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here are two extremes facing people who are trying to do it all, says Vancouver doctor and mother of three Alexandra T. Greenhill: either lean in or bow out. But there is another option for people juggling work, family, and all of life’s demands, she says—and it’s one that can help make the world a better place. “One of the things that frustrates me…with all the messages out there like lean in or the opposite, bow out, is that it means putting yourself in one of two categories: you either give up on your dreams or you work harder than you ever thought possible,” says the former emergency-room physician in a phone call. “I think there’s a third way. It has to do more with leaning on each other for assistance. “When people are asked, ‘Can I give you a hand?’ our default answer would be ‘No, thank you; I’m alright,’ ” she says. “Each individual task may seem manageable, but when you combine all the things you’re responsible for, it comes to weigh more than 100 percent. I personally started saying ‘Yes’ when I had my first baby.…Now my default answer is ‘Yes.’ ” Being open to accepting help from others does more than just make her busy life a little easier. It also sends a message to others: if it’s okay for her to take a helping hand, that might enMy Best Helper CEO Alexandra T. Greenhill will speak at TEDxEastVan about the courage other people to do the same challenges that people face in requesting help from, and offering it to, others. rather than end up overwhelmed to Greenhill has also developed expect anything in return. And the point of being burned out or even ill. And saying “Yes” to help gives a free app called myCrew that lets although it still takes a village to raise other people a chance to lend a hand, you ask for and provide help, wheth- a child, it also takes one to help people which has positive effects and health er you’re a parent running late and throughout their lives. you need another mom to bring your benefits in its own right. “I think it’s important to know Greenhill has high hopes for kids home from school or you are that a whole bunch of us will help harnessing the power of help: she able to do a quick grocery run for each other just because we can,” believes that by leaning on each someone who is housebound. You Greenhill says. “By knowing that, other—and using technology to con- can simultaneously ask friends and we’re stronger. I view tech as the nect people who trusted people in ability to reveal there’s an army full need it or can ofyour networks for of people willing to help each other. fer some—we can help using your It’s a true win-win. So why can’t we bring back the phone’s contact make that possible?” Gail Johnson sense of communlist, but unlike a At TEDxEastVan, Greenhill will ity that seems increasingly elusive in group chat or email thread, each re- talk about seven reasons people are the modern world. ceives the request individually. You reluctant to accept help and how to, As the founder and CEO of My can then see all your options, who is essentially, get over them. Best Helper, a web and mobile ser- available when and where. “It sounds simple, but it’s a new vice that connects people with child Greenhill got the idea for the app habit, a new perspective on how care, home care, and elder care, after a friend of hers had to go to work you interact with others,” she says. Greenhill will be among 12 speak- and was desperate for last-minute “We’ve been socially trained that the ers at the upcoming TEDxEastVan babysitting. Greenhill posted about strong ones never ask for help, never on Saturday (April 23). The third an- it on Facebook, and within minutes, show any signs of weakness. When nual daylong event is based on the dozens of people had offered to take so many of our leaders are models of theme “Move”, which organizers say care of the woman’s kids. that behaviour still, it makes it very represents change, intense emotions, What struck her was that people difficult for anyone else to adopt it.” performances, and art and culture. genuinely wanted to help and didn’t see next page

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And people may be reluctant to offer help for fear of insulting someone, implying that they can’t handle everything they’ve got on their plate. Greenhill’s myCrew app was the first Canadian venture to win the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, a global entrepreneurs’ competition that had more than 1,700 applicants. In her work and travels, she says, she has come to the realization that all over the globe, people are increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of life while they are lacking a sense of community that existed in decades and centuries past. That’s especially true in Vancouver, which some newcomers have described as a place that is isolating and where it is hard to make friends. “People are so fragmented; so many have moved away from family and their social networks,” she says. “We really need to start talking about new social habits, to make it easier for people to not feel isolated. Imagine feeling that way on top of having a major illness or when you TEDxEastVan takes place on Saturday have a new baby. “Imagine if people would be willing (April 23) at the York Theatre. More to become a block volunteer so that if information is at tedxeastvan.com/.

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Canada Post boxes were on sidewalks for the Vaisakhi celebration (above) and the Vancouver Sun Run, but newspaper boxes were removed on orders from the VPD.

in light of a 1989 decision in the Supreme Court of Canada Vancouver police want to keep the public safe at civic events, on the charter’s Section 2(b). but does this justify far-reaching bans on newspaper boxes? “Whether political, religious, artistic or commercial, For the April 17 Vancouver Sun Run, the freedom of expression should not be suppressed city banned newspaper boxes in 27 downtown except where urgent and compelling reasons exist blocks bounded by Richards, Dunsmuir, Bute, and then only to the extent and for the time neand Robson streets. Participants went along cessary for the protection of the community,” the Georgia Street, so they weren’t actually run- court ruled in the Irwin Toy case. ning on Richards or Robson or Dunsmuir. The The order banning newspaper boxes for the initial notice also prohibited boxes in the same Vancouver Sun Run lasted for eight days even area for 4/20, as well as in areas of the West End though the event took place only on a single day. near English Bay. That’s because city officials wanted to keep the In a phone interview with the Georgia publications off many downtown streets for the Straight, Vancouver media lawyer Alan Mc- 4/20 event three days later as well. Conchie said he infers that the reason for the This hardly meets the Supreme Court of Canorder is security in the wake of terrorist attacks ada’s instructions that charter infringements in Brussels and Paris. But he expressed concern occur only “for the time necessary”. over the city’s decision to prohibit boxes in this There were also no demonstrable “urgent and area of the downtown over an eight-day period compelling reasons” for this action over this when the Vancouver Sun Run and 4/20 were length of time because the VPD had assured us single-day events. And he also questioned the that there were no threats. But, hey, who in the geographic scope. city engineering department is in the business “It does seem to be overly broad on a first of reading Supreme Court of Canada rulings? glance,” McConchie said. “If there’s no rational They’re too busy hauling away newspaper boxes. justification to remove boxes from certain geogIn the 1991 Committee for the Commonraphies that are not in the area of concern or next wealth of Canada decision, the Supreme Court to them—if it’s in the middle of the city, some of Canada ruled that the government’s “right of 15-minute walk from any area of concern—I don’t ownership” cannot justify infringing on Section see the rationale.” 2(b) of the charter. We like to think of it as using a sledgehammer “Freedom of expression, while it does not enwhen a scalpel might do the trick. This sweep- compass the right to use any and all government ing order—never before imposed for Vaisakhi property for purposes of disseminating views and the Vancouver Sun Run—occurred even on public matters, does include the right to use though police readily acknowledged that there streets and parks which are dedicated to the use were no threats. It raises intriguing legal questions of the public, subject to reasonable limitation

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to ensure their continued use for the purposes to which they are dedicated,” the court stated. In New York City, where there has actually been a massive terrorist attack, the circulation manager of the Village Voice, Matt Barbey, told the Straight that municipal officials allow publishers to place boxes “pretty much everywhere”. Exceptions are beside municipal construction projects or for a major event like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but even then, the city pays to pick them up and to return the boxes to their original locations. According to Barbey, there’s been no change to the rules since terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris. In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a city ordinance giving a mayor complete authority to determine the placement of news racks in Lakewood, Ohio. Here in Vancouver, city officials impose strict restrictions on where newspaper boxes may be located. It’s worth noting that the Georgia Straight paid the City of Vancouver $53,000 in licensing fees last year to put newspaper boxes on sidewalks. Meanwhile, TransLink has not offered any urgent and compelling reasons for its decision to kick out more than 30 publications’ boxes from SkyTrain stations on April 1. Once again, there was no consultation with the Straight in advance of this decision. The regional transportation authority has promised to offer a request for proposals to the publications to get back into stations under new terms and conditions. But it still makes no sense that TransLink would banish newspaper boxes as it is working out its new approach. TransLink is already a two-time loser in the see next page

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If someone were hiding weapons in one of our boxes, the first person who went for a newspaper would come across this—and, one would expect, would report this to the police. Besides, there are far better places in the downtown core to store Uzis, including garbage bins in alleys or on sidewalks, for anyone planning to get into a shootout at the next Vancouver Sun Run. Let’s look at the record regarding urban explosives. There have been no reported cases of terrorist attacks in North America through the bombing of newspaper boxes. But the Front de libération du Québec did put a bomb in an Ottawa mailbox in the 1960s, yet mailboxes remained along the Vaisakhi and Vancouver Sun Run routes (despite the VPD’s claim that they were going to be removed). There were also 16 open garbage cans along Robson between Thurlow and Hornby streets during the Vancouver Sun Run. Multiple-publication news racks owned by a city contractor remained on Alberni and Robson streets during the Vancouver Sun Run, ready to be opened at a moment’s notice. So much for giving publishers equal treatment. During the 1996 Olympics, a bomb was placed under a park bench in Atlanta. So did the VPD order the city’s contractor to remove benches around the Vaisakhi parade or the Vancouver Sun Run? Nope. At the 2013 Boston Marathon, terrorist bombs were placed in knapsacks. There were no bans on duffel bags, fanny packs, or purses at Vaisakhi or the Vancouver Sun Run. Frankly, a metal box could render a bomb less effective, which is likely why terrorists prefer park benches, pressure cookers, and backpacks. But wait a second. What about all those portable toilets? Why aren’t they being removed? The VPD claimed that they were going to be “staffed” at Vaisakhi, unlike newspaper boxes. However, when we investigated, we saw people walking in and out of them without anyone paying attention. The same was true at the Vancouver Sun Run. Police also cited the free movement of people on the streets without fear of bumping into newspaper boxes. The last time we checked, the Supreme Court of Canada did not include this on its checklist of reasons why municipal officials can infringe on a charter right. The recent actions by police, the city, and TransLink trouble David Eby, the NDP MLA for Vancouver– Point Grey. “The independent voices that we have in our city, like the Straight and other free publications that distribute in this way, really feel it when those boxes are taken away,” Eby told the Straight at Vaisakhi. “I would strongly encourage the city and TransLink to work closely with these publications to prevent damage to them. They’re a really vital part of our community. I’m really disappointed that this is happening.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. -

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Learn beyond the classroom

ducation comes in many forms in Vancouver. Sometimes it takes place in classrooms. On other occasions, it’s available at public lectures, in local library branches, or at a weekend demonstration outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Below, we’ve listed five ways in which people of all ages can expand their minds and their talents. STUDENT-MADE FASHION Students in Langara College’s designformation program are giving new meaning to the phrase “paper bag princess” in Oakridge Centre’s third Brown Paper Couture installation. The exhibit showcases 27 student-made gowns that are handcrafted from ecofriendly materials like paper, cardboard, and coffee filters. From a Vivienne Westwood– inspired frock based on the voluptuous drama of Victorian-era garb to a 1950s Balenciaga ball gown, each dress is modelled after a famous designer piece that has graced runways in seasons past. “I’ve seen the displays in the last two years, and that was what kind of attracted me to the program,” says student designer Doris Ho by phone, referring to Langara’s design-formation courses. “It’s really exciting to see all of our work out there.” Brown Paper Couture is the culmination of the design students’ efforts in the postsecondary program’s retail-visual-presentation class, which emphasizes prop-building, aesthetics, and creative troubleshooting. The collection is on display at Oakridge Centre’s East Galleria until April 27. DISCOVER STUDENTS’ TALENTS

About the Stewardship Group The Northeast False Creek Stewardship Group will bring a broad variety of perspectives to the planning process and advise City staff in securing and maintaining the vision set out in the Northeast False Creek Conceptual Plan and approved in the Removal of Viaducts Report (2015) for a new neighbourhood and major waterfront park.

Langara students’ work is also on display at a pop-up gallery in Building A at the college until May 27. Different departments in the creativearts division are featured on different weeks. Until next Friday (April 29), you can see a collection of drawings, paintings, sculpture, design, digital design, ceramics, and prints by fine-arts students. From May 2 to 6, check out student photography, which includes portraiture, architecture, food, editorial, and fashion imagery. From May 9 to 13, outstanding student publishing work is presented in the newest edition of Pacific Rim Magazine. May 16 to 20 showcases the work of students in the journalism program, followed by the best of creative arts, from May 24 to 27. All of the exhibits are free and are open to the public from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Langara College (100 West 49th Avenue), which is a short walk from the Canada Line’s Langara–49th Station.

Oakridge Centre’s Brown Paper Couture installation features 27 gowns—all made by Langara College students—modelled on famous designer pieces. VOICES OF ELDERS What better

way to learn about reconciliation than from some of the country’s leading indigenous elders? Walk for Reconciliation founder Chief Robert Joseph, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, writer Lee Maracle, and tireless advocate Joan Phillip will be at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at 8 p.m. on Friday (April 22) for an Earth Day summit. Expect an entertaining evening with CBC and APTN TV’s Lisa Charleyboy and comedian Ryan McMahon hosting the event. They’ll be joined by 2014 Juno winner George Leach and the Children of Takaya dancers. Tickets are $19 and $39 and can be obtained through www.ticketstonight.ca/ or by phone (with additional fees) at 604-6842787 or toll-free at 1-877-840-0457. Children and youths may attend for free. Proceeds from Voices of Elders will support Coast Salish youth programs of the Tsleil-Waututh, Kwi Awt Stelmexw, and Coast Salish Cultural Network. For more information, visit www.kwiawtstelmexw. com/event/earth-day-2016/.

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Zero-waste diner devoted to community

t a neighbourhood diner in Vancouver, everything must go at the end of the day. Starting at 5 o’clock, anyone can walk in for a complimentary meal at Lupii Café. “You can eat so I don’t have to put any of the food that I’ve made fresh for today into the landfi ll,” says restaurant owner Lisa Papania. Lupii Café opened almost a year ago in Champlain Heights, on the southeast side of the city, as a zerowaste restaurant focused on serving the neighbourhood. The environment and community are important for Papania. These are concepts she talks about Lisa Papania, an SFU lecturer who teaches students about waste reduction, puts as a lecturer on marketing and theory into practice at her sustainability-oriented Lupii Café. Carlito Pablo photo. entrepreneurship at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. Throughout the day, it offers a buffet Papania said that she made enough “There’s no real importance for of vegetarian dishes and dessert, plus food for a hundred people. “We never people to take care of the Earth if they coffee, tea, and hot chocolate, all for know how many people are going to be don’t really care about the people who $5 per guest. coming through the café at any point are living on the Earth,” she said. When the Georgia Straight visited in time,” she said, “and because my According to Papania, protecting the diner at 7743 Champlain Crescent mandate is to not have any waste, at the environment on April 14, there the end of the day, I want people in this and creating viwas a pot of pea- neighbourhood to be able to eat.” Earlier in the morning, one of the brant and healthy nut curry with communities chickpeas. An- café’s employees, Carrie Cassidy, hosted Carlito Pablo should go together. other had cauli- her regular Thursday neighbourhood In its daily operations, Lupii Café flower with jalapeño. A third crock drop-in for moms with young kids. embodies the fusion of environmen- had lentils and pasta. There was a big And every Wednesday, Alan Wong, tal and social sustainability at the bowl of eggs with cheese. Also avail- former manager of Champlain Video, grassroots level. On the community able were two kinds of yogurt, bread, which used to operate at the café’s curside, the establishment prepares food cookies, smoothies, hot drinks, and rent spot, does his homework club to help kids with their school lessons. at a price that many can afford. fresh fruit.

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Since the restaurant opened last May, Lupii Café has been hosting free monthly community dinners. For its coffee and chocolate, the restaurant buys from East Van Roasters, a social enterprise. The supplier employs residents of the Rainier Hotel, a Vancouver Downtown Eastside housing facility that supports women recovering from alcohol and drug addictions. Papania and her husband, Daniel, do not take compensation from the café revenues. Daniel teaches management-information systems at UBC and is working on his doctoral degree. They employ local people at above-average wages. Through food and community events, Lupii Café aims to connect people. According to Papania, if people know each other they will likely take more responsibility for the things they do. “One of the things that I’ve always found is that people go, ‘It’s just me. It’s just me throwing my piece of garbage away,’ ” she said, using recycling as an example. “And if everyone is ‘just me’, and if you’ve got a billion people acting the same way, it’s destructive.” As an academic, Papania teaches her SFU students about the value of reducing waste. She takes them to the landfill to recover wood and other materials that they use to make new objects.

At Lupii Café, nothing goes to waste. There are no disposable cups, cutlery, or napkins. Clients can take out coffee in mason jars with a returnable deposit of $2. The food counter, tables, and chairs are made of reclaimed wood. Fruit and vegetable scraps are taken to a nearby farm in Burnaby and fed to animals. Coffee grounds and other byproducts are composted. “The things that I teach and the things that I have been researching have always been about how we start to make better things, [and] how we make better choices,” Papania said. The SFU lecturer noted that, generally, changing people’s behaviour is not easy. “We have so many cultural habits around taking more food than we need, buying more food than we need, [and] buying food that we don’t need and wasting it,” she said. Papania, her husband, and their young daughter are long-time residents in Champlain Heights. She said that opening Lupii Café has made them closer to their neighbours. According to her, many community members have embraced the model of sustainability embodied by the café, and this has given her faith in the capacity of humankind to take care of its people and the planet. “If we do this more,” Papania said, “I think there is an opportunity to change the way we live.” -

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Meal ticket FISHERMAN AND FORAGER La Pentola (350 Davie Street) will be hosting its Family Supper Series this Sunday (April 24) at 6 p.m. This month’s dinner will showcase Italian fare, featuring local seafood and foraged vegetables. Inspired by the spring weather, chef Travis McCord has created an eight-course meal ($65) using fresh fish, morels, and handmade pastas. Guests will indulge in dishes such as albacore-tuna crudo, broccoli purée and mussels, grilled octopus, saffron risotto with spot prawns, and a surprise dessert. Diners will also have the option to pair their supper with sparkling wine and Champagne for an additional $45. Reservations can be made by calling 604-642-0557. -

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SAI WOO (158 East Pender Street) A dismantled baklava with pistachio mousse, toasted nuts, honey rose pearls, and phyllo chip.

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HAWKSWORTH (801 West Georgia Street) An interpretation of a lemon tart made with lime crémeux, pistachio tea cake, lemon balm, vanilla Chantilly, and blackberry.

MOSQUITO (32 Water Street) A broken peanutbutter-and-milk-chocolate bar combined with caramelized-banana-and-popcorn gelato.

L’ABATTOIR (217 Carrall Street) A deconstructed buckwheat cake with buttermilk meringue, dark malt ice cream, and graham-cracker crumble.

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here’s another alternative frozen dessert in the city, this time an unconventional type of gelato. Renowned downtown Vancouver gelato shop Bella Gelateria is now offering a new line of gelato—gelato di bufala—made from locally produced water-buffalo milk. “I always dreamt of what waterbuffalo milk would taste like in gelato,” said James Coleridge, gelato maker and owner of Bella Gelateria, in a phone interview with the Georgia Straight. Coleridge’s research led to the creation of buffalo-milk gelato, offered in four flavours: lemon, chocolate, fior di latte (“flower of milk”), and white coffee. Water-buffalo milk tastes rich and creamy and in some ways is a healthier alternative to cow’s milk: buffalo milk has 37 percent more iron, 58 percent more calcium, and 40 percent more protein. It does have significantly more fat, however. It also contains 43 percent less cholesterol, less sodium, and more vitamin A. “We’re giving people an option to have healthier gelato. It’s silky, velvety, and a completely different experience,” Coleridge said. “There’s no eggs, no cream, and no refined white sugar in it. That’s very different from the ice cream you find in the market.”

think it’s safe to say that spring has TOWNSHIP 7 2015 MUSCAT officially sprung, which means a ($17.97, Wine Club Exclusive at www. host of new releases are heading township7.com/) I guess I have a thing from B.C. wine country to the for Muscats made by female Naramata city. This week, let’s keep things light winemakers. This time around, we and breezy for the season, with a trio have Mary McDermott’s take on the of charming dry Muscats from Nara- grape, sourced from the Rock Pocket We know what you’re wondering: mata wineries, along with a couple of Vineyard in North Oliver. This would be the zippiest of the three mentioned why haven’t Vancouverites been pinks for extra cheer. this week, with lemon-blossom, exposed to buffalo milk? Buffalo milk is not only produced HILLSIDE 2015 MUSCAT OTTONEL lemon-zest, and lime-leaf characterin limited quantities, it is also much ($21.73, www.hillsidewinery.ca/) I’ve istics bursting out of the glass. The more expensive, at $15 per four litres. been a fan of Hillside’s Muscat Ottonel first few sips are akin to biting into the freshest, crunchi“Most of the water-buffalo milk for as long as est Granny Smith made in B.C. is made into buffalo I can remember, apple you can mozzarella,” Coleridge explained. and winemaker find, with heaps “It’s used in the best pizza shops in Kathy Malone has Kurtis Kolt delivered yet again. of mouthwatering Vancouver.” The gelato maker described how From vines planted as far back as 1984 acidity. A nip of fresh ginger and the relative inaccessibility of buffalo comes this lively white with intoxi- white pepper on the finish acts as an milk has prevented most Vancouver- cating aromas of apple blossom and exclamation point to it all. Although ites from hearing about or tasting it. grilled grapefruit swirling out of the this is a wine-club exclusive, what a But that isn’t the case for people from glass, leading to Asian pear and lem- fun club to be a part of! Otherwise, other countries. “People from India, onade notes on the palate, with a touch it’s occasionally sold at the winery Italy, and other cultures have tried it. of yellow plum. Superclean and fresh; on special occasions. If I were still a Those cultures are so excited about serve it with a good chill, preferably on restaurant sommelier, I’d be begging a picnic blanket in the sun. to nab a case or two for a summery, it,” Coleridge said. by-the-glass pour. With local seafood They aren’t the only ones excited about the new gelato: other Vancou- JOIEFARM 2015 MUSCAT ($23, and in-season produce, this wine will verites are also happy and eager to www.joiefarm.com/) There was a time be an absolute gem. when the entire run of JoieFarm’s try it, according to Coleridge. “The adventurous and health- tiny production of Muscat would be TANTALUS VINEYARDS 2015 conscious people are most excited snapped up (rightly so) by Vij’s Res- ROSÉ ($19.04, www.tantalus.ca/) Alabout it,” he said. “The response has taurant, but with fresh plantings of though 40 percent of this wine is made Moscato Giallo at JoieFarm’s estate from newer plantings of Pinot Noir, been overwhelmingly fun.” Don’t expect this new kind of gel- vineyard having occurred since then, what gives it most of its character is ato to fade away, because Coleridge they’re able to spread the love a little the balance of Pinot Meunier from intends to offer it long-term and con- more. Hooray for us! As always, wine- 30-year-old estate vines. That variety is maker Heidi Noble’s Muscat is quite what brings a good dose of aromatics, tinue to create more flavours. “I think there’s a trend across dry and light on its feet, with slight nuttiness, and a little spice to ChamNorth America for healthier frozen nods in flavour to Gewürztraminer pagne (where it’s commonly blended desserts,” Coleridge added. “This via elements of litchi and ginger, but with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir), water-buffalo milk is part [of that then circling back to classic Muscat and it certainly brings the goods here. trend], and I think Vancouver is notes of table grapes, stone fruit, and a On the nose, perfumed dark berry a great city to launch fresh water- kiss of honey. Needless to say, it works fruit and hints of Christmassy mulled wine are rather distinct, while the wonders with Indian cuisine. buffalo gelato.” -

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($15.99, www.montecreekranch. com/) The 2014 vintage was my first encounter with this winery situated in the extreme north of Okanagan wine country, close to Kamloops. It was also my first experience with Marquette, a grape variety that is a distant cousin of Pinot Noir. The pulp of the variety is pink, whereas the pulp of most red grapes is white, so there’s an extra richness here. I loved it then and I love it again with the 2015 edition. This ain’t a wimpy pink wine, either. It’s big, bold, and (kinda) boozy; there are buckets of stewed cherries and blueberries throughout, with some baking spices like clove and cardamom, and then a splash of spiced rum on the finish. This is a pink wine to drink in an old leather chair with taxidermy and wood panelling surrounding you. When we have those rainy summer days, and we know we will, this wine will knock it out of the park. This week’s wines are available winery-direct but are steadily popping up on private-wine-store shelves for a couple bucks more than winery pricing. Having trouble finding something? You can always hit me up about that, or anything else, via www.KurtisKolt.com/. -

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At this year’s Sound of Dragon Music Festival, the Ka Dao Yin ensemble will combine a zitherlike zheng, a sheng (mouth organ), a melodica, and a saxophone. Below left, Lan Tung (Nenad Stevanovic photo).

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interview from her East Vancouver home. “And, actually, I studied painting as well, from the same teacher. “I wasn’t as good as him,” she adds with a laugh, “and what I really wanted to do was to study the erhu.” Collaborations soar at this year’s fest, blending traditional This year’s festival isn’t the first time the Chinese instruments with everything from bagpipes to saxes Tung siblings have colThe biennial Sound of Dragon Music Fes- laborated: his paintings have often inspired tival is nominally about contemporary Chinese her compositions. But this time Li Tung will be music, but underpinning this is a strong subtext: painting live, on-stage, responding to the musiBY ALEX ANDER VAR T Y collaboration. The kind of collaboration, in fact, cians around him while they, in turn, will take that’s embodied by its founder and artistic direc- their cue from his visual output. tor, erhu (Chinese violin) virtuoso Lan Tung. “In improvised performance, where you hear Born in Taiwan and a Vancouver resident since the music and see the painting being made, the 1994, Tung has made trans-Pacific partner- influence is life,” Tung says, asked if there’s any ships a major part of her festival’s mandate. particular model for this kind of collaboration. Th is year’s guests are the four members of “So that automatically would be a big part, along her native country’s innovative ensemble with what the painter hears and what the musiKa Dao Yin—whose members play zheng cians see. And the musicians can also work from (a harplike zither), sheng (mouth organ), the movements he does, ’cause he works on a large piano, melodica, and saxophone—and scale. It’s not like he’s a painter doing it on a table their presence flags another Sound of or on an easel: he makes big brush strokes, so you Dragon principle: cross-pollination. Just can actually see the movement of the brush, see as Tung is comfortable playing traditional how he walks around the canvas. It’s very physicChinese classics, Silk Road fusion sounds al. And usually he has this very flowing quality, in (with the Orchid Ensemble and Lalun), or his use of the ink and the brush.” more improvisatory forms with Birds of Tung goes on to explain that interdisciplinary Paradox, her festival incorporates every- work is common in Taipei’s small, close-knit, and thing from free interplay to through- youthful arts underground. “From early on they composed scores. automatically mix genres,” she says. “Here, we This year, Sound of Dragon is also mostly have musical improvisers or dancers or themoving into interdisciplinary work by atre; they’re separate. But in Taiwan it’s all mixed.” bringing painting into the mix, thanks to the One of Sound of Dragon’s most radical prespresence of Tung’s brother Li, an acclaimed visual entations is on opening night—a program called artist based in Taipei. light shadow fire. For this, NOW Society impro“My brother, he’s two years older than me, so for visers Lisa Cay Miller (piano), Ron Samworth as long as I can remember he was studying paint- (guitar), and Clyde Reed (upright bass) will join ing, from very young,” Tung recalls in a telephone Ka Dao Yin’s Shih-Yang Lee (piano and melodica)

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and Klaus Bru (saxophone), plus Lan and Li Tung, for a night of spontaneous creation. Lee and the Tungs will also close the festival on Sunday (April 24) in conjunction with wildman pianist Paul Plimley, another Vancouver improviser with an international reputation. It’s a show that Lee, in particular, is excited about. “Improvisation always has this relationship between competition and cooperation with each other,” he says in a separate interview. “To play with a veteran musician like Paul is always a big learning experience for me. We have a saying: ‘The stronger one’s opponent is, the stronger one will become.’ ” Between these two poles, the festival encompasses everything from solo performances to bagpipe and suona (Chinese oboe) duets to an appearance by the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, performing mostly new works by Canadian composers. Another significant undertaking will be the debut of the Sound of Dragon Ensemble, an all-star troupe that Tung hopes will have a life beyond festival season. “We’re starting with a small ensemble to have a good core, and then we can look forward to different projects, bringing in different instruments and musicians,” Tung says, noting that she’s already assembled more than 30 original compositions for the new group, thanks to a well-received international call for scores. “It would be interesting to have an ensemble of all erhus, for instance! “We think of Sound of Dragon as a society that serves the whole community, not just a few musicians,” she adds. “So we should have the f lexibility to be able to involve different performers—and we’ll see how we can develop this flexibility in the future.” Based on what’s in store for Vancouver this weekend, the future looks very bright. Sound of Dragon takes place at the Western Front and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre from Thursday to Sunday (April 21 to 24).

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Editor’s choice FROM DARK TO LIGHT Talk about running the gamut of emotions. On the program of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s eclectic newmusic concert, you’ve got John Rea’s Accident (Tombeau de Grisey), a headspinner that alludes to everything from Aristotelian thinkers to Tristan und Isolde. It sits alongside Alice Ho’s moody Dark Waters and Jordan Nobles’s unearthly Equilibrium. But you’ll leave with a grin on your face after the program wraps with Judith Weir’s Musicians Wrestle Everywhere and Frederick Rzewski’s Les Moutons de Panurge. Conductor Gordon Gerrard rules over the roller-coaster ride. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Sublime to (Slightly) Silly at the Orpheum Annex on Sunday (April 24).

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THE SERIOUSNESS OF PLAY (At the Bill Reid Gallery from April 20 to October 2) Haida manga king Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s show finally opens.

THERE BE MONSTERS (At the York Theatre on April 24) Myth, magic, music, and sizzling spoken-word at the Verses fest.

GOOD PEOPLE (At the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to April 24) A smart show with sharp actors on a way-cool set.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (At the Massey Theatre to April 23) A rendition of the classic musical that’s well worth the trip to New West.

PAPER PORTRAIT PROJECT (At Pink Monkey Studios to April 23) Historic camera obscura and Talbotype are used to shoot contemporary peeps.

Guest pick SEAN PATTON Our guest choice this week is by Ross Dauk, voted best standup in the Straight’s 2015 Best of Vancouver readers’ survey. He hosts Jokes Please! every Thursday at Little Mountain Gallery. Here’s the act he’s looking forward to this week: “Oh, man, Sean Patton is one hilarious and dynamic comedian. When I worked with him a few years ago, each set he did felt unique, exciting, and like something really special. His act was a mix of great jokes and involved stories that were character-y, sometimes poignant, and always very funny. He’s doing more TV work now, which is great, but seeing him live is where the magic is.” Sean Patton is at the Comedy MIX from Thursday to Saturday (April 21 to 23).

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A lot of their work looks at patterns of the body, and if you look at the titles, some are about the idea of family. From the start, it was very important that we thought about families and who would use these sculptures.” MacLeod and Oksanen created a total of five pieces that are collectively titled Playtime. Grouped in an open area off Heather Street and West 30th Avenue, along the newly constructed Wellness Walkway—a 1.8-kilometre path that circles the property—the sculptures are part of the overall hospital improvements that are currently under way. “What it does is encourage people to get outside by providing a space and welcoming paths for a journey around campus,” Lee says. She adds that although Queen Elizabeth Park and VanDusen Botanical Garden are within walking distance of the hospital, they are often too far for sick patients and their families to get to. In addition to highlighting the new respite area, Playtime will play an important role in providing patients and neighbours of the hospital an engaging piece of contemporary art that children and adults alike are invited to interact with. According to the artists, each of the monochromatic, abstract sculptures embodies a different familial role. Oksanen says Two Figures in Orbit, the tallest of the five pieces that make up Playtime, is often referred to by her and MacLeod as the “sisters”. Another called The Family Man resembles a stationary seesaw, while Dryad creates an area for children to crawl into, not unlike the hollow space one might find at the base of an old tree. The four small, rounded sculptures comprised by The Magic Stones invite visitors to jump from one to the next as in hopscotch, while the dual spaces in The Musician resemble the finger holes of a trumpet. Made from glass fibre and

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Putting poetry in motion Just Words dancers find intricate ways to fit text into extreme physical movement > BY JA NET SM IT H

oetry and dance make beautiful partners, but actually speaking text while moving poses all kinds of logistical and emotional challenges. In dance, words can never be Just Words—though that is the title of Les Productions Figlio’s latest work by Serge Bennathan. Karissa Barry, who performs the trio with Hilary Maxwell and Bennathan himself, says her biggest challenge has been a solo in which she gives voice to Bennathan’s devastating poetry while moving through his choreography. “It’s a poem about being abandoned by someone you love and not knowing why. It’s really from the gut,” she tells the Straight over the phone on a brief break during a busy day of rehearsals. “I’m having to feel the movement first before I say it, instead of saying it and reacting to it. It’s a challenge not having the words dictate the movement.…I’m not projecting the way an actor would; I’m having to find that real place in myself. It’s a little scary.” For Barry and Maxwell, it’s all part of the adventure of collaborating with Bennathan, the French-born former artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers who has spent many of his subsequent years here—creating works from 2007’s theatrical The Invisible Life of Joseph Finch to last year’s autobiographical Monsieur Auburtin—investigating the space where the written word and the moving body can intersect. Maxwell describes Bennathan’s latest piece as a sort of journal of an artist’s life, encompassing his reflections, memories, and dreams. “Basically, it’s a tribute to dancers: love, artists, and the courageousness of dancers,” she explains

Hilary Maxwell, Serge Bennathan, and Karissa Barry. Michael Slobodian photo.

“It’s quite physical and speaking it [live] might have been difficult,” Maxwell allows, but adds the voiceover has an additional effect: “It also feels to me like an inner voice. I’m standing in space, then my poem starts to play and it’s like my thoughts are being expressed from my head and I start to move.” Working up to the physical extremes poses challenges for Barry too, who says Bennathan has found an intricate way to work words between the more gruelling thrusts and explosions of the choreography. “If I’m in extension with my upper body, my diaphragm is going to be raised. I have to drop it in order to project out, so I really have to time when I say things,” says Barry, explaining that in earlier, shorter versions of Just Words at last year’s Dancing on the Edge festival, Bennathan did all of the speaking as a sort of narrator. “He’s been really encouraging me to take my time to set it up and wait till I get my stamina.… He’s crafted it very smartly. We’re playing with finding those pockets of space to speak the text.” As language and movement become more and more integrated in Bennathan’s intense process, Barry is fascinated to see other boundaries blurring, too. “The movement itself, when we’re not speaking, is very aggressive and powerful and grounded in a lot of masculine energy,” she says. “But then what he’s speaking has such a feminine, sensitive quality. We’re digging deep. It’s quite a nice balance when the roles of gender kind of switch and at the end we all end up feeling the same. It’s not like this man and two women on-stage anymore.” -

over the phone. “It’s the beauty, the strength, the pain, the vulnerability: all the aspects that come into the life of a dancer. “I was thinking about the process and the beauty of working with Serge and his movement—and I experience this every time with him: it’s so physical and asks the body to reach these extremes, so there’s this physical depth to it, but it’s emotionally and intellectually challenging, too.” For Maxwell’s solo, Bennathan experiments with words and choreography in a different way than he does in Barry’s case: she has recorded his poetry in her own voice, and composer Bertrand Chénier has incorporated it with the musical score. But, again, Just Words is at the Firehall Arts Cenit’s never as simple as the movement tre from next Wednesday to Saturday (April 27 to 30). following the words in a literal way.

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To mark Vetta Chamber Music’s 30th anniversary, First Nations storyteller Rosemary Georgeson lends her voice to a new composition by Jeffrey Ryan.

New Seasons of the Sea blends story and sound > BY JA NET SM IT H

he creation of Seasons of the Sea began by White Rock’s Crescent Beach, amid a stone circle that depicts the 13 months of the Saanich First Nation calendar. On each of 13 rocks is inscribed what happens at that time of year: the time when the salmon head out to the ocean, or the time of storytelling when the sea is too dangerous to fish. In that place, while they took in the salty air and the grey November colours of the water and sky, composer Jeffrey Ryan, Sahtu Dene/Coast Salish storyteller Rosemary Georgeson, and Vetta Chamber Music violinist Joan Blackman reflected on their own experiences of living near the ocean and the way they each followed the changing seasons. From there, they embarked on a unique new work that interweaves storytelling, music, and profound ideas about this place and the forces that threaten our climate. Commissioned to mark Vetta’s 30th anniversary, Seasons of the Sea is a West Coast response to Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. It will join the early-18th-century masterpiece on an upcoming program, bridging cultures and centuries. Ryan tells the Straight over the phone that he was amazed at the synergy between him and Georgeson, despite their far-flung backgrounds. Ryan hails from southern Ontario and is a relative newcomer to the coast, having spent the last 13 years in Vancouver (where he’s made his mark as an award-winning composer for everyone from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to Kokoro Dance). Georgeson has deep roots on Galiano Island, where she grew up in a First Nations fishing family. “Rosemary would talk about what the weather was like at a certain time of year and the colour of the sea at a certain time of year. And I would think of English Bay: in the fall you get those windy days where the sea is very rough. At the foot of Davie Street you can actually see the fog roll up the street,” the composer of everything from symphonies to operas explains over the phone from his Vancouver home. “What she said makes me look at that in a bigger, deeper way. So we’re each having our take on the sea and what that’s like in the cycle of the year.” For her part, Georgeson says being Coast Salish and growing up on the water has made watching the seasons and the weather a way of life. “The first thing I do in the morning is open my blinds and look at the clouds and try to read them in the way my father taught me,” Georgeson, who served as aboriginal storyteller in residence at the Vancouver Public Library in 2014, tells the Straight in a separate phone interview. While considering the weather was second nature to her, listening to Vivaldi to prepare was new territory, she reveals with a laugh: “That I could relate to the seasons when I was listening to Vivaldi’s music—for me that’s strange, because I’m an old rock ’n’ roller. This is a very new world for me, but it’s been very, very interesting and fun to hear our connections. It was

kind of interesting, because Vivaldi’s seasons and what I think of as seasons—there were some similarities: the calmness, the intensity, the feel of the warm sunlight and the wind on your face.” The pair worked separately, Ryan on his violin concerto, Georgeson on her stories. Then, in mid-March, they joined with Blackman and spent three days of intensive work, figuring out how the words and music would intertwine. Rather than separating the piece simplistically into speaking and musical response, Georgeson and Ryan went for an aural tapestry. “There were honestly moments where we’d try something and then it would lock into place and we would just look at each other. It was a total goose-bumps moment and we’d say, ‘This is going to be so powerful for the audience,’ ” Ryan reveals with excitement. “It’s more than just my music and more than Rosemary’s stories—it’s more than just those parts. It’s been great to collaborate with someone in a completely different medium than I do.” The creative team felt that the natural season to start with would be what we call winter, a time when, as Georgeson remembers, her father was home from sea and told traditional stories to his family. The piece moves into spring, when the fishers get their boats ready. It carries through to the other seasons, but it also moves into a look at today—now that the weather and the sea are facing a more unpredictable future. “We can’t talk about just seasons without looking at things that are happening now,” Georgeson emphasizes. “We’re talking about a time when I remember the seasons being different. Forty or 50 years later, climate change has had an impact on our way of life as First Nations people. “I’m feeling the loss—the change of the fish and the weather. Look outside: this isn’t normal. We should be getting rain every day right now. If we’re going to collaborate right now and our two cultures are coming together, we need to acknowledge that this is happening and make sure both cultures are aware.” So Seasons of the Sea will flow between ancient and contemporary concerns. But are there any recognizable nods to Vivaldi? For one thing, Ryan will be writing a part for a harpsichord—for the first time—in this piece. He also reveals: “There are little gestures from the Vivaldi buried in my piece.…You may hear a fleeting moment where you say, ‘Oh! That sounds like Vivaldi through a contemporary lens.’ I suppose it’s a little game thing for me. “But that’s just a small part of it for me,” Ryan adds with emphasis. “What I want is for people to listen to this continuous journey of the traditional Salish year. I want people to just go along on that journey.” Vetta Chamber Music presents Seasons of the Sea and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons next Wednesday (April 27) at ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island and next Friday (April 29) at West Point Grey United Church.

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ly holds itself up. And yet there’s a kind of beauty in it. Playwright Joan MacLeod knows her way around a monologue: The Shape of a Girl, her most successful work, is a solo show. And The Valley, which is a four-character play, contains several monologues, as well as scenes. First, we hear from 18-year-old Connor, and his voice is charming. He tells us about having sex on grad night: he and his partner were on “the edge of the beach, the edge of the world, the edge of the universe”. But when a cop interrupts them, they hastily pull their clothes on. “You don’t need ID to sit on a fuckin’ beach” a defiant Connor and date say—to one another, long after the officer has left. So there’s loveliness and humour. In the play’s pivotal moment, Connor has a psychotic break at the Joyce SkyTrain station and a policeman named Dan wrestles him to the ground. Connor ends up with a broken jaw, and Connor’s mom, Sharon, accuses Dan of having used excessive force. The problem here is that he clearly hasn’t. We’ve seen the event, and, at least as the scene is staged here, it’s obvious that Sharon’s accusations are baseless. Without a credible conf lict to fuel it, Act 1 topples. It rights itself again—sort of— about halfway through Act 2. Dan’s wife, Janie, is a recovering coke addict who is experiencing postpartum depression that Dan would rather ignore. Janie recognizes Connor’s suicidal despair, so she visits him at his home. There are huge credibility problems with the wife of a cop visiting someone he arrested, and Janie only knows Connor from a book that he wrote when he was 15, so her visit is a stretch. Still, it makes a kind of emotional and poetic sense. In this scene, the two families cross paths as the hopes of one ascend while the hopes of the other crash. The empathy that Sharon and Dan find as they negotiate Act 2 is moving. Kerry Sandomirsky and Robert Salvador do reasonable work as Sharon and Dan. But Sandomirsky leans heavily into Sharon’s perkiness, which is already a bit of a cliché in the writing. “Do you know what I want you to do?” Connor asks his mom at one point. “Stop sucking up all the air in the room. I want you to stop breathing.” No kidding. It’s nice to get a more macho texture than we usually see from Salvador, but he is too obviously acting sometimes, showing us the character, as opposed to unselfconsciously inhabiting it. Daniel Doheny, on the other hand, is superb as Connor, subtle and responsive in every moment. And Pippa Mackie is solid as Janie. Under Mindy Parfitt’s direction, the physical production rocks. Amir Ofek’s set is a dramatic abstraction: a circular concrete-looking slab for the playing area with a huge wall that looks like the opening of a SkyTrain tunnel leaning ominously over it. Jamie Nesbitt’s projections are appropriately dizzying as they conjure Connor’s imaginary world, Vasalon. And Owen Belton’s sound and Itai Erdal’s lighting add to the sense that everyday events can be monumental. > COLIN THOMAS

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Kerry Sandomirsky plays mother to Daniel Doheny. Emily Cooper photo.

THE JUNGLE BOOK By Tracey Power. Lyrics by Tracey Power. “Monkey Song” and “Song of the Red Flower” by Tracey Power and Steve Charles. Additional music by Anton Lipovetsky. Directed by Kayla Dunbar. A Carousel Theatre production. At the Waterfront Theatre on Sunday, April 17. Continues until May 1

The six-year-old friend I took

2 to The Jungle Book has now

seen two plays. His verdict: “Go, Dog. Go! was better.” My pal and I saw both of these Carousel Theatre productions together and I agree with his assessment. Under Kayla Dunbar’s direction, The Jungle Book is beautiful to look at and well-performed, but Tracey Power’s script is boring, and so is most of the music. Power based her play on a handful of the stories from Rudyard Kipling’s collection, which is also called The Jungle Book. When his parents flee the forest after failing to trap a tiger, a boy named Mowgli is adopted by a pack of wolves. Baloo, who is a bear, and Bagheera, a panther, tutor Mowgli in the ways of the wild and try to protect him from Shere Khan, the tiger who was injured in the attempted entrapment and who now wants to kill Mowgli. The setup is charming. As conceived by Dunbar, the show opens in a playground. Shunned by two other kids, a boy buries his face in a book. Every time he starts to read, the other kids turn into monkeys. Finally, the boy dives into the imaginary world and soon becomes Mowgli. But first a tiny doll represents Mowgli, and it’s touching to see Baloo cradle the vulnerable little human in his arms. But the script doesn’t develop its relationships or its narrative very well. Shere Khan is never scary, so the story has no stakes. And many of the episodes, including one in which the monkeys chant endlessly about their superiority, fall flat. The Monkey King sings an Elvis-inspired song that looks like it’s supposed to be a barnburner, but the audience I was in remained unlit. Some of Carmen Alatorre’s costumes are witty: Mowgli’s adoptive wolf mother wears a wraparound coat with fur collar, for instance. But for some reason—perhaps because they’re not bold enough—Alatorre’s animal masks rarely come to life, despite the best efforts of the cast. That cast is excellent. Camille Legg, who is still a student at Studio 58, crosses gender to become an ebullient Mowgli. And Kyle Jespersen’s loping movement as Baloo is the best thing in the show. Leslie Dos Remedios, Karyn Mott, and Luc Roderique round out the skilled, confident ensemble. And Marshall McMahen’s set, which frames a schoolyard climbing structure with a storybook jungle, is handsome. But without a compelling story to hang on to, both my young friend and I got sleepy. > COLIN THOMAS

ARTS

Paul Wong wins big award

he Vancouver Art Gallery awarded multimedia maverick Paul Wong this year’s Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts during an April 19 ceremony at the law courts. As an artist and curator, Wong is known for pioneering early media art in Canada. His work has ranged from early video art tackling topics from sex to racism to more recent explorations of digital and social-media platforms. He is recognized for a rich and lasting creative career that has included founding several artist-run groups (including the Video In/VIVO Media Arts Centre and On Main Gallery), leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences, and public interventions since the 1970s. When asked about his initial reaction to the honour, Wong told the Straight: “‘Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!’ I was completely surprised. This represents four decades of working full on as an artist, doing the kind of work I love to do and doing it my way. It’s kind of a beautiful acknowledgment for what has been a wild ride of a career.” The fourteenth Audain Prize, valued at $30,000, is funded by the Audain Foundation and is awarded by an independent jury. The evening also celebrated two other individuals working in and advancing the field of visual arts in the city. Installation and photobased artist Kelly Lycan and photobased multimedia artist Raymond Boisjoly both received VIVA Awards, valued at $12,000, from the Jack and

Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts. Lycan’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. She is a member of Instant Coffee, a service-oriented artist collective. Boisjoly is an indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions across Canada as well as internationally as part of group shows. The VIVA Awards were created in 1988 to support midcareer artists.

BACH BRIGHTENS UP THE SUMMER As part of

its 2016-17 season, Early Music Vancouver has announced the launch of a Johann Sebastian Bach–themed summer festival. The Vancouver Bach Festival will run from August 2 to 12 and feature a collection of the German composer’s masterworks. Scheduled performances range from intimate chamber music to more monumental orchestral events. “We thought it would be a good test of the city’s interest and enthusiasm if we put on a Bach festival, because Bach is always popular. We want to see if there really is a market for that here,” said EMV executive and artistic director Matthew White. The festival is moving most of its programming from UBC to downtown at Christ Church Cathedral. “Our attempt is to get something a little larger-scale going again downtown, and something that more people can access,” White told the Straight.

Highlights of the summer program include Montreal’s Arion Baroque Orchestra and eight internationally renowned Bach specialists performing the composer’s Mass in B Minor, as well as Beiliang Zhu, who recently won the international Bach competition in Leipzig, performing the famed Cello Suites. The Bach festival kicks off a year of concerts hosted by the early-music organization. Highlights include Czech soprano Hana Blažiková with the world’s leading cornetto player, Bruce Dickey; Grammy-nominated violinist Monica Huggett and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra playing symphonies from Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a littleknown composer of African ancestry; and Toque of the Town, a theatrical celebration in tribute to the history of French gastronomy, involving an on-stage chef, two singers, an instrumental ensemble, and a tasting menu following the performance. The Vancouver Christmas tradition Festive Cantatas in December and an appearance by the Choir of King’s College Cambridge in March will take place at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Early Music Vancouver subscribers can attend any four Vancouver Bach Festival or 2016-17 season performances for the price of three. All subscriptions including more than four concerts also receive a 25-percent discount. Subscriptions are available by phone through the Chan Centre box office at 604-822-2697. > BRITTANY DUGGAN

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comedy that explores why some people manage to escape from the situations into which they are born and some don’t. To Apr 24, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

DEAD METAPHOR Chelsea Haberlin directs George F. Walker’s play about an ex-sniper who returns to Canada from Afghanistan and struggles to find work. To Apr 23, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.

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about one good mother whose sacrifice sets everyone’s lives on a new course. Warning: strong language. Apr 20-24, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-24.99, info www.pacific theatre.org/season/2015-2016-season-3/ secondstage/a-good-mother/.

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THE VALLEY The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Joan MacLeod’s play about the contradictory attempts to balance care and public safety. To May 7, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. DIRTY OLD WOMAN Play sees an older woman attempt to navigate the dangerous world of dating a younger man. To Apr 24, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/ dirty-old-woman/. PRIVATE LIVES The White Rock Players Club presents a play about a formerly married couple who meet at a hotel and

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THE JUNGLE BOOK Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a kid-friendly play about a boy who is raised in the jungle by wild animals. To May 1, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $18-35, info www.carousel theatre.ca/production/the-jungle-book/.

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MUSIC

Not that she can remember large swaths of it, BY MIKE US IN G ER

but Låpsley’s first Coachella experience was pretty grand, the English singer’s terror of performing live counterbalanced by the joy of soaking things up as a fan. When the 19-year-old star in waiting calls the Georgia Straight, she’s trying to piece the weekend together, including a live reception she never dreamed of, and craziness that started with a bottle of gin and a bottomless cup. “I didn’t drink as much last night, so I feel—not refreshed, but definitely better today than the other days,” the woman born Holly Lapsley Fletcher says with a laugh, on the line from Los Angeles the day after Coachella. “That first night, I was pouring gin into my glass—like, quadruple shots. Disgusting.” Having one’s name on the marquee at Coachella obviously has its advantages, including the gin finding its way into her dressing-room area. The singer has enjoyed volumes of British street-level buzz over the past couple of years, that getting her invited to the most celebrated of American megafestivals even before she’d released a full-length. She arrived at Coachella to discover that more than a few people have picked up her excellent debut album, Long Way Home, since its official release last month. “The show went well, and there were people there that knew the music,” Låpsley notes. “I was so surprised that people were so welcoming. To go on-stage was so scary—I didn’t realize that so many people would be there. And then suddenly there were all these people singing along, which was amazing.”

Låpsley lets listeners in

Låpsley’s frustration mounted as the photographer insisted on waiting until the singer was saying something before taking her picture. Every damn time.

Låpsley was raised on classical music and classic postpunk acts like the The fast-rising English singer makes a connection Smiths and Joy Division. (Her early Monday EP with fans by allowing herself to be vulnerable contains an acoustic glitchThe teen, who was raised in a town near Liver- pop reworking of New Order’s “Blue Monday”.) She pool, proves to be an interesting contradiction as an spent her early teens mesmerized by rave culture, interview subject, at once both serious and thought- that leading her to create bedroom songs on Garful but also prone to spontaneous laughter. For ageBand, going hard with block-rocking beats, then example, she cheekily notes that Coachella seems dialling things back. Låpsley originally relied on no shamefully overrun by kids who are there only be- one but herself, putting her songs up on Soundcloud, cause their parents ponied up a large amount of then catching the attention of BBC tastemakers. money for the tickets, but then adds she was happy “With any software, you can’t just go on it and exto wander the site and take in as much as possible. pect to instantly be a pro,” she argues. “It took me a “Obviously, I’m showing my age here, but every time while, but if I couldn’t figure something out I’d just I get to a festival it’s like a free ticket, and I really want YouTube it. I probably started writing songs to get to just ride the wave,” she says. “Like so many people away from doing revisions with my schoolwork—inmy age, I just want to experience all these festivals stead of clicking on a Word document I’d click on that I can because I am a punter as well as a per- GarageBand and tinker around.” former. I love to go out and watch other people play. Get past the technology, and Long Way Home is I probably enjoy that even more than performing.” a very human breakup record. Låpsley is upfront Consider that a sign that the singer seems ego- about how songs were inspired by the implosion less, which is refreshing, considering many project of a difficult relationship; do some Internet sleuthher to be the biggest thing since Adele, with whom ing, and you’ll discover that her ex had debilitating she shares a record label (XL Recordings). Despite OCD. Låpsley isn’t afraid to let listeners inside with comparisons to one of modern pop’s greatest success lyrics like “These are the times I suffer the most/ stories, she has more in common with the under- Night stretches to beyond the darkness” (“Heartstated likes of the xx on Long Way Home, which is less”) and “I’m counting down the seconds that we all about microchip-generated atmospherics. have/I can see the end is in sight at last” (“Hurt Me”). Working with XL’s in-house producer, Rodaidh The vulnerability she’s shown on Long Way Home McDonald, Låpsley fashioned a deeply personal has clearly helped the singer connect with fans. chillout album loaded with beautiful flourishes. “Everything has gone the way we’ve wanted it to “Tell Me the Truth” is built around regal synth in terms of exposure across the world,” she says. “At swells and manipulated vocals, while “Cliff” melds the same time, you have to accept the fact that more baroque church organs with percussion seemingly people are listening to you, and you’re going to get inspired by the sounds of the Amazon rainforest. asked questions that are really personal. If I was to Låpsley lets her inner soul sister run wild on ask you personal questions about some relationquiet 3 a.m. standouts like “Hurt Me”, but she’s also ship that you’d had, everyone would be really taken not shy about showcasing her inner experimental- aback. In some way, people think that artists are difist. Consider “Station”, where telltale heartbeats, ferent from other humans, but we’re definitely not. chopped-and-screwed vocals, and a muted synth “But shit’s still real, and you have to deal with it in line turn weird into sublimely wonderful. a way,” Låpsley goes on. “So the more interviews you

CHECK THIS OUT

THE SOUND OF SILENCE A new study shows that

over half of vinyl buyers never listen to the records they purchase, and seven percent don’t own a turntable. Presumably, they only listen to music downloaded illegally from the Pirate Bay.

PENICILLIN POP Members of Color Me Badd told

THE 1975 In a monumental understatement, the 1975 singer

Matthew Healy has described his band’s rise from grimy Manchester to Coachella-approved success as nothing less than a “delirious ascent”. However, the quartet’s rise has been anything but meteoric. Before hitting a nerve with its 2013 debut, the 1975 slogged it out for a decade under names ranging from Forever Enjoying Sex to Drive Like I Do. Somewhere, Healy and company learned to hit the sweet spot between golden-years Duran Duran and purple-clad-pervert Prince. After selling out the Vogue last time it came through town, the 1975 is now playing venues like the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, which it headlines on Wednesday (April 27). -

Låpsley plays Fortune Sound Club on Tuesday (April 26).

in + out

Låpsley sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.

On her Coachella nervousness: “It was because I’m from England and I’ve only been over here a couple of times. But it was nice—one of the owners of Coachella came up afterwards and said, ‘It was an amazing show.’ That was something I didn’t expect. And it gave me the boost I needed because I’m a long way from home.” On performing: “My response to nervousness is to just shush it to try and soften everything. I start to get really self-conscious about whatever I say. But I also know that people want to connect with a real person rather than just a personality. So I get that.” On Long Way Home’s back story: “I was trying to be honest. I always say if the events in the year had been different, maybe the album would be happier. I’m not saying the situation was shit. I’m saying that I was trying to make sense of the situation by exploring all the different sides of it. I find it difficult to write about things hypothetically. The record is about something that was very real.”

MUSIC Let’s talk about

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do, and the more shows you do, it gets easier. You learn to almost remove yourself from it, in a way, or you’ll constantly be sitting in that past place, and never ever move on. You have to be professional.” Unless you’re at Coachella, at which point there’s no shame in ripping it up. “I always seem to have a good rider despite being only 19,” she says with a laugh. “I seem to be lucky that way.” -

Entertainment Weekly that they’re on the I Love the ’90s tour to “show people that we still got it”. Given that the also-ran boy band is best remembered for “I Wanna Sex You Up”, we’re guessing the “it” in question is gonorrhea.

DOGG BITES Snoop Dogg has declared Canada to be a country where it’s okay to do heroin in Vancouver alleyways, but where border guards are “motherfuckers” who never pass up the chance to harass him. In other news, it will probably rain this November. BATTER UP Jack White is now making baseball bats,

thanks to his partnership in Warstic sporting goods. Jason Stollsteimer of the Von Bondies, meanwhile, has decided to enter the witness protection program.

Fresh and local SEX WITH STRANGERS SPACE IN TIME Sex With Strangers has always had newwave leanings, but the long-running band fully embraces its skinny-tie side on this four-song EP. Space in Time was produced by Jason Corbett, whose own band, Girlfriends and Boyfriends, is steeped in the sounds of the Cold War ’80s. The melodically atmospheric title track and the relentlessly bass-driven “Sand” are tailored for those who would argue that “Space Age Love Song” was A Flock of Seagulls’ finest hour. The more aggro “Momento” breaks with the pastel-blazer vibe for a distortion-strafed rocker about cockfighting. (Yes, really.) Rounding things out is the postpunk ballad “Nerves”, on which Hatch Benedict is in fine voice, sounding like a less brooding Paul Banks. Well, slightly less brooding. APRIL 21 – 28 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31

Arts time out

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DISCOVER DANCE! KAREN FLAMENCO The local dance ensemble combines the technical brilliance of flamenco with dramatic flair. Apr 21, 12-1 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $14/12, info www.thedancecentre.ca/events/ discover_dance2/. ARTS UMBRELLA DANCE COMPANY The Arts Umbrella Dance Company performs new works-in-progress by leading Canadian choreographers alongside guest artists the Helix Dance Company. Apr 24, 3:30 pm, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/10, info www.artsumbrella.com/events/. JUST WORDS Writer and choreographer Serge Bennathan confronts the duality of reality and dreams. Danced by Karissa Barry and Hilary Maxwell. Apr 27-30, 8 pm, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $23-33, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/ onstage/just-words/.

MUSIC 2THIS WEEK SOUND OF DRAGON MUSIC FESTIVAL Celebrate diverse, creative music with Chinese influences, performed by Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Borealis String Quartet, Orchid Ensemble, and guest artists from Taiwan. Apr 20-24, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). The event also runs at the Western Front. Tix $20-70, info www.soundofdragon.com/.

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BARRY SHIFFMAN AND JEANIE CHUNG Music in the Morning presents Barry Shiffman and Jeanie Chung in a performance of a piece by Rodney Sharmen. Apr 20-22, 10:30-11:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $35/33/16, info www.musicinthemorning.org/. MOZART AND SHAKESPEARE Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducts pianist Gilles Vonsattel and the VSO in a program of Shakespeare-inspired work by Mendelssohn and Walton, as well as music by Mozart and Schumann. Apr 22-23, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Event also runs Apr 25, 8 pm, at the Bell Performing Arts Centre, info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Violinist Erin James Wong, violist Tawnya Popoff, cellist Rebecca Wenham, and clarinetist Johanna Hauser perform chamber music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Crusell. Apr 24, 4 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Free admission, info www.sjcommunitysquare.org/events/.

straight choices

THE ART TOGETHER SHOW Second annual art show features original paintings created collaboratively by artists with and without developmental disabilities from the L’Arche Greater Vancouver community. Apr 22, 6-9 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Free admission, info www.larchevancouver.org/.

SUBLIME TO (SLIGHTLY) SILLY Gordon Gerrard leads the VSO in a program of John Rea’s Accident: Tombeau de Grisey, Alice Ping Yee Ho’s Dark Waters, Judith Weir’s Musicians Wrestle Everywhere, and Frederick Rzewski’s Les Moutons de Panurge. Apr 24, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

WILL’S WAKE Bard on the Beach presents a lively words-and-music tribute to William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death. Apr 23, 7-10 pm, Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre (162 W. 1st). Tix $39, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.

COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED CAROL BURNETT NorthWest Comedy and Just For Laughs present American comedian, actor, and author, who will share memorable clips and moments from her illustrious career and take questions from the audience. Jun 18, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2SEAN PATTON Apr 21-23 2PETE ZEDLACHER Apr 28-30 2MARK FORWARD May 5-7 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. 2JEFF ELLIOTT Apr 21-23 2RICHARD LETT Apr 28-30. 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; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow (every Thu, Fri, and Sat 7:30 pm). Apr 20-27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK ADAM CAROLLA American comedian, actor, radio personality, TV host, and author holds a live podcast taping of The

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improvisation in the context of new works by Lan Tung, Lisa Cay Miller, and Ron Samworth. Apr 21, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $15/10, info www.nowsoci ety.org/light-shadow-fire/.

GALLERIES ART EN MASSE This weekend’s second annual Parker Art Salon will bring more than 60 Vancouver artists together to showcase their work in a monumental space: the 152,000-square-foot warehouse-turned-gallery at 1000 Parker Street. Organizer Niina Chebry says the Parker art community— made up of more than 220 artists using the building’s 110 studios—sees the event as not just a sale but a way to interact with one another. “The exhibition takes place down the hall from the studios,” said Chebry. “We did this on purpose in the hopes of creating more of a spark between artists.” Artist demonstrations and studio tours will take place on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the main exhibit, small art pieces will be available for purchase ($200), with a portion of the proceeds going to DAREarts foundation for at-risk kids. Check out the free exhibit from Friday to Sunday (April 22 to April 24). Adam Carolla Show. Apr 22, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $38 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. DUNCAN TRUSSELL STAND UP COMEDY BUS TOUR American actor and standup comedian known for performing on Joe Rogan Questions Everything. Apr 27, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $22, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK INCITE: AN EXPLORATION OF BOOKS AND IDEAS Author Nick Bantock shares his latest novel, The Pharos Gate: Griffin & Sabine’s Lost Correspondence. Apr 21, 7:30-9 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. BRETT JOSEF GRUBISIC Local author launches his third novel, From Up River and for One Night Only, about a small-town new-wave band aiming for a New York career in the early ’80s. Apr 23, 7 pm, Mole Hill Co-op (laneway entrance between 1151

BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2THE ART OF SMALL THINGS (Meghann O’Brien takes materials from the natural world and transforms them into human expression) to Oct 2 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE (exhibition offers an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century) to Jun 12

Comox and Pendrell). Free admission, info www.blogs.ubc.ca/brettjgrubisic/.

MUSEUMS

THE REAL THING: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IAN MCTAGGART COWAN Environmentalist Briony Penn launches her new book about the life of Ian McTaggart Cowan, the scientist, naturalist, educator, and quiet activist. Apr 26, 6:30-8 pm, Banyen Books and Sound (3608 W. 4th). Free admission, info www.banyen.com/events/penn/.

MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER (major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real-estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about the cityscapes of the future) to May 15

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/. LIGHT SHADOW FIRE: TAIPEI LONDON VANCOUVER Program explores

THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017

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MUSIC

Wild Nothing stretches out in a big way Jack Tatum acknowledges that

2 he had lofty ambitions while

he was making the latest Wild Nothing album, Life of Pause. “I did consciously want this record to be bigger, and put a lot of effort into trying to make it bigger,” Tatum says when the Straight reaches him at home in Los Angeles. “I wanted to make a very traditional sort of studio record, like what, in my mind, I think of when I think about people making records in the ’70s or ’80s or something.” That’s a significant step forward for Wild Nothing, which started out seven years ago as Tatum’s solo bedroom-recording project. To make Life of Pause, he decamped to studios in Los Angeles and Stockholm with producer Thom Monahan, and recruited top-drawer talents like Peter, Bjorn and John drummer John Ericsson and Medicine guitarist Brad Laner. The result, true to Tatum’s vision, is Wild Nothing’s most expansive outing to date, and also its most sonically varied. Although the record’s reverbwashed melodies and ambient layering place it squarely in the category of dream pop, there’s a lot more going on, from the circling marimba patterns of “Reichpop” to the distressedguitar shoegazing tones of “Japanese Alice” and the sax-augmented cloud pop of “Whenever I”. Tatum admits there were times when he wondered if he was stretching out in too many directions. “I worried about it,” he says. “I even still worry about it, like, oh my God, was I insane to try to fit all this different stuff into one package? I don’t know. I had a lot of things that I wanted to try and I kept telling myself, ‘It’ll work out.’ I’ve always felt that even if you try and do all these things and make all these drastic changes, and think, like, ‘Oh my God this is going to be crazy; I’m trying this and I’m trying that,’ at the end of the day,

Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum can’t figure out why his houseplants are thriving but his Sea Monkeys have all died.

once you’ve got it all done, because it came out of you, it’s all going to make sense. I think that is true of this record. Obviously, I have a much different relationship with this record than anybody else. I’ve heard it all so many times and have been digesting it for much longer than anybody else, so maybe that’s why I’m the one who thinks it makes sense, and everyone else is like, ‘You know you’re insane.’ ” When the Straight calls Tatum, he’s in the midst of tour preparation, which in Wild Nothing’s case means working out how to render the lush studio sound of Life of Pause into something that people with instruments can perform live. “It’s tough,” says Tatum, whose touring band includes bassist Jeff Haley, guitarist Nathan Goodman,

and keyboardist Matt Kallman. “We’re in the process now of figuring out how all that is going to work. It’s always been kind of a challenge for us anyways. This record, obviously, is sort of its own thing, in a way, but my music has always been very atmospheric. It makes translating it into a live show something of a task. But it’s something that I’m used to. Every time I start recording a record, I’m like, ‘I should be thinking about how it’s going to sound later,’ but you just start going and you’re like, ‘Fuck it. All right, here’s a marimba all over this track.’ You know, you just do it because it’s what you want to do.”

Shredder Satriani is in a more melodic mood Joe Satriani has long been known

2 as one of the most technically

proficient rock guitarists around, a speedy fretburner and masterful creator of—to use the title of his 2002 album—Strange Beautiful Music. The beauty in his tunes has a lot to do with his ability to craft gorgeous melodies. You may recall the hubbub that ensued a few years back when Satriani sued Coldplay for allegedly ripping off one of his catchier works. And he hasn’t lost his talent for them > JOHN LUCAS since then, proof being his latest release, Shockwave Supernova. Wild Nothing plays the Biltmore “I tried to make it the most melodic Cabaret on Tuesday (April 26). thing I’ve ever put out,” explains Satch

on the line from a tour stop in Atlanta. “That was my quest since the beginning of making the record. I’d really worked with melodies on records past, but I just thought there was room to make ever bigger strides towards an ultramelodic electric-guitar record.” Satriani had a lot of help creating the melody-drenched music on Shockwave from the team that is also his current touring band—keyboardist-guitarist Mike Keneally (ex–Frank Zappa) and bassist Bryan Beller and drummer Marco Minnemann (rhythm section of the Aristocrats). “It’s really about their unique talent that they bring to every song,” he says. “You give ’em an idea and you see how it stimulates their creativity. For ‘If There Is No Heaven’ I told them a story that was about an ego having a crazy time in the early ’80s, and beginning to question what to make of life—if there is a god, if there is a heaven. “So the performance that Marco gave was very early-’80s—almost Stewart Copeland–ish. And I played the guitar with the chorusy, clean sound that was used a lot in that period. It all helped that these guys could be like musical shape-shifters, and really change depending on the direction that I gave them, ’cause their technique is endless. The cool thing is that they can really apply their personalities, which is what you want in the studio.” All the technique and personality in the world wouldn’t have made “If There Is No Heaven” nearly so stellar without the choice melody that Satriani infused, though. So does he wake up in the middle of the night with scores of melodies filling his head or what? “I’ve done that in the morning,” he replies. “Like, I’ve just gotten up with a song in my head that it feels like I’ve been dreaming about. But I think the key is listening to the see next page

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great music of the last 500 years and going back and looking at stuff that you’ve written and learning how to edit it. Generally, when you’re a player, you’ve got all these notes to write out a song, but the key is just using as few as possible. So you’ve got to learn to pore over your stuff and edit it down to its most essential.”

> STEVE NEWTON

Joe Satriani plays the newly rebranded Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock on Sunday (April 24).

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the Sun, which is funny because he seems like a man who might have his share of dark moments. Reached in a van travelling from Alberta to Vancouver, the charmingly laid-back singer doesn’t necessarily disagree with this assessment. “I definitely go through phases and mental struggles,” Kramer says, speaking on his cellphone. “At the time I was writing the record, I was having a lot of vivid and lucid night terrors. I’d have dreams of being around people I’d never been around before, and doing things that I never thought I’d do.” When it comes to sharing stories behind songs, many artists take the Fifth, arguing that revealing too much ruins the mystery. Kramer, on the other hand, is happy to pull back the curtain on For the Sun, which is scheduled for an April 29 release. “ ‘Gold and the Sea’, for example, was about a dream that I had where I was with this lady that I didn’t know and was following her as she fixated on finding something that was hidden,” he explains. “My perception was that she was looking for gold. She went crazy and I ended up holding her face underwater and drowning her. It was one of those weird and super-vivid dreams where you wake up and go ‘What the fuck just happened? What does this mean?’ And obviously, the first thing I do with things like that is to try and figure it out in songwriting.” Arriving on the heels of a wellreceived debut EP, For the Sun started coming together in Vancouver, Kramer writing songs during a challenging post-high-school move to Vancouver from his tiny hometown of Canmore, Alberta. “My graduating class was only 80 people,” he relates. “When you grow up in a small town and spend it all in one place you get pretty boxed in and it starts to feel claustrophobic. With the freedom of being done school and being able to travel, I decided to pack up my van and go. It was scary, as much as a naive action. I kind of got my ass kicked and it was harder to find a job and a place than I thought it would be. But things ended up working out. I believe if you work hard, good things happen.” That’s proven by For the Sun, where Kramer’s old-soul vocals are backed by woozy mellow-gold guitars one minute (“For the Sun”), and then muscular distortion and ominous synths the next (“Thin White Lies”). Produced by Victoria studio ace Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Dan Mangan), the record often recalls times when post-Lollapalooza oddballs like Grandaddy ruled the college-rock landscape and alt-country was at its folksy best. “A lot of the record revolves around daytime/nighttime, what happens in your unconscious state and my perception of that,” Kramer says. “A lot of the sounds reflect a kind of dreamy haziness, which was intentional.” Also intentional was making a record that was anything but dark, despite the dreams that inspired it. “A lot of the writing happened in the summer and spring,” Kramer reports. “I was experiencing my first real relationship, and I think that influenced the music, although not so much the words. So I’m glad that it sounds like a spring and summery

When he’s not returning to forever, Chick Corea likes to hide in the trees.

record, and not just because that’s when we’re releasing it.”

> MIKE USINGER

Layten Kramer plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Saturday (April 23).

Corea and Fleck make an unlikely collaborative duo A master of many genres, Ar“Chick” Corea started with Cab Calloway’s swing band, believe it or not, and was a piano-chair mainstay of the hard-bopping Blue Note label in the late 1960s. A pioneer of jazz fusion with Miles Davis and then with his own Return to Forever, he has since written orchestral works and soundtracks, and led various acoustic and electric bands with guitarist John McLaughlin and others. Along the way, Corea has also specialized in offbeat duets, repeatedly collaborating with vibes master Gary Burton, singer Bobby McFerrin, and even other pianists, including Herbie Hancock and Stefano Bollani. (Of 63 Grammy nominations, he has won 22, and five were for collaborations with Burton.) But the most unusual setting so far may be with Béla Fleck and his beyond-versatile banjo. “I’ve never been a big fan of the banjo,” admits the veteran pianist, calling from Austin, Texas. “And I’m still not! But I never think about the instrument; I think about the musician. I love working with Béla because he’s such a creative guy, and he’s fun to play with. The banjo isn’t really a chordal instrument, so there’s no conflict there, but he’s brilliant and we have a ball, so that’s the main thing.” The duo is getting ready to play a string of shows that will carry Corea, who’ll turn 75 next month, right through December. He didn’t go looking for someone to add fingerpicking techniques to his intricate pianisms. But Fleck has played everything from jazz fusion to J.S. Bach on his instrument, with his Flecktones or his banjo-plucking wife, Abigail Washburn. “Béla came after me,” Corea recalls. “He first introduced himself as a young fan, and now I’ve known him for decades.” (This the Massachusetts native pronounces idiosyncratically, as dee-cades.) “We met again at the Grammys a while back, when he was nominated for something with the Flecktones, and he invited me to play on his next record.” It turned out to be a natural fit, later resulting in the 2007 album The Enchantment, and a live, two-disc set dubbed Two, from last year. On the newer album, they chat about the songs, which include everything from folkish Fleck tunes to Corea classics, like “Armando’s Rhumba”, to old-timey jazz, as when the pianist makes like a wild Thelonious Monk on “Bugle Call Rag”. The whole thing is more like an ongoing conversation than formal concertizing. “We sent each other songs through the email, since we were both so busy travelling. And by the time we got into the studio for our first record, we really whipped it together in two or three days. It was a lot of fun and continues to be. Béla’s a very spontaneous guy and he can really go places, improvisationally. It’s also a challenge to me to work with the timbre of his instrument and make

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music out of it. Sometimes we play in unison, and that’s a nice effect.” Indeed. That way we get to hear their strings both hammered and plucked—which could be a good name for their next tour. > KEN EISNER

Chick Corea and Béla Fleck perform at the Orpheum on Friday (April 22).

Chicago’s Tortoise keeps its compositions tight Much of the music heard on new album, The Catastrophist, began life as a sonic portrait of Chicago—but it’s the band’s own identity that comes through the clearest. What eventually became the group’s seventh studio release grew out of a 2010 commission from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. The idea was to create a suite of songs that would link Chicago’s historic jazz underground, as exemplified by artists such as Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, to the indie-rock scene that, most notably, has given the world Wilco. Five pieces were duly created and performed with guest improvisers, but not readied for album release. Instead, Tortoise took those frameworks and then edited them so severely that, as guitarist Jeff Parker noted in an interview with Chicago magazine, “The songs are virtually unrecognizable.” Most bands write songs and then improvise on them. Taking improvisations and then making fixed compositions out of them is so far from standard practice, as John McEntire admits in a telephone interview from the Windy City, that it’s almost perverse. “Exactly,” says the keyboardist and percussionist, who’s also an acclaimed recording engineer. “I mean, we had pieces that were more openform, based on the nature of the group that we had at the time, which included the guests. They were more

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like head-and-solo arrangements, but when we got into the studio and decided to try to figure something out with them, that improvisational aspect didn’t carry over at all. “Except in very limited circumstances, we’re not really an improvising group,” he adds. “We’ve tried it, but with not much success. So when we’re working on something that we know is going to be recorded, we try to keep it pretty tight, compositionally.” One example might be McEntire’s own “Gesceap”, named after the Old English word for “shape”. Opening with wheezing, harmoniumlike keyboard arpeggios, it initially sounds like something from the early days of minimalist composition. (Steve Reich and Philip Glass are acknowledged influences on the band.) But once an attractively offkilter drum pattern enters the mix, it soon opens out into something bigger and bolder, with what sounds like a fuzzed-out six-string bass providing textural interest. Like Parker’s appropriately menacing “Shake Hands With Danger”, another album highlight, it finds the band sounding exceptionally

muscular—an impression undercut considerably by Yo La Tengo’s Georgia Hubley’s singing on the soft-focus “Yonder Blue”, and by a surreal version of David Essex’s yob anthem “Rock On”, with U.S. Maple’s Todd Rittman at the microphone. The latter sounds like it was knocked off as a studio lark, but McEntire begs to differ. “No,” he says definitively. “If it conveys that sense that’s great, but for that we used the original as a template and stuck pretty close to it. We didn’t try to rework the form or anything: we just tried to make the sounds our own, and added a few little tweaks here and there. But obviously, the real breakthrough was when we figured out that we needed Todd to sing on it.” Essex’s 1973 original climbed to the top of the pops worldwide. That’s probably not going to happen for Tortoise in 2016, but the band is clearly willing to try something different—as long as it doesn’t have to fly by the seat of its pants. > ALEXANDER VARTY

Tortoise plays the Imperial next Thursday (April 28).

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MOVIES REVIEWS THE JUNGLE BOOK Featuring the voice of Bill Murray. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 41

It says something about the technical wonders

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characters are more developed than the human one. The wildly visual adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories of Mowgli, the man-cub raised by wolves, hits a new milestone: digital animation that looks so real you forget it’s digitally animated. A sleek, glowing-yellow-eyed panther appears out of the shadows, speaking in Ben Kingsley’s plummy voice. A swaying savanna suddenly reveals a camouflaged, charging tiger. And a water truce brings out a parade of babbling crested porcupines, wrinkly rhino families, and jump-happy kangaroo mice.

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Brando shmando. Col. Kurtz has got nothing on The Jungle Book’s Apocalypse Now– inspired take on the ginormous orangutan King Louie in a monkey.-filled temple.

in outsourcing his previous employer out of existence, he makes a long-shot pilgrimDirector Jon Favreau scores big with his Jungle Book reboot; age to Saudi Arabia. There, he to sell some cutting-edge A Hologram for the King beams Tom Hanks into Saudi Arabia hopes teleconferencing technology to The result is a film that somehow mixes the old- the country’s imperious rulers. Hence the title. Of course, everything goes wrong from the start. school pleasures of watching Wild Kingdom with a fantasy jungle that has a more tactile, heightened And his team of eager young’uns is kept waiting for reality than anything in Avatar. Despite the perils of people who hardly ever show up, in a tent with dubigiving a beloved Disney chestnut a 21st-century re- ous AC and iffy Wi-Fi. In adapting Dave Eggers’s soul-searching novel boot, this really does bring a storybook to life—in a way that feels almost old-Hollywood-epic instead of of the same name, German writer-director Tim Tykwer has retained the postindustrial ennui and supercomputerized. The action-packed effects are awe-inducing, added other, more “relatable” features. Aside from but it’s the characters, which show Elf director Jon CGI effects that add nothing to the story, and heavyFavreau’s warm, eccentric touches, that make all handed exposition at the top (mostly of material of this work—and prove how far we’ve come since that’s eventually revealed anyway), there’s a signifiDr. Doolittle. What’s most amazing is how some of cant change in the love-interest demographic. Afthe big-name actors’ facial expressions seem to have ter failing to pick up generous offers from a sharpbeen absorbed into the minute movements of the witted Danish woman (The Duke of Burgundy’s animals they play. Driven out of his wolf pack by a excellent Sidse Babett Knudsen), Alan sets his sights vengeful, fire-scarred tiger (voiced by a memorably on a beautiful Saudi doctor, well played by Sarita menacing Idris Elba), Mowgli (Neel Sethi) takes up Choudhury. Good thing she’s rich. There are so with burly bear Baloo, whom Bill Murray turns into many obstacles to human happiness in the kingdom, a kind of lovable, grinning slacker. Scarlett Johan- even as softened here, that these people need all the sson is a python so sibilantly seductive that even help they can get. > KEN EISNER we’re surprised when she puts the squeeze on someone. And let’s not even give away the joys of watching a mammoth, Marlon Brando–like ape King BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT Louie lord it over an Apocalypse Now temple full of Starring Ice Cube. Rated PG. For showtimes, please monkey minions. (We’ll leave the voice a surprise.) see page 41 Amid all this, it’s perhaps no shock that newAs an actor for hire, Ice Cube lends his comer Sethi comes off as a little two-dimensional. memorable scowl to pictures that need a On the other hand, his very every-boy-ness may allow all of us to experience this majestic, immer- black man to look angry. As a producer under his Cube Vision aegis, Cube develops broad comedies sive adventure with such childlike wonder. > JANET SMITH veined with positive messages, and makes them franchises, because he also likes money. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING If the Ride Along series is his action spoof, Barbershop is his sitcom: virtually all of the action takes place Starring Tom Hanks. Rated PG. For showtimes, on a single set, a vintage haircutting joint in South Side please see page 41 Chicago, populated by a variety of continuously riffing In an only vaguely satisfying amalgamation of cutups like Cedric the Entertainer’s contrarian Eddie his roles in Charlie Wilson’s War, Bridge of Spies, and J.B. Smoove as the frenetically hustling One-Stop. It’s also Cube’s most political franchise. There’s and the Toy Story movies, Tom Hanks plays a failing, if determinedly optimistic, salesman trying to pull stuff going on under the jokes. While the first Barbershop dealt with family legacy and the second one last rabbit out of what used to be his Rolodex. Hanks is the aptly named Alan Clay, who has with gentrification, the third is about sex and crime. To make ends meet, Calvin (Cube) has dishape-shifted himself to meet changing times; now he’s starting to wonder if there are any more times to versified the shop with female staff and custombe had. Still smarting from a messy divorce and an ers, leading to jokes about gender and an illicit alcohol problem, and increasingly regretting his role f lirtation between coworkers Rashad and Draya

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STREET TRASH The so-called Disneyfication of New York had

just begun when Jim Muro made the gloriously tasteless Street Trash, in which NYC’s homeless population falls victim, in cartoonishly gory fashion, to some extremely bad liquor. Muro’s paean to a grittier Big Apple comes to this year’s Northwest Horror Show—at the Vancity Theatre from April 22 to 24—with Zombie, Cannibal Ferox, and Maniac among the other selections on offer from the boom years of grindhouse, with the latter followed by a Skype Q & A with indie auteur Bill Lustig. -

What to see and where to see it

KUNG FU HUSTLE Anyone dazzled by Stephen Chow’s megablockbuster The Mermaid might want to catch an earlier hit from the prodigiously inventive Chinese filmmaker. Behold the world’s most dangerous landlady at the Rio Theatre on Friday (April 22).

MICHAEL COLLINS Neil Jordan’s film

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FAN Starring Shah Rukh Khan. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 41

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by insulting his or her rivals. In turn, the stars often tacitly wield their fan base against others in the industry. Desis take their films very seriously. It is this complex and often toxic celebrity culture that is the focus of Maneesh Sharma’s Fan. The result is an insightful rumination on the codependency between idols and their devotees, disguised as a psychological thriller. Shah Rukh Khan plays a barely concealed version of himself as the aging megastar Aryan Khanna, whose long career has resulted in a legion of devoted fans. With the help of some facial prosthetics he also plays the obsessed Gaurav, whose young life has been an extended tribute act to the star. Thus, Khan is performing a twice-removed mimicry of himself. Gaurav wins a local talent competition by doing a montage of famous film scenes from Khan’s actual films. He takes his trophy and makes a “pilgrimage” to the star’s mansion in Mumbai. Gaurav believes his life of worship entitles him to a meeting. The story takes a twisted turn here as the delusional star-hunter pulls increasingly public stunts to get Aryan’s attention. What Gaurav is yet to learn is that his love is absolutely unrequited. While Aryan often proclaims his reliance on public adoration, it’s a ruse, a necessary illusion of intimacy. The film successfully explores the vulnerabilities see page 39

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(Common and Nicki Minaj). Meanwhile, Calvin and Rashad find their friendship and parenting skills coming under scrutiny, due to the trouble that their teenage sons are getting into at their school. The toughness, loyalty, and cash of the gang lifestyle is calling to the boys, and their dads feel helpless to prevent it. Is this a preachy movie? In some ways, yes. The Next Cut also feels stagey, talky, and sentimental, and none of those things is usually a compliment. But it also feels alive and true. Despite its grim plot hooks, the jokes mostly land. And as with Richard Linklater’s new movie, it’s super pleasant and comforting to be plunged into a group of people who don’t necessarily (or usually) agree, but who have each other’s backs. They’re friends.

Eyes on Ireland

biography of the Irish revolutionary leader was a high point for both the director and his star, Liam Neeson. Screening as part of its Ireland 2016 program, the 1996 release comes to the Cinematheque on Sunday (April 24).

HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT It’s a fundraiser for the Ancient Forest Alliance, but we’ll take any chance we can get to promo Sasha Snow’s challenging environmental doc about the felling of Haida Gwaii’s storied golden spruce. Screening at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday (April 26).

RYAN’S DAUGHTER The production on this 1970 film was fraught with problems and critics panned it upon release, but David Lean’s epic love story is still a wonder to behold on the big screen. Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, and John Mills—unrecognizable beneath punishing makeup—are the stars in front of the camera; cinematographer Freddie Young is the genius behind it. Ryan’s Daughter comes to the Cinematheque on Saturday (April 23) as part of its Ireland 2016: Centenary Film Programme. APRIL 21 – 28 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 37

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MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2THE SUBWAYS Apr 26 2STRIKER Apr 30 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22

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Bernard Fitzgerald, Dawn Pemberton, Ben Rogers, Billy Dixon, and Wes Mackie. Aug 6, doors 12 pm, show 1 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix on sale Apr 22, 12 pm, from $50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.burnaby bluesfestival.com/.

MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-5236888. 2GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Apr 21 2JOE SATRIANI Apr 24 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

BROODS New Zealand electropop duo tours in support of upcoming release Conscious, with guest Jarryd James. Aug 16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Apr 22, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. GWEN STEFANI American pop-rock singersongwriter performs on her This Is What the Truth Feels Like 2016 Tour, with guest Eve. Aug 25, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Apr 22, 10 am, $39.95-149.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ALICE COOPER American shock-rock singer-songwriter known for dark and horror-themed shows. Oct 19, doors 6:30 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Apr 22, 10 am, $99.50/75/45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TERRI CLARK Country singer-songwriter from Medicine Hat, Alberta, performs on her Back to My Roots Solo Acoustic Tour. Nov 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Apr 22, 10 am, $60/42.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

2THIS WEEK LUSH U.K. indie-pop band from the ‘90s performs on a reunion tour, with guests Tamaryn. Apr 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway [moved from Commodore Ballroom]). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS American boogie-blues singer-guitarist (“Bad to the Bone”). Apr 21-22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock (2080 United Blvd.). Tix $69.50/59.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.hardrockcasinovancouver.com. KALMAH Finnish death-metal band performs with Vesperia, Apprentice, and Mournir. Apr 21, 7 pm, Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards). Tix $60/25, info www.facebook.com/events/1658673861014211/. ARLO GUTHRIE American folk icon performs 1966 anthem “Alice’s Restaurant” in its entirety, as well as hits and fan favourites. Apr 21, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix from $52, info www.chancentre.com/. APRIL IN PARIS The Rogue Folk Club presents music by Van Django, Company B Jazz Band, Deanna Knight and the Hot Club of Mars, the Marc Atkinson Trio, and Black Gardenia. Apr 21-23, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24 per show, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/. VANCOUVER WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL The second annual event features music by artists from Mexico, Colombia, India, Brazil, Nicaragua, and British Columbia. Participating musicians include Son De Madera, En Canto, Roberto Lopez Project, Lapis, Ostwelve, Locarno, and East Van Marimba All Stars. Apr 22-23, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $45/25 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Zulu Records, and www.eventbrite.com/, info worldmusicfest.ca/. BEND SINISTER AND BOREAL SONS Vancouver prog-indie band coheadlines with Calgary art-rock band, with guest Dante Hadden. Apr 22, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www. ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1117767/.

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CHICK COREA AND BELA FLECK American jazz pianist-composer coheadlines with American jazz banjoist. Presented by Coastal Jazz. Apr 22, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $96/85/74 (plus service charge) at www. ticketfly.com/, info www.coastaljazz.ca/. MAEVE RECORDS SHOWCASE Intimate Productions presents Irish electronica acts Mano Le Tough and the Drifter, with guest MYTE. Apr 22, 10 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25/$30 at Beat Street, Zulu, Highlife, Red Cat Records, and www. ticketzone.com/, info www.facebook. com/events/1084449091618479/. RIHANNA Barbados-born R&B singersongwriter performs on her Anti World Tour, with guest Travis Scott. Apr 23, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $151/100.50/60.50/ 30.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SPACE JUNK David Bowie tribute band plays the legendary rocker’s Blackstar album in its entirety. Apr 23, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $12.50, info www.facebook.com/ events/1102556666462082/. YELAWOLF WITH FEFE American hiphop artist tours in support of latest release Love Story. Apr 23, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOE SATRIANI Bay Area guitar wizard performs tunes from latest album Shockwave Supernova. Apr 24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock (2080 United Blvd.). Tix $64.50/54.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www. hardrockcasinovancouver.com/. KINNIE STARR AND LEELA GILDAY Canadian alt-rock singer-songwriter coheadlines with Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter. Apr 24, 7:30 pm, The ACT Arts Centre (11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge). Info www.theactmapleridge.org/ act-presents/act-presents-series/kinniestarr-and-leela-gilday/. THE BIG PINK U.K. rock band tours in support of latest EP release Empire Underground and upcoming full-length release. Apr 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. LAPSLEY British ambient-electronica singer-songwriter tours in support of debut EP Understudy. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GIN WIGMORE New Zealand folk-rock singer-songwriter performs as part of her Willing to Die Tour, with guest Matthew Santos. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE SUBWAYS U.K. rock band tours in support of new self-titled album, with guests Pins and Fake Shark. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie).

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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 Toronto noise-rock duo performs with guests Eagles of Death Metal and Biblical. Apr 26, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. WILD NOTHING American pop musician tours in support of latest album Life of Pause, with guests Whitney. Apr 26, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JASON COLLETT Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Song and Dance Man, with guest Kalle Mattson. Apr 26, 7 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $17.50 (plus service charges and fees), info www.ticketfly. com/purchase/event/1081305/. HOT JAZZ JAM The Rossi Gang brings energy from the streets of New Orleans and transforms it into their own style of Nola hot jazz. Apr 26, 9:30 pm, The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). $12, info www.facebook. com/events/217094035321898/. THE 1975 British rock band tours in support of upcoming sophomore album I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, with guests the Japanese House and Wolf Alice. Apr 27, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Thunderbird Arena (6066 Thunderbird Blvd., UBC). Tix $49.50/45/35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JORDAN KLASSEN Vancouver folk-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of sophomore album Javelin, with guest Megan Bonnell. Apr 27, 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $14 (plus service charges and fees), info www.ticketfly. com/purchase/event/1095483/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS LEVITATION VANCOUVER The Reverberation Appreciation Society and Timbre Concerts present concerts in downtown Vancouver at Malkin Bowl, the Rickshaw Theatre, the Imperial, and the Cobalt. Performers include Flying Lotus, Tycho, the Growlers, Thee Oh Sees, Of Montreal, Fidlar, Allah-Las, White Lung, Hinds, Cherry Glazerr, Dead Ghosts, Boogarins, Louise Burns, Holy Fuck, Sunns, Summering, Night Beats, Morgan Delt, Holy Wave, Froth, Com Truise, Shaunic, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, and Dada Plan. Jun 16-18, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/.

CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778-379-0407. 2ROYCE DA 5’9” Apr 28 2BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY Apr 30 2ELLIPHANT May 7 2BREAKBOT May 28 2JMSN Jun 20 2JESSY LANZA Jun 21 2BAS Jun 23 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. 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. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 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 2THE BILTMORE CABARET EIGHT-YEAR ANNIVERSARY May 11 2CATE LE BON May 12 2DAMIEN JURADO May 14 2FMLYBND May 15 2BIG BLACK DELTA May 19 2THE TOURIST COMPANY May 26 2LA LUZ May 27 2TITUS ANDRONICUS May 28 2ISLANDS Jun 4 2KATHRYN CALDER & THE BURNING HELL Jun 25 2DAVID BAZAN Aug 28 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. CHARLES BAR 136 W. Cordova, 604-5688040. Gastown sports bar features nine-foot HD screen and DJs on weekend nights.

Wavy Fridays with DJs Seko & Marvel; Back & Forth Saturdays with rap, R&B, and club classics. Open Sun-Thu from 11:30 am to 1 am, Fri-Sat from 11:30 am to 3 am.

COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2DILLY DALLY Apr 23 2DAY WAVE Apr 30 2HAR MAR SUPERSTAR May 6 2THE PACK A.D. May 12 2JOSEPH ARTHUR May 21 2THE SO SO GLOS May 29 2ADIA VICTORIA Jun 12 2THE FLATLINERS Jun 16 2NORTHCOTE Jun 25 2YOU WON’T Jun 26 2WE ARE SCIENTISTS Jul 10 2MITSKI Jul 12 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 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 2TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Jun 23 2BIG WRECK Jul 22 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 254-40 Oct 8 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14

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DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2420 FESTIVAL Apr 20 2THE SOUND OF MUSIC FUNDRAISER Apr 21 2HAPPY ENDING FRIDAYS X SING SING OPEN BAR Apr 22 2LAPSLEY Apr 26 2BIG WILD May 7 2SMASH BOOM POW/OCEANOGRAPHERS May 13 2YOUNG EMPIRES May 19 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2POSITIVE VIBRATIONS Apr 21 2JASON COLLETT Apr 26 2SAID THE WHALE May 7 2ALBERTA CROSS May 14 2ART BERGMANN May 20 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT May 21 2KAKI KING Jun 6 FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). 2ELLEN DOTY Apr 28 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Apr 21 2TROLLBAND, DEAD ASYLUM, SCIMITAR Apr 22 2COCAINE MOUSTACHE, DRUNKEN SUPERHEROES, PRECIOUS DUDES Apr 23 2GUTTER DEMONS, HELLFIRE SPECIAL, STEADY TEDDY & THE A-TRAIN BABIES Apr 29 2REANIMATOR, THE GOLERS, W.M.D. Apr 30 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-8680494. 2SLOAN Apr 20 2MAKE A DATE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH ONE GIRL CAN Apr 21 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 2SAINT MOTEL May 22 2NOTHING BUT THIEVES May 25 2SAVAGES May 27 2YEASAYER May 28 2CHELSEA WOLFE May 29 2DIRTY RADIO Jun 3 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. 2RHYTHM ST. Apr 22 2HARPDOG BROWN Apr 23 2SONS OF THE HOE Apr 24 2WOODY JAMES Apr 29 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.

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 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 2SIGUR ROS Sep 18 2ALICE COOPER Oct 19 2IL DIVO Nov 6 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. 2JERICHO, HIGHLAND EYEWAY, THE JINS, CARTOON LIZARD Apr 22 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 AND PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2LA CHINGA May 13 2MOLOTOV CARAVAN 5 May 14 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 2DAGOBA Jun 11 2VOIVOD Jun 13 2ILL NIÑO Jun 15 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER LAUNCH PARTY Jun 16 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER Jun 17-18 2THE BLACK SEEDS Jun 24 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2PIGS Jul 29 2THROWING SHADE: LIVE PODCAST Aug 12 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. 2PAUL MCCARTNEY Apr 20 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 2GWEN STEFANI Aug 25 2DURAN DURAN Aug 28 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2APRIL IN PARIS: 10TH ANNUAL GYPSY JAZZ FESTIVAL Apr 21 2LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER Apr 30 2CALEB KLAUDER May 6 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2ANAMANAGUCHI Apr 21 2GHOST SHIP OCTAVIUS Apr 23 2GIN WIGMORE Apr 26 2ANTI-FLAG Apr 28 2NAPALM DEATH AND MELVINS May 2 2LEMAITRE May 5 2KATCHAFIRE May 7 2BIF NAKED May 12 2NADA SURF May 17 2AUTOLUX May 28 2PRONG May 29 2CHUCK RAGAN Jun 10 2LEFTOVER CRACK Jul 1 2SWANS Sep 6 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Nov 1 2SONATA ARCTICA Nov 28 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. 2BEACH HOUSE Apr 30 2SANTIGOLD May 12 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 2THE LEGENDARY DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND Jun 27 2JOE LOVANO CLASSIC QUARTET Jun 28 2GREGORY PORTER Jul 2 2JOHN PRINE Jul 9 2BROODS Aug 16 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2THING/PONG May 1 2THE EAST VAN BAZAAR: MOTHER’S DAY EDITION May 8

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of a Japanese crew likewise found in a garden more random than mysterious. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very long 82 minutes, but would be a lot shorter without the lingering cigarette shots. Well, the actors needed something to do while staring into the middle distance. If only the audience were so lucky.

and needs that animate both ends of this noxious and inherently unequal relationship. Through this film, the much hailed â&#x20AC;&#x153;King of Bollywoodâ&#x20AC;?, Shah Rukh Khan, chooses to smash > KEN EISNER the foundations of the celebrity culture of which he is the acknowledged monarch. This is a commendable HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS choice for him to make and it is fas- Starring Sally Field. Rated PG. For cinating to watch. showtimes, please see page 41

In recent years, there have been many fine docs and features on the fashion world and its deeply conflicted heroes, from Coco Chanel to Yves Saint Laurent. Despite, or perhaps due to, its narrow focus, The First Monday in May is a well-placed cut above most of them. The title refers to the annual fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Costume Institute, which recently morphed into the Anna Wintour Costume Center. The Manhattan event is micromanaged by Wintour herself, and the devil is certainly in the Prada-level details for the perennially bobbed Vogue editor. First Monday director Andrew Rossi, who also shot and edited much of the compellingly assembled 90-minute film, was given extraordinary access to the planning stages. But he focuses less on Wintour than on young Englishman Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest fashion extravaganzas. In designing China: Through the Looking Glass for the 2015 season, the appealingly self-deprecating Bolton is joined by famed Chinese film director Wong Kar-Wai, who accompanies him to Beijing, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re besieged by journalists and officials who challenge the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core cultural appropriations. Back home, designers like John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld comment on the upcoming program and its starry, starry night. As costume-centric Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, if you have to pay Rihanna $200,000 to dance on a tabletop, so be it!â&#x20AC;? Indeed, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you get at the gala. Attended by all the Clooneys, Hathaways, and Kardashians you could ever want to watch, Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big night is shot with such intimate detail, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel like you were thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;without having to worry about what to wear.

ing people who have never existed on this planet, and probably never will. Unfortunately, Hello, My Name Is Doris is not a sci-fi movie. Developing what started as a short, director Michael Showalter and screenwriter Laura Terruso come up with a kind of Harold and Maudeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; meetsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;The Intern story that really needed about three more passes in the script department. Field does her energetic best as

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eleased in 1970, I Drink Your Blood is one of the all-time great grindhouse movies for a bunch of good reasons, not the least of them being that it introduced Lynn Lowry to the world. Writer-director David Durston hired the willowy, exotic-looking young actor on the spot when she walked into his New York office, shoehorning an entirely new part into a film that had already been cast, and making Lowry’s character mute so he didn’t have to write new dialogue. “And he could kinda sneak me by Jerry Gross, who was the producer, and hope that Jerry wouldn’t notice that he added another actor that was getting paid,” Lowry tells the Straight, with a chuckle, in a call from her home in L.A. If it didn’t make her rich, Lowry’s career in the immediate wake of I Drink Your Blood was phenomenal nonetheless. In short order she worked with George Romero (The Crazies), Radley Metzger (Score), David Cronenberg (Shivers), and Jonathan Demme (Fighting Mad). Her short scene in Paul Schrader’s 1981 remake of Cat People remains the film’s most memorable five minutes. Amid all this, Lowry also took a dual role in Sugar Cookies, an ambitious drive-in feature that took on the dark side of an industry all too guilty of destroying its talent. For the most part, Lowry managed to avoid the harder edges of exploitation cinema. Indeed, it sounds like I Drink Your Blood was a blast behind the scenes. “I think I was unpacking my suitcase when the gaffer leaned out of his room across the hall with a joint in his hand, and said, ‘Hey, wanna toke?’ ” she recalls. “I’d never had grass or anything like that before.” On their off days, cast members would dabble in something a little heavier—an ironic side note to a film that drew

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specifically from contemporary fears about murderous, acid-gobbling hippie Satanists. “David told me once that he wrote it while he was on acid,” Lowry says. “And it kinda looks that way.” She agrees that it’s a much more playful film than its reputation might suggest. I Drink Your Blood received the first ever X rating for violence and it still retains some of its power to shock. A scene involving some skewered rats—with Lowry’s angelic face hovering inches from the roasting vermin—comes to mind. “I’m supposed to be a sort of stoned hippie girl, and a mute, so I might have had some marijuana before I did that scene,” Lowry offers. “I don’t remember! I mean, you just did it. They were dead, they were being barbecued, and that was it!” That precise attitude, she continues, explains the enduring appeal of her early filmography.

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“That’s the difference between film in the ’70s and film now,” says the actor, who re-entered the industry not long after cult-film distributor Grindhouse Releasing restored I Drink Your Blood in 2002. “There’s a realness about it. There’s just a dirty earthiness about those films. Now they have so much money when they do the remakes. They look clean and cool and there’s special effects, but it just doesn’t have that feel. And then nobody understands why the fans don’t like it as much as the original. It’s because the original cost, like, $150,000 and the remake of The Crazies cost $21 million. That’s the difference. That’s why.” I Drink Your Blood screens at the Vancity Theatre as part of the Northwest Horror Show on Saturday (April 23), with Lynn Lowry in attendance.

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NEW THIS WEEK THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY Andrew Bolton, John Galliano, Jean-Paul Gaultier are featured in director Andrew Rossi’s documentary. Rated PG. 90 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING Tom Hanks stars in Cloud Atlas writer-director Tom Tykwer’s drama about a failed American businessman who goes to Saudi Arabia to sell his idea to a wealthy monarch. Rated PG. 108 mins. Cinemas Marine Gateway and VIP, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas and Cineplex Park Theatre and others HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Sally Field, Max Greenfield, and Tyne Daly star in The Baxter writer-director Michael Showalter’s comedy about a 60-something woman who is inspired to romantically pursue her younger coworker. Rated PG. 90 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas and Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, and Charlize Theron star in director Cedric NicolasTroyan’s action-adventure flick about two warriors who get caught in a war between rival sisters and queens. Rated PG. 114 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Marine Gateway and VIP, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, Twilight Drive-In, and others THE PEOPLE GARDEN Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, and François Arnaud star in Hotel Congress writer-director Nadia Litz’s drama about a woman who travels to Japan to break up with her rock-star boyfriend. Rated PG. 80 mins. Vancity Theatre

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DOXA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Curated and juried festival comprised of public screenings, panel discussions, public forums, and educational programs. This year’s films include Aim for the Roses, Cameraperson, Pistol Shrimps, and League of Exotique Dancers. May 5-15, various Vancouver venues. Info www. doxafestival.ca/.

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> BY DAN SAVAGE

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BRUTAL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 14, 2016 WHERE: UBC

That the universe never allowed us an entry-point for acquainting. We won’t see each other again so I was thinking of the hail Mary pass - silently dropping my number as I left but you finished the exam before me. I’m writing this in karmic defiance of the dimension where we never speak for unknown and unwanted circumstance. You: look sexy in maroon. Piss-poor attendance. Smiled @ me today. 5’7? blonde hair, potential cause of a car crash. Me: deer in headlights, naive enough to post this.

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> HELP ME PLEASE

> REALLY INTO NOT GOING SOLO

“I had a sex addiction and didn’t know it”

• Affairs • Regular porn use • Constant thoughts of sex • Compulsive masturbation

him—but go get a ring (for him) and ask him to marry you (for fuck’s sake). You have the power to pop the question and call it at the same time. Good luck, I hope he says yes.

pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-butpossibly-premature fears for your health (let’s wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffi n, okay?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn’t your boyfriend, isn’t your husband, isn’t around much, and has told you he doesn’t respect you. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to come through for you during a health crisis—that guy couldn’t come through for you during a haircut. Don’t get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit, I’m a huge Peggy Lee fan (youtube.com/ watch?v=QBsEH9q63Uk/ ). But you can’t depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you’re seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers, and concentrate on getting healthy. And take comfort: if/when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who’ll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly, and—not coincidentally—get you off spectacularly. I’m sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I’m sorry you’re scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional, and sexual recovery. -

with his ability to connect with you sexually, asking permission to spend an evening with your VB could come as an unwelcome reminder. So you could make—as I’ve just made—an argument for sparing your husband the reminder and sparing yourself the discomfort by not telling and/or asking him and then discreetly meeting up with your VB just this once. (The counterargument is also easily made: he never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame; he didn’t want to distress you, et cetera.) But if you decide to meet your VB, ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off your kidney-dish list!), meet up with your VB in public first, and let someone know where you are and who you’re with on the big night.

straight stars April 21 to 27, 2016

full moon in Scorpio and Venus in strike-flint mode with Uranus makes for a lively, perhaps newsworthy, finish to the workweek. These transits aptly coincide with the lighting of the Olympic torch in Greece and the start of Passover, which begins on Saturday. Friday covers the gamut. It’s moneymaker or cash-it-in day. We are sure to see vibrant trends in the markets; folks are ready to spend. The transiting moon on chill with Neptune and Jupiter says eat, drink, and be merry. While there are lovely aspects supporting a weekend to satisfy the cravings of body, mind, or soul, when Scorpio and Uranus are in the mix, it is always wise to stay on alert. Both signatures keep the engine running on the hidden-from-view and/or the out-of-the-blue. Let’s hope the news is all good. Thanks to Venus/Uranus, there can be added edginess and impatience running in the background or upfront and centre. Destination-bound, Sunday/Monday are built for moving it and yourself along. Put it out in the open; travel, explore more. Tuesday/Wednesday offer the most productive stars for the rest of the month. Use these days to accomplish as much as you can. Apply yourself and you should get to someplace good. Have you finished your taxes yet? If you are still at it, don’t wait until the last minute! Mercury begins retrograde next Thursday, a transit that plays havoc with finances, relationships,

paperwork, schedules, and closing dates.

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timetables, Next Thursday could derail you.

ARIES

March 20–April 20

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CANCER

June 21–July 22

Thursday or Friday can springboard you into something fresh and unexpected or thrust what you already have on the go into a major race ahead. The Scorpio full moon can see passion, obsession, sex, or spending get the better of you. Venus in Aries is hot, hot, and ready. When inspiration strikes, take it by storm; jump at the chance, but don’t risk your safety.

A lucrative and empowering Scorpio full moon ends the week on the upswing. Something new could fire up and/or debut on the market. Take full advantage of the right here and right now. By next Thursday, Mercury will begin a threeweek retrograde cycle that could cause delay or added expense. Tuesday/Wednesday are your best days to get it signed, sealed, and delivered.

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TAURUS

April 20–May 21

That restlessness, impatience, or pent-up anger needs a healthy release. Go dancing; see an action movie; make love, not war. A new angle could help you get a lot further ahead with someone or something. Sunday/Monday can bring you to an end or a halt. Tuesday/Wednesday, stars are built for ease of accomplishment. Take care of business before Mercury turns retrograde.

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

Excitement is in the air Thursday/Friday. A stroke of genius, a block removed, someone new or something out of the blue could get it going for you. A fresh idea, project, brainstorm, or spontaneous moment could spark it too. Saturday through Monday is for clearing it away or working it out. Tuesday/ Wednesday keeps you on track.

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LIBRA

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SCORPIO

September 23–October 23

Venus/Uranus finishes the workweek on the upbeat and/ or starts your weekend early. Stay in the moment and ready for anything goes. Friday through Sunday is great for an escape or an adventure. Even if it is a bit of a grind, Monday gets you to a finish line. Tuesday/Wednesday, you’ll get a good handle on it. Next Thursday is a whole nother story. October 23–November 22

Freedom, a special event, or a quick jaunt out of town on your mind? An early end to the workweek is ideal. Check out sports, the local action, or what’s hot on the market; Venus/Uranus can kick-start something special. Saturday and Monday could add extra strain, pull, or push, but you should feel you have a good handle on it by midweek.

Looking for more work or a better solution? The Scorpio full moon could fire up something unexpected, place you at an advantage or on a fast mend. Of course, Venus/Uranus could produce an extra headache or expense, too. Even so, it appears you’ll get it handled well, especially when you put your creative or intuitive smarts into play. Past Monday, you’re over the hump.

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July 22–August 23

VIRGO

August 23–September 23

One thing hinges on another. Thursday’s full moon prompts deeper questioning and soul-searching. Something said, felt, or witnessed holds much deeper impact now. Perhaps it’s the fire-starter you need in order to take a much desired risk. Have courage but also know the deciding factor could be out of your hands. Timing is everything. Friday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are optimal for action.

SAGITTARIUS

November 22–December 21

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CAPRICORN

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AQUARIUS

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PISCES

December 21–January 20

The next few days could see you do a major, perhaps abrupt turnaround on someone or something. Thursday through Saturday, it pays to explore all options, to try a new approach, avenue, or product. Sunday/Monday, patience is on a short fuse. Tuesday/Wednesday, the Capricorn moon puts you in the driver’s seat. Take charge; get results. January 20–February 18

Seize opportunity. Revise as necessary or go for something altogether new. The Scorpio full moon sets the play in motion. Beyond an early start to the weekend, Venus/ Uranus can surprise you with something out of the blue. Past midday Monday, you’ll have a clearer sense of direction. Tuesday/Wednesday, time, effort, and patience are well spent. February 18–March 20

A set-yourself-free, getout-of-town weekend is ideal. Start early if you can. Even if you stick around, the Scorpio moon and Venus/Uranus keep the social, creative, moneymaking, or lust-making action on a perk-me-up. Monday is a switch-track day. Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are your most lucrative days. -

Thursday/Friday could produce an epiphany, a brainstorm, or a creative spark. An answer, solution, or opportunity can take on a life of its own. Friday night is good for romance, movies, music, or a getaway from it all. Sunday puts you on the go, but Monday could be somewhat miss Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s and hit. Midweek is productive. free monthly newsletter: www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. Put effort into it; get the result.

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