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recounted. “She said, ‘Yes, we think that we have done everything we need to do with the minimum wage.’ So they are happy at $10.45 with some CPI adjustment.� B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger described a 20- to 30-cent increase above $10.65 as “better than nothing�. “But it’s still not a good enough place to start,� she said. “Even at $11 an hour, workers are below the poverty line.� David Fairey, cochair of the B.C. Employment Standards Coalition, went further, saying he would oppose a correction as small as 20 or 30 cents. Fairey expressed concern that this would still leave B.C.’s base line for future CPI adjustments too low. “It doesn’t address the issue adequately,� he said. “They might do it in the lead-up to the [2017] election, but then it would be stuck there.� > TRAVIS LUPICK
LEGAL ACTION SEEKS TO END WELFARE DEDUCTION
On February 2, lawyer Jason Gratl took the first step in filing for an injunction that could save a select group of methadone patients $20 a month. He conceded that to most people, that won’t sound like a lot of money. But it is for this group. “When you stand as low down the financial ladder as persons who are receiving social assistance and are on methadone, the marginal value of every dollar is substantial indeed.� Gratl explained that the case concerns people who are both enrolled in the province’s methadone-maintenance program (MMP) and receive social assistance under the B.C. Employment and Assistance Act. He estimated they number between 4,000 and 8,000. According to a statement of claim filed last November, the Ministry of Social Development has been deducting $18.34 from the welfare cheques of these individuals. Gratl told the Straight he wants an injunction to end that practice while the matter— a potential class action—slowly makes its way through the courts. None of the allegations have been proven in court, and the province has yet to file a statement of defence. The ministry declined a request for an interview. > TRAVIS LUPICK
KINDER MORGAN REVIEW EXTENSION CRITICIZED
A spokesperson with the advocacy group Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) questions whether four months is enough additional time to review the energy company’s plan to twin its Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Karl Perrin was referring to the extra time the federal government plans to take in order to assess the climate impacts of the $5.4-billion project and hold further consultations with First Nations. Instead of August 2016, a December decision is expected. According to Perrin, the fourmonth extension may not be sufficient for scientific information to be available. The City of Vancouver is presenting a summary of its arguments against the project in Calgary on Friday (February 5), the last day of hearings by the National Energy Board (NEB). The board will submit its recommendations to the federal cabinet in May. Vancouver city councillor Adriane Carr maintained that the four-month extension doesn’t address concerns that the NEB process is faulty, telling the Straight by phone: “It’s flawed to think that you can make a decision based on a process which itself is flawed.� > CARLITO PABLO
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to jump. It’s pretty much a core work. Balancing when you don’t have the really funky, revolution- barre to hold on to is a whole other challenge ized adult ballet class set that works your core. Properly holding your to really awesome music— arms works your back muscles and your shoulelectronic dance music, ders. And since classes are fast-paced, you get a mostly house and techno. cardiovascular workout, too.” It’s super high-energy and Ballet Lounge will offer several other types of has an upbeat vibe. classes aside from Ballet Fit, including yoga, Pila“The classes are pro- tes, and conditioning classes for dancers, as well gressive and there are as contemporary-dance and hip-hop classes. While dance classes can be intimidating, Ballet Fit’s fitnessseveral levels,” adds KaitKaitman will also be doing a fitness demo at man, who moved to Van- the upcoming Wellness Show. The three-day event based approach focuses on fun while teaching ballet basics couver nearly five years features presentations by Harbour Dance Centre, With an extensive background in ballet, ago. “It’s not intimidating. Actual dance Barre Fitness, Dreams Gymnastics, and the Suzy Kaitman can’t get enough dance. So when classes can be very scary for recreaZV Crew, which specializes in Zumba, among many other local companies BY GAIL JOHN SON the former Alberta Ballet dancer went on to work tional dancers or those people who Check out… as a personal trainer after completing a degree in like dance but just want to get fit.… STRAIGHT.COM and instructors, in addition to exhibits ballet at the University of Calgary, she found her- We want to create an environment and seminars all about healthy living. Have an opinion? self missing the moves she started discovering as where we’re all beautiful, we can all Another aspect of ballet-based Visit our website a toddler. dance, and we can all have fun. We workouts that Kaitman says appeals to comment on this story Combining her passions for fitness and dance, really celebrate each other’s successto people is the focus required; a BalKaitman has developed an exercise program es and encourage each other.” let Fit class gives people a chance to let called Ballet Fit, one she says will appeal to nonParticipants will learn classical steps like go of their worries for a while. dancers and dancers alike and promises a fun pas de chat, pas de cheval, glissades, arabesques, and “You’re working your entire body, but what’s also full-body workout. What makes it stand out from grand jetés. What makes ballet-based exercise so ef- great about ballet is the body-mind connection,” the numerous ballet-based classes out there is that fective is that it works the entire body. she says. “It’s sort of like yoga—you have to be in there’s much more to it than the barre. “The whole foundation of ballet technique the moment and be present the whole time.” “It’s not a barre workout,” says Kaitman, whose is it creates those long, lean muscles,” Kaitman studio, called Ballet Lounge, will be opening at the says. “Look at dancers—they have the most The Wellness Show runs February 12 to 14 at end of the month at 1340 Granville Street. “We amazing bodies in the world. With proper tech- the Vancouver Convention Centre (999 Canada do barre, we do centre [exercises away from the nique and form you can develop those same Place). Visit www.thewellnessshow.com/ for barre, in the middle of the room], I teach you how long, lean muscles, and there’s lots of additional more information.
E ATING DI SORDERS GO B E YO ND FO O D >>> An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 die every year from medical complications and suicides due to eating disorders. Yet despite the staggering mortality rate cited in a report by a parliamentary committee, this mental illness is often misunderstood. “There’s still this notion that an eating disorder is a lifestyle choice or it’s frivolous, you know: ‘You’re just trying to lose weight to look thin and fashionable,’ ” Stacey Huget told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview. Huget is the executive director of the Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders, a Vancouverbased charity dedicated to the prevention of the diseases. The group supports people suffering from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and other disordered-eating conditions. Because of misconceptions about the sickness, Huget said, many people aren’t comfortable coming out to seek help.
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There’s more and more people that are falling victim to it from all ages, men and women.” According to information compiled by the foundation, the Canadian Mental Health Association has reported that since 1987, hospitalizations for eating disorders have increased by 34 percent among children under the age of 15. For youth between 15 and 24, the rate has risen by 29 percent. “Eating disorders are all about managing your emotions, having a good sense of self-esteem, having control over your life, having strong relationships, the very, very same issues that come up with so many other mental-health issues,” Huget said. “And yet…everybody thinks they’re about food—so, ‘Eat more, eat less, eat differently,’ but that’s not the solution.” Huget also pointed out that the disease often coexists with other conditions like depression and
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addiction. However, there is a misperception that it is not a real sickness. “People will come forward with an addiction probably more easily than they will with an eating disorder, and that’s one of the things we need to change,” she said. On March 4, the Looking Glass Foundation will hold a gala to raise funds for its various programs. Together with the Provincial Health Services Authority, it operates a residential treatment facility for 17to 24-year-olds. As part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week this year, the charity is organizing a public event on Saturday (February 6) to promote a conversation about eating disorders. The event takes place in the Alice MacKay Room of the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library (300 West Georgia Street) from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. -
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WELLNESS WORKSHOPS Recognized as the largest holistic and healthy-living trade show on the West Coast, the Wellness Show returns for its 24th year next weekend (February 12 to 14) at the Vancouver Convention Centre’s East building (999 Canada Place). In addition to a roster of celebrity-chef presenters, fitness demonstrations, and health seminars, this year’s show features a Healthy Families Workshops stage where attendees can involve the entire brood in a number of family-oriented seminars. Here are our top picks of the most delicious workshops to catch during the three-day event.
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KID-MADE PASTA Culinary master Victor Bongo will take the Healthy Families stage on Friday (February 12) at 1:30 p.m. for a
lesson in healthy (and tot-friendly) eating. Two young assistants will join the chef on-stage, and together they’ll be making fresh spaghetti with tomato sauce and organicturkey meatballs. The AfricanCanadian talent is the author of a number of cookbooks and serves on the advisory board of Super Chefs of the Universe, a children’s program that teaches healthy eating habits.
audience. Attendees will also have a chance to win three of Browne’s healthy-living cookbooks.
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INDOOR DRIVING RANGE Test-drive the latest in golf equipment and putting technology at the show’s indoor driving range. The 30-metre-wide the Celebrity Cooking Stage on green will offer golf aficionados the opportunity to get their hands on new Sunday (February 14) at 3 p.m., products from brands like TaylorMade Golf, Callaway Golf, and Ping. Look chef Sarah Stewart will appear to out for the new Callaway XR16 drivers, which leverage an aerodynamic, share her passion for Cascadian- Boeing-informed design to produce maximum speeds and distances. style cuisine. Taking five from her post at one of Vancouver’s most TRUGOLF GOLF SIMULATOR Looking to improve your golfing skills or buzzed-about new restaurants, simply wanting to showcase your craft? Put your iron accuracy to the test at Juniper, Stewart will cook up a the TruGolf Technique Prestige portable golf simulator, which will also play seared duck breast, served with host to a closest-to-the-pin competition. Consumers who fire their way to warm kale and a roasted parsnip the top five will score a round of golf from GolfBC at one of its local courses, salad tossed in sweet blueberry which include the world-class Mayfair Lakes Golf and Country Club. vinaigrette. The seminar’s focus? Fresh, locally sourced ingredients HARMONIX PUTTING CHAMPIONSHIP Hit the green alongside some and the same tried-and-true cook- friendly competition at the Harmonix Putting Championship, which takes ing techniques that have earned place over the event’s two days. Consumers who make at least one of three Juniper praise as one of the most 40-foot putts on Saturday will be granted free entry to the show the next day, when they’ll compete in a final championship showdown for one of at inventive spots in town. least four grand prizes. Entry to the competition is by donation, with all For more information on the Well- proceeds going to charity. CASCADIAN COOKING Over on
BLISSFUL SNACKS Still on the Healthy Families stage, cookbook author Jennifer Browne will be showing guests how to make a simple and raw nut-free snack for kids on Saturday (February 13) at 3 p.m. These bliss balls are high in healthy plant-based protein and fibre, and ness Show or to purchase tickets, see samples will be provided to the www.thewellnessshow.com/.
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I Wanna Workout’s Sara DesBrisay advises being specific about alloting time for exercise to avoid procrastination.
Canales said one way to handle excuses is to accept their inevitability. “It’s about being able to acknowledge that we are going to try and come up with an excuse as to why we are not motivated to go to the gym…and being able to just do it,” he said. He also explained that making working out a habitual practice is an effective way to bypass any excuses because then exercise doesn’t require any thought.
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Another common theme that came up was how many people are seeking a quick fi x. “I find that people work hard, crank it for a month, and get immediately discouraged,” Urban Fitness Club cofounder Eric Marcina said. “They just quit and they don’t want to do it anymore, and then the weight that had been coming off comes on doubly strong, and then they get even more depressed and discouraged.” You might see programs that try to appeal to this mindset by offering 30-day challenges promising to whip participants into shape within a month if they exercise every day. One Hour Hot Yoga owner and instructor Dan Durand said that over 15 years of teaching hot yoga around town, he’s seen the majority of people drop out after 10 or 20 consecutive days and never return, due to burnout. He advises people to pace themselves by scheduling something sustainable that has a cumulative impact. “Somehow if people can think of the big picture, not just at the start of the year, but average out over the whole year and instead of having to make time for themselves, just schedule in something that you actually have time for,” he said. “So even if you did one class a week for the whole year, there’s 52 times you treat yourself right instead of 20 days of the month and never come the rest of the year.” Personal trainer and Active Vegetarian health and wellness coach Zuzana Fajkusova echoed that sentiment. She said it’s better to make one change at a time, such as one per month for a total of 12 changes over the year, than to overwhelm yourself by making numerous changes simultaneously. “Most of the time, we try to change everything all at once,” she said. “So we quit everything unhealthy we’re doing and just dive into some kind of program or a diet, and most of the time it’s just not sustainable, because how can you sustain something that’s such a drastic change? Once we master it, once we are able to implement it every day and it becomes second nature, then we can move on to something else.”
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With just a few ingredients, you can still make affordable meals that are very nutritious and healthy. I think we’ve lost that art. “We’ve made food very complicated,” he adds. “We need to start appreciating food the way we used to and focus on enjoying it as a family together. It’s about bringing it back to the basics.…Project CHEF is a wonderful initiative that is changing the lives of many elementary-school children in Vancouver. It provides them with the food knowledge and skills they need to cook healthy, nutritious food, both in school and with their families.” When Finley is in school classrooms, she says, students have to promise to have an open mind and an open mouth. She recalls teaching one
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eight Chinese desserts worth trying— Canadian Superstore, Asian bakeries, and Kirin restaurants. they’re delicious and full of luck. STICKY RICE CAKES (leen go or nian gao) Made with glutinous rice and brown sugar, these bites of chewy goodness are also known as Chinese New Year cakes. Easy to prepare at home from premade batches, they’re usually eaten at breakfast or as an afternoon snack. Sticky rice cakes are a staple for the Lunar New Year and are considered to bring you luck and prosperity in the coming year. You can find them at T&T Supermarket, Real
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Berlin and now Paris, indemand pianist Avan Yu doesn’t always get the chance to come home for Lunar New Year. After debuting with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at a young 14, Yu began his rise to international circles, and now, at 28, he performs in concert halls around Europe, Australia, and Asia. That’s why his return to the VSO for its festive Lunar New Year concert is so special to the artist. “I’ll be back for New Year’s Day, so it’s good that I can join in those celebrations, and in a way I feel I’m not only going back to my parents and family for that important time, but also to join my family at the VSO,” the artist tells the Straight over the phone from his place in Paris. “We’ve been making music together for 14 years now, so it’s nice to spend Lunar New Year with my musical family, too.” Yu, who was born in Hong Kong and moved to Vancouver at nine, has fond memories of this time of year. He remembers the parades in Hong Kong and the rich traditions of family reunions and sharing good meals. “After we moved to Vancouver, we had relatives there who we would visit and have dim sum with them. It was a time to go to relatives’ homes and pay respect to elders—and maybe in return you would get a red pocket,” he says. For Yu, who is an enthusiastic foodie, it’s a time to enjoy Chinese specialties. “For the New Year’s Eve meal with the whole family, there are all these special dishes, and usually they have these long strands
The sounds of celebration Now based in Paris and Berlin, piano star Avan Yu looks forward to returning home for a special Lunar New Year concert with the VSO of noodles they serve at the end of the big banquet that symbolize longevity,” he says, talking about longevity noodles. “I think that’s my favourite.” Because of the significance of the time of year, he and the VSO put a lot of thought into what piece he should play at the concert, which will be conducted by the symphony’s associate conductor Gordon Gerrard. He settled on the demanding Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, a piece that will showcase not only how far the artist has come technically and virtuosically since his appearances with the VSO as a teen, but the depth of feeling that critics are celebrating him for. “We thought, ‘There’s already a lot of Chinese music on the program, so it would be a nice contrast to have a well-known concerto that the Asian audiences would also know very well,’ ” he says. But even for this now widely experienced artist, it is a huge amount of work, with its rapid arpeggios and killer filigree patterns. Lush and romantic, it’s also an emotionally demanding piece. “This is what music is about: reaching into emotional places that normally in your daily life you don’t experience,” he says. “That’s why experiencing it live is so special.” For now, though, Yu is just looking forward to returning to Vancouver at his favourite time of year, headlining a VSO concert that will include lion dancers , and feasting on some of his favourite foods. “Maybe I need to do some exercising before I come,” he adds with a laugh. -
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The achingly beautiful Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto has been fluttering around rising 18-year-old violinist Lucy Wang for most of her life. “It’s very traditional and I think most Chinese people when they hear it would say, ‘Oh, it’s the Butterfly Lovers Concerto,’ ” Wang tells the Straight over the phone from L.A., where the former South Surrey resident studies music at the Colburn School. “My mom was a singer in China, and she actually performed one of the pieces from it.…I grew up listening to that recording of her doing it.” Lucy Wang had to use different hand positions She adds her father also listened to the music, to tackle the beautiful Butterfly Lovers Concerto. which was written by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, when he was young. And coincidentally, she first performed it at age 10 in a recital as a young violin student here—but hasn’t really attempted to tackle it since. Now she’s busy preparing the challenging piece for a Lunar New Year program with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (which also features Avan Yu; see story above). “I’ve never gotten the chance to perform it with an orchestra before and I feel pretty excited to do that,” she says, adding: “Because I study western classical music, I find the Chinese genre doesn’t seem to be recognized as much. So the fact the VSO is presenting it in their repertoire and drawing audiences to it makes me very happy.” In preparation, she’s drawing from the Chinese legend about a tragic love story. In it, a young couple is torn apart. “It is like the Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet,” Wang explains. “That’s what makes it interesting for me, because I know there’s a story behind it.” Still, the piece features pummelling spiccatos and arpeggios, and uses the Asian pentatonic scale, requiring Wang to use a different hand position. It’s just as demanding emotionally: “At times it has very intense moments, and then I can really be passionate in some areas, and other parts are really tender and beautiful melodies,” says Wang. “And the orchestra plays a major part in allowing the soloist to express all that.” > JANET SMITH
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Year of the Monkey GOING APE Celebrate the Year of the Monkey at Oakridge Centre (650 West 41st Avenue), where hundreds of adorable simian figurines are on display throughout the mall as part of the #LunarPetFest campaign. The interactive monkeys were designed by second-year Emily Carr University of Art + Design student Walter Kao for LunarFest 2016. Visitors to the mall are encouraged to count the monkeys hidden in store windows and submit their guess to the concierge for a chance to win a trip to Hong Kong. Or, guests can “adopt” a monkey to take home after the festivities come to a close on February 16. Adoption fees start at $35, with all proceeds going to a local charity (to be decided upon after LunarFest). -
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OMIKUJI—JAPANESE FORTUNE TELLING Get your fortune on paper and tie it to a traditional pine tree or wire.
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MULAN—THE MUSICAL It’s an epic stage production that combines a famous Chinese folk tale with some powerful beats. On its first visit to Canada, China’s Red Poppy Ladies Percussion Group presents its version of the story, in which a peasant girl disguises herself as a man so she can become a soldier to fight the invading Huns. The spectacle mixes kung fu, dance, and pounding drum work—all fantastically female-powered, with elaborate costumes. The production has travelled to Broadway and beyond to dozens of countries before coming here, and makes a perfect cultural, visual, and aural feast for Lunar New Year. Mulan—The Musical is at Richmond’s River Rock Casino on Monday (February 8).
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home, and you’ll find them at Asian bakeries, T&T Supermarket, and Real Canadian Superstore. EIGHT TREASURE RICE (babaofan) This sweet, sticky dessert has long been regarded in China as a staple for Lunar New Year. Made with glutinous rice and a variety of dried fruits and nuts, including red dates and lotus seeds, Eight Treasure Rice is a colourful and tasty dish with a rich history. One of many stories that revolve around this dessert suggests that it was created to celebrate eight warriors who defeated a tyrannical king. Another tells the tale of a starving general on the run who kept himself alive by cooking this dish using whatever ingredients he could find. You can try it at Dinesty Dumpling House on Robson Street. -
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With 887, Robert Lepage shares his early memories from the apartment block where he was raised during the Quiet Revolution—and humanizes history.
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Editor’s choice TWISTED SIBLINGS Alley Theatre’s dark and creepy offering won raves at last year’s New York International Fringe Festival, with Timeout saying actors Daniel Arnold and Marisa Smith “prod us into laughter between our shocked gasps”. Now Little One, playwright Hannah Moscowitch’s script about two monumentally dysfunctional adopted siblings, returns home again, first to New West and then downtown. If you missed it before, or just want to relive the beyond-black laughs and the chills travelling down your spine, catch it before it’s gone again. Little One is at New West’s Anvil Centre until Saturday (February 6) and at the Firehall Arts Centre from next Tuesday to Saturday (February 9 to 13).
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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RELATIVE COLLIDER (At the Scotiabank Dance Centre from February 4 to 6) Physics and math turned into mesmerizing dance at PuSh fest.
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY (At the Kimoto Gallery to February 27) Michael Soltis’s brilliant, nostalgiatweaking, mixed-media ode to retro board games.
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (At the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to February 28) Janet Munsil’s taut adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic.
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FOURPLAY (At Studio 58 to February 14) Four new scripts plus four top directors equals exciting theatre.
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CRASHERS (At the Emerald on February 3) A truly twisted comedic take on that ninth circle of hell known as auditions.
Guest pick
ETERNAL Mary-Louise Albert, now in her 12th year as the artistic managing director of the Chutzpah! Festival (February 18 to March 13), is this week’s guest from the arts scene. Here’s a show she’s looking forward to: “Every year I’m impressed with the PuSh festival’s innovative programming, and this avant-garde production at the Western Front is no exception. This piece by New York–based creator Daniel Fish, whose work crosses the boundaries of theatre and film, promises a fascinating and original theatre experience. Eternal’s two actors, Christina Rouner and Thomas Jay Ryan, deliver performances that have been described as ‘superb and hilariously varied’.” The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Eternal at the Western Front until Saturday (February 6).
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F E B R UA R Y 2 0 16 DEATH AND DEVOTION WITH DOROTHEE MIELDS Wed Feb 3, 7:30pm
Presented by Early Music Vancouver German soprano Dorothee Mields stars in a shared recital of early North German sacred music with American baritone, Sumner Thompson.
BROOKLYN BOHEME (FILM SCREENING) Thu Feb 4, 7:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre This documentary film explores the vibrant artistic community that resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn during the 1980s and ‘90s. At The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St.)
A NIGHT IN VENICE
Feb 4 - 6, 7:30pm + Feb 7, 2pm Presented by the UBC School of Music The UBC Opera Ensemble and UBC Symphony Orchestra perform Strauss’ farcical romantic comedy, full of twists and turns and a colourful cast of characters.
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he essence of Japanese culture, we’re often told, is elegant simplicity: think of the monochromatic beauty of a Zen garden or the deceptively rustic character of a tansu cabinet. And so it is with western perceptions of taiko music, a rural form of percussive celebration that was revived, and honed to a point of powerful austerity, by Sado Island’s music-and-martial-arts collective Kodo during the 1980s. Kodo remains the most popular taiko troupe internationally, but that there are other, less formal approaches to taiko drumming is evident from the growing popularity of Nara’s Yamato percussion ensemble, which makes its Vancouver debut this weekend. “I think Kodo’s inspiration is coming from tradition,” says the younger ensemble’s artistic director, Masa Ogawa, in a three-way Skype conversation facilitated by translator Kazuho Yamamoto. “The Japanese tradition is their inspiration, and they build their performance around that idea. But Yamato, I think that we are third-generation musicians. We are the population who don’t know traditional wadaiko [Japanese drums], and the way we build our performance is we focus on wadaiko, and then we think about how we can build from there. So our artistic direction is not so related to traditional ideas.” It’s not that there’s been a convulsive break from traditional taiko, which served in the past as the soundtrack for communal harvest celebrations as well as Shinto ritual. As Ogawa notes, he got his start drumming in his neighbourhood temple, playing on a 150-year-old drum given to him by his mother. “Even if I am performing new songs, the days when I performed at the shrine and the deep cultural aspects of wadaiko are always with me, I feel,”
The percussionists of Yamato take taiko drumming away from its traditional roots, while still honouring the origins of the thundering Japanese art form.
he says. “Hearing wadaiko at a shrine makes me feel at home, and it reminds me of my first performance. There were children and elders, and some were laughing while some were crying, but they were all enjoying listening. This is what I always come back to.” Yamato’s approach is equally rooted in its leader’s art-school training, however. Ogawa studied graphic design, not music, and also took an interest in glassblowing and performance art. “It’s a bit hard to explain, but we can be considered more of a performance troupe than a musical ensemble,” he explains. “And design is what I really focus on when I create Yamato’s staging. I really think aesthetics is important; creating an inviting and beautiful stage is important. When I think about staging, I think about the balance of colours and the music. I also think about how we can make it appealing to an audience by focusing on colours and layers and space. That is something I learned from graphic design.” Asked if his approach to sound is essentially sculptural, Ogawa agrees.
Sat Feb 13, 8:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre Acclaimed saxophonist Branford Marsalis, three-time GRAMMY Award winner and NEA Jazz Master, is joined by a group of critically lauded musicians for an evening mixing jazz standards with original works.
EXHILARATING SOUNDSCAPES Feb 19 + 20, 8:00pm
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts a magnificent concert that explores an exhilarating world of sound including works by Milhaud, Stravinsky and Philip Glass.
“Our focus is more on weight and balance instead of harmony,” he says. “When I’m composing the music, I think about the rhythm, and then on top of that I also think about the musicians’ movement; how they move, the way they play these rhythms.…On the stage, you’ll see what I’m talking about. The synchronization will be transmitted to the audience, and the audience will feel it through their hearts.” That very human pulse, appropriately enough, is at the centre of Yamato’s touring show, Bakuon. “We think the heartbeat is the most energetic sound on the planet,” Ogawa explains. “Bakuon means a loud, loud sound, like the sound of an explosion, so that’s what we want to express. Our heartbeat is kind of like a whispering—it’s not easy to hear—but it’s also very powerful. It’s one of the most powerful sounds we have on this planet, and that’s what we want to share.” Yamato plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday (February 6).
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DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER AND IRVIN MAYFIELD WITH THE NOJO Sat Feb 27, 8:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre Vocalist Bridgewater performs a tribute to New Orleans with trumpeter Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
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Dance Double Bill SHAY KUEBLER RADICAL SYSTEM ART BC “So fully embodied entertainment and artistry at such high levels.” Vancouver Weekly
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A-WA Israel Sweeping and uncompromising music will take you on an exciting journey! March 12 > The Biltmore Cabaret 19+
OPENING NIGHT Two hilarious standup comics JESSICA KIRSON USA Nightlife Award winner for Best Standup Comedian in New York City. & JON STEINBERG Canada A perennial favourite of CBC’s The Debaters. Feb 18 > NRT
VICTORIA HANNA Israel “The freshest, edgiest, weirdest artist on the Israeli airwaves today.” Public Radio International
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KLEZMERSON Mexico “A remarkable band out of Mexico City taking the Jewish tradition to some fresh and uncharted new places.” John Zorn – Tzadik
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THE ANDY STATMAN TRIO USA “Andy Statman, clarinet and mandolin virtuoso, is an American visionary.” BALADINO Israel/Germany The New Yorker “Lively, engaging, enthralling and Feb 24 > NRT mystical.” ChicagoNow March 5 > The Fox Cabaret, 19+
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May 7 > NRT SPECIAL PRESENTATION JENNIFER TEEGE Germany In conversation with Marsha Lederman about her new memoir My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, learning to come to terms with the horrifying fact that Amon Goeth, the Nazi “butcher of Plaszow,” who was chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List, was her grandfather. April 2 > NRT
A VERY NARROW BRIDGE Canada by Itai Erdal, Anita Rochon, and Maiko Yamamoto. This funny and insightful chamber-sized play, takes a personal look at leaving love and a country behind. March 5 to 13 > JCC - Dayson Board Room An Evening with JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN Canada The former host of the celebrated CBC program Wiretap brings us his wry, self-deprecating humour. “The Wes Anderson of podcasting.” The Atlantic
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Putting midlife to music The revue Closer Than Ever mines the pressures that come with the march of time > B Y JA NE T S M ITH
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all it middle age, call it grown-up, or call it the wrong side of 40: it’s a time in people’s lives that doesn’t get the spotlight on-stage too often. But it’s a period rich with angst, regret, and tension, all mined in Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s Closer Than Ever, a different kind of musical revue. Through a mosaic of song styles and characters—a guy singing about a romantic fling he once blew off to avoid cheating on his wife, a woman lamenting exercise fads, two parents who can’t find time in their careers to take care of their kids—it illuminates the frustrations that accompany the march of time. “You get more realistic as you grow and mature,” says singer-actor Kevin Aichele, a Winnipegger making his local stage debut in Gateway Theatre’s new production of the work. “You realize how things change from budding romance—especially as you get older and have kids—and that love is a commitment to work through and to not bail out on. “I’m 43. I’m not married myself yet and I don’t have kids, but there are things you start to question in midlife.…It’s a gritty realization of what midlife can be. But there’s a lot of heart in the show that is still very hopeful—that you can find love again or you can start again.” The show, performed by a fourmember cast on a simple stage with an upright bass and a piano, was written in 1989 but seems as relevant as ever in our time-crunched, superwired era. For Aichele, who has performed across the country in musicals from Les Miz to Sweeney Todd to Crazy for You, Closer Than Ever also holds its own, special challenges. “I haven’t done a show like this that doesn’t have any dialogue or any scenes,” he explains. “It’s a bit of a marathon to go song after song after song. In most musicals you have a bigger cast and you get more breaks.
Kevin Aichele (left, with Chris D King, Ma-Anne Dionisio, and Caitriona Murphy) says there have been tears amid the laughs in rehearsals for Closer Than Ever.
It’s a good exercise in pacing. You’re always having to shift focus, whereas in other shows you can focus on one emotional journey.” The show’s dozens of heartfelt songs, which run the gamut from Latin- and jazz-influenced numbers to more traditional show tunes, are an equal challenge, Aichele reveals. “They sound singable, but when you get into them they’re very complex. There are subtle dissonances, and that ties into that disharmony that people sometimes feel,” says Aichele, who is also a singer-songwriter and performs regularly around Winnipeg. “There are some very touching moments—and incredibly powerful moments. There’s been a lot of tears, even in rehearsal.” One of those moments comes when Aichele has to perform one of his favourite pieces, “If I Sing”, in which a man remembers his late father, who was a musician, and the influence his dad had on his love of music. “My father passed away a few years
ago and I used that song for an audition for another show just a month after my father had died,” Aichele reflects. “Even now I can’t go into it too deep, or I’ll lose myself in emotion.” Grieving a parent may speak directly to the experience of those in their 40s and 50s, but many of the themes—especially the show’s many numbers about love—can apply to all generations, Aichele points out. Ultimately, he says, he finds the show has a hopeful message about the ability to find love at any age. Then again, all this may be hitting home for Aichele, who’s anticipating a big life change of his own once the run at the Gateway ends. “I’m moving back to Toronto,” Aichele reveals. “I found a girl I fell in love with so I’m moving back there.” Hey, it’s never too late to get closer than ever with someone. Closer Than Ever is at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre from Thursday (February 4) to February 20.
Troupe flies high with Chitty
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n Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a nutty inventor is able to make his children’s dreams come true, by crafting an incredible flying machine out of an abandoned old car. It’s a bit of a metaphor for what Chad Matchette and his team have managed to do with Align Entertainment: make magic out of virtually nothing. When he and cofounder Patti Volk saw a gap in the Lower Mainland for large-scale, semipro family musicals, they decided to launch their own company. Now, just a few shows later, the company has come out of nowhere. It nabbed the top community large-theatre production award for its first show, Shrek the Musical, at last year’s Ovation! Awards, and then took home several acting and costume prizes at the 2016 Ovations for The Addams Family Musical. “I had seen Shrek the Musical in London and absolutely loved it—the rights had become available and we said, ‘We should do it,’ ” Matchette recalls over the phone from Coquitlam, where the company is based. “We looked at doing a coproduction and we didn’t get any bites, so we decided to do it ourselves—over breakfast at the ABC Restaurant in Coquitlam!” This year, for the first time, Align grows its season at Burnaby’s Michael J. Fox Theatre to two shows, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang this month and then Jesus Christ Superstar in the fall. The plan is to increase to three-show seasons after that. It’s all part of Matchette’s mandate to build an audience for musicals—especially shows, like Chitty, that haven’t been performed in Metro Vancouver before. And building that audience means making them familyfriendly, so that young people get a taste of the form. “I have friends who have never been to a musical and they’re in their 30s,” Matchette says. “And I think if you’ve never been to one you’re never going to go, unless somebody drags you.” Staging these works also provides an outlet for all the people trained in musical theatre in this town, including grads from the local Capilano University program, as well as for child performers, of which there are a bunch in Chitty. The approach involves staging as high-quality a show as possible. That means a live orchestra and eye-popping sets and costumes. In the case of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a musical based on the beloved 1968 movie with 32 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT FEBRUARY 4 – 11 / 2016
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang launches the first two-musical season for the fast-growing Align Entertainment.
Dick Van Dyke, it also requires a particularly elaborate prop: that amazing flying car. “In the original production in London, it cost £750,000— I think it was the most expensive prop ever created for the stage,” says Matchette, who’s directing the show. “Needless to say, we’re not doing that, but it’s still pretty cool.” In fact, Matchette and company were going to build the auto from scratch, but then received a call from a company in Kelowna that had just performed the show, asking if they would be interested in using its car. “We’re just tricking it out a little bit more,” he says. The musical, which premiered in London in 2002 with a few new songs added to the old favourites from the movie, should appeal to nostalgia buffs who know all about Truly Scrumptious, Toot Sweets, and the trip to Vulgaria, as much as a new generation, Matchette believes. “There isn’t a person on the planet who doesn’t know that song,” he says, referring to the catchy title tune that plays on the sounds the old, sputtering car engine makes. “And it was unusual for its time: a single father raising his two kids and who is so involved in their lives.” Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is at Burnaby’s Michael J. Fox Theatre from Friday (February 5) to February 20.
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Left: Bartolozzi, Saints Peter and Paul, c. 1780, crayon manner engraving on paper, 31.5 x 25.0 cm, City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Harold and Linda Kalman Top Right: Susan Point, Memory, 2005, serigraph on paper, 27/77, 76.2 x 76.2 cm, City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection, Gift of the Salish Weave Collection of George and Christiane Smyth Bottom Right: Kelly Lycan, White Out (Jim Verburg Poster) (detail), 2010 and 2013, correction fluid on paper, 58.4 x 43.2 cm, City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection
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Shame and forgiveness unfolds in the kitchen Common Grace has heart, but little transformation; Leftovers gamely plays politics with guns blazing LEFTOVERS
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By Charles Demers and Marcus Youssef. Directed by Marcus Youssef. A Neworld Theatre By Shauna Johannesen. A Pacific Theatre production. At Pacific Theatre production. A Cultch and PuSh on Friday, January 29. Continues until International Performing Arts Festival presentation. At the York Theatre on February 14 Tuesday, January 26. No remaining There’s a hole in this script, performances
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where its meaning should be. In playwright Shauna Johannesen’s Common Grace, Colleen returns to her small B.C. community to attend her dad’s funeral. Colleen had an affair with a married guy named Mark, and we soon find out that she fled to Edmonton several months earlier when Mark and his wife, Abby, decided to work things out. One way or another, stories are about the struggle to learn. There are lots of variations on the theme, but, in the basic mechanics, the protagonist encounters challenges and either gains enough insight to overcome the obstacles in their way, in which case the story ends happily, or the protagonist fails to gain enough insight, and the story ends in defeat. If you think that’s reductive, consider what goes wrong in Common Grace. Basically, everybody is awful to poor, beleaguered Colleen. She makes a strong case that she was in love with Mark, but her judgmental mother Carol, her snippy sister Miriam, and the furious Abby all slut shame Colleen so busily you’d think they were auditioning for roles in a sequel to The Scarlet Letter. Colleen’s understanding of her actions doesn’t change in any significant way. She’s right at the beginning and she stays right: she followed her heart, and for good reason. The major movement that does take place occurs because the secondary characters gradually come to see the error of their ways. They forgive Colleen or they explain why her choices made them feel vulnerable. So there’s action on the periphery, but the centre is static—and that’s why Common Grace feels hollow, more of a justification than an exploration. To be fair, Colleen does change on one front: she reassesses Mark. But take a look at the guy’s behaviour. How hard is he to figure out? Within this odd vehicle, playwright Johannesen does thoroughly grounded and credible work playing Colleen. And Rebecca deBoer is mesmerizing as Abby. The Act 2 scene between these two is the best in the play. But, in that exchange, which character is the most heroic? Hint: it ain’t Colleen. DeBoer is excellent— and she has the most to play. Then again, Julie Lynn Mortensen is consistently credible as Miriam, and that character is a one-dimensional jerk. Kerri Norris goes in and out of authenticity as Carol, the mom, and Robert Gary Haacke does the same as Mark. And Cara Cunningham overacts a tad in the essentially comic role of Alanna, the youngest sister. Carl Kennedy, who can apparently do no wrong as an actor, plays Dan, a pastor and family friend. Kennedy is charming, but the character’s insistence that Colleen is somehow responsible for everybody else’s reactivity is a conceptual box canyon. Carolyn Rapanos’s kitchen set disappoints. Are those blue-andwhite squares supposed to be Danish tiles? They look like they were painted by children. There’s wit in Common Grace. And heart. There are pleasing rhythms. But too much of the responsibility is in the wrong place. > COLIN THOMAS
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his intention with Leftovers is to bring together two constituencies that barely made it out of the 20th century breathing: live theatre and the political left. And he promises that the evening is going to be kind of like a TED Talk, but “longer for sure. And way less hopeful.” Demers’s subject is the way that neoliberalism—the free-market politics of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Stephen Harper—has overwhelmed the more compassionate instincts of socialism. And he frames his analysis in a mashup of styles that combines standup comedy with personal revelations. Demers starts with his birth. Between the elections of Thatcher and Reagan, he was born on Canada Day in 1980, the son of a Québécois father and an Anglo-Canadian mother. It’s an iconic Canadian story, he says, “except we didn’t steal the delivery room from a Native family that was already using it”. As Demers works his way to the present, he keeps his guns blazing. Describing our recent Conservative prime minister, the playwright captures Harper’s personal warmth by saying that he seems to have been “birthed from an egg in some sort of irradiated crocodile nest”. At the heart of the show and its political analysis rests Demers’s relationship with his mother, Robin. Margaret Thatcher famously declared that there is no such thing as society, and Demers gives that argument its due. Then he reveals that his mom was diagnosed with leukemia when he was five, and he says that, when you have a sick parent, you find out how helpless your family is to protect you from certain things. For survival, you must depend on the society that Thatcher didn’t believe in, but which she, like Harper, set out to dismantle nonetheless. And that’s how a kid who grew up in the greedy ’80s came to understand socialism. The script and Parjad Sharifi’s design both give these ideas poetic expression. Sharifi’s set consists of three large geometric projection surfaces: a circle and two rectangles. These shapes and the angular lighting effects with which the designer embellishes them wittily reference the Soviet constructivist school of art. Sharifi also pours text and photographs over all sorts of surfaces. And, without giving too much away, let me say that some of those photographs neatly tie together the themes of politics and mother/child relations. Nonetheless, Leftovers stays stylistically marooned, just outside the realm of deeply satisfying theatricality. In its drawn-out conclusion, Leftovers descends to the level of a lecture and, throughout, the tone is more declarative than evocative, stuck in a combination of diatribe and standup. As my interest waned, I realized that I was longing for more narrative and for a storytelling style more deeply embedded in the physicality of theatre. Still, as it stands—and delivers— Leftovers is an impressive achievement. Its politics are progressive and its realization is skilled in many ways. Viva la revolución!
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JEFF LANG • FEB. 11 @ 8 PM
Leading Australian roots singer/songwriter & slide guitarist ST. JAMES HALL
Monumental makes for epic one-nighter DA N C E MONUMENTAL
NOURA MINT SEYMALI • FEB. 28 @ 8 PM
A Holy Body Tattoo production, presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, January 28
ANTÓNIO ZAMBUJO • MAR. 5 @ 8 PM
Fittingly, monumental was a that was being thrown around a lot at the crowded Queen E. last Thursday: in the title of the frantic, sense-bombarding dance work everyone had come to see; from the stage in an impassioned speech by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival artistic and executive director Norman Armour; and among still-awestruck audience members— a mix of dressed-up dance diehards and grunge-chic hipsters—in the lobby after the show. It was nothing less than a monumental effort by PuSh and the Holy Body Tattoo to stage the piece again after a long hiatus, with nine dancers, multimedia projections, and Montreal postrock geniuses Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing live—a dream 10 years in the making. As for the end result: it was as epic as the word would lead you to believe. The live presence of the eightmember band torqued up the intensity considerably, giving the show the exhilarating feel of one of Godspeed You!’s mesmerizing concerts while it offered multiple other layers: the visceral, brutally physical choreography, the hypnotic projections of rushing overpasses and wind turbines by William Morrison, and the enigmatic projected text by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. The band opened with its driving, haunting wall of sound unseen, and was eventually lit behind a scrim. The title plays on the clever central device of the piece: the fact that the dancers, for most of the work, have to convulse and twitch, recoil and explode atop white blocks. The image works on many levels as a metaphor for the dancers, who are clothed in black and white officewear and sometimes look like moving sculptures. The white pillars give the feel of a city of white skyscrapers, and on their small “islands”, the alienated working stiffs are trapped alone with their stress, unable to reach out to each other. At first, they move in almost mechanized unison, repressed and anonymous members of a crowd, the odd one spazzing out to scratch at herself or maniacally straighten her hair. Choreographers Dana Gingras and Noam Gagnon work an entire vocabulary of quotidian fidgets into a frantic tableau of torment. The piece’s best moments, of course, come when Godspeed You! builds glacierlike to its incredible crescendos, echoed by the growing intensity on-stage. When the dancers finally escape their pillars, there’s a body-slamming orgy of head-banging sexuality that’s vintage, ballsto-the-wall Holy Body Tattoo, and the music sends it into sensory overdrive. Caroline Gravel, in particular, lets loose in unforgettable, hair-flailing release, and a shout-out goes to Vancouverite Shay Kuebler for the warp-speed, tumbling freak-out that his uptight urbanite finally releases near the end of the piece. It’s cathartic and exhausting in the best possible way, made all the more relevant now that the work is being staged in a time of postrecession anxiety and permawired culture. But the sad fact is, folks, that this was a one-night wonder. Monumental will tour elsewhere in the world, including Australia’s Adelaide Festival, but chances are you won’t see the Holy Body Tattoo again, let alone with Godspeed You!. Yes, all good things must come to an end. But your urban angst is guaranteed to go on. And on. And on.
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LITTLE ONE Alley Theatre presents Hannah Moscovitch’s play about a boy who has to learn to love his new adopted sister. Feb 4-6, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $25/15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.anvilcentre.com/. CLOSER THAN EVER Director Jovanni Sy’s modern two-act musical examines the challenges and titillations of adulthood. Feb 4-20, 8-10:30 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $45/20, info www.gate waytheatre.com/closerthanever/.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS RIDING ON A CLOUD The PuSh Festival presents the story of a man who was struck in the head by a bullet in Lebanon’s civil war and survived to tell the tale. Feb 3-6, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $31-36, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/riding-on-a-cloud/. FOURPLAY Festival of one-act plays by current students and graduates features Numbers, The Train Carr, The Classroom, and Retail: The Musical. Feb 3-14, Studio 58 (Langara College, 100 W. 49th). Tix $17.25, info www.facebook.com/ events/1603681133206862/. INSIDE OUT Vancouver actor Patrick Keating presents an autobiographical work about his journey through the Canadian criminal-justice system. Feb 3-6, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG Align Entertainment Inc. presents an all-ages Broadway-style musical based on the 1968 film. Feb 5-20, Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 MacPherson Ave.). Tix $37.50/25/15, info www.alignentertainment.ca/. THE UNFORTUNATE RUTH The Vancouver Fringe Festival presents a play about identical twins who share an undeniable psychic connection. Feb 5-7, 8-9:10 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25, info www.van couverfringe.com/fringe-presents/. LITTLE ONE Alley Theatre presents Hannah Moscovitch’s suspenseful psychodrama a boy who has to learn to love his new adopted sister. Feb 9-13, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/. PATRICE BALBINA’S CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH THE END OF THE WORLD Play about a girl who notices that the small things are starting to disappear. Feb 11-14, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $15, info www.phtheatre.org/show/ patrice-balbinas-chance-encounter-withthe-end-of-the-world/. BIGMOUTH Valentijn Dhaenens weaves together seminal speeches from everyone from the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Muhammad Ali and Osama Bin Laden, paying tribute to 2,500 years of oration. Presented by SKaGeN and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd. Feb 11-21, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/events/bigmouth/. SLIPPAGE Six Vancouver actors perform monologues that explore the line between love and madness. Accompanied by the
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which two actors continuously perform one scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for two hours. To Feb 6, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $22-27, info www.push festival.ca/shows/festival-2016/eternal/.
of original music that showcases the harp in unconventional, innovative ways. Feb 5, 7:30 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $15, info www.elisathorn.com/.
CENTURY SONG The PuSh Festival and the Cultch present Volcano Theatre’s musical and visual chronicle of over 100 years of women-centric history. To Feb 6, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $19, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/century-song/.
THE SOUL OF TANGO Jeff Tyzik conducts Tango Caliente and the VSO in a concert of Latin American music by composers like Piazzolla. Feb 5-6, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604-876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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TWISTED SISTERS Okay, we admit it’s a bit of a warped premise: The Unfortunate Ruth is the story of Ruth and Ruthie, two identical twins who live in parallel universes. One has buck teeth and thick glasses, but she has selfesteem; the other, more surgically enhanced than Cher, has none. They have a psychic link, though, and the surrealness of it all is heightened by in-womb scenes courtesy of the shadow-puppet masters at Mind of a Snail. Physicalcomedy expert Tara Travis is fascinating to watch as she flits between the two characters. The Fringe 2014 fave returns to Studio 1398 from Friday to Sunday (Febraury 5 to 7).
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music of Beth Southwell. Feb 11-12, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $25-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
COMPANY United Players presents director Brian Parkinson’s version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical about a confirmed bachelor who weighs the pros and cons of marriage. To Feb 14, 8-10 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $30-35, info www.unitedplayers.com/. PRIDE & PREJUDICE The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Sarah Rodgers’s version of Janet Munsil’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. To Feb 28, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info 604-6871644, www.artsclub.com/.
2ONGOING BOOM Rick Miller explores 25 years of baby-boom history through music and video. Presented by the PuSh Festival with the Arts Club Theatre Company. To Feb 13, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/boom/. OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS Metro Theatre presents a play about a man whose family tries to keep him from relocating. To Feb 6, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 SW Marine). Tix $24/21, info www.metrotheatre.com/. EURYDICE Theatre UBC presents Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary American retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. To Feb 6, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $11.50-24.50, info archive. theatre.ubc.ca/Eurydice/.
COMMON GRACE Ron Reed directs a provocative family drama that tells the story of a woman who returns home for her father’s funeral. To Feb 14, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacifictheatre.org/ season/2015-2016-season-3/mainstage/ common-grace/. HUFF The PuSh Festival and the Firehall Arts Centre present Cree playwrightperformer Cliff Cardinal’s story of survival. To Feb 6, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info pushfestival. ca/shows/festival-2016/huff-2/. ETERNAL The PuSh Festival and the Western Front present a production in
RELATIVE COLLIDER The PuSh Festival and the Dance Centre present France’s Liz Santoro/Le principe d’incertitude in a performance inspired by physics, numerical structure, and language. Feb 4-6, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $36, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/ festival-2016/relative-collider/. DANCELAB STUDIO SHOWING: COMPANY 605 Company 605 gives an informal studio showing of work developed during the Dance Centre’s DanceLab interdisciplinary research program. Feb 10, 5 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Free admission, info www.thedancecentre.ca/.
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MULAN The Red Poppy Ladies Percussion Group presents a percussion musical. Feb 6, 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). The event also runs Feb 8, 8 pm, at the River Rock Show Theatre. Tix $128/88/68/48 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info 604-221-6128. THE MOZART EXPERIENCE Gordon Gerrard conducts Magic Circle Mime, bassoonist Julia Lockhart, baritone Scott Brooks, and the VSO in a kidfriendly exploration of the life and music of Mozart. Feb 7, 2 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604-876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/. SIR ANDRAS SCHIFF The Vancouver Recital Society presents British pianist in a performance of the last sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Feb 7, 3 pm; Feb 9, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Info 604-6020363, www.vanrecital.com/.
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2THIS WEEK THE MASSACRE The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an improv festival featuring local groups as well as teams from India and the U.S. To Feb 14, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl. com/show/the-massacre/. SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR Standupcomedy tour features performances
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STUDIO SATURDAY Before the Eastside Culture Crawl became a four-day, multi-block-spanning arts extravaganza, it was a much more intimate—though no less inspiring— affair, with only 45 artists showcasing works across three ateliers. Local assemblage artist Valerie Arntzen’s First Saturday Open Studios seems reminiscent of those days, offering the public a monthly glimpse into the workspaces of almost 50 artists in Vancouver, North Vancouver, and New Westminster. February’s event takes place this Saturday (February 6) from noon to 5 p.m., when you can stop by the studios of creatives like contemporary printmaker Kari Kristensen, painter Ray Ophoff, and fashion designer Kjaer Neletia Pederson to learn more about their art, techniques, and inventive processes. For more information, including studio addresses, visit www.firstsaturday.weebly.com/. by Dan Quinn, Craig Campbell, Paul Myrehaug, and Pete Zedlacher. Feb 6, 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35, info www.snowedincomedytour.com/.
IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY: CUPID’S REVENGE The Fictionals present a Valentine’s Day-themed edition of its improv-comedy show based on cult-hit game Cards Against Humanity. Feb 10, 8-10:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.thefictionals.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS JFL NORTHWEST The inaugural edition of this comedy festival presents performances by headlining talent Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, Lewis Black, Miranda Sings, Jeremy Hotz, Janeane Garofalo, David
Cross, Ron Funches, Todd Barry, Kyle Kinane, Hasan Minhaj, Nick Thune, This Is That Live, Hari Kondabolu, and the Nasty Show With Bobby Slayton, Big Jay Oakerson, and Kurt Metzger. Feb 18-27, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www. jflnorthwest.com/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK HUMAN LIBRARY The PuSh Festival and Zee Zee Theatre present conversations with human books on topics like “Drag King” and “In Recovery”. To Feb 7, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/festival-2016/ human-library-4/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Event expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genrebending, multidisciplinary, and original. To Feb 7, various Vancouver venues. Info www.pushfestival.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE (exhibition offers an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century) Feb 20–Jun 12
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-8225087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2(IN) VISIBLE: THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF TAIWAN THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART (works by seven contemporary Taiwanese artists who explore the coexistence of modernity and tradition while showcasing the significance of the spiritual world of Taiwan) to Apr 3
MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museum ofvancouver.ca/. 2YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER (major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real-estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about how we might design the cityscapes of the future) to May 15, 10 am
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK ADAM SANDLER & FRIENDS American comic is joined by fellow comedians David Spade, Norm Macdonald, and Rob Schneider. Feb 9, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Paramount Theatre (911 Pine St., Seattle, Wash.). Tix at www.stgpresents.org/.
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When one-man accordion army Geoff BY MIKE US IN G ER
Berner picks up the phone on a Megabus making its way across Ontario, he jokes that he’s gotten used to hating people. That’s not entirely true, however. It might be more accurate to say that the prolific klezmer-punk musician and occasional author has cultivated a healthy dislike for people who aren’t exactly making the world a better place. Based on what we hear on the Vancouverite’s latest full-length, We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians, that list includes Lotusland real-estate developers (“Condos”), whoever turned Hanukkah into an all-purpose alternative to Christmas (“When Chanukah Comes to Town”), and former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper (“Dance and Celebrate”). Believe it or not, taking shots at targets that deserve it can lead to some blowback, especially when you live in Happy Planetville.
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Geoff Berner’s trek through the Black Forest was going fine until he realized that his trail of bread crumbs was being devoured by ravenous squirrels.
that Vancouver is on track to becoming unaffordable to all but the global rich. And it’s a tesGeoff Berner fights the good fight, even when he tament to Berner’s devofinds himself at odds with Vancouver’s politics tion to fighting the good “I think that, on the West Coast especially, there’s fight that he perseveres, even if it sometimes a cultural thing where you’re not supposed to feel seems unwinnable. That makes the title of the anger or jealousy or any of the so-called negative German-folktale-inspired We Are Going to Breemotions,” says Berner, who’s touring Ontario men to Be Musicians important. and Quebec by Megabus because it’s cheaper than “I don’t know if you’re familiar with the story, but Greyhound. “This is a big hippie-yoga sort of thing it’s very odd,” says Berner, who also released the 2015 that we have on the West Coast, where if you’re at book We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians, also a dinner party and somebody voices an opinion, inspired by the tale. “It’s about these aging animals you’re only really allowed to be collaborative. You who are slated to be killed by their owners. As an alcan say ‘Yeah, and here’s another reason…’ but you ternative, they decide that they are going to run away can’t say ‘I disagree with that.’ If you feel hate, or and become professional musicians in Bremen. The resentment, then you’re obviously the bad guy.” general message seems to be that it’s better to have a If anger fuels Berner’s art, so does humour. Black stupid plan than just lie down and die.” as they might look on paper, lines like “Let’s dance If the title resonates with the singer, it’s beand celebrate the misfortunes of people we hate” in cause he’s learned over the past couple of years the Gypsy-lounge swinger “Dance and Celebrate” that giving up isn’t an option, even though it are funny, no easy feat considering they invoke the might be appealing. And there were times when likes of Joseph Stalin, Harper, and Ariel Sharon. giving up was on his mind. “Condos” has Berner—backed by midnight-inRaised in Kerrisdale by a lawyer father and a the-taverna accordion—starting out with, “My city mom who went from teaching into real estate, has been in a housing crisis for 15 years or more/ Berner found himself pulled hard to the left in Middle-class families can’t afford to live here,” after his youth, having his mind blown by iconic folkie which he rightly suggests that the local ecodensity- Billy Bragg. Although his upbringing was upper driven condo explosion has done sweet fuck-all to middle class, his parents were more than suppordrive down rents or make homes more affordable. tive of his decision to champion the underdog. The full-bore “Thank You, No Thank You”, “My dad a couple of times came home from meanwhile, takes dead aim at zealots of all stripes, the office and said, ‘Don’t be a lawyer. Do somewith Berner placing himself at a party where he thing fun.’ They were very supportive. They knows he doesn’t belong, eyeing a gaggle of assholes didn’t even like a lot of the stuff that I did, but while noting to himself, “You are lingering by the they were supportive anyway.” cheese dip, so depressed you want to weep.” Their deaths, in 2013 and 2014, were hard on That sense of being an outsider is something the songwriter. Berner has had a lifetime to get used to. “Mostly, I would go on automatic pilot—get the “I’ve never fit in in Vancouver, although I was things done that had to be done,” Berner reports. born there,” he says. “And the more Ontario “But I’ve got four kids, so there was stuff that had people who move to Vancouver to reinvent them- to happen, and I kept doing it. Looking back on selves as West Coasters, the less I fit in.” it, I’m amazed that I didn’t just stop functioning. That might be because, in some ways, Ber- I don’t know why that was.” ner is a throwback to a different era. Although Having a daughter, who is now two, helped. you’d never know it today, the Left Coast was “She was definitely the first good thing that once a magnet for activists and radicals, rather happened that year,” Berner reveals. “One of the than snowboarders and real-estate speculators. A only good things.” tradition that started with Greenpeace in the ’70s He also realized that when things get dark, would continue through to the ’80s, when tens of sometimes the best way to pull yourself out is to thousands of Vancouverites regularly took to the show you get the grand joke that is life. streets in anti-nuke protests. Today, the closest we “I just kept working, and that helped,” he says. seem to get to mass protests is 4/20 pot rallies and “For some people, that helps—there’s no one way folks bitching about yoga on the Burrard Bridge. to go with this stuff.” We’re in a period when no one seems to care The reason to keep going is that someone has
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Wet—and, apparently, two-thirds less moist—Massachusettsvia-Brooklyn indie trio Wet seems like one of those Next Big Thing propositions. The group specializes in downtempo heartbreak pop, as exemplified by the tear-jerking likes of “Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl”. Wet already has some famous fans (not that the Khloé Kardashian seal of approval is a mark of honour), which means the three-piece’s Vancouver show next Wednesday (February 10) could be your last chance to catch it at a small venue like the Biltmore. -
Geoff Berner plays We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians album-release shows at LanaLou’s on February 19 and 20.
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Geoff Berner sounds off on the things enquiring minds want to know.
On touring as a dad: “I’ve been raising kids since I was in my 20s. My eldest is 24, my youngest is two, so kids have been a fact of life for me as a touring guy. I try not to stay out too long. It’s a long-distance-runner kind of career. I don’t ever go, ‘Okay, the iron is hot, so let’s get out there for three months and really push this thing.’ ” On modern artists: “It’s happening all over the world where a lot of people who get to make a living have some sort of upper-middle-class background. I’m one of those people. When things were totally terrible and I was broke, I could call up Mom and Dad and say, ‘I’m in trouble.’ ” On going left: “Music—folk music and punkfolk and punk rock—changed everything. I got somebody to lend me a Billy Bragg tape and I never gave it back. Once I started looking at the world with Billy Bragg glasses, I couldn’t take them off.” On Kerrisdale: “I didn’t miss any meals, but Kerrisdale in the ’80s wasn’t a bridge out of sight like it is now. There were still teachers and policemen who lived there.”
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to continue fighting the fight. One doesn’t have to look too far to learn that injustice is everywhere. “I used to come back to Canada from places like Scandinavia and say, ‘Look at this model of how to deliver social justice,’ ” Berner says. “ ‘Look at the Scandinavian countries, with their $25 minimum wage and their free universities—they own their oil companies.’ Now they are kicking the living hell out of refugees that arrive. So, you know, the battle keeps going on. But that at least gives meaning to your efforts—to make you realize that you’ve got to try.” And the reason one has to try is that occasionally things actually work out. “The animals in the folktale do end up finding a place to live and prosper, even though they never make it to Bremen,” Berner says. “So it turns out that, even if the plan was a stupid one, it was better than despair.” -
DUMP TRUMP While Adele’s camp has asked Donald Trump to stop using her songs at his rallies, Azealia Banks has endorsed him—sort of. Noting that the U.S. is already hopelessly fucked, Banks tweeted, “We may as well put a piece of shit in the White House.” FAR BEYOND STUPID Singer Phil Anselmo angered many in the metal scene by giving a Nazi salute and shouting “White power!” on-stage at a tribute to fallen Pantera bandmate Dimebag Darrell. Talk about a vulgar display of assholery. BITTER DREAMS Former Marilyn Manson keyboardist
Madonna Wayne Gacy suggested on Facebook that Marilyn Manson should kill himself with a “bullet in his head”. A selfrespecting Pogo the Clown fan would do the job himself and then bury the body in the crawlspace.
Fresh and local WE FOUND A LOVEBIRD LOBBY Congratulations— you’ve not only survived January, but come through ready to finally live again. Take a big step to brighter days by embracing We Found a Lovebird, which has the most adorable band name we’ve heard in Vancouver since, well, ever. The quartet’s delectably dreamy Lobby starts off with “Mess We Call the West”, a paisley-fuzzed beauty made for sunny donothing Sundays. Subsequent highlights have “Nowhere to Go” delivering a crunchy stab at old new wave and “Impending Doom” offering a ghostly take on full-moon-fever classic rock. Lobby winds down with “Spaceship”, a languid-guitar beauty perfect for—you guessed it—chilling on do-nothing Sundays. -
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Marsalis aims to make music with meaning “Busy” doesn’t begin to describe I’m saying. I’m saying that if a song is really good, you can figure out what it When the Georgia Straight reaches means simply from the melody.’” the versatile saxophonist at home in This straightforward approach is Raleigh, North Carolina, he’s just re- likely what makes the Branford Marturned from a European tour, and salis Quartet’s most recent studio he’s already packing his bags for the recording, 2012’s Four MFs Playin’ West Coast jaunt that will bring him Tunes, both formally inventive and to Vancouver next week. Sensibly, he’s emotionally gratifying. As the title timed his visit home to coincide with rather playfully suggests, Marsalis, his wife’s birthday, but when we speak pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric he’s also making a pit stop at his haber- Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner dasher’s and studying a “ridiculously have an almost frightening level of difficult” orchestral score by com- technical mastery. But they’re also deposer Gabriel Prokofiev, which he’ll voted to writing and sourcing music premiere with Florida’s Naples Phil- that means something, that isn’t just a harmonic this March. container for their virtuosity. “Yeah, I’m multitasking,” Marsalis “When you’re playing music, you says with a laugh. have to distill things down to one basic This doesn’t keep him from spend- narrative,” Marsalis says. “And that’s ing a generous 40 minutes in conversa- when complex issues or complex aption with us, covering everything from proaches can be understood—not performing John Coltrane’s epochal A necessarily intellectually understood, Love Supreme (“It’s more like Mahler but emotionally understood and felt by than it is anything else”) to the perils audiences. So what we’re doing is simof being a frequent flyer (he’s at his ple: we’re just playing tunes, and we try tailor’s to get a coat repaired that was to come to a basic agreement as to what damaged in transit). the emotional tenor of the song is, and What we walk away with, though, then we try to play that emotion.” Such clarity is occasionally hardis the feeling that it’s a damned shame no one recorded the dinner-table con- won. “We’re battlers,” the 55-year-old versations at the Marsalis home when bandleader says. “We just did a record musical siblings Branford, Wynton, with [singer] Kurt Elling, and I think Jason, Delfeayo, and Ellis III were the thing that surprised him—I ain’t growing up. Family patriarch and speaking for him, but just based on piano master Ellis Marsalis, Jr. wasn’t his reaction—was how much, when shy about offering opinions, but he we’re putting a song together, we’re didn’t attempt to suppress his kids, in each other’s grills, arguing. Not either—and his eldest son differs from necessarily shouting, but arguing for dad in at least one important respect. our point, for what we believe is the “The old generation always said you best thing—although I have the veto need to know the lyrics to understand power over everybody.” Listeners can expect more teamwork the songs,” Marsalis says, when asked about interpretation in jazz. “And my than tussling when Marsalis and his argument is ‘Well, hell, that just in- band come to town, but their concert validates 800 years of classical music!’ will not lack for passionate intensity. > ALEXANDER VARTY You know, Bach writes The Goldberg Variations, and it has no emotional content because it has no lyrics? Dad The Branford Marsalis Quartet plays would say ‘Well, no, that’s not what I’m the Chan Centre for the Performing saying!’ And I’d say ‘Well, that is what Arts on February 13.
2 Branford Marsalis’s hectic life.
This is what Branford Marsalis puts on when he goes grocery shopping.
Propagandhi’s punks still driven by a world gone mad For 30 years, Winnipeg’s lead-
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Propagandhi, has been sounding off on social change as loudly as it can. From the band’s 1993 rallying cry, How to Clean Everything, which includes such controversial jams as “Haillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass”, to its later years spent fundraising for human-rights nonprofits, the band has stuck to its militantly political guns. Last September, Propagandhi recruited second guitarist Sulynn Hago for its current tour, and even this was a conscious move toward the punks’ progressive ideals. “We’ve played four shows with Sulynn so far, and it’s been going great,” says Todd Kowalski. Propagandhi’s bassist and one of its key songwriters for almost 20 years is talking to the Straight on the phone from home. “She rocks so hard that crowds have been responding extremely favourably. We knew that if we thought
she was awesome, then everyone else would too. She has so much life to the way that she plays.” Speaking of the “Guitarist: Wanted” job listing that Propagandhi posted on its website last June, which stated that women were strongly encouraged to apply, Kowalski explains: “One reason that we used the Internet was ’cause we had a better chance of taking on a female guitarist that way. Women still face so much sexism, so we wanted to give women a fair shot. We didn’t want our unit to be this travelling boys’ club. We went through all 400 responses, and we’re lucky that it kind of went perfectly.” It’s obvious why Propagandhi, whose ranks include frontman Chris Hannah, drummer Jord Samolesky, and lead guitarist David Guillas, received so many applicants. Who wouldn’t want to join their favourite band and travel the country melting faces, while spreading messages of peace and anticorruption across the land? Propagandhi’s legacy is vast, but the group’s road to Canadian punk prestige was, of course, not easy. “In Winnipeg back in the day, every now and then you got cornered by Christian hardcore kids, and suddenly you’d find yourself in these harebrained conversations, wondering how you can slip out the door,” says the bassist, whose lyrics, along with Hannah’s, have tackled political and social injustice of all kinds, from religious hypocrisy to homophobia to the meat industry’s animal-rights abuses. As a result, Propagandhi has faced its fair share of opposition over the years. “These days, some band will try to be ‘edgy’ by attempting to offend us, and you have to say, come on, you’re not one-millionth as fucking edgy as my dad. You think I haven’t heard this every day for 40 years, you dumb piece of shit? Oh wow, you really eat
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bacon. McDonald’s and Burger King are so rebellious!” Kowalski just laughs it off and adds, “The world inspires us in good and bad ways.” Denouncing cookie-cutter clichés and lack of integrity, the veteran criticizes figures like Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen as privileged rock stars who rake in profits while claiming to represent the working class. “It’s all so corny and irritating,” he says. “We’re on this reoccurring path of the world going crazy and us trying to understand it. I just can’t understand how people don’t care enough about animals to stop eating them, or how people can see droves of mothers and children who’ve just had their world bombed and react negatively towards them. I don’t understand a world where people cannot see through Donald Trump or where Canada sells arms to Saudi Arabia.” Channelling this frustration into more passionate punk anthems, the five-piece is currently working on the follow-up to its sixth record, Failed States. Released in 2012, that album showed Propagandhi’s growing lyrical maturity and increasingly intricate musicianship. This time around, with Hago joining the creative process, the band is hoping that its long-anticipated seventh record will be ready for liftoff by October. “A song doesn’t exist until your brain sitting there in thin air makes it happen,” Kowalski says. “Every human on Earth is sitting with a blank page in front of them, and it’s always a challenge to get your mind to navigate from nothingness into somethingness. But from doing it for 30 years, we know that somehow it is still possible. And right now, I feel like we’re in the best place we’ve ever been.” > VIVIAN PENCZ
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED MOONAGE DAYDREAM Vancouverbased David Bowie tribute band, with Rock'n'Roll Circus and Runnin' Down a Dream. Feb 12, 9 pm, Fairview Pub (898 W. Broadway). Tix $10, info www.imu productions.com/. EHM SKY PATROL ALBUM RELEASE Local saloon-funk band plays a release party for debut album Songs for Adults, with guests the Great Speckled Fritillary and Anni M Fables. Feb 13, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10, info www.goskypatrol.com/. CÒIG The Rogue Folk Club presents Cape Breton traditional-folk band. Feb 13, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16021320/.
VALDY AND GARY FJELLGAARD Canadian folk artists coheadline. Feb 21, 7:30 pm, Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Tix $35/30/15, info www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/ event/valdy-and-gary-fjellgaard/. THE BUMPER JACKSONS The Rogue Folk Club presents American traditionalfolk ensemble. Feb 25, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16022520/. TRASH TALK American hardcore-punk band performs with Cherchez and Kash Honey. Feb 25, 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. EILEN JEWEL The Rogue Folk Club presents American alt-country singersongwriter touring in support of latest release Sundown Over Ghost Town. Feb 26, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16022620/. SAM OUTLAW Los Angeles country singer-songwriter tours in support of debut release Angeleno, with guest Whitney Rose. Feb 27, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. SOAK. Irish soul-folk singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream. Mar 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, $17.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MODIFIED GHOST FESTIVAL 2016 Metal music by Suffocation, Cattle Decapitation, Dead Cross, Toxic Holocaust, Intronaut, Archspire, and Scale the Summit. Apr 9, 5 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $40, info www.facebook.com/events/1503474243294594/.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: VALENTINE'S DAY Latin-inspired band Mazacote performs at a fundraising concert for Canadian Blood Services. Feb 14-15, 6:45 pm–2 am, Studio Records (919 Granville). Tix $28.50-95, info www.face book.com/events/1214739545221741/.
SANTIGOLD American singer-songwriter and rapper performs on her We Buy Gold Tour. Apr 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, $34.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
LIARS AND LIONS Vancouver rock-metal band performs with the Thick of It and Elysian Sun. Feb 20, doors 7 pm, Venue
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 Toronto noise-rock duo performs with guests Eagles of Death Metal and Turbowolf.
Apr 26, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
AIDAN KNIGHT Victoria folk-rock singersongwriter torus in support of latest release Each Other. Apr 29, doors 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, from $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. LUCIUS American pop band tours in support of upcoming release Good Grief. May 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. BUZZCOCKS U.K. punk band tours in celebration of 40th anniversary, with guests Residuels. May 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Feb 5, 12 pm, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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ISLANDS Canadian indie-rock band tours in support of new release Taste. Jun 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JOHN PRINE American country-folk songwriting legend (“Illegal Smile”, “Sam Stone”). Jul 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $99.50/79.50 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/.
2THIS WEEK MODERN SPACE Toronto five-piece indie band tours in support of yet-to-be-titled debut album, with guests Derrival. Feb 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $12.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Welsh experimental-rock band, with guests Dead Meadow. Feb 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25 (plus
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Seymour). Tix $35/25/20, info www.vancouver guitar.org/.
DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN: THE TOUR Indie-pop dance party music inspired by Phantogram, CHVRCHES, Miike Snow, Haim, Charli XCX, Empire of the Sun, and Purity Ring. Feb 4, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/.
ALEX CUBA Latin Grammy and Juno award-winning singer- songwriter. Feb 6, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Info www.kaymeekcentre. com/on_stage/2132/.
BAIO American electronica musician tours in support of debut solo release The Names. Feb 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. YUKON BLONDE Canadian indie-rock band tours in support of latest release On Blonde. Feb 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. PROPAGANDHI Winnipeg punk band, with guests After the Fall and Slip Ons. Feb 5-6, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Feb 5 show SOLD OUT. Tix for Feb 6 show $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. OLD MAN LUEDECKE The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player touring in support of latest album Domestic Eccentric. Feb 5, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16020520/. LOSCO Belgian lo-fi group, with Syre, James Deen, LeChance, and Cherchez. Feb 5, 10 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/.
SKULL SKATES JAPAN PARTY Skate jam features music by the Jolts, Making Strangers, DJ Rodzilla, and DJ Oh-No. Feb 6, 8 pm, SBC Restaurant (109 E. Hastings). Tix $8, info www.skullskates.com/. YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Taiko-drumming company presents athletically charged, big-budget spectacle that showcases their remarkable strength, skill, and unmistakable sound. Feb 6, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $25-90, info www.showoneproductions.ca/. RICH HOPE & HIS EVIL DOERS Local blues-rock band. Feb 6, 10-11:30 pm, Marpole Curling Club (8730 Heather). Admission by donation, info www.face book.com/events/108595099523783/. THE TOASTERS New York City ska band performs with Los Furios and LeBourdais Band. Feb 7, 7:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.rick shawtheatre.com/. MARK HUMMEL'S HARMONICA BLOWOUT 25TH ANNIVERSARY The Canadian Pacific Blues Society presents performances by harmonica greats Little Charlie Baty, Curtis Salgado, Aki Kumar, Big Jon Atkinson, Anson Funderburgh, R.W. Grigsby, and Wes Starr. Feb 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix at Neptoon, Zulu, Red Cat, Highlife, Beat Merchant, and www.riotheatre.ca/.
DR. DOG Psych-rock sextet from Pennsylvania. Feb 6, 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charge) at www.bplive.ca/.
TRIVIUM American heavy-metal band tours in support of latest release Silence in the Snow. Feb 8, 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $23 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/, info www.bplive.ca/ events/trivium/.
ACT OF DEFIANCE American metal group, with guests Hellchamber. Feb 6, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Note: moved from original venue of Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $15, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
HOT JAZZ JAM: MARDI GRAS EDITION Vancouver jazz band Fourth Avenue Five performs New Orleans-inspired hot jazz. Feb 9, 9:30 pm, The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $12 at door, info www.facebook.com/ events/562775077231505/.
CELSO MACHADO Brazilian guitarist, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. Feb 6, 7-9 pm, Pyatt Hall (843
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MOVIES REVIEWS THE LADY IN THE VAN Starring Maggie Smith. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 47
English writer Alan Bennett was already con-
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when he bought a small, detached home in North London’s Camden Town. He had no way of knowing that the place would come with its very own built-in terror: a cranky homeless woman with her hideous van parked permanently in his forecourt. For a long 15 years, she added an odoriferous nightmare to his day job, yielding little to his efforts to, at first, ignore her and, later, comprehend her through his writing. Bennett himself wrote the screenplay for this latest adaptation of what started as a personal memoir—a 13,000-word essay in the London Review of Books. Since then, it has been rewritten and turned into a play, and it now stars Maggie Smith as Mary Shepherd, the former nun, ambulance driver, and concert pianist who complicated Bennett’s already busy life. Smartly directed by frequent Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), The Lady in the Van also stars theatre veteran Alex Jennings as not one but two Bennetts—both the man coping with this slowmotion home invasion and the writer contemplating how to deal with it. That idea looks worse on paper than it turns out to be, although there are a
Maggie gets stuck right in
Mary Shepherd (Maggie Smith) spent 15 years refusing to leave playwright Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) front yard, a tale retold in The Lady in the Van.
tied youngish men who rise above fear to throw their considerable marine skills into finding the Pendleton and keeping it afloat long enough to be rescued, respectively. A British screen great whoops it up in The Lady in the Van; This is corny, old-fashThe Finest Hours puts Chris Pine back in the captain’s seat ioned adventure stuff, down few trailer-aimed moments and flashbacks, plus a to the hero being so diffident that he seems overblackmailer from the past (played by Jim Broad- whelmed by his future bride (Holliday Grainger, dazzling as Miriam Webber). Then again, it’s bent) the movie could have lived without. More than anything, it’s another great role for the January. And corn is delicious. > RON YAMAUCHI Duchess, and a fascinating study of how we make lemonade with the sour fruit life leaves in our yards. > KEN EISNER THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS (LIVE-ACTION) THE FINEST HOURS In English, German, Albanian, and Pashtun, with Starring Chris Pine. Rated G. For showtimes, please see page 47
English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 47
As much as he’d probably enjoy cutting loose with a demented freak show like the one he provided Joe Carnahan in Smokin’ Aces, Chris Pine finds his niche here as a sweaty, determined ship captain who prevails against all odds, especially when underestimated by a character played by Eric Bana. Warming us up for his return this summer in Star Trek Beyond, Pine plays a far more subdued and awkward hero in this dramatization of the SS Pendleton rescue of 1952. A tiny coast guard cutter, led by Boatswain’s Mate Third Class Bernie Webber, went out in impossible seas to help an oil freighter that a gale had cracked in half. Certain death awaited all in the stormy seas of Cape Cod in the winter. Given that Disney did not call this movie The Tragic Hours, the conclusion is perhaps not as interesting as the presentation. The Pendleton set is huge. The storm and weather effects are convincing and the necessary computer-graphics assistance is not terrible, but acting is what sells the desperation. Pine and Casey Affleck play similar types, tongue-
This year’s batch of live-action shorts adds up to 103 mostly grim minutes, with only two out of five films not super-dark fare—and even those are pretty melancholy. The two harshest stories were made by Americans who found themselves in Kosovo and Afghanistan in wartime. Set during the Serbian atrocities of 1998 and today, Jamie Donoughue’s 21-minute “Shok” follows a young survivor looking back on a tragic childhood. Henry Hughes’s slightly longer “Day One” is a more conventional, almost TV-like study of an Afghan-American interpreter whose mettle is tested on her first mission. (Apparently, it’s being spun into a full-length feature.) Patrick Volrath’s 30-minute “Everything Will Be Okay”, a German/Austrian production, is the acting centrepiece here. The whole time is spent with Austrian TV veteran Simon Schwarz as a newly divorced dad who picks up his young daughter (played by an even more astonishing Julia Pointner), who quickly realizes that this won’t be a typical weekend visit.
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SPARK FX Key members of Industrial Light & Magic’s Vancouver team reveal which bits of a galaxy far, far away were actually created in Gastown at this year’s Spark FX symposium and career fair, at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (February 6). Two other presentations indicate what kind of year it’s been in the FX industry: Oscar nominee Paul Norris explains how his team made the world’s sexiest robot for Ex Machina, while compositing supervisor Lindsay Adams walks attendees through the toxic-storm sequence from Mad Max: Fury Road. More info is at www.sparkfx.ca/. -
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THE OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 47
To fill out the program of cartoon shorts,
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we have only seen the Oscar-nominated quintet below. They’re all strong. The shortest, Richard Williams’s “Prologue”, is the most gruesome, an entirely hand-drawn depiction of primitive combat as witnessed by a young girl who turns into Käthe Kollwitz’s famous self-portrait at the end. Human brutality is more elegantly represented by Chilean Gabriel Osorio, whose beautifully rendered “Bear Story” uses the tale of an escaped circus animal to depict the aftermath of fascism. Pixar goes wonderfully multicultural in the seven-minute “Sanjay’s Super Team”, which finds a superhero-loving Indo-American boy discovering common ground with his immigrant father when Hindu deities come to colourful life. The two most fascinating are the longest and literally the most out-there. “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos”, from Russia’s Konstantin Bronzit, see page 47
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OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE The Cinematheque screens Jacques Rivette’s newly restored, slightly demented 13-hour opus over seven nights starting Friday (February 5), just a week after the new wave master’s death in late January.
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SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY Director Mary Dore’s rousing overview of the late-’60s women’s movement in the U.S. receives a Rated for Youth screening for you and your riot-daughter at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (February 7).
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HELENO Celebrating the announcement of Brazil as this year’s guest country, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival brings 2011’s acclaimed Heleno de Freitas biopic back to the Cinematheque on Tuesday (February 9)..
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The program’s shortest offerings (under 15 minutes each) leaven their tricky situations with much-needed humour. Basil Khalil’s “Ave Maria” finds a family from a dubious Israeli settlement having an automotive mishap outside a convent in the West Bank. Once again, religious rituals ensure that problem-solving is difficult for everyone involved. And in the standout “Stutterer”, young Shakespearean actor Matthew Needham plays a handsome London typographer with a love of language and an eloquent inner voice defeated in real life. When his online squeeze threatens to show up in person, his world is disrupted, making writer-director Benjamin Cleary the filmmaker to watch in this program.
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PAUL À QUÉBEC Praise has been heaped on actor Gilbert Sicotte for his performance as a family patriarch succumbing to pancreatic cancer in director François Bouvier’s warm audience favourite, which opens the 22nd Rendez-vous French Film Festival at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) on Thursday (February 4). It screens again at Auditorium Jules-Verne (5445 Baillie Street) on Sunday (February 7). For the full 11-day schedule, which includes Le coeur de Madame Sabali (“A quirky treat on many levels”—Ken Eisner), visit www.rendez-vousvancouver.com/. FEBRUARY 4 – 11 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 45
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Feb 24 2BOWIE TRIBUTE NIGHT Feb 26 2BONGZILLA & BLACK COBRA Mar 4 2REVEREND HORTON HEAT Mar 10 2DEAD ASYUM AND SAINTS OF DEATH Mar 11 2THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Mar 20 2GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Mar 24 2WEEDEATER Mar 28 2MODIFIED GHOST FESTIVAL 2016 Apr 9 2DUNCAN TRUSSELL STAND UP COMEDY BUS TOUR Apr 27 2KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS May 7 2LUCA TURILLI'S RHASPODY AND PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2BUZZCOCKS May 21 2KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD May 28
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with guest Kelsey Lu. Feb 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
BLUEBIRD NORTH: WHERE WRITERS SING & TELL Shari Ulrich hosts performances by David King, Lynn Miles, and Shaun Verreault. Feb 10, 7:30-10 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $18/15, info www.songwriters.ca/.
RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2THE NYLONS Apr 9
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SHOW OF HEARTS Variety—the Children's Charity presents its annual fundraising telethon, featuring live performances by 54-40, Charlie, Aaron Pritchett, Five Alarm Funk, Sophie Simmons, Vancouver TheatreSports League, and Sarah McLachlan School of Music (Sat, 7-11 pm); and Jim Byrnes, Chilliwack, Colleen Rennison, Shari Ulrich, Barney Bentall, and Dustin Bentall (Sun, 2:30-5:30 pm). Feb 13, 7-11 pm; Feb. 14, 2:30-5:30 pm, The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts (777 Homer). Tix at www. variety50.eventbrite.ca/, info www.variety. bc.ca/events/_entry/Telethon. GET TOGETHER Fourth annual event features music by trance artist Armin Van Buuren, along with Sander Van Doorn, Will Sparks, Sunnery James Ryan Marciano, and Union DJ's. Feb 13, 7 pm, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix $88.50-108.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketleader.ca/. BOOKER T. JONES The Victoria BC Ska Society presents American R&B multi-instrumentalist touring in support of latest release Sound the Alarm, with Jesse Roper and Vancouver R&B/funk ensemble Mud Funk, featuring Tonye Aganaba. Feb 13, 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Red Cat, Beat Street Records, and www.ticketfly. com/, info victoriaskafest.ca/. MONSTER TRUCK As part of the Straight Series, Canadian rock band tours in support of upcoming album Sittin' Heavy, with guests the Temperance Movement. Feb 25, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CELTICFEST VANCOUVER Twelfth annual festival of Celtic culture features performances by Damien Dempsey, the Irish Rovers, Halifax Wharf Rats, Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir, Michael Viens and Blackthorn, Pat Chessell, Mary Brunner, Mairi Rankin, the Fight Outside, Shot of Scotch, Sarah Ann Chisholm, the Clanns, Elsay, West Coast Fiddlers, and Sharon Shannon. Events include the CelticFest Ceilidh, the Celtic Village, whisky tastings, workshops, and the theatre production
Moll. Mar 10-17, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.celticfestvancouver.com/. SEASONS 2016 Electronic-music festival features performances by Peter Robinson, Knife Party, Matzo, Mija, and Ekali (Fri) and Odesza, Duke Dumont, ThomasJack, SNBRN, and Gryffin (Sat). Mar 25-26, 7 pm-3 am, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix at www.ticketleader.ca/.
CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2JUST KIDDIN' Feb 3 2ANOTHER ONE LONG WEEKEND Feb 7 2LIFE MUSIK VALENTINE'S DAY Feb 13 2REQUEST LINE Feb 28 2LE1F Feb 29 2KAWEHI Mar 19 2ONEMAN B2B MY NU LENG Mar 26 2BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY Apr 30 AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. Cherryoke Wed, Tank Gyal & guests Thu; live music & dance party Fri; Thomas Maxey & Kalibo Sat. Tiki Bar open 6 pm Wed-Sat. BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver's only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Live band karaoke hosted by Sami Ghawi and Reuben Avery Tue at 9:30 pm. BELMONT BAR 1006 Granville, 604-6054340. Fresh and local fare, craft beer and wine on tap, and live entertainment nightly. Open daily at 5 pm.
BURLESQUE ALL-STARS Feb 7 2WET Feb 10 2EHM SKY PATROL ALBUM RELEASE Feb 13 2MY PURPLE VALENTINE Feb 14 2SUMAC Feb 19 2JOSEPH Mar 4 2AOIFE O'DONOVAN Mar 5 2RUN RIVER NORTH Mar 8 2ROBYN HITCHCOCK Mar 10 2RADIATION CITY & DEEP SEA DIVER Mar 17 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 2CHAIRLIFT Mar 24 2RADIO RADIO Mar 26 2RA RA RIOT Mar 31 2GOLDROOM Apr 2 2BLEACHED Apr 28 2AIDAN KNIGHT Apr 29 2ISLANDS Jun 4 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm.
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BLACKBIRD PUBLIC HOUSE & OYSTER BAR 905 Dunsmuir, 604-899-4456. Bistro and public house with oyster bar, barbershop, Scotch bar, and live music Wed-Fri. Open daily at 11 am. Happy hour 3-6 pm. BUTCHER & BULLOCK 911 W. Pender, 604-662-8866. Traditional pub and beer hall in downtown business district featuring 28 draft beer taps, craft beers, interesting cocktails, and honest pub food. Open from 11:30 am till late every day. DJ Ray Black Sat.
CHARLES BAR 136 W. Cordova, 604-5688040. Gastown sports bar features nine-foot BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, HD screen and DJs on weekend nights. 604-676-0541. 2DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN: Wavy Fridays with DJs Seko & Marvel; Back THE TOUR Feb 4 2BAIO Feb 5 2ACT & Forth Saturdays with rap, R&B, and club OF DEFIANCE Feb 6 2KITTY NIGHTS classics. Open Sun-Thu from 11:30 am to 1 am, Fri-Sat from 11:30 am to 3 am. CINEMA PUBLIC HOUSE 901 Granville, 604-694-0202. Pub featuring craft beer and cocktails, pub food, late-night menu, and weekend brunch. DJs all night Wed-Sun. Happy hour 3-6 pm. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2NSFW: HIP HOP MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL. 15 Feb 7 2DIANE COFFEE Feb 20 2SAM OUTLAW Feb 27 2ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Mar 4 2ANDERSON EAST Mar 5 2ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Mar 19 2ALEX G AND PORCHES Mar 26 2LITTLE GREEN CARS Mar 31 2PRINCE RAMA Apr 2 2LUKE RATHBORNE Apr 3 2BANE Apr 5 2MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ Apr 9
FRANKIE'S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2S.K.A.M. Feb 3 2LA CHINGA, 88 MILE TRIP, UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, THE MOUNTAIN MAN Feb 5 2NEVER ANOTHER, THE FIFTH CIRCLE, RED7 Feb 6 2POWERCLOWN, CRACKWHORE, OGROEM, INFECTIOUS DECAY Feb 12 2ZUCKUSS, VACUUS, CADAVERIC LIVIDITY Feb 13 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Feb 18 2REDS, POT BELLY, THE REMEDIALS, YOU BIG IDIOT Feb 19 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-5236888. 2MULAN Feb 6 2ROCK FOR KIDS 2016 Feb 14 2WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? Feb 19 2LEWIS BLACK Feb 28 2ED KOWALCZYK Mar 3 2TONY ORLANDO Apr 9 2GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Apr 21 2JOE SATRIANI Apr 24 2TRACY MORGAN May 13 2PENN & TELLER May 20 2THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER Jun 17 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2THE KNOCKS Feb 3 2SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 4 2YOUNG GALAXY: CANCELLED Feb 10 2LOVE IS THE ANSWER Feb 13 2THE 35TH ANNUAL HERITAGE B.C. AWARDS Feb 18 2LAKE STREET DIVE Mar 1 2BAG RAIDERS Mar 4 2DAMIEN DEMPSEY Mar 5 2SOAK. Mar 7 2SILVERSTEIN Mar 8 2JUNIOR BOYS Mar 10 2WE ARE THE CITY Mar 11 2ELECTRIC SIX Mar 23 2WINTERSLEEP Mar 25 2POLICA Mar 30 2QUANTIC Apr 9 2AURORA Apr 10 2PETE YORN Apr 11 2THE STORY SO FAR Apr 18 2TORTOISE Apr 28 2BOMBINO Apr 30 2MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS May 3 2LUCIUS May 10 2SAINT MOTEL May 22 2SAVAGES May 27 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. 2RHYTHM ST. Feb 5 2BLUE FINS Feb 6 2SUPER BOWL Feb 7 268 LIPS Feb 12 2RICOCHET RABBIT Feb 13 2SONS OF THE HOE Feb 14 2STARK RAVEN Feb 19-20 2SONS OF THE HOE Feb 21 2SAINTS AND SINNERS Feb 26 2CHRIS NEWTON BAND Feb 27 2SONS OF THE HOE Feb 28 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat.
COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2YUKON BLONDE Feb LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 5 2ADVENTURE CLUB Feb 11 2THE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinBOOTS & BABES BALL Feb 13 2THE ball Wed, Show Me Love '90s party Fri; MUSICAL BOX: SELLING ENGLAND BY Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. THE POUND Feb 17 2THE SHEEPDOGS Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. Feb 18 2RED...A POSITIVE DAY Feb 20 2MONSTER TRUCK Feb 25 2INDIGO LULU'S LOUNGE River Rock Casino GIRLS Feb 26 2CLASSIFIED Feb 27 Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-2472FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS 8562. Live music Wed-Sat, no cover. Mar 3 2CANNIBAL CORPSE Mar 4 2DELHI 2 DUBLIN Mar 5 2REBELUTION M.I.A. 350 Water St., 604-408-4321. Mar 6 2ANJUNABEATS Mar 10 Gastown's newest intimate nightclub 2DISTURBED Mar 11 2THE WAILERS and special-event space, equipped with Mar 12 2MOTOWN MELTDOWN Mar 19 a Funktion-One Soundsystem, hosting 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS: CANCELLED local and touring electronic, live, and club Mar 20 2WOLFMOTHER Apr 1 2THE events weekly. DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR 2016 Apr 2 2CIARA Apr 5 2MIIKE SNOW Apr MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. 9 2THE ARCS Apr 11 2GARY CLARK 2MODERN SPACE Feb 4 2INDIGENOUS JR. Apr 12 2SPIRIT OF THE WEST Apr SISTERS SOIREE Feb 18 2ENEMY 15 2ST. GERMAIN Apr 18 2COURTNEY FEATHERS Feb 19 2HEY MARSEILLES Mar BARNETT Apr 19 2LUSH Apr 21 2ADAM 4 2NAP EYES Mar 26 2MOTHERS Mar 27 CAROLLA Apr 22 2AMON AMARTH 2THE SUBWAYS Apr 26 May 16 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES May 20 2BLACK ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665MOUNTAIN May 21 2THE BRIAN 3050. 2HEART Mar 8 2LEON BRIDGES JONESTOWN MASSACRE May 23 2OH Mar 15 2FATHER JOHN MISTY Apr 5 WONDER May 28 2AT THE DRIVE-IN Jun 7 2CHICK COREA AND BELA FLECK Apr 22 2RAFFI Apr 23 2JAMES BAY Apr 27 DOOLIN'S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic PAT'S PUB & BREWHOUSE 403 E. soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Hastings, 604-255-4301. Invitational jazz Thu DJ Fri-Sat. jam Mon; Disaraygun DJ and live trumpet Tue; Steve Kozak Blues & Brews Wed; No FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, Cover Thu; live bands Fri-Sat at 9 pm; live 604-569-1758. 2BLACK SABBATH jazz Sat from 3-7 pm. No cover. AFTERPARTY TRIBUTE Feb 3 2COOKING: THE ART OF MAKING BEATS WORKSHOP QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Feb 5 2LOSCO Feb 5 2DARIUS Feb 7 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2YAMATO, THE 2MIKE STUD Mar 3 2GOLDLINK Mar 4 DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Feb 6 2RETURN 2PROTOMARTYR AND CHASTITY BELT Mar THE GRACE Mar 22 2TWENTY ONE 8 2YUCK Mar 29 2CULLEN OMORI Apr 2 PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 2IL DIVO 2OPERATORS Apr 5 2LAPSLEY Apr 26 Nov 6 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2DECODER 2017 Feb 4 2A LIVING DOCUMENTARY REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. Feb 5 2DECLARATIONS Feb 6 2DAWN House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. PEMBERTON AND CÉCILE DOO-KINGUÉ Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. Feb 12 2DRALMS Feb 18 2JENN GRANT RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, Feb 19 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT Feb 20 2TEEN ANGST NIGHT Feb 25 2AMELIA 604-681-8915. 2PROPAGANDHI Feb CURRAN Mar 11 2FAST ROMANTICS Mar 5 2THE TOASTERS Feb 7 2THE 24 2SARAH NEUFELD Mar 26 2SAID THE DREADNOUGHTS Feb 13 2PARQUET WHALE May 7 COURTS Feb 20 2CRADLE OF FILTH
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ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2JUSTIN BIEBER Mar 11 2ELLIE GOULDING Apr 1 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2RIHANNA Apr 23 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 2HEDLEY May 20 2CITY AND COLOUR Jun 3 2DIXIE CHICKS Jul 7 2ADELE Jul 20 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-7363022. 2OLD MAN LUEDECKE Feb 5 2JEFF LANG Feb 11 2CÒIG Feb 13 2THE BUMPER JACKSONS Feb 25 2EILEN JEWEL Feb 26 2OLIVER SWAIN'S BIG MACHINE Feb 27 TAVERN AT THE NEW OXFORD 1141 Hamilton, 604-669-4848. Yaletown comedy Tue; Skee-ball and rock, paper, scissors tournament Wed; the SHOW Thu with live hip-hop, rap, and R&B; '90s weekends with DJ Tower Fri; and DJ Kenya Sat. TEN TEN TAPAS 1010 Beach, 604-689-7800. West Coast tapas restaurant featuring live music four nights a week at 7 pm. Rising artists Thu, flamenco guitar Fri, hornman Gabriel Hasselbach Sat, soul/R&B Sun. Guest musicians/singers every weekend. No cover; reservations recommended. THE THREE BRITS 1780 Davie (at Denman), 604-801-6681. The West End's only craft-beer house, steps away from English Bay. Pub trivia with the Nice Guys Wed at 7 pm; brunch daily till 4 pm. VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2DR. DOG Feb 6 2CHOCOLATE LONG WEEKEND Feb 7 2TRIVIUM Feb 8 2LIARS AND LIONS Feb 20 2TRASH TALK Feb 25 2BEYOND THE CONFINES Feb 27 2ST. LUCIA Mar 1 2ERUPTION Mar 5 2THE REAL MCKENZIES Mar 10 2IAN FLETCHER THORNLEY Mar 12 2ULI JON ROTH'S ULTIMATE GUITAR EXPERIENCE Mar 19 2THE WILD FEATHERS Mar 31 2NIYAZ AND ADHAM SHAIKH Apr 7 2GIN WIGMORE Apr 26 2NAPALM DEATH AND MELVINS May 2 2NADA SURF May 17 2PRONG May 29 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Nov 1 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. Tix at www.voguetheatre.com/. 2TROYE SIVAN Feb 3 2SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR Feb 6 2BOOKER T. JONES Feb 13 2LOGIC Feb 15 2MATT ANDERSEN Feb 18 2AN EVENING WITH THE CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Feb 20 2JEREMY HOTZ Feb 26 2VINCE STAPLES Mar 1 2THE IRISH ROVERS Mar 17 2DAUGHTER Mar 18 2RACHEL PLATTEN Mar 28 2ALESSIA CARA Mar 29 2JOANNA NEWSOM Mar 30 2YUNG LEAN Mar 31 2KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Apr 3 2TINASHE Apr 10 2SANTIGOLD Apr 11 2BOYCE AVENUE Apr 15 2BEACH HOUSE Apr 30 2CHE MALAMBO May 20 2MODERAT May 23 2JOHN PRINE Jul 9 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2GLAM SLAM Feb 6
OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED IGGY POP American rock legend performs on his Post Pop Depression Tour. Mar 28, 8 pm, Paramount Theatre (911 Pine St., Seattle, Wash.). Tix at www.stgpresents.org/. BILLY JOEL American pop legend ("Uptown Girl", "Just the Way You Are"). May 20, Safeco Field (1560 1st Ave. S., Seattle). Tix on sale Feb 5, 10 am, at www.livenation.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL Featuring performances by Florence & the Machine, the Cure, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, Leon Bridges, Jamie xx, Purity Ring, Tycho, Allen Stone, Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, and Kurt Vile. May 27-30, Gorge Amphitheatre (754 Silica Road NW, George, Wash.). Tix at www. livenation.com/. PEMBERTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Huka Entertainment presents Canada's biggest camping, music, and comedy festival. Performers TBA. July 14-17, Pemberton Valley (Pemberton, B.C.). Info at www. pembertonmusicfestival.com/, info www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/.
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THE LADY IN THE VAN Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, and Jim Broadbent star in The History Boys director Nicholas Hytner’s drama about a man who forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in his driveway. 104 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
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depicts lifelong best friends trained as cosmonauts. But what happens when only one is chosen for space duty? Finally, take a double dose of brain juice for “World of Tomorrow”, a 17-minute journey into a dystopian future of stick figures, weeping robots, and “discount time travel”, courtesy of an English-accented clone who travels into the past to deliver memories (and warnings) to a little girl who’s blithely okay with just about everything. This discomfiting mayhem, told in an escalating pile-up of animation styles, is from American Don Hertzfeldt, who has brought his twisted vision to The Simpsons and his own touring program, the Animation Show. Apparently, this future is coming for you whether you like it or not.
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HAIL, CAESAR! Josh Brolin, George Clooney, and Alden Ehrenreich star a comedy by writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen about a Hollywood fixer in the 1950s who keeps the studio’s stars in line. Rated PG. 106 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Rialto, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Lily James, Sam Riley, and Jack Huston star in Igby Goes Down writer-director Burr Steers’s zombie flick set in England’s Regency era. Based on the book by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Rated 14A. 108 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas THE CHOICE Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, and Alexandra Daddario star in Adult Beginners director Ross Katz’s drama about a man and a woman who find their relationship tested. Based on the book by Nicholas Sparks. Rated G. 111 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown
THE MONKEY KING 2 Li Gong, Aaron Kwok, and Shaofeng Feng star in director Pou-Soi Cheang’s action flick about a legendary figure who must protect a travelling monk from demons. Rated PG. 118 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
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VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre 22016 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: ANIMATED Mon 6:30; Wed 8:45 22016 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: LIVE ACTION Mon 8:30; Wed 6:30 2BOY AND THE WORLD Mon 2:45 2GONE WITH THE WIND Sun 3:00 2JOSEPHINE BAKER BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MAN’S WORLD Tue 8:15 2LOWDOWN TRACKS Thu 7:00 2SEMBENE! Tue 6:30 2SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY Sun 7:30 2THEEB Tue-Wed 4:30 2WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE Mon 4:20 THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinametheque.ca/. 2OUT 1: EPISODE 1 + 2 Fri 7:00; Sat 2:00; Mon 2:00 2OUT 1: EPISODE 3 + 4 Sat 6:30; Mon 6:30 2OUT 1: EPISODE 5 + 6 Sun 2:00; Thu 7:00 2HELENO Tue 7:00 2OUT 1: EPISODE 7 + 8 Sun 6:30; Fri 7:00 2DAY IS DONE Wed 7:00
SPECIAL EVENTS GREAT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL Screenings of digital-format films, including Beverly Hills Cop, Big Trouble in Little China, Dirty Harry, From Dusk Till Dawn, Ghostbusters, Inception, Labyrinth, Looper, Mad Max: The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road, Runaway Train, Serenity, Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Dark Crystal, The Thing, and True Romance. Feb 5-11, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver (900 Burrard). The event also runs at Cineplex Cinemas Langley. Tix $6.99, info www. cineplex.com/digitalfilmfest/.
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Starring Lily James. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 47
The only thing worse than a novel combining Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with zombie fiction, apparently, is a film version of the heinous mashup. I haven’t suffered such anguish at the movies since reviewing Uwe Boll’s appalling Alone in the Dark back in 2005. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is set in early-19th-century England, where the “Black Plague” has resulted in hordes of undead threatening to overrun the country. The plot centres on the exploits of status-conscious zombie-hunter Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), whom we first encounter as he tries to sniff out zombies among elegant high-society types at a stately manor. He releases flies from a jar to light on and expose them, then goes into valiant, swordswinging decapitation mode before stomping the infected brain with his boot and kicking the lopped-off head across the parlour floor. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Darcy meets the well-to-do Bennet family—which includes five unmarried sisters highly skilled at martial-arts-based zombie decimation. But his prideful interaction with the beautiful Elizabeth (Lily James) leads to much prejudice, and that’s when the excruciating mashup of high-minded class commentary and lowbrow zombie lore kicks in, to awful effect. The rest of the movie is a barrage of gory action scenes, recorded at deafening volume and strung together by interminable squabbling between the Bennets and their various suitors, including the particularly nauseating clergyman Mr. Collins (Matt Smith of Dr. Who). By the time this noisy monstrosity shudders to a close you’ll wonder how it ever got greenlit as a feature when it barely deserves to exist as a five-minute sketch on a questionable episode of Saturday Night Live.
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er must accompany a British officer on a journey. Feb 9, 10, 4:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Director Charles Wilkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary tells the story of a group of remarkable characters living on Haida Gwaii. Feb 5, 5:45 pm; Feb 6, 1 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
JOSEPHINE BAKER: BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WORLD Annette von Wangenheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film portrays Baker in the mirror of European colonial cliches. Feb 9, 8:15 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9, info www.viff.org/theatre/.
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (ALL AGES) Jim Sharmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1975 cult classic sees a stranded couple take refuge in the castle of a bizarre scientist. Feb 6, 11 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $8-12, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
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BOY AND THE WORLD Director AlĂŞ Abreuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oscar-nominated animated musical sees a young boy go on an adventurous quest. Feb 8, 2:45 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE Hiromasa Yonebayashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animated film tells the story of a lonely child and the mysterious new friend she meets from across the bay. Feb 8, 4:20 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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RIO THEATRE 1660 E. Broadway, Vancouver, 604-878-3456, www.riotheatre. ca 2ANNIE HALL Tue 7:00 2APOCALYPSE NOW Fri 8:00 2BOY AND THE WORLD Sat 3:30 2HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Fri 5:45; Sat 1:00 2LABYRINTH Sat 8:30 2MACBETH Sun 7:30 2THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Sat 5:45 2THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 11:00 2SECRETARY Tue 9:15 2TROPIC THUNDER Fri 11:30 SCOTIABANK THEATRE VANCOUVER 900 Burrard St., Vancouver, 604-630-1407, www.cineplex.com 2BEVERLY HILLS COP Fri 2:20; Tue 7:30 2BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Sat 3:00; Wed 7:50 2THE DARK CRYSTAL Sun 12:50; Tue 2:55 2DEADPOOL Thu 7:30, 10:30 2DIRTY GRANDPA FriSun, Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40; Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40; Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05 2DIRTY HARRY Mon 7:45; Thu 2:45 2THE FINEST HOURS Fri-Tue 4:45; Wed-Thu 4:15 2FROM DUSK TILL DAWN Mon 1:00; Thu 9:55 2GHOSTBUSTERS Sat 12:45; Tue 9:40
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Rejecting nonmonogamy because your last nonmonogamous relationship failed makes about as much sense as rejecting monogamy because your last monogamous relationship failed. If people applied the same standard to closed relationships that they apply to open ones (“I was in one that failed, so I can never enter into another one!”), most of us would’ve had two relationships in our lives—one open, one closed— > What do you think of poop play? and then either taken a vow of celibacy or pledged to stick to NSA sex I think of it rarely. for the rest of our lives. Our choices are informed by our > How long should I keep my partner experiences, of course, and you had locked in male chastity? a bad experience with an open relationship. Open relationships might Until Rick Santorum is president. not be for you. But it’s also possible that the problem with your last rela> What exactly causes relationships tionship wasn’t the openness but the to end? partner. Relationships end for all sorts of different reasons—boredom, neglect, contempt, betrayal, abuse—but all relationships that don’t end survive for the same reason: the people in them just keep not breaking up. Sometimes people in relationships that need to end never get around to breaking up.
> Advice for happily child-free people in a baby- and parent-worshipping world? You could take comfort in your free time, your disposable income, and your vomit-free wardrobe. You could also see baby and parent worship for what it is: a desperate attempt on the part of the busy, broke, and vomit-spackled (and the people trying to sell stuff to us) to make ourselves feel better about the consequential and irrevocable choice we made to have kids.
> I was in an open relationship once and was heartbroken in the end because my partner broke the rules we made. My current partner wants to make our monogamous relationship open, but I am hesitant because of my previous burn. How do I get over this and become comfortable with an > Magnum condoms are just maropen relationship again? keting, right?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 1, 2016 WHERE: Chill Winston I was your server and you were very cute. Your friend’s name was Justin. I don’t even know if you are gay, but got some subtle vibe you might be. If I am not off and you see this, hit me up :)
UPSET AT GILMORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 29, 2016 WHERE: The Commodore Ballroom
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 31, 2016 WHERE: Gilmore SkyTrain Station You were quite distraught outside the SkyTrain station and I gave you a shoulder to cry on. What happened that day seemed to be the icing on a rather bitter cake that you’d been served the past 6 months. If you need someone help restore your faith in humanity or just an open ear to feel comfortable around, I can do that. You seem like you could do with some more good folks in your life.
You have served me the last few times I have been at the Commodore for shows a few of which we talked about. Most recently Fri night during Corb Lund. Wanted to ask you then but didn’t want to disrupt your work, plus it was crazy busy. If by chance you see this and would like to hang out sometime or chat first, hopefully you will respond. I was guy with the long hair blue and black striped shirt
I WAS BUMBLING ON MY PHONE AFTER I SAW YOUR EYES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 30, 2016 WHERE: Fox Cabaret
You were waiting for the bus ahead of me in line. I looked up from my phone and I was awe struck by your beautiful light eyes. We got on the #10 bus. You were very a beautiful brunette with excellent fashion sense. You were wearing a black jacket and black boots with a white bag. Me: 6” dark hair and a blue plaid snowboard jacket and white shoes. Drink or coffee or nosh?
Hey Amanda, I know we’re gonna bump into each other again, but just in case... :) Let’s be friends!!
I INTEND TO SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE AND YOU AGAIN - ANGEL 786
AMANDA, JAVIER FROM FOX CABARET, JAN 30
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 29, 2016 WHERE: Kits I see you waiting for the 84 @ Alma in the morning every few weeks, and after another run in this morning I’ve decided to put this out into the universe. You’re rugged, handsome, sport a beard and today you were wearing a black toque. While you’ve never thrown any overt interest my way, you always do seem at least aware of me, a tall brunette wearing a green coat. Today you sat directly in front of me and I wished the whole ride that I had the nerve to strike up a conversation... Here’s hoping next time one of us will.
I saw you in the bus #3 on Monday, we had an acquaintance and cannot get you off my head... I found you really beautiful... you were wearing a long black coat with denim and white shoe. We stared each other back and forth and you got off at the same bus stop I did. Sorry I didn’t have the guts to talk to you. After I missed the opportunity to talk to you, I was really sad. I should have at least made the move and asked for your contact info. I was wearing black boots, blue jacket and a hat. I have dark skin, 5’8 tall and with some black facial hair... if you're reading this then I believe it is meant to be... Looking to hear from you my soul angel. Peace Love XOXO
BURGUNDY AND CREAM TOQUE / WINNERS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 30, 2016 WHERE: Winners on Granville and Robson St. I saw the most beautiful tall slim woman at Winners on Granville St. You were in line behind me wearing boots and jeans. I was wearing a burgundy Jacket. We ran into one another again outside on the corner of Granville and Robson St. You had put on a cream colored knit toque’ish hat it was raining. You caught me off guard and I missed making an introduction.
READING ‘ROOM’ ON THE CANADA LINE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 19, 2016 WHERE: Canada Line - Stop Between King Edward and Broadway Admittedly, it was a little weird of me to overlook your shoulder and even more bizarre that I recognized that you were reading ‘Room’ on your Kindle. I really quite enjoyed talking to you for that one stop, even better that you appeared like a friendly, sincere person. Regardless I can’t help shake the feeling that I should post this, it’s my first time, and hopefully you will see it and respond. Skill testing question: What was the name of the last book that I told you I read, and I can tell you the colour of your Kindle cover.
FLIGHT FROM EDMONTON TO VANCOUVER
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DIRTBIKE ON MAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 24, 2016 WHERE: Crab Park
You were getting off the train at the last door, in the last car, not long after 6. You responded to me with a hello unlike anything I’ve ever known before. Maybe I was just lucky to be standing there at that moment. What happened?
We met walking back toward Gastown over the bridge. You and your Black Lab were both so sweet and friendly. My buddy’s French Bulldog was going nuts, but your awesome Lab was super cool and friendly. You were a total sweetheart - you said my buddy’s dog was really cute, even though she was yapping at you and your dog. You have a really beautiful smile and easy-going nature. I wanted to talk to you more, but I also wanted to give you space from my buddy’s yapping dog. I used to have a Lab myself (a yellow one) and I would love to walk with you and your dog sometime.
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THAT ISLAND CHESHIRE SMILE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 22, 2016 WHERE: JJ & The Hive It was in the past week either the Thursday or the Friday (probably the Friday), I first saw you at the JJBean at the back, saw you sitting by the window and I was by the opposite wall. You had a nice red scarf. You left before I did. That was at noon, and it might have been raining. I saw you at the bouldering gym The Hive the same night. I was pissed that I couldn’t finish this one route, which I was trying to complete for ages, a v4 I think. Was sitting down to rest, and saw you walk in. Tried to act like I didn’t notice you.. I lost you afterwards, was quite crowded with classes and kids/teens. Fuck Woodwards for being a shitty gentrifying place, but JJ sometime?
“GOODBYE, TWIN!”
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WILL ON GABRIOLA OCTOBER 2015
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 25, 2016 WHERE: McDonald’s - Robson and Cambie We were both wearing the same green jacket, you had red lipstick, dark hair, jeans and Converse. And a sultry voice. Wished I had stuck around long enough to get your name... and maybe your number?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 24, 2016 WHERE: Vancouver Convention Center (West) Resource Investment Conference
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: Banyen Books, West 4th Ave I was the tattooed & pierced Brit who came in to the wonderful shop you work at (Banyen Books) with my partner, we bought her a journal; you smiled, I smiled, you held my gaze and we connected (I think).... I thought you were intriguing and beautiful, my partner thought you were returning my flirtatious glances and encouraged me to chat with you, but I imagine you were just being friendly because you work there. I’m sure we’ll come back in some time... maybe we could connect sooner rather than later?
CLARK KENT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: DECEMBER 24, 2016 WHERE: Butcher & Bullock I asked you for a lighter and you offered not just that but excellent conversation as well! Whether you realize it or not you changed the course of my life (at least a little bit). I’d like to meet up again to discuss the possibilities.
REVELSTOKE JAN 2013
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 21, 2013 WHERE: Revelstoke I saw you in rain pants going out of bounds on the mountain at Revelstoke. I followed you, we got stuck and just before ski patrol rescued us, you slipped and said you loved me. We’ve lost contact, and I can’t stop thinking about you. Meet me for a coffee.
PUB 340
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 18, 2015 WHERE: The Haven, Gabriola Island
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 21, 2016 WHERE: Pub 340
We met at The Haven on Gabriola back in October. Your name is Will... my name is Wendy. I had gone over with friends and had to leave before getting a chance to say goodbye or giving you my number.
Met you in a hurry to catch my cab last night. You stopped me outside and I took your number but I got it wrong. You were sitting in the corner with your friend I was at the table across you.
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Get a Job My wife stayed at home after having our kids but our kids are 15 and 13 now and I think she needs to get a job and help out with our bills. Her waking up everyday at 10:00 am and then going to yoga isn’t what I signed up for. I just wish I could talk to her about this without it becoming a huge fight.
Department Store
The stars the retrograde moved on with mercury last Monday. And it’s been just smooth sailing since then! Not that I am claiming it’s a legit reason, I keep finding solutions to problems I was stuck for the past few month. Whatever it is, I am loving it. Any astrology experts out there?
Rent My counselor said we all need RENT: Rest Exercise Nutrition and Touch for optimum health. I am in my 60’s and have not been hugged or kissed for more years than I care to think about. Massages are something I can afford only once a month. Guess I’m lucky to have the other 3
Tick tock
I once had sex in the Sears elevator, downtown.
I always thought I’d be further along in life by now. I should just accept where I’m at, but I feel like a failure.
Irreplaceable
My role model
I’ve come to realize that sometimes people come into your life and the bond is so strong that even when they are no longer in your life they remain in your heart. I’ve accepted it. Life goes on, the memories remain, the love lingers. It’s okay.
is my cat - she keeps her mouth shut most times, doesn’t hold grudges, knows just how to comfort in hard times, and is just generally chill but does know how to be silly and relax. This is the person I want to be.
The way it goes I’ve been job hunting for 10 months now and been on a lot of interviews but nothing so far. I’m qualified, have a great post-grad degree and so I’m getting really disheartened. Thinking of moving out east - Edmonton or Toronto. Scared to start over in a new city where I know no one but what else to do? Cannot continue like this.
Darwin Award Shortlist I saw a young adult texting and walking up to the corner at the NE corner of 1st and Commercial. Surely this person isn’t going to be immersed in their hand held computer as they cross the Drive with 2 ton machines whizzing by in the rain? You betcha they were… General advice for life, young ‘uns: Be aware of what’s going on around you!
I’m So Tired of Hearing About Marijuana
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Enough said really. I truly feel for the people that really need with cancer & chronic illness. But the rest of you need to shut up about it. Anyone can get it so why all the lip service. There are so many things to fight for in this world. I could see if the truly ill couldn’t get it but they can. So just legalize it and zip your lip... Move on to a better cause.
Yelled at from a car “fat cow”. I’m older then their mother. Why do people yell obscenities from a car? No, I’m not “paranoid” After all these years, I could tell you people are very very nasty. Who cares if I’m fat? Why do I get public shame for it? Mind your own busness.
Rachel McAdams Will always be my dream girl.
Makes an effort I make an effort to look my best every day despite the fact that I work early in the morning. I wake up early to do my hair, my makeup and pick out an outfit that requires some thought and deliberation. So fuck the asshat this morning on Main/Broadway who deemed it appropriate to out of his way to cut into a bike lane, hit a puddle along the curb and drench me in water before flipping me the bird and driving off.
My job is unfulfilling On the one hand, I’m grateful to be employed, and that I have a boss who’s not a sociopath. On the other hand, the work I do is numbing and isolating, and is exacerbating my depression. Dwelling in the gloom of January is not helping matters. I’m tired of just existing... I want to thrive and make a real impact on the world. I’ve volunteered fiercely and loyally to the point of burnout, but it hasn’t really opened any career doors. It’s just so hard to find meaningful work in this job climate.
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