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“Climate Change Denial: Where do we go from here?” An evening with Naomi Oreskes, climate change activist and historian of science, Harvard University. She is co-author of the best seller Merchants of Doubt, the troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda. Moderated by CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe. Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 7:30 pm at the Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street, Vancouver. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets are free but must be reserved and are in limited supply. Visit pwias.ubc.ca
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Cruz called attention to the small number of CBSA investigations that resulted from all those referrals. In 2015, those 456 police and RCMP referrals resulted in just 36 actual CBSA investigations. Cruz argued that this suggests there was seldom a real need for police to call CBSA, and that officers might be contacting CBSA based on a person’s appearance as a visible minority. Surrey RCMP, which, adjusted for population, had the highest rate of CBSA referrals of any southern B.C. city, refused repeated requests for an interview. B.C. RCMP and CBSA also both refused repeated requests for an interview. Reached via phone, Vancouver police sergeant Randy Fincham told the Straight that VPD relations with CBSA are largely defined by three written agreements. “There are obligations under those systems,” he said. However, the spokesperson for the force acknowledged that officers do have discretion to contact CBSA on a case-by-case basis. “A lot of times, we will deal with people that, for one reason or another, we are not able to verify their identity,” Fincham said. “And we have an obligation to identify these people, and one avenue would be working with immigration authorities.” Mable Elmore is the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Kensington and Opposition critic for immigration. She told the Straight a review of the numbers has left her thinking racial profiling is a “valid concern”. “It raises questions and concerns as to what is going on and what the basis is [for referrals],” Elmore said. “I do have ongoing concerns, generally, around the use of racial profiling… I have more questions.” -
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Dishing out a sweet trend on creating handmade and healthy desserts using organic ingredients. essert shops—specificDan Kim, 32, and his brother and ally, soft-serve ice cream cofounder Ken, 33, had never started shops—are springing up their own business before or ventured in our city as fast as one into the food industry. “We were can finish an ice-cream cone on a hot working in someone else’s company summer’s day. in a white-collar job,� said Dan in a In the past year, people with a phone interview with the Straight. sweet tooth have been able to flock Both brothers are hard-core from one ice-cream shop to another, dessert-lovers, and they shared a thanks to the soft-serve ice cream dream of opening a small business frenzy that has hit Vancouver. one day. One of the main reasons This food trend is no stranger they opened an ice-cream shop is to bigger and more bustling cities because they felt that it was somearound the world, including Hong thing Vancouver lacked. Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul, New “We opened Soft Peaks because York, Los Angeles, and Sydney. In it was something we wanted,� said these sweet-filled utopias, it isn’t rare Dan. “We have lived in Vancouver to name-drop where you’ll be headed for almost 20 years, so we know the for some crazy ice cream even before market. After dinner, I would always you’ve had lunch or dinner, or to get go for bubble tea or coffee, but that excited over a new flavour when it is was all there was.� announced on social media. Evidently, it was easy for the Kim And Vancouver is finally catching brothers to decide on what type of up in the frozen-treat realm in a way frozen-treat shop to open. Organic that will undeniably satiate the infin- soft-serve ice cream was virtually unite number of foodies—ice-cream known to Vancouverites, other than lovers in particular—who reside here. those well-travelled consumers who That isn’t to say our city hasn’t had tasted varying kinds abroad. had its fair share of ice-cream shops. Slowly but surely, soft-serve ice Some of Vancouver’s favourite fro- cream began to catch on with other zen-treat shops appear regularly in young entrepreneurs in the city. Of the Straight’s annual Golden Plate course, this type of ice cream could Awards issue—including Earnest Ice be found at your local McDonald’s. Cream and Bella Gelateria. Even if Soft Peaks didn’t kick off this But now these veteran frozen- type of dessert in town, it instilled a treat shops have new company, and sense of assurance in other budding rather than being viewed as direct business owners thanks to its succompetition, the newcomers should cess and popularity—especially with be embraced as long-awaited addi- masses of young consumers. tions to the dessert culture in town. “We have been to a lot of iceOne of the many soft-serve ice cream shops and frozen-yogurt cream shops that opened in Vancou- places,� said Meina Hoang, 28, owner ver last year is Soft Peaks (25 Alexan- of the newly opened Kul Cup (2751 der Street). The Gastown store focuses Main Street), which serves organic > B Y TA M MY KWAN
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“We take branding very seriously, and we take a lot of time creating the brand, presentation, and concept,� said Wang. The hard work paid off, and 720 Sweets opened in Kitsilano last year to offer the city’s fi rst softserve ice cream decorated with nitrogen smoke. Its toppings aren’t too shabby either—choices range from toasted marshmallow to fluff y cotton candy, boba to honeycomb. Now ice-cream sandwiches are the latest addition to its menu. Our city’s food scene has been attracting international attention for a few years. And the soft-serve ice cream business in Vancouver
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The latest collaboration between Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone tosses minimalism aside for big songs and even bigger feelings. David Cooper photo.
songs that are over-the- and excitement,” he says. “I love travelling, but top, big, big songs.” at a certain point, I’m in the city for about four In Onegin, Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille update the romance One of those is “The weeks and then I wish the scenery outside the of a famed 19th-century tale that once inspired Tchaikovsky Letter Song”, in which windows was moving—so there’s a restlessness Tatyana reveals her love that I understand.” deal with in the same way, so we just really concen- for Onegin. Hille found it hard, at first, to “So you’re Evgeny [Onegin] and I’m trated on the characters and the love stories.” access Tatyana’s feelings. “In my first Tatyana,” Hille observes. The central love stories in the play, which is per- pass, I was judging her. I was like, ‘Oh, Fortunately, their creative relationCheck out… formed by a cast of seven, are intertwined. Onegin’s you fool,’ and I wrote it like that,” ship is less doomed than Onegin and STRAIGHT.COM friend Lensky is engaged to Olga. When he invites Hille remembers. “And that was no Tatyana’s romantic one. The pair have Visit our website Onegin to meet her, Olga’s sister, Tatyana, is im- good, right? So I had to get in there an obvious ease in working together, for morning-after mediately smitten, and pours her heart out to and believe it was possible again. often filling in each other’s thoughts reviews and local arts news Onegin in a letter. He gently rejects her, insisting “I’ve been married for 17 years during our conversation, and they plan that he’s not the type to settle down, then flirts pub- now, and love is a different thing at this to collaborate again. Still, Hille was inlicly with Olga, which prompts Lensky to challenge stage in my life,” she continues. “So I had itially reluctant to commit to Onegin when him to a duel. Things go downhill from there. to go back to when love was that hit-you-over-the- Gladstone pitched the idea in 2013. But that sumThe story’s Big Feelings pose a challenge for head thing and feel those feelings.” In doing so, mer, shortly after arriving in Berlin for a writer’s the creators, both minimalists who eschew senti- she made some surprising discoveries. “I realized residency, she got a sign from the universe: “I’m mentality. “We were pushing ourselves a bit,” that this story parallels one of my own great love just sort of feeling out the neighbourhood,” she says Gladstone. “I feel like, because of our own experiences. It was actually a love story from my recalls, “and I go out of the studio and around the sensibilities, we often get afraid when it feels too past that I had considered writing an opera about, corner and there’s a restaurant called Onegin. I just grand and overdone.” and I guess this is it.” thought, ‘Shit, I’m doing it!’ ” Hille concurs: “I feel like I’ve been drying my Gladstone relates to the themes from a different aesthetic,” she notes. “I like it to be really simple. angle. “As someone in my 40s who’s not married, Onegin takes the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO TheSo to go the other way felt really great, to just write I feel like I understand that search for meaning atre Centre from Thursday (March 17) to April 10.
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1 2 Editor’s choice VIOLIN, CELLO, AND A PIANO Jazz fans think of the piano
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Soprano Yulia Van Doren says the secret to singing Handel’s cantata Apollo e Dafne is in its many musical ornaments and colours. Andrew Schaff photo.
Music stretches out in arc of transformation > B Y TONY M ONTAG U E
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Apollo requires you to use all the vocal colours possible,” says Williams. “Even though at the beginning you’re singing full-on, you have to find that vulnerable colour at the end. It’s tricky to sustain the energy throughout and find all these different vocal colours to show the wide range of emotions.” Soprano Yulia Van Doren faces similar demands in the role of Daphne. “Her journey is in a way one-dimensional, because from the moment that she becomes aware of Apollo she spurns him, and she’s a bit angry and scared,” she says, on the line from her home in Chicago. “Daphne starts out with a really lovely pastoral song, unaware that he’s watching her. After that, she’s constantly rejecting. It’s a challenge to make sure you bring in a lot of colours. But the main challenge of the piece is the music itself—Handel is hard to sing and requires a large range. It really stretches the voice.” Baroque operas also test the singers’ abilities as musicians, since they have to add their own embellishments. “Almost all Handel’s arias are da capo in the form A-B-A,” says Van Doren, “which means you sing the melody once through, then you sing a little middle part that’s unrelated melodically, then you sing the first part of the music again. This time you have to add in all sorts of these flourishes, which takes work to figure out. They need to fit the specific period, and you have to be aware of the appropriate choice of ornament depending whether you’re singing, say, a Handel aria or a French baroque aria. Even within that, there can be subgenres. But it’s one of the things I love most about singing baroque music—you have the opportunity to add your own colours and ideas.” Williams and Van Doren need to do a great deal of preparation for Apollo e Dafne as well as the other vocal piece on the program, Handel’s duet “Tacete, ohimè, tacete”, which dates from the start of his Italian sojourn. “All that work for one night only is a bit of a shame, but that’s in the nature of what I do,” says Van Doren. “I’m not strictly an opera singer, because I focus on concerts rather than staged performances. It means a lot of travel, a lot of loneliness, and a lot of music to learn. But I prefer to do this. The beauty is that, unlike full opera productions, there’s no fourth wall separating me from the audience—I’m acknowledging that the audience is there and we’re having this experience together.” -
ot even the greatest gods of antiquity had things all their way, according to mythology. When sun deity Apollo took an unhealthy fancy to the chaste nymph Daphne and started to get physical, she metamorphosed into a laurel tree, instantly and permanently—a transformation devastatingly effective in cooling the god’s ardour and inducing reflection. It marks the dramatic climax of George Frederick Handel’s baroque cantata Apollo e Dafne. “The first time I performed the work—in New York with a small company—it was staged,” says Douglas Williams, Apollo in Early Music Vancouver’s production, reached in Berkeley, California. “For her transformation into a tree the soprano took a houseplant, sort of molested it, and covered herself in the potting soil—which was the best they could come up with.” No plants are harmed or singers soiled in the Vancouver presentation of Handel’s masterpiece, which he wrote in 1709 at the end of a threeyear sojourn in Italy. He travelled to Florence, Rome, Naples, and Venice, and was exposed to the Italian style of composers such as Antonio Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Arcangelo Corelli. The many works Handel created at this time reflect their influence. “This is one of Handel’s early pieces and the arias are relatively short compared to what he would be doing 10 or 20 years later,” says Williams. “The florid passagework and coloratura is totally in the Italian style. Handel is starting to show off the virtuosity of the singer just for the beauty of what he or she can do. This continued into his later writing, in big operas such as Orlando. In Apollo e Dafne Handel shows he can compose in a style that serves the story and follows the dramatic flow, writing music to bring the listener through the story. And he’s doing it at a kind of microlevel here.” Apollo e Dafne is relatively short for a dramatic musical work and has only two characters, whereas the longer three- to four-hour operas feature many—often with names and story lines that aren’t easy to follow. “This piece contains within it a beautiful arc, starting with Apollo at the extreme of his hubris and pride and ending not only with the transformation of Daphne but Apollo’s own transformation into someone completely vulnerable,” Williams explains. “There’s this tremendous dramatic arc or decrescendo from his two triumphant arias to the Early Music Vancouver presents Apollo final plaintive lament.” The work poses a series of musical e Dafne at the Vancouver Playhouse challenges for singers. “The arc for on Friday (March 18).
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rom the outside, it would seem that dance artist Olivia C. Davies and writer Carmen Aguirre come from completely different worlds. Davies is known for contemporary dance that often explores her aboriginal heritage, while Aguirre’s writings mine her background in revolutionary South America. But the two have found deep connections while collaborating on the latest installment of the Beyond Words series, a unique Dance Centre and Chan Centre initiative that pairs up dancers and authors to create new work. For the show, called Words in Motion, Davies is interpreting Aguirre’s short story “Open Fire”, the tale of a woman struggling to understand her mother’s murder by Argentina’s former military dictatorship. It was a trauma that immediately resonated with the dancer when she first met with Aguirre. “We realized that with the main character in the story, her mother is ‘disappeared’ when she is five years old,” Davies says to the Straight over the phone between rehearsals. “My own mother passed away of cancer when I had just turned six. So I had this similar tragedy of understanding how it is to lose a primary caregiver early in life. So that bridge connected us right away and brought that implicit trust right away. “The short story was about true events that happened to a close friend,” Davies continues. “She goes back later in life to learn more about what happened back then. That had a cross line in my own understanding of my mother’s life. I too went back later in life [to find out more about it] when I felt ready to do it.” Davies had also cofounded and spent years working with MataDanZe, a dance-theatre troupe made up
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Alejandra Miranda Caballero, Carmen Aguirre, Olivia C. Davies, and Sindy Angel (from left) turn a short story into dance with Open Fire. Clancy Dennehy photo.
largely of Latin American women that travelled to places like Venezuela. “We were very much a revolutionary dance troupe and that immediately connected Carmen and I,” Davies says. “I knew what it was to put up a fight against the powers that be using art.” Davies also knows what it is to work with text. Since her early years as a choreographer she has been interpreting spoken-word poetry and other written sources. She says she loves the process of taking language and sending it through the entire musculoskeletal system. “We can…bring out these powerful images that perhaps wouldn’t have the powerful ferocity if they were just spoken through words,” she says. Davies’s approach also stems from her interest in aboriginal forms of storytelling. “In our oral traditions there’s this act of storytelling where sometimes meaning is what you read through the lines of what they’re giving you,” she explains. “So the development of my creative work is about reading between those lines and really finding…how the impetus is going to transfer into my body and then be retransmitted through my body.”
In the resulting piece, dancers Sindy Angel, Alejandra Miranda Caballero, and Davies herself each bring characters from Aguirre’s story to life. Aguirre is going to read the short story live on-stage, no doubt bringing extra dramatic effect to the piece, which will also feature music. Open Fire joins collaborations by bharata natyam dancer Anusha Fernando and author Aislinn Hunter, and contemporary choreographer Paraskevas Terezakis and short-fiction specialist Nancy Lee. Davies’s piece tells a moving story, but don’t expect a literal re-enactment. Words in Motion is not about pantomime, but more about going beyond the given text. “The imagery in Open Fire is really dramatic and it’s been [my goal] to allow those images to settle in the mind and see where they come out of the body,” Davies says. Words in Motion takes place on Friday and Saturday (March 18 and 19) at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts’ Telus Studio Theatre.
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New music thrives on throwing away rules > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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s composer in residence for the 2016 Sonic Boom Festival, Edward Top is in a good position to determine the defining characteristics of Vancouver’s burgeoning new-music scene. Except, he says, there are none. Our city may be busier than ever, with concerts of adventurous music taking place on a more-than-weekly basis, but trying to find a conceptual through-line is like chasing smoke. What you’ll hear in Sonic Boom’s four evening concerts, Top notes, is a true reflection of our city’s diversity. “There’s such a wide range,â€? he stresses, in a telephone interview from his home. “There’s Chinese instruments; there’s all kinds of different approaches. It seems like a lot of music.‌but I don’t see a specific style, or anything like that. “It’s no longer that your teachers at school say, ‘Well, this is the tradition. This is what you’re doing, and everything else that you’re showing me is going to be rejected,’ â€? he continues. “It’s not like that anymore at all, because students are going to do their own thing. Anything goes, really.â€? The Netherlands-born Top, who teaches composition at the Vancouver Academy of Music, is happy to take advantage of this new flexibility. For his own Together, a duet for bassist David Brown and trombonist Jeremy Berkman commissioned by Sonic Boom, he’s gone back to the man who literally wrote the book on orchestration, Hector Berlioz—and then thrown away that 19th-century master’s rules. “In Berlioz’s treatise on orchestration he writes, ‘As a recent development, the trombones are being used in parallel or in octaves with the double-bass groups,’ â€? Top observes. “He thought that was a very bad development and very uncreative, so I took that onboard—and actually did
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exactly what Berlioz would have not liked and wrote a piece in unison between double bass and trombone. And not only are they playing the same thing, but they’re also playing in fifths. Because the material itself is written like a riff from rock music, it has that power-chord feel to it.� Berkman and Brown will premiere Together at Pyatt Hall on Saturday (March 19). Their night of duos is preceded by two emergingcomposer showcases—the first at the Western Front, and the second at Pyatt Hall—with the action shifting to the Orpheum Annex for Standing Wave’s gala finale on Sunday (March 20). Top has a new piece in that program, too, which finds the veteran new-music sextet joined by former Vancouver Symphony Orchestra bass clarinetist Cris Inguanti. “Cris suggested, ‘How about the two clarinets having some kind of duel—duelling the musical material?’ And that’s the idea that stuck,� Top says of his appropriately titled Duel. “The piece starts with a long, extended solo for bass clarinet—a bit like the third movement of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time: very abstract melodic lines. And the melody comes back later in the clarinet, but played by AK Coope from the ensemble. And in between, the other instruments explore that same melody. So it’s a duel in the sense that the two clarinets are competing, but at the same time the bass clarinet is kind of like duelling with the ensemble as a whole, as well. It’s not quite as black-and-white as that—not so clear, just like real life. But that’s kind of the idea.� -
Brian Wakelin, PUBLIC Architecture + Communication, Vancouver, BC
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The act of gathering is a universal behaviour that dissolves social distinctions and fosters community connection. Yet, in spite of Vancouver’s recognition for urban design, our city lacks significant outdoor spaces for the public to convene. Brian Wakelin, of the celebrated design firm, PUBLIC (recent recipient of the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture) has responded to this issue by mining parking lots, streets and setbacks to place temporary and smaller urban infrastructure as fragments of an incomplete and evolving puzzle that make up the city. This talk will be preceded by a short performance by emerging poet-musician, Sam Herle. Richmond City Hall Council Chambers 6911 No. 3 Road (short walk from the Richmond-Brighouse Canada Line Station, 24 mins from Vancouver City Centre) FREE, but seating limited. RSVP to lulu@richmond.ca
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“ ‘I’m still Elvis, I’m still around, but nobody’s really seen me do my thing on-stage.’ So he did it.� By “it�, he of course means the fabled ’68 Comeback Special, where, clad in a badass black leather suit, Elvis both announced his return as a musical giant and recharged himself for another assault on America. “Now bring 1969, where Elvis was like, ‘I’m gonna go out and leave it all on the stage,’ � Michaels says. “That’s why I love 1968 and ’69, because he tapped into what made him who he was from 1956, but was also a lot more schooled. His voice was richer and it didn’t look like there was going to be any kind of demise. For me, he was totally on fire, and that’s the kind of energy that I try to capture and bring to the different eras of Elvis Presley.� The singer’s lifelong reverence for the King makes him a natural for Return to Grace, a production that treats Elvis with something that he hasn’t always gotten over the years: complete and total respect. The show is set up as a career-encompassing live concert that traces Presley from his fabulously pompadoured rockabilly-rebel beginnings to the all-hands-on-deck spectacle that was 1973’s Aloha From Hawaii concert. While there are narrative passages designed to put the King’s career in context, it’s the music that’s the focus of Return to Grace, the almost-orchestral live band and army of backup dancers creating a Vegas-style spectacle. The only thing missing is the Elvis that sat around Graceland as a sad, addicted caricature of his former self. “While we do touch on Elvis’s passing, the approach is more a celebration of his life,� Michaels says. -
ong-time Elvis impersonator Steve Michaels knows what his least favourite period is when it comes to the King: no true fan wants to see Presley stagger around Vegas stages in a white jumpsuit, overweight, sweating, and incoherently drugged out. Declaring the greatest phase of Elvis’s long and storied career is more of a challenge. The Toronto-based Michaels—who’s starring in the musical Return to Grace—got his start playing Presley during the early years. His love for the pop-culture giant isn’t, however, reserved for the magical time in the ’50s when “Hound Dog� was dragging rock ’n’ roll into the living rooms of white-bread America. If playing Elvis in the career-spanning production has taught him anything, it’s that “See See Rider� from Aloha From Hawaii is just as vital as raw early smashes like “Hound Dog�. “When we do the ’70s, nothing can stop a wall of 26 pieces—when that’s going, it’s really cooking,� Michaels says, on the line from Toronto. “But for myself, looking at it, my favourite Elvis is an Elvis from 1969, when Elvis first went to Vegas.� The star of Return to Grace breaks things down like this. In the 1950s, Elvis was an unvarnished juggernaut who wasn’t completely aware of his own powers, shocking an America that was used to safe crooners like Pat Boone. In the ’60s Hollywood got hold of Presley for an endless string of movies that both filed off his edges and exhausted him while stifling his musical career. Genrebending visionaries like the Beatles, meanwhile, dominated the charts. “So, in 1968, he was like, ‘Look, Return to Grace plays the Queen I gotta show the world that I still have Elizabeth Theatre from Tuesday to something to offer,’ � Michaels relates. next Sunday (March 22 to 27).
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS she told stories to survive until sunrise. by Mary Zimmerman
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ing dictation. Shelley Tepperman’s translation of Jennifer Tremblay’s The List (La Liste) bursts with exquisite phrasing. The sole character, whom the script identifies only as “a woman”, has initiated her family’s move from the city to a village in Quebec. Her husband commutes, and she stays at home with three small children, but her rural idyll doesn’t work out as planned. “I thought that here I’d become sweet,” she says. “But I’m a bitter fruit.” As this person becomes increasingly agoraphobic, the landscape terrifies her: “The field is inhaling me.” Although she condescends to the people of the village, her husband forces the woman to attend a picnic. In amazement, she describes it: “Joy bounces around the green lawns.” And although the woman dates and labels all of her kids’ art and keeps it in plastic boxes, she makes a surprising friend in Caroline, the messy, amiable mother of four. When the two weep together at a movie about deferred dreams and romantic compromise, the woman says, “Our sorrows rub shoulders above our heads.” But the woman has failed to tick off one of the items on a to-do list, and we find out early on that Caroline has died. The woman’s unstated question is “Am I responsible?” Visually, this Ruby Slippers production is lovely. In his design, John Webber hangs domestic artifacts on clear plastic lines: rubber gloves, a cereal box, a towel. The visual equivalent of lists, they become the walls of the woman’s kitchen—comforting and entrapping. And as it evokes the character’s moods, Webber’s lighting design is gorgeous. When the woman speaks of a few hours without the kids—“I eat my salad in front of the TV”—Webber’s illumination gives the moment all the sensuality of a day on a tropical beach. France Perras’s performance is nuanced and authoritative. When the woman speaks of her husband, she looks toward an imaginary door with a combination of longing and anticipatory disappointment. It’s obvious what’s going to lead to Caroline’s death, however, so the script goes slack as that thread unspools. And I suspect there’s considerably more humour and sorrow in the script than Perras and director Jack Paterson unearth. Under Paterson’s direction, Perras’s delivery is repetitively matter-of-fact. So, after a promising setup, there’s a sense that the evening doesn’t quite deliver. Still, there’s something very moving about both the artists’ and the audience’s attention to this isolated young mother. And you can’t help but hear the bells of formative feminist analysis when the woman says, “My responsibilities aren’t a burden. What’s missing is a voice.”
and drug abuse, although it’s not clear if his drowning was a suicide. Here’s the thing: Matthew is an asshole. He shows up all chummy with a little hostess gift, but he quickly launches into his harangue, telling the grieving parents that Kevin described them as “closed-minded, controlling, and unaffectionate”. Matthew adds that Kevin loved his mom and dad, but the damage has been done. And he goes on: “I’m not here to teach you anything, but you could have asked your son more questions.” “Things might have been different,” Matthew asserts, essentially blaming Mai and Hong for Kevin’s death. Matthew may be going on the attack to distract himself from his own sense of responsibility. The script indicates that this could be the case. But Brian J. Sutton’s performance lacks the depth that would be required to make that twist really pay off. And the dynamic between sadsack Matthew, angry Hong, and conciliatory Mai gets repetitive. Still, there’s good news. Ly pries humour out of Hong’s blunt resistance to Matthew’s presence. When Mai says that she couldn’t wait for Matthew to come, Hong adds, “Hmhmm. I could not sleep last night. So excited.” And the first moving moment in the production comes when Hong finally turns on Matthew: “I give him the best funeral I can afford. The best cemetery, not too crowded. The best tombstone.” In B.C. Lee’s performance, Hong’s fury and sorrow are as painfully present as glass in a wound. Ian Chan’s projections allow Kevin to be visually present, which is touching. And, playing Mai, Alannah Ong brings it all home in the play’s final movement. I won’t give away what happens, but accommodating Mai has to decide how much she can forgive. The play unfolds in English and Cantonese, and the production uses surtitles, which is a great way to play with the cultural interface, and an excellent strategy for inviting recent immigrants into the theatre. The script has improved since its Richmond premiere two years ago. It’s still imperfect, but it packs a punch.
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THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT
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By Minh Ly. Directed by Rick Tae. A frank theatre company production, presented by the Cultch. At the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab on Tuesday, March 8. Continues until March 19
By Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir. Directed by Ashlie Corcoran. A Buddies in Bad Times Theatre production, presented by the Cultch. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Wednesday, March 2. Continues For great chunks of Ga Ting until March 19
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In The List (La Liste), actor France Perras portrays a young mother isolated in a Quebec village who struggles with the death of a friend. Tim Matheson photo.
noyed. Then, in sudden surges, I was moved to tears. In Minh Ly’s script, a gay man named Matthew visits Mai and Hong, the parents of his recently deceased partner, Kevin. We soon find out that Kevin struggled with mental illness
The Gay Heritage Project is smart, and moving— pretty much everything you could want in a show. But I’m going to treat this like a date and find fault, too. In this project from Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
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three young, gay theatre artists— Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir—try to figure out what the heck gay heritage is. Right out of the gate, they deconstruct the popular but faulty notion that gay identity has always existed. There have always been homosexual acts, but those acts haven’t always been a primary determinant of the sense of self. In one of the funniest bits in the show, Dorothy and her companions from The Wizard of Oz visit the Emerald City in search of their gay heritage and are distressed to find that the man behind the curtain is Michel Foucault, the postmodern French philosopher who positioned gayness as a recent cultural artifact. Atkins, who wrote the Oz piece, is a fantastic performer. Just wait till you hear his impersonations of Judy Garland and Bert Lahr, the actor who played the Cowardly Lion. And he starts the show with a hilarious bit in which he portrays himself as a little kid jumping around his living room, acting out all of skater Brian Orser’s long program from the 1988 Winter Olympics. Now that’s gay, no matter what Foucault says. The show’s creators all perform their own material, and many of Dunn’s offerings present historical information that’s often forgotten—the ongoing incarceration of gay prisoners after the liberation of all other survivors from the Nazi death camps, for instance. These guys sing like queer angels: one mashup includes everything from an Edith Piaf impersonation to bits from Rent. And an ongoing bit called “Gay Canadian Action Figures” is clever and important. Movingly, the mention of Vancouverites Jim Deva and Janine Fuller, who won a censorship battle with Canada Customs, brought cheers from the opening-night audience. Okay, downsides. The members of this all-white acting company spend a lot of time considering their racial responsibilities. It would have been a lot more efficient and interesting if they had simply invited some diverse artists to join them. And I take issue with the Kushnir piece in which the character Gay Identity admits that he abandoned Gay Desire, Gay Drag, and Gay Camp to achieve acceptance. These characters all seem to be male, but since when have gay men given up lust? Or drag? Or camp? The argument that inclusion means dilution has always been popular in progressive circles, in which complaint is always cooler than celebration, but it doesn’t hold water. Speaking of complaint, I’ll stop now. I laughed at this show. I cried. I’m very grateful. > COLIN THOMAS
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS DOGFIGHT Musical based on the 1991 film starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor Mar 16-19, 8-10:15 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $18-25, info www.facebook. com/events/574655209357677/. THE OUT VIGIL Twenty Something Theatre presents the world premiere of Julie McIsaac’s play about a Newfoundlander who arrives in Alaska desperate for a job. Mar 17-26, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $23-33, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/. CABARET Exit 22 Company presents director Stephen Atkins’s tale of love in terrible times, set against Berlin’s decadent cabaret scene and the rise of the Nazi party. Mar 17-26, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $22/15/10, info tickets. capilanou.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/ tmEvent911.html.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Evan Frayne directs Mary Zimmerman’s play about a woman who delays her looming execution by telling stories to her murderous husband. Mar 17–Apr 2, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $24.50/16.50/11.50, info www.theatre. film.bc.ca/.
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THE LARAMIE PROJECT The Departments of Theatre and Stagecraft & Event Technology at Douglas College present Moisés Kaufman’s story about the 1998 death of gay university student Matthew Shepard. Directed by Deborah Neville. Mar 18-24, Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre (Douglas College. 700 Royal Ave., New West). Tix $10-20, info www.douglascollege.ca/about-douglas/ groups-and-organizations/theatre/. RETURN THE GRACE Over 30 singers, dancers, and musicians pay tribute to Elvis Presley. Mar 22-27, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticket master.ca/, info www.returntograce.ca/. DOOST (FRIEND) An ensemble of artists and adherents of the Nimatullahi Sufi order explore the universal essence of the mystic poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and
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LOST WORDS Pi Theatre presents a theatre series that explores what happens when someone disagrees with the party in power and writes something about it. Mar 22, 8:30 pm, The Emerald (555 Gore). Admission by donation ($10 suggested), info www.pitheatre.com/events/perform ance/lost-words-canada-edition/.
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2ONGOING GO, DOG. GO! Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a stage-musical adaptation of P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book. To Mar 20, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $18-35, info www.carousel theatre.ca/production/go-dog-go/. THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir present a moving homage to the gay people who came before us and the events that continue to shape our lives. To Mar 19, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/.
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THE CROWD Studio 58 presents the world premiere of Canadian playwright George F. Walker’s newest work. Directed by Patrick McDonald. Mar 17–Apr 3, Studio 58 (Langara College, 100 W. 49th). Tix $20-25, info www.studio58.ca/.
DISNEY MAGIC Round up the tots: this is classical music that’s fit for the whole family. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is presenting Pixar in Concert at the Orpheum this Monday (March 21), where a nostalgia-inducing repertoire of original Pixar scores is sure to dazzle adults and kids alike. Expect live performances of tunes from all 14 Disney Pixar films—including perennial favourites Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Finding Nemo—plus highdefinition montages of memorable clips from each. Your babysitter will appreciate the night off.
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GA TING The frank theatre company presents Minh Ly’s story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son. To Mar 19, Vancity Culture Lab (the Cultch, 1895 Venables). Tix $25, info www.thecultch. com/events/ga-ting-family/. MOLL As part of CelticFest Vancouver, Standing Room Only Theatre presents Irish playwright John B. Keane’s comedy about the goings-on in a rural Kerry presbytery. To Mar 16, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20, info www.celticfestvancouver. com/event/moll-play/.
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THE LIST Ruby Slippers Theatre presents director Jack Paterson’s production of Jennifer Tremblay’s play. To Mar 19, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Info 604-270-1812, www.gate waytheatre.com/. RECLAIMING HOPE Theatre for Living presents an interactive-theatre piece starring David Diamond. To Apr 2, 7:30 pm, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info 604-871-0508, www.theatreforliving.com/ present_work/reclaiming_hope/reclaim ing_hope_index.html.
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DANCE 2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL Annual celebration of dance features performances by Dumb Instrument Dance and Company 605. To Mar 19, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix start at $20, info www.vidf.ca/. BALLET BC PROGRAM 2 Ballet BC presents the world premiere of French choreographer Medhi Walerski’s first full-length work. Mar 17-19, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $30-90, info www. balletbc.com/performance/program-2/.
straight choices BIG BACH The Vancouver Bach Choir is wrapping up its 85th anniversary season with a bang. The renowned choir will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Orpheum this Saturday (March 19) alongside the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a group of internationally recognized soloists that includes soprano Anne Grimm, bass baritone Alan MacDonald, and tenor Benjamin Butterfield. Written by Bach for a Good Friday mass in 1727, the commanding piece entwines song, drama, and text to tell the story of Christ’s betrayal, trial, and execution. WORDS IN MOTION Discover how movement breathes life into words with three award-winning narratives interpreted by a trio of distinct choreographers. Mar 18-19, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $20-32, info www.chancentre.com/.
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BRAHMS, BRASS, AND STRINGS The VSO and various soloists perform works by Arnold, Schnittke, and Brahms. Mar 16-17, 7:30 pm; Mar 20, 2 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Info www.vancouver symphony.ca/. HANDEL’S APOLLO E DAFNE Early Music Vancouver and Pacific Baroque Orchestra present a performance of Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, as well as Bach’s Orchestral Suite in C Major. Mar 18, 7:30 am, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $17.50, info www.earlymusic. bc.ca/events/handel-apollo-e-dafne/. MUSIC OF THE HUMAN SOUL The Laudate Singers and Couloir present world premieres by Vancouver composers Stephen Chatman and Chris Sivak, as well as works by Jocelyn Morlock and Gustav Holst. Mar 18, 8 pm, St. Andrew’s United Church (1044 St. George’s Ave., North Van). Tix 35/30/15/free for kids under 12, info www.laudatesingers.com/. ETERNAL LIGHT Vocal and instrumental ensemble the Postmodern Camerata performs works by Handel, Ligeti, Pärt, and Bach. Mar 19, 7 pm, St. Paul’s Anglican Church (1130 Jervis). Tix $25, info www. postmoderncamerata.com/. BACH’S ST. MATTHEW PASSION The Vancouver Bach Choir performs Bach’s masterpiece of classical music. Includes tenor Benjamin Butterfield, bass baritone Alan MacDonald, soprano Anne Grimm, mezzo soprano Susan Platts, and bass Steven Hegedus. Mar 19, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $29-85, info www.vancouverbachchoir.com/. WEST COAST SYMPHONY CONCERT Local classical ensemble and maestro Bujar Llapaj perform music by Rossini, Puccini, and Elgar. Mar 20, 2 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Admission by donation, info www.westcoastsymphony.ca/. BROWN, URIOSTE, CANELLAKIS TRIO The Vancouver Recital Society presents the classical ensemble in a performance of works by Haydn, Chausson, and Mendelssohn. Mar 20, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital.com/.
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2ONGOING LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604525-2262, www.lafflines.com/. 2DARRYL LENOX Mar 18-19 2KRIS SHAW Apr 1-2. THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2SIMON KING Mar 17-19 2CHARLIE DEMERS Mar 24-26 2DARCY MICHAEL Apr 7-9 2JERRY ROCHA Apr 14-16 2SEAN PATTON Apr 21-23 2PETE ZEDLACHER Apr 28-30 2MARK FORWARD May 5-7 2BEN GLEIB May 12-14 2GABRIEL RUTLEDGE Jun 2-4 2CHAD DANIELS Jun 9-11 2DEANNE SMITH Jun 16-18 2CHRIS LOCKE Jun 23-25. YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancou ver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2STEVE BYRNE Mar 18-19 2GARY CANNON Mar 18-19 2AARON BERG Mar 24-26 2ALEX SPARLING Mar 24-26 2SEAN TWEEDLEY Mar 31- Apr 2 2EDDIE DELLA SIEPE Mar 31-Apr 2 2SUNEE DHALIWAL Mar 31-Apr 2. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed,Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Mar 16-23, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK SIMON KING Standup comedian known for performing at the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and the TBS Comedy Festival. Mar 17-19, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. STEVE BYRNE Pittsburgh standup comedian known for his role on TBS’s Sullivan & Son, with guest Gary Cannon. Mar 18, 7 pm; Mar 18, 9:30 pm; Mar 19, 7 pm; Mar 19, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $25, info www.yukyuks.com/. VANCOUVERITE: A COMEDY SHOW Amber Harper-Young and Brent Constantine host a night of Vancouverthemed comedy by Ben McGinnis, Julie Kim, Abdul Aziz , Jacob Samuel, and Lauren McGibbon. Mar 19, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www. hotartwetcity.com/vancouverite-mar2016/. LADIES AGAINST HUMANITY Woman Vancouver comics bring Cards Against Humanity to life. Includes guests from Vancouver TheatreSports League, Instant Theatre, and Phantom Signal. Mar 23, 8-10:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.thefictionals.com/.
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LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK READINGS AT ROEDDE WITH BILL RICHARDSON Writer and former CBC host Bill Richardson discusses and read from recent work The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps: Poems of the Late Middle Ages. Mar 20, 3-4:30 pm, Roedde House Museum (1415 Barclay). Tix $12-15, info www.roeddehouse.org/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK WORLD POETRY CANADA INTERNATIONAL PEACE & HUMAN RIGHTS EXHIBIT A blend of photography, poetry, and films gives recognition and support to multicultural and multilingual poets and writers and those in artistic disciplines. To Mar 30, 3 pm, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, UBC). Free admission, info www.worldpoetry.ca/.
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SENSORY-FRIENDLY KIDS’ SHOW You might remember reading P.D. Eastman’s famed 1961 book Go, Dog. Go! as a child. Now, thanks to Carousel Theatre, you can watch the Seuss-esque classic come to life. Carousel’s colourful 60-minute play runs until Sunday (March 20), but on Saturday (March 19), families affected by autism or sensory and communication disorders are invited to attend the theatre’s first “Relaxed Performance”. Crafted specifically for those that benefit from a more laid-back theatre environment, the matinee will feature flexible, generaladmission seating, adjusted sound and light levels, a friendly, welcoming atmosphere, and preshow family resources including digital guides, photographs, and information about the venue. Only 112 tickets will be sold, so get yours now at www.tickets.carouseltheatre.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) to Jun 12
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER (major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real-estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about the cityscapes of the future) to May 15, 10 am THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2(IN)VISIBLE: THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF TAIWAN THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART (works by seven contemporary Taiwanese artists who explore the coexistence of modernity and tradition while showcasing the significance of the spiritual world of Taiwan) to Apr 3 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition will delve into their economic, cultural, and spiritual connections to the river system, while drawing urgent attention to logging and mining operations that pose environmental threats to the region) to Jan 31, 2017
OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED ISLE OF THE ARTS FESTIVAL Enjoy and participate in 60 workshops and seven events over 10 days, each one crafted to bring out the artist within. Mar 31–Apr 10, Gabriola Island. Info www.artsfest. artsgabriola.ca/.
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Annoying Olympic winner gets The Bronze RE VIEW S THE BRONZE Starring Melissa Rauch. Rated 18A
The Big Bang Theoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Melissa
2 Rauch, who wrote this with
husband Winston Rauch, plays someone deliriously unlikable. Her Hope Anabelle Greggory won the titular third for gymnastics at Romeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2004 Olympics, and her main claim to fameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;doing it on a sprained ankleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is also why her career never went any further. Instead of being Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sweetheart, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become the angry girlfriend of tiny Amherst, Ohio, where this was actually filmed. When not sleeping it off in the basement of her postman dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suburban bungalow (with Veepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gary Cole in the Bob Balaban role), she wanders around town in an American-flag tracksuit. This Tonya Harding with deadmother issues basically lives on the frayed goodwill and free stuff of her rust-belt neighbours. Judging from the amount of booze and junk food she consumes, and the number of folks she cheerfully pisses off, Greggory could have been played by Melissa McCarthy. But Rauch, saddling herself with peroxide bangs and a flat Midwestern twang, makes this learning-impervious Valkyrie burn calories through sheer animosity. Currently, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling threatened by the unexpected rise of another local gymnast with Olympic potential. And when people start pushing her to coach young Maggie (Haley Lu Richardson), an easily corrupted Christian goodie girl, it throws her right off the olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; horse. Produced by the Duplass brothers and directed by commercial vet Bryan Buckley, the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funnier than it has any right to be, given the crudity of its running jokes. But The
In The Bronze, Melissa Rauch plays an ex-Olympian who bums around her hometown, cheerfully pissing off her neighbours.
Bronze becomes more interesting when it quiets down for Greggoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burgeoning friendship with a goofy gym owner played by Silicon Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thomas Middleditch. The yuks (and yucks) come back whenever she runs into a sports-world nemesis called Lance (Captain Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sebastian Stan), leading to the least gratuitous sex scene youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see this year. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say they stick the landing. > KEN EISNER
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Starring John Goodman. Rated 14A
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including the much ballyhooed The Witchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has blown me away. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very happy to report that 10 Cloverfield Lane did exactly that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best scary movie of 2016 (so far). The good stuff starts when Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, from the crappy remake of The Thing) gets knocked unconscious in a fierce car crash thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strikingly
intercut with the opening titles. When she comes to she finds herself chained to the floor on a mattress in a grubby, windowless roomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although her injuries have been attended to. Her captor, hulking survivalist Howard (the ever-awesome John Goodman), claims that he saved her, that she wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have survived outside because the air has been contaminated by some kind of â&#x20AC;&#x153;attackâ&#x20AC;? from enemies unknown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are you going to do to me?â&#x20AC;? asks the terrified woman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to keep you alive,â&#x20AC;? he replies. Howard holds Michelle in the well-stocked, underground bunker he constructed at the titular address, and tells her theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to wait out the contamination for a year, maybe two. Also taking shelter is local good old boy Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), who helped him build it. As the trio passes the time doing puzzles, playing board games, and watching Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old VHS movies, the mood swings back and forth from comical to foreboding. Howard
is one strange, heavy-breathing bird, but Michelle comes to trust him whenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;during a thrilling escape attemptâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she learns that something has indeed gone terribly wrong outside. Howard is by turns vulnerable and menacing, and Goodman is perfect for the part. His paranoiadriven portrayal keeps you guessing about his motives and the validity of his contamination claim. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find any spoilers here, though, just a rabid recommendation to go into 10 Cloverfield Lane mostly blind and let its mysteries unfold like a long-lost, newly discovered Twilight Zone episode. Because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kinda what it is. > STEVE NEWTON
THE PROGRAM Starring Ben Foster. Rated PG
Irish comic Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd has
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Walsh, the sports reporter who blew the lid off Lance Armstrongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drug use. Early on, the London-based
Walsh, on whose book The Program is based, tells his dubious Sunday Times editor (Peter Wight) that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow the Tour de France just â&#x20AC;&#x153;to watch chemists competeâ&#x20AC;?. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd gets the best lines, but this is really Ben Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie. Zoe Saldana is never going to remind anyone of Nina Simone, even with prosthetics, but Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resemblance to Armstrong is almost scary. He fully captures the steely determination of the seven-time Tour champion and the smarmy hubris that eventually wiped away those victories. First noticed as Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soft art-student boyfriend in Six Feet Under, the young actor even transforms his body shape several times for the story. Snappily directed by veteran Stephen Frears (The Queen, My Beautiful Laundrette) from a complex, if sometimes bluntly expositional, script by Trainspottingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Hodge, the new filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territory is similar to that of Alex Gibneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary The Armstrong Lie. Most of the people around the Texas-born cyclist also look remarkably like their real-life modelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Dustin Hoffman, seen briefly as a skeptical insurance man. The most notable exception is Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guillaume Canet, unconvincing as aptly named Michele Ferrari, the Italian doctor who devised the titular drug regimen for Armstrong and crew. Best of the rest is Breaking Badâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jesse Plemons as Floyd Landis, the Amish teammate whose qualms finally helped undo his bossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hold on turn-a-blind-eye sponsors. Unfortunately, Landisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moral complexity points out just how essentially indecipherable the stone-faced Armstrong remains, even with Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potent efforts. In fact, Gibneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doc went to greater lengths exploring its subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abandonment issues as a win-at-allsee next page
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costs motivator, and family is mostly absent. Still, The Program is a solid primer to this fascinating rise-andfall saga—one offering far-reaching implications about corruption in sports and celebrity culture.
> KEN EISNER
ONLY YESTERDAY Featuring the voice of Daisy Ridley. Rating unavailable
Haunted female childhoods
2 are de rigueur in the anime
world of Studio Ghibli head Hayao Miyazaki. The Spirited Away director merely produced this two-hour stroll down Watercolour Lane, but it shares his deep nostalgia for the rural Japan of his youth. The film itself is weighted with nostalgia in its home country, where it was originally released in 1991. Starting with a three-part manga that dealt only with little Taeko’s middle-school passage, director Isao Takahata (responsible for Ghibli’s best-known non-Miyazakis, like Grave of the Fireflies) set the tale in 1982 and invented scenes of the 27-year-old Taeko looking back at 1966, when modern electronics and fresh foreign fruit were new to most Japanese. Only Yesterday also deals with previously hidden aspects of school days, such as learning disabilities and the beginnings of menstruation—causing squeamish U.S. distributor Disney to drop the film. Now it’s back in a spiffy 25th-anniversary release, with an Englishlanguage voice cast led by current Star Wars heroine Daisy Ridley as the adult Taeko and England’s Dev Patel (with his accent somewhat jarring among a mostly U.S. and Canadian cast) as the young organic farmer she meets when returning to the bucolic countryside she loved as a kid. The tale’s overlapping timelines sometimes create patience-
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straining repetition, especially when Taeko’s insistent voice-over explains or simply describes what we’ve already seen. It rarely takes advantage of the physics-defying nature of animation itself. (There’s one f lying sequence.) Still, it’s remarkable how many early traumas—both banal and highly specific—it addresses in its softpastel way. “It would be better,” our shy protagonist’s depressive mother (Grey Griffin) tells her, “to be a girl who eats what she’s given than to be one who writes slightly better essays than everyone else.” Ouch! Be sure to stick around for the upbeat payoff, which happens during the final credits.
> KEN EISNER
CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS A documentary by Susan Gray. Rating unavailable
As narrow as its subject might
2 appear, Circus Without Borders
Primarily set in two of our most impoverished places, this nicely shot 70-minute Canadian doc centres on men who have found ways to build on the richness in themselves and their communities. The incredibly charismatic Yamoussa Bangoura is a singer, musician, and storyteller who’s also a world-class athlete. In coastal Guinea, one of the most neglected African nations, he’s created Kalabante, a kind of daredevil circus, full of astounding leaps, rolls, and drum music. Bangoura’s eclecticism and thousand-watt personality got him a gig with Cavalia, the Quebec-based equestrian company run by Cirque du Soleil cofounder Normand Latourelle, who eventually followed him back to Guinea to recruit 10 more locals for his shows. On the other side of the world, Montrealer Guillaume Saladin, the son of a prominent anthropologist, grew up between the big city and Canada’s Far North. Now the tall, bald-headed fellow lives in Nunavut’s Igloolik. There, he founded Artcirq, which drafts throat singers, musicians, storytellers, and acrobats to keep the history of the Inuit alive and spread their resilient culture around the globe (most prominently at the opening of the 2010 Olympics). Boston-based doc veteran Susan Gray gets us close to these complicated leaders, although the film is less secure in conveying the consequences of their meeting. Some time-frame references are confusing, and it would be good to know some of the supporting artists better. Less may be more, but another 10 minutes probably wouldn’t have hurt. In any case, this Circus certainly gets across the notion that art and human connection are our most renewable resources. > KEN EISNER
suggests an alternative way of looking at the future. Peak oil is already past, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: but there’s one commodity this planet ALLEGIANT—PART ONE already has too much of: people. Starring Shailene Woodley. Rated PG
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2 Divergent Series as little more
than The Hunger Games with coollooking ray guns instead of bows and arrows. But why be cynical? The third installment in the series has everything a smug adolescent adores: smart, idealistic teens kicking ass and taking names while greedy old people quiver in their postapocalyptic boots. Although there’s lots of highminded talk, director Robert Schwentke is content to serve up what amounts to a two-hour game of laser tag in trendy camouflage jumpsuits. Fans of the series will recognize a definite streak of youthful superiority here. Nobody over 30 can be trusted—not even a melty-eyed Naomi Watts, as one of the shifty leaders of a bleak futuristic Chicago. Our lovely young heroine is Tris (Shailene Woodley), who’s in favour of uniting the various fractured groups in her walled-off city. In order to do so, she must break the local law by scaling the wall and venturing into the outside world. She organizes a group of rebels that includes her hunky boyfriend, Four (Theo James). They make it over the wall to encounter a devastated landscape. Things look bad until the group encounters an advanced civilization led by David (Jeff Daniels, looking pudgy and untrustworthy). David is into genetic experimentation. In fact, he’s interested in learning how to replicate Tris’s “genetic purity” so he can ultimately fix the genetically “damaged”. Apparently, Tris doesn’t mind David using terms that would bring a smile to a Nazi scientist. But Four, being one of the “damaged”, is a little more hip to David’s agenda. What follows delivers little more than what we’ve experienced in previous installments. But then, there’s another chapter right around the corner, if you can manage to care. > JOHN LEKICH see page 26
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With sincere apologies to Robbie Slade BY JOHN LUCAS
and Peter Ricq, who are already tired of talking about it, the Georgia Straight is happy to report that, yes, you can get your hands on—and your upper body into—a jacket just like the one featured in the promotional images for Vancouver electronic-pop duo Humans’ new EP, Water Water. Beautifully embroidered in white and red on black, the sharp-looking item will set you back a cool $600. “People probably ask us about those jackets more than they ask us about the music,” a rueful Slade says, interviewed alongside his bandmate at Milano Coffee’s Mount Pleasant branch. “So we were just like, ‘Fuck it, we’ll do a preorder.’ ” “We never intended on selling them,” Ricq adds, “but because people have been asking about it, we said, ‘Okay, we’ll see if people really do want to buy it.’ Because they’re really expensive. Everything is really high quality. That’s why it looks good. We’ve actually had some sales.” Okay, so the jackets are a little pricey. What better way, though, to show your devotion to Humans in general and Water Water in particular? The EP track “Bout Chu” is a darkly propulsive banger, with enigmatic lyrics about some unspecified backroom goings-on. (We’re guessing drugs. Because it’s always drugs, isn’t it?) Clocking in at just under 10 minutes, the title track is one of the longest entries in the duo’s catalogue. It thumps along to a steady but ever-evolving groove, playing out in trance-inducing fashion long after the vocal has ended. “Water Water” boasts the type of spare, hypnotic beauty that fans have come to expect from a duo that values sonic austerity. “I can’t believe how much shit they put into other music sometimes,” Slade says. “People say that our music is minimal, but it sounds normal
Humans in the machine
Peter Ricq and Robbie Slade of Vancouver electro-pop duo Humans were both glad they agreed to a 9 a.m. photo shoot. Lauren D. Zbarsky photo.
“He is really the closest thing we’ve had to a really tight collaborator,” Slade says of Kozub. Vancouver duo creates music that’s a perfect “He’ll tell us if he thinks soundtrack for dancing—or making more humans some synth sounds like five years ago, or that my to me. When I listen to other stuff, I can’t be- lyrics suck. He’s pretty open and honest about lieve how, like, buzzy the synths are and how that. He had a lot to offer.” full-range the songs are. It kind of blows me Ricq says he has long been a fan of the proaway sometimes.” ducer’s work, and the fact that he has an amazIn stark contrast to that, Humans’ aesthetic is ingly well-equipped recording facility doesn’t based in large part on intentionally limiting the hurt. “We had a list of all the music equipment frequency range of their music. “Honestly, the that we wanted, and he was like, ‘Yeah, I got it, only difference between us and that other stuff I got it. I got that, I got that.’ So when we went is one knob,” Slade notes. “You just go over to to the studio, it was just like a kid on Christmas the synth and turn down the cutoff—roll it off morning—you know, you open all your gifts a bit—and it makes such a big difference to how and you get to play with everything. It was kind we make music.” of like that. It was pretty unreal.” The result is a sound that, while it’s perfectly For the most part, though, Humans have been suited to getting butts moving in nightclubs a two-man operation. Things could have gone and festival tents, makes an excellent sound- very differently, however. When Ricq met Slade track to just chilling at home. According to in 2008, the latter was in a folk-oriented band Ricq, “People say, ‘I listen to your music on the called Family Room. “I really liked what they dance f loor, I can listen to it while I’m writing, were doing,” Ricq recalls. “There were no solos, I can listen to it while I’m…’ ” and it was all very melodic and kind of sad. So I “Having sex,” Slade chips in, and both men asked all of them to come to my house, because I laugh. write music too, and Robbie’s the only one who Humans’ most recent full-length, Noontide, showed up. So that’s how the band got started.” was released just over a year ago, which means “A two-person dynamic is really good,” Slade children conceived under its spell are now keep- adds. “I really like working in duos. But I used to ing their parents up at night for other reasons. want to have a full live band, and we both used to That release has earned Humans a Juno nom- talk about that. We said when we started making ination for electronic album of the year, a first for money we might be able to do that. We still might the duo. Another first was working with an outside someday, but it’s good to be nice and lean so we producer, namely Nik Kozub of long-running Ed- can tour easily, and we have really, really tight conmonton dance-punk outfit Shout Out Out Out Out. trol over the band—because they’re machines.”
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Ryan Lewis’s Seattle studio is a painting of Justin Bieber. Nude. With syrup dripping down his bare torso. And a pancake balanced on his erect member. Let’s hear it for art!
NOT ASKING FOR IT At a March 10 concert in
YOUNG FATHERS Winning the 2014 Mercury Prize and col-
laborating with the likes of Massive Attack have boosted Young Fathers’ profile considerably across the pond, but the Edinburgh trio is still playing smallish clubs in North America. This is good news for us, because it means we get to see the group do its thing—an uncategorizable but always intense mix of hip-hop, rock, and propulsive noise, as heard on its albums Dead and the provocatively titled White Men Are Black Men Too —in the intimate setting of Fortune Sound Club on Saturday (March 19). -
Humans play a DJ set at Celebrities next Friday (March 25).
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Humans sound off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On whether “Bout Chu” is about drugs (Slade): “If you’re reading between the lines, you’re probably reading accurately. I think we should just keep it between the lines. Because then if someone’s like, ‘I knew those guys were sucking each other off,’ I don’t want them to not think that, if that’s what they need to think to like our music. So read between the lines.” On writing songs (Slade): “For me, writing beats is the easy part. It’s writing the melody and the vocals that’s harder. So if I start with the easy part, it’s really hard for me to go in and fill in the vocals. That’s just me. For everyone it’s different. But I start with guitar, usually.” On a friend who almost joined Humans (Ricq): “He said, ‘Guys, I really like your music. I’d really like to make music with you.’ I was like, ‘Okay, how about we try it out and see how it goes?’ And he was like, ‘No, I’m either in the band or I’m not.’ We were like, ‘Okay, well, you’re not.’ ”
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Melbourne, a four-hours-late Madonna had an apparent “onstage meltdown”. It evidently affected neither her potty mouth nor her sense of humour. “Please, someone fuck me,” she said, before adding, “I’m just kidding. I don’t have to ask for that.”
WHAT’S IN A NAME? Maroon 5’s Adam Levine is expecting his first child with his wife, model Behati Prinsloo. We only report this because we find her name delightful. Say it out loud: Behati Prinsloo. Behati Prinsloo. Behati Prinsloo! A BIRO IN CAIRO Bryan Adams was miffed last week
when Egyptian customs officials marred his vintage Martin acoustic guitar with a green marker. In related news, The Hateful Eight star and noted vintage-Martin smasher Kurt Russell has been unofficially banned from all Adams concerts.
Fresh and local KYM BROWN CURSERY RHYMES It’s been a minute since we last heard from Kym Brown. Well, several minutes; Brown last released a full-length album in the previous millennium, way back in 1999. The alwaysquirky Vancouver-born singer-songwriter has mostly lived in London since then, which accounts for the trace of an English accent that now colours her voice—especially evident in the spoken verses of “Almost Happy”, which opens Cursery Rhymes. Brown has evidently had time to explore various genres, resulting in a record that runs from delicately ethereal electronica (“Tell Me Now”) to shuffling folk-pop (“Fishtanked”) to unabashed big shiny pop (“Fast As I Can”). She should do this more often! -
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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN Starring Jennifer Garner. Rated G
Another year, another movie in
2 the “heaven tourism” genre.
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Two years ago, Heaven Is for Real told the story of a father’s efforts to rationalize the stories his son told him about meeting God and Jesus during a near-death experience. Now the same producers have made Miracles From Heaven, in which a devout Christian mother’s faith is shaken when her daughter is diagnosed with a rare and very painful digestive disorder. The first hour or so is actually a fairly compelling look at the despair that Texas mom Christy Beam (Jennifer Garner, crying up a storm) feels as she pleads with receptionists and jumps every queue in an attempt to get her daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) better treatment. It’s only in the latter portion of the movie that matters come to a head as Anna falls into a hollowed-out tree and needs to be rescued—a sequence that is very much in the wheelhouse of director Patricia Riggen (who helmed the Chilean-miners movie The 33). And if you’ve seen any of this film’s trailers, or even just its title, then you know that Anna isn’t killed by the fall, but instead rebounds with tales of her visit to the world beyond. The film’s style is a tad uneven. Moments of silent introspection, as when Anna is drawn to an abstract painting at an art gallery, are juxtaposed with Christian-rock montages and product placements for Angry Birds and Sony Pictures cartoons. Queen Latifah also pops up to provide some sketchy comic relief as a waitress who befriends the Beams. And while the computer-generated heaven sequence isn’t as kitschy as it could have been, it feels strangely superfluous. Rogers, 12, is very convincing in the scenes where Anna suffers, but even she can’t figure out how to talk about heaven like she’s actually been there. > PETER CHATTAWAY
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Genevieve is committed to the artist’s life Sometimes casual comments
2 cut so deep they leave wounds
that take years to heal. Los Angeles– based singer and solo artist Genevieve can definitely testify to that. Pay attention to her lyrics on Show Your Colors, her debut EP from last year, and it becomes obvious there are some heavy things going on beneath the electro-sheened surface. (Samples include “Deep inside there’s a power you can’t resist/And it’s your right to define who you wanna be” and “I used to be my father’s daughter/Everything I did was for attention.”) To understand where the fledgling solo artist is coming from, it helps to flash back to her childhood. When asked to do so, Genevieve takes a deep breath and opens right up. “It was a roller-coaster ride of a childhood for sure,” the singer says, on the line from the City of Angels. “It was filled with a lot of pain and confusion and darkness. It was a big, broken family that was pretty messy, but at the same time I’m grateful for it because I grew up really fast and had to get to know myself early on in life. And that helped me steer clear of a bunch of bullshit, if you don’t mind my French.” Being able to cope better than most didn’t, however, make her forget various indignities. “Really early, someone close to me in my family said to me, ‘The last thing that the world needs is another artist,’ ” Genevieve relates. “That was just totally invalidating. I don’t even think that I was 12 years old when I heard that. That’s where lyrics like ‘Dreaming dreams that I would never tell’ came from. It was sort of like ‘Oh, you wanna be a singer who writes her own songs and shares them with people? And still pays her bills and potentially has a family? Well, that’s quite a pipe dream, Gen.’ “Even to this day,” she continues, “our culture really does celebrate artists and personalities, but at the same time there’s a scary amount of shame in going ‘I wanna be an artist.’ ” Nonetheless, Genevieve is committed to the artist’s life. She first surfaced as the frontwoman of Chicago indie-rock troupe Company of Thieves, which had a seven-year run. Splitting from that band was easy because she found herself creatively unfulfilled. But it was also daunting, partly because she decided to pack up and relocate to Los Angeles. The reward for taking a leap was outof-the-gate recognition from tastemaking outlets like Noisey. And with the attention has come the realization that people are now paying attention to what she has to say. Which is fine, because now, as she’s getting ready to record her debut full-length, she’s learning that she’s got lots to say. “It can be a great exercise in humility,” she says of her writing process, “and also in learning to laugh about difficult times in my life. Basically, a little bit of forgiveness and a little bit of laughter gets me through most everything. And so I think the album
When Genevieve learned a Red Sonja TV series was in the works, she started bombarding Bryan Singer with emails.
will be a mix of the personal and also the really playful. And confrontational. I need to do that right now in my life because for some reason I have it in me. If I don’t get it out, it stays inside and I internalize everything. And if that happens I might implode.” > MIKE USINGER
Genevieve plays the Rio next Thursday (March 24).
Songwriter Cash is drawn to slightly dark characters Tongue-in-Cheek Vows isn’t the
2 first record from Toronto’s Sam
Cash, but it’s the one where he finally learned the benefits of knowing what you’re after before the tape starts rolling in the studio. “In the past we just went in and did it,” the outgoing songwriter says, on the line from Hogtown. “There was never any thought of ‘What do I want to do with this record?’ This is the first one where I sort of had an idea going into it. I was like, ‘I want to make a big-sounding rock record.’ With, of course, the sensitivity inherent in the songs that I’m writing.” Helping Cash achieve his goal and then some was Canadian indie legend Ian Blurton. As producer, Blurton’s first bit of advice to the singer was that he and his backing band—the Romantic Dogs—needed to tighten up. Taking that seriously, Cash worked with Blurton to fashion an album that comes out swinging with the turbo-wound rocker “Cast Away”. “Blurton produced the Weakerthans records, and that’s sort of an avenue that we’re in,” Cash says.
“We’re a rock ’n’ roll band, but the songwriting is very much at the centre of things.” There is indeed no shortage of El Camino guitar crunch on Tongue-inCheek Vows, with the band sounding capable of matching Thin Lizzy shot for shot on “Carmen”. But Cash doesn’t root himself in one era: “I Know You’re Only Laughing” is an authentic stab at pump-it-up new wave, and the acoustic closer, “Won’t Think Twice”, is a killer shot of last-call Americana. There are also all kinds of smart little touches. Check out the spliffking reggae strut of “Radio Waves”, where the Tropicália guitars sound like a week in the Caribbean with Vampire Weekend. “Some of my favourite records are ones where you’ve heard them 20 times, and are still picking out things and sounds that you’ve never heard before,” Cash says. “If you listen to the record once, it’s straight-up rootsrock-pop tunes. But you can also dig a bit deeper, and there’s some really interesting musical interplay happening. On a surface level, it can be easily digested if that’s all you want.” That’s a long way from Cash’s earlier work, which delivered the kind of buffed and warm roots rock perfected by the likes of Blue Rodeo. He says he had a good reason for shooting higher with Tongue-inCheek Vows. “It’s really hard making records with the record industry in the state it’s in,” he opines. “I don’t know how you get people’s attention and get people to notice you. These songs were written over a couple of years, and a bunch of different influences went into them. I was worried that things would sound scattered, and this wouldn’t sound
like a consistent record, but I believe in the album as an art form.” If that sounds like something one expects from rockers of a different generation, it’s not by accident. Part of the charm of Tongue-in-Cheek Vows is that Cash seems like a man from another time. In the tradition of icons like Tom Petty, his lyrics are often centred on what he likes to call “slightly bruised characters”. He’s quick to note that his love of those battling the darkness is tied more to an admiration of classic songwriters than to any trauma from his past. “It’s funny that I’m drawn to those characters,” says Cash, who’s the offspring of beloved Toronto roots-punk pioneer Andrew Cash. “As I’m sure you know, my dad worked in the music industry when I was younger, but I didn’t have this crazy upbringing—it was more really interesting. I always wanted to do this, but was under the impression that you had to be really sad to do it. “And,” he continues, “that you had to have a lot of demons to have a career in songwriting. You actually don’t—you just have to watch and observe other people and friends. You have to be interested in people.” And, presumably, know what you want once the tape starts rolling. > MIKE USINGER
Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs play the Imperial on Wednesday (March 23).
Visionary guitarist Roth’s path is driven by artistry
with 30 frets, the Sky Guitar, because 24 frets just weren’t doin’ it for him. Roth takes it to the next level when it comes to touring as well. As if his legendary six-string (and sometimes seven-string) abilities weren’t enough on their own, he’s currently travelling with two more bona fide guitar heroes—Jennifer Batten and Andy Timmons—under the banner Uli Jon Roth’s Guitar Experience. “It’s an idea that I had years ago,” explains the 61-year-old picker from a tour stop in Ventura, California. “I wanted to do a tour where people are interacting, you know, rather than just doing their own thing. And when it came to finding the right people for the tour, Jennifer and Andy were at the forefront of my mind because I knew that—both in terms of musicality and in terms of personality—they would be the perfect fit.” The way the three-hour-plus Guitar Experience plays out, Timmons opens up with a set, followed by Batten and then Roth, before all three converge for a show-closing jam. “Andy can let it rip,” relates Roth, “and he’s got a very musical ear. He’s really good with improvising, and so is Jennifer, though she plays totally different. She’s got a vast array of sounds at her disposal; she’s got all these amazing gadgets that she knows how to dial in. I have no idea what she’s doing, but whatever she does, it works. And playingwise, she totally holds her own.” As far as Roth’s own set goes, it’s composed of songs from the four studio LPs he made with Scorpions in the mid-’70s, as well as material from his post-Scorps band Electric Sun and his latest solo work. “When we play the old Scorpions classics like ‘Sails of Charon’ or ‘We’ll Burn the Sky’, ‘In Trance’, ‘Fly to the Rainbow’—those are certainly showstoppers. A lot of people get very happy when we do these. But the newer material is also getting a great reception. Sometimes it’s different from night to night; the flow of the set is different.” Scorpions made some of their best music when Roth was in the lineup, but he wasn’t a member when they hit it big in the ’80s with singles like “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and “No One Like You”. “That entire era bypassed me,” he says. “My mind was in a different world. I was never driven by that big success, and to me it meant nothing. I left the Scorpions for artistic reasons, and I’ve always been driven by that. “And Electric Sun was quite successful in its own right, actually, so I didn’t look at what they were doing; I put all of that behind me. The entire ’80s thing just wasn’t my world. I wanted to explore music, study music, find new music, and I think that’s what I did. But it was far away from the mainstream, that’s for sure.” > STEVE NEWTON
Uli Jon Roth is a visionary guitarist. That became abundantly Uli Jon Roth’s Guitar Experience clear when he conceived of a guitar plays Venue on Saturday (March 19).
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED SOPHIA DANAI Vancouver R&B singersongwriter tours in support of latest release Love Royale, with guests Stevie Ross and Ninetyfour. Apr 1, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www.ticketfly.com/ purchase/event/1121091/.
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his One on One tour. Apr 19-20, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $39.50-295 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
POKEY LAFARGE American countryblues singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Something in the Water, with guests the Cactus Blossoms. May 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Mar 18, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
THE GENERATION DOOM TOUR Los Angeles hard-rock act Otep tours in supTHE PACK A.D. Vancouver-based port of upcoming album Generation Doom, garage-rock band returns home to play with guests September Mourning, Through two nights in support of its upcoming Fire, and Doll Skin. Apr 16, 8 pm, Rickshaw album. May 12-13, 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus serTix $17 (plus service charge) at www. vice charges and fees), info www.ticketfly. ticketweb.ca/., info www.facebook.com/ com/event/1111439-otep-vancouver/. events/758266284205608/.
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2THIS WEEK CELTICFEST VANCOUVER Twelfth annual festival of Celtic culture features performances by the Irish Rovers, whisky tastings, and the theatre production Moll. To Mar 17, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.celticfestvancouver.com/. QQ Jamaican reggae-dance artist, with guests Jahfus and TugStar, as well as DJs Arems, Hoppa, and Tank Gyal. Mar 16, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15, info www.alexandergastown.com/. RADIATION CITY & DEEP SEA DIVER American indie-rock band coheadlines with American pop group. Mar 17, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. GOOD FOR GRAPES Surrey indie-folk band, with guests Small Town Artillery and Servo. Mar 17, 7:30 pm, Studio Records (919 Granville). Tix $12, info www.face book.com/events/1558786867767402/. SONIC BOOM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016 Celebrate B.C.’s vibrant new-music scene with performances by composer Edward Top, ensemble Standing Wave, and musicians Jeremy Berkman and David Brown. Mar 17-20, 7:30-9:30 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). The event also runs at Pyatt Hall and Western Front, info www. brownpapertickets.com/event/2495045/. FATHIEH HONARI ENSEMBLE Pi Theatre presents a celebration of Middle Eastern music featuring Gordon Grdina and members of the bands Qalandar and Vashaan. Mar 17, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15-20, info www.pitheatre. com/events/event/concert-fathieh-honariensemble-featuring-gordon-grdina/. THE IRISH ROVERS Canadian-Irish folk group performs on St. Patrick’s Day as part of CelticFest Vancouver. Mar 17, 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Info www.celticfestvancouver.com/. SEB WILDBLOOD English DJ and producer, with guests Jesse Bru, Autem, and Bokeh. Mar 17, 9 pm, ANZA Club (3 W. 8th Ave). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ events/479385092262862/. DAUGHTER Indie-folk band from London, England, plays tunes from new album Not to Disappear, with guests Wilsen. Mar 18,
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FOOD NOT BOMBS VANCOUVER: FUNDRAISER FEAST FEST Music by the Psychic Alliance, Parenthesis, Simple Machines, Chronfused, Redrick Sultan, Renaissance Babies, the Food, and DJ So-and-So. Mar 18, 6 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10 at the door, info www. facebook.com/events/228104054190600/. ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Japanese psychedelic band, with guests Orphan Goggles. Mar 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. YOUNG FATHERS Hip-hop group based in Edinburgh, Scotland, tours in support of latest studio release White Men Are Black Men Too. Mar 19, doors 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. ULI JON ROTH’S ULTIMATE GUITAR EXPERIENCE Former guitarist for the Scorpions headlines a six-string extravaganza that also features performances by Jennifer Batten and Andy Timmons. Mar 19, doors 6 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $30 (plus service charge) at www.ticketweb.ca/. HEROES OF ROCK LIVE Lead vocalist Paul Laine, guitarist-vocalist Mark Olexson, lead guitarist Dave Shannon, bassist-vocalist Marlow Holder, and drummer Bobby James pay tribute to rock supergroups. Mar 19, 7:30 pm, Edgewater Casino (760 Pacific Blvd. S). Tix $25, info www.facebook.com/ HeroesOfRockBand/. SONGS FROM THE BLACK LODGE Evening of Twin Peaks–themed music by Le Plus Simple, Melody Mangler, Blue Lodge, and Fiji Mermaid DJ. Mar 19, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20/15, info www. facebook.com/events/177532342622377/. ZACHARY RICHARD American folk singersongwriter, poet, and storyteller. Mar 19, 8 pm, Jules-Verne School Auditorium (5445 Baillie). Tix $25-30, info www.lecentreculturel. com/pdlfsfu2016-cns-zacharyrichard-en/. MOTOWN MELTDOWN Night of music and dancing features Marcus Mosely, Stephanie Standerwick , Jane Mortifee, Warren Dean Flandez, and the Scorchers. Mar 19, 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $42/32, info www.seva.ca/ motownmeltdown.htm. WORLDBEAT SESSIONS DJ Michael Laycock, DJ Su Comandante, and percussionist Yoro Noukoussi present a night of global grooves. Mar 19, 10 pm, The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $10, info www.electropical.ca/. THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Texas instrumental-rock band tours in support of latest release Another Language, with guests Vinyl Williams. Mar 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS: CANCELLED The Georgia Straight presents Cuban folk orchestra led by Juan de Marcos González. Mar 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Refunds available at point of purchase. AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI The Georgia Straight presents American rock singer-songwriter. Mar 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. DE DANNAN In collaboration with CelticFest Vancouver, the Rogue Folk Club presents Irish folk-traditional group touring in support of new album Wonderwaltz. Mar 22, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $36/32, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16032220/. ELECTRIC SIX The Georgia Straight presents Michigan garage-rock band, with guests Sam Cash and the Romantic Dogs. Mar 23, 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/ SaleEventDetail/.
CLUBS & VENUES BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on
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BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. Resident DJs My!Gay!Husband!, Sincerely Hanna, and Rico Uno Sat; burlesque with Burgundy Brixx & the Purrrfessor Sun; tropical, electro, goth, world, and rudeboy with DJs Peter & Robbie (Humans), DJ Bee, Wobangs, and Basedgoth Tue. 2RADIATION CITY & DEEP SEA DIVER Mar 17 2JEREMY ALLINGHAM Mar 18 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 2CHAIRLIFT Mar 24 2RADIO RADIO Mar 26 2RA RA RIOT Mar 31 2SOPHIA DANAI Apr 1 2GOLDROOM Apr 2 2THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE Apr 15 2BEND SINISTER AND BOREAL SONS Apr 22
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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. 2THE LUDVICO TREATMENT Mar 18 2ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Mar 19 2COUNTERPARTS Mar 24 2ALEX G AND PORCHES Mar 26 2FREAK HEAT WAVES Mar 30 2LITTLE GREEN CARS Mar 31 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. General admission venue with 900-person capacity features live performances by touring bands and musicians from across North America and around the world. Tix at www.commodoreballroom.ca/. 2MOTOWN MELTDOWN Mar 19 2AFROCUBAN ALL STARS: CANCELLED Mar 20 2WINTERSLEEP Mar 25 2WOLFMOTHER Apr 1 2THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR 2016 Apr 2 2CIARA Apr 5 2MIIKE SNOW Apr 9 2THE ARCS Apr 11 2GARY CLARK JR. Apr 12 2SPIRIT OF THE WEST Apr 15 2COLLECTIVE SOUL Apr 17 2ST. GERMAIN Apr 18 2COURTNEY BARNETT Apr 19 2LUSH Apr 21 2ADAM CAROLLA Apr 22 2YELAWOLF WITH FEFE Apr 23 2ZHU Apr 28 2YEARS & YEARS Apr 29 2THE AGE OF ELECTRIC Apr 30 DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2RUTS AT HAPPY ENDING FRIDAYS Mar 18 2YOUNG FATHERS Mar 19 2NORTHWEST DIVISION Mar 19 2POMO Mar 24 2TOWKIO Mar 25 2STWO & SANGO Mar 26 2TROY AVE Mar 26 2FRENCH KIWI JUICE Mar 27 2CHIN INJETI (WILD STYLE) Mar 28 2YUCK Mar 29 2ROAD TO WSSF SKIITOUR Apr 1 2CULLEN OMORI Apr 2 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. Multiroom arts and culture venue in Mount Pleasant showcases live music, DJs, comedy, and performance, including monthlies HEAVEN, Rapp Battlez, and Motown Party. Sunday Service improv comedy Sun; Séance with DJ Darwin Meyers Sun; The Zodiac Club with DJ Magneticring Wed; The Warm Up with DJs Neighbour & Kut Thurs. 2FATHIEH HONARI ENSEMBLE Mar 17 2DEATH PRIZM Mar 18 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT Mar 19 2PHANTOM SIGNAL Mar 21 2NERD NITE V18: PRINCESSES, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE SCIENCE OF BEER Mar 22 2FAST ROMANTICS Mar 24 2SARAH NEUFELD Mar 26 2THE ORCHID CLUB: SPRING EQUINOX Mar 29 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH THAT FILTHY SHOW Mar 17 2VANARCHY Mar 18 2CORNSHED, DR. TASTY & THE RED CHEF Mar 19 2REMEMBERING WILLIS DAGGER Mar 25 2CROWN OF TALONS, SLAUGHTERHAUSER, PORCELAIN SKY Mar 26 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523-6888. 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. 2KELTIC LANDING Mar 17 2ELECTRIC
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THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us WedThu. 2ONES&ZEROS Mar 19 2SEX LIKE ROCK STARS VIDEO PREMIERE WITH HEAD AND SPECIAL GUESTS UNCLE SID Mar 22
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.
VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Live performances by international touring acts, local indie rock, electronic artists, and world-class DJs. WTFridays with DJ Johnny Jover and guests playing favourite tracks; resident DJ Darylo and rotating guests playing fave rap, dance, and club anthems Sat. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www. bplive.ca/ 2ULI JON ROTH’S ULTIMATE GUITAR EXPERIENCE Mar 19 2KEITH APE AND TOMMY GENESIS Mar 23 2VOPLI VIDOPLIASSOVA Mar 24 2ORJAN NILSEN Mar 24 2JUST BLAZE Mar 25 2MICHAEL BRUN Mar 26 2IAMSU/LNDN DRGS Mar 27 2THE WILD FEATHERS Mar 31
MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2NAP EYES Mar 26 2MOTHERS Mar 27 2THE SUBWAYS Apr 26 2STRIKER Apr 30 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2KYTAMI Mar 18 2ANIMAL BODIES Mar 19 2THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Mar 20 2GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Mar 24 2NEW MUSIC SHOWCASE Mar 25 2COMEDY SHOCKER: THROUGH A BLACK LENS Mar 26 2BLACK RIVER KILLERS Mar 26 2WEEDEATER Mar 28 2DIARRHEA PLANET Apr 1 2ORCHARD PINKINSH HILLBILLY SOUL REVUE Apr 2 2LA FIN ABSOLUTE DU MONDE Apr 7 2HIVES FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT CONCERT Apr 8 2MODIFIED GHOST FESTIVAL 2016 Apr
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. 2THE IRISH ROVERS Mar 17 2DAUGHTER Mar 18 2RACHEL PLATTEN Mar 28 2ALESSIA CARA Mar 29 2JOANNA NEWSOM Mar 30 2YUNG
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WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2THE ANNUAL WISE ST. PADDY’S DAY BASH Mar 17 2FOOD NOT BOMBS VANCOUVER: FUNDRAISER FEAST FEST Mar 18 2SONGS FROM THE BLACK LODGE Mar 19
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savage love I’m a 27-year-old,
feminist, conventionally attractive, straightish, GGG woman. Over time, my tastes have changed, and now I find myself more of a kinkster. A few years ago, my desire for kinkier sex and my willingness to take a chance came together in a mutually beneficial, exciting D/s relationship. I’ll be honest: I wasn’t as smart as I could have been. I met this guy on Tinder, and after verifying his identity, I told some friends where I’d be and I met up with him. He was great for a while, but a big move took me away from the area and I grew tired of his conventional gender ideals. I assumed I would find another partner in the future as functionally great as him but maybe a better conversationalist. Fast forward to today. I’ve dabbled with pain and submission play with a few boyfriends with no great success. (A subsequent partner who didn’t respect my safe word, in fact, assaulted me.) I’m now greatly discouraged in my search. The cycle always goes like this: I get horny and want kink; I go looking for it online; and I am then buried in a landslide of creepiness, typos, and aggression. There are just so many men out there who hate women. These men are more interested in condescending to me and bossing me around than they are in power exchange. It was recommended to me to join the local centre for sex positivity in Seattle, but that costs money. I want to engage in kink to relieve stress, not to cut into my already tight budget. Are my only options perseverance or an extra grand lying around?
I definitely think you should keep hacking your way through the creeps, typos, and aggros, POWER, and, more importantly, your pussy thinks so too—excuse me, that’s crude. Perhaps I should say: your erotic imagination and your libido think so too. But you may find the search for kinky play partners a little less frustrating if you devote a few hours a week to it—set a regular schedule, two hours a night twice a week—instead of waiting until horniness and desperation drive you back online. If you search for kinky guys only when you just gotta have it, POWER, your inability to find it immediately is gonna be that much more frustrating. And you might wanna get out there and find a kinky guy now, POWER, while you still can. “Uh-oh, kinksters: sex cops could be coming for you next,” Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes at Reason.com. “According to a new federal court decision, Americans have no constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM because ‘sexual activity that involves binding and gagging or the use of physical force such as spanking or choking poses certain inherent risks to personal safety’. Thus, officials could constitutionally ban or regulate such activity in the interest of ‘the protection of vulnerable persons’, the court held.” In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a constitutional right to get their asses fucked, and one day soon we could be asking the Supreme Court wheth> PERSEVERANCE OR er Americans have a constitutional WITHDRAWAL, ETERNAL REGRETS right to get their asses spanked.
> BY DAN SAVAGE Finally, POWER, I’m a huge fan of Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture (thecspc.org). And I’m an even bigger fan of people getting out there, meeting up IRL, and making face-to-face connections with like-minded kinksters. I’m such a big fan that I’m going to pick up the expense of your first year’s membership at the Center for Sex Positive Culture. While there are additional charges for most events at the centre, POWER, there are also tons of volunteer opportunities—and there’s no better way to get to know the local kinksters than to pitch in and help out. I’ll email you directly about your shiny new membership. And speaking of safe words…
You messed up in your response to THINK, the man whose wife wanted to engage in consensual role-play rape scenes despite having been sexually assaulted by a previous partner who didn’t stop “when she said ‘no’ ”. THINK said he worried “the same thing could happen” to him. Due to some ambiguous wording, you thought he doubted his wife’s account and was worried the “same thing” he was worried about was “being falsely accused of rape”. I think he was actually worried about accidentally making his wife relive that trauma in a nonsexy way. Although it was poorly worded, I don’t think his intentions were motivated by the fear of being falsely accused. His worries were based in the ambiguity of when does consensual rape play cross the line in this very delicate scenario.
The other thing you forgot, the most important thing you forgot, the thing that should never be forgotten when talking about rough-sex roleplay, consensual rape scenes, power exchange, bondage, or SM: a SAFE WORD! > SIMPLE AND FREQUENTLY EFFECTIVE WORD OMITTED RECENTLY, DAN!
THINK’s wife told him she was raped by an ex who refused to stop when she said no, SAFEWORD, and here’s how THINK described his concerns: “I’m over here wondering if her previous trauma was a result of her encouraging forceful sex and regretting it later, and I worry the same thing could happen to me.” (Emphasis added.) Awkwardly worded, yes, but THINK’s meaning seems clear: he didn’t want to go for it, like that other guy may have, and be accused of raping his wife if she came to regret it later. That doesn’t seem ambiguous to me. But you’re right to ding me for failing to advise Mr. and Mrs. THINK to agree on a safe word. And I didn’t just leave “get a safe word” out of my response, SAFEWORD. It was worse than that: I deleted “get a safe word” from my response. There were two very similar paragraphs in the original draft of my response to THINK, both on the mechanics of making it happen, and I had to delete one paragraph for space. In an unbelievably stupid move, I deleted the one with “get a safe word” in it. I should’ve caught that, I didn’t, and I’m grateful to SAFEWORD and everyone else who did.
And remember, kids: we have a new universal kink/BDSM/powerexchange safe word: scalia.
I am the only liberal in my family. I love them, but there is no talking to them on the issues. I have come up with the idea of a Planned Parenthood jar. It is like a swear jar, but I will put money in it when I am too chickenshit or conflict-avoidant to have a hard conversation. Every time one of my family members puts up a stupid, ill-informed article on Facebook and I don’t say anything, I will put money in the jar. Anytime they tell me why Hillary Clinton is the devil, I will put money in the jar. It will assuage my guilt and make those moments easier because I can smugly think: “Keep talking, the only one you are helping is Planned Parenthood.” Is this a cop-out or a narrowly tailored, appropriate penance? > FEARFUL AND MILQUETOAST, I’M LEANING YELLOW
Can’t something be a cop-out and a creative, appropriate penance? But whether it’s one or the other or both, FAMILY, I’m strongly in favour of anything that benefits Planned Parenthood. For those who don’t want to go through the motions of fi lling a jar with money before making a donation, just go to planned parenthood.org and click Donate. On the Savage Lovecast: Squeeeee! It’s Abbi and Ilana from Broad City! Listen at savagelovecast.com. Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ fakedansavage/.
> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < HUSKY & CUTE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 18, 2015 WHERE: English Bay
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You: reading your book (I’d buy you an iPad... just say'n’) on the grass at English Bay. What caught my eye: your little red speedo, your cute yummy ass and your “mind-your-own-business-at titude”. Me: walking my dogs back and forth just to take a closer look at you. I’m pretty sure you noticed me. Will I see you this summer? You don't look local, but I think I have seen you around the village. Will you need someone to rub tanning lotion on your back? That could be me.
BUTTER CHICKEN ON THE #41
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 10, 2016 WHERE: #41, Birney Ave to UBC Loop We made engaging small talk on the bus on the way to the UBC Loop, and I think we made a connection-- may we reconnect over coffee? (or lunch, your preference.) You: long, wavy black hair; short pants with leggings; having lunch (from the Save-On deli) on the bus. Me: shortcropped dark brown hair and beard, blue jacket, black Led Zeppelin jacket, no lunch at that time (and sorely regretting it), heading to the swimming pool.
GIRL ON TRAIN READING A BOOK
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 14, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Broadway I sat across from you, you were reading a book. I think you noticed me noticing you... then you got off at Broadway. I’ve never done this - but I’d like to see you again.
GAS STATION ON 12TH AND CLARK
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 10, 2016 WHERE: Clark and 12th You were filling up your coffee mug. Wouldn’t mind seeing you again.
SEXY SUIT GUY IN THE EXCHANGE BUILDING
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PAULA AT IMPERIAL AUTO, BURNABY
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LANDSCAPER GIRL “GABRIEL” FROM NEW YORK
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SCIENCE WORLD SNAPCHATTING CUTIE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 16, 2016 WHERE: The Exchange
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: Downtown Public Library
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: Imperial Auto, Burnaby
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 8, 2016 WHERE: Stadium / Broadway SkyTrain
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 7, 2016 WHERE: Near Science World
I moved into the Exchange 6 months ago and I see u in the elevator from time to time. You: Asian, kind face, and a cute mole above your mouth, u drive a dark BMW. Me: very shy, petite Asian girl, fit, loves your suits, doesn’t have the guts to ask u out. You said hi to me once and I was speechless. I know I’m shooting for the stars here but the odd chance that someone as cute as you isn’t taken. I would luv to take you out for coffee. :) I’m hoping you’ll see this and consider breaking the ice next time we see one another.
This is a long shot, but here goes... I saw you as I was walking out of the Public Library. You asked me for directions to Gastown. Like a nervous idiot, I lost all sense of direction, and couldn’t answer your question. I told you to go into the building and ask a store owner instead. I’m so sorry. I should have googled mapped the directions for you. I later realized that I was actually walking towards Gastown - wish I could have shared that walk with you.
Recalling our conversation... wondering if events you recounted happened in some other phase of your life. Something tells me this might be so, but it felt awkward to ask outright there in the waiting room. Lunch or coffee sometime? -Eric
We sat together at the back of the train. You offered me some of your pocky sticks at Broadway Station and I was immediately enlightened!! We chatted about life until you had to get off at New West. I learned that you have a bf but still think we should go for a coffee or a brew and become friends :) your one cool cat !!
You were wearing a grey dress with a lighter grey jacket. I was walking slightly behind you walking my dogs. You were walking home from work (I'm assuming - you seemed very dress up to just be taking a stroll) and snapchatting. At one point you almost walked into a pillar and instead of acting embarrassed you seemed amused and just laughed it off. I like a woman who can laugh at herself. Normally I wouldn't find aloofness as adorable as I thought you were but your smile was endearing. Would love to see that smile again, maybe over a cup of coffee?
MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES CHARMER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: Davie Street by Pomme Winnie, sadly the rain must have found you on Davie Street and drove you away, before I could wander back to talk with you...Uganda, Zimbabwe, MSF and Geoffrey Oryema. I wonder what else we could talk about? Was a pleasure meeting you :)... M.
MATCHSTICK- CURLY BLONDE HAIR WITH B&W STRIPES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 13, 2016 WHERE: Georgia St. Matchstick You: curly blonde hair, black & white striped top, faded blue jeans with just a slight flair. With someone but if I had to guess I’d say not your man. Just something about the way you carried yourself...
DENTAL HYGIENIST IN THE ELEVATOR
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 12, 2016 WHERE: Downtown
I met you in the Elevator. We spoke for a bit - you have the most captivating eyes I have ever seen. Would love to talk to you again.
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THE IMPERIAL, LAST NIGHT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 8, 2016 WHERE: Airport Paris, Amsterdam Schiphol Plane
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: The Imperial, Vancouver
Flight from Paris to Schiphol March 8. Seems kind of stupid but first time I had love at first sight. You: Asian girl wearing jogging pants, Me: someone else... if you are her just pop in and say hello. I’m fine even if it's just sharing a few words. Probably useless to post this, but what the hell you never know....
I got kicked in the head, by the crowd last night at the "We Are the City" concert at the Imperial in Vancouver. You spoke to me, kept asking me what I thought of the concert in the coat check line. You were tall, compared to me anyway, with curly hair and stunning eyes. :)
EMPLOYEE AT INDIGO SPIRIT ON GRANVILLE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: Indigo Spirit, Granville St. You were shifting shelves and when I picked up a book (A Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch), you mentioned how cool the cover was to me. We then proceeded to talk about George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, Patrick Rothfuss, and the book Dinosaur Lords (and laughed about whether or not the dinosaurs could talk). I was wearing a deep blue coat. I wouldn’t normally post one of these, but you’re cool and I’m shy and would love to talk books, have coffee with you, and be friends.
CAR 87 @ SMILIN BUDDHA
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 5, 2016 WHERE: You Were Working the Door You: beautiful blonde hunk of man meat!!! You are always so nice to my girlfriends and I when we come to SBC. Your long hair drives me wild. I was the girl in the little black dress. You liked the tattoo on my neck and noticed my hazel eyes. Drinks?
HEART STOPPING AT HEARTWOOD CAFE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 10, 2016 WHERE: Heartwood Cafe I saw you at Heartwood Cafe while I was waiting for an event to start. You were handsome in casual attire and surprisingly, runners. I thought it was charming. You were also with a large group of people. Me: dark hair and dark grey dress. Shy, searching look. Doodling at a table across from where you were sitting. We made eye contact once but I was too shy to hold it or to make more. I wish I had said hello. I want to know what could have happened.
EXCHANGE OF SMILES IN THE RAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 11, 2016 WHERE: Park Royal, Outside Starbucks A friend and I were leaving the Park Royal Starbucks into the rain. You were in your black Benz, waiting at the light. You and I made eye contact; I was intrigued. Me; leather tights, tall suede black boots, an oversize grey knit sweater and long light brown hair. You; handsome, good smile. After my friend and I ran across the street in the rain, I looked back -- you and I locked eyes again. You smiled and I giggled with a smile. Such an unfortunate missed connection.
BOUNDARY AND HASTINGS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 9, 2016 WHERE: Hastings and Boundary We discussed flavours and I took you up on a suggestion. Just as I was leaving, I decided to ask you if you could join me. Said you were picking up your friend's Mom and couldn't. But you drove back to give me your name and I just said Jen. I forgot but hope you see this.
BOW TIE MAN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: XY Gay Bar I saw you at XY with my friends. You were wearing a cute bow tie. You told me I had a pretty smile. Let me buy you a drink.
DELHI TO DUBLIN COMMODORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 5, 2016 WHERE: Commodore Ballroom You caught me looking at you a number of times. Front centre stage at the Commodore. Near the end of the show I was trying to figure out how to position myself closer to you but it would have been WAY too awkward. You were with a few friends and were digging the music. Me: crazy blonde hair, v neck, tattoos. You: petite, dark skin, dark hair and eyes that put the light show to shame... I don’t always disappear like that, I promise.
WHOLE FOODS BABE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 8, 2016 WHERE: Whole Foods West 4th I first saw you last week as I non-ironically bought Kombucha. You were working behind what I think is the customer service desk. On my lunch break today, when the time came for me to purchase my cauliflower tabbouleh salad, you were the cashier with the shortest line. The young spinclass-beet-salad-mom in front of me exclaimed, “ALL THE WAY!” when you asked if she wanted to donate to charity. Her reply made me cringe, but you remained polite and professional. When it was my turn, you asked me if I wanted a paper bag and I said “No thanks, I’ll fit it in here”, referring to my bag and trying to impress you with the importance I place on saving paper. Then you gave me a last look, wished me a nice day, and I did the same. Why are you so cute? The sun makes me more daring, so when it gets warmer, I’ll ask you out.
YOU PRESSED MY HAND IN NORTH VAN
I WALKED AWAY TOO SOON
I’m admitting my crush on you, your lovely, warm energy, and that killer grin. I really want to get to know you, and don’t want to be disrespectful about you being at work, so here’s to “I Saw You’s.” You have a tattoo, with a treble clef on the inside of your forearm and work at a shop that sells the best salted caramel donuts in the city. You surprised me by helping me to my seat once. Are you available? Interested? I’d say, “Let’s go for coffee”, but you appear to have a wealth of it. Would you like to go to lunch and an outdoor show with me instead?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 5, 2016 WHERE: First at Kirin and then at The Whip Without doubt the kindest stranger I’ve encountered in my 1.5 years in this city. First, he notices my friend and I couldn’t get into the Kirin at its busiest hour because we didn’t have a reservation and so, in consultation with his sister and out-of-town-visiting-friend, he directs us to two dim sum restaurants in the neighbourhood; 2.5 hours later, across the city, while my friend and I were having drinks at The Whip, this kind stranger walks up to our table to check in on how we fared in our dim sum adventure. As if his friendliness wasn’t already sexy, this man who wears a sweet smile and is calm in his handsomeness is also witty and smart. John: you and your kindness were the highlight of my weekend, let me buy you a drink.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 7, 2016 WHERE: At 3rd and Forbes in North Van At nearly 5pm my friend and I were waiting to cross 3rd and Forbes in North Van. I wasn’t in the best mood, and you surprised me by pressing your hand over mine when I reached for the button and offered an easy smile. I’ve seen you before and now I’m really curious!
I SWEAR IT’S NOT JUST YOUR BUTTON UPS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: East Van
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tart to finish, Mercury, the sun, and the Cancer moon are good for a pint of satisfaction on St. Pat’s day. The upbeat mood continues through the weekend. Spring equinox happens on Saturday evening at 9:30 p.m. with the sun’s trek into Aries. Accompanying both the spring-season launch and Wednesday’s lunar eclipse is Jupiter/Saturn. They now hit the thirdquarter threshold of a 20-year cycle. It’s a final stretch for “more of the same” and a critical seeding time for governments, business, economics, and the shaping of new world reality. Jupiter retrograde in Virgo currently drives the momentum. Targeting isn’t working well enough on what needs to be improved on, fi xed, or healed; Jupiter aims to make the truth and the work unavoidable. As of Monday afternoon, when Mercury begins Aries, watch for folks to get pushy, aggressive, or on the attack, for communications to cut to the chase. Swinging the Libra scales, Wednesday’s lunar eclipse will either shake up or fast-track matters to do with partnerships, romance, contracts, money, foreign affairs, future plans, social involvements, social rights, and justice issues. Mars in Sagittarius favourable to the eclipse sun/Mercury conjunction brings the future into the now. The long range hinges on the actions of the present. New energy and life spark. Mars brings a new truth, option, person,
place, or thing into the equation. Watch for significant news or an announcement, an important conversation or negotiation, a visit or event. Someone or something could overtake you or the airwaves. Monday, eclipse Wednesday, and Thursday are opportune for action-taking.
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March 20–April 20
Whether you’ve been consciously getting ready for it or have had a sense that something is in the works, watch for the spring equinox, Mercury into Aries, and next week’s lunar eclipse to hit the spring-forward button. Someone new could play a major role. Too, a piece of news or something out of the blue could fast-track you.
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April 20–May 21
There is something on hot brew behind the scenes. It will come into your fuller awareness as of next Wednesday’s lunar eclipse. No matter what instigates it or what you may have to give up to gain, it appears to provide you with a great fresh opportunity. Don’t second-guess yourself or it. Go for it; take it on; set yourself free. May 21–June 21
The pace picks up as of the weekend and even more as of next Wednesday’s lunar eclipse. Watch for real estate, home-related matters, and desired lifestyle changes to hit a faster track. Don’t hesitate to hire a new agent or adviser. The eclipse can
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enhance moneymaking potentials, challenging. Even so, in hindsight, creativity, social and love-life pros- you’ll come to see that you’ve been pects. Someone or something new gifted with an opportunity. can get you nicely fired up. LIBRA CANCER September 23–October 23 June 21–July 22 What’s lost, evaporates, or While you have been is swept away simply makes room for stretched and tested, there have also something new to come in. Sunday’s been promising signs. Wednesday’s Venus/Neptune keeps potential on lunar eclipse officially launches high brew. It’s a major turn-it-around a new personal and professional time. All fresh starts are highly falife chapter. Mars in favour to this voured. The Libra lunar eclipse can eclipse can get a work project off the jettison you onto an especially dyground and/or set you onto a fresh namic, eventful fast-track cycle, estrack regarding job prospects, re- pecially so if your birthday falls on or pairs, healing, and health matters. near September 26. Relationships with lenders or those SCORPIO in charge can improve too.
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July 22–August 23
For you, the lunar eclipse is full of luck, opportunity, memorable firsts, seconds, or repeats. Put your feelers out, attend an event. Try your luck with a game of chance, an investment, or love. (Remember to stay levelheaded about it!) News, travel, a study opportunity, a visit, a new trend, or a career prospect can deliver the goods and then some.
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August 23–September 23
Whether it happens by your own hand or by next Wednesday’s eclipse handiwork, you are about to be let off the hook. You could see significant improvement regarding health, wealth, or a relationship. If you resist making a necessary change, the eclipse event could initially seem
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December 21–January 20
It seems you have decisions to make, banking to do, and priorities to sort out. Wednesday’s lunar eclipse takes the brakes off a negotiation and/ or moves a contract or new career path to the next level. Whether it’s parting ways or putting toothbrushes together, it’s an auspicious time to make a relationship status official. January 20–February 18
Something or someone new holds great appeal and intrigue now. Mercury into Aries, starting Monday, makes you game, sharp, adept, energized, and quick on the ball. Whether it shows up out of the blue or you’ve been waiting for it, Wednesday’s lunar eclipse can bring significant news, an event, a visitor, or an invitation.
There’s plenty for you to process, to work through, and to get past. Perhaps there is a significant goodbye to say or something to let go of. Endings and beginnings are intertwined. Sunday’s Venus/Neptune PISCES makes you especially soft around February 18–March 20 the edges. Wednesday’s lunar eclipse Even if the weekend puts brings an opportunity to speak up or out. A new job, project, fresh work, you to work, it’s smooth going. A lazy Sunday morning or sleep-in or health initiative is favoured. is ideal. Venus/Neptune is also good SAGITTARIUS for creative conjuring, for a spiritual November 22–December 21 or romantic top-up. Wednesday’s The weekend is great for lunar eclipse could present a fresh pleasure, play, romance, or relaxa- moneymaking or romantic opportion. As of Monday evening, you are tunity. You could receive a tip, a gift, likely to pick up fresh steam. Wed- a compliment, good feedback, helpnesday’s lunar eclipse finds you quick ful advice, or added support. on the ball. An impetuous mood could get the better of you, but when Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s you’re hot, you’re hot! A fresh brain- free monthly newsletter: www.rose storm, spontaneous conversation, or marcus.com/astrolink/.
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