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Fresh from a three-month tour of Brazil, the Boom Booms return to Vancouver with a comeback show at Venue March 29. Riding a wave of success with their second place finish in the 2011 Peak Performance Project, they embarked on a documeneted journey through South America for a web series called Boom Boom Brazil by Point Blank Creative and Grounded TV. The tour of has taken the team up the Amazon to the site of the Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s biggest and most controversial construction projects. Along the Xingu River they played for over 1,000 people and engaged with musicians, activists and local indigenous people. After a week of Carnival in Salvador, the band’s journey will end in Rio and Sao Paulo, with the first episode airing in March. The Mar. 29 concert, supported by Panther & the Supafly and DJ Agent Mulda, marks the official release of the Boom Boom’s latest EP Make Dat Do Dat. Tickets are $15 from Eventbrite.com or Highlife, Red Cat and Zulu.

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VFW launches Fall/Winter 2012, exhibiting the collections of over 30 designers from across Canada, talents from European fashion capitals such as London, Milan and Paris, and innovators from Asia, and South America. On the heels of Toronto Fashion Week, VFW hopes to woo buyers with the likes of Vawk (Toronto – pictured), Farida Lalji (Vancouver), Well-groomed (Vancouver) and Mackenzie Jones ft. Danielle Cameron (Calgary). The event kicked off Tuesday and runs until March 25 at the Chinese Cultural Center at 50 E. Pender St. Tickets are $25 and available at VanFashionWeek.com.

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The haunting song of fire and Iceland Break-up while shooting Lifetime Collective film infuses Van Breemen’s music

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n the traditional break-up rite, shoeboxes filled with ephemera and photographic time capsules are retired at the end of the long kiss goodnight. Too precious to resign to the landfill but too painful to revisit out of even the corner of the eye, shelves and hard drives are wiped cleaned of the evidence, which usually ends up in a closet waiting to be accidentally unearthed in a move.

For Vancouver musician Edo Van Breemen, however, the end of a recent relationship was lastingly, hauntingly, beautifully rendered into legend — serving as the unintentional backstory to the Lifetime Collective Fall/Winter 2012 catalogue shoot.

Set to the primeval song of Iceland itself, Van Breemen arrived on location to simultaneously score the film and star in it — with his girlfriend.

Seen as an ideal natural couple,

Van Breemen and his partner were cast as the catalogue’s wandering souls by Salazar filmmaker Jeff Petry. While their poetic synergy effortlessly strings together scenes from the city of Reykjavik and its desolate surrounds, the fact that they broke up on set lends the story an unshakeable, melancholic voyeurism.

What still whispers amidst the drama, however, is the rippling Resorts soundscape, carefully crafted

by Van Breemen to represent not only long shadows and blazing sunsets, but the clothing featured as the couple spins through the storms. Although he hopes to one day look back on the experience endearingly, it reinforced a disquiet in his relationship with music.

“I got to the point where I wanted to quit music recently. Partly because of that, but partly because it’s such a hard life. I was dogged by a lot of feelings of wondering why all of this had happened. I have never watched the video; I will never watch the video. She sings on the song. It’s especially weird for me but at the same time I’m getting over it. It’s an interesting thing to have a record of.”

Thankfully the Canadian music scene has not lost a young prolific.

Long-listed for the 2010 Polaris Prize and recipient of the SOCAN

ECHO Songwriting prize that same year for his work with Brasstronaut, the band returns with a new album in May. Next on deck though, is his vision for Resorts — his project with Brasstronaut clarinetist Sam Davidson — admitting it will possibly be break-up informed.

“There is a lot of hope in it. Resorts is going to be exciting because it’s instrumental. A nice journey in moods and feelings. I want it to hopefully not be gloomy. I’ve been listening to guy— a German artist named Robag Wruhme. That album (Thora Vukk) has really gotten me through a rough time.

“This kind of music isn’t really represented in Canada as much.

Richie Hawtin had to go to Berlin and Detroit to make it. There aren’t any consistent venues for it in Vancouver.”

Surrounded by friends and contemporaries, Van Breemen still makes Vancouver his workshop, but not easily.

“I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. I have my friends here, especially the guys from Salazar and other people I work for. People can write it off easily — it’s hard to meet people, not enough going on — but the people you do meet are doing interesting stuff. You have to work really hard, but you’re not distracted as easily here as you

Vancouver ‘s Edo Van Breemen stars in the Lifetime Collective catalogue shot in Iceland.

He also wrote the score for the film. might be.”

Quietly, he opens up more about the maelstrom that finally released him in this new direction.

“You look at your friends with jobs and families, at 31 years old I mean, and it was more like I was in a darker place. It’s taking me a while to get out of it. I really appreciate where I’ve come and what I’ve

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While the artist moves on in search of new footing, his musical output lags behind to surround the trials and triumphs of others with the unexpected textures of life.

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Just like the orcas (2003), bears (2006) and the eagles (2009), Vancouver will soon see some seven-foot tall Chinese warriors in various locations around the city, being displayed until October.

The first of the Terracotta Warriors is outside the Vancouver Board of Trade at Canada Place. Greg Hoekstra photo

It’s a smaller campaign this year and only 35 statues will be displayed in Vancouver, Richmond and New Westminster.

In October they will be sold to try to raise money for the Lions Society to reach their fundraising goal of $100,000.

These sculptures will be sponsored by individuals or organizations and designed and painted by local B.C. artists. A “Terracotta Warrior Map” will be created and distributed showing the location, sponsor and artist of every sculpture.

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Foodie signs of Spring foodies — around noon with the boat’s hold brimming. The ultimate edible harbinger of summer!

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But no matter. They’re enjoying themselves in the process, and soon we’ll be feasting upon the veggies and herbs of their labours. It’s just one of many sure-fire signs of Spring in my life. Here are several others...

Stinging Nettles | These have grown in popularity in recent years, and they’re just about to come into season for 2012. (They’ll appear on adventurous menus in the next couple of weeks). I’ve seen La Quercia deliciously stuff them in agnolotti envelopes with ricotta and many a restaurant make a fine soup of them. (They’re often used as a substitute for spinach). Look for them also in risottos at Cibo and Two Chefs & A Table. Sourcing your own? Don’t be frightened. Once they’ve been sufficiently steamed, they’re harmless.

Spot Prawns | The start of spot prawn season is coming up fast and that means we can start looking forward to the annual Spot Prawn Festival at False Creek’s Fisherman’s Wharf. Though a date hasn’t been announced yet, it usually begins on the first Saturday of May. As per tradition, I’ll be hitching a ride that dawn on the Organic Ocean with the festival’s co-founder, Steve Johansen.

We’ll return to the dock — jammed with hundreds of

ing lot at Nat Bailey Stadium has provided plenty of tasty sustenance for my family since November, but now we’re pining for the other neighbourhood markets to get up and running. While the ones on Main and in the West End won’t open until June, those in Kitsilano (in the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre) and Trout Lake (in the north parking lot of John Hendry Park) get going early in May. Find all the info you need (including what’s in season) at EatLocal.org.

Hot Cross Buns | These treats are hardly high end, but when toasted and lathered with butter, they do enter the OMG realm of scandalous delicacy. That they’re only around for two short periods every year makes them all the more attractive (a hangover from an Elizabethan edict that forced English bakeries to only produce them around Easter and Christmas). Whether you make them yourself or buy them at a bakery, we recommend some self-control. Six per sitting is too much.

Chocolate | And what’s Easter and religious/culinary syncretism without a whole bunch of cheap, low quality chocolate bunnies and eggs? One can go that route, but I’m particularly looking forward to the offerings from Vancouver’s newest chocolatiers and bakers. As this will be the first Easter celebrated

by Thierry on Alberni (opened this past Summer), Beta5 Chocolates on Industrial (opened this past Fall), and Cadeaux on Powell St. (opened in January), I expect they’ll be aiming to blow us away.

Halibut | The season for fresh, local halibut is here, and we should starting seeing filets on our better menus as early as this week. Quang Dang at West is a master with this fish, as is James Walt at Whistler’s Araxi. Pick yours up at False Creek Fisherman’s

The season for farmers’ markets is upon us.

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Tomato Investments | We’re looking forward to planting a late summer’s worth of tomatoes at the end of May, but the process starts a few weeks before, when we’ll have to set them outdoors to harden them gradually against the elements (Spring in Vancouver can still bite). When they’re finally up and bearing ripe fruit — in August, we hope — it’ll be BBQ prime time (think relishes and Caprese salad starters).

BBQ Classes | With the coming of good weather and longer evenings, much of our cooking — especially in the meat department — will take place outdoors. If you’re a newbie at grilling or looking to turn pro (in your own mind), the Dirty Apron Cooking School is offering “The Ultimate Grill-

ing Class” on April 27. The four-hour, hands-on class will teach you how to marinate, season and grill meats and seafoods with confidence. Tickets are expensive at $150 a pop, but this is professional instruction from the people who brought us Chambar, so I expect it’ll be worth every penny. Details and booking at DirtyArpon.com.

New Street Food Carts | Finally, the new wave of street food carts is on the horizon. Just last month, some 25 shortlisted candidates presented their concepts and flavours to a panel of 14 judges in the kitchens at Vancouver Community College. From these, the number has been whittled down to just a dozen. We can expect an announcement from City Hall in early April that will detail what new tastes we’ll be able to enjoy curbside this summer.

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Alex Tsakumis and Peter Corsi of Kitsilano’s Quattro on Fourth (Q4) have picked up the old DB Bistro/Lumiere locations at 2551 West Broadway.

They’re considering turning the DB Bistro into another Quattro restaurant (not for certain yet), while the Lumiere side is reserved for a wine bar. Expect an opening at the start of summer.

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The secrets of the agave plant will be revealed when Las Margaritas Mexican Restaurant and the Consulate General of Mexico team up for the first Vancouver International Tequila Expo on May 12. The event features seminars on Tequila 101 and Ancient Origins of Agave Spirits ($45 each), a trade and media tasting with a nominal fee and donation to the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation, and a Consumer Tasting of the full lines of well-known and yet-to-be-imported brands of tequilla (tickets $65.)

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Bob Blumer might not have seen it all — yet — but he has done some pretty odd things for his Food Network show, World’s Weirdest Restaurants. On Mar. 28, he’s hosting one of his World’s Weirdest Pop-ups at The Waldorf Hotel. Working with executive chef Cesar De La Parra and creative director Ernesto Gomez, they’re offering a four-course dinner served with fascinating stories from the show. Tickets for the 6 pm seating are $38 (drinks extra). They’re available at WaldorfHotel.com.

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ith a glass of Chardonnay in hand as I type, I’m filing this week’s column from the Mendoza wine region of Argentina, snug in the eastern foothills of the Andes, 2,000 feet above sea level. For three nights I’m staying at La Vendimia Ranch, owned by the Catena family, pioneers in Argentinian wine.

I’m here for “Malbec Camp,” sponsored by Trialto, a local wine importer who brings in Catena wines. A few days are shared in the region by a bunch of debaucherous Canadians during harvest to really get to know the Malbec grape and her wines, the darlings of Argentina. Over the next few days we’ll be doing everything from harvesting and sorting to crushing and processing.

My inner wine-geek was pretty stoked at today’s welcome lunch, an opportunity for us to get to spend time with Laura Catena, the current head of the winery and her father, Nicolas Catena, a legendary pioneer of Argentinian wine.

Nicolas was named Decanter magazine’s 2009 Man Of The Year, to recognise his place in chang-

ing the face of this country’s wines. While it was his grandfather and father who stayed true to Malbec, knowing the French grape originally from Cahors did well at this high altitude, it was Nicolas who grew tired of the oxidative style that was typical of local wines up until the late 80s.

After spending a good amount of time meeting with Robert Mondavi in the late-eighties, Nicolas saw that the future of wine was in adopting more of a traditional French style, as California had in the past, emulating Bordeaux reds and Burgundian whites. He then took things further, planting vines at higher altitudes, playing around with different microclimates and recognizing the importance of strong marketing initiatives.

He’s an incredible man who now owns many different brands in this country, including the eponymous Catena wines which account for the biggest dollar value of any Argentinian export wine. I say incredible in particular, because as I type away, he’s in the kitchen one room over helping the staff put away the dishes from our lunch.

The wines are the most important part though, since if they sucked, all of the history and accolades mean nothing.

Thankfully, the Catena brand’s reputation for value and consistency is well-deserved.

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Lifetime Collective: Fashion, art, music COVERSTORY

By Kelsey Klassen

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hould Vancouver take lifestyle advice from a couple of greybeards whose collaborative wet dream peaks with Pink Floyd and descends to Kitsilano Pantboots?

It’s a trick question — we already do.

In addition to dressing us, the boys from Lifetime Collective have infiltrated everything from Tofino’s breweries to Portland’s turntables over a weighty 10 years. It took the Live 8 concert to get the guys from Pink Floyd back in the same room, but Trevor Fleming and Reid Stewart have knack for bringing artists together. If they linked up with Pink Floyd, it’d be good.

The Vancouver-based fashion house is a loosely aligned group of bands, designers and artists sharing ideas, playing music and drawing on each others’ T-shirts. The quixotic start, making catalogues and packing boxes in Trevor’s grandma’s Calgary basement, was a way to support their artistic friends and simultaneously dodge the branding of the snow-skate industry, but it has grown up and evolved with the creators in time for their “decadennial.”

“We went from zero to 100,000 our first year. What really got our foot in the door was we grew up in the snow-skate industry and all the companies we looked up to like

Volcom and Sessions were out there branding kids with their logo in 1,600 different ways,” explained Trevor. “These sports are all about self-expression. It was an art and that’s exactly what art is — self-expression.

And we felt like, ‘Really? Why are people out there branding kids, instead of pushing kids to express themselves?’

“We’d work with 16 different artists and take their art and incorporate it into clothing in some way. Allow that kid to have another avenue, another passion, somebody to idolize or follow and express that by wearing that person’s art or sharing their story.”

Fleming and Reid’s camaraderie is easy, with all the eye contact and finished sentences of a couple who still enjoys spending time together. Trevor jokes that it is the longest marriage of his life.

Both have real families now. They take care in how they dress. More noticeably, those buddies they knew were cool back in the day? They’ve gotten big too.

Stopping to glance around their showroom, the heart of their intimate operation, they tick off the Japandroids and Constantines as having performed where stretch racks of next season’s clothes, light tables and two-metre tall pin boards lined with product photos now sit.

Lately their Pacific Northwest look is riding the wave of Americana from coast to coast, and as their reach grows, so do their design influences. Travel is their inspirational outlet and international culture rags like Monster Children in Australia are giving them props for their widening appeal. While

Reid Stewart and Trevor Fleming are already working on Lifetime’s fall collection at their Vancouver studio. Doug Shanks photo their aesthetic, quality and price has slowly up-scaled towards boutique, the duo aims to remain true to their subterranean roots.

To refresh their own relationship and give thanks to square one, the upcoming collection is diverging along interest lines.

Reid is able to express his passions with the Free Thinkers magazine they produce seasonally and the new Lifetime Uniform Standard Collection, coming fall 2012 while Trevor focuses on the main collection and conceptualizes most of the catalogues and

videos, having recently returned from the Fall shoot in Iceland. (See story on page 4.)

“Being able to go from concept to first colour to story board on our own collections, where before we’d have to come together and compromise on everything...This way allows a lot more creative freedom for each of us. Each project is stronger because of that,” explains Trevor.

“But (Fall) was done in Iceland, just because I wanted to go to Iceland,” he adds with a chuckle. — Full story online

Collective wisdom: The LC solution to the Vancouver ‘cap out’ What’s your collaborative wet dream?

Trevor: I’ve never thought about my wet dream. I don’t have those anymore. A diamond-studded T-shirt with Damian Hirst.

Reid: If it were the 70s, Pink Floyd, but it sounds so cheesy...

Trevor: A Kitsilano package. I’d like to get Lululemon and Ugg together in a three-way collaborative pantboot. Built into one.

A pantsy?? Nice. Onesies are huge, do you make one?

Reid: We have a flight suit. [laughs] Trevor: Oh man, going off the rails here at the end.

What are some adjectives to describe your clothes?

Trevor: What’s an adjective? Put that.

Trevor says, “What’s an adjective?”

Reid: Inviting, fun, accessible — affordable.

Who would you like to shout out?

Reid: I’ve always really liked Heather Martin’s stuff. She has a high-end clothing brand

called Mono. In our past Zine we interviewed Collage Collage. I love what they’re doing — a place where kids can be creative. The city needs something like that.

Trevor: My girl keeps me grounded in a lot of things. She definitely helps me stay in touch with the fashion world.

Reid: We’re gonna go there, hey? There’s so many creative people here, but they can’t make money. Everyone thinks of Vancouver highly and talks about it and goes back to it but you can only cap out so hard here.

What would fix it?

Reid: Another shout out in way ... Quite a few brands from Vancouver being successful, like Native and Herschel, helps us. This past trade show in California, a guy wrote me, “Wow, there’s a lot of cool stuff coming out of Vancouver. I had no clue.”

Trevor: The good thing though, because it’s such a hard place to make it — a strug-

gle — the artist community really pulls together, helps each other out. The more people who make it in Van and stay in Van help the rest of the chain.

What would you be doing if you weren’t doing this?

Trevor: Jail. No, I’m kidding.

Reid: Teach or something. Art teacher.

Trevor: Working with wood. I’d live on an island and just be clearing it. And whittling.

The duo allude to having secret schemes in mind for Vancouver, and while an ambitous barge party dream of Trevor’s might never come to fruition, they definitely have a tenth birthday to bash. Lifetime Collective just launched a new website; this season’s collection and the roster of current Collecti can be browsed within. Free Thinkers is also available anywhere their clothes are sold, and at select JJ Beans, where Reid has personally dropped them off.

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ince 2007, Vancouver has been ground zero for the tomboy chic fashions of Jude Feller’s lily + jae. The distinctive, contemporary streetwear boomed and was quickly seen between the sheets of Teen Vogue and Nylon and on stars of the Lykke Li and Sarah Polley set.

Strangely enough, the fashion industry didn’t initially vibe with the Helen Lefeaux class of ’99 grad. It took seven years working as a buyer in the costume departments of film and television to

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inspire Feller to try again.

Fast forward to last year; she was winding down the independently designed label when the guys from Lifetime Collective clothing brand came calling. Tapped to conceptualize the new Lifetime woman, her Spring/Summer 2012 designs are a fluid, flirty transition from rough-and-tumble girl to adventurous woman.

Working for the first time with a team, Feller, 32, was challenged to rework her own inspirations within an entirely new design approach. The result is a lookbook with ample distinction between what was and what is now.

But for all the new methods and influences, Feller’s Stevie Nicks-ish sartorial response still reads like a loving ode to the West Coast woman. The entire collection, from the versatile waxed hood Charlie rain coat to the high-waist, pleated Raquel pant, invokes images of girls dashing between train doors at Stadium station or sipping espresso in the window of Le Marché St. George.

Fashion moves quickly, so fall is already a wrap and she is currently working on Lifetime SS13.

With her airy studio now doubling as a playpen, her aesthetic might eventually extend to baby clothes, but in the meantime her designs can be found locally at Eugene Choo, The Block, Plenty, Hills of Kerrisdale and online at LifetimeCollective. com.

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leeding, colourful portraits of beautifully pained subjects populate the world of artist and Lifetime Collectivist Ben Tour. Speaking with WE from his cozy studio on the Sunshine Coast, Tour is spending his time balancing parenthood with creating new paintings for group shows and commissioned portraits.

“As an illustrator I’m always looking for new clients that pitch interesting projects that are very well designed. Lifetime has only gotten more interesting with every season (and) is the closest thing I have to an agency that consistenly finds me work.”

Through Lifetime, Tour has been introduced to gigs with Nike, Burton Snowboards, Absolut Vodka, Gordini snowboard goggles and private commissions. Originally from Toronto, he landed in Vancouver in 2003 and was hanging out with the Human Five artist collective when the introductions were made. What started out as a friendship between people who shared the same interests has turned into an enduring partnership.

Amid the galactic swirls of ink on

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paper, Tour’s star is shining on, with haunting illustrations in Playboy and solo shows in LA, San Francisco and New York City. When asked who he would choose to illuminate in turn, the reticent artist had praise for a fellow Vancouverite.

“Office Supplies Incorporated is one of my favourites worldwide, and we’re lucky enough to be able to watch whatever he does next firsthand.”

When someone offers “be a maniac” as career advice, it’s best to be intrigued. His portfolio is online at TheTourShow.com. Catalog Gallery (56 Powell) is presenting his solo show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ until March 31.

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The Merle Norman Spring 2012 Colour Collection wants to erase the greyness of winter. The Light & Airy palette features a celestial blue shade (Airy) that blends perfectly with the pink shades (Angel Wisp and Wink), and the darker grey (Winging It) for contrast. The earthier-toned Earth Angel palette harmoniously combines the star shade, mint green (Sub-lime), with illuminating cream and gold shades (Bubbly Spirit and Vintage Charm), and is anchored with a rich chocolate brown (Cocoa Cashmere). For Cheeks features an overspray of champagne shimmer with a gorgeous, matte pink color underneath.

Pink is the new lipstick red for spring: Dolled Up is a beautiful, bright fuchsia; Lucky in Love, a warmer mid-toned pink; and Cupid’s Kiss, a lighter softer pink. For those who prefer a glossy lip look, Lip Polish in Mademoiselle and Shy complete the collection. (Cathedral Place, 150- 925 W. Georgia; 604-685-1117) Vancouver glass artist Braden Hammond lights up the Four Seasons Hotel with his new series of stunning custom lighting creations, Lampadario. The use of hundreds of glass points embodies the Italian tradition of glass, hence the name Lampadario, meaning “chandelier” in Italian. When looking at the light, each point of glass jets out towards the viewer from every angle to produce a very three-dimensional effect.

This sensation is further enhanced when the illuminated with LED lights. This series is by far one of Hammond’s most modern designs.

Hammond and his team will install each carefully crafted glass piece individually on a large illuminated armature in the main lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel for onlookers to view. Once installed, the completed Lampadario Series will be on display and available for purchase at the Four Seasons Hotel until March 30. The launch party is Saturday, March 24 from 6 to Braden Hammond’s Lampadario 8pm. (BradenHammond.com)

the farmer’s market. Fashioned from high quality, recycled fabrics and built to last a lifetime, the Me & You SS12 collection honors the spirit and beauty of women in the 20s. Whether it is a rebellious phrase like “Hell Yeah I use Reusable Bags” or the “DAR-LING” bucket bag (fashioned after the canvas bucket bags used to carry water) the message behind these mindful stylish totes is clear. Whatever the era, you can make a positive difference and always remember Me & You. (For retailers head to MeAndYou.ca) Be the first to see the Edward Chapman Woman’s Spring 2012 Collection at the informal fashion show March 24 at the flagship store on Granville.

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by Gerry Weber, Saint James, Basler, Fuchs Schmitt, Hugo Boss, Eileen Fisher, Airfield, Marccain, Cambio, Marc Aurel, Michael Kors, Luisa Cerano and Longchamp.

Show starts at 1pm. (Granville St. at 10th; RSVP to 604-732-3394 or 604-732-1958 as space is limited) Eva Chen studied fashion design at the Fine Arts University in China then travelled the world, from Singapore, to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco to name a few and eventually settled in Vancouver. Her experiences travelling the world shaped the aesthetic and look of her clothing today. Internationally known

for her feminine, slim-hipped designs and hints of chic Hollywood glamour, her “Elegance” fashion show gala will showcase her new collection as seen in Toronto Fashion Week. Romanticized with hues of nude, burgundy, dark green, and black with accents of gold and details such as feathers, leather trimmings and luxurious stretch wool, the collection inspires women to be excited about clothing.

She has showcased her previous collections at Vancouver Fashion Week, Seattle and other special events. Her work has appeared widely in the media.

Tickets are $20, $25 at the door and available at LuvnGraceAffair.com or 604-374-5610. The show starts at 8pm, March 26 at Venue, 560 Seymour.

(EvaChen.co) Working outside the traditional fashion seasons, Irit Sorokin has the ability to create a collection that is beyond trends and constantly changing.

Her latest collection of dynamic jewellery weaves together ancient beads, fresh water pearls, crystals, antique coins, natural stones, and semi-precious gems.

Although known for her necklaces, Irit weaves elemental pieces into a sophisticated collection that also includes rings, cuffs, bracelets, and earrings. Irit Sorokin designs range in price from $40-$550 and are available at Jeweliette, House of Jewels, Fine Finds, Chloe Angus, Two of Hearts, Barefoot Contessa, and Tenth and Proper.

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A $300,000 reno later, Anza Club set to re-open

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or the uninitiated, close your eyes and picture your favourite childhood basement. Was it dimly lit? Where was the dart board? Was the pool table pristine or showing the signs of age? What colour was the beaten-down couch that took the poundings of frustration and jubilation accompanying a Canucks season? Can you smell the beer? Does just thinking about it make you smile?

A step into the Anza Club at the corner of Ontario and 8th invokes all the homespun charm of that trip back in time.

It’s not for everyone — the first time I sat on a chair in the Anza Club I walked away with duct-tape souvenirs on my jeans — but it truly is for everyone.

Split into two levels, the layout is... unconventional. Groups part company along gender lines and transition via the bathrooms to take stairs from one level to the next.

But once you get used to the lay of the land, you’ll notice a downstairs members lounge à la the description above offering

big-screen sports, one of the city’s longest running open mic nights, and bar service with your name on it. A stretch of the legs leads to the upstairs stage and dance floor hosting a hearty stew of cultural significance — LGBT events, reggae nights, society meetings, theatre productions and film clubs.

In fact, it was the Cold Reading Series upstairs that first had me in the doors.

That said, some of the character was rubbing off to the point where a facelift was in order, and the upper level of the Anza has been closed for five weeks of intensive renos courtesy (in part) of a $120,000 Cultural Infrastructure Grant from the city. The club financed the remainder of the work, to the tune of that amount and more.

The beer taps now run, resurfaced floors and walls gleam under brand new lighting — but it’s still the same old Anza.

Started as an expat Australia New Zealand Association in 1935, the building was

Just off Main Street, the Anza Club is about to reveal its newly renovated... well, perhaps not splendour but definitely its splendid charm. purchased by the group in 1963 and left virtually untouched after that. What used to be a church is now home to a closeknit family that regularly opens its doors to the public. Tellingly, those who know it well still refer to it as church.

The Anza is officially taking the bandages off in a big reveal Thursday, Mar. 22 with open mic regulars East Van Yacht Club, Alex Maher, Tonye Aganaba, David Morin, Jess

Vaira, Dan Ross and more gracing the stage, topped off by door prizes and “Anza cheap” beer.

New members are always welcome; entry is free for those who take the $10 membership plunge, $7 at the door for non-members, $5 for current members.

The Anza Club is at 3 W. 8th Ave. Show starts at 7:30 pm.

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Here are some city updates from members of Les Clefs d’Or, the professional concierge association.

eighth eatery, this time on Hornby Street — an Italian café.

• The newest Trevor Linden fitness centre, named Club16, will open on April 16 at #50-1055 Canada Place (Convention Centre West). Open seven days a week, the facility will offer state-of-theart fitness equipment with drop-in rates as low as $10. Additional services will include bicycle rentals and tanning beds.

• Caffe Artigiano just opened a new location in the Opus Hotel.

• All India Restaurant at 1188 Davie has changed its name to Judge’s Indian Cuisine. Current dine-in menu to stay the same and they will continue to offer delivery service fromm 5pm to 10pm daily.

• There is a new waterfront eatery at the West Convention Centre serving various vegetarian and curry dishes, wraps, etc.: Anatolia Express Restaurant, Unit 40 1055 Canada Place.

• The Glowbal Group will be opening up its

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• The Kingston Taphouse has reopened under new management. Nothing has changed with the pub and they still have patrons lining up out the door on hockey game days.

• There is a great event coming to Grouse Mountain this week. Showdown Over the City and Quiksilver Pro are featuring pro snowboarders from all over on their specially built slopestyle course.

Celebrations are from March 23-24 and the cost for spectators is included in your general admission ticket. For people wanting to go skiing and snowboarding at Grouse that day, the mountain is still open. Just one run (the Cut) is closed for the festival.

Answers to the concierge test Last week we posed five questions that a concierge must answer as part of the test to become a member of Les Clefs d’Or and asked our readers if they knew the answers. Congratulations to the winner of the quiz, Andrew Cadigan. Here are the answers.

1. What Vancouver location is the most visited tourist attraction in all of Canada? Granville Island.

2.What three First Nations share Vancouver as their ancestral lands?

The Musqueam, the Squamish Nation, and the Slaywatooth.

3. How did Blood Alley get its name? The name was concocted by the neighbourhood to generate tourist interest.

4. Where did the Birks Clock come from? Birks bought the Trorey Jewellers building that became its first building, along with the Trorey clock that became the Birks clock. The clock moved to Granville and Georgia when Birks moved locations, and then came to its current location in 1994 with the building move.

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She’ll take, for instance, some Cheerios and add some high-fibre cereal.

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Free Will Astrology Rob Brezsny • Week of March 22 ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Not bad for a

few weeks’ work, or play, or whatever it is you want to call this tormented, inspired outburst. Would it be too forward to suggest you’ve gone a long way toward outgrowing the dark fairy tale that had been haunting your dreams for so long? And yet all this may just be a warm-up for your next metamorphosis, in which you make an audacious new commitment to becoming what you really want to be when you grow up.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): This week I’m tak-

ing a break from my usual pep talks. I think it’s for the best. If I deliver a kind-hearted kick in the butt, maybe it will encourage you to make a few course corrections, thereby making it unnecessary for fate to get all tricky and funky on you. So here you go, Taurus: 1. The last thing you need is someone to support your flaws and encourage you in your delusions. True friends will offer snappy critiques and crisp advice. 2. Figure out once and for all why you keep doing a certain deed that’s beneath you, then gather the strength and get the help you need to quit it. 3. It’s your duty to stop doing your duty with such a somber demeanor and heavy tread. To keep from sabotaging the good it can accomplish, you’ve got to put more pleasure into it.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): The German word Weltratsel can be translated as “World Riddle.” Coined by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, it refers to questions like “What is the meaning of existence?” and “What is the nature of reality?” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Gemini, you’re now primed to deepen your understanding of the World Riddle. For the next few weeks, you will have an enhanced ability to pry loose useful secrets about some big mysteries.

Certain passages in the Book of Life that have

always seemed like gobbledygook to you will suddenly make sense. Here’s a bonus: Every time you decipher more of the World Riddle, you will solve another small piece of your Personal Riddle.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): “The reason-

able man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” So wrote George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman.

From the hints I have gleaned, Cancerian, you are now in an ideal phase to be the sort of unreasonable man or woman who gets life to adapt so as to better serve you and your dreams. Even if it’s true that the emphasis in the past has often been on you bending and shaping yourself to adjust to the circumstances others have wrought, the coming weeks could be different.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): In his book Word

Hero, Jay Heinrichs offers us advice about how to deliver pithy messages that really make an impact. Here’s one tip that would be especially useful for you in the coming days: Exaggerate precisely. Heinrichs gives an example from the work of the illustrious raconteur, American author Mark Twain.

Twain did not write, “In a single day, New England’s weather changes a billion times.”

Rather, he said, “In the spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of fourand twenty hours.” Be inspired by Twain’s approach in every way you can imagine, Leo. Make things bigger and wilder and more expansive everywhere you go, but do it with exactitude and rigor.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): “Liminality” is a

term that refers to the betwixt and between state. It’s dawn or dusk, when neither night nor day fully rules. It’s the mood that prevails when a transition is imminent or a threshold beckons. During a rite of passage, liminality is the phase when the initiate has left his or her old way of doing things but has not yet been fully accepted or integrated into the new way. Mystical traditions from all over the world recognize this as a shaky but

potent situation — a time and place when uncertainty and ambiguity reign even as exciting possibilities loom. In my estimate, Virgo, you’re now ensconced in liminality.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): The Argentinian

writer Antonio Porchia said there were two kinds of shadows: “some hide, others reveal.”

In recent weeks, you’ve been in constant contact with the shadows that hide. But beginning any moment now, you’ll be wandering away from those rather frustrating enigmas and entering into a dynamic relationship with more evocative mysteries: the shadows that reveal. Be alert for the shift so you won’t get caught assuming that the new shadows are just like the old ones.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Every winter,

hordes of ants have overrun my house. At least that was true up until recently. This winter, the pests stayed away, and that has been very good news. The bad news? The reason they didn’t invade was because very little rain fell. The ants weren’t driven above ground by the torrents that usually soak the soil. And so now drought threatens; water shortages may loom. I propose that this scenario is a metaphor for a dilemma you may soon face, Scorpio— except that you will have a choice in the matter: Would you rather deal with a lack of a fundamental resource or else an influence that’s bothersome but ultimately pretty harmless?

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): You’re entering

one of the most buoyant phases of your astrological cycle. Your mandate is to be brash and bouncy, frothy and irrepressible. To prepare you, I’ve rounded up some exclamatory declarations by poet Michael McClure.

Take them with you as you embark on your catalytic adventures. They’ll help you cultivate the right mood. McClure: “Everything is natural. The light on your fingertips is starlight. Life begins with coiling — molecules and nebulae. Cruelty, selfishness, and vanity are boring. Each self is many selves.

Reason is beauty. Light and darkness are arbitrary divisions. Cleanliness is as undefinable and as natural as filth. The physiological

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The frontier is both outside and inside. The universe is the messiah. The senses are gods and goddesses. Where the body is — there are all things.”

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): You know those tall, starched white hats that many chefs wear? Traditionally they had 100 pleats, which denoted the number of ways a real professional could cook an egg. I urge you to wear one of those hats in the coming weeks, Capricorn — or whatever the equivalent symbol might be for your specialty. It’s high time for you to express your ingenuity in dealing with what’s simple and familiar . . . to be inventive and versatile as you show how much you can accomplish using just the basics.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): As I was driving

my car in San Francisco late one night, I arrived at a traffic signal that confused me. The green light was radiant and steady, but then so was the red light. I came to a complete stop and waited until finally, after about two minutes, the red faded. I suspect you may soon be facing a similar jumble of mixed signals, Aquarius. If that happens, I suggest you do what I did. Don’t keep moving forward; pause and sit still until the message gets crisp and clear.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): A woman named

Joan Ginther has won the Texas Lottery four times, collecting over $20 million. Is she freakishly lucky? Maybe not, according to Nathaniel Rich’s article in the August 2011 issue of Harper’s. He notes that Ginther has a PhD in math from Stanford, and wonders if she has used her substantial understanding of statistics to game the system. (More here: tinyurl.com/LuckAmuck.) Be inspired by her example, Pisces. You now have exceptional power to increase your good fortune through hard work and practical ingenuity.

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tually stop and aren’t trying to run you over. I know the city needs funds right now so here’s a clue: There’s a corner at Jackson and Powell where there is a crosswalk. I take a bus from that corner and cars do not stop. Put a cop car there and just nail them one after another.

They’re not stopping. Bingo, bingo, bam, ticket them one after the other. You’d make a fortune.

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E-MAIL: rantrave@wevancouver.com RANTLINE: 604-742-8673 All rants are the opinion of the individual and do not reflect the opinions of WE. The editor reserves the right to edit for clarity and brevity, so please keep it short and (bitter)sweet.

Don’t think you’re doing a favour for the homeless

An offensive demand A VIP requested to be greeted by a First Nations princess? (WE, March 15, Five-Star Concierges.) First Nations across North America do not have kings, queens, princes or princesses. There is the Dogwood Monarchist Society which is a group of drag queens who love to have fun and raise money for charities. There are many First Nations princesses in that organizations. The idea that someone would make a demand like that is offensive and ridiculous. There are some high-status First Nations, some are heredity chiefs, some are elected chiefs, and some are high status because of the wonderful things that they do.

I’m sure that if you’d like to meet them, you can meet them on their own terms, not wave your hand and say, “Put on a show for me, monkey.”

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I don’t know if it’s because they are lazy or stupid or both. To all the people who just leave their garbage, TVs and old mattress beside the dumpster — you are not doing anyone a favour. First off, no one wants your water-soaked 1987 crap TV or the bug-infested moldy mattress. I actually heard someone say that they were leaving it for the homeless. Wow, what a saint. And here is a news flash: it’s not the job of the people driving the garbage truck to pick up trash beside the bin.

It ends up becoming scattered all through the ally. It just boggles my mind. Hell, save yourself the trip and just throw it out your window.

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I live in the West End and I’m really getting fed up with these airplanes flying over our heads until a quarter to 11 at night. How can this be allowed? It’s just driving me crazy.

I am a spoiled Westender who’s used to our crosswalk on Robson, the one where cars ac-

It’s making me want to turn my TV on even though I prefer to read. We have to put an end to it. We don’t need noise from the air.

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Blossom season Spring has officially sprung — the cherry trees are blossoming on Nelson Street. But remember, March comes in like a lamb and out like a lion. It came in on a sunny day so expect at least one rip-roaring snorting storm at end of the month.

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Don’t bat those false eyelashes at me So what’s with women wearing fake hair and eyelashes. It looks hideous. You think it looks pretty but it’s really not. It’s a total turn off.

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Beat the Conservatives with their own law As a low-income disabled senior I’m very confused by the law the Conservatives are bringing in supposedly to protect seniors. It that states that anyone who abuses seniors or exploits them financially or takes money from them through false pretenses will be severely dealt with by the law. But if the Conservatives are changing access to OAS from age 65 to 67 they’re making both a financial assault on disabled low-income people, some of whom working an extra two years may kill

them, and they’re exposing them to harm.

The change will take $13,000 a year out of a single person’s pocket. The Conservatives should be prosecutable under the law because that’s exactly what they’re doing — financial and physical harm to seniors.

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Who’s the jerk?

March 15, about 10 minutes to six: You ran into me when you were jogging eastbound on Nelson Street. You were on the left hand side of the sidewalk and I was on the right bearing right, as normal people do, and I was the asshole who had to get out of the way?

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New company gives young opera stars a start

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hey may be duelling divas, but Robin EderWarren and Jacqueline Ko have managed to find enough common ground to launch their own opera company.

The 20-year-olds recently formed Opera Mariposa as a platform for young artists seeking singing experience. The company’s first concert will feature the voices of the co-founders as they put on their best diva act in Witches, Waifs and Wives: The Great Women of Opera.

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Eder-Warren serves as managing director of the fledgling company. She began developing her soprano voice a decade ago.

“My singing teacher was phenomenal and happened to be an opera singer,” she said. “Between the time I started and by the time I was six years in, at some point I had become interested in singing opera for the rest of my life.”

After high school, she studied opera at University of Manitoba and later began “pond hopping,” honing her craft in Europe and performing and teaching here.

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“In Austria, Germany and Switzerland in particular, there are really a plethora of houses with a lot more opportunity than there is in Canada, unfortunately. “ Within Canada, if one would want to make a name for themselves, they would ultimately have to move to Toronto and hope to get into the (Canadian Opera Company), but really to pursue the full career, young artists have to inevitably move elsewhere.”

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VocalEyes’ Eileen Barrett, left, gives blind patron Monica Nelson a hands-on feel of a mask used in Don Quixote during a Touch Tour production. Boaz Joseph photo

Blind theatre patrons now have a VocalEye There’s no time for such descriptions during the show’s action, said Nelson, who added that knowing what the actors are wearing adds to the experience.

By Boaz Joseph During the show, the live play-byplay began as Rick Waines, standing in the back with his masked microwo years go, Monica Nelson phone, quietly described the setting received an invitation to The and actions to his Miracle Worker, private audience. a play by Upcoming Waines, one of VoVancouver Playouse VocalEye shows calEye’s four trained Theatre Company describers, says the about deaf-blind Upcoming shows at key to providing the author and political the Arts Club best experience is to activist Helen Keller.

Theatre, Stanley learn the script well It wasn’t just any and to speak coninvitation. It was Stage (1585 cisely between they the first one to live Johnston St.): actors’ lines.”When theatre that she could • The Importance I’m feeling more accept. poetic about it, I’m Nelson is legally of Being Earnest, translating light into blind and Vancouver April 8 at 2 p.m. sound.”

Playhouse had signed • High Society, The choice of up for KickStart’s (The words is also imporSociety for DisabilJune 3 at 2 p.m. tant. The describers ity Arts and Culture) • Buddy: The must help patrons VocalEye, an audio Buddy Holly Story, laugh when the rest description service for of the audience does blind theatre-goers.

Aug. 5 at 2 p.m. (a tricky thing with Wearing an earpiece For tickets, call physical comedy), linked to a transistor 604-687-1644. and to not interpret radio-sized closedfor their audience. cirquit FM receiver, They might say, for Nelson learned what example, that “John was going on in lowers his head and frowns” rather between the dialogue. The experience than “John is sad.” led her to purchase tickets for several At the end of a recent performance shows in Vancouver over the last two of Don Quixote in Surrey, the Vocalyears.

Eye crew added a Touch Tour for the “It’s fabulous,” she said after a first time. It allowed the blind to come recent show. “They’re trained to deon stage and feel the masks, costumes, scribe things in more detail than your armour and props — including Don friend would have time to do.”

Quixote’s hobby-horse, the character’s Although the closure of Vancouver substitute for his “knight’s” horse.

Playhouse is also being mourned by “I couldn’t visualize that, even the visually impaired community, though it was described to me,” NelVancouver’s Arts Club is participating son said. in the progrram.

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By Curtis Woloschuk

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isters&Brothers, the latest effort from Vancouver filmmaker Carl Bessai, completes a trilogy of seriocomic examinations of family dynamics that commenced with 2008’s Mothers&Daughters and continued with 2010’s Fathers&Sons.

Dubbed “collaborative creations,” these films forego traditional scripting in favour of workshopping and improvisation. As Bessai explains, “It’s hard for me to understand how the single voice of a writer can represent all of those characters that we experience in a film. My approach on these improvised movies is trying to bring people into the project who can put a lot of themselves on screen, letting some of their true nature and true experiences bleed into it.”

It’s worth noting that Bessai is speaking from Los Angeles, where he maintains a part-time residence.

While having enjoyed a remarkably prolific career, securing distribution for his films has remained a constant frustration. Consequently, part of his time in California has been spent luring “name” actors to his projects. “(Canadian filmmakers) have to be

thinking about getting actors in our movies that have a resonance with the general public,” he explains of the strategy that sees Glee star Cory Monteith join his latest ensemble.

“Glee is largely the reason that people are interested in this movie. It’s just a fact.”

Bessai’s border-hopping also influenced the film’s multi-arc narrative.

One storyline features Monteith and 90210’s Dustin Milligan as feuding brothers in a Los Angeles beach house.

A second sees a Vancouver actress (Amanda Crewe) head for Hollywood with her sister (Camille Sullivan) and a suspect Svengali (Tom Scholte).

Meanwhile, the final two — a woman (Gabrielle Miller) tends to her schizophrenic brother (Benjamin Ratner); a teenager (Kacey Rohl) meets her halfsister (Leena Manro) — remain rooted in Vancouver.

Drawing on his varied relationships with his three brothers for inspiration, Bessai distinguishes these four storylines by assigning each a different dynamic, be it rivalry, animosity, dependence or estrangement. The result: “If you get a bunch of people in a room to watch these characters, there’s always someone on the screen that someone in the audience can relate to. There’s something so honest about these explorations because they’re universal.”

Another wholly relatable aspect of the film is how the characters’ behaviour regresses the longer they’re

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Oh brother — this look means trouble. 90210’s Dustin Milligan and Glee’s Cory Monteith play two feuding brothers in Vancouver director Carl Bessai’s piercing look at family dynamics. in one another’s company. With a laugh, Bessai asserts, “there’s something vaguely childish about the way siblings relate to one another. No matter how sophisticated you become, you still have a sibling that you’re dealing with in some of the ways that were entrenched when you were 16.”

Consequently, don’t expect Bessai’s characters to undergo much personal growth. “Did they become wiser or better for the experience? Sometimes yes.

Sometimes no,” he summarizes. However, that’s

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n a city brimming with film festivals, do we have room for one more? Geoff McMurchy, the artistic director of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture and co-curator of the Wide Angle Media Festival (Mar. 22-25 at the Roundhouse Community Centre), hopes so.

“Vancouver has never had a disability film festival and I think that artists with a variety of disabilities offer a particular perspective,” McMurchy says. “We see the power of the arts to convey our message and enlighten people.”

The festival’s curators challenged themselves to find films that met certain criteria: high production values and significant input from a person with disabilities, either by writing the screenplay, directing or collaborating in partnership. To wit,

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by WAM in the hopes of “levelling the playing field” and getting people with disabilities into the film industry.

More often than not, disabled people are depicted on film or television as plot points to teach a morality lesson rather than as regular, everyday people.

“It’s happening sometimes when a film is made by a non-disabled person about a person with a disability,” McMurchy says. “That’s part of what we’re trying to do: take control over the representation of people with disabilities and control our own narrative and tell our own story. That’s what it’s all about.”

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Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers play at the Railway March 28

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon Directed by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass With bleary eyes evincing a fondness for his bong, Jeff (the perfectly cast Jason Segel) opens this minor key comedy by marvelling at how the seemingly extraneous elements in Signs all build to a “perfect moment.” While it’s highly amusing to watch someone defend, much less deify, the much-maligned M. Night Shyamalan, you’re also taken with the schlub’s conviction that everything has significance.

Consequently, when he receives a phone call from someone looking for “Kevin,” he naturally wonders, “What if there are no wrong numbers?” Joining Jeff’s ensuing quest for answers is his dickish older bother Pat (Ed Helms), who’s trying to determine whether his wife (Judy Greer) is unfaithful. Checking in intermittently by phone is their exasperated mother, Sharon (Susan Sarandon).

As the on-screen misadventures escalate and attempt to coalesce into one of those highly-cinematic “perfect moments,” it’s clear that writers-directors Jay and Mark Duplass were on surer footing with smallerscale offerings such as Cyrus. Particularly grating is how Sharon’s subplot seems grafted onto the film.

However, if the storytelling is wobbly, the sentiment that drives it is sturdy. In short strokes, the filmmakers and actors establish convincing characters whose buffoonish behaviour is rooted in deep emotional wounds.

Whether the Duplasses learn from their mistakes here and again attempt something this (relatively) grandiose or return to their comfort zone of more understated stories, this marks a turning point for these filmmakers. — Curtis Woloschuk

PARIAH Starring Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis Directed by Dee Rees In an inspired twist, Dee Rees’ otherwise fraught coming-out/coming-of-age tale initially takes its cues from the fairytale world of Cinderella. With the clock striking curfew, 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye) flees a lesbian nightclub’s dance floor. Scurrying home, she dons a girly t-shirt and slips in earrings, transforming herself back into the straight girl her domineering parents know and love.

While Rees fails to maintain this impressive command of narrative and visual composition throughout her debut feature, the writer-director nevertheless delivers compelling drama. The closeted Alike must not only contend with her parents’ fractious relationship, but also the competing influences of Laura (Pernell Walker), her openly gay friend, and Bina (Aasha Davis), a new friend who’s been hand-picked

Thor THE HUNGER GAMES Directed by Gary Ross Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson Move over Bella, a feisty new heroine for the young adults to idolize is in town and her name is Katniss Everdeen. The eagerly-anticipated film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins bestseller places the would-be franchise on the capable shoulders of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, who volunteers to take her younger sister’s place in an annual match know as the Hunger Games.

Set in the future, the post-apocalyptic wealthy “Capitol” randomly selects a boy and girl from the 12 poorer districts to fight to the death on live TV — think The Running Man meets Twilight.

It’s clear the movie is crafted with an immense respect for the source material but something feels cold and disconnected. The Hunger Games has a promising start, painting an intriguing Orwellian picture but once the action starts things begin to unravel. The chase scenes are shot handheld with a headache-inducing shaky style that screams Jason Bourne. The runtime is problematic: at 142 minutes it drags heavily in the middle, and the special effects can seem like a made-for-TV movie.

It’s not all bad though; there are genuine moments of tension, several memorable scenes and the acting is strong. Lawrence demonstrates a fine grasp of her character plus Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci shine.

The Hunger Games is the first of a planned trilogy and while fans of the books will be thoroughly satisfied, others may be left wondering if all the hype was really worth it. by her mother.

Whether at home, hanging with Bina or cruising the club, Alike is similarly skittish, uncertain of how she’s supposed to conduct herself. Consequently, the rare moments she’s able to forego her posturing in favour of simply surrendering herself to an experience become all the more rewarding to behold.

This semi-autobiographical affair occasionally finds Rees swinging wildly to connect with the audience.

However, the impact could have been far more devastating if she’d been content to bide her time, pick her spots, and deliver telling blows. — C.W.

Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers make music for the senses MUSIC

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esse Krause is a shy, awkward interviewee — a total contrast from his onstage persona as the lead singer of larger-than-life, gypsy-pop six-piece Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers (at the Railway Mar. 28). He’s polite and friendly but sounds pained, as if with every question I’m also squeezing drops of lemon juice into an open cut. It puts his band’s music into a new perspective: Flying Fox’s penchant for theatrics, self-invented mythologies and puppets is as open, wild and outlandish as Krause is quiet and reserved.

But he knows the value of showmanship and a good narrative. As he says, “I did go to bible college.”

Did you think it was feasible or wise to grow up and be a musician?

It never actually occurred to me that I was growing up to be a musician until

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I teach a lot of guitar and the C chord is a particularly hard one to play, so I wanted to build an instrument that a child could sit down and play easily. It’s a log with a whole bunch of strings on it that’s hooked up to a set of bicycle pedals and there’s an electromagnetic pick set up. So you just sit in a chair and pedal and the log spins around and plays this chord as an amplifier so it’s pretty easy to do.

There’s a lot of theatricality in your music and it’s very distinctive.

Where did that sound come from?

In high school, I was taught very, very well that music is not just an auditory experience. Audiences see with their eyes. We don’t say we’re going to go listen to a show, we say we’re going to see a show. How things look has a huge impact on how things sound, or at least the interaction of our senses isn’t something we should forget. I grew up in a Mennonite church and then went to the university for music, but one of the requirements was a whole bunch of theology. The thing I took from that was the importance of a story and a narrative in the formation of a people. I see the value of that in music: having a narrative makes things more powerful.

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I’ve always felt like the job of musicians is to make music and not worry too much about issues of style. I find that can be fairly consuming.

Some bands talk about influences and who they’re sounding like and I suppose that’s never really interested me.

Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers play Mar. 28 at the Railway, 8pm. $8 at the door.

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VENUE LOCATIONS ANZA CLUB #3 W. 8th BC PLACE STADIUM 777 Pacific BILTMORE CABARET 395 Kingsway CAMBRIAN HALL 215 E. 17th CAPILANO COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, N. Van. THE CELLAR 3611 W. Broadway THE CULTCH 1895 Venables CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS 777 Homer CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale, N. Van. CHAN CENTRE 6265 Crescent, UBC CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL 690 Burrard

CONCERTS DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Altcountry band plays in support of its recent release, Go-Go Boots. Mar. 22 at Commodore, 8pm. $27.50 (Z, H, TM).

HE[A]R Vancouver New Music’s concert series showcases local and international artists contributing to the landscape of sound in multiple genres. Mar. 22 at Waldorf Hotel, 7:30pm. $15-$20 or all three/$50 (BPT).

• Mar. 22: The Lappetites, prOphecy sun, Lief Hall L’ORCHESTRE D’HOMMESORCHESTRES Quebec City-based orchestra tackles the music of American icon, Tom Waits. Mar. 22-24 at the Cultch, 8pm. $28 and up from Tickets.TheCultch.com.

THE ODDS / GRAPES OF WRATH Co-headlining bill featuring popular B.C. rock bands. Mar. 22 at Rickshaw, 8pm. $24 (Z, RC, H, LiveAtRickshaw.com).

DR. HOOK Legendary funk-rockcountry group (“Slyvia’s Mother”, The Cover of the Rolling Stone”).

Mar. 23 at Red Robinson Show Theatre, 7pm. $44.50-$49.50 (TM).

ABBAMANIA / NIGHTFEVER Acclaimed cover act presents two-shows-in-one featuring ABBA and Bee Gees songs. Mar. 24 at Red Robinson Show Theatre, 7pm. $29.50 (TM).

UTE LEMPER: BERLIN NIGHTS/PARIS DAYS: THE ART OF CHANSON With Vogler Quartet & Stefan Malzew. An intimate evening of cabaret, jazz, and tango evoking the bygone Weimar era. Mar. 24 at Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC (Shun Concert Hall), 8pm. $47-$53 (TM).

HEDLEY Vancouver-based rock band with guests Classified, Anjulie, Kay. Mar. 24 at Rogers Arena, 6pm. $25-$49.50 (TM).

KAISER CHIEFS English indierock band tours in support of its upcoming release, The Future is Medieval. Mar. 24 at Commodore, 8pm. $36.50 (RC, Z, H, TM).

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KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS Indie rock singer/songwriter plays in support of his newest EP, So Outta Reach. Mar. 25 at Biltmore, 8pm. $17 (RC, Z, TW).

GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS Bring their fifth album “New Wild Everywhere” (Apr. 3 release) to Vancouver Aquarium Mar. 26 (presented by 100.5 The PEAK); Zulu Records Mar. 27, 6pm; and The Commodore May 11.

THE TING TINGS British popdance duo plays in support of its second release, Sounds From Nowheresville. Mar. 27 at Commodore, 8pm. $27.50 (TM).

FLYING FOX AND THE HUNTER GATHERERS Winnipegbased gypsy-folk-orchestral pop band that incorporates puppetry and other visuals in its stage show.

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OPERA THE BARBER OF SEVILLE The classic comic opera is set on a movie backlot in Seville in the 1940s. Mar. 17-25 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 7:30pm, with matinees at 1:30pm. $35-$165 from VancouverOpera.ca and 604-683-0222.

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MACBETH Shakespeare’s tragedy about a couple’s greedy, ambitious and bloody attempt to seize the Scottish throne. To Mar. 31 at Frederic Wood Theatre. $10-$22 from UBCTheatre.UniversityTickets.com.

FLOP! Delinquent Theatre presents Anton Lipovetsky’s solo musical about a theatre director eluded by success. To Apr. 1 at Studio 1398, 8pm. $12-$15 (BPT).

FOURPLAY: NEW WORK BY EXCITED WRITERS Popular oneact play festival returns. To Apr. 1 at Studio 58, 8pm. $12-22 (TT).

BLIND PANTHER STAND-UP COMEDY Weekly comedy night hosted by Jason Bryden and Jimmy Barnes. Mon at Prophouse Cafe (1636 Venables), 9pm. $5 cover.

QUEER IMPROV SHOW Tops & Bottoms improv group’s weekly show. Mon at Oasis Ultra Lounge, 7pm. Free.

VICTOR/VICTORIA Tony Maliha hosts this weekly variety show every Tues. The Fray (3980 Fraser), 9-11pm. Free. To sign up, contact Patrick Maliha via Facebook.

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Series of monthly Sunday recitals at the Roundhouse Community Centre, 2pm and 4pm. $5-$15 in advance from NewWorks.ca.

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• Mar. 25: Silk Road Ensemble (Multicultural dance and music)

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604-606-6400 TheDanceCentre.ca • Mar. 29, 12pm: Vancouver Tap Ensemble Pays homage to Vancouver’s iconic The Cave Supper Club with its show, Heyday. Part

DINING OUT FOR LIFE BC’s biggest dining event is back, Mar. 29. Over 250 participating restaurants in support of HIV/AIDS. DiningOutForLife.ca to reserve.

SYLVIA BROWNE World-famous pyschic, spiritual teacher and author. Mar. 23 at River Rock, 7pm. $54.50-$64.50 (TM).

UNIQUE LIVES AND EXPERIENCES 18th annual series featuring noteworthy women. All shows at the Centre for Performing Arts, 7:30pm. $35-$85 from UniqueLives. com.

MUSEUMS. MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER Presents its newest exhibit, Art Deco Chic: Extravagant glamour between the wars. $8-$12 from MuseumOfVancouver.ca.

GOOD OLD WAR Indie-folk band plays in support of its third release, Come Back as Rain. Mar. 29 at Media Club, 8pm. $15 (Z, RC, H, TM).

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DEXTER ASSOCIATES REALTY Yaletown 604-689-8226 Kerrisdale 604-263-1144 Dave Kenny

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604-263-1144

HUGE VIEWS!

$638,000

1202-1252 HORNBY ST

NEW LISTING

$1,349,000

REBUILT IN 2010.

Stunning 1677sq. ft., 3 bed, 2.5 bath in what will be a brand new building in 2013 after its COMPLETE REMEDIATION – inside and out! Own now at a reduced price. Huge 242 sq.ft. view balcony, Miele, Sub Zero, Bosch, marble. An entertainer’s dream! Quality craftsmanship. Pets & rentals OK. 4 s x s parking!

William Lew 604-862-1966 william@westsideliving.com www.westsideliving.com

18 BEATTY ST 606-518 ST.

$479,900

RARE CORNER UNIT 1 bdrm plus den, 700sq.ft in Pure development.

Excellent outlook, lots of natural light and open, functional plan with gourmet kitchen. Practical pluses include: secure underground parking, oversized balcony, fully loaded building with recreation facilities, and reasonable maintenance fees ($313/ mo). Walk to work and all downtown amenities.

View photos online and call for a private viewing.

Tenant to vacate Mar. 31.

FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY to get into this large, NW facing, 2 bed 2 bath West End suite with fabulous English Bay and mtn views from every room. Huge 177sq.ft. balcony for BBQ and sunsets. Impeccably kept by original owner—in original, but move in condition. Extra large parking stall between 2 pillars, and storage locker. Absolutely worry-free building. Priced for quick sale! NOTICE: 24 hr notice required.

1904-1020 HARWOOD ST

$389,000

10 10’ ceilings, exposed brick & wood beams.

Hardwood floors, open LOCATION, luxury & view. plan rooftop deck 2 bedw/common & den in Lumiere by w/ BBQ garden area. away from Millennium.

West Steps of Denman historic and Chinatown. locationGastown with mountain and Walk all of thebalconies, events at parking Rogers Arena or BC water to view.

Two and locker.

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Live your dreams in this authentic 1911 Spa-like building amenities.

Campbell and Storey Heritage Loft conversion.

Marcus Maia 604-263-1144

Chris Spotzl 604-263-1144

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408-1275 HAMILTON ST.

$519,900

THE PERFECT BOUTIQUE YALETOWN FLAT. Designed by the awardwinning Alda Pereira, located in the heart of heritage Yaletown. A 1 bed/1 bath + office/den END UNIT. Many features not found in most Vancouver buildings incl. a/c, 9ft. ceilings, wood beams, walnut h/w flooring, tilt and turn windows, gas range and electric fireplace. Built-ins throughout, from the living room to the bedroom, with pot lights lighting up the open kitchen with a movable island, great for entertaining. Built in flatscreen TV and views to the south (David Lam Park and the Creek).

Everything within steps your door from the Canada Line, seawall, shopping, dining, parks and so much more. A must see! 1 secure parking and 1 storage.

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801-1499 PENDER ST.

Principled • Proven • Professional

1103-1020 HARWOOD ST

Tim Hiltz 604-789-1133

$1,138,000

This stunning 1,052sq. ft. two bed two bath (or one and den) has plenty of WOW factor. Well designed and luxuriously appointed with views to Coal Harbour Marina and North Shore Mountains from the generous terrace space. The upscale Dada kitchen features Gaggeneau and Subzero appliances and opens to the terrace. The open concept bathroom is distinctive and the second bathroom, with its retractable walls, would function well as a den/ guest room. 24 hr concierge, 2 parking, guest suite, gym, pool and media room. Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver or just watch the yachts coming and going from the comfort of your living room.

Alix Brown Shona Hurst 604-263-1144 www.alixandshona.com

Paul Boenisch Lauren Phillips 604-263-1144 www.laurenandpaul.ca

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408-1146 HARWOOD ST.

$279,900

PEEK-A-BOO WATER VIEWS from this concrete 1 bed, 1 bath suite in the well-maintained “Lamplighter,” located right in the heart of the West End. Just 2 blocks from the beach and minutes away from some of Vancouver’s best shopping and restaurants. The suite receives plenty of natural light and has a nice south-facing balcony.

Rentals allowed. Parking can be rented from strata for $35/month.

Esther Twerdochlib 604-689-8226 esther@dexterrealty.com

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2301-428 BEACH CR.

$2,488,000

Spectacular panoramic views of False Creek, South, West and East, including city lights and English Bay. This unit is unlike any other in King’s Landing. Numerous designer upgrades: bamboo flooring, DC wiring and electric roller blinds both with computer control, extensive use of low voltage track lighting and ceiling pot lamps—Lutron Homeworks, custom den and kitchen walnut cabinets and upgraded appliances, built-in storage unit in kitchen, hall and bedrooms, master bedroom redesigned in last year. These units are coveted for their 9’ ceilings, a/c, great balconies with gas outlet, 2 parking stalls, PLUS a huge secured storage locker with work bench. Amenities include 24hr concierge, 70’ lap pool, sauna/steam room, gym, theatre and guest suites.

1907-980 COOPERAGE WAY $879,000 Sipping your coffee, gazing south at blue water from your private patio; there is an unobstructed view. Steps away from Urban Fare, Yaletown, the seawall, Rogers Arena and Costco. Esprit City Club offers 16,000sq.ft. of amenities including indoor pool, gym, bowling alley, movie theatre, party room and option of canoes to paddle False Creek.

Bright, sunny two bedroom, two bath and den is complete with in-suite storage. As this unit is tenanted, 24hr notice is required for viewing.

Commercial Real Estate Needs? Dexter Associates Realty’s commercial team will answer all of your questions and will help with all your commercial needs. Whether you need office space, somewhere to set up your business or retail store, or are looking to buy an investment property we can help you. Call us at 604-689-8226 today.

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AnnLok 604.767.0959 ann@annlok.com www.annlok.com Medallion Club Award Member presales I assignments I resales I investments specialist 2402-108 W. CORDOVA - WOODWARDS 32 $419,000

606-1483 HOMER ST. - THE WATERFORD

180 degree unobstructed views of Burrard Inlet/Mtns & City, 630ft 1 bdrm+Áex, 9ft ceilings, SS appliances O Oak hrdwd Árs, German euro cabinets O Exquisite 5pc bathroom: sep. shower, soaker tub • New&trendy Gastown: 2level club w/ outdoor hottub, gym in sky O Rollerblinds, concrete ceilings, loft style, front-loading W/D O Corporate, retail, restaurant & tourist district O 1 parking, No property taxes for another year.

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1201-1473 JOHNSTON RD - MIRAMAR/BOSA $829,000 Unparalleled luxury in White Rock, unobstructed 270 degree views of ocean & mtns. O 1274sf 2bdrm+den+2bath+ 2parking O Overheight ceilings, AC, radiant heated Áoors. O Exquisite kitchen: Dacor coffee system, gas stove, granite counters. O Rollerblinds, house-size rooms, double-sinks, separate showers. O 2 sidexside parking, large storage locker, steps to retail and beaches.

GROUP WEST COAST REALTY

$939,000

Five star Beach Crescent neighbourhood on seawall O Resort style living built by Concord PaciÀc. Views to George Wainborn Park & False Creek.

O Beautiful Áoorplan: 1075sf 2bdrm+2bath+den, A/C, gas f/p, 9ft ceilings, H/W Árs, Bosch appliances, gas stove, SS. Floor to ceiling windows. O Amenities incl: indoor pool, 24/7 Concierge, 2 guest suites, squash courts, theatre, clubhouse, gym&more. O 1 pkg & 1 huge storage lckr. O Pride of ownership; one of the most coveted buildings in area!

1625 HORNBY ST

PRICE: $241,450 - $408,100

Ground Áoor, premium waterfront COMMERCIAL location on seaRETAIL: wall. O Established 3 STRATA TITLES n e i g h b o u r h o o d , heavy walk-by trafFOR SALE Àc O 220sf - 371sf, wide range of commerical uses permitted. O Can combine 2 O lots for total 572sf. 20ft ceilings, rarely on market, high end neighbourhood, *prepaid 99 yr. leasehold until 2084.

306-1367 ALBERNI ST - THE LIONS

NEW

$469,000

O Entry level 2bdrm , 2bath

+ solarium, 747 sf in prime Alberni district of Westend.

Steps to Robson, seawall at Coal Harbour. O Brand new dark walnut Áooring throughout, open Áoorplan, Granite countertops, 2 full baths, insuite storage & a locker. O Hard to Ànd 2/2 for this price! Solid building with concierge, Best gym, theatre & clubhouse! O Opposite bedrooms, plen ty of storage, master ensuite bathroom. O Investors alert, for families & Àrst time home buyers too.

RECENT SALES & UPCOMING KERRISDALE: 44 X 170 LOT - UNDER $2MILLION - UPCOMING O #2609 939 Expo Blvd $399,000 SOLD O #2008-977 Mainland St. $419,000 SOLD O 2307-1077 Marinaside Crescent: $579,000 SOLD O 19294-72ND Ave, Cloverdale: $1,290,000 SOLD O 3501-1438 Richards ST: AZURA $1,799,000 SOLD O 404-495 W. 6TH Ave: Loft 495 $529,000 SOLD O 803-638 Beach Crescent: Icon $799,000 SOLD O 505-212 Davie St: Parkview Towers $829,000 SOLD O

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MY DIGS Occupant: Cinde Stevens, owner of The Carriage House, a high-end furniture consignment store in Vancouver.

What is it: Three-bedroom condo in City Gate. I lived in the area in another building and had not planned to sell. However, my realtor called me and said “You just have to see it”. I put in an offer that day! When I first moved in, the area was a little ‘sketchy”, but I knew that Olympic Villiage would eventually change that and for the price, location and view, it was an amazing buy. Since then the neighbourhood has been developing and younger people have moved in. New facilities in South False Creek have added to the neighbourhood with a community centre, wine store and Bread Garden.

Cost to buy: $600,000 Square feet: 1,500 sq ft Length of time here: Six years Major selling feature: View, view, view First thing I changed: Before I moved in I had a month to do some renovations. I changed the entry, kitchen and guest bath floors, installed granite countertops, redesigned and re-faced the fireplace, and tiled the outside deck.

Feature I brag about: There are lots of things to brag about inside my condo, but definitely I brag about the view — it is amazing. You feel like you could reach out and touch it.

That one conversation piece: The dining room mirror is hand-carved and with 24kt gold leaf. It has a very unusual frame — the detail is in the inverted triangles.

I bought it at an auction for $175 and added the mirror. The dining room table is custom-forged steel with acorns and gilt leavesadorning the legs and centre cross bar.

Both are definitely “one-of-a-kind” pieces. I love them both.

The decor: I hired a professional painter to do my living room and dining room walls. Probably the best money I spent after the new hardwood floors. The paint is

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Cinde Stevens has found incredible treasures with which to furnish her City Gate condo.

Doug Shanks photos striated in cream and taupe with a silver and “nubblie” overlay — incredible. I also used the finish in the guest bath but the overlay there is really thick so the paint looks 3D. I think the overlay is recycled crushed plastic.

Whatever it is it looks amazing, especially at night.

The story behind the art/antiques/ collectibles: Many of the collectible items have been purchased over the years in my travels, such as the gold metal crowns.

They are from Hungary and Belgium. I bought my Fortuny drapes second hand and had them cleaned. Fortuny fabric is hand-printed in Italy using stencils and stamps. It is hard to find and very, very expensive — it can retail for up to $1,900 a yard. I love art and enjoy adding to my collection. The main painting in the living room is by Tracey Tarling, the hall painting is by Carol Arnston, the den painting is by Vern Simpson, all B.C. artists – I think it is important to support them.

Neighbourhood haunts: I regularly go to Campagnolo and Two Chefs and a Table, but Pizza Farina is on speed dial.

Chinatown is really close so Bao Bai is a favorite as well.

Compared to your last place: My first condo was less than half the size – this one feels like a house in comparison!

Most recent home purchase: I just renovated my bathroom – walls and floors in cararra marble, with a new corner soaker tub and European hand held showers, etc..

Fabulous!

Favourite condo activity: I really enjoy entertaining in this condo. It really lends itself well in both summer, with the patio doors wide open, and in winter for cozy dinners with the fire going in the dining room. The fact that the building has a 40ft pool is a plus – I swim three to five miles per week.

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749 sq ft spacious generous 1 bdrm plus den or 2 bedrooms Flexible floor plan with floor/ceiling windows offering stunning city, water, mtn views. Superb attention to detail! Numerous quality upgrades incl. hardwood floors. Quartz counters, custom lighting and millwork, flexible open floor plan. Very rare seldom available floor plan in solid bldg. Be first. April possession.

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Viewing Sat. 1-3pm

Super location with 665 sq ft immaculate 1 owner loft living. Prime Gastown location with lots and lots of extras: 10’ ceilings, built-in bed, fireplace, insuite, 11x18 parking spot! 14x2.4 balcony – solid 2008 concrete building, pet/rental ok!

STRATFORD PLACE EMERALD WEST Stunning night time views Stunning 180 degree & wide open daytime views from sub vistas from upper floor of penthouse level three reinforced concrete strata bedroom, two balcony steps to Denman, English home. Quality custom upgrades maximize Bay & Stanley Park. Renovated one bedroom with large $399,500 comfort & views from Coal Harbour to English Bay. balcony. $1,098,000 VIEW SUN 2-4, 1725 PENDRELL ST.

$454,800

THE ATRIUM - Super floor plan with all the bells and whistles bordering West End/ Coal Harbour. Almost 1000sf inside and out. Pet friendly. $499,900 VIEW SUN 2-4, 1738 ALBERNI ST.

Dynamic Architects own 2 level loft, huge windows, 16’ ceilings, NE corner @ “The Watershed Studios”. Stunning “NEW” never been lived in renovations done on permit, sleek polished concrete floors, superior quality finishings thru-out, stainless kitchen counter, numerous custom built-in cabinets, double sized “walk-in shower”.

Gleaming paint job, south facing window in loft to lush green courtyard - GST paid.

A rare & wonderful loft. Be First!

Be first! Call me @ 604-261-7275

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PANORAMA PLACE Beautifully updated oversize one bedroom bordering Stanley Park and half block to English Bay. Fabulous amenities and ultimate location. $395,000

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BUSINESS & INVESTOR ALERT PRIME RETAIL SPACES 1625 HORNBY 102: $387,200 Bright corner; wrap-around water view terrace, seawall exposure; 18.9 ft ceilings 103: $241,450 Seawall Sth outlook; sep. street entry & patio, 18.9 ft ceilings, 104: $408,100 Seawall Sth corner unit; street entry; mezzanine loft & patio, 18.9 ft ceilings, CALL FOR MARKETING PACKAGE

PARKSIDE GREENE TOWNHOME $319,900 103-3888 NORFOLK • Generous oversized 1 bedroom • Private townhome entry • Walking trails • Massive outdoor terrace • One year young • 2-5-10-year warranty • Parking and storage • Pet and rental friendly • Beautifully finished

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VENICE COURT PENTHOUSE $885,000 405-1869 SPYGLASS • Spectacular view • 2 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • 1155sf • 3 balconies • Waterfront • False Creek freehold • Pet and rental friendly • Parking & storage • Tastefully renovated

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2–4PM

FUNKY ELEMENTS LOFT $389,000 212-2515 ONTARIO • Funky loft • 10ft ceilings • Wide-open living concept • Raised one bedroom • 1 bathroom • 591sf • Low maintenance fees • Reclaimed brick walls & fir floors • Pet and rental friendly

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March 22, 2012

More and more of us are working from home.

I have worked from my home office for the past 25 years and can’t imagine ever having to brave a commute in my lifetime. It is not for everyone though. There are hundreds of distractions everywhere you turn at home: finish the dishes, laundry, the latest novel.

Over the years I have moved my office around the house but settled a few years ago in my loft.

Three skylights, a big window, French doors and a small balcony that brings the outside in makes my office a joy to be in. Light is one of the most important considerations if you are thinking of working from home; there is nothing more depressing than having to hunker down in a dark corner and expect inspiration to strike.

Think through what you need to make your days efficient: a proper filing cabinet, room for electronics, an adjustable task light, and a great chair are all good things to think about. For some reason I am most comfortable sitting on a hard seat. Think through what works for you.

Keep your work in your office; this is something I have trouble with only because I am in the habit of walking around. Pieces of paper end up in the kitchen and on the coffee table, so if you’re like me gather all your work parts and pieces up and put everything in its right spot in the office at the end of the day.

If your budget allows or your company offers financial help, think about hiring an office design company. They will consult with your regarding what you need and how you work, then design and install a custom office.

Askari Sabbaghi of Clever Quarters is an expert in matching the perfect office design with each client. “People want a designated space if they are working full-time at home; they need an organized space, and a corner of the bedroom or dining room is not ideal. This is a growing market, (since) employees want more flexibility and companies find it makes more sense than providing an office, parking etc.,� he says. “But it is very important the employee or the self-employed person feels productive in their space at home which is why a custom design works.�

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Mortgage rates at a historical low

By Maggie Calloway Mortgages are at, or near, historic lows, which means a great time to buy or, if you are renewing, an opportunity to lock it in for up to 10 years. The advantage in locking in, or a fixed rate mortgage, is the certainty of knowing what your mortgage payment will be over a longer term. It’s tempting to get the lower variable rate but you may want to heed the words of Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, who says these rates will not last forever.

“There is a special offer four-year fixed rate mortgage available right now at 2.99 per cent and 4.44 (per cent) at five-year fixed,” says Ross Gurney of TD Financial Group. “These are exceptional rates, especially for the first-time buyer. The projections are (that) prime rates will stay at around three per cent through 2012. We expect five-year fixed rate mortgages will stay at continued all-time lows. The U.S. has committed to keep their short term rates low through at least 2013 and maybe 2014, which will keep Canadian rates low also.”

A good option is to use a mortgage broker. The advantage, especially for someone new to the market, is that they do all the work for you. A broker will take all your information, gather all pertinent documents such as tax returns and purchase agreements and shop around at all the financial institutions to find you the very best mortgage for your particular situation.

Jamie Moi, a mortgage broker with Dominion Lending Centres West Coast Mortgages, says, “When looking for a mortgage there is more to consider than the rate. For instance, how much can the lender pre-pay every year, which is important if you want to pay your mortgage down quickly. Some of these mortgages are also over 25year amortizations as opposed to 30 years, which could affect purchasing price.”

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Hiring an interior designer

By Maggie Calloway Finding the perfect interior designer and then working successfully with him/her is an important part of the renovation puzzle. Luckily, Adrienne Kavanagh, Principal of AK Interiors, has some tips. “Interior designers are hired through a variety of sources,� says Kavanagh. “Sometimes a homeowner will contact a contractor first and between them they decide it would make sense to have an interior designer involved. Contractors or an architect could refer a client to a particular designer or the homeowner may like the work the designer has done for family or a friend.

Another possibility is a homeowner may want to sell their home and the real estate agent suggests an interior designer to stage the home.�

Some homeowners feel a little intimidated contacting a designer in case their aesthetics are not compatible but these days almost all designers have a website with photos of their work,

which is a great resource for a potential client to investigate a designer discreetly without feeling any pressure to have a conversation. “I belong to the Interior Design Institute of B.C. and homeowners can access their website at www.idibc. org; this is a governing body for professional interior designers,� says Kavanagh. “I say professional because we have met education requirements, work experience and finally an exam to qualify as a registered designer.

The exam covers not only design ability but health and safety and determines we understand building codes, accessibility and ergonomics. Everything that goes into making sure the homeowner can live comfortably in their home.�

The homeowner should do due diligence before hiring any professional, including interior designers.

Interview a number of designers in your home, not only so they can see the project firsthand but also so you can get a feel for their compatibility with yourself and the family.

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Georgie Awards celebrate the best of the best in B.C.’s home construction world

By Kerry Vital In the grand tradition of awards season, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of British Columbia joined in the fun with their annual Georgie Awards, held on Feb. 25.

This year was the 20th anniversary of the awards, which recognize excellence in home construction, renovation, design, development and sales and marketing.

“From Whistler to the Lower Mainland to the Okanagan, the winners of this year’s Georgies are golden examples of what excellent residential construction is all about,” says CHBA BC President Doug Wittal. “The winners – and indeed all the finalists – have shown us that B.C. is truly at the forefront of the country when it comes to innovative design, quality construction and great customer service.”

Several familiar names in the industry were among the winners, including Adera Development Corporation for Best Innovative Feature and Best Townhouse Development for seven35 and Larco Investments Ltd. for Best Multi-Family Low Rise Development for their Morgan Crossing community.

Portrait Homes won a Special Platinum Award for winning 27 Georgies in the past 11 years. This year the team won three other awards, for Large Volume Single Family Home Builder of the Year, Customer Choice Award – Single Family Home Builder and Customer Choice Award – Multi Family Home Builder. This is the fourth year they’ve won the single family home award in the customer choice category, something that the company is very proud of as the winner of the award is selected by homeowners.

Among the big renovation winners were TQ Construction, who won Best Residential Renovation between $100,000 and $299,999.

Residential Renovator of the Year went to maison d’etre design-build, who also won Best Kitchen Renovation under $100,000 and the Residential Renovator Customer Choice Award.

Best Condo Renovation was won by Intermind Design, who also won for Best Residential Renovation under $100,000.

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The team at maison d’etre design-build, left, were big winners at the awards, taking home three Georgies.

Intermind Design, below left, won two awards, including Best Condo Renovation. Portrait Homes, top left, was the recipient of a Special Platinum Award for winning 27 Georgies over the past 11 years.

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March 22, 2012

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