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historian Naveen Girn, union activist Wendy Lawrence, and retired union activist Marion Pollock. Elmore emphasized that she’s running a grassroots campaign focused on signing up young people and residents from diverse communities. As part of that plan, she’ll be doing outreach on Thursday (January 29) at an LGBT event at Havana Restaurant on Commercial Drive. Meanwhile, Kwan’s endorsers include Lorelei Williams, a vocal advocate for families of missing and murdered indigenous women. Kwan is also backed by former Vancouver East MLA Bob Williams, former Vancouver-Kensington MLA David Chudnovsky, United Steelworkers director Steve Hunt, Chinese Freemasons president Hilbert Yiu, Canada-China Business Association president George Lian, Rio Theatre owner Corinne Lea, comedian Charles Demers, political commentator Bill Tieleman, and many other prominent Vancouverites. The third candidate for the Vancouver East NDP nomination is SFU public-relations director Scott McLean. Both Kwan and Elmore have expressed deep admiration for Davies, who played a crucial role in forcing the former Liberal government to look upon drug addiction as a health issue. The two NDP MLAs have called for changes to the temporary-foreign-worker program to make it easier for these employees
to become citizens. They both also support a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. “Canada has a legal obligation to address the root causes of violence against indigenous women and girls,” Kwan said at her campaign launch. “How many more indigenous women and girls have to go missing before we have a national inquiry? If this were happening with any other community, would it be tolerated? Absolutely not.” Afterward, reporters pressed Kwan about her taking family vacations that her former husband charged to the nonprofit PHS Community Services while he was an executive with the organization. She responded that she never knew that the trips were being billed as expenses and after she learned of this, she borrowed money and immediately paid back the debt. “That was a deeply personal issue and, of course, it was very, very difficult,” Kwan said. “There’s no question about that.” So far, Elmore has not made an issue of the PHS scandal, preferring to talk about the importance of the NDP communicating that its values are Canadian values. At her launch at the Philippine Diamond Society Clubhouse on December 21, Elmore insisted that she has “great respect” for Kwan, even though they were on opposite sides when Kwan led a group of dissidents calling for the ouster of provincial party leader Carole James in 2010. -
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B.C. government employees have filed more than 500 claims of inappropriate conduct since 2000, according to a response to a freedom of information request that was posted online. At least 28 of those complaints concern sexual harassment. The document is so heavily redacted that the only information that can be ascertained is the number of claims and dates they were received. Most complaints fall into five categories of breaches of the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union Master Agreement. Those sections concern the Human Rights Code, sexual harassment, discrimination, misuse of managerial/supervisory authority, and bullying in the workplace. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Finance. In a telephone interview, ministry spokesperson Jamie Edwardson emphasized that there are approximately 26,000 core government employees in B.C. “We have a very thorough investigation process into allegations,â€? he said. “There are very serious consequences for those found guilty of allegations, including dismissal, suspension, and demotion.â€? Maurine Karagianis, NDP Opposition critic for women, called attention to claims of sexual harassment. “I think that the numbers speak very clearly to the fact that this is something that is instilled in the culture of government and it needs to be addressed,â€? she told the Straight. “The fact that these numbers are so high calls for some kind of further disclosure and an investigation. Where is this happening? Why is this continuing to happen? What steps is the government planning on taking to curtail this?â€? Karagianis noted that nine claims of sexual harassment were filed after September 2012, when Premier Christy Clark’s chief of staff, Ken Boessenkool, resigned after an undisclosed incident involving a female staffer. Boessenkool eventually published a letter admitting to having acted “inappropriatelyâ€? and B.C.’s Public Service Agency (PSA) investigated the matter. But subsequent freedom of information disclosures revealed that the review was conducted verbally, with no records created. Karagianis noted the PSA declined to issue any recommendations for reforms. She argued the incident should have prompted a more thorough examination of sexual harassment in the workplace. “The premier had an opportunity in 2012 to demonstrate leadership on this issue around her own chief of staff and she refused to take it,â€? she said. “The fact is that there are women and perhaps men experiencing sexual harassment in a government that‌ should have taken action before this and that has had numerous opportunities and reminders to do that.â€? Edwardson noted that in 2011 the province created an employee-relations investigations unit that today handles “about 100 investigations per yearâ€?. More recently, he continued, the government activated a 24-hour managers’ advice line that
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Canada’s first Green MP yearns for the era she views as Camelot on Parliament Hill. As Elizabeth May puts it, the 1960s were an “extraordinary timeâ€?, when Liberals and New Democrats put the interests of the nation ahead of those of their political parties to create “the Canada we wantâ€?. That was when many of the country’s social safety nets, such as the Canada Pension Plan and universal health care, were put in place, the Saanich–Gulf Islands representative recalled. “One of the sort of Camelot eras of the Canadian Parliament was the government of Lester B. Pearson,â€? May told the Straight in a phone interview. “And it was a Camelot because it wasn’t a majority [government]. It was a [Liberal] minority government, and the opposition was the New Democratic Party.â€? According to May, all Canadians have to do is remember the Pearson years of the ’60s and try to convince current NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and the Liberals’ Justin Trudeau that if they cooperate in this year’s election to defeat Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, Camelot may return. “That’s what I want out of the next election, whether it’s a Prime Minister Mulcair‌or Prime Minister Trudeau,â€? May said. Although May acknowledged that New Democrats and Liberals aren’t willing to work with each other or with her Greens presently, she said she will keep reaching out
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ET CETERA 2JUST ANNOUNCED CELTICFEST VANCOUVER The 11th annual celebration of Celtic culture includes a village and street market, workshops, performances, a whisky tasting, Irish play The Weir, the De Danaan Irish Dancers, a St. Patrick’s Day parade, and music by Alan Doyle, C.R. Avery, Dustin Bentall, Pat Chessell, Babe Gurr, Rockland Moran, Natalye Vivian, Shane’s Teeth, Vagabonds, the Whiskeydicks, Delhi 2 Dublin, Troy MacGillivray, Kimberly Fraser, Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir, the Paperboys, Mark Sullivan, Andy Hillhouse, April Verch, and Elsay. Mar 6-17, various Vancouver venues. Info www.celticfestvancouver.com/.
2THIS WEEK SFU ACOUSTICS FESTIVAL The SFU Acoustic Engineering Club presents an industry showcase, academic-poster presentations, an equipment listening room, and guest lectures by Murray Hodgson and Barry Truax. Jan 30, 10:30 am–5:30 pm, SFU Burnaby (8888 University Dr., Burnaby). Free admission, info
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SPORTS 2THIS WEEK CANUCKS VS. SABRES The Vancouver Canucks take on the Buffalo Sabres in National Hockey League action. Jan 30, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $60-230.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info 604-899-7400.
ATTRACTIONS SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE Highlights include hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, the Centre Stage for live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre. Admission $29/23.50 adults, $25.25/19.75 seniors and youth, $22.25/16.75 kids (those two and under free). 1455 Quebec. Info 604-443-7443, www.scienceworld.ca/
OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS CANADIAN INTERNET MARKETING CONFERENCE Get inspired and learn from digital-marketing industry leaders. Mar 28-29, 9 am–9 pm, Quest University Canada (3200 University Blvd., Squamish). Tix $381.52-474.67, info digitalbuzz.ca/.
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hose familiar with the two video games in Valve’s critically acclaimed Portal series know that their protagonist isn’t a big talker. Indeed, as the human test subject Chell struggles to break out of the Aperture Science research facility—a feat she finally accomplishes in the second of the firstperson puzzle-platformer games— she never utters a single word. That’s just one reason why Patrice Bowler says that Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical, which is based on the games, is “totally different” than any other theatre production in which she has performed. Along with costar Erin Mudry, she’s playing the part of Chell in the dark comedy, which opens on Friday (January 30) at Vancouver’s Rio Theatre. “I’m really excited to see what the reaction from the crowd is and Stephen how they’ll sympathize with this character who just doesn’t say anything and keeps getting trampled on,” Bowler, who also worked on the musical’s choreography, told the Georgia Straight. “She keeps trying to escape and then can’t. People keep ruining her life.” Bowler joined castmates Fairlith Harvey, Jessica Mayhew, and Davin Reid for a sit-down interview in the Mount Pleasant studio of Geekenders, the theatrical troupe behind the musical. Founded in 2012, Geekenders is best known for its “nerdlesque”—that’s short for nerd burlesque—send-ups of the movies in the original Star Wars trilogy (A Nude Hope, The Empire Strips Back, and Reveal of the Jedi). Portal 2 is the troupe’s first all-ages show. Harvey, who is Geekenders’ artistic director, wrote the musical’s script, prepared the choreography with Bowler, and plays the antagonist GLaDOS and the closely related character Caroline. She noted the show combines the “humour and quirkiness” of 2007’s Portal and 2011’s Portal 2—as well as material from Valve’s dystopian Half-Life games, which
take place in the same science-fiction universe—with the participatory aspects of pantomime and parodies of songs from musicals such as Mary Poppins, The Book of Mormon, and Urinetown. (Alison Jenkins handled the musical direction, and James Dunlop wrote the lyrics.) “It’s sort of a combination of everything wonderful,” Harvey said. Portal 2 sees Chell wake up from cryogenic hibernation in Aperture Science’s deteriorating facility. With help from Wheatley (played by Graeme Thompson), a blue-eyed robot with a British accent, she embarks on a mission to escape. Unfortunately, along the way they unintentionally reactivate GLaDOS, the malevolent artificial intelligence that controls the facility. Eventually, they replace GLaDOS with Wheatley, but he becomes corrupted by his power. Ultimately, Hui Chell must team up with former adversary GLaDOS in order to leave the facility. Chell is equipped with a portal gun, which she uses to navigate Aperture Science’s dangerous test chambers. This device is fired at large flat surfaces to create two portals of different colours. “They are connected,” explained Mayhew, who is a codirector and performs on-stage as part of the ensemble. “So if she makes a portal on the floor and a portal on the roof and jumps in the floor portal, she’ll come through the roof.” While Geekenders is using officially licensed collectibles for the guns, the portals are being represented by wheeled set pieces that will be manually moved around onstage. Two performers sharing the lead role means the audience will see Chell jump into one portal and out of another without a conspicuous delay. “We obviously don’t have actual robots on the stage, so we’re getting actual people to, you know, have physicality and reenact these things,” said Reid, who is a codirector and plays Aperture Science
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founder Cave Johnson. “A lot of that staging and set design is within our menial budget, but we’ve really been able to make it very believable and really immersive.” According to Mayhew, it was a challenge to preserve the “mystery” of the game in the show. She noted that the musical has a very characterdriven story. “Every single character in it is one that you can relate to in some way,” Mayhew said. “I think there’s a strong theme of finding yourself. It’s incredibly easy to relate to Chell because she wakes up in this place where she’s completely foreign, doesn’t know what she’s doing, and has to basically just trust in herself by the end to get through it.” As for copyright issues, Harvey said that none have arisen. First of all, she pointed out, the musical is a parody and Geekenders is letting everyone know that Valve—a videogame company based in Bellevue, Washington—is not involved. Secondly, Harvey noted, Valve is supportive of fans making creative works inspired by its properties. When the Straight interviewed Bowler, Harvey, Mayhew, and Reid— four out of the 14 cast members—they were preparing to log on to the popular website Reddit to do an AMA (ask me anything) Q & A. They were clearly excited about a photo of the musical’s poster having gone viral on the gaming subreddit a couple of days prior. In one week, the post racked up more than 1,200 comments and about 4,400 points (up votes minus down votes), and advance tickets for the first two dates sold out. Harvey said that she came up with the idea for Portal 2 a year ago while Geekenders was rehearsing for The Wizard of Bras, a burlesque reimagining of the classic film The Wizard of Oz. She remarked that writing the script was “incredibly natural”, in part because the game is almost structured like a musical. Later this year, Geekenders plans to present a gender-swapped theatrical version of The Princess Bride and a Las Vegas–style Guardians of the Galaxy burlesque show. For the troupe’s artistic director, putting on a musical represents the accomplishment of a goal she set for herself five years ago. “This is the proudest achievement of my life, for sure,” Harvey said. “This is my dream totally coming true, so I’m really nervous and really, really happy.” Geekenders presents Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical at the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway) on January 30 and 31, February 1, and March 13 and 14, as well as at the Victoria Conference Centre (720 Douglas Street, Victoria) on February 28.
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rtist and author Emily Association told the Straight. “In this Carr once noted that what impersonal, technological age, travel, defined British Colum- for me, is about slowing down and bians was a common love finding the meaningful things in life.” of “seeing B.C.”. With the recent Asked to pinpoint her haunts launch of a new corporate strategy of choice, Thacker, who spent her and a revitalized tourism brand childhood traversing B.C. and celebrating “Super, Natural British Yukon, laughed. “I’m a B.C. baby Columbia”, Marsha Walden, Des- who’s lived in so many places I tination British Columbia CEO, is couldn’t pick one. My family just determined to spread that message loves being in nature, whether exfurther than ever before. ploring the Kootenays or soaking in Interviewed at the Crown cor- the Bella Coola hot springs.” poration’s headquarters in downtown Both Walden and Thacker exVancouver, Walden—a graduate of pressed a fondness for exploring the Point Grey secondgrowing number of ary and UBC who designated drivspent a decade at ing routes, such the British Columas the 2,113-kiloJack Christie bia Lottery Cormetre Coast Cariporation before joining DBC (formerly boo Circle Route that links the Lower Tourism B.C.) in late 2013—told the Mainland with Vancouver Island, the Georgia Straight about places that hold Central Coast, the Interior Plateau, emotional connections for her. The top and the Fraser Canyon. “It’s all contwo are Whistler and the Shuswap re- nected,” Thacker observed. “Most gion in south-central B.C., where the travellers don’t just parachute into a mother of three vacations annually at location. Reaching a destination inher husband’s family cabin. cludes experiencing the whole route. “These are the kinds of places When a section of that journey is imwhere you can reconnect with who pacted the way that cuts in ferry seryou are and what the best part of vice between Vancouver Island and you is,” she said. “The key motiv- Bella Coola devastated tourism in the ators we’re using to attract more Chilcotin, that has an impact on tourvisitors are that B.C. is clean, safe, ism in the Fraser Canyon, too, where and populated by open-minded the new Gold Rush Trail initiative is people who live in cities perched on just being rolled out.” the wilderness. It’s not just nature; Although the initial focus of Desit’s the raw wilderness that’s so tination B.C.’s new campaign is on ski accessible in B.C.” markets in Ontario, Washington state, Her sentiments reflect an ongoing and California, Walden has faced shift in consumer dynamics. “To- some tough calls on the home front. day’s tourists are looking for unique Chief among them was DBC’s decision adventures, not just traditional to cease funding the Vancouver, Coast sightseeing but an experience that & Mountains Tourism Region office. touches them and makes them feel The nonprofit first opened its doors in they’ve seen something new.” Such 1972, and current CEO Kevan Ridgexpectations are front of mind not way was clearly surprised by the news. only with B.C. residents, who make Interviewed at his Commercial up 70 percent of vacationers, but Drive office, Ridgway said Walden also with an increasing number of told him VC&M had been so sucvisitors from outside the province, cessful in convincing Lower Mainprimarily the U.S. and China. land municipalities to institute Reached by phone in Williams a two-percent hotel room tax to Lake, Amy Thacker agreed. “People fund local tourism initiatives that want to meet the locals; it’s a shift DBC didn’t need to invest further we’re seeing everywhere,” the CEO of in his organization. “We support the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism tourism in our region by making
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presentations to mayors and councils to encourage them to work cooperatively with neighbouring communities in joint tourism marketing campaigns, such as we did most recently when VC&M convened a meeting of White Rock, Surrey, and Richmond. “The role we’re playing at the moment is fulfilling commitments to regional partners and helping staff members find new positions. We’re being used as a guinea pig for DBC’s plans for the rest of the tourism regions in following years. Our board made the decision to work with DBC to make meaningful decisions rather than take a full-scale advocacy position against our closure. We don’t want to lose the long history built up by our efforts, so we’re going into a shell position, renewing our trademark for another 15 years and waiting to see what happens before the next election.” When asked which industry voices she’d heard calling for an end to funding for regional tourism offices, Walden said that one of the observations she made early on in her new role was that “we’re all here to serve industry. I conducted 200 one-on-ones. We’re looking at what is the best role for DBC, such as our partnership agreement with Vancouver, Coast & Mountains. A decade ago, only seven cities collected the two-percent tax. Today it’s 70. What, then, is the role of the regional office when there’s tons of infrastructure now in place?” For his part, Ridgway pointed with pride to successful partnerships spawned under his leadership. “Thanks to funding from us, followed by the Vancouver Hotel Association, Tourism Vancouver led the way in marketing the city to the gay community. We’re making big inroads with Chinese tourists on the new Gold Rush Trail in the Fraser Canyon. That market is evolving quickly.” For now, Ridgway plans to head to his favourite destination—the Sunshine Coast—and see a lot more of B.C. along the way. -
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ouis Lau’s mother has been using the same clay pot for years. “Everything she cooks in it tastes better than in a brand-new clay pot,” says Lau, sous-chef at the Buffet at the River Rock Casino Resort (8811 River Road, Richmond), during a phone chat. That’s because, when used repeatedly, the porous surface of a clay pot can take on the flavours of the food cooked within it. Clay pots are integral to Chinese cooking, and Lau and many other local chefs use them extensively in their restaurant kitchens. Lau says the advantage is that clay pots retain heat and lock in the juices of food much better than regular metal pots; that way, they produce instant belly-warming dishes. It’s easy to find restaurants around town that serve clay pots. From now until February 26, the Buffet is running a clay pot promotion in honour of Chinese New Restaurants around town cook everything from rock-salt chicken to braised lamb Year on February 19. From Monday to rice dishes in clay pots because of the vessels’ heat-retention properties. to Thursday, with a regular buffet dinner purchase, diners can add on rice with dried octopus and minced of the clay pot is to keep it hot and one of two $25 clay pot dishes (each pork, or with preserved pork, Chi- saucy.” He also recommends beef meant to be shared among four nese sausage, and preserved duck and enoki mushrooms with satay people). One contains edamame, Clay pots are often family-sized sauce in a clay pot, as well as a clay sweet corn kernels, roasted corn on vessels, but at Jade you can also pot of braised black cod with slices the cob, shiitake get a mini, per- of roasted suckling pig. mushrooms, sonal-sized clay Another classic clay pot dish conchopped tofu, pot filled with sists of rice topped with your choice and king crab prawns, scallops, of ingredients. While Jade offers Tara Lee legs and claws— and white mush- a couple of clay pot rice dishes for all in a umami-rich miso broth. rooms in a lemongrass chili sauce. lunch, for a bounty of selections, the The other features deep-fried lob- Other options include a large clay Soup House (5763 Victoria Drive) is ster, vermicelli, lobster broth, and a pot with lingcod, ginger, and bit- where it’s at, with 32 kinds of clay blend of satay and XO sauce. ter gourd; one with braised lamb; pot rice to choose from. Even if David Chung, owner of the Jade and an earthy vegetarian clay pot you’re ravenous, you’ll need to allow Seafood Restaurant (8511 Alexan- with mixed mushrooms and dried 20 minutes of cooking time so that dra Road, Richmond), says one of cordycep, a fungus. the rice can steam and brown in the the restaurant’s top-selling dishes is At Red Star Seafood Restaurant clay pots. In the meantime, the servthe roasted clay pot chicken, which (8298 Granville Street and 2200– ers will bring you a complimentary arrives at the table succulent and 8181 Cambie Road, Richmond), bowl of chicken broth, and seaweed infused with flavour from its bed of Granville Street assistant manager salad to tide you over. rock salt and star anise. Michael Kwok points out that clay Go for the minced pork cake with During a chat at the restaurant, pot cooking is sometimes called salted duck egg for unbeatable rushe describes another benefit of clay “hot pot” on menus. However, it tic comfort food. The layer of rice pot cooking: sizzle. Food is often shouldn’t be confused with the sim- arrives with a caramelized crust prepped in a wok and then finished mering broth in a communal metal at the bottom (the best part, hands in a clay pot that’s been preheated pot that’s also popular. down). The neutral flavour of the on the gas range. This not only He explains that certain dishes, rice is complemented by the savoury makes the food arrive scorching such as one with vermicelli and minced pork cake that tops it, as hot, it also activates and releases sautéed prawns in satay sauce, are well as the very salty duck egg (just the flavours of the ingredients. traditionally cooked in clay pots for eat a little in every mouthful). Other “The clay pot makes the dish so their unique heat-retention proper- options, which range from clay different,” Chung says. “The whole ties. “If vermicelli cools down fast, it pot rice with chicken, dried mushthing sizzles and tastes so good.” At will stick together,” he says. “It also rooms, and Chinese sausage to one lunchtime, Jade also serves clay pot needs a lot of liquid. The purpose with braised beef tongue, are ideal for a wintry day. If all this clay pot dish sam> BY CAROLYN ALI pling inspires you to do your own FOOD OF THE WEEK cooking, Tinland Cookware (260 East Pender Street) in Chinatown It’s been 10 years since chef Rob Feenie beat the formidable Masaharu has a wide variety of clay pots for Morimoto to win Iron Chef America. To celebrate, the Cactus Club Cafe home use. (Prices range from about executive chef is re-creating his winning Battle Crab menu for the first $7 to $30, depending on size.) time on February 10. The event takes place at the Coal Harbour restaurant Salesperson Steve Shum cautions (1085 Canada Place) and is a fundraiser for the Boys Club Network, which that the pots need to be soaked in promotes the mentoring of boys; tickets cost $185 per person and include a water before use, and that sharp five-course meal and wine pairings. (Email battlecrab@cactusclubcafe.com f luctuations in temperature will for tickets.) Alternatively, you can try just one course for $8.50—the winning cause them to crack. But if you treat Dungeness crab roll with grainy mustard vinaigrette and crème fraîche—at them carefully, clay pots will yield the Broadway and Ash Street test-kitchen location (575 West Broadway), wonderfully flavourful results for where it’s on the menu for a limited time. years of cooking. -
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his is one of my favourite times of year, when the holidays seem like a distant memory and we’re all back to our regular routines. Part of the regular routine in my world is attending and participating in wine events around town, and February is generally when things really start to pick up again. I’d be slacking in my duties around here if I didn’t start talking about the granddaddy of ’em all, the Vancouver International Wine Festival, running February 20 to March 1. Joining 13 other countries, this Vancouver International Wine Fest year’s theme region is Australia, with events do sell out. David Niddrie photo. 55 wineries from 20 regions pouring over 220 wines. It’s an excellent oppor- a lovely beeswax and honeyed mouthtunity for Vancouverites to explore the feel, which ensures a spot at your table, diversity the country offers and to dis- particularly with seafood, lighter curpel those myths that all Australia pro- ries, or even chicken wings. duces are overoaked Chardonnays and I recommend you take a look at sweet and boozy the festival calenShirazes. I’m so dar and secure looking forward your spot for any to diving into it seminar or dinKurtis Kolt all, from Margaret ner that floats your River Cabernet Sauvignons to Hunter boat; more than half of them are alValley Sémillons and stunning spark- ready sold-out. For me, one can’t-miss ling wines out of Tasmania. event is The Age of Sémillon, a Tyrrell’s As a sneak preview to get you Wines dinner at Coast restaurant on started on widening your Aussie hor- February 24 where guests will enjoy a izons, find yourself a Yarra Valley good range of the grape’s style through cool-climate Pinot Noir like the 2012 its ages, from bone-dry lemony 2013 outing from Coldstream Hills ($30 to versions to library editions from 2006 $35, private liquor stores). The Yarra’s and 2003 that no doubt will be beginsouthern location is cooled by the ning to take on some marzipan, nouSouthern Ocean currents and Ant- gat, and slight toffee notes. Sémillon arctic breezes, allowing for brilliant is certainly a grape that gets more inacidity and structure that give this triguing with age. Right before the big Saturday night wine optimal elegance amongst red plums and blackberries with hints of tasting on February 28, there’s an inblack tea and nutmeg. In the mood for triguing seminar dubbed Mod Oz. something white? Pick up Wakefield’s Moderators Mark Davidson, the global 2013 Riesling ($20.99, B.C. Liquor education director for Wine Australia, Stores) to see why wine geeks around and B.C.’s own wine personality Treve the globe flock to takes on the noble Ring will be hosting principals from a grape from the Clare Valley. Quartz-, handful of wineries, from household iron-, and limestone-rich soils bring names like Hardys to ones that may layers of complexity, and while this is be more unfamiliar, like Tar & Roses. most certainly a dry Riesling, there’s This seminar is meant to “embody the
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imagine it along with surround movement and visual art. That’s the kind of immersive experience one of the world’s hottest new dance troupes is bringing to a Vancouver nightclub in what could be the season’s coolest and most unexpected show. In Backstage, Israel’s Maria Kong invades the Red Room Ultra Bar with the electric guitars of a live rock band, dancers dressed as sirens, pirates, and sailors in every corner, and dynamic digital projections. Founded in 2008 by four dancers out of Israel’s famed Batsheva Dance Company, Maria Kong has been out to upend traditional notions of dance from the very beginning. Its artists, who include a technology maestro and music composer, wanted to find ways to reach today’s ultrawired audience. “We initially wanted to create experiences, whether in galleries or off-stage or on-stage,” explains the effervescent company member Talia Landa, a Batsheva alumna whose enthusiasm for her project crackles over the phone from Tel Aviv. “We had a big curiosity about enhancing the audience performance experience. It was not just about performing anymore; it was about, Who is the audience today? “With all these smartphones, everybody wants to be connected immediately. They want to have a more immediate experience,” she continues. “So you had to intensify what was happening on-stage. Our idea was always to move together with people. You can see people are hungry to hear your heartbeat.”
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In the show Backstage, Israel’s technology-happy Maria Kong dance troupe conjures a wild, seafaring fantasy of pirates and sirens. Guy Prives photo.
noncompromising and Saskatchewan and Alberta, says the troupe memgoing in your own dir- bers, all of whom are busy with other projects, have ection,” Landa says. cleared their slates to make the journey possible. Another of the She doesn’t want to give away too much to audiIn its North American debut at Chutzpah, Maria Kong surrounds company’s influences ences about Backstage; the element of surprise comes more locally: around every corner is part of a Maria Kong show’s viewers with movement, electric guitars, and multimedia art Ori Ben Shabat, the appeal. Landa describes the sea-themed work as a The approach has paid off. Today, on top of a digital artist who heads up Maria Kong’s vis- ride on the merry waves, a magical, surreal advensteady output of multimedia productions, the ual effects and technology, attended Vancouver ture that travels into the “backstage of our minds”. company throws everything from private events Film School. As for Maria Kong’s dancers, “There’s a real yin-yang of forces: men, in museums and galleries to art parties, called Mi they’re an international mix of people women, age, life, and it’s full-on music you Casa Su Casa, where performers from a range of from Japan, Russia, Israel, and Brazil. can enjoy just looking at it and having disciplines put on different shows every five minJust how do so many creative a beer,” Landa allows. “We say grab Check out… utes around a space. voices come together on a single STRAIGHT.COM a beer and change your view; you Maria Kong bases a lot of its experimentation piece of art? Landa says the group might be missing something. You Visit our website in the Lab, the digital studio in Tel Aviv where is bonded by a sense of purpose and don’t have to be strapped into your for morning-after reviews and local it has developed animation and 3-D graphics, as long-time friendships. seat and just watch. arts news well as inventions like the wireless, technology“If you’re looking to create 360“People want to be able to choose activating gloves that caused such buzzworthy degree experiences, you better have a what they want to look at. We do move effects in its work Open Source. team that can look at it from different anthem around the space, but still you’re free The high-tech bent is a long way from Batsheva, gles,” says Landa. “You can take your ego and eat it to change your point of view.” a company known for the explosive, instinct- for lunch. Yes, we argue in order to find the solution In the end, Landa says with a laugh, the best adbased gaga movement its legendary founder, and we know each other so well. When you’re all vice might just be to wear comfortable shoes to the Ohad Naharin, was exploring around the time off-the-wall it seems like you’re standing straight.” Red Room. “You don’t have to like dance to love Landa danced with the company. Bringing such a big group halfway around the it. There’s movement everywhere and all the arts. But perhaps its biggest influence on the found- world is no easy matter, of course. The Chutzpah There are no boundaries anymore between the perers of Maria Kong, Landa says, was in the mind- Festival’s Mary-Louise Albert first spotted the in- former and audience. Movement knows no borders, set they developed. novators at the International Exposure showcase no passports to come all the way to Canada.” “Batsheva, under Ohad, is the most profes- in Tel Aviv. She and her team are bringing 14 of sional place you can be. And to develop and grow them here for the Backstage shows as part of the Maria Kong presents Backstage from February up there, and perform all over the world with the fest—Maria Kong’s first time to perform in North 19 to 22 at the Red Room Ultra Bar as part of the most professional teams—that plants the seeds of America. Landa, whose own parents hail from Chutzpah Festival.
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February 8 at various venues) The cutting-edge, interdisciplinary feast continues, with some of its best shows left till last. Meanwhile, Club PuSh rocks on at Performance Works with even more genremashing, provocative shows. The draw: Highlights abound, but if it’s intimate revelations you desire, sign up for Lotte Van Den Berg’s Cinema Imaginaire, from the Netherlands (February 4 to 8 at 750 Hamilton Street), where small groups head out into the city to both make and view an imaginary movie; or explore similar themes on a larger level in Cineastas (February 5 to 7 at SFU Woodward’s in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts),
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the on-stage standup. The draw: Ferguson’s Hot & Grumpy Tour: Walking the Earth should find the former talk-show host reeling ’em in to the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts on February 18, while John Mulaney, a former Saturday Night Live writer, FOX show star, and compulsive sharer of hilarious self-embarrassing stories, cranks out the laughs on February 21 at the same venue. Info: north westcomedyfest.com/
where filmmakers’ real lives and movie scenes play out on a giant, split stage. Info: pushfestival.ca/ LUNAR FEST (February 20 to 22 at the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza and the Pacific Centre Rotunda, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily) The Asian Canadian Special Events Association throws its annual outdoor arts-and-culture extravaganza to celebrate the Year of the Sheep. Think lantern-making, dragon dances, and dumplings for the whole family. The draw: Can you say “Baa-a-a-a”? The World of Little Shepherds will find hundreds of miniature sheep in the first outdoor installation the event’s put up since the beloved Lantern Forest at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Info: www.lunarfest.org/ PACIFIC
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(February 28 and March 1 at the Orpheum) The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra celebrates the city’s Asian heritage in a pair of concerts. The first night fetes Chinese Lunar New Year with conductor Perry So leading the band in Zheng Lu’s Good News From Beijing and Xian Xinghai’s wellknown Yellow River Concerto; the second marks the 125th anniversary of the first Japanese Consulate in Canada. The draw: Check
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Magnetic throat singer Tanya Tagaq headlines the Talking Stick Festival, with an intimate concert on February 28 at the York Theatre. Ivan Otis photo.
out the talent on the second night’s roster, including violinist Akiko Suwanai playing Ludwig van Beethoven’s famed Violin Concerto, plus koto player Yuriko Nariya and a chorus of choirs (Cattleya Singers, Sakura Singers, Winds Choir, and NAV Chorus) putting their voice to a host of Japanese jewels. Info: www.vancouversymphony.ca/
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22 at Granville Island) Art, music, and dance fill the reclaimed industrial buildings and alleyways of Granville Island at the 10th annual fest. Follow your ears to jazz performances and the Kids Zone, where there’ll be everything from capoeira to mask-making. The draw: Grey City, a documentary screening at Emily Carr University throughout the event, profiles OSGEMEOS—the Brazilian duo behind Giants, the silo murals that now tower over the site at Ocean Concrete. Info: granvilleisland. com/winterruption
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Feb 5 - 7, 7:30pm + Feb 8, 2pm Presented by the UBC School of Music A captivating performance of Mozart’s timeless classic from UBC Opera Ensemble and UBC Symphony Orchestra where “much happens on a single crazy day”.
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Presented by the UBC School of Music The work of Balmages, Mozart, Schoenberg, and more fill this program entitled ‘Monuments and Mountaintops’. Conductors Jesse Read & Robert Taylor.
HANDEL’S THEODORA
Akiko Suwanai fetes Japan at the Pacific Rim Celebration, while Craig Ferguson hits the Northwest Comedy Fest.
Winter arts fests
(see story on page 21), the avant- sampling of some of the best shows heating up the scene in the comto surround clubgoers with electric ing month or so. The Arts Club guitars, wildly costumed pirates, Theatre’s momentous look at Marand interactive digital media in its tin Luther King Jr.’s last night in bold, immersive Backstage at the Memphis, The Mountaintop, opens Red Room, February 19 to 22. Info: February 12 at the Granville Island chutzpahfestival.com/ Stage. Miami City Ballet comes here for the first time in its history, VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL on February 19 to 21 at the Queen DANCE FESTIVAL (March 8 to 28 Elizabeth Theatre, with an ode to at the Vancouver Playhouse and the the transcendent, intertwining Roundhouse Community Arts and works of George Balanchine (preRecreation Centre) Top acts from sented by Ballet B.C.). The VancouMontreal, Japan, Hungary, and else- ver Recital Society brings comedy where round out an eclectic pro- duo Igudesman & Joo to the Vangram curated by organizers Kokoro couver Playhouse on February 19 Dance. Standouts include Quebec’s with the uproarious yet virtuosic A Par B.L.eux, with its multimedia Little Nightmare Music. Legend ary Snakeskins, and a raucous duet from Montreal choreographer Marie Manuel Roque Danse Contempor- Chouinard produces a two-part inaine. The draw: Dairakudakan’s terpretation of the work of famous Mushi no Hoshi—Space Insect, in French artists Erik Satie and Henri which 22 dancers morph from hu- Michaux on February 27 and 28 at mans to bugs in an eerie butoh- the Vancouver Playhouse as part of theatre hybrid, skitters onto the stage the DanceHouse series. And Vanof the Vancouver Playhouse March 21 couver Opera warms up the late and 22. Info: vidf.ca/ winter with the laughter and romance of Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Looking for more ways to fight Fledermaus, opening February 28 the winter blahs? Here is a small at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. -
from previous page garde Israeli dance troupe that dares
other venues) The 14th annual event celebrates our wealth of aboriginal artists, from the slam poets to the contemporary musicians and thesps. Swing by the Roundhouse for a visualarts exhibition, contemporary dance, and a play called Salt Baby, about looking white but having First Nations ancestry. The draw: Electrifying Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq brings her haunting intonations to the York Theatre on February 28. Info: fullcircle.ca/ CHUTZPAH FESTIVAL (February 19 to March 15 at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre and other venues) Dance, theatre, music, and comedy pack the roster of this evergrowing festival. Acts from around the world include Israel’s Idan Sharabi, L.A.’s BodyTraffic, and our own firebrand Shay Kuebler, while Zvuloon Dub System introduces us to jazz- and Middle Eastern–inspired Israeli reggae and Alon Nashman’s play Kafka and Son reveals a different side to Franz Kafka. The draw: We’re going with Maria Kong
Sat Feb 14, 7:30pm
Presented by Early Music Vancouver Alexander Weimann directs one of Handel’s largest-scale oratorios for soloists, choir and orchestra. With the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and the Vancouver Cantata Singers.
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON’S MOSAIC PROJECT AND CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT Sun Feb 15, 7:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre The rich and diverse Mosaic Project and brilliant young vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant in an electrifying double bill.
VSO: MENDELSSOHN’S GREAT HYMN OF PRAISE Feb 20 + 21, 8:00pm
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Elektra Women’s Choir and Chor Leoni join Bramwell Tovey and the VSO for a program of Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
STEVEN GALLOWAY WITH MAGICIAN DAVID GIFFORD Thu Feb 26, 7:30pm
Presented by the Chan Centre Join the award winning author of The Confabulist and his magical guest for an evening of intrigue and illusion. Telus Studio Theatre
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Bringing their two-part full-length work “Makom/ Interviews” with Vanessa Goodman opening with her world premiere for six dancers, “Wells Hills.”
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‘Klezmer that reaches a new renaissance, seasoned with folk, punk and deep-digging lyrics, full of sarcasm and wicked irony.’
A rising star, Rada, backed by a seven-piece band, has fun with her own blend of ska, dance beats, jazz, funk and soul.
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Motherload moms bare brutal realities > BY C OL IN THOMAS
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his show is, of course, hilarious,” Emelia Symington Fedy says of the collectively created Motherload, which is about the joys and burdens of motherhood. “But the things that are hilarious are the things that will make other mothers go, ‘Oh, my God! Oh, my God!’ ” In Motherload, for instance, Symington Fedy refers to her postchildbirth vagina as the Grand Canyon. And Sonja Bennett talks about another side effect of the birthing process, “those pesky anal skin tags that catch on toilet paper and collect poop… You know?” Interviewed on the stage of the York Theatre, where they are rehearsing, the four women who wrote and will perform Motherload— Symington Fedy, Bennett, Jody-Kay Marklew, and Juno Rinaldi—make it clear that they have found a lot of fun in their frankness. They also make it clear that, in their honesty, they are sharing relief—from loneliness. Marklew, who has a six-year-old daughter and a 16-month-old son, explains: “I spend a lot of time taking my kids to play groups and play gyms. But I find that that world is such a bubble. The other moms and I want to share, but we can’t actually have a conversation because we’re like, ‘Are you holding the right bottle? Are you breastfeeding or are you not breastfeeding? What kind of mother are you?’ There are all of these judgmental, competitive things. And I just want to connect with women and say, ‘My kid doesn’t sleep. Sometimes I hate my husband, and I haven’t had sex in six months.’ ” In Motherload, each of the performers shares a core story. On her blog, tryingtobegood.com, Symington Fedy, who is producing the project at the Cultch, writes: “I started
Left to right: Juno Rinaldi, Sonja Bennett, Emelia Symington Fedy, and Jody-Kay Marklew hit the Motherload. Itai Erdal photo.
working on grants for this show while my mother was dying in the next room, just so I could place my eyes on the horizon. I continued working on finding funding for the production as my new baby slept on my chest.” In Motherload, Symington Fedy’s story is about learning to mother—without having her mom around. She ends up improvising. “My son had chunks of placenta on him for six weeks after he was born,” she confesses in the script. “I didn’t think to bathe him. He smelled fine to me.” Marklew, on the other hand, gives the impression that, for her, being a
mom is a natural calling. “My meta morphosis into becoming a mother just really clarified my life,” she says. She gets her kids to do things by pretending she’s Mary Poppins; she claims it works like magic. But even for Marklew, equanimity didn’t come easily. “My father was an alcoholic, right?” she explains. “So there were amazing things about my father, but reliability wasn’t high on the list. I want my children to know that I’m here. I’m here. The love is here. Because that’s all you need.” Rinaldi might argue that money would also help. A gifted writer
three other people,” she says. “I feel right when we’re close.” Asked if she wishes that she had taken a different life course and become a teacher, for instance, as opposed to an artist, Rinaldi thinks seriously before responding: “My immediate thought is no, because then I wouldn’t have met my husband, Mike. My life is not what I thought it would be, but, in a way, it’s better.” Bennett is probably telling the riskiest tale. It’s about her dawning recognition that her son’s sometimes aggressive behaviours are linked to her own temper and propensity for violence. For a long time, she didn’t see it that way. Bennett says, “It was easy for me to go, ‘This is totally separate. I’m only yelling at my husband when the kids are asleep, or I’m only yelling at the lady on the phone, and they’re not connected because I don’t yell at my kids very often.’ ” But her perspective has changed: “They see. They feel. They know. Even though I’m not yelling, my son can see that my upper lip is vibrating because I want to. He can sense the violence in me whether I’m acting out on anything or not. My journey is ‘My son is me.’ It’s about facing myself, coming to terms with my own faults.” The Motherload artists know that they’re taking risks in presenting this material: they may be judged. But in being honest, they are reducing their loneliness. As Symington Fedy puts it, “At least we’re together in our unknowingness. And that includes the 200 people watching. I hope that sharing the isolation that I felt when I had my first kid and I was all by myself allows another woman, who comes to the show and who might be feeling isolated, to take some deep breaths.” -
and performer who moved from Vancouver to Ontario with her family a couple of years ago, Rinaldi says, “I didn’t expect to be shining shoes at 37” in order to pay the bills. But she did that for a while. Her story is about coming to terms with the gap between reality and expectations—and about negotiating the work-family balance. Right now, she’s finding the challenge of being both a mother and a working artist particularly painful—because her husband and two sons are all at home in Hamilton. “How I orient Motherload is at the Cultch from Wedmyself in the world now is with those nesday (February 4) to February 21.
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You’ll see a lot more female performers, as well as new instruments, when the famed Kodo percussion ensemble hits Vancouver. Takashi Okamoto photo.
Kodo troupe drums up brave new rhythms > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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dancing to the famed cellist’s rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite No. 5 in C Minor. He’s brought all of his performing prowess as well as his considerable artistic curiosity to the job of revitalizing Kodo. “I think Tamasaburō wants to extend the field of drums into a more diverse musicality,” says Akimoto. “His intent is to incorporate other instruments, if he feels it necessary to do so. Whether it’s western or eastern instruments, it’s not a big deal with him. And in my own opinion, kabuki has developed its own strengths by doing the same thing. It’s deeply based in the Japanese performing arts, but at the same time it incorporates many other kinds of performing arts and music; it’s a kind of melting pot. I think the strength of kabuki—which has survived for over 400 years without any public subsidies—lies there, and Tamasaburō has given the secrets of kabuki tradition to Kodo, in many ways.” Some aspects of Mystery draw on areas of Japanese tradition that are new to Kodo, including the colourful snake dances of Shimane Prefecture. Others are rooted in Bandō’s willingness to open the stage to collaboration. Uchida, for example, has graduated from lowly apprentice to valued contributor, with two pieces of her own devising in the new production. “I wrote two songs, for the first time in my life,” she says. “One is a song that’s played on flute and taiko, a really short, nice song. And one more song is called ‘Chitchat’, and it’s for four girls playing woodblocks. I wanted to express the girls talking, chitchatting.” Given the overwhelmingly male, martial-arts-informed flavour of previous Kodo productions, that’s quite a departure for the troupe—but it won’t be the last under the adventurous Bandō’s leadership. -
hange has come to Japan’s Sado Island, although that might not be apparent to all of its 63,000 inhabitants. The yearly cycle of planting and harvesting rice continues, as do the winter winds that strafe its hills and beaches. But for the Kodo percussion ensemble, a Sado fixture since 1981, things have not been the same since Tamasaburō Bandō became its artistic director in 2012. “It feels totally different,” says the troupe’s Eri Uchida, interviewed along with Kodo administrator Jun Akimoto via Skype. “First of all, we don’t wear our traditional costume anymore. And it feels like once the curtain opens up, things just flow until the end. Our show doesn’t stop between each song.” Kodo came to the world’s attention through the raw power of its taiko drumming—and through the chiselled perfection of its drummers’ bodies, honed by long-distance running and showcased by skimpy loincloths. But Mystery, the show Kodo is bringing to Vancouver this week, finds new instruments joining the usual drums, subtle theatrical touches enriching the concert format, and a much larger complement of female performers, of whom Uchida is one. She recalls Bandō’s arrival with a mixture of awe and amusement: “I was an apprentice, so I only saw him from far away.” It’s an impression Akimoto confirms, saying, “He was untouchable to us. We didn’t actually get to speak to him.” Given Japanese culture’s reverence for tradition, that’s understandable. The 64-year-old Bandō is the fifth in a series of kabuki actors to wear that name, and his generation’s most celebrated onnagata, or male performer of female roles. But his fame extends beyond his theatrical expertise: he’s a Ko d o p re s e n t s M y s t e r y a t t h e filmmaker and a choreographer, and Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thurshas appeared on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma, day (January 29).
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Star helps darkly funny Bird to fly
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n The Goodnight Bird, a play that premieres at the Kay Meek Centre this week, a homeless man leaps off the roof of a condo and lands on an aging couple’s balcony. Colleen Murphy’s wryly funny script shakes the long-married pair out of their comfort zone and spurs them to reassess their lives with the inhibition-free vagrant who invades their bedroom. It all has veteran actor Nicola Cavendish, who plays the wife, Lilly, thinking hard about those who spend cold nights on the street. “I’ll never forget the time in Toronto, where I was working, and the first time I saw someone in the dead of a January winter lying on one of those grates for warmth. And there wasn’t just one, there was one on that corner and one on another and another,” Cavendish recalls, speaking over the phone on a break from going over lines with costar Christopher Hunt at her North Van home. “You realize you can never, ever allow yourself to ignore it, if it means giving somebody an orange or $5. Just yesterday in the paper I saw a headline that a city is having trouble ‘cleaning up’ homelessness—as if these people are garbage.” At 62, the legendary local actor, who is perhaps best known for her national tour of Shirley Valentine, can clearly be choosy about the projects she does. As she jokes, “There are books to be read and countries to be seen.” So The Goodnight Bird clearly spoke to her. She had been following Canadian playwright Colleen Murphy’s witty yet deep scripts (Armstrong’s War, Pig Girl, The December Man) for years before she found out she was being eyed for the lead female role in Bird. The production grew into a labour of love, coproduced with Montreal’s Centaur Theatre Company under
Christopher Hunt and Nicola Cavendish (left and right) play a couple that finds a vagrant (Graham Cuthbertson) on the condo balcony. David Cooper photo.
former Vancouver director Roy Surette. Cavendish likes that it’s also a chance for West Van’s relatively new Kay Meek to show off its intimate stage and build a theatre audience. “As you get older everything matters that much more,” she comments. “And you have, hopefully, that much more compassion for the subject that needs to be portrayed.” That’s probably necessary in this work because The Goodnight Bird is so challenging for its actors—even ones as experienced as Cavendish, it turns out. It digs deep into the well-steeped resentments of a marriage. Cavendish’s Lilly, she says, is a powder keg ready to explode, a slightly overbearing woman raised in an era of grace and manners. Hunt’s character has just survived a heart attack. Familiarity has bred contempt between them, and the strange arrival of the homeless man forces them to confront it. “We assume from the script that they haven’t had much of a physical
relationship,” Cavendish explains. “They’ve been having surface conversations when really they should be talking about who they are and what they need and what they have and what they don’t have—in the time they have!” Cavendish says the most difficult challenges of the play are nailing the right, blackly comic tone and handling the language—which sometimes turns to explosive anger as the husband and wife lash out. “It’s one of the toughest pieces I’ve ever had to learn: her lines are packed and yet very succinct and sparse,” she explains before heading into the theatre for rehearsals. “We’re serving a dark comic god, but at the same time it finds its way through the dank, dark earth to something quite beautiful.” The Goodnight Bird is at the Kay Meek Centre from Thursday (January 29) to February 14.
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Dee once used humour teaching at high school > B Y GUY M a c PHER SO N
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ans of the CBC sitcom Mr. D know the story: standup comic Gerry Dee created the show based on his 10 years in the trenches teaching high school. In it, he plays an in-overhis-head slacker blowhard charged with imparting knowledge to impressionable teenagers. They don’t exactly learn much in his class. But what was the real Mr. Donahue like? (Dee is his stage surname.) While he employed humour in the classroom, a businesslike Dee tells the Straight from his home in Toronto that he kept a tight rein on his students. “What’s similar is that I didn’t know history or geography, which I taught,” he says. “I didn’t know what I was really doing. What’s not similar is I wasn’t the goofball you see on TV; I was actually pretty strict and commanded a disciplined classroom and managed the kids. A lot of people that knew me as a teacher would say, ‘He joked around but he was also very serious sometimes.’ ” He adopted the stage name because he didn’t want anyone to connect the dots to his day job. And it stuck. It’s worked out pretty well for him, too. He was headlining clubs just eight months into comedy and had a TV special after 18 months—a testament to his hard work more than anything. Although being funny helps a lot, too. “I was very driven to be successful as far back as I can remember. And always thought I would be,” the son of a bus driver and dental assistant says. “I believe in anything you do, if you set your mind to it, there’s a good chance you can go very far; you just don’t know how far it’s going to take you.” His role models were the likes of Russell Peters and Dane Cook—not for their comedy but what they did with it. “You think, ‘Why don’t I try to get that? Why don’t I try to get as big as I can?’ ” he says. “I always wanted to be the top of everything. I never really
Mr. D’s Gerry Dee based his hit sitcom on his real-life experiences.
have been, but I’ve always tried to get there. I think that’s part of becoming successful: just trying to get there.” So in 2003, when some pitchdriven American comics kept telling him his standup set was a perfect sitcom, that set the wheels in motion. He started jotting down ideas. Three years later, he started thinking about it again. The following year he began pitching the series. It wasn’t until 2010 that the pilot was shot. The result is a show that is as good as any ever produced in this country—and better than many on major American networks. “You try to make a show that you’d like watching and you’d think was funny,” Dee says. While some of the actors in the ensemble cast play it overly broad, most, including the star, are pitch-perfect. “I like small humour. I don’t like big humour,” he says. “I like awkward humour. But my favourite humour is where you’re saying things that people wish they could say but no one does. That’s the humour I grew up on. That’s very Scottish and it’s very much what I like. That’s not our whole show but that’s certainly what kind of humour I like. Very subtle.” Gerry Dee’s all-ages tour plays the Vogue Theatre on Thursday (January 29) with Graham Chittenden opening.
Beauty and the Beast set sees a makeover > BY JA NET SM IT H
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Miss Saigon, and that was the directive: they wanted us to go make a big spectacle. Michael Eisner, the CEO at the time, was very clear that he wanted the cartoon come to life. So the original production was much more about being literal to the production.” Not so with the newly reimagined edition that is coming here. “This one is much more evocative and less literal to the movie,” Meyer says. “I do like the design’s simplicity and boldness much more than in the original. It allows the audience to use their imagination a little more. “There aren’t really doors or windows, just magical, curly, swirling shapes that tell you something enchanted is going on,” he says of the Beast’s hidden mansion. “And then in the town, it’s the 90-degree angles of man.” He adds the feel of the set is of transparency and layers, a metaphor for the idea that you have to look beyond surfaces to find the true heart of a person (or beast, as the case may be). While the musical has long outlived what anyone on his team expected, the show still holds a special place in Meyer’s heart, as well as in those of the fans who flock to it. The modest visionary won’t take full credit for its longevity; he says Beauty and the Beast continues to succeed because of its memorable music and characters like its feisty heroine, Belle. Still, his scenic design helps: “The set now is not heavy or laden down,” he says, “and that really allows the story and the music and the acting performances to soar.” -
tanley A. Meyer has designed full-blown Broadway shows, rock-concert staging for the likes of Alice Cooper and Cyndi Lauper, a Busch Garden roller coaster, a Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, a Nutcracker ballet, and much, much more. In fact, no largescale project seems to be beyond his skill set. These days, he’s stoked about one of his newest challenges, a longtime dream: designing flowered floats for Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses New Year’s Day parade (the one that happens before the Rose Bowl). “This year I had three floats in the parade and it’s this mass of people coming together with the goal of creating the most beautiful thing you can create,” the design veteran enthuses to the Straight over the phone from New York. “So that’s fairly new to me.” Of all the projects Meyer has embraced, perhaps none of his work is more famous (or seen) than Disney’s Beauty and the Beast—one of the world’s longest-running musicals (21 years and counting, millions of audiences later). It’s an extravagantly staged show he recently helped redesign, with his original creative team, for a tour that will soon make its way to Vancouver. And it has him thinking back to how different it all was, two decades ago, when Disney set out to stage its first musical—an initiative that was so successful, the company actually has an entire liveshows division these days. “When we started we just wanted to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is at the do a Broadway show,” the affable artist Queen Elizabeth Theatre from Tuesexplains. “There was a Phantom and a day to next Sunday (February 3 to 8).
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Bullet Catch looks down the barrel of free will PostSecret has moving moments, while Quebec’s heartwarming Séquence 8 redefines the circus T HEAT RE
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By Rob Drummond. Directed by Rob Drummond and David Overend. Produced by the Arches (Glasgow) and presented by the Arts Club and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. At the Arts Club’s Revue Stage on Wednesday, January 21. Continues until February 7
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opposed to pretty good. But pretty good is what Rob Drummond offers in Bullet Catch. Drummond isn’t a full-time magician; he’s a theatremaker who learned new skills for this show. That’s the strength—and also the significant weakness—of Bullet Catch. In this 75-minute piece, Drummond tells the fictional story of a magician named William Henderson, who performed the bulletcatch—in which an illusionist appears to catch in his teeth a bullet that’s been fired by an audience volunteer—but who ended up being killed doing the trick in 1815. Drummond, who wrote the show and performs it with the help of a lone volunteer, is charismatic, joking easily and wittily with the audience. And the narrative framework that he has created is sometimes affecting: the labourer who volunteered in Henderson’s show and killed him, to his horror, writes letters from jail, and the burden he bears becomes palpable. With its rich browns, Victorian photos, and period typography, Francis Gallop’s stage design is handsome. But when I talked with other audience members after the show, we deconstructed—pretty successfully, I think—two of the major tricks. The essential mechanics of a third were apparent, even during the performance. Other illusions remained mysterious, but I don’t think that the audience should have such a good batting average. Thematically, Drummond explores the notion of free will, which makes for a nice fit with the form of the evening, which is all about the manipulation of perceptual choices. This exploration doesn’t go very deep, however: Drummond simply dismisses free will, which feels simplistic. And the climax of the evening goes flat. Don’t read further if you don’t want to know what it is, but it’s clear from the get-go that Drummond will ask the volunteer to shoot a gun at his face. By the time we get there, however, it’s so obvious that there’s no real
danger that the passage fizzles. Magic shows are better when magicians do them.
> COLIN THOMAS
POSTSECRET: THE SHOW Created by Frank Warren, TJ Dawe, Kahlil Ashanti, and Justin Sudds. Directed by TJ Dawe. A Firehall Arts Centre production. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Tuesday, January 20. Continues until February 7
At times, I felt like I was on the
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livered via Twitter. PostSecret: The Show takes its inspiration from Frank Warren’s website, postsecret.com. The website, in turn, grew out of a 2005 project in which Warren invited people to submit—anonymously—decorated postcards that included secrets they’d never shared before. In this stage version of PostSecret, a surprising number of revelations are about farting, but there are also lots about despair (including suicidal thoughts), love, faith, and general quirkiness. In PostSecret: The Show, three actors mostly just stand and recite secrets, as well as postings to the website’s chat room. There are other elements, including video clips and live guitar music, but, theatrically, it’s pretty flat. The worthy message in PostSecret: The Show is: you are not alone. Whatever weirdness you’ve been up to— and that you may have been shaming yourself for—there’s somebody out there who can relate. When there’s a confessional aspect to the secret, sharing reasserts the fundamental decency of the sharer. I’m thinking, for instance, of the folks who ask forgiveness for bullying. Some of this material is beautiful and some of it is very moving. There’s a short piece, for instance, in which a woman remembers that when she was a girl, her father used to put a ladder on their lawn every night and then come back in and tell her that he’d hung the moon in the sky for her. Often, the longer pieces work best because they develop their stories most fully. One such passage begins with this post: “People think that I’m horrible for telling my child there is no Santa. They don’t have to look in their eyes Christmas morning.” The responses in the postsecret.com chat room are so compassionate—and so practical— that they had me stifling sobs. PostSecret seems to have helped a lot of suicidal folks. But PostSecret: The Show offers diminishing returns. The idea that see next page
we’re not alone simply repeats, and because the central format is as short as a tweet, the notion never acquires satisfying depth. After a while, I became wary of potential inauthenticity. We hear about a young woman who comes to the microphone at a Warren event, for instance, confesses to loneliness, and is supposedly amazed by the support she subsequently receives. Feels wanky. An early post that appears onscreen says, “I think it’s funny to put feminine hygiene products in men’s shopping carts.” When we hear about others who followed up with supposed confessions about putting flavoured condoms in seniors’ shopping carts and so on, it feels like they might just be writing material. There’s some lovely stuff here, and the performers—Kahlil Ashanti, Ming Hudson, and Nicolle Nattrass— are charming, but I’m not sure that PostSecret belongs in the theatre, which is a place where you invest time and expect accumulation.
SÉQUENCE 8 A 7 Doigts de la Main production. Presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, with Tom Lightburn and Théâtre la Seizième. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Thursday, January 22. No remaining performances
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ized spontaneity at the closing bell of Séquence 8—it erupted. Montreal’s 7 Doigts de la Main delivered a hugely entertaining show, weaving circus arts, contemporary dance, and elements of low-key comedy into a bright and often seamless fabric. The focus throughout was on the chemistry of the troupe—two female, six male—and the exceptional degree of trust, care, and understanding they’ve developed in a piece that is as heartwarmingly human as its feats are mind-boggling. Les 7 Doigts lets its artists talk— not only to each other, but to the > COLIN THOMAS public. The effect is to demystify,
In Séquence 8, boggling acts meld with words. Lionel Montagnier photo.
break down the fourth wall, and make the circus experience feel more participatory. Séquence 8’s “compère”, Colin Davis, spoke into a mike, delivered monologues, interviewed others, and conducted a cod quiz show with the audience. In the opening sequence Davis, alone and behind a desk, talked in a gauche way about how the artists wouldn’t be there if not for the audience. But
just as phrases like “We’re all connected” started to make toes curl, the words faded and the others ran on-stage and launched into dizzying floor acrobatics, performing leaps, dives, and saltos individually, in pairs, and in groups. The richness and fluency of the choreography by directors Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila was extraordinary— and the contrast between the speed and precision of the movements and the loose, rambling nature of Davis’s monologue created a delicious irony. The performers clearly enjoyed the hammy quality of the talking sequences, and played it up—as when cigar-box-juggling Eric Bates, a bare-chested hunk, was interviewed by Davis about his spoof autobiography How to Live With the Boxes You’re Thinking Out Of. It was silly but engaging, and served to enhance his flawless display of skill, flipping and catching the boxes, even performing pirouettes while they were aloft. To an extent, the playful talk
replaced the humour of a traditional circus clown, and was often integrated with feats. The quiz sequence felt rather long and laboured, but was enlivened when Devin Henderson—with feigned reluctance—found new ways to propel himself to the top of a Chinese pole and ring a bell to mark each correct answer. Among the artists, Alexandra Royer stood out, for both her airborne acrobatics on the Russian bar—a narrow fibreglass plank carried by two of the men—and her solo performance on a spinning aerial hoop. Kudos too to Guillaume Biron and Tom Amirati of France, who, as Davis told us, only joined the troupe recently. It was in no way apparent. During the Korean teeter-board act, while performing awesome twists and somersaults, they rose so high they momentarily disappeared from view. Les 7 Doigts’ audacious and inspiring Vancouver debut will surely change how audiences here think of circus as a multidisciplinary art form. > TONY MONTAGUE
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Unburying the city's lost Musqueam world V IS U AL A R TS CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY At the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre and Gallery, Museum of Vancouver, and the Museum of Anthropology
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Resource Centre and Gallery, built on a grassy expanse of land near the mouth of the Fraser River, five display cases have been created to resemble looms. Their forms evoke the continuous and esteemed tradition of weaving among the Musqueam people. In one of the cases, a tiny, ancient pestle—used to grind medicinal ingredients, perhaps?—reveals the technical accomplishment and cultural sophistication of its maker. Delicately carved in the shape of a heron, it also communicates the deep understanding of the natural world that underlies the beliefs and traditions of the first peoples of this place. Cәsna әm, the City Before the City is a collaborative exhibition that awakens us to the history and living culture of those who, for thousands of years, have occupied lands we now call Vancouver. Running simultaneously at the Musqueam Cultural Centre, Museum of Vancouver, and the Museum of Anthropology, this multimedia and multifaceted show addresses not only the ancient landscape and enduring presence of the Musqueam First Nation but also the shifting relationship between western archaeological and museum practices and aboriginal beliefs. Cәsna әm, spelled here in the North American Phonetic Alphabet, is the Musqueam name of a large village and burial site, a settled place on the north arm of the Fraser River that predates, by thousands of years, the arrival of Europeans. In 2012, members of the Musqueam community maintained a 200-day vigil at a site in the neighbourhood non-Natives know as Marpole. The land was being dug up to make way for a condominium development when work crews unearthed human remains, including those of two babies. Eventually, following their prolonged, peaceful protest, the Musqueam were able to reclaim this parcel of land by purchasing it from the developer. Their wish was that the people and things interred at the site should continue to lie there undisturbed. Still, the place has not yet found formal recognition as a monument, park, or resource centre, and the original violation of the burial grounds painfully informs the exhibition. So do previous, reckless archaeological excavations in the әsna әm area, excavations that uncovered many of the objects on view at MOV and the 34 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 5 / 2015
Musqueam Cultural Centre. (MOA’s component of the exhibition is mostly text-, sound-, and media-based.) These objects are what the show’s organizers and advisors term “belongings”, to alert us to the connection between them and the people who owned and valued them. Organized by scholars and curators of both Musqueam and nonaboriginal descent, the three-part exhibition uses a range of images, media, and materials to tell the story of the city before the city. These include video and audio installations, text panels, computerized animation, photographs, maps, illustrated timelines, an interactive table on which visitors may puzzle out the uses and histories of certain tools and materials, and a 32-foot-long sturgeon spear, made recently by Musqueam councillor Morgan Guerin. It is of a kind, he believes, that has not been seen in his community in almost a century. At all three venues, the didactic components are thoughtfully composed and the exhibition design is handsome and effective. The elements that knit past and present together and that most engage the visitor, however, are the unearthed belongings and the quotes from and interviews with Musqueam elders and other community members. Thousands of years of history are represented by axe heads and arrowheads, chisels and adzes, harpoon points, blanket pins, and an array of pendants, worked in stone, bone, antler, and shell. Whatever their social or religious significance may have been (no meanings are given in the labels), the pendants draw our interest with their small, deft depictions of birds, fish, faces, and canoe paddles. Of items such as fishnets, baskets, and blankets, woven out of perishable materials, only a few fragments remain. At the Musqueam Cultural Centre, this gap in the archaeological record is filled by a number of contemporary weavings. Cultural continuity is expressed by a quote from Musqueam textile artist Debra Sparrow: “When I stand in front of my loom and I’m working and I’m creating.…I’m not here anymore, I’m back in time and I’m thinking of the women and they’re whispering to me and guiding me.” As an exhibition, the City Before the City re-examines and re-presents stories and materials in a way that makes sense to the Musqueam community and that also opens the eyes, hearts, and minds of nonaboriginal visitors. On a recent media tour of the exhibition, Guerin said, “We’ve never ceded our territory—we’re sharing it.” Then he added, “Vancouver grew into us. Musqueam is part of Vancouver and who we all are.” > ROBIN LAURENCE
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In It’s Going to Get Worse and Worse and Worse, My Friend, Belgian dance artist Lisbeth Gruwez collapses amid a frenzy set to the sounds of Jimmy Swaggart.
Dance artist works magic with televangelist’s words D ANC E IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE, MY FRIEND A Voetvolk production, presented by the Dance Centre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Thursday, January 22. No remaining performances
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grips your attention like an old-style preacher working a revival tent—and that’s fitting, considering her soundtrack is a sermon by ’80s televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, remixed almost, but not quite, beyond intelligibility. The result is a show that’s as strange as it is mesmerizing—one that slyly deconstructs the way speechmakers manipulate their audiences. Building to a bizarre, ecstatic state, it’s a trip that has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Gruwez appears on a bare stage in a stark, rectangular spotlight. She looks strikingly androgynous, wearing a men’s dress shirt and slacks with Bible-belt-issue black oxfords. Her gaze remains fixed intently on the people watching her. In the opening moments there is little sound: the odd piano plink, eventually met with the whiplash of a discombobulated voice, sampled by sound designercomposer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe beyond recognition. Gruwez is calm, using stiffened hands the
way an orator might, pressing the air down in front of her, then raising her arm to accentuate a beat of noise. Ever so slowly, the sounds build— adding strings along with that constant, David Lynch–ian, windlike roar—and so do the movements. Gruwez finds a weird flow of gestures that seem alien and familiar all at once. The latter sensation comes from the fact that she has obviously studied the physical language of presidents, dictators, and preachers in obsessive detail, reorganizing the rigid hand movements and wide stances into a language all its own. The dancer’s utter, meticulous control and extreme focus are arresting. By the time the words of the soundtrack start to make sense—the text of the title, drawn from the Swaggart sermon, builds into a kind of drawling chorus that his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis could have turned into a song—they seem to hold heavy, albeit ironic, meaning. Her commentary on the power of words, and how they’re wielded, is timely, thought-provoking, and just a tiny bit scary. In the final moments, Gruwez, driven by the energy of the audience, takes things to a whole other, trancelike level, shaking and jumping in an almost ecstatic frenzy. While no one felt like they were saved, exactly, the connection that was built between one artist onstage and her audience helped this stripped-down PuSh Festival find get pretty damn close to rapture. > JANET SMITH
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS DARK MATTER Kate McIntosh’s play turns time, space, and existence into a wild, anarchic theatre piece. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 28-30, SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $36/31, info 778-782-3363, www.pushfestival.ca/. APRÈS MOI AND THE LIST Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the English
translation of two French Canadian plays that explore how letting other people in can alter a life’s trajectory. Jan 28–Feb 1, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). $23/18.5, info www.rubyslippers.ca/.
life. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Feb 3-4, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $36/31, info 604-713-1800, www. pushfestival.ca/.
7 IMPORTANT THINGS STO Union’s play sees a 1960s rebel tell a story about the things worth fighting for. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 29-31, SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $36/31, info 778-782-3363, www.pushfestival.ca/.
DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Disney’s version of the classic fairy tale about a beautiful young woman who must live with a monster, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed on him by an enchantress. Feb 3-8, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $35 (plus service charges and fees), info 604-665-3050, www. broadwayacrosscanada.ca/.
PHANTASMAGORIA: CIRCUS OF DREAMS Loose Leaf Collective’s project blurs the line between reality and the imagination. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 29-31, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $18.25, info 604713-1800, www.pushfestival.ca/.
CINEMA IMAGINAIRE Lotte van den Berg’s sensory adventure is presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Feb 4-8, CBC Cultural Centre (110 - 750 Hamilton Street). Tix $36/31, info www.pushfestival.ca/.
THE GOODNIGHT BIRD Montreal’s Centaur Theatre Company presents Colleen Murphy’s dark comedy about old love and new courage. Jan 29–Feb 14, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave.). Tix $15-50, info 604-913-3634, kay meekcentre.com/on_stage/1946/.
STEPPENWOLF Fight With a Stick’s play, inspired by the novel by Herman Hesse, takes the audience on a journey of self-reflection. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Feb 4-8, Russian Hall (600 Campbell). Tix $36/31, info 604-254-9932, www.pushfestival.ca/.
GOOD ENOUGH Ted McGrath’s autobiographical one-man show tells the story of a young man’s desperate search for meaning, coupled with an obsession to one day feel good enough. Jan 31, 4-6 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $10, info 604-608-2871, sexloveseek.com/.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS Eponine Diana Kaarina and Danny Balkwill star in a musical about two New Yorkers in their 20s who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. Feb 4-14, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $20-30, info 604-255-4312, www.lionfishentertainment.com/.
THE LIFE GAME Keith Johnstone’s play tells the story of an ordinary person through a mixture of live interviews and improvisations. Feb 1, 4 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $17.50, info 604-984-4484, www.centennialtheatre.com/.
MOTHERLOAD Four prominent Canadian theatre artists and mothers tell their personal stories about what it takes to be a member of the world’s biggest club. Feb 4-21, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $19, info 604-251-1363, tickets.thecultch.com.
SEA SICK Journalist Alanna Mitchell tells the story of our oceans and the huge risk their degradation poses to human
THE KEITH RICHARDS ONE WOMAN SHOW Suitcase in Point Theatre presents a play exploring one woman’s obsession
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RHYTHMS AND ROOTS Follow the music to atmospheric Deep Cove: First Impressions Theatre is holding its annual fundraising concerts there on Friday and Saturday nights (January 30 and 31) and it’s hooked up the Celticrocking Paperboys for the first show, and smoky-voiced, rootsybluesy songstress Babe Gurr with an eight-piece band for the second. Gurr has a new Louisiana-flavoured five-song EP out, Hearts Up to the Sun. Both shows take place at the intimate Deep Cove Shaw Theatre, First Impressions’ home. with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Feb 4-7, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $27-35, info 604-291-6864, www.shadboltcentre.com.
2ONGOING UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL Pacific Theatre presents director Paul F. Muir’s story about one man’s obsessive investigation into mysteries past and present. To Jan 31, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $19.99-29.99, info 604-731-5483, pacific theatre.org/season/2014-2015-season/ mainstage/underneath-the-lintel/. BULLET CATCH The Arts Club Theatre Company and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present writer and performer Rob Drummond’s stunt show. To Feb 7, Revue Stage (1601 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $25, info 604-687-1644, www.artsclub.com/. POSTSECRET: THE SHOW TJ Dawe directs the Canadian premiere of the visual, auditory, and emotional journey through the beauty and complication of our deepest fears, ambitions, and confessions. Created by Dawe, Frank Warren, Kahlil Ashanti, and Justin Sudds. To Feb 7, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $16, info 604-6890926, www.firehallartscentre.ca/. THE BACCHAE 2.1 Theatre at UBC presents the classic play by Euripedes. Adapted by Charles Mee. Directed by Dennis Gupa. To Feb 7, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $7-24.50, info 604-822-3880, www.theatre film.ubc.ca/. ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a blend of satire, songs, slapstick, and sparkling wit in an update of the Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters. To Feb 22, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info 604-731-4687, www.artsclub.com/. PRIVATE LIVES United Players presents director Kevin Bennett’s version of Noël Coward’s play, starring Caitlin Clugston, Ted Cole, Rebecca Husain, Paul Griggs, and Cheyenne Mabberley. To Feb 15, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $16-20, info 604-224-8007, www.unitedplayers.com/.
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FISH EYES TRILOGY Anita Majumdar’s play examines the lives of three teen girls growing up in small-town Canada. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. To Jan 31, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $19, info 604-251-1363, www.pushfestival.ca/.
LE CARGO Studios Kabako’s work sees dancer and storyteller Faustin Linyekula transport the audience to his homeland of the Congo. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 29-31, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $36/31, info 604606-6400, www.pushfestival.ca/. TIME MACHINE MACHiNENOiSY’s new work upends ideas about age, ability, dance, and theatre. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Feb 4-7, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $36/31, info 604-6066400, www.pushfestival.ca/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Classical music by Stephen Stubbs, Lydia Brotherton, Susie Napper, Sand Dalton, John Lenti, Linda Melsted, Jonathan Oddie, Natalie Mackie, Hans-Juergen Schnoor, Steven Creswell, Oleg Timofeyev, Anna Marsh, and Jeffrey Cohan. Jan 28, Mar 4, Mar 10, Mar 25, May 20, Jun 21, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Info 604-2665377, www.salishseafestival.org/. ALEXANDRE THARAUD Classical musician performs pieces by Bach, Chopin, Rameau, and Ravel, in addition to music inspired by the Paris cabaret of the 1920s. Jan 30, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $40/30, info 604-6653050, chopinsociety.org/. CHRISTIAN LANE The 2011 Canadian International Organ Competition firstprize winner performs works ranging from J.S. Bach to the present,. Jan 30, 8 pm, Holy Rosary Cathedral (646 Richards (at Dunsmuir)). Tix $25/20, info 604-6826774, www.holyrosarycathedral.org/. BACCHANALIA! MUSIC OF DELIGHT, DELIRIUM & DEBAUCHERY The Erato Ensemble presents a concert of songs that are funny, naughty, or to do with drinking. Warning: contains explicit content. Jan 31, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $25, info www.eratoensemble.com/. THE ROMANTIC SYMPHONY Bramwell Tovey conducts pianist Katherine Chi and the VSO in a program of Sibelius’s Valse Triste, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major. Jan 31, 8 pm; Feb 1, 2 pm; Feb 2, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $25-90, info 604-665-3050, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED JAMES BOND LIVE Interactive comedy featuring the famous fictional spy in a show created by The Simpsons comic-book writer and Canadian Comedy Award winner Ian Boothby. Feb 5, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $9/6, info 604-878-3456, www.riotheatretickets.ca/. SHOW US YOUR WITS Valentine’s Day comedy and improv evening featuring performances by the Fictionals and burlesque artists Veronica Vex, and Just Call Her Heather. Feb 11, 8-9:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/9, info 604-878-3456, thefictionals.com/.
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share their greatest hits of the ’50s and ’60s, and talk about their deepest heartbreaks. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 29, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $27/22, info 604-687-3020, www.pushfestival.ca/.
HOUR OF THE WOLF Eye of Newt and Norwegian vocalist Sissel Vera Pettersen perform a live soundtrack to Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 30, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $27/22, info 604-6873020, www.pushfestival.ca/.
HONG KONG EXILE This weekend’s FUSE x PuSh party at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers the usual cool cornucopia of artistic sights and sounds, this time with a generous dose of help from the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Among them is one of the hottest new interdisciplinary troupes in town. Hong Kong Exile, a group founded by recent SFU School of Contemporary Arts grads Natalie Tin Yan Gan (dancer-choreographer), Milton Lim (director and performer), and Remy Sui (composer and video designer), is causing a buzz with its ultracontemporary take on the Asian-Canadian experience. And at FUSE, which happens Friday night (January 30), you can check out its clever Lang(lang)uage (shown here), a multimedia, interactive installationrecital that explores the surge of piano playing, and piano-playing prodigies, in mainland China. That show plays again next Thursday night (February 5) at 7 p.m. at Club PuSh, the cutting-edge arts series at Performance Works on Granville Island; it’s followed, at 8 p.m., by Hong Kong Exile’s eatingthegame, a show we can only describe as a “keynote speech” by artist and entrepreneur Conor Wylie that explores foreign-property investment and jumps between East and West. Expect to hear more from these innovators. IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY: LIVE AT THE VOGUE THEATRE The Georgia Straight presents the improvisationalcomedy show based on the cult-hit card game Cards Against Humanity. Feb 17, 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $15-20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.northerntickets.com/. TEEN ANGST NIGHT At this comedic storytelling night people share excerpts from their teenage diaries, notebooks, and poetry. Hosted by Sara Bynoe. Feb 17, 8-10 pm, Cottage Bistro (4470 Main). Tix $10 at the door, info 604-876-6138.
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CHAR BAGH Mandeep Sethi sings hiphop with a social conscience, graffiti artist Nisha Sembi responds with painting, and Rupi Kaur celebrates the beauty of broken English. Followed by a dance party DJed by Sethi. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Jan 31, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $27/22, info 604-687-3020, www.pushfestival.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, www.vancouverartgallery. org/. 2EMILY CARR AND LANDON MACKENZIE: WOODCHOPPER AND THE MONKEY (over 50 artworks by Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie, presented in three thematically arranged
galleries) to Apr 6 2UNSCROLLED: REFRAMING TRADITION IN CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART (exhibition spotlights works by three generations of Chinese artists who have been trained in both western art history and Chinese tradition, including Ai Weiwei, Chen Shaoxiong, Ji Yunfei, MadeIn Company, Sun Xun, and Xu Bing) to Apr 6
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MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, www.museumofvancouver.ca/. 2FROM RATIONING TO RAVISHING (exhibition explores how women’s clothing transformed during the 1940s and 1950s, drawn from the collections of guest curators Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke) to Mar 8, 2015 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with c’ sna m, the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30
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MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, www.moa.ubc. ca/. 2PIGA PICHA (collection of over 180 photographs that explore Kenya’s popular culture, from 1910s to the present day) to Apr 4 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with c’ sna m, the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30
FORCE MAJEURE The Whistler Arts Council presents two screenings of director Ruben Östland’s dramatic comedy. Feb 4, Millennium Place (4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler). Tix $12/8, info 604-935-8410, www.artswhistler.com/.
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27TH ANNUAL MASSACRE Vancouver TheatreSports League’s signature festival pits improv groups from around the world against each other. To Feb 15, 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $11-31, info www.vtsl.com/. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv Test Kitchen (every Wed, 9:15 pm); Late Night Laughs (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); The Massacre (every Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Ultimate Improv Championship (every Thu, 9:25 pm). Jan 28–Feb 4, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK PETE JOHANSSON U.K.–based comedian known for performing alongside Stephen Merchant, Stewart Lee, Simon Amstell, and Jerry Seinfeld. Jan 29-31, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa). Tix $15-20, info 604-684-5050, www.thecomedymix.com/. PORTAL 2: THE (UNAUTHORIZED) MUSICAL Geekenders presents a black comedy about science, family, and space. Jan 30, 8 pm; Jan 31, 8 pm; Feb 1, 8:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $25 at the door/20 in advance, info 604-878-3456.
PINATA ART Imagine being able to introduce yourself as a professional piñata artist. That’s what Vancouver’s Meaghan Kennedy gets to do every day, and it’s brought her attention, and commissions, from around the world. So we love that the latest show at Hot Art Wet City Gallery takes her work (shown here) out of the party and into a proper exhibit. These piñatas are so cute and clever, you won’t want to smash her papier-mâché masterpieces with a big stick—but you’ll definitely feel the urge! She shares the show with Ali Bruce, a Vancouver artist whose swirling, wavy illustrations and prints are treats for the eye. What ties their work together? The gallery’s Chris Bentzen says, “Old movies, soap operas, and sitcoms keep these artists company,” so expect themes drawn from the big and small screens. The exhibit opens Friday night (January 30) and runs till Valentine’s Day.
2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, local talent showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $13 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2PETE JOHANSSON Jan 29-31 2MIKE WILMOT Feb 5-7 2SIMON KING Feb 26-28. YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2GARRETT CLARK Jan 30-31 2ALI WONG Feb 13-14 2TODD GLASS Feb 19-21.
WEST COAST GEEKS VERSUS NERDS 22—FEMAGEDDON AGAIN Comedic debates explore if Harley Quinn or Bellatrix Lestrange is the most psychotic sidekick and if Starbuck or Leela is the most dangerous badass in space. Feb 3, 7-9 pm, Vancouver FanClub (1050 Granville). Tix $10, info 604-689-1252, www.wcgeeksversusnerds.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS NORTHWEST COMEDY FEST Comedy by Craig Ferguson, Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Hannibal Buress, John Mulaney, CBC’s The Debaters, Moshe Kasher, Ali Wong, Brian Posehn, and Todd Glass. Also includes a tribute to Robin Williams and an evening of comedy shorts. Feb 12-21, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.northwestcomedyfest.com/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK MASHED POETICS #27 MOVIE THEME SONGS Night of music and spoken-word pays tribute to movie theme songs like “Don’t You Forget About Me”, “Time Warp”, and “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”. Includes music by Breakfast Club. Jan 30, 9-11:30 pm, Seven Dining Lounge (53 W. Broadway). Tix $10, info 604-875-9006, rcarcee2@gmail.com. DEWEY DECIBEL YOUTH POETRY SLAM Bring your words to life and speak at this monthly slam. A workshop with established spoken word artists will be followed by a poetry slam. All poetic styles are welcome. Feb 4, 5:30-9 pm, Peter Kaye Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Showcase of international, Canadian, and local artists who specialize in visionary, genre-bending, multidisciplinary live performing arts. To Feb 8, various Vancouver venues. Info www.pushfestival.ca/. SONIC ELDER Six Vancouver music legends come together to form a band,
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stars on the planet thanks to ’80s MTV. And even if he’s only coasting on past glories as he creeps up on 60, that’s not going to matter one bit to his fans, who haven’t been to a show since the Spoons last hit town. Why you need to go: To remind yourself there was a time when you didn’t live in the suburbs, singing along to “Rebel Yell” while piloting a Dodge minivan to Costco.
(February 8 at the Pacific Coliseum) In the spotlight: Six months ago, If it seems like ski season was over before it began, Gareth Emery was play- LUCINDA WILLIAMS (February 12 at the Vogue ing the Commodore, Theatre) In the spotlight: That 1998’s Car Wheels at least we have these great concerts to look forward to riding a wave of hype on a Gravel Road didn’t instantly make Lucinda If you’ve been outside this month and looked for a forward-thinking strain of dance music called Williams the biggest country star on the planet up at the local mountains, then you know winter trouse. (As much as that sounds like something sums up everything that’s wrong with the AmerBY MIKE US IN G ER was over less than a month after it began. That kids get in their hair in elementary school, think a ican music industry. Her classic work did, however, means it’s safe to leave the house without falling mashup of trance and house.) Now he’s headlining cement her status as a cult favourite among those into a tree well or being hit by a snowplow. The fol- the Coliseum. Should you have a child who wants to who appreciate 24-karat Americana. Williams’s lowing concerts should be all the added impetus learn guitar, for God’s sake suggest he study DJing latest, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, has you need to get out and do something while you instead. Why you need to go: At the rate he’s go- been hailed as another golden addition to a stelwait for spring. After all—barring a freak change in ing, Emery will be presiding over B.C. Place this lar catalogue. As if anyone expected anything less. weather patterns—it’s not like you’re going skiing. fall. Oh, and the undercard (Myon & Shane 54, Will Why you need to go: Remember how Williams Sparks, Ilan Bluestone, and Jaytech) is filled with was named “America’s Best Songwriter” by Time SAM SMITH (February 4 at Rogers Arena) In talent who might just become the next Skrillex. back in 2002? That, arguably, still holds true. the spotlight: Talk about taking the express route Or Gareth Emery. SMOKEY ROBINSON (February 13 at the River to the top. Two years ago, if you’d asked people who England’s Sam Smith was, the response ARIEL PINK (February 11 at the Rickshaw) In the Rock Casino Resort) In the spotlight: Witness would have been “that guy from Tadcaster who spotlight: The refreshingly out-there Ariel Pink a legitimate R&B legend in Smokey Robinson, makes the beer”. Today’s a different story. The deserves respect on numerous fronts, including his who—incredibly—is now in his seventh decmost famous blue-eyed soul singer to roar out of love of ’80s cassette tapes before they became hip, ade as one of America’s foremost soul singers. the U.K. since Rick Astley, Smith has gone from a and the fact that he’s been known to rock haircuts If you’ve always wanted to see a member of the velvet-piped nobody to a hockey-rink headliner. that suggest Bobby Conn dipped in Kool-Aid Pink Rock and Roll Hall of Fame up close, this is your Why you need to go: Begrudge him all you want Lemonade crystals. He’s also, for the first time in chance. Same goes for a Motown founder and the for not paying his dues with at least one dive-y his career, going it alone with his latest, pom pom— voice behind the immortal classic “The Tears of a club tour, but don’t deny that Smith can sing. If his long-time backing band Haunted Graffiti no- Clown”. Why you need to go: Even though he’s you don’t get chills from the gospel-tinged “Stay where to be seen. Why you need to go: Songs on retired once or twice over the years, Robinson has With Me” you’re deader inside than Mitt Romney. the positively reviewed pom pom include “Plastic never lost his musical mojo; instead of heading Raincoats in the Pig Parade” and “Nude Beach straight for the cutout bins, last year’s Smokey & LOGIC (February 6 at the Rio Theatre) In the spot- A Go-Go”. Do you really need another reason? Friends landed at No. 12 on the Billboard charts. light: Don’t believe what your parents, guidance counsellor, and probation officer tell you—some- CANNIBAL CORPSE/BEHEMOTH (February 11 AFRICA FETE (February 13 to 15 at Performance times getting kicked out of school is a blessing. at the Commodore) In the spotlight: The dark- Works) In the spotlight: Stop and think, for a That’s definitely true in the case of Logic, who, upon ness and gloom one normally associates with second, what modern music would be like if it getting the punt, suddenly had endless hours to Halloween come early this year with a double bill hadn’t been for Africa. The continent has given work on crafting mix tapes. His reward? That would of two heavy-music legends. On the American us primal rock ’n’ roll, jazz, hip-hop, the blues, include—and this is only to date—an XXL cover, a side of the pond, Cannibal Corpse weighs in with and too many spinoffs to list here. The three-day deal with Def Jam, and network appearances on The death-metal delicacies such as “Meat Hook Sod- Africa Fête goes back to the source, artists ranTonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Why you need to omy” and the delicately titled “Entrails Ripped ging from the West African–indebted all-star go: Partly because Logic is one of the most fascinat- From a Virgin’s Cunt”. Black metallers Behemoth, ensemble Sohoyini to Vancouver’s Zimbamoto. ing characters to come out of the rap game in years meanwhile, are the underground pride of Poland Why you need to go: Africa Fête includes day(name another MC as enamoured with Frank Sin- thanks to numbers like “Spellcraft and Hea- time showcases, drum and dance workshops, atra as he is the Wu-Tang Clan), but mostly because thendom” and “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel”. and artists who follow the music of Africa into Brazil, Haiti, Peru, and more. How often this is the last time you’ll be able to catch him in the Note: if street cred is important to you, this is not the place to wear your Steel can you broaden your horizons while intimate confines of a place like the Rio. Panther headband. Why you need to getting your groove on? Check out… THE TRAGICALLY HIP (February 6 at Rogers go: Where else are you going to find STRAIGHT.COM BEN HOWARD (February 14 at Arena) In the spotlight: All great bands go through all the Sunday-school dropouts you Have an opinion? Thunderbird Arena) In the spotsome dry spells, this certainly holding true for the haven’t seen since 1983 in one place? Visit our website to comment on light: Where “modern folk” used to Tragically Hip, whose last Vancouver appearance this story conjure up unpleasant images of James (at the Orpheum in 2013) was constantly derailed MEGHAN TRAINOR (February 11 at Taylor and Jewel, it’s somehow become by new songs that failed to connect with old fans. the Vogue Theatre) In the spotlight: one of pop’s most shit-hot genres over the Perhaps realizing that things aren’t working as Despite what her newly minted fans might well as they used to on the songwriting front, Gord think, Meghan Trainor didn’t burst out of nowhere past couple of years. For proof, consider that Downie and company have decided to revisit the with her ubiquitous single “All About That Bass”. England’s Ben Howard will be singing sensitivepast, their return to hockey rinks featuring 1992’s Before taking YouTube by storm, she released two saddo numbers like “I Forget Where We Were” at classic Fully Completely in its entirety. Why you go-nowhere acoustic albums while moonlighting Thunderbird Arena rather than the Naam. Why need to go: Fully Completely didn’t go diamond in as a songwriter for the likes of Rascal Flatts. And you need to go: Considering how many times Canada by accident. As a bonus, for the first time then came that retro-bubblegum jam you couldn’t your other half has agreed to rent “something in 20 years, your fellow concertgoers won’t have to get away from last year, the irony being that Train- loud and stupid starring Bruce Willis” on movie stand there listening to you screech “Play ‘Locked or originally wasn’t supposed to sing it, instead of- night, it’s time some goodwill went the other way. fering it to Beyoncé and Adele. As much of a mess in the Trunk of a Car’ ” until your voice gives out. as your life is, it’s nice to know things sometimes HOZIER (February 15 at the Orpheum) In the TRANS AMERICAN SOUNDS (February 6 at the actually work out for others. Why you need to spotlight: Along with Macklemore, the simiFox Cabaret) In the spotlight: As anyone with more go: Don’t pretend otherwise—you’re more than larly mono-monikered Hozier deserves an stamps in their passport than dollars in their bank a little curious what she’s going to play live, other award for trying to make the world a better account will back up, the best thing in the world than punk-rock, salsa, and hip-hop versions of “All place. It’s brilliant that the soaring “Take Me you can do is travel. Unfortunately, that costs a lot About That Bass”. to Church” has moved a million copies, and of money. Should you find yourself a little skint this even better that the song slams religion for bepost-Christmas season, let Trans American Sounds BILLY IDOL (February 12 at the Queen Elizabeth ing obsessed with what people choose to do in take you on a journey that won’t destroy what’s left Theatre) In the spotlight: William Michael Albert their bedrooms. Why you need to go: Hozier’s of the bottom line. Why you need to go: Spread Broad certainly is a survivor, this evidenced by the inspirational blend of preacher-man vocals and out over two floors at the Fox, Trans American fact he’s headlining soft-seaters while his former heavenly guitars is enough. The fact that he Sounds features DJs and live electronic wizardry peers haven’t been heard from since Sid Vicious might have changed a mind or two last year on from talent drawn from across Canada, the States, overdosed. Formerly of pioneering punks Genera- the issue of gay rights is a beautiful bonus. see next page and Mexico. Expect deep house, noise, cinematic tion X, Billy Idol became one of the biggest rock JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 5 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 39
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WINTERRUPTION (February 19 to
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22 at Performance Works) In the spotlight: Now that we think about it, it’s increasingly possible that Winterruption is responsible for the unseasonably warm weather over the past couple of years. We’ll forgive one of the city’s most adventurous festivals, however, with this year’s attractions including giant murals, films, and can’t-miss musical acts like Celso Machado, the Ballantynes, Miss Quincy and the Showdown, and Willa with DJ Blondtron. Why you need to go: Despite what Netflix would have you believe, winter isn’t for sitting around watching movies where you might actually see snow (The Shining, 30 Days of Night, and, um, Jack Frost). The frenetic soul of the Ballantynes alone is guaranteed to pull you out of hibernation.
CRO-MAGS (February 20 at the Rickshaw) In the spotlight: There were popular hardcore bands during the golden early years of North American punk rock, with Black Flag, D.O.A., and the Circle Jerks among them. Few first-wavers, however, were as brutal and scary as New York’s Cro-Mags. If you’re planning to do time in the pit at the Rickshaw, make sure you’re wearing a mouthguard. Why you need to go: No less than Henry Rollins has praised the Cro-Mags for their sheer thuggish power. If that’s not an endorsement, consider that the band has been together since ’81, yet has never— unless we’re grotesquely mistaken— played Vancouver. With four decades of pent-up anticipation, this one is guaranteed to be a powder keg looking for a match.
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FESTIVAL DU BOIS (February 26 to March 1 at Mackin Park, Coquitlam) In the spotlight: If you live in Vancouver, chances are you only end up in Coquitlam when it’s time for an IKEA run. Except, that is, during the much-loved annual Festival
We can only assume that the set list for Leighton Meester’s current tour includes the Gossip Girl theme song and the Country Strong soundtrack.
du Bois, which this year includes traditionalists Bal à l’Huile, DIY mashup crew Les Chercheurs d’Or, and folk minimalists Bardefou. And that’s just the shortlist. Why you need to go: If the weather holds, get ready for the next-best thing to springtime in Paris—which is to say that Festival du Bois is also the envy of those who’ll be spending March in Montreal. LEIGHTON MEESTER (March 1 at the Rio) In the spotlight: Leighton Meester isn’t the first actor to decide she’d rather be moonlighting with a microphone than standing in front of a camera. But unlike Bruce Willis, Russell Crowe, Jared Leto, and Eddie Murphy, the pop-minded glam folkie is arguably better at her hobby than at the discipline that made her famous.
Why you need to go: Even if she falls flat on her famous face, Meester is guaranteed to acquit herself better than Bruce Willis, Jared Leto, Eddie Murphy, and Russell Crowe. CELTICFEST (March 6 to 17 at the
Vogue Theatre) In the spotlight: The greenest festival in town once again rolls out a lineup guaranteed to please anyone who dreams of sheepdotted hills and quaint pubs where the Guinness flows in dark rivers. This year’s CelticFest features talent that includes Alan Doyle, C.R. Avery, Pat Chessell, Shane’s Teeth, Vagabonds, the Whiskeydicks, Delhi 2 Dublin, April Verch, and Elsay. Why you need to go: Think of the cool points you’ll score with that Pogues 1982 tour T-shirt you just discovered in your dad’s closet. -
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Operators has been a revelation for Boeckner Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relief in Dan Boecknerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice
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to Montreal, noting that being stationed in San Jose for the last couple of years had him missing friends and free health care. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still keeping his California home part-time, though, because living in the Bay Area has its perks. Beyond the obvious beach-day opportunities, the Operators frontman reveals heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been getting a kick out of studying the cult vibes cropping up in the Silicon Valley business sector. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am really fascinated by this sort of bizarre, techno-libertarian, postpolitical thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening out hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the people talking about artificial intelligence and approaching singularity,â&#x20AC;? Boeckner says on the line from San Jose, adding incredulously, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got conferences here where people are literally going back to these discredited, whacked-out, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s-era psychotherapy things like est and applying computer science to them and saying that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re neurally hacking themselves.â&#x20AC;? The Vancouver Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;bred musician notes that while he finds it intriguing, he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite worked techno-babble and self-help quackery into his life or lyrics just yet. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inarguable, though, that Operators has rebooted Boecknerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlook. When the Straight last caught up with the songwriter in 2013, he was supporting the debut album from his Divine Fits project with Spoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Britt Daniel. Boecknerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often heartbroken contributions to the LP, A Thing Called Divine Fits, were weighted heavily toward his self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;epic breakupâ&#x20AC;? with his wife and former Handsome Furs bandmate, Alexei Perry. He had also, however, just picked up an old 8-track recorder and started demoing new tunes for a then under-wraps project called Operators. Inspired by a love of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s electro-pop, the experimental soundscaping of Sonic Youth, and the tightness of Fugazi, Boeckner began crafting cuts on his own before bringing Divine Fits drummer Sam Brown and keyboardist Devojka into the project. A fertile writing period led to a first show at a San Jose punk club, lots of touring, and a recording session in Montreal that yielded the spirited, synth-driven EP1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This band has been a revelation for me,â&#x20AC;? Boeckner says with satisfaction of the quick
Devojka, Dan Boeckner, and Sam Brown of Operators offer just a taste of the explosive Technicolor dance-party madness that awaits anyone who attends one of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert performances.
rise of Operators. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still kind of drifting around the continent playing shows, but it feels hopeful instead of completely dislocated.â&#x20AC;? Fittingly, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first offering features a song called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Start Againâ&#x20AC;?, which sets the staccato pop punch of early Depeche Mode against lyrics about pushing forward. In a determined drawl, Boeckner sings: â&#x20AC;&#x153;People that you know, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not there/You better start again.â&#x20AC;? Elsewhere, the sexy catwalk slink of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trueâ&#x20AC;? has him looking for a new number one. Thankfully, there are more uplifting Operators tunes on the way, including a full-length debut and various singles. Of these, Boeckner particularly talks up a â&#x20AC;&#x153;late-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s acid-house workoutâ&#x20AC;? landing sometime soon, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ecstasy in My Houseâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hopeful song about blanking out, starting with a blank slate,â&#x20AC;? the songwriter explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but because I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to write a song thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completely happy, it is a little melancholy or mournful.â&#x20AC;? Owing, perhaps, to Operatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; positive impact on his psyche, Boeckner quickly rebounds from that self-deprecating dig with
a more optimistic revelation of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a big triumphant ending.â&#x20AC;?
> GREGORY ADAMS
Operators plays the Fox Cabaret on Friday and Saturday (January 30 and 31).
Guitar duo Johnson and Stern live up to Eclectic albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title When guitar virtuosos Eric Johnson and
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Eclectic, they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kidding. The kickoff track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roll With Itâ&#x20AC;?, is a disciplined venture into old-school funk, and although the rest of the disc conforms more closely to listener expectations, its guitar-heavy jams cover a lot of stylistic terrain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Benny Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluesâ&#x20AC;? is a swing-to-bop foray into the world of Charlie Christian, who pioneered the electric guitar in Benny Goodmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tidalâ&#x20AC;? is a nod to the equally immortal Wes Montgomery. But the horn-assisted rave-up â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hullabalooâ&#x20AC;? has so much Sunset Strip flavour that it deserves its
own TV show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Footâ&#x20AC;? is squiggly, twisted fusion, and album closer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Houseâ&#x20AC;? honours another major influence, Jimi Hendrix. Perhaps Eclectic couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but be, well, diverse; its makers are not an obvious fit with each other. The Austin, Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Johnson comes across as a soft-spoken southern diplomat, while Stern is an affably gruff New York City jazz cat. And if Johnson is so obsessed with the technology of making music that he has his own line of guitar speakers, Stern is the exact opposite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a tech guy at all,â&#x20AC;? he claims, on the line from New York. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have a computer! I mean, I do, but my wife has to turn the damn thing on, and I never use it.â&#x20AC;? When it comes to the guitar, however, the two are on the same pageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that was apparent from the first time they worked together, during the sessions for Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2009 release Big Neighbourhood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eric played his ass off, and then we talked about maybe doing some more,â&#x20AC;? Stern recalls. That led to an East Coast tour, and then the Eclectic sessions; along the way the two discovered that they had more in common than theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d realized. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to pigeonhole Stern as purely a jazz musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least in contrast to Johnson, whose wide-ranging approach has been influenced by everything from Japanese koto music to progressive rock to the European classical traditionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an oversimplification. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I check out [Johann Sebastian] Bach all the time,â&#x20AC;? Stern reveals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing that for years, not really for performance, but just to learn all those lines and beautiful melodies. So I understand a lot of what Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing, although heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeper into it because he also plays piano and tries to get that shit happening on the guitar.â&#x20AC;? In a separate phone interview from Austin, Johnson confirms that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strong two-way exchange between the playing partners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty I can learn from Mike,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anytime you play with a really good player thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different than yourself, you really have an opportunity to learn and grow.â&#x20AC;ŚIt can ignite new passions and new approaches to what you do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing with Mike,â&#x20AC;? he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is one of the more pleasurable double-guitar things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever done.â&#x20AC;? see next page
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Foghorn Stringband is a return to Klauder’s roots Caleb Klauder is intrigued.
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up far from their family’s roots often feel a real and powerful connection to music from there at first hearing? It’s a very personal question for him. When Foghorn Stringband’s lead singer and mandolinist was introduced to songs and tunes from the part of East Tennessee where his mother was raised, something in them triggered shivers of recognition, igniting his imagination like nothing before. “Her whole family is from that area,” says Klauder, reached at his home in Portland, Oregon. “She didn’t come from a musical background, so I can’t connect to that. But when I started singing the old-time tunes and songs, as well as old country and bluegrass, it’s literally like a switch got turned on inside. ‘Hello. There you are. You’re home.’ It was immediately comfortable and familiar to me. I wonder what that is? If it’s some ancient genetic thing going on, or some random connection that I made?” Klauder began his musical journey a very long way from Appalachia; he started on Orcas Island, Washington, playing and writing songs with friends. “We were making up anything we could think of, really, inspired by the likes of Jackson Browne, the Stones, Taj Mahal, the Dead—stuff our parents had in their record collection, an eclectic mix,” he recalls. “Then, in my early 20s, around 20 years ago, I realized I was frustrated musically—I made up all these songs and had this exciting band, but it just didn’t feel like I had a connection to any roots. Like, I could fake my way through blues but couldn’t really know it. At that point I discovered traditional fiddle and old-time music and bluegrass.” Following some unusually intense campfire-jam sessions at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest in Weiser, Idaho, 15 years ago, a group of friends created Foghorn Stringband. In different configurations the group has put out six albums. The current lineup features Klauder, cofounder Sammy Lind on fiddle, Nadine Landry from Quebec on bass and vocals, and Reeb Willms on guitar and vocals.
A busy and versatile artist, Klauder is currently working in two other outfits in the U.S. With his friends Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy, in both Cajun Country Revival and the Dirk Powell Band, he plays Cajun and south Louisiana music. And with the Caleb Klauder Country Band he performs his own songs written in an old-style country vein. “The reason I’m in all three is that they’re related and connected in the very foundation of the music—which has a dance beat and the same kind of chord movement. It’s very simple music. The songs cross those borders, and we like every one of them, and play with all of those musicians— old-time, Cajun, and country-folk. When I write new songs they could go into any of the three spots—although I know pretty quickly which one they’re headed for. It’s kind of a neat triangle.” > TONY MONTAGUE
Foghorn Stringband plays St. James Hall on Friday (January 30).
My Goodness’s Schneider leaves drama in the past If My Goodness singer-guitar-
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the time made that a bigger drama than usual. Today, Schneider has not only settled into a groove with his new timekeeper—tireless powerhouse Andy Lum—but also picked up a bassist in former Blood Brother Cody Votolato. He’s also getting recognition across the country for last year’s Shiver + Shake, a record built on a foundation of grunge-dipped blues rawk, with highlights including the explosive “Back Again” and the Zep-strength stomper “Check Your Bones”. Since its release, the full-length has led to showcase slots on Spin.com (the epic generations-spanning video for “Bottle/Say You’re Gone”), an artistto-watch-in-2015 nod from Amazon. com, and, most importantly, radio airplay across the country. “There was turmoil with the previous drummer, but that’s been squashed now,” Schneider says. “And I couldn’t be happier with the two guys I’m playing with. It’s definitely been a slow process, but it’s finally building. Stations across the country have started to pick up on our music, so we’re doing all these one-off shows now—we’re just about to fly to Rochester, New York, to do one.” The attention has been unexpected. “When Andy joined, there was no question that we were going to put out a record,” Schneider says. “The question was who was going to put it out, and what kind of traction that it would get—how many people were going to hear it. I would have been happy for it to have been a local release just to get it out there. That it’s got recognition on a national level is pretty cool, even if it feels like all this is in its infancy right now.” Rather than reflect on victories of the past year, the singer-guitarist is thinking about the future. Having Votolato onboard as a full-time member has changed the sound of My Goodness for the better, he suggests, and the band is no longer lumped into the blues-rawk ghetto with dozens of other two-pieces. “Becoming a three-piece instead of doing the duo thing has made a huge difference, especially with the songwriting,” Schneider says. “Our next record is going to be a huge step forward. Having a bass player is allowing me to do a lot more, especially vocally, because I can be more minimal on guitar.” Plans for 2015 include getting back into the studio as soon as possible. And, of course, watching this Sunday’s Super Bowl—right to the end, no matter what the score is at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
reconfirmed by the Seattle Seahawks’ NFC championship game a couple of weeks back, it’s that those who hang in there are sometimes rewarded. Talk quickly turns to football when the easygoing frontman picks up the phone in the Emerald City, no surprise considering his hometown team is Super Bowl–bound. Coming up immediately is what happened to thousands of fans during the Seahawks’ game against the Green Bay Packers on January 18. In case you need a refresher, the Seahawks looked dead and almost buried as the fourth quarter wound down, leading fans to stream out of Seattle’s CenturyLink Field. Big mistake. Seattle, against impossible odds, promptly mounted one of the greatest late comebacks in the history of the NFL. But those who bailed early never saw it; thousands of defectors attempted to re-enter the stadium only to discover there were no in-and-out privileges. “I don’t know how you’re going to pay that much for a football game and then leave,” Schneider marvels. He’s more the kind of guy who toughs things out in the face of adversity, which explains why he’s happy about where he finds himself with My Goodness today. A year or so ago, the singer was at the end of > MIKE USINGER a rough patch, having parted ways with the band’s cofounder and original drummer, Ethan Jacobsen. My Goodness plays the Biltmore That My Goodness was only a duo at Cabaret on Monday (February 2).
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per’s club gig is a performance longer than 15 minutes and the performer’s demonstrating that she did a modicum of research on Vancouver by complimenting our weed or the mountains or some shit like that. Tink ticked those boxes and then some at Fortune Sound Club for Happy Ending Fridays. Too bad Vancouver missed the Wikipedia article on her and slept on this show—wait, she doesn’t have one. Allow me to do my best here, then. Born Trinity Home, this Chi-town native can sing, rap, and write great lyrics while looking good—an #ootd post on Instagram of the evening’s attire yielded an impressive 4,400+ likes and offers from bedroom producers to send her some beats. She’s okay in that department, though, as Timbaland recently signed her to his label and is producing her debut album. Oh, and she’s only 19. Feel like an inadequate bag of failure who pissed away your youth yet? Perhaps the city’s weekend warriors weren’t up for Round 2 after Fortune’s fifth-anniversary debauch, which happened the previous evening and featured performances by
Machine Gun Kelly and the “Thong Song” guy. On this night, the club was sparsely populated by infuriatingly young, well-dressed bad bitches, manbun sporters, scenesters, and hip-hop heads ordering porn-star shooters by the dozen. (“They’re gross,” cautioned one bartender.) At 12:30 it was go time. Unfortunately, the show’s opener, local rapper Tommy Genesis, had no business performing in front of people, including ones with man buns, in a choice time slot at one of the city’s most usually raucous nights. Her embarrassingly awkward set was a buzzkill regardless of how many porn stars you’d consumed, and it deflated what could have been a great party like… Can anyone think of a recent, high-profile example of a deflating? I’m drawing a total blank. Things got markedly better when DJ Reese took to the decks and got a now-thinner crowd back into it with killer tracks such as Rae Sremmurd’s “No Type”, Rich Gang’s “Lifestyle”, and Bobby Shmurda’s hit song whose title I just wouldn’t feel comfortable typing out. Close to 1 a.m., Tink took the stage for her first show ever outside the States in her 4,400+ likes getup and whipped her braids around while performing “Kilo”. She asked, “Can we turn the fuck up? I’m from Chicago and I wanna turn up,” before launching into “Dat Ain’t Me” and “Kardashian”. People weren’t feeling it, and the
most turned-up moment of her set was when DJ Reese dropped “California Love” during a brief interlude. Despite repeated, unsuccessful attempts to set it off with her rapping, it was a different story when Tink slowed things down to sing her R&B jams. Her I-need-a-man-to-love-mefor-who-I-am anthem “Treat Me Like Somebody” and the I-still-wanna-bewith-you-even-though-I-know-you’rea-cheating-piece-of-shit confessional “Don’t Tell Nobody” got all the fellas giving elevator eyes to all the swooning ladies. It was time to grind. Despite finishing a 25-minute set with her aggressive I-don’t-give-afuck-so-get-out-of-my-face-bitches banger “Fingers Up”, Tink thanked those still remaining and acknowledged that she does, in fact, give a fuck about her fans and Vancouver. As she and her DJ exeunted stage left, O.T. Genasis’s “CoCo” started playing and likely gave those looking to party until the wee hours a eureka moment that they should track down some stimulants. To the delight of whoever’s job it is to clean Fortune, there were probably fewer soiled thongs and vomit stains to clean up on this evening than the big one prior. While we did get a happy ending, it might have been a bit premature. However, Tink will be back soon enough with a full-length album and a lengthy Wikipedia page. Best stock up on Kleenex in the meantime.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED BERNERLAND: SONGS OF GEOFF BERNER Performances by Dave Lang and the Twin Oughtas, Jason Webley, Carolyn Mark and the New Best Friends, the Creaking Planks, Rae Spoon, Ford Pier, Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron, Jeff Andrew, the Burnettes, and host Ken Gordon. Proceeds go to the WISH women’s drop-in centre in the Downtown Eastside. Feb 6, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Info 604-254-5858, www.face book.com/events/327548244095106. CITR’S SHINDIG! FINALS Performances by Still Creek Murder and Skim Milk. Feb 6-7, 8 pm, Hindenburg (23 W. Cordova). Tix $6, info 604-839-5780, www.citr.ca/ index.php/departments/shindig/.
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THEOPHILUS LONDON New York Citybased rapper tours in support of latest release Vibes, with guest Father. Mar 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-569-1758. SUMAC Doom-metal band tours in support of upcoming debut release The Deal, with guests Erosion and Waingro. Mar 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-676-0541.
AFRICA FÉTE Festival of global African music and dance features performances by Sohoyni, Afro-Haitian Wesli Band, Zimbamoto, Kara-kata Afrobeat Ensemble, Aché Brasil, and Matices del Sur AfroPeruvian Band. Feb 13-15, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $23-40, info 604-687-3020, caravanbc.com/.
THE BOOM BOOMS The Georgia Straight presents the Boom Booms. Mar 13, 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticket web.ca/, info 604-868-0494.
CRYSTAL PISTOL Vancouver rock band performs with guests Nim Vind, Danger Thrill Show, Bloody Betty, Starboys, The Toxiks, Glorywhore, and Smash Alley. Feb 14, 7-11 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info 604-681-8915, www.rickshawtheatre.com.
AMANDA PALMER AND FRIENDS FROM TED Night of random music, ideas, and mayhem. All proceeds to benefit the Vancouver Food Bank. Mar 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.north erntickets.com/, info 604-569-1144.
Sullivan, Andy Hillhouse, April Verch, and Elsay. Mar 6-17, various Vancouver venues. Info www.celticfestvancouver.com/.
WHITE NOISE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Performances by the Knocks, Pat Lok, and Wmnstudies. Feb 13, doors 9 pm, Electric Owl (928 Main). Tix $25/20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticket web.ca/, info 604-558-0928.
BE MY EAST VAN VALENTINE Jazz, cabaret, and garage-rock music by Jazzmanian Devils, the Wet Spots, Cass King and the Next Right Thing, and host Shirley Gnome. Feb 14, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20, info 604-254-5858, www.facebook.com/ events/847520228620567.
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BAD SUNS The young, freshly scrubbed Southern Californian four-piece Bad Suns will play its young, freshly scrubbed pop-rock tunes for a young, freshly scrubbed audience at Electric Owl on Saturday (January 31). All cynicism aside, the band sounds like it’s destined for big things. Or, at the very least, slightly larger things. Judging by the solid craftsmanship and bright-and-shiny tunes found on Bad Suns’ 2014 debut LP, Language & Perspective, it won’t be long before we see these boys headlining the Vogue, or wherever the 1975 plays when it comes to Vancouver. In other words, songs like “Cardiac Arrest” would sound great sandwiched between, say, the 1975’s “Chocolate” and the Neighbourhood’s “Sweater Weather” on an iTunes playlist. And if you’re looking for a name for said playlist, we recommend “Young and Freshly Scrubbed”.
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Mexican acousticrock duo tours in support of latest release 9 Dead Alive. Mar 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.northerntickets.com/, info 604-569-1144. THE CAVE SINGERS The Georgia Straight presents American indie-rock band touring in support of latest release Naomi. Mar 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-681-8915. THE TING TINGS British indie-rock duo tours in support of latest release Super Critical. Mar 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-646-0064.
TYCHO San Francisco-based ambientmusic artist and producer tours in support of latest release Awake. Mar 17, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 23, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.commo doreballroom.com/, info 604-739-4550.
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ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY METAL MASSACRE AT FUNKY’S! Vancouver death-metal bands id, Unbeheld, Harvest the Infection, and Baryon. Feb 14, 8 pm, Funky Winker Beans (37 W. Hastings). Tix $10, info 604-764-7865, www.facebook. com/events/1573091019604856. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON’S MOSAIC PROJECT + CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT Coheadlining show features the vocal talents of Terri Lyne Carrington, Lizz Wright, Tia Fuller, Ingrid Jensen, Helen Sung, and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Feb 15, 7 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $36, info 604822-9197, www.chancentre.com. JULIE DOIRON Canadian singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming release, with guests Jon Mckiel and Knife Pleats. Feb 17, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-676-0541. DESTROY VANCOUVER XII Experimental music by Botborg, the Passenger, Queen of No, Kevin Romain’s Free Time Trio Rrkktttss, Waters, and DJ Magneticring. Feb 19-20, 8:30 pm–1 am, VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo). Tix $15, info www.vivo mediaarts.com/destroy-vancouver-xii/. ARAM BAJAKIAN AND JULIE ÚLEHLA’S DÁVALA Coastal Jazz presents group led by guitarist Aram Bajakian and vocalist Julie Úlehla, as part of Winterruption. Feb 22, 3:15 pm, 4:30 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Free admission, info 604687-3020, www.coastaljazz.com/. KAREN SAVOCA AND PETE HEITZMAN The Rogue Folk Club presents American songwriting duo, with local guest Shari Ulrich. Feb 25, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info 604-736-3022, www.facebook.com/ events/745862812199190. LUNASA Irish folk group performs traditional music with a modern twist. Feb 26, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver). Tix $35/32, info www.capila nou.ca/centre/. CELTICFEST VANCOUVER Music by Alan Doyle, C.R. Avery, Dustin Bentall, Pat Chessell, Babe Gurr, Rockland Moran, Natalye Vivian, Shane’s Teeth, Vagabonds, the Whiskeydicks, Delhi 2 Dublin, Troy MacGillivray, Kimberly Fraser, Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir, the Paperboys, Mark
Scan to confess Doom doom doom doom I’m really worried for the future :( I don’t know whether to yolo my way through the tough times, or keep saving and working hard, and someday everything will pay off-hopefully before the icecaps melt.
Do you think you are better off alone? Magical first date, fell in love fast. Intense five months of intertwined lives. Me trying to prove that I was an awesome gf. Succeeded. Started to feel taken for granted. Communication was not your strong point however the sweet talk was all you did. Actions speak louder than words. Then out of nowhere you bailed. Best relationship we both had ever had. Garbaged. I now doubt the love from either of us. Does lust feel that way? I am waiting for an explanation, an apology but part of me wishes we will never cross paths again. You didn’t deserve me.
DVD’s I still own a whole lotta DVD’s and still buy them once in a while. I am not sure why. My friends at work say “Get Netflix” but then I think why should I? The DVD usually has trailers, behind the scenes, and commentary. Does Netflix have all this? I would just like to have the actual physical copy of the movie versus something I can download. Maybe cause I was a kid in the 1990s and we all bought CD’s back then. It is old school I know but I prefer it. My CD and DVD collection is huge. That is my confession.
Nude The other night, I was getting into bed and noticed my reflection in my TV, so I took a photo (I sleep nude). Then I cropped the photo so you couldn’t see the TV. My boobs looked great. I almost sent it to my ex to show him what he was missing, and then I thought better of it. He doesn’t deserve that kind of surprise!
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by Matt Mays, Adam Baldwin, and Dustin Bentall in support of the Unison Benevolent Fund. Apr 1, 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-868-0494, www.imperialvancouver.com.
THE VON TRAPPS Union Events presents American folk-pop foursome. Apr 6, doors 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jan 28, 10 am, $19.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.unionevents.com/, info 604-878-3456. THE REAL MCKENZIES The Georgia Straight presents Vancouver Celtic-punk legends, with guests the Isotopes. Apr 11, doors 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jan 16, 10 am, $16.50 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Neptoon, Highlife Records, and www. northerntickets.com/, info 604-681-8915, www.rickshawtheatre.com. FAITH NO MORE The Georgia Straight presents American alt-metal band touring in support of upcoming release. Apr 15, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $55 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/, info 604-253-2311.
(general admission), show 6:30 pm, Ambleside Park (13th and Marine Dr., West Van). Tix $145/85 (plus service charges and fees) at www.selectyourtickets. com/, info 604-925-7200.
RUSH Canadian prog-rock legends celebrate 40 years together. Jul 17, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Feb. 6 at 10 am at www.livenation. com/, info 604-899-7400. SLIPKNOT American heavy-metal band performs on its Summer’s Last Stand tour, with guests Lamb of God, Bullet for My Valentine, and Motionless in White. Aug 24, doors 5 pm, show 6:15 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Jan 31, 10 am, $35-75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-899-7400. “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC American pop-music parodist performs on his Mandatory World Tour. Sep 8, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $65/57.50/47.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketmaster.ca/, info 604-665-3050. MARK KNOPFLER British guitar legend and former Dire Straits member tours in support of upcoming release Tracker. Sep 10, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $65-145 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation. com/, info 604-665-3050.
NEKO CASE The Georgia Straight presents indie-rock singer-songwriter touring in support of sixth studio album The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. Apr 15, 2THIS WEEK doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, KODO Japanese taiko group performs from $29.50 (plus service charges and on its One Earth Tour: Mystery tour. Led fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records,and www. by artistic director Tamasaburo Bando. northerntickets.com/, info 604-569-1144. Jan 29, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $49-69 (plus service charges and fees) at www.northerntickets. com/, info 604-665-3050.
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DAVID CHOI California pop-rock singersongwriter tours in support of latest release Forever and Ever, with guest Tess Henley. Apr 16, doors 6 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jan 23, 10 am, $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.unionevents. com/, info 604-878-3456. TWO GALLANTS San Francisco based guitar-drum duo tours in support of latest release We Are Undone. Apr 17, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Electric Owl (928 Main). Tix on sale Jan 23, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-558-0928. SACRIFICE Toronto thrash-metal band headlines, with guests Anciients, Black Wizard, Skull Vultures, Neck of the Woods, and Aggression. Apr 17, 6 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Info 604-681-8915, www.rickshawtheatre.com. GREEN JELLY Los Angeles punk band, with guests Nim Vind. Apr 18, 8 am, Funky Winker Beans (37 W. Hastings). Tix $15, info 604-764-7865, www.greenjellosuxx.com.
BASS DRUM OF DEATH Mississippi party-rock band Bass Drum of Death. Jan 29, doors 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $12, info www.foxcabaret.com. THE BEATNUTS Hip-hop music by the Beatnuts, with guests Jeru the Damaja and Merkules. Jan 29, 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $20 (plus service charge) at www.ticketzone.com/, info 604-569-1758, www.facebook.com/ Thatsentertainingpromotions. ALVIN RISK American singer, producer, and DJ tours in support of new EP release Venture, with guest Kodak to Graph. Jan 30, doors 10 pm, show 10:30 pm, Electric Owl (928 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-558-0928. KENNY “BLUES BOSS” WAYNE Bluesjazz musician tours in support of second release Rollin With the Blues Boss. Dine Out Vancouver menu options available. Jan 30, 7 pm, Vancouver FanClub (1050 Granville). Tix $35/10, info 604-689-1252, www.vancouverfanclub.ca. COLLEEN RENNISON AND BEN ROGERS Intimate, acoustic performances by local blues-folk rockers. Jan 30, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $8 at the door, info 604-681-8915, www.rickshawtheatre.com.
GORGUTS Quebec-based death-metal A TRIBUTE TO BRAZIL Performances by band headlines, with guests Tyrant’s “A” Band, NiteCap, and faculty guests Jared Blood, Auroch, XUL, Witch of the Waste, Burrows, Steve Maddock, Bill Coon, Ihor and Klandestin. Apr 18, 6 pm, Rickshaw Kukurudza, Dave Robbins, Steve Kaldestad, Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Info 604-681-8915, Dennis Esson, and Kate Hammett-Vaughn. www.rickshawtheatre.com. Jan 30, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way, STU LARSEN Australian folk singer-songNorth Vancouver). Tix $30/27, info www. writer tours in support of latest release capilanou.ca/centre/. Vagabond. Apr 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix on sale FOGHORN STRINGBAND The Rogue Jan 30, 10 am, $16.50 (plus service charges Folk Club presents American string band. and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info Jan 30, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). 604-608-2871. Tix $24/20, info 604-736-3022, www.rogue folk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15013020. KIESZA Canadian dancer, singersongwriter-and multi-instrumentalist tours in support of latest release Sound of a Woman, with guest Betty Who. Apr 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/, info 604-739-4550.
THE PAPERBOYS Vancouver folkfusion group tours in support of latest release Callithump. Proceeds go to First Impressions Theatre. Jan 30, 8-10 pm, Deep Cove Shaw Theatre (4360 Gallant Ave., North Van). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees), info 604-929-3200, www.firstimpressionstheatre.com/.
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Scottish rock band tours in support of the 30th anniversary of the release of debut album Psychocandy. May 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.northerntickets. com/, info 604-569-1144.
OPERATORS Band led by Dan Boeckner from Handsome Furs, Wolf Parade, and Divine Fits. Jan 30-31, 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info bplive.ca.
THE WAR ON DRUGS Philadelphia indierock band tours in support of latest release Lost in the Dream. May 24, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $37.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.north erntickets.com/, info 604-569-1144. SUFJAN STEVENS American indie-folk singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming release Carrie & Lowell. Jun 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-665-3050. PURITY RING Canadian electropop duo tours in support of latest release Another Eternity. Jun 15, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jan 30, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. northerntickets.com/, info 604-569-1144. KENNY CHESNEY Ambleside Live concert series presents American country singer-songwriter touring in support of latest release The Big Revival, with guests Jake Owen and Chase Rice. Jun 25, doors 3:30 pm (premium general admission)/5 pm
BAD SUNS American rock band tours in support of debut release Language & Perspective. Jan 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Electric Owl (928 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-558-0928. THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT Indie-rock quintet from L.A. performs a charity concert benefiting the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation and A Better Life Foundation. Jan 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fairmont Pacific Rim (1038 Canada Place). Tix $119/269 VIP (plus service charge) at www.eventbrite. ca/, info 604-695-5300. POWDER BLUES Canadian blues band performs with Tom Lavin. Dine Out Vancouver menus available. Jan 31, 7 pm, Vancouver FanClub (1050 Granville). Tix $45/20, info 604-689-1252, www.vancouver fanclub.ca/. THE CROWBOTS The Crowbots perform at an album-release party for Days Run Away, with guests Frankie and Red Vienna. Jan 31, 7-10 pm, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info 604-253-7141,www. facebook.com/events/384319308409086. STAYED ON FREEDOM Musical celebration of Black History Month features
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NO KINDER MORGAN EXPANSION BENEFIT SHOW Performances by D.O.A., the Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, and Aging Youth Gang. Proceeds go to the legaldefence fund for Kinder Morgan pipelineexpansion protesters. Jan 31, 7:30-11 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20/16, info 604-676-0541, www.facebook.com/events/1533006346951171/. THE DUHKS The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian roots band tours in support of latest studio album Beyond the Blue. Feb 1, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20 at www.roguefolk.bc.ca/, info 604-736-3022. IVA BITTOVÁ Music by the avant-garde composer, vocalist, and violinist fuses the Old World and the contemporary. Presented as part of the PuSh Festival. Feb 2-3, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $1539, info www.pushfestival.ca. KIP MOORE Country artist from Nashville (“Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck”, “Beer Money”). Feb 3, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (918 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-739-4550. SAM SMITH The Georgia Straight presents British soul-pop vocalist (“Stay With Me”). Feb 4, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $85/55/35 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS CHRONIXX The Georgia Straight presents Jamaican reggae musician and his band Zinc Fence Redemption, with guests Keznamdi and Kelissa. Feb 28, doors 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-868-0494. NICKELBACK Multiplatinum guitar-rockers (“How You Remind Me”), featuring singer-guitarist Chad Kroeger, with guests the Pretty Reckless. Mar 15, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $95/70/50/25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-899-7400. ELECTRIC SIX The Georgia Straight presents rock band from Detroit at a St. Patrick’s Day party, with guests the Mandevilles and Jack Mercer & the Whiskey Bandits. March 17, doors 8 pm,
The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu, Scrape, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info 604-868-0494, www.imperialvancouver.com/. FLEETWOOD MAC British-American softrock supergroup (“The Chain”, “Rhiannon”) performs on its On With the Show tour. Apr 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $69.50-199.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.live nation.com/, info 604-899-7400. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Eighties boy-band from Boston, with guests TLC and Nelly. May 5, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Jan 31, 10 am, $99.50/79.50/49.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/, info 604-899-7400. U2 Irish rock legends perform two shows to kick off their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE 2015 tour. May 14-15, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $30 to $275 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-899-7400. TONY BENNETT AND LADY GAGA Coastal Jazz presents American pop superstars performing two shows on their Cheek to Cheek concert tour. May 25-26, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $275/250/180/150/94 (plus service charges and fees) at www.northerntickets.com/, info 604-665-3050. VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL The 38th annual event celebrates the world’s traditional and contemporary folk, world, and roots music, as performed by over 60 Canadian and international artists and groups. Other highlights include workshops, a kids’ village, an artisan market, a folk bazaar, and a food area. Jul 17-19, Jericho Beach Park (3941 Point Grey Rd.). Info thefestival.bc.ca/.
ONE DIRECTION British pop boy band tours in support of upcoming album Four on its On the Road Again 2015 tour. July 17, 7 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $59.50-99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info 604-669-2300. TAYLOR SWIFT American pop superstar performs on her 1989 Tour, with guests Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes. Aug 1, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info 604-669-2300.
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BAR NONE 1222 Hamilton, 604-689-7000. House and chart with DJs Downlowe and Relik Fri; house and club remixes with resident DJ Zak Santiago Sat. Open FriSat from 10 pm to 3 am.
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MOVIES REVIEWS A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Directed by J. C. Chandor. Starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 51
The title refers to an exceptionally crime-
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with the setting mostly a rotting quarter of the Big Apple, where self-made man Abel Morales (Inside Llewyn Davis’s Oscar Isaac) runs his decidedly nonglamorous heating-oil business. As a struggling immigrant and businessman, his current challenge is twofold: competitors are playing increasingly rough and he’s trying to pull off a tricky real-estate deal—in cash, with some tough local Hasidim, for a spot on the East River— that will finally put him ahead in the game. His bigger problem is that he wants to do everything legit, and this brings increasing disdain from his wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain), daughter of an oilcompany guy so famously crooked that an ambitious D.A. (Selma’s David Oyelowo, in a rather forgettable role) keeps an eye on the whole family. With his sad-deer eyes and creamy, camel-hair coat, Abel has a demeanour and moral problems somewhat parallel to those of Michael Corleone. But where the Godfather movies took in a sweeping
Crime and punishment
In A Most Violent Year, Jessica Chastain plays the daughter of an oil-company executive who is so famously corrupt, a D.A. keeps tabs on the entire family.
If all this makes Red Army sound as dry as a third-year A Most Violent Year dials the clock back to NYC circa 1981 political-science course, it The movie is as while Russia hits the big screen in Red Army and Leviathan shouldn’t. funny as it is poignant, thanks view of New World corruption through the eyes of partly to its refreshingly reflective subjects, and partfirst- and second-generation Italian-Americans, this ly to cleverly integrated vintage clips (ranging from Year tacks a much narrower path. Here, director J. C. Ronald Reagan sermons to hockey-playing bears). Chandor (who created such complex worlds in MarUsing modern-day interviews and grainy argin Call and All Is Lost) has Abel so heavily blinkered chival footage, Polsky opens a fascinating window by moral qualms—he keeps resisting the urge toward onto a long-gone time, when Communists were violence that his competitors push upon him—that genuine bogeymen to North Americans. One of the character becomes duller as the story progresses. the film’s craziest moments flashes back to the The film’s dramatic doldrums are eventually in- States defeating Russia in a gold-medal game at terrupted by a car-and-foot chase that comes just the 1980 Olympics; American coach Herb Brooks when it’s needed, but then things settle back into uses a congratulatory call from then-president their not-quite-Shakespearean conundrums. Every- Jimmy Carter to state: “I think it just proves that thing is staged and shot with high seriousness, with our way of life is the proper way to continue on.” the yellowish tinge that makes one think of the ’70s Thanks to the likes of Gary Bettman, the fastbut also makes the movie play like American Hustle est game on Earth is all about big business towithout the laughs. Chastain’s character often feels day, even in Russia. Red Army remembers when imported from another movie (perhaps that one, or it was more about life. > MIKE USINGER The Sopranos), but Albert Brooks hits all the right notes as the lawyer who keeps getting Abel out of trouble that, in the end, just isn’t all that interesting. THE BOY NEXT DOOR
MORTDECAI Starring Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 51
One of the gags in Mortdecai concerns
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acter’s “manservant” has to use rubber gloves and hold his nose to fetch a piece for a guest. Sorry, old chap, as Charles Mortdecai might say, but the reeking collection is too perfect a metaphor for this entire movie: cheese so overaged, so past its pull date, and so excessive that it stinks up the joint. For about five minutes, it’s funny watching Johnny Depp create a new bizarre character—a pretentious, dimwitted art collector who has just grown a handlebar mustache and is prone to lines like “The domain of a man’s upper lip is sacred ground.” He dwells in a dated British world where ascots and booze decanters are omnipresent, and he gets caught up in a stolen-art escapade that takes him to Hong Kong, Moscow, London, and L.A., with MI5 (Ewan McGregor), Russian gangs, and others in tow. The nonsensical script is an ode to classic Brit capers, based on Kyril Bonfiglioli’s 1973 Charlie Mortdecai novel Don’t Point That Thing at Me. > KEN EISNER Starring Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman. Rated The problem is it all runs at an equally retro pace that might have pleased during the predigital 14A. For showtimes, please see page 51 RED ARMY age but lags today. Think an odd and seemingly The Boys Next Door is an awesome movie. endless mix of car chases, palatial mansions, liA documentary by Gabe Polsky. Rated PG. For Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen were braries with overstuffed chairs, vomit jokes, and showtimes, please see page 51 perfect as angst-ridden teens on a murderous Benny Hill–issue gags about Mortdecai getting The fastest game on Earth provides the back- rampage in Penelope Spheeris’s jarring study of caught by his icy wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) with drop for Red Army, but the magnificence of the underside of the American… his hands on another woman’s breasts. You could director Gabe Polsky’s lovingly crafted documenWhat’s that? This is supposed to be a review say it’s The Pink Panther meets Austin Powers, but tary is that it’s about much more than hockey. Get of The Boy Next Door? Singular? You mean that that would make it sound a lot wittier than it is. past the sweat, blood, and missing teeth and you’ve cheesy new potboiler about a beautiful MILF who The A-list actors here are clearly having a ball got a film about the insanity of the Cold War, the has sex with a hunky teen, who then goes all Fatal with their overcooked stiff-uppah-lip accents, dangers of totalitarianism, the everlasting power Attraction on her ass? but the real laughs are rare. As Jock, a manservof friendship, and the tyranny of Don Cherry. Alrighty, then. ant/thug with an “enviable rate of intercourse”, You’ll also learn that fabled coach Viktor The silliness starts when recently separated Paul Bettany is a riot: in one scene, he keeps Tikhonov was a psychopathic asshole, no one ever high-school English teacher Claire Peterson punching people, even after his arms are set played the game as beautifully as the Russians, and (Jennifer Lopez) has trouble getting her on fire. And McGregor has some great North American minor-hockey players don’t do garage door up and 19-year-old Noah blue-ball moments pining silently for Check out… enough somersaults. Yes, there’s also plenty here (the one-note Ryan Guzman)— the untouchable Paltrow. STRAIGHT.COM for hard-core students of the sport, particularly who’s moved in next door to care As for Mortdecai, by far his funVisit our website those who remember when Russia’s greatest hockey for his ailing uncle—steps in and niest scene is when he arrives at an for the latest gods were Vladislav Tretiak and Viacheslav Feti- gets it up for her. Next thing you L.A. hipster hotel, rides an elevator reviews and local sov, not Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin. know, he’s off to the hardware store full of guys with ironic mustaches, movie news At the core of Red Army is the rise of the Soviet with Claire’s impressionable teenand haughtily tells the too-cool conice-hockey program. The game in Russia took off aged son in tow to find a garage door cierge, “No, I do not need help with my under the tutelage of Anatoli Tarasov, whose un- opener part and observe the skateboarding bags. I have a fucking manservant!” orthodox training methods—somersaults, and bully (the miscast Adam Hicks, of TV’s Zeke For that brief moment, Mortdecai is onto more somersaults—helped create a new kind of and Luther) he’ll soon beat the crap out of. something, working the zanily dated characplayer. Where North Americans took an individAfter Noah’s kindness and bonding with her ter’s incongruity off the present. And then poof ! ual approach to the game, the Soviet Red Army kid win over Claire’s heart, the display of his It’s gone, and we’re back where we started: a team was all about players being cogs in a sys- sculpted bod fixing a car gets her motor run- bad mustache, over-the-top mannerisms, and tem, something that Polsky argues was a micro- ning. When he calls her up because he can’t cook mountains of mouldy cheese. > JANET SMITH cosm of life in the postwar U.S.S.R. a chicken and she pops over to help, a few drinks To be picked to play for the Red Army was to lead to a close inspection of that lusty make-out LEVIATHAN sacrifice everything for the good of the country. scene they teased you with in the trailer. What was never made clear, until now, was just Waking up to instant regret, Claire refuses Starring Aleksay Serebryakov. In Russian, with how much was sacrificed. breakfast in bed and gets the hell out, but psy- English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please With all-star Russian defenceman (and eventu- cho Noah’s having none of it. He enrolls in her see page 51 al NHLer) Fetisov serving as the film’s main inter- classics course so he can stalk her while comparLeviathan is the Old Testament name given view subject, Polsky paints a fascinating picture of ing Homer to Zeppelin and leave images of their to a mythical sea monster; as numerous life in the former Soviet Union. Everyone worked tryst lying around everywhere. for the glory of Mother Russia, including its bigMuch creeping about in kitchens and base- filmmakers have appreciated, it has since come to gest hockey stars, who spent 11 months of the year ments and the requisite jump-scares lead to one mean anything bigger than ourselves. In this parlocked up in training facilities, cut off from their of the corniest climactic showdowns in film ticular movie of the same name—which deservwives, children, and extended families. history, although it does introduce the EpiPen edly won the Golden Globe for best foreign film and is nominated for an Oscar in that category— Hockey, which Russia quickly came to dom- as a new weapon of last resort. inate on the world stage, was seen as a validaSorry, J.Lo, but since you also had the gall to the wrath-packed part of the Bible also offers the tion of the complete Communist system; the produce this shameless turkey, your nickname story of Job as a template for all the bad shit that falls upon one hapless, if far from innocent, soul. country’s top politicians acted as de facto gen- now is J.New-Low. see next page > STEVE NEWTON eral managers of the Red Army team.
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Played by Aleksey Serebryakov, the ginger-haired Nikolai (aka Kolia) is an auto mechanic and all-round handyman who’s just slightly better off than the other hard-drinking residents of a worn-out fishing village near Murmansk, inside the Arctic Circle, where Russia meets Finland and Norway. His pretty, increasingly neglected wife, Lilya (Elena Lyadova), works at one of the few canneries still open. Preteen son Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev) admires his dad, even while fearing his macho, melodramatic bullying. The family has a ramshackle house right in the nicest spot on a fiord leading into town. And that’s enough to prompt the local big man (Roman Madyanov) to throw his weight around. As mayor, he has exploited a loophole to seize Nicolai’s property, offering a paltry buyout to make it legal. This development brings a visit from Nicolai’s old army buddy Dmitriy (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), now a hotshot Moscow lawyer who thinks they can still work the system. Maybe. If you think the judge’s breathless reading of her rammed-through verdict is a comic exaggeration, check out footage of the Pussy Riot show trial. As in that real-life travesty, ham-fisted officials are here seen in cahoots with Orthodox clergy, who give Putin-esque plutocrats a kindly mask of populism to replace the fake optimism Communists relied upon to exert power. The stymied Dmitriy moves to Plan B, pulling out dirt on the corpulent mayor to get him to back off. But despite his appearance of sleek professionalism, the handsome Muscovite can’t quite rein in his own whale-size ambitions, regarding the law, money, or Kolia’s family. If this all sounds rather dark, it is. But in his most accessible movie yet, writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev justifies the film’s Tarkovsky-like 140-minute length with ever-shifting events that pile up so relentlessly they move from tragic to absurd. (And you’ve never seen people have less fun drinking vodka.) The actors are all larger than life, but their characters must appear laughably small to the ancient stones and pounding waves that dominate the film’s bookends, with Philip Glass’s whirlpool music somehow making them disappear into a timeless landscape of prebiblical fate. > KEN EISNER
KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON Featuring Clark Terry and Justin Kauflin. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 51
If Whiplash was American with drums, Keep On Keepin’ On is the anti-Whiplash—an
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between words and music, even when suffering painful medical procedures. In the end, the most infectious thing in the master’s long life has been his easy-to-love personality. “I may not know everything about the intricacies of jazz,” Gwen says at one point, “but I definitely know when you’re happy!”
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BIRD PEOPLE Starring Josh Charles and Anaïs Demoustier. In English and French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 51 An engineer (Josh Charles) throws away everything in Bird People.
inspiring corrective for people who want to be reminded that music doesn’t harm, it heals. The short, tightly structured documentary came about when Australian drummer Alan Hicks met legendary trumpeter Clark Terry, who is now 94. Then already in his late 80s, the diabetic jazz master began losing his ability to perform, so Hicks—who studied with him at a music school in New Jersey— decided to film the great man, focusing on his lesser-known role as an educator. Another of Terry’s students was Justin Kauflin, an imaginative and brightspirited young pianist from Virginia Beach. Shooting over a period of four years, the neophyte director saw a doting relationship develop between his nurturing mentor, whose sight was gradually failing, and the JewishJapanese Kauflin, blind since age 11. Splendid archival footage highlights career milestones of CT, as everyone calls him, from impoverished origins in St. Louis, to stints in the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands, and then work as the first black musician hired by the Tonight Show band. (Shockingly, that was in 1965.) There’s testimony—some archival or merely quoted—from many trumpet-playing admirers, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Quincy Jones. As a teenager, Q was CT’s first student, and he shows up here as a producer of the finished film, an advocate of Kauflin’s budding talent, and a living embodiment of Terry’s influence as a role model and music-biz pioneer. Occasionally oversweetened with music by Dave Grusin, the movie alternates between footage of Kauflin at home and travelling, eventually with the help of a seeing-eye dog, and Terry and his endlessly caring wife, Gwen, in their beautiful Arkansas home, which Kauflin visits frequently. Except for a clip of the scat-singing trumpeter’s hit “Mumbles” at the end, Keep On Keepin’ On—a phrase CT utters often—doesn’t really mention his role as a jazz humorist. But it’s obvious in the way he moves so joyfully
What do you get when you The Good Wife’s Will Gardner into a French free spirit ready for a life-changing experience? Bird People will answer that question, along with several others you didn’t even know you were asking. The two-hour tale is roughly bifurcated between its lead characters. Seen on the way to Paris is Gary Newman (Josh Charles), a Silicon Valley engineer who’s part of the plan to open a massive plant in Dubai. First day in town, he decides to quit everything—the project, his company, his line of work, and even his family— and just camp out at the airport Hilton while setting his hawkish features to figure out what comes next. The other main subject is frecklefaced young Audrey Camuzet (upand-comer Anaïs Demoustier), whom we meet taking a train to work as a maid at that same hotel. She’s among passengers whose private thoughts are shared with us while we try to figure out who matters to the story. In a sense, story doesn’t matter much to writer-director Pascale Ferran, best known for her 2006 D. H. Lawrence adaptation, Lady Chatterley, likewise shot by inventive cinematographer Julien Hirsch. As in that effort, Ferran is concerned with the painful disjuncture between social constraints and the impulses of nature, although here the existentialism turns whimsical. She’s just as invested in side characters, such as the suave desk agent (Roschdy Zem) who’s secretly sleeping in his car, or any of the folks floating through the airport. Audrey is working full-time, although her parents think she’s still attending university. And when we follow her home, she spends the evening staring into other people’s windows, like a Gallic Rear Window. That’s about it for background. It was a mistake, then, to give so much weight to Gary’s situation. A long Skype argument with his predictably angry wife (Radha Mitchell) adds nothing to our understanding. Still, the banality of the first half makes the payoff even more gratifying, when the already birdlike Audrey goes through, shall we say, a sudden
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FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2NEWTRON BOMB, LUST 4 LUCK, THE R TYPES, POISON CORN Jan 30 2FIRECULT, OXEN, BRIMSTONE Jan 31 2ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY METAL MASSACRE AT FUNKY’S! Feb 14 2REAGAN YOUTH, 13 SCARS Feb 22 2BRUTAL DEATH METAL FROM FRANCE Mar 13 2GREEN JELLY Apr 18 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 2ROBERT CRAY BAND Feb 21 2TOM COCHRANE Feb 24 2JONNY LANG Mar 12 2LYNYRD SKYNYRD Mar 20 2AMY SCHUMER Mar 22 2ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS Apr 18 2LOS LONELY BOYS May 9 2COLLECTIVE SOUL Jun 20 2AIR SUPPLY Oct 1 HINDENBURG 23 W. Cordova, 604-8395780. 2CITR’S SHINDIG! SEMI-FINALS Jan 13-14, 20-21, 27-28 2THE TOASTERS: CANCELLED Jan 28 2CITR’S SHINDIG! FINALS Feb 6-7 2JAZZBERRY RAM Feb 21 2HOWLIN RAIN Feb 28 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2CITY WALLS Jan 30 2INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE BENEFIT Feb 5 2PETUNIA & THE VIPERS Feb 6 2WINTER ROCK OPUS 2015 Feb 7 2BRETT DENNEN Feb 11 2VALENTINE’S BENEFIT DANCE Feb 14 2ASAF AVIDAN Feb 15 2BEBEL GILBERTO Feb 19 2CHRONIXX Feb 28 2BROODS Mar 11 2BOOM BOOMS Mar 13 2ELECTRIC SIX Mar 17 2LONGWALK SHORT DOCK Mar 27 2REMEMBERING JAY SMITH - THE UNISON BENEVOLENT FUND Apr 1 2TWIN SHADOW Apr 24 2JOSE GONZALEZ Apr 25 KILLJOY 1120 Hamilton, 604-428-2561. #HighBrandRap with rotating local talent, hosts, and live performers Thu; house and electronic with DJs Zak Santiago and Dre Morel Fri; house, chart, and hip-hop with resident DJs P-Luv and OMG Sat. Open Thu-Sat from 10 pm to 3 am. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. Live music most nights. 2GOOD ENOUGH Jan 31 2 ECHO NEBRASKA PRESENTS SEND THE SHIPS: WITH THE WORKS & CAT BLONDE Feb 6 2WILD CHILD Feb 11 2CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN Feb 14 2KRIS ORLOWSKI Feb 15 2LEISURE CRUISE Mar 1 2KEVIN DEVINE AND THE GODDAMN BAND Mar 7 2BOBBY BAZINI Mar 26 2THE MOWGLI’S Mar 29 2STU LARSEN Apr 20 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2HOZIER Feb 15 2COLIN JAMES Mar 24 2NIGHTWISH Apr 25 2SYMPHONIC OVERDRIVE May 20 2SUFJAN STEVENS Jun 9 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2KODO Jan 29 2BILLY IDOL Feb 12 2LET IT BE: A CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES Mar 21 2MARILYN MANSON Mar 29 2JOE BONAMASSA May 11-12 2TONY BENNETT AND LADY GAGA May 25-26 2JOHN MELLENCAMP Jul 18 2”WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC Sep 8 2MARK KNOPFLER Sep 10 RED ROOM ULTRABAR 398 Richards, 604687-5007. 2COASTLINE PILOT CD RELEASE PARTY Jan 31 2DESCENT SUNDAYS—WAR OF THE ROSES Feb 1-2 2HERSHE BAR— WHERE THE GIRLS ARE! Feb 8-9
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D.O.A. If you’ve been watching the news lately—instead of American Horror Story, Gilligan’s Island reruns, and Australian Open matches featuring Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard—you might be aware there’s a battle going on in this great land of ours. You’re either on the side of Kinder Morgan and big money or you’re part of the movement that doesn’t want an oil pipeline (starting in Edmonton and ending in Burnaby) rammed through B.C. Guess which camp D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley has aligned himself with? If you’d like more information on the subject, and can’t be bothered to change the channel at 11 p.m. for a daily dose of current events, why not head to the Biltmore on Saturday (January 31) for the kickoff of the No Oil Pipelines in B.C. Tour? D.O.A. will not only star on the night, but also debut a new song titled “Pipeline Fever”. Providing support will be a cast that includes the Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, the Wilds, and Aging Youth Gang. Admittedly, you could also educate yourself on the oil-pipeline debate by staying home and watching the news, but let’s face it, come 11 p.m. you’ll be too engrossed in a Three’s Company rerun to change channels. THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. Joe’s Garage Sat-Mon; live music showcase Tue & Thu; Troys ‘R Us Fri. 2THE BACHELOR VALENTINE APPEARANCE Feb 12 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 2FOGHORN STRINGBAND Jan 30 2THE DUHKS Feb 1 2JAMES KEELAGHAN Feb 7 2LE VENT DU NORD Feb 13 2JOHN ALCORN Feb 14 2THE FRETLESS Feb 15 2KAREN SAVOCA AND PETE HEITZMAN Feb 25 2FRED EAGLESMITH Feb 27, 28 2KATE MCGARRY May 31 UNION JACK PUBLIC HOUSE 525 7th St., New Westminster, 604-522-9010. Pub-style food, craft beers, live music and dancing. No cover. 2TOY ZEBRA Jan 30-31 2TOY ZEBRA Jan 30-31 2CEASE & DESIST Feb 6 2JINX Feb 7 2MARCH HARE Feb 8 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2ANJUNADEEP Jan 28 2SOULS OF MISCHIEF Feb 12 2CAGE AND SADISTIK Feb 16 2KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE Feb 18 2RIFF RAFF Feb 19 2OMAR LINX Feb 21 2THE TING TINGS Mar 28 2GUSTER Mar 29 2MAGMA Apr 2 2BLUE OCTOBER Apr 16 2DANKO JONES Apr 18 2Y&T May 20 2JJ GREY & MOFRO May 27 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. 2NIKKI YANOFSKY: CANCELLED Jan 31 2ECLECTIC GUITARS: ERIC JOHNSON & MIKE STERN Feb 5 2SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR Feb 7 2MEGHAN TRAINOR Feb 11 2LUCINDA WILLIAMS Feb 12 2FLIGHT FACILITIES Feb 20 2DOUG BENSON Feb 20 2MARIA BAMFORD Feb 21 2THE DEBATERS Feb 21 2BO BURNHAM Feb 24 2BLACK VEIL BRIDES Feb 25 2JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Feb 26 2STARS Feb 27-28 2ALAN DOYLE Mar 6 2BIG SUGAR Mar 7 2IN FLAMES Mar 9 2DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH Mar 13-14 2AMANDA PALMER AND FRIENDS FROM TED Mar 18 2RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Mar 19 2PUNCH BROTHERS Mar 25 2SHANE KOYCZAN Mar 28 2BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Apr 8 2NEKO CASE Apr 15 2MAC DEMARCO Apr 24 2THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN May 13 2TOMMY EMMANUEL May 16 2ROYAL BLOOD May 23 2THE WAR ON DRUGS May 24 2MINISTRY Jun 12 2INDIEKOR Jun 14 2PURITY RING Jun 15
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STRANGE MAGIC Featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming, and Elijah Kelley. Rated G. For showtimes, please see page 51
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transformation that carries us through the hotel corridors and out into the airways above Charles de Gaulle and beyond. It’s a mystical flight that may leave some viewers cold, but this gently satisfying movie will strike sweet chords with many who’ve fantasized about getting out of themselves, quick.
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BLACK OR WHITE Starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 51
The feeling that Selma is being snubbed
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ences don’t want to hear stories about racism in which they aren’t the heroes, or at least noble exceptions to the rule. Although it was doubtless made with fine intentions and contains consistently strong acting from its star, who also helped produce it, Black or White is very much a movie of the past. (The title was originally Black and White, but perhaps the studio was afraid audiences would think that was the movie’s format.) Kevin Costner plays Elliot Anderson, the grandfather of spunky little Eloise (charming newcomer Jillian Estell), who lost her teenage mother in childbirth. Now the girl has lost her principal caregiver—her grandmother—in a car accident. Big-shot corporate lawyer Elliot is confronted by his absentee status when suddenly handed parental duties and responds, as is his habit, by hitting the hooch. We’re talking swilling Scotch at the high-toned private school where he drops her off. As with everything else here, writer-director Mike Binder (also behind Costner’s last big kick at the can, The Upside of Anger) pushes things too far, usually to relieve tension with unneeded comedy but also to raise the dramatic stakes in a situation that— frankly, my dear—isn’t all that damnable, compared with Ferguson et al. The main conflict is provided by the kid’s other grandma, who wants more access. Played by the always-terrific Octavia Spencer, this should be an equivalent role, especially since her Rowena Jeffers is a self-made businesswoman with a lot to offer, including a big, friendly, diversely gendered, highly musical family who all seem to get along
Strange Magic is an animated feature revolves around a group of enchanted fairies with pointy ears and oversized butterf ly wings. Led by a feisty warrior queen named Marianne (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood), the fairies live on the edge of a dark forest inhabited by cranky swamp creatures. The crankiest swamp creature of all is the Bog King (voiced by Alan Cumming). Marianne dreams of a day when everyone can live in harmony. But a goofy elf named Sunny (the voice of Elijah Kelley) has other ideas. When Sunny decides to go into the dark side of the forest to steal the forbidden ingredients for a love potion, he sets off a chain of events that brings about chaos. Although Strange Magic is directed by veteran sound designer Gary Rydstrom, the film’s ad campaign proudly states that Strange Magic springs from “the mind of George Lucas”. Lucas—who gets a story credit here, while three other screenwriters do most of the heavy lifting—serves up the kind of plot that, while inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, feels like it’s been ripped off from a Saturday-morning rerun of The Smurfs. To be fair, the animation is topnotch, and one or two characters—like Sunny—are genuinely memorable. And Lucas’s production company has spared little expense when it comes to the film’s musical score. The problem? The score isn’t original. It’s a mixed bag of reworked pop classics (and not so classics) from the ’50s up to the present that includes everything from Elvis to Burt Bacharach to Michael Franti & Spearhead. On the surface, this may seem like a wise choice. Why not throw in something familiar for the grandparents when they take the kids to the movies? After all, the songs are going to seem brand-new to the core audience of preteens. Such reasoning may work in theory. But ask yourself this: do you really want to hear a big-eyed fairy belt out a sugary version of a Four Tops classic? I don’t mean to sound too grumpy here, but for all of the effort and talent put into this, there’s precious little magic. Strange or otherwise.
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In the animated feature Strange Magic, inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the cranky Boa King (voiced by Alan Cumming) is opposed to a powerful potion created by the Sugar Plum Fairy.
with Elliot, despite his Michael Douglas–like crankiness. But they live on the wrong side of L.A. and she’s saddled with the infantilizing nickname of Wee-Wee, as well as a sharklike lawyer brother (Anthony Mackie) and a crack-addicted son (André Holland, who was also in Selma). They come after Elliot in court and are not allowed the kind of flashbackswith-’60s-soul-music that he enjoys with his deceased wife (Jennifer Ehle). No flashbacks for Wee-Wee, and Eloise doesn’t even get to speak for herself. So, in the end, that old message isn’t quite gone with the wind: your better black folks are fine for providing entertainment and emotional support. But if they actually want something, look out! > KEN EISNER
HIPPOCRATES Starring Vincent Lacoste and Reda Kateb. In French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 51
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all those dudes and more rolled into the person of Vincent Lacoste, who specializes in playing gormless everyguys in over their heads. Having made his career in comedies like the Astérix et Obélix series, Lacoste is disarming as the lead in a hyperrealistic drama about a young doctor coping with life and death during his internship at a besieged urban hospital. The young star’s bushy-haired Benjamin
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quotes all the right Hippocratic platitudes. But as soon as he’s confronted by real complexity, he crumbles. And a case involving a homeless alcoholic takes a fateful turn when Benjamin fails—through no true fault of his own—to do a full diagnostic. The lad’s problems are both ameliorated and amplified by the fact that his father (Jacques Gamblin) is head of the unit where he’s interning. His most crucial coming-of-age experience is with a fellow intern whose self-reliance and calming bedside manner come naturally; Abdel (Reda Kateb) was already an experienced doctor in his native Algeria and now must start over in the French system—one with high standards but increasingly strained resources. Abdel seems the soul of reason, but when Benjamin carelessly dumps some trouble on him, the two men begin punishing each other. But Hippocrates, as the name implies, isn’t about doing harm, and very few scenes play out the way you expect them to. This astutely judged film has minimal music and some of the fly-on-the-wall detachment of a Frederick Wiseman documentary (except for a single melodramatic development near the end). It’s made even more remarkable when you learn that its maker, writer-director Thomas Lilti, was trained under similar circumstances and still practises medicine on a part-time basis. The film takes us to grungy places that outsiders rarely see and is full of inside stuff—including the running joke that everyone on staff is addicted to reruns of House. > KEN EISNER
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racking down former Russian hockey star Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov took some perseverance on the part of Red Army director Gabe Polsky. Determined to make a movie examining the Soviet Union’s fabled Red Army team, the 35-year-old initially touched down in Moscow with no clear idea where the film would end up going. Polsky spent his first 10 days conducting interviews with former stars like Hall of Fame goalie Vladislav Tretiak, all the while leaving messages for Fetisov that went unreturned. When he finally got a call back, the iconic defenceman agreed to a brief meeting. Polsky impressed him enough that Fetisov sat in front of the camera for nearly half a day, rolling out incredible stories about playing hockey for a country where top politicians managed the Red Army team’s day-to-day affairs. “I didn’t really know who was going to be the main character, and how the movie was going to be structured,” Polsky says, on the line from a Red Army promo tour in Toronto. “Basically, I knew Fetisov was going to be pretty important because of his being captain of the team and a leader—kind of the face of Soviet Union hockey. It wasn’t until I finally got the interview that I realized how unique a guy he was. He’s magnetic and difficult and challenging, but all in good ways for a movie.” The hulking defenceman is the focal point of Red Army, opening Friday (January 30), which examines the rise of Soviet hockey in the ’70s and ’80s, and the almost barbaric ways people were treated. Polsky’s film makes it abundantly clear that Fetisov was in some ways scarred by his time in the Russian hockey system, where players were locked away for 11 months of the year and forced to practise four times
It took persistence for director Gabe Polsky to get former Russian hockey star Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov (above) on camera for the documentary Red Army.
a day, sometimes until they pissed blood. More than a sport, hockey was a political statement at a time when the Cold War was still being waged—a way for Russia to promote its superiority on the world stage. Because of his background, Polsky was in a better position than most to understand his subject. For a start, the Chicago-born filmmaker grew up playing hockey, eventually making the team at Yale University. “I also felt like I never contributed to the game what I thought I could,” he recalls. “It turned out that this film is my contribution to the game.” Polsky agrees that many of the greats who played for the Red Army team—like Vladimir Krutov and Alexei Kasatonov—seem to project a strong sense of world-weariness. “I didn’t have to bring the sadness out of them,” he offers. “I think their lives and their experiences kind of shaped them. I could even say that my parents have a bit of that.” Polsky immigrated to the U.S. from the U.S.S.R. in the late ’70s, when the Iron Curtain was still up and the Cold War had yet to end. East-West tensions were running high around the world, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan famously and publicly making jokes about nuking the enemy.
Polsky says it was hard being the “Russian family” in Chicago. But that gave him a built-in sensitivity to the plight of Russians like Fetisov. At one point in Red Army, the defenceman notes that when he was finally freed to play in the NHL at the age of 36, he was still treated as a Soviet bogeyman rather than as a person. Not even that, however, managed to destroy his spirit or sense of humour. Red Army starts with Fetisov taking a phone call as the cameras roll, and then giving the finger to the crew when it’s obvious he’s being an inconvenience. It was at moments like that, Polsky says with a laugh, that an understanding of hockey culture—not to mention Russia—came in handy. “Initially, Fetisov gave me 15 minutes, and I just kind of went with it,” he says. “I think he realized that I was going for something far more profound than he was used to, so he slowly opened up. He wasn’t a guy that respects you right away—you gotta talk to him. He did stuff like give me the finger all the time. You know how, when you’re a rookie in the locker room, you get screwed with all the time? It kind of felt like that. Part of it was funny, but part of it was also him being serious.” -
series, director Toby Frow’s production stars Samantha Spiro in the role of Katherina. Feb 1, 2:45 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $15/13 (plus membership fee), info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/ theatre/.
THE VANCOUVER ASAHI Director Ishi Yuya’s drama chronicles the 1930s baseball team that was formed by the Canadian-born kids of Japanese immigrants. Feb 1, 8 pm; Feb 2, 4 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/.
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NEW THIS WEEK A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, and David Oyelowo star in All Is Lost writer-director J.C. Chandor’s drama about an ambitious immigrant who fights to protect his business and family. Rated 14A. 124 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Colossus Langley Cinemas, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas BIRD PEOPLE Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, and Roschdy Zem star in Lady Chatterley writer-director Pascale Ferran’s drama about a Silicon Valley engineer who is drawn to a young French maid. 128 mins. The Cinematheque BLACK OR WHITE Kevin Costner stars in Reign Over Me writer-director Mike Binder’s drama about a grieving widower who is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter. Rated PG. 121 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas HIPPOCRATES Vincent Lacoste, Jacques Gamblin, and Reda Kateb star in director Thomas Liltu’s comedy about a man who wants to become a doctor. 102 mins. The Cinematheque LEVIATHAN Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, and Roman Madyanov star in writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s drama about a small-town man who is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. Rated PG. 142 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas PROJECT ALMANAC Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D’Elia, and Virginia Gardner star in director Dean Israelite’s sci-fi flick about a group of teens who build a time machine. Rated PG. 106 mins. Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Colossus Langley Cinemas, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas RED ARMY Writer-director Gabe Polsky’s documentary tells the story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain. Rated PG. 85 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
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THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, thecinematheque.ca 2BIRD PEOPLE Fri-Sat, Wed 6:30; Sun 4:00 2HIPPOCRATE Fri, Wed 9:00; Sat 4:00, 9:00; Sun 6:30 VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff. org/theatre 2AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA Thu 4:30 2KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON Sun 6:10; Mon 8:45; Tue 5:30; Wed 8:30 2SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON SCREEN: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Sun 2:45 2THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE Mon 6:30 2THE TIN DRUM Tue 7:30 2THE VANCOUVER ASAHI Sun 8:00; Mon 4:00 2WINTER SLEEP Thu 6:30
SPECIAL EVENTS THE IMAGE BEFORE US: A HISTORY OF FILM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Series celebrating B.C.’s film heritage, with guests and screenings on Monday evenings. Curated by Harry Killas. To Apr 30, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info 604-688-8202. CHASING ICE White Rock Social Justice Film Society presents a screening of the Oscar-nominated film about climate change. Jan 30, 7 pm, First United Church (15385 Semiahmoo Ave., White Rock). By donation, info 604-531-4850, www.white rocksocialjusticefilmfestival.ca/. BLACK HISTORY MONTH Mark Black History Month with screenings of Keep On Keepin’ On, Beyond the Lights, Through a Lens Darkly, Richard Pryor Tribute: Richard Pryor Live in Concert and Dino Archie, Black Orpheus, King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis, and Chico & Rita. Feb 1-23, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 604683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW As part of the Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen
LIVING ON ONE DOLLAR Screening and discussion of the documentary that follows the journey of four friends as they set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. Feb 3, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free, info 778-782-5000. THE TIN DRUM Cinema Salon presents director Volker Schlöndorff’s drama based on the Günter Grass novel. Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $13/11 (plus membership fee), info 604683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA Screening of the documentary about the Hindu swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. Feb 5, 4:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. WINTER SLEEP Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s drama explores the story of a middle-aged hotel owner who’s also a retired actor who fancies himself a man of learning and enlightenment. Feb 5, 6:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. SONG OF THE SEA Screenings of director Tomm Moore’s animated tale that provides a contemporary take on the Celtic myth of the selkie. Feb 6-14, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORT FILMS Screenings of “The Bigger Picture”, “The Dam Keeper”, “Feast”, “Me and My Moulton”, “A Single Life”, “Sweet Cocoon”, “Footprints”, “Duet”, and “Bus Story”. Feb 6-21, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre/. A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Ana Lily Amirpour’s film sees a vampire looking for love and hemoglobin in the desolate streets of Iranian ghost town Bad City. Feb 7-21, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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CINEPLEX ODEON INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CINEMAS 88 W. Pender, Vancouver, 604-806-0799, www.cineplex. com 2BLACK OR WHITE Fri-Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 2CAKE Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10; Mon-Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:35, 10:10 2THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 Fri-Thu 9:35 2INHERENT VICE FriSun 12:10, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; Mon-Thu 1:25, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 2INTERSTELLAR Fri-Tue 2:25, 6:05, 9:40; Wed 2:25, 9:40; Thu 2:25 2INTO THE WOODS Fri-Sun 9:55; Mon-Thu 9:05 2MORTDECAI Fri-Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:50 2PADDINGTON Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:30; Mon-Thu 1:10, 4:45, 7:05, 9:30 2RED ARMY Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15; Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15; Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:15 2SELMA Fri-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 2SEVENTH SON 3D Thu 7:00, 9:40 2THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D Thu 7:00, 9:25 2STRANGE MAGIC Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25; Mon-Thu 1:40, 4:05, 6:40 2TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:00, 7:30, 9:50; Thu 1:40, 4:05, 7:30, 9:50 2THE WEDDING RINGER Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:55, 9:20; Thu 1:15, 3:40 2WILD Fri-Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05
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CINEPLEX ODEON PARK & TILFORD 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, 604985-4215, www.cineplex.com 2BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) Fri 7:00, 9:40; Sat 10:30, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:00, 9:45; Tue 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Stars & Strollers Thu 1:00 2BLACKHAT Fri-Sun 9:30; Mon-Thu 9:20 2THE BOY NEXT DOOR Fri 7:30, 9:50; Sat 11:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:40, 10:00; Tue 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 2THE IMITATION GAME Fri 7:20, 9:55; Sat 11:00, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:10, 9:50; Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Stars & Strollers Thu 1:00 2MORTDECAI Fri 7:20, 9:45; Sat 10:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:30, 10:00; Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 2NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 7:00; Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:40, 7:00; Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:00; Tue 4:30, 7:00 2WILD Fri 7:10, 9:50; Sat 4:40, 7:10, 9:50; Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:20, 9:55; Tue 4:10, 7:20, 9:55
SPARK FWD Festival, conference and job fair showcasing state-of-the-art, award-winning visual effects and digital CINEPLEX ODEON STRAWBERRY HILL media. Includes industry speakers who 12161 72nd Ave, Surrey, 604-501-9420, www. worked on films like Paddington, The cineplex.com 2AMERICAN SNIPER FriHobbit, Birdman, and Interstellar. Jan 29-31, Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Thu 1:15, 4:15, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info 6047:30, 10:25 2AN AMERICAN TAIL Sat 11:00 683-3456, www.sparkfx.ca. 2BABY Fri-Sun 1:30, 5:35, 9:00; Mon-Thu 1:20, 5:40, 9:15 2THE BOY NEXT DOOR Fri-Sun PREUZMIMO BENCIC Film screening 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20; Mon-Thu 2:20, and discussion of Vancouver-based 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 2DOLLY KI DOLI Fri-Sun filmmaker Althea Thauberger’s experi1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45; Mon-Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, mental documentary. Jan 29, 5:30-7:30 9:50 2EH JANAM TUMHARE LEKHE Fri-Thu pm, SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 2HAWAIZAADA Fri-Sun (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; Mon-Thu 2:15, 6:35, 9:55 778-782-3363, https://www.facebook.com/ 2THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE events/318322818377366/. ARMIES 3D Fri-Sun 10:05; Mon-Thu 10:00 2THE IMITATION GAME Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, REEL READS: HER Screening of the 7:10, 10:25; Mon-Tue, Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 10:15; recent film starring Joaquin Phoenix as a Wed 4:25, 7:05, 10:15; Stars & Strollers Wed lonely writer who is drawn to the voice of his new operating system. Jan 29, 6:30-8:45 1:00 2PADDINGTON Fri, Sun 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, pm, Alice MacKay Room (350 W. Georgia). 7:20, 9:40; Sat 11:00, 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 2PK Fri-Sun Free, info 604-331-3603, www.vpl.ca/. 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15; Mon-Thu 1:35, 6:20, 9:45 CRAZY8S SWEET SIXTEEN 2PROJECT ALMANAC Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:00, FUNDRAISER Crazy8s Film Society pre5:30, 8:00, 10:30; Mon-Tue, Thu 1:30, 4:05, 7:35, sents a party and fundraiser in honour of its 10:20; Wed 4:05, 7:35, 10:20; Stars & Strollers 16th year and to raise funds for this year’s Wed 1:00 2STRANGE MAGIC Fri-Sun 12:00, productions. Includes short-film screenings 2:30, 5:00, 7:25; Mon-Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:20 and a Q&A session with filmmakers. Hosted 2THE WEDDING RINGER Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:35, by Luvia Petersen and Omari Newton. Jan 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thu 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 10:20 29, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $8-16, info 604-878-3456, www.facebook. com/events/1519174938372078/. GREAT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL Screenings of X-Men, X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Darkman, Dick Tracy, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2, Alien, Aliens, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Monster Squad, and The Rocketeer. Jan 30–Feb 5, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver (900 Burrard). Info www. cineplex.com/Events/DigitalFilmFest. SINSTERS Premiere screening of a new thriller by filmmaker Gord Stanfield. See the film in the location where it was filmed and meet the actors. The event is by donation, with all funds donated to charity. Jan 31, 7-10 pm, Carrall Street Gospel Mission (300 Carrall Street ). By donation, info https://www.eventbrite. ca/e/premiere-screening-of-sinsters-newthriller-movie-by-donation-for-charitytickets-15379898691. FOXCATCHER Screening of director Bennett Miller’s tale of Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark and David Schultz. Feb 2, 6:45 pm; Feb 3, 9:30 pm; Feb 4, 6:45 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $6-10, info 604-878-3456.
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CINEPLEX PARK THEATRE 3440 Cambie GODS AND KINGS 3D Fri-Thu 8:50 2THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART St., Vancouver, 604-709-3456, www.cine1 Fri-Thu 7:05, 9:35 2PENGUINS OF plex.com 2THE IMITATION GAME Fri-Sat, Tue 4:00, 6:45, 9:20; Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:00; Mon, MADAGASCAR Sat 12:25, 3:50; Sun 3:50 Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:00 2PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 3D FriThu 4:40 2UNBROKEN Fri-Thu 8:45 COLOSSUS LANGLEY CINEMAS 20090HOLLYWOOD CINEMAS CAPRICE 2381 91A Ave, Langley, 604-513-8747, www. King George Blvd., Surrey, 604-531-7456, cineplex.com 2ALIEN Mon 12:30; Thu 7:40 www.capricecinemas.com 2AMERICAN 2ALIENS Mon 2:50; Thu 9:55 2AMERICAN SNIPER Fri, Mon-Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20; SNIPER Fri-Sat, Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40; Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:10, 4:20, Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 2BIG EYES 7:20, 10:15 2AMERICAN SNIPER IMAX Fri-Sat, Fri-Thu 4:30, 8:30 2MORTDECAI Fri, MonTue 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15; Sun 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, Thu 6:50, 9:05; Sat-Sun 2:10, 6:50, 9:05 2PADDINGTON Fri, Mon-Thu 4:15, 6:30; 10:05; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 2AN Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:30 2STRANGE MAGIC AMERICAN TAIL Sat 11:00 2ANNIE Fri-Sun, Fri, Mon-Thu 4:45, 7:00; Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:45, Tue 1:05, 4:00, 7:10; Mon, Wed 4:15, 7:05; Thu 7:00 2THE WEDDING RINGER Fri-Thu 9:15 4:15 2BIG HERO 6 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:55; Sat 11:10, 1:55 2BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT LANDMARK CINEMAS 6 ESPLANADE Fri 7:30; Sun 3:15; Tue 9:45 2THE BOY NEXT NORTH VANCOUVER 200 West Esplanade, DOOR Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; North Vancouver, 604-983-2762, www. Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; Mon, Thu 3:15, empiretheatres.com 2THE AMAZING 5:25, 7:45, 10:05; Wed 5:25, 7:45, 10:05; Stars PRAYBEYT BENJAMIN Fri, Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:30; & Strollers Wed 3:00 2DARKMAN Fri 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; Mon 6:45 Mon 5:25; Wed 3:00 2DICK TRACY Fri 1:00; 2AMERICAN SNIPER Fri, Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:40; Sun 7:20 2HELLBOY Sun 9:30; Mon 7:20; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 2THE HOBBIT: Thu 2:25 2THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Sat-Sun FIVE ARMIES Fri-Sun, Tue 3:45; Mon, Wed3:15 2THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE Thu 5:20 2THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF ARMIES 3D Fri, Tue 7:30; Sat-Sun 12:00, 7:30; THE FIVE ARMIES 3D Fri-Sun, Tue 12:35, 6:55, Mon 9:20; Thu 9:05 2INTO THE WOODS 10:05; Mon, Wed-Thu 8:30 2THE HUNGER Fri-Wed 9:25 2JUPITER ASCENDING 3D Thu GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:00, 9:50 2PADDINGTON Fri, Mon-Thu 7:00, 1:35, 4:30, 7:45, 10:35; Sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:35, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 2PROJECT 10:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 2THE ALMANAC Fri, Mon-Thu 6:55, 9:35; Sat-Sun IMITATION GAME Fri, Sun, Tue 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 12:45, 3:40, 6:55, 9:35 STRANGE MAGIC Fri, 2 10:10; Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10; Mon, Mon-Thu 6:35; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:35 Wed-Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 2INTO THE WOODS Fri-Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 2JUPITER OMNIMAX THEATRE 1455 Quebec St., ASCENDING 3D Thu 7:00, 10:00 2KILL BILL: Vancouver, 604-443-7443, www.scienceVOL. 1 Tue 12:30; Wed 7:45 2KILL BILL: VOL. world.ca/omnimax 2HIDDEN UNIVERSE 2 Tue 2:35; Wed 9:50 2THE MONSTER Fri-Thu 1:00 2ISLAND OF LEMURS: SQUAD Fri 5:40; Sun 5:35 2MORTDECAI Fri, MADAGASCAR Fri, Mon-Thu 12:00, 2:00; Tue 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30; Sat 11:15, 2:15, 5:05, Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:00, 4:00 2JOURNEY TO 7:50, 10:30; Sun 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:20; Mon 1:40, THE SOUTH PACIFIC IMAX Fri-Thu 3:00 4:45, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:45, 10:15; RIO THEATRE 1660 E. Broadway, Thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:45, 10:15 2A MOST VIOLENT Vancouver, 604-878-3456, www.riotheatre. YEAR Fri-Sat, Tue 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30; Sun ca 2BACKSTREET BOYS: SHOW ‘EM WHAT 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:35, YOU’RE MADE OF Wed 7:00 2BRING IT 7:30, 10:20 2NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: ON Fri 12:00 2FOXCATCHER Mon 6:45; Tue SECRET OF THE TOMB Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 9:30 2WHIPLASH Mon, Wed 9:15; Tue 7:00 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25; Mon, Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55; Thu 4:55 2PADDINGTON Fri, Sun, Tue SCOTIABANK THEATRE VANCOUVER 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Sat 11:10, 12:05, 2:20, 900 Burrard St., Vancouver, 604-630-1407, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Mon, Wed-Thu 12:45, 4:40, www.cineplex.com 2ALIEN Mon 12:30; 7:10, 9:30 2PAN’S LABYRINTH Mon 9:50; Thu 7:40 2ALIENS Mon 2:50; Thu 9:55 Thu 12:15 2PROJECT ALMANAC Fri, Tue 2AMERICAN SNIPER Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00, 1:30, 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sat 11:05, 12:25, 3:55, 4:35, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:45; Sat 10:40, 1:00, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 1:30, 3:55, 4:35, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:45; Mon, 10:30; Mon, Thu 2:20, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; Wed Wed-Thu 1:00, 1:30, 3:55, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 2:20, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20; Stars & Strollers Wed 10:30 2BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT Fri 3:00 2THE ROCKETEER Fri 3:30; Sun 1:00; 7:30; Sun 3:15; Tue 9:45 2THE BOY NEXT Tue 7:35; Wed 12:45 2SELMA Fri-Sun, Tue DOOR Fri, Sun, Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20; Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:20, 10:20; Sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; Mon-Tue, 7:15, 10:20; Thu 1:20, 4:05 2SEVENTH SON 3D Thu 12:30, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 2DARKMAN Thu 7:00, 9:45 2THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: Fri 9:45; Mon 5:25; Wed 3:00 2DICK TRACY SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 1:00; Sun 7:20 2HELLBOY Sun 9:30; Mon STRANGE MAGIC Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:30, 2 7:20; Thu 2:25 2THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF 5:00, 7:35, 10:05; Mon, Wed-Thu 5:00, 7:35, THE FIVE ARMIES Fri-Thu 3:50 2THE HOBBIT: 10:05 2TAKEN 3 Fri, Tue 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D Fri-Wed 10:35; Sat 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Sun 12:10, 2:50, 12:45, 7:00, 10:10; Thu 12:45, 6:40, 9:45 2THE 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10; IMITATION GAME Fri, Sun 1:10, 2:40, 3:30, 4:10, Wed 2:00, 4:40, 10:10; Thu 1:45, 4:25, 10:10 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; Sat 10:45, 12:55, 3:40, 4:10, 2THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Fri-Thu 1:15, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; Mon 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 2UNBROKEN Fri-Wed 9:55 4:10, 6:40, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00; Tue 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 2THE WEDDING RINGER Fri-Sun, Tue 12:15, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; Wed 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon, Wed-Thu 5:10, 7:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00; Thu 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 10:10 2X-MEN Sat 9:55; Tue 5:30 2X-MEN: 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 2JUPITER ASCENDING 3D DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Sat 12:00 2X-MEN: Thu 7:00, 10:10 2KILL BILL: VOL. 1 Tue 12:30; FIRST CLASS Sat 2:35; Thu 5:05 2X-MEN: THE Wed 7:45 2KILL BILL: VOL. 2 Tue 2:35; Wed LAST STAND Sat 5:15 2X2: X-MEN UNITED 9:50 2THE MONSTER SQUAD Fri 5:40; Sun Sat 7:20; Wed 5:10 5:35 2PAN’S LABYRINTH Mon 9:50; Thu 12:15 2PROJECT ALMANAC Fri, Sun 12:45, DUNBAR THEATRE 4555 Dunbar St. at 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Sat 10:35, 12:25, 3:00, 30 Ave., Vancouver, 604-222-2991, https:// 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Mon, Thu 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, www.facebook.com/DunbarTheatre 7:55, 10:30; Tue 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; 2THE IMITATION GAME Fri, Mon-Thu 4:00, Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 2THE 7:00, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 ROCKETEER Fri 3:30; Sun 1:00; Tue 7:35; Wed 12:45 2TAKEN 3 Fri, Sun 12:55, 5:15, 7:50, HOLLYWOOD 3 SURREY 7125 138th St., 10:30; Sat 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30; Mon, Thu Surrey, 604-592-4441, www.hollywood3. 12:50, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Tue 12:50, 2:40, ca 2ANNIE Sat-Sun 1:30, 2:30 2BIG HERO 5:15, 7:50, 10:30; Wed 12:55, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 6 Fri, Mon-Thu 4:55; Sat-Sun 12:15, 4:55 2X-MEN Sat 9:55; Tue 5:30 2X-MEN: DAYS 2BIG HERO 6 3D Fri, Mon-Thu 6:35; Sat OF FUTURE PAST Sat 12:00 2X-MEN: FIRST 2:25, 6:35; Sun 2:25 2EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS Fri-Thu 5:50 2EXODUS: see next page
Vancouver International Film Festival's Year-Round Showcase Upcoming Films Jan. 30 - Feb. 5
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Sun. Feb 1, 2:45pm
“A riotous mixture of verbal dexterity and slapstick” starring Olivier Award-winning Samantha Spiro.
Cinema Salon
THE TIN DRUM Tue. Feb 3, 7:30pm
Set in Germany from 1925-45, this Oscar and Palme d'Or winning film adaptation of the acclaimed Gunter Grass novel is the story of Oskar Matzerath. Born with an adult's intelligence, Oskar throws himself down a flight of stairs at age three to stunt his growth in protest at the crazy hypocrisy of the adult world, and forever after marches to the beat of his own drum. Guest Presenter Ken Wallace is a painter and retired associate professor.
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY
Meet "the happiest sound in jazz" – and maybe the brightest mentor, too. At 93, Terry is still teaching, taking blind 23-year-old piano prodigy Justin Kauflin under his arm, just as he did with Quincy Jones and Miles Davis before him.
A brief history of African American photography in the company of filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris. "A family memoir, a tribute to unsung artists and a lyrical, at times, heartbroken, meditation on imagery and identity … [Harris] is a wise and passionate guide to an inexhaustibly fascinating subject." – AO Scott, The New York Times
Sun. Feb 1, 6:10pm; Mon. Feb 2, 8:45pm Tue. Feb 3, 5:30pm; Wed. Feb 4, 8:30pm
Mon. Feb 2, 6:30pm
On Mondays throughout February, Vancity Theatre will be marking Black History Month with a varied series of especially curated films, with programming support by Barbara Chirinos. Please visit www.viff.org for more information.
Back By Popular Demand
THE VANCOUVER ASAHI
AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA
Sun. Feb 1, 8:00pm Mon. Feb 2, 4:00pm
Thu. Feb 5, 4:30pm
Winner — Rogers People’s Choice Award, VIFF 2014
viff.org
1181 Seymour St. 604.683.FILM
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I see you every single weekday, walking down Robson at Homer, between 8:30 & 9:00am. You are always walking towards the stadium. Today, you were wearing a black winter style jacket with a fur lined hood, blue jeans and black boots. You glanced over at me as I stood with a group of friends. I have seen you for months now and I think you are so beautiful. But for some reason, I get overwhelmed with anxiety the moment I think to approach you and say hi... I never have this problem! I hope you see this and reply.
On the Seawall... my god you look great... Hope the run was as good as you looked... lol.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 24, 2015 WHERE: Van
Only saw you for a minute but you’re really fucking handsome. I think you were with a lady. And I with like probably dating. But your beard and broad shoulders were enough to make me type this shit.
Yo. We noticed each other outside Cafe Brixton in Chinatown. You: hot, brown hair, with friends. We locked eyes a couple times through the windows and when we were inside. Then you were gone... Would loved to have said ‘hi’.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 21, 2015 WHERE: Clark to Fraser on Broadway You were driving a new silver Honda Civic, and wearing a green jacket with black sleeves. You had black hair and were absolutely stunning. I was to your right in a dark grey Nissan Xterra. We caught eyes waiting for the light at Clark heading West on Broadway around 5:45 pm Jan 21. We were next to each other and made eye contact several more times before you turned left on Fraser (I was supposed to turn there too but was too distracted trying to get up next to you)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 22, 2015 WHERE: Granville & 70th I cannot thank you enough for that beautiful smile early in the morning. It was around 7:00 am and we were waiting at the red light. You turned and we smiled to each other... A moment that will reach eternity. I winked at you and we had to move on... green light. You went into McDonald’s. I had work to do... I’d love to get to know you and have my heart back... Please. Drink and appies?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: DECEMBER 18, 2014 WHERE: 601 I had celebrated a bit before going on holidays so I was a bit clouded by Xmas mirth. The bus was full. You let me sit beside you. Did you lean in to me? Did we share something there? Maybe I’m imagining, but it sticks in my mind. I’m hobbled by shyness or else I would have looked you straight in the eye and memorized your face. All I can remember clearly is how warm and comfortable it felt. I’d save a spot for you any day.
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Girl with white jacket at Red Gate Thursday night. FYI, you were stunning hot I had to force myself to watch the band instead of looking at you. I was going to say hi after the set but you were gone.
It was Saturday at 1pm and your black Honda was parked in front of my tan Mercedes. Your trunk popped open and I looked up to see your great smile, which I happily returned! I asked if you were leaving and then told you I was on my way to lunch. You asked, “where are we going?” I told you I was visiting a friend and then you introduced yourself and we shook hands. I asked if you were a Vancouverite and you said, yes. We agreed that the next time we saw each other we’d have lunch. I hope you see this so we will not have to wait so long. You brightened my day, thanks.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 15, 2015 WHERE: Biltmore Cabaret
You gave me the “haven’t seen you round here before?” line while we were both walking our dogs before you ran into a guy friend. Didn’t get a chance to chat further but you were cute and seemed friendly and cool. It’s been a while but haven’t seen you since so I thought why not try...
You were standing in line behind me for the coat check after the show and you picked up a ticket stub off the floor. I made a dad joke about you having a memento for your scrapbook. You said you won the tickets on Twitter. You had mad facial hair game. I have zero flirting game.
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