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MONTECRISTO Magazine: A Case to Consider Summer

Food and Drink

A Case to Consider: Summer 2015

Twelve great wines you should try.

Wines from Chile, Australia, Spain, and more.

MONTE Summer 15: Bear Witness

Community

“The City Before the City”

Bear witness.

Historically, exhibitions on aboriginal peoples were designed without any band consultation, making them very much an outsider’s speculation on a culture and its people. “c’əsnaʔəm” is different.

MONTE Summer 15: Herring Spawn on Kelp

Food and Drink

Herring Spawn on Kelp

Run, fish.

The spawn offers a compelling snapshot of the food chain in its purest form.

MONTE Summer 15: A Dickens Classic

Arts

“Bleak House” by Charles Dickens

Victorian secrets.

Dickens’ imagination of Shakespearean proportions offers up a seemingly endless variety of characters, all individualized and functional, ranging from typically Dickensian caricatures to subtly rendered fraught, conflicted individuals.

MONTE Summer 15: Seva Canada

Impact

Seva Canada

A better future in sight.

Seva works to prevent blindness, restore sight, and transform lives in developing countries.

Arts

Cultural Upbringing Explored on Film

Against tradition.

There is no right way to approach the customs of culture or family, but these films make clear that this inheritance is a process of negotiation.

MONTE Summer 15: Patkau Hadaway House

Design

Patkau Hadaway House

Working angles.

Perched along a northwest slope that overlooks stunning views of Whistler Valley, this angular home is so suited to its surroundings that it appears almost embedded right into the dirt.

Food and Drink

Blue Mountain Vineyard

All in the family.

The Mavetys have made some wise and brave moves in over four decades of pioneering in the wine industry in British Columbia.

MONTE summer 15: Curio, The Light

Wishlist

“16” by Bocci

The light.

Designer Omer Arbel has been waiting nearly a decade for Bocci’s latest art piece.