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t’s a busy time of the year for the executive director of the Vancouver International Marathon Society, Charlene Krepiakevich. That’s because this year’s BMO Vancouver Marathon, which she is overseeing, is a collection of six events involving more than 16,000 participants. It’s a remarkable rise from its humble beginnings in 1972, when only 32 runners crossed the finish line. “What’s unique about the BMO Vancouver Marathon is that we have multiple races going on at the same time,” Krepiakevich explained to the Georgia Straight by phone. “They’re basically separate races. They’re not duplicates.” On Sunday (May 1), marathoners and half-marathoners will both leave from Queen Elizabeth Park. But they’ll go in opposite directions before ending up at the same finish line on West Pender Street between Bute and Thurlow streets. According to Krepiakevich, the half-marathon runners will start appearing there around 8 a.m. The marathon runners won’t start showing up at the finish line until about 10:45 a.m. There’s also an eight-kilometre race starting in Stanley Park, and those runners will be at the West Pender Street finish line around 10 a.m. “It’s staggered so it’s not completely congested at the finish line,” she stated. There is also a relay race on Sunday, as well as a Saturday (April 30) kids’ run and a 2.5-kilometre walk. Last year’s winner of the women’s marathon, Ottawa’s Lioudmila Kortchaguina, will be back trying to defend her title. The 2012 women’s winner, North Vancouver’s Ellie Greenwood, is also in the race. Another strong competitor is Victoria resident Catrin Jones, who came third in the 2013 BMO Vancouver Marathon and who has two first-place finishes in the Victoria Marathon. Other elite runners in the women’s marathon are Sophia Liu of China, who won the Seattle Marathon in 2014 and 2015, and Hirut Guangul of Ethiopia, who placed second in last year’s BMO Vancouver Marathon. The man with the fastest time entering this year’s BMO Vancouver Marathon is Kenyan Jonathan Kipchirchir Chesoo, who won a marathon in Buenos Aires last year. He’ll be competing against Canadians Oliver Utting and Ryan Day, who came third in the 2012 BMO Vancouver Marathon. One of the favourites in the halfmarathon is Kenyan Paul Kimaiyo Kimugul, who won this competition in 2014. Krepiakevich said the elite runners will be competing for $40,000 in prize money. There’s a $1,000 bonus for the first male and female marathoners who beat the course record. The first male and female half-marathoners who beat the course record will each collect $500. “The citizens of Vancouver have embraced this race and realize that it’s a world-recognized sporting event, and it really generates a lot of economic value to the city,” Krepiakevich said. “This couldn’t happen without a whole army of about 4,000 volunteers.” -

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if Naked fondly recalls her initial set at the Town Pump. It was the early ’90s, a few years after she’d moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver to pursue a music career, and the former Gastown club was a prime venue. That night, she wore the dress from her first wedding, on which she’d scrawled a four-letter word that “if we were a little more British…would be very funny”. “The riot grrrl was coming out in me,” Naked says now, seated at her dining-room table. “It was a very serendipitous time in music. I guess every generation says that about their era. But the Town Pump—that and the Commodore, for me at those times in my life I never thought I would ever be good enough to play either of those rooms. “And to be able to not only play them, opening for my heroes, but to be able to headline, eventually, those rooms? I could have died happy. Really. It was just the dreams coming true all the time.” The city’s music scene is a backdrop in her newly published memoir, I, Bificus, which charts her trajectory from Beth Torbert, the adopted daughter of Christian missionaries in India, to Bif Naked, beloved Canadian rock star and social advocate, as famed for her warmth and courage as for her dynamic presence behind the mike. “Dodging death by violence, misadventure, cancer, and chronic heartache,” she writes on these pages, “I remain committed to this life of gratitude and total optimism because of my limitless sense of humour, my yoga practice, and my complete faith in humanity, still undaunted and unchanged. I love life and I love all the shenanigans it provides.” “It’s my nice little story,” she says to the Straight, “that hopefully honours my parents, honours my personal life—the history I’ve had—and hopefully touches on music enough that people know how I got from being a good kid to the punk-rock-shouting person that I am in my job.” The autobiography, which riffs on the title of her 1998 album I Bificus, better acquainted Naked, 44, with long-form narrative. (Despite having accumulated personal essays over the years in notebooks around her home, she remarks that her 1996

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spoken-word album, Okenspay Ordway I. (a.k.a. Things I Forgot to Tell Mommy), her favourite of her recordings, was pivotal to her creative development. “It’s just idiotic, but it’s so funny to me. And I think that that really is the first example, for me, of finding my voice as a writer.”) Naked’s prose, spirited and sincere, resists self-mythologizing. She describes growing up with parents who encouraged her interests and were unwavering in their love during her tumultuous adolescence and beyond. Covering customary terrain— her inadvertent start as a vocalist in several bands, her introduction to vegetarianism (Naked is a wellknown vegan), her encounters with misogyny, her tours as a solo act who engaged the public eye—she is also candid about hardships that include sexual assaults and her treatment for breast cancer shortly after beginning her ill-fated second marriage. “I could’ve kept writing it,” Naked says. “And that’s the problem with a memoir. I think that they just keep going until the day you croak.” Her willingness to be open here came from the assumption that “everything had been covered, and already uncovered, in my personal life through my lyrics. I don’t think that there was a deliberation particularly about any specific events, whether they were joyful events or traumas,” she says. “And plus, I had spent so long deliberately not carrying any shame, that weight of that

shame, so it never occurred to me that there was anything private.” Revealing herself in print was less daunting than in music. “I find it really difficult to sing songs that are emotionally poignant. I’m trying to learn some songs to add to the repertoire [for the book tour] that we’ve never performed, so that I can read the story and then have the relevant song to perform.” Already working on a new album (“We’re in the writing phases and that’s a fun place to be”), Naked is considering ideas for a sophomore book that would “go a little more deeply into cancer, and specifically things that are very pragmatic, subjectwise. I would like to talk further.” Reflecting on the past, at this point in her life and career, “I found that I was very changed in many of my perspectives,” she says. “I was extremely dramatic when I was 25 and 22 and a young performer. “There were things that are still important to me now as a female, and particularly a female artist, but at that time I was extremely sensitive and extremely impatient with society,” she says. “And now I look back at some of the ways I would express myself and it makes me laugh out loud.” Bif Naked appears along with poet Betsy Warland and author Carmen Aguirre at the next edition of the Vanco uver W riters Fes t’s Incite series, Wednesday (May 4) at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library.

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This Friday (April 29) is the deadline for illicit marijuana dispensaries to shut their doors or risk steep city fines and other disciplinary measures. The city estimates there are about 80 storefronts selling cannabis that will be affected by the order to close. By the Straight’s calculation, that means $10 million to $29 million could be forced back into Vancouver’s underground economy every month. “It’s an enormous amount,” said Jodie Emery, owner of Cannabis Culture and long-time advocate for drug-policy reform. “People have always found a way to find pot, whether it’s a corporate-looking storefront or a shady dealer in an alleyway. Which would the government prefer we have? By saying ‘We want to shut down these shops’, it’s saying the government prefers the alternative, and the alternative is shady street-level dealing.” The Straight’s estimate for unsanctioned sales begins with the conservative assumption that each storefront moves between one and three pounds of marijuana per day at an average price of $60 for a quarterounce. Those rough numbers (confirmed as realistic by several dispensary operators interviewed) were then multiplied to obtain sales per month. Annually, it equates to $114 million to $343 million that the city could return to the black market. Some operators guessed that the annual figure could be as high as $750 million (based on shops selling an average of five pounds per day in smaller amounts with higher profit margins). Emery suggested that marijuana dealers with a bricks-and-mortar location have an extra incentive to pay taxes on all of that money and keep operations aboveboard. She said that’s what the city is taking away.

when Vancouver adopted a legal framework for marijuana businesses in June 2015. In a telephone interview, Vision Vancouver councillor Kerry Jang defended the city’s decision to close many storefronts. “I think the money is already underground,” he said. Jang questioned how many dispensaries are paying the full amount of taxes they’re required to. “That’s why we are very supportive of legalization,” he said. “To get that money from the underground, to take out as much organized crime as we can, and to really have an account of what really goes through.” (The federal government plans to legalize recreational marijuana in the spring of 2017.) Jang noted that the city’s process will end with about 20 dispensaries. He argued that this number strikes a balance on accessibility. The president of the Canadian Association of Medicinal Cannabis Dispensaries, Dieter MacPherson, told the Straight by phone that a resurgence of a black market is an inevitabile result of supply and demand. “When these stores shut down and the market is pushed back into unregulated, nonstorefront businesses, then we see all sorts of additional risks,” he said. “So they may be doing themselves a disservice in the long run by limiting it to so few dispensaries.” > TRAVIS LUPICK

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East Cordova Street across from Oppenheimer Park since 2003. That building, a community centre run by the Portland Hotel Society, has served as a home base for some controversial harm-reduction programs. Those include an alcoholmaintenance program where alcoholics brew their own beer, as well as support groups for crack and meth users. By cutting the DURC’s funding, VCH will save $650,000 a year. In turn, VCH has awarded a contract worth $1 million annually to Lookout Emergency Aid Society for a “new mental health and substance use drop-in centre”. That’s actually for an expansion of services offered at 528 Powell Street, where Lookout has had a program called the LivingRoom since 1993. The new facility will run with expanded hours, 12 hours a day, seven days a week. VCH is also planning to open an addictions clinic with a drop-in component at a site farther east on Powell Street. A spokesperson said it was too early to provide details about that facility. The changes are part of Vancouver Coastal Health’s “Second Generation” strategy for the Downtown Eastside. In a telephone interview, Lookout’s executive director, Shayne Williams, said 528 Powell will operate with the Second Generation strategy’s emphasis on clinical services but will remain low-barrier and operate with peer involvement. “You’re going to see the same types of services offered [by the DURC] with a better focus on connection to care for specialized populations like mental health and addictions recovery,” Williams told the Straight. Some DURC harm-reduction programs will be discontinued, Williams acknowledged. But laundry, showers, and other hygiene services will be expanded. Williams also said it’s his

Marijuana-legalization advocate Jodie Emery says the City of Vancouver’s push to close pot shops will lead to more shady street-level dealing. Travis Lupick photo. hope that movie screenings and a karaoke night will transfer over. “We know that we’re going to have to be versatile, and we will work collaboratively with the community,” Williams said. > TRAVIS LUPICK

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Morgan’s twinned Trans Mountain pipeline that leads to Burrard Inlet. Both are opposed by the B.C. NDP. Alberta premier Rachel Notley supports the Trans Mountain expansion. Recently, she talked with members of Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet about the option of rerouting Northern Gateway to a different port in B.C.—Prince Rupert instead of Kitimat. Meanwhile, the federal Liberal government has refused to declare that Northern Gateway is dead, despite Trudeau’s election promise to establish a moratorium on crude-oil tanker traffic along B.C.’s northern coast. Premier Christy Clark is thought to be amenable to heavy-oil pipelines if Alberta buys hydro power produced by the province. All these, according to Dhaliwal, provide the B.C. NDP an opportunity. “There’s some ways to have ourselves weaned off fossil fuels and show a plan that will eventually have investments into alternative energies…,” Dhaliwal said. “and I believe that would be something [for] which people would like to see leadership.” > CARLITO PABLO

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magine owning a treasured piece of Vancouver’s history—and walking all over it. It’s a frownedupon deed that would likely get you a one-way ticket out of a prestigious art gallery, but it’s also the premise of an ongoing partnership between local shop Burritt Bros. Carpet and Floors and the Museum of Vancouver. “We have our own in-house collection, but the collaborations started because we wanted to be able to work with other Vancouverites,” says Ainsley Jones, rug designer and rugdepartment manager at Burritt, in a phone interview with the Straight, “and the Museum of Vancouver collection was sort of the kickoff to that.” Indeed, the long-standing “flooring fashion house” has established quite the reputation among the city’s design community for its art-oriented collabs, which include 11 painterly pieces with local artist Zoë Pawlak and an assembly of abstract rugs featuring the work of Vancouver photographer Beth Hall. However, it was in 2012, when Burritt was approached by MOV to craft a retail line inspired by the institution’s expansive wares, that the company began to pursue more joint efforts. The making of that first line led Burritt’s rug designers to MOV’s artifactstorage facility, where they scoured the gallery’s archives for items that would lend well to combinations of Himalayan wool, viscose, and Chinese silk. Of course, the pieces also had to look good at ground level. “For us, it’s more about what kind of makes sense for a rug and what has an artistic feel to it,” Jones says. The result is a six-piece collection of hand-knotted and hand-dyed Nepalese carpets emblazoned with emblems of a bygone Vancouver. A map illustrating the city’s car routes in 1935— originally acquired by the late collector

Peggy Imredy, the wife of Girl in a Wetsuit sculptor Elek Imredy—stretches across one rug; photographs of antique bus scrolls adorn two others. Rows of multicoloured seltzer bottles—most likely sourced from a number of beverage manufacturers that sprang up in Vancouver at the turn of the last century—are splashed atop one particularly bright piece, while the image of a plywood board taken from a Bay store window on Granville Street following 2011’s Stanley Cup riots—and inscribed with positive graffiti like “peace” and “plz have faith in this city”—is highlighted on another. These mats are made from photos of the civic antiques, which were digitally manipulated before being transferred to the loom. There is one rug, however, that uses the relics themselves: Jones and her team stamped various embossing seals—many of them employed by municipalities and nowdefunct local businesses through the ’90s—on paper, shading the stamps in with chalk before scanning and shifting the art onto natural fibers. “They actually used the artifacts, which isn’t something that would typically happen in a museum,” MOV curatorial associate Jillian Povarchook notes by phone, “but they were very robust pieces, so we were okay with it.” A portion of the proceeds from the rugs, which are available exclusively at the Burritt Bros. showroom (3594 Main Street), supports the Museum of Vancouver’s work in exhibiting and sharing the city’s rich history. Starting at $111.22 per square foot, the carpets don’t come cheap, but you could say that owning a small part of Vancouver’s past is a priceless opportunity. “It’s an awesome way to get pieces of our collection out into people’s homes and the world,” Povarchook says. “It’s just one other way that history can live on.” -

History comes alive in the Riot Board Rug, using graffiti that followed the 2011 Stanley Cup mayhem. Michael Young photo.

CRIB SHEET PINEAPPLE EXPRESS Add a glint of tropical glam to your space with an IRL iteration of the unofficial emoji of summer: the pineapple. Made from sturdy porcelain, these gleaming décor objects ($99) by Dutch label Pols Potten caught our eye on a recent trip to South Granville’s Goodge Place (1523 West 8th Avenue). It’ll look right at home on your desktop as you daydream of your next vacation spot. Use the shining gold as snazzy centrepiece amid a few potted plants; place the silver atop a stack of art books and knickknacks on your coffee table; or incorporate the matte black or white into a minimalist bookshelf display. > LUCY LAU

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f you’re not bringing your mom breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day, now’s the time to figure out where you’re going to take her for brunch. In fact, maybe just ditch the idea of delivering a tray of tea and toast altogether and make sure the day in her honour is done right. Here are just some of the options available, no matter what her dining style.

With panoramic views of False Creek. Ancora Waterfront Dining and Patio (1600 Howe Street) recently launched its brunch menu, which features dishes such as natural chicken and waff les with spiced syrup, avocado purée, house bacon, and botanical greens; then there’s the steelhead-trout Benny with corn bread, poached eggs, organic pea shoots, smoked GLOBAL MOM Aside from dim-sum spots hollandaise, and a smoked-paprika emuloffering their usual menus, there’s no shortage sion. Ancora’s executive chef, Ricardo Valof places offering brunch verde, injects West Coast fare that stretches far becuisine with Peruvian and yond the usual Benedicts. Japanese f lavours. Just Hotel Le Soleil’s Copper steps away from English Gail Johnson Chimney Restaurant (567 Bay is Beach Bay Café and Hornby Street) is fi ring up the tandoor oven Patio (1193 Denman Street), where Felix for items like a salad of tandoori chicken Zhou recently took over as executive chef and Brussels sprouts, as well as a Do Ranga (and where friends of mine recently caught Stacked Sandwich: tandoori chicken and ma- a glimpse of the Burrard Inlet whale). You sala lamb with an apple-pear-walnut dressing. can feel the ocean breeze in the bright room, Its Mother’s Day menu also features masala which will be serving up numbers like blackfish and chips and butter-chicken or lamb- truff le scramble and lingcod fish and chips. curry skillets, among other items. Sai Woo A bonus: mimosas are bottomless. (158 East Pender Street) is offering moms a complimentary mimosa to accompany dishes BEER-LOVING MOM Craft Beer Market (85 like congee, cashew pancakes with Szechuan West 1st Avenue) is putting on a buffet for peppercorn syrup, or a Benny with Chinese Mother’s Day. Look for a charcuterie station, a sausage and wilted greens on a scallion bis- carving station featuring roast beef with a Stcuit. At Minami (1118 Mainland Street), miso Ambroise Oatmeal Stout jus, craft macaroni soup and aburi sushi start off a set menu that and cheese, applewood-smoked bacon, Old also includes sake kasu miso sablefish, hatcho West Coast 7 Spice Chili, and more to go with miso boneless osso buco, and jasmine-tea tira- more than 100 beers on tap, from Four Winds’ Saison to Tree’s Thirsty Beaver Amber Ale. misu with strawberry-balsamic ice cream. VIEW-SEEKING MOM

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Hoping to treat your mother to a meal with a view? Ancora Waterfront Dining and Patio on False Creek now offers a brunch menu that varies from chicken and waffles to trout Benedict with corn bread. MUSICAL MOM Canadian Idol finalist Stephen Lecky, who uses a mix of tap shoes, guitar, loop pedal, saxophone, and flute, will be performing live at the Currents at Bayshore Restaurant (at the Westin Bayshore, 1601 Bayshore Drive).

Buffet highlights include superfoods salads, a carving station, a kids’ buffet table, and a chocolate fountain. At Ten Ten Tapas (1010 Beach Avenue), diners can indulge in chef Paul Stephen’s see next page

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Meal ticket BALLS FUNDRAISER Siena Restaurant (1485 West 12th Avenue) is offering a special “balls”-themed prix fixe menu until May 12 to support men’s cancer initiatives. The eatery will donate $7 from each sale of the three-course menu ($36) to the B.C. and Yukon division of the Canadian Cancer Society. Guests can choose from Mediterranean dishes, including prosciutto e meloni, lingcod croquettes, and braised-meatball spaghettini. As for dessert, expect to indulge in chocolate profiteroles with vanilla-bean Chantilly, raspberries, and candied mint. Recommendations for wine pairings to accompany each plate are also available. Reservations can be made online at www.eatsiena.com/. -

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ITALIABAKERY (104–2828 East Hastings Street) Treat her to a special Mother’s Day strawberry ganache cake or dark-chocolate strawberry cannoli.

TEMPER CHOCOLATE AND PASTRY (2409 Marine Drive, West Vancouver) Indulge in everything from raspberry tarts to classic cheesecake infused with Pineau des Charentes apéritif.

FAUBOURG (various locations) Try limitededition creations including a yellow heart-shaped macaron and an eloquent chocolate cup that resembles a flowerpot.

THIERRY CHOCOLATERIE PATISSERIE CAFÉ (1059 Alberni Street) Tasty treats include coconut crème brûlée and apricot financier, passionfruit cake, and vanilla-bean-coffee macaron.

BEAUCOUP BAKERY (2150 Fir Street) Surprise her with a Mother’s Day treat box with a mini brioche loaf, a seasonal rhubarb nest, and more.

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WINTER TREK Winter may be long gone—for now, anyway—but we love this fragrant concoction conjured up by the folks at Finlandia Vodka, a sweet blend of vodka with pear, lemon, and cranberry juices. A few drops of almond extract impart a fruit-punch quality reminiscent of the classic Five Alive mix you sipped during childhood. The cocktail was crafted in celebration of Finlandia’s new partnership with Protect Our Winters, an international organization that creates awareness of climate change by engaging snow athletes in the protection of winter tourism and sports. Find the recipe at www.straight.com/. -

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buffet while violinist Mark Ferris and harpist Janelle Nadeau play live. HUNGRY MOM Buffets are ideal for the hard-working mama who has built up an appetite and is seeking a feast. Glowbal (590 West Georgia Street) will be bringing back its 100-plus-item brunch buffet, with classics like eggs Benedict, carving and omelette stations, pastry tables, breads, artisanal cheeses, and more. Coast (1054 Alberni Street), which is also owned by the Glowbal Hospitality Group, is putting on a seafood extravaganza.

The Chill Bar features items like freshly shucked oysters, jumbo tiger prawns, snow and Dungeness crab, mussels and clams, and smoked fish, as well as made-onthe-spot sushi cones, rolls, and sashimi. Dockside Restaurant on Granville Island (1253 Johnston Street) will include slow-roasted prime rib, chilled mussels, smoked trout, peppered mackerel, and the resto’s famous chili squid. Several hotel restaurants are putting on big buffets, including Diva Coast’s seafood extravaganza includes at the Met, at the Metropolitan (645 a Chill Bar featuring fresh snow crab. Howe Street); Mosaic Grille, at the Hyatt Regency (655 Burrard Street); FOODIE MOM Is your mom the and Oceans 999, at the Pan Pacific type to follow food news religiously, obsess over what she’s going to make Vancouver (999 Canada Place).

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for dinner while she’s having breakfast, and consider cookbooks fine bedtime reading (not that there’s anything wrong with that)? Then chances are she’ll f lip when she finds out you’ve booked a table at one of the city’s top restaurants. Consider the tasting menu on offer at Bauhaus Restaurant (1 West Cordova Street). The four courses include white-asparagus soup and fresh halibut; à la carte brunch items will be available as well. Aside from its regular brunch offerings, Fable Kitchen (1944 West 4th Avenue) is creating a set menu that includes house-made banana bread, a choice of three mains, and a French toast “corner” to finish. At Hawksworth

Restaurant (801 West Georgia Street), options include brioche French toast, crispy halibut tempura with pickled ramps, and seared albacore tuna with calamari, flageolet beans, chorizo, and smoked carrot. The city’s most underrated restaurant, Mission Kitsilano (2042 West 4th Avenue), is now serving weekend brunch with a set menu that changes weekly. On Mother’s Day, expect rhubarb-and-thyme scones with house preserves; a French omelette with asparagus and fromage frais; a salad of heritage kale, cauliflower, and buckwheat in a green goddess dressing; tarte flambée; and housemade banana bread and seed bread with honey-birch butter. -

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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun takes on corporate bosses in his latest works (Amanda Siebert photo); below left, Night in a Salish Longhouse (Ken Mayer photo).

He credits the social when I make a painting,” he says in his artist’s activism of his Coast statement. “The symbolism transforms into A 40-year survey of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s work at the Salish father and Oka- landscape and other forms to create a vision.” nagan mother with The show’s subtitle, Unceded Territories, reMuseum of Anthropology tackles issues from racism to pipelines attuning him to the veals one of Yuxweluptun’s major preoccupations: fuel leaked from a cargo ship moored in English subjects that fuel his art and his beliefs. “They were what he sees as a profoundly flawed land-claims Bay. Relatively minor though that spill was, it involved in Native organizations in the early years, process in a province whose First Nations peoples fouled local beaches, birds, and marine life. so I grew up with it and normalized myself within had never negotiated treaties with the federal gov“There is no preparedness and she wants to an understanding of what life is for Native people,” ernment. “We’ve never surrendered anything,” he put more pipelines through?” he asks. “Ram he says, then adds, “This is a very racist country.” says. “Land claims mean that, once and for all, it down our throats?” Despite—or possibly He thinks reserves, which he describes as we have to extinguish our rights.” Then he because of—its biting and satirical mes- “internment camps”, should be aboladds, “They’re sitting around talking sage, the painting recently commanded ished, and says the Indian Act should millions? The land is worth trillions. Check out… $100,000 at a Vancouver Art Gallery fund- be called “the White Supremacy Act”. STRAIGHT.COM So why are our chiefs even talking to raising auction. Government officials may Yuxweluptun, who studied at the provincial government?” Visit our website not be attuned to his art, but collectors and the then Emily Carr College of Art Given the historic association of for morning-after curators certainly are. and Design, does not communicate reviews and local anthropology with colonialism, and arts news “Art remains a space of contestation,” his themes through “traditional” given Yuxweluptun’s past highly vocal MOA director Anthony Shelton writes in Northwest Coast First Nations art criticism of the Museum of AnthropolLawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Ter- forms such as masks and poles carved in ogy, which he used to call “the Morgue”, it’s ritories the catalogue to the exhibition. cedar, but through paintings in the European surprising that he has agreed to have a comprehenritories, Yuxweluptun’s work, Shelton continues, modernist tradition. He builds his two-dimen- sive exhibition there. He admits that attitudes have contests “the ongoing legacy and practice sional images out of indigenous design ele- changed—his and theirs. He also says that he has of colonial despoliation of unceded land ments such as ovoids and U-forms, employing reached a point in his career when he can exhibit at and resources in British Columbia, and brilliant, almost psychedelic colours, and sur- MOA without feeling compromised. “I never needparallel attempts to destroy the Indigen- mounting his human figures with masks be- ed to be validated by the institution,” he says. “If ous cultures of this place”. Yuxweluptun nign and ferocious, cunning and obtuse. His I do show there, they’re just validating themselves.” shrugs and says, “People always say I’m very polit- style has often been likened to surrealism but Still, he adds, “It is a strange thing to be a modernical, but this is just everyday life for Native people, he prefers to call it “visionism”. “The symbolic ist artist in an anthropological museum.” and for people from British Columbia.” forms are interchangeable, based on my needs see page 19

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Editor’s choice RETRO MASHUP They’re calling it a new art form: “the LiveAction Graphic Novel”. Whatever you want to brand it, we’re sure you’ve never seen anything quite like Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth. Unfolding like a 1930s radio play, the old-school adventure story features three live voice actors who stand in front of giant, projected retro-comic-book panels; a pianist who plays a live score; and fun sound effects from a Foley artist. The show’s garnered raves elsewhere, and it sounds like it’s the kind of mashup that’s going to appeal to everyone from your former Flash Gordon–fan granddad to space-age-obsessed little kids to hipster comic-book nerds. Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth is at the York Theatre on Saturday and Sunday (April 30 and May 1).

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CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT (At the Chan Centre on May 1) Arguably the most exciting voice on the international jazz scene today. Seriously.

PEP (PIANO & ERHU PROJECT) (At the Fox Cabaret on May 3) Corey Hamm and Nicole Li make mesmerizing music together.

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WORD CIRCUS (At the Havana Theatre on April 30) Spoken-word acrobatics explode at the Verses Festival.

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ITHAKA Our guest pick this week is by Maryanne Renzetti, co– artistic director at Staircase Theatre (which is hosting a clothing drive at the Toast Collective this Saturday [April 30], is accepting new-play submissions for Movin’ on Up, and is holding ongoing voice-over lessons). She’s also an arts publicist and the general manager of Monster Theatre. Here’s the show she’s psyched to see: “I’m looking forward to seeing Ithaka by Andrea Stolowitz at the Havana. It’s an intriguing piece about a U.S. marine who returns from a tour in Afghanistan with PTSD. It looks like an interesting script, and I am happy to see young and emerging theatre companies taking risks and putting themselves out there. We should support them!” (It stars Stefania Indelicato, shown here.) Ithaka is at the Havana Theatre from Tuesday (May 3) to May 14.

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pring is always a busy time in the world of wine, both in the vineyards and in the marketplace. The warm weather and longer, sunnier days are a bonus and seem to make the wine taste even better. This week, a little catch-up with some of the latest goings-on. It’s been quite a warm spring in the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys; bud break has happened in most vineyards, with shoots sprouting out from vines already reaching the four- or five-centimetre mark. This means the growing season is considered to be a couple of weeks “early” compared to the majority of previous vintages, although it was the identical scenario last year. Rachelle Goudreau gets how to serve Many in wine country are wonwine in glasses. Emrys Horton photo. dering if global warming has made early the new normal. Time will cer- Old Vines Riesling is full of apples, tainly tell. In the meantime, if things stone fruit, and well-balanced acidroll along relatively smoothly, the ity, with just a touch of sweetness on first grapes for things like sparkling the finish, and it’s on B.C. Liquor Store wines will be coming off the vines in shelves for $24.99. early August. Thibaut Marion, Domaine SeguinA little shuffling has been going Manuel’s owner-winemaker, was also on among Vancouver’s sommeliers, recently in Vancouver. Marion has too. As the Straight recently reported, been taking the winery, established in Chambar’s Jason Yamasaki, who was 1824, in a more natural, less intervenBritish Columbia’s tionist direction. 2015 sommelier We’re about to see of the year, has left a greater selection his gig as Chamin our market, but Kurtis Kolt bar’s wine direcfor now—if you’re tor, moving to the corporate wine- looking to splurge a little—the Dobuyer position at the Joey restaurants. maine Seguin-Manuel Les Lavières Stepping into his position at Chambar Savigny-lès-Beaune Premier Cru 2011 is Kieran Fanning, who has been pro- is a drop-dead gorgeous Pinot Noir moted from the assistant-sommelier from 45-year-old vines grown in alluvposition and, at 24 years old, is likely ial soils. It’s full of alpine forest aromatthe youngest guy with the biggest ics, bright red fruit, and a little white wine gig this town has seen in a long truffle on the finish. Find it at private time. He’s whip-smart, supermotiv- stores like Legacy Liquor Store in ated, charming, humble, and every- Olympic Village for just over 60 bucks. If you’re looking for one of the best thing else a guy or gal needs to be to knock it out of the park in a position by-the-glass wine selections in town, like this. We’re going to be hearing his Rachelle Goudreau’s wine program name a lot in coming years. The adat Provence Marinaside now boasts venturous spirit of the Chambar wine more than 140 wines by the glass, program shows no sign of slowing from an impressive B.C. selection on tap—which includes exclusives from down anytime soon. Speaking of Chambar, that’s the likes of Fairview Cellars in Oliwhere I recently had the pleasure of ver—to high-end wines like Domaine meeting Nik Weis—the owner of, Latour-Giraud Les Genevrières and winemaker for, Germany’s St. Meursault Premier Cru 2012 ($50 Urbans-Hof winery—when he was per glass). For wine fans, it’s like bepassing through town. The winery ing a kid in a candy store. Goudreau has a long history of propagating employs methods like the Coravin old genetic material from various system, which extracts wine from the active and dormant vineyard sites, bottle without allowing in oxygen, to salvaging many clones of Riesling ensure each and every glass served is that were in jeopardy of being lost as fresh as can be. Finally, who’s into a little road forever. “We’ve been creating a sort trip? It’s time once again for the of Noah’s ark for Riesling,” he said. In fact, cuttings from their nursery Okanagan Spring Wine Festival, have made their way all over the world, running from April 28 to May 8. You even to our own back yard. When you can dive into the early warm season enjoy a bottle of British Columbia’s in the Okanagan and attend everyTantalus or Sperling Vineyards “old thing from the big WestJet winetastvines” Riesling (and you should be doing (the walk-around grand-festivaling so regularly, by the way), that fruit style event) to the Best of Varietal comes from vines that came from St. wine-awards reception to a MothUrbans-Hof in the late 1970s. Do try er’s Day rosé brunch at Watermark some of the original stuff from Ger- Beach Resort. All the info you need many, though. St. Urbans-Hof 2014 is at thewinefestivals.com/. -

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Leaning against the east wall of Yuxweluptun’s studio is his most recent painting, an enormous work in progress depicting a Coast Salish spirit dance in a fire-lit longhouse. It records lived experience, he says, rather than something merely observed. As a young man, he was initiated as a Black Face dancer and a Sxwayxwey dancer, taking part in secretive rituals of which outsiders have little knowledge. “Spirit dancing has always been a big influence on my life,” he says. Still, this ambitious work is not only about Native spirituality but also about repudiating foreign religious beliefs, imposed by missionaries, ministers, and priests, often within the context of residential schools. “I’m not going to conform; I’m not going to be your good little Christian Indian,” he says. “I’m going to continue to sing in my longhouses and pray the way that I do.” Early in his life, he inherited the Salish name Yuxweluptun, meaning “Man Who Possesses Many Masks”.

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A couple of years ago, he took part in a ceremony in Chilliwack and acquired the name Let’lo:ts’teltun, meaning “Man of Many Colours”. “I had outgrown Yuxweluptun,” he says. “I’ve taken the name Let’lo:ts’teltun because I’ve changed as a person.” Not that he has relinquished any of the satirical energy or righteous anger that has characterized his career: his recent “SuperPredator Series”, depicting world leaders, corporate bosses, bankers, and the über-wealthy one percent, is as fierce as anything he has produced. His painting Fucking Creeps They’re Environmental Terrorists shows petroleum and pipeline executives standing thigh deep in the oil they are spewing. Still, reflecting on the evolution of his art, on the idea of visionism, on the nature of his unique style, he says, “I’ve been painting for 40 years, and you have to devote that much time to create, to think, to develop as an artist.” L a w r e n c e P a u l Yu x w e l u p t u n : Unceded Territories is at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC from May 10 to October 16.

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hey’re calling their concert Superimposition, but for at least one of the participants in this upcoming collaboration between the Turning Point Ensemble and the NU:BC Collective, it could just have as easily been titled Serendipity. That’s because composer John Oliver wasn’t even aware of the show’s concept when he began work on Cool Cut, a feature for alto saxophonist Julia Nolan that gets its premiere this weekend. The work began as a piece of nostalgic futurism, with Oliver remixing some of his late jazz-loving mother’s favourite tunes—including Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk”—using the Ableton Live computer app. Soon, though, it morphed into something more. “I was trying to create a new sound out of those old recordings,” Oliver explains in a telephone interview from his Vancouver home, “and then I thought, ‘Oh, wouldn’t this be a good basis for writing a piece for traditional instruments, with no electronics at all?’ “I call it a saxophone concerto in five tunes, because what I did was I took only the tunes, only the heads, of any of these tunes, and I was looking at…how I could mash them together and recombine them,” he adds. “I mean, the main interest in jazz is ‘Okay, the head’s done; let’s hear the improv.’ Well, there’s no improv in any of this: it’s all really focused right in on the tune structure and chord similarities and so on.” Oliver’s process of “decomposing” Cool Cut applies contemporary compositional techniques to a jazzy substrate, but Aaron Gervais took Superimposition’s concept more literally in writing the program’s other premiere, Break Up Make Up. In it, the Edmonton-born, San Francisco–based composer imagines a conversation between Turning Point and NU:BC—and as in any heated debate, the two bands will likely talk over each other from time to time. “What I did, in a sense, was that I superimposed the two ensembles, and I tried to keep their identities as ensembles distinct,” Gervais says. “The first thing that came to mind was the idea of call and response: having one group play something and then the other group responds. But I didn’t want it to be that for the whole piece, because it would get kind of predictable after a while. “I used that as a metaphor for starting the piece, and that sort of led me to the idea of where the title comes from,” he adds. “Break Up Make Up is sort of about the typical stormy couple that fights and then breaks up and then gets back together and makes up. So I thought I could use that as sort of the relationship between the ensembles; sometimes they’ll be working closely together, sort of complementing each other’s world, and at other times they’ll be clashing with each other, or going on two separate lines.” Superimposition also features works by Ana Sokolovic and Dorothy Chang, in addition to Heitor VillaLobos’s Choros No. 7, a pioneering piece of Euro-Brazilian fusion from 1924, making for nearly a full century’s worth of musical stimulation. The Turning Point Ensemble presents Superimposition at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts’ Telus Studio Theatre on Friday and Saturday (April 29 and 30).

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n 1934, at just 15, the girl who would one day become Eva Perón—Argentina’s iconic “Evita”—arrived in Buenos Aires with her suitcase and dreams of becoming an actress. From her humble beginnings in a rural town, she rose to become much more, of course, marrying president Juan Perón, wielding political power, and transforming into a glamorous heroine to the working poor. You can see why the experience hits home with fast-rising Broadway star Caroline Bowman. She knows what it’s like to show up in a big city with nothing but a prayer and a suitcase. As the vivacious, dark-haired triple-threat performer gets ready to take on the title role in Vancouver Opera’s upcoming Evita, she says she’s found a clear way to connect to the part. “Whoever I’m playing, I feel like I have to find a way to relate to her and tell her story through me or else I don’t know if it will work for me,” she explains, sitting in a West End café on a day off from rehearsals. “Just reading her story, I relate to her ambition— that ‘I’ve always known what I wanted and I’m not going to rest till I achieve it.’ And I admire her tenacity. She was just relentless and never let up on her goals—to her deathbed! Even on her deathbed, she wanted to fight death.” In Bowman’s case, she had put her sights on Broadway from a young age. She tells the Straight that when she was three, her older sister died at six, and her mother’s way of healing was through performing in musicals in Maryland. Watching her mom at rehearsals, she learned to love the art form, and performed in community productions throughout her youth. Soon after she graduated from the musical-theatre program at Penn

Evita’s Caroline Bowman says she can relate to the Argentinian icon’s single-minded ambition. Tim Matheson photo.

State University, she knew she had to head to New York City. “I had just gotten my Equity card and my mother dropped me off at a tiny apartment at 52nd and 9th,” she recalls with a laugh about her big move in 2011 in her early 20s. “It had a burger joint on the corner and there were mice on the counters. It was a legit first New York apartment.” Without even having an agent, Bowman set her sights on Wicked, applying to the casting office that handled the hit show. “Two weeks into arriving to New York they called me directly—because I didn’t have an agent!—and told

me I had an ensemble part and would be understudying for Elphaba,” says Bowman, who later took the lead role as the famously green-skinned, tormented witch in the rock-charged riff on The Wizard of Oz. “My mother had come into town that day and she was with me when I got the call walking down the street.” A couple of years later, Bowman took a chance and auditioned for the Broadway lead in Evita. “I kept getting called back and I thought, ‘Wow, this is a real possibility.’ I was doing all this work and getting coached for the part, but I was trying not to get

attached to it because I didn’t want to be heartbroken. So I think I was in shock when I got the call,” she says. Bowman went on to play the role in a Broadway revival of the famed 1978 Andrew Lloyd Weber–Tim Rice musical, then toured it through 2014. And the more she performs it, the closer she feels to the iconic character, she says. But the demanding role has huge challenges—ones that go far beyond the vocal feats of letting loose on showstoppers like “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”. “The first few times I performed it, I had to go home and have a little

bit of a cry,” Bowman admits. “I had to learn how to drop her. It was the same with Elphaba: you have the rest of the cast not liking you. Evita has a lot of negative energy in it, too—with both, there’s a lot of having to fight for them to be heard. “It really breaks my heart, by the end, when she’s doing ‘Eva’s Final Broadcast’. I had a little routine on tour: go home and take a bath and then turn on a Netflix happy movie.” On top of the emotional toll exacted by playing the woman’s rise from 15 to her heroic heights in Buenos Aires to her premature death from cancer at 37 is the gruelling physical challenge of the fast-paced musical. The few times Bowman is not on-stage during the two-hourplus show, you can be sure she is backstage rushing to change into another glamorous outfit and jewellery. “I never stop. I don’t really have time to think—which is wonderful, because I don’t have time to get into my head,” says Bowman, who dons a classic blond wig for the role. “I have, like, 25 seconds to change!” And then there is the pressure of playing a woman who not only is such a well-known, and often controversial, figure herself—to this day Evita is revered in Argentina and alluded to in that country’s politics— but who has also been played by indelible big stars. (Hello, Madonna.) “I had to learn how to forget about that,” the affable actress says with a shrug. “People are going to come in with ideas about Evita as a person and also of what they’ve seen before on-stage. I have to do my best and that’s going to be what it is.” Vancouver Opera presents Evita at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Saturday and Sunday (April 30 and May 1), and May 5 to 8.

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hen Dino Archie won the Seattle Comedy Competition last November, he became, after Damonde Tschritter, only the second Canadian to take home top prize in the contest’s 34-year history. At least, that’s what the organizers said when announcing him at the conclusion of the monthlong event. Only he wasn’t—and isn’t—Canadian. It just seems like the affable standup is one of us. The Fresno, California, native has been entertaining Vancouver audiences big and small for five years, in little holes-in-the-wall, professional comedy clubs, and big-stage theatres. When he won Seattle, comedy fans north of the border felt proud. “That feels good, man,” Archie said at an East Van bar prior to stopping in for a set at the weekly Jokes Please! at Little Mountain Gallery on a recent Thursday. “That’s why I make Vancouver a part of my life. I care about the city. Someone said, ‘You go where you’re celebrated.’ I know that’s not the mentality for standup—you don’t just go to the easy crowd. And Vancouver isn’t an easy crowd. But in life? Why live in a place that is shitty for you? Why do that? We get one life that we know of; why not make it what you want? Why not be at a place where you could express yourself creatively? You’re bringing something to that community and they’re giving something back to you. That’s a good relationship and that’s what Vancouver has been for me.” Spending so much time here certainly hasn’t hindered his career. Archie was f lown to Hawaii recently for an episode of Adam Devine’s House Party on Comedy Central. And earlier this month he recorded

American comedian Dino Archie maintains close ties with Vancouver.

“You might want to get nervous but at the same time, they called you,” he said. “They asked you to do it and a guy vouched for you—a guy whose only job is to find comics he thinks are funny. I knew the experience was going to come and go, so I didn’t want to rush it; I wanted to enjoy it and not stress it. It was like the shit was house money.” Speaking of gambling, Archie is getting together some of his friends at the River Rock Show Theatre on Saturday (April 30). The Vancity Comedy Extravaganza is his way of giving back to the community that’s embraced him. It started with him, Toronto and L.A.’s Dave Merheje (“He takes it to the extreme. I’ve never seen him do the same set the same way twice,” Archie said), Vancouver’s Graham Clark (“He’s so many types of funny, from his delivery to the content. He’s an artist. He’s layered”), and New York’s Michael Blaustein (“He’s goofy. He’s hella funny. He’s like a white Will Smith but pure standup”). That’s extravaganza enough, especially for under 20 bucks. But then Archie added guest sets from Ivan Decker, Kathleen McGee, and Darcy Michael. “This show is getting crazy, man,” he said. “I’m doing it like I’m slashing prices on the next juicer.” After that, Archie will be off touring. He’ll be in Calgary and Portland, and then forays into Europe when he plays London with the Pajama Men. But don’t worry, he’ll be back. “I’m here in British Columbia and able to be myself,” he said. “And as long as I’m able to do that, man, that’s what life’s about for me right now. Being that and getting on-stage and trying to make people laugh.” -

a set on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It’s a feather in his cap, but he didn’t expect it. His manager sent in tapes while Archie was busy working on his new album, Settling Old Scores, recorded at his home club, the Comedy MIX on Burrard Street. “I didn’t think my style was really good for late night because I do longform,” he said. “Not a lot of punch lines.” He likens his live appearances to off-Broadway. He’s able to explore and stretch his legs. “I don’t have an editor. That’s the beauty of it. I can do exactly what I want. But not a million people are going to come to your play. You’re off-offoff-Broadway. You’re in Vancouver. You’re hella off-Broadway.” Network television, though, wanted a tight four minutes. Aye, there’s the rub. “It’s like a trailer to The Vancity Comedy Extravaganza what you do, almost,” he said. He plays the River Rock Show Theatre on Saturday (April 30). was up to the challenge.

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Yahgulanaas’s imagery speaks across cultures VISUAL AR TS MICHAEL NICOLL YAHGULANAAS: THE SERIOUSNESS OF PLAY At the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art until October 2

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Play, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas spoke eloquently to a packed room. Surrounded by his paintings, prints, and sculptures, he talked about the spaces that exist within and between art forms—and within and between cultures. He also touched on a contemporary problem for artists of indigenous descent: is this work art or ethnicity? The question, he said, had originally been posed to him by Bill Reid, who shared with Yahgulanaas mixed Haida and European heritage, but whose acclaim was focused entirely on his Haida-identified art-making. Because of their venues, the art-orethnicity question attaches to both Yahgulanaas’s small show at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s forthcoming survey exhibition at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (opening May 10; see story page 17). Such institutions seem to contextualize their work in specific cultural terms, even though both artists work in “nontraditional” ways and have shown nationally and internationally in “mainstream” galleries and museums. Although radically different in style and concept, the art of each incorporates elements of Northwest Coast graphic design and often alludes to issues or narratives relating to First Nations people. But rather than dwell specifically on the complications of ethnically framing art, it may be more fruitful to look at Yahgulanaas’s work through the lens of cultural hybridity and interplay. He suggested this

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Craft alludes to a time when fisher folk read the ocean with their highly developed senses.

approach while walking the Straight through his exhibition the morning after his opening. Born in Prince Rupert and raised in Haida Gwaii, Yahgulanaas became a full-time artist only after many years of political and community work, focused especially on protecting the islands’ biodiversity. His creative breakthrough occurred in the late 1990s, when he began producing graphic novels in

the “Haida manga” style he invented. Yahgulanaas tells Haida tales through a combination of Japanese manga and Chinese brush-painting techniques, executed in delicate washes of colour and overlaid with dense black lines referencing Haida design. Two early examples, Red and War of the Blink, are on display here in the form of ink-and-watercolour murals on paper. (They were also published

in book form, and copies may be found in the gallery shop.) The fluency and hybridity of Yahgulanaas’s graphic art serve a truly international purpose: these stories of anger, violence, and revenge, of battles carried out or averted, are cautionary tales with an antiwar message that speaks clearly across cultures. Yahgulanaas has also applied abstracted Haida graphic elements to

large-scale paintings and sculpture, including a series of works titled “Coppers From the Hood”. Naaxin, a 2013 work from this series, uses pigments and copper leaf on a Mazda car hood to create analogies between objects of wealth and status: cars in contemporary North American culture and ceremonial copper shields in 19th-century Northwest Coast culture. It is appealing and deftly executed. The most striking work in the show, Craft, an old fibreglass rowboat embellished with copper leaf and fitted out with 10 wooden oars, covered in platinum leaf, is also the most successfully mounted. I have long complained that the interior architecture of the Bill Reid Gallery, which was originally designed as a craft museum, is wholly unsuited to the works on display. With its narrow and overcrowded exhibition spaces, its big windows, and its ecclesiastical features, the building should be a wedding chapel, not a venue for fine art. Yahgulanaas, however, has hung the altered boat from the ceiling in such a way that it is framed by a high, interior archway and backed by a leaded window of rippled and striated glass. This placement beautifully enhances the iconic nature of the sculpture, which alludes to a time when fishers on this coast—all fishers, whether indigenous, Anglo-, or JapaneseCanadian—had a direct relationship with their work. A time before diesel engines, depth sounders, and all the other mechanisms of industrial fishing, when fisher folk read the ocean and the creatures within it with their own, highly developed senses. The title is a play on words, craft being as much about creativity and skill at one’s trade as it is about a boat or vessel. However that vessel may be culturally constructed, it is what carries us across the sea of understanding.

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DANCE 2THIS WEEK 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/. INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY VANCOUVER EVENTS Celebrate International Dance Day with Ukrainian

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SFU DANCE GRADS 2016 Hour-long movement-based mosaic features dancing by Anna Dueck, Melissa Panetta, Betty Meng, Alisa Vink, Madeline de Shield, Larissa Duff-Grant, Rachel Helten, and Amanda Damaren. Apr 29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 1, 7:30 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www. facebook.com/events/196812307368641/. KASANDRA FLAMENCO AND CARAVAN WORLD RHYTHMS Percussivedance performance features performances by Kasandra â&#x20AC;&#x153;La Chinaâ&#x20AC;?, Ricardo Lopez, Joel Hanna, and Ashley Kirkham. May 1, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $20-50, info www.facebook. com/events/1663435797239678/. RENAISSANCE Ballet Kelowna presents a mixed program with choreography by Simone Orlando, Heather Myers, James Kudelka, and John Allyne. Presented by the Chutzpah Festival. May 4-6, 8 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $29/25/21, info www.chutzpahfestival.com/perform ances-tickets/dance/ballet-kelowna/.

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I love Green Room’s plot about a destitute

2 punk band trapped in a grungy backwoods

bar by murderous neo-Nazi skinheads as much as the next guy. Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier— who proved his suspense mettle with 2013’s Blue Ruin—does a bang-up job with the hair-raising aspects of that premise. If only his first-act depiction of rockers on the road were slightly more believable. Maybe a few viewings of Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo would have done the trick. The Ain’t Rights are a pretentious hardcore band from Washington, D.C., composed of greenhaired singer Tiger (Callum Turner), sensitive bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin), mother-hen guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), and loose-cannon drummer Reece (Joe Cole). The quartet barely scrapes by while touring around the Pacific Northwest in its aging van, siphoning gas to get from one crappypaying gig to the next.

Green room, white power

Patrick Stewart steps down from the bridge and into a much darker role as the owner of a neo-Nazi clubhouse in director Jeremy Saulnier’s ferocious Green Room.

at a drive-in where ’60s cult classic Carnival of Souls is screening. (Excellent choice, by the way.) Given the requisite, post– Pulp Fiction time-jumping, It’s punks versus skins in one of the year’s best horrors; L.A. plays itself in the formally adventurous noir Too Late the flimsy narrative throughline rests entirely on indie star Like the best punk bands, though, they like to John Hawkes, who obviously enjoys, in a beatenstir up shit, so when they score a gig at an isolated down way, playing a shaggy private eye called white-supremacist hangout they bravely open with Sampson. His Delilah is the Oz-nodding Dorothy the Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”. They (Teen Wolf heroine Crystal Reed), a stripper on the survive the ensuing shower of beer, curses, and run who calls Sampson for help, years after their spittle, but while exiting the dive witness something first encounter. In stand-alone vignettes that sometimes play that causes its evil owner (the curiously cast Patrick Stewart) to decide they must be killed. He dispatches like the shorts this young director used to make, a squad of jackbooted thugs to flush them out of the we spend time with such veterans as Robert Fordressing room they’ve taken refuge in, along with ster, Jeff Fahey, and Joanna Cassidy, as assorted desperate characters. Among newcomers, the fellow witness/stranger Amber (Imogen Poots). Around this time the movie viciously transforms most striking is Nepal-born, Australia-raised Difrom a semi-hokey portrayal of a struggling punk chen Lachman, as a colleague of Dorothy’s whom band to a gritty survival-horror flick that keeps you Hauck manages to keep bikinied throughout. It’s hard to determine if the film’s casual sexism is transfixed till the bitter end, ladling on the tension and nasty violence, and offering up some of the most spoof-tastic or what, because there’s no real directorterrifying Rottweiler attack scenes since The Omen. ial POV offered, other than obsessive cinemaphilia. Like those fierce throat-chompers, horror fans Except when pushing for unearned emotions in the last reel, most conversations are either talky exposwill eat it up. > STEVE NEWTON itions or empty-calorie monologues of the Royalewith-cheese persuasion. This thing is mildly tasty, TOO LATE but no one will say it’s organic. > KEN EISNER

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Too Clever might have been a better title for this tricky exercise in L.A. neonoir, which squishes the ’70s mannerism of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye through a Tarantino meatgrinder for mixed results. For his graduation to feature films, writerdirector Dennis Hauck gave himself some formal restrictions. The film is shot on 35mm stock (and projected that way here), and each of five “chapters” consists of one 22-minute take. Celluloid grain enhances the woozy, Lucky Strike vibe of Too Late, which also leans heavily on analogue oldies for the soundtrack. For maximum movie geekdom, you must enjoy a surfeit of rib-elbowing self-consciousness. This is, after all, a tale in which archetypes talk about their actions in terms of rewinding VHS tape, and the climax happens

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Starring Héctor Medina. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Rated 14A

An Irish production made mostly in Cuba, Viva focuses on a subculture within a subculture: a group of drag performers eking out a living in officially homophobic Havana. It centres on unflamboyantly androgynous Jesus (impressive, if slightly muted, newcomer Héctor Medina), who works as a hairdresser. This is something of an obvious interest to director Paddy Breathnach, who made 2001’s Blow Dry, although the script is by Mark O’Halloran. Jesus gets by on the blue-rinse needs of cranky old ladies in his rundown neighbourhood. But his real passion is for fluffing wigs down at a popular

KEANU Jason Mitchell returns to theatres in Keanu, open-

ing Friday (April 29). Was the Straight Outta Compton star more excited to work with Keanu masterminds Key & Peele or costar Method Man? “Wow, I don’t really know!” Mitchell told the Straight. “It’s equally fulfilling. Method Man and I, we’ve built a real, real relationship, and it’s the same thing with Jordan and Keegan. Working with them is one thing, but now we have a lifelong friendship. It’s crazy! I gotta pinch myself every day, for sure.” Go to Straight.com for the full interview. -

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A former bass player for the Frames, writer-

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with Once, a no-budget, Oscar-winning musical featuring bandmate Glen Hansard. Carney’s bland follow-up, Begin Again, had Keira Knightley and Adam Levine as singer-songwriters in New York. But the music-minded filmmaker is on surer ground in Sing Street, with his own Irish upbringing viewed through wish-fulfillment goggles. Set in 1985, the film is named after Dublin’s Synge Street, location of the crappy Catholic high school attended by 15-year-old Conor, played by talented and oddly named newcomer Ferdia Walsh-Peelo. Conor’s sent there, instead of a posher Jesuit school, by battling parents (Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle see page 29

MOVIES What to see and where to see it

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US AND THEM Addiction specialist Dr.

Gabor Maté and filmmaker Krista Loughton attend a screening of Loughton’s doc, which chronicles four homeless citizens of Victoria. Us and Them screens at the Vancity Theatre on Thursday (April 28) and Sunday (May 1).

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY The Ireland 2016: Centenary Film

LE BONHEUR Agnès Varda’s colour-

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cabaret. Well, he secretly dreams of being onstage, lip-synching to glorious songs of tortured love, but shyness gets in the way. Jesus has his chance when one of the in-house divas runs off with their best wigs, and a replacement is needed pronto. Taking the name Viva, he starts unsteadily but blossoms under the tutelage of Mama (veteran Luis Alberto García), the club’s world-weary den mother. Unfortunately, his rise coincides with the release from prison of Angel, the father he never knew. Jesus’s way of life is not appreciated by this former boxer fallen on hard times and bad health. It’s interesting that the macho dad is played by Jorge Perugorría, who was the gay character in Cuba’s breakthrough Strawberry and Chocolate, from 1993. But once Angel moves in with Jesus (get it?), the movie becomes a more familiar polemic on competing notions of masculinity. That said, Viva still works its way back to an emotional finish. There’s a more serious flaw, however. Since it’s already subtitled, and the filmmakers speak English, it’s truly hard to understand why the movie provides no translation of the highly charged songs that Viva and others perform nightly. Mama implores our tentative hero to milk every last ounce of drama from those lyrics, and that’s a lot harder to do—or appreciate—when you don’t know what the hell they mean.

Program brings Ken Loach’s masterful Irish civil war drama, written by Paul Laverty, back to the Cinematheque. Cillian Murphy stars in the 2006 Palme d’Or winner on Saturday (April 30).

drenched tale of infidelity scandalized the French film industry in 1965 and still looks shocking half a century later. Take your Snapchatting ass to the Cinematheque when Le Bonheur begins a short run on Sunday (May 1).

BARBARA FINDLAY Don’t know much about barbara find-

lay’s role in Canadian LGBT-rights history? Here’s an opportunity to get up to speed. Becca Plucer’s bio-documentary in particular, barbara findlay details the lawyer’s lifelong fight for equality as an activist, feminist, and pioneer. findlay persevered against sexism and homophobia, weathered the AIDS crisis, and continues in the name of justice. The film also provides a retrospective of how much things have changed over the past decades. Screening at Queer History Night at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (April 28). APRIL 28 – MAY 5 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27

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Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $45, info www.vancouveropera.ca/. FAUST PLAYS BARTOK Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducts violinist Isabelle Faust and the VSO in a program of Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Don Giovanni: Overture, BartĂłkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Violin Concerto No. 2, and DvorĂĄkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Symphony No. 7 in D Minor. Apr 30, 8 pm; May 1, 2 pm; May 2, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. HAND EYE Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird and composer sextet Sleeping Giant coheadline in an evening concert. Apr 30, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15-35, info

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Kennedy of The Commitments, which this resembles). They’re struggling to support a brainiac daughter (Kelly Thornton, hardly seen) and an older son (American Jack Reynor, with an iffy accent) stuck in the nest. Of course, the new kid is bullied by students and even tougher teachers; there’s more than a hint of sexual violence coming from the head priest (Don Wycherley). But our plucky lad’s laser-focused on the aloof beauty he spies across Synge Street. This would-be model is allegedly one year older, even if actor Lucy Boynton actually has six years on the kid. But this is one of the lesser implausibilities as Conor puts together a band to impress her. He instantly comes up with a batch of catchy, era-appropriate tunes, all written by Carney and Gary Clark. Too bad the love story obscures the other characters; the group’s one black member (Percy Chamburuka) chides the rest on first meeting for their racial stereotyping—and then doesn’t speak for the rest of the movie! What Sing gets delightfully right is the fashion side; with every new LP or video (from Joe Jackson to the Cure), Conor shows up with a new look or song. The only influence he missed was Prince, and now we can all say that. > KEN EISNER

THE PEARL BUTTON The Pearl Button A documentary by Patricio Guzmán. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

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space should catch The Pearl Button, a leisurely but pointed meditation on human history. Writer-director Patricio Guzmán has been documenting the chaos in his native country ever since he launched his three-part The Battle of Chile, not long after the 1973 coup in which Nixon and Kissinger helped replace the legally elected Coast culture, and sketches covering the silly to the surreal. Proceeds go to the Project Limelight Society. Apr 28-30, 8 pm,PAL Theatre (581 Cardero). Info www.gigglesandgags.brownpapertickets.com/.

JOKES PLEASE!: MOON Ross Dauk and Andy Kallstrom host standup comedy about moons. Apr 28, 9 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $5, info www.jokesplease.com/. CANADIAN HERITAGE MINUTES Join Graham Clark as he provides running comedic commentary over those classic bits of Canadiana. Apr 29, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity.com/grahamclark7/. DARRIN ROSE Canadian standup comedian performs on his My Dad’s Other Son tour. Apr 29, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $27, info www.ticketfly. com/event/1135101/. VANCITY COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA Featuring standup comedy performances by Dino Archie, Michael Blaustein, Graham Clark, and Dave Merheje. Apr 30, 8 pm, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.riverrock.com/.

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OF GEESE AND GUFFAWS Pete Zedlacher is that rare breed of comic who kills in any setting, from the corporate world to the big stages at the Just for Laughs festival (both in Montreal and across Canada) to the comedy clubs to the hip alt rooms. He’s a comedic chameleon who fits in anywhere. The Toronto comic has become something of a regular at the Comedy MIX, where you can catch him this weekend. Zedlacher does a fine Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, but who doesn’t? No one, though, bar none, does as convincing a Canada goose as Zedlacher. There’s no guarantee he’ll do either one this Thursday through Saturday (April 28 to 30), but you’ll never know unless you check him out. But guaranteed you’ll laugh either way.

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The Dark Horse takes us indeep into subcultures we might not otherwise know. Unfortunately, it uses storytelling devices so overly familiar and so flatly executed, they blunt what we see. A sophomore venture for writerdirector James Napier Robertson, the film is a fictionalized portrait of Genesis Potini, a New Zealander who overcame his sometimes crippling bipolar disorder to lead several groups of aboriginal children (and, later, all kinds) to chess championships. Potini, who died of a heart attack at age 46, was a fearsome and rotund fellow, known for his violent temper and speed-chess skills when young, and eventually for his focus on troubled kids. But Robertson turns his troubled hero into a holy fool, giving veteran Cliff Curtis a partially shaved head and brightly coloured robes—a gentle Maori Krishna whose mental disorders are visible mostly in his tendency to slap himself in the face during times of stress. Ignoring the complexities of Potini’s condition, the filmmakers lard up their story with a standard-issue crime plot that has Gen’s fearsome brother (impressive Wayne Hapi) turning his own son (James Rolleston) over to a vicious biker gang for initiation. Again, instead of using screen time to suggest the roots of these infamous Maori outlaws, the film simply hands us a transplanted version of an American inner-city drama, complete with clichéd “street” dialogue and empty macho posturing. The bad writing only underlines the limitations of a mostly nonprofessional cast. Is it uplifting to witness the eventual triumph of Potini’s ragtag band of chessboard misfits? Of course. But it would have been better if the whole game hadn’t been lifted from other movies.

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president with a murderous regime whose crimes are still being tallied. That’s only the most recent of Chile’s serious nightmares. Europeans systematically wiped out an indigenous population that was better positioned than missionaries and miners to understand the fragile, far-flung resources of a nation over 4,000 kilometres long and, in some places, only a few kilometres wide. In the far south, the country dissolves into thousands of islands. But Guzmán, turning to oceans instead of the desert he explored in Nostalgia for the Light, contends that Chileans turned their back on the Pacific, strip-mining and clearcutting their way into endless crisis. “Water,” he asserts in his surprisingly soothing narration, “is the intermediary force between the planets and us.” The tiny item of the title was purportedly paid to the mother of an aboriginal boy, later renamed Jemmy Button, to take him across the Atlantic to England in 1830 for a “proper” education. (Intriguingly, he sailed on the HMS Beagle, one year before Darwin’s world-changing voyage. The father of evolution subsequently met the disillusioned lad, by then in an unfortunately devolved state.) Although these background stories are tragic, Guzmán draws obvious inspiration from the native people who’ve managed to keep some of their ancient, Earth-respecting ways alive. Only 82 minutes long, this Button’s a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the importance of First

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK VERSES FESTIVAL OF WORDS Canada’s largest alternative literary festival launches its sixth season with over 35 events such as competitions, performances, workshops, and readings. Attendees can expect to see celebrated wordsmiths Ivan Coyote, Richard Wagamese, Wayde Compton, Amber Dawn, Janet Rogers, Winona Linn, Leah Horlick, Rachel Rose, and Ian Keteku. To May 1, various Vancouver venues. Info www.versesfestival.ca/. INCITE: AN EXPLORATION OF BOOKS AND IDEAS Bif Naked (I, Bificus) speaks to a range of topics from punk rock to breast cancer. Betsy Warland (Oscar of Between) challenges the simplicity of the gender binary. Carmen Aguirre (Mexican Hooker #1) weaves together a life of violence and triumph. May 4, 7:30-9 pm, Alice MacKay Room (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Event strives to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as an art form and a vessel for communication. Highlights include public installations, tours, films, a Speaker Series with artist talks, and panel discussions. To Apr 28, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info www.capturephotofest.com/. SOUTH ASIA BEATS The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada presents an interdisciplinary arts and cultural showcase featuring Rup Sidhu, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, and Jason Sunder. Apr 29, 5-7:30 pm, Floor 9 Salon (900-675 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.asiapacific.ca/events/. LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER One-night event features live readings from 13 Vancouver writers and bloggers. Partial proceeds go to the Pacific Post Partum Support Society. Apr 30, 7:30-9 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20, info www. listentoyourmothershow.com/vancouver/.

GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE (exhibition offers an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century) to Jun 12

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MUSEUMS 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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LAWYERS DO THE TWIST You’ve heard of the Lawyer Show, a production each year that puts attorneys on-stage and raises money for a good cause—this year, Carousel Theatre and Touchstone Theatre. But rarely have you seen them like this: from Wednesday to next Saturday, (May 4 to 7) the volunteers stage none other than Hairspray at the Waterfront. That means they’ll bring to life 1962 Baltimore complete with larger-than-life Tracy Turnblad, silly mashed-potato and watusi contests, and wigs—and not wigs of the white, courtroom variety, either.

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The Bois de Vincennes park in Paris, spans some 995 hectares and contains multitudes. Whether it’s gay men cruising for sex in the rain, or a hermit who makes a home deep in a remote section of the park, everywhere humans are busily going about their business. Claire Simon functions as our guide, engaging people in conversation with openness and curiosity. SUN MAY 8

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he ’80s were absolute shit, but Sing Street, opening Friday (April 29), will make you miss them anyway. Writer-director John Carney’s love letter to his own youth in Dublin is tremendous fun, and affectionate and clear-eyed in roughly equal measure. There’s the ring of authenticity to its tale of a teenage band and its members’ architecturally impossible hairdos, and there’s truth in the position, as expressed by one of its older characters, that possession of a Phil Collins record is grounds for never getting laid. Carney’s depiction of a Catholic school governed by sadistic priests and terrorized by a beetle-browed skinhead will be no less resonant to anyone who was there. “It was all a huge learning curve for me,” says Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, who definitely wasn’t there. There’s a hefty 15-year gap between the film’s period (1985) and the birth of its star, who was forced into a diet of ’80s music videos after Carney snapped up the nonactor for his debut role. “There are some gems, but there’s lots of pretty random stuff, too,” is Walsh-Peelo’s eminently reasonable verdict, as he speaks with the Georgia Straight from Toronto. He gives the thumbs up to M’s “Pop Muzik”, anything by Madness (“They had some deadly videos!”), and “Rio” by Duran Duran. But he also learned the hard way that history provides no real explanation for Thomas Dolby. “ ‘She Blinded Me With Science’? Absolutely mental. I didn’t know what to think of that when I saw it at first,” he says (before bellowing “SCIENCE!”). “The way I look at it, it’s the last time people went really far to try to be as original as possible. I think after that—the ’90s, and then we hit the millennium—we started taking ideas from the past rather than try to create something totally new. Guys were putting on makeup and challenging sexuality, you know?” Sing Street does a marvellous job of capturing the era’s clunky attempts at androgyny and its clunkier way with

Sing Street ’s fresh young star Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (left) was so blinded by science that he had to wear shades.

a melody. Carney also hits the nostalgia button hard with the band’s first homemade video, shot on VHS with too many Dutch angles and set to a brilliantly faked song called “The Riddle of the Model”. But it’s Walsh-Peelo who holds it all together as Carney’s alter ego, Cosmo. A recently inked contract with WME (William Morris Endeavor Entertainment) is the 16-year-old’s reward, not to mention something of a vindication for Carney. “To be honest, I have no clue,” Walsh-Peelo answers when asked what his director saw in him. “Himself? I don’t think he wanted an actor. I think he really had his mind on a musical guy who hadn’t acted before. And maybe he saw that I’d be able to handle it, because when I was 14 I think I was pretty streetwise. I was busking in town all the time, and I was able to look after myself. And I think he was just thinking that I’d be able to cope with it all.” Well, he was right. “Nah,” Walsh-Peelo demurs. “He just did a great job telling me what to do.” -

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D Sud Eau Nord Déplacer Maya Angelou and Still Antoine Boutet, France I Rise Scale is the subject of Antoine Boutet’s extraordinary film. Boutet follows the construction of the Nan Shui Bei Diao — South North Water Transfer Project — the largest water transfer project in the world. TUE MAY 10

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The life and times, and most importantly the art, of literary legend Maya Angelou is given expansive coverage in Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack’s film biography. THU MAY 12

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ennis Hauck was watching Alan Rudolph’s 1984 film Choose Me when inspiration struck. “I was kinda daydreaming through the screen while watching it,” he tells the Georgia Straight on the line from Los Angeles. “It was a weird thing. All of a sudden, one little kernel led me to an idea while I was watching a movie that had nothing to do with my movie…” Hauck’s idea would emerge six years later as Too Late, opening Friday (April 29), a much-buzzed-about noir that’s earned special attention for its technical rigour. Shot on 35mm (and projected that way at the director’s insistence), the film plays out in five winding, uninterrupted takes, each one 22 minutes long and assembled nonsequentially. The great John Hawkes is the faintly unsavoury private dick at the centre of Hauck’s tale, which shares some obvious DNA with The Long Goodbye, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and The Big Lebowski, among other bloody valentines to a city steeped in vice. But the much more lighthearted Choose Me is in there too, explicitly during a scene set at a drive-in, less so when Hauck reveals that Choose Me star

Too Late writer-director Dennis Hauck cops the California cowboy look.

Keith Carradine was originally set to play a character eventually taken on by Robert Forster. In some ways, Rudolph was a quintessentially L.A. filmmaker, and the Georgia-born and -raised Hauck loves L.A. “It’s bizarre, because I actually can’t stand sunshine,” he says with a snort. “It’s something I talk about with John Hawkes a lot because he’s also a transplant to L.A., and he’s been here some 20-odd years now and I think he really loves it as well. It’s a love-it-orhate-it town, which is appropriate for this movie, which seems to be a loveit-or-hate-it movie.” Hawkes is clearly vibrating on some level with his director, and his scruffy,

slightly unhinged gumshoe, Sampson, is a major creation. “He’s very similar and very different, I think, to Sampson,” Hauck says of his star. “They’re both morally centred, and they have their principles, and they’re good people—and I can also see a little potential for madness in John.” If that’s the case, Hawkes took that potential for madness and reportedly tapped into that same creative channel that allowed Hauck to conjure an entire movie out of a distracted moment in a cinema. “John just lost himself in that scene in a way I hadn’t seen him do through the production,” Hauck says of a climactic sequence that plays out at the Beverly Hilton. “That was not scripted. I was just sitting there watching and I didn’t know what was about to happen. It kinda went off the rails in a really great way, right there. You can just see the look on his face. He’s really in it. Afterwards, he told me: ‘I lost myself for a moment. It’s happened to me before playing music and playing guitar with other people, but it’s never happened to me acting. That’s the first time I ever lost myself in that way, and if you don’t use that take in the movie, I quit.’ ” Hauck didn’t need any persuading. -

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The music-biz landscape has changed BY MIKE US IN G ER

radically over the past half-decade, and no one is more aware of that than the members of Bath, England’s the Heavy. Forget radio airplay, heavy rotation on MTV, or a Rolling Stone cover story: these days careers are made through new channels. Build a buzz on YouTube, place your songs in TV shows, or score a high-profile ad campaign, and you may find your days of grinding it out in dive bars to 20 people (including the doorman) are instantly over. That approach to business has certainly worked for the Heavy. The world first got to know the quartet as the band that blew away David Letterman with a 2010 live performance of the turbo-soul number “How You Like Me Now?”. (Gushing after the song’s conclusion, Letterman demanded an unheard-of Late Show With David Letterman encore, telling the group, “Do it again—just a little more. Go again, go again!” The clip would go viral on YouTube.) Since then, the Heavy’s songs have popped up everywhere from Entourage to EA’s NHL 13 to the trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s ode to OldWest violence, The Hateful Eight. Reached at a Los Angeles tour stop, drummer Chris Ellul cites such exposure as a big reason he has a thriving career with the Heavy, which has just released its fourth album, Hurt & the Merciless.

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We’re not about to say which one, but a certain member of English indie-rock outfit the Heavy has often been accused of being something of a chin stroker.

behind the kit. (Check out the jungle-thump brilliance of “What Happened to the Love?”.) That Hurt & the The buzzed-about English band puts its dark days Merciless is being hailed behind it with its fourth LP, Hurt & the Merciless as a bright and shin“All that stuff is the key to us still being here to- ing return for the Heavy is only appropriate. day,” the affable timekeeper says, speaking on his Ellul reveals that there were some dark days afcellphone. “Without those avenues, things maybe ter the release of the group’s last effort, 2012’s would have been different. I’d imagine that we The Glorious Dead. Those days would provide would have struggled to keep going.” plenty of inspiration for lyrics like “Don’t call Instead, Ellul reports that he’s not only loving me baby/That’s not my name” from the blaxreturning to the road with the Heavy, but con- ploitation-soul workout “Not the One”. vinced his band—which includes singer Kelvin “In the time since the last record, Kel’s been Swaby, guitarist Daniel Taylor, and bassist Spen- married and divorced,” the drummer says. cer Page—has made its best record yet. “Songs like ‘Since You Been Gone’ and ‘What “All the TV and placement stuff is just ego,” the Happened to the Love?’ are outpourings of what drummer argues. “What makes me really proud is was going on in Kel’s personal life.” when I can sit back and listen to something and be Musically, there’s also a new self-assuredness really proud of it. To hear something in a film and that wasn’t always there on past records. go, ‘That sounds really good’—to not question it “I think, certainly with this record, we knew and know that it’s good—those are the moments what we were doing and what we had to do,” that make it for me. In the past I’ll hear something Ellul says. “We just had to figure out how to get like ‘How You Like Me Now?’ and think, ‘That there. And it never felt like we got lost when we could have been mixed better.’ This is probably were making the album.” the first record that we’ve done where I can listen Making that doubly gratifying are the times to it and I don’t hear any little faults.” Ellul and his bandmates wondered if things Of course, every musician is supposed to say were going to happen for them. Everyone in the that when a tape recorder is rolling, but Ellul group had been doing music long before they has good reason to be excited about Hurt & the came together as the Heavy, with Swaby, for exMerciless. Long known for its full-throttle live ample, involved in Bristol trip-hop unit Alpha show, the band indeed seems to have locked and then working the club-DJ circuit. on to something this time out, with the songs “For me, I’ve been in a lot of bands, and rocketing from Motown at its most raw and there’s always been an elephant in the room,” bombastic (“Since You Been Gone”) to spirit- Ellul says. “There’s this scenario where most of of-’76 punk (“Slave to Your Love”) to call-and- the band wants to be, say, the Beatles, and then response swing (“A Ghost You Can’t Forget”). one guy who thinks he’s Eddie Van Halen. This Either unwilling or unable to stick to one is probably the first time where, straightaway, musical template, the Heavy sounds as stoked there was a magic that I never experienced playtackling Cinemascope Tex-Mex on “Nobody’s ing with other bands. It’s not about technical Hero” as it does bridging Muscle Shoals and proficiency or anything like that. It’s purely classic ’60s Nashville on “Goodbye Baby”. about the soul. Or the heart. I’d been in a lot Throughout the album, Ellul puts on a clinic of bands and worked in a lot of studios right

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A ROYAL PAIN Many stars eulogized Prince this past

week, but only Morrissey used the Purple One’s death to take a swipe at the Queen of England. Prince, Moz wrote, was “far more ‘royal’ than Elizabeth 2, and he will be mourned far more than she, for she could never make herself loveable”.

TONE DEAF Thurston Moore told Collide magazine that

BEACH HOUSE There has always been something enigmatic about Beach House. Perhaps that’s because the Baltimore-based duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally makes a reverb-washed brand of dreamy indie pop that conveys feeling rather than meaning. Or maybe it’s just because it’s usually impossible to make out exactly what Legrand is singing about. Whatever the case, Beach House has given its fans a literal enigma. When it plays Vancouver on Sunday (May 1), it will do so at a “mystery location”, complete with a custom-built installation. Those with less of a relish for riddles can catch Beach House at the Vogue on Saturday (April 30). -

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The Heavy’s Chris Ellul sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.

On the recording approach: “We did everything live and worked things out really oldschool. In the past we’ve done demos, which have grown and grown until they’ve ended up on the album. We approached this one much more as a band, and that’s cool. You can hear the energy and the dynamics.”

On recent history: “When we made our last record [The Glorious Dead], different people had different things going on in their personal lives, which led to everything becoming difficult halfway through. We sort of lost our direction a little bit.” On putting on a drum clinic: “I don’t want to sit there and jack off behind the drums. I want to play what feels right for the music and help carry things forward. I’m happy that the record is a lot bolder than we’ve been in the past.”

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before I joined the Heavy, and I was starting to hate music because of never finding that jell. When you find it, you really do know.” And you also know when things finally take off and lead to the kind of opportunities that have kept the Heavy afloat. “There are loads of little moments, like getting a gold disc,” Ellul says. “The obvious thing was when we did Letterman for the first time. None of us really knew what it was at the time, but you look back and in hindsight realize, ‘Wow—that really was a really big deal.’ ” -

Sonic Youth isn’t over and that the band “goes on and won’t end”. Clearly, he hasn’t read Girl in a Band, the memoir from his former wife, bassist Kim Gordon, which details how his pink torpedo sank both the legendary band and his marriage.

WHO ASKED HIM? Roger Daltrey has announced that he’s not keen to see AC/DC without Brian Johnson behind the microphone. “Go and see karaoke with Axl Rose? Give me a break,” the Who singer said, in case anyone was wondering.

TWIN TIME Eddie Vedder, Trent Reznor, and Sky Ferreira will be among the guest stars on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks reboot. Each will receive a piece of pie. a damn fine cup of coffee, and a detailed breakdown of what the fuck is going on.

Fresh and local SUPERMOON PLAYLAND Lo-fi to the point where “no-fi” might work as a better description, Supermoon’s Playland proves that great things sometimes come in plain-Jane packages. The appeal of the eight-track release is partly the skeletal college-rock guitars and partly frontwoman Katie Gravestock’s hauntingly plaintive vocals. Supermoon’s great trick is sounding as grey as England—or Vancouver—in November, even on numbers like the Tropicáliatinted “Bottleships”, which wouldn’t sound out of place sandwiched between Vampire Weekend and Bembeya Jazz National. The sun briefly floods in on the buoyant “Unsaid”, but mostly Playland is a beautifully monochromatic treat for those who are happiest when it rains—preferably in buckets. Fall may be months away, but your favourite record for this year’s monsoon season is already here. APRIL 28 – MAY 5 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33

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What’s in Oldham’s fridge you are following a national anthem. The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows. Brought some love into my life when my heart was hard. Plus, a genius recording and placement of opposites, i.e., guitars doing brass parts, voices doing string parts, and all on 4-tracks. Eddie Cochran’s 20 Flight Rock. It gave me hope, attitude, and example. Merged with my ambition and gave it balls!

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Andrew Loog Oldham enjoys staring out windows. Betina La Plante photo.

Andrew Loog Oldham WHO ARE YOU

I am Andrew Loog Oldham. At the age of 19 I discovered, uncovered, managed, and produced a British musical group known as the Rolling Stones and until I was 23 worked at making them a way of life for as many folks as possible. FIRST CONCERT

Bill Haley & the Comets, Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London. I was 11 years old. My mother carefully groomed my kisscurl, warned me about speaking to strange men, and sent me on my way. Bill Haley was awful. Looked like the perv uncle I never had. But

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Laurie Anderson, “O Superman”. Innovative, resourceful, and forever. his band swung. I was confused and Close second: the Who, “You Better, disappointed. I wanted my music to You Bet”. Same reasons. swing and be good-looking with attitude. I was rescued a year later when WHAT’S IN YOUR FRIDGE I saw the movie The Girl Can’t Help It In the freezer: my black jeans being and witnessed Eddie Cochran, Little detoxed and brightened, as opposed to being worn out at the cleaners. Richard, and Gene Vincent. Various teas for my liver and wellLIFE-CHANGING CONCERT being from Lloyd Wright’s alternaVince Taylor & the Playboys at the tive-medicine store for hep-C folks. 2i’s, Old Compton Street, Soho, Lon- I’ve cleared it via Harvoni, but the don W1 in 1958. Attitude dancing! organic milk thistle, dandelion, thyThe man who would be king… mus, and hyssop teas help nourish the organ after the battles I put it through. TOP THREE RECORDS The main fridge? Not my departThe Rolling Stones’ Let’s Spend the ment, apart from the gluten-free Night Together. Harder to make than yogurt, black chocolate, and loads Satisfaction ’cause it always is when of red berries and fruit. -

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inda Tanaka is quick to answer when asked what has her most excited about the lineup for this year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival. As artistic managing director, Tanaka has landed some heavy hitters for the 39th edition of the fest, including U.K. trad-folk godfather Martin Carthy, spoken-word treasure Shane Koyczan, and indie-rock royalty the New Pornographers. But what has her really intrigued is the thought of turning festivalgoers on to acts that they’ve quite possibly never heard of before. As a music fan, Tanaka knows there’s nothing greater than walking away from a show feeling like you’ve just discovered your new favourite singer or band. “I think there’s a lot of variety in the lineup, and not as many really well-known names,” Tanaka said in a phone interview with the Straight. “But I don’t really know. It’s hard to know what people know, because everyone is listening to music all over the place.” She’s certainly correct on that front—thanks to Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube, to name just three sites, the world has instant access to

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more music than anyone would have thought imaginable just a decade ago. Tanaka acknowledges that’s also made her job easier—forget making a special trip to WOMAD, you can now expand your musical horizons with a simple click of a mouse. Some of the acts that she’s most excited about for this year’s folk fest are ones that she’s only heard on the Internet. Included on that list are Ghana’s genre-jumping Jojo Abot and golden-throated Irish singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill. “We’ve always had a high number of international world-music artists,” Tanaka said, “and I really strive to keep that up because those are the artists that I find most fun to discover.” Those worth watching on that world-music front include Haitian vodou–hip-hop fusionists Lakou Mizik, Mongolian folk-rockers Ajinai, and Israel’s exotic Yemen Blues. Representing the iconic side of folk music will be Ontario’s Bruce Cockburn, England’s Oysterband, and longrunning Victoria stalwarts the Bills. Moving the genre in new and challenging directions will be up-and-coming Emilie & Ogden from Quebec, cinematic roots rockers Lord Huron from

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comes to authenticity. Often you’ll see a group that’s touring under its old moniker with only one or two original members. Or maybe there’ll just be one—who also happens to be the drummer. (I’m talkin’ to you, Foghat!) It’s a rarity when a band that you thought was awesome 20 years ago reunites with every original member intact. Such is the case with the Age of Electric, which is back at it with its original two sets of brothers—Ryan and Kurt Dahle, and Todd and John Kerns. Recently, the quartet started playing live shows again, their first since breaking up after a 1998 arena gig in Hamilton with Our Lady Peace. “We often laugh about it now because none of us can remember what the hell the problem was,” explains Todd Kerns on a call from Coquitlam, where he’s visiting his folks. “But we’ve almost always been in contact in one form or another, and Ryan and I were already back writing songs over 10 years ago, with no real idea of what to do with them. It [a reunion] would be this funny conversation we’d have once in a while, and then of course, like the saying goes, life has a funny way of getting in the way of your plans. The next thing you know, it’s like years go by.” Those years saw the AOE members accomplish great things on their own, though. Todd Kerns formed the formidable melodic-rock band Static in Stereo before earning worldwide fame as Slash’s bassist, Ryan Dahle found success as a solo artist and as a member of Limblifter and Mounties, and Kurt Dahle—who also spent time in Limblifter—helped the New Pornographers stake a rich claim on the indie-rock scene. But no one particular member served as the main driving force behind the reunion.

Ryan Dahle, Todd Kerns, John Kerns, and Kurt Dahle of the Age of Electric haven’t aged in two decades. Either that or this photo is from 20 years ago.

“That’s the weird thing,” says Kerns. “In a funny way, it just kinda felt like the Blues Brothers or something—‘We’re gonna get the band back together,’ like it was a calling. ‘We’re on a mission from God.’ “But the cool thing about it is it’s the original four guys. I was always kind of proud of ourselves for not going out with a version with a different guy—or sometimes many different guys and one original member. So I think that in doing it, it was more like, ‘Let’s just be the Age of Electric’—and in a weird way, I mean in the strangest way. Just the other day we were sitting backstage in Victoria, and it was the same laughs, the same gags, and I said to those guys: ‘It feels like somebody took 1998 and just erased everything up until 2016.’ In that moment it just felt like it was the next day.”

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certainly proven on its dark and driving sophomore album, Welcome the Worms. Going into the creation of the record, the band’s two founders— guitarist-singer Jennifer Clavin and her guitarist sister Jessica—weren’t exactly in the most emotionally stable of places. Relationships had imploded, eviction notices had been served, partying was at a redline pitch, and the world was moving at an out-of-control pace. One of the downsides of living in the major metropolis of Los Angeles was that city life intensified everything. > STEVE NEWTON The way the Clavins coped was by realizing that sometimes the The Age of Electric plays the Commo- best way to deal with craziness is to dore Ballroom on Saturday (April 30). decompress. The siblings decamped

to Joshua Tree, which—as those lucky enough to have been there will attest—has a desert-town vibe a million miles removed from Tinseltown. “I feel like this record was very therapeutic, but I don’t think we realized that until we finished it,” Jessica says, on her cellphone from a tour van headed to Denver. “We were going through a lot of chaotic stuff, which I know is what contributed to a lot of Jen’s really honest lyrics. At the end of the day, it was like we had our music to go to, to help us escape. At Joshua Tree we didn’t have Internet, which I was really stoked about because I’m already a little off the grid.” When not recharging with walks in the desert, the Clavins spent their time at Joshua Tree bingewriting, eventually coming up with 30 songs. Ten of those would make the cut for Welcome the Worms, a record that finds the sweet spot between guitar-roar punk and candysheen hard pop, with Jennifer sounding as street-tough as she is hopelessly heartbroken. The wonderfully analoguesounding production, courtesy of Joe Chiccarelli, is a big part of the record’s charm. When the Clavins first approached the producer, it was made clear they couldn’t afford him. Quickly, though, it became obvious that Chiccarelli—a veteran who’s worked with everyone from Elton John and Counting Crows to the Strokes and Cage the Elephant—was a Bleached fan. He’d eventually help the band toughen up while moving away from the spawn-of-the-ShangriLas surf-pop that marked 2013’s debut disc, Ride Your Heart. “He wasn’t going to do the record when we first met with him—our

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LETLIVE. Los Angeles-based post-hardcore band tours in support of upcoming studio album If I’m the Devil, with guests Seahaven, Silver Snakes, and Night Versus. Jul 26, doors 6 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Apr 29, 10 am, $17.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. TRUCK STOP CONCERT SERIES Country and bluegrass music by Jon Pardi, the Washboard Union, and the New Shackletons. Aug 6, 4-10 pm, Red Truck Brewery (295 E. 1st). Tix $35-85, info www.redtruckbeer.com/. DRAKE Canadian rapper tours in support of his new album Views From the 6, with guests Future, Roy Woods, and DVSN. Sep 17, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Apr 29, 10 am, $179.50/99.50/69.50/49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TEGAN AND SARA Calgary indie-pop duo perform tunes from new album Love You to Death. Oct 5, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Apr 29, 9 am, $46/36 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ROGER HODGSON Former member of Supertramp performs solo tunes and Supertramp classics. Nov 25, 8 pm, Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock (2080 United Blvd.). Hodgson also performs Nov 26 at the River Rock Show Theatre. Tix on sale Apr 29, 10 am, $89.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.hard rockcasinovancouver.com.

BLEACHED Los Angeles-based punkrock duo, composed of sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin, performs with guests No Parents. Apr 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TORTOISE Chicago-based instrumental quintet tours in support of latest release The Catastrophist. Apr 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

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STRIKER Edmonton-based heavy-metal PENTATONIX American a cappella group band performs with Spellcaster, Spell (performing as Stryker), and Revenger. performs on its World Tour 2016 with guests Us the Duo and AJ Lehrman. Apr 28, Apr 30, 8 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $18/15, info www.facebook.com/ doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Pacific Coliseum events/517653608416202/. (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix $99.50/69.50/49.50/35 (plus service charSWEET HOME CHICAGO A celebration ges and fees) at www.livneation.com/. of Chicago blues featuring Murray Porter, ELLEN DOTY Canadian jazz vocalist Harpdog Brown, Wailin’ Al Walker, and performs with guest Eli Bennett. Apr 28, Nadine States, with Rob Montgomery’s All8 pm, Frankie’s (765 Beatty). Tix $20, info Star Band. Apr 30, 8 pm, Edgewater Casino www.ellendoty.com/. (760 Pacific Blvd. S). Tix $10 at the door.

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THE AGE OF ELECTRIC Canadian guitarrock band from the ’90s tours with original lineup, with guests Gay Nineties and Fake Shark. Apr 30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ARILD ANDERSEN TRIO WITH TOMMY SMITH AND PAOLO VINACCIA Norwegian jazz bassist and his band perform with Scottish saxophonist and Italian-Norwegian drummer. Part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Apr 30, 9:30 pm, Ironworks (235 Alexander). Tix $30 at www.coastaljazz.ticketfly.com/. FOUR TET English electronica musician tours in support of latest release Morning/ Evening, with guest Ben Ufo. May 1, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.livenation.com/. NAPALM DEATH AND MELVINS English death-metal band coheadlines with Washington sludge-metal outfit, with guests Melt Banana. May 2, doors 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $33 (plus

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THE HEAVY The Georgia Straight presents British rock group touring in support of upcoming fourth studio album Hurt & The Merciless, with guests the Peach Kings. May 2, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MUSIC MONDAY 2016 Young musicians from across Metro Vancouver will perform the Canadian-composed anthem, “We Are One”, alongside members of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Royal Canadian Artillery’s Band of the 15th Field Regiment, and the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service band. May 2, 10 am, Robson Square (800 Robson). Free, info www.cmebc.org. KVELERTAK Norwegian metal band performs with guests Torche and Wild Throne. May 2, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $22.50, info www.facebook. com/events/1554471371532084/. WOODY WOODMANSEY’S HOLY HOLY Celebration of early David Bowie, featuring former Spiders from Mars drummer Woodmansey and famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti. May 2, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $29 to $99 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS American electronica-rock band coheadlines with Australian indie-rock foursome, with guests Panama Wedding. May 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL The Georgia Straight presents live blues and roots music by Colin James, Frazey Ford, Cyril Neville and the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Como Mamas, Lindi Ortega, Cecile Doo Kingue, Shred Kelly, Michael 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 from $50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.burnabybluesfestival.com/.

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MEGHAN TRAINOR American R&B-pop singer-songwriter performs as part of her Untouchable Tour, with guests Hailee Steinfeld and Common Kings. Jul 14, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, PNE Amphitheatre (2901 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Apr 29, 10 am, $69.95/49.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2ROYCE DA 5’9” Apr 28 2BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD AND CHAD VALLEY Apr 30 2ELLIPHANT May 7 2THE RANGE AND ROME FORTUNE May 7 2LEFT RIGHT TOUR May 14 2BREAKBOT May 28 2JMSN Jun 20 2JESSY LANZA Jun 21 2BAS Jun 23

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. 250-seat venue at St. James Community Square features concerts presented by the Rogue Folk Club. 2LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER Apr 30 2CALEB KLAUDER May 6

AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., Tank Gyal & guests Thu; three-room 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.

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 2ECCW WRESTLING: BALLROOM BRAWL VI Jul 16 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 7 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14

BELMONT BAR 1006 Granville, 604-6054340. Fresh and local fare, craft beer and wine on tap, and live entertainment nightly. Open daily at 5 pm. 2TIMERAISER VANCOUVER Apr 28 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2BLEACHED Apr 28 2AIDAN KNIGHT Apr 29 2ECHO NEBRASKA May 6 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

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.

BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2DAY WAVE Apr 30 2HAR MAR SUPERSTAR May 6 2THE PACK A.D. May 12 2NO SINNER May 20 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

THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 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. 2WOODY JAMES Apr 29 2SONS OF THE HOE May 1 2CHRISTINE & THE KISILTONES May 6 2BEAVER T & THE DIVAS May 7

FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2BIG WILD May 7 2SMASH BOOM POW/OCEANOGRAPHERS May 13 2YOUNG EMPIRES May 19

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.

FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2SAID THE WHALE May 7 2ALBERTA CROSS May 14 2ART BERGMANN May 20 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT May 21 2KAKI KING Jun 6

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.

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. 2GUTTER DEMONS, HELLFIRE SPECIAL, STEADY TEDDY & THE K-TRAIN BABIES Apr 29 2REANIMATOR, THE GOLERS, W.M.D. Apr 30 2REDS, SECONDS FLAT, WAR AMP May 6 2KILLING MACHINE (JUDAS PRIEST TRIBUTE), MAIDEN BC (IRON MAIDEN

COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 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

TRIBUTE) May 7 2SO HIDEOUS, BOSSEDE-NAGE, FINITE, SEVEN NINES AND TENS May 13

ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2JAMES BAY Apr 27 2ANDREW BIRD May 21 2FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Jun 23

VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 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 2DOWNCHILD 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

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 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 18-19 2TEGAN AND SARA Oct 5 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.

WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts.

MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2STRIKER Apr 30 2SHAUN RAWLINS EP RELEASE PARTY May 27 2VAN DAMSEL May 28 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22

RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2JOHNNY DE COURCY Apr 29 2THE FOOD Apr 30 2KVELERTAK May 2 2CLOUD CITY FT. ABJO, SLIMKID3 May 5 2KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS May 7 2LUCA TURILLI’S RHASPODY, PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2LA CHINGA May 13 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 Jun 17-18 2THE BLACK SEEDS Jun 24 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2PIGS Jul 29 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29

MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-5236888. 1,000-seat entertainment venue showcases leading Canadian and international acts. 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25

RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2CHICAGO June 16-17 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 26

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savage love I am a trans man and I have no love life. But I did just hook up with a friend two nights ago. It was the first time I’ve had sex in more than a year. My problem is that it was a “onetime thing”. I was hoping to be FWB, at least. I’m furious with myself for giving that away for what amounted to a hookup, and thoroughly sorry for myself for it being a “one-time thing”, because it nearly always is. I feel thoroughly unlovable and dejected right now. I was raised a Boston Irish Catholic, and I have PTSD from my parents being difficult. In a backward way, I hope the issue for others is tied to the fallout from my upbringing—because that’s something everyone has problems with, and those things, while not entirely fi xable, are manageable and not so visible. I worry it’s not that, though. I worry my being trans is the first problem a potential partner sees. I am a man with a twat—a forlorn, underused twat at that. > NOT OFTEN PICKED, EVERYONE NOT INTERESTED SEXUALLY

Buck Angel is a public speaker, a fi lmmaker, an activist, and a trans man, NOPENIS, who famously and fearlessly bills himself as “the man with a pussy”. I passed your letter on to him because who better to answer a question from a man with a twat than the man with a pussy? “Anyone who hasn’t had sex in more than a year is going to fi nd it scary to get back out there and start again,” said Buck. “And starting again with a body that you might not be 100 percent comfortable with yet? Th at’s even scarier. The

fi rst thing that NOPENIS needs to hear—and really believe—is that he is lovable. And he is, even if he doesn’t know it yet.” The second order of business: you gotta stop beating yourself up over that one-night stand. Take it from Buck, your fellow trans man, and take it from me, your fellow Irish Catholic queer: you didn’t do anything wrong, you didn’t give anything away—hell, you were doing something right. “Hookups can be important for understanding your body sexually,” said Buck. “So NOPENIS shouldn’t be mad at himself. We learn and grow from our experiences, even if they’re bad ones. And here’s what I learned from my first experiences in the gay men’s world of sex: hookups are the way it’s done. I was not prepared for that because I’d had sex only with women before my transition. That was hard for me, too, at first. But what I learned was that I wasn’t being rejected, even if it was only a one-night thing. I was being accepted in a way I wasn’t used to.” Finally, NOPENIS, you’ve got to stop seeing your body and your twat as problems. It’s the only body you’ll ever have, and it’s a body some will find attractive and some won’t. Some guys will be attracted to your body (and you, ideally) for its differences—not attracted to your body (ditto) despite its differences. “NOPENIS absolutely shouldn’t count himself out just because he’s trans,” said Buck. “The world is different now, and many people are attracted to trans men sexually. He just needs to learn to love himself and to have sexual

> BY DAN SAVAGE confidence, because people find that attractive. And he should continue to experiment and continue to embrace new experiences!” For more Buck, go to www. buckangel.com/. And you can—and should—follow Buck on Twitter @BuckAngel.

I have a

friend who is getting married. She’s cheated on every guy she’s been with, including her last three husbands. Th is will be her fourth marriage. I’m sure she’s fed the new guy a million reasons why her fi rst three marriages didn’t work out. She’s obviously a sex fiend, but she’s not kinky. And here’s the punch line: I found her fiancé’s profi le on Fetlife, and he has some hard-core fetishes—even by my standards! I’m sure his kinks are going unexplored within their relationship/engagement and that they will go unexplored once they’re married, as my friend has been horrified during discussions of my attendance at BDSM events. I know your rule is generally to “stay the fuck out of it”, but I have a rule that goes like this: “I would like to know that the person I’m dating is a serial cheater who’s probably after me for my money.” So do I warn the guy? > FUCKED REGARDING IMPERILING ENSUING NUPTIALS, DAN

Mind your own business, FRIEND, and do so with a clear conscience—because these two sound perfect for each other. He’s on Fetlife looking for someone to diaper him, and she’s probably cheating on him already. If your friend is

still a dishonest, lying, heartbreaking cheat—if she’s still making monogamous commitments she cannot keep—why stop her from marrying a man who is already cheating on her or is likely to cheat on her shortly after the wedding? To gently paraphrase William Shakespeare: “Let thee not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.” Watching these two walk down the aisle will be like watching two drunk drivers speed around a closed racetrack. Maybe they’ll crash, maybe they won’t; maybe they’ll die in a fire, maybe they’ll get out alive. But so long as no one else is gonna get hurt, why risk your own neck trying to pull these fuckers over?

My father is a friendly, kind, allaround good guy. We get along well and always have. But I now have to avoid all political discussions with him. He was always a bit socially conservative, but now he gets a lot of batshit crazy and simply dumb ideas from the scourge of our nation today: Fox News. How can we stop the dumbing-down of our society by Fox News, Dan? We have to do something about this malady! > ANONYMOUS

“Anonymous is right—Fox News is a malady, one that I’ve often joked is worse than Ebola,” said the documentary filmmaker Jen Senko. “It destroys families and has torn apart the country. That’s pretty powerful.” Here’s what Senko did about it: She made The Brainwashing of My Dad, a terrific documentary exploring

how Fox News and other right-wing media turned her mild-mannered, nonpolitical father into a ranting, raving, right-wing fanatic. “We need to stigmatize ‘Faux News’,” said Senko. “I make it a point when I walk into a restaurant or some other public place and they have on Faux News of politely asking them to turn it off. I write to news outlets when they try to emulate Fox and complain.” But how do you get your own dad to turn off Fox News? “Speaking to loved ones is important but it’s difficult,” said Senko. “You have to approach them in a calm way, starting the conversation on neutral ground. Sometimes just getting them out of the house and away from the TV helps. There is a group called Hear Yourself Think (www.hearyourselfthink.org/) that focuses on deprogramming Fox News viewers. You will find plenty of advice there. But if you can sit down with your loved one and tell them you are concerned about their anger and their worry and you feel that Fox News is helping to generate that, it can be a conversation opener. You can also get them to try to watch our movie!” Go to thebrainwashingofmydad. com and watch the trailer to learn more about Senko’s terrific fi lm. And you can—and you should—follow Senko on Twitter @Jen_Senko. . On the Lovecast, a cavalcade of sextoy questions: savagelovecast.com. Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter. com/fakedansavage/.

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ere we go again! Starting Thursday, Mercury in Taurus begins a three-week retrograde cycle. As May opens, five planets travel in retrograde motion: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto. (Jupiter ends retrograde on May 9, Mercury on May 22.) Retrograde cycles take us through an intensified review, the intention of which is to uncover what’s been overlooked, underrated, or too weak to make the grade. Ultimately, they serve to raise consciousness regarding the nature of involvements, projections, evaluations, and choice-makings. It is the soul’s way of correcting and realigning itself. Mercury retrograde in Taurus puts added attention on survival matters (physical, material; relationships), self-preservation, finances, sex, fertility, self-worth, and selfhonouring. The transit also spotlights the following issues: inertia and immobilization; feeling trapped, suffocated, muffled, undervalued, or unappreciated; an inability or necessity to speak up and express yourself; and being heard or validated. Despite the stall, slowdown, derailment, added inconvenience, or cost that may occur, the next few weeks are productive in terms of getting back in touch with what is most viable, worthy, and lucrative. Venus into Taurus on Friday increases stamina and determination to get better value out of relationships, creative endeavours, investments, and paycheques. Venus, the attraction and enhancement archetype, is working in harmony with the sun, Jupiter,

Pluto, and Mercury retrograde. Friday through Monday, monitor feelings and impressions; keep talks and plans open-ended; and let spontaneity dictate the play. Creative projects and solutions offer the best reward. Monday/Tuesday, sun/Jupiter makes everything larger in scope. Tuesday/Wednesday, the Aries moon keeps action and passion going strong.

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ARIES

March 20–April 20

Just when you think you have a secure handle on finances or matters of the heart, here comes Mercury retrograde. For the next threeplus weeks, net worth, self-worth, inertia, or ruts are up for review. To the plus, it’s a fertile time for a creative or renovation project, a personal or attitude makeover. A hefty investment is likely—and worth its weight!

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TAURUS

April 20–May 21

While the usual Mercury retrograde snafus are to be expected, Venus, freshly into Taurus, can prove refortifying in some positive way. A rethink or revisit leads to a better sense of how, what, where, when, and who. Venus increases your ability to attract and to gain favour. Sunday through Tuesday are built for ease. Your stars gift you with an all-access pass.

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

What does your heart tell you? If you are truly listening, you’ll know. If you don’t feel clear, ask yourself if you are letting distractions or attachments get in the way. Mercury retrograde will take

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you through deeper soul-searching. yourself in some strengthening and Time is your best teacher, your best confidence-building way. healer, and your best reward. TuesLIBRA day, a talk, meet-up, interview, or September 23–October 23 scouting mission can go very well. What’s in survival mode CANCER and what’s on thrive? A double check June 21–July 22 and/or rethink is both wise and necesBack to the drawing board; sary while Mercury tours retrograde. back to the negotiating table. Re- While it is likely to be a slow process, vision or refinancing is to your ad- Venus freshly into Taurus can help vantage. A better plan or solution can you to recoup lost ground regarding be found. Trust. Mercury retrograde finances and key relationships. Frican prompt a change of mind, heart, day through Monday, take it moment or involvement. It can also produce a to moment, allow rather than force. time extension, a repeat, or a tempor- Tuesday/Wednesday could springary sidetrack. Expect to remeet with board you/it. someone you love or admire. SCORPIO LEO October 23–November 22 July 22–August 23 An intensified observation Over the next few weeks, of self in action begins as Mercury you’ll focus toward stabilizing and/or backtracks and Venus enters Taurus. Is enhancing your reputation, career, this what you want? Is this what’s best? or material status. More respect, ac- What more can be added or gained? knowledgment, and reward are on Both transits put added emphasis on your want list too. Mercury retro- getting your money’s worth out of sograde helps you to sort out what cial interactions, specific relationships, you need and need to do. Venus in and contracts (actual and karmic). Taurus can bring benefits regarding Sunday through Tuesday is optimal all the above. Tuesday/Wednesday for conjuring and creating: immerse speeds up your progress. yourself; express your heart.

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VIRGO

August 23–September 23

On a wait? Expect to hear back/hear news, perhaps as early as Sunday. The next several weeks take you through a major reevaluation, rethink, or replay. Watch for your best options to become more obvious and straightforward. Despite setbacks or sidetracks, Mercury retrograde helps you to make great personal strides, to reclaim

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November 22–December 21

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PISCES

December 21–January 20

Mercury retrograde can slow you down, but if so, it’s a gift. Extra time to evaluate is beneficial. Don’t allow duty-bound thinking or another’s needs to usurp the process or put you under added pressure. Feel your way along and trust that it will lead you to your best option, play, or answer. Sunday onward, the going is smooth. January 20–February 18

Thursday through Saturday can dish up something unexpected. Watch for a last-minute change of plans, a relationship or work snag, or added expenses. Renovations, revisions, and family and home matters require more time and investment while Mercury travels retrograde. Sunday through Tuesday, there’s more; no matter how it shapes up, it’s a blessing in disguise. February 18–March 20

Keep open-ended and open-minded. During the next several weeks, opinions, plans, and evaluations can undergo significant change. Mercury’s retrograde tour gives you more time to observe and assess. Venus into Taurus can enhance relationships and improve communications. Refinancing or renegotiating financial terms is appropriate now. Sunday through Tuesday puts you into action, perhaps unexpectedly so. -

Have you just launched into something promising but now find yourself in the thick of more than you bargained for? For the next few weeks, Mercury retrograde puts the focus on necessary improvements and upgrades, especially regarding work and health. Look to Venus into Taurus to pump up Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s your stamina. Tuesday/Wednesday you free monthly newsletter: www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. can get further and gain more.

> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < HYPNOTISED BY YOUR EYES

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 21, 2016 WHERE: The Tap House Surrey Last Thurs at the Tap House you went up on stage but the hypnotist couldn't put you under. I watched you shyly too long and by the time I got close enough to talk you were wasted and having a mini meltdown. You still looked beautiful however and I was definitely hypnotised by you.

BEAUTIFUL CURLS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 25, 2016 WHERE: Walking Home

I’ve seen you on your way home from work several times now. We’ve always shared a smile, today was no different. Next time I’ll say hello but on the off chance that you read this maybe we can use this to break the ice. :)

TALL DARK HANDSOME

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 24, 2016 WHERE: Davie Street

You: walking up Davie corner of Broughton, talking with your friends, hands in your pockets. You had short dark hair, late 30’s, wearing jeans and a wind jacket. You looked at me while i was walking towards you, playing with my keys. Me: wearing all black sportswear with a high ponytail.

SAW YOU AT MOJA ON COMMERICAL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 24, 2016 WHERE: Moja Cafe on Commercial Saw you at the Moja on Commercial. You: brunette wearing a denim jacket. Me: sitting across from you wearing a beige/brown sweater. We kept glancing at each other. I wanted to talk to you, but I was with a friend... I guess you like coffee...

TALL BEAUTY WAITING AT THE KEG ON 82ND

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 21, 2016 WHERE: Keg

You waiting in the lobby at the Keg Thursday April 21 6:30ish. Our eyes locked we seemed familiar to us both. I walked by lost for words not knowing if you were waiting on a date or... as I turned for one last look you had turned and again our eyes locked. Have not stopped thinking of you. Let's meet same spot and have a drink.

TWO FOR ONE TUESDAY’S ON BOWEN

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 23, 2016 WHERE: Bowen Island

You: Torontonian who cracks great jokes while giving kayak paddling demos on Bowen island. Me: tall, curly haired girl who forgot to return the ziplock bags (and feels so guilty!). I had to run to catch the ferry before asking... would you like an adventure buddy?

CUTE POLICE OFFICER, RYAN, AT MOVIE SHOOT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 22, 2016 WHERE: Movie Shoot

We were working at a movie shoot together. I thought you were super cute and really enjoyed talking to you... I didn’t see a ring on your finger? You left before I got back to the meeting area. I’d love to go for drinks? Lemme know what my name is so I know it’s you ;-).

BRUNETTE AT CHICK COREA & BELA FLECK ORPHEUM 22.4.2016

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 22, 2016 WHERE: Orpheum

I saw you, brunette, accompanied by your Asian male date (and another guy) at the Chick Corea concert on April 22, 2016, at the Orpheum. After both of us moved from the upper balcony closer to the stage, my party sat just a few empty rows in front of you. You seemed to have a lot of fun, but our eyes and smiles met several times that evening (in the stair case, before the second set etc.) and just before you left. Despite your rather fun company, you obviously were a little distracted. So was I. If you read this, you certainly will know who is behind this post. Interesting company is hard to find. Let’s meet for a coffee and discuss your impressions of Chick Corea and Bela Fleck.

TALL BEAUTY IN SCRUBS!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 22, 2016 WHERE: BC Children’s Hospital We meet in the corridor while you were pushing a cart. My eyes immediately locked in you when I saw you. You gorgeous red head with hair tied back and shaved sides. Followed you and wish I said something before you hopped onto the elevator. Hope to bump into you and your sweet smile again soon....

SERVER AT THE DUHB LINN

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 22, 2016 WHERE: Duhb Linn Gate Pub, Vancouver Last night I came into the pub with a large crowd for a birthday party. We chatted a little while you served our table. I would have liked to exchange numbers but I never got the chance to ask before I had to go. I think you’re super cute and I’d like to meet up.

STUNNING ASIAN

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 25, 2016 WHERE: #22

You were on the #22 this afternoon and got off at 1st and Knight. I had sunglasses on but kept catching you on the reflection. As you got off and walked away we finally shared a look. Would love to get to know you, you’re absolutely gorgeous.

#321 BUS DRIVER IN SURREY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 18, 2016 WHERE: Newton Exchange Shout out to the Amaranthe hoodie bus driver I met in January or February boarding the #321 at Surrey Central, and then again this week on Monday April 18. I was wearing a Xandria t-shirt as I boarded your bus at Newton Exchange just after 5pm & we discussed Leaves’ Eyes. I am open to a message from you if you’re interested. :)

WANT MORE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 21, 2016 WHERE: On the Canada Line I was on the Canada Line, near the bike sect. You two were sisters (not in the genetic sense... (though I guess I shouldn’t assume). You were taking up the bike storage area and wrapping up your conversation about Jesus Christ with a lady while I shared a long-lasting affirming gaze with another woman and her bike ;p I waited a couple of minutes debating whether I should break ice, -Oh thank Odin, an elder (no latter day saint) gets on. I give up my seat “where are you guys headed?” You are a red head from Florida and your sister is a curly blonde from Pennsylvania? I am me, with a pathless land, brown hair and a contact lens that folded over itself in one eye. I understand you’re on a mission, but from our brief exchanges you struck me as an open mind, pragmatic human! Unsure about your sister, but I’d love to get philosophical -no judgement or proselytizing- on some grass, sunny day, we’re eating apples and peanut butter. Life is awesome.

LADY DRIVER. C23 BUS. LONG RED HAIR. CHATTED AT BUS STOP WEST OF YALETOWN ROUNDHOUSE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 16, 2016 WHERE: Bust Stop West of Roundhouse SkyTrain on North Side We chatted briefly while we waited for full buses to go by. You were a driver waiting for her shift to start. I believe it Sat or Sun Apr 26-17. I got on a bus and we waived at each other as I stupidly left on the bus. I left my number and name with the driver, but she likely didn’t pass on. I am a writer and am very tall, late fifties and a black baseball cap with a backpack. If any other drivers in that area, please tell her. I would very much like to chat further with her. Thanks

SHORT-HAIRED GIRL ON THE 480

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 21, 2016 WHERE: UBC->Granville

We were both leaving UBC on a pretty empty bus, you were the pale girl with short hair in the sideways seats in front of me reading. We kept looking at each other when the other wasn’t looking it seemed like. Anyway you are really cute I hope I see you around this summer

AT THE LIBRARY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 15, 2015 WHERE: Vancouver Public Library I sat next to you at the VPL in the community centre on Kingsway/Main in east Vancouver. We started talking because you got a spam call on your cellphone. You were working on a powerpoint presentation at the time for a web client and I was working on design work. You were a real joy to talk to. If you see this, let’s meet up sometime.

BRUNETTE FEMALE THE #25 7AM BUS

CATCHING

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 20, 2016 WHERE: #25 Bus

You: super cute brunette young woman crossing the street with me at Fraser &25th. Me: Tall-ish male with goatee and blue eyes wearing a green cap and blue hoodie heading to work. You were carrying coffee drinks in a tray. We were both running for the bus and barely caught it. I sat beside you on the bus. I wish I had said more but it was a short window of time and also early in the morning :) I hope you see this or run into you again. I wouldn’t normally post something like this but I’ve been thinking about you all day. You just never know.. Worth a try:) Scott.

SWEET CHERRYBUM

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 19, 2016 WHERE: Sweet Cherubim Commercial Drive I was sitting outside of Sweet Cherubim on Commercial Drive and had just finished writing a post card. You walked by just as I looked up and we smiled at each other. Me: short hair, bike helmet, black turtle neck, flip phone. You: curly blonde hair, adorable, wearing blue I think, not super tall. After that one look you kept turning around and smiling at me looking very interested or curious about something. Me, being intrigued by you, I smiled curiously back. You continued walking down Commercial and kept turning around every few steps smiling a great big smile and I kept looking back at you smiling great big smiles back and I know we both wanted to say something but instead. I got on my orange bike and biked up the drive and you kept walking down the opposite way. Your excitement excited me and I wish one of us said something! But I left thinking “I’ll see him again”, so now I write this in hopes that you are someone who still reads the newspaper :’).

IF I DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER I’D SAY YOU WERE FOLLOWING ME

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 19, 2016 WHERE: Seawall

We were biking at the exact same speed by the water. It was a beautiful view. Also the sun was setting. You caught up to me near the planetarium and pointed out the coyote.

CATCHING THE #22 ON ROBSON AROUND 4:30

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 21, 2016 WHERE: Burrard and Robston, Downtown, Vancouver. To unimaginably cute Asian individual who was waiting for a bus on Burrard and Robson. Just want to tell you you made my day! I was really anxious because I had an exam later that day. I may appeared really irritated when you looked at my face (I was wondering why you did so but my best guess is that you were wondering whether I am trying to get onto the bus or not.) I was not able to appreciate that moment at all. Now that the only thing I can do is cherish my memory of seeing you.You were holding a chocolate wrapped with a ribbon that seemed like a gift. I wish I had a piece of that chocolate.

DENNYS AT MIDNIGHT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 17, 2016 WHERE: The Dennys on North Road You had black hair and a plaid shirt, I was that dumb looking guy talking far louder then is appropriate for 1am at Dennys. I was to nervous to talk to you then, but maybe I can redeem my cowardice over coffee if you are interested.

SLICKED BACK HOTTIE AT CACTUS YALETOWN

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 7, 2016 WHERE: Yaletown Cactus Club Gordon gecko rocked the pinstripes back in the day but you took it next level with ur gold bracelet. I always thought slicked back hair was for douche bag brokers and sleazy realtors. But you wore it sooooooo good. You met me and my gf at Cactus Yaletown and even though I have a boyfriend I can’t get u out of my mind. Especially at certain hours of the evening :). I was the hot blond in white. U bought us a bottle of wine and if only you stuck around to see where that could’ve gotten you... You should get in touch and find out ;)

JAMMING TO SNOOP DOGG

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 17, 2016 WHERE: Fortune Sound Club Beautiful girl giving me eyes. We eventually got close and danced. Definitely good chemistry even if you might had been just curious. I was too shy to get your name or number. You still got me thinking about you.

YOU PARKED YOUR CAR AT COMMERCIAL STATION!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 16, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Station (from Dt) well loooong shot but here goes! You the geeky Asian girl who parked your car outside the Commercial SkyTrain station this Saturday around 6:30pm. You were in black yoga pants, holding a bag from Artiza I think, long amazing hair, rockin body, and trendy rectangular eyeglasses. I was coming in the same train but you really caught my attention when you looked back at me while waiting for the light so you could cross the street. I didn't meant to scare you when I pressed the button again, you left almost running to your car but I saw your charming smile a quarter second before you start running! Haven't stopped thinking about you since. Hopefully you see this and say Hi. Probably a long shot but who knows.

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