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Valentine, DJ Betty Forde, and DJ Riki Rocket—unity is achieved through music and dance. “What an honour to offer a space and do this work where I offer what I never got, from my family or from my culture, from that part of the world where I come from,” she says. Originally from landlocked Chandigarh, India, Randhawa says she was raised by a traditional Sikh family and was “being groomed to be sold off or married off to the best guy out there”. However, Randhawa swam in a different direction. Although she’s been estranged from her parents for over 10 years since she came out as a lesbian, she has made peace with the pain she felt from that rejection. “My choice was, ‘Am I going to accept unconditional love as it appears in my life?’ or was I going to suffer over getting that from specific people that I knew I couldn’t change?…And I just went, ‘No, I’m going to celebrate what I have and if everything else changes around, that will just be gravy. I’m not going to wait anymore. I’m not going to be sad.’ And something inside really shifted for me.” After Doctors Without Borders’
Vancouver office closed in 2008, Randhawa started working full-time with Flygirl. It became part of her path to emotional healing. She says she told herself: “I’m going to shed all the shame that is not mine. I’m going to do something that helps other people always, absolutely 100 percent feel that what they are, there’s nothing wrong with you and you can show up just as you are and have a good time and celebrate it.” She says she’s using her life experience to create a better world for other people. “A safe space is also where you don’t have to ever worry about or wonder what the world is thinking about you.” The Orlando massacre, which she says “hit close to our hearts”, has underscored the importance of those spaces. Even closer to home, her wife was punched in the face outside Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium a few years ago when she intervened in a homophobic attack by a guy on a young man. None of that, however, has deterred the duo from their commitment to their community.
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In fact, Randhawa says she’s moved to tears every time Pride comes around. “Every year at Pride…there is this mass, it’s like a whole dance floor moving like one organism. We literally get goose bumps. That is our favourite moment.”
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has boasted numerous beloved talents, including Carlotta Gurl, Symone Says, Isolde N. Barron, Tequila Mockingbird, Peach Cobblah, Conni Smudge, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the House of Venus, to offer only a sampling of names. Among those glittering stars is the brash, buoyant seven-foot-tall (that’s including the hair and heels) Joan-E. The Calgary-born Robert Kaiser, who moved to Vancouver in 1990, created Joan-E when he started to do drag for Halloween and the owner of the now-defunct Denman Station, who recognized his talent, hired him for some shows. Kaiser sings the praises of the “amazing drag-queen community here in Vancouver” and the role of drag within the LGBT movement. “They’re the clowns of the community, and I mean that in the best of ways,” he says in an interview at Jim Deva Plaza. “They’re the entertainers. They’re the people who make people happy. They can convey sadness, anger. They’ve often been the MCs, they’ve often been the fundraisers and organizers. And in many cases, they’ve sometimes been the family to people who didn’t have a relationship to the families of their own, and they formed families with each other.” Kaiser says it’s important to remember drag queens have historically played a much larger role than just wearing flamboyant fashions and makeup (which they fund out of their own pockets) and lipsynching to pop songs. “Yes, they were drag queens, but more importantly they were activists …involved in the earliest moments of community-building,” he says. He cites “lots of important pioneers of our community”, with the examples of Charity St. Peters, who is this year’s posthumous Vancouver Pride parade marshal, and ted northe, founder of the Canadian chapter of the International Imperial Court System that raises funds through costume balls and events. Among the endless highlights of his career (not his hair), Kaiser cites singing with Debbie Reynolds, Toni Colette, and Nia Vardalos for the feature film Connie and Carla, hosting the Vancouver Pride parade for his 17th time this year, and having a show at the Odyssey nightclub for almost 16 years. He has also been involved in Bingo for Life for almost 20 years. The event has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars for the Vancouver Friends for Life Society, which assists people with HIV and AIDS. Joan-E’s devotion to his community has not gone unsung, and he has amassed a long list of accolades, including the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and induction into Canada’s Q Hall of Fame. While Kaiser says he isn’t doing as many shows these days, he still enjoys performing in drag a great deal. Yet he pauses when asked if he would consider himself an activist. “I would say I try to do my part, I try to give back to my community, and I try to be thankful and give back in honour of all that’s been given to me.”
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driven, dedicated, and deeply motivated, she’s a force of nature. “Every day when I open my eyes and take that first breath, I’m happy,” the Vancouver woman says with infectious laughter. “It’s a good day. It could only get better from there.” Since 1998, when she stepped up to get involved, Snelgrove has devoted countless hours and days to helping make things better. “Bettering my community is sort of where my volunteer focus comes from,” she says. “I’ve always been a cheerleader for my community.” Best known for her expertise in marketing, public relations, and communication, Snelgrove also has a knack with the microphone, making her a sought-after host. According to her, keeping an audience is like being a circus ringmaster: “You’re moving things along, and you’re hopefully entertaining as well as poignant when need be.” MCing the 2016 Pride Legacy Awards in June after the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, Snelgrove exhorted the audience to be prouder, louder, and unafraid. Although she isn’t doing as much hosting as she did in previous years because of professional and other commitments, she remains the voice in major events. These include the Pride run and walk event on July 24 to kick off this year’s Pride week. Snelgrove says her love of hosting goes back to growing up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. It was a household showered with love by their parents, and as she remembers, one that “always had all the neighbourhood kids over”. “Everyone was laughing all the time,” Snelgrove recalls during an interview with the Georgia Straight at Roundhouse Radio, where she works as the station’s promotions and communications director. While her own business, Megamouthmedia Consulting, has taken a back seat because of her full-time engagement with the Vancouver radio station, Snelgrove continues to be fully plugged into various initiatives in the LGBT community. She’s a member of the City of Vancouver committee to oversee programming in Jim Deva Plaza, scheduled to officially open on Thursday (July 28). The creation of the plaza was one of the recommendations made by Snelgrove and her coauthors in a 2013 report about revitalizing Davie Street. Snelgrove is a member of the city and police department’s diversity advisory committees. She is on the selection panel of the LOUD Foundation scholarship awards for LGBT students. She sits on the advisory panel of Positive Living B.C., which supports people with HIV and AIDS. “I had incredible parents who gifted me with life skills that I’m very proud of,” Snelgrove says about how she’s able to do all these things. Perhaps no one’s prouder of the community than Snelgrove herself. “The people and organizations and passions that make up our community…are so diverse that it just…blows me away sometimes. I’m amazed, and I’m smiling just talking about it > CRAIG TAKEUCHI right now. It really, really is. We’re so blessed here.”
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than dressing up masculine. You see, as a masculine-identifying trans genderqueer performer, Frewer felt misgendered for most of their life. “Drag was an avenue for me to discover that presenting masculinity is more who I am and the costume is the femme presentation,” Frewer tells the Straight by phone. Frewer, who also uses the stage name Ponyboy (and the pronouns they and them), is the event producer and host of Man Up. It’s a drag-king and gender variety show, for and by queer people but welcoming everyone, held once a month at the Cobalt. As a bartender at the now-defunct lesbian nightclub Lick, Frewer discovered drag when they wanted to hold a fundraising birthday party at the venue in 2008 and met entertainer Sammy Tomato (now Toronto’s Sammy Samosa). The event (in which Frewer was dared to perform in drag) was such a bona fide hit that the two of them, along with performers Majik and Edward Malaprop, launched Man Up about a month later. What began as a drag-king showcase has expanded to encompass around 20 performers, including some who don’t identify with the genderbinary, burlesque clown Ruby Slickeur, contortionist Vixen Von Flex, and both drag kings and queens. That includes bio queens and faux queens, who are female-identifying performers performing as drag queens. Although Frewer began as a drag king, they say they began to recognize their own internalized misogynistic issues in their 20s and now incorporate feminine costume in their repertoire. Likewise, the shows, Frewer says, have “evolved quite a bit and that has been reflective of my own growth and education about queer issues and more, but it’s also been reflective of the community’s growth”. At times, audience feedback has moved Frewer to tears. “Somebody’ll write me a message after a show and just say, ‘I’ve never felt more comfortable in my body and celebrated for who I am until I came to your event.’ ” Meanwhile, the show has also significantly influenced Frewer. “As I witnessed firsthand the positive impact that you can have on a space and on people by lifting up femme voices and lifting up voices of colour and saturating them at your event, that has taught me so much and had an impact in the rest of my life for sure, and my politics.” Beyond LGBT communities, Frewer believes that everyone can benefit from being able to see beyond simply the male-female division. “If you can…realize that there’s more than male and female, gender is not a binary, gender is a set of behaviours that we as a society have come to agree socially define a certain sex and gender, then you can start to see how everyone of us is performing our gender and all kinds of people, cisgender and straight, are also performing their gender and fall somewhere on the gender spectrum.”
tremely conservative upbringing. After immigrating to Canada for dance in 2005, she quickly made her first gay friend. One day, during a phone call, she told her mother that she was out with her homosexual pal; her mom “freaked out”. “ ‘Stay away from them,’ that’s what she exactly said,” Ueno recalls over tea at a downtown café. Despite being straight, Ueno didn’t take her mother’s advice— quite the opposite, in fact. Working as a go-go dancer at Celebrities, she found herself involved in the LGBT community and the local drag scene more and more. By the time she met Jojo Zolina, Vancouver’s fountainhead of the waacking and voguing dance genres, she was already keen. Waacking originated in the LGBT clubs of ’70s Los Angeles, focusing on arm movements to beats. Voguing f lourished on the streets of ’80s Harlem, recognizable by f lashy hand movements and poses inspired by runway fashion shows. “I liked the style as soon as I saw it,” Ueno says of Zolina’s dancing. “Whenever I hear vogue music, I just feel so excited.” Having joined Zolina’s dance group, House of La Douche, in 2009, three years after its inception, she suddenly found herself at the reins in 2011, when Zolina left for a job in Toronto. “I was very sad, but I strongly believed that we had so much to still do for the community,” Ueno says. She credits her long-time friend Jonathan Kol, a choroegrapher and fellow La Douche dancer, for tremendous support during the turnover. While the group was formed to promote and campaign for LGBT culture, House of La Douche has grown in cultural diversity in recent years. Sitting beside fellow dancer Michelle Underwood, Ueno rattles off the group’s different backgrounds easily. “I’m Japanese, she [Underwood] is half Filipino and half white, Jonathan is half Filipino and half Slovakian, and Tristan [Ghostkeeper] is native, and Kevin [Fraser] is black,” Ueno says. The in-house diversity is a large part of helping La Douche make a greater impact on society, the pair muse. “Our shows are very humorous most of the time,” Underwood says. “I think that’s a great way to communicate to a broad spectrum of people.” Although they have received criticism for blending waacking and voguing, Ueno remains defiant, saying: “We have our own culture.” The team continues to book shows, performing at Vancouver Fashion Week, for example, and is maintaining its collaboration with local drag favourite Carlotta Gurl. “I strongly believe we can offer a big contribution to society,” Ueno says of House of La Douche’s future. “I’m just trying to see what we can do for our community.”
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If music has a Bible, it’s most likely the col-
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lected works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Through a combination of deep historical understanding and an unfettered imagination, the 18th-century German crystallized the laws of harmony and counterpoint, then used them in such an expansive way that his compositions still sound timeless. So messing with those works would be heretical, right? Not for Dan Tepfer, whose improvised take on Bach’s Goldberg Variations will be heard on the opening night of Early Music Vancouver’s inaugural Bach Festival next week. Bach himself was a noted improviser, he says, although we can only imagine what his spontaneous creations must have sounded like in the coffeehouses of Leipzig and the palaces of Potsdam. “We don’t have much about his improvising,” Tepfer allows, on the line from his home on a rainy New York City night. “We have little anecdotes, like how at the end of his life one of his sons was the court musician of Frederick the Great, and Bach was invited there. And because Frederick was this prankster who basically liked to annoy people, he gave Bach this incredibly thorny piece—this incredibly chromatic and strange piece, which later became named ‘The Royal Theme’, and asked him to improvise a fugue in three voices based on it. Bach apparently executed it perfectly, even though he’d never seen the theme before. But then, of course, Frederick the Great asked him to improvise a fugue in five voices, and Bach declined—although that’s why he wrote The Musical Offering, as a way of getting back at Frederick and saying ‘Look at everything I was able to do with your theme.’
Putting the jazz to Johann
Jazz star Dan Tepfer takes comfort in knowing that playing the Goldberg is “also a total ass-kicker for the top classical pianists”. Jeremy Sailing photo.
to keep track of three progression. In contrast, jazz improvisers have distinct voices in your dozens, if not hundreds, of standard tunes, head, and make them each with its own chord sequence, to work with. come out in a musical Avoiding repetition is a challenge, he admits, way. That requires a lot but it’s one he clearly relishes. of concentration, and a “I do my best work when I feel challenged, when I lot of inner silence, as I feel something I’m doing is really difficult,” he says. like to say. To find that “It’s certainly a way of keeping myself on edge— At the Vancouver Bach Festival, pianist Dan Tepfer takes on the inner silence and that and I take comfort in knowing that playing the near-impossible task of improvising on the Goldberg Variations inner voice when you’re Goldberg in concert is also a total ass-kicker for the “But, you know, we really don’t know much about on a big stage, in front of a lot of people, can be a top classical pianists and harpsichordists. It’s scary his improvising except these secondhand accounts real challenge—especially when you’re 65 minutes for pretty much everybody, as far as I can tell.” that say that he was incredible,” Tepfer adds. into a pretty intense concert.” The 34-year-old musician is no slouch himself, On the improvising side, Tepfer’s task is Dan Tepfer plays Christ Church Cathedral on Tueshis virtuosity confirmed by his current gig as saxo- complicated by the fact that all of Bach’s 30 day (August 2) at the Vancouver Bach Festival, in phone legend Lee Konitz’s pianist of choice. As for variations are based on the same harmonic collaboration with Vancouver Coastal Jazz. his ability to navigate both jazz and classical music at an extremely high level, Tepfer parEarly Music’s new Vancouver Bach Festival aims to bridge range of tastes tially attributes it to growing up bilingual in The inaugural Vancouver Bach Festival isn’t just a brave new venture from the folks both Paris and New York. Even so, just perat Early Music Vancouver—it’s also a resurrection of sorts for MusicFest Vancouver, forming the Goldberg Variations, let alone the eclectic classical, choral, and world music showcase that closed its doors in improvising on Bach’s most famous work, is 2013. EMV was a major player in the earlier summer festival, and while it continued a true test of his capabilities. with its own events after MusicFest shut down, the lack of a larger stage was felt. “The chief difficulty of the Goldberg is that “It just seemed a pity to abandon the idea of a summer classical-music festival that was aimed at a they’re incredibly exposed,” he says. “There’s absolutely no place to hide at any time. slightly wider audience,” EMV executive and artistic director Matthew White tells the Straight in a teleEvery note counts. You can’t skate over any phone interview from his office. “I just thought, ‘Well, the quality of the stuff we’re doing is really, really passages; everything needs to be just right. high, but we need a better way of selling it.’ And the nice thing about Bach is that he’s got almost uniAnd at the same time, it’s a real feat of en- versal appeal. Like Shakespeare, he’s an artist who can bridge pretty much all tastes and preferences.” EMV’s first Bach festival—at Christ Church Cathedral and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts from durance. It’s a very long piece, and every one of the Tuesday (August 2) to August 12—concentrates exclusively on the works of Johann Sebastian, with highvariations presents its own challenges. “There are the virtuosic variations, which really lights including harpsichordist Davitt Moroney presenting The Art of the Fugue on Wednesday (August 3); stretch the possibilities of keyboard-playing—es- soprano Ellen Hargis headlining a song-and-dance tribute to Bach’s talented wife, Anna Magdalena, on pecially because they were written for double- August 6; big-toned cellist Beiliang Zhu playing the deathless Cello Suites on August 11; and robust viomanual harpsichord, so when you play them on linist Monica Huggett leading an all-star cast through a selection of Bach’s orchestral suites on August 12. piano you have to contend with your fingers kind (All four concerts take place at Christ Church Cathedral.) For White this year’s finely honed programming is but an introduction to what will come in 2017 and beyond. of running unto each other, because you’re only playing on one keyboard, instead of two. So there’s “My hope,” he says, “is that we can use the Bach brand in a similar way to how Bard on the Beach uses that whole physical, virtuosic aspect,” he continues. Shakespeare. So while we’ll continue to program important works by Bach every year, we’re also going to use “And then, for example, in the Canon there’s a very lots of the subthemes...which will allow us the creative licence to introduce a wider variety of programs.” > ALEXANDER VARTY serious data-processing aspect, for lack of a better word, because to play this music well you have
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Editor’s choice SHAKESPEARE UNDER OPEN SKIES Fresh young actors, Shakespearean comedy in a pleasant outdoor setting, and, oh yeah, a ticket that’s free: these are just some of the many pluses to Carousel Theatre’s annual Teen Shakespeare Program shows on Granville Island. And we didn’t even mention the lively village with hotdogs and kids’ activities. This year, the gang, under the always able direction of Mike Stack, takes on Much Ado About Nothing, transporting the Bard’s charming romantic comedy to the 1970s disco era and having loads of fun along the way. It’s family-friendly Shakespeare by emerging thesps. You can book seats for five bucks, as there’s limited seating. Much Ado About Nothing runs beside Performance Works on Granville Island from Saturday (July 30) to August 13.
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Boyden guided by stories > B Y B RIA N LYNC H
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f you’re a major, wide-ranging cultural event that’s launching a new literary series, as the Harmony Arts Festival is doing this year, you might as well start by getting to the heart of the matter: the power of storytelling itself. And if you’re looking for eloquence on that subject, you won’t do better than by asking Joseph Boyden, the headlining guest of the West Vancouver festival’s inaugural Readings in the Park program. Not only is he one of the most gifted and respected Canadian novelists working today, but he has views on the art of story that stretch back centuries. Boyden is best known for books steeped in the long, tormented encounter between Canada’s aboriginal and nonaboriginal peoples, such as Three Day Road, the Giller-winning Through Black Spruce, and 2013’s riveting The Orenda. The theme reflects his own heritage, which blends Scottish and Irish strands with his Anishinaabe First Nation ancestry. As he explains to the Straight, he’s gradually come to see his fiction as joined in deep ways to much older aboriginal approaches. “I’ve never really consciously pushed that, especially at the beginning of my writing career, when I wrote Three Day Road, for example,” he says when reached in New Orleans, where he now lives. “But then I realized that every time I sat down to write a character, the character demanded that I tell the story in the first person and in the present tense. You’ll notice that any of my novels are first-person present. And if you ask any writer, that’s not an easy way to pull off a long novel—it can become very annoying to the reader as well as the writer. But the characters demanded that I tell it in the here and now, and I came to realize, ‘Wow, maybe this is a carry-on of the oral tradition in some sense.’ ” There’s a lot of historical weight in such a realization, especially when it involves narratives as tragic as those Boyden creates about the fates and powers of indigenous people here. But he never lets it deflect him from what he sees as the main task of storytellers, no matter what culture they belong to. “Whether around the fire at night or at the dinner table, stories are told to entertain, number one, and I try never to forget that—that I’m a storyteller, not to beat you over the head and shoulders with my stick of morality,” Boyden notes. “And I think that’s what storytelling has been from the beginning of time—it’s like, ‘Let me entertain you tonight.’ Then, maybe,
Acclaimed novelist Joseph Boyden headlines the Harmony Arts Festival’s new reading series with reflections on the ever-evolving power of narrative.
I can feed you a little medicine, but wrapped in bacon so you don’t even know you’re getting the medicine. That ultimately was what elders were trying to do, or parents were trying to do with their children, whether they were First Nations or European or Irish—it was ‘Let me tell you this story, but there’s a reason why I’m telling you this story, so listen carefully. And let me entertain you, but at the same time maybe teach you something.’ Again, I don’t set out to do that in my writing at first. But I realize that if I’m doing things right, everything should naturally fall into place.” This focus applies even to a topic as morally charged as the residentialschool system and its ruinous effects, which Boyden says are so inescapable that they’re implied in The Orenda, a novel set in the 17th century, long before the schools themselves existed. Going Home Star, the acclaimed 2014 dance piece he helped write for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with the support of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is explicitly about this lasting collective wound. And yet here, too, Boyden allowed himself to be guided purely by the demands of the tale. “It was some pretty sacred ground we were treading on, and you had to be very careful,” he points out. “But then I realized that a good story is a good story, no matter the format, no matter the medium. How do I bring
to life something as complicated and traumatic as residential schools? The way I do it is I don’t approach it head-on. I walk around the building, I walk around the school till I can find the back door or side door that my characters can slip into.” This veering path, Boyden says, follows individual experience, imagining it in its fullness and allowing another kind of truth to enrich the cold facts of history. And with that may come chances for empathy, and thus reconciliation, that would not have existed otherwise. “The historian’s story is not the be all and end all,” he remarks. “I think it’s only one dimension of a multidimensional world that we live in. I think the storyteller gets to add that really important next layer, that next dimension that brings to life that truth. “These are incredibly complex cultures,” he adds, “and I needed to tell that side of the story, my truth. And that is the power of storytelling: introducing the viewer, the reader, the person wanting to hear the story to a completely new dimension. You’ll see it through a lens suddenly that you’ve not thought about or known before.” -
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Nathan Cottell, Kazz Leskard, and Natasha Zacher get irreverent at the new Fakespeare Festival. Tim Matheson photo.
Fest fearlessly spoofs the Bard > B Y JA NE T S M ITH
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ctor Kazz Leskard has a formidable yet funny task as one of the central characters in the raucous new Fakespeare Festival, set to tear up the Drive this summer. In one of the shows on Awkward Stage Productions’ double bill, Titus, he has to play ol’ frill-collared Will himself. But in the whacked-out world of Andrew Wade and Jenny Andersen’s musical twist on Titus Andronicus, he’s learned not to get too analytical about tackling the mind behind so many masterpieces. “At first, I said, ‘I’m confused about who I’m supposed to be,’ ” Leskard says with a laugh, joining fellow actor Courtney Shields and director Andy Toth in the foyer of the York Theatre, where the fest will be based. ‘Am I William Shakespeare alive in his lifetime? Or is this some fourth-wall-breaking, ethereal Shakespeare that lives outside of fiction and is able to make popculture references?’ And I believe the answer was ‘Yes!’ “I like plays that don’t get too precious,” he adds, “that say, ‘This is all pretend, so let’s just enjoy the joke.’ ” That was the driving philosophy behind Titus (cheekily subtitled The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of Titus Andronicus) when it debuted at the Vancouver Fringe Festival last year, earning full houses and an enthusiastic Pick of the Fringe award. That led to talks with the Cultch, which offered up support and the York. Toth saw the opportunity to polish the piece on a larger stage, as well as pair it, in repertory, with another witty Canadian Shakespearean spoof: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight
Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), in which academic Constance travels back to the worlds of Othello and Romeo and Juliet and gives them a feminist reboot. As it turns out, the plays make a perfect pairing, Leskard points out. “In Goodnight Desdemona, the parody starts off with us taking the material seriously, as Shakespeare wrote it, and then Constance gets sucked into that world and pulls it apart. It just gets sillier and goofier,” he explains. “Whereas in Titus, it starts out goofy: the convention is that William Shakespeare is trying to make it a light, goofy comedy and realizes there’s no making the show as funny as he wants to make it because it’s filled with all this serious subject matter.” “His goal is to turn the play that he loves into something that everybody loves, and as it goes on, he realizes the futility of doing that,” adds Toth, who’s also a well-known actor around town. “There’s no way to turn a horrible situation into something comedic and light and fun. It’s his coming to terms with the fact that horrible things exist in the world.” The result requires its performers to walk a razor’s edge between comedy and tragedy. They also have to pay homage to Shakespeare’s elegant words even while eagerly taking the piss out of them. “It’s sort of a duality,” Shields agrees, adding the cast has been having a blast. “You have to lean into the comedy when it’s appropriate, but Titus Andronicus is one of the darkest, bloodiest plays Shakespeare ever wrote.” In it, the character Lavinia is raped and mutilated—not usually the stuff of comedy. Toth says he’s got to achieve a tone where the assault
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is clearly wrong, and yet such events morph absurdly into song and dance. Shields adds that the actors in Goodnight Desdemona, who have to pull off perfect couplets as well as believable, fully choreographed fight scenes, must dig back into their rigorous training in Shakespeare to tackle the fare at Fakespeare. “If you don’t understand the original source, you can’t satirize it,” she says simply. Still, this year’s Fakespeare shows go beyond satirizing the Bard; both productions also take on theatrical and societal conventions with gusto. It’s pretty subversive, for example, to cast women (including Shields) in male roles in a play that focuses on such misogyny. Titus also takes on the casting of people of colour (or lack thereof) as part of its script. For its part, Goodnight Desdemona has its own share of clever gender play, and Constance gets to save two female victims from their Shakespearean fates, turning at least one of them into an all-out warrior. With two such strong parodies kicking off the new fest, one wonders if there’s enough of this material to sustain the event well into summers to come. “Sure!” Toth exclaims, mentioning West Side Story as just one other work that could fit the bill. And he sees the fest as a nice, East Side–suited alternative in a season often devoted to more straight-up renditions of the Bard. As he puts it, in a tone as cheeky as the festival’s: “I think Fakespeare is nice counterprogramming for the summer.” -
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Betrayal layers on the deception TH E AT RE BETRAYAL By Harold Pinter. Directed by Matthew Bissett. An Ensemble Theatre Company production. At the Jericho Arts Centre on Wednesday, July 20. Continues until August 19
Harold Pinter’s Betrayal is trusting your spouse, friends, and lovers. In some ways, this Ensemble Theatre Company production is about trusting your audience—or not. Betrayal dissects an extramarital affair. For seven years, Emma and Jerry rent a furnished f lat for their afternoon trysts, even though Emma is married to Jerry’s best friend, Robert, and Jerry is married to a woman named Judith. The piece was inspired by Pinter’s own affair with television presenter Joan Bakewell, who was married to Pinter’s friend and professional ally, radio and TV producer Michael Bakewell. In a masterful device, the chronology of Betrayal moves backwards, starting in 1977, two years after the affair has ended, and arriving in 1968, when it began. The playwright plays variations on the theme of deception. Jerry decides, for instance, that Robert, whom he has been cuckolding for years, is not a true friend. Who knew exactly what and when did they know it? These characters are all British so, of course, they never say exactly what they mean. This elusive subtext and the shifting realities make for some intriguing scenes. And, playing Emma, Corina Akeson does particularly fine work in this Ensemble Theatre Company production. As she has proved playing male characters in Glengarry Glen Ross and The Winter’s Tale, Akeson is an actor of considerable emotional resources. Here, her Emma is complex and entirely credible, a woman who is capable of deep— but provisional—honesty. Tariq Leslie (Jerry) and James Gill (Robert) also do solid work, although neither fully matches Akeson’s authenticity. And there are significant problems with both the production and the script. In ham-fisted staging, director Matthew Bissett overexplains the play’s time line. Designer Heipo Leung’s set features a kind of hourglass: sand falls in a small but steady stream from the ceiling into a large glass cylinder on the floor. Okay, the play is about time. But whenever the story shifts backwards chronologically, actor Leslie walks around the falling sand as if worshipping it, and something or other plays in reverse in Paul Fouchard’s sound design. Audiences could have figured out the reversal without this folderol. Bissett also encourages his actors to lean so heavily into their subtext that sometimes it virtually becomes text. The weakness of the play is surprising. Pinter is a major dramatist and 1978’s Betrayal is considered one of his major works—but it looks dated. In an era of the monogamish, of polyamory and Dan Savage, it is increasingly apparent that, even though Betrayal examines self-deception as well as deception, its success also relies on the glamorization of infidelity, on the acceptance that, especially as intelligent people play the game, infidelity is inherently sophisticated and interesting. As this evening unfolded, however, Betrayal looked more and more like a period piece to me, a play about liars caught in the conventions of their time, people whom I didn’t much like and didn’t much care about.
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THE FAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: LIKE SHAKESPEARE, ONLY BETTER Two Canadian shows that turn some of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies into uproarious comedies. Plays include Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet and The Light and Delightful Musical
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Woody Allen comes back high on Society RE VIEW S
on weekend box office. Significantly, references to Pasolini, Sartre, and Zulawskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own filmography are set against jabs at Star Wars and a comment about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steven Spiel-bleurghâ&#x20AC;?, made by a characterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;played by 70-year-old Jean-François Balmer, the most joyously out-there of the bunchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who invents his own language. I LOLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d, but it was a bitter, existentially stricken kind of LOL.
CAFĂ&#x2030; SOCIETY Starring Jesse Eisenberg. Rated PG
Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect Woody Allen to
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anytime soon, even if his overly prolific approach yields an increasingly mixed rĂŠsumĂŠ. Midnight in Paris beautifully blended modernist impulses with his reverence for the past, Magic in the Moonlight not so much. Although densely plotted and more introspective in tone, CafĂŠ Society sometimes resembles Radio Days in its skeptical affection for the jazztinged world of his parents. The new filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woody substitute is Jesse Eisenberg, strong as a guileless yet oddly arrogant New Yorker named Bobby, making his way alone in mid-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;30s Hollywood. His uncle Phil, played with sharklike precision by Steve Carell, is a big-shot agent who takes forever to lend Bobby a hand. But, more importantly, he introduces the kid to his sexy, self-assured assistant, Vonnieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kristen Stewart, good in a more supple role than usual. She has a boyfriend, but he never seems to be around, and Vonnie shares Bobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jaded view of the studio world. Bobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Left Coast adventuresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; narrated, quite hoarsely, by the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are intercut with scenes from the reality he left behind, represented by his oft-arguing parents (Jeannie Berlin and Ken Stott) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;tough Jewâ&#x20AC;? brother Ben (Corey Stoll, of Girls and House of Cards), whose gangster ways have been keeping the family afloat during the Great Depression. Ben also runs a chi-chi nightclub, where Bobby finds some romantic competition (Blake Lively, likewise warmer than usual) for Vonnie, who wavers between beaux. A sense of unfinished business hangs over them, giving this sun-dappled snow globe a bittersweet air.
> ADRIAN MACK
STAR TREK BEYOND Starring Chris Pine. Rated PG
After putting together a new for Gene Roddenberryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic bridge ensemble, and taking them through two prequel adventures, J.J. Abrams has handed off the directing reins to Justin Lin, fresh from the Fast and the Furious franchise. Despite angst from some of the Trek-movie faithful who felt that Trek was already getting too colourful and blockbustery, Lin was an obvious choice, having amply demonstrated his ability to blend playful spectacle with a sense of bonding among a chosen family. This camaraderie is both the subject and subtext of Star Trek Beyond, which finally takes the new cast away from Earth-centred peril into the heart of their five-year mission. At the outset, Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) finds himself wondering about the purpose of their deep-space shenanigans. Strange new worlds are losing their appeal. He frets about having outlived his dad. If only he had a worthy adversary, someone who could truly endanger and therefore confirm his attachment to the Federation and his missionâ&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame to hire Idris Elba for the antagonist role and then bury him under a reptile mask, but his Krall does convey real peril. Since
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart make their way through 1930s Hollywood in the sumptuously shot Cafe Society.
The elements here are certainly familiarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a lighter version of Crimes and Misdemeanors, you might sayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never looked better, with fabled cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Last Tango in Paris) behind the digital camera. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a technical first for Allen, still searching for new ways to look back.
> KEN EISNER
COSMOS Starring Jonathan Genet. In French, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
Any new film from Polish nut-
2 ter Andrzej Zulawski is occasion enough to leave the house, but this is the last weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever hear from
the disruptive filmmaker, who died in February, soâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;get â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hot. Based on Witold Gombrowiczâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfilmable 1967 novel, Cosmos begins with young Witold himself (lanky Jonathan Genet, who looks like he was extruded from a massive tube of Frenchness) making his way to a country guesthouse when he stumbles upon a ritually hanged sparrow. Sensing a mystery and ignited by paranoia, the young would-be lawyer, who really wants to be a writer, sets out to break (or invent) a code that seems to involve a garden rake, more hangings, and the oversized cleft lip of his maid, Catherette (ClĂŠmentine Pons, who turns up later in another role). In a propulsive cascade of Dadaesque poetry, Witold narrates these
investigations to both himself and his possibly gay companion Fuchs (Johan LibĂŠreau), or as he bangs away at an unfinished novel. In reality, if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right word, Witoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monologue dances around his erotic fixation on Lena (VictĂłria Guerra), the married daughter of periodically catatonic and permanently cuckoo innkeeper Madame Woytis (Sabine AzĂŠma, not insignificantly the widow of Alain Resnais). With this already heady material heightened by Zulawskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antic styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;true to form, the filmmaker has his actors whirling around like bedlamites trying to learn modern danceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cosmos might be asking how much gratuitous expression we can tolerate in a world built entirely
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preeminent conductors. Jul 30, 2 pm, Vancouver Convention Centre East (999 Canada Place). Tix $25/20/15, info www.ihs2016vancouver.ca/.
ECHOES III Cellist Marina Hasselberg presents music on modern and baroque cellos, electronics, voice, and small instruments. Jul 30, 8-9 pm, The Gold Saucer Studio (211A, 207 W. Hastings). Tix $20/15, info www.marinahasselberg.com/.
Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2GRAHAM CLARK Jul 28-30 2PATRICK MALIHA Aug 4-6 2TIM NUTT Aug 11-13 2DJ DEMERS Aug 18-20 2TRIXX Aug 25-27 2ERICA SIGURDSON Sep 1-3 2DAN QUINN Sep 8-10
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VANCOUVER BACH FESTIVAL Early Music Vancouver presents a series of concerts featuring faculty and guest artists from all over the world in a celebration of the works of classical composer J.S. Bach. Aug 2-12, 7:30 pm, Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard). Tix $18-67, info www.early music.bc.ca/tickets/summer-festival/.
COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED SUNEE DHALIWAL Canadian comic tapes his new live special Broken Dreams. Aug 4, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10, info www.facebook. com/events/1021901104573514/. T.J. MILLER Just for Laughs Live and JFL Northwest present Denver comedian on his standup tour, the Meticulously Ridiculous Tour. Sep 7, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/.
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Brayton (Sep 1), and Nicole Oliver (Sep 8). To Sep 8, 9:15 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.
GRAHAM CLARK Vancouver standup comedian and regular on CBC’s The Debaters. Jul 28-30, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. JAMES KENNEDY Standup comedian performs a solo show. Jul 29, 8 pm; Jul 30, 7 pm; Jul 30, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/.
ET CETERA YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, 2THIS WEEK amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 ALTERNATIVE PRIDE FESTIVAL and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, Vancouver’s first Alternative Pride Festival is a grass-roots festival highlighting and Fri-Sat $20.2JAMES KENNEDY Jul 29-30 Vancouver’s alternative culture. Jul 28– VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Aug 1, Vancouver Art and Leisure (1965 Some of the world’s most daring and Main). Tix $69, info www.facebook.com/ innovative improv. The Big Picture: An events/1648956178760653/. Improvised Movie (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 HARMONY ARTS FESTIVAL Ten-day pm); Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv festival showcasing visual, performing, After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash literary, and culinary arts features over 55 (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 acts on three stages, art markets, artist pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and workshops, pop-up restaurants, drop-in Sat, 9:30 pm). Jul 27–Aug 3, The Improv kids activities, and nightly movies. Jul 29– Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Aug 7, West Vancouver Waterfront (1564 Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/. Argyle Ave., West Vancouver). Free, info 2THIS WEEK www.harmonyarts.ca/. FIRECRACKER! The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents evenings of improv comedy that explore what it means to be a woman in Vancouver. Guests include Cassandra Anderton (Jul 28), Briana Buckmaster (Aug 4), Sadie Campbell (Aug 11), Burgundy Brixx (Aug 18), Beverley Elliott (Aug 25), Morgan
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SCULPTORS’ SOCIETY OF B.C. ANNUAL SHOW Ninth-annual exhibit features a wide range of modern sculpture, including bronze, stone, hybrid animal/ human droids, interactive automata, ceramic, and classical busts. Jul 29–Aug 1, 10 am–8 pm, VanDusen Botanical Garden (5251 Oak). Info www.richardmarcus.ca/.
VANCOUVER BY WAY OF SEVILLE Fin de Fiesta Flamenco is based in the dance form’s hothouse of Seville, Spain, but its core members’ connections to Vancouver go deep. Both dancer and artistic director Lia Grainger and flutist Lara Wong are ex-Vancouverites (though they’ve settled in Andalusia) and Italian percussionist Davide Sampaulo splits his time between here and Spain. Singer Alejandro Mendía is married to a Vancouverite and his own band, Les Noces Gitanes, played the Vancouver International Folk Festival this summer. But when they bring the Fin de Fiesta show AUDACIA here, it will be all about the fiery Spanish dance and music, from its beginnings to its more contemporary interpretations. They may have roots here, but these artists are set to transport you to a sun-baked tablao next Thursday (August 4) at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. You can also catch them on August 14, at the free All Over the Map afternoon shows at Granville Island’s Ron Basford Park. POWELL STREET FESTIVAL The 40th-annual event celebrates JapaneseCanadian arts and culture through live performances, martial arts, crafts, and food. Highlights include Australian koto virtuoso Miyama McQueen-Tokita, Tutchone-Japanese Tlingit-Scottish folk singer Diyet, and the premiere of Chordophone, the violalooping electronica brainchild of brothers Marcus and James Takizawac. Jul 30-31, Oppenheimer Park (400 Powell). The event also runs at Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, and Vancouver Buddhist Temple, info www.powellstreetfestival.com/.
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
MUSEUMS 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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the trailer has given it away, it is not a massive spoiler (warning: massive spoiler) to mention that the Enterprise crew find themselves wrecked on an uncharted planet in deep space, with nothing to save them but raw intelligence, witty banter, and a convenient new friend, the alien scavenger girl Jaylah (Sofia Boutella, spunky). I have qualms about the movie, including pointless 3-D and arguably the most absurd Trek action sequence since the Lt. Uhura fan dance in The Final Frontier, if not the Melkotian re-enactment of the O.K. Corral gunfight. But Trek is inherently goofy, and that’s not a detriment. At its best, Star Trek is a story about people who know, and appreciate, that they are the greatest crew in the fleet. That’s what I felt as a kid watching a black-and-white TV, and for significant stretches of this movie, felt again. It’s not Beyond. It’s Back. > RON YAMAUCHI
PHANTOM BOY Featuring the voices of Fred Armisen and Vincent D’Onofrio. Rating unavailable
The mostly hand-drawn PhanBoy is a French-made, family-aimed animation that never goes very deep but stays engaging with its original style and bittersweet tone. Voiced by young Marcus D’Angelo in the English-language version, the title kid is Leo, a young cancer patient facing imminent hospitalization when he realizes something strange about his body: he’s able to leave it, move through walls, and fly high above this fanciful version of New York City. This happens while Gotham is threatened by an evil thug known as the Drumpf—I mean, the Face (a nicely cackling Vincent D’Onofrio), who threatens to shut down the whole grid if he doesn’t get a better-than-Dr.-Evil-scale ransom. A police detective named Alex (Jared Padalecki, a.k.a. Rory’s boyfriend Dean on The Gilmore Girls) soon arrives, after getting banged up chasing the Face and his thugs (Fred Armisen and Joey Camen). Alex’s boss (Bill Lobley) is the blustery sort of comic-book chief who won’t believe a single word our wounded hero says about what’s going down at the docks. Apparently, he knows no one else at the NYPD, so good thing his journalist girlfriend (Melissa Disney, replacing Audrey Tautou in the French-language original) can follow up. And even better when Phantom Boy can follow, to see if she’s safe. The plot, from codirectors JeanLoup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol (Oscar-nominated for 2010’s A Cat in Paris), hinges on modern technology, but both style and story recall the blocky graphics of WWII–era Superman cartoons, as if drawn by Picasso and other minimalist linesmen. (Serge Besset’s old-school orchestral score is another plus.) It’s hard to know what the filmmakers are saying about Leo’s precarious state, hovering between life and death, and Gagnol’s script isn’t witty enough to make you forget the noir clichés. But kids won’t be bothered by the throwback stuff, and most grownups will enjoy the lovingly crafted images of a mythical city at night.
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Phantom Boy (left) should win over audiences with its lovingly crafted images; horror flick Lights Out (right), not so much.
a witty script that’s packed with GenZ-friendly pop-culture references. The problem is the way the story stays in such safe, silly territory. Based on the novel of the same name, Nerve could not have been timed better, with Pokémon Go sending millions around the world into a virtual chase—not to mention the rise of everything from Anonymous to Periscope. Here, the new web obsession is a sort of secret Internetbased game of truth or dare, where kids either get paid to play or pay to watch. (“Are you a watcher or a gamer?” the game, Nerve, asks in its giant glowing-pink letters.) At first, Joost and Schulman present the game as a positive force, with shy, passive Vee (Emma Roberts) finding confidence by putting herself out there. And, initially, Nerve is about innocent fun and fantasy, spanning shopping sprees and anonymous kisses. But when she hooks up with another gamer, Ian (Dave Franco), the dares become more dangerous—and it becomes
clear it’s going to be hard to leave the competition. A lot feels familiar here, with an idiotically over-thetop climax that has overtones of The Hunger Games. What’s irritating about Nerve— as much as it feels progressive and features a savvy, rainbow-nation cast—is how it refuses to play its own truth-or-dare game. It’s never brave enough to delve into the more menacing issues of the dark web, and doesn’t truly dig into the implications of all of your private information being served up on the Internet. It ultimately prefers pranks—and not exactly adrenaline-pumping ones— over probing paranoia. Now back to catching Pokémon. > JANET SMITH
are out and its silhouette is visible. Illumination renders the thing harmless, so there’s a helluva lot of victims-to-be sprinting for light switches and fumbling with f lashlights in this movie. That’s basically all it is, in fact. Maria Bello plays Sophie, the depressed mom of scared young boy Martin (Gabriel Bateman) and rebellious adult daughter Rebecca (Teresa Palmer). All three are struggling with the pain caused
by the opening-scene murder of their husband/father (Billy Burke), whose workplace didn’t have adequate lighting to keep the aforementioned ghost-bitch at bay. Turns out the Mama-like being, known as Diana, has an unwavering attachment to Sophie because they attended the same mental institution as kids before Di got vaporized by some primitive form of electroshock therapy. Now the pesky apparition just wants to hang out in the shadows at Sophie’s big ol’ house and scare the shit out of her kid. Lights Out is based on director David F. Sandberg’s three-minute short of the same name, but when producer James (The Conjuring) Wan decided to f lesh it out into a feature he shouldn’t have hired the same screenwriter who cowrote the bogus remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Thing. The dialogue often comes across as phony and forced, just like the obtrusive Avenged Sevenfold poster strategically plastered on Rebecca’s living-room wall. It’s obvious that the film wants Diana’s threatening presence to be seen as a metaphor for Sophie’s deteriorating mental state, but the f limsiness of the script and the soso performances—including Alexander DiPersia’s comic-relief role as Rebecca’s lovestruck boyfriend Bret—don’t muster up the required weight for that. This ain’t The Babadook, people. > STEVE NEWTON
“A THRILLING, REMARKABLE DEBUT WITH STAR-MAKING TURNS FROM CONNOR JESSUP AND ALIOCHA SCHNEIDER.” THE GLOBE & MAIL
LIGHTS OUT Starring Maria Bello. Rated 14A
Lights Out is a new hor-
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ghoul that you can only see—and get terrorized by—when the lights
“DEFTLY HANDLED AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL.” SCREEN DAILY
“EXEMPLIFIES EVERYTHING THAT I LOVE ABOUT CINEMA.” BLACK SHEEP REVIEWS
“DUNN FINDS HIS OWN DIRECTORIAL VOICE THAT IS EQUAL PARTS XAVIER DOLAN AND DAVID CRONENBERG.” SCENE CREEK
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NERVE Starring Emma Roberts. Rated PG
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With her records pretty much the antithBY MIKE US IN G ER
esis of shiny modern country, it makes sense that Kacey Musgraves has notions as to what constitutes a great live-music venue. If a room doesn’t have a history, the Nashville-based renegade would rather find one that does. “I’ve made it a point on this tour to kind of book ourselves in places that have a story to tell and a vibe that’s all their own,” the Texas-raised Musgraves says, speaking on her cellphone from Music City. “It’s a lot more fun for me to play in a place that has a soul and that seems to be about the music. I don’t like playing places that are brand-new out of the box—that’s not fun for anybody. I love old theatres, so I think the Vogue is going to be great.” Built in 1941 and standing as one of the few remaining examples of great art-deco architecture in Vancouver, the Vogue is a natural fit for the show the 27-year-old is bringing to town. As one might deduce from its title—the Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue—the road show is rooted in a folksier past, when country and western wasn’t run by the radio-obsessed suits in Nashville. Musgraves’s retro slant when playing live should surprise no one. After all, her two major-label albums—Same Trailer Different Park and Pageant Material—found her making it clear that
An old-school country rebel
Kacey Musgraves’s favourite Instagram filter is the one that makes it look as if you’re standing beside a window in the light of a golden late-July afternoon.
Arrow” (“Kiss lots of boys/Or kiss lots of girls/ If that’s what you’re into”), and takes down America’s obsession with superficial Kacey Musgraves reveres classic western swing, beauty on “Pageant Mabut her subversive lyrics mark her as a maverick terial” (“Who’s to say that I’m a 9.5 or a 4.0”). the only rules she’s going to play by are her own. Musically, Musgraves has not only studied the “The Rhinestone Revue is songs from both rec- masters from country’s golden age, but proved ords, with some really fun covers thrown in,” she eager to pay homage to them. Pageant Material’s says. “It’s really giving a nod to an old-school form “Biscuits” is powered by old-school Flatt & Scruggs of entertainment. I looked up the definition, and banjo, while Marty Robbins would approve of the a revue is all about satirical songs about society gunfighter-ballad guitar on “High Time”. and life. And funny bits—showcasing talents and After getting her start performing in counlittle skits. So I just thought, ‘We could do that. try talent shows as a kid, Musgraves eventually My songs are already about life and poking fun at became more enamoured with emo giants like various things, and we all have weird little talents.’ Dashboard Confessional. Eventually, though, she “We’re kind of out to make it all about enter- came back to her roots. tainment, you know?” Musgraves continues. “The “When I started going to shows and stuff, it was shows almost have an old school-play kind of vibe, the mid ’90s,” she says with a laugh. “But I did and because of that I wanted something classic- grow up singing traditional western swing and sounding for the name. I didn’t want to just call country music, so I gained an appreciation for it the tour the Pageant Material tour. It’s the Kacey and a knowledge of what was going on in that era. Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue I kind of moved away from it when I figured that because that sums things up perfectly.” I loved writing songs and realized I had my own Summing up Kacey Musgraves isn’t as easy. shit to write about. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve Every story written on her inevitably zeroes in come back to my appreciation for that old western on her maverick streak: a New York Times profile swing that I used to think was so dorky when I was was headlined “Kacey Musgraves’s Rebel Twang”; 12. I’m really proud that I’m one of the only people Rolling Stone ran a piece titled “Unbreakable Ka- in country music bringing that style back with my cey Musgraves: Nashville’s Sharpest Rebel Walks clothes and aesthetically with my sound—having the Line”; and Noisey trumpeted “Kacey Mus- the pedal steel all over everything.” graves Is Straight Up Real Shit.” Purists will argue that Musgraves’s idea of All this makes Musgraves sound like she sits what constitutes a traditionalist is a little differaround a Tennessee trailer park snorting whisky, ent from the founding fathers of country. If old smoking dope, and cooking bathroom-sink meth YouTube clips and vintage photos are any indiwith Hank Williams III. The reality is that she’s cation, Bob Wills and Hank Williams didn’t figured out that a little subversiveness goes a long take to stages festooned with glowing neon cacway when you’re working in pop music’s most tuses, and they didn’t pitch signed pink flaminconservative genre. gos into the audience to show their appreciation Both Same Trailer Different Park and Pageant for full houses. But if Musgraves has learned Material take aim at deserving targets, from anything during her time in the business, it’s TMZ.com–brand muckraking (“This Town”) to that the greats—from Wills and Williams the Nashville country establishment (“Good Ol’ to Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn—became Boys Club”). Musgraves comes out on the right legends by drawing up their own playbooks. side of the LGBT movement with “Follow Your And things don’t get more old-school than that.
“I’m a big fan of John Prine and Roger Miller— they taught me that songs can pack a punch,” she says. “You can have a depressing song, but if you can take a sarcastic approach it kind of lightens the load a little bit. I’ve never intended to be a lobbyist on any side, but I am proud of bringing people to country music who might never have listened to it and never thought they liked it. Country music has always been a genre about real life and real things: people losing their jobs, getting divorced, and cheating—all that crazy shit that happens in everyday life. That’s what I respect about country music, and that’s what I’m trying to keep alive.” Kacey Musgraves plays the Vogue Theatre on Tuesday (August 2).
in + out
Kacey Musgraves sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On learning Spanish: “It’s all about repetition. I had a tutor for a while, and then on the road we would Skype each other. I can understand it better than I can speak it. But then I’ll go through a period of not having it around, and I forget everything that I’ve learned.” On fame: “It’s not my driving force, and it kind of freaks me out a little bit. It’s a losing battle to have to constantly be keeping up with trends and having to top yourself. I’d rather start out with a slow burn, show everyone who you are, and then don’t compromise anything.” On sustaining a career: “Look at John Prine or Patty Griffin—when’s the last time you heard a John Prine single on the radio? And no one cares—he can still sell out a theatre in the blink of an eye. Same with Patty Griffin and Ryan Adams. Those are the careers that I love. Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris just want to be themselves, and I love them for it.”
Diyet’s healing songs tackle tough topics What Diyet sees when she looks
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far removed from the Downtown Eastside as is imaginable. “I have an amazing view,” the mono-monikered singer-songwriter reports from the Yukon, the morning after a Whitehorse show. “We’re right on big Kluane Lake, so I see the lake, and the mountains, and my garden.” It’s majestic terrain, yet Diyet will fit right in when she plays Oppenheimer Park this weekend, as part of the 40th annual Powell Street Festival—and not only because her Japanese-Canadian ancestors lived and worked in the DTES prior to being forcibly removed during the Second World War. The topics she’s writing about on her as-yet-untitled sophomore album are just as relevant to the corner of Powell and Gore as they are to the Burwash Landing homestead she shares with husband and bandmate Robert van Lieshout—even if that’s a connection she hadn’t made until now.
“With this new record that we’re working on right now, writingwise, I went a little bit more introspective,” Diyet says. “As I look back on some of the tunes and ref lect on the lyrics—you know, ‘Do I need to change this? Do I need to work on it?’—I see that it’s really about relationships. I don’t know if I’d say it’s more personal, but it’s definitely coming from a more personal place. And that’s a little bit scary. Sometimes you go, ‘Is that a can of worms, or is that something to bring out and talk about?’ “I live in a really small village, and in the last few years we’ve suffered some big tragedies,” she continues. “And how that affects the people in such a small place is that you really have to learn to depend on each other for emotional support and emotional health—which is something that does not happen in a larger centre, where you’ve got a wider network and some anonymity.”
The ever-untrusting Diyet always keeps one eye over her shoulder.
Although the tragedies Diyet is referring to were specific to her community, parallels can be drawn with the DTES, which is currently reeling under an onslaught of fentanyl-related overdoses. And in both cases, music can help the survivors cope with grief.
“Sometimes you feel like you have to shoulder some of those things— those tough topics and hard losses—by yourself,” Diyet says, before adding that she hopes one of her new pieces, tentatively titled “Mourning Song”, will help others share the burden of emotional trauma. “I wrote it after my community had two deaths by suicide, just as something that was intended to be a healing thing for myself,” she explains. “I wanted to process some of those thoughts like ‘What happens after? What about the persons that are left behind?’ “There’s grief, you know, but there’s also an underlying layer of anger,” she adds. “People get mad— not at the person, but at the situation. Mad at the ‘why’, right? So I’m asking, ‘What about those people that are left thinking those thoughts?’ And is it okay to feel that way?” Diyet is still puzzling over how those questions can be answered—
but by asking them so bravely, she’s doing a favour for her community, and for ours.
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Diyet plays the Powell Street Festival on Saturday (July 30).
The Cat Empire grabbed hold of a good, raw vibe The Cat Empire was, by its own
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cording its sixth album—but not out of negligence. Used to rehearsing tracks meticulously before setting foot in the studio, the multiplatinum-selling six-piece decided to mix things up for its new record by creating the album live in the studio. “In the past we would have been a bit stressed about our lack of groundwork,” drummer Will Hull-Brown tells the Straight, on the line from his see next page
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wasn’t a sink plug. It was a potentially hazardous situation, so I made sure to be very careful around them. So that kind of bled over into, a few beers later, writing lyrics for the song and thinking about the earrings on the sink.”
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Omni plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Wednesday (August 3).
The Deslondes’ tunesmiths love to get people dancing The Cat Empire has saved this confetti since Coldplay’s 2012 Mylo Xyloto Tour.
As anyone who’s been there
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can just become free and go into this city that changes the way you think other world. That’s what Rising With about life. the Sun is all about—living in the moDecadence becomes something ment, and releasing your inner wolf.” to be embraced when standing at > KATE WILSON the jazz brunch buffet in the French Quarter’s Court of Two Sisters restauThe Cat Empire plays the Commo- rant. Who cares about the guaranteed dore Ballroom on Tuesday and Wed- hangover—one more drink seems nesday (August 2 and 3). like the best thing in the world when considering that fifth hurricane at Pat O’Brien’s Bar. And, in the case of Sam Doores, New Orleans can make you realize the last thing you want to do is be sitting on a stool with an acoustic Along with drummer Billy guitar when everyone wants to hit the Mitchell, singer-bassist Philip dance floor and party. Frobos was once a member of the When the multi-instrumentalist noise-pop outfit Carnivores. With and eventual Deslondes cofounder that in mind, you might assume that first arrived in the Crescent City, he the two Georgia-based musicians was a 19-year-old kid enamoured with named their current act, Omni, as the likes of Bob Dylan and Woody a sort of tongue-in-cheek nod to the Guthrie. Pretty quickly, he realized he previous one. (As in omnivore and wasn’t in the right town if he wanted carnivore.) You would be wrong. to be spending his nights getting “I hadn’t even thought of that introspective for captive audiences. until just now,” Frobos says when the “Being a solo musician in New Straight reaches him en route to a New Orleans doesn’t last for very long,” Orleans tour stop along with Mitch- Doores says, speaking on his cellell and guitarist Frankie Broyles. “It phone from a Colorado tour stop. was originally inspired by the Omni “It’s a real dance culture there, not Coliseum, the old basketball stadium so much of a sit-and-listen culture. and concert venue in Atlanta. David If you play enough solo shows you Bowie and Led Zeppelin played there, eventually want to have a bigger and all the legendary Hawks players sound and a more energetic show. played there in the ’80s.” And there are so many amazing It’s a suitably nostalgic reference. musicians to play with that you start Frobos doesn’t mind that people putting bands together for fun just so find the music he makes with Omni you can play together.” to be a little on the retro side. Even The first big step towards doing the website of the group’s own label, that was renting a house. Trouble in Mind, places Omni’s “I was looking for a place with a debut LP, Deluxe, squarely within the buddy who was my roommate at the confines of a particular time period: time, and we’d always go down to the “It’s still the summer of ’78.” Lower 9th Ward and walk around Indeed, the raw and artfully angu- the levee because of the beautiful lar jangle of numbers such as “After- view. There were all these beautiful life” and “Jungle Jenny”—rooted in little houses that no one was living postpunk but sending tendrils into in, so my friend wrote a letter to the weirdo pop and spazz-jazz—would landlord and put it in the mailbox, sound great on an 8-track cassette saying ‘If you’re looking for someone alongside tracks by Devo, Josef K, to move in, we’d love that.’ And the Pylon, and Television. guy actually wrote back.” “When we started writing songs, It was there that the Deslondes we kinda accidentally hit a nerve came together, the group named afwith a song that was inspired by ter the street its jam house was situthat time,” singer-bassist Frobos ated on. Doores would hook up with admits. “And then we took that four songwriters who also sang lead: and kinda ran with it, so you could bassist Dan Cutler, guitarist Riley definitely say that we found things Downing, drummer Cameron Snyin songs and music from that time der, and pedal-steel player/fiddler that we liked and wanted to apply John James Tourville. All came from to ours. But I definitely feel like a wide spectrum of musical backthere’s some modern variation as grounds, leading to a sound on The well, especially in a lot of Frankie’s Deslondes that’s rooted in rambling guitar work.” country (“The Real Deal”), but also Frobos reveals that in spite of Omni’s dabbles in Crescent City jazz (“Out often-intricate three-way interplay, the on the Rise”) and morphine-drip band develops its songs by jamming in R&B (“Low Down Soul”). Binding its rehearsal space. His lyrics, he says, the songs together is a sonic aesthetic are similarly an exercise in stream-of- reminiscent of a time when vinyl was consciousness composition. the only format that mattered. The “The majority of the lyrics are Deslondes’ warmth has everything to pretty spontaneous,” the singer do with the album being recorded on notes. “I tried to write them all the analogue equipment. And, perhaps, night when we were writing the song. the band coming together in a fashI didn’t want to overthink any of ion that was decidedly organic. them very much, and I also wanted “Over the years we’ve had a reel-toto go with whatever impulses I was reel set up and campfires in the backhaving lyrically, or I guess whatever yard,” Doores relates. “So we’d hang happened to me that day.” out in the backyard, trade songs, and The result is often delightfully have band practices. And that’s where bizarre imagery, as exemplified by the band really became a band.” these lines from “Earrings”: “You A band that’s a bit of an anomaly have such nice glassware/Was I the in a city known for its Cajun acts. first to stare/At your earrings and Which is fine, Doores notes, because chandeliers?/I want to grab onto at least when the Deslondes play them and swing.” locally, he knows that people are goPlayfully surreal as those words ing to be dancing. Yes, he’s changed are, they stem from a mundane since arriving in New Orleans wantobservation amplified by alcohol. ing to be the next Woody Guthrie. > MIKE USINGER “Earlier that day I was at my girlfriend’s apartment,” Frobos recalls. “They had some earrings actually The Deslondes play the Cobalt on on the sink and I noticed that there Wednesday (August 3).
Surreal lyrical images top Omni’s angular art attack
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TAL WILKENFELD Australian bass guitarist and performer tours in support of debut vocal album. Oct 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jul 29, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED RICHMOND WORLD FESTIVAL Performers include Walk Off the Earth, Delhi 2 Dublin, Tanga, Sammy Chien, De La Terra, Asi Somos, Colin Bullock, Will Stroet, Andrew Wade, and Vancouver Cantonese Opera. Event includes food truck festival, culinary stage, artistan market, and global village. Sep 3, 11 am--10 pm, Minoru Park (7191 Granville Ave., Richmond). Free, info www.richmondworldfestival.com/. ACTION BRONSON American rapper tours in support of upcoming release Human Highlight Reel, with guest Mayhem Lauren. Sep 12, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 28, 10 am, $40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CHROME SPARKS Brooklyn-based electronica artist tours in support of latest EP release Parallelism, with guest Roland Tings. Sep 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. PETUNIA & THE VIPERS Local bluegrass band plays tunes from new album Dead Bird On the Highway, with guests Crow Quill Night Owls from Seattle. Sep 24, 8-11:55 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.petuniaandthevipers.com/. BEACH FOSSILS New York indie-rock band, with guests Joyce Manor and Frankie Cosmos. Oct 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Jul 29, 12 pm, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
PURITY RING Canadian electropop duo tours in support of latest release Another Eternity with guest Hana. Oct 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jul 29, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL The Georgia Straight presents live blues and roots music by Colin James, Frazey Ford, Cyril Neville and the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Como Mamas, Lindi Ortega, Cécile Doo-Kingué, Shred Kelly, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Dawn Pemberton, Ben Rogers, Billy Dixon, and Wes Mackie. Aug 6, doors 12 pm, show 1 pm, Deer Lake Park (6344 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix from $50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.burnabybluesfestival.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2OG SATURDAYS May 21 2BJ THE CHICAGO KID Jul 27 2BIBI BOURELLY Sep 15 2KING Oct 6 AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., TING! w/ Tank Gyal & guests Thu; Waldorf A Go-Go with Vinyl Ritchie Fri; Vision Saturdays. BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. 2BUSTER BROWN & THE NEW RESOLUTIONS Jul 31 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2RISING APPALACHIA Jul 28 2MISERY SIGNALS Jul 30 2SONGHOY BLUES Aug 2 2THE LADY SHOW @ THE BILTMORE Aug 12 2CLN Aug 25 2DAVID BAZAN Aug 28 2DANIEL CAESAR Sep 16 2CHROME SPARKS Sep 21 2NAO Sep 24 2MARLON WILLIAMS AND THE YARRA BENDERS Oct 7 2PANTHA DU PRINCE Oct 12 2TAL WILKENFELD Oct 13 2BLIND PILOT Oct 21 2THE BOXER REBELLION Oct 23 2BULLY Nov 11 2WILD CHILD Dec 6
BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. 2SIMMER Jul 27 2MAX ZIPURSKY Jul 28 2BRAD TURNER QUARTET Jul 29 2SPECTRUM Aug 2 2MAX ZIPURSKY QUARTET Aug 3 2FUNKY BISCUIT Aug 9 2ANDREW MOCKLER Aug 10 2RAY AYOTTE Aug 11 2SIOBHAN WALSH GROUP Aug 12 2SPECTRUM Aug 16 2FALCON TRIO Aug 17 2HIP POCKET Aug 19 2FUNKY BISCUIT Aug 23 2KELLY BROWN TRIO Aug 24 2BIG DADDY FUNK PARTY Aug 26 COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2WHITNEY Aug 1 2THE DESLONDES Aug 3 2MARISSA NADLER Aug 7 2JULIEN BAKER Aug 9 2FOUR YEAR STRONG Aug 14 2TURNOVER Aug 27 2JOSEPH ARTHUR Sep 16 2BEATY HEART Sep 20 2NICK WATERHOUSE Sep 28 2CYMBALS EAT GUITARS Oct 4 2WHITE FANG AND NO PARENTS Oct 9 2THE FELICE BROTHERS Oct 14 2CHIXDIGGIT Oct 15 2POSTER CHILDREN Oct 16 2PUP Nov 21 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2QUEER AS FUNK! Jul 29 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2AWOLNATION Aug 11 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP: A NATIONAL CELEBRATION Aug 20 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2JAKE BUGG Sep 7 2ACTION BRONSON Sep 12 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 2PENNYWISE Oct 1 2DJ SHADOW Oct 2 2SQUEEZE Oct 3 2TOKYO POLICE CLUB Oct 5 254-40 Oct 7 2PHANTOGRAM Oct 9 2GROUPLOVE Oct 10 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 2NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE Oct 12 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 2YOUNG THE GIANT Oct 26 2BOY & BEAR Oct 29 2MAJID JORDAN Oct 30 2ANDRA DAY Nov 8 2SHOVELS & ROPE Nov 9 2YELAWOLF Nov 13 2JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Nov 24 2JULY TALK Nov 25 2THE DANDY WARHOLS Dec 6 DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2JAH9 Jul 26 2WENCY
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RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20-22
FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2THE HOLY ROLLER REVUE Jul 28 2JOHN PAUL WHITE Jul 29 2RYLEY WALKER Oct 7 2ANDY SHAUF Oct 15 2RACHAEL YAMAGATA Oct 18 2KISHI BASHI Oct 19 2HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Oct 29 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11
ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 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
FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-7647865. 2THE MATADORS, BUTCH HALLER AND HIS CHESTERFIELD RAMBLERS, THE REKKENING, MARTIAN FLYTRAP Jul 29 2PYRAMIDION, MORTILLERY, M16, HALLUX Jul 30 2THE WANING LIGHT, PRECIOUS DUDES, HOLD THE LINE, GANGLYON Aug 5 2SAINTS IN HELL, OMEGA CROM, ANARCHEON Aug 6
THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. 2A WORK OF FICTION Jul 27 2CHLOE ANNE LLOYD, KELLEN SAIP Jul 28 2THE LUNAS, THE ELEVENS Jul 29 2FKB Aug 1 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2PASSENGER Aug 9 2HAYDEN Oct 4
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 2ROYAL CANOE Sep 30 2MARGO PRICE Oct 19 2TOM ODELL Oct 21 2WET Nov 2 2CLASSIXX Nov 4 2AUTOGRAF & GOLDROOM Nov 11 2THE JEZABELS Nov 13 2MICHAEL KIWANUKA Dec 7
VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 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 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Nov 1 2SONATA ARCTICA Nov 28
IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 268 LIPS Jul 29 2HARPDOG BROWN Jul 30 2WOODY JAMES BAND Aug 5 2NIGEL MACK & THE BLUES ATTACK Aug 6 2RHYTHM ST. Aug 12
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 2T.J. MILLER Sep 7 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 2DANNY BROWN Oct 6 2GOJIRA Oct 9 2GHOST Oct 13 2ZIGGY MARLEY Oct 16 2PURITY RING Oct 18 2MATTHEW BARBER AND JILL BARBER Oct 22 2THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Oct 28 2CHARLIE PUTH Nov 4 2LUKAS GRAHAM Nov 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2MØ Nov 23
LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-6874424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 2ROB THOMAS Sep 2 2MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND Sep 30 2GREAT WHITE & SLAUGHTER Oct 14 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2BAND OF HORSES Aug 20 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Sep 17 2SHARON AND BRAM Sep 18 2LINDSEY STIRLING Sep 28 2JAMES BLAKE Oct 13 2OPETH Oct 26 2PASSENGER Mar 25, 2017 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
WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2NCHU7MUT KAISA ONE HEART ONE MIND ONE SPIRIT Jul 28 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Aug 9 2FRANK YAMMA Aug 11
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Purge My spouse went out for the first time in years and I have the place to myself. Taking the time to play the same song on repeat and cry about my dad dying. Hurts so much but I’m so glad to have this time alone tonight. Life is hard and a good ugly cry always helps.
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savage love I’m 28 years old and live in the Midwest. I’m intersex, but I identify as female. I am not out about being born intersex. Due to surgeries and hormones, I look like a fairly attractive female. I have been hanging out with a chill hetero guy, and things are getting very fl irty. Is it unethical of me to not disclose my intersexness to him? > IN NEW TERRIFIC EROTIC ROMANCE
“We all have to make decisions about what we disclose to partners or potential partners and when we disclose it,” said Alice Dreger, historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, and author. Dreger, for readers who may not be familiar with her, is the founding board chair of the Intersex Society of North America and the author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice. Intersex, for readers who may not be familiar with the word, is an umbrella term covering dozens of different inborn conditions. “They all involve someone having something other than the standard male or standard female body as those are defined by doctors,” explained Dreger. “There are lots of different ways to be intersex, including some so subtle that you might never even know you had that particular variation of development.” So that chill hetero boy you’re thinking about disclosing your intersexness to, INTER? He could be
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> BY DAN SAVAGE congenital adrenal hyperplasia,’ or, ‘I was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome,’ or whatever her specific condition might be, and then answer his questions,” said Dreger. “If the label ‘intersex’ were part of her core identity—a critical part of who she feels she is—then she might want to tell him early on, just as someone might talk about her ethnicity if that’s really important to her. But otherwise, she can disclose just like nonintersex people do with regard to fertility, sexual health, sexual sensation, sexual preferences, and sexual function—at a pace and in a way that promotes a good relationship and makes you feel honest and understood. And no one can tell her she has to use the term intersex. That’s entirely up to her.” Follow Alice Dreger on Twitter @AliceDreger.
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affirmed? Or would you be writing to ask me why your husband looks at porn of women with your exact body type when he can look at you? And is your husband sharing his porn with you… or are you combing through his browser history? Either way, PORN, if looking at what he’s looking at makes you sad… maybe you should stop looking at what he’s looking at? And if he’s not neglecting you sexually… if he isn’t just saying he finds you hot and sexy but showing you he does… why waste time policing his fantasies? People enjoy what they have and fantasize about what they don’t. So long as we don’t take what we have for granted… it’s not a problem… unless we decide to make it one.
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All it takes is one good push to tip it over or one good one to change everything. Thursday/ Friday could revive you in some significant way. From this point forward, you are wise to hit the ground running. Through Wednesday, you can cover a lot of ground and accomplish plenty. One way or another, Mercury in Virgo and Mars in Sagittarius pile it up on you.
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Something or someone is about to set you on a new course. The instigator could be you. Friday is a game-changer day, perhaps instantly or radically so. Even if there’s a price to pay upfront, you’re on your way to substantial gain. Mercury into Virgo, starting Saturday, and Mars into Sagittarius, starting Tuesday, give you more to work with and toward.
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Friday’s Mercury/Mars can pit you against yourself, another, or it, but rather than push or struggle, watch for Uranus to plug you into something fresh. Mercury into Virgo and Mars into Sagittarius are ideally timed for a getaway or vacation start. Both also put more on brew than is readily visible. You own it Monday through Wednesday. Tuesday’s new moon provides a great boost.
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VIRGO
August 23–September 23
Whether there’s an event to pin it on or it’s an inner awakening, watch for Uranus and the end of the week to turn it around for you in some dynamic way. Both Mercury into Virgo, starting Saturday, and Mars into Sagittarius, starting Tuesday, mobilize health, home, real estate, finances, and family matters. Sunday through Wednesday, you’ll work it out well.
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November 22–December 21
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PISCES
December 21–January 20
Thursday/Friday brings pressure, then release. Uranus can put you into a rebellious, let-loose, or impatient mood. When it comes to entertaining yourself or others, try on something new for size. Mercury into Virgo, starting Saturday, is well timed for vacationing, visits, travel, scouting, or getting a move on. Sunday/Monday are great for making it official. January 20–February 18
The end of the week brings you to a finish line or goal post, but there’s no time to dwell. Uranus retrograde can pull the plug or push the refresh button, perhaps in some unexpected way. Mercury into Virgo and Mars into Sagittarius put you on a two-month mission. Make the most of what you have to work with. February 18–March 20
Has it plagued you as of late? One way or another, Friday’s Mercury/Mars works the kinks out of the system. End of the week, Uranus can dish up something unexpected. For the next two months, Mercury in Virgo puts added emphasis on improving communication tracks and making better inroads. Mars into Sagittarius helps you to gain better control. -
Thursday/Friday can crack it open. Uranus can put you in the know, perhaps unexpectedly so. As of Saturday, Mercury into Virgo gives you something added to work with and toward. Sunday/Monday, favour, reward, approval, or acceptance comes readily. Tuesday’s new moon launches a social, travel, and opportunity cycle. Mars into Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s Sagittarius pushes your refresh button free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. and/or puts you or it on the move.
> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < OSOYOOS BC 2001, 2002 SUMMER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Osoyoos BC Cabana Beach It only says 2006 because that's as far back as it goes uh oh. This is as long of a long shot as it gets, I think, but here goes: me - 18 or 19 (best guess) blonde hair. I think I was wearing it in two braids that summer, but I might be wrong. I was skinny girl kinda pale (I know sounds hot). I think I had 2-3 tattoos by then. I was there with my family; mom and my two sisters, and my cousins. I was staying in a tent with my cousin, she had long brown hair or were white btw. You were there with your family, you were staying in a tent with two other guys right by the office/store thing. This was at a camp site called Cabana Beach. I think that you said you were from Alberta or Ontario originally and you were visiting and something to do with your mom deciding where to live. Not very sure on that one tbh. You had a BMX you would ride around and you also weren’t super tall, I’m like 5’3” and was same height then too and you weren’t like towering over me like almost everyone else. Anyway, on my last night there I can remember spending a memorable night with you - obviously if I can still remember after all these years! We didn’t have sex just cuddling and stuff and I remember thinking that I was sure I would see you again but never did as far as I know. I can be a bit spacey (ha ha) sometimes and not recognize people, so I’m sorry if I did run into you and not remember. If you remember, please reply. Obviously some other things that you remember because I’m not getting scammed/tricked by a perv! Thank you!
I SAW YOU AT THE Q BAR, EMPRESS FAIRMONT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2016 WHERE: Fairmont Empress Q Bar, and Next Day Outside The Empress. I saw you sitting in SW corner of the Fairmont Empress Q Bar near the water on Thursday July 21/early July 22. I have short cropped blonde hair, and am fairly tall at 5’9”, but not as tall as you. You were sitting with a group of three other people, 2 women and a man. I thought you had beautiful eyes, your hands were in your lap, so I couldn’t see if you had a ring. I was with a group I’d been working with, and left past your table from the outside patio - I didn’t think it was appropriate to disturb you at the time, but wanted to say hi. Saw you the next day outside, but lost my nerve to say hello. Wish I hadn’t. If you’re single, and by some chance see this, I’d love to hear from you.
TRAGICALLY HIP CONCERT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 24, 2016 WHERE: Hip Concert, Section 311 Sunday’s Hip concert, Section 311. You were in Row 10 seat 1 I think. I was 2 rows back and 2 seats over. We had a couple of moments of eye contacts and smiles. We could have been more but I was a little self-conscious that I kept crying. Emotional night, great show, amazing goodbye to Gord. Maybe there is a hello in there somewhere too?
FIRE WORKS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 23, 2016 WHERE: Fireworks: between Sunset Beach and English Bay I was with my family (daughter, mother and her partner) and you were sitting next to us with a lady friend. We made eyes a few times. I gave you a smile, you gave one back. I got such a warm and easy going sense from you. I’m sure you’ve gotten remarks on being Paul Rudds’ blonde doppelganger in the past. I’d say he has nothing on you, though. In true cliche, “I’ve never done this before” but if you see this, I’d love to get together for coffee or a drink sometime.
BRIGHT SMILE ON THE HOWE SOUND CREST TRAIL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 24, 2016 WHERE: Howe Sound Crest Trail I was the muddy solo hiker you passed on your way up as I was making my way back down. I was in maroon tech pants and a blue sports bra. I don’t remember what you were wearing because the image of your bright smiling eyes were what stayed with me. You were tall, brown curly hair. We had a very short exchange; just hi’s and how are you’s? You said you were excellent. I was already having a great day. You made it even better. Want company on your next hike?
RUSSIAN BEAUTY ON 135 SFU
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 24, 2016 WHERE: 135 to SFU
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I was sitting at the back corner of the bus. You were sitting on the side bench on the opposite side of the bus from me. We kept exchanging glances and smiles. I’m sorry if I was staring, but you really are a very beautiful Russian girl. Your name starts with an S, mine starts with a B. I got off at Rosser Ave. You stayed on, so I have no clue where you got off. In the unlikely event that you do see this, coffee/ dinner/ drinks?
CAMERON @ XY YVR-SATURDAY NIGHT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 23, 2016 WHERE: XY YVR Dance Floor We were on the dance floor at XY, had a dance circle going, I turned to you and said “you’re hot.” We then exchanged names between us and another guy. I was with a friend, who was new to the city, so was looking after him. I tried to talk to you later, but it didn’t work out. I hope you see this, remember me and we can meet up some time. If you remember my name, cool. If you can tell me anything about the person who started the introductions, great. Anything else about that night? Hope to hear from you.
GREEN HAIR AND PRETTY EYES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 22, 2016 WHERE: 19 Metrotown
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My friend and I walked onto the bus and you and I smiled at each other briefly. I saw that some big drunk dude behind you kept attempting to talk to you so I asked how your night went. You were with friends at the Pint and my friend and I had left the beach. You showed us some of your make up work from film school, and jokingly asked for a bite of my burger when the other drunk guy started pillaging my friend's fries. You introduced yourself and told us to find you on Facebook but I didn’t have any luck finding you. Thought I should give this a go.
QUIZNOS ON BROADWAY CANADA LINE BRIDGEPORT TO VANCOUVER 602 AND 311 BUS ARRIVALS 5:50 AM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2016 WHERE: Canada Line Bridgeport Stn to Olympic Village You and I are making eye contact and you like my brightly colored shoes. I carry a heavy knapsack. You are Jamaican and I am Caucasian. Your stop is Olympic Village, mine: Vancouver City. We have met in the line up for home around 5:00pm 601/311 Bay. You first saw me with a gf and now you seem to still wish to connect with me after looking over your sunglasses and asking me if I will be on the platform next day at 6:00 am.
CASHIER - BURRARD LIQUOR STORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 11, 2016 WHERE: Burrard Liquor Store - 8th and Burrard I was buying beer, you were cute. I was one of your last customers that night, your older coworker was already cashing out his till. I made a comment about not getting ID’d, you told me a story about your female friend who also has a baby face. I told you I play 14 on TV. You were blushing while talking to me. I wanted to ask you out, but your coworker was staring us down, so I left. I know this is a long shot/it was a couple weeks ago now, but... I’d love to go on a date with you!
LANGLEY SUSHI
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 18, 2016 WHERE: Samba Sushi Fraser Highway Langley Sexy guy at Samba Sushi in Langley Monday night. Are you single?? :-)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 22, 2016 WHERE: Broadway, Kitsilano, Vancouver You were ordering sandwiches at the Bayswater & Broadway Quiznos (in Kits). You gave me a winning smile when I waltzed in and asked the sandwich maker to fill my water bottle. And a second smile as I left. You’re white, brown shaved hair. I was wearing a blue men’s business shirt and flowing badass leopard print pants. I considered asking for your number as I left but chickened out.
AT 8TH & MAIN STORE ON MAIN STREET
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2016 WHERE: The store 8th and Main on Main Street We passed each other on sidewalk and both turned around to view one another again. You: young and handsome in shorts and T, me: in white shorts and white top, longish blonde hair. I went in to the store and you came around and walked past store window couple times looking for me. I waved and you came in and asked if I was married, I said no. I would like a total redo of what happened next. Don’t know why I brushed you off, want to meet again and start over??
KEITH LOGAN HAT WITH ADELE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2016 WHERE: Davie Street
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You wore a Keith Logan hat and were with a drag queen dressed as Adele. I asked if you liked spicy food and you said ‘mmm. Paella.’ I told you I’d call but lost your number. Mine is in your phone under ‘Toasty’. Call me. I love a man who loves Adele.
ON GLASSES, MAHOGANY GUITARS AND BANJOLELE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 19, 2016 WHERE: Kitsilano
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2016 WHERE: No Frills Denman Our eyes locked for a few seconds as you were leaving the store and I was going in. You had a mysterious smile on your face, my heart skipped a beat. I thought the guy behind you was with you, so went in the store. As you walked away saw you were not, but it was too late...
SMALL MOMENTS COME VIVID
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 20, 2016 WHERE: Gastown
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Passed by you on Carrall between Water and Cordova. I was walking north carrying a brown shopping bag wearing cut offs and white t-shirt, tattoo sleeves. When we saw each other you didn’t exactly do a double take - more like a head jerked back, eyes wide smile jam. Like you were surprised and like what you saw. As I passed you I looked away and grinned huge. And I swooned (who knew that was actually a thing?) and that certainly hasn’t happened before. You looked a little bike-ish with a flipped up cap and clothes I don’t remember. That physical reaction was somethin’ else or maybe it was dehydration (Ha!) Let me buy you a beer and we can drink about it.
#16 BUS POKEMAN GO PLAYER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 13, 2016 WHERE: Gastown Grand Prix
We kept going off on these awesome conversational tangents, while I was shopping. I thought you did a great job during your first day at work. It was a really fun conversation, I enjoyed it very much, and if you’d like to continue it. Please get in touch!
GORGEOUS EYES AT FRILLS
GASTOWN BIKE RACES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 19, 2016 WHERE: On Granville Street You sat next to me and played Pokeman GO. I asked you to show me how it works. Then told you about a man on Commercial Drive who was fed up with people traipsing through his front lawn and he posted a sign saying “get a life”. You said you were caught up in it and that you worked in the industry. Did you not notice every woman and gay man was enthralled with you? You are quite a handsome catch! Love for you to show me more... about Pokeman GO that is.
You, a pretty brunette, late 40’s, standing at the fence across from the hairpin turn, close to the TV Camera. I was the guy with blond hair to your right a few feet away. We exchanged glances several times, then I wandered off to other parts of the track. Let’s meet for coffee or a drink.
DISARMINGLY BEAUTIFUL GIRL WORKING AT THE PERRIER TENT AT PEMBERTON
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 16, 2016 WHERE: Perrier Tent at Pemberton Music Festival I approached you and awkwardly complimented you on your beauty, dropped my drink on the ground, tried to maintain a casual demeanor while we chatted about the job, which you seemed to be only partly enjoying, and I found out your name was Rachel. I sidled off a little flustered back to my group but couldn’t seem to stop my eyes from wandering back to you and we made eye contact several times thereafter. The next day I came back with a Giraffe (friend) and you were out front in the same mint coloured dress and flower ring around your head. I, probably too enthusiastically, said ‘Hi Rachel!” and you said, with a grin “Ummm Brian, right?” to which I replied “Nope! Not even close”....that’s how I knew you totally remembered me :-)... In any case we didn’t speak, as you were talking with a coworker, most likely discussing ways of avoiding contact with man named Brian who was now wearing a ridiculous getup and trying to see you at every opportunity. I came back later that night to finally ask you if you’d like to go out after the festival but the tent was closed and my heart sunk. I, now wearing the aforementioned Giraffe costume, kicked myself and slunk away a little heart broken, which must have looked both adorable and tragic simultaneously to the remaining staff. If you’re out there Beautiful Perrier Rachel there’s a sad Giraffe that would love to see you again and take you to dinner.
GALLERY OF BC CERAMICS
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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 You"... You were both beautiful and friendly with great style. Definitely deserving an "I Saw You". Hope this makes you smile!
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