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Gavin Dew BC Liberal Party
Heather Duross PO Box 21014,RPO Waterfront Ctr, Vancouver, BC, V6C 3K3
Carling Dick 300-576 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3K1
Pete Fry BC Green Party
Peter Fry PO Box 8088 Stn Central, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R7
Jeremy Gustafson YPP
James Filippelli 313-2040 York Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1E7
Bonnie Boya Hu Libertarian
Bonnie Hu 10580 Dennis Cres, Richmond, BC, V7A 3R5
Melanie Mark BC NDP
Mia Edbrooke 204-1556 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5N 1L7
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DSM-5 Diagnosis: Alcohol Use Disorder – Severe; Withdrawal Delirium.â€? On January 21, a documentary adaptation of Wasted is scheduled to appear on CBC’s The Nature of Things. While most of the book is spent on Pond’s darker days, the bulk of the episode focuses on the next steps in his journey. “Everyone in Mike’s life told him to go to AA,â€? David Suzuki says as the documentary’s narrator. “But Mike kept failing the program. And he’s not alone. In fact, Alcoholics Anonymous doesn’t work for most people.â€? Only about one-third of addicts enrolled in AA remain sober after one year, Suzuki notes. At the cafĂŠ, Pond acknowledged that western medicine categorizes addiction as a disease and healthcare professionals generally insist they treat it like one. But, he continued, it’s his experience that doctors’ and therapists’ actions are often very different from their words. With Palmer sitting alongside him, Pond recounted how for two years he saw an addictions specialist weekly and not once did that expert suggest a pharmaceutical solution to help with his addiction. Going back further, to the time he spent in the Lower Mainland’s unregulated recovery homes, Pond recalled abuse and shame inflicted on him for the symptoms of his disease. He emphasized the counterintuitive logic of an instance when he was punished for taking Ativan, a drug that was prescribed for him specifically for symptoms related to alcohol withdrawal. “With any other illness, you’d be hospitalized,â€? he said. “You would get compassionate care. But because
it is addiction, you are kicked out the door.â€? Palmer interjected: “The key to getting away from that psychosis is to sleep,â€? she said. “He needed his brain to heal. And I think there are so many alcoholics and drug addicts trying, in those first horrible couple of months, and if they had‌some of these other drugs, it would be easier. Why do they have to white-knuckle it?â€? The documentary reveals a world of treatment options that the majority of addictions therapists don’t understand and refuse to recommend. Gabapentin and topiramate, for example, are anticonvulsants that act on the brain’s reward pathways in ways that could be useful in managing an addict’s cravings. There’s also a slow-release injectable form of naltrexone (better known by its brand name, Vivitrol), a synthetic drug used to blunt the addictive effects of alcohol and opioids such as heroin. Vivitrol is not approved for use in Canada, and in the film Pond and Palmer travel to the United States for a monthly injection. Palmer said doctors remain reluctant to treat an addiction to one drug with a prescription for another. But she argued that there exists an overlooked mountain of evidence showing pharmaceuticals can complement traditional therapies like those deployed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. “I’ve taken some flak,â€? she said, “about shilling for the pharmaceutical industry, like it will just be another way for these guys to make money. But we wouldn’t say that about heart medication or any other medication.â€? Pond expressed greater impatience. “People are dying,â€? he said. “People are dying that don’t have to.â€? -
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fter she finished an arts profession is a regulated health degree in anthropology, profession, just like nursing, ocNicole Fetterly considered cupational therapy, or physiotherdoing her master’s in med- apy; registered dietitians must meet ical anthropology. But although she certain requirements set out by the loved studying different cultures, provincial regulatory body. she wanted to do more than just UBC is the only place in B.C. that discuss people’s health: she wanted offers the registered-dietitian proto help others improve their health. gram. After completing two years So the Vancouver resident be- of university preprogram courses, came a registered dietitian (RD) a students join the program for three decade ago, combining her passions more years: two on campus folfor food, nutrition, and well-being lowed by a year out in the field for with a career she loves in a field practical experience. that’s expected to grow. There are other programs and “I couldn’t be more passionate designations in the province. Regisabout it,” Fetterly tered holistic nusays in a phone tritionists (RHNs) call. “What I love are self-regulated about it is there’s —not regulated by Gail Johnson so much interest the government— in it; everybody can talk to you about and describe themselves as being your job because everybody eats! trained in natural nutrition. “Over the last decade, I’ve really “Their principal job function is seen a lot more people visiting diet- to educate individuals or groups on itians, because a lot more extended the benefits and health impacts of health plans are covering dietitian optimum nutrition,” says RHN Kate services,” adds Fetterly, a manager McLaughlin, communications manof nutrition and wellness at UBC ager of the Canadian School of Natwho also works in private practice. ural Nutrition’s Vancouver branch. “There’s so much more awareness “Natural nutrition is, basically, the now of how dietitians can inf lu- use of whole foods, avoiding proence people and food service in a cessed foods; it’s not about fad diets positive way.” or counting calories.” With increasing numbers of The program there offers a diplopeople becoming aware of the ma following one year of full-time benefits of a healthy diet, dietitians study or two years of part-time. in private practice who offer one- “The industry is so vast; there’s so on-one counselling have perhaps much you can do with your educanever been more in demand. Yet tion,” McLaughlin says. “A lot of options upon graduating go much our grads work at the more corfurther than merely providing ad- porate level, helping corporations vice to individuals. set up wellness programs; a lot of Fetterly, for instance, has worked students work in the sports sector in hospital and palliative-care set- as personal trainers or yoga intings and was the nutrition-operations structors. Some work with kids in manager for Choices Markets for five schools.” She notes that many holyears. (Loblaws is another grocer that istic nutritionists work with Earthhas in-store dietitians.) Those types of Bites, an initiative that was founded jobs are just some of the possibilities in by the Rocky Mountain Flatbread the sector. Company in 2007 to connect chilRD Karol Traviss is dietetics dren with their food through garprogram leader in the faculty of dening and cooking. land and food systems at UBC. She “Getting to work in such a popuconfirms by phone the many em- lar and growing industry is really ployment opportunities for RDs: exciting,” McLaughlin says. “The “The work that we do is focused biggest reward is what you get around improving health through from helping people on their health food and nutrition, and people journey. There’s an emotional high very often conceptualize that as when you help someone turn their being talking to people one-on-one health around. Plus, you get to talk about nutrition. But the number of about food all day.” ways one could work is quite diThe nutrition and food-service verse. Some [registered dietitians] management (NFSM) program at work in clinical environments—for Langara College, meanwhile, teachexample, working with patients on es people who go into institutional kidney dialysis to meet their nu- food service how to operate kitchens tritional needs—then others work in places such as hospitals, prisons, in population and public health, and schools. Now in its 50th year, maybe working on policy develop- the program is offered online and is ment such as healthy-eating poli- helping to meet demand: operators cies in schools or contributing to of health-care facilities with more food-security initiatives. All the than 50 beds must have membership talk about nutrition in the world in the Canadian Society of Nutrition isn’t going to help if people are Management, and Langara is the food-insecure because of poverty. only place in B.C. to offer the qualiAnother big area is management fying program. “The program is, basically, nutrition and working in institutional settings, overseeing large-scale feed- and business together,” says RD Monica Molag, a Langara NFSM instructor. ing [of] patients in hospitals.” Then there are educational and “When you’re operating a bigger kitchresearch positions, communica- en, you usually have a very large budget tions work, and entrepreneurial and quite a few staff members. We have options like food- and nutrition- a lot of red-seal chefs who take the program. Cooking for an acute-care related websites. For all the career possibilities, hospital is really the pinnacle of cookthere’s also a lot of confusion among ing, because that is where any mistakes the public about terms such as diet- can cause critical side effects.…A lot itian, nutritionist, registered diet- of people like working with food, but itian, holistic nutritionist, and so on. they’re also very organized: organized Traviss explains that the term foodies. That’s where this program nutritionist is not regulated and comes in. It’s for people who like manis sometimes used to describe agement, dealing with labour relations, people with PhDs in human nutri- dealing with budgets.” Students can also do the first two tion who do research in the area or people who work in the supple- years of dietetics at Langara and ment department of a health-food transfer to the program at UBC. “The nutrition courses are very store. 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BEE’S KNEES (Until February 14 at 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters) Dark chocolate infused with syrup, topped with steamed milk and a honey marshmallow.
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THE FLUFFERNUTTER (Until February 14 at Butter Baked Goods) White-chocolate drink with peanut butter and butterscotch and marshmallows.
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AMBROSIO AFFOGATO (Until February 14 at Earnest Ice Cream) Molten dark drinking chocolate poured over Tahitian-vanilla ice cream.
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CAUGHT RED HANDED (Until January 22, and January 30 to February 5, at Glenburn Soda Fountain & Confectionery) Velvety milk chocolate with creamcheese whipped cream and white-chocolate curls.
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LYRIC AND DAGGER (February 6 to 14 at Koko Monk Chocolates) Black-sesame white hot chocolate with lemon and lime caramel.
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he Vancouver International Wine Festival, running February 20 to 28, is still a number of weeks away, but with events already selling out, it’s time to start making plans. Of course, the big can’t-miss event is the International Festival Tasting, running Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings with a matinee happening Saturday afternoon. There, 156 winCháteau d’Arlay 2009 Côtes du Jura eries from 14 countries will be pourCorail captures regional character. ing over 700 wines. It’s become one of the largest and wish list is From Bubbles to Passito, longest-running wine festivals in the happening February 23 at Vij’s Restauworld. There’s certainly no better one- rant. Giusti Wine from the Veneto will stop destination in the country when it be pouring 10 of its wines, from vintage comes to exploring the world of wine Prosecco and Chardonnay to Valpolicella Ripasso and and trying new Amarone. I think grapes, styles, and it goes without reg ions—hopesaying that with fully, discovering Kurtis Kolt Vikram Vij at the many new favourites in the process. It’s definitely not the helm, the food going with ’em will be place for sticking with what’s familiar; phenomenal. I’d imagine this one will the first table I’ll be making a beeline sell out sooner rather than later. Perhaps you’re looking for somefor is that of Gruet Winery, a highly acclaimed sparkling house from New thing a little more casual? That same Mexico, a wine region I’ll be experien- evening, Spumante & Co. is taking place at Gastown’s Inform Interiors. cing for the first time in my life. Italy is the festival’s theme this year, It’s a lounge party featuring 22 differwith 60 wineries representing many of ent Italian sparkling wines with bites the country’s wine regions. If splash- provided by Dirty Apron Catering— ing into Barolos, Chiantis, Amarones, just ensure you don’t imbibe a little too Proseccos, and a multitude of indigen- much and wake up to realize you’ve acous grape varieties sounds like your cidentally bought a sofa! As mentioned, things are selling thing, I’d recommend nabbing tickets to February 27’s Taste ITALIA! event. out quickly, so head to vanwinefest. This walk-around, grazing affair is a ca/ to get info on all the events and calm, cool, and collected focus on all of order tickets. the participating Italian wineries, with principals pouring wines to accompany IN THE MEANTIME, a couple of nibbles like fennel sausage, chicken, wines that recently knocked my and green lentil bollito misto with salsa socks off… Château d’Arlay 2009 Côtes du Jura verde, and prosciutto-wrapped tuna with clams, fennel, and olives. It’s calm- Corail is a remarkable wine hailing er than the big tasting room; you’ll get from the Jura region of France and more face time with producers and not composed of Poulsard, Trousseau, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Savagnin, have to jostle as many elbows to do so. Winery dinners will be taking place the latter two varieties being white, all over the city, but at the top of my but cofermented with the three red
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grapes. After 10 days macerating with the skins, the wine was aged in old oak barrels for three years, which offers a little structural framework without bringing an overly oaky flavour. The wine straddles the line between heavy rosé and lighter red; where it really sings is in its expression of regional terroir. Elements of clay and concrete that come courtesy of limestone, clay, and marl in the soil are front and centre, with juicy echoes of sarsaparilla, cola, blood orange, and red plum rounding things out. Served with a slight chill, it’s bright, cheery, and quite an uncommon style. At around 50 bucks, it’s currently available at Kitsilano Wine Cellar, and I’ve just gotten word it’ll be on shelves at West Vancouver’s Village Liquor Store by month’s end. Here’s another soil-influenced wine that recently impressed. It’s both much easier on the wallet and easy to track down: Chile’s Errazuriz Max Reserva Syrah, found in the majority of B.C. Liquor Stores for $17.49. We’re currently on the 2013 vintage, with 2014 about to move into stores; both vintages carry an abundance of black fruit along with fresh-ground pepper, toasty oak, and mighty delicious lightly charred steak flavours. That last note acts as your food-pairing recommendation as well. Coming from the ancient volcanic soils of the Aconcagua Valley, a thread of earthiness permeates all of those lovely flavours mentioned above, making for a well-balanced, highly quaffable wine. At less than $20, it’s a solid-value wine that punches well above its weight. FINALLY, if you made a New Year’s
resolution to learn a little more about wine, the Art Institute of Vancouver is offering the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Level 1 Award course as a oneday session on February 20 for $328. Think of it as solid cramming before the wine festival. Head to winecollege. ca/ for more information. -
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The Holy Body Tattoo was, and still is,
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the most rock ’n’ roll of Vancouver dance troupes. Through the 1990s and into the 2000s, the duo of Dana Gingras and Noam Gagnon pushed movement to extremes, punishing their bodies, boldly mixing in video and music, and touring all over North America and Europe. In those years, even in laid-back Vancouver, the shows caused the excitement of an underground concert. Anyone who scored tickets to 2001’s steamy, tango-twisted Circa, with its mesmerizing black-and-white projections of Paris and its live accompaniment by macabre cabaret band the Tiger Lillies, will never forget it. Ditto for the sheer thrill of watching the body-slamming ode to the urban rush that was Poetry & Apocalypse. And then, in the mode of “better to burn out than to fade away”, the Holy Body Tattoo pulled off its most ambitious work ever with 2005’s monumental. Soon after, it folded up shop. Looking back on the audacity of trying to stage monumental now, Gingras can barely believe what the troupe accomplished. “We really took a risk making that work at that time,” says the raven-haired artist, sitting with the Straight at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival’s downtown offices during a brief visit to Vancouver from her adopted home base of Montreal. She’s as striking a presence as ever in a black sweater, with a grey scarf slung Euro-style around her neck. “We didn’t know how we were going to finance it. We didn’t have the kind of funding that would warrant hiring nine dancers and then taking 16 people out on the road. It was like free-falling.” As they always had, the duo just took the leap, securing recorded music from orchestralpostrock cult faves Godspeed You! Black Emperor, projections from fi lmmaker William Morrison, and haunting existential text from Jenny Holzer. Monumental took almost three years to attract enough funding, but it was an immediate hit when it debuted here at the Playhouse. Watching
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After 10 years, the Holy Body Tattoo (far left, Dana Gingras and Noam Gagnon) get to revisit monumental, this time with new dancers. Yannick Grandmont photo.
run, never forgot about who I am. I’ve evolved and explored new dimenthe work, and when he sions, but going back there is like going home. It is At the PuSh fest, the Holy Body Tattoo restages its most ambitious heard that Godspeed just a pleasure sharing the room with Dana again. “This was such a quintessential work for our You! was touring again, work, this time with Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing live he started the long pro- company. By the time we finished, we had accomthe dancers twitch, struggle, and convulse on the cess of trying to stage the show with the band live. plished so much. So how great is it to go deeper show’s visually striking white pillars was riveting: And after four years of talks and scheduling, that and really polish and deepen what was already sometimes the performers looked like moving dream finally came to fruition. there?” he adds. sculptures, at other times like alienated urbanites Both Gagnon and Gingras say they are “With the band, we finally can scale it isolated on their own islands. seeing the work with fresh eyes—reup,” Gingras says. “The fact that the But the big ideas required larger theatres than band is involved means it can go to a moved, as they are, from the intensity Check out… the Holy Body Tattoo could ultimately book, Gin- level it never could before. STRAIGHT.COM of the company in the mid 2000s. gras explains. “I think I just realized how kind of “It never crossed our minds that the Visit our website Monumental, in hindsight, was not just the cul- band could ever play with the show,” crazy we were and just how raw the for morning-after mination of everything the Holy Body Tattoo had she adds, pointing out Godspeed You! work was, and I think we really operreviews and local arts news done, but, ironically, the beginning of the end. The was in the midst of a hiatus and breakated outside of a lot of what was going on company had maxed out. And monumental never up rumours when monumental was creat the time,” Gingras reflects. “We really gained the mass exposure it deserved. Eventually, ated. After debuting here at PuSh, the show were doing our own thing. We were just going Gingras went on to create her own company, Ani- journeys to Quebec, Australia’s Adelaide Festival for it, you know? And I think because there were two mals of Distinction, while Gagnon stayed here in (where Sefton is now artistic director), Edinburgh, of us, we were there to buoy each other along and Vancouver, performing work as Vision Impure. and elsewhere, timed to fit in between Godspeed support each other when we had to take the blows.” Gagnon, who met Gingras in 1987 at influential You! Black Emperor’s own touring schedule. USUALLY, IN LIFE, and in art, you can’t go back. Vancouver dance studio EDAM, reflects a similar Which is what makes the spectacular new mount- SPEAKING TO THE Straight later, from rehears- view. “We were very different in some ways, but ing of monumental, 10 years later—this time with als in Montreal with the band and a new crew of what we shared in common was this crazy vision. live accompaniment by Montreal’s Godspeed You! dancers (including Vancouver’s Shay Kuebler), Then it came to a point where we were like, ‘How Black Emperor—so amazing. Presenter David Sef- Gagnon is clearly stoked. On returning to work do you top this?’ ” see page 28 ton, who programmed it at UCLA during its initial with the Holy Body Tattoo, he simply says: “It’s
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Editor’s choice THE POWER OF WORDS Critics have called it “a theatrical version of Russian Roulette” and “a collective experience in the face of Iran’s censorship”. It’s also a chance for you to watch a solo actor take a giant leap out of his or her comfort zone. Théâtre la Seizième is presenting Lapin Blanc, Lapin Rouge (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit ), in which a different actor opens an envelope each night to perform a one-person script by the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. It’s a script the actors have never seen before, one written by Soleimanpour when he was barred from leaving his country because he refused military service. Lapin Blanc, Lapin Rouge is at Studio 16 from Tuesday to next Saturday (January 26 to 30)
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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BOOM (At the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage to February 13) Word-of-mouth raves are rolling in for this multimedia ode to the baby-boomer generation.
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A BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (At the Orpheum on January 23) The VSO salutes the lush music of a magical time and place. Simon is Trpceski at the piano.
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SONGS OF THE WASTELAND (At the Koerner Recital Hall on January 26) Vancouver Academy of Music shares the story of a Holocaust survivor.
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DANA CLAXTON: MADE TO BE READY (At the Audain Gallery to March 12) Videos and photos of powerful women upending stereotypes.
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BLACK HOLE SUN (At the Republic Gallery from January 23 to February 27) Artists Blaine Campbell and Scott Massey search the cosmos and the meaning of life.
Guest pick
ETERNAL Our arts insider this week is Milton Lim, a contemporary artist and cofounder of interdisciplinary arts company Hong Kong Exile. Here’s his pick for the PuSh fest. “From what I’ve seen, Eternal has two really strong actors committing to this one scene [from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ] over and over again.…I’ve seen shows before that just test the duration of certain things, but to take a movie that’s popularly known and also explores this kind of eternalness and fooling of the mind is another story. So much of it is consistent with the movie’s content in itself, which, as an artist, is super satisfying to see.” The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Eternal at the Western Front from February 2 to 6.
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s Winston Churchill once said, “If you’re not a socialist at 20 you have no heart, and if you’re still a socialist at 40 you have no brain.” Except that he didn’t say it. In fact, the quote has been attributed in one form or another to a remarkable variety of people, mostly very obscure French politicians. But the larger point is that the line has been used, in all cases and for a very long time, as a soft and somewhat condescending cudgel to prevent you or anyone else from getting any daft ideas about wealth redistribution or cooperative ownership. At 35 and still a socialist, Charles Demers regularly exercises both of those organs in his job as standup comic, prizewinning writer, regular guest on CBC’s The Debaters, and exceedingly proud dad. But he’s frosty enough to know that the traditional left is under siege in ways that he never could
have imagined as a teenage member of the Communist League’s youth wing—a time he hilariously recounts in the very first chapter of his 2015 book, The Horrors—and that he’s now forced to confront in his one-man show, Leftovers. “Stephen Harper winning again would have been the easiest thing for the script, but I actually feel like Trudeau winning did the best things for the show,” he says, talking to the Straight at an East Side rehearsal space as he and director Marcus Youssef prepare a retooled Leftovers for this year’s PuSh Festival. “There’s no grey in the Harper situation. In January 2016, for a socialist, there are some ambiguities in the air. How do you deal with the fact that everyone you know is happy, and you’re supposed, by definition, not to be?” Since he debuted Leftovers last March at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Canada has elected to slip the velvet glove back onto the iron fist, installing a more likable creature at 24 Sussex Drive to pursue our nation’s fealty to
“centrist” politics, big business, and hollowed-out social programs. In The Horrors, Demers refers to the Liberal tradition of silky double-dealing as “hugs then pipelines”. “I literally, on election night, felt almost no joy, which people around me could not process,” Demers says with a chuckle that swift ly nosedives into a sigh. “I feel that we’ve been totally paralyzed by the fact that now there’s a guy who’s in that we kind of like on a personal level, and he says nice things.” Demers acknowledges that the younger Trudeau soared into office on nostalgia and the “great narrative sweep” that caps 10 years under Harper, while a new generation has come of age inside the all-consuming conditions of global capitalism, where markets look as immutable as the law of gravity. Meanwhile, adds the distressed comic, in a time of entrepreneurial charity and billionaire gurus like Steve Jobs, “people see next page
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Toronto-based Neema Bickersteth learned to dance while singing for Century Song, a wordless multimedia piece spanning 100 years of Canadian history.
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Performing it, Bickersteth has found that, yes, in fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible to nail your opera notesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a physical feat in itselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;while dancing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done workshops developing this show for five years and each year Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m stronger and more able,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more I do it, the more my body knows what to do.â&#x20AC;ŚItâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about being fit enough to get through. But then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting at some points to see a person out of breath go on.â&#x20AC;? What actually may have proven most difficult about the piece was just trying to categorize itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an issue that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a problem, of course, at the open-minded, interdisciplinary PuSh fest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a recital pulled off the page in 3-D, using as much art as possible to infuse the lack of words,â&#x20AC;? Bickersteth offers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In recital, who are you but yourself with your voice to share?â&#x20AC;? The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Century Song at the Cultch from February 2 to 6.
talk about the left as if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bono. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pretty quickly figure out a way to differentiate what the left is from this kind of progressivist centre that knows all the right cultural things to say, then we have lopped off a whole end of the political spectrum in this country,â&#x20AC;? Demers explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that was kind of the genesis of the show, that feeling of suffocation, the absolute collapse of political possibilities and the total failure of the political imagination. We live in a time when everything is supposed to be possible, with the exception of our political and economic lives. There, all the levers are in place. Whatever you want a phone to be able to do, well, dream as big as you can. But when it comes to the way that we organize our society, all that stuff is locked in.â&#x20AC;? Still, â&#x20AC;&#x153;total despair is a cop-outâ&#x20AC;? in Demersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, which is hardly surprising since his principal talent is for comedy. And not that Samuel Beckett, staring-into-the-abyss version of comedy, either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a Charlie Chaplin tattoo that I got when I was 18,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding to a short list of leftist comic heroes that also includes Zero Mostel and Dick Gregory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess the thing about Chaplinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy is that it comes from such a deep well of love for humanity. And I think that has to be the underlying sensibility if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to keep that kind of acidic political humour from burning the love or empathy out of what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like human beings are worth loving and protecting, then I think it will always hollow out what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing into a kind of nihilism.â&#x20AC;? And with that, Demers concludes, sounding nothing like an obscure French politician, â&#x20AC;&#x153;something really profound is lost.â&#x20AC;? The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Leftovers at the York Theatre from January 26 to 30, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on January 30.
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he ambitious, multimedia Century Song, which spans 100 years of Canadian history without using a single word, all started with a question. Could opera-trained Neema Bickersteth both sing and dance in a show? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a classical singer, that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really happen,â&#x20AC;? the artist, who trained at UBC, says with a laugh from her home in Toronto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew musical theatre did it and pop concerts did it, but I wanted to see if it was possible for a classical singer.â&#x20AC;? As for the physical demands: â&#x20AC;&#x153;BeyoncĂŠ sings scales on a treadmill! She can do what she does because she trains.â&#x20AC;? To find out if it was equally possible for an opera singer, she started working with choreographer Kate Alton. When songs with words felt too literal for the dance, Bickersteth began digging up vocalisesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;operatic solos that use the voice, but not words, to make musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by the likes of Sergei Rachmaninoff and John Cage.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And totally, just by coincidence, the songs that resonated with us skipped along through the century,â&#x20AC;? Bickersteth explains. When the creative team put the tunes together, Century Song became a work about a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotional journey through different eras, with historical references coming through her costumes and a projected animation environment created by Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fettFilm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Who would this woman be?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And my only response was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? says Bickersteth, who was born in Canada to parents from Sierra Leone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if I was living in that time, who would I have been? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Canadian, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m black, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m female.â&#x20AC;ŚSo, yes, it became political.â&#x20AC;? In Century Song, she brings to life everyone from a Montreal jazz singer of the 1930s to a resident of the thrivingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and later bulldozedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;black community of Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hoganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley in the 1940s, and a modern woman who draws inspiration from her mother in 1970s Edmonton.
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Contemporary circus shows L’Immédiat (left) and Vu find an unsettling kind of humour in the interface between the performers and objects of everyday life. Vincent Beaume and Camille Chalain photos.
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he red noses and fright wigs may have gone, but clowning survives in the multidisciplinary art of contemporary circus, as two shows from France demonstrate at this year’s PuSh Festival. The humour in both Vu and L’Immédiat has a dark, unsettling edge to it, at the interface between the performers and objects of everyday life. According to Etienne Manceau, the orientation of Vu’s Compagnie Sacécripa, which he cofounded in 2003, combines circus-based skills and acting in equal measure. “We work in particular with character development,” he says, reached in his hometown of Toulouse. “With Vu I wanted to do a solo show built around a character who’s not immediately sympathetic, and in the creation process of the piece we pushed the obsessional, over-the-top aspects of this guy. He makes people really laugh, but he’s what I call an involuntary clown. He’s not trying to be funny—quite the opposite.” Vu has neither words nor music, so the focus is entirely on Manceau’s body language and
actions as he mysteriously manipulates a series of small articles, creating strange new art and structures out of quotidian objects. “They come from the kitchen and the bathroom. There’s a knife, some sugar cubes and tea bags, a TV magazine, scissors, some matches. None of these are used in the usual way. I do a little bit of reconfiguration with them to create new things.…Audience members try to work out where I’m going, what I’m making, and why. It maintains a sense of tension throughout the show.” What Manceau refers to as a “miniature circus” is meticulously assembled, and follows a closely written scenario. Despite this, there are moments in each performance left open to chance. “I’ve presented Vu some 400 times, and the manipulation of the objects is very, very precise, down to the nearest millimetre. But there’s also a part where the audience becomes engaged, and the result can vary greatly from show to show.” Unintentional clowning—in the deadpan spirit of Buster Keaton—likewise lies at the heart of L’Immédiat, which brings together elements of slapstick circus, contemporary dance,
and physical theatre. The stage for Association Immédiat’s show is strewn and piled with damaged furniture and household junk. As the six wordless characters negotiate their different ways through this chaotic environment, the haywire tables, chairs, ladders, clothing racks, and appliances are liable to collapse at any time. “These people don’t necessarily notice what’s happening—they try to carry on living in the orderly way they did before, but all of them take a nosedive,” says Camille Boitel, L’Immédiat’s creator and one of its performers, on the line from Marseilles. “The show is about fragility, imbalance, and our lack of control over things. Its characters are like tottering babies that you want to prevent from falling and hurting themselves. Many meanings are possible for each of them— I like to work in a poetic and ambiguous way.” Boitel and his colleagues move fluidly through a sequence of high-risk situations. “One of the characters gets on top of an object that falls apart under him—so he grabs on to another piece, which also breaks, then he leans onto something else that slides away. A great degree of acrobatic skill is required to do this.
“At the end there’s a kind of ritual in which all the objects we’ve used are stacked in a precarious heap that keeps growing higher. It starts out with another character who has a problem uncontrollably levitating—all done without any trickery—and has to be pinned under a kind of huge table to prevent her from flying away.” Most of the human interactions in L’Immédiat are not of a cooperative nature, however. “The characters are more inclined to be squabbling,” says Boitel. “There’s one moment, for instance, when they’re all fighting over some water. So it’s a bit dark, really, and in its way not so far removed from reality. But because a situation is catastrophic, it doesn’t mean life stops. Nobody dies in our piece, which represents a kind of hope. And it makes children laugh—though it may traumatize parents who are afraid their kids will be afraid. But they aren’t. The humour’s not all dark, and we have a lot of fun falling down.” Vu is at Performance Works from Wednesday to Sunday (January 20 to 24). L’Immédiat is at the Vancouver Playhouse from February 4 to 6.
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Birds, baroque music, and nonwestern singing styles have all inspired the work of New York City–based vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, which hits the Fox Cabaret on January 25 and 26. Bonica Ayala photo.
Roomful of Teeth takes voices on adventures
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’ve been struggling with how best to describe the New York City–based vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, but I think I’ve got it now. And, better still, band member Caroline Shaw seems to agree. “ ‘Sacred music for secular people?’ ” the alto, violinist, and composer repeats, after surfacing from a brief fit of laughter. “I think that’s great. I like to think of my own music that way, certainly. Maybe there is something sacred about hearing music just for voices alone, because that’s sort of the context. Hearing music made by humans alone, with no extra instruments—nothing else, just the sound of the human voice—there’s something incredibly spiritual about that for me, at least. Always.” Although there are strong echoes of European liturgical music on Roomful of Teeth’s
recently released Render, other voices play their part. Caleb Burhans’s “Beneath”, for instance, is introduced by some exceptionally otherworldly overtone singing, in a nod to the ensemble’s penchant for welcoming nonwestern vocal styles into its mix. “Every summer we spend two weeks together, and we generally invite a couple of singers from other traditions who are either master teachers or master practitioners of a certain style,” Shaw explains, in a telephone interview from Manhattan. “And we work with them every day, just attempting to learn more about the way that they sing. “We have no claim to mastery; it’s more just out of curiosity,” she continues. “So in that first summer we worked with a guy named Ayan-ool Sam, from Tuva; he’s a member of a group called Alash. Another really memorable practitioner that we’ve worked with and that I’ve loved is a woman named Eun Su
Kim, who is from Korea but lives in Washington, D.C., now. She’s a real master pansori singer, and also an amazing teacher. She wouldn’t let up: every day we’d walk into the room totally excited, but scared!” Broadway vocal coaches and Inuit throat singers have also contributed their input, as have vocalists of an entirely different kind. Missy Mazzoli’s “Vesper Sparrow”, which can also be heard on Render, is a loving tribute to the beauty and diversity of avian song—a theme that will also be explored in an upcoming commission by Alaskan composer John Luther Adams. In her own compositional practice, Shaw takes a similarly eclectic approach. Her Pulitzer Prize–winning Partita for 8 Voices, which Roomful of Teeth will perform during its two PuSh Festival concerts, sounds thoroughly modern, yet draws its inspiration from Baroque music and its subtitles—“Allemande”,
“Sarabande”, “Courante”, and “Passacaglia”— from courtly dance forms of the same era. “In one sense, it sort of grows out of my experience of being a violinist and playing the Bach partitas,” Shaw explains. “But I also spent several years playing for ballet and modern-dance classes in New York, so I’m very connected to that. I love dance: I love the connection between movement and music. I almost write music as a way to be a choreographer. I’m not, but I’m imagining a sense of space and different visual textures and then translating them into sound. That’s where it comes in for me: in my mind, my music has a sense of space and movement and motion and physicality.” The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Music on Main present Roomful of Teeth at the Fox Cabaret on Monday and Tuesday (January 25 and 26).
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From trauma to transformation Fest insiders dish on Miss Understood tracks trip through painful childhood to Downtown Eastside, then escape > B Y A NDR EA WA R NE R
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ntonette Rea is a spokenword artist who bursts into joyful giggles without any warning during her phone interview with the Straight. The sound is pure and uncontained delight, even if she’s just told you one of the most devastating and traumatic things you’ve ever heard. And it happened to her. This isn’t secondhand sadness or tertiary trauma. It belongs to her and it’s hers to do with as she pleases. Her coping mechanism now is poetry. Once upon a time it was drugs. Miss Understood, her upcoming one-woman show at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, is the story of Rea’s journey from tormented kid to married father of two to trans woman and survival sex worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. “It’s almost like this whole journey of Antonette was meant to be,” she says. “Like, I’ve finally lived long enough to learn enough lessons and mature enough that I could now go back and heal the trauma that happened as a child, that I hadn’t ever processed.” Rea was a hockey-playing music major at Capilano College in the early ’70s. After she took a stick to the cheek, the scar tissue sidelined her career as a trumpeter, and she found herself in an English class taught by writer Gladys Hindmarch. “She got us writing in journals and thought I wrote like William Blake or something like that,” Rea says with a laugh. She credits Hindmarch with turning her on to poetry and encouraging her writing, which led to its own revelation. “My creativity is tied to my feminine side,” Rea says, explain-
Antonette Rea found her way out by writing poetry. Raymond Shum photo.
ing that she always knew she was “different”. She recalls being essentially disowned by her parents, that her mother forbade her to wear women’s clothes in the house. But in the late ’70s, Rea “put everything away in a closet”. “I thought, ‘If I have children, they’ll love me,’ ” Rea says. So she got married and had a family, but it didn’t last. After the marriage broke down, she came out. Her ex-wife’s new boyfriend didn’t want Rea coming around, she says, and eventually
she found herself “penniless, homeless, and with no help”. Rea turned to drugs and sex work, which could be dark, dangerous, and violent. And yet, she says, most of her trauma came at the hands of law enforcement. “I share some of those experiences, some of the sick humour,” Rea says, “most of it at the expense of sick cops and RCMP. There are a couple of things about Vancouver cops. Well, most of it’s redneck RCMP guys in the Valley and Surrey, who took liberties with somebody like me when I was in custody. The play heats up to something that happened that was really a hard one for me to deal with. I didn’t deal with it. I was hiding from it in drugs.” Rea eventually found escape in poetry. She describes her writing style as “the language of the streets; it comes from the dirt between the bricks in the alleys.” And yet for all the grit, Rea keeps giggling. She’s grateful for her life, and her sense of humour is sharply intact even if it is another coping mechanism. She and director James Fagan Tait are still fine-tuning Miss Understood: she’s pushing for the entertainment factor, he is “all about the drama”. “I want to be dancing,” she says with a laugh. “He’s trying to get out all the struggles and the difficulties being transgender in a society that wouldn’t accept you. A lot of people, they’re not fully aware. Even the trans community doesn’t fully understand what it was like for the sisters that have gone before them.” -
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Associate curator of the PuSh Festival INKED & MURMUR (January 20 at
the Vancouver Playhouse) “I’m really excited about the Aakash Odedra show because it’s something new for us with the Dance Centre. When we’ve collaborated in the past, it’s been stuff at their venue, but for this one, the technical requirements of the show actually wouldn’t fit on the stage.…It’s very visually stunning—kind of a contemporary kathak dance but with a lot of high-tech electronic stuff going on.”
Decoder 2017 mixes high tech and low tech, the visual and the sonic.
actually based more so on a German film from the ’80s with the same name. The show is an exploration of William Burroughs’s ideas in the 21st century, which are essentially about the voice of technology in terms of, say, government-corporate control and the possibilities for revolution….It’s very visual BETTY LOU PHILLIPS and sonically stimulating. The sound designer idiosyncratically just works Long-time PuSh Festival volunteer with cassette tapes only, so it’s a really INTIMACY (January 20 to 23 at the cool mix of high tech and old tech.” Orpheum Annex) “[Intimacy] is a show from Australia, where the cre- PETER DICKINSON ator went out late at night and he just encountered strangers on the street Director of the Institute for Performand asked them to talk. He’s collected ance Studies at SFU their personal stories and created this MONUMENTAL (January 28 at the work around it, so it’s about truth and Queen Elizabeth Theatre) “It’s imposhow we perceive it both on-stage and sible to pick one, that’s the thing about in our own lives. I think this is one of PuSh. But I think I have to say, because those perfect little performances that it’s one day and because it’s the 10th will enable us to connect one-on-one.” anniversary and because it’s featuring live music by Godspeed You! Black TIM CARLSON Emperor, I’d have to go with monuThe PuSh International Performing mental….It’s great that Noam [GaCurator of Club PuSh Arts Festival presents Miss Undergnon] and Dana [Gingras] are getting stood at Performance Works from DECODER 2017 (February 4 at the [the dance company Holy Body TatJanuary 27 to 31. Fox Cabaret) “With Decoder, it’s too] back together for this.” -
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alking into the latest Museum of Vancouver exhibition, you might think you’ve stumbled across the latest real-estate presentation centre to hit this city’s condo boom. Infographics invite you to “Choose YOUR Vancouver!”, architectural models depict highrises and streets, and panoramic photographs and videos show buildings and aerial shots of neighbourhoods. Visitors can even pick up a little listings sheet, as they might at the latest condo open house. But the new show, called Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, actually seeks to deconstruct and engage the public in the very building boom from which it borrows those marketing techniques. Look closer, and the architectural models pose questions about how skyscrapers might look here in 30 years; blown-up aerial shots of the city reveal the lowrise sprawl that spreads beyond our downtown highrises; and infographics unearth little-appreciated data about how the city has grown, including the fact that the vacancy rate has hovered at around one percent here since the 1930s. “The idea was to be inspired by the visual language of real estate, and my feeling is let’s take it from real estate to the state of Vancouver,” lead curator Gregory Dreicer explains in an interview, while a busy flurry of workers sets up signage and exhibits. “The first big room is really a presentation centre, but instead of selling you a condo, it’s about Vancouver. In the next big space, instead of choosing a home, you’re choosing your future Vancouver.” Your Future Home, a title that also plays on condo-marketing lingo, is the brainchild of the museum and the Vancouver Urbanarium Society,
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a recently formed group of architects, planners, and leading citizens who are passionate about city-building. Encompassing a room full of provocative multimedia scenarios and real neighbourhood case studies crafted by architects and urban planners, as well as a series of debates, workshops, and walking tours, the show couldn’t be more timely. In recent weeks, the average selling price of single-family homes in Vancouver has soared past $2.5 million, property taxes have skyrocketed, and the mayor has floated a speculation tax to dampen house-flipping. “It’s obvious if you ask any group of Vancouverites about their biggest anxiety, it’s going to be housing affordability,” says Dreicer, who is originally from New York and watched the same development tensions there. “And that’s related to transportation, and public space, and what planners call density.” The exhibit opens with a wall full of photographs depicting Vancouver’s different housing types—floating homes, East Van heritage houses, West Side Tudor mansions, downtown steel-and-glass condos, Vancouver Specials, and more. Visitors are invited to draw their own favourite home, pictures that will be hung up alongside them. It’s the first in a series of displays where the public can interact with what they’re seeing. And that’s a strong goal of Dreicer and his team—to engage the public directly in a subject that affects them so dramatically. “There’s always a certain group that are very vocal, but are they really representing everyone? Our idea is we need to engage more people,” Dreicer stresses. That interaction includes giving instant feedback on the architectural concepts on display in one big room of the gallery: viewers’ comments are projected instantly from their smart-
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phones onto digital screens. Placed on white plinths of various heights— giving the room the look of a city of miniature highrises—are models like Henriquez Partners Architects’ Vertical City. It’s a tiny version of a 2,500-foot-tall structure made up, essentially, of a 15-block area of the city, with existing buildings and even bridge ramps somehow upended and enclosed in the skyscraper, which is topped by a rooftop “sky-park” of trees. Elsewhere, other installations propose tiny mobile parks that can be rolled into parking lots and empty lots, and a large “BargePark” that can be floated to different waterfront locales. Steicher Architecture proposes highrises that sit above ground level, with lush greenery underneath them, while Clayton Blackman, Colin Harper, and Shane Oleksiuk have created a model of different highrises with public spaces in them—accompanied by diagrams where people can pen in possible uses or improve on the designs. Amid the eight case studies, one on the Arbutus Lands uses a Plexiglas model to envision multiple uses for the spot—including a recycling depot, performance space, and biking hub. Interspersed is a collection of historic pieces from the neighbourhoods being examined. “There’s not a lot of text in the exhibit, and that was a conscious effort,” Dreicer points out. Your Future Home lets you visualize how this city’s future might look, instead of just reading about it. In fact, the exhibit looks like it might be so aesthetically pleasing, interactive, and entertaining that you might stop worrying—for an hour or two, anyway—about how you’re ever going to afford a home in this town. Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver is at the Museum of Vancouver from Thursday (January 21) to May 15.
“Like, ‘Look how quaint they were back in the 1990s!’ ” In all, it’s got to be a bittersweet process, revisiting the piece they made at the height of the Holy Body Tattoo’s mad whirl of creation—though both these artists say remounting monumental is inspiring them to move ahead with their own, individual work. “It completes the mandate of what the company was about,” says Gagnon. “It’s what our essence was, and it was extremely rock ’n’ roll on that level: daring to expose, daring to be loud, and daring to take a position.” He feels at home returning to the Holy Body Tattoo, but at the same time, like Gingras, he would rather look forward than get too nostalgic. “To be honest, working on it really keeps me in the present. I go, ‘Hey, hopefully it will open doors for more,’ ” he says. “But we know this is what we worked for—that still hasn’t changed for us. Sometimes in rehearsal, we look at each other with tears in our eyes to realize the importance of this. It’s a gift. And I certainly am in a better place to appreciate it and to understand it.” -
Both are stunned by the way monumental, created before the digital insanity of social media and before the 2008 economic collapse, speaks even more powerfully to the pressures of today than to those of 2005. “We really explore the physical anxiety of our urban culture,” Gagnon says. “It’s brutal and intimate, and it makes it even more crystal clear how we struggle in our daily life, with the barrage of information now. It’s about conformity and nonconformity and about really trying to find your voice.” He says the intensity of the piece has been upped considerably by the heady wall of sound created by the band, which has had to work with the dancers on the piece’s torrent of choreographic cues. Gingras says she’s equally struck by what monumental has to say about alienation and the forces of homogenization in our hyper-wired world. “I’m happy it’s still relevant and can still have a resonance in the times we live in, be- The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents cause I wouldn’t want to remount a piece that’s like a mu- monumental at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre next Thursseum piece,” she says. The choreographer adds with a laugh: day (January 28).
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fans were talking about looking forward to hearing the comedian rant for an hour and a half. You hear that word a lot in association with Burr—rant— but it’s not even close to accurate. The 47-year-old Boston comic is opinionated, but his opinions have nuance. He hedges and waffles on the way to his point, exhibiting a degree of vulnerability. Not exactly classic traits of a ranter who has all the answers. Burr is fearless in his subject matter, boldly going where few other comics have gone before, but in a measured way, rather than full steam ahead. At the first of his two sold-out shows at the Orpheum on Sunday night to semi-officially kick off the JFL NorthWest comedy festival that gets into full swing February 18, Burr tackled the subject of gender inequality, suggesting reasons why women should perhaps earn less than men for equal work. “If you’re truly smarter, how did you let that happen?” he asked. At the end of the bit, he admitted the jokes were “supposed to be empowering but it never comes off that way”. He suggested that “every once in a while, racism works,” starting with Kanye West’s ego and turning it around to make a bigger point about how crazy white guys can affect history. That led to a drawn-out comparison of Hitler and Stalin in sports terms, with him wondering why Stalin’s kill stats don’t seem to count as much as those of Hitler, the “Jordan of evil”. Burr is such a master, he’s able to broach that kind of subject matter
Comic Bill Burr is masterful enough to make jokes supporting Bill Cosby.
without groans or titters. And that’s partly because he knows when he’s talking out of turn and lands on the right side of a contentious issue even while flirting with the wrong side. He even made jokes in support of Bill Cosby. Of course, he manipulated the setup perfectly to make it palatable. He started by taking shots at Ricky Gervais’s supposed edginess. If Gervais really wants to be edgy, Burr suggests, instead of making jokes about the Cos, how about defending him? He then went into what that would sound like—talking about Cosby’s laughs-torapes ratio—thereby distancing himself from such material, yet benefiting from it at the same time. In his special I’m Sorry You Feel That Way, Burr said he’d been bitching about the population problem for three specials in a row. That trend continued on this tour, with his plan to help the environment by taking out random cruise ships. Positively Swiftian. Local standup Kevin Banner, who says he bought tickets to the show before being asked to work it just a couple days later, offered great opening support. After killer openings for Doug Stanhope and Norm Macdonald, Banner should hold off on big-ticket purchases until closer to showtime. > GUY M AC PHERSON
Dirty Dancing succeeds in surface pleasures T HEAT RE DIRTY DANCING—THE CLASSIC STORY ONSTAGE Book by Eleanor Bergstein. Directed by James Powell. Presented by Broadway Across Canada. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Tuesday, January 12. No remaining performances
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tication of a fine boxed wine, but, you know, you can still get drunk on it. Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the screenplay for the 1987 hit film, also wrote the book for the stage musical— and it’s goofy. In a film, an actor can establish character almost on presence alone; in the theatre, especially in a large theatre, audience members can’t see the twitching of an eyebrow, so words help. But Bergstein’s scenes for the musical are so short and superficial that it always feels like we’re rocketing across the surface of the story. That story remains the same, of course. It’s 1963, and 17-year-old Frances (“Baby”) Houseman is at a resort in the Catskills with her family, when she falls for Johnny, the hot dance instructor. We all know what dancing is a metaphor for, and Johnny is soon instructing Baby on the dance floor and other available surfaces. On the political front, the civilrights movement, abortion, and class all become part of the discussion. Although these themes aren’t explored in any depth, their very mention is moving. Basically, however, Dirty Dancing—The Classic Story Onstage is soft porn and that’s the level on which it’s most successful and most fun. On opening night of the Vancouver run, when Johnny first touched Baby, women in the audience started to yip. Yip, yip, yip. Like coyotes. And at the end of Act 1,
when Johnny and Baby get it on, darkness falls on them, and the audience gets sprayed with thousands of circles of light as if we’re all participating in a massive mutual orgasm. The musical doesn’t really have a centre, though. Largely, that’s because, unlike in most musicals, the songs are incidental. In everything from Oklahoma! to Wicked, songs advance the plot and expose the internal lives of the characters. In Dirty Dancing, on the other hand, familiar pop tunes— which are performed by singers, rather than by the main characters— establish the period and comment on the mood. It’s kind of like having the radio on in the background, and it’s not enough. Although the dance numbers are energetic, they don’t fill the expressive void. Christopher Tierney plays Johnny, and the butch persona he assumes feels like it’s made out of Teflon, but he is a spectacularly good dancer, athletic and precise. Gillian Abbott, who plays Baby, is a more responsive actor and she does a nice job with her movement as she transforms from ugly duckling into swan. For my money, one of the most talented performers on-stage is Adrienne Walker, who performs a whole lot of songs, including “We Shall Overcome”, with force and originality. The design leans heavily on Jon Driscoll’s projections. Sometimes, this approach is inventive: when Johnny and Baby are lit behind a scrim onto which the surface of a lake is projected, it looks like they’re practising their dance routine in the water, for instance. Too often, though, the grainy textures and bright colours mimic the aesthetics of a second-rate video game. The audience mood of this event feels a lot like a night out with the straight girls. If that’s your thing, go for it. If not, hang on to your cash. > COLIN THOMAS
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A mischievous street musician is caught playing the orchestra’s grand piano, and instead of scolding her, the conductor instead offers her the chance to “be Mozart” for this program about one of the greatest composers of all time. Through the street musician, her prankster companion, and sublime music, the audience experiences Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life as a very human story — as well as a great musical adventure.
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tive participatory work. Jan 21, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $22-27, info www. pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/letsnot-beat-each-other-to-death/.
SURVIVAL IN SONG Sometimes history is so unspeakable that music is the only form that can do it justice. Such may be the case with the Vancouver Academy of Music’s presentation of Songs of the Wasteland, which tells the story of Holocaust survivor Renia Perel. Performed on the eve of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the poetic song cycle is brought to cathartic life by the academy’s faculty with leading Vancouver musicians, along with two vocalists: soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen and baritone Mark Fenster, the latter the son of two Holocaust survivors.
JACK CHARLES V. THE CROWN The PuSh Festival presents ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s production that explores the story of a child of Australia’s Stolen Generation. Jan 21-23, 8 pm, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (149 W. Hastings). Tix $31-36, info www .pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/jackcharles-v-the-crown/.
INTIMACY The PuSh Festival presents the Ranters Theatre production of a play about intimate life stories shared by strangers in the street. Jan 20-23, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $31-36, info www.push festival.ca/shows/festival-2016/intimacy/.
LAPIN BLANC, LAPIN ROUGE (WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT) Théâtre la Seizième presents Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour’s play, written while he was unable to leave the country. Jan 26-30, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $21-28, info www.seizieme.ca/.
EURYDICE Theatre UBC presents Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary American retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Jan 21–Feb 6, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $11.50-24.50, info archive.theatre. ubc.ca/Eurydice/. LET’S NOT BEAT EACH OTHER TO DEATH Club PuSh presents the Accidental Mechanics Group’s provoca-
COMPANY United Players presents director Brian Parkinson’s version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical about a confirmed bachelor who weighs the pros and cons of marriage. Jan 22–Feb 14, 8-10 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $30-35, info www.unitedplayers.com/. LEFTOVERS The PuSh Festival and the Cultch present Neworld Theatre and local comedian Charlie Demers’s political comedy. Jan 26-30, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $19, info www.push festival.ca/shows/festival-2016/leftovers/.
MISS UNDERSTOOD The PuSh Festival presents the frank theatre company’s story of a man who journeys from middle-class husband and father to drug-addicted trans woman sex worker. Jan 27-31, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $31-36, info www.pushfestival.ca/ shows/festival-2016/miss-understood/.
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Sometimes life backs you into a corner, BY MIKE US IN G ER
a fact that’s not lost on Nathaniel Rateliff. These days, the Missouri-born singer-songwriter is holding a hot hand, an eponymous debut album with his raw–R&B backing band the Night Sweats a legitimate hit on both sides of the Atlantic. A couple of years back, however, the world wasn’t nearly as bright and shiny for the easygoing frontman. Rateliff, who’s played both solo and in bands since his teens, found himself at a serious crossroads. At the time, he was concentrating on a laid-back folk career that wasn’t exactly on fire. Realizing he wasn’t going to knock Bon Iver off his perch as America’s favourite new-school troubadour, the 37-year-old shifted gears. “I’d been pursuing the singer-songwriter thing for about eight years, and I made a record that the label wasn’t going to put out because they dropped me,” Rateliff says on the line from an Edmonton tour stop. “I was really proud of it—I’d recorded it with a friend, and we did it ourselves the way that we wanted to do it. We
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Nathaniel Rateliff (centre beardo) is hoping to earn enough money from his current tour to buy hats for the members of the Night Sweats without them.
Redding for the majestic “I’d Be Waiting”. The singer’s mastery of vintage-sounding genres is a gift, in a strange way, Nathaniel Rateliff didn’t make it as a solo troubadour, from his parents. but as a gloriously greasy retro-soul man, he shines Rateliff grew up poor in were trying to self-release it and I was kind of Missouri, to the point where squirrel sometimes discouraged. I’d been travelling a lot and strug- ended up on the dinner table. Vegetables and fruits gling for a long time playing music.” were grown on the property not as a hobby but out Rateliff was also totally over the idea of trying to of necessity. The family TV got one channel. be successful as a musician—and, with that in mind, But proving that money isn’t necessarily corfigured he had nothing to lose by changing focus. related with happiness, Rateliff had a good child“I started to work on soul and R&B songs be- hood. Things would go dark, however, when his cause I wanted to,” he says. “I ended up putting father was killed in an automobile accident. In a them together with people that I was already turn that makes one wonder why the Lord insists playing with, and we played a couple of shows in on working in mysterious ways, the family patriDenver and had a really good time doing it. So we arch was on his way to church. decided to make a record out of it.” To help the family out, Rateliff, who was 13, was The goal going into Nathaniel Rateliff & the forced to drop out of school and get a job. Night Sweats was to capture the spirit of a bygone “After my dad passed away, my mom got remarera without sounding self-consciously retro. ried and moved to Texas,” he remembers. “I was “I went into the studio with over 30 songs, and we kind of living on my own when I was 16, taking approached it from the idea that we could focus on care of myself.” the songs that we liked the best,” Rateliff says. “We Over time, Rateliff—who started playing the tried to make it so that it wouldn’t be too much like drums and dreamed of being a cartoonist—began an intentional throwback record to the ’50s or ’60s. fumbling around on an acoustic guitar. MissionI wanted it to be something that was genuine, as op- ary work eventually took him to Colorado, and posed to sounding like I was putting on an act.” with the move he wound up with his parents’ reDepending on how one looks at things, Na- cords, a collection heavy on soul and blues greats thaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats is either a like Sam Cooke and Muddy Waters. colossal failure or a thundering success. Mission Rateliff would eventually become disillusioned accomplished on sounding genuine, with Rateliff with the church, instead working as a carpenter and coming across as a guy beamed in from a time gardener. He’d also do an extended stint on the loadwhen Stax—which he records for today—was the ing dock of a trucking company. He never tired of coolest upstart record label in North America. playing music, however; the great thing about workDespite the band’s best efforts, though, Nathaniel ing soul-sucking jobs is that you can trick yourself Rateliff & the Night Sweats does indeed sound like a into thinking that writing songs can be a way out. throwback record, but that’s no bad thing. TraffickAnd, importantly, he never forgot where ing mainly in gin-joint R&B and smoking soul, the he came from, continuing to write from record comes from the same gloriously greasy place the heart even when things looked bleak. as Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and everything For proof of that, consider the album’s smash released by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. lead single, “S.O.B.”. The call-and-response Rateliff may have cut his teeth on folk and, raver has taken Rateliff and his bandmates from before that, shoegazing alt-rock with a band the clubs of Colorado to sold-out venues and called Born in the Flood, but that doesn’t make high-wattage TV appearances, including on The him sound any less authentic on cathartic work- Late Show With Stephen Colbert. outs like “Thank You” and “I Need Never Get To those who scream along to “S.O.B.” every Old”. He’s also not afraid to mix it up, bringing night from the front, the song is a shit-kicking an old-timey gospel choir to the circa-’55 party ode to having another shot of liquor, even when it on “Howling at Nothing”, uncorking the whisky doesn’t seem like a good idea. To Rateliff, though, bottle for the sundown Americana of “Wasting it’s more personal. The singer comes from a linTime”, and sitting on the dock of the bay with Otis eage that knows a thing or two about booze, his
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TY SEGALL We’ll confess that we have a hard time keeping
up with Ty Segall’s recorded output. Sure, he only releases about one album under his own name each year, but that’s not counting his collaborations with folks like White Fence and Mikal Cronin, or records by his band Fuzz. Anyhow, here we are, only a few weeks into 2016, and there’s already a new Ty Segall LP out. Emotional Mugger is full of searing garage rawk replete with psychedelic guitar riffs and full-on theremin freakouts. In other words, it’s business as usual, which should make Segall’s show at the Vogue Theatre on Friday (January 22) a mind-bending good time. -
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats play the Commodore Ballroom on Thursday (January 21).
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Nathaniel Rateliff sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On being almost famous: “There are always downsides to things. It’s funny when you are going out on the town, or out to dinner, and people are like, ‘Um, sorry to be so rude, but I just wanted to say hi.’ That’s where you have to go, ‘Um, thanks, I guess.’ But for the most part, people are pretty reasonable.” On his solo song “You Should’ve Seen the Other Guy”: “It’s based on a story that I was told as a kid by my family members. My aunt finally told me, ‘Great-Grandpa didn’t drink himself to death. He actually got into a fight with another bootlegger and was beating him to death when his wife shot and killed Great-Grandpa.’ ” On reinventing himself: “I didn’t know if this record would be successful, and I was kind of surprised. You have to just kind of go into the studio and do what you have to do. People are going to like it, or they aren’t.”
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great-grandpa having been a bootlegger who was shot to death in a fight with another illegal-whisky maker. Rateliff—who admits to being a tad hungover during his talk with the Straight—has been open in the past about liking a drink. That sheds a different light on “S.O.B.” lines like “If I can’t get clean, I’m going to drink my life away” and “Hands are shaking/Bugs are crawling all over me.” The song is written from personal experience; Rateliff ended up with the DTs while on tour overseas and eventually channelled the experience into something positive. Sometimes, when life backs you into a corner, you have to come out swinging. Rateliff did, and won. “I didn’t really expect the album to get the response it did,” he admits. “I was really proud of the material, but I put out a bunch of records that I liked, and nobody liked those. So now I’m just taking it as it comes, and enjoying the success that we’ve had.” -
NO LAZYITIS HERE Shoppers at a Manchester Oxfam store were surprised to find Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder volunteering behind the till recently. You’ve got to wonder who would okay the guy who sang, “I’m the man that shot the boss/I pinned him down and blew his face off.” BLOWFLY BOWS OUT On the heels of David Bowie’s death, fabulously profane rap forefather Blowfly passed away from liver cancer at 76. God’s currently asking him to justify the line, “As the funk from her pussy started fuckin’ with my nose”. FAKE-NARD NEWS Saturday Night Live player Kyle
Mooney dressed up as Nardwuar for an eerily accurate comedy sketch in which he interviewed Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile. That he accidentally connected Mondanile to Master P was the only tip-off “Nardwur” wasn’t real.
Fresh and local MU II Now that the bluest day (the 18th) of the cruellest month (January) is out of the way, we’re all looking for something to look forward to. Enter II, the second album by MU, which is composed of Vancouver’s Francesca Belcourt and Brittney Rand. The duo first surfaced in 2014 with an eponymous EP built on chilltastic synths and smouldering vocals. Scheduled for release on February 12, II showcases MU as a band about to break. The sparkling first single, “Debauchery”, will make you wish you were kicking back at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort ice hotel in Saariselkä, Finland, instead of desperately waiting for spring in boring old Vancouver. -
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2ONGOING THE RIVALS Blackbird Theatre presents Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s tale of mistaken identity and overwrought romance. Directed by Johnna Wright. To Jan 23, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $27, info www.blackbirdtheatre.ca/. LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX—A PLAY: ALL THE GOOD THINGS, AND THE BAD THINGS Four artists dig into sex through their personal journeys, candid interviews, and anonymous emails. Jan 21-22, 8 pm,
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Jan 23, 10 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Info www.theartofloving.ca/.
BOOM Rick Miller explores 25 years of baby-boom history through music and video. Presented by the PuSh Festival with the Arts Club Theatre Company. To Feb 13, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www. pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/boom/. THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT Play tells the story of a newly freed convict who finds staying on the straight and narrow a formidable task. To Jan 30, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $16-33, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/ onstage/the-motherfucker-with-the-hat/. OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS Metro Theatre presents a play about a man whose family tries to keep him from relocating. To Feb 6, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 SW Marine). Tix $24/21, info www.metrotheatre.com/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK SWING BABY SWING Dance to the swing and jazz sounds of the Rossi Gang. Jan 22, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/10, info www.facebook.com/ events/204724573204560/.
ANCIENT GOES CONTEMPORARY Check out Theatre UBC’s contemporary American retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus and Eurydice myth: part coming-of-age story, part fairy tale, Sarah Ruhl’s script seems like a good fit for the student cast. Master of fine arts candidate Keltie Forsyth directs Eurydice, a show not so much about a man’s trip to Hades to retrieve his wife as it is about a woman’s ambiguity about leaving the underworld, at the Frederic Wood Theatre from Thursday (January 21) to February 6.
LE TEMPS SCELLE The PuSh Festival and the Dance Centre present Algerianborn dancer Nacera Belaza in a dance that uses movement to express the eternal. Jan 27-29, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $36, info www. pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/letemps-scelle/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK 20TH CENTURY MUSIC TO LOVE Vetta Chamber Music performs Stravinsky’s Suite italienne, Khatchaturian’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, Piazzolla’s L’Histoire du Tango, and Schoenfield’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano. Jan 21, 2 pm; Jan 22, 7:30 pm, West Point Grey United Church (4595 W. 8th). Info 866-8636250, www.vettamusic.com/.
PAVEL EGOROV Russian classical pianist performs music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, and Scriabin. Jan 22, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $35/25, info PavelEgorov2012@gmail.com. A BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Otto Tausk conducts pianist Simon Trpcˇeski and the VSO in a performance of works by Mozart, Liszt, and Smetana. Jan 23, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). The event also runs Jan 25, 8 pm, at the Bell Performing Arts Centre (6250–144th St., Surrey) info 604-8763434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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WHIRL OF WONDERS Music and poetry are inextricably linked in Persian culture. One of the connecting threads is the open-ended spirituality of Sufism. That’s what animates the dazzling collaboration between the Vashaan Ensemble, which includes some of Canada’s finest Iranian musicians, and Sufi devotional singer Davod Azad, who’ll join forces at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre on Saturday (January 23). Expect music of great strength and subtlety along with emotionally charged singing—and for visual interest there will also be two Dervish dancers, twirling nonstop in a state of meditative grace. THE MAESTRO’S ART: THE NATIONAL CONDUCTORS’ SYMPOSIUM CONCERT A performance by the Vancouver Chamber Choir focuses on the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner. Jan 23, 8 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $10-32, info www. vancouverchamberchoir.com/. DROP IN ROCK CHOIR: EAST VAN Sing classic and contemporary rock, pop, and indie songs with a non-traditional choir. Jan 19, 26, 7-9 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/.
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COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED PENN & TELLER Comedy and magic duo from Las Vegas. May 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix on sale Jan 21, 10 am, $99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancou ver/. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8:00 pm, amateur night Wed at 8:00 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8:00 PM and Sat at 7:00 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Jan 20-27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK THE MASSACRE The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an improv festival featuring local groups as well as teams from India and the U.S. Jan 27–Feb 14, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl.com/show/the-massacre/.
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THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW: A LIVE D&D COMEDY EXPERIENCE Vancouver comedians present an improvised evening based on tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons. Jan 27, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS JFL NORTHWEST Performers include Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, Lewis Black, Miranda Sings, Jeremy Hotz, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Todd Barry, and Kyle Kinane. Feb 18-27, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.jflnorthwest.com/.
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COMEDY COMES CALLEN You’ve seen Bryan Callen in a ton of movies and TV shows—Entourage, Sex and the City, The Hangover, Old School, and West Wing, to name a few—but chances are still that you know him as “that guy from MADtv”. The original cast member of the late TV sketch show is also a writer, podcaster, and standup—at the Comedy MIX in a special presentation from Thursday to Saturday (January 21 to 23). You’ll like his standup because of his physical and theatrical skills; think wicked impressions and killer acting-out. He has also called himself “one of the top bird humorists in the country”. We’ll let you find out about that one at the show.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Event expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multidisciplinary, and original. To Feb 7, various Vancouver venues. Info www. pushfestival.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouverbased artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 2EMBRACING CANADA: LANDSCAPES FROM KRIEGHOFF TO THE GROUP OF SEVEN (exhibition surveys the history of artistic engagement with the Canadian landscape from 1840 to 1940) to Jan 24
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2(IN)VISIBLE: THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF TAIWAN THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART (works by seven contemporary Taiwanese artists) to Apr 3
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GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL Featuring appearances by George Bowering, Audrey Thomas, Terry Fallis, Michael Christie, Aislinn Hunter, Charles Demers, William Deverell, and David Boyd. Feb 19-21, Galiano Oceanfront Inn (134 Madrona Drive). Info www.galianoliteraryfestival.com/.
HUMAN LIBRARY The PuSh Festival and Zee Zee Theatre present conversations with human books on topics like “Drag King” and “In Recovery”. Jan 23–Feb 7, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ human-library-4/.
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ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET Music in the Morning presents music by the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Jan 27-29, 10:30-11:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $35/33/16, info www.musicinthemorning.org/.
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RENIA PEREL’S SONGS OF THE WASTELAND The Vancouver Academy of Music reflects on Renia Perel’s emotional narrative as a Holocaust survivor in Songs of the Wasteland. Jan 26, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $10/5, info www.vancouver academyofmusic.com/.
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Car Seat Headrest gets out of the parking lot By his own admission, Will was never the most outgoing of folks during his formative years, which might explain how he started playing music as Car Seat Headrest. Instead of enlisting others to play his songs, he’d drive to empty parking lots and record them alone in a car. Captured on tape recorders and computer, his DIY takes on reverb-bathed indie rock, vintage psychedelia, and lo-fi techno would eventually find their way onto Bandcamp, where the legend of Car Seat Headrest began to grow. Today, Toledo is an indie-nation next big thing, with his Matador Records debut, Teens of Style, having received endless accolades from the usual taste-making suspects. All the attention has taken a bit of getting used to, mostly because he never expected it. “Early on,” Toledo says, “I decided that I didn’t want to have to promote my stuff and shop it around— show it to people who wouldn’t get it. I decided that I would put it out there and let people who wanted to find it find it.” Given his less than outgoing nature, it’s funny that—following his graduation from college—the Leesburg, Virginia, native moved across the country to Seattle, Washington. That he knew only a single person in the Emerald City was, strangely, not a concern. “Starting out was certainly hard, not knowing anyone there but my one friend,” Toledo says, on the line from a tour van making its way to Boise, Idaho. “At the same time, that was going to be the case no matter where I was. I was graduating but didn’t have a whole lot of friends in my own class. I was on my own in terms of what I was going to do. A lot of people moved to New York, and I knew I didn’t want to do that because it was expensive to live there. So instead I moved to Seattle. It seemed like a much better place for doing music than Virginia was.” Toledo studied English in college and notes that he signed on for a postsecondary education mostly because his parents had put away money for him to do so. Even while he was in school, though, he knew that Car Seat Headrest was his passion, partly because he knew that he was good at it. That’s evident on last October’s Teens of Style, which found Toledo reworking his older material for a new audience. The songwriter understands the power of dynamics; witness the way that gauze-swaddled “Sunburned Shirts” unleashes a lethal distortion bomb halfway through, or the way punch-drunk horns swell up in “Time to Die”. Toledo is just as good at playing things straightforward, with “Psst, Teenagers, Take Off Your Clothes” blazing like the Strokes before they completely lost the plot. And he’s unafraid to step outside of the guitar-bass-and-drums comfort zone, with “Los Borrachos” piping glitched-out techno through a tinny AM radio. While he was initially loath to share his songs with anyone else, his Bandcamp postings slowly built up a major underground following. He posted 12 albums on the site, many of his songs sporting fabulously fucked lyrics like “When I was a kid I fell in love with Michael Stipe/I took lyrics out of context and thought he must be speaking to me.” Toledo—who now plays with a full band—has more than one friend in Seattle these days. And with a new Car Seat Headrest album titled Teens of Denial in the can and ready for release this year, his days of recording alone in empty parking lots would now seem to be behind him. “I never had too many friends, but as the music thing sort of grew,
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Car Seat Headrest plays the Cobalt on Sunday (January 24).
Majical Cloudz lightens up on Are You Alone? Majical Cloudz began as the musical outlet for Montreal singer Devon Welsh, but around the release of 2013’s Impersonator full-length, the project grew significantly in scope. Welsh and producer Matthew Otto signed with the prestigious Matador Records, earned rave reviews from practically every taste-making publication under the sun, and opened for New Zealand teen pop sensation Lorde on a 2014 tour. All of this meant that, when the duo Otto set about writing last fall’s Are You Alone?, they knew that the world was listening. “I think that’s always a head trip and kind of creates issues, because you’re writing knowing that you have an audience,” Welsh says of the group’s rise to prominence. “The less I’m thinking about that, the more I’ll be making songs that I actually like.” To overcome this burden of expectations, Welsh and Otto stuck with what they do best. Are You Alone? is a continuation of the ultraminimal electronic-pop sound that got Majical Cloudz noticed in the first place, with Welsh’s dramatic delivery typically supported by nothing more than hushed synth tones and muted rhythms. “We took a lot more time making it,” the vocalist says of the new recording. “We had a lot more time to put into it, but we didn’t really do anything differently in terms of how it was put together in the end.” What’s most immediately striking about Are You Alone? is Welsh’s lyrics, which display a complete lack of bashfulness. “Silver Car Crash” is particularly soul-baring, as Otto’s heavenly keyboard tones provide the sublime backdrop for Welsh’s fantasies about dying while embracing his partner. He sings, “My head splits open/For all the cameras flashing/But I am dead already/And I am bleeding onto you.” Other songs are less gory but no less heartfelt: backmasked ambiance sets a dreamy backdrop for Welsh’s lovestruck declarations on “Downtown”, while “So Blue” is a melancholy reflection on romantic struggles that features lullabylike orchestrations from composer Owen Pallett. (More contributions from Pallett can be heard on the newly unveiled Wait & See outtakes EP.) Although the stripped-down soundscapes aren’t a departure for Majical Cloudz, Welsh points out that Are You Alone? has a brighter mood than the dark, unsettling Impersonator. “I felt like it was more satisfying to me personally to try to make music that had more of a positive edge to it, and expressed something that was emotionally enriching to me while I was working on it,” he explains. “I was really looking to make music that made me feel good.” This means that fans who show up to the band’s upcoming Vancouver gig can expect an upbeat night that will be very different from past local appearances. “Around the time that Impersonator came out, the shows were a lot more serious and heavyhanded,” Welsh reflects. “As time has gone on, and especially as we started playing these newer songs, the shows feel more emotionally positive and comforting. At this point, what the project means to me is that I want it to be a positive place for listeners who are interacting with it—for it to be fun.”
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or some, DJing is about bringing people together on the dance floor by sharing music. For others, DJing is a means to get paid for getting drunk and maybe playing a few records. Justin Gradin falls into the latter category. Gradin is one of the city’s most endearing and talented characters. In addition to moonlighting as a DJ, he’s a musician, a visual artist, a director of music videos for the likes of White Lung and Pink Mountaintops, and a grown man who has inexplicably dressed up as Dracula every Christmas morning for the past five years. He’s also someone you’ll inevitably encounter if you spend any amount of time in East Van dives. One such joint is the beloved Cobalt, which every month hosts the venerable sock-hop night Ice Cream Social. There he plays rock and pop from the ’50s and ’60s alongside Cam After years of searching, Justin Gradin has finally found someone who Dales, Tyler Fedchuk, and Trevor never questions his tastes and will dance to anything. Amy Gradin photo. Risk, if he feels like it. But failing that, I’ve never seen him live, but these are have to punch it like you’re changing he’ll certainly be there drinking. the rumours. I heard he’s gonna do a the channel. Two men, beating a gift BEST GIG EVER Every gig as a DJ tour of Iceland as a hologram in 2019. horse to death on Valentine’s Day. is the best ever. I play instruments in bands, usually. Doing that you A SONG THAT CLEARED THE ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER lug gear around, play to 10 people, DANCE FLOOR There have been so RECEIVED Well, at Ice Cream Somany it’s hard to cial there’s always one person that don’t get paid, and keep track of them doesn’t get the concept of a theme then lug everySo Many DJs all. But my favour- night and asks “Can you play some thing back to the ite time was at the Drake? It’d kill right now!” But I studio. DJing is Michael Mann Black Lodge. There think the weirdest request I’ve ever the donkey that wasn’t a dance floor, but I was playing received is from this obese man who chews the golden gum. to a metal and punk crowd. I remem- wanted me to braid his hair on top TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW “Chicken ber after playing Gang Green, I played of a Dumpster. He said he broke both Necks” by Don and Juan. When I the Golden Girls theme song and it was his legs from tap-dancing too hard wake up in the morning I put that not appreciated. when he found out that his cousin song on and I stare at myself in the was pregnant. After the braids he mirror whilst punching the wall. It’s WHAT’S UP WITH YOUR SCREWED- wanted me to drop him off at the UP MUSIC VIDEOS? It’s kind of like hospital and then drive his car to better than food! freezing a dream and then chopping it Deadman’s Island where his sister FAVOURITE VANCOUVER PRO- up and letting another man snort it and would be waiting for me. She was DUCER 666DLA999. He produces then you gaze into each other’s eyes and gonna set the car on fire and take me rap music from a little wooden shack you see an image reflected back. The to Bellingham in a hot-air balloon. in the mountains. He actually made image isn’t always great, but it’s there, He also asked if I could play “Single his computer out of rocks and sticks. and sometimes it winks at you and you Ladies” by Beyoncé. -
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED CELTICFEST VANCOUVER Twelfth annual festival of Celtic culture features performances by Damien Dempsey, the Irish Rovers, Halifax Wharf Rats, Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir, Michael Viens and Blackthorn, Pat Chessell, Mary Brunner, Mairi Rankin, the Fight Outside, Shot of Scotch, Sarah Ann Chisholm, the Clanns, Elsay, West Coast Fiddlers, and Sharon Shannon. Events include the CelticFest Ceilidh, the Celtic Village, whisky tastings, workshops, and the theatre production Moll. Mar 10-17, various Vancouver venues. Tix on sale Jan 20 at www.celticfestvancouver.com/. A GREAT BIG WORLD New York City pop-rock duo tours in support of latest studio release When the Morning Comes. Mar 24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. WINTERSLEEP Canadian indie-rock band tours in support of upcoming release The Great Detachment. Mar 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 21, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
PETE YORN American alt-rock singersongwriter, guitarist, and drummer tours in support of latest release Arranging Time. Apr 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $36.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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SHIGETO American electronica musician tours in support of latest EP Intermission. Jan 22, doors 11 pm, show 11:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
LUSH U.K. indie-pop band from the ‘90s performs on a reunion tour. Apr 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 22, 9 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY American and British indie-electronica musicians coheadline. Apr 30, doors 8 pm, show 8:30 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix on sale Jan 21, 11 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. BOMBINO Niger blues-rock singersongwriter and guitarist tours in support of upcoming third album Azel. Apr 30, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS American electronica-rock band coheadlines with Australian indie-rock foursome, with guests Panama Wedding. May 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE American metalcore band plays tunes from new album Incarnate, with guests Memphis May Fire and 36 Crazyfists. Apr 3, doors 6 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $46 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/.
KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS The Georgia Straight presents psychedelic swamp-rock band featuring Gun Club founding member Kid Congo Powers. May 7, doors 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
AURORA Norwegian pop singersongwriter tours in support of debut release All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend. Apr 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale
ALABAMA SHAKES American rock band tours in support of latest release Sound & Color, with guests Kurt Vile and the Violators. May 28, doors 5:30 pm, show 7 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave.,
Z-TRIP Hip-hop artist performs at the official Knowshow after-party late show, with guests Justin Foosh and Marvel. Jan 21, 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix from $15, info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. TRIBAL SEEDS California-based reggae band tours in support of latest release Representing, with guests the Steppas and the Skints. Jan 22, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/, info www.mrgconcerts.com/.
BOYCE AVENUE Florida-based pop band featuring brothers Alejandro, Fabian, and Daniel Manzano. Apr 15, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketfly.com/.
LAPSLEY British ambient-electronica singer-songwriter tours in support of debut EP Understudy. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
guests Brass. Jan 21, 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $5, info www.fortunesoundclub.com/.
BABE GURR You can travel the world listening to singer-songwriter Babe Gurr’s sultry voice, from the steamy music joints of New Orleans to the taverns of Italy. There’s a little Middle Eastern, Spanish, and Brazilian thrown in there too, heightened by the sounds of her tight, versatile band—Adam Popowitz on guitar, Tom Neville on violin, Liam MacDonald on drums, Steve Hilliam on sax, Katheryn Petersen on accordion, and Jeremy Holmes on bass. The local legend hits the suitably atmospheric Deep Cove Shaw Theatre this Saturday (January 23) in a one-night fundraiser for First Impressions Theatre. Burnaby). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
WEEZER AND PANIC! AT THE DISCO American rock bands tour in support of upcoming release The White Album and latest release Death of a Bachelor, with guest Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Jul 28, doors 5 pm, show 6 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix on sale Jan 22, 10 am, $55 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
2THIS WEEK RAT FIST Rock band featuring Randy Randall of No Age and Sean McGuiness of Pissed Jeans plays the official Knowshow after-party early show, with
MAJICAL CLOUDZ Montreal indieelectronica project tours in support of latest release Are You Alone?, with guests She-Devils. Jan 22, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Note: moved from original venue of Cobalt. Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TY SEGALL AND THE MUGGERS American garage-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming release Emotional Muggers, with guests CFM. Presented by Blueprint LIVE. Jan 22, doors 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $23 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. VANCOUVER METAL COMPILATION CD RELEASE PARTY Nonprofit initiative showcases local metal bands Gross Misconduct, Mournir, Assimilation, and Medevil. Jan 22, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rick shawtheatre.com/. THE REVELERS The Rogue Folk Club presents Louisiana roots group. Jan 22, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16012120/. LYDIA HOL Vancouver folk singer-songwriter performs with guest Jasper Sloan Yip. Presented by the Rogue Folk Club. Jan 23, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16012320/.
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THE VASHAAN ENSEMBLE Caravan World Rhythms presents Canadian Iranian music group the Vashaan Ensemble touring in support of latest release Dolate Eshgh— Reign of Love. Jan 23, 8 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $25-50, info www.caravanbc.com/. HAROLD BUDD Club PuSh presents an evening with the American avant-garde composer and poet, pioneer of the soft-pedal piano technique. Jan 23, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $27-32, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ an-evening-with-harold-budd/. THE HEARTS AND SEX WITH STRANGERS Edmonton-based retropop band coheadlines with Vancouver indie group. Jan 23, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/12, info www.facebook. com/events/1539634459685296/. EYE OF THE STORM IX Live electronic, experimental, ambient, and drone music is played live with corresponding film content presented on the big screen. Jan 24, 8:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $7 at the door, info www.riotheatre.ca/. ROOMFUL OF TEETH The PuSh Festival and Music on Main presents the Grammywinning a cappella group, whose style ranges from opera to throat singing. Jan 25-26, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $29, info pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/an-evening-with-roomful-of-teeth/.
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BLUE RODEO Canadian roots-rock band tours in support of upcoming release Live at Massey Hall, with guest Terra Lightfoot. Jan 26-27, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $79.50/59.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. LE VENT DU NORD The Rogue Folk Club presents Québécois folk group touring in support of eighth album Têtu. Jan 27, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $32/28, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16012720/. ONYX American hip-hop group performs with Merkules, Blue Team Blue, Ghost, B Mendez, Broken Head, Luca Mele, and Mamarudegyal. Jan 27, 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www. fortunesoundclub.com/.
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AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. Cherryoke Wed, Tank Gyal & guests Thu; live music & dance party Fri; Thomas Maxey & Kalibo Sat. Tiki Bar open 6 pm Wed-Sat. BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Live band karaoke hosted by Sami Ghawi and Reuben Avery Tue at 9:30 pm. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2TRIBAL SEEDS Jan 22 2DANA ID MATTHEWS Jan 23 2WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT Jan 24 2FREAK HEAT WAVES Jan 27 2LITTLE WILD Jan 29 2CHAPEL SOUND TAKEOVER Jan 29 2THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Jan 30 2BOTTOMS UP Jan 31 2DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN: THE TOUR Feb 4 2BAIO Feb 5 2ACT OF DEFIANCE Feb 6 2KITTY NIGHTS BURLESQUE ALL-STARS Feb 7 2WET Feb 10 2EHM SKY PATROL ALBUM RELEASE Feb 13 2MY PURPLE VALENTINE Feb 14 2SUMAC Feb 19 2JOSEPH Mar 4 2AOIFE O’DONOVAN Mar 5 2RUN RIVER NORTH Mar 8 2ROBYN HITCHCOCK Mar 10 2RADIATION CITY & DEEP SEA DIVER Mar 17 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 2RADIO RADIO Mar 26 2RA RA RIOT Mar 31 2BLEACHED Apr 28
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MOVIES REVIEWS SON OF SAUL Starring Géza Röhrig. In Hungarian, with English subtitles. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 41
The Hungarian film Son of Saul handles the
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a deft subtlety that’s nothing short of admirable. A mix of dignity, degradation, and mind-numbing sorrow is presented here without a speck of manipulative sensationalism. If there are a couple of minor missteps from a purely dramatic perspective, they are easily forgiven. Set against the backdrop of a Nazi concentration camp in 1944, the story focuses on Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish prisoner in the Sonder-
Au revoir, mon enfant
A member of the Sonderkommando risks everything to bury his child in the Hungarian film Son of Saul , winner of the 2015 Grand Prix at Cannes.
actor is wiry Zhang Jin, a lowly rickshaw puller who keeps helping Ip out of handsomely choreographed situations but seems to resent the graceful A father’s tale of the Holocaust unfolds in Son of Saul; legend’s status. It’s inevitable everyone will Wing Chun Ip Man 3 offers more than just another one-inch punch that tonight, and when they do, you kommando, responsible for herding unsuspect- actually give a damn what they’re fighting for. > KEN EISNER ing fellow Jews into the gas chambers under the pretence of taking a shower. There, they strip the victims’ clothes of valuables. Later, they remove REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN the bodies—referred to by the Nazi supervisors as DREAM “pieces”—and scrub down the gas chambers. A documentary by Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly When Saul discovers his dead son in the midst of Nyks, and Jared P. Scott. Rating unavailable. For all this, he decides to risk his own life to give him a showtimes, please see page 41 proper religious burial. Desperate to find a rabbi beWhat does it say about the American Dream fore time runs out, Saul will let nothing stand in his that the political rise of Donald Trump and way—not even a brewing revolt among the prisoners. As other reviewers have pointed out, the fictional evil Canadian Ted Cruz has happened in the short screenplay—written by Clara Royer and first-time time between now and when this brief documenfeature director László Nemes—owes a creative debt tary debuted locally, at last fall’s VIFF? to 1985’s Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s comprehensive Whatever it says is not good for the body politic, documentary on concentration-camp survivors. but then, the number one goal of Republicans durNevertheless, Nemes brings a fresh perspective ing the Obama administration was always the disto his feature debut, which won the 2015 Grand mantling of the already flimsy version of health care Prix at Cannes. He uses a masterful sense of re- he managed to squeak through before the knowstraint as a kind of narrative veil, letting the un- nothing bigots took complete control. No bathwater bearable tragedy seep through in measured, if for you, baby. Life only matters to the unborn! undeniably potent, doses. The result makes it posOf course, all these developments were fairly sible to watch the unwatchable. And for this alone, obvious to Noam Chomsky, even if the grisly parSon of Saul is a rare accomplishment. ticulars have been beyond what the country’s Leftus > JOHN LEKICH Emeritus even imagined when he sat down for four years of interviews with the team of filmmakers beIP MAN 3 hind this Requiem. It’s too bad the pounding audio and overly familiar archival footage here don’t acStarring Donnie Yen. In Cantonese, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 41 tually add that much to Chomsky’s clearly articulated rundown. Although the central conflicts in Ip Man 3 Still, it’s a concentrated primer on what the hell are just as preposterous as anything driving happened until now. Chomsky makes the case that your typical martial-arts movie, the overall pro- a pure concentration of wealth was embedded in duction values operate on such a high level that the sacred Constitution, and that democracy would this surprisingly mellow sequel becomes a stand- always have to be pushed aside to “protect the minalone work of specialized art. ority of the opulent”. Well, it sure worked out that Likable Donnie Yen returns as Ip Man, whom way. But who knew it would get so much worse he played in two previous iterations. This kung fu than that, and so damn fast? > KEN EISNER grandmaster had a colourful life, even before he taught his Wing Chun fighting style to Bruce Lee— something amusingly alluded to in this tale, set in KUNG FU PANDA 3 the steamy Hong Kong of 1959. The period details Featuring the voice of Jack Black. Rated G. For are lovingly applied, if you allow for Maori face showtimes, please see page 41 tattoos, the latter sported by Mike Tyson, partially It’s been five years since the last installment dubbed into Cantonese as a crooked tycoon. Our hero is presented as a man of modesty and of Kung Fu Panda was on the big screen. impeccable honour, which doesn’t always win him Thankfully, the third effort reminds us that this Brownie points with his tragically neglected wife franchise about a klutzy, food-obsessed panda(ethereal Lynn Hung). The film’s most compelling warrior is actually pretty damn well-crafted.
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immaculate or unforgettably strange as that of stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Starting Thursday (January 21), the Cinematheque offers the rare opportunity to see the Quays’ 1986 masterpiece “Street of Crocodiles” in 35mm, thanks to fanboy Christopher Nolan, who curated this road-show exhibit. The program is augmented by two surpassingly beautiful shorts, “The Comb” and “In Absentia”, along with Nolan’s own brief, if very well-received, doc about the American-born, U.K.–based identical twins. For our interview with the Quays, go to Straight.com. -
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IN UTERO No Nirvana here: this doc looks at the growing evidence that prenatal experiences have a lasting impact outside the womb. Dr. Gabor Maté introduces In Utero at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (January 24).
THE QUAY BROTHERS There are few filmographies as
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RIDE ALONG 2 Starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 41
The incredible, automythologizing Straight
2 Outta Compton both celebrated and exem-
plified Ice Cube’s gifts as a movie star. He gets solid returns on budgets, provides movies with more texture than they might need, and sticks to his strengths as a performer, principally an ability to glower like no one else. This is not a guy who seems to be chasing an Oscar. He just wants to give you a good Ice Cube movie. With this sequel, Ride Along becomes his newest franchise. Directed by Tim Story, it’s a buddycop action comedy of the sort that you have seen approximately infinity times before. It is also, of course, a good Ice Cube movie. Cube is the straight man, as tough detective James Payton. He gives all of the comic business over to Kevin Hart as his annoying junior partner, Ben Barber. In this episode, the pair war over upcoming nuptials that will make them brothers-in-law, while also investigating a shipping magnate (Benjamin Bratt) who’s ventured into the international arms business. The crime plot actually holds together reasonably well, but the actual hook in these movies, as far as I can tell, is that Barber is so thoroughly out of his depth that even he is unaware that he is secretly a genius. While Ride Along 3 will surely follow the formula that made the first movie a record-setting January release, Barber is such a strange, event-generating phenomenon that it would be fun to liberate him from a crime movie and just follow him around for a while. Enough silliness will result, justifying an epic scowl. > RON YAMAUCHI
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This time out, Po (Jack Black) hooks up with his long-lost father (Bryan Cranston), who takes him to a secret panda village in the mountains. There, he learns how to harness the mystical power of chi to take on the evil, blade-swinging bull Kai (J.K. Simmons). On top of landing jokes like roundhouse kicks, the team ups the franchise’s distinctive visual style. Highlights include Kai’s army of jade zombies, and memory sequences that play out in a layered calligraphic fever. The expressivity carries over to the animated animals, from achingly cute panda babies to the sight of Po slowly spazzing out when he sees his dad in a magic suit of armour. (“I think I just peed a little.”) Endearing, action-jacked, and self-effacingly funny, Kung Fu Panda 3 simply reaffirms it has a Wuxi Finger Hold on the chop-socky, Taoist, slapstick kids-animation market. That it doesn’t have a lot of challengers in that subgenre doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.
Put the mask on now!
Paterson presents his docudrama about Chinese labourers on the battlefields of World War I, winner of last year’s #mustseebc campaign at VIFF, at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (January 23).
THE MASK The 1986 RE/Search book Incredibly Strange Films
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mourning aside to present two of the Thin White Duke’s most popular (if very different) movies, Labyrinth and The Hunger, on Saturday (January 23). Drink, drink, drain your glass.
featured an eye-popping still from The Mask on its front cover, and we’ve been dying to see the movie ever since. Now restored, the ghetto-budgeted Canadian horror flick from 1961 definitely doesn’t disappoint, especially in its nightmarish 3-D sequences, which occur whenever not-too-bright psychiatrist Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) puts the titular mask on (clue: it’s cursed!). Join Dr. Barnes on his descent into madness, complete with anaglyph 3-D glasses, at the Cinematheque starting Thursday (January 21). -
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SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL Featuring performances by Florence & the Machine, the Cure, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, Leon Bridges, Purity Ring, Allen Stone, Mac DeMarco, Digable Planets, Lord Huron, Kurt Vile, Rudimental, Caribou, X Ambassadors, the Internet, Yo La Tengo, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, M. May 27-30, Gorge Amphitheatre (754 Silica Road NW, George, Wash.). Tix at www. livenation.com/.
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THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca 2AL PURDY WAS HERE Thu 6:30 2SHE’S A BOY I KNEW Mon 7:00 2THE DEMONS Thu 8:20 2THE MASK Fri 7:00; Sat 8:30 2THE NINE MUSES Wed 7:30
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VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/ theatre 2IN UTERO Sun 7:30 2INGRID BERGMAN: IN HER OWN WORDS Fri, Mon 6:30; Sat 2:00; Thu 8:00 2MATISSE: FROM TATE MODERN AND MOMA Sun 4:45 2PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT Sat 4:20; Mon 4:40; Thu 4:00 2REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Fri 5:00; Sat 8:50; Mon 8:45; Wed-Thu 6:30 2THE TRUE COST Wed 8:15 2TRICKS ON THE DEAD Sat 6:30
NEW THIS WEEK DIRTY GRANDPA Robert De Niro and Zac Efron star in I Give It a Year director Dan Mazer’s comedy about an uptight guy who takes his perverted grandpa on a road trip. Rated 14A. 102 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
SPECIAL EVENTS THE CROSSROADS FUNDRAISER Meet Santra Antunez, the director of The Crossroads, enjoy the music, and have fun connecting with other industry professionals. Jan 22-23, 10:30 pm–3 am, Studio Records (919 Granville). Tix $10, info www. facebook.com/events/1529441094017082/.
IP MAN 3 Donnie Yen stars in director Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 2 sequel, in which a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city. 105 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky lays bare the failures, injustices, and barbarisms of over 50 years of a corporatecontrolled world. Jan 22-28, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
THE 5TH WAVE Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, and Gabriela Lopez star in The Disappearance of Alice Creed director J Blakeson’s sci-fi flick about a girl who tries to save her brother as alien attacks ravage Earth. Rated PG. 114 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Director Charles Wilkinson’s documentary tells the story of a group of people living on Haida Gwaii. Jan 23, 3:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12, info www.riotheatre.ca/. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT Diana Vreeland explores how Guggenheim crashed the international art scene and discovered talent like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Jan 23-28, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/ theatre/.
THE BOY Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, and James Russell star in director William Brent
TRICKS ON THE DEAD Director Jordan Paterson explores the little-known history of 140,000 indentured Chinese labourers who dug the trenches and cleared the dead in World War I Europe. Jan 23, 6:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www. viff.org/theatre/. MATISSE FROM MOMA AND TATE MODERN Travel behind the scenes and into the heart of London’s Tate Modern and New York’s MoMA for a glimpse at this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. Jan 24, 4:45 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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IN UTERO Gabor Maté introduces a screening of director Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal’s film about the womb and its lasting impact on human development, human behavior, and the state of the world. Jan 24, 7:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. THE NINE MUSES DIM Cinema presents Ghanaian-born British artist-filmmaker John Akomfrah’s epic film about the African diaspora to postwar Britain. Jan 27, 7:30 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.dimcinema.ca/.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 16, 2016 WHERE: Commodore Ballroom
This is probably more of a confession - I haven’t posted here in a long while; life just gets busy. We’re neighbours in the same building. I live on the 11th; I think you’re the on 15th. I admit to having a bit of crush on you - you’ve got that easy smile and (I feel) a bubbly personality underneath. We took the elevator up together this evening - you held the door open for me to get my laundry baskets on and off the elevator. Every time I run into you I get the feeling that there’s some attraction - hard to define, since I sense that we’re both very good at schooling our emotions. Now why didn’t I ask you out? Well, I’m pretty sure that you have a boyfriend already. But I still think that I would like to know you. Who knows? Maybe you would like to know me too.
I know this is a long shot... but I saw you on the 5:45 Seabus headed downtown from the Quay last Wednesday evening. You were tall, handsome, wearing a suit, and had your hair pulled back. I sat one row ahead of you, but I wish I would have said something. When we got off the seabus, you headed to the SkyTrain and I was headed downtown. I missed my chance. Taking a risk you may read this.
Thought I’d give this a shot. We’ve met previously a couple times (wrestling trivia, glam slam) and last night we hung out for a little bit watching the show. I should have asked for your number or asked what your situation was at the very least but we parted ways “until the next one” again. If you see this I’d love to grab a drink and hang out sometime.
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Just want to say thank you again, LFY is the coolest. Keep playing the good stuff, my name is Cass, I was wearing Air Max Thea’s and lots of black.
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Sitting at the counter you grabbed the straight and flipped to the ‘i saw you’ section. I asked if there was anything good and you said earnestly that no one had written about you. Later I took the paper and asked you your birthday. I know I told you capricorns can be icy, but I thought I felt you warming up to me.
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here are only a few more days of Mercury retrograde to go. Although the retrograde transit has officially been in operation for the past two weeks, if you look back, you’re likely to identify the past five weeks or so as an intensified work-your-way-throughit cycle. Mercury first aligned with Pluto on the weekend before Christmas and will make two more such contacts. The first happens on Friday as Mercury nears the finish of the retrograde cycle. The second Mercury/Pluto conjunction occurs next Friday. Adding more fuel, Saturday delivers a full moon in Leo. Mercury/Pluto is a zero-in-on-it and drive-the-message-home combination. Whether it’s dictated by circumstances, a key person, or the motivation of your own soul, this transit calls for you to face an ultimatum. You may think the past is what draws the line in the sand, but in reality it’s the future that requires/ extracts/extorts from you now. As of Saturday, Venus treks into Capricorn, the sign presently occupied by Mercury and Pluto. These planets put reality in plain sight. Their job is to bring matters to a goal post, an end, a final stage, and/or a time-is-ripe moment. Supporting this mandate, the sun, newly into Aquarius, and Saturday’s full moon in Leo offer up a fresh perspective and a new infusion of possibility, creativity, and opportunity. While there’s still more sorting out to do, the stars now open
a window and pick up the pace. As of Monday, it’s all systems go.
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ARIES
March 20–April 20
Since mid December, Mercury and Pluto have put the squeeze on you in some major way. They’ll continue to push, pull, and prod you into the start of February, but you’re in an upswing now thanks to Venus on a forward march and the end of Mercury retrograde. Whether or not you have something special planned, Saturday’s full moon sets up a fun, let-yourself-off-the-hook weekend.
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CANCER
June 21–July 22
Saturday’s jump-start full moon could prove to be a positive catalyst, especially if it opens you up to a fresh way of thinking, seeing, or interfacing. Take a risk on something or someone new—you stand to gain. Venus and Mercury give you something more substantial to work with and toward. Tuesday/Wednesday, get to work, get it fi xed, get it handled.
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LEO
July 22–August 23
Perhaps you haven’t found your way yet, but that’s about to change. Saturday’s kick-start full moon is sure to throw the action switch. Venus and Mercury also support your surefootedness. Take charge and rewrite the script. Great progress can be made in short order. Tuesday and Wednesday are optimal for taking on the task.
As Saturday wears on, watch for the Leo full moon to strike f lint. An impulse or a f lash of insight can be a game changer. Spontaneity delivers the best of your evening’s entertainment; Sunday also delivers the goods. Improvements can be made in the week ahead, especially regarding work, health, budgeting, scheduling, time management, and organization.
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TAURUS
April 20–May 21
GEMINI
May 21–June 21
Extra caretaking or safeguarding is in order at the top of the day on Friday. Saturday’s full moon makes for a busy, upbeat, stimulating, informing, and news-generating day. Perhaps there’s something special to do or someone special to see. Go ahead—go for the best, and splurge if you want to. Thanks to the end of Mercury retrograde, better timing is now on your side.
VIRGO
August 23–September 23
Your sensitive side is on display Friday; your strength and determination are too. Where there’s a will, there’s always a way. Help out and be supportive, but also keep boundaries in mind. The weekend is great for romance, creative projects, or indulging in good-quality time to yourself. Tuesday/Wednesday, give it your all and watch the good it does you.
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SAGITTARIUS
On Friday, put self-preservation needs first and don’t let guilt get the better of you. There’s no need to put yourself under unnecessary pressure. Do what’s required, stay budget-conscious, and use your time wisely. Romance or an entertainment perk-me-up hits the spot on Saturday evening. The full moon in Leo keeps that good vibe going through Sunday. October 23–November 22
Friday is good for catching up with yourself, others, or the news. Beyond being a good weekend to socialize, Saturday/Sunday could throw the switch on your next chapter. Perhaps there’s something new in the home or someone new to know; an anniversary to celebrate; a project, career opportunity, or new address in the works. Tuesday/Wednesday, you’ll make great headway. November 22–December 21
On Friday evening, cozy up with your sweetheart or get comfortable on your own. By Saturday night, the full moon in light-a-freshspark Leo is game for anything. Satisfaction is on a ready dial-up; that good vibe continues through Sunday. Monday begins a full-swing, productive week. Use Tuesday/ Wednesday to tend to unfinished business, or make corrections or improvements.
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AQUARIUS
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PISCES
December 21–January 20
Someone or something could make quite an impression on you. As well, the full moon can make for a big-money weekend and/or an exciting bedroom romp. What’s off goes on again. Th rough next Friday, Mercury/Pluto hits the refresh button in some notable way. Venus, freshly into Capricorn, brings good results and feedback. On Wednesday, your stars are optimized. January 20–February 18
Has Mercury retrograde waylaid or delayed you? That’s about to change. Friday sets you into an upswing. You’ll feel the rise of Saturday’s full moon like a fresh battery recharge. Venus and Mercury on the move will give you something more substantial to work with and toward. Tuesday and Wednesday are great for problemsolving, upgrades, and corrections. February 18–March 20
Pressure or strain could start your day on Friday, but the end of it can be just the opposite. Saturday’s full moon could see you pulled into something unexpected. On the plus side, it could produce an insight, a discovery, or a saving grace. Sunday through mid next week is productive for talks, meetings, presentations, paperwork, and advice-seeking. -
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