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Documents released as a result of Straight FOI requests reveal frantic efforts by city, provincial, and health-authority officials late last year to make headway against the overdose epidemic. > BY TR AVIS LUPICK
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Vision Vancouver councillor Kerry Jang was caught off his guard when Downtown Eastside activists established an unsanctioned injection site last September. “So you are saying this pop up SIS [supervised-injection site] is actually operating?!” he wrote in an October 12 email to “health officials”. “And that city staff were aware? And ‘keeping an eye on it’. If so, I am aghast. Are there plans to shut it down?” That email is one document in several hundred pages of correspondence obtained via more than a half-dozen freedom-of-information requests filed by the Straight. Together, the documents depict officials with the city, the health authority, and the provincial government working frantically, at all hours of the day and night, in attempts to slow the rapidly rising body count associated with the province’s overdose crisis. Late in the evening on December 20, for example, Vancouver Coastal Health’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Patricia Daly, informed the Ministry of Health on efforts to establish overdose-prevention sites inside Downtown Eastside hotels. “Everyone is moving as fast as they can,” she wrote. “Housing providers are drawing up plans and proposals as fast as they can, and we are churning out contracts as fast as we can to ensure funding and insurance coverage.” A December 5 email sent by VCH director of prevention Miranda Compton explains why Vancouver has established bare-bones overdose-prevention sites instead of supervised-injection facilities like Insite (which offer complementary services such as counselling and information on treatment options). The blame lies with the city, she wrote. “Both [proposed supervised-injection] sites required renovations, and the permits have been delayed due to CoV’s [City of Vancouver’s] permit requirements,” the email reads. “At this point, we are looking at sites that do not require renovations. Very frustrating in the midst of a true crisis.” A December 20 email exchange between Daly and the Health Ministry with the subject line “Your advice needed” discusses a problem where Vancouver’s morgues temporarily ran out of refrigerated space for bodies.
on the already increasingly ‘creative’ Coroners Service approach to locating crypt spaces,” it reads. A spokesperson for the coroners service told the Straight that situation was resolved with the assistance of private funeral homes. Many emails describe staff at every level and even the health-care system itself stretched to a breaking point. On December 20, Compton pleaded with the province for more clinical support in the Downtown Eastside. “Insite is swamped and stretched,” her email reads. “It is the entire system of care in the DTES [Downtown Eastside] that is swamped and stretched—the housing workers and peers have been doing an amazing job—they really have become 1st responders in this.” > TRAVIS LUPICK
DYER SAYS TRUMP WON DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT
Columnist and author Gwynne Dyer acknowledges that populist demagogues pose a serious threat to western democracies. But in an interview with the Straight, the veteran Canadian commentator maintained that there’s a distinct difference between European populism and that espoused by U.S. president Donald Trump. “Trump really has two major grievances he claims to solve,” Dyer said in advance of his appearance at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s on March 22. The first is immigration. According to Dyer, this manifests itself in Trump’s pandering to white Americans’ fears that within a decade they will no longer be a majority in their country. Dyer said that Trump’s second sales pitch has been to solve unemployment, particularly for working-class whites in America. In responding to the threat of populism in America, Dyer said, it’s important to understand Trump’s supporters. “Were they concerned about jobs or were they worried about race—ethnicity—including Muslims?” he asked. Dyer said right-wing European populists such as Dutch politician Geert Wilders and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen focus far more attention on race and immigration than they ever do on unemployment. “The gap between the announced
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The internment of B.C.’s Japanese population during the Second World War is a matter of public record, but less well known is how devastating this proved for maritime communities. Now a new Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibit, The Lost Fleet, probes the losses suffered up and down the B.C. coast when 1,200 Japanese-Canadian–owned fishing boats were confiscated in 1941. Opening Friday (March 24) and running for a year, the show also explores how incidents such as the 1942 shelling of Vancouver Island’s Estevan Point Lighthouse by a Japanese submarine fuelled xenophobic sentiments during a politically charged and troubling time. > STAFF
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or many young adults, buying already sort of knew this was coming a home is a daunting task. and were able to, at a moment’s noWith prices in Metro Van- tice, be there instantaneously to help couver up almost 50 percent me,” Felch said. during the past five years, they’ve Felch had always wanted to be a been forced to realize that they homeowner. might have to find their dream prop“I had a very well set out goal from erty elsewhere. when I graduated from university,” he Nick Felch knew he had to make said. “First, you have to graduate, then some compromises to realize his find a job, find a place to live, and so goal of purchasing a home in town. for me it wasn’t too difficult, because “It’s just being responsible,” I knew this was my eventual goal.” Felch told the Georgia Straight in a Felch knew that timing was esphone interview. sential. “I wasn’t thinking about purFelch, who is in his early 30s, also chasing a home until I got a job that recognized that he was long-term and had to act quickly. of the level that I He got into the felt secure enough market just beto invest,” he said. Carlito Pablo fore new lending About two years rules—ones that make it harder to ago, he started working as a scienget a mortgage—took effect last year. tist with Environment and Climate Felch may also have spared him- Change Canada. It is a job that he self from the prospect of higher in- likes, one that he sees himself doterest rates. ing for a long time. Making the Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Fed- next decision, to purchase a home, eral Reserve, has indicated that the came easily. American central bank may increase “It was the obvious choice in my interest rates a number of times in future, going forward,” Felch said. the next few years, which could cause Felch is settling in well at his new rock-bottom rates in Canada to go up. home. He moved in last December, Felch used to rent in Port Moody, began furnishing his apartment, and and he now owns a condo in Burnaby. has since become more familiar with “I was being very diligent saving the neighbourhood. He feels good. money for a couple of years while still “It’s fantastic,” he said. living my life and doing the things Like many who are new to a place, that I love to do,” Felch related. Felch went through some adjustments. He continued going out, but not “It was a bit of a transition,” he retoo often. He didn’t give up vacations called. “It didn’t feel like home right but opted for less extravagant trips. away because, obviously, you move Felch is happy that he planned into a place, and from where you’re ahead by seeking out a mortgage used to living to where you’re now broker and a real-estate agent. living, it’s quite different.” “I got in touch with them and, you The first-time homebuyer knows know, just sort of got them on my the demands of keeping a property. radar, and that was the crucial step He said that it may be more expenthat made it possible for me to make sive to buy and maintain a home but this all happen,” he said. that it’s worth it in the long run. According to Felch, mortgage “The sense of ownership and the broker Meghan Graham was “in- security far outweigh having to, you valuable”. Graham advised him to know, fill out leases, deal with landsecure a mortgage before the new lords, and have an unsecure place to borrowing rules became effective. live in,” Felch said. He also praised realtor Jay McInnes, For him, owning a home makes who “within hours had a full list of sense. “When you’re paying a mortgage, potential places”. “Having spoken with them [Gra- you’re investing in yourself, not inham and McInnes] before, they vesting in your landlord,” Felch said. -
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straight stars jump-on-it-quick, or hot-trigger day. Wednesday is success-generating. The he stars, particularly Mer- Taurus moon and Mercury/Saturn cury and Venus, are espe- set up a steady, productive, lucrative, cially active for the rest of the solid-gains day. month. Mercury, the agent ARIES planet, sets the ideas, talk, paperwork, March 20–April 20 or action into play. As of Thursday, Now through midnext week Mercury/Pluto are feeling compelled to knock the wall down, and/or to is mobilizing. You’ll feel prompted by a take the next step. Pushing, forcing, sense of right timing, perhaps even a or blasting through may be required. now-or-never sense. By all means, hit Then again, Mercury/Pluto may sim- go, sign on, outline your position, and ply signal that the meter has run out put ideas, intention, or your body into on a wait or a holdup and that the action. Thursday gets the ball rolling. time is right for action. Friday’s Mer- Friday is informing; Saturday, you’re cury/Jupiter supports this agenda in on an upswing. Sunday/Monday some major way. Expect to hit a full hits refresh. By next Wednesday, it’s swing and/or to go the distance. Fri- well set. day holds a host of well-timed, hitTAURUS it-just-right stars. Business, social, or April 20–May 21 personal: it’s all good. Perhaps you are consciousVenus retrograde teams up with the life-giving sun on Saturday. ly working on it or it’s gathering a life This marks the halfway peak of the of its own. Either way, obvious or not, retrograde cycle. It is a seeding day this next week is action-packed. Take that is especially infused with fresh it one step at a time and watch for a creative opportunity and holds sig- natural progression to unfold. What is nificant karmic energy, too. Rela- begun now holds great potential. Don’t tionships and finances hit the next- underestimate the karmic nature of phase track. If you don’t see evidence circumstances. Seize the day! Next of this in some obvious way, know Wednesday, you’ll reach your target. that we must give a new cycle time GEMINI to reveal itself. On a more here-andMay 21–June 21 now note, the weekend is ideal for a Take yourself out for a test getaway, romance, movies, or music enjoyment, or for replenishing your drive. This next week can give you a chance for a fresh start, a timely soul in whatever way you choose. Sunday’s Mercury/Uranus and rewind, or a complete makeover. Monday’s new moon in Aries are both Mercury on the go can spark fresh good for lighting fresh sparks. Tuesday inspiration, a new conversation or can be an inconsistent, anything-goes, idea, or moneymaking potential. March 23 to 29, 2017
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Something or someone can burst can to position yourself a good step onto the scene, perhaps unexpect- ahead. Wednesday, say it, do it. Efforts edly. An introduction or reintroduc- and talks will produce positive results. tion could launch something major. LIBRA CANCER September 23–October 23 June 21–July 22 Thursday/Friday can reThursday/Friday sets wheels move a block and/or spring you in motion; Saturday through next into action, perhaps unexpectedly Tuesday’s new moon fast-tracks you, it, so. Uranus and Mercury can come or them. Take your cues from the here at you sudden, strong, or forcible. and now; invent it or modify it as you While a level of unpredictability is in go along. Mercury in action keeps you the mix, don’t hesitate to jump into on the go with one thing, then another. it, shake it up, or take a leap of faith. By Wednesday, you should have a good By Wednesday, you’ll get a better handle on something lucrative, tan- sense of how it is shaping up. gible, or productive. SCORPIO LEO October 23–November 22 July 22–August 23 The next few days can see In the mood for something you push past and/or move through fresh or out of your usual? It’s in the plenty. Watch for things to snap or mood for you, too. Friday’s Mercury/ strike flint, maybe unexpectedly. Jupiter and Sunday’s Mercury/Ura- A personal, work, or health breaknus keep the weekend on percolate. through is the start of much more to A quick getaway, trade show, work- come. The new sun/Venus cycle and shop, sport, or social event delivers Monday’s new moon in Aries bless the goods. Watch for news or a sur- all efforts and investments aimed at prise meet-up, reconnect, windfall, making that good thing better yet. or opportunity. Monday/Tuesday SAGITTARIUS keeps you going strong too. WednesNovember 22–December 21 day, get it signed or finished. Mercury in Aries, SatVIRGO urday’s sun/Venus, and Monday’s August 23–September 23 new moon in Aries keep you fired Expect to cover a lot of up, quick on the uptake, and going ground in a short period of time. strong. Seize the moment! Use this Through mid next week, Mercury, good fuel while the getting is great. your ruler, is on a major move-ahead You can sleep later. By Wednesday, with heavyweights Pluto, Jupiter, Ura- the Taurus moon slows the pace nus, and Saturn. Each day can pro- somewhat. Even so, it’s a productive duce a breakthrough. Do what you day for getting it said and done.
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Time will f ly over the next seven days or so. Get your runners on. The week ahead sets you onto an eventful sprint, perhaps unexpectedly. One thing leads to another in rapid succession. Something fresh and new overtakes the conversation. It’s hot; you’re hot. Rely on instinct. You’ll have no trouble staying up to speed. February 18–March 20
The next seven days are fully loaded. Thursday/Friday unblocks, unleashes, or untethers you. Once you put pedal to metal, you’re onto the next battle. While the art of compromise makes for a winwin, you can’t hold back a thing. Give it your all; give it your best. The weekend can see you cash in or spend big. B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r Rose’s free monthly newsletter at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/.
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Quebec City’s J.A. Moisan is the oldest grocery store in North America, featuring exotic spices and locally made confits, pâtés, and syrups. Gail Johnson photo.
FOR THE FOOD LOVER Où tu vas quand tu dors en marchant…? offers visitors an interactive, site-specific theatre piece. François Gagnon photo.
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MUSÉE NATIONAL DES BEAUX- OÙ TU VAS QUAND TU DORS EN ARTS DU QUÉBEC The site of the MARCHANT…? (May 25 to June 10)
sprawling museum is itself stunning: it’s on the Plains of Abraham, a.k.a. Battlefields Park, an urban oasis where British troops defeated French soldiers in 1759. With more than 38,000 works of art going back to the 1600s, the museum has four pavilions. In addition to essentials by Quebec artists such as Alain Paiement, Antoine Plamondon, and Diane Landry, the museum houses an impressive collection of Inuit art and also hosts important international exhibitions. Coming soon: the North American premiere of photographer Philippe Halsman’s retrospective, Astonish Me! (June 15 to September 4), featuring photos of Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, and more.
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This free, interactive, site-specific theatre piece (Where are you going when you sleep while walking…?) is part of the Carrefour International de Théâtre festival. It will take people on a journey around Parliament Hill for nighttime performances, revealing more about the city than any walking tour. MUSÉE
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Permanent exhibits at this magnificent institution examine how Quebec’s identity was forged over centuries. Shows include Nanotech: The Invisible Revolution (until October 15), Like Cats and Dogs (until September 4 and offering scientific, sociological, and cultural findings about these pets), and the upcoming Mad About Brains (May 17 to the spring of 2018).
FESTIVAL D’ÉTÉ DE QUÉBEC (July 6 to 16) The city’s annual music fest rivals the likes of Coachella and South by Southwest. Now in its 50th year, the outdoor extravaganza that takes place at various venues, including the Plains of Abraham, will host Kendrick Lamar, the Strumbellas, P!nk, Metallica, the Backstreet Boys, Men Without Hats, Phantogram, and dozens of others this summer. FOR THE SPORTS FAN BAIE DE BEAUPORT A revitalization project for the city’s 400th anniversary opened up the bay for swimming, boating, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, and kite surfing. Just five minutes from the downtown core, it also offers beach volleyball and soccer. -
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FAIRMONT CHÂTEAU FRONTENAC (1 rue des Carrières) If you can’t afford to stay here, at least experience a taste of the castlelike luxury hotel perched on a cliff atop Cape Diamond. Built in 1893 and itself a National Historic Site, the Frontenac is where Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King met in 1943 to plan an Allied invasion of occupied Europe. Hit the 1608 Wine & Cheese Bar (named in honour of the year Samuel de Champlain established the first French foothold in North America) for a classic cocktail, a plate of organic charcuterie, grilled flatbread, and spectacular views of the St. Lawrence River. L’ATELIER (624 Grande Allée est) While you can find items like oysters, poutine, and truffled mac ’n’ cheese on the menu, the reason to visit is the beautiful mounds of salmon, bison, lobster, tuna, and beef tartare that you scoop up with crispy cracker-size croutons. Outstanding. J.A. MOISAN (695 rue Saint-Jean) A must-hit for food lovers (leave some
room in your suitcase), the oldest grocery store in North America, with its original wooden counters and brick walls, is crammed with items from all over the world, including craft and speciality beers and exotic spices and teas, as well as locally made confits, pâtés, syrups, sauces, jams, tapenades, chocolates, and more. There’s a deli and small eating area with items like sandwiches, soups, cheese and charcuterie, and pastries.
CHEZ ASHTON (various locations) This is back-to-basics poutine served cafeteria-style. This chain’s most exotic variations come with chicken and green peas or with ground beef. The ultimate comfort food, it’s highly recommended in the wee hours following a night of clubbing. -
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The City of Coquitlam is proud to be representing the Province of BC at MosaiCanada 150 being held in Gatineau Que. from July 1 to Oct. 15. If you’re travelling to Quebec or the Ottawa region this summer, be sure to visit Coquitlam’s ecosculpture replica of Bill Reid’s killer whale statue, Chief of the Undersea World. Or come to Coquitlam in 2018 to see it in its permanent home.
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I was at the far end of the bar with a friend, sitting next to you. I asked you how your drink was and we chatted about the history of the French 75 cocktail and where you were from (Saskatchewan!). We had a few good laughs and you left with your friend from Australia shortly after. I would love to see your smile again!
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You poured me a beer at the East Side Beer Fest and told me my fox cardigan was adorable. I’d love to have more beers with you.
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Wines to welcome in spring Here’s a rundown of season-suitable releases from Naramata’s JoieFarm Winery
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JOIEFARM “EN FAMILLE” RIESLING 2015 ($28) I tasted all these
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JOIEFARM “EN FAMILLE” CHARDONNAY 2015 ($30) A departure
from the Un-Oaked Chardonnay above, the “En Famille” take on the grape is fermented with native yeast and carries some enjoyable lifted oak, perfectly balancing all the wine’s orchard fruit. All the pears are here, too: Bosc! Anjou! Bartlett! Each one of them is perfectly ripe yet still fresh, with juicy acidity. A stunning example of how elegant Okanagan Chardonnay can be, I think it’s the best one she has made to date.
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There’s so much intensity and purity of fruit with this wine, it’s almost like a Gewürztraminer reduction. It has all the attributes we expect from the variety; all of the litchi, rosewater, and ginger are present and opulent, with a nice dusting of sage to balance things out. The grape can make for soft or f labby wines from time to time, but the acid and structure here are right on point. Prices listed are for ordering wine directly from the winery at www.joie farm.ca/, but they’re all also available at private stores around the city for a few bucks more, with the Noble Blend and rosé also available on B.C. Liquor Stores shelves. -
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Exploring sound and stillness
A complex homage by Ana Sokolovic´ (above, Alain Lefort photo) is one of four pieces selected by new VSO assistant conductor William Rowson (below left).
by Rodolphe Mathieu, remembered by her Québécois colleagues. “It Jean Papineau-Couture, was very interesting, their reaction,” she says. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra heads for the aurora Serge Garant, and “They said, ‘How did you happen to write this? borealis with its adventurous new program The Idea of North Claude Vivier, but each How did you happen to know these people?’ of its historical compon“The older composers, nobody knew anything honestly. “I grew up in Saskatchewan,” he reveals, ents has been reimagined in Sokolović’s own, dis- about them,” she adds. “But for me, coming from “so when we were on our farm, I could look out tinctive musical language. the eastern world where we respected older composand see just vast amounts of land, all the way to “For each movement, the process was different,” ers, it was normal for me to do this. When I had this the horizon. And Harry Stafylakis has a piece on she explains from her home in snowy Montreal. commission from SMCQ, I already knew who were this program, Arc of Horizon, which is “I didn’t want to compose their pieces; the premier modern composers in Canada— about the idea that no matter how hard I wanted to compose my pieces, through and even my Canadian fellows, they didn’t you try to go to the horizon, it’s always, their personalities. know. It was very curious.” Check out… Sokolović attributes at least some of of course, distant.” “The best compliment I had for STRAIGHT.COM this cultural amnesia to the facts of life One might think that the fourth work this piece was from the composer Visit our website in a relatively new country. Looking so on the program, Ana Sokolović’s four-part John Rea, who told me it was like for morning-after Portraits should also have a land- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a paintsteadily to the future, she suggests, CanJeu des Portraits, reviews and local arts news adians disregard the past. “We don’t push scape component. After all, it was writ- ing by Pablo Picasso. Each of the enough, in the schools, this obligation to ten just four years after Sokolović moved demoiselles, the ladies, was a difknow our cultural heritage,” she comments. from Serbia to Montreal, at a time when ferent painter. One was El Greco, one But is the northern experience also reflected in she was still adjusting to life in a new and was Degas… I don’t remember all of them. But considerably less temperate environ- they’re all Picasso, actually. Picasso showed him- this phenomenon? Every winter, snow erases the ment. It also pays homage to four older self, but through the energy of others. So that can past, and every spring new shoots emerge—makQuébécois composers who were them- explain this piece, which has four autonomous ing this spring a fine time to contemplate how “the selves presumably shaped by Eastern movements in different styles or different music- idea of north” can be a source of eternal renewal, Canada’s cold winters, but Sokolović al approaches—but all these musical approaches surprise, and beauty. says that her primary intent was purely are mine.” musical. Commissioned for the 30th anniversary Sokolović recalls being shocked that Ma- The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents of the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Qué- thieu, whom she considers Quebec’s first truly The Idea of North at the Orpheum Annex on bec, in 1996, Jeu des Portraits draws on extant scores modern composer, was not revered or even Saturday (March 25).
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Editor’s choice MONGOLIAN CULTURE As a visual spectacle alone, Anda Union is likely to be worth the price of admission to its Sunday (March 26) concert at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; colourful silk robes from the Silk Road and elaborately carved horse-head fiddles are a big part of the Mongolian troupe’s appeal. Splendid as those might be, however, it’s the band’s sound that will captivate. Reflecting the shamanistic belief that all life is one, the nine-member group’s singers will capture the essence of wind and running water in several different throat-singing styles, while the aforementioned fiddles will contribute neighing sound effects and the pounding rhythms of galloping hooves, as well as sturdy folk melodies. It’s not easy to get to Mongolia, but a taste of the landlocked country’s culture can be had by simply driving to Point Grey. Just don’t blame us if, after the show, you contemplate trading the condo for a life of yurts and yaks. -
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THE DAISY THEATRE (To April 9 at the Cultch) Meet the weird and wonderful marionettes of puppetmaster Ronnie Burkett.
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REFUGE (To April 1 at the Firehall Arts Centre) An urgently needed discussion on how we choose our refugees.
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JON KIMURA PARKER (March 24 and 25 at the Chan Centre, and March 27 at the Centennial Theatre) One of our biggest homegrown piano stars joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for stunning Beethoven.
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AMAZONIA (To January 28, 2018, at the Museum of Anthropology) Marvel at the craftsmanship of this contested tropical region.
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AERIOSA (March 30 at noon at the Scotiabank Dance Centre) Fly high on your lunch break with these amazing aerial dancers.
In the news ORCA OUT OF WATER Acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid’s 5.5-metre-tall bronze sculpture Chief of the Undersea World generated tremendous attention when it was unveiled outside the Vancouver Aquarium in 1984. The curving, toothy work of art looks like it’s ready to pounce. According to the plaque: “He governs the cycle of the salmon and is the keeper of all the oceans’ living treasures.” This summer, the City of Coquitlam will showcase a seven-metre-tall replica of this quintessential B.C. statue at Canada’s largest horticultural event, from July 1 to October 15 in Gatineau, Quebec. City of Coquitlam gardeners Erin Gorby (photographed) and Chrissa Steel were recently in the Quebec city of Laval to observe production of the 4.2-by-3-metre planted frame, which will be filled with flowers when it goes in Gatineau’s Jacques Cartier Park as part of the Canada 150 celebrations. Later this year, this “ecosculpture” will be put on display in Coquitlam. MARCH 23 – 30 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 15
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast by the BBC since 1928 and reaching millions of global listeners. Typically, the choir tours twice each year, with a few one-off engagements as well. For 2017 the major tour is to North America, which finds the Choir of King’s College performing in Vancouver for the first time since Cleobury became director 34 years ago. The ensemble’s touring program spans everything from 16th-century composers William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons to 19th-century masters Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms, suggesting that Cleobury enjoys a large degree of freedom in his choice of material. “As well as singing in services and giving concerts, we’re also educating young people, so I like to give them as wide a range of repertoire as I can,” he says. “We do everything from Gregorian chant right through to newly commissioned works. It’s principally sacred music, because that’s what we sing in the chapel, and I’ve found over the years that audiences in our concerts like to hear the sort of repertoire we’re best known for doing. But we also sing with orchestras—for instance, we’re performing the St. Matthew Passion when we get back from the tour in April. “Currently, we’re making a recording of motets by William Byrd,” he continues. “After that, we’re at a few summer festivals, and in September we’re going to Rome to sing in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore and in St. Peter’s. I’m always kept very busy. As director, my work involves recruiting, auditioning, administering, and managing the choir, but most importantly rehearsing and preparing it for singing.” -
t the time the Choir of King’s College was created in Cambridge, the king of England in question was Henry VI, and the late-medieval Wars of the Roses were soon to break out. It’s been singing daily services in the college chapel ever since then. Today the choir comprises 16 boy choristers, 14 male university undergraduates, and two organ scholars, and has become an icon of music culture around the world. “Our regular activities take place during university and school term,” says director of music Stephen Cleobury, reached in his office in King’s College, Cambridge. “We sing services in the chapel on six days a week— the boys on five days and the men sing one day, and there are two services on Sunday. We also sing for Christmas and Easter, and a short period in summer. The two organists are a very important part of the operation because they not only accompany the choir but assist me with training it.” Change came slowly to the choir over the centuries. “I think the choir would have been of clerks in minor [religious] orders singing plainsong originally, and gradually more and more polyphonic music,” Cleobury explains. “Then came the Reformation and they were singing repertoire from the newly emerging Anglican Church. Since about 1878 we’ve had a school across the river from the college in which our choristers are educated. Previously, they were children drawn from the town. In the early 20th century the professional lay clerks were replaced by the undergraduate choral scholars. So it has changed a bit.” The voices now reach beyond the ancient chapel walls. The Choir of The Choir of King’s College, CamKing’s College is best known for its bridge, plays the Chan Centre for the annual Christmas Eve performance of Performing Arts on Sunday (March 26).
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t’s a feeling that those who know their way around a Canon AE-1 or a Pentax Spotmatic will understand: the mounting suspense as each release of the shutter gets you closer to a full roll of film. More tense still is the time spent waiting to have the roll developed: Will the images be overexposed? What if I didn’t wind the film correctly? Questions of self-doubt often abound. Now imagine the feeling Jackie Dives had as she asked these questions of the 28 undeveloped rolls of film that she hung on to for more than 20 years. Until recently, Dives had no idea that the photographs in question would reveal a carefully nuanced but deeply personal narrative about her battle with mental illness. These days, Dives has turned her passion into a career, and can’t recall a time when the camera hasn’t felt like an extension of herself. Specializing in portraiture and documentary photography, she captures subjects in a way that’s organic and unobtrusive. For Dives, the pile of undeveloped film pointed to a significant gap in her body of work, one she was curious about and admittedly afraid to examine. “As a kid, I was always interested in photography, but I guess I never thought that the photos would be worth the money that it cost to get them developed,” Dives says to the Straight from her home in Mount Pleasant. Money was often tight, and though she would develop rolls intermittently, most were banished to a Ziploc bag in her closet. “Now, being a professional photographer, this bag of almost 30 rolls was starting to weigh on me, and I thought, even if everything in there sucks, I still feel like it’s unfinished work,” she says. Dying of curiosity but knowing full well that entire rolls could be faded, degraded, or blank, Dives took the bag to London Drugs. The results were mixed: In some Slow Like a Bruise, Quick Like Hunger cases, she had no recollection of taking will be shown next Thursday (March the images, or she simply didn’t find 30) at 434 Columbia Street.
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Belles-soeurs breaks down sexist clichés T HEAT RE LES BELLES-SOEURS By Michel Tremblay. Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco. Directed by Diane Brown. A UBC Department of Theatre and Film production. At the Frederic Wood Theatre on Friday, March 17. Continues until April 1
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tell your tears from the rain on your windshield—well, that’s the power of Michel Tremblay’s award-winning script Les Belles-soeurs and UBC Theatre’s genuinely affecting production. Written in 1965 and staged three years later, all during Quebec’s Quiet Revolution—a period of massive cultural upheaval as people turned away from the Roman Catholic Church amid sociopolitical and economic shifts— Les Belles-soeurs is Tremblay’s most popular and widely translated play, and it’s easy to understand why. Almost 50 years later, the text still feels incendiary and its subject matter groundbreaking. All 15 characters are women, they’re all deeply flawed, and it’s full of swear words and casual blasphemy. The play opens on Germaine (Bronwyn Henderson), who has just won one million stamps. Not only can she redecorate her entire home from a popular catalogue, but she’s also the envy of all the women in her impoverished East Montreal neighbourhood (where Tremblay himself grew up). She invites her sisters and friends over for a stamp-licking party without any regard for their growing jealousy. The group talk trash about each other and most of the other women in their parish, and it’s a master class in passiveaggressive insults and barbed taunts. Almost all of them burn with resentment for their children, husbands, and
The women of Les Belles-soeurs envy their lucky friend. Emily Cooper photo.
home lives. Consumed by thoughts of “Why her? Why not me?”, Germaine’s friends and sisters begin pocketing her stamps for themselves. As the characters lash out, gossip, and hurl abuse at each other, most of the jokes fail to land. Instead, Act 1 is almost a nonstop shouting match and it’s kind of exhausting. But it’s also clever direction on the part of Ruby Slippers’ long-time artistic director Diane Brown, completing her MFA thesis here. Brown takes Tremblay’s text and ups the feminist ante. These characters are loud, shrill, and frequently unlikable. They’re also cruel, abusive, and trapped by society, the church, and gendered expectations of fulfillment. By daring the audience to contend with behaviours that are sexist clichés, as well as stereotypical and antithetical characteristics of women, Brown sets up an Act 2 that is devastatingly real and raw, and her cast delivers beautifully. The bitterness that has hardened these women is born directly from their suffocating oppression, a point that’s made all too real when the brash, short-fused Rose (Sarah Jane) opens up about what her marriage is really like. “Women are grabbed by the throat and they stay that way, right to the end,” she says. It’s a declaration made all the more chilling by the fact that it feels almost as relevant now as it probably did 50 years ago. > ANDREA WARNER
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Alexis Fletcher and Kirsten Wicklund captivated the audience in Swan, a homage to choreographer Wen Wei Wang’s late partner. Cindi Wicklund photo.
Program 2 traverses the history of life D ANC E
original ballet score with electronics and an obsessive tambourine. PROGRAM 2 The one orphan child in the program was Lesley Telford’s If I were A Ballet BC presentation. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, March 2—it was both too slight and too long for this big bill. It’s not ill-made: it 16. No remaining performances would be a pleasure to see and hear at There are times—not often, it’s the Firehall, but it looked lost in this true—when snow falling in Van- otherwise big, bold evening of dance. > ALEXANDER VARTY couver is a benediction, not a threat. One of the prettiest instances of this took place at the Queen Elizabeth COMPAGNIE VIRGINIE Theatre recently, with projected snow- BRUNELLE flakes descending on-screen during A Vancouver International Dance the entirety of Crystal Pite’s Solo Echo. Festival presentation. At the Warm rather than wintry, the piece Roundhouse Community Arts and exists in a wonderland of grace. Recreation Centre on Friday, March 17. Initially made for Nederlands Dans No remaining performances Theater and premiered in 2012, Solo Pain, choreographer Virginie Echo entered Ballet BC’s repertoire in Brunelle revealed during a post2015 and deserves to stay. As its title promises, it showcases the individ- show talkback session, is “the main ual skills of dancers Brandon Alley, subject” of all of her pieces. And in the Andrew Bartee, Emily Chessa, Alexis case of To the pain that lingers (À la Fletcher, Scott Fowler, Christoph von douleur que j’ai) that pain is more speRiedemann, and Kirsten Wicklund, cifically grief, perhaps the bluntest and but more than that it foregrounds the most enduring of emotional injuries. The source of trauma is never eximmaculate unity of the current Ballet BC corps. Ensemble passages that re- plicitly identified, but the opening sesembled the time-lapse unfurling of a quence might contain a clue. In it, Peter flower found the seven dancers operat- Trosztmer places himself in a simple wooden chair, while the other five meming as a single entity. And all the time that sparkling bers of Montreal’s Compagnie Virginie snow kept falling, further linking Brunelle arrange themselves around Pite’s movement to the elegance and him with a certain air of formality. The first glimpses of pain come when power of natural forces. This viewer also saw the West Coast the dancers gasp and stiffen as one, environment reflected in the first breaking the stillness they had initially minute or so of the show-opening An- maintained. Soon, the performers fling them, jointly choreographed by Lisa themselves away from Trosztmer to lie Gelley and Josh Martin of Vancouver’s corpselike on the floor, the lights dim, street-savvy Company 605. The overall and the dance proper begins. First up are two extraordinary impression left by the piece was one of constant kineticism—but its first pas- duets. After a second chair appears, sage found the dancers rooted to one Claudine Hébert and Milan Panetplace, swaying back and forth or doub- Gigon each take a seat—a prim and ling over and sometimes whipping proper couple, except that their grins their torsos sideways. They looked are too fixed, their eyes too glassy. Héfor all the world like kelp, rooted to bert repeatedly edges her partner out a rocky substrate and dancing to the of his chair and moves it further away rhythms of a storm surge—but then until the divorce is final, and the grinthey became human, enacted an urban ning turns to quiet howling. A final haka, and transformed again into cy- attempt at reconciliation is literally borg pop-and-lock monsters. The upended by the rest of the cast, who history of life—from algal to tribal to slowly tip the two dancers, now sharelectromechanical—in three minutes! ing a single chair, onto the floor. Trosztmer and Chi Long’s subseThe rest of the work was more abstract and seemingly more anarchic, quent pas de deux moves even further although clearly some deep struc- away from the comical. He is patient ture underpinned the movement of and she is wild, flinging herself into the pack as solo dancers each took increasingly violent paroxysms only to be rescued, and given a seat, at the their turn to shine. After all that compressed, sprung- end of each spasm. Here, madness or steel, 605-style motion, it was a shock addiction seems the subtext. Further interpersonal dramas unwhen bright, white lights came up on Wen Wei Wang’s Swan, reveal- fold, broken periodically by high-speed ing a shirtless von Riedemann in group calisthenics that offer a strange full extension, looking like a Norse relief from the measured darkness. It god. A gift to the true balletomanes would be remiss not to mention Isain the audience—and a homage to belle Arcand’s misleading delicacy; she Wang’s late partner, dance maven looks like an orchid but is clearly made Grant Strate—this septet will be best of carbon fibre. Equally impressive understood by those well-versed in and utterly different is Sophie Breton’s the symbolism of the original Swan rock-star androgyny, which is backed Lake, referenced beautifully, know- by a gymnast’s strength. After the show, Brunelle referred to ingly, and touchingly throughout. But even modernists—perhaps espe- her dancers as “family”—a happier one cially modernists—will thrill to this than that shown in To the pain that linwork’s witty gender play, its erotic gers’s opening scene, and one that did partnering, and Sammy Chien’s perfect justice to her elegant choreophantasmagorical music, made by graphy and theatrical sophistication. > ALEXANDER VARTY combining Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s
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A sacklike spirit mask created by Colombian maker Jairo is among a huge range of South American objects at the Museum of Anthropology. Kyla Bailey photo.
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Amazonia surveys an ancient region at risk AMAZONIA: THE RIGHTS OF NATURE At the Museum of Anthropology at UBC until January 28, 2018
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ogy, examines the impacts of resource exploitation and industrial agriculture on indigenous peoples and the lands they have occupied for thousands of years. In its cultural and environmental themes, the show echoes In the Footsteps of the Crocodile Man, on view last year in the same temporary exhibition gallery at MOA. Crocodile Man spotlighted large and often spectacular works of contemporary art from the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. This new show, however, pins its ideas to smaller and more modest objects of ritual, quotidian, and commercial use from a range of cultures in the Amazonian rainforest. These include basketry sieves and containers, woven fibre bags, feathered headdresses, beaded aprons, spears, quivers, masks, ceramic vessels, latex figurines, and tubular strainers used for processing manioc root. Over 300 indigenous groups live in the Amazon River basin, a vast area that falls under the jurisdiction of nine different countries. During a media preview of the show, its curator, Nuno Porto, noted that human beings have occupied this region for 11,000 years. When the Portuguese first arrived, 500 years ago, he said, the indigenous population was an estimated nine million. One of the points made by the show is that the Amazon rainforest has a long history of environmentally harmonious human habitation. “The forest became what it is not despite but rather because of the many people who live there,” Porto said. The vast scale of deforestation there—a process that threatens not only indigenous cultures and biodiversity but also the well-being of the entire planet—is a product of the last hundred years. This is also the period represented by the works on view, drawn from MOA’s collections. Some of these objects arrived at the museum through donations, with very little information concerning where they were made, for what use, or by whom. One of the pleasures of the show is following recent lines of research to establish origins and meanings. The first object we see as we enter the gallery is an old Ashaninka txoshiki or bandolier, recognized as such through work by a forensic ornithologist at the Beaty Biodiversity
Museum. Attached to the bandolier are the preserved bodies and body parts of seven different tropical birds, including a round-tailed manakin and a blue-necked tanager. Through identifying all the species represented, it was possible to locate the area in which the bandolier was made and to pinpoint the cultural group that lived there. In the Ashaninka world-view, we’re told, birds are able to move between visible and invisible realms and dimensions. A series of Makuna or Yaba Masã masks, made of wood, resin, and bark cloth and displayed behind a screen of dark fabric, suggests the belief that hunting is a form of exchange between humans and their animal relations. The masks are danced to ensure that this exchange continues and that the animals regenerate. Polychrome ceramic bowls made by the Shipibo people of Peru strongly resemble the pre-Columbian ceramics of their ancestors. The colonial history of the Shipibo is, like that of so many other Amazonian groups, horrific, and includes enslavement by rubber entrepreneurs. Their situation today is also dire, with Spanish-speaking encroachers destroying their subsistence base. As we observed while reviewing In the Footsteps of the Crocodile Man, the negative impact of resource exploitation on indigenous peoples, cultures, and livelihoods worldwide is hardly a new story. What is new in Amazonia, however, is a hopefulness expressed through the idea of “the rights of nature”, which recognizes that ecosystems have the right to exist and regenerate. This is an idea that has found its way into the constitutions of a couple of Amazonian nations, Ecuador being the leading example. Closely connected to the rights of nature is the South American philosophy of buen vivir or “good living”, which espouses consuming less and living in harmony with nature and with other human beings. It sounds impossibly idealistic, but it, too, has been incorporated into the Ecuadorian constitution, along with the recognition of the cultural sovereignty of many indigenous groups and the country’s self-description as a “plurinational” state. Amazonia isn’t an exhibition of visual art. Rather, it is an exhibition of artifacts and advocacy, with a range of visually and culturally intriguing objects, thoughtfully displayed; evocative video and audio installations; an abundance (perhaps an overabundance) of explanatory text and pertinent statistics—and an important message of the inextricable relationship of the social and the environmental.
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MOVIES REVIEWS PERSONAL SHOPPER Starring Kristen Stewart. In English and French, with English subtitles. Rated 14A
Kristen Stewart, who always has a some-
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At least, that’s what she thinks when she goes looking for trouble in Personal Shopper, the latest from French writer-director Olivier Assayas, who prides himself on tonal variety, jumping from stylish vampire romps (Irma Vep) to Truffaut-like family tales (Summer Hours). Shopper has a bit of everything, in that it takes current concerns seriously—are we in thrall to the spectre of our cellphones?—but dabbles in genre conventions for the sake of sheer entertainment. In the filmmaker’s last effort, Clouds of Sils Maria, Stewart played the grumpy assistant to Juliette Binoche’s waning movie star. Here, she’s the blandly named Maureen Cartwright, cranky clothes carrier and errand girl for a Kardashianlike model-celebrity (Nora von Waldstätten, also
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A haunted Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart) pauses between bouts of smoking and contemplating mortality in Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.
styles. That approach can’t be duplicated on-screen, but Clowes’s script, through the agency of director Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins), melds contrasting tones into A mopey Kristen Stewart deals with death, ghosts, and the a more unified whole and fills spectres of conspicuous consumption in Personal Shopper in what was missing from the tale of a rude, selfish character who only belatedly from Sils Maria) based in a rain-dappled Paris. Some people have noticed that the couture she examines his own shortcomings. The funny/sad movie is definitely not for people borrows for her boss looks better on Maureen. But her real thing, aside from smoking and moping, who want to see heartwarming family reunions, or is trying to get in touch with her twin brother. He heartwarming anything, really. Wilson is pretty recently died, you see, from a rare heart condition much an asshole—a guy who’ll ask a stranger what she shares. And they made a pact, perhaps unique he does for a living and then make fun of him for it. in all of human history, that the first to go would A loser with no prospects, he somehow wields the arrogance of utter defeat as a weapon. But Wilson attempt to contact the other. This means staying in the big, spooky house really does love his dog, and when he describes himwhere he used to live (in Prague, although the new self as “a people person”, it’s not meant sarcastically. location goes unnamed). Apparitions do appear, but He yearns for deeper connections, and this is tested what are they? Other spirits follow her on train trips when his long-estranged father suddenly dies. Consequently, Wilson heads back to his old St. to London and elsewhere, and there’s even a weirdly self-contained murder mystery, in case looking at Louis neighbourhood (the whole movie was shot in Cartier jewellery and sexy S&M wear isn’t enough— Minnesota) and also looks for his ex-wife, Pippi, who even with Marlene Dietrich and medieval music in walked 17 years earlier. Hers was the most underthe background. Assayas is saying something about written part of the book, but a volatile Laura Dern and the fleshed-out screenplay don’t let that happen overly conspicuous consumption, but what is it? With her searching eyes and sharply triangu- here. Turns out Pippi didn’t have the abortion she lar face (like an Emma Watson with problems), announced when they split. And they haphazardly Stewart is a strangely compelling stand-in for search for the fruit of their loins—an angry, plus-size our millennial anxieties. But her pitchless speech goth girl (impressive newcomer Isabella Amara)—to is even more monotonous than usual, and there’s make their temporary insta-family complete. There’s no doubt that Harrelson’s character will something numbingly interchangeable about all the people and events in the director’s coldly remain too caustic, and too impenetrably weird, sumptuous world. Ghosts might be out to get us, for many viewers. But there is also dark fun ahead for those willing to take Wilson’s bumpy ride. but it’s not really personal.
anymore novelist who hasn’t followed up on early success. Ryôta can’t quite bring himself to write but doesn’t do anything else well, apparently—unless you count long-shot gambling and some shambling private-eye work for a local hustler. His immaturity has cost him jobs and a marriage, but he’s still attempting to get back in the good graces of his understandably fed-up ex-wife (Yôko Maki) and their easygoing little boy (Taiyô Yoshizawa). Perhaps this is a script deficiency, but our guy is surprisingly inarticulate for a writer, and he makes some pretty dumb decisions. But Ryôta does listen to his earthy mother (Kirin Kiki), who does her best—in Ozu-like fashion—to keep conflicting sides in harmony. It’s really the writer-director’s eye for ordinary human contact that stays with you, along with his propensity for suggesting deeper meanings in the silences between words. He also manages to hit some extra-sweet notes about this family in particular. The film is slightly attenuated at almost two hours, but its long-simmering feelings (and longrunning jokes) pay off when the titular typhoon arrives, throwing everyone into a quietly humane space that, if not quite happy, flourishes where hope has been carefully planted. > KEN EISNER
SIERANEVADA Starring Mimi Brãnescu. In Romanian, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
In The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis
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trek from one meeting spot to another, in search of food that never arrives. The working stiffs of > KEN EISNER > KEN EISNER Sieranevada do eventually get to the grub they’ve been waiting for. But at almost three hours long, the WILSON AFTER THE STORM new Romanian film— by turns amusing, shocking, and tediously repetitive—will test the endurance of Starring Woody Harrelson. Rated 14A Starring Hiroshi Abe. In Japanese, with English viewers who haven’t eaten in a while. subtitles. Rating unavailable A rare comic-book movie that improves on Here, friends and family of a recently deceased Coming soon after his bittersweet Our Little patriarch gather in a crowded Bucharest apartment. its graphic-novel original, Wilson has been Sister, which found a family expanding against As usual, writer-director Cristi Puiu uses a microexpanded and humanized by its original author, Daniel Clowes. Of course, there’s also the bearded its own expectations, Japanese master Hirokazu cosm of Romanian society to sketch out more intimpresence of Woody Harrelson, who plays the tale’s Kore-eda takes a tenderly comedic look at a disinte- ate shifts in history. In his The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, one-named hero as resolutely cheerful in the face grating family, and what potentially remains of the from 2005, this was done through the search for just love that was once there in abundance. It’s easily one the right hospital. Now, almost 30 years since the of sequential disasters. The Seattle-based cartoonist, whose Ghost World of his most satisfying efforts to date. death of dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, changes in daily Unusually tall, handsome action-movie veteran life are reflected by mourners who must sit through proved influential in many ways, drew every page of the 2010 book as stand-alone strips in different Hiroshi Abe plays Ryôta Shinoda, a not-so-youngsee page 25
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A SECOND TIME AROUND WITH ONE OF B.C.’S BETTER ANGELS >>>
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ccording to Stuart Margolin, Salt Spring Island in 1969 was populated with “loggers, fishermen, hippies, some draft resisters from the States, and a lot of retired English army”. To that already strange mix of folk, let’s add one very successful Hollywood character actor. Margolin had already appeared on Bewitched, The Monkees, That Girl, and every other American TV series of note by the time he started looking for a home beyond L.A. “I had just discovered the Gulf Islands and had gone crazy for this piece of land. It just so happened I was a songwriter—I am still—and I got an advance from BMI and used that as a down payment, and that’s how I got the place,” he says of a Salt Spring Island property that would eventually boast a house designed by renowned architect Hank Schubart. Margolin and his family lived on Salt Spring for 22 years while the
Veteran character actor and former Salt Spring Island resident Stuart Margolin has his return to the big screen sewn up in The Second Time Around.
actor/writer/director—best known as James Garner’s hustling sidekick, “Angel” Martin, on The Rockford Files—racked up big-screen credits for the likes of Blake Edwards and took advantage of Vancouver’s evolving film and TV industry. He’s been relatively quiet of late, but the 77-year-old
makes a welcome return to theatres in The Second Time Around, opening Friday (March 24). He plays Holocaust survivor Isaac, whose romantic prospects make a late and unexpected comeback with the arrival of Laura (ex-Avenger Linda Thorson) at his Toronto group home.
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“Someone told me it’s a ‘geezer pleaser’,” Margolin says with a chuckle during a call to the Georgia Straight from Lewisburg, West Virginia, the latest remote location he has chosen over Hollywood (“I’m about 90 minutes from three of the great golf courses in the world,” he confides). “I hadn’t read anything quite like this script,” he says of Second Time Around, “and even though there are elements about it that are old-fashioned—but in a good way—a lot of it was new to me, like the whole life that both of them live at the retirement home, or ‘assisted living’, or however you quantify living at one of those places. I can only say, because I’ve been to a couple of screenings now, that I’m really, truthfully amazed by the reaction. People are so moved, laughing a lot, but also lots of tears. I don’t know why I wasn’t prepared for it, but I wasn’t.” Among the film’s incidental delights is a supporting cast of veteran
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Canadian thesps, including Louis Del Grande and Jayne Eastwood—“A wonderful comedienne and actress who always strikes gold”—whom Margolin first met on the set of the CBC’s Mom P.I. It was there that Margolin also began his association with Romeo Section creator Chris Haddock. “He’s one of the closest friends I made in my time in Vancouver, and I consider him to be one of the best writers in all of television,” Margolin says, adding that his stepchildren Chris and Michelle Martini recently scored producer and costume-designer jobs, respectively, on Stan Douglas’s acclaimed six-hour video installation Luanda-Kinshasa on the advice of Romeo Section producer Arvi Liimatainen. “Arvi and I go back to the days of Anne Wheeler’s Bye Bye Blues, so the connection still lives,” he declares, proudly, before signing off with a cheery “Thank you, and love and hello to everybody in the ’Couv!” -
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a man’s fight to find his creative voice in the aftermath of losing his one true love. Mar 25, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketstonight.ca/.
WOMEN MARCHING SCA Repertory Dancers present a contemporary dance concert featuring the work of Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre, Henry Daniel and Marla Eist, Judith Garay, Vanessa Goodman, and Wen Wei Wang. Mar 29–Apr 1, 8-10 pm, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (149 W. Hastings). Tix $20/15/7, info www.face book.com/events/1274877912560044/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK RISING STARS: CAP U AT THE SILK PURSE Concert series features music by students from the Capilano University music diploma and jazz studies programs. To Mar 25, Silk Purse Arts Centre (1570 Argyle Ave., West Van). Tix $25/20/15, info www.silkpurse.ca/. UBC CHAMBER STRINGS UBC Chamber Strings, violin soloist Galen Schram, and piano soloist Benjamin Hopkins perform music by Shostakovich and music from the film The Mission. Mar 24, 7:30 pm, Telus Studio Theatre (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/ calendar-index/2017/3/24/ubc-chamberstrings/. THE IDEA OF NORTH William Rowson leads the VSO in a program of Ana Sokolovic´’s Jeu des portraits, Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Aequilibria, and Harry Stafylakis’s Arc of Horizon. Mar 25, 7:30
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POSITIVE CHANGE In South African playwright Athol Fugard’s Valley Song, Abraam “Buks” Jonkers meditates on a life spent working a white landowner’s property, while his granddaughter dreams of the new opportunities opening up for her on the Johannesburg stage. Both the transformative power of theatre and the end of apartheid come under review in this Pacific Theatre production, which runs at the Chalmers Heritage Building from Friday (March 24) to April 8. pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED TIM AND ERIC Comedy duo composed of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim tour for the 10-year anniversary of their TV series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Aug 4, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 am, $39.5049.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners
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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks. com/vancouver/. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2CHRIS QUIGLEY Mar 23-25 2JASON ROUSE Mar 30-Apr 1 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most innovative improv. Firecracker! (Wed, 9:15 pm); #NoFilter (Thu, 9:15 pm); Ok Tinder (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Mar 22-29, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK DAVE NYSTROM Canadian comedian and writer known for his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Mar 23-25, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. CHRIS QUIGLEY Standup comedian known for performances on CTV’s Comedy Now. Mar 23-25, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $19.05/9.53, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/. MARC MARON American comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, musician, director, and producer performs on his Too Real Tour. Mar 26, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/.
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long-standing arguments, a lot of smoking (mostly in the kitchen), and a visit from a rambling Orthodox priest, who unleashes heartfelt hymns just as you’re ready to write off religion. Notably uninterested in handsome images or even attractive light, the director’s camera moves mainly through the agency of the family’s eldest son, Lary (Mimi Brănescu), a doctor currently dealing in medical supplies. Not a great listener, he’s in the doghouse with his elegantly dressed wife (Catalina Moga) for buying their daughter the wrong Disney-princess outfit. We change rooms or leave the apartment mainly to travel with Lary. Along this claustrophobic route, increasingly hungry (and drunk) relatives discuss 9/11 theories and the then-recent Charlie Hebdo massacre, the value of Communism in Romanian history, and whether reprobate uncles or drunken Croats should attend funeral parties. The misspelled title is never explained. Whether it refers to a faraway state of mind or mysterious mountains of state secrecy is left to the imagination, and appetite, of the audience.
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WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE: A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN KING The Geekenders present burlesque takes on the horror author’s novels and characters. Includes performances by Riannaconda, Rebel Valentine, Jayne Fondue, Fanny Oakley, Veronica Vamp, Trixie Hobbitses, Tylr Bourbon, Seamus Fit-ItIn, Kitty Glitter, Androsia Wilde, Rear Admiral Ziggy Starbutts, Ginger Femmecat, Draco Muff-Boi, and Violet DeVille. Mar 25, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $18/15, info www.riotheatre.ca/. #NERDGASM: A NIGHT OF NAUGHTY NERDLESQUE Kitty Nights presents an evening of nerdy burlesque by Burgundy Brixx, Kitty Glitter, Riannaconda, Dezi, Lady Marianne Toilette, Midnight-Truffle Black, and Baby LeStrange. Mar 26, 8 am–11 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10, info www.kittynights. com/nerdgasm.html/.
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comes up a lot when talking with the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, which makes sense, considering the genre Shawn Hall and Matt Rogers have chosen to work in. So, fittingly, the two answer all questions openly when tracked down to discuss their excellent new album, Apocalipstick. Hall (the harmonica-wielding Harpoonist) and Rogers (the guitar-slinging Axe Murderer) hold forth on everything from being white Canadians riffing on black American blues to the years it’s taken them to build a following in their hometown of Vancouver. The bandmates are equally generous when pressed for details about their personal lives. Bring up the fact that Apocalipstick contains more than one reference to liquor, sin, and scarily black days, and Hall makes no attempt to take the Fifth. “I’m the more unpredictable of the two of us, it’s safe to say—the one with the larger appetite for, um, things,” the singer and harp player admits, on the line from a northern Ontario tour stop. “At different points, that’s taken me down some pretty deep walks in the woods. I’m thankfully not in the woods anymore, but I was for years and years. The drunkard’s laments on the record—none of that’s fabricated, man.” Ask Rogers about the various references to salvation that pop up on Apocalipstick, and you’ll discover that he has a complicated relationship with religion. “I was raised in North Van on a cul-de-sac with a pretty happy childhood—nothing too bluesy about it,” says the guitarist, who adds that his folks have been wonderfully supportive of his musical career. “The most notable thing was that, when I was about
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Shawn “the Harpoonist” Hall keeps his shirt unbuttoned and his hands in his pockets to let folks know that he’s too easygoing to ever be an axe murderer.
“This is an outside-the- where he caught a show by fingerpicking blues box album,” Hall admits. guitarists Ken Hamm and Michael Jerome Brown “I think we were going that changed his life. “I got out a technique book and picked it all up for, like, this thing of like, ‘Keep the rhythm section pretty quickly,” he says. “Then one day I got the The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer’s Apocalipstick reflects how they’ve learned a great deal from the past as off-the-floor as we can.’ idea for the band and phoned up Shawn. I was like, But in terms of produc- ‘Let’s do something that’s just the two of us, someeight years old, my parents split up for a while, but tion and stuff it definitely leaves the world of blues. thing where we’ll keep it simple and it will be easy got back together by finding Jesus together. It was a We didn’t care about the blues and how strict it is, to rehearse and it’ll be fun.’ Our very first record strange shift—like, all of a sudden I wasn’t allowed to except for one’s love of tube mikes, tube preamps, [The Blues Can Kill] was something I made in my play with G.I. Joe toys and we were going to church tube compressors, ribbon mikes, and all that super- kitchen in Montreal. I sent Shawn all the files and he recorded his vocals over the top of them.” all the time, which I absolutely hated. When I got nerdy, lo-fi stuff.” That was a decade ago. Since then, the Harpooninto teenagehood, I think it was a funny thing for my dad, because he’s a musician and definitely the RIGHT FROM THE very beginning days of the ist & the Axe Murderer have moved from opening one that got me into music—I was inspired by seeing Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, Hall and Rog- slots in small Vancouver clubs to headlining the him play and by going through his record collection. ers understood that—nerdy or not—they were fabled Commodore Ballroom. There have been in“There was a lot of stuff that he threw out be- two Canadian boys playing a traditionally black vitations from festivals across the country, largely because of a blistering live show where Hall and cause he deemed it too secular,” Rogers continues, form of music. “We used to look like fucking Mormons,” Hall re- Rogers give ’er on harp and guitar while triggering “so that was kind of a bummer. It was funny, because he was really excited to show us things members. “We wore white shirts with short sleeves, big-boom percussion with their feet. And along the way there have been changes, and like Led Zeppelin beats on the drums, but at the buttoned down, with vests and ties. But I guess we same time would be like, ‘But don’t listen to their also had jeans, so I guess we weren’t total Mormons. not just the ditching of the Mormon-chic clothes. We thought it was kind of cool for the first couple of Follow-up releases to The Blues Can Kill—includlyrics—they’re talking about drugs and sex.’ ” Since coming together in 2007, Hall and Rogers years. Also, it made it easy for us to find each other. ing 2012’s Checkered Past and 2014’s A Real Fine have positioned themselves among the city’s finest The blues world is very conservative, and the dress Mess—saw the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer purveyors of grittily authentic blues—the kind of code was too much for us to completely buy into. But morph into something transcending their acoustic beginnings. That’s led to Juno nominations, soundstuff you want blaring in a grimly retro strip club. at least we made an attempt.” The two met at the turn of the century. The son of track placements in movies and TV shows, and, The Vancouver-spawned duo has specialized in a raw, bourbon-scorched take on the genre. Think a professor dad and an ESL–teacher mom, the On- most of all, steady touring—which has taken a toll, considering both Hall and Rogers now have kids. R.L. Burnside, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Jack White tario-raised Hall moved to the West Coast in 2001. “I was working for CityTV, MuchMusic, and Perhaps tellingly, the album’s penultimate back when Meg White was still behind the drum kit. On Apocalipstick the Harpoonist & the Axe all that stuff behind the scenes,” he says. “But TV number, the dust-bowl downer “Situate Yourself”, Murderer also pull off the admirable trick of scared the pants off of me—I was working in news has Hall ruminating “You’re shaking with doubt/ bringing something new to a famously tradition- and was too young and fragile. I’m a very sensitive Throw your arms in the air/Put your shit on a shelf and just figure it out.” bound genre. So, as much as Hall and Rogers person, so I wasn’t the right fit for a news job.” Getting his walking papers came as a relief, as it Asked if that song is a tip-off that, after the release sound like they’re happy drinking moonshine out of Mason jars on “Save Me From Another enabled him to concentrate on music. He enrolled in of A Real Fine Mess, he and Rogers found themselves Day”, a lot of the album shoots for something Vancouver’s Columbia Academy for sound engin- taking stock of their lives, Hall responds: “Yeah, no one sat down at the fucking piano to write that. more opulent, whether it’s the Vegas-revue back- eering, and while writing a radio jingle for a resIt was just something that popped into my ing vocals on “I’m Back” or the moonlit Muscle taurant called Jamaican Pizza Jerk in 2002, he found himself in need of a guitarist. head, and it was enough of a statement Shoals keys on “Running”. that we threw it on the record. It was But even if the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer A Columbia classmate arranged for him Check out… very much in the tradition of a blues lahave mixed things up, in one way the song remains to meet Rogers. STRAIGHT.COM “I hired him for free to play the ment. I’ve had lots of times where I’ve the same. “When we started doing this, the idea Make our website your source for had that narrow feeling of hopelessness was ‘Let’s keep it simple,’ ” Rogers remembers. “At guitar while two white dudes sang the concert reviews where I’m spinning my wheels.” that point it was actually much more of an acous- jingle for a Jamaican restaurant,” Hall and local music But tough out the hard times, and tic thing. It was meant to be fun and about the says with a laugh. Rogers was a shit-hot guitarist who’d sometimes there’s redemption. really early blues, which was what grabbed me. “We’re really lucky—so, so lucky— The rawness of that stuff was what drew me in—it been around music his entire life. He’s the was about the songs and not so much about flashy son of a daycare-operating mom and a dad who to be doing what we’re doing and have it be a playing. Since then, we’ve tried to keep things as played steadily in cover bands back in the ’70s, a career,” Rogers offers. “It feels like we’ve been honest as possible. So even when it kinda got loud- time when performing other people’s hits in bars given this golden ticket to do this, and that if we didn’t take advantage of it, it would just be er with more electric guitars, it still really felt hon- was big business. “He had a lot of brushes with potential success,” stupid of us and we’d regret it.” est to me. And now it really feels like we’re playing Rogers says of his father. “Like, Bryan Adams audiAnd if the idea of a couple of white guys putting the music we were meant to play.” a boundary-pushing spin on old blues is working, Apocalipstick has moments that the ghost of Rob- tioned for his band when Bryan Adams was 17.” Rogers’s dad switched gears after the future Axe there’s a good reason for that. ert Johnson might approve of—check out the Mis“We’re very honest with what fits and what sissippi-moonshine shack-burner “Pretty Please”. Murderer was born, taking a job with Canadian But mostly the record has Hall and Rogers writing Airlines. With his mom and grandmother both doesn’t,” Hall says. “Remember when I was telltheir own playbook, helped out by a support cast classical pianists, piano was Rogers’s first instru- ing you about how we looked like Mormons that includes drummer John Raham, keyboardist ment. By the time he was 11, Rogers—a talented back in the olden days? That was because we Geoff Hilhorst (the Deep Dark Woods), and vocal- producer today—was making recordings around didn’t feel authentic and genuine doing, I don’t ists Dawn Pemberton, Alexa Dirks, and Ben Rogers. the house. He remembers cutting DIY rap tracks want to call it a shtick, but instead the blues “Promises, Promises” is laced with Stax- with his then six-year-old brother Ben, who today tradition of the suits and all that kind of stuff. brand horns and ’70s-porn keyboards, while makes killer country-blues records, including 2015’s We also knew early on that I wasn’t going to be doing Howlin’ Wolf, and that I wasn’t going to the classic country of “Treat Me Kind” is built The Bloodred Yonder, under his own name. Rogers began playing guitar seriously at 13. try and sing like him. We know what genuinely around tequila-sunrise acoustic guitars. “Forever Fool” finds the missing link between His dad turned his son on to the blues at an early feels like it’s ours, and we don’t try and do stuff Exile-era Stones and ’80s-vintage Phil Collins, age by taking him to shows by the likes of the that isn’t. What it comes down to is that you’ve got to try on a lot of pants.” while the psych-king workout “Fragile” is prog legendary B.B. King. Fastforward a few years after the Jamaican-pizzarock layered with freakily disembodied vocals and what may or may not be regal harpsichord. jingle experience, and Rogers was living in Montreal, Apocalipstick is out Friday (March 24). MARCH 23 – 30 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27
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Delicate Steve strives to defy categorization A nine-year-old Delicate Steve
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Simon at a Yankees World Series game. Since then, he’s viewed the elder statesman of music as a “core spirit guide”, and an influence on his eclectic instrumental compositions. Recently chosen to play slide guitar on Simon’s latest album, Stranger to Stranger, Delicate Steve—or Steve Marion, to his mom—gained some new inspiration for his own longanticipated record. “There was a very high level of focus when me and Paul were working on the music, but also in a way that was very carefree,” Marion tells the Straight on the line from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. “It was like nothing I’ve ever done before. I didn’t have to force myself to get to that point—the vibe was just created in that way. It was deeply satisfying. The take we used was actually the first one we played, and that’s something that I’ve been trying to work on in my own music—that kind of spontaneity, and trying not to be too precious about what I’m writing.” Marion is true to his word. Creating his latest album, This Is Steve, in just 11 days, the multi-instrumentalist has proved himself a master of efficiency on his third full-length offering, designed to re-introduce him to his fans. “I made this LP at home,” he says. “I wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed the whole thing myself. The setup was all centred around my little stool. I had my computer in front of me, amps to the left, guitars to the right, pedals by my feet, and my drum set behind me. The reason that I managed to get it done so fast was that I felt like I knew myself well enough in that particular moment to understand everything I had to do to create this album. It was important to me not to get too fixated on a particular part—just to make a song and finish it, and listen back to it later.” Marion’s confidence is testament to the strength of his songwriting. Famed for textured and diverse earworms like “Butterfly” and “Tallest Heights” on previous albums Wondervisions and Positive Force, Marion has perfected the art of penning instrumental, guitar-led music with lead lines that sound like vocal melodies. “I consciously don’t want to have a sound,” he says of his music, which first found a place on David Byrne’s world-music-centric label Luaka Bop, and now resides on Anti- records, the home of Tom Waits. “No two songs are alike. I’m always trying not to repeat myself, because in some way I’m already boxed into a category because I don’t have a singer. Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson all really shaped how I create music—and though I draw my inspiration from their phrasing, my tracks sound nothing like any of them. “This is what I predict for the future,” he continues. “Wes Anderson is going to give me a call, and ask me to write a song sometime pretty soon, because he’ll realize that my tracks would be perfect for his movies. And then another song is going to be licensed for a sick Super Bowl commercial. So this weird strain of music is going to transfer to normal culture, and then it will set us up to be the next Talking Heads for the next 15 years. And all we have to do is keep playing these shows.”
Delicate Steve realized his head was less likely to be cropped if it was tilted.
Meet DJ Siavash Ashrafinia
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f Siavash Ashrafinia ever decided to give up his day job, the DJ could write one hell of a memoir. Born during the brutal IranIraq war, the musician was smuggled as a young child out of Iran by his father. Travelling under forged passports, the family somehow managed to negotiate its way to Madrid, Spain, under the pretence of attending an international sports conference. Choosing America as their next destination, DJ Siavash Ashrafinia knew the music the Ashrafinias were declined refugee wouldn’t play when the wiring failed. status in the States before being accepted by Canada—the country that BEST GIG EVER “Guadalajara has a famous festival they still call home. Music remained a passion for the called 212, which is enormous. They artist during that upheaval. Buying a block off the city centre and set up outdoor and indoor Radio Shack mixer, stages, and they all belt-drive turnSo Many DJs close at 2:30 a.m. table, and tape Bar Americas, the player at 13 years Kate Wilson number one club in old, the “lonely little fat kid” (his words) discovered the city, was the only venue that was how to record continuous music, opti- licensed past that time—and, by some mistically convincing himself—and, crazy stroke of luck, my set started at apparently, his middle-school class— 2:30. There were thousands of people looking for an after-party, and we that he’d invented DJing. After getting hooked on elec- were the only place providing it. The tronic music, the young performer line outside was two blocks long, and started his career as a resident at the entire club was packed. It was Tommy Africa’s in Whistler. With crazy. I walked onto the stage wearing individuals stripping off their my big hat, rolled up my sleeves, and clothes and dancing on tables to people just started roaring. It was like his eclectic blend of deep house, I was Tiësto or something. I played for techno, drum ’n’ bass, electron- nearly six hours, because the people ica, and trance, Ashrafinia and were just chanting and chanting for his idiosyncratic beard quickly be- one more song.” came a staple in the town. Having been a professional DJ for TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW 23 years now, the artist has played “I haven’t played electro music for a shows across several continents and long time. It used to be fresh, but it lost scored a number of residencies, in- that quite quickly—now it’s too agcluding the prestigious Bar Amer- gressive, and too edgy. It doesn’t proicas in Guadalajara, Mexico—a feat mote longevity on the dance floor bemade even more remarkable by the cause it wears people out too fast. But fact that both his parents, who sac- I love ‘Use It or Lose It’ by Vitalic, fearificed everything to give him the turing Mark Kerr. Vitalic is Europe’s opportunity to pursue music, are electro god currently—he takes the cheese right out of the genre. Holy dick completely deaf.
of ambient music. But no other musician has done more to liberate the pedal steel from its countryand-western straitjacket than Susan Alcorn—and she’s done it by expanding in all directions at once. On her most recent album, Soledad, she plays the haunting melodies of tango master Astor Piazzolla. On YouTube, she can be seen performing O Sacrum Convivium, by the influential French composer Olivier Messiaen. And when she comes to Vancouver for the annual Improvised Music Meeting, she’ll likely go completely freeform, as she has already done with such luminaries as saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Mary Halvorson. Perhaps even more remarkably, she’s accomplished all this without turning her back on the music that paid her bills for 20 years: honkytonk country. Although she no longer plays roadhouses “eight nights a week”, Alcorn still understands the International Jazz Festival presents the beauty of the twang. Australian guitar master, with guests Jenn Bjom and Khingfisher. Jun 25, 8 pm, “With country music, I liked the Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $60/55 immediacy of it,” she explains in a at www.coastaljazz.ticketfly.com/. telephone interview from her Baltimore, Maryland, home. “You’ve got ZIGGY MARLEY As part of the Vogue Series, the TD Vancouver International maybe two bars, at most, to state what Jazz Festival presents the Jamaican you’re going to do in a solo. It’s like reggae vocalist-guitarist. Jun 26, 8 pm, haiku, you know. There’s a certain Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $76/71 rigid form, and if you go outside of at www.coastaljazz.ticketfly.com/. that form it’s not haiku anymore—but BOB DYLAN American folk-rock singerwithin that form there’s a universe.” songwriter performs hits such as “Blowin’ Alcorn has enjoyed a diverse in the Wind”, “The Times They Are a-Changin”, and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s musical education. Her mother sang Door”. Jul 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, in the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on under the direction of legendary CONCERTS < sale Mar 24, 10 am, $112/86.50/56.50/46.50 maestro George Szell, and played (plus service charges and fees) at CLUBS & VENUES < www.livenation.com/. piano at home. Psychedelic rock and Muddy Waters’s microtonal blues CONCERTS SPOON Texas indie-rock band tours slide were influential, she adds, while in support of ninth studio album Hot encountering Messiaen’s Et exspecto 2JUST ANNOUNCED Thoughts. September 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline resurrectionem mortuorum on her car Road, Stanley Park). Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 B3 FOR BUNNY: FROM NYC MIKE radio proved a watershed moment. am, $45 (plus service charges and fees) at LEDONNE WITH CORY WEEDS New “I was on my way to a gig, and I just York’s www.livenation.com/. LeDonne, a double threat on piano had to pull over,” she recalls. “With and Hammond B3 organ, joins Vancouver my little ‘I can do anything’ hubris, alto saxophonist Cory Weeds in this notI thought, ‘Well, I can do this!’ So I to-be-missed show. Presented by Coastal Apr 7-8, 8 pm, Frankie’s Jazz Club (765 ordered the score, and it’s for, like, 35 Jazz. For up-to-the-minute, searchable Beatty). Tix $20, info www.coastaljazz.ca/. instruments, and they’re all playing Music Time Out listings, visit a half-step apart… I couldn’t do it, JOE PURDY American folk-rock singerwww.straight.com songwriter tours in support of latest obviously, but I felt ‘Never give up!’ ” release Who Will Be Next?. Apr 21, doors Messiaen’s music inspired Al- 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 54-40 Vancouver guitar-rockers percorn to add two extra strings to her Prince Edward). Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 am, form tunes from latest album Keep On Walking. Oct 6-7, doors 7 pm, show guitar—she now plays an idiosyn- $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 cratic 12-string steel—and alter her Granville). Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 am, tuning to accommodate low bass POPTONE English rock band composed $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at notes. But the real key to develop- of Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and Diva www.livenation.com/. Dompe. Jun 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, ing a voice on any instrument, she Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix MILKY CHANCE German alt-folk group stresses, lies in realizing that it’s on sale Mar 24, 10 am, $25 (plus service tours in support of latest studio album essentially a device that converts charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Blossom. Oct 24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix > KATE WILSON vibration into sound. on sale Mar 24, 10 am, $40 (plus service “I’ve always thought that all instru- TOOL Los Angeles metal-rock band charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. Delicate Steve plays Fortune Sound ments are basically alike.…and that featuring Danny Carey, Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan, and Justin Club on Sunday (March 26). each instrument has unlimited po- Chancellor. Jun 15, doors 6:30 pm, show MOGWAI Scottish postrock band comtential,” she explains. “The bagpipes, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). posed of Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic banjo, the jaw harp, what have you—if Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 am, $125/89.50/75 Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, and Barry Burns. Nov 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, it’s played right, and if it’s played with (plus service charges and fees) at Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix attention to minute detail, there are www.livenation.com/. on sale Mar 24, 10 am, $28 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records no limits.” AMY SHARK Australian indie-pop and www.ticketmaster.ca/. She’s not alone: in California, > ALEXANDER VARTY singer-songwriter tours in support of debut EP Night Thinker. Jun 20, doors 8 Chas Smith uses his mutant pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 pedal-steel guitars to evoke the ex- Susan Alcorn performs at the Western Prince Edward). Tix on sale Mar 24, 10 am, CLUBS & VENUES pansive weirdness of the high-de- Front on Friday and Saturday (March $15 (plus service charges and fees) at BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, sert landscape, while in the U.K. BJ 24 and 25), as part of the Vancouver www.livenation.com/. 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-687Cole has brought shimmering steel- Improvised Music Meeting. For more TOMMY EMMANUEL As part of 1354. 2CHLOE ANNE LLOYD Mar 22 the Vogue Series, the TD Vancouver guitar atmospherics into the realm info, visit www.barkingsphinx.com/. 2BRIGHT RED KITE Mar 25
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“I’ll say this. When in Guadalajara, do not finish your set with a drum ’n’ bass song, ever. Or else receive death threats, and potential banning of your residency at Bar Americas. I played a flawless five-and-a-half-hour set, and I was feeling a little bit cocky at the end. I tried something that I would do in North America, which is end the show with this jamming drum ’n’ bass track to create this weird vibe. Bad idea. People started making signs that they were going to cut my throat. They did not ask for another song.” FAVOURITE LOCAL PRODUCER
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“After the Lotus Sound Lounge nightclub in Gastown closed, there was a disappearance of consistent and quality underground events, and I decided to take things into my own hands. Seeing so many of my talented peers without a space to perform their art inspired me to try and reunite our dying underground community—so I created You Plus One. I wanted to make something unique and nonelitist, just like my set. If you play obscure dark techno, bring it on. If you have an electronic band, let’s do it. There’s a slot for everyone, if you be who you are, and love what you do. We are trying really hard to make unique spaces and curate very special vibes that aren’t ruled by profit-making.” BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2PRINCESS NOKIA Mar 23 2JEREMY ALLINGHAM W/SKYOTE & SOPHIA DANAI Mar 24 2LISA LEBLANC Mar 25 2JAIN Mar 27 BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. Live jazz, soul, and blues. 2DINO DINICOLO Mar 22 2BLUE VOODOO BAND Mar 23 2RENE WORST’S BRAZILIAN BAND Mar 24 2STEPHANIE PEDRAZA Mar 25 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2THE AGE OF ELECTRIC Mar 24 2MOTHER MOTHER Mar 25-26 & 28-30 2THE TEA PARTY Mar 31 FRANKIE’S JAZZ CLUB 765 Beatty, 778727-0337. 2CONNOR STEWART & THE BON TEMPS Mar 24 2HEATHER KEIZUR & STEVE CHRISTOFFERSON Mar 26 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings. Evil Bastard Karaoke Experience Sun-Thurs. IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2ERIC CAMPBELL Mar 24 2TEENAGE FANCLUB Mar 25 2KREATOR Mar 29 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. 2ARIANA GRANDE Mar 24 2CHRIS STAPLETON Mar 27 2SNOOP DOGG Apr 14 2JOHN MAYER Apr 19 2THE WEEKND Apr 25 2JOHN LEGEND Jun 1 2DEF LEPPARD Jun 6 2FUTURE Jun 9 2TOOL Jun 15 2QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jul 2 2J. COLE Jul 18 2NEIL DIAMOND Jul 24 2BOB DYLAN Jul 25 2BRUNO MARS Jul 26 2ED SHEERAN Jul 28 2LADY GAGA Aug 1 2TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Aug 17 2ONEREPUBLIC Aug 21 2LIONEL RICHIE Sep 3 2NICKELBACK Oct 1 2DEPECHE MODE Oct 25 2ROGER WATERS Oct 28 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. 2ROYAL OAK Mar 25 2CHEAP THRILLS VOLUME SEVEN: SHAUN VERREAULT Mar 30
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recently spoke at Curious Minds Weekend in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Audience members submitted questions on cards before the show, anonymously, but the moderator—Lisan Jutras of the Globe and Mail—and I were having so much fun talking with each other that we didn’t get to many cards. So I’m going to quickly answer as many of the questions from the audience at Curious Minds as I can this week.
My husband and I have been
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I’m a bisexual 42-year-old female I am 31. with an extremely high sex drive who squirts with every orgasm. How do I deal with friends—even people at a sex club—who think you’re a freak because “women aren’t supposed to be horny all the time”?
If your friends—presumably people you aren’t fucking—complain that you’re horny all the time, maybe it’s because you don’t talk about anything other than the sex you just had or the sex you hope to have soon. If people at sex clubs (!) are complaining about how horny you are…either you’ve accidentally wandered into a yacht club or even people at a sex club wanna talk about something other than sex every once in a while.
seeking a third for a threesome. After a very palpable night of flirtation, I asked a mutual friend (as we shared a cab) if he would be down for a threesome. He said yes, but I was not about to spring him on my husband that night. So I texted him later about it, My very Christian friend is and he has ignored me. What should about to get married. Though she is socially very liberal, she is pretty I take from this? sexually repressed. I want to do something to encourage her to exThe hint. plore her sexuality a bit before she A friend’s BF won’t go down on takes a try at partnered sex. How her no matter how much she asks. weird would it be to buy her a vibraShe still won’t break up with him, tor as a shower present? even though she told me that oral is the only way she has ever had an or- Don’t give your friend a vibrator at gasm. How do I get her to realize her her shower—gifts are opened in front sexual pleasure is a priority? of guests at showers—but go ahead and send her one. Tell her it’s a preIf your friend’s BF doesn’t know bachelorette-party gift. oral is the only way she can orgasm, she should tell him. If she told him Two guys divorced in order to and he doesn’t care, she should bring a third man into their relationdump him. If she told him and he ship on equal terms, and they now doesn’t care and she won’t dump plan to start a family with their sishim, you’re not obligated to listen ters acting as surrogates. Thoughts? to her complain about the orgasms Mazel tov? she’s not having.
My husband (newly married) is 46, almost 47. He takes FOREVER to come, no matter what I do. How do we speed up this process? My jaw, fi ngers, et cetera are all very sore. Your husband speeds up the process by incorporating self-stimulation breaks into the blowjobs, handjobs, et cetera jobs you’re giving him. He strokes himself while you take a quick breather and/or an Advil, he gets himself closer, you get back to work.
I’m 47 and my wife is 31. I take a lot longer to come and recover than she would like. Could you please explain to her that it’s normal for a man my age to “slow down” and it’s not her?
plugs anymore. I used to get a letter once or twice a week from someone who needed to have butt plugs explained to them. But butt plugs have their own Wiki page now, so no one needs me to explain them anymore. But for old times’ sake: they look like lava lamps, they go in your butt, they feel awesome, and they typically don’t induce gay panic in butt-play-curious straight boys.
of bicycle repair and Swedish pop music. How can I tell her to give it a rest while remaining supportive?
When are you going to move to
All the lesbians I know are strict empiricists. So the more pertinent question would be this: whose sample is skewed, mine or yours?
If she began transitioning last week, then of course it’s all she can talk about. If she transitioned five years ago and it’s still all she ever talks about, then you’ll need to (gently) be the change you want to see in the conversation. Listen supportively when she discusses trans issues and seize opportunities Would you share your thoughts (when they arise) to change the subject on our prime minister, Justin Trudeau? (“So how do you think Sweden will do in Eurovision this year?”). I think Justin needs to stop fucking around and legalize weed already, Why are so many lesbians into astrology? like he promised. Canada already?
Happy birthday. And, yes, it’s normal for a man to slow down as he ages— it’s not her—and there are younger men who take a long time to come. But such men need to take their partners’ physical limitations into consideration. To avoid wearing out their partners’ jaws, fingers, et cetera, they need to take matters into their own hands. They should enjoy that blowjob, handjob, twatjob, or assjob, take breaks to stroke their own dicks, eventually bring themselves to the point of orgasmic inevitability, and end by plunging back into that mouth, fist, twat, or ass to blow their load.
See above.
Polyamory after marriage: My male partner
never masturbates and we have sex only once a week. We’ve been together four years. For some. I’m a woman. I would like to have sex just a little more, but he isn’t into it. Is I’m a submissive gay boy. there something weird about me masI saw you walk into the theatre to- turbating a bunch during the week and night wearing combat boots. Is there just having weekend sex? any way I could lick your boots clean after the show? Nope. is it okay?
Sadly, I didn’t see your question until after I got back to my hotel.
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reading your col- Straight male here. My best umn since the early 1990s. Since that male friend of 20 years transitioned time, what has struck you in the kind to female. I’ve been super supportive of problems people write you about? since day one, but her transitioning is all she ever talks about, and it’s getPeople don’t ask me about butt ting tiresome. I miss our discussions
Dude? Trump? WTF? ITMFA (ITMFA.org). On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Brian Whitney, coauthor of a book about the “Cannibal Cop”: savagelovecast. com. E-mail: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage.
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