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NEWS & VIEWS > THE WEEK

GUEST EDITORIAL

Idle No More reignites pride

Extreme weather: protocol f the weather so far is any indication, the city’s cautionary tale to plan for snow and ice should be well heeded.

The City of Victoria’s antiicing truck was out as early as Dec. 10 this season, applying layers of “brine� (salt and water) on DANIELLE hills, bridges and major Victoria POPE roads. When snow starts falling, news@ crews clear “first priority� sidemondaymag.com walks, which include downtown transit stops and wheelchair ramps, and sidewalks fronting city properties downtown. Yet the city’s message this year is “get prepared� — for the City of Gardens, the white stuff requires team work to keep streets and sidewalks safe.

In an effort to stay prepared, the city recommends that Victoria businesses and households should stock up this year on shovels, sand and environmentally sensitive ice melt products to remove snow and ice from sidewalks and driveways — rock salt is harmful to concrete sidewalks, pets’ paws and the environment.

Now is also the time to refresh an emergency kit with a working flashlight, radio, new batteries, candles and matches, and to have plenty of food, essential medicine and extra blankets on hand. The City’s “Recipes for Disaster� list the supplies residents and businesses need to cope for a minimum of three days in the event of a heavy snowfall or power outage (find all the recipes at PrepareVictoria.ca).

Residents and businesses are also reminded that, under the streets and traffic bylaw, snow and ice must be cleared from sidewalks in front of their property by 10am each day. Victoria residents are encouraged to make arrangements with neighbours in advance to clear each other’s sidewalks in the event they are away from home or work when it snows. Remember also the elderly or disabled, who will appreciate the assistance with snow removal.

Those who do not comply with the bylaw may face a fine of $150 per ticketed offence (per day) and a ticket can be issued up to six months after an offence has occurred. David Myles, manager of Wastewater and Underground Utilities, says that with over 450 kilometres of sidewalks in Victoria, it would be too costly for city taxpayers to have the city take on the entire task of removing ice and snow.

“We want a nation to nation meeting and withdraw present legislation.� Chief Teresa Spence on her present hunger strike demands.

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KNOW THE ROAD BEFORE YOU GO Forget the maps and the mochas, your newest travel buddy is compliments of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

A new “Plan Your Route� feature has been added to the government’s travel conditions website, DriveBC.ca, which offers information along your chosen route. DriveBC features route-specific weather forecasts and access to over 250 highway webcams strategically placed around the province so that motorists can see real-time highway conditions.

Users can now also register for text messages and emails to receive up-to-date reports.

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The City of Victoria wants everyone to remember we all have a role to play in keeping sidewalks safe this winter.

“Preparation and planning can go a long way to avoid the inconvenience and risks associated with winter driving,� says Mary Polak, minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. “Drivers need to protect their families, passengers and others by being prepared. The first step on everyone’s journey should be a visit to DriveBC and our webcams.�

A WARM BED IN THE COLD Just in time for the most threatening of winter seasons, it’s good to remember that the province has enlisted more extreme-weather shelter spaces than ever before across Greater Victoria.

As of December, an additional 145 emergency shelter spaces in the city were made available to help those in need of temporary shelter. The overnight spaces offer a warm place to stay during extreme winter weather conditions, and can be accessed until March 31 when a winter weather alert is activated. Each community decides when to issue an extreme weather alert and how many spaces should be made available on a given night. “This is a true community effort. Our government provides the funds to open these additional emergency spaces during the cold winter months, and organizations and volunteers donate the facilities and their time,� says Ida Chong, minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head. “I want to thank all those involved for their continued commitment and to helping make sure that those in need have a meal and a warm, safe place to stay.�

Extra Victoria locations include the following: Our Place Society (919 Pandora/50 spaces), The Salvation Army (525 Johnson/30 spaces), Victoria Native Friendship Centre (231 Regina/25 spaces) and St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra/40 spaces).

These additional spaces supplement more than 140 permanent year-round shelter beds in Victoria.

Throughout B.C., the province is also providing $1.3 million to make more than 1,200 extreme weather spaces available in approximately 70 communities.

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Most newborn babies of this era are JANET hyper-documented with digital cameras and video.

ROGERS The Idle No More baby is no different. Considering this, I strongly suggest you plug the words Idle No Poet Laureate, More into your Internet search engines to catch up City of Victoria on this nation’s largest and most unifying politically charged movement. The movement includes a 30-day-old (at the time this article goes to print) hunger strike by a female chief; a robot-like prime minister who can no longer hide his contempt for Indigenous peoples; and the racist legislation which clearly proves he, and his Conservative government are direct descendants of Duncan Campbell Scott. “We have to kill the Indian in the child� THAT Duncan Campbell Scott.

The news feeds will give you the nuts and bolts of the movement. I am impressed with the spiritual awakening, the cultural revitalization and the inspired mobilization this movement has cultivated in our Indigenous nations right across the country. It’s this new energy, this pride, this cultural confidence reborn, which has become the beacon for many of its supporters, both native and non-native. I can hear the faint sighs of relief by the settler people, “Finally, something meaningful by which we can define ourselves other than beer and hockey.� Because you, too, AverageJoe and yes, you too Mr. and Mrs. status-quo, will be affected by Harper’s lust for natural destruction, and yes, you, too, should be toting signs and leaving the comfort of your homes to join the movement.

The three Victoria gatherings have been peaceful, offering teachings and information sharing about Bill C-45 and its inevitable ruinous effects on the very land under (all) our feet. But first the government has to get to the land where the Indians live, and so the owner of the ball wants to change the rules of the game.

The land shapes the people, informs the culture and provides so much of who people are culturally. Indigenous people, by definition, are who we are because of how we have learned to live on the land. It’s where our songs come from, it’s where we pray. Government interference with our way of life has always had painful results. Chief Spence explains: “As a woman, I feel the pain, it goes all over my body. I can’t take it anymore.

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NOTHING RAISES MONEY LIKE GINGERBREAD Gumdrops off to this year’s Canada’s National Gingerbread Showcase for raising $16,097 for Habitat for Humanity Victoria: three times 2011 levels!

IS THAT A COTTON BALL IN YOUR EAR? We’re curious about the ironically named Enbridge public “hearings,� ending this week. After all the public dissent, have representatives not been writing this down? Here's the Cliff’s Notes version: no pipeline.

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NEWS & VIEWS > OPINION

MAIL Accident waiting to happen

As someone whose father was killed almost 40 years ago in a bus accident in Spain, I was more than a little put off by Canadian Safety Council spokesperson Catherine Benesch’s comments to CBC’s Early Edition on Jan. 3. When asked why seatbelts aren’t mandatory on buses, she replied “buses aren’t necessarily designed

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for seatbelts”. Neither were cars until they were finally installed; Benesch admitted seatbelts in passenger vehicles save “about one thousand Canadian lives a year.” She added — in the wake of the recent horrific northern Oregon bus accident which claimed nine lives — “it would have been good if we could say ‘yes, seatbelts save lives’ but there are other things to consider: driver distraction; the road conditions, what speed.” By this non-

sensical, red herring logic we should also scrap car and airplane seatbelts. What I would like the Canadian Safety Council to say is “accidents will happen and therefore it is prudent that preventive measures be taken.”

It looks like the Harper government needs to be poked and prodded into action on this issue. Hopefully they will act before someone close to them dies in a bus accident.

MARK FORNATARO, VICTORIA

Meat eaters don't get it Re: Turducken not Turkitten, Editor's Note, Dec. 27 - Jan. 2 Grant McKenzie has decreed that "eating meat isn't bad." In previous centuries, slavery was allowed, women couldn't vote, homosexuals were beaten and killed. Some of us believe that all sentient beings have the right to life, to not be tortured and murdered.

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CONTENTS VOL. 39, NO. 02 Jan. 10 - 16, 2013

NEWS & VIEWS

MONDAY LIFE

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THE WEEK

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FOOD & DRINK

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REPORT CARD

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GEORGIA NICOLS HOROSCOPE

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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LETTERS

MONDAY GUIDE

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KIERAN REPORT

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CITY WATCHDOG

CITYSOMETHING Follow the cast of Sin City to a hotel-pub in Bedlam-by-Sea, for the third season of this popular improvised comedy serial.

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MUSIC Fizzik’l presents the “avantpremiere”of Toward Light — A Tribute to Rachel Browne.

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FILM & LIBATION Drama opens debate on controversial industry

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

FEATURES

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Christina Patterson, (left), Kirsten Van Ritzen, Christine Upright and Karen Brelsford are just four of the stars of Sin City's newest comedy serial.

A JOYOUS TRIBUTE

Canadian contemporary dance icon Rachel Browne had a love affair with Willow Island, a tiny strip of land on Lake Winnipeg.

Now dance company Fizzik’l will be performing a tribute piece choreographed by Browne about her island getaway.

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STREET SMARTS Has Idle No More caught your attention?

KIERAN REPORT

Vindictive Liberals show cowardly side indictive and cowardly are two words that begin to describe the Liberals’ decision to deep six Auditor General John Doyle.

BRIAN Doyle’s first term KIERAN is expiring and he bkieran@ should have been remondaymag.com appointed for a second term as our fiscal watchdog in Victoria.

There is a reason we have auditors general. There is a reason they answer not to the party in power, but to the whole legislature, to all the people.

That reason is simple: ruling parties generally deplore transparency and accountability. They celebrate openness when they are seeking power, but quickly degenerate once they begin to enjoy the solitude of the cabinet chamber and the silence of the committee room.

In the case of the Liberals, they fear transparency beyond all other governmental virtues and so they feared John Doyle. For the Liberals, an hour of Doyle’s forensic attention was like an overdue visit to the dentist. When it came to drilling down into the decay of this govern-

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ment’s wilful neglect, studied indifference and plausible deniability there was none better than Doyle.

So, last weekend, the Liberal-controlled legislative committee charged with Doyle’s fate decided to run newspaper advertisements seeking his replacement. To do this less than five months ahead of a general election, at a time when stability and continuity are vital, is unconscionable.

Everyone agrees, Doyle was one tough bastard. Hell, he had to be tough to take the flak when he started probing the dark recesses of the $6 million legal fee waiver for the government aides guilty of breach of trust in the B.C. Rail case.

The NDP caucus strongly supported Doyle’s reappointment. Caucus chair Shane Simpson touched on the bipartisan nature of Doyle’s mandate: “I think he’s been a staunch critic of problems in the government and quite honestly had he been reappointed and should we win the election in May, I would expect him to be just as staunch a critic of the NDP.” I believe two specific reports issued by Doyle at year’s end sealed his fate. The first was a report on whistleblowers in which he made it painfully clear that public servants shouldn’t have to put their jobs on the line to protect the public interest.

“Whistleblowers need an element of protection in regard to the fact that they

My whole office is into it.

It’s multi-site ... and it’s real people.

are coming forward with ... information and at the moment there is very, very limited protection that’s afforded,” Doyle said.

“There has been some draft legislation put forward to the Legislative Assembly in the past, but none of it got through.”

The second report aimed right at the heart of this government’s refusal to be held accountable. Titled “Summary Report: Results of Completed Projects and Other Matters,” the report reviews the government’s progress toward implementing “Reporting Principles” adopted in 2003.

The goal in 2003 was to get “agreement on the fundamentals of meaningful performance reporting to support an open and accountable government, one that clearly communicates to the public what government strives to achieve and what it actually achieves.”

However, a decade down the road, Doyle reports that “government-wide adoption of the Reporting Principles is still stalled. As a result, the full potential of these reports to enhance government’s transparency and accountability to its stakeholders is not being achieved.”

Doyle said he planned to mark this dubious 10-year anniversary “by undertaking a more in-depth review of government accountability reporting.”

Clearly, the Liberals had no stomach for that. M

LUKE VANHANUSE, Victoria

I have to say it has not, but I’m not from here.

KELLY KOKESH, Seattle, WASH.

Yes, and it’s very important.

First Nations people have been mistreated for generations.

JULIE PEARCE, Victoria

Nope. Never heard of it.

CHRIS BURNS, Victoria

CITY WATCHDOG

Victoria losing sight of bridge promises hat seems like eons ago, the City of Victoria asked you, the taxpayer, to “Vote Yes” and allow the municipality to borrow $49.2 million for a new Johnson Street Bridge. After months spent battling public opinion, the city achieved majority approval for a bylaw authorizing council “to undertake and carry SIMON out or cause to be carried out works generNATTRASS ally in accordance with the general plans on snattrass@ file at Victoria City Hall.” mondaymag.com This powerfully vague language meant that a new bridge would be built to look and function more or less like the city proposed back in September, 2010.

More than two years later, organizers of johnsonstreetbridge.org felt it necessary to remind council of its commitment to the voting public on the eve of last week’s approval of a construction contract with PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., for a fixed-price of $63,235,000.

In an open letter, the citizen group recounted an extensive list of promises from a zero-per-cent tax impact from bridge

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costs (promised in 2010), to durability standards and adaptability for rail alongside a dozen other whispered nothings from JSB advertising past.

Aren’t these reminders a little redundant? After all, the public is generally assured that it will receive the bridge it was promised when the city started down this path, right?

Perhaps not.

A cover letter to the 2009 proposal by bridge consultant MMM Group indicates what the city’s general plans looked like when it states that the bridge will fall within a $63 million total project budget and would be completed by March 31, 2011. By the proposed completion date, “the nature, scope, and timing of the services to be provided by the consultant to the City,” had changed so significantly that the earlier agreement was abandoned.

Not the least of these changes was an overall cost increase to $92.8 million, a far cry from the promises that a 2010 survey indicated had convinced many to “Vote Yes.” At one point, the future of the JSB rested on the approval of the electorate. As PCL Constructors readies itself to assume “technical design responsibility for the complete project,” it’s time to ask ourselves how much deviance the public will allow before the support given in 2010 is taken back. M

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As Enbridge hearings close, picture looks black

By Danielle Pope news@mondaymag.com

ictoria’s renowned wildlife artist Anne Hansen has found her own action for Enbridge — publicly destroying her art.

Hansen, who is known for her whiteoutlined Oystercatchers shorebird series, made the decision to black out a recent coastal panorama she created especially for the Enbridge oil pipeline hearings.

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“Red Sky In Morning, Sailors Take Warning” and, before being blacked out at 1pm on on Wed., Jan. 9, outside the hearings at Delta Ocean Pointe Hotel, the work showed a vibrant array of west coast life: sea lions, mergansers, oystercatchers and the Steller’s jay, B.C.’s provincial bird.

“I’m not much of a public speaker, but this is my medium, and this really shows what is going to happen to out coastline,” says Hansen. “Since they [Enbridge representatives] won’t listen to words, maybe we have to paint them a picture.”

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For your own chance to get involved, join the Dogwood Initiative at the end of the Enbridge hearings in Victoria and “Knock The Vote” on Fri., Jan. 11, as volunteers go door-to-door in the ridings of Oak Bay-Gordon Head and Victoria-Swan Lake to talk about tankers and collect petition signatures — the group has even rented a bus. Meet at 4pm outside the Delta Ocean Pointe (45 Songhees). Knock until 6pm; all transportation, hot cocoa and treats Right: Anne Hansen chose to paint black over her art. provided.

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OUR FOR JAN. 10 – 16

SIN CITY: BEDLAM-BY-SEA ollow the cast of Sin City to a hotel-pub in a quaint seaside English village in Bedlam-bySea, the third season of this wildly popular weekly improvised comedy serial.

Think Coronation Street, Fawlty Towers, The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and maybe even a dash of Downton Abbey.

Opening Tues., Jan. 15, and continuing for the next 20 weeks, the 10-person cast of wallys, tinkers, nutters and chavs will create a complex soap-opera-style drama that will not only make you laugh — it will also make you cry — often simultaneously. “It’s not straight up comedy,� says cast member Karen Brelsford. “There’s also that underlying element of real people going through the whole thing ... There’s real emotion and complete silliness.�

Brelsford, who played the character Purdy in last season’s Carnies will transform from the innocent, abandoned celestial side show hypnotist into a more sexy, edgy, rock ‘n’ roll kind of girl. “I wanted something very different from last season,� says Brelsford. “Purdy was so innocent and young ... she was pale and white and I want something wild and fun, you know, the opposite of how I dress everyday.�

With eyes lined in thick black makeup, legs clad in fishnet stockings and a scant outfit covered in safety pins, it seems Brelsford is having no trouble adapting. “Since this season is set in a remote seaside SIN CITY resort, she’s out of her BEDLAM-BY-SEA element,� says Brelsford Tuesdays at 8pm at of one of the only things she’s decided about her Victoria Event Centre character before the (1415 Broad) JENNA &TRISTAN, JENNAANDTRISTAN.COM show begins. $15 Kirsten Van Ritzen (left) and Wes Borg star in Broad Theatrics’ third season of Sin City: The live improvised serial.

Sin City co-founder (along with director Ian Ferguson) and cast member Kirsten Van Ritzen (who director Theodore R. Sherman and new musical director elled the prairie dustbowl during the Great Depression. played Serpentine Snake Lady Ava Garter in Carnies) Alexander Brendan Ferguson (no relation to Ian) on live Nominated for an M Award for Favourite New Production, returns as a mild-mannered maid in Bedlam-by-Sea. musical scores and songs. season two was held-over for an extended run due to its Van Ritzen’s so far nameless character will be a local, Broad Theatrics made its Sin City debut in Victoria overwhelming popularity. someone who’s lived in the peculiar little town all her in February 2011 with Die-Nasty, which followed the Single tickets are $15/12, or buy a Hotel Room Key life. “She’s going to have this bird-like physicality,â€? says hi-jinks of the wealthy Craigdarrochmactavish family package (six admissions, transferrable) for $60. The Van Ritzen. in the ’80s. For season two, Carnies followed the lives Season Euro-Pass (non-transferable) is $150. All tickets The cast also includes Morgan Cranny, Wes Borg, of a strange group of sideshow performers as they trav- are cash only at the door. M Christina Patterson, Rober t Conway, Christine Upright, FEBRUARY 1-10 2013 Chris Gabel, Bill BRINGING FILM TO LIFE Get information and tickets: Nance, Alan Penty and www.victoriaďŹ lmfestival.com Charlie DePape.

Aside from a brief c h a r a c t e r- b u i l d i n g Victoria Film Festival Opening Gala Film & Reception workshop last weekend, the cast and crew This year we’re bringing back the prohibition era with our SPEAKEASY-themed event.

Secret entrances. Jazz. Glamour. Absinthe bar. have been keeping their Shave and a haircut will get you in. The rest is up to you. distance (and silence) Come ďŹ nd us. about their ideas for the show. The preview (Tues., Jan. 8 at 8pm) was the first time the characters met each other and interacted, and you can be there to watch the hilarity as the story unfolds. &RIDAY s &EBRUARY ST s %MPIRE s 07EDNESDAY s &EBRUARY TH s %MPIRE s 0The serial preHannah Arendt is a refreshingly intelligent ďŹ lm exploring the mieres Tues., Jan. 15 creation of Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil and the and will run weekly, controversy that surrounded it. each Tuesday night, until May 28 for a total of 21 shows — each one completely improvised, including direction by Ian Ferguson, lights by technical

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estled between Broughton and Yates is the only Persian restaurant our Island has to offer: Side Dish. Chef Ben Arani is one of the few restaurateurs to escape Victoria’s dreaded mushroom curse thanks to two decades of experience.

“Small business is so risky,” he says. “Business people here in Victoria call it mushroom business. It grows fast, dies fast.”

That experience began in 1992 after training at Malaspina University in Nanaimo where food was paired with philosophy. “I had a teacher who said, ‘It isn’t about the food you put on the table. It’s about the love you put in the food.”

From there he managed a few restaurant kitchens, became part-owner of a café on Fort Street, sold it, went for further study, worked at Victoria’s Delta Hotel and moved back to Shawnigan Lake to run the cafeteria in a private school.

Arani joined Canada’s ranks 30 years ago, escaping Iran’s theocracy and most of the Iran-Iraqi war. “I ran away and I haven’t been back. That’s politics though. We’ll put that on the side.” A side dish of mystery!

He and his wife lived in Ottawa, but moved to B.C. for health reasons. They chose Nanaimo for an opportunity to cook. “I learned everything. From Mexican, Italian, you know, different food, North American.” Upon a friend’s suggestion, Arani decided to go back to his roots. He said, “Wow I have to go back to my mom’s recipes. What I’m doing here . . . I learned when I was back home.’”

Mom’s secret is in the world’s most expensive spice, Saffron. At over $3,000 per kilogram, Arani’s simple style aims only to enhance the natural flavors. Saffron can’t be mass harvested. Human hands must pluck it from finicky, flower-heads during autumns in Iran. With changes in the exchange rate and labor-intensive harvests, Saffron has increased threefold in the past eight years. Saffron and Barberry (similar to cranberry) are two of the few ingredients Arani finds off Island. Meat comes from

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B&C Food Company as well as local produce that he often purchases himself.

The number-one selling dish is something Arani calls ‘the Persian hamburger’. “On a hamburger you have the bun, which is a starch. You have the ground beef, which is the meat. Tomato, cucumber, lettuce, that’s salad. And you have the sauce, ketchup and mayonnaise. My dish has the same thing. I have ground beef (or lamb). I have grilled tomato as ketchup, you call it, but I don’t add sugar. Rice, compare it to bread, Continued on next page

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whichever is better for you, and I have salad: lettuce, cucumber, tomato. It’s there. It’s a hamburger. I present it a different way.”

Another amazing component in Side Dish’s success is its lack of liquor license. But they aren’t short on drinks: Side Dish has all the classic sodas, Persian Tea and something called Dough. This yogurt, mint, soda water and salt beverage is best paired with dark meat like the signature beef or lamb koobideh (kabob). Arani stops short on picking a favorite. “They’re all original,” he insists.

Then there’s the rice. “For my people [Persians], they want rice. They say, ‘don’t give us salad. Give us rice. We’ll make salad at home. Don’t worry about it!’” Dillweed rice, barberry rice, spicy rice with lamb sauce or brown basmati rice are cooked in what’s called the pasta method in North America. “Put it in a lot of water, cook it, drain it and cook it again.

That’s the traditional way,” Arani says.

The dish of choice at home is a different story. “Once and a while, on my day off, I do French cuisine, the way I was trained. I get so sick of looking at my own food,” he chuckles. “I go crazy. A fresh fish. Do it all fancy in French cuisine style.”

His eight-year secret, apart from being original, is something Arani’s willing to share. With one son a UVic graduate and another in his second year, retirement is something he’s considering. If you think you’ve got what it takes to run a restaurant in Victoria learn from a veteran. “I had a boss who once said, ‘If you can make a business succeed in Victoria, you could make one work in the Sahara!’”

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Four prominent Victoria bars have recently been awarded Whisky Magazine’s Best Whisky Bars of the World Gold Medal Award: Veneto Lounge (653 Pandora), The Bard & Banker Scottish Pub (1022 Government), The Union Club of BC (805 Gordon) and non other than The Canadian Scottish Regiment Officers’ Mess (715 Bay). Meanwhile, The Pacific Lounge (463 Belleville) picked up silver, and The Bengal Lounge (721 Government) got the nod for bronze.

All but one are first-time winners of the award, and The Canadian Scottish Regiment Officers’ Mess picks up this year’s gold after its silver in 2011. “The Officers’ Mess boasts one of the largest collections of single malt Scotch whiskies in Western Canada, with more than 120 different types of malt from all the producing regions of Scotland,” boasts the magazine’s tasting notes.

Bars from all over the world were judged in the fourth-annual competition that Whisky Magazine launched in its quest to honour the greatest establishments in the world. Judges recognize any establishment, no matter how big or small, that celebrates whisky. For the record, the magazine says there are four tangible areas that make a great whisky bar: glassware, range of whiskies, the venue and the staff. M

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Dancers present joyous tribute UNIQUE WORK-IN-PROGRESS PERFORMANCES AT DANCE VICTORIA anadian contemporary dance icon Rachel Browne had a love affair with Willow Island, a tiny strip of land on Lake Winnipeg.

“It was her sanctuary,” says Constance Cooke, former student, colleague and friend of Browne — the matriarch of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers who died suddenly last summer in Ottawa at the age of 77.

Now Cooke’s semi-professional contemporary company Fizzik’l will be performing a piece choreographed by Browne about her island getaway as part of Dance Victoria’s new program Rough Cuts, an informal presentation series that allows the audience to be part of the creative process.

Fizzik’l, a company of six professional and semi-professional dancers, was invited to perform Willow Island as part of Toward Light — A Tribute to Rachel Browne, a tour by Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers stopping in Vancouver Jan. 15.

The Victoria performance is the “avant-premiere”.

“Usually her work is weighty,” says Cooke. “This piece is a happy piece. Willow Island brought her a lot of joy.”

In the fall, WCD company member Kristin Haight travelled to Victoria to set the piece, created by Browne in the ’90s, on the lucky local dancers.

“Losing Rachel is one of the greatest losses of my life,” says Cooke, who danced for Browne for eight years in Winnipeg before moving to Victoria and starting the Victoria School of Contemporary Dance. “She was my mentor and my friend, too. We stand on the shoulders of the people who come before us and now that I’m in my 40s, I’ve started standing on my own feet.”

Fizzik’l will also be performing two new works by Cooke; an untitled contemporary ballet for three dancers and Everything All at Once, a multi-media contemporary work for six dancers.

“It’s so important that performance not be about the bright shiny object at the end, costumed with lighting, but that the act of creation, being in process, is just as valuable as

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something on tour that’s done,” says Cooke.

Unlike a traditional work-in-progress studio showing, Rough Cuts at Dance Victoria’s Performance Lab offers the dancers and the audience a more complete performance opportunity, with lighting and a lively discussion about the art, but in a completely informal atmosphere. The idea is to give the choreographer and the dancers some constructive feedback and help them understand more completely the power of their work.

“As a spectator, the arts can be inaccessible,” says Cooke. “It’s programs like this that really open it up. I think the general public who want to come see dance, especially modern dance, they’re just not informed. To be able to come to an event where it’s in process, and be able to ask questions is a great opportunity.”

Rough Cuts also offers the audience a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with the dancers and the choreographer. “Everyone comes from a different life story, so what they see in the work is different. For them to know that’s valuable is important. There’s no right answer,” says Cooke. “As a choreographer, you want to guide the viewer, you want to give them certain information or guide them to a certain place, to get more information to see SUPPLIED how you can do a better job.”

Dance Victoria's Rough Cuts program features the work of Constance Cooke.

For the dancer, Rough Cuts offers another chance to perform.

“We spend so much time stuck in our studio rehearsing,” between the audience and performers ... they can hear our says Fizzik’l company member Stacy Sanderson. “Rough breath and see the sweat fly.”

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Theatre SKAM Birthday Bash ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

By Mary Ellen Green arts@mondaymag.com

heatre SKAM is making the transition from adolescence to adulthood this week and is celebrating being almost legal in style.

The alternative theatre company that brings the annual site-specific Bike Ride theatre festival (and much more) to Victoria audiences is celebrating 18 years in existence, and to mark the occasion it’s hosting its annual Birthday Bash, Sat., Jan. 12 at 8pm at the Oddfellows Hall (1315 Douglas).

The Almost Legal Birthday Bash features live music by Mike Demers and Waves of Daves, themed games like the Arts Funding Hustle shuffle board and a three-ball pool tournament in the Oddfellows’ swanky billiards room (bring your loonies and twoonies).

But the bash is more than just a little fun, it’s also a significant fundraiser. And it’s a good cause. Although SKAM isn’t always in the public eye, its members are always hard at work on another original production; writing and researching scripts and then workshopping them behind the scenes.

But in 2013, SKAM is coming out from behind the curtains and will present four public productions; the fifth annual Bike Ride, a national tour, and a world premiere (the full season will be announced at the Bash).

To help support the upcoming season, consider not only purchasing an $18 ticket to the event, but upgrading to the $68 ticket, which buys entry into the revered SKAMraffle — the winner-takes-all door prize of door prizes — that will keep you entertained for the year to come

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Hollywood’s fracking primer DRAMA OPENS DEBATE ON CONTROVERSIAL INDUSTRY

By Robert Moyes arts@mondaymag.com

oincidences don’t come a lot better than this: on the day that Victoria was hosting its Enbridge Pipeline public meeting, a movie about the machinations of a natural gas company opened at the Odeon.

Promised Land stars Matt Damon as Steve Butler, an up-and-coming salesman for Global, a huge company specializing in natural gas. Global is making a fortune leasing gas-rich farmland in impoverished rural communities where the prospect of a huge paycheque can seem a lot better than clinging to an old-fashioned way of life that now only offers hard work, poverty, and despair.

Steve and his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), are descending on their latest target as they pull into a general store on the edge of town (the sign proudly reads: Gas, Guns, Groceries, Guitars).

Sporting newly purchased plaid shirts they make cold calls on several homes. Their practiced sales pitch, a mix of folksy charm and sly appeals to greed, proves very effective.

Things don’t go as smoothly at the town hall meeting. The bought-off mayor is trying to win over the whole town only to find his spiel interrupted by the high school’s science teacher (Hal Holbrook), who states that fracking for gas can have devastating ecological impacts. Despite those warnings, Global is still seen by most as the town’s saviour. Then a handsome environmentalist named Dustin Noble shows up, claiming that Global ruined his family’s dairy farm by poisoning the land and killing most of their cows.

Suddenly the town is sharply divided and Steve is in a pitched battle for the hearts and minds of the locals.

Promised has an impressive pedigree, having been based on a story by literary superstar Dave Eggers and directed by art-house auteur Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Milk). Much like the characters of Steve and Sue, the

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film itself has been polarizing: people either agree with the politics or hate the way the oil industry is portrayed as a sneaky, well-financed corporate villain.

Although a lot of “Hollywood liberal” movies start with a good cause and end up as bad art, Promised fares better than most. Credit Damon’s subtle performance as a small-town boy who watched everything wither after the big local plant shut down in the place where he grew up: this true believer sincerely wants these people to get a big payout before it’s too late. A not-too-surprising plot twist near the end of the film provokes some soul-searching for Steve, but the script is far from strident as it tackles this morally complex issue.

There are several impressive scenes, such as the first meeting between Steve and the mayor. The mayor has done his fracking homework and is eager to show that he’s not a country bumpkin ripe for the plucking. He appears to be a strong opponent with a good argument, but Steve squelches him like a bug in seconds, and then offers a consolation bribe with practiced ease. And there is a clever sequence when the environmentalist addresses a class of elementary school students and uses a literally inflammatory stunt to make his point about the dire consequences of fracking. Ah, but is the movie audience supposed to be sucked in with the kids, or are we expected to be offended by the man’s manipulative tactics?

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ll Signs: This triggered by someone else week the Sun challenging your values or and Mercury by someone who is thoughtjoin Mars in provoking. Whatever the the sign of Aquarius, which cause, you feel a passionmeans the whole world is havate desire to experience life ing an Aquarian Fest. (Don’t at a deeper level. You don’t leave home without your want to be outside pressing petition.) Aquarius is a sign your nose against the winof friendship and the gatherdow, you want to be part of ing together of like minds GEORGIA the circus! Some of you will to make the world a better also want to become a better NICOLS place. Because Aquarius is person. On a more casual the impulse behind Green note, your sex drive will be Peace, Amnesty International amped. This can apply to and labour unions, let’s hope we will get anyone because after all, as Woody Allen closer to consensus in warring politics said, “I’m the best I ever had.” and an appreciation for the fragility of this planet and respect for its care. (After all, others might want to use it later.) Of LEO JULY 23-AUG 22 course, we have practical concerns, too. Aquarius is 180° opposite your sign, “If friendship is the bread of life, then which means this gaggle of planet in Aquarius now sits opposite you callmoney is the honey.” ing your attention to partnerships and close friendships. That’s why partnerARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19 ships will be a big deal. Since fiery Mars This emphasis on Aquarius energizes is one of those planets, partnerships will your social scene. Many of you will also be feisty and contentious. (You’ll be involved in group sports, classes or be annoyed with your main squeeze.) activities with others. You might even However, this position of the Sun is now be in competition with someone. In the as far away from you as it gets all year coming weeks, your interaction with – and because the Sun is your source of younger people will increase and you energy, you will be tired. You definitely will feel younger and more energized by need more sleep in the next month to six the exchange of ideas and energy. This is weeks. That’s why you’re dragging your the best time of the year for you to think heels. (Go to bed with a good book, or a of your long-range goals and how you friend who’s read one.)! can make your hopes and dreams for the future a reality. Talk to others about these dreams. There is a good chance that their VIRGO AUG 23-SEPT 22 feedback will help you either directly or This concentration of planets in one indirectly, perhaps by introducing you to sign will make you work in the next six weeks. We’re talking focused, energized someone who will help you. work with the expectation of excellent results. You want your life to run effiTAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20 ciently so that you can be effective and This is the only time of the year when productive. You have standards! Since the Sun is at the top of your chart act- you’re on this improvement kick, natuing like a spotlight on you. This is why rally it will apply to your health. Many of bosses, parents and people in authority you will go on a diet, get more exercise notice you more. (This also includes the or do whatever you can do be more perpolice.) However, the next six weeks are fect. Yes, “perfect” is the byword. That’s promising because this light flatters you. what we’re aiming for. (Why try for less?)

People will approach you with offers You will even delegate to others because and positive prospects. Don’t hesitate Mars likes to give orders. “Move that to say yes because you don’t have to do mountain.” “Build that bridge.” “Bring anything special to succeed. The light- me a piña colada.” (Fruit drinks are ing will do its magic. They think you’re healthy.) great! (So milk this for all it’s worth.)

Make your pitch. Ask for a raise or LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 promotion. Start to strategize your life You have a fabulous, fun-filled six weeks direction. Meanwhile, travel for plea- ahead! (I wanna be a Libra.) The bottom sure and flirtations with someone from line is you want to have fun. Get out and another culture might turn you on. have a good time! Movies, the arts, the GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20 For the next six weeks, you’re restless and hungry for a change of scenery. Travel if you can but if you can’t, then be a tourist in your own city. Look around you. Visit places you’ve never been before. Take courses or “travel” through film. Talk to people from different countries. Sign up for a language course. An Italian lover could be a great shortcut. (Remember Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda?)

Meanwhile, gifts, goodies and favours from others will come your way. Yes! The very thing to help you take a short trip.

Romance sizzles because you want to express your affection in physical ways.

(Still got your Zorro cape?)

CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22 Something will prompt you to do some soul-searching in the month ahead. In fact, you might even undergo a psychological transformation. This could be

theatre, sports events and playful times with children will be sources of pleasure and delight. Romance and love affairs beckon; saucy flirtations will titillate; the only downside being you don’t want to work. Self-discipline is mush. Obviously, this is the perfect time for a vacation.

However, since you also want to express your creativity, this can be a productive time for writers, dancers, artists, weavers, sculptors, photographers and anyone involved in the process of creating something. Enjoy!

SCORPIO OCT 23-NOV 21 Home, family and your private world are your primary focus in the next six weeks.

You might want to cocoon at home, or you might be busy with renovations and home improvements, or you might be involved with a parent more than usual.

Or all of the above. You definitely want to withdraw a bit because childhood memories are bubbling to the surface of

your mind. Fiery Mars could create tension with family members. You are more powerful than you know (this is the case with all Scorpios), so be gentle and tolerant. Step back a bit. If one person in the family does this it affects everyone, just as the flipside – when one person is angry – it affects everyone. You will discover love in your daily environment.

(Gosh.)

SAGITTARIUS NOV 22- DEC 21 Your daily pace will accelerate in the next six weeks with a jam-packed schedule of short trips, errands, conversations with everyone plus increased reading, writing and studying. If you write, sell, teach or market for a living you will be unusually vigorous and competitive. This is because you identify with your beliefs and will be quick to defend your opinions. Be careful about coercing others to agree with you. Lighten up. Nevertheless, your powers of persuasion are strong.

Use these powers wisely but at least, use them! (You can sell anyone the Brooklyn Bridge because you dazzle others with your words.)

CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 19 With fair Venus in your sign now, the next few weeks are the perfect time to shop for wardrobe goodies. This is because you feel good about yourself.

You feel charming and attractive and you like what you see in the mirror. That’s the frame of mind to be in when you shop for clothes. Meanwhile, a handful of planets will highlight earnings, cash flow and financial matters. You’re dreaming up ways to boost your income or make money on the side. But this same highenergy will activate your spending as well. The cash is flowing in both directions. Guard against disputes with others about something you own or something you want to own. “That’s mine!”

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PISCES FEB 19-MARCH 20 The month ahead is a very popular time for you where you will so enjoy the company of others that a friend could become a lover. Expect to meet artistic, talented people in the next few weeks.

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SAT. JAN. 12 YOUR CAREER IN ART - A talk from Victoria artist April Caverhill and in-store illustration demo. 2-4pm at Opus Art Supplies (512 Herald.) Free. aprilcaverhill.wordpress.com.

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UVIC'S VISUAL ARTS BUILDING Taiwan-born, Toronto-based artist Ed Pien has been making art of curiosity and wonder for nearly 30 years. 8pm at UVic's Visual Arts building (room A162).

SAT. JAN. 12 ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA - New Year, New Works by prominent local artists. Opening reception 2-4pm. Art Gallery Drop-In Tour: Capturing the Inner Essence.

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SUN. JAN. 13 GOWARD HOUSE - Youthful Expressions VI: the annual student art show. Artists reception 1:30-3:30pm.

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FIFTY FIFTY BIRTHDAY PARTYThe fifty fifty arts collective celebrates a decade on the Victoria arts scene with Wand, KHBR, The Dyeing Merchants and the Backhomes. 9pm at 2516 Douglas. $10.

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