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In 2015, there were more illicit-drug overdose deaths in B.C. than in any other year on record. A January report by the B.C. Coroners Service includes data going back to 1989. It states that last year, 465 British Columbians died of an illegal-drug overdose. The only other year that even comes close is 1998, when there were 400 overdose deaths, or 10 per 100,000 people living in the province. In 2015, the rate was almost as high, at 9.9 per 100,000. In a telephone interview, Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), stressed that service providers must respond with a multipronged approach that includes everything from prevention to harm reduction. On the latter, she said a change of government in Ottawa means VCH may finally be able to implement a long-held plan to expand supervised-injection services. Daly said that although most people understand supervised injection as it exists at the Downtown Eastside’s famous Insite facility, that’s not the model VCH intends to follow. “It’s very costly; it takes a long time to build these big stand-alone facilities like Insite, and there aren’t many places in B.C. where you have a very dense concentration of injection-drug users like the Downtown Eastside,” she explained. Daly said VCH would prefer to integrate supervised-injection services into existing clinics, similar to how the West End’s Dr. Peter Centre operates today and how the province’s needle-exchange programs rolled out in the 1990s. She said it’s too early to name possible locations. Daly also cautioned that legislation left behind by the former federal Conservative government makes supervised-injection programs “very arduous” to implement. But she added that the Liberals’ recognition of harm reduction very likely means VCH’s decentralized plan for supervised-injection services will become a reality. In the neighbouring suburbs and the Fraser Valley, Fraser Health operates 12 hospitals. Tasleem Juma, a spokesperson for the organization, said there are no plans for Fraser Health to roll out supervisedinjection services there. She noted,
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One of Canada’s leading activists for marijuana reform is calling for the government to immediately place a moratorium on arrests related to the possession of cannabis. “As the government moves to legalizing marijuana, it is unjust to continue arresting people,” Jodie Emery said in a telephone interview. Emery said she has requested a meeting with her member of Parliament, Hedy Fry, which has been scheduled for February 11. Fry’s office referred a request for an interview to the federal Ministry of Justice. That office did not respond. John Conroy is an Abbotsfordbased lawyer who specializes in marijuana law. He told the Straight there are two actions Ottawa could take to minimize the number of people arrested for marijuana. The first, Conroy said, would be for the prime minister or the minister of justice to simply instruct the RCMP and municipal police forces across the country to “deprioritize” cannabis. Conroy explained that this is, essentially, how the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has dealt with the issue for years now. “The minister of justice or the government could say: ‘Listen, we have indicated that we are going to legalize and so we are advising you not to enforce certain provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act pending new legislation,’ ” Conroy explained. The second route, he continued, would be for the federal government to amend that act to remove cannabis from its Schedule Two category of illicit substances. Conroy added that although the first option is simpler, the second is preferred because it would prevent officers from applying cannabis laws despite instructions from Ottawa that police should stop. “Why penalize people and drag them through the system and cost the taxpayers money and take up police resources?” he asked. According to VPD statistics obtained via a freedom of information request, during the first six months of 2015, the force recorded
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An NDP MP doubts that new environmental-review regulations expected to be announced soon by the federal Liberal government will stop the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Burnaby South’s Kennedy Stewart said he suspects that although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said there will be additional requirements in the ongoing evaluation by the National Energy Board (NEB), these will amount only to a postponement in the approval of the $5.4-billion Kinder Morgan Inc. project. “I feel what they will do is they will delay that decision,” Stewart told the Straight in a phone interview from Ottawa. The NEB will wrap up hearing oral arguments for and against the project on February 5. It will submit a report to cabinet in May. Under the law, the government has three months to either approve or reject the board’s recommendations, although it can defer making a decision for a longer period. > CARLITO PABLO
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Jobs Minister Shirley Bond and Premier Christy Clark both claimed that a 20-cent minimum-wage increase would lift B.C. from Canada’s bottom rung.
Those comments were made in good faith, the documents make clear. But the emails obtained by the Straight also reveal a clear timeline for when the government made a mistake, became aware of its error, and then failed to correct it or reveal to the public that the premier and the minister’s words were no longer the truth. In March 2015, the government announced a 20-cent increase based on a
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with the B.C. Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training, on June 29, 2015. “But when Alberta and NFLD increase in Oct, we will be 12th – except for the fact Sask will also very likely increase past us in Oct – so we will probably be 13th – i.e., last.� Another bureaucrat, Trevor Hughes, said the same. He sent an email recounting how the B.C. Federation of Labour had warned him B.C.’s minimum wage would rank tenth out of Canada’s 13 provinces and territories. “And I quietly thought we were lower,� Hughes added. Ayers’s predictions came true. Last October, five provinces raised their minimum wages, resulting in B.C. falling to second-to-last place. Then, in December, New Brunswick announced it would increase its minimum wage to $10.65, dropping B.C.’s to dead last. Ayers accepted responsibility for the matter in an email sent one week after his warning. “I’ll take the blame for only just discovering this now,� he wrote on July 6. An email sent directly to Ayers was confirmed received; the ministry refused to grant an interview.
By phone, B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger described the provincial government’s failure to correct the premier and minister’s earlier statements as “outrageous and unconscionable�. “Between the initial announcement and implementation, they figured it out,� Lanzinger said. “And they went ahead with the implementation and didn’t change it.� According to a government analysis obtained via another freedomof-information request, in 2013 there were 120,400 British Columbians earning the minimum wage. Of those, 47 percent, or 56,100, were aged 25 or older. Lanzinger noted that B.C. and just about every other jurisdiction in Canada have pegged their minimum wage to the consumer price index or another indicator similar to inflation. She explained that this means each wage will rise annually at roughly the same rate, thus keeping B.C. at the very bottom. “It is a feature of good government to correct mistakes,� Lanzinger said. “When they discovered that it was going to leave us at the bottom, they should have corrected that mistake.� -
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percent oxygen and 79 percent nitrogen. The problem that high-altitude jumpers face is that once they rise to about 30,000 metres, nitrogen migrates to the heart and lungs, posing a potentially deadly threat. Todd explained that to prevent this, Baumgartner “prebreathed” pure oxygen for six hours before his jump, bringing the percentage of nitrogen in his bloodstream down to three percent by the time he started ascending in the capsule. Todd added that the capsule was pressurized to eight pounds per square inch (PSI) and the suit was pressurized
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MADE IN WHISTLER HOLIDAY ARTISAN MARKET Explore jewellery, pottery, fine art, unique fashions, and artisanal foods. To Apr 2, 12-6 pm, Westin Resort and Spa (4090 Whistler Way, Whistler). Free admission, info www. artswhistler.com/event/made-in-whistler/.
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Clockwise from left: The Afghan Horsemen has a wide range of seating options (KK Law photo); the Cascade Room’s chickpea fritters; Chambar was made for the postshow crowd; winter greens at Siena.
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pork-belly sliders are garnished with pickled cucumber, crushed peanuts, and hoisin-chili glaze. There’s a strong selection of draft on tap, a rippin’ wine list, and a serious array of well-made, vintage-style cocktails: try old-school classics like the Whether you’re heading out for a night of theatre or catching a frothy pisco sour or the sugar-rimmed sidecar, and band at the Commodore, here’s where to go for food and drinks minimalistic masterpieces With a full roster of concerts, theatre, on the martini front. The room is dark and enveldance, comedy, and other performances heating up oping. Pull up a curvy retro stool to the long wood the winter calendar, you’re going to need to fuel up. bar, where you can scope out the massive chalkHere are some of our favourite places to eat and board of offerings and take in the mixology. drink before or after the show. QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE/VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE: CHAMBAR (568 Beatty Street) It’s
almost as if this busy, two-level bistro-bar, with its warm bricks and beams and ethereal light fi xtures, was made for the postshow crowd. Here you can debate the merits of the opera or the real meaning of that thought-provoking play over perfect-sized petits plats and gourmet cocktails. Slide into an inviting black leather banquette and order up servings of olives and charcuterie. Pair them with a drink like the sweet-but-strong Ploughman’s Old Fashioned—Mount Gay Eclipse rum with spiced wild honey, Solera sherry, and Angostura bitters poured over a coconut ice sphere—or a delicious Blue Fig, a Beefeater gin martini infused with oven-roasted fig and served with a side of blue cheese. Otherwise, time it differently: grab parking before the theatre crowds arrive and lubricate yourself preshow with a choice from the bar’s extensive Belgian lambic and trappiste lists.
FOX THEATRE: THE CASCADE ROOM (2616 Main Street) Before you catch the band, you don’t necessarily want to load up on the heavy stuff: you gotta save room for the beer at the show. That’s why we like to head to long-time Main Street outpost the Cascade Room, where albacore tuna tartare comes with a light soy-sesame marinade, Asian pear, ginger, and pickled cucumber, while the crispy-braised
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of imbibing like the spicy peanut noodle box. Ditto for the Panang red curry, which kicks fiery ass, and a teriyaki box that’s the next-best thing to shopping in Harajuku. Servings are deceptively large, and spice levels are up to you. Should you opt for Scorching Hot (billed as “order this if you’re a crazy person”), put out the fire within with a local craft-beer offering like Parallel 49’s Gypsy Tears or a Red Truck Lager. ARTS CLUB GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE/THE IMPROV CENTRE/PERFORMANCE WORKS: AFGHAN HORSEMEN RESTAURANT (202–
1833 Anderson Street) One of the charms of the Afghan Horsemen is all the seating options. You can grab a booth for privacy, sit on the floor Afghan-style in an open room, or dine at a regular table—all surrounded by lush photographs, artiYORK THEATRE/CULTCH: KIN KAO THAI facts, rugs, lamps, elegant place mats, and paintKITCHEN (903 Commercial Drive) The name is a ings from Afghanistan. The soft lighting and easyThai saying that means “Have you eaten yet?”, and going atmosphere lend themselves to discussing chances are you haven’t if you’re on the way to one of an upcoming show at the Arts Club or cackling these East Side theatres. Look for the large windows over past zany antics of Vancouver TheatreSports on the Drive near Venables Street, but know that the League performers. And then there’s the cuisine, bright white minimalist design inside doesn’t even offering a hint of Greece, a touch of India, yet not begin to hint at the insanely fresh and authentic fiery and never too heavy on the oil. The lamb Thai food you’re going to find here. Young executive shoulder is reliably tender and tasty, as is the kachef and Bangkok native Tang Phoonchai delivers rahi (lamb or chicken shish kebab), which comes a tightly curated and ever-changing menu of spe- with eggs, sautéed onions, green peppers, and tocialties served up like gorgeously plated street food matoes. There are also good vegetarian options. on artist-made ceramics. The grilled-beef-and-redgrape salad and papaya salad are refreshing starters. STANLEY INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE STAGE: For heartier fare, look for kra pao, stir-fried minced SIENA (1485 West 12th Avenue) It’s not only the chicken with Thai basil; there are also killer deep- proximity to the old Stanley Theatre that makes fried sour-cured pork ribs, and the taste-exploding Siena a favourite of the theatregoing crowd. It’s also grilled marinated pork collar. Red, green, and yellow the casual formality of the hearty Italian cuisine, curries tantalize here, too. Wash it all down with an the use of carefully sourced local ingredients, the East Van craft beer, and try to get a spot where you seasonal menus, the great wine list (with half-price bottles every Monday), the 15-percent discount if can watch all the kitchen action. you show your Arts Club tickets… The menu is a COMMODORE: NOODLE BOX (839 Homer large blackboard with daily specials and appetizers Street) For the longest time, the long-running Sub- and some inventive pastas paired with both sinfully eez on Homer was our warm-up spot for a night braised meats (which often find their way into raviat the Commodore. When the doors were locked oli) and vegetarian choices. Various arancine (stuffed permanently last spring, allegiances quickly shifted and fried rice balls) are always present, ditto risotto, to the equally industrial-chic Noodle Box, and not rich desserts, and a pretty damn good cappuccino. just because it was up the street. Practically speak- Also, sommelier-owner Mark Taylor makes sure his ing, nothing prepares one for an extended marathon staff are up to speed on everything. -
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Meal ticket POP-UP VENDORS The Nat Bailey Winter Market (4601 Ontario Street) runs every Saturday through April 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and offers locally grown meat and produce, as well as baked goods and crafts. This weekend is your last chance to check out its January pop-up vendors, including Spark Kombucha, Yellow Basket Baking, and the Pie Company. Some of the products being sold are vegan and nut-free baked goods, and medicinal teas. If you’re feeling tired and hungry after browsing the market, grab a bite from one of the many on-site food trucks and head over to the covered seating areas and warming stations. -
Five places to find divine dim sum during Lunar New Year
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THE JADE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT (8511 Alexandra Road, Richmond) From classic steamed prawn dumplings to ice mountain almond buns.
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PELICAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT (1895 East Hastings Street) Steamed barbecue pork buns, rice rolls, and more are offered at a reasonable price.
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KIRIN RESTAURANT AT STARLIGHT CASINO (350 Gifford Street, New West) Awardwinning dim sum served in an elegant atmosphere.
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11TH AVENUE MULE Vij’s has finally settled into its new digs, and to celebrate, bartender Jay Jones has created a signature cocktail that pays homage to the award-winning restaurant’s 19-year stay on 11th Avenue. A modern riff on the Moscow Mule, this gin-based cocktail ($12.50) uses Vij’s Bolly Water—a small-batch, London Dry– RED STAR SEAFOOD RESTAURANT (8298 style gin specially crafted by Okanagan Crush Pad Winery—Italian Granville Street) Serves a wide range of great dim amaro, citrus juice, locally made ginger ale, and fresh mint. Hit the sum bites, including sticky rice wrap, steamed new Vij’s (3106 Cambie Street) for a glass of your own or plan a spareribs with black bean sauce, and sponge cake. shindig at the old location, now a private event space (1480 West 11th Avenue), where you can include it in a custom cocktail list. JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 4 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
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GARDEN CITY HOT POT (1205–8788 McKim Way, Richmond) A hot-pot joint that serves tasty dim sum dishes like freshly baked egg custard tarts.
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Although my father was born in Germany and lived there until he was six, the only beer memories he has are going to the local pub and filling a siphon (growler) for my opa. Since Steel & Oak Brewing Co.’s Peter then, he has fallen in love with strong Schulz. Amanda Siebert photo. dark ales with a prevailing bitterness to match. His favourite beer is Mc- oldest breweries in the world and that it had a culture all its own. After the Ewan’s Scotch Ale. third bottle he explained that each FIRST GO-TO BRAND My go-to batch doesn’t necessarily taste the beer in high school was definitely same as the last, because of the difSleeman Honey Brown Lager or Oka- ferent fermentation techniques and nagan Spring 1516. When I had just yeast propagation they use. When I moved to Germany and started my asked why anyone would do that, he apprenticeship, one of my classmates answered, “So you will have another worked at Brauerei Zehendner. It was bottle to see if I’m telling the truth.” a small brewery in the outskirts of Bamberg and we would go out there DREAM DESTINATION Too many on the weekend to have a brew or to count. I have definitely done Eurtwo. Their Hefeweizen was beyond ope, otherwise that would be my this world. The esters! I remember, first choice. Presently, I would say after having it for the first time, Chile near the Andes. One, to hike wishing that I would one day be able the mountains and swim in the to create a brew that delectable. Cur- southern Pacific, and two, to see an rently, I would say Four Winds and old friend with a brewery south of Dageraad are definitely my fallbacks Santiago. I always promised I would come by one day. for good-quality local beer.
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CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT First thing that comes to mind is my brewing degree, but really it was learning German when I started my apprenticeship at Weyermann Malt. They are located in Bamberg, which is in the northern part of Bavaria. The region is called Franconia (Franken in German). They have a very strong dialect, which I later realized was not understood very well in the rest of Germany. When I moved to Berlin I was forced to learn High German. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH I would love to have a beer
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his past Monday (January 25) was a big day for the B.C. wine community. The Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers—B.C. Chapter held its annual competition to choose the sommelier of the year for 2016. At Rogers Arena, the 10 candidates who’d thrown their hat into the ring completed a theory and tasting exam to determine the top-three finalists, who would then compete in a wine-service challenge, in addition to doing a food-and-wine pairing and a blind tasting. Not only did the competitors have to do these rigorous tasks, they had to perform them in front of an audience of trade colleagues and media—no easy feat. The three who made it to that final round were Sean Nelson, sommelier at Vij’s Restaurant; Shane Taylor, wine director at CinCin Ristorante + Bar; and Alistair Veen of South Surrey’s Tap Restaurant. Veen, who is the chef and a coowner of Tap, was definitely perceived as the dark-horse candidate, if only because hardly anyone in attendance knew who he was. As the three stepped forward in front of the audience, whispers of “Who’s Tap Restaurant’s Alistair Veen beat the guy on the left?” could be heard competitors from Vij’s and CinCin. around the room. One by one, with the other two decanted. The query lobbed at the cloistered away, the gentlemen competitors was, “Why would you competed. First up was the ser- decant this wine?” While the first vice component, in which they two competitors, Taylor and Nelson, completed a different task at each explained the benefits of decanting— of three separthat it opens up ate tables of cola wine, unleashleagues acting as ing aromatics and guests. The first so on—there was Kurtis Kolt was opening and laughter in the serving an entire bottle of spark- audience when Veen responded, deadling wine evenly and continuously panning, “Because you asked me to.” into six glasses without topping The third table presented a menu up. Sure, it was somewhat challen- and asked for wines to be paired ging, but they were also peppered with each course, each from a difwith general-knowledge questions ferent Italian region. While all while performing the task. As the three competitors did well at the sparkling was being poured, they task, Veen appeared to excel, that fielded queries about the difference chef background being an ace up between the German sparkling be- his sleeve. Once the service of the ing poured and Champagne, and three tables was completed, it was left-field ones like, “I recently had a on to blind-tasting and explaining Sazerac cocktail and quite enjoyed a white and a red wine, two spirits, it. What are its ingredients?” and a cocktail. This was done at a The second table requested a high-top cocktail table, and while magnum of red wine, and to have it Taylor and Veen faced the audience,
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Nelson had his back to it—a move that may have eased the pressure, not having all those eyes focused on him in his peripheral vision. The final task saw the candidates pore over a flawed wine list projected onto a screen, trying to catch errors, which could be anything from typos to an incorrect region named alongside a wine. All in all, they were each actively in front of the crowd for close to half an hour. Once the competition wrapped up, the judges headed off to consider the performances and determine the winner, who would be announced at the evening’s after-party at JOEY Bentall One. At that after-party, there was certainly a celebratory feeling in the air, not only because the room was filled with a who’s who of B.C. sommeliers and restaurateurs relishing a night off, but also because the pressure was off, the competition was done, and both the candidates and the crowd were blowing off a little steam. Maybe more than a little—the place actually ran out of beer before the big announcement was made. The moment finally came, the judges ready to announce the winner. As a hush fell across the room, Sean Nelson was declared third-place winner. As Shane Taylor and Alistair Veen stood together, arms around each other’s shoulders, the 2015 B.C. sommelier of the year, Chambar’s Jason Yamasaki, announced, “Your 2016 B.C. sommelier of the year winner is… Alistair Veen!” Amid much fanfare and cheering, Veen jogged to the front of the room to accept his honour, which came with a magnum of Champagne de Venoge. “How about the guy from South Surrey?” he shouted incredulously to the cheering crowd. Among all of the candidates, the vast majority from fancy-schmancy downtown Vancouver restaurants, it was the chef from Tap Restaurant in Surrey who nabbed the big prize. I’m thinking business is about to get a boost. Veen will compete in the national sommelier competition in 2017, which will be taking place in Vancouver for the first time. We’ll certainly all be rooting for him. -
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Dance Double Bill SHAY KUEBLER RADICAL SYSTEM ART BC “So fully embodied entertainment and artistry at such high levels.” Vancouver Weekly
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OPENING NIGHT Two hilarious standup comics JESSICA KIRSON USA Nightlife Award winner for Best Standup Comedian in New York City. & JON STEINBERG Canada A perennial favourite of CBC’s The Debaters. Feb 18 > NRT
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May 7 > NRT SPECIAL PRESENTATION JENNIFER TEEGE Germany In conversation with Marsha Lederman about her new memoir My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, learning to come to terms with the horrifying fact that Amon Goeth, the Nazi “butcher of Plaszow,” who was chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List, was her grandfather. April 2 > NRT
A VERY NARROW BRIDGE Canada by Itai Erdal, Anita Rochon, and Maiko Yamamoto. This funny and insightful chamber-sized play, takes a personal look at leaving love and a country behind. March 5 to 13 > JCC - Dayson Board Room An Evening with JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN Canada The former host of the celebrated CBC program Wiretap brings us his wry, self-deprecating humour. “The Wes Anderson of podcasting.” The Atlantic
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Baladino singer Yael Badash sees the language of Ladino and its musical traditions as a way to convince those from different cultures to learn how to love their neighbours.
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country to another, meet people and learn from them as they learn from you. A place where you can communicate.” Badash will soon be headed overseas for a tour that will bring her band to Vancouver for this winter’s Chutzpah Festival. If On the exotic Dos Amantes, a Ladino-loving Chutzpah fest she has a goal with Balaact builds bridges with a language in danger of dying out dino both at home and abroad, it’s to do some Sometimes the best way to aim big is to serious bridge-building between cultures. And start small and impassioned, that line of thinking rather than point a finger at those outside Israel’s BY M IKE US IN G ER not lost on Yael Badash. As the lead singer of cul- borders, the Petah Tikva–raised artist suggests ture-blending folktronica fusionists Baladino, the her homeland needs to do a better job of embra37-year-old is helping pump new blood into a dying cing various voices, something that wasn’t a problanguage and its musical traditions. Ladino—a lem for those who grew up speaking Ladino. Judeo-Spanish dialect that can be traced back to the “My roots are from Libya and Poland and Jeruexpulsion of Sephardic Jews from Spain in 1492—is salem,” Badash says. “And if you take it a little now spoken by only 200,000 people on the planet. back from Jerusalem, you go to Morocco and As much as she loves the language and its songs, Greece. But how can you find music in Israel that Badash really gets excited about Ladino when she can represent all that? In Israel, they erased all talks about how it might help make the world a history and said, ‘We are now forming a country, better place. The singer rightly suggests the world and we’re going to stop speaking all the old lanhas problems, one of the biggest being that large guages—we’re only going to speak Hebrew.’ We’ve swaths of people seem incapable of getting along. lost a lot of things along the way.” That’s driven home in the Middle East, where Ladino was almost one of them. there’s a long history of conflict between Israel BADASH—WHOSE maternal grandmother’s and the countries that surround it. What Badash admires about Ladino is the way roots go back seven generations in Jerusalem— it evolved over the years to incorporate Arabic, remembers Ladino songs being sung around the Turkish, Greek, and Balkan languages. The mes- house when she was little. “I had the Ladino at home from my grandsage of that linguistic melting pot is simple: no culture need be homogeneous. Israel and its mother, so I knew those melodies, but I never neighbours, suggests Badash, could learn some- thought I would do anything professionally in the music field,” she says. “For sure, I didn’t ever think thing from that. “My biggest dream is to see the Middle East of going in a world-music direction with Ladino or as a place with no borders,” she says, speaking traditional music.” Like many in Israel, the sultry-voiced mezzoin charmingly accented English by phone from Tel Aviv. “A place where you can go from one soprano would gravitate to more modern forms of
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music as she grew older. Jokingly, she notes that her bandmates—who are based in Berlin and Tel Aviv—didn’t pick up guitars because they were fascinated with the past, but instead because they wanted to impress girls. Eventually, the members of Baladino would get very serious about music. The range of instruments they play on the group’s moving and atmospheric debut, Dos Amantes, is staggering. In addition to Badash, those musicians include Jonathan “Yonnie” Dror (clarinet, alto flute, soprano sax, ney, duduk, shofar, fujara, didgeridoo), Thomas Moked (violin, guitar, oud, bouzouki, mandolin), Daniel Sapir (upright bass), and Yshai Afterman (cajón, darbuka, riq, bendir, Persian daf, tar, dhol, and cymbals). Before meeting her future bandmates, Badash caught the attention of notable Yugoslavian composer Goran Bregović, who helped her rediscover the music of her childhood. The singer, whose artistic endeavours also include acting, performed with Bregović at large-scale concerts across Europe, the reaction changing her life. “I started to explore my roots and think really hard about what Jewish music was. And I must say that I didn’t find Ladino and Jewish-music songs—they found me. I was invited to participate in a contest of original Ladino song because they wanted to preserve the culture.” She’d win that contest, known as Festiladino, not once but twice. “But even then I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with Ladino,” Badash admits. “In Israel, Ladino is still considered to be very old-fashioned. What they did with Ladino music was make it very cheesy. But after I won the contest two times, I said, ‘Okay, someone is trying to tell me something.’ And the magic was at that time I was already starting to work with Thomas Moked. He’s a music producer and member of Baladino. And my fiancé.” Since then, Baladino has made it its mission to keep Ladino alive and move it forward, both see next page
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Editor’s choice STAR SOPRANO Transcendent, luminous, nuanced: these are just a few of the words you could use to describe the extraordinary voice of early-music soprano Dorothee Mields. Hailing from Germany, the singer has caused buzz with her interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel—check out YouTube to see the kind of interpretive magic we’re talking about. In her Early Music Vancouver appearance, she joins acclaimed American baritone Sumner Thompson and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in a program of pre-Bach German Baroque composers. Expect sheer elegance, plus an exotic array of instruments to complement her heavenly voice. Early Music Vancouver presents Dorothee Mields and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra at the Chan Centre on Wednesday (February 3).
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THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (January 30 at the Fox Cabaret) DJ Spooky helps rescore Guy Debord’s 1973 film collage.
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MONUMENTAL (January 28 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre) The Holy Body Tattoo remounts a stunning show with Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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CITY OF WATER, SEA OF GLASS (January 29 at the Waterfall Building) Original percussion instruments in a cool setting.
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THE MASSACRE (To February 14 at the Improv Centre) Vancouver TheatreSports League hosts a rip-roaring international improv fest.
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EURYDICE (To February 6 at the Frederick Wood Theatre) A provocative, modern American retelling of the Greek myth.
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RIDING ON A CLOUD Our guest artist this week is Marcus Youssef, playwright, author, and artistic director of Neworld Theatre, the company that’s presenting Leftovers, Winners and Losers, and Doost to mark its 20th anniversary this spring. Here’s a show he’s looking forward to at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: “At PuSh time I find this a near-impossible task. But if I have to… Rabih Mroué’s Riding on a Cloud. Winner of the Spalding Grey Award, this brilliant Lebanese artist made the moving, beautiful, Kafkaesque Looking for a Missing Employee at PuSh in 2012. Riding on a Cloud features him and his brain-injured brother, who survived a bullet to the head in the Lebanese civil war.” The PuSh fest presents Riding on a Cloud at Performance Works next Wednesday to Saturday (February 3 to 6).
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playing in Israel and abroad in support of Dos Amantes. “Exotic” is, predictably, a good starting point for describing the music the quintet makes using its arsenal of instruments. Witness the snake-charming strings in the smoky “Ir Me Kero” and the sunset-in-Istanbul majesty of “La Kumida ‘La Manyana’ ”. Baladino explores Ladino’s diasporic legacy with the mournful “Duduk Improvisation” and makes the yawning darkness beautiful on the bass-heavy ballad “Tzur Mishelo”. But at the same time, the group isn’t interested in being a living museum piece. That Radiohead and Led Zeppelin rank high as influences is evident from the epic dazed-and-confused groove of “Si Veriash a la Rana”. The band’s interest in chillout-tent throwback electronica, meanwhile, surfaces in the down-tempo “A, Sinyora Novia”. “Baladino was created because we wanted to find interesting, new sounds
for Ladino,” Badash says. “We were born in and raised in Israel, but we were also exposed to a lot of western music. We have a lot of influences from artists that have nothing to do with world music by definition. Our place as modern musicians is to bring our world to old Ladino songs and give them new life—modern life. After all, we’re not coming from the village, having played these songs since we were little kids.” WHILE BALADINO IS BRINGING
something fresh to Ladino, it’s not, Badash argues, in a way that’s disrespectful to purists. While she doesn’t speak Ladino yet, she has lyrics translated so that she knows what she’s singing about. That’s part, the singer adds, of respecting the traditions of those who’ve come before her. “The way that we are dealing with the music is not too extreme for them [purists],” Badash offers. “We keep the text and the melody most of the time. We take it a little differently with the rhythm and the sounds. If there are people that’s hard for, I’d say we’re here
to give Ladino new life. I don’t believe it’s possible to preserve things exactly the way they once were. If you do that to something, it freezes and dies.” Building an audience for a style of music many consider antiquated was surprisingly easy. Badash suggests there’s a new generation that’s fascinated by a language from a time when the world wasn’t as complicated. As background, Badash offers that Israel was settled by European Jews whose musical favourites were the classical composers of Europe. In the decades that followed, Jews from Arabic countries arrived, bringing new traditions with them. While initially dismissed as simple and unrefined, the musical traditions of those later immigrants gradually became an important part of life in Israel. “A lot of young musicians in their 20s and 30s have really tried to go back in time for inspiration,” Badash says. “Maybe what they look for isn’t in their parents’ house, so they find it in their grandparents’ house. Even though we are here in Israel, we are connected to
the Middle East and the Mediterranean. You cannot escape that, and you cannot build a country that is not connected to the roots of the people in it.” She continues: “So today, with Israeli musicians, you can find a lot of projects that are connected to the Yemeni tradition, or North African, or Libyan or Algerian, Tunisian or Moroccan stuff—all the Middle East.” And that is, Badash is thrilled to report, building bridges that didn’t exist in the past. “The problem is always the fear,” she says. “If the government makes you afraid, you are so busy with your fear you can’t think outside of it and come from a place of love. I can only hope that things will change in the future and everyone will find a way to talk and live together in peace and harmony. I just hope through our music we bring peace and help people feel more connected to their neighbours.” Baladino plays the Fox Cabaret on March 5 as part of the 2016 Chutzpah Festival.
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Robert Lepage brings 887, his multimedia ode to memory, to SFU Woodward’s.
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Still itching for ways to get out and enjoy the winter’s wicked arts season? Here are five more shows worth warming up to:
LITTLE ONE (At the Anvil Centre Theatre from February 4 to 6, and at
the Firehall Arts Centre from February 9 to 13) Back from a hit run at the New York International Fringe Festival, Alley Theatre’s dark and creepily funny Little One is the ultimate twisted sister-brother act.
BIGMOUTH (At the York Theatre from February 11 to 21) Valentijn
Dhaenens uses five microphones to ride the roller coaster of speeches throughout history. Spanning Socrates, George S. Patton, and Muhammad Ali, the show was a massive hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ROBERT LEPAGE’S 887 (At SFU Woodward’s in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts from February 11 to 21) Masterful storytelling and mesmerizing imagery mark the theatre legend’s moving solo show about memory, forgetting, and history. DANCES FOR A SMALL STAGE (At the ANZA Club from February 11 to 14) Lesley Telford, Josh Beamish, Karen Pitkethly, and more local talents serve up a diverse program of dance in a romantic Valentine’s Day edition in intimate, licensed digs. MASHUP (At the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 20 to June 12) Subtitled The Birth of Modern Culture, this massively ambitious show takes up the entire four floors of the VAG and spans such names as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Danger Mouse, Stan Douglas, and Tobias Wong. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (At the Orpheum on February 20) The
Vancouver Bach Choir goes multimedia, performing Andrew Downing’s hypnotic score while the classic silent film plays on a big screen and a specially curated chamber ensemble provides haunting accompaniment.
BETROFFENHEIT (At the Vancouver Playhouse from February 25 to
27) Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s dark, carnivalesque exploration of real grief and addiction had audiences stunned and in tears at last year’s Panamania cultural fest in Toronto. It’s worth whatever begging you have to do to find tickets to this DanceHouse presentation by two of Vancouver’s biggest artistic geniuses. > JANET SMITH
Company 605, the former 605 Collective, debuts a new work at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. David Cooper photo.
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n most cities in the Great White North, winter is a time for cocooning—for settling into the couch, pulling out the Cheezies, and losing yourself in the latest Netflix series. But in Vancouver, there are so many arts festivals at this time of year, you’d be missing out big-time if you didn’t tear yourself away from the tube. Below are fests that offer everything from circus mashups to major comedy yuk-ups. So there’s no excuse for riding out the winter months on your sofa. PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL (At
TALKING STICK FESTIVAL (At the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre and other venues from February 18 to 28) Music, film screenings, slam poetry, and plays like Kevin Loring’s Battle of the Birds are all part of this genre-spanning celebration of indigenous performance and art. The Big Attractions: Choreographers Brian Solomon and Byron Chief-Moon celebrate indigenous dance at In Motion on February 24; and don’t miss the mad mix of creation at Indian Acts, the Brief Encounters–style evening of short works by duos of artists who have never worked together (February 17).
JFL NORTHWEST (At venues around town from February 18 to 27) Just for Laughs has teamed up with the former NorthWest Comedy Fest for a smokin’ lineup of standup shows, spanning big TV names and edgy indie laughgetters. Headliners include veteran ranter Lewis Black, Saturday Night Live Ladies’ Man Tim Meadows, and she-powered shit-disturbers Janeane Garofalo and Margaret Cho. The Big Attractions: Grab your chance to see super-smart sociopolitical commentator Trevor Noah take the stage solo, or LUNARFEST (At the Vancouver Art to marvel at how deadpan deity Todd Gallery Plaza from February 12 to Barry—the “third Conchord”—can 14) It’s the Year of the Monkey, and slay without breaking a smile. Lunarfest is going ape: think massive Monkey King installations, as well as CHUTZPAH FESTIVAL (At the Norreflections on the animal from artists man and Annette Rothstein Theatre like Taiwanese paper sculptor Hsin-Fu and other venues from February 18 to Hung. Elsewhere, find Chinese and March 13) The sprawling tribute to Japanese fortune-telling, craft stations, Jewish arts here and around the world and much more. The Big Attractions: serves up a multidisciplinary myriad: Taiwan’s Chin Fei Feng Marionette concerts, theatre, dance, comedy, and Theatre Troupe performing a mini- much more. Kick-ass music includes Israeli culture-melders Baladino ature puppet lion dance.
various venues until February 7) The boundary-breaking interdisciplinary happening is in full swing, with dance, theatre, and music events that showcase cutting-edge work from around the world. The Big Attractions: Rush to get tickets to the Holy Body Tattoo’s January 28 remount of its phenomenal monumental, with live music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. And there’s a rare chance to see the French circus of L’Immédiat, in which slapstick meets high art, from February 4 to 6.
(see story page 23), hip-hop–Hebrew rocker Victoria Hanna, and fusionists Klezmerson. The Big Attractions: As usual, the folks at Chutzpah are boasting a world-class carnival of cutting-edge dance, from red-hot Gallim Dance to Italy’s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet to bold Israeli iconoclasts Maria Kong. VSO NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL (At the Orpheum from February 25 to 28) The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra gets adventurous, this time featuring San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet, local new-music pioneers Standing Wave, and the orchestra playing work curated by composer in residence Jocelyn Morlock. The Big Attractions: Don’t miss Kronos taking the stage alone to perform Laurie Anderson’s “Flow” and a cool arrangement of Pete Townshend’s “Baba O’Riley”, as well as Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Bombs of Beirut, with its barrage of warfare sounds (February 26). Two days later, the famed ensemble joins the VSO for a performance of It Got Dark, by brilliant Hollywood filmscore composer Thomas Newman (Skyfall, American Beauty). VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL (At the Round-
house and other venues from February 28 to March 19) Kokoro Dance serves up an eclectic array, drawn from sources both local and as far away as Japan. The Big Attractions: Hip-hop, humour, and pantomime come together in the strange world of Sweden’s Memory Wax, collaborating with Cuba’s Danza Teatro Retazos, while Vancouver’s own Company 605 (formerly named the 604 Collective) and EDAM both rock big new works. -
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The Source of Song Gregory’s Gift of Chant
8pm | Friday, February 12, 2016 Ryerson United Church Vancouver Chamber Choir Kevin Zakresky and Jon Washburn, Conductors Gregorian chant is still a seminal force in choral music, even a thousand years after Saint Gregory the Great lent it his name. Jon Washburn and Kevin Zakresky conduct the Vancouver Chamber Choir in an a cappella programme that traces choral repertoire back to the Gregorian chant on which it is based.
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f there was an incident that spurred Cliff Cardinal to write his second single-hander, Huff, you won’t read about it here. Asked if his 2014 script, which gets its Vancouver premiere this week as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, is based in firsthand experience of the circumstances it describes, the playwright, actor, and songwriter quickly takes the Fifth. “Not that I want to talk about in the Georgia Straight,” he says, in a telephone interview from Toronto. “I’m sure that would have been a fruitful tree of conversation, but I’m afraid not.” Cardinal, the son of Métis theatre pioneer Tantoo Cardinal, is a strangely winning blend of candour and obfuscation. Some questions he answers openly; others are dodged with an audible shrug. And at the end of our chat, by which time we’ve reached an uneasy rapport, he offers this writer an unusual out. “Feel free to lie,” he says. “And I’ll back you up—I’ll back you up to the point of, like, millions of dollars, or a horrible disease… I’ll back you up.” Part of Cardinal’s evasiveness is due to off-stage shyness, not an uncommon condition among performers. Part is a strategic reluctance to reveal some of the more explosive scenes in Huff—scenes that I’m sworn not to disclose, beyond suggesting that you might not want to wear your best clothes to the show. And part might be his identification with the First Nations figure of the Trickster, under whose influence Huff unfolds. “I just think that’s about being unpredictable,” he says. “I think people shouldn’t be so predictable, and the world isn’t a very predictable place. That’s as far as I can go with that.” The play’s central characters, however, are two First Nations brothers.
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Living under conditions of extreme poverty, they’re physically abused by their widowed father, comforted somewhat by his new wife, and addicted to the toxic release of solvent abuse. But just because Huff opens with the older sibling on the verge of suicide doesn’t mean that their journey is entirely brutal. “What I’ll say about that is that the play was written trying to show the spirit of really mischievous kids, who have a lot of joy and they’re also in a really hard situation,” Cardinal explains. “So my feeling is that for 65 minutes, the stage belongs to that spirit, and that spirit is mischievous, it’s chaotic, it’s unpredictable. “And there’s a lot of joy in this story,” he continues. “There’s a lot of joy. You know, when you’re a kid it’s about your imagination. You’re not sitting in every moment thinking about how sad things are; you’re thinking about how you can make them fun.”
Despite the dark themes he’s chosen to work with—his previous play, Stitch, examined the life of a female online sex worker—it’s important to stress that Cardinal’s considerable theatrical gifts are rooted in comedy. Don’t expect to see him touring the standup circuit anytime soon, though. “You’ve got to be part of the boys’ club if you want to go into comedy,” he notes. “It’s a fraternity, and with theatre I don’t think you so much have to be part of the club. As an artist, all you have to have is an idea, and then you can do it, you can reach an audience. If you have some friends in theatre, that’s great—but if you don’t, you can still do your job.” By all accounts, Cardinal does his job brilliantly—and that’s no lie. The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Huff at the Firehall Arts Centre from Tuesday to next Saturday (February 2 to 6).
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Playwright and actor Cliff Cardinal manages to tackle solvent abuse, physical abuse, and poverty in Huff, while rooting the story in comedy. Akipari photo.
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e’s ba-a-ack! Even though he never really le-e-eft! David Cross hasn’t toured a standup show since 2009. Most comics say if they take a week or two off, their timing gets rusty. So what’s seven years going to do to a guy? Not to worry. He’s still got his chops. “I mean, I’ve been doing sets for a long time,” he says on the phone from New York City a day before his scheduled first night of the tour in San Diego. “Just little drop-ins at friends’ shows and stuff like that. But as far as putting the whole set together, I started really working on it, like, two months ago, and I did do kinda secret onehour shows at a theatre here in New York last week and the week before that. So I feel good. Ready to go.” Cross has been super busy with other projects lately, most notably a revamp of his old sketch series Mr. Show, now called W/ Bob & David, with his long-time partner Bob Odenkirk. He’s also been working on a reboot of Arrested Development and a bonus third season of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. A break in his schedule, which included shoulder surgery, got him thinking about a return to his roots. Being an experienced vet of the standup scene, Cross knows what to expect. As someone who does his writing from the stage, he realizes no matter how planned out the hour is, his act is fluid. How the tour starts is going to be different from how it ends. “I don’t know when or where, but there are going to be a handful of sets that are off, that aren’t good, and there are going to be a handful that are just amazing. And I can’t even tell you what the difference is,” he says. “You’re constantly, intuitively working. I’m going to be doing, like, 60-some-odd shows and I’ll be learning from each and every one of them.” His upcoming JFL NorthWest festival show will be his seventh stop. But he’s looking at (possibly) returning to some of the cities from early in the tour to give them the more
David Cross has been a very busy guy lately, but his trip to JFL NorthWest will be part of his first standup tour in seven years. Daniel Bergeron photo.
evolved iteration. He says his later shows always end up being different from his earlier ones. “As I’m winding it up I imagine there’ll be new jokes, new riffs within the bits, and that just comes from doing an hourlong set. And it’ll get tighter and all that.” The tour name, Making America Great Again!, is ironic. This isn’t a political screed. Thematically, it’s varied. “I talk about the gun issue and I dabble in religion just because I love it so much and I love talking about it that way over a publicaddress system to thousands of people,” he says. “So it really is kind of all over the place in a good way,
hopefully. I certainly don’t want to hear an hour of political comedy or an hour of anecdotal stuff. I think it’s a pretty good mix I got going. Even the first 20 minutes is just sort of goofy observational stuff.” But he does offer a political opinion on making Canada great again. “You guys are heading in the right direction,” he says. “You got rid of Harper. That’s huge. That’s a big deal. The pendulum has swung back. I think you guys have made a start.” JFL NorthWest presents David Cross at the Vogue Theatre on Tuesday (February 2).
Queer Songbook unearths stories
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> B Y A LEX A ND ER VA R TY
lthough the impulse that drives Songs of Resilience is celebratory, the stories behind its featured songs are not always happy. Consider the case of Lorenz Hart, who crafted the lyrics for many of Richard Rodgers’s early musical masterpieces, including “Blue Moon”, “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”, and “My Funny Valentine”. Hart had a rare gift for detailing the bittersweet nature of romance, but in his own life honeyed moments were rare. “By all accounts he was a difficult and not very happy person, and a lot of that stemmed from him being a closeted guy in the 1930s,” explains Queer Songbook Orchestra bandleader and trumpet player Shaun Brodie, checking in with the Straight from Los Angeles. “He was surrounded by beautiful people, people who were really able to enjoy themselves, but he couldn’t. He just couldn’t be open about who he was. He wrote all these beautiful, potent love songs, but he didn’t experience those things himself. Nobody really loved him except for his mother, and he died only months after she did. He basically drank himself to death.” Who knows what further gems Hart might have contributed to the canon had he been able to live as openly as his fellow songwriters k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, and Elton John? Highlighting his story, says Brodie, is a way of pointing out the perils of the closet. But a bigger part of Songs of Resilience is that the evening-length program features not just inventive chamber-pop reworkings of songs by LGBT artists, but stories from members of the queer community about how music strengthened their resolve to be themselves. “We’re telling these historical stories, but we’re also using personal stories,” Brodie explains. “So we’re coming at it from a personal and a historic perspective, and those personal stories—the ones we’ll be doing on this tour, anyway—are much more tender. There’s humour to them: they’re about people’s experiences as a teenager with their sexuality and stuff, and there’s a lot of room for humour in that.” Helping to bring those stories to life during the Toronto-based Queer Songbook Orchestra’s two Lower Mainland performances will be broadcaster and author Bill 28 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 4 / 2016
Toronto’s Queer Songbook Orchestra plays aptly named Songs of Resilience. Mark Sommerfield photo.
Richardson and singer-songwriter Veda Hille. “We work with straight people as well as queer people,” Brodie points out, stressing that while all of the full-time members of his 10-piece ensemble are queer, many of their collaborators are not. For instance, the former Vancouverite has tapped a number of local luminaries—including guitarist and composer Ford Pier, Vancouver New Music artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi, and improvising great Gordon Grdina—to write arrangements for Songs of Resilience. None of those three identify as gay; all support a more inclusive musical community. “People who are queer can come together to hear these stories, and people from outside the community will get a chance to broaden their own perspective on music that’s probably in their record collection,” Brodie says. “My hope is that this can help foster more understanding of each other, and of the differences in people. It’s a bit of a lofty goal, but one can dream!” The Queer Songbook Orchestra plays New Westminster’s Anvil Centre Theatre on Thursday (January 28) and a PuSh International Performing Arts Festival show at the Fox Cabaret on Friday (January 29).
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Kokoro Dance founders Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi are hoping for a spring opening for their spot in the Woodward’s building. Amanda Siebert photo.
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or the first time ever, Kokoro Dance will soon have its own performance and rehearsal space, thanks to the City of Vancouver, which awarded the nonprofit the rental late last year. The bonus? It’ll be in the Woodward’s building, a floor below Kokoro’s offices. With the dance company’s soonto-be-renovated space nestled in the first-floor unit once occupied by W2 Media Cafe, some serious upgrades and alterations are in order, but Kokoro executive director Jay Hirabayashi and artistic director Barbara Bourget are excited about what they’re hoping will be a late-spring opening. “The city is going to take out the concrete stairs for us and expand the offices above, so we’ll have more room for the studio,” said Hirabayashi as he gave the Straight a tour of Kokoro’s recently acquired rental space. Bourget said she’s looking forward to adding track lighting and sprung floors to the area, which is visible from the building’s courtyard and is directly across from London Drugs. She’s also excited at the opportunity for open-air performances, as the
future dance studio’s glass walls are on a track system and can be opened to the courtyard, creating space for larger audiences. While the aboveground area offers plenty of daylight, the real treat is the basement. Hidden in the underbelly of the Woodward’s building, the massive space rounds out Kokoro’s total square footage to a whopping 5,600. While W2 Media Cafe often hosted afterhours raves there, Kokoro has something completely different in mind. The space will be remodelled to accommodate an additional mixed-use performance/rehearsal/production space, as well as a recording studio, dressing room, and kitchen. “Like upstairs, we’re going to add in a sprung dance floor. It’s quite large, and there’s going to be a state-of-theart lighting grid across the top,” Bourget said. “It’s nice because it will be a new space for the performing arts in the city. There are so many arts groups on the Downtown Eastside, but there are so few spaces for us all.” Kokoro will share the facility with subtenants Vancouver Moving Theatre, Raven Spirit Dance Society, and the Vancouver International Dance Festival. -
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Don’t miss this mofo for its killer cast and script TH E AT RE THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT By Stephen Adly Guirgis. A Firehall Arts Centre production, presented in association with Haberdashery Theatre Company. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Thursday, January 21. Continues until January 30
The language is spectacular and
2 so is the acting.
In The Motherfucker With the Hat, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dialogue flows like a waterfall—full of startling images, equally startling humour, and crazy, pounding rhythms. Jackie, a dealer, has just gotten out of jail and he’s clean. Jackie’s nuts about his girlfriend, Veronica, but in the opening scene he goes on a rampage in their apartment, sniffing a man’s hat that has mysteriously appeared, then the sheets. Veronica denies his accusations of infidelity, but Jackie demands, “Why the bed smell like Aqua Velva and dick?” The wildly defensive Veronica says that she would rather “kick a three-legged kitten down a flight of fuckin’ stairs” than tell Jackie that she loves him, but she insists, “You’re so far out of line you’re in Zimbabwe or some shit.” Jackie’s 12-step sponsor, Ralph D, is pushing the program, but he’s also pushing yoga, tofu, and the protein drinks he peddles. The great thing about The Motherfucker With the Hat is that nobody is as simple as they appear to be. As you watch it, your sympathies constantly shift. Is Veronica, who is actively using, better for Jackie than Ralph D with his nihilistic pragmatism? There has been some controversy about the casting of this production: in the end, only one of the three Latino characters is being played by a Latino actor. Clearly, representation of and employment for racial and ethnic
John Cassini and Lori Triolo ride the crazy rhythms of The Motherfucker With the Hat. Emily Cooper photo.
minorities is important, and the discussion about Motherfucker has helped to raise awareness of these issues, which is great. And the cast that’s in place here does terrific work. Kyra Zagorsky’s Veronica is a creature of terrifying beauty. Veronica’s language is so brutal you start to think she’s got metal teeth, but Zagorsky’s complicated performance makes you believe Jackie when he says, “Her heart, it like goes to infinity.” There’s a scene between these two that will make you weep, and throughout, Stephen Lobo’s Jackie is a wonder of boyish and dangerous, gun-toting innocence. Ralph D, the sponsor, is the most complicated character in the script and John Cassini makes deep sense of his contradictions. Lori Triolo is strong as Ralph D’s wife, the furious Victoria. And Francisco Trujillo does decent work as Jackie’s gay Cousin Julio, who has the funniest line in the play. Listing his professional skills to Ralph D, he says that he offers rolfing and Brazilians, and “I’m also a notary public.”
There’s more humour and pathos to the character than Trujillo finds performance wise, though. Lauchlin Johnston’s graffiti-spattered set is perfect. And director Brian Markinson’s decision to ask percussionist Eric Banerd to rocket us through the transitions was inspired. Vivacious script. Acting shmacting. Go see this one.
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BOOM Written and performed by Rick Miller. A Kidoons and Wyrd production. Presented by the Arts Club Theatre Company and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. At the Granville Island Stage on Wednesday, January 20. Continues until February 13
There’s a big gap between the
2 level of skill displayed in BOOM
and the level of satisfaction it produces. The skills are insane. While covering the years from 1945 to 1969, and examining the culture phenomena
that produced and were produced by baby boomers, writer and solo performer Rick Miller effectively mimics everybody from Harry Truman and Winston Churchill to the Pillsbury Doughboy and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He plays guitar and piano, and he sings, impressively, as Perry Como, Mick Jagger, and Bugs Bunny in “Rabbit of Seville”. The accompanying visuals are stunning. The centre of Yannik Larivée’s set is a huge cylinder—like a time capsule—that’s made out of scrim material, so, depending how it’s lit, it can disappear or it can become a projection surface for David Leclerc’s gorgeous visuals. When Miller is inside the cylinder and an image is projected onto it, he becomes a little boy standing stoutly in the archway of a grand apartment building in Nazioccupied Vienna. When he’s Glenn Gould at the piano, stop-motion photographs of the eccentric musician click rhythmically into view. Despite this razzle-dazzle, Act
1 is a snooze. Miller has built his script around three central characters: his Ontarian mom, Maddie; an Austrian-Canadian immigrant named Rudi; and Laurence, an African-American musician from Chicago. In the first act, it’s hard to get a handle on any of them. In the ’40s and ’50s, they were kids, and, in Miller’s telling, they don’t have a lot of agency, so they mostly become vehicles for the delivery of cultural information. And Miller delivers so much information at such high speed that it feels like we’re on a free fall through an Internet search. As he ricochets around the world drawing lines between Gandhi and Martin Luther King, between a Quebec hockey riot and the rise of separatism, and between PTSD and his grandfather’s alcoholism, it’s impossible to know where to focus. Act 2 improves because, for boomers like me, the ’60s were our time. The central characters start to interact with one another and they make adult decisions, so their stories get more interesting. And BOOM has its politics on straight—kind of. Although the cultural heroes we see are almost all men, and the script gives no visceral sense of the rise of the women’s movement, Maddie’s feminism informs the script. And Laurence’s presence gives Miller access to the civil-rights struggle and to opposition to the Vietnam War. The show is oddly U.S.–centric, though—delving into the black-white divide in that country, for instance, while almost completely ignoring Canada’s treatment of its First Nations. Still, the music gets better in Act 2. It’s hard to complain about hearing snippets of Jagger, Joe Cocker, and David Bowie. And Miller performs his pants off. If only he had created a more coherent vehicle for himself. > COLIN THOMAS
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turned into “an angry book called Vanishing Vancouver”, published in 1990. In it he confronted the wholesale way freestanding homes were being razed and replaced by single- or multiunit structures that “were too large [and] ugly (to me)”. The fact that they were also shoddily put together “just compounded the outrage”. The hysterical rise in land prices so escalated the problem that Kluckner followed up with a second book, Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years. Now he has written the introduction to a less angry but even more despairing book, Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival, in which a spectrum of local writers bring love and logic to the rapid disappearance of our domestic architectural heritage. Family housing from the years between the world wars is disappearing rapidly because the lots are so alluring to callous developers who make fortunes from cramming larger (often soulless) buildings into the vacant spaces they have created. In 2013, for example, 866 old houses were taken to pieces and hauled to the dump. Novelist Caroline Adderson, who conceived the book and also took many of its photographs, deals with the Two Dorothies of West 41st, twin cottages of great charm, which, as a result of public protests, were moved to a new address two blocks away. Kerry Gold, who covers Vancouver real estate for the Globe and Mail, writes (very well indeed) about the attraction of such houses and about the human loss we suffer when memories of them and of the lives of the people they once
nurtured slip away. John Mackie, the Sun’s resident historian, writes of one such situation in his own life. Of course, no one believes a city can stand still. Author and Heritage Vancouver cofounder John Atkin writes that “constant development and renewal [is] not bad in and of itself,” but that horrible consequences result from too rapid a rise in real-estate prices. He traces the history of such change in, for example, the West End, which went from beach bungalows and such to a high-rise forest once the city rescinded its six-storey height limit in the 1950s. Decades ago, the late, great Jane Jacobs brought many of these concerns about the changing cityscapes to
the world’s attention in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In Vancouver Vanishes, Gold calls attention to a present-day prophet, Steve Mouzon, author of The Original Green. “His argument is contrary to the fashionable one that an old house wastes energy and is therefore replaced by a new one. He counters that there is a sustainable wisdom to the old traditions, a common sense that explains why the old buildings have endured.” Vancouver Vanishes grew out of Adderson’s Facebook page of the same name. All the pieces have appeared previously. Brought together this way, they make a compelling statement. > GEORGE FETHERLING
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High heels, horse-head rattles, and beaded veils Dana Claxton’s provocative work questions the portrayal of indigenous women in museums and asserts the need to reclaim VISUAL AR TS DANA CLAXTON: MADE TO BE READY At the Audain Gallery until March 12
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to challenge social assumptions and demolish cultural stereotypes. In her Audain Gallery exhibition, Made to Be Ready, she asks us to reconsider the ways in which indigenous women are represented in museums and galleries. As an artist of Lakota heritage, she presents us with a model of resilience, resistance, and reclamation. She also draws on her knowledge of western art forms and conventions to disrupt and rearrange the modernist idea of the ready-made. In the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp famously created the ready-made by isolating an everyday object (a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal) from its original setting, signing it, and displaying it in a gallery. By this act, he outraged convention, privileging the banal object as art and assigning it aesthetic value. In the early 21st century, Claxton asks us to look again at the cultural belongings of First Nations people, which have been removed from their original context, stripped of their use value, and displayed as “artifacts” in museums or “aesthetic objects” in galleries. Her art suggests we consider them as “made-to-be-ready”, that is, as living objects that were created with an immediate functional or ceremonial purpose, into which indigenous aesthetic values and symbolic meanings are inextricably bound. These values, Claxton reminds us, have nothing to do with museological or curatorial practices, nor do
In Cultural Belongings, Dana Claxton juxtaposes contemporary dress with a buckskin robe, rattles, and beads.
they correspond with western ideas of collecting or connoisseurship. Still, she ironically acknowledges that she is asking us to be aware of such cultural dynamics through the production and presentation of new “indigenous art” objects with their own aesthetic and cultural power— her photographs and video works. Two of these take the form of large colour transparencies mounted in lightboxes, which are
described here as “fireboxes”. The silk banners on which another pair of colour photos are reproduced, Buffalo Woman 1 and 2, are identified as “windboxes”. This wordplay serves to rewrite common display devices into Plains culture, while subtly demonstrating how values may be mediated by language. In Cultural Belongings, a woman wearing a contemporary dress and high heels, with a beaded veil covering
her face, holds a horse-head rattle and steps forward as if dancing. At the same time, she drags a load of beaded, painted, quilled, and embroidered objects—pendants, belts, bags, baskets, a quiver—behind her on the long train of her buckskin robe. Headdress is a close-up shot of the same woman in the same beaded headband and veil, her face obscured by dense strands of glass, stone, bone, ceramic, and wooden
beads, from which hang an array of pendants and small carvings. These works are provocatively ambiguous, suggesting that we have too often allowed the display of historic indigenous objects to obscure their meanings and the identities of their makers, the women who tanned, sewed, beaded, embroidered, and wove so much of what we see in anthropology museums. Such objects are also portrayed as something of a burden, dragging behind the dancer, anchoring her in the past. At the same time, however, there is a seemingly opposite message here: the need for contemporary First Nations and Native American women to reclaim cultural belongings as a means of asserting power, identity, and spirituality. Claxton’s big video projection, Uplifting, straightforwardly embodies her understanding of the idea of “survivance”—resilience and survival—proposed by Anishinabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor. Here, an indigenous woman, clad from neck to ankle in red, slowly and agonizingly crawls across a darkened plain on her hands and knees, imprisoned within a narrow beam of light. Her head hangs down, her black hair obscures her face, she casts a long shadow. At the far side of the screen, she collapses, rolls over on her back, her body racked with painful spasms. She makes repeated, failed efforts to rise, then finally, laboriously, stands up, places a Lakota necklace and pouch around her neck, adjusts it so that it is visible to us against the blood red of her garment, then walks away. It’s a stunning work—painfully direct, ultimately hopeful. Survivance. > ROBIN LAURENCE
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PRIDE & PREJUDICE The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Sarah Rodgers’s version of Janet Munsil’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Jan 28–Feb 28, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info 604-687-1644, www.artsclub.com/. XXXX TOPOGRAPHY The Party presents a new work of imaginary theatre that takes place in the dismal halls of a university. Jan 29-30, 8-9:30 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $18-20, info www.theparty.work/.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS 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/festival2016/miss-understood/.
COMMON GRACE Ron Reed directs a provocative family drama that tells the story of a woman who returns home for her father’s funeral. Jan 29–Feb 14, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Info www. pacifictheatre.org/ HUFF The PuSh Festival and the Firehall Arts Centre present Cree playwrightperformer Cliff Cardinal’s story of survival. Feb 2-6, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info pushfestival. ca/shows/festival-2016/huff-2/. ETERNAL The PuSh Festival and the Western Front present a production in which two actors continuously perform one scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for two hours. Feb 2-6, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $22-27, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/eternal/. CENTURY SONG The PuSh Festival and the Cultch present Volcano Theatre’s musical and visual chronicle of over 100 years of women-centric history. Feb 2-6, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $19, info www.pushfestival.ca/ shows/festival-2016/century-song/. THE UNFORTUNATE RUTH The Vancouver Fringe Festival presents a
play about identical twins who share an undeniable psychic connection. Feb 2-7, 8-9:10 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25, info www. vancouverfringe.com/fringe-presents/.
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RIDING ON A CLOUD The PuSh Festival presents the story of a man who was struck in the head by a bullet in Lebanon’s civil war and survived to tell the tale. Feb 3-6, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $31-36, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/riding-on-a-cloud/. FOURPLAY Festival of one-act plays by current students and graduates features Numbers, The Train Carr, The Classroom, and Retail: The Musical. Feb 3-14, Studio 58 (Langara College, 100 W. 49th). Tix $17.25, info www.facebook.com/ events/1603681133206862/. INSIDE OUT Vancouver actor Patrick Keating presents an autobiographical work about his journey through the Canadian criminal-justice system. Feb 3-6, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $1535, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
2ONGOING 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 MOTHERFUCKER 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/.
VOCALS AND VIDEO Music meets mockumentary in Gabriel Dharmoo’s extraordinary Anthropologies imaginaires, with a lot of sociopolitical insight and vocal exploration woven in along the way. Here’s the setup: in his solo performance, Dharmoo demonstrates invented vocal traditions that “experts” comment on in a video mockumentary. So you have Dharmoo riffing on folkoric traditions and showing how strange and malleable the human voice really is, while at the same time provoking all kinds of ideas about exoticism, postcolonialism, globalism, cultural appropriation, and more. Of course, this utterly uncategorizable show, at the Fox Theatre on Monday and Tuesday (February 1 and 2), is presented by the interdisciplinary PuSh International Performing Arts Festival with the adventurous Music on Main. 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/. EURYDICE Theatre UBC presents Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary American retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. To Feb 6, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood
Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $11.5024.50, info archive.theatre.ubc.ca/Eurydice/. 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. To Feb 14, 8-10 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $30-35, info www.unitedplayers.com/.
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LEFTOVERS The PuSh Festival and the Cultch present Neworld Theatre and local comedian Charlie Demers’s political comedy. To Jan 30, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $19, info www.push festival.ca/shows/festival-2016/leftovers/. 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. To Jan 30, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $21-28, info www.seizieme.ca/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK LE TEMPS SCELLÉ The PuSh Festival and the Dance Centre present Algerian-born dancer Nacera Belaza in a piece 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/le-temps-scelle/.
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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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DOUG The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the North American premiere of Janice Kerbel’s Turner-Prize-nominated musical composition and performance. Jan 29, 7 pm, Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson). Free admission, info www. facebook.com/events/1713184018914522/. CITY OF WATER, SEA OF GLASS A performance installation of original percussion instruments (made of water and glass) coupled with worldpremiere compositions. Jan 29, 8 pm, The Waterfall Building (1540 W. 2nd). Tix $20/10, info www.facebook.com/ events/1682236688690042/.
THE EGYPTIAN CONCERTO Gordon Gerrard conducts pianist Louis Lortie and the VSO in a program of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Egyptian, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major. Jan 30, 8 pm; Jan 31, 2 pm; Feb 1, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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PLUCK!: MUSIC FOR AMPLIFIED VOICES & STRING QUARTET Erato Ensemble performs music by Max Richter, Lou Warde, Michael Nyman, Benjamin Yarmolinsky, Osvaldo Golijov, Vladimir Martynov, and Stefan Hintersteininger. Jan 30, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15-25, info www.eratoensemble.com/.
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RINA LIDDLE The Emerson String Quartet performs music by Haydn and Bartók. Jan 31, 3-5 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $48, info ow.ly/WLpAt/.
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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. 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 2CAMERON ESPOSITO Feb 11-13 2ARI SHAFFIR Feb 18-20
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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/ vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2COLIN KANE Jan 29-30 2DAMONDE TSCHRITTER Feb 4-6 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); The Massacre (every Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm). Jan 27–Feb 3, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK FRESH FACES COMEDY SLAM Dylam Rhymer presents a roundup of up-andcoming and professional comics. Jan 28, 8-10 pm, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $10/5, info www.lafflines.com/. COLIN KANE American insult comic known for appearing in The Wedding Ringer. Jan 29-30, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/. PATRICK MALIHA Vancouver comedian and impressionist performs a solo show. Jan 29, 9:30-11 pm; Jan 30, 8-9:30 pm, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $20/18, info www.lafflines.com/.
THEATRE GETS COOKING Call it a thought-provoking, theatrical kitchen party: Pacific Theatre’s new Common Grace takes place entirely in a functioning on-stage kitchen, complete with real food being cooked. It’s where an Abbotsford mother and her three daughters gather after a death in the family. Written by Shauna Johannesen, the play plumbs all kinds of family dynamics in the throes of grief, and premieres from Friday (January 29) to February 14.
one performer stand observing another lying on the gallery floor until they tire, then exchange places. To Jan 31, Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson). Free admission, info www.contemporary artgallery.ca/exhibitions/olivia-boudreaulying-bodies-standing-bodies/.
BATTLE OF THE BRUSH 26: SEASON 5 GRAND FINALE An 80-minute livepainting competition sees five teams of two artists each compete for an exhibition at a local gallery. Jan 29, 8-10:30 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $15, info www.goldenbrushart.com/. MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE & PUSH FESTIVAL Composer and multimedia artist DJ Spooky is joined by locals Peggy Lee and Stefan Smulovitz to rescore Situationist International founder Guy Debord’s 1973 film critique of hyperconsumerism. Jan 30, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ the-society-of-the-spectacle/. MUSCLE PANIC: HAZEL MEYER AT THE CAG For an afternoon event performers generate a series of drills exploring endurance as a phenomenon within sport. Jan 31, 2 pm, Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ events/1664334830505343/. ANTHROPOLOGIES IMAGINAIRES The PuSh Festival and Music on Main present composer-vocalist Gabriel Dharmoo in a pan-cultural investigation. Feb 1-2, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $29, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ anthropologies-imaginaires/.
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AT SEA IN THE CITY West 2nd Avenue’s Waterfall Building is striking enough, but this week the structure will resound with adventurous music, played on instruments made of glass and water. The highlight of City of Water, Sea of Glass will almost certainly be Chinese composer Tan Dun’s Water Music, played on amplified water bowls of his own design, but the program also includes premieres from Benton Roark, Nova Pon, Christiaan Venter, and others. The ever-inventive Redshift Music Society hosts the event at 205–1540 West 2nd this Friday (January 29), with the musicians of the Fringe Percussion quartet taking centre stage.
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
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 who explore the coexistence of modernity and tradition while showcasing the significance of the spiritual world of Taiwan) to Apr 3
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MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER (major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real-estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about how we might design the cityscapes of the future) to May 15
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DAVID CROSS American standup comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist performs on his Making America Great Again! tour. Presented as part of JFL NorthWest. Feb 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.davidcrosstour2016.com/.
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STRING LEADERS Sometimes, when you put a new group of musicians together, magic happens. And what musicians they are in the new Archytas Quartet: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and crack violinist Dale Barltrop plus VSO principal cellist Ariel Barnes, collaborating with UBC school-of-music faculty members David Gillham on violin and David Harding on viola. The ensemble debuts Friday (January 29) at the university’s Barnett Hall, with an intriguing repertoire that ranges from Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz to Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard’s Allaqi to Franz Schubert’s seminal, string-sizzling “Death and the Maiden” Quartet. DEATH & DEVOTION German soprano Dorothee Mields, American baritone Sumner Thompson, and a group of musicians led by Marc Destrubé present 17th- and early 18th-century German sacred music. Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Telus Studio Theatre (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $2550, info www.earlymusic.bc.ca/.
STAYED ON FREEDOM The Marcus Mosely Chorale presents a musical celebration of Black History Month. Jan 30, 7:30 pm, St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $30/25, info www.themarcusmoselychorale.ca/.
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MONUMENTAL The PuSh Festival presents local dance icons the Holy Body Tattoo, accompanied by postrock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Jan 28, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $45, info www. pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ monumental/.
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HUMAN LIBRARY The PuSh Festival and Zee Zee Theatre present conversations with human books on topics like "Drag King" and "In Recovery". To Feb 7, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/human-library-4/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Event expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genrebending, multidisciplinary, and original. To Feb 7, various Vancouver venues. Info www.pushfestival.ca/. LYING BODIES, STANDING BODIES Olivia Boudreau’s performance sees
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS ADAM SANDLER & FRIENDS American comic is joined by fellow comedians David Spade, Norm Macdonald, and Rob Schneider. Show contains adult content and is recommended for adult audiences only. Feb 9, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Paramount Theatre (911 Pine St., Seattle, Wash.). Tix at www.stgpresents.org/.
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Australian DJ Tigerlily was only 21 years
old when she ran into international superstar Tiësto at a local festival. She didn’t know it then, but a flashy shirt would launch her career. “It was a crazy coincidence that we met—he’s a legend in dance music,” Tigerlily (real name Dara Hayes) recalls animatedly, on the line from her Houston hotel. “I was wearing a T with a bit of a rude word on it—the AC/DC logo was rearranged to say ‘ACID’, and he found it really funny. I’m sure he thought I was a massive druggo. But we started chatting, and I told him that I DJed local nights in my home state. “We exchanged contact details,” she continues. “And I was like, ‘Ha-ha, very funny—I’m never going to get an email from him.’ But the next morning I wake up and there’s a message sitting in my inbox. I sent him all my music. He took a listen, and he liked it.” A master of understatement, Hayes sells herself short. Tiësto loved it. And when the DJ born Tijs Michiel Verwest offered Tigerlily a spot on his intercontinental tour of Asia and North America, Hayes was catapulted into the global spotlight. Spinning a self-described “bigroom electro-house with commercial vocals”, she graduated from local venues to lighting up
Embracing her inner fantasy
Tigerlily got Tiësto’s attention with a T-shirt that said “ACID” on it. We’re not completely sure what this one says, but we’ll admit it—it got our attention.
“It’s just insane, if you think about it,” she says. “To come halfway across Tigerlily says her live shows are all about colour, the world and play an fun, and wildness, complete with giant unicorns awesome show to a heap of people.” international stages for 30,000 fans—a dauntShe pauses, thoughtful for a second. “I’m just ing feat for any f ledgling performer, but Tiger- so blessed.” > KATE WILSON lily pounced on the opportunity. “It kind of threw me under the bus!” she says, laughing. “But it pushed me to get better. Really Tigerlily plays Celebrities on Saturday (January 30). quickly.” Honing her craft under Tiësto’s mentorship, Hayes was crowned No. 1 female DJ by Australia’s inthemix magazine for three straight years, before signing to a major label. A slew of As Aurelio Martinez knows well, music is singles later, Tigerlily is on the road again—but much more than another commodity to be this time with her own headline tour. Despite her long checklist of dates, Tigerlily’s bought and sold. The Honduras-based troubadour current North American jaunt is a breeze com- with the stage name Aurelio understands its role in pared to the punishing schedules she’s used to. helping bring together and bind whole communSuccessfully interspersing full-time studies for a ities, and has dedicated his life to his people, the four-year degree with numerous weekly perform- Garifuna of Central America’s Caribbean coast. ances, Hayes has proven her firm dedication to Through his liltingly melodic and highly rhythmic songs, he bolsters their identity, while spreading pursuing life as a DJ. “There’s a time when you’re really work- awareness of their little-known black culture. The Garifuna descend from African slaves shiping hard,” she enthuses, her energy crackling down the phone line. “You’re writing, you’re wrecked off St. Vincent and the indigenous Caribs performing, you’re travelling all over the world, of that island. They survived deportation, starvaand you’re trying to push to that next level. tion, and disease to spread out along the shoreline I feel I’m still in that pushing phase, but I know of four nations—Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, people take me seriously now. I love to connect and Honduras, where Aurelio grew up in the vilwith fans and tell a story. I can’t wait to get my lage of Plaplaya. “My mother is a Garifuna singersongwriter, but she never left the community,” he name out there.” Tigerlily’s excitement matches her live shows. says, reached on the road in Honduras. “She often With a brand that is, in her own words, “about arranges songs for me. My father played guitar. embracing your inner wildness—with lots of When I was three, he left and went to the U.S. He colour, fun, and fantasy”, Hayes’s past gigs have did homemade recordings and sent them to us. featured three-metre-high unicorns, a huge ar- I learned to play that way, without any teachers.” Aurelio first made his mark on other instruray of lights, dancers, costumes, and—bizarrements, however. “I was the percussionist for the ly—a man in a cat outfit. “It’s just this crazy, crazy experience,” she says. entire community during celebrations. That way, Now that she’s hovering on the brink of the I learned many of the traditional dances and anbig time, Hayes hopes this tour of North Amer- cestral songs. After I left home at 14 for the city, ica will offer the next launch pad for her effer- I studied and worked at the same time, playing with various cultural groups and commercial bands. vescent persona.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s tropical-flavoured “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” off last year’s Multi-Love as a note to self to put the mobile away. For us, it’s a desperate admission that what started out as a casual glance at Twitter every 3.9 seconds is now a full-blown problem. As in “Can’t…keep…checking…phone…if I hope to get anything fucking done.” Like, for example, going to see Unknown Mortal Orchestra at the Rickshaw on Thursday (January 28). See you there. If we can put the phone down long enough to get on public transit, we’ll be the one checking it for the duration of the show. -
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In time I became a member of Los Gatos Bravos, one of the leading Honduran bands, and toured Japan, where we recorded Sonidos Garífunas Del Mundo.” Soon afterward, his star rising, Aurelio met the great Belizean Garifuna songwriter Andy Palacio and his equally passionate producer Ivan Duran. “We started making recordings of the last players of parranda, a beautiful acoustic-guitar style my father taught me, and made an album from them that has a more contemporary sound and feeling. Now some people are playing parranda again. Later, we made my first solo album, Garifuna Soul [2004], and Andy’s Wátina [2007], which was a big success in many countries.” In 2008 Aurelio became the standard-bearer for Garifuna roots music, following Palacio’s untimely death. Working with the painstaking and innovative Duran, he’s put out two outstanding albums on the Stonetree label—Laru Beya (2011) and Lándini (2014). “I conceived Lándini with my mother. It’s more acoustic, going back to Plaplaya and drawing on its old soul in a new way. I’ve always been a bit of a rebel as a musician, talking about things that nobody could talk about before, and some in my community have condemned me for this. But it’s important to take Garifuna culture to the world, and to serve as a role model for the young to help prevent the cultural alienation so many Garifuna are experiencing now.”
Facebook accounts hacked last weekend, their timelines littered with stories about boobs and butts. On the upside, the world suddenly had a reason to be interested in Best Coast and Death Cab for Cutie again.
COULDN’T HANDLER Standup comic Chelsea Handler has revealed that Justin Bieber was the worst guest ever on her talk show Chelsea Lately. She said things got awkward when Bieber, then 15, flirted with her: “You feel like a child molester.…I was not sexually attracted to a child.”
FILTHY TALK Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik says his new single “Pillow Talk” is about dirty sex because “It’s something people want to hear about.” That his tweenage fans are mostly still in training bras is evidently not a concern.
JERK IN THE CAN BIG CRIME BABY Want to ditch someone? Send them a copy of Big Crime Baby with a note reading, “Thinking of you.” If they don’t get the hint from “Bird Shit on Lips”—on which Marc Blaquiere muses, “If I had to guess, I’d guess that you’re a fuckin’ goof”—then “The British K.Hunt”, with its refrain of “Hey, cunt,” ought to do it. Jerk in the Can is in righteously pissed-off mode, but ’tis all in good fun. Big Crime Baby is a deliriously twisted industrial clownscape, exemplified by “Crush My Heart”—with its chorus of Auto-Tuned vocals backed by a devil’s-circus chromatic synth riff, it’s unlikely to be unseated as 2016’s weirdest rap song. -
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undertaking? With the weirdly disembodied vocals of “Feel You” and the candy-floss pop art of “Silhouette” leading into the heartbreakingly lonely “Lucette Stranded on the Island” and then the oceanic release of “Sea Calls Me Home”, there’s something quite filmic about Have You in My Wilderness, but Holter cautions not to read too much narrative into its 10 songs. Instead, she says, the record is about power dynamics in relationships—and no, she adds, it’s not autobiographical. “It kind of just came out of, like, this interest that I was taking in art from the past—which, of course, has mostly been made by men,” she explains from her Los Angeles home. “Like paintings of women, or the male approach to art and women as subjects in it, or love as a subject in it. “I was also inspired by a lot of ’60s pop songs,” she continues. “What I see in a lot of songs about love is the idea that love is something that you have to fight for in this very masculine way. And to me this was interesting, because that doesn’t seem like what love frequently ends up being about—if it’s the best kind, like a strong relationship. It doesn’t seem like it’s about this aggressive conquering. But that’s what makes it exciting in art, and so there’s this disconnect between this storied idea of love and the actuality. So I was just playing up this distorted idea, and playing with these different roles.” Perhaps it’s best to consider Have You in My Wilderness as a series of short films, rather than one grand cinematic arc. That helps make sense of anomalies like “How Long?”, in which Holter wanders a Nico-esque lido while conversing with Sally Bowles from Cabaret, or “Vasquez”, a dreamy, Mellotronflecked story of displacement that could well be sung by the ghost of some long-dead conquistador. “I think the character I play is always changing, but I don’t have a plan, really,” Holter says. “I just think of them all as different characters.” Sound unites all these roles, and in prepping for Have You in My Wilderness Holter took an almost scientific approach, preparing a playlist of tunes that she hoped would inspire and inflect her own writing. “There’s one that I always cite, which isn’t even necessarily a story of love, but it has a kind of gazing quality about it: Scott Walker’s ‘Duchess’. If anything influenced the sound of my record, that’s one song that I really do love,” she says. “I also had Bob Dylan’s ‘Lay Lady Lay’, the Flemish version of Jacques Brel’s ‘Ne me quitte pas’, and ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ as performed by Dionne Warwick. And ‘Hello Stranger’ by Barbara Lewis, which I’d covered on my last record, is kind of in that realm, too—all these ’60s songs about distorted love.” There’s no retro navel-gazing on Have You in My Wilderness, however. Holter’s influences percolate gently through her music, but the overall impression is entirely in keeping with how this 31-year-old singerpianist presents herself: thoughtful, modern, and very, very smart. > ALEXANDER VARTY
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he doesn’t necessarily confirm that reading as accurate, either. “In a lot of ways I’m trying to understand things by looking at them through a scientific lens,” Little carefully offers. “That’s a way of, I don’t know, trying to see things a little more objectively, or trying to understand things on a mental level.” Asked why death was on his mind, Saintseneca’s frontman at first politely deflects, noting we all wonder every now and then when it’s going to end. Pushed, he comes back with: “Yes, I dunno, maybe that’s one way of coping with the question of mortality—to deal with it in whatever way that you can, whether it’s music or looking at it through a scientific lens.” Such Things gives listeners plenty to think about. The title track has Little singing “Now I sleep adrift this shiftless vessel/I’ll never keep the ghost inside the gristle,” while on “The Awefull Yawn” he asks, “What do you live on?/If you live beyond?” And the ruminating doesn’t stop there, whether in the lines “My sole solace is/My soulless husk destined to disintegrate” from “Lazarus”, or in “And if you ever really died/I would be surprised” from “How Many Blankets Are in the World?”. Heavy as all that is, Such Things is anything but depressing. From a production standpoint, the record is all about the small details; witness the way the drums thunder off in the distance in “Lazarus” right before what may or may not be a small army of cellists roars in. “I’ve always been intrigued by making the sorts of sounds on albums that aren’t immediately identifiable,” Little says. “Or if they are, maybe you blend them with something that makes it sound more unique than just an acoustic guitar or mandolin. When you marry something to something else so it becomes a hybrid or composite of the two things, that gives you something that’s, hopefully, more intriguing.” On a larger scale, Such Things finds Saintseneca continuing to veer away from its DIY folk-rock beginnings, dabbling in sunrise psychedelia (“Rare Form”), ghost-town Americana (“The All Full On”), and percussion-splattered indie rock (“Maya 31”). “I was after a real full spectrum on the album,” Little reveals. “It’s nice to have a wall of sound, atmosphere, and textures. But then I wanted to also ground that with things that were really live—just people in a room making sounds together. “A big part of this was that I never felt content being constrained to one form or one particular sound,” he continues. “I initially started Saintseneca with people I went to high school with and played in rock bands with, and I felt really boxed in. I more admired the Beatles for having such a broad spectrum of sounds and writing in so many different styles.” And, presumably, for not being afraid to ask big questions.
or where we go when the light goes out for good, but that doesn’t stop him from exploring such matters on Saintseneca’s excellent third album, Such Things. The record seems in some ways like a giant rumination on mortality and where humans fit into the universe. Reached in a tour van > MIKE USINGER that’s headed to Houston, the singer-guitarist doesn’t deny that. But because he’s never been one to spell Saintseneca plays the Cobalt on Sunout his intentions as a songwriter, day (January 31).
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BLACK SABBATH (February 3 at Rogers Arena) In the spotlight: Proving even the Prince of Fucking Darkness has a shelf life, the casket is about to close on Black Sabbath. And the last thing you want to do is shuffle off into the abyss not having seen the legends who practically invented the term heavy metal. Why you need to go: Assuming we don’t get a reunion two years from now, this will be the final time to join a 12,000-strong rivethead sing-along to “Generals gathered in their masses/Just like witches at black masses.” TROYE SIVAN (February 3 at the Vogue Theatre) In the spotlight: If you’ve never heard of Aussie sensation Troye Sivan, here are some quick facts: he’s a YouTube-made pop star whose acting credits include X-Men Origins: Wolverine; his Twitter followers number over 3.3 million; and Time named him one of the most influential teens of 2014. Remember that jealousy will get you nowhere. Why you need to go: Proving he’s more Jared Leto than Bruce Willis, Sivan is one of those actors who can actually sing. His debut, Blue Neighbourhood, has been praised as the best thing this side of Lana Del Rey bedding Morrissey.
BOOKER T. JONES (February 13 at the Vogue Theatre) In the spotlight: Yes, he cowrote the immortal “Green Onions”, but Booker T. Jones has accomplished a thing or two since that single went stratospheric in ’62. A genuine legend with four Grammys under his belt, the R&B stalwart has collaborated with everyone from Questlove and Lou Reed to Mayer Hawthorne and Kelly Hogan. Why you need to go: Some folks are inspirational simply because they continue to show up. Jones is one of them, having released his latest full-length, Sound the Alarm, three years ago at age 69.
Alejandra Ribera (who plays Winterruption on February 20) is well on her way to becoming a Crazy Cat Lady. PROPAGANDHI (February 5 and 6 at the Rickshaw Theatre) In the spotlight: In its purest form, punk rock isn’t about the size of one’s mohawk or being more offensive than Fat Mike. Instead, it’s supposed to make you think, something that Winnipeg’s Propagandhi has been encouraging fans to do for the better part of 30 years. Feed your head with songs like “Apparently, I’m a ‘P.C. Fascist’ (Because I Care About Both Human and Non-Human Animals)”. Why you need to go: Even if you implicitly understand that racism, homophobia, and sexism all suck, you’ll probably still learn something. Besides, that
is, the fact that Blink-182 isn’t, and making the Commodore gig positively intimate by comparison. never was, punk rock. YUKON BLONDE (February 5 at the
Commodore Ballroom) In the spotlight: Having arrived on the scene sounding like ’70s California at its most sun-flooded, Yukon Blonde has gone on to establish itself as one of Vancouver’s most shape-shifting bands. Last year’s On Blonde was a genre-mashing mix of neon-splattered new wave, dark-skies goth, and paisley-dipped psychedelia. Why you need to go: Yukon Blonde’s last big local show was headlining the massive Khatsahlano Street Party,
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at the Pacific Coliseum) In the spotlight: Superstar DJs rarely come more decorated than Get Together headliner Armin van Buuren, who first blasted onto the scene at 19 and shows no sign of slowing down at age 39. In addition to Grammy nominations and Billboard dance-chart accomplishments, the trance legend has been decorated with nothing less than the prestigious Order of Orange-Nassau in his native Holland. (Translation: he’s pretty much a national hero.) Joining van Buuren at
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (February 19 and 20 at the River Rock Casino) In the spotlight: Snicker at the name all you want—elementaryschool kids have been doing that ever since Arnold George Dorsey rechristened himself Engelbert Humperdinck back in 1965. Fifty years later, the man behind “Release Me” and “The Last Waltz” is still packing ’em into casinos at the age of 79. Why you need to go: Normally, one has to go to Vegas to see Mr. Humperdinck. The River Rock Casino just saved you the airfare. WINTERRUPTION (February 19 to 21
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in long, flowing spades. Following up the aptly named 2013 debut Furiosity, the ’70s-fixated riff-rockers are set to unleash a sophomore album titled Sittin’ Heavy. Why you need to go: Your dad had some of the best times of his life with a wineskin and a fully loaded bong, so why shouldn’t you?
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clicks in approximately 36 hours after the New Year’s Eve ball drops in Times Square. Get through the dark days with the always adventurous Winterruption. This year’s edition is loaded with talent like chamber-pop experimentalists the End Tree, dream-hazed chanteuse Alejandra Ribera, and world-music fusionists Tanga. Why you need to go: Much of Winterruption is free. Now get off the couch—it’s not like you’re living in Whitehorse. CRADLE OF FILTH (February 24 at
the Rickshaw Theatre) In the spotlight: When a band sticks around long enough, its fans age with it. How funny, then, that Cradle of Filth has survived the notoriety of its early years to become a black-metal institution? Yes, many of the folks who ponied up for one of their infamous Jesus Is a Cunt T-shirts back in the mid-’90s are now parents. Which won’t stop them from banging the living shit out
VINCE STAPLES (March 1 at the Vogue Theatre) In the spotlight: Arriving on the scene as an Odd Future associate, Long Beach MC Vince Staples has stepped into the spotlight on his own, his Def Jam double-album debut, Summertime ’06, showered with universal acclaim. Suck on that, Tyler the Creator. Why you need to go: Given When it comes to fashion revivalists, Justin Bieber (left) goes for a circa-’92 how quick his ascent has been in grunge aesthetic while Leon Bridges is pure 1960s-vintage soul man. the rap world, this is probably the of their heads to “The Foetus of a New MONSTER TRUCK (February 25 first and last time you’ll see Staples Day Kicking”. Why you need to go: at the Commodore Ballroom) In in a theatre as wonderfully intimAnything to get away from the cradle the spotlight: The number one ate as the Vogue. of filth created on a daily basis by that prerequisite for making authentic screaming newborn. Devil horns up throwback rock is great hair, and CANNIBAL CORPSE (March 4 at Hamilton’s Monster Truck has that the Commodore Ballroom) In the high, new parents! spotlight: Why sit at home watching reruns of The Walking Dead when you can create movies in your mind to the raging horror metal of Cannibal Corpse? Why you need to go: For those who enjoy making movies in their minds, the long-running deathmetal band’s latest, A Skeletal Domain, contains such songs as “High Velocity Impact Spatter”, “Bloodstained Cement”, and “Icepick Lobotomy”. And you thought The Walking Dead was grotesque. FESTIVAL DU BOIS (March 4 to 6
at Mackin Park, Coquitlam) In the spotlight: Maz is the buzz band to beat at this year’s annual celebration of all things francophone. The Quebec quartet has won raves for blending cutting-edge jazz with electronic flourishes. Other reasons to hit the Festival du Bois, which is now in its impressive 27th year, include powerhouse traditionalists Le Bruit Court Dans la Ville, the highoctane Réveillons!, and the fastrising Gabriel Dubreuil Trio. Why you need to go: Did we mention the buzz around Maz?
ANI DIFRANCO (March 5 at the Van-
couver Playhouse) In the spotlight: Back when Lilith Fair was one of the biggest road shows on the planet, Ani DiFranco was to boho folk what Bikini Kill was to riot grrrl, which is to say the voice of a movement. And while most renegades eventually lose the fire, DiFranco’s determination to fight the power remains strong, with 2014’s Allergic to Water her 18th fulllength. Why you need to go: The last time we checked, Mary Lou Lord and Jewel were still missing in action, making DiFranco one of the last survivors of her generation.
HEART (March 8 at the Orpheum) In the spotlight: Core members Ann and Nancy Wilson haven’t always been on top of their game—is Private Audition on anyone’s iPod? But when they are on, few in rock ’n’ roll are as badass. Admit it—you can’t pick up Guitar Hero without taking a futile stab at “Barracuda”. Why you need to go: Most rock bands of ’70s vintage haven’t exactly aged gracefully—does anyone really want to see .38 Special with no original members? Heart’s legacy remains intact, mostly because the Wilson sisters have refused to say die. CELTICFEST VANCOUVER (March 10 to 17 at various Vancouver locations) In the spotlight: For one week of the year, downtown Vancouver feels more like the Temple Bar district of Dublin than, well, downtown Vancouver. (And by Dublin, we’re not talking Dublin, Texas.) CelticFest Vancouver is that time of year, and its 12th edition features the Irish Rovers, the Halifax Wharf Rats, and the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir. Why you need to go: Unless that Christmas bonus came through, odds are you won’t be spending March on the Emerald Isle. CelticFest is the next-best thing, especially after you’ve got three pints of Guinness and a shot of Bushmills in you. JUSTIN BIEBER (March 11 at Rog-
ers Arena) In the spotlight: Whoever Justin Bieber’s spin doctors are, they certainly earned their money in the past year. Just when the former teen idol was in danger of being written off as the worst asshole this side of Donald Trump, he hit bigger than ever with his decidedly adultoriented, EDM–laced fourth album, Purpose. And more importantly, he actually seemed grateful for having fans who pushed him to No. 1 on the charts. Again. Why you need to go: There’s no denying the guy has balls. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have spent three years acting like a complete dickhead, and then released a smash single called “Sorry”.
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pheum) In the spotlight: A couple of years ago, Leon Bridges was washing dishes in a Fort Worth, Texas, restaurant. Today, the impeccably retrodressed crooner is one of the leading lights of a vintage–R&B revival featuring acts like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. Why you need to go: Late last fall, Bridges made his first Vancouver appearance, selling out the Commodore almost overnight. This time, he jumps up to the Orpheum. See the charismatic soulman now, because at this rate it’s next stop B.C. Place—not for one night, but two. -
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North Atlantic Explorers remember a sailor Glenn D’Cruze set off to sea to understand his late father’s experiences, and he ended up writing two albums as a result
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orth Atlantic Explorers’ Glenn D’Cruze sits in an old rowboat off the shores of Burrard Inlet. “Could you try looking more seamanlike?” jokes the photographer. The reserved musician unships the oars. “Is that better?” In terms of both inspiration and musicianship, NAE’s two-album project My Father Was a Sailor and All the Ships at Sea is, above all else, authentic. To get a feel for the seafaring past of his late father, D’Cruze wrangled passage aboard an Icelandic cargo ship during storm season. To authentically render the timelessness and vastness of the Atlantic, he enlisted the help of a choir to fill out the vocal section. And because the modern music fan expects more than just an album, D’Cruze reluctantly finds himself playing sailor on a cold fall morning. “Music once spoke more for itself,” D’Cruze says. “You wrote about what you knew, loved, or were interested in, and then worked hard to convey it to your audience.” Simplicity and sincerity have been NAE hallmarks from the start. “I was playing around North Atlantic Explorers’ Glenn D’Cruze has spent many hours in a leaky rowboat, in search of the McBarge. with some songs and ideas when it occurred to me that my dad had lived each other like current and wind. Pipa’s cryptic “South”. A transition ibilities: “Son, you should hear quite a romantic and adventurous A young and confident William occurs midway, however, beginning these angels’ trumpets play.” life before settling down. I knew very D’Cruze, dressed in a uniform with the track “Lost at Sea”. The recently released companion little about it, when adorned with gold “Death comes to the sailor un- album, All the Ships at Sea, is an insuddenly he died.” braid, holds a expectedly,” D’Cruze explains, as strumental sea voyage of sorts. Each The ensuing pipe and smiles was the case with his father. The track is named after a ship that the voyage of discovfrom the album musician grapples with the invisible elder D’Cruze once manned regularly Peter Valing ery felt natural for cover. force that carries the sailor onward— from Scotland to Iceland and back. D’Cruze, whose interests include carDelivered in the younger D’Cruze’s thus the steady, fluid drive of “Into “Cape Nelson”, “Saint Aidan”, “Agate”, tography and who has always been customary understated vocals accom- the Blue Sea”. Light and music wel- and “Sapphire” conjure things distant, drawn to the sea. “I pored over my panied by piano, the opening track, come the castaway on the other side. ethereal, and beautiful. Thirteen songs dad’s old photographs and merchant- “The Sailor and the Stenographer”, Further along, “No More Stormy transport the listener over smooth, marine documents, and a nautically portrays a man very much alive, Seas” culminates in a Dante-esque polished, and glimmering surfaces. themed project soon congealed.” one “industrious and brave”. Mo- crescendo of horns. D’Cruze’s “I was aiming for a cinematic efOn the first album, My Father tifs of youth and adventure continue vocals are now paired with Brenda fect,” D’Cruze says, “something Was a Sailor, earthly and tran- throughout the first half of the album, Wind’s as D’Cruze senior narrates, haunting and atmospheric.” Throughscendent elements push up against which includes a dynamic cover of appealing to his son’s musical sens- out, the multi-instrumentalist draws
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on his talents, not only on drums and piano, but also on oddities such as the harmonium, as on “Saint Aidan”. When underscored by electronic drum loops on D’Cruze’s rendition of “Sailing By”, the music plunges deep, settles, and there remains. “I’m used to working alone, but this project was a collaboration with many others. Working with the choir of mostly strangers was the best part. Everything was done on the spot and with minimal rehearsal. And their voices covered up some of the more obvious flaws of my own voice.” Vancouver’s JP Carter (Destroyer, Dan Mangan) provides the horn section, and Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch bookends My Father Was a Sailor with mariner weather forecasts read in a manner befitting the vintage texture of the project. True to D’Cruze’s cinematic vision are the miles of sea, the seaside towns, the high-reaching spires, and the low-flying birds captured by Greg Gillespie, the filmmaker who accompanied D’Cruze on his voyage from Scotland to Iceland. “Greg nearly paid for that footage with his life,” D’Cruze says. “He was so intent on catching the waves breaking over the bow that he almost fell in.” This spectacular footage features in the series of videos that accompanies the project. Crossing these stormy expanses of the Atlantic on a cargo ship gave D’Cruze greater insight into his father, and into the life he led. “It’s no wonder Dad was such a remarkable guy. Sailors face an intense existence out there, with death ever near.” A far cry from drifting on placid waters in Burrard Inlet. Perhaps this is why the photo shoot wraps early, yielding just enough promo material to keep pace with the times. -
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Embarassing Dates Can make for entertaining stories decades later. When in my red lipstick wearing twenties, I made out with a date on a romantic walk to the beach and walked around with my date in the city for hours. When I got back to my place after a few hours of being in the first stages of romantic whirlwind of infatuated young love, I looked in the mirror to see a clown looking back. Lipstick all over like Ronald Mcdonald meets Tammy Faye.
Transit Ballads I sing on the bus because I find it calming - unobtrusively, not so loud that people can hear; usually the background noise is sufficient to drown out any other sound while the bus is in motion. I pump up the volume slightly when there is no once else on board, except the driver. I wonder sometimes how sensitive the microphones are, on buses. I imagine transit security reviewing old tapes and shaking their heads, saying “Oh it’s that crazy fellow that sings on the bus again.”
I know about her affair My wife and i have been together for 11 years and I just discovered that she’s having a full blown emotional affair. What started off as flirty text messages and racy photos has escalated to her confiding in him and spending all her time talking to him. I’m starting to think that the emotional affair is more hurtful than a physical one would be. I can tell that she loves him through all the messages I read (while snooping, I’ll admit) but would never leave me because in her own weird way, she loves me too. Should I let her go because I love her?
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MOVIES REVIEWS THE DEMONS Starring Édouard Tremblay-Grenier. In French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 48
The horrors in this stunning feature from
2 Philippe Lesage are mostly implicit, largely
being pulled from the air around Félix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), a 10-year-old who’s haunted, like any sensitive kid, by his dawning apprehension of a world that’s much less secure than he thought. We’re in a deceptively sun-drenched Montreal suburb, probably in the late ’80s—although period is a slippery dimension here, like an unreliable memory—and there are rumours of kidnappings in the air. Lesage’s camera glides inquisitively through this ordinary, if uncertain, world, usually with a hint of something sinister just out of frame, as if Robert Altman had attempted a Québécois rehash of It Follows. The filmmaker has plainly stated that he drew on his own experiences for The Demons, which is frank
Inner demons, outer surprise
Canadian filmmaker Philippe Lesage drew on his own experiences in capturing the emerging angst of 10-year-old Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier) in The Demons.
45 Years is full of tiny background details that may feel random but subtly comment on the central action, set in Norfolk, England’s most eastA Montreal boy explores an uncertain world in The Demons; erly point. When Kate goes for a boat ride on one of the canals veterans show us how it’s done in chamber piece 45 Years carving up the area’s “broads”, about Félix’s emerging, angst-filled sexuality in ways a recorded voice says, “If the Romans had dug somethat most films would prefer to avoid. The boy is dimly where else, these broads probably wouldn’t be here aware of the attention paid to his restless father by a today.” Certainly, Kate wonders if she’d be here now friend’s mom, a pneumatic divorcée who happens to if Katya hadn’t died. But the movie’s not just about do her housekeeping in the nude. The spectre of AIDS boats not taken; there’s all the vitality and potential compounds Félix’s anxiety following his own con- that slips away over time. Will Geoff get it together fused and faintly cruel experiments with another boy. by Saturday? Does it really matter? Here and elsewhere, particularly in crucial seBy the way, these are people who listen to Mozart quences set at a public pool, Lesage lets his gaze rest at home. And one of the most profound moments on the film’s array of tiny, vulnerable bodies, split- has Kate digging out some old sheet music for her ting the difference between the film’s twin poles of piano, only to put it aside to play some dark Sibelius nostalgia and menace. It’s a pre-Internet time of from memory. So, in my only niggle, I wonder if they “stranger danger” that eventually turns all too real. would really choose the most obviously nostalgic Even then, this perfectly paced Remembrance of pop tunes for their party—especially those with such Things Ghastly blind-sides you with two minutes pointed lyrics as “Young Girl”, “Smoke Gets in Your of pure joy during a spontaneous bedroom dance Eyes”, “Go Now”, and, of course, “Happy Together”. > KEN EISNER party (set to Miriam Makeba’s “Pata Pata”). Some demons are real, others imagined, but Lesage is too honest to ignore the shafts of light that still pierce AL PURDY WAS HERE the phantasmagoric fun house of childhood. A documentary by Brian D. Johnson. Rating > ADRIAN MACK
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Like CBC Radio and the wilderness-painting
Starring Charlotte Rampling. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 48
2 tradition, poetry has helped define and connect
Canada while locating a certain wintry aloneness in the national condition. One of the last of the two-fistTwo old acting hands show us how it’s done in ed writers, Al Purdy travelled all the byways before an exquisite chamber piece that examines the crafting poems for the ages. His skill didn’t mature ephemeral nature of security and the past. Writer- until he was past 40, but Purdy managed to eke out a director Andrew Haigh has just the right touch to poet’s existence for the rest of his life, unsupported by adapt David Constantine’s slight short story into a day jobs, grants, or the usual academic resorts. A case for his greatness is made in this first feasmart vehicle for U.K. stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. These former faces of the Swing- ture for critic turned director Brian D. Johnson, ing ’60s play Kate and Geoff Mercer, planning their who uses much archival footage, plus wry obser45th wedding anniversary (they missed their 40th vations from contemporaries and students like because of his heart surgery) for that very weekend, George Bowering and Margaret Atwood (with the latter seen playing billiards in a beer hall). Some when a letter from Switzerland arrives. The body of his long-missing first love has of Purdy’s better words are read or interpreted been found in an Alpine glacier. Unlike Geoff by musical figures such as Leonard Cohen, Sarah and Kate, the hauntingly named Katya’s been Harmer, Gord Downie, and Bruce Cockburn. Coasting through the 90-minute doc is the difperfectly preserved. Suddenly, he’s out in the garden, smoking cigarettes again. And now he’s fident figure of Purdy’s wizened widow, Eurithe, sanguine about the poor family skills of her late spending too much time in the attic.
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2 Doxa, doxa HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT Author John Vaillant will be
taking questions after a screening of Hadwin’s Judgement at the Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall on Friday (January 29). Needless to say, the big screen is where Sasha Snow’s superb doc needs to be seen. Having Vaillant on hand—his book The Golden Spruce first laid out the tale of Grant Hadwin, who felled Haida Gwaii’s cherished tree in a perverse act of ecoterrorism—only sweetens the deal. For our review of Hadwin’s Judgement, go to Straight.com. -
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THE BOY Starring Lauren Cohan. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 48
In the realm of creepy-doll flicks, nothing
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riveting 1978 adaptation of William Goldman’s novel about a psychotic ventriloquist. Compared to that, movies like The Boy are kids’ stuff. The film opens with Greta (Lauren Cohan) en route to a new job as a nanny in the English countryside. “It’s like something out of a storybook, isn’t it?” she says when her ride pulls up in front of a Gothic stone mansion. Greta meets her new employers, the elderly Heelshires (Jim Norton and Diana Hardcastle), and is introduced to their “son”, Brahms, who is actually a porcelain doll. Greta soon realizes the Heelshires are dead serious about wanting her to care for the doll as if it were alive. Instead of doing the smart thing and getting the hell out, she plays along. The bewildered woman finds some support from a grocery deliveryman (Rupert Evans), who shows her the grave where the couple’s son was laid at the age of eight. Who knows the extremes grieving parents may go to to cope with the loss of a child? Turns out Greta’s got major family issues of her own. She’s jittery as all hell, which amplifies the effect of the bizarre occurrences that eventually lead her to believe that Brahms is indeed alive, somehow. As creepy-doll movies go, The Boy isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen. But it doesn’t improve its ranking any see page 47
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husband, who died at 82 in 2000. He managed to pretty much ignore their son, who had mental problems. And she even more assiduously avoided Brian Purdy, his son from a previous marriage, who made a late appearance in the poet’s life, with mixed results, as recounted here in the younger Purdy’s own beautifully read poem. The emphasis is less on family than on home— in this case, the Ontario cottage-country A-frame that provided sustenance (largely alcoholic) to subsequent generations of poets. The film looks at the loving restoration of that Roblin Lake cabin, now being used as a place for writers in residence. Purdy left his mark, but unlike Kilroy’s, his reveals much more upon closer inspection.
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HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Director Charles Wilkinson
attends this screening of his acclaimed doc, with proceeds going to the legal defence fund of opponents of the Site C dam, in the Peace River Valley. At the Rio Theatre on Saturday (January 30).
BOY & THE WORLD Brazil’s Oscarnominated animated feature—a “wordless indictment of fascist corporatism”, according to the Straight ’s Ken Eisner—makes a return visit to Vancouver. See it at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday (February 2). THE BLUE JET See Neptoon Records transformed into a Taipei music store in Lawrence Le Lam’s short biopic about his dad, a rebellious DJ in ’70s Taiwan and a longhaired symbol of covered in this tribute to the late Mr. Kilmister, resistance at a time when secret police were hustling kids into which includes New Order’s Peter Hook and Mick the barber’s chair. “The Blue Jet” opens this year’s Vancouver Jones of the Clash among its talking Motör-heads. Short Film Festival at the Vancity Theatre on Friday (January 29). Screens at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday (February 2). Actors Mackenzie Gray and Beverly Elliott MC the event, which closes with a prize-giving ceremony on Saturday (January 30). More information is at www.vsff.com/. JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 4 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 45 LEMMY Everything you need to know is
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THE WILD FEATHERS American rock ‘n’ roll band tours in support of sophomore release Lonely Is a Lifetime. Mar 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $17 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2MONUMENTAL Jan 28 2JOHNNY REID Feb 1 2YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Feb 6 2RETURN THE GRACE Mar 22 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 2IL DIVO Nov 6
GOLDROOM Los Angeles-based electronica musician and producer. Apr 2, doors 8 pm, show 8:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticktetweb.ca/.
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TONY ORLANDO Pop singer from the ’70s (“Tie a Yellow Ribbon”). Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www. hardrockcasinovancouver.com. AURORA Norwegian pop singer-songwriter 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 Jan 22, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE ARCS American garage-rock band touring in support of latest release Yours, Dreamily. Apr 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE RESIDENTS PRESENT SHADOWLAND San Francisco experimental music-art collective presents a screening of new documentary Theory of Obscurity, followed by a live performance. Apr 14, doors 7 pm, screening 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE STORY SO FAR California punk band tours in support of latest self-titled release, with guests Comeback Kid and Culture Abuse. Apr 18, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 25, 12 pm, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE SUBWAYS U.K. rock band tours in support of new self-titled album, with guests Pins. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GIN WIGMORE New Zealand folk-rock singer-songwriter performs as part of her Willing to Die Tour. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 6 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JAMES BAY English indie-rock singersongwriter tours in support of his latest release Chaos and the Calm. Apr 27, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $35/25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TORTOISE Chicago-based instrumental quintet tours in support of latest release The Catastrophist. Apr 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/. AMON AMARTH Swedish metal band performs with guests Entombed A.D. and Exmortus. May 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES American soul singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming third album Changes. May 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BLACK MOUNTAIN Vancouver psychedelic-rock band tours in support of upcoming release IV. May 21, doors 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $23.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE American psychedelic-rock band. May 23, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. SAVAGES London-based rock band tours in support of latest release Adore Life. May 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $26.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
2THIS WEEK UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AND LOWER DENS Portland-based psychedelic-rock band coheadlines with Baltimore-based indie-rock outfit. Jan 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. SONGS OF RESILIENCE The Queer Songbook Orchestra presents an evening of music and storytelling that examines resilience in song, through the courage of the songwriter. Includes works by Joe Meek, k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, Bronski Beat, and Lesley Gore. Jan 28, 8 pm, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $30/20, info www.anvilcentre.com/. CORB LUND Canadian country singersongwriter tours in support of new studio album Things That Can’t Be Undone, with guest Daniel Romano. Jan 29-30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. A TRIBUTE TO BILLY STRAYHORN Capilano’s own “A” Band, NiteCap, and faculty guests present a musical tribute to the American jazz composer. Jan 29, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $30/27, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. THE CREAKING PLANKS’ 11TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA East Van indie-folk band performs in an 11thanniversary show with guests Sidewalk Cellist and the Myrtle Family Band. Jan 29, 8:30 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10, info bit.ly/planks11. CHAPEL SOUND TAKEOVER Vancouverbased electronica collective, with Heroshe, BDG, Phil David, Loner, Joseph L’Etranger, Jade Statues, Shaunic, Jnl Wsuptiger, and Silence. Jan 29, 10:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tx $10 at the door, info www.biltmorecabaret.com/. THE EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS Los Angeles-based indie-gospel group tours in support of debut album Heavenly Fire. Jan 30, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Psychedelic-funk band from Austin, Texas, tours in support of latest release Space Is Still the Place. Jan 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ENFORCER AND WARBRINGER Swedish and American death metal bands coheadline with guests Cauldron and Exmortus. Jan 30, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk-bluegrass outfit. Jan 30, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ ev16013020/. THE WOOD BROTHERS American roots-blues band tours in support of new release Paradise, with guest Liz Vice. Jan 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Note: Moved from originally scheduled venue of the Vogue Theatre. Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. SAINTSENECA Ohio indie-folk band tours in support of latest release Such Things. Jan 31, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. AURELIO Honduran roots artist performs Garifuna soul music. Jan 31, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.capilanou.ca/centre/.
OH WONDER London-based alt-pop duo tours in support of debut self-titled album. May 28, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 9 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
JOHNNY REID Scottish-born country artist tours in support of upcoming album What Love Is All About. Feb 1, 7 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
AT THE DRIVE-IN Texas post-hardcore band, with guests Le Butcherettes. Jun 7, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 29, 10 am, $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
THE SOFT MOON California postpunk artist tours in support of latest album Deeper, with guest Left Spine Down. Feb 2, doors 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/.
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HOT JAZZ JAM Night of dancing and live jazz music by Rossi Gang. Feb 2, 9:30 pm, The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $12/10, info www. facebook.com/events/1644618342456733/. THE KNOCKS New York City electronica duo performs on its Route 55 Tour, with guests Cardiknox. Feb 3, doors 7:30 pm, show 8:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. BLACK SABBATH British heavy-metal legends, featuring vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, and bassist Geezer Butler, perform on their final tour, with guests Rival Sons. Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $49.50 to $150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2JUST KIDDIN’ Feb 3 2BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY Apr 30 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.
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DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2ONYX Jan 27 2DARIUS Feb 7 2MIKE STUD Mar 3 2GOLDLINK Mar 4 2PROTOMARTYR AND CHASTITY BELT Mar 8 2YUCK Mar 29 2OPERATORS Apr 5 2LAPSLEY Apr 26 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2AN EVENING WITH FOND OF TIGERS Jan 28 2SONGS OF RESILIENCE Jan 29 2THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE Jan 30 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE & PUSH FESTIVAL Jan 30 2ANTHROPOLOGIES IMAGINAIRES Feb 1 2DECODER 2017 Feb 4 2A LIVING DOCUMENTARY Feb 5 2DECLARATIONS Feb 6 2DAWN PEMBERTON AND CÉCILE DOO-KINGUÉ Feb 12 2DRALMS Feb 18 2JENN GRANT Feb 19 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT Feb 20 2AMELIA CURRAN Mar 11 2FAST ROMANTICS Mar 24 2SARAH NEUFELD Mar 26 2SAID THE WHALE May 7 FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). 2JAMES DANDERFER STANDARD LIFE QUARTET Jan 28 2DYLAN CRAMER QUARTET Jan 29 2OLIVER GANNON QUARTET Jan 30
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.
FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2MONSTER BABY, THE EAST VAMPS, PILL SQUAD, JEAN MUSTARD Jan 29 2CAMPFIRE SHITKICKERS, GHOST FACTORY, NO PROBLEM, FUCK EVERYTHING Jan 30 2S.K.A.M. Feb 3 2LA CHINGA, 88 MILE TRIP, UNDER BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, THE MOUNTAIN, THE MOUNTAIN MAN 604-676-0541. 2FREAK HEAT WAVES Jan 27 Feb 5 2NEVER ANOTHER, THE FIFTH 2LITTLE WILD Jan 29 2CHAPEL SOUND CIRCLE, RED7 Feb 6 2POWERCLOWN, TAKEOVER Jan 29 2THE BRIGHT LIGHT CRACKWHORE, OGROEM, INFECTIOUS SOCIAL HOUR Jan 30 2BOTTOMS DECAY Feb 12 UP Jan 31 2DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN: THE TOUR Feb 4 2BAIO Feb 5 2ACT HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER OF DEFIANCE Feb 6 2KITTY NIGHTS 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523BURLESQUE ALL-STARS Feb 7 2WET 6888. 2MULAN Feb 6 2ROCK FOR KIDS Feb 10 2EHM SKY PATROL ALBUM 2016 Feb 14 2ED KOWALCZYK Mar 3 RELEASE Feb 13 2MY PURPLE VALENTINE 2TONY ORLANDO Apr 9 2GEORGE Feb 14 2SUMAC Feb 19 2JOSEPH THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Apr 21 Mar 4 2AOIFE O’DONOVAN Mar 5 2JOE SATRIANI Apr 24 2RUN RIVER NORTH Mar 8 2ROBYN THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. HITCHCOCK Mar 10 2RADIATION CITY 2THE WOOD BROTHERS Jan 31 290s & DEEP SEA DIVER Mar 17 2AN EVENING REWIND PARTY Jan 31 2THE KNOCKS WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 2CHAIRLIFT Mar 24 2RADIO RADIO Mar 26 2RA Feb 3 2SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 4 RA RIOT Mar 31 2GOLDROOM Apr 2 2YOUNG GALAXY: CANCELLED Feb 10 2BLEACHED Apr 28 2LOVE IS THE ANSWER Feb 13 2LAKE STREET DIVE Mar 1 2BAG RAIDERS Mar 4 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 6042DAMIEN DEMPSEY Mar 5 2SILVERSTEIN 733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and Mar 8 2JUNIOR BOYS Mar 10 2WE ARE interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; THE CITY Mar 11 2ELECTRIC SIX Mar 23 beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party 2WINTERSLEEP Mar 25 2POLICA Mar Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. 30 2QUANTIC Apr 9 2AURORA Apr CINEMA PUBLIC HOUSE 901 Granville, 10 2PETE YORN Apr 11 2THE STORY 604-694-0202. Pub featuring craft beer and SO FAR Apr 18 2TORTOISE Apr 28 cocktails, pub food, late-night menu, and 2BOMBINO Apr 30 2MAGIC MAN & THE weekend brunch. DJs all night Wed-Sun. GRISWOLDS May 3 2SAINT MOTEL May Happy hour 3-6 pm. 22 2SAVAGES May 27 COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 2SAINTSENECA Jan 31 2NSFW: HIP HOP RHYTHM ST. Feb 5 2BLUE FINS Feb 6 MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL. 15 Feb 7 2DIANE 2 COFFEE Feb 20 2ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER 2SUPER BOWL Feb 7 268 LIPS Feb 12 2RICOCHET RABBIT Feb 13 Mar 4 2ANDERSON EAST Mar 5 2ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Mar 19 2ALEX G AND LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 PORCHES Mar 26 2LITTLE GREEN CARS Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Mar 31 2PRINCE RAMA Apr 2 2ALEX Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; CALDER AND LUKE RATHBORNE Apr Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & 3 2BANE Apr 5 2MATTHEW LOGAN Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & VASQUEZ Apr 9 Friends Sat. COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2 CORB LUND Jan 29 2ARKELLS Feb 1 2YUKON BLONDE Feb 5 2ADVENTURE CLUB Feb 11 2THE BOOTS & BABES BALL Feb 13 2THE MUSICAL BOX: SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND Feb 17 2THE SHEEPDOGS Feb 18 2RED...A POSITIVE DAY Feb 20 2MONSTER TRUCK Feb 25 2INDIGO GIRLS Feb 26 2CLASSIFIED Feb 27 2FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS Mar 3 2CANNIBAL CORPSE Mar 4 2DELHI 2 DUBLIN Mar 5 2REBELUTION Mar 6 2ANJUNABEATS Mar 10 2DISTURBED Mar 11 2THE WAILERS Mar 12 2MOTOWN MELTDOWN Mar 19 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS Mar 20
LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. M.I.A. 350 Water St., 604-408-4321. Gastown’s newest intimate nightclub and special-event space, equipped with a Funktion-One Soundsystem, hosting local and touring electronic, live, and club events weekly. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. Live music most nights. 2THE EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS Jan 30 2MODERN SPACE Feb 4 2ENEMY FEATHERS Feb 19 2HEY MARSEILLES
RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. Live bands some nights. 2UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AND LOWER DENS Jan 28 2ENFORCER AND WARBRINGER Jan 30 2PROPAGANDHI Feb 5 2THE DREADNOUGHTS Feb 13 2THE TOASTERS Feb 17 2PARQUET COURTS Feb 20 2CRADLE OF FILTH Feb 24 2BOWIE TRIBUTE NIGHT Feb 26 2BONGZILLA & BLACK COBRA Mar 4 2REVEREND HORTON HEAT Mar 10 2THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Mar 20 2GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Mar 24 2WEEDEATER Mar 28 2DUNCAN TRUSSELL STAND UP COMEDY BUS TOUR Apr 27 2KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS May 7 2LUCA TURILLI’S RHASPODY AND PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD May 28 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2THE NYLONS Apr 9 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2JUSTIN BIEBER Mar 11 2ELLIE GOULDING Apr 1 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2RIHANNA Apr 23 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 2HEDLEY May 20 2CITY AND COLOUR Jun 3 2DIXIE CHICKS Jul 7 2ADELE Jul 20 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us WedThu. 2MICHAEL GRESHAM Jan 29 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 250-seat venue at St. James Community Square features concerts presented by the Rogue Folk Club. 2LE VENT DU NORD Jan 27 2JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS Jan 30 2AURELIO Jan 31 2OLD MAN LUEDECKE Feb 5 2JEFF LANG Feb 11 TEN TEN TAPAS 1010 Beach, 604-689-7800. West Coast tapas restaurant featuring live music four nights a week at 7 pm. Rising artists Thu, flamenco guitar Fri, hornman Gabriel Hasselbach Sat, soul/R&B Sun. Guest musicians/singers every weekend. VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2THE SOFT MOON Feb 2 2KILLING JOKE: CANCELLED Feb 2 2DR. DOG Feb 6 2CHOCOLATE LONG WEEKEND Feb 7 2TRIVIUM Feb 8 2LIARS AND LIONS Feb 20 2TRASH TALK Feb 25 2BEYOND THE CONFINES Feb 27 2ST. LUCIA Mar 1 2ERUPTION Mar 5 2THE REAL MCKENZIES Mar 10 2IAN FLETCHER THORNLEY Mar 12 2ULI JON ROTH’S ULTIMATE GUITAR EXPERIENCE Mar 19 2THE WILD FEATHERS Mar 31 2NIYAZ AND ADHAM SHAIKH Apr 7 2GIN WIGMORE Apr 26 2NAPALM DEATH AND MELVINS May 2 2NADA SURF May 17 2PRONG May 29 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. 2TROYE SIVAN Feb 3 2BOOKER T. JONES Feb 13 2LOGIC Feb 15 2MATT ANDERSEN Feb 18 2AN EVENING WITH THE CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Feb 20 2JEREMY HOTZ Feb 26 2VINCE STAPLES Mar 1 2THE IRISH ROVERS Mar 17 2DAUGHTER Mar 18 2RACHEL PLATTEN Mar 28 2ALESSIA CARA Mar 29 2JOANNA NEWSOM Mar 30 2YUNG LEAN Mar 31 2KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Apr 3 2TINASHE Apr 10 2BOYCE AVENUE Apr 15 2BEACH HOUSE Apr 30 2CHE MALAMBO May 20 2MODERAT May 23 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2THE CREAKING PLANKS’ 11TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA Jan 29 2GLAM SLAM Feb 6
OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED PETER GABRIEL & STING British pop legends perform on a coheadlining tour. Jul 21, 8 pm, Key Arena (305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA). Tix on sale Feb. 1, 10 am, at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
2THIS WEEK AC/DC Hard-rock legends from Australia perform on their Rock or Bust World Tour. Feb 2, 8 pm, Tacoma Dome (Tacoma, Wash.). Tix US$137 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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by shedding its atmospheric vibe near the end and morphing into a routine Halloween-type rampage shocker.
> STEVE NEWTON
DREAMS REWIRED A documentary by Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, and Thomas Tode. In English, French, and German, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 48
Consisting entirely of images silent and early sound films, Dreams Rewired is a nocturnal tour of the wired world, starting with telephony in the 19th century. Collaging together sometimes scattershot footage with stark animation, the tale travels through the arrival of cinema itself, followed by radio and television. The advent of digital media is merely suggested by the prototypes, and the human aspirations, on offer. The 85-minute film’s narration chores fall entirely to Tilda Swinton, who perhaps takes over too much of its personality. Our favourite genderbending vampire not only delivers a somewhat nebulous message about the inevitability of digital connection (typical line: “The future asks to be invented yet again”), she also adlibs perceived dialogue from some of the silent-picture snippets chosen to illustrate their assertions. The strongest elements are also some of the most influential, including the montage-heavy propaganda of Dziga Vertov, plus several sequences from the rarely seen Soviet sci-fi flick Aelita (1924). Also interesting is the proto–CCTV set up by the Nazis for their 1936 Olympics. There’s a slightly deadening drumbeat of implied menace—mostly involving military and government surveillance—running through Dreams. The effect is more somnambulistic than stimulating, and eventually you’re less concerned about Big Brother peering into your home than you are about getting Tilda Swinton out of your head.
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Rick Yancey’s 2013 young-adult novel. Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Cassie, a fiesty Ohio teen whom we first see sprinting through the woods clutching an assault rifle. We learn that Cassie has already lost her parents to the apocalypse and is now on a mission to find her kid brother, Sam (Zackary Arthur), while evading the aliens that have taken human form in the last of a five-step program for world domination. In a nod to/ripoff of John Carpenter’s They Live, you can only tell who’s an alien by peering through special lenses that reveal a squidlike critter inside the skull of a host. That’s kinda neat, but in The 5th Wave anything halfway decent gets
wasted with a preposterous story line that centres on a military commander (Liev Schreiber) who enlists little kids for intense combat training before throwing them into battle with the marauding aliens. It’s disasters like this that make you welcome any conquering species, as long as they agree to vaporize Hollywood first.
diverse casting in movies. If nothing else, suffering through Dirty Grandpa demonstrates another fact about Hollywood: there are too many roles for shameless old white guys who’ll do anything for big bucks. Robert De Niro stars as horny senior Dick Kelly, who decides to go on a Spring Break road trip with his > STEVE NEWTON strait-laced grandson (Zac Efron). Dick has recently lost his wife to DIRTY GRANDPA cancer. His remedy for grief? Getting laid by someone young enough Starring Robert De Niro and Zac to be his granddaughter. Efron. Rated 14A. For showtimes, In case we’re still fuzzy on the please see page 48 creative thrust here, director Dan There’s a lot of controversy Mazer lets us know just what kind these days about the lack of of film this is going to be early
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on. That’s when we see Dick furiously masturbating to porn as his grandson inadvertently interrupts. Efron, who wears the same vacant expression from start to finish, can’t quite muster enough energy to look genuinely disgusted. But if De Niro can shift to cruise control, what’s the difference? This is one grubby little movie. But the shabbiest aspect is that the script tries to have things both ways, injecting the kind of stale sentiment that’s meant to redeem all the degradation we’re forced to witness. It’s early days, but Dirty Grandpa has my heartfelt vote for worst movie of the year. > JOHN LEKICH
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A documentary by Pierre Deschamps. In English, Danish, and French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 48
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tion at Noma, his Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen. Redzepi accomplished two very difficult things: he stuck to a seasonal, locally sourced menu in a country that has roughly six months of winter; more surprisingly, he made Scandinavian food cool. Unfortunately, you learn more about his struggles, and his food, in multiple episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s TV series No Reservations and The Mind of a Chef than you do in the 100 mostly flaccid minutes of Noma: My Perfect Storm. Writer-director Pierre Deschamps has a fine eye for colour and composition, but often at the expense of Redzepi’s story. Noma went through a small downturn in 2013, following the loss of its No. 1 designation by Restaurant magazine—something Redzepi pretends not to care about. The film follows his crew to England, where they are again vying for the top spot. His presence in the film can be annoying, mainly because he seems to be playing for the camera—swearing randomly with the swagger of the basically insecure. He also picks fights with his staff, who stand around, dumbfounded at his antics. Meanwhile, the food goes cold while we gradually forget why we wanted to know about this guy in the first place. > KEN EISNER
THE 5TH WAVE Starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 48
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anniversary. Rated PG. 93 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas
NOMA -- MY PERFECT STORM Writerdirector Pierre Deschamps’s documentary sees chef Rene Redzepi discuss his Copenhagen restaurant Noma and how his culinary philosophy has shaped its success. Vancity Theatre
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THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca 2AL PURDY WAS HERE Sun 4:30; Wed 8:15 2BROOKLYN BOHEME Thu 7:00 2DREAMS REWIRED Fri-Sat 8:45; Sun, Wed 6:30 2THE DEMONS Fri-Sat 6:30; Sun 8:20 2THE SKIP TRACER Mon 7:00 VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/ theatre 22016 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: ANIMATED Fri-Sat 1:00; Sun 6:10; Mon 6:30; Thu 8:45 22016 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: LIVE ACTION Fri-Sat 3:00; Sun 8:15; Mon 8:30; Thu 6:30 2A SYRIAN LOVE STORY Tue 9:15; Wed 6:30 2MEDITERRANEA Tue 6:30 2NOMA, MY PERFECT STORM Sun 4:15; Tue 1:00; Wed 8:20
THE DEMONS Pascale Bussières, Raphaëlle Caron, and Victoria Diamond SPECIAL EVENTS star in The Heart That Beats writer-director Philippe Lesage’s drama about a young THE OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED boy who begins to experience the adult SHORTS Screenings of "Sanjay’s Super world as he enters adolescence. 118 mins. Team", "World of Tomorrow", "Bear Story", The Cinematheque "We Can’t Live Without Cosmos", and "Prologue". Jan 29–Feb 27, Vancity Theatre DREAMS REWIRED A documentary (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership by writer-directors Manu Luksch, Martin fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. Reinhart, and Thomas Tode traces contemporary appetites and anxieties back THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT to the birth of the telephone, television, FILMS (LIVE ACTION) Screenings of and cinema. 88 mins. The Cinematheque "Ave Maria", "Shok", "Everything Will Be OK", "Stutterer", and "Day One". Jan 29– THE FINEST HOURS Chris Pine, Holliday Feb 27, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix Grainger, and Casey Affleck are featured $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www. in Million Dollar Arm director Craig viff.org/theatre/. Gillespie’s drama about a pair of oil tankers that are destroyed during a CRAZY8S DGC-BC 17 YEAR blizzard near Cape Cod in 1952. Rated ANNIVERSARY SHORT FILM G. 116 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, SCREENING & MINGLER Mix with filmCineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, makers and other film-industry members Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex including sponsors then watch eight short Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas films. Jan 28, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Caprice, Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre. Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, ca/movie/crazy8s-dgc-bc-17-year-anniverLandmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, sary-screening/. Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT DOXA Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Documentary Film Festival presents a Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission screening of Hadwin’s Judgement as and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas part of its Motion Pictures Film Series. Includes a post-film Q&A with John 45 YEARS Charlotte Rampling, Tom Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce. Courtenay, and Geraldine James star in Weekend director Andrew Haigh’s drama Jan 29, 7-9 pm, Richmond Cultural Centre about a husband and wife who receive (180–7700 Minoru Gate). Tix $12/10, info shattering news on the eve of their 45th www.doxafestival.ca/.
VANCOUVER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Event features 23 short films from B.C. filmmakers, selected from over 180 submissions. Jan 29-30, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11-55, info www.vsff. com/.
FILM TALK: SELMA Local film critic Josh Cabrita hosts a film screening and discussion of the Academy Award-winning film Selma. Feb 2, 6:30-8:45 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/.
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 29, 6:30 pm; Jan 30, 12:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12 at the door, info riotheatre.ca.
BOY & THE WORLD Director Alê Abreu’s Oscar-nominated animated musical sees a young boy go on an adventurous quest. Feb 2, 6:45 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
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came and went, and every present I bought for my extraordinary husband could be opened in front of our children. He deserves better, and I have a particular gift in mind for Valentine’s Day. My husband has expressed an interest in sounding, something we’ve attempted only with my little finger. He seemed to enjoy it! But the last thing I want to do is damage his big beautiful dick. So is sounding a fun thing? Is sounding a safe thing? Recommendations for a beginner’s sounding kit? Or should I scrap the idea and just get him another butt plug? > SAFETY OF SOUNDING
P.S. Here is a picture of the big beautiful dick I don’t want to damage. Sounding, for those of you who didn’t go to the same Sunday school I did, involves the insertion of smooth metal or plastic rods into the urethra. Sounding is sometimes done for legitimate medical purposes (to open up a constricted urethra, to locate a blockage), and it’s sometimes done for legitimate erotic purposes (some find the sensation pleasurable, and others are turned on by the transgression, particularly when a man is being sounded, i.e., the penetrator’s penetrator penetrated). So yeah, some people definitely think sounding is a fun thing, SOS. “But whether or not something is a safe thing depends on knowledge of the risks/pitfalls and an observance of proper technique,” said Dr. Keith D. Newman, a urologist and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. “The urethral lining has the consistency of wet paper towels and can be damaged easily, producing scarring. And the male urethra takes a bend
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just before the prostate. Negotiating that bend takes talent, and that’s where most sounding injuries occur.” Recreational cock sounders— particularly newbies—shouldn’t attempt to push past that bend. But how do you know when you’ve arrived at that bend? “SOS’s partner should do the inserting initially,” said Dr. Newman, “as the bend in the urethra is easily recognized by the soundee. Once he is clear on his cues—once he understands the sensations, what works, and when the danger areas are reached—SOS can participate safely with insertion.” And cleanliness matters, SOS, whether you’re sounding the husband or serving burritos to the public. “Infection is always an issue,” said Dr. Newman. “Clean is good, but the closer to sterile the better. And be careful about fingers. They can be more dangerous than sounds because of the nails and difficulty in sterilizing.” So for the record, SOS: your previous attempts at sounding—those times you jammed your little finger into your husband’s piss slit—were more dangerous than the sounding you’ll be doing with the lovely set of stainless-steel sounding rods you’ll be giving your hubby on Valentine’s Day. Moving on… “Spit is not lube,” said Dr. Newman. “Water- or silicone-based lubes are good; oil-based is not so good with metal instruments.” (You can also go online and order little singleserving packets of sterile lubricant. Don’t ask me how I know this.) Using “glass or other breakable instruments” as sounds is a Very Bad Idea. Dr. Newman was pretty emphatic on this point—and while it sounds like a fairly obvious point, anyone who’s
worked in an ER can tell you horror stories about all the Very Bad Ideas they’ve retrieved from people’s urethras, vaginas, and rectums. Now let’s go shopping! “Choosing the best ‘starter kit’ is not hard: Pratt Dilators are not hard to find online, they’re not that expensive, and they will last a lifetime,” said Dr. Newman. (I found a set of Pratt Dilators on Amazon for less than $30.) And when your set arrives, SOS, don’t make the common mistake of starting with the smallest/skinniest sound in the pack. “Inserting something too small allows wiggle room on the way in and for a potential to stab the urethral wall,” said Dr. Newman. The doc’s next safety tip will make sense after you’ve seen a set of Pratt Dilators: “Always keep the inserted curve facing one’s face, meaning the visible, external curve facing away toward one’s back.” You can gently stroke your husband’s cock once the sound is in place, SOS; you can even blow him. Vaginal intercourse is off the table, obviously, and you might not wanna fuck his big beautiful dick with a sound until you’re both feeling like sounding experts. And when that time comes: don’t stab away at his cock with a sound in order to soundfuck him. A quality sound has some weight and heft—hold his erection upright, slowly pull the well-lubricated, nonglass sound until it’s almost all the way out, and then let go. It will sink back without any help from you. Your husband’s butt should be plug-free during your sounding sessions, SOS, as a plug could compress a section of his urethra. If you’re skilled enough to work around the bend—or if you’re foolish enough to push past
it—the sound could puncture his compressed urethra. And a punctured urethra is every bit as unpleasant as it sounds. (Sorry.) Finally, SOS, what about coming? Will your husband’s balls explode if he blows a load while a metal rod is stuffed in his urethra? “Coming with the sound in place is a matter of personal preference,” said Dr. Newman. “There is no particular danger involved.” P.S. Thank you for the picture.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: Banyen Books, West 4th Ave.
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 24, 2016 WHERE: Vancouver Convention Center (West) Resource Investment Conference
I was the tattooed & pierced Brit who came in to the wonderful shop you work at (Banyen Books) with my partner, we bought her a journal; you smiled, I smiled, you held my gaze and we connected (I think).... I thought you were intriguing and beautiful, my partner thought you were returning my flirtatious glances and encouraged me to chat with you, but I imagine you were just being friendly because you work there. I’m sure we’ll come back in some time... maybe we could connect sooner rather than later?
Your claim to be a “menial” anything is quite absurd. With that wicked millionwatt grin and sharp claws, you had the air of being on the hunt at the Vancouver Convention Center (West) Resource Investment Conference on Sunday. I have not doubt you’ll bag your prey with little trouble when you so choose. Thanks for making my very pensive and somewhat tedious day a bit better; Van could use more island girls like you to light things up. Perhaps we can share a chuckle about marketing lies next conference.
“GOODBYE, TWIN!”
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 25, 2016 WHERE: McDonald’s - Robson and Cambie
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 21, 2013 WHERE: Revelstoke
We were both wearing the same green jacket, you had red lipstick, dark hair, jeans and Converse. And a sultry voice. Wished I had stuck around long enough to get your name... and maybe your number?
I saw you in rain pants going out of bounds on the mountain at Revelstoke. I followed you, we got stuck and just before ski patrol rescued us, you slipped and said you loved me. We’ve lost contact, and I can’t stop thinking about you. Meet me for a coffee.
PYLON SPIT FACE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 24, 2016 WHERE: Main/Dunsmir
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 21, 2016 WHERE: Pub 340
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: David’s Bridal Langley
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 13, 2016 WHERE: Seabus
To the girl throwing pylons down Main St. who proceeded to spit in my face after I told you that you're amazing. I take it back, your ruthless. Can we burn it all down together?
Met you in a hurry to catch my cab last night. You stopped me outside and I took your number but I got it wrong. You were sitting in the corner with your friend I was at the table across you.
Maid of honour for my friend’s wedding in May, your friend's is in July. We smiled at each other a few times before I left. Wish I gave you my card. Have dinner with me?
STARBUCKS CAMBIE BROADWAY
BEAUTY BY THE STAIRWELL
ONCE ON THE 3 BUS, ONCE FOR PHO
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.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks Cambie and Broadway Saw u with a girl in white you have a beautiful soul. Fancy coffee or Shakespeare? I’m guy with red hair and black sweats.
WILL ON GABRIOLA OCTOBER 2015
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 18, 2015 WHERE: The Haven, Gabriola Island
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 19, 2016 WHERE: 1245 E 7th Ave I saw you exit the stairwell. Time stopped. I saw our life together. Damn, baby.
EMBARKING ON A JOURNEY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 23, 2015 WHERE: Main Street
We met at The Haven on Gabriola back in October. Your name is Will. My name is Wendy. I had gone over with friends and had to leave before getting a chance to say goodbye or giving you my number.
You are handsome, blonde, and creative. I am a gregarious brunette that you seemed to enjoy speaking to! This may be a long shot, but you came into my work and treated your friends to dinner. As you put it, you were about to embark on an emotional journey with them... creating something together. I would love for you to show me the final product!
CLARK KENT
SASSY BRUNETTE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: DECEMBER 24, 2016 WHERE: Butcher & Bullock
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: Tower Elevator
I asked you for a lighter and you offered not just that but excellent conversation as well! Whether you realize it or not you changed the course of my life (at least a little bit). I’d like to meet up again to discuss the possibilities.
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.
TOYOTA TACOMA
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Abbotsford Chevron Gas station Abbotsford. I’m sure we were checking each other out. I thought you looked familiar, I should have said something, I didn’t and wish I had. I was driving a Mazda and wearing a black jacket.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 17, 2016 WHERE: 3 Marine Drive, Pho Yo dude. You kept catching me staring at you on the bus and then I ran into you at that pho place on Main and 30th??? We said hello BUT YOU STARED INTO MY SOUL?? I felt like I was in a rom-com can’t wait to run into you again HAHA! P.S. I was wearing a space-suit and a fur coat.
STAPLES DOWNTOWN - DAYTIMER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 17, 2016 WHERE: Staples Downtown You were buying a day-timer, me pens. The cashier tried selling us some sort of ridiculous plastic roll up the rim device. I was so confused by the whole experience, that I forgot to put my name and number in your fresh, new day-timer.
BC FERRIES/CANADA LINE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 17, 2016 WHERE: BC Ferries/Canada Line We were both on the last ferry from Victoria back to Tsawwassen and met in the lineup for the bus. We joked about getting a cab downtown instead of waiting in the cold weather. You were off to Coquitlam and not sure you would make your connection. I had the long brown, curly hair and Cowichan sweather. You had straight dark hair and good style. When we were running to catch the Canada Line in Richmond I just barely got on the train and saw the door slam behind me with you on the other side... I wish we could have chatted more.
JJ BEAN YALETOWN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: JJ Bean Yaletown Let’s see if this works... You were adorable helping to watch another coffee goer’s dog out on the patio. I was sitting inside giggling along with you at the silly pup now in your lap. And then your friends whisked you away while I sat slapping myself for being too shy to give you my number in the moment. dangit.
BUYLOW FOODS CUTIE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 13, 2016 WHERE: Buylow Foods You, the stunning blonde girl in a blue (mec) jacket and hiking boots shopping at Buylow at Kinsgate Mall last Wed. I am the 6` tall blonde with a black top and hiking boots as well, who smiled at you! I thought you rode your bike because you were dressed for the weather and waited to ask you out outside the door. Before I knew it, you walked downstairs and I missed you! You zoomed by me in your VW. Coffee??!!
WRECK BEACH TRAILSATURDAY-JAN.2ND
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 2, 2016 WHERE: Wreck Beach Trail Slim, energetic woman with intriguing bush hat doing the stairs. We chatted at the top then you were off down the stairs again before we could exchange numbers. I am tall with curly blond hair - love to connect.
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continues the good trend. With a host button. Use the week ahead to clear it of productive and/or results-gener- off the list and prep for next. ercury retrograde ended ating planetary aspects, Wednesday CANCER on Monday, but there’s shows the best potentials of the week. June 21–July 22 one more checkpoint to ARIES You may be ready for get through with Pluto, March 20–April 20 Friday-night action, but Mercury/ and that happens on Friday evening. Since the middle of De- Pluto wants to call it quits early. This planetary combo has continued to write the daily spin with an inten- cember, you’ve been working your On the other hand, if you don’t sity pen. It’s been the reason that so way through something major. Per- get started until late, you could go many notable individuals have taken haps you’ve experienced it as a con- all night. Saturday/Sunday, relax an exit off the planet in such a short frontation with the past, as nearing on your own, aim for romance, or the end of a long haul, or as a karmic mastermind your next great advenspan of time. Friday’s Libra moon forms a num- staging time. This weekend and next ture. Monday puts good timing on ber of dynamic aspects, making for weekend mark key wrap-up, cap-off, your side. Creative thinking serves a newsworthy, productive, and/or and move-along thresholds. Put next you well in the week ahead. significant step-it-up or cement-it week to good use and you’ll make LEO day. The planetary influences run the good headway. July 22–August 23 gamut; perhaps the day will set up a TAURUS The workweek can finish pendulum swing. Mercury/Pluto can April 20–May 21 you off, but all it takes is an invibring a result, a conclusion, an endMercury and Venus in tation or a suggestion and you’re ing, or a sense of finality. As well, there may be a significant announce- Capricorn aim to keep you commit- good to go all over again on Friday ment made, a milestone witnessed, a ted and goal-driven by placing some- night. A let-yourself-off-the-hook deadline completed, a goal reached, thing of great value and/or desire weekend offers a welcome shift. At or an anniversary marked. Operat- within reach. Start here: you can and home and/or cozied up with a loved ing at the actual and karmic levels, you will. That’s all you really need to one does it right Saturday night. Mercury/Pluto’s checkpoint marks know. The rest is a matter of keep- Next Monday and Wednesday dish the transition between destination ing yourself on task and staying the up the best stars of the week. arrival and the next leg of the jour- course. Monday, Wednesday, and VIRGO ney, between “up to now” and “next”. next Friday are the most productive August 23–September 23 The stars maintain a relatively days of the week. Friday brings the worksmooth flow for the weekend, which GEMINI week to a successful wrap-up. By all suggests that we’re moving along May 21–June 21 means, reward yourself or a loved just fi ne. Even so, the energy conMercury/Pluto on Friday one for a job well done. Saturday tinues to stay well sparked, thanks to a building Mercury/Uranus tran- takes you to an important finish line through Monday is good for prosit, which is good for a fresh in- or conclusion and/or sets another sig- jects, workshops, money matters, nificant building block in place. Play research, making inroads, or getfusion on Sunday evening. Monday’s Scorpio moon begins the it anyway you like: the weekend is an ting to know someone a whole lot workweek on a lucrative note. Aim easy one to take. Rather than wind- better. In other words, aim wherto make an impact; if it grabs you, ing you down, as of Sunday evening ever you like; the week ahead puts it’s worth a deeper look-see. Tuesday Mercury/Uranus pushes the refresh you on the gain. January 28 to February 3, 2016
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Finishing off with a debt load, refinancing, or renewing a contract? Is a new attitude, address, or business venture in the works? Friday’s Mercury/Pluto and next Friday’s Venus/Pluto are ideal for completions and new beginnings. You are smart to put added effort toward shrinking your debt or overhead, but on the other hand, a substantial investment in your future is also wise and well timed. October 23–November 22
You should be able to wrap it up or nail it down quite well on Friday. Aim wherever you like Saturday night through Monday— Mars and the moon in Scorpio stars load you up on the right swagger and sway. You can easily make quite an impact or impression. Monday through Wednesday is also loaded with good potential. Use your magic, make it happen.
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Friday brings a sense of right time and place. Mercury/ Pluto could prompt you to make a significant decision, purchase, or commitment. Once it’s agreed upon, done, or spoken, you should feel quite confident in moving forward. Saturday through Monday, the flow is good. Wednesday’s a great springboard day. The Sagittarius moon has you on all systems go.
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Mercury has toured Capricorn since mid-December and continues through midmonth. It’s challenged you, but it’s also seasoned and rewarded you. As of Friday night, Mercury/Pluto brings completion, along with a sense of victory or accomplishment. The weekend is yours to own; Sunday night sparks something fresh. The week ahead keeps it rolling well. January 20–February 18
As of Friday, it’s a wrap; claim your reward. Saturday through Monday is great for kicking back. You can make good progress in the week ahead, but there’s no need to push rocks uphill. Replace struggle or angst with ingenuity. Monday, Wednesday, and next Friday are optimal days to negotiate, meet, or get to it. February 18–March 20
Saturday through Monday, the stars keep you moving along in a smooth groove. Use your stellar advantage to cozy up with a lover, replenish yourself, or make inroads and headway. Tuesday/Wednesday, stay the course, submerge yourself, maximize your time. What’s on hand, readily available, or comes easily gives you lots to work with. -
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