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FRESH, WILD BC SPOT PRAWNS ARE NOW HERE! Enjoy this delicious, uniquely west coast treat before the short F IR E R O A S T E D P R A W N S W IT H HABAÑERO & T O A S T E D G A R L IC V IN A IG R E T season TE IN GR ED IE NT S DI RE CT IO NS ends.

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CONTENTS

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NEWS

In advance of an upcoming appearance at UBC’s Point Grey campus, William Shatner talks about his face appearing on a new Canadian postage stamp and rumours of a cameo in the next Star Trek movie. > BY DOUG SARTI

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This year’s Bike to Work Week coincides with stunning growth in the number of cycling trips in Vancouver. > BY CHARLIE SMITH

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FOOD

Chef and avid camper Josh Wolfe dishes on cooking outdoors, from packing the perfect portable grill to mastering the ice situation. > BY MIKE USINGER

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At the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, Circus Incognitus shows the simple magic of acrobatics with everyday objects. > BY TONY MONTAGUE

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ish detergents, stain removers, disinfectant sprays, and other grocery-store cleaners are expected to leave our homes spotless and sparkling, but it’s no secret that these products may be doing us—and the environment— more harm than good.

In fact, studies have found that many of the soaps lurking in your cleaning cabinet are laden with toxic chemicals like skin-irritating 2-Butoxyethanol and ammonia, cancercausing coal-tar dyes, and corrosive lye. Exposure to these compounds over time has been shown by the David Suzuki Foundation to have damaging effects on the body, triggering symptoms related to asthma and posing threats to the functioning of our kidneys, livers, and endocrine systems—not to mention the marine pollution they produce when washed down the drain.

“There’s no government body overseeing whether or not companies are adding in anything that’s toxic or carcinogenic,” says Linh Truong, co-owner of the Soap Dispensary, a local shop that offers earth-friendly household cleaning items in bulk, during a phone interview. “So, as a consumer, it’s hard to find out what’s in these products.”

According to Truong, the biggest toxic culprit in the majority of cleaning products is the synthetic fragrance. Almost all of these scents are made from phthalates—the same type of chemicals used to soften plastics—which are known to disrupt the body’s reproductive functions. Truong notes that these perfumes are completely unnecessary and that they can also cause skin, eye, and breathing irritations for some.

Conventional soaps and sprays often contain ingredients that are harmful to both humans and the environment. Katarzyna Bialasiewicz photo.

“The industry has trained us to believe that if you can smell lavender, lemon, or some kind of ocean-spray scent, then our home is clean,” she says. “But that’s not the case.”

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Many of these products are also biodegradable. The all-purpose cleaners and dishwashing powders from Burnaby-based Live for Tomorrow, for example, are septic- and water-safe, so they won’t harm the Earth before, during, or after use. These cleaning agents start at $8.95 for 500 millilitres and can also be found at select grocers across the city, as well as green stores like the Soap Dispensary (3718 Main Street).

Aside from the betterment of your health and the environment, this array of local, primarily familyoperated businesses producing quality ecofriendly cleaners should be enough to lure you to the green side.

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ECO FIND CITRUS FRESH Foster Naturals is the latest B.C.–born company to hit the green cleaning scene, and we’re digging the brand’s lineup of sustainably produced, vegan, and biodegradable home, beauty, and pet-care products. From tough-on-grease lemon-lime dish soap to hemp- and sage-infused shampoo, each cleaner harnesses the power of plant- and coconut-derived ingredients to leave bodies and surfaces shining.

Check out the Orange Boost ecoOrganic Surface Spray ($8.99 for 475 mL), a do-it-all cleaner that uses organic herbs and orange oil to fight stubborn stains in bathrooms, kitchens, mudrooms, and more. Find it at the Soap Dispensary (3718 Main Street).

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William Shatner will participate in UBC’s centennial celebrations with a speech that takes a look at the differences and commonalities that divide and bond us.

Confessing that he was f loored by the honour, he says, “I’ve just recently picked myself back up. Isn’t it something?

“I was collecting stamps when I was a kid—back with the founding fathers and Prime Minister Macdonald—but the possibility of collecting me never occurred to me.” He pauses, then laughs. “I’m going to use that line again!”

Of course, talk of the stamps opens the door to another line of Star Trek–related questioning, regarding Internet rumours that Shatner has secretly filmed a cameo for the upcoming film Star Trek Beyond.

“God almighty, no—no, it’s not true,” he exclaims, laughing. “No, I am not in the next Star Trek, much to my regret, I wish I were.”

Clearly, James Kirk is still an important part of Shatner’s life.

“Star Trek is mythological,” he says.

“People are looking for an explanation of things that can’t be explained—it’s the eternal desire to fill a void. Science fiction tries to give you an idea of what that might be, and that’s entrancing.”

As the conversation turns to the late Leonard Nimoy—his Star Trek costar and long-time friend, and the subject of Shatner’s most recent book, Leonard—the actor becomes more contemplative.

“When you write about somebody who’s gone, who you cared about, it’s an exercise in memory, and nostalgia, and the deeper understanding of the passage of time. It makes for a multilayered experience.”

Indeed, it’s hard not to think of the passage of time when it comes to the original Star Trek series, especially with the show celebrating its golden anniversary this year.

“Star Trek is a phenomenon.

There’s never been a show on the air continuously for 50 years, and to be a part of it is quite wonderful.

Part of the reason that I’m coming to UBC is because of Star Trek,” he says, reflectively.

“I never forget that.” William Shatner speaks at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday (May 28).

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While many octogenarians are slowly winding down, the Canadian actor, director, author, and documentarian (and, arguably, musician) is just hitting his stride. With a raft of upcoming film and TV roles, a new novel, and countless public appearances—including one in Vancouver next week to celebrate the University of British Columbia’s centennial—it’s obvious that he’s having the time of his life.

“I’m in the midst of a joyful expression of myself,” Shatner says with a laugh on the line from his office in Los Angeles.

A consummate pitchman, the 85-year-old actor even manages to squeeze an endorsement into an exclamation of joie de vivre.

“I’m flying by Bombardier, a Canadian airplane manufacturer, from Orlando to Vancouver,” Shatner explains, “and rather than dribble on my shirt at home, I might as well dribble on my shirt in a beautiful Bombardier airplane.

It’s an adventure, why would I want to give that up?”

For his UBC speech, the Montreal native (“I still think of myself as Canadian”) plans to examine the differences that both divide us and bind us together.

“My theme is that we’re all different, and I harp on that a lot,” Shatner says. “We all perceive things differently, and we’ve all had different experiences, so between the two we’re all, as I say, snowflakes.”

It turns out that the timing of Shatner’s return to Canada couldn’t be better, as this month also sees the release of Canada Post’s new Star Trek stamp series—which includes a stunning depiction of Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk.

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Under the name Bluefish Bohemian, Groundwater began handcrafting her signature wrap bracelets—a medley of rustic leather and gleaming precious and semiprecious gemstones washed in shades of jade, turquoise, and lilac. The designer has since expanded her line to include a range of delicate necklaces and earrings, though the wrap bracelets remain one of her most popular items.

“It’s something that can be dressed up or dressed down,” notes Groundwater, “and that kind of fits in with the practical-minded person that I am.”

Available in three lengths that allow the bracelets to be wrapped around the wrist two, three, or five times, Groundwater’s pieces make the art of arm-candy layering easy. Her commitment to sourcing quality supplies ensures that each bracelet, in addition to being oneof-a-kind, is made to last, too.

Rich brown leather cords are hand-stitched with mother-ofpearl and glittering gold and silver hematite beads, and finished with a darling heart-shaped charm, while, elsewhere, matte black leather is joined with weathered amazonite gemstones in icy blues, greens, and coppers. Even the bracelets’ buttons—many of them handforged and etched with bohemianinspired symbols like mermaids, trees, and earthy sand dollars— exude a storied feel rarely seen in jewellery.

“To me, it’s really important to have a broad range of materials on hand,” explains Groundwater, “so you can play with them and see what pieces are going to complement each other.”

Starting at $33, Bluefish Bohemian wrap bracelets will be just some of the many fashion accessories available at the Portobello West Summer Market, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday (May 28 and 29) at the Creekside Community Centre (1 Athlete’s Way).

Groundwater will also have an assortment of rhodium-plated brass necklaces and stud and drop earrings on-site, starting at $18.

While you’re there, keep your eye out for other local jewellery designers, too. For instance, there’s Out Designs, Verena Strigler, and newcomer Eye of Needle, who will be offering an assortment of handcrafted earrings, rings, necklaces, brooches, and bracelets that use everything from eclectic, multihued seed beads to opal and shining sapphire. And though the materials may differ, you can rest assured that, like Bluefish Bohemian’s, each piece will be boasting its own one-off character.

“I don’t look at any one designer and try to copy what they do, because I find that you get trapped then,” Groundwater says. “I want it to look like my work.” -

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Vancity cyclists include (left to right) Anthonia Ogundele, Nicole Germain, Susanna Cheer, Rachel Tuttle, Brian Cade, Jose Escobar, Emily Pearson, Claire Bletcher, Erin LaRocque, John Horn, and Naveed Nadri.

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reflect on how the city’s year’s calendar: Bike to Shop Day on August 13 and cycling culture has blos- Bike the Night, which will take place on an unspecisomed. Nowadays, 10 per- fied evening later this summer. Bike the Night was cent of Vancouverites cycle inspired by a similar event in Montreal that, she to their place of employ- said, attracted approximately 17,000 people. ment.

Hub pays tribute to cycling-friendly organizaAccording to LaClaire, tions with its annual Bike Friendly Business Awards. the Vancouver Olympics in Last year’s winners included Arc’teryx, Hootsuite, 2010 helped sharpen trans- Bosa Properties, and the Kwantlen Student Associaportation planners’ minds. tion, to name a few. The prize for “cycling education As Vancouver prepares for the 10th annual Bike to Work Week, “It was a good exercise in champion” went to Vancity, where 52.7 percent of city residents are taking to two-wheelers like never before foreseeing a future when the staff commute by sustainable means.

Vancouver has caught the cycling bug in you have to accommodate 30 percent more trips This year, the credit union will offer two bikeways that nobody could have imagined 20 years into the downtown,” he said. “Walk, bike, and maintenance workshops at Vancity Centre (183 Terminal Avenue) and at its 815 West Hastings Street

BY CHAR LIE S M IT H ago. When Lon LaClaire joined the City of Van- transit were kind of managed pretty well.” couver’s engineering department in 1997, council Over at the bicycle-advocacy group Hub Cyc- location. At the latter site, Vancity will also offer two had just passed a landmark transportation plan ling, the director of corporate engagement and commuter-primer workshops. The credit union is with 76 major initiatives. It marked the first time events, Laura Jane, is ecstatic about how also sponsoring Bike to Work Week “celethat the city explicitly expressed a desire for more things are progressing. In 2007, 3,550 bration stations” at Science World, Horntrips by walking, cycling, and transit. people signed up for Bike to Work

by Square, and UBC. Check out…

“I think at that point we had only one bike route Week. This year, she hopes Hub can Vancity’s manager of environSTRAIGHT.COM that was existing at that time,” LaClaire, now the reach its goal of 13,000 participants. mental sustainability, Anthonia Visit our website for related content city’s director of transportation, told the Georgia There are 75 events taking place Ogundele, cycles to work on most and to comment on Straight by phone from Vancouver City Hall. “The during the week. At “celebration days and walks on those when she this story mayor and council of the day wanted us to focus a stations”, people can stop for free leaves the bike at home. She’s not lot more on development of cycling infrastructure.” coffee, free snacks, and free bike alone, telling the Straight by phone He recalled that a couple of years later, there was repairs. Logging on to Hub’s website that it is sometimes hard to find room for a celebration when the city’s bike network reached makes them eligible to win bicycles or a trip to her bike in Vancity’s storage room because so 100 kilometres. It was mostly made up of a north- cycling-crazy Amsterdam. many of her colleagues also cycle to work. The south route on Ontario Street, an east-west route Jane explained over the phone that cycling to self-described urbanist said she’s had a longon Adanac Street, and an off-Broadway route along work is a great way to incorporate regular exercise standing love for sustainability.

7th and 8th avenues. Within a decade, however, into the day. She also said that people often under“I’ve always cycled,” Ogundele stated. “I feel it’s cycling had almost tripled and there were more estimate how much time they can save by cycling. the best way to be connected with your communthan 50,000 bike trips inside the city, according to “You don’t have to drive around in search of park- ity. It gives you that opportunity to stop and smell a May 2006 report by LaClaire. ing and you don’t get stuck in traffic,” she said. the roses.”

By 2013, the city reported that 83,000 trips were Jane added that people who bike to work are Another company that participates in Bike to taken on a bike. The following year, this rose to often happier commuters. And once newcomers Work Week is Comor, which is B.C.’s largest in99,000, and by 2015 the number shot up to 131,000. learn to get comfortable cycling during Bike to dependently owned sports retailer. This year, people That’s a 32-percent hike in cycling in a single year.

Work Week, they often continue. can win prizes from the company, including a $75 “These jumps are just really, really shocking,” “We do follow-up surveys after the event,” gift certificate, at a celebration station at Vancouver LaClaire said. she said. “Most of the people stick with it on a International Airport.

As the Lower Mainland prepares for the 10th regular basis.”

Comor’s Carlos Strachan told the Straight by annual Bike to Work Week—from Monday (May In fact, Bike to Work Week has been such a suc- phone that Bike to Work Week doesn’t necessarily 30) to next Sunday (June 5)—it’s a good time to cess that Hub is adding two more events on this see next page

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arely a week goes by that Richard Walton doesn’t set foot on the BadenPowell Centennial Trail, a path favoured by North Shore locals that stretches all the way from Deep Cove on the eastern edge of North Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay at the opposite end of West Vancouver.

He actually helped carve the trail.

“I worked on sections of it, probably 40 years ago,” Walton said in a phone interview.

Walton, the mayor of the District of North Vancouver, described the trail as “gnarly”, marked by rocks and large roots that maintain a feel of the deep temperate rainforest. But he added that the North Vancouver stretch is still a great pick for novices.

Grouse Mountain, hikers looking for more can continue up the Grouse Grind. Or they can call it a day.

The Baden-Powell is also a convenient hiking option for people who don’t own a car. The region’s public-transit system has bus stops at the bottom of Grouse Mountain, at the trail’s pit stop in Lynn Canyon, and at the trail’s easternmost starting point in Deep Cove.

The 12-kilometre hike from Deep Cove to Lynn Canyon is roughly five hours one way. The stretch from Lynn Canyon to Grouse Mountain is about the same. The entire 48 kilometres, which winds Running all the way from Lynn Canyon to Horseshoe Bay, the Baden-Powell from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay, Centennial Trail’s easiest stretch is through North Vancouver. Stephen Hui photo. is too long to walk in a single day, “The whole North Van section probably too young. “A lot of sections but that doesn’t stop some people. from Capilano River to Deep Cove are relatively flat.”

On July 9, the Baden-Powell will be is easy for family,” he said, addUpon arriving where the Baden- taken over by the Knee Knackering ing that children under seven are Powell connects with the base of North Shore Trail Run, a contest that

sees many of its runners complete the entire trail in less than five hours.

In a telephone interview, the race’s director, Kelsy Trigg, said the event is obviously more challenging than the sort of stroll one can take through the trail’s North Vancouver sections. But she added that the run does attract a wide demographic.

“It’s for anybody who wants to set themselves a big goal and is willing to put the work in,” she told the Straight. “We have people who are late teens who have done it, and our oldest entrant is over 70.”

Registration for 2016 closed in January. But the race, now in its 28th year, will return in 2017.

“It’s really much more accessible than lots of people would guess,” she said. “But I warn people: Knee Knacker gets in your blood.” -

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lead to sales of big-ticket items but it gets riders thinking about having their bikes tuned up or buying gear, like helmets or new gloves.

“It gets our name out there, which is a great opportunity for us,” he said.

However, the big-ticket business may blossom later this summer if transit operators and TransLink can’t negotiate a contract. Strachan noted that if a labour dispute shuts down operation of buses or SeaBuses, the number of cyclists will sharply increase.

And that will drive down revenue for TransLink. He added that TransLink revenue might also decline because of the city’s new bike-share program.

“It’s an interesting dynamic when you think about it,” Strachan said.

“They’re both working for the same thing—less congestion, better for the environment—but totally competing against one another.”

According to LaClaire, one of the biggest obstacles to cycling is the perception that it’s not safe. The City of Vancouver’s 2015 cycling-safety study identified 19 locations where there had been 10 or more reported collisions between 2007 and 2012.

Green paint and intervention to prevent right turns going west were added at the most dangerous site: the north end of the Burrard Bridge and Pacific Street. Green paint was also added to three more of the top six crash locations, a traffic circle was removed from a fifth, and a new protected bike lane was added at a sixth.

After taking bicycle volumes into account, the neighbourhoods where collisions were most likely were Sunset, Shaughnessy, Victoria-Fraserview, and Killarney.

Vancity’s Anthonia Ogundele says that cycling keeps her connected to the city.

“This suggests that the neighbourhoods with the least amount of cycling and cycling infrastructure had the highest cycling collision likelihood,” the report stated.

LaClaire said statistics indicate that there has been a decrease in collisions involving cyclists as their number has sharply increased. That’s because motorists are more likely to keep an eye out for two-wheelers. And he suggested that the rising popularity of cycling couldn’t have been anticipated 20 years ago because the forecasting models were based on people who were living in Vancouver at that time.

“One of the flaws with that system is it assumes the people of the future are like the people of the past,” LaClaire stated. “These young people behave differently than the young people of 20 years ago.” -

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hortly after showing up for an introduction to ocean kayaking, everyone was ready to hit the water.

It took less than half an hour, starting at the compound of the Vancouver Ocean Sports club on Whyte Avenue, near the recently reopened coast guard station at Vanier Park.

They were first kitted up with a spray skirt and personal flotation device.

Next, they were shown how to get in and out of the kayak.

Then the beginners were assembled on the nearby beach for a short chat.

This included a demonstration of how to use a double-bladed paddle.

And for the next hour and a half, they paddled on the calm waters of False Creek with the guidance of two instructors, making their way to Kitsilano Beach, then back to where they started, near the south end of the Burrard Bridge.

Kayaking coach Dave Berrisford was pleased. “Well done!” he commended the new kayakers after everyone returned.

Berrisford works at MEC, which provided the kayaking lesson. Joining him in the two-hour class was Mikayla Crosson, his colleague at the Vancouver outdoor-gear and clothing retailer.

“It’s pretty basic stuff, but typically, people, when they get off the water, they feel a little bit more comfortable about kayaking,” Berrisford told the Georgia Straight about the course.

According to him, what the MEC lesson tries to do is provide beginners with basic skills so they are confident enough to rent a kayak from one of the local outfitters.

“This is a fantastic place to kayak,” Berrisford said about False Creek, when asked for a good place where beginners can practise. “It’s a very easy launch. It’s close to the city. As you can see, the inlet here is generally protected from the weather. It’s a nice, safe area.”

Kayaking lessons are also offered at Jericho Beach.

According to Mike Cotter, general manager of the Jericho Sailing Centre, a favourite route for kayakers is from that beach to the West End’s English Bay beach.

“It’s a great way to experience our natural environment,” Cotter told the Straight by phone about the outdoor activity.

The Jericho Sailing Centre contracts Ecomarine Paddlesport Centres to deliver kayaking lessons.

In addition to courses, Ecomarine offers tours. According to owner Chris Ladner, one of the more popular excursions starts every day at 10:30 a.m. from Granville Island, where the company operates a year-round location.

There are also sunset and fullmoon kayaking tours, which start at Jericho Beach and English Bay, where Ecomarine operates during warm months.

Ladner’s favourite trip is a threeand-a-half-hour summer guided outing that takes kayakers from English Bay to the shorelines of Stanley Park. They disembark at Third Beach for an interpretive walk through the rainforest.

“Paddling attracts everyone, from age eight to 88,” Ladner told the Straight by phone.

Over on the North Shore, lessons and tours are offered by the Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre. The peaceful waters of Deep Cove make a nice location for a relaxing paddle.

Owner Bob Putnam related that one of the company’s regular clients is a teacher who likes to paddle out and read a book for an hour.

The business also organizes events like cheap-date nights on Fridays, which feature discounted rental rates.

According to Putnam, a popular event is Women on Water, every Thursday evening from late April through the summer. Guided by volunteers, women paddle at their own pace in a noncompetitive environment.

“Some of them are fast. Some of them are slow. And at some point, they turn around, and then at that point, the slow ones are the lead,” Putnam told the Straight by phone.

The Thursday paddles include themed events in the summer, like the mother-daughter night and dress-up night, when women can show up in their finest dresses.

“You can sort of paddle along beside somebody and chat and talk, and take in the scenery and get some exercise, right?” Putnam observed. “You know, like if you’re going to do that on a bicycle, it’s a little more difficult because you have to pay attention to traffic.

Mountain biking, you know, you’re sometimes on little trails. Whereas this, you can kind of trundle along at your own pace and just enjoy a chat and not have to worry about too much.”

For the more adventurous, Deep Cove also provides access to Indian Arm, an 18-kilometre fiord extending north from Burrard Inlet.

Back in Vancouver, MEC outreach coordinator Nick Hastie told the Straight by phone that the company is organizing a “paddle fest”. The event will be held on June 18 at the Jericho Sailing Centre. Instructors from MEC, Ecomarine Paddlesport Centres, and the Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre will provide lessons in kayaking, standup paddleboarding, and surf skiing. -

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Much of our local culture streams from a love affair with all things aquatic, and as summer rolls around once again, the tide is rising on the number of sports that will coax you to the shore.

KITEBOARDING If you’re bored by Vancouver’s typical board sports, it’s time to give kiteboarding a spin.

Combining aspects of wakeboarding, windsurfing, and snowboarding, kiteboarding involves being pulled across the ocean by a large power kite while trying to stay upright on a small surfboard. Easy.

Although the true home of kiteboarding here is Squamish, there’s plenty of opportunity to don your wetsuit on Vancouver’s beaches. The intersection of Jericho Beach and Spanish Banks is a popular launch spot when a westerly wind is blowing, and is particularly recommended for experienced kiters. Adventurous souls braving this beach, a busy area both in and out of the water, should set out from the farthest-west point to avoid the City of Vancouver’s restricted area.

Kiteboarding is best embraced in Water sports abound whether you’re glancing over the surface on a skimboard, diving into the deep, or going dragon boating. the spring, winter, and fall, but there are still a good couple of weeks left be- skimmers have found a way to take moth of board sports remains standup SUP yoga to commune directly with fore Vancouver’s calm summer days advantage of aquatic sports on Van- paddleboarding. According to Mike nature, others opt for the floating couver’s waveless shores. Wreck Beach, Cotter, general manager of the Jericho workout to challenge themselves prevent kite-powered propulsion.

Spanish Banks, and Jericho Beach Sailing Centre, the number of paddlers physically. Take it from us, perSKIMBOARDING If being hurled have established themselves as a skim- in the city has “virtually doubled” forming a downward-facing dog on around by a giant kite doesn’t float boarder’s paradise—so much so that in each of the past five years—which the sea is tougher than it looks your boat, slower-paced skimboarding West Point Grey Academy and Wind- means you’ve probably already tried it.

With popular spots to launch your might be for you. Although it’s rising sure Adventure Watersports now offer There are a couple of ways you can “moving mat” including Kits Beach, in popularity, a lot of Vancouver resi- professional classes.

English Bay, and Locarno Beach, jazz up the hobby.

You can’t get any more “Vancouver” you’ll be spoiled for choice to show dents still consider skimboarding to Numerous well-known skimbe the poor cousin of surfing. Those boarding tricks are said to have been than standup-paddleboard yoga, or off those beach-bod abs when you people probably don’t live in Kits. invented along Vancouver’s beaches. “SUP yoga” to the pros. Although some paddle back to the shore. commentators are dismissing the pracLow tide sees Spanish Banks awash Join the tradition. tice as a flash in the pan, major sports DRAGON-BOAT RACING People of with riders gliding the flats. Throwing down a small, smooth board onto STANDUP PADDLEBOARDING brands disagree, pumping money into Chinese descent form a sizable part of Greater Vancouver’s population, a patch of shallow water, jumping Although skimming and kiting might developing new equipment.

While some Vancouverites choose so it comes as little surprise that the on, and riding with its momentum, be growing in popularity, the behe-

heritage sport of dragon-boat racing rules the waves of False Creek.

With a standard dragon-boat crew consisting of 22 people, it’s one of the only Vancouver water sports where it’s acceptable to bring 21 friends.

Twenty paddlers sit in pairs facing the bow of the boat, a drummer, or “caller”, keeps the paddlers in time, and a “sweep” is in charge of steering the boat with a rudder.

Where you sit in the boat makes a big difference. If you’ve got muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger, the back of the craft is for you. If you’re a steady Eddy, put yourself in the middle. If you’ve got rhythm, move up front.

With the option to launch into False Creek from either Main Street or Granville Island, dragon-boat racing is the ideal sport for East Van or downtown residents who don’t want to pay for the bus.

DIVING Although with most water sports you try to remain dry, Vancouver’s ocean is just as interesting under the surface.

Diving is a growing pastime, establishing itself as one of the city’s premier aquatic pursuits. The ocean around Vancouver can accommodate a range of skill levels; beginners enjoy easy dives with shore access and more advanced explorers scout the area’s sunken wrecks.

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GRANFONDO WHISTLER (September 10) The RBC–sponsored GranFondo cycling event covers 122 kilometres from Stanley Park in Vancouver to Whistler. The ride is designed for recreational to advanced cyclists. There are four other event categories: Forte, Medio, Giro, and Alta Classe. The Medio finishes in Squamish for a total of 67 kilometres. All other categories finish SEEK THE PEAK (June 12) This in Whistler along Blackcomb Way. 16-kilometre race is a test of physical Info: granfondowhistler.com/. and mental stamina. It takes runners on a 4,100-foot climb from Ambleside Park in West Vancouver to the top of Grouse Mountain. The race starts at 8:15 a.m. Presented by Grouse Mountain Resorts Ltd., the event will raise funds for the B.C. Cancer Foundation. Fees start at $40. Details: https://grousemountain. com/events.

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hen it comes to cook- to work when they’re camping?” ing over a campfire, That prep is key if you want to remembering to pack spend the day in a chair staring at the cast-iron frying a lake, river, or mountain instead of pan can be more important than at- slaving in front of a cutting board. tempting to play outdoors Iron Chef. There’s nothing wrong with aiming Vancouver’s Josh Wolfe should high with meals, but packing seven know. As a chef and entrepreneur, he spice jars and a mortar and pestle helped launch the food truck Fresh so you can make that perfect Cajun Local Wild, and opened and owned steak rub isn’t the way to go.

Yaletown’s Good Wolfe Kitchen “Camping and cooking outdoors and Bar. He recently landed at the is a real extension of the culinary Black + Blue steakhouse on Al- process,” Wolfe says, “and it makes berni Street, a high-end restaurant me look at things with a different where the rooftop set of eyes, and boasts what he come at things describes as the from a different “coolest outdoor set of logistics.

Mike Usinger kitchen I’ve ever Rubs and marinseen”. But Wolfe also loves getting ades are things that do really well away from the roar of the big city. when we camp. So I’ll usually preOver the past couple of years he’s marinate or prerub so that I can set up and helped tweak menus at have the impact of that without fly-fishing lodges in northern B.C. the logistical nightmare that it is to There have also been camping trips pack everything and cook while I’m where the avid fly-fisherman is able outdoors. I want big flavours and to decompress and recharge. easy food, so if that means putting Given Wolfe’s culinary skills and in a little work before I’m out there, passion for the outdoors, he’s more I’m happy to do that because it’s than equipped to dish out advice on easy to clean up at home.” making the most out of cooking while Assuming you’re not camping a camping. He starts by suggesting you block away from a Chevron station always remember the reason for mak- with an endless supply of ice, a big ing the trek out of town. challenge of spending time outdoors “At the end of the day, what do is keeping things cold. we want? We want to put our feet “Ice is the fi rst problem,” he notes. up and relax,” Wolfe says, on the “Everyone always thinks ‘I’m going line during a break while multitask- to fi ll the cooler with ice and then ing in Vancouver. “To achieve that pack it with food.’ I do it a little difwe can’t do a three-course gourmet ferent. I turn the food into ice. Simmeal, plated. Accept it for what it ple stuff works really well—everyis—it is a simple lifestyle. And the one loves to take smokies or hot dogs food needs to be simple, so if we do or sausages and those are products our preparation work beforehand, that freeze really well, so they need our weekend can be simple. You just to get used as ice. And they need want to enjoy it—who the hell wants to get put into the plan on the

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second day as stuff starts defrosting.”

The bigger and denser the product, the longer it’s going to stay frozen.

Instead of buying a couple of eightounce steaks, he’ll get a 16-ounce one and then freeze it to use as ice for a couple of days. It’s then cut in half before going on the grill.

When backpacking, Wolfe takes super-lightweight cookware that’s often titanium-coated, the downside being that doesn’t do well on highBTU white-gas stoves. For car camping, different rules come into play.

“My recommendation to people when they go car camping is to bring a stove with them—a one-burner, two-burner, or whatever,” Wolfe notes. “The thing people don’t do, that they should do, is make dinner on it once. Before you go camping, make dinner on it at home outside.

You need to understand what kind of heat source that it is, its efficiency as a heat source, and the relationship between that heat source and the pans you’re taking camping. The biggest trouble people have when they

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LIVE OR LET GINGER Spiced rum may be best associated with a certain captain you slammed back—most likely with distaste— during high school, but Baron Samedi is reintroducing the spirit into the spotlight with a sophisticated twist. The first spiced rum on the market to use traditional Caribbean pot-still rum, Baron Samedi’s iteration ($28.99 for 750 mL) goes down surprisingly smoothly thanks to a rich medley of vanilla, cocoa, and Haitian vetiver, an earthy blend of botanicals that lends the liquor a woodsy note. Try it in the tropical Live or Let Ginger: a combination of ginger beer, lime, and angostura bitters, topped with coconut flakes and cinnamon sprinkle. Find Baron Samedi spiced rum at B.C. Liquor Stores. -

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A good-quality grill, he argues, is essential, partly because campsites rarely have a decent one, and partly because it’s great for cooking everything from vegetables to burgers to steaks.

“If you’re only taking one cooking device, I’d take a really great grill over a pot and pan,” Wolfe says.

“You can put your pots on there, boil water, boil your eggs in the morning, make oatmeal. Buy a grill that’s heavy, with its own legs to stand on, and it will be your best friend.”

As for the firepit, don’t try cooking over a roaring fire. Instead, build a fire up an hour before you want to cook to create a hot base of heavy, bright-red coals. That will also help prevent food from being oversmoked.

“Flame itself is not hot enough to cook—all it does is burn the outside,” Wolfe says. “Fire is also very dry, so when you cook over a fi re all you’re doing is evaporating moisture rapidly, which is why we tend to overcook things. The coals made by the wood actually emit humidity and moisture.”

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I’m David Bowkett, co-owner with my wife, Nicole, of Powell Street Craft Brewery.

FIRST GO-TO BRAND

Honestly, my first go-to brand was Labatt 50—that is, before I found craft beer. Once I discovered craft beer, I mostly went for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and locally, anything from Driftwood.

LIFE-CHANGING BEER

The first beer I brewed was an amber ale. It didn’t quite go as well as I hoped in terms of process, but the end result was fantastic. The beer ended up being much less alcoholic than anticipated; however, that helped some of the hop flavours shine through. It had this intense citrus note, with just the right malt body. Well, at least that’s how I remember it. Perhaps if I tried it today, my take on the beer would be much different, but I stick with my glorified memory of the beer, as that’s what I like to remember.

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Opening our brewery was my crowning achievement. Putting all that hard work into something you love to do and finally being able to open the doors is such a great feeling. A very close second would be when we won beer of the year in Canada for our Old Jalopy Pale Ale only five months after we opened our doors. That was a jaw-dropping and humbling moment which makes me very proud.

My life-changing beer was Cantillon Vigneronne. It’s a lambic which has been aged with white grapes to give that tart edge with the vinous quality from the grapes. I remember thinking, “This is beer.” Before that, I’D LOVE A BEER WITH I didn’t know beer could be so tart This might sound a little weird, but I’d like to have a beer with more of my and winelike. I loved it. friends. Since starting the brewery, both DREAM DESTINATION my wife and I really haven’t had much Even though I went to Belgium time to do anything, especially have about 16 years ago, back then I beers with our friends. That being said, didn’t know that much about beer things are starting to get a little less hecand couldn’t appreciate all the tic and in the near future we’ll be able quality beers that country offers. to come out from under our “brewery This is the reason that my dream rock” and spend some time with those destination would be Belgium. Now we haven’t seen in so long. that I know more and my appreciation for beer has further developed, This is a condensed version of Straight I’m ready and willing to try all the to the Pint. Go to Straight.com for the full article and a bonus video feature. beer it has to offer.

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I had the opportunity to taste It’s a cool-climate area with mainly Bourdy’s 1937 vintage Châteaumarl and limestone soils, which Chalon, a regional appellation solely contribute greatly to the expression focused on producing vin jaune, of its wines. a unique style of white wine that is High-altitude vineyards coupled partially aged with a naturally ocwith chilly summer nights make curring veil of yeast appearing on the for wines that are crisp with lofty surface of the wine in barrel. The reacidity, constantly lively and fresh. sult is a wine that shares some characThe prominent white grapes in the teristics with a dry fino sherry. In the area are Savagnin— case of Domaine a late-ripening Jean Bourdy 1937 g reen-sk inned Château-Chalon grape that can ($1,355 by special Kurtis Kolt be citrusy, nutty, order at Sedimentor f loral (or often all three)—and aryWines.com), it had plenty of roastChardonnay (which, of course, we ed almond, lemon pith, and fresh lime all know). notes, with gleaming minerality and For reds, things get a little more acidity still on point. (I do have recobscure. The most common varieties ommendations that are way more reawe’re likely to see are Pinot Noir, sonably priced coming a little further Trousseau (somewhat similar to Pi- down the page, I promise.) For the not Noir, generally with more of an spendier wine geeks out there, Sediearthy, or almost mossy, note), and mentary is offering these historical, Poulsard, which is a little bit closer to unique wines from vintages ranging Gamay in style, with bright-red fruit from 2000 way back to 1928, priced and a touch of a gamey character. between $165 and $1,875.

Really, the grape varieties are So, within this context, wines practically irrelevant with the wines from this extraordinary producer of Jura, as the terroir often speaks checking in under the $40 mark louder than the grapes in question. now sound like an outright barThis came up when I met with Jean- gain, right? On the note of the wines François Bourdy, the co-owner of being more of place than variety, Domaine Jean Bourdy, which has when I first swirled and sniffed Dobeen in existence since 1475. It was maine Jean Bourdy 2009 Côtes du an impromptu lunch meeting at Jura Blanc ($35 to $40, private liChambar in downtown Vancouver quor stores) and asked which grape with his local importer, Matt Sher- variety it was made from, Bourdy lock of Sedimentary Wines, when we smirked and responded: “It’s a white had a chance to taste through some wine that’s made from the Jura.” of his wines and have a chat.

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of star fruit, with a good structural backbone provided by aging in old oak. For the record, the grape the wine is made from is Chardonnay, but the variety acts more as a medium to interpret and express the place it calls home rather than hogging the spotlight.

And then there’s the Domaine Jean Bourdy 2009 Côtes du Jura Rouge ($38 to $42, private liquor stores), composed of Poulsard, Trousseau, and Pinot Noir: a light red that’s crisp, with crunchy red fruit, a handful of minerals, maybe a little red plum, and a smidgen of truffle that gives it a bit of a Burgundian note.

The use of French oak frames things quite well but imparts no flavour to get in the way of the fruit.

Knowing that the more often oak barrels are used, the less f lavour they impart, I asked Bourdy how many uses the barrels had averaged before this particular vintage was aged in them. His response of six to eight years of use seemed about right—that’s a few more years of use than many conventional wineries would employ—but as I responded to that, he clarified: “No, I said the oak is 60 to 80 years old.”

Needless to say, that’s a very rare way of doing things. With the grape varieties, region, and oak program we’re talking here, this is hardly a style that can be duplicated anywhere on the planet.

Momentarily speechless, I realized right then and there how special these wines are. When we talk of wines being of place and time, those of Domaine Jean Bourdy are pretty much the epitome of that.

And they are certainly worthy of your place and time. Find them at Kitsilano Wine Cellar or Everything Wine in North Vancouver, or follow up with Sedimentary Wines if you’d like to dig into Jean-François’s extremely deep cellar. -

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“If I drop the ball and it goes in the audience, this is an opportunity,” says U.S.–born Adkins, reached at his present home in Gatineau, Quebec. “As a clown alone on-stage, my partner is the audience—we do the show together. If they keep the ball, I can play with that. Or if they throw it at me, I can also play with that—like, how do they throw it, how far, how well? So we improvise until I eventually get the ball back and continue with my juggling routine.”

Not that Adkins often drops. He’s been juggling a long time, and performed with some of the world’s leading circus companies. “When I was 13 I saw my first live performance—it was a street performer juggling in Balboa Park, San Diego. It was very funny and professional, and right away I decided I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. So I taught myself to juggle, worked a paper route just long enough to buy a unicycle, and practised for three years. My first performance was in the park right where I saw that original show.

After street performing for several years I realized

Putting the simple back into circus

For his gravity-defying Circus Incognitus, clown Jamie Adkins draws from street performing (Amanda Russell photo); below left, Asoma aims at the tiniest kids.

was already performing. toured the world—from New York to New CalThe cartoon produc- edonia. “Though I speak, the words aren’t importtion houses stole whole ant. I’ve done this show in 25 countries. Every themes and jokes from person and every culture laughs in their own way. those old movies.”

While the show is the same, it comes out different, At the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, Jamie Adkins Because of his wish to depending where I am—especially if I’m doing a turns ladders, forks, and crumpled paper into acrobatic magic keep things simple and run of six or seven performances.

“The rhythm changes a lot. In France, for instance, accessible, Adkins uses it actually wasn’t what I wanted to do for the rest no specialized circus props, just everyday house- you can really build the setup for a joke, and then get a of my life after all. I wondered what else there was hold objects. “Things you’d find in your house, like big laugh. In the U.S., people like to laugh more often out there. Then I saw the Pickle Family performing a grape and a fork. I catch the grape on a fork, and but with smaller laughs, so the rhythm is faster. There new circus and was knocked out. So I moved to it becomes a circus routine that ends with people are certain things I do that get a laugh in the U.S. San Francisco, where they were based, and began throwing oranges from the audience and I catch every time but not once in France, and vice versa. So them on the fork, held between my lips. A piece if you’re not laughing in the show, just imagine you’re learning acrobatics and rope walking.”

It was late in life to begin training as of crumpled-up paper becomes a ball for juggling, in France and you’ll think it’s hysterical.” an acrobatic performer in an ensemble. and a ladder brought on to fix something high up “I only learned how to cartwheel at the becomes an acrobatic routine. That comes from Circus Incognitus is at the Granville Island Stage at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival age of 22. If you start that late, you most street performing.”

The almost wordless Circus Incognitus has from Monday to next Sunday (May 30 to June 5). likely will become a circus clown and not an acrobat. But I practised really hard and became a member of the From clowns to yarn balls, kids’ fest offerings delight children of all ages Pickle Family Circus and later worked with [Montreal’s] Cirque Eloize and You may know the Vancouver International Children’s Festival for its outdoor tents, Cirque du Soleil. But I always enjoyed face-painting, and activity centres. But what really make it worth checking out are making people laugh more than apthe innovative, wildly imaginative shows that come to it from around the world. Here plaud. So when I had the chance to are just a few of the highlights of this year’s event, which runs from Monday to next put together my own show I focused Sunday (May 30 to June 5): on using my circus skills to elicit laughter. I didn’t have a lot of techASOMA (At the Carousel Studio) With this gentle, multisensory Mexican offering, the kids’ fest again nique at first, but you can still have an enterbrings us a taste of the growing field of theatre for babies and toddlers. That’s right: performance aimed taining show if you’re funny.” directly at the preverbal set. In the case of Asoma, artists use music and movement to create a kind of Why name his show Circus Incognitus? “Two living artwork of unravelling yarn—all in pastel hues and a welcoming, warm format that has the anklereasons,” Adkins responds. “It’s like, ‘Who am I?’ biters sitting at floor level and able to waddle into the playing area.

No one knows me. And also, in North America, with the popularity of Cirque du Soleil, all these H’SAO (At the Granville Island Stage) This off-the-hook a cappella Chadian-Canadian group will get the U.S. companies changed their name to include kids busting moves with its blend of everything from gospel to traditional African music. Multilingual, ‘Cirque’. I wanted to have the word circus in it, and rhythmic, and infectious. since I was dealing with the language laws in Quebec I decided to put it in Latin—Circus Incognitus.”

THE BOX BROTHERS (At Performance Works) These hyper-rhythmic Dutch lads turn ordinary Adkins has been likened to classic silent-movie wooden boxes, and their own bodies, into percussion instruments, drawing on everything from acrobatics stars. But any influence from them is indirect— to Japanese drumming traditions to Stomp-like dance. via cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry. “Cartoons certainly affected me. I was a SNOWFLAKE (At the Waterfront Theatre) Veteran clown Gale LaJoye performs simple, moving magic latchkey kid in the ’70s, so it was all cartoons and before your eyes, defying gravity and dancing on skis in a sort of wordless, funny ballet. black-and-white sitcoms. A lot of people, of course, > JANET SMITH compare me to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

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Editor’s choice GREEN TONES Nobody wants junk mail, and junk bonds almost collapsed the U.S. economy, but junk sounds are well worth checking out. Having starred in the documentary Landfill Harmonic, the Recycled Orchestra Ensemble of Cateura, Paraguay, is bringing its jerry-can violins and scrapyard cellos to the Museum of Anthropology in what promises to be both a vital tribute to human ingenuity and a lively concert of Latin-inflected classical music. The Recycled Orchestra Ensemble is at the Museum of Anthropology on Monday (May 30) at 7 p.m.

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BILLY ELLIOT (At the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre to July 10) A crack production of an exhilarating musical.

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VAG OFFSITE Our guest recommendation this week comes from local painter Roselina Hung, who’ll show her work at the free ROVE open studios at Gene Studios on Friday evening (May 27). Here’s her pick for the week: “I’m curious to see Marina Roy’s Your Kingdom to Command at the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite. The installation is a tree fountain surrounded by a 25-metre mural painted with bitumen, a mix of tar and shellac that’s been cultivated from the female lac bug. I can’t imagine what this will look like, so I’ll have to go in person to find out. It’s always exciting to go to a show not knowing exactly what to expect.” Your Kingdom to Command is at the VAG Offsite (1100 West Georgia Street) from next Thursday (June 2) to October 10.

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he Arts Club Theatre Company dominated the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations announced May 24 at the York Theatre, with a whopping 11 productions receiving the nod. It garnered a total of 34 nominations in the large-theatre category.

The company’s critically lauded new musical Onegin led with 13 nominations, including those for performers Meg Roe and Alessandro Juliani.

The Arts Club’s Good People, The Valley, and Peter and the Starcatcher also each received several nominations.

In the same category, Bard on the Beach earned seven nominations: one for Love’s Labour’s Lost and six for The Comedy of Errors, with Scott Bellis named for outstanding direction.

Rumble Theatre’s Cock received three nominations, with the Firehall Arts Centre and Haberdashery Theatre garnering the same number for The Motherfucker With the Hat. The small-theatre category was unusually spread out, with 21 theatre companies and 23 productions nominated. Among them, Pi Theatre’s production of The Invisible Hand nabbed eight nominations. Babelle Theatre’s presentation of RIVULETS: 3 short plays about a flood earned six nominations. Upintheair Theatre’s The North Plan and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre’s Empire of the Son got five nominations each.

In the theatre-for-young-audiences category, Green Thumb Theatre had a total of six nods for The Invisible Girl and Still/Falling. Théâtre la Seizième had four for Mathieu Mathématiques.

Elsewhere, the Jessies board created a new award this year: the Vancouver Now Representation and Inclusion Award to recognize excellence in the field of accessibility and inclusion.

The nominees are Gateway Theatre’s Jovanni Sy, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Theatre Terrific, Donna Yamamoto, and Heathers: The Musical.

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at least one punk-rock icon are joining the walk of fame on Granville Street.

On May 24, the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame announced that its 2016 StarWalk honorees are Burnaby-raised actor Michael J. Fox; stage performer and gospel singer Marcus Mosely; conductor, composer, and music producer Hal Beckett; bhangra talent Jazzy B (Jaswinder Singh Bains); and D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley.

In addition to earning Hollywoodstyle sidewalk stars, the StarWalk inductees—all recognized for enhancing “the province’s cultural profile”—will have their photos displayed in the StarWall gallery in the historic Orpheum theatre’s upper lobby.

The Hall of Fame also named 13 “pioneer stars”, recognizing those “who have left an indelible mark on B.C.’s entertainment landscape”: musicians George Calangis (onetime leader of the Commodore Ballroom orchestra), Sharman King (bass trombonist), Tom Lavin (of the Powder Blues), Ian McDougall (trombonist and composer), Linda McRae (Celtic-folk artist), and Tab Shori (of the Hi-Fives); dancer Renée Cherrier (now a member of the Vancouver Ballet Society); producers Rai Purdy, Steve Edge (artistic director of the Rogue Folk Club), and the Filippone brothers (producers of shows at the Orpheum and owners of the Penthouse nightclub); and directors Crawford Hawkins (of the Directors Guild of Canada), Diane Loomer (founder of both Elektra Women’s Choir and Chor Leoni Men’s Choir), and Carole Tarlington (founder of Vancouver Youth Theatre).

The first induction will take place on Thursday (May 26), with Fox at a private gala dinner. Other induction ceremonies will take place at venues around British Columbia. > JANET SMITH

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he’s going to sing. She’s going to whistle. She’s going to emulate, acoustically, the electronically looped textures of Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld. But what has fearless multitasker Rebecca Wenham most worried about her upcoming Music on Main recital is that she’s going to have to play a lot of cello—a whole lot of cello, without any other musicians to spell her off.

“It’s going to be an exercise in stamina,” she explains, checking in from a busy Kitsilano coffee shop. “There’s no piano accompaniment, so I won’t even have a little break. And also I’ve chosen a lot of pretty technically challenging repertoire, just because I like that.”

Okay, so maybe she’s not that worried about her upcoming Fox Cabaret show, although it’s still going to be a stretch for the classically trained performer. To begin with, literally, she’s opening with a new commission, Tell that one again, from another Vancouver cellist, Peggy Lee—a bold move, for not only has Lee mastered a variety of extended techniques, she’s invented a few of her own.

“For example, she might get me to bow on top of my left-hand fingers,” Wenham explains. “There’s another section where my left and right hands are playing different rhythmic patterns. Pianists are used to doing that, but even if my left and right hands are accustomed to doing slightly different things, they’re usually moving in rhythm together, so that’s been challenging for me to figure out.”

Wait a minute: she’s actually bowing her own fretting hand?

“It makes sort of a swishing sound,” Wenham offers. “You’re making me realize that I’m going to have to come up with really good ways of describing the sounds when I play the concert. Sort of a swishing, brushing…

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For her Music on Main show, Rebecca Wenham tackles everything from Ana Sokolovic to Caroline Shaw—all without other musicians to help spell her off.

The challenges implicit in Linda Catlin Smith’s Ricercar are more easily explained: to play this early-musicinspired offering, Wenham has had to borrow a baroque cello, which comes with gut rather than steel strings.

“You can’t dig in as much on a baroque cello,” she says. “For one thing, the instrument and the bow won’t tolerate it, so you have to have a little bit more of a delicate touch, and you have to use your bow arm quite differently. But I’ve really enjoyed exploring baroque cello. I really love the different sounds that the gut strings create, so I might have to go and buy myself one after this concert.”

Also on the bill are works by Ana Sokolovic and Music on Main composer in residence Caroline Shaw (the ones with singing), Neufeld’s from our animal, and Kaija Saariaho’s Sept

Papillons. With the possible exception of Sokolovic’s Vez, which Wenham describes as “rocking”, what links all of these works is that they lean towards the beautiful side of the new-music spectrum. They’re also all from female composers—but that, Wenham contends, is not as big a deal as it might once have been.

“I don’t think it’s meant to be a political statement,” she says. “I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s great for me to be playing music by these composers, but I don’t think any one of them would say that being a woman is single-handedly the greatest influence on their work. They’re all just composers, and I like their music!” Music on Main presents Rebecca Wenham at the Fox Cabaret on Tuesday (May 31).

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Billy Elliot has the moves of a summer hit TH E AT RE BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL Book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Music by Elton John. Directed by Bill Millerd.

An Arts Club Theatre production. At the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage on Wednesday, May 18. Continues until July 10

Sometimes you want to cry

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ing. At other times, the Arts Club’s production of Billy Elliot the Musical feels disappointingly provincial.

Based on the 2000 hit film, which was simply called Billy Elliot, the musical tells the same story of an 11-year-old boy in northeast England who’d rather study ballet than boxing, much to the distress of his widowed coal-miner father. It’s 1984 and the miners are on strike in their famously prolonged and ultimately futile confrontation with Maggie Thatcher.

The story is all about being a weirdo, especially in terms of male behaviour. While the macho miners and police clash bloodily, Billy finds solace in more traditionally feminine arenas, through artistic expression and imaginary chats with his dead mom.

Although it doesn’t identify Billy as gay, the musical celebrates homosexuality much more openly than the film does. Billy and his best friend Michael do a showstopping drag number, and there’s even a hint of pubescent gay romance.

This mainstream entertainment dares to embrace the struggle—and beauty—of a boy who would once have been derided as a sissy. So, in this performance, when Billy started dance classes and his body suddenly and naturally fell into a graceful balletic attitude, the moment was so loaded that it was all I could do to stop from gushing like a burst water main.

Bill Millerd has not directed this production well, however. His casting is

Billy Elliot the Musical has some moving moments as the title character (Nolan Fahey) finds his feet. David Cooper photo.

imperfect. Although Catriona Murphy, who plays Billy’s ballet teacher Mrs. Wilkinson, is an excellent singer and actor, she can’t dance well enough for the part. Off the top, almost all of the actors are yelling so loudly that the scenes have little emotional nuance or impact. Danny Balkwill, who plays Billy’s older brother Tony, is pretty much one-note furious throughout.

The accents are ridiculously all over the place. And Valerie Easton’s choreography of the Act 1 finale, “Angry Dance”, which should be a barnburner, fails to hit that mark.

But… There’s also beauty, and lots of it. Young Nolan Fahey, who plays Billy, has a lovely voice, and, to his enormous credit, even when the adults around him are hollering, he delivers a subtle performance. The musical is all about being consumed by the transcendent rush of artistic

expression, and Fahey’s dancing doesn’t always embody that thrill, but there’s an astonishing moment when he’s leaping into a forward flip and he seems to suspend time. And although the number is a bit corny in its use of a flying rig, the duet that Billy dances with his older self (played by Matthew Cluff) is another tearjerker.

Barbara Pollard does an excellent job of realizing “Grandma’s Song”, in which Billy’s nan remembers how dance was her refuge in an abusive marriage. Although he mostly wastes his talents in bluster in Act 1, Warren Kimmel is touching as Billy’s dad in the more sustained scenes in Act 2.

And Valin Shinyei is the perfect little showboat as Billy’s gay pal, Michael.

The show’s politicsm, in which traditional masculinity and working-class values are placed in opposition to a supposedly new order

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But it’s hard to argue against selfexpression. And there are enough successes in this production that it is sure to be a summer hit.

> COLIN THOMAS

REVOLUTIONS Codirected by Steven Hill and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson. Created in collaboration with Jay White, Josh Hite, Nancy Tam, Kyla Gardiner, Sean Marshall Jr., Delia Brett, Lara Abadir, Paul Viitanen, and Carmine Santavenere. A Fight With a Stick production. At the Warehouse (3681 Victoria Drive) on Thursday, May 19.

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There are some excellent surprises in Revolutions. The central surprise is subtle, if that makes sense. Feeling disoriented? Just wait.

I can tell you about the setup, which makes Waiting for Godot look like a kick line. The small audience enters a narrow room in a warehouse. It’s kind of dark in there, but there’s a figure lying on a bed, completely covered in sheets, and those crinkled sheets are warmly illuminated. Things start to pick up when the figure breathes.

Then a guy enters and sits at a table that’s near the bed. The table is miked, so when the man touches the table or drops a pen or a book on it, his actions echo portentously.

Then the man starts to copy things from a book onto a notepad: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself”; “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” What the hell?

These are philosophical clichés. But the guy is searching for meaning.

And you will be, too. That’s a huge part of the experience.

Because it’s all so concentrated and minimalist, under the collaborative direction of Steven Hill and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson, there is tremendous tension in this opening. I’m not convinced that it has to go on as long as it does, but after that, Revolutions is golden. Let’s talk about it after you’ve seen it.

For now, let me just say that, for me, what transpired evoked thoughts of history, civilization and collapse, personal mortality, and transcendence.

Thanks to Jay White’s set, Josh Hite’s video, Kyla Gardiner’s lighting, Nancy Tam’s sound, and the contributions of the rest of the company, my senses were buzzing by the time I left. The experience is sculptural. You’ll see what I mean.

Book now. They only seat 20 people a night. > COLIN THOMAS

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Lovely and contemplative as appears, Michiko Suzuki’s ongoing Hope Chest project was inspired by horror. Some years ago, she was shocked by a documentary on the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Cambodian children in the decades following that country’s savage civil war. Through her church, Suzuki also met a young Cambodian girl who had been adopted by a Canadian minister.

These encounters, and the dawning understanding about how vulnerable girls and young women are, led her to create an ambitious, mixed-media installation that spoke generally of hope rather than oppression. She searched out eight teens, four Japanese and four Canadian (including the adopted Cambodian girl), on whom to base her extended body of work. Within this project, she told the Straight during an interview at the Burnaby Art Gallery, she has employed beauty as a way of countering the negative and conveying hope for the future of each girl. She has also used white silk as a symbol of purity. In this context, purity seems to mean “uncontaminated by exploitation and brutality�.

Trained as a master printmaker in her native Japan and based since 2005 in the Vancouver area, Suzuki has created eight tents out of white silk. Each tent bears a large, black-and-white photographic portrait of a teenage girl, printed on the vertically divided fabric front (which resembles Japanese doorway curtains, or noren). Within each tent, which you enter alone and reverentially, almost as if entering a shrine, the artist has placed a table and, on that, a kiri box. Each shallow box is lined with kimonolike fabric and holds another print of the girl, this one on Japanese paper. Used in constructing the containers in which kimonos are traditionally stored (part of a Japanese bride’s hope chest), kiri wood protects against insects, humidity, and fire, Suzuki says. The sense of protecting something precious—a young woman’s future—is metaphorically reinforced here.

The ink-jet portrait on the front of the tent in Hope Chest for Sokna shows the young Cambodian-Canadian woman smiling beatifically and looking upward, as if toward a peaceful and fulfilling future.

Within the tent, we see small images of Sokna in a slip dress, posed with a skipping rope. Images of rabbits and monkeys, borrowed from Shinto art, are superimposed, somewhat incongruously, on the portrait of Sokna laid within the box. Hope Chest for Kahoruko depicts another sweetly smiling teen, included here because she lives in the Fukushima region of Japan, the area devastated by the massive earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak of 2011.

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Michiko Suzuki’s Hope Chest installation puts teenage girls’ portraits on tents you can reverentially enter. Harry Booth photo.

The dark subtext below the sunny surface of these two portraits, as Barbara Ziegler notes in the exhibition catalogue, is that “Discrimination on the basis of gender increases the vulnerability of women and girls in emergency, post-disaster, and post-conf lict situations.� Despite the conditions from which these girls have emerged, they are depicted as happy and—as is essential to this project—hopeful.

The installation also includes framed and wall-mounted ink-jet and photo-etched portraits of the girls, along with the lids of the kiri boxes, embellished with Japanese calligraphy.

Many of the prints are deeply romantic, and include collage and photomontage elements, drawing from a range of pop-culture sources, past and present. Video interviews with the girls and their parents are also an aspect of the project, but don’t provide much insight into their lives or their dreams for the future.

If there is a criticism here, it is that the images are overly sweet and feminine, skewed by Suzuki’s belief that the teens depicted are precious because they will be the mothers of a future generation of babies. What? Not precious because they will be the future leaders of Canada and Japan? Still, as Ziegler has written, the installation “gives us hope that these girls and indeed all girls will be able to lead lives of equality that are free of suffering and violence�. > ROBIN LAURENCE

LYSE LEMIEUX: A GIRL’S GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL’S GOTTA DO At the Richmond Art Gallery until July 3

Much of the strength of Lyse exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery lies in the

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existential power of the black ovoid.

While the ovoid form symbolizes life—the primordial egg—the colour betokens death, oblivion, life’s incomprehensible absence. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, American abstractionist Robert Motherwell created a monumental series of paintings, titled “Elegy to the Spanish Republic�, that drew upon that profound contradiction. In these works, he employed brushy black ovoids, together with vertical black bands, to invoke life, death, and the tragic betrayals of antifascist idealism during the Spanish Civil War. Although Lemieux’s installation Ovals for Richmond in no way refers to Motherwell’s paintings, the two bodies of work share similar formal strategies, and pose similar questions about the making of meaning through abstraction. Lemieux has cut 18 immense ovoids out of matte black felt and mounted them, floorboard to ceiling, directly on the gallery’s white walls, arranged so that they draw the eye from the front of the gallery to the back. The impression is of a solemn procession, heavily weighted with humanity. The ovoids hint at the ways we may or may not form connections with one another: some of them lean slightly into each other, others more fully overlap and conjoin, and yet others stand alone.

In the past, although on a much smaller scale, Lemieux has often employed lopsided ovals to suggest either human heads or bodies, part of an experimental drawing practice that dodges between abstraction and figuration. She has also claimed unexpected materials such as fabric, found clothing, even medical tape as drawing materials, confounding our understanding of medium and process. For Lemieux, using scissors to cut fabric is as much a means of executing

a drawing as creating lines and forms with a pen, a pencil, or a stick of charcoal.

The expressive possibilities of her cutting process are beautifully manifested in The Scribble, a large wall drawing composed of long, looping strands of black felt paired in places with brushed lines of black ink. The gestural energy of this work creates a fascinating conversation with the magisterial black ovoids on the opposite wall.

Part of what compels us here is the seeming reference to a child’s earliest drawing impulse, the scribble, against the first organized shape that follows it, what psychologist Rudolf Arnheim described as “the primordial circle�. In Lemieux’s art, we are confronted with the primordial oval.

In the octagonal exhibition space at the far end of the gallery, Lemieux has installed two series of drawings on paper, a selection of sketchbooks, and a freestanding column covered with the collars, cuffs, and placket fronts from dozens upon dozens of men’s shirts.

The colours, patterns, and multiple small components of this labourintensive work stand in quirky contrast to the large-scale blackon-whiteness of the wall works. In a video interview that accompanies the show, Lemieux recounts how attracted she is to the idea of sewing, although she does not herself sew. Collared Column seems like a monument to that idea. It’s a homage, through repetition, to the small and the particular, to the careful and uniform stitches, seams, and buttonholes that compose the (usually) unexamined essentials of everyday clothing. In this work, we are invited to consider not the making of meaning, but the meaning of making. > ROBIN LAURENCE

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REVOLUTIONS Fight With a Stick Performance presents a telescopic journey through dust, human chemical relationships, and geological time.

To May 29, 8-10 pm, The Warehouse (3681 Victoria). Tix $20-25, info www.fightwithastick.ca/.

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DRAWN TO CHANGE: GRAPHIC HISTORIES OF WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE Launch of a collection of nine graphic stories that showcase the inspiring efforts and determination of working people who banded together to change the world. May 27, 7-9 pm, Heartwood Community Cafe (317 E. Broadway). Free admission, info www.btlbooks.com/events/ view/drawn-to-change-vancouver-launch/.

FREUD’S LAST SESSION On the day England enters World War II, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis engage in an imagined conversation about life’s biggest questions. To May 28, 7:30-9:30 pm, Matsqui Centennial Auditorium (32315 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford). Tix $25/20/15, info www.gallery7theatre.com/.

WIT Pacific Theatre presents a poignant play about unwitting redemption, starring Katharine Venour, Erla Faye Forsyth, and Ron Reed. Directed by Angela Konrad.

To Jun 11, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacific theatre.org/season/2015-2016-season-3/ mainstage/wit/.

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THEATRE 2JUST ANNOUNCED BARD ON THE BEACH Annual outdoor Shakespeare festival features performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor (Jun 17-Sep 24), Romeo and Juliet (Jun 3-Sep 23), Othello (Jun 24-Sep 17), and Pericles (Jul 2-Sep 18). Jun 3–Sep 24, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut Street). Tix from $20, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.

2OPENINGS 1-ACT FESTIVAL 9 SHIFT Theatre presents three new and developing femalecreated one-act works. Works include Almost a Stepmom, Swan Song, and FallOut Picnic. May 26-28, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $25/20, info www. shifttheatre.ca/.

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FLICKER The Dancers of Damelahamid perform a piece that combines West Coast design with a unique scenographic hybrid of projected environments and live-action shadow dance. May 25-29, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/flicker/.

ARTS UMBRELLA DANCE COMPANY Local dance ensemble presents its seasonfinale performance, featuring 80 dancers performing new works by some of North America’s and Europe’s leading choreographers. May 26-28, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $20-35, info www.artsumbrella.com/events/.

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BILLY ELLIOT The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the musical story of an 11-year-old boy who discovers he loves ballet dancing. Book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Music by Elton John. To Jul 10, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville).

Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

TAPPIN’ TO OUR ROOTS Join the West Coast Tap Dance Collective at its 14th annual show. May 28, 2-4 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $22-35, info www.westcoasttapdance.com/.

5 @ 50 Ruby Slippers Theatre and Zee Zee Theatre present the North American premiere of Brad Fraser’s play about friendship, addiction, and codependence. To May 28, 8-10 pm, PAL Studio Theatre (300581 Cardero). Tix $28, info tickets.theatre wire.com/shows/5%20@%2050/events/.

VISCERAL MURMURS OURO Collective ends its dance season with a collaboration with emerging artist Jourdan Tymkow, featuring two interactive 20-minute performances. May 28, 8 pm, VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo). Tix 15-18, info www.jourdantymkow.com/.

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ROUSING VOICES Hometown funk and soul queen Dawn Pemberton, known for her big voice and big heart, soars with the 90-member Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir this Saturday (May 28) at Christ Church Cathedral.

The two shows (at 3 and 7 p.m.) are benefits for the second annual Good Noise VIP Young Artist Program, and also feature the White Rock Children’s Choir. Backed by a rocking quartet— drummer Elliot Polsky, saxophonist Ingrid Stitt, bassist Laurence Mollerup, and Hammond B-3 organist Mike Kalanj—Pemberton and the choirs will shake the cathedral’s rafters with songs that span 60 years of soul and gospel.

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VSO CHAMBER PLAYERS: A MAGIC FANTASY The VSO, flutist Christie Reside, violist Byron Hitchcock, pianist Terence Dawson, cellist Zoltan Rozsnyai, and violinists Nicholas Wright, Jennie Press, and Dale Barltrop perform works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Martinu, Beethoven, and Matthew Hindson. May 26, 7:30 pm; May 29, 2 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

VETTA CHAMBER MUSIC The local classical ensemble and guest pianist Angela Cheng present a 30th anniversary gala featuring music by Schubert, Mozart, and Brahms. May 27, 7:30 pm, Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard). Tix $17-102, info www.vettamusic.com/.

CARMINA BURANA The West End Chamber Choir performs Carl Orff’s work.

Featuring baritone Andrew Greenwood, soprano Youliana Tichelova, and tenor Sy Selick. May 28, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $20`, info www.westend chamberchoir.com/.

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WOMEN AND WORDS Strong female voices abound at the 1-Act Festival, the annual celebration of play innovations put on

by SHIFT Theatre. This year, the festival focuses on work created by women, including performerplaywright Stephanie Izsak’s Swan Song, a darkly comic musical, and writer-performer Keara Barnes’s Almost a Stepmom, a 2015 Victoria Fringe Festival fave drawn from her time living in Dublin. There’s much more, including musical guests and workshops, Thursday to Saturday (May 26 to 28) at the Firehall Arts Centre.

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FASCINATING RHYTHM Vancouver vocal ensemble Sound Eclectic performs classical, jazz, and pop music. May 28, 7:30 pm, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $25/22, info www.soundeclectic.ca/.

BAM! MUSIC FOR VOICES & PERCUSSION Erato Ensemble presents classic compositions by John Cage and George Crumb, an avant-garde beat extravaganza by Seattle composer Janice Giteck, modern works by Vancouver composers Alfredo Santa Ana, and William George, and world premieres by Russell Wallace and Adam Hill. May 28, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour).

Tix $15-30, info www.eratoensemble.com/.

A TCHAIKOVSKY CELEBRATION Bramwell Tovey conducts cellist Johannes Moser and the VSO in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin: Polonaise, Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathetique. May 28, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Concert also runs May 30, 8 pm, at Centennial Theatre., info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

NABUCCO Opera Pro Cantanti presents Giuseppe Verdi’s opera about the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of a Babylonian king. May 29, 3 pm, Cambrian Hall (215 E. 17). Tix $18/12, info www.procantanti.com/.

REBECCA WENHAM Music on Main presents the classical cellist in a performance of works by Music on Main’s composerin-residence Caroline Shaw, Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld, and Ana Sokolovic. May 31, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $29/15, info www.musiconmain.ca/.

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CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Performance of Mascagni’s work, which depicts a story of Old World beauty and brutality, Jun 1, 2 pm; Jun 1, 7 pm; Jun 11, 7 pm, Minoru

2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2MARK NORMAND May 26-28 2GABRIEL RUTLEDGE Jun 2-4 2CHAD DANIELS Jun 9-11 2DEANNE SMITH Jun 16-18 2CHRIS LOCKE Jun 23-25

ART! VANCOUVER Event connects the international fine-arts community by allowing galleries and artists to showcase their works on a prestigious platform, while exposing attendees to a diverse collection of original work. May 26-29, Vancouver Convention Centre East (999 Canada Place).

Tix $8-100, info www.artvancouver.net/.

ROVE Semi-annual art walk maps out galleries, art studios, and creative spaces that will each feature a local artist’s work. May 27, 6-10 pm, various Vancouver venues.

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ART IN THE GARDEN Two-day self-guided tour of North Shore gardens features the art of 32 local artists and 20 musical performances. May 28-29, 12-5 pm, North Vancouver Community Arts Council (335 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $1 per garden, info www.nvartscouncil.ca/events/ art-garden/.

NEW NARRATIVES: AN ENVIRO-ART EXTRAVAGANZA Featuring over 20 multidisciplinary artists, this event challenges the current cultural narratives of climate change and explores the volatile relationship between art and environmental activism.

May 28-29, 8:30 pm, Woodward’s Atrium (149 W. Hastings, at Abbott). Admission by donation, info www.popcorngalaxies.ca/.

YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, GALLERIES 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver.

Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and profes604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. sional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, CULTURE (exhibition offers an internationand Fri-Sat $20.2JON DORE May 27-28. al survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS of creativity that has grown to become LEAGUE Some of the world’s most the dominant form of cultural production daring and innovative improv. Improv in the early 21st century) to Jun 12 After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow (every Thu, Fri, and Sat 7:30 pm). May 25–Jun 1, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island).

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2THIS WEEK COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE! Scott Aukerman presents a live performance of his popular podcast, with guests Paul F. Tompkins and Lauren Lapkus. Opening act is Neil Campbell. May 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville).

Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/.

MARK NORMAND American standup comedian performs a solo show. May 26-28, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/.

ALICIA TOBIN’S COME DRAW WITH ME Join Alicia Tobin and guests Brad Dorion, Ben Mills and Erica Sigurdson for an evening of drawing and laughing. May 27, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity. com/comedraw-may2016/.

JON DORE Ottawa-born comedian and actor performs a standup show. May 28, 7 pm; May 28, 9:30 pm; May 27, 7 pm; May 27, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $30, info www.yukyuks.com/.

TEENAGE DIRTBAG Comedians David MacLean, Jenny Toews, Levi McCachen, Alain Williams, and Gavin Matts explore the follies of youth. Hosted by Jacob Samuel. May 28, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity.com/dirtbag4/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK SPRING USED BOOK SALE Friends of the VPL presents bargains galore on thousands of books, DVDs, and CDs. Everything is half price on Saturday, with proceeds to library projects and programs. May 26-28, 10 am–5 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/.

MEET THE AUTHOR: SAM WIEBE Author Sam Wiebe discusses his novel Last of the Independents. May 26, 7-10 pm, Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art (3696 W. 8th). Tix $22, info www.christianne hayward.com/.

STORYTELLING CHATS VPL aboriginal storyteller-in-residence Renae Morriseau is available to meet and share experiences with emerging storytellers and community members. May 27, 10 am–2 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/.

STORYTELLING WITH COMICS Professional artist Jeff Ellis will lead a discussion and hands-on workshop about

COMEDY GOLD Jon Dore is a goddamn national treasure. The guy just oozes funny. His own series, The Jon Dore Television Show, which ran for two seasons on the Comedy Channel in Canada, helped propel him to semi-fame here before he moved south and took America by storm, becoming the first standup on Conan O’Brien’s TBS talk show.

He went on to star in the short-lived How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) on ABC. Dore returns to make regular appearances at clubs in town and they’re always great. His straight-faced silliness is unbeatable. This week he headlines Yuk Yuk’s on Cambie for four shows on Friday and Saturday (May 27 and 28). The early shows are at 7 p.m., so don’t be late.

MUSEUMS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouver-based artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty) to Oct 16

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MOVIES REVIEWS THE NICE GUYS Starring Ryan Gosling. Rated 14A

The trailers for the noir spoof emphasize

2 the action part of the deal, but it’s really the comedy that matters in the pop-culture nihilism of The Nice Guys.

Meekly mustachioed Ryan Gosling and a Russell Crowe slowly morphing into John Goodman make consistently amusing anti-buddies as Holland March and Jackson Healy, respectively—two private dicks from opposite sides of 1977 Los Angeles.

We know it’s the ’70s because the flick hits many of the same notes as Boogie Nights: the cartoonish typography; the leisure-suit-based fashions; the chockit-a-wah guitars; and, most of all, the wised-up banter by guys who thought they were on top of things at the time but look pretty naive from this distance.

Gosling’s more polished March has delusions of Raymond Chandler grandeur. But to keep his 13-year-old daughter, Holly—Australia’s moviestealing Angourie Rice—in their Hollywood

Boogie nights shaggy dogs The Evil

It’s not quite Chinatown, Jake. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe have fun as downtrodden detectives in Nixon-era L.A., in Shane Black’s almost-great The Nice Guys.

Mirth and The Long Day Closes takes those words too seriously.

Played by startlingly elongated model turned actor Agyness Deyn, crimson-haired Guthrie is a bookish high-schooler in rural northeastern Scotland. She dreams of college and the wider world at the start of the 20th century. But her reality is circumscribed by a brutish father (Peter Mullan, of course) who regularly beats her brother (Jack Greenlees) and keeps their mother (Daniela Nardini) perpetually with child. Her prospects both deepen and narrow when she meets kindhearted farmer Ewan Tavendale, played by coincidentally named Kevin Guthrie. (Like many here, he was featured in the Proclaimers-based musical Sunshine on Leith.)

This rare positive connection is inevitably interrupted by the larger horror of World War I. But Davies gives little more weight to the sweep of history than he does to changing patterns of sunny wheat fields or winter storms, as phenomenally captured on 65mm film by widescreen cinematographer Michael McDonough. The pristine locations alternate between Scotland and New Zealand, with one sequence shot in Luxembourg. Capping a sometimes excruciatingly slow 135 minutes, that last bit stands out for abruptly jumping in time and place.

Amid the often impenetrable Scots dialect (subtitles, please), the famously tuneful director allows glimmers of real emotion to surface only when people start singing, while the remaining drama falls flat. Deyn may be well suited to the director’s painterly compositions, but her unprecedented moment of “big” acting at the end is cringe-inducing on several levels. Davies clearly prefers the land to its people, so why did he bother > KEN EISNER with melodrama he cares almost nothing about?

and conniving. And, as someone states, Susan is a “genius of the evil kind” at manipulating everyone else.

The only person she’s reNice Guys transports Ryan Gosling back to the 1970s; motely straight with is her American-expat friend, Mrs. genius Kate Beckinsale is seeking Love & Friendship Johnson (Sevigny), but that’s Hills rental, he takes jobs from old ladies too mostly because the latter is so ceaselessly admirpotty to realize their mates are dead, not missing. ing. Plus, this allows Susan to explain her motives One seemingly past-it gal (genuine ’70s star Lois and strategy. (The original unfolded in letters.)

Recently widowed, she survives by rotating visSmith) pays him to locate her absent niece, seemingly caught in the porn trade; this puts him in the its with wealthy friends and relatives, sometimes path of Crowe’s hard-bitten Healy, hired muscle decamping in a hurry. When we meet her, she paid by the same niece (cast low point Margaret has alighted at the country estate of sister-in-law Catherine DeCourcy Vernon (Emma Greenwall).

Qualley) to keep people from finding her.

Several bone-popping altercations later, they real- Catherine’s handsome younger brother, Reginald ize the case is fishy enough to require both of their (Australian Xavier Samuel), initially shares her wari(questionable) talents—for at least the first half of ness of Susan’s scorched-earth reputation, but soon this shaggy, two-hour tale from writer-director after meeting the beautiful widow he’s valiantly deShane Black, best known for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and fending her from the “vile calumnies” of others. She his scripts for the Lethal Weapon movies. The gat- has a well-polished knack for turning insults back packing gents here might not be too old for this shit, on her accusers, but is not at her best around mousy but they are savvy about all the Altman and Polanski teenage daughter Frederica, played by Morfydd updates on California noir, and their dialogue pops Clark, also seen in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Like that spoof, Stillman’s latest takes the English with that insight. Plus, Black even reunites Crowe author—around 19 when she came up with this—as with his L.A. Confidential costar Kim Basinger.

Sadly, once the latter’s part of the plot kicks in— a foundational part of popular entertainment, and something vaguely about air pollution and the he’s not afraid to add a twist or three. Silent-movie auto industry—this neon-lit retro-tacular loses devices, on-screen typography, and Mozartian its casually hilarious edge. And events resolve in music all bring out her farcical qualities—underlined the kind of shoot-’em-up set piece that, while still by unforgettable comic visits from Tom Bennett as “a bit of a rattle” courting reluctant Frederica. But cruel good fun, might be getting too old for us. > KEN EISNER L&F’s burnished cinematography and elegant performances offer a droll soulfulness that embodies LOVE & FRIENDSHIP everything we still love, and like, about Jane Austen.

Starring Kate Beckinsale. Rating unavailable

Far from their rhinestone-littered stomp- SUNSET SONG ing grounds in The Last Days of Disco, Starring Agyness Deyn. Rating unavailable Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny reunite with “The sea and the sky and all the people ultra-Yankee director Whit Stillman for a zesty were but the breath,” sighs the narrator shot of baroque fun.

Based on an early Jane Austen novella called of Sunset Song. “Only the land endures.” She’s Lady Susan, the sardonically titled Love & Friend- articulating the epiphanies of Chris Guthrie, ship gives us a delightfully detestable villain in heroine of Scottish novelist Lewis Grassic GibBeckinsale’s career high, as Lady Susan Vernon. bon’s 1932 novel, then notorious for its gritty This being pre-Victorian England (or post-Vic- realism. It comes to us via this highly aesthetitorian England, for that matter), the only way a cized adaptation by Terence Davies. Unfortuwoman can achieve anything is through charm nately, the director of U.K. classics The House of

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2 Tubby time BOREALIS Ever wondered what makes actor/comedian/ author/director/talk-show host Kevin Pollak tick? Find out this Sunday (May 29), when the Rio Theatre screens Sean Garrity’s Borealis, followed by a live Skype Q&A with the multitalented Pollak and costar Joey King. Talking with the Straight about the Manitobashot feature, Pollak says, “I’ve only had a few opportunities to give dramatic depth to a sociopath on film.” As it turns out, his character—loan shark Tubby Finkleman—isn’t all bad. “In Tubby’s defence, he has a good heart.” For more, go to Straight.com. -

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TRUMAN Starring Ricardo Darín. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

The title character of this perfectly scaled

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THE ROOM LIVE SCRIPT READING

Once you enter The Room, you never really leave, do you? Greg Sestero (aka Mark) headlines a live reading of the film’s first draft before the Rio Theatre’s umpteenth screening of Tommy Wiseau’s antimasterpiece on Friday (May 27).

CINEMA SPECTACULAR 3 Had too

much Hollywood popcorn? Cinema Spectacular programs “short-format, low-budget passion projects” from across Canada, and the trailer, to our eyes, looks fantastic. Get some real nutrition at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (May 29).

MOVIES FOR MOMMIES Hey, mommies are people too. Coming to the Vancity Theatre next Wednesday (June 1), Movies for Mommies presents Mustang with appropriately dim lighting and lower sound. Screening begins at 11:30 a.m., or—fingers crossed—nap time.

ADAM ARKIN The Directors Guild of Canada has partnered

with VIFF for a series of four master classes, beginning this week with actor-director Adam Arkin. He was already doing double duty behind the camera when he starred in Chicago Hope in the ’90s; these days, Arkin’s extensive directorial credits include Fargo, Justified, and Sons of Anarchy. Continuum executive producer Simon Barry moderates when Arkin comes to the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (May 28). MAY 26 – JUNE 2 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33

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he Straight takes full responsibility for beginning with perhaps too frivolous a question. Is it daunting, we ask, to adapt Jane Austen for the screen in the wake of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Deploying the kind of wit youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect from a man whose film career began with 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s razor-sharp Metropolitan, Whit Stillman takes this as his cue to provide some frivolity of his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you know the director of that film was in Last Days of Disco?â&#x20AC;? he begins, speaking from Toronto, and referring to his own 1998 release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was Van, the door Nazi at the disco. Burr Steers. He said he did it because he wanted to get into film, he wanted to see how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done, so he appeared in our film and then he ripped off our material with a film called Igby Goes Down.â&#x20AC;?

No shit! â&#x20AC;&#x153;It could be your exclusive,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding that Disco actor Matt Ross also helmed Sundance favourite Captain Fantastic, while this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cannes criticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; week ends with a short directed by ChloĂŤ Sevigny.

Slender filmography aside (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to be personally slender and have a fat filmography, but unfortunately reality dictated the reverseâ&#x20AC;?), it seems that a Whit Stillman set is an unusually fecund arena for young talent. How does he feel about that? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jealous and resentful. They should stick to acting and not horn in on my work.â&#x20AC;?

All this aside, the New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based writer-director has returned, Sevigny in tow, with a rather delightful Jane Austen adaptation called Love & Friendship (opening Friday [May 27]). Adjusting for snark, how does it really feel to bring Austen to an audience more attuned these days to mutant superheroes than 18th-century literary irony? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can assume our audience is pretty copacetic,â&#x20AC;? answers the 64-year-old filmmaker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because I assume the audience has aged along with me. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby-boomer imperialism. Wherever we are in the generational cycle is, like, the dominant place. So young audiences have disappeared from cinema except for a couple of tent poles a year, but for the average Friday release itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to have an older-skewing film than a younger-skewing film.â&#x20AC;?

Whoever you are and whatever your age, and despite the puzzling absence of any CG effects work, a good time is guaranteed with Love & Friendship. Stillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s light touch with the materialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;actually taken from an unpublished novellaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;provides fertile space for a slew of great performances, particularly from another Disco alumna, Kate Beckinsale, who feasts on her lead role as the exquisitely bitchy and calculating Lady Susan Vernon. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, yes, top-drawer bitchiness in our film,â&#x20AC;? Stillman remarks with a chuckle.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dunno how actors do what they doâ&#x20AC;? is the filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admiring appraisal of Ms. Beckinsaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, which, to be fair, depends rather heavily on his pristine screenplay. While he notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like very much what Emma Thompson and Ang Lee did with Sense and Sensibility,â&#x20AC;? Stillman is hard-pressed to come up with any antecedents or influences on his own work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really thinking about cinema much when I was growing up,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was thinking about how I was not F. Scott Fitzgerald and I was not Tolstoy.â&#x20AC;? Fair enough. And is he satisfied, these days, with being Whit Stillman? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, if I can keep on being Whit Stillman,â&#x20AC;? he answers. The odds seem good that he will. -

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Sometimes Veda Hille just stares off into the distance and ponders life’s big questions, like “Why do men have nipples?” and “What do fish dream about?” and “Is Bigfoot real?” Emily Cooper photo.

The greatest love of all

mined his everyday utterances for lyrical inspiration. “Burst”, for instance, is a deeply tender song about watching your offspring grow up, complete with birthday parti es and “fireworkers”. And even when he’s not directly present, he’s a subtle On her latest album, Love Waves, Veda Hille explores the influence, as in Hille’s all-consuming bond that exists between parent and child version of that aforementioned Bowie tune.

Veda Hille covers David Bowie’s “Teenage Hille doesn’t take credit for predicting the pretWildlife” on her new album, Love Waves, but to- tiest star’s untimely death; she started working on day is a day for preteen wildlife. There’s banging “Teenage Wildlife”, and Love Waves, in 2013, well B Y ALEX ANDER VAR T Y overhead, and a few minutes later a tousled head before rumours about Bowie’s health had begun to appears: Hille’s seven-year-old son, Anders, has percolate through the music business. At the time, finished helping his grandfather fix the roof and she was in Berlin on a writing residency and thinkwants to show us his new drawings. West Coast ing about the three formative albums—Low, Heroes, ovoids mix with friendly monster faces and bea- and Lodger—that Bowie had made in that same city. ver tails; clearly, his mom is not the only talented “For about two weeks I went into the studio every member of the Hille clan. day—just a little room with a piano, in Neukölln— We’re sitting inside the family cabin, until re- and napped,” Hille says with a laugh. “Which is a cently an off-the-grid shack set among second- crucial part of my process.” growth firs on a moderately populous Gulf Island.

To further prime the pump for her own new Hille’s own mother stretches out on the deck with a songs, she also began to work up versions of other book; beyond her is the blue-green ocean. A small people’s tunes, and “Teenage Wildlife”—along ferry chugs past. Gulls call. Other islands—flat with Brian Eno’s “By This River” and a “rap brag” and grey, green and vertical—speckle the horizon. take on W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s “The It’s an idyllic scene—and, unlike the record Sun Whose Rays”—was among those she tried out. we’re here to discuss, there’s little trouble lurking “It’s a great song but not one of my favourites,” beneath its surface. The idea that Love Waves is she admits. “It’s not one I’ve thought about a lot, an album about uncertainty is one that Hille at and at first I couldn’t figure out why I was doing first dismisses, however—although she concedes it.…But I really started thinking about how devasthat its final track, an inspired ecological parable tated I was going to be when Bowie died, and so at based on an old folk song about a doomed ocean first I was making it a pure obituary for Bowie. And liner, sends listeners off on an unsettled note. then I felt it was too dark, so I had to pull back.” “ ‘And then we drown, clinging to one anEventually, she found her own ref lection in other,’ ” she says, summarizing the message of Bowie’s lyrics. It’s now at least as much about Titanic. “So, yes, there’s some of that. But a lot of the deeply ambivalent position of being a midthe album is about the incredible fierce love that dle-aged mother in the music industry as it is I have for my son. I hate to be a snooty parent, about being an exploited rock star—and perbut it’s an unbelievable feeling that I hadn’t had haps that’s where the uncertainty that underlies access to before. And in a lot of ways it is the ro- Love Waves comes in. At first, Hille admits, she mantic love we’re told to look for with a partner, didn’t know that she had anything left to say in but I actually think that’s false. I think the real the pop format, now that she had successfully falling in love happens with your child.” established a parallel career as a composer for Anders is all over Love Waves: not only has Hille theatrical works like Onegin, her recent collabwritten songs about that all-consuming love, she’s oration with playwright Amiel Gladstone.

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THE KNOWLEDGE DROPOUT Interviewed by Ellen

DeGeneres, Kanye West said he never has second thoughts about the things he posts to his Twitter account. Or first thoughts, apparently. “What’s the point of thinking?” West pondered.

OH WONDER Jacked about getting London, England’s goddamn

wonderful Oh Wonder on the phone in advance of their Commodore show on Saturday (May 28), we emailed their publicist. And then emailed again. And again. Nothing ever came back. Regardless, we love Oh Wonder’s sinfully gorgeous brand of U.K. electrochill—the stuff that’s made modern stars out of the xx and James Blake. Except that—unlike Oh Wonder’s Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West—neither of those acts ever hit the ground running with a million plays on Soundcloud and an album that started out as a string of monthly singles. Man, we’d have asked about that—not to mention the John and Yoko Halloween costumes—if not for a publicist… -

Veda Hille plays a launch party for Love Waves at the York Theatre on Saturday (May 28).

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

On recording with New Pornographers’ John Collins: “He’s my new music crush. And he’s also old-Vancouver, yet we’d never met each other before, and we have all these correlations. That’s often what I look for in a new working friend— someone that I feel is a friend, and that I want to be around all the time.…I was really thrilled with the combination of acoustic sounds and raw vocals and the stuff that he does on the computer.”

On the benefits of musical theatre: “I just got off this long run of Onegin, and right now is when I should be making a record. My voice is in such good shape, ’cause I’ve just finished eight weeks of singing six hours a day—but at least I get to bring that on the road with this album.”

On putting her 47-year-old self on Love Waves’ cover: “You know, what inspired me with that was Frazey Ford’s awesome video for ‘Done’. I watch that once a month, and I cry, and I go, ‘Oh, my God, that’s so great!’ It’s hot and real and—yeah! I haven’t dared make a video like that yet, but it was a direct inspiration. She’s got soul, that woman—and booty!”

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In Berlin, she explains, “Initially, I wrote nothing.

And then after two weeks I just wrote like a motherfucker, and I was thrilled. The writing was a process of ‘Do I still have a voice? Oh, yes, I still have a voice.

Does the world care about this voice? “Who cares?

This is my voice.” ’ “And, for me, the songs are about love,” she adds, “but also about aging, looking at where I am in the world.”

Today, on this rocky point at the edge of the Salish Sea, Hille is unquestionably in a good place—and with a strong new album to tour, the immediate future is also assured. -

WHY, GOD, WHY? In a year when David Bowie, Prince, and Lemmy Kilmister have already passed on, Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has revealed that he has terminal brain cancer. And, making one wonder what the hell God is doing up there, Ted Nugent is still using up precious oxygen.

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ment-playing members of Rage Against the Machine are forming a supergroup with Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real, we’re happy that, so far, Chris Cornell’s name hasn’t come up.

NOT EXACTLY A CREW Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee told Rolling Stone that his bandmates never even said goodbye to him following the group’s last-ever show on New Year’s Eve. In a true display of his affection, bassist Nikki Sixx did, however, unfollow him the next day on Twitter.

Fresh and local LES CHAUSSETTES WHO WILL READ YOUR MIND On its reverbrippled surface, Les Chaussettes’ sound straddles the line between C86 twee pop and Nuggets-era garage rock. A closer listen reveals that there are some serious craft and attention to detail behind it. Those details include the buzz-bomb bass and acid-freakout guitar solo on “Triple Water”, the surf-and-turf twang of “B-Side Baby”, the girl-group harmonies of “Russian Boy”, and the “96 Tears” organ swirl of “Bunky”. The little things add up to one big sound, and lend the impression that Les Chaussettes possess one hell of a record collection. MAY 26 – JUNE 2 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 35

Truman

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Almodóvar regular Javier Cámara and Argentina’s leading man, Ricardo Darín. Recently seen as the owlish John Lennon fan in Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, Cámara plays Tomás, an Argentine-turned-Canadian college lecturer who leaves wintry Quebec to visit lifelong friend and fellow expat Julian (Darín), an actor who found middling success in Madrid.

Only dimly aware that Julian has lung cancer and has been making noises about killing himself before the disease can do it, he wants to talk Julian out of it, but the latter, a force of nature who can utterly disarm the smarmiest funeral director, drags him along on various missions to wrap things up. Pretty soon, the visiting lecturer isn’t at all sure what to say.

A theme like this is usually heavy going, but Truman’s tone is playfully philosophical, even downright comic at times. Writer-director Cesc Gay (pronounced “guy”) provides a steady stream of interesting side characters, each appearing just once, except for a volatile cousin (Delores

Fonzi) who has a shared history with Tómas. And the beautifully shot and elegantly edited film, underscored by piquant guitar music, keeps changing locations, most notably to Amsterdam, where Julian gives an emotional farewell to his grown son (Oriol Pla).

The dying actor still has to find a home for his aged dog, and there’s a reason that pooch is not called Jefferson or Eisenhower. Our dual leads also anchored Gay’s previous film, A Gun in Each Hand, and once again he and cowriter Tomás Aragay are primarily concerned with what it means to live and die with authentic masculinity. In this case, it’s obvious from the start where man’s best friend will end up. But how you get there is always what matters. > KEN EISNER

THE BOY AND THE BEAST Featuring the voice of Kôji Yakusho.

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Anime director Mamoru Hosoda’s

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an obvious cash-in, but 2012’s Wolf Children plumbed unexpected emotional

Anime collides with Herman Melville in The Boy and the Beast.

depths. Like most teen-aimed entertainment in Japan, that title was very girlcentric, but the writer-director’s Disneyspectacular follow-up, The Boy and the Beast, is masculinist to a fault.

The explosively colourful two-hour tale follows an orphaned Tokyo lad called Ren (initially voiced by Wolf Children’s very female Aoi Miyazaki) who stumbles into a parallel world of highly anthropomorphic animals.

Here, Hosoda draws on Japanese folk tales, manga tropes, and Hindu cosmology to create a rich hierarchy in which two powerful creatures must

ultimately battle for ascension to an elevated lordship that allows them to reincarnate to whatever they want.

The lost nine-year-old is renamed Kyûta—riffing on the Japanese words for both “nine” and “suffering”—by a slobbering bear called Kumatetsu, who makes him his apprentice warrior. (These cartoons lend themselves well to Hollywood dubbing, but do see the subtitled original for a great vocal performance by Kôji Yakusho, of The Eel and Shall We Dance. Also, the English version features a no-name cast.) Our outsized bear is desperate to defeat big boar Iozan (Kazuhiro Yamaji), who represents all the noble traits held dear in the animal kingdom. But Kumatetsu lacks discipline of all kinds, something he predictably learns from his disciple. Meanwhile, how come no one notices that Iozan’s fierce son (Kappei Yamaguchi) is also a human, in a plush-animal costume?

Along the way, the now-teenaged Kyûta (Shôta Sometani) realizes that life isn’t all about strength; on a trip back to Tokyo’s beautifully rendered Shibuya district he meets a similarly introspective girl (Suzu Hirose) who hips him to book learning—and

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Very funny… a master class on the art of comic timing.”

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be just as immature (and therefore as funny) as her husband. They were a rare equal pair in gross-out romcomdom.

But this sequel tries so hard to be feminist that it winds up having no fun at all with its many female characters. The best parts are a Holocaust joke (seriously!) and Zac Efron’s return as a frat boy now struggling to grow up, which is both impressive and not exactly helping the cause of women.

Then again, if producer-star Seth Rogen really wanted to help that cause, he might’ve tried adding a woman to his team of five writers—all male.

This time around, the plot hinges on a sorority moving in beside Rogen and Byrne’s expanding family and causing trouble just as they’re selling their house. We spend too little time with the Radners—they’re reduced to wondering if they’re good parents and trying to keep their daughter from playing with a dildo, which feels like territory Ben Stiller’s already mined—and too much on the nice, boring girls starting the sorority: a blond, a black girl, and an overweight funny one. Three guesses who’s the leader. Worse, that blond is played by Chloë Grace Moretz, who has no natural funny bone and is thoroughly unconvincing as a bong-lover.

The bigger problem is that we’re supposed to sympathize with their drive to make a sorority that’s all about girl power. For every smart dig the film gets in at sexism, it digs its own grave as a comedy. We can’t pick a side when both sides have good intentions.

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than the idea of an ancient Egyptian curse. X-Men: Apocalypse makes a lot of expensive noise while attempting to put a new spin on the concept. What do we get for all the fuss? A deepvoiced villain (Oscar Isaac) who’s a cranky—and clanky—cross between King Tut and Darth Vader.

Dubbed Apocalypse, our vaguely asthmatic bad guy is reborn out of an Egyptian tomb to wreak havoc on the 1980s. Those of us who recall some of the hairstyles back then might wish him luck. But the X-Men have other plans. While Apocalypse is assembling a team of evildoers to take over the world, including Michael Fassbender’s disenchanted Magneto, the good guys are getting their act together as well.

Director Bryan Singer rounds up the usual suspects, along with a few fresh takes on some less familiar characters.

The crowded cast is overstocked with talent. Unfortunately, Jennifer Lawrence virtually sleepwalks through her return as Raven. But James McAvoy, who provides a characteristically sympathetic anchor as professor Charles Xavier, does a lot to keep things grounded as the story gradually surrenders to the obligatory onslaught of special effects.

Some of the more familiar characters are getting a little stale, but there are a few winners in the mix. As Nightcrawler, who combines the powers of a mystically evolved superhero with the look of a mutant bug, Kodi SmitMcPhee provides a subtle touch of comic relief. As the evil Psylocke, Olivia Munn cracks a mean laser whip.

Unfortunately, in close to two-and-ahalf hours, Singer spends far too much time setting up the excruciatingly slow premise. While extravagant, the CGI borders on the predictable, and the 3-D effects are less than memorable. Unlike, say, X-Men: First Class, this one doesn’t have nearly enough charm to compensate for the bloated story line. > JOHN LEKICH

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The ever-rebellious Baroness is bucking the everyone-in-black-T-shirts heavy-metal-band photo orthodoxy, and doing so in a big, big way.

For Baroness’s Baizley, music has been healing There are several ways to cop truth. That has led us to this point, which I’m very grateful for.” metal band Baroness’s current tour, The current foursome’s Purple is some more exciting than you’d ex- both concise and adventurous. As pect. Sure, you could point and in Baroness’s earliest days, tracks click your way through an online like “Morningstar” and “Desperapurchase, or pay to get in at the tion Burns” possess mammothdoor, but if you’ve got a keen eye heavy riffs that stand shoulder to and a ton of love for your home- shoulder with fellow Savannah town, you may want to head over crushers Mastodon. That said, Baizto the band’s Instagram account. ley has evolved from burly howling Taking a cue from Willy Wonka, toward a sandpaper-rough yet melthe quartet has been hiding spe- odic croon. Elsewhere, “Shock Me” cial Baroness-brand chocolate bars bleeds out a trance-inducing wash at every tour stop, the wrappers of of synths before bringing in the which also hold two concert tix. hard-rock licks and multilayered In keeping with the title of the vocal harmonies. group’s 2015 full-length, Purple, the Though the music comes across as “golden tickets” they’ve been stashing poppy and positive, Baizley’s lyrics near local landmarks and businesses have him struggling with the rehabilihave more of a mauve-ish hue. But tative process. Many songs allude to while photo proof through the band’s battles, with “Chlorine & Wine” findvarious social-media accounts reveals ing an “uncomfortably numb” frontthat plenty of fans have found the man pitted against a nurse armed goods, those in certain cities haven’t with a scalpel and pain pills. always been successful.

Baizley notes that Purple paints a “One time, we did it in Italy and particularly dark portrait of the last hid it behind a trash can that looked few years of his life, but diving deep like an ice cream cone. It turns out into his art helped him reconcile there’s tens of thousands of them and heal. Bringing the album to the in that particular city,” guitarist- masses every night on tour is making vocalist John Baizley tells the the process even easier.

Straight from inside a Columbus, “So many forms of escapism are Ohio, concert spot just after finish- wholly destructive to the human ing sound check. “Nobody found body and psyche,” he posits. “Music it, because the volume of that land- is something that allows for a diamark was too spread out.” logue between you and everybody.

While Baroness has spread out Whether it’s in a stadium with tens plenty of material over the last 10 of thousands of people or a room years, 2012’s Yellow & Green being a with 10 people, there’s a connection double disc of drawn-out space rock, that happens without the strict, proPurple finds the act more focused. In saic, linear dialogue that you and I part, the clarity comes in the wake are having right now. There’s someof a near deadly accident in 2012 in thing elevated to it.” which the group’s bus careened over Few could deny that Baizley’s an English highway guardrail and crowd-uniting sentiment is even plummeted 30 feet. The outfit was sweeter than the taste of a hidden rushed to hospital for its multiple Baroness chocolate bar. > GREGORY ADAMS injuries, with Baizley’s badly broken limbs almost having to be amputated. While in recovery, he felt pos- Baroness plays the Commodore Ballsessed to get Baroness back on track room on Sunday (May 29). quickly, as best he could.

“I had to take my left arm and my left leg, both of which had atrophied down to bone and tendons, and build them back to normal.

At this point in Autolux’s That was easy to a point, because career, the band’s fans have it’s just putting in the man-hours and physical labour,” the frontman learned to be patient. Since formexplains. “Mentally and creatively, ing in 2001, the Los Angeles–based it was a different thing. We got the trio has released just three fullwind knocked out of us, in every length albums, with a six-year gap sense. Most immediately, we had between 2004’s Future Perfect and 2010’s Transit Transit, and a furhalf of our band leave.”

Drummer Allen Blickle and bass- ther six-year wait before this year’s ist Matt Maggioni departed in 2013, Pussy’s Dead.

Reached at Autolux’s studio/ leaving Baizley and guitarist Pete Adams to find a new rhythm section. rehearsal space in L.A., singerThey ended up finding four-stringer guitarist-keyboardist Greg EdNick Jost and percussionist Sebastian wards reveals that the catalyst for Thomson, and things quickly jelled. finally getting the new record fin“When something so terrible ished was Beyoncé. Well, sort of. happens to you and it’s followed by Edwards says that he and Autolux something good, you don’t ask any drummer Carla Azar were fans of questions,” Baizley explains. “You Queen Bey’s self-titled 2013 release, see next page just roll with it and let that be the

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which was dropped on an unsuspecting public without advance promotion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I bought the record and listened to it, and with a few songs in particular I was really blown away at how stark, minimal, and deconstructed the arrangements and the production and the sound choices were,â&#x20AC;? Edwards says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I immediately came here, to right where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sitting, and played it for Carla, and she was blown away too. And then it just so happens that a few weeks later, this guy BOOTS, who was the main producer and writer on those songs in question that we were especially impressed by, got in touch with us.â&#x20AC;?

As it turned out, Jordan â&#x20AC;&#x153;BOOTSâ&#x20AC;?

Asher had long been an Autolux fan, and he knew the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s material inside and out. It was a match made in audio heaven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stark, minimal, and deconstructedâ&#x20AC;? is an apt description of some of the songs on Pussyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dead, the record Asher helped Autolux deliver to longsuffering fans. It certainly fits â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soft Sceneâ&#x20AC;?, a single that throbs along to spare synths and layers of percussion that build up from a simple drum-machine loop and climax in a clattering finale. Shot through

with bomb bursts of ground-shaking guitar, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Listen to the Orderâ&#x20AC;? hews closer to rock, albeit rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decidedly head-friendly (as in Portis- and Radio-).

As a whole, the record is by turns alienating and welcoming, wildly boundary-pushing and exquisitely melodic. To achieve such a delicate balance, Edwards says, BOOTS became like a fourth member of the group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody else has ever been in the middle of the Autolux world,â&#x20AC;? he notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really just been the three of us, and he just kind of came right in like a whirlwind and just inserted himself in the centre of it, and it was great. It was exactly what we needed at that point. And he made some big changes; there were definitely songs where he was an integral figure in changing the songs and applying a different approach.

But mainly what he did was he just listened to everything and he just said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing album right here, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just finish it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the fastest band in the world, for a variety of reasons,â&#x20AC;? says Edwards, who evidently has a gift for understatement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and when an album takes that long, it becomes harder and harder to finish the longer it takes, so it was great to have that energy and have his feedback right at that point.â&#x20AC;?

Thanks, BeyoncĂŠ. Without intending

to, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a great service for the someone who tends to look into the world of experimental art rock. light. Reached on her cellphone in a > JOHN LUCAS tour vehicle headed to Nashville, she confirms thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indeed the case.

Autolux plays Venue on Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an optimist at heart, (May 28). so even though the record has roots in tragedy, I really wanted to turn it around into something that was beautiful. I wanted something that people could connect to and feel good listening to. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already Young Magicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new album Still enough disaster, tragedy, and chaos Life has its roots in a profound- in this world, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to ly sad event, with singer Melati Ma- add to it. I wanted to make a record lay deciding to decamp to Indonesia that was defiant despite what had after the death of her father. happened. Something strong.â&#x20AC;?

The New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based frontwoman In doing so, she was also hoping returned to the country where she was to bring the world a little closer raised determined partly to research together, something that seems more her family history and partly to escape important than ever when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the clang and clamour of modern life fear-mongers like Donald Trump in North America. Eventually, she leading the presidential polls in an started sketching out songs, and then increasingly divided America. returned to the Big Apple to flesh them Still Life may have taken shape out with a support cast that included in North America, but it began in her long-time Young Magic collab- Indonesia, where Malay made field orator Isaac Emmanuel, NYC cellist- recordings of everything from gamcomposer Kelsey Lu McJunkins, and elan percussion to the sounds of Detroit producer Erin Rioux. life at local markets. The songs on The first thing that one notices the album are built on a foundation about the electro-chilled Still Life is of transcendent synths and gauzethat, while often ethereal and haunt- swaddled vocals but much of their ing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never depressing. Even when majesty comes from the little touchMalay is pouring out her heart with es, such as the Congotronics percuslines like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never wanted to be the sion in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sleep Nowâ&#x20AC;? and the stately compromiseâ&#x20AC;?, from the heaven-sent cello swells in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iwyâ&#x20AC;?. All of the tracks â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Wonderfulâ&#x20AC;?, she sounds like are perfect for chilling out, whether

Young Magic is hoping to bring the world together

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youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a Yaletown condo or a beach hut in Bali. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a word for the way things move in Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like island time, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called jam karet, which translates to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elastic timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? Malay says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a song on our first record [2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Melt]. In Indonesia I was able to get away and reflect on things, but there was also a lot of human contact, because I was with family.â&#x20AC;?

Ultimately, one of the great things about Still Life is the way that it manages to sound exotic and foreign and global and urban. And in some way, bridging cultures comes naturally to her, as her Catholic father was a smalltown Illinois boy who enlisted in the navy and ended up in Indonesia, where he met Malayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, a Muslim. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to an international school, and all of my friends were from all over the world,â&#x20AC;? she says of growing up in Jakarta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just thought that was normal. It was only after moving to New York that I realized thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a strong sense of segregation in the world. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unnecessary. The more we remain open and understanding and being educated on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultures and ideas, the more weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hopefully going to be able to change that.â&#x20AC;? > MIKE USINGER

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La Chinga proves rock is very much alive L OCA L D I S C S LA CHINGA Freewheelin’ (Small Stone Recordings)

Flea made headlines recently with

2 his rant about how rock is dead.

Meanwhile, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dark Necessities” single saw them go cornball disco-funk, so no wonder he thinks that. Yet, if those pickled peppers had ever heard La Chinga, they’d be singing a different tune.

The Vancouver power trio of bassist Carl Spackler, guitarist Ben Yardley, and drummer Jay Solyom is a pure example of a nose-to-the-grindstone, balls-out, scissor-kickin’ rawkwith-an-awk band. They couldn’t care less about image. Fuelled by visions of Thin Lizzy, the James Gang, and vintage porn, they proudly wear their influences on their vest patches.

On the cover of their sophomore album, Freewheelin’, they’re flying a Plymouth Duster with a GET SUM vanity plate across the galaxy, in search of gone Gypsies, white-witchy black magic, faded angels, mountain mommas, the dawn of man, and the mother of all snakeheads. Lord knows, they’ve found them all. Stillwater couldn’t have nailed the hard-rock tropes on this album better, and they had Cameron Crowe directing them. If rock is dead, La Chinga is Lazarus with a hard-on.

We’re not saying who, but one member of La Chinga keeps track of how many groupies he has failed to score with in the back of the trio’s van. Tina Liu photo.

This six-minute fever dream begins with atonal guitar strums and tuneless, hiccupy vocal gasps before culminating in a crescendo of heavy-metal aggression and ghoulish robo chants.

Thankfully, things improve significantly when Hot Panda channels its oddball influences into more conventional songs. “Linda Ronstadt” fleshes out its airy call-and-response choruses with swoops of cello and violin, while the lush choral harmonies of “Golden Arch” provide the palatable counterpoint to lyrics that describe revulsion toward fast food. Best of all is “When I Was Cruel”, the shimmering guitar licks of which are pure British psych pop.

All of these songs are delivered with > ALAN RANTA a sense of unpredictable quirkiness.

Ultimately, however, it’s the melodic HOT PANDA hooks that leave the greatest impression. If these Pandas really think that Bad Pop (Independent) they make “bad pop”, they ought to Bad Pop, the fourth full-length give themselves a little more credit. > ALEX HUDSON from the Edmonton transplants in Hot Panda, effectively mixes bubblegum sweetness with jittery art- CADAVERIC LIVIDITY rock rhythms and a splash of textured Rotten (Independent) psychedelia. In order to appreciate this Despite the medical-textbook mix of sounds, however, you’ll first definition of “cadaveric lividneed to get through the head-scratching opening cut, “Other Spooky Is”. ity”—the discoloration of the human

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body in death—this local metal band’s debut demo, Rotten, is primed to bruise the living.

“Essence of Putrescence” distills the band’s m.o., beginning with a flurry of six-string riffs that ricochet off of Paul Drummond’s blast beats before nose-diving into a grotesque mosh groove. Justin Clark’s subwoofer growl festers in the mix throughout the detuned decadence.

“10,000 Cuts” offers up a straightforward mangling of thrash beats and power-chord chunkiness before piling on pinch squeals on the requisite brutal breakdown, and the title track traffics in the same heaviness.

Cadaveric Lividity’s first offering isn’t the most original death-metal release out there, but it hits the right notes to make it hurt. Crank it up, and let the premortem staining begin. > GREGORY ADAMS

SARAH DAVACHI Dominions (JAZ)

At this point, it’s safe to say

2 that electroacoustic composer

Sarah Davachi has forgotten more about synthesis than most of us would ever be able to Google. She eats analogue circuitry for breakfast,

leading to some of the most profound sounds ever teased from wires. With his cover art for Dominions, Daniel Presnell has nailed the feeling of Davachi’s album, layering a videotape warp over several imposing images of nature: rolling dunes, dense trees, and a frozen mountainside. There is something glacial about Davachi’s work here, each track rising majestically from the ether, with intricate form subsequently carved into and out of it, glossed with faint glitches of ancient technology.

While the timbres remain somewhat similar, save for the use of the Mellotron-like optical-sampler keyboard known as the Orchestron, the album has less of a brooding, droning feel than the composer’s 2015 release Barons Court, and more of an expansive, cinematic awe, with more blips on the oscilloscope and in the heartbeat of the listener. This is clearly Davachi’s domain; we just live here. > AR

BLACK CLOTHES The Abused (Independent)

What pushes a gentle soul to

2 the brink of homicidal, teen-

attacking insanity? While that sounds like a tag line for an ’80s slasher flick, this is the narrative backdrop for Black Clothes’ latest, The Abused.

Conceived and written by AngelMaker member Colton Bennett, the instrumental album shifts between black-metal guitars and cinematic washes of synth.

While many modern synthscapers would follow in the footsteps of John Carpenter’s eerie minimalism, Black Clothes’ more keyboard-oriented pieces are both fanciful and melancholy. “Childhood”, for instance, almost sounds like Klaus Doldinger’s tear-inducing work from the NeverEnding Story scene where the horse drowns in the Swamp of Sadness.

The story behind the music is that a quiet high-school janitor goes on a killing spree after some teens murder his cat. He gouges out the eyes of his enemies, wearing some sort of deadskin mask while doing so. Though penultimate number “Family” has him killed by a kid, the end of the story has the janitor’s body bag mysteriously vanishing from the morgue.

Playfully working with horror tropes in sound and script like this, could Black Clothes’ The Abused: Part 2 already be on the way? > GA

WHITNEY K Goodnight (Maple Death)

The “lo-fi” tag can cut both

2 ways. For some, it’s a lazy device

to obscure a lack of skills or ideas, but for others, it suggests a timeless, rough-hewn charm that enhances slacker poetry and surreal psychedelia. Vancouver rambler Konnor Whitney has the latter in spades on his latest release, Goodnight.

This gold mirror cassette sees Whitney settle down in his bedroom with a four-track recorder affectionately called Moth Insurance, to channel his borderline depression into 22 minutes of outsider-folk perfection.

Whitney has the dilated pupils of an exhausted traveller, simultaneously in awe of and drained by the daily struggle to maintain a passable existence. There are nods to classic forms such as country, blues, and psychedelic art rock throughout the record, all held together by Whitney’s honest, thoughtful lyrics and world-weary voice. It seems longer than it is, and is riveting the whole way. If Woody Guthrie had ever hung out with John Cale at the Factory, or if David Peel had shacked up with Jack Kerouac in a $5-a-night motel, it might sound something like this. > AR

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WHITNEY Chicago indie-rock band tours in support of debut release Light Upon the Lake, with guest Michael Rault. Aug 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale May 27, 10 am, $14 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED FRANK SOLIVAN AND DIRTY KITCHEN The Rogue Folk Club presents bluegrass band, with guest Annalisa Tornfelt. Jun 8, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info app.arts-people.com/index.php.

BLACKALICIOUS Oakland hip-hop duo tours in support of recent release Imani, Vol. 1, with guest Fuze the MC. Jun 11, 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

CHASTITY BELT American indie-rock band led by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Julia Shapiro, with guests Glad Rags. Jun 25, 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

DEERHOOF American noise-pop band tours in support of upcoming release The Magic, with guests Skating Polly. Jul 8, 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

INSANE CLOWN POSSE Detroit hiphop duo composed of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, with guests Spread the Revenge. Jul 15, 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

BJ THE CHICAGO KID Chicago R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of debut release In My Mind. Jul 27, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketweb.ca/.

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BAND OF SKULLS English alt-rock band tours in support of fourth album By Default. Sep 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale May 27, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

DINOSAUR JR. The Georgia Straight presents American alt-rock band performing tunes from forthcoming album Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. Sep 30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 3, 10 am, $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

SQUEEZE English new-wave band tours in support of latest release Cradle to the Grave. Oct 3, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale May 27, 10 am, $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

KING Los Angeles-based R&B trio tours in support of debut release We Are King, with guest Eryn Allen Kane. Oct 6, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix on sale May 25, 10 am, $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketweb.ca/.

THE JULIE RUIN New York rock band tours in support of upcoming release Hit Reset. Oct 7, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale May 27, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE American country-music duo (composed of Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard) performs on its Dig Your Roots Tour, with guests Granger Smith and Chris Lane. Nov 12, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale May 27, 10 am, $75.50/49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

2THIS WEEK BARN BURNER: A NIGHT OF LEGENDARY MUSIC The District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society presents music by Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts, Odds, and Tom Taylor.

Proceeds go to Lions Gate Hospital’s youth mental-health unit. May 26, 6:30-11 pm, The Shipyards (foot of Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $69.50-80, info www.northvanfirefighterscharity.ca/.

THE TOURIST COMPANY Vancouver poprock band, with guests with Isobel Trigger and Adam Hanney & Co. May 26, 7-10:30 pm,

Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/, info www.ticketfly.com/event/1159019tourist-company-mercury-ep-vancouver/.

PAUL SIMON American rock-pop singer-songwriter (“Kodachrome”, “Mother and Child Reunion”). May 26, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $164.50/104.50/64.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

MAC DEMARCO Canadian indie-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of latest full-length release Salad Days and EP Another One. May 27, doors 6 pm, show 6:30 pm, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

SAVAGES London-based rock band tours in support of latest release Adore Life. May 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $26.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

LA LUZ Seattle surf-rock band tours in support of latest release Weirdo Shrine, with guests Sick Sad World. May 27, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward).

Tix $14 (plus service charges and fees), info www.ticketfly.com/purchase/ event/1110843/.

WITHOUT MERCY Local metal band performs at an album-release show, with guests Neck of the Woods, Dead Asylum, Xul, and Obsidian. May 27, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

ARDENT TRIBE Vancouver dance band.

May 27, 9:15 pm, Backstage Lounge (Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $10, info www.ardenttribe.com/.

ALABAMA SHAKES American blues-rock band tours in support of latest release Sound & Color, with guests Kurt Vile and the Violators. May 28, doors 5:30 pm, show 7 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

AUTOLUX Los Angeles alt-rock band tours in support of new album Pussy’s Dead. May 28, doors 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Australia garage-psych band tours in support of latest release Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. May 28, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

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STEPHEN FEARING The Rogue Folk Club presents Victoria roots musician.

May 28, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th).

Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16052820/.

TITUS ANDRONICUS American indie-rock band tours in support of latest release The Most Lamentable Tragedy, with guests Le Sera. May 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

VEDA HILLE Vancouver experimental singer-songwriter tours in support of latest studio album Love Waves. May 28, 8 pm, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix $30, info www.vedahille.com/.

YEASAYER Brooklyn experimental-rock band tours in support of latest release Amen & Goodbye. May 28, 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

PRONG American metal band plays tunes from latest album Ruining Lives, with guests Saints of Death and Crnkshft. May 29, doors 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville).

Tix $20 (plus service charge) at Scrape Records and www.ticketweb.ca/.

CHELSEA WOLFE California gothic-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Abyss. May 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

BARONESS Heavy-metal outfit from Savannah, Georgia, tours in support of latest release Purple. May 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

THE SO SO GLOS Brooklyn rock band tours in support of latest release Kamikaze, with guests the Dirty Nil. May 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

THE SMOKERS CLUB TOUR Music by Cam’Ron, the Underachievers, G Herbo, Smoke DZA, and Nyck Caution. May 31, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). NOTE: Moved from previous venue of the Vogue Theatre. Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.

THE KILLS Indie-rock band composed of American singer Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince, with guests L.A. Witch. May 31, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville).

Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

THE LUMINEERS Folk-rock band from Denver, Colorado, performs on its Cleopatra World Tour, with guest Soak. and Sleepwalkers. Jun 1, gates 5:30 pm, show 6:30 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). NOTE: moved from previous venue of the Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

DISCHARGE British punk band, with guests Toxic Holocaust, Mass Grave, Old Derelicts, and World View. Jun 1, 6 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $28, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

LAMB OF GOD American heavy-metal band, with guests Clutch and Corrosion of Conformity. Jun 1, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $46.50 to $96.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

Holy Wave, Froth, Com Truise, Shaunic, and Did You Die. Jun 16-18, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/.

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This year’s performers include Joe Jackson, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Hiromi: The Trio Project, the Oliver Jones Trio, Lauryn Hill, Sarah McLachlan, Downchild Blues Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Lovano Classic Quartet, Case/Lang/Veirs, Los Straitjackets, and Gordon Grdina’s Haram. Jun 24–Jul 3, various Vancouver venues. Tix and info www.coastaljazz.ca/.

FVDED IN THE PARK Urban-music festival features performances by Jack Ü, Zedd, Travis Scott, Bryson Tiller, Carnage, RL Grime, Galantis, Kaytranada, DJ Mustard, Tchami, Marshmello, Belly, Seven Lions, Goldlink, Gallant, Jazz Cartier, Troyboi, Giraffage, Shiba San, Anna Lunoe, Elaki, Sam Gellaitry, POMO, Rezz, D.R.A.M., HUMANS, Slumberjack,

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VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL Performers of the 39th annual folk fest include Martin Carthy, Shane Koyczan, the New Pornographers, Jojo Abot, Lisa O’Neill, Lakou Mizik, Ajinai, Yemen Blues, Bruce Cockburn, Oysterband, the Bills, Emilie & Ogden, Lord Huron, Little Scream, the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, and Samantha Parton. Jul 15-17, Jericho Beach (1300 Discovery). Tix at thefestival.bc.ca/.

BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL The Georgia Straight presents live blues and roots music by Colin James, Frazey Ford, Cyril Neville and the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Como Mamas, Lindi Ortega, Cecile Doo Kingue, Shred Kelly, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Dawn Pemberton, Ben Rogers, Billy Dixon, and Wes Mackie. Aug 6, doors 12 pm, show 1 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix from $50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.burnabybluesfestival.com/.

CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778-379-0407. 2BREAKBOT May 28 2ELEPHANT MAN Jun 8 2JMSN Jun 20 2JESSY LANZA Jun 21 2BAS Jun

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Aug 14 2TURNOVER Aug 27 2JOSEPH ARTHUR Sep 16

BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. 2COLOUR TONGUES, END OF EMPIRE, DAN CHALLIS May 25 2ARDENT TRIBE May 27

COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2MATT CORBY May 26 2OH WONDER May 28 2BARONESS May 29 2THE KILLS May 31 2AT THE DRIVE-IN Jun 7 2TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Jun 23 2TIGER ARMY Jun 24 2BIG WRECK Jul 22 2CRYSTAL CASTLES Jul 23 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2AWOLNATION Aug 11 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2JAKE BUGG Sep 7 2LEE SCRATCH PERRY Sep 15 2THE TEMPER TRAP Sep 21 2ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 2DINOSAUR JR. Sep 30 2SQUEEZE Oct 3 254-40 Oct 7 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 2YOUNG THE GIANT Oct 26

BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2NEXT MUSIC FROM TOKYO VOL. 8 May 25 2THE TOURIST COMPANY May 26 2LA LUZ May 27 2WE LOVE DRAKE III May 27 2TITUS ANDRONICUS May 28 2ISLANDS Jun 4 2THE MAGICIAN Jun 14 2KATHRYN CALDER & THE BURNING HELL Jun 25 2RISING APPALACHIA Jul 28 2MISERY SIGNALS Jul 30 2DAVID BAZAN Aug 28 2THE BOXER REBELLION Oct 23 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm.

COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2THE SO SO GLOS May 29 2ADIA VICTORIA Jun 12 2THE FLATLINERS Jun 16 2NORTHCOTE Jun 25 2YOU WON’T Jun 26 2DUCKTAILS Jul 9 2WE ARE SCIENTISTS Jul 10 2MITSKI Jul 12 2SEAWAY Jul 19 2WHITNEY Aug 1 2THE DESLONDES Aug 3 2MARISSA NADLER Aug 7 2FOUR YEAR STRONG

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. 2THE SMOKERS CLUB TOUR May 31 2DVSN Jun 8 2BLACKALICIOUS Jun 11 2CHASTITY BELT Jun 25 2DEERHOOF Jul 8 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2REBECCA WENHAM May 31 2KAKI KING Jun 6

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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS LEVITATION VANCOUVER The Reverberation Appreciation Society and Timbre Concerts present concerts in downtown Vancouver at Malkin Bowl, the Rickshaw Theatre, the Imperial, and the Cobalt. Performers include Flying Lotus, Tycho, the Growlers, Thee Oh Sees, Of Montreal, Fidlar, Allah-Las, White Lung, Hinds, Cherry Glazerr, Dead Ghosts, Boogarins, Louise Burns, Holy Fuck, Sunns, Summering, Night Beats, Morgan Delt,

and Unlike Pluto. Jul 2-3, Holland Park (King George Hwy. & Old Yale Rd., Surrey). Tix at www.fvdedinthepark.com/.

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FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865.

2MOTHERFUCKERS, RIOT PORN, SPREE KILLERS, THE GNAR GNARS May 26 269 GUNS, THE FOUL ENGLISH, WAR AMP, UP PERISCOPE May 27 2ROTTEN SOUND, CRACKWHORE, GROSS MISCONDUCT, NORTHERN STEEL Jun 3 2LUNGFLOWER, MEDEVIL, CROWN OF TALONS Jun 4 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-8680494. 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 JAYHAWKS Jul 18 2HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Aug 4 2THE WHITE PANDA Sep 3 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604608-1444. 2PURPLE GANG May 27 2FULL MOON May 28 2SONS OF THE HOE May 29 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604608-2871. 2SHAUN RAWLINS May 27 2VAN DAMSEL May 28 2KEVIN MORBY Jun 7 2CUB SPORT Jun 29 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 2BARNS COURTNEY Sep 3 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 2GREAT WHITE & SLAUGHTER Oct 14 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Jun 23 2STEVEN TYLER Jul 10 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 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 2RICHARD CLAYDERMAN Sep 30

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REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-6693214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am.

RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2WITHOUT MERCY May 27 2KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD May 28 2DISCHARGE Jun 1 2THE SADIES Jun 3 2GONDWANA Jun 4 2VOIVOD Jun 13 2ILL NIĂ&#x2018;O Jun 15 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER LAUNCH PARTY Jun 16 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER Jun 17-18 2PALE DIÂŻAN Jun 19 2THE BLACK SEEDS Jun 24 2CALM LIKE A BOMB Jun 25 2SKYE WALLACE AND DAVID NEWBERRY Jun 26 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2ARE WE NOT? XTC, DEVO AND JOY DIVISION Jul 14 2PRINCE TRIBUTE NIGHT Jul 22 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2PIGS Jul 29 2PIGS Jul 29 2THROWING SHADE: LIVE PODCAST Aug 12 2DOPE Sep 15 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29 2THE JULIE RUIN Oct 7 2DARK TRANQUILLITY Nov 25 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900.

2CHICAGO Jun 16 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 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 2FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nov 12 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-3317999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;R Us Wed-Thu. 2TODD KERNS Jun 2 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2STEPHEN FEARING May 28 2KIĂ&#x2030;RAH Jun 3 2FRANK SOLIVAN AND DIRTY KITCHEN Jun 8 2DANNY MICHEL Jun 10 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064.

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VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-569-1144. 2ALPHA BLONDY AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM Jun 17 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 2TODRICK HALL PRESENTS: STRAIGHT OUTTA OZ Jul 7 2JOHN PRINE Jul 9 2KACEY MUSGRAVES Aug 2 2BROODS Aug 16 2COLVIN & EARLE Aug 20 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2THE GIPSY KINGS Aug 26 2PARQUET COURTS Aug 27 2BRIAN REGAN Aug 28 2GAD ELMALEH Sep 6 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10 2BAND OF SKULLS Sep 16 2GOJIRA Oct 9 2ANJELAH JOHNSON Oct 26 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2MĂ&#x2DC; Nov 23 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-2545858. 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR! May 31 2LINDSAY ROBERTSON Jun 2 2RAE SPOON Jun 3

OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL Featuring performances by Florence & the Machine, the Cure, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, Leon Bridges, Jamie xx, Purity Ring, Tycho, Allen Stone, Mac DeMarco, Digable Planets, Lord Huron, Kurt Vile, Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram), Rudimental, Caribou, X Ambassadors, Four Tet, the Internet, Yo La Tengo, Yeasayer, Andra Day, Børns, Oh Wonder, M. Ward, Todd Terje, Ty Segall & The Muggers, Savages, Frightened Rabbit, Blind Pilot, Wolf Alice, Vince Staples, Marian Hill, Baauer, Saint Motel, Baroness, Ibeyi, Oddisee, Noah Gundersen, Wet, Chelsea Wolfe, Julia Holter, Titus Andronicus, Telekinesis, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and Ruler. May 27-30, Gorge Amphitheatre (754 Silica Road NW, George, Wash.). Tix at www.livenation.com/.

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March job posting on the Taylor â&#x20AC;&#x153;for failure to adequately plead that demand on Ryan Executive Search Partners web- the board was excused and that individual desite offers insight into Chip Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fendants have fi led motions for failure to state a real-estate aspirations. claim upon which relief may be grantedâ&#x20AC;?.

Low Tide Properties declares that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seekThe issue for lululemon athletica shareholding a senior property manager for a Vancou- ers is that the company has indemnification ver-based investment company with â&#x20AC;&#x153;over 40 agreements with â&#x20AC;&#x153;certain of our current and properties valued at over $300 millionâ&#x20AC;?. former officers and directorsâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low Tide is actively growing and is targeting Th is may put lululemon on the hook for a portfolio value of $1.5 billion over the next ten â&#x20AC;&#x153;certain liabilities that may arise by reason years,â&#x20AC;? the ad states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and it has of their status or services as the vision, access to capital, directors or officersâ&#x20AC;?. and the relationships to sucThe company is also the cessfully meet that target.â&#x20AC;? subject of a class-action suit Charlie Smith Part of the reason it has by former and current emâ&#x20AC;&#x153;access to capitalâ&#x20AC;? is that the owner of Low ployees in New York in connection with overTide Properties, lululemon athletica founder time compensation and other earned wages.

Chip Wilson, is a billionaire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are unable at this time to predict the He is also cash-rich. In 2014, he sold half his amount of our legal expenses associated with lululemon shares for $845 million. In 2015, he these proceedings and any settlement or damsold his remaining lululemon shares for ap- ages associated with these matters,â&#x20AC;? lululemon proximately $1.2 billion. stated in the form.

His real-estate companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus includes Gastown, Main Street, and the Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; FIVE CONTIGUOUS LOTS with 45 rental Mount Pleasant area, according to the job post- units have been sold in Burnaby.

There are three low-rise apartment buildings ing. Low Tide is aiming to â&#x20AC;&#x153;acquire and hold a core of stable, income-producing properties and one rental house on the 36,423-square(mostly office/retail/industrial/multi-family foot site at 6556â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6596 Marlborough Avenue, properties in the Lower Mainland) while also according to real-estate agents David and acquiring value-add properties to improve and Mark Goodman.

In the father and sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newsletter, they reveal then add to the coreâ&#x20AC;?.

Meanwhile, in its most recent Form 10-K to that a purchaserâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a numbered companyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;paid the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, $14.5 million. It was listed at $14.9 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City of Burnaby has expressed an intent lululemon athletica reported that a pension fund has launched a lawsuit in connection with to proceed with a planning process for a proposed update to the Metrotown Centre Plan, stock-trading by Wilson in 2013.

The Hallandale Beach Police Officers and which we expect to be confirmed sometime Firefightersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Personnel Retirement and District later this year,â&#x20AC;? the newsletter says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Council Industry Pension Fund has fi led â&#x20AC;&#x153;a de- Council has not currently endorsed any future rivative lawsuit on behalf of lululemon against density designation or rezoning change for the subject property, it is possible that future recertain of our current and former directorsâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plaintiffs claim that the individual defendants zoning to a higher density will be permitted.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile, on May 16, a group called the breached their fiduciary duties to lululemon by allegedly failing to investigate certain trades of Stop Demovictions Burnaby Campaign prelululemon stock owned by Dennis J. [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chipâ&#x20AC;?] sented a report to Burnaby council on the Wilson in 2013,â&#x20AC;? the document states. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plaintiffs housing crisis in Metrotown.

One of the members, Rick McGowan of the also claim that Mr. Wilson breached his fiduciary duties by making his broker aware of certain Metrotown Residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association, wrote that non-public, material events prior to executing Burnabyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home-ownership rate is lowest in Metrotown, with 51 percent of tenants in this sales of lululemon on Mr. Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behalf.â&#x20AC;?

The document notes that the defendants town centre spending more than 30 percent of have fi led motions to have the action dismissed their household income on rent. -

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What Happened?

I watched an old home movie of my family recently that I had never seen before.

It was decades ago, I was 8 or 9 years old at the time. All I did was sing, laugh, dance, joke, and play! I was totally free. It was heartbreaking, because I realized those parts of myself have been so suppressed and underused that I don’t even know if they are there anymore.

You make all my neutrons fire.

The monster rears its ugly head

My only wish is that you could see all the amazing things I see in you.

I thought I was finally doing alright. My life is more together than it’s ever beengot a cool job, a good guy, a place to live...And yet here I am. Laying in bed at 4:42pm feeling completely hopeless and revolting. Feeling like I am inconsequential. Nothing. I know I am not alone in this. I know how to cope and make it through another day. I just wish it wasn’t so. All the meds and exercise and friends and therapy and money in the universe can’t rid me of this feeling of being truly alone and small.

Sigh I wish I could get Anthony Kiedis to shave that mustache off his face. He is so capable of going back to his old hot self.

Party’s Over Drinking every day was fun, until it wasn’t.

odd...

I work with this dude that is SO good looking...like incredibly good looking. I’m not attracted to men at all, and I’m not attracted to him in any sort of romantic/ sexual way....but I don’t know why I find myself staring at him here and there.

The guy is just so pretty lol...this sounds hilarious and even more so as I write it, but I think I have a man crush on him.

Gift I got concert tickets as a gift from my other, but would rather take my friend. I love my partner, but it would be more fun to go with my friend who’s actually a fan of the band (lover is pretty meh on their music). Do you chose who to take based on the fun potential or fairness?

Dumbphone I am a late adopter when it comes to technology (I’ve only had a cellphone for 2 years). But how quickly I’ve become addicted to my little device! I spend hours upon hours of my downtime browsing the web - hours that could be spent learning to draw, reading a novel, writing a story. Time to put away this little rectangle of self-destruction and get focused!

Just me?

I will not patronize a restaurant that serves farmed salmon, I will not purchase farmed salmon, I will not by pre prepared food that includes farmed salmon and I will not eat sushi prepared with farmed salmon. I think the salmon farming industry is a blight on our coast and nothing short of a disaster waiting to happen to wild salmon stocks. And now I hear that the geniuses in control of our food supply think that salmon is a good place to start in approving genetically modified animals into our food supply. Is it just me or do I have hope that no one else will put this shit in their body and think it’s a good idea?

Is the whole package always going to be “Return to Sender”?

I think and feel that I’m the whole package: very smart, witty, attractive, kind, a good friend etc. I’m a good lover and a compassionate companion. So why do I always end up with guys who end up making me feel stupid and crazy and then shove me around? Why can’t I have meaningful non-competitive friendships with women either? I don’t understand why it seems like people want to take me down a notch and why I’m always so alone. Or am I overlooking a huge flaw in myself? I just want to cook, eat, screw, sleep and enjoy every day with someone. And somewhere in there bare my insides to a person who won’t use my failings as fuel for a fight someday. Is that an unrealistic fantasy or am I just mailing everything to the wrong address?

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I came out when I was 16. When I was 17, I met M and we dated for eight years. M was a horrible human being—emotionally and occasionally physically abusive. M still sends me the occasional (creepy) email, wishing me a happy birthday or giving me updates on people I don’t really recall. I don’t respond. A few years back, I got an email saying that M was now “Mike”.

I think it’s important to use the pronouns people want you to use for them.

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Block Mike’s number, block his email address, block him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Periscope, Kik, FuckStick, WhatsApp, CumDump, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, ad infi nitum.

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friends. If you absolutely, positively must discuss him with someone— a true intimate with a right to your relationship history who needs to be sensitive to the abuse you suffered— you can be a good ally to other trans people (not your abusive trans ex) by carefully using nouns and descriptors in place of your asshole ex’s preferred pronouns. So instead of “I met him when I was still a teenager,” you say, “I met the abusive piece of shit when I was still a teenager.” Instead of, “It took me eight long years to get away from him,” you say, “It took me eight long years to get away from that asshole psychopath.”

What I’m gonna say next will get me slammed on Twitter (heavens), MHL, but I’ve learned not to read my @s, so here we go…

If using male pronouns when referring to your ex is gonna complicate your life (really complicate it); if the “transitioned later” part is likely to get dropped during a game of interoffice telephone; if the qualifier about your ex having identified as a woman while you were together is likely to get dropped too; and if either of those drops could lead coworkers or casual acquaintances to assume something about you that isn’t true—i.e., that you’re into dudes and therefore gettable by dudes—and if that erroneous assumption could result in your having to deflect awkward and/or unpleasant advances from confused males; or if having your status as a Gold Star Lesbian questioned could induce orientational dysphoria…

I don’t see the nontheoretical harm in you—and only you—misgendering

> BY DAN SAVAGE Mike on the rare occasion when a convo about him can’t be avoided. You don’t live near him; no one you know knows him; and the misgendering is unlikely to get back to him. The adage “no harm, no foul” applies here.

But it would be simpler, easier, and ally-ier if you sidestepped the issue by not speaking to anyone about your asshole ex ever again.

I am a 40-something bi woman happily married to a newly transitioned 50ish trans woman.

I have a history of putting myself about a bit (safely) before our relationship, but we have been monogamous since we met (except for a disastrous threesome). My wife hasn’t put herself about and has slept with only myself and one other to whom she was also married—and that threesome.

She understands that I have a high libido and mostly she doesn’t. Our sex life is loving and good, mostly, but I do want more. There have been discussions on opening up our relationship—but, essentially, I want to and she is resistant. I want to do this with transparency and with men (mostly), but I don’t feel this is realistic emotionally for her given some conflict we’ve had over this issue. Is cheating the only answer here? > NEVER OVERLY TERRIFIED

I can see how it might be emotionally tricky for a recently transitioned trans woman—that would be your wife—to cheerfully sign off on her second wife sleeping with men (mostly) and with transparency (ethically). But if you absolutely,

positively can’t commit to sleeping with only her for the rest of your life, NOT, and you can’t get her permission to sleep with others… then, yes, there’s cheating. There’s also fantasy, masturbation, repression, sublimation, self-sacrifice—and divorce.

tried to explain my feelings to my partner, but I think he has a hard time relating, as he is a heterosexual cis male and was raised as one. How do I keep from losing my cool when someone starts to mansplain to me?

I may be in a heterosexual romantic partnership, but I am still a queer I’m a queer woman. When I lady at heart. > BI LEFTY ENCOUNTERS entered my 30s, I realized that I was CIS HETS more queer/bi than I had previously allowed myself to be, and I started exploring my attraction to cis hetero- Some people “fall into stereotypical sexual men. Five years later, and I’m gender roles” because that’s who in an incredible GGG relationship they are, BLECH, and what you perwith a cis het male. He’s everything ceive as the thoughtless embrace of I have ever wanted in a partner: sexy, the gender binary can in some cases funny, feminist, and smart. We have be an authentic expression of gender full disclosure about sexuality and identity. That doesn’t excuse miskinks; no complaints there. What I ogyny and mansplaining, of course, do have trouble with is navigating but not everyone who embraces his family and friends, twin social seemingly stereotypical gender roles circles composed of heterosexuals is a dupe who needs a good talkingwho fall into stereotypical gender to from the new queer girlfriend of roles. I spent my teens and 20s fully an old straight friend.

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upiter is at the third-quarter mark of its one-year tenancy of Virgo. As of Thursday, Jupiter also hits the thirdquarter mark in its relationship to Saturn. Together Jupiter and Saturn time the tides of a 20-year economic, political, and cultural trend. The current cycle began in 2000 with the burst of the dot-com bubble and hit the halfway peak at the height of a world economic depression from 2010 to 2012. Facebook’s evolution has coincided with the quarter turns of this cycle like clockwork.

The third quarter of any cycle runs a simultaneous track. The construction program moves to the fi nishing and completion phase while the next one begins the design and outline phase. We’ll harvest reward or consequence from what has been built.

At the same time, the seeds of a new consciousness and a new reality base are sprouting.

Neptune salts the Jupiter/Saturn transit with uncertainty, disillusionment, fear, and loss while peppering it with a limitless wealth of as-yet-untapped potential. And so here we are, collectively and personally standing on the threshold of so many new everyday realities that were unimagined or unimaginable just a short while ago.

On Friday, Mars revisits Scorpio.

It will fi nish retrograde at the end of June but it won’t be done with Scorpio until the start of August. Mars retrograde in Scorpio is optimal for restrategizing and renovations of all

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kinds. Continue to pace yourself, to stay observant and informed.

As time moves forward, the better choices and options will naturally prove themselves.

Saturday/Sunday,soakitup.Monday/ Tuesday, fi re it up.

Mars in Scorpio will keep you busy with renovation projects. Along with the sun, Venus, freshly into Gemini, is enhancing and mobilizing, but Saturn and Mercury continue to add pressure and/or slow the pace through the first week of June.

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ARIES

March 20–April 20

CANCER

June 21–July 22

Why, who, what, and how?

Mars retrograde now takes you into deeper questioning and probing. As the process continues, your perceptions, instincts, needs, and desires undergo a natural, yet major, metamorphosis. Into the start of August, Mars in Scorpio helps you to clear away the clutter and to figure out your next move. Sunday through Tuesday are optimal for setting wheels in motion.

Mars on a backtrack to Scorpio works to your benefit. Watch for your instincts to kick in and kick up a notch. You should find that you are able to zero in on them better.

Even so, there’s more time to put in before you feel certain, confident, or up to speed. Keep it simple; go with the flow this weekend.

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Are you on target for where you want and need to be?

Mars on the backtrack preoccupies you with a critical review of baselines and objectives. While Venus in Gemini sets opportunity in motion, for the next two weeks it can be hard to tell which end is up. It’s a lose-track-of-time, total-immersion weekend. Monday/Tuesday, take your best shot.

TAURUS

April 20–May 21

You’ve been in the thick of it for most of this year, likely longer.

Since March, Mars in Sagittarius has exponentially increased the scope.

Mars on the backtrack through Scorpio takes you much deeper into a critical re-evaluation process. It also assists you to get it under better control. This weekend, socialize, freshen it up, or unplug. Monday/Tuesday, say it; do it.

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

Whether it’s getting the job or the job hunt better managed, a health regimen, or an attitude overhaul, for the next two months,

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July 22–August 23

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VIRGO

August 23–September 23

Soak up visits, romance, or free time this weekend. Don’t push what isn’t coming naturally, but by all means take full advantage of the gifts of the moment.

Now through the start of August, Mars on a revisit of Scorpio helps

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CAPRICORN you to fill in an important missing December 21–January 20 blank, to reclaim what was lost, and It’s a great weekend for to be more effective in getting your socializing or an escape. Mars’s message across. backtrack into Scorpio provides you LIBRA with extra time to explore your opSeptember 23–October 23 tions and to make sure that you get No matter what you get it right. The sun and Venus in Gemup to this weekend, time is likely to ini dish up better picks. Th rough simply evaporate. You can do no bet- the end of next week, you’ll nix it or ter than to submerge yourself right check it off the to-do list. where you are. Over the next few AQUARIUS weeks, the sun and Venus, freshly January 20–February 18 into Gemini, will put relationships, Excluding take-it-as-itplans, ambitions, and you on the go.

Even so, through the first few days of comes Sunday, the stars provide you with a good energy boost June, there’s something to surpass. through next Tuesday. Make the SCORPIO most of the here and now. The October 23–November 22 second half of next week is a mixed The weekend ahead is bag. Mars on a return to Scorgreat for getting your fill of pleas- pio calls for a review of priorities, ure in whatever way suits you best. plans, and commitments. Weigh Soak up the good stuff. It’s easy to options and wait for/trust time to be swept away in spending, indul- provide better instructions. ging, and romance—the promise or PISCES the potential. Mars on a return to February 18–March 20 Scorpio is good for a personal reWhere are you headed group. Take your time to feel your way along. Don’t rush; don’t push. and do you really want to go there?

An intensified soul-searching and Sunday/Monday, you’re on fire. questioning period continues. So SAGITTARIUS much is uncertain and unwritten, November 22–December 21 but even so, you sense/know that the The next two months of way forward is shaping itself. It is.

Mars in Scorpio is best used for a Big-time. Saturday through Tuesday time-out and a battery recharge. is prime for action or a leap of faith; Home is the place to be this weekend, otherwise follow, allow, and respond alone or with those you love. The sun rather than take aim. and Venus in Gemini will put you back on track and in better touch Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s with folks, but through the end of free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. next week, it’s stop-and-go.

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You greeted me with a warm smile when I sat down late Monday night. I overheard the waiter mention you were from Manitoba. That explains the friendliness! Get in touch if you’d like to grab a table for two sometime.

MATCHING OUTFITS ON THE CANADA LINE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 21, 2016 WHERE: Canada Line

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We both got on the Canada Line at Vancouver City Center. You pointed out that we were wearing the same outfit (burgundy top, black pants) and we had a good laugh over it. I had to get off at the next stop. But I‚ would love to talk again sometime.

BABE WORKING AT IGA BROADWAY AND VINE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 15, 2016 WHERE: IGA Broadway and Vine I came into IGA after work on Sunday night around 8:30. I was on the phone and wearing a fur coat. I think you were restocking shelves? You are tall with lots of tattoos, and were wearing jeans and black Vans. I was caught off guard when I saw you because I think you are such a babe. There's a chance my jaw actually dropped and I completely forgot what I came in to get, or what my sister had just said to me on the phone. I circled around the store a few more times than I needed to, trying to catch another glimpse of you. Let’s grab a drink sometime?

YYOGA TINDER RUN-IN FAIL

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YOU: “What *exactly* happens in Restorative yoga?” ME: “You see God and sh*t” I saw you checking me out, but was so high from my yoga class that it wasn’t until I left that I realized who you were. I recognized you so started chatting, you asked me about what you could expect in Restorative class as I was leaving. I believe we met on Tinder last summer, I was on such a dating rampage that I never replied after our meet. At the time you didn’t seem to fit the bill, but now I’m not so sure. So, apologies for ghosting, you still seem mega cool and magnetically attractive.

Let me know if you ever want to try for round two. If not, sorry for being a jerk.

?ANNA? AT PARTY

HEADLEY AFTER

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Cute beer maid with glasses, working the Headley after party. I’m pretty sure your name was Anna? You complemented my vest. We made eye contact across the room several times with smiles. I was too drunk/shy to ask you for your number (damn that free beer!)

4TH AND VINE, BY THE SHOPPER’S; VISION OF LOVELINESS

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 21, 2016 WHERE: 4th and Vine

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Saturday around 3:00PM, I was getting into my white Silverado on Vine when you walked by - we each triple-took and smiled. You, a short slim blonde in denim, were with a tall bearded guy pushing a stroller.... I’m not the cheating kind so I’m hoping he’s a friend, brother, or ex?

A BIG PLAYGROUND...

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“RAPPING GIRL” CROSSING STREET (CAMBIE & BROADWAY)

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 19, 2016 WHERE: Cambie & Broadway (Crossing the Street) We crossed the street at Cambie & Broadway together at about 10:45 pm Thursday night. I told you that you were “rapping” and we started to talk. You liked my “peoples skills” and I gave you my number... I then told you that I was in a hurry to go to work, and then I jokingly said some none sense before I left (like you want my number in case I get famous one day, ...) I didn’t mean to say what I did, I was just really tired from working 16 hrs the night before, so I was not thinking straight. I also realized that I had to go to work. I loved your personality and amazing smile (although I never told you this). In the 1 in a billion chance you see this, I would so much love to talk with you again... If it's you, please let me know what we quickly talked about, or what you (or I) look like, or something to know it's you :) you really made an amazing impression on me and I wish I didn’t say what I did!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 18, 2016 WHERE: Main Street, Near the Viaducts

LAST WEEK ON THE 312 FROM SCOTT ROAD....I CALLED YOU GORGEOUS.

Walking south on Main Street, near Chinatown. We started talking after two guys on bicycles nearly ran into each other. You were laughing and you said you love this country -- it’s like a big playground. We talked a bit. You wanted to know the easiest way to get downtown. I asked where you were from and you said South East Asia.

You seemed surprised when I guessed the right country. Your job is IT related.

Message me and tell me my job if you’re interested in meeting up. You charmed me.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 12, 2016 WHERE: 312 Bus from Scott Road

DELI INSIDE GRANVILLE ISLAND MARKET

19 BUS RIDE FULL OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 18, 2016 WHERE: Granville Island Market My friend and I were walking around aimlessly and hungry through the market and I stopped by the deli you work at, looking at the pasta, trying to get inspired for dinner. You looked up and asked me if you could help me with anything and I got shy and said no and quickly walked away. I really wish I would have striked up a conversation and given you my number. You had a man bun and an accent, I had long brown wavy hair and a denim jacket.

Can you tell me where you work and where your accent is from? Drinks?

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So, you got on the bus and immediately I was taken aback. I’m a naturally social person, but I didn’t want to approach you on the bus full of people and totally froze up. We got off at the same stop, I ran up, told you how beautiful you are and ran off (I had to hurry home to let someone in). I should have talked longer or gave my number or something but if you see this coffee would be great sometime.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 17, 2016 WHERE: 19 Bus Between Downtown and Mount Pleasant We were both taking the 19 bus home around 6:30pm. You were wearing a jersey over a t-shirt and asked me about who the customers are for items being sold on the street in the downtown eastside. I tried to answer your question which led to many more. I told you about my bike bag that was recently stolen from me. Tell me where I was when it was stolen and let’s get a drink.

I feel as though our conversation was unfinished and I also have the name of the documentary you are looking for!

STRIKING BLUE EYES :(

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TINDER DATE FROM HELL

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 19, 2016 WHERE: Danny’s Danger Zone

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 14, 2016 WHERE: High Point

Wish I had asked you for your number.

You most definitely caught my attention when I opened the door. Someone as striking as you must surely be take.

If not, I love to take you out for a drink.

Maybe after a workout in our matching gear?

I walked in my local East Village liquor store and there you were, tall dark and handsome and giving away free samples of Big Rock Cider. Never made it to the Brighton cause shortly after we left I decided to ditch my drunken Tinder date from hell. He couldn’t hold his liquor and puked ten minutes after we left. Should have slipped you my number when I had the chance? I will give you a sample of my heart straight up.

PANADERIA LATINA BAKERY HOLA!

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 17, 2016 WHERE: Panaderia Latina Bakery I saw you at the Panaderia Latina Bakery. You, beautiful brunette, were having lunch with your mom, so was I. We briefly chatted about the place being on "You Gotta Eat Here". Would love to see you again.

OAKRIDGE MALL - BC CANCER DONATION COLLECTOR

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 17, 2016 WHERE: Oakridge Mall - Canada Line SkyTtrain Station Entrance This is a long shot; but today around 5 pm I walked out of the SkyTrain station at Oakridge mall and was stopped by your co-working for a donation. I was feeling generous so decided to contribute. I had a smoke with your coworker while you sat on the bench hitting your vaporizer. You handed me a pen as a gift for donating. I was way too nervous to ask you out - hoping you read this. If you do - coffee? tea? drink?

URBAN REC UBC 7:15

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 16, 2016 WHERE: UBC - Arthur Lord Field NE You: Babe looking fly in your leopard sportsware, snagging grounders at second and batting your way into my heart.

Me: Adonis, wearing pants and chewing tobacco. Let’s get to third base?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 14, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Dr Fire Pizza I was leaving Fire Pizza as you were walking by with two of your friends. We made eye contact and shared a smile.

It took me by surprise and I didn’t react but I took a stroll up the street hoping for a second chance.

SAVE ON CHECK OUT LINE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 10, 2016 WHERE: Main and 13th

You were being checked out while I was waiting in the line over. You have short, dark brown hair and were wearing a black shirt. I have blond/red hair and was wearing all black yoga gear.

We made eye contact and smiled many times and I think you might’ve tried to come say hi but chickened out? When I was leaving I saw you drive away in a big black pick up truck with a big piece of furniture strapped in the back. Message me with the type of furniture it was and let’s grab a drink!

DRUMMER AT GUILT & CO

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 12, 2016 WHERE: Guilt & Company You really caught my eye. It was my first time at Guilt and Co., you had a great set. You: wearing a paperboy hat, black shirt. Me: drinking wine in the back. Let’s get a drink!

YOUR BOSS WANTED TO THROW YOU OFF YOUR GRANDPA’S BOAT...

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 13, 2016 WHERE: St John’s Liquor, Port Moody ...but I would rescue you, and give you mouth-to-mouth for good measure.

You; gorgeous, smiling, flirty brunette at St John’s Liquor Store, Port Moody.

You have a boat at Point Roberts and have been dry for six months. You told me you were off work soon, and wondered if I was too.... Me; an occasional customer... not sure if you’re into me, or if you’re just this super-sweet to everyone. If it’s the latter - kudos to you. If it’s the former.... well, you know what to do!

STOPPED BY THE I AM A GIRL GIRL

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 13, 2016 WHERE: Bute and West Hastings...ish?

You: cute chick that stopped me in the streets Friday on your first day of work; Me: chick that spent 30 minutes chatting with you in the streets about mental health and charity, I was giggling nervously tell whole time. You gave me two lovely hugs and said you hoped you would run in to me again. I wouldn’t normally do this but my roommate told me I bombed hard by not giving you my number and I agree. You are beautiful and pleasant, and I am probably misreading our conversation but if I’m not, send me a message?

UNDERCUT AND BURRITOS.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 7, 2016 WHERE: Mexico

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My dinner date last weekend tried to impress you with a demented pick up line. Did it work? If not maybe this one will... You're undercut and chiseled to perfection features make me want to talk about astrology in stretch velvet onesies with you. Are you into it? If yes, keep breathing. - BlueHairedFemmebot

WALK UP A HILL AGAIN? JESSICA?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 11, 2016 WHERE: Kits Walking Uphill from Beach to 4th You asked me for the time... You asked for a different way up the hill. You decided to walk up together and Tough it out. You went for reflexology earlier that day and I worked. I should of got your contact details although you don’t have a phone to check the time.

Great smile I hope to see again!!!

RBC ON W HASTING STANDING IN STAIRS

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 12, 2016 WHERE: RBC 685 W. Hasting You were standing on the staircase inside the building. I had to walk beside you to go downstairs and that’s when you said HI and smiled at me.

Maybe you mistaken me for somebody else? When I left, you were on the phone, so I didn’t want to interrupt. I was the blondie in the blue dress, with her younger friend and her dog. Would love to go for coffee if you are not taken!

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