it now.)

On a social media site, I posted the following quotefrom self-help teacher Byron Katie: “Our job is un-conditional love. The job of everyone else in our lifeis to push our buttons.” One commenter took issuewith this. “’Pushing buttons’ is ametaphor that’s longpast its expiration date,” she wrote. “Can’t you comeupwith something fresher?” So I did. Here are a fewpotential substitutes for “push our buttons”: tweakourmanias, prank our obsessions, glitter-bomb ourbiases, squeeze our phobias, badger our compulsions,seduce our repressions, prick our dogmas. Whicheverexpression you prefer, Leo, find a graceful way to em-brace your fate: Your current job is unconditional love.The job of everyone else in your life is to tweak yourmanias and prick your dogmas.

In the comingweeks, youwill havemaximumpowerto revise and reinvigorate your approach to cultivatingintimate relationships. To aid your quest, I offer thisparaphrased advice fromAndrewBoyd: Almost everyone of us seeks a special partnerwho is just right. Butthere is no right person, just different flavors ofwrong.Why? Because you yourself are “wrong” in someways– you have demons and flaws andproblems. In fact,these “wrongs” are essential components ofwho youare.When you ripen into this understanding, you’reready to find andbewith your special counterpart. Heor she has the precise set of problems you need – is thepersonwho iswrong for you in just the rightways.

In her book ',.#+"3.5 %62(3, AnneMichaels says, “Webecomeourselveswhen things are given to us orwhenthings are taken away.” If she’s right, does itmeanwe should be grateful for those timeswhen thingsare taken away? Shouldwe regardmoments of lossas therapeutic prods that compel us to understandourselves better and to create ourselveswith a fiercerdetermination?Meditate on these possibilities, Libra.In themeantime, I’mpleased to announce that thethings-getting-taken-away period of your cycle iswind-ing down. Soon you’ll begin a newphase,when you canbecomeadeeper, stronger version of yourself becauseof the things that are given to you.

“I’llmake lovewhen the lust subsides,” sings Denitia,one-half of the electro-popbandDenitia and Sene. Thatwould be a goodmotto for you to play aroundwith inthe coming days, Scorpio – in both literal andmeta-phorical ways. I’ll enjoy seeing howyour emotionalintelligence ripens as thewhite-hot passion of recentweeks evolves into amoremanageablewarmth. As funas the intensity has been, it has blinded you to someof the possibilities for collaborative growth that havebeen emerging. Youmay nowbe ready to explore andappreciate sweeter, subtler pleasures.

“The poems I have loved the most are those I haveunderstood the least,” said TS Eliot. I’m going to stealand expand upon his idea for the purpose of givingyou an accurate horoscope. In the coming days, Sag-ittarius, I suspect that the experiences you love mostwill be those that you understand the least. Indeed,the experiences you NEED the most will be thosethat surprise andmystify and intrigue you. Luckily,life will be ingenious in bypassing your analyticalintelligence so as to provide you with rich emotionalstimuli for your soul.

Capricorn painter Henri Matisse made the followingtestimony about his creative process: “At each stageI reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting,if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, Imake my way back into the picture by means of theweakness – I re-enter through the breach – and I re-conceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluidagain.” I recommend this approach to you in thecoming days, Capricorn. You’ve been making decentprogress on your key project. To keep up the goodwork, you should now find where the cracks are,and let them teach you how to proceed from here.

“We all lead three lives,” said Austrian novelistThomas Bernhard, “an actual one, an imaginaryone, and the one we are not aware of.” I suspectyou’ll get big glimpses of your third life in thecoming weeks, Aquarius: the one you’re normallynot aware of. It might freak you out a bit, maybeunleash a few blasts of laughter and surges of tears.But if you approach these revelations with reverentcuriosity, I bet they will be cleansing and catalytic.They are also likely to make you less entranced byyour imaginary life and better grounded in youractual life.

“The greatest illusion is not religion,” says aphoristMichael Lipsey. “It’s waking up in the morning imag-ining how much you’re going to get done today.”But even if that’s often true, Pisces, I suspect thatyou have the power to refute it in the coming weeks.Your ability to accomplish small wonders will be ata peak. Your knack for mastering details and actingwith practical acumen may be unprecedented. Forthe immediate future, then, I predict that you’lllargely be able to get done what you imagine youcan get done.

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