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Saltzman in conversation at SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on July 7. Less than a week later, on July 12, Vassanji will be at the Ismaili Centre in Burnaby. The theme this year is “Tales of War & Peace”, which makes sense given the presence of Sacco, who has depicted war and oppression in journalistic comics unlike anyone else on the planet. Another graphic superstar, Molly Crabapple, is also scheduled to speak. Who it appeals to: Those who like their festivals to aim high, appealing to their intellects and literary sensibilities while expanding their musical boundaries. Hors d’oeuvre: On June 26, Booker Prize–winning novelist Arundhati Roy will speak about her new book, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, at St. Andrew’s– INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL (July Wesley United Church. 6 to 15) This year’s festival will welcome two-time Giller Prize–winning CARNAVAL DEL SOL (July 8 and novelist M. G. Vassanji, two-time 9) The annual free Latin American Grammy-winning tenor saxophonist carnival at Concord Pacific Place is Ernie Watts, celebrated Indian violin the culmination of a monthlong sergod L. Subramaniam, and one of the ies of events celebrating the cultures world’s most popular graphic-book of countries from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. And this colourful authors, Joe Sacco. The festival features 19 events event has it all: hundreds of musicians with 108 artists at 12 venues, offering and dancers, plazas featuring fashion, a smorgasbord of music, literature, travel, food, sports, beer, and urban and current affairs. It begins with an art, and plenty of activities for kids. In addition to the lovely Latin always memorable opening gala at the Roundhouse Community Cen- American music, there’s also an ontre, which is sure to rouse the taste site Carnaval del Sol World Soccer buds with cuisine curated by cele- Tournament. A dozen teams reprebrated chef Vikram Vij. The even- senting different countries in Latin ing also includes a performance by America show why the beautiful game DJ Rup Sidhu. Another highlight of is so beloved in that part of the world. the festival will be the July 8 concert The urban art plaza features live bodyat the Orpheum Theatre with Watts, painting, sculpture, photography, and Subramaniam, and other musicians. handicrafts. And chefs will be on-stage For those of a literary bent, novel- at the travel plaza for a cooking demo. ists Pasha Malla and Anosh Irani Who it appeals to: Lovers of mambo will join the Banff Centre’s Devyani and merengue, fans of Alex Cuba,
and those who salivate at the sight of churrasco. Hors d’oeuvre: Organizers will start the fun with Latin America Music on Wheels, which features young musicians from 18 to 25 years old performing at pop-up locations from Saturday (June 10) to June 24 around Vancouver. On June 30, the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island will be the site of 150 Years of Canadian and Latin American History, a free night of storytelling along with a photo exhibit. RICHMOND
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(September 1 and 2) It’s Richmond’s signature entertainment event, which takes place every Labour Day weekend in Minoru Park. The headliner hasn’t yet been announced, but one thing is certain: the park will be rockin’ not only with music but also with the Digital Carnival, theatrical performances, and poetry. Who it appeals to: Metro Vancouver residents who see diversity as a source of strength and community resilience, not weakness. Hors d’oeuvre: Drop by the nearby Richmond Museum to learn about the history of the city. TAIWANFEST (September 2 to 4) The food is endless, the traditional Chinese medicine is salubrious, the music is marvellous, and the entire area around Granville Street remains spotless thanks to the efforts of volunteers from the Tzu Chi Foundation Canada. A Labour Day weekend isn’t complete without dropping by to experience Taiwanese-Canadian hospitality. Who it appeals to: People with a serious addiction to beef noodle. Hors d’oeuvre: Check out this weekend’s Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival at the Vancity Theatre. (For more information, see page 36.) -
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Friday’s full moon puts you into a much better know and/ or hits the message home. The best choice or avenue can be a no-brainer. Go by feel; trust your instincts. The right place, time, and words come naturally. A special event, getaway, or time off makes for a great weekend. Through mid next week, you’re on a roll. Make the most of it.
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April 20–May 21
Whether it’s the writing on the wall or something long hoped for, your future is not only shaping up but it’ll now hit full swing. Friday’s full moon can prompt a big step and/or a major investment. On the positive, a relationship, health avenue, or financial track shows promise. Saturday/Sunday sets the dial on reward. Monday to Wednesday, it’s one thing after another. GEMINI
May 21–June 21
Out of school now or soon? Onto a new page or new adventure? The time is ripe for making the most of it. Mercury, freshly into Gemini, and Friday’s full moon in Sagittarius keep you, it, and/or them going strong. Socialize, celebrate; get around town or get out of town this weekend. Use Tuesday/Wednesday to make contact or get the dots connected.
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June 21–July 22
Mars, freshly into Cancer, infuses you with fresh energy, motivation, and can-do. The time is ripe. Face it; take it on; put your all into it; go the distance. You’ll get yourself much further and faster, thanks not only to Mars but also to Friday’s full moon in Sagittarius. Saturday/Sunday holds you steady, brings reward. Tuesday/Wednesday, creativity and spontaneity do it best.
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started. What, where, how, when, and with whom—cash it in any way you like, Friday’s full moon hits it out of the ballpark. Take off; cut yourself loose; let the good times roll! Saturday/Sunday, take your time; enjoy your time. Tuesday/ Wednesday, tackle it fresh; innovate; make contact; socialize.
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Throwing a party? A milestone reached or something special to celebrate? Matters to do with home, family, and real estate hit peak as of Friday. It’s a great weekend to entertain at home, welcome a visitor, or be one yourself. This full moon can set your mind free and/or help you to cut to the chase regarding something important. September 23–October 23
You’ve been feeling your way along for some time now. There have been many moving parts and plenty of sorting out to get through. For the past four months, Jupiter retrograde in Libra has kept you in a holding pattern. That’s over now. Full-moon Friday pulls out all the stops, perhaps all at once. Tuesday/Wednesday are optimized for same-page accord. October 23–November 22
Venus and Mars, the relationship duo, and Mercury, quickwitted one, are on fresh sign changes. All three will now strike flint where you’ll appreciate it the most. Friday’s full moon is on turbocharge, thanks to the added power of Jupiter stationing direct. Take your best shot; give it all you have. A big move, investment, or initiative is where it’s at. November 22–December 21
Heart, mind, and soul— you’ll feel this one! The super full moon in Sagittarius and the end of Jupiter retrograde put your dynamo self into full play. It’s time to run with it, to fly, celebrate, or soar. Fresh adventure awaits. An insight, great idea, or great connection is well worth following through on. Saturday through next Wednesday keeps you/it moving along. December 21–January 20
Aiming for an escape? A romantic or getaway weekend, time to commune with God, to do more soul-searching, or to simply veg out—all are ideal picks. Mind you, the full moon is likely to pull you into something more or something unplanned. Saturday/Sunday works best when you call the shots. Tuesday/Wednesday sparks something fresh. January 20–February 18
Friday’s full moon in Sagittarius is ideal for travel, pleasure-seeking, celebration, or a special event. Social- or businesswise, Friday through Tuesday/Wednesday is great for a launch or for stumbling upon a fresh idea or two. Surprise news may be in the mix. Your timing, instincts, and special brand of genius strike it right. February 18–March 20
Thursday/Friday makes it official and/or kicks it up a great big notch. In addition to a big announcement, a special event or milestone achieved, the full moon can signal the start of a whole new personal life or career chapter. A hello or goodbye could be said. Jupiter also puts money prospects on the go. B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r
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moved into a new apartment in 2009, and stayed there for about four years. I’m a librarian, and I took over the apartment from another library person. She told me right before I moved in that the neighbours were great and the building was cool—but that the landlords weren’t the best. She told me that one time she was in bed— naked—and the landlords walked in on her unannounced, with no notice. That sounded pretty weird, but I decided to take the place anyway. “The landlords were quite aggressive to one couple in particular. They had a strange idea that two people couldn’t share a one-bedroom, because there wasn’t enough space. The couple told me that they were getting evicted because there were two of them in that one-bed suite. That’s definitely not a legal reason to kick someone out, so I asked them if they needed any help fighting it. They mentioned that the landlords had been rude to them in the past— they kept insisting that the woman, who was Japanese, ‘speak English’, even though her language skills were pretty damn good. The couple said that they just needed to get out of the apartments. “The next fucked-up thing the landlords did was to build a ‘wave energy’ machine out the back of the building. It’s a contraption that allows water waves to pass through its turbines to create power. They were making it in the backyard and basement, which included constructing a giant water tank for it to bob around in. That restricted our ability to use the common garden area by assigning it an industrial use, which is not allowed. “While they were constructing the machine, the whole building smelled like super-intense paint, or that weird odour you get from markers. Everyone in the building started feeling sick, so we were all out in the hallways. All the residents had their doors open, with numerous fans going, and were calling the landlord. He just said that it was regular household paint. I didn’t believe him, so I looked in the Dumpster and there was loads of this heavy-duty fibreglass stuff. I looked it up on the Internet and it’s an industrial material. You need a lot of venting, and you need to wear a mask around it. The smell was so strong that it was coming in through the basement, and it was an old building with strange airflow, so the chemical odour went everywhere. The pregnant woman across the hall was worried that it would harm her baby, and loads of people had pets. I had to move out
for a while to stay elsewhere because I just couldn’t take it. The landlords didn’t seem to care. “Then I had some problems with my bathroom. I have an old-style cast-iron tub. It’s really cool, but the hoop above it that holds the shower curtain kept breaking. They decided that they would fix it themselves. The job took 10 weeks to complete. They took my shower apart and built a total monstrosity. The vertical pipe went all the way to the ceiling, and then they got a piece of two-by-four to run it across the top and then straight down. And they built it out of copper pipe, which is very conductive. If the hot water was running, the pipes were scalding to touch. In the meantime, I had to take birdbaths in the tub, using an empty cottage cheese container to pour water on my body. “I was so fed up by then that I submitted a complaint to the Residential Tenancy Branch. When we had our hearing date set, the landlords didn’t show up. They sent someone in their place, and that individual was just like, ‘Oh, well, they’re not here, so, ummmm.’ The arbitrator was very matter-of-fact and sounded a little at the end of his rope. He pointed out that the landlords had known that the hearing was that day and was pressing the person about why they weren’t there. He came up with a bad excuse, and he said that he wasn’t really able to speak to the landlord’s side. I think they thought that they could stall it. In the end, I won my case. “Next we had a fight over the damage deposit. I had an office chair, and it did do a little bit of damage to the floor with its rolling wheels. But the life span of a wooden floor is 20 years, and I knew that the floor hadn’t been changed since the ’70s. They were charging me to refinish the whole area, and I thought it was unfair that they’d expect me to pay for something already past its endof-life. Luckily, they backed down at that point, so I didn’t have to go back to the Residential Tenancy Branch. “After that, I moved out because I came into some money. My grandma died and she left me enough to be able to buy a place. She was a really hard-working, frugal lady, so I think she would have been happy that her money enabled me to get a toehold in the property market. “Leaving rentals to buy a place has given me more stability than I’ve ever had. But a lot of my friends aren’t in the same position, and they can’t afford to live here. The homelessness numbers here are ridiculous. Shelters are a good stopgap, but there needs to be low-income housing created that’s subsidized by the government. It makes me really angry to see all levels of government squabble while people are living on the streets or couch-surfing or living in crappy places. Landlords can be really shitty because there’s just nowhere to go.” -
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ing is spent groaning softly into a homemade caesar with a bottle of Advil sitting on the table. Then there’s the guilt. The inevitable, crushing guilt. Advocating—contrary to popular belief—that it’s perfectly possible to enjoy yourself without alcohol, Jacques Martiquet founded Party4Health, an event company dedicated to creating experiences so engaging and interactive that attendees don’t feel the need to hit the bottle. Or wake up with a hangover. “I chose the name Party4Health because it can seem like an oxymoron,” Martiquet says. “For a lot of people, staying out late is a vice, but what I’ve realized from the events I’ve been involved in is that taking part in pop-up activities like SkyTrain parties or urban dance nights can really contribute to people’s social and physical well-being—and being sober saves a lot of money, too. We’re all about getting a bunch of fun-loving individuals together, facilitating their interactions, and creating a wild shared experience that breaks down inhibitions and encourages everyone to communicate.”
Bike raves play it safe
Party4Health founder Jacques Martiquet says that people are willing to remain sober—and they’ll save money—by cycling together at night. David Buzzard photo.
the community. Set to con- cycle event and his ethos for Party4Health. trol the bike rave by limiting “Our overall aim for the company is to shift participants to 300, not pub- party culture and show that—in the midst of this licizing the starting location crazy opioid crisis—you don’t need to alter your until the day of the event, consciousness to have a great time,” Martiquet and using MCs to modulate says. “We think that’s a pretty good message.” The only ecstasy is the feeling of participants when the flow of energy during the they light up their two-wheelers with plenty of neon jaunt, the organizer places The bike rave is on Saturday (June 10), with the Next on Party4Health’s program is a Vancou- safety and enjoyment at the forefront of both the route to be announced online. ver staple: the bike rave. Running as part of the Velopalooza festival, the event is the second cycBicycle races serve up thrills and spills ling night that the collective has organized, and it has all the makings of a colourful and highIt’s cycling season, which means it’s time to pull out the spandex and grab some of energy evening. With attendees illuminating that pavement from motor vehicles. Every summer, there’s a long list of road races their bikes with glowsticks, neon inner tubes, taking place across the province. Here are six in the Lower Mainland. and fairy lights, the group will rally cyclists at dusk for an urban adventure along the city’s CANADA DAY POPULAIRE (July 1) It’s a 150-kilometre road ride in Langley, numerous bike paths. starting and finishing at Yorkson Community Park. Rather than following the typical format of Vancouver bike raves, Party4Health has put its TOUR DE DELTA CYCLING RACE (July 7 to 9) Since its humble beginnings in 2001, this race has own twist on the event. blossomed into one of the top events of its kind in Canada. This year, the marquee White Spot | Delta Road “For this cycle, the music will certainly be Race hurtles through the streets of Tsawwassen, starting and finishing adjacent to Dennison Park. It’s the different,” Martiquet says. “Usually, the night first of four events on the calendar of B.C. Superweek, which offers more than $125,000 in prize money. would be soundtracked by downtempo, repetitive tracks. Instead, we’ve picked upbeat ’70s, GASTOWN GRAND PRIX (July 12) Because it takes place on cobblestone streets, this is per’80s, and ’90s classics, and we’re going to drag haps the most challenging and thrilling race of them all, and the most prone to wipeouts. It’s also the around two giant speakers on a chariot. I choose only local competition ever won by Lance Armstrong, as well as the oldest one-day cycling race of its the music so that it communicates with the kind in Canada. audience, and people can get pumped up with choruses like ‘I’m so excited.’ We went that dirGIRO DI BURNABY (July 13) The name pays homage to the Italian roots in North Burnaby. This will ection for our April bike rave, and we ended up be the 10th anniversary of this criterium that runs along Hastings Street in the Heights neighbourhood. having a giant impromptu dance party on the Jericho Sailing Centre pier. It was magical. POCO GRAND PRIX (July 14) This will mark the second year of the race around the 1.3-kilometre “The route is also different,” he continues. track, which is part of B.C. Superweek. This family-friendly event includes a play zone, minirace track, “I can’t disclose it yet because we’re still in the photo booth, and bike demonstrations. process of finalizing it, but most of the Vancouver bike raves take the same course—and it’s CYPRESS CHALLENGE (August 13) Cyclists can choose the 5-kilometre climb to First Lookout or the seawall every time. We want to tap into the test their stamina with a 12-kilometre ride up to the Hollyburn Nordic Area. Punishing those sartorius unique, interactive environments that we have muscles is all for a good cause: money raised through this event funds pancreatic-cancer research at the in the city, which we can safely use while reB.C. Cancer Agency and the Pancreas Centre B.C. specting residential neighbourhoods.” > CHARLIE SMITH Respect is an important concept for Martiquet, who bases his mission on pleasing
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ast an eye down from the Cambie Street Bridge on a lazy Sunday morning and you’ll doubtless spot a bright-orange, circular boat drifting around False Creek. Squint a little harder, and you might catch a glimpse of the writing on the craft’s side: Joe’s BBQ Boat. Opening his business for its first season in 2015, Joe de Keyser saw an innovative way to combine two of Vancouver’s favourite pastimes: bobbing on the water and firing up a grill. Halfway between a pleasure craft and a floating kitchen, the rentable vessel allows residents to soak up some rays, relax with friends, and bring their own meat to flame on the onboard cooker. “The city is, in general, a very outdoorsy place,” de Keyser says, reached by phone in Victoria. “There’s a lot of emphasis placed on the ocean, but most people don’t have the money to buy a boat. Our crafts are a great way for someone to drive out on the water without needing a boating licence. It’s also really common to see people going to the beach or the grassy areas by the seawall with their little disposable barbecues. I thought, ‘Hey,
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what happens if we combine both of these things?’ It seemed to be exactly what people were looking for.” Originally hailing from Belgium, de Keyser had his first experience with a BBQ boat in his native country. After his mother organized a family trip to cruise along a lake with some sausages on the grill, he knew that he had to bring the idea back to Vancouver. Although the boats are already in about 40 countries, de Keyser introduced the concept to Canada—and his work on improving the experience has made his fleet some of the best craft around the globe. “We use electric engines,” de Keyser says. “My manufacturers didn’t recommend it at first—they said that it would affect the power of the boat. But it was important to me to run a green business, so I was one of the few people to really push for it. The benefits are that the engine doesn’t smell at all and it doesn’t make any noise. When I tried out the barbecue boats in Europe, they were really loud and the fumes from the fuel kept going into your face when you were trying to eat. We solved that problem, and now the manufacturers en-
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dorse the electric engines in their crafts across the world.” The water between the Burrard Street Bridge and Science World is the boats’ playground, and de Keyser believes the uniqueness of the experience and the changing view of the city are the reasons that he has so many repeat customers. “The thing that everybody loves most is the combination of the relaxedness on the water and that the round table means up to eight of your friends can chitchat and all see each other. It’s such a fun concept that it’s caught a lot of attention. People feel a little bit like rock stars in the water because for the two hours you have the boat, paddleboarders and kayakers will come up, take pictures, and ask questions. And it’s pretty good value at $19 per person for an hour.” Joe’s BBQ Boat docks at Granville Island and operates from April until the end of September. Having opened a second location in Victoria this week, de Keyser is confident that he’s onto a good thing. “In Vancouver, it’s mostly the locals that rent our boats, and it’s less of a big thing with tourists,” he says. “I’m excited to see what the business is going to be like over on the Island.” -
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it’s the most flattering one-piece that they [our customers] have tried on,” says Rose, who also serves as the brand’s photographer. The recycled fabric, which is produced at a Taiwanese textile facility with the highest eco-certification available, is treated with ChitoSanté, a natural agent made from crab and shrimp shells that helps stop unpleasant bacteria and odours from forming. The result is a durable and super-comfy suit that moves effortlessly with your body while highlighting—and holding in—all the right bits. The matte, rather than shiny, finish on the garments also makes them appropriate for everyday wear. “It works equally well as a swimsuit as it does underneath a skirt or high-waist jeans,” explains Todd. This versatility is key to Londrë’s commitment to Mother Nature. “From a sustainability perspective,” adds Rose, “if you can buy one thing that functions as two, you’re consuming less.” Since launching nearly three months ago, Londrë—its name a made-up word that Rose and Todd favoured because “it sounds like laundry and lingerie”—has received orders from as far away as Australia and the United States. The twosome, who met during a photo shoot for Todd’s now defunct health-and-wellness startup, believes that more people are seeing the value in sustainable fashion as the environmental impact of the textile industry comes to light. “I think that the way people are consuming things is changing,” says Rose. “People are looking for items that they really love and will find lots of uses for instead of buying something from a mass retailer for $10 that’s more likely to be thrown away.” They’re also hoping to shift public perceptions about eco-minded apparel, some of which may be viewed as unappealing or “hippie”. “Just because you’re buying something sustainable and it’s green,” Todd says, “doesn’t mean it has to be granola.” -
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orget about getting on Highway 1. There are plenty of local parks to go to for quick time off. Take in nature without going far from home. Relaxing outdoors during summer doesn’t have to cost much. Parking is easy and free. Crowds? They’re not as busy as English Bay or other fashionable Vancouver destinations where people often like to be seen. Take a walk or find a BURNABY FRASER FORESHORE spot to just chill out in these places. PARK Located at the foot of Byrne EVERETT CROWLEY PARK The Road, Burnaby Fraser Foreshore sounds of the city disappear in this Park is a scenic spot that offers a lot natural habitat in southeast Van- of opportunities for outdoor leisure. couver. The park features numerous There is a 3.9-kilometre trail that trails to explore plant life and watch extends from Boundary Road on the birds in the 38-hectare woodland. It west to a 16-hectare ecological rehas two water features. One is Ava- serve on the east, where an old raillon Pond (named after the last oper- way bridge is also located. Bicycles ating dairy in Vancouver), now home are allowed on the trail. There are a to ducks. The other is Kingscross washroom and a playground around Creek, a former salmon-bearing the middle of the park. To the west stream. One of the trails is a circular are picnic grounds that can be reroute of 2.37 kilometres, a relatively served, as well as an off-leash area flat course that is easy to walk. Lo- and trail for dogs. To the east of the cated on a hill north of Southeast washroom and playground are more Marine Drive, the park has vantage picnic tables. A pier provides a good points overlooking the Fraser River point to watch tugs hauling logs on and Richmond farmlands on the the river and small boats passing other side. On clear days, the Gulf by. Visitors can also try their luck Islands are visible. Active volcano at fishing. There are plenty of open Mount Baker in Washington state grassy spaces upon which to spread can also be seen. There are benches a blanket and let time pass slowly in to take in the views. Dog lovers can this tree-lined park. also let their furry friends run free. Everett Crowley Park is one of a few CONFEDERATION PARK TRAIL places in the city where dogs can be Confederation Park in North Buroff-leash all day. There is a parking naby has a lot of things to offer, eslot on the east side of Kerr Street. pecially for families. There are picnic Everett Crowley Park can also be sites, and playing fields, as well as a accessed by foot from trails in the pool, water park, and library. One Champlain Heights neighbourhood. can also take a ride on a miniature train during weekends and holidays RIVERFRONT PARK An easy way from Good Friday through Thanksto connect to the historic Fraser giving. What makes the park extra River is through this four-hectare special is the wooded area north of park on East Kent Avenue in Van- Penzance Drive. It’s a small forest couver, between Kerr and Argyle with a 1.3-kilometre trail that slopes streets. There is a boardwalk at the down toward the train tracks and foot of Kerr Street, which extends offers views of Burrard Inlet. There out into the water. (To the east of are benches along this designated Riverfront Park is the River Dis- off-leash dog trail, where one can sit trict, a new neighbourhood that is down and enjoy the scenery. -
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might claim ignorance of the fact, but beach-bumming and toking go together like peanut butter and jelly. (If you want to avoid the aforementioned enforcers, try Wreck Beach.) Load up a beach bag with a book, tunes, munchies, and your tool of choice—we suggest a one-hitter if you want to be discreet—and lounge with a buzz courtesy of Blue Dream ($10 per gram at Redmed [231 Abbott Street)], a sativa-dominant hybrid with a sweet, blueberry aroma. This powerful West Coast strain is a cross between a blueberry indica and sativa haze, making for a high that strikes the perfect balance between calm euphoria and full-body relaxation without the sedation— because the last thing you want to do on the beach is fall asleep and wake up to find that you’ve burned to a crisp.
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Hamish Hamilton) There are often misplaced suspicions about artists with strong, publicly declared political and social views, as if these commitments mess up the delicate workings of the imagination. But the mixing of art and political engagement is a powerful, long-standing tradition in literary fiction, back through novelists like Atwood and Achebe, Zola and Dickens and beyond. India’s Arundhati Roy belongs to this line, having fi lled the 20 years between her last novel (the Booker-winning work The ings God of Small Things) and this new one with campaigns in many fields, from the antiglobalization and antinuclear movements to environmental and human-rights causes. The restless, magicinfused tale of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Happiness—with its large cast that includes a resistance fighter, a government official, a hijra, and an abandoned child—mirrors this scope and empathy for those caught in systems of violence. And note: Roy is returning to Vancouver on June 26 for an author event at St. Andrew’s–Wesley’s United Church, as part of the run-up to this year’s edition of the Indian Summer Festival.
(By Naomi Klein. Knopf Canada) You’ve gone down to the waterside a few times so far this year, if only to read for a while and try to forget that the most powerful nation on Earth is being run by a jackass from TV. But the plan never works—he’s like a flabby ghost who follows your thoughts around everywhere, wrecking everything. So perhaps it would be best if, next time, you brought along a book that turns and faces him with some proper, clear-eyed strategies. In her latest work, renowned journalist, author, and activist Naomi Klein traces how we wound up in this nauseating predicament, and then moves toward a deeply inclusive and pragmatic social vision that “is about as far away from Trump’s ‘how can I screw you’ art of the deal as you can get”. Read, fi nd new optimism, and then see Klein herself in conversation at a Vancouver Writers Fest event on June 24 at St. An- FALL DOWN 7 TIMES GET UP 8 (By Naoki Higashida. Random drew’s–Wesley United Church. House) “The vastness of the world THE SPECTACULAR SISTERHOOD is a source of inspiration. Don’t OF SUPERWOMEN: AWESOME you think?” So declares Japanese FEMALE CHARACTERS FROM author Naoki Higashida in this folCOMIC BOOK HISTORY (By Hope low-up to his decade-old bestseller Nicholson. Quirk) Winnipeg pub- The Reason I Jump. Introduced lisher and comics archivist Hope and translated by revered novelNicholson introduces her finely illus- ist David Mitchell, the book itself trated, cleverly com- piled hard- is strong evidence for that deccover as an anthollaration, expandogy of “the weirdest, ing on Higashida’s coolest, most ofexperiences as a their-time female young man coping characters in comwith what’s often ics—for better or labelled “severe”, nonverbal autism. for worse”. Which Mainstream wisdom is certainly accurhas long assumed ate. Sorted into that people with such decades starting a condition also sufwith the 1930s, fer from serious inthe book acts tellectual disabilities, as a particularly but the short, potent colourful record essays and poems of the evolving here—written mostly ways in which by “typing” sentences women have been portrayed in pop culture—from the on an alphabet grid in the presence WWII–vintage Katy Keene “the pin- of a transcriber—show a remarkup queen” to 2013’s Deathface Ginny, ably curious and perceptive mind at work on a world that hunter of an abusive husband in is both instantly recthe Old West. Yes, ognizable and sharply of course, Wonder different from the one Woman and Vamnonautistic people pirella are here, inhabit. Higashida is but there’s also the piercingly aware of disco-fuelled, rollerthe distractions, the skating Dazzler, as fixations, the force well as Superbitch of his condition. (battling aliens “who His description, for look like Richard example, of how he Nixon trying to convert an entire civilizamust piece together tion of lesbian women the relationship bewith their nymphotween rain falling ray, which is pitted and his mother’s against the femme soconcern for launciety’s lethal scrotumdry on the line is scramblers”—oh the ’70s, eh?). fascinating. “People with autism Alongside this, Nicholson surveys might need more time,” he declares the ever-changing role of women early on, “but as we grow there are in the industry itself, a role that countless things that we can learn has grown by superheroic leaps and how to do, so even if you can’t see bounds since the indie-comics boom your efforts bear fruit, please don’t of 40 years ago. quit.” Due out on July 15. -
Ramadan honours resilience REV IEWS THE CLOTHESLINE SWING By Ahmad Danny Ramadan. Nightwood, 288 pp, softcover
Trauma is a difficult thing to about. “Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable,” Judith Lewis Herman notes in her seminal work Trauma and Recovery. “Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried.…Folk wisdom is fi lled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told.” Few contemporary CanLit authors Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s English-language debut, The Clothesline Swing, tackle this theme with more breathis lush and lyrical, infused with a longing for a distant Syrian home. taking virtuosity than Ahmad Danny Ramadan, a Syrian refugee who was Clothesline Swing, is a lesson in both The novel follows a gay Syrian granted asylum in 2014. The Vancouver artistic mastery and human resilience. couple who, in 2012, escape the writer’s English-language debut, The And, unexpectedly: joy. see next page
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ot planning to travel outside Metro Vancouver this summer but would still like to enjoy mouthwatering fare that brings to mind street food from Italy, Japanese snacks, or classic Montreal eats? It really isn’t necessary to take a trip to faraway countries for authentic cultural grub—Vancouver is known for its copious amounts of diverse cuisines. Cue the arrival of summer food events in the city: local gatherings such as ongoing night markets and single-day festivals that offer tasty culinary choices. Here are RICHMOND NIGHT MARKET (8351 five food events to check out around River Road, Richmond) This Richmond hot spot may be known to tourMetro Vancouver this summer. ists as North America’s biggest night ITALIAN DAY ON THE DRIVE (from market, but it is affectionately known Venables Street to Grandview Cut) as “the outdoor food court” by loVancouver’s Commercial Drive—also cals. The Richmond night market is known as Little Italy—will once again open every weekend until October host the annual Italian Day extrava- and boasts more than 500 food stalls, ganza on June 11 (noon to 8 p.m.). which makes it a mandatory sumThe daylong cultural celebration will mer destination for anyone who loves feature live entertainment, children’s eating. Arrive hungry, because you activities, street performers, and, most will be able to try items like takoyaki importantly, an abundance of food. (Japanese battered snack filled with Yes, eventgoers will find everything octopus), “hurricane” potatoes, bubble from cannoli to meatballs, Italian tea, shaved ice, meat skewers, fried doughnuts to gelato, and, of course, chicken, dim sum, poutine, egg wafpizza. More than 20 food trucks and 15 fles, Asian-style tacos, and poké bowls, merchant patios will be present, which among many others. After you have will be needed to feed the tens of thou- made your gourmet rounds, check out sands of people who turn up. Italian the night market’s other draws: carDay is a celebration of culture, com- nival games, over 200 retail venders munity, and heritage, but people most- (think phone cases and cute stationly come for the grub. More information ery), live entertainment, and kids’ can be found at www.italianday.ca/. rides. More information can be found at www.richmondnightmarket.com/. VANCOUVER FARMERS MARKETS
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orenzo Schober remembers the pasta fagioli his nonna used to make when he was growing up in England. His grandmother, a Calabria native, would pick juicy tomatoes out of her own garden to make a spicy sauce for the noodle dish with cannellini beans. When the Georgia Straight catches him at his office at the Italian Cultural Centre, he says that he can practically still taste it. “It was so simple, but I could probably eat 10 portions of that,” says Schober, the centre’s director of marketing and communications, and a Red Seal chef himself. “It was also so fresh. Everything was made from scratch. “My nonna’s cooking is how I really got an interest in the kitchen,” he says, before adding with a laugh, “That’s why they say Italians typically don’t like to go to Italian restaurants: because their grandma cooks better than them.” True, there probably is nothing quite like a meal freshly prepared by an Italian matriarch, but the next-best thing may be going to a good Italian restaurant.
As part of a showcase of dishes during Italian Heritage Month, Nicli Antica Pizzeria will offer Mangia por Duo, a special meal that includes two pizzas.
With June being Italian Heritage Month—the designation having been recognized nationally for the first time this year—Vancouverites have reason to celebrate. Following a successful launch last year, Mangia Vancouver is back. Throughout the month, several restaurants are offering special
menus to showcase their fare and give diners a taste of Italian culinary traditions and techniques. The Poor Italian Ristorante is one of them. Manager Gabriella Moscone explains that her father, Tony, was raised in the mountains of Abruzzo in a tiny village called Villa Santa Lucia. Facing a bleak economic
future in his home country following the Second World War, he came to Canada to find new opportunities. In 1948, he started a landscape construction company; the restaurant (which is owned by the Moscone family, along with managing partners Francesco Marra and Angelo De Meo) was a way of honouring a piece of Vancouver’s history. “Many of the first Italians in Vancouver—our parents included— settled on the East Side,” Moscone tells the Straight. “We like to think we’re still part of what our parents began long ago. Their legacy lives on through the community and through the children who were raised within that community. Opening the Poor Italian Ristorante was our way of acknowledging a time that has since passed but needs to be remembered. It’s part of Vancouver’s story. “The name Poor Italian gives a nod to the very roots of the Italian cucina,” she adds. “It was once known as peasant food: the farmers, peasants, people of very few means would work the land, and with a little culinary finesse, they unwittingly— or, perhaps, very deliberately—crafted an epic culinary story.”
For Mangia Vancouver, the Poor Italian is offering a prix fixe menu ($39) with selections including raviolini in brodo (cheese raviolini in chicken stock) and melenzane alla parmigiana, which consists of layers of eggplant baked with mozzarella, Parmigiano Reggiano, and San Marzano tomato-basil sauce. Nicli Antica Pizzeria is also taking part. It’s presenting Mangia por Duo ($50), the meal including mixed olives, insalata di rucola e finocchio (arugula and fennel salad), two pizzas (Margherita and bianca), and tiramisu. And at Al Porto, caesar or mixed green salad accompanies choices such as linguine vongole (with clams and calamari, $21.95) or grilled halibut (with prawns, vegetables, and saffron risotto, $32.95). Other participating restaurants include Cibo Trattoria, Campagnolo, Campagnolo Roma, Via Tevere Pizzeria, and Novo Pizzeria and Wine Bar. “A huge part of our culture is sharing a meal with family, with friends,” Schober says. “It’s embedded in Italian culture.” For more information on Mangia Vancouver, visit italianculturalcentre.ca/.
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Clockwise from left, George & Noriko mix unexpected sounds at the Powell Street Festival; cellist Matt Haimovitz at the Vancouver Bach Festival (Steph Mackinnon photo); and Sunday Afternoon Salsa (Daudi X photo).
Summer arts fests take flight
Merchant, staged here by actor-director Nigel Shawn Williams, of Toronto’s acclaimed Factory Theatre. CITY OF BHANGRA FESTIVAL (At Surrey City Hall
Plaza, the Vogue Theatre, and elsewhere from June 11 to 17) The fest moves Shakespeare and Bach juxtapose with graffiti murals and its free Downtown Bhangra concert from VancouIggy Pop dance odes amid a roster that continues to grow ver to Surrey’s City Hall Expect the unexpected on the cultural Plaza for the first time. Here in town, you can catch horizon this summer, with arts festivals serving performers such as feminist multimedia poet Rupi up everything from female mariachi bands to plays Kaur at the Vogue Theatre on June 14. The Draw: BY JANET S M IT H about vibrators to dance tributes to Iggy Pop. The Downtown Bhangra event is still the biggest Below, sort through the ever-growing array of deal, with bhangra teams bringing the beats; look arts celebrations vying to pull you away from the for names like singer Zora Randhawa and rapbeach and barbecue this season. per Fateh Doe, and producer DJ Intense. BARD ON THE BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (At Vanier Park to September 23) Two wildly
visual, reimagined classics—a Much Ado About Nothing located in the black-and-white world of 1950s Italian film, and a Winter’s Tale whose sets include an eye-popping, cubism-inspired Bohemia— rotate in the main-stage tent this year; two seasoned, boldly visionary directors, John Murphy and Dean Paul Gibson, take the helm, respectively. On the more intimate Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, a contemporary-set version of The Merchant of Venice alternates with the comedic work The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Look for special events, from alfresco choral concerts to fireworks, throughout the summer. The Draw: With so many talented directors and designers onboard this year, it’s almost impossible to pick, but we’re partial to Much Ado’s Fellini-esque, La Dolce Vita feel, and always curious about a thoughtful mounting of
THINGS TO DO
MARIACHI FESTIVAL CANADA (At the Vogue
Theatre on June 17) Party like it’s fiesta time in Plaza Garibaldi: the seventh annual event closes its B.C.–wide run with the best charro-suit-wearing artists from Canada, the States, and Mexico, sounding trumpets, violins, and guitars. Alongside local bands like Mariachi Los Dorados, look for indigenous performers and folkloric dancers. The Draw: The all-female Mariachi Mujer Latina, straight from Mexico’s main hotbed of mariachi, Jalisco. QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL (At the Roundhouse
Community Arts and Recreation Centre and other venues from June 17 to 29) The festival’s 2017 theme, UnSettled, explores the idea of two-spirit—the term often used in indigenous cultures to describe LGBT members of their societies. The event’s central visual-arts exhibit finds Siksika visual artist Adrian Stimson curating work about two-spirit identity, with a roster that includes George Littlechild, Raven John, and Wanda SOUTH GRANVILLE ARTWALK Nanibush. That programming joins a Check out… STRAIGHT.COM (Along or near Gallery Row on June cutting-edge rainbow of music, dance, Visit our website 17) More than a dozen exhibitions spoken word, film, new-media art, and for morning-after vie for your attention between 10 more. The Draw: Don’t miss the Chipreviews and local a.m. and 6 p.m., many of them offerpewa Travellers and the Allegra Chamarts news ing up wine and cheese, demonstraber Orchestra performing local cellisttions, and a chance to meet the artists. composer Cris Derksen’s Juno-nominated Almost every artistic style and medium is Orchestral Powwow on June 24. on view along Gallery Row, from large-scale oil painting to photography. The Draw: The must-see DANCING ON THE EDGE (At the Firehall Arts is the CANADA 150 group exhibition by Kimoto Centre and other venues from July 6 to 15) The Gallery and Thrive Art Studio artists, with—yes— 29th annual fest kicks off with shows by the 150 original Canadian pieces on the wall, and Beijing Modern Dance Company, presenting nary a clichéd maple leaf or hockey stick in sight. its hypnotic Oath-Midnight Rain. From there, The works, by more than 50 new and well-known the event centres its 10-day celebration around city and regional artists, include oils, acrylics, seven mixed programs of works from here and watercolours, drawing, photography, and sculp- across the country; names include Toronto’s ture, all hung salon-style, at reachable prices from Sara Porter and Yvonne Ng, and Vancouver’s $500 to $1,500. see next page
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HAND TO GOD (To June 25 at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Centre) Inappropriate, devilpossessed puppets? Count us in.
Editor’s choice BREAKUP BELLY LAUGHS What’s the best cure for getting dumped? Finding a way to laugh about it—then writing a hit musical on the subject. In 1999, Toronto’s Annabel (Griffiths) Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore were all facing ugly breakups. They turned those experiences first into a play that took Toronto by storm, then into a book, and finally into Bittergirl: The Musical. Spiked with ’60s girl-group music, the show finally comes here, doling out hilarious tales of heartbreak. The cast here is strong, with Lauren Bowler, Katrina Reynolds, and Cailin Stadnyk, as well as Josh Epstein as the lone guy, directed by Valerie Easton. Bittergirl: The Musical is at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage from Wednesday (June 14) to July 29.
KYLE BOTTOM (June 15 to 17 at the Comedy MIX) One of the bright lights of this city’s comedy scene, beard, booming baritone, and all. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (To September 23 at the BMO Mainstage at Bard on the Beach) Shakespeare set in a black-andwhite Felliniesque world. EDWARD BURTYNSKY: THE SCARRED EARTH (To October 16 at the Audain Art Museum) Worth the trip up the 99 for these deeply troubling photographs. TRACES OF WORDS (To October 9 at the UBC Museum of Anthropology) Calligraphy as interactive video, street graffiti, and much more.
MURAL FEST UNVEILED The Vancouver Mural Festival has just unveiled the lineup for its event across Mount Pleasant and Strathcona from August 7 to 12. Last year’s inaugural fest saw murals by over 40 artists go up. This year, organizers are planning 60 new murals, with artists including Austria’s Nychos, Spain’s Cinta Vidal, and New Zealand Maori artist Johnson Witehira, with local artists like Fiona Ackerman, Andy Dixon, Johnnie Christmas, and AA Crew. Basia Bulat will play the Fox Cabaret, We Are the City is set to perform at the Biltmore Cabaret, and Dan Boeckner’s Operators will play the Cobalt. Louise Burns and Yukon Blonde will appear on the Red Bull Tour Bus Stage, with more musical acts to be announced soon. Other programming will include walking tours, a beer garden by Vancouver Craft Beer Week, a series of artist talks, and more. See www.vancouvermuralfestival.com/. -
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Nadia Manzoor’s Burq Off! hits the Monsoon Festival, while NO FUN rocks out at Dancing on the Edge (Frederic Chais photo).
Summer arts fests
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Mascall Dance, Serge Bennathan, Julianne Chapple, Daelik, and Cori Caulfield. Elsewhere, look for Co.ERASGA and Bangkok’s Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, with their kitsched-out collaboration Unwrapping Culture, and Kinesis Dance somatheatro’s new ENTRAP. Outdoors, look up, way up, for Aeriosa Dance Society and Spakwus Slulem Thunderbird Sharing Ceremony in the trees of Stanley Park, and LINK Dance Foundation’s Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? at three intersections around the city. The Draw: Rock fans won’t want to miss the amped-up NO FUN, an interdisciplinary ode to the music and movement of perennial bad boy Iggy Pop. THEATRE UNDER THE STARS (At Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park from July 7 to August 19) Go for the scenery, or go for the musicals: historic Malkin Bowl, set under towering Stanley Park trees, makes a magical locale for largescale stagings. This year, TUTS juxtaposes the classic, kid-friendly Mary Poppins with The Drowsy Chaperone, a smart send-up of 1920s musicals. The Draw: While you can’t go wrong with the classic songs and high-flying action in Poppins (“A Spoonful of Sugar”, anyone?), up your Canadian content by giving The Drowsy Chaperone a try. Penned by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, it’s a good, old-fashioned song-anddance extravaganza with a tongue-incheek edge.
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lemonTree creations’ dance deconstruction of online hook-up culture
UNSETTLING COLONIAL GENDER BOUNDARIES JUNE 23 VIMAF
media art curation, including Kent Monkman, Thirza Cuthand & Chandra Melting Tallow
CRIS DERKSEN’S ORCHESTRAL POWWOW JUNE 24 With the Chippewa Travellers and Allegra Chamber Orchestra
TECHNICAL KNOCKOUTS JUNE 26
Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show & Tiffany Moses with guests
Greed/REsolve JUNE 27 - 28
Byron Chief-Moon & JP Longboat choreograph dance on corporate capitalism & decolonization.
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critically lauded In the Next Room, about a young doctor who uses the dawn of electricity to solve women’s “hysteria”, seemingly without being able to recognize what it is he’s actually unleashing in stiff-upperlip Victorian times. the Guardian called it a “superb drama of female frustration”. VANCOUVER
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(At Christ Church Cathedral and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts from August 1 to 11) Early Music Vancouver brings back this exquisite Bach celebration for its second summer. The concerts range from the intimate beauty of American countertenor Terry Wey and Swedish soprano Jenny Högström singing chamber cantatas to a truly epic performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion on August 11 at the Chan, the latter featuring the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, a team of international soloists, and English tenor Thomas Hobbs. The Draw: Cellist Matt Haimovitz playing Bach’s Cello Suites with awesome new overtures written by the contemporary likes of Philip Glass and David Sanford. HARMONY ARTS FESTIVAL (Along
the West Vancouver waterfront from August 4 to 13) Art markets, culinary events, and live concerts scatter along one of the region’s prettiest shores. Among the highlights this year are feature artist Pierre Coupey, with an exhibit at the Ferry Building Gallery, and a midweek interactive media installation called Day & Twilight, with animation and projections each night. The Draw: If you can manage to drag yourself indoors, make sure SUNDAY AFTERNOON SALSA to catch the new exhibition Settle(At Robson Square from July 9 to Au- ment & Migration at the West Vangust 13) The hottest summer dance couver Museum. event in town mixes it up this year, adding an after-party that spot- MONSOON FESTIVAL OF PERlights different dance styles—from FORMING ARTS (At the York Thethe Hustle to West Coast swing— atre and the Surrey Arts Centre from from 7 to 9 p.m. The usual open-air August 4 to 13) The South Asian salsa dancing runs from 3 to 5 p.m., Arts Society sets off a summer storm with the first half-hour devoted to of performing arts, this year with a lessons, social dancing till 5, and spotlight on theatre. The lineup indance shows and performances till cludes the one-woman play Burq Off! 7. The Draw: The ability to learn and the locally created Malavika, a how to shake it like Dancing With classical Hindi dance drama by the the Stars: the half-hour beginner Nrityenakatha troupe, all complelesson launches both the afternoon mented by workshops on everything session and the after-party, mean- from playwriting to acting. The ing anyone can take part. Oh, did Draw: Nadia Manzoor’s Burq Off! is an autobiographical coming-of-age we mention it’s all free? comedy about what it was like to be ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY a British Pakistani girl growing up in REPERTORY FESTIVAL (At the a conservative Muslim family. Said Jericho Arts Centre from July 13 to to be wildly entertaining, it’s enjoyed August 18) In the pleasant setting of sold-out runs in New York, L.A., San Jericho Beach, some of the summer’s Francisco, London, and Toronto. most challenging and provocative theatre takes place. The lineup this POWELL STREET FESTIVAL (At year encompasses Sarah Ruhl’s In Oppenheimer Park, the Firehall Arts the Next Room (or The Vibrator Centre, and other venues on August Play), Simon Bent’s play adapted 5 and 6) Fete Japanese culture, and from the Irving novel A Prayer for its long history here, through literOwen Meany, and David Pownall’s ary events, screenings, a wild variety Master Class, all brought to life by of concerts, and more. Amid the ofa crack repertory troupe. The Draw: ferings: Ensemble Liberta, a classical The roster is strong across the board Japanese music group; legendary this year, but we can’t wait to see the Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s
key translators, Jay Ruben and Ted Goossen; poet Sally Ito; iconic author Joy Kogawa; and Asato Ikeda with a presentation on Japan’s “third gender”. The Draw: Where else are you going to find a combo like this this summer: George & Noriko, a Japanese blues cowboy and a Tsugaru shamisen player, both from Melbourne, Australia? VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL
(Across Mount Pleasant and Strathcona from August 7 to 12) After a hugely popular inaugural event last year, the mural celebration returns with a massive palette of happenings, with plans to add no fewer than 60 rad new murals to Mount Pleasant and Strathcona. Highlights include live mural-painting (like the Supersnag Live Art Night on August 8) and art battles; the Red Bull Tour Bus Stage, with Yukon Blonde and Louise Burns; a Georgia Straight speaker series; and a Vancouver Craft Beer Week beer garden on August 12. The Draw: Big names bringing bright new life to city walls this year include Austria’s Nychos, Italy’s Peeta, Spain’s Cinta Vidal, and local stars like Andy Dixon and Fiona Ackerman; locales to be announced. VINES ART FESTIVAL (At Trout
Lake Park and parks around the city from August 9 to 19) Environmentalism and the arts meld in this innovative grassroots festival that’s in its third year. Dance, art installations, and performances bring creativity to the city’s green spaces, with interactive, sustainability- and ecothemed art projects in parks around town, via the Vancouver park board’s artists-in-residence program. The Draw: The big event happens August 19 at the south end of Trout Lake Park, when the entire green space comes alive with artistic endeavours, venders, and more.
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Daniel Maté, Christine Quintana, Tracey Power, and Khari Wendell McClelland (from left) get ready for this year’s In Tune event. Moonrider Productions photo.
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heatre artist Amiel Gladstone remembers a moment of “clear liftoff” at the last, biennial In Tune event, in 2015. At the event aimed at kickstarting new Canadian musical theatre, he was at a showcase where actors were performing excerpts from Best Laid Plans and Onegin—the latter of which he cocreated with Veda Hille for the Arts Club. “Andrew Wheeler was in both, and I thought this was the greatest indevelopment showcase in Canada I’ve ever seen,” Gladstone, the Touchstone Theatre interim artistic director and In Tune producer, tells the Straight over the phone. “It made me think that Katrina’s idea of musical theatre is actually working,” he adds, referring to Katrina Dunn, the former Touchstone artistic director who launched the conference in 2011 with the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Rachel Ditor. Onegin went on to sweep the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and has just wrapped a run in Toronto. Best Laid Plans joined a roster of other critically acclaimed new musicals, like Love Bomb and Elbow Room: The Musical, that enjoyed full houses. In Tune began because visionary Vancouver artists saw a big audience demand for more musicals, and the need to create more of them at home, rather than just bringing in work from Broadway. It also recognized that the musical, with so many elements, resources, and people needed to create it, had to have a special developing ground. And the creative hothouse that In Tune became—with showcases, workshops, speakers, and visiting presenters—seems to finally be having a big payoff. “That’s been the really exciting part. Because In Tune has provided a launching pad for so many careers, it feels to me hopefully that in this next round we’re going to see the next crop of new musicals,” Gladstone says. “It feels like we’re going to take the next step forward. And we need the audience to come with us—we need them to take part and give feedback.” What’s most striking about the “next round” of promising new musicals at this year’s In Tune is the sheer breadth of stories and subject matter they’re taking on, and the different generations represented. At this year’s by-donation public showcases, watch for a sneak peek on Monday (June 12) at The Mysteries, by Vancouver stage veteran Ann Mortifee, an Arts Club collaboration with David Feinstein and Edward Henderson that looks at the Persephone myth. At the other end of the spectrum, you have excerpts from The Preposterous
Posthumous Predicament of Paulie Peel, Julie Tepperman and Kevin Wong’s new musical based on a painting; young Vancouver composer Daniel Maté’s The Longing and the Short of It, about six people searching for lasting connection; and What’s on Your Mind, Tracey Power and Steve Charles’s exploration of high-tech screens’ effects on the brain. “That breadth is totally on purpose, partly because of my own desire to push the form,” Gladstone says, pointing out successful local musicals in the recent past that have been based on everything from online classifieds (Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata) to indie songs (beloved Vancouver troubadour Dan Mangan’s music in Are We Cool Now?). “Everything feels ripe for exploration now. It’s the idea that it doesn’t all have to sound like Rodgers and Hammerstein or doesn’t have to come from one kind of culture.” And for local content, check out Leslie Mildiner and Bob Buckley’s The Sweet Life on June 17: it’s based on a real-life 1947 strike by teenagers in Ladysmith over a hike in the price of chocolate bars—a protest that managed to cross the country, decades before the Internet. Elsewhere, Gladstone and his team have scored a coup by bringing in Broadway veteran Jack Viertel as the keynote speaker. The veteran New York City musical producer is senior vice-president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theatres, where he’s been involved in productions ranging from City of Angels to Angels in America. He also teaches musical theatre at the Tisch School of the Arts and has written The Secret Life of the American Musical, a bible of musicaltheatre structure that Gladstone himself used in writing Onegin. In Tune also hosts a range of panel discussions and master classes for its participants. But for Gladstone, the main attraction is still the showcases. He should know: presenting an early excerpt from Onegin at In Tune was crucial to the success it went on to have, and he emphasizes the role In Tune audiences played in that. “For us to watch and listen to a show with an audience—that is the most important part,” he says. “We can feel where they’re responding, and that’s a key component to writing it and moving it forward. For me, that’s the most useful part: sitting and what I call breathing with an audience.” In Tune 2017 takes place from Thursday (June 8) to June 18 at the Waterfront Theatre, Studio 1398, the Post at 750, and the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.
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aving grown up in a musical family—her sisters Lauma and Linda play piano and viola, respectively—violinist Baiba Skride brings a wealth of confidence and experience with her every time she steps onto the concert stage. But when it comes to performing Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major, as she will in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s season finale this weekend, probably her most crucial asset is her Latvian heritage. On the surface, this might not make immediate sense. After all, she’ll be appearing with a Canadian orchestra led by a British conductor, performing a work by an American composer with an Austrian passport. But Skride identifies the Violin Concerto’s almost operatic melodies as its key component, and it’s there that her roots will serve her well. “The violin, generally, is the closest instrument to a voice,” Skride explains, in a telephone interview from her home in Hamburg, Germany. “And I was singing very much when I was young. “Latvians always sing,” she continues. “We grew up singing, and I think that is the core essence of how to perform on a stringed instrument. It’s about this breathing that you learn from singing. It’s the most important thing, that you think about the phrasing and everything as if you were singing. So in any concerto I would play, I would try to feel it like some kind of singing.” When it comes to this particular work, she and Korngold are on the same page. While the Violin Concerto was premiered by violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz, its composer is on record as having said that he was thinking of singer Enrico Caruso, not Heifetz’s inspiration Niccolò Paganini, when penning its
Violin star Baiba Skride, who joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in its season closer, credits her Latvian heritage and its love of song for her approach.
soaring first and second movements. (The work’s third part moves more towards Paganini territory with its lively, syncopated, and folk-musicinspired themes.) Korngold was also thinking of his own history when he wrote the 1945 piece: it incorporates elements from his film scores for Another Dawn, Anthony Adverse, and The Prince and the Pauper, and in a way it can also be seen as a musical analogue for the composer’s path from Vienna’s fusty concert halls to the wide-open spaces of the American West. Skride, who will record the Violin Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony later this summer, has been studying the composer in preparation, watching those films, listening to historical recordings of his work, and also exploring his wider catalogue.
She’s also been contemplating the relationship between Korngold and an earlier Austrian composer, Gustav Mahler: the Violin Concerto is dedicated to Mahler’s widow, Alma, and on the VSO program it will be paired with his Symphony No. 1 in D Major, popularly (and justifiably) known as the “Titan”. Most of all, though, Skride is just looking forward to living with the pleasures of the score. “There’s no other concerto I know where there’s no huge tragedy in it,” she says. “It’s just really, really beautiful and happy and just makes you in such a good mood.” Baiba Skride joins the Vancou ver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum from Saturday to Monday (June 10 to 12).
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hy do tears sometimes roll down our faces when we hear Adele’s plaintive “Someone Like You”? Why do we turn to certain songs when we’re sad? What is it about those songs—the musical devices? the heartfelt stories?—that help us work through our pain? And why the hell do they hurt so good? These are the kinds of questions theatre artists Jane Miller and Brian Quirt became intensely interested in after reading about a scientific study into such matters. And the pair, who had worked on several shows together in Toronto, began to search closer to home for examples of the way music taps emotion. “We started looking at these studies and collecting anecdotal evidence; we looked at my and his own experiences—the songs that move us both on a scientific level and on a connection level,” Miller, a veteran actor, singer, and composer, explains over the hands-free phone, driving between her Toronto home and Muskoka cottage. Around the same time, Quirt, the artistic director at T.O.’s innovative Nightswimming Theatre, had been looking to do a show at Vancouver company Boca del Lupo Theatre’s intimate-to-the-extreme Micro Performance Series. “Three years ago he saw a show at the Fishbowl,” Miller says, referring to the tiny Granville Island space where Boca hosts the series, “and he thought, ‘What do I want to make for this stage?’ So the Micro Performance Series really intrigued him.” The result of all this inspiration is These Are the Songs That I Sing When I’m Sad, a solo show in which Miller will gather a small crowd of about 18 or 20 theatregoers around her piano in the Fishbowl space. In it, she’ll use storytelling and songs to illustrate both the scientific research on music and her own memories of songs that have helped her get through losses in her life. The research, she emphasizes, will illuminate the musical elements that work your heartstrings, but won’t ruin your favourite sad songs for future use. “Even once you show how it works, it’s not a case of it not working anymore,” she reassures. “That’s why we keep coming back to sad songs!”
Describing the work, Miller makes it sounds like a mix between cocktail party, concert, and TED Talk. In fact, she and Quirt have test-driven the piece in people’s houses to prepare for the Fishbowl. And the gourmet bar hobbyist has even designed a signature cocktail for the show here (in alcoholic and nonalcoholic versions). “I call it Tears of Joy,” she enthuses. “It’s equal parts vodka and ginger-infused simple syrup, with soda and fresh lime juice. I’m thinking of putting in fresh oregano or thyme. And then it’ll be served on the rocks with a couple of quartz crystals so there’s ‘tears’.” More than just a way to drown your sorrows, the drinks add to the intimate atmosphere Miller wants to build. “There’s a hospitality piece to me,” she explains. “That’s why the two home concerts explored that even more.” Working in a bit of interactivity, the show draws from her vast experiences as a performer and singer who’s opened for everyone from Jeff Buckley to Ani DiFranco. “Years ago, I used to tour in two different kids’ shows…and what children’s audiences teach you is they don’t hold back. They’ll tell you exactly what they think of the show,” the affable Miller says with a laugh. “I have learned to be very attuned to an audience due to kids’ shows and touring the stink out of them. “And when you have done any singing performance, you have to talk to your audience,” she adds, explaining there’s nothing resembling a fourth wall in These Are the Songs That I Sing When I’m Sad. Expect to hear some familiar tunes, and to laugh a lot despite the subject matter. And don’t worry if the idea of musical devices and research sounds daunting. “If you don’t love music, don’t feel you can’t come,” Miller stresses, and then points to some of her Toronto experiments: “We’ve had everyone from people with classical degrees to those who say ‘Yeah, I’m tone deaf ’ come out.” These Are the Songs That I Sing When I’m Sad runs from Wednesday to Saturday (June 7 to 10) at the Fishbowl on Granville Island, as part of Boca del Lupo’s Micro Performance Series.
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Hand to God is wicked good TH E AT RE HAND TO GOD By Robert Askins. Directed by Stephen Drover. An Arts Club Theatre Company production. At the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre on Wednesday, May 31. Continues until June 25
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In the black comedy Hand to God, Oliver Castillo switches between mama’s boy Jason and the raging, devil-possessed puppet Tyrone. David Cooper photo.
LAST TRAIN IN Written and performed by Adam Grant Warren. Directed by Derek Chan. A rice & beans theatre production, presented as part of rEvolver Festival. At the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab on Monday, May 29. No remaining performances
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Adam Grant Warren takes a searching look back on a defining experience of being (literally) stuck. Warren’s originally from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, but since most people in B.C. haven’t heard of Mount Pearl, he tells people he’s from St. John’s. He teaches in Richmond, but since most Newfoundlanders haven’t heard of Richmond, he tells people back home that he teaches in Vancouver. And when he says he taught English 10 years ago in London, U.K., what he really means is a small town in Essex, a 25-minute train ride away. That train ride is important, because at the heart of the show is the story of
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the night Adam takes the last train back to his small town, Hadley Cross, and gets trapped in the station. There’s no elevator, and the stationmaster, who usually carries Adam’s wheelchair across the bridge while Adam—who has cerebral palsy—takes his time walking up the stairs, is off for the evening. So what does Adam do? The relaxed approach to factual accuracy in Adam’s descriptions of where he’s from and where he works offers a big clue to his reliability in recounting the events of that night. Peeling away the layers of fabrication to get to the truth—which is surprising and unsentimental—is what gives the show its dramatic arc. Under Derek Chan’s direction, Warren is a likable and engaging storyteller, attuned and responsive to his audience. There are moments of sensual lyricism in his writing, like his description of a summer night “when the heat makes everything smell like pavement and metal”. And Warren has a wry perspective on his youthful idealism as he recalls “my whole DeadPoets-Society-Dangerous-Minds-Mr.Holland’s-Opus teaching career”. Warren’s physicality is central to the story; not only does he pop several wheelies in his chair, but he deconstructs and rearranges Sophie Yufei Tang’s set of rolling platforms right along with the facts of his tale. With the simple click of a button (which later takes on thematic significance), he summons James Coomber’s superbly atmospheric sound design and Jessica Han’s special lighting cues to further enliven his telling. The run was short, but this Train was worth catching.
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switches brilliantly between Jason and Tyrone, making the puppet feel like a fully realized character rather than just a piece of grey felt with wonky eyes and deranged levels of toxic masculinity. He and Leung deserve a special Jessie next year for the puppet sex scene alone. The play itself isn’t perfect, but Hand to God is one of those rare instances when the casting is so impressive and the direction is so damn good, the production doesn’t just elevate its source material, it transcends it.
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profanity than an episode of South Park, Hand to God is a refreshingly weird turn for the Arts Club Theatre Company. Sure, it’s had a substantial amount of success with Avenue Q, but this is funnier, more vulgar, and substantially darker than its puppet forebear. What makes this production truly great is a phenomenal cast. Written by Robert Askins, Hand to God centres on a church in a small Texan town where Margery (Jennifer Lines), a recent widow, runs a Christian puppet program that includes her 16-year-old son, Jason (Oliver Castillo); the girl next door, Jessica (Julie Leung); and Timothy (Mike Gill), a foul-mouthed bad boy with a crush on Margery. Pastor Greg (Shekhar Paleja) also has feelings for Margery, but she’s barely keeping it together, and is so busy trying not to fall apart that she barely notices that Jason’s puppet, Tyrone, has come to life and Jason is possibly possessed by the devil. Tyrone is angry, sexist, misogynistic, and antagonistic. Jason is gentle, passive, and trying to be the son his mother wants, but is grappling with Tyrone’s increasingly violent demands. It’s worth noting that Askins borrows from his own life for the basics: he, too, grew up in a small Texan town, his mother ran the church’s puppet program, and his father died when he was just 16. Hand to God boasts some incredible lines and there are plenty of hilarious scripted moments, but Askins’s skewering of the hypocrisies of religion and humanity doesn’t go deep enough. While fascinating on many levels, and very funny, the play feels like a collection of great jokes and shocking moments that are supposed to tell us something more, about ourselves and the world, but never fully delivers on that front. Striking the right tone with black comedy like this is particularly difficult, but director Stephen Drover has a deft touch for keeping the company buzzing, every scene straddling the line perfectly between frenzied and chaotic. Lines is mesmerizing, nailing Margery’s increasingly wild-eyed desperation. She’s also a great physical comedian, as is Castillo, whose performance should make him a star. He
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Vancouver landscapes challenge tradition VISUAL AR TS PICTURES FROM HERE At the Vancouver Art Gallery until September 4
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s show Pictures From Here is poised to serve as a thoughtful counterbalance to the gallery’s big summer draw, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden, opening on the main floor on June 24. It also functions as a contemporary rejoinder to Emily Carr: Into the Forest, on display on the fourth floor until December 3. In contrast to garden ponds and lily pads executed in painterly smears of turquoise and violet, we have Marian Penner Bancroft’s unframed black-and-white photos of a desolate, empty lot where an alternative bookstore once stood. And in opposition to passionate depictions of old-growth rainforest, we have Roy Arden’s large chromogenic print Landfill, Richmond, B.C., a “defeatured landscape” of dirt piles, flat fields, and thin, stranded, leafless trees. Pictures From Here examines concept-driven photographic and video works produced by some two dozen leading Vancouver artists across four decades and two generations. Contributors range from Jeff Wall to Evan Lee, and from Cornelia Wyngaarden to Althea Thauberger. The show also includes street photography by Fred Herzog and Greg Girard. As the intro panel tells us, artists such as Wall, Ian Wallace, and Stan Douglas have drawn international attention to this place by championing lens-based art. At the same time, they have challenged lyrical landscape traditions and questioned established modes of representation and history-telling. Almost 40 years ago, Wall’s socially and politically inflected photo tableaux, in the form of large-scale, backlit Cibachrome transparencies (a form he borrowed from advertising),
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Photo-conceptual works like Roy Arden’s Landfill, Richmond, B.C. question historical approaches to representation.
initiated what has come to be called the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism. (Although photo-conceptualism is a term used throughout the exhibition, Wall repudiates it in relation to his work.) The scale of Wall’s photos enables him to reference cultural forms such as cinema and history painting while also claiming equal status with them. He is represented in the exhibition by two very large photographic prints indeed. One of them, Monologue, is a nighttime scene in which three middle-aged men in dark clothing stand and sit on a stage of sorts, beneath a streetlight and in
front of a wire fence, a dark stand of trees, a couple of houses, and a distant patch of still-bright sky. There are formal intimations here of René Magritte and Samuel Beckett, but what is this picture all about? The accompanying text panel tells us that it “hints at complex narrative possibilities….while resisting any conclusive analysis”. A little online research reveals that the men in Wall’s photograph are his brother and a couple of close friends, and that Wall was “intrigued by their conversations and interactions”. We are supposed to wonder what they’re discussing or if they’re waiting for something to
happen, although I can’t say Wall’s tightly composed mise-en-scène encourages me to care. Far more moving is the collaborative work that opens the exhibition, Taking Off Skins, by photographer Sandra Semchuk and her late partner, the Cree artist, performer, and activist James Nicholas. Here, a grid of Semchuk’s black-and-white photos records a performance by Nicholas in which he removes his dark suit, white shirt, and tie, dons a bear-claw necklace and a wool blanket, and walks into the sea. These acts seem to represent spiritual cleansing, the urgency
of which is amplified by Nicholas’s text, which alludes to his childhood residential-school experience. Adjacent to this work are hung early, blurry, intentionally banal photographs by N.E. Thing Co., a mockcorporate entity formed by artists Iain Baxter and Ingrid Baxter in 1966. One of NETCO’s photo-conceptual works is Edge, a backlit colour transparency—originally created in 1967 and remade in 1995—of an industrial scene in which sulphur piles and the frames of industrial buildings on Burrard Inlet reiterate the shapes of the Coast Mountains behind them. Around the corner, Barrie Jones’s “Pacific Salmon Series: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer” records the symbolically charged fish being tossed across clichéd landscape scenes of Vancouver, registering the changing seasons while also playing with the nature-culture interface where “iconic” images of our city reside. Karin Bubăs also walks the risky line between cliché and social commentary. Her ongoing series of large colour photographs, “Studies in Landscapes and Wardrobe”, places solitary female figures in different landscape settings—misty fields, dark woods, blossom-pretty parks—and styles their wardrobes in accordance with their settings. The women, whose faces are always hidden from us, seem to be lost in their own thoughts and closed off from us. Their depictions, the exhibition text tells us, reference both Hollywood films and 19th-century Romantic landscape painting. It comes as no surprise that, despite what must have been curator Grant Arnold’s best efforts, male artists outnumber female artists in this show by more than two to one. We’ve been writing about art in Vancouver for long enough to know what to expect in this kind of a survey, so, no, not a surprise, but a disappointment. Still, and always, a disappointment. > ROBIN LAURENCE
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IN TUNE 2017: WHERE NEW MUSICALS ARE BORN Eleven days of masterclasses, showcases of new musicals in development, professional development, panel discussions, and special events. Jun 8-18, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). The event also runs at Waterfront Theatre and Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre, info www.touchstone theatre.com/productions/in-tune-2017/. THE WINTERS’S TALE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare’s drama that sees the love of two young people become the catalyst for reunion, redemption, and a family’s healing. Jun 8–Sep 22, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardon thebeach.org/2017/the-winters-tale/. GOLDEN LOTUS 2017 JO Dream Theatre presents a play about a woman who becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and has an affair with a handsome womaniser. Jun 11, 7:30-9 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $25, info www. facebook.com/events/780970272078274/.
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FLAMENCO AND THE FROG The flash of flamenco meets the magic of a fairy tale this Saturday and Sunday (June 10 and 11) at the Vancouver Playhouse, as Karen Flamenco presents The Princess and the Frog. You know the story of the girl—here, danced by Layla Salah as Princess Tiana—who kisses the frog prince, but in the fantastical, ruffle-skirted production, also watch for voodoo dolls, fireflies, and a castanet-playing crocodile. Decked out with full-on sets and live musicians, the company’s year-end show brings the art of flamenco to the whole family.
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MOVIES REVIEWS MY COUSIN RACHEL Starring Rachel Weisz. Rated PG
Despite her Gallic name, novelist Daphne du
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ces—a latter-day Brontë sister, with Jackie Collins hovering nearby on the foggy moors. Du Maurier, who lived until 1989, had an unusually rich track record of costume-heavy tales respun for the silver screen: multiple versions of Jamaica Inn, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, Rebecca and The Birds (two of Hitchcock’s best), and of course the 1952 version of My Cousin Rachel, starring Olivia de Havilland as the title character and newcomer Richard Burton as the young (distant) cousin in her sway. In this take on the 1830s-set story, the adult Philip Ashley is played by The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin, who’s more of a Hugh Grant type—fitting, since this version was adapted and directed by Roger Michell, responsible for English confections like Notting Hill and Venus. His take is even more psychosexually thorny than was the earlier film, with Burton’s earnestness now replaced by a nastier, needier edge. You see, the orphaned Philip has been raised by older cousin Ambrose (also played, in flashbacks, by Claflin). And his dependency is such that he deeply resents it when the already sickly Ambrose heads to
Cousins once removed
Rachel Weisz dons widow’s weeds and ambiguous motives for director Roger Michell’s stately period piece, the second adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel.
Socially reflective horror is back bigly, baby! But while Get Out took some blackly comic jabs at people’s perceptions of racial inequalRachel Weisz may or may not be the killer in the family in ity, It Comes at Night offers no such witty relief. It is one dark a fine version of Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel ’n’ downbeat mofo of a movie. sunny Italy and marries his own (distant) relative, The film opens with Sarah (Carmen Ejogo) sayand then dies. This double loss is so devastating that ing her final goodbyes to her father. He’s covered Philip seeks vengeance upon the accursed Rachel, in scabs and gravely ill; she’s wearing a gas mask who he is sure killed his beloved guardian. He gets to avoid ending up the same. Her tense husband his chance, after much anguished anticipation, when Paul (Joel Edgerton, from The Gift) and teenage the woman he wonders about—Rachel Weisz, enig- son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) carry the dying matically sexy in widow’s weeds—finally appears at man outside in a wheelbarrow, shoot him in the the Ashley estate, a rather gloomy place on the Cor- head, and burn his body in a shallow grave. nish coastline, complete with its own cliffs. That’s about as lighthearted as things get. Raised in a boys-only environment, Philip is The mixed-race trio—along with much-loved utterly ignorant of femaleness, right down to not mutt Stanley—go about their lives in a big woodnoticing that his childhood friend Louise (The en house in the woods, having taken shelter from Borgias’ Holliday Grainger) is crazy about him. an unnamed plague that has apparently ravaged But his dream of manly payback is undone by the world. But one night stranger Will (ChristoRachel’s kindly nature and stately allure. Next pher Abbott) breaks in and is taken captive by the thing you know, he’s redrafting his will—and then ever-vigilant Paul, who eventually decides that— not feeling all that well himself. Rachel sure does like himself—Will is just a good man desperately like to spend money, and she has a way with “spe- trying to keep his family alive. He agrees to take cial” teas, but is she really up to no good? in these refugees—including Will’s young wife Du Maurier’s grandfather George created the and toddler son (Riley Keough and Griffin Robiconic character of Svengali (in his novel Trilby), ert Faulkner)—in part because they have a supply and one person’s hypnotic power over another is of food (goats, chickens, canned goods) that his a frequent theme in her stories. Here, veteran dir- own family is in dire need of. ector Michell—working from his first-ever solo Once the two clans get settled in, the fuse is lit script—underlines a feminist subtext by empha- on a slow-burning exercise in psychological dread, sizing a 19th-century woman’s lack of autonomy as the wary Paul must fight his gnawing fear that in matters both financial and sexual. Du Maur- the outsiders aren’t really what they seem. The ier herself was proud of the ambiguities built into dingy house (no electricity) becomes a claustrothis twisted narrative, so if you find the ending of phobic playground of paranoia, and what comes this beguiling production oddly unresolved, you at night is not a horde of plague-infested invaders can—for once—honestly blame the author. but man’s primal fear of the unknown, in this case > KEN EISNER the uncertain intentions of others. Prepare to be disturbed. IT COMES AT NIGHT > STEVE NEWTON Starring Joel Edgerton. Rated 14A
First you had the awesome Get Out blowing scary-movie fans away with its shockingly sly take on racism in America. And now you’ve got It Comes at Night and its gloomy commentary on the Trump-inspired fear of outsiders.
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CHURCHILL Starring Brian Cox. Rated PG
As you might expect, Churchill focuses on larger-than-life British leader at the height (and depth) of his reign. The film sticks to
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the events leading up to and immediately following the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944. No battles are depicted, but the movie could have been called The Longest Day, because its 92 minutes are unusually arduous. Director Jonathan Teplitzky, a Brit-TV veteran whose feature The Railway Man was another tedious historical drama, certainly got the hardest part right: Scottish Bourne survivor Brian Cox nails Sir Winston’s bulldog profile and distinctively vowel-laden speech, without resorting to caricature. And the script from relative newcomer Alex von Tunzelmann works hard to show us the Great Man’s feet of English clay. Too hard, as the movie is determined to make us worship someone already on the way out in the middle of his finest hour. The screenplay simplifies Churchill’s relationship with Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower, played here by Mad Men’s Roger Slattery, who doesn’t resemble Ike but captures some of the sharp canniness usually missed in portrayals of the soft-spoken general. It suggests that the prime minister bitterly opposed Operation Overlord—the invasion of occupied Europe starting in Normandy—preferring to stick to the slow slog already under way in southern Europe. His hesitation here is presented as a guilty hangover from his role in the Gallipoli disaster of the First World War and the rout at Dunkirk just four years earlier. The film also elides Churchill’s fraught relationship with FDR, but does convey how the PM tried, and failed, to use the stuttering King George (James Purefoy) to yank back some power from the Americans. Some elements are more interesting than others, with the best parts involving Winny’s battle of wits with his equally volatile wife, Clementine, played with gusto by Miranda Richardson. But here, too, the director weighs down every gesture and utterance with pregnant pauses, suffocating close-ups, slo-mo tracking shots, voice-overs taken from earlier scenes, and, of course, a relentless orchestral score. When the cinematically billowing smoke has finally cleared, you may suspect that it was Churchill’s cigar Teplitzky cared most about. And sometimes a cigar is even less than a cigar. > KEN EISNER see page 40
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t’s a phrase that should resonate with any dog owner. “It all goes down the leash,” says a gunnery sergeant in a U.S. Marine Corps K-9 unit to a new recruit as she struggles to tame an ornery German shepherd in the film Megan Leavey (opening Friday [June 9] ). As played by Kate Mara, Megan Leavey is a punchy misfit with anger issues. The dog, Rex, is only slightly less approachable. Eventually, of course, these two mavericks train each other. “It’s definitely true,” Mara says, calling the Georgia Straight from Toronto. “I think it makes sense that they use that term a lot in the marine corps. I kind of experienced it one day on-set when we were shooting one of the war scenes. I’d never done anything like that before. I wanted to get it right. The dog’s leash is actually
House of Cards star (and vegan) Kate Mara bonds with a gnarly German shepherd in the based-on-a-true-story military drama Megan Leavey.
connected to your vest, so he’s not just connected to you mentally: he’s physically connected to you. So we were sitting on the side waiting for them to call action and I was feeling quite anxious, and he just nudged up
against me and put his head on me, and I could tell he was calming me down. He could feel my anxiety. I felt instantly protected, in a way.” In real life, Mara herself is the proud owner—no, wrong word, companion
to two Boston terriers who share her home in Los Angeles. The New York–born actor and House of Cards star was raised on theatre and musicals like Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music, and she cites Sissy Spacek as an influence on her own move into film acting. With its training and combat scenes, and the heavy drama that ensues after she and Rex are ambushed by insurgents in Iraq, Megan Leavey represents a break from Mara’s usual kinds of roles. But she approves of the film’s message, noting that the real-life Leavey was “very involved with who was going to make it”. Enter Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose 2013 documentary Blackfish brought enormous attention to the debate around captive cetaceans. In her first narrative feature, Cowperthwaite tells the story of Leavey’s hard-fought campaign to allow war
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veterans to adopt their unit partners—a doubly poignant issue for the former marine and Rex after they were both traumatized by their experiences. If the film takes some heat for ignoring the context of an unforgivable military aggression, its heart is still in the right place if you’re a devout animal lover. “Of course,” Mara says when asked if our respect for animal intelligence should extend beyond the domesticated. “Of course. To me it’s so obvious: there’s a life behind the eyes. That’s one of the reasons I’m a vegan, but I guess some people aren’t aware of that, or they haven’t been exposed to the fact that animals have a lot more going on than just being raised to be our food. I know not everybody is aware of it, but, yeah—I think it’s one of the reasons that our movie is important.” -
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I could have taken another 30 minutes of Dust Cloth, which follows the travails of two Kurdish cleaning women in a city, Istanbul, that will never really welcome them. Hatun is the more sardonic of the two and definitely better equipped to claw her way into a nicer neighbourhood while steeling herself against the daily indignities levelled by her clients. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nesrin who draws us in with an aura of incipient tragedy that starts with the disappearance of her apparently no-good husband (and father to their child), then gets worse by degrees. As played by the astonishing Asiye Dinçsoy, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a frumpy Modigliani model in sweatpants and a permanent expression of fear mingled with unconquerable despair. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tear your eyes away, DUST CLOTH Too many reviews of all the way to a heartbreaking finale this criticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fave want to apologize for that you knew was coming, right? the demands it puts on the viewer, but June 11 (2:45 p.m.)
and the flash decision to become a novelist, like family friend Sinem. Husband Korhan, meanwhile, has his own way of battling midlife ennuiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; although those dick pics he furtively captures at the office arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meant for his wife. Some clunky moments aside, Swaying Waterlily takes vicious delight in putting poor Handan through the wringer. Vanity and an essential lack of substance are her undoing, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cursed with just enough smarts to know when others are twisting their knives. SongĂźl Ă&#x2013;den is radiant as the would-be writer (who is smugly reminded by Sinem, on reading a first draft, that waterlilies donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;swayâ&#x20AC;?), which makes the film even more deliciously painful. June 9 (8:15 p.m.)
RAUF Kicked out of school for not paying sufficient attention to a rambling war hero, nine-year-old Rauf is sent to work for the local carpenter. Local, in this case, meaning seemingly endless miles away on a vast and dreary Anatolian plain, and carpentry being largely devoted to the construction of caskets. Here is where love and war become much realer things to our young heroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;played with bottomless charm by Alen Huseyin Gursoyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; as he falls for the bossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20-year-old daughter in the midst of a daily existence punctuated by distant gunfire. She loves the colour pink; Rauf canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even conceive of what it looks like. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks like pink,â&#x20AC;? heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s told, repeatedly.) Ultragloomy setup aside, this little wonder of a film builds to an ecstatic climax thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as much Steven Spielberg as it is Nuri Bilge Ceylan. June 11 (7:10 p.m.) -
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BETRAYED Kudos to the VTFF for reviving this 2009 American film, which overcomes its boxy plotting to emerge as an unusually tuned-in political thriller. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, and FBI agent Jake Kelly (James Van Der Beek) is sent to Taipei to help investigate the murder of a Taiwanese university prof in the U.S. While a State Department lackey played by Wendy Crewson tries to steer him away from troubleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not to mention the illegal protests he keeps bumping intoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kelly gradually finds himself inside a more dangerous game than he imagined. While the extreme tensions that preceded Taiwanese democratization are overtly woven into its plot, Formosa Betrayed takes a bold view of coordinated covert action by reactionary forces on a global scale, largely directed by Uncle You-Know-Who. For the disillusioned G-man, betrayal in this case isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t confined only to Formosa. June 10 (12:30 p.m.), followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Adam Kane
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We know what you’re thinking: the sumBY MIKE US IN G ER
mer of 2017 is almost here and it’s finally sunk in that, with both the Squamish Valley Music Festival and Pemberton Music Festival now wiped from the planet, you have zero reasons to get out of town. That’s actually a positive thing, and not just because you won’t be spending three days using overflowing portable toilets and listening to people screw in a tent that’s 11.6 inches from yours. Instead of heading up the Sea-to-Sky, you now have the budget to check out the following Straightapproved hot-ticket summer shows. And then, when you get home after each and every hot and sweaty gig, think about how lucky you are to have access to a shower. See? Life really isn’t so bad.
FESTIVAL D’ÉTÉ FRANCOPHONE DE VANCOUVER There’s an old saying that there’s noth-
ing better than Paris in the spring. Montreal in the summer isn’t too shabby either. The annual Festival d’été francophone de Vancouver on West 7th Avenue is also famously great, the talent this year including—but hardly limited to—electropop breakout artist La Bronze, singer-songwriter Paul Piché, and Vancouver’s own Isabelle Longnus.
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In addition to his career achievements—which include winning five Grammys— Bruno Mars also keeps Procter & Gamble alive with his hairspray consumption.
Yellow Claw, and Matoma. When and where: July 7 and 8 at Holland Park in Surrey. SugThe lack of the Squamish and Pemberton fests makes gested retail price: Visit fvdedinthepark.com/ for these concerts in Vancouver all the more appealing full details. Fan profile: When and where: June 14 to 27 at various loca- Young, blazed, half-dressed, and completely urban, tions. Suggested retail price: See www.lecentre- which is kind of funny, considering that Surrey was culturel.com/ for full details. Fan profile: Cultural once as suburban as things got. Yes, the times have tourists whose idea of a great French-themed mix changed. includes not only Serge Gainsbourg and Gilles Vigneault but also Les Georges Leningrad and Mel- WEST 4TH AVENUE KHATSAHLANO STREET PARTY In a short half-decade, the West 4th ody’s Echo Chamber. Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party has officially RED TRUCK’S TRUCK STOP CONCERT SERIES become the Vancouver indie music scene’s marNothing goes better with summer than beer and quee event, with some of the city’s top-flight acts music, the good vibes doubling when you can get playing for crowds of thousands. The staff at Zulu outside for the 12 weeks when it doesn’t rain like Records has this year once again curated a lineup the first 90 minutes of Brad Pitt’s Seven. Thank that’s as brilliantly diverse as Vancouver; for the heaven, then, for another edition of Red Truck’s cost of nothing but getting yourself down to Kits, Truck Stop Concert Series, featuring headliners you get a bill that only starts with alt-pop kings Cut Copy, Drake White and the Big Fire, and Lee the Zolas, garage-pop queens the Courtneys, piFields and the Expressions. When and where: June oneering punks D.O.A., and indie-rock darling 17, July 15, and August 12 at Red Truck Brewery. Louise Burns. But as veterans of past Khats street Suggested retail price: $35 per show; $75 Tailgate parties know, the undercard is equally rewardpass for all three. Fan profile: With a lineup that ing—you’re going to be thrilled by standouts like showcases everything from retro soul (Fields) to Twin Bandit, Art D’Ecco, Actors, and V. Vecker homegrown dream pop (Young Blood) and pais- Ensemble. And that’s just the tip of a bill that’s 40 ley country (Real Ponchos), watch for an audience bands deep. When and where: July 8 on West 4th that’s as colourful as the city we live in. Except with Avenue. Suggested retail price: Free. Fan profile: better musical taste. DIY disciples, which is to say folks whose visits to Zulu aren’t restricted to the day Khats takes place. TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL You don’t get to be one of the biggest, long-
est-running, and most popular cultural events in Vancouver without some seriously passionate leadership. The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival once again delivers a program designed to push boundaries much in the way genre giants like Miles Davis and John Coltrane once did. That means everything from the thrillingly experimental (Achim Kaufmann’s Grünen) to the endlessly classy (Branford Marsalis with the VSO) to the tear-jerkingly beautiful (Seu Jorge Presents: The Life Aquatic—A Tribute to David Bowie). When and where: June 22 to July 2 at various locations. Suggested retail price: Visit www. coastaljazz.ca/ for full details. Fan profile: It’s kind of funny to think that jazz started out being blackballed as “the devil’s music” before becoming the art form of choice for Prohibition nightclubs, beatniks, and forward-thinking heroin addicts. Today, thanks to enduring institutions like the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the genre has gone mainstream while staying admirably wild at heart.
We know what you’re thinking: Queen without Freddie Mercury is pure rock ’n’ roll sacrilege. But considering Freddie and his half of a mike stand aren’t coming back from heaven anytime soon, console yourself with the fact that it could be worse. Have you ever heard The Cosmos Rocks by Queen + Paul Rodgers? When and where: July 2 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $175 to $49.50, plus service charges. Fan profile: Believe it or not, there are a whole lot of people out there who never get sick of hearing “We Will Rock You” at NHL games.
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Because hard-core and politically aware leftie Billy Bragg is among the headliners at this year’s 40thanniversary celebration, imagine the euphoria on-site should Donald Trump walk the impeachment plank down in the States. After all, if the Vancouver Folk Music Festival is famously about anything, it’s building alliances, not walls. On the subject of working together, Bragg will find himself performing with Joe Henry, the two concentrating on songs from their collaboration Shine a RYAN ADAMS For the longest time, onetime Light: Field Recordings From the Great American Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams was famous Railroad. This year’s lineup also spotlights talnot only for recording every song idea that popped ent ranging from Canadian alt-country queens into his head, but also for delivering rambling, (Kathleen Edwards) to Egyptian folk agitators belligerent, and semi-out-of-it live shows. “Clean (Ramy Essam) to African electro-tribal alchemand mostly sober” seems to fit the man these days, ists (Mbongwana Star). When and where: July with recent outings like 1989 and Prisoner getting 13 to 16 at Jericho Beach Park. Suggested retail not only some of the best reviews of his career, but price: Visit thefestival.bc.ca/ for full details. Fan also the ticket sales to match the praise. When and profile: Socially aware to the max, not just politicwhere: June 27 at the Orpheum. Suggested re- ally but also artistically. tail price: $59.50 to $35, plus service charges. Fan profile: Die-hards in faded vintage Whiskeytown MATCHBOX TWENTY AND COUNTING T-shirts, middle-agers who’ve been onboard since CROWS With Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Scott Heartbreaker, and casual fans hoping to hear “Sum- Weiland, and Layne Staley all now in a better place, it’s getting harder and harder to indulge mer of ’69”. in good old-fashioned alt-’90s nostalgia. Enter a FVDED IN THE PARK Where initial installments double bill of acts that were almost as big as Weezwere weighted toward EDM, this year’s edition of er back when MuchMusic actually aired videos FVDED in the Park leans increasingly on hip-hop, rather than endless reruns of Idiotsitter. When with heavyweights including Wiz Khalifa, Dillon and where: July 16 at Rogers Arena. Suggested Francis, and Ty Dolla $ign. Those showing up for retail price: $115 to $39, plus service charges. Fan glitter-spackled anthems and deafening bass drops, profile: Aging parents who haven’t been to a conmeanwhile, will be all about the Chainsmokers, cert since Kurt Cobain joined the 27 club. VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
When J. Cole’s not releasing self-produced No. 1 albums like Born Sinner and 2014 Forest Hills Drive, he’s behind the board helping craft tracks for fellow superstars such as Kendrick Lamar and Janet Jackson. But speaking real volumes about Cole’s worth is the fact that he remains active in the North Carolina community where he was raised, with ventures including providing free housing for single mothers. Class is something that can’t be taught. When and where: July 18 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $125.50 to $29.50, plus service charges. Fan profile: Progressive to the core.
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BOB DYLAN The temptation is to pitch living legend Bob Dylan as a must-see simply because, at age 76, the odds of him touring in the future get slimmer each year. But weirdly, given that Keith Richards, Neil Young, and Pete Townshend are still at it, 70-something appears to be the new 40 in rock ’n’ roll terms. So rather than going to see Dylan because you’re afraid he’s going to die, go see him in the hope not only that he’ll play “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, but that you’ll actually be able to decipher more than every 19th word. When and where: July 25 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $112 to $46.50, plus service charges. Fan profile: Dylan is one of the lucky-few artists whose fan base spans all generations, which means everyone from beat-generation historians to modern altcountry upstarts. BRUNO MARS With Prince having ascended to
heaven on purple wings, Bruno Mars is now America’s favourite purveyor of radio-ready funk- and soul-tinted pop. As with his 2014 Super Bowl performance, expect plenty of synchronized dancing, perma-smiling faces, and wardrobe choices that would impress the Jackson 5 circa Dancing Machine. When and where: July 26 and 27 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $190 to $40, plus service charges. Fan profile: Funk-soul pop fans who’ve never heard of Sly Stone but can name every song ever recorded by Bruno Mars.
ED SHEERAN Every now and then a good guy wins, the feat being all the more impressive when said victor gets to the top largely on good old-fashioned charisma. Ed Sheeran is a rarity in today’s ADHD world: a classic acoustic-guitar-wielding troubadour whose fans are more interested in surprisingly soulful songs than spectacle. When and where: July 28 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: Visit livenation.com/ for full details. Fan profile: English expats, proud gingers, connoisseurs of intelligent, no-frills pop where the soul undertones never sound forced. KENDRICK LAMAR On the gushing-accolades front, Kendrick Lamar might just be the biggest MC in the game, with major achievements including seven Grammys and a 2016 nod from Time as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet. His 2015 full-length To Pimp a Butterfly was hailed universally as nothing less than insanely dazzling, and this April’s Damn racked up an almost perfect 96-out-of-100 score on Metacritic. This is an artist who could not be more on top of his game. When and where: August 2 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $215 to $70 on Ticketmaster, plus service charges. Fan profile: Hard-core West Coast gangstas. And also suburban hip-hop heads whose moms have let them attend Kendrick Lamar on the condition they and their posses be at the Surrey Central SkyTrain station for pickup in the minivan at 11:20 p.m. sharp. BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL By land-
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Imagine being able to tell your 16-year-old, ’80s-MTV-watching self that one day you’d not only be catching ZZ Top, Rick Springfield, the B52s, and Huey Lewis and the News in a relatively intimate outdoor setting, but that you’d do so for free. Welcome to the 2017 edition of PNE Summer Night Concerts, which will feature performances by those platinumselling icons, as well as by Chicago, Colin James, Tom Cochrane, and the Pointer Sisters. For those whose radio dials are tuned to the Peak rather than to Jack FM, Vancouver’s beloved Mother Mother kicks the series off on August 19. When and where: August 19 to September 4 at the PNE Amphitheatre. Suggested retail price: Free with PNE admission. Fan profile: Once you get beyond Mother Mother, folks who remember when MTV actually played videos instead of endless reruns of Catfish: The TV Show. METALLICA The greatness of Metallica is that the only songs nonhard-core fans can really name are “Enter Sandman”, “Enter Sandman”, and “Enter Sandman”. That’s a sign that almost all of those who’ll pack out the biggest venue in the province will be there for underground classics like “Ride the Lightning” and “One”, rather than, you know, “Enter Sandman”. When and where: August 14
at B.C. Place. Suggested retail price: $183 to $55.50, plus service charges. Fan profile: Lifers who’ll argue the worst thing that ever happened to Metallica was hooking up with Bob Rock for the “black album” and then going 20-times-platinum thanks to “Enter Sandman”. RANCID/DROPKICK
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Two heavyweights not only team up for a dream bill, but throw in ska pioneers the Selecter and underground vet Kevin Seconds as a bonus for your welfare buck. From the West Coast, you get ska-punks Rancid, who’ve scored big radio hits like “Time Bomb” without ever selling out. From the East Coast come Celtic punks the Dropkick Murphys, who’ve become an internationally respected treasure thanks to hits like “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”. Bring a mouthguard if you plan to spend time in the pit. When and where: August 15 at Thunderbird Stadium. Suggested retail price: $60 to $40, plus service charges. Fan profile: Punks who appreciate that there’s nothing more punk than playing by your own rules. TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Survivors of Pemberton
album on deck, after which project founders Ninja and Yolandi Visser will be pulling the plug. If that’s true, the group will leave behind one of the most stunning legacies the rap world has ever seen, mostly because no one in the game has so seamlessly fused music and fucking insane street art. And before you go disputing that, feel free to revisit the video for “Fatty Boom Boom”. When and where: August 27 at Thunderbird Arena. Suggested retail price: $49.50 to $32.50, plus service charges. Fan profile: Art renegades, freak-flag flyers, South African white trash, and rap fans who don’t give a shit that Ninja will never be placed on the same pedestal as Eminem, Nas, or even LL Cool J. GUNS N’ ROSES The temptation is to obsess over what might have been: just when Guns N’ Roses became the biggest band in the world, infighting, addiction, and other dramas led to Axl Rose declaring war on his fellow founding members (most notably guitarist Slash and, to a lesser extent, bassist Duff McKagan). For years and years and years, Guns N’ Roses fans were reduced to following a band that had zero original members other than Rose, the hired guns including a guitarist who played in a white Michael Myers mask with an upturned fucking KFC bucket on his head. Thanks to a surprise 2015 reconciliation, a whole new generation gets the opportunity to lose its shit to “Welcome to the Jungle”. When and where: September 1 at B.C. Place. Suggested retail price: $275 to $35, plus service charges. Fan profile: Punks, metalheads, classic rockers, and blues-boogie disciples. The beauty of Guns N’ Roses was that they were a band for everyone, even back when musical boundaries were nowhere near as blurred as they are today.
Festival 2008 might remember that it wasn’t headliners Jay-Z or Nine Inch Nails that everyone was talking about after the dust settled. Instead, the weekend belonged to grizzled classic rocker Tom Petty, who had everyone singing en masse to mix-tape standards like “Free Fallin’ ” and “Into the Great Wide Open”. Yes, there’s a reason why the 66-year-old is still headlining hockey rinks when most rockers of his generation are on-stage at the Skagit Valley Casino Resort. When and where: August 17 at Rogers Arena. Suggested retail price: $175 to $40, plus service charges. Fan profile: Classic-rock fans, along with a healthy smattering of those whose hatred of classic rock is matched only WESTWARD MUSIC FESTIVAL The past couple of years (see the Squaby their love of Tom Petty. mish and Pemberton collapses) have BECK Who would have thought back made festival-loving rock and hipin the “Loser” days that Beck Hansen hop fans wonder why the hell God would become anything other than a has a hate-on for Vancouver. Thank one-hit wonder? In the 30 years since, the ghost of Billy Graham that we’ve the former DIY kid has solidified his finally got some good news, with the status as an American icon, dabbling birth of Westward Music Festival, in everything from white-boy funk to which will feature a winning mix of heartbreakingly melancholy Amer- international and local talent spanning icana. When and where: August 24 genres that range from new-school at the Orpheum. Suggested retail hip-hop (Vince Staples) to throwback price: $85 to $45, plus service char- punk (Pup) to emotionally charged ges. Fan profile: Gen-Xers who—as pop (Hannah Georgas). When and sure as one’s got a weasel and the where: September 14 to 17 at various other’s got a flag—thought Beck was venues. Suggested retail price: Visit going to be famous for “Loser” and westwardfest.com/ for full details. Fan nothing else but. profile: Westward Music Festival has too many genres to come up with a DIE ANTWOORD The official blanket description of its target audiword—which the band has been flip- ence, so how about Vancouver rock flopping on—is that South African zef and hip-hop fans desperate for a multirappers Die Antwoord have one final day festival to call their own? -
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ake my advice and just stay in Vancouver this year. The weather is supposed to be amazing, and we have our own great festivals that you won’t have to spend a bunch of gas money on. It’s going to be nutballs! (“Nutballs” is a thing, right?) Such is my newfound sense of civic pride that I have personally pledged to spend the next three months visiting every park in the city, including the ones that don’t have names. If you choose to ignore the above advice and hit the road this summer, the following festivals, all within a day’s drive from Vancouver, will definitely be worth the trip. VICTORIA’S SKA + REGGAE FESTIVAL (June 14 to 18 at various venues
in Victoria) Why you’re bumming a ride: Rhythm-and-blues legend Booker T. Jones might seem an odd fit for an event that bills itself as a ska and reggae festival, but it’s Booker T. motherfucking Jones, so who’s going to nitpick? Also on the bill are Tarrus Riley, Entangados, Skampida, Roots Roundup, the Boom Booms, and Mike Love (not the one from the Beach Boys). Big selling point: The fact that the Mike Love on the bill is not the one from the Beach Boys.
SEA TO SKY GONDOLA FRIDAY SUNSET MUSIC SERIES (Fridays,
June 16 to September 22) Why you’re bumming a ride: You might not have heard of the Offroaders, the Hairfarmers, the Cole Patenaude Band, the Jocelyn Petit Band, or Bluesberry Jam, but my god, that view. Big selling point: The view. Seriously. Google it. And then imagine that view to the sounds of the Offroaders, the Jocelyn Petit Band, or Bluesberry Jam.
SPIRIT OF 150 VICTORIA (June
30 and July 1 on the B.C. Legislature Lawns in Victoria) Why you’re bumming a ride: There are certainly worse ways you could spend Canada’s 150th birthday than enjoying free performances by the Arkells, Tegan and Sara, Delhi 2 Dublin, En Karma, and the seemingly inescapable Funk Hunters. Big selling point: Here’s hoping Tegan and Sara will do a patriotic rewrite of that Lego Movie song and call it “Canada Is Awesome”.
PHILLIPS BACKYARD WEEKENDER (July 7 to 9 at the Phillips Brew-
ery in Victoria) Why you’re bumming a ride: The roster for this year is still a closely guarded secret, but last year’s party at the brewery featured Milky Chance, Bahamas, A Tribe Called Red, and the seemingly inescapable Funk Hunters. Big selling point: Beer.
BASS COAST (July 7 to 10 in Mer-
ritt) Why you’re bumming a ride: Bass Coast sells out in, like, five seconds whenever tickets go on sale each spring, which means that, in the immortal words of Drake, if you’re reading this it’s too late. If you’re willing to pay $1,200 to some scalper on Craigslist, however, you are lucky in two ways—you get to go to Bass Coast, and you obviously have an enviable amount of disposable income. Big selling point: You’ll be able to put that coveted Bass Coast sticker on the back
Unless you want a car filled with rat droppings and blunt butts, don’t give Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er a ride to Seattle for Bumbershoot.
of your Westfalia and tell everyone you saw Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness, Unicorn Fukr, and the seemingly inescapable Funk Hunters. ELEMENT MUSIC FESTIVAL (Au-
gust 3 to 6 at Snug Lake Amphitheatre in Princeton) Why you’re bumming a ride: The String Cheese Incident, Steve Kimock and Friends, Garaj Mahal, Five Alarm Funk, Brickhouse, Big Easy Funk Ensemble, and Genetics— a blend of acts designed to appeal to head-nodding beardos who can appreciate the intricacy of a 10-minute improvised lute solo played in Phrygian mode as well as those who just want a bitchin’ soundtrack for an extended hacky-sack marathon. Big selling point: Hell, if it means we get to camp beside a pristine alpine lake surrounded by unspoiled wilderness, even we can pretend to enjoy 10-minute improvised lute solos played in Phrygian mode.
Pomo, Rob Garza, Stanton Warriors, and the seemingly inescapable Funk Hunters. Big selling point: Lucent Dossier Experience and Black Tiger Sex Machine would seem to prove that throwing words together at random is the best way to name an EDM project. With that in mind, I’ll be sneaking into Shambhala this year and performing a guerrilla set under the moniker Standstill Lonesome Wraith.
NOTION (August 24 to 28 at Beaverfoot Lodge in Golden) Why you’re bumming a ride: Some people—the sensible ones, it could be argued—go camping in the wilderness to get some peace and quiet away from all the noise of civilization. Others go to hear the likes of Datsik, Avalon, Dirty Phonics, Koan Sound, the M Machine, Minnesota, Fort Knox Five, Longwalkshortdock, Smalltown DJs, and the seemingly inescapable Funk Hunters blast the shit out of said peace and quiet through a MERRITT ROCKIN’ RIVER FEST 50,000-watt sound system. Big sell(August 3 to 6 at Merritt Festival Show ing point: Why be quiet when you Site in Merritt) Why you’re bum- can be loud? ming a ride: Given their ignoble history and reputation, it’s pretty easy to BUMBERSHOOT (September 1 to 3 at be cynical about country-music fes- Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington) tivals that take place in Merritt. The Why you’re bumming a ride: We alRockin’ River Fest really gets things ways call Bumbershoot “Seattle’s best right this year, though, striking a party”, and we’re just going to go ahead balance between twang-poppers (the and do that again, given a lineup that Band Perry), bona fide music icons includes Lorde, Flume, Odesza, Weez(Willie Nelson and Family), new- er, Big Sean, Die Antwoord, Haim, school outlaws (Kacey Musgraves), Spoon, Solange, Ekali, Deap Vally, the and banjo-wielding crossovers Roots, and Flo Rida. Plus, laughs from (Washboard Union). Also, whatever the likes of Margaret Cho, Todd Barry, Toby Keith is. Big selling point: Wil- and Judah Friedlander. Big selling lie Nelson is, like, 1,000 years old. Go point: It’s fucking Bumbershoot! see him while you still can. RIFFLANDIA FESTIVAL (September CHASING SUMMER (August 5 14 to 17 at various venues in Victoria) and 6 at the Max Bell Centre Festi- Why you’re bumming a ride: There’s val Grounds in Calgary) Why you’re always some joker. In last year’s outbumming a ride: If you like to dance, of-town roundup, we told you about you’ll no doubt love doing so to the a performer going by the name of sounds of Tiësto, Zedd, W&W, Jauz, Fleetwood Smack (at the Tall Tree fest Tritonal, NGHTMRE, Infected Mush- in Port Renfrew). This year it’s Fleetroom, and the seemingly inescapable mac Wood at Victoria’s 10th annual Funk Hunters. Big selling point: Do Rifflandia. If someone would like to you like to dance? book Meatwood Flack for next year, we can call it a trifecta. Big selling point: SHAMBHALA MUSIC FESTIVAL Silly names aside, can you think of a (August 11 to 14 at Salmo River Ranch better way to say goodbye to summer in Nelson) Why you’re bumming a than by catching live performances by ride: Dance in the forest to A-Trak, Zeds Dead, Bonobo, A Tribe Called the Orb, Z-Trip, Beats Antique, Dat- Red, Yukon Blonde, Busty and the sik, Dilated Peoples, Black Tiger Sex Bass, and Said the Whale, along with Machine, Excision, DJ Jazzy Jeff, LTJ DJ sets by Moby and Hot Chip? No Bukem, Lucent Dossier Experience, Funk Hunters this year, sadly. MOTION
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Chefs and artists hit black-metal gathering To slightly tweak a Frank Zappa does humour belong in black metal music? Not everyone thinks so. As one of the commenters on the Black 2, The Gathering Facebook page would have it, the decision to have YouTube star the Vegan Black Metal Chef headline the June 11 celebration of black metal culture is “a fucking joke”. And rather than stop there, poster Jordan Daniel Cameron continued with: “A black metal vegan chef? Fuck right off it sounds like a bunch of hipsters put this thing together.” Brian Manowitz—a.k.a. the Vegan Black Metal Chef—has heard it all before. “I get plenty of ‘Die you vegan faggot,’ or things of that nature,” he admits, on the phone from Los Angeles. “But honestly, the overwhelming majority of the comments are pretty positive, once they see an episode, or hear the music.” That music is a spot-on pastiche of black metal. Manowitz writes and performs the songs in his YouTube episodes, the lyrics all about cooking eggplant or lasagna rather than scrambled Scandinavian brains. (Check out “Episode 21: Breakfast Massacre”, where, over chugging guitars, he places tofu in a sizzling pan while demonically growling “The prophecy states that the fried tofu slices/Will turn a little bit brown.”) If some people don’t get the humour, Manowitz isn’t overly concerned. “Honestly, black metal people don’t even like black metal bands!” he says. “There’s no appeasing everyone.” It’s a shame, because his videos are really fucking funny. The first he posted—a recipe for vegan pad thai, which went online in 2011 and has racked up over three million views—was conceived as a spoof of three groups that take themselves too seriously. “Vegans, black-metal-heads, and chefs,” he says. “I poke fun at all three, and also take very seriously all three.”
“I’m actually a bit of a fan,” SVNEATR leader Vitharr says. “I myself am a vegetarian. As far as the controversy around it, it seems silly, because black metal is supposed to be about independent thought and expression!”
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Annihilator’s Waters says he has the world’s best job Just when you think Brian Manowitz, better known as the Vegan Black Metal Chef, has used every possible seitan/Satan pun, he surprises you.
Manowitz—in full costume—will be instructing Black 2, The Gathering audiences at the Rickshaw in how to make palak aloo, a South Asian spinach and potato dish, as well as vegan pakoras. He’ll be joined by an even heavier hitter in the world of black metal: the “Lord of the Logos” himself, Christophe Szpajdel, a Belgiumto-Britain transplant who made news recently for designing a death-metalinfluenced logo for Rihanna. Szpajdel’s other famous clients include Emperor—one of the bands implicated in the notorious Norwegian church burnings. Given some of the extremes that black metal adherents will go to, would he ever refuse a commission? “I haven’t so far refused commissions,” he tells the Straight from Exeter, England, while working on a logo during a Skype call. “But I started to become more and more selective. In 1992, I did a logo for a band called Absurd, or a band called Graveland, that were actually sort of initiators of this kind of ideology of NS [National Socialist] black metal. But they [Graveland] were, musicwise, absolutely great. And these bands have,
these days, matured, and they have evolved from this NS black metal into something a lot more elemental. So if they start becoming more respectful towards others, okay. But if they are sort of kids, who are sabotaging and are disrespectful towards others, this is what would tarnish my reputation. For example, if it is a band who has desecrated the monument of [Pantera guitarist] Dimebag Darrell, like one band has done in Texas, that would be something completely unacceptable.” A short documentary on Szpajdel—who has done over 10,000 logos—will screen as part of Black 2, The Gathering, which also includes a performance piece conceived by local metal photographer and event co-organizer Kevin Eisonlord. The evening will also feature a set by White Rock black metal act SVNEATR, whose name refers to the wolf who eats the sun during the Viking apocalypse, Ragnarök. SVNEATR’s 2015 EP, Serpents & Storms, is rife with violent and antireligious imagery. Proving some people have a sense of humour, though, the group is fine with sharing a stage with the Vegan Black Metal Chef.
When Jeff Waters picks up the
2 phone at his home in Ottawa to
hasn’t been announced yet. As always, he’ll be heavily involved with the behind-the-scenes work on that tour, because he’s not just the guitarist. “Basically, I’m the manager, the tour-agent guy, the mixer, master, engineer, songwriter—everything you can imagine. But I get to do all this playing metal and having fun at 51 years old, and that’s my only job. So you can’t complain about how busy it is ’cause it’s the funnest job in the world.” One of the things that have kept that job enjoyable for Waters all this time is the music itself. From day one Annihilator’s sound and style have been evolving, and its revolving cast of members—with Waters the only constant—has helped. “The first four albums we did had four different singers and four different lineups,” he explains, “and they were four very big albums outside of North America for us. So it’s kinda like the most bizarre path any band’s ever taken in metal. And then from then on we just sailed through in our European and Japanese and South American careers and kept releasing up-and-down albums qualitywise, saleswise—which is kinda normal. If you’re the main songwriter and just going forever, you’re gonna have your ups and downs on what you’re doing.” Annihilator’s latest album, 2015’s Suicide Society, has made the charts in Belgium, France, and Germany. “We play for anywhere from 400 to 80,000 people,” says Waters of his band’s status in Europe. “We’ll play clubs and then all of a sudden we’re coheadlining a show with Slayer somewhere in Bulgaria. It varies. “So it’s not a setup for massive commercial success,” he adds, “but it sure is a setup for a pretty good life and being able artistically to do what you want.”
talk about his metal band, Annihilator, and plug its upcoming Vancouver show, I remind him that we go way back. I last interviewed him in 1990, just after Annihilator had released its second album, Never, Neverland. So my first question was pretty easy to come up with: did he have any inkling back then that 27 years later he’d still be living the metal life? “Nope,” he replies quickly. “When I started out in the mid-’80s in Ottawa my dream was just to get a record deal, and I didn’t even know what that meant! But when our first album came out—and I was in Vancouver at that time—it was like, ‘Holy crap, we got one, and it worked!’ After that it was like, ‘Well, now what do we do?’ “Then our singer quits in the middle of a Testament tour in the States, and I thought, ‘Oh, I guess that’s it.’ And the manager was like, ‘Get another singer, do another album.’ So I worked out the wrinkles over the years and just fine-tuned this little machine. We’re sort of unknown here in Canada, but overseas just busy every year touring and putting records out.” > STEVE NEWTON Waters recently learned that Annihilator will be part of a “huge metal package” in Europe this year, but he Annihilator plays the Rickshaw Theatre can’t say with which bands because it next Thursday (June 15).
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Scan to confess A painted goodbye When I stepped outside of the art world to pursue a different passion, it was like all my artist friends forgot I existed and I was no longer important enough to them. No calls. No invitations. No “hello” when they passed me on the street. They still invited me to ALL their shows and installations though. So pardon my while I don’t feel sorry for the artists who are leaving the city because it’s too expensive.
Latest London Terrorist Attack I went to school with Chrissy Archibald. She is everything they say she is. Very nice young woman and I do feel for her family’s loss. She was a very nice woman. R.I.P.
Not my friend I helped you out in your time of need, got you a job, encouraged your personal growth and thought of you as a good friend. Turns out you’re just a bitch. And I don’t want you in my life anyways. You’re no friend of mine.
Limited Time Only After they tore down that strip of houses monopoly style for condos, it looks like I have a sunset view of the mountains from my house for the summer.
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JOY SQUARED! BAND MAD FOR JOY AND JOYFUL REBELLION CHOIR CELEBRATE CANADA 150 AT FREE ALL AGES EVENT Come for an evening of vibrant, local music. Mad For Joy plays magical roots, jazz-rock and Joyful Rebellion Choir has an eclectic repertoire of favourite tunes. Jun 15, 7 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Info bit.ly/joy-squared.
NORTH SHORE JAZZ Concerts include “voice of New Orleans” John Boutte, folk fave Roy Forbes, “King of the Slydeco” Sonny Landreth & Steely Dan tribute band Steelin’ in the Years. Presented in partnership with the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Includes four free shows. Jun 23–Jul 2, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). The event also runs at Presentation House., info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. BEN HARPER AND THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS American folk-rock singersongwriter and guitarist and his band tour in support of his latest studio album Call It What It Is. Jul 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $59.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. VNV NATION English-Irish alt-electronica band, with guests iVARDENSPHERE. Aug 14, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. 2 CHAINZ American hip-hop recording artist performs on his Pretty Girls Like Trap Music Tour 2017. Aug 18, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $55 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
OH WONDER London, England–based altpop duo of Anthony West and Josephine Vander Gucht performs on its Ultralife Tour. Sep 6, doors 5:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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BENJAMIN BOOKER American singersongwriter and guitarist tours in support of latest release Witness. Sep 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. THUNDERCAT Los Angeles bassist and singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Drunk. Sep 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS English folk-punk singer-songwriter and his band tour in support of sixth album Positive Songs for Negative
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People. Sep 13, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE SADIES Canadian rock band tours in support of latest release Northern Passages. Sep 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. SHEER MAG Philadelphia punk band tours in support of upcoming debut release Need to Feel Your Love, with guests Tony Molina and BB. Sep 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $14 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JON BELLION New York City-based hiphop singer-songwriter performs on the third leg of his Human Condition Tour. Oct 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ARCADE FIRE Canadian indie-rock band performs on its Infinite Content tour in support of its upcoming fifth album Everything Now. Oct 14, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings
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Celebrating our 50th year in business 1967-2017
Get paid more money for your gold and silver We’re always buying!
Diamonds Buying 20 pt. and up
We are particularly interested in larger diamonds of 1 carat and up.
Gold Coins and Bars
We have been the Lower Mainland’s #1 choice buyers since 1967 Item/Description
Antique Jewellery
J&M Pays
10kt scrap gold, per gram .................................................................. $20.11 14kt scrap gold, per gram ..................................................................$28.24 1 oz. Recognized Gold Bar...........................................................$1,684.02 1 oz. Gold Maple Leaf Coin ..........................................................$1,693.50 Sterling Silver, per Gram .....................................................................$0.57 Silver Canadian Coins from 1966 and earlier, per $1 face value ......$12.16
Silverware
Prices in this ad are all CAD buying prices, not selling prices, and are based on gold @ U$1,252.00 and silver @ U$16.77 and a USD/CAD exchange rate of 1.354 on March 19, 2017, the day this ad was created.
Canada Collector Coins
Watches
Rolex, Vacheron & Constantine, Patek Philipe, Breitling, Omega, Jaeger LeCoultre, Select Cartier, and many other high-end watches.
1948 $1 EF ..........................$900.00 and up 1890H 50¢ .......................$1,350.00 and up 1875H 25¢ ..........................$375.00 and up 1889 10¢ .............................$700.00 and up 1921 5¢ ............................$4,000.00 and up 1923 1¢ .................................$18.00 and up Coins must be at least VG
Silver Coins
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Canada 1968 .......................................$7.62 Canada 1967 .......................................$9.68 Canada 1966 and earlier ...................$12.16 USA 1964 and older .........................$14.92
1 oz. modern, sealed bars ............$1,684.02 1 oz gold Maple Leaf ....................$1,693.50 1 oz. Krugerrand ...........................$1,661.43 Sovereign ........................................$385.15
Silver Coins and Bars
1 oz. silver bar ...................................$24.29 10 oz. silver bar ...............................$231.35 100 oz. silver bar ..........................$2,272.84 1 oz. silver Maple Leaf.......................$23.95
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(VWDWH DSSUDLVHUV DQG EX\HUV .QRZOHGJHDEOH DQG FHUWL¿ HG JHPPRORJLVWV and appraisers. We are always buying jewellery, quality gemstones, high-end watches, coins, gold and silver bullion, and modern and old banknotes. Show us what you have for a free, no-obligation verbal offer. Save money every day only at J&M! Shop online for more jewellery and watches at iorio.com or jandm.com. Contact us at jandm@jandm.com.
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HO QUARTET Jun 15 2FROM SAN FRANCISCO: JACQUI NAYLOR Jun 16
Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $95/60/45/35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings. Evil Bastard Karaoke Experience seven days a week.
WHITEHORSE Canadian folk-rock band tours in support of latest album Panther in the Dollhouse, with guests Terra Lightfoot. Oct 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 9, 10 am, $32 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2MOUNT KIMBIE Jun 8 2HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Jun 15
2THIS WEEK FESTIVAL D’ÉTÉ FRANCOPHONE DE VANCOUVER Annual summer francophone festival features music by La Bronze, Paul Piché, Isabelle Longnus, Combustion Lente, Anne-Lune, and Pascale Goodrich-Black and La Vallée des Loups, as well as evenings of jazz and world-fusion music. Jun 14-27, various Vancouver venues. Info 604-736-9806, www.lecentreculturel.com/.
IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 2HARPDOG BROWN Jun 8 2WOODY JAMES Jun 9 2KISILTONES Jun 10 2SONS OF THE HOE Jun 11 RAILWAY STAGE AND BEER CAFÉ 579 Dunsmuir, 604-564-1430. 2JOKES Jun 6 2BURNT Jun 8 2DUMB Jun 9 2ROCOCODE Jun 10 2JOKES Jun 13 RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2SUPERSUCKERS Jun 8 2COVENANT FESTIVAL III: NIGHT 2 Jun 9 2COVENANT FESTIVAL: NIGHT 3 Jun 10 2BLACK 2, THE GATHERING Jun 11 2SEVERED HEADS Jun 13 2CKY Jun 14 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2DAVID LINDLEY Jun 11
CLUBS & VENUES BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. 2ISLAND VIBES REGGAE NIGHT Jun 7 BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. Live jazz, soul, and blues. Closed on Mondays. COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2HOLLERADO Jun 10 2HELLYEAH Jun 12 2TARRUS RILEY Jun 15 2JURASSIC 5 Jun 23 FRANKIE’S JAZZ CLUB 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. 2REBECCA WENHAM AND JANE HAYES Jun 13 2THE MARIA
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. 2DEVA PREMAL AND MITEN Jun 9 2AUNTY DONNA Jun 10 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2REBELSTOKE Jun 10 2MONDAYS WITH VANDRIVER Jun 12 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Jun 13
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Healing Our Spirit B.C. First Nations AIDS Society has volunteer opportunities for hospital visitation, information booths, office assistance & preparation of pamphlets & condoms for distribution. We offer volunteer orientation, training & recognition & bus tickets. If interested, please call 983-8774 Ext. 13. We are dedicated to preventing and reducing the spread of HIV in the aboriginal communities of B.C.
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION Looking to start a parent support group in Kitsilano. Please call Barbara 604 737 8337 Healthy & loving relationships alluding you? CODA: Co-dependency Anonymous 12 step Recovery: 604- 515-5585 Infertility Awareness Assoc. of Canada (IAAC) provides educational material & support to individuals or couples experiencing infertility. Meetings: 7 pm the 2nd Wed of the month. Richmond Library & Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate. Info 523-0074 or www.iaac.ca
Support, Education & Action Group for Women that have experienced male violence. Call Vancouver Rape Relief 604-872-8212 Women Survivors of Incest Anonymous A 12 Step based peer support program. Wed @ 7pm @ Avalon Women's Centre 5957 West Blvd 604-263-7177 also www.siawso.org LIVING THROUGH LOSS COUNSELLING facilitated support group for people who are grieving the death of a significant person. Monthly drop-in- last Wed of every month YLTLC #201 – 1847 W. Broadway Van. 604-873-5013 www.ltlc.bc.ca Drug & Alcohol Problems? Free advanced information and help on how quit drinking & using drugs. For more information call Barry Bjornson @ 604-836-7568 or email me @livinghumility@live.com BC Balance & Dizziness provides information & support for persons with balance, dizziness & vestibular disorders. Bi Monthly info meetings @ St. Paul's Hospital. Call for info. 604-878-8383 www.BalanceAndDizziness.org Distress Line & Suicide Prevention Services NEED SOME ONE TO TALK TO? Call us for immediate, free, confidential and non-judgemental support, 24 hours a day, everyday. The Crisis Centre in Vancouver can help you cope more effectively with stressful situations. 604-872-3311
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Death Notices Jean Emery #4 – 11 W/Broadway
Personal items include a small collection of trading cards, coins, stamp collections and various electronics and vintage clocks. The items will be disposed of after 30 days of the notice being served or posted, unless the person being notified takes the items, or establishes a right to the items, or makes a dispute resolution application with the Residential Tenancy Branch, or makes an application in Supreme Court to establish their rights to the items. Please contact R. JANG & Associates Ltd. at 604 738-1010 Ext. 113. 1010 West Broadway Vancouver, BC
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778-886-3675 D/T. Battered Women's Support Services provides free daytime & evening support groups (Drop-ins & 10 week groups) for women abused by their intimate partner. Groups provide emotional support, legal information & advocacy, safety planning, and referrals. For more information please call: 604-687-1867 SEXAHOLICS ANONYMOUS - Vancouver, BC For those desiring their own sexual sobriety, please go to www.sa.org for meetings times and places. We are here to help you from being overwhelmed. Newcomers are gratefully welcomed. The Compassionate Friends (TCF) Burnaby TCF is a grief support group for parents who have experienced the loss of a child, at any age. Meet the last Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. For location call Grace: 778-222-0446 "We Need Not Walk Alone" compassionatecircle@hotmail.com Burnaby@TCFCanada.net www.tcfcanada.net Vancouver Society for Sexuality, Gender & Culture Educational group with monthly meetings are planned for: 1st Tuesday of each month, 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Vancouver Public Library - Firehall Branch 1455 W 10th Ave (by Granville St next to the Firehall) All are welcome, and we are looking for Board Members from the Health, Counseling, Education, and Business Professions Info: Michael or Darren: VSSGC@yahoogroups.ca WAVAW - Rape Crisis Centre has a 24-hour crisis line, counselling, public education, & volunteer opportunities for women. All services are free & confidential. Please call for info: Business Line: 604-255-6228 24-Hour Crisis Line: 604-255-6344
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LIVE MUSIC Local band TOKEN RHYME @ THE PRINCETON PUB. FRI JUN 9 / 9pm. Americana, Grateful Dead, R&B. No cover. https://www.reverbnation.com/tokenrhyme
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savage love I hate how my boyfriend has sex with me. He is 40 years old. It used to be fine, but a year ago he started adding new moves he obviously got from porn: smacking my pussy with an open palm, vigorously rubbing my clit, wrapping his hands around my neck. I’m not antiporn; what bothers me is that even though I told him these moves don’t feel good on my body and hurt me, he doesn’t care. I’ve told him that it is painful when he slaps and manhandles my clit, and he responds that he likes it and I should feel happy that he still wants to fuck me six times a week. It’s not that I don’t want him to enjoy himself, but I don’t feel like his enjoyment should come at the price of mine. I don’t know how to get him to listen to me. > PORN LESSONS ERASING ALL SEXUAL ENERGY
Your boyfriend listened to you, PLEASE. You told him you don’t like his porny new moves; he told you he likes them and intends to keep doing them. So this isn’t about listening— it’s about caring. Your boyfriend is hurting you and “he doesn’t care.” Dump the motherfucker already. And while you’re not antiporn, PLEASE, and I’m certainly not antiporn, it would appear that porn—the default sex education for too many people, young and old—is part of the problem. “The porn industry, like every other area of popular culture, is dominated by a closed loop of white guys talking to white guys about other white guys,” said Cindy Gallop, legendary advertising executive, consultant, and public speaker. “The
most easily accessed mainstream straight porn is all about the man, with zero empathy for the female experience, taken to ludicrous (and, for the woman, painful) extremes.” Like you and me, PLEASE, Gallop is not antiporn. But she’s fighting shitty porn—and the shitty expectations it can instill—with real-life contrast via her innovative #realworldsex site/ platform MakeLoveNotPorn.com. “It’s a social sex-video-sharing platform designed to be a counterpoint to the porn industry while promoting good sexual values and behaviour,” said Gallop. “We need to be able to view great #realworldsex in all its messy, funny, beautiful, silly, wonderful, ridiculous humanness in the same medium that we view porn: online. That’s why MakeLoveNotPorn. com exists. We’re pro sex, pro porn, and pro knowing the difference.” Gallop wants not only to balance out porn with socially shared #realworldsex but to see the porn market flooded with porn made by women—which doesn’t mean porn made “for” women, she points out, but more disruptive, creative porn for everyone. “Seeing more innovative porn—porn that men would find just as hot—would result in everybody having a much better time in bed,” said Gallop. “Men need to see there is no bigger turn-on than being in bed with someone who you know is having an absolutely fabulous time because of you.” Unfortunately, PLEASE, you’re having an absolutely miserable time because of him. “PLEASE’s boyfriend is operating in his own closed loop: the belief that
> BY DAN SAVAGE sexual gratification is all about him,” said Gallop. “He has no idea what sexual gratification really could be. She needs to leave him.” You can find Cindy Gallop’s viral Ted Talk and a documentary about MakeLoveNotPorn at ifundwomen. com/projects/makelovenotporn/. Follow her on Twitter @CindyGallop.
I’m 28 years old and have been
with my boyfriend (also 28) for three years. Our relationship is monogamous and vanilla. I’m a pretty sexual person: I’ve been to bondage clubs and burlesque shows, and I’ve had my fair share of sexual encounters with men and women. I like to dominate and be dominated. However, my boyfriend is nonaggressive, nondominating, and noninitiating. I always have to initiate and I’m always in the driver’s seat. I’m tired of this. I enjoy strong masculine energy! I’m a feminist, but sometimes in the bedroom it can be incredibly hot to feel like a sex object. We’ve talked and talked and tried some light bondage (he didn’t like it) and talked about a threesome (he’s opposed). He says sex just isn’t something he “thinks about a lot”. How do I get him to show some sexual aggression? > WANTS HIM AGGRESSIVE MORE
Keep reading, WHAM.
My husband of 17 years has never been into sex—which I always knew was a problem, but the other stuff was good. He’s into pornography, though, and I’ve busted him many times. To say I am resentful is an understatement. He uses corn oil for masturbating, and I’ve been
reduced to marking the bottle and booby-trapping it to see if he’s been up to his tricks. We have two children, so that’s what keeps me from “pulling the trigger”.
who complained my G-spot moved around, and who fell asleep fingering me. I put up with his shit for far too long. It would have been helpful to be told that GGG needs to be MUTUAL > GAGGING IN CHICAGO and feel good for both parties. > SASSY UNCONQUERED BABE
GIC: You have three options. 1. Pull the trigger. 2. Redefine your marriage as companionate—it’s about child-rearing and family life, not about sex. If your husband is free to find fulfi llment in the bottle (of corn oil) and you’re free to find fulfi llment in the bedroom (of another man/men), maybe you can make it work. 3. Continue with what you’re doing now—your husband sneaking off to have a wank, and you monitoring (and booby-trapping?!?) every bottle of corn oil that comes into the house. WHAM: Your boyfriend isn’t going to become someone else—he’s not going to suddenly become more interested in sex or more sexually aggressive— so if you don’t want to be sending me a letter like GIC’s in 14 years, end this relationship. People who want healthy, functional, monogamous LTRs—free from booby traps and busts—need to prioritize sexual compatibility at the start. That doesn’t mean things can’t go off the rails later (see the first letter), but they’re less likely to.
GGG—good in bed, giving of pleasure, and game for anything within reason—is what we should be for our partners and our partners should be for us. So it absolutely needs to be mutual, SUB, and there are defi nitely limits. “Being GGG means considering a partner’s reasonable sexual requests,” I responded to a reader who asked for a GGG clarification back when we had a brand-new and completely sane president. “Not all sexual requests can be fulfilled, and not all needs can be met. But two people who want to make their relationship work need to carve out a mutually satisfying repertoire that doesn’t leave anyone feeling frustrated or used. Does everyone get everything they want? Of course not. But each of us has a right to ask for our needs to be met (without being abusive or coercive) and the responsibility to indulge our partner’s reasonable requests if we can (without being abused or coerced). We should also recognize when the gulf is too great and end the relationship rather than engaging in sex I desperately wanted to be GGG acts that leave us feeling diminished in my past relationship. My part- and dehumanized.” ner chronically complained that I wasn’t giving him enough sex. I felt On the Lovecast, can alcohol make so guilty that I put up with some very you gay for a night?: savagelovecast. coercive situations. I became an or- com . Email: mail@savagelove.net . gasm dispenser for a dumbass whose Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedan beard prickled my clit painfully, savage. ITMFA.org.
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