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the week ahead

Sunset Beach goes SoCalBring the beach blanket, your bathing suit, your roller skates, and your appetite; the city’s yummiest food trucks will be headed to Sunset Beach (south of Beach between Thurlow and Bute) on June 27 from 5pm till sundown.

The free arts, food and music event, by the same folks orga-nize Food Cart Fest, will run July 11 and August 15 as well.

Attendees can expect delicious, possibly even free food; a BLIM art market; an outdoor roller disco; a sand castle compe-tition judged by local architects and art critics and more.

“We’re bringing a classic California beach party experience to Vancouver,” said Arrival Agency’s Daniel Fazio in a press release. “In addition to outstanding food, there’ll also be the expansive, irreverent fun people have come to expect and love at our events,”

And here’s where the free food part comes in: mobile payment platform nTrust will be giving away up to $10,000 worth of food at the June 27 event. To claim a free meal, sign up for an nTrust Cloud Money account beforehand, and pick up your free meal voucher at the event from their booth. This voucher enables you to pay for special menu items like fresh salads from Culver City Salads, Key lime pie popsicles from Johnny’s Pops, froyo with bananas from Sweet Ride and more with a few taps of your smartphone. Lindsay Elliott photoWE Vancouver Weekly is a division of

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RedDot marks the spotA new and affordable way to grow your art collection hits town tonight, June 26. From FMA’s Andy Chu comes RedDot Art 360: an online art gallery for original paint-ings, and limited-edition photographs and prints, all un-der $360. The launch, MC’d by TV host Natalie Langston, will feature the art and artists in support of the Vancou-ver Asian Film Festival. There will also be a sneak preview of RedDot Shopping Week. The reception runs 8pm to midnight at the Waterfall Building (1540 W. 2nd).

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Sounds of the summer return to downtownCBC Vancouver’s free summer-long concert series, Musical Nooners, returns to the outdoor stage at the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre on Friday, July 4 at noon with a performance from Canadian indie roots soul band, The Boom Booms.

“We hear from Vancouverites all year long who eagerly await the start of CBC Van-couver’s Musical Nooners,” says Johnny Michel, managing director, CBC in BC and Alberta. “The concert series has become an iconic status of summer in Vancouver. It gives me true pleasure to see the community come together, dancing and singing each day, while being exposed to new local and even international musical talent.”

Now in its � fth year, the Musical Nooners free concert series runs Monday to Friday, from noon to 1pm, at the CBC Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street (between Rob-son and Georgia) from July 4-August 22.

The show kicks off with CBC News Vancouver host, Gloria Macarenko and a band that got its start in East Vancouver, playing regular block parties. Inspired by world music, The Boom Boom’s blend of Latin, pop-rock, funk, reggae and soul forms the quintessential sounds of summer.

And for a sneak peak at the following week’s lineup:• Monday, July 7 – Tanga• Tuesday, July 8 – Mani Khaira• Wednesday, July 9 – The Tourist Company • Thursday, July 10 – Jasper Sloan Yip• Friday, July 11 – Kobo Town For more information, go to CBCc.ca/bc. Supplied photo

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eat & drink

Vancouver’s well-documented and longstanding craze for comfort food has almost completely taken over the local restaurant scene in

the last several years. Pulled pork, chicken and waf� es, ice cream, and crackling – our greasy spoon fascination has permeated into pizzerias, trattorias, bistros, and “ca-sual upscale” environments galore. Which is why going to a restaurant like Secret Location is so satisfying.

Let’s start with the room. There’s nothing like it in the city. One-half of an operation that also features a glossy retail boutique, it’s big and bright, with polished marble tables, deeply overstuffed sofas, and eclectic chandeliers. To an outsider, it screams of elegance, chic, and an almost sterile use of white. Then you walk in. It’s warm – in every sense. You realize that sitting in a beautiful room shouldn’t make you feel un-comfortable, but at ease, which it does.

The service is equally beautiful. There is more than one French accent milling about, but these aren’t the servers one fears on the Champs-Élysées. Easy conversation and smiles, extreme knowledge on both solid and liquid fronts, and a desire to please go a long way.

But, it’s the machinations of executive chef Jefferson Alvarez that make every visit worthwhile. Alvarez isn’t new to Vancou-ver’s dining scene, or to me. After several successful years at Divino on Commercial Drive, he helmed the now-closed Fraiche in the British Properties, before doing a brief stint at Lift in Coal Harbour, and � nally ending up in Gastown.

I’m not usually a fan of molecular gas-tronomy, of foams and desiccated fruit, but Alvarez will make anyone a believer. The in� uences are all based on places Alvarez has lived and worked, and are as far-ranging as Brazil, Venezuela, and Spain. It’s also highly modernist and hints of places like El Bulli. The focus, however, is all on the � avour and texture, although visual beauty isn’t overlooked. Harmony in all things is emphasized, but delightful surprises have their place as well.

Simple dishes like an amuse-bouche of scallop crackers, lightly infused with a bit of tapioca for extra crunch and drizzled with a spicy garlic aioli, is brilliant. The paper-thin crackers explode with scallop in the mouth

and waken the taste buds in preparation for the rest of the meal. Salmon ceviche is lightly cured and dressed with a cucumber-apple salad, dill salt and cucumber granita. It’s a dish that both stimulates and satiates.

The restaurant is also the only one in town to exclusively offer tasting menus on the dinner menu. À la carte options are available for lunch and brunch, but I’d highly recommend going for a three- or � ve-course discovery ($70/$95) and putting yourself into Alvarez’s capable hands. More adventurous eaters can go for the 10-course option ($150). You don’t realize what an excellent deal it is until it’s explained that cocktail and/or wine pairings for every course are included. And they’re not skimp-ing on the pours.

For something really spectacular, check out the collaborative dinner on July 15 with chef Thiago Castanho of Brazil’s legend-ary Remanso do Bosque restaurant. The 16-course tasting menu with beverage pair-ings is $300 per person, and might just be the culinary experience of a lifetime.

If you’re looking for mac ‘n’ cheese, this isn’t the place (although the sirloin burger on the lunch menu, with housemade bacon and cheese, is a wonder). If you’re in the market for amazement and awe, on the other hand, step through the looking glass and enjoy the ride.

All ratings out of � ve stars.

Food: ★★★★★Service: ★★★★1/2Ambiance: ★★★★Overall: ★★★★

★: Okay, nothing memorable.★★: Good, shows promise.★★★: Very good, occasionally excellent.★★★★: Excellent, consistently above average.★★★★★: Awe-inspiring, practically per-fect in every way.

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Anya Levykh has been writing about all things ingestible for more than 10 years. Hear her every Monday on CBC Radio One’s On the Coast and � nd her on Twitter @foodgirlfriday and Facebook.com/FoodGirlFriday. FoodGirl-Friday.com

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OBVIOUS CHILDStarring Jenny Slate, Jake LacyDirected by Gillian Robespierre

Being broken up with and being dumped are very different propositions. Should you � nd yourself abandoned and gobsmacked in a squalid comedy club bathroom while patrons evade you like a pathetic traf� c pylon, odds are you’ve experienced the latter.

This is the indignity that befalls stand-up comic Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) in the opening minutes of writer-director Gillian Robespierre’s no roses/all thorns romantic comedy. After subsequently los-ing her long-endangered job at a book-shop, she hits rock bottom with some drunken rebound sex with Max (Jake Lacy), a sweet but square suit-in-training.

In keeping with her bad luck, she winds up pregnant. In breaking from most mainstream � lms, she immediately decides to have an abortion. With a few days to kill before her appointment, Donna circulates through her support network (including an in-form Richard Kind as her doting father and perpetual revelation Gaby Hoffmann as her best friend) while debating what exactly her obligations are to the one night stand who she keeps bumping into.

Wearing self-deprecation well, Slate seems tailor-made for a role that sees her airing her hang-ups in public. That said, Robespierre’s � lm effectively illustrates that blathering on about your insecurities isn’t the same as dealing

with them. While not nearly as nar-ratively or aesthetically accomplished, Obvious Child joins Frances Ha as an in-sightful study of how simply getting your shit together can sometimes represent an insurmountable challenge when you’re adrift in your mid-20s.

In capturing the tumultuous trials through which self-involvement cedes to self-discovery, Robespierre’s � rst feature proves its mettle and emerges as one of this year’s must-see debuts. –Curtis Woloschuk

THEY CAME TOGETHERStarring Paul Rudd, Amy PoehlerDirected by David Wain

It’s rather evident that David Wain doesn’t think much of the clichés that proliferate in popular entertainment. That said, he displays his disdain in a decidedly original way: embracing these irksome conventions and amplifying them in order to lay bare their inherent ridiculousness. The results have frequently been inspired (if routinely under-appreciated), be it Wet Hot American Summer – a big screen lampoon of summer camp � icks – or Children’s Hospital – a small screen collaboration with Rob Corddry that takes medical dramas to task.

His trademark peevishness has found its purest form in Wainy Days, a web series in which a knowingly repellent Wain – sweaty, rumpled and reeking like a teenage boy’s bedding – nevertheless woos a succession of beautiful women. Rightfully recognizing

that this absurd send-up of romantic com-edies is an acquired taste, Wain offers a more palatable version of it here.

Molly (Amy Poehler) runs a Manhattan sweets shop, while Joel (Paul Rudd) toils at a candy multinational intent on literally bull-dozing her old-fashioned enterprise. Meet-ing at a Halloween party at which they’re both dressed like Ben Franklin, this charm-ing pair initially butt heads but soon bond over their shared love of “� ction books.”

Indeed, the joy here comes from watch-ing the readily familiar grow outrageously distorted (such as a scene of Joel’s ethni-cally diverse bros shooting hoops with astonishing ineptness). However, there’s the distinct sense that Wain is simply giving these played-out tropes a playful ribbing rather than mercilessly raking them over the coals. As usual, if you’re looking for something more hardcore, you’ll have to seek it out online. In this case, WainyDays.com. –Curtis Woloschuk

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Jenny Slate stars in director Gillian Robespierre’s debut.

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