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n theory, sunscreen is pretty awesome. Made from a mix of organic and inorganic ingredients that reflect harmful UV rays, or absorb them and then convert them into heat, these protective creams, lotions, and sprays shield our skin from radiation that may otherwise leave us with a painful lobster-red tinge. And because excessive sun exposure has been linked to skin cancer, sun-care products are also key preventive agents when it comes to our health and well-being. What you may not know, however, is that some of these ingredients— particularly the inorganic ones—may actually be damaging your body from the inside out. These include hormonedisrupting chemicals, allergens, and other irritants that help store-bought sunscreens maintain a certain scent or consistency. “What we want to avoid, as conscientious consumers, are the ingredients in sunscreen that are going to cause other health effects,” explains Lindsay Coulter, the David Suzuki Foundation’s resident Queen of Green, by phone. But Coulter notes that there is a way out of this seemingly contradictory mess. Unlike for household cleaners, Health Canada requires manufacturers of sun-care products to list all components on the bottle, which makes it easy for shoppers to spot the good, the bad, and the mustavoid before heading to the checkout. So, what’s one ingredient that consumers should avoid at all costs? According to Coulter, it’s fragrance, or “parfum”, a combination of any of more than 3,000 allergy-, migraine-, and asthma-triggering chemicals that imparts a synthetic odour to beauty and at-home products. These mixtures may even be present in “fragrance-free” or “unscented” items, where they go undetected in the presence of masking agents. “If you avoid fragrance in your sunscreen and all your cosmetics, you’re probably going to avoid a bunch of other harmful chemical ingredients as well,” says Coulter. “It’s in almost everything, and almost always one of the last ingredients on every list.” Coulter also identifies oxybenzone—a chemical additive that has been shown to interfere with the function of endocrine systems—and retinol palmitate, a form of vitamin A

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In fact, once the journal-writing 58-year-old protagonist—a lonely, self-loathing, alcoholic ex-militaryofficer suffering from PTSD—provides a summary of his and the world’s “ruinedness”, the story’s focus narrows considerably to dramatic interactions in a pair of tight locations: Mercy’s rundown bachelor apartment (Journal One) and an isolated family cabin on Vancouver Island (Journal Two). In each, a battle of wills takes centre stage. A man wrestling with ghosts, demons, shame, and regret, Mercy has spent years drunk at home or fighting the urge to drink. This pattern changed when he met an enigmatic woman, a free-spirited dancer named Claudia Casper’s latest novel draws a portrait of a man struggling with love Ruby. The intensity of their connecand addiction in the ruins of a city once known as Seattle. Alex Waber photo. tion, he recalls in his journal, supplied humans and countless other species. Claudia Casper’s third novel feels him with hope. Characteristically for Despite this planetwide over- far closer in spirit to an intimate dystopian literature, though, love is a view of postcataclysmic OneWorld, play about relationships. supremely fragile blossom.

With the surprise return of an aggressive and self-serving brother who often comes across as a budding sociopath, Mercy is forced to face past actions related to brutal military orders and sons he abandoned. Casper sets the men and two others on a wilderness journey where the question of how a person might be forced to act in order to protect an innocent is insistently raised and firmly answered. Readers after the ChickieNobs and O.N.A.N.s of speculative fiction might be disappointed when Vancouver’s Casper gradually swaps inventions of that kind for something more atavistic, like two men in a power struggle. In the author’s defence, a case can be made that most dystopias, real or imaginary, feature warring ideologues vying for supremacy. > BRETT JOSEF GRUBISIC

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s a cookbook author and co-owner and chef of Vij’s and Rangoli restaurants, Meeru Dhalwala has created a highly successful career out of food. Her passion goes well beyond the kitchen, however. Dhalwala is also the founder of Joy of Feeding, an annual fundraiser for UBC Farm. The farm, the only certified-organic one in Vancouver, is a 60-hectare living laboratory for sustainable food systems. “My profession—food and how it is grown, raised, fished, produced, eaten, sold, et cetera—accounts for 19 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions, which is higher than oil,” Dhalwala tells the Georgia Straight. “The research they are doing at the farm centre [Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm] in terms Restaurateur Meeru Dhalwala says we contribute to climate change when we don’t know where our food comes from. of finding sustainable ways to feed If current trajectories continue, “If we can’t hold food ingredients backgrounds—from the Dene Nation the [planet’s] actual seven billion and soon to be nine billion affordably and global food demand will increase by in our hands and know what to do in the Northwest Territories to the with environmental stewardship is 70 percent by 2050, according to the with them, how will we care how they Philippines—to offer a taste of their are grown, raised, salted, treated, and favourite dishes. The event showcases potentially huge for people, animals, United Nations. In B.C., only 2.6 million of the 4.7 fished?” she asks. “If we can’t feel con- cultural traditions and the beauty and fish, and climate change. “I fundraise for UBC Farm because million hectares of Agricultural Land nected to people with different cul- benefits of cooking simple, wholeI want Vancouver to be the world’s hub Reserve are actively farmed, and the tures, how can we care enough about some meals at home. for academic farming methods and re- average age of farmers in this province our community? And who are we if “Cooking is not a joy at the end search,” she adds. “I is 56. Along with we do not have an emotional connec- of a busy day,” Dhalwala says. “It’s a am from an immithe aging farm- tion to our families and our past?” pain in the butt, and now with our grant family. I care, ing demographic, In 2011, Dhalwala, who is also hyperstressed and plugged-in lives, obsessively, about issues of agricul- on the board of directors for Van- it’s daunting. For example, I will Gail Johnson climate change, and tural-land develop- couver Farmers Markets, launched work a nine-hour day and at 6 p.m. I know that nothing positive will hap- ment and economic barriers facing Joy of Feeding with the help of say, ‘Shit, what do I feed my kids topen in terms of climate change until we new farmers are local trends that are Mary MacKay of Terra Breads. The night?’ I can’t make a time-consumas a community bond with one another being experienced worldwide. fundraiser is an intergenerational, ing gourmet meal. I have to make and find hope and become brave to Even though people are concerned international food festival that cele- something very simple and easy and, make the necessary changes.…In order about climate change and food secur- brates home-cooked dishes from hopefully, decent-tasting. for humans to cut down the 19 percent ity, Dhalwala found that there is a dis- around the world. “But if we prioritize and get the emissions, and in order for us to cut connect: we contribute to the problem Vij’s, Terra Breads, the Pacific In- guts and willpower to spend 45 down on our overall health-care costs, when we don’t know where our food stitute of Culinary Arts, and UBC minutes cooking, the joy comes we need to be cooking at home and feed- comes from or how important it is to Food Services will bring together from feeding and nourishing ouring ourselves.” share cultural culinary traditions. 15 home cooks of different cultural selves and our family and friends

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YEW SEAFOOD + BAR (791 West Georgia Street) A delicious three-course surf ’n’ turf prix fixe menu ($85), with à la carte options available.

SECRET LOCATION (1 Water Street) A threecourse cookout brunch ($42), including charcoalroasted lingcod and more.

BOULEVARD KITCHEN & OYSTER BAR (845 Burrard Street) Indulge in rib-eye steak, root-beer ice cream, and more at this elegant three-course dinner ($68).

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mata) Hey: their wines are all ripe and hearty Okanagan classics, but it’s their Gewürztraminer slushies that’ll hit the spot on a hot afternoon.

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don’t like fruit wines, hey? Nope— you just don’t like shitty fruit wines. (Lake Country) Winemaker Grant I give you my word, Miranda and Del Stanley honed great Halladay’s wines skill with Pinot are acid-driven, Noir during his pristine takes on lengthy tenure at Naramata pears, Kurtis Kolt Quails’ Gate; his cherries, and more, cool-climate take on the grape here many of ’em superdry. Do it. is as pristine and lovely as his highly PAINTED ROCK ESTATE WINERY quaffable Rieslings. (Penticton) John Skinner’s new winSPERLING VINEYARDS (Kelowna) ery is almost as lavish as his stunning Winemaker Ann Sperling’s family Syrah- and Bordeaux-styled Red Icon. has farmed this land for generations. From these soils come some charming PENTÂGE WINERY (Penticton) Paul aromatic whites, sparkling crisp Ries- Gardner and Julie Rennie have a breadth of wine styles, all of ’em on point. Check lings, and more. out their awesome wine cave carved into TANTALUS VINEYARDS (Kelowna) the side of the mountain. Legendary Rieslings with bright acidity, buoyant and bright Pinot Noirs, BLUE MOUNTAIN VINEYARD AND and criminally underrated Chardon- CELLARS (Okanagan Falls) For more than 25 years, some of the best Pinot nays are all sommelier favourites. Noirs and Chardonnays in the Valley. SPIERHEAD WINERY (Kelowna) Dive deep into Pinot Noir with various MEYER FAMILY VINEYARDS (Okabottlings devoted to different vineyards nagan Falls) Speaking of some of the best Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays in and a handful of clones. the Valley… 50TH PARALLEL ESTATE WINERY

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WILD GOOSE VINEYARDS (Okanagan Falls) Aromatic whites that’ll give you a little spring in your step, and a great place to grab a bite to eat.

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happens with anything in clientele. And then they finally invited us to come life. You accomplish one play there instead.” thing, and then it’s on to Better venues inspired more practice, and the the next challenge, please!” band finally came into its own. Creating a sound that > VIVIAN PENCZ hovers somewhere between country, surf-pop, rockabilly, grunge, and reggae (but somehow embracing Vancouver-spawned White Lung embraces the idea White Lung plays the Com- none of them), the Growlers spawned a whole new there’s nothing wrong with melody on Paradise modore Ballroom on Fri- genre—affectionately named “beach goth”. “I have a distorted idea of what it means to be pop, day (June 17) as part of Levitation Vancouver. “We were playing a lot of surf beats and reverbbecause I just think of it as having strong melodies,” drenched guitar,” Nielsen recalls, “and I was singing she says. “To me, the Misfits are totally pop. And to a lot of dark material. 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Thought you couldn’t. with,” Nielsen says. “Beach goth is associated with fully deranged fretwork and Vassiliou’s doomsday While rich record companies were sewing up the ‘swan hands’, for example. I’ll explain what that is. back end are as potent as ever. world for a few lucky artists, the Growlers had to use A lot of surfers come to our show, and their cute, The precisely melodic arrangement of “Hungry” that do-it-yourself ethic to burrow their way into the white girlfriends can’t dance whatsoever. So they and “Kiss Me When I Bleed” is fresh terrain for the business. Formed in 2006 by high-school friends just wave their sexy little arms in the air. I’m still band. Barber-Way’s vocals are relentlessly fierce, but Brooks Nielsen and Matt Taylor, the five-piece band like, ‘What the fuck is going on!’ They’re all danlaced with a hopeful tenderness now. On “Below”, took a while to get going. The first incarnation of the cing like idiots! They look like old ladies at a Jimmy when she belts “You know this means nothing if you Growlers was, for want of a better word, shit—and Buffett concert! I can’t get mad at it, though. Selfgo die alone,” atop pearly guitar chimes, you can feel that fact wasn’t wasted on its members. Naming expression is what beach goth is all about. And it’s her sincerity deep in your guts. their fledgling group after “the swelling of a hor- nicer to watch than the boys jumping on each other.” > KATE WILSON “I’ve always written from a very personal place,” rendous amount of fecal matter moments before it the singer says. “Then there comes a point where you is excreted” (thanks, Urban Dictionary), they didn’t don’t want to keep giving pieces of yourself away. set their standards high. Unfortunately, California’s The Growlers play the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday (June 18) as part of Levitation Vancouver. Once I realized the freedom of fiction, I could cre- venues demanded a bit more. ate these strong images that I would never have been “Clubs around Orange County wouldn’t let us able to before. I found new ways of exploring these play at first,” singer Nielsen tells the Straight, on the topics that will always resonate with me.” line from Sacramento. “I think they thought we were The newly minted Angeleno took notes from too ghetto. We probably were. We’d go up and ask, country and blues while working on Paradise. The ‘Can we perform at your venue?’ And then as soon Europe latched on to Suuns long before North painfully heartfelt storytelling of Hank Snow, Dinah as we’d get a bit of attitude from them, we’d be like, America, which makes sense if you look at the Washington, and Loretta Lynn inspired her to write ‘Well, fuck you.’ ” more candidly than she’s used to. Along with proLuckily, the Growlers’ ability to do it themselves Montreal-based group’s catalogue. From a 2010 debut, Zeroes QC, to this spring’s ducer Lars Stalfors’s mentorship, this helped to push rescued the group from early extinction. Quickly Barber-Way happily out of her comfort zone. realizing that its success could only come from hard dark and complex Hold/Still, the quartet has made “I grew up a disciplined figure skater and dancer, so work, the band got creative. music that’s as strange and challenging as it is endI like having a coach,” she says. “I don’t walk into a stu“I went and hit up all the bars and restaurants lessly rewarding. And if European audiences are dio and go, ‘I know everything! Everyone else knows around the venues that turned us down, and of- famous for anything, it’s being raptly attentive to nothing.’ I know the least, and I want to get better.” fered our services,” Nielsen recalls. “They said yes, acts that treat music as something more akin to art. Having cut its teeth in Vancouver’s DIY punk scene, and we’d blow those places out until the original Suuns belongs in that category. “When we first started and put out our first recWhite Lung is accustomed to working hard for very venues noticed us. Then we moved on to the warelittle payoff. Luckily, that has changed, but the band’s houses. We played in a lot of those buildings, and ord, we weren’t expecting anything, so everything perseverance has not. after a while our shows started getting shut down was kind of a gain,” singer-guitarist Ben Shemie says, “I did that, now I’m bored of it, so I’m going to really fast. I found out later that it was because the on the line from Montreal, a city he’s just returned to see page 17 try something else,” says Barber-Way. “That’s what other venues were jealous that we were stealing their

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MUSIC Let’s talk about GHOST BUSTER In his new memoir, Bobby Brown claims he and Whitney Houston lived in a haunted house once owned by gangster-pornographer Mike Thevis. “One of the ghosts descended from the ceiling and had sex with me,” Brown writes, obviating our need for a punch line.

You gotta see FLYING LOTUS Those not suffering from pot-induced short-

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DYLAN TAKES FLIGHT Bob Dylan closed a Berkeley, California, concert last week with a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird”. Apparently, he did it to thank audience members for not yelling “Play ‘Free Bird’” at least 472 times during the set.

Fresh and local TOR BLUE BOOK Vancouver’s Tor is the sort of electronic-music producer whose work could easily fly under the radar. Because he specializes in downtempo tracks and not club bangers, his beats aren’t likely to set dance floors ablaze. And in fact, he clearly has no intention of doing that. As he noted in a Facebook post, his new album, Blue Book , is “Best enjoyed from start to finish on a good pair of speakers or headphones”. Home listeners with a taste for chilled-out grooves will find much to love in the haunting glitch-folk of “Myth” and the desert-heat triphop of “Two Suns”. JUNE 16 – 23 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 15

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Pale Dīan’s “In a Day” might well turn out to be the most infectious dream-pop single of the year. With singer Ruth Ellen Smith’s vocals soaring over a stuttering drum-machine pattern and the whorl of cherrycoloured noise wrought by guitarist Derek Kutzer and bassist Nicholas Volpe, the song is six minutes and 22 seconds of aural bliss. It’s also the longest track on the Austin, Texas–based trio’s debut album, Narrow Birth, with an instrumental section making up nearly one-third of its length. In other words, it doesn’t seem like the natural choice for a single, but it’s the one that the folks at Manifesto Records encouraged the band to run with. “That was the one that the label and people that we showed the album to thought was the standout track,” says Kutzer, reached en route to a gig in San Francisco. “So I guess time was never really considered. But it has been now, because we have certain radio stations that are asking for a radio edit, which we don’t have.” Both Smith and Kutzer were formerly in the Dallas-based Blackstone Rngrs, which, in addition to her ethereal soprano and his swirling tones, featured a live drummer. You can check out a few Blackstone Rngrs songs on YouTube, but don’t expect to hear any of them during a Pale Dīan live set. “It’s a project in the past,” Smith says. “We just moved forward and we developed more of our sound, and we wanted to leave that where it was and start our new thing.” “Yeah, it’s a totally different sound,” insists Volpe. “I mean, there’s no drummer, it’s just drum machine. And they moved to Austin and started Pale Dīan as a new thing. That’s where I met them, because I’m from Austin.” Journalists have been quick to note Pale Dīan’s sonic kinship with a certain influential band from Grangemouth, Scotland. Then again, many journalists have a different frame of reference than the average indie-music fan. “I’ve been talking to a lot of people that I know who are, like, younger kids, and I’m like, ‘Hey, do you like Cocteau Twins?’ ” Kutzer says. “And they just give me blank stares. So if somehow our music is a way for other people who have never heard Cocteau Twins to be introduced…then I think that’s pretty cool.” As far as the ubiquitous comparisons go, Smith doesn’t seem fazed. “I don’t get tired of it,” she states simply.

rock paean to birds, with a shout-out chorus. But there’s a deeper current to the song by Yann Perreau, from his fifth solo album, Le Fantastique des astres. Avian flight was inspired by the acclaimed Quebec singer-songwriter’s experiences after ingesting ayahuasca. And Perreau is grateful for what the psychedelic brew—taken by indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin—has opened up for him. “It’s very purifying, a beautiful thing,” says Perreau, reached at his Montreal home. “This latest time, I was in a circle of friends and we were accompanied by a shaman who sang and people played percussion. Afterwards, it was as if I’d been walking all day in the forest, whereas we’d been in a cabin all the time, singing and living the hallucinations.” Perreau first took ayahuasca in 1998, in response to the breakup of his first group, Doc et les Chirurgiens. “It was a shock for me, a defeat. A shaman proposed a vision quest, with seven questions for me to come up with, about what I want to change, which direction I want to take, my relations with others. You have to go to the shaman before sunrise, near a tree in the forest. Then he leaves you, without food or water, for 24 hours to reflect on your questions. And the shaman calls on spirits. “Some of us believe in these things, others don’t,” he adds. “I’m someone who can be skeptical, but I like to play with that. If those spirits do exist, so much the better—and if they’re not there, I’ve still lived something > JOHN LUCAS spiritual, psychological, physical, and unique. I’ve always been someone who’s experimented, and disliked routine. I’m Pale Dian plays the Rickshaw Theatre careful to stay alert. Before the latest on Sunday (June 19).

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after a successful three-week European tour. “What happened at first was that in Europe we were selling out shows even though we’d never done that in our hometown. But things are beginning to catch up here. We’re getting good press for the new record.” The positive reviews for Hold/Still are deserved, with Suuns proving to be a kindred spirit of acts like Radiohead and Man Man. Like those renegades, the band exists to push the boundaries of guitar rock. On Hold/Still, things get off to a riotously discordant start with “Fall”, an exercise in claustrophobia marked by thumpingly blownout drums and fragmented six-string. The distortion in “Instrument” was obviously designed to sizzle your grey matter, while “Brainwash” is all sugary art-pop that explodes into car-crash guitar violence halfway through. One of the goals of Hold/Still— which was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans)—was to capture how the band sounds when it’s happiest: playing live. “Our recordings are cool, but the biggest challenge we’ve always faced,” Shemie says, “is ‘How do we bottle up the energy of this band when we are on-stage?’ We worked with a producer that was into doing something different. It’s way more live-off-the-floor than our past records, hardly any overdubs, and first or second takes of almost everything. John made us sound the way that we sound.” The challenge now, Shemie says, is to re-create the more out-there parts of an experimental record on-stage. And judging by the recent reactions in Europe, fans are as open to things going off in new directions as the band was on Hold/Still. “We’ve got a record that’s just that: a record, a recording of a particular time,” Shemie says. “And when we play those songs live now, they are definitely more aggressive, more amplified in every way. We have two different gears. And more so than the studio, we excel in the live gear.”

ayahuasca experience, I’d been worried because there were major things about to happen in my life: my wife was pregnant with our second child, and I needed to write the songs for a new album. I thought of taking ayahuasca again, and came out feeling I’d grown. It’s not a drug, it’s a medicinal plant. It’s very strong, but if you’re accompanied and you’re doing it with motivation and not just to trip out, then something happens. In my case, it works.” Animation artist François Fortin’s video for “J’aime les oiseaux” is outstanding. It begins meditatively, as gulls fly over a tranquil blue sea to white cliffs, then through city streets, as the song transforms into pulsing dance-pop. Bosses and office workers gyrate on the terrace of a skyscraper beside a big screen that displays the real Perreau performing—as patterns and colours wash over his body and swarms of birds soar to the beats. “We didn’t have a big budget,” the singer says. “But he submerged himself completely for a month, 16 hours a day. He’s a perfectionist and a true artisan, and he likes to learn by creating things. For ‘J’aime les oiseaux’ he pushed to the limit a particular animation software that he’s just developed—and the result is amazing.”

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Tradition has Vancouver jazz moving forward > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY

t might seem odd to quote a ’60s rock band when talking about 21st-century jazz, but in the immortal words of the Buffalo Springfield, “There’s something happening here.” What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we can say this with absolute certainty: the local jazz and creative-music scene has never been larger or more vital, and a lot of that vitality is reflected in this year’s TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival programming. It’s not that the festival has been unsupportive of the talent in its own back yard prior to this; far from it. But with the opening of Frankie’s Jazz Club, the hiring of former Cellar owner and saxophonist Cory Weeds, and the creation of an internship explicitly aimed at identifying and advancing younger artists, the presiding Coastal Jazz and Blues Society has unfurled a bigger tent than ever before. Defining what that marquee encloses remains difficult, however. “I just can’t really put my finger on it, because it’s just so wide-open,” says talent booker Cole Schmidt, who’s spent the last few months apprenticing with Coastal’s artistic director Ken Pickering and manager of artistic programming Rainbow Robert. Picked for his experience organizing weekly improv nights at small East Van venues, as well as for his stellar work with his Pugs and Crows band, the guitarist has a good overview of what’s going on locally— and it seems like anything goes. “Genre-blurring might be a good way of putting it,” he says. “But there are lots of people coming at it from a traditional way, and still getting their juice from Sonny Rollins records, you know!” One of those might be Vancouverraised singer Jaclyn Guillou, although she’s just as likely to be listening to vintage Betty Carter and Carmen McRae discs as anything by the ageless colossus of the saxophone. “The one thing that I really recognize about where I feel comfortable in jazz right now is how much I love the tradition,” she tells the Straight from New York City, where she’s been studying with singer Kate McGarry and catching “three shows a night” at the city’s legendary jazz clubs. “I want to respect it, and understand it, and represent it in a modern way, but I’ve been a traditionalist in music since I was a child. I love old musicals and old songs. So I don’t know where all of this is going to take me, but I know I’m getting a lot deeper into jazz in my singing—the traditional aspects of improvising and phrasing.” After some promising ventures into writing her own material, Guillou recently showed off her more traditional leanings with This Bitter Earth, a string-laced tribute to the undisputed queen of bluesy jazz, Dinah Washington. It was, she said in an earlier interview, a chance for her to step back from songwriting—something

Vancouver-raised singer Jaclyn Guillou’s love of jazz’s past has her positioned to become the city’s next big star.

she’s returned to with a passion since landing in the Big Apple. Paradoxically, it was also a way of “honouring what I really, really want to do”, she added at the time. And although she now says that she’s reconsidering all her options—to write, or not to write—the future will definitely hold more standards with strings. “I really don’t know what the next album is going to be,” she says. “I’ve had conversations with people in the industry here, but it’s going to be a surprise to me and to everybody else. The one thing I do know is just how much I love strings, so that is something that will definitely appear on the next album—or, if not, on the next album after that.” Whatever she does, there’s a good chance that the charismatic and driven Guillou will be Vancouver’s next jazz star in the mode of Diana Krall or Michael Bublé—a singer of swinging songs with mass appeal. What’s arguably more interesting on the musical level, however, is that our city’s jazz schools, most notably Vancouver Community College and Capilano University, are producing a crop of young musicians who have found a way to honour the jazz past while looking to the future. Consider Jeff Gammon, a 22-year-old bass prodigy who splits his time between learning on the bandstand with his elders and crafting elastic new sounds with his peers. “I think a lot of people overlook tradition, or think of it as something that’s been done and that should be done, in a way,” the Calgary-born Burnaby resident says in a telephone interview from his home. “Like, should be moved on from. ‘Why rehash the past? Let’s keep things moving; let’s keep new things emerging all the time.’ Which is great, but I think it’s so important to have people like Cory Weeds and [guitarist] Bill Coon

and those guys who are cultivating that sort of tradition in this city. It takes a lot of time, effort, and skill to dive really deep into something like that. Especially with traditional jazz, there are thousands and thousands of standards that you’re expected to know, and different ways to play them. To get to the point where you can access all of that at any time is, I think, the true definition of an improviser, in a lot of ways.” Yet, at the same time, Gammon notes, “There’s definitely a new kind of musician coming about.” In jazzfest-featured bands Only a Visitor and Hildegard’s Ghost, which owe as much to Björk and the Dirty Projectors as to Carla Bley and Wayne Shorter, the bassist is helping define a truly 21st-century aesthetic, one that takes full advantage of the dizzying array of sources available on the Internet. Neither act is “jazz”, in the traditional sense, but both depend on trained improvisers to bring beauty and strangeness to their sound—as do older songwriters like Veda Hille, Dan Mangan, and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. “Modern jazz performers have adopted complex rhythms from other cultures, like India and gamelan music from Indonesia,” Gammon points out. “And then harmonically they gather more from people in classical music that are kind of stretching harmonic boundaries. So in both of those aspects, they’ve worked on their own understanding of those rhythmic and harmonic qualities, so they can apply that knowledge to other styles of music.” This might be why it’s so difficult to define what, for want of a better term, we might call next-gen jazz: the style is so expansive, and its performers so musically inquisitive, that its sound is by definition amorphous. But in Vancouver one defining quality does seem to be

emerging: a sense of the surrounding environment that is, ultimately, the source of so much of our region’s art. Violinist Meredith Bates, who’ll make jazz-festival appearances with guitarist Tom Wherrett’s band ElkHorn and with an improv supergroup featuring English saxophone pioneer Evan Parker, cites a kind of coastal perspective, and a propensity for music that unfolds at a leisurely pace. “I think it has to do with the temperate climate, in a way,” she says by phone. “I know that sounds lame, but it kind of does. And also the kind of people that we have here are both really mellow and cool, but also kind of standoffish. We’ve got a little bit of a wall up, so maybe that explains the long build, the slow-to-introduce kind of thing. Everyone tiptoes around for a little while, until you get into these massive, totally thick textural climaxes.” Schmidt offers another possible explanation for this phenomenon, which he’s also noticed: “The weed here’s so strong!” As a new mother, Bates is unlikely to partake of that substance, or any other. But there’s no denying that the new music emerging from Vancouver, even in its more traditional forms, is rich, intoxicating, and often mind-blowingly beautiful. For a full TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival schedule, visit www. coastaljazz.ca/.

Herbert a free spirit with no time for industry bull If Gwyneth Herbert were dull,

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could very easily have become England’s answer to Norah Jones. That was what the suits at Universal had in

mind when they signed her to a record deal in 2004, but fate had other plans. Herbert’s path from would-be jazz canary to eccentric wonder has been a winding one, but it all started out when she and a guitar-playing pal from Durham University decided to conquer the Big Smoke, one dive bar at a time. “Basically, we were kids, and we came to London with no contacts, no money, no gigs, no nothing,” Herbert relates in a Skype interview from her comfortable, instrument-strewn home in picturesque St. Leonardson-Sea. “We decided that we would choose an area of London a day, and we walked round into every café, bar, restaurant, hotel, a couple of strip joints, and some really dodgy pubs and said, ‘Hi! Um, could you turn off the racing and stop the fight? We’d love to play you “Fly Me to the Moon”.’ And somehow we managed to get enough gigs to survive.” The 34-year-old singer’s imitation of a bubbly ingénue is hilarious. But her talent is equally acute, and it wasn’t long before the music industry began to take notice—something that, counterintuitively, could have devastated a less determined artist. “I’m very glad that happened, but pretty quickly I realized that world of the music business—where it’s all about the business and not about the music—was not for me,” she says. “I made a record for Universal that took three months to make, and the track listing was decided by a room full of industry people working to a formula: ‘We need a track for TV advertising; we need a track for [BBC Radio host] Michael Parkinson.’ There were meetings about my haircut! And that record came out, and it had no heart. It was all played brilliantly by some of the best session musicians in the country, and produced by a phenomenal producer, and I felt like a guest vocalist on my own album.” Herbert walked away from her deal and settled for the larger gratification of art—lots of art, ranging from selfreleased CDs to community-based projects to writing for the theatre. Local listeners might find it useful to compare her to a more extroverted Veda Hille—she has a similar blend of innate musicality and quizzical intelligence, and where Hille has written about Emily Carr and the sexual practices of the Japanese, Herbert has penned a song cycle about sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and is working on a musical about contraception. But her 2013 release The Sea Cabinet proves that, like her Canadian counterpart, Herbert is more properly described as a truly singular talent. Sonically, the record blends Weimar cabaret and English music-hall stylings, with disquieting touches of avant-garde jazz. Lyrically, it’s a suite of linked songs about memory, obsession, love, and the sea. “In the live-show version, I worked with a great novelist called Heidi James on an interlocking prose narrative see page 22

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about a woman who walks by the sea every day,” Herbert explains. “And she collects absolutely everything that she finds—an empty crisp packet, a rusty ship’s bell—and she takes them back and puts them into her ‘sea cabinet’ and mines them with the rigour of an archaeologist. Each object sings a secret sea story, and each song kind of transports us into another era.” And each, she adds, is a link to the woman’s drowned lover. It’s a brilliant concept, brilliantly realized, from an artist who deserves to be far better known.

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Gwyneth Herbert plays a free Robson Street Stage concert next Saturday (June 25), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Tedeschi Trucks Band all about strong leadership The day before Susan Tedeschi calls the Georgia Straight to chat about the Tedeschi Trucks Band, her husband and bandmate Derek Trucks celebrated his 37th birthday. Since Trucks is revered as one of the world’s top slide-guitarists, Tedeschi is asked if she bought him a new sixstring to mark the occasion. Her answer isn’t all that surprising. “No, no,” she replies from their family home in Florida. “He has too many of those.” Tedeschi’s gifts to her beloved this time around included some Jim Marshall T-shirts and a pair of binoculars to use on the boat they keep moored nearby, in St. Augustine, Florida. Trucks is an avid fisherman—and she is too—but there won’t be any reeling in of big ones for a while, because their 12-piece band is preparing for a West Coast jaunt that includes a stop at the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The ensemble will be touring behind its third studio album, Let Me Get By, which sees Tedeschi Trucks delivering more of a soulful, R&B vibe than ever before. Or maybe not. “I don’t know exactly what style of music it is,” ponders Tedeschi. “But I mean, there’s definitely an influence from jazz and blues and folk and rock and R&B and soul. I think we’re just a big melting pot of all those styles.” Let Me Get By is the TTB’s first studio release to be solely produced by Trucks, who had previously collaborated with noted knob-twiddler Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones). So did hubby having full control mean he got a little bossy at times? “Yeah,” replies Tedeschi, “but in a good way. I mean, he’s such a great leader and he has such great ideas.

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And if anybody knows the strengths of the band and what we’re capable of, it’s him, you know. “Actually, I really like him producing,” she adds, “because I’ve never really been produced vocally that much. Like, people don’t really say, ‘Well, sing it different.’ ‘Sing it lighter.’ Or ‘Belt this part.’ So he gives me a lot more direction than most people ever have, which is nice, ’cause he’s the only one that’s really honest with me, I think.” Before signing off, Tedeschi is reminded of the Straight interview she did back in 1998, when she was a 28-year-old solo artist with a debut album. Back then, she said she was “just a singer who likes to write songs and play blues and go out and have fun and meet people”. “I still enjoy getting out there,” she says now. “I love playing live and meeting a lot of the people and hearing their stories and how the music touches their lives. That’s really special to us. “But, honestly, now it’s taken on a new element. Now I really am enjoying just being a part of a band that’s so extraordinary. This band really pushes me in a lot of ways where I’ve never been pushed, and I like it a lot.” > STEVE NEWTON

The Tedeschi Trucks Band plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on June 28 as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Ceramic Dog shows Ribot is more than a sideman As a session guitarist, Marc

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New Yorker two passes before he’s totally happy with his band Ceramic Dog’s origin story. At first, Ribot cites Karlheinz Stockhausen as both an inspiration and a cautionary example. The late German composer, he explains, got into all kinds of trouble for calling the 9/11 attacks “the greatest work of art that exists for the whole cosmos”. It’s a viewpoint he has some sympathy for, up to a point—and at that point he starts over. “I mean, I lived a lot closer to the event itself, and I didn’t have the same set of feelings that he had,” Ribot clarifies, on the phone from his Brooklyn home. “But in the weeks and months after 9/11, we all did a bunch of benefit gigs and reasserted a sense of community in the face of all that. And it was good that we did the gigs, but almost nothing that got played could live up to the needs of the moment.… and I wanted to put together a band that could do that, that would have the power to speak in that situation. And I decided, for some reason, that I wanted it to be a rock band. “That said,” he adds, “the original inspiration was very serious, but we’re also pretty goofy.” Seriously goofy, in fact. With Shahzad Ismaily’s electric and synthesized bass lines providing a relatively calm centre, the hyperkinetic drummer Ches Smith and the often abrasive Ribot whip up the kind of manic art rock that’s become a New York City trademark. Think Swans or the Velvet Underground, but laced with a kaleidoscopic compositional sensibility that Ribot traces back to his love of Ornette Coleman’s electric music. “What was interesting about [Coleman’s avant-funk band] Prime Time is that he didn’t take those players and make them swing,” he says. “He didn’t make them play what was previously known as jazz. Instead, he had a wider understanding of jazz, or he had a wider understanding of his project in music, which could be transposed into the group, into what the players were already doing. I think you can bring that perspective to a lot of different kinds of music, and so I think—I hope—that that’s what we’re doing with Ceramic Dog.” The band is also a vehicle for Ribot’s songwriting—and while he’s not going to eclipse his occasional employers Tom Waits and Elvis Costello in that department, his acerbic wit is his own. “The basics are always war, famine, and fighting with my girlfriend,” he says. “You know, the same old!” But he’s quick to correct the impression that he’s simply venting. “I like to think of it as sublimating,” he notes. “It’s like I’m singing a song about someone, and I’m managing to keep my mouth in front of a microphone and not bite them. But I’m just barely managing, so they shouldn’t rest easy.” That’s certainly evident in “Masters of the Internet”, from Ceramic Dog’s sophomore effort, Your Turn. Kicking off with the lines “Download this music for free/We like it when you do/We don’t have homes, or families to feed/We’re not human like you,” it’s a scathing denunciation of online thieves and weasels, and a continuation of the work Ribot has been doing with the Content Creators Coalition, an advocacy group for intellectual property rights. “Free speech means the right to say what you want to say. It doesn’t give you the right to sell what I said,” he points out, adding that YouTube and similar sites are businesses, not a community service. “They profit from selling ad space to advertisers, and the more content, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more they get for ads. And they don’t care if they have the consent of the artists or not—but consent matters, in music and in many other human interactions.” > ALEXANDER VARTY

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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED PARKER MILLSAP Oklahoma bluescountry singer-songwriter and guitarist tours in support of self-titled debut album. Jul 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. EDEN Irish electronica musician and producer tours in support of debut EP End Credits. Sep 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jun 15, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES The Georgia Straight presents American soul singer-songwriter and his band touring in support of third album Changes, with guest Bobby Bazini. Sep 17, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $39.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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WARPAINT Los Angeles rock band. Sep 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES Alabama soul–R&B band tours in support of latest release Sea of Noise, with guests Seratones. Sep 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 17, 9 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

CHICAGO American horn-infused rock band (“Make Me Smile”, “Saturday in the Park”). Jun 16-17, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix $109.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.riverrock.com/. LEVITATION VANCOUVER The Reverberation Appreciation Society and Timbre Concerts present concerts in downtown Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom, the Rickshaw Theatre, the Imperial, and the Cobalt. Performers include Flying Lotus, Tycho, the Growlers, Thee Oh Sees, Of Montreal, FIDLAR, Allah-Las, White Lung, Hinds, Cherry Glazerr, Dead Ghosts, Boogarins, Louise Burns, Holy Fuck, Suuns, Summering, Night Beats, Morgan Delt, Holy Wave, Froth, Com Truise, Shaunic, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, Dada Plan, Nina Mendoza, Heron Oblivion, Black Mastiff, Sacri Monti, Nothing, LVL Up, and Did You Die. Jun 16-18, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.ticketweb.ca/.

KANYE WEST American rapper, producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur performs as part of the Saint Pablo Tour. Oct 17, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Jun 18, $29.50-149.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. OPETH Swedish progressive death-metal band, with guests the Sword. Oct 26, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $75/42.50/30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CHARLIE PUTH American pop–R&B singer-songwriter performs on his We Don’t Talk Tour 2016, with guest Hailey Knox. Nov 4, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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PLANTS AND ANIMALS Montrealbased indie-rock band tours in support of upcoming release Waltzed in From the Rumbling, with guests Royal Canoe. Jun 16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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THE FLATLINERS Timbre Concerts and Levitation Vancouver present Canadian punk-rock band. Jun 15-16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Jun 16 SOLD OUT, tix for Jun 15 show $17 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. STRUMMING FOR STROKE Evening of live music, door prizes, a silent auction, a 50/50 draw, health information, and performances by Ruby & Smith, Ruby’s Ukulele Orchestra, and Ralph Shaw. Jun 17, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $30, info www.riotheatre.ca/. ALPHA BLONDY AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM Festival African Heritage Music and Dance Society presents the African reggae artist, with guests Camaro 67, Mr. Fantastik, and Ketch Di Vybz Dancers. Jun 17, 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $47/45 (plus service charges and fees), info www.festivalafrica.org/.

EMBER SKIES 2016 Outdoor electronica festival features performances by H!j!nx, Rich Haughton, Volodicus, Starbuck, PREOCCUPATIONS Canadian rock Fiksupoika, and Phonofile. Jun 17, 8 pm, band tours in support of upcoming Scandinavian Community Centre (6540 release. Sep 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Thomas St., Burnaby). Tix $15 at the door, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix info www.scandinavianmidsummerfestival on sale Jun 17, 7 am, $20 (plus service .com/midsummer-eve-party/. charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. RICHARD DUGUAY Los Angeles rock ‘n’ roll musician, with guests the Judys, RYLEY WALKER Chicago indie-rock Wasted strays, and R.d. Cane. Jun 17, musician tours in support of new release 8:30 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $12 Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, at the door, info www.facebook.com/ with guests Circuit des Yeux. Oct 7, events/227600324271168/. doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $12 VIVA LA MUSICA African and Latin (plus fees and service charges) at Red Cat, dance music spun by DJs Marc Fournier Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. and Eric Lenger. Jun 17, 10 pm, The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston, MARLON WILLIAMS AND THE YARRA Granville Island). Tix $10, info www.face BENDERS New Zealand folk-rock musician book.com/events/1009640422457579/. tours in support of debut self-titled release, with guest Julia Jacklin. Oct 7, doors 7 pm, LLOYD COLE English rock-pop singershow 8:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 songwriter plays hits from his career from Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, 1983 to 1996. Jun 18, doors 7 pm, show $18 (plus services and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. PHANTOGRAM American electronic-rock duo tours in support of new single “You MARIJOSÉE Franco-Manitoban artist perDon’t Get Me High Anymore”. Oct 9, forms as part of Festival d’été francophone doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore de Vancouver. Jun 19, 12:40 pm, Canada Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jun Place (504-999 Canada Place). Free admis24, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and sion, info www.lecentreculturel.com/enfees) at www.livenation.com/. event-31/. GHOST Swedish six-piece heavy-metal band tours in support of latest studio album Meliora. Oct 13, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 17, 10 am, $41.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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PALE DI¯ AN Austin-based shoegaze band, with guests Passive, Black Knight, and Sattelite. Jun 19, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $8, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. JMSN Detroit R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release It Is. Jun 20, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JESSY LANZA Canadian electronica musician tours in support of latest release Oh No, with guest DJ Taye. Jun 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/.

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MARC RIBOT’S CERAMIC DOG FRIDAY, JUNE 24 @ 8 PM

An experimental free punk collective featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Shahzad Ismaily (bass/ electronics) & Ches Smith (drums)

LOS STRAITJACKETS

THURSDAY, JUNE 30 @ 8 PM High energy rock ‘n roll, Lucha Libre mask toting instrumental guitar band

JON CLEARY & THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN SUNDAY, JULY 3 @ 8 PM

Absolute Monster Gentlemen, the Dan Brubeck Quartet, Ron Samworth’s Dogs Do Dream, Georg Graewe, the Larry Fuller Trio, the Thing, Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting, Soul & “Pimp” Sessions, Petunia, Huu Bac Quintet, Marcin Wasilewski Trio, and Gordon Grdina’s Haram. Jun 24–Jul 3, various Vancouver venues. Tix and info www.coastaljazz.ca/.

FVDED IN THE PARK Urban-music festival features performances by Jack Ü, Zedd, Travis Scott, Bryson Tiller, Carnage, RL Grime, Galantis, Kaytranada, DJ Mustard, Tchami, Marshmello, Belly, Seven Lions, Goldlink, Gallant, Jazz Cartier, Troyboi, Giraffage, Shiba San, Anna Lunoe, Elaki, Sam Gellaitry, POMO, Rezz, D.R.A.M., HUMANS, Slumberjack, and Unlike Pluto. Jul 2-3, Holland Park (King George Hwy. & Old Yale Rd., Surrey). Tix at www.fvdedinthepark.com/. KHATSAHLANO STREET PARTY Annual street party features performances by Hannah Georgas, Mounties, Rodney DeCroo, Jody Glenham, Twin River, Hot Panda, Mu, and Holy Hum. Other highlights include yoga classes, cooking demonstrations, a mixology competition, a family zone, food trucks, and beer gardens. Jul 9, 11 am–9 pm, West 4th Avenue (between Burrard & MacDonald). Free admission, info www.khatsahlano.com/.

CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778-379-0407. 2OG SATURDAYS May 21 2JMSN Jun 20 2JESSY LANZA Jun 21 2BAS Jun 23 2PHOEBE RYAN Jul 23 2BJ THE CHICAGO KID Jul 27 2KING Oct 6 AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., TING! w/ Tank Gyal & guests Thu; Waldorf A Go-Go with Vinyl Ritchie Fri; Vision Saturdays. 2BLOWPONY Jun 25 2GLITTER IS FOREVER: CLOSING PARTY Jun 30 2HIATUS MUSIC FESTIVAL Jul 23 BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Hot Jazz Jam night on Tue. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2KATHRYN CALDER & THE BURNING HELL Jun 25 2BIG THIEF Jul 9 2PARKER MILLSAP Jul 22 2RISING APPALACHIA Jul 28 2MISERY SIGNALS Jul 30 2SONGHOY BLUES Aug 2 2DAVID BAZAN Aug 28 2MARLON WILLIAMS AND THE YARRA BENDERS Oct 7 2PANTHA DU PRINCE Oct 12 2BLIND PILOT Oct 21 2THE BOXER REBELLION Oct 23 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm.

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

COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2THE FLATLINERS Jun 16 2NORTHCOTE Jun 25 2YOU WON’T Jun 26 2DUCKTAILS Jul 9 2WE ARE SCIENTISTS Jul 10 2MITSKI Jul 12 2SEAWAY Jul 19 2WHITNEY Aug 1 2THE DESLONDES Aug 3 2MARISSA NADLER Aug 7 2JULIEN BAKER Aug 9 2FOUR YEAR STRONG Aug 14 2TURNOVER Aug 27 2JOSEPH ARTHUR Sep 16 2POSTER CHILDREN Oct 16 2PUP Nov 21

HIATUS MUSIC FESTIVAL Boutique music and lifestyle festival features experimental live music across a range of genres. Includes Bear Mountain, Bit Funk, Rainer + Grimm, Top Less, DiRTY RADiO, Youngblood, Frankie, and Peligro Tropical. Jul 23, 1 pm, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix from $54.95, info www.hiatusmusicfest.com/.

COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Jun 23 2TIGER ARMY Jun 24 2ECCW WRESTLING: BALLROOM BRAWL VI Jul 16 2BIG WRECK Jul 22 2CRYSTAL CASTLES Jul 23 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2AWOLNATION Aug 11 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 2EXPLOSIONS

IN THE SKY Sep 4 2JAKE BUGG Sep 7 2LEE SCRATCH PERRY Sep 15 2BLOC PARTY Sep 16 2THE TEMPER TRAP Sep 21 2TRITONAL Sep 23 2ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 2ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES Sep 25 2JACK GARRATT Sep 26 2DINOSAUR JR. Sep 30 2DJ SHADOW Oct 2 2SQUEEZE Oct 3 2TOKYO POLICE CLUB Oct 5 254-40 Oct 7 2PHANTOGRAM Oct 9 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 2YOUNG THE GIANT Oct 26 DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2CAMP CRY BABY Jun 16 2OSHI Jun 24 2CHASTITY BELT Jun 25 2GOLDFISH Jul 7 2DEERHOOF Jul 8 2PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW Jul 14 2SKYE & ROSS Aug 30 2STEVE GUNN AND THE OUTLINERS Sep 23 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Jun 16 2MOTORAMA, CITIZEN RAGE, REDS, COYOTE Jun 17 2GHAZM, GANGLYON, WRAITHS, SUNDRAN Jun 18 2DEAD ASYLUM, AMERICAN SPACE MONKEY, ELYSIUM ECHOES Jun 24 2GREEN JELLY, SICK RITUAL, LEGION OF GOONS, ANTEATER Jun 25 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-8680494. 2PLANTS AND ANIMALS Jun 16 2BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Jun 25 2DAVE ALVIN & PHIL ALVIN AND THE GUILTY ONES Jul 14 2THE JAYHAWKS Jul 18 2HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Aug 4 2THE WHITE PANDA Sep 3 2MARDUK Sep 17 2WARPAINT Sep 20 2MARGO PRICE Oct 19 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed,

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MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. 2ROCKET FROM RUSSIA ANNIVERSARY Jun 25 2CUB SPORT Jun 29 2BEYOND CREATION Jul 15 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 2BARNS COURTNEY Sep 3 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-5236888. 2ROB THOMAS Sep 2 2GREAT WHITE & SLAUGHTER Oct 14 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Jun 23 2STEVEN TYLER Jul 10 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2BAND OF HORSES Aug 20 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Sep 17 2JAMES BLAKE Oct 13 2OPETH Oct 26 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2JOE JACKSON Jun 24 2MS. LAURYN HILL Jun 26 2SARAH MCLACHLAN Jun 27 2TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jun 28 2CASE/LANG/VEIRS Jun 29 2BRIT FLOYD Jul 16 2SIGUR ROS Sep 18 2TEGAN AND SARA Oct 5 2GLASS ANIMALS Oct 12 2ALICE COOPER Oct 19 2PET SHOP BOYS Oct 24 2IL DIVO Nov 6 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2ILL NIÑO Jun 15 2LEVITATION VANCOUVER Jun 17-18 2PALE DI¯AN Jun 19 2THE BLACK SEEDS Jun 24 2CALM LIKE A BOMB Jun 25 2SKYE WALLACE AND DAVID NEWBERRY Jun 26 2PICKWICK Jul 8 2JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND Jul 9 2YOUNGBLOOD Jul 15 2PRINCE TRIBUTE NIGHT Jul 22 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2PIGS Jul 29 2BELPHEGOR Aug 21 2DOPE Sep 15 2PROZZÅK Sep 17 2PETUNIA & THE VIPERS Sep 24 2PREOCCUPATIONS Sep 28 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29 2THE JULIE RUIN Oct 7 2CARSICK CARS Oct 10 2DARK TRANQUILLITY Nov 25 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2CHICAGO Jun 16-17 2DIANA ROSS Jun 30 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20

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’80s smashes of Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, and Poison might be, it’s the debauchery of the era that fascinates most when looking at the glory years of American metal and hard rock. Victoria-raised actor Kale Penny discovered that when preparing for the role of aspiring musician Drew Boley in the hit musical Rock of Ages. Born in 1989, the actor notes he wasn’t around when pop was ruled by reprobates who bought their hairspray and lipstick by the crate, and their drugs, condoms, and alcohol in bulk. But he decided he’d better bone up after landing the lead in Rock of Ages, which is set in 1987, a time when fame-hungry rockers from across the continent were flocking to a Sunset Strip ruled by the glam-king likes of Ratt, W.A.S.P., and Guns N’ Roses. If you’ve ever read the Mötley Crüe autobiography The Dirt or seen The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, you can imagine his shock. “I was quite surprised by the behaviour of the people of the era,” Penny admits with a laugh over a late lunch outside the Arts Club Theatre on Granville Island. “Specifically, the ones in L.A. in the ’80s. We watched a couple of documentaries about it, and it’s pretty dark—a lot of the excess that they were involved in. I don’t even want to go into detail because it gets kind of sickening. It was a time when they really felt invincible and took advantage of that. I respect what they did with their music, but they did a lot of stuff that wouldn’t be okay today.” Billing itself as “The Totally Rad Musical Tribute to the ’80s”, Rock of Ages has scenes built around pop-metal hits by the giants of the ’80s, including Bon Jovi, Warrant, Extreme, and Mr. Big. Appropriately, the story is set in the fictional Bourbon Room in L.A. Penny’s Drew Boley is working as a busboy at the club when he falls for Sherrie Christian, a recently arrived Midwesterner hoping for an acting career in Hollywood. Both chase their dreams in a story where German developers are hell-bent on demolishing the Bourbon to help scrub Los Angeles clean of sex, drugs, and hair metal. Given that sex and drugs were never more inextricably linked with rock ’n’ roll than during the ’80s, the production could easily have focused on the dark and depraved side of the era. Characters who are all about excess do pop up

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Kale Penny (with Marlie Collins) admits he was a little shocked when he started researching the darker excesses of the Rock of Ages era. Emily Cooper photo.

a tale of optimism. If to have some sort of positive aspect. I got to see you want something the show in Las Vegas a couple of months ago, more, you can pick up and I was surprised by how little drugs were The Dirt on Amapart of the focus. An easy mistake would zon or catch be to make it all about the partying and in Rock of Ages, with Penny singling out impos- The Decline of Western Civilization the drugs and the excess. There needs Check out… sibly cocky Stacee Jacks as an example. Part II: The Metal Years on Netfl ix. to be some heart there as well. STRAIGHT.COM “The character that I’m playing, Drew, is As for the rest of you, get ready to “And the heart,” he continues, “is Visit our website kind of innocent—he has the dream of want- bang your head to Twisted Sister’s definitely about believing in your for morning-after ing to be a rock star, but I don’t know if he has immortal “I Wanna Rock” and hoist dreams. Everyone in the show has a reviews and local the balls,” Penny says. “But there are characters your lighters to Poison’s “Every Rose dream, or has had a dream. Some have arts news in the show, like Stacee Jacks, who serve as the Has Its Thorn”. accepted that their dreams won’t come epitome of that attitude. We talked a lot in re“One of the things that I like about true, and some are still fighting for them. hearsals about how there are two kinds of rock Rock of Ages is that it’s not about debauchThat needs to be the most important part of the stars from this era: the ones that are living that ery,” Penny says. “There’s a lot of sexuality, but show. The idea of having a dream needs to rise above lifestyle, and the ones that are trying to imitate it’s more lighthearted and finds a funny way to the excess, and I really feel that it does.” that lifestyle.” portray that. That’s important in musical theRather than a particularly unsavoury edition atre, and theatre in general. It wouldn’t be ap- Rock of Ages plays the Arts Club Theatre’s Granville of Behind the Music, Penny sees Rock of Ages as pealing if it was just gross all the time. It needs Island Stage from Thursday (June 16) to July 30.

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Editor’s choice A REAL TRIP It’s a match made in heaven: for Expedition, Boca del Lupo, known for its immersive Micro Performance Series, is teaming up with Ireland’s Performance Corporation, a troupe that specializes in adventurous theatre. Together, they take you into the future, facing the effects of climate change. In “Underwater Archeologist”, join the titular expert (Jay Dodge) as he attempts to contact with two people locked in a submerged bunker because of rising ocean levels. In “The Table”, the Irish company’s Tom Swift creates a world where food is at the centre of a surprising solution to the climate crisis. Bon voyage. Expedition takes place at the Fishbowl on Granville Island from Wednesday (June 22) to June 25.

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DEANNE SMITH (At the Comedy MIX June 16 to 18) Sharp laughs from a crackerjack in nerd glasses and ties.

PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES (At the Vancouver Art Gallery to October 2) A disturbing yet dazzling jaunt into the master’s messy love life.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (June 17 to September 24 at Bard on the Beach) Groovy, baby: the rollicking 1960s rendition returns to the fest.

HAIR THE MUSICAL (At the Shop Theatre from June 16 to July 2) Seems like a good time of year to rock out to “Let the Sun Shine In” and “Aquarius”.

O’WET/LOST LAGOON (June 21 to 25 at the Firehall Arts Centre) Quelemia Sparrow makes an artful ode to National Aboriginal Day.

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Painting a disappearing city At the South Granville ArtWalk, Will Rafuse resurrects our lost landmarks

Artists take a journey for solstice at cemetery

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t says something about artist Will Rafuse’s nostalgia for Vancouver that, even though he has moved to the far side of the country, he is still obsessively painting the disappearing streetscapes of his former West Coast home. There is just something about the tug of this place, and the fact that the city is changing so rapidly, that has kept him painting its old corner stores and vibrant neon signs during his past decade in Montreal, and now in his new home of Saint John. The Only Seafood, Vernon Drive Grocery, Golden City Cafe, and Boots by Dayton: these are just some of the vintage landmarks that populate his works, some of which will be on view at the Kimoto Gallery as part of this year’s South Granville ArtWalk, on Saturday (June 18). Then again, it may be his very distance from here that feeds his nostalgia. “When you leave something, you think about it in a different light than you would if you saw it every single day,” says the artist from New Brunswick, reflecting on the B.C. city where his art career flourished for two decades, and still grows. “I do my take on something that has disappeared or that I think may be torn down, because I love that city and I’m so surprised how much it’s transformed over the past 10 or 20 years. Now it’s changing every day. And now that I’ve been coming back every year for a show, I really notice it.” He’s in the midst of finishing a work that honours one of Vancouver’s best-loved neon pieces: the 1950s Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret sign as it once hung in its East Hastings streetscape, in oils across a 22-by-

ll journeys lead, eventually, to the same place. But the voyage that Mark Haney and Diane Park have planned for this summer solstice will take us deep into the heart of Mountain View Cemetery, whence we’ll emerge transfigured but alive. Haney and Park—the artistic director and general manager, respectively, of the Little Chamber Music Series That Could—are artists in residence at the East Van necropolis, a green oasis in a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. And along with songwriter Sarah Wheeler and choreographer Caroline Liffmann, they’ve opted to centre this year’s solstice celebrations around the notion of the journey, whether inner or outer. For composer and upright-bass virtuoso Haney, there’s an obvious spark for the curiously titled Life Is Not a Horse Farm: his 2015 trek along the famous Camino de Santiago in rural Spain. “I knew the whole time I was there I was going to write some kind of music about it,” he says by phone. “I knew I was going to write a piece, and that it would be in stages, because the walk is in stages, and at some point it seemed right to do it for summer solstice. And the title comes from a German speaker I walked with for a while; that was her expression for ‘Shit happens,’ basically. ” Haney laughs, but admits that his pilgrimage had a transformative effect, leading him to create a string-quartet score that is arguably simpler yet more expressive than earlier, narrativedriven works such as his Terry Fox–inspired 3339, which will be reprised at Mountain View on June 28. “I’m trying not to analyze myself as much as I used to,” he says. “I mean,

Featured at Kimoto Gallery during the ArtWalk, Will Rafuse’s new Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret recalls the neon glory of one of Vancouver’s favourite spots.

38-inch canvas. Like so many of his paintings of neon, it’s captured in daylight, to show the tubing and layered colours, with the sun ref lecting off the surfaces and wires criss-crossing it as they might have back in the day. “Neon is kind of alive in itself. You can hear the hum of the gas,” he says. “People gravitate toward it because they can relate it to something in their own life. It brings back a memory for them. People will say, ‘I ate at that restaurant’ or ‘I drove by that grocery.’ ” He adds that the glowing, jiggling-bellied beacon of the longclosed live-music haunt, where everyone from Jimi Hendrix to D.O.A. played, is a classic. “Besides the Only and the Ovaltine, I think it’s right up there,” he says. “So many people have a lot of nostalgia for that place, and that area [100 block East Hastings] has fallen pretty much as far as it can, unfortunately. That sign holds dear to so many people.”

So just how does Rafuse remember these sites in such detail when he’s putting brush to canvas on the other side of the country? He works from archival photos as well as his own shots. “I have a huge library of imagery I’ve taken on trips out there,” he says. And it’s his own pictures of signs and streetscapes that really drive home the pace of change in this ridiculously booming West Coast town. “Even the ones I’ve taken five years ago, it’s changed,” says Rafuse, whose work joins a summer group show of other Kimoto artists, like David Wilson, Jim Park, and Kimberley French, who celebrate, question, and explore this place’s streets and nearby landscapes. “The old is disappearing very quickly.” The South Granville ArtWalk runs along Gallery Row from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with artist talks, wine-andcheese tastings, and more than a dozen exhibitions.

I’m still kind of a neurotic freak; don’t get me wrong! It’s not like I’ve found the Zen place or anything. But in writing this music, I’m really just trying to find that headspace from the Camino.” Costume designer and visual artist Park is contributing a photographic self-portrait, but it’s more of an installation than a simple selfie. In the tradition of Renaissance portraiture, it will incorporate symbolic materials— beeswax, papery wasps’ nests, and silk, she says—and it will be placed at the end of a restful, urn-lined, and treeshaded laneway. But this calm setting is at least partially at odds with the work’s psychic reality. “This past year, from last solstice to this, has been kind of a year from hell for me, personally,” Park reveals. “My relationship ended, and my best friend died of cancer, and shortly after that I had to have surgery for something that looked like it was probably cancer, but luckily was not. And then my mother died, which was absolutely brutal, and in January my brother was buried in, but not killed by, the avalanche in McBride.” Yet she, too, has emerged from her trials strengthened, not destroyed. “I’ve come out okay,” she says. “And part of the reason for that is that I have these artistic outlets, and these huge connections with community arts groups, like with this solstice event.” Just how healthy can be seen in the fact that Haney is Park’s former life partner. They’re continuing to work on Mountain View projects together, including a June 25 performance of Brian Eno’s Discreet Music by Toronto’s Contact Contemporary Music ensemble. Life is never a pony farm, but the journey goes on. The Little Chamber Music Series That Could presents Summer Solstice at Mountain View Cemetery on Sunday (June 19).

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uelemia Sparrow is seated on the floor of the Playwrights Theatre Centre rehearsal space. White stacks surround her like a short, sprawling paper fortress, pages and pages of script notes and drafts. After five years working toward this moment, Sparrow is now just days away from the premiere of O’wet/Lost Lagoon, her most deeply personal piece of theatre yet. The solo show, written and performed by Sparrow, explores her journey—leaving the Musqueam reserve at the age of nine, becoming an international model in Tokyo at 15 and then a theatre artist—as well as her ancestral relationship to Stanley Park, the history of colonization, and the very real, living wounds that residential schools inflicted on her family. “It [O’wet/Lost Lagoon] is an odd mix of modelling in the ’90s and intergenerational trauma,” Sparrow tells the Straight, letting out a big, slightly nervous laugh. “I explain to people what the piece is about and I’m like, ‘Oh, what did I do?’ But First Nations people have a really big sense of humour; we’re always laughing, we’re always joking around, so it’s really important to show that. The piece is really about light and darkness and how they can coincide and live together in the same place. When you have trauma or tragedy, usually there’s huge amounts of laughter that go right alongside that.” Sparrow began working on O’wet as part of Full Circle: First Nations Performance, and much of the collective conversation turned toward reclamation—of land, voice, language, culture—and focused in on the history of Stanley Park, or Xwayxway, as it was originally known. Sparrow discovered that famed poet Pauline Johnson gave Lost Lagoon its name and she felt a certain kinship with Johnson, who was also mixed race (Mohawk and English) and travelled the world in highly glamorous circles. “I took inspiration from her life and with the guidance of a dramaturge I had at Full Circle, all of these stories just started to come out from my life.” After coming of age at the height of the supermodel-saturated, fashionfrenzied ’90s, Sparrow quit modelling at 24 and found herself drawn back home to the Musqueam reserve.

“Part of the reclamation process for me is spiritual and cultural practices,” Sparrow says, “using our older ways and having sovereignty over that.… For our people, it’s all about travelling and canoes and water and the rivers around here. You travel on your canoe to retrieve your soul. That’s the healing practice. And so I decided to do that and incorporate it into the piece. That was pretty transformative. The whole piece in itself has been a reclaiming of little pieces.” The biggest part of that recovery has been talking openly about the aforementioned intergenerational trauma. “Growing up, it was a really big secret in my family; it almost felt shameful that my dad went to residential school,” Sparrow says. “It wasn’t something that we even talked about. It was small baby steps in our communities to talk about it ourselves.…I think it takes a lot of courage for my dad’s generation to even speak about it.” Sparrow says she’s still grappling with telling her father’s story, and she hasn’t yet come to terms with recounting a trauma that’s not explicitly her own. She and her father are close, and he’s come to every show she’s done, but she doesn’t know yet if he’ll be attending O’wet/Lost Lagoon. “I’m following my heart on this one in a really big way and I hope for a positive outcome.…It makes me a little nervous,” she admits with a laugh. But in the spirit of bringing together the light and the dark, this is part of what comes next. “I haven’t used this word yet, but really, it’s about forgiveness and moving forward,” Sparrow says. “There’s a lot of work to be done. I’m so inspired by the indigenous generation after me! They’re ready. The work has been done, we’re reclaiming language and culture, and now it’s about living it. Now it’s about living it again and finding the joy in that. For a long time, my dad’s generation—rightly so—identified as survivors. And it comes to the point where I want to be able to release that identity and for the generation after me to thrive.” Alley Theatre, in association with Full Circle: First Nations Performance, presents O’wet/Lost Lagoon from Tuesday (June 21) to June 25 at the Firehall Arts Centre. There will be a free performance on Friday (June 17) at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

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The creative and sexual converge in Picasso show VISUAL AR TS PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES At the Vancouver Art Gallery until October 2

Muse is such a curiously antiterm. Divine woman breathing inspiration into the mind of the creative male? Really? Still, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses has a more visitor-friendly sound to it than Picasso and the Women He Fucked and Painted. Not that visitor-friendly titles are a necessity where Pablo Picasso exhibitions are concerned. The mere name of the man—easily the most famous artist of the 20th century, whose personal myth is built as much on his prodigious womanizing as on his protean art-making—guarantees attendance. Irrespective of what’s on view. Irrespective, too, of the challenges his work might pose to contemporary critics. Organized with Art Centre Basel in Switzerland, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s big-draw summer show includes some 60 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints ranging across the years 1905 to 1971. Borrowed from an international array of public and private collections, it is the most ambitious exhibition of Picasso works ever shown in Western Canada. What curator Katharina Beisiegel proposes is that the six women cited here—Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque—had a profound influence on Picasso’s art-making. Both the show and the accompanying publication argue that his relationships with these women, whom the artist depicted in various shapes, states, and degrees of nudity and abstraction during the roughly 10-year period he spent with each, triggered important stylistic and conceptual

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At left, the 1909 bronze bust Head of a Woman (Fernande) contrasts the later 1938 work Bust of a Woman (Dora Maar).

changes in his work, as well as expressive shifts in his palette. Olivier, for instance, was Picasso’s model and lover during the time when he (together with Georges Braque) pioneered cubism, one of the breakthrough movements of early modernism. The most dramatic cubist work in the show is not a painting but rather a 1909 bronze bust, Head of a Woman (Fernande), which is characterized by sharp angles and colliding planes. Khokhlova, who was a ballet star before she gave up her career to marry Picasso, seems to have inspired his neoclassical period, as seen in the 1922 oil-on-canvas sketch Seated Nude. Here, the female figure possesses both heft and monumentality. And Maar, a surrealist photographer, apparently inspired Picasso’s series of semigrotesque

portraits in which facial features and body parts are split apart and rearranged. Maar’s experiments with double-exposure photography are also cited as an influence on Picasso, for example, his 1941 painting Nude, in which the palette is tightly restricted, and front, back, and profile views are melded into one. Still, there were overlaps, in Picasso’s love affairs as well as in his styles of art-making. (During one period, Picasso juggled relationships with Walter, Maar, and Gilot.) In the exhibition, what might be termed “cubo-surrealist” paintings of Walter and Maar, from the late 1930s, employ similar techniques and formats. Also notable here is Head of a Woman, a 1931 portrait bust in which Walter’s nose and eyes take the form of male

genitalia. Not only does this work function as a literal illustration of Picasso’s belief that, for him, art and sex were the same thing, it also demonstrates the modernist conjoining of masculine creative and procreative imperatives. Not incidentally, the cock and balls completely overwhelm the identity of the female subject. Of course, there is much in the exhibition that is impressive. Especially compelling are Picasso’s mastery of so many styles and forms, and the restless energy and inventiveness that drove his work forward. Still, there remain some problematic curatorial assertions. We are asked to believe that the six women featured here (as opposed to the many unnamed women he merely had sex with) were somehow partners in his

art-making, even that his relationships with a couple of them were “collaborative”. Collaboration suggests a degree of equality, and while it appears that, initially anyway, Picasso was impressed by the creative accomplishments of both Maar and Gilot, the power imbalance in all his relationships is impossible to overlook. It’s notable that as Picasso’s fame and fortune increased, so did the age difference between him and the women he professed to love. Olivier was the same age as Picasso, Khokhlova was 10 years his junior, and Walter was 17 years old when the 45-year-old Picasso, still married, picked her up at a department store in Paris. Maar was 27 years younger than her most famous lover, Gilot was 40 years his junior, and Roque, the person who served as Picasso’s devoted companion during the last two decades of his life, was 46 years younger. If you fold biography into the premise of your show and insist that certain women were muses rather than mere models, that their roles were as much creative as sexual, that they inspired Picasso’s shape-shifting development as an artist, then you also have to examine personal costs and consequences. Not all of Picasso’s exes fared as well as Gilot, who forged a successful career as a painter after having the nerve to leave him. According to essayist Laurence Madeline, Maar was hospitalized for depression after Picasso dumped her, the long-separated but never formally divorced Khokhlova died “bereft and alone in a clinic”, and both Walter and Roque committed suicide after the artist’s death. “The human toll of Picasso’s romances is high,” Madeline writes. For some of us, much too high. > ROBIN LAURENCE

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2OPENINGS HAIR THE MUSICAL The Renegade Arts Co. presents the rock opera about 1960s hippies living the bohemian life in New York City. Jun 16–Jul 2, The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). Tix $25/20, info www.hair musical.brownpapertickets.com/. CAMP CRY BABY Atomic Vaudeville presents a theatre-comedy hybrid that examines Vancouver’s housing crisis and the battle between millennials and baby boomers. Jun 16-17, 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $20/17, info www.atomicvaudeville.com/.

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sprouting out the top. Juliet arrives in a gauzy blue gown spangled with silver stars, and a headdress like a sparkling constellation. Throughout, Romeo’s intense, erratic companion, Mercutio, wears dashing, asymmetrical clothing that contrasts black with rich, Asian-looking fabrics. Sound designer Brian Linds demonstrates exquisite taste, sampling everything from industrial rock to lavish lyricism and simple, hovering tones. Gerald King paints the production with expressive lighting design. And Pam Johnson’s two massive but flexible set pieces—like enormous slabs of concrete—emphasize the oppressiveness of the social structure that drives Romeo and Juliet to their deaths. The whole production is a dialogue between that societal weight and the innocence of Romeo and Juliet’s love, but, on the innocent side, things start to go wonky. Under Collier’s direction, Juliet makes her first entrance trailing three red balloons. Yes, the character is young, but she’s 13, not four. And the trope of Juliet running in puppyish circles quickly gets tired.

O’WET / LOST LAGOON In association with Full Circle: First Nations Performance, Alley Theatre presents writer-performer Quelemia Sparrow in a work that grapples with the identity of a mixed-race aboriginal woman in a colonized world. Jun 21-25, 8-9:30 pm, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $25/20, info www .alleytheatre.wix.com/alleytheatre/. EXPEDITION Vancouver’s Boca del Lupo and Ireland’s Performance Corporation present two works of speculative fiction that examine climate change with humour, irony, and insight. Jun 22-25, 8-9:30 pm; Jun 25, 2-3:30 pm, The Fishbowl on Granville Island (100 1398 Cartwright). Tix $20/15, info www.bocadellupo.com/.

2ONGOING BILLY ELLIOT The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the musical story of an 11-year-old boy who discovers he loves ballet dancing. Book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Music by Elton John. To Jul 10, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. BARD ON THE BEACH Annual outdoor Shakespeare festival features performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor (Jun 17–Sep 24), Romeo and Juliet (to Sep 23), Othello (Jun 24–Sep 17), and Pericles (Jul 2–Sep 18). To Sep 24, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut Street). Tix from $20, info www. bardonthebeach.org/.

Collier has directed both lead players—Hailey Gillis as Juliet and Andrew Chown as Romeo—to deliver their lines in such a constant state of breathless excitement that their intensity often overwhelms the meaning of what they’re saying. Gillis finds a lot more nuance than Chown does, including some lovely giddiness in the balcony scene. Jennifer Lines is oddly cast as Juliet’s nurse and much of the texture— and comedy—that the Nurse can bring to the story is lost. With Lines in the role, the Nurse feels like a slightly eccentric member of the gentry. Elsewhere, there are superb performances. As Mercutio, Andrew McNee is spectacularly inventive and shamelessly bawdy. It’s a pleasure to watch him play scenes with his sidekick Benvolio (Ben Elliott, in a skilled turn). Playing Friar Laurence, Scott Bellis demonstrates how to combine intensity with subtlety. And Dawn Petten is strikingly dark as Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother. The look of this production swept me away. The story, in this telling, not so much. > COLIN THOMAS

MUSIC 2THIS WEEK DEJA VOUS: MUSIC FOR CELLO AND VOICE Vocalist Cathy Fern Lewis and cellist Marina Hasselberg perform songs by composers Rudolf Komorous, Jocelyn Pook, Linda Catlin Smith, and Mark Hand, and a world premiere by Christopher Reiche. Jun 18, 8-9 pm, The Gold Saucer Studio (Dominion Building) (211A, 207 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www.marinahasselberg.com/. BURNABY LYRIC OPERA The local classical ensemble and BellesCanto perform opera highlights from works by Mozart and Weber. Jun 19, 3 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.

FUNNY LADY IN A TIE Whether she’s taking on hipsters, religious nuts, or American bumper stickers, DeAnne Smith can craft a killer joke. Her sharp comedy has won her a place at festivals from Montreal to Melbourne, on TV shows like Last Comic Standing and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and opening spots for standups like Tig Notaro and Chris Hardwick. But damn if she doesn’t look good too, with her cropped hair, nerd glasses, and ties—both regular and bow styles. Smith hits the Comedy MIX from Thursday to Saturday (June 16 to 18). THE LION IN WINTER The United Players present a play that uses the Plantagenet saga to explore the notion that the bonds of family are weak when ultimate power is at stake. To Jun 26, 8 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $18-22, info www.unitedplayers.com/. ABOUT LOVE FESTIVAL See eight short plays and vote for best play and notable performances. Includes Anniversary, Is This Seat Taken, Morning, Northern Lights, Small Talk, Square Footage, Standing Room Only, and Tell Me What You See. To Jun 18, 7:30 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $10-30, info www.tomosuruplayers.com/.

DANCE 2THIS WEEK MODUS OPERANDI 2016 An evening of contemporary dance and dance on screen features new creations by Emmalena Fredriksson, Vanessa Goodman, Rob Kitsos, and Out Innerspace. Performed by the Modus Operandi 2015/16 artists. Jun 17, 8 pm; Jun 18, 3 pm; Jun 18, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $25/15, info www.outinnerspace.ca/mo/. SNOW WHITE Karen Flamenco presents a season-ending performance of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale, by members of its dance company and students from the dance academy. Jun 18-19, 7 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $30/25, info www.karen flamenco.com/performance_produc tions_snowwhite_2016_tickets.php. HOT CLUB SWING SPRING FINALE The last night of swing dancing features music by Air Mail Special. Jun 18-19, 8 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $15, info www.facebook.com/ events/1762723800607893/.

CHOR LEONI MANE STAGE Chor Leoni presents a show featuring memorable tunes, choreography, and comedic turns. Jun 20, 2-4 pm; Jun 20, 7:30-9:30 pm; Jun 27, 2-4 pm; Jun 27, 7:30-9:30 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut St ). Tix from $35, info www.chorleoni.org/concerts-events/ events/chor-leoni-mane-stage/. DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Sing classic and contemporary rock, pop, and indie songs with a community choir. Jun 21, 7:30-9 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/.

COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2DEANNE SMITH Jun 16-18 2CHRIS LOCKE Jun 23-25 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2CAL POST Jun 17-18 2LORI FERGUSON-FORD Jun 24-25

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VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow (every Thu, Fri, and Sat 7:30 pm). Jun 15-22, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK THRONE AND GAMES—A CHANCE OF SNOW The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents improv comedy inspired by TV series Game of Thrones and the epic-fantasy book series it is based on. To Jun 25, 7:30-9 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl.com/show/throneandgames/. IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY: SUMMER LOVIN’ The Fictionals present an evening of improv comedy based on cult-hit game Cards Against Humanity.

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MOVIES REVIEWS WARCRAFT Starring Travis Fimmel. Rated 14A

There are millions of subscribers to the

2 World of Warcraft who will likely find the

movie version to be totally comprehensible. For me, who only knows the heroes and villains of Azeroth from that South Park episode, Warcraft is a daunting immersion in character detail. What the movie lacks in terms of star casting, memorable dialogue, and variety of settings, it sure makes up for with back stories. Having to remember the relevance of the many sidekicks becomes a data dump akin to reading the advanced Dungeons & Dragons character manual in one go. If you can get through all that, it is clear that director Duncan Jones has assembled admirable parts. The tale of the Orcs—green, muscled humanoids fleeing a dying world via a dimensional portal—is high fantasy in wistful mode. The story has an Ursula K. Le Guin–meets–Elon Musk feeling. As in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Toby Kebbell is soulful and dangerous, emoting through a cartoonified

Soulful Orcs, teenage dorks Director Raiders!

Hello, ladies! Brave Orc Orgrim (Robert Kazinsky) is just one of the happy fellows battling for the land rights to Azeroth in director Duncan Jones’s Warcraft.

Strompolos any more safetyconscious now than they were when they set fire to Zala’s mother’s basement?), and the footage they get does Duncan Jones crafts a character-rich Warcraft ; look pretty good—but it pales next to those faded Betamax offers a fresh definition of “Indy” filmmaking. tapes, which take us back to performance. The magic user Medivh is interest- a time when amateurs didn’t have Kickstarter to fund their films or YouTube to get them seen. ingly underplayed by Ben Foster. > PETER CHATTAWAY The best thing about Warcraft is that it is character-driven and feels personal, which is an amazing quality to have in an expensive effects picture. It’s COURTED certainly no worse than one might expect from a Starring Fabrice Luchini and Sidse Babett Knudsen. game movie set in a cod-Tolkien fantasyland (14A). In French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable That it is at all better is an accomplishment. > RON YAMAUCHI The latest in a long line of poorly branded Euro exports, the quietly delightful Courted RAIDERS! THE STORY OF THE was originally called L’Hermine. That refers to the GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE absurd fur robe Michel Racine (Fabrice Luchini) wears while presiding over his circuit-court cases. A documentary by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen. The diminutive judge is battling a bad cold while Rated PG overseeing the disheartening trial of a labourer If you were the sort of kid who set your (Victor Pontecorvo) accused of murdering his friends on fire, dragged them behind a truck, own daughter. The defendant says nothing but or played with gunpowder in your parents’ home, “I didn’t do it,” throwing suspicion back on his then Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film equally inarticulate wife (Miss Ming). Ever Made is definitely the movie for you. Despite its sensational nature, the trial turns Directed by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen, out to be a MacGuffin here. This exquisitely obthis documentary is, on one level, a funny trib- served character study, more comedy than drama, ute to three boys from Mississippi, all aged 12 or is really about the judge’s growing relationship thereabouts, who fell in love with Raiders of the with a woman on the jury, Ditte (Denmark’s slyly Lost Ark and mounted a shot-for-shot remake radiant Sidse Babett Knudsen.) Known as a chilly that ended up consuming all of their summer figure, a punctilious rule-keeper, and a harsh vacations from 1982 to 1989. sentencer, Racine starts taking risks to spend But it’s also a poignant look at middle-aged guys more time with Ditte, a single mom who has just trying to relive their youth. Eric Zala (who directed the right courtside manner to challenge his adthe remake and played the villainous Belloq) and vances. Sparks fly, in a cautious, middle-aged way. his partner Chris Strompolos (who played Indiana The judge’s name is likely a nod to the 17thJones) gave up on filmmaking as adults—Zala says century French poet and playwright, and writStrompolos resented him for “selling out” and get- er-director Christian Vincent also seems to be gesting a “corporate” job—but when their fan film was turing towards Balzac with his introduction of discovered by Eli Roth and played at the Butt-Numb- supporting characters from varying social strata, A-Thon festival in 2002, they found themselves in- while offering few immediate clues as to which stant celebrities on the movie-geek circuit. will or won’t matter in the overall story. It’s not a So now they reunite to film the one major scene movie for people who need all their cases tied up that they never completed as kids: the one with neatly at the end, but more for viewers who enjoy the exploding airplane. The ensuing produc- the bittersweet deliberations of life itself. > KEN EISNER tion delays provide some suspense (Are Zala and

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THE SOUND WE SEE: A VANCOUVER CITY SYMPHONY Shot on 16mm by a group of 10 youths, men-

tored by ex-Vancouverite (and former cub vocalist) Lisa Marr, and accompanied by a live score by Martin Riesle, “The Sound We See” headlines a free evening of locally made shorts, titled Gathering Rhythms, at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (June 19). Cineworks and the Gathering Place Community Centre are mounting the event, which also includes Marr’s 2005 short “Vancouver Special”. More information is at www.viff.org/. -

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Tempest Storm is the stage name of Annie

2 Banks, born in rural Georgia in 1928. Escaping an impoverished and abusive household, she was already married and divorced twice by 20, when she moved to California. Her gravitydefying superstructure and siren-red hair made her an instant sensation on the postwar burlesque circuit. All of this was pretty much by accident, according to Storm—still going strong at 88—as she recalls to Vancouver filmmaker Nimisha Mukerji, who attained deeper intimacy with the subject of her best-known doc, 65_RedRoses. There’s some shorthand cultural context here, with archival footage and Storm’s own scrapbooks, but occasional claims about the dancer’s place in the exotic firmament are not supported by much evidence. Typical of the storytelling here is the chapter about Storm’s most enduring marriage, to singer and actor Herb Jeffries. Known as the Bronze Buckaroo for his singing-cowboy roles in segregated musicals, the blue-eyed Jeffries was paler than George Hamilton, but amid Americans’ racial psychosis was considered black. Several talking heads assert that the “scandal”, and subsequent birth of their daughter, effectively ruined Storm’s career. The subject is dropped as the movie proceeds to detail her many successes. She certainly didn’t succeed where her child was concerned, and family estrangement becomes a dramatic through line that leads nowhere, emotionally. (A long-awaited phone call between mother and daughter feels staged.) Storm is no more illuminating in bland anecdotes regarding her affairs with Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy, suggesting that she has either stopped thinking about these things or learned long ago to never actually speak her mind. This doesn’t stop the filmmaker from dressing up the story with slo-mo gimmickry and syrupy music, all attending a tale that’s supposed to inspire but in fact lies on the stage like a discarded fur coat. > KEN EISNER see next page

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CRASH If High-Rise whetted your appetite

for well-appointed perversity, here’s David Cronenberg’s very fine adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s most notorious novel, obligatorily booed and heralded at Cannes when it premiered in 1996. Crash screens at the Rio Theatre on Friday (June 17).

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superb series Shakespeare 400 continues with this Akira Kurosawa classic, in which Macbeth is transposed to Japan’s medieval era. Throne of Blood gets three screenings starting Friday (June 17), billed with Romeo + Juliet for the first two nights.

version of David Lean’s 1945 favourite hits the big screen thanks to Cineplex’s Classic Films series. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard stiffen their upper lips once more at the Scotiabank Theatre and SilverCity Metropolis starting Sunday (June 19).

WHEN WE WERE KINGS The Rio Theatre has programmed this timely tribute to Muhammad Ali for next Thursday (June 23). One of the best films of the year when it was released in 1996, Leon Gast’s documentary covers the fabled “Rumble in the Jungle”, when Ali took back his heavyweight title in (then) Zaire after eight rounds with George Foreman—who would be forever changed by the defeat. Norman Mailer and George Plimpton are among the talking heads also no longer with us; James Brown and B.B. King live again in the film’s amazing musical performances. JUNE 16 – 23 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31

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Starring Jason Ritter. Rated 14A

Starring Patrick Wilson. Rated 14A

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No, it isn’t a 12-step-recovery but viewers may feel mildly hungover after an evening with this TV-level comedy of family dysfunction. The only saving grace here is a generally agreeable cast led by Yank Jason Ritter. His uptight Jeff is a would-be Wall Street power dude currently hiding his recent failings in business and romance. Sister Marla (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is a promiscuous Princeton grad who can’t quite get it together either. Their problems apparently stem from the expectations placed on them by dear old dad, a high-finance silver fox played by James Brolin. Now the old guy has remarried, and the resentful siblings are drafted to go to Ontario’s Lake Country to meet his new Canadian family. These in-laws, or “steps”, are led by ex-waitress Sherry (Christine Lahti), who has three grown sons from three different fathers they don’t know. Much is made of the culture clash between the old man’s Manhattan world and the working-class trio of redneck David (Benjamin Arthur), failed musician Keith (Steven McCarthy), and academically inclined Sam (Dr. Cabbie’s Vinay Virmani). This is boring to begin with, and novice screenwriter Robyn Harding makes it worse by displaying little inside knowledge of or affection for any of the worlds colliding. These characters are mere collections of stereotypical problems, wound up like robots and pushed into each other at random. And director Andrew Currie, who showed promise with early efforts like the zombie spoof Fido, seems content to go through the Lifetime Channel motions, occasionally allowing the actors to pair off in vaguely serious conversations, to zero cumulative effect. Step away.

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Starring Jude Law. Rated PG

British theatre director Michael Grandage makes his film debut with an adaptation of A. Scott Berg’s comprehensive study of Maxwell Perkins, the red-pencil man who helped shape the most memorable books of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. You can see how Berg’s witty title, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, got whittled down to the meaningless Genius. Sadly, that reductive process applies to the movie as a whole. Tracking across the decade after the 1929 stock-market crash, the tale was filmed entirely in England, making a convincingly sepia-toned Manhattan and environs. Colin Firth is suitably withdrawn as the puritanical Perkins, who never takes his hat off until the final scene, an epilogue to his troubled relationship with Thomas Wolfe. In real life, Wolfe looked more like Peter Lorre than Jude Law, here playing to the cheap seats with a grandiose Carolina accent. The incredibly prolix Wolfe was kept af loat in this period by Aline Bernstein, a wealthy and married set designer. Almost two decades his senior, she was a Gertrude Stein type, so naturally she’s played by Nicole Kidman. The cast tries hard—too hard, in Law’s case—but screenwriter John Logan’s dialogue is relentlessly explicit where it should be subtle, while virtually ignoring issues of race, class, and gender raised as mere surface decoration. Is it ironic or merely inevitable that a film about the challenges of editing great writers should emerge still needing more passes in the screenplay department?

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Jun 15, 8-10 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12, info www.thefictionals.com/.

SIRIUS XM TOP COMIC SHOWCASE Comedy by Alex Kojfman, Bruce Clark, Che Durena, Chris Gaskin, Colin Sharp, Daryn Jones, Drew Behm, Kelly Taylor, Katherine Ferns, Lori Ferguson, Nadine Hunt, and Tim Nutt. Jun 15, 8:30 pm, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $10, info www.thecomedymix.com/. DEANNE SMITH Canadian standup comedian performs a solo show. Jun 16-18, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. CAL POST Ontario standup comedian, writer, and actor. Jun 17, 8 pm; Jun 18, 7 pm; Jun 18, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/. TEEN ANGST NIGHT Sara Bynoe hosts an evening that sees audience members share the cringe-inducing journals, poems, and essays they wrote as teenagers. Jun 17, 8-10 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15/10, info www.sarabynoe.com/shows/teen-angst/. CAROL BURNETT NorthWest Comedy and Just for Laughs present American comedian, actor, and author, who will share clips and moments from her illustrious career and take questions from the audience. Jun 18, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

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ANGST ON ADRENALINE By now, you know the unique and deliciously cringe-worthy concept: Teen Angst night features people reciting some of the best writing and poetry from their awkward high-school years. The rules? The work must be your own, you must have written it between the ages of 10 and 19, and you cannot be proud of it. In fact, it’s best if you’re extremely embarrassed by it. The resulting shows? Big laughs and writing so bad it’s good. Sara Bynoe has been hosting the events since 2000 and attracting a cult following, and on Friday (June 17) she’s bringing together some of her most memorable readers and a handful of newcomers for a special show at the Fox Cabaret. Come feel the pain.

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TEENAGE DIRTBAG Jacob Samuel hosts an evening that explores the follies of youth. Includes performances by Kate Belton, Chris Griffin, Joey Commisso, Gavin Matts, and Victoria Banner. Jun 18, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity.com/dirtbag5/.

My biggest beef with The Con-

baked and predictable possessedkid-in-a-haunted-house flick. The worst thing about it by far is its running time. At 134 minutes, TC2 is an excruciating ordeal for discriminating horror fans. Then again, director James Wan is skilled at making people suffer, having kick-started the torture-porn craze with Saw. Married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) return from Wan’s The Conjuring. This time around, the demon-wrasslin’ duo trek to not-so-jolly-old England in 1977 to help an impoverished single mom (Frances O’Connor) and her four children besieged by an evil entity. Not only do the poor kids have to endure the Bay City Rollers beaming down from bedroom posters, but they’re being terrorized by the cranky spirit of the old codger who died in their worn-out armchair. It occasionally inhabits the body of 11-year-old Janet (Madison Wolfe), causing lots of Linda Blair–style possession shtick. Many long minutes are spent trying to summon dread through inanimate objects, like a toy fire truck that keeps turning on and driving around, lights on and siren beeping. Not all that scary. Then there’s the haunted TV remote that keeps switching to a station showing a speech by Margaret Thatcher. That’s a little scarier. Much time is also devoted to the clairvoyant Lorraine’s trancelike visions, which set up formulaic jump scares and sound-effects wanks. At one point she envisions Ed being killed by a tree branch through the torso, leading pained viewers to hope that the corny guy with the Elvis sideburns soon “gets wood” and that it brings a welcome end to this cluttered exercise in Exorcist-inspired overkill. > STEVE NEWTON

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LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK A GATHERING OF POETS: FRESH LOCAL POETRY Local poet and novelist Evelyn Lau hosts a special gathering of poets with Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalists Ali Blythe, Amber Dawn, Raoul Fernandes, Miranda Pearson, and Jeff Steudel. Jun 18, 1-4 pm, Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre (7646 Prince Albert). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK BUILDING CULTURE: SOMETHING OLD/ SOMETHING NEW Heritage Hall celebrates its 100th anniversary with an evening of theatre, music, dance, and film featuring musica intima, the Vancouver Bach Choir, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, and Amber Funk Barton/ The Response, and Stage Door. Jun 17, Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street). Tix $25, info www.heritagehall.bc.ca/.

MANELY FOR THE MUSIC There’s perhaps no better way to enjoy our premier male choir than in its season-closing, open-air Mane Stage concert at Bard on the Beach. If you ever doubted Chor Leoni can do anything, witness its takes on Spirit of the West, Gordon Lightfoot, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, and much more, all in stellar arrangements and accompanied by a live band. The gentlemen hit the stage both this Monday and next (June 20 and 27).

2016 FESTIVAL LAUNCH! Cabaret-style showcase of artists presenting original works of music, film, theatre, dance, and spoken word to a panel of industry experts. Jun 17, 7-9:30 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Info www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards.html.

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ARTWALK SOUTH GRANVILLE Wander up and down South Granville Street and take in artist talks, wine and cheese tastings, and more than 16 different art exhibitions. Jun 18, 10 am–6 pm, Gallery Row South Granville (Granville Street [6th to 16th]). Free admission, info www.southgranville.org/.

THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights) to Oct 16

A CELEBRATION OF ROBERT BATEMAN Explore the work of artist Robert Bateman and hear from B.C. personalities about his work and influence. Includes presentations by Elizabeth May, Brian Brett, Bristol Foster, Robert Davidson, and Robert Bateman. Jun 19, 3-5 pm, Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street). Tix $40, info www.writersfest.bc.ca/ events/bateman/.

GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES (exhibition examines the significance of the six women who were inspirational to the artistic development of Picasso) to Oct 2

OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED HARRISON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Music, visual and literary arts, and theatre. Jul 9-17, Harrison Hot Springs. Tix $22-25, info www.harrisonfestival.com/.

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generation of would-be filmmakers was ignited by the release of Star Wars in 1977, but it was Raiders of the Lost Ark, arriving four years later, that prompted arguably the first real wave of homemade Super 8 and video tributes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is just one that they actually finished,â&#x20AC;? says Tim Skousen, director (with Jeremy Coon) of Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, opening Friday (June 17). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d guess that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of five to 30 minute fan films of Indiana Jones out thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe even in your basement. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very many that redid the entire film at an hour and 40 minutes.â&#x20AC;? In â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s Mississippi, schoolkids Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos were gripped by an insane compulsion to make a

Chris Strompolos, Tim Skousen, Eric Zala, and Jeremy Coon take a break before destroying an airplane in Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made.

shot-for-shot remake of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, costing them seven consecutive summers and their friendship. About a quarter of a decade later, in 2002, their passion project found its way (thanks to Eli Roth) to the Butt-Numb-A-Thon at Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The response to

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show. She thought it was beautiful.” No less revealing was an exchange between the exotic dancer and her abusive stepfather, who told her, “You’ll never get to Heaven doing that kind of work.” Storm curtly replied that she didn’t expect him to make it there, either. “But I said it in a funny way, not in a nasty way,” she recounts. “I always kept myself classy.” To that end, there’s something honourable about Storm’s public display of accountability. Deserting her daughter, only 10 years old at the time, raises an obvious parallel with her own childhood traumas. The film builds to a climactic phone call between the two that’ll have some viewers shifting a little uncomfortably in their seats, but Storm doesn’t recoil from putting it out there, or from bringing some hardwon wisdom and patience to a situation that still requires a lot of healing. “We all have forgiveness,” she says. “But you have to give that person a chance to forgive you.” -

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savage love I’ve been dating a nice guy for a month or so. Sex is good, and we’re faulty compatible in other ways, too. He told me he likes to wear diapers. He said he doesn’t want me to do it with him, but that every once in a while he likes to wear them because it makes him feel “safe”. He said that this odd behaviour isn’t sexual for him, but I have trouble believing him. I’m not sure how I feel about this. He also said that it embarrasses him and he wishes it wasn’t something he needed. If you have any insight into what to ask him or how to make sure I can keep him satisfied sexually as we move forward (if we do), it would be appreciated. > DO I ASK POOPER EVERYTHING RESPECTFULLY, SIR?

You shouldn’t assume (contra your sign-off ) that Potential New Boyfriend (PNB) is pooping his diapers. Most guys who are ABDL (adult baby/diaper lover) are interested only in wetting themselves, if that. (Some only wear, never fi ll.) It sounds like PNB is struggling with kink and/ or sex shame, DIAPERS, and the assumption you’ve made about the extent of his diaper play might put him on the defensive. Even if your assumption is accurate, it could still put him on the defensive. Moving on… You have a hard time believing PNB when he says there’s nothing sexual about his interest in diapers, and that makes two of us. Seeing as he’s already succumbed to shame where his kink is concerned—or it might be more accurate to say he hasn’t dug himself out from under the shame almost all

kinksters struggle with initially—he is very likely weighed down by the sex negativity that comes bundled with kink shame. So he may have told you there’s nothing sexual about his thing for diapers because he thinks it makes his diapers seem less sordid. That said, DIAPERS, “this makes me feel safe” and “this makes my dick hard” aren’t mutually exclusive phenomena. Both can be true. (And if diapers really do make adults feel safe—and I wanna see data on that—we could rebrand them as “portable individual safe spaces” and make them available at our better universities.) Another clue there is something sexual about this thing for diapers: not wanting you around while he wears them. Maybe diapers are something he enjoys wearing during alone time, or maybe the sight of him in diapers makes the sexual aspect hard to deny. (“Is that an enormous rattle in your diaper or are you just happy to see me?”) I would advise you to say some vaguely affirming things (“Your diaper thing doesn’t bother me, and wouldn’t even if it were sexual”) without pressuring him to include you at diaper time. Don’t rush things—relationshipwise or diaperwise—and focus on establishing a mutually satisfying sexual rapport/repertoire. P.S. I think you meant “ fairly compatible”, not “ faulty compatible”. Normally, I would correct a mistake like this before printing a letter— but I rather liked your accidental phrase. A loving and functionalbut-imperfect relationship—really

> BY DAN SAVAGE the best we can hope for—could be A local park in Seattle often hosts gay men engaging in sexual described as faulty compatible. activities. As a straight female, I I’m an incredibly confused love watching man-on-man sex and man in my early 20s. I’m attracted to really wanted to check out this park. men and women. I could see spending I stopped by at night and noticed my life with either. But I think sex- “cruising” going on but no sexual acual activity with either sex would be tivity. I decided to try on a busy Satconfusing and strange. In sex ed, I al- urday night, and sure enough, I saw ways thought the whole idea of sexual a man giving a BJ to another man. intercourse was strange. I don’t think I scared the men—they stopped their I’m asexual, but I’m not sure if I am activities and left the park when they bisexual. I am more attracted to vi- saw me watching—and I felt bad. brant personalities. I don’t think that I feel like I should have said someI am just straight or just gay, because thing like “Don’t let me stop you!” I have equal feelings for both sexes. and then perhaps been able to watch. Does this mean I could find equal What are my options here? > PECULIAR AND RARE KINK companionship with both? Should I wait until I find the right person and Two options: Dress up like a dude and decide from there? > CONFUSED ABOUT SEXUALITY, pass yourself off as one of the park HELP pervs—guys into man-on-man public sex usually aren’t averse to being obAccording to the Tumblr Blog De- served by other male park pervs—or coder Ring that came in my last stay home and watch gay porn on the box of Kellogg’s Feelios, CASH, Internet until you’ve homicided love. you’re bi-classic (attracted to men (Porn kills love—so says the Mormon and women), bi-romantic (could Church, so you know it’s true.) be with a man or a woman), a sort As for the two guys who knocked of demisexual/sapiosexual hybrid it off when they spotted you: they (demis are attracted to people either thought you were a cop (it’s they’ve bonded with emotionally, illegal to be in Seattle parks after sapios are attracted to people who closing, and it’s extra illegal to have are intelligent, and vibrancy may sex in a public park after hours) or fall at some point between the two), thought you might be shocked or and maybe falling somewhere on annoyed. Most park pervs go out the asexuality spectrum. The best of their way to be discreet, for their way to discover who/what works own safety (avoiding gay bashers or for you is to get out there. If you arrest) and out of consideration for find yourself feeling confused, just late-night dog walkers, restless inremind yourself that confusion— somniacs, stargazers, et al. like so much else—is a spectrum. One last reason they may have And wherever you fall on it, CASH, pulled up their pants: they weren’t know you’ve got plenty of company. interested in performing for you.

Gay and bi men who have sex in parks—many of them straight-identified men—aren’t there to perform for pervy straight ladies. But I’m not going to scold you (even at the risk of being scolded myself), PARK, because park pervs risk being observed by other members of the public—and women are members of the public, too, and just as entitled to get their perv on in a public park as they are. But if you don’t want the guys to pull up their pants and flee at the sight of you, PARK, pull together an outfit that gives you a dude-ish silhouette. SPEAKING OF ABDL: Residents of Mount Prospect, Illinois, are upset about a new shop that caters to diaper lovers in their community. Tykables sells grownup-size diapers, rocking chairs, and cribs. The Chicago Tribune reports that some residents are uncomfortable because the shop— which has no signage and soon-tobe-frosted windows—is near schools, parks, and other places where “children gather”. Mount Prospect is a suburb, so there are schools or parks near just about everything. And there’s a gun shop a couple blocks away from a large public park and an elementary school—and no one ever walked into a school and started diapering students to death. Maybe worry about the real threat to your kids, Mount Prospect? On the Savage Lovecast, Tracy ClarkFlory on the plight of the virtuous pedophile: savagelovecast.com . E-mail: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ fakedansavage/.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 8, 2016 WHERE: SkyTrain Heading Downtown I got on at Cambie St. SkyTrain, dark haired and in all white, poorly balancing my book and hanging on. I tripped twice and laughed. I felt you (tall, brunette, short beard, walked with a limp) looking at me but thought you were out of my league so I quickly looked away each time we caught eyes. We got off at Vancouver City Central and I realized that it probably wasn’t accidental - there was no reason for you to be riding the escalator backwards as I walked the stairs. What’s your story, sir?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 3, 2016 WHERE: Downtown Vancouver A few days ago we chatted, at your work in a cell phone store in the West End. You lifted your shirt, and my knees got weak lol. Thought to myself “No way you're single” The very next morning, I wiped out on my skateboard heading into work. Shortcut through this alley downtown. There was a construction crew nearby... and I guess with me, skateboard and water bottling tumbling along, it made a bit of a racket. And then I’m sure that was you again! You approached me to see what happened and if I was ok... with your sweet smile, suddenly my various owwies didn’t hurt anymore. Happy to see you again, but I was already late for work so couldn’t talk. BUT if you see this, an single... HMU let’s go on a date

TAKE ME FOR A WALK?

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 5, 2016 WHERE: Trout Lake

You. Injured runner. With Dog. Me. Half Chinese. Dogless. Our eyes locked at Trout park. It was intense. But then your dog pooped and you had to tend to that situation. I kept walking. Maybe you can take me a for a walk one day?

KILLARNEY MARKET STARBUCKS 2 WEEKS AGO

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 20, 2016 WHERE: Elliott and East 49th You were ahead of me in line and having trouble with your debit card so I offered to pay. You asked if I lived in the area and how to get a hold of me to repay me. I should have given you my number, you were quite attractive. I do live in the area and would like to take you up on that coffee now. What were you holding and who do you bank with?

SO SAD TODAY ON FERRY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 5, 2016 WHERE: Ferry

You were reading "So Sad Today" on the 3pm ferry. I almost bought it the other day and I wanted to ask you if you enjoyed it. I was the not-tall blond sitting by the exit door. I should have come over to chat but it was so crowded and quiet and I didn’t want to intrude. I am relatively new to Vancouver and I read a lot - maybe we could trade paperbacks?

PUNK ROCK CUTIE

YOU GAVE ME A 1040 SCARF

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 3, 2016 WHERE: The Sadies at the Rickshaw.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 13, 2015 WHERE: Bus and Than 4th Ave.

I bumped into you on the stairs and we hugged tightly. Then you held me as we swayed back and forth to the band. We got pretty wasted and went home together. I woke up alone. Where did you go? You are the cutest boy in the world. I hope you come and find me!!

We met on the bus, you offer me a glass of water, gave me a 1040 scarf and we went for a walk on the beach. It was a wonderful time and I wished I knew how to get ahold of you. Would love to see you again

LANGLEY SUPERSTORE WHITEHORSE CYCLIST

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 30, 2016 WHERE: Vanness Bike Route, Near the Joyce SkyTrain Station You caught up with me on the Vanness bike route, just after I had pulled ahead on a hill. I almost started laughing at first because I thought you were maybe one of those guys who can’t stomach being passed by a girl... but it turns out you were just being nice! You just moved here from Whitehorse, and wanted to tell me that you recognized my shirt from the Klondike road relay. You caught me a bit off guard, but I enjoyed our chat and now wish I hadn’t arrived at my work so soon. Would love to hear more about your adventures up north - coffee or long ride to continue the conversation?

COOKIE AT WHOLE FOODS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 7, 2016 WHERE: Kitsilano

You were second behind me in a line up with your friend and I asked you what you were getting and you said, a cookie. Would have been nice to chat longer!

CUTE SWIMMER AT NEW BRIGHTON

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 4, 2016 WHERE: Langley

I saw you at the checkout stand, one over from the one I was in, around 2:30 pm . You were tall with short blond hair, I am tall with short dark hair. I found you very attractive.

ATTN: CUTE PHIBBS BUS BOY WITH GLASSES WHO ALMOST ALWAAAAYS READS THE MORNING PAPER

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 1, 2016 WHERE: Kootenay Loop Bay 8 I’ve been coerced by my co-workers to post this, so: I’ve seen you get off at Kootenay Loop and back on the same bus as me every day I’ve worked my summer job. After the bus stops at Phibbs, you line up for the 239 and I go off to take a different bus. You wear a lot of button-ups, thick-rimmed glasses, have blue eyes, and are almost always reading the newspaper on the bus (: You’ve looked over a few times (I think) but I am the actual worst at talking to strangers for the first time :$ I think you’re super cute! And we should go for coffee if you ever see this. Maybe. Possibly.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 6, 2016 WHERE: New Brighton Pool

WE CAUGHT A GLANCE AND SMILED, THEN I HEARD YOUR VOICE.

We shared the one crowded lane doing laps. You asked me about where to get a pull buoy, and I wasn’t very helpful. The lifeguard was, though... I was a little rushed, so I regret the mid-swim abruptness. Swim sometime? I’m always game for laps in the pool : )

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 1, 2016 WHERE: SkyTrain Between Main and Metrotown

MAN IN THE BLACK SPORTS CAR IN NV

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 3, 2016 WHERE: 2600 Chesterfield Ave. You followed me in my red van and drove up next to me into the opposing lane to say hi after we play cat and mouse. I was the blonde in the red van. Want to race?

You had pink laced runners and an umbrella propped up between your legs and sitting down. I caught a glance and your smile as I stood beside you with the bag on the floor and my blue t-shirt. You looked great and then I heard how wonderful your voice sounded. Sorry if I eavesdropped but you talked about a 9 minute meditation and how your boss is bugging you. Don’t know if the glance was anything more than a smile to a stranger on the way home. Either way you look as beautiful as you sound.

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diminish, or create loss, the Sagittarius a lost cause, but even so, Uranus is full moon is a mobilizing and take- in kick-start mode. Tuesday’s downhe end of the school semes- flight influence. It will increase the to-business is productive. ter and Father’s Day week- scope, volume, and momentum. TuesCANCER end coincide perfectly with day onward, we’re on the upswing. June 21–July 22 Venus leaving Gemini for ARIES Venus into Cancer, starting Cancer on Friday. Along with sumMarch 20–April 20 Friday, favours you with more attenmer solstice, marked by the sun’s enProspects and potentials tion, better support and feedback. trance into Cancer on Monday, the spotlight increases on family, home, are on the rise. Off switches on. Progressively, birthday month will comfort zones, security matters, and Something you have long held hope boost your confidence, energy level, the past. Do you feel well nourished, for can now show actual promise or and success ratio, too. Still, Friday nurtured, supported, or provided viability. Friday can provide a hint, through Monday’s full moon could for? Venus and the sun stir emotion- open up new thinking or discussion. overload you, deplete you, or keep you al sensitivity, needs, vulnerability, Sunday/Monday produces substan- guessing. Time out to regroup is ideal. empathy, and response mechanisms. tially more. News, opportunity, or Go the extra mile for your health. Also on Friday, Saturn turns a gain could appear out of the blue. Tuesday, you’re back in business. corner with Neptune for a second of Fresh starts, initiatives, and ventures Wednesday/Thursday fast-tracks you. three meet-ups over a 10-month per- are exceptionally well timed. You’re LEO iod. Saturn/Neptune operates on two on fire through Wednesday. July 22–August 23 levels. It infiltrates, weakens, dismanTAURUS Father’s Day dishes up the tles, or dissolves a rational structure April 20–May 21 best the weekend has to offer. Give or stronghold. At the same time, the A weekend escape, a secret yourself extra time to get to work on transit adds form and dimension to an evolving reality base, to potentials rendezvous, or a scouting mission full-moon Monday. A late or delayed or consequences that have reached a delivers the goods. By all means get start is likely. You could face a probripe and ready timetable. Deflation, your pleasure fill, but Friday/Satur- lem first thing, but a talk, modificarecessionary periods, and sinkholes day, know you can easily overreact or tion, or revamp gets it under control are examples of Saturn/Neptune. The get talked into more than you should well. Tuesday through Thursday best way to navigate through Saturn/ take on. Watch spending, allergies, points you in a fresh direction. Expect Neptune is to stay flexible and to al- and use of alcohol and drugs. Don’t to keep on the go. low what is naturally developing to assume; get it clarified. Safeguards VIRGO are wise on mixed-bag Monday too. shape up and to prove itself. August 23–September 23 The weekend is ideal for an unwind. Tuesday is lucrative. You’ll find a receptive Father’s Day delivers well, but the GEMINI audience Thursday; make your power undercurrents of Monday’s full moon May 21–June 21 play. Friday/Saturday, feel your way can be felt as early as Saturday. MonNoting the full moon on along; know when to pull back and day’s start could be slow or a no-go. It also sets the reality into play, whether the rise, you may not know which when to jump in. Looking back it is something to face or to celebrate. end is up until you are in the thick and moving forward, Father’s Day Watch for a major contract, announce- of it. Your extra time is the num- through full-moon Monday emotions ment, or piece of news. Despite Sat- ber one pick for a Father’s Day gift . run the show. Depletion, uncertainty, urn/Neptune’s propensity to drain, Monday morning could be a push or confusion, or overwhelming is in the

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Off someplace quiet or private is good for Friday through Sunday. Of course, Father’s Day could oblige you to more, but it’s all good. Full moon/summer solstice Monday can produce a slow, delayed, or laboured start, but it’s full tilt after that. Tuesday is optimum. Set it into play; name your price; define your terms. You have the advantage.

Beyond a good weekend to fi ll up on R & R, now through next Wednesday moves you through several stages of a thought process, a fact-finding mission, a negotiation, sale, major learning curve, or planning phase. Take it one step at a time; AQUARIUS feel your way along. One thing hinJanuary 20–February 18 ges on and/or leads to another. Your Stay motivated Thursday best choice, option, or answer will and you’ll make a good turnaround become obvious. or gain. Friday/Saturday, don’t force SCORPIO it; allow time to solve it for you. October 23–November 22 Father’s Day through next Thursday Thursday, you’ll build a is prime for a major breakthrough good momentum. Your timing is right or move-along. Monday you’ll hit on the money. Take a load off Friday go, but fi rst there’s something to night. Saturday, more push or more confront or clear up. Tuesday/Wedpatience is required, but as of Father’s nesday dishes up something fresh Day you can ease up again. Full-moon or unexpected. Monday can start with dissipation, PISCES lack of direction or focus, but gains February 18- March 20 are made as the day wears on. Tuesday Motivation rewards you produces results or profits. well through Friday morning, but as SAGITTARIUS the day wears on, you could run out November 22–December 21 of steam. Saturday is a mixed bag. Your know-how is in fine Planned or played by ear, Father’s Day form Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. delivers the goods. Monday’s start can If you are born on or close to De- take extra effort, push, or patience, but cember 21, you’ll gain the best of you’ll hit full tilt after that. Tuesday’s the full moon’s gift. If you are born fresh track is especially productive, December 2 to 5, you can meet with lucrative, or fun. added strain, pressure, resistance, or a reality check. Once confronted, it’s Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s out of the way. Tuesday is productive. free monthly newsletter: www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. Wednesday brings a fresh infusion.

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