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hen Jan Schulte-Hillen was born in Germany in 1961 with deformed, extremely short arms, he was met with horror. His mom’s doctor, in a voice devoid of emotion, advised her to have another child and get rid of him. No one in that delivery room knew that the newborn, with his big, bright eyes, was one of thousands of babies being born all over the world with severe deformities as a result of the worst drug disaster in history. To ease her morning sickness, his mom had taken thalidomide. Baby Schulte-Hillen was one of the lucky ones whose parents loved him fiercely from the get-go. Others were given up for adoption, sent to mental institutions, or, according to thalidomide researcher Martin Johnson, killed at the hands of the very doctors who delivered them. Schulte-Hillen shares his story in filmmaker John Zaritsky’s new documentary, No Limits: The Thalidomide Saga, the final film in his trilogy about the world’s “thalidomiders”. Their experiences are especially heartbreaking and enraging, given that signs of the drug’s effects were early and obvious; nine months after the first deformed baby was born, thalidomide was brought to market in Germany. Doctors in almost 50 countries went on to prescribe the pill to pregnant women for years, despite baby after baby being born with stunted, misshapen arms and legs or limbless altogether. But the tale gets much darker and more disturbing than that. No Limits, which has its world premiere at the 15th annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival, sheds shocking light on Grünenthal (formerly Chemie Grünenthal), the German pharmaceutical company behind the drug. Thalidomide, in fact, had its origins in Nazi Germany. According to the film, the drug’s inventor, Heinrich Mückter, was a doctor whose experiments were performed on prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Chemist Otto Ambros, after spending four years in prison for Auschwitz forcedlabour atrocities, became chair of Grünenthal’s board of directors, hired by the company’s then owner, Hermann Wirtz, who was an influential member of the Nazi Party.

John Zaritsky’s documentary No Limits delves into the horrific history and ongoing injustice of people born deformed due to the drug thalidomide.

A team of Australian lawyers for thalidomide victim Lynette Row discovered the truth behind the drug by unearthing volumes of damning evidence about Grünenthal, documents that had been sealed and placed in archives for 40 years after criminal charges of manslaughter and premeditated bodily harm against its executives were dropped in the early 1970s. “I had no idea that all this terrible, terrible suffering and damage was all caused by Nazi war criminals who knew the drug was dangerous before they even put it on the market,” Zaritsky says in a phone interview. “I was blown away. And horrified.” Zaritsky—whose many other films include Do You Really Want to Know?, about families facing Huntington’s disease, and Leave Them Laughing, which followed singer and former Vancouverite Carla Zilbersmith after she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—first featured a group of young adults coping with thalidomide’s signature birth defects (deformed or missing limbs) in his 1989 film, Broken Promises. He revisited those individuals in 1999’s Extraordinary People, which centred on the reintroduction of thalidomide on the Canadian market to treat multiple myeloma and epilepsy. Aside from documenting thalidomide’s disturbing back story, No Limits features some of the same people from Zaritsky’s previous two films featuring the drug and its effects, completing

a kind of Seven Up!–style series on the drug’s disabled victims. With No Limits, he’s hoping that those victims will see some form of justice. Grünenthal is still owned by the Wirtz family, which is allegedly worth billions. “I really, really hope that Grünenthal will finally, finally do what they should have done 50 years ago and compensate adequately victims outside of Germany, none of whom have received a penny,” Zaritsky claims. “It’s staggering.” Grünenthal denied Zaritsky’s requests to be interviewed for the film. According to the website for Contergan, the brand name thalidomide was sold under in Germany, the Grünenthal Foundation provides financial assistance for thalidomide victims in acute emergency situations. The website states: “The Grünenthal Foundation supports individual thalidomide victims by assuming the costs for individual benefits in kind, focusing on mobility and adaptions in the living environment associated with the disability that are not paid for by social security funds (health insurance companies, social services department, etc.). Those people interested in this support must be recognized by the Thalidomide Foundation For Disabled People or an institution with similar criteria for recognition.” -

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THE BIG BANG TO THE MULTIVERSE AND BEYOND Michael Turner discusses what we know and how we know it. Simulcast from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as part of the Kavli Lecture Series. May 5, 5-7 pm, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre (1100 Chestnut). Tix $8-13, info www.spacecentre.ca/feature-series/.

FORUMS 2THIS WEEK UBC 2050: THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Panel discussion reviews the major changes that have occurred in the past 100 years, looks at breakthroughs and innovations poised to have significant influences on the future, and charts the near-term future of teaching and learning at UBC. May 5, 2-4 pm, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, UBC). Free admission, info events.ctlt.ubc. ca/events/ubc-2050-the-future-of-highereducation-panel-discussion/.

CANADIAN WOMEN SHAPING DIASPORIC RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES Book launch and panel discussion with Becky Lee, Kate Power, and Tak-Ling Terry Woo. May 6, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Info www.sfu.ca/ humanities-institute/public-events/publicevents/2016/women-identities.html. WILD SALMON, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, AND CLIMATE CONNECTIONS Stó:lo¯ elder Eddie Gardner talks about salmon

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TAKE ACTION 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA BREAKFAST Stories and conversation about the experiences, complexity, and beauty of LGBTQ families. Emmy Award– winning news anchor Kevin Newman and his son Alex will share their story of struggle, connection, and forgiveness. May 13, doors 7 am, program starts 7:30 am, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (900 W. Georgia). Tix $90 at www.eventbrite.ca/. RALLY FOR EDUCATION Students, parents, and community members rally in support of education as a fundamental human right. May 28, 1 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Info www.bcstudentalliance.org/.

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SUNDAY PAELLA SERIES Executive chef Alex Chen conjures up the rustic flavours of Spain’s national dish with a string of events featuring paella as the centrepiece. To May 29, 6-9 pm, Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar (845 Burrard). Tix $49, info www.eventbrite.ca/e/sunday-paellaseries-tickets-22668431890/.

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SPORTS 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS CANADA VS. EL SALVADOR Soccer teams from Canada and El Salvador compete in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match. Sep 6, BC Place Stadium (777 Pacific Boulevard). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

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self as a “digestitarian”. In a phone interview with the Georgia Straight, the Squamish-based nutritional researcher said he bases his diet around which foods are easiest on his gut. And he maintained that this has given him a tremendous boost in energy. “The first step is to think about what it means to become a digestitarian,” Hart advised. “You have to stabilize your blood sugar on a daily basis using natural, plant-based foods. The number one food that I’ve done that with is hemp seeds. I start off by adding in a tablespoon of hemp seeds at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” Hart included several tips on how to incorporate hemp into different foods and beverages in his 2013 book, The Power of Food: 100 Essential Recipes for Abundant Health and Happiness. And he claimed that anyone who consumes hemp seeds three times a day over a seven-day period will likely notice a significant increase in energy level. That’s because hemp seeds are a complete source of protein, rich in essential amino and fatty acids. According to Hart, they’re also not nearly as heavy as meat, which is loaded with protein. “Excessive amounts of protein are hard to digest,” Hart said. “One, it creates acidity, but two, it also zaps your energy. All the energy in your digestive system is going to break that down.” He wasn’t always slim, and he didn’t always focus on his diet. Growing up in Toronto in the 1970s and ’80s, Hart ate foods filled with sugar. At the age of 13, he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and was put on medication. He said that several years later, while attending university, he worked in a pizza restaurant where he had “unlimited access” to what was made in the kitchen.

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plant-based proteins. And he hasn’t entirely sworn off the foods he And as he discovered ate as a young man. Adam Hart touts the power of plant-based proteins “I follow the 80/20 model,” he said. “Eighty how he could heal with to combat depression and stabilize blood-sugar levels better food choices, he percent of my food comes from nice, clean plantdeveloped a passion for based sources. But I still go to the bar with my friends and I’ll have a beer. I’ll eat pizza.” “That was a time when my health started to take teaching others how to do this. a turn,” he recalled. “I was diagnosed as prediaIn 2003, Hart created his company, Power of betic and had high cholesterol. I was about 50 Food, and he moved to Squamish in 2005 to be Adam Hart is one of the speakers at Winspiration pounds overweight and had severe food allergies.” closer to Vancouver, where he could offer stress- Day Vancouver on Saturday (May 7) at the VanBy the time he was 25, he said, he was also management solutions to corporate clients. couver Orpheum Annex. suffering from depression and anxiety, for which he was given more medication. On his Winspiration comes to Vancouver website, Hart reveals that he spent sleepless nights crying in bed. His life finally began to Second World War buffs know that VE Day, aka Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated turn around when he discovered the joy of inon May 7 in Commonwealth countries. That’s because this is the day in 1945 when door rock-climbing in Toronto. Germany formally surrendered to Allied forces in Rheims, France. It came a week “I began to get addicted to the feeling it was givafter Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. ing me,” he said. “I realized many years later that it The end of the war inspired a grassroots group in Frankfurt, Germany, to launch a was my form of meditation. The only time that I was movement in 2003 to support health and wellness every May 7. Called “Winspiration Day”, it has spread to not in a depressed state was when I was climbing.” different cities. This year, it will be celebrated in Vancouver for the first time. Fearing that his corporate job in Toronto was That’s because the nonprofit Winspiration Association selected former Vancity executive Doris Orr as one of leading to occupational burnout, Hart moved its global hosts. In addition to Adam Hart (see above), the event at the Vancouver Orpheum Annex on Saturday to Golden, B.C., which has a reputation as an (May 7) will include a presentation by Lucila McElroy, cofounder of the Gratitude Graffiti Project and administraoutdoor-recreation mecca. He said he trained tive director of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver. Dr. Divi Chandna, a family physician and mind-bodyto become a mountain guide but soon realized spirit-medicine coach, will also speak at Winspiration Vancouver. how poorly he had been eating. That’s when Hart “Our guest speakers for this inaugural event in Vancouver all share the commonality that healing and began making subtle additions to his diet. happiness is achievable by tapping into our own resources,” Orr said in an April news release announcing “I was learning how to stabilize my blood sugar the lineup. “They address some of the problems that are prevalent in society like depression, stress, anxfor the first time ever,” he said. iety, chronic pain and food allergies and offer solutions. My goal is that everyone attending will come away With some changes, he noticed that his energy inspired and with tools they can use for success and wellness in their lives.” level perked up. He didn’t eliminate cookies, pop, > CHARLIE SMITH and chocolate cake—he just gradually lost the cravings for these sugar bombs as he consumed more

ON THE TRAIL TO MOBILITY It’s no exaggeration to say

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the world with better-looking hiking trails than beautiful British Columbia. But not everybody can enjoy the footpaths that cross our valleys, circle our lakes, and climb our mountains. Hiking is simply not an activity that’s easily accessible to people with a physical disability. That makes Inland Lake Provincial Park a rare find. “There is not a lot of places like this in North America,” said David Morris, executive director of the Powell River Model Community Project. “There’s a 13-kilometre The 13-kilometre trail around the Sunshine Coast’s Inland Lake was designed trail all around this lake, and it was to be fully accessible for people with mobility issues. Stephen Hui photo. constructed to be fully accessible for persons with mobility issues, designed for people with disabilities, they can cast a line in and that sort of and even specially built spots for fishing. stuff,” Morris continued. “It is a rarity.” including wheelchairs.” More than that, there are cabins and “If people want, they can stop, they Located a five-hour drive north bathrooms along the trail that were can go out to the end of the dock, and of downtown Vancouver (including

> BY TRAVIS LUPICK a ferry ride up the Sunshine Coast), Inland Lake is just the right distance away for a long weekend out of town. Morris noted the trail is popular with everybody, disabled or not. For example, the extra-wide paths and minimal hills make it perfect for a bicycle ride with young children. Rod Dalziel is the Sunshine Coast area supervisor for B.C. Parks. He told the Georgia Straight Inland Lake was first made universally accessible back in the 1980s. Since then, he continued, there have been several rounds of maintenance and improvements. He explained that it’s a combination of nature and an attention to detail that makes Inland Lake accessible for all. First, there is the path’s location, which is free of any hills. And park staff put extra effort into trail maintenance, keeping the dirt packed tight, for example.

Finally, artificial features such as boardwalks and bridges were built extra wide to accommodate mobility aids. Given that there are relatively few provincial parks like it, Dalziel recommended that anybody hoping to use one of the cabins outfitted for disabled people contact the park’s operator, Unlimited Trails, well in advance of their trip. “With a large 13-kilometre trail and cabins and everything like this, I think it’s relatively unique,” he said. Although Inland Lake is one of the province’s best outdoor options for people with disabilities, there are alternatives. B.C. Parks supplied a list of favourite provincial parks, including Alice Lake near Squamish, Bear Creek in the Okanagan, and Goldstream and Rathtrevor Beach, both located on Vancouver Island. -

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MOTHER’S DAY

The VanDusen Botanical Garden will offer everything from an outdoor pop-up café to a jazz band and a photo booth at Heron Lake (above) for Mother’s Day.

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them to a digital-learning camp this summer. Langara College is offering its Introduction to Digital Music Production over a two-week period from July 4 to 8 and from July 11 to 15. It’s open to anyone between the ages of 13 and 18, and students will learn about sequencing, recording, keyboard skills for composing and arranging, music theory, and music software. Anyone who enrolls is urged to bring their own headphones. For more information, contact Eleanor Clarke at eclarke@langara.bc.ca. The UBC website also has a long list of Geering Up camps, which are designed to make science, technology, and engineering exciting for kids. For details, visit www.geeringup. apsc.ubc.ca/. And the Vancouver-based Centre for Digital Media is reviving its popular summer program, Tomorrow’s Master of Digital Media, for students from grades 9 to 12. It began in 2008 in partnership with Electronic Arts as a monthlong summer boot camp. This year, it’s being offered from August 8 to 26. For more information, visit thecdm.ca/.

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B.C. inventor aspires to erase disability stigma

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rowing up in the Netherlands, Barbara Alink recognized at a very young age that people are uncomfortable talking about death and injuries. But the Richmond inventor also learned an important lesson from her grandmother: “If you ever face a problem, turn it around and you just might find a solution.” Those two notions have come together in Alink’s radically chic mobility aid, the Alinker, which she designed to transform the lives of people with disabilities. “It moves with your feet,” Alink told the Straight by phone. “While you sit in the saddle, you walk. You take away all the pressure on your lower limbs. And you’re upright, you’re at eye level.” At the April 23 TEDxEastVan conference, Alink told the audience that four years ago, she and her mother walked by some elderly people on low-rise scooters. “My mom is quite a character, and she has got a way of being quite forthright,” Alink recalled. “Out of the blue, she said, ‘Over my dead body I’ll ever use one of those.’ ” Alink said that when she asked why, her mother paused before saying: “Well, actually, I’m really scared to be disabled and to be looked upon as I look upon them.” This incident helped Alink gain insight into how mobility aids can emphasize a person’s disability. She concluded that this might make some refuse to use them, leaving them more vulnerable to falls and other accidents. So Alink set out to create a device that would promote active living and be stylish enough for her mother and others to want to ride it. “It would be so cool that the user would feel proud and happy,” Alink said. “And, ultimately, it needed to be so cool that it would

Cindy Brooks and Barbara Alink are marketing a stylish mobility aid.

overcome [people’s] discomfort with other people with a disability.” A year ago, she and her partner, Cindy Brooks, launched the product in the Netherlands, and they’re getting ready to market it in Canada. On May 18 Alink will be in Toronto to film a segment for CBC TV’s Dragons’ Den. The Alinker is already for sale on www.alinker.com/ for US$1,977, which works out to about CDN$2,500. Barbara Alink will speak at Propelling Social Ventures: Lessons on Empowered Entrepreneurship, which takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday (May 9) at the UBC Robson Square Theatre. A longer version of this story is available at Straight.com.

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enae Morriseau, recently named the Vancouver Public Library’s 2016 aboriginal storyteller in residence, is ready to share the diverse cultural realities of Canada’s First Nations with anyone who is ready to listen. Originally from Winnipeg, and of Cree and Saulteaux descent, Morriseau calls herself a “settler on Coast Salish shores”, having made Vancouver her home 30 years ago. She is the program’s seventh storyteller. Created in 2009 as a way for the VPL to honour aboriginal culture through the art of storytelling, it is the first public-library program of its kind in B.C. and the second in Canada to focus on promoting intercultural understanding among indigenous and nonindigenous people. For Morriseau—already a storyteller of sorts throughout her career as an actor, writer, film producer, director, and musician—the role offers her both an opportunity to share with Vancouverites the cultural teachings of Canada’s First Nations and an important platform to discuss the role of all Canadians in what she calls the necessary decolonization and reconciliation facing our country. “In regards to this sort of new energy of Canada in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I think the ability to talk narratives in a variety of platforms is where we’re going,” Morriseau said during an interview with the Georgia Straight at the VPL’s Georgia Street central branch. In addition to speaking one-on-one with anyone who has questions about aboriginal culture (bookable by appointment through the VPL’s website), Morriseau will be hosting a series of talks at the central branch through May and June. She is also interested in creating an online platform where narratives can be discussed in further detail.

Renae Morriseau is the Vancouver Public Library’s 2016 aboriginal storyteller in residence. Amanda Siebert photo.

“My hope is that—through the type of dialogues that I have with individuals and the work that I’ve done in theatre, film, TV, and song—that we can change our relationship with the world in regards to our history of disassociation with the land and the waters by reintroducing indigenous perspectives.” Morriseau’s story began on Treaty 1 territory in the north end of Winnipeg, where she lived with her family alongside communities of descendants of Ukrainian and Polish settlers. Although she grew up learning the protocols of ceremony and the traditional teachings of her Cree and Saulteaux heritage, her family still felt the effects of Canada’s unfair treatment of First Nations people. They lived below the poverty line and collected welfare.

“My family chose not to move up to where they forced us to live, so even though I’m status Indian, I’ve never lived on a reserve and I never went to residential school—but I was a product of a system that didn’t recognize who I was,” Morriseau said of her past. “It’s an interesting part of our Canadian history that a lot of people don’t understand: that response to not being from a Eurocentric ideology.” That response—the 1876 federal statute known as the Indian Act that, essentially, aimed to eradicate aboriginal culture through involuntary assimilation—eventually brought with it residential schools that, ultimately, displaced more than 150,000 children. It wasn’t until Morriseau heard Phil Fontaine speak in 1990 that she understood the full extent of residential schools

and the effects they had on Canada’s indigenous families and communities. At the time, Fontaine was Manitoba’s vice chief for the Assembly of First Nations. It was the first time Fontaine had spoken publicly about his personal experience at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School. “He was sexually assaulted. He was physically assaulted. This was my first inclination of what residential schools were really about, and, ironically, that informed much of my work,” Morriseau reflected. Fontaine, who was later elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was credited by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for bringing residential schools into the public eye. Despite the horrendous treatment of Canada’s aboriginal population by

past governments, Morriseau’s attitude toward reconciliation is refreshingly positive. “I think we’re at a really cool place right now,” Morriseau said, smiling. “I’m optimistic. We can only take small steps, but if I can affect you, say, by helping you understand what ‘unceded territory’ means, I did my job. That, to me, is part of the decolonization process.” According to Morriseau, Anishinabe comedian Ryan McMahon says a decolonization has to happen before a reconciliation. This resonates with her. “I believe that, as artists, we are sort of doing that in deconstructing the knowledge that we’ve grown up in,” Morriseau said. Among the topics she seeks to deconstruct is that of Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women, as well as the historic relationship between Chinese Canadians and First Nations and the issues of Coast Salish languages facing extinction. At the top of her list, though, Morriseau said, is sharing the important values and world-views regarding a pillar of First Nations culture: their relationship to land and water. “If people are open to understanding that there is an alternative history of the way we look at land and water, at Kikâwînaw Askiy, or Mother Earth, then instead of seeing it as a resource to be exploited, we would see that the ideas of our community constructs are so beautiful, are so inclusive, because there’s no separation between what’s alive in our worldview,” Morriseau said. “These expressions are things that I think all Canadians are a part of.” Renae Morriseau’s next event at the VPL, Conversations With Renae: Storytelling Traditions in Music, is next Thursday (May 12) at 2 p.m. For more info, visit www.vpl.ca/programs/.

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The Tofino Food and Wine Festival offers many culinary and drink events in a gorgeous setting. Rebecca Wellman photo.

The signature event of this annual extravaganza, Grazing in the Gardens, is already sold-out, and no wonder: imagine multiple B.C. wineries and breweries along with Tofino restaurants, offering samples throughout the winding paths of the beautiful Tofino Botanical Gardens. However, there are plenty of other fest happenings that will make the trek to the ocean village during the June 3 to 5 weekend worthwhile. The 14th annual festival kicks off with the Cocktail Show (June 3), featuring local mixologists offering up their finest creations with food pairings. Look for wine, spirit, and craft-beer tastings too at the party, which takes place at the Schooner Restaurant. With stunning ocean and mountain views, the same venue hosts a sunset barbecue the next night. And if you’re disappointed about not being able to attend the bucolic Grazing event on June 4, take heart: you can still visit the Tofino Botanical Gardens the day before or after. Here, you’ll find 12 acres of flower, herb, and kitchen gardens; a serene duck pond; picturesque shoreline; and a forest full of pocket gardens and art installations, all connected by a network of paths and boardwalks. There’s a café and gift shop, too. Of course, you could also spend your time strolling along the area’s miles of sandy beaches or going kayaking, standup paddleboarding, or whale-watching. Check out tofinofoodandwinefestival.com/ for more info.

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hen Shannon Cluff talks about movement, her eyes sparkle. As yogis like to say, there’s a light within her—one that no one who enters Dharma Movement Company (DMC) is immune to absorbing. That contagious energy exhibited by Cluff and her kindhearted crew of yogis seems to ignite a mind-body consciousness in practitioners that separates DMC from the average cookie-cutter yoga studio. The word experienced is an understatement in Cluff’s case: she’s been teaching yoga to students and instructors alike in Vancouver for almost 15 years. Before diving headfirst into yoga, Cluff trained as a dancer. As the manager of the enlivened Yaletown space—the reinvigoration of what was formerly known as Exhale Studio—Cluff, along with her tightknit team of instructors, has thrown out the rule book and created a place for practitioners to “move all ways” by injecting a series of movement modalities into their classes that strict yogis might dub too experimental. Cluff, however, says it’s a “space for people to feel mechanically what their bodies can do” through intuitive movement that encourages not a step but a leap out of one’s comfort zone. A quick glance at DMC’s schedule will reveal that yoga is just one part of what is offered. Although familiar names like hatha, yin, and vinyasa appear, some are more idiosyncratic: Cirque Fit utilizes dynamic movement and conditioning to build stamina and active flexibility (hello, splits!), while Primal Flow combines yoga and a series of animalistic movement sequences that will have you crawling through the studio on all fours. Cluff’s Freeform Hatha class begins in a place that, she says, often perturbs DMC virgins: off the mat. “That, for some people, is like: ‘What? I have to leave my life raft?’ ” Cluff says with a chuckle. “It helps that our teachers are fusing the movement styles in classes, so it’s easy to pull people through that uncomfortable feeling.” Pointing across the circle of instructors who have joined the interview, she tells me that their programming is partly inspired by Slava Goloubov, an instructor at DMC whose commitment

to variety has helped Cluff, other instructors, and DMC’s regulars “get out of the yoga box”. “Before I started yoga, I was in construction. I did nothing prior to it, no dance, no martial arts—I just dove into this thing,” Goloubov says. It started with yoga. Then Goloubov took up acrobatics, circus training, capoeira, and kung fu. He says opening his mind to other disciplines has made him not only a better student, but a better teacher. “You see things that are good about the practice, but then you see the things that are missing as well, so you try to infuse the things that are lacking,” he says. He says a student of his who has practised yoga for five years was unable to flatten her palms to the ground in certain postures. “After two of my Movement Lab classes, where we do a lot of kicking, conditioning, and martial arts, she was able to go flat with her hands to the floor, where she was always on her fingertips before,” Goloubov says. Other instructors at DMC agree with Goloubov’s sentiments: the injection of difference, of unfamiliar movement and diversity, has helped remove an element of rigidity in their practices, opening them up to new experiences and closer connections, both in the studio and out. Erika Valliere, a hatha/TNTconditioning-class instructor, says DMC’s message is as much about community as it is about cultivating a healthy lifestyle: “At the end of the day, it’s not a competition. We’re all here to make people’s bodies healthier, to make them have a better relationship to movement, and to nurture this idea of community support.” “This,” Cluff says as she opens her hands to the floor, “should make us more friendly. We do this to get better at that, at the outside world. We get in our body, we get out pain, we get out of our heads, and we go out there with the intention of creating change.” In addition to regular classes, Dharma Movement Company hosts a variety of workshops. On May 14 and 15, Lucie-Honey Ray will present her Sensual Diva movement workshop, and on May 28, Morgan Lee Snow will host the Family Yoga Playshop (ages 2 and up).

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Three men and a bow: Aim for the Roses filmmaker John Bolton (left) and composer/double bassist Mark Haney (far right) flank daredevil Ken Carter (played by Vancouver’s Andrew McNee). Trevor Brady photo.

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who went to that show got a free CD—and I was still using CDs back then. At first I was just kind of overwhelmed by it. It was an overwhelming sensory experience, because the planetarium show had visuals and everything. The more I listened to it, Inspired Aim for the Roses fires a rocket-powered Lincoln the more interested I was Continental through the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in it. I have a background in making classical-music At its heart, John Bolton’s Aim for the Roses is performance pieces, and I felt like this was a piece the story of two men and their obsessions. Those of music that I could bring to life. I really had no obsessions couldn’t be more different, but the idea what I was getting into.” BY JOHN LUCAS force that drives them—that damn-the-torpedoes Right. Let’s rewind and amend that openambition that keeps the most irrational of dreams ing sentence: Aim for the Roses, which opens alive—unites the documentary’s subjects. this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival In 1976, Canadian daredevil Ken Carter (think on Thursday (May 5), is in fact the story of three of him as a hoser Evel Knievel) announced that men and their obsessions. As the scope of Bolton’s he intended to pilot a rocket-powered Lincoln project grew—from a staging of musical performContinental off of a ramp and over the St. Law- ances to a full-on documentary, complete with rence Seaway, landing some 1,200 metres away on interviews, fully realized set pieces, and seamless the American side, on a bed of rosebushes. This callbacks to The Devil at Your Heels—so did the frankly outlandish project consumed five years of challenge of actually finishing the damn thing. the so-called Mad Canadian’s life and was subse“The film just kept getting bigger, and it did quently documented in Robert Fortier’s award- get way behind schedule, and it did go way over winning 1981 National Film Board production, budget,” the filmmaker notes. “There were lots of The Devil at Your Heels. times when I wasn’t sure if I’d ever finish it. At It was Fortier’s film that inspired Mark Haney the end of it, I’d spent about as much time on the to retell Carter’s story in his own way—through film as Mark did on his album and Ken did on his music. The Vancouver composer and double bass- stunt, but I was making a film about them, so I was ist’s 2010 album, also titled Aim for the Roses, is a inspired by both of them all the way through. And masterpiece of absurdity and beauty, perhaps best I was inspired by the music all the way through.” described by the Straight’s own Adrian Mack (who appears in Bolton’s film), who called it “utterly A QUIRKY FILM about a composer and a dareamazing and completely fucking ridiculous”. With devil seems like an odd fit for DOXA’s spotlight musical structures based on the mathematical program Borders and Boundaries, in which most constant pi and arrangements incorporating doz- of the selections focus on such heavy themes as ens of layers of droning bass timbres, Aim for the the Syrian refugee crisis and the struggles of miRoses turned out to be an epic undertaking. Work- grant workers. There is an actual border in Bolton’s ing with engineer and coproducer David Gannett, movie, of course; the St. Lawrence separates OnHaney entered the studio for what was supposed to tario from the state of New York. As DOXA dirbe a few days of recording. Two-and-a-half years, ector of programming Dorothy Woodend tells the one serious hand injury, and a crumbling romantic Straight, however, the true boundaries explored in relationship later, it was finally released at a sold- Aim for the Roses, and in Jay Cheel’s How to Build a Time Machine, aren’t necessarily quite that literal. out show at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. “How to Build a Time Machine is an interest“I was at the now-legendary album launch party at the planetarium in 2010,” Bolton tells ing one as well, because it’s such a far-out kind the Straight in a telephone interview. “Everyone of hypothesis that they start with, but it becomes

quite real by the end of the film,” Woodend says. “And I think Aim for the Roses does something very similar, where you start out with something that’s just absolutely, ridiculously cuckoo, and then you set out to make it possible, or to make it happen. And whether that’s a fool’s errand or a kind of tilting-at-windmills experience, there’s something that’s gloriously human about those kinds of endeavours. And I think that’s why something like Aim for the Roses is so compelling, because there’s that quest to do something that you don’t even know if it’s possible or that you’re capable of doing it, but that you can’t not do it. You have to do it.” Haney sees that quality in himself and recognizes that it’s one of the ways his project echoes Carter’s. “I think there’s a similarity in mindset, and I thought that while I was making it,” the composer says. “I think that’s kind of what John ran with in the movie—it’s that locked-oncourse, gonna-barrel-through-no-matter-what mindset that he and I definitely share. To me, that’s the big parallel. What I do and what he did are so far apart on the spectrum that it’s not fair to make comparisons, because I’m not going to break my bones or my neck or anything, but it’s that ‘This is what I do, and come hell or high water I’m gonna do it, even though by all signs it’s leading to disaster.’ ” “What’s been fun for me is seeing Ken as an artist and Mark as a daredevil, as a stuntman,” Bolton says. “The film is about the beauty and the terror of making a living as either a composer or a stuntman. I think I’m interested in what is highbrow and beautiful about jumping cars, and what is ugly and lowbrow about composing contemporary classical music. So that’s been fun for me. If anything, I’m trying to mystify stunt driving and demystify composing. “What they really have in common is a vision and a real work ethic, and obsession,” the director says of his similarly driven subjects, but he could very well include himself in their company. “What that line is between a healthy obsession and an unhealthy obsession, who are any of us to say? I know I certainly never asked myself that question.” Aim for the Roses opens the DOXA Documentary Film Festival at the Vancouver Playhouse on Thursday (May 5), with an additional screening on May 15 at the Vancity Theatre.

Claire Simon indulges her story obsession

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irector Claire Simon shoots what—or rather, whom—she knows. And if her documentary subjects are any indication—an ex-diplomat determined to keep his failing business afloat; a pair of wideeyed, hopelessly in-love teenagers; a screeching band of raucous schoolchildren—her Rolodex certainly runs deep. “I’m like a novelist, more or less, in a glamorous way of thinking,” says Simon, speaking to the Straight en route from Geneva to a screening in Lausanne, Switzerland. “I meet things in my life and I feel that they are films.” Born in London, England, but raised on a diet of reds and whites in Provence, the ambitious writer, editor, and director has been A catering company faces catastrophe in crafting fictional and nonfictional stories Claire Simon’s 1995 film, Coute Que Coute. for more than 25 years. Frustrated with the fantastical films that dominated French cinAside from the occasional spoken reference, ema in the late ’80s, she began making docu- it’s only the intimate nature of Simon’s films mentaries that were instead grounded in the that hints at her personal connections with familiarity of everyday life. each of her “stars”. Dr. Jean-Marie Bouvier, the

retiring physician in her first doc, Les Patients, was a close friend of her father’s; Jihad, the envoy turned entrepreneur in Coûte Que Coûte, is a friend of a former beau, as is Mimi, the freespirited raconteur of the movie that shares her name. (“He was very prolific, this boyfriend,” the perceptive filmmaker admits with a laugh.) Perhaps most notably, Simon has also looked to her daughter, Manon, for inspiration. She becomes a spectator at recess during the child’s grade-school years for Récréations, and later, Mom follows Manon’s summer love story with the village baker’s son, Greg, in 800 Kilomètres de Différence/Romance. Despite these real-life relationships, however, it’s the settings that drive Simon’s films, rather than the characters. “I specially make films about places because I feel like places are like scripts,” she explains. “The scripts are inside the place and my job is to find it and to make it come out.” This is nowhere more apparent than in Simon’s Les Bureaux de Dieu, a fictional story with actors woven from real voice recordings captured at a family-planning

centre over the course of seven years, and in her latest work, Le Bois Dont les Rêves Sont Faits, a study of the diverse comings and goings at one of Paris’s busiest parks. This expansive collection makes up the bulk of this year’s French French series at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Three other French-language f licks, including Flow Mechanics, an eye-opening account of the current refugee crisis, and The Final Passage, which explores France’s historic Chauvet–Pont d’Arc Cave using 3-D models, will join Simon’s films in the program, although it may be Simon’s fixation on the seemingly unanswerable question “What really is a story?” that produces the most engaging results. “This is my obsession,” she says. “Each time I think I have an answer, I want to do another film and I feel like I’m at the beginning again.” Les Patients opens the DOXA Documentary Film Festival's French French series at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Saturday (May 7).

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he Georgia Straight’s intrepid team of critics, blowhards, and opinion-makers has been busy chowing down on the diverse selection of films at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Here are a few certified hits and a couple near misses. Visit Straight. com for even more reviews, features, notes, and a couple words to the wise.

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pleasure, a true box of delights from its opening scene featuring a man who laminates Sparks merchandise and reverently records the sound, to the obsessed painter Jamilla Naji, whose cheerfully insane portraits of Ron need to be hanging in my living room, right now. Cinematheque, May 9 (9 p.m.) > AM PISTOL SHRIMPS (USA/Canada) Even after seeing Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza convince Jimmy Fallon of the Pistol Shrimps’ validity on late-night television, it’s hard to believe that the women’s recreational basketball team is real. And that’s no dig at filmmaker and homeboy Brent Hodge (though it does seem wildly convenient that the Shrimps are shooting through their best season yet during the doc’s filming). Rather, the L.A.–based crew composed of actresses, musicians, comediennes, and even an astute entertainment lawyer is so genuinely committed to its all-ladies league— and so supportive of one another’s endeavours off the court—that you have to see it to believe it. Don’t know a thing about basketball? Neither do the Shrimps—or, more specifically, their dedicated podcasters, who offer hilarious play-by-play from the northwest corner of the gym. But Hodge delves into the lives of the league’s women with such spark that the points don’t really matter. Playhouse, May 11 (7 p.m.); Vancity, May 15 (5:30 p.m.) > LL

WARLAND (Poland)

Young Alisa Kovalenko’s raw, deeply personal work starts out as a document of the war in Ukraine but ends up asking big questions about the role of the nonfiction director and whether objective journalism is ever possible. Alisa in Warland gives us a first-person look at the riots that erupt on Kiev’s streets, then follows Kovalenko and codirector Luibov Durakova as they embed themselves with Right Sector nationalist fighters on the eastern front, capturing the chaos of war in rough handheld footage: hiding out from snipers and mortars and driving through burning villages. It’s a rare, disorienting look at the frontlines of an ugly civil war. But the movie is really more about Kovalenko, and the way she changes once she holes up with the paramilitaries—tough guys who fuss over her, making sure she’s protected and teaching her to shoot guns. As she shifts from filmmaker to armed fighter, you may find yourself struggling with ambivalence: is she seduced by the cause, is she a righteous fighter, or is she just a victim of youthful idealism? Vancity, May 7 (2:15 p.m.) > JANET SMITH THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL

(USA/Ukraine) A revealing portrait of three stubborn seniors who refuse to follow the status quo after the 1986 nuclear accident that displaced 160,000 people, The Babushkas of Chernobyl is a testament to the resilience and determination that only come with old age. After returning to the exclusion zone—2,600 square kilometres of land deemed by the U.S.S.R. military too unsafe to inhabit—these women live as if the villages they once called home aren’t poisoned by toxic radiation. Growing food, catching fish, and raising animals, these self-sustaining, spry babushkas defy their age, outliving those who relocated, despite their daily yard work and penchants for vodka and moonshine. Having suffered famine and war, they show no fear when officials reveal to them that their villages are still contaminated. “Starvation is what scares me, not radiation,” says Hanna Zavorotyna. Directed and produced by Holly Morris, this rousing and at times haunting documentary raises the question: what is more deadly— the anguish of being displaced or radiation? Cinematheque, May 8 (8:45 p.m.) > AMANDA SIEBERT

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Filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko finds herself sympathizing with right-wing Ukrainian paramilitaries in Alisa in Warland.

explores the erosion of silence in contemporary life, finding no shortage of talking heads to interview about the subject. He travels to London, Mumbai, and across the U.S. to speak with scientists, authors, monks, and even a man who has taken a yearlong vow of silence as he walks across America. In Japan, he examines traditional cultural elements that integrate quietness, such as Zen Buddhism and the tea ceremony—and how that appreciation is vanishing. His interviewees discuss everything from noise pollution to religion, health, and John Cage’s controversial silent piece 4’33”. Although the film conveys tranquillity only superficially through images, rather than editing, pace, and structure, this documentary is so replete with well-composed cinematography and intriguing, occasionally worrisome ideas that it remains a worthwhile, even necessary, watch. Cinematheque, May 7 (12 p.m.) and May 11 (6:30 p.m.) > CRAIG TAKEUCHI THE LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS (Canada) “Feminism was

about not trading your soul and your pussy for a wedding ring.” That’s one of the many fine bon mots we hear from Judith Stein—the Grand Beaver of Canadian Burlesque, Nelson resident, power senior—in this breathlessly entertaining visit with some of the legends of bump and grind. The cigarillo-chomping Stein is joined by an array of frank-talking hallof-famers, seen in their homes, including the disarmingly sweet Toni Elling (who inspired Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll”), proudly elegant Marinka, and ever-abundant Kitten Natividad, whose legendary mirrored box isn’t what you think it is, but you should see it anyway. Utterly at home in their postretirement bodies, these ferociously wise old ladies provide Rama Rau’s beautifully made doc with a climactic stage performance that’s as unexpectedly sexy as it is moving. Vancity, May 13 (8:30 p.m.) > ADRIAN MACK

tative and beautifully shot as it might be, Flow Mechanics is also maddening, with director Nathalie Loubeyre choosing to make high art when oldfashioned storytelling would do. The French filmmaker attempts to turn a spotlight on refugees illegally lighting out for Europe from war-torn Africa and the Middle East. Right from the opening, when we watch Croatian border guards stand around ruminating on footprints left on a dirt country road, pacing is a problem. Those without severe ADHD might be fine with Flow Mechanics’ decidedly laconic pace. As for the rest of us, “frustrating” doesn’t begin to describe an inarguably well-meaning film where a Libyan immigrant’s tale of a beyond-hellish boat ride to Europe is constantly interrupted by meant-for-Instagram shots of thistles waving in the wind and spiders in LEFT ON PURPOSE (USA) Roughsunlit webs. Vancity, May 13 (5 p.m.) ly two years into the making of this > MIKE USINGER searing and unforgettable doc, Mayer Vishner announced that he was preIN PURSUIT OF SILENCE (USA) paring to end his life. “I’m dying of What price do we pay for our media- loneliness,” pleads the aging yippie, filled urban lives? Patrick Shen a man whose influence on American 24 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT MAY 5 – 12 / 2016

radical culture is incalculable, but who feels—alcoholism and clinical depression aside—that his time is up. His arguments are cogent, his trickster wit intact, his friends resigned. Filmmaker Justin Schein’s treatment of his own subsequent ethical dilemma is sometimes a little too onthe-nose, but the viewer is haunted by subtler questions. From Vishner’s super-high-functioning youth to dereliction in one lifetime—how’d that happen? Why is suicide seemingly epidemic among his old colleagues? And what place is there now for a dyed-in-the-wool American dissident who didn’t sell out like Jerry Rubin or check out like Abbie Hoffman? Vancity, May 9 (6:45 p.m.) > AM MIGRANT DREAMS (Canada) Officially known as the Tomato Capital of the World, Leamington, Ontario, has a horribly bleak side in Migrant Dreams. As home to the largest concentration of greenhouses in North America, the town is a magnet for migrant workers around the globe, many of whom end up completely exploited. Southern Ontario isn’t the kind of place you’d expect to see labourers from Mexico literally living on top of each other 26 deep in a converted garage, or Filipino moms paying huge sums to shady labour brokers who’ve convinced them there’s money to be made in Canada. What all the migrants have in common is that they’re trapped in a system where a living wage is an everelusive dream, and where to complain is to risk being sent back home. All too tellingly, greenhouse operators and Canadian federal government officials are among those who refused to be interviewed for the film. Cinematheque, May 7 (2 p.m.) > MU MR. GAGA (Israel) Mark this “re-

quired viewing” for dance fans who know the term Gaga goes far beyond the lady in the meat dress. Director Tomer Heymann digs artfully into the enigma of famed Batsheva Dance Company choreographer Ohad Naharin, providing new revelations about the way history, geography, and personal tragedy have shaped his work—and the revolutionary movement language of the title. Blending a stunning collection of archival footage

(Naharin entertaining Israeli troops, and hoofing it with his mom at a kibbutz), interviews with the film’s uncompromising subject, and aweinspiring dance excerpts, Heymann crafts a definitive portrait of a brilliant innovator who’s influenced dance around the planet. Vancity, May 6 (9 p.m.) > JS MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN: THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF DR. MARIAN DIAMOND (USA)

Dr. Marian Diamond keeps a preserved human brain in a delicate hatbox, and eagerly uncovers the spongy organ for anyone who shows even the faintest interest. And it is utterly fascinating. A revolutionary figure in modern neuroscience, Diamond is a rock star seen through the lens of filmmakers Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg. Her groundbreaking studies are chronicled with care, offering a thoroughly inspiring crash course in human anatomy. But even more captivating than the research is the woman herself, a subject of undying curiosity, charm, and an infectious zeal—even in the face of rampant sexism—which makes the answer to her question “Don’t you just love the brain?” ahem, a no-brainer. Cinematheque, May 8 (6:30 p.m.) > LUCY LAU NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON SPARKS (Israel) An appropri-

TRAPPED (USA) Shot on the frontlines of the prochoice movement, Trapped is a disheartening reminder of why, in 2016, we so desperately need feminism. Filmmaker Dawn Porter walks viewers through the workings of women’s health and abortion clinics throughout Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama, illuminating in grave detail the struggles that plague physicians and medical staff due to laws designed solely to attack women’s reproductive rights. These scenes are interspersed with heartbreaking patient interviews, footage from legislative meetings, and glimpses of prolife rallies, where it becomes depressingly clear that the freedoms and safety of women continue to be dictated by men. The result is a disconcerting—and absolutely eyeopening—examination of the sorry state of women’s rights south of the border, an issue made no less concerning by similar conditions that persist around the globe. Cinematheque, May 10 (6 p.m.) > LL UNDER THE SUN (Russia) This epically eerie look inside the closed world of North Korea could easily be retitled Don’t Forget to Smile!. That order is barked at countless people corralled for this staged documentary. Russian director Vitaly Mansky has gained access to the country only by agreeing to follow a script approved by North Korean rulers—one about an ideal family taking the roles of the ideal working class, its adorable eightyear-old daughter entering the ranks of the Children’s Union. He also had to accept the “help” of escorts who tell him what to shoot, and order their subjects around. But Mansky’s brilliance is in letting his camera linger before and after each scene, so that we can see the intense stage-managing that goes into running a totalitarian state. At one point, his escort manhandles a group of female factory workers into a tidy row; at another, he cajoles a bunch of seamstresses into being more enthusiastic in their patriotic cheers. Mansky sets these moments against majestically shot imagery of the hidden state, with its tiny subjects dwarfed by monuments to Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung. Most terrifying? The subjects do manage to smile on command—but their eyes betray a fear that will chill you to your core. Vancity, May 6 (6:45 p.m.) > JS

ately eccentric doc for a thoroughly unique band, if band is the right word for what brothers Ron and Russell Mael have been up to since the early ’70s. Filmmaker Pini Schatz relies on fans both famous and otherwise, plus a few old and still dazzled collaborators, to explain the deep appeal of Sparks’ wild 45-year project. (Tantalizing musical snippets, archival pics, and video clips provide the rest.) Best known for 1974’s operatic U.K. megahit “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us”, Sparks has been an endlessly inventive force in avant-pop ever since. Producer Tony Visconti doesn’t hesitate to describe songwriter Ron as a genius. Blink and you’ll miss a shot of Paul McCartney dressed as the keyboard-playing half of the duo, recognizable largely because of his comic glower and Hitler mustache. The DOXA Documentary Film Festival Despite hilariously iffy subtitles, or runs from May 5 to 15. More informamaybe because of them, this film is a tion is at www.doxafestival.ca/.

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Wised-up Natasha has bittersweet edge

A woman still living on the

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late husband begins to feel trapped in her pleasant Los Angeles home, especially when starting to lose connection to her increasingly absent daughter. But can she overcome her habitual ways in order to let a roguish older gentleman into her life? Wait a minute! I’m describing last year’s I’ll See You in My Dreams, with Blythe Danner as the bored widow, Malin Akerman as the daughter, and Sam Elliott as the grizzled suitor. The Meddler plays an almost identical story for comedy, substituting sitcom developments for the earlier film’s thoughtfully crafted characterizations. But not all the changes are bad. Here, Susan Sarandon is frequently funny and sometimes touching as the title character, Marnie Minervini, a New Jersey widow who moved west to be near daughter Lori (Rose Byrne), a struggling screenwriter and experienced mom-avoider. As Marnie drives around town, looking for things to do and people to bother—there are several pointless subplots in this vein—she leaves a steady stream of unrequited messages on Lori’s phone. Marnie starts most of her mobile diary entries with “Anyway…”, her passive-aggressive equivalent of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’s Maggie Smith saying “It’s only me” whenever entering a room.

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The aspirations and heartbreak the immigrant experience are captured with bittersweet precision in Natasha, a second adaptation by writer-director David Bezmozgis of his own, award-winning work. The still-young novelist covered some of this territory, more tentatively, in 2009’s Victoria Day. His visual storytelling is only somewhat improved here, but his insightful dialogue and talent for apt casting give the new movie enough sharp edges to make it memorable on most levels. Alex Ozerov plays 16-year-old Mark, a gentle Toronto suburbanite lazing away his summer reading Nietzsche and selling pot, the better to avoid employment. Things change when Mark’s mom (Deanna Dezmari, an Ashley Judd type only 12 years older than Ozerov) gives him a task: when his uncle remarries, Mark’s supposed to look after his new stepcousin, 14-year-old Natasha (excellent Sasha K. Gordon), who doesn’t speak any English. She soon turns the tables on this would-be mentor with her wised-up demeanour and sexual aggressiveness. Natasha’s a withering presence around her own mother (Aya-Tatyana Stolnits) but an angel in the company of Mark’s parents, whom she sees as blessedly normal. Her own childhood was harrowing, as we learn, and the boy gets in over his head. Their own connection is tender and confusing, but this doesn’t explain why Mark would drag Natasha on his drug deals before he even gets to know her. And his relationship with a philosophical pot supplier (Aidan Shipley) feels like a missed opportunity. Like Bezmozgis, much of the cast is Russian-born, and that limitation—given the Canadian setting— might explain the diversity of appearance for Latvian characters who keep commenting on whether or not people “look Jewish”. Perhaps this is intentional. Mark is caught between his own life and that of people who keep hanging on to old identities, real or imagined.

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mopey Jason Sudeikis because, hey, he has two daughters. And his dead wife (Jennifer Garner, in home movies) was a marine! Another sub-subplot involves a young mom (Tomorrowland’s Britt Robertson) abandoned in childhood by—as we see coming miles away—a Home Shopping Network diva played by Julia Roberts in an Anna Wintour fright wig. But the worst bits involve two sisters (Kate Hudson and Sarah Chalke) hiding secrets from racist, homophobic parents (Robert Pine and Margo Martindale), whose bigotry melts away the moment they meet the grandkids. Marshall really should have called this mess GrandSasha K. Gordon plays the promiscuous Russian teen of the title in writer-director David Bezmozgis’s latest, Natasha. mother’s Day, because it’s aimed at provided by four screenwriters and people who haven’t seen a movie When Lori heads to New York to RATCHET & CLANK work on a pilot, Mom has even more Featuring the voices of James Arnold a lot of sappy music, we know she’s since 1972. > KEN EISNER meant to find the widower played by free time on her hands. In one of The Taylor and David Kaye. Rated PG Meddler’s more charming moments, Kids’ movies don’t get much Marnie wanders onto a film set busier and noisier than Ratchet and becomes an instant extra. This introduces her to the gruff security & Clank, an animated space advendude played by Whiplasher J.K. Sim- ture based on a PlayStation game. mons, channelling Sam Elliott so Young gamers might not mind all 1660 EAST BROADWAY @ COMMERCIAL hard I thought he was trying to sell the competing colours and sounds, MEDIA SPONSOR but their parents might need a stiff her a Ram-tough truck. Writer-director Lorene Scafaria drink in a dark room afterwards. The story line is simple, though, reportedly drew on her relationADVANCE TICKETS AT WWW.RIOTHEATRETICKETS.CA ship with her own mother for this with one nice twist. Ratchet is a LIVE RECORDING OF THE JASON ELLIS SHOW 12:00 pm (notably Anglo-cast) effort, which catlike mechanic who worships the struggles to find the right balance Galactic Rangers, a band of superONLY YESTERDAY 5:30 pm Studio Ghibli's 25th Anniversary remaster of Isao Takahata's animated coming-of-age classic. *Japanese w/ English subs. of amused detachment and deeper heroes. Clank is an accidentally exploration of family dynamics. good robot made in the evil-robot ENTER THE RED DRAGON 8:00 pm RDS Video World Premiere! As in her debut feature, Seeking factory. They team up with the RanDRIVE Friday Late Night Movie 11:55 pm Hey, girl. Get your Ryan Gosling Úp oal` mk& a Friend for the End of the World, gers to fend off the planet-destroythe result is about halfway there. ing plans of the leader of the Blarg In this case, though, the other half (voiced by Paul Giamatti). The twist comes when we find out the head stars Blythe Danner. > KEN EISNER Ranger is a Donald Trump–like figure who’d rather shoot first and DISORDER strategize later. He’s also prone to delightful egotism and jealousy. The Starring Matthias Schoenaerts. In French, with English subtitles. Rated PG film’s plot is wisely centred on him. 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Big screen. contribution to the world of intro- jokes—although Sylvester Stallone spective machismo, as seen in such gets in a couple of good ones as a Happy Mother's Day! multinational productions as Rust Blarg henchman. ERNEST & CELESTINE 1:45 pm A family-friendly screening of the French animation. *English dub. and Bone and Far From the MadThe film was produced in VancouAPRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD 4:00 pm "Avril et le monde truqué" From the ding Crowd. Here, he plays Vincent, ver by Rainmaker Entertainment. At eaf\ g^ j]fgof]\ _jYhà[ fgn]dakl Jacques Tardi [ge]k Y jan]laf_ k[a%Ú Y\n]flmj] k]l af Yf Ydl]jfYl]$ a special-forces veteran back from its best, the design resembles a futurkl]Yehmfc ogjd\& 9dd Y_]k o]d[ge] *French w/ English subs. multiple adventures in Afghanistan. istic Florence, Italy, on crack. 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he fine comic actor Anna Faris delivers an offhand but cutting zinger in the new film Keanu. Playing herself, she explains that she starred in the first four films in the Scary Movie franchise, but not the fifth. “Too old,” she squeaks, in her House Bunny voice. A week later, The Meddler comes along and gives 69-yearold Susan Sarandon one of the best roles of her career. “Yeah, how about that? I guess people maybe realize that there are a lot of tickets being bought by people that are older,” says the Oscar winner, calling the Straight from her Manhattan home. “Hollywood isn’t exactly opening the floodgates to films with women in leads, let alone older women. But that’s okay! We’re doing fine.” Oddly enough, The Meddler, opening Friday (May 6), comes in the wake of two other notable films that feature seniors living the single life in L.A. Blythe Danner starred in I’ll See You in My Dreams in early 2015, and Lily Tomlin followed with Grandma about four months later. In The Meddler, Sarandon’s recently widowed Marnie Minervini relocates to Hollywood in order to be closer to her scriptwriter daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne)—a situation taken from writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s real life. Marnie is based on Scafaria’s mother, Gail. “Actually, before I even said I would do it, I got a five-minute sizzle reel with Gail doing, shot by shot, the first five minutes of the movie,” says Sarandon, with a chuckle. “Really, the voice-over, her going driving, singing, going to the

mall, showing her apartment, looking at the balcony, the garage—the whole thing. When I saw that, I just had to do it; I just found her so open and lovely and sweet.” Open and lovely and sweet, yes—Sarandon even wears Gail’s butterfly prints in the film—but she adds that the elder Scafaria wasn’t allowed on-set, presumably to forestall any actual meddling. If that conjures the image of a young filmmaker pouring comic scorn on her mom, and notwithstanding Sarandon’s bright and funny take on the material, The Meddler actually ends up being a rather touching look at grief, among other matters. “It certainly could have been done much broader, but one of the things I established when I said I would do it was this idea of basing it in reality,” says Sarandon. “And she cast such wonderful people who all played it very, very straight—all those funny women, everyone from Cecily Strong to Jerrod Carmichael.” Let’s not forget J.K. Simmons as a Harley-riding suitor named Zipper, just one more happy detail in this tale of American film rousing itself from the more conventional elevation of youth and narcissistic personality disorder. “By the way, he said he would do the part and then he won the Academy Award,” dishes Sarandon. “And any other guy would have said, ‘No, I’m on to bigger and better things.’ I called Lorene immediately and said, ‘Is he still in?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, I checked, he’s still in.’ ” “So,” she concludes, about her 61-year-old costar, “he’s a humble guy. And sexy.” -

FOOD

Healthy eating at home is easier than you think

veryone knows that a wholesome diet to in the long term. Healthy eating should be is a cornerstone of healthy living, but simple and consistent.â&#x20AC;? pulling it off regularly can be tough. Rideout is a fan of the 80/20 rule: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you eat When lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busy, time is tight, and whole healthy foods in the right amount 80 people are tired, cooking a delicious, nutritious percent of the time, you can still enjoy more meal at the end of the day seems like a tall order. decadent foods 20 percent of the time.â&#x20AC;? But it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be complicated. And To help make healthy eating simple, she sugpreparing good food in your own kitchen is gests creating a menu plan for the week ahead of one of the best ways to curb weight gain and timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and sticking to it: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will not only help to obesity. The stats on that front are troubling: reduce overeating, it will also save you time and nearly 60 percent of Canadian adults and 26 money in the long run.â&#x20AC;? percent of children and adolescents are overCut up veggies and fruit ahead of time and weight or obese, according generally look for ways to into the Heart and Stroke clude more nutrients in your Foundation of Canada. diet, Rideout adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typical Making healthy food at North American diets are Gail Johnson home begins at the supertoo high calorically and too market, says Hilit Nurick, founder of the Dizzy low in overall nutrients. Always serve differentWhisk, which offers kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cooking classes. coloured fruit and veggies prior to the meal. Fill â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything that is preprepared and -packaged up on nutrient-dense foods when you are hunalready has a disadvantage of being out of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gry. A side benefit is most fruits and vegetables control,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in it are also high in fibre. Make it funâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bring home unless you yourself put it there. a new type of vegetable or fruit each week from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choose ingredients rather than packaged the grocery store.â&#x20AC;? food with multi-ingredients,â&#x20AC;? she adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A deNutritious, home-cooked meals donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have licious dish doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to comprise of more to be boring, says Jessica Carter, registered than three to four ingredients. Always read the dietitian at Dani Health. She recommends label and make sure that you understand what is theme nights if you have trouble coming up in your food. The idea is, if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pronounce with ideas: Mexican Mondays (with fajitas, enit and you are not sure what it is, it probably isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t chiladas, or rice and beans, for example), Italgood for you. Shop for fresh food, fresh herbs ian Fridays, slow-cooker Sundays, and so on. and spices, rather than artificial flavours.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll help you keep on track and avoid eatAnn Marie Rideout, founder of Well Fedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; ing out when you already have a plan,â&#x20AC;? Carter a North Vancouver food studio that offers says. She notes too that learning how to flavour cooking classes, meal-assembly classes, and foods at home can make it feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eatmeals to goâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;says that common stumbling ing out. This will help you avoid resorting to blocks people face when it comes to cooking takeout, which will save you moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well healthy meals at home include overthinking as fat, sugar, and sodium. things and following trendy diets that exCarter says to make a dish taste Mexican, clude food and are too restrictive. use cumin (1 tsp), chili pepper (1 tsp), cayenne â&#x20AC;&#x153;These diets play havoc on your metabol- (1/4 tsp), and a pinch of salt and pepper. To make any dish taste Asian, she says to comism and your overall health,â&#x20AC;? Rideout tells the Straight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus they are too hard to stick bine soy or gluten-free tamari (1 Tbsp), sesame oil

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Well Fedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ann Marie Rideout (Kia Porter photo) warns against diets that can damage your metabolism while dietitian Jessica Carter says there are simple ways to flavour food to taste like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eating out.

(1 tsp), rice wine vinegar (1 tsp), garlic (one or two cloves or 1 tsp powdered), ginger (1/2 tsp fresh or powdered), and honey (1 Tbsp). Optional ingredients include a dash of sriracha, lime juice, peanut butter (for a great satay sauce), and fish sauce. And for Greek flavour, Carter suggests adding juice from half a lemon, oregano (1 tsp), thyme (1 tsp), basil (1 tsp), dill (1/2 tsp), and salt and pepper. Et voilĂ . Other tips? Eat without distraction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you put in effort to shop, prep, and cook, do the meal justice and savour it without a TV, computer, or phone stealing away your attention,â&#x20AC;? Carter says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely eat slower, which gives our bodies time to feel full. This helps us avoid going for seconds when we really arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t still hungry.â&#x20AC;? Watch portion sizes. To make it easy, use a cup measure to help control this at home, Rideout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A general example of a balanced meal would be two cups of veggies and/or fruit, one cup of complex carbohydrates such as rice, yams, or potatoes, and 3/4 cup of lean protein. Keep in mind that serving sizes when eating out and at the grocery store are typically too large.â&#x20AC;? Drink only water with meals and avoid juice and sugary drinks throughout the day, she adds: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each cupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only 250 mLâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of juice or pop is approximately 150 calories. It adds up fast.â&#x20AC;?

Snacking does have its place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maintaining a relatively consistent blood sugar level is important, so eating small amounts more frequentlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two to three times per dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a great tactic,â&#x20AC;? Rideout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Purchase easy, healthy snack items like hummus, tzatziki, frozen fruit, or yogurt so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on hand and accessible.â&#x20AC;? If you have children, get them in the habit of healthy eating and cooking early on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My best advice is to start where you are with what you like or love, talk about this with your family, and let them also share what they love,â&#x20AC;? says Barb McMahon, founder of Sprouting Chefs, a nonprofit that fosters the development of school garden programs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mac â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cheese, try making it from scratch with your kids. Get them to grate the cheese with you, mix the sauce, and teach them how to boil pastaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all basics when it comes to learning what to make in the kitchen. And instead of burying the veggies in the sauce, cut them up raw and serve them fresh on the side. Try some new veggies that your kids pick out.â&#x20AC;? And give yourself a break if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t manage to eat as healthily as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like all the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give up if you fall off a bit along the way,â&#x20AC;? McMahon says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have compassion for yourself and your family for trying something new, because at least you are trying.â&#x20AC;? -

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Meal ticket DISH â&#x20AC;&#x2122;N DAZZLE The B.C. Hospitality Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (BCHF) seventh annual Dish â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dazzle event is back in town on May 18 (6:30 to 9:30 p.m.) at the Vancouver Convention Centre East, Parkview Terrace (999 Canada Place). Presented by the BCHF and Wine Australia, the extravaganza will feature 110 premium wines from 30 Australian wineries, and finger food created by chefs from 13 restaurants. The evening will also feature a cocktail competition that will see six bartenders shaking up drinks with a Down Under theme. Guests will also enjoy live music, a silent auction, and a grand-prize raffle of two tickets to Brisbane on Air Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Proceeds will provide financial assistance to B.C. workers in the hospitality industry. Tickets ($85/person) or for a group of six or more ($79/person) can be purchased online at www.eply.com/DishnDazzle2016/. -

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FIELD & SOCIAL (415 Dunsmuir Street) Fresh and mouth-watering salad bowls in a bright and contemporary space.

TRACTOR FOODS (various locations) Pick your veggie salad base, and then add optional proteins like chicken breast or albacore tuna steak.

NOSH (101â&#x20AC;&#x201C;510 West Georgia Street) Choose from a variety of salads on the menu, or build your own in the grab-and-go section.

GREEN LEAF SALAD (560 Bute Street) Build your own tasty salad with a Mediterranean twist at this family-owned and -operated restaurant.

THE CHOPPED LEAF (various locations) Customize everything in your salad bowl, from proteins to greens, grains to cheeses, veggies to dressings.

Drink of the week

BENCHMARK PALE ALE Parallel 49 Brewing is at it again, following up its raved-about Brew Brothers Vol. 2 collaboration with two specially prepared suds for Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria. The Vancouver-based Italian eateryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which operates a spot not far from P49 at 1380 Commercial Driveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will be pouring the new Benchmark Craft Lager and our fave, the Benchmark Pale Ale, to pair with its recently rolled out spring menu. Bracingly crisp, with a citrus-infused malt body, this hop-forward ale should please as many crowds as the simple, wood-fired pizzas that Famoso delivers daily. -

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ust a few days ago, I had the opportunity to catch a panel of British Columbian winemakers giving the trade and media a full report on vintage 2015, timed to coincide with a blitz of new-release white wines hitting store shelves and restaurant wine lists. In short, it was an excellent vintage. It started early, with a warm and dry spring, followed by a long, hot summer. There were indeed many fires throughout

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the Okanagan, but they were kept in check by many well-respected teams of professionals and volunteers; there wasn’t any discernible smoke damage in the region’s vineyards. Just as Vancouver enjoyed a lengthy sunny season (a few smoky days and water restrictions aside), British Columbian wine grapes had plenty of time to ripen and fully develop both f lavours and phenolics. This week’s column is packed with as many 2015 releases as space allows, the vast majority available winery-direct at the prices listed or on local store shelves for a couple bucks more. SUMAC RIDGE 2015 GEWÜRZTRAMINER ($14.99, www.sumac

ridge.com/) A well-built, midweight Gewürztraminer with litchi and a touch of earthy sage on the nose, and with passion fruit, fruit cocktail, and a wee kiss of honey.

MONTE CREEK RANCH 2015 RIESLING ($16.99, www.montecreekranch

winery.com/) Aromatics include river rock and muddled lemon, with a fuller mouth feel than some may expect from Riesling, kept intact with well-integrated acidity, lemonade essences, and a zip of orange zest right at the end.

QUAILS’ GATE 2015 CHENIN BLANC ($19.18, www.quailsgate.

com/) Love it! I wish we had more Chenin Blanc planted in the Valley. Prickly pear, star fruit, sage, and brioche elements come swirling out of the glass, with Ambrosia apple and mineral notes carrying them all through a lengthy finish.

HILLSIDE 2015 UNOAKED PINOT GRIS ($16.29, www.hillsidewinery.

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com/) Albariño? Like the Albariño variety made famous in northern Spain and Portugal? Yup, that Albariño. The variety doesn’t seem to be too homesick, either, as it appears to be quite comfortable in its Okanagan surroundings, enjoying the region’s flair for natural acidity and mineral-driven wines. Loads of lime and grapefruit are accented by white floral notes, while a little time in barrel gives it a nice bit of weight. SEE YA LATER RANCH 2015 CHARDONNAY ($14.99, www.sylranch.com/)

The bulk of these Chardonnay grapes came from vineyards in Okanagan Falls, a subregion that the variety seems to adore. With healthy lashings of oak, there are some decadent cinnamon-toast characteristics going on, with a little lemon curd and pineapple topping things off. Fairly rich, but well balanced all the way through.

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Real-life love—in all its messiest, most moving BY ANDREA WAR N ER

incarnations—is the basis of Mis Papás and Never the Last, two of the most exciting local pieces at this year’s rEvolver Theatre Festival, Up in the Air’s annual presentation of new work by emerging artists. Mis Papás tells the story of writer-director Pedro Chamale Jr.’s parents’ relationship via 15 rounds in the ring—the same number that once upon a time indicated a championship match. “My dad was an amateur boxer when he used to live in Guatemala,” Chamale tells the Straight via Skype from the Banff Centre, where he’s attending a theatre intensive. “My parents were always sparring with each other but in a joking fashion. When he was teaching me how to box, my mom would playfully beat up my dad if he got a little too rough with me.” His parents’ love story is an extraordinary one that’s spanned many kilometres and many different forms, he says. They had been childhood neighbours in Guatemala, but when his father fell in love with his mother, she rejected him due to “socioeconomic differences”. “He’s from the lower classes in Guatemala, she’s from the upper,” Chamale Jr. explains. “Then he left the country and left her behind. But they kept a relationship, as he would write her letters and she would respond. It wasn’t until she came to Canada that they fell in love.” Mis Papás maps the many forms of their love story: newly arrived Canadian immigrants, newlyweds, new parents, sparring partners, and then, suddenly, caretaker and patient. When Chamale Jr. was just 13 years old, his father contracted an infection that nearly claimed his

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Above, Anjela Magpantay spars in Mis Papás (Will Martin photo); below left, Nadeem Phillip and Christine Quintana in Never the Last. (Tristan Casey photo).

not creators, Quintana that ultimately ended in tragedy. Never the Last ofsays. The Russian-born fers the rare opportunity to hear Eckhardt-GramAt Up in the Air’s annual celebration of new work, Mis Papás and violinist’s work was sel- maté’s compositions performed together to help Never the Last take two wildly different looks at real-life romance dom performed, and she bring the pair’s journey to life. butted up against insti“There’s the bones and the blood,” Quintana life. He ultimately survived, but the consequences tutionalized sexism and eventually fascism around says. “There’s the facts and dates and times and of his illness—he suffered brain damage and is also Europe before relocating to Canada in 1953. events, and then there’s the experiences and the now deaf—changed everything for the family. But that’s for another story. Never the Last keeps imprints that that leaves on someone… There’s “My parents would never tell their story as if it’s its focus on those 10 compositions she wrote dur- also something about honouring someone’s some harrowing journey,” Chamale says. He being her decade-long relationship with Grammaté. legacy. These were real people, and putting lieves it’s a miracle. In the context of “leaving home The Eckhardt-Grammaté Foundation in Win- her music at the forefront of this performance and what they know, all the culture and the nipeg, which promotes her work and supports means a lot to us.” language that they know—what is sickness? young artists, even provided Quintana with a set What’s one more thing to add to that?” Mis Pa- of unpublished letters the couple exchanged dur- Up in the Air’s rEvolver Theatre Festival runs from pás, he says, is simply his way of honouring his ing their union—a turbulent, powerful romance Wednesday (May 11) to May 22 at the Cultch. parents and their story. More to explore at rEvolver Theatre Festival Christine Quintana, who co-created Never the Last with Molly MacKinnon, shares that Here are more highlights at the rEvolver Theatre Festival, which runs from Wednesday desire to honour two incredible people and (May 11) to May 22 at the Cultch: one remarkable love story. When MacKinOkay.Odd. promises to be just that. From the creative minds of the local interdisciplinnon, a violinist, introduced her to the comary arts company Hong Kong Exile comes this utterly confounding but wonderfully ambipositions of violin prodigy Sophie-Carmen tious experience, which promises to be part spiritual retreat and part social commentary. Eckhardt-Gramatté, Quintana was hooked. Silenced, the newest offering from Vancouver’s Urban Ink, the indigenous and intercultural performMacKinnon had always wanted to create ance company, explores the lives and stories silenced within our communities—and challenges our own a theatrical performance around the 10 complicity, inadvertent or otherwise, in the silencing of the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. pieces that Eckhardt-Gramatté composed Charisma Furs, cowritten and performed by Toronto’s Katie Sly, is a solo show that’s both wildly intimate between 1919 and 1929, during her marand just plain wild. Sly recounts a variety of personal experiences (winning a school-yard soccer game, riage to expressionist painter and war vetsubmitting for the first time to a dominatrix) and shares her perspective on everything from growing up eran Walter Gramatté. poor to coming out as queer—through storytelling, dance, standup comedy, and origami. “The music is just striking,” Quintana Vancouver’s Cause & Effect Circus uses juggling, props, and choreography to serve up engaging comedy and says. “I’m no classical expert, but it’s very visceral social commentary in The New Conformity, which compares the supposed comfort of fitting in to the freedom of and abstract and conjures these powerful images. independent thinking, as three coworkers attempt to stop their lives from devolving into chaos. It’s complex and complicated—like she was.” > ANDREA WARNER In 1919, Eckhardt-Grammaté was composing at a time when women were supposed to be interpreters,

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Editor’s choice CHORAL HEAVEN The transcendent-sounding Elektra Women’s Choir traces the European roots of works for female voices in In the Abbey Garden—and takes on pieces by big-name composers like Gustav Holst and Sergei Rachmaninoff in the process. Best of all, the choir is joined by Vancouver’s Borealis String Quartet, with Stephen Smith at piano and organ. It should make for an uplifting spring concert—and a chance to marvel at the power of the female voice. Elektra Women’s Choir presents In the Abbey Garden at Ryerson United Church on Saturday (May 7).

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RECOLLECTING EXPO 86 (At the Museum of Vancouver through summer) Party with Expo Ernie and relive the retro kitsch magic.

JAMES EHNES (At the Orpheum on May 9) The stellar violinist goes unplugged for his 40thbirthday recital.

UNCEDED TERRITORIES (At the Museum of Anthropology to October 16) Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun shit-disturbs in colour-saturated style.

ART & PARENTHOOD (At Unit/Pitt Projects to June 11) A moving group show that explores one of life’s most profound experiences.

COMPAGNIE THOR (At the Scotiabank Dance Centre from May 5 to 7) Nicola Leahey’s solo dance is so intense you might need a fire extinguisher.

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OURO COLLECTIVE Our guest from the arts scene is Jim Smith, producer at DanceHouse, whose season revs up again in the fall with Jessica Lang Dance, BJM, and more. Here’s his choice from this week’s calendar: “On my radar is OURO Collective’s presentation of PACE, their newest work, and Kaleido, choreographed by Montreal’s Tentacle Tribe, at Studio 1398. OURO Collective is an emerging group of local dance artists that uses street-dance vocabulary in the creation of their new works. It is exciting to see local artists engaging in and fostering national collaboration.” OURO Collective presents PACE + Kaleido at Studio 1398 from Thursday to Sunday (May 5 to 8).

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Bryn Terfel fetes his 50th Beloved bass-baritone traces his musical journey through song at the VRS

itting the half-century mark is generally a festive occasion, with the birthday boy or girl being deluged with love and lavish gifts. In the case of Bryn Terfel, however, he’s the one who’s doing the giving. The Welsh-born, internationally acclaimed bass-baritone turns 50 on November 9, and to mark this rite of passage he’s touring a concert program that surveys where he came from and who helped him along the way, before concluding with a subtle suggestion of where he might go next. “The narrative really is ‘Bryn at 50’,” the singer reveals, in a telephone interview from his Vancouver hotel. “The first song [Idris Lewis’s “Can yr arad goch”] was the first song that I ever learned as a bass-baritone, which my grandmother, from my father’s side, was very adamant that I should learn, because it’s all about what a farmer’s son should be doing—looking after his land and enjoying his life working on that farm. So that song always brings back incredible memories, as do any of those first four Welsh songs. “And then,” he adds, “the program kind of goes into English song, and this comes straight from the process of becoming a professional singer. My first singing teacher, Arthur Reckless, instead of opera arias, he would give me English songs. So my first three years of technique was through English song, and I became a big fan of that medium as well.” The English works on the program reflect more than just Reckless’s teaching: they’re also a nod, Terfel suggests, to the port cities

Welsh-born Bryn Terfel reflects on old teachers and ports. Brian Tarr photo.

that feature prominently on his touring itinerary. Frederick Keel’s folk-inf lected “Salt-Water Ballads” share the modest beauty of the Welsh material, but in the second part of his Vancouver Recital Society concert, Terfel will head into more demanding terrain, with lieder from the greatest German composers of art song, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. “In anybody’s career, once you leave college, Schubert and Schumann become a very important facet of stepping back from the

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Ballet Kelowna dancers Heather Thompson and Mark Dennis John perform John Alleyne’s Split House Geometric. Simone Orlando photo.

Former dancer steers Ballet Kelowna forward > B Y JAN ET SMITH

n the late 2000s, star ballerina Simone Orlando suffered the kind of career-ending injury that would send lesser human beings into a fetal ball. Instead, the former Ballet BC dancer, a favourite who once took the leads in shows like A Streetcar Named Desire, refocused herself, enrolling for business-management studies at BCIT while she built up her choreography. Today, she is the proud artistic director and CEO of Ballet Kelowna, a blossoming company that’s moved into its own big, new facility in that Interior town. The troupe also enjoys an ambitious touring schedule that brings the art form to communities around the province—and that finally visits Vancouver with exciting new contemporary repertoire this month. “It couldn’t have wound up any more perfectly,” the artist and administrator admits, speaking to the Straight from Kelowna, where she moved to take the position almost immediately upon graduating in 2014. Reflecting on her severe hip injury, she adds: “As devastating and as dark a period as it was to go through, and not knowing what the future would hold, I certainly wouldn’t have landed here if I hadn’t have taken that leap and said, ‘Simone, you’re going to have to redefine yourself and get yourself back into school and make yourself employable.’ ” Orlando chose to specialize not in nonprofit management, but in money-minded business—a decision that could only have come from the other trauma she experienced at the exact same time she was dealing with the pain of a destroyed hip: Ballet BC filing for bankruptcy protection and shutting down in 2009 (a setback it’s since overcome). “I was in Ballet BC the day that the board came into the studio and announced that the company was ceasing operations, and it came right out of left field,” she recalls. “In that moment I was like, ‘Oh my God, this company may not exist.’ Maybe that’s what sparked that interest in trying to understand how could I be helping dance in this province.” Today, Ballet Kelowna has built a strong base in the Interior and has toured to more than 60 B.C. communities, often introducing viewers 34 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT MAY 5 – 12 / 2016

to dance. With only six dancers, it’s nimble, able to perform in smaller venues that bigger companies could never fit into. Once it moved into its own building from its original digs at the Canadian School of Ballet last fall, it was able to host in-studio events, teach adults the art form, and offer choreographers ample room to create. “It’s just elevated the quality of what we’re doing,” explains Orlando. “Some days it’s pretty nuts,” she admits with a laugh about her workload. “I do everything from preparing budgets and grant proposals to rehearsing the company, and I choreograph for the company—I even do the company’s laundry after a performance!” Orlando has found a fine combination of contemporary work that balances audience tastes with high artistic quality, always with a mandate to foster Canadian talent. Just look at the Renaissance program coming here as part of the Chutzpah! Plus series: it features world premieres by Orlando herself and Boston Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater alumna Heather Myers; James Kudelka’s Byrd Music; and Split House Geometric, created by her former director at Ballet BC, John Alleyne. All of the scores on the program are inspired by early music—though the pieces are written by cuttingedge composers like B.C.’s Rodney Sharman (Kudelka’s work) and Jocelyn Morlock (Orlando’s piece). The compositions will be performed live by Toronto’s Continuum Contemporary Music—part of Orlando’s goal to look for more bold creative collaborations for her company. In all, the show is just a first look by Vancouverites at the dreams Orlando has for the company—dreams that have come with a lot of business analysis and hard work. There’s a discipline and drive here that clearly must have its roots in the dance studio. And Orlando agrees: “I really feel all of that energy and commitment that I had for my job as a professional dancer, I’ve been able to channel that into helping a company to succeed.” Chutzpah! Plus presents Ballet Kelowna’s Renaissance at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre from Wednesday to Friday (May 4 to 6).

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ReVoLt ignites inner uprising > BY JA NET SM IT H

he opening 10 minutes of ReVoLt are as intense as dance gets: alone in a spotlight, Australian performer Nicola Leahey fights to breathe, as if some force is trying to strangle her from the inside. “It’s frightening at the beginning; it’s suffocation,” admits choreographic innovator Thierry Smits, speaking to the Straight from Brussels, where his Compagnie Thor is based. “It’s ‘I have to try to get out of this situation. I have to get more freedom of movement.’ There’s a real feeling of oppression, and then little by little in the cycle of the piece, there’s more liberty of movement.” ReVoLt has been described as a sort of embodiment of political uprising— a conflict that explodes within the dancer. In fact, the fiery piece was inspired in part by the female Peshmerga fighters Smits had seen arming themselves against ISIS on the news. “I was like, ‘Wow, these women really know what they are fighting for. They’re not just fighting with words, but fighting with weapons,’ ” Smits recalls. “I thought it would be nice to do a kind of combat for a woman trying to get out of her imprisonment. “There is still a lot of work to do around violence against women around the world,” he adds. “My mother was a very engaged feminist, so I was exposed at a very young age [to these ideas].” But with Smits based in Brussels, you also can’t help but think of this fight for freedom in terms of what he says is happening at this moment in the Belgian capital. Asked what it is like living in that city right now, only a month after terror attacks, he says it feels peaceful and people are still going out to art shows and living their lives. But he adds, “There was a moment of panic and drama—and now there’s just more police and more extreme right and

Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits was inspired by women’s fight against violence around the world—and fiery dancer Nicola Leahey. Hichem Dahes photo.

more military, and that’s the negative side of it: less liberty.” Still, it’s clear Smits loves his hometown. Brussels is a celebrated centre of contemporary performance today, and he clearly revels in that. And its multicultural makeup has helped contribute to that vibrancy, he says. “One-third of the population is an immigrant, is a foreigner. It’s huge. It’s a small city but it’s very, very cosmopolitan and international.” Even in this mostly open-minded cultural milieu, Smits stands apart as a bit of an anomaly. The veteran artist is known for creating a hugely diverse range of work—everything from the cabaret and theatrical to larger, more abstract dance creations. “It’s true that when I finish a work, most of the time the next one is in total opposition to what I did before,” he says. “It’s not easy, because most people

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in the art market need to be able to say, ‘Oh yes, he’s doing his style.’ But I’m very quickly bored of what I’ve done.” Before working with Leahey, he had never crafted a full-length solo work for a woman, and wanted to make a work for the strong, charismatic, and committed dancer. Dressed in a long camouflage T and flailing her blond mane, she digs deep for the piece, physically and emotionally. “At the same time, it’s very structured, very formal—she’s not crying or anything,” explains Smits, who makes ample use of blackouts throughout the stripped-down, pummelling piece. “It’s more about the repetition of small actions. It’s quite cold in that way—and violence is cold. That was the target.” ReVoLt is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Thursday to Saturday (May 5 to 7).

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ereavement can reduce an artist to silence or inspire works that, while mourning the loss, also rejoice in the life spent. The death 18 months ago of Avishai Cohen’s father led the Israeli jazz trumpeter and composer to create Into the Silence, a deeply reflective album that takes the listener on an emotional ride from grief to fierce pride, love, and joy. “The time for writing was from December to July,” says Cohen, reached in New York City, where he lives and works for part of the year. “I had a deadline to do an album anyway, and that happened to be the same period. As I was writing, I really felt the need to concentrate on what was going on, without verbalizing to myself what every tune is or means. Everything is about life for me during that period of losing the person I love most in the world. “It was difficult, but the process was very honest. I was careful not to pick up any tunes or parts of tunes already written that might possibly work for the album, but to make sure everything is current, and celebrating not only the death but life as well, and having had him in my life. Joy, not just mourning. It was a great experience, and we played the music for the first time in the studio.” Neither Cohen’s father nor his mother was a musician, but they were passionate music lovers and fostered the enthusiasm of their children. “My elder brother and sister took that path—and I followed them. It was such an obvious and natural thing that we all played music—and I think we had a natural talent. We loved it, and at no time did we think to stop. That’s the crucial thing. You see a lot of kids playing, and at one point they stop. It’s not just about individual practice, it’s the commitment to three times a week in the conservatory and long hours in school. I remember knowing already at the age of 12 or 13 that this is my life. Growing up knowing what you want to do is a beautiful thing.” Cohen had a long list of inspirations as a young trumpeter—Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, Clark Terry, Don Cherry, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, and Clifford Brown spring to his mind. In 1997 he moved to the U.S. to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in only two years. Soon afterward, Cohen moved to New York, where he revelled in the diversity of music and performance opportunities available to him. “I’ve done fun gigs playing reggae, Latin, South American music. I played in any circumstances—not just to get by financially, but musically speaking it’s important to do everything. It sets up flexibility and knowledge of what music is, and different cultures and different representations of what it can or should be. I was always connected to different kinds of music. From age 14 I’ve been recording pop and rock ’n’ roll and singer-songwriters.” In addition to his work with the quartet, Cohen is artistic director of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival. He also plays in the band Big Vicious, “more of a rock ’n’ roll outfit”, with two drummers and two guitarists. And as a member of 3 Cohens he continues to perform with his siblings, saxophonists Yuval and Anat. Somehow, Cohen also finds time to be a family man. “My family is in Tel Aviv, and they come with me—though not so much to New York. They sometimes go on tour with me in Europe, and we spend time in India as well. Having kids and being a touring musician is a challenge, and one of the hard things about this life. But other than that, it’s pretty great.” The Avishai Cohen Quartet performs at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre on Saturday (May 7) as part of the Chutzpah! Plus series.

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hat sweet baby face sticking out of the well-tailored suit tells such well-crafted, silly one-liners (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recently wrote a book about poltergeists, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flying off the shelvesâ&#x20AC;?) itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see why it features on countless prime-time panel programs on British telly. Jimmy Carr is adorable. But how could such darkness emanate from that same package? On his recent Netflix special, Funny Business, Carr gleefully crosses the line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote a joke about the negative stereotypes that still prevail in our society concerning women, and I worry about telling that joke because I worry that if I were to tell that joke, and it would be misconstrued as genuine misogyny, it could really light the fuse on some bitchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tampon. I would feel awful,â&#x20AC;? he tells the crowd. But they get it. These arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t opinions; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re jokes. And Carr tells both sweet and sour ones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try and sort of mix both of those kind of styles,â&#x20AC;? he says on the phone from London, during one of the only 10 days heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent at home this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I can do is one-liners. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really do long stories. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to find a balance between those two in the light and the shade. Because for me, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sustain one of them for an hour.â&#x20AC;? Many comedians make jokes with their colleagues backstage that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never dare say on-stage. A few like Carr relish pushing buttons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always liked the idea of there being no barrier between the audience and the comedian,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more you can kind of break that barrier down and treat the audience like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re your friend, they get it. Because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no malice in my act; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just trying to say things that I think are funny.â&#x20AC;? Even though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well enough known now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essentially

British comedian Jimmy Carr may look adorable, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not afraid to mix a few sour jokes in with the sweet onesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and sometimes viewers are shocked.

preaching to the choir, he can still surprise and shock newbies to his live shows whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only ever seen the clean-cut funnyman on network television. And there might very well be a few newbies in Vancouver, a city heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been to before, despite having a Canadian wife. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I maybe have some records by Bryan Adams somewhere and I like his photography a lot, so I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a native.â&#x20AC;?) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes if you come and see me live you might be shocked at how rude it really is,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I sort of figure if someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid to see me live, I can be as rude as I want, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve literally bought into it.â&#x20AC;? Then there are those reading about this at home. Some rabble-rousing journalist on a slow news day tattles on him to the masses and then shit hits the fan. Apologies are demanded amid the outrage. But Carr will have none of it. He stands firm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it by mistake,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be a very disingenuous apology, I think. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like I blurted that out and I was drunk. No, I said that 150 times on tour and then you got offended when you saw it.â&#x20AC;? It seems to be a ritual in the British press and online. Carr thinks nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really all that offended over his work. And there are more practical

reasons for not heeding the torch mob. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I started going around apologizing for jokes and taking them out of my set, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to go back to doing five minutes, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I?â&#x20AC;? That said, he likes the fact that, thanks to social media, the general public now has a voice to air its grievances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice that people can kind of come directly and say something to you and comment and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to say that you have to then change what you do. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no amount of signatures that can stop me doing what I do. I have the right to free speech, but they have the right to free speech. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m allowed to say that thing and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re allowed to say they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it. I think where things get complicated is where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to stop you from saying the thing that you want to say.â&#x20AC;? He believes the customer is always right, to a point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three jokes into my set, you kinda go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh yeah, I like this.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If you think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m funny, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right. If you think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not funny, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no definitive answer, is there? If it tickles you, then great.â&#x20AC;? Jimmy Carrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funny Business tour plays the Vogue Theatre on Saturday (May 7).

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the most expectation—not just for the showstopping “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”, but for its Broadway-scale glamour and emotion. Happily, on this front, Vancouver Opera’s rendition of the hit musical delivers. When Argentine president Juan Perón steps aside at the beginning of the second act, the Presidential Palace’s shutter-style doors seem to be blown open by the sheer fabulousness of Eva Perón— Caroline Bowman, radiant in the iconic, sequined white ball gown, and belting her ballad out as she emerges. There’s big feeling, but also the necessary duality here— the slight suggestion of a manipulator justifying her jewels and designer clothes to the poor. The fact is, no matter how you feel about Perón’s ambitious wife, her rags-to-riches story, or even the thought of a revived Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, that song will sink its talons into you and stick with you for days. Written by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in the 1970s, post–Jesus Christ Superstar, the work still has strong tunes, driven as often by catchy tango rhythms as by rock ’n’ roll attitude. Evita isn’t the deepest exploration of politics, history, or the cult of personality you may ever see, but that’s allowable. What it can’t be is flat (as we all saw in a certain fi lm version in the 1990s). Thankfully, this production captures all of the title character’s colourful contradictions. Iranian-Canadian West End star Ramin Karimloo provides a bitingly sardonic narrator in Che, constantly reminding Eva of her hypocrisy. And Bowman feistily captures Eva’s conflicting personalities. Watch her turn her back on her poor date and flash a 1,000-watt smile when she meets Juan Perón at a party, the way she inhales and steels herself before shooing away his mistress, or the way she erupts in rage when British royalty have the audacity to meet her anywhere other than Buckingham Palace. Her singing scales the different demands of the role too, from the rangy, rawer numbers of the first act to the crystal clarity of “Lament”, as Evita faces early death.

Caroline Bowman’s feisty Eva Perón rallies the crowd in Vancouver Opera’s Evita. Tim Matheson photo.

Die-hard opera audiences can revel in the stunning tenor of John Cudia, a former Broadway Phantom who’s equally adept at Verdi, making a regal and mellifluous President Perón. The opera chorus, too, shows the musical depth of the score, making the repeating “Perón” chants of the second act truly hypnotic. The production is not as flawless as its heroine’s blond chignons and white silk suits. There are a few places, particularly in the first act, during Eva’s arrival in busy “B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple” at just 15, where the score feels a bit rushed—though elsewhere, the more famous numbers are unhurried. And the set’s steel scaffolding and hanging spotlights sometimes look more Squamish Valley Music Festival than colonial Buenos Aires—although the multiple projection screens produce some smashing effects, memorably multiplying archival black-and-white shots of Evita’s adoring crowds across the stage’s many levels. And who is Evita amid all this—heroine, feminist, socialist, gold digger, master propagandist, political pawn? Sixty-five years or so after her death, and almost 40 years after Lloyd Webber’s musical first hit the stage, you’ll probably feel more conflicted than ever. But it speaks to her, and the show’s, lasting power that you’ll go home pondering her legacy—and humming “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”. > JANET SMITH

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in which gay people have to die in order to make a point about the evils of homophobia? Let me be clear: I am not diminishing the tragic reality of queer suicide—especially among our youth. I just don’t think that maudlin presentations of gay victims are helping anybody out. Based on Carol Lynn Pearson’s play, David Rigano and Mark Eugene Garcia’s musical tells the story of Andrew, a young, gay Mormon. Andrew is in love with Marcus, who made the mistake of opening both his door and his heart to a religious canvasser. Marcus is a sweetheart, albeit a bit of a dope: he asks, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Is this something

a gay man can join?” Unable to accept what Marcus offers, Andrew commits suicide, convinced that his sexuality is irreconcilable with his love of God, and with his father’s career as a conservative radio personality. In the first scene of Facing East, Andrew is already dead: Marcus accidentally meets Andrew’s parents, Alex and Ruth, at the graveside. From there, the play launches into a long, largely event-free flashback, in which the text mostly just sits in a puddle of grief in which queer experience is tragically problematized and Mormon homophobia, especially as embodied by Ruth, gets more airtime than it deserves. Playwright Pearson is Mormon, and a major problem with Facing East is that it fails to acknowledge Mormonism’s history of racism, homophobia, polygamous marriage, and questionable revelations. In an attempt at subtlety that is partly successful, Facing East shows us Ruth’s unhappy marriage. But the musical would have been more helpful, in my view, if it had said to Andrew and others like him, “That woman is

batshit crazy. Get the hell away from her and live your life.” Structurally, the story is repetitive: Andrew is endlessly conflicted, Marcus is endlessly patient, Alex is all about his job, and Ruth moans about her marriage. Rigano’s score also repeats itself. Unmelodic and undynamic, except when it tips into overstatement, it never varies from its moderate pace. Matt Montgomery, who plays Marcus, delivers the most satisfying performance in this production. Montgomery finds Marcus’s humour and offhand charm—and he consistently sings on-pitch, which is a blessing. Mandana Namazi also sings well, and she treats her unattractive character, Ruth, with respect. Francis Boyle delivers an honest and touching emotional performance as Alex but, on opening night, his pitch was often iff y. Playing Andrew, Jesse Alvarez does his best, but like all of the performers, he is restricted by the cliché-ridden material. What I learned from this production: I shouldn’t date Mormons. But I knew that already. > COLIN THOMAS

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THEATRE 2OPENINGS MISSING FROM ME Some Assembly Theatre Company presents a play about 11 travellers at a train station, written and performed by local youth. May 4-7, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Free admission, info www.someassembly.ca/. THE 2016 LAWYER SHOW: HAIRSPRAY Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a musical based on John Waters’s 1988 film. Proceeds go to Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre. May 4-7, 8 pm, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $80/75, info www.touchstonetheatre.com/ the-lawyer-show/. ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE Claude A. Giroux directs Ted Swindley’s musicaltheatre tribute to ‘60s country icon Patsy Cline. May 5-21, 8 pm, Deep Cove Shaw Theatre (4360 Gallant Ave., North Van). Tix Info www.firstimpressionstheatre.com/. STILL/FALLING Rachel Aberle’s play tells the story of a girl who struggles with anxiety and depression. May 6, 7 pm, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $12-17, info www.ticketsnow.ca/. AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS WITH ANIMALS I’VE F*CKED Stages Theatre Co. presents Rob Hayes’s darkly funny and disturbing psychological examination of mental illness and loneliness, starring Chris Lam and directed by Cory Haas. May 10-14, 8-10 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25, info www.facebook.com/ stagestheatreco/.

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2ONGOING THE VALLEY The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Joan MacLeod’s play about the aftermath of a teenage boy’s arrest on a SkyTrain platform. To May 7, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www. artsclub.com/. ITHAKA Canadian premiere of Andrea Stolowitz’s play about a woman who returns from combat to find that nothing makes sense. To May 14, 8-10 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $22-25, info www.facebook.com/ITHAKA2016/.

DANCE 2THIS WEEK RENAISSANCE Ballet Kelowna presents a mixed program with choreography by Simone Orlando, Heather Myers, James Kudelka, and John Alleyne. Presented by the Chutzpah Festival. May 4-6, 8 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $29/25/21, info www.chutzpahfestival. com/performances-tickets/dance/balletkelowna/. PACE + KALEIDO OURO Collective presents PACE and Kaleido. Guest visual artist Laura Bucci presents Cultivate a Spot. May 5-8, 7:30-9 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25/22, info www.ourocollective.com/. COMPAGNIE THOR/THIERRY SMITS The Dance Centre’s Global Dance Connections

TALENT TIME To everything there is a season. After this month, talent will take a break until the fall. At least that’s the case with Paul Anthony’s Talent Time, the monthly feel-good fun-times show at the Rio Theatre. Anthony and cohost Ryan Beil present some of the best entertainers you won’t see anywhere else, along with top-rung comedians. Their season-ender on Thursday (May 5) goes out with some oldtimey bonhomie. On-stage will be the Vaudevillians, billed as “B.C.’s #1 seniors entertainment troupe”, the Myrtle Family Band, featuring washtubs and jugs, some rare 78s played on a vintage gramophone, and the comedy of Alicia Tobin and Camiel Pell. Plus, the usual assortment of mirthful mayhem. Miss it and you have to wait four more months— and that’s too many sleeps.

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MUSIC 2THIS WEEK EVITA Vancouver Opera presents Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award– winning musical. Stars Ramin Karimloo and Jenn Colella. To May 8, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $45, info www.vancouveropera.ca/. A GERMAN REQUIEM The Dunbar Heights United Voices and Voices Chamber Orchestra perform Schubert’s Stabat Mater and Brahms’s Geistliches Lied and Ein deutsches Requiem. May 6, 7 pm, Dunbar Heights United Church (3525 24th Ave. West); May 8, 3 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $20, info www.dunbarheightsuc.ca/brahmss-agerman-requiem/. M IS FOR MUSIC IN MAY BY MOZART, MECHEM & MORE EnChor Choir presents musical selections from Renaissance, Baroque, classical, Romantic, and contemporary repertoire. May 6, 7:30 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $20, info www.enchor.ca/concerts/. BROADWAY ROCKS! Conductor Steven Reineke leads the VSO, the UBC Opera Ensemble, and vocalists LaKisha Jones, Christiane Noll, and Rob Evan in a program of favourites from Broadway musicals such as Dreamgirls, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Chess, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, and Jersey Boys. May 6-7, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

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IN THE ABBEY GARDEN The Elektra Women’s Choir and the Borealis String Quartet perform Holst’s Ave Maria, Rachmaninoff’s Six Choruses for Women’s Voices, and Brahms’s Psalm 13. May 7, 7:30 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $15-30, info www.elektra.ca/. TELL ME YOU LOVE ME The Phoenix Chamber Choir presents a concert of music exploring various notions of love. May 7, 7:30 pm, Oakridge United Church (305 W. 41st). Tix free to $25, info www. phoenixchoir.ca/. THE FRANCO-FLEMISH SCHOOL The Gallery Singers present music by Ockeghem, Josquin, Clemens non Papa, Lassus, and Vaet. May 8, 3 pm, Holy Trinity Anglican Church (1440 W. 12th). Tix $18/9/ kids under 12 free, info www.gallery singers.ca/. JAMES EHNES IN RECITAL Violinist James Ehnes, the VSO, and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform Handel’s Sonata in D Major, Beethoven’s Sonata in F Major, Op. 24, “Spring”, and Bramwell Tovey’s Stream of Limelight. May 9, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www. vancouversymphony.ca/. ONE NIGHT STAND: CAROLINE SHAW Music on Main presents a chance to delve into composer in residence Shaw’s arresting, physical, and open-hearted work. May 10, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $29/15, info www.musiconmain.ca/.

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LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK REVEREND BILLY: THE EARTH WANTS YOU Performance artist and eco-activist Reverend Billy launches his new book The Earth Wants YOU. May 6, 6:30-8 pm, Banyen Books and Sound (3608 W. 4th). Free admission, info www.banyen.com/ events/reverend-billy/. CANADIAN WOMEN SHAPING DIASPORIC RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES Book launch and panel discussion with editors and authors Becky Lee, Kate Power, and Tak-Ling Terry Woo. May 6, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/

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TAKING THE THRONE Snow doesn’t mean the white stuff to a Game of Thrones fan. Jon Snow, the Bastard of Winterfell, is a major character on the HBO series. But you don’t need to know that—or anything else—to enjoy Vancouver TheatreSports’ parody Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow. Unlike the deadly serious TV show, this improvised fantasy journey is full of larfs. You’ve got your usual assortment of improv games—and some you’ve never seen before—performed in gothic costumes of characters you’ve grown to love from television. Or not. As we said, it doesn’t matter. You’ll figure it out. Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow runs every Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Improv Centre on Granville Island until May 28.

BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-6823455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2THE SERIOUSNESS OF PLAY (Haida Manga artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has created an artistic practice celebrated for its vitality and originality) to Oct 2 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE (exhibition offers an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century) to Jun 12

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

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STRATHCONA ART PHOTOWALK This photowalk will take you back in time to admire beautiful details and learn how to use your camera to create stunning photographs. May 7, 10 am–12 pm, Benny’s Market (598 Union). Tix $99, info www.vancouverphotowalks.ca/photo walks/strathcona/.

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humanities-institute/public-events/publicevents/2016/women-identities.html. TOSHIKO Graphic novelist Michael Kluckner discusses the challenges and opportunities of the graphic-novel format. His latest novel Toshiko is about a young Japanese-Canadian woman in B.C. during World War II. May 11, 7-9 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free, info www.vpl.ca/.

HERE’S TO THE LADIES WHO LAUGH Bridget Ryan’s cabaret blends musical theatre with comedy in an evening of vignettes from her vast repertoire of performing in over 70 musicals. Includes a dessert buffet. May 8, 2 pm, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $50, info www.ticketsnw.ca/.

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THE OKANAGAN FLOW FESTIVAL Highlights of the flow-arts retreat includes over 40 workshops and two nights of performances. May 13-15, 12-6 pm, Green Bay Bible Camp (1449 Green Bay Rd., Kelowna). Tix $249-299, info www.okanaganflowfestival.com/.

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isn’t quite a household name yet, but she’s spent the past few years attracting plenty of attention from those who are. EDM giants Skrillex and Diplo are not only professed fans, but favoured collaborators with the Stockholm-spawned 30-year-old known to her fans as Elliphant. When not producing her songs, TV on the Radio guitarist Dave Sitek loves hanging out with the singer at his Los Angeles home, the two happily sitting around and discussing art as friends. Katy Perry has weighed in as a high-wattage admirer, Tweeting—unprompted— her admiration for Elliphant’s visually stunning “Down on Life” from 2013 with “One of the most bad ass music videos I’ve seen in a long time!” Building her street cred to unassailable levels, Elliphant has appeared in songs and videos alongside genre-mashing Scandinavian renegades like Tove Lo and MØ. But she’s also worked with the kind of songwriting giants that only A-listers usually get access to, the shortlist including professional hitmaker Dr. Luke and ever-outspoken rapper Azealia Banks. What might be coolest about all of this is that, as Elliphant gets ready to hit the road to promote Living

A personality larger than life

Elliphant decided to re-create the infamous cover of Roxy Music’s Country Life, only with her and a very chill dog instead of two almost-naked fashion models.

not to Kingston, but instead the Far East. “The first time I had the chance to do music was in a reggae bar in Bangkok,” Sweden’s beyond-outgoing Elliphant uses music to she says. “I was waiting on a connect with people, including a few famous ones visa so I had to stay in BangLife Golden—her sophomore album and first true as- kok for two weeks, and I was going there to the bar a sault on the American charts—none of this appears lot because it was by my hotel. Bangkok was liberatto have gone to the singer’s head. When she’s reached ing for me. When I grew up I was a very pretentious in a New York City hotel room, the first thing she child who only listened to Bob Dylan and Leonard does is apologize for seeming unfocused at the top of Cohen. I never gave myself that smiley music moment. When I had the chance to get into the roots of the interview, admitting that’s because she often is. “I’m becoming professional with the packing Jamaican music, the whole dancehall thing—all the because I’m constantly packing and unpacking,” beautiful pop melodies, but with subjects I could reElliphant says, speaking with a pronounced but late to—that’s where my interest started.” If Elliphant is relentlessly interesting, it’s becharming Swedish accent. “But everything is messy in my hotel. I’m good at making everything cause so is her story. She was labelled ADHD organized inside the bag, but as soon as I open it in school, and with that label came self-esteem up… Well, it’s like a nuclear bomb went off in here.” issues. The singer for the longest time was conThat Elliphant is surrounded by something vinced that she wasn’t really good at much beyond that looks like a Big Apple hotel-room version of working in restaurants, at which she excelled due to her beyond-outgoing personality. Hoarders doesn’t bother her. “The cleaner I am in my head, the messier that I “I have an artist’s soul—I’ve always been makget in my life,” she says philosophically. “When I am ing things ever since I was a kid,” Elliphant says. clean and pure in my head, I’m able to really focus on “But the first time that I ever got something back what I have to do in my life: get out there, meet people, from my art was when music came into my life. talk, make art. All this other bullshit, things like tak- Music isn’t coming from someplace where it’s like ing care of the laundry, becomes second place.” I have to sing. I never had some feeling of ‘I have Elliphant is in New York rehearsing for a tour to bring this to the world.’ It’s more about how I that will see her play intimate clubs, somewhat was looking for friends as a human being. When surprising considering her various YouTube vid- I realized that people wanted me, wanted to be eos mostly have views that are in the millions. around me, that was a big relief. And if people (Shot at stunning locales in Iceland, “Down on want more, I’m going to give it to them.” Life” has been seen over five million times; lensed Angry and almost antisocial in her teens, she was in Jamaica, the ganja-scented dancehall jam eventually saved by a love of travelling. As anyone “Music Is Life” has eclipsed two million views.) who’s ever gotten on a plane and pushed themselves Despite various boosters and heavy YouTube out of their comfort zone knows, there’s nothing exposure, Elliphant is in many ways just start- more life-changing than immersing oneself in other ing to make herself known as a live entity. Boding cultures, no matter how foreign they may be. Raised well for getting her name out there as a performer as something of a wild child by a former wild-child is that—like many of those who find superstar- mom, the singer had her outlook on life rocked when dom—she’s got a larger-than-life personality. her grandmother took her to India in her mid-teens. Ask, for example, how it is she sings in JamaicaIf travelling did anything for her, it was teach via-IKEA-accented English on many of her songs— her that the most important thing we can be as including those that make up Living Life Golden— humans is empathetic, embracing differences and she launches into a story as unlikely as it is rather than being afraid of them. It would also awesome. The dub-heavy bass lines and reggaefied teach her to expand her horizons, to always be guitars that buoy dance-floor-detonating tracks like open to new things. Which brings us back to that “Love Me Badder” and “Step Down” can be traced Bangkok bar, which in many ways served as the

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

On life goals: “My only mission is to look for truth and ask questions. That’s all. I knew I was going to do it through some kind of art, and it ended up being music. I think it’s really annoying when people go ‘Oh, yeah, patois artist.’ My Jamaican friends would never say that I speak patois. They’d say I sing in English with a Swedish accent.” On being labelled: “I get really upset when people call me an MC. They put me in a bag. I’m not an MC. If you are a hip-hopper or a rapper, that’s a culture, that’s something that you have grown up with and are really into. You have idols and respect for the art of hip-hop. I don’t have that. I’m not an MC. Sometimes I rap a little bit, but only because it sounds cool in a song. There’s nothing deeper.” On famous friends: “Because I am such an in-the-moment person, it’s only when I’m really shit-faced and so excited about life that I’ll be ‘Oh my god—can you imagine that he called me.’ People like Sitek and Skrillex aren’t so much into beautiful stuff. It’s more about my personality and something original for them.”

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springboard to where she is today. “There was a cute guy there,” Elliphant continues, “and I wanted to make out with him, but he didn’t want to make out with me. He didn’t even care about me. So one day I took the mike and sang to him, a poetry thing that I freestyled on the reggae beat. He was like, ‘Wow, this is so good.’ In the night we went to some really sleazy studio in Bangkok, went through a bottle of whiskey, and jammed. They put up a MySpace for me with the really weird, sloppy stuff that I did that night. It all kind of started there. Later on, when I started to sing, that’s the kind of stuff that I did. If it had been a rock bar in Bangkok, probably I’d be singing rock now.” -

PUMPKIN BILE When a fan jumped on-stage during a Smashing Pumpkins gig in Memphis last week, frontman Billy Corgan reacted with “Get the fuck off my stage before I punch you in the fucking face.” The appropriate response would have been “Thanks for coming to see a band no one cares about in 2016.” EDGY PERFORMANCE On April 30, the Edge became

the first rock musician to play the Sistine Chapel. We’ll use this as a chance to recall when Homer Simpson called the chapel’s famous painted ceiling “the Pope’s private naked-dude mural”.

RED HOT TRASH The Red Hot Chili Peppers have promised to debut a new song called “Dark Necessities” this week. Which reminds us of this Nick Cave quote: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.’” -

Fresh and local SECONDHAND HABIT CHINESE WHISPERS Victoria-based Secondhand Habit likes distortion. A lot. This is clear right from the opening bars of “Rosemary’s Garden”, where Valentine Vandal sounds like he’s singing through a bullhorn into an old rotary telephone that has been jacked into a blown 15-watt guitar amp. Scott Weiland would have dug it. Since making this five-track EP, Vandal has left the band, but presumably Secondhand Habit’s blues-rock-meets-grunge sound remains intact. “Tik Tok” is, sadly, not a Kesha cover, but an oddball raunch-disco number, complete with strings. MAY 5 – 12 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 41

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world will hear this year, James Hinton began doing some worrying. The producer’s motives were pure when he started working on Potential, his third full-length under the name the Range. Building on a template set up by 2013’s breakthrough full-length, Nonfiction, he spent endless hours scouring the deepest recesses of YouTube for clips by beyond-underground singers and MCs. Hinton sampled their work and set it to Sominexed hip-hop, microchip-powered R&B, and chilledout EDM, creating a sprawling triumph in the vein of Moby’s landscape-shifting Play. But as great as Potential is, there were sleepless nights for the producer, who’s also a university physics graduate. “My biggest worry was that people would misunderstand what I was going for,” says the engaging and thoughtful Hinton, on the line from New York. “Misunderstood in the way that people might say, ‘So what? You used all these YouTube vocals and I don’t see any strain of narrative, or any sense of weighing in on things in terms of the lyrics you chose.’ ” But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Right off the top, the 27-year-old

James “The Range” Hinton’s goal was simple: to pose awkwardly.

gives listeners a window onto his own fears about choosing art as a career with “Regular”, which samples a YouTube clip where London MC SdotStar intones, “Right now, I don’t have a backup plan for if I don’t make it.” “I had a theoretical ambition for this record, and I’m so happy that that’s been talked about so much,” Hinton says. “It was important to me that this is a great record and that I’ve made something very musical and very complete. But the fact that the record is

released in 2016 is not an accident, because I was trying to comment on the state of how people think about virality and how people approach pop music in particular. There are expectations that come with that, and I was trying to peel that away. That was an ambition, and it’s been a bit of a surprise that it’s been so well understood.” Using algorithms designed to go into far corners of YouTube, he set himself strict guidelines, with viral videos, of course, immediately out of the running. Even if he was blown away by a YouTube performance, he wouldn’t use it if he got an unlikablehuman-being vibe from the clip. If one were to extrapolate anything from this, it’s that Hinton hoped to make the world a better place with Potential. Indeed, the album’s very name says something about his admiration for the obscure artists whose work he unearthed. That list includes young West Londoner Kruddy Zak, who posted a video of himself freestyling (pint-size hype man in tow) back in 2011. His lines “Everything’s changed/My life’s like a book but the page still remains” are set to swelling ’80s gauze synths in Potential’s inspirationally soulful “Copper Wire”. Kai Mars’s stunning

a cappella cover of Ariana Grande’s “You’ll Never Know”, meanwhile, was spun into the sparkling, sun-flooded meditation “Florida”. “What I’m hoping to expose with this record was the idea that not everyone wants to be a super-famous star,” Hinton says. “A lot of people just like to make their works, and it doesn’t mean that they aren’t good at it if they don’t have ambition. Or maybe the stars unlock on their ambitions. In the case of Kai from ‘Florida’, I can see how from prerelease to postrelease, how her whole tenor has changed, how she’s really excited about the possibility of ‘What will that song do?’ “Something has changed in her life,” he continues, “and there’s something special about that. If that at all kicks off something where other people start digging into YouTube the way I’ve done, I wouldn’t be mad at all. As much as I think I got good at algorithms to really see everything that’s good at this level, I’m sure I’m missing some search term out there. There’s just so much material—honestly, it’s a sea.” > MIKE USINGER

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CRYSTAL SHAWANDA First Nations blues-roots singer-songwriter tours in support of new album Whole World’s Got the Blues. May 13, 9 pm, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www. atthewaldorf.com/.

KATCHAFIRE New Zealand roots-reggae band performs on its Burn It Down Tour 2016, with guests Mystic Roots Band. May 7, doors 7:30 pm, show 8:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/.

BETTYE LAVETTE American R&B vocalist performs hits from her over-50-year musical career. May 17, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Tix $55/48/25, info www.kaymeekcentre.com/.

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2THIS WEEK CLOUD CITY FT. ABJO & SLIMKID3 Seattle-based hip-hop collective, with guests Body of Work and the X Presidents. May 5, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info www.face book.com/events/1053903551298586/. POKEY LAFARGE American country-blues singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Something in the Water, with guests the Cactus Blossoms. May 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/. RYAN HEMSWORTH Canadian multigenre musician, with Ryan Playground and Harrison. May 6, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. HAR MAR SUPERSTAR American R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming album Best Summer Ever. May 6, 7-10:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15, info www.facebook.com/ events/818826668222808/. CALEB KLAUDER Oregon roots singersongwriter performs with bassist Jesse Emerson, drummer Ned Folkerth, vocalistguitarist Reeb Willms, guitarist Russ Blake, and fiddler Sam Weiss. Presented by the Rogue Folk Club. May 6, 8 pm, St. James

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KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS The Georgia Straight presents psychedelic swamp-rock band featuring Gun Club founding member Kid Congo Powers. May 7, doors 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix at www. ticketfly.com/.

COASTS U.K. rock band tours in support of debut self-titled release, with guests Knox Hamilton and Symmetry. May 8, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/. LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY AND PRIMAL FEAR Italian and German power-metal bands coheadline. May 9, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $35, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. MAYER HAWTHORNE American R&Bsoul singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Man About Town. May 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/. LUCIUS American pop band tours in support of upcoming release Good Grief. May 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/. MICHAEL CLEVELAND AND FLAMEKEEPER In collaboration with the Pacific Bluegrass and Heritage Society, the Rogue Folk Club presents American bluegrass fiddler and his band. May 11, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $30/26, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16051120/.

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DYLAN CRAMER Saxophonist Dylan Cramer’s quartet gig at Frankie’s Jazz Club this Friday (May 6) isn’t just a welcome replay of his standing-room-only appearance there in January. Also to be celebrated is the return to the stage of ace bassist Rene Worst, following successful cataract surgery—all the better to read Cramer’s elegant, bebop-inflected charts. DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2RYAN HEMSWORTH May 6 2BIG WILD May 7 2BOEHM May 12 2SMASH BOOM POW/YOUNGBLOOD AND PASSIVE May 13 2DJEMBA DJEMBA AND GANZ May 13 2YOUNG EMPIRES May 19 2LOUIS THE CHILD May 20 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2SAID THE WHALE May 7 2ONE NIGHT STAND: CAROLINE SHAW May 10 2ALBERTA CROSS May 14 2ARCHYTAS QUARTET May 17 2ART BERGMANN May 20 2RAPP BATTLEZ WEZT COAZT May 21 2KAKI KING Jun 6 2SHRILL Jun 8 FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. 2LARRY FULLER TRIO Jun 24 2ANDRE LEROUX QUARTET Jun 26 2STEVE KALDESTAD AND THE RENEE ROSNES TRIO Jun 27 2TWO MUCH GUITAR AND MIKE RUD MINIATURES Jun 29 2AMANDA TOSOFF Jun 30 2CORY WEEDS QUINTET Jul 1 2JACLYN GUILLOU Jul 3 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2REDS, SECONDS FLAT, WAR AMP May 6 2KILLING MACHINE (JUDAS PRIEST TRIBUTE), MAIDEN BC (IRON MAIDEN TRIBUTE) May 7 2SO HIDEOUS, BOSSE-DE-NAGE, FINITE, SEVEN NINES AND TENS May 13 2GALGAMEX, GROSS MISCONDUCT, CADAVERIC LIVIDITY, BUSHWHACKER May 14 2THAT FILTHY SHOW May 19 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 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 2THE WHITE PANDA Sep 3 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 2CHRISTINE & THE KISILTONES May 6 2BEAVER T & THE DIVAS May 7 2SONS OF THE HOE May 8 268 LIPS May 13 2CHRIS NEWTON BAND May 14 2SONS OF THE HOE May 15 2RHYTHM ST. May 20 2HONEYBOY WILSON May 21 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. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. Live music most nights. 2SHAUN RAWLINS EP RELEASE PARTY May 27 2VAN DAMSEL May 28 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 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 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-6653050. 2ANDREW BIRD May 21 2FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Jun 23 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 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 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. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2CLOUD CITY FT. ABJO & SLIMKID3 May 5 2KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS May 7 2LUCA TURILLI’S

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RHAPSODY AND PRIMAL FEAR May 9 2LA CHINGA May 13 2MOLOTOV CARAVAN 5 May 14 2DIANA ARBENINA & THE NIGHT SNIPERS May 19 2BUZZCOCKS May 21 2CARAMELOS DE CIANURO May 22 2KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD May 28 2THE SADIES Jun 3 2GONDWANA Jun 4 2DAGOBA Jun 10 2VOIVOD Jun 13 2ILL NIÑO Jun 15 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER LAUNCH PARTY Jun 16 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER Jun 17-18 2THE BLACK SEEDS Jun 24 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2PIGS Jul 29 2PIGS Jul 29 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29

2PARQUET COURTS Aug 27 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10 2GOJIRA Oct 9 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12

OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS PEMBERTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Huka Entertainment presents Canada’s biggest camping, music, and comedy festival. Headliners includes Pearl Jam, J. Cole, Kaskade, and Snoop Dogg. July 14-17, Pemberton Valley (Pemberton, B.C.). Info at www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/.

RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2CHICAGO Jun 16 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 2HEDLEY May 20 2CITY AND COLOUR Jun 3 2JAMES TAYLOR AND HIS ALL-STAR BAND Jun 11 2DIXIE CHICKS Jul 7 2ADELE Jul 20 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 2GWEN STEFANI Aug 25 2DURAN DURAN Aug 28 2KEITH URBAN Sep 10 2DRAKE Sep 17 2DOLLY PARTON Sep 19

ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 2CALEB KLAUDER May 6 2MICHAEL CLEVELAND AND FLAMEKEEPER May 11 2SONGWRITER’S NIGHT May 12 2STEPHEN FEARING May 28

THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; counVENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. try band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge 2LEMAITRE May 5 2KATCHAFIRE May 7 and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. 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, 604-5691144. 2SANTIGOLD May 12 2LIGHTS May 14 2CHE MALAMBO May 20 2MODERAT May 23 2THE SMOKERS

CLUB TOUR May 31 2HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT Jun 24 2OLIVER JONES TRIO Jun 25 2THE LEGENDARY DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND Jun 27 2JOE LOVANO CLASSIC QUARTET Jun 28 2GREGORY PORTER Jul 2 2JOHN PRINE Jul 9 2BROODS Aug 16 2COLVIN & EARLE Aug 20 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2THE GIPSY KINGS Aug 26

BUMBERSHOOT Seattle’s 46th annual music and arts festival features live music, comedy, theatre, film, visual arts, and children’s programming. Sep 2-4, Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.). Passes on sale Apr 29, 10 am, at www.bumbershoot.com/.

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I get variations on the first half of your question—is something wrong with me?—all the time. But it’s not a question I’m in a position to answer, WWWM, as I would need to depose a random sampling of the guys you’ve dated, interrogate your friends, and grill you under a bare light bulb for a few days to figure out what’s wrong with you. And you know what? Nothing could be wrong with you. You may have pulled the short straw 30 times in a row, and you just need to keep getting out there and eventually you’ll pull a guy who won’t ghost or fizzle on you. As for the second half of your question… What the hell should you do? Well, gee. What you’ve been doing hasn’t worked, WWWM, so maybe it’s time to do something else. Like fuck some dude on the first date. Or if that’s too drastic, fuck some dude on the second date. Or, better yet, go to Somewhat Depressed Guy and say: “I don’t think you want a relationship right now, and I’m not sure I do either. But I like you and trust you, and I could really use your help with something…” While the commitment-and-monogamy-first approach has worked for some, WWWM, it hasn’t worked for you. And being a virgin at 31 isn’t boosting your self-esteem. There are lots of people out there who jumped in the sack and did a little dick-sticking with people they barely knew but had a good feeling about. The jumping/sticking/dicking approach doesn’t always lead to committed and/or monogamous relationships, > WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME? but it can and it has and it does.

> BY DAN SAVAGE Somewhat Depressed Guy might be somewhat less depressed if he was getting some, you might have higher self-esteem if you finally got some, and dispensing with your virginity might make dating after you part ways—if you part ways with him (you never know)—seem a lot less fraught.

I’m a virgin in my late 20s. I’m not waiting until marriage, just for the right person. I’ve dated enough and had enough fun to continue being a happy, normal, socially competent guy, much to the disbelief of my various knuckle-dragging, vagina-blinded pals. I’ve been dating this gal for a few months. She’s special—we have tons of chemistry and she cares about me. We had a brief conversation about my lack of sexperience when we first started dating, and she was very cool about it. I really like this girl, but I’m not sure yet if she’s the future Mrs. I am a worrier (thanks, Mom!), and I fi nd myself thinking that if I share this with her and somewhere down the road we end up breaking up, she’s going to be even more devastated because I shared my first time with her. Am I just having silly virgin worries? Not only am I concerned about her feelings if things don’t work out but I’m also concerned that I might become vagina-blinded—that I might immediately tell this girl I want to spend my life with her just because she’s having sex with me only to find myself a few years down the road feeling trapped. What should I do? > VERY INDECISIVE, REALLY GETTIN’ NAUGHTY

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You should fuck this girl already— provided, of course, that this girl wants to fuck you. You could wind up saying things you come to regret or have to walk back—her vagina might be that bedazzling—but that’s an unavoidable risk, and not one that’s unique to virgins. The right vagina, ass, face, skill set, or bank balance can blind a fucker with decades of experience. The only way to avoid vagina blindness—or ass blindness, et cetera—is to never have sex with anyone. And I don’t think you’re interested in celibacy, so stop freaking out about the risk that you’ll imprint, like a duckling, on the first vagina your pee-pee sees the inside of. You must also eliminate “sexperience” from your vocabulary, VIRGN, as it’s equal parts cloying and annoying.

I’ve been with

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accidental anal penetration, WHAT, as anal penetration always required focus, precision, and proper breathing techniques—in my own sexperience. But listeners of the Savage Lovecast schooled me in Episode 340, and I’m now convinced that accidental anal penetration is something too many women have sexperienced. (Do you see how annoying that is, VIRGN?) A strategically deployed butt plug sounds like a sexcellent solution to the problem, WHAT, but get yourself a plug with a wider-than-usual base to prevent your boyfriend’s misdirected cock from pushing the plug, base and all, all the way in you (ouch) or his misdirected cock from sliding in alongside the plug. (If you hate single penetration, you’ll really hate double penetration.) If the problem persists even with a plug—if your boyfriend’s cock is constantly slamming into the plug in a way that you find uncomfortable— a thumbtack glued to the base of the plug will inspire your boyfriend to be more focused and precise. And speaking of the Savage Lovecast, we’re coming up on our 500th episode, which is a significant milestone for this relatively new genre/platform/doohickey. If you’re not already listening, find it here: savagelovecast.com. And a big thanks to Nancy Hartunian, the Lovecast’s producer since Episode 1, and to the techsavvy, at-risk youth who pushed me to start podcasting before it was cool. Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net .

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

Whether you feel the effects of the stars as a subtle, background influence or whether they thrust an action switch, family, real estate, home, and money matters should hit a positive upswing. Stay focused; aim for quality over quantity or speed. Thursday/Friday, gift yourself and/or your lover; relax and enjoy. Saturday/ Sunday, it’s one thing, then another.

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CANCER

June 21–July 22

A new lifestyle, financial track, professional venture, or love prospect: you have more than the usual riding on it now. Venus in Taurus and Friday’s super new moon set a promising platform. Monday/ Tuesday could bring good news or catapult you in some lucrative, inspiring, and heartwarming way. Use these “in your element” days and the week ahead to create and conquer.

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LEO

July 22–August 23

Thursday/Friday is great for socializing, moneymaking, or romance. Even though Mercury is retrograde, the stars generate better-thanaverage yields regarding career, money matters, fresh starts, official undertakings, and pushing past limitations. Start of the week, Venus/Neptune inspires you; Venus/Jupiter inundates you. Monday onward is optimal for pursuit of love, money, an air-clearing, upgrade, personal reward, and pleasureseeking. A relationship bond grows.

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VIRGO

August 23–September 23

Even though there are a significant number of retrograde planets right now, you are likely to feel on the verge of a momentous new chapter. You are. A confidence-building, good-news, good-feedback week lies ahead. Put your feelers out; try your luck. Friday, Monday, and Tuesday are optimum for

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LIBRA

September 23–October 23

Spend, sell, or refinance; now through next Friday can be huge for money dealings. New or existing, an intimate relationship is an action focal point also. Mercury retrograde asks you to double-check with your heart first. While added investment, more negotiation, and extra courage are called for, it comes easily. Auspicious/facilitating stars are on your side—Venus/Jupiter earlier in the week and Venus/Mercury/Pluto later.

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SCORPIO

October 23–November 22

Who, what, where, and when: yes, you have a lot to evaluate. Look to Friday’s supermoon and Monday’s Mercury transit to provide a fresh perspective, insight, or solution, or to start a new dialogue. Opportunity abounds. A remeet or revisit gives you a chance to speak your heart, to fill in or top up. Advice or a second opinion is worth considering.

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SAGITTARIUS

November 22–December 21

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CAPRICORN

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AQUARIUS

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PISCES

December 21–January 20

Th is week’s transits give you the Midas touch regarding relationship and money matters. Thanks to the Mercury transit, Venus, and Jupiter, you’ll naturally get a very good read on another’s thoughts, feelings, and motives. Creativity is another area where you’ll shine. Use it on a project, a negotiation, or your lover. Friday and Monday onward, you rock/it rocks. January 20–February 18

A new home and family chapter gets a big boost from Friday’s super new moon and Monday’s Mercury transit. Despite the retrograde planets, the stars give you a green light to move ahead with an investment, renovation, redecoration project, or refinancing. Monday begins a big week for relationships, romance, reconnections, or money dealings. February 18- March 20

Mother’s Day weekend isn’t only for that one special lady. Friday’s super new moon kicks off a great weekend to spend more quality time with the people you adore. Selfpampering, dining out, and shopping make for good entertainment, too. Monday/Tuesday can be especially rewarding in the affairs of the heart or the wallet. Soak it up! -

Yes, the effort and investment are worth it. Now through next weekend can be an especially productive/lucrative time for work or working it out. Monday’s Mercury transit and the end of Jupiter retrograde could spark a new solution or prospect. Tuesday, a gentle touch, hint, or prod is all B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r it takes to open the floodgate. Wednes- Rose’s free monthly newsletter at day through Friday, you’ll strike gold. www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/.

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UNEXPECTEDLY NICE CUSTOMS OFFICER

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 2, 2016 WHERE: Pacific Centre, W. Georgia St

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 30, 2016 WHERE: Truck Crossing in Blaine

We both were waiting at the elevator and you asked if I needed some help with my directions; you also were so kind to tell me how to get where I needed to go! You were so sweet and handsome; I was kicking myself for not saying more than “thank you”. You appeared to be working as a contractor and walked thru Pacific Centre. Dark hair and features with a killer smile

You were the awesome Canadian customs officer at the far right side of the border crossing. I think I was there around 11:30am. I remember you because of your eye colour, which were way too mesmerizing light in colour to look at. Not sure if you could tell but I was trying my hardest to avoid eye contact without looking like a suspicious person. I was the one telling you about rock climbing in Leavenworth and you had no idea what bouldering was. And I think you were surprised that a female would climb and camp on her own but we do! Anyway, you are way too good looking to be a customs officer but thank you for being so nice and pleasant about my trip down into the States. Cheers!

SAW YOU IN THE WAITING ROOM AT THE COPEMAN CLINIC...

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 2, 2016 WHERE: Copeman Clinic Monday early afternoon... me... black shirt, black shorts, crutches. You... pretty hat, lovely face, radiant smile and a warmth of energy that’s hard to describe. I was trying not to stare but every time I looked, you were looking my way, with that gorgeous smile. Our staring got interrupted and you were gone when I came out. You have questions and I have answers. And some questions of my own. Jeez, I hope you see this.

LEATHER JACKET ON LONSDALE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 1, 2016 WHERE: Lower Lonsdale You: tall, wearing a leather jacket, and holding a video camera with a group of other guys on Lonsdale Avenue. Me: curly hair, blue headphones, and standing beside you at the crosswalk. Too shy to say hi in the moment, but noticed you sneaking looks. Just letting you know, you seemed like my type :)

LOTTIE FROM OXFORDSHIRE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 1, 2016 WHERE: Stanley Park by the Marathon Route Lottie, you enchanted me with your beauty, intelligence, warmth and sweetness. We met at Stanley Park during the marathon... I wanted to ask you out but, 1. I was on duty and 2. it appears you have a boyfriend? Nonetheless, you made me something simple yet beautiful and it really touched me. What’s going on? I really would love to get to know you...

TWO GIRLFRIENDS WALKING ON DAVIE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 26, 2016 WHERE: Davie Corner Denman You the two hotties wearing black walking in front of me from Denman to Cardero on Davie. You commented on how my cuties were so adorable. I overheard you talking about your Lhasapoo Rolstan. I was a bit distracted dealing with work stuff over the phone and thinking about what should I cook that night‚ but now in hindsight, I still can’t forget your smiles and fragrances. When do we meet again?

DIOR GIRL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 28, 2016 WHERE: Dior at Holt Renfrew You used to work at Dior at Holts. Beautiful blonde skinny girl with big red lips. I always wanted to talk to you but was always too shy, even to be around you, I hope you read this some day, or perhaps I run into you. May I take you out sometime?

ANXIETY ATTACK BROADWAY ST.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 17, 2016 WHERE: Broadway and Granville St. Hi, we saw each other when I had an anxiety attack on Broadway St. You were there, rubbing my arm :) You said you experience the same thing. Let’s meet and talk.

GRANVILLE ISLAND MARKET.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 27, 2016 WHERE: Granville Isl Market between Apples, Candy and Chicken... I am a redhead that was standing in front of a candy making place talking to an older lady I had just met in the market. You walked past with short dark hair, a sleeve and eye contact that gave me temporary conversational black out. My left hand rings are NOT wedding related. I wonder if you saw me? Coffee or a cocktail? Hopelessly optimistic...

PUNK GUY HELPS OLD DRUNK GUY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 29, 2016 WHERE: Heatley and Pender I was in the number 7 Dunbar and we had stopped at Heatley and Pender. And an old drunk man stumbled and fell underneath the parked bus. You had long dark hair and lip piercings. Wearing all black. You jumped to action to help the man up and offered to take him to the triage where you worked to sober up and have a bite to eat. You really tried to take him with you and help him out. But he refused. I was the punk chick with the punk mohawk who thought it was absolutely heartwarming to see such kindness. I thought you were really handsome. I’d like to see you some time. Maybe over a beer?

PUNK ROCK GIRL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 27, 2016 WHERE: The Charlaton

I went to the Charlaton for a pint after work. I thought I saw you checking me out but I left without saying hi. Later I felt a real pang of regret (I’m too polite) You had beautiful black hair and a nose ring and your friend was wearing a skinny puppy tshirt. I was the scruffy construction worker sitting alone. Anyway, you’re totally my type of crush.

BEAUTY IN RED NEAR KINGSGATE MALL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 27, 2016 WHERE: Broadway and Prince Edward You were the super cutie with dark hair, a red top, and army green pants twirling an earbud as you walked West on Broadway. I was the tall guy sitting at the bus stop wearing a green coat and black jeans. You smiled at me and I thought about it all day at work. Can I buy you a beer sometime?

WOMAN HOLDING VIOLIN CASE

TALL DARK HANDSOME

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 27, 2016 WHERE: West Broadway

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

Sat next to you at a bus stop bench last week and was really consumed by your appearance. Ginger shoulder length hair, a nice form fitting dress, tights, ballet flats. You were holding a soft violin case, had a striking face and a great perfume. More than anything, I just wanted you to know how gorgeous you looked.

You: walking up Davie corner 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.

BATHROOM CONSTRUCTION ADONIS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 5, 2016 WHERE: Bathroom Construction This was a few weeks ago I can’t remember the exact date. You were at my place of work looking over the construction on the bathroom. You introduced yourself to me and asked if I was such and such... I was not... but you were very attractive... and then you were gone

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. :)

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 lobby of the Keg Thursday April 21 630ish. 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 no 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

STUNNING ASIAN

SAW YOU AT MOJA ON COMMERCIAL

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

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

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.

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.

#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. :)

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