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Sounds of the summer return to downtown CBC 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 Vancouver’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 fifth 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 Robson 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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Starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler Directed 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 flicks – 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
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Being broken up with and being dumped are very different propositions. Should you find yourself abandoned and gobsmacked in a squalid comedy club bathroom while patrons evade you like a pathetic traffic pylon, odds are you’ve experienced the latter. This is the indignity that befalls standup comic Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) in the opening minutes of writer-director Gillian Robespierre’s no roses/all thorns romantic comedy. After subsequently losing her long-endangered job at a bookshop, 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 films, 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 film effectively illustrates that blathering on about your insecurities isn’t the same as dealing
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