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ancouver neurologist Jon Stoessl was doing his undergraduate degree in physiology and psychology when he pulled a book off the library shelf during a late-night study session and found the content so engrossing that it triggered a lifelong passion and influenced his entire career. Although that was a couple of decades ago, the codirector of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health is just as fascinated—and mystified—by the human brain as ever before. “I vividly remember…reading about Wilder Penfield [a neuroscience pioneer], and in order to do epilepsy surgery he would stimulate over certain areas of the brain, and when he did that, people would come back with these vivid memories of what had happened in their childhoods,” Stoessl, the head of neurology at UBC and Vancouver General UBC Parkinson’s disease researcher Jon Stoessl is one of several neurologists Hospital, says by phone. “I remember who will field questions at an upcoming Brain Health Fair. Janis Franklin photo. sitting there reading that and feeling absolutely spellbound. Although I can pick doctors’ brains. People will attention it deserves is the view that considered other areas [of medicine] also be able to hold a human brain psychiatric and neurological diseases along the way, it was always neurol- and walk through a giant inflatable often have a common basis,” Stoessl ogy that drew me. brain. There will also be activities for says. “As we move forward, we under“The more I read, the more I loved kids, like brain-related arts and crafts stand that many of these things have it,” he adds. “I was hooked. Who can and physical activities. more in common than differences.” fail to be fascinated by the brain?” Stoessl specializes in movement Stoessl says the fair will appeal to That’s a hard point to argue, and disorders, Parkinson’s, and related people of all ages, whether they’re anyone remotely conditions. Much patients, family members, careinterested in the of his research in- givers, kids, students, or simply the brain’s workings volves functional curious-minded. Animal brains will and wonders will imaging to look at be on display, and people will be able Gail Johnson have the chance biomarkers of Par- to explore some of Science World’s to learn all about the organ at an kinson’s to understand the disease’s Body Works exhibits and Blow Your upcoming Brain Health Fair, a first progression and complications. He’s Mind demonstrations. Free bike helfor Vancouver. Presented by the also looking at disease interventions. mets will even be given out. American Academy of Neurology “We’re currently looking at the Although neurology was known (AAN), it takes place at the Vancou- effect of exercise on Parkinson’s dis- in the past as a “hopeless” area of ver Convention Centre on April 15, ease and the mechanisms by which medicine, Stoessl says it’s never been which Mayor Gregor Robertson has it may contribute to short-term a more exciting time for brain health. proclaimed as Brain Health Aware- improvement,” Stoessl says. “There’s “People should not look at this ness Day. also the suggestion that exercise may [diseases of the brain] as a quagThe event will feature some of the help slow disease progression, so mire of hopelessness, but people 12,000 neurologists who will be in we’re trying to understand that.” should be energized by all the work town for the AAN’s annual meetMore research is pointing to that’s being done and new treating, which is the largest gathering of the “profound” benefits of regular ments that are emerging,” he says. brain-health experts in the world. The physical activity for a range of neuro- “People should feel excitement not fair offers the chance to learn about logical disorders, he says. Other ways only about [advances in treating] diseases and conditions of the brain, to boost brain health include getting diseases of the brain but also the including concussions, migraines, enough sleep—“It has a much big- unbelievable, wonderful organ it is epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, mul- ger impact than most people real- in terms of its normal function.” tiple sclerosis, and stroke. It will also ize,” Stoessl says—social interaction, The American Academy of Neurolprovide information on how to keep mental exercises, and even diet. the brain healthy. Other studies are looking into ogy’s 2016 Brain Health Fair takes Stoessl, UBC’s Canada Research conditions that haven’t traditionally place at the Vancouver Convention Chair in Parkinson’s disease, will be been considered neurological at all. Centre on April 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 among those at the Ask a Neurologist “One of the really fascinating areas p.m. Admission is free; sign up at booths, where members of the public that is only just starting to get the www.BrainHealthFair.com/.
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eginning in September 2011, Micah White and fellow Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn sparked one of the largest protests in modern history: Occupy Wall Street. But today White describes the global movement as little more than a learning experience. “What it taught us is our theories of social change that underpin contemporary activism are not true,” White said in a telephone interview. “Activists are now faced with coming up with new theories of social change, new tactics, and new ways of trying to effect social change.” In his new book The End of Protest, White argues that, more than an isolated mistake, the Occupy movement signals a failure of tactics, objectives, and beliefs. What’s required now is a total rethink of activism in the 21st century, he suggests. “One of the things that I think we tested—that we found out not to be true—is this idea that you can basically build the ideal society, the ideal microcosm, that you don’t need to become the ones in power,” White explained in reference to Occupy camps that sprouted up around the world, including one on the north side of the Vancouver Art Gallery through October and November of 2011. The Occupy movement may have given birth to something beautiful in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and hundreds of copycat encampments around the world, White continued, but those isolated pockets where change began were also where it ended. “Now we are realizing, ‘No, actually, sovereignty can only be achieved through winning wars and winning elections.’ And so social movements need to figure out how to win elections, because I don’t think the war route is very productive.” The next step is the subject of The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, which spends more time on the future than it does reflecting on Occupy and the past. It’s also the question White plans to discuss next Wednesday (April 13) as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest’s Incite series. In hindsight, White writes in the book, Occupy’s failure was foretold. “The anti–Iraq War movement collapsed after its global march on February 15, 2003, the largest synchronized protest in human history, failed to sway President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to halt the pre-emptive war on Iraq,” it reads. “Activists in 2003 believed that if millions of people around the world said no in unison on a single day, war would be impossible. Like Occupy, the anti-war movement vaporized when the theory of social change underlying the movement—that governments will bend if millions of people assemble in the streets, march and make a single demand—was proven ineffective.” Street protests have become ineffective because they are so predictable, White explained. They are calculated into a government’s decision-making process, with police resources deployed accordingly. Where does that leave activism? With far-reaching knowledge of
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In the wake of the famous 2011 protests in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, Micah White says the future of activism lies in the tactics of winning elections.
protest theory and history, White has specific and tangible ideas. In Spain, for example, he’s observed a conscious shift where groups that once boycotted elections now field candidates. “They are building a social movement called Podemos that is winning elections,” he said. “They are starting to become the people in power.… When we think, concretely, ‘What is the future of social protest?’ it is precisely that; it is to build social movements that can win political power, that can swing elections.” What might that look like in North America? What advice would White offer to, for example, a group trying to end police violence against a visible minority? “I would build a social movement specifically around ousting the person who is currently in charge of appointing the police commissioner or police chief,” he said. “And then I would appoint someone else. Basically, I would become the police.” A founding member of the Black Lives Matter movement appears to be doing just that. On February 3, DeRay Mckesson declared he was running to become the mayor of Baltimore. “I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional politicians who follow these well-worn paths, will not lead us to the transformational change our city needs,” he wrote in a blog post announcing his campaign. “We must challenge the practices that have not and will not lead to transformation.” Where else might we see this next manifestation of protest hit? What unrest does White see on the horizon? “I think women are the most oppressed class in the world,” he replied. “We are going to wake up, we are going to look outside one day, and we are going to see women of all ages protesting. Protesting in ways that surprise us, just like the Occupy movement surprised us.
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my whole sustainability thing comes in: from seeing how we just throw all this out. Why is it so disposable?” The designer, who debuts her taut, clean-lined new collection, Models Own, at Eco Fashion Week (Saturday to Thursday [April 9 to 14] at the Fairmont Waterfront and other locations), began to wonder if there was an answer that went beyond just buying used clothing. “Everybody loves vintage, but for the most part you can only do oneoff pieces,” she explains. “It got me thinking: how can you put out more consistent products and turn it into a brand that isn’t so disposable?” For Bouillet, who studied in the Vancouver Community College fashion program, the concept began with a small collection of finely crafted, minimalistic pieces that would transcend trends—and not surprisingly, solid black and white figure prominently. The few debut pieces she’s dubbed her Control collection include sleek wrapstyle miniskirts in black or white suede, an apron dress in raw organic denim, and flowy pleated culottes in light denim, dark denim, and elegant white. Soft hits of colour come in with sleeveless, raw-linen blouses in rose-petal or what she calls crayon blue, each with laser-cut silk strips artfully running down the front. The lines are clean, but laser-cut hems give the pieces an avantgarde feel. (Prices run from about $100 up to $250 for a coat; they will be selling soon through her website, www. mishelbouillet.com/, and at Nouvelle Nouvelle [209 Abbott Street].) But for Bouillet, as for other slowfashion designers, the approach has to be holistic. In her case, you try to use
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Vancouver’s Eco Fashion Week offers style THRIFT STYLE CHALLENGE Though the premise of the Thrift Style Challenge remains unchanged from its tablished and up-and-coming names. (Check out the first incarnation seven years ago—three designers must Canadian debut of British designer Jeff Garner’s ro- create a fully realized fashion collection using secondmantic fall collection or the launch of local ceremon- hand pieces from Value Village and only $500 each—the ial line Laudae.) But its three signature shows, taking results are always unpredictable. Preloved threads are place at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel (900 Canada mixed, remastered, and altered into almost unrecogPlace) from Saturday to next Wednesday (April 9 to nizable forms that, in the past, have been influenced by 13), ref lect the three Rs that lie at the heart of the en- everything from Barbie and Ken to the groovy garb of vironmentally minded affair. Woodstock. This year, Vancouver stylists Jason Pillay, Nadia Albano, and Nathalie Rees will take to the runway CHIC SHEETS: THE BED LINEN CHALLENGE on Monday (April 11) with collections that prove chic Abandoned bed sheets will get new life with the doesn’t have to come steep. return of EFW’s Chic Sheets: The Bed Linen Challenge. Eight local designers, including Young Oak ’s VCAD 81-POUND CHALLENGE Formerly dubbed the Tammy Joe and Project Runway Canada alumna 68-Pound Challenge, the 81-Pound Challenge has been Kim Cathers, have been tasked with transforming renamed to reflect a new statistic for the amount of clothused linens from the Fairmont Waterfront into ing and textiles the average North American tosses out pieces that celebrate French fashion house Bal- every year. To illustrate this growing number, EFW has main’s 70th anniversary. Expect a f lurry of gleam- enlisted the help of students from the Vancouver Coling baroque embellishments and hefty shoulder lege of Art and Design to craft a collection using gently pads, all inspired by designer Olivier Rousteing’s worn fabrics, apparel, and accessories from Value Village vision. Following the show on Sunday (April 10), that will weigh 81 pounds in total. The aspiring designthe high-fashion looks will be exhibited at Pacific ers, who have been guided by fashion industry vets Jason Centre from April 14 to 30, where the public can Matlo, Wen-chee Liu, and Glencora Twigg, will present their collaborative efforts on Monday (April 11). vote for its favourites.
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probably never could have predicted that her classical-ballet career would take her to a sweltering sweat lodge on a remote Manitoba First Nation reserve. The hourslong healing ceremony was about as far from the world of tutus, pointe shoes, and mirrored studios as she could get. But that’s exactly the kind of lengths the Royal Winnipeg Ballet dancer and the company were willing to go to in preparation for staging Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation. It wasn’t a traditional rehearsal process for the show, and it’s not at all traditional subject matter for a ballet: the new work, written by novelist Joseph Boyden and staged by choreographer Mark Godden, tackles the ugly history of residential schools and the lasting damage they inflicted on survivors and subsequent generations. “It was like a tent and there were about 20 of us in there,” the Korean-born dancer says, recalling the experience she and other dancers had in the sweat lodge. The Langley-trained ballet sensation has made a brief stop by the Straight before Going Home Star opens here, after critical acclaim for performances back East. “By the end I was drenched! We got to share what we were thankful for, and some of the elders were crying. They really opened up to us, so it was not just hearing their stories but actually being there. It was real. “Everybody that did go was changed. There’s this connection now.” She adds the same elders will hold a feast and blessing for the company before it heads out on its tour to the West Coast. In the piece, Lee plays the lead role of Annie, the sort of character you seldom see a ballet centred on: she’s a big-city hairdresser who’s lost in a world of casual sex and drug use. When she meets Gordon, a homeless native man who ran away from a residential school and who possesses tricksterlike abilities, she starts to awaken to her people’s traumatic past.
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In Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet takes on the loaded subject of residential school. Samantha Katz photo.
Still, the creative pro- subject—has turned out to be worth the risk. cess that Lee was a part Some critics have called it the most important of was often intense and work the 75-year-old ballet company has ever challenging. The pres- staged. Lee reports many First Nations people sure to portray the issues approach her after the show to give support. responsibly was palpable In cities where Going Home Star has been perDancer Sophia Lee talks about staging the painful history of formed, residential-school survivors have been in the rehearsals. residential schools in the Royal Winnipeg’s Going Home Star It seemed everyone given tickets to the show—often marking their was aware of the risks first foray into the world of ballet. “As a group we feel really proud of it,” Lee The ballet is partly inspired by the testimony of using what has historically been a white, of survivors of Canada’s residential-school sys- European art form to tell a deeply painful First says, stressing the RWB sees this as just a trigtem and developed with the support of the Truth Nations story whose wounds are still open and ger for discussion and way to raise awareness of residential schools. and Reconciliation Commission. Helped by KC raw in Canadian politics. For Lee, the local kid who is making it big Adams’s artful set design (which includes a surLee adds the devastating emotional conas a ballerina, the role of Annie is part real, miniature model of an old residential school) tent itself was often overwhelming. of what has become her dream job as and Sean Nieuwenhuis’s projections, it mixes the “I remember one rehearsal workCheck out… achingly real with the magic and fantastical. ing on a scene where the two students STRAIGHT.COM a principal dancer at one of the country’s top companies. “Gordon teaches her about the past and the were being abused and we actually Visit our website “I never wanted to be a principal stories about survivors,” says Lee, whose charac- had to stop. Mark couldn’t go on,” she for morning-after dancer. I just wanted to do what I ter sees what occurred long ago through dream recalls. “But I truly think Mark was so reviews and local arts news liked,” says the statuesque, dark-maned visions. “By the end of Act 1, I start to change. perfect for this show because he’s such dancer, who adds she’s as happy tackAt first, Annie is shocked; she actually pushes a good storyteller. And because in ballet ling the Sugar Plum Fairy and a cancan star Gordon away and doesn’t want to hear any more. we don’t actually use words to tell the story, in Moulin Rouge as she is this dark, complex role. But there’s a switch where she starts to carry Gor- people get to feel the raw emotions.” don—there are parts where it’s almost destroying Christos Hatzis’s musical score, she says, is in- “There were two things I wanted: I wanted to be a him just to tell the story—and they start the pro- tegral to the mood and the respect for indigenous fierce dancer, even if my technique wasn’t perfect. cess of healing. They make each other stronger, culture that the ballet evokes. It features Steve And the other was to be a diverse dancer. So I’m so and that’s the really beautiful and interesting part Wood with the Northern Cree Singers and, in grateful to get these kinds of opportunities. I really of the story.” some of its most haunting moments, the unearthly can’t ask for more.” Lee explains that, though the role is far re- throat singing of Inuit star Tanya Tagaq. moved from her own experience, Godden has creWhat could have been a disaster—a non- The Royal Winnipeg Ballet presents Going Home ated the choreography specifically for her, and it aboriginal company and its nonaboriginal Star: Truth and Reconciliation at the Queen Elizabeth dancers taking on a loaded First Nations Theatre from Thursday to Saturday (April 7 to 9). feels like natural expression.
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Editor’s choice COUGAR TOWN? When it debuted with a sold-out run at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2014, we said Dirty Old Woman “fearlessly and wittily explores relationship territory that makes many people uncomfortable”. Others agreed: it won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award and the Pick of the Fringe. In the story, a divorced 50-something unexpectedly feels attracted to a dude young enough to be her son. Here’s your chance to delve into the hot topic, double standards, and laughs that come along with the situation. The great news is Susinn McFarlen, so praised in the original, is taking the title role again. Dirty Old Woman is at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab next Wednesday (April 13) to April 24.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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DEAD METAPHOR (At the Firehall Arts Centre to April 23) George F. Walker’s jet-black comedy about an ex-sniper is a sharpshooter.
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GOING HOME STAR (At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from April 7 to 9) Classical ballet takes on the painful subject of residential schools.
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MARK PADMORE AND PAUL LEWIS (At the Chan Centre on April 10) The Vancouver Recital Society brings together serene singing and piano.
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THE INVISIBLE HAND (At the Cultch to April 23) Pi Theatre’s fearless look at the stock market and terrorism could not be more timely.
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2015 NATIONAL PICTURES OF THE YEAR NOMINEES (At the Pendulum Gallery to April 9) Catch these arresting journalistic marvels before the show ends.
Guest pick STRAIT GOODS Our arts fan this week is photographer Angela Fama, whose show What Is Love is running at BAF (Burrard Arts Foundation) from April 7 to May 14 as part of the Capture Photography Festival. Here’s the exhibit she’s looking forward to: “When I was flipping through the Capture catalogue, David Crompton’s image caught my eye, without my really knowing what it was, for its visual simplicity and line structure combined with a richness in the swirl of the fabric. I am a fan of simple, straight, strong images. I had only looked for a minute and hadn’t realized the image was of a figure until I read the details of his show and then I was drawn even further, enticed by the toe peeking out. I’m looking forward to finding out if the other images are as clever.” David Crompton: Strait Goods is at the Gam Gallery from Friday (April 8) to May 14 as part of the Capture Photography Festival.
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ach partisans, put down your pitchforks. Yes, the press material for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Spring Festival does claim that Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor is “the greatest music ever written”, but you can’t blame Bramwell Tovey for that. “Sometimes the language of publicity gets a little carried away,” the VSO’s music director says drolly, checking in with the Georgia Straight from New York City, where he’s guesting with the New York Philharmonic. But Tovey isn’t about to hang his PR underlings out to dry. While he’s wary of calling any piece of music “the greatest”, he’s sympathetic to those who’d place Beethoven’s choral symphony at the very peak of the canonical pyramid. “I can understand perfectly that viewpoint,” he notes. “I think it’s the most universal music of all time. It just reaches out beyond religion, beyond all kinds of barriers. It’s very much about the human experience, and I think the ‘Ode to Joy’, in particular, has that reach.” Beethoven’s score for the Ninth, Tovey points out, features in the mural that decorates the VSO’s School of Music in downtown Vancouver. The epochal work, in Gustav Mahler’s expanded arrangement, is also part of the VSO’s upcoming Spring Festival, and in fact you could say that it’s central to Tovey’s programming. This year, the festival is being billed as a War of the Romantics, with the bulk of the concerts divided between the conservative forces of the 19th century, as epitomized by Johannes Brahms, and that more radical adventurer, Richard Wagner. But both Brahms and Wagner, Tovey points out, took their cue from Beethoven’s final venture into symphonic form.
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Maestro Bramwell Tovey and the VSO illuminate the connections between Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Wagner at the fest.
“Beethoven provided that sort of kickoff point where the voice was brought into the symphony and romanticism took off—and it just happened to take off in two disparate directions,” he says. From the pluralistic viewpoint of today’s music scene, which is singularly lacking in orthodoxy, questions about whose approach was more true to the romantic ethos might just be irrelevant, however. “Back in the 1970s, we used to have heated arguments about who was correct, Brahms or Wagner,” Tovey recalls. “We must have been such pseuds, because looking at the arguments now, they all look rather silly. This festival that we’ve put together starts at the beginning of that great divide, but now we’re at a place where all sources are coming back to one river.” Both Brahms, whose German Requiem will be heard during the Spring Festival, and Wagner, represented by Lorin Maazel’s instrumental arrangement of themes from the Ring operas, epitomize the core principle of romanticism, which Tovey identifies as the power of human ingenuity. “Up until Beethoven and Haydn, music was about skill: the skill of the
performer, the skill of the improviser, the skill of the composer,” the conductor says. “Whereas once the romantic world hit us, it was about the potential of realizing individual power. And of course there’s the whole question of the Nietzschean superman, and definitely a correlation with industrial power. There were the great upheavals during the Industrial Revolution, where people came off the land where they had worked as agricultural labourers or farmers or whatever, and came into the towns to work in factories. Most of those people wouldn’t have had access to orchestra concerts, of course, but the composers would have been well aware of this happening. It was a time of great growth, only paralleled in history by our present time, where the microchip has changed everything.” Still, one thing that will never be successfully digitized is the experience of hearing great music in a great venue—as the VSO’s Spring Festival is sure to confirm. -
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noushka Shankar’s Land of Gold is all about crossing borders—and while some of those boundaries are invisible, others are in the news every day. At heart, the sitarist’s latest CD is about finding a new context for her instrument; she wanted to treat it as “just an instrument, not representative of a culture, or representative of a whole musical style”, as she explains from Washington, D.C. But in working with shenai master Sanjeev Shankar, world-music percussionist Manu Delago, and jazz bassist Larry Grenadier, Shankar discovered that the unfolding refugee crisis in Syria was shaping the emotional tone of the music that she and her associates were making. Bringing in the politically charged rapper M.I.A. and the Turkish-German singer Alev Lenz to give voice to their concerns was a natural next step, and the result is both an unforced fusion of East and West and a deeply emotional response to war and displacement. “I’m wary of making grand sweeping statements,” Shankar cautions, when asked why she was so moved by the plight of those fleeing civil war, religious oppression, and economic disaster. “I can only speak on this from a personal viewpoint. But I come from a place where I wouldn’t be who I am and I wouldn’t do what I do if I hadn’t been given the opportunity to live a very multicultural life, with that freedom to cross borders and cultures. So it wasn’t so much deliberate that this music was multicultural as just honest. That’s who I am, and that’s the music I make, and that’s the kind of world that I believe in and envision. And when one contrasts my own fortune in being able to live that way with the horror that’s unfolding around us for millions of people, where they aren’t even able to get the most basic rights of safety, that wrongness felt particularly stark. So to be able to offer up at least an artistic vision, perhaps, of cross-cultural friendship and dialogue felt particularly important.”
Anoushka Shankar’s latest CD offers up an artistic vision where cultures collaborate freely—an approach that carries extra meaning in today’s world.
Other forms of dialogue were going on during the making of Land of Gold, most notably between Shankar and her husband, filmmaker Joe Wright. Bringing Wright onboard as producer might seem counterintuitive, but the sitarist says that her partner’s understanding of pacing, colour, and narrative was integral to the new record’s success. “He’s very involved in the scores of his films, and very involved in music, and he has a brilliant ear,” she explains. “But he comes from a different point of view: he’s not thinking in terms of technical details or clever melodies or time signatures. He’s purely thinking in terms of mood and experience and feeling, and that completely changed the way I played. I always felt like I was in a scene, trying to express something, as opposed to thinking strictly from the point of view of my instrument.” Land of Gold’s celebrity guests and lush sound suggest that it’s largely a studio confection, but Shankar reveals that taking it onstage—with Tom Farmer filling in for Grenadier—is proving easy.
“The music is less produced than you might think,” she says. “The key quartet that you can hear throughout the record is actually playing together, so when we strip it back to that quartet on-stage, the material is all there. And since it’s a very rich sound texture on the album, I’ve got a lot more of an electronic setup onstage than I’ve had in a while. My collaborator Manu is playing a triggered drum kit, so although everything is being played live, through the course of the songs sound textures change completely. “I’m also working with effects pedals for the very first time, so it almost feels like I’m getting to live out my teenage years now,” Shankar adds with a laugh. “My teenage years were spent sitting in a practice room really seriously learning a classical music form, and now I’m getting to play around with reverbs and delays and looping. And it’s hilarious: I feel like I’m getting to play in a whole new way!” Anoushka Shankar plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday (April 8).
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e’s played heavyweight characters from Macbeth to Shylock to Torvald, but Vancouver actor Todd Thomson is finding feather-light bedroom farce brings its own big challenges. Speaking to the Straight over the phone while he walks the Olympic Village sea wall before rehearsal, the wellknown Vancouver actor reveals that clockwork timing, physical comedy, and finely controlled chaos take their toll. “At the end of t0he show I am absolutely drenched with sweat!” he says with a laugh about Don’t Dress for Dinner, which opens this week at the Gateway Theatre. “I am in my pyjama bottoms and they are soaked up to my knees. You are so hard-wired into the pace of the show that if you lose focus for a second, you drop a line and are not supporting the other actors. “So it’s physical but also it’s the mental acuity that’s required. There are some scenes where I can even feel the synapses in my brain popping!” In the play by French writer Marc Camoletti, known best for penning the similarly raucous Boeing Boeing, Thomson plays Bernard, a character who schemes to meet with his mistress while his wife is out of town—with hilariously disastrous results. Piling onto the cases of mistaken identity and surprise arrivals are the adulterous leanings of both Bernard’s wife and the best friend who’s supposed to be his alibi—not to mention the confusion of both a Suzanne and a Suzette added to the roster. Thomson, who has performed the play twice now at Thousand Islands Playhouse and Western Canada Theatre, says he and the cast are really starting to sail on the show’s spot-on timing. It becomes better with practice—but never easy. “So much of comedy is in timing—there’s a musicality to it,” he observes. “You’re backstage and you know your entrance is coming and literally if you come in a beat early you break the moment. The timing has to be bangon and when you’re first reading the script you’re going, ‘I’m never going to learn these lines!’ We’re interrupting people and we’re going over top of people, everyone is chiming in almost simultaneously. “We have to make it clear that we are frantic and out of control, but that out-of-control-ness has been well, well, well rehearsed.”
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Todd Thomson and Kirk Smith get physical in Don’t Dress for Dinner’s well-orchestrated chaos. Mark Bergin photo.
The pure joy in Camoletti’s work, Thomson figures, is the way he builds an elaborate mess for the characters—one the audience truly believes they’ll never work their way out of. As for the rampant, oh-so-French extramarital flirtations, Thomson is careful not to judge poor Bernard. “He says, ‘I’ll make this a plan and it will all work out,’ so he has the audacity to invite his mistress while his wife is in the room!” he says. “He’s audacious, he’s daring. But ultimately, everybody’s culpable. His wife has had affairs. We’re not talking about infidelity to the nth degree. We are talking about playfulness. No one’s guilty of murder. Everyone’s guilty of having a little soiree.” As is usual for productions of Camoletti’s work, the Gateway production will be a stylin’, retro one. “It’s groovy, baby,” Thomson relates with excitement. “I think it gives it an even more playful feel. There are great dresses, and pillbox hats, and thin ties. It’s totally Mad Men—except that the women are cavorting, too.” It sounds like, with all that cavorting and those suave costumes, there’s a lot of fun amid the hard work preparing a perfectly orchestrated French farce. And there’s another upside to a character who doesn’t take the devastating toll of, say, Macbeth. “Here there’s no emotional turmoil,” says Thomson with an audible smile, “which is wonderful for me.” Don’t Dress for Dinner runs from Thursday (April 7) to April 23 at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre.
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Photographer Brian Howell is as apt to shoot leaping wrestlers (seen here in Asian Cougar) as he is binners’ carts and charred, snowy landscapes.
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of the junk-filled shopping carts he bought from binners and trucked to his studio to shoot. The underlying theme here is overconsumption and bewildering waste. “I look at the overwhelming pile of stuff that my kids would get for their birthdays and I start making notes and then one day I see a shopping cart and it all makes sense,” he says. “It clicks.” The charred Thompson River landscapes, freshly blanketed with snow, emerged, he says, “as an interesting way to discuss climate change”. They differ from other works in his show because from a distance they resemble abstract drawings or paintings. Closer inspection reveals their true subject—and Howell’s true commitment. “I hiked into this area at least four times and finally on the day that most of the pictures were made, the snow was perfect and so was the light.” The earliest works in the show are the black-and-white photos of minorleague wrestlers and their fans, images that first brought Howell to critical and popular attention. A study in a subculture of fantasy personas and escape from the humdrum reality of the everyday, the wrestling photos led directly to the next series, the celebrity impersonators. Howell’s shots of people who play up their resemblances to Steve McQueen or Cher or Hulk Hogan are both humorous and darkly shadowed. They ask us to consider the void at the centre of North American society, the place where our understanding of important social, economic, and political matters is subverted by celebrity culture. Howell pulls this older series forward to the present day by showing, for the first time, images he shot in 2006 of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump impersonators. “The work takes on a different quality now,” he observes. It also compels our gaze, a dynamic that suits his intention. “You invite people to meditate on an idea, but you have to attract them somehow,” he says. “You have to bring the viewer to the idea in order to expand on it.” -
eaping wrestlers and devoted fans, empty offices and deserted newspaper printing plants, a grocery cart filled with bottle caps, red paper stars punched out with pellets, streams of pedestrians looking at their cellphones, an old yellow fridge covered in metallic grey paint—Brian Howell’s wide-ranging photography is difficult to wrap definitions around. In an essay accompanying his survey exhibition at the Winsor Gallery, critic Art Perry poses questions about just what kind of photographer Howell might be. Is his work documentary or fine art? Is his practice aligned with the street photography of the mid-20th century or the concept-driven and studio-based photography of the postmodern age? “In his quest to be an uncompromising witness, chronicler and commentator,” Perry writes, “[Howell] is all over the map.” He shows his prints in galleries and museums, shoots editorial photographs for national and international publications, and pursues “self-generated projects” that may take him to celebrity-impersonator conventions in Las Vegas, the pillaged interiors of abandoned houses in Surrey, or the fire-swept forests of the Thompson River region near Kamloops. Ultimately, Perry’s conclusion pretty much mirrors Howell’s own: he is a photographer, no qualifiers. “I don’t describe myself as anything anymore,” Howell tells the Georgia Straight while overseeing the installation of his show. “To me, it’s about being active in the world and allowing things to happen. There’s chance involved.” Although he respects members of the internationally renowned Vancouver School of photography, especially Jeff Wall, he sees his own vocation as something separate and distinct. And yet, like the Vancouver School artists, much of what Howell does is predicated on ideas, often resonant with social or political commentary. “I want to take on issues,” Howell says. The idea comes first, and then he discovers a project that will communicate it. He points to “Carts”, his striking Brian Howell: A Survey is at the Winseries of large-scale colour photos sor Gallery until April 26
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Good People skewers ideas about capitalism T HEAT RE GOOD PEOPLE By David Lindsay-Abaire. Directed by Rachel Ditor. An Arts Club Theatre production. At the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage on Thursday, March 31. Continues until April 24
Watching the first act of David Good People, I thought, “Whoa! I’m in a theatre full of well-heeled patrons and I’m being invited to laugh at the eccentricities of the poor.” But there’s a scene in Act 1 that promises more, and Act 2 unfolds into a nuanced—and crucial—examination of the stories we tell ourselves about economic class. Margie and Mike both grew up in Southie, a lower-class neighbourhood in Boston. Mike became a reproductive endocrinologist. He got rich. Margie, on the other hand, got pregnant and is now the single mother of a disabled adult child. When Margie loses her job at the dollar store and she can’t find employment anywhere, she forces her way into Mike’s office. At first, she is obsequious, but Margie touches a nerve when she accuses Mike of being “lace-curtain Irish”; Mike doesn’t like to think of himself as being ashamed of his roots. Slyly, Margie parlays his guilt into an invitation to a birthday party at his house: she hopes to meet somebody there who can give her a job. In the scene in the office, we see finally that Margie is at least as smart as Mike is. That’s when the play gets exciting. Act 2 takes on one of the foundational myths of our culture: that capitalism provides a level playing field. Mike favours the story in which he pulled himself out of poverty through hard work. And he has this for Margie: “Look, you made some bad choices in your life, but it’s not my fault.” Margie frames economic success and failure primarily in terms of luck. When Mike points out that he hardly ever saw his father because the man worked so hard, Margie points out that Mike had a father—who had a job. And, just as Mike likes the story of his individual heroism, Margie likes the story of her kindness. But the play invites us to ask if self-interest can be a practical kind of kindness. Maybe, if Margie had been less “good”, she and her daughter wouldn’t be teetering on the brink of economic annihilation. In this Arts Club production, Lauchlin Johnston’s set is fricking fantastic. Bits of rooms float out of the darkness and fit together like puzzle pieces. Then, when the scenes are over, the rooms break up again and fade into black, carrying actors on the shards. With the help of Adrian Muir’s lighting, this is gorgeously cinematic. Under Rachel Ditor’s direction, Colleen Wheeler’s Margie feels like two people: one downtrodden, the other wily. This may be entirely appropriate and the emotional heft that Wheeler brings to it fills out the heart of the show. Scott Bellis is thoroughly, creepily authentic as the self-serving Mike. And Jenn Griffin is terrific as Margie’s tough-talking pal, Jeanne. Have I mentioned that this is a comedy? Probably a good time to do that. When Mike offers Margie a glass of wine and asks if she likes it, she answers, “How the fuck would I know?”
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show about friendship. I was sitting next to a couple named Heather and Kevin, and, after the performance, the three of us chatted about the factors—including wealth, distance, and marriage—that affect our bonds with others. That sharing was one of my favourite parts of the evening—which is a sweet outcome for a humble show. In the performance, Deb Williams shares the tiny stage with Carmen Aguirre. You Are It is part of Boca del Lupo’s Micro Performance Series, and with 23 audience members in the wee Fishbowl space on opening night, the experience was intimate. As they chat and exchange stories, it becomes clear that Williams and Aguirre’s takes on friendship are different. Williams declares that, if you don’t have a bestie, you’re a loser; Aguirre doesn’t have a best friend, but she does have an international network of about 30 intimates that she refers to as sisters. Williams makes friends with people on the bus and invites them home for dinner; Aguirre claims that she would literally kill—spill blood—if a sister asked her to do it. Some of the writing is witty. In a section titled “Deb’s Cosmology”, Williams classifies types of friends using planetary terminology. If you make friends with a Super Nova, it’s love at first sight, then the relationship explodes, “leaving nothing but a piece of charcoal in your heart”. The Inverted Wormhole, who is all about her allergies and trigger warnings, always has time to tell you about her latest treatment. Aguirre’s material is generally darker: some of it deals with parental violence. Generally speaking, though, there’s not a lot of heft to the show and not all of its theatrical conventions work. A piece in which the two women construct best friends using a projected image of a cutout doll goes on for too long without contributing much. And it’s a bit odd that, although the declared subject of the evening is friendship, You Are It assumes that women will always have female best friends. I had the most fun when You Are It exploited the intimacy of its setting and involved the audience. As Williams and Aguirre raced to see who could make friends with an audience member most quickly, Aguirre asked her target, “Would you ever join the French resistance?” And, in another chunk, we were invited to participate in a poll by putting up our hands. Has a friend ever asked you for a surrogate pregnancy? Have you ever slept with or pursued your friend’s sexual partner? You Are It could be leaner and it could go much deeper. As it is, it’s an amiable show that prompted a nice chat afterwards. > COLIN THOMAS
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Hip-hop takes surprise turns in Brazilians’ hands D ANC E COMPANHIA URBANA DE DANÇA A DanceHouse presentation. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday, April 1. No remaining performances
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source of some very bad news over the past month. But as DanceHouse producer Jim Smith said at the opening of Companhia Urbana de Dança’s first Vancouver show Friday night, this was a chance to witness a more positive side of the country— and, we might add, some of the most magnificent hair you’ve ever seen. The show culminated in a whooping, clapping standing O for the cast’s hip-hop–battle curtain call. If anyone has seen the hardships of Brazil close up, it’s the company’s cast members, recruited from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—the violenceplagued slums that sprawl outside the city’s picturesque core. But the entire second half of the evening, titled Na Pista, was a call to party. Set under a disco ball, it found the fabulously tressed members— think wild, bleached Afros, gorgeously flailing dreads, and even a curly double man bun—swaggering in their best silk jackets and pants. It began with the most entertaining and virtuosic game of musical chairs you’ve ever watched. Then the piece spun out into a beautifully structured pastiche of dance forms—the popping-and-locking, floor spins, and rippling arms of hip-hop meeting samba, capoeira, and contemporary stylings. It’s part game of one-upmanship, part playful fight over sexy sole female dancer Jessica Nascimento, but more than anything else, it is an act of exhilarating freedom. Artistic director Sonia Destri Lie has said the piece is culled from the dances her troupe members perform at home and in the streets of the favelas. And these guys own the moves in a piece where the celebratory somehow morphs into the revolutionary. Here’s arguing that what they do in the first half of this double bill is even more subversive. In the much more sedate and contemplative ID:Entidades, hip-hop is intricately deconstructed and reinterpreted into flowing, dreamlike contemporary dance that plays out in complicated patterns across the stage. But what’s most interesting about it is how it uses the moves of street dance to get at deeper ideas: when the performers tumble across the stage or whipsaw around in floor spins, it becomes a subtle metaphor for struggle. There’s a gorgeous vignette where men twirl around one another like whirring tops, and it immediately captures what it’s like to be caught in a chaotic urban world that’s out of your control. Lie has helped the dancers find a vulnerability that doesn’t normally come with the attitude of hip-hop. Set against the skittering, hypnotic electronic score, with its hints of oppressive urban machination, the effect is mesmerizing and moving. The extended sequences in silence, where solo dancers express themselves in the spotlight, can sometimes feel long, but they force you to focus on the humans in front of you—ones who are baring their souls. These are hip-hop bodies, dressed in baggy pants and sneakers, but what Companhia Urbana de Dança was getting at was something much more complex than you expected going into the show. When you jumped to your feet and clapped to the beat by the end, you weren’t just applauding a breathtaking performance, but cheering these guys for what they’ve both achieved and overcome.
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The postcard Cutting Wood, Bowen Island is among a selection of over 300 images from a privately collected archive that surveys B.C.’s contested past.
claims of indigenous peoples, all inform our understanding of the images on view. “Progress” is not all it was cracked up to be. Choices made in curating and exhibiting the work, along with the research revealed and opinions expressed in the show’s illuminating little catalogue, also influence our reception of these photographs. As the essayists tell us, the camera has long been a tool of colonialism, widely disseminating its propaganda. For instance, the many postcard and stereocard images of First Nations elders and “Indian” graves, produced around the turn of the 20th century, served to persuade people of European descent that the region’s indigenous peoples were disappearing, opening the way for the appropriation of their land. It is interesting that Willard, an artist and curator of the Secwepemc Nation, has chosen to veil images of First Nations burial places. Presenting yet obscuring such pictures asks for our respect while also reminding us of the pillaging of such sites by collectors
and anthropologists. What we understand here is that photography itself is a form of grave-robbing. Despite idyllic landscapes and cheerful scenes of enterprise and expansion, colonization was not without its setbacks. This is evident in the photos of disasters: shipwrecks, train wrecks, collapsed railway bridges, landslides caused by clearcuts, and young cities destroyed by fire. Still, settler culture persevered and photo studios were established, producing portraits that signalled, as Pakasaar writes, “respectability and entitlement”. In this context, the rare studio portraits of First Nations people, carefully dressed in western clothing, are almost inexpressibly poignant. “Collecting is a kind of disease, really,” Uno Langmann writes in the preface to the Nanitch catalogue. “It grips you, takes hold of you.” The same can be said of the exhibition. You will be gripped, intrigued, and challenged to look, to really look. Nanitch.
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TEVYE AND THE GANG Fiddler on the Roof is enjoying a massively successful revival on Broadway—and if that news is putting you in the mood for “If I Were a Rich Man”, head on over to the historic Massey Theatre between Saturday (April 9) and April 23 for the acclaimed Royal City Musical Theatre’s full-scale rendition of the classic. Warren Kimmel takes on the iconic lead role of Tevye, the father bent on marrying off his five daughters according to tradition. Valerie Easton directs and choreographs. Voskanian and sisters Palig and Karni Kochkarian. Apr 8, 8-10 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $30, info www.vancouverhelps refugees.bpt.me.
INFLUENTIAL MASTERS OF EUROPE The Capilano University Choirs present music by Handel, Brahms, Bruckner, Britten, Chatman, Lauridsen, Luengen, and Whitacre. Apr 9, 8 pm; Apr 10, 3 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $25/20/10, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. STAR TREK: THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE CONCERT TOUR 2016 A live symphony orchestra and international soloists perform music from Star Trek movies and TV series. Apr 9, 8 pm, The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts (777 Homer). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/. MARK PADMORE AND PAUL LEWIS The Vancouver Recital Society presents tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis in a program of work by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf. Apr 10, 3 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $25, info 604-602-0363, www.vanrecital.com/. THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Friends of Chamber Music presents the American classical sextet in a program of music by Strauss, Dvorak, and Brahms. Apr 10, 3-5 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $48, info ow.ly/ZOoUQ/. SCHUBERTIADE The Vancouver Recital Society presents a chamber-music festival featuring eight works by Franz Schubert, as performed by 10 musicians from around the world. Apr 12, 14-15, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info 604-602-0363, www.vanrecital.com/.
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of residential-school systems are being addressed here in Canada, such is not the case with an equally devastating Scandinavian equivalent. Vancouver filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers knows this because her father is of the Sami people, who are indigenous to the Sápmi region that covers parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Although Tailfeathers knew that her father was placed in the Sami residentialschool system as a child, she didn’t realize the full impact it had on him—and, consequently, their family. “Over in Norway, it’s not really talked about,” she tells the Straight by phone. “That aspect of history is not discussed in the same way it’s discussed here in Canada. So it hadn’t really occurred to me that I inherited the pain of these memories without ever having experienced these memories of my father. So it led me to further understand what intergenerational trauma means.” Tailfeathers, who grew up in Arctic Norway, tells the story of how her parents fell in love— and how her father’s secret emotional and psychic wounds finally drove a wedge between them— in her intimate short film “Rebel” (“Bihttoš”), which weaves together reenactments with photo-
Shakin’ your Tailfeathers
The award-winning short film “Rebel” mixes live action with animation by Kunal Sen to tell the story of a family affected by Norway’s residential-school system.
themselves to indigenousrights activism and politics as a coping mechanism. “It’s really my job and my generation’s job to continue An acclaimed local filmmaker is among the diverse voices at the work that they were doing, but that work has evolved,” she this year’s Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth says. “So with me, I feel the work is about talking about the way that these historbased collage animation by Kunal Sen. In her film, Tailfeathers relates how, during a ies continue to impact us but on a micro level within road trip, her father shared his traumatic experi- families and individuals.” ences, which left him with lifelong struggles. As in Canada, Sami children were plucked from their homes and families and placed in schools where Ducks, monkeys, and they were forced to assimilate to the culture and cows fill Reel 2 Real language of the colonizing countries. “Rebel” (“Bihttoš”) screens as part of the Made Along with its impressive shorts in B.C. short-film program at the Reel 2 Real packages and all the extraInternational Film Festival for Youth. Native curricular activities—including issues appear in other Made in B.C. works. In the Sunday Fun Day (April 10) and the Behind the the short documentary “Proud to Be Heiltsuk”, Scenes Expo (April 14)—there are 10 acclaimed high-school filmmakers Elle Brown and Astrid features playing at this year’s R2R International Film Wilson ask two interviewees of different generaFestival for Youth. Here are some choice picks. More tions about the importance of maintaining abinfo is at www.r2rfestival.org/. original cultural roots. That short also screens in the Indigenous Spotlight program, which inBIRDS OF PASSAGE We’re not gonna lie: cludes “Kumu Hina: A Place in the Middle”, the parents will wince occasionally at this tale of two true tale of an 11-year-old girl who wants to take 10-year-old girls, one of them disabled, who dison the traditionally male position of leadership appear into the Belgian countryside to teach a baby of the hula troupe at her school. duck how to swim. (Why do they have a baby duck? Cultural matters are also ref lected obliquely Hippie dad, basically.) Kids, meanwhile, might stress in selections such as Kaho Yoshida’s animatat the sight of this tiny, fluffy thing (are there livestock ed B.C. short “Michi”, about a girl whose enOscars?) facing frequent moments of peril. Tension counter with woodland creatures serves as an aside, Birds of Passage is a lovely opening-night film, analogy for cross-cultural relations or dealing and impossible to dislike. Recommended. Vancity with social differences. Theatre, April 8 (6:30 p.m.), 9 (2 p.m.), and 12 (12 p.m.) Bridging divides is a recurring theme in many of the titles in the festival, sometimes quite amazingly. PHANTOM BOY Another winner in a strong In the case of Tailfeathers’ parents, it happened offslate of animated films. Audrey Tautou is among screen. Her mother and father had been estranged the stars of Phantom Boy, in which a chronicfrom one another for many years, but were moved ally sick 11-year-old boy learns to astral-travel to reconcile after seeing their daughter’s film. while he undergoes chemotherapy. As such, he’s Tailfeathers also hopes to inspire such beneficial the perfect partner to an injured cop and a brave conversation and dialogue among Sami audiences journalist trying to stop a disfigured supervillain and activists. Like her father, she says, many of from destroying New York. The beauty of Phantom the people of his generation weren’t able to talk openly about these issues, and instead devoted
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ACROSS THE LINE He’s the man behind Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video, but Director X makes a big transition with his first feature, Across the Line, opening Friday (April 8). The film, starring Stephan James (Selma), is based on the race violence that exploded at a high school in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. “I know what it means to be in that position,” the filmmaker, who’s of Trinidadian and Swiss descent, told the Straight. “I was in a school where there were still skinheads, with all these different cultures slamming into one another.” Go to Straight.com for our full interview with Director X. -
The Made in B.C. program screens on Sunday (April 10) at the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, which runs from Friday (April 8) to next Friday (April 15) at the Vancity Theatre.
Boy lies partly in its assumption that children can handle the concept of death without a lot of manipulative fanfare, while the artfulness of its hand-drawn technique instantly imbues the film with a human spirit that no superprocessor will ever match. Vancity, April 9 (4 p.m.) MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK The Chinese legend of the Monkey King has been told and retold, perhaps most memorably in a Japanese TV series from the late ’70s. Here’s an opulently CG–animated take that’s more influenced by blockbuster Hollywood than any of its native elements. As such, it maybe lacks the sweeter emotional payload of some of R2R’s other features, but Monkey King is an impressive crowd-pleaser nonetheless. Vancity, April 9 (10 a.m.) and 10 (12 p.m.) THE SATELLITE GIRL AND MILK COW Patchy but charming, this is the one for the weird kid in your family. A satellite falls to Earth and assumes the shape of a girl, hooking up with a lovelorn boy who’s been transformed into a cow. Both are pursued by a giant, insatiable furnace. Committed to their protection is brave Merlin the Wizard, taking the form of a roll of toilet paper (arriving on the scene at one point while a character sits on the can and earnestly asking, “Do you need my help?”). This South Korean effort owes a debt to Japanese anime, but its pleasing absurdism and warmth make it a deadpan cousin to Adventure Time. Rio Theatre, April 10 (2 p.m.) > ADRIAN MACK
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ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS Sexy Alain Delon stars in this restored version of Luchino Visconti’s epic family saga from 1960, coming to the Cinematheque for a short but unmissable run starting Friday (April 8) and concluding Sunday (April 10).
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GENUINE Director Robert Wiene’s next expressionist film after The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari gets a rare showing, at its complete length, at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (April 10), with a live score composed by local actor and musician Mark Oliver.
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Flamehaired David Bowie plays a variation on himself (let’s be honest) in Nic Roeg’s wild, decadent, dazzling sci-fi effort (a cinematic high that ended in Low). Screens at the Vancity Theatre on Monday (April 11).
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I SAW THE LIGHT “Genius almost doesn’t recognize itself, and is often recognized after it’s gone. And genius stands the test of time. Genius casts a long shadow. All of those things are true of Hank Williams. He was such a simple, honest artist, and one of the great American poets.” That’s what Tom Hiddleston had to say at the top of our interview with the Brit actor, who stars in the Williams biopic, I Saw the Light, opening Friday (April 8). Go to Straight.com for our full feature. APRIL 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27
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DARCY MICHAEL A local who’s enjoying a bit of a rocketlike rise on the Canadian comedy scene, Ladner boy Darcy Michael makes a return to the Comedy MIX from Thursday to Saturday (April 7 to 9) with the approachable, hyperenergized, and offbeat laughs that have won him spots on shows like Spun Out, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, and CBC Radio’s The Debaters. At gigs like Just for Laughs, he introduces himself as “your token gay for the evening”, but his jokes land squarely with anyone with a sense of humour. He’ll talk about sex, marriage, and, if you’re lucky, the sleepy side of his semirural hometown.
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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. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, 7:30 pm, Fri, and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throne and Games— A Chance of Snow (every Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Apr 6-13, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
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DARCY MICHAEL Canadian actor and standup comedian. Apr 7-9, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. CASEY CORBIN Ottawa comedian performs two nights of standup. April 8-9, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $20, info www.eventbrite.ca/o/ lafflines-comedy-club-1398927421.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK INCITE: AN EXPLORATION OF BOOKS AND IDEAS Readings by Carrie Saxifrage, Andrew Nikiforuk, and Micah White. Apr 13, 7:30-9 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free, info www.vpl.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Event strives to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as an art form and a vessel for communication. Highlights include public installations, tours, films, a Speaker Series with artist talks, and panel discussions. To Apr 28, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info www.capturephotofest.com/.
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and an obsession with the ’60s, once Vallée was through with him. “This kid is such a rock star,” he says. “He reminded me of a young Brian Jones. I called our costume designer: ‘Why don’t we make him a young Brian Jones look-alike?’ We used a lot of references from Brian Jones’s wardrobe.” Vallée then added some interior detail, if you will, with a soundtrack including Eric Burdon, Chocolate Watch Band, and that aforementioned Free number—which “contaminates”, in the director’s words, the emotionally paralyzed psyche of the film’s lead. It’s actually around this jubilant, tension-breaking point in the film that we decide Gyllenhaal isn’t simply playing a detestable Wall Street type with borderline personality disorder. “We’re under the impression that he’s an asshole, so I cut the first 30 minutes like it was an action film,” Vallée explains. “Every three, four, five seconds, there’s a new shot. Then you don’t have time to judge, or to think. After 30 minutes I stopped doing that, and then, whoops, it goes back to my normal rhythm and what I like to do, which is to let the film breathe and see how great these actors are and how good the storytelling is.” For all you blooming filmmakers out there, that’s some pretty good technical kung-fu from one of the more interesting mainstream directors out there at the moment. Just don’t call it style. -
Dis Ek, Anna provides an undeniably gripping two hours and a small milehe Vancouver South African stone in Afrikaans-language cinema. Film Festival opens its sixth April 10 (7 p.m.) edition on Friday (April 8) with the Vancouver premiere FOR LOVE AND BROKEN BONES of The Shore Break. Visit Straight.com As Motheo, a trumpet-playing debt for our interview with director Ryley collector decked out in ’40s wise-guy Grunenwald about her doc, which duds, Mduduzi Mabaso is the best resonates at home in its depiction of reason to catch this fetching townthe battle between indigenous people ship drama. High on style and burstand mining interests set on ravaging ing with colour, For Love and Broken South Africa’s Wild Coast. But there’s Bones nonetheless works hard to make more than that to the weekend festival, you hate Motheo, while Mabaso works which also offers the odd thriller (As- just as hard but less obviously to resignment) and thorny love story (Free deem him. The result was a SAFTA for State) among the more social-justice- best actor. Playing a wedding planner oriented flicks (Difret). Here are a few and her scrappy, fatherless son, Lerato of our selections. All screenings take Mvelase and young Mashala Letsoalo place at the Goldcorp Centre for the are almost as magnetic as their stony Arts, SFU Woodward’s. For more but soulful lead. April 10 (1:30 p.m.) information, go to www.vsaff.org/. > B Y A DRIA N M A C K
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SAFTA awards—that’s the South African equivalent of the Oscars—including one for best film, this fraught courtroom drama divides audiences. Charlenè Brouwer is the adult Anna (played as a youth by Izel Bezuidenhout), who shows up after 14 years of estrangement to plant two bullets in her stepfather’s head. A sensitive lawyer and a weary cop are left to puzzle over Anna’s remorseless disposition and the thin-lipped silence of her mother (Nicola Hanekom). Based on two popular novels, Dis Ek, Anna goes full bore into its theme of child sexual abuse, conjuring a truly grotesque villain (Morne Visser, admirably unvain) on its way to some morally questionable, if righteous, territory. Even then,
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clearly meant to raise both funds for and consciousness of ALS, but this doc is also an eye-opener for those (most of us, I’m guessing) who’ve never seen one of rugby’s greatest-ever players in full flight. Looking like a stockier Sam Shepard with Paul Newman’s eyes, Van der Westhuizen was a true genius on the field and the right guy when postapartheid South Africa needed a national hero. Glory Game doesn’t shy away from a painful fall from grace, and the irony of his motor neurone illness is cosmic, but these real-life narrative beats can’t overwhelm the athletic poetry Van der Westhuizen achieved in his incredible prime. April 10 (3:30 p.m.) -
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ean-Marc Vallée balks a little when the Straight describes his elliptical approach to editing—as seen in the new film Demolition, opening Friday (April 8)—as a kind of “style”. “My intention with the DP [director of photography] and the crew is to put style away,” says the Québécois director, calling from his home in Los Angeles. “We’re not aiming for style; we’re aiming for truth, authenticity, emotion. We’re shooting handheld, with available light. I know it creates a style, but we’re not trying to have some fancy shots and special colours and special dollies and special editing. It’s always at the service of the characters and the stories.” Fair enough. Anyone familiar with his filmography recognizes Vallée as an actor’s director, albeit one with a strong voice of his own. Demolition, the tale of a man whose grief over the death of his wife takes a somewhat unpredictable form—he starts to obsessively dismantle things, including his high-end New York home—will almost certainly be remembered for a key sequence in which Jake Gyllenhaal dances obliviously through Manhattan to the tune of Free’s “Mr. Big”. As with his previous Hollywood films, Dallas Buyer’s Club and Wild, Vallée’s classic-rock sensibility, at the very least, is unavoidable. “Free is one of my favourite bands,” he eagerly admits. “I used one of their tracks, ‘Be My Friend’, in Wild. It’s been a while that I wanted to use ‘Mr. Big’. I tried in Café de Flore and then Dallas. But I use music to define characters. They’re playing the music, so it’s not just some director trying to show off with the track.” To that end, when Vallée discovered that actor Judah Lewis could also hold his own on a drum kit, it gave him the key to a character who was very different on the pages of Bryan Sipe’s screenplay. Lewis costars as an angry teen with his own debilitating hang-ups,
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DIR Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli | France, Belgium | 2015 | 84 min In French with English subtitles Eleven-year-old Leo becomes an unlikely superhero when he discovers that he has the ability to leave his body and fly through walls. This hilarious and marvellously animated adventure comes from the creators of the Academy Awardnominated A Cat in Paris.
DIR Ekrem Ergün | Germany | 2015 | 83 min 14 In German and Turkish with English subtitles Seventeen-year-old Aylin finds herself sentenced to do community service at a stable. Troubled by problems at home and school, her new friendship with a rare Icelandic wild horse, Hördur, becomes both a support for Aylin, and a wedge between her and her father.
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DIR Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci | France, Canada, Belgium | 2015 | 103 min In French with English subtitles This riveting sci-fi adventure is set in Paris, 1941. Descended from a family of scientists, April lives alone with her cat, Darwin, working in secret to discover the truth behind the disappearance of her parents. She soon finds herself in the middle of a shadowy conspiracy. This animated film is inspired by the work of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, and is produced by the team behind Academy Award nominated Persepolis. The intelligent and spirited April is voiced by Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose. Themes: technology, innovation, ecological devastation
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The running, jumping, never-standing-still film Hardcore Henry fires off a few metaphysical rounds in its breathless race to become an astoundingly good first-person action flick RE VIEW S
are able to postpone a reckoning. Sokurov uses this unusual tension to animate his wider thoughts about the validity of cultural institutions. It’s fascinating stuff, full of arcane asides and visual puns, with these in no way aided by his attempts to leaven the lecture with embodiments of Napoleon and the mythical Marianne “humorously” haunting the halls of the Louvre. The place already has ghosts enough.
HARDCORE HENRY Starring Sharlto Copley. Rated 18A
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of culture and society if it were so much fun, or so deceptively thoughtful. As for its one-note gimmick: the last time somebody tried to make a feature shot entirely from the first-person perspective, it was 70 years ago and the results kinda stunk. (Blink and you’ll miss a reference to that film, 1947’s Lady in the Lake.) Several generations of light, mobile technology later, Hardcore Henry pulls off the same trick with mind-blowing agility. It’s remarkably watchable, in fact, with none of the motion sickness you might expect, which is especially amazing given the film’s unswerving dedication to fullbore, seizure-inducing action. Does the plot deserve more than three lines? “Henry” wakes up in a lab as he’s being outfitted with new cybernetic limbs by a wife (Haley Bennett) he can’t remember. Within seconds she’s abducted by a group led by the telekinetic supervillain Akan (Danila Kozlovsky). Henry escapes and murders his way through a linear story, occasionally guided by a jokey accomplice, Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), who seems impervious to numerous splattery deaths. That’s all you need to know, with the addition that Hardcore Henry provides relentlessly crazy stunt work while pouring on the lovingly crafted screen violence. It’s unwholesome and frequently inexcusable, and, yes, sometimes the seams show. But whatever its flaws, this lowbudget Russian effort had a theatre full of critics howling with delight, only a week after Batman v Superman made everybody want to burn down the cinema. Technical triumphs aside, what other movie has the wisdom to rock the Sonics’ “Strychnine” during a shootout? Need something more? Then consider that this witty, proudly self-aware piece of junk— with its armies of souls trapped inside meat-prisons engineered by a psychic demiurge—is the only thing at the multiplex offering a first-person encounter with gnosis. > ADRIAN MACK
DEMOLITION Starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Rated PG
Demolition says so much about love, loss, and rebirth that it’s easy to forgive a few over-the-top moments. Director Jean-Marc Vallée is so sincerely intent on delivering a heartfelt story that he even manages to rescue a few well-worn clichés. When all is said and done, this is a brave film that isn’t afraid to be a little crazy. What’s really interesting here is how many risks Demolition takes. At its best, it makes the audience walk a kind of emotional tightrope. It’s rare to see a movie that can pull off being so dangerous and so sentimental at the same time. But thanks largely to Jake Gyllenhaal, as a man forced to reexamine his life after his wife dies in a car accident, we’re left with a movie that’s as eccentric as it is satisfying. Gyllenhaal portrays Davis Mitchell, an emotionally remote financial analyst who begins to fall apart after his wife’s death. His marriage was having problems and he’s unsure whether he loved his wife at all. His father-in-law (Chris Cooper) is worried that Davis is keeping his emotions inside, but it doesn’t take long for us to wonder if Davis is capable of loving at all. Things begin to change when he writes a series of cathartic letters to a vending-machine company after a package of candy he purchased gets stuck in a machine. The letters capture the attention of Karen (Naomi Watts), the company’s sole publicrelations worker, a single mother struggling to raise her precocious
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I SAW THE LIGHT Starring Tom Hiddleston. Rated PG
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Haley Bennett is surrounded by dormant meat puppets in the wild, experimental shoot ‘em up Hardcore Henry.
teenage son, Chris (Judah Lewis). Before long, Davis becomes friends with both Karen and Chris. At the same time, he embarks on a strange program of self-therapy that includes taking time off from his regular job to help demolish houses. What begins as a destructive act leads to a rare kind of revelation. It’s our privilege to watch it happen.
impressive, but the storytelling falters on more basic levels. After laboriously creating the paranoid world of the Ranch in the film’s strong first hour, Nichols never returns to it. You leave the theatre wondering what else he forgot, or didn’t quite think through.
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is shining on the poor souls on the run in Midnight Special, an intriguingly literate sci-fi drama. But what kind, exactly? When we meet Michael Shannon’s taciturn Roy, he’s absconding with pal Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and Roy’s small son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher, this decade’s Haley Joel Osment). Turns out they’ve nabbed him from a religious cult referred to as the Ranch, where the kid’s heavenly prognostications have put everyone in an apocalyptic mood. Filled with suited men and women in sister-wife dresses and upswept Kim Davis hairdon’ts, the place is run by a smoothtalking preacher (Sam Shepard), and damn if he don’t want that boy back! As they make their way across rural Louisiana, the three are chased by armed Ranchers, police, the FBI, and even the NSA, in the form of Girls star Adam Driver, providing comic, human contrast to the self-consciously solemn behaviour of others in this frustratingly stilted two-hour adventure. This is Shannon’s fourth appearance in as many features from Mud writer-director Jeff Nichols, who favours a child’s-eye view of modern life, with an inclination toward oversized conspiracies. Here, the first real tip-off that something much bigger is afoot comes literally from the child’s eyes. (Hint: he wears goggles most of the time.) Like Jesus and Superman, Alton has somehow landed a new family. But the connections between Roy, the Spock-like lad, and his mother (Kirsten Dunst, in a seriously underwritten part) are tenuous, and lack inherent emotion. Eventual revelations are visually
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easygoing rugby star and surf-shop owner by day and forced accomplice by night. Tellingly, his father calls him a traitor if he complains. In a film that works on so many levels, we ultimately find ourselves empathizing, disturbingly, with > KEN EISNER some of the perpetrators—and that has to be Trapero’s goal. He’s THE CLAN not just exposing the rot inside an Starring Guillermo Francella. Rated 14A epically messed-up family. He’s digging at how easily an entire naAs fascinating as a historical tion became complicit. > JANET SMITH document as it is as a gruesome Scorsese-esque crime story, Argentina’s The Clan works most FRANCOFONIA powerfully as a metaphor. Cold, Starring Benjamin Utzerath. In sadistic Archimedes Puccio’s rule Russian, French, and German, with over his wife and children becomes English subtitles. Rating unavailable a perfect symbol of the authoritarThe intersection between art and ian leadership that took the country war is a central concern for writinto its darkest years. Director Pablo Trapero misses no er-director Aleksandr Sokurov, whose chance to capture the political and Russian Ark looked at the troubled social complexities that surround history of St. Petersburg’s Hermitage a true story that shocked the South museum. In Francofonia, he moves American nation three decades ago. on to the Louvre and the city it deAnd while some of its intricacies fines, drawing on a century of images might be lost on a foreign audience, of Paris and other European capitals, his breathless, claustrophobic cam- plus some newly imagined material. Primarily a documentarist, Soera work, kitschy period details, and Tarantino-like use of ironic happy- kurov here eschews normal boundgo-lucky music from the era trans- aries between genres and periods. Alongside newsreel images of the late easily—and often horrifically. When the movie begins, Argen- Nazis entering Paris in June 1940, tina’s infamous Dirty War is ending, he has no problem sticking Gerbut, apparently, its “disappearances” man soldiers in front of the I.M. aren’t. Puccio, who once worked as Pei pyramid added to the Louvre an intelligence officer for the military in 1989. Both kinds of footage are government, now kidnaps rich people tinted and degraded by age, with a from his neighbourhood, making big sound strip visible on one edge, all bucks from the ransom and rarely re- connected by Sokurov’s own wry, if sometimes overly insistent, narraturning his victims in one piece. What makes the story so remark- tion in Russian. This concept sounds iffy, but the able is the model-father image he maintains: he helps his extended director succeeds in evoking the City brood with their homework and of Light’s most timeless qualities. It obsessively sweeps his front side- helps that he hired two fine actors, walk—all while hostages are brutally Caché’s Louis-Do de Lencquesaing chained and gagged in his basement. and German-TV veteran Benjamin Guillermo Francella does a chilling Utzerath, to play French museum job of suggesting icy psychopathy head Jacques Jaujard and Wehrmacht art expert Franz Wolff-Metbehind the calm patriarch. Here’s where such compelling ternich, respectively. Just before the questions of guilt come in. Puccio war, one had famously spirited the runs the house like a dictator, and Louvre’s masterworks to the cellars everyone is either too scared of him of various country estates, while the or too comfortable with their upper- other was tasked with seizing those middle-class lifestyle to speak out. paintings for the Reich. The men settle into an uneasy and Trapero focuses most tightly on eldest son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani), an seemingly unspoken alliance, and
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Jimmie Rodgers’s yodel, was taught guitar by an itinerant black blues player, and absorbed Cajun and other folk influences along the way. In life and afterwards, he was a crucial link between Appalachian-style country, western swing, and the hillbilly rock ’n’ roll of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. Oh, and World War II was at its peak in 1944. I mention these facts because there’s no way you could glean any of them from I Saw the Light, a movie that takes the bare skeleton of Williams’s life and strips it of muscle, meaning, and context. Better known as a producer, sophomore writer-director Marc Abraham (here working from Colin Escott’s biography) doesn’t know that a riseand-fall story should include a part that rises. Instead, we start bad and go downhill from there. Hiram King Williams began drinking at age 11, in imitation of an absent father he despised, but the thoughtful, bespectacled Alabaman began the hard work of songcraft not long after. But the movie’s Hank, played and sung with impressive (if not musically convincing) dedication by the U.K.’s versatile Tom Hiddleston, is never seen writing a line or strumming a guitar at home. So songs like “Move It On Over” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (among the tiny slice of his catalogue offered here) spring fully formed onto honky-tonk and Grand Ole Opry stages, re-created with remarkable, if repetitively sepia-toned, precision. The singer’s relationship with wife Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen) has a sketchy sameness too, consisting only of competing jealousies and dull pouting matches. The disruptive presence of Hank’s domineering mother, Lillie (Cherry Jones), is certainly evident, but the screenplay shows no interest in how this affected his creativity. Audrey’s daughter from an earlier marriage, Lycretia, is seen at various ages but never heard from. Real-life contemporaries like Faron Young and Red Foley are also glimpsed, but only as foils for ol’ Hank’s wicked ways. Even weaker are the ceaselessly mournful film’s vague stabs at docudrama, with Bradley Whitford, as famed publisher Fred Rose, adding post-Hank musings on the troubled singer, who died at 29, leaving an immense legacy that remains unaddressed on the big screen. > KEN EISNER
THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD A documentary by Jen Senko. Rating unavailable
In some ways, radio has reas subliminally insidious as it was when it electrified our previously disparate inner lives in the 1930s. This background is raised, sometimes clumsily but with much immediacy, in Jen Senko’s 90-minute documentary, which follows her father’s descent from funloving Kennedy Democrat to Rush Limbaugh–spouting dittohead.
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The “Republican Noise Machine” comes to colourfully scary life in Jen Senko’s timely if scattershot documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad.
The filmmaker (who previously directed another look at social issues in The Vanishing City) spends less time on the home front than in sketching out the gradual rise of right-wing hate media. She skips the centuries-old role of newspapers in spreading propaganda and sticks to electronic roots in the John Birch Society and other groups originally deemed too kooky to penetrate mainstream airwaves. That changed with Richard Nixon, whose PR chief, Roger Ailes, built Tricky Dick’s political comeback on turning a disgruntled working class against minorities, antiwar activists, and “elites” who bore no resemblance to the oligarchs actually yanking their chains. When Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine, which guaranteed TV news neutrality, he paved the way for Fox News, run by
none other than Roger Ailes. And then Bill Clinton gave away the store, allowing a few Rupert Murdoch–type conglomerates to run the horror show we know today. Senko talks to David Corn, Jeff Cohen, Noam Chomsky, and other frequent critics of the Republican Noise Machine (in Corn’s locution). And the filmmaker hears from other people whose families were torn apart by free-market hatemongering. It’s unfortunate that she felt the need to dress this quick overview with Michael Moore–like graphics, film clips, and animation, as all these are more poorly chosen and executed than in most advocacy docs these days. Brainwashing leaves off just before the advent of Trumpism, but that actually makes it a timely peer down the right-wing rabbit hole.
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MUSIC Make no mistake about it: “2 Heads” is a banger. Its thumping beat and rallying cry of “Hoo-hoo” are going to sound fantastic blasting from festival stages when Coleman Hell hits the circuit this summer. At its heart, though, the song—a Top 10 hit on both the Canadian rock and U.S. alternative charts—is a lament, with its narrator nursing fresh wounds to his heart and pleading to the object of his affection, “If only I could hold you longer.” Reached on the road in Chicago, Hell says the song’s seemingly self-contradictory nature—it’s a hanky-clutching tale of romantic disillusion that you can shake your ass to—is entirely by design. “I think people come to music for different things at different times in their life,” the Toronto-based musician notes. “So I think if you’re going through a breakup or something, the words of ‘2 Heads’ will resonate with you. But if you’re just trying to have fun at a festival, maybe the words aren’t as important to you. I want my songs to be versatile in that sense. I want them to be able to serve both purposes.” The Thunder Bay–born Hell’s music is multifaceted in other respects, as well. As heard on his self-titled sophomore EP, he takes a classic singer-
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Coleman Hell told his personal stylist, “I want you to make me look like Arthur Fonzarelli, but with a beard. And pierced ears. And a nose ring.”
those aware of the former Vancouverite’s unflinching ability to confront personal tragedy. The kickoff track, “The Slaughter”, The man behind “2 Heads” is a singer-songwriter adds Beatle-esque touches with a knack for crafting dance-floor bangers to an indie-rock template, songwriter approach to his material, but the finished while “If I Still Love You” is the kind of Californiaproduct is buoyed by dance-floor-friendly rhythms dreaming pop that would have seemed quite out of and a glossy pop sound. Hell reveals that, although place on efforts like 2008’s The Wedding Singer and he taught himself how to make music in his bedroom the Undertaker or 2012’s The Living Record. Those albums packed a hard-won emotional with a synthesizer, he grew up under the spell of his punch thanks to Couture’s ability to mourn and parents’ Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen LPs. “I like to make sure that the stripped-down, transcend heartbreak—including the loss of her two bare-bones version of the song is a great song, and children in infancy, and the cancer that claimed her then I go from there and try to make it more up- left leg when she was just 13. On first hearing, Long beat or something,” he says. “I want it to have a Time Leaving seems lightweight in comparison. The darkness is still there, however. It’s just whole lot of meaning, but I also want it to be entertaining live, and to make people want to dance, taken a more familiar form. “I thought I was making maybe kind of a fun record, so I try to combine those two feelings.” Hell’s style has been described as electro-folk and I had a lot of fun making it,” Couture notes, on or folktronica, and if you liked the sampled banjo the line from her Toronto home. “I wanted to make— lick that serves as one of the sharpest hooks in “2 and did make, I think—an upbeat album. I wanted to Heads”, you’re probably going to love what the man make something that, like, wouldn’t make people cry, has in store on his forthcoming full-length album. and that wouldn’t make me cry. But there’s still that His aim, he says, is to employ roots-music instru- tone of what’s going on in the background.” And what was going on in the background, she ments in a modern-pop context. Expect to hear harmonica and lap-steel guitar, but not necessarily reveals, was the end of her marriage. But, hey, we’ve all been there, no? in a way you’ve ever heard them used before. Couture laughs. “You know, when I was first re“There’s something to be said about using a real instrument but playing it synthetically,” says Hell, cording it, the working title was A Normal Heartwho explains that the instruments are being sam- ache,” she says. “Compared to the losses I was writing pled, with their tones then triggered on a synth. “It about on the last couple of albums, all that seemed has a different attack—it just sounds different. You pretty normal. Like, this is something everyone goes can’t really play it in real life like that. It sounds un- through, but not everyone has gone through some of natural, which I really like, and that’s kind of what the other things I’ve been talking about.” What hasn’t changed for the Edmonton-born I’ve been trying to go with on a lot of the new music.” > JOHN LUCAS Couture is her determination to meet her troubles head-on, and share them with a similarly blunt Coleman Hell opens for Twenty One Pilots at the determination. Her joys, too, are fodder for songs. Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Sunday and Monday Long Time Leaving finds Couture embracing, post(April 10 and 11). divorce, a more f luid definition of sexuality— although that, too, isn’t without its rough patches. “I feel like the worst queer, because I’m constantly crushing on straight girls and gay boys,” she says with another laugh. “But I’m glad you noticed that. Yeah, there’s a she and a he that I’m lusting after in Christa Couture’s new, Steve Dawson–pro- ‘The Slaughter’, and in ‘That Little Part of My Heart’ duced Long Time Leaving could best be de- I play with pronouns and genders as well. Coming scribed as bouncy, which might come as a surprise to out of my last relationship, which was monogamous
Couture gets upbeat, relatively speaking, on Long Time Leaving
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SANTIGOLD Santi White is something of a musical oddball
in that, thanks to her mind-bogglingly wide range of influences, her output is impossible to categorize. It’s tempting to say that by combining elements drawn from hip-hop, indie rock, and dub, the artist known as Santigold (and formerly as Santogold) is pushing the boundaries of modern pop—but the fact is, she doesn’t seem to recognize any boundaries at all. That makes her latest album, 99¢—on which White explores such heady themes as consumer culture and narcissism—mandatory listening and her show at the Vogue Theatre on Monday (April 11) a must-attend event. -
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ging Time CD, could easily do double duty as a promo for Pink Shirt Day. In it, a slight, long-haired teenager is pushed around a school gym by a trio of jocks, slinks home to beat the hell out of his drums, and later finds solace in the arms of an attractive classmate. True story? Yorn isn’t about to spill all the beans, but he was once a disaffected suburban youth, and started his musical career on the skins before switching to singing and songwriting. Then there’s his musical partnership with Scarlett Johansson, in which he really did get the girl—into the recording studio for 2009’s Break Up, which won mixed reviews but certainly helped focus attention on the more musically gifted half of the duo. (The relationship see next page
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and hetero, I was going ‘Okay, how do I identify, and what am I pursuing, and what am I interested in? What’s going on with the rest of me right now?’ “I like the identity of gender fluidity,” she continues. “I mean, I identify as a cis female, but I have trans friends and gender-queer friends, and so I support that exploration, and support not having to be one or the other. And I like being able to use that, too—just being part of that provocation and part of that exploration.” There are things, however, that Couture will not reveal in song—although it’s hard to imagine what they might be. “I think sometimes people interpret me as a totally open book,” she contends. “But I’m not. I’m very deliberate, when it comes to the albums, about which songs I’m choosing to put on there and which songs I choose to leave out and what stories I’m going to tell. And as much as they’re all true stories—I can’t seem to make shit up—they’re edited. I am still creating a piece and stitching things together. So I feel very open—and I am open about most things— but that doesn’t mean that I’m without secrets.”
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Fresh and local THE BILLS TRAIL OF TALES The temptation is to use terms like polished to describe the Bills’ Trail of Tales, this having everything to do with harmonies that outhoney the Everly Brothers and musicianship that’s epically accomplished. There’s indeed no shortage of gleaming moments on the unit’s fifth full-length, with the “Wonders I’ve Seen” Americana as its most hymnlike, and “Hittin’ the Do” dragging Kentucky bluegrass through the streets of Bakersfield. Like true pros, the Bills also understand that the best thing a veteran band can do is mix things up. So while Trail of Tales earns its file-under-country/folk tag, there are also wonderfully quiet moments like the sepia-toned violin lament “Wonder” and the midnight-in-a-Spanish-taverna instrumental “Mando Coloured Glasses”. Polished? Not always, which is part of the charm. APRIL 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33
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by the gentle twinkles of the balladic closer, “Happy in the Darkness”. As BLACK MOUNTAIN long as Miller keeps on writing such sweetly heartfelt songs, his music will IV (Jagjaguwar) continue to sound beautiful no matter It’s been six long years since Ste- which project he’s working with. > ALEX HUDSON phen McBean and company last carved out an album from the bedrock of the fabled Black Mountain, but do- SHITLORD FUCKERMAN ing the work of the gods takes time. Teen Repellent Noise Laser Blessed are we to have been gifted (Independent) such a compelling testament to the It’s been said that you can’t judge virtue of psychedelic rock as this, the a book by its cover, but does the fourth album from one of the greatest bands ever to call Vancouver home. maxim translate to the music world? Although IV may be unimaginatively Here’s where Vancouver’s Shitlord titled, its details are nailed down to Fuckerman comes in. The project possuch a fine point that Black Mountain sesses one of the most uniquely juveneven slipped in a hidden message for ile monikers in recent memory. But the those adventurous (or stoned) enough name captures the spirit of the bratty chiptune work collected on its new to play the album backward. McBean has always been a wander- cassette, Teen Repellent Noise Laser. The release features 24 tracks reing rock mystic, and his lyrics and guitar work on IV sound channelled from corded between 2012 and 2016 by Cyber Crimes Johnson, who speciala higher plane of existence. Perhaps thanks in part to their in- izes in contorting Casio blips and volvement in other projects (Sinoia mind-bending laptop beats. “Dark ReCaves for synth wizard Jeremy fill” is a deceptively menacing opener Schmidt, Lightning Dust for drum- that sounds like oil-drum percussionmer Joshua Wells and haunting vocal- ists jamming with a dying MacBook. ist Amber Webber), the band’s mem- Things get gleefully weird for “Duke bers have grown by leaps and bounds Jiffy Lube and the Lawn Bowling musically these last few years. Black Boyz”, which imagines a greasy-musMountain deserves to be called a super- tached barbershop quartet waxing group at this point; at least, that’s how melodic to an 8-bit video-game score. it feels when everyone joins forces on The majority of the record riffs on this this Randall Dunn–produced outing, kind of Nintendo-brand nostalgia. which bursts with talent and ambition. There’s a market for the insanity IV pulls in many directions at once, of Teen Repellent Noise Laser, but if from the druid-stoner sludge rock of you’ve never chilled in the TV room “Mothers of the Sun” to the down- while listening to the score for Kontempo galactic-prog jam “Space to ami’s Castlevania, you may hit Eject Bakersfield”, but it all fluidly comes on the tape. But if farty-analoguetogether in an album that honours the keyboard songs like “Danny Elfman past while reaching for the future. Enema” and “Return to Anus Island” > ALAN RANTA make you giggle because of their names alone, then this shit’s for you. CASCADE FALLS > GREGORY ADAMS
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Devon Miller is known around town as the frontman of local rock acts Reef Shark and Young Pacific. His solo work as Cascade Falls finds him branching out in a cinematic electronic direction. Despite the change in sonic palette, the five synth-draped songs that make up his Islands EP don’t represent too drastic a reinvention, since they preserve Miller’s knack for pop-friendly tunefulness. The opener, “Deep End”, matches gritty guitar with a woozy wash of Twin Peaks–style keyboards, the results recalling the War on Drugs’ psychedelic take on earthy heartland rock. “Clouds Make Faces” is even more wistful, as meandering synth melodies give way to an aching refrain of “I don’t feel at all like I used to.” In the final crescendo, Miller’s vocal melody jumps up a full octave, revealing both the precision and the plaintive expressiveness of his singing. Elsewhere, “Oldest Artifact” is a predominantly instrumental synthscape containing a spoken sample about the enormity of outer space, while “Islands” juxtaposes its jittery electro beats with reverb-drenched harmonies. All of these tracks are poignantly nostalgic, and this mood is cemented
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WOODPIGEON T R O U B L E (Boompa)
The five previous indie-folk al-
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helmed under the name Woodpigeon all seemed to have that vaguely uncomfortable sense of things left unsaid, bringing to mind grey clouds even when the singer focused on their silver linings. Well, whatever it was that seemed to be holding Woodpigeon back before is gone on T R O U B L E. The album was inspired by Hamilton escaping a bad relationship and disillusionment with the music industry, witnessing riots in Turkey, wandering the South of France, and heading out all the way across Canada and back to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. There, he reluctantly hunkered down with the fragments of songs he kindled in Argentina, only playing them for a few of his closest friends until producer Sandro Perri convinced him to fire up a new album project. It’s a damn good thing he did. With drummer Daniel Gaucher, bassist Colin Edward Cowan, and keyboardist Annalea Sordi-McClure in the studio, guest appearances from David Thomas Broughton and Mary Margaret O’Hara, and Perri adding
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traces of his eclectic folk aesthetic at the controls, T R O U B L E pairs Hamilton’s most honest lyrics and heartfelt delivery with his most experimental songwriting yet. It feels like we finally get the whole story, warts and all. By the time you get to “Whole Body Shakes”, your body will probably be doing that for several different reasons.
> ALAN RANTA
BLACK PILLS Demo (Independent)
Pills are often prescribed to take
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ance out overwhelming anxiety. It could be argued quite convincingly that Vancouver hardcore crew Black Pills’ justreleased demo is a cathartic, if chaotic, release for its members. The surged-up sounds of the four-song debut, however, will keep most listeners on edge. Formed earlier this year, the quartet features Damages and Taxa member Hieg Khatcherian. Mostly pushing past those projects’ post-hardcore grooves, Black Pills delivers manic, fritzed-out explosions of guitar noise and bomb-fire beats. Despite this, the feral screams on “Suffering Through” come across as caged-in, detailing a “chest-crushing anxiety” and being trapped by your own psyche. The awesomely atonal pound of “Maximum Tolerated Dose” attempts to liberate, playing out as an antivivisection anthem full of spiralling six-string noise and cries to end the suffering of animals in captivity. True, there’s a darkness to Demo, but the inthe-red approach is pure therapy. > GREGORY ADAMS
DEVOURS Late Bloomer (Locksley Tapes)
Devours has been pumping out soundscapes for a few years, but the one-man electro-pop project of Jeff Cancade gets seriously focused on Late Bloomer. The fulllength release follows a pair of EPs, and has the artist mining personal pain and some 30-plus years of pop music to great effect. “Jaws of Angst” opens with a wildly sped-up string loop and the kind of bright, booming synth bursts you’d find on an Introspective–period Pet Shop Boys B-side. To elements of hard-thumped house pop and more, Cancade drips bitterness into his lyrics. “Was I easy to leave?” he questions coolly, before taking aim at an unknown figure for picking up a newer, younger lover who is “obedient and eager to please”. Late Bloomer softens the bleakness with pop hooks, with the title cut weighing the pros and cons of dancing at the club all night or snagging frontrow tickets to his “quarter-life crisis”. But Cancade’s not entirely a pushover. The album closer, “Inferno”, a keyboard-oscillated digi-stomp, has him noting “I would rather die than give up on the dream.” Whether from a musical or a personal perspective, the album’s end-game pledge is one of Late Bloomer’s best discoveries.
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> GREGORY ADAMS
Director Maria Ines Manchego’s vision for Yorn’s radio-friendly tune is unsentimental but essentially nostalgic in tone, like a Richard Linklater film boiled down to four minutes and 15 seconds. But the singer contends that there are other ways the “Lost Weekend” shoot could have gone. The song, he argues, pays homage to John Lennon’s substance-fuelled “lost weekend” in Los Angeles in 1973, yet it could also be a simple affirmation: life is too precious to dwell on its darker moments. “And then there’s something beyond even that, where in the bigger picture we’re all just freakin’ stardust f loating around,” Yorn stresses. “We don’t even know where we came from or how we got here in this universe. So when you remember that, when you remember that’s what we are, that’s an even bigger reason not to be jaded. “I don’t mean to get all cosmic on your ass, but we’re lucky to be born onto this planet,” he adds. “So it’s kind of like ‘Dude, don’t wait! Live the life that you have!’ This is your moment, so get out there and live it.”
wasn’t romantic, though; Yorn’s brother Rick is Johansson’s manager.) As far as the song itself goes, Yorn isn’t going to interfere with his listeners’ own interpretations. “My music always means different stuff to different people, and I never like to get in the way of that,” he explains, checking in on his cellphone from Palm Desert, California. “But, for me, there’s stuff about growing up in Jersey, being exposed to music in my basement, with my older brothers and all that. One of the big reasons I got into music and I play music is because of all this exposure I had to music in my little basement in suburban New Jersey as a kid. “And then there are other things that I wouldn’t have even thought about until more recent times—counterintuitive ways to live your life,” he continues. “As a kid, you kind of romanticize the whole rock ’n’ roll dream of getting out of your little town and getting to the big city and exploring the world.… > ALEXANDER VARTY And then for some reason I find that with a lot of people, after they do that, they just want to go back to their little spot where Pete Yorn plays the Imperial on Monday (April 11). they grow up. I feel like that myself sometimes.” 34 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT APRIL 7 – 14 / 2016
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HIVES FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT CONCERT Local beekeeping charity holds a benefit concert featuring music by Slow Learners, Ripple Illusion, and Double Shotzz. Apr 8, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.facebook. com/events/1208887155806394/. ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Indian sitar player and composer plays tunes from upcoming album Land of Gold. Apr 8, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $52, info www.chancentre.com/. THE NYLONS Canadian a cappella group performs on its farewell tour. Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix $24.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. QUANTIC British-born DJ tours in support of new 2016 release. Apr 9, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ American rock singer-songwriter tours in support of debut solo release Solicitor Returns. Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TONY ORLANDO Pop singer from the ’70s (“Tie a Yellow Ribbon”). Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.hardrockcasinovancouver.com. MODIFIED GHOST FESTIVAL 2016 Metal music by Suffocation, Cattle Decapitation, Dead Cross, Toxic Holocaust, Intronaut, Archspire, and Scale the Summit. Apr 9, 5 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $40, info www.face book.com/events/1503474243294594/. CHRISTA COUTURE Indie singer-songwriter performs with Sandy Scofield. Apr 9, 7:30 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Tix $20, info www.cbc.ca/bc/community/. THE SMALL GLORIES & JENNY RITTER The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk duo coheadlining with indie-folk vocalist. Apr 9, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www.roguefolk. bc.ca/concerts/ev16040920/.
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GRAVEZ Atlanta-based producer, with guests JUELZ and NÜ DJs. Apr 9, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15, info www.alexandergastown.com/. IRON MAIDEN English heavy-metal legends tour in support of latest release The Book of Souls, with guests the Raven Age. Apr 10, doors 7 pm, show 7:50 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $97.50/69.50/45.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TINASHE American R&B singer-songwriter and producer tours in support of latest release Joyride. Apr 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Red Cat Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. AURORA Norwegian pop singersongwriter tours in support of debut release All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend. Apr 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TWENTY ONE PILOTS Indie-pop/hip-hop duo from Columbus, Ohio, tours in support of latest album Blurryface, with guest Coleman Hell. Apr 10-11, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $39.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE ARCS American garage-rock band touring in support of latest release Yours, Dreamily. Apr 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. PETE YORN American alt-rock singersongwriter, guitarist, and drummer tours in support of latest release Arranging Time. Apr 11, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $36.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. 2GRAVEZ Apr 9 2ROYCE DA 5’9” Apr 28 2BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY Apr 30 2ELLIPHANT May 7 2BREAKBOT May 28 2JMSN Jun 20
BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2VERBODEN FESTIVAL 2016 Apr 8 2THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE Apr 15 2BEND SINISTER AND BOREAL SONS Apr 22 2MORNING SHOW Apr 23 2THE BIG PINK Apr 25 2WILD NOTHING Apr 26 2BLEACHED Apr 28 2AIDAN KNIGHT Apr 29 2ECHO NEBRASKA May 6 2THE RANGE AND ROME FORTUNE May 7 2COASTS May 8 2CATE LE BON May 12 2DAMIEN JURADO May 14 2BIG BLACK DELTA May 19 2LA LUZ May 27 2TITUS ANDRONICUS May 28 2ISLANDS Jun 4 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2BCR ANNIVERSARY PARTY Apr 7 2MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ Apr 9 2MODERN SPACE Apr 15 2FAT WHITE FAMILY Apr 23 2DAY WAVE Apr 30 2HAR MAR SUPERSTAR May 6 2THE PACK A.D. May 12 2THE SO SO GLOS May 29 2ADIA VICTORIA Jun 12 2MITSKI Jul 12 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2MIIKE SNOW Apr 9 2THE ARCS Apr 11 2GARY CLARK JR. Apr 12 2SPIRIT OF THE WEST Apr 14 2COLLECTIVE SOUL Apr 17 2ST. GERMAIN Apr 18 2COURTNEY BARNETT Apr 19 2LUSH Apr 21 2ADAM CAROLLA Apr 22 2YELAWOLF WITH FEFE Apr 23 2ZHU Apr 28 2YEARS & YEARS Apr 29 2THE AGE OF ELECTRIC Apr 30 2FOUR TET May 1 2THE HEAVY May 2 2DANIEL WESLEY May 14 2VIOLENT FEMMES May 15 2AMON AMARTH May 16 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES May 20 2BLACK MOUNTAIN May 21 2THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE May 23 2MATT CORBY May 26 2OH WONDER May 28 2BARONESS May 29 2THE KILLS May 31 2AT THE DRIVE-IN Jun 7 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 254-40 Oct 8 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat.
AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., Tank Gyal & guests Thu; threeroom party with Vinyl Ritchie, Casual Encounters, and ping pong/arcade games Fri; Tiki Bar Sat.
FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2A TRIBE CALLED RED Apr 6 2BILAL Apr 12 2LAPSLEY Apr 26 2BIG WILD May 7 2SMASH BOOM POW/ OCEANOGRAPHERS May 13 2YOUNG EMPIRES May 19
BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Hot Jazz Jam night on Tue.
FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2ELEPHANT REVIVAL Apr 7 2ROCOCODE Apr 8 2CURTIS SALGADO Apr 15 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT Apr 16 2JASON COLLETT Apr 26 2SAID THE WHALE May 7
FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2ZUCKUSS, VACUUS, TORREFY Apr 8 2REDS, OBSCENE BEING, AK-747’S, BEAVERETTE Apr 9 2POWER CLOWN Apr 15 288 MILE TRIP, MAMMOTH GROVE, WISER FOOL Apr 16 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523-6888. 2TONY ORLANDO Apr 9 2GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Apr 21 2JOE SATRIANI Apr 24 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2QUANTIC Apr 9 2AURORA Apr 10 2PETE YORN Apr 11 2THE STORY SO FAR Apr 18 2SLOAN Apr 20 2MAEVE RECORDS SHOWCASE Apr 22 2JORDAN KLASSEN Apr 27 2TORTOISE Apr 28 2BOMBINO Apr 30 2MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS May 3 2POKEY LAFARGE May 5 2MAYER HAWTHORNE May 9 2LUCIUS May 10 2DIRTY RADIO May 13 2SAINT MOTEL May 22 2NOTHING BUT THIEVES May 25 2SAVAGES May 27 2YEASAYER May 28 2CHELSEA WOLFE May 29 2PLANTS AND ANIMALS Jun 16 2BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Jun 25 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. LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. 2KATRINA KADOSKI Apr 18 2THE SUBWAYS Apr 26 2STRIKER Apr 30 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-6653050. 2CHICK COREA AND BELA FLECK Apr 22 2RAFFI Apr 23 2JAMES BAY Apr 27 2ANDREW BIRD May 21 2FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Jun 23 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2GENERATION AXE Apr 6 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 2WOODY WOODMANSEY’S HOLY HOLY May 2 2PAUL SIMON May 26 2LAMB OF GOD Jun 1 2JOE JACKSON Jun 24 2MS. LAURYN HILL Jun 26 2SARAH MCLACHLAN Jun 27 2TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jun 28 2CASE/LANG/VEIRS Jun 29 2BRIT FLOYD Jul 16 2IL DIVO Nov 6
RED ROOM ULTRABAR 398 Richards, 604687-5007. 2KALMAH Apr 21 2DESCENT COMIC COSPLAY Apr 24 2WACKEN METAL BATTLE VANCOUVER FINAL May 1
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. 2TINASHE Apr 10 2SANTIGOLD Apr 11 2HOPSIN Apr 14 2BEACH HOUSE Apr 30 2LIGHTS May 14 2CHE MALAMBO May 20 2MODERAT May 23 2THE SMOKERS CLUB TOUR May 31 2HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT Jun 24 2OLIVER JONES TRIO Jun 25 2DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND Jun 27 2JOE LOVANO CLASSIC QUARTET Jun 28 2GREGORY PORTER Jul 2 2JOHN PRINE Jul 9 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2BRIAN REGAN Aug 28 2GAD ELMALEH Sep 6 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10
REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2LA FIN ABSOLUTE DU MONDE Apr 7 2HIVES FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT Apr 8 2MODIFIED GHOST FESTIVAL 2016 Apr 9 2HAYSEED DIXIE Apr 16 2SPACE JUNK Apr 23 2SOUTH PARK TRIVIA Apr 26 2JOHNNY DE COURCY Apr 29 2THE FOOD Apr 30 2KVELERTAK May 2 2CLOUD CITY FT. ABJO & SLIMKID3 May 5 2KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS May 7 2LUCA TURILLI’S RHASPODY, PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2LA CHINGA May 13 2DIANA ARBENINA & THE NIGHT SNIPERS May 19 2BUZZCOCKS May 21 2CARAMELOS DE CIANURO May 22 2KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD May 28 2THE SADIES Jun 3 2GONDWANA Jun 4 2VOIVOD Jun 13 2ILL NIÑO Jun 15 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER LAUNCH PARTY Jun 16 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER Jun 17-18 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29
WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2DI SOCA FETE Apr 8 2MNGWA AND ZIMBAMOTO Apr 15 2GARAGISTE: THE SMALL GUYS WINE FESTIVAL Apr 17 2THING/ PONG May 1
OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED GUNS N’ ROSES Legendary American hard-rock band performs on its reunion tour. Aug 12, 7:30 pm, CenturyLink Field (formerly Qwest Field, 800 S. Occidental Ave., Seattle, Wash.). Tix on sale Apr 8, 10 am, US$250/150/99/45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2THE NYLONS Apr 9 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30
WHISTLER WORLD SKI & SNOWBOARD FESTIVAL Annual snowsport celebration includes concerts by A Tribe Called Red, Sumner Brothers, Monster Truck, Dirty Radio, Bear Mountain, and Mat the Alien, and Five Alarm Funk. Apr 8-17, various Whistler venues. Info www.whistler.com/wssf/.
ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2PAUL MCCARTNEY Apr 19 2RIHANNA Apr 23 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 2HEDLEY May 20 2CITY AND COLOUR Jun 3 2JAMES TAYLOR AND HIS ALL-STAR BAND Jun 11 2DIXIE CHICKS Jul 7 2ADELE Jul 20 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 2DURAN DURAN Aug 28
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THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2DAVID FRANCEY Apr 7 2BENEFIT FOR THE ROGUE AND ST. JAMES Apr 8 2THE SMALL GLORIES & JENNY RITTER Apr 9 2JONATHAN BYRD & CORIN RAYMOND Apr 17 2APRIL IN PARIS: 10TH ANNUAL GYPSY JAZZ FESTIVAL Apr 21 2KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Apr 24 2CALEB KLAUDER May 6 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2NIYAZ AND ADHAM SHAIKH Apr 7 2RED FANG Apr 14 2THE FACEPLANTS Apr 15 2FILTER Apr 16 2GIN WIGMORE Apr 26 2NAPALM DEATH AND MELVINS May 2 2KATCHAFIRE May 7 2NADA SURF May 17 2AUTOLUX May 28 2PRONG May 29 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Nov 1
PEMBERTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Huka Entertainment presents Canada’s biggest camping, music, and comedy festival. Lineup includes Pearl Jam, J. Cole, Kaskade, Snoop Dogg, Bassnectar, Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, DJ Snake, the Chainsmokers, Billy Idol, Steve Angello, Flosstradamus, Miguel, Purity Ring, Die Antwoord, Tyler the Creator, Mac Miller, Cypress Hill, Mastodon, Arkells, Wolf Parade, Cold War Kids, and Thievery Corporation. July 14-17, Pemberton Valley (Pemberton, B.C.). Info at www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/, info www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/.
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savage love I am a 20-something, straight, cis-female expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest—and, until now, unrealized—fantasy: Nazi role-play? He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. (Even though I’ve instructed him to watch The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as a Jewish neo-Nazi, to get a better grasp on my relationship with Judaism. To be clear, I am not actually a neo-Nazi—just your gardenvariety self-hating Jew.) This persists even though we’ve spoken about my anti-Zionist politics. Evidently, he was indoctrinated from a young age with a hyperapologetic history curriculum. I appreciate that he thinks it was wrong for the SS to slaughter my family, but it’s not like he did it himself. I know it sounds really fucked-up, but I promise this isn’t coming from a place of deep-seated self-loathing. Even if it were, it’s not like we’d be hurting anybody. We’re both in good psychological working condition, and neither of us is an actual bigot. I would try to get to know him better, but we are so different (there’s a big age difference) and I don’t really see our relationship being much more than ze sex. > NATIONAL SOCIALIST PRETEND PARTY
“Sex writers get all the really good religion questions,” said Mark Oppenheimer. “Can we trade mailboxes sometime soon? I’m tired of dealing with all the questions about why evangelicals support a thrice-
married misogynist reality-TV star who never goes to church.” Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times and is cohost of Unorthodox, an “irreverent podcast about Jews and other people” (tabletmag.com/unorthodox/). I invited Oppenheimer to weigh in because I am, sadly, not Jewish myself. (Jewishness is conferred through matrilineal descent, your mom—or, if you’re Reform, either parent—has to be Jewish for you to be Jewish, so all those blowjobs I gave to my first Jewish boyfriend were for nothing. No birthright trip for me.) “First off, I think that Die Fräulein should make her kinky proposal ASAP,” Oppenheimer said. “Given the ‘hyperapologetic’ curriculum that her Teutonic stud has absorbed, he is probably going to freak out no matter when she asks him to…tie her up and fuck her. On the other hand, if he’s open and kink-positive, he’ll probably be down for whatever. But it’s all or nothing in a case like this. She can’t win him over by persuading him that she’s not one of those uptight, unforgiving Jewesses who is still hung up on the destruction of European Jewry.” While your kink didn’t really faze Oppenheimer (it’s not exactly unheard-of), NSPP, your discomfort with your own Judaism did. “In her letter, she assures us that she is ‘secular’, ‘anti-Zionist’, and ‘gardenvariety self-hating’—then jokingly compares herself to the Jewish white supremacist (played by Ryan Gosling in that movie) who in real life killed himself after the New York Times outed him as a Jew,” Oppenheimer
> BY DAN SAVAGE said. “Now, all of us (especially homos and Yids) know something about selfloathing, and I think Jews are entitled to any and all views on Israel, and— again—I am not troubled by her kink. That said, I do think she needs to get to a happier place about her own heritage. Just as it’s not good for black people to be uncomfortable with being black, or for queer people to wish they weren’t queer, it’s not healthy, or attractive, for Jews or Jewesses (we are taking back the term) to have such obvious discomfort with their Jewish heritage.” And finally, NSPP, I shared your letter with a German friend of mine, just to see how it might play with someone who benefited from a hyperapologetic history curriculum. Would he do something like this? “Not in six million years.”
I am fresh out of a gay relation-
“They’re both right,” said Allena Gabosch, a poly activist, educator, and podcaster (The Relationship Anarchy Show). “What the letter writer describes—a small group of people who love each other and all sleep together—is sometimes called ‘polyfidelity’. It’s less common, and yet I’ve seen it work. His ex’s definition is more common: a primary couple with secondary and sometimes even tertiary partners. There is no ‘one true way’ to do poly, no matter what anyone says.”
You’re pure now, MIM, but first, like Augustine of Hippo (354–430), you had yourself some impure fun. Perhaps you would be just as satisfied, happy, and smug if you’d been in a monogamous/vanilla relationship all along. But it’s possible you wouldn’t be satisfied and happy now if it weren’t for the adventures and experiences you had then. To paraphrase St. Agnes Gooch of Mame (1966): You lived! You lived! You lived! You see all that living as time wasted, MIM, but it’s possible—it may even rise to the level of probable—that the perspective and self-awareness you gained during the fuck-anything-that-moves stage of your life made you the man you are today, i.e., a guy who was ready to make a monogamous commitment and capable (so far) of honouring it. Finally, monogamous/vanilla types routinely cross over into the ranks of the sexually adventurous/nonmonogamous, and vice versa. (And monogamous/vanilla and sexually adventurous aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive categories.) Instead of disparaging the choices others make—or disparaging the choices we once made—we’re better off encouraging people to make the choices that are right for them. And choices that are right for someone now may not be right for them always—and that goes for you too, MIM, even now. -
I’ve been in a fantastic monogamous relationship for almost eight years, but I used to be like a lot of your other readers. I had what I would consider an adventurous sex life, with lots of partners who were GGG, and I enjoyed continually pushing my sexual boundaries as long as everything was consensual and honest. Fastforward to my current life: I’m now married to a wonderful vanilla woman. The transition to monogamous and vanilla was difficult at first, and I had fears about not being sexually content. As it turns out, it was a great move and I’m a better man for it. My desire to have every kind of sex under the sun has settled down considerably, and the benefit is that I have much more energy and mental focus for other areas of my life. I want your readers to know that the answer to their happiness may not be the pursuit of more outlandish On the Lovecast, Dan chats with the sex—for some, it just might be less.
ship, which started monogamous, opened up, dabbled with polyamory, but ran out of steam. I’m heartbroken and I need you to weigh in on a disagreement we had about polyamory, which is one of the things that led to our expiration. I believe polyamory to be a small group of people all in love with each other, all sleeping together. He believes polyamory to be different pairings, where a relationship between two people would be lived and enjoyed separately from that couple’s pairings with other people. He thinks my definition would be impossible > MONOGAMOUS IN MONTANA to find and sustain. I think his definition sounds like child custody in Your letter reminded me of St. Aua divorce dispute. Who is right? > REEXAMINING RELATIONSHIP gustine’s prayer as a young man: REMNANTS “Lord, make me pure—but not yet!”
filmmakers of the documentary Give Me Sex Jesus: savagelovecast.com. E-mail: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ fakedansavage/.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 4, 2016 WHERE: South Granville Hi, I know this is a stretch... but why not?! I was just leaving a clinic on South Granville and you were just coming in the door and our eyes met. It was short but sweet! I like following up on spontaneous connections, so if this is you, and you feel some spark too (!!), let’s do coffee!
GARIBALDI BIKE TRAILS SQUAMISH
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We met at the Schwartz Bay ferry terminal while you were charging your phone on what seemed like the most bizarre outlet location. I complimented you on your (grandmother’s) amber ring. We said our goodbyes at City Hall. It was a great day in Victoria, but meeting you really was the highlight. I’ve also regretted not asking your number since then. Drinks?
You welcomed spring so gracefully playing the piano at Woodwards. You turned my stressful day around. I went into London Drugs to send a letter at the post office, only to realize you were gone. You: Beautiful, dignified, Asian girl. Hope to hear you play again.
DOG WALKER - RIVER DISTRICT
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You were just coming down the hill from a ride, I was waiting in the parking lot for a friend. We had a brief chat while you loaded up your bike into your black BMW. You were friendly and cute, and I wish I had introduced myself when I had the chance. If you want company for sushi next time, let me know.
We see each other a lot. I know you’re a dogwalker because of all the different dogs you walk. This morning we had a much longer chat. I enjoyed it. If I told you my dog, or what I wear, you’d know exactly who I am, and I’m afraid to do that. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself, and be flattered?
SPRING IS IN THE AISLE... AT NO FRILLS?
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Sunday afternoon grocery shopping. You caught my eye when we both came in to the store at the same time. At one point, we were both standing at the assorted nuts aisle, seemingly both contemplating what to get. I wanted to say something but frankly, I chickened out. You: stunningly cute with large frame glasses, hair up and wearing a light green jacket. Me: 5 ft 9, brown hair, blue wind breaker and shorts. It’s a long shot but I’d love to start that conversation. Perhaps coffee, dessert (with walnuts on top?)
YOU’RE CUTE WITH YOUR COFFEE & GREEN TOM PETTY T-SHIRT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 1, 2016 WHERE: Allegro Whole Foods Coffee Bar (Cambie & 8th) You were behind me in line at the Allegro Whole Foods coffee bar on Cambie St. I stood stirring stevia packets into my iced tea as you looked for milk for your coffee. I looked up and smiled brightly and you smiled brightly back. I was wearing a pink dress with white flowers and a grey cardigan. I thought you were very cute and wanted to comment on your Tom Petty T-shirt but couldn’t think of what to say. Meet me back at Allegro and tell me about the concert?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 3, 2016 WHERE: River Front, Near Romer’s
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 25, 2016 WHERE: Schwartz Bay Ferry Terminal
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 31, 2016 WHERE: Garibaldi/Diamond Head Bike Lot
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 3, 2016 WHERE: No Frills, Denman Mall
WOODWARDS PIANIST
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: Laughing Bean
Walked in on you washing you hands in the bathroom then sat next to you. You said hi but I thought you were skyp-ing. Would like to say hi back :)
YOU ARE IT -- PLAY AT GRANVILLE ISLAND -BEAUTIFUL PRESENCE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: Fish Bowl Theatre, Granvile Island I saw you at the play “You Are It” on Granville Island, 7 pm show. After the show I came up to you and mentioned that I thought you had a beautiful presence. Would love to see you again.
MEAT AND BREAD
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: Meat and Bread, Cambie St. You are the most beautiful woman I have seen in a awhile. Lovely tattoos, amazing short dark brown hair, perfectly cut!! Pardon the expression, you manned the steam table, you also looked like you could be managing as well. I was sitting at bar just adjacent to cashier with a silver haired man. My hair short like yours. So sad I didn’t get a chance to talk to you, one never knows. At a minimum you should know how beautiful you are!!!
ASIAN BARISTA BEAUTY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: Elysian Coffee Roasters on Ontario & W. 7th I stopped by for a coffee today and couldn’t help but notice your sweet smile and sparkly eyes. Vancouver could use more nice girls like you. :)
YOU OWE ME A FERRERO ROCHER EASTER EGG
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TATTOOED BABE OUTSIDE ST. AUGUSTINE’S
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 21, 2016 WHERE: Downtown Vancouver
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 30, 2016 WHERE: St. Augustine’s on Commercial
You come to my work a couple times a year and I always look forward to your bright smile. I can’t ask you out because of the nature of our relationship, but I can tell you on here, that last time I saw you we joked about bad Easter chocolate. You said it wasn’t all bad and that Ferrero Rocher makes good Easter eggs. I was hoping you might come by with some... but really, I just wanted to see you.
My best friend & I were walking down Commercial today & you caught my eye while standing outside of St. Augustine’s. Your shirt had a cat with an upside down cross on it. You had a friend meet you wearing a red & black plaid. I thought you were cute & my best friend thought your friend was cute. A double date could be fun?
PALE AND CUTE WITH BLACK HAIR ON THE 97B
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 27, 2016 WHERE: Save On Foods
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 1, 2016 WHERE: Lougheed Station to Port Moody
SAVE ON CASHIER HIGHGATE.
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I’ve seen you twice now on the 97B line. You’re very cute with your curly black hair and pale skin. I’m the one with black hair, black clothes and tattoos who is too shy to meet your eye. Coffee or drink sometime?
On Easter, I was the mullatto tired looking guy in my black gym clothes, I think I bought... a danish and something else. You had dark hair, wave pattern down to your shoulder but I couldn’t see your name tag. Had to avoid looking at you to avoid staring because, well. wow. Don’t know if you’ll ever see this but if you do, I’d like to actually a more proper interaction than me avoiding you eyes.
We rode the elevator together in the parking garage on Cordova. You were decked out in construction gear. I accidentally got on the elevator going the wrong way, apparently you did too? You're handsome. I’m awkward. Coffee?
DENMAN AND BIDWELL- YOU HAVE A GREAT SMILE :)
TALKED MUSIC ON THE 99 B-LINE
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 1, 2016 WHERE: Denman and Bidwell
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 28, 2016 WHERE: 99 B-Line Eastbound
ADORABLE
You smiled at me and my two dogs from across the street - looked like you were heading to the gym. Wish I had said hi.
We talked about singing and playing music, and about OpenMicVancouver... I had to take my stop too soon, and wanted to connect with you. We seem to have a lot in common, especially our passion for song. It would be great to see you again, go for a coffee, or better yet, make some beautiful music together!
CONSTRUCTION GUY IN PARKING GARAGE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 1, 2016 WHERE: Impark on Cordova
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 30, 2016 WHERE: #7 Bus
Saw you on the bus on your way home from work. You sat right in front of me even though the bus was empty. You told me your name was Charlotte. You were so adorable when every word you spoke came through that beautiful smile. Was going to tell where I worked (close by) or get your number but my stop came. If you can remember my name respond to this with it. I would love to come across you and see that smile and those gorgeous eyes again.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 31, 2016 WHERE: Red Truck
I was waiting for some friends, and you invited me to sit down and join your crew. You guys were having some post work (1-800-Got-Junk) drinks. There was an axe throwing competition happening and you challenged me... then my friends arrived and next thing I knew, you had left. Want to grab a drink just the two of us sometime?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 31, 2016 WHERE: Whole Foods Cambie Ugh, we made eye contact a few times, and either the attraction was mutual, or you were waiting for me to drop the two plants, the huge box of spinach, the apples, the bananas, and the bag of chips I was holding. Which I understand, I am not sure what my plan was there. You have a silver beard and I think wearing a grey shirt. I have dark brown curly hair, was wearing a dress and jean jacket and should have grabbed a cart.
CHOICES MARKET ON CAMBIE
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TAVERN AT THE NEW OXFORD
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 26, 2016 WHERE: Tavern at The New Oxford I asked you to come over to my friends but unfortunately I was pretty drunk and pretty much was talking poppy cock. I thought you were nice Courtney. The Irish guy. Hit me back just to chat your biggest fan this is Stan.
BEE TATTOO
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 30, 2016 WHERE: Choices Market on Cambie St.
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 24, 2016 WHERE: A Bus on Dundas St.
You were tall and very handsome, with tattoos, in a white tee (I think). I was blonde, with an army green jacket, at the check out stand with my dad. We made eye contact as you left behind me, and then again as you walked past the window outside.
We sat across from one another on a bus travelling up Dundas St. You had piercing blue eyes and a bee tattoo on your right ankle. We both had headphones in. I caught your gaze, but I was too shy to just say, “hello.” So, hello. Would you like to go for coffee sometime?
SKYTRAIN FACEPALM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 25, 2016 WHERE: Lougheed
You asked me directions on how to get to the Seabus and I told two different ways you could take. The train you ended up taking was the extra 5 min ride but no transfers. As you were getting on the train we both looked at each other smiled and waved goodbye anyway I really should have continued a conversation with you and asked for your number because you have the most beautiful blue eyes and amazing smile! If for some cosmic luck of a chance you see this I would like nothing more than to take you out to dinner
SEASONS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 25, 2016 WHERE: Pacific Coliseum Just before Porter Robinson you sat with me. We introduced each other and talked a bit but you left too soon. Thanks Sam that made my night.
TRAVIS THE BOXER RACE-CAR DRIVER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 26, 2016 WHERE: Alleyway, Powell St. Travis. You knew something was wrong before I chose to admit it to myself. You said you “were ESP”. You made me smile lots. You were funny in your white hat and in your humour. My dog and I waited for you on the bench, like promised, but I couldn’t wait much longer. I don’t like waiting. You had said yourself that I had done enough of that. You race cars and you win street fights. “I mean, wouldn’t you like to make 600 dollars in 93 seconds flat?” Yes Travis, of course I would. Hence the bandage on your nose. Oh Travis. Some people never come back from the liquor store.
ANDY LIVINGSTONE DOG PARKPRETTY IN PINK
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 22, 2016 WHERE: Andy Livingstone Dog Park I was working, and asked you about your dog, mistaking him for a Rhodesian Ridgeback. I lingered, part to make sure the guy on the bike wasn’t bothering you, and part to surreptitiously check you out. You were lovely, wearing a pink shirt! As I drove away we locked gazes and you waved at me. Want to walk your dog? I know a few great places, as you might imagine.
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Venus/Mars can reward creativity, truth-seeking, or a passion play. Up/ down continues with emotions on edge again Wednesday. Next Thursday/Friday brings the best of the week. Make the most of these next 10 days. Mars, Pluto, and Mercury soon turn retrograde.
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March 20–April 20
It’s blastoff time, especially if your birthday happens on the super new moon or anytime over this next week. With Uranus and Eris striking it hot through Tuesday, watch for a wildfire to overtake you. Once it does, you can’t go fast enough. A take-charge initiative is your best play, but don’t let reactiveness or impetuousness do you in.
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April 20–May 21
At the start of a sevenweek cycle, Mercury in Taurus is good for a fresh energy boost. It’s not the only transit to spur you on. Thursday’s super new moon also provides extra turbo. Friday, Saturday, next Tuesday, and Thursday your stars are optimized. Don’t hesitate; take a leap of faith. There’s no time to waste and a fast track to be gained.
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May 21–June 21
An especially eventful week or two lies ahead. Sparked by Uranus, Thursday’s super new moon will fire it up and speed it up, perhaps radically so. It’s an auspicious time
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to break free or to meet someone no return. Too, there may be a need to special. Strike while the iron is hot. scramble, hustle, or face surgery. Reinvent yourself, your career, or LIBRA social life. Saturday to Monday and September 23–October 23 next Thursday will springboard or Take that feistier, sexier catapult you. new you out for a test drive. At CANCER any moment, a bonfire can light. June 21–July 22 When it’s right for you, you’ll know Aim for it or feel it come it instantly. When it isn’t, it’s on at you full force; what happens over to next, pronto. Know that some this next week is built for speed, not could surprise you. Be especially for comfort. To the plus, exception- careful when driving and don’t ally fast progress can be made. If you throw caution to the wind regardfeel struck hard or even attacked, ing money, safety, or health. know you can’t stop the freight train; SCORPIO you’ll have to get onboard with it. October 23–November 22 Reframe it as an opportunity. A new job, line of work, LEO medication, or health regimen can July 22–August 23 be the ticket. On the other hand, You are on fire now! This thanks to Uranus and Eris in the is especially so if you are in sports, super-new-moon mix, the sudden entertainment, or performing or or unexpected can throw you for a visual arts, or run your own show. loop. Even so, you’ll find yourself The super new moon and Uranus to be especially sharp on the ball. in action make for a hot time to try A rapid learning curve or quick your luck on something or some- solve-it cycle starts now. one new. Trust instincts and intuiSAGITTARIUS tion to give you a big edge. Travel, November 22–December 21 relocation, a new freedom—feels A racehorse in action— good/feels great! that’s you! Thursday’s supercharged VIRGO new moon and Saturday’s sun/Uranus August 23–September 23 make you the one to bet on. Instincts, The stars aim for maximum creativity, passion, and ambition in impact. Uranus and Eris can hit when full play take you where you want to and where you are the least prepared. go. Sunday through Tuesday, there’s To the plus, the fresh, freeing, and new more to say and do. Next Thursday/ fast-track you onto a great upswing. Friday are the best of the batch regardOn the harsh side, you could watch ing reward, news, opportunity, and a bridge burn and/or reach a point of launch-it.
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A new you is rapidly overtaking the old you. Even if there is still an inner or outer battle raging on, if you are honest with yourself, you’ll have to admit you aren’t going to back down anytime soon. The wager has already been made. Your new life has already arrived. Embrace it. Friday/Saturday gift/pamper yourself; don’t scrimp! January 20–February 18
Whether it’s a sudden f lash of inspiration or something jarring, Thursday onward provides fresh fuel to get you and keep you going. Watch for exciting news, a new hot spot to try, a trend or bandwagon to jump on. Someone or something can hit you like a thunderbolt. Watch your driving speed. Don’t overstrain your body or wallet. February 18–March 20
This next week can spark a great personal discovery or a creative wellspring. Financial prospects can hit an upswing. Whether you want to try your luck or to avoid the risk, know that fertility is at peak too. Thanks to Uranus and Eris so triggered, know that at any moment, anything can happen. Stay on watch. Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/.
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