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The very pit-stick substances that you rely on to bust body odour may also be toxic ingredients that really stink. Fortunately, more eco versions are available.
Dom’s Deodorant from Salt Spring Island, for example, uses finely ground baking soda in its products ($16 at Home on the Range Organics [235 East Broadway]) to prevent the growth of odour-causing bacteria, and the Portland-based Schmidt’s formulates its deodorants ($9.99 at Welk’s General Store [3511 Main Street]) with candelilla wax for a nongreasy application. Here in Vancouver, Lush makes a selection of solid and powder deodorants (from $7.95 for 80 grams at Lush [various locations]) using natural ingredients like tea tree oil, chamomile vinegar, and patchouli oil, while Brown reveals that bacteria-killing grapeseed fruit oil, diatomaceous earth, and B.C.–sourced marine glacial clay are behind Hippy Pits’ highly
successful line (from $12.99 at www. hippypits.ca/ ). “What we want to do is spread the message of knowing what you’re putting on your body and where it’s coming from, and having it be natural and safe and okay for the environment,” she says. Like many of the aforementioned brands, Hippy Pits produces stenchbusting pastes that are vegan and gluten-, GMO-, and cruelty-free. Because everyone’s biochemistry is different, however, Brown encourages both men and women to shop around until they find something that works for them—and first and foremost, to always read the ingredients. “It’s not something that everyone does, but it’s really important,” she says. -
ECO FIND TREE HUGGER A common complaint about natural deodorants is that they just don’t work. As more people become aware of the potentially harmful ingredients in big-brand BO busters, however, consumers are getting more effective—and eco-consciously made—products to choose from. The Tree Hugger natural deodorant ($12.99 at www.hippypits.ca/ ) from Vancouver’s Hippy Pits is one of them. Handcrafted in the city using shea butter, tapioca starch, Canadian marine glacial clay, tea tree oil, and eucalyptus oil, this organic paste will keep your pits smelling fresh-from-the-shower clean while leaving your skin smooth and hydrated. > LUCY LAU
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Based on title alone, you might Carmen Aguirre’s second memoir—the follow-up to the best-selling, Canada Reads– picked memoir Something Fierce— to be funny and bold, maybe a little crass. And it is. But Mexican Hooker #1, which dives into Aguirre’s life both before and after her work as a Chilean revolutionary, is much more than that. A deep, soul-searching book that plumbs the depths of Aguirre’s existence, it reveals the guts it took for her to become a real artist—and to recover from her childhood rape by the infamous and psychotic Paper Bag Rapist, a serial offender who assaulted more than 140 women, girls, and boys in the Lower Mainland over a 10-year span in the 1970s and 1980s. Let’s back up for a minute before we return to that shock. It’s not necessary to have read Something Fierce to enjoy Mexican Hooker #1; Aguirre’s deft storytelling ensures you know enough about her years working for the MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) to follow along as she darts between her innocent pre-Pinochet years in Chile, her struggles to belong as a newly minted “brown” girl in California, and, later, her wild early adulthood, when she dates a famous Argentine basketball player, attends theatre school in Vancouver, and travels to Los Angeles to immerse herself in the edgy Latino artist scene. Her writing is fluid,
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funny, and vibrantly alive. And along the way, in brief, measured flashbacks, she reveals both the terror wrought by the Chilean coup and the rape that changed her life. A real-life bogeyman who ambushed his victims in secluded areas and psychologically tortured them, the Paper Bag Rapist gained his nickname due to his m.o. of placing a paper bag over his victims’ heads so they couldn’t see him—and Aguirre’s slow revelation of her rape mirrors the way this traumatic event
followed her throughout her life and ultimately shaped her creative path. The telling itself is a triumph of Aguirre’s artistic education and the skills she won via trying, and failing, to come to terms with her trauma in the theatre world. “I still had to learn how to talk about violence onstage without it being too personal or so offensive that it turned people off instead of simply engaging them,” she comments after a particularly daring performance. “It would be a lifelong search in my artistic journey, trying to fi nd that balance, for I knew that the stories I wanted to explore would inevitably include violence.”
say on the perils of social media— and how our “addiction” to social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter (I had yet to jump on the Instagram bandwagon) was forcing perfectly fine individuals into a cycle of mindless consumption and isolation. I received a passable grade, though in retrospect the paper was poorly executed: one-sided, reliant on anecdotal evidence, and unable to acknowledge the agency of the subjects involved. Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s latest effort, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, is kind of like this. Sales has traversed the U.S. to speak candidly with girls between the ages of 13 and 19 about their relationship with social media, and she employs their firsthand and unsettlingly similar experiences liberally. Interspersed between sound bites from academics, including Vancouver journalist Michael Harris, and numbers crunched in previous studies are stories from adolescent girls living in New Jersey, California, Florida, and New York, which explain how Snapchat, Yik Yak, Vine, ASKfm, and other websites and mobile applications likely foreign to anyone over the age of 30 have come to dictate their off line behaviour. It would be fascinating insight—
especially to those unfamiliar with today’s spiralling online landscape—if not for Sales’s reduction of these accounts to Internet pornography, an increased access to which, she says, has come to distort the ways in which young women present themselves. “We can’t deny any longer the influence this is having on the lives of girls,” writes Sales, following more than 300 pages of tween and teenage girls across America voicing their experiences with boys onand offline. She isn’t wrong, but the way in which these tales are manipulated to fit her overarching theory— with little mention of the good that social media can do—is dismissive and oversimplified at best. This diminishes the agency of the book’s subjects, who offer the most compelling passages in Sales’s research. Whether it’s a 14-year-old watching Youtube videos, a 16-yearold navigating the intricacies of Tinder, or 19-year-olds discussing the deterioration of intimate relationships, sex and social media appear to be almost abstract things happening to young women, rather than communicative events in which they are able to exert their own thoughts and control. Combined with a seeming preference for predominantly white, affluent subjects living in coastal states, this leaves Sales’s proposed scope of “what it feels like to be a girl in America today” decidedly incomplete. Make no mistake, however: the subject that American Girls explores is a worthy one. Though Sales’s execution is flawed, the stories that she includes are certainly eye-opening—and representative of at least a small population of social-mediasavvy girls. If only she could have expanded her sample size—and let their experiences do the talking. > LUCY LAU
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trip to Vancouver’s recently opened Suquet Interiors may leave you feeling a tad thrown off. Although the shop’s immaculately staged entrance— all sleek, contemporary lines anchored by natural elements like a living green wall, traditional stone fireplace, and teak-root-based coffee table—suggests you’ve stumbled across the ’hood’s hippest home-furnishings stop, rows of reclaimed-wood sunnies, full-grainleather totes, and walls bursting with an assortment of art scream otherwise. “That’s what we want,” Rick Bohonis, cofounder of Suquet Interiors, tells the Straight alongside business partner Ramon Masana Tapia during an interview at the Yaletown retailer (101–1014 Homer Street). “We want you to be a little bit confused at first until you walk in and get a better picture of what this is.” It’s not a strategy recommended by Starting a Small Business for Dummies, but Suquet isn’t exactly new to Vancouver. Founded in the mid-’80s by architect couple Ramon Masana and Georgina Tapia—and named after Masana’s mother’s maiden name—the company was originally known for its ornate stone pieces. Handcrafted from 32 containers of rubble that Masana shipped to Vancouver from Mexico City following the earthquake of 1985, these fireplaces and archways live on in Vancouver homes, restaurants, and, most notably, the magnificent façade of South Granville boutique Boboli. “We’re bringing more of a contemporary style to the store this time,” says Tapia, son of Georgina and the late Ramon, who has resurrected Suquet following a six-year hiatus. “My mom always wanted to kind of innovate and bring in more modern pieces, but my dad was always strict about saying no
and ‘We’re only doing rustic, because that’s what we’re known for.’ ” Partnering with Bohonis, former president and cofounder of Urban Barn, Tapia has managed to craft a fresh concept for the brand while holding firmly on to its roots. The bright, 4,200-square-foot space is brimming with high-end finds from both at home and abroad, which the duo curate. Handcrafted ceramics from Vietnam, buttery Italian sofas, and collapsible camping chairs and travel bags from Texas Rover are all part of the shop’s evolving stock, while works by local artists decorate the walls. Tapia and Bohonis even commissioned Vancouver-based mosaic artist Jason Dussault to create a SpiderMan–inspired surfboard that sits by the front door and are approaching B.C. “furniture artists” to design exclusive collections. “In trying to make this as different and eclectic in style as we possibly could, we wanted to try and mix as many things as we could without losing sight that we’re a homefurnishings store,” Bohonis says. Prices for Suquet’s furnishings, art, and décor range wildly, from $40 for a hand-poured acrylic sugar heart by local artist John Clair Watts to $1,900 for a live-edge, teak-and-stainless-steel dining table to upwards of $10,000 for a mosaic portrait of Pablo Picasso by Dussault. However, it’s the seemingly priceless wares—stone fireplaces cast from moulds of the original pieces, vibrant landscape paintings by Tapia’s mother, and vintage design magazines from her personal collection—that reveal the shop’s storied history in a way few other retailers can. “We like stories,” says Bohonis. “We’ve got a great story with Ramon’s parents, and the heritage and legacy of the original Suquet.” Tapia agrees. “They give meaning to the business,” he adds. -
Ramon Masana Tapia relaunched his parent’s business, Suquet Interiors, with Urban Barn cofounder Rick Bohonis.
CRIB SHEET ON THE TABLE Part Pinterest, part gallery, and part virtual interior-design store of your dreams, mobile application Kabuni has opened its first brick-and-mortar outpost at 1378 West Pender Street, and it’s making prettying up your pad a cinch. In addition to connecting you with local artists and interior designers IRL, the space also stocks one-of-a-kind goods—like this natural coaster set ($35)—from some of the city’s most talented makers. Handmade from alder or maple by Vancouver’s Pacific Design Lab, these charming mats are sure to add a rustic and quintessentially West Coast feel to your office, tabletop, and more. > LUCY LAU
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Jamie Elliott come from different sides of the Lower Mainland tracks, with the idyllic suburb of Tsawwassen miles removed from Vancouver’s notoriously gritty and troubled Downtown Eastside. To spend time with them is to, at first, think the women of country-folk duo Twin Bandit couldn’t be more different. Meeting up with the Straight at Gastown’s retro-funky the Birds and the Beets restaurant, the quiet and soft-spoken Elliott endearingly admits to being nervous about the interview process, this having everything to do with being more comfortable in the background than in a spotlight. Walker is outgoing, gregarious, and laughs often. Elliott, the daughter of a biochemical-engineer father and a nurse mother, grew up in Tsawwassen with two sisters, their days often spent roaming the nearby beaches. Music wasn’t played much around the house, but that didn’t stop her love of singing. “I was always really shy, did well in school, and played lots of sports,” Elliott, 28, recalls. “I did a lot of things—horseback riding and dance. Basically, my parents wanted to put us in a little bit of everything and then see what stuck. I sang the whole time—I always wanted to be a musician. After being in choir
Harmonies in their heads
They may not be actual twins, but if Jamie Elliott and Hannah Walker of Twin Bandit keep hitting two-for-one dress sales, they can keep on fooling folks.
harmonies. Downtempo keys and cool-jazz trumpet push “Crown” into territory that’s part Blue Note Records and part overTwin Bandit’s Hannah Walker and Jamie Elliott are easy Americana. A cover united by more than just a mutual love of music of Daniel Lanois’s “Shine” I picked up the guitar at 15 and started writing songs. benefits from rolling-thunder distortion, while the And music stuck—I started touring through the Gulf American-gothic fiddles and reverb-drenched guiIslands and then went across Canada when I was 17 tar make “Tumbleweeds” badass enough for anyone or 18. We were in a trio called Halfass Bluegrass.” from the Church of the Man in Black. Walker was raised in the Downtown Eastside, one The members of Twin Bandit share musical of five sisters. Unless you think Irish step dancing touchstones that transcend folk, Walker having is a sport, she did no sports. Her dad—who once even played in a postrock project at one point. played in a metal band called Metal Monks—today Country icon Emmylou Harris is a mutual runs a social reintegration program, helping those obsession, as is Fleetwood Mac’s essential culwith mental-health and addiction issues learn trades tural touchstone Rumours. Early on there was after recovery. Her mom—who loved the pioneering bonding over the recordings of Lanois. (The country of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Patsy Canadian icon also happens to be a Twin BanCline—founded a nonprofit inner-city program for dit fan; earlier this year he invited Elliott and kids called the Saint James Music Academy. Walker down to his property in Jamaica, where Music was, predictably, always part of Walk- the two wrote songs for their next record.) er’s life. “Our family mantra, for every road trip, is Quite unashamedly, Elliott cops to being a big fan ‘Tush’ by ZZ Top,” the 24-year-old says with a laugh. of Nashville pop-country. But before you go judging “You can imagine five girls sitting in a van with that her, consider that she’s equally enamoured with the song blasting, our mom shaking her head as we genre’s icons. One of her favourite shows of the past rolled down the highway, our dad grooving until he year was whiskey-snortin’ country upstart Nikki realized the lyrics that his daughters were singing Lane, who ripped up the Cobalt last November. along to, and then questioning his life decisions.” “I was right at the front,” she says with a laugh. Elliott and Walker first met in the kitchen of “We showed Jon some of her songs, and said ‘We the Saint James Music Academy, which is located kind of want a little bit of this.’ ” in the Downtown Eastside. Thanks to her mom’s But despite the sonic territory they cover on involvement, Walker was a regular on-site. Elliott For You, both Elliott and Walker happily describe showed up a well-meaning newbie. themselves as folk musicians. And it’s therefore “I walked in and one of the first people that I no surprise they’re jacked about playing the Vanmet was Hannah,” Elliott remembers. “For me, it couver Folk Music Festival. was love at first sight.” “Jamie and I found this piece of paper the Laughing, she adds: “For her, it wasn’t. But other day—it was our goals when we first met,” right when I saw her, I was like, ‘I need to get to Walker says. “We had gone, ‘Okay, let’s get super know this person.’ ” crazy here, and imagine down the road what Walker remembers things like this: “Basically, we’d like to accomplish.’ And we’ve been tickI was being an impatient asshole. I remember being ing off things all the time: play Europe, play the really stressed—there were about 90 kids coming Vogue Theatre, play the Winnipeg Folk Festival, in, and I was the only one working in the kitchen play the Vancouver folk festival.” at that time. Jamie is meek when you first meet her. The Vancouver folk fest is extra special. She came in and wanted to help, but I didn’t have “I think because it’s in our hometown, and time to explain what she needed to do. When I’m it’s because of our roots,” Elliott offers. “I went on the job, it’s big and bold and ‘What needs to as a kid.” happen here?’ Jamie is a processor—she’s really “I never went, because we couldn’t afford it— good at stepping back and assessing the situation.” our family is poor,” Walker adds with a laugh. But despite their differences, the two bonded “But we’d go and sit outside of the fence and listen. in no time at all, quickly becoming inseparable We’d go as a family, me and all four of my sisters, friends. Music can be a powerful thing, especially set up the picnic blanket, and have a great time on when you launch into a country-folk traditional the beach. Being from Vancouver and being a folk like “The Good Old Way” while working in a musician who’s now invited to participate in that kitchen, and then someone you’ve never met be- is definitely a mark of pride. And I mean pride in fore ends up knowing all the words. the healthy sense—like, ‘Wow, I’m excited to be “I started singing, and then Jamie joined in,” doing music, and excited to be able to play with all Walker recalls. “And that was truly it. It’s so these really talented musicians.’ ” cheesy, but it’s true. I turned around, and that Part of that excitement is, perhaps, due to the connection just happened.” values that folk music stands for. In the days, weeks, and months that followed, Dating back to giants like Woody Guthrie and the two musicians—who are set to realize their Pete Seeger, the genre has a storied history of dream of playing the Vancouver Folk Music Fes- pushing for positive change, whether it’s political, tival—realized they weren’t really different at all. environmental, or social. The idea that the world And that might explain why, as they build a name could use a little more compassion is woven into as Twin Bandit, they are totally united in one goal: folk music’s very fabric. And that couldn’t be more to make the world a better place. important to Elliott and Walker. Consider For You’s “Rosalyn”, a slice of golden IN SIX MONTHS, TWIN BANDIT went from country where Walker pays tribute to a Downthe Saint James Music Academy kitchen to house town Eastside woman whom she knew thanks to shows to a deal with respected Vancouver-based her family’s work in the community. Rosalyn, older indie Nettwerk Records. When it came time to and heroin-addicted, taught a young Walker how to work on their debut full-length, For You, Walker play poker and bonded with her over a mutual love and Elliott decamped to a farm in Maple Ridge of Scooby-Doo. While lines like “The tracks on your with producer Jon Anderson (We Are the City), skin tell me how far you’ve been” give a good idea how who urged them to push themselves sonically. the story goes, the song ends up a beautiful celebraTwin Bandit started out centred around the vocals tion of a hard life rather than a bitter rumination. “There’s a strong emphasis culturally right now, and guitars of Walker and Elliott. Assured and accomplished, For You ended up being about much for whatever reason, to write music that’s cynical, more than acoustic six-string and heart-melting that speaks to the darker side of human nature,”
Walker posits. “One criticism that we heard a few times from people—and it was meant to be constructive—was ‘Get darker. Get grittier.’ That came from this maybe misguided conception that, to be an artist, you had to be tortured. That may be true, but I have enough of that in my life.” To elaborate on the darkness, the past year should have been one of the best of Walker and Elliott’s lives. For You received wonderful press, critics praising Twin Bandit for its honeysuckle-scented chemistry. The friends and bandmates found themselves championed by local roots stalwarts like Jack Mercer and Rodney DeCroo. Touring became steady, taking them to Europe and across North America. Both have been lucky to do music full-time, and also to give back to the community, with Twin Bandit having regularly performed at the Carnegie Centre as well as inner-city events like the HomeGround Festival in Oppenheimer Park. But there were also painful periods, including Walker’s family losing three close members on her father’s side. “I’ve got a lot of friends struggling with mental health,” Walker reveals, “and that actually seems to be something that’s really common among my peers these days. A lot of young people are really struggling with anxiety—chronic anxiety—and depression. It seems like every week I’m talking to friends who are like, ‘I’ve just gone on medication for my depression and anxiety.’ I’ve struggled with depression in my life as well, so I have a little bit of insight into what it’s like to go through that.” If anything comes across after spending time with Twin Bandit, it’s that Elliott and Walker are crazily in tune with each other. On the rare occasions when they aren’t immediately forthcoming (whether or not, for example, to share the Lanois story) they’ll quickly shoot each other a glance that makes one wonder if they’re telepathically working out an answer. Elliott was one of Walker’s friends who was battling through hard times mentally. “We were touring and doing all these great things, but behind the scenes we were struggling quite a bit,” Elliott reveals. “We appreciated the opportunities that we had, and tried to see the light through it all and to be present. Hannah helped me a lot, and that was something that really helped me return to my core, and to my true self.” Twin Bandit, and the joy of making music, would eventually provide a sense of salvation. “I was so sick for a while,” Elliott says, “and then all of a sudden I was thrown back in to playing and to work. And that definitely helped shape my recovery.” It is also shaping the future of Twin Bandit. No one would be upset if the duo made another For You, which was one of the best roots albums to come out of not only Vancouver last year, but also the country. Elliott and Walker are thinking they’d prefer to go a simpler and more strippeddown route, however—and, more importantly, to take an approach that’s in the grand tradition of many of the acts that have played the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, to prove few things are more important in life than compassion. “For our next album we want to focus on things that are encouraging. Jamie and I have been through a lot of really hard things in the last year. To write songs that are full of inspiration and drawing on lifegiving aspects that we also have in our lives has been a really therapeutic way to focus on what’s still good. And I think we’re a bit nervous about that. It’s not cool to be happy.” Except that maybe sometimes it is. Especially when happiness comes from having an unlikely bestie by your side, as committed as you are to making the world a better place. The Vancouver Folk Music Festival runs Friday to Sunday (July 15 to 17) at Jericho Beach Park, with Twin Bandit playing all three days.
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has just come to an abrupt halt, but we can hardly blame the Montreal-raised, New York–based singer-songwriter for that. After all, we’d already determined that family comes first. The context is a discussion of future prospects for the Wainwright Sisters, Martha’s new collaboration with half sibling Lucy Wainwright Roche. Songs in the Dark, the duo’s first release, is a lovely extension of both the McGarrigle Sisters, featuring Martha’s late mother, Kate, and the Roches, which contained Lucy’s mom, Suzzy Roche. It’s only natural to hope for more, and Wainwright suggests that might be possible. “Well, God knows there’s so much material, potentially, for this kind of a thing,” she says, reached at her NYC home. “I think it’s the beginning of at least a singing relationship with my sister, which didn’t exist before, and that’s fabulously exciting.” Then she turns away from the phone to ask, with a mixture of affection and exasperation, “Okay, what’s going on here? “My son just ran up the stairs naked,” she explains, which seems a natural cue for us to make our goodbyes. Family does come first. It’s fitting, then, that there’s more to the team that made Songs in the Dark than just the two half sisters. Wainwright’s husband, Brad Albetta, recorded the two singers in a rustic cabin that their grandfather, Frank McGarrigle, built when his own daughters were small. Aunts Anna and Jane McGarrigle contribute their voices, as do cousins Lily and Sylvan Lanken. And the Songs in the Dark repertoire extends from Depressionera standards like Jimmie Rodgers’s “Prairie Lullaby” to items from the sisters’ father, Loudon Wainwright III, and family friend Richard Thompson. Linking all 16 songs is an undercurrent of darkness—and when we ask why, Wainwright has a ready answer. “I had the same question, and a couple of answers came up that I felt were kind of amazing,” she says. “One was that lullabies were used not only to soothe children, but also to warn them of the difficulties of life. Fifty years ago, or 100 years ago and before that, children were probably much more surrounded by death.…There would have been wakes where you’d have open caskets in your house; there was just a lot more exposure to morbidity. So there’s a theory that lullabies were there sort of to prepare children, psychologically, for these realities.
“And then the other theory, or one of the other things that seemed interesting to me, was that oftentimes women would sing to their children because children were the only people there to listen to them,” she continues. “They would bare their breast, and their pain, if their husband was off at sea, or down at the pub, or had run off with somebody else so that there was no money or food in the cupboard. These melodies were perhaps sweet, but they also allowed these women to express some of their pain and their sadness to somebody who would listen.” You don’t need to be heartbroken, abandoned, or even a parent to enjoy Songs in the Dark, however. All that’s necessary is an appreciation for the kind of harmonies only siblings can provide.
> ALEXANDER VARTY
The Wainwright Sisters play the Vancouver Folk Music Festival’s Stage 2 and Stage 5 on both Saturday and Sunday (July 17 and 18).
Ajinai’s Mongolian rockers challenge traditionalists Ask anyone who was there and
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be people that say ‘That’s not traditional music.’ But younger folks are eager to hear new things, especially university students in Inner Mongolia.” As for the task of adapting the music of the Mongolian steppes to the demands of Beijing nightclubs and Canadian festivals, Hugejiletu says that change has come easily to the members of the band, who first learned music at home before seeking formal training in school. “It’s all very natural,” he says. “We make music based on our feelings. When we play, there are a few elements that are set in stone, but so much of what we do comes from how we’re feeling; we improvise a fair bit, so it’s never as though we have to go about trying to fit things together. It just all fits because of the organic process of making the music. “The sounds we get, like with effects pedals, are of course not traditional,” he adds. “And there’s a bit of tweaking of the way I play the traditional instruments [morin khuur, the horse-head fiddle, and tobshuur, a two-stringed lute], but it wasn’t something I went about specifically trying to do; it just sort of happened.” More conscious, perhaps, is how songs like “Grass” and “Migratory Birds” reflect the natural world—a distinctive element of Mongolian culture that must be a very valuable commodity in Beijing’s concrete jungle. The latter, for instance, is both a meditation on the touring experience and a nostalgic look back to childhood days of rabbit-hunting and “running around a vast, clean grassland”. “We’ve always seen our music as a chance to introduce the city folks to a kind of music where nature was at the centre,” Hugejiletu says, adding that there’s another way in which Mongolian culture has shaped his band’s existence: “We’re like nomads. We move from place to place, rooted in our own traditions, but eager to be influenced by people in the places we go to. We’re keeping our minds open.” Other open minds will want to check this band out.
lian rock band Hanggai’s appearance at the 2013 Vancouver Folk Music Festival was one of the sonic highlights of the past decade—and a dance party of epic proportions. Hanggai’s combination of Mongolia’s distinctive horse-riding rhythms with electric-guitar power chords felt both fierce and natural, while horse-head fiddles brought an earthy folk flavour to charismatic frontman Yiliqi’s eerie overtone singing. You could be forgiven for thinking that Hanggai is unique, but that’s not the case. This year, the Mongolian rockers of Ajinai are bringing a similarly vivid mix of instruments and cultures to the folk festival, and there’s every chance musical lightning will strike twice. Again, wild equestrian fiddling and shamanic vocals will > ALEXANDER VARTY factor into the mix, along with urban elements gleaned from the band’s Ajinai plays the Vancouver Folk Music decadelong sojourn in Beijing. This doesn’t always sit well with the Festival’s Stage 5 on Saturday (July 16). traditionalists back in Hohhot—but that’s not really our concern, is it? “There are some traditional folks that don’t want anything to do with our music,” says mono-monikered singer Lakou Mizik is more than a Hugejiletu, with help from translator roots band from Haiti with Jonathan Campbell. “With all of the elements we put in the music—rock a brilliant debut album, Wa Di Yo. It’s see next page and others—there are always going to
Haitian band Lakou Mizik is the sound of defiance
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the musical spirit of a people standing up in joyful defiance of the forces that have laid it low—hurricanes, abject poverty, disease, rampant corruption, and in 2010 a devastating earthquake. The nine-piece outfit rose from the rubble of the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck the small and overcrowded Caribbean country. Up to 300,000 people died. Most towns were flattened, leaving a million Haitians homeless, many starving. A cholera epidemic broke out, and still rages. “It was chaos,” recalls Steeve Valcourt, leader, singer, and guitarist of Lakou Mizik, and cocreator with Jonas Attis of most of its songs, reached in Vermont. “After the earthquake everyone was so down, thinking it was the end of the world. Jonas and I, we were just musicians. We didn’t know how to help, but we took our tambours [hand drums] and acoustic guitar and went among the tents and to people whose houses were badly damaged, and we played for them. They loved it, and kept asking us to come back. And we did—every day. We wanted to find songs everyone could enjoy.” The desperate situation brought multimedia producer Zach Niles from Boston to Haiti. He wanted to start a project using the music and story of Haiti to give non-Haitians a connection to a country that “mostly only gets pretty horrible press coverage, so you get a very one-sided sense of the place”, he says, reached in Jacmel, Haiti. “My intention was to create a multimedia piece with musicians and their stories, a one-off thing. I didn’t intend to manage a group but to meet musicians and look at old music and redo it, introducing it to a new generation of Haitians, and taking it to people around the world.” Niles soon found lifelong friends Valcourt and Attis, who were connected to a large network of rootsoriented musicians. “We used to meet, because they were all part of other bands,” says Valcourt. “It’s like a dream team of Haiti that made Lakou Mizik. And for us Zach is a father, he’s much more than a manager.” In Haitian Creole, lakou means “backyard”, a gathering place where people come to sing and dance, debate, or share a meal. Lakou Mizik’s members hail from all over Haiti and include young singer Nadine Remy, accordionist Belony Beniste, and Sanba Zao, a legendary figure of Haitian roots music in the vodou tradition. Two musicians play single-note cornets, sounded in rapid alternation to produce a hocketting effect. Wa Di Yo’s most beautiful cut is “Tanbou’n Frape”, a paean to the hand drum and its crucial place in Haitian culture, sung by Valcourt to a gorgeously soft-and-swaying rhythm: “With it we have sung for freedom/ The whole nation has transformed.” “The nago rhythm is very traditional,” says Valcourt. “It says ‘Whenever we hear the drum our strength doubles.’ It captures the spirit of Haiti.…After 2010 many people thought Haiti was going to die, that it had no chance of doing something better, but we are still alive, and moving forward.” > TONY MONTAGUE
Lakou Mizik plays the Vancouver Folk Music Festival’s Main Stage on Sunday (July 17).
Hayes Carll remains a country boy at heart Hayes Carll is often considered
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to. Unitarians were not known for their choirs. So rather than have a lot of out-of-tune singing, they would bring in performers. And one Sunday they brought in this trio that did Bob Dylan songs. They did ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s AGonna Fall’ and ‘With God on Our Side’, and that really changed my life.” Twenty-five years later, Dylan’s inf luence can still be heard in Carll’s political bent, pointed wordplay, and sense of the absurd. But the Woodlands, Texas, native remains a country boy at heart, and he’s found even more inspiration in the collected works of the singer and actor responsible for “Me and Bobby McGee”, “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, and dozens of other pop and country hits. “Kristofferson felt attainable, you know,” Carll explains. “He’s an absolute genius and I wouldn’t say I’ve ever done anything approaching what he’s done, but it was country and it was simple, and it was also articulate and it was literate. What I liked—and with John Prine as well—was that they were guys who could take universal themes and put them in a way that felt simple, but they also made you feel the whole range of human emotions and experiences. That’s what I was drawn to, and maybe what I’m best suited for. “You know, I love all kinds of music,” he adds. “I love to listen to rock and have a good time, and catchy stuff, and humorous music, and political folk, but after Dylan, Kristofferson was the one who really shook my life up.” Carll hasn’t done too badly in his own right. His 2011 effort KMAG YOYO and Other American Stories, its title taken from the military expression “Kiss my ass, guys, you’re on your own,” established him as one of the most socially observant writers in country music. Meanwhile, the just-released Lovers and Leavers shows that he’s equally adept at introspective, confessional songs—and he has a confession of his own to make. “I went through a divorce,” he reveals. “I’ve been doing this— travelling on the road and making music—for 17, 18 years, and so this new album was much more of a taking-stock of my life, looking at where I’d been and where I was going. It was a much more reflective record, and not much about the world outside of my own life.” Lest you fear that Carll will be in a melancholy mood for his Vancouver Folk Music Festival shows, consider this: he’s in L.A. on vacation, but he’s also there to offer input into the album that his new love Allison Moorer is making with her equally talented older sister, Shelby Lynne. Considering that his early ambitions were to write songs, make people dance, and meet girls, no tears need be shed for this troubadour.
ing greats Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, and Townes Van Zandt, but if it hadn’t been for a chance encounter during his adolescence he could just as easily have been the next Jack Kerouac. “When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an author or a shortstory writer. I always wanted to write: I was just very turned on by literature and stories and the creative process involved in that,” Carll > ALEXANDER VARTY explains in a phone call from Los Angeles, noting that he was especially keen on the beats. “And then Hayes Carll plays the Vancouver Folk when I was 15 I saw a folk trio at a Music Festival’s Stage 3 on Sunday Unitarian church that we used to go (July 17).
gone in any number of interesting directions: songwriting; gender politics; the beauty of the Hawaiian language; the power of Mauna Kea, the volcano under which her family has lived for generations. But today, relaxing under a tree and resting up for her next set at the Vancouver Island MusicFest, the Big Island–born singer wants to take us deep—deep into the painful history of colonized Hawaii, deep into the healing balm of a place that many call paradise, and deep into the shamanic practices that root human nature within a web of wind and water, trees and tides. At the end of our talk I felt like I’d been given a gift—and that’s no coincidence, for art and knowledge are the currency of the Kanaka’ole family, a multigenerational clan of artists and activists who have dedicated themselves to preserving and reviving Hawaiian culture ever since Kaumakaiwa’s great-grandmother Edith’s time. “Music, dance, and art have always been the tools with which one combats the colonization of one’s mind,” Kanaka’ole explains. “When you colonize a people, you can take their land and you can take their sovereignty, but the sovereignty of one’s mind is truly the final frontier, and it’s the mentality of our people that we’re trying to change.” Although Kanaka’ole sometimes performs as a folk-roots songwriter, and will be accompanied at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival by slackkey guitarist Shawn Pimental, her primary medium is hula. And if that conjures up images of grass-skirtclad, lei-festooned dancers, you’re only seeing part of the picture. “Hula is the environment,” Kanaka’ole explains. “It’s as simple as that. It is the medium in which the Hawaiian has interpreted and mimicked his or her environment through movement and dance. But, really, hula has less to do with the human aspect of dance, and more to do with the dance that is happening in the environment. Whether or not we choreograph, or whether or not we get the human body to move, the waters and rivers still flow down to the ocean, and the tides still ebb and flow, and both the Earth and the forests on it still breathe. So that’s hula: it’s the movement of the environment, and we have to encapsulate that in a human aesthetic.” In the Kanaka’ole family, she continues, both dance and music are considered an embodiment of Pele, the goddess of fire and volcanic action. “We try to dance as low to the ground as possible, and that draws the energy. Our chants and dances are meant to garner a response from the natural world. So the more we exert ourselves, the more we become synchronized with the environment around us. “The hope is that when one practises ritual hula, you achieve that transcendence,” she adds. “You have pulled yourself through that wall of exhaustion, or physical exhaustion and exertion, almost to the point of delirium—and then you get to that euphoric and almost trancelike state.” Can non-Hawaiians get there, too? Kanaka’ole doesn’t rule that out, and she’s certainly convinced that her art is a way of asking settlers and tourists to consider their role in the ongoing occupation of the Hawaiian archipelago. “Politics begets politics,” she says. “When someone confronts you with anger and anxiety, then that’s what you give in return. But if you approach someone through spirit, through the medium of dance and song, they have no choice but to turn in to themselves and really ask themselves those questions. Being open to the human experience—that’s really all we want.”
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE KILLERS Rock quartet from Las Vegas, featuring frontman Brandon Flowers. Jul 15, doors 7:30 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 14, 10 am, $75 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. PLEASE NOTE: this show is Will Call pick-up only with a ticket limit of two. The purchaser and guest must be present to pick up the tickets at the show. Will Call name-changes will not be accommodated for this event.
MAJID JORDAN Canadian R&B duo composed of singer Majid Al Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman. Oct 30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 15, 10 am, $38.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
SAINT MOTEL Indie-pop quartet from L.A., with guests JR JR and Weathers. Sep 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 15, 10 am, $27 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TA-KU (LIVE) Electronic musician and producer from Australia. Sep 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 15, 10 am, $25 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
AUTOGRAF & GOLDROOM Coheadlining bill featuring electronic dance artists. Nov 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Jul 15, 7 am, $25/20 (plus service charge) at www.ticketweb.ca/.
2THIS WEEK DAVE ALVIN & PHIL ALVIN AND THE GUILTY ONES The Canadian Pacific Blues Society presents American roots-rock greats, former members of the Blasters, with guests Paul Pigat & Cousin Harley. Jul 14, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Zulu, Neptoon, Red Cat Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MEGHAN TRAINOR American R&B-pop singer-songwriter performs as part of her Untouchable Tour, with guests Hailee Steinfeld and Common Kings. Jul 14, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, PNE Amphitheatre (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $69.95/49.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
LINDSEY STIRLING American violinist and dancer performs a variety of music styles, from classical to pop and rock to electronic dance music. Sep 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Jul 15, 10 am, $69.50/49.50/32.50 (plus service charges and fees) www.livenation.com/. NICK WATERHOUSE California R&B/soul singer-songwriter. Sep 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Jul 15, 10 am, $18 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
ARE WE NOT? XTC, DEVO AND JOY DIVISION Local bands pay tribute to three postpunk greats, with performances the Plodes, Dumb, shitlord fuckerman, and Tim the Mute. Jul 14, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL Performers of the 39th annual folk fest include Martin Carthy, Shane Koyczan, the New Pornographers, Jojo Abot, Lisa O’Neill, Lakou Mizik, Ajinai, Yemen Blues, Bruce Cockburn, Oysterband, the Bills, Emilie & Ogden, Lord Huron, Little Scream, the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, and Samantha Parton. Jul 15-17, Jericho Beach (1300 Discovery). Tix at thefestival.bc.ca/. INSANE CLOWN POSSE Detroit hiphop duo composed of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, with guests Spread the Revenge. Jul 15, 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $40 (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 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.
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BRIT FLOYD Pink Floyd tribute group performs hits from classic albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall on its Space and Time Continuum World Tour 2016. Jul 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $75/59/39 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. I M U R Canadian future-soul duo performs at a video-release party, with guests Fake Diamonds and Simple Machines. Jul 16, doors 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. TD CONCERTS AT THE PIER Music by 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). To Aug 20, West Beach. The July 16 concert will be held at White Rock’s
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MUSIC ON THE GRILL Enjoy a barbecue dinner served al fresco on the patio and take in concerts by the Good Lovelies and Three Worlds (Jul 16), and Jaclyn Guillou (Aug 13) Jul 16, Aug 13, dinner 6:30 pm, concert 8 pm, Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Tix $55/35, info www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/. BYRNE AND KELLY Irish acoustic-folk duo tours in support of third album. Jul 17, 7 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $50, info www.byrneandkelly.com/.
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THE JAYHAWKS American alt-country band tours in support of latest studio album Paging Mr. Proust, with guests Fernando Viciconte. Jul 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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NE OBLIVISCARIS Australian deathmetal band, with Black Crown Initiate and Starkill. Jul 19, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.rickshaw theatre.com/.
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ADELE British pop superstar tours in support of recently released album 25. Jul 20-21, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $195/99.50/75/49.50 (plus service charges and fees). Both shows SOLD OUT. MISS QUINCY & THE SHOWDOWN Vancouver band tours in support of new single “Remind Me of Myself”, with guests Liz Stringer and Hollow Twin. Jul 20, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15, info www. facebook.com/events/139336989808457/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL The Georgia Straight presents live blues and roots music by Colin James, Frazey Ford, Cyril Neville and the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Como Mamas, Lindi Ortega, Cécile Doo-Kingué, Shred Kelly, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Dawn Pemberton, Ben Rogers, Billy Dixon, and Wes Mackie. Aug 6, doors 12 pm, show 1 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix from $50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.burnabybluesfestival.com/.
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DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW Jul 14 2DANIELLE HOOGENBOOM Jul 26 2WENCY CORNEJO AND INTROVOYS Aug 27 2SKYE & ROSS Aug 30 2STEVE GUNN AND THE OUTLINERS Sep 23 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2JOHN PAUL WHITE Jul 29 2RYLEY WALKER Oct 7 2ANDY SHAUF Oct 15 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2LOU DANGER & THE THRILLS, MOLLY BE DAMNED, BEAVERETTE, ANTIPOLITIC Jul 15 2TOKI, WRAITHS, THE DARKER DAYS, BLOTTOAD Jul 16 2SKYMIR, UNBEHELD, IRRADIATION Jul 22 2STAGNATION 73, KNIVES!, DROWNING KITTENS, LAKEMAN Jul 23 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2DAVE ALVIN & PHIL ALVIN AND THE GUILTY ONES Jul 14 2THE JAYHAWKS Jul 18 2HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Aug 4 2THE WHITE PANDA Sep 3 2MARDUK Sep 17 2WARPAINT Sep 20 2MARGO PRICE Oct 19 2TOM ODELL Oct 21 2WET Nov 2 2AUTOGRAF & GOLDROOM Nov 11 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. No cover. 2RHYTHM ST. Jul 15 2SONS OF THE HOE Jul 15 2PURPLE GANG Jul 16 2HONEYBOY WILSON TRIO Jul 23 268 LIPS Jul 29 2HARPDOG BROWN Jul 30 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. 2BEYOND CREATION Jul 15 2BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH Jul 22 2BARNS COURTNEY Sep 3 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-5236888. 2ROB THOMAS Sep 2 2GREAT WHITE & SLAUGHTER Oct 14 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25
ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2BAND OF HORSES Aug 20 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Sep 17 2SHARON AND BRAM Sep 18 2LINDSEY STIRLING Sep 28 2JAMES BLAKE Oct 13 2OPETH Oct 26 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2BRIT FLOYD Jul 16 2SIGUR ROS Sep 18 2TEGAN AND SARA Oct 5 2GLASS ANIMALS Oct 12 2ALICE COOPER Oct 19 2PET SHOP BOYS Oct 24 2IL DIVO Nov 6 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nighlty from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2ARE WE NOT? XTC, DEVO AND JOY DIVISION Jul 14 2LEMONADE VIEWS Jul 15 2NE OBLIVISCARIS Jul 19 2MOTEL RAPHAËL Jul 21 2PRINCE TRIBUTE NIGHT Jul 22 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2PIGS Jul 29 2THROWING SHADE: LIVE PODCAST Aug 12 2SKELETONWITCH Aug 19 2SEVERFEST Aug 20 2BELPHEGOR Aug 21 2DIARRHEA PLANET Aug 26 2DOPE Sep 15 2PROZZÅK Sep 17 2PETUNIA & THE VIPERS Sep 24 2PREOCCUPATIONS Sep 28 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29 2DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Oct 2 2THE JULIE RUIN Oct 7 2CARSICK CARS Oct 10 2DARK TRANQUILLITY Nov 25 2THEE OH SEES Nov 26 2THE ALBUM LEAF Dec 13 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20-22 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2ADELE Jul 20 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP Jul 24 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 2GWEN STEFANI Aug 25 2DURAN DURAN Aug 28 2KEITH URBAN Sep 10 2DRAKE Sep 17 2DOLLY PARTON Sep 19 2KANYE WEST Oct 17 2CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE Nov 7 2FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nov 12 2AMY SCHUMER Dec 2 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-3317999. 2FRIENDS OF FOES, WITHIN RUST, FROGPILE Jul 13 2JAKE TOUZEL, TOY ZEBRA Jul 14 2THE ROXY LAUNCH PROJECT SHOWCASE #1 Jul 14 2SHOTGUN, SLEEP SCIENCE Jul 15 2DOWNTOWN MISCHIEF Jul 16 2NORTHERN IGNITION, UNTITLED SEQUENCE Jul 21 2THE BURN INS, INTOXICATED BY NATURE Jul 22 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2PASSENGER Aug 9 2HAYDEN Oct 4 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2INSANE CLOWN POSSE Jul 15
2DANNIC Jul 28 2IRON KINGDOM Aug 11 2SNFU Aug 20 2MINUS THE BEAR Aug 24 2CHELSEA’S TAIL Aug 26 2RIFF RAFF Aug 27 2OPEN UP TOUR Sep 4 2SWANS Sep 6 2JULIETTE LEWIS Sep 14 2MILLENCOLIN Sep 25 2LANY Sep 29 2PSYCHIC TV Sep 30 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Nov 1 2SONATA ARCTICA Nov 28
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. 2KACEY MUSGRAVES Aug 2 2BROODS Aug 16 2STURGILL SIMPSON Aug 18 2COLVIN & EARLE Aug 20 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2THE GIPSY KINGS Aug 26 2PARQUET COURTS Aug 27 2BRIAN REGAN Aug 28 2GAD ELMALEH Sep 6 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10 2NOTHING BUT THIEVES Sep 14 2DAVID CROSBY Sep 15 2BAND OF SKULLS Sep 16 2TA-KU (LIVE) Sep 26 2ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Sep 27 2GOJIRA Oct 9 2GHOST Oct 13 2ZIGGY MARLEY Oct 16 2MATTHEW BARBER AND JILL BARBER Oct 22 2ANJELAH JOHNSON Oct 26 2DANNY BHOY Oct 27 2THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Oct 28 2CHARLIE PUTH Nov 4 2LUKAS GRAHAM Nov 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2MØ Nov 23
Emilie and Ogden 4:45pm on Stage 2
Little Scream 7:35pm on Stage 5 Sarah Ja ne Scou ten
Land of Talk 8:45pm on Stage 5
Littl e Scr eam
Oct 10 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 2YOUNG THE GIANT Oct 26 2MAJID JORDAN Oct 30 2ANDRA DAY Nov 8 2SHOVELS & ROPE Nov 9
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WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2SHINE Jul 9 2BYRNE AND KELLY Jul 17 2MISS QUINCY & THE SHOWDOWN Jul 20 2FORD MADOX FORD Jul 22 2FRANK YAMMA Aug 11
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK PEMBERTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Huka Entertainment presents Canada’s biggest camping, music, and comedy festival. Lineup includes Snoop Dogg, Bassnectar, Wolf Parade, Grace Potter, Rae Sremmurd, and Maria Bamford (Jul 14), J. Cole, Kaskade, FKA Twigs, Flosstradamus, Method Man and Redman, Cold War Kids, and Nick Swardson (Jul 15), the Killers, Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, Billy Idol, Cheech and Chong, and Kyle Kinane (Jul 16), and Pearl Jam, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Halsey, DJ Snake, Mac Miller, and Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious (Jul 17). July 14-17, Pemberton Valley (Pemberton, B.C.). Info at www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/, info www.pembertonmusicfestival.com/.
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JULY 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 17
ARE YOU READY... FOR THE BEST WEEKEND OF YOUR SUMMER?
STARTS FRIDAY AT 2PM, GATES OPEN 12:30PM
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
A
OVER 60 ACTS FROM 18 COUNTRIES ON 7 SUMMER BEACHFRONT STAGES
globally-inspired, genre-defying music festival gathering tradition-bearers and daring innovators, new waves and ancient sounds, the down-to-earth and the transcendent. Music with something to say. Music for every folk. Artists from Venezuela, the UK and China, Algeria, Senegal, Estonia, Ghana, Ireland, Haiti, Australia, Cape Verde, France, Brazil, and all across the US and Canada – together to celebrate diverse voices and cultures, deep roots and cool grooves. SIX DAYTIME STAGES See artists in concerts or sharing workshop stages. Workshops are the soul of the festival, where old friends meet to trade familiar tunes and brilliant new musical connections are forged. All are unique, one-time-only, youhave-to-be-there encounters. Amazing. Yemen Blues
TOP 5 REASONS TO COME TO THE FESTIVAL 1 2 3 4 5
IT’S A WORLD OF MUSIC IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD YOU CAN BIKE, WALK, OR TAKE TRANSIT – IT’S EASY! 69+ CONCERTS & 50 UNIQUE WORKSHOPS C OMPLET E WITH O C E A N 3 WORDS: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION VIEW 30+ ECLECTIC FOOD BOOTHS • 200+ ARTISAN MARKET & FOLK BAZAAR BOOTHS
LE F LKS VILLAGE
Children 12 & under FREE
The Trollsons, Nylon Zoo, Madskillz, Publik Secrets Musical Playground, Redbird juggling, stilt-walking & song-making, Keys to the Streets, plus paper making, face painting, recycled crafts.
BRUCE COCKBURN • MARTIN AND ELIZA CARTHY • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LORD HURON • LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS • M. WARD • OYSTERBAND NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE • YEMEN BLUES • THE WAINWRIGHT SISTERS JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA PARTON • HAYES CARLL • TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND • THE HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER • SAN FERMIN BIRDS OF CHICAGO • BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO VENEZUELA LAKOU MIZIK HAITI • FARIS AMINE ALGERIA • AJINAI CHINA • MOULETTES UK TRAD.ATTACK! ESTONIA • I DRAW SLOW IRELAND • LES NOCHES GITANES FRANCE FLAVIA NASCIMENTO BRAZIL • ELIDA ALMEIDA CAPE VERDE JOJO ABOT GHANA AND OVER 40 MORE
3 EVENING STAGES FRIDAY MAIN STAGE 4:50 First Nations Welcome 5:10 Faris Amine The Bills 6:20 Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton Martin Harley 7:35 Lee Fields and the Expressions Lisa O'Neill 8:50 M. Ward Lisa LeBlanc 10:05 The New Pornographers
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN 4:00 5:10 6:20 7:30 8:40
The Young'uns Les Noces Gitanes Moulettes Flávia Nascimento Élage Diouf
SATURDAY
Elida Almeida
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
Birds of Chicago
5:00 Martin and Eliza Carthy Chris Pureka 6:10 Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long Sarah Jane Scouten 7:25 Oysterband Lucy Ward 8:40 Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani The Weather Station 9:55 Nahko and Medicine for the People
6:00 Trad.Attack! 7:10 Jojo Abot 8:20 Mexican Institute of Sound
Jojo Abot
5:30 Lakou Mizik Les Hay Babies 6:45 Leftover Salmon Terra Lightfoot 8:05 Bruce Cockburn 9:25 Lord Huron
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
FROM QUÉBEC
TO THE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUNDAY SHOWCASE Sarah Jane Scouten 11:20am on Stage 4
Emilie and Ogden 4:45pm on Stage 2
Little Scream 7:35pm on Stage 5
Land of Talk 8:45pm on Stage 5
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
5:15 6:25 7:35 8:45
6:20 The Americans 7:30 Terra Lightfoot 8:40 Henry Wagons schedule subject to change
MAIN STAGE
5:50 San Fermin 7:10 Hayes Carll 8:30 The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
Mexican Institute of Sound
The New Pornographers
Lisa LeBlanc Cian Nugent Little Scream Land of Talk
izik
uM
o Lak
TICKETS ONLINE AND AT THE GATE • DAY, EVENING & WEEKEND TICKETS AVAILABLE
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
check website for ticket outlets
Site Box Office Hours
Gates Open
Music Runs
EVENING TICKETS $55
Friday: 12pm to 10pm Saturday: & Sunday 9am to 10pm
Friday: 12:30pm-10:00pm Saturday & Sunday: 9am-9:30pm
Friday: 2pm-11pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am-11pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY Online Now and at the Gate I Draw Slow
18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 14 – 21 / 2016
JULY 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
ARE YOU READY... FOR THE BEST WEEKEND OF YOUR SUMMER?
STARTS FRIDAY AT 2PM, GATES OPEN 12:30PM
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
A
OVER 60 ACTS FROM 18 COUNTRIES ON 7 SUMMER BEACHFRONT STAGES
globally-inspired, genre-defying music festival gathering tradition-bearers and daring innovators, new waves and ancient sounds, the down-to-earth and the transcendent. Music with something to say. Music for every folk. Artists from Venezuela, the UK and China, Algeria, Senegal, Estonia, Ghana, Ireland, Haiti, Australia, Cape Verde, France, Brazil, and all across the US and Canada – together to celebrate diverse voices and cultures, deep roots and cool grooves. SIX DAYTIME STAGES See artists in concerts or sharing workshop stages. Workshops are the soul of the festival, where old friends meet to trade familiar tunes and brilliant new musical connections are forged. All are unique, one-time-only, youhave-to-be-there encounters. Amazing. Yemen Blues
TOP 5 REASONS TO COME TO THE FESTIVAL 1 2 3 4 5
IT’S A WORLD OF MUSIC IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD YOU CAN BIKE, WALK, OR TAKE TRANSIT – IT’S EASY! 69+ CONCERTS & 50 UNIQUE WORKSHOPS C OMPLET E WITH O C E A N 3 WORDS: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION VIEW 30+ ECLECTIC FOOD BOOTHS • 200+ ARTISAN MARKET & FOLK BAZAAR BOOTHS
LE F LKS VILLAGE
Children 12 & under FREE
The Trollsons, Nylon Zoo, Madskillz, Publik Secrets Musical Playground, Redbird juggling, stilt-walking & song-making, Keys to the Streets, plus paper making, face painting, recycled crafts.
BRUCE COCKBURN • MARTIN AND ELIZA CARTHY • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LORD HURON • LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS • M. WARD • OYSTERBAND NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE • YEMEN BLUES • THE WAINWRIGHT SISTERS JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA PARTON • HAYES CARLL • TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND • THE HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER • SAN FERMIN BIRDS OF CHICAGO • BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO VENEZUELA LAKOU MIZIK HAITI • FARIS AMINE ALGERIA • AJINAI CHINA • MOULETTES UK TRAD.ATTACK! ESTONIA • I DRAW SLOW IRELAND • LES NOCHES GITANES FRANCE FLAVIA NASCIMENTO BRAZIL • ELIDA ALMEIDA CAPE VERDE JOJO ABOT GHANA AND OVER 40 MORE
3 EVENING STAGES FRIDAY MAIN STAGE 4:50 First Nations Welcome 5:10 Faris Amine The Bills 6:20 Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton Martin Harley 7:35 Lee Fields and the Expressions Lisa O'Neill 8:50 M. Ward Lisa LeBlanc 10:05 The New Pornographers
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN 4:00 5:10 6:20 7:30 8:40
The Young'uns Les Noces Gitanes Moulettes Flávia Nascimento Élage Diouf
SATURDAY
Elida Almeida
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
Birds of Chicago
5:00 Martin and Eliza Carthy Chris Pureka 6:10 Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long Sarah Jane Scouten 7:25 Oysterband Lucy Ward 8:40 Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani The Weather Station 9:55 Nahko and Medicine for the People
6:00 Trad.Attack! 7:10 Jojo Abot 8:20 Mexican Institute of Sound
Jojo Abot
5:30 Lakou Mizik Les Hay Babies 6:45 Leftover Salmon Terra Lightfoot 8:05 Bruce Cockburn 9:25 Lord Huron
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
FROM QUÉBEC
TO THE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUNDAY SHOWCASE Sarah Jane Scouten 11:20am on Stage 4
Emilie and Ogden 4:45pm on Stage 2
Little Scream 7:35pm on Stage 5
Land of Talk 8:45pm on Stage 5
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
5:15 6:25 7:35 8:45
6:20 The Americans 7:30 Terra Lightfoot 8:40 Henry Wagons schedule subject to change
MAIN STAGE
5:50 San Fermin 7:10 Hayes Carll 8:30 The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
Mexican Institute of Sound
The New Pornographers
Lisa LeBlanc Cian Nugent Little Scream Land of Talk
izik
uM
o Lak
TICKETS ONLINE AND AT THE GATE • DAY, EVENING & WEEKEND TICKETS AVAILABLE
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
check website for ticket outlets
Site Box Office Hours
Gates Open
Music Runs
EVENING TICKETS $55
Friday: 12pm to 10pm Saturday: & Sunday 9am to 10pm
Friday: 12:30pm-10:00pm Saturday & Sunday: 9am-9:30pm
Friday: 2pm-11pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am-11pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY Online Now and at the Gate I Draw Slow
18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 14 – 21 / 2016
JULY 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
ARE YOU READY... FOR THE BEST WEEKEND OF YOUR SUMMER?
STARTS FRIDAY AT 2PM, GATES OPEN 12:30PM
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
A
OVER 60 ACTS FROM 18 COUNTRIES ON 7 SUMMER BEACHFRONT STAGES
globally-inspired, genre-defying music festival gathering tradition-bearers and daring innovators, new waves and ancient sounds, the down-to-earth and the transcendent. Music with something to say. Music for every folk. Artists from Venezuela, the UK and China, Algeria, Senegal, Estonia, Ghana, Ireland, Haiti, Australia, Cape Verde, France, Brazil, and all across the US and Canada – together to celebrate diverse voices and cultures, deep roots and cool grooves. SIX DAYTIME STAGES See artists in concerts or sharing workshop stages. Workshops are the soul of the festival, where old friends meet to trade familiar tunes and brilliant new musical connections are forged. All are unique, one-time-only, youhave-to-be-there encounters. Amazing. Yemen Blues
TOP 5 REASONS TO COME TO THE FESTIVAL 1 2 3 4 5
IT’S A WORLD OF MUSIC IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD YOU CAN BIKE, WALK, OR TAKE TRANSIT – IT’S EASY! 69+ CONCERTS & 50 UNIQUE WORKSHOPS C OMPLET E WITH O C E A N 3 WORDS: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION VIEW 30+ ECLECTIC FOOD BOOTHS • 200+ ARTISAN MARKET & FOLK BAZAAR BOOTHS
LE F LKS VILLAGE
Children 12 & under FREE
The Trollsons, Nylon Zoo, Madskillz, Publik Secrets Musical Playground, Redbird juggling, stilt-walking & song-making, Keys to the Streets, plus paper making, face painting, recycled crafts.
BRUCE COCKBURN • MARTIN AND ELIZA CARTHY • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LORD HURON • LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS • M. WARD • OYSTERBAND NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE • YEMEN BLUES • THE WAINWRIGHT SISTERS JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA PARTON • HAYES CARLL • TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND • THE HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER • SAN FERMIN BIRDS OF CHICAGO • BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO VENEZUELA LAKOU MIZIK HAITI • FARIS AMINE ALGERIA • AJINAI CHINA • MOULETTES UK TRAD.ATTACK! ESTONIA • I DRAW SLOW IRELAND • LES NOCHES GITANES FRANCE FLAVIA NASCIMENTO BRAZIL • ELIDA ALMEIDA CAPE VERDE JOJO ABOT GHANA AND OVER 40 MORE
3 EVENING STAGES FRIDAY MAIN STAGE 4:50 First Nations Welcome 5:10 Faris Amine The Bills 6:20 Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton Martin Harley 7:35 Lee Fields and the Expressions Lisa O'Neill 8:50 M. Ward Lisa LeBlanc 10:05 The New Pornographers
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN 4:00 5:10 6:20 7:30 8:40
The Young'uns Les Noces Gitanes Moulettes Flávia Nascimento Élage Diouf
SATURDAY
Elida Almeida
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
Birds of Chicago
5:00 Martin and Eliza Carthy Chris Pureka 6:10 Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long Sarah Jane Scouten 7:25 Oysterband Lucy Ward 8:40 Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani The Weather Station 9:55 Nahko and Medicine for the People
6:00 Trad.Attack! 7:10 Jojo Abot 8:20 Mexican Institute of Sound
Jojo Abot
5:30 Lakou Mizik Les Hay Babies 6:45 Leftover Salmon Terra Lightfoot 8:05 Bruce Cockburn 9:25 Lord Huron
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
FROM QUÉBEC
TO THE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUNDAY SHOWCASE Sarah Jane Scouten 11:20am on Stage 4
Emilie and Ogden 4:45pm on Stage 2
Little Scream 7:35pm on Stage 5
Land of Talk 8:45pm on Stage 5
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
5:15 6:25 7:35 8:45
6:20 The Americans 7:30 Terra Lightfoot 8:40 Henry Wagons schedule subject to change
MAIN STAGE
5:50 San Fermin 7:10 Hayes Carll 8:30 The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
Mexican Institute of Sound
The New Pornographers
Lisa LeBlanc Cian Nugent Little Scream Land of Talk
izik
uM
o Lak
TICKETS ONLINE AND AT THE GATE • DAY, EVENING & WEEKEND TICKETS AVAILABLE
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
check website for ticket outlets
Site Box Office Hours
Gates Open
Music Runs
EVENING TICKETS $55
Friday: 12pm to 10pm Saturday: & Sunday 9am to 10pm
Friday: 12:30pm-10:00pm Saturday & Sunday: 9am-9:30pm
Friday: 2pm-11pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am-11pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY Online Now and at the Gate I Draw Slow
18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 14 – 21 / 2016
JULY 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
ARE YOU READY... FOR THE BEST WEEKEND OF YOUR SUMMER?
STARTS FRIDAY AT 2PM, GATES OPEN 12:30PM
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
A
OVER 60 ACTS FROM 18 COUNTRIES ON 7 SUMMER BEACHFRONT STAGES
globally-inspired, genre-defying music festival gathering tradition-bearers and daring innovators, new waves and ancient sounds, the down-to-earth and the transcendent. Music with something to say. Music for every folk. Artists from Venezuela, the UK and China, Algeria, Senegal, Estonia, Ghana, Ireland, Haiti, Australia, Cape Verde, France, Brazil, and all across the US and Canada – together to celebrate diverse voices and cultures, deep roots and cool grooves. SIX DAYTIME STAGES See artists in concerts or sharing workshop stages. Workshops are the soul of the festival, where old friends meet to trade familiar tunes and brilliant new musical connections are forged. All are unique, one-time-only, youhave-to-be-there encounters. Amazing. Yemen Blues
TOP 5 REASONS TO COME TO THE FESTIVAL 1 2 3 4 5
IT’S A WORLD OF MUSIC IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD YOU CAN BIKE, WALK, OR TAKE TRANSIT – IT’S EASY! 69+ CONCERTS & 50 UNIQUE WORKSHOPS C OMPLET E WITH O C E A N 3 WORDS: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION VIEW 30+ ECLECTIC FOOD BOOTHS • 200+ ARTISAN MARKET & FOLK BAZAAR BOOTHS
LE F LKS VILLAGE
Children 12 & under FREE
The Trollsons, Nylon Zoo, Madskillz, Publik Secrets Musical Playground, Redbird juggling, stilt-walking & song-making, Keys to the Streets, plus paper making, face painting, recycled crafts.
BRUCE COCKBURN • MARTIN AND ELIZA CARTHY • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LORD HURON • LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS • M. WARD • OYSTERBAND NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE • YEMEN BLUES • THE WAINWRIGHT SISTERS JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA PARTON • HAYES CARLL • TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND • THE HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER • SAN FERMIN BIRDS OF CHICAGO • BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO VENEZUELA LAKOU MIZIK HAITI • FARIS AMINE ALGERIA • AJINAI CHINA • MOULETTES UK TRAD.ATTACK! ESTONIA • I DRAW SLOW IRELAND • LES NOCHES GITANES FRANCE FLAVIA NASCIMENTO BRAZIL • ELIDA ALMEIDA CAPE VERDE JOJO ABOT GHANA AND OVER 40 MORE
3 EVENING STAGES FRIDAY MAIN STAGE 4:50 First Nations Welcome 5:10 Faris Amine The Bills 6:20 Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton Martin Harley 7:35 Lee Fields and the Expressions Lisa O'Neill 8:50 M. Ward Lisa LeBlanc 10:05 The New Pornographers
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN 4:00 5:10 6:20 7:30 8:40
The Young'uns Les Noces Gitanes Moulettes Flávia Nascimento Élage Diouf
SATURDAY
Elida Almeida
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
Birds of Chicago
5:00 Martin and Eliza Carthy Chris Pureka 6:10 Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long Sarah Jane Scouten 7:25 Oysterband Lucy Ward 8:40 Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani The Weather Station 9:55 Nahko and Medicine for the People
6:00 Trad.Attack! 7:10 Jojo Abot 8:20 Mexican Institute of Sound
Jojo Abot
5:30 Lakou Mizik Les Hay Babies 6:45 Leftover Salmon Terra Lightfoot 8:05 Bruce Cockburn 9:25 Lord Huron
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
FROM QUÉBEC
TO THE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUNDAY SHOWCASE Sarah Jane Scouten 11:20am on Stage 4
Emilie and Ogden 4:45pm on Stage 2
Little Scream 7:35pm on Stage 5
Land of Talk 8:45pm on Stage 5
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
STAGE 5 AT TWILIGHT
5:15 6:25 7:35 8:45
6:20 The Americans 7:30 Terra Lightfoot 8:40 Henry Wagons schedule subject to change
MAIN STAGE
5:50 San Fermin 7:10 Hayes Carll 8:30 The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
STAGE 3 AT SUNDOWN
Mexican Institute of Sound
The New Pornographers
Lisa LeBlanc Cian Nugent Little Scream Land of Talk
izik
uM
o Lak
TICKETS ONLINE AND AT THE GATE • DAY, EVENING & WEEKEND TICKETS AVAILABLE
THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA
check website for ticket outlets
Site Box Office Hours
Gates Open
Music Runs
EVENING TICKETS $55
Friday: 12pm to 10pm Saturday: & Sunday 9am to 10pm
Friday: 12:30pm-10:00pm Saturday & Sunday: 9am-9:30pm
Friday: 2pm-11pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am-11pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY Online Now and at the Gate I Draw Slow
18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JULY 14 – 21 / 2016
JULY 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
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Tariq Leslie asked Richard Wolfe to direct a play for his ambitious summer series by Jericho Beach, Wolfe likely never expected the script he’d offer him. It was Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain, a play as rarely staged as it is challenging and controversial. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s an adventure!’ ” Wolfe, who first met Leslie directing him at the Shaw Festival, says over the phone from his Pi Theatre headquarters, where he’s artistic director. “My favourite artistic experience is when I leave the theatre feeling energized and alive, where I have an experience I can think about for more than a couple hours, and where I can feel emotionally engaged in it. And I thought, ‘This is a play that does that.’ ” That, and much more. In the 1980 work, the British playwright weaves together three historical episodes of violence and oppression: the Roman invasion of the Celtic world; the Saxon attack on Romano-Celtic Britain; and British troops’ interventions during the Northern Ireland conflict. By connecting each era’s barbaric acts, Brenton poses stark moral and political questions. It is a massive undertaking for the ETC team, though the four-year-old repertory festival has proven itself fearless in previous eclectic programming that has included everything from
A pertinent look at power abuse
Derick Neumier (left) and Yurij Kis enact just one of three historical eras of abuse portrayed in The Romans in Britain. Thorsten Gohl photo.
Look Back in Anger and 1995’s Blasted (which Ensemble Theatre Company launches its repertory fest with the Wolfe directed at Pi epic, terrifyingly timely, and rarely staged The Romans in Britain Theatre, winning him a 2015 Jessie Award) as the macabre Jacobean work The Duchess of a benchmark in modern British drama. And its Malfi to Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour. relevance to today’s events, from Syria to GuantThe Romans in Britain is its own kind of chal- anamo Bay to the U.S. election, is heavy. Consider lenge, though, jumping between 55 BC, AD Caesar’s cold line in the play “Even a little massacre 500, and 1980, and originally calling for 30 ac- must look like policy.” tors to portray 60 characters. “One thing that’s moved me is the play itself is “We have 17 actors, so there’ll be a lot of doub- largely about imperialism and abuse of power,” ling and tripling,” Wolfe explains, adding he’ll Wolfe explains. “It was an effort to show Britalso be staging it in the round. “It should be an ish people a ref lection of themselves as being interesting psychological experiment for the occupied, and how history includes the audience.…I’ve got actors sitting them as an oppressed people and also around in plain view of the audience as oppressors. So as the play unCheck out… the whole time, and I think it works folds, we see the cycle of violence STRAIGHT.COM in this play. Brenton’s work—and and oppression, laced with a lot of Visit our website particularly this play—has powerful dark comedy, in a way. In the end for morning-after language, exciting characters, and a the thing that got me more engaged reviews and local lot of action and dark comedy.” than anything was that the characarts news Most infamously, it contains a scene ters were conducting the crimes with of brutal assault by Roman soldiers such a laissez-faire attitude. It’s that against a young Druid priest that got the play’s laissez-faire attitude to violence we’re associfirst director charged, somehow, with gross ated with, as a nation. It’s dangerous when we indecency in Britain in 1982. “That director try to distance ourselves from the psychological could have spent two or three years in prison, pain people might feel having an association so it was not a light thing,” Wolfe says, pointing with violence committed in our name.” out it was a private prosecution by a Christian As Wolfe digs into the play more and more, he morality crusader and was later dropped. Atti- simply can’t wait to see the reaction to it. “In a way tudes have changed a lot in the ensuing few dec- it might be interesting to see the effect it has on ades: “When I see the more violent video games people who are unsuspecting—people who think or even some episodes of South Park, I wonder they are going into a historical drama,” he says what is offensive to people these days.” with a slight laugh. He adds: “I was really clear with the actors that “For anyone interested in the theatre, it’s cernone of this stuff is gratuitous. We went through tainly an opportunity to see something you won’t the script line by line to identify the real motiva- get the chance to see otherwise.” tions of what was on the page.” Despite the unfortunate episode, the play is The Ensemble Theatre Company summer series often grouped, he points out, with works like 1958’s runs from Thursday (July 14) to August 20.
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Ensemble Theatre Company has come up with a characteristically eclectic mix for its fourth summer series on the Jericho Arts Centre stage from Thursday (July 14) to August 20. Along with The Romans in Britain, it’s presenting both a searing 20th-century work and a 350-year-old Restoration comedy—all, true to the company name, performed by a core cast that has to jump nimbly from era to era, conflict to conflict as the shows rotate in repertory.
BETRAYAL Harold Pinter’s work may focus on a simple affair—the married couple Emma and Robert, and Emma’s dalliances with Robert’s best friend, Jerry—but the story spirals into unexpected complexities. Who knew of which betrayals when? Lies beget lies and Pinter plays with chronology, revealing consequences before we see what led to them. Matthew Bissett takes the helm of one of Pinter’s great works—one rumoured to be based on the playwright’s own experiences. THE COUNTRY WIFE Tariq Leslie directs this surprisingly sexually frank Restoration comedy, written by William Wycherley in the anti-Puritanical late 1600s and then practically banned from the stage for its lewdness until the early 20th century. It centres on both a rake who feigns impotence so he can safely bed married women, and a naive young “country wife” who comes to London with her middle-aged husband, only to hook up, to his horror, with every guy in town. The writing is as whip-smart as it is naughty; watch for the extended double-entendres of the “china scene”. > JANET SMITH
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Editor’s choice FUSE FUSIONS Expect a little extra spice at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s next insanely popular FUSE art party, where curator Sirish Rao mixes a masala of performances to complement Bharti Kher’s Matter exhibit, presented in partnership with the Indian Summer Festival. Subtitled Private Lives/Public Dreams, the event features belly-dance fusionists Luciterra (pictured here); projections by artists Reena Saini Kallat and Jonny Ostrem; a lounge with music by Portland-based world-beat DJs Anjali and the Incredible Kid; a multimedia storytelling performance by Sharada K. Eswar and Rup Sidhu; and an audiovisual performance by Vancouver-based DJ-producer Tarun “Tspoon” Nayar, dance artist Scheherazaad Cooper, and interdisciplinary artist Sammy Chien. There’s too much else to list here—just go, grab a drink, and immerse yourself in the multimedia happenings. FUSE is at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday (July 15).
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ENCHANTED EVENINGS (At the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden on July 14) The Paperboys perform in a truly magical summer setting.
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Guest pick COCKTALES WITH MARIA Little Chamber Music Series That Could general manager Diane Park presents the Black Dog String Quartet at Mountain View Cemetery on August 7. But first, here’s her suggestion for this week: “In my opinion, there can never be enough sequins or opera, so I’m looking forward to seeing Cocktales With Maria, which should provide plenty of both. Maria Toilette (a.k.a. baritone Joel Klein), accompanied by pianist Karen Lee-Morang, will entertain with this ‘gay sex drag opera’, with music by Isaiah Bell. I haven’t met Maria yet, but apparently, she has performed this work in Smithers—and survived! Brava!” Cocktales With Maria is at the Gold Saucer Studio (207 West Hastings Street) next Thursday (July 21).
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hat’s in a name? Not much. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival includes rock and pop stars and the Pemberton Music Festival includes comedians. Maybe we could get the JFL NorthWest comedy fest to bring in some top folk groups and call it a wash. Be that as it may, the Pemberton festival features a comedy lineup any self-respecting comedy festival would kill for: Cheech & Chong, Maria Bamford, Nick Swardson, Doug Benson, Eugene Mirman, Kyle Kinane, Morgan Murphy, and more, including the young absurdist Ian Abramson, who’s taking the alt-comedy world by storm just four years into his career. When he’s reached in his car in Los Angeles during a heat wave, Abramson’s childlike playfulness is on full display. The conversation goes something like this: “You were expecting my call, I hope.” “You were expecting to call, I hope.” “Where are you right now?” “I’m in Los Angeles. Where are you?” “You live in Los Angeles, correct?” “I do, yes. And you live in Vancouver.” “Have you been here before?” “No, have you?” “I just recently learned about you.” “Yeah, and vice versa.” “The clips I saw made me want to see you.” “The clips I watched of you made me very excited to see you, as well.” But he wears down eventually and we’re able to conduct a real conversation—or a reasonable facsimile. We speak of his background, for instance. “I’m not entirely sure whether or not I exist, so I’m never quite sure how to answer that,” he says. “I’m told that I grew up in California, then I started doing comedy in Chicago, and then I moved to L.A. That’s kind of my triangle.” His other triangle includes his influences Steve Martin, Zach Galifianakis, and Groucho Marx, which makes perfect sense when you see his
When alt-comedy star Ian Abramson hits the Pemberton Music Festival, he’ll be sporting his mustache and an electric-shock collar. Matt Lief Anderson photo.
surreal takes on standup and love of language. Not to mention his greasepaint mustache. Or at least that’s what it looks like in photos. “Oh, it’s completely real, but thank you for noticing,” he says. Has he ever worn a greasepaint mustache, then? “Uh, I’m not at liberty to say. I will say that I have a great relationship with Sharpies.” Those are permanent! “Mustaches? No, you’re able to shave them.” Sharpies. “Sharpies? No, you can shave them, too.” Abramson, a regular contributor to the Onion, studied theatre in college and admits that it has influenced his standup act. He’s more than a guy standing on-stage telling jokes. He created and hosts a Comedy Central digital series called Seven Minutes in Purgatory, in which comedians perform their material alone in a room while an audience watches from afar. “Usually, an audience is responding to a performer, so they are either laughing or not laughing,” he says in a moment of seriousness. “That is their response. But the comedian is also taking in that information and responding to that. I just thought that dynamic was
interesting and wanted to experiment and see what it would look like if we removed one piece of that.” But his appearance at Pemberton will be in front of a mass of humanity, not four empty walls. He’s got something more shocking prepared for us. Or him, rather. “I’ll wear an electric shock collar and then I’ll give the remote to someone in the audience, and if they don’t like my joke, then they shock me,” he says. “It’s an experiment to be like, ‘Look, we are in this moment right now, this is happening right now, and your response is very much part of that experience.’ ” In the party atmosphere of an outdoor rock venue, that might be problematic—especially if he hands it over to someone with sadistic tendencies. “Occasionally, someone will be drunk and will try that, but then they end up looking like a jerk because they’re literally electrocuting a man live on-stage,” Abramson says. “There is a little dial so you can choose how painful it is. That said, it is not pleasant, no matter what.” Ian Abramson plays the Pemberton Music Festival on Sunday (July 17).
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avid Letterman may have put a whole crew out of work when he retired from the late-night grind in 2015, but he also spawned a new career path for one of his long-time writers. Steve Young was hired as a writer on Letterman’s talk show back in 1990 and stayed with the venerable institution for 25 years, right to the end. Early in his tenure, he was asked to head up a regular segment called “Dave’s Record Collection”. He’d hunt down obscure and unintentionally hilarious albums in thrift shops and usedrecord stores for Letterman to ridicule. Bad celebrity singing was always good for a laugh. But along the way, he stumbled on a niche genre that has slowly taken over his life. “I started coming back from my shopping trips with an occasional souvenir record album from a company convention or sales meeting,” he says on the phone from New York, on a break from his day job writing for NBC’s Maya & Marty. “What conceptually thrilled and shocked me was that there were entire customwritten musicals about working for General Electric or Coca-Cola or Westinghouse—musicals that felt in many ways like Broadway shows, but they were all for company insiders.” These productions were basically infotainment for employees to get them jazzed about their company and its latest models. “First of all, I thought, ‘Great, we can get some cheap jokes out of it’—and we did put some of these on the air,” he says. “But I just loved the fact that it was this juxtaposition of things that did not seem to belong together at all, which were peppy show tunes and lyrics about selling lawnmowers or light bulbs or silicone products or what have you. I just thought, ‘This seems like something comedy writers must have made up, but it was real.” He’d find himself singing songs from a diesel-engine or insurance musical for weeks. “This stuff is way better than it should have been,” he thought. That led to a book he cowrote called Everything’s Coming Up Profit: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, whose title was borrowed from “a miserable little show for a floor-tile company in 1969”. Through the book, some of the participants in these original shows started sending him films. Now he tours and hosts a 90-minute show playing clips and explaining
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these hidden gems. He says the pièce de résistance is from The Bathrooms Are Coming, a musical also from 1969 for distributors of bathroom fixtures. The evening ends with a four-minute sample of a documentary film on the subject that is now in production and that features his old boss, David Letterman. The live show’s appeal casts a wide net. The hamminess of it all will appeal not only to fans of Letterman’s cutting humour, but also to buffs of 20th-century history and pop culture, as well as to those who appreciate legitimate musical theatre. (Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who composed the music for Fiddler on the Roof, worked in the industrial-musical field in the ’50s, along with other professionals.) “If it was just sort of weird, campy stuff to be snarky about, I don’t think it would be worth all this trouble,” Young says. “But just the layers and depths of the talent and the surprising poignancy in personal stories and a glimpse of history—that to me is what makes it all worthwhile. But the film show, ultimately, I think, will just leave people breathless from laughter and surprise, because it is so weird and funny and unexpected.” The Lost World of Industrial Musicals plays the Rio Theatre on Sunday (July 17).
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Reinvented Pericles is startlingly beautiful TH E AT RE PERICLES By William Shakespeare. Adapted and directed by Lois Anderson. A Bard on the Beach production. On the Howard Family Stage on Sunday, July 10. Continues in rep until September 18
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production of Pericles: director Lois Anderson has reinvented the script and the results are enchanting. There’s a long-standing debate about how much of Pericles Shakespeare wrote: most modern scholars agree that Shakespeare probably penned about half of Pericles, Prince of Tyre and that a pamphleteer and pimp named George Wilkins probably wrote the other half. Enter Anderson, who has completely overhauled the play for her Bard on the Beach interpretation, rearranging sequences, writing new text, and adding material from sources as diverse as Rumi and Euripides. In Anderson’s version, Cerimon, an old magician, rescues a young woman named Marina from a brothel. As Cerimon tells Marina the story of King Pericles, he summons shades— ghostly performers who look like they’re covered in off-white dust—to enact it. In one magical development, Marina becomes a character in the story and is drawn into its telling, the vivid reds, greens, and golds of her clothing contrasting sharply with the ghostliness of the other figures. She’s in Technicolor and they are the palest sepia. She is a living creature trying to make meaning from the abstractions of an elusive narrative. Throughout, Anderson uses a storytheatre approach, which is remarkably effective in conveying the events of this episodic tale—and startlingly beautiful. Using clay figures, pots, and other found objects, Cerimon and Marina
The Pericles cast (with Luc Roderique, Jeff Gladstone, Kamyar Pazandeh, Kayla Doerksen, and Kayvon Kelly) hands in strong performances. David Blue photo.
play out the confrontation between Pericles and the incestuous King Antiochus. When Pericles and others engage in a jousting contest, a large cloth represents the field, Cerimon magically produces toy horses that gallop across it, and, when it’s Pericles’s turn to joust, the entire cloth transforms into a life-size horse—complete with swishing tail—and the king mounts it. Moments like this made me weep in wonder. Other experiences, including my dawning recognition of Marina’s true relationship to Pericles, made me weep with empathy. Kamyar Pazandeh, who is so freshly graduated from Studio 58 that he has barely had time to remove his cap and gown, makes a grounded, handsome, passionate Pericles. And Sereana Malani brings a charismatic warmth and unapologetic sensuality to Pericles’s wife, Thaisa. David Warburton hits just the right combination of humility and authority in the key role of the magician Cerimon. And Luisa Jojic’s frank intelligence and openheartedness are perfect for Marina. In one of the most surprising turns of the evening, Jeff Gladstone becomes the creepily wicked queen, Dionyza.
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Anderson’s designers provide lavish support for the fairy-tale world she has created. Amir Ofek drapes his set with fabrics and studs it with terra-cotta figures. John Webber lights in rich golds, blues, and other hues. Malcolm Dow’s exotic music evokes all of the spices of the Mediterranean. And Carmen Alatorre’s costumes, which are often sumptuous, also masterfully manage the contrasting worlds of this telling. This production would be stronger if it kept upping the theatrical ante—if there were more physical magic after the interval—and an early sequence in which the men dance is goofy. But Anderson’s Pericles is a stunner. > COLIN THOMAS
OTHELLO By William Shakespeare. Directed by Bob Frazer. A Bard on the Beach production. On the Howard Family Stage on Thursday, July 7. Continues in rep until September 17
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and Iago in this production, pitched this project—and the idea of setting the story during the American Civil War—to Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach, a couple of years ago. The Civil War setting speaks to the play’s concerns with racism and to the cultural wound that is still bleeding in the streets of America. For me, that connection was more intellectual than visceral, however, and that’s at least partly because Othello never deeply feels like an outsider in this mounting. Othello is a general, a warrior, and he talks about how bad he is at being a courtier. Other characters emphasize his difference, his Moorishness, and, in a classic racist strategy, they sexualize the threat they feel from him. When Othello marries Desdemona without her father’s permission, Iago warns her father that “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.” Shame and the threat of exclusion stalk Othello—and they destabilize him. Temporarily grounded by being loved by the openhearted Desdemona, he says, “And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” In the early going, Roderique shows us almost nothing of this instability and its attendant dangers. His Othello is a relaxed, elegant young guy, sweetly in love. He’s nice, but he’s not very interesting. As Iago, Kelly does little to up the ante. Iago drives the play, and in the opening acts, he gets a lot more stage time than Othello does. Famously, the character can be charismatically evil. But Kelly never plumbs the depths of Iago’s depravity; in his hands, Iago’s cruelty is reduced to businesslike meanness. Fortunately, Roderique unleashes himself emotionally in the evening’s second half, and the production gains much-needed stakes. Playing Iago’s wife, Emilia, Luisa Jojic delivers a compelling characterization.
Even on the page, Emilia is intriguing: she argues that her chastity has a price—and why shouldn’t it, given the way that men treat women? But, unlike her husband, Emilia is not a sociopath. When she realizes the carnage that Iago has caused, she falls into a fit of grief and rage, and in Jojic’s performance, Emilia’s agony yields the most arresting emotional passage of the evening. There are interesting portraits elsewhere as well. Director Bob Frazer and actor Jeff Gladstone offer a fresh take on Othello’s friend, Cassio. Iago convinces Othello that Cassio—who is often played as a dewy innocent—is Desdemona’s lover. But Gladstone plays him as a shame-faced alcoholic and a bit of a rake. The text supports these choices and they work. Kayla Doerksen offers a more assertive and less youthful Desdemona than we usually see. My take is that this approach mutes the dynamics between Othello and Desdemona, but there is no denying the vulnerability of Doerksen’s Desdemona when she realizes that the man she loves is about to murder her. Andrew Cownden plays Roderigo, a courtier whom Iago gulls, and Cownden embodies all of the comedy—and all of the pathos— that the role offers. Cownden is currently relegated to character parts, but I would love to see this gifted actor play one of the big Shakespearean heroes. The seating in the Douglas Campbell tent is configured differently this year, which allows for a wide playing area and a deep thrust stage. With its crumbling columns and battered tiled floor, Amir Ofek’s set is handsome, although it’s so vast that it sometimes feels vacant. I wanted more. > COLIN THOMAS
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Two out of three aren’t bad. Actually, two out of three are superb, although the third is only intermittently interesting. The 2016 edition of the annual Dancing on the Edge festival got off to a wonderfully warm start with Here on the Ground, choreographed by Body Narratives Collective and Sarah Chase. It’s a quietly sophisticated meditation on time masquerading as a sweet look at the friendship shared by dancers Julia Carr and Meghan Goodman, and it works beautifully. At its simplest, it’s about two women who have much in common despite their very different backgrounds. Carr, tall and blond and Nordic, is the daughter of a successful gastroenterologist. Goodman, short and dark and Jewish, has to cope with a father who, technically speaking, is a manager in the family business, but who, with his guitars and books and vinyl, is an unfulfilled artist and dreamer. But both dancers have recently given birth to sons, and both share an easy intimacy as well as a kind of sunny optimism. There’s a funny bit about platypuses and a dreamlike image of a river made from a single blue rope. There’s not a lot of outwardly impressive dance in this text-driven work, but there are a lot of finely honed gestures taken from everyday movement and then delivered, perfectly, at hyperspeed. And there’s a single, heartbreaking moment in which Carr reveals that her dad will never meet her baby, because he died 11 years before his grandson was born. Narrative concerns don’t trouble
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Ame Henderson and Joshua Beamish’s Radios, in which the latter delivers a devastating solo turn. Gender fluidity might be the subtext—Beamish takes the stage in a suit jacket, flowing top, little black dress, and silver lamé undies—but it’s the lone performer’s physical fluidity that is the real star here. To an intermittent soundtrack of no-wave guitars and cranky singing, Beamish folds himself into an endless series of contorted postures. MOVE: the company’s founder has long been one of Vancouver’s most watchable performers, and nothing here will change that status. Alas, the night lapsed into tedium with closing number Isaac y Diola, even if this work by Brussels-based dance artists Antia Diaz and German Jauregui opened with the triple bill’s most startling image. The lights came up on the two naked dancers lying prone, with Diaz on top. Then the impossibly elongated Jauregui inched out from under her, leaving her asleep as he spidered across the floor. The set looks like some sort of mad brawl took place the night before, but why are all those overturned chairs so neatly placed across the back of the stage? That’s emblematic of a work that wants desperately to be transgressive but doesn’t even begin to get there. The two dancers dress, separately and very, very slowly, and the night ends with Jauregui enacting a repetitious ritual of male angst that had this viewer praying “Please, God, make it stop,” long before it actually did. There’s probably a parable about heteronormative power dynamics being enacted here, but an enactment is not a critique—and intense doesn’t always equal illuminating. Still, two out of three weren’t bad. > ALEXANDER VARTY
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DANCING ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL 2016 Celebrate dance pioneers and risk takers with performances by Frédérick Gravel and Étienne Lepage, German Jauregui, DORSALE Dance, Adelheid Dance Projects, Constance Cooke, Tara Cheyenne Performance, dumb instrument Dance, OURO Collective, Alexis Fletcher, MascallDance, Wen Wei Dance, Amber Funk Barton’s the response., Raven Spirit Dance/Starrwind Dance Projects, and Out Innerspace Dance Theatre. To Jul 16, various Vancouver venues. Tix $24-120, info www.dancingontheedge.org/.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS BARRYMORE’S GHOST The Page Theatre and White Rock Players present Jason Miller’s play about an acting legend who comes back from the grave to guide a young actor. Jul 13-23, 8 pm, Coast Capital Playhouse (1532 Johnston Rd., White Rock). Tix $10-15, info www. thepagetheatre.com/barrymoresghost/.
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ENSEMBLE THEATRE FESTIVAL The Ensemble Theatre Company presents performances of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain, and William Wycherly’s The Country Wife. Jul 14–Aug 20, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix from $10, info www. ensembletheatrecompany.ca/. MURDER ON THE WEST COAST EXPRESS: EPISODE TWO Grad School Improv presents a murder mystery set in 1940s Vancouver. Jul 15, 9-11 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $5, info www.facebook.com/gradschoolimprov/.
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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/. THEATRE UNDER THE STARS Outdoortheatre event has performances of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story on alternating nights. To Aug 20, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix $20-40, info 877-840-0457, www.tuts.ca/. ANY NIGHT Julia Siedlanowska directs a play about an unlikely romance that develops into a shared nightmare for a man and a woman. To Jul 16, 8-9:40 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Info www.pacifictheatre.org/involvement/ stonesthrow/. SHINE The Wet Spots and the WISE Hall present a burlesque musical about a group of performers who must save their crumbling theatre from a smooth-talking businessman. To Jul 16, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $75/35/20, info www. shinemusical.com/. MOVEMENTS NO. 1&2 Babelle Theatre presents a dreamlike exploration of the personal and collective ideas of revolution. Jul 13-16, 8-9 pm, Nathan’s Studio (1326 E. Georgia). Tix $15, info www.face book.com/events/128139970933514/.
DANCE 2JUST ANNOUNCED UMBRAL THERE IS A WAY PataSola’s new dance work comments on the reality of war and destruction in a world fuelled by greed. Jul 27-29, 8 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $25, info www.patasoladance.com/.
2THIS WEEK ROBSON SQUARE SALSA Highlights include a salsa-dance lesson (3 pm), dance shows (5 pm) and an after party (7:30-10 pm). Every Sunday. To Aug 28, 3-7:30 pm, Robson Square (800 Robson). Free admission, info www.sundayafternoonsalsa.com/.
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REFUGE: SANCTUARY Cor Flammae premieres new compositions by Vancouver composers Shane Raman and Michael Park, plus works by Peter Tchaikovsky, Joan Szymko, Stephen Smith, Rodney Sharman, and Dominique Phinot. Jul 15, 7:30-9:30 pm, Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard). Tix $30/20, info www.corflammae.com/. REFUGE: CITY Cor Flammae premieres new compositions by Vancouver composers Shane Raman and Michael Park, plus works by Peter Tchaikovsky, Joan Szymko, Stephen Smith, Rodney Sharman, and Dominique Phinot. Jul 16, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $30/20, info www.corflammae.com/. THE VSO AT BARD ON THE BEACH: MOZART’S JUPITER William Rowson conducts violinist Nicholas Wright and the VSO in a program of excerpts from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major, Jupiter. Jul 18, 7:30 pm, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut Street). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Sing classic and contemporary rock, pop, and indie songs with a community choir. Jul 19, 7:30-9 pm, Britannia Community Centre (1661 Napier). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/.
COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED FIRECRACKER! The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents evenings of improv comedy that explore what it means to be a woman in Vancouver. Guests include Rebecca Bollwitt (Jul 21), Cassandra Anderton (Jul 28), Briana Buckmaster (Aug 4), Sadie Campbell (Aug 11), Burgundy Brixx (Aug 18), Beverley Elliott (Aug 25), Morgan Brayton (Sep 1), and Nicole Oliver (Sep 8). Jul 21–Sep 8, 9:15 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/. ERIC ANDRE American actor, comedian, and television host takes his comedy show on the road. Aug 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2CHRIS GORDON Jul 14-16 2KYLE BOTTOM Jul 21-23
8 pm; Jul 16, 7 pm; Jul 16, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/.
VANCOUVERITE: A COMEDY SHOW Brent Constantine and Amber HarperYoung host an evening of Vancouvercentric comedy by Devin Alexander, Nick Nemeroff, Nima Gholamipour, and Levi McCachen. Jul 16, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www. hotartwetcity.com/vancouverite-july2016/. COMEDY AT BIG ROCK Canadian comedian Damonde Tschritter performs with Amber Harper-Young, Ryan Lachance, Ed Konyha, and Chris Griffin. Jul 17, 8 pm, Big Rock Urban Brewery (310 W. 4th). Tix $7, info www.facebook.com/ events/153233248423405/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK BOOK ARTS FAIR 2016 Local book artists and bookbinders will be featuring and selling their handmade, bespoke items. Includes bookbinding, papermaking, photography, printmaking, letterpress, altered books, and calligraphy. Jul 16, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info vanbook arts.wordpress.com/book-arts-fair/. SERGE ALTERNES The author of Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain will sign copies of his book and discuss Vancouver’s important connections to the war. Jul 16, 12-4 pm, Indigo Park Royal (900 Park Royal South). POWER GAMES: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE OLYMPICS The book launch of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics includes a talk by Jules Boykoff. Jul 18, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.face book.com/events/1639404696386926/. SEA OF ERUPTING VOICES Spokenword showcase features artists, musicians, and performance art by DJ Nameless, Mike Levin, Jujube Jacinto, Venus Soberanes, Lance Lim, and Mallory Gliko. Jul 20, 6:30-8 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.
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. To Jul 16, various Vancouver venues. Info www.indiansummerfest.ca/. FUSE In partnership with Indian Summer Festival, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents a night of music, art, and performance featuring Luciterra Dance Company, multimedia storytellers, a music and dance lounge, projections, and a participatory mural. Jul 15, 8 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Tix $24 at the door, info www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. THE SALON SERIES Vancouver theatre professionals reveal how they take the page to the stage. Includes discussions and Q&A sessions on directing (Jul 18), acting (Aug 29), and designing (Sep 5). Presented by Bard on the Beach. Jul 18; Aug 29; Sep 5, 7 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix $15, info 604-739-0559, www.bardonthebeach.org/.
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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancou 2PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES ver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 (exhibition examines the significance of the pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and prosix women who were inspirational to the fessional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and artistic development of Picasso) to Oct 2 Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed 2BHARTI KHER MATTER (exhibition brings $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2EDDIE DELLA together sculptures and paintings that SIEPE Jul 15-16 2DOM PARE Jul 22-23 represent the diversity of New Delhi-based 2JAMES KENNEDY Jul 29-30 artist Bharti Kher’s practice) to Oct 10 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most MUSEUMS daring and innovative improv. The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie (Thu, Fri, THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT and Sat, 7:30 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (Wed and www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2LAWRENCE PAUL Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, (works that confront the colonialist sup9:30 pm). Jul 13-20, The Improv Centre pression of First Nations peoples and (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix reflect the ongoing struggle for indigen$8-22, info www.vtsl.com/. ous rights to lands, resources, and sover-
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CHRIS GORDON Standup comedian performs a solo show. Jul 14-16, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/.
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COMEDY AT BLACK DOG VIDEO Cinema-themed standup comedy with guests Ben Mills, Fatima Dhorwe, and Brad Dorion. Jul 14, 9:30 pm, Black Dog Video (1470 Commercial Drive). Admission by donation, info www.blackdogvideo.bc.ca/. ALICIA TOBIN’S COME DRAW WITH ME Join comedian Alicia Tobin and guests Graham Clark and Sean Devlin for an evening that is part comedy show, part art class. Jul 15, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $7 adv/$10 door, info hotartwetcity.com/comedraw-july2016/. EDDIE DELLA SIEPE Toronto actor and comedian performs a standup show. Jul 15,
2THIS WEEK 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. To Jul 17, Harrison Memorial Hall (280 Esplanade Avenue, Harrison Hot Springs). Tix $22-25, info www.harrisonfestival.com/.
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ure, you can grab a seat at a restaurant, chow down, and be on your merry way with a satisfied belly. But sometimes owners are trying to tell a cultural tale through the cuisine they offer. Of course, those deeper meanings may not be as readily discernible as their menus. To make them more easily understood, here are three Asian restaurateurs explaining what they’re trying to do that may not be obvious to the average diner.
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WHEN NUERJIANG (Mina) Mukelamu’s children go to school in Vancouver, they don’t know how to answer the question, “Where are you from?” Although they’re from China, they’re Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group that inhabits the Xinjiang region in northwest China. Even Mukelamu finds that people become confused when she says she’s Kobob Burger owner Hojeong (Connie) Mun wants to attract people with her rice from China. burgers while encouraging them to explore other traditional Korean menu items. That’s why she and her parents, “It’s really easy to set up a sushi res- decade ago, they discovered that Kasimu Nuerjiang and Tuerdi Asimguli, opened up Efendi Uyghur Res- taurant,” she said in an interview at her many people say so. “A lot of people came [in]…and taurant at 1345 Kingsway on May 28. petite eatery, Kobob Burger, at 1019 In their 130-seat dining room, Main Street, which she opened with they would say, ‘Oh, this place is Mukelamu explained that when her husband, Sanghyun Park, in 2014. not going to be good because it’s her father moved to Vancouver, he “Korean food is hard to set up.” How- so clean,’ ” Patrick told the Georgia couldn’t find any Uyghur food, let ever, she added, “That is why people Straight. “And it wasn’t like we were doing anything different.…People alone any halal food he enjoyed. In don’t know about Korean food.” She’s onto something. Although loved it once they tried it, but a lot of response, the family, which moved from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, to Canada there are local clusters of Korean people didn’t give us a chance.” That’s why the Do siblings in 2011, wanted to create a com- eateries serving traditional cuisine, munity gathering place. Her father, such as Sura Korean Royal Cuisine launched their own gastronomand Jang Mo Jib, ical venture, House Special Modern she said, doesn’t and Korean takes Vietnamese, in Yaletown in May at want their culon western fare, 1269 Hamilton Street. ture or language like Zabu Chick“We want to try to change the perto disappear. Craig Takeuchi en and Dae-Ji Cut- ception of Vietnamese food where Yet they also want to share their culture and cui- let House, Korean cuisine still hasn’t it’s seen as disposable, quick, cheap, sine with others who have never gone mainstream the way that other dirty,” Patrick said in an interview at his restaurant. experienced them. Mukelamu is Asian cuisines have. So Mun is doing her bit. Kobob While challenging classism, they well-positioned to connect with Vancouver’s multicultural popula- Burger’s chalkboard menu emblem- also want to bring more of modern tion: she can speak Uyghur, Manda- atizes her attempt to bridge divides Vietnam to Vancouver. Although House Special’s recipes respect tradrin, Japanese, Turkish, and English. while doing “fun stuff” with food. One half is devoted to rice burgers itional flavours and cooking techMukelamu explained that in order to maintain authentic flavours, they to entice western palates, the other niques, they also integrate progressive avoid using too many additional in- half to traditional bibimbap (rice twists and international influences. gredients in their dishes, primarily bowl with vegetables and meat) for That is reflected in their head chef— focusing on salt, cumin, and black those who want to venture further— their mother, Yen—working alongside executive chef Phong Vo. pepper. And because Xinjiang is and vice versa. Similar to versions in Asia, Kobob’s Take banh tieu, for example, which a landlocked desert environment, burgers feature rice molded into bun- is usually hollow. Their sesame-seeddon’t expect seafood entrées. Traditional items include chicken like shapes to enclose meat, lettuce, covered fry bread comes filled with pickled Asian slaw and five-spice laghman, made of handmade long corn, and yellow pickled radish. Further breaking with tradition, duck confit, sautéed mushroom, or noodles with stir-fried chicken and vegetables, and Uyghur-style ke- while bulgogi is traditionally avail- hot-sauce fried chicken. Their restaurant’s name refers to babs. Other plates include ding ding able only as a beef marinade, Konoodles, featuring handmade noo- bob offers pork or beef bulgogi, plus one of the best-known Vietnamese dles diced into bite-sized pieces and tuna and kimchi salad, spicy pork bowls as its centrepiece: pho. “We wanted to really focus on fried with vegetables and beef, and or chicken, or soy-sauce chicken as kurgak qop, dry stir-fried handmade meat options, for both burgers and making the best one we could and quarter-length noodles with garlic, bibimbap. Bibimbap, with white or using high-quality cuts of beef, chili, chives, and beef. Petir manta brown rice, comes with egg, bean really spending time on putting resembles oversized steamed dim- sprouts, carrots, white radish, zuc- love into the broth, and then the rest of the menu would change seasum dumplings, with ground lamb chini, and mushroom. There are even more menu options sonally and rotate out with whatand onion inside. Beyond the food, she said, they to explore, such as buchimgae, or ever we were into for that season,” want the world to know about Uy- Korean pancake, and noodle salad, Victoria said. available with plain, buckwheat, or While House Special pays homghur people. “We have to show people that we are zucchini noodles (which they call age to the past, Patrick and Victoria have a clear vision of where the fukind, we are clean, we are nice, we are “zoodles”) with spicy sauce. “There are lots of people who hadn’t ture lies as they propel Vietnamese [a] good culture, we are educated, and we have [a] really beautiful culture that tried Korean food yet, and then people cuisine forward. came here and they tried it, so I’m real“The best restaurants in the people can enjoy,” she said. ly happy with that,” she said. city, they all do that,” Patrick said. ORIGINALLY FROM Pusan, South “Look at Bao Bei, Torafuku. Try to Korea, Hojeong (Connie) Mun was WHO SAYS Vietnamese food can’t describe what Torafuku is in one disconcerted to discover so many be upscale? word. It’s hard. But people love it Korean people running Japanese Sadly, when Patrick and Victoria because it’s different and it’s famrestaurants when she arrived in Do’s family opened their Kingsway iliar at the same time, and that’s Canada four years ago. restaurant, Green Lemongrass, a what we want to do.” -
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MOVIES
Ghosts aren’t the only things getting busted RE VIEW S
Writer-director Louise Osmond pushes things a bit with obviously re-created scenes. But it’s hard to complain when she so obviously wants to enhance the triumph felt by folks who, in their mellif luous green-valley tones, could describe a trip to the loo—let alone to the Welsh National—and make you smile all day.
GHOSTBUSTERS Starring Kristen Wiig. Rated PG
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turned this movie into a veritable referendum on whether you are a Social Justice Warrior or Men’s Rights Activist, you might suspect that there is no way that Ghostbusters could ever live up to expectations. And you would be right. This is neither the funniest movie of the summer nor the worst. It is not a travesty of the original or a reinvention of the premise. In this retelling, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy are Gilbert and Yates, scientists who fell out over Gilbert’s decision to abandon paranormal research for straight academia. They reconnect over a spate of ghost sightings in New York, one involving transit worker Tolan (Leslie Jones). They complete their ghost-hunting team with engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon). The antics that follow are wellcrafted and packed with allusions to the original movie. What’s missing is character and dialogue. It’s almost criminal to put together a comedy cast this talented and neglect to give them interesting details to play. Gilbert, for example, crushes hard on the sculpted idiot that she forces the others to hire as their secretary, a dismaying idea even though Chris Hemsworth is admirably game. Yates is obsessed with… soup? Tolan is the black one. Only Holtzmann thrives as a character, as the group’s almost malevolently creative armourer. McKinnon is riveting. Watching her kick ass in this movie suddenly made me wonder if Marvel has finalized casting Captain Marvel. Who you gonna call? You should be calling Kate McKinnon.
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UNLOCKING THE CAGE A documentary by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker. Rating unavailable
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There’s no danger of crossing streams in Paul Feig’s lively feminist remake of the 1984 megahit Ghostbusters.
Media, he was told that they didn’t do business with “homosexual journalists”. That struck him as odd, especially since the ads were aimed at “lean, athletic guys, ages 18-25”. When he persisted, he started getting abusive emails, threatening lawsuits, and worse. By the time three lawyers showed up in Auckland, Farrier and directing partner Dylan Reeve had realized they must be onto something. That meant heading to L.A., > RON YAMAUCHI Florida, Michigan, and New York, with all roads seemingly leading to TICKLED a wealthy Italian-American homophobe and anti-Semite; apparently, A documentary by David Farrier and his penchant for ticklish boys is Dylan Reeve. Rating unavailable overshadowed by a need to conTickled is so weird, so un- trol and potentially destroy other predictable, it’s hard to know people’s lives. To say more would be how to categorize it. Director to unduly straighten the pretzel-like David Farrier must feel the same twists of this Sundance hit. > KEN EISNER way, because what started out as a kind of wacky human-interest story only gradually turned into a THE INNOCENTS true-crime tale with increasingly Starring Lou de Laâge. In French, frightening implications. Polish, and Russian, with English A popular entertainment repor- subtitles. Rating unavailable ter on New Zealand TV, Farrier As with religion itself, there thought he had a fun story from the may be a dwindling audience margins when he spotted an Internet ad looking for participants in for sober-sided dramas like The Insomething called competition-level nocents. This period piece is set in tickling. When he contacted the Poland at the end of World War II, American promoter, Jane O’Brien and director Anne Fontaine doesn’t
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glamorize the fact-based story. Still, if you make space for its contemplative rhythms, the movie does have something to offer the soul. Lou de Laâge plays Mathilde Beaulieu, a Red Cross volunteer with a French medical team in 1945. She’s having a desultory semi-affair with a doctor (Vincent Macaigne) who lost his own parents to the Holocaust, when she’s flagged down by a nun from a nearby convent. Many of her flock were raped by their Russian “liberators” and are now hugely pregnant. They dare not alert local authorities, so Mathilde becomes a kind of midwife-confessor. They initially attempt to hide these ministrations from the stern abbess (Agata Kulesza), but Mother Superior jumps the gun by spiriting the newborns off to foster homes. So she says. Fontaine has veered between literate comedies (Gemma Bovery) and thorny dramas (Adore), and here she’s almost too restrained, with just a few bursts of implicit violence and rhapsodic Chopin punctuating nearly two hours of liturgical gloom. The Vermeer-like compositions of cinematographer Caroline Champetier have their own special aura, however, and the movie has an unexpectedly uplifting finish. > KEN EISNER
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This U.K.–made documentary
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dle-aged barmaid and supermarket cleaner in South Wales who had a sub-humdrum existence until she happened upon the kind of scheme that usually drives desperate people around the bend. In 2000, she met with Howard Davies, a local accountant who had experience—mostly bad—with putting together a syndicate to collectively own a racehorse. Jan’s husband, a hulking, toothless man nicknamed Daisy, knew about horses and found a breeder to help them make a special-order foal to raise as a racer. Tens of thousands of pounds later, they had nothing to show for the scheme but the chestnut colt they called Dream Alliance. The gangly creature showed more character than speed, but a nearby stable reluctantly agreed to train their creation. Dark Horse’s real subject, of course, is class, and it’s amusing to see these ragtag mutton-eaters take on the toffee-nosed derby set—especially when their Alliance starts winning! Saying more would ruin the story, which has more hurdles and switchbacks than a steeplechase.
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EQUALS Starring Nicholas Hoult. Rating unavailable
From B-movie fodder like Lo-
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taca, filmmakers lavish art-department resources on wholly invented worlds—the better for initially docile antiheroes to rebel against. Drake Doremus’s dully named but beautifully shot Equals posits a postapocalyptic environment in which emotions have been bred out of human behaviour. By “emotions” we mean sex. In a script by Nathan Parker, this repressive social order separates Silas (Nicholas Hoult) from see next page
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TWO BY KING HU The source code for all
the martial-arts cinema that followed, Dragon Inn (1967) and A Touch of Zen (1971) brought wuxia to the West, and galvanized filmmaking in Hong Kong and Taiwan. King Hu’s dual masterpieces come to the Cinematheque, starting Thursday (July 14).
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All the young punks RUDE BOY Disavowed by the band on its release in 1980, this strange quasi-doc—about a London youth who roadies for the Clash—has grown in stature over the decades. As a picture of the U.K. in its steep late-’70s decline, Rude Boy hits hard. As a document of the Clash in concert and recording Give ’em Enough Rope, it’s second to none. The last gang in town comes to the Vancity Theatre on Tuesday (July 19), in a crisp new restoration supplied by director Jack Hazan and introduced by Straight movies editor Adrian Mack. Go to Straight.com for our interview with Hazan. -
A documentary by Louise Osmond. Rated G
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Wise to rewrite the book on personhood, starting with higher-order mammals like primates, pachyderms, and cetaceans. This is the latest effort from pioneer D.A. Pennebaker with partner Chris Hegedus. They embed themselves with the Florida-based Wise and his team as they push several cases up through the appellate system of New York state, which happens to hold a number of chimpanzees in less-than-ideal conditions. Along the way, there are visits with chimps with startling abilities to communicate, and others being held in hellish places. Wise and company are careful not to demonize their litigants. What’s most interesting here is the genuine engagement they achieve with judges and state’s attorneys encountered along the way, suggesting that even opponents of the rebranding of animals from “things” to persons are interested in keeping the discussion open. The movie is no great shakes, aesthetically. On the other hand, Pennebaker’s long relationship with Bob Dylan, starting with his Don’t Look Back in 1966, yields an appropriate ending, with the Zimmerman singing his never-moreappropriate “I Shall Be Released”.
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Jodorowsky turn shit into gold, in more ways than one. Produced by Allen Klein, and partly financed by John Lennon, this is the grandest manifestation of Jodo’s mystic visions. The Holy Mountain gets two nights at the Rio Theatre, starting Wednesday (July 20).
DRAKE DOREMUS His 2011 film Like Crazy is considered canonical by millennials petrified of commitment. Love is an even thornier prospect in Equals, the latest from writer-director Drake Doremus, but this time, Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart are trying to connect in a utopian future world where emotions are outlawed. Doremus was “thinking about the idea of a love story set in a world where love doesn’t exist. I was really fascinated with the idea of ‘would it find a way?’ ” Read our full interview with the filmmaker at Straight.com. -
coworker Nia (Kristen Stewart). Giant screens are all they’re allowed to touch in this land of cement, glass, and antiseptic whiteness. Most citizens are young and Caucasian, and have American accents (even with Aussies like Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver on hand). Well, that tells us something about the future. Utilizing modernist architecture in Japan and Singapore, the movie perfectly captures a stifling atmosphere, in which even a single tear can be taken as a sign of impending “disease”. So far, so moody. Problems begin when the characters speak— or, I should say, whisper. Stewart has always projected more feeling with her face than with words, and here the script and direction offer little substance beyond the initial conflict. The result is an increasingly humourless bit of time travel that doesn’t take enough interest in its own reality. Nia and Silas want to escape, and so do we. > KEN EISNER
HOLY HELL A documentary by Will Allen. Rating unavailable
It took Will Allen 22 years to
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in West Hollywood by a charismatic charlatan who called himself Michel. Allen and more than 150 other suckers, er, devotees were slow to realize that the Teacher— preaching Zen-like self-abnegation but big on mascara, Speedos, and plastic surgery—was running a major scam. Allen’s real advantage was that, as official documenter of the modestly named Buddhafield, he wielded increasingly sophisticated cameras. Even with admitted selfcensorship, this intimate and often fascinating footage reveals a megalomaniac who genuinely inspired his early disciples, and also drove them to participate in complex, if kitschy, theatre and ballet pieces only they would see.
Unfortunately, Allen’s not an introspective enough narrator to shape this trove as profoundly as he could, holding back allegations of dire sexual abuse (quelle surprise) as long as possible, and thereby tainting what came before. A final confrontation with the ex-guru is disappointing, but a few talking heads cut through the bullshit. According to Allen’s more ornery sister, Michel was nothing more than “an out-of-work actor who stumbled into the role of a lifetime”.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS Featuring Louis C.K. Rated G
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that looks delicious and sounds even hipper, what with Louis C.K. perfectly cast as the voice of Max, a terrier whose human (Ellie Kemper) has the gall to adopt another rescue dog to keep him company in her candy-coloured New York apartment. But that dog is voiced by Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet, who brings nothing to the role. He’s certainly no comic foil for C.K., whose stamp is all over the movie’s best bits of dialogue. The Secret Life of Pets quickly ditches its frenemy premise and sets these two loose in the big city, where they bond solely by surviving a series of madcap adventures. Some are more fun than others thanks to the voice casting—Albert Brooks makes for a nicely malevolent hawk—but none contribute to any sense of an overarching story. It’s like Toy Story without the lament for childhood things. (Okay, that wacked-out sausage factory sequence is memorable.) If you’re wondering who had the smarts to cast Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks but not use them very well, The Secret Life of Pets is from the Despicable Me/Minions team. They know what kids like, so any you take along will go home happy.
THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR Starring Frank Grillo. Rated 14A
Sorry,
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DeMonaco, of the Purge movies: that’s three strikes now. You’re out! In 2013 DeMonaco kick-started the franchise—based on the shaky premise that for one day each year, all crime in the USA is legal—with the home-invasion horrors of 2013’s The Purge. The next year he ramped up the carnage with The Purge: Anarchy. This time around he’s moved to the root of all evil— Washington, D.C.—with impeccable timing in light of the uncanny gong show that is American politics right now. Elizabeth Mitchell stars as liberal senator Charlie Roan, running for president on a platform to abolish the Purge—mainly because her entire family got wiped out in one. To deal with that threat the governing elite change the rules of the Purge, making elected officials no longer immune. They put a hit out on Roan, but they’ll have to get past dedicated head of security Leo Barnes (returning Anarchy hero Frank Grillo) first. The rest of the film is the same orgy of ultraviolence we got totally sick of in the first two. DeMonaco revels in the lowest-commondenominator approach, making Roan’s would-be assassins neo-Nazis festooned with swastikas and Confederate-flag patches. When it comes to visual set pieces, the best he can do is offer blood-spattered, scantily clad bitch-skank schoolgirls gyrating in slow-mo clutching AK-47s. A couple of times. Like the previous Purges, the film becomes an endurance test to see how much ear-shattering, brain-blasting gun death a viewer can take. The tattered shreds of sociopolitical commentary left by the fusillade are hardly worth the mass casualties depicted on-screen—not to mention the agony of the moviegoer.
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Leslee Udwin wants compulsory equality studies in all schools.
Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daughter is Udwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at the gang rape and killing of 23-yearold medical student Jyoti Singh in Delhi in 2012, a catalyzing event that triggered 30 days of protests across the country and made headlines around the world. Three years later, the BBC agreed to simultaneously premiere Udwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film in seven countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole release platform was predicated on the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a global issue,â&#x20AC;? the filmmaker explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daughter, like all good films, if I dare say so myself, looks at the general through the particular. By banning it, India had to ignominiously bow out of this very important symbolic gesture by six other countries who had owned the problem collectively, and it was made to look
even worse because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s denying a problem that everyone knows exists.â&#x20AC;? That problem is unflinchingly revealed in Udwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film. Defence lawyers for the six men convicted of the crime waste no time in blaming the victim. Speaking directly to camera, one of the rapistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now facing death by hangingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;visibly fails to grasp the full meaning of his actions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normalized to them,â&#x20AC;? Udwin says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not remorseful. And they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done wrong because the entire society has educated them to believe that a girl whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out at nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s f lying in the face of the diktats of patriarchal societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;deserves what she gets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just so utterly obvious to me that they had been programmed to think how they think,â&#x20AC;? continues Udwin, who is now spearheading, under the name Think Equal, a global initiative to introduce equality studies into primary-school curricula. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They grew up with violence in their homes, seeing their mothers beaten, their sistersin-law beaten, seeing disappointment etched on everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face every time a girl was bornâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what do we expect these people to grow up into?â&#x20AC;? Presented as part of the Indian Summer festival, Leslee Udwin appears with Niki Sharma and Lorimer Shenher at Dangerous Silences, at SFUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Friday (July 15).
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he civic panel that advises Vancouver city council the children, youth, and families committee voted on June on issues relating to renters is holding a special 2 to write council and express concern about the gentrificameeting on Wednesday (July 20). tion of the historic neighbourhood. On the agenda of the renters advisory comAs well, following a review last June 1, the urban-design mittee is a controversial development proposal in China- panel decided it cannot support the development. Accordtown. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 13-storey condo tower that the Beedie ing to the minutes of its meeting, the building is â&#x20AC;&#x153;too tallâ&#x20AC;? Group wants to build at the northeast corner of Keefer and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reflect the â&#x20AC;&#x153;spiritâ&#x20AC;? of Chinatown. and Columbia streets. ONE OF THE most densely packed The proposed development is in a neighbourhoods in Vancouver will location that Melody Ma described in have to make room for more residents. a phone interview with the Georgia Carlito Pablo The City of Vancouver wants to Straight as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;culturally sensitive siteâ&#x20AC;?. According to the website developer with deep roots in put more developments in False Creek South, currentChinatown, the proposed building will â&#x20AC;&#x153;dominateâ&#x20AC;? its ly home to approximately 5,800 people. The city owns surroundings, which include the adjacent Chinatown Me- about 80 percent of the lands in the neighbourhood lomorial Plaza and the Chinese Cultural Centre and Dr. Sun cated north of West 6th Avenue between the Cambie and Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden across Columbia Street. Burrard bridges. As the biggest landlord in the area, the municipality is Following Maâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation last month, the committee voted to meet on July 20 to pass a motion about moving to engage residents about the future of False Creek. A city staff report identifies principles to be used in the the project. Although the committee doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t review development proposals, Ma hopes the panel will â&#x20AC;&#x153;recog- consultation process. These include exploring â&#x20AC;&#x153;affordable nize and acknowledge that the development pressures housing options for False Creek South residents to remain in Chinatown are intense, and it is having a significant in the neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;?. As well, the city intends to maintain ownership of the and negative impactâ&#x20AC;?. Because of opposition from Chinatown advocates, the lands and look at â&#x20AC;&#x153;achieving a reasonable rate of returnâ&#x20AC;? for Beedie Group proposal has been revised twice since the first these properties. About 60 percent of homes in the neighbourhood are on rezoning application for 105 Keefer Street and 544 Columcity properties leased to housing operators and strata leasebia Street was filed in September 2014. The newest application, on April 15, calls for a 120-foot holders. Most of the leases expire in 20 to 30 years, between building with 119 condo units and 25 social-housing units 2036 and 2046. The city plans to work with RePlan, a committee of the for seniors above commercial spaces on the ground floor. Last month, the proposal faced rough sailing before two False Creek South Neighbourhood Association, in coming Vancouver civic committees. After a presentation by Ma, up with a vision for the 55-hectare enclave. -
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married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and want us to get back together. She wrote me a nice letter back saying she doesn’t feel passion for me and we’re never getting back together. Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy, and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is that I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend No. 2 or start my search all over? Please don’t give me the bullshit that love can happen at any age. At my age, the number of single women without kids is low. How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love? > NO CLEVER ACRONYM
There is no settling down without some settling for. Please make a note of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a great feeling—totally intoxicating— it also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard feeling to sustain over the long haul, and marriage is, theoretically, the longest of long hauls. You felt strongly about your ex, but she didn’t share your feelings. You don’t feel quite as strongly about your current girlfriend, but you would like to be married—to someone, maybe
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her—and Girlfriend No. 2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags. And, finally, NCA, the spectre of a “true love” waiting for us out there somewhere, either lost or not yet found, snuffs out more good-andloving-and-totally-worth-settlingfor relationships than anything this side of cheating.
nonverbal “tell”. You have a right to calmly point that out to your girlfriend, and she has a responsibility, in the future and in the moment, to remind/warn her outside sex partners that leaving slow-fading marks on her breasts, neck, thighs, forehead, insoles, eyelids, et cetera is out of bounds. For your part, BRUISE, don’t inspect your girlfriend post-hookup for the kinds of marks that fade quickly after sex, as that would amount to a nonverbal ask.
My girlfriend has started seeing other partners. It makes her happy, and, in turn, I’m happy for her. It’s taking me a bit of time to adjust to the new situation, but she’s happier than she’s been in ages. We love each other and are crazily compatible. Today she came back from a hotel with bite marks on her breasts. I know she’s been with a few people over the last few weeks, but being reminded of it each time I look at or touch her makes me uncomfortable. What’s more, the guy who did it knew she was part of a long-term couple. Do I need to get over it for the sake of my girlfriend or do I make an issue of hickeys?
My first refractory period— the time it takes me to get ready to have sex again after my first orgasm— is shorter than the time it takes me to lose my erection. I was in a relationship and wasn’t using condoms anymore by the time I figured this out, so it was just generally good times— I’d blow my load, take less than a minute to catch my breath, and be ready to go again. But now that I’m single and entering the dating pool, I’m going to be wrapping it again. Obviously. But I’m not 100 percent sure it’s safe to blow two loads into one condom. I’m not sure how much ejaculate I’m producing the second time I come, but it’s surely less than the first time. I’m not confident that “second” erection would survive the whole taking-off-the-condomand-tying-it-up-and-then-puttingon-another-condom exercise, but I would like to avoid that rigmarole if possible. So is it safe to blow two loads in a single condom?
> BOY REALLY UNNERVED IN SEEING EVIDENCE
If you and the girlfriend have a don’task, don’t-tell policy about her hookups with others, BRUISE, then hickeys and other kinds of slow-fading marks violate the spirit of that agreement. Those kinds of marks amount to a
The failure rate for condoms when used correctly is low (two percent), TPC, but the failure rate for condoms when used incorrectly is high (18 percent). Leaks are the most common way condoms fail, and slamming your cock in and out of someone with a fully loaded condom wrapped around it will result in leaks. Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster, impregnation, disease transmission, or all of the above.
I have to put my two cents in about
I have a few questions for you, MAPIP, but first: I agree that HAD’s wife betrayed him in an extreme and egregious way, and I made that clear in my response. (“The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.”) Now here’s my question for you: what did you make a commitment to? Was it to your wife or was it to an ideal? Did you commit to a fallible human being or did you commit to a principle? Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated—which happens all the time; it could happen to you (you do realize you’re whistling past the world’s most densely populated graveyard); women cheat now at pretty much the same rate men do—and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through. Let’s say it was a one-off, years from now, or maybe a two-off. Would you stay and try to save your marriage or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person”; leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.” If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree. -
Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together. Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. She is selfish and a slut. Not to mention that she could have given him an STD, AIDS, you name it. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy—I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and self-control. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the time, but I don’t act on it. Because some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a commitment to. I wish HAD the On the Lovecast, Dan chats with exbest of luck, but I hope he moves on and Muslim sex blogger Eiynah at www. finds someone who will appreciate him. savagelovecast.com/. E-mail: mail@
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 8, 2016 WHERE: Commercial and broadway at blenz Me: I walked up to u Friday evening at blenz...I was On my way to an online first date! You: were leaning against blenz looking like u were waiting for someone. Super cute and kinda similar to who I was meeting. I came up and said hey is your name Waled? You said “no. But I can be if u want me to be!” We smiled I said sry I thought u were someone else. I laughed and kept walking,, but I couldn’t stop thinking about how I did wish u were him! Lol, Anyways my actual date was a total dud!I’ve never done an I saw u add before, but thought why not.. Maybe you’ll see this. Wanna grab a drink, and laugh about my bad date?
LADY IN WHITE CAR IN BURNABY, WILLINGDTON
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 10, 2016 WHERE: Burnaby, Willington before the HWY 1 We exchange few smiles and you hand waved me before you took off from Willindgton to hwy1 east. big sunglasses, cute blond hair. white car....
GODDESS AND HER DOGS, STANLEY PARK DEVONIAN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 10, 2016 WHERE: Devonian, Stanley Park Sunday morning, I was working in uniform for the Subaru Triathlon. You were walking your two small dogs and asked me for directions to the nearest coffeeshop. You’re a lively, warm, bright, energetic girl with your hair up and a smile and touch that energized me all day. You have no idea how much our very pleasant encounter thrilled me. You’re almost certainly not single, but if you are....
CUTE BLONDE AT LIN CHINESE CUISINE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 9, 2016 WHERE: Lin Chinese Cuisine... Granville/Broadway You were the blonde, hair in a bun black adidas track pants and white t-shirt. I believe you were eating dinner with your family and possibly your girlfriend? If she was just a friend and you want to go for coffee, hit me up! I was picking up a to-go order...wearing a snap back..we made eye contact but it was not the right time to start making small talk. I think you are stunningly beautiful and I couldn’t take my eyes off of you.
BLUE SUIT JACKET DAPPER DUDE ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 10, 2016 WHERE: Norman’s Fruit & Veggie Stand You were speaking to an older gentleman at the coffeeshop by 1st Ave and then you walked by me and headed to Norman’s to pick out (a lot!) of long yellow/green peppers. I went by you and thought “What the hell” and walked up and said “I’ve seen you before and have to say you are the most dapper dressed man on the Drive.” (big smile from me). You smiled and said “Yeah, I’m the only one wearing a suit jacket today.” I squeezed your arm (my attempt at flirting) and laughed and said “Well, you look great.” that that was it... sigh. You have this look about you that’s so handsome to me... nice dark hair, good fashion sense, (nice shoes!), and an air of confidence that’s not... slick. Anyway, you may have a significant other, tho, I’ve never seen you with anyone else, but I wish I would have said my name. I thought it was obvious my interest... and maybe you also noticed how obvious it was but are not feeling it. If by chance you are, and actually know this is you (you should because I’m being pretty specific), then email me! I would love to go for coffee and chat some more... about what the heck you did with all those peppers! ;)
AT HUEY LEWIS
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BRUNETTE, CUTE BUM, ON WAY UP ESCALATOR BURRARD SKYTRAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 7, 2016 WHERE: Burrard skytrain station I had trouble tapping out at the gate below, and then I caught up to you on the escalator at Burrard skytrain station on the way up I passed you and said hey how’s it going, and you replied great and we talked a little bit. you were on your way to meet a friend’s for drinks and I was on my way to a tech Meetup. we definitely need to try to get together and hang out. you thought I was friendly and I thought you were cute but for some reason we went our separate ways without exchanging contact information I’d love to see you again.
TALL GUY WITH ORANGE TANKTOP
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 2, 2016 WHERE: At the last Jack u’s performance You are white tall guy with orange tanktop, and I am Asian girl with white bikini top. I was with my Asian friend who matches white bikini top. While Jack u perform, me and my friend were too short so you and your friend let us jump over your back or sth, but we said no bc we thought we’re too heavy lol I wanna talk to you again. Txt me if u find me.
CUTE SINGLE (?) DAD AT EXTREME AIRPARK
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 7, 2016 WHERE: Richmond AirPark Our kids were attending parties at the same time, and we kept checking each other out, and joking about how we had to stop meeting all the time, or people would start to talk. You were wearing a green t-shirt, brown hair and a beard, you had a daughter. I was wearing yoga pants, a ponytail and a bike t-shirt. Am assuming you were single, if so, hit me up, and let’s get together for coffee and talk about how hard it is to date as a single parent. ;-)
SHOULDER LENGTH BLONDE HAIR BLACK SHIRT AND BLACK LEATHER DRESS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 7, 2016 WHERE: New West.sky train station It was 4::55 Monday July 5th and you were walking into the New West skytrain station. I only saw you for a second but I thought it was my old drinking friend from Scruffies. You have been on my mind. If you want to reconnect let me know. Peanut. :)
I WANT A SMILIN BUDDHA BABY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 2, 2016 WHERE: SBC 109 East Hastings It might be far fetched but I am ready for a baby! I am the tall blond that always comes and eye fucks the shit out of you almost at every show at SBC. Maybe a baby is pushing it as I do like to have a cocktail or two and that might put a damper on said events. Can you just acknowledge my existence (even tho your so nice to me it’s always small talk and i want MORE) i know your working hard but don’t work too hard!
LAPTOP WORKER AT STARBUCKS AT PARK ROYAL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 7, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks at Park Royal You bought a drink ahead of me and were working on your laptop. You had dark blonde/brownish hair and a bit of stubble. You sat in the big comfortable chairs, across from a guy with dark hair. I’m blonde and was on my break at work, and was too scared to say hi!
TROUT LAKE BIKE PATH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 17, 2016 WHERE: Trout lake bike path you were riding by me. You were riding your bike and looked indo canadian. I was talking to a Japanese and black friend. You rode on your bike past me and did a double take. I thought you were fairly handsome.
ASIAN PICKING UP A CATERING ORDER ON MAIN STREET
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: Cactus Club Coal Harbour I was out with a girlfriend for my B-Day dinner and you were one of our bartenders. Totally didn’t realise that you had covered a few drinks for me and feel like a dumb ass. Anyways. If I can ever return the favour I’d be more than happy to.
FVDED IN THE PARK
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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 a 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 infront 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.
I know this is a long shot and i don’t hope much but for once i am going to let this out. You came by at my work place to pick up a catering order for your friend. I joked a little when you came in the front. You asked for my name just before you were leaving the door. It was really windy that morning. While loading the order in your car, you were having a hard time trying to manage your skirt coz of the wind. Even though i noticed, i tried to act normal. But then you laughingly asked if i saw your skirt. We laughed a little about it. And then you drove away. I can’t hope for anything because i think you were way too pretty ,but just wanted to say you brightened up my day and my week ahead. If anything, i would like to know you more.
CONVO ABOUT NUDITY AT WRECK NEAR #4 TRAIL
GRANDVIEW HWY GAS STATION WHITESPOT, I DIDNT GET TO SAY IM SINGLE
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: 99 commercial-broaday from UBC
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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
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 3, 2016 WHERE: Wreck beach near #4 trail 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..)
99 PINK SHORTS CUTIE
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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.
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enus and Mercury newly into Leo now shine a brighter light on enjoyment, pleasure, and selflove. Together they are an exceptionally creative and expressive combination. On Saturday, Mercury teams with Venus to begin a new conversation-with-self cycle. Their message? To love, live, laugh, and gift yourself more. Also on Saturday, the Cancer sun strikes fl int with Uranus early in the day and keeps Mars amped up with energy, passion, and enthusiasm well into the evening. Start to fi nish, aim to make the most of it. Even before we get to the weekend, the stars are on our side. Thursday/ Friday hold good promise too. Tuesday’s Capricorn full moon is bookended on Monday by Mercury trine Saturn and on Wednesday by Venus trine Saturn. What’s earned and deserved comes to fruition. A completion also pours the cement for a new or next chapter. It’s an excellent few days for working it out, getting it under better control, dealing with those in charge, and making it legitimate or official. Mercury/ Saturn makes for productive talks and negotiations, good planning and organization, an official announcement, decision, or contract. Realistic assessments, acknowledgment, reward, and results are Venus/Saturn’s forte. This duo secures the money or the relationship. Tuesday’s full moon is well aligned with Jupiter and Mars, which is certain to put people on the move and a reality into a bigger play. Overall, it’s a success-generating
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full moon, but note that when these or instant can do the trick. Sign it; transits operate at distorted levels, make it official; say yes; cash in. selfish or opportunistic agendas can CANCER be advanced. As of Wednesday, we’re June 21–July 22 already onto next or new. Plenty can change in the ARIES blink of an eye. Now through mid– March 20–April 20 next week sets major wheels in moSeek and ye shall find. It’s tion. Success, reward, and/or profit a great weekend to fire it up or to come from staying fully committed take it as it comes. Sun, Mars, and to that which presents itself as your Uranus keep the spark well lit. Mer- next-best option. When something cury/Venus makes for a great same- new, extra, or out-of-the-blue appage rapport. Long in the works, pears, incorporate it/take it on. It pertaining to the past, or completely will make a significant contribution out of the blue, Tuesday’s full moon to the outcome or new launch. makes it real, official, lasting, or LEO long-term.
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April 20–May 21
While the sun in Cancer provides you with more support, Mercury and Venus freshly into Leo shine on your home life. A general sense of contentment and well-being can grow. Tuesday’s full moon in Capricorn brings favourable results or good news. Sunday through Wednesday, the timing is great. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn line it up for you very well.
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May 21–June 21
On and off the job, you’ll work it out very well through mid– next week. Saturday’s strike-it-hot offers energy, ideas, and conversation to spare. What shows up or goes pop will continue to unfold and produce significant results through full-moon Tuesday and into reboot Wednesday. Something unexpected
July 22–August 23
Mercury and Venus, freshly into Leo, are good for an energy and attention boost. In fine shape for the weekend, they perk up both pleasure and play prospects, also the meeting of heart and mind. Watch for fast-track Uranus to crank it up a notch and waste no time. What’s completed or transpires Monday to Wednesday immediately sets you up for more and next.
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August 23–September 23
Change is a step in the right direction. It’s in the works and it’s yours for the taking. Watch for the moment or the impulse to strike. Even if Saturday’s sun/Uranus or next Tuesday’s full moon hits unexpected flint, the net result should prove to be a gain, win, or major improvement. Monday through Wednesday dish up ideal timing. Say, sign, or buy it.
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September 23–October 23
Whether or not you have something special to look forward to this weekend, a sense of anticipation or excitement builds through Saturday thanks to sun/ Uranus. It’s a great weekend to set yourself loose and to rustle up something fun, perhaps outside of the usual. Expect the action and results to stay at peak/deliver the goods through mid–next week. October 23–November 22
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December 21–January 20
Something finalized, laid to rest, long in the works, or earned: now through mid–next week makes it real in some momentous way. Thursday through Saturday loans you a new pair of eyes and/or extra wind in your sails. Sunday through Wednesday makes it a done deal. Once reached or achieved, there’s more/next to discuss, face, or explore. January 20–February 18
Thursday begins a run of great timing. Sun/Mars keeps you sharp, shrewd, game, and a quick step ahead. Uranus keeps it lively through mid–next week. Sunday through fullmoon Tuesday are result-generating. Monday/Tuesday, Mercury/Saturn is well timed for talks and for figuring it out. Tuesday/Wednesday, Venus/ Saturn advances contracts, important money or relationship matters. Wednesday could draw you into something fresh or more.
Thursday to Sunday sets you onto a great upswing with work, health-related matters, and fi x-it projects. It’s a terrific weekend for getting your pleasure fi ll. Saturday’s a particularly great launch-it, rev-it-up, or go-for-it day. Wednesday is too. Tuesday’s full moon sets something valuable or worthwhile into play.
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Thursday is particularly smooth running. Friday onward, you can aim for control, but note that Uranus is in the mix; also stay open to making it up as you go. Present in the moment is where your special brand of genius will shine its best. Sunday through Tuesday, deliver results and rewards. Wednesday adds something fresh or unexpected.
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November 22–December 21
February 18—March 20
Friday/Saturday, you’ve got energy to burn. The revitalizing Sagittarius moon keeps you going strong, going the distance, and playing it just right. Mercury/Venus showcase you in your best possible light too. Love it; love them! Sunday/ Monday may slow you down, but not by much. Tuesday’s full moon in Capricorn and Wednesday’s Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s Aquarius moon keep you reaping free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. full benefit.
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