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The Tragically Hip wrote songs that spoke to their fellow Canadians, and the band never needed validation from the U.S.

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The Hip are Canada’s own > B Y M IKE USING E R

hat a long strange journey it’s been for Canada’s greatest-ever band, the Tragically Hip’s onetime biggest failing now being the thing that makes them so great. To be a hard-core fan is to understand that, for a long while, the Hip were judged on what they were never able to do: crack America. At the height of its powers, the Kingston, Ontario, quintet was selling out Canadian hockey rinks like the Pacific Coliseum three nights in a row. Across the line in Seattle, it played clubs—the audience mostly made up of cheeseheads who’d trekked down the I-5. So inexplicable was the group’s inability to make inroads in the U.S. that other Canadian acts like Supergarage wrote songs about it; check out “Elvis” and its line “Why the Hip’s not huge in the States/The question’s by the people.” There never was an answer. Bruce Allen—who knows something about breaking acts in the Land of the Free—turned the Tragically Hip into one of his favourite punching bags, a shining example of everything that’s wrong with Canada. One of many rants had him proclaiming the following to Vancouver Magazine in 2007: “I get pissed off that too many artists are given the label ‘Great’ when they haven’t earned it. I do not believe the Tragically Hip are great. I believe they’re a Canadian act that wouldn’t even be in existence today if it wasn’t

for Canadian content. So when I sit there and hear about the New Pornographers being great, or Neko Case being great—I go crazy. What, you earned ‘Great’ because you sold out the fucking Railway?” (And for the record, the Hip did indeed sell out the fucking Railway at one point, pulling into town and doing a surprise club show when they were easily the biggest band in Canada.) It’s not like the Tragically Hip never got a shot at cracking America. In 1995—a time when it was starting to look like now or never for a stateside breakthrough—Saturday Night Live came calling. Dan Aykroyd, a fellow Canadian, was a huge fan, and thanks to his pushing, singer Gord Downie and company landed the muchcoveted musical-guest spot. Their performance would leave fans scratching their tuque-clad heads. That gave them something in common with nearly everyone in America—except, that is, for the tuques. The Hip were established superstars in Canada, a lethal live act with countless great songs in its arsenal: “Locked in the Trunk of a Car”, “Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)”, “Little Bones”, “Blow at High Dough”, and “Fifty Mission Cap”. The Hip could have gone the easy route for SNL, reached back into the vaults for “New Orleans Is Sinking” or “At the Hundredth Meridian”, and knocked America flat on its ass. Instead, they went entirely outthere with “Nautical Disaster” and

“Grace, Too” off the then-new album Day for Night. (The “Grace, Too” performance doesn’t exist on YouTube, perhaps because it was f lagged for promoting the idea that Canadians are weird.) Rather than come out slugging with guitars ripping for their big American debut, the Hip chose art over commerce. And with Downie as famously lost in his own world as he’s ever been during the SNL performances, it was no surprise that America simply didn’t get it. Hard as this might be to believe for fans of Metz, Grimes, and that guy who does the “Jumpman” song, there was a time when it wasn’t cool to be Canadian. Neil Young, Bryan Adams, and Leonard Cohen didn’t become national treasures because they were able to sell out the Regina Agridome on a snowy Monday night. They did it because they conquered America. For the longest time, chart success and radio airplay stateside were the difference between being world-beating Alanis Morissette and CanCon also-ran Alannah Myles. MuchMusic made a lot of homegrown stars in the ’80s and ’90s. But Crash Vegas, Econoline Crush, the Northern Pikes, and countless other acts discovered you could only do the Canadian club circuit so many times before people started staying home and watching Kids in the Hall reruns.

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Tragically Hip

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The Hip were the first act to show you didn’t have to make it in America to become Canadian superstars. Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay arrived at a strange time in pop music. Hair metal was dying. Grunge had yet to hit. And everyone who didn’t live in Ontario hated Ontario. (You can thank the vomitously wacky Barenaked Ladies, Shuffle Demons, and Moxy Früvous for that indisputable fact; to watch MuchMusic at the time was to assume that—based solely on the clothing of said acts—every musician in southern Ontario was mentally challenged.) The initial buzz was that the Hip had a captivatingly eccentric frontman. Thanks largely to Downie’s from-another-planet stage persona, the band’s live show was as offbeat as it was mesmerizing. And right from the point when the group first roared onto the scene with the breakout full-length, Up to Here, it had the songs. Back in ancient times, “Blow at High Dough” and “New Orleans Is Sinking” made you want to drop everything and make a Maxell XLII-S C-90 mixed tape, mostly because you had the kickoff song for Side A, and a killer closer for Side B. The hits didn’t stop. And as the Tragically Hip rolled out a string of classic albums in the ’90s—Road Apples, Day for Night, Fully Completely, Trouble at the Henhouse—the group ripped up the rules for what it meant to be a Canadian band. Fuck looking for validation in America. The Hip embraced the idea that it was okay to put Canada first. They staged epic productions like Another Roadside Attraction, a travelling arts-and-music festival that made sure to showcase underappreciated Canadian acts like the Rheostatics, Spirit of the West, the Inbreds, and Ron Sexsmith. People not only showed up, but showed up in Lollapalooza-sized numbers, the fest consistently selling out venues like The Tragically Hip play Rogers Arena on Sunday and Tuesday (July 24 and 26). UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium.

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Fraser Health says that it plans to open facilities like Vancouver’s Dr. Peter Centre (pictured), where users can inject heroin, cocaine, and other drugs.

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hen Erica Bernardi moved to Vancouver from Toronto in 2010, she noticed something curious: there were a lot of Dairy Queens here compared to that eastern city. She didn’t think much about Vancouverites’ apparent adoration of ice cream until a year later, when she met Ben Ernst, then a Seattle resident who was dating her roommate. He loved the frozen treat so much he took his future wife to all his favourite icecream spots there on their first date. Ernst’s Vancouver-based partner half-jokingly suggested he open an ice-cream shop here, and rather than laugh it off, he floated the idea by Bernardi. Even though neither had any experience running a business, it didn’t seem so crazy. He had witnessed the scene explode south of the border, and she saw the potential too: despite so many fastfood ice-cream outlets in town, the selection of artisanal products at the time was scant. The two launched Earnest Ice Cream in 2012, igniting the city’s ice-cream craze. The company has been thriving ever since, even as more and more specialty shops have come onto the scene. “It became something that people discovered and shared with friends and family, like a sort of secret passed on by word of mouth,’’ Ernst says in an interview with Bernardi at the company’s Quebec Street shop. “People would say, ‘You’ve got to try my ice cream.’ We’re constantly surprised and have to pinch ourselves as to how warm of a welcome Vancouver has given us.” The two have come a long way since they got started at the Woodland Smokehouse and Commissary, a small-business incubator with a modest retail section. (It later closed after a fire.) They spent their first winter selling pints in the rain at the Nat Bailey farmers market. Come spring, they were at other local markets, including Kitsilano, West End, Main Street, and Trout Lake. Then came the food-truck festival at the Waldorf, which further boosted the company’s profi le, and Harvest Community Foods on Union Street, which began carrying its products. Earnest’s first year at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival was an eyeopener: it was so busy that Ernst’s parents, who were in town visiting, helped the two scoop all weekend. Bernardi and Ernst would go back to the kitchen to make more ice cream through the night, almost selling out. Now the company has two locations (the original one is on Fraser

Vancouverites have readily embraced the city’s explosion in frozen treats, from ice cream to popsicles. Amanda Siebert photo.

Street), a scoop truck that travels throughout the city (it was at the folk fest this past weekend), and more than 20 wholesale accounts with local, independent retailers. Earnest Ice Cream employs about 75 people—a number that doubles in the summertime—and its owners hint at plans to expand within the Lower Mainland. “I can’t believe it,” Bernardi says of the pair’s success. “It’s been very surreal. “I think the timing was very good,” she adds. “There wasn’t anyone making artisan ice cream. We use reusable glass jars, and I think the values that we incorporated into the business— sustainability, being good employers, sourcing local ingredients—really resonated with a lot of people from the get-go. It was very helpful that it was Ben and I that were the face of the company, scooping at the markets and delivering ice cream to wholesalers. It’s also very good ice cream.” That point is hard to argue. Made with premium natural ingredients in small batches, the ice cream comes in rotating and seasonal flavours plus a few core ones: salted caramel, whisky hazelnut, London fog, milk chocolate, Tahitian vanilla, and cookies and cream. Since the company’s inception, the founders have

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made more than 80 different kinds of ice cream, using everything from spruce buds to elderflower. “Ice cream is a fantastic blank canvas to express creativity,” Ernst says. “It’s also just a pure joy, a simple and pure joy.” Bernardi adds: “Ice cream is a fun thing to do. You get ice cream maybe when you’re upset or after a bad day or as a reward for a positive thing. It’s so social. Everyone likes to talk about what they got or what new flavour they’ve tried.” The frozen treat has definitely struck a chord with Vancouverites, with several new spots having opened lately. Rooster’s Ice Cream Bar describes itself as a boutique-style operation that, like Earnest, uses high-quality, natural ingredients without preservatives, artificial colouring, or other chemicals. Rain or Shine Ice Cream takes a similar approach, using sustainable, natural local ingredients, organic where possible. Soft-serve ice cream has carved out its own niche, with Soft Peaks Ice Cream and UYU (“milk” in Korean) IceCream both serving up swirls in Gastown. The frozen-treat industry has splintered in all sorts of other directions, with high-end, handcrafted popsicles becoming the norm—consider Johnny’s

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Pops, Rebel Pops, and Nice Pops being highly sought after—while the owners of On Yogurt have introduced icefried organic yogurt and yogurt gelato to Vancouver, with the dessert flashfrozen before customers’ eyes. Then there are other eye-catching concoctions, like the treats that Tommy Choi and Michael Lai serve up at Mister. By using liquid nitrogen in the production process, the coowners magically take a liquid base— all-natural dark chocolate or crème brûlée, for instance—and rapidly freeze it at an ultralow temperature to create ice cream on the spot while what look like billowing clouds of smoke pour out of the blender in front of you. The result is a dense, creamy dish done in a very dramatic way. The two took a Persian customer’s suggestion—to make roasted-pistachio ice cream—to great success; they also have plans to experiment with pine, mint, and ginger, among other ingredients. “There are no rules,” Choi says at the Yaletown shop. “We want to push the ice-cream bar higher and higher.” Competition is fierce, but those who are profiting from ice cream’s popularity see the industry as a community where there’s room for everyone. Mario Loscerbo of Mario’s Gelati

and Amato Gelato Café has been at it for 40 years, and he welcomes the way Vancouver has embraced frozen desserts. “I’ve been very well accepted by the community, customers, and so on; what can I say? Competition, I think, is a healthy thing,” he says by phone. Loscerbo—whose parents ran a gelato business in Italy—trained as a chef in his native Amato before moving to Winnipeg decades ago. He opened an Italian restaurant there and noticed how much customers loved the authentic Italian dessert, which is lower in fat than regular ice cream. “People all the time thought that was the highlight of the dinner,” Loscerbo recalls. “It really started to get me going.” After he came to Vancouver, he opened up a gelato shop in Gastown before moving to Granville Island, which boosted his profi le tremendously. His business kept growing, even after 14 years there, and it hasn’t stopped since. “We moved to Cambie Street, and I thought that was a big place, then we were at Main and 5th, and I thought that was huge,” he says. “But that isn’t big enough, and we’re at the point now where we’re making plans to move again and have a way larger facility.” The Amato Gelato Café will stay put on East 1st Avenue, but the manufacturing side of Mario’s will move to a site as large as five acres, likely somewhere in the Fraser Valley. The company sells its products across the country now, with Loscerbo’s son and daughter both actively involved in the business. “When I came to Canada, I started with pizza,” Loscerbo says. “It was very hard to get going then; that was in the early ’60s. Now pizza is everywhere. It’s still popular, and it doesn’t hurt for there to be more pizza places. It’s the same with gelato.… Business keeps coming.” Over the years, Loscerbo has seen trends come and go, but one area he thinks will continue to broaden is that of Asian f lavours. “I was the first one that started to make green-tea gelato in Canada, and I am proud to say that,” Loscerbo says, noting that the company has even introduced a durian gelato. (He’s personally more fond of fresh-fruit sorbetto.) Ernst agrees that Vancouver’s icecream scene is a supportive one. “I think it’s a little bit like the craft beer industry,” he says. “There’s a lot of room for collaboration. If there is competition, it’s fun and friendly, and that just encourages you to do better or be more creative or do something differently.” -

Five places to find savoury chicken and waffles in Vancouver

JAM CAFÉ (556 Beatty Street) Indulge in a single waffle topped with a boneless buttermilk-fried chicken breast, drizzled with house-made pork gravy, and paired with a sunny-side egg and green onions.

TABLEAU BAR BISTRO (1181 Melville Street) Crispy buttermilk-fried chicken served with gravy and some maple syrup—a nod to our home and native land.

CHEWIES STEAM & OYSTER BAR (various locations) Two buttermilk waffles topped with southern fried chicken and a Cajun honey butter drizzle, available during weekend brunch.

SCANDILICIOUS (25 Victoria Drive) Cornbread waffle with chili-and-maple-glazed bacon, topped with a piece of fried chicken, sour cream, and maple syrup.

YOLKS (various locations) Organic fried chicken paired with Belgian waffles, drizzled with chicken gravy and Canadian maple syrup, with the option to add a poached egg on the side.

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TEA-NI We don’t often stray from caesars or mimosas when it comes to brunch fare—or a reliable hair of the dog—but this tea-infused libation from Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House (777 Thurlow Street) is giving us some serious pause. Crafted using a base of vodka, Drambuie, and green tea and finished with lemon juice and simple syrup, this may just be the thing to get us out of bed after a gnarly Saturday night. Substitute Earl Grey or chamomile iterations for the green tea for equally effective results. See the full recipe at Straight.com. -

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Chordophone’s Marcus Takizawa, James Takizawa, and Adrian Verdejo will collaborate with koto player Miyama McQueen-Tokita (below left). Isaac Sim photo.

augmented strings, with blend of their formal training and their populist James’s cello usually inclinations. playing the role of bass “I think they go hand in hand,” Marcus says. guitar. Earlier on, Mar- “In some ways there’s a bit of obsession to learncus would play viola in ing to play an instrument at a high level. It’s a little performance, but he says compulsive; often you’re just working over and Chordophone’s James and Marcus Takizawa bring classical he’s now concentrating over and over again on something—and that protraining to their take on electronic music and improvisation more on the electronic cess lends itself to working on the computer or on aspects of the music, the sampler, ’cause it’s also very repetitive. Fittingly, Chordophone’s music is diverse by de- leaving live improvisation to other musicians, such “I enjoy that kind of meticulous work,” he adds. sign. Both of the Takizawa brothers are classically as Verdejo and McQueen-Tokita. “I have other colleagues who just have no intertrained musicians, Marcus on viola and James on “I’ll let others play,” he says with a laugh. “I’m just est in it at all.…But maybe Chordophone is just an cello. But only Marcus chose to pursue a full-time there making sure that nothing crashes, or main- honest mix of what I like to hear.” career in music, and he’s now frequently seen with taining a groove, or changing samples—which is The Powell Street Festival takes place at Oppenthe Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancou- plenty of things to manage.” ver Opera Orchestra, and the Turning Point EnEven without live viola, however, the Takizawas heimer Park and nearby venues next Saturday and semble, along with a number of smaller and their guests seem to have hit on the perfect Sunday (July 30 and 31). chamber groups. Throughout his classical career, however, he’s nurtured a parallel Powell Street Festival reinvigorates itself for the big four-O interest in electronic music and DJ culture, and it was while getting his master’s Let’s be honest: a big part of the reason we go to the Powell Street Festival—at in performance at New York City’s prestiOppenheimer Park and nearby venues next Saturday and Sunday (July 30 and gious Juilliard School that he discovered 31)—is for the food. But those who haven’t been to the 40-year-old Japanesehow to integrate those two streams with Canadian gathering in a while might be surprised by what’s now on the menu: another of his interests, improvisation. salmon teriyaki and those addictive octopus balls have been joined by high“The year I got there was when they grade ramen, crazy-complex Japadogs, creamy Coconama chocolate, artisanal sake, and much, introduced the jazz program, and so, much more. as an elective, you could actually take The festival’s programming has also been renewed under artistic director Mark Takeshi McGregor, a jazz for classical majors,” Takizawa renew-music flute virtuoso with an interest in the interdisciplinary arts. Listeners can still get their spirit calls. “I don’t even know if they still shaken by the sound of massive taiko drums—Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Roku Shichi Taiko, Sansho Daiko, offer this course, but I figured, ‘Oh, Sawagi Taiko, Jodaiko, and the taiko-rock duo LOUD will all be performing—but there are other, quieter what the hell. Why not?’ So it was options to consider. Australian-born, Tokyo-based koto player Miyama McQueen-Tokita can spring from pretty funny. It was a bunch of us and we were the traditional repertoire to the most avant-garde of sounds, and she’ll do just that both solo and with all typical classical musicians, right? None of us local experimentalists Chordophone (see main story). Dharmakasa, most recently seen opening for had any experience with improvising. We just Anoushka Shankar, is devoted to expanding the world of the shakuhachi, or bamboo flute. And, contrary started with this class, and I really liked it.” to its name, the Hyperdroids quartet offers a very human fusion of spoken word and music. Takizawa doesn’t claim to be a jazz musician, and Dance troupes, choral groups, documentary-film screenings, staged folk tales, and a belly-dance Chordophone’s dreamlike, sequencer-based comduo will contribute to the mix; kimono makers, practitioners of ikebana flower-arranging, bonsai positions are carefully structured by the time they growers, and calligraphers will also be showing and selling their wares. hit the stage. Improvisation does play an important Add in martial-arts demonstrations and a sumo contest, and you’ve got one of Vancouver’s most wildly role in their creation, though. Takizawa’s current eclectic and entertaining festivals—and a real ray of sunshine in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. methodology involves recording freeform viola ex> ALEXANDER VARTY plorations, extracting moments to be fed into a sampler, and then building lush washes of electronically

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Editor’s choice COPY THAT Celebrated local artist and musician Andy Dixon has a style all his own, his canvases immediately recognizable for their punk sensibility, their historic references to masterworks, and, of course, their pops of colour—especially pink. That’s why we’re so intrigued by the new project by Jane Q Cheng, Make Gallery’s summer artist in residence. In her new show, titled Jane Q Cheng: Studying Andy Dixon, she’ll try to crack his world, observing the way he walks and talks in his studio, trying to figure out how he hones his personal style, and seeing if that style can even be re-created in her own paintings. Her work poses witty questions about authorship and collaboration, and promises some pretty cool results. We’re expecting pink might predominate. Jane Q Cheng: Studying Andy Dixon is at Make Gallery (257 East 7th Avenue) on Thursday (July 21) from 7 to 10 p.m.

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PERICLES (At Bard on the Beach to September 18) Visual magic from the unexpected hit on a strong fest roster.

BETRAYAL (At the Jericho Arts Centre to August 19) Harold Pinter’s bleak look at infidelity cuts like a knife in Ensemble Theatre Company’s production.

BARTHI KHER: MATTER (At the Vancouver Art Gallery to October 10) Saris, chairs, bindis, the human, and the animal mesh in a mesmerizing show.

KYLE BOTTOM (At the Comedy MIX from July 21 to 23) Follow the sound of this local standup’s booming baritone for big laughs.

THE BIG PICTURE (At the Improv Centre to September 25) Seemingly impossible: a new improvised movie at every TheatreSports performance.

Guest pick CLEAN SHEETS Actor, playwright, and co–artistic producer of Delinquent Theatre Christine Quintana, whose next big show is Zee Zee Theatre’s Elbow Room Café: The Musical at the Cultch next March, weighs in this week with the event she’s most looking forward to: “Given the state of the world right now, I’m looking forward to the frank theatre’s free Clean Sheets reading series—new plays by queer Canadian playwrights [including Lesley Ewen, shown here]. This year, they’re focusing on the intersections between race, culture, and sexuality. It is essential that we fight fear and hate by understanding one another—and what better way than through sharing our stories?” Clean Sheets 2016: Intersections runs from Thursday to Saturday (July 21 to 23) at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in SFU Woodward’s, Room 4210. Admission is free.

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Bertram first performed a version of the show four years ago in Adelaide. Since then it’s played in Melbourne, Perth, Edinburgh, San Diego, and Winnipeg. “I’m from here,” the East Van–raised Bertram says. “I want to bring it home and see what the reaction is and what my so-called fan base is in my hometown.” Bertram comes from an artistic family. His father, Gordie, is a sax player best known for his years with the Powder Blues Band. His mother is artist Lynn Onley. His grandfather was the legendary Canadian painter Toni Onley. The arts are in his DNA. He attended the Ailanthus Achievement Centre, a summer arts school for East Side kids at risk, and fell in love with juggling, taking to the streets to perform at the ripe old age of 16. His parents were always very encouraging. “I think they were really intrigued,” he says about their reaction to his busking. In fact, you can still see his alter ego, Byron from England, escaping from a straitjacket or juggling on Granville Island and occasionally English Bay. Crazy as it sounds, street performing has always been his fallback position to standup and acting. “It’s enabled me to travel all around the world, losing money doing standup,” he says. To date, he’s performed in 18 countries. He supplements both endeavours with acting. He’s the pathetic man-cold guy in the NyQuil commercial, had a two-episode role as a cop on The Romeo Section, and had a few lines with Christoph Waltz in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, among other credits. Bertram is currently working on a second one-man production. And when this run of shows is done, he’ll be back at the clubs, MCing Vancouver’s Yuk Yuk’s in the first week of August and headlining the Victoria Yuk’s the week after. He’s not going to sit and wait for a festival to book him. “But of course I’d love to do festivals,” he says. “So if you’re reading this article, comedy festivals, please book me. I’ll do well.” -

ith at least eight comedy festivals across the country and a finite number of headlining comedians, you would think every professional comic eventually gets to play all of them. Think again. In the case of Vancouver’s Byron Bertram, that number is currently at zero. And it’s not because he’s a guiltridden sociopath—that’s just the title of his current one-man show. But it’s not for lack of trying, either. “I apply, I send stuff, and for whatever reason I just don’t get in,” he tells the Georgia Straight, interviewed at a picnic table on Granville Island. “I’m a headline comic but none of these festivals have hired me. Is there something inherently just terrible about me, or is it just bad luck? I don’t know. I’d like to get more recognition. Ultimately, you want the industry and establishment to recognize you. I’ve had a bit of tough luck with that. It’s tough for anybody. It’s a grind. I’m a headline respected comedian in this country and then I feel like I’m a black sheep where I don’t get into any festivals. So it’s kinda weird.” Bertram’s Guilt Ridden Sociopath is standuplike. There is some crossover with his club act, but it’s more structured and has an arc. Plus, there’s a multimedia presence you won’t get when you see him performing on Yuk Yuk’s stages across the country. “It takes you on a bit of a journey of the human condition,” he says. “Our inner thoughts and demons, mental-health issues, self-esteem, body-image issues. It’s comedic, but there’s a couple of poignant, kind of truthful moments. It’s standup with a theme. I talk about my struggles with OCD. I just worry about ridiculous stuff, like ‘What if I wake up and I have a terrible disease?’ Or I could be a murderer. I feel guilty and worried and stressed-out and anxious and insecure.” An ex-girlfriend once called him a sociopath. “I felt so bad about it, Byron Bertram’s Guilt Ridden Sociobut then realized I’m not a sociopath plays the Havana Theatre through Saturday (July 23). path, because I feel bad about it.”

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West Side Story is one of the most difficult—musicals ever created, so perhaps it’s not surprising that this semiprofessional production only works in fits and starts. In West Side Story, the American musical theatre’s take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria become the star-crossed lovers. Maria, whose brother Bernardo heads a Puerto Rican street gang called the Sharks, falls in love with Tony, whose best friend Riff leads the rival gang, the Jets, who are all American-born—and all white. Jerome Robbins conceived, directed, and choreographed the original 1957 Broadway production. The show’s dance sequences are integral to its success. Robbins combined ballet, jazz, and popular dance styles in an explosive masterpiece. In this Theatre Under the Stars production, choreographer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg creates an entirely new movement score. Sometimes the results are witty: in the comic song “Gee, Officer Krupke”, she references both Swan Lake and the familiar image of ape-to-man evolution. And when Tony and Maria’s friends’ bodies wave like beds of seaweed in “Somewhere”, the result is lyrical. But there’s little tension in Friedenberg’s quirky work—“Dance at the Gym” is downright unfocused—so, too often, this production goes slack physically. Playing Riff, Daniel James White delivers the best performance of the evening. His passionate dancing illuminates the potential of Friedenberg’s choreography, he’s one of the few Jets who feel like they might actually be a threat, and he sings beautifully. There’s also a lot to like in Matt Montgomery’s portrait of Tony. Tony can be dull—watch the 1961 movie for proof—because the only thing the character has to do, really, is to be head-over-heels in love. But Montgomery allows Tony’s enthusiasm to become charismatically physical. When this Tony is delighted, he hoists himself off the ground, using any available surface, levitating with happiness. And when he sings, it’s as if he’s discovering every word for the first time. Montgomery isn’t quite at home with the role’s operatic vocal demands, however, and sometimes on opening night he strained and went off pitch. Jennifer Gillis’s Maria is more restrained, but charming. And Alexandra Lainfiesta, who plays Bernardo’s girlfriend Anita, nails the character’s humour and fire. However, under Rodgers’s direction, emotion sometimes takes precedence over musicality: on opening night, that’s what happened in “A Boy Like That” and “I Have a Love”. Rodgers leans heavily into sentimentality, introducing a white-clad child as a symbol of innocence, for instance. But she does more interesting things as well, including passages in Spanish, and referencing Shake-

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Scott Zechner’s lighting thickens the air. And Julie White does a stellar job of costuming the large cast over all three periods while maintaining a restrained and coherent aesthetic. Ashley O’Connell, who plays Caesar and the British officer, leads a strong cast that features several gifted young performers. There’s too much yelling, but, for the most part, the company maintains an admirable degree of authenticity and ferocity. War crimes are still with us. As I watched the play, the rape of the Druid evoked memories of the American soldiers’ sexual torture and humiliation of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. The relevance of The Romans in Britain isn’t in question. The eloquence is. > COLIN THOMAS

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his point. Then he makes it again. Then he comes around for a couple more swings. Imperialism, he tells us, is a nasty business. In his play, which was first produced in 1980, Brenton imagines scenes from the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC, the Saxon attacks on the Celts around AD 515, and the British army’s activities in Ireland in 1980. One scene of brutality follows another. Roman soldiers rape and mutilate a young Druid priest. Almost 600 years later, a daughter murders her father, who raped her. Generally speaking, there is a lot of disembowelling and throat-slitting. Finally, in modern times, an undercover British army officer makes a connection between “the Roman spear, the Saxon ax, and the British machine-gun”. Spoiler alert: I’m about to give away bits of the ending. In a potentially suicidal act, the undercover officer attempts to end the cycle of violence by revealing his identity as a spy. As a member of the IRA points a gun at his head, he wails, “When will peace come? When will peace come? When will peace come?” Beyond the obvious point, what’s the point? Violence begets violence? Okay. Britain, which has been the object of imperialism, is also imperialist? Gotcha. The only way to stop this is to risk getting murdered? Not so sure about that one. Although his characters love rhetoric—several of them deliver ornate speeches—there is little subtlety in Brenton’s arguments, and his narratives provoke scant emotional involvement. The young Druid, for whom one might feel some sympathy, is captured by the Romans when he is using dogs to hunt and kill men for sport. Fortunately, this Ensemble Theatre Company production, directed by Richard Wolfe, is physically handsome and generally well-realized. Its floor of whitewashed boards scattered with little islands of moss and rock, Heipo Leung’s set is elemental.

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2 doing. In Surreal, writer-direc-

tors Nick Steeves and Darby Steeves invite the audience to follow two characters through the streets and alleys of Gastown. But the story is so slight that it’s virtually nonexistent, and the artists do almost nothing to explore the supposedly site-specific nature of the event they’ve created. In the siblings’ script, Charlie and Tom, who were childhood sweethearts, bump into one another downtown moments before Charlie’s boyfriend breaks up with her by phone. Over a meandering 70 minutes, Charlie sporadically helps Tom to consider a job opportunity in the tech industry, and he passively tries to insinuate himself back into her good books. In a theatre, this material would put people to sleep. Watching Surreal, we’re walking, but where we’re walking is irrelevant: the performers pay no attention to what’s going on around them. In one urine-soaked lane, two police officers were attending a woman in distress, but Tom kept blathering on about his current topic, which was life on Mars. In moments like this, Surreal turns suffering into background texture and it feels exploitive. There’s a lot of male blather in Surreal. Near the top, Tom delivers two lectures, one about what it really means to be a nerd like him—which is that you’re a champion of nonconformity and therefore a hero—and one about the role of the artist. Tom also gets a lot of time to chat with the audience about how tough it is for guys to date in Vancouver. Charlie counsels him to be more confident. None of this is credible, largely because Luke Sykes, who’s playing Tom, is so classically handsome that it’s impossible to see him as an insecure tech geek. The blocking, which often involves one of the characters walking backward, is awkward. And the first scene is particularly hard to hear: it takes place near a cathedral’s clanging bells. Did nobody in the company research the site? And why didn’t the characters move us away from the cacophony? As a performer, Sykes is a bit stiff. Darby Steeves, who plays Charlie, is much more relaxed and believable. > COLIN THOMAS

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into uproarious comedies. Plays include Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet and The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of Titus Andronicus. Aug 3-28, The York Theatre (639 Commercial Drive). Tix from $15 to $35, info thecultch.com/ events/the-fakespeare-festival/.

TREMORS Rumble Theatre presents Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Better Angels: A Parable by Andrea Scott, and Bull by Mike Bartlett. Aug 11-20, Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre (3075 Slocan Street). Tix $15/10, info www.rumbletheatre.org/.

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UMBRAL THERE IS A WAY PataSol’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/.

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SALT-WATER MOON Plan Z Theatre Company presents the classic Canadian play, starring Darcy Stobbe and Julie Casselman. Jul 26-31, 8 pm; Jul 30-31, 2 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $10-20, info www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2568173/.

2ONGOING 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/. 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/. 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. To Jul 23, 8 pm, Coast Capital Playhouse (1532 Johnston Rd., White Rock). Tix $10-15, info www. thepagetheatre.com/barrymoresghost/. 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. To Aug 20, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix from $10, info www.ensembletheatrecompany.ca/.

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called the response, could stand a bit more abstraction. The short study captures a simple, utopian seaside community and the way it pulls together in the face of a storm. There are some innovative moments that show Barton’s flair for both filmic effects and street-dance influences, including the dramatic slo-mo recoiling of the quartet in the face of the arriving tempest. But the portrayal of the idyllic village that precedes it is a little too on point, complete with pantomimes of fishing and playing tag. Indulgent and whimsical as it is, Sick Fish, veteran dance artist Rob Kitsos’s duet with his 11-year-old daughter, Beatrice, offers some whacked-out conceptual relief. An ode to the way dark and light mesh in the world of child’s play, it’s set against projections of happy-creepy kids’ drawings. The adult Kitsos moves herky-jerkily and mouths retro sound bites from a score (by Lucas Van Lenten) that’s reminiscent of the Avalanches. Following the irrational and random whims of a kid’s mind, it’s definitely not literal in the least— and about as unexpected as those dancers in the treetops. > JANET SMITH

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work—choreographed by Julia Taffe, the performers sometimes gripped the bark upside down like tree frogs, hung off the trunks at 90 degrees, and intertwined themselves like snakes. Moving indoors, the Edge 6 presentation at the Firehall Arts Centre featured a work that similarly sought to connect with nature and meld cultures. Starr Muranko’s Spine of the Mother referred to the South American indigenous belief that the mountain range that runs from the Andes up to Alaska is the connecting vertebral column of Mother Earth. It opens with the sound of rubbing rocks, slowly climaxing with dancer Tasha Faye Evans placing real stones in a line between herself and tormented dancer Olivia Shaffer. Set against projected imagery of the Peruvian Andes (where Muranko did research) and the cosmos, Spine has movement that is earthbound, emphasizing the women’s twisting spines. In its best moments, the piece enters a kind of dream state and Evans moves shamanistically, like she’s possessed by ancient spirits. Still, it sometimes feels earnest and the use of the rocks is heavily drawn out. Elsewhere in Edge 6, Village, by Amber Funk Barton of the company

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MOVIES REVIEWS CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Starring Viggo Mortensen. Rated PG

“I’m a Trotskyist, Dad, not a Trotskyite,”

2 says one of the high-strung free spirits in

the winning Captain Fantastic. “Only Stalinists call Trotskyists Trotskyites.” That exchange tells you just how far off the grid you’ll go to find Viggo Mortensen’s bearded Ben and his six home-schooled kids, ensconced in a giant yurt somewhere in rural Washington. When not reading Dostoyevsky or advanced biology texts, the three boys and three girls—all with unique names—are kept busy on an obstacle course provided by Mother Nature, since Ben has decided they should be able to stalk and skin a deer as easily as they can play guitar or discuss quantum theory. Their own mother is in a hospital somewhere, for reasons gradually explained. But volatile family dynamics are only heightened by her absence. Eldest son Bodevan (Scotland’s George MacKay, unrecognizable from the Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith) is Dad’s biggest admirer, although he’s secretly been applying to Ivy League colleges. Younger brother Rellian (Australian Nicholas Hamilton) is the quiet rebel, chafing against Ben’s autocracy and, tellingly, his taste in music. The mom’s situation eventually pushes this backwoods clan—ignorant of pop culture and

Hardly a home on the range

Dostoyevsky, quantum theory, and the finer points of Soviet communism are among the subjects discussed over dinner by the Cash family in Captain Fantastic.

That said, the big-screen iteration of Absolutely Fabulous is both worse than expected and, consistent with the joyfully degraded tone of the series, oddly forgivable. As usual, raucously fragmented events centre on Edina Monsoon, played by show creator JenViggo Mortensen goes off-the-grid in Captain Fantastic; nifer Saunders, who also clacked out a screenCloset Monster is wild trip from a passionate new voice play that is just a loose string of opportunities for f leeting cameos. Eddie’s still an inexplicably social norms—onto their rickety, book-lined bus vier Dolan a star. If the script has flaws, they’re from either trying lucky fashion-world publicist (or PR, as people (called Steve) for a trip to New Mexico and a volatile culture clash with her wealthy parents (Frank too hard or an inconsistent tone. In a pretty extreme quaintly put it here), and remains aff licted by Langella and Ann Dowd), who force gentle Ben to prestory, a young Oscar witnesses a horrific hate concerns about getting old and fat. Champagneface some home truths about the limitations of his crime that will haunt any queer yearnings he might infused best pal Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley, entertain later on. who has a fabulous 12 years on Saunders) is still seemingly enlightened patriarchy. Where it’s strongest is in focusing on the tightly concerned with, well, nothing but the pleasures All of this is beautifully observed by writer-director Matt Ross, making his second feature after estab- wound, bitingly funny Oscar (Connor Jessup), of the moment. Somehow, Eddie and infuriatingly sensible lishing himself as an actor best known as sly techie who wastes his hours working at a hardware store, Gavin Belson on Silicon Valley and Chloë Sevigny’s dreams of becoming a Hollywood special-effects daughter Saffron (although even Julia Sawalha creepy brother on Big Love. The cast is note-perfect, makeup artist, and pines after sexually confident is not immune to the surgeon’s kiss) have been living in a modernist mansion with Saffron’s even if Ross is less sure when differentiating the coworker Wilder (Aliocha Schneider). Jessup is natural and nuanced in conveying not beautiful half-African daughter (Indeyarna Donother kids, particularly the redheaded sisters played by teens Samantha Isler and Annalise Basso. The only Oscar’s repressed anger and fear but also his aldson-Holness) and their wacky assistant Bubble film’s two unpredictable hours are also burdened by confusion. When a friend asks him about being gay, (an underused Jane Horrocks). Apparently, Jon Hamm lost his virginity to a couple of dragged-out false endings, before hitting “When did you know?” he answers, “I still don’t.” a finish that, like many things in life, is all the more Abrams draws a wild, gruff portrait of his father— Patsy on a teenage trip to England, leaving him nicely shifting from the fun dad in childhood to a casually traumatized, while veteran Brit cult satisfying for the uncertainty that led to it. > KEN EISNER more menacing role as Oscar gets older. But some- figures like Stella McCartney, Lulu, and Baby times, his scenes are too on point—whether he’s Spice have reasons to regret meeting Eddie. CLOSET MONSTER bringing a new fling home or descending into yell- When the latter introduces Kate Moss to the ing matches with his ex. Thames, the AbFabbers head to sun-drenched Starring Connor Jessup. Rated 14A Still, this is a promising debut, washed in style, Cannes in search of new money and Patsy’s old In addition to the pet hamster that talks in the colour, and hormonal passion. Whether you buy the beau (Barry Humphries, who also makes a drag silky tones of Isabella Rossellini, there is much talking rodent or not, it shows the kind of artistic appearance as Dame Edna), and our troubleto admire about Closet Monster, a teen coming-out guts that bode well for Canada’s next gen of film- doublers run into everyone from Rebel Wilson movie that doesn’t always go where you’d expect. makers. to Jean Paul Gaultier. > JANET SMITH Writer-director Stephen Dunn digs at the raw More scenes fall f lat than take off, but Saunpain and shame that come when insecure teen Osders and especially Lumley are funny enough car discovers his sexuality. The story is set against ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE on their own to encourage tolerance for the his parents’ ugly divorce and a beer-drinking, cas- Starring Jennifer Saunders. Rated PG slack storytelling. TV veteran Mandie Fletcher ually homophobic dad (Aaron Abrams). It helps that makes her feature-directing debut with this, Spinoffs rarely work, even less so when and somebody should have told her it was an there’s style to burn, in both the moody shots of the the skit or series that generated the reboot actual movie. Hell, it’s right in the title. atmospheric St. John’s setting and the luminescent > KEN EISNER indie soundtrack that drives the drama. Dunn’s off- already played itself out over a 20-year period. kilter risks—from casting the Rossellini-voiced pet-hamster confidante to Cronenbergesque shots of a symbolic metal rod that pushes out of Oscar’s gut whenever he feels a sexual urge—show the same kind of daring that’s made Xa-

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I AM CUBA Propaganda never looked as good as in Mikhail Kalatozov’s love letter to Castro’s revolution, made in 1964 but only released to the envy of capitalist pigs like you and me in the ’90s. I Am Cuba kicks off the “then” portion of the Vancity Theatre’s Cuba Now & Then series on Friday (July 22).

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High anxiety LIGHTS OUT She’s no fan of horror movies, but Maria

Bello was eager to take on the role of recently widowed mother Sophie in Lights Out, opening Friday (July 22). “It was about drawing from my real-life experience,” she tells the Straight ’s Lucy Lau, referring to her own well-documented battles with depression. “It was about being out of touch with reality—when I couldn’t get out of my bed for three months at a time—and being able to portray that accurately on the screen and showing how it’s a disease that affects not only yourself but your family.” Go to Straight.com for the full interview and review. -

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another in the Sounds Great! series, designed to show off the Cinematheque’s new Dolby Surround 7.1 sound system. Catch Steven Spielberg’s last great film (admit it) with The Conversation and Apocalypse Now on Saturday (July 23) for the full blowout.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople putting Taika Waititi on everyone’s radar, here’s a chance to catch the brilliant vampire comedy the kiwi director made in 2015 with sexy Jemaine Clement. Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav come to the Rio Theatre next Thursday (July 28).

CINEMA IN THE PARK The Harmony Arts Festival brings a week of free outdoor movies back to John Lawson Park in West Van, starting next Friday (July 29) with Raiders of the Lost Ark. The series continues in a slightly less face-melting way with Chicago, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Kung Fu Panda 3, plus much, much more. Load up the blankets, snacks, and special drinks for a 9 p.m. start time. More info is at harmonyarts.ca/. -

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7:30 pm); Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Jul 20-27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

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2THIS WEEK THE BIG PICTURE: AN IMPROVISED MOVIE The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an improvised adventure that pays tribute to the mega movie. To Aug 27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix from $10, info www.vtsl.com/. GUILT-RIDDEN SOCIOPATH Dive into Byron Bertram’s semi-autobiographical journey into the human psyche. Jul 19-23, 8 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Info www.amusingscomedy.com/. KYLE BOTTOM Canadian comedian performs three nights of standup. Jul 21-23, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. 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/. STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT Comedy legends unite for An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, which includes standup, film clips, musical numbers, and conversations about their lives in show business. Jul 22, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $85-175 (plus service charge and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. DOM PARE Canadian standup comedian performs two shows. Jul 22, 8 pm; Jul 23, 7 pm; Jul 23, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/. MOLLY’S COMEDY CABARET Local actress and singer Molly Wilson presents a 90-minute comedic romp. Jul 23, 7 pm, XY (1216 Bute). Tix $10-15, info www.missmollywilson.com/. KINGS HEAD COMEDY Colin Sharp and James Kennedy host a standup-comedy showcase. Jul 19, 26, 9 pm, The Kitchen Table (1618 Yew). Tix $5, info www.face book.com/kingsheadcomedy/.

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SOUND, LIGHT, SCULPTURE It’s an exhibit simply called 7, the lucky number of Emily Carr University of Art and Design master’s of applied arts grads who are presenting in the show. But there is nothing simple about the art on view at the Charles H. Scott Gallery from Friday to next Saturday (July 22 to 30). Consider Christopher McLeod’s The Machine of Awesome Bright Liquid Blueness, which invites you to refill your water bottle at the whimsical interactive sculpture; John Rao’s immersive light- and soundscapes; and Rafi Spivak’s four-channel video installation, Robson Corner of Shenkin (shown here), which fuses imagery of Vancouver and Tel Aviv into a fantastical exploration of immigrant identity. There is more, much more than the number 7 might indicate to explore.

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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS THE SALON SERIES Vancouver theatre professionals reveal how they take the page to the stage. Includes discussions and Q&A sessions on acting (Aug 29) and designing (Sep 5). Presented by Bard on the Beach. Aug 29 & Sep 5, 7 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut St ). Tix $15, info 604-739-0559, www.bardonthebeach.org/.

GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES (exhibition examines the significance of the six women who were inspirational to the artistic development of Picasso) to Oct 2 2BHARTI KHER MATTER (exhibition brings together sculptures and paintings that represent the diversity of New Delhi–based artist Bharti Kher’s practice) to Oct 10

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2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER YOUTH POETRY SLAM Each slam will consist of two rounds of three-minute poems. No props or costumes or musical accompaniment. Jul 25, 8 pm, Café Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial). Tix $4-10, info www.vanslam.ca/. ORGYEN CHOWANG RINPOCHE: OUR PRISTINE MIND Join Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and Shambhala Publications author Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche for a special presentation on the theme of his new book Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness Jul 27, 6:30-8 pm, Banyen Books and Sound (3608 W. 4th). Free admission, info www.banyen.com/ events/orgyen-chowang-rinpoche/.

THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouver-based artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty) to Oct 16

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Connor Jessup reveals monster acting talent > B Y A DRIA N M A C K

f you put it in a movie, nobody would believe it. “I saw him while I was writing the script and Connor had no idea I was there,” says Stephen Dunn, the 27-year-old filmmaker behind Closet Monster. “I was, like, just creeping around.” “I probably saw him and thought, ‘Oh, just another 20-something trying to write a script,’ ” interjects the film’s star, Connor Jessup, joining his director on a call to the Straight from Toronto. “It wasn’t until much later, I guess the next year, that I got the script and he told me the story.” The story is this: Connor Jessup was regularly hanging around at the University of Toronto’s stately Hart House, playing board games with friends and taking a breather from his day job as one of Canada’s most exciting young actors. (If you’ve seen the 2012 film Blackbird, you’ll know what Jessup is capable of.) Dunn happened to use the same location to plot his feature-film debut: an antic coming-of-age tale about a closeted gay youth, his broken home, his casually homophobic father, and his viscerally realized nightmares. But he allows that the movie star in the far corner might have provided some inspiration. All this serendipity has its payoff in the finished film, opening in Vancouver on Friday (July 22). While Closet Monster bursts with ideas, employing wild and unruly mood shifts that include the leap from a traumatic and hysterically lensed violation-by-rebar to the introduction of a talking hamster (voiced, naturally, by Isabella Rossellini), Jessup provides its calm middle. “Connor brought a seriousness to this role amidst its world of fantasy and horror and fear,” is Dunn’s assessment. “He was so grounded. It was no longer just me and my computer. It was purely collaborative.”

The 22-year-old actor brings a calm centre to the antic Closet Monster.

For his part, Jessup claims everything he needed was established back at Hart House. “I’ve been in things where you’re like, ‘Well, here’s a shapeless mess. How do I pull this into something that resembles not just a person but a person who’s going somewhere?’ But this character was so fully formed and so fully realized in the script that I felt like even if I did the most rote, basic, perfunctory performance, there’d still be a through line and there’d still be a movie.” Jessup’s performance is anything but perfunctory, but it is understated, and beautifully so. Director Dunn namechecks Spike Jonze and the two big Davids (Lynch and Cronenberg) when he’s asked about his personal cinematic raves. Jessup replies to the same question with Yasujirō Ozu, Shohei Imamura, and “the golden age of Japanese cinema”. It’s tempting to wonder how much of that has influenced the 22-yearold’s uncanny mastery of stillness. “To throw myself under a bus, it’s also a crutch,” he demurs. “Sometimes I watch myself and think, ‘Just fucking do something.’ But your flaws or your inhibitions or your shortcomings are just as much a part of your style as the things you can do well, so there’s a certain point where you have to embrace what your instincts are and follow that. When you work with a good director like Stephen, you’re supported and encouraged. It’s a liberating feeling.” -

To go beyond space and Tim > B Y NATHA N C A D D E LL

OS ANGELES—Before he tackled the final frontier, before he went to a galaxy far, far away and completed missions impossible, Simon Pegg wrote and starred in a TV show called Spaced. The comedy, about a pair of strangers who pose as a couple in order to secure an apartment, lasted only two seasons at the turn of the millennium. But Tim Bisley, the character Pegg played on that program, has been on his creator’s mind lately. “There’s a line in Spaced where Tim says, ‘As sure as eggs is eggs, as sure as day follows night, as sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit,’ ” Pegg says at a Los Angeles hotel news conference. “I wrote that in 1998, I think. And here we are in 2016 and I’ve written an oddnumbered Star Trek movie.” For Star Trek Beyond, the third installment of the latest Trek reboot, Pegg not only reprised his role as ship technician Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, he also took on writing duties with Doug Jung. And although navigating the universe of Vulcans and Klingons was a bit harder than traversing the cultural life of Vancouver, where the film was shot—Pegg used the Georgia Straight to aid with the latter, and yes, consider us flattered—the “formerly European, now just British” actor thinks he pulled it off. “I’m happy to say that Tim was wrong,” Pegg declares. “It’s an incredible thing to look back on that, having grown up as a fan of Star Trek and science fiction, to now be participating in such an active way. I tried to just make the kind of Star Trek movie that Tim Bisley would like.…We wanted to embody the original show, instill it with what made Star Trek great, but also frame it in a big-movie way, which is a luxury they never had back in the day. They had to make these wonderful little teleplays that couldn’t rely on special effects. Now we can do both, and I was always thinking: ‘What would Tim Bisley think?’ ” In addition to Beyond, Pegg filmed both Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Hector and the Search for Happiness in Vancouver, and in a private interview with the Straight, he shares some hazy recollections of filming Beyond in Lotus Land. “When we made the first two, they were in L.A., so everybody at the end of each day, we’d just go home and we all had our various places to go to,” he says. “Whereas in Vancouver, we were all away from home, so it was like, ‘Let’s go meet at CinCin. Let’s go to such and such,’ a bar or club. We had some crazy nights. It’s fun walking down Granville at 4 o’clock in the morning on a Saturday.” On a more serious note, the actor makes it clear that he’s happy whenever he hears that he’s heading to Vancouver, acknowledging the talented film crews and the convenience a temperate rainforest brings. “It’s always a relief, because I know I’m going somewhere I really like,” he says. “The crews there, particularly my hair and makeup people, if I know I’m working there I pray that it’ll be them on the job. It’s just such a great city. It’s so self-contained. We were living downtown and we walked to a football match. We went to see the Women’s World Cup and we just walked there. You can pretty much walk everywhere.” No photos of Pegg and company scrambling down the Granville Strip made it to social media, but the actor was spotted numerous times in Vancouver, often interacting with fans. Since Pegg abandoned his popular Twitter account a couple of years ago—he handed it off to his assistant and publicist—relating to fans in other ways has been important. Ultimately, he felt as if Twitter had started to put him in an uncomfortable situation. “I felt like I’d given the world my phone number,” Pegg says. “You’re very available on Twitter. Also, every time

Simon Pegg’s old Spaced character Tim Bisley would approve of the actor’s screenplay for Star Trek Beyond.

somebody died, you felt like you had to say something, and when you did, it would get taken away for copy in magazines and TV shows.” Still, some things don’t change, no matter how much you try to avoid social media. Pegg’s Twitter page is currently adorned with a photo of Anton Yelchin, the Russianborn actor who played Chekov in all three installments of the series. Yelchin passed away last month in a freak automobile accident. “I couldn’t not do something,” the actor says, visibly distressed. “My feelings: it was too hard to articulate what to say. I wanted it to be known that I wasn’t blithely carrying on with my life. I lost one of my great friends.” Pegg was born 19 years before Yelchin, and it’s fair to ask the Brit, a self-proclaimed science-fiction nerd, what’s still left for him to accomplish in the world of film. It’s clear that he has already thought about it. “After I’d finished Star Trek,” he recalls, “I came home from Dubai [the film’s other location] and went, ‘Well, I’ve been in Star Wars and I’ve written Star Trek, what do I want to do now?’ But the truth is, my dream is really to make movies, whatever they are, and to keep doing that. I realized that’s what my real dream is. It’s been fantastic to be part of these big stories, and I want to keep doing that. I hope I can be in Star Trek forever, as long as they’ll let me be, but I want to do smaller stuff and diverse things and write and direct. I want to keep evolving and moving forward. But it’s nice to have your dreams come true.” Tim Bisley would probably say so, yeah. -

Hardly a stranger to music > B Y NATHA N C A D D E LL

ocumentary-making is a hard business in which to find work. Until you win an Oscar. “I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures,” Morgan Neville tells the Straight in a call from Los Angeles to talk about his latest film, The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (opening Friday [July 22]). “You make documentaries because you love doing it; it’s the only sane reason to make documentaries.” After 2013’s Academy Award–winning 20 Feet From Stardom, Neville had a much easier time getting his films made. Last year’s Best of Enemies was in production for five years before finally hitting theatres to rave reviews. Likewise, it was about fourand-a-half years ago that Yo-Yo Ma reached out to the director in hopes of doing a concert documentary. Neville, a born-and-bred Californian who lists the Clash as his favourite band of all time, initially balked at a proposed partnership with Ma.

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Yo-Yo Ma tapped Oscar winner Morgan Neville to film his Silk Road Ensemble.

But the director, who has done docs on the likes of Keith Richards, Brian Wilson, and Johnny Cash, was surprised when he met Ma. “He was so not what I expected; he was so funny and charming and crass and all these things,” Neville says. He also found that he and Ma had the same goal: to try to use music to both understand and, possibly, change the world. “As someone who has been making films about culture for 20-plus years, these are

questions I ask myself all the time.” It took one lunch for the legendary cellist to convince Neville to turn his camera on artist-collaboration project the Silk Road Ensemble. Because Neville has made so many films that revolve around music, he has garnered something of a reputation. Lately, that has meant refusing a lot of stuff. The Music of Strangers, however, seemed like a departure from the usual fare. “Telling stories of sex, drugs, and getting screwed over by your record label are kind of the three least interesting things about the music world,” the director says. “And that story’s been told over and over and over. To me, it’s always about figuring out a story that’s going to tell a bigger story. That’s what intrigues me. This is also just a world I knew nothing about. For somebody that likes to learn, it just seemed like it was going to open my mind in a radical way, and it did.” Neville continues, his passion unmistakable: “I feel like that’s a really valuable thing to be doing in 2016, to be trying to understand other cultures rather than just exit the union or build walls or whatever.” -

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he continues. “When a track comes easily, it’s the greatest feeling. I’ve tried a lot of drugs, and this is the best one. And I think David Beckingham’s Just When the Light documents the same can be said for a turbulent period in the tunesmith’s personal life any creative endeavour. After 60 days of communicating with a voice Getting inspiration from above can help you work app that would give Stephen Hawking’s monotone out your feelings—and that’s one of the most heala run for its money, Beckingham’s commitment ing things a person can experience.” paid off. Released in May, the singer-guitarist’s Beckingham’s newfound dedication to his craft Just When the Light sees him push beyond Hey has seen him take an indefinite hiatus from the Ocean!’s girl-boy vocals and funky bass lines into party scene that surrounded Hey Ocean!. Now a more versatile, folky realm. Album opener “Ex- recognizing the need to put his well-being first— plosion” draws on Beckingham’s childhood in an approach the singer says he wishes he’d adopted Kenya, sketching a melody and beat that wouldn’t sooner in his musical career—Beckingham is sound out of place on Paul Simon’s Graceland, enjoying taking life at a slower pace. while dreamy standout “Montreal” offers a Belle “I’m so focused on what is best for my songwritand Sebastian-esque narrative about Becking- ing that I’m pretty introverted right now,” he says. ham’s experience of skipping town. “Unless there’s a show I want to see, I’m a bit of a “Just When the Light is very introspective,” Beck- hermit. I have one-on-one hangouts, and I don’t ingham says, “so off the bat those songs are really really go out. My favourite things to do are listen different from my work with Hey Ocean!. Collab- to podcasts and write songs. I’ve found that I need oration has this push and pull that creates great a healthier paradigm in order to be a better artist, results, but I’m enjoying being on my own and so I don’t drink and party very much anymore. trusting what I feel in the moment. Hey Ocean! was “Making this album helped me accept some tough about working together to make anthemic pop, but things that were happening in my life, and emerge a I like that these solo tracks can be more individual.” better person,” he continues. “And given how much Luckily for his songwriting (but less so for his I’ve had to write about this year, it’s definitely the personal life), a turbulent 2015 offered Becking- best collection of songs I’ve recorded to date.” > KATE WILSON ham a wealth of material for the new album. At the same time as he was dealing with his hemorrhagic polyp, Beckingham was coming to terms David Beckingham plays the Waldorf’s Hiatus with a difficult breakup with his long-term part- Music Festival on Saturday (July 23). ner. Shaped by the singer’s attempts to navigate a new chapter of his life, Just When the Light offers some touchingly honest lyrics. “I spent a lot of time wondering whether to release the details of my breakup to the public,” He might be closing in on 60, but the punk Beckingham says, “and in retrospect it seems a bit spirit is still strong in Chip Kinman. When gratuitous to have shared it. But it definitely forms the basis of a lot of the record. It affects the mood the Georgia Straight tracks down the man who more than anything, and there are certain tracks brought Everly Brothers harmony to hardcore in that have helped me to think through what’s been the Dils and who essentially invented the cowgoing on in my life romantically. The song ‘Sol- punk genre with Rank and File, he and his Ford dier’ is about that. It talks about feeling unable to Madox Ford bandmates are deep in Amish counfind someone anymore, using the metaphor of a try, en route to the Canadian border and plotting dirty soldier trudging around, knowing that his a minor act of mischief. Asked what he can see from the tour van, death is imminent. “Songwriting is definitely cathartic for me,” Kinman replies, “Buggies. Buggies, horses, and

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Amish people. It’s pretty cool. We were trying to get a Ford Madox Ford sticker onto one of the buggies to take a picture of it, but that’s probably not a wise thing to do.” He’s right; those people have pitchforks, although no mob is going to run Ford Madox Ford off the stage. After 10 years away from music, Kinman is making a glorious noise in a band that, for once, does not include his brother Tony, but that does feature his fret-king son, Dewey Peek. And if the singer-guitarist has chosen a curious time to make a comeback, with the music industry in tatters, he’s unapologetic about his reason why. “It’s what I do, and it’s really what I’ve always done,” he says. “I did take a break: I got married, and had to figure out another way to make a living. As a bachelor, music was working out for me, but once I had a family and everything, I had to step up. But everything’s cool now, and actually my wife’s been encouraging me.” The Los Angeles resident’s return began when he took Peek to Austin, where Rank and File had been based during the 1980s. “I wanted to show him another scene, ’cause he had a band in Los Angeles,” Kinman explains. “So we went out there, and I was invited to do a couple of shows, and we got up on-stage and I did some singing and I went, ‘Fuck, yeah! That’s right; now I remember!’ And then we came back and started Ford Madox Ford. We’ve been playing for about a year.” This time around, Kinman’s roots style of choice is the blues—although the garage-steeped Ford Madox Ford sounds more like some Nuggetsera throwback than Mississippi legend T-Model Ford. The link, he explains, is the streak of wry nihilism that runs through the work of countryblues pioneers like Skip James and Son House and that can also be heard in Ford Madox Ford’s debut single, which pairs cranky anthem “Expect It” with giddy rave-up “Before the Fall”. “I recognize that connection, and I went for it,” Kinman says. “It’s really been something, trying to figure this out and pull it off, which I think we have. I had to ask myself, ‘What do I have to bring to the blues?’ And I think the single is a great clarion call. It’s really something new. We’re not hippie blues; we’re not old guys in aloha shirts; we’re not White Stripe–ing it; we’re not Stevie Ray Vaughan–ing it. It’s really kind of a new thing,

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Fresh and local SEVEN NINES AND TENS SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEARTS OF THE SLUMS The first two tracks on this four-song EP (“I Come From Downtown” and “Metropolis Noir/ Rigs”) have titles that nod to Tragically Hip lyrics. No one would ever mistake Sevens Nines and Tens for a Hip tribute act, though; the band’s mastermind, David Cotton, just likes throwing in those sorts of references. SNAT’s name was taken from a Hum song, for example, and the refrain “Hardcore will never die” (from “Dope Simple”) pays homage to Mogwai. The latter seems particularly relevant, since, like that Scottish band, Cotton’s mostly instrumental sound ranges from spacious ambiance to searingly heavy, pummelling riffs. JULY 21 – 28 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27

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Sojourners’ Mosely links gospel with social justice Marcus Mosely learned the

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resist and hold together in troubled times, that gift bestowed upon him by his mother. The cofounder of the Sojourners was raised on a farm in the Texas Panhandle in the ’50s, near the town of Ralls, and quickly understood what it meant to be a black boy in the racially segregated South. “Funnily enough, I heard a lot of early country and western, and cowboy music—my stepfather was quite a fan,” says Mosely, reached at his Vancouver home. “On the other side my mom was an avid churchgoer, so I grew up hearing what some people might call ‘primitive gospel’. We attended little storefront churches, buildings that were once stores converted—no pun intended—into churches. They often had huge windows in front. They’d get white shoe polish to make it opaque so you couldn’t look right in, and bring in some pine flats and create benches. “There was no piano, no instruments, we had to sing and clap and had maybe a tambourine or something rhythmic. Those people had little musical training but a wealth of knowledge of those old, old songs—some formerly slave songs, some spiritual, some Africanized hymns, because that’s what gospel is in many ways. My mom always had a song on her lips. She’d be singing under her breath all the time when she was working, whether we were in the cotton fields or in the houses of white people, cleaning or doing their laundry. Later in my life I realized I was being taught that one

of the ways you keep your centre, your spiritual core, is to sing—she did that to stay grounded no matter what she was confronted with in pre-civil-rights Texas. She would be able to come from a place of faith and strength—and that was an invaluable lesson.” Fastforward several decades and shift to Vancouver, where nine years ago Mosely formed the Sojourners with Will Sanders and Ron Small, who was later replaced by Khari McClelland. Though usually tagged a gospel band, the Sojourners also embrace blues, doo-wop, soul, and folksongs of resistance. Their latest album, 2013’s Sing and Never Get Tired, contains a couple of classic underdog songs by white folkies—Woody Guthrie’s “I Ain’t Got No Home” and Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released”—as well as Stephen Stills’s 1967 counterculture rallying cry “For What It’s Worth”. “Music has always been a powerful tool to encourage the protester, the person who’s defying, but it also gets into our brain, so a person may have a negative attitude but something in a song can seep in past their barriers and begin to maybe open them up to another possibility, another way of viewing things. For us, singing gospel music and the message of social justice are inextricably bound together. “When I look at what’s happened in the last two weeks in the U.S., I feel a lot of complex emotions— pain, anger, compassion, fear. And music, and singing in particular, gives me the ability to process those feelings and not just keep them bottled up.” The Sojourners perform at the Mission Folk Music Festival this weekend on a bill that includes McClelland with his own group, singersongwriter Shari Ulrich, Latin band La Candela, Gypsy-jazz ensemble Deanna Knight & the Hot Club of Mars, and indie rockers Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron. > TONY MONTAGUE

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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS Hip-hop artist from California performs material from latest album Malibu, with guests Pomo and Duckwrth. Sep 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE L.A.–based world-roots collective, with guests Hirie. Oct 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. RACHAEL YAMAGATA Indie-pop singer-songwriter from Virginia performs tunes from latest album Tightrope Walker. Oct 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SCHOOLBOY Q Rapper from L.A. performs on his Blank Face Tour, with guest Joey Bada$$, Oct 22, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $52.50 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet, Dipt, and www.ticketleader.ca/. CHANCE THE RAPPER Hip-hop artist from Chicago performs material from latest album Coloring Book. Oct 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Thunderbird Arena (6066 Thunderbird Blvd., UBC). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $69.50/55/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Indie-folk/ roots act from North Carolina, led by M.C. Taylor. Oct 29, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. YELAWOLF Hip-hop artist from Alabama, with guests Bubba Sparxxx, Struggle Jennings, and Jelly Roll. Nov 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $42 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. WILD CHILD Indie-pop sextet from Austin, Texas, plays tunes from latest album Fools. Dec 6, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jul 22, 10 am, $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

ENCHANTED EVENINGS CONCERT SERIES Take in the garden and live music by the Vancouver Piano Ensemble. Jul 21, 7-10 pm, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (578 Carrall). Tix $25-60, info www.enchantedevenings.ca/. SUNSET MUSIC SERIES Barbecue and musical performance by Tanga. July 22, 6-9 pm, Sea to Sky Gondola (36800 Hwy 99, Squamish). Tix $39.95, info www.seatoskygondola.com. US THE DUO California-based pop duo composed of husband-and-wife team Michael and Carissa Alvarado tours in support of new album Just Love, with guests Gardiner Sisters. Jul 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. PARKER MILLSAP Oklahoma bluescountry singer-songwriter and guitarist tours in support of self-titled debut album, with guest Travis Linville. Jul 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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BIG WRECK Rock band led by vocalist Ian Thornley tours in support of latest release Ghosts, with guest Royal Tusk. Jul 22, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. PRINCE TRIBUTE NIGHT Local bands TrailerHawk, Cass King, Pink Licorice, and Lisa Joyce pay tribute to the beloved icon. Jul 22, 7:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rick shawtheatre.com/. FORD MADOX FORD California punkblues rockers, with guests 3 O’Clock Train. Jul 22, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ events/1687235334864461/. MISSION FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL This year’s festival features performances by Shari Ulrich, The Sojourners, Lion Bear Fox, Angela Harris, La Candela and Jimmy D Lane. Jul 22-24, 5-1 pm, Fraser River Heritage Park (7494 Mary St.). Tix $29, info www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/.

UPTOWN LIVE! New Westminster street party features performances by Good for Grapes, the Boom Booms, Téa Petrovic, Sarah Wheeler, the R&B Allstars, Gary Comeau & the Voodoo Allstars, JP Maurice, Little India, Brandon Isaak, the Tourist Company, Jeremy Allingham, Gabriela Geneva, Lydia Hol, Field Study, Tonye Aganaba, Twin River, the Katherines, Georgia Couver, John Gonzalez, Quayside Voices, Bully’s Showcase, Leisure Club, and the New Westminster Secondary Combo. Event also features food trucks, interactive activities, art installations, kids’ zone, and farmer’s market. Jul 23, noon-9 pm, downtown New Westminster. Free admission. SHOREFEST Featuring performances by the Matinée, Willa, Jim Byrnes and Friends, Dustin Bentall, Savvie, Khari McClelland, and the Lion, the Bear, the Fox. Jul 23, English Bay (downtown Vancouver). Free admission, info www.lg1043.com/. CRYSTAL CASTLES Experimental electronic band from Toronto. Jul 23, doors 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HIATUS MUSIC FESTIVAL Boutique music and lifestyle festival features experimental live music across a range of genres. Includes Bear Mountain, Bit Funk, Rainer + Grimm, Top Less, DiRTY RADiO, Youngblood, Frankie, and Peligro Tropical. Jul 23, 1 pm, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix from $54.95, info www.hiatusmusicfest.com/. TD CONCERTS AT THE PIER Music by Beyond the Eyes, Field Study, and the Washboard Union. Jul 23, West Beach. Free admission, info www.concertsat thepier.com/. THE TRAGICALLY HIP Canadian guitar-rock greats (“38 Years Old”, “New Orleans Is Sinking”) tour in support of new album Man Machine Poem. July 24 & 26, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). SOLD OUT. LETLIVE. Los Angeles–based post-hardcore band tours in support of upcoming studio album If I’m the Devil, with guests Seahaven, Silver Snakes, and Night Versus. Jul 26, doors 6 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Note: moved from original venue of Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $17.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/.

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CLUBS & VENUES AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604-253-7141. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., TING! with Tank Gyal & guests Thu; Waldorf A Go-Go with Vinyl Ritchie Fri; Vision Saturdays. 2HIATUS MUSIC FESTIVAL Jul 23 BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-687-1354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604676-0541. 2PARKER MILLSAP Jul 22 2LETLIVE. Jul 26 2RISING APPALACHIA Jul 28 2MISERY SIGNALS Jul 30 2SONGHOY BLUES Aug 2 2DAVID BAZAN Aug 28 2DANIEL CAESAR Sep 16 2NAO Sep 24 BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. 2KRISTIAN ALEXANDROV MUZIKA Jul 20 2HUGH FRASER QUARTET Jul 22 2FUNKY BISCUIT Jul 26 2SIMMER Jul 27 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-7394550. 2BIG WRECK Jul 22 2CRYSTAL CASTLES Jul 23 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2AWOLNATION Aug 11 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2JAKE BUGG Sep 7 2ATMOSPHERE Sep 14 2LEE SCRATCH PERRY Sep 15 2BLOC PARTY Sep 16 2AIRBOURNE Sep 17 2THRICE Sep 18 2SAINT MOTEL Sep 20 2THE TEMPER TRAP Sep 21 2TRITONAL Sep 22 2ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 2ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES Sep 25 2JACK GARRATT Sep 26 2KT TUNSTALL Sep 29 2DINOSAUR JR. Sep 30 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-7647865. 2SKYMIR, UNBEHELD, IRRADIATION Jul 22 2STAGNATION 73, KNIVES!, DROWNING KITTENS, LAKEMAN Jul 23 2THE MATADORS, BUTCH HALLER AND HIS CHESTERFIELD RAMBLERS, THE REKKENING, MARTIAN FLYTRAP Jul 29 2PYRAMIDION, MORTILLERY, M16, HALLUX Jul 30 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 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 2MICHAEL KIWANUKA Dec 7

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-6653050. 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 RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-6818915. 2MOTEL RAPHAËL Jul 21 2PRINCE TRIBUTE NIGHT Jul 22 2PIGS Jul 29 2SKELETONWITCH Aug 19 2SEVERFEST Aug 20 2BELPHEGOR Aug 21 2DIARRHEA PLANET Aug 26 2DOPE Sep 15 2PROZZÅK Sep 17-18 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 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20-22 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2ADELE Jul 20-21 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP Jul 24 & 26 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 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. 2NORTHERN IGNITION, UNTITLED SEQUENCE Jul 21 2THE BURN INS, INTOXICATED BY NATURE Jul 22 2ONES&ZEROS Jul 23 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2ROCKAOKE Jul 25 2DANNIC Jul 28 2CHOCO-LATE Jul 31 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 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-569-1144. 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 2ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS Sep 4 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 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2MISS QUINCY & THE SHOWDOWN Jul 20 2FORD MADOX FORD Jul 22 2WISE PRO WRESTLING Jul 23 2FRANK YAMMA Aug 11

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savage love I’m sorry if my English is wrong.

I’m writing from Germany, where I am being heartbroken and not knowing how to go on. I’ve been seeing a guy for a couple of months and slowly falling in love with him. “Peter” has always been very open to me about himself, his failed relationships, and his commitment issues. He talks frequently about his ex-boyfriend from five years ago and how being left created a deep fear of being left once again. He also had a relationship that ended a year ago. Yesterday he told me he’s still in love with the guy from one year ago but that his love is unrequited. He also told me that he values what we have but he can’t stop loving this other guy. And he can’t promise me that this will change. I am in love and heartbroken at the same time, hopeful and fearful, and unable to get up for the last couple of days. Deep down, I fear I will get hurt. I already am hurt. I’m falling for someone who’s not able to love me back, who’s stuck in the past, but who wishes to change that in order to let me into his life. Should I stay and wait for Peter to get better even if it hurts to know he’s in love with someone other than me? Or should I leave him as so many others have and hurt him? > HEALING EROTIC LOVE PROBLEM MEANS EVERYTHING

Peter could be lying to you. That’s probably not what you wanted or expected to hear, HELPME, and you’ll find some more hopeful/less cynical advice further down,

I promise. But when a guy with “commitment issues” tells you he’s struggling with the emotional fallout of a relationship that ended five years ago and still hopelessly in love with someone he hasn’t seen for a year… you have to entertain the possibility that he could be lying to you. You always have to entertain that possibility—with new loves, old loves, blue loves. When someone tells us they have “commitment issues”, we’re primed to hear this: “Th is boy is incapable of committing until healed (by a therapist, by a new love, by the passage of time).” But sometimes what they mean is this: “I have no interest in committing—not to you, not to anyone, not now, not ever.” But instead of owning up to that (because people who want to remain single are viewed as damaged?) or telling you he’s not seeking anything serious (because you might leave him, and he’s not done with your ass?), Peter invents/inflates a pair of past loves that render him incapable of loving you the way you deserve to be loved and blah blah blah and off the hook. Not a child-man who won’t commit, but a victim who would commit if he could commit but— sob!—he can’t commit. But, hey, maybe he’s telling you the truth. Maybe he’s in love with Mr. One Year Ago. So tell him he can love you and love the other guy at the same time. Established gay throuples, stable straight poly quads, bi men with GFs and BFs, married lesbians who U-Hauled an

> BY DAN SAVAGE adorable baby dyke—there are examples everywhere you look these days of people in love with more than one romantic partner. I don’t see why a person can’t be in love with someone and still in love with an ex—think of it as a sort of semiposthumous/semi-poly relationship. You’ll be pioneers. Give Peter permission to love his ex (pathetically and abstractly) while loving you too (intimately and tactilely), HELPME, and you might be able to love a commitment out of him.

I’m a gay male in my late 20s.

Stop smiling, work harder to change the subject, avoid being alone in a room with Peter, and repeat after me: “My sister might be able to forgive her husband for sucking a dick, but she’ll never forgive him—or me—if that dick is mine.”

I’m a gay guy in an open rela-

tionship and I’m on Recon, a gay hookup/dating site for guys into leather/fetish/BDSM. My partner, who isn’t kinky, knows I have a profi le there and it’s not a problem. Today I got a message from a new guy, and when we exchanged face pics, I saw that he looks exactly like “Peter”, my boyfriend’s best friend’s fiancé! I asked him if that was him, and he stopped responding. What should I do? My BF doesn’t want to know much about my extracurricular activities, but this could make our next double date extremely awkward. We see this other couple a fair amount, and even though I think this guy is good-looking, I would never sleep with him because of the social situation. On the other hand, if I’m wrong and they’re not the same person, bringing it up with them could make things awkward, especially since I’m pretty secretive about my kinks and have zero desire to discuss them with my BF’s friends.

My little sister’s husband, “Peter”, is my age and bisexual. I’m not one of those gay men who think bi guys don’t exist. And I know bi guys are just as capable of being monogamous as other guys—which isn’t that comforting when you think about it—and I don’t have a problem with my bi brother-in-law being bi. More importantly, my sister doesn’t have a problem with it. But whenever I’m alone with Peter, however brief ly, he starts telling me how much he misses dick. He wants to hear about the last “really great dick” I sucked and tells me he misses sucking dick. I smile and say dick is great for sure and make a half hearted attempt to change the subject. The last time it happened was after my > REQUIRES EDUCATED grandfather’s funeral. I’m pretty CONSULTATION ON NEXT STEP sure Peter wants to suck my dick, and I’m tempted to let him. I know P.S. Additional information that it’s a bad idea, but Peter is hot. This might be relevant: our engaged friends aren’t having sex, we’ve been is torture. What should I do? > BOY IS LOST told, and they’re making no moves

toward actually planning a wedding. Going silent after you asked, “Is that you, Peter?!?” is a pretty good indication that it was indeed Peter you were talking to. But while you know Peter was on Recon, RECONS, you don’t know exactly what he was doing there. Maybe he goes online to fantasize, swap pics, and jack off. Maybe Peter is on Recon with his fiancé’s blessing, just as you’re on Recon with your partner’s blessing (but, like you, he’s not comfortable discussing his kinks with friends). Maybe their relationship/engagement is on the verge of collapse and your partner’s best friend’s fiancé is trying to line up a new relationship before pulling the plug on the one he’s in now. Since you don’t know what’s going on in their relationship, RECONS, keep your mouth shut and refrain from making assumptions or judgments. And the next time you have to interact with Peter and his fiancé socially, slap a smile on your face and talk about the weather, the election, the estrogen-enhanced, better-thanthe-original Ghostbusters reboot, the new season of Difficult People, Zika, the Olympics—basically anything other than Recon, kinks, and wedding plans. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf about Bernie and Hillary and love and hate: savagelovecast.com . E-mail: mail@ savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.

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Scan to confess I just do When I’m feeling poor I eat cereal. I buy bananas and chop them up into it, its a relatively cheap meal to have when money is tight.

Deal-Breaker Next time I move in with a lover, I want my own bathroom.

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Grade Ten PE Locker Room bullying never seems to end, even three decades later, it takes place at the office and in the apartment building and out in the community; the bullies are dressed in different fashions but they act the same.

Last Names My last name has a word that is slang for a sex organ in it, yes - saying it s embarrassing for me and others. Thanks to The Internet, I have all but dropped my family name unless it’s for something legal. I’ve always fantasized about marrying someone and taking theirs so I can be done with mine finally, patriarchy be dammed.

Minimalist I just sold everything I’ve ever loved. I made quite a bit of money. The only reason I sold these things was because I was broke. The funny thing is I thought I would miss them and be sad about it but I actually feel a bit more free. Less clutter and just less to think about. All I kept were my paints and canvases, childhood picture albums and what I wear on a day to day basis. The money didn’t hurt either.

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July 21 to July 27, 2016

he stars have been on no letup for quite some time now. Why are we getting so hit from all sides? The stars want us to get the message: the creative force is formidable. While the laws of cause and effect dictate the continuance of that which is already set in motion, in every moment we have a choice regarding how to play it next. Time is but a passage, and it is ours to put to good use, every precious moment of it. Live it; love it; find more cause to laugh, to share, and to gift. Bring the world your light. It is your birthright to be here now. No matter how hard it gets or how limited your options are, you deserve to thrive. Aim to create a glorious and great moment for yourself, and then do it again. One plus one eventually equals all, and stokes the well-being of the whole. On Friday, the sun enters Leo, the heart centre, creator, and life-giving archetype. Venus and Mercury are also in playful, attention-getting Leo. All three will now shine a greater light on where pleasure, satisfaction, and success can be best be found. Friday/Saturday, the Pisces moon seeks an escape. Indulge, but know reasonable limits too. The Aries moon stokes a good fire through Sunday/ Monday. When the time and impulse is mixed just right, the result is an instant gain or plus. Late Tuesday/ early Wednesday, Mercury makes a creative connection with Uranus. An idea, conversation, or synchronistic moment could spark something fresh, lucrative, or auspicious.

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ARIES

March 20–April 20

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CANCER

June 21–July 22

Friday, don’t push what isn’t coming naturally. Saturday’s also good for putting it on chill, but you could spin or spend more than you wanted to. Sunday/Monday’s full swing hits its mark very well. Wednesday triggers something opportune or lucrative. Leo month turns the spotlight to creative projects, pleasure-seeking, romance, and greater self-gratification. More notice and attention comes your way.

An outdoor concert, the beach, camping, or any choice from your preferred relax-and-unwind list will do just fine on Friday/Saturday. Sunday/Monday, the Aries moon wants to see more action. It’s not a fight, though; these days are prime for ready reward. Put great timing to good use on Wednesday too. Conjure it; try your luck; seize the moment. There’s much to be gained.

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April 20–May 21

LEO

July 22–August 23

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September 23–October 23

If you can do it with your eyes closed, Friday is okay, otherwise don’t take it on. You could face a spin-your-wheels workday. The evening can see you drained, but by Saturday you’re on the upswing again. Sunday/Monday, there’s no need to wait or hesitate. When it feels right or the inspiration hits, just do it/say it. Something new looks great on you. October 23–November 22

Thursday can let you off the hook, put you on the go, or spark something new. Despite feeling emotional, drained, or overwhelmed on Friday/ Saturday, you’ll keep going strong. Sunday/Monday, you’ll hit a faster, more straightforward track. Wednesday, synchronicity is on your side. An idea, talk, or impulse lights a good spark. The Leo sun enhances personal well-being, home, and family matters.

Birthday month will push your Refresh button quite nicely, but give it a day or so to feel better refuelled. Friday/Saturday, enjoy movies, music, indulge on your own or with your special someone. By Sunday/Monday, you’ll be ready to knock it out of the ballpark again; it’s done with ease and delight on your face. Wednesday lights a fresh spark.

When everyone else runs out of steam on Friday/Saturday, you’re the one to maintain the lead and to keep it going strong. Sunday/Monday also gives you excellent fuel in the tank. Aim for a good head start; get a good jump on it. Even the tough stuff should prove to be easy and quick navigating. Wednesday is lucrative, productive, social, romantic, newsworthy, or reward-generating.

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

Thursday plugs you into something fresh. Leo month, starting Friday, does too, although you might not find yourself up to full speed until Sunday. The last day of the weekend and the first of the new week are optimum. Get your pleasure fi ll, take full advantage of the right here and right now. Wednesday’s informing, lucrative, or fun. Shop, talk, visit, play, enjoy.

VIRGO

August 23–September 23

Leo month, starting Friday, is always a good time to take a break from overactivity and to devote more quality life to yourself and the things and people that matter to you most. The weekend is a good one for beachgoing, enjoying the summer’s best around town, or lavishing it on your lover. Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday, go while the going is good.

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November 22–December 21

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PISCES

December 21–January 20

Thursday through Saturday could see you part with more than you planned to. For the most part, it’s likely something you’re okay with. Sunday/Monday, dive into it fresh; go for something new. It’ll do the trick for you very well. Relationship- or money-wise, Wednesday is also a great cash-it-in day. Intuition or an impulse serves you well. January 20–February 18

Thursday unleashes or releases you. Too, a fresh spark can be lit. Watch for the sun in Leo to lighten and brighten your prospects—and your mood. By Sunday/Monday, your energy and enthusiasm hits a fresh refuel. Start or try something new. Wednesday is lucrative for home or money matters. It’s great for family interactions and social visits too. February 18–March 20

Sudden clarity or inspiration can strike; something unexpected can get you going or go pop on Thursday. Keep it simple; relax Friday night. Planned or not, Saturday through Monday keeps you well engaged, on the go, and feeling great about it. Socially, money-wise or activity-wise, Wednesday is a great value-added day. Make the most of it. -

Thursday/Friday can see you on a breakthrough. These days and the weekend are also good for a release from work pressures or pent-up emotions. If you have lost your way, look to the sun into Leo, starting Friday, to get you back online, sunny-side up. Sunday/Monday, take your best shot. You’ll have Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s a knack for right time, right place, free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. right action.

> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < HEIDI AT HILLCREST HOT TUB

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 19, 2016 WHERE: Hillcrest Pool

A few months ago you saddled up next to me in the hot tub with a big grin and great eye contact. We talked and you told me you’re a nurse and trying to do more aerial ropes. I was recently single and a little rusty! We left when the pool closed. I figured I’d run into you again in the gym or pool, but I haven’t. Drinks sometime?

YOU POPPED INTO LUCY’S DINER...

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 18, 2016 WHERE: Lucy’s 24hr Diner on Main St.

THIN WHITE DUKE SIGHTING @ THE RAG

You came into the Rag Machine wearing almost all white and leather shoes. You parked your bike outside and had black sunglasses on. You asked me where my favourite spot was for thrifting and said you were into blondie-punk as well as asked me if I worked full time. You briefly mentioned the mod movement and told me you just cut your hair. I thought you were really cool but you left before I asked your name :((( come visit the Rag Machine again this week!!

You were ahead of me in line. Light skin, dark hair and stunning blueish/greenish eyes wearing sweat pants and a pajama-like top. You must be half Asian and half White or something exotic like that. Whatever it may be, you’re 100% Gorgeous. Your eyes blew me away and I couldn’t stop sneaking glances. I had grey shorts and a black top with Ray Ban sunglasses ordering my usual Americano. We should go for a hike sometime.

YOU LIKED MY EARRINGS AT FOLK FEST

AWESOME LADY JULY 15 , 9:15 99 B-LINE ARGUMENT THANK YOU

HOLT RENFREW

STARBUCKS PINETREE COQUITLAM

I live in Vancouver from last 10 months. I have not much with whom I can enjoy. I saw a lots of girls but I am shy to talk to them. Recently I saw a girl at Holt Renfrew. I like her in first sight. She is cute. She is in Black top and shorts. She gave me a smile. But due to urgent work I have to leave from there. I just want to say that I want to be your friend.

BASS COAST GEO DOME FRIDAY NIGHT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 8, 2016 WHERE: Bass Coast, Merritt You: Black framed glasses and hoodie, showed up at the white geodesic dome with your buddy at the camp I was at. You climbed up to the top hammock in the dome after your buddy refused to. Me: Tired girl in the hammock, asked if you were satisfied with your hammock achievement. I didn’t mean to be rude, it was a long night of creepy men and I was having none of it by that point. But I admired your intelligence and felt bad about my not-sowelcoming demeanor the next day. I was hoping to run into you again; maybe I did, but I didn’t get a chance to dance with you.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 18, 2016 WHERE: The Rag Machine

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 16, 2016 WHERE: Folk Fest Folk Bazaar

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 16, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks @ 19th & Cambie Around Noon

...just to compliment the way I rocked my black fedora. You: Tall, Asian, baseball cap, headphones, knee brace. Me: black hat, burgundy long sleeve, cargo shorts. Unfortunately sitting with mom and the little sister, all I could muster was a mere ‘thanks’, a nod, and a smile. Wish I was with other company; I would have at least asked for your name.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 18, 2016 WHERE: Downtown

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL EYES

We met by the coffee stand at Folk Fest on Sat and fancied each others earrings. Your are gorgeous! I wished I had more time to talk but I had to get back to my booth! I hope I see you again.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 16, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks Pinetree Way Coquitlam

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 15, 2016 WHERE: 99 B-line Between Cambie and Main. I got on the bus on Cambie and I sat in between you and a guy who decided to spread his legs open when I sat down. I asked him if he could give me a bit of space and he became belligerent and you stood up for me. I really appreciated it but I was so upset I only realized I didn’t thank you once I got off the bus. Maybe I can take you out for lunch or something! You seemed rad.

You were sitting with your 2 friends. You had white nail polish and camo pants. Very pretty and friendly. We all chatted about my 3 dogs and your Boxer. Would really like to have another coffee:)

NICE WATCH !

PETER - WESTJET - TORONTO TO VANCOUVER

Never done this before... Let's see how this goes. Saw you at the KFC on Broadway tonight around 9:45 ish. Saw you in line behind me... Your eyes!! So nice. Talked a bit about your watch. If you’re single, we should totally grab a drink or something. PS. honey mustard is the best dipping sauce!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 8, 2016 WHERE: WestJet Flight UCGNLQ Toronto to Vancouver Peter in the West End, We had a great conversation about art on WestJet flight UCGNLQ, Toronto to Vancouver on Friday, July 8th at 8:30. I regret not asking for your number. Would you like to go for a bike ride? I’d love to continue our conversation. Alex in Gastown

GALLERY OF BC CERAMICS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 16, 2016 WHERE: Granville Island Saturday afternoon, the two of you girls working were talking about I Saw Yous... you were both beautiful and friendly with great style. Definitely deserving I Saw Yous. Hope this makes you smile!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 15, 2016 WHERE: KFC on Broadway

KNIGHT IN SHINING JEEP

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 15, 2016 WHERE: Corner of 1st and Ontario Street You were driving by as my friend fell off her bike and you circled and stopped to check on us, you were so concerned & kind to stop. You were wearing a light blue button up, light sand chinos and brown dress shoes, I was wearing black jeans and black boots with a grey shirt, riding a blue bicycle. I would like to see you again and repay your kindness.

YOU HAVE AN AMAZING SMILE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 14, 2016 WHERE: 19 Bus Route

I limped onto the 19 bus towards Metrotown at Main and 2nd today. I put my bike on the front, I couldn’t ride because I hurt my knee. I sat across from you at the front of the bus and we exchanged a few smiles during the ride. You had a smile to light up a room and I think we had a connection, even though we didn’t speak. I hobbled off at Kingsway and Carolina. Send me a message and let’s go for a drink ;)

SKATER GIRL?

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 14, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Drive I was eating some Vindaloo at Siddhartha’s and you walked by carrying a skateboard and wearing an East Van hoodie. Me in my black Bowie t-shirt wearing brown Buddy Holly specks. After making eye contact we both barely cracked a smile but I hear that’s something of a rare event in this pretentious town. I was moved by this simple gesture and I know this says more about how lonesome I am than anything else. Having said that, I’d love to share a conversation with you sometime over coffee or tea. I’m on holiday for another week so time is an issue but I’m also down for texting if time does run out. I’m a progressive minded 40 year old but people are usually in disbelief when I tell them my age. I guess I have good genes (I was adopted so I’m not sure) but I do try to stay in shape especially as I age.

BLONDE WITH GLASSES WEARING LONG CARDIGAN @ THRIFTY FOODS CHECKOUT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 14, 2016 WHERE: Thrifty Foods @ Morgan Crossing You. blonde hair and glasses. wearing a long beige cardigan. I was in front of you at the checkout wearing jeans and had on a black rain shell. You spotted my bag of cookies on the conveyor when you were loading your groceries onto it. Went back to bakery and picked a bag for yourself and put on conveyor then said I hope these are good. You asked if I've tried them before. Said yes they’re quite good. We chatted a bit more. before I left. When I was putting my groceries into my truck. You came out of the store and looked over at me again. I hope you enjoyed your sushi Would love to meet for a coffee/drink or share some sushi and talk more . Thought you were quite attractive.

POSSIBLY FRENCH? MAN WITH A VANCOUVER MAP ON THE BUS LOOKING FOR MEC

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 14, 2016 WHERE: Bus 7 (or 4) from Kitsilano to Downtown Forgive me for not saying hi, or asking if you needed directions somewhere, I was blown away by your smile and couldn’t come up with the courage before my stop came. Me: Brunette female, blue Jacket, black and white t-shirt, got on at Cornwall/4th You: Red shirt, amazing tan, and Vancouver map on your lap chatting briefly with an elderly lady. I’d love to show you around town if you need a tour guide, and I certainly know my way around MEC.

WE MET AT VANCOUVER PAIN MANAGEMENT ON COMMERCIAL

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 13, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Drive Vancouver Pain Management Society We were both waiting for it to open then we introduced ourselves you were a sweetheart wrote out the names of bud for me I should of offered you lunch or to blaze one you were super cool really pretty blond tell me where I’m from so I know it’s you I hope you read these cause I felt a connection if you see this go on Craigslist I posted a missed encounter hope to hear from you.

“WHAT CHA DOOOOOO-IN?”:) W12 & CANARVON

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 12, 2016 WHERE: West 12 Ave and Carnarvon. Vancouver Tuesday around 7 pm I saw you. No joke when you crossed the street in front of me time slowed down... you are such an adorable and very pretty chocolate mystery girl. You had given me a couple subtle smiles. I was flattered and it made me feel happy. I was in a rush to go to work myself. I was in a rental car BTW.... lol. xo... I couldn’t leave without letting you know I noticed you noticing ME!!! So like a champ, it’s embarrassing, I called out to you... “What cha doooo-innnn?” with a big smile. Then the house you were visiting opened the door as you started to come over to say hello. I was late and I had to go. :( It would rule if this actually reached you and I could hear your voice... and watch your sexy lips tell me your name. I could feel our good vibe energy from across the street. I would love it if we ran into each other again.

SATURDAY JULY 2ND AT ROXY CLUB

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 2, 2016 WHERE: The Roxy Club, Vancouver I was hanging out at Granville, I ate some Sushi and asked for a pint at Speak Easy. As Speak Easy is in from Roxy, I started to look there and something told me to enter. So, minutes after I had entered, I saw you... I liked you at first sight. I believe you also liked me, we exchanged eye contact all night long... You are a beautiful brunette, tall, dressed in a fresh summer clothes (white with details in blue, flowers I guess). You were with a group of friends (some men and some women). I guess you are from Mexico, or Colombia, I’m not sure, but 99% of you were from some Spanish/Latin/South American country. I believe we had a mutual attraction. Unfortunately I got stuck. I tried to figure out how to “break” the barrier of your friends, come to you among them... I know these are just excuses. I should have tried. I had been married for 10 years (I separated last year) and I started a brand new life here in Canada/Vancouver. I’m not used to approaching women at clubs, sorry... Almost at end of the party (I didn’t know that it’d end at 3:00 AM) I could get very close to you, we exchanged glances, but I got stuck again... What I needed to do was just say “Hello”, but I didn’t. Shame on me. So, the party ended... I couldn’t believe it. I’d like to know you, know your name, know about you. I really liked you. I believe you’ll like to get to know me too. We can spend great time together! It’s crazy I’m writing for this kind of site, but I need to see you again. If you may read this message, probably you’ll recognize me. Please answer me... A little about me (please give me further details): Man, from Brazil, 40 years old, slim, average height, dark and little gray hairs. I was dressed in a black jacket and white t-shirt. I really hope to see you again!

LATE FOR WORK AND WITHOUT A DATE... BUT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 12, 2016 WHERE: Strathcona Alley ...but on second thought let's at least meet for a friendly tea at the Union Market?? To the guy on his bike with friendly eyes and a chin stache (what do you call those things?) who was late for work on account of biking after me as I walked down the alley past Union Market to stop to ask me out for a coffee... Thanks for the hug, and I regret not at least getting your number for a friendly Union Market morning tea or something! If you happen to see this do get in touch!

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