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From silent dance parties and sky-high zip lines to fireworks and performances by Canuck celebs, Metro Vancouver’s Canada 150 events are pulling out all the stops for the nation’s milestone year. > BY TAMMY K WAN, LUCY L AU, AMANDA SIEBERT, K ATE WILSON

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n case you’ve been living under a rock, this Saturday (July 1) marks 150 years of Canadian Confederation. (For those who were asleep during high-school social studies, it’s the anniversary of the day Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united. The remaining provinces and territories would join later, though the sesquicentennial does not include the thousands of years that Canada’s indigenous populations have called the land home.) As a result, Metro Vancouver is taking its Canada Day celebrations up a few notches with an array of long-weekend fetes that feature everything from silent dance parties and sky-high ziplines to performances by Canuck celebs and, of course, plenty of fireworks. Ahead, we highlight some of our favourites with a handy out-offive-maple-syrup-bottles rating for each (five indicating peak Canadianness), so you can nail down your patriotic party of choice All events are free, unless otherwise noted.

CANADA DAY SILENT DISCO (June

30 from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Reasons to revel: Despite being huge in Europe, silent discos have been slow to take off in North America—which is, in our opinion, a travesty. While the format typically involves partygoers dancing in a tent with radio-controlled headsets given out at the door, the organizers of this event have gone DIY, creating a central DJ mix for every attendee to download. Inviting everyone to press Play on their device at the same time, the silent disco allows the crowd to be mobile and exuberant, without pissing off any downtown residents.

Thrown by Party4Health, a company that aims to create events so engaging that attendees need not drink at them, the evening is both family-friendly and good clean fun. Canada-O-Meter rating: Ditching the alcohol and giving out free maple-syrup shots instead, the event wholeheartedly deserves five maple-syrup bottles.

CANADA DAY ON GRANVILLE ISLAND (July 1 from 8 a.m. to 11

p.m. on Granville Island) Reasons to revel: Celebrations for the big 150 don’t get more varied than at this B.C.

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attraction, where you’ll find a bevy of all-ages activities spread across the site. Craft your own moose hat or beaver puppet, take in performances by groups like the Jen Hodge All Stars as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, and chow down on red-and-white treats at Lee’s Donuts, Muffin Granny, and more. A handful of stores and markets open as early as 8 a.m., though many of the festivities kick off at noon. The annual Canada Day parade begins at 1:30 p.m.

Canada-O-Meter rating: Four-and-ahalf maple-syrup bottles for the inclusion of First Nations artists such as the Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers), V’ni Dansi’s Louis Riel Métis Dancers, and Tsatsu Stalqaya (Coastal Wolf Pack), all of whom will present routines during the afternoon.

CANADA DAY AT CANADA PLACE (July 1 from 9:45 a.m. to

10:50 p.m. and July 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 999 Canada Place) Reasons to revel: This is the biggest Canada Day celebration outside of Ottawa and will take place over a two-day period this year. There’s a reason why it’s an award-winning event—it brings the community together with plenty of music, activities, and a highly anticipated Canada Day fireworks display. Check out the kids’ zone, an interactive exhibit by the Canadian Armed Forces, a

pancake breakfast, and performances by the Sam Roberts Band, Hey Ocean!, Madeline Merlo, Jackie Chan, and more. Canada-O-Meter rating: Five maple-syrup bottles, because this extravaganza culminates with its Canada 150 parade on Sunday (July 2) at 5 p.m. The free community parade (starting at West Georgia and Broughton streets) will feature more than 60 entries and can guarantee plenty of excitement for the entire gang.

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from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Steveston Village) Reasons to revel: The City of Richmond’s newest Canada Day celebration will be a free fullday street party. This festival will be hosted in partnership with the Steveston Salmon Festival, which is famous for its barbecue that features over 500 kilos of wild salmon. Its main attractions include food trucks and carnival games, as well as fireworks over the Fraser River. Entertainers include Japanese drumming group Tetsu Taiko, Vancouver band Youngblood, and yo-yo master Harrison Lee. Canada-O-Meter rating: Four maple-syrup bottles, because Juno-winning Canadian indie-rock band Wintersleep has been invited to perform as the headliner at this family-friendly event. see next page

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SURREY CANADA DAY (July 1 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre) Reasons to revel: This sprawling, multifaceted fete in the ’burbs makes a compelling case for partying outside Vancouver’s downtown core. Among the attractions will be amusement rides, autograph-signing sessions with Canuck celebs, maple-cookie-making stations for the tots, and a new 83-metre zipline that allows attendees to fly high above the revelry. A fireworks show caps off the night at 10:30 p.m.

Canada-O-Meter rating: An all-Canadian live-music lineup that includes B.C. natives Hedley and Torontobased pop-reggae band Magic earns this shindig five delicious maplesyrup bottles. First Nations dancers Peace out at Cannabis Day, the local and troupes such as VanCity Bhangra, annual rally for legalizing marijuana.

Aché Brasil, and the Vancouver chapter of the world’s largest Bollywood Westminster is doing it big for the nadance academy, the Shiamak Dance tion’s 150th with a jam-packed roster of performers that includes B.C. singTeam, will also take the stage. er-songwriter Olivia Penalva, the New YVR FOOD FEST’S CANADA DAY Westminster Community Choir, and COOKOUT (July 1 from noon to 8 p.m. local rock band City Walls. Attendees at 215 West 1st Avenue) Reasons to will also be able to shop and discover revel: If you love nothing more than a resident talents at the farmers and artihearty outdoor barbecue, then this epic san markets. Canada-O-Meter rating: Austin-style feast is for you. YVR Food Four maple-syrup bottles for the comFest is hosting this barbecue party for munity-oriented entertainment linethe first time, and guests will be able up and the Canada 150 mosaic that to enjoy beers, bands, DJs, and, most will be unveiled during the event. importantly, good food. Participating companies that will be providing CANNABIS DAY (July 1 from noon the drinks and eats include the Flying to 7 p.m. at Thornton Park) Reasons Pig, Nuba, Relish Gourmet Burgers, to revel: If booze-fuelled nationalism Smoke Shack 99, and Johnny’s Pops. isn’t quite your thing, hang out with The musical lineup will feature singer- a quiet, peaceful bunch at the annual songwriter Jessicka, pop-punk artists Cannabis Day protest. Sponsors have Supermoon, and tropical-indie-pop moved this year’s smoke-out from the band Leisure Club. Tickets are $10 to Vancouver Art Gallery to the much $59 at www.yvrfoodfest.com/. Canada- more accommodating Thornton Park O-Meter rating: Three maple-syrup for an afternoon of smoking, sambottles, because people will likely be pling, and celebrating. Billed as both a donning red-and-white attire, have protest against Canada’s century-long temporary Canadian-flag tattoos on war on cannabis users and a celebratheir faces, and burst out humming tion of the plant, it might just be the “O Canada” at one point or another last time you get to smoke weed ilwhen they aren’t too busy chowing legally on Canada Day before the feds finally legalize. Canada-O-Meter down on the grub. rating: Four maple-syrup bottles for CANADA DAY ON ROBSON modified Canadian flags, live music STREET (July 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. by local bands, a cannabis farmon Robson Street, between Burrard ers market, and the homecoming of and Denman and on the south ends Canada’s prince and princess of pot, of Bute, Jervis, and Cardero streets) Marc and Jodie Emery, from Toronto.

Reasons to revel: Spearheaded by the Bonus points for moving to an accessRobson Street and West End BIAs, ible area, and for standing up to the this multiblock celebration features man in the face of continued dispensan outdoor art installation and the ary raids and cannabis-related arlaunch of a pedestrian plaza com- rests. (We’re looking at you, JT.) plete with tables, chairs, and a community piano on Bute Street. Select CANADA DAY AT WATERFRONT retailers on Robson will also be of- PARK (July 1 from noon to 4 p.m. and fering special promotions and give- 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at 200 West Esplanaways for attendees who are feeling ade, North Vancouver) Reasons to spendy. Canada-O-Meter rating: revel: Celebrate Canada’s 150th on A charity ball-hockey tournament, the North Shore by attending this free bison cooked up by Canadian gas- festival that will be packed with music, tropub Timber, and maple-flavoured activities, and food. There will be percupcakes get this event a solid three formances by Tiller’s Folly, Apollo’s Crush, the Squamish Ocean Canoe maple-syrup bottles.

Family, the Eire Born Irish Dance CANADA DAY IN NEW WEST Company, and others. Food trucks, (July 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at a balloon artist, a clown, a Celtic viothe Queen’s Park Bandshell) Reasons lin player, a mural artist, and a Hulato revel: The first formally recog- Hoop instructor will also be on-site to see next page nized city in Western Canada, New

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keep eventgoers entertained. Kids can check out everything from the inflatable park to mini-golf to a rock-climbing wall. Canada-O-Meter rating: Three maple-syrup bottles for its Canada 150 evening event that will feature a free concert (with a tribute to Fleetwood Mac), a beer garden showcasing Red Truck Brewing, and a stellar view of the Canada Day fireworks.

$10, with the proceeds to be given to a number of the Sisters’ supported charities. Past causes include societies working to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and supporting those who are homeless. Canada-O-Meter rating: As inclusivity and diversity are two of Canada’s most important values, we’ll give the event a solid three maple-syrup bottles.

CANADA DAY BLOCK PARTY (July 1 from noon to 2 a.m. at the Waldorf Hotel) Reasons to revel: The Waldorf has been hosting a Canada Day block party for five years—which means that they’ve pretty much got it down to a fine art. Running for 14 hours (yes, you read that right), the event focuses on food, drink, and music. Good Company Lager will be in charge of quenching thirsts in the afternoon sun, and $2 hot dogs, beef burgers, and veggie patties will be gently smoking on the grill all day long. The real heart of the event, though, is the lineup of 22 performers, who will be playing tunes all over the venue, from the parking lot to the indoor stages. Big-name draws include the Swiss-born electronic-music producer Cyril Hahn—who has amassed 458,000 SoundCloud followers—indie-rock trio Walter TV (whose members include half of Mac DeMarco’s band), and local celebrity DJ Mat the Alien. $20 tickets are up for grabs at canadadayblockparty.com/. CanadaO-Meter rating: Given that nearly all the artists carry a Canadian passport, we’ll give it four maple-syrup bottles.

CANADA DAY IN BURNABY (July 1 from 5 to 10:30 p.m. at Swangard Stadium) Reasons to revel: In addition to Canada Day, the city of Burnaby will be toasting its 125th birthday with a host of fun and games and appearances by local band Sideone, African dance-and-drum ensemble Kokoma, and Juno nominee Will Stroet. Plus, the double whammy of a party doesn’t kick off until the evening, so you won’t be roasting under the sun during the hottest hours of the day. CanadaO-Meter rating: Three-and-a-half maple-syrup bottles for locking down headliner and former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page. -

CANADA DAY IN COQUITLAM (July 1 from noon to 10:30 p.m. at Town Centre Park) Reasons to revel: This suburban Canada Day celebration has grown from a small festival into a full-day party that always attracts people from neighbouring cities. Expect to enjoy live music at the plaza stage, indulge in gourmet food down Eat Street (think Japadog, Rocky Point Ice Cream, Blend Bubble Tea), give back to others in the on-site Community Drive, or check out Adventure Park with the kids. Performing will be Coastal Sound Children’s Choir, Mazacote, professional drumming group Uzume Taiko, the Giggle Dam Band, and more. Canada-O-Meter rating: Five maple-syrup bottles, because Duh Canada Guys—stilt sensations with a hockey twist—will be roaming around the festival. It doesn’t get any more Canadian than that.

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p.m.; boarding at 750 Pacific Boulevard) Reasons to revel: Chances are you don’t own a 128-foot yacht on which to enjoy the Canada Day sunshine—but that shouldn’t make you give up on the dream. Twisted Productions has chartered the Queen of Diamonds, a 400-capacity vessel with two large interior decks and a massive sun deck, ready to fill it with—in their words—beats, babes, and brews. Behind the turntables will be six local DJs blasting tropical, deep, and future house, pumping up the crowds as the boat motors through Burrard Inlet and English Bay. Picture the vibe of the Tomorrowland festival packed conveniently onto a bobbing barge. Tickets are $55 at twisted.ticketzone.com/. CanadaO-Meter rating: Considering that nine percent of Canada is covered in water and you’ll be out on a boat, we think the trip is reasonably patriotic.

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tion, 1138 Davie Street) Reasons to revel: In true Davie Street style, LGBT individuals are spoiled for choice this Canada Day, but for those who want to give back to the community as well as celebrate, the Junction’s event stands out. Hosted by the Vancouver Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—an order of modern-day queer nuns dedicated to providing a safe space for all genders, sexual orientations, and spiritual traditions—the barbecue is sure to promote colour, costumes, and queens.

Serving a hot meal straight from the grill, the event invites partygoers to indulge in a burger and cocktail for

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he 150th anniversary of Confederation will be celebrated across Canada on July 1, but a new book prepared

by UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies takes a more nuanced look at the country.

Reflections of Canada: Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years includes more than 40 essays by scholars and intellectuals covering a wide range of areas.

Those dealing with the political system and the economic status of Canadians paint a picture of a country at a crossroads struggling to come to terms with growing inequality, political disengagement, and the impact of climate change.

In one essay, former NDP leader Ed Broadbent and UBC law professor Margot Young assert that Canada is in a “second Gilded Age”. They maintain that “income and wealth are concentrated in a small percentage of the population—the rich and super-rich—while those at the bottom lie far below acceptable standards of well-being.”

According to them, Canada has become “less generous and just” and ”a country of haves and the desperate have-nots”. While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become an important symbol of national identity since the 1980s, Young and Broadbent maintain that it has also been a “disappointment” for many.

“Cases that push at the greatest inequalities in our society—claims for housing rights, decent income supports—have been time after time thrown out by the courts,” they write. “The poor are Canada’s ‘constitutional castaways.’ ” This isn’t the only cautionary comment in the book about the charter, which is widely admired by Canadians.

In another essay, David Sanschagrin, a

Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies director Philippe Tortell is co-editor of a new book timed for Canada’s 150th birthday.

PhD student in political science at the Université du Québec, highlights how the charter has promoted an Ottawacentric national ideology of “liberal individualism, and whose dominant language is English”.

“This has also meant that members of the First Nations and the Quebec nation must put aside their more collectivist values in order to blend, preferably in English, into a Canadian whole,” Sanschagrin writes. “The allegiance of citizens of diverse immigrant origin, or of those belonging to visible minorities, is taken for granted under the banner of multiculturalism.”

UBC political scientist Maxwell Cameron’s essay links “defects” in democracy to neoliberal globalization. According to Cameron, this ideology emphasizes “rampant individualism”, “the overreliance on rules and incentives”, and “competition in all spheres of life”.

“A self-centred individualism

weakens the bonds of attachment to others and can lead to alienation and, in the extreme, mental health problems,” he writes.

In tying this to the political system, he argues that Canada’s “adversarial and hyper-partisan politics” frustrates electoral reform, which offers opportunities to engage citizens in collective decision-making.

“For a country like Canada, the risk for future generations is not that democracy will be abandoned or overthrown, but that it will be diminished, corroded, and hollowed out by the more powerful forces in the global marketplace,” Cameron states.

Seth Klein, the B.C. director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, writes about the triple threat of climate change, a widening economic divide, and the rise of “neofascism”. He prefers this term to the more benign-sounding alt-right.

“In short, the same toxic interplay between working-class alienation

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and deep-seated racism that elected [Donald] Trump finds a home here, and we, too, face the risk that the politics of hate will occupy centre stage,” Klein warns. “So a first lesson is to stand on guard against rising xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant politics and assaults. We must name and challenge these ideas, acknowledging that they exist but refusing to let them spread.”

Klein draws upon the lessons of Canada’s actions during and after the Second World War to advocate for a grand response to such monumental challenges. His prescriptions include a $200-per-tonne carbon tax that would raise $80 billion annually.

He suggests that this could help alleviate climate change and address the gross inequality that is contributing to the rise of neofascism.

Also on the topic of climate change, the Vancouver mother-daughter duo of UBC political-science prof Kathryn Harrison and environmental

activist Sophie Harrison evaluate the economic viability of Canada’s fossilfuel sector. In their essay, they pay particular attention to the goal of keeping the average global temperature from rising more than 2° C above what it was in pre-industrial times. Scientists believe that going more than 2° C above that base line sharply elevates the risk of runaway climate change.

This would lead to widespread extinction of species—including, possibly, human beings—and massive disruption to the food supply.

According to the International Energy Agency, global fossil-fuel consumption should peak in 2018 in order to achieve the 2° C target. The Harrisons cite research published in Nature magazine showing that under this scenario, “the market for Canadian bitumen would disappear after 2020”. That’s because international demand for expensively produced Canadian oil would fall sharply as the world moved closer to achieving its climate objectives.

“Put bluntly, the business case for tar sands expansion and new pipelines is inconsistent with the international commitment to limit climate change to 2° C,” they write.

“While there is no guarantee the world will meet that target, since current national commitments fall well short of what is needed, it is clear that approving infrastructure to increase Canada’s bitumen exports for decades to come is placing an economic bet against the success of the Paris climate agreement.”

Reflections of Canada was edited

by Young, UBC Sauder School of Business professor emeritus Peter Nemetz, and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies director Philippe Tortell.

“It doesn’t just strike that celebratory tone,” Tortell told the Straight by phone. “There are some unflinching looks at the country.” -

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HOUSING

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“I

’m a professional, full-time working person, and I’m a single mom. I never thought I might have to put down my pet, and give another one away, for us not to be homeless.

“Six years ago, I was moving out of a relationship with my son’s father and I put up an ad on Craigslist to find a new home for the two of us.

The ad described who we both were and what my son and I were looking for. I got multiple offers. We managed to negotiate, got to choose the best place available, and we moved into a brand-new three-level, two-bedroom townhouse in Coquitlam. We had our two pets; the rent was reasonable; and we agreed that we’d stay longterm. I expected to live there until my son was into high school.

“Earlier this month, I found a leak in the ceiling, so I called the landlord to let him know. When he came over, we got to chatting and he told

me that he and his wife were going to be moving into our home. They had previously been living in a big house in Delta, but because their pensions are paid out in British currency— and the exchange rate is significantly worse than it used to be—they would have to sell that property.

“My landlord and his wife are really nice people, and I don’t think they made the decision easily. They gave us three months’ notice, which was very kind. He was always fantastic, and we had a very good relationship. He never raised our rent for all the time we were there because he wanted us to stay.

“When I heard the news, I went online immediately and I put out a similar ad on Craigslist to the one I used for our last home. I got absolutely nothing in response. I’ve sent more than 50 emails out already and only had six viewings so far.

“I found one potential place, but it’s $360 a month more than I pay now. Because I’m a single parent, I just can’t afford it. I have a very good job and I make a good wage, but the market has risen so much in six years. We don’t live lavishly by any means—we’re always pinching pennies. I’ve been turning it over in

easily rent the place for what he was asking or he might consider helping us out. I have my fingers crossed.

It’s hard, though, knowing that there is a long line of other people willing to take it.

“I don’t want to move too far away from our current area because my son is in a really good school. All his friends are there; all his teachers are there and he loves it. He’s already very independent and takes the bus himself because I have to leave so early for work, and I don’t want to disrupt his routine.

“The other reason we’ve been finding it difficult is our pets. I have a fantastically behaved cat who is three, called Ricky. My dog is 10, and he’s a rottweiler—so he’s the secondmost-vilified breed after the pit bull, despite the fact that he’s always been incredibly docile. Very few properties allow pets, and even listings that permit dogs have breed restrictions.

“Now we’re faced with the option of putting my dog to sleep or finding a place to live. I’ve always been a person who would rather live in their car than give up their pets, but I have to put my son first. I’m really worried about what that says to him: that finding a new home means taking the

A single mom faces difficult decisions in order to afford a new place to live.

my mind about how we could make that rent work. I realize that if we take it, I won’t have enough left over to buy my kid a new pair of shoes.

“I’ve tried to negotiate with the landlord to ask for a price reduction in return for a longer lease. I spent hours crafting that email. I figured that he’d either be really offended and never reply because he could

family dog that he’s grown up with and putting him down. I don’t want to raise him with the values that the things he loves are expendable.

“My head has been all over the place recently. I lose my keys daily. I lost my wallet last weekend, and I am not a forgetful person. My son is picking up on it. He’s only 11 and he’s stressed.

He’s waking up in the middle of the night. He’s coming home after school, getting out our old laptop, and looking for potential places to live. I tell him not to worry about it and that I’ve got this because I’m the mom.

“I talk to everybody about it. I’m not being proud about this at all: I’m doing everything I can to find us a home. We know we’re not going to find anything like the place we have now. We know we’re going to have to downsize. We know it’s going to be older. We know we’re going to have to pay more money for it—and we’re okay with all of that. As long as we can all be together and it’s safe and he can get to school and I can get to work, then we’re okay.

“I want to say to my son, ‘Do well in school; go to university, and make enough money to try and own your own place. And then, hopefully, this won’t happen to you.’ ” -

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What astonished them more was that the cost of owning their Kitsilano condo is less than what they used to pay in rent.

“We were really shocked,” Ralph told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.

They’d been renting at UBC for a couple of years when they decided to move off campus.

“It’s a nice location, but it’s near all the fraternities,” Ralph related, “and so there was a lot of parties, and we Rachel Ralph (right) and her husband, wanted somewhere a bit quieter.”

Steve (left), bought a condo in Kits.

She was completing her PhD at the time and teaching at the university do, so we made appointments at both as well, which she continues to do. banks to see basically who would give “I started looking at places to rent us the most,” Ralph said, laughing. for about six months before our lease “And once we found out how much was up, and the we could get, we more I started realized that to look, the less I we could probfound, and there ably get a oneCarlito Pablo were certain rebedroom condo in strictions,” Ralph recalled. “One is we Kits[ilano].” have two dogs, and that was actually, I They then asked friends about repthink, the biggest barrier.” utable realtors, and that’s how they After months of searching, they got connected with Tanya Jakubec. began to ask themselves whether Being first-time homebuyers, Ralph they should buy instead. said, they relied a lot on Jakubec, According to Ralph, they weren’t from understanding how the market confident, because a lot of media works to dealing with specific tasks reports seem to suggest that one such as analyzing depreciation reports. has to be a millionaire to get a place They visited 40 open houses and in Vancouver. discovered that listings go fast and They started playing with online usually over the original selling price. mortgage calculators and learned Before closing the deal on their that with her income as a university Kitsilano condo in May last year, instructor and her husband’s pay as for more than the asking price, they an auto technician, they could afford placed bids on three other properties a home without a lawn. and lost.

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mortgage and strata fees are a few hundred dollars less than the $2,400 they used to pay in rent at UBC. Although they were able to get into the market, Ralph said that surging prices may impact their plans to upgrade to a bigger home.

“The market has increased, which is great, and we’ve increased value in this current property, but that also means that everywhere it has increased,” she said. “So it’s kind of we feel like we’re still going to be shut out again.”

Ralph noted that a unit in the building where they live, which is quite comparable to the apartment they got a year ago for more than $400,000, recently sold for $540,000.

A B.C. economic briefing paper released on June 23 by Central 1 Credit Union stated that “tight market conditions are generating significant price pressures in most markets.”

The trade association of credit unions also noted that “efforts to curb activity, including the foreign buyer tax in Metro Vancouver, which had some ripple effects to other markets, have run their course, and tighter federal mortgage insurance policies have seemingly had a mild impact.”

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver has reported that sales in May this year rose 22.8 percent compared to April, and were 23.7 percent above the 10-year May sales average.

The benchmark price for all residential properties in the areas covered by the board increased to $967,500, or 8.8 percent higher than in May last year and 2.8 percent over that in April 2017.

Ralph and her husband are in their early 30s. With the PhD she completed in March this year, Ralph hopes to get a better-paying job. With that, she said, they may have a shot at another bidding war in the future. -

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ver this next week, summer pleasures, national birthdays, and the heat are the main attention getters, but the stars have other matters on the front burner.

Whether the destination employs a plane, a road map, a contract, the home base, or the heart, Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mercury/Pluto and Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mars/ Pluto oppositions direct us through a more momentous conversation and/ or gateway. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more riding on the here and now, more than simply the marking of time. Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;revisiting it, honouring it, processing it, saying goodbye to it, and/ or springboarding from it. Emotions run deep and surface readily. Keys now in the ignition, Mars is driven to lay a better, more secure foundation, to get it under control in a more conscious directed way. You may feel it as the pressure of a time margin or as a more alert recognition of triggers and responses.

Mars in Cancer is on a big push and energy surge through Canada Day weekend. Friday/Saturday, the transiting Libra moon and Venus keep the action, the money exchange, and the crowds on a constant reload. The weekend could be a record breaker.

Past Sunday morning and into Monday, the stars hit a smoother, easier-to-take pace. Thanks to Venus advancing into trendsetter Gemini, and Mercury/Uranus also lighting a fresh spark, USA Independence Day picks up more steam as the day progresses.

Get out and enjoy the evening!

Venus in Gemini boosts social activity and sales. It also gets the conversation moving along. Mercury in Leo, starting Wednesday, boosts confidence levels, the happiness quotient, romance, pleasure, and play prospects.

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TAURUS

April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 21

One way or another, now through Sunday takes you to an ending or arrival point of significance. Mars/ Pluto forces you to reconcile with the growing reality. It also strengthens your resolve. To Tuesday, Venus in Taurus keeps you making the most of it. Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your best for doing just that. Tuesday/Wednesday turns your attention to something fresh or added.

GEMINI

May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 21

Family, finances, and making the most of it are all-consuming projects. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pack in plenty over this next week. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about how much but how well. When it comes to spending time or money, quality over quantity wins, hands down. Pace yourself; slow it down through Monday. Spontaneous or planned, Tuesday evening, Venus into Gemini and Mercury/Uranus are great for a perk-me-up.

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A break in the routine does you good. Parking hassles or crowds aside, the long weekend and the week ahead are ideal for switching gears.

If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite managed to get yourself up and running yet, look to Tuesday/Wednesday to hit the action switch. Venus in Gemini boosts social opportunity. Mercury in Leo puts you in the mood to play more.

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Share; team up; ride the good wave this long weekend. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no lack of great entertainment picks or folks to spend time with. One-onone, at home, or in vacation mode, Sunday onward finds you on the totalimmersion program. Spontaneous or planned, Tuesday evening through Wednesday keeps the good stuff going strong. Wednesday is optimum for travel, romance, and pleasure-seeking.

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The long weekend or a vacation start couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be better timed.

Now through Sunday, let yourself off the hook and make the most of the time you have. Sunday onward is also ideal for loading up on the best of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available. More to say, more to do, more miles to go: Venus into Gemini, starting Tuesday evening, sets you onto next, pronto.

September 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;October 23

Cut yourself loose this long weekend. A major reset is in order.

Be your own best lover; aim for first place, not second. Enjoy it to the fullest, but if it feels like pressure rather than pleasure, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it on. Let others step up to the plate. Sunday onward, the stars deliver. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great week to connect, enjoy, go, do, and see.

October 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;November 22

So much is in flux; so much can stay the same. The past and the future keep you completely consumed as Mercury and Mars oppose Pluto through Sunday. Even so, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bust-upthe-concrete, springboard time. Sunday to Tuesday, the Scorpio moon puts good timing on your side. Venus into Gemini and Mercury into Leo keep you going strong through Wednesday.

November 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;December 21

Fully present and accounted for? Wherever you go, give it your all. Through Sunday, the stars keep you fully occupied. Either it is what you want or itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. Through Tuesday, your radar doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a thing. Tuesday evening into Wednesday, Venus, Mercury, and the moon in Sagittarius have you in rock-star action mode. Feel it; say it; share it; do it.

December 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;January 20

The art of compromise can give you a run for it through Saturday/Sunday, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let guilt or duty be the driving force. Still, extra caretaking is in order. Loved ones and folks in general can be needy.

Sunday through Tuesday, the going is smooth. Tuesday evening through Wednesday/Thursday, play it up, indulge, and enjoy yourself.

January 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;February 18

At the end or just reaching the launch pad, the stars make good on either. Still, Friday/Saturday, you can feel on overload and/or pulled in too many directions. Making everyone happy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always easy; please yourself and somehow it all works out. Tuesday evening through Thursday, seize the moment! Venus into Gemini and Mercury/Uranus make for great synchronicity.

February 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20

Through the first half of the weekend you can be on a switch track with plans, a decision, a purchase, or a relationship issue. Sunday through Thursday, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hit an upswing. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy into pressure or let someone talk you into it. Trust your impressions and intuitive instincts. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know just how to play it. Monday is easy going. -

Ah, the long weekend!

While crowds may not be your thing, time off and a battery recharge most certainly are. Sunday/Monday hits the sweet spot. Regarding the important stuff, Mercury (Thursday) and Mars (Sunday) in opposition to Pluto suggest a mindset, game plan, or priority is taking shape. Tuesday/Wednesday, Book a reading or sign up for Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more. Do it; say free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. yes; go for it; get moving.

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BURGER HEAVEN The best burgers call for two hands and many napkins. Requiring an oral profi le not seen since Jaws, the East Coast/ To celebrate Canadian ocean-based fare, Ancora Waterfront Dining is serving the West Coast burger at YEW Seafood Ancora Glacier, a seafood tower with ceviche, sashimi, oysters, crab, and more. and Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver by executive chef Weimar Gomez consists of a fi llet of wild TEA FOR 150 A journey across with a chilled bottle of Dom Pérignon.

B.C. salmon (the species will change Canada by rail inspires the Canada Salmon jerky is a satisfying snack, throughout the month of July) and 150 Afternoon Tea at Notch8 Res- but it’s a whole other experience when a maple-syrup-glazed lobster tail. taurant and Bar at the Fairmont Ho- it acts as a garnish in a special cockThose are layered with Canadian tel Vancouver. It begins with maple tail: the Canada 150 Coastal Wave at back bacon along with avocado, let- panna cotta, wild-berry scones, and Hy’s Steakhouse features Wayward tuce, and tomato in a freshly baked Oka scones served with saskatoon- bourbon-barrel-aged gin, Punt e Mes, brioche bun. The gorgeous beast berry compote and birch-syrup Benedictine, and orange bitters. (The comes with ketchup chips, natch— whipped cream. Then there’s a stam- resto also has a Canada 150 happythese ones wafflepede “corn dog” hour menu that features, among other style, made in(made with wagyu items, candied West Coast salmon.) house, and served beef and bluein a metal basket. corn grits), maple BARBECUE PARTY It’s too bad Gail Johnson The poutine foie-gras tourtière, the country wasn’t born a few months burger at the Peak of Vancouver at lobster roll, Montreal smoked-meat earlier; a snow-white birthday would Grouse Mountain includes a seven- sandwich, and more, as well as sweets be fittingly Canadian. But we’ll take ounce Angus-beef patty stacked such as a Nanaimo bar, a butter tart, the summertime celebrations if it with a crispy potato pancake and a beaver tail, and chocolate-dipped means we get to spark up the grill. cheddar cheese curds from Gold- mini doughnuts with bacon, cinna- Timber executive chef Chris Whiten Ears Cheesecrafters. That’s all mon sugar, and salted-caramel-and- taker will be cooking up bison in covered in a beef demi-glace and vanilla cream. (There’s a mini version the restaurant’s courtyard when he’s served with lettuce and tomato of the tea for pintsize patriots, too.) not playing road hockey on adjacent on a brioche bun. It should hit the TWG Tea Salon and Boutique will Jervis Street. (The inaugural Timber spot in between axe-throwing and be pouring a specially crafted red- Ball Hockey Tournament will raise an attempt to break the Guinness tea blend called Jubilee with notes funds for the Britannia after-school World Record for the largest hu- of maple syrup and cranberry. The hockey program, with staffers from man maple leaf. full Jubilee tea set features miso- Timber, Forage, Bomber Brewing, Poutine shows up again in the maple sablefish and a wagyu slider and others taking part; Lighthouse 1867 burger at the Dubh Linn with maple beef and bacon. You’ll Brewing is also donating 10 percent Gate, this ultra-Canadian mouth- also find tourtière, salmon, a maple of its 150 Heritage Maple Ale sales ful complete with maple-glazed éclair, and more. that day to the program.) beef, cheese curds, onion gravy, Barbecued beef ribs with maple and bacon.

COASTAL NODS If celebrating barbecue sauce are on the menu at over seafood is your speed, indulge Homer Street Café, which also serves O SWEET CANADA Maple in a fish feast at Ancora Waterfront its Meatwave on the last Friday of syrup is as Canadian as RCMP Dining and Patio. The Canada 150 every month. The pre–Canada Day officers on horseback and the be- features the Ancora Glacier—an event will feature barbecued pork loved, iconic beaver. Pastry chef elegant seafood tower stacked with ribs, beef brisket, rotisserie pork belly, Thierry Busson of Thierry Choco- ceviche, seafood tartare, a selec- baked chickpeas, watermelon pickles, laterie Patisserie Caft is whipping tion of sashimi, freshly shucked and more—and that’s all for one. up indulgent hazelnut macarons oysters, Peruvian mussel escabeche The Great Canadian BBQ at the layered with maple buttercream; (the shellfish served with a smoky Westin Bayshore’s new H2 Rotisserie if you need a bigger bite, he has vinegar-based Latin American and Bar’s pretty poolside patio offers crafted a cake consisting of hazel- sauce made with peppers and on- tenderloin steak, prawn-and-scallop nut dacquoise, maple ganache with ion), and crab causa (potato terrine skewers, salmon, or beef burger with whole toasted hazelnuts, maple topped with the shellfish). Designed sides and a Nanaimo bar or butter cream, and dark-chocolate mousse. for two to share, the dish is served tart to finish. -

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Helen Simard says she’s “not great with

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crowds”. So it was that she found herself hunkered down at the back of a concert by iconic postrock deconstructionists Swans, bracing herself against the bludgeoning waves of noise. And from that vantage point, she started to see the whole scene through choreographic eyes.

“I became fascinated that watching the concert was like watching a show, not a concert,” the dance artist explains over the line from Montreal before heading to Dancing on the Edge here. Aside from the overwhelming lights and sound emanating from the stage, “there were people trying to push their way into the crowd; the merch girl was getting into a fight.”

It was physical chaos on a grand scale. Later, Simard started thinking about singers. “They have a lot in common with dancers: your body is your instrument,” she says. “I wanted to look at the physicality of a singer.” Some frontmen seemed too obvious as dancers (James Brown, Mick Jagger); others weren’t physical enough (hello, Robert Smith).

That’s when she zeroed in on Iggy Pop, one of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless and raw performers.

He’s the original punk, a self-lacerating, stagediving, peanut-butter-smearing legend—a legend that has since inspired three of Simard’s dance works. And the bombastic first, No Fun, is finally hitting the Edge fest.

Channelling early Iggy Pop

In No Fun, dancers let loose with a live band on-stage in a bombastic mix of lights, movement, and sound. Yes, there will be earplugs. Frédréric Chais photo.

exactly a luxury Pop too bright, and there’s a bunch of stuff happening gave his audiences. all over the stage.

“The Stooges were “It’s information overload to the point where in people’s faces and it people can’t understand all that’s going on. And really was too much,” for me that’s a beautiful thing,” she adds. “It’s about Simard reflects. “We’re dance that allows you to experience something else: At the Dancing on the Edge festival, Helen Simard’s No Fun living in a time when it’s not about making sense of it. You may walk out taps the raw energy of one of rock’s most fearless performers people want to see of it saying, ‘What the hell just happened?’ I want to “When we started No Fun, the idea was just to do things that are pretty and safe. But if people are create a space where it’s okay if you don’t get it.” one thing, but the further we went down the Iggy going to feel alive, it’s often when feeling overPop wormhole, the more interesting it got,” Simard whelms you, when you’re living your own emo- Dancing on the Edge presents No Fun at the admits. “He has a completely unique persona that’s tions. So, yeah, the music is too loud, the lights are Firehall Arts Centre on July 14 and 15. lasted 50 years so far! He’s also had a lot of failure.

He kept trying to reinvent himself and that would Dancing on the Edge starts with a whisper and ends with a bang succeed in some ways, then he would fail again.”

In movies, Simard explains, we never want a story To understand how remarkably diverse the programming is at the Dancing on the to be all good. “I feel Iggy Pop’s career is full of car Edge festival, from Thursday (July 6) to July 15, you have to start by looking at the chases and explosions. You could make 20 shows two works that bookend the 29th annual event. about Iggy Pop and they’d all be different.”

The fest opens with the hypnotic, Buddhist-samsara-inspired Oath-Midnight Rain Simard immersed herself in the archival photos from the Beijing Modern Dance Company. and fi lm of the early Iggy and the Stooges days.

“I personally feel that Dancing on the Edge has a role to introduce international artists to Vancouver,” “One thing that’s interesting is there actually is a the festival’s producer, Donna Spencer, tells the Straight, speaking from the event’s headquarters at fairly defined vocabulary,” she recalls. “It might the Firehall Arts Centre “It’s important that we share the work going on beyond Vancouver with the not be obvious if you only watch one concert, but Vancouver artists, and as a way to reach out to a community that may not know about Dancing on the when you watch a lot, there are little choreographEdge but may know about Beijing Modern Dance.” ies he does to specific songs.”

The festival closes with the polar-opposite vibe: the in-your-face, raw, rock ’n’ roll Iggy Pop ode No She then took that movement language and built Fun (see story above). the work in the studio, as she always does with her Next, you have to consider all that happens in between, starting with a vast tapas menu of short company, with the live musicians right there, riffing pieces, traditionally known at the fest as Edge programs. On the roster, acclaimed veterans like Serge on the Stooges’ sound. With a strong background in Bennathan, Cori Caulfield, and Chick Snipper find their works served up alongside fast-emerging names street dance and breaking, she works a lot through like Julianne Chapple and Ralph Escamillan. improvisation: “We jam and document a lot.”

Spencer continues to see more and more short works being created, whether as works in progress The biggest challenge, she says, was getting the or as sparkling little pieces unto themselves. She adds they’re a cornerstone of the fest: “With mixed performers to tap their crude inner Iggies. “I noprograms the feedback we get is people will come to see one work on the program and they’ll discover ticed how difficult it was for the dancers to let go someone else they’ve never heard of.” of beauty and wanting to do things well,” Simard But for a true taste of how adventurous the programming is getting this year, you have to look outside says. “With Iggy it was about rawness and throwthe Firehall to the Edge Off series and the site-specific works. Think Kinesis Dance somatheatro staging ing yourself into it. We struggled with ‘How do we a work in progress in a furniture showroom, Gail Lotenberg’s LINK Dance Foundation performing a show make this movement safe but let go of making it called Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? at busy crosswalks around the city’s core, and even a mobilelook good or be liked?’” home dance-and-music pop-up called RV There Yet? that takes place in and around a retro camper van.

The result is a show as bombastic as any concert, “More and more artists really understand they want to get their work out beyond the theatre. And you a controlled chaos of glaring lights, wailing electric have to be really fearless to do site work,” Spencer says. “Creative people need to be doing that in this guitars, and unhinged movement across the stage. world the way it is. If people are not coming to us, we need to go to them.” > JANET SMITH It may be the only dance performance you attend this year where they’re handing out earplugs—not

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Editor’s choice PATRIOTIC PARODY One thing Canadians can do best is laugh at themselves. And it’s with this in mind that we heartily recommend Vancouver TheatreSports League’s celebration of the nation’s big 150th milestone. In its new show, Oh, Canada: The True North Strong and Funny, expect the quick-witted improvisers to tackle every known Canadian institution, from Hinterland Who’s Who to hockey, maple syrup, Tim’s double-doubles, and Anne of Green Gables. Bring your own favourite Canuck clichés, too: as always, the team’s comedy is driven by clever audience suggestions. At the same time, you can marvel at another piece of our heritage: the amazing number of talented improvisers we have developed in the Great White North. Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Oh, Canada—The True North Strong and Funny Thursdays through Saturdays from June 29 to September 2.

Five events you just can’t miss this week

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CHRIS GORDON (June 29 to July 1 at the Comedy MIX) One of the most offbeat, audience-interactive standups working today. Oh, and he’s hilarious.

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NEVER PRECIOUS (To July 2 at the Charles H. Scott Gallery) Games, travel brochures, and tons of other retro-cool Canadian design.

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THE WINTER’S TALE (To September 22 at the BMO Mainstage) Bard on the Beach boasts another wildly visual critical hit.

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FUSE: 2167 (June 30 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) The city’s biggest art party takes over the entire gallery.

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TH’OWXIYA (July 1 and 2 at the UBC Botanical Gardens) Great setting for masks, music, and indigenous storytelling.

In the news

CHORAL KING After 46 years of helming the Vancouver Chamber Choir, its founder and conductor, Jon Washburn, says he will step down as artistic and executive director to become conductor emeritus. He will lead the choir through its 47th and 48th concert seasons, 2017-18 and 2018-19, while the organization searches for his successor. “I’m sorry to be leaving the choir so soon,” he said in the press announcement, “but I should be giving some younger conductors a chance, before they, too, start reaching retirement age!” Washburn, a member of the Order of Canada since 2001, travels around the country and world as a guest conductor, lecturer, clinician, and master teacher, while also composing and arranging choral music. He founded the chamber choir in 1971, and it is now Canada’s longest-existing professional choir. JUNE 29 – JULY 6 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19

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The Arts Club’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches nabbed three prizes in the large-theatre category at this week’s ceremony. David Cooper photo.

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of PTSD for Canadian Forces veterans from Afghanistan, praising “young theatre companies that have the guts to tell stories that are important”. Alexander Lazaridis Ferguson of Fight With a Stick accepted the Georgia Straight Critics’ Choice Innovation Award with praise for the community’s acceptance of interdisciplinary work like his Revolutions. And the youngest winner, Billy Elliot’s Valin Shinyei, thanked McDonald’s for its Oreo Cookie McFlurries, his favourite postshow indulgence.

The winners included a number of emerging artists: Alexandra Lainfiesta, honoured for her performance in Green Lake, Brothel #9’s Adele Noronha, and Ithaka’s Yoshie Bancroft are relative newcomers. So are Randi Edmundson and Jess Amy Shead, whose Freddie in the Neighbourhood garnered two of the five awards in the Theatre for Young Audiences category.

Actor and emerging playwright Quelemia Sparrow accepted the Sydney Risk Prize via video for her original script O’wet/Lost Lagoon. Olivia Hutt earned the Sam Payne Award for Outstanding Newcomer, and Jamie King, who won the Ray Michal Award for Emerging Director, recalled growing up very aware of the dedication of her parents, both local theatre professionals, to their work in theatre.

Valerie Sing Turner, accepting the John Moffat and Larry Lillo Prize, remarked on the absence of role models for her childhood dream of being an actor, but the awards acknowledged that in 2016-17, Vancouver theatre made strides toward a more consistent reflection of our community’s cultural diversity. Frank theatre’s Chris Gatchalian won the Vancouver NOW Representation and Inclusion Award for an outstanding season that included Canada’s first-ever queer theatre conference, last summer’s Q2Q. And Diwali Fest’s Rohit Chokhani, winning a Significant Artistic Achievement Award for his festival programming’s contribution to diversifying Vancouver theatre, remarked on the pleasure of seeing “diversity acknowledged in a category that’s not about diversity”. -

nclusion was the most salient value on-stage at this year’s Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards ceremony, held at the Commodore Ballroom on June 26.

Not only did the ceremony feature ASL interpretation and a ramp at the front of the stage for winners to walk up, the 35th Jessie Awards also made it clear that the Vancouver theatre community is taking diversity seriously.

In the spirit of inclusion, it’s fitting that Creeps took home the largest number of awards in the small-theatre category, including one for outstanding production. Realwheels Theatre’s show featured an integrated cast that included three actors with disabilities.

Out of 70 eligible productions by more than 40 companies, no single production in any of the three categories won more than three awards.

In large theatre, three shows each took three prizes: Touchstone Theatre’s Brothel #9; Bard on the Beach’s Pericles, which award-winning director Lois Anderson described in her acceptance speech as “one of the worst plays written by Shakespeare”; and the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, for which the Arts Club’s outgoing artistic director, Bill Millerd, accepted the award for outstanding production. “I’m going to miss you,” said Millerd, who announced his retirement earlier this year after more than 40 years at the helm.

Following a very entertaining welcome and blessing by Elder Bob Baker and the Eagle Song Dancers, the ceremony’s format was almost ruthlessly efficient: honorees were given just 50 seconds for their acceptance speeches, which made the proceedings fast but sometimes bloodless. There were surprises, though: accepting the evening’s first award on behalf of an absent Itai Erdal, Donna Soares did a spot-on impersonation of the lighting designer. Costume designer Carmen Alatorre made back-to-back trips to the podium, snagging the awards for both large and small theatre (for Pericles and the frank theatre company’s Walt Whitman’s Secret).

The Fighting Season’s Kyle Jesperson For a complete list of winners, see highlighted the ongoing human cost Straight.com.

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Fuse fast-forwards to 2167 > B Y JA NE T S M ITH

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he upcoming multimedia Fuse party at the Vancouver Art Gallery takes the ubiquitous Canada 150 foofaraw and turns it artfully on its head.

Curators Sherry J. Yoon and Jay Dodge are calling the event Fuse: 2167, asking all its performers and artists to look back on the present from the vantage point of another 150 years into the future.

The resulting array of installations will drive viewers to question what a future generation might warn or assure us about. Look for the Cloud Collective, whose Time Capsule invites Fuse-goers to imagine what they would say to their past selves, uploading and projecting the collected words. Elsewhere, in Stamped or Branded, mixed-media artist Connie Watts imagines a future where we identify ourselves in seven different ways, via temporary face “stamps” that visitors can get.

The imaginary time warp stems from a larger, climate-change-minded project called Encounter that Yoon and Dodge have been exploring with their theatre company Boca del Lupo. The theme—asking artists to make sense of today’s missteps as “future historians” with the luxury of hindsight—has opened up rich, ongoing possibilities, Yoon explains.

“It’s offered a framework for artists who don’t want to tackle climate change in all of its massiveness,” says Yoon. To explain, she quotes from Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell’s solo play on climate change at the 2015 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: “She’s got a line where she says ‘Scientists collect the answers but it’s the artists that will make sense of it.’ ” In one of Fuse’s central performances, local journalists, playwrights, activists, and professors will take to a podium on Robson

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The Table, by Ireland’s Performance Corporation, joins an array of shows and installations looking back at our world from a vantage point far into the future.

Street to deliver short presentations from the perspective of 2167.

“All the futures that people present are really different,” says Yoon, who first developed the idea at the Dublin Theatre Festival with Ireland’s Performance Corporation. “One sees Canada as part of the U.S. by then; another sees Canada as a national park.”

Theatre can engage an audience in ways a news article just can’t, she adds. “When I read a Guardian article [about our environmental crisis] I feel really sad. I don’t want to talk to someone about it. But here in this theatre setting we’re able to handle it in a way that’s not about solving things, but feeling inspired.”

At Fuse, that inspiration comes in a multitude of forms, from Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt’s interactive, holographic mask to a Radix Theatre experiment with human-

controlled extreme weather. The Performance Corporation imagines the future of food amid our climate crisis with a show called The Table. And Felix Culpa actors offer tours of the technology-andnature-minded VAG exhibit Persistence, looking back on it from the future. “They may be responding incorrectly,” Yoon warns. “They’ve lost a big part of their history.

Sometimes we’re wrong about what is true and factual in the past.”

There is much more across the four floors and roof pavilion of the gallery, from DJs to audio-visual installations—a party that provokes deep ideas about our existence, but a party nonetheless. Fuse: 2167 is at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday (June 30).

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Celebrating 40 years

Fusion-finding, style-hopping saxophonist Ernie Watts is set to play at the Indian Summer Festival with South Indian violin master L. Subramaniam.

When the saxophone JULY 13.14.15.16 JERICHO BEACH PARK meets the South Indian OVER 65 BRILLIANT FOLK, WORLD & ROOTS MUSIC ARTISTS Jazz virtuoso Ernie Watts’s lifelong fascination with ragas and rhythms led to a love of mixing cultures > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY

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eing in Buddy Rich’s band in the 1960s was good enough for saxophonist Ernie Watts: he was in his early 20s, playing with a demanding but undeniably brilliant drummer, and making a decent living as a full-time musician.

Little did he know that things were going to get much, much better.

After making the jump to being a bandleader in his own right with 1969’s Planet Love, Watts would go on to record a further 19 records under his own name, play a prominent role in the making of soul star Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, and enjoy long-lasting musical partnerships with both Tonight Show music director Doc Severinsen and avant-jazz bassist Charlie Haden.

Beyond that, graduating from Rich’s band also led him to discover the second kind of music that would transform his life—jazz, of course, being the first.

“Buddy was with [the California record label] Pacific Jazz, and when I left Buddy’s band I started recording for them,” Watts tells the Straight on the line from Las Vegas, where he’s performing with singer Diane Schuur.

“And they had a producer named Dick Bock, who is credited with introducing Ravi Shankar’s music to the western world. So I started listening to Ravi way back then. I was listening to those scales and those sounds— you know, the ragas are the scales; the talas are the different rhythms—and I was learning about that probably when I was in my early 20s.”

His early interest became a lifelong fascination, best expressed in his ongoing collaboration with South Indian violinist L. Subramaniam, who’ll join the saxophonist in an Indian Summer Festival concert named Here Is Where We Meet. Actually, though, it’s more like Watts is joining Subramaniam: he defers to the violinist as the real L. Subramaniam and Ernie Watts play master in an ensemble that includes the Orpheum next Saturday (July 8), as part of the Indian Summer Festival. several acknowledged virtuosos.

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“We haven’t talked about this particular concert yet,” Watts says, “but, you know, his wife, Kavita Krishnamurthy, she is an incredible South Indian classical singer.

I think she’ll be there, but I’m not sure. And they have a son, Ambi, who is a really great young violinist; Subramaniam has been teaching Ambi his whole life. He’s grown up in that music. So we play all compositions of Dr. Subramaniam, and we’ve been doing this for quite a while over the years. We call it global fusion: it’s a mixture of the South Indian sounds and percussion and scales with western instruments, also. He uses electric piano, he uses electric bass, and then he has all of the Indian hand drums, so it’s quite a mixture of sounds—and it’s a lot of fun.”

Jumping from shows with the Grammy Award–winning Schuur to Subramaniam’s band is not the leap it might seem, Watts says.

“Mainly it’s just my being in tune, consciously, with the music,” he explains. “The craft and techniques and everything are quite similar, because the laws of music are the same laws.…Some of the Indian scales, some of the ragas, are not all totally tuned in the same way as western music, but the saxophone is very good for that. It’s a f lexible instrument, tonalitywise.”

There’s a subtle message here, Watts adds. If diverse instruments can combine to create a harmonious whole, so, too, can different ethnic and religious groups.

“I’m sort of the representative of western culture, being the jazz musician and coming from jazz harmony, and then we sort of demonstrate how all of that works together with the South Indian elements,” he says. “All of the music comes together, and so it is possible for all of the people to come together too.” -

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Andrew Wheeler (with Sereana Malani) is part of a strong cast that gives Shakespeare’s challenging Winter’s Tale new life. David Blue photo.

The Winter’s Tale gets an exquisite new rendition T HEAT RE THE WINTER’S TALE

By William Shakespeare. Directed

by Dean Paul Gibson. A Bard on the Beach production. At the BMO Mainstage in Vanier Park on Thursday, June 22. Continues until September 22

A sad tale’s best for winter

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The Winter’s Tale, considered one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, is an odd mix of tragedy, comedy, and romance that plays fast and loose with dramatic unities. The first half of the play takes place in Sicilia, where King Leontes imprisons his pregnant wife, Hermione, suspecting her of an affair with his good friend Polixenes, king of Bohemia. In prison, Hermione gives birth to a daughter whom Leontes banishes, and though the Delphic oracle eventually declares Hermione’s innocence, she dies soon after. The baby girl, meanwhile, is taken to Bohemia and found by a shepherd and his son—but the oracle has decreed that Leontes will have no heir until she is restored to him.

The action then fastforwards 16 years to Bohemia, where the grown daughter, Perdita, has caught the eye of Florizel, Polixenes’s son and heir.

A scamming thief, Autolycus, targets Perdita’s adoptive family, crashing their sheep-shearing revels. Another uninvited guest is Polixenes, furious that his son has deceived him. When

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Florizel and Perdita escape to Sicilia, they find a chastened Leontes—and the oracle’s prophecy is fulfilled when not only Perdita, but also Hermione, are restored to him.

One key character I haven’t mentioned is the noblewoman Paulina, Hermione’s staunchest defender, the boldest challenger of Leontes’s injustice, and a woman with access to powerful magic. In this play, it’s the magic of storytelling, and director Dean Paul Gibson rearranges Shakespeare’s text to make his Paulina a kind of female Prospero: she may not be controlling the events, but she’s definitely in charge of their telling.

“Resolve yourselves for amazement,” exhorts Paulina at the top of the play, standing front and centre of the entire company. There’s a brief dance, and then the masked chorus moves upstage to watch intently, reacting with laughter or whispers, while Leontes and Polixenes engage in friendly argument. Exquisitely choreographed, it’s an arresting opening.

Lois Anderson’s Paulina is by turns chiding, outraged, tender, but always in command, and the strength of her performance is matched by the other leads. Kevin MacDonald makes every station on Leontes’s enormous emotional journey crystal clear, and Sereana Malani’s quietly poised Hermione is deeply moving. In Bohemia, Ben Elliott is deliciously unhinged as Autolycus, using his considerable physical and musical resources to reinvent the character in every moment.

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The production gets maximum impact from Pam Johnson’s minimalist set, a mostly bare stage on which five enormous columns are repeatedly reconfigured. Gerald King’s sumptuous, colour-saturated lighting and Malcolm Dow’s music heighten the emotions.

Choreographer Tracey Power creates both solemnity and, in a long sequence of songs during the Bohemian revels, frivolity. Carmen Alatorre’s costumes differentiate the worlds and moods of Sicilia and Bohemia, but her cubist masks often suggest choral figures, underscoring the central theme of story and witness.

Now that summer is finally here, don’t let its distractions keep you away from The Winter’s Tale. This is Bard at its best.

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BITTERGIRL: THE MUSICAL Book by Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore.

Music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Bob Foster.

Directed by Valerie Easton. Musical direction by Diane Lines. An Arts Club production. At the Granville Island Stage on Wednesday, June 21.

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I brought a friend who’s in the middle of a messy breakup to see Bittergirl: The Musical. She found it cathartic. And whether you’re in or out of love, this production is a whole lot of fun.

Bittergirl began as a stage play by Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore, and was later expanded into this musical, which boasts girl-group classics alongside a few disco-era hits. The characters don’t have names. A (Lauren Bowler) is a law-school dropout who put her career on hold to put her now ex-partner through grad school; B (Katrina Reynolds) is a flaky newager who was dumped by her equally flaky boyfriend; and C (Cailin Stadnyk) is a married career woman whose husband left her and their child.

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Katrina Reynolds, Cailin Stadnyk, and Lauren Bowler form the powerhouse cast for Bittergirl, a musical ode to the messiest breakups. Emily Cooper photo.

Structurally, the show isn’t perfect.

The first act intersperses songs with choral storytelling, as the women go through the predictable stages of grief, denial, rage, and trying to change so that he’ll love her again.

The rhythm is a bit choppy, but director Valerie Easton’s choreographic talents make these tricky sequences fly—like one in which pairs of the actors take turns making insensitive comments to the third, changing voices and roles on a dime. And there’s plenty of wit in the song choreography: just check out the fitness routines in a hilarious medley of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Hot Stuff”. The second act settles into longer scenes, like a very funny tequila binge that lands the trio in jail.

Bowler, Reynolds, and Stadnyk are a powerhouse cast, and the three complement each other perfectly. Bowler has a big, soulful voice, Reynolds seems to be channelling a whole canon of cartoon characters, and Stadnyk rides the edge of comedy and desperation

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Monet’s Secret Garden reveals late abstraction VISUAL AR TS CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN At the Vancouver Art Gallery until October 1

Recently opened to great fan-

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lery, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden is a juicy summer show, guaranteed to attract tourists and locals alike.

The “secret” in the exhibition title is both tantalizing and a tad misleading. Monet’s gardens at Giverny, a village in northern France where the Epte River flows into the Seine, and where the artist lived from 1883 until his death in 1926, were and are probably the best known of any artist’s gardens anywhere in the world.

That’s because Monet’s paintings of his exuberant flower beds, rosecovered trellises, weeping willows, curving Japanese bridge, and, most especially, his water-lily pond are among the best-known impressionist works in the art-historical canon.

The gardens were famous in Monet’s lifetime, and continue so to this day.

No, the secret here is the highly abstracted paintings Monet produced late in his career and refused to exhibit or sell. Although inspired by scenes in the Giverny gardens, these late works forge a direct path to the abstract expressionism of the mid-20th century. They’re the secret that gives the exhibition its critical edge.

The show is curated by VAG senior curator Ian Thom and Marianne Mathieu, deputy director of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, which possesses the world’s largest collection of the impressionist master’s work. Claude Monet’s Secret Garden boasts 38 paintings borrowed from the Marmottan and spanning the years 1870 to 1926. A leading proponent of impressionism, Monet

Claude Monet’s exuberant Roses is a highlight of the new Vancouver Art Gallery show, a hidden wonder of expressionism.

sought out subjects that served his compositional interests, Mathieu said during a media preview of the show. His principal preoccupations were light, space, and colour, she added, and these can be seen in his depictions of the River Seine at Argenteuil and later at Vétheuil, where he lived before moving to Giverny.

They’re evident, too, in his scenes of family members, sitting on beaches and walking through sunny summer fields. Monet was a painter of clear colour, Mathieu continued.

True to the tenets of impressionism, he banned black from his palette.

He is also renowned for painting the same subject serially, under different light and weather conditions, at different times of the day, season, and year. This is evident in The Seine

at Port-Villez. Rose Effect and The Seine at Port-Villez. Evening Effect, both painted in 1894. Like the other impressionists, Monet championed plein air painting, a direct experience of nature, and the fleeting effects of light on his subject. Still, in his later decades, as his work became increasingly radical, he completed most of his paintings in the studio.

Examples of scenes revisited are Charing Cross Bridge, executed in 1899–1901, and Charing Cross Bridge, Smoke in the Fog. Impression, dated 1902. Look, too, for his 1905 painting London, Houses of Parliament, Reflections on the Thames, one of a noted series of this subject. The buildings and their reflection are rendered in long vertical strokes of aquamarine and purple; the sky in shorter, diagonal

strokes of lavender, beige, off-white, and milky green, and the river in short horizontal strokes of off-white, lavender, blues, and purples.

Monet also depicted symbols of modernity, such as factories and steam engines. Thom said that the advent of an extensive railway system in France was critical to the impressionists as they travelled outward from Paris in search of subject matter. Monet repeatedly and famously painted the Paris railway station of Saint-Lazare, and although none of that series is represented here, the show does include the 1875 Train in the Snow. The Locomotive, with its wondrous play of billowing smoke, low grey sky, and multihued snow.

The earlier works in the show provide a lovely primer to Monet’s

practice, but the real focus here is on the late and, for many years, unseen works produced in Giverny. Although his early career was marked by poverty, Monet sold enough paintings in the 1870s, ’80s, and ’90s, Thom said, that he could afford to hold on to the output of his last two decades. At that point, he chose to paint and innovate in private, without the pressures of the marketplace, while also designing and cultivating his immense garden, itself one of his greatest creative achievements. As seen here, his paintings of water lilies, irises, clematis, and weeping willows become increasingly abstract and gestural. The horizon line disappears.

Forms merge with their reflections.

The effect becomes ever closer to allover abstraction, as Monet pushes the boundaries of his medium.

His paintings, such as Water Lilies of 1917–19, increase in size and horizontality, too. This work is built out of long, curving paint strokes in vivid colours on a light ground, so that the dashes of greens, purples, deep pink, and yellow ochre seem to float above the picture plane. Three versions of The Path Under the Rose Arches, executed in 1920–22, barely hint at the forms of the title and give themselves over almost entirely to braided textures and colours. The palette here and in other late works is decidedly dark, with only a few flecks of light pink discernible amid the burgundy, navy blue, burnt sienna, and deep ochres and umbers.

This shift in palette is attributed to Monet’s failing vision, caused by cataracts. However, in 1925-26, after eye surgery, he produced The Roses, probably the last work of his career and certainly the climax of this show. It is a big canvas—an exuberant splash of pale pinky lavender across a greyish-blue and lavender ground. A secret no more. > ROBIN LAURENCE

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THEATRE 2OPENINGS THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s tale of two best friends who are in love with the same woman. Jun 29–Sep 17, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardonthebeach.org/2017/the-twogentlemen-of-verona/.

SYMPHONY AL FRESCO If you’re up in Whistler for the long weekend (and lucky you if you are!), you can celebrate the nation’s anniversary in thought-provoking style.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is making the trip up Highway 99 as well, and on Canada Day it will be performing at the Whistler Olympic Plaza with mezzo-soprano Marion Newman (shown here). Bramwell Tovey has written a cycle of songs called Ancestral Voices for the indigenous singer, and they explore First Nations themes, from their close ties to the untouched nature of precolonized Canada to the scourge of residential schools. Look for other treats, like Bizet’s Carmen Suite and a certain anthem by a certain Lavallé.

The ensemble plays the same picturesque spot the next day as well, with a program featuring Brahms, Vaughan Williams, and Dvorak.

DALI AND HOPPER The 54th Entertainment presents an Emilio Merritt (playwright and director) original play. The dramatic text brings a textured examination of young adults’ subconscious and how they deal with reality. It’s a duality of dreams versus actions. Jul 4, 5, and 6, 7:30pm; Jul 7 and 8, 8:30pm; Jul 9th, 1:30pm and 7:30pm, Vancity Culture Lab (the Cultch, 1895 Venables). Info www.thecultch. com/events/could-be-dali-but-its-hopper/.

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A WOMAN ALONE Franca Rame and Dario Fo’s play stars Nasrin Jamali in the story of a woman who’s locked in her apartment by a jealous husband and talks to her neighbour through the window.

Jul 4-8, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $10-30, info www.facebook. com/events/1835817639972518/.

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PROBLEM CHILD Stone’s Throw Productions presents George F. Walker’s play about two dysfunctional parents who are trying to get custody of their baby. Jul 5-8, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th).

Tix $15, info www.pacifictheatre.org/.

2ONGOING MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a jukebox musical inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

Directed by Bill Millerd. Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux. To Jul 16, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comedy set in 1959 Italy, where a group of actors and filmmakers celebrate the wrap of their latest movie. To Sep 23, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www. bardonthebeach.org/2017/much-adoabout-nothing/.

THE WINTER’S TALE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s drama in which the love of two young people becomes the catalyst for reunion, redemption, and a family’s healing. To Sep 22, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bard onthebeach.org/2017/the-winters-tale/.

BITTERGIRL: THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore’s musical that charts the romantic breakups of three women and the lively antics that ensue.

To Jul 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

CINERAMA Fight With a Stick presents a live cinema with no story, plot, or actors, on the shifting sands of the low-tide flats.

To Jun 30, Spanish Banks (4707 NW. Marine Drive). Info www.fightwithastick.ca/.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s drama, set in modern-day Venice, that exposes the consequences of how we treat outsiders in our midst. To Sep 16, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardon thebeach.org/2017/the-merchant-of-venice/.

TH’OWXIYA, THE HUNGRY FEAST DISH Axis Theatre presents Joseph A. Dandurand’s play in which six storytellers from the Kwantlen First Nations Village of Squa’lets spin the tale of a young man who must appease an angry goddess. To Jul 2, UBC Botanical Gardens (6301 Stadium). Free admission, info www.axistheatre.com/thowxiya/.

COPENHAGEN Aenigma Theatre presents director Tanya Mathivanan’s version of Michael Frayn’s play in which scientists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr try to reconcile the choices made during World War II. To Jun 30, 8-10:15 pm; Jul 1, 2-4:15 pm, Studio 16 (1555 W. 7th). Tix $20, info www.aenigmatheatre.com/.

THEATRE UNDER THE STARS Annual outdoor-theatre event features productions of Mary Poppins and The Drowsy Chaperone on alternating evenings. Jul 7–Aug 19, 8 pm, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix $70/50, info www.tuts.ca/.

2JUST ANNOUNCED DANCING ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL 2017 The 29th annual event pushes the frontiers of contemporary dance with performances by over 25 choreographers and over 80 dance artists. Participating dance companies include Aeriosa Dance and Spakwus Slulem, Alexandra Elliott Dance, All Bodies Dance Project, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Chick Snipper, Co.ERASGA and Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, Cori Caulfield and coriograph theatre, Daelik, Deanna Peters and Mutable Subject, Emmalena Fredriksson and Arash Khakpour, LINK Dance Foundation, Helen Simard, It Burns Hot and Fast, Julianne Chapple, Karen Jamieson Dance and Carnegie Dance Troupe, Kinesis Dance somatheatro, Les Productions Figlio, MascallDance, Mile Zero Dance, Monica Shah, Olivia C. Davies, Naomi Brand, Ralph Escamillan and FakeKnot, Sara Porter, and Yvonne Ng and tiger princess dance projects.

Jul 6-15, various Vancouver venues. Tix $24-28/by donation, info www.dancing ontheedge.org/.

2THIS WEEK BLOOM 2017 Informal evening features choreographers showing excerpts of their work, which are interpreted for the audience by a standup comedian and paired with a wine. Jul 4, 11, 5:30-6:30 pm, Mascall Dance (1130 Jervis). Tix $10, info news. mascalldance.ca/bloom-2017-kubanekmiranda-bergonzini-embarking/.

MUSIC 2JUST ANNOUNCED VANCOUVER BACH FESTIVAL Early Music Vancouver presents an 11-day, 14-concert celebration of the music of J.S. Bach. Includes a performance of Bach’s St. John Passion by the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and the Vancouver Cantata Singers. Aug 1-11, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC).

The event also runs at Christ Church Cathedral, info www.earlymusic.bc.ca/.

2THIS WEEK CANADA 150 ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC DRUMMING CELEBRATION Celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and help set a Guinness World Record for “Most Nationalities in a Drum Circle” of a recognized orchestral piece of music lasting at least five minutes. Jul 1, 10 am–12:30 pm, Creekside Park (1455 Quebec). Info www.canada150drumming.com/.

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COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT Live recording of the comedy podcast in which three comedians investigate spooky and violent events in history using gallows humour and detailed research. Aug 24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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DEMETRI MARTIN American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist performs on his Let’s Get Awkward Tour. Sep 9, 7:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC).

Tix $45.50 (plus service charges and fees) at tickets.ubc.ca/.

JOHN MULANEY Emmy Award-winning writer and standup comedian performs on his sold-out Kid Gorgeous tour. Presented by Just for Laughs. Nov 10, 7 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

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. 2CHRIS GORDON Jun 29–Jul 1 2DAN QUINN Jul 6-8 2TIM NUTT Jun 13-15.

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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. 2ROSS DAUK Jun 30–Jul 1 2TOMMY CAMPBELL Jul 7-8 2JAMES KENNEDY Jul 14-15 2DAMONDE TSCHRITTER Jul 21-22 2BRETT MARTIN Jul 28-29.

VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. #NoFilter (Thu, 9:15 pm); Firecracker! (Wed, 9:15 pm); Oh, Canada: The True North Strong and Funny (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Ok Tinder (Fri, 11:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri, 9:30 pm). Jun 28–Jul 5, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK #NOFILTER Interactive improv-comedy show uses live-stream social-media feeds and audience suggestions to drive the action. To Jun 30, 9:15 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island).

Tix $7.50, info www.vtsl.com/show/nofilter/.

OH CANADA: THE TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FUNNY The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents a show that pokes fun at Canadian stereotypes through a series of vignettes and improv games. To Sep 2, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.

THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW Vancouver performers present a night of comedy based on popular role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Jun 28, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.

CHRIS GORDON Standup comedian known for appearing on CBC’s So You Think You’re Funny. Jun 29–Jul 1, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/.

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ROSS DAUK Local standup comedian known for hosting weekly show Jokes Please!. Jun 30–Jul 1, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $19.05, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK IN CONVERSATION WITH JONNY SUN Author Jonny Sun talks about his book Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too! . Books will be available for purchase and signing. Jul 4, 7 pm, Book Warehouse (4118 Main St.). Free admission, info www.bookwarehouse.ca/.

2THIS WEEK FUSE: 2167 Art-infused night creates a time warp during which FUSE-goers can ponder the present moment from the imagined vantage of 150 years into the future. Jun 30, 8-11:55 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery Gift Shop (750 Hornby Street). Tix $24 at the door/free for gallery members, info www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/.

A SLIDE SHOW EVENING Former CBC radio personality and photographer David Wisdom hosts a communal slideshow. Jul 4, 7 pm, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver). Tix $10, info www3.gordon smithgallery.ca/Gallery/programs/ wisdom/Pages/default.aspx.

GALLERIES BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2XI XANYA DZAM (traditional masks, carvings, baskets and moosehide, contemporary prints, sculptures and jewellery by Primrose Adams, Dempsey Bob, Rena Point Bolton, Mandy Brown, Joe David, Robert Davidson, Mary Michell, Earl Muldon, Susan Point, and Norman Tait) to Sep 4

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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/.

2PICTURES FROM HERE (photographs and video works by Vancouver-based artists) to Sep 4 2CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN (exhibit showcases 38 paintings that span the career of the French artist who is regarded as a master of the Impressionist movement) to Oct 1

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THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-8225087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2TRACES OF WORDS: ART AND CALLIGRAPHY FROM ASIA (multimedia exhibition examines the physical traces of words, both spoken and recorded, that are unique to humans) to Oct 9 2IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT: REFLECTING ON NORTHWEST COAST ART (exhibition presents more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands) to Spring 2019

POWELL STREET FESTIVAL The 41st annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts and culture includes a new interactive installation entitled Macro Maki, a special presentation on Japan’s third gender, a panel with two of Haruki Murakami’s top translators, and a performance by musical duo George and Noriko. Aug 5-6, 11:30 am–7 pm, Oppenheimer Park (400 Powell).

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Not that long ago, a guy named Kumail Nan-

BY KEN EISN ER

jiani probably couldn’t have caught a break in the oddly conservative world of standup comedy. And what if he had been born in Pakistan and didn’t even visit the U.S. until he was 14? Yet, despite that background, and a shocking turn of events in the American social climate, the actual Nanjiani has thrived as a comedian, actor, and now filmmaker.

Familiar to cable subscribers for his role as the passive-aggressive Dinesh on Silicon Valley, and for characters in multiple episodes of Portlandia and Community, Nanjiani was 29 and just getting started in the Chicago of 2007 when he met Emily V. Gordon. She was a trained therapist heading toward writing for stage and TV when they began dating—something interrupted by the sudden eruption of a rare disease that left her in a coma.

This development crystallized something crucial for Nanjiani, who hadn’t even introduced her to his observant Muslim parents.

Their medically induced romance eventually became the basis for The Big Sick, a mostly comedic debut for their collaborating keyboards, produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Michael Showalter, best known for writing the subtle romcom spoof They Came Together. In the critically lauded Sick, opening here Friday (June 30), Nanjiani plays a version of himself, and Gordon’s screen counterpart is the appropriately off beat Zoe Kazan.

As it happens, the married duo is in Toronto the morning after Silicon Valley’s season finale has

In sickness and in health

The exceptionally deadpan Kumail Nanjiani plays Kumail Nanjiani in The Big Sick, which semifictionalizes the dicey origins of his real-life marriage.

“Feeling like you’re “Yes, he’s like a funny-point-of-view doula,” adds outside the clan can Nanjiani. “Basically, he wields enough power in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon survived outsider status be a useful perspective Hollywood that he can get anything made. He was and a coma to bring their story to the screen in The Big Sick for comedy,” he sug- like, ‘I want these two to write it, even though they’ve gests. “But for me, it’s never written a movie. And I want him to star in it, aired, and in a call to the Georgia Straight, Nan- not just that I’m a Pakistani man in America. although he’s never played a lead.’ And then he got jiani admits that it’s hard not to talk about that.

I felt like an outsider back home, too. I wasn’t a all these other great people to support us.”

“I tweeted something about it today,” he de- cool or popular kid in school. I’ve always been “God, we really are lucky, aren’t we?” asks Gorclares, “and people were like, ‘No spoilers!’ ” weird, but I tried hard to be normal, and that don, this time without the laugh.

“Please don’t say anything more,” Gordon made me feel like an underdog.”

That providence included scoring a raft of interjects, in a manner typical of their rapid-fire Trying, and failing, to fit in accounts for some of Bollywood players to play Kumail’s Old World verbal interplay. “I haven’t seen the season finale, Nanjiani’s exceptionally deadpan style, in which family, plus Ray Romano and Holly Hunter as her and I don’t want to learn about it here!” some of his best lines are barely audible throw- character’s southern-fried parents. Are these last One major constant of the HBO show is his aways. Gordon was likewise a teenager who made two anything like Gordon’s own folks? character’s vicious feud with laconic fellow techie caustic remarks she expected few people to hear.

“Not really,” she confides. “This is where Judd Gilfoyle, played by Freaks and Geeks veteran Mar“I was a very low-self-esteem goth kid,” she says and Michael kept reminding us that we want to tin Starr. This is pure acting, he insists. with a notably relieved chuckle. “From a very amuse people and not tell our real-life story, “I love Martin Starr. We’re like brothers, really. young age I had too many thoughts in my which would be pretty boring if you saw Emily’s shaking her head right now because she head, and a lot of anger; I actively reit straight on.” thinks it’s gross how close we are!”

Check out… jected anything that was deemed to be “A big part of our movie,” NanSTRAIGHT.COM In TV land, Gordon has written for The Car- popular. It took me years to shake that jiani insists, “involves combining Visit our website michael Show and produces a live-to-podcast “alt- off. I was an idiot about it, actually.” people who seem like they don’t befor the latest comedy” series called The Meltdown With Jonah “Oh, stop that,” her husband interlong together but somehow become a reviews and local and Kumail. (Jonah Ray is the other principal there.) rupts. “It’s adorable and I love it. She’s family. Me and Holly, Ray and Zoe— movie news “I am looking forward to telling some creative still like that about things,” he tells me. we all look kind of funny together and stories that have virtually nothing to do with “Right down to this movie. If everybody all the actors have very different kinds us,” she says. “But I guess we can talk about our- likes it, she has to wonder if it’s any good.” of energy. But I think that’s exactly what selves one more time.”

“Maybe it does suck,” she answers, “How should makes it compelling—to see everyone engaging For now, Sick seems to be a pretty good summa- I know?” each other’s cultures and personalities and gettion of everything that brought the couple to this Learning how to separate entertainment from ting something better out of it.” place in the firmament of funny. Like Master of couples therapy required a different form of proBasically, he’s describing the polyglot, multiNone creator Aziz Ansari and Daily Show corres- fessional counselling, both conclude—mostly at hued USA as it’s actually lived on the ground, pondent Hasan Minhaj—both born in the U.S. to the hands of Showalter and Apatow. circa 2017. Apart from some unforeseen walls traditional Muslim families from the Indian sub“I don’t know quite why Judd wanted to take us erected in high places, isn’t that gestalt pretty continent—Nanjiani keenly felt his outsider status on,” Gordon continues. “But he does like cham- much already in place? and took some time to channel it into comedy. But pioning people who don’t often get a chance to tell “Yeah, it’s mostly a done deal,” Nanjiani answers, he didn’t even move west, to Iowa from Karachi their stories. He likes to usher them into the world with his characteristically hesitant drawl. “We’ve for college, until the age of 18. like a kind of comedy midwife.” just got to cross a few Ts and dot some Is first.” -

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1 2 Stone age pop AMERICAN VALHALLA Queens of the Stone Age hon-

cho Josh Homme takes a directing credit (along with Andreas Neumann) for this nonfiction peek into the recording of Iggy Pop’s 2016 album Post Pop Depression. See it at the Cineplex Park Theatre for one night only, on Thursday (June 29).

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KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE Alanis Obomsawin’s

vital doc on the 1990 Oka crisis comes to the Cinematheque’s Canada on Screen series for a free screening on Thursday (June 29).

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that defined Canadian cinema since forever (or 1970) makes its return to the Cinematheque for two free Canada on Screen dates: Saturday (July 1) and Tuesday (July 4).

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tomatoes, Jean-Claude Lauzon’s fantastical 1992 feature joins the Cinematheque’s massive (and, once again, free!) Canada on Screen series on Sunday (July 2).

TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ Gary Clark Jr. is one of the guest

artists offering musical interludes in this fascinating doc, which contrasts the search for bluesmen Son House and Skip James with the concurrent arrival of the Freedom Summer in 1964. See it at the Vancity Theatre on Monday (July 3).

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Promising Hero has everything but a journey Sam Elliott comes to the rescue in a generic character study; Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan find the right medicine in The Big Sick REV IEW S THE HERO Starring Sam Elliott. Rated PG

Sam Elliott had a juicy sup-

2 porting role in I’ll See You in My

Dreams, and it’s easy to get why Brett Haley, who wrote and directed that charming Blythe Danner vehicle, would want to cook up an entire feature for the craggy character actor.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know quite how to do that.

The Hero starts well, with our famously mustachioed pal from The Big Lebowski as Lee Hayden, a once-famous cowboy actor now 71 and getting by doing voice-overs for barbecue sauce and such. He hangs out with a former child star (Nick Offerman, amusingly downbeat) who has a hilltop view, lots of reggae music, and the ganja to go with it.

Lee’s been long waiting for his next big

break, but a routine medical visit yields bad news instead: pancreatic cancer, with only a small chance of survival.

Good ol’ Sam is nothing if not a long, tall drink of existential cool.

So having something major rock his boat could offer a chance to see the laconic actor get ruffled for a change.

To be sure, he shows more emotional range than he normally gets to show.

Unfortunately, his own efforts seem to be enough for the filmmakers. (Haley

wrote the script with his previous collaborator, Marc Basch.)

Few of the notions raised by this situation are explored in any but the most obvious ways. As you’d expect, Lee has to fix some things with his exwife (The Graduate’s Katharine Ross, who’s married to Elliott) and the angry daughter (Krysten Ritter) he was never, ya know, there for. Yaddayadda-yadda. But he somehow gets distracted by a hot biker-type chick who’s also a comedian and—guess what?—half his age. So much for seriously coming to grips with mortality.

And That ’70s Show’s monotonously deadpan Laura Prepon isn’t exactly a lifesaver in this clichéd role.

The lack of imagination on display here is reflected in the title, which is likewise the name of Lee’s most famous movie. The concept of heroism itself isn’t questioned in any way. And even his dreams look generic, like outtakes from movies conjured by people too young to have seen them when they were new. Apparently, some dictionaries don’t go past archetype.

> KEN EISNER

THE BIG SICK Starring Kumail Nanjiani. Rated 14A

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Kumail Nanjiani is just one of the good reasons to catch this summer charmer.

Written by the Pakistani-American comic with his real-life partner, Emily V. Gordon, The Big Sick semi-fictionalizes their own love story, with its assumed emphasis on cross-cultural friction and family conflict giving way to the mystery illness of the title. This leaves the film’s version of Emily (Zoe Kazan, Our Brand Is Crisis) in an induced coma for quite some time; a shame, in one sense, because Kazan is so watchable up to that point, lending her own offbeat charisma to a meetcute that begins with her therapist in training heckling Nanjiani in a Chicago comedy club. In spite of a commitment to noncommitment observed at first by both parties, the chemistry is just too good, and it hurts to see her go.

Emily’s lights blink out after she discovers Kumail has been reluctantly entertaining candidates for an arranged marriage insisted upon by his mom (Zenobia Shroff, Little Zizou). If Kumail’s worst problem is avoidance, then his appeal lies in a related mix of boyish innocence and wit, where even his sharpest lines (and his worst crimes) land with a soft touch, no doubt a skill honed inside a family—rounded out by father Azmat (an endearing Anupam Kher, Bend It Like Beckham) and overcompetitive brother Naveed (Adeel Akhtar, Four Lions)—who are all hilariously inept at hearing one another.

Kumail doesn’t know if Emily will either wake up or take him back, but he’s bent on ingratiating himself with her parents, played to the hilt by Ray Romano and Holly Hunter (who’s getting more Texan by the decade). It’s this sweetly evolving relationship that keeps the second half of The Big Sick in knee-slap country, all of it unfussily handled by Hello, My Name Is Doris director Michael Showalter.

At times the touch is a tad too light.

Asked by Emily’s well-meaning, if faintly xenophobic, dad about his “stance on 9/11”, Kumail deadpans: “Oh, it was a terrible tragedy, we lost 19 of our best guys.” It’s a killer line that doesn’t need the humbling expiation that follows, and it reminds us that a Muslim comedian in America still has to watch his step, even in a movie this good. I think he should have knocked their heads together. Compassionately, of course.

> KEN EISNER

47 METERS DOWN Starring Mandy Moore. Rating unavailable

Former bubblegum-pop queen Moore finds herself trapped in a cage surrounded by 25foot sharks in this would-be thriller, a situation only faintly more terrifying, one assumes, than being married to Ryan Adams for six years. Even then, 47 Meters Down struggles to drum up much in the way of scares, save for one moment that is more effective if you haven’t seen 2000’s Pitch Black.

Though she’s generally a likable screen presence, there’s little in the way of sympathy extended here to Moore’s character, Lisa, holidaying in Mexico with her sister Kate (Australian TV star Claire Holt). Lisa is recovering from a breakup and nurses certain feelings of inadequacy about her more adventurous younger sibling, which is all the motivation writer-director Johannes Roberts evidently requires to send the two of them on an ill-advised shark-swimming caper with the not entirely legit Capt. Taylor (Matthew Modine, left, for the most part, to ponder the time he used to work with people like Stanley Kubrick).

When the ship’s winch breaks, Kate and Lisa find themselves sitting at the bottom of the ocean surrounded by hungry sharks that we can’t really see through all the murk and haphazard framing. This leaves Moore and Holt to narrate almost everything that happens (“Look, I’m almost out of oxygen!”

“Look, Javier got ripped to shreds!”) while the film contrives to fill its thin 85 minutes with dicey escape attempts and a fake-out that horror buffs will recall from a better film best left unnamed. > ADRIAN MACK Equally, with its, let’s say, streamlined approach to plot and character, NOWHERE TO HIDE you might argue that Roberts wants to fashion a movie—in contrast to preA documentary by Zaradasht Ahmed. decessors like Jaws or Open Water— In Arabic, with English subtitles. that’s as efficient and uncomplicated Rating unavailable as the beasts it depicts. But even by You don’t have to understand that logic, 47 Meters Down bites. > ADRIAN MACK what’s been going on in Iraq in

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the past 15 years to follow this quietly incendiary film. Its main subject and principal cinematographer, Nori Sharif, doesn’t quite get it either. This instantly likable fellow had been working as a paramedic in the volatile Diyala region for more than a decade when filmmaker Zaradasht Ahmed handed over a small digital camera and asked him to shoot anything that moved.

Since Bush II fatally destabilized the region in 2003, Iraqis have seen one sectarian conflict after another.

Nowhere to Hide begins with the U.S. withdrawal in 2011 and follows roughly four years, with Sharif filming himself in increasingly brutal circumstances, as Sunni and Shiite militias duke it out and then are replaced by the fresh nightmare of an advancing Islamic State. We see the aftermath of car bombings and drive-by shootouts, and villagers tell of seeing youngsters kidnapped and later decapitated. “What is this terror for?” one exclaims. “Can anyone tell me?”

It’s all just as baffling to our subject, who describes the seemingly endless conflict as “an undiagnosed war: you only see the symptoms; you don’t understand the disease.” For a long time, he’s able to maintain some professional detachment from the chaos, but it eventually disrupts his own family, and he’s forced to grab his loved ones and run for sanctuary. After much harrowing effort, they find a cramped cabin in an overflowing camp for internal refugees, where they adjust to the hardships with amazingly good humour. (Their four adorable children do offer some hope for the future.)

We can’t know how much footage was actually shot by our big-hearted tour guide, as the material was shaped into a tight 86 minutes by Swedish editor Eva Hillström and the Iraqiborn Ahmed. If you want to know why some people must keep running, this is a good place to start.

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Sam Elliott gets emotional in dream role > B Y A DRIA N M A C K

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ou could call it a stroke of genius. After working with him on 2015â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll See You in My Dreams, writer-director Brett Haley realized that audiences were hungry for a straight-up 90 minutes of Sam Elliott. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we get with The Hero, opening Friday (June 30), a film thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prompted serious gushing about the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emergence, after 49 years on-screen, from a place just a little left of the spotlight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell me about it,â&#x20AC;? growls the man himself, calling the Straight from Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I kinda shake my head

about it, but, you knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to have â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em saying nice things about you than not. I just think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to keep it in the proper perspective. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty heady to buy into a lot of really wonderful things that people are saying about you.â&#x20AC;?

Elliott is quick to add that â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot of us actors would love to have anyone write a screenplay for them,â&#x20AC;? and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s further credit, not to mention his commercial instincts, that he fashioned a role tailored to his starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeply ingrained image as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the iconic westernerâ&#x20AC;?.

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words. And I get whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with Lee Hayden. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known people that totally screwed their lives up in pursuit of a career. It cost them and it cost their families, and I think when you understand the character youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re portraying, odds are itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be real instead of contrived. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsettling in some ways,â&#x20AC;? he continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see this film until we went to Sundance because I wanted to see it with an audience, particularly that audience, which is all kinda filmy types, and when they laughed at that first sequence where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing voice-overs, man, I was totally relieved. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Cause I know that this is kind of a

dark, angst-ridden tale. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got that humour that runs throughout, God bless Nick Offerman.â&#x20AC;?

Yes indeed, Offermanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who joins Laura Prepon and Elliottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner of 33 years, Katharine Ross, in the beautifully modulated feature. If the performances have been universally praised, Elliott has a suggestion for the minority who feel, as one prominent critic wrote, that The Hero is otherwise â&#x20AC;&#x153;underdevelopedâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a slice of life, and if somebody thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underdeveloped, then maybe they oughta go watch Baywatch or something,â&#x20AC;? he says, with a low chuckle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a fully developed story.â&#x20AC;? -

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There used to be a couple other dudes in the Matinée, but rumour has it they were shown the door for their refusal—or inability—to grow beards like these magnificently manly specimens.

Therapeutic rock ’n’ roll

therapy over it. Personal- said ‘Here’s my phone number.’” ly, I was really struggling.”

That would be the start of Layzell falling in love Part of that was because with a person he’s now engaged to. And that would of the implosion of a rela- eventually lead him down a path where, suddenly, tionship, the aftermath so he became interested in life again, a creative burst messy that Layzell would leading to an avalanche of songs, 11 which would rather not get into the de- end up on Dancing on Your Grave. The extent to tails. He remembers hit- which he’s come back from the dark side is perting the road at that time haps best reflected by the album’s final track, “My when more bad news hit.

Heart Still Works”, which builds slowly from a “No relationship ever spartan acoustic meditation to a symphonic slice Despite the tribulations that led to its creation, there’s nothing just ends, so even though of country-tinged heaven. at all depressing about the Matinée’s Dancing on Your Grave it was over, things got The title of the album, meanwhile, speaks to where heavy to the point where he and his bandmates find themselves today. The Make it through one of those stretch- I was blaming myself for a lot of things,” Layzell cover image of a tiger moth is equally important, es where life seems to be nothing but pain and recalls. “I had to go on tour, and then I get the especially once you know something about Layzell’s

BY M IKE US IN G ER trauma, and sometimes you end up with a surpris- message from my family: ‘Your grandfather is grandfather. Like many in the singer’s family, he was ing perspective. That’s borne out by the various going to pass—if you want to see him get to On- a pilot. He got his start flying DH.82 Tiger Moth biplanes in World War II, the prop from one of which trials and not inconsiderable tribulations that led tario.’ Except I’m on tour so I can’t go.” up to the writing and recording of the Matinée’s On reflection, he realizes he was shutting down can be found in the family’s barn in Gananoque.

“Dancing on Your Grave just seemed to capsophomore album, Dancing on Your Grave. except for those moments he was on-stage. ture the essence of the record,” he says In addition to biggies—deaths and dramatic re“I was avoiding emotions, avoiding feelwith a smile. “It’s a recognition of a lationship implosions—there were crises of a more ing and connecting with people, by diving common bond and where we were as existential nature. For example, the question of into touring. It was my one outlet where Check out… a band, and symbolic of the tunes as what any sensible person is doing playing in a rock I could just go and crawl up on-stage, STRAIGHT.COM a whole. I woke up from a dream—I band at a time when all the cool kids are sitting at crawl into the van, and then crawl Make our webhave very vivid ones—where I saw the hip-hop, EDM, and stadium-pop lunch tables. into the hotel and block everything site your source my grandfather and the plane. I was It’s something that’s crossed the minds of singer out. I was never a substance abuser or for concert reviews talking to him about the record, and Matthew Layzell and the bandmates (guitarists anything like that, but I was definitely and local music when I woke up I knew that the album Matt Rose and Geoff Petrie and drummer Peter drinking and trying to block things out.” art needed to be a Tiger Moth. So the Lemon) that he’s known since high school.

When the tour ended, and there was Despite all this (and perhaps thanks to a suc- no longer a nightly 50-minute escape from reality, first thing that I did was Google ‘Tiger Moth’.

All these pictures came up, not of the plane, but cessful therapy session or two), Layzell is upbeat things got truly heavy. in his assessment of Dancing on Your Grave. The “I got home and had to start processing things— of the actual moth. That sent me down a rabbit album opens, tellingly, with the lines “I wake up grieving my grandfather, grieving the relation- hole of researching, symbolically, what a moth in the dead of night/Can’t shake these sweats/ ship, grieving myself,” Layzell says. “I couldn’t get means and, throughout time, what a moth has Something just ain’t right,” these coming over out of my house. There were three or four weeks meant to certain cultures. Moths are about regorgeously luminous six-string in the title track. where it took all of my strength to go to the grocery birth and also the energy you get from moving What follows is a record that dresses up clas- store and the coffee shop. I wasn’t going to work. close to flame. It was so representative of what sic roots rock with flourishes of badlands guitar I couldn’t see the band and I couldn’t write. We had I felt that I had gone through and what the band violence (“Fireworks”), back-porch banjo (“Long this looming recording and I had nothing. I really had gone through internally.”

Call it perspective, not to mention proof Gone”), and dying-days cello (“Anna Lee”). felt like, okay, this is my life now, where I’m going that sometimes there’s a beautiful payoff when There are moments of undeniable sadness, both to be a hermit in a basement suite. lyrical and musical, but the album is somehow “I’d never dealt with depression or anxiety, but things get ugly. anything but depressing, the songs instead fitting all of a sudden it was so real and instant. I rememin nicely on a summer mixed tape with greats like ber being forced to go to the Biltmore for one of The Matinée plays a Canada Day celebration at Tom Petty, the Old 97s, and Sam Roberts. Suggest those cover nights where you pick a song and play Canada Place on Saturday (July 1). that’s a monumental achievement considering it,” he says. “On-stage I was okay. But after that I what was going on in his personal life, and the couldn’t talk to anyone. I couldn’t be in the room.

Matthew Layzell sounds off singer-guitarist is quick to agree.

That’s when I sought counselling.” on the things that enquiring “It’s a therapeutic record,” Layzell says simply, The counselling helped, but what would prove minds want to know. interviewed over Blue Buck beers at the Regal even more inspirational was an encounter with Beagle on Broadway. a fan in Rossland. The Matinée played a show in On the state of the To understand how Layzell got to where he is the Kootenay ski town the night before Layzell’s industry: “As an older band today with the Matinée, it helps to rewind a bit to grandfather died. who’s been at it for 10-plus years, we’ve seen the dark days. The contemplative singer-guitarist “It was a great show—this was when I was putreal changes in what it means to tour. That admits there were a few of them between the re- ting everything into shows because it was the only change is directly related to the guarantees that lease of Dancing on Your Grave and the band’s thing that I had,” he remembers. “I felt really alive we see when we go play. It is really hard for a wide-eyed and buoyant 2013 debut, We Swore that night. Afterwards there was a girl who wantband at our level to do it—it really is. Meanwhile, We’d See the Sunrise. Some were funny in hind- ed to talk and buy some merch. She’d seen us a few a 16-year-old kid from Amsterdam who does sight, partly because they’ve made good battle times, so I felt obligated to give this person some remixes on his laptop sells out everywhere.” stories for the road warrior files. time because she’d been following us. So we just “The amount of touring that we did on the talked. Through the conversation I learned at that On the night his grandfather passed: first record grinds you,” Layzell says. “At the end time she worked in a care home, and my grand“We were in Golden and had just played and of the touring cycles for that album it was the father was in a care home at that time.” we were watching Yukon Blonde. One of the classic story of the van heater broke when it was Things would get surreal and mystical the next locals said, ‘You can see the northern lights minus-30 from Ottawa all the way to Calgary. We day in more than one way. First Layzell—who says right now, but if you wanna see them better were huddled in sleeping bags and—I’ll never for- he’s normally never on Twitter but was looking for come with us and we’ll drive to the top of this get this—the lights weren’t working, so at night a distraction—logged in to discover someone had mountain called Mount 7.’ We parked the van we were driving with hazards on. For three weeks posted a random photo, of a guy in a boat shaped like and climbed to this platform where skydivers of driving, no one spoke. When we got home, a guitar floating on a lake in Gananoque, Ontario. jumped off, smoked a joint, and just laid there. that’s when our bass player quit and the band kind That’s where the Coquitlam-raised singer spent his My grandfather was a pilot. And maybe it was of went into remission for a while.” childhood summers back east with his grandfather. the thought of him flying or whatever, but And then there was a run of events, two sum“I was like, ‘How the hell does this happen?’ whatever it was, the memory of that night that mers ago, serious enough that they would take a and then I look at the follower and it’s the girl he passed will always stick with me.” major toll on Layzell’s mental health. He’s blunt in that had been talking to me the night before,” his assessment of the period that would eventually he recounts. “So I messaged her and said, ‘Hey, On everything: “It’s all doomed. So you might inspire Dancing on Your Grave. just so you know, Gananoque is a very importas well go out on-stage. That’s the way I look at it.”

“The lowest point in my life was the lead-up to ant place to me.’ She had no idea—it was a photo the new record,” he reveals. “I’ve gone through she’d tweeted out. We started chatting, and she

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The Georgia Straight Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.

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Most people I know seem to always do stuff. You know...go for hikes, or to the beach, or the pub, or to dinner, or whatever. My confession is that I don’t really have any desire to do stuff. For the most part I like relaxing in my apartment and being left alone. That might sound kind of unhealthy. But as far as I can tell, it’s a genuine preference. Doing stuff just seems like such as a hassle, and usually I am thinking about how I can escape and be alone again.

PSA for bachelor parties Please stop touching the waitresses. Just because you are a customer, I am not required to hug you, let you touch my back or flirt with you. No, it is not appropriate to inform me that you would let me suck it.

Wallower Hearing “Stairway To Heaven” always reminds me of being at the end of the school dance without someone to dance with.

Being new in town is great Nobody thinks I’m weird for being all by myself with no friends. And nobody thinks I’m weird for walking up to a group of people and striking up a conversation with them.

The scales of life I’ve gone through scales in my life. 90% of high school was pure hell. 60% percent of post secondary was boring as fuck.

Feels great to have a fresh start and put in 100 % at work.

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chool has featured prominently in the professional development of rapper-producer P-Lo—but not because of his classroom time. Inspired to try his hand at music after hearing Kanye West’s aptly named The College Dropout, the young performer conceived of the idea for the seminal Heart Break Gang while cutting lunch at his high school with his friend Sudan Williams—better known as rapper IamSu!. Rounding up a loud squad of young artists from his grade and beyond, the pair founded the collective that would define the sound of the Bay Area hip-hop scene.

“It was all because of Kanye,” the rapper, born Paolo Rodriguez, tells the Straight on the line from a Los Angeles tour stop. “He was always told that he couldn’t do something, and every time someone said that to him, he always did it. I always had a big love for music, but I just didn’t understand what it actually was, you know what I’m saying?

That College Dropout CD was hella vital. At that time, rap was so hard, and you had to be a gangster. He was one of the first who was just a regular dude.

He is why I really started producing.”

Turning his hand to laptops, keyboards, and drum machines, Rodriguez perfected the studio skills that would land him writing credits on tracks for 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Yo Gotti, YG, and Chris Brown. Despite that success—which he shrugs off with customary swag—the musician always dreamed of being behind the mike himself.

“Being a great rapper was always my goal,” he says. “I just knew that I wanted to get as good as possible at producing in the beginning, and then once I was able to perfect that, then I would try and master rap.”

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More Than Anything, Rodriguez’s third foray into solo material, is an indicator that he’s on the right path. Much more elaborate and detailed than his previous efforts, the record reveals the rapper’s growth with an eclectic mix of production styles, flow, and vibe.

Seguing from flex-heavy hyphy track “Never Sorry” into the off-kilter synths and aggressive beat of “Feel Good” and the smooth R&B of “Much More”, the musician displays a range that is often elusive for up-and-comers.

“The record has lots of different feels because that’s my personality,” he says.

“I’m not just one way the whole time, so I wanted to represent that. I’ve always wanted to be diverse, and not just make one kind of music. I feel like all the greatest and biggest artists were able to do a lot of different things, and I pride myself on that. More Than Anything is about believing in myself, and showing the layers and depth of P-Lo. “The Bay Area has its own style,” he continues. “It’s in our water. It’s in our DNA. Our sound is so unique and so rich that I feel like a lot of people don’t understand what it is, because they don’t go there and get to see it. Now I’m bringing it to the people.” P-Lo plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Friday (June 30).

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Vintage goes viral in Scott Bradlee’s videos Scott Bradlee is almost single-

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ing ragtime and vintage jazz into the YouTube era, but he’s not letting that go to his head.

“No matter how good a video does,” he tells the Straight from Los Angeles, “there’s always going to be a cat video that gets more views.”

Still, the pianist and arranger behind Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox can be proud of his achievements, even if he isn’t sure why some of his pop-song adaptations and homemade videos have launched careers, while others have merely rippled the surface of the online ocean.

“I’ve certainly been wrong before with things that I thought would go viral, and some things went viral that I didn’t think were noteworthy in that sense,” he says. “But I think virality happens when you connect to a conversation. You make something that people want to talk about.”

This, he continues, is what happened in 2013, when the then-unknown band’s doo-wop cover of Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” briefly claimed supremacy over every cute-animal video in the known universe, receiving over four million views in a single day.

“That played into a couple of different things,” Bradlee explains.

“First of all, she had just given a very scandalous performance of that song. Everybody was talking about it, so it was in the news cycle, and then the other factor is we took it and turned it into a doo-wop song, the most sanitized genre of music you can imagine. We also filmed the whole thing in the living room of my small New York City apartment, and it was clear that it was very much a guerrilla effort. So we took a currentevents news story and added a bit of a do-it-yourself, underdog quality that made everybody want to share it— and it was done well. It was a catchy song done in a catchy way.”

Barely two months later, “We Can’t Stop” was followed by a take on Lorde’s “Royals” that just as quickly made Puddles the Clown a household name. Some observers dubbed Postmodern Jukebox “the Saturday Night Live of jazz”—a fair comparison, given that its one-camera video shoots are driven by seamless ensemble work as much as idol-making star turns. Bradlee doesn’t even publicize who’s on tour with the band; if his singers are good, digital word of mouth will do his work for him.

“It’s always different, and it’s always changing,” he says. “We have an active roster of about 40 to 50 musicians that tour with us. It’s kind

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of like a universe rather than a band.

“In fact,” he continues, “it’s kind of hard to nail down exactly what it is, other than that it’s its own genre of entertainment. Our thing is just putting together a really balanced cast of incredible talent and creating a set that casual fans, die-hard fans, and people that are completely new to the concept can all enjoy and have fun and get up and dance to.”

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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox plays a TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival show at the Orpheum on Friday (June 30).

Thievery Corporation takes a dubby trip to Jamaica Over two decades ago, Thievery began plundering the recombinant DNA of modern consumer culture. That’s when the act’s founders, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, came up with the super-eclectic mix of soul, reggae, acid jazz, bhangra, bossa nova, and assorted exotica that virtually defined the downtempo lounge sound of the 1990s.

“I love all kinds of music,” declares Hilton, calling from his home in Washington, D.C. “But I could never tell you why I love it. I guess the search for that meaning keeps us going.”

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Thievery Corporation plays the Orpheum on Thursday (June 29), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Rosenwinkel is master of his own musical destiny Although Kurt Rosenwinkel encountered the term individuation until his chat with the Georgia Straight, he might be the perfect poster boy for the concept. Individuation, Carl Jung tells us, is the process of becoming self-actualized, of stepping away from parents and mentors and belief systems to become an autonomous human. Which, it turns out, is exactly what Rosenwinkel has been doing for the past few years.

Jazz aficionados already know the guitarist as an unusually fluid and expressive soloist. But it’s only with his new release, Caipi, that Rosenwinkel has unveiled the full scope of his musicianship, by singing and playing keyboards on a selection of self-penned songs.

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Kurt Rosenwinkel’s Caipi plays Performance Works on Thursday (June 29), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

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a few semihits, like the sitar-driven “Lebanese Blonde”, but after 10 studio albums and twice as many remix sets, they’re still a cult fave, not a radio powerhouse. Still, each new record is eagerly awaited.

“Every album is different,” Hilton explains. “Saudade, the last one, was very much in one vein, with the bossa, easy-listening sounds from Brazil that Rob and I really love. Our albums used to be all over the place, but lately we’ve been enjoying keeping ourselves in a tighter genre box.”

He and Garza are now touring in support of The Temple of I and I, a fresh return to the dub-minded music they landed on when playing old Lee “Scratch” Perry records for their original club fans. This time, they plunked themselves down in rural Jamaica to record the basic rhythm tracks.

“When the Jamaica trip first came up, in 2015, we just liked the idea of going there because it would be warm, and it’s cold in D.C. in February. We didn’t have a set idea of what sounds we would use, but once we got down there, it only made sense to keep the music in a Jamaican format.”

In fact, they hit on so many disparate ideas, the guys wound up with a whole extra CD’s worth of alternate cuts and extras from those sessions, due out this fall.

“Instead of waiting three or four more years, we just figured, ‘Let’s release it soon, like a collection of rarities before they’re even rare.’ ” In fact, Hilton thinks the whole notion of release strategy has come to look rather quaint.

“The older, more established groups—and I guess you can put us in that category—are survivors of a technological bomb blast that pretty

For most listeners, the elegant, airy, and often Brazilian-inflected Caipi—which is also the name of Rosenwinkel’s new band—marks a sharp break with his earlier recordings. But, on the line from his home in Berlin, he begs to differ.

“I think this music has always been there,” he explains. “So it looks like a radical departure when you look at it from the outside.…but it’s really a rebirth to become more of myself.”

Rosenwinkel is quick to allow that he’s altered more than his sound.

“There was a point, last year— over Christmas, actually—where I retired from teaching, I parted ways with my manager and my booking agent and my record company, and I decided to launch my own record company,” he says. “I literally woke up in the middle of the night and looked at the moon, and I realized that I should do that. And it’s been so much fun to start my own business and to have the freedom to implement my own ideas and have a more direct relationship with life itself, in terms of deciding what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it.”

The universe appears to agree that he’s on the right track, most noticeably by introducing him to the 23-year-old singer, multi-instrumentalist, and future star Pedro Martins.

Rosenwinkel met the Brazilianborn Martins at the 2015 Montreux Jazz Competition, where the younger musician was crowned best electricguitar player. “I was the president of the jury, and Pedro just blew everybody away,” he explains. “And it turns out that he had been listening to the music of Caipi on his own since he was 15 years old, because I left a demo tape of these songs down there in Rio, like, eight years ago.

“Nobody knew those songs. They were just me in my studio,” he adds.

But Martins knew them well enough to earn a place in Rosenwinkel’s band, where he serves as the guitarist’s voice, six-string doppelgänger, keyboardist, and more.

Jung might say that their meeting was an instance of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence. But Rosenwinkel simply feels that all is going according to plan.

“It’s a very exciting and liberating time,” he says happily. “When you do the right thing everything feels right—and that’s how it feels now.”

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If your partner’s social

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You have the right to say something— the First Amendment applies to relationships, too—but you have two additional rights and one responsibility: the right to refrain from reading the comments, the right to unfollow your partner’s social-media accounts, and the responsibility to get over your jealousy.

A couple invited me to go on

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Get this woman’s phone number, exchange a few photos and flirty texts, and relax. Remember: you’re the very special guest star here—it’s their job to seduce you, not the other way around.

My partner really

wants an open relationship; I really don’t. He isn’t the jealous type; I am. We compromised, and I agreed to a threesome.

> BY DAN SAVAGE

I want to meet him in the middle, but I change strap-on dildos to mark really hate the idea of even a threesome their six-month anniversary. and can’t stop stressing about it. What Gay guy, late 20s. What’s the best should I do? timing—relative to meals and bowel You should end this relationship movements—to have anal sex? yourself or you can let an ill-advised, sure-to-be-disastrous threesome end Butts shouldn’t be fucked too soon after a meal or too soon before a bowel it for you. movement. For more info, read the late, Any dating advice for people great Dr. Jack Morin’s Anal Pleasure who are gay and disabled? and Health: A Guide for Men, Women, and Couples—which can be read beMove on all fronts. As much as your fore, during, and after meals and/or disability and budget allow, go places bowel movements. and do things: join gay dating sites; be open about your disability; be open My sister’s husband describes to dating other disabled people. And himself as sexually “vanilla”. She take the advice of an amputee I inter- says she hasn’t had an orgasm withviewed for a column a long, long time out a vibrator in seven years. They ago: “So long as they don’t see me as a are currently separated, and he fetish object, I’m willing to date people wants her back. If he makes some who may be attracted to me initially lifestyle changes (stops smoking because of my disability, not despite it.” so much weed, goes to the gym), is there hope for her sex life?

Why do I say yes to dates if I love being alone?

Does your sister want him back? If so, taking him back is the only way to find Because we’re constantly told—by out if he’s willing to make these lifestyle our families, our entertainments, changes and make them permanently. our faith traditions—that there’s something wrong with being alone. I went to a big kink event. Why The healthiest loners shrug it off are the people so fucking creepy? and don’t search for mates; the How can you find kinky folks who complicit loners play along and go aren’t super pervy? through the motions of searching for mates; and the oblivious loners They’re hanging out with the kinky make themselves and others miser- folks who aren’t super judgy. able by searching for and landing Why do all of my gay friends make mates they never wanted. passes at my boyfriends at some point?

My boyfriend keeps talk- It’s not just harmless flirtation, either. ing about how much he would like for me to peg him. (I’m female.) Your boyfriends are irresistible, and Should I wait for him to buy a con- your gay friends are irredeemable. traption or surprise him myself?

We’ve been dating only three months. My girlfriend and I are having Traditionally, straight couples ex- a debate. Which is more intimate:

vanilla sex or sharing a whirlpool bath there’s no risk of pregnancy. How do I with someone? Can you settle this? remain a feminist when my boyfriend comes on my chest every night? I know No. he loves me, but I feel very objectified.

Three great dates followed by a micropenis. What do I do? Him: six foot four, giant belly. Me: five foot five, normal proportions. Great guy, but the sex sucked.

If you require an average-to-large penis to enjoy sex, don’t keep seeing this guy. He needs to find someone who thinks—or someone who knows— tongues, fingers, brains, kinks, et cetera can add up to great sex.

As a trauma/rape survivor, I found myself attracted to girls afterward. Is this because I’m scared of men or am I genuinely attracted to girls? Is this a thing that happens after trauma?

People react to trauma in all sorts of ways—some of them unpredictable.

And trauma has the power to unlock truths or obscure them. I’m sorry you were raped, and I would encourage you to explore these issues with a counsellor. Rape Victim Advocates (rapevictim advocates.org) can help you find a qualified counsellor.

A woman who enjoys having someone come on her chest doesn’t have to surrender her feminist card for letting someone come on her chest. But you don’t enjoy it—it makes you feel objectified in the wrong way. (Most of us, feminists included, enjoy being appreciated for our parts and our smarts.) Use your words: “I don’t like it when you come on my chest. So that’s over.” He’ll have to respect that limit or he’ll have to go. If he doesn’t feel comfortable coming inside you, IUD or no IUD, you’ll have to respect his choice.

He can pull out and come somewhere else—in his own hand, on his own belly, or in a condom.

My boyfriend wants

me to talk more in bed. I am not a shy person, but making sentences during sex doesn’t come naturally to me—though I am very uninhibited with my vocals!

What’s a good way to get more comfortable talking during sex?

Tell him what you’re gonna do (“I’m gonna suck that dick”); tell him what you’re doing (“I’m sucking that dmDo you think a relationship in mffhm”); tell him what you just did (“I this day and age can last forever? sucked that dick”).

Some relationships last forever Hey, Dan! I’m 27 and I just lost and should; some last forever and my virginity. Thanks for all the help! shouldn’t. Forever, here defined as “until one or both partners are dead”, You’re welcome! isn’t the sole measure of relationship On the Lovecast, Dan chats with quality or success.

My boyfriend refuses to finish

inside me. When he’s about to come, he pulls out and comes on my chest. Every time. I told him I have an IUD and

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