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andana Shiva knows that her message isn’t popular in corporate boardrooms of giant agribusinesses like Monsanto or the German multinational Bayer, which is trying to take it over. Nor is she admired at the favourite magazine of billionaires, Forbes, which posted a column on its website comparing the Indian food activist’s communications approach to that of Adolf Hitler. But she remains a hero to Indian peasant farmers, a beloved icon of environmentalists, and the world’s foremost critic of genetically tampered seeds and monocultures. In a phone interview from Delhi, Shiva told the Georgia Straight that after obtaining her PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1979, she went back to India only to witness intense strife in the coming years. “Agriculture was not my chosen field,” she said. “But I was compelled to look at it because of 1984.” That was the year when the Indian army attacked Sikh militants in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, inflicting serious damage on Sikhism’s holiest shrine. The same year, then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s Sikh bodyguards retaliated by gunning her down at her official residence. And that, in turn, sparked a pogrom against Sikhs in Delhi and other cities, spurred on by high-ranking members of Gandhi’s Congress party. The following year, bombs were placed on two Indian-government owned Air India jets leaving Canada, killing 331 people. “I had done my MSc honours in physics from the University of Punjab—and that was ’73,” Shiva said. “Punjab was a very, very peaceful place.” It left her wondering what had happened in the following decade to breed such unhappiness and strife. And it dawned upon her that Punjab was at the centre of the Green Revolution, where semidwarf rice, also known as “miracle rice”, was promoted as a solution to famine. It won its promoter, Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Shiva, however, saw less than glowing consequences, notwithstanding widely distributed reports about the dramatic growth in rice production. To her, the Green Revolution promoted the use of chemicals and pesticides as part of “industrial

Activist Vandana Shiva has been an outspoken opponent of multinational agribusinesses, which she’s linked to thousands of Indian farmers’ suicides.

agriculture”. And she traced many of these chemicals back to world wars. “Synthetic fertilizers came from explosives factories,” she said. “Pesticides grow from the gases used in concentration camps, poison gas, et cetera.” According to Shiva, these products are the result of extremely sophisticated science during wartime, but they are not effective in controlling pests or producing more food. “Data is clear that it is biodiversity that feeds the world,” she said. “Wiping out biodiversity for industrial monocultures is, in fact, a very inefficient use of solar energy because, per acre, you’re producing less biomass and, per acre, you’re producing less nutrition.” In her new book, Who Really Feeds the World?, she embraces agroecology as a more efficient means of meeting nutritional needs than the industrial approach, promoted by Monsanto, in which seeds are genetically altered and then patented. She pointed out that genetically modified cotton seeds have put Indian farmers deeply in debt. “We’ve lost 300,000 farmers to suicide,” Shiva said. “Most of these are concentrated in the cotton belt.” In 1991 Shiva founded the nongovernmental organization Navdanya, which works with communities to preserve thousands of varieties of seeds. She has since appeared in many documentaries over the years, including Seed: The Untold Story, which was codirected last year by Portland filmmakers Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel. They reported that 94 percent of seed varieties have been lost since the early 20th century in America. When the Straight asked Shiva why

this topic hasn’t received a great deal of media attention, she cited two factors. First, she said, an “amazingly complicated vocabulary” has arisen to confuse people. If seeds are called high-yielding, Shiva claimed that they aren’t subjected to much scrutiny. “Were they high-yielding in nutrition? No, they weren’t,” she declared. “Were they high-yielding in biomass? No, they weren’t. Were they high-yielding in food overall? No, they shrunk the food base.” India, the country with the greatest consumption of lentils, beans, and chickpeas, has to import these staples from Canada. The second factor is companies’ use of the language of intellectual property to corner the seed market. “I give a lot of time to creating awareness of how important the seed is,” Shiva said. “Food begins in seed. If you don’t have good seed, you don’t have good food. There is no way you can create healthy food with toxic seed.” She argued the root of the problem is human beings’ arrogance about their ability to exert mastery over nature and their deep denial of the complexity of ecological processes on Earth. “The industrial-agriculture model which claims to be feeding the world really has a very short history,” Shiva said. “In the 10,000year history of food and farming, it’s less than a century.” -

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ow in its sixth year, the “West 4th and Arbutus [in 1988] West 4th Avenue Khat- was what the Drive is now: a mix of sahlano Street Party re- low- to medium-income residents vives the spirit of an era and…owner-operated small busipast, when the street was a hippie ness,” she says. “There is no more free haven with head shops and record two-hour parking. Parking on 4th is stores. Times have changed, and al- more expensive than South Granville.” Gone too are though restaurants mom-and-pop have come and bakeries, the Comgone, there are ic Shop, Kits Café, several standbys, Gail Johnson leather- and shoeplaces that have become part of the very fabric of West repair stores, Ethel’s clothing shop, 4th. They not only have survived but and more, she notes. “Nothing stays continue to thrive while encouraging the same, but 4th Avenue has definitely newcomers like Fable, Maenam, and lost its traditional and counterculture histories, and perhaps this is one of the Mission to the strip. reasons that our restaurant remains, as LAS MARGARITAS RESTAURANTE a reminder of what was.” Y CANTINA (1999 West 4th Avenue) Decorated with vintage toys, Dan Rodriguez purchased the Califor- antique signs, old-school lunch nia-style cantina in 1994, after it had boxes, local artwork, and all sorts already been in business for 13 years. of other trinkets and memorabilia Claiming B.C.’s biggest selection of and decked out with a covered patio, tequila, the restaurant serves up que- Sophie’s has adapted its menu over sadillas, chimichangas, chiles rellenos, the years, too, moving beyond basic tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, burritos (in- diner fare to include fresh fruit cut to cluding a salmon one), mole chicken, order and vegetarian and gluten-free and more—just the kind of stuff that choices, all made in-house. makes you crave a lime margarita beClassic dishes include Sophie’s fore taking in fun at Khatsahlano. nut-and-vegetable deluxe burger, Sophie’s crunchy falafel plate, turkey SOPHIE’S COSMIC CAFÉ (2095 meatloaf sandwich on French bread, West 4th Avenue) This year celebrat- banana splits, and shakes. ing its 28th anniversary, Sophie’s has become a Kits landmark, with owner BISHOP’S (2183 West 4th Avenue) Sophie Dikeakos having seen major Still one of Vancouver’s most popular and beloved restaurants, John Bishop’s changes over the years.

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little spot turned 30 last year. Bishop’s has hosted numerous famous figures, from Pierre Trudeau and Robert De Niro to Robert Davidson. Bishop was doing farm-to-table food long before it became a trendy tag line and the 100-mile diet turned into a movement. “Prior to ’85, you didn’t change your menu; people came to you for a particular dish you had a reputation for,” Bishop says. “The concept of changing your menu was reckless. Fine dining was made up of stuff we wouldn’t have here: New Zealand lamb, Icelandic scampi, Dover sole. There were no local oysters on those menus; it had to be Belon oysters from France. Even mushrooms: this is mushrooms central, but we used to bring in mushrooms from Germany. We would go to Richmond to pick berries with our kids, but you would never see them on local menus; berries all came from one truck from California. Local food was alien. Fresh halibut or cod or cracked crab—you wouldn’t see it on menus very often.” Standout dishes include Haida Gwaii halibut, North Thompson Farms duck, Fraser Valley lamb, pinecured Bella Coola coho salmon, and Hannah Brook Farms seasonal greens. RISTORANTE (2222 West 4th Avenue) Simpatico opened in 1969 and it continues to serve a combination of Anatolian, Cypriot, Italian,

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and mainland Greek ingredients. Start off with a bowl of avgolemono (orzo in chicken stock with lemon and egg) before sharing aginares (artichoke hearts) and pita bread with tarama (a dip made of red caviar, puréed potatoes, lemon juice, and oil). Aside from traditional Greek mains, consider sweet-basil spareribs, baked B.C. salmon, or a fresh fish pizza with anchovies, oysters, and shrimp. MARIA’S TAVERNA (2324 West 4th

Avenue) Established in 1987, Maria’s serves traditional Greek dishes like souvlaki, moussaka, kleftiko (roasted lamb shoulder), saganaki (pan-fried goat cheese), and pizza. It’s straightforward food in an unpretentious

place; you can order wine by the glass, half-litre, or litre, while the price for bottles maxes out at $69.95 for the Rhone Valley’s Domaine Chante-Perdrix Chateauneuf-du-Pape. THE NAAM (2724 West 4th Av-

enue) Back in 1968, West 4th was known as Rainbow Road. Peace and love remain the name of the game at this Vancouver institution, a vegetarian restaurant that operates at its own pace 24/7. Tempeh burgers, tofu dogs, Thai noodles, chai shakes, black-bean chili, vegan chocolate-carrot cake… The options are endless. There’s live music seven nights a week and ever-changing exhibitions by local artists. -

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ustainability matters. It’s something many wineries strive for, and it’s an important factor for many consumers. Of course, the concept of sustainability stretches further than just the wine industry: it’s a notion woven through agriculture and the sourcing of seafood and land animals, not to mention social and economic constructs. So, really, what are we talking about when we discuss sustainability? Merriam-Webster defines the adjective sustainable as “capable Chile’s Montes Alpha 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon of being sustained”, or “of, relating to, or ranks among the top New World Cabernets. being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or accreditation, it ends up being something permanently damaged”. that sounds awesome marketingwise but Wikipedia references sustainability as “the rather deprived of checks and balances. capacity to endure; it is how biological systems I was considering this when I met up with remain diverse and productive indefinitely,” Aurelio Montes Jr. of Montes, the renowned following that up with a mention that “sustain- Chilean winery started by his father and a trio ability can also be defined as a socio-ecological of partners 25 years ago. I’ve long admired process characterized by the the Colchagua Valley–based pursuit of a common ideal.” wines of Montes (and have Further exploration into had the privilege of visitthe term reveals many ing the winery twice over Kurtis Kolt takes and perceptions, and the past few years). When nothing seems to be set in stone. It’s because I caught up with Montes at the Yaletown office of this that whenever I’m chatting with a of Trialto, his British Columbian importer, one winemaker or winery representative, I always of the main things we chatted about was the take it with a grain of salt when they say that winery’s sustainable initiatives. “For us, we want to be a leader for Chile, the sustainability is important to them. Various regions and countries have several forms of Americas, and the world in sustainability,” he sustainability certification, but it’s often a told me. “And this also includes how we work hollow term thrown around willy-nilly. With- with people, our employees, and community.” Montes, however, is a winery that walks out a clear-cut definition or blanket global

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the walk. In fact, when you head to www. monteswines.com/ and click on the Sustainability tab, you get redirected to an entire microsite that basically audits their philosophies and initiatives. These include everything from compost use, vineyard-grazing animals, and heritage-forest conservation on their land to increased recycling, a dwindling carbon footprint, a Study Completion Program for employee education, and selffunded research and development for furthering these programs. There are plenty of certifications, stats, and reports for the geeks out there, too. It’s certainly inspiring to see Montes spearheading so many initiatives, and it’s also encouraging that all of this work and diligence translates to fantastic wines, too. I mean, that’s what we’re here for, right? Although there are many tiers of Montes wines, I’m constantly impressed with the value of the Montes Alpha level, which is a premium category of theirs meant to stand among other international premium wines. I’d venture to say that Montes Alpha 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon ($23.99, B.C. Liquor Stores) is potentially the best New World Cabernet for the money. Notes of mocha, currants, and a few leaves of basil sail out of the glass upon the first few swirls, and then mighty enjoyable sips carry black fruit, a layer of earthiness, some tobacco notes, and a nice lashing of spearmint on the finish. Acid, alcohol, tannins: they’re all on point,

and it all comes together at a medium weight that’s far from being a heavy fruit bomb. The wine can age, too. I’d give it an easy six to eight years, and potentially many more. In fact, when we tasted together, we went through various vintages of many of their labels, which illustrated how age-friendly Montes wines can be. A personal favourite series of theirs is their Purple Angel wines, made predominantly with Carménère and then a smallish splash of Petit Verdot. That Carménère brings loads of dark cocoa, bourbon-macerated cherries, espresso, and maybe a little sage, while the Petit Verdot offers opulent, juicy black and purple fruit. “That Petit Verdot also ensures the flavour and structure of the wine is retained as it ages,” Montes told me. The current 2013 vintage of Purple Angel ain’t cheap: it sits on B.C. Liquor Stores shelves at $67.99. If you’re looking to splurge, however, this is absolutely a splurge-worthy wine. Although this vintage has all of those elements mentioned above, it also has a nice dusting of pepper and some firm tannins to keep everything in place. If you’re able to lay down a bottle or two, you’ll certainly be rewarded. A taste of the 2011 vintage showed similar characteristics, but all of ’em softening out nice and easy, while the 2004 is currently presenting a velvety nature, with more of those herbs gently floating to the surface. Do visit www.monteswines.com/ to learn more about the good work they do, and for current labels and availability in our market, check out their importer at www.trialto.com/. -

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about beer? If so, I just want to go back to Belgium with my wife and our touring bicycles. I want to cycle down the canal roads in Flanders, eat filet américain with a glass of Dulle Teve for lunch, and end the day in a café with stone walls and a huge bottle list. My wife’s pregnant with twins now, so I guess that’s out of the question for a while.

a while there. People think that craft breweries are automatically successful, but mine sure wasn’t. It took a little while to communicate what we’re doing here and to convince people that there’s a world beyond IPA and pale ale. But people who are nuts for Belgian-style beer found us eventually and that was pretty rewarding. We’ve had a number of Belgians come into FIRST BEER BREWED our tasting room, and it brings a glow When I was 16, I brewed a kit beer to my cheeks to hear them say that my with three friends in my buddy’s beer tastes like the real stuff, that it parents’ basement. We had permis- reminds them of home. sion. I don’t remember what the beer was supposed to be. We were I’D LOVE A BEER WITH in it for cheap beer, not flavour. We Kurt Vonnegut. When he was alive, had no idea what we were doing. We I mean, not now. Actually, I bet Osbottled it in plastic pop bottles and car Wilde would be a lot more fun there was at least two inches of sedi- than Kurt Vonnegut. Also when he Contrary to the idea that craft breweries are instant successes, Ben Coli says ment in the bottom of each bottle. was alive. Or Hunter Thompson, opening his brewery was one of his biggest challenges. Amanda Siebert photo. It tasted so horrible, we didn’t even alive. Less funny than Oscar Wilde, was Big Rock Traditional. When LIFE-CHANGING BEER drink it. That pretty much cured me but way more weird. If I have to pick I couldn’t get that, though, I’d go I’d say that the most thunderous of brewing. I didn’t brew again for someone alive, I’m going to go with for the same crusty old brands my revelation was having a cask bitter more than 15 years. my dad and my brothers. They’re dad used to drink, like Old Style in York [U.K.]. It was so smooth and pretty good when they get going. Pilsner. I still have a green baseball rich and full, and you could drink CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT I think the most difficult thing I’ve This is a condensed version of cap with an Old Style Pilsner logo buckets of it without falling down. done so far was getting the brewery Straight to the Pint. Go to Straight. on it. I like to wear it in craft beer open and then staying in business for com for the full article and a bonus circles. People look at me like I’m DREAM DESTINATION Machu Picchu. Is this supposed to be all the first year. It was touch-and-go for video feature. growing horns.

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The questions that keep Hannah Georgas awake at night include “Why are we here?” and “Am I using the right hair conditioner?” Vanessa Heins photo.

and then settling in Kits, which she loves to this day. “Vancouver is home for Hannah Georgas, moving to Toronto and making me still,” she gushes. “I met adventurous For Evelyn was better than therapy people that I still talk to There have definitely been changes, perhaps the every single day—it was heartbreaking to leave them biggest one being the singer’s decision to abandon behind. I created a real nice little nook for myself in Vancouver—her home for more than a decade— Kitsilano. I loved my place and my routines. I loved and return back east to her family in Ontario. the water and I loved going for runs and I loved that, The singer is now based in Toronto, where she’s no matter what the time of year, you could still be acan hour or so’s drive from her mom in Newmar- tive and outside. I was scared of leaving that, because ket. That’s been important for a big reason. Few of it was such a big part of who I am.” us are lucky enough to count a parent among our But toward the end of her stint on the Coast best friends. Georgas is one of them, one of the she knew that it was time to leave. When she spinoff benefits being that her mother has insights suddenly pulled up roots, she did it in an imno amount of therapy can buy. pulsive four-day whirlwind, giving most of her “I asked her once, ‘Is my worrying something belongings away to friends. that has come about as I’ve gotten older?’ And she “I started feeling like, ‘This is a time of transition was like, ‘You were born like this.’ I think it’s just and change for me,’ ” she remembers. “Like, ‘I have the way that my brain works. I’m very much a per- to go to Toronto because there are reasons that I have fectionist, and I analyze and think about things a to be there.’ I wanted to be close to my mom. Also, lot. I have a lot of trouble getting my brain to sleep. I was working with a lot of people in Toronto.” It’s always overworking.” Among the most important of those people was The downside of being a worrier is that, Graham Walsh of analogue-obsessed renegades traumatizingly, there’s never a shortage of things Holy Fuck. The keyboardist produced the breakto worry about. But there’s an upside if you hap- through Hannah Georgas, a record that saw Georpen to be a creative person, namely, that art can be gas morph from sensitive singer-songwriter to invaluable for exorcising one’s demons. whip-smart pop artist. And Walsh was back behind And with For Evelyn, Georgas was able to do the boards for For Evelyn, on which Georgas once just that, the result being a Top 10–calibre record again demonstrates she’s all for taking chances. that’s as thoughtful and moving as it is forwardWhere Hannah Georgas and her folksy 2010 thinking and adventurous. Whether she totally debut, This Is Good, were written on guitar, the understands how great the album is is, for now at singer sat down in front of the keyboard for For least, debatable; getting a naturally humble per- Evelyn. (The title of the album is a tribute to her son to trumpet her own brilliance is never easy. grandmother, who is still alive and being awesomely But she’s well aware that For Evelyn at least helped inspirational in her 90s.) She’d quickly learn to love her make sense of some inner turmoil. the myriad options offered by modern technology. “I know that everything is totally a frame of Take, for example, the album’s deliciously crazy mind and mind over matter,” Georgas reflects. “I’m kickoff track, “Rideback”, where, over squealing naturally a very happy person, but it’s interesting to smack-jazz saxophone, she pulls back the curtain me how I can feel so on top of my game one day and with lines like: “I wake up in the middle of the night totally powerful, and something will hit me and I’ll thinking /‘O my God, who the hell am I?’ ” feel like nothing but a small little blip in this uni“With that first song, I was writing something verse. What inspired me on the record is talking all day long and getting nowhere with it,” Georgas about that and dealing with that. I write a lot about recalls. “And then I found this preset on my keypersonal experience, and when I do I just feel bet- board called the blow sax. I started messing around ter. It’s a powerful thing to be able to write and get with it, and then wrote ‘Rideback’ within the hour. things off my chest.” It sort of just came right out and I was done.” Such moments of lightning-quick productivity ON THE DAY OF HER INTERVIEW with the are rare. And there’s an explanation for that. Straight, For Evelyn has been out for less than a Ask Georgas what she likes about herself, and week and Georgas is on tour in support of the she’s quick with her response. record in the States. But Vancouver is very much “I like the fact that I like to laugh a lot,” she on her mind. Part of that is because this coming reveals, and then she quite appropriately laughs. weekend she’ll be the headliner at the West 4th “I like that I’m a good friend, and that I have a Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party, which, since lot of great people in my life that I’m thankful for. starting as a grassroots celebration in 2011, has I like that I get to do what I love in life, and that’s exploded into one of the most mammoth cultural play music for a living. I’m really ambitious, and events in Vancouver. I also like that about myself, I guess.” When Georgas takes the main stage at Burrard She’s equally open about what she doesn’t like and West 4th Avenue sometime around 8 p.m. on about herself. Saturday (July 9), she’ll be greeted by an audience “I’m a perfectionist. And I don’t like that about of thousands that will stretch up the street. Be- myself sometimes because I can be really hard cause she’s a mainstay on Vancouver radio, many on myself.” in the crowd will know the words to her electroOne can trace that back to her upbringing. tinted, thinking person’s pop songs. Georgas was born to a mom who was a nurse and “I went to the first Khatsahlano festival and I an entrepreneur dad who built a swimming pool think the second, but I’ve also been away a lot, so next to the family home and then launched a sucI haven’t been to the last couple,” Georgas recalls. cessful business teaching kids how to swim. It’s “But I’ve seen photos and it seems like it just keeps obvious she loves her family. getting bigger and bigger. It’s going to be fun—I’m “It’s funny how you view your parents, to so excited to be able to come back and play it.” think that my mom was once my age,” she marEven though she was raised in Newmarket, com- vels. “I’ve spent time thinking about that. One of ing back to Vancouver will in some ways feel like her friends told me that she loved to dance and returning home. Georgas lived on the Coast for used to smoke a lot of cigarettes. And I was like, more than a decade, first heading out west at 19 ‘Whaaat?’ That totally floored me. I was like, to study psychology at the University of Victoria ‘That’s not my mom!’ ”

Music was always around. She remembers her late father being a great boogie-woogie piano player and a born showman. Georgas pays tribute to him on For Evelyn’s touching “Walls”, which is marked by soft-soul synths and lines such as “When you left me, I was ready for you to leave/’Cuz when I built these walls, I built them so high.” “My dad was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 18, and it got worse and worse and worse over the years,” Georgas says. “It was really painful to see the process of something that could have been reversed but just didn’t go that way. It was tough to watch, so I started to prepare myself for the fact that my dad was getting sick and that one day he was going to die from not taking care of himself. I moved away and would get the warnings that ‘This next time could be the last time.’ I kind of built up an immunity—I was mad about it. Mad that my dad wasn’t trying to change the situation when it first came along. When it finally happened, I was obviously very upset, but I realized that I’d been preparing myself for years, building up walls.” Georgas acknowledges that her parents expected her to strive for the perfectionism that’s turned into both a blessing and a curse. “I just always want to do well, and I think that’s because of the way that I was raised,” she says. “My family always had really high expectations of me, and they were kind of really old-school in the way that they wouldn’t easily give a compliment. It was like, ‘Well, yeah, duh—you should be getting good grades. And you should be playing that piano piece perfectly.’ “I don’t want to make them sound like crazy people,” the singer continues, “because they definitely were not. It was more that that was the way that they were raised. And that definitely rubbed off on me.” As a result, Georgas has pushed herself in directions far removed from her girl-with-a-guitar beginnings. For Evelyn is a record that’s all about wonderful flourishes, some of them big and bold (the dancetastic electro riff on “Waste”) and others beautiful and understated (the spectral synths on “Don’t Go”). Get ready to break out your best neon-splattered ’80s finery for the swooping title track and then expect chills from the CinemaScope strings on the haunting final song, “City”, on which Georgas sings “There’s nothing here for me anymore… It’s me lying to myself all the time.” If there’s a constant to things, it’s that Georgas proves herself something of a master at tapping into feelings that are easy to relate to. Take, for example, “Loveseat”, which will resonate with anyone who has ever attempted the almost-impossible task of keeping a long-distance relationship going. “I met someone right when I put out my record [Hannah Georgas], and then I started touring,” she relates. “We were together about a year and a half and it was very much me being on the road and that person being back home. It was good, but it was tricky, and it didn’t work. Now I’m getting better at realizing that I like my independent self. I like being in a relationship, but I don’t want to waste my time if it’s not the right thing. Um, I don’t even know why I’m bringing this up.” The answer to that is perhaps because she’s gotten used to working things out, and that skill will be invaluable moving forward. Because, like most of us, Georgas has learned that—no matter how happy we might believe ourselves to be—at night the monsters never stop coming. Hannah Georgas headlines the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party on Saturday (July 9).

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o you’ve released four records, won $150,000 in the PEAK Performance Project battle of the bands competition, and written and directed an acclaimed movie, Violent, that was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Where do you go next? For Vancouver’s eclectic We Are the City, the solution seemed obvious. “We recorded a new album in secret,” singer-keyboardist Cayne McKenzie tells the Straight on the line from his Vancouver home. “My dayto-day was bizarre. Every day I’d go in disguise to the studio, which wasn’t actually a studio. No one apart from my girlfriend knew we were making the record.” While conventional wisdom and a $1,000-per-hour publicist will confirm that it’s probably best to make as much noise as possible around a new release, the trio had a different plan. Donning false mustaches and deleting their social media, We Are the City went off the grid to innovate a new approach to launching an album. Premiering Above Club with an online broadcast last November, the boys introduced the tracks by video-streaming their recording sessions live from Serbia. Except the band wasn’t in eastern Europe at all. As the broadcast ran, We Are the City was still at home in Vancouver. “We always wanted to do a fake live stream to make a statement about social media,” McKenzie says. “The Internet allows people to present a really idealized version of their life. Everybody on social media puts on an act, and you only see the good parts of a person’s existence. Our aim was to show that you can’t believe everything you see.” Fans of We Are the City’s dramatic prog-rock have come to expect the unexpected—and for good reason. Since forming in Kelowna in 2008, the band has pushed conceptual and musical boundaries. Using abstract time signatures and avant-garde videography, the group typically works outside of pop-music conventions— but while it would have been easy to make another record like 2013’s critically admired Violent, We Are the City’s members are more interested in challenging themselves as much as their listeners. With Above Club’s “Lovers in All Things” abruptly sampling ambient club noise, and “Sign My Name Like QUEEN” backed by a drumbeat that hits more offbeats than on-, the group’s latest album sees McKenzie and fellow band members Andrew Huculiak and David Menzel

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open a more experimental, but much punchier, chapter. “We’re proud of what we’ve done in the past,” McKenzie says. “But let me put this into the most relatable example. Imagine you’re in Grade 10, and you make this collage that you’re so happy with. You’ve got great magazine clippings, your boyfriend’s name is in there with hearts around it, and your teacher has written an inside joke with you on the back. And then you frame it, and decide you have it as the centrepiece of your living room forever more. That’s what We Are the City’s back catalogue is like. “This new record is different,” he continues, “and we wanted to make a clean break. I think in our past work, we’ve been quite self-indulgent. We didn’t want to make another record like that. Above Club was designed so you could listen to any song on its own without thinking too much about what the music meant. With albums like Violent, we were all about interludes, instrumentals, and tying the lyrics together to make a cohesive story. Above Club just pops.” The record’s maturity is even more remarkable because it was largely improvised. Marking a sonic and logistical departure from We Are the City’s typical modus operandi, Above Club saw the band head into the recording booth without demoing a note. “A lot of lyrics, in particular, are completely off-the-cuff,” McKenzie says. “In one of the tracks, there’s an improvised pre-chorus with the line

‘Whatever God is, it’s here with me now.’ I’ve thought a lot about spirituality in my life, and David was definitely raised in a very Christian setting. When we play shows people often cheer really loudly at those kind of lyrics—we have a pretty big Christian fan base. But those lines are really a protest for me: they’re deliberately anti-Christian. I don’t really know why they came out. But faith works on a lot of different levels, and I think our music does too.” After musing at length about spirituality, McKenzie is steadfast in his conviction that everybody needs a higher power to believe in—and for the singer, it’s the band. As We Are the City gets set for a new round of touring that will take it through Canada and Germany, McKenzie is thankful that the group has stuck together for so long. “We keep having conversations where we’re like, ‘Oh man. I can’t believe that we’re here,’ ” he says. “We were just a few guys in a basement jamming on my dad’s old synthesizers. And now we’re playing to hundreds of people all across the world. We’re being thrown into situations and shows that are just spectacular. We’ve made connections at the right time, and they’ve led us to where we are now. It’s not necessarily true that we are the best, or that we deserve success. We lucked out, man, and we know it.” We Are the City plays the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party on Saturday (July 9).

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Japanese Breakfast turns sadness into pop Indie-rock veteran Michelle Zauner channelled the loss of her mother into the gauzy synths and dreamy loops of Psychopomp Michelle Zauner didn’t totally out to write what’s been hailed as a touching concept record about a sad chapter in her life. But critics were quick to suggest that was the case with Psychopomp, which finds the veteran indie rocker reimagining herself as the solo artist Japanese Breakfast. “I didn’t really advertise that the record is about my mom,” says the wonderfully outgoing singer, speaking from her in-laws’ place in suburban Philadelphia. “I’m a very open person, so if someone asks me about things, I’m very open to talking about it. But it wasn’t there in the PR release. I guess what happened is that people started making up a narrative on their own. And I didn’t really anticipate how many kids would come up to me and go ‘Oh my god—I lost my mom to cancer.’ A lot of people have told me the record has helped them, which has been really amazing.” Consider that a window into how Zauner went from fronting Philly DIY Little Big League to working with gauzy synths and dreamy drum loops as Japanese Breakfast. First, the back story. In her late teens, the singer was determined to escape her home in Eugene, Oregon. “I had a tumultuous adolescence because I was extremely creative and independent and I had a very traditional and strict Asian mother,” she relates. “I remember a time where she came to me and said, ‘You know, I’ve never met anyone like you.’ That was a really great way to define our relationship. In a lot of Asian-American households you’re expected to be a lawyer or a doctor or an engineer. To pursue a creative path is something that’s the worst thing ever.” But Zauner did just that, studying film and creative writing after moving to Philadelphia, and making records and touring with Little Big League. Then, as any good daughter would, she returned home after getting word that her mother had cancer and wanted to go out on her own terms. While caring for her mom she began revisiting old songs and sketching out the new ones that would end up on Psychopomp. Some tracks on the record seem unmistakably about her moving back to Oregon, with the shimmering “Heft” finding Zauner singing “I spent my nights by hospital beds” with a surprisingly uplifting winsomeness. But Psychopomp is also about more than sadness, that holding true on the sunrise comedown “Triple 7” and the beach-pop bonbon “The Woman That Loves You”. “‘The Woman That Loves You’ and ‘Triple 7’ were informed largely by a very possessive relationship that I had exited from,” she says. “I wanted to dramatize the situation from the voice of all these country women that

“That’s the thing with creative endeavours,” Dieterich concludes. “You just don’t know what’s going to happen.”

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I got into, legends like Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. I don’t think Tammy Wynette is really going to stand by her man after he’s done all that shit. But I did like the almost-satirical idea of totally devoted women, and then exploring what it would be like to be one of those women.” And if not everyone understands the humour behind “Triple 7” lines like “And he loves me like a slot machine/From the valley of loose women in the cruel light of morning,” that’s okay with Zauner. She’s just happy about the relentlessly positive reviews that have greeted Psychopomp, which, it must be noted, features a great old Polaroid-style picture of her mom on the cover. “I had no idea that people were even going to find out about the record,” Zauner says. “I’ve done music for a while and had some small success, but I’ve never had a record do as well as this one has.” She laughs, and then adds: “Obviously, I think it’s great. But then again, I think everything I do is great.” > MIKE USINGER

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for a children’s ballet—Dieterich is confident that Deerhoof will never run out of fresh ideas. “When I first joined the group, we talked about what our ideal future looked like,” the guitarist recalls. “One of the things we discussed is the perception in popular music that there’s a shelf life on musicians’ creativity. Even back then I recognized that it’s utter bullshit. Of course creativity doesn’t stop at the age of 21. If you keep working and maintain an open mind, you’ll get more efficient, and you’ll find more interesting people to collaborate with.” Deerhoof’s new record—its 16th studio album—never wavers from that philosophy. Despite being scored for conventional instruments—“We used guitars and keyboards just because I had them at my house,” Dieterich says with a laugh—The Magic’s 15 tracks are an excellent example of the band’s eccentricity. Juxtaposing fast-paced slide guitar and Japanese-language vocals on “The Devil and His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue” with an ’80s synthpop feel on tracks like “Acceptance Speech”, the album constantly challenges listeners’ expectations. “Each member of Deerhoof has very wide-ranging tastes,” Dieterich suggests. “We’ve known each other for a really long time, but I never cease to be surprised at the things that those guys like or dislike. I’ll bring a new song to the table, and I’ll be thinking, ‘What!? I was so sure you were going to like this!’ Or I’ll be so confident that something is garbage, and then it turns out that it’s the song that everyone wants to work on.

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the band’s high-profile associates. Despite that honour, John Dieterich, the group’s guitarist, remains the master of the understatement. “Sure, we’ve played alongside a few big artists,” Dieterich tells the Straight nonchalantly on the line from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “You know. One or two.” The group’s success might sound like every musician’s dream, but for Deerhoof, there’s a catch. Famed for playing wild sets that encompass everything from experimental noise to grunge ballads, the band still finds it daunting to open for some of the world’s best-respected artists. “Our music is so eclectic that every billing we get is a bit weird,” Dieterich says with a chuckle. “There’s definitely been times when we’ve felt scared to go on-stage. We wonder whether the audience is going to tear us apart, or really get into it. We’ve played plenty of concerts where people didn’t like us. In the old days, people actually used to make fun of the band while we were performing. In our live shows, there’s all sorts of things happening. People go off on little flights of fancy, or someone might break something, and you just have to try and come up with sounds that work. Sometimes people love that improvisation, and sometimes they hate it.” Luckily, a little animosity has never stopped the band from innovating. As inventive with its formats as it is with its genre-bending tracks—try naming another band that’s released a single as sheet music, pressed a record into “flexi-book” form, and had an LP transformed into the soundtrack

went bust when singer Galen Disston explained in an email that he was too busy heading down to Disneyland to get on the phone. To be fair, he had contemplated having a chat between sets at the Country Bear Jamboree, but ultimately opted to let bandmate Michael Parker field the call from home. When asked if he felt slighted about not getting to bond with his frontman inside of a herky-jerkin’ Matterhorn bobsled, the guitarist confesses that the California amusement park isn’t exactly his idea of the Happiest Place on Earth. “I’m more of a Magic Mountain man, myself,” Parker says with a laugh, noting his preference for the rival destination’s less kid-friendly, flipped-and-dipped selection of roller coasters. “It’s gotten a little out of hand with the lines, but Disneyland’s fun. I don’t know if they’ve built it yet, but they have plans for a Star Wars theme park. That might get me down there eventually.” As for Pickwick, the band’s next phase is starting to come nicely into focus. The act—Disston, Parker, bassist Garrett Parker, vibraphone player Kory Kruckenberg, keyboardist Cassady Lillstrom, and drummer Alex Westcoat—recently wrapped up the recording of its as-yet-untitled sophomore album. It follows the buzz-building 2013 debut, Can’t Talk Medicine, on which breakthrough single “Hacienda Motel” set a grisly, head-chopping murder scenario to a Black Keys–styled blues-pop groove. Disston’s rootsy croon on sweat-andblood pieces like “Brother Roland” and “Letterbox” earned him comparisons to born-by-the-river soul great Sam Cooke. “We’ve never really tried to pigeonhole ourselves, we just play the music we make when we all get into a room together,” Parker says. “On the last record, there was a lot of comparisons to ’60s R&B, and I think on this record there’s definitely that element. But there’s also some other influences that have crept in that we weren’t expecting.” He confirms that the full-length is packed with the sound of brass, strings, vintage synths, and various percussive textures courtesy of Tendai see page 22

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Cooking Demonstrations Chef Trevor Bird from FABLE will bring his fresh approach to the culinary scene with a live farmto-table cooking demonstration. He’ll be followed by Executive Chef Sean Riley, who oversees the Glowbal Group’s kitchen teams at some of Vancouver’s most renowned restaurants, including COAST and West 4th’s own Trattoria. Get inspired to take to the kitchen and learn something new to dazzle your friends at a summer dinner party. Seating is limited.

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Vintage Murano lighting, midcentury teak chairs, solid brass floor lamps from the Hotel Vancouver, and even Lex Luthor’s desk from the TV series Smallville—these are some of the discoveries customers have made at Kitsilano’s Wow Interiors. It’s a West Side haven for unique art deco, midcentury, and contemporary home décor. It’s a true mom-andpop shop owned by the

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husband and wife team of Richard Domenco and Kirstin McLeod. The store also carries sculptures, paintings, and other works of art. “A lot of our stuff comes from collectors and from some of Vancouver’s acclaimed interior designers and their clients,” Domenco says. McLeod emphasizes that the goal is to offer unique pieces that can’t be found anywhere else, causing people to go “wow” when they enter the store. “We’re buying what we like,” McLeod says. Midcentury furniture really began catching on about a decade ago in magazines like H&L and Home and Design. Domenco says that more recently, the sleek industrial vibe has become hot. “Vintage doesn’t have to mean your mother’s furniture,” he declares. “Go to places like Palm Springs, Toronto, and Montreal. They’re huge on it. People living there wowinteriors.ca are really connected to their pieces.” 1823 West 4th Ave. | 604-801-6744 McLeod is a former jewellery designer; Domenco’s parents were in the antique business. As for Lex Luthor’s desk, Domenco says: “We bought two-thirds of the furnishings from the series that was filmed in Vancouver. We also do rentals, of course, to the film industry and have since we’ve opened the shop.” 20 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 7 – 14 / 2016

onions, served with pico de gallo and refried beans) and chicken flautas (deep-fried chickenfilled tortillas served with Mexican rice and refried beans). And did we mention the tacos? They’re out of this world. West 4th Avenue is known for its healthy lifestyle, and Las Margaritas is no exception.

Meals are cooked without preservatives and food colouring. The canola oil is devoid of trans fats and cholesterol. And you won’t find GMOs in its tasty tortillas, either. Rodrigues attributes his restaurant’s longevity to its consistency, not to mention the extensive array of tequilas. “Our selection is one of the largest and rarest in B.C.,” he says. The patio remains one of the star attractions at Las Margaritas. It’s not unusual to spot the occasional celebrity inside the restaurant or looking over West 4th Avenue from the patio while sipping on beer or a cocktail. Over the years, the clientele has included Ben Affleck, Ryan Kesler, Hillary Swank, Amy Adams, and, most recently, Christine Sinclair. It seems that the reigning queen of Canadian soccer enjoys the taste of outstanding Mexican food as much as anyone else.

THE RIGHT SHOE

the Right Shoe’s Rand Clement. “And our staff are all kinesiologists hired through the co-op department at SFU.” Runners know that the wrong shoe can cause According to Clement, this gives the staff pain, misery, and even depression if they’re more insights into biomechanics and how deprived of regular endorphins—a.k.a. happy shoes fit. And this service is provided in a roomy, brightly lit wood-panelled environment devoid of the clutter therightshoe.ca found in some other shoe stores. “We range from running shoes 1601 West 4th Avenue | 604-737-6014 to dress casual shoes to outdoor products, and then sandals,” Clemdrops—that come with a regular jog. At the ent explains. “In particular, we’re the biggest Right Shoe, the prevailing philosophy is that Birkenstock retailer in Vancouver.” “happy shoes make happy feet.” And it takes Customers have included former Prison expertise to make sure this happens. Break star Wentworth Miller and West 4th Av“We have a curated collection of shoes,” says enue environmental icon David Suzuki.

Outdoor enthusiasts think of Comor as the “good guys” in the ski and snowboarding business because of its price-matching program. In recent years, it’s become also one of Vancouver’s premier cycling shops. In addition to apparel and accessories, Comor carries a wide selection of road bikes, cruisers, and mountain bikes, as well as jargonfree, friendly service. Groups of 10 to 30 people leave the Kitsi“We’re taking the intimidation out of going lano store at 6 p.m. every Wednesday evening. into a bike store,” says Comor’s Jenny Wong. These are lighthearted recreational trips, not This year, she’s noticed a spike in the sale of competitive gut-busting expeditions. electric bikes, which enable commuters to go “If you’re a newcomer, we want to teach you uphill without breaking into a sweat. That’s usecomorsports.com ful for those who want 1766 West 4th Avenue | 604-736-7547 to ride to work every day without needing to 3700 East Hastings Street, Burnaby | 604-291-0475 take a shower when they 4338 Main Street, Whistler | 604-938-8898 reach the office. In keeping with the company’s community-oriented philosophy, how to use your bike properly and how to ride the Comor Road Cycling Club was created to safely in the city,” Wong says. introduce customers to road riding in a safe, There are also mountain bike rides leaving collegial atmosphere. the Burnaby store on Tuesday evenings.

Get centred and start your day off on the right foot with a full-hour yoga class by Semperviva. Register in advance at www.semperviva.com to participate in this outdoor class. Space is limited.

Fashion on Fourth

Vancouver Fashion Week presents two fashion shows, the first showcasing active wear with sporty ensembles by lululemon, Patagonia, Pure Barre, RYU, Arc’teryx, Pacific Boarder, Fjällräven, Public Myth, ivivva, and more. The second show will focus on streetwear with looks by Coco’s Closet, FAB, Two of Hearts, Motherland, Jackson Rowe, Middle Sister, Exposure, Plum, and American Apparel.

Cooking Demonstrations Chef Trevor Bird from FABLE will bring his fresh approach to the culinary scene with a live farmto-table cooking demonstration. He’ll be followed by Executive Chef Sean Riley, who oversees the Glowbal Group’s kitchen teams at some of Vancouver’s most renowned restaurants, including COAST and West 4th’s own Trattoria. Get inspired to take to the kitchen and learn something new to dazzle your friends at a summer dinner party. Seating is limited.

PURE BARRE

teaching and ballet. Joints are protected by avoiding jumping and bouncing; instead, the focus is on exercises that tone and improve the hips, thighs, seat, abdominals, and arms. Schneider says Pure Barre offers convenience, joy, and effectiveness while complementing other fitness activities. “Barre is extremely popular these days for many reasons,” she states. “One is that it has very visible results.” For the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano If you’re looking for a very West Coast way to get back into skinny jeans, then purebarre.com/bc-kitsilano grab onto the barre. Owner Tanya Schneider says Pure Barre’s low-im1907 West 4th Avenue | 604-731-2088 pact classes last about 55 minutes. Because there’s so much movement, time Street Party, Schneider plans on having a setflies by quickly. “Our class has a very specific structure and up in front of her business. “We’ll be having flow in the order of which body parts we work,” contests, chances to win some retail, and posadds Schneider, who has a background in yoga sibly a demo class in the actual studio.”

WEST 4TH LIVING STAGE EVENTS: 11:00am 12:20pm 1:45pm 2:30pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 5:15pm

Semperviva Yoga Fashion on 4th Active Wear Chef Trevor Bird of Fable Chef Sean Bailey of Glowbal Group West of Mixology Competition Fashion on 4th: Lifestyle Fashion Kiss Dance Party JULY 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21


SAT. JULY 9 2016

WOW INTERIORS

LAS MARGARITAS

COMOR - GO PLAY OUTSIDE

WEST 4TH LIVING STAGE Located at West 4th Avenue and Yew Street, this is the ideal destination for aficionados of fashion, fitness, food, and drinks.

Semperviva Yoga

Las Margaritas has been Vancouver’s authentic CalMex restaurant for more than two decades. That’s because owner Dan Rodrigues hails from California and his family is from Mexico. Entering the warm cantina-style interior is like taking a trip south without even leaving the city. Las Margaritas’ Northern Mexican– Southern California cuisine includes vegetarian fajitas (tortillas filled with thinly sliced zucchini, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, peppers, and

Vintage Murano lighting, midcentury teak chairs, solid brass floor lamps from the Hotel Vancouver, and even Lex Luthor’s desk from the TV series Smallville—these are some of the discoveries customers have made at Kitsilano’s Wow Interiors. It’s a West Side haven for unique art deco, midcentury, and contemporary home décor. It’s a true mom-andpop shop owned by the

lasmargaritas.com 1999 West 4th Avenue | 604-734-7117

husband and wife team of Richard Domenco and Kirstin McLeod. The store also carries sculptures, paintings, and other works of art. “A lot of our stuff comes from collectors and from some of Vancouver’s acclaimed interior designers and their clients,” Domenco says. McLeod emphasizes that the goal is to offer unique pieces that can’t be found anywhere else, causing people to go “wow” when they enter the store. “We’re buying what we like,” McLeod says. Midcentury furniture really began catching on about a decade ago in magazines like H&L and Home and Design. Domenco says that more recently, the sleek industrial vibe has become hot. “Vintage doesn’t have to mean your mother’s furniture,” he declares. “Go to places like Palm Springs, Toronto, and Montreal. They’re huge on it. People living there wowinteriors.ca are really connected to their pieces.” 1823 West 4th Ave. | 604-801-6744 McLeod is a former jewellery designer; Domenco’s parents were in the antique business. As for Lex Luthor’s desk, Domenco says: “We bought two-thirds of the furnishings from the series that was filmed in Vancouver. We also do rentals, of course, to the film industry and have since we’ve opened the shop.” 20 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 7 – 14 / 2016

onions, served with pico de gallo and refried beans) and chicken flautas (deep-fried chickenfilled tortillas served with Mexican rice and refried beans). And did we mention the tacos? They’re out of this world. West 4th Avenue is known for its healthy lifestyle, and Las Margaritas is no exception.

Meals are cooked without preservatives and food colouring. The canola oil is devoid of trans fats and cholesterol. And you won’t find GMOs in its tasty tortillas, either. Rodrigues attributes his restaurant’s longevity to its consistency, not to mention the extensive array of tequilas. “Our selection is one of the largest and rarest in B.C.,” he says. The patio remains one of the star attractions at Las Margaritas. It’s not unusual to spot the occasional celebrity inside the restaurant or looking over West 4th Avenue from the patio while sipping on beer or a cocktail. Over the years, the clientele has included Ben Affleck, Ryan Kesler, Hillary Swank, Amy Adams, and, most recently, Christine Sinclair. It seems that the reigning queen of Canadian soccer enjoys the taste of outstanding Mexican food as much as anyone else.

THE RIGHT SHOE

the Right Shoe’s Rand Clement. “And our staff are all kinesiologists hired through the co-op department at SFU.” Runners know that the wrong shoe can cause According to Clement, this gives the staff pain, misery, and even depression if they’re more insights into biomechanics and how deprived of regular endorphins—a.k.a. happy shoes fit. And this service is provided in a roomy, brightly lit wood-panelled environment devoid of the clutter therightshoe.ca found in some other shoe stores. “We range from running shoes 1601 West 4th Avenue | 604-737-6014 to dress casual shoes to outdoor products, and then sandals,” Clemdrops—that come with a regular jog. At the ent explains. “In particular, we’re the biggest Right Shoe, the prevailing philosophy is that Birkenstock retailer in Vancouver.” “happy shoes make happy feet.” And it takes Customers have included former Prison expertise to make sure this happens. Break star Wentworth Miller and West 4th Av“We have a curated collection of shoes,” says enue environmental icon David Suzuki.

Outdoor enthusiasts think of Comor as the “good guys” in the ski and snowboarding business because of its price-matching program. In recent years, it’s become also one of Vancouver’s premier cycling shops. In addition to apparel and accessories, Comor carries a wide selection of road bikes, cruisers, and mountain bikes, as well as jargonfree, friendly service. Groups of 10 to 30 people leave the Kitsi“We’re taking the intimidation out of going lano store at 6 p.m. every Wednesday evening. into a bike store,” says Comor’s Jenny Wong. These are lighthearted recreational trips, not This year, she’s noticed a spike in the sale of competitive gut-busting expeditions. electric bikes, which enable commuters to go “If you’re a newcomer, we want to teach you uphill without breaking into a sweat. That’s usecomorsports.com ful for those who want 1766 West 4th Avenue | 604-736-7547 to ride to work every day without needing to 3700 East Hastings Street, Burnaby | 604-291-0475 take a shower when they 4338 Main Street, Whistler | 604-938-8898 reach the office. In keeping with the company’s community-oriented philosophy, how to use your bike properly and how to ride the Comor Road Cycling Club was created to safely in the city,” Wong says. introduce customers to road riding in a safe, There are also mountain bike rides leaving collegial atmosphere. the Burnaby store on Tuesday evenings.

Get centred and start your day off on the right foot with a full-hour yoga class by Semperviva. Register in advance at www.semperviva.com to participate in this outdoor class. Space is limited.

Fashion on Fourth

Vancouver Fashion Week presents two fashion shows, the first showcasing active wear with sporty ensembles by lululemon, Patagonia, Pure Barre, RYU, Arc’teryx, Pacific Boarder, Fjällräven, Public Myth, ivivva, and more. The second show will focus on streetwear with looks by Coco’s Closet, FAB, Two of Hearts, Motherland, Jackson Rowe, Middle Sister, Exposure, Plum, and American Apparel.

Cooking Demonstrations Chef Trevor Bird from FABLE will bring his fresh approach to the culinary scene with a live farmto-table cooking demonstration. He’ll be followed by Executive Chef Sean Riley, who oversees the Glowbal Group’s kitchen teams at some of Vancouver’s most renowned restaurants, including COAST and West 4th’s own Trattoria. Get inspired to take to the kitchen and learn something new to dazzle your friends at a summer dinner party. Seating is limited.

PURE BARRE

teaching and ballet. Joints are protected by avoiding jumping and bouncing; instead, the focus is on exercises that tone and improve the hips, thighs, seat, abdominals, and arms. Schneider says Pure Barre offers convenience, joy, and effectiveness while complementing other fitness activities. “Barre is extremely popular these days for many reasons,” she states. “One is that it has very visible results.” For the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano If you’re looking for a very West Coast way to get back into skinny jeans, then purebarre.com/bc-kitsilano grab onto the barre. Owner Tanya Schneider says Pure Barre’s low-im1907 West 4th Avenue | 604-731-2088 pact classes last about 55 minutes. Because there’s so much movement, time Street Party, Schneider plans on having a setflies by quickly. “Our class has a very specific structure and up in front of her business. “We’ll be having flow in the order of which body parts we work,” contests, chances to win some retail, and posadds Schneider, who has a background in yoga sibly a demo class in the actual studio.”

WEST 4TH LIVING STAGE EVENTS: 11:00am 12:20pm 1:45pm 2:30pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 5:15pm

Semperviva Yoga Fashion on 4th Active Wear Chef Trevor Bird of Fable Chef Sean Bailey of Glowbal Group West of Mixology Competition Fashion on 4th: Lifestyle Fashion Kiss Dance Party JULY 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21


SAT. JULY 9 2016

WOW INTERIORS

LAS MARGARITAS

COMOR - GO PLAY OUTSIDE

WEST 4TH LIVING STAGE Located at West 4th Avenue and Yew Street, this is the ideal destination for aficionados of fashion, fitness, food, and drinks.

Semperviva Yoga

Las Margaritas has been Vancouver’s authentic CalMex restaurant for more than two decades. That’s because owner Dan Rodrigues hails from California and his family is from Mexico. Entering the warm cantina-style interior is like taking a trip south without even leaving the city. Las Margaritas’ Northern Mexican– Southern California cuisine includes vegetarian fajitas (tortillas filled with thinly sliced zucchini, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, peppers, and

Vintage Murano lighting, midcentury teak chairs, solid brass floor lamps from the Hotel Vancouver, and even Lex Luthor’s desk from the TV series Smallville—these are some of the discoveries customers have made at Kitsilano’s Wow Interiors. It’s a West Side haven for unique art deco, midcentury, and contemporary home décor. It’s a true mom-andpop shop owned by the

lasmargaritas.com 1999 West 4th Avenue | 604-734-7117

husband and wife team of Richard Domenco and Kirstin McLeod. The store also carries sculptures, paintings, and other works of art. “A lot of our stuff comes from collectors and from some of Vancouver’s acclaimed interior designers and their clients,” Domenco says. McLeod emphasizes that the goal is to offer unique pieces that can’t be found anywhere else, causing people to go “wow” when they enter the store. “We’re buying what we like,” McLeod says. Midcentury furniture really began catching on about a decade ago in magazines like H&L and Home and Design. Domenco says that more recently, the sleek industrial vibe has become hot. “Vintage doesn’t have to mean your mother’s furniture,” he declares. “Go to places like Palm Springs, Toronto, and Montreal. They’re huge on it. People living there wowinteriors.ca are really connected to their pieces.” 1823 West 4th Ave. | 604-801-6744 McLeod is a former jewellery designer; Domenco’s parents were in the antique business. As for Lex Luthor’s desk, Domenco says: “We bought two-thirds of the furnishings from the series that was filmed in Vancouver. We also do rentals, of course, to the film industry and have since we’ve opened the shop.” 20 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 7 – 14 / 2016

onions, served with pico de gallo and refried beans) and chicken flautas (deep-fried chickenfilled tortillas served with Mexican rice and refried beans). And did we mention the tacos? They’re out of this world. West 4th Avenue is known for its healthy lifestyle, and Las Margaritas is no exception.

Meals are cooked without preservatives and food colouring. The canola oil is devoid of trans fats and cholesterol. And you won’t find GMOs in its tasty tortillas, either. Rodrigues attributes his restaurant’s longevity to its consistency, not to mention the extensive array of tequilas. “Our selection is one of the largest and rarest in B.C.,” he says. The patio remains one of the star attractions at Las Margaritas. It’s not unusual to spot the occasional celebrity inside the restaurant or looking over West 4th Avenue from the patio while sipping on beer or a cocktail. Over the years, the clientele has included Ben Affleck, Ryan Kesler, Hillary Swank, Amy Adams, and, most recently, Christine Sinclair. It seems that the reigning queen of Canadian soccer enjoys the taste of outstanding Mexican food as much as anyone else.

THE RIGHT SHOE

the Right Shoe’s Rand Clement. “And our staff are all kinesiologists hired through the co-op department at SFU.” Runners know that the wrong shoe can cause According to Clement, this gives the staff pain, misery, and even depression if they’re more insights into biomechanics and how deprived of regular endorphins—a.k.a. happy shoes fit. And this service is provided in a roomy, brightly lit wood-panelled environment devoid of the clutter therightshoe.ca found in some other shoe stores. “We range from running shoes 1601 West 4th Avenue | 604-737-6014 to dress casual shoes to outdoor products, and then sandals,” Clemdrops—that come with a regular jog. At the ent explains. “In particular, we’re the biggest Right Shoe, the prevailing philosophy is that Birkenstock retailer in Vancouver.” “happy shoes make happy feet.” And it takes Customers have included former Prison expertise to make sure this happens. Break star Wentworth Miller and West 4th Av“We have a curated collection of shoes,” says enue environmental icon David Suzuki.

Outdoor enthusiasts think of Comor as the “good guys” in the ski and snowboarding business because of its price-matching program. In recent years, it’s become also one of Vancouver’s premier cycling shops. In addition to apparel and accessories, Comor carries a wide selection of road bikes, cruisers, and mountain bikes, as well as jargonfree, friendly service. Groups of 10 to 30 people leave the Kitsi“We’re taking the intimidation out of going lano store at 6 p.m. every Wednesday evening. into a bike store,” says Comor’s Jenny Wong. These are lighthearted recreational trips, not This year, she’s noticed a spike in the sale of competitive gut-busting expeditions. electric bikes, which enable commuters to go “If you’re a newcomer, we want to teach you uphill without breaking into a sweat. That’s usecomorsports.com ful for those who want 1766 West 4th Avenue | 604-736-7547 to ride to work every day without needing to 3700 East Hastings Street, Burnaby | 604-291-0475 take a shower when they 4338 Main Street, Whistler | 604-938-8898 reach the office. In keeping with the company’s community-oriented philosophy, how to use your bike properly and how to ride the Comor Road Cycling Club was created to safely in the city,” Wong says. introduce customers to road riding in a safe, There are also mountain bike rides leaving collegial atmosphere. the Burnaby store on Tuesday evenings.

Get centred and start your day off on the right foot with a full-hour yoga class by Semperviva. Register in advance at www.semperviva.com to participate in this outdoor class. Space is limited.

Fashion on Fourth

Vancouver Fashion Week presents two fashion shows, the first showcasing active wear with sporty ensembles by lululemon, Patagonia, Pure Barre, RYU, Arc’teryx, Pacific Boarder, Fjällräven, Public Myth, ivivva, and more. The second show will focus on streetwear with looks by Coco’s Closet, FAB, Two of Hearts, Motherland, Jackson Rowe, Middle Sister, Exposure, Plum, and American Apparel.

Cooking Demonstrations Chef Trevor Bird from FABLE will bring his fresh approach to the culinary scene with a live farmto-table cooking demonstration. He’ll be followed by Executive Chef Sean Riley, who oversees the Glowbal Group’s kitchen teams at some of Vancouver’s most renowned restaurants, including COAST and West 4th’s own Trattoria. Get inspired to take to the kitchen and learn something new to dazzle your friends at a summer dinner party. Seating is limited.

PURE BARRE

teaching and ballet. Joints are protected by avoiding jumping and bouncing; instead, the focus is on exercises that tone and improve the hips, thighs, seat, abdominals, and arms. Schneider says Pure Barre offers convenience, joy, and effectiveness while complementing other fitness activities. “Barre is extremely popular these days for many reasons,” she states. “One is that it has very visible results.” For the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano If you’re looking for a very West Coast way to get back into skinny jeans, then purebarre.com/bc-kitsilano grab onto the barre. Owner Tanya Schneider says Pure Barre’s low-im1907 West 4th Avenue | 604-731-2088 pact classes last about 55 minutes. Because there’s so much movement, time Street Party, Schneider plans on having a setflies by quickly. “Our class has a very specific structure and up in front of her business. “We’ll be having flow in the order of which body parts we work,” contests, chances to win some retail, and posadds Schneider, who has a background in yoga sibly a demo class in the actual studio.”

WEST 4TH LIVING STAGE EVENTS: 11:00am 12:20pm 1:45pm 2:30pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 5:15pm

Semperviva Yoga Fashion on 4th Active Wear Chef Trevor Bird of Fable Chef Sean Bailey of Glowbal Group West of Mixology Competition Fashion on 4th: Lifestyle Fashion Kiss Dance Party JULY 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21


JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND Outlawcountry band, with guests Devil in the Wood Shack, Cornshed, and Space Chimp. Jul 9, 10 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

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CHIXDIGGIT Calgary pop-punk band tours in support of its 25th anniversary. Oct 15, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Irish folk singer-songwriter and guitarist tours in support of upcoming album We Move. Nov 24, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 8, 10 am, $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

2THIS WEEK DIXIE CHICKS American country trio performs on its DCX World Tour MMXV1, with guests Anderson East and Josh Herbert. Jul 7, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $131.75/101.75/75.15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GOLDFISH African electronica duo, with guests Wmnstudies and Diana Boss. Jul 7, 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/. PICKWICK The Georgia Straight presents garage/R&B band from Seattle. Jul 8, doors 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Neptoon Records, and www.ticketfly.com/, info www.rick shawtheatre.com/765/pickwick-w-guests/. DEERHOOF American noise-pop band tours in support of upcoming release The Magic, with guests Skating Polly. Jul 8, 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. SUNSET MUSIC SERIES Every Friday will include Summit Lodge Restaurant barbecue and musical performances including classic rock, European folk, indie-soul, modern-acoustic, R&B, and world fusion. Performers include Bluesberry Jam (July 8), the Boom Booms (July 15), Tanga (July 22), Ruffled Feathers (July 29), Tim Hewitt (Aug. 5), Adam Woodall (Aug. 12), Will Ross (Aug. 19), Jocelyn Pettit (Aug. 26), Team Tim Hewitt (Sept. 2), Sea to Sky Orchestra (Sept. 9), and Lovecoast (Sept. 16). To Sep 16, Fridays from 6-9 pm, Sea to Sky Gondola (36800 Hwy 99, Squamish). Tix $39.95, info www.seatoskygondola.com. JOHN PRINE American country-folk songwriting legend (“Illegal Smile”, “Sam Stone”). Jul 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $99.50/79.50 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/. KHATSAHLANO STREET PARTY Annual street party features performances by Hannah Georgas, Mounties, Rodney DeCroo, Jody Glenham, Twin River, Hot Panda, Mu, and Holy Hum. Other highlights include yoga classes, cooking demonstrations, a mixology competition, a family zone, food trucks, and beer gardens. Jul 9, 11 am–9 pm, West 4th Avenue (between Burrard & MacDonald). Free admission, info www.khatsahlano.com/. TRUCK STOP CONCERT SERIES Indierock music by Hollerado, Bend Sinister, Highkicks, and Redeye Empire. Jul 9, 4-10 pm, Red Truck Brewery (295 E. 1st). Tix $3585, info www.redtruckbeer.com/. BIG THIEF Brooklyn-based rock ‘n’ roll band, with guests Luke Temple and Morning Show. Jul 9, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12, info www.facebook.com/ events/559749094205060/.

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SONGS OF THE DESERT SUFIS As part of the Indian Summer Festival, Rajasthan Josh performs with Rup Sidhu, Kinnie Starr, Ashwin Sood, Sara Fitzpatrick, Shane Raman, and the Sarah McLachlan School of Music Youth Choir. Jul 9, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $35-85, info www.indiansummerfest.ca/. DUCKTAILS Los Angeles-based pop musician and Real Estate member tours in support of latest release St. Catherine. Jul 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

TD CONCERTS AT THE PIER Music by Switch to Black, the Katherines, and Daniel Wesley (Jul 9), Twin River and Moulettes (Jul 16), Beyond the Eyes, Field Study, and the Washboard Union (Jul 23), Desiree Dawson, Jordan Klassen, and Dustin Bentall (Aug 6), Sean and the Strangers, Joshua Hyslop, and David Jacobs-Strain (Aug 13), and Richard Tichelman, JP Maurice, and Harry Manx (Aug 20). Jul 9–Aug 20, West Beach. The July 16 concert will be held at White Rock’s Five Corners Business District. Free admission, info www.concertsatthepier.com/. MUSIC ON THE GRILL Enjoy a bbq dinner served al fresco on the patio and take in concerts by the Marc Atkinson Trio and West My Friend (Jul 9), the Good Lovelies and Three Worlds (Jul 16), and Jaclyn Guillou (Aug 13) Jul 9, 16, Aug 13, dinner 6:30 pm, concert 8 pm, Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Tix $55/35, info www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/. STEVEN TYLER American hard-rock singersongwriter and Aerosmith frontman performs with his new Nashville-based band Loving Mary. Jul 10, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $169.95/99.95/69.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. WE ARE SCIENTISTS American pop band tours in support of upcoming release Helter Seltzer. Jul 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. KEYS TO THE STREETS: WOODWARD’S SUMMER JAM SESSION Includes performances by local musicians Willa, Dan Moxom of Bend Sinister, the Ruffled Feathers, and Colour the Wild. Jul 11, 6-8 pm, Woodward’s Atrium (149 W. Hastings, at Abbott). Tix $5, info www.keystothestreets.com/.

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The first artwork visitors will see when they B Y R OB IN L A URE NCE

enter Bharti Kher’s thoughtful and provocative exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a lifesize sculpture of the heart of a blue sperm whale. The largest creature that now exists on our planet, the blue whale possesses a heart that is also the biggest in the world—the size, the artist says, of a small car. Kher’s realistic, cast-resin depiction of the organ’s two massive chambers, enormous aorta, and branching blood vessels is a work of weird grandeur. To some, it might suggest an environmental message, a monument to a creature slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands in the 19th century and threatened in our own age by pollution and rising ocean temperatures. The artist, however, says the work is about the nature of love, and its title, An Absence of Assignable Cause, evokes the irrationality of that most vaunted and lamented emotion. “More things have been written about love and all the ways around it,” she says. “I thought it would be interesting to talk about it using an animal as a metaphor.” An internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited her multidisciplinary works around the globe, from Zurich, Paris, and Tel Aviv to Perth, Shanghai, and Mumbai, Kher has just arrived in Vancouver from her home in New Delhi. Seated in the VAG library, she talks about her art with the Georgia Straight before overseeing the installation of her retrospective show. She recounts, too, her life journey, a kind of reverse migration from London, England, where she was born and raised, to India, her immigrant parents’ homeland. After graduating from art college in Newcastle and working in London for a year, Kher set out for South Asia at the age of 22—and stayed. The decision to settle in New Delhi was based, in no small part, on her falling in love with and marrying Indian artist Subodh Gupta. But it also arose from the excitement India inspired in her—and a more flexible life than was possible for two struggling young artists in, say, London or New York. “India seems to be more forgiving in some ways,” Kher says. “We were able to afford rent, we could eat.” They could also start a family and launch their careers. While reviewing the works in her show, Kher describes her fascination with the natural world, with marine biology, primatology, anthropology,

Bharti Kher’s hybrid vision

Bharti Kher’s The Messenger is part of a Vancouver Art Gallery show presented in conjunction with the Indian Summer festival. Genevieve Hanson photo.

In her 2007 photographic self-portrait, Kher has overlaid a baboon face on her own. “I like the idea The London-born, New Delhi–based artist merges humans that there is a part of us that is essentially savage,” with animals to address politics, sociology, and love she says, adding that there and the ways animals function in art as metaphors are parallels between the ways we relate to animals of the human condition. This is spotlighted in her and marginalize (or colonize) people who are dif2004 series of colour photographs of hybrid beings: ferent from ourselves. “When I look at the monkey, women who embody aspects of men and who also it’s more about how close are we to this ‘Other’? We share fangs, fur, and hooves with animals. are much closer than we think.…With the bonobo, “A lot of the earlier paintings I was making at we share 99 percent DNA. It’s extraordinary.” art college were images of strange amorphous Kher sees these photographs as the genesis of a creatures that were part this animal, part that ani- body of work that continues to this day, including mal,” she says. “I was trying to twine these ideas of a series of goddess sculptures in which androgynmetamorphosis, morphology, hybridity.” ous-looking women, based on mythological and The photos of hybrid women sought to address art historical precedents, possess tails, hooves, or politics, sociology, and economics within the do- antlers along with spears or shields. Also in the mestic sphere, she continues. “I was confronting show are abstract paintings, shattered mirrors, this new reality, living in India, and I wanted to do medical charts, and glass-fronted cabinets covit in the way that is like me, which is partly ironic, ered in bindis, the mass-manufactured forehead a little bit paradoxical, funny, fearful.” dots that in the past have symbolized the third eye

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and signalled a woman’s marital status, but that are now used primarily as personal adornment. Perhaps most affecting is Six Women, a row of seated female nudes, cast in plaster of Paris. On first viewing, they seem to address the aging female body: with their sagging breasts and slumping rolls of fat, they differ dramatically from the images of female beauty propagated by fashion and advertising. Our reading of these figures changes, however, when we learn that they were cast from prostitutes who work in Sonagachi, the red-light district of Kolkata. “The intention with all my female figures is to complicate things, to say that this narrative is not as simple as the one you’ve been telling me all these years,” Kher says. “I don’t really want the women to be one thing, I’m not really interested in the one thing. I’m interested in the complexities of human experience.” Bharti Kher: Matter runs at the Vancouver Art Gallery from Saturday (July 9) to October 10. Kher is in Vancouver as part of the Indian Summer festival.

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Editor’s choice UNDERDOGS STRIKE BACK First and foremost, it’s a direly needed celebration of the printed word—complete with a printing press at centre stage and an appearance by a good old-fashioned typesetter. But aside from that, the Broadway hit Newsies—a story about the 1899 New York newsboys’ strike—is a hyperenergized dance extravaganza. And even if the underdog trope feels familiar, you won’t be able to help yourself from cheering for the plucky kids who hawk newspapers as they stand up against the Man. The towering, three-level set is pretty cool, too. Enjoy—and leave with a new appreciation for the humble newspaper. Newsies is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday (July 10).

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WEST SIDE STORY (At Malkin Bowl from July 13 to August 20) “Tonight” and “Jet Song” under a summer sky? Great, daddy-o.

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DANCING ON THE EDGE (At the Firehall and elsewhere from July 7 to 16) A strong roster of local and national talent livens up the week.

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PERICLES (At Vanier Park from July 10 to September 18) Bard on the Beach brings exotic music and ancient ruins to this mythical world.

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PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES (At the Vancouver Art Gallery to October 2) A riveting look at the way Pablo Picasso treated women.

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ALL TOGETHER NOW (At the Museum of Vancouver to January 8, 2017) Don’t miss this show of fantastic collectors’ collections.

Guest pick BARD AND THE BEATS Our guest this week is hardworking NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, who gives a shout-out to his Vancouver– West End constituency while suggesting three arts options that are far from pedestrian: “In the West End we have more arts and entertainment options to choose from than we have nights in the week, and they are all walkable! For an adventurous Tuesday night out I walk to Stanley Park’s Third Beach for some participatory culture at Brahm’s Tams Drum Circle, which brings out hundreds of folks dancing, singing, and, well, yes, drumming. Not your scene? Okay, then try a little heartbreak set to music with Theatre Under the Stars’ production of West Side Story at Malkin Bowl [in rep with Beauty & the Beast through August 20], or catch its inspiration by heading over the Burrard Bridge to see the classic Romeo and Juliet at Bard on the Beach [on the BMO Mainstage through September 23].” -

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PEMBERTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Huka Entertainment presents Canada’s biggest camping, music, and comedy festival. Lineup includes Snoop Dogg, Bassnectar, Wolf Parade, Grace Potter (Jul 14), J. Cole, Kaskade, FKA Twigs, Flosstradamus, Method Man and Redman (Jul 15), the Killers, Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, Billy Idol (Jul 16), and Pearl Jam, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Halsey, DJ Snake, and Mac Miller (Jul 17). July 14-17, Pemberton Valley (Pemberton, B.C.). Info at www.pemberton musicfestival.com/.

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Gaze went something like this. Roderique and Kelly: “We have this idea for Othello set during the Civil War.” Gaze: “Interesting, interesting. Come back to me with a director.” They asked Fraser, who admits that at first he was “reticent. Actually, I think I said, ‘No,’ ” he says with a laugh. “I think you said you didn’t like putting things onto Shakespeare,” Roderique offers, more charitably. “I didn’t understand it yet,” Fraser says. “So we did a reading with a full cast and then I really tried to concentrate on the Civil War and I did a lot of reading and I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s going to work.’ The more and more we got together all the time, the more it just made perfect sense.” It became such a labour of love that everybody was ready with a contingency plan if Bard rejected their pitch. “We were determined to do it, regardless,” Fraser recalls. “At one point, we thought, ‘This is not going to get done. Bard is not going to do this. Okay, intimate production in the Havana!’ We were working so diligently because the play mattered. It didn’t matter who did it as long as the play happened.” Eventually, Gaze said yes. Now, three-and-a-half years later, their vision is almost realized. The Civil War setting implicitly contextualizes the racial prejudice and othering that surround the titular character. Roderique and Fraser were also adamant that they acknowledge the extensive violence endured by the play’s female characters. The extent to which this is taken for granted can be seen in Othello’s Wikipedia page, which makes no mention of domestic violence or women’s rights in its subcategory of “Themes”. “The violence at the end of the play—at our first preview, there was a guy sitting beside me and he jumped out of his seat in shock,” Fraser says. “He jumped at the horror of what happens. And that’s not us really adding anything into it. That’s what’s written.” “The two main women in the play are both murdered by their husbands,” Roderique says. “We didn’t want to make it [the violence] swashbuckling or entertaining or comedic. We wanted to make it real and to make people say, ‘Holy shit, that’s horrendous, we need to talk about this.’ ” -

hree-and-a-half years ago, Luc Roderique was having dinner with fellow actor Kayvon Kelly. The topic of conversation: bucket-list roles. Kelly’s included Iago; Roderique’s included Othello, and he had recently finished watching The Civil War, Ken Burns’s famed documentary series on one of the bloodiest periods in U.S. history. “Normally, I’m not the type of guy who likes when you take a play out of its original element and superimpose something on it,” Roderique tells the Straight, sitting next to director Bob Fraser at a table inside the Bard on the Beach grounds in Kitsilano. “But there are all these amazing similarities between Othello and the Civil War. It seemed to just fit together perfectly and helped to tell the story, even more than the original setting— for a modern-day audience, at least.” Othello was written by William Shakespeare more than 400 years ago, but the play hasn’t lost its relevance. In short: Othello and Desdemona have secretly married. He’s a black man, she’s a white woman. Iago feels he’s been slighted by Othello, and decides to get revenge by setting up a convoluted scheme wherein Othello mistakenly believes Desdemona has been unfaithful, and then murders her in a jealous fit. This Othello invites its audience inside Shakespeare’s vernacular, and then situates the narrative 250-plus years later, during the fight for the emancipation of black slaves in America. Every person who exits the theatre returns to our current reality of Black Lives Matter, racism, misogyny, and violence against women. It makes for a powerful experience that Roderique would like to see prioritized in the theatre community. “It is important to do shows like this in big venues like this,” Roderique says. “Big producing theatres like Bard on the Beach and the Arts Club have a responsibility to put on shows that push boundaries, that raise conversations, especially right now concerning race.” Roderique and Kelly were prepared to produce Othello themselves, but first they decided to pitch it to Christopher Gaze at Bard on the Beach. Both actors had been part of the company for a number of years. Roderique, in fact, was in Bard’s pre- Othello runs in repertory with Perivious production of Othello, in which cles through September 17, at Bard Fraser starred as Iago. The pitch to on the Beach.

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nnovation and research are more associated with science than the arts. But they’re often integral to dance—something veteran Ottawa choreographer Sylvie Desrosiers has emphasized with her relatively new DORSALE Danse company. Speaking to the Straight before the company makes its debut at the Dancing on the Edge festival here, Desrosiers explains, “It’s all about letting the choreographer have time in the studio and not be too pressed to create quickly; it’s getting feedback from people through having showings.” In many ways, the company operates as a research centre—an approach Desrosiers learned when she worked with the acclaimed Groupe Dance Lab, formerly known as Le Groupe de la Place Royale, a company Ottawa lost six years ago. But out of its ashes, Desrosiers and others carry on its techniques, keeping the art form very much alive in the nation’s capital. To understand the way she works, it helps to look at the way Desrosiers built douce tourmente, the duet she’s bringing here. The idea was taken from a real event in her own life: she was inspired by a couple she knew well that went through terminal cancer. “Without storytelling, I wanted to convey the tribulations, the whole journey from knowing someone’s going to pass away to the shift

between one supporting the other,” she tells the Straight over the phone from her Ottawa studio, speaking about the work she’s crafted for dancers Marc Boivin and Heidi Strauss. “The way we constructed the piece was very conceptual: I didn’t want to feel like I was going into the storytelling part. I just said, ‘Let’s just find 10 ways our body can counterbalance each other.’ ” After that, she did a random assembling of those movements. “When you put it all together and are living it, it transcends to the level of human beings,” she adds. “Now I’m going to be close to 60, and I’m at a time and age where you go back to the human being, and what it means to be human, being the most important thing in life.” With douce tourmente, multimedia projections of birds and other metaphorical images bring the piece to life—and Desrosiers often pauses the dance so that viewers can take a breather from the on-stage intensity. Despite its base in research, however, the effect of the finely honed duet is far from cold and scientific. “They know how to get the best from each other. They always grow with the piece each time we do it,” Desrosiers says of Strauss and Boivin. “Last week, there were shows where… Well, if the choreographer is going ‘Oh my god!’ it’s pretty intense.” DORSALE Danse presents douce tourmente at the Firehall Arts Centre next Thursday and Friday (July 14 and 15), as part of Dancing on the Edge.


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he similarities between art and life are becoming more and more pronounced as SHINE: A Burlesque Musical gets ever closer to hitting the stage of the historic WISE Hall. For one thing, the musical, which creators Cass King and John Woods have spent the past few years retooling with writer Sam Dulmage, is set in the Aristocrat—an old venue a gang of showbiz misfits is trying to save from closure due to gentrification. It’s not lost on anyone that the WISE Hall, built in 1926, has recently faced tensions and noise complaints from an East Side neighbourhood that changes a little more each time a new outrageously priced condo goes up. “There are themes in SHINE of how artists’ spaces tend to get pushed out when there’s gentrification,” King tells the Straight over the phone, speaking with Woods while preparing for the show. “WISE Hall is the centre of burlesque in East Vancouver and it’s facing the pressure of gentrification,” adds Woods, referring to battles with the venue’s new neighbours. So the spot, with its creaky wood, high ceilings, and faded-glory chandelier, could not be better. But the DIY mentality of the makeshift family at the centre of the musical—whose members include fan dancers and drag queens—also mirrors the story of this critically lauded, giddily lewd show. After opening in 2009 at the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival, the little sex-positive show that could played to sold-out runs at the Waterfront Theatre six months later, followed by trips to Seattle and New York City (where TimeOut pronounced it “Rent for our generation”). “Burlesque is like adult community theatre. You do it and people help you

Cass King relied on a DIY ethos in making SHINE. Frank Roberts photo.

there’s a really lovely new character who’s a drag queen—Miss Holly Gofuckyourself—who’s an endless source of one-liners, played by Seth Little, with sort of a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other.” Other changes include a live band, more triple-threat musical-theatre actors taking part in the production, and a fully notated score with arrangements by Blue Morris. “So there’s a completed script and completed notation,” Woods enthuses. “It’s faster, funnier, and the show doesn’t stop for a song,” is how King sums it up. “I believe that the theme was always there from the beginning: the idea of a chosen family and when we find our families that’s what allows us to shine.” So where will SHINE go next, after its gig in the atmospheric WISE? With everything in place, the pair still hold out a dream of a major cult hit—perhaps not such a long shot, with nontraditional musicals (hello, Hamilton) and burlesque (taking all shapes and forms at clubs around town seven nights a week) enjoying more popularity than ever. And audiences may be becoming more open to the kind of all-inclusive sexuality that SHINE revels in. “One of the things that’s been inspiring to us is how Hedwig [and the Angry Inch] ended up on Broadway and it came there from off-off-Broadway,” Woods says of the hit with the genderqueer, rock-singing star. “The movie musical achieved a cult audience and local live productions started springing up everywhere, so they sort of did an end run around the traditional gatekeepers.” With any luck, SHINE will achieve its end run this time around, teetering on its platform heels and swinging its pastie tassels the whole way. -

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and you get opportunities to perform it,” composer Woods explains. It’s an approach he and writer/cabaret singer King have used to get SHINE on-stage—not to mention to take their musical-comedy act, the Wet Spots, around the globe for 15 years. “So much musical theatre is in limbo because musical theatre is so expensive to produce,” Woods continues. “Whereas the DIY ethic is, ‘Let’s just get this done and get it up rough and ready with cardboard props. Just get it up!’ ” King adds: “There has been this burlesque DIY ethos that has led us to get this produced—basically, because of volunteers in the community.” Among the big boosts to the refurbished musical are nine new songs by Woods—from ska to rock—and SHINE: A Burlesque Musical is at the new characters. “The guts of the story and the basic WISE Hall from Wednesday (July 6) plot and dilemma are still here and to July 16.

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ing the actors who get to perform it. The cast of The Merry Wives of Windsor is having an infectiously good time. Few would argue that the script is one of Shakespeare’s best. It’s written entirely in prose and its comic setups are creakingly mechanical. A fat old knight named Sir John Falstaff needs some cash, so he sets out to seduce two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, who are best friends. When he sends identical love notes to them, the merry wives decide to teach Falstaff a lesson by repeatedly feigning interest, then humiliating him. In the subplot, a gaggle of fools and one true love attempt to marry Mistress Page’s daughter, Anne. Director Johnna Wright, who first mounted her vision of Merry Wives for Bard on the Beach in 2012, sets the story in Windsor, Ontario, circa 1968, in and around an open-mike bar called the Garter Inn. The bar setting allows the characters to burst into song, so we get a handful of period hits, including “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ”, “Crazy”, and “Stand By Your Man”. Both because the songs extend the already considerable exuberance and because they often speak to the heart of the story, they work. It helps that there is a ridiculous amount of talent on the stage. Ben Elliott plays Slender, one of the foolish suitors. Elliott uses his lanky physicality to turn Slender into a line drawing, a cartoon, and he plays the character’s non sequiturs masterfully. It’s a delight to see this young actor coming into the fullness of his talent. Andrew Chown is also hilarious as Dr. Caius, the French variation on the theme of foolish suitor. This young player’s confidence allows him to be outrageous—and still responsive—within his character’s affectations. There are seasoned pros up there, too. Ashley Wright squeezes every drop of comedy out of the fat knight’s lines: Falstaff describes a dirty laundry basket that he’s forced to hide in as “more than half-stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish”, and because Wright is discovering the image as he speaks it, it’s vivid. Amber Lewis (Mistress Ford) does some hilarious business when she’s pretending to be turned on by Falstaff. And, for the most part, Scott Bellis is superb as Ford, her husband: he turns the character’s jealousy into a kind of exasperated dance. Not everything works. The first act drags noticeably as it approaches intermission. Playing Ford in disguise, Bellis does some beatnik shtick that goes on too long. And, in a production that’s already outsized, Jenn Lines manages to be over-thetop as everybody’s duplicitous confidante, Mistress Quickly. The second half rockets, however. Pam Johnson’s appropriately musty set is instantly recognizable, right down to the moose head on the wall. Drew Facey’s costumes are a symphony of eye-popping ’60s eccentricity: Dr. Caius wears a chartreuse suit with a black-and-white polka-dotted shirt, pink socks, and pink tie. And Valerie Easton’s choreography frolics. Watching the actors dancing their way ecstatically through their bows: that’s when the envy struck. > COLIN THOMAS

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2ONGOING BILLY ELLIOT The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the musical story of an 11-year-old boy who discovers he loves ballet dancing. Book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Music by Elton John. To Jul 17, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. BARD ON THE BEACH Annual outdoor Shakespeare festival features performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor (to Sep 24), Romeo and Juliet (to Sep 23), Othello (to Sep 17), and Pericles (to Sep 18). To Sep 24, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut Street). Tix from $20, info www.bardonthebeach.org/. ROCK OF AGES The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a musical about an aspiring rocker who works at a Hollywood bar and falls in love with a fresh-faced Midwestern girl who just moved to Los Angeles. To Jul 30, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. RED Aenigma Theatre presents John Logan’s play that explores the world of visionary painter Mark Rothko. To Jul 16, 7-8:40 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ aenigmatheatre/.

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Writer-director Todd Solondz’s fragmented his transgressive notions of gender and race, and his almost gleeful misanthropy—in films like Happiness and Life During Wartime—aren’t designed to ingratiate. And yet his work is a veritable treasure chest of weird ideas and offbeat performances you can’t get anywhere else. In Wiener-Dog, every quantum of Solondz is channelled into short stories connected only by the spectre of mortality and the dachshund of the title. This critter is brought to a little boy (Keaton Nigel Cook) in remission from cancer, but his stinking-rich parents (Tracy Letts and Julie Delpy) quickly take the joy out of that. When Wiener-Dog (as named by the lad) heads to the vet with atomic diarrhea, he’s snatched by a mousy assistant. Here, Greta Gerwig blonds up the inspirationally named Dawn Wiener, played two decades ago as a child by dark-maned Heather Matarazzo in Solondz’s breakthrough film,

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of footage, Eat That Question has an almost symphonic flow. Roughly following his subject’s chronology, German director Thorsten Schütte uses no title cards or narration to tell a fascinating story uncomplicated by recent family disputes. From his clean-shaven start, playing a bicycle accompanied by studio orchestra on The Steve Allen Show, Zappa displayed his trademark combination of high seriousness and Dadaistic cheek. After that beard grew in, he became a surprisingly charismatic bandleader, especially with his groundbreaking Mothers of Invention. Skinny and often shirtless, he’s seen leading various iterations at rehearsals and concerts, with songs that veered between doo-wop melodiousness and Stravinskylike rhythmic bombast. In interviews, mostly for European and U.S. regional TV, the musician could be irascible or shticky, but frequently funny and always highly articulate. Even if his lyrics were often

2 Best of Hot Docs SPACESHIP EARTH This would be another soul-crushing exercise in confronting insurmountable eco-doom if it weren’t for its sprawling and fluidly edited scope or a second half that gently nudges the viewer in the direction of actual solutions. (Hello, “transition towns”!) Director Kevin McMahon’s film arrives with four other titles from this year’s Hot Docs—running Friday to Sunday (June 8 to 10) at the Vancity Theatre—including Unlocking the Cage and the bona fide classic Tickled. Go to Straight.com for more. -

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LAST CAB TO DARWIN Starring Michael Caton. Rated PG

The subject of Last Cab to Darwin might be

2 pretty downbeat. Still, grimness doesn’t dom-

inate this gloriously shot road trip, which covers 2,000 kilometres of Australian outback and big swaths of the country’s psychic geography, as well. For screenwriter Reg Cribb and writer-director Jeremy Sims, Darwin follows their homegrown hit Last Train to Freo, from 10 years ago. It’s mostly a pictorial mood-setter, with blood-red desert sunsets and golden-hour river swims backgrounding a careerhigh performance from The Castle’s Michael Caton. He plays taxi-driving Reg, who has never left the dried-up mining town of Broken Hill, nor has he ever started a family. So there’s no one to consult when his stomach cancer is found too late to save him. Sure, there’s his neighbour Polly (Ningali Lawford-Wolf), an aboriginal woman he sometimes shares a bed with, although he keeps this a secret from his mates at the local pub—where, shockingly, they still don’t serve “blackfellas”, as Polly puts it. When Reg hears about a doctor up north (Jacki Weaver) who’s fighting for the rights of sick people to die with dignity, he cleans up his cab and heads for Darwin. Along the way, he hooks up with a handsome young mixed-race drifter called Tilley (movie-stealing Mark Coles Smith) who, despite being quite trouble-prone himself, helps Reg navigate the indigenous reaches of central Australia. At two hours, the movie feels a bit overstuffed with issues and plot contrivances; how handy to run into a beautiful English nurse (The Tudors’ Emma Hamilton) before hitting Darwin! But the see next page

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puerile, Zappa was a tireless foe of censorship, particularly when attached to fundamentalist rhetoric. “All this talk about the right to life,” he states vehemently. “What about the right to life of an unborn idea?” Zappa also opposed drug usage, railing against the harmful things people put in their bodies. It’s hard to miss, then, that he is holding a cigarette in almost every frame—even after being diagnosed with the cancer that would kill him in 1993. In his later, more weary stage, he even embraces the notion of being completely forgotten. Not likely.

What to see and where to see it

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RAN Akira Kurosawa is at it again, flying King

Lear into Japan and transforming the Bard into a one-of-a-kind act of cinematic genius. The Cinematheque’s Shakespeare 400 series continues with the director’s last masterpiece, running from Thursday to Saturday (July 7 to 9).

RACHEL TALALAY MASTER CLASS

Rachel Talalay’s extensive credits begin in 1991 with Freddy’s Dead and stretch all the way to the BBC’s most recent series of Sherlock. Amanda Tapping hosts the second in the Directors Guild of Canada’s series of master classes at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (July 9).

MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END Notorious ’80s

glam buffoons the Crüe held their last ever concert on New Year’s Eve 2015, or roughly 30 years after Vince Neil’s voice gave out. You can enjoy the proceedings from a safe distance at the Cineplex Odeon Park Theatre on Monday (July 11).

THE PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE Another highlight of the Vancity Theatre’s ongoing Brian De Palma retrospective, this quasi-musical from 1974 wittily lampoons the music industry while combining Gaston Leroux with Faust, Dorian Gray, and a sadly underappreciated score by Paul Williams (who also stars as the Phil Spector–ish record producer, Swan). A flop everywhere but Winnipeg, where it ran for years, Phantom sees the filmmaker mastering the playful technique that would become a signature. More than that, it’s just great, great fun. Screening Friday (July 8). JULY 7 – 14 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31


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Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. SERGE ALTERNES Author of Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain signs copies of his book that uncovers Vancouver’s connections with newlyunearthed photographs and history of the Spanish Republic from 80 years ago. Jul 13, 11 am, Indigo Spirit (810 Granville). Info 604-979-8899.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL The annual event offers multidisciplinary arts experiences that bring together diverse artists and audiences in a spirit of global dialogue

and citizenship. Highlights include performances by musical group Rajasthan Josh, filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Leslee Udwin, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva. Jul 7-16, various Vancouver venues. Info www.indiansummerfest.ca/.

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MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2ALL TOGETHER NOW: VANCOUVER COLLECTORS AND THEIR WORLDS (sensory experience explores the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects, which tell the stories of 20 diverse local collectors) to Jan 8, 2017

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

THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouver-based artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle

FROM BOND WITH LOVE The Lovers Cabaret presents a performance that uses burlesque, cabaret, and contemporary dance to tell a spy story. Jul 7-9, 8-11 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $25-45, info www.theloverscabaret.com/.

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

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THE WITNESS A documentary by James D. Solomon. Rated PG

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brutally murdered by a crazed stranger outside her apartment building in Queens, to the disinterest of at least 38 of her neighbours, who supposedly looked on and did nothing. A.M. Rosenthal’s subsequent story in the New York Times cemented the notion of an uncaring city in the grip of moral decay. This later inspired plays, movies, a Phil Ochs song, and even an episode of Girls. But the story itself may have been more symbolism than fact. Bill Genovese, one of Kitty’s four still-living siblings, grew up disturbed by unanswered questions. His distaste for citizen apathy drove him to join the marines and go to Vietnam, where he lost both legs. In 2004, he joined filmmaker James D. Solomon to investigate what really happened. Digging through police reports and finding a few witnesses still around, Genovese discovers Rashomon-like perspectives. Most interesting are his peeks into the reporting process, obviously slanted towards simplifying murky areas. We also get hints of Kitty’s life as a closeted lesbian in Kennedy-era America. But the filmmakers drop these crucial threads in favour of pursuing Genovese’s obsession with reconstructing that fatal morning, and the results are often less than riveting. Shot over a period of 12 years, The Witness doesn’t tell you that several of the participants, including Rosenthal and convicted killer Winston Moseley, have died since completion. A former prosecutor, surprised by how small and fragile Moseley looked the day they arraigned him, recalls that he was “expecting a larger representation of evil�. We always do. > KEN EISNER

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN Starring Alexander SkarsgĂĽrd. Rated PG

After his series-clinching run

2 of Harry Potter movies, direc-

tor David Yates brings us a Tarzan flick that takes the character seriously. Tarzan is presented first as John Clayton III, a sitting member of the House of Lords, ambivalent about his fame as the ape-man. However, rumours of enslavement in his native Congo lure him back to the jungle, where he learns of a fiendish Belgian plot to exploit its diamonds. Solemn condemnations of colonialism, environmental degradation, and genocide follow. These are apparently Yates’s notion of what makes a summer blockbuster. The idiosyncrasy is praiseworthy—as is the cinematography. The movie commences with widescreen compositions of green canopy, threaded with mist and sunbeams. Alexander Skarsgürd and Margot Robbie, as T and J, could not be prettier. The production detail is immense, from (faux? exploited?) native tribes to any number of fierce yet friendly CG animal companions. For fun, we have vine swinging, gorilla-wrestling, Belgian-trampling, and Samuel L. Jackson as a kvetching diplomat thoroughly ill-suited for jungle adventure, while the blindingly white Tarzan and Jane couldn’t be more at home. It’s not a bad gag, as race jokes go, even if Jackson’s delivery is jarringly modern in comparison with the stern mien of Skarsgürd or even Christoph Waltz’s genially cruel Leon Rom, the most fiendish of the Belgian fiends. This should be fun. At worst, it is a respectful attempt to update a goldenoldie character with pop psychology, a moderate, Netflix-ish level of sex and violence, and current (if not exceptional) special effects. The best effect of all is Skarsgürd’s abs. They are amazing. > RON YAMAUCHI


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et’s deal with this upfront. For some of us—most of us, probably—Ellen Burstyn symbolizes a holy period in American cinema. Between 1971 and 1974, she took a key role in The Last Picture Show and starred in both The Exorcist and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, bagging three Oscar nominations and one win in the process. Other films from the same era (Harry and Tonto, The King of Marvin Gardens) were hardly shabby. She’s been working and winning major awards ever since, notably in such wildly challenging fare as 2000’s Requiem for a Dream, but you have to wonder if that historic early run is something of an albatross for the 83-year-old actor. “I don’t dwell on it,” says Burstyn, calling the Straight from New York. “It’s your problem, not mine!” For the record, she also half guiltily admits that Peter Biskind’s seminal Easy Riders, Raging Bulls sits unopened on her bookshelf. “I have it and I meant to read it,” she says, “but I find myself not reading books about the movie business very much. When I’m not making them, I don’t really spend a lot of time thinking about them. I try not to.” Mercifully, Ellen Burstyn is still making (and occasionally thinking about) movies, the latest one, WienerDog, opening Friday (July 8), being as piquant as any of her best. She plays Nana in Todd Solondz’s thrillingly misanthropic new film, a terminally sour senior with questionable mobility issues who ends up adopting the canine of the title. She cheerfully christens the new pet Cancer. “At one point he was thinking of changing the dog’s name,” remarks Burstyn, between bouts of giggling. “I said, ‘Don’t you dare! That’s exactly

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Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn cranks it up in Wiener-Dog.

right.’ Cancer will probably come to her for that. It’ll answer her call.” Remarkably, up until Wiener-Dog, Burstyn had managed to ignore Solondz and key films like Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse, largely because the latter was released the same year as Requiem. “We were in all the same festivals and we were kind of competing against each other,” she recalls, “so I didn’t really let him into my consciousness. I knew about him and I knew about his films, but I hadn’t really seen them until after I read the script and decided that I really wanted to know more about this strange person.” Burstyn’s verdict? “I think he’s one of the weirdest people I’ve ever known,” she says, with an affectionate laugh. “And absolutely delightful. But I have no idea what goes on in that brain of his. He’s odd. He’s just deliciously odd.” Given that she’s spent some 60 years inside the Babylon of American film, theatre, and television, Solondz must be extremely fucking weird to top Burstyn’s list. She cracks up again. “Well, I’ve said it to him,” she insists. “He doesn’t understand what I’m talking about.” Thinning her voice to a flat whine, Burstyn adds: “‘Why do you say that I’m weird?’ ” On top of every other achievement, let it be said that Academy Award– winning actor Ellen Burstyn does a killer impression of Todd Solondz. -

hether you love his music or loathe it, Frank Zappa is a mesmerizing personality. This is the hunch behind Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, which distills more than 30 years of interviews with the cranky, censor-baiting musician-composer into two remarkably informative (and entertaining) hours. Beginning in 1962 with the selfpossessed 22-year-old holding his own against Steve Allen—Zappa appeared on Allen’s nationally syndicated show to conduct an improvised suite for bicycle, ahem— director Thorsten Schütte’s film, opening Friday (July 8), is loaded with laser-sharp pronouncements from the unfailing freethinker. “You can’t please everybody, I’m sure, but so far we’re getting away with very good reviews,” an ebullient Schütte says, calling the Georgia Straight from Manhattan after a successful New York premiere. “Apparently, we have produced something that’s very meaningful to some people!” The German filmmaker entered into the project with understandable trepidation. The endorsement of the Zappa Family Trust was no guarantee that his movie would win the favour of a fan base reasonably described as devout. But, as the title implies, Eat That Question wisely elects to let Frank do all the talking. We’re left with a portrait of an artist sitting at an awkward angle to his own culture, whether he’s pouring scorn on “fucked fans craving the early albums” or concluding years later that “people are just not accustomed to excellence.”

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words lets the man himself do all the talking, and he’s hellbent on opening your ears and your mind.

Schütte’s own encounter with Zappa began when he heard “Who Are the Brain Police?” at a very tender stage in his development. “It was so overburdening and challenging that I, as a 12-year-old, was sitting there thinking, ‘What the fuck is this?’ ” he recalls. Graduating to the full-length Just Another Band From L.A., with its 25-minute opening track, “Billy the Mountain”, the teenage Schütte found himself pondering: “How can a song be so long? How can a song contain so many colours? How can a song be so noisy? Why are people doing this?” “It just evoked so many questions,” he says, as did the curious content Schütte encountered in a 1975 published translation of Zap-

pa’s lyrics. “When you read those things at the age of 15, you don’t understand a sentence like, ‘The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe,’ ” he explains, chuckling. “I still don’t understand it today.” Zappa himself remarks, “I hate to see anybody with a closed mind,” which makes Schütte an ideal advocate. In short, he went from “the Beatles and the Bay City Rollers” to the infinitely more challenging world of Hot Rats and composers like Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern. “Moon calls it the secret handshake,” he says, referring to Zappa’s daughter. “Once you’ve been contaminated with that, it allows you to be very open-eared and open-minded. It’s nice if you make an encounter with that at a very early age. I owe him a great deal.” -

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City staff will host an open house about the Grandview-Woodland community plan on Saturday (July 9) at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre (1607 East Hastings Street), from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. > CARLITO PABLO DENSITY IS COMING to the South Vancouver

neighbourhood of Marpole: a trio of six-storey towers is planned for the intersection of Cambie Street and West 62nd Avenue. Two of the buildings—7765 Cambie Street and 7807 Cambie— have public hearings for rezoning applications scheduled for July 12. Rezoning for a third, proposed for 7790 Cambie, was approved in 2014. Together, the three buildings could bring 86 condo units to the intersection. All three were designed by Vancouver-based GBL Architects. In a telephone interview, Daniel Eisenberg, an associate at GBL, said the firm was already working on 7790 Cambie, on the intersection’s northeast corner, when two additional clients came to them separately with proposals for the northwest and southwest corners. “It came about by chance,” he told the Straight. Eisenberg said that created an opportunity. “Architecturally speaking, we made a case to create some sort of relationship between the three corners,” he explained. “We thought about how these three buildings could have a common denominator.” Eisenberg said that will take the form of similarly designed entrances on the building corners, recessed back from the street to make room for three public spaces complete with small seating areas and landscaping. Susan Haid is an assistant director of planning for the City of Vancouver. She told the Straight that increased density for Marpole was approved in 2011 with the adoption of the city’s long-term Cambie Corridor Plan. Since then, Haid said, the city has approved 38 rezoning applications. That means that if all goes well for GBL and its clients at the July 12 hearing, the total number of new developments approved for the Cambie corridor have will surpassed 40 in just five years. “I think the pace is certainly proceeding more quickly than we anticipated when the plan was adopted,” Haid said. “But it is proceeding according to the plan.”

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savage love My wife and I have been married for 14 years and in a committed (I assumed) relationship for 17 years. Sex between us (often kinky) has always been great. We have a wonderful life together and two perfect children. I thought we were good; turns out things were too good to be true. I learned recently that my wife has been unfaithful to me throughout our marriage. She began an affair with an older man soon before we were married, and they were physically intimate for five years, including bondage and a Master/sub relationship. The physical sex stopped, but phone sex and online flirting continued up until I discovered this two weeks ago. This is a man I know. She has introduced our children to him. There’s more: she slept with another man (just once, more bondage) but also flirted with him online and met up with him while I was away. She slept with yet another man she works with (just once, vanilla this time). She had phone sex with at least two other men and flirted with still more on Facebook. This came out because I was jealous about something that now seems minor and checked her e-mail. (Not proud of that.) She is repentant and relieved that I finally know, and she promises that she will be faithful from now on. I’ll always love her, and I know she loves me. We had one session with a counsellor and another is scheduled. Results were mixed. One thing that came out was that she has never been faithful to a romantic/sexual partner. I could forgive a one-time drunken fling, but this is a consistent pattern of infidelity that runs from the

beginning of our marriage, and I had no idea. I cannot process it. I thought she had always been as loyal as I’ve been, which is to say completely. I can’t put my wedding ring on—it feels like a lie. I have no one to talk to. For the sake of our future, the love we still share, and our children, we are committed to fixing things, but we’re not sure how. > HEARTBROKEN AND DEVASTATED

I’m going to preface my response with what someone in my position is expected to say and what, given the circumstances, may even be true: your marriage is over. The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome. But you didn’t need me to tell you that, HAD. You knew that already. So I can only assume you wrote wanting to hear something else. You don’t need me to outline the reasons you should leave, and you don’t need my permission to go. You wrote because you’re looking for a reason to stay. I’ll give it my best shot. A long-term relationship is a myth two people create together. It’s not chemistry; it’s not math; it’s not engineering. It’s a story, HAD, a story we tell each other, a story we tell others, and a story we tell ourselves. And sometimes it’s a story we have to revise. Right now, it feels like the story you’ve been telling yourself and others about your marriage is a lie: not partly but wholly. You thought your marriage was a loving, committed, and

> BY DAN SAVAGE “completely loyal” one, but it’s not—it can’t be and it never was, because she was cheating on you from the beginning. But loyalty isn’t something we demonstrate with our genitals alone. Your wife wasn’t loyal to you sexually, HAD, and that’s painful. And the conventional “wisdom” is that people don’t cheat on partners they love. But you were married to this woman, and you describe your marriage as good, loving, and wonderful. And it somehow managed to be all those things despite your wife’s betrayals. She must have been loyal to you in other ways or you would’ve divorced her long before you discovered her infidelities. Think back over the last 17 years: every kind and loving gesture, every considerate action, every intimacy, every moment you took care of each other—was it all a lie? I’m not trying to exonerate your wife, and I’m not trying to minimize her betrayal or your pain. But if you want to stay together, HAD, you’re going to have to tell yourself a new story, one that makes room for contradiction (loves you, cheated on you), betrayal (shitloads), apologies (shitloads from her), forgiveness (shitloads from you)—and some accommodations going forward. If I may paraphrase Maya Angelou: when someone finally shows you who they are—after you found the incriminating e-mails—you should believe them. Your wife has never been faithful to you or to anyone else, HAD, at least not sexually. Adjusting your expectations and mak-

ing accommodations accordingly is more realistic than expecting your wife to become a different person. Finally, HAD, a little bonus advice. I ran into Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, the day your letter arrived. Perel is a psychotherapist and couples counsellor whose most recent TED Talk (“Rethinking Infidelity”) is one you’re going to want to watch. I shared your letter with Perel and asked her what she thought: based on her vast experience working with couples confronting infidelity, did she think your marriage was doomed? “No, I don’t,” Perel said. Perel’s response honestly surprised me. We spoke for 10 minutes, and I recorded the conversation. It won’t fit in this space—so I’m going to post Perel’s thoughts as the Savage Love Letter of the Day when this column comes out. So you’re going to get a second opinion from an actual expert, HAD, and—spoiler alert— it’s a hopeful one.

I’m a cis woman in my late 20s. About three months ago, I had my first one-night stand. I’ve noticed my thoughts have continued to gravitate toward this man ever since—despite having other sexual partners in the interim. I recently ran across his profi le on Tinder—however, I’m fairly sure he hasn’t logged on for a while, as certain things weren’t up-to-date. While I obviously swiped right, I’m curious as to whether it would be seen as inappropriate or possibly invasive if I were to reach out via the

powers of social media. The night we had went well—it was all incredibly comfortable sexually, and I found him very interesting to talk to both before and after we hooked up. I should mention that I left rather swift ly that evening without grabbing his number, in an attempt to “play it cool”. I definitely don’t want to cross social or personal boundaries, but I’d like to see him again. > CREEP

There’s nothing creepy about letting someone you fucked know you wanna fuck ’em again or, hey, maybe even date ’em for a while. It gets creepy only if they don’t respond or if they politely decline and you keep letting them know you would like to fuck/date them some more. You liked him; you had a nice time. The sex was good—and you left, stupidly, without his number for fear of looking clingy or uncool. Social media has come with costs—trolls, bullying, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed—but the ability to locate someone and ask for a do-over/screw-over is one of the benefits. So look him up on Facebook or Instagram and send him a note. If you don’t hear back, consider yourself swiped left and move on. On the Lovecast, the devastatingly hilarious comedian Emily Galati: savagelovecast.com . E-mail: mail@ savagelove.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fake dansavage/.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Broadway and Cambie We saw each other as I walked in with my girls, and you commented on my hair. Before you left you came up to my table and asked me how I was doing... Thought that was gutsy, I remember your name is Allen- wish I had your number

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: Faded in the park surrey holland park You were an asain lady with another asian lady. About 4’11 to 5’2. It was during the last artist performing that i saw you. Me and my friends were passing through the crowd towards the right side of the stage. I passed through you and your friend and said sorry. I also said that you were very beautiful. You followed me and stopped in front of me and started vibing to the music. I wanted to be there with you and your friend but i had to leave because my friends were still trying to pass trough the crowd. I know you will remember me. Email me if you see this.

GRANDVIEW HWY GAS STATION WHITESPOT I DIDNT GET TO SAY IM SINGLE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 4, 2016 WHERE: grandview hwy gas station whitespot near walmart YOU pulled up front in a black car with your friend you asked me if I WAS MARRIED to the native guy sitting beside me. I’m not with him he’s a neighbour. I can’t believe he blurted that out. I would like to get to know you. I think it’s been more than a month

CONVO ABOUT NUDITY AT WRECK NEAR #4 TRAIL

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: 99 commercial-broaday from UBC I just got off the 99 today from Wreck Beach. You got on and sat on the sideways seat in front of the back door. The bus driver was an irritable woman who made everyone tap their compass card and wouldn’t leave the stop until that happened. Anyways, you had the cutest pink shorts on and we glanced at each other a few times. I was sitting at the back corner seat. I would love to know your name and more.

AVOIDING THE STRIKE OUT

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: Nat Bailey Stadium You, brunette with blue eyes, white sleeveless top and patterened short skirt. Incredibly beautiful. On the 1215ish 33 bus from 16th and whatever to watch Canadians at Nat Bailey on Sunday 3rd July and caught your eye on the bus, during the game and after, foolishly missed 2 times to talk to you, maybe hit for the 3rd and avoid striking out.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 2, 2016 WHERE: W 1st Ave at Larch St. Our eyes met as we crossed paths. You were walking with a friend and I was walking with my friends. After we passed, we both looked back to steal a second glance. It was like our hearts were reaching out to one another. Maybe it should be left as a beautiful moment, or perhaps we could meet and share more than a glance.

HOT SHORT HAIRED ASIAN GIRL THAT WORKS AT EDGE WATER CASINO

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 30, 2016 WHERE: Edge Water Casino

You stopped and said hi to me and my friends and we had a little chat about how nudity at wreck has changed over the years... I thought you were super sweet and would be down to share some further chats. I wish you had stopped and chatted more on your way back down the beach You: mostly nude save for your backpack, shoes and sunnies (I’m second guessing whether or not you had a hat on..)

I am tall blonde guy that we have crossed paths a few times with some looks. I was in a suit playing poker mostly and ran into you on Thursday and Friday and had the weekend before. You have short hair and are asian. Gorgeous to sum it all up. Would love to take you out. Each time I tried looking for you, you were nowhere to be seen. Message me and lets go for some drinks.

CANADA DAY AT JOHN LAWSON PARK

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 29, 2016 WHERE: 3 towards Downtown (Bus) You were blond, with a hat on and army green(?) jacket. I was with two friends, and got off at ‘Main street- science world’. I had on a black dress and carried a black bag. This is a long shot; and I never do this, but we locked eyes a few times; so if you see this, shoot me a message maybe?

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I helped you pick out some hardware to fix your bed frame. We made some jokes about how it got broken. I was captivated by your spunky, chatty, and warm personality. Your beautiful smile has been on my mind ever since. Hopefully we cross paths again and explore that dynamic we shared.

MAYNE STAGE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 29, 2016 WHERE: the overpriced food shop with a german name... Though it is the only grocery store in the neighborhood. I make a point of going in everyday you are working while trying to look my best in hopes we can get past “how are you?” I think you are an adorable young man & would relish some hang time & progressive conversation. Coffee date? Just ask! <3

SCOTIA BANK THEATRE

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We both sat on those the front rows in the movies that nobody ever seats on. You came to see the x-men movie alone and you had an M&M bag and I was at the movies with a friend and I had a pop corn bag. I asked you of you wanted some of my pop corn and we eventually ended up swapping snacks. I really wanted to ask you for your number, but I got shy and nervous and never got the chance to. I hope you see this.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 29, 2016 WHERE: Fraser and 45th bus stop. This is a long shot, but here goes... I sometimes run into you in the early mornings (7 am - 7:15 am) when I’m waiting for the bus at the above mentioned spot. I saw you this morning - you were wearing blue running shoes. I was too terrified to look at your face, so I’m not sure what else you were wearing. You’re totally not gonna ever read this..ugh. But if you do, I honestly think you are the prettiest girl on the planet. Please talk to me if you see me again - I’d love to grab coffee/tea with you one of these days.

THE FOREST STAGE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 25, 2016 WHERE: Mayne Island, BC We chatted a bit late at night while attending a music festival on an island. It turns out that our parents are from the same city, on a different land. We didn’t really bump into each other after that, but: thank you for the chat, and for the wine, as it was the first of many lovely conversations with all kinds of cool folks I met for the first time. Vacano; suerte!

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

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 5, 2016 WHERE: Grand view park I saw you playing a guitar at grandview park...you sang a couple of songs for me. Hope to meet you again ...

TO THE HANDSOME FELLOW WORKING AT THE STARBUCKS

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

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 1, 2015 WHERE: East Vancouver You came into the bookstore I worked at around this time last year. It was a rainy day and it was deadly slow. We chatted for a long time and you said you’d visit again, but months passed and no Lydia! Now I’m not working there; if you see this and remember me, let’s resume our chat about work & heavy metal...

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

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RAMBLING PINK HAIR ON THE NIGHT BUS

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

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 26, 2016 WHERE: Third Beach, Stanley Park Stunning paramedic Catherine, you attended a call for service with me at Third Beach in Stanley Park this morning. You’re from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Although I was talking mainly to your partner, I have eyes seulement pour vous. I bade you a fond farewell to `play safe’....you replied `never!’. Wanna be unsafe together, then?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 26, 2016 WHERE: @bustop NE corner of Broadway & Clark It seemed you and your girlfriend were going to yoga. You both crossed Clark and East Broadway on the north side then down Clark past me at the 22 bus stop and we exchanged some pleasantries and was wondering if you would like to go for a coffee?

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

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July 7 to 13, 2016

hursday’s reboot has the world up and at ’em early. We are likely to see a brisk start to the trading day and the news day, too. On the personal note, Venus on the strike-flint gain with Uranus suggests a fresh project, plan, inspiration, or approach is a step in the right direction. As the day progresses, the sun’s building opposition to Pluto can produce a backdrop of added stress, but once off the time clock, the tensions are mostly surpassed. With a dip in the middle, Friday’s start and finish move along well. We’re all in the mood to take the afternoon off. Come the weekend, the stars are smooth-rolling and making the most of it. Whether you have it planned or kept it open-ended, Saturday dishes up the best stars of the weekend. Watch for the day to hum along quite nicely. Sunday is also good, but the stars have less on the go. Day can become evening before you feel ready to plug yourself in. Starting Monday, Venus begins a three-week tour of Leo. On Wednesday, Mercury begins a two-week stint in the same sign. Both planets now shine a sunnier light on matters and people treasured by the heart. Both transits are good for recentring yourself. While the sun in Cancer continues to shine on home and family for another two weeks, Venus and Mercury figure that when “me” is happy, “we” is also happy. Yes, you are the source of your own joy and happiness. Create it and it shall be so.

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March 20–April 20

Thursday could spark or add something fresh that gives you more to work with and/or helps you to make better sense of it. Friday/ Saturday keeps you on a corrective or productive top-it-up. Monday/ Tuesday also adds more to the mix. Venus into Leo on Monday and Mercury into Leo as of Wednesday begin a good few weeks for making the most of it. April 20–May 21

Watch for the next few days to put you in a better know and to dish up more prospects, ideas, or avenues. There can be news, a long-awaited event, or an opportunity for a do-over. Perhaps it’s your turn to tell your side of the story. Both Venus and Mercury into Leo can make you feel happier with yourself and your home life. May 21–June 21

One thing leads to another; one thing sorts out the next. Th rough Saturday, it’s a combination of directing time and attention to it but also following instincts and the moment’s good lead. Sunday is easy rolling. Monday/Tuesday can sidetrack you or see you spend more. For the next couple of weeks, Venus and Mercury into Leo boost pleasure, play, profits, and romantic opportunities.

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June 21–July 22

You can face pressure, resistance, limitation, or a difficult choice on Thursday. When a confl ict or dilemma arises, put extra patience into play. Things have a way of working themselves out naturally and well. Friday through Sunday, you can make good headway with conversations, plans, or projects. Monday/ Tuesday presents something fresh and/or better. Finances and satisfaction can hit an upswing.

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July 22–August 23

For the next few days, feel your way along and take your cue from the moment. Spontaneous choices deliver best. Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday you are especially quick and on the ball. Your creative ingenuity picks up an even better stride as both Venus (Monday) and Mercury (Wednesday) trek into Leo. Both help you to look and sound your best.

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August 23–September 23

Thursday through Saturday, let instinct and impulse do the steering. Right feel, words, time, place, and a dash of added spunk, the Virgo moon and Mercury keep you on a great run. Start to finish, Saturday is your Midas day. Saturday and Sunday, you can catch an added or late wind. Monday/Tuesday calls for an adjustment or a fresh focus.

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Friday/Saturday, let off steam, hide out with your lover, or aim to get away from it all. Boredom is not included in the program. Your mind stays busy even when the rest of you isn’t. Sunday on chill strikes the right balance. Monday/ Tuesday, the stars dish up more to prod, push, intrigue, or entice you. One way or another, Venus and Mercury are mobilizing. October 23–November 22

Do you have something special to look forward to this weekend? Even if you don’t, the stars keep it moving along well. Friday/Saturday, socialize, get out of town, or enjoy the action right where you are. Sunday is a day of rest, but Monday/Tuesday the stars are prime for getting a head start on the week and/or your next best. November 22–December 21

Thursday can pile it up on you. Even so, you should fi nd it goes easier on you than you anticipate. By midday Friday, you’re over the hump and on your way. Start to finish, you’ll get great mileage out of Saturday. Sunday, on your own or with another, relax, enjoy, and indulge. Monday/Tuesday, there’s sorting out to do. Wednesday onward, you’ll hit an upswing.

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December 21–January 20

You could run out of steam on Friday afternoon but it won’t last long. Saturday, your batting average is great. You’ll get the goods out of visits, conversations, and activities. Sunday, feel your way along, indulge yourself or another, opt for convenience and ease. Monday/Tuesday, fresh and new hits the spot. Wednesday/Thursday, aim for a power play. January 20–February 18

Thursday/Friday, one thing leads to another. Saturday is especially productive. Sunday, relax, enjoy, indulge, reward yourself. Monday/Tuesday can get you going on something new, perhaps unexpectedly so. For the next couple of weeks, Venus and Mercury into Leo aim to boost your pleasure and success quotient. Watch for someone or something to claim more of your attention. February 18–March 20

A busy few days lie ahead. From start to finish, Saturday is full to the brim, delightfully so. Sunday, enjoy it social or relax on your own. Monday/Tuesday’s full swing sets you onto a fresh page. Wednesday onward, you’ll hit an excellent stride. Venus and Mercury into Leo boost your confidence, creativity, and pleasure. -

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Trap Any time I’ve moved in with someone, our sex life always deteriorates.

Scaan to conffesss The Georgia Th G i St Straight i htt C Confessions, f i an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.

self-love/self-loathe remember that bouncy pony-tailed cheerleader in Grease? I hate her the way I hate me. too bouncy, too spirited, object of scorn to all the cool kids. I try to be cool but when I forget to hold it together, my enthusiasm bubbles out and I am back to square one dork. does puberty ever really end?

Relief

My bike was stolen...

I finally called out my “friend” on her manipulative behaviour. She tried to act like the victim and made a scene. I called her out on that too. That was the first time I stood up for myself in our friendship, it felt so good. My mind finally feels at peace .

It feels like I’ve lost a limb. I rode that bike everyday to school and work. I named her Daria. She was a beautiful Raleigh Revenio. I hope the scum who stole her faces consequences worse than Cersei’s enemies. The bike theft situation in Vancouver is utterly unacceptable.

Apologies to longboard dude

I saw Dave Grohl drum for Queens of The Stone Age at Richards and it was barely half full. Not sure when these “Good Old Days” were in Vancouver....we have our issues but things are pretty vibrant...plenty of great shows to see now that the music venues have moved up towards Main and Hastings.

Although you were a drunken moron and crashed into the back of my car on your longboard on Denman st, I feel bad for yelling at you and not asking if you were ok...I hope you are! I’m sorry but watch out next time and wear a helmet!

I am scared to lose daily life with my spouse as he is sick and looks like a holocaust survivor and is fighting so hard against so much and being so kind despite what he is going through.

Vivid Dreams My legs are still a little shaky after having a vivid dream about my average joe. Feeling incredibly raw and vulnerable.

You are so great I used to think I would hate having a Yes-Man on my team at work, just based on my personality. Now that I have one, I know for sure that I really fucking hate it. The ass-kissing, the constantly complimenting me on things that any monkey could do. But I can’t redistribute them because they are good at their job. They’re just really, really, really insecure. Management is not what you think it is.

Take it away I’m constantly loaned out to other departments at work which can affect my day to day job and pisses off my coworkers who have to pick up my regular duties. I also hate it because often these temporary assignments become permanent. Today yet another project fell on my lap and I didn’t hide my displeasure. At the end of the day my boss called and said “it was evident you were unhappy. We will find someone in a more relevant position to help”. Her tone may have said “You aren’t being a team player”, but to me it felt like a victory.

Canadian Red Cross / Croix-Rouge Canadienne

Frustrated in Life I am so frustrated in life. I did not get along with this former co worker who talked to much of himself and he thought he was God’s gift to everyone. This was ten years ago and I checked him out in linkedin and he works at a higher job in a larger company. He is a complete asshole. I do not understand how some people move ahead while I feel stuck behind. I do not get it. Some people get great promotions and great jobs while I struggle to get a job or promotion. I am a positive person. Why do assholes do well in life? My mind keeps saying to focus only on my life and stop comparing my life with others. It is so difficult.

It’s okay I have to got to different job sites in my job. I have a strange but easy name. I remember people’s names right away after repeating and I’m done. Remembering people’s names is hard for most people so don’t worry, I’m never offended.

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