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her take on the trends that will be taking the event by storm this weekhen it comes to sum- end. So if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been procrastinatmer festivals, FVDED ing, take notesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these styles work for in the Park stands both guys and gals. aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and not only because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the last remain- BEST OVERALL Love â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em or hate â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em, ing large-scale music events in the dungarees have been inching their way Lower Mainland. (R.I.P. Squamish back into the public consciousnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and fast-fashion shops and closetsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Pemby.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people think about festival since summer of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;13. Wong expects fashion, they either think Coachella to see many overall looks at FVDED, or, like, EDC [Electric Daisy Carni- with shorts, pinafores, and full-length val]. And the fashion trends there versions on display. Girls can keep the are very different from each other,â&#x20AC;? trend from verging on farm-fresh by explains Vanessa Wong, marketing layering a bralette or bandeau underand promotions manager and resi- neath, while guys can opt for patterned dent fashionista at Blueprint, the Ts orâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling friskyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no top local entertainment group involved at all. Accessorize with a kerchief, with the fete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But at FVDED, both which you can use to protect your face of those crowds commingle and from sun and dust throughout the day. the fashion trends kind of mix And as for shoes? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitely combat boots or Timberlands,â&#x20AC;? states Wong. together as well.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, hit the #FVDEDinthePark hashtag on Instagram and you ORANGE YOU GLAD Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scienwonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find flower crowns and Kandi tifically proven fact that orange is bracelets, but rather snapbacks, crop a difficult colour to wear. Rock a tops, and sneakers that are the sar- shade too bright and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trotting torial equivalent of FVDEDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eccen- on traffic-cone territory; a shade tric blend of hip-hop and electronic too light and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re channelling a beats. (This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, which hap- Creamsicle. But what are festivals for pens this Friday and Saturday [July 7 if not taking wardrobe risks? Thanks and 8] at Surreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holland Park, may to French streetwear label Veteboast the functionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most star-stud- ments, orange is having a big moded lineup yet, with Wiz Khalifa, the ment, says Wong, and it looks best Chainsmokers, and PartyNextDoor when paraded front and centre. Go for a T-shirt or long-sleeve drenched all hitting the stage.) And because dressing for the fes- entirely in neon tangerine or introtival is half the funâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one of the duce small hits with a cap, sunnies, most stress-inducing parts of the or even socks. If anything, the colour prep processâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we asked Wong for will help enhance your weekend-at-

the-cabin glow. (Also a scientifically proven fact.) A HOT MESH Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dust-

er cardigan, long-sleeve, or T-shirt dress with strategically placed embroidery, black mesh articles are an easy way to amp up the va-va-voom in your festival â&#x20AC;&#x2122;fit. Wong recommends throwing a long cardi over a bodysuit or halter top tucked into a pair of cutoff denim shorts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;keeping it [the sweater] open so it kind of blows in the windâ&#x20AC;?, she says. Mesh Ts can also be layered atop tank tops or one-piece bathing suits for additional coverage. Finish the look with runners, sandals, or sock-fit ankle boots if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling brave.

When all else fails, turn to the trusty Canadian tuxedoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially timely attire, given Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 150th celebrations taking place a week prior. Tailor the denimon-denim look for FVDED by opting for light acid washes pulled straight from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, recommends Wong, or decorating an oversized jean jacket with embroidery or graphic pins. The more destroyed, torn, and distressed, the better: raw hems are especially hot and an easy DIY project for festivalgoers who may be short on time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of having the regular seam at the bottom, for example, you could just cut it off to have a more undone look,â&#x20AC;? says Wong. -

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annabis is certainly becoming more mainstream, but the divide between the enthusiasts and those who don’t understand it makes the Grand Canyon look like a crack in the sidewalk. While cannabis users discuss terpene profiles and trichomes, the rest seem hell-bent on throwing around the long-disproven gateway-drug theory while muttering something about “fried brain cells”. Thankfully, Vancouver’s longstanding relationship with marijuana means there are opportunities for people to reprogram their ways of thinking—like taking in the upcoming Cannabis Life Conference. The conference ($15 in advance) will feature renowned industry professionals offering up a little enlightenment. Take, for example, Derek Riedle. The founder and publisher of Civilized, a news platform geared to those who use cannabis as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle, saw a gap in the media landscape when cannabis started becoming less taboo. Riedle says he experimented a few times in college but left it behind when he moved on to the work world, where he found alcohol to be much more commonplace. “Drinking culture in North America is a big thing. In my mid30s, I had two young kids, and those Friday-night beers started making it awfully hard to get up with those kids on Saturday morning,” Riedle tells the Straight from his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, where he stays when he’s not living in L.A. Now, drinking is something Riedle does once or twice a year. If his wife is enjoying a glass of wine, you can usually find him puffing on his vaporizer. “I know hundreds of people who have seemingly normal lives and aren’t that typical ‘stoner’. Civilized came from that feeling that I had of being unrepresented in cannabis culture,” he says. At the conference, Riedle will speak on a panel about lifestyle and creativity. He says embarking on a legal recreational market is giving people not only legislative but social licence to engage with and discuss cannabis more openly. “I want people to feel comfortable about their use, and for those that

Dr. Dave Hepburn advocates the use of marijuana by cancer patients.

work better,” he says from his home in Victoria. He tells of an analysis published by researchers from three American universities, which found that the risk of a cancer patient dying in a hospital was reduced by 56 percent among cannabis users. The study included four million patients in over 1,000 hospitals, and used data from the U.S. Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. “When you think of the reasons people go into palliative care, it’s because of pain, fear, anxiety, and appetite—all these things cannabis works on,” he says. Another speaker, Adolfo Gonzales, will be part of a panel discussion about cannabis’s two most popular compounds, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Having worked in the industry for 15 years as a grower, frontline worker, writer, and training specialist in Vancouver, Gonzales has acted as a consultant to patients, dispensary employees, and organizations. For 11 of those years, he’s been collecting data on what works best for patients and their specific conditions to provide contextualized information that allows people to help make decisions for themselves. “We in the Vancouver cannabis community have one of the longeststanding traditions of dispensary context and medical-product manufacturing, so there are a lot of things we know that the medical community doesn’t know yet,” he tells the Straight over the phone. Gonzales says discussion within the cannabis industry about the plant’s various compounds has shifted significantly over the last few years, and he expects it to go even deeper as more research is published about other, lesser known compounds. “The conversation has gone from ‘CBD is good, and THC is bad’ to ‘They work best together,’ and I think it’s going to evolve much further,” he says. “I think that we’re going to hear more about the acidic forms of THC and CBD [THCa and CBDa], and about the modality of consumption. The specific ratios and the presence of all of these other compounds needs to be taken into account.” -

are canna-curious, who may have had an experience many years ago, I want them to feel comfortable having a dialogue,” he says. In Riedle’s mind, one of the best ways to educate people about cannabis is for those who use it to be “living examples”. While Riedle will focus on lifestyle, Dr. Dave Hepburn will speak to cannabis’s applications for cancer. For over 10 years, Hepburn prescribed cannabis to cancer patients at his Victoria family-medicine practice. He’s since retired and spends his time on speaking tours, addressing other doctors who are unsure about using cannabis to help their patients. Referencing a 400-page report from the Washington, D.C.–based National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering, Hepburn says there is now conclusive and substantive evidence that cannabis effectively treats side effects caused by chemotherapy. Not only that, organizations like the American National Cancer Institute have confirmed cannabis slows the growth of cancer cells, while also protecting normal cells—something Hepburn says medical professionals seek in every treatment. Hepburn says cannabis also has the ability to make a patient’s regular treatment more effective. He The Cannabis Life Conference takes place at the Westin Bayshore on Fricalls this effect potentiation. “It can actually make chemotherapy day and Saturday (July 7 and 8).

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B.C. Home Partnership loan, Nuñez was able to make a sizable initial payment for a 940-square-foot condo that she won with a bid that was less than $400,000. Nuñez figured that a typical twobedroom and two-bath apartment unit comparable to hers can rent for $1,600 a month, which is about what she pays for her monthly mortgage. “The way I see it is I’m paying rent to myself,” she said. Although she’s on a fixed-rate mortgage, Nuñez is mindful of interest rates. There is increased speculation that the Bank of Canada may increase interest rates on July 12, a development that will immediately affect borrowers on variable-rate mortgages. If that happens, Nuñez may have to pay more when she renews her mortgage. Results of a survey conducted on behalf of the Manulife Bank of Canada indicated that many homeowners do not have the means to deal with rising interest rates, unforeseen expenditures, or loss of income. In a media release on May 23 this year, Manulife stated that the survey revealed that 70 percent of mortgage holders cannot afford a 10-percent increase in their payments. Nuñez was living with her parents before she and her fiancé settled into the condo she purchased. They share the expenses, and they have big plans. “We are getting married in November,” Nuñez said. They’re looking at staying in their Port Coquitlam condo for at least five years. “I don’t expect to sell the place right now or in the very near future,” Nuñez said. “If prices were going to go down, I would wait until they go back up again because, eventually, they would go up.” -

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Indian Summer tells tales of war and peace that the Kenyan-born writer specialized in nuclear physics before moving e’re in the midst of to Canada in 1978. the summer festival season. One of the DYING WORDS (next Thursday biggies in July is In- [July 13], Goldcorp Centre for the Arts dian Summer, which runs until next at SFU Woodward’s) Indian linguist Saturday (July 15) at several venues. and scholar Anvita Abbi has conWhile the name may suggest that it’s ducted extensive research into the focused on South Asia, it’s actually six “language families” across India. much broader than that, bringing She’s spent an enormous amount of together artists from North America time studying dying languages in the and Asia in a musical, literary, culin- Andaman Islands and also worked ary, and visual smorgasbord of crea- with the Haida to help preserve the Masset dialect. tivity. Here are five highlights: > B Y C HARLIE SMITH

HERE IS WHERE WE MEET (Saturday [July 8], Orpheum Theatre) It’s an unprecedented local opportunity to hear two musical maestros come together to offer a memorable evening of classical Indian music and American jazz. Legendary South Indian violinist L. Subramaniam will be joined by Grammy winning tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, along with several other musicians, in downtown Vancouver’s finest concert hall. Subramaniam has collaborated in the past with Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli, and Stevie Wonder; Watts has played with the Rolling Stones, Thelonious Monk, and Frank Zappa.

SPEAKING (next Friday [July 14], Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s) Graphic journalist Joe Sacco and artist and writer Molly Crabapple are known for their alternative American viewpoints on world affairs. In the past, Sacco has addressed such topics as the treatment of Palestinians in the Middle East and the war in the former Yugoslavia. The widely travelled Crabapple is the author of Drawing Blood and has a breadth of experience in various art forms, ranging from burlesque to illustrations to performance art. Her drawings and other works of art have appeared in Vanity Fair, Vice, the Paris Review, and a book by Rolling Stone writer IN-BETWEEN WORLDS (Wednesday Matt Taibbi. [July 12], Ismaili Centre in Burnaby) Lovers of literature won’t want to miss 5 X 15 (next Saturday [July 15], two-time Giller Prize winner M. G. Vogue Theatre) Crabapple, musiVassanji. The author of such novels as cians Bif Naked and Talvin Singh, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, novelist Kamila Shamsie, and poet The Gunny Sack, and The Book of Se- and author Carmen Rodriguez will crets has also won a Commonwealth each speak for 15 minutes, followed Prize and a Governor General’s Liter- by an evening of music. Ottawa’s ary Award for nonfiction. It’s all the “funniest dyke”, comedian Kalyani more remarkable when you consider Pandya, will MC the event. -

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dance groups from Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil. Designated plazas will feature more than 25 food venders representing various Latin American cuisines, visual artists presenting both aboriginal and Latin American artwork, free public salsa and Zumba classes, beach volleyball, Latin American–related arts-and-crafts booths, and more. A YVR travel plaza will showcase a live cooking demo, which will include two chefs appearing together on-stage and teaching one another and the audience about different cuisines. This year’s expanded kid plaza will feature performances, painting and dancing, science and mini-chef sessions, puppet shows, piñata-making, kite-building, and Zumba classes. “We want people to understand a little bit about our culture and that we can be together and dance, eat, and have fun,” Pilar Hansen-Holm, project manager at Carnaval del Sol, told the Georgia Straight at a June 13 news conference. “We all came from somewhere, and it’s beautiful that there is a group that wants to do this kind of event so that [people] can feel welcome.” -

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Cultural conventions provoke Fugue States The cast of characters in Pasha Malla’s dynamic new novel struggle with old social ideas about race and masculinity > BY DAVID C HAU

asha Malla believes that men need new templates. Decency requires more than “being caring people outside of our [own] relationships,” he says. “That’s not enough.” Questions on masculine identity figure in his recently released sophomore novel, Fugue States. Influenced by Don Quixote and television sitcoms, it upends archetypes while tracking 30-something Ash Dhar, a Toronto author turned radio host, and Matt, his childhood best friend, who reinserts himself in Ash’s life following the death of Ash’s father. An acclaimed writer of fiction, criticism, and verse, Malla, 39, wanted to look at “accepted scripts that exist—socially, culturally—in terms of not just masculinity, but racial and cultural identity for writers and artists, for relationships between men and women, for family relationships, for caregiving relationships. “The book,” he says to the Straight from Ontario’s cottage country, “is really set around this idea that these kinds of expectations and scripts that exist are based in false narratives, or at least very reductive narratives.” Ash’s discovery of an unfinished manuscript in his father’s Quebec residence, a tale possibly set in Kashmir, the elder Dhar’s homeland, inadvertently inspires the gregarious Matt, a meandering Caucasian stoner, to visit India. (“I just imagined what would have happened in the situation if this absurd character, who believes himself to have agency in every situation, enacts this privilege that he is oblivious to.”) Even as it broaches grief and belonging, duty and self-deception, the novel maintains a badinage that complements Malla’s sensitive, verbally

Pasha Malla says the relationships men have with those around them are often based on “false narratives”.

dynamic prose. As Matt roams the subcontinent, “He was still letting India happen to him. This wasn’t his way. Nope! Life was the thing you bent over and held by the earlobes and rogered like a champ. You kicked life in the guts or clutched it fast and smooched it hard lip-wise,” Malla writes. “You made memories out of your days—or you went forgotten.” For a while, Malla had sought to explore his heritage through writing (his mother and father are respectively British and Kashmiri), but was apprehensive about being

pigeonholed. “I needed some way to do it that I felt was honest, but also was questioning the very mechanisms required of people who have ‘interesting cultural identities’,” he says. “I was not really wanting to participate in what I see to be as a market-driven expectation of that of writers. But also feeling like ‘Yeah, that’s part of who I am, and it’s important to write about it.’ ” As a mixed-race first-generation Canadian, “it can be a bit trickier to figure that stuff out,” the Hamiltonbased author adds. “There aren’t a

lot of models to follow. But I don’t want this book to be me complaining about that. I actually think that that is a gift.” Three years into the writing of the novel, in 2014, Malla travelled to India and was struck by the concept of incorporating a fugue into the plot. Including this amnesia, which grips Ash when he later joins Matt in India, allowed for a disruption of “this idea that this first-generation Canadian character would go to the homeland and discover something about himself.

“He gets there and literally needs to discover everything about himself because he knows nothing,” Malla says. “The idea of amnesia was a cliché that I wanted to embrace.” Caregiving, a motif in both his Danuta Gleed Literary Award–winning 2008 short-story collection, The Withdrawal Method, and his 2012 novel People Park, is emphasized here by a thread about Chip, another of Ash’s buddies, who has a severely disabled son. Chip “doesn’t have models. He doesn’t have a script to follow. And he’s doing his best, and obviously he’s having a very hard time of it.…I think I’m just drawn to that stuff a) because I don’t see it that much in fiction, and b) because I think it’s an important thing in my life.” One of Malla’s aims was creating a book with tonal registers and an emotional barometer that can shift throughout a scene. Humour, he notes, offers an effective way to address serious topics, and underscores some of the tropes he chose to examine. In spite of sad experiences, “people are funny, and [in life] funny stuff happens. I think it’s really important that we remember that.” Fugue States subverts conventions and presents Malla’s most accomplished work yet. His volumes of fiction form a loose trilogy on masculinity, and “it’s almost like you’re able to have this dialogue when you look at them together,” he says. “It can be humiliating and mortifying, but it’s also honest.” Pasha Malla joins Vancouver author and playwright Anosh Irani in conversation on Friday (July 7) at SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, as part of this year’s Indian Summer festival. See www.indian summerfest.ca/ for details.

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ave you been working your way through some big deal, perhaps even a monumental circumstance or issue? Is it official yet? Is the past catching up with you? A special event to attend or commemorate could be in the works. A full-moon weekend is on the clock! A finish line or time-has-come moment is in sight. The weekend could write or rewrite history. Break it down or break it up to make the breakthrough; the full moon in Capricorn plows through the resistance, the rationale, or the reality. Where is the need most critical? What are the priorities that just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait another day? If it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working anymore, why perpetuate it? What is now required of a responsible government, citizen, parent, or human being? Crystallizing the bottom lines, the full moon calls for accountabilityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from those in charge and from the self too. Each and every one must take responsibility for his or her end of the bargain. Through the memory process, situationwise and karmically speaking too, the Capricorn full moon brings something of the past forward for review and/or reformatting. The weekend can produce a reward, a consequence, or a springboard. Perhaps all three are in the mix. The full-moon activation marks a reality check and a choice-point time of great significance. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serious, potent, multilayered stuff. Moon/Pluto (conjunction) and sun/ Pluto (opposition) bring to a peak the polarization between the past and present, the populace and the government, the egoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security complex and the soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evolutionary requirement. Who wins? Pluto (the soul) every time. What changes can change big-time. A new reality begins to cement.

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Riding high on the record’s success, the Zolas found themselves playing sold-out clubs on a headlining tour. “Something happened, too,” Dobrzanski relates. “The fans on that last tour really knew all the music. Not just the new This year’s Khatsahlano headliners are working record. We played a lot of on new songs, and none of them are about orcs older songs. We played a real long set on that tour. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, They were along for everything. We pulled out Monarch Studios can be hard to spot. On a rela- some weird old songs we hadn’t played in years, BY JOHN LUCAS tively nondescript stretch of Commercial Street, and people would just sing along to every word. the recording facility has its door set way back We’ve always had fans and there have always been from the curb, nestled tightly between a restau- people singing along, but—I don’t know how to rant-equipment warehouse and the last surviving explain it—there was just something different detached house on the block. You would probably about it, where you realize these people are real never notice the door is there at all, were it not Zolas fans now. Like, they care about the next refor the butterfly stencilled on it. And you likely cord coming out.” wouldn’t guess that the four men on the other “When we released our last album, we knew side of it—Zachary Gray, Tom Dobrzanski, Cody that no one was really going to give a shit about Hiles, and Dwight Abell—are one of the city’s fin- that except for a small handful of people in Vanest indie-rock bands. couver,” adds Gray. “Now this album will get lisA Juno-nominated band at that, albeit one tened to, so it has to be good.” given to humility and occasional self-deprecation. On the strength of their third LP, Swooner, the THE ZOLAS ARE four songs deep into that next Zolas were up for the 2017 Juno Award for break- LP, and are in the middle of tracking a fifth when through band of the year, although it took a while the Straight shows up and knocks on Monarch’s for the news to reach all of the group’s members. butterfly-emblazoned door. While it’s too soon “I was up in the woods,” recalls keyboardist to say exactly what it will sound like, Gray notes Dobrzanski, who also runs Monarch, interviewed that the band has been drawing inspiration from Britpop-era acts including Supergrass, Blur, and with his bandmates at the studio. “That’s actually a good story, yeah,” chimes in Oasis. Oh, and a certain troupe of Mormon-led rockers from Las Vegas, apparently. Gray, the group’s singer and guitarist. “This one that we’re working on now? Right now “I was the last one to find out,” Dobrzanski says. His bandmate picks up the story: “Yeah, some- it just sounds like the Killers, to be honest, and we how Tom was the last one to find out, even though need to drag it into some other world,” the singer I was at an orangutan sanctuary in Indonesia, on admits. “It’s never good when you can describe this river expedition. After we got back to Inter- your song or your band with just one other band name. That’s usually what we do: we go in trying to net, I got all the texts. “And these guys were all celebrating,” Gray rip off one person, and halfway through the song continues, nodding in the direction of drummer we decide to start ripping off someone else, and Hiles and bassist Abell. “But Tom hadn’t even the synergy of the two makes for something that written in yet, so I was like, ‘Man, either he’s got people don’t recognize as complete lifts.” In case it doesn’t come across in print, Gray is ice in his veins or he hasn’t checked his email yet.’ ” “I got back into cell reception and I started get- joking. Presumably. Whatever the case, he also ting texts from a lot of people going ‘Congrats on points out that, although Hiles and Abell were fullthe Juno nom,’” Dobrzanski says. “And I was like, fledged band members when Swooner was in the works, this current batch of tunes will be shaped by ‘Huh, I guess we got nominated for a Juno.’ ” The Zolas flew out to the Juno Awards ceremony more of the rhythm section’s creative energy. “When I first came in, I was pretty creatively in Ottawa and hung out (drunk and possibly a little starstruck) with Canadian Music Hall of Fame in- kept to myself, just trying to fit in,” says Abell. ductee Sarah McLachlan, but the Dirty Nil ended “You don’t want to be too loud or make too much up taking home the breakthrough-group hard- noise. But this record, I feel like there’s a lot of collaboration between all four of us. I feel like a ware. Dobrzanski took the loss in stride. “They do say there’s a curse with that particular lot of these songs are just getting written in the jam space, where with Swooner, a lot of it, I felt award,” he reflects. “That’s what they tell you when you lose,” Gray like Zach had a solid idea, and it was like, ‘Play a bass line to it.’ But with this one I feel like we’re all adds wryly. Shiny trophies aside, Swooner truly was a break- writing together, and it’s pretty special that way.” “I don’t think I’ve brought a single completthrough for the Zolas. The album’s eponymous first single was an infectious knockout of groove ed song to this,” Gray acknowledges. “Maybe and melody, driven by a crunchy guitar riff and I’ll bring a little part and then we’ll work on it buoyed by shimmering synth. It reached No. 4 together. It’s more fun in a lot of ways. For me on the Canadian rock/alternative chart, a career personally, it’s nice not having the pressure to come up with everything. For example, Dwight high for the group.

came up with the bass line for this song that we’re recording now. If I had written it, I would have been so proud of myself. But I didn’t have to write it; he wrote it. So that’s really nice.” The music seems to be flowing freely. The words? Not so much. Swooner had a decidedly feminist bent to it, with songs like “Molotov Girls” and the title track celebrating kick-ass women. With the ascendancy of the dangerously stupid right wing south of the border and elsewhere, you would think Gray has a virtual buffet of topics to fire him up. As it turns out, the world is providing almost too much material these days. “These days it seems so hard to have anything to contribute, when there’s just so much discussion over the Internet,” he says. “What is there to say that hasn’t been said? There’s so many people writing little articles or comments or tweets going viral that every perspective is out there. It makes me want to just write about getting away from all that.” And that, in fact, is exactly what he has done: “The first song that isn’t out yet is about throwing away your phone and not paying attention to that anymore.” When Hiles jokingly suggests that the Zolas indulge in a bit of rock ’n’ roll escapism—Tolkieninspired tales of dragons and cursed rings, perhaps—Gray dismisses the idea, albeit wistfully. “To write escapist music right now would feel false,” he insists. “You just can’t win,” Hiles laments. “I can’t wait until we get to a point politically where it feels right to write songs about orcs,” Gray says. That topic is perhaps best left in the hands of 3 Inches of Blood. As for what Gray does end up writing about, we’ll find out soon enough; the Zolas plan to start releasing singles in the next few months, with a full-length album appearing at some point after that. If that seems like a rather vague time line, so be it. The Zolas have learned not to make promises they can’t keep. Says Dobrzanski: “I just think about how many times we gave answers to when that Swooner record was coming out that just ended up being so wrong. You just have to admit that you have no idea.” One thing we can say with relative certainty is that the Zolas will be playing at the West 4th Khatsahlano Street Party this year. In fact, the four-piece will headline the annual neighbourhood festival, topping a bill that also includes the Courtneys, D.O.A., Louise Burns, War Baby, Art D’Ecco, Peach Pit, and many others. “Khatsahlano’s going to be cool,” Gray says. “A lot of bands that we like are playing at that. It’s really Vancouver-y. I mean, it’s all Vancouver bands, it’s a lot of underground and East Van kind of bands that are playing. So I’m excited. There’s a few of them that I’ve never gotten to see that I’ve always wanted to see. There are a bunch of acts that are going to be super cool.” The Zolas might be the coolest of them all, although they’re far too humble to agree with that assessment. The Zolas play the West 4th Khatsahlano Street Party on Saturday (July 8).

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dmittedly, there are times these days when it all seems a bit much. South of the border, the Mango Mussolini known as Donald Trump is doing his best to destabilize the world. The icecaps are melting in Antarctica. And, closer to home, the dream of living anywhere other than an East Vancouver basement suite for the rest of your life is quickly becoming a nonstarter. But you know what they say: when everything looks more depressing than Joy Division’s Closer, the best antidote is a party. And what better place to party this weekend than Kitsilano’s West 4th Avenue, which on Saturday hosts the latest edition of the always epic Khatsahlano Street Party. As in past years, you can expect a veritable avalanche of topflight local musical talent, including the Courtneys, Louise Burns, D.O.A., Twin Bandit, and this week’s Georgia Straight cover stars, the Zolas. Because Khats—which also includes such diversions as beer gardens, food trucks, fashion shows, and yoga classes—has always been about local music, we’ve asked some of our favourite Lower Mainland acts to list off the homegrown legends who made them want to start a band. And because the Khatsahlano Street Party is also about enjoying a great party—hell, it’s right there in the title—we’ve also asked them to recount that time when they went hard enough to impress the great prophet Andrew W.K. Now get yourself down to Khats this Saturday (July 8) and immerse yourself in a day of music that will feature the acts below as part of a

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40-band blowout. At least for a day, you’ll be able to forget all about the various troubles of the world. But only if you remember to party. SHANNON HEMMETT plays keyboards and sings backup with ACTORS, which features singerguitarist Jason Corbett, drummer Adam Fink, and bassist Jahmeel Russell. The band’s synth-heavy postwave will make you wish you’d spent the early ’80s living in a postwar Berlin flat right above the prototype for David Lynch’s fabled Club Silencio. Favourite party memory: “Before the ceiling of the dance floor at the Marble Arch caved in on itself—outside of business hours, thankfully—we used to frequent a night called the Affair on Saturdays in the early aughts. At the Arch you could hear Tones on Tail and the Pixies, party with visiting cult celebrities, catch an art show at Misanthropy Gallery, and sing a little karaoke if your see page 20

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dancing shoes needed a rest. After a few too many of this syrupy, blood-red raspberry shooter called the Vampire, we’d prowl next door for karaoke and sing ‘Just Like Heaven’, ‘Creep’, or ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’. The ghosts of epic hangovers past still haunt me to this day. Pass me a water, please.” Seminal local influence: “I’ll never forget the Organ. Their record Grab That Gun is still essential listening, the perfect soundtrack for steelgrey Vancouver days. I saw them play just once, at the now defunct live venue meets salsa club Mesa Luna, on West Broadway. I loved their androgynous look and solemn intensity. In the press, they portrayed themselves as anxious introverts but when they steeled themselves to perform, the on-stage tension was totally compelling. On a related note, someone came up to me after an ACTORS show last year to say hello. We got chatting about playing music and she mentioned that a long time ago, she had been a member of a local postpunk band. We had not introduced ourselves fully at this point and I asked which band and she said the Organ. It was Shelby [Stocks], the drummer. Imagine my surprise!” ALEA CLARK is responsible for the delicate vocals and JEREMIAH ACKERMANN the complex drum-

ming of the New West art-rock trio Douse, which creates esoteric and emotive guitar-driven tracks. Favourite party memory (Clark): “On Halloween a few years ago, Jeremiah and I were too lazy to figure out costumes, so we dressed up as our bandmate Patrick [Farrugia]. We painted on facial hair, slicked back our hair badly, and threw on matching sweaters. When we showed up to Patrick’s house party with our corresponding mustache/ sideburn combo, everyone at the party broke out in laughter except Patrick himself. He was less than amused. It was probably our best group costume to date.” Seminal local influence (Ackerman): “All three of us have been huge fans of We Are the City for years. Watching them reinvent themselves from album to album, and seeing the

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got to open for SNFU and it was a bit surreal for me, definitely summoned up some teen-angst feelings. (I know that SNFU is Vancouver via Edmonton but whatever, shut up you old crusty Gen X–er.)” FRANCESCA BELCOURT writes her music on the hippie paradise of Cortes Island—at the north end of the Georgia Strait—and it sounds like it, too. With sweeping vocals and electronic beats, her songs are suitably ethereal and stirringly beautiful. Favourite party memory: “I went to a very special party that took place after a friend of mine accidentally hit a young deer that jumped out the bushes and into the road. My friends took the deer home and skinned it so we could all eat it together. The party took place in a barn the following evening, and all our buds came through in full medieval garb. We celebrated the life of the deer by cooking an incredible feast, drinking booze from goblets, and eating with our hands. Folks serenaded us with the accordion and double bass, and I sang wearing velvet.” Seminal local influence: “A lot of artists from Vancouver came to Cortes Island on tours. Some of my friends put together a show at the local hall when I was just beginning to perform at 14. Among them were Claire Mortifee, AstroLogical, Nick Wisdom, Slippery Elm, and A-Ro. They were all on mushrooms and took turns cyphering, mixing records, and playing their own beats. They graciously invited me on-stage towards the end of the show, where I got a taste of the thrill of freestyle singing at such a tender teenage time. It was pretty pivotal to be given that mike.” ART D’ECCO ’s debut album, Day Fevers, proudly plants its glamtastic f lag in an era when glitter was bought in bulk, androgyny was hotter than gold-dipped platform shoes, and Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco was the most fabled club on the Sunset Strip. Favourite party memory: “A few years ago I made a trip out to Montreal to visit some friends. After a long day of drinking in the old town, I met two lovely French-Canadian girls. They convinced me that the real Montsee next page

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She-Devils juxtapose darkness and light The duo of Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka borrows sounds from decades past to make sunny pop with a wounded heart As is often the case with creative

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in front of the camera, Audrey Ann Boucher wouldn’t exactly describe her younger self as a raging extrovert. “I’ve always had a fear of public speaking,” the She-Devils singer says, on the line from Montreal. “In school we would have to do oral presentations and I would literally get nauseous as I was waiting my turn because I was so nervous. That kind of followed when it came to making music, because you have to kind of improvise and tap into your subconsciousness.” For that reason, it took a while for the highly touted She-Devils to come together. Boucher first knew her now bandmate Kyle Jukka as a friend, the two of them hanging around a Montreal studio with other creatives. “One day we were just randomly playing on a sampler, not really with the idea of committing to anything,” Boucher recalls. “I had these lyrics that I’d written—more like a poem, I guess—a few days before, and I just started singing. At first we were like, ‘I hate this.’ But then we were like, ‘Let’s just give this a couple of days and think about it.’ ” That was the start of the two stumbling onto something wonderful with She-Devils, which this past May released a rapturously received, self-titled debut album. In Jukka, Boucher found a musician who grew up playing the piano but eventually became enamoured with both ambient artists and beatmakers. Initial She-Devils songs had him stitching together old pop and rock samples. Realizing that that would quickly get cost-prohibitive on the clearance front, the producer then set about creating his own material for She-Devils, and the result paid obvious tribute to the classic sounds of ’50s and ’60s pop while updating things for the Spotify generation. “Hey Boy” sounds like Nancy Sinatra buzzed on the Champs’ bump ’n’ grind classic “Tequila”, while “How Do You Feel” is made for a springtime-in-Paris mix tape featuring Françoise Hardy and Jane Birkin. “The angle that I’m coming from is that making music is kind of like being a painter,” Jukka says. “You’re trying to do something that’s unique but you also have the perspective that you’re stuck with. That combination creates something new sonically— something that characterizes what’s come before but without totally sounding like that thing. So when I make something that sounds like a campy pop song or like a ’60s rock ’n’ roll tune, I’ll come at it from a place where I’m going to play with it.” A large part of what makes SheDevils one of the most fascinating records of the year is the David Lynch– like juxtaposition of darkness and light. As beautifully sun-faded and retro as the acoustic-guitar-powered “Blooming” might be, that’s offset by Boucher pouring her wounded heart into lyrics like “I don’t want to go back home with you tonight/I think I might not be sure what I’m doing.” Unsurprisingly, then—and especially since Twin Peaks: The Return has become must-see TV this summer— the bandmates have found themselves grilled on their affection for director Lynch on more than one occasion. Perhaps that’s because the filmmaker is famously fascinated by how things look on the surface and the things that go on below. It’s proof that things are not always what they seem. “In my opinion, pop and rock music was so young in the ’50s and ’60s that its character was really simplistic,” Jukka says. “We’re coming at things in a different way. I think that any interesting art is charged by juxtaposition or opposing elements. That contrast is something that often leads to works that really have a lot of depth.”

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Farrell gets under the skin of traditional Irish ballads Daoirí Farrell is the most lauded

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emerge in recent years. This April, the bouzouki-playing Dubliner picked up a pair of prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and since then his career has shifted into a higher gear—with a hectic summer on the worldwide festival circuit, including a few gigs in Canada. His only show on the B.C. mainland will be in Harrison Hot Springs next week. Released in October, Farrell’s second album, True Born Irishman, is what set the U.K. and Irish folk scenes buzzing. His ability to get under the skin of a ballad is remarkable—the fruit of long years of hard work understanding and absorbing the elements of Ireland’s extraordinary heritage of song. “I started out as a boy playing the bodhrán [frame drum], then got into the guitar. I stopped after I began serving my time as an electrician, but I was always wondering what it would have been like if I’d played Irish music, so I began doing that— on mandolin at first, then I progressed onto banjo, playing at pub sessions. A couple of years passed by, and I decided to go and study music—first in Dublin, then up in Dundalk, and then at the University of Limerick. Soon I had no thoughts about being an electrician.” Farrell is steeped in both the old unaccompanied Irish singing style, known as sean-nós, and the contemporary accompanied style of Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, and especially Christy Moore, who was an early inspiration. He became a regular at Dublin’s Góilín Traditional Singer’s Club, which meets every Friday night to share songs. Farrell became known in particular for his singing of the great sporting ballad “The Creggan White Hare”, one of the tracks on his 2009 debut, The First Turn. It took seven more years of study before Farrell felt ready to enter the studio again to record True Born Irishman, a spectrum of songs ranging from comic to tragic. His rendition of the 200-year-old ballad “Van Diemen’s Land” justly earned the BBC Radio 2 prize for best traditional song. Farrell’s clear, penetrating, and beautifully modulated voice brings out the drama and emotion of the story—concerning three poachers sentenced to 14 years of slave labour in Tasmania—without in any way forcing the words. “It’s a fantastic song, up there with > MIKE USINGER ‘The Creggan White Hare’ for me,” says Farrell. “I try to sing it every day She-Devils play the Biltmore Cabaret if I can. I like to have a great variety on Monday (July 10). of songs to draw from. What they all

have in common is that when I sing them I close me eyes. I need to be able to see the story, and convince myself first of all. When a singer means every word—something that takes a couple of years of listening to really understand—then it’s an amazing experience. Everything comes into it: how you sing, what the song’s about, and whether you really believe in it. Singers like that command your attention, and keep it—and that’s what I always want to achieve.” > TONY MONTAGUE

Daoirí Farrell performs on Tuesday (July 11) at the Harrison Festival of the Arts, which runs from Saturday (July 8) to July 16 in Harrison Hot Springs.

“We started doing this when we were pretty young,” Grote says with a laugh. “It’s only recently that we’ve been able to figure out what we’re doing in the studio. Same with songwriting. I think it’s a case that, when you’re making art, you’re happy at first you managed to make anything at all. And then you start to hold it to a higher standard.” While Grote is selling himself short when it comes to the band’s accomplishments (A Flourish and a Spoil was one of the great records of 2015), there’s no doubt that the Districts have indeed shown growth on Popular Manipulations. Where the record will resonate most with fans of reverbed posteverything alt-rock is the way that Grote opens himself up on a personal front. Sacrifices have indeed been made for the Districts; at a time when some of his friends are graduating with degrees, he’s somewhere near broke. Not that he wants to be seen as complaining, which is to say it’s important to listen when he sings “Too blessed to be depressed, thank Jesus” in the distortion-glazed opener, “If Before I Wake”. “I have mixed feelings about the narrative of music being this means of therapeutically processing one’s emotions,” Grote says. “That is definitely the case a lot of the time and it definitely works. But sometimes making a song is, for us, a purely nonemotional thing—it’s more of an intellectual and fun process. There’s definitely personal stuff in there, but I don’t always like to harp on the details. There’s already enough privileged white guys who like to complain about their problems in music.”

of Philadelphia’s the Districts. To listen to the four-piece’s bracing new album Popular Manipulations is to conclude that some heavy shit went down over the past couple of years. Reached at home in the city where the Liberty Bell resides, the singerguitarist doesn’t deny that. And really, there’s no way he could, considering lyrics like “Tonight I considered going out with my friends/I even dialled a cab” from the incandescent confessional “Airplane”. “A lot of things happened since the last record,” Grote says, referring to the 2015 sophomore album, A Flourish and a Spoil. “After we put it out we toured for most of that year, which was really strenuous on relationships both friendwise and romantically. Every one of us went through any number of ups and downs. Then there were family things where people died. Trying to deal with all that stuff while not really being at home a lot was difficult.” But the frontman is quick to point out that, in many ways, he’s been blessed despite the difficult times. The Districts came together when Grote and his bandmates Connor Jacobus (bass) and Braden Lawrence (drums) were still in high school, much of the marvelling over early albums and EPs directly tied into the young age of the guys who made them. Since then the group—which now includes guitarist Pat Cassidy—has toured steadily, gaining valuable insights into the differences that make > MIKE USINGER the planet such a fascinating place, both in North America and overseas in Europe. As with any transformative The Districts play the Cobalt on Saturexperience, there was personal growth. day (July 8).

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Wolf’s brand of future bass evokes nostalgia Instead of relying on heavy drops, the New York City–based producer employs traditional song structures and emotive melodies Three years ago, electronicproducer Jai Wolf was writing beats in his parents’ basement. Boasting just 5,000 followers, the artist was struggling to motivate himself to graduate college, and finding it even harder to push out his music. That changed when an EDM heavyweight anchored his set at the U.K.’s largest festival with the then 22-year-old’s track. “I created a bootleg of Skrillex’s ‘Ease My Mind’,” the artist, born Sajeeb Saha, tells the Straight from his New York City home. “I showed it to my friend SAV from the group Fight Clvb, and he just happened to play it for Skrillex. I had no idea that was happening. The first I heard of it was when someone told me that he’d dropped it at Glastonbury festival. He started playing it out at some of his really big shows, and a few months later his label OWSLA signed it officially. It’s crazy to think that it reached so many people so quickly.” In a landscape saturated by similar sounds, it’s little wonder that Saha’s distinctive brand of future bass piqued the superstar’s interest. While other stadiumworthy performers might race for the heaviest drop or the rawest drum programming, the artist focuses his sound on tight songwriting and a desire to evoke nostalgia in his audience. “I’m definitely drawn to more emotional-sounding melodies,” he says. “I like to think I create music that has the ability to take people back to a certain time or place in their memories, and can tap into that kind of mood. Drops can be cool because they bring a lot of energy to shows. But I think that just having drop after drop can get tiresome, so I try to write music in a more traditional song structure. I like to imagine what it would be like to listen to the song 10 years from now. The things that stick around are the ones that aren’t indicative of a certain era, but allow people to explore their feelings.” Born in Bangladesh before growing up in New York, Saha has recently begun investigating new musical avenues. Tapping into his heritage, the young producer’s desire to push for nostalgia in his audience stems in large part from an exploration of his own past. Listening to a lot of South Asian music during his early adolescence, Saha incorporated its rhythms and melodies into his latest work for breakout track “Indian Summer”: an exotic, melismatic single that—thanks to a co-sign from Odesza’s label Foreign Family Collective—has racked up more than 15 million plays on SoundCloud alone. True to the producer’s aim to supercharge his music with emotion, the track was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers to soundtrack icon Kobe Bryant’s last game in the NBA.

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Clockwise from left: Jai Wolf, Andrew Luce, and Lophiile play FVDED in the Park, and also enjoy being faded in the park.

“Right now I don’t think my heritage plays too much of a role in my discography as a whole, but I’m open to pursuing it in the future for sure,” he says. “That kind of music seems to be going over well. It was really surreal to see a sports superstar walk out to something I wrote in my basement.”

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Jai Wolf plays at FVDED in the Park at Holland Park on Saturday (July 8).

Luce emphasizes longevity over trendy EDM sounds While most 15-year-olds were around behind the bike sheds, worrying about how to calm their acne and hitting on their lab partner in chemistry class, Andrew Luce was hanging out backstage with Tiësto, Dillon Francis, and Snoop Dogg. Plucked from obscurity to play giant EDM festival Snowglobe in 2013, the precocious teenager credits the experience as the moment that he went all-in on writing electronic music. “That was my first real show as a producer or a DJ,” Luce tells the Straight on the line from a Phoenix, Arizona, tour stop. “I submitted one of my first mixes to a contest that Snowglobe was holding, and a lot of people must have voted for my submission. Being in that backstage area with these huge artists, something definitely clicked for me. I was like, ‘Wow, this is actually something that you can achieve if

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you keep pushing for it.’” Since then, the young artist has been prolific. Balancing high-school classes with putting out a new track or remix every week, Luce has explored everything from early-’00s hip-hop arrangements to aggressive dubstep to the soft saxophone rhythms of recent original “Loyalty”. Now only 19, the performer is ready to head into a new phase of writing. “I realized recently that I fell into this mindset of feeling like I needed to have some kind of EDM influence in my music just to keep a foot in that world,” he says. “Since then, I’ve killed all my old bad habits in my writing. If you take Kendrick Lamar’s new album or Frank Ocean’s latest record, or any of these big artists, what I notice is that they’re not really using any crazy new sounds. They’re just making really good songs. Electronic music tends to flow in trends—in 2012 it was all about the ‘wobbs’ of dubstep, then it was trap music, and now it’s the turn of future bass. I definitely took elements of those movements and put them into my music, so much so that when I go back and listen to my 2012 electronic tracks, they sound dated—and they honestly give me a headache. “A track has longevity when it is built on excellent songwriting, not just because it’s made up of sounds that people hadn’t heard before,” he continues. “Moving forward, that’s what I’m focused on. If I’m going to release music under my own name—if Andrew Luce is me, and not just a project—then I want to completely stand behind

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everything that I put out.” One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the high-energy DJ sets that won Luce his start at Snowglobe, before propelling him to firstclass festivals like Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival. Regularly performing alongside names like NGHTMRE, Datsik, and Zeds Dead, the youngster continues to eschew the typical path of a teenager, passing over college in pursuit of his dream. “I’ve recently moved down to Los Angeles so I can spend all of my time creating new records and working on my DJing,” the former Bay Area resident says. “Music is a full-time thing for me. It’s an obsession.” > KATE WILSON

Andrew Luce plays at FVDED in the Park at Holland Park on Saturday (July 8).

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upon some old-school equipment, the multigenre musician got his first taste of success after working as an intern at Atlantic Records. While most in his position spent their days fetching coffee and photocopying, Acord enjoyed a chance meeting with an electronicmusic superstar that helped propel him toward success. “I was mainly pulling in orders and taking out trash, but I got to be in the studio environment,” he recalls. “One time, Skrillex came in with Ellie Goulding to work on a track. The engineer on the session didn’t really have much to do because Skrillex does a lot of the work himself. So the engineer let me take over the studio as an intern, and I was in charge of all the recording. That started a relationship with him. I was about 20, I had braces, and I looked terrible— but me and Skrillex really hit it off.” The bond stalled briefly while Acord went out on the road with his new band, Issues—a nu-metal group beefed up by the producer’s electronic stabs—before the pair connected years later, culminating in numerous writing sessions. In the meantime, Acord honed his craft in everything from amped-up future bass to brooding R&B, collaborating with artists across a spectrum of genres and talents. “The thing I get most excited about is writing with someone else who has skills that I’m maybe not the dopest at,” the producer says. “I like working with people who really complement me. When you get in a room with two people that do the exact same sort of thing it can come out well, but I’m very interested in projects that arise from a puzzle-piece mindset—where we can fit together to fill in the blanks. The songs that come out of those sessions are just way more interesting.” Recently changing his recording name from Scout to Lophiile in order to take his music in new directions, Acord hasn’t completely abandoned collaboration—his recent releases include a partnership with Grammy nominee Gallant— but the 26-year-old feels finally ready to dedicate himself more fully to his own projects. “It was always my first goal to do stuff for other artists, but never my dream,” he says. “As simple as it sounds, I just wanted to practise. I wanted to get better at my craft. I know that I can remix—I can always solve any problem or figure anything out when I’m working in that mode. I’m excited to use that experience to be just as successful with my own songs and make sure there’s more to Lophiile.”

complex tracks is—paradoxically—to keep it simple. “The best music is just melody and groove,” the jazz-school-trained musician born Tyler Acord tells the Straight on the line from his Los Angeles home. “I know it sounds so easy and broad, but it took a long time to get there—to figure out that those are > KATE WILSON the two things that I needed to think about and to actually perfect them.” Getting into production as a Lophiile plays at FVDED in the Park at young child after his dad happened Holland Park on Friday (July 7). pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $2530, info www.indiansummerfest.ca/.

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SABRINA CARPENTER American indie-pop singer-songwriter and actor performs on her De-Tour, with guests Alex Aiono and New Hope Club. Jul 6, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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BEATLEMANIA ON TOUR Live Beatles tribute act features authentic costumes and replica instruments. Jul 6, 8-10 pm, Bell Performing Arts Centre (6250 144th St.). Tix $50/22, info www.beatlemaniaontour.com/. FVDED IN THE PARK Urban music festival features performances by the Chainsmokers, Wiz Khalifa, PartyNextDoor, Dillon Francis, Ty Dolla $ign, Yellow Claw, Getter, Russ, What So Not, NGHTMRE, Matoma, Madeintyo, Lost Frequencies, Louis the Child, Vanic, Jai Wolf, Kyle, BadBadNotGood, the Funk Hunters, Claptone, Lane 8, 24hrs, Zaytoven, Nebu Kiniza, Nora En Pure, Jax Jones, Harrison Brome, Brasstracks, Night Lovell, Boogie, B Traits, Lophiile, Andrew Luce, So Loki, Kempeh, and Live Evil. Jul 7-8, Holland Park (King George Hwy. & Old Yale Rd., Surrey). Info www.fvdedinthepark.com/.

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SAY HELLO 2 HEAVEN: A CHARITY CONCERT FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION A charity concert for the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of B.C. features the music of Chris Cornell and performances by BOG, Left Spine Down, Dirty Debbie, Fuck Gunz, the Waning Light, Chris Olson, and the Ring. Jul 7, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15/10, info www.facebook. com/events/1883881591885054/. KHATSAHLANO STREET PARTY Music by the Zolas, the Courtneys, D.O.A., Louise Burns, War Baby, Roots Roundup, Malcolm Jack, Jody Glenham, the Wooden Horsemen, Twin Bandit, Douse, Art D’Ecco, Peach Pit, Francesca Belcourt, V. Vecker Ensemble, Actors, Johnny Payne, Minimal

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DYLAN CRAMER AND RON JOHNSTON Vancouver jazz saxophonist and Canadian jazz pianist celebrate 20 years together. Jul 8, 7-9 pm, Brentwood Presbyterian Church (1600 Delta Ave., Burnaby). Tix $20 at the door, info www.dylancramer.com/. HERE IS WHERE WE MEET As part of the Indian Summer Festival, Grammywinning artists L. Subramaniam and Ernie Watts present a program that combines

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 30, 2017 WHERE: Playground @ Granville Loop Park

Hanging out with my daughters today at the playground at Granville Loop Park (west 5th ave, near granville bridge). you came at about 7pm ish with your young son in your baby carrier. Your son tried to play with my girls in the green truck. You asked how old my kids were and I asked you the same. You’re a really hot dad and a total treat for the eyes (blonde hair and incredible smile). It’s so uncommon to see such a good looking man with such a beautiful happy smile and perfect teeth. I was really taken aback by your good looks and especially that smile. You should smile like that all the time. It makes the world a better place. boy have i been hitting up the wrong playgrounds ; )

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JANUARY 15, 2017 WHERE: Kingsway Pho Me and my friend were sitting at the table beside yours after a solid night of dancing around 4am(ish). We started chatting and I couldn’t keep my eyes off your tatts and hella attractive smile! You told me that you had just moved back to eastvan from the states and treated my friend and I to the fried chicken that you swore by :) I didn’t get a chance to grab you number bcos we left in a rush to catch our cab (which ended up not being ours lol). I would love to meet up for another pho session? ;)

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OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK HARRISON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS The 39th annual event features a children’s day, art exhibits, an artisan market, workshops, and music by Shred Kelly, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Ilam, Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, Chouk Bwa Libète, Filippo Gambetta and Emilyn Stam, Henrique Cazes and Canadioca, Cris Derksen, Yann Falquet and Pascal Gemme, Hillsburn, Pharis and Jason Romero and Stephen Fearing, Paul McKenna and Rura, Small Glories, Coco Jafro, Daoirí Farrell, Boyd Benjamin and Kevin Barr, Kokoma, Zeellia, Beny Esguerra and New Tradition, Coig, Adonis Puentes and the Voice of Cuba Orchestra, Colin Linden, Buckman Coe, Diyet, and Boris Sichon. Jul 8-16, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C.. Info www.harrisonfestival.com/.

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Sips from B.C.’s backyard Here are a few prime picks perfect for a sunny lead-up to B.C. Day long weekend

hat better way to enjoy this sunny stretch between Canada Day and B.C. Day than toasting the summer with wine from our own backyard? This week, a column jam-packed with British Columbian gems. Prices are winerydirect, so expect them to be a few bucks more by the time they make it to local store shelves. GRAY MONK ODYSSEY ROSÉ BRUT 2015 ($17.39, www.graymonk.

com/) There clearly has to be some sort of mistake here, as this traditionalmethod sparkling wine is a ridiculous bargain that can be found on B.C. Liquor Store shelves for a mere $18.49. Pop the cork to enjoy cheery cranberry and red-currant notes, dusted with a little sage and white pepper on the quite dry finish.

SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY NV CIPES BRUT ROSÉ ($30.48,

www.summerhill.bc.ca/) Made entirely from Pinot Noir grapes sourced from various sites across the Okanagan Valley, this nuanced and elegant sparkler carries pink-lemonade flavours with notes of buttery shortbread, allowing for a rich and creamy mouthfeel. Lovely stuff.

Authentic Greek Food B.C. bottles of note: Summerhill Pyramid Winery NV Cipes Brut Rosé, Harper’s Trail Silver Mane Block Riesling 2016, Laughing Stock Vineyards Syrah 2015. CLOS DU SOLEIL FUMÉ BLANC 2016 ($20.90, www.closdusoleil.ca/)

This Sauvignon Blanc, grown in the Similkameen Valley, carries all the citrus one could want, bursting with lemon, lime, pink grapefruit, and pomelo with shimmering acidity and gleaming minerality. So fresh, so summery.

ST. HUBERTUS AND OAK BAY ESTATE WINERY CHASSELAS 2015

($19.50, www.st-hubertus.bc.ca/) A unique flavour profile comes from www.harperstrail.com/) Wines like this Swiss grape variety, with loads of this make me think Kamloops is white flowers, young coconut, guava, potentially poised and a slightly offto be the Next dry finish. Big Thing in B.C. SINGLETREE Riesling. This one Kurtis Kolt WINERY ROSÉ is fairly off-dry, making it a good match for spicy 2016 ($17.30, www.singletreewinery. fare. Lemon Pez candy and fresh- com/) The winery is based in the Frasqueezed lime are rubbed with a ser Valley, but the Pinot Noir in this little lemon balm and lime leaf. At dazzling pink is organically grown just a smidge over 10 percent alcohol, in West Kelowna. This is strolling in it won’t slow you down, even on the a strawberry patch, sun glinting in your eyes, birds chirping, the whole hottest of days. nine yards. Swoonworthy.

HARPER’S TRAIL SILVER MANE BLOCK RIESLING 2016 ($18.29,

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HOLLOW TRAGICALLY 2016 ($17, www.stags

hollowwinery.com/) The folks at Stag’s Hollow dub this wine tragic due to the penchant of many wine enthusiasts to dismiss the quality and potential of the Vidal variety because it’s a hybrid and not one of the noble Vitis vinifera varieties like Chardonnay, Riesling, or Sauvignon Blanc. Indeed, shrugging off a wine like this would have imbibers missing out on roasted peaches and mangoes, with a generous handful of sorrel and sage.

CHURCH & STATE VINDICATION VINEYARD PINOT NOIR 2014

($40, www.churchandstatewines.com/) I tend to associate Oliver’s Church & State Winery with robust reds built from Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and the like. This Pinot Noir is a (certainly welcome) departure from their usual nature, sourced from the Skaha Bench just outside of Penticton. Stewed cherries and a few flecks of Tahitian vanilla bean give this wine an amiable profile, with perfumed raspberries and just a hint of spice on the finish. Do serve

this one with a light chill on it; those flavours will be a little bit brighter. LAUGHING STOCK VINEYARDS SYRAH 2015 ($35.99, www.laughing

stock.ca/) Sourced at Laughing Stock’s Perfect Hedge Vineyard in Osoyoos desert country, the hot 2015 vintage ensures plenty of ripeness in the wine’s mulberries, blackberries, and black cherries. Further sips see the layers start peeling back. One of them has quite the baking rack of spices, heavy on the cloves and cardamom. The next layer echoes the wild, scrubby sagebrush that grows around the vines, giving all of the fruit and spice a nice, airy lift . Going back to the glass, there are defi nite cola notes I hadn’t noticed in previous vintages. I’m not talking saccharine-sweet Coca-Cola but more those old-timey craft colas that are more about the spice than the sweet. Finally, there’s a good lashing of heat carrying it all—not too surprising, figuring the wine clocks in at almost 15-percent alcohol. Syrah can be a tough go in the Okanagan; the vines can be susceptible to winter damage. Winery owners David and Cynthia Enns are fully committed to the variety, however. In fact, you can head to their website and watch a short video of them profi ling their investment in the grape. A little warning, though. Once you see images of their stunning vineyard and property, you’ll likely fi nd yourself wanting to pack your bags for an Okanagan road trip. Hey, it’s July: maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea. -

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There’s much ado these days about a CanBY JANET SM IT H

adian musical, Come From Away, making it big on Broadway and scooping a Tony Award for direction earlier this month. But what many people forget, or don’t know, is that just over a decade ago, another subversive little Canuck musical pulled off the same magic. Written by Bob Martin and Don McKellar as a wedding present to Martin’s wife, it was first staged off the beaten track in Toronto’s storied Rivoli bar back in 1998. A long, winding, and unlikely path led it to the bright lights of Broadway by 2006, nabbing it five Tony Awards and the chance to go on to England, Australia, and Japan. All that, says veteran musical director and actor Gillian Barber, makes her staging of The Drowsy Chaperone at Theatre Under the Stars this year an apt nod to Canada’s big anniversary. “We did want to piggyback on the 150th birthday by celebrating Canada and its own uniqueness,” she tells the Straight from her Vancouver home before heading to the park for rehearsals, “and the uniqueness of this story really fascinated me as an individual. Drowsy Chaperone was huge at the time!” The offbeat play-within-a-play is not your regular Theatre Under the Stars musical either (though it alternates in repertory this summer with the classic Mary Poppins). As Barber puts it: “I did Jesus Christ Superstar here [in 2008] and that was another darker piece. I am a director who doesn’t shy away from darkness.” In The Drowsy Chaperone, a middle-aged, semidepressed character known only as Man in Chair tries to chase the blues away by listening to his

Reawakening a Canadian hit

In The Drowsy Chaperone, Man in Chair (Shawn Macdonald, with Shannon Hanbury, Stuart Barkley, and Caitriona Murphy) conjures a musical. Tim Matheson photo.

has to be real. You start Bowl stage in Stanley Park, TUTS stands as the with it based on truth ultimate training ground for emerging musicaland then put in the theatre stars, says Barber, who sits on the board comedic elements. It’s and runs its educational committee. worked really well lay“We love for our students to work with TUTS ering it, I would say.” because it really is a microcosm for us,” she says of Just over a decade after The Drowsy Chaperone made it big on That means the her rising Cap U talents. “If you can work on that Broadway, Theatre Under the Stars stages the loving parody show is the ultimate outdoor stage and hold one great single note and triple-threat musical, breathe in a bug, then you can perform anywhere. favourite guilty pleasure: a fictional 1928 musical demanding acting chops as well as Jazz Age The moths really are scary out here!” called The Drowsy Chaperone. In his dreary New singing and dancing skills. Three Equity acYork apartment, the glitzy story comes to life, rife tors, including the well-known local comedic Theatre Under the Stars alternates The Drowsy with all the stock characters of the golden age of actor Macdonald, head the Drowsy cast. But as Chaperone with Mary Poppins from Friday (July 7) musicals: a pampered Broadway starlet, her debon- in its seven-plus decades at the historic Malkin to August 19 at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. air groom, a Latin lover, a gangster duo who double Fun facts about TUTS’s Mary Poppins as pastry chefs, and more. It’s a hilariously clever parody of the form, but also a loving tribute to its At Theatre Under the Stars this summer, The transportive powers that speaks to musical-theatre Drowsy Chaperone (see story above) runs in repgeeks everywhere. ertory with Mary Poppins, the Broadway musical “Shawn Macdonald, who plays Man in the based on the beloved 1964 film of the same name. Chair, and I had so many discussions about how You may be well-acquainted with songs like “Chim the play is a reflection of his thoughts and also his Chim Cher-ee” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”, but here are some fun facts most desired dream—to have love come to him,” about the TUTS production you might not know: Barber says. “Man in the Chair, he’s actually the • Vancouver’s Ranae Miller, who performs the title role, knows all about director; his imagination is what’s making them spoonfuls of sugar. The actor (right, Tim Matheson photo) runs Something dance. He says at the beginning he’s never seen the Sweet Patisseries and bakes cakes, cupcakes, and pies from her home. musical, only heard it.” For Barber, who directed a 2014 version of The • Olivia the Brussels Griffon, the pooch that plays Willoughby, is becomDrowsy Chaperone at Capilano University, where ing an old hand on-stage; he was also in Rumpelstiltskin at the Deep she helped found the musical-theatre program, Cove Shaw Theatre. the 1920s just continue to hold an allure. • Nine-year-old Nolen Dubuc, who is making his debut as Michael Banks, “I’ve always said I was born in the wrong era,” has been a lifelong TUTS superfan, attending the historic outdoor theatre the busy fi lm and stage actor says with a laugh. with his family since he was two years old. “Funny enough, I’ve directed so many shows set in the 1920s it feels like I’m coming home.” • If you recognize Mr. Banks in this Mary Poppins, it’s probably because What she learned from the previous staging and you’ve seen him playing Mr. Berty, the English teacher of Bella Swan and is digging into more this time is that, even though Edward Cullen in the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The Drowsy Chaperone has elements of a larger> JANET SMITH than-life musical, it needs real emotional grounding to work—especially with Man in Chair. “It all

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Editor’s choice FIN DE FIESTA It’s the end of a castanet-clacking, foot-stomping era, as Centro Flamenco, one of the city’s oldest schools of the Spanish art form, prepares to shut its doors. Founded by dancer Rosario Ancer and guitarist Victor Kolstee way back in 1989, the school has left a legacy of incredible flamenco talent in the city. The grand Fin de Fiesta show that will act as its final curtain call will highlight all the skill that’s been passed on to the community over the decades, with performances by the school’s professionalprogram dancers, interpreting Ancer’s Reflexiones, and by Centro Flamenco dancers, in works by Ancer, Veronica (Bonnie) Stewart, Afifa Eidher, and Sula Boxall. Come out to say adios. Centro Flamenco presents Fin de Fiesta on Saturday (July 8) at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Five events you just can’t miss this week

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (To September 16 on the Howard Family Stage at Bard on the Beach) Hard-hitting themes in a 2017-set rendition of Shakespeare’s explosive work.

OATH-MIDNIGHT RAIN (July 6 and 7 at the Firehall Arts Centre) Beijing Modern Dance’s epic, hypnotic work on an intimate stage.

LANDMARKS (To July 15 at SFU Woodward’s) A thought-provoking exhibit that looks critically and diversely at Canada 150 and beyond.

CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN (To October 1 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Escape into a gorgeous oasis of lily pads and roses.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (July 12 to 23 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre) Hey, you have to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s chandelier-crashing megahit once in your life.

In the news ARTS UMBRELLA GOES DUTCH The Arts Umbrella Dance Company is taking Europe by storm, reports artistic director Artemis Gordon (left). She spoke to the Straight right after a sold-out gig met with a standing ovation at a new Nederlands Dans Theater venue in The Hague. “The general director of NDT just came on the bus to tell us how fantastic we are,” she said after the performance of a work by local choreographer Lesley Telford. “These Canadian kids are making us proud.” Earlier, the 42 emerging dancers took a master class with NDT associate choreographer Marco Goecke. The trip, which started on June 20 and ends Sunday (July 9), has been a whirlwind of workshops, classes, and performances at places like the Holland Festival, ITS Festival, and the Julidans Festival. Meanwhile, they’ve also been taking in a busy calendar of dance performances, including Crystal Pite’s Betroffenheit, which hit the Dutch capital this week. The exposure is getting the troupe noticed by European companies and luring top choreographers here. Dancer Kyle Clarke, in fact, is signed to join NDT 2, the Dutch company’s second division, after the tour. Says Gordon: “There’s a momentum now, learning everybody is talking about you now.” JULY 6 – 13 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 29

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ow do you even start to convey the life of Kiyoko Tanaka-Goto, a JapaneseCanadian woman who defied so many conventions and whose experiences could fill several different books and movies? The until-now little-known Powell Street resident of the early 20th century was, among other things, a tofu farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, a picture bride, a brothel owner, a mother, a moonshine purveyor, and an internment resister. At Spatial Poetics XVI: Kiyo, artists will try to bring her life to light through an immersive, one-night multimedia installation with oneon-one performances in different â&#x20AC;&#x153;roomsâ&#x20AC;? created in the Vancouver Buddhist Temple. In other words, the show, subtitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honouring the living memory of invisible livesâ&#x20AC;?, takes a highly unconventional approach to a highly unconventional woman. A team of fourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;performance artist Ayumi Goto, composer and double bassist Mark Haney, actor Julie Tamiko Manning, and theatre artist Lisa C. Ravensbergenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has spent a year researching and creating a multilayered show that attempts to capture the many dimensions of the figure. Mark Takeshi McGregor and Emiko Morita curated the experimental event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all very different artists and different people and it was interesting discovering this woman together,â&#x20AC;? says Ravensbergen, who traces her heritage to Ojibwa and Swampy Cree, as well as English and Irish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enlivened a creative space within each of us performers.â&#x20AC;ŚBut how it manifested has been incredibly organic and incredibly satisfying, truly collaborative, and artistically rigorous at every level.â&#x20AC;? The team worked from research funded by the Powell Street Festival to find out more about Tanaka-Goto,

Lisa C. Ravensbergen was among four artists who worked on honouring Kiyoko Tanaka-Goto, one of local historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unconventional female figures.

who was born in 1896 in Tokyo and died 80 years later in Vancouver. The artists accessed a rich archive of belongingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;shoes, dresses, and hatsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the Nikkei National Museum and Culture Centre; there were also photos and recorded interviews with her, many of which are being integrated into the multimedia installation. For Ravensbergen, it was important to honour the Coast Salish protocols of witnessing. When visitors enter the immersive show, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be brought into a sort of holding area that will echo the Japanese-Canadian experience of internment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The temple has open windows and the neighbourhood sounds will come into the space. And they will hear the sound of her [TanakaGotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] voice speaking in Japanese. So this is also an aural space,â&#x20AC;? Ravensbergen explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were also thinking about containment and containers and how women were placed in containers in society. Kiyo

really owned those containers: she lived in an SROâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in one roomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and she raised a child.â&#x20AC;? While audience members wait for their turns in the series of â&#x20AC;&#x153;roomsâ&#x20AC;?, each representing a different stage in her life, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to witness what is going on in those spaces through the half-skirts of traditional Japanese noren (slit fabric dividers) over the doorways. With the visuals, the surprise encounters in each room, and the sounds of Tanaka-Gotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, the show offers an experience as unique as its subject. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love that we live in a city where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room for a project like this,â&#x20AC;? Ravensbergen says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to create a space of creativity within the audience and play with theatre, with memory.â&#x20AC;? The Powell Street Festival Society presents Spatial Poetics XVI: Kiyo at the Vancouver Buddhist Temple on Saturday (July 8) at 7:30 p.m.

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o dance artist Gerry Morita, an RV is not just a recreational vehicle. It is also what she calls “a self-contained performance pop-up machine”. Parking her 1977 Dodge Tioga in various spots in Edmonton, Morita has performed dance in and around the vehicle in everything from empty industrial lots to church parking lots. Now she’s getting behind the wheel to bring her road show here to Vancouver’s Dancing on the Edge festival, albeit probably in a rented RV this time. “With mine [the Tioga], the mileage is two kilometres per litre,” she sighs to the Straight over the phone from her Alberta hometown. “I had a lot of mechanical problems last year, too; I would fix something, then something else would go.” Such are the challenges when you perform as much site-specific dance as the Mile Zero Dance artistic director has over her career. She says she’s interested in creating happenings, conjuring surreally beautiful tableaux with her dance partners (here, Lin Snelling), a rotating roster of live musicians (including Michael Reinhart, Lan Tung, and prOphecy sun here), and whatever weird and wonderful setting she’s chosen for parking her retro RV. “In Edmonton, there was this old smokestack, this big phallic thing standing there on this lot that was going to be converted to condos. It was hilarious because there were really rough piles of dirt they were getting ready to excavate,” she remembers of one site. “It looked like we had parked at the end of the world and decided to live there. There was a generator and we had electronic music. It was a surreal escape, to take very ugly spaces and make transformative moments. “Not that I’m disillusioned by theatre,” she adds, “but sometimes I get frustrated by the limits of theatre, especially in the summer when people want to be outside anyway. I like the variety site-specific work offers me, and then things like the natural sky and elements of outside that are not reproducible.” Having live music is key, she says. “It makes it have this feel of being at some kind of Burning Man offshoot. Without it, it’s like ‘Who are these weirdos?’ ” Morita has a sense of humour about it all, but RV There Yet? is not all a joke: as the two dancers move through the windows and doors of the vehicle, playing with some of the camping props from inside it, deeper themes do emerge. “There’s a place in the States called Slab City where people park their RVs, and it’s kind of like a no man’s land

From wrestling to Lucille Ball, Funches mixes it up > B Y G U Y M A C PHERSON

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Mile Zero Dance’s RV There Yet? rolls into unexpected locales in Vancouver this week. Tracey Kolenchuk photo.

where people don’t want to be found; they’re running away—or they’re just retired,” she says. “It’s this building of space in a mobile way that is really interesting to me. “Then there’s this whole inside-outside thing, too, which is appealing to me on lots of levels. Women’s spaces are in the home, but here this space is visible with people inside it. Things that are normally private are visible.” No matter what level you enjoy it on, one thing is clear: RV There Yet? will be a trip—or, at least, a camping trip— like no other. Dancing on the Edge presents RV There Yet? around town at four surprise locations from Tuesday (July 11) to July 14; look for the show’s Facebook page or keep your eyes peeled for an RV at local parks and industrial sites.

got into a fistfight at a pot store in Vancouver. I like it there; it’s fun.” Sounds like a comedic non sequitur, but Ron Funches means it. Long a staple of the Portland comedy scene and now taking Hollywood by storm, the lovable and famously nice stoner always sees the bong as half full. A fellow patron at the aforementioned establishment seemed to be a connoisseur of all drugs, not just mellow marijuana. “They’re normally very relaxed places,” Funches says. “The guy there was being very rude and racist to the Asian clerk that was working there and it got under my skin. The next thing I know, I’m in a fistfight with the guy and he gave me a bloody lip and I got a free bag of weed. I love Vancouver!” For a time, Funches even considered moving north—until he read up on the homeless situation here. On the phone from his home in Los Angeles, he says, “I didn’t have any skills or a job, so I was like, ‘I’ll probably just go add to that.’ So I ended up not moving there. But it’s one of my favourite places to be because it’s so gorgeous.” Best known for his work on the NBC sitcom Undateable, Funches has also shared the screen with Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, and Bruce Willis. “I’ve been having the best of a Hollywood education, where I get to learn from a lot of the best,” he says. “I’m hoping that I can translate the little bit I’ve picked up from them and become a great actor. And continue working on my standup. That’s my main thing. I just don’t like to do one thing. I don’t like to be in a box.” A lifelong fan of wrestling (think WWE, not Greco-Roman), Funches brings a bit of the spectacle to his latest standup show, at least in the

You’ll never guess who comedian Ron Funches’s biggest influence is.

name. Funch-A-Mania promises no body slams, just quality jokes. “To me, the biggest event in entertainment is WrestleMania, so I would like to do a big event in comedy,” he says. The sport is very important in his daily life. He was at a wrestling night a week ago Monday. “I brought my girlfriend with me, which is always a good test of a relationship if she’s willing to go to wrestling. And she was. And she liked it. So we’re going to stay together.” Funches has an easygoing style, not unlike Todd Barry’s. But his biggest influence isn’t Barry or any of the usual suspects. He offers up Lucille Ball, unironically and unabashedly. “I feel like comedy is comedy. I Love Lucy was kind of my introduction to the world of comedy in general,” he says. “And when you look at the history of Lucille Ball, and the work that she did for women in Hollywood, having her own production company, and also showing an interracial marriage on TV in the ’50s, to me, she’s just one of my biggest influences overall as a human being. ” Ron Funches plays the Rio Theatre on Thursday (July 6).

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2ONGOING MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a jukebox musical inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. Directed by Bill Millerd. Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux. To Jul 16, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

BITTERGIRL: THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore’s musical that charts the romantic breakups of three women and the lively antics that ensue. To Jul 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s drama, set in modern-day Venice, that exposes the consequences of how we treat outsiders in our midst. To Sep 16, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardon thebeach.org/2017/the-merchant-of-venice/. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s tale of two best friends who are in love with the same woman. To Sep 17, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardonthebeach.org/2017/the-twogentlemen-of-verona/. DALI AND HOPPER The 54th Entertainment presents an Emilio Merritt (playwright and director) original play. The dramatic text brings a textured examination of young adults’ subconscious and how they deal with reality. Jul 5, and 6, 7:30pm; Jul 7 and 8, 8:30pm; Jul 9th, 1:30pm and 7:30pm, Vancity Culture Lab (the Cultch, 1895 Venables). Info www.thecultch. com/events/could-be-dali-but-its-hopper/. A WOMAN ALONE Franca Rame and Dario Fo’s play stars Nasrin Jamali in the story of a woman who’s locked in her apartment by a jealous husband and talks to her neighbour through the window. To Jul 8, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $10-30, info www.facebook. com/events/1835817639972518/.

DANCE 2THIS WEEK FLAMENCO, TANGO, AND WINE IN ONE NIGHT Event pairs dancing by the Argentine Tango Lab and Flamenco Rosario with music by the Gabriel Palatchi Band. Includes Argentinian wines, with an on-site sommelier. Jul 5, 7 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $30, info www.latincouver.ca/. DANCING ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL 2017 The 29th annual event pushes the frontiers of contemporary dance with performances by over 25 choreographers and over 80 dance artists. Participating dance companies include Aeriosa Dance and Spakwus Slulem, Alexandra Elliott Dance, All Bodies Dance Project, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Chick Snipper, Co.ERASGA and Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, Cori Caulfield and coriograph theatre, Daelik, Deanna Peters and Mutable Subject, Emmalena Fredriksson and Arash Khakpour, LINK Dance Foundation, Helen Simard, It Burns Hot and Fast, Julianne Chapple, Karen Jamieson Dance, and Carnegie Dance Troupe.. Jul 6-15, various Vancouver venues. Tix $24-28/by donation, info www.dancingontheedge.org/. FIN DE FIESTA, YEAR-END PERFORMANCE AND ADIÓS TO CENTRO FLAMENCO Flamenco Rosario professional training program dancers perform Rosario Ancer’s Reflexiones and Centro Flamenco dancers perform works choreographed by Rosario Ancer, Veronica (Bonnie) Stewart, Afifa Eidher, and Sula Boxall. Jul 8, 8 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $35/25 (plus service charges and fees), info www.flamencorosario.org/fin-de-fiesta/. ROBSON SQUARE SALSA 2017 Every Sunday afternoon, you can take in salsadance lessons (3-3:30 pm), dancing (3:30-7 pm), and shows (5-5:30 pm). Includes an after party featuring Hustle (Jul 9, Aug 6, and Aug 13), West Coast Swing (Jul 16 and 23), and Kizomba (Jul 30). Jul 9–Aug 13, Robson Square (800 Robson). Free admission, info www.sundayafternoonsalsa.com/. UNWRAPPING CULTURE As part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival, Co.ERASGA presents a duet by dance artists Alvin Erasga Tolentino and Pichet Klunchun. Jul 12-14, 8:30 pm, KW production studio (10 -111 W. Hastings). Info www.companyerasgadance.ca/en/ upcoming_events/event/428/.

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MOVIES REVIEWS THE BEGUILED Starring Nicole Kidman. Rated PG

Sofia Coppola’s dreamily set new film raises

2 the question of who is the beguiler and who

is the beguiled. When hunky wounded soldier McBurney (Colin Farrell) is taken in by a girls’ school during the American Civil War, he charms them into fits of blushing and jealous rivalry. But, under the strict control of their steely headmistress, Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), these polite residents might be more scheming than they seem. Ultimately, though, the main beguiler may be Coppola herself, who, through rich atmosphere and enigmatic characters, bewitches her audience. That’s because her taut little study of sexual tension is not too deep; like her Marie Antoinette, it doesn’t make grand political-historical statements. It even edges into genres like horror and

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Tightly corseted and steely, Nicole Kidman plays the headmistress of a Virginia girls school in a lush new take on Thomas Cullinan’s novel The Beguiled.

Director Sofia Coppola and star Nicole Kidman bring southern-gothic heat to their version of The Beguiled

The title refers to a fictional low-watt station in San Francisco, PARS-FM, that caters to Iranians and other homesick Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte–style melodrama. Set in Virginia, The Beguiled is lush with Span- expats in Northern California. Although the ish moss, the girls’ white-pillared residence replete place is nominally run by a wrestling-obsessed with waving lace curtains and flickering candel- businessman (Keyumars Hakim) and his abra. A chorus of crickets echoes in from outside, humourless daughter (glamorous Boshra Dastournezhad), its guiding light is the irascibly punctuated by the odd far-off cannon blast. Miss Martha makes it clear McBurney is an un- poetic Mr. Royami. This unlikely administrator welcome Union soldier who’ll be turned over to the is played by exiled singer-songwriter Mohsen Confederates as soon as his torn-up leg heals. But the Namjoo, whose long white mane and perpetunext thing you know, she’s giving him a sponge bath. ally skeptical expression make him look like Coppola has always had an interest in the hor- Frank Zappa by way of Sean Penn. The leonine manager rubs his hands with monal angst of teen girlhood, embodied most hot and heavily here by Elle Fanning’s Alicia. Those lotion whenever he’s most perplexed (which is urges are played compellingly off the more mature often), and he fills the airwaves with the words yearnings of Miss Martha, who wears her corseted of dead Salvadoran poets and new versions of linen like armour, and of the grim, melancholy old Soviet songs. He openly loathes the ads for teacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst). Both do far more hair removal and pizza—not from the same with their roles than the script gives them, retain- place—that pay the bills. But everyone else is excited about the upcoming on-air meeting being a delicious enigma about their motivations. Like so many of Coppola’s heroines, the women tween real-life rockers Kabul Dreams, Afghanhere are isolated and unfulfilled, forced into the istan’s first rock band (playing themselves), and decorative roles given to them by society—in this Bay Area stalwarts Metallica. British-based director Babak Jalali’s previous case, a Confederate South on the brink of collapse. (Even as the girls learn needlepoint and French, feature, Frontier Blues, was set on Iran’s borthe pristine mansion they’re living in is being der with Turkmenistan. And here he continues slowly swallowed by the encroaching wilderness.) casting a compassionate net over the wide varMuch has been made of Coppola’s choice to re- iety of ethnic groups, languages, and personalmove the black female slave character that played ity types that make up modern Persia and its such a pivotal role in Thomas Cullinan’s original restless neighbours. This is one reason Royami novel and in the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie based prefers a story read in untranslated Assyrian by on it. While that would have brought more com- the station’s elderly cleaning lady to a puff ball plexity and historical context to the story, this sur- interview with Miss Iran USA. The movie’s downbeat humour demands paprisingly dark little slice of southern gothic still tience, even at 95 minutes; it’s unclear whether beguiles with its not inconsiderable charms. > JANET SMITH some of the supporting characters could survive the real world if they really acted that RADIO DREAMS dumb. Still, it has a memorably funky look and Jalali’s set pieces usually pay off with a knowStarring Mohsen Namjoo. In Farsi, English, Dari, and ing punch line or funny aside. In the end, our Assyrian, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable hirsute antihero misses the big moment everyThe laid-back spirits of Jim Jarmusch, Wim one’s been waiting for. But like most displaced Wenders, and Christopher Guest inform Radio persons, he knows all too well that you can’t be Dreams, which follows an amusing batch of charac- everywhere at once. > KEN EISNER ters on a slow journey of (semi-) self-discovery.

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than it gets in The Journey, a poorly written twohander that’s just as dull as its forgettable name. The two, or we should say four, hands belong to Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall, playing Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness and Northern Ireland’s best-known demagogue, Ian Paisley, respectively. We know these bitter enemies buried the hatchet at a 2006 retreat in Scotland, but not quite how they did it. According to director Nick Hamm and screenwriter Colin Bateman, their film “imagines” what went on between the religious rivals. Pictorializing this requires an increasingly preposterous series of contrivances. The central gimmick has Protestant firebrand Paisley attempting to return to Belfast for his 50th wedding anniversary— on the first night of the conference?—but being stuck in a castle near Glasgow because planes are grounded by an intense storm that appears to consist of pale sun with a little drizzle. (The film was actually shot in Northern Ireland.) This necessitates the two leaders taking a forced car ride to Edinburgh, with almost no security in tow, and only a hired driver (Freddie Highmore) to prime their conversation. Of course, he’s actually MI5, and taking Bluetooth orders from his chief (the late John Hurt), who helpfully includes an overview of Irish history in his earpiece briefings. Also back at the castle is Prime Minister Tony Blair (Toby Stephens—maybe Michael Sheen wasn’t available), who explains to the grumbling left-behinds that this subterfuge was crucial to the cause of peace. The others—including Braveheart’s Catherine McCormack, reduced to a few expositional lines—are too polite to remind the PM that he is, at that very moment, poodling up to Bush in the pointless Iraq War. These bits are brief, however, as most of the tale’s 90 minutes are devoted to that seemingly realtime car ride. The most interesting dialogue happens there, of course, although Star Trek veteran Meaney acts all folksy as the Catholic IRA man while Spall is stiff and theatrical behind heavy see next page

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year, the sequel to director Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit came and went with little fanfare; the Rio Theatre thinks it’s worth a second look. Screening on Saturday and Monday (July 8 and 10).

Boys’ “Hey Ladies” video to episodes of Fargo and 30 Rock, Adam Bernstein is a hell of a score for the DGC’s latest, at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (July 8).

BEST OF HOT DOCS: CHASING CORAL Director Jeff Orlowski follows 2012’s

glacier doc Chasing Ice with a related look at the tragedy of coral bleaching, with panel discussion to follow at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (July 9).

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES The Japanese new wave coughed up an epic pop-psyche mindfuck in the shape of Funeral Parade of Roses, a queer version of Oedipus Rex located in Tokyo’s gay subculture of the late ’60s. Now restored, it comes to the Cinematheque for a week of screenings starting Saturday (July 8), accompanied on July 10 and 13 by the film it directly influenced: A Clockwork Orange.

aging makeup and giant buckteeth. The filmmakers seem determined to distract us from their playlike approach by constantly introducing sillier reasons to get these guys out of the car. They may succeed, instead, in driving people out of the theatre. > KEN EISNER

13 MINUTES Starring Christian Friedel. In German, with English subtitles. Rated 14A

In late 1939, just two months af-

2 ter declarations of war followed

Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland, a 36-year-old carpenter, musician, and clockmaker named Georg Elser built a time bomb and planted it in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was to give a celebratory speech. The Führer wrapped early, and the title here refers to exactly how long it took the bomb to go off after he left. Here played by a mop-haired Christian Friedel (The White Ribbon), Elser hightailed it to the Swiss border before the explosion, which killed eight people and injured more than 60. He was immediately captured, foolishly carrying bomb schematics and blueprints of the beer hall. This rather formally constructed film depicts his brutal treatment at the hands of the Gestapo, as represented by secret-police chief Heinrich Müller (Johann von Bülow). In reality, his case was governed by lower-level Nazis and occasionally by Heinrich Himmler himself, but the procedural part of the tale concentrates, accurately, on Elser’s connection to the more sympathetic civilian policeman in charge. Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaussner, also from The White Ribbon) is the only interrogator who believes the younger man acted alone—something we learn in frequent flashbacks of Georgie’s initially carefree life, as a roguish accordion player with a penchant for married women. He’s only gradually called to action by the incremental poisoning of his country by Nazi hatemongering. And this appears to be the movie’s most Trump-directed point.

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VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Oh, Canada: The True North Strong and Funny (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Ok Tinder (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Tue and Wed, 7:30 pm; Wed, 9:15 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Jul 5-12, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK ROME Sin Peaks presents an improvised soap opera in which heroes rise, gladiators clash, and togas fall. To Aug 8, 7-9:30 pm, The Red Gate Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street, Granville Island ). Tix $10, info www.sinpeaks.com/. OH CANADA: THE TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FUNNY The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents a show that pokes fun at Canadian stereotypes through a series of vignettes and improv games. To Sep 2, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/. DAN QUINN Vancouver standup comedian performs a solo show. Jul 6-8, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. TOMMY CAMPBELL Irish Canadian standup comedian, actor, and writer performs a solo show. Jul 7-8, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $19.05, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/. COMEDY SHOCKER: THE 13TH FLOOR Sam Tonning hosts an evening of comedy by headliner Kathleen McGee and guests. Jul 8, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15/10, info www.comedy shocker.com/. AUDIO/VIDEO: RIDICULOUS VIDEOS = HILARIOUS SCENES Evening of improv comedy draws inspiration from movies and YouTube videos. Jul 9, 7:30-8:30 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $8, info www.instanttheatre.com/event/ audio-video-ridiculous-videos-hilariousscenes/2017-04-23/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER COMIC CON Special guests include Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War, It Will All Hurt), Colin Lorimer (The Hunt, Burning Fields), and Michael Kluckner (Toshiko, 2050: A Post-Apocalyptic Murder Mystery). Jul 9, 11 am–5 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $4/kids under 14 free, info www.vancouvercomiccon.com/.

Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) plots to kill the Führer in 13 Minutes.

13 Minutes was written by the father-daughter team of Fred and Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer, with the elder partner best known for the similarly themed Sophie Scholl. And it was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, most famous for Downfall, with Bruno Ganz as Der Führer in his final days beneath war-ravaged Berlin. That focus on a figure of universally agreedupon evil ultimately made Ganz’s performance a source of dark comedy, with his Hitler all over YouTube, flipping out over everything from bike lanes to bad movie franchises. The new film is not quite as gripping. And Georg Elser is not so emblematic. But his singularity as a crafty pacifist driven to violence makes his story well worth seeing.

> KEN EISNER

HERMIA & HELENA Starring Agustina Muñoz. In English and Spanish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

Argentine writer-director Matías

2 Piñeiro is a small-scale artisan

in the vein of American mumblecore makers like Joe Swanberg and the Duplass brothers, albeit with less comedy and more cerebral content. His previous features, The Princess of France and Viola, looked at the AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING Live storytelling competition features Al Tee, Angel Strange, Deborah Kelly, Garth Hodgson, Kamile Kapel, Linda Lawson, Marylee Stephenson, Owen Thomas, Shlomo McPeake, and T.J. Dawe. Jul 11, 8-10 pm, Cottage Bistro (4470 Main). Tix $5, info www.facebook.com/vancouverstoryslam/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL Annual event offers literary dialogues, musical performances, and public-art exhibitions featuring musicians, oral storytellers, hiphop artists, and international visionaries. Highlights include an opening gala, a concert by violinist L. Subramaniam and saxophonist Ernie Watts, a blues-based performance of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, an exploration of the role of graphic novels in turbulent times, 15-minute author talks, and a series of free workshops. Jul 6-15, various Vancouver venues. Info www.indiansummerfest.ca/.

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GALLERIES BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2XI XANYA DZAM (art by Primrose Adams, Dempsey Bob, Rena Point Bolton, Mandy Brown, Joe David, Robert Davidson, Alvin Mack, Mary Michell, Earl Muldon, Susan Point, and Norman Tait) to Sep 4 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2PICTURES FROM HERE (photographs and video works by Roy Arden, Karin Bubaš, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Greg Girard, Rodney Graham, Mike Grill, Arni Haraldsson, Fred Herzog, Barrie Jones, Evan Lee, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Henri Robideau, Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas, Althea Thauberger, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Paul Wong, Cornelia Wyngaarden, and Andrea Fatona) to

creative and romantic travails of theatre groups putting Shakespeare on stage and radio. Here, he continues his Bardic interests, if only tangentially, by following a Buenos Aires woman to New York, where a paid residency has her translating A Midsummer Night’s Dream into Spanish. This would-be theatre director is neither Hermia nor Helena (names from that famous comedy), but Camila, played by Piñeiro regular Agustina Muñoz. She has left behind a passel of pals and a steady boyfriend to hit Manhattan in winter. There, she meets a variety of moderately interesting people and gets entangled with several men, including a lanky filmmaker (Dustin Guy Defa)—although radical jumps in the time frame make you question this sequence of events. The film’s stylistic quirks are its best parts, with handwritten Shakespeare superimposed on a solarized image of Camila’s face or that New York filmmaker reading Daphne du Maurier over his (highly pretentious) experimental short. Muñoz has some screen charisma, but most of the actors are painfully amateurish and the hello-how-are-you dialogue is prosaic to the point of boredom anyway. These privileged people, mostly edging into their 30s and still wondering what to do with their lives, seem to have endless amounts of time to ponder their options. The lack of spark, artistic or sexual, between characters makes for a monotonously dragged-out visit, even at less than 90 minutes. The film hints at parallels with Shakespeare, but these remain elusively decorative. Still, H&H has its charms, including a poignant ragtime-piano score and the director’s acute choices of physical detail—a pair of gloves, an inscribed book, a well-worn suitcase—in two contrasting countries. There’s definitely some inspiration here for budding storytellers. Hopefully, they would take these ideas and add some genuine emotion. Plus acting.

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Sep 4 2STEPHEN SHORE: THE GIVERNY PORTFOLIO (25 works by contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore) to Oct 1 2ELAD LASSRY (first major Canadian exhibition of work by the Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist) to Oct 1 2PERSISTENCE (exhibition draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists Julia Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Shelagh Keeley, and Germaine Koh) to Oct 1 2CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN (exhibit showcases 38 paintings that span the career of the French artist who is regarded as a master of the Impressionist movement) to Oct 1

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OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK THE SCARRED EARTH In this exhibit, photographer Edward Burtynsky documents how humans have altered the physical landscape through resource extraction. To Oct 16, Audain Art Museum (4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler). Info www.audainartmuseum.com/ exhibitions/#current-exhibitions/.

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just $8.â&#x20AC;? So says Osamu Tomita, named Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest ramen chef four years running, who operates out of a hole-in-the-wall in Chiba. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy to reveal his painstaking recipe, characterized by a heavy broth that takes days to make, and he generally acts as our guide in this delightful look at the history of a meal that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;rooted in Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postwar sadnessâ&#x20AC;? but was refined into some sort of popular carrier wave for the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soul. What is most striking about Ramen Heads is the intensity, passion, and dedication lent to something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; unlike, say, high artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is ardently meant to be enjoyed by everyone. Saturday, July 8 (6:45 p.m.) Bell Mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best of Hot Docs takes place at the Vancity Theatre from Friday to Tuesday (July 7 to 11).

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Antonia Santiago Amador, a.k.a. La Chana, had not been forced into a temporary retirement by an abusive husband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He made me stop when I was at the summit that every artist craves,â&#x20AC;? says the fiery Catalan flamenco dancer, now in her late 60s, whose untrained style is scrutinized to this day by reverent students. That man, who eventually ditched his wife and took everything with him but the kid, is deliberately left opaque in this often painfully intimate (if slightly thin) portrait. In La Chanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth, she was courted by Hollywood (Peter Sellers put her in 1967â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Bobo); here, we see her prepare for a final performance as a barely mobile sexagenarian, made all the more nerve wracking thanks to sizzling archival footage of a woman possessed by raw genius and unholy power whenever she hit the stage. Friday, July 7 (6:30 p.m.)

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Director Nick Hamm sandwiched by Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney.

What didn’t happen, however, was the 90-minute car ride that forms the setting for the action. Shifting the scene from a private jet—which, oddly enough, belonged to popular ’80s singer Chris de Burgh—to a vehicle driven by a whimsical chauffeur played by Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), Hamm stretches and compresses the events into great cinema. Nearly everything else, the director says, is true. “I didn’t want to do a biopic, because I thought that would be boring,” Hamm says. “And I thought that anything that went over any length of time would also be tedious. I wanted to make something that was much more radical than that. Neither McGuinness nor Paisley could agree on what happened on the journey, so we were able

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