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Local musician Ron Samworth—with his doggie dreams—and a brilliant Birdwatching duo are just two of the great talents in the lineup for this year’s TD Vancouver International Jazz festival. > BY ALE X ANDER VART Y

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JAZZ FEST

Fort improvises with friends

t’s often overlooked, at least in discussions about the music’s intellectual complexity, but one of the loveliest things about jazz is its social nature. Yes, some groups are put together to capture a certain sound, but many more are formed because the players like hanging out with each other—on and off the bandstand. And so it was for the duo of clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi and pianist Anat Fort: a chance encounter led to a friendship, then to a concert together, and from there to a brilliant new recording and the international tour that will bring them to the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival this weekend. “If you want to hear how we met, it was at the Novara jazz festival in Italy,” Fort explains, in a Skype interview from her home in Tel Aviv. “We were both playing there, and we just met in the lobby of the hotel. He doesn’t know a lot of English, but we communicated somehow, and the next thing we knew we were playing a concert together in the same place. That’s how it started.” Fort, of course, already knew Trovesi’s music. The 72-year-old Italian is one of the most distinguished jazz artists in Europe, with recording projects that include works inspired by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the compositions of Kurt Weill. And she presumably had an inkling that his clarinet would work well with her piano when they entered the studio to make the recently released Birdwatching. “With Gianluigi we didn’t have a lot of time to kind of cook this thing slowly, so we had to try a lot of things,” the pianist says. “I brought a lot of options because I wasn’t sure, exactly, what would work. And I also wasn’t sure that it would be just the alto clarinet, because he had the other instruments [saxophone and soprano clarinet] with him too. But as we were doing this, that sort of became the sound of the record.” On Birdwatching, Trovesi’s dark tone and singing melodies pair perfectly with Fort’s similarly lyrical piano; one of the record’s chief pleasures lies in hearing how well the 46-year-old keyboardist sets up a supportive environment for the veteran clarinetist. And local audiences will get a second chance to hear her abilities as an accompanist, when she takes time off from her

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new friendship to revisit one of her oldest musical collaborations. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s appearance with Fort at the 2013 jazz festival marked the singer’s first major appearance in her adopted home, and the two plan to reprise the pleasure, with an album’s worth of as-yet-unheard material in tow. “We’ve been working together for many years, and we actually recorded a CD last year in Israel which hasn’t come out yet because everything had to wait for Birdwatching to have its turn,” Fort reveals. “The plan was to do an album of lullabies— but not what you would naturally think of as lullabies, more like our interpretation of what lullabies could be. I think we’re going to do a good chunk of that, and we’ll probably do some other stuff from our repertoire over the years.” Prepare to be surprised, Fort adds: she and Gottlieb will be doing songs in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, as well as venturing out into the kind of improvised terrain that fast friends—old or new—do best. > ALEXANDER VARTY

Anat Fort performs with Ayelet Rose Gottlieb at Performance Works on Friday (July 1), and with Gianluigi Trovesi at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Sunday (July 3), both as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Samworth discovered that dogs really do have dreams There’s nothing like a shock to

2 loosen a block, and by his own

admission Ron Samworth was creatively “constipated” when he got the message no one wants to hear. “On the record,” the Vancouver guitarist and improv veteran says in a telephone interview from his home, “a year ago I got a life-altering medical diagnosis. I’m dealing with an aggressive cancer, and I’m still undergoing treatment.” The good news is that he’s found a way to harness the bad news. “It’s completely shifted my priorities,” Samworth says. “I’m not pushing, but I’m also not allowing myself to be bugged by the vagaries of the noncommercial art world—and I guess the upshot of it is this Dogs Do Dream project.” A band, an as-yet-unreleased record, and a body of work, Dogs Do Dream is Samworth’s response to recent scientific studies suggesting that dogs and rats have the kind of psychological depths that we higher primates once considered uniquely our own. “I’ve known for a long time about these medical studies that were documenting the dreams of animals,” he says, citing a magazine article that he’d read as specific inspiration for his see page 14

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> B Y LUC Y L A U

et’s face it: opting for organic, locally grown kale and raw, grass-fed butter isn’t always easy when their mass-produced counterparts often come at a fraction of the price. Three Vancouverites, however, are hoping to offset the higher cost of sustainable, ethically sourced, and better-for-you goods by bringing communities together to participate in a bulk-sharing program. Mount Pleasant resident Bryan Jacobs conceived of the idea last year as a way to “take the economy back for the people”, and along with cofounders Lisa Dekleer and Kit Walton, set up a public Facebook group in May to kickstart the initiative. The Vancouver Bulk Sharing Community has since grown to over 500 people. Its mission is simple: to inspire Vancouverites to buy together in bulk, thus making environmentally minded products more accessible and, most importantly, a possibility for those who may otherwise not be able to afford them. “It’s a reinvention of the old bulkbuying clubs, and applying it to our new network-technology society,” Jacobs says at a Main Street café. “We’re taking the idea of having a core group of people who are always buying the same things, and we’re opening it up to anyone in the community.” Jacobs, Dekleer, and Walton have conducted two offline meetings so far, where members discuss what products they’d like to collectively purchase. Suggestions ranged from whole-grain flour and supplements to chocolate and chia seeds, and the item of choice is determined by a majority-rules vote. In May, 12 people chipped in for 15 pounds of freshly roasted East Van Roasters Bodum Blend wholebean coffee—purchased at the wholesale price—while June saw the co-op committing to 20 litres of unscented natural laundry detergent from the Burnaby-based Live for Tomorrow. The former deal allowed the group to save almost one-quarter of the retail price, and the latter was split into two-litre batches for $12.90 each, 24

percent cheaper than the retail price. The products are either delivered by the “host” or organizer, or picked up by the participant, who pays his or her share of the transaction in person. “We really want people to ask themselves what products they would want to buy, but they feel like they have to buy an inferior product instead because they can’t afford the premium, organic, or local variety,” says Jacobs. While buying in bulk helps reduce waste, there are less obvious ecofriendly benefits to shopping with your neighbours as well. By having only one person visiting the store, numerous other trips are eliminated, potentially lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Supporting local businesses also means that the items purchased likely didn’t have to travel far to reach their destination, further minimizing the group’s carbon footprint. “You’re building community and having people talk about the products they buy, so that kind of brings in a bit of peer pressure,” Jacobs notes. “So if people are making unhealthy choices, and they’re opening it up to their community, then they can actually police themselves and encourage people to make healthier choices in the marketplace.” Jacobs adds that any member can host a deal either at a monthly meeting—the next takes place this Wednesday (July 6); visit www.face book.com/groups/BulkShareYVR/ for meeting dates and location updates— or online through the Facebook group. As long as there is enough interest, the coordinator can source and purchase the appropriate product, then send a message to participants to organize delivery or pickup times. Items can be replenished by the host as needed. “Just getting to build the community, talking to like-minded individuals about what products they want to buy and where they’re coming from, and getting involved in that whole process is really refreshing and rewarding,” Jacobs says. “So I want to pass that along to other people and help them feel the same way.” -

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he Summer of Love will be remembered in Vancouver next year with a 50th-anniversary rendition of a concert modelled on the original Human Be-In. Famous Artists Limited producer Bill Allman and author and long-time concert promoter Jerry Kruz have set a date of July 29, 2017, for the event. It will revive the spirit of Vancouver’s hippie-dominated Be-Ins, which took place for several years in Stanley Park during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Kruz told the Georgia Straight that he attended the world’s first Be-In in San Francisco in January 1967, where he came up with the idea of holding a similar event in Vancouver on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967. The main attraction was Country Joe McDonald, whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’to-Die Rag” became an anthem for opponents of the Vietnam War. “It got known as the Easter Be-In but it was never intended as an Easter Be-In,” Kruz said. “It was only when Country Joe was available. That’s what we built it around, so it was an accident that it happened at Easter.” Allman and Kruz are not ready to reveal the location of the 2017 Be-In. But Kruz guaranteed that next year’s event will include a strong First Nations component as well as legacy acts and younger musicians. And, yes, Country Joe McDonald has expressed an interest in performing. “I’ve talked to him and he’s indicated that he wants to come,” Kruz said. Kruz pointed out that hippies were often disparaged in the late 1960s, but he said they left a lasting mark on Vancouver. They included the founders of Greenpeace, who helped put the environmental movement on the global stage. In addition, he noted that many hippies supported the aspirations of indigenous peoples. “Chief Dan George was a very good friend,” Kruz said. “I remember getting many wise words of wisdom from Chief Dan. I had great admiration for him.” The first Be-In took place in the area near Second Beach called, variously, Ceperley Meadows, Ceperley Park, and Ceperley Playground. In addition to Country Joe McDonald, there were a few local bands, lots of balloons, kites, impromptu drum sessions, free drugs, and, surprisingly, no rain. About 1,000 of the city’s freaks and flower children showed up for the

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new project. “I guess the headline was something like ‘Dogs Do Dream,’ you know,” he elaborates. “But they also cited these studies where they would put rats through mazes. They would chart their electroencephalographic activity, and found out that when they were sleeping they would be undergoing the same brain-wave patterns. The researchers could tell what part of the maze the rats were dreaming about, based on their matching electroencephalographic patterns. “That brought me along to this thing about dogs,” he continues. “So what would a dog’s dream be?” Following this thread, Samworth admits, has been more than artistically and intellectually gratifying. It’s also been a way for him to escape his own problems, an out-of-body experience that has led him into a sensual and immediate world of heightened perception and unfamiliar impulses—or perhaps familiar ones given different form. “In one of the dog dreams, the dog is, for example, very horny, and it’s very explicit,” he says, laughing. “There’s all kinds of animalistic desires, and there are also things I’ve witnessed while I’m watching dogs. Another is based on a dog fight that I saw on Commercial Drive—an aggressive, larger dog almost tore this little yapper to shreds. So, you know,

Country Joe McDonald headlined the first Vancouver Be-In in 1967.

event. Police mostly kept a respectful distance, even though they were usually encouraged by the city’s anti-hippie firebrand of a mayor, Tom Campbell, to put longhairs in their place whenever possible. And this despite “organizers” of the Be-In having had permission for the event previously denied by Vancouver’s park board. Kruz pointed out that Canada was approaching its 100th birthday when the first Be-In was held. And he noted that one of the attendees was Margaret Sinclair, who later became Margaret Trudeau. “Now her son is the prime minister,” Kruz said. “I’m pretty excited about that. She was there, and now look what’s happened.” The first issue of the Georgia Straight hit the streets of Vancouver about six weeks after the first Be-In. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair: An Aquarian Exposition was still two years away. As the Straight’s Dave Watson wrote on the 30th anniversary of the Be-In: “The Be-ins were more than just free concerts. They served as an opportunity to gather as a community, a means of keeping in touch, an annual general meeting for people who felt they were onto something that mainstream society wouldn’t give them credit for. The rest of the year, you might be a freak, some weirdo with long hair, the subject of derisive jokes, but at least at the Be-in you knew you weren’t alone. At the beginning, there was no industry to design, package, and market some form of channelled rebellion for you and your peers. That came later.” With files from Martin Dunphy.

it’s just about that impulse, whether it’s towards violence or sexuality or the sensuality of lying on your back and having your belly rubbed.” Spending a year as a dog, Samworth adds, has been therapeutic. “It’s really helped me with my illness to settle down and allow things to happen and not ascribe all kinds of deep and significant meanings that might not be there,” he says. “I’m trying to be in the moment, just experiencing things.” Samworth does admit that there might be something “valedictory” about Dogs Do Dream, in which he’s supported by a cast of younger performers—including trumpeter J.P. Carter, keyboardist Tyson Naylor, bassist James Meger, drummer Skye Brooks, and narrator Barbara Adler— most of whom he’s helped mentor over the years. “This could be one of my last major projects, although one never knows,” he says. “But whatever happens, I’ve got a much healthier perspective than I’ve had in a long time towards making music, and the sense of community of it. There are really amazing people around—not only the musicians, but the people who support it and make it happen on both sides of the stage.” > ALEXANDER VARTY

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or some, the word cider brings up unfortunate memories of an oversweetened, candy-coloured liquid in a two-litre bottle: a poorly informed underage decision that almost always resulted in a date with the porcelain throne. A team of local restaurateurs is hoping to take that reputation and turn it on its head with handcrafted, locally sourced apple cider, made right here in Vancouver. In 2011, Dane Brown and Clinton McDougall were on the hunt for a B.C.–made draft cider for the taps in their East Pender sausage joint, Bestie. Nothing they came across satisfied their palates. “There just wasn’t any real cider on tap,” Brown says during an interview at the restaurant. “So we started thinking that cider was something this landscape was kind of lacking, and that it would be cool to try and make our own.” It started off humbly: Brown, McDougall, and their good friend Patrick Connelly would spend their Sundays—the only day of the week they weren’t at Bestie—making cider. “That was the day we would get together, drink cider, read about cider, and try and make cider, but we didn’t know how the industry worked, or the taxation, or any of that,” Brown says, admitting that their first batches were made using a Jack LaLanne juicer. Since then, McDougall has studied at Washington State University, where U.K.–spawned

cider expert Peter Mitchell teaches a cidermaking course. The group also takes annual trips to the North American Cider Convention. It took nearly two years of planning, tasting, and tweaking, but the trio has developed a bright, dry, and balanced beverage—aptly named Sunday Cider. Sourcing different apple varieties from the Similkameen Valley—everything from Porter’s Perfection and Fameuses to crabapples, Spartans, and Galas—Brown, McDougall, and Connelly have the fruit pressed at a family farm in Keremeos. Then, the juice from the apples is sent down to their sublet East Van warehouse, where it’s fermented and carbonated. “You can make great cider with all kinds of different apples,” Connelly says, ”but that being said, there’s an art of blending and finding out what works best to get the perfect balance of acidity, sugar, and tannins. “Some people, like traditional cider makers, diss making cider with normal apples, but what we’re saying is, we can get creative and cool and fun with the apples that we have locally,” he says. Local ingredients are crucial to their operation, not just for the on-trend marketability, but because they’ve witnessed the struggle that Okanagan orchardists are facing: wine grapes are swallowing up orchards at an alarming rate. “It’s about food sovereignty, which wasn’t necessarily at the top of mind when we set out on this project,” admits Brown, “but as we’ve discovered more about the industry,

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it’s become important to us. “You have to grow really pretty apples for Whole Foods, but we’re allowing orchardists to have the security of knowing that we can take their apples, no matter what they look like.” Sunday Cider’s first blend, a pale-yellow, unfiltered, ultra-crushable beverage perfect for summer sipping, was fermented using Champagne and white-wine yeasts, but the team is constantly experimenting with different yeasts and fermentation methods, and will be launching its second style, a hopped cider, at its first growler-fill event this coming Saturday (July 2). Since the release of their first style in late 2015, Brown, McDougall, and Connelly have sold every drop they’ve made in kegs to local

breweries and a handful of restaurants. Connelly says they’ve even had to tell a few restaurant owners eager to buy that they’d have to wait, “because it’s selling so fast”. So far, weekly growler fi lls are planned for every Saturday this summer between 1 and 7 p.m. This will be the only way Vancouverites can drink Sunday Cider at home—for now. What started out as a modest endeavour has taken off, and Brown, McDougall, and Connelly say they’re excited to be on the edge of the small yet expanding world of craft cider. Get your growlers filled this Saturday (July 2) at Sunday Cider’s hopped-cider launch at 1575 Vernon Drive.

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STUDIO GHIBLI The Vancouver TheatreSports League is joining the summer blockbuster circuit—you supply the genre, characters, and plot; they’ll provide the laughs. The bar at the Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau Street) is getting in on the fun too. Check out The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie any weekend from now until August 27, and you can sip one of four fitting house cocktails. There’s the whiskyspiked Walk of Fame (pictured centre) and lime-green Yes Oui Cannes (right), but our pick is the Studio Ghibli. Made from sake, Japanese plum wine, and Merlot, it’s an ode to the legendary animation house and one of the few Japanese sangrias you’ll find in the city. -

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ay what you might about fruit beer, but the oft-maligned style has caught on in so many ways that we just couldn’t ignore it. With the weather heating up, “crushability” becomes an important factor when scanning the shelves for the perfect summertime brew. With that in mind, here are a few of our favourites.

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tanks, this delightfully intoxicating summer blend from Steamworks hasn’t even hit liquor-store shelves yet. (It will next week.) Pouring to a dazzling, slightly opaque gold, the 4.9-percent-ABV kettle-soured ale is fermented with passion fruit and pomegranate, making for a harmonious blend of sweetness and tartness. Lush aromas make for a flavour profile that packs a serious punch to the nose and mouth, while overall the beer starts PARALLEL 49 BREWING MEYER smooth and finishes dry. > AMANDA SIEBERT LEMON RADLER School’s out and the neighbourhood lemonade stands BOMBER BREWING PARK LIFE are in full force. But as feel-good as putPASSIONFRUIT ALE Not all fruit- ting a couple quarters toward a kid’s infused beers taste like the produce new-bike fund may be, sometimes printed proudly on their labels. But the you need something a little more, um, second that Bomber Brewing’s Park grown-up. Enter Parallel 49 Brewing’s Life Passionfruit Ale leaves the tap—or Meyer Lemon Radler, a follow-up to can, if you’re so inclined—you’ll swear the brewery’s super refreshing grapeyou’ve been transported to the tropics. fruit iteration. Dry, slightly tart, and Not only does the irresistibly honeyed with a malty sweetness provided by aroma prove that Bomber is no fan of P49’s craft lager base, this low-alcohol false advertising, it also demonstrates brew was made for days spent under that the Yeast Van spot knows a thing the sun. Like your neighbour’s lemonor two about concocting a crushable ade stand, however, this one won’t be warm-weather brew. An American around for long. > LL pale ale that’s bursting with a sweetand-tangy—though not at all over- GRANVILLE ISLAND FALSE CREEK bearing—passion-fruit flavour, Park RASPBERRY ALE One of the best Life, simply put, is the beer made for parts of Vancouver summer is when locally picked berries start arriving at people who claim not to like beer. > LUCY LAU the Granville Island Public Market. Pick up a pound and you’ll ask yourSTANLEY PARK BREWING SUN- self how the hell you spend 10 months SETTER SUMMER ALE Never miss of the year eating strangely flavourless a Penticton Peach Festival? Crank strawberries trucked up from Califorthe volume every time “Peaches” by nia. Get yourself primed for the most the Presidents of the United States of wonderful time of the year for fruit America comes up on the iPod? If the lovers with False Creek Raspberry Ale. answers to the above are “Hell yes,” Brewed with Fraser Valley raspberries, get ready to love Stanley Park Brew- the local favourite strikes a nice, mildly ing’s SunSetter, a seasonal offering that hoppy balance between tart and sweet. proves the beauty of subtlety. A wheat Sticklers who like their beers to look ale that clocks in at 4.8 percent on the the way they taste will be pleased by the alcohol front, SunSetter is fittingly pinkish-red colour, while the relatively as golden-hued as California in the light carbonation and 4.5 percent ABV ’70s. But what helped capture a gold ensure that things go down smoothly. medal at the 2015 World Beer Cham- Once the local crops arrive in mid-July, pionships is the delicate peach under- start thinking pork tenderloin with a tones. That’s right—delicate, with a local-raspberry reduction and a bottle soft peach kiss tempered by equally of False Creek Raspberry Ale. Someunderstated wheat notes. That makes times, it’s good to be here. > MU

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hardly ever drink cocktails. After my first choice of wine or beer, I’m more likely to have a straight spirit, a bourbon or an amaro, rather than a cocktail. It isn’t because I don’t enjoy them. It’s simply a personal preference, along with the fact that throughout my restaurant career, I never did get too deep into the spirits or mixology side of things. Juniper, coriander, and fennel endow It’s because of this that I rarely speak Death’s Door gin with its distinct taste. of cocktails and spirits in this column. Wine, and the occasional beer, are jibed with Juniper chef Sarah Stewart’s certainly more my professional beat, breezy salad combo of summer letand I prefer to leave deep discussion tuces with buttermilk-fried onions, and coverage of the cocktail-and-spirit tarragon, pickled baby beets, and scene to those with greater experi- double-smoked bacon. A Washington Fizz—comprising ence. I do receive invites to spirit world launches and events, and I almost al- of Death’s Door gin, a quince-based ways decline them, but a recent oppor- drinking vinegar, elderflower, lime, and (Vancouver-based) Dickie’s gintunity piqued my interest. Brian Ellison, the founder of Wis- ger beer—amiably greeted Stewart’s consin’s Death’s Door Spirits, was in house-made fennel-chili pork sausage Vancouver a couple weeks back to with apple and kohlrabi sauerkraut. With wine pairing, I always think meet and greet some industry folks, to match flavour hosting a dinner components as if at Juniper (185 they were actual Keefer Street), the ingredients in a highlight being Kurtis Kolt dish. It’s an easy rule Juniper barman Shaun Layton pairing Death’s-Door- of thumb: a citrusy Chablis with oysgin-based cocktails alongside a ters, where it acts as a squeeze of lemon, or a berry-driven rosé with turkey, as few courses. It was the food-pairing component its cranberry sauce. You can see in the that intrigued me as well as a casual above cocktail pairings how all of those appreciation of gin (likely punctuated ingredients would fold together well. by the recent sunny summer weather). I’ve found myself a new appreciation As it turned out, I quickly became en- for gin; consequently, my summer may see it appear as a bit of a theme. amoured with the stuff. Although the distillery is located You can buy Death’s Door gin at in Middleton, Wisconsin (about an private liquor stores like Legacy Liquor hour-and-a-half drive west of Mil- Store in Olympic Village, Firefly on waukee), the soul of Death’s Door is Cambie Street, and High Point on East situated on Washington Island, about Hastings Street, priced between $50 five hours north, just off the coast in and $55. Better yet, go visit Layton at Lake Michigan. Up until the 1970s, the Juniper for more tales of Death’s Door 55-square-kilometre island was a hub (he recently visited the distillery) and for independent potato farmers; when let him craft you something delicious. corporate interests swept through that And now for something completeindustry, much of the island’s agricul- ly different. ture trade was abandoned. This past weekend, I was heading In 2005, Ellison and a handful of to a friend’s barbecue in the midst of a partners initiated a bit of an agri- couple of alcohol-free days. Yes, every cultural renaissance there, planting so often it happens! I was wandering wheat for what was to become Death’s Olympic Village while mulling over Door Spirits. That wheat, along with what to bring and thought to pop into wild juniper berries grown on the is- Legacy Liquor Store on the off chance land, is combined with Wisconsin they had a recommendation of a nonbarley, coriander, and fennel to make alcoholic beer that actually tasted like, Death’s Door gin. you know, beer. Their recommendation was Erdinger I find it’s the simple trio of botanicals—the juniper, coriander, and Weissbier Alkoholfrei out of Germany fennel—that gives the gin its distinct- ($2.63 for a 500-millilitre bottle), and I iveness; you really taste each compon- gotta say that it’s by far the best-quality ent. For context, a gin like Bombay and tastiest booze-free beer I’ve tried. incorporates 10 different botanicals, Flavourwise, it’s the closest to the real thing I’ve known, a touch hazy from the while Hendrick’s uses a dozen. Behind the bar, Layton shook and wheat component (just like a true Hefestirred hit after hit for the small crowd, weizen), with a hint of hoppy bitterness. and I was impressed with how well the I highly recommend it, should there cocktails worked with the food, all of be a time and a place you find yourself them bright and cheery combos. His inclined. It’s also available downtown, Wisco G & T was a simple and clean both at Viti Wine and Lager and at assembly of Death’s Door gin, fen- Denman Beer Wine and Spirits. Next week, a return to our regular nel, apple, angostura bitters, and Fever Tree Indian Tonic, and it totally programming. -

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The winner of a Georgia Straight 2016 Golden Plates award and many others, Banana Leaf is all about sharing dishes like caramelized-ginger bone-in black cod; rich rendang beef curry; mango kerabu, a sweetand-sour shredded-fruit salad with cucumber, carrots, jicama, crushed peanuts, and sesame seeds; and ipoh char hor fun—the restaurant’s most popular dish, consisting of flat wokfried noodles with fish cakes, squid, pork, shrimp, and vegetables. Vegetarians have much to choose from, including green beans, okra, and eggplant tossed in sambal. A defining ingredient of Malaysian food, sambal is a relishlike condiment—made with garlic, chili, and dried fermented shrimp paste, known as belacan in Malay—that is spicy, tart, and pungently fishy all at once. Seasonal items, such as fresh asparagus atop a bed of sambal chicken and seafood, are on offer, and so are

Banana Leaf, like other Malaysian eateries, specializes in shared dishes such as pineapple seafood fried rice (above), which includes chicken, eggs, and beans.

extravagant ones—take kum heong go wrong when most of the dishes lobster, the entire crustacean breaded cost $6.50. The soothing and filling laksa noodle and wok-fried in dish has dried Malay, Indian, shrimp, shredand Chinese ded chicken, fish spices with dried Gail Johnson cake, egg, prawns, shrimp, oyster and sprouts in a mild coconut-curry sauce, chili, and lemongrass. The restaurant offers a happy-hour sauce and is topped with tofu puff. menu and daily drink specials: try the The menu ranges from vegetable fritRed Lotus, a litchi slush with vodka, ters (two for $1) to lamb-curry rice ($12.40). litchi liqueur, and cranberry juice.

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One way to experience its West Coast twists on traditional fare is to splurge on the 10-course deluxe menu for six or more people ($28 per person). You’ll get to sample satay chicken, roti canai (a hand-rolled flatbread with curry sauce), Nyonya-style lettuce wrap (with chicken, bamboo shoots, and jicama), and grilled rack of lamb in golden kim heong sauce, among other dishes. Alternatively, consider the steamed B.C. mussels in a broth of coconut, fennel, cumin, ginger, and garlic, or tiger prawns in a spicy tomato sauce with litchi. Deep-fried durian ice cream is a must-try. To add even more liveliness to the Malaysian dining experience, Kaya has just launched a summer music series, with live performances every Friday evening. Everything from folk to jazz to Celtic music will be on offer. The bistro’s owners are also hosting a fundraiser on July 15 featuring complimentary Southeast Asian tapas and live pop jazz. Admission is by donation, with net proceeds going toward the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS), in honour of their late, dear pet. PENANG DELIGHT CAFÉ (Various

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(various locations) Billed as a Malaysian and Thai restaurant, Tropika has the ideal menu section for people who never seem to be able to make up their minds when dining out. It’s called “combinations” and features plates like the Rasa Sayang Seafood Bonanza, which has spicy sole that’s deep-fried, then topped with sambal ikan bilis (dried anchovies) and served with sayur kari (vegetables cooked in coconut milk and curry) plus your choice of coconut rice, yellow-ginger rice, Hainanese chicken rice, or steamed rice. Indecisive meat lovers, meanwhile, will love the D. Daulat Tuanku Special, which has the house-style sweet fried chicken, kari lembu (Malay beef curry), and sambal prawns. TROPIKA

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The sky has dimmed to a cobalt blue, and B Y A L EX A NDER VAR TY

the Rajasthan desert, as deserts do, has cooled to a crisply autumnal temperature. Stars are winking on above, fires are being lit below, and on the roof of Chugge Khan’s house, in the artists’ colony of Jaisalmer, friends are gathering for food and song. This may be the best possible place in the world to hear the music of Khan’s group, Rajasthan Josh. “Every year when we visit India, my wife and I go to Chugge’s home,” says Sirish Rao, artistic director of the Indian Summer festival, on the phone from the organization’s Chinatown office. “And you can see how at home he is, just wandering out into the sand, milking a camel, and drinking that milk. He’s so playful in that harsh environment. And Rajasthan itself, everything they do is like a gash of colour. The clothes, the architecture, the music—it’s almost like they’re fi lling up the unforgivingness of the landscape with this riot of sound and colour.” It’s no wonder that Rao has built the 2016 edition of his festival (which runs July 7 to 16) around Rajasthan Josh’s return to Vancouver. For one thing, the group’s performances are intrinsically festive, to the point of being almost carnival-esque. On the roof, “there were as many people playing music as there were watching,” says local rapper and beatboxer Rup Sidhu, a Rajasthan Josh collaborator who was also at the party with Rao. “And then at the Jaipur Literature Festival, where I performed with Rajasthan Josh for a crowd of a few thousand, there were dancers and fire-eaters and all sorts of craziness going on on-stage with us.” More importantly, though, Khan’s ensemble also epitomizes Indian Summer’s expansive heart. This year, the festival is subtitled Where Worlds Meet; many of its components deal with borders,

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Even though its music is rooted in the rituals of Sufism, Rajasthan Josh welcomes all other sounds and beliefs, firing up cultural fusions at its concerts,

the key tenets of Sufism, generosity, and charisma. “He’s got a strange the most mystical and mixture of excitement and humility that you don’t also the most ecumen- often see,” he says, once Khan has made his goodExpect Rajasthan Josh’s concert at Indian Summer to be festive ical of Islamic creeds. byes. “In the most positive way, he’s got this cockiBut there are two con- ness on-stage. He’s got this twinkle. He’s like, ‘Oh and carnival-esque, the way it is at home in the desert stants in the band- my god, look at this! This is amazing, what’s hapand how to cross them. Fittingly, while Rajasthan leader’s world, one being the songs of Nusrat Fateh pening right here on-stage. This is the best thing Josh’s music is rooted in the ecstatic rituals of Ali Khan, the great master of qawwali and Khan’s on earth!’ But also this humility of saying ‘Hey, I Sufism, particularly as expressed in the call-and- primary mentor. got it from somewhere else. It’s a gift, and I keep response chants of qawwali, it’s not limited to any “Chugge was just nine when he met Nus- passing it on.’ religion or musical idiom. Khan is Muslim but his rat Fateh Ali Khan,” Rao says. “He was already “Rajsthan Josh are exactly the kind of folk music band includes Hindus, and he’s happy to reach out singing then, of course—the young voice you that we would like to show more of,” he continues, to others—like Sidhu, who’s Sikh, and Radiohead hear on some of the albums was Chugge! Nusrat reiterating that Khan’s ability to traverse musical guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who has recorded Fateh Ali Khan came to Jaisalmer, and Chugge and cultural boundaries makes him the ideal stanwith Khan and other members of the troupe. was completely struck by this thing that he calls dard-bearer for Indian Summer. “Think of it as a bit like a family,” Khan tells the the roohani—the soul, the something“I picked Border Crossings as the theme Straight in Hindi, during a three-way telephone elseness—of the man. He heard this for this year’s festival partly because it call with Rao interpreting. “And think of religion man singing with his heart open and seems extremely urgent in terms of Check out… as just different ways of doing things. So it’s dif- thought ‘I need to sing with my heart STRAIGHT.COM what’s happening in the world. It was ferent family members with different approaches. open so he will notice.’ He says Nusto see if some of our artists could Visit our website That’s about it. We don’t actually think of that as rat was almost like his first teacher, speak to some of these pressing issues for morning-after any kind of divide.” and he continues to hold him dear.” that we have around us, whether it’s in reviews and local arts news “‘Music, music, only music,’ is Chugge’s chant,” The other factor that has shaped terms of the environment, or whether Rao adds. “He says that what’s perhaps unique Khan is the desert itself. It’s not too it’s in terms of bigotry and prejudice on about Rajasthan Josh is because of this mixture. far-fetched to see Rajasthan’s colourful the basis of religion or sexual orientation,” They sing qawwali, but they equally sing a lot of arts scene as an oasis in the region’s parched ter- Rao says. “But the other implication is that not all Hindu bhajans. And they’ve been working with rain, but the singer prefers a different metaphor. border crossings are painful or perilous. Many Shye Ben Tzur, a musician in Israel, so now they “He says that the desert is an ocean,” Rao ex- are, and that is something to respect.…But for sing Hebrew songs as well. They happily break plains. “I said, ‘But there’s nothing that grows me the most interesting things are on the edges, into songs from across continents and religions.” there,’ and he said, ‘Well, you know, I’m spend- where borders intersect or maybe even chafe Hopping blithely across religious, cultural, and ing my life trying to make it smile.’ That’s what slightly—a kind of good friction.” geographic borders is nothing new to Khan—or he thinks his music is about: ‘How can I get it to to his bandmates, many of whom descend from a crack a smile?’ And he carries the fragrance of the Rajasthan Josh presents Songs of the Desert Sufis at the Orpheum next Saturday (July 9) as part of caste of itinerant minstrels that has plied its trade desert wherever he goes.” for generations. Respectful openness is also one of Rao has clearly been touched by Khan’s humour, the Indian Summer festival.

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Editor’s choice MAPLE FLAVOUR Put an artful spin on your Canada Day celebrating by heading to Granville Island, where amid the full roster of activities, 12 artists are taking printmaking to a truly epic scale—creating giant artworks with a steamroller as part of the Big Print Project. Elsewhere on Granville Island, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival musicians play all day and into the evening on outdoor stages, The Federation Gallery invites you to take part in its Maple Leaf Mural, and Mortal Coil’s stilt horses join a gang of roving performers. A parade is on from 12:30 till 2 p.m. and MELA! Festivals runs a world bazaar under the yellow crane by Emily Carr University. Yup, you can kill the whole day there while showing a little national pride. Canada Day on Granville Island runs all day on July 1.

Five events you just can’t miss this week

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (At Bard on the Beach to September 24) A truly infectious good time with an eye-popping 1960s twist.

THUS SPOKE... (At the Firehall Arts Centre July 8 to 10) The Dancing on the Edge show is as rawly sexy as it is rock ’n’ roll.

ALL TOGETHER NOW (At the Museum of Vancouver to January 8, 2017) From pinballs to eyeballs, a seriously fun collectors’ show.

RUST NEVER SLEEPS (At the Charles H. Scott Gallery to July 17) The most beautiful corrosion and decay by five artists.

UNCEDED TERRITORIES (At the Museum of Anthropology to October 16) Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun confronts colonial oppression in colourful, pissed-off style.

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DANCING ON THE EDGE Our guests this week are Ballet BC dancers Christoph von Riedemann and Andrew Bartee: “Two of our beloved colleagues from Ballet BC are performing in Dancing on the Edge this year, and we cannot wait to see them in new light. Alexis Fletcher will perform her solo piece Altar’d at the Firehall July 12 and 14. Alexis is an altruistic performer, friend, and artist. We cannot wait to see what she has been tirelessly preparing. Gilbert Small is dancing a solo in MascallDance’s The Outliner, at St. Paul’s [Church Hall] from July 7 to 9. Gilbert is a powerful presence both in the studio and on the stage. We are excited to see Jennifer Mascall’s evening of solos and cheer on our dear friend Gil.” Dancing on the Edge runs at the Firehall Arts Centre and elsewhere from next Thursday (July 7) to July 16.

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Onegin takes home 10 Jessies > B Y C O LIN THO M A S

t was a great night for diversity. It was also a really good night to be a pretend Russian. The 34th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, which took place at the Commodore Ballroom on Monday (June 27), featured presenters who represented something of Vancouver’s variety—in spectrums of race, ability, and gender, among others. Within this openhearted atmosphere, Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone’s new musical, Onegin, which is based on the verse novel by Aleksandr Pushkin and the opera by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, swept the evening, winning 10 awards, including outstanding production, in the large-theatre category. The Arts Club’s Onegin also picked up trophies for lead actor and actress (Alessandro Juliani and Meg Roe), supporting actor (Josh Epstein), lighting (John Webber), set (Drew Facey), costumes (Jaqueline Firkins), composition (Hille and Gladstone), and direction (Gladstone). Also for Onegin, a significant-achievement award went to Hille and her band, the Ungrateful Dead (Barry Mirochnick and Marina Hasselberg), for outstanding musical direction and musical ensemble. Accepting her acting award, Roe noted that, at last year’s ceremony, she was pregnant with twins. “I have 300 children at home now,” she said before thanking all of the babysitters who make her ongoing career possible. Astonishingly, the Arts Club made a clean sweep in the large-theatre stream, with Colleen Wheeler taking the supporting actress prize for her work as the pirate captain Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher. The small-theatre jury distributed its awards more evenly. Upintheair Theatre’s production of The North Plan took three awards, outstanding production, direction (Chelsea

Haberlin), and lead actress (Genevieve Fleming). Haberlin thanked producers Daniel Martin and David Mott “for programming a play largely because it had great opportunities for women. That’s a big deal.” Twenty Something Theatre also snagged three trophies, two for the company’s production of The Out Vigil (Matthew MacDonald-Bain for lead actor, and Jay Clift and Julie McIsaac for sound design or original composition). Joel Sturrock was honoured with a significant-artisticachievement award for the choreography he created for Twenty Something’s Tender Napalm. Blackbird Theatre’s The Rivals was recognized twice. Gabrielle Rose took home the supporting actor prize, and Sheila White won for her costumes. All of the other small-theatre wins were one-offs. Charismatic newcomer Curtis Tweedie took the supporting actor honours (Hardline Productions’ Bright Blue Future). Perennial favourite Alan Brodie won another lighting Jessie (Pi Theatre’s The Invisible Hand). Glenn MacDonald’s set for Christy Webb Productions’ Annapurna earned him a trip to the podium. And the jury considered Musical Theatreworks and the Escape Artists’ Miss Shakespeare the outstanding musical production. In the theatre-for-young-audiences races, Théâtre la Seizième dominated again this year, winning three prizes for Mathieu Mathématiques: outstanding production, design (Drew Facey), and ensemble performance. Laura McLean accepted the outstanding-artistic-creation honours for Delinquent Theatre’s Our Time. And Green Thumb was awarded a significant-artistic-achievement Jessie for socially relevant commissioning for Still/ Falling, about a teenage girl’s struggle with anxiety and depression. Emerging playwright James Gordon King won two prizes—outstanding

original script and the Sydney Risk Prize for a script by an emerging writer—for his work RIVULETS: 3 short plays about a flood, which Babelle Theatre produced. All eyes were on the inaugural Vancouver Now Representation and Inclusion Award, which went to Donna Yamamoto for outstanding leadership in developing work by three AsianCanadian playwrights in the Cultch’s 2015-16 season in her role as artistic director of the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. Accepting, Yamamoto said, “This award is about hope for anybody who has ever felt invisible.” The emotionally courageous and formally ambitious Betroffenheit, which was coproduced by Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre, received the Georgia Straight’s Critics’ Choice Innovation Award. Daniel Doheny won the Sam Payne Award for the most promising newcomer, and Milton Lim accepted the Ray Michal Prize for most promising new director. Margo Kane accepted the GVPTA Career Achievement Award via a recorded message from Barcelona, where she is working on a production of Marie Clements’s Burning Vision. Wendy Orvig, an accountant who works with frank theatre, took home the Patron of the Arts Award. Referring to the shootings in Orlando, Orvig noted, “Telling queer stories and finding a safe place to do so is more important than ever.” Recently retired publicist Ellie O’Day and Craig Laven shared the Mary Phillips Prize for Behindthe-Scenes Achievement. The Colin Campbell Award for Excellence in Technical Theatre was awarded posthumously to designer and organizer James Pollard, and the John Moffat and Larry Lillo Prize will allow Chris Gatchalian, artistic producer of the frank theatre company, more time to pursue his artistic practice. -

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EDGES Firehall Arts Centre EDGE 1 July 7 & 8

Joshua Beamish/Move: the company Body Narratives Collective German Jauregui (Belgium) Internationally acclaimed Belgium director/ choreographer German Jauregui opens DOTE along with works from 3 of Canada’s most innovative choreographers.

EDGE 2 July 9 & 11

Meredith Kalaman s Ouro Collective Wen Wei Dance Montreal’s Tentacle Tribe returns setting a work on the powerhouse dancers from Ouro Collective while festival favourites Wen Wei Dance and Meredith Kalaman present their latest exciting new works.

EDGE 3 July 10 & 12

dumb instrument Dance s The Biting School s Tara Cheyenne Performance Poetic, personal and powerful solos full of humour, pathos and paranoia from 3 of Vancouver’s top dance innovators.

EDGE 4 July 11 & 13

Olivia C. Davies s Joshua Beamish/Move: the company s Out Innerspace Dance Theatre An eclectic mixed program that explores a daughter’s loss, human relationships and transformation and features a new solo for Joshua Beamish choreographed by Vision Impure/Noam Gagnon.

EDGE 5 July 12 & 14

Alexis Fletcher s Mocean Dance (Halifax) A solo created and performed by Ballet BC’s Alexis Fletcher and a physically and emotionally charged work for this powerful young Halifax company choreographed by Serge Bennathan.

EDGE 6 July 13 & 16

StarrWind Dance Projects/Raven Spirit Dance s Rob Kitsos s the response. A choreography tracing the inner terrain of our bodies as women through breath, impulse and memory; a dance about the playful and dark worlds of our children’s imagination; and a quartet who portray what happens when a pastoral environment is interrupted unexpectedly.

EDGE 7 July 15 & 16

Adelheid Dance Theatre (Toronto) Constance Cooke (Victoria) Through distortion of the body, of images, sound, and time, Toronto’s Heidi Strauss dances a work created by O Vertigo’s Ginette Laurin. Constance Cooke’s new work for two men is a story of agitation, new equilibriums and changing outcomes.

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Together, the rock star of Canadian contemporary dance Frédérick Gravel and the brilliant writer Étienne Lepage have concocted a pop piece that is cheeky and devilishly sexy.

DORSALE Danse Sylvie Desrosiers (Ottawa) Douce tourmente July 14 & 15

A moving and dynamic choreography inspired by human relationships.

EDGES OFF EDGE OFF 1 July 7, 8 & 9 St. Paul’s (on Jervis) MascallDance The Outliner: an evening of solos

Isadora Award winning choreographer Jennifer Mascall gives us a new premiere at the ignition point of dance and design, creating a suspended and magical white kingdom.

EDGE OFF 2 July 10 & 11 Scotiabank Dance Centre Julianne Chapple s Thoenn Glover

An exciting evening showcasing two emerging choreographers to watch out for! Co-Presented by The Dance Centre

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Aeriosa Dance Society Pseudotsuga - Earth to Sky July 13 & 14, Stanley Park

A mesmorizing new performance between vertical dancers, musicians, and a beautiful grove of trees, choreographed by Julia Taffe with live music by Lan Tung and Jonathan Bernard.

All Bodies Dance Project En Route July 15 & 16 SFU Woodward’s Courtyard

Choreographer Naomi Brand’s En Route explores different ways to traverse public spaces and negotiate our place in a crowd.

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Crafting an improv blockbuster > B Y G U Y M A C P HE R S O N

magine a season of summer movie blockbusters with no CGI or other special effects. Is that even possible? Sure, it is. You just have to use your imagination. Vancouver TheatreSports League’s upcoming summer show is bringing a megamovie—or a reasonable facsimile thereof—to the Improv Centre on Granville Island for a twomonth run. Unlike many of the company’s productions, which feature riffs and games on a single theme (i.e., the recently completed Throne and Games or winter’s Christmas Queen), this one has a broader scope. One night you might catch a takeoff on a horror flick, another night it could be a romantic comedy, western, sci-fi, or action movie. Instead of taking the piss out of a particular film, they’ll be sending up entire genres and subgenres. Leading up to opening night, the players were busy preparing for The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie. Yes, it’s improvised based on audience suggestion, but they still need to familiarize themselves with the specific tropes and characters of the various styles. “We’re running the crap out of it now,” says the company’s newest artistic associate, Bill Pozzobon, during a break at the VTSL offices. “We’re going through our format getting our players used to the context of where we’re putting them, making sure everyone’s on the same page and that the show’s shape really comes together.” Nathan Clark, another artistic associate, adds: “When you get a group of improvisers together, a group of creative people, creative things happen. We come with this format and inevitably things get tweaked and things get changed.” The show was developed after a jam at VTSL’s annual Massacre Improv Festival in February. “It was really fun

For Vancouver TheatreSports League’s The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie (with Pearce Visser here), improv artists will have to create a new faux film every night.

to watch, and the audience loved it,” says Clark. “We were like, ‘That was a cool idea. Let’s try to explore that a little more and see if we can make that into a full feature show.’ ” The first half of the performance will give the crowd a taste of different movie styles through improv games. After intermission, one genre will be settled on, with elements from the first half used throughout the faux film. Scenes will have to connect and tell a story, laying a bigger burden on the improvisers than usual. “The thing that I think is really unique about this show is it’s not as host-driven as a lot of our other shows are,” says Pozzobon. “It’s one long cohesive story,” Clark adds. “I know we’re putting a lot of weight on our players’ shoulders with all these elements at the top, but we’ve got great players, so they’ll be fine.” There’s no doubt about that. The VTSL company is home to over 50 improvisers and it draws on the best the city has to offer. So not only will the ersatz movies be different each night, so will the talented cast, mak-

ing spoiler alerts unnecessary. “One of the things that’s great about our ensemble is we’re fantastic storytellers,” says Pozzobon, a 20-year veteran of the company. “We are children of the narratives we watch all the time. We are all movie buffs ourselves. We are the Netflix generation.” With a new story every night, costumes will be scaled down. As for the set, that’s problematic too, but they’ve come up with an old-school movie-theatre setting, which naturally fits any genre. And even though most of the suggestions will come before the break, the audience will still be part of the big picture. You never know when the actors will need a stunt double, for instance. “We want to keep them involved,” says Clark. “We don’t want to just say, ‘Okay, now you guys shut up and enjoy this genius.’ ” The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie plays the Improv Centre on Granville Island from Thursday (June 30) to August 27.

TUTS stages “epic” West Side

“I

> B Y A ND R E A WA R NER

have never seen a production of West Side Story. Ever.” Sarah Rodgers can’t help but laugh as she drops this little truth bomb. Somehow, in all her years in theatre, from the classical training she received at UBC right up to this moment—the middle of her eighth summer with Theatre Under the Stars—she has never seen a staged production of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s 1958 classic. Until now, of course. Rodgers is directing the Tony Award–winning musical as part of TUTS’ 2016 program, in repertory with Beauty and the Beast. The show, which centres on young lovers caught up in the deadly rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets, two gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, has been in rehearsals since May, and now opening night is just days away. Rodgers calls West Side Story “epic”, confessing that it’s one of the hardest shows she’s directed in her life. It’s also a dream come true. “I’ve always wanted to do West Side Story!” Rodgers exclaims, sitting on the deck of the Stanley restaurant adjacent to Malkin Bowl, where rehearsals are underway. A lover of Romeo and Juliet, upon which West Side Story is based, she’s kept the two scripts side by side since day one. “I don’t want to give away all my secrets, but there’s a little nod to Romeo and Juliet in my West Side Story and that will be fun for the audience to see.” Rodgers has been trying to make the massive show her own, but a key roadblock early on forced her to get creative within very specific constraints. “I wanted to update it, make it a modern world, set in New York, 2016,” she says. “I even hired [dance artist] Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg because I wanted my choreographer to come in and give me that hip-hop, street feel. We found out from the team in New York that you cannot update it. Under no circumstances will they give permission to update West Side Story. It has to be set in period, 1958. You cannot change the year.” Being forced to keep it 1958 also serves as a stark reminder that, sadly, the musical and its themes—racism, hate, intolerance—are as relevant now as they were then. “It’s a sad state of affairs that history continues to repeat itself and that we still have a race problem,” Rodgers says. She was committed to honouring the script’s diversity in the casting as much as possible. In West Side Story, the Sharks are Puerto Rican, but Rodgers broadened her search, reaching out to Latino communities, where she found two of the leads, Alen Dominguez and Alexandra Lainfiesta (who play Sharks gang leader Bernardo and Anita, respectively). What truly justifies Rodgers’s description of the musical as “epic” is its scope: this production features a full cast

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Jennifer Gillis and Matt Montgomery play the leads in West Side Story at Theatre Under the Stars. Tim Matheson photo.

of 32 members and a 17-piece orchestra. “At our very first read-through, we heard my musical director and the pianist play the score for the first time and my choreographer and I turned and looked at each other and were like, ‘Oh my God, we have got our work cut out for us!’ ” Rodgers says with a laugh. “It has definitely felt overwhelming.” There’s so much music that the entire first tech night was just staging the prologue. “The script is thin,” she explains. “It’s rich, but as a script, there’s not a lot. It’s incredibly economically written. It feels like a place that has had great dramaturgy.…There’s so much music! And it isn’t just song, that’s why it’s so difficult. There’s all kinds of music to physical movement happening. It was so crafted to [Jerome] Robbins’s choreography, and I can understand why they said ‘You have to do it to our choreography.’ You can hear all the punctuation and you know that it was set to something that that original actor was doing. In a way, it’s working from the outside in.” But from that vantage point comes a unique perspective. The first fully staged production of West Side Story that Rodgers will see will be her own, and the roadblocks have only deepened her appreciation for the piece. “It truly is a masterpiece,” Rodgers says, smiling. “The music, the book, the libretto—it’s pretty darn perfect.” Theatre Under the Stars’ West Side Story runs to August 20 at Malkin Bowl.

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Rock of Ages’ ode to hair-metal excess entertains Just don’t come to this cock-rock fest expecting sophistication; O’Wet/Lost Lagoon doesn’t paddle deep enough into real-life story ROCK OF AGES

Penny share a scene. This makes many other performances stand out in sharp relief, but one actor quietly and confidently steals the show. Making her Arts Club debut as Franz, the young son of the German developer who wants to tear down the Bourbon and gentrify Sunset Strip, Paige Fraser is a genuine delight. The role is slight, a bit of a throwaway in other productions, but Fraser’s comic touches are gold and there’s a real liveliness to her performance. She makes the most of every second she’s on-stage, and she doesn’t even start Studio 58 until September.

Directed by Peter Jorgensen. Book by Chris D’Arienzo. Arrangements and orchestrations by Ethan Popp. At the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage on Wednesday, June 22. Continues until July 30

Concrete balls. Steel jizz.

2 Hard boobies.

Rock of Ages isn’t big on sophistication. Sometimes it feels like a musical written by a 10-year-old boy; other times, like the work of a middle-aged man lost in nostalgia for his hair-metal youth, faux-satirizing/pining for a simpler time of sexism, cock rock, and ’80s excess. Rock of Ages confuses a relatively simple trick—slicing and dicing and congealing an ’80s playlist’s worth of classic songs (Bon Jovi, Poison, Journey) into the basic shape of a musical—with cleverness. It winks so hard at the audience its eyeballs fall out, and it believes that feigning self-awareness is the same thing as actually possessing it. One can’t be frustrated by the musical’s constant objectification of women if Jesus himself is holding up a cue card at the end justifying it, right? Adding to the list of its shortcomings, Rock of Ages also has a cursory understanding of the prefix meta. The Arts Club’s production is entertaining, even if it’s not entirely successful. There are moments of truly unhinged joy, but for all the potential debauchery and deeppelvic-thrust choreography, this Rock of Ages is a bit limp. That’s largely due to the central love story between Sherrie (Marlie Collins) and Drew (Kale Penny). Sherrie is a small-town girl who’s come to L.A. with dreams of being an actress. Drew is an aspiring musician cleaning

> ANDREA WARNER

O’WET/LOST LAGOON By Quelemia Sparrow. Directed by Marisa Emma Smith. Presented by Alley Theatre in association with Full Circle: First Nations Performance. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Wednesday, June 22. No remaining performances

It’s great if your life is full of in-

2 teresting events, but stringing

Robbie Towns and Marlie Collins bring the big hair and pelvic thrusts to Rock of Ages, a musical that doesn’t quite understand meta. Emily Cooper photo.

toilets in the Bourbon Room, a club on the infamous Sunset Strip. Dreams are dashed, rock-star bathroom sex is had, and there’s a whole subplot about gentrification (something that resonates deeply in Vancouver) that mostly goes nowhere, and ultimately the young lovers

find a way back to each other. Collins and Penny have fine voices but very little chemistry, and when they have to sing together, the blend just doesn’t work. Sherrie and Drew’s love story should be Rock of Ages’ beating heart, but it just flat-lines every time Collins and

those events together isn’t the same as telling a compelling story. God knows interesting things have happened to Quelemia Sparrow. In her solo show, O’wet/Lost Lagoon, she talks about how she became an international model at 15 and was soon rubbing shoulders with the likes of Anna Wintour, Matt Damon, and Prince. And then there’s the other reality. Sparrow’s dad is Musqueam and her mom is English. Her dad survived residential school but he and his family lived that legacy through his violence and alcoholism. At the beginning of O’wet/Lost Lagoon, Sparrow ref lects on her embodiment of colonialism: “I am

my people and I am those people… I am the destroyer and I am the destroyed.” So she identifies the schism. She also sets the stage for potential healing: “Some say your soul will leave your body after a terrible fright.” Her challenge is to reunite body and soul. But Sparrow doesn’t deeply explore the nature of the tension between her two worlds. The violence in her home is mostly represented by one emblematic scene in which her parents have a drunken fight. But a deeper investigation of Sparrow’s dad, his struggle, and his relationship with his daughter never emerges. The modelling side of the story is also superficial. As I watched the young Sparrow f lit from one international assignment to another, I wondered why I should care that she swam in a pool in Barbados with Minnie Driver. Sparrow introduces enormous plot points and abandons them. She tells us about getting pregnant but doesn’t tell us what happened with the pregnancy. She’s engaged to be married and then she’s not—with no explanation. Fortunately, Sparrow is a charming presence: physically precise and warmly engaging. Near the top of the show, she jokes that she has to remind people that she was once young and beautiful, because on finding out that she used to model, their surprise is sometimes too emphatic. And some parts of the script work. The best is a magical thread in which she f lies in a canoe with her ancestors. I’ve been told that, like many new scripts, O’wet/Lost Lagoon is still evolving. Hopefully, part of that process will involve defining—and delving into—its core. > COLIN THOMAS

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A F E S T I VA L F O R T H E CURIOUS MIND July 7–16 Experience the brilliance of musical group Rajasthan Josh, culinary maestro Vikram Vij, filmmaker Leslee Udwin, environmental activist Vandana Shiva, and a host of brilliant writers and visual artists.

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SEEDING THE FUTURE An Evening with Vandana Shiva

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MAPLE LEAF ISLAM The Many Shades of Belonging

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5 x 15 Five Speakers, Fifteen Minutes Each. Magic.

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Art excerpted from ‘Echo2’‘ by Bharti Kher, with kind permission of the artist. See Kher’s exhbition at the Vancouver Art Gallery from July 9 to October 10, 2016.

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Joining up with Small Stage, Ballet BC hit Deer Lake Park for Live at the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bolt, showing up in unexpected places and costumes. Derek Stevens photo.

Ballet BC dancers help bring lush park to life DANCE LIVE AT THE â&#x20AC;&#x2122;BOLT A Small Stage with Ballet BC production. Presented with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. At the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Deer Lake Park on Thursday, June 23. No remaining performances

RAJASTHAN JOSH AT THE ORPHEUM WITH FRIENDS: RUP SIDHU | KINNIE STARR | ASHWIN SOOD | SARA FITZPATRICK SHANE RAMAN & THE SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC YOUTH CHOIR

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est to a moody vision of a lone man dancing on a bobbing dock, Live at the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Bolt held some magical and often fever-dream-like surprises for a summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evening at the park. Never mind the atmospheric settingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which on this night was replete with shifting grey clouds, herons flying majestically overhead, and a cool breeze that rustled leaves and long grass. This was a chance to see the virtuosic dancers of Ballet BCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right on the heels of a major tour to both the U.K. and New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;getting experimental in the outdoors, up close. In one piece Christoph von Riedemann and Nicole Ward even danced barefoot on a lawn. Many of the 10 pieces on the program were memorable, each putting the Ballet BC dancers together with Small Stage artistic associates and using the park in imaginative ways. A crowd favourite was Peter Smidaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creation, let me leave so you may continue, which found dancers Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, and Zoe Michalik sporting Perryn Kruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handmade forest-creature masksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a bunny, a badger, and a fox, dressed in blackand-white streetwear, all while an unnamed owl looked eerily on. When they lurched into motion to the mixed electronica of Moby, Die Antwoord, and others, the dancers played with

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both the animal and the urban, most memorably with Fletcherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;normally one of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most elegant dancersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;offering up an absurdly extended middle finger at one point. For both the story behind it and sheer atmospherics, another favourite was creator Kirsten Wicklundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A wall is for climbing, for a brief while. The piece was set in an abandoned cottage on the groundsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one overgrown with vines, but once inhabited by Wicklundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own grandfather. Lighting the house from within, and projecting hazy, memorylike imagery through its window, she had Albert Galindo dance through the neglected yard like he was recalling the ghosts of the houseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at one point reaching up to the foggy window pictures like a person desperately trying to recapture the happy events of childhood. Choreographically, Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo on the dock, Alpha Compass, created by Karissa Barry, cast an unshakable spell amid the wavering lily padsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;made eerie by a soundtrack that mixed audio text from TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noir True Detective with a hauntingly slowed-down Moonlight Sonata. And Vanessa Goodmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inside Sound, in which von Riedemann and Gilbert Small scaled the inside of what looked like a giant gramophone and curled around each other like some alien organism, was a striking way to start the jaunt through the park. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all so serious: there were some silly numbers, including an ode to ugly Christmas sweaters and a girl chasing a guy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not that into her up the Shadbolt lawn. In other words, there were surprises around every corner, executed with the usual quality of the Ballet BC team. > JANET SMITH

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< personal and collective ideas of revolution. Jul 6-9, 13-16, 8-9 pm, Nathan’s Studio < (1326 E. Georgia). Tix $15, info www.face < book.com/events/128139970933514/. < 2 ONGOING < BILLY ELLIOT The Arts Club Theatre < Company presents the musical story of an < 11-year-old boy who discovers he loves < ballet dancing. Book and lyrics by Lee < Hall. Music by Elton John. To Jul 17, Stanley

visionary painter Mark Rothko. Jul 4-16, 7-8:40 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ aenigmatheatre/.

DISNEY’S NEWSIES Broadway Across Canada presents the Broadway musical that won the 2012 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Choreography. Jul 5-10, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.broadwayacrosscanada.ca/.

THEATRE IN THE RAW’S RATTLE BAG SUMMER 2016 ONE-ACT MINI-FEST Features Linda McCready’s Finders Keepers, THEATRE UNDER THE STARS OutdoorVirginia Hayden’s Bel Canto, and Patrick theatre event has performances of Disney’s Foley’s The Rounder. Jul 2-3, 8-9, 7:30-9:30 Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story pm, Local Loft (295–2083 Alma). The event on alternating nights. Jul 6–Aug 20, Malkin also runs at Spartacus Books (3378 Findlay). Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix Tix $10, info www.theatreintheraw.ca/. $20-40, info 877-840-0457, www.tuts.ca/. RED Aenigma Theatre presents John Logan’s play that explores the world of

MOVEMENTS NO. 1&2 Babelle Theatre presents a dreamlike exploration of the

Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

York City. To Jul 2, The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). Tix $25/20, info www.hairmusical. brownpapertickets.com/.

pm). Every Sunday. Jul 3–Aug 28, 3-7:30 pm, Robson Square (800 Robson). Free admission, info www.sundayafternoonsalsa.com/.

ROCK OF AGES The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a musical about an aspiring rocker who works at a Hollywood bar and falls in love with a fresh-faced Midwestern girl who just moved to Los Angeles. To Jul 30, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

THE OUTLINER MascallDance creates a suspended and magical white kingdom inhabited by fantastical beings and unexpected events. Presented as part of Dancing on the Edge Festival 2016. Jul 6-10, St. Paul’s Anglican Church (1130 Jervis). Info www.mascalldance.ca/.

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EXPONENTI’ALE Enjoy traditional English folk dance with live music, sticks, hankies, and bells. Presented by Tiddley Cove Morris. Jul 2, 10 am–4:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/.

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

KOKORO DANCE WRECK BEACH BUTOH Kokoro Dance performs a new dance that embraces the sand, water, and air of Wreck Beach. Event takes place rain or shine. Jul 2-3, 10:20 am, Wreck Beach (6632 NW Marine Dr). Admission by donation, info www.kokoro.ca/upcoming.php.

HAIR THE MUSICAL The Renegade Arts Co. presents the rock opera about 1960s hippies living the bohemian life in New

ROBSON SQUARE SALSA Highlights include a salsa-dance lesson (3 pm), dance shows (5 pm) and an after party (7:30-10

DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Sing classic and contemporary rock, pop, and indie songs with an informal community choir. Jun 30; Jul 7, 14, 7:30-9 pm, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/. THE VANCOUVER ORCHESTRAL CLUB SYMPHONY The VOCS performs a medley for Canada as part of Canada Day at McArthurGlen Vancouver, which also features a mass yoga session, facepainting, games, and food. Jul 1, 7:30-8:30 pm (yoga session starts at 9 am), McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Vancouver Airport (10007899 Templeton Station Rd.). Info www. mcarthurglen.com/ca/mcarthurglenvancouver/en/campaigns/canada-day/.

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BRAVO TO ALL THE NOMINEES Outstanding Production - Large Theatre Good People – Arts Club Theatre Company Cock – Rumble Theatre Onegin – Arts Club Theatre Company The Motherfucker with the Hat – Firehall Arts Theatre The Valley – Arts Club Theatre Company Outstanding Production -Small Theatre Empire of the Sun – Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre RIVULETS: 3 short plays about a flood – Babelle Theatre The Invisible Hand – Pi Theatre The North Plan – Upintheair Theatre The Out Vigil – Twenty Something Theatre For a complete list of nominees and winners visit JESSIES.CA

Outstanding Musical Production - Small Theatre Heathers: The Musical – …Gently with a Chainsaw Artists Collective Love Bomb – Shameless Hussy Productions Miss Shakespeare – Musical Theatreworks & The Escape Artists Outstanding Production - Theatre for Young Audiences Dot & Ziggy – Carousel Theatre for Young People Mathieu Mathématiques – Théâtre la Seiziéme Our Time – Delinquent Theatre Still/Falling – Green Thumb Theatre

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CANTONESE OPERA PERFORMANCES Professional Cantonese opera singer Hoi Seng Leong presents performances of classical music with and without makeup. Jul 1, 1-3:30 pm, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives (555 Columbia). Admission by donation, info www.eventbrite.ca. AMOR AND PASIĂ&#x201C;N: WITH ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and pianist Serouj Kradjian perform Spanish tango songs. Jul 2, 2 pm, Roy Barnett Recital Hall (6361 Memorial Rd., UBC). Tix $20-30, info www.songinstitute.ca/. SONGS OF SUMMER ROMANCE Mezzo soprano Emma Parkinson and soprano SinĂŠad White present duets, arias, and songs by Strauss, Berlioz, and Brahms. Jul 2, 2-3 pm, St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $15, info www.songofsummer.bpt.me/. PADMAVIBHUSHAN PANDIT JASRAJ IN CONCERT Celebrate the silver jubilee anniversary celebrations of Pandit Jasraj School of Music Foundation with a concert by Param Pujya Guruji Pandit Jasraj. Jul 2, 7 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby). Tix $50/40, info 604-879-8319, www.pjsomvancouver.org/. FREE CANADA DAY WEEKEND CONCERT Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bel Canto choir performs at a Canada Day concert. Jul 3, 4 pm, St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s United Church (1044 St. Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ave., North Van). Free admission, info www.st-andrews-united.ca/.

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ART RENDEZVOUS In Victoria, B.C., in the summer of 1939, there was a historic meeting of two brilliant artistic minds. Surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen had left Paris on a voyage to Alaska and B.C., where he was introduced to Emily Carr and her paintings of the forests and the art of the Northwest Coast. And Carr helped dramatically change his direction in art. Now curator Colin Browne has woven together 60 pieces of both artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work for a new show at the Vancouver Art Gallery called I Had an Interesting French Artist to See Me This Summer (including Wolfgang Paalenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Combat des princes saturniens III, shown here). The show opens Canada Day and runs to November 13.

AMY SCHUMER American stand-up comedian and star of Comedy Centralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inside Amy Schumer performs on her world tour. Dec 2, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $39 to $109 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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. 2DAVE WILLIAMSON Jun 30-Jul 2 2KEVIN BANNER Jul 7-9 YUK YUKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most daring and innovative improv. The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Jun 29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jul 6, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK THE BIG PICTURE: AN IMPROVISED MOVIE The Vancouver TheatreSports

League presents an improvised adventure that pays tribute to the mega movie. Jun 30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug 27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix from $10, info www.vtsl.com/.

JOKES PLEASE!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;STAT COMEDY SHOW Ross Dauk hosts an evening of Canada Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;themed comedy. Jun 30, 9-10:45 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $5, info www.jokesplease.com/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED SERGE ALTERNES Author of Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain signs copies of his book that uncovers Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connections with newly-unearthed photographs and history of the Spanish Republic from 80

years ago. Jul 13, 11 am, Indigo Spirit (810 Granville). Info 604-979-8899.

2THIS WEEK PRETTY AMAZING: HOW I FOUND MYSELF IN THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE Artist and author Teresa Pocock launches her book and art show Pretty Amazing. Jun 29, 5 pm, Gallery Gachet (88 E. Cordova). Free admission, info www.prettyamazing.ca/pretty-amazing/. AGITATE! Norman Nawrocki gives a violin performance and reading of his latest book Agitate!. Jun 29, 6-7 pm, Vancouver Public Library Carnegie Branch (401 Main). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. AUTHORS IN OUR COMMUNITYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;THE DANCEHALL YEARS Join Joan Haggerty

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As a horror director, Jaume Collet-Serra has

2 had his ups and downs. He impressed with his feverishly twisted 2005 debut, House of Wax, then lost all credibility with the godawful Orphan four years later. It seems like the third time’s the charm, though, as Collet-Serra totally redeems himself with the Australian-shot psycho-shark flick The Shallows. Blake Lively’s bravura performance doesn’t hurt either. Lively stars as Texas med-school dropout Nancy Adams, whom we first meet while she’s being driven to a secluded Mexican beach by a friendly local who chides her for being glued to her phone and missing the world around her. She wants to visit the surfing spot because it’s where her beloved mother went before cancer claimed her. After some energizing footage of Nancy and two Mexican surfer dudes riding the turquoise waves, a great white shark shows up to spoil the

Wake and Blake

Blake Lively is the human chum bucket facing great white death in a secluded Mexican paradise in director Jaume Collet-Sera’s psycho-shark flick, The Shallows.

keep casting John Lithgow as villains!”) but not deeply psychological about them. His interrogators, whose voices aren’t heard, don’t call The Shallows proves shark movies aren’t dead in the water; him on the misogyny of Sisan old master gets the tribute he deserves with De Palma ters and other splatterfests, or his odious use of murderparty, drawn by the nearby carcass of a whale. In ous transsexuals, in Dressed to Kill and elsewhere, the first of many harrowing action scenes, Nancy letting the director’s footage do the heavy lifting. He also makes it clear that personal relationgets bit on the leg and takes refuge on the reeking island of blubber. The rest of the film depicts ships have always come second to the work. But De her anguished struggle to survive, which sees her Palma is a surprisingly companionable raconteur, drawing on the inner strength her mom showed dispensing gossip and camera techniques with equal ease. His love for Alfred Hitchcock’s simifacing down the Big C. Collet-Serra does a masterful job wringing larly opaque fixations began in his student films tension from the trapped woman’s efforts to at- (some featuring young Bobby De Niro) and contract the attention of any potential rescuer. The tinues to dominate his visual style, although this sequence where she desperately tries to signal a singularity has limited his commercial outlook, far-off ship before it sails out of sight is particu- compared with Spielberg, Lucas, and Scorsese, whom he began with. Still, this breezy visit makes larly gripping. Lively’s obvious commitment to the role results it clear that, despite gross missteps like 2012’s Pasin a heroine who is by turns vulnerable and tough sion, De Palma has never stopped working, and as nails, and always worth rooting for. Things go likely won’t—“until my legs go”, he allows. > KEN EISNER beyond ridiculous when it comes to the shark’s vindictive mindset, but they got that way in Jaws too, you may recall, and nobody whined about it much. THE BFG > STEVE NEWTON

DE PALMA

Starring Mark Rylance. Rated PG.

In The BFG, director Steven Spielberg and

2 late screenwriter Melissa Mathison attempt

A documentary by Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach. Rated 14A

De Palma, based on the life of Brian, is an

2 instant film-school classic, distilling a whole

career into a tidy 107 minutes and offering a crash course to anyone who loves the language of cinema. The most remarkable thing about this retrospective-minded documentary is its refusal to impose cinematic interpretation on its subject. Directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow stick to one approach: keep De Palma talking, in the centre of the frame, and illustrate his thoughts with salient clips from his movies or things that influenced him. When the now 75-year-old talks about his youth, there are old photos on hand, and this turns out to be essential to his famously cracked art: the Quaker upbringing, the cold mother, the cheating surgeon father often covered in blood. De Palma is mindful of his manias (“I don’t know why I

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to re-create the multigenerational magic they achieved together in E.T. The results, while pleasant enough for wee ones, fall short of that goal. The source material, of course, is Roald Dahl’s beloved 1982 children’s book. It remains the tale of a young orphan named Sophie (here played by newcomer Ruby Barnhill) whisked out of isolation when she happens to spot an extremely tall creature traipsing around London. It must be the 1980s, because there’s little hint of the Orwellian surveillance now everywhere in the U.K. The tall guy, played by Bridge of Spies’ Mark Rylance with giant ears and a lot of computer enhancement, couldn’t survive unseen today. But back then it might have seemed prudent to kidnap Sophie and Brexit her to his faraway lair. The movie certainly underplays the creepier aspects of this scenario, making it clear that the mismatched two are extremely lonely. And it turns out that

SISTERS He claims that “endings are hard” in the career-

spanning documentary released this week, but Brian De Palma aced it with the closing punch line to Sisters. Released in 1973, this is the gonzo Hitchcock riff about conjoined twins (played by Margot Kidder) that put the young director on the map. Doublebilled with Dressed to Kill at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (July 2), Sisters is one of the highlights of a career receiving an equally expansive retrospective at the film centre, kicking off Friday (July 1) with Carrie. -

What to see and where to see it

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Joss Whedon surprised everyone when he sneaked this frothy take on the Bard into theatres in 2012, shot at his home during a break in The Avengers. Much Ado continues the Cinematheque’s Shakespeare 400 series on Friday and Saturday (July 1 and 2).

THE LAST WALTZ Martin Scorsese’s docu-

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THE DAUGHTER Starring Geoffrey Rush. Rated 14A

First time writer-director Simon Stone is a

2 young Australian actor turned filmmaker

who managed to find Henrik Ibsen’s inner Danielle Steele. Perhaps because he put a more faithful adaptation of Ibsen on-stage recently, Stone was also able to talk otherwise reputable Englishspeaking performers into starring in this telenovela version of a venerable 19th-century play. The Wild Duck probably wasn’t the best title dreamed up by the Norwegian author, so influential on psychologically minded descendants like Eugene O’Neill and Ingmar Bergman. But Stone’s name change to The Daughter is an early tip-off— along with ominously plinking pianos—to the thudding obviousness of just about everything on display in his oafish update, officially credited as “Inspired by Henrik Ibsen”. The presumably regretful cast is headed by Geoffrey Rush, as Henry, aging patriarch of a timber family whose mill is closing. This means firing most of the younger men in his small Aussie town, including Oliver (Ewen Leslie), previously enjoying a comfortable life with his dad (a barely utilized Sam Neill), loyal wife (Miranda Otto), and their beloved, lavender-haired teenager, Hedvig (standout Odessa Young). Did I mention that she’s their, ahem, daughter? see next page

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Psycho Brian

the kidnapper, who rather redundantly dubs himself the Big Friendly Giant, is not all that big compared to the other, child-chewing dwellers in Giant Land, led by Fleshlumpeater (cast standout Jemaine Clement). The giants are all male, so it’s unknown how they propagate, much less how they propose to make a meal out of tiny Sophie. Still, it makes for a good rescue fantasy, with the bookworm kid sheltered by a malaprop-prone, plus-sized peasant. (We have Dahl to thank for the adjective scrumdiddlyumptious.) The slow-moving tale also presents a winkingly benign view of royalty, with Penelope Wilton as the Queen, and Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall as her simpatico servants. Barnhill is a solid-enough Sophie, but she’s no Drew Barrymore. And, sadly, The BFG is no BFD.

Future diapers

ment of the Band’s star-studded final show is double-billed with Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme’s towering record of the Talking Heads at the peak of their powers. See (and hear) the ’70s become the ’80s at the Rio Theatre on Friday (July 1).

PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Pee-wee

sets off to find his bike once again in the first of Cineplex’s summer-long festival of family films, offered at low, low prices (only $2.99!). Tell ’em Large Marge sent ya at the Cineplex Odeon International Village and the Park Theatre on Saturday (July 2).

ZARDOZ Completely ignoring the fact that one day we’d have

Google image search, Sean Connery kits up in that red loincloth/ponytail combo for John Boorman’s surpassingly silly 1974 sci-fi flick. While nominally based on The Wizard of Oz, Zardoz (geddit?) more trenchantly depicts a 23rd-century Earth on which gauzily dressed elites maintain control by violently pitting a savage underclass against itself, meaning Boorman was out by about 200 years. Connery is the “Exterminator” who infiltrates the secret society and shows them the Chicago Way. Bring your stoned head to the Rio Theatre on Sunday (July 3). JUNE 30 – JULY 7 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 29

The Daughter

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The change in financial fortune, and social optics, doesn’t prevent Henry from throwing a big party to celebrate his marriage to a sexy former housekeeper (Anna Torv). Henry’s estranged son Christian (extremely weak link Paul Schneider) returns from the U.S. in time to attend the wedding and hang out with classmate Oliver and wife, who also worked as Henry’s housekeeper, oh, about 17 years earlier. In the play, named after a wounded mallard nursed back to uncertain health, both the patriarch and Hedvig (the only character name retained here) suffer from failing eyesight. Viewers of The Daughter should be so lucky.

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MIA MADRE

detailed with day-to-day events and feelings, but sketchy on background. So it’s odd when Moretti adds a long scene showing Giovanni quitting an unnamed job. Occasional flashbacks and dream sequences don’t really add meaning either, and instead disrupt the intense naturalism that otherwise makes Madre’s message so universal. There’s comic relief of a sort when John Turturro arrives as a secondstring American actor who immediately starts causing trouble. This is fun, but the on-set material feels thin, especially because the movie-withina-movie doesn’t really comment on the main story. Still, these structural quirks don’t ruin the film’s mood of reserved elegy. From the start, our troubled director enigmatically tells her actors to “stand to one side” of their characters. By the end, both Margheritas have become one.

startlingly silly venture runs out of and there just isn’t enough to keep gas long before it’s over. us more than half interested. Ultim> KEN EISNER ately, this is a noble effort that fizzles out long before it ends. FREE STATE OF JONES > JOHN LEKICH Starring Matthew McConaughey. Rated 14A

Based on actual events surround- A documentary by Jeff L. Lieberman.

2 ing the American Civil War, Free

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Starring Margherita Buy. In Italian, with English subtitles. Rated PG

SWISS ARMY MAN

Veteran filmmaker Nanni Mor-

2 etti’s mother died while he was

making his last feature, We Have a Pope, and he poured that haunted life passage into Mia Madre, expressing the complexities of his subsequent emotions—almost to a fault. Italy’s wonderful Margherita Buy plays a fictional director, also called Margherita, in one of numerous metacinematic gestures. She’s making a movie about an Italian labour strike when her already hospitalized mother (Giulia Lazzarini) gets worse. Moretti plays the director’s brother, Giovanni, a far more nurturing figure than his sister, who’s a tantrum-throwing hard-ass on the job. The tale doesn’t milk this role reversal for conflict, preferring to plumb subtler disconnects—and overidentification—between Margherita and her work. She, meanwhile, struggles with her own daughter (Beatrice Mancini), a teenager currently living with her dad; she understandably bridles at studying Latin, in which Grandma was a beloved specialist. The film is highly

Starring Paul Dano. Rated 14A.

Swiss Army Man begins with

2 Paul Dano as a gormless loser

attempting to kill himself on a desert island. But this sad sack, called Hank, is not alone. The island’s other occupant is no Man Friday. Actually, he’s dead. But since the washed-up corpse is played by Daniel Radcliffe, it’s reasonable to assume that his condition won’t be too permanent. Said stiff has special powers, starting with posthumous flatulence powerful enough to jet-ski them both off the island. As these new buddies get to know each other, the less lively one reveals more skills—hence the title—plus quite a lot of his hairy potter. Hunting through the forests and riverbeds in which they find themselves for much of the movie, they also fashion the kind of cute little dioramas that Michel Gondry would make if he got lost in the woods. (This goes with an off beat score that features Dano’s a cappella vocals.)

THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE

Matthew McConaughey ditches the Confederacy in Free State of Jones.

The dead guy eventually begins to talk and has a name, although “Manny” is more demography than moniker. He even proves his mannishness by becoming aroused when spying the pretty woman enshrined on Hank’s miraculously wellcharged cellphone. And this divine rod helps them navigate their way back towards civilization. Viewers with a high tolerance for juvenile jollies may forgive first-time featuremakers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as Daniels) for their low version of high-concept. The threadbare nature of their aggressively whimsical script reveals itself first in Hank’s banal observations about society’s superficiality and then in the cause of our bearded hero’s suicidal quandary: he just cain’t talk to them there girls! When other characters are finally introduced, the Daniels trot out the kind of uplifting movie-finish clichés you’d expect Hank to laugh at. This

State of Jones chronicles the growing disillusionment of Confederate soldier Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey). With a running time of over two hours, writer-director Gary Ross serves up a rambling narrative that tries to pack in a little too much history for its own good. The film’s initial scenes show great promise. We see the last days of the Civil War from the Confederate side with an unflinching brutality. There are several issues that prompt Knight to rebel against the army that conscripted him, but Ross’s script is at its best when it illustrates how the Confederate army turns on its own people by looting Mississippi farmers of virtually everything they need to survive a harsh winter. Knight becomes a deserter, convinced that he’s fighting a war to preserve the rich man’s cotton. He ends up taking refuge with a number of slaves in a Mississippi swamp. From there, Knight morphs into a cross between Rhett Butler and Robin Hood, assembling an army designed to fight the injustices he’s witnessed. And there are plenty of injustices to go around. The story often hums when it takes a more reflective approach, especially when it comes to issues of slavery. The accomplished supporting cast is a big help here, especially Mahershala Ali as a runaway slave and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the AfricanAmerican woman Knight falls for. But pretty much everything hinges on McConaughey’s performance. Thankfully, he carries the film with a skillful mixture of grace and grit. Less fortunately, the story begins to sag about halfway through, when things slow down markedly

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Nina Simone remains someone

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Paltrow puts it, rightly stating that De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s witty mix of low trash, high style, and perverse psychology adds up to more than the provocation it often seems to be. If his pals Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg have found a snug rapport with their audience, De Palma has, with some jeopardy, remained truest to himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you listen to him,â&#x20AC;? says Paltrow, who was â&#x20AC;&#x153;scarred in the best way possibleâ&#x20AC;? by Body Double, his first encounter with De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, â&#x20AC;&#x153;heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telling you it comes out that way because â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way I see it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way I feel it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And when you are now applying these tools, like a camera, film, and actors, to these things that are inside a creative person who knows how to use them properlyâ&#x20AC;Ś stuff comes out. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not always nice.â&#x20AC;? -

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Day: Resurgence, a movie that plays like a series of trailers for expensive disaster movies. Everyone in this movie does exactly what you think they are going to do, from the dork who finds his inner hero to the sexy psychologist who learns that her subjects are all writing the same symbols because it is a warningâ&#x20AC;Śfrom space! Alternatively, if you just want to put on 3-D glasses and watch some formulaic but pleasant goodnatured fun, you might have a decent time. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something refreshing about a movie that has essentially no complexity, and where you can have zero compunction against wishing villains to be exploded as often as possible. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not messy. The only scary image is Spinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s butt crack. And if millions died during this invasion, well, there had to be a reason for another stirring monologue about hope, right?

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moon, harnessed gravity, and mastered nuclear fusion. Macho nerd David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) has been promoted to director of Earth defence forces, which have become so integrated that they include Hong Kong model Angelababy. Not everything is great. Expresident Whitmore (Bill Pullman) is weak and decrepit, Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner) is still in a coma, and Capt. Hiller (Will Smith) is dead, killed by salary negotiations. No! He was killed while training a new generation of heroes, including studly Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), a cocky fighter pilot itching to prove his worth. If only there were a new wave of even eviller aliens! You could have an hour of character exposition followed by an hour of things blowing up even bigger than before! That could also provide you with two hours of picking apart the clichĂŠs and hoary nonsense of Independence

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up the charts with her definitive version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Loves You, Porgyâ&#x20AC;? in 1958. The film is light on information about the mental disturbances that gradually consumed her career and private life. It misses her own voice, and while Liebermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narration isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bad, it lacks an authoritative stamp to match his subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnitude. Still, as with Simone herself, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more here to celebrate than regret.

Baumbach) Jake Paltrow, calling the Georgia Straight from Toronto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the easiest people to listen to. Noah and I have joked that this is the only thing either one of us has made that we can watch over and over again without ever feeling anxiety about it. Every time, you just get sucked in by Brian talking. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stuff I still laugh at. The stories he tells, the way he says some thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I was doing the final colour two weeks ago and I was still laughing at the same bloody jokes.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, captured in a cozy Manhattan living room, the septuagenarian is amusingly frank, and warmer than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect. Perhaps most engaging are the autobiographical details that then illuminate some of the weirder tics in his filmography. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kind of like the repeating of a cinematic trauma or something,â&#x20AC;? as

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ame another mainstream American director whose career has been as divisive, maddening, and inspired as Brian De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Starting in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s with popGodardian exercises in social satire (Greetings, Hi, Mom!), the ever inventive filmmaker went on to deliver dazzlingly modern Hitchcockian thrillers (Sisters, Obsession), major blockbusters (Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible), deathless cult favourites (The Phantom of the Paradise, Scarface), episodes of moral panic (Dressed to Kill, Body Double), further episodes of moral high dudgeon (Casualties of War, Redacted), and a couple of truly spectacular flops (Bonfire of the Vanities, Mission to Mars). And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ignoring

major titles like Blow Out and Carlitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way, and the overarching fact that every single movie made by De Palma in the past 50 years has been inebriated by its own lurid style and intelligence, including the ones you thought were shit (Snake Eyes). The man himself offers much illumination as he discusses his filmography in the documentary De Palma, opening Friday (July 1), which, in turn, headlines a massive retrospective at the Vancity Theatre. It shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprisingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although in some ways it isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that Brian De Palma is so lucid about his own work, describing, for instance, the studio/creative/money problems that Brian De Palma flanked by directors undermined some projects (like Get Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach. to Know Your Rabbit), or addressing career-long charges of misogyny. as somebody who can communicate â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the movie really shows all these brilliant ideas perfectly,â&#x20AC;? Brian not only as a filmmaker but says De Palma director (with Noah

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as she reads from her new novel The Dancehall Years. Jun 29, 7-8:30 pm, West Vancouver Memorial Library (1950 Marine Dr., West Van). Free admission, info www.westvanlibrary.ca/events/.

VANCOUVER COMICON Bimonthly comic-book convention features Sloane Leong (From Under Mountains), Claire Gibson (From Under Mountains), Marian Churchland (From Under Mountains, Beast), Brandon Graham (Island, Prophet, King City), Ben Bonner, David Daneman, Miguel Molina, and David Nytra. Jul 3, 11 am-5 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street). Info www.vancouvercomiccon.com/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK AGAINST RUPTURE, OR RUPTURING POC RELATIONS—THIRSTDAYS NO.5 A monthly series of video, film, performance, and ceremony events organized by project curator and artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum. Jun 30, 7:30-11 pm, VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo). Free admission, info www.vivomediaarts.com/against-raptureor-rupturing-poc-relations-thirstdays-no-05/.

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

MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, www.museumofvancouver.ca/. 2ALL TOGETHER NOW: VANCOUVER COLLECTORS AND THEIR WORLDS (sensory experience explores the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects, which tell the stories of 20 diverse, local collectors) to Jan 8, 2017 THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouver-based artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations

peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty) to Oct 16

OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED HARRISON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Celebrate Canadian and international performing arts with music, visual and literary arts, theatre, a waterfront art market, workshops, and a kids’ day. Jul 9-17, Harrison Memorial Hall (280 Esplanade Avenue, Harrison Hot Springs). Tix $22-25, info www.harrisonfestival.com/.

2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Local classical ensemble and Maestro Bramwell Tovey perform music by Lavalle, Morawetz, Tchaikovsky, Lehar, Wagner, Prokofiev, and Beethoven. Jul 1-2, Whistler Olympic Plaza (Whistler, B.C.). Free admission, info www.whistler.com/vso/.

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Move over, Drake: Jazz Cartier might turn out to be the biggest thing to come out of the Ontario hip-hop scene since Maestro Fresh Wes, the Dream Warriors, or Tom “MC Bones” Green.

Cartier’s a rap contradiction

Born Jahmarie Adams in Ontario’s capital, Cartier attributes his success to his unconventional upbringing. Variously raised in Canada, the U.S., Barbados, and Kuwait, the rapper believes that living all over the world has helped him to stand out beyond Toronto MC Jazz Cartier is a scholarly storyteller in the studio, the rest of the Top 100. but he’s a hose-wielding wild man when he hits the stage “It’s definitely given me a broader perspective on Why can’t everyone be a rapper? Be- life,” he says. “I’ve been exposed to so much more. cause, as any good high school careers counsel- I didn’t expect Kuwait to be what it was, for exlor will tell you, MCs need to have a number of ample. I picked up so much culture there that I BY KATE W ILSON unique traits. You’ll need a great look. You’ll have was not anticipating, and it means that my music to write a solid back catalogue. And you’ll need to is different. And Kuwait is not at all how the media be able to remember a whole lot of lyrics. makes it out to be. You go in thinking you’re goRight? ing to be constantly scared for your life, and living “My memory is actually terrible,” Toronto rap- there is actually the safest I’ve ever felt.” per Jazz Cartier tells the Straight on the line from As if to prove his point, wailing sirens temporhis home city. “I have one song called ‘Tales’. The arily drown him out. opening lines for two verses are the same, and “There are a lot of fires going on in my neighthe fifth bar always catches me off guard because bourhood in Toronto right now,” Cartier says, I think it’s going to be the same as the first. The apologizing for the noise. “There’s some arsonist adrenaline’s pumping in my veins, and every- around, burning down some shit. I’m not worried, thing’s just going so fast I can’t keep up with it. I though. It happens every year.” Cartier is a bit of a contradiction. Thoughtful and forget the words all the time. “The secret to my success is recovery,” Cartier sensitive in the studio, the rapper takes a long time says. “I spend a lot of time hoping no one notices. preparing his tracks to make sure they don’t come off, Though now I’ve told you, I guess that’s less likely.” in his words, as “immature”. Penning personal storHaving a memory like a sieve has done nothing ies with a universal feel, Cartier has a studied attitude to hinder the rapper’s success. This month alone, that has more in common with a scholar than a rap Cartier was longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, star. But put him on a stage, and all hell breaks loose. “The reason I got into hip-hop in the first shortlisted for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, and thrust into the running for a Much Music place was because I was drawn to these charVideo Award. As committees line up to listen to acters that were really outgoing,” Cartier says. his records, Cartier’s multiple nominations re- “People like Lil Wayne, Andre 3000, Mase, and inforce just how strongly the music establishment Busta Rhymes. I definitely feel way more at ease is endorsing the rapper as the next big thing to on-stage than I do in person. I’m sociable, but emerge from Toronto’s hip-hop scene. sometimes I just like to observe and not speak “Drake definitely opened up the city for rappers too much. When I’m performing, it’s my opporto break out,” Cartier suggests. “But he’s just in tunity to go wild. his own world, and everyone else is aiming to get “Like, I’m hoping they’ll let me bring my hose there. As far as my peers are concerned, though, to festivals this year,” Cartier continues, after I think I’ve surpassed them. People tweet about be- confirming that he’s definitely not talking about ing in the studio all the time and speak a big game, its homophone. “I’ll turn the front rows into a but in the end it’s about what you’re producing and water park. Usually, crews aren’t keen because of whether it’s resonating with the fans. They’re all potential damages. But I’m thinking that some talk and no action. I’m not like that at all.” promoters this year will be cool.”

And even if Cartier can’t bring his sprinklers, he’s definitely going to bring the noise. “I put my all into every performance,” he says, “and if it goes, it goes. And if it’s not happening for me, then I make it my duty to push even harder. Every show, I’ll always want more. “In a way, having a bad memory is actually a good thing for me,” Cartier continues reflectively. “It’s my goal to always keep moving forward. I don’t need any distractions. I don’t want to ever look back.” Jazz Cartier plays at FVDED in the Park at Surrey’s Holland Park on Saturday (July 2).

in + out

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

On facial cleansing: “I recently did a shoot for Roots, and they put makeup all over my face. It took six or seven hours out of my day, so I was exhausted when I got home. I went to sleep and forgot about it, and when I woke up my pillow was literally brown. I was like, ‘What the fuck? How is this possible?’ So now I know the struggle of women everywhere.” On travel essentials: “I used to always take a floral scarf with me on tour. It was lucky. But I hopped in the car one day and somebody took it, which was kind of a bummer. Now I always take my Polaroid camera. I’m documenting everything so I can make a book out of it for my house. Over the years when people come over, they can just look. Maybe they’re in it, maybe they’re not, but they can see all the things that I’ve seen, and all the crazy people I’ve encountered.” On hotel beds: “People take for granted the connection they have with their bed. You know that sweet spot that you always sleep in? Yeah. That’s your particular groove. When you go to a hotel, sleeping in other people’s grooves is just not the same. And those sheets are not as clean as you think they are.”

Shaw left the Whale behind for Ekali dreams Six months ago, local electronic

2 music artist Ekali—or Nathan

Shaw to his friends—was faced with a tough decision: continue playing bass with Juno Award–winning band Said the Whale, a group gearing up for a new album and accompanying world tour, or quit to pursue his budding career in production. He chose the latter. Does he regret it? “Not for a second,” Shaw tells the Straight on the line from his Vancouver home. “I’d love to do both projects, but there’s just not enough hours in the day. I was getting tour offers for Asia and Europe, and I’d reached my tipping point. Writing as Ekali is my passion, and I was Justin Jay (right) is a tennis enthusiast, but Ekali (left) prefers indoor sports, happy to back myself. such as seeing how long he can stay in bed before he has to get up to pee. “Don’t get me wrong,” he continues, “Said the Whale are great. Shaw’s verdict may have raised a impulsive. Within a year of taking up But it’s nice not to have to spend 16 collective groan from Whale fans producing, Shaw had already been hours a day in a tiny van with the around the world, but they can rest invited to attend the highly prestisame people for months on end.” assured that the choice was far from gious Red Bull Music Academy—

an all-expenses-paid trip to Tokyo designed to nurture some of the world’s most talented up-and-coming musicians—and scored two writing credits on Drake’s chart-topping album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. I’ll repeat that. Two writing credits on Drake’s album. On Drake’s album. Drake. “I have no idea how it happened,” Shaw says with a laugh. “I wrote a song called ‘Unfaith’, which I uploaded to Soundcloud. About nine months later, I got a random email in my inbox saying ‘Drake has used your song, and he wants to put it out on his record.’ I thought it was a hoax until I actually started negotiating with his lawyers.” Now with two years of producing under his belt, Shaw makes it clear that he’s so much more than just a hip-hop producer. Choosing not to recognize genre—“I know less about that than anybody,” he says—Shaw

has created a body of work that weaves through a variety of musical styles, tied together by a feeling. “Intimate is the one word I would use to sum up my style,” he suggests. “No matter what song I make, whether it’s aggressive or it’s soft, I want to leave a piece of me in that track. I want people to feel that in the music. I don’t want it to be cold and distant, I want it to be warm and close. I’m always aiming for that goal.” That’s something the Vancouver native is keen to bring out in his set at Surrey’s FVDED in the Park festival this weekend. “I treat this area really carefully,” Shaw says. “This is where I grew up, and it’s a really important market to me. One easy way to ruin it would be to play Vancouver and the cities around it all the time. So I’ve been trying to perform here only once see next page

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every four months or so and make sure that the emotion really comes across every time I play. “After so long on tour, this show is a homecoming for me,” Shaw continues. “I’m looking forward to it so much.”

> KATE WILSON

Ekali plays at FVDED in the Park at Surrey’s Holland Park on Saturday (July 2).

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Justin Jay had DJed three times high-school parties before he was asked to get on a plane, fly to DJ Mag’s Top 100 launch event at a premier London club, and open for global superstar Afrojack. “I submitted one demo to DJ Mag,” Jay tells the Straight on the line from his parents’ home in L.A. “It would have been an absolutely huge platform to launch my career.” It sounds like a Disney movie. But unfortunately for Jay, there was one small problem. “I lied about my age,” he says with a laugh. “I was 17 at the time, and you had to be 18 to enter the contest. The guys from DJ Mag called me when I was at the school cafeteria. I was like, ‘Hi—I can’t hear you, I’m in the lunchroom right now. Can I call you back?’ They said, ‘Dude, how old are you?’ And I told them. They disqualified me on the spot. “It probably worked out for the best, though,” Jay continues, with a characteristically positive outlook. “I didn’t have anywhere near enough experience to be on that stage.” Using his thwarted celebrity appearance as motivation, Jay threw himself into L.A.’s club scene. No stranger to playing parties underage, the blossoming DJ built up a wealth of experience by spinning his eclectic blend of funk, techno, and house music outside of the law. “I was performing all over the U.S. before I was 21,” he recalls. “The first gig I ever did, I was 18. The event I was playing was 19+. The bouncers took away my fake ID, and I had to call the promoter to be like, ‘Hey, I’m stuck outside.’ Thankfully, I got to play the show, and we had a good laugh about it. I never got that ID back, though.” Now old enough to whip out some real government credentials, the understandably in-demand DJ has just finished a back-to-back global

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tour with his frat buddies Benny Bridges and Josh Taylor. Promoting their album The Fantastic Voyage—an innovative collaboration between Jay’s soulful deep house, Bridges’s masterful guitar-playing, and Taylor’s quirky ukulele—Jay demonstrates how his unique talent can turn even the most unlikely of projects into a success. “We didn’t know what we were doing with Voyage,” Jay admits. “But it just worked. We wrote our first track in the car on the way to the show. Josh was driving while the aux cord was coming out of my computer. My laptop died three-quarters of the way to San Fran, so we had to stop at In-NOut Burger. The only power outlets were in the ceiling, so as my friends are finishing their burgers, I’m frantically finishing the track. I bounced down the final mix 10 minutes before the doors opened, we played it at peak time at this party, and it was magical. That’s when we knew we were onto something really special.” Now that he has more than a halfdecade of DJing under his belt, Jay’s talent behind the decks allows him to seamlessly blend Bridges and Taylor’s live guitar and ukulele with his electronic sound—and the three friends have been lighting up stages all over the world. So would Jay finally feel comfortable opening for Afrojack in London? “Absolutely,” he says. “I’m awaiting the next invitation.” > KATE WILSON

Justin Jay plays at FVDED in the Park at Surrey’s Holland Park on Sunday (July 3).

Peking Duk turns every show into a big sweatfest “We are very, very sweaty,”

2 Adam Hyde, one half of EDM

partner Reuben Styles have overcome in the past few years. Despite the group’s small discography, the boys’ talent in the studio has secured them triple-platinum status in their native Australia. Although, as Hyde suggests, “we’re still shit at DJing,” the duo has successfully toured a number of far-flung continents. And regardless of the fact that they’ve now hit the big time, the pair are still down to have a beer with anybody. “We have a pretty good story about that,” Hyde recalls. “There was this one fan—a guy called David Spargo. He’s just a legend. He wanted to come and hang out with us, but obviously, he didn’t have any way to get backstage. So he walks up to the green room, and on the way, he thinks ‘Fuck it. I’ll just change Peking Duk’s Wikipedia page and write myself in as a family member.’ “He had to go through a solid number of security guards to even get through the first area,” Hyde continues. “But somehow, it worked. The last guard comes up to us, and says ‘Hey. I’ve got your family here.’ And we’re like ‘What?’ And he says ‘It’s your brother David Spargo.’ This guy runs past the last line of defence shouting ‘Yeah, boys, come on—check your Wikipedia.’ He had a funny vibe, so we told him to get the fuck into the green room with us and get some beers in. And we all got really drunk together.” Peking Duk’s welcoming attitude is a reflection of its infectiously upbeat stage show. While songs like “High” and “Take Me Over” have already cemented the duo’s status as festival gods among Aussie youths, the group is now excited to be winning over the True North. “Holy shit, Vancouver is beautiful,” Hyde says. “We’re from Canberra, but your city sort of feels like home to us in a way. We’ve got a lot of good friends that we’ve made there— old and new. And the shows have just been really great. On our first tour of Canada, there was no one at our gigs, but the next time we came people must have told their friends, because before we knew it we were playing in front of heaps of people. It’s a really exciting feeling, and it motivates us to keep writing better tunes and play better sets. “[Australian DJ] Tommy Trash once said that ‘Peking Duk tastes good, but it sounds even better,’ ” Hyde continues. “That’s become a motto for us. Every day we work on achieving it.”

duo Peking Duk, tells the Straight on the phone from Seattle. “Especially myself—I get sweaty very easily. It used to almost bother me. But now at our shows, people seem to get just as sweaty and covered in vodka as we are. It’s a kind of mutual sweatfest.” Peking Duk might be one of the wettest acts at this weekend’s FVDED in the Park festival, but don’t let a little perspiration put you off. Those willing to stand front and centre can expect some banging big-room singles—or, as Hyde puts it, “a big weird orgy of > KATE WILSON sounds”—so exciting that you won’t even care that you forgot to leave a Peking Duk plays at FVDED in the Park towel in the car for the drive home. Uncontrollable sweating is not the at Surrey’s Holland Park on Sunday only obstacle Hyde and his musical (July 3).

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This time it’s personal for Twin River

magine balancing academic life in one city, a band in another, and the sting of ending a serious relationship. One might assume that writing and recording a full-length album in the midst of such inner conflict would be a terrible idea, but for Twin River’s Courtney Ewan, it was the perfect storm. Together, Ewan and Andy Bishop are the minds behind Twin River’s eclectic, dreamy garage pop. When the two decided it was time to work on the follow-up to their debut, Should the Light Go Out, Ewan was completing a master’s degree in classical literature at McGill University, while Bishop lived in Vancouver. She says their sophomore record, Passing Shade, came together under rather unconventional circumstances. “With me living in Montreal, it was hugely different for our band,” Ewan explains over a pint of lager at the Lido. When she wasn’t able to make weekend trips back to Vancouver, she It can be awkward sharing a house with Twin River, because they won’t let wrote alone, sending demos and voice you in unless you listen to one of their songs first. Grady Mitchell photo. memos to Bishop for feedback. Like most creative minds, Ewan term boyfriend, though, she says that it sound, brought on by influences like says her ability to put pen to paper was hard to ignore the way that experi- Angel Olsen and Kevin Morby. “It’s funny to me because the often ebbs and flows—sometimes ence affected her creative output. “I was like, ‘Why am I working happier-sounding songs are actually ebbing for months at a time. “The more time I spend as a musi- against something that feels natural?’” the sadder ones on the record, which cian, the more I’ve realized that I can’t she says. “I tend to be like a bull in a I kind of like—it’s my weakness push it—if it’s not coming, it’s not china shop, just powering through with pop music,” she says. “If people things, and this are paying attention, there’s more coming,” she says of was the first time meaning to the songs that might the process. “Forin my life where I just sound like road-trip anthems or tunately, the flows had to stop and let a summery day at the beach.” have coincided Amanda Siebert myself experience The record’s first single, “Antony”, with writing for records and recording, but it definitely it. I think it made writing it, not more is a perfect example of this dichotomy. challenging, but maybe more painful Ewan’s melancholic vocals are buoyed needs to be a natural progression.” Working solo in Montreal wasn’t than I’m used to.” by Bishop’s reverb-soaked guitar melthe only new challenge that Ewan Thankfully, Ewan’s obsession with odies, a simple but effective drumbeat, faced while writing Passing Shade. In Greek tragedies has helped her learn and a synth breakdown that flawlessly the past, she’s tried to keep her songs to “believe in the value of that cath- marries ’80s new wave and modern devoid of autobiographical references, arsis”. Ewan deliberately veiled the indie pop. “skirting around” her personal feel- dark, breakup-inspired lyrics on the Like the distance that separated ings. After calling it quits with a long- record in a sparkling, surf-inspired Ewan and Bishop while the album

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was being written, a chunk of time in between the two sessions it took to record the album made for an energy unique to Passing Shade. Recording with producer and sound engineer Colin Stewart (Ladyhawk, Dan Mangan, Hot Hot Heat), Ewan, Bishop, and a rotating lineup of 10 additional players spent 10-day stretches—first in the summer and then the following winter—living at the secluded Vancouver Island studio the Hive. Describing it as a “paradise”, Ewan says that being so far removed from the day-to-day grind made it easier to focus on the task at hand. “I don’t think that I would really want to record differently… I like living in that bubble, and I think for me, creatively, I’m better that way, with blinders on,” she says. As Ewan prepares to head back to school in the fall—this time to New York University for a PhD—she finds her worlds as an academic and a garage-pop frontwoman colliding. Seeping into her writing, the motifs from the classic texts she reads and translates have at times helped her make sense of life’s trials. “The thing I like about classics, and about literature as a whole, is that we’re not talking about anything different at all,” she says. “Sure, the people and places and things might be updated, but the emotional things that we deal with, the human condition, hasn’t changed. “To be human means to struggle with what it means to be human— forever—and that’s always what it’s going to mean.” If Ewan’s ability to write in the midst of a flood of struggles is indicative of anything, it’s that those circumstances, however challenging or impossible, only added an enthralling new chapter to the story of Twin River. Twin River plays a Passing Shade release party at the Cobalt on Thursday (June 30).

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savage love Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I’m a straight single woman in my mid-30s and a very plausible lesbian in terms of sartorial stereotypes. Occasionally, a guy will hit on me in an awkward or creepy way and I’ll trot out a line about “not being into men”. Most recently, I used this pose when a courier broke down in my driveway and I invited him in for a glass of water while he waited for the tow truck. It was really uncomfortable and a little threatening when—after establishing that I lived alone—he asked me out. I guess I use this as an excuse so as not to hurt their feelings but also to shut the conversation down as quickly as possible if I’m feeling vulnerable. Is this a harmless white lie, or a major cop-out that would offend actual lesbians? Can you suggest some better strategies for when you’re feeling cornered by a dude you’re not interested in? > LADY’S ENTIRELY ZANY IDENTITY ENQUIRY

“I’m not offended by this,” said someone I thought was an actual lesbian. I shared your question with this person—a woman I thought was an actual lesbian—because I wasn’t offended by it either but wanted to check with an actual lesbian just to be safe. Turns out my friend doesn’t identify as a lesbian but as a woman-who-loves-womenbut-does-not-identify-as-a-lesbianbecause-she-sometimes-finds-theodd-dude-hot. So, for the record: my friend is speaking for the WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH community here—which often intersects/sexts with the lesbian community—and

not the lesbian community. “But even though I’m not offended by it, I have to say I’ve found the ‘I’m into women’ line to be totally ineffective,” said my not-a-lesbian friend. “The creeps I’ve used it on get even more riled up after hearing that line. Sometimes I check out and start ignoring these creeps as if they’re wallpaper, but that can rile them up too. Same with a polite ‘I’m not interested.’ The only success I’ve had with warding off creeps is by actually yelling at them, asking them if they’d like to be treated the way they’re treating me, and if their mothers, sisters, et cetera would appreciate that treatment.” My not-a-lesbian friend—who, as it turns out, identifies more strongly with the term bisexual than she does WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH— has also had some luck with the lose-your-shit strategy (e.g., screaming, yelling, and waving your arms around like a crazy person). “You kind of have to treat these people like bears at a campsite,” said my not-a-lesbian friend. “You have to make yourself big and loud and scary so they don’t get closer. Because they will get closer.”

> BY DAN SAVAGE with. I worry for the sake of a nice person getting her ass handed to her too often and potentially breaking beyond repair. My gut emotion is that it doesn’t matter how well you handle these situations—what matters is the fact that you see too much ugliness, too often, and get to a point where you forget that there are actually nice humans out there. I guess my question is: how well can anyone handle this? > MY ENDANGERED LADY

I suspect she’s handling it better than you are, MEL. And I would recommend minding your own business, backing the fuck off, and Googling “white knight syndrome”. But if your conscience requires you to say something, say something that opens up a conversation rather than something so larded with shame, fear, and judgment that it shuts the conversation down. Instead of saying something like, “Oh, my God! What were you thinking?! You’ll be shredded emotionally and sexually! You could break beyond repair!” try something like, “Stripping isn’t something I would feel comfortable doing myself. But I’m your friend, and if you need to talk with someone about your new job—if you need to I have a difficult question. A dear decompress or vent—I’m here for you.” young friend has recently started being a stripper for work. I won’t lie: it I’ve been lying to myself. I told tears me up. All I feel is sadness and myself that stability and friendship worry—such a nice soul for what I were more important to me than feel is a not-so-nice environment. sex. I’ve been with my husband for I really hope I’m wrong. Is there any 12 years, and we’ve been married for five of those. We were best friends, way in which this can be okay? My thoughts are that no matter and I was already in love before we how strong a woman is, no one can started dating and before we ever forget what they see or have to deal had sex. I should have known in the

beginning that we weren’t sexually compatible, but I chose to ignore it (or I chose stability and friendship). I chose my best friend and have been suffering ever since. Luckily, I listen to your advice on a regular basis, and I’ve started having more open conversations about my feelings and my wants and needs. About a year ago, my husband and I decided to open our relationship. This was all my idea, and I’m not sure he’s fully into it. We agreed to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and a month ago we finally acted on it. I met someone in an open relationship and had sex with them. It was amazing—everything about it. In the end, I didn’t feel guilty, but I did want to tell my husband. I still feel the need to get his approval, but I also know that he doesn’t want to hear it. If he gave me the go-ahead, even though everything was my idea, should I feel guilty or just happy for finally getting what I needed from someone? Are there baby steps I can take to tell my husband these things or do I just keep them to myself? I feel like this is saving our marriage, but society probably just looks at me like a cheating whore. > FEELINGS ARE INSANELY, TERRIBLY HARD FOR UNSURE LOVERS

You have your husband’s approval to do what you did, but his approval was contingent upon you not telling him what you did. Honour the commitment you made to your husband, FAITHFUL, by keeping your mouth shut. You’ll doubtless have conversations in the future about your relationship, and about monogamy,

and you can ask him if he wants to stick with “don’t ask, don’t tell”. If he says yes, continue to keep your mouth shut.

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Genderqueer and genderfluid aren’t kinks, FEM, they’re identities. And I don’t know what you mean by that parenthetical “mostly” you dropped in there before “straight”. If it means you’re attracted to dudes—regardless of whether you’ve ever acted on that attraction—you would indeed be considered part of the LGBT community, under the “B” designation. But if all you meant was, “My cock gets hard when I wear panties and think about getting my ass pegged by my girlfriend,” then you’re just another kinky straight guy. On the Lovecast , dating historian Moira Weigel: savagelovecast.com. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ fakedansavage/.

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My right I gave up on my “dream” of owning a house in the Lower Mainland. Too expensive and I think it’s ridiculous that people are lusting after it just because they think it’s their god-given right as natural-born Vancouverites. I’m happy to be living in my one bedroom condo in the not-so-distant suburbs. Instead of living in an overpriced house in the city and walking everywhere, I drive my overpriced luxury car into the city. We’re all ridiculous in our own way.

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ars has just finished an 11-week retrograde cycle. While the cycle is a good one for review, questioning, and soul-searching, as is the case with all retrograde transits, it can waylay, sidetrack, impede, or halt whatever was previously on the move-along. Although the recent Brexit referendum has created an immediate global ripple, when something is set in motion during a retrograde transit, it’s destined for a longer carry-forward. On a more personal note, the end of Mars retrograde puts each and every one of us two-thirds the way through this year’s get-a-better-handle-on-it cycle. Mars in transit through Scorpio now adds fresh fuel to desire, passion, and motivation. It can ignite obsession, too. As in Game of Thrones, it’s time to figure out the next play, to revise the strategy if/when it’s called for. Canada Day and the U.S.’s Independence Day bookend what can be a great top-it-up weekend. Enjoy the glorious jazz fest. While the Gemini moon keeps us in motion on Friday/ Saturday, by Sunday the sun’s trine to Neptune is happy to sit back, relax, listen to music, and soak it up. Monday’s new moon in Cancer is mostly a happy camper, especially when there’s a comfy atmosphere, family to share with, and good food to enjoy. Tuesday’s Mercury/Neptune continues to keep it in a relaxed and easygoing mode. Wednesday, Venus/Mars, the relationship duo, enjoy one another’s company. Sun/Mercury also keeps the interest piqued, the conversation

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going, and the money circulating. memories. Tuesday/Wednesday, easy feel it. Wednesday can produce a rightWatch for news, an event, or someone does it best. A talk, a meet-up, or news time, right-place moment. could kick-start something more. you know to get your attention. LIBRA ARIES CANCER September 23–October 23 March 20–April 20 June 21–July 22 If you are in a career that Mars is now done with Mars is done with retro- caters to the holiday crowd, you retrograde, but you’re still working grade, Mercury has just moved can expect a full-on long weekend. through a major revamp through Au- into Cancer, and, as of Monday, If time is yours to own, even betgust and beyond. In more immediate you have a wonderful new moon ter. Friday/Saturday, there’s plenty terms, the long weekend through mid in Cancer to refresh and replenish to keep you busy and on the move. next week keeps life, love, and home you. Sunday through next Wed- Sunday through new-moon Monlife on a relatively smooth sail. Relax, nesday, your stars are at optimum. day, regroup, catch up, and replenish enjoy, create, get your spiritual or ro- Enjoy your fill of pleasure and re- yourself, or tend to family and home mantic fill. Wednesday is optimum laxation; let the creative muses matters. Wednesday is a great day for for a get-together, a heart-to-heart play, or test the waters of oppor- relating and communicating. conversation, or money matters. tunity. A supportive and receptive SCORPIO audience is readily found. TAURUS October 23–November 22 April 20–May 21 LEO The end of Mars retroA single word, look, or gesJuly 22–August 23 grade can feel especially refuelling if On or near the water, you are born on or after November 15. ture conveys the message with more than the usual impact on Thursday. music, movies, romance, dinner Of course, we’ll all feel a sense that the Your instincts are in cut-to-the-chase and a few drinks, or an escape-it-all: brakes have come off or that there’s a status too. Friday/Saturday, there’s this long weekend is up for grabs. compelling need to get a move on. one more thing you could do, say, or Tuesday/Wednesday, the Leo moon Sunday through Wednesday, the stars buy. Sunday through Tuesday, aim for shines on you. At work, at play, or support this forward thrust with ease comfort and ease; cozy up. Emotions, cooking up the romance, use these and opportunity. Your communicathe past, or nostalgia are on the ready days to create magic, speak from the tion and creative flow is peaking. tap. Wednesday, demonstrate how heart, make yourself look good, and SAGITTARIUS get on their good side. you feel or what you know.

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Now that Mars retrograde is over, career matters and prospects will begin to see a better move-along. As you start to get more committed, driven, or justified, you’ll also gain better control over yourself or situations. Through Monday, soak it up. Tuesday/Wednesday brings favourable feedback, response, satisfaction, or reward. A repeat or something fresh delivers well. February 18–March 20

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 28, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks on Jervis and Robson I saw you while getting a morning coffee at Starbucks on Jervis and Robson. You had headphones in and were diligently working away on your laptop. I think you were wearing a grey shirt and jeans. I was sitting there in a navy striped shirt and blue jeans trying not to stare at you like an idiot. Want to share a coffee (or a proper drink) with me?

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We were waiting to ride the beast! We talked while waiting and we sat together! Your friend was watching your daughter and my daughter was to scared to ride! You needed slippers for your flip flops! I was with my work having BBQ!! You said you were single and I was an idiot for not picking up on this! Thought you were very cute, and now hope you see this! Been thinking about you ever since! Dan

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 25, 2016 WHERE: Night Bus, N20, Commercial Drive We ended up at the same bus stop after the gig. Didn’t think much of it at first. Then you started talking. To your friend, to yourself, to the bus. We drunkenly bantered about being socially awkward, cringe moments, the quality of your phone book’s content. I’d like to do more of that. You had pink hair and a fantastic laugh, I had my old leather jacket on. Leverage that acerbic wit and let me know how my hair was.

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You came into the bookstore I worked at around this time last year. It was a rainy day and it was deadly slow. We chatted for a long time and you said you’d visit again, but months passed and no Lydia! Now I’m not working there; if you see this and remember me, let’s resume our chat about work & heavy metal...

You work at a certain fast food joint and I’ve only seen you there late at night. Sometimes after the bar sometimes not. We’ve talked many times. On the bus once or twice too. Quite sure your name starts with the letter A. I’ve been waiting for the next time I run into you but it never happens. Let me know who I am

YOU CAME TO TALK TO ME THEN RAN AWAY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 26, 2016 WHERE: Burrard Street I was walking down Burrard yesterday at 1 pm and you walked passed me with your friend. You then ran up to me and started to talk to me but then got flustered and ran away. I didn’t even get a chance to say anything and would be interested in what you had to say!

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 23, 2016 WHERE: East Vancouver - Grant and Woodland I was carrying back home a plant I just bought, and dropped in the middle of the street. You were delivering mail, and dropped a bunch of papers nearby at the same time. We exchanged a few words. I wish I invited you for coffee and chatted a bit more but you were on duty. Meet again during free time?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 22, 2016 WHERE: Red Burrito Commercial Dr. You are a lovely woman in a purple dress. I had on a black sweater and was just leaving. I wanted to say hello, would love to get to know you

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MAY 20, 2016 WHERE: Crossroads at Commercial and Grandview I was on my bike at the junction waiting for the lights; when you walked over the crossing wheeling yours...we both looked, smiled and caught each others eye looking back a good few times. I said hi and you stopped and took your headphones out to turn back at me just as the lights changed...I didn’t mean to be rude but I was in the middle of the road by the time i figured i should’ve stopped to chat. I was kicking myself the rest of the way home. If you see this fancy going for a drink?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 22, 2016 WHERE: On the dance floor at The Biltmore

Stunning paramedic Catherine, you attended a call for service with me at Third Beach in Stanley Park this morning. You’re from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Although I was talking mainly to your partner, I have eyes seulement pour vous. I bade you a fond farewell to `play safe’....you replied `never!’. Wanna be unsafe together, then?

To the babe at the Local Natives concert. I noticed you right away, you stood out in the crowd with your dark hair, I really loved your t-shirt. I was the brunette dancing with my group of friends. I may not have known all the lyrics but I sure wish I could have danced with you. When did our love grow cold?

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 20, 2016 WHERE: Ontario Street Hillcrest rec centre crossing on to Ontario bike path. We shared a smile and continued on. You were biking with a guitar on your back and I was running. I tried to keep up, but I’m not a very good runner ;) You turned back a few times and smiled. I should have taken out my ear phones before you turned off somewhere before 16th. Try again sometime?

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SAYING “HI” ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE

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QUICK GLANCES AT REVOLVER

Where did you go, Andie?! Saying hi to you and your big laugh was the highlight of my morning and I’m surprised that you left without saying goodbye. Word is you have quite the fan club but I think you liked our morning chats too. Until you’re back we’re stuck getting sub-par coffee from your grumpy hetero coworkers... I’ll keep checking the elevators just in case, but maybe we can have our own coffee one morning.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 19, 2016 WHERE: Jovo The Butcher

You were sitting on the sidewalk in front of London Drugs. We chatted and I gave you the change in my pocket. But when I handed it to you I had a visceral reaction - immediate attraction. I’ll chat with you again. You’re probably not gay, and I’m attached but I love your smile. Maybe I should be telling Dan Savage this story.

I was in line to order smoked pork when you entered to buy meat (sausage to be exact :P) for a BBQ you said you were having that same day. I liked your smile and thought you were really cute. I was the girl standing behind you in the red dress. Hope you see this and we can get together for some other meats!

LOVELY MAN WITH HIS 5 YEAR OLD WHO TOOK A LIKING TO MY DOG

GINGER APPRECIATION NIGHT AT THE BILTMORE..

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I had just picked up my coffee from the counter at Revolver when you walked in with your friend (I think?). You’re tall, have dark hair, dark rimmed glasses and wearing an unbuttoned shirt over a t-shirt. We instantly made eye contact and there was something really easy about it. I was in a striped dress and walked past you and your friend when leaving. I immediately turned around when out on the sidewalk in front of the coffee shop, and you were standing in the doorstep just smiling calmly. I’m an idiot and didn’t start a conversation since I was with some friends. Geez, maybe I’ll get another shot here?! *pun intended*

I was on my way home from work, and stood up to give my seat to someone else. I accidentally kicked your foot, and turned around, and saw the most beautiful smile ever! You: Asian girl with white jacket, blue jeans, a backpack, and adorable dimples. Me: the awkward tall guy who booted your foot.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 21, 2016 WHERE: 135 to SFU

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 1, 2016 WHERE: Cafe Ami VGH

It was a beautiful afternoon. You locking up your bike to possibly go for a drink, brunette, beautiful smile. Me walking by with a friend of mine, Filipino. Our gaze only lasted for a few moments but in those few seconds as weird as it sounds, I actually had a physical response to you. I don’t know who you were with, if you have a boyfriend but I haven’t stopped thinking about you and that look since it happened. I though I would take a chance if you felt something as I did and would love to see if we could be something amazing together.

DAZZLING SMILE ON THE 135

MISSING BARISTA BOI

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 21, 2016 WHERE: Revolver Coffee on Cambie St.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 18, 2016 WHERE: The Biltmore

...thank you again for bringing me to your dance posse. You’re hosting your friend from Calgary; I hope to see you at our local grocery store, but if you happen to see this?

CONSTRUCTION GUY @ WATERFRONT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 8, 2016 WHERE: Waterfront station I see you a couple of times a week down at Waterfront. You: tall dark and handsome in construction clothes with hair in a pony tail. Problem is your usually with a girl with glasses and a hat. We’ve exchanged glances before and smiles. Me: long brown hair and in my office attire. Sure would love to talk to you and more. Take a chance :)

ENJOYING SONIC FREAK-OUTS AT LEVITATION

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 19, 2016 WHERE: The Commodore and The Rickshaw You have long dark hair, are super tall and had a Metallica shirt on the first day. I have blue hair and was a sweaty mess but having the best time. Everywhere I went I ended up dancing beside you. Thank you for picking me up when I fell during FIDLAR. You’re a babe and I wish I’d got your name.

I COULDN’T KEEP MY EYES OFF YOU

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 17, 2016 WHERE: Winners downtown I saw you today at Winners. We didn’t actually say anything to each other but I wish I had, I saw you in the cooking area of Winners and I couldn’t stop looking at you. You had a greyish blue T-shirt on (more blue than grey), jeans and shoes that were kind of like sandals. I wanted to talk to you but was too shy. Funny thing is I don’t know if you’re even gay or not. If by any chance you are and you see this, then, I was wondering if you’d like to go for a cup of coffee sometime. Btw...I’m the guy in the black dress shirt

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