The Georgia Straight - Mural Fest - Aug 2, 2018

Driscoll’s Premium Fresh Strawberries Make these beautiful, sun-kissed berries the star of your breakfast dishes, desserts, and even salads.

3

$ .99 1lb box, regular price $4.99 ea

Photos are for illustrative purposes only. Pricing in effect Friday August 3 to Thursday August 9, 2018. Overwaitea Food Group LP, a Jim Pattison business. Proudly BC Owned and Operated.

ART INSPIRED BY strathcona STORIES Cascade

THIS SummeR, explore vancouver’s most colourful community Strathcona is one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods.

Nestled just east of downtown, it’s home to over 450 businesses, 7,000 employees and 11,000 residents.

Its rich history and unique offerings have attracted a variety of businesses and people, among them Canada’s largest concentration of artists.

ARTIST: HANNA LEE JOSHI Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean Canadian artist and illustrator based in Vancouver. Her vibrant works feature voluminous shapes and flowing compositions that open up new and bold spaces.

Abstractions of emotions, energy, and her own take on the female form make up her signature style.

Find this piece: 688 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

Shouting from the rooftop

To celebrate the neighbourhood’s diverse business community, we’re now transforming the district into a walkable street gallery. The 10 Blocks of Passion will feature unique art pieces inspired by the personal stories of Strathcona business members who’ve contributed to the area’s vibrant culture.

RUNS UNTIL september 2018

ARTIST: JONI TAYLOR Joni Taylor is an artist and illustrator whose work is concerned with giving voice to the unseen, unsung heroes

www.madeinstrathcona.com Follow our stories and share yours! #walkstrathcona madeinstrathcona

Community partners

StrathconaMade

– the invisible who walk among us. To this end, Taylor’s focus is on making her work approachable through the use of comics and graphic narratives, both in print and large-scale walls.

Find this piece: 305 Dunlevy Ave, Vancouver, BC

DEDICATED TOTHE DETAILS

GET 10% OFF at COMMUNITY PARTNERS*

*Terms & Conditions apply. See website for details.

ARTIST: TIERNEY MILNE

media Sponsor

brought to you by

Tierney Milne is a Montreal-born designer and artist currently living in

strathcona business improvement association

Vancouver. Her studies in psychology and illustration/design inspire her to breakdown inner and outer landscapes, and recombine them in abstract, pattern-based ways.

Find this piece: 550 Clark Dr, Vancouver, BC

2 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

9001 Bill Fox Way, Burnaby, BC V5J 5J3

604-297-4883 | food@burnaby.ca | foodburnaby.ca |

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 3

The Grapest Of Them All. $ 2.99 /lb

Fresh Red Seedless Grapes Sweet and crisp fresh grapes are the perfect summertime snack. Try freezing them for a healthy, nutritious treat to beat the heat.

Imported, Regular price $4.99/lb

Fresh Marinated Beef Kabobs

Rabbit River Organic Extra Large Eggs

Earthbound Farms Organic Salads

Olympic Organic Yogurt

Urban Fare Garden Hummus

Marinated and prepared fresh in-store. Premium grade beef.

1 dozen.

Assorted varieties, 284g.

650g

Assorted varieties, available at the fresh Deli counter.

9.99 /lb

$

Fresh, Reg. price $12.99/lb

5.99 ea

$

BC, Reg. price $7.55 ea

4.99 ea

$

USA, Reg. price $5.99 ea

3.99 ea

$

Reg. price $5.49 ea

1.89 100g

$

BC, Reg. price $2.39/100g

Check out this week’s Feature Fare on the front cover.

Photos are for illustrative purposes only. Prices in effect Friday August 3 to Thursday August 9, 2018. Overwaitea Food Group LP, a Jim Pattison business. Proudly BC Owned and Operated.

4 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

CONTENTS

Granville Island. Kurtis Filippone photo.

7

PRIDE

In the lead-up to Vancouver’s annual Pride parade, local LGBT organizations and activists convened at an official Pride Week proclamation to reflect upon social progress, both past and present. > BY CR AIG TAKEUCHI

13

FOOD

The chef and co-owner of a First Nations restaurant is hosting a feast of Indigenous foods for the Harmony Arts Festival.

START HERE 11 13 21 9 27 12

Confessions I Saw You Movie Reviews Real Estate Savage Love Straight Stars

> BY GAIL JOHNSON

TIME OUT

15

COVER

This year’s Vancouver Mural Festival boasts a plethora of diverse women working behind the scenes and out on walls, changing the face of the city one artwork at a time.

23

20 Arts 25 Music

INTRODUCTORY OFFER (Jun 1 - Aug 31): Receive a standard FREE KAPOK PILLOW with the purchase of a La Luna mattress. One per customer.

- Unparalleled support and comfort - Natural, non-toxic, hypoallergenic - Easy to move, store, and rearrange - Unrestrictive, won’t overheat - 20+ years life expectancy

- Reduce back pain - Eco-friendly - Motion isolating - Customizable - No metal springs

ORGANIC COTTON TOWELS % 20off AND HEMP SHOWER CURTAINS Exp. August 15, 2018.

SERVICES 25 Careers 9 Real Estate

MUSIC

The members of Yukon Blonde survived breakups and near-death experiences to deliver their latest album, Critical Hit. > BY L AUR A SCIARPELLE T TI

GeorgiaStraight @ GeorgiaStraight

25

CLASSIFIEDS

@ GeorgiaStraight

Automotive | Education | Services | Travel Marketplace | Employment | Real Estate Property Rentals | Music | Announcements Callboard | And more...

COVER PHOTO JOEL DUFRESNE

Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #40009178, return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Georgia Straight, 1635 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1W9

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 5

Happy Pride from

Pride Gear headquarters for ags, pins, buƩons, sƟckers, and clothing, lubes, & a great selecƟon of your adult goodies!

serving the west end community for 35 years!

PRIDE parade day Sunday, August 5th 8am Ɵl’ 11pm

Unit 1-1238 Davie St., Van. 604.669.1753

Open 9am to 11pm 7 days a week

Customer parking at back of store

TREAT YOUR LOVE HANDLES NO

SURGERY

NO

DOWNTIME

Before

After

Freeze your fat away !

Get $100 off/cycle* Abdomen | Ar ms | Double chin | Inner and outer thighs *Images are for illustrative purposes only. Actual results may vary.

DERMAPURE.COM

FREE EVALUATION 3568, West 41 Avenue, Vancouver, BC st

6 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

PRIDE

Honouring a proud legacy

Workshops for volunteers and service providers who work with seniors

Vancouver’s gay-liberation pioneers get their due at this year’s Pride celebration

Managing Pain

> BY C R A IG TA KEU CH I

W

ith many accomplishments to look back upon during the past few decades, this year is a coming-of-age for local LGBT communities that arose to overcome invisibility, exclusion, discrimination, persecution, and suffering. Reflection upon queer history became particularly pronounced over this past year, as it was at the annual Pride Week proclamation held by the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) at the Robson Street side of the Vancouver Art Gallery on July 27.

VPS board cochair Michelle Fortin explained to attendees that the location was chosen because in 1958, activist ted northe stood upon the steps of the then Vancouver courthouse with a sign stating “I am a human being” while dressed in drag. As his stand is frequently credited with sparking a national LGBT-rights movement, a commemorative event will be held on August 18 by Canada’s Q Hall of Fame to honour the protest’s 60th anniversary.

Also at the event, VPS cochair Charmaine de Silva spoke about how the growth and evolution of Pride are “a testament to how much our community has made advancements and strides over the past 40 years”, although “the work and fight for human rights isn’t over”.

“We are all recipients of a legacy which strove to carve out a space for us, not to assimilate but to be ourselves,” de Silva said, “and as we celebrate this milestone, we honour the elders whose activism afforded us the ability to have these conversations today, and at the same time, we look to the youth who are making groundbreaking strides in creating a culture in which we can openly embrace every part of our identity.”

This year’s Pride theme is Be You: Be All of You. “We all come with complex histories and backgrounds, and yet in so many spaces we feel pressure to compartmentalize our identities,” , Fortin explained.

However, not everyone has the opportunity. Vancouver drag queen Joan-E, who MCed the event, offered a global context. “For many people across the world, this event would be the most remarkable thing they had ever attended, and yet for us, blessedly, it’s a traditional thing we do every year,” she told the crowd.

Co-facilitated with Pain BC and OASIS VCH Learn how chronic pain can impact a senior’s quality of life. Examine self-management techniques and identify community resources.

Thursday, Sept. 13 11:40am - 3:00pm 6810 Main Street, Vancouver Free - register early! Refreshments provided.

Register on alliesinaging.eventbrite

Call 604.985.8713 or email quenneville@familyservices.bc.ca Drag queen Misty Meadows celebrates local LGBT history. Craig Takeuchi photo.

Joan-E introduced Coun. Tim Stevenson to read out the official proclamation for Vancouver Pride Week, which runs until the Vancouver Pride parade on August 5. Stevenson said it was a “bittersweet day”, as he won’t be running for city council again.

Referring to the city’s declaration in May of the Year of the Queer, which recognized significant anniversaries of numerous local LGBT groups, the proclamation noted that “collectively these organizations have provided 330 years of service to our community”.

De Silva and Fortin introduced this year’s parade marshals: two-spirit activist Laurie McDonald, gay-liberation archivist Ron Dutton, and the “A Mile in Our Moccasins” filmmaking team.

McDonald, who is from the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta, is a residentialschool survivor and cofounded the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Two-Spirit Society, which celebrated its 41st anniversary. “I must recognize and put my hands up to all those pioneers who came and stood in this city and fought those prejudices and still survived,” he said.

Dutton similarly praised the historical work of queer seniors and organizations, media coverage, academics, and those in cultural fields. “No individual builds a public institution,” he said. “It’s the labour of many people over many, many years, of whom I am just one.”

Dutton began collecting items from

the nascent gay-liberation movement in the 1970s to create the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives. After he accumulated some 750,000 items, the archives were relocated to the City of Vancouver Archives in March 2018.

The third parade marshal is the five Indigenous youths who created the documentary short “A Mile in Our Moccasins” to address HIV stigma and to offer information about sexual health in an Indigenous context.

Lulu Gurney, one of the film’s creators, linked this year’s Pride theme to how people can support those with HIV. “If you want to help someone like myself who is living with HIV, then I encourage you guys to be you as an ally, as a support, as a person to connect with, also someone to just share some time with.”

In celebration of “four decades of drag”, as Fortin put it, drag performances by Misty Meadows and Kendall Gender were interwoven into the proclamation event.

Before her closing performance, Gender reflected upon being able to walk with a friend, both in drag, across town while receiving support from onlookers.

“It was one of those moments where we kind of stood and we looked at each other and I am like, ‘I am so thankful to live in a city that is so progressive and so welcoming and so loving,’ ” she said. “I live every day so thankful that I can be myself—for all of you.” -

The Georgia Straight | Vancouver’s News and Entertainment Weekly | Volume 52 Number 2638

@alliesinaging This is one in a series of workshops by the Allies in Aging Volunteer Impact Team.

Our goal is to reduce social isolation among seniors in Metro Vancouver.

FUNDED IN PART BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA’S NEW HORIZONS FOR SENIORS PROGRAM.

SUNSET SATURDAYS 50% OFF LIFT TICKETS AFTER 5PM

MAY 26 - SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 Only valid for tickets purchased at the ticket window from 4:45pm onwards every Saturday. Not valid on family tickets, download tickets, or tickets purchased online.

Photo: David Buzzard

1635 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1W9 www.straight.com Phone: 604-730-7000 / Fax: 604-730-7010 / e-mail: gs.info@straight.com Display Advertising: 604-730-7020 / Fax: 604-730-7012 / e-mail: sales@straight.com Classifieds: 604-730-7060 / e-mail: classads@straight.com Subscriptions: 604-730-7000 Distribution: 604-730-7087 EDITOR + PUBLISHER Dan McLeod ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Yolanda Stepien GENERAL MANAGER Matt McLeod EDITOR Charlie Smith PRODUCT DIRECTOR

Chet Woodside SECTION EDITORS

Janet Smith (Arts/Fashion) Mike Usinger (Music) Steve Newton (Time Out) Adrian Mack (Movies) Brian Lynch (Books) EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Doug Sarti ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Gail Johnson, John Lucas, Alexander Varty STAFF WRITERS

Piper Courtenay, Tammy Kwan, Lucy Lau, Travis Lupick, Carlito Pablo, Craig Takeuchi, Kate Wilson SENIOR EDITOR Martin Dunphy PROOFREADER Pat Ryffranck CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Gregory Adams, Nathan Caddell, David Chau, Jack Christie, Jennifer Croll, Ken Eisner (Movies), George Fetherling, Tara Henley, Michael Hingston, Ng Weng Hoong,

Alex Hudson, Kurtis Kolt, Robin Laurence (Visual Arts), Mark Leiren-Young, John Lekich, Amy Lu, Bob Mackin, Michael Mann, Rose Marcus, Beth McArthur, Verne McDonald, Allan MacInnis, Guy MacPherson, Tony Montague, Kathleen Oliver, Ben Parfitt, Vivian Pencz, Bill Richardson, Gurpreet Singh, Jacqueline Turner, Andrea Warner, Jessica Werb, Stephen Wong, Alan Woo CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Alfonso Arnold, Rebecca Blissett, Trevor Brady, Louise Christie, Emily Cooper, Randall Cosco, Krystian Guevara, Evaan Kheraj, Kris Krug, Tracey Kusiewicz, Kevin Langdale, Shayne Letain, Matt Mignanelli, Mark “Atomos” Pilon, Carlo Ricci, William Ting, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward LEAD WEB DEVELOPER Jeffrey Li WEB ADMINISTRATOR Miles Keir

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Mike Correia PRODUCTION

K.T. Dean, Sandra Oswald

AD SERVICES ASSOCIATE

Jon Cranny

DIRECTOR OF ARTS AND SPONSORSHIP

Laura Moore

SALES DIRECTOR

Tara Lalanne

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES

Glenn Cohen, Robyn Marsh, Manon Paradis, David Pearlman, Catherine Tickle

CONTENT AND MARKETING SPECIALIST

Tori Macnab

ADVERTISING + PROMOTION ASSISTANTS

Ahlia Moussa, Julian Deggan

ADVERTISING ASSISTANT

Johnnie Smart

CIRCULATION MANAGER

Giles Roy

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

Dennis Jangula

CREDIT MANAGER Shannon Li

ART DEPARTMENT MANAGER

ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR

SENIOR DESIGNER David Ko

ACCOUNTING CLERK Dillan Winn

Janet McDonald

Tamara Robinson

The Georgia Straight is published every Thursday by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing SUBMISSIONS The Straight accepts no responsibility for, and will not Corp. Copies are distributed free every week throughout Vancouver, Burnaby, North necessarily respond to, any submitted materials. All submissions should be and West Vancouver, New Westminster, and Richmond. International Standard Serial addressed to contact@straight.com.

Number ISSN 0709-8995. Subscription rates in Canada $182.00/52 issues (includes GST), $92.00/26 issues (includes GST); United States $379.00/52 issues, $205.00/ 26 issues; foreign $715.00/52 issues, $365.00/26 issues. Contact 604-730-7087 if you wish to distribute free copies of the Georgia Straight at your place of business.

Entire contents copyright © 2018 Vancouver Free Press, Best Of Vancouver, BOV And Golden Plates Are Trade-Marks Of Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp.

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 7

PRIDE

Flag symbolizes soul of LGBTQ community > B Y LA U R A SCIARPELLETTI

R

ainbow flags are currently scattered across Vancouver in many forms, whether they be temporarily adorning the windows of various businesses, flapping outside Vancouver City Hall, or painted on the streets. But where did this now familiar symbol of queer empowerment come from?

The traditional LGBTQ Pride flag was created in 1978. It originally consisted of eight stripes but was eventually dropped to six. The flag was created

by San Francisco–based queer artist Gilbert Baker for $1,000. Baker—who was originally from Kansas—never became a rich man because of the flag. He purposely chose not to copyright the flag so that it could be owned by everyone.

“A true flag is not something you can really design,” Baker told CBS in 2012.

“A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work.

The rainbow flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.”

In 1974, Baker met rising queer activist Harvey Milk in San Francisco.

Milk would eventually become the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, in 1977. He famously rode under the original, eight-striped rainbow Pride flag in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June 1978.

Milk was assassinated later that year.

In 1978, Baker enlisted the help of multiple people from the Gay Community Center on Grove Street in San Francisco to hand-stitch and hand-dye the very first rainbow flag.

He chose the eight original colours through colour therapy. These particular colours held special meaning: bright pink symbolized sex; red symbolized life; orange symbolized healing; yellow symbolized sunlight;

8 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

Queer artist Gilbert Baker designed the first LGBTQ Pride flag in 1978.

green symbolized nature; turquoise symbolized magic; blue symbolized serenity; and purple symbolized spirit.

“The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it,” Baker told CBS. “It’s beautiful, all of the colours, even the colours you can’t see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colours. Our sexuality is all of the colours. We are all the genders, races, and ages.”

Eventually, high demand led to commercial production of the Pride flag. Because of production costs, pink and turquoise were dropped.

The rainbow flag was intended to replace the reclaimed pink triangle, which some saw as traditionally homophobic. In Nazi Germany, a pink triangle was used to mark those who were either presumed or openly gay; concentration-camp inmates imprisoned for homosexuality wore the upside-down triangle on their jackets.

Today there are many variations on the Pride flag. Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium on Davie Street currently carries 16 different kinds.

According to management, the transgender, bisexual, and genderfluid flags are especially popular among customers. But the top seller?

Always the traditional rainbow. -

HOUSING

New West emerges as vibrant gaybourhood

N

ew Westminster resident Ted Mason believes that his town will become the new West End. He is convinced that B.C.’s oldest city is going to succeed the Vancouver neighbourhood—which has been the traditional hub of the LGBT community—as the foremost gay-friendly place in the province.

“The West End isn’t as gay as it used to be,” Mason told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.

It’s simple economics, according to the retired City of New Westminster property manager.

“Young people are being, you know, forced out of the city [Vancouver],” he said. “It’s too expensive, The Vancouver Sisters of Perpetual and they’re coming to New West, Indulgence are plugged in to New West. and along with them come a bunch of young gay people, and that’s just The city also ventured into other sort of an overall urban trend.” projects that gave New Westminster During his time with city hall, what Mason described as a “cool vibe”.

Mason witnessed New WestminOne of these was Westminster Pier ster’s revival after a long period Park, a 3.8-hectare public space by the of decline.

Fraser River that opened in 2012. AnA catalyst was the city’s purchase other was the Anvil Centre, a multiin 2000 of the old use civic facility federal and post completed two office building on years later.

Columbia Street, Mason and his Carlito Pablo which was turned husband have lived into a new police station with loft- in the city long enough to observe how style condos on the upper floors. much has changed in the LGBT scene.

“They were sold at a superlow Mason said that compared to price and, of course, really attracted old-timers who generally preferred a bunch of young, new homebuyers,” house parties, newcomers, especially Mason said. the younger ones, are “more out on According to him, that project the street, and just more visible”. encouraged other developments The city had its first Pride festival that offered homes that were rela- in 2010. According to Mason, the tively more affordable than those yearly celebrations allowed more in Vancouver.

LGBT community members to “With development…populations come out. move, so again, no, I don’t think This year’s New Westminthere’s any guarantee that the West ster Pride festival will be held on End will always be the premier gay August 18 on Columbia Street from community,” Mason said.

3 to 8 p.m. -

Real Estate

JUST SOLD

HAVE YOU BEEN TO...

CALL ME FOR EXPERT ADVICE

Peaceful

W W W.TOFFOLI.CA | PAUL@TOFFOLI.CA

R e s t au r a n t

604.787.6963

MASTER M E DA L L I O N MEMBER

peacefulrestaurant.com

LD SO

PROUD COMMUNITY, GREAT AREA

LIFE OF THE PARTY

Bright, corner two bedroom two bath features laminate floors, floor to ceiling windows, underground parking, additional storage, gym, garden, business centre and concierge. Walk everywhere location bordering West End, Downtown & Coal Harbour will please pet lovers and investors. Solid Value!

Smart floorplan offers great space, comfort, amenities and security in downtown/Yaletown apartment hotel complex. Strata living with additional services if you wish to use them.

Enjoy room service, maid service, bar, restaurant and terrace or just exercise in the gym or lounge in the view hot tub or sun terrace. Pet and rental friendly with underground parking included. Join the rental pool or manage yourself.

Residences on Georgia / 1288 W. Georgia

$849,900

COMING NEXT!

LIZ CARNEY Century 21 / In Town Realty 421 Pacific at Homer

604-603-3095

lizrcarney@hotmail.com

JUST SOLD

JUST SOLD

HAPPY PRIDE!

STONEHOUSE R E A L

T E A M

E S T A T E

A D V I S O R S

604 255 7575 2655 CAMBRIDGE STREET I VANCOUVER

628 UNION STREET I VANCOUVER

315 1483 W 7TH AVENUE I VANCOUVER

EMAILUS@STONEHOUSETEAM.COM

Sold in 17 days within 1% of the asking price!

Sold in just 5 days within 1% of the asking price!

Sold to a happy Buyer moving to one of South Granville’s finest buildings

Sutton West Coast Realty I 301-1508 W Broadway

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 9

Jewish Seniors Alliance Peer Support Services is now accepting applications for its

Review Panel

Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project Panel.RBT2@ceaa.gc.ca

SENIOR PEER COUNSELLING TRAINING COURSE Are you 55+ and interested in attending an 11 week course in Peer Counselling at no cost?

Public Notice

SUNDAYS 2pm - 7pm STARTING in September 2018

Review Panel Invites Public Comments on Sufficiency of Information and Draft Public Hearing Procedures July 6, 2018 - The Review Panel conducting the environmental assessment for the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project is seeking comments on information request responses and draft Public Hearing Procedures.

The Review Panel is inviting comments on the responses from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (the Proponent) to the Review Panel's information requests received up to July 6, 2018, including the Project Construction Update (Document 1210). The public, Indigenous groups, government departments and agencies are invited to submit written comments on whether the information provided by the Proponent is sufficient.

This a volunteer program. Upon completion of the course you will have learned active and empathetic listening, effective communication skills, become familiar with community resources for seniors.

You will be matched with a senior in the community to apply your new skills and you will receive, upon graduation, a Certificate in Senior Peer Counselling of British Columbia.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO...

For further information please call: GRACE HANN or CHARLES LEIBOVITCH at

Cibo

604.267.1555 or 778-840-4949 or email: charles@jsalliance.org

Trattoria

This project is funded by the Diamond Foundation, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, The Snider Foundation , Provincial Government of B.C. and the City of Vancouver.

To date the Proponent has responded to Information Request Package 1 through 6, as well as to select topics found in Package 7 and 8, which can be found on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry (Document 934). Participants are encouraged to review the available information and provide their comments.

We are an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage people from all cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds to apply.

Before determining whether it has sufficient information to proceed to a public hearing, the Review Panel will hold an additional public comment period on all remaining information available on the public registry.

ove

LDking!

O Sr as

The Review Panel also invites Indigenous groups, the public, and the Proponent to submit comments on the draft Public Hearing Procedures that outline how the public hearing will be organized and how the public and Indigenous groups can participate.

At this time, the Review Panel cannot predict the timing of the public hearing. The Review Panel will provide 60 days’ notice in advance of the start of the public hearing.

The Review Panel is seeking input on the timing of traditional activities that should be considered when scheduling the public hearing, including input regarding suitable locations to hold the General and Community hearing sessions. The Review Panel will consider all comments received before issuing the final Public Hearing Procedures and the Public Hearing Schedule.

All comments received on the Proponent’s responses to information requests, the Project Construction Update, and the draft Public Hearing Procedures will be considered public and will be posted to the online public registry.

Written comments in either official language should be sent by October 5, 2018 to: Cindy Parker Panel Manager, Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor, Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 Telephone: 613-219-4108 or 1-866-582-1884 Panel.RBT2@ceaa.gc.ca

cibotrattoria.com 307-668 COLUMBIA ST, NEW WESTMINSTER

$549,900

VERY COOL 662 sq. ft, 1 bed + den / 1 bath loft-style condo in dt New West. Open concept, very efficient space, bright w / big windows, re-claimed brick feature wall and 10’8” ceilings. Amenities incl. party room, o / d patio + bbq & gym. Walk to everything with a 95 Walk Score. 2 parking (1 electric charging!) and 1 locker. Pets & rentals allowed.

Steve Flynn RE/MAX Central 1-5050 Kingsway, Burnaby Independently Owned & Operated cell: 604.785.3977 stevefl ynnrealestate.com

AUGUST SALE

*Some Exclusions May Apply*

60% OFF CHINESE ANTIQUES 50% OFF

FURNITURE 35% OFF LIGHTING

Visit our website to view our entire selection

All relevant information regarding the environmental assessment can be found on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry at canada.ca/ceaa, reference number 80054.

Direct Importers of Industrial, Chinese, Indian Primitive, Salvaged Wood, Reclaimed Pine Furniture, Live Edge Tables, Architectural Iron & Lighting

We are not just an antique store!

1324 Franklin St. @ Clark Dr, Vancouver, BC, V5L 1N9 604-875-1434 | Tuesday - Sunday 10 AM - 5 PM www.antiquesdirect.ca

Celebration and Empowerment of Women’s SexualityTM

We

support

PRIDE

896 Commercial Drive, Vancouver | 604.254.2543 10 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

*366 days on leap years OR 1.888.WYM.WARE

www.womynsware.com

KOREAN FEST

Korean fest woos masses > BY C HA RLI E SMI TH

T

here’s something Mike Suk really wants people to know about the Korean Cultural Heritage Festival: it’s not only for people of Korean ancestry.

In fact, the winner of the annual festival’s Kpop contest in each of the past three years did not have the surname Kim or Park, or any other name common to the Korean Peninsula.

“They were actually non-Koreans,” Suk told the Georgia Straight by phone. “Can you believe that?”

Suk is executive director of the Korean Cultural Heritage Society, which is putting on the 17th annual festival on Saturday (August 4) at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby. The K-pop contest is one of the big draws, with the winner taking home a $2,000 cash prize. Another major attraction is a demonstration by top martial artists from the World Taekwondo Academy (also known as Kukkiwon) in Seoul, South Korea. This will take place after the opening ceremony at 10 a.m.

The Kukkiwon academy is the world headquarters for taekwondo, overseeing more than 35 million members, according to Suk. In 2015, he was instrumental in persuading Burnaby city council to declare that August 8 is Taekwondo Kukkiwon Day in the city.

Suk said that the taekwondo martial artists are returning to B.C. for the Korean Cultural Heritage Festival because of this connection made three years ago. When they were at Swangard Stadium last year, Premier John Horgan stood on the mat and smashed a board with his hand in front of an appreciative crowd.

For Suk, the festival promotes awareness of traditional and modern South Korea. Another objective is to showcase other cultures, which is why he’s programmed

SPECTACULAR SQUAMISH

ONLY 45 MINS TO VANCOUVER OR WHISTLER OM .C Y SK OT T S LO BE

#21-39769 GOVERNMENT ROAD BRAND NEW TOWNHOME - PRIVATE ROOFTOP SKYLOUNGE - STUNNING 360° VIEWS

$668,000 The Korean Cultural Heritage Festival at Swangard Stadium will include drumming, world-class taekwondo, and K-pop.

entertainment ranging from belly dancing to blues and rock ’n’ roll. There are also kids’ zones and plenty of Korean food, including barbecued beef known as bulgogi.

“All the directors of the Korean Cultural Heritage Society, their wives, and all their sons and daughters will be helping out at the barbecue stand,” Suk said. “You get the homemade Korean cooking.”

There is no admission charge to attend the festival.

And for Suk and the 200 society volunteers, the goal is to forge connections in the community, not to make money.

“The millennials should not look to make a billion dollars,” Suk declared. “They have a billion dollars already all around them by the relationships that they foster.

“The people around you and the relationships that you connect with are your fortresses that protect you and guide you,” he added. “Anybody that’s a part of this organization knows they’re in this not for profit but for giving back and making solid connections.” -

PETER@BELOSTOTSKY.COM

1.604.848.4279

Amazing, modern brand new 4 level/3 bdrm/2 bath townhome in scenic/sunny Northyards.

Enjoy stunning views in every direction from your private rooftop skylounge! Features: spacious, beautiful kitchen complete with quartz countertops, wood laminate floors, & quality carpet. Lots of storage for all your recreational equipment. Amenities & services easy walking distance include: shopping, restaurants, schools, the silty/sandy beaches of the Squamish River & an endless network of nature trails. An excellent real estate opportunity. Completion anticipated for Fall 2018.

Please call for private tour & more info.

RIVATE APPROX. 520 SQFT PRIVATE ROOFTOP SKYLOUNGEE CE! OUTDOOR LIVING SPACE!

PETER BELOSTOTSKY quality real estate services

PERFORMANCE MANCE TY REALTY

Colourful treats for Pride > B Y TA M MY KWAN

I

t’s almost peak Vancouver Pride season, so it’s no surprise that shops and businesses around town are gearing up for the festivities this year. Plenty of bakeries and food establishments in the city are joining in on the fun, creating rainbow-coloured sweets for the LGBT celebrations. Besides being photo-worthy, these vibrant treats are also deeply satisfying: think sugar buns filled with whipped frosting, and classic cinnamon buns with a rainbow hue. Here are some colourful desserts to enjoy during the leadup to the Vancouver Pride parade on Sunday (August 5).

LOVE BUNS These fluffy and colourful balls of joy are limited-edition counterparts to sugar buns. Aptly named Love Buns for Vancouver Pride season, these multicoloured sugar-dusted pastries are stuffed with a rainbow cream filling. Pro tip: slice the bun in half with a very sharp knife for an Instagram-worthy shot.

Find them at giovane café + eatery +

Check out these fluffy love buns from giovane café. Tammy Kwan photo.

PRIDE POP TARTS If you never had a Pop-Tart growing up, then you missed out. Don’t fret if you feel left out, because a local pie shop has whipped up a version of these colourful treats just in time for Pride in the city. These pop tarts feature a double-butter crust filled with Okanagan cherries and are covered in rainbow icing. They are available for preorder online and on a first-come, first-served basis in-store from August 1 to 6. Find them at the Pie Hole (3497 Fraser Street and 7832 6th Street, Burnaby).

market at the Fairmont Pacific Rim RAINBOW PRIDE PACKS Few (1038 Canada Place). things satisfy a sweet tooth more PRIDE CAKE SLICES New and cre- than a warm cinnamon bun. These ative sweets are always welcomed, but classic treats are getting a makeover sometimes we just want the good ol’ for Vancouver Pride—each bun will classic dessert: cake. In light of the be glazed with colourful vanilla-bean LGBT celebrations taking place in cream-cheese icing. The Pride Packs Vancouver, otherwise normal vanilla are a box of six, and 50 percent of cake has been turned into Pride cake. proceeds will go to Qmunity and the Made with multiple layers of rainbow Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. Availcake and frosting, each slice is a pretty able Friday (August 3) to Sunday sight, and they are available through (August 50; preorders are recomAugust 6. Find them at multiple res- mended to avoid disappointment. taurants located inside Parq Vancou- Find them at Grounds For Coffee ver (39 Smithe Street).

(2565 Alma Street). -

The Georgia Straight Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.

Scan to confess Thank you Seth Rogen!

On the crowded Skytrain today with an inconsiderate jerk and his enormous backpack pushing into me. Seth Rogen comes on the speaker and gives a backpack etiquette tip, I tap on the jerk’s shoulder and said “Listen to this please.” All the folks around us laughed and the jerk actually took off his backpack and put it between his legs. Thank you Seth, you made my day!

Garbage food So much of Canadian/ American food is utter garbage.

Processed, full of chemicals and preservatives. We are some of the richest countries in the world, but much of our food supply is not fit for a dog. No wonder so many people have cancer and heart disease. We have more than enough to eat, but our food is literally killing us.

I Like You, But If you’re going to let someone floundering drag you down - I won’t let you take me down with the pair of you as well.

I’m boycotting Pride.

The LGBT community was there for me years ago when I came out as a gay woman. It was accepting, kind and felt like family. I am eternally grateful for the welcome that I received.... (con’t @straight.com)

Pineapple What a fruit. Packed with so much flavor. Sweet tooth satisfied.

Visit

to post a Confession AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 11

straight stars > B Y R O SE MARCUS

August 2 to 8, 2018

M

3RD FLOOR

9:30PM - 1:30AM DOUBLE DOWN KEYS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT AUGUST 3, 4, 11, 18 & 25

ALEX MAHER AUGUST 10

TOY ZEBRA AUGUST 17

HAVYN AUGUST 24 & 31

39 SMITHE STREET, VANCOUVER, BC V6B 0R3 | 604.683.7277 | PARQVANCOUVER.COM

ars retrograde in Aquarius keeps the reboot momentum going strong.

Aim to make the most of your weekend and the time you spend.

Back-to-work Monday puts the people and the money on the go.

Thanks to Venus entering Libra at the exact same time (4:28 p.m.) that the sun and Jupiter reach a peak, the start of the week is likely to launch an escalation trend. Expect full swing everywhere and more volume regarding traffic, news, sales, and money markets.

Plans or expectations could get waylaid Tuesday morning. Uranus in Taurus begins a retrograde cycle. You could witness a noticeable energy shift, a reversal, or a change of mind. Venus, ruler of Taurus, forms a good connection with Mars (trine) as evening kicks into gear. The stars set a backdrop for an improvement, correction, rollout, or smooth-out. No matter how it plays out, the moment is optimized.

Mercury retrograde joins forces with the sun (conjunction) on Wednesday. This meetup marks the informing peak of the retrograde cycle.

It can create a reprieve, a repeat, news, an announcement, a good connection, a special moment, or a same-page accord. Revisit the conversation, issue, or option; express what’s in your heart, your mind, your soul. The evening is a good one for romance, chilling out, and getting your pleasure fill.

Two eclipses down, one more to go. A super-new-moon partial solar eclipse in Leo happens on August 11. Due to the mix of dynamic transits, watch for everything in the week leading up to the eclipse to hold greater than usual potency, momentum, and importance.

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

March 20–April 19

Keeping your mind sharp and active, Mars/Uranus set the stage for a personal or creative breakthrough or for a silence to be broken.

Expect to stay physically and socially on the go, too. Stalled or blocked no longer, watch for this next week to see you on a move-along with a creative or self-improvement project, important conversation, relationship, or money matter.

April 20–May 20

Let yourself off the hook; take a vacation or, at the very least, take a break. A change of pace or scenery hits it right. Now through the weekend, Mars/Uranus are good for a release or a fresh refuel. The duo can prompt a different line of thinking. Tuesday/Wednesday could see you make a significant breakthrough with someone or something.

May 21–June 21

Watch for a good idea to strike. Mars/Uranus could also prompt a discovery, a great opportunity, or a surprise breakthrough. Over this next week, a flash of inspiration, a single word spoken, or something seen or read could jump-start you.

Sunday/Monday, rely on instincts and intuition. Tuesday/Wednesday, a meetup, talk, or revisit is well-timed.

June 21–July 22

There’s a creative wellspring inside you, more than you are aware of. Trust it will kick in when you need it to. Financial-, personal-, or relationshipwise, Mars/Uranus take you to the brink of something major. They also provide a necessary push or refuel. Sunday and Wednesday are your best days to talk it out, replay it, repeat, revisit, or redo it.

LEO

July 22–August 22

the rest of the stars keep one thing after another going through the week ahead. Monday’s sun/Jupiter can give you more, pile on extras, see you overdo it, overspend, or overestimate. Wednesday, sun/Mercury lights a fresh spark. Connect, indulge in romance or relaxation, enjoy.

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

August 22–September 22

Take it easy this weekend, get your pleasure fill. As of Monday, Venus leaves Virgo for Libra. You are likely to feel an internal switch, a compelling sense that it’s time to get yourself going. If Tuesday steers you off track, it won’t be for long. Wednesday puts head and heart on the same page. Feel it; say it; do it.

September 22–October 23

Leaving Virgo for Libra on Monday, Venus takes you through an intensified self-examination/ reconcile-with-yourself chapter.

Contracts (karmic and actual), money, and relationship matters see action in the week ahead as Venus makes the rounds with Chiron (opposition), Mars (trine) and Saturn (square). Tuesday to Thursday moves you past a hurdle, dilemma, or block.

Sunday and Wednesday are your best for connecting.

October 23–November 21

Thursday, quick and fast does it best. Sunday’s stars are easyrolling. Monday is a good day to travel, go exploring, or start a vacation week. Venus into Libra and sun/ Jupiter puts everything on the increase or upswing. You could spend more or do more than you plan.

Tuesday, take it as it comes. Wednesday evening, catch up and enjoy.

November 21–December 21

Now through next week, something unexpected could set wheels in motion or get you going on something fresh. A new goal or lifestyle can take on a life of its own. Planned or not, reconnections are well-timed. A special someone could claim your attention, or heart, especially Tuesday/ Wednesday. Sun/Mercury could spark a great idea, a repeat, or a second chance.

December 21–January 19

One way or another, Mars keeps a fresh supply of fuel on ready access. Friday through Sunday, you’ll hit it just right. Monday is a day of gains, indulgence, and increased input and output. Tuesday opens with a redirection or the unexpected. Wednesday evening, in the mood, in the moment—it’s as good as it gets.

January 20–February 18

Whether it is a sense or something actual, Mars in Aquarius takes you over the hump. You’ll feel a widening divide between the past and the present, between the old you and the new you. While a natural clearing-away continues, you’ll also gain a good head start/jumpstart on the future. Sunday through Wednesday, the getting is good.

February 18–March 20

Simple, easy, and quality over quantity provide the best satisfaction, especially through the weekend. Monday to Wednesday, it’s an upswing, an escalation, an upsell, an ease-up, a move-along, a domino effect—in other words, more of anything and everything. Aim for company, comfort, relaxation, or romance; Wednesday evening, the stars are in your favour. -

Keep open-ended, take it Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s moment to moment, be here now, free monthly newsletter at rosemar and make the most of it. Mars and cus.com/.

12 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

I

nez Cook, chef and cofounder of Salmon n’ Bannock, opened the city’s only First Nations restaurant just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Although she’s a member of the Bella Coola–based Nuxalk, it wasn’t until she had travelled much of the globe that she became connected with the food of her culture.

That’s because she was part of the Sixties Scoop. She was one of thousands of Indigenous children taken away from their families and adopted into mostly non-Indigenous families The Harmony Arts Festival gets a taste throughout Canada and the U.S. of the Salmon n’ Bannock bistro.

Cook, who will be preparing an Aboriginal feast at this year’s Har- Canada. For a time, she envisioned mony Arts Festival in West Vancou- opening up a Tunisian restaurant with ver, shares during a phone interview her then husband, who was from with the Georgia Straight that she was that country, but those plans fell 12 months old when she was removed through along with her marriage. from her family. After being placed in It was a trip to the Okanagan in 2009 a home in Vancouver, she never again that sparked the idea of getting back met her birth parents. to her culinary roots and sharing Although she them with others. didn’t grow up “I went to Keeating traditional lowna during the Indigenous foods, wine festival to cry Gail Johnson her diet consisted away my tears over of wholesome, home-cooked meals my divorce,” Cook says. “A friend was that wouldn’t be considered “typical” driving me to the airport and I saw North American dishes either.

Kekuli Cafe, a Native restaurant. They “My mom’s family is Dutch- had bannock, and I had to stop. That Russian Mennonite—I grew up with was what inspired me to start a First Mennonite cooking, which is amaz- Nations restaurant in Vancouver.” ing—and my dad’s family were ranchShe teamed up with French-born ers from Manitoba,” she says. “He was Remi Caudron—a dear friend and a hunter and went fishing as well. fellow flight attendant, a part-time “We lived in the Northwest Ter- job they both still maintain—to ritories for a period of time. He open Salmon n’ Bannock the followwould bring home deer. At the time, ing year. (He’s soon moving on from I thought it was Bambie—there was the restaurant; she’s in the process no way I was going to eat that,” she of buying him out.) All of its staff is adds with a laugh.

Indigenous and include members of Nowadays, she serves deer and the Cowichan, Haida Gwaii, Lil’wat, other big game at her West Broadway Musqueam, Nuxalk, Tla’amin, and restaurant. As an adult, Cook turned Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. to food as a way of experiencing other Cook describes Indigenous cuisine cultures wherever she travelled and as “food from the land”, and the reslived, including the Middle East, taurant showcases seasonal, local inAfrica, England, and other parts of gredients through a modern lens. Its

Best Eats

menu features elk, bison, deer, wild boar, and other game; cured, barbecued, and candied salmon and other fish; cedar jelly and sage-infused blueberry preserves; and more. Then there are bannock burgers and tacos.

Bannock is just one traditional dish that will appear on a special menu Cook is curating for the Harmony Arts Festival’s Indigenous Feast. It’s a first for the annual event, which is taking place on traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish People. (The festival will mount other culinary offerings as well, including Night on the Pier; Mr. Bannock, the region’s only Indigenous food truck, will also be on-site.)

One of the items Cook is especially excited about consists of clams that are steamed in bentwood boxes.

The traditional cedar boxes are being carved exclusively for the meal by artist Jamie Michaels. “You put stones onto a grill to get them piping hot, put them in the box, add fresh herbs and water, then add them clams, close the box, and steam them,” Cook explains.

Oolichans in a blanket is another.

Although the small, oily smelt used to appear in abundance when spawning in B.C.’s Fraser and other rivers and streams, they’re much harder to come by now. Cook made a point of getting a special order in for the fest and will wrap the cottonwoodsmoked fish in pastry.

Although Cook was hoping to cook salmon over flames right on the beach, current fire bans mean she’ll barbecue it instead. Also on the menu are bison ribs with sage-infused blueberries, corn on the cob, and threesisters salad—the three sisters being corn, beans, and wild rice, in honour of First Nations in the eastern part of the country, she says. -

ENTRÉE SPECIAL

(se (second entrée of equal or lesser value) up to $1 Valid until Aug 31, 2018. Not valid with other $15. co coupons or other in-house offers or event nights.

Gra Gratuities based on TOTAL bill before discount.

Free Street Parking!

BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER

#thetipperrestaurant #lovestories #dineindiner #thetipperr

2066 KINGSWAY (at Victoria) Victor | 604.873.1010 | www.thebottletipper.com

9th Year Anniversary www.madrasdosahouse.com d d h WEEKLY SPECIALS

Monday - ALL DOSAS ................................... $599 Tuesday - ALL CURRY ............................. $9 99 Wednesday - ALL BIRIYANI .......................... $1099 Thursday - IDLI/VADA DOSA COMBO ............. $9 99 LUNCH SPECIALS

s

r

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2018 WHERE: Nanaimo Ferry Coastal Renaissance Never done this before but you were so awesome to chat with and played some awesome guitar towards the end of the trip. I really regret not asking if you wanted to hang out sometime before I had to leave to get back to my car... You always wanted to be called “Bob” when you were little and you seem super awesome. Maybe you will have a peek at these, fingers crossed ;) :)

SUNDAY MORNING AT SAVE ON FOODS.

r

s

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2018 WHERE: Save On Foods, Marine Way, Burnaby You are a slim blonde wearing pinkish dress. You examined the bread that I was just checking out. A moment later we almost collided at the produce section. My heart screamed "Wow!", but my lips did not follow. I would like to know what exactly was the colour of that dress and find out if we have the same taste in bread?

SWIMMING AT THIRD BEACH

r

s

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2018 WHERE: Stanley Park Third Beach We were swimming near each other at third beach today. It seemed like we might have glanced at each other several times... well, I was definitely looking at you! You had a blue patch on your knee and you seem like a strong swimmer.

We walked by each other as you were leaving but I was not sure what to say. Then as I rode by you leaving on my bicycle, you smiled and we said ‘hi!’ to each other, but I was too foolish to stop and introduce myself. Want to go swimming together next time?

HOT COUPLE AT SEYMOUR RIVER

WEEKEND SPECIALS

r

s

s

5656 Fraser Street @ 41st Ave, Vancouver 604-327-1233 | Mon - Fri 11am - 3pm & 5pm - 10pm Sat - Sun 11am - 10pm

The Indigenous Feast takes place on Tuesday (August 7) at the Harmony Arts Festival.

Good looking couple hanging out on a rock in the river with your beagle. We chatted a bit before you left. The wife and I thought you guys looked like fun. Would love to beat the heat and go for a drink sometime!

I was sitting beside the window with my blind date. I looked at my left and noticed you, in the white shirt, shaved head with dark beard. You were sitting alone. We made an eye contact.

I could not stop thinking to turn and look at you again. We made eye contact couple more times.

I looked at you three times when I was leaving. I was wearing a black dress and braided my hair. I would really like to drink a coffee with you...

MAT MATE

r

s

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 30, 2018 WHERE: YYoga Yaletown I placed my mat next to yours.

We exchanged smiles as I moved my blocks. After class, you caught me turning over my shoulder to look at you. Then on the stairs you turned up and our eyes met again. Maybe next time we exchange words, and more?

BEAUTIFUL DROOLER

r

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 20, 2018 WHERE: Fraser

s

Were at a stop light on our bikes at Fraser. I’m the bearded guy who commented that you had something hanging from your face. You looked confused, then burst laughing said the dentist froze your face. Your laugh made me melt and I froze too.

Wish I talked to you more, or got your number. You are a babe and seemed sweet. Hope I see you around again.

WALMART NORTH VAN

s

Aarm Dental Group

r

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2018 WHERE: Walmart North Vancouver

You: Saw you in the centre aisle; had to look again. Yup; just as good looking the second time.

Imagined running my hands through your hair. The purple t-shirt suited you well; great colour on you. I saw you as you were leaving; though I’m not shy; there’s nothing in the world that would open my vocal cords to say something as you left .My bad; since I was instantly attracted to you! Coffee? A walk ?

NORTH VAN RCMP DIRECTING TRAFFIC DEEP COVE FIRE LIONS COMPLEX

r

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 24, 2018 WHERE: Deep Cove

r

You were standing on Deep Cove Rd & Badger Rd. Directing traffic during the fire at the Lions complex. Mask with the pink filters, brown hair, slender, gorgeous. You took your mask off to talk. Grey OnLine Collision car. Blonde, black shirt working at the end of Panorama Drive.

You let me through. I'm sure you saw my jaw drop. Wanted to ask you if you were single but thought maybe that moment wasn't the time. There was a building on fire.

VIETNAMESE PLACE ON VICTORIA DRIVE

r

We’re in your neighborhood to make you smile…

r

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2018 WHERE: Simpatico Ristorante

s

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 21, 2018 WHERE: Vietnamese Restaurant on Victoria Drive I think it may have been your first day on the job. You were bussing dishes, but you definitely were not Vietnamese. Your English was perfect. You were almost as tall as I am. Your skin was dark golden bronze and perfect. You weren’t slight, but you were not in any way, uncomely. You brushed against me in the narrow passageway to the toilet and said you were sorry. Without thinking, I said, “Don’t say your sorry.” We both smiled.

Visit straight.com to post your FREE I Saw You _

(FRI/SAT/SUN)

Dosa + Beer Combo: VEGI: $1199 | MEAT: $1299

GUY IN THE WHITE SHIRT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2018 WHERE: Seymour River

(TUES-FRI • 11AM - 3PM)

Any Dosa .................................................... $699

> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < “BOB” ON THE 10:10PM FERRY TO NANAIMO

(with the purchase of beverages)

2 FOR 1

Feast hails Indigenous roots

ONE PER DINING EXPERIENCE

FOOD

0 9.0 *$ 9oom g Z in iten h W

NOW OPEN...

Aarm Dental Group

on Beatty

529 Beatty Street

Family & Cosmetic Dentistry

(between Dunsmuir & Pender St.)

604-699-1901 Zoom In-Office Whitening for $99.00.

Dr. Sabrina Chen, DDS

COMPLIMENTARY Electronic Vitality Toothbrush included with every New Patient Exam, Xrays & Cleaning.

EMERGENCY & NEW PATIENTS WELCOME OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY WE DO NOT CHARGE ABOVE BCDA FEE GUIDE

WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR DENTAL INSURANCE PLANS

NEW PATIENTS & EMERGENCIES ALWAYS WELCOME

www.aarm-dental.com AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 13

All Events Free!

www.powellstreetfestival.com @POWELLSTFEST #POWELLSTFEST

14 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 / 2018

Artwork by Yurie Hoyoyon

MURAL FEST

Artists Sara Khan (left) and Michelle Nguyen (right) are working at their largest scale yet, while guest curator Roxanne Charles is helping to shape this year’s offerings from behind the scenes. Joel Dufresne photo.

Putting a new face on public art

opportunity to integrate imprisoned in an institutional-looking structure; wheat paste and stencil it’s a statement, in black and beige and grey, about into these hidden alcoves restrictions on women in Pakistani society. And and nooks and crannies while her newer compositions are becoming ever in the area we’ve chosen more vibrant, her narratives are increasingly imfor her.” pressionistic and, arguably, subtler.

Both Charles and The painting she’s using as the model for her Shen aim to break age mural festival image, for example, relies more on barriers in public art, earth tones than what we’ll see on East 11th. “It’s too. Charles sought out become more about this man lying on the ground,” At this year’s Vancouver Mural Festival, more than half the 18-year-old Coast Sal- she explains. “You can’t really tell if he’s going artists are women of diverse ages, backgrounds, and style ish artist Atheana Picha, into the ground, or if he’s sort of sprawled on the who she hopes will in- ground, at one with nature. There’s a lot of foliage, hile the alleyways, parks, and brick spire and empower youth, while Shen looked for a lot of leaves, and the whole concept behind it was walls where public art lives may artists between the ages of 40 and 65 in an effort being a part of all of this and being one with it.… appear more inclusive than presti- to counter the view that street art is associated And there are little humanoid creatures there, too,

BY LUCY LAU gious galleries, pristine admission- with younger generations. “With public art, in but they’re more animal than human.” required museums, and other stuffy suit-and-tie particular, where you do not have the choice to It’s a fantasy landscape, Khan adds, but one that’s venues, there remains disparity in the people that view what’s in front of you…you don’t see your- intended to be both amusing and thought-provokare—and aren’t—permitted in such spaces. This self most of the time,” she explains. “I don’t see ing—for artist and audience alike. “I wanted to have inequality in traditional art has long been criti- myself in what’s advertised to me. I think it’s im- fun with it,” she says. “And it’s already opening my cized, and manifests itself in the dismal number of portant to have that representation in all differ- eyes to so many other ways of presenting my work.” > ALEXANDER VARTY women, people of colour, and those who identify as ent shapes, sizes, and walks of life.”

LGBT, among other groups, in mainstream art and Below, meet just three of the artists who will culture. And it’s a concern that this year’s Vancou- be dreaming up and completing murals in and BK FOXX ver Mural Festival curators kept at the forefront of around Mount Pleasant as part of VMF. New York City–based street artist BK Foxx their minds when putting together the artist lineup. wholeheartedly prioritizes content over “I definitely—in everything I do—consider SARA KHAN aesthetics. As such, she holds a belief that would visibility and representation for those who are The obvious take on the Vancouver Mural Fes- make media theorist Marshall McLuhan roll over not always represented,” Pennylane Shen, lotival is that it’s a way to enliven the rapidly gen- in his grave. “For me, the medium is not the mescal filmmaker and artist, and one of three guest curators of 2018’s fete, remarks by phone. “So the trifying East Van neighbourhood, Mount Pleasant, sage,” Foxx states by phone. “I really want you race, gender, and identity politics come into play where it’s been held since its debut in 2016. Less her- to look at something and say, ‘Obviously, it took alded, though, is the way that the annual event can someone a lot of time and energy to put that there, in my decision-making.”

Of the 23 participating artists at the third an- also embolden the artists asked to create large works and make it look good. And even if I don’t see it nual VMF, which takes place from Monday to for public consumption, often for the very first time. at first, there must be more to interpret from it.’ ” That’s how Sara Khan sees it, anyway. The A self-taught artist who painted her first mural next Saturday (August 6 to 11), more than half— including all three of this year’s international self-confessed introvert is normally ensconced a mere five years ago, Foxx—whose alias is derived guests—are women. Two are openly queer, six in her studio, working diligently on small water- from her given name’s initials and the fox, an animal are Indigenous, and many more are folks of col- colours—but this week she’s working in public, she admires for its clever, cunning traits—has since our, bringing a welcome dose of diversity to a painting an 18-metre-long stretch of wall at 233 risen to the ranks of North America’s most prolific graffitists. Working exclusively with spray paint, realm that has, historically, been ruled by white East 11th, and she’s loving it.

“I get so comfortable in my little space, in my she’s installed large-scale works on buildings all over cis men. “Even though so many women do make artwork, it’s usually dominated by males,” notes little hole,” the U.K.–born, Pakistan-raised artist her adopted home of New York City, and in France, Roxanne Charles, First Nations storyteller and tells the Straight from her Burnaby home. “So this Spain, and beyond, many of the hyperrealistic imis a huge opportunity, and I’m realizing how much ages serving as both art and social commentary. guest curator of VMF. A piece titled Rise Up the Dirt, completed in Charles, who curated most of the work by In- potential there is in me to do these kinds of things.”

At first, Khan admits, her mural festival Kiev, Ukraine, shows a pair of weathered hands digenous artists, considered the history of Coast protecting a single daisy amid a concrete jumSalish land and the recent protests against the commission was all about logistics. “You ble of abandoned screws, batteries, and Trans Mountain pipeline during her selection have to gather paint, or you have to tools—a reminder that life finds a way process. She says that, for her, it was important to think about colours and the composto bloom even in the darkest of times. have First Nations artists reclaiming public spaces ition and the scissor lift you’ll use to Check out…

STRAIGHT.COM Meanwhile, Sick, installed in Brookbecause “visual representation has been absent go up and down, so you don’t even Visit our website think about the way that it opens up lyn, depicts a bloody Robert de Niro from the landscape for such a long time”. for morning-after from the 1976 film Taxi Driver, his Beyond gender and race, Charles worked to your mind—or the way you look at reviews and local almost clean-shaven head surrounded ensure a diverse scope of media at the festival. your artwork,” she explains. Now, arts news by cities and places in the U.S.—OrCoast Salish artist Zac George is an experienced though, she’s looking forward to a lando, Las Vegas, and so on—where mass carver, for example, while Ronnie Dean Har- more direct engagement with the pubshootings have occurred in recent years. That ris is a multimedia and spoken-word artist who lic—and to wider exposure for her vibrant develops youth workshops centred on reconcilia- colour palette, a Lahore-inspired aspect of her one speaks for itself. “It’s really about what it says tion. Both will showcase murals at the almost art that has blossomed since her move to B.C.’s more than anything else,” notes Foxx. “Every once in a while I’ll do something for fun or because it weeklong event. Shen, who comes from a fine-art coastal rainforest.

“I’m really inspired by Vancouver,” she says. “We looks cool or whatever, but most of the time, I’m background, wanted to introduce figures that would take VMF beyond just “street art”. Her live in a high-rise, and I can see the whole of the city trying to say something.”

The 29-year-old with no formal art training, choices include Phantoms in the Front Yard, a and the mountains, and it’s just stunning through local artist collective that emphasizes figurative every season and at different times of the day. But who picked up a spray can after discovering an art; the Los Angeles–based Bunnie Reiss, whose my city [Lahore] is extremely colourful: the way we abandoned building that was tagged with words style Shen describes as akin to an adult colour- present ourselves, the clothes we wear, and those and images near her place in New York, is also ing book; and Danielle Krysa, a Vancouver-based crazy, colourful trucks and rickshaws that we have.” known for her many portrayals of wildlife. CaKhan’s crimson reds, rose pinks, and turquoise nines, birds, and bears—of the real and teddy artist, writer, and founder of the Jealous Curator blues didn’t always find their way into the paintings variety—have all featured in Foxx’s work, though website, who specializes in collage.

“Her work is humorous and very self-aware,” she made in Pakistan. One particularly striking she maintains that, while she is passionate about see page 17 Shen says of Krysa’s pieces. “I wanted to give her an image shows rows of burka-clad figures seemingly

W

2

2

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 15

16 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 / 2018

Public art

from page 15

animal rights, there are a multitude of causes she cares deeply about. She begins her creative process by either surveying a wall to determine a message that’s relevant for the surrounding ’hood, or simply consulting a running catalogue of subjects or messages she’d like to convey.

“I walk around in the world and I see so much and think, ‘This is fucked up,’ ” says Foxx, who’ll be painting the site at 2725 Main Street. “I have a list of things like that and I try to address them as I go. And every once in a while, I’ll be like, ‘This would be the perfect time, this would be the perfect place to say this thing about this.’ ” Foxx hopes to bring some of that acute sensibility to Vancouver, where she wants her larger-than-life canvas to spark a conversation—any sort of conversation—among passersby.

In just five short years, self-taught New York City street artist BK Foxx has “Amid all the craziness of the day, risen to become one of the most prolific graffitists on the continent. if someone is like, ‘This caught my Nguyen studied environmental and women appear. Men look at attention,’ ” she says, “then I’m like, design at UBC, and received her women. Women watch themselves ‘Okay, I’m doing an okay job.’ ” > LUCY LAU undergraduate degree in 2016. She being looked at…thus she turns has most recently shown her work herself into an object, a vision. So MICHELLE NGUYEN at the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver, I think about that all the time. As a and will soon leave for a six-week woman, the way you view yourself For Vancouver-based artist Mi- artist residency in France. is through the lens of a man.” chelle Nguyen, the paintings Nguyen’s paintings are often These theories and histories have she creates are all about the personal scattered with figures of nude strongly influenced Nguyen’s work. reaction they evoke in the observer. women, animals, plants, and do- But in the end, the viewers’ experiThe 25-year-old—who was born in mestic scenes. While they evoke ence with the art is all their own.

Toronto—uses oil pastels to conjure a sense of traditional oil-painting For the upcoming Vancouver Mural a world where humans interact with practice, Nguyen approaches the Festival, Nguyen will be creating a cuseach other within the space they oc- female form in a more feminist tom, collagelike painting. This will be cupy together. These eerie yet beauti- and modern way. According to her first mural. Nguyen loves creating fully cluttered creations are often in- Nguyen, European painting has a art that is hands-on physical, and is spired by mythology, art history, and long history of misogyny. Paint- looking forward to experiencing that literature. ing has traditionally been directed kind of immersion with the mural.

“I love the ability to craft a space toward privileged men in particuNguyen has never done a painting and characters in which people can lar. Nguyen was not interested in on such a large scale, and is lookcreate a story of their own,” Nguyen painting the female form until ing forward to the physicality of the tells the Straight over the phone. “I’m she read the work of art critic and mural project. also interested in finding ways to foster painter John Berger, who said that “It’s very nice to physically engage empathy through my work. I just want in historic oil paintings, the female your body into making one thing. people to realize that they’re occupy- nude was never the protagonist.

And that’s why I wanted to do this ing a space with other people. They can “The painting is always the view- mural,” she says. “Since it’s so big, consider how other people occupy the er, and the viewer is always presum- I’m engaging my whole body into space. It’s something I think we need ably a male viewer,” says Nguyen. making this piece.” > LAURA SCIARPELLETTI in our current political climate.”

“Berger talks about how men act

T HEATRE

2

AUGUST 11

LIVE MUSIC / DANCE

TOWN CENTRE PARK

CRAFT BEER / ART

2 – 10 P.M.

FOOD TRUCKS

&TD COMMUNITY PLAZA

ARTISAN MARKET

Contains Coarse Language and Mature Subject Matter

coquitlam.ca/kaleidoscope | MEDIA PARTNERS

TCNEWS TRI-CITY

AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 17

ARTS As You Like It Lindsey Angell & Nadeem Phillip

AS YOU LIKE IT DATES JUST ADDED!

Latash–Maurice Nahanee says many artists haven’t shown publicly before.

M A I N S TAG E

AS YOU LIKE IT

H O WA R D FA M I LY S TAG E

MACBETH

TIMON O F AT H E N S

LYS I S T R ATA Adapted by Jennifer Wise & Lois Anderson

+ + + +

— As You Like It, The Globe and Mail

TICKETS FROM $24 Season Sponsor

604.739.0559 | bardonthebeach.org

Season brochures at

stores

HAVE YOU BEEN TO...

Red Card Banana Sports Bar L ea f redcardsportsbar.ca bananaleaf-vancouver.com 18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

Harmony fest lauds carving, jewellery, fashion, and more > BY JAN ET SMITH

Production Sponsors Media Sponsors

Indigenous exhibit shows thriving scene

T

he Indigenous Exhibition may be a new initiative for the Harmony Arts Festival, but it goes back to the ancient roots of the West Vancouver waterfront where the lively summer event takes place.

Squamish elder Latash–Maurice Nahanee, who’s coordinated this year’s Indigenous showcase, says the programming will remind people that the Ambleside area was where his ancestors once harvested the sea. “Growing up, we had a saying among our people: ‘Where the tide is out the table is set,’ ” he tells the Straight over the phone. “It was a place where there was the abundance of the food and resources that the Creator shared with us.”

The Indigenous Exhibition and Art Market will celebrate a different kind of abundance on the same site—that of the burgeoning art scene amid the Squamish and other Indigenous people.

“We have a lot of very amazing creative artists in the Squamish Nation, and I wanted to introduce them to the audiences of West Vancouver,” explains Nahanee, who will help lead a traditional welcome blessing and opening reception on Friday (August 3). “Within the last 20 years there’s been an amazing growth in artists bringing in traditions from the West Coast, and they’re really evolving their own style; there are some really contemporary and modern interpretations.

“There are about 300 artists in the Squamish Nation alone, and a lot have been around for 30 or 40 years.

But a lot of the ones we’re showing have not been seen in public galleries, though many of them also have public or corporate commissions.”

Among the artworks on display, look for the stunning red- and yellow-cedar carvings of young Squamish talent James Harry, whose Northwest formlines take on a fresh contemporary flow; or the masks, pole sculptures, and metalwork of Kwakwaka’wakw and Squamish master Richard Baker. Watch also for the vividly coloured acrylic and oil paintings of Shíshálh Nation member Candace Campo, as well as carved gold and silver Northwest Coast jewellery, and fashions by the likes of Indigenous designer Pam Baker. All of the works will be for sale, with ample opportunity to meet the artists.

Nahanee stresses the exhibit will highlight the vast variety of art coming out of the Lower Mainland’s and B.C.’s Indigenous nations. “There’s so much diversity,” he points out. “There are 27 different cultural groups here, and in all of Canada there are 50. So we have the greatest diversity right here in Nisga’a Coast Salish Territory.” The Indigenous Exhibition and Art Market takes place from Friday (August 3) to August 12 at Ambleside Landing.

ARTS

Gong master brings good vibrations to Powell fest

2

> B Y A L EX A NDER VAR TY

A

sizzle. A roaring. The sound of massed cellos making a droning chord. Distant thunder, and a lively breeze. Give Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra the blindfold test, and you might hear all of these.

Or you might hear something entirely different—the music is open-ended enough that each pair of ears will encounter not only the sound of Nakatani’s bowed and beaten gongs, but all the personal associations they’re capable of invoking.

Listening to a recording of Nakatani’s music in the context of the Powell Street Festival, Vancouver’s annual celebration of Japanese and JapaneseCanadian culture, these ears couldn’t help but imagine a connection with the slow rituals of the Shinto religion, Japan’s indigenous animist creed.

The music also seemed to be rooted in some kind of meditation, implying a connection to the Zen Buddhist practices that, in Japan, overlie and coexist with that earlier belief system.

But those connections, Nakatani says, are entirely imaginary.

“There’s nothing about meditation or Shinto religion: it’s just about contemporary art,” the Osaka-born musician explains, checking in with the Straight from a gas station in his adopted home of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Speaking in lightly accented English, he notes that these are common misconceptions. “Of course, on the audience side, everybody thinks different, so with 100 people, maybe 80 people say it’s a meditative experience. Or maybe 40 people will think it’s contemporary composed music or a contemporary sound-sculpture project. Some people will say it’s a movie soundtrack for them, or poetry. It depends on the listener; it depends on the circumstances.”

There’s certainly a performance-art aspect to Nakatani’s work: wherever the Gong Orchestra travels, he enlists local musicians to perform his scores. He doesn’t specify who gets to participate; that’s determined by each city’s presenting organization. Previous experience as a percussionist isn’t necessary, and neither are sight-reading skills: Nakatani leads the band gesturally, bringing individual gongs in and out as needed.

“There is no sheet music,” the 48-year-old musician says. “There is no written format,

At the Powell Street Festival, Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra plays bowed and beaten instruments that invoke all kinds of personal associations. And it’s music he insists is best experienced live.

I guess. So I usually conduct; it’s probably 50 percent improvising, 50 percent composed. I remember each gong’s sound, so I can format the music with different combinations. And also this is a very challenging project, because every time there are different members, with different abilities, different sounds, and different acoustics in different places. So I try to do the best I can at the moment. Some players don’t make good sounds, some players do make good sounds. If some player doesn’t make good sound, it’s not bad: I can use that sound as more of an effect, in a way. But I try to do my best each time. That’s my composition.

“Sometimes I record by myself; I play all gongs into Pro Tools—150 tracks of all kinds of combinations, all by myself,” he continues.

“Which works very well, but it doesn’t have the live feeling. I’m focusing on the compositions, but live is live.”

And live, he stresses, is where his music is best experienced. There’s a physicality, he explains, that even high-end stereo speakers can’t reproduce.

“It’s the same with the gamelan—the metallic vibration, which is really powerful

for the human body,” he says. “We kind of know about it, but we don’t know about it.

It makes people smile; it makes them feel good. And these days many healer people are using sound for therapy; everything is based on the material vibration, giving particular frequencies to the treated people. So this has some element of that.”

Healing is not Nakatani’s first concern: primarily, he reiterates, he’s a composer. But if it’s possible to do formally inventive work that also promotes psychic and physical well-being, why not?

“Yes, that’s how I think,” he says, laughing. “I have to accept this second effect that will work for the people—and, I think, for myself as well. I’m very healthy. Maybe that’s why I do this project!” The Powell Street Festival presents a Tatsuya Nakatani solo performance at the Firehall Arts Centre at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday (August 4), and the full Nakatani Gong Orchestra at the Vancouver Japanese Language School at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday (August 5).

Rhythms mix at Powell Street Festival

Given that the Powell Street Festival is devoted to celebrating Japanese and Japanese-Canadian culture, you might expect that diversity ranks low on the list of the long-running annual event’s priorities—but you’d be wrong.

Sure, there are many culturally specific presentations on the roster this weekend: it does not get much more Japanese than a shakuhachi recital. But for proof of Japanese music’s global reach, consider what shakuhachi virtuoso Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos is doing in conjunction with his partner in the duo Bushido, multi-instrumentalist Nori Akagi.

The shakuhachi, an end-blown flute made from a gnarly piece of bamboo, is indigenous to the Japanese archipelago—but Ramos is a Canadian of Filipino heritage, and brings an array of outside influences to his music.

And then there are taiko performances by Vancouver’s own Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi Taiko, Vancouver Okinawa Taiko, and Onibana Taiko, alongside California’s all-female troupe Jodaiko. The drum-heavy idiom originated to accompany rural harvest ceremonies, but in its modern form it’s played worldwide and often features new works written by composers of many different ethnicities.

In terms of less traditionally rooted musical forms, one standout booking is Emma Lee Toyoda, whose punk-influenced singer-songwriter approach is less about their status as the child of Japanese and Korean parents, and more about how the vagaries of love affect a nonbinary 20-something in polyglot Seattle.

Artistic diversity is further served by an array of readings, film screenings, visual-arts exhibitions, and dance performances, including an appearance by the always stunning avantbutoh troupe Kokoro Dance. > ALEXANDER VARTY

The Powell Street Festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday (August 4 and 5) at Oppenheimer Park and various venues.

SELFIE

BY CHRISTINE QUINTANA DIRECTED BY PEDRO CHAMALE

HURRY FOR BEST SEATS!

TINY REPLICAS

BY DAVE DEVEAU

DIRECTED BY SHELBY BUSHELL

THEORY

BY NORMAN YEUNG

DIRECTED BY MILY MUMFORD

FESTIVAL OF EMERGING TALENT ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE | AUGUST 16–25 Pay-What-You-Decide at rumble.org

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22 7:30PM

TICKETS: TICKETMASTER.CA • 855.985.5000

© Photo : Marc Montplaisir | Artistes/Artists : Céline Cassone, Alexander Hille AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19

straight choices

ar ts/ timeout THEATRE MUSIC COMEDY GALLERIES MUSEUMS

< < < < <

THEATRE 2ONGOING MAMMA MIA! The Arts Club presents a feel-good musical featuring the music of ABBA. To Aug 12, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tix from $29, info www.artsclub. com/shows/2017-2018/mamma-mia/.

BARD ON THE BEACH Annual Shakespeare theatre festival features repertory performances of As You Like It, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, and Lysistrata. To Sep 22, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $24, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.

ONCE The Arts Club presents Enda Walsh’s musical about a struggling Dublin street musician who chances upon a girl who challenges him to go for his dream.

To Aug 5, Granville Island Stage. Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/shows/20172018/once/.

THEATRE UNDER THE STARS Performances on alternating evenings of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and 42nd Street. To Aug 18, 8-10:30 pm, Malkin Bowl (Stanley Park). Info www.tuts.ca/.

blueridgechamber.org

HAVE YOU BEEN TO...

Granville Isand Brewing gib.ca

20 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

COOL CHAMBER We’re not quite sure what we’re most anticipating: the austere, even chilly, chamber music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, or the warm, romantic art songs of Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Lierderbuch. Both will be featured in the upcoming Blueridge Chamber Music Festival—split between the Orpheum Annex and North Vancouver’s Mount Seymour United Church from next Wednesday (August 8) to August 19. The Wolf program is a sure-fire winner, with Blueridge co–artistic director/soprano Dory Hayley and Colin Balzer tackling the female and male roles, respectively; it’s downtown next Saturday (August 11) and in North Van the day after.

But with age-old favourites Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorák sharing the spotlight with relative newcomers Jocelyn Morlock, Dora Pejačević, and Imant Raminsh on the other nights, there’ll be something for every taste.

MUSIC

AVOCADO TOAST—VANCOUVER GROWN, ORGANIC FREE-RANGE COMEDY Vancouver TheatreSports presents a comedy show that pokes fun at Vancouver and its stereotypes. To Sep 1, Thu-Sat. at 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). From $10.75, info www.vtsl.com/show/avocado-toast/.

2THIS WEEK AN EVENING YOU WILL FORGET FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Comedians and actors Steve Martin and Martin Short present an evening of standup comedy, film clips, musical numbers, and conversations about their lives in show business.

Aug 1-2, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

GALLERIES BILL REID GALLERY 639 Hornby, 604682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2BODY LANGUAGE: REAWAKENING CULTURAL TATTOOING OF THE NORTHWEST (guest curator Dion Kaszas of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation traces the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing) to Jan 13 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/.

2DAVID MILNE: MODERN PAINTING (close to 90 works in oil and watercolour, never-before-presented photographs, drawings, and memorabilia) to Sep 9

MUSEUMS

2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER BACH FESTIVAL Early Music Vancouver presents its third annual festival, featuring 15 concerts with guest artists from around the world. To Aug 10, Christ Church Cathedral. Info www.early music.bc.ca/tickets/summer-festival/.

COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. 2KEVIN FOXX Aug 2-4

THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-8225087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2ARTS OF RESISTANCE: POLITICS AND THE PAST IN LATIN AMERICA (exhibition illustrates how Latin-American communities use traditional or historical art forms to express contemporary political realities) to Oct 8

TIME OUT ARTS LISTINGS are a public service provided free of charge, based on available space and editorial discretion. We can’t guarantee inclusion, and we give priority to events taking place within one week of publication.

Submit listings online using the event-submission form at straight.com/AddEvent. Events that don’t make it into the paper due to space constraints will appear on the website.

G ING ISRRUUPPTTIN DIS D N ION LUSSIO CLU EXC EX G ING ITIN VIT INV IN N ION ECTTIO NEC NN ON CO C

FREE ADMISSION ::: FREE WORKSHOPS ::: FREE PERFORMANCES 100+ VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS ::: 100% OF SALES TO ARTISTS ::: CACV.CA ::: ROUNDHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE ::: PACIFIC & DAVIE

MOVIES

Fifty pundits canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be wrong RE VIEW S THE KING A documentary by Eugene Jarecki.

Rated PG

Early in The King, an insanely overview of Elvis Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in popular culture, a grizzled tech-crew chief asks writerdirector Eugene Jarecki if he knows what the hell heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing. The only answer from the filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who previously tackled metascale politics in docs like Freakonomics and The Trials of Henry Kissingerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is this relentless blast of Americana, with the grotesque battling beauty every Route 66 step of the way.

The automobile itself is the operating principle here, with various artists, pundits, and Memphis Mafia survivors crammed into Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1963 RollsRoyce Phantom Vâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which, as John Hiatt observes, is an odd choice, since he usually travelled in American-made Cadillacs. Folks like Ethan Hawke, Emmylou Harris, and M. Ward join Jarecki for a cruise from the iconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi (in a mostly black neighbourhood), through Memphis and on to New York, Hollywood, and, finally, Las Vegas. The passengersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;very few of them femaleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; make verbal and musical commentary, although the songs have little direct connection to Elvis, other than repping the many genres he fused on his own truncated journey.

Where HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent Elvis Presley: The Searcher took over three hours to explore the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and music, The King uses that trajectory as a pulsating analogue to a nation that grew and grew and now looks ready to die, bloated and confused, on a golden toilet. Like its subject, this is a gloriously scattershot mess, with race, class, gender, drugs, and grand delusions competing for space.

Commenters found in more fixed locations include The Wire creator David Simon and Public Enemyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chuck D, who dissect the nature of living in a country that â&#x20AC;&#x153;excludes people of colour from the profits,â&#x20AC;? as Van Jones puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but benefits from their soulful cry.â&#x20AC;?

This dialectic is something Elvis himself never quite grasped; he recused himself from social issues in the 1960s, even though his rebellious early moves heavily influenced the Beatles, Dylan, and others who left him behind.

That era was shaded by his short stint in the army, signalling a submission to the militarism that would gradually replace American ideals with cynical materialismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a complication Mike Myers, looking from the other side of the border, views as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a messianic needâ&#x20AC;? to be loved and feared.

(Elvisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oily Svengali, the pseudonymous Col. Tom Parker, was actually an â&#x20AC;&#x153;illegalâ&#x20AC;? immigrant from the Netherlands. His lack of a valid passport was the main reason Elvis never performed outside of North America.)

Shot just before the apotheosis of emptiness ascended to his own gilded throne, the new doc includes too many generic shots of aircraft carriers, skyscrapers, and other totems of power, while the end-credit sequence reveals the massive number of artists filmed but not heard in the final cut. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story of America, too.

2 ambitious

' ' $ ' "$ ' ' ' ' ' '

%%% & #

! '

Musicians Robert Bradley and Matthew J. Ruffino are among those pondering the very meaning of Elvis Presley in director Eugene Jareckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambitious The King.

gas station on Hollywood Boulevard.

His first day, Walter Pidgeon cruised through and invited the pugnaciously handsome attendant back to his place, â&#x20AC;&#x153;for a swimâ&#x20AC;?. Handed a crisp 20 for his troubles, Bowers also knew lots of exservicemen whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d enjoy hanging out with closeted stars for extra green. The stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absentee owner kept a doublewide trailer parked nearby, and it saw plenty of rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long before Elvis Presley came to town.

Back then, the studios owned the images of their biggest stars; a gay dalliance could instantly end even the most established careers. (Liberace sued Confidential magazine for character defamation when the only thing straight about him was his face.) Clients for Scotty and his male and female pals included director George Cukor, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Oh, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forget FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, in drag, no lessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps one reason Bowers never got arrested, considering that his operation ran until 1980.

Few survivors are around to confirm or contest Bowersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims, but his stories ring true. Among old friends and social commentators here, Stephen Fry describes this polymorphous pimpâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now on his second long-term hetero marriageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as â&#x20AC;&#x153;pregayâ&#x20AC;?, in that his sexuality was (very) fluid before such terms existed. Dr. Alfred Kinsey, for whom Bowers was a spectacular subject, even came to some of the Beverly Hills orgies he orchestrated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although he only watched,â&#x20AC;? Scotty recalls dryly.

Sharp light is shed on key goldenage figures like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who acted as beards for each other, and masculine icon Cary Grant, who famously straight-played the openly gay Cole Porter. This mirrored wall between art and real life relieves director Matt Tyrnauerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who has also tackled designer Valentino, urban critic Jane Jacobs, and killer fruit Roy Cohnâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of the need for actorly re-creations. Instead, copious movie clips comment knowingly on the subtext at hand.

Bowers put most of his fun-time money into real estate, and when not bartending or attending book-signings for his memoirs, he still does his own repairs (but has to wade > KEN EISNER through mountains of accumulated junk to do them). Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affable but SCOTTY AND THE SECRET curiously non-self-reflective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD what I did,â&#x20AC;? he states slyly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do any of it accidentally.â&#x20AC;?

A documentary by Matt Tyrnauer.

a-half-hour running time. The IMF operative starts out wrangling a suitcase full of plutonium in the atmospheric underbelly of Belfast and ends up ripping across the ice fields of Kashmir in a flaming helicopter.

Most breathtaking might be a half-hour motorcycle chase through Paris, the grand cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most cherished landmarks providing a strangely romantic backdrop.

But what makes the sixth and best installment of the M:I franchise more than an obnoxiously loud crash-andbang popcorn flick is the feeling weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re watching characters who actually care for each other.

Cruise performed many of his own stunts, at one point breaking his ankle while jumping from building to building with a nimbleness that makes one forget heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing in on 60.

But his greatest accomplishment here is making it seem that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fixated on more than saving the world from a rogue special-agent splinter group with a couple of nuclear bombs.

The people heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most concerned about protecting are those closest to him, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wisecracking, inover-his-head systems analyst Benji (Simon Pegg) or a desperate-to-getout-of-the-game government assassin (Rebecca Ferguson). The smoking helicopter wrecks and motorcycle mayhem near the Arc de Triomphe are Falloutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money shots. But as much as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the greatest action films, well, ever, what makes Fallout the best film in the franchise is that it has a soul. Witness Fergusonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conflicted (and entirely badass) hit woman, Ilsa Faust, unable to pull the trigger on Hunt at a crucial moment, and Huntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repeated flashbacks to the wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abandoned to ensure her safety.

Returning as both screenwriter and director, Christopher McQuarrie packs the space between action sequences with enough twists and turns that you need to pay attention to avoid getting lost. Keeping us engaged is a support cast every bit as dialled in as Cruise, standouts including, but not limited to, Henry Cavill as offputtingly overconfident CIA operative August Walker, and Vanessa Kirby as a mysterious international-deals broker named White Widow.

Smartly, Fallout knows that the best international-espionage thrillers are the ones that throw us into worlds weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never normally see, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a retro-swank cocktail club in the City of Light or a ram> KEN EISNER shackle wooden hut in the mounRated R tains of Kashmir. More importantly, The Forrest Gump of celebrity sex, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; it understands that the greatest backScotty Bowers was everywhere FALLOUT drops in the world are useless if we closeted rich folks were copulating in Starring Tom Cruise. Rated PG donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about the people in them. > MIKE USINGER the second half of the 20th century.

For all the hyperadrenalized Now a sprightly 95, he drops names like stunt porn in Mission: Impos- EIGHTH GRADE yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trousers in this rousing portrait of someone who knows where all sibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fallout, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s human Starring Elsie Fisher. Rated 14A the boners were buried. side that sticks with you in the end.

A combat marine in World War II, Remember when teenage girls Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive, considering the Bowers washed up in 1946 Los An- various death-defying situations speused to commit their thoughts geles, ready for any kind of job. He cial agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) to secret diaries? The kind with a lock see next page found his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocation in a Richfield finds himself in over the two-and-

2

2

2

AUGUST 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21

Movie reviews

from previous page

and key, that even Mom—especially Mom—wasn’t supposed to see? Now, those internal monologues are blurted out on YouTube, Instagram, and other digital platforms, shared with potential millions. Or, in some cases, maybe six or seven. People, not millions.

The central conceit of the exceptionally wise Eighth Grade is that the private has become impersonal in the age of social media. There are whole new sets of pressures on image-building, informed by self-help jargon, designer labels, and porn. Writer-director Bo Burnham is himself a creature of this

postmillennial zeitgeist, having been a YouTube phenomenon and then an underaged creator of MTV’s Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and other kid-aimed shows.

You could say that his first feature (he has directed some standup-comedy specials) is a twisted take on growing up in public. But Burnham’s nonsecret weapon is Elsie Fisher, a 14-year-old screen veteran when he cast her as Kayla, the grade-eighter whose extremely small world revolves around posting Internet advice she barely follows in real life. Fisher has done a lot of cartoon voice-overs, most famously for the Despicable Me movies, and she

“LATE NIGHTS STEERING WOMEN TO KATHARINE HEPBURN, THEN BEDDING SPENCER TRACY NEXTT DOOR. WILL HAVE YOU LOOKING AT TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES IN A WHOLE DIFFERENT WAY.” — Vulture

Eye-opening takes on icons from the Hollywood Golden Age including:

CARY GRANT, KATHARINE HEPBURN, SPENCER TRACY, LANA TURNER, AVA GARDNER and many more!

STARTS FRIDAY!

a film by

Ma Tyrnauer

VANCITY THEATRE 9 , ) ) 2 5 * TICKETS

1181 SEYMOUR ST • VANCOUVER

SHOWTIMES

¿OPVweOLNH

See the Trailer • ¾OPVZHOLNH FRP

22 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

brings just the right combination of recessive anxiety and comic instinct to the part.

Kayla’s problem is that she’s finishing middle school without much to show for it: no friends, no real skills, no big dreams. Her Internet soliloquies (“Hi, guys…”) are warmed-over pep talks coming from the fake POV of someone older—ironic because her posts, as we eventually see, are really missives to her future self. In the real world, she’s a sweet, gentle kid—well, to everyone but her single dad, who receives 95 percent of the snark that’s in her. The underrated Josh Hamilton is terrific in a change-of-pace role somewhat like Bob Balaban’s part as the too-squishy caregiver in Ghost World, which featured tougher teens in a grittier, more urban environment. Not a lot happens in this blandly genteel subculture (in unnamed upstate New York locations), although Kayla does learn to navigate a world in which middle-class, mostly white kids sext each other and have contempt for their own comforts, and even nice guys can’t be trusted. A lowkey slice of girlhood for viewers who found Lady Bird too commercial, the smartly paced Eighth Grade is enlivened by unexpected music choices, sly visual gags, and a star who, like her bashful character, knows on some level that she’s actually going places.

LETTER FROM MASANJIA A documentary by Leon Lee. In English and Mandarin, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

“There’s

a

one-in-a-million

2 chance of finding a message in a

bottle,” says Julie Keith, an Oregonian who figures in Letter From Masanjia.

The title refers to a plea that travelled almost 6,000 miles, from a notorious slave-labour camp in northern China to her suburban Kmart.

Although Letter is seemingly a dark riff on the old “Help, I’m being held prisoner in a Chinese fortune-cookie factory” joke, multiple layers of irony wipe any sweetness away. Pencilled in English and Mandarin, the folded note was attached to a Styrofoam tombstone with a skeleton clutching a blackened cross. You know: for kids! The Keith family sat on that Halloween decoration for two years before opening it, and thus the note’s author, mild-mannered Sun Yi, had already been released by then.

The letter told of torture and death, and asked the finder to contact human-rights organizations.

She did that, but no groups showed interest until the story was picked up by local and then national newspapers. That’s where China-born, B.C.–based filmmaker Leon Lee > KEN EISNER came in. He won a coveted Peabody

Award for Human Harvest, his documentary on organ theft. Some say the Chinese government has been exploiting and even killing the followers of Falun Gong, a spiritual and exercise practice based on ancient Chinese principles. Unaligned with any political or religious entities, the fast-growing movement was tolerated until a sudden crackdown in 1999.

Sun Yi was arrested for promoting the practice, and then forced into horrendous work conditions some of his fellow “toymakers” didn’t survive. Lee, who can no longer safely return to China, sought him out and they devised ways to surreptitiously film Sun’s journey to find resolution to this nightmare. The latter, still in Beijing, turned out to be a talented graphic artist, and was able to capture key experiences in deft line drawings, many of which are further animated here.

Sun’s wife was pushed to divorce him, and the time-jumping, 75-minute doc follows their attempts to reconcile, obstructed by events both natural and bureaucratic. The bespectacled subject here is such a benign presence, it’s hard to imagine anyone finding him a threat. So it’s even more disturbing to watch him keep swimming against the tides that carried his bottle in the first place. > KEN EISNER

MUSIC

Yukon Blonde’s Innes survived a critical hit > B Y L A URA SC IA R PELLE TTI

T

hese days, Vancouver-based indie-pop band Yukon Blonde’s lead singer, Jeff Innes, lives on Galiano Island. He has created a bit of a picturesque “artist’s life” for himself—an in-house studio, proximity to the ocean, rustic settings, and barebones access to social media.

“A lot of people started to get priced out of the city,” Innes says of Vancouver in an interview at Our Town in Mount Pleasant. “I actually left because I couldn’t have a space to work here unless I was in one of those old storage lockers with, like, 5,000 other bands at the same time. How are you supposed to write music?”

But that doesn’t mean Innes is not in and around Vancouver often.

When we speak with him, he’s just finished up coproducing some music with fellow Vancouver band the Zolas. The two groups are set to tour together beginning in November.

Yukon Blonde’s fourth studio album, Critical Hit, was released last month, and it is no doubt the most personal of them all. The band— which consists of Innes and Brandon Scott on both vocals and guitar, Graham Jones on drums and vocals, James Younger on bass and vocals, and Rebecca Gray on keyboard and vocals—has cultivated a nostalgic synth sound that now seems effortless and natural for it.

“All the songs have personalities.

I’m never basing my artistic inclinations on what’s popular,” Innes says.

Critical Hit is the culmination of years of electronica-infused songwriting, experience, and growth.

Before moving to Vancouver from Kelowna in 2009, Innes’s band was called Alphababy.

“I kind of saw something happen,” Innes says. “There was a sort of

Yukon Blonde’s latest album, Critical Hit, features some of frontman Jeff Innes’s (far right) most personal songs.

monopolization of the talent in Kelowna, which started to drive away some of the bands that we really loved.”

While the scene was supportive, Innes felt that it was stagnant.

“When we left, everything seemed sort of fractured. It didn’t seem like anybody could do any of that hopeful, wondrous stuff we were doing before,” he notes. “The town didn’t seem to be fostering any new talent.

And I was already seeing our popularity beginning to wane.”

The group needed to get their “asses kicked” and leave, says Innes.

Once they left the Okanagan, the band morphed into something totally new—Yukon Blonde.

“Vancouver was amazing. Instantly. When we released our record here, there were so many supportive bands. We got so accepted into their scene here. But it was very different

back then, there were so many more bands,” Innes recalls.

Many of Innes’s favourite Vancouver venues have since closed, and the frontman says there is less of a DIY music culture than there used to be.

In the early days of Yukon Blonde, the group decided they wanted to be in a band so badly that they all quit their jobs and spent nearly two years living in their van and staying on friends’ couches.

“Like, no home, no job, and no source of income,” Innes says.

“We’ve busked in cities to make gas money—really rough stuff. We would tour constantly. We figured that if we stayed on tour we would always have a place to stay.”

This mentality resulted in three years of solid touring beginning in 2009, which sometimes had Yukon Blonde surviving on beans and bread.

August 11th Michael Ray

“A critical hit doesn’t kill you…it just delivers a critical blow. A double critical hit is a fatal blow,” Innes points out. “My mind just kept saying ‘critical hit’, and I wasn’t even thinking about the album. I thought, ‘That is such a beautiful phrase. It almost kind of works like a breakup title…oh my god.’ ” And that is how Innes thought of the breakup. It was a critical hit, but he would survive. Critical Hit consists of songs that ruminate on the trials and tribulations of relationships between friends and lovers.

“The underlying theme of the record is more lament than triumph,” he says.

The LP is more serious and less fictional than the past three Yukon Blonde albums, but it is still fun and danceable. A lot of Critical Hit is about dating in the digital age. But it’s safe to say that Innes lives largely offline nowadays.

“It’s amazing how much more time I have for music and reading. Your phone sucks all of your time. You’re either working or you’re on social media. That’s not the way to live a life. And you don’t realize how depressed you are on that shit,” Innes says. “As soon as I deleted Facebook, I totally went through withdrawal. A month later I caught myself thinking thoughts about art projects, and daydreaming all the time. I thought…‘This is really, really nice.’ ” Life on Galiano Island is more affordable, and certainly peaceful. And while reflecting on his heartbreaking Spanish love story helped create Critical Hit, Innes says a lot of his songwriting is done when he is in a good place.

“I’m more productive when emotionally stable. I can’t focus and think when I’m going through emotional turmoil.” -

While the hard work eventually paid off with critical success and a loyal fan following, there were some pretty low moments.

“Graham got pneumonia so bad once, he almost died. That was pretty bad. My family went to the hospital to essentially say goodbye to him,” Innes reveals.

In the gaming world, a “critical hit” is when an avatar is badly wounded.

The Critical Hit LP is more or less a breakup record, says Innes. Before the album, Innes was in a long-distance relationship with a girl from Spain. The two flew back and forth for about a year and a half. The last time Innes saw her, he was walking her to the floatplane on Galiano Island. They didn’t break up right then and there, but something told him it was over. And that is what the last song on the album—“Ritual on Yukon Blonde plays SKOOKUM in Stanley Park on September 9. the Docks”—is all about.

CELEBRATING THE ART AND CRAFT OF CONTEMPORARY GUITAR MAKING

Wes Mack

Shawn Austin Nice Horse

IëCH* L;CHQL?=E L;> ;ñC>

MEET US UNDER THE WATER TOWER FOR THE

EXHIBITION ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC INSTRUMENTS

INSTRUMENT LUTHIER DEMOS WORKSHOPS 10 AM – 5 PM AUGUST 11 & 12

PRESENTED BY LEE VALLEY TOOLS

CONCERTS HARRY MANX AUGUST 11

SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

MASTER CLASSES DON ALDER AUGUST 11

CREEKSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE 1 ATHLETES WAY, VANCOUVER BC WWW.VANCOUVERGUITARFESTIVAL.COM TICKETS: VIGF2018 .BROWNPAPERTICKETS .COM

4TH ANNUAL TRUCK STOP CONCERT SERIES. GET YOUR TICKETS AT WWW.TRUCKSTOPCONCERTSERIES.COM AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 23

MUSIC

Cryptic Kit lives on the road Kate Stables lives in Paris, but

2 as she tells the Straight in a tele-

AUG

PUPPYTEETH’S

2 DRAG CARNIVAL

3 STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS

AUG

4 FIERCE QUEEN VANCOUVER PRIDE

14 CKY & SLAVES

9:30PM-CLOSE

EVIL BASTARD KARAOKE EXPERIENCE

HOSTED BY:

OPEN UNTIL 3AM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

This Is the Kit’s Kate Stables compares writing lyrics to using tarot cards, in that the meaning is dependent on the person who is interpreting them.

got a life of their own that you can’t Collection got Allison flagged as an artist specializing in winning necessarily fully control.” > JOHN LUCAS melancholia. Clean doesn’t find her totally abandoning the chilled-out This Is the Kit plays the Fox Cabaret pop of her earlier work, but she’s defon Wednesday (August 8). initely up for branching out. Check out the waves of guitar distortion that roll in at the end of the beautifully tender “Scorpio Rising” and subterranean synth bursts in the acoustic reverie that is “Wildflowers”.

As thrilling and exotic as being Even as the hype grew leading up to a bona fide buzz act sounds in Clean, the singer wasn’t totally sure that 2018, sometimes perception is differ- anyone was really paying attention.

“I don’t think I was really aware of ent from reality. Take the case of Sophie Allison, who’s garnered no short- it,” she says. “That’s changed a bit since age of attention on music sites around the release of the record. But before the world as lo-fi sensation Soccer that, all I’d really released was homerecorded demos on Bandcamp. I know Mommy.

The Nashville-spawned singer- there’s definitely interest and buzz songwriter is currently touring in sup- today, but I think most of it has been port of Clean, a record she’s calling since the record has come out.”

If there’s been a thread connecting her official debut even though she’s released independent albums, EPs, the considerable accolades, it’s for the and tapes in the past. Reached on her way Allison pulls back the curtain on cell in a tour van headed to Texas, she her private life. Or at least that’s the marvels that just a week ago she found way that it seems, with the singer sugherself in Australia, drinking for free gesting that her songs aren’t as blackand enjoying the kind of scenery most and-white as they might seem, despite North Americans have to blow up “Your Dog” lines such as “I don’t wanna be a dog that you drag around.” their bank accounts to experience.

“I never really thought about how “It’s been weird,” she admits. “Like with Australia, we were only there for people would listen to the record,” three or four days, and we played one she admits. “Unless someone knows show. We were staying at this resort, me seriously well, I’m not sure how so a lot of it was just hanging out on anyone will know what I’m talking the beach, riding bikes, and playing about sometimes. If you don’t know tennis. I have to say it was pretty nice someone, you can’t tell what a specifand very relaxing. I’m in this position ic lyric means.”

Cautiously, she will allow that where I’m getting to do all this really what her growing number of fans cool shit, despite having no money.”

What she does have is a stack of hear is someone who is doing her press clippings hailing her as one of the best to be honest.

“When I was writing the record, top young talents in the current indie underground. At a time when hip-hop, I was in a place that a lot of other EDM, and megastars like Taylor Swift 20-year-olds are in,” she says. “I don’t continue to get all the attention in pop think that I was in the darkest point of music, there’s been a scene percolating my life or anything. It was more that I well outside of the mainstream. Soccer felt like I had to do something to work Mommy is right on the frontlines of a through my thoughts.” > MIKE USINGER movement that’s given us whip-smart upstarts like Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Soccer Mommy opens for Stephen Bridgers, and Julien Baker.

Early releases like Songs From My Malkmus at the Rickshaw Theatre on Bedroom (2016) and the aptly named Friday (August 3).

Soccer Mommy’s Allison aims to keep it honest

2

SOCCER MOMMY AJA, ARSON NICKI, BERLIN STILLER, SOUTH EAST

ROYAL THUNDER, AWAKEN I AM, BORT

AUG AUG

25 BC WILDLIFE BENEFIT

31 THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS: PILLOW TALK

AUG

THE GATEWAY

31 COMEDY SHOW

AUG

SEP WESTWARD MUSIC FEST

17 ALPHA OMEGA

AUG

21 POWERGLOVE

ASSIMILATION, THE VTH CIRCLE, DEAD ALIVE THE RUNAWAY FOUR, 20SIX HUNDRED

AUG

23 MIDGE URE & PAUL YOUNG

24 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

COBRA RAMONE, THE GETMINES, KOWNTERPOINT, THE CARBONS

AUG

SEP

EROSION, WAINGRO, UNROOT

MARRY ME, LOACHY, UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, DAMSEL

24 MARY’S GUNNS

15 YES WE MYSTIC & WALLGRIN

AUG

AUG 2 HARPDOG BROWN AUG 3 ELECTRIC WARRIORS AUG 4 ELECTRIC WARRIORS

THURS: POOL TOURNAMENT DAILY HAPPY HOUR 1038 Main Street IVANHOE PUB

FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM!

AUG

16 EYEHATEGOD

9pm

NO COVER

7 DAYS A WEEK

LAILA MCQUEEN, RUBBER CHILD, LISA LIMBAUGH, ROSE BUTCH, VIXEN VON FLEX, EVA SCARLETT, CLEOPATRA COMPTON, CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, DJ REGULARFANTASY

AUG

AUG

KARAOKE

HOSTED BY BILLY ANDERSON, W/ *L KYLE BOTTOM, MIKE MASILOTTI, SHATE OW* RACHEL WALLS, NARIKO OTT

6 VICIOUS RUMORS

ROADRASH

13 CHAD VAN GAALEN

SEP WESTWARD MUSIC FEST

14 METZ

SEP WESTWARD MUSIC FEST

15 MUDHONEY

SEP

*EARLY* SHOW

COMMON HOLLY

NEEDLES//PINS & DEAD FIBRES NÊHIYAWAK

16 OBSCURA DILUVIUM

AMERIKA TOUR 2018 W/ GUESTS BEYOND CREATION, ARCHSPIRE, INFERI, EXIST

11 2 3 TOBACCO BROWN 17WIDOWS PEAK STEPHEN FORD ONE HOT 4 GROUP 18 WONDER

AUG

phone interview—from Chicago, where she’s preparing to open an Aimee Mann show at Millennium Park— she doesn’t see her home that often.

“Over the past year or so, very rarely,” says the British-born singersongwriter who performs under the name This Is the Kit. “Most months will be at least two to three weeks touring. I’ve been away more than I’ve been at home this year, but that’s going to stop in September.”

That’s when Stables will spend some quality time back in France, where she has multiple projects in mind, from dabbling in film scoring to penning songs inspired by the late American sci-fi novelist Ursula K. Le Guin. If we’re lucky, she will also apply herself to the task of crafting a follow-up to This Is the Kit’s fourth long-player, 2017’s Moonlight Freeze.

A collection of haunting and melodically enchanting alt-folk, the album showcases Stables’s proficiency on a number of instruments (including banjo and guitar) as well as her crystalline vocals and knack for writing evocative lyrics.

In fact, the word that best describes Stables’s songs, if Pitchfork, Paste, and Rolling Stone are to be believed, is cryptic. She doesn’t dispute that assessment, noting that even though she writes about people and situations from her life, she strives to avoid being too obvious about it.

“It’s a weird thing to me, songwriting,” Stables admits. “Sometimes it feels a bit—I mean, this is a clumsy way of comparing it, but I can’t think of a better one—almost like tarot cards or something.

There are these images that come to you, and they are linked in a kind of narrative, but it’s so dependent on the person interpreting them as to what story they tell.”

In other words, what any individual infers from lyrics like the ones in “Empty No Teeth” (“Time was, climbing, all fours, all fours/ Time was all ours, for hours and hours/Daylight creeping, away, leaving, leaving”) might not be what the song’s author intended, but that doesn’t mean the listener is wrong.

“Sometimes people will come up to me after a show and say, ‘This song, to me, is about this and this and this,’ and they’re all things that I definitely had never thought of, but they’re absolutely totally appropriate, and I feel like the song is about that, but I hadn’t even realized it yet,” Stables says.

“There are sort of magic powers in the words you choose according to their sound or images, but the meanings often go so much deeper,” she concludes. “It’s really interesting, and I don’t know how to explain it very well. I notice it in other people’s writing as well. I think words have

Fri & Sat Aug 3rd & 4th

SATURDAY

TARAB SOMETHING ABOUT REPTILES

THURSDAY

WEST COAST THURSDAYS WITH MIKE WETERINGS

W/ (ARABIC AND TURKISH FUSION) DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM $10 ADV $13 @ THE DOOR BACKSTAGE LAGER(10OZ) $2.60

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM $5 BACKSTAGE LAGER(10OZ) $2.60

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

PSYCHEDELIC/SURF/BLUES/FOLK

CLOSER, KING MAMMOTH, DROWN IN ASHES

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM $10ADV/$13 KRONENBOURG PINTS (1164, BLANC, FRUIT) $7.80

SATURDAY

DOORS 9PM-$10 KRONENBOURG PINTS (1164, BLANC, FRUIT) $7.80

THE LIVE AGENCY PRESENTS

SATURDAY

MATTHEW ST. JOHN

MATTHEW ST. JOHN

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM -$10 RED TRUCK LAGER OR PALE ALE $5.85/ JUGS $16

10

FRIDAY

REBEL REPUBLIC

ROOTS MUSIC FROM THE GOLDEN ERA OF REGGAE

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM - $10 KRONENBOURG PINTS (1164, BLANC, FRUIT) $7.80

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM - $10 RED TRUCK LAGER OR PALE ALE $5.85/JUGS $16

31

FRIDAY

YOUTH & CANVAS

TWO-PIECE ROCK BAND FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS.

DOORS 8PM SHOW 9:30PM - $10 KRONENBOURG PINTS (1164, BLANC, FRUIT) $7.80

FOOD. DRINK. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT. *** VISIT US ONLINE FOR UP TO THE MINUTE LISTINGS, DRINK SPECIALS AND MORE www.thebackstagelounge.com ***

Concert Series Concert Concert Series Series

A L L -S TAR G U I TAR PU L L J OIN U S F OR A N U NF ORG E TTA BL E E VE NING OF G U ITA R MA STE RS! A U G U ST 10 • 7PM FE ATUR I NG : • D ON AL D E R (BC ) • I TAMAR E R E Z (I S R AE L ) • MAR K L E MAI R E (US A) • DAVI D MARTONE ( BC ) • ADAM MI L L E R (AUS ) • FR ANÇOI S PE L L E T I E R (QUE ) • PAUL PI G AT ( BC ) • T E R RY R OBB (US A) • C L AUS BOE S S E R - FE R R AR I (G E R )

sale Aug 3, 10 am, $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/.

REIGNWOLF Indie blues-rock trio from WAILIN’ WALKER BAND Veteran Saskatoon, featuring singer-guitarist Jordan Vancouver blues-rocker, with guest David Cook. Nov 6, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, “Boxcar” Gates. Aug 4, 7:30-10:45 pm, Rio Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $25-30, info on sale Aug 3, 10 am, $25 (plus service char- www.vancouverblues.ca/internationalblues-day-concert/. ges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

music/ timeout

POLO AND PAN French electronic-music duo performs material from latest album Caravelle. Dec 12, 9 pm, The Imperial. Tix on sale Aug 3, 10 am, $20 (plus service charge) at www.ticketly.com/.

THIS IS THE KIT Folk singer-songwriter performs tunes from her latest album Moonshine Freeze. Aug 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $14 (plus service charge) at www.ticketweb.ca/.

COLTER WALL Country-folk singer-songwriter from Saskatchewan. Jan 19, 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Aug 3, 10 am, $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD American hip-hop artist leads his band, with guests Ahi & Hirie. Aug 8 & 16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Aug 16 SOLD OUT, tix for Aug 8 $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

QUEER AS FUNK Queer as Funk’s resident DJ, Djslade Macdoog will be spinning tunes preshow, and bringing the funk with the rest of the band. Aug 3, 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charge), info www.face book.com/events/151620885661319/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS

CONCERTS < OUT OF TOWN < 2THIS WEEK

CONCERTS

2JUST ANNOUNCED CLASSIFIED Rapper from Nova Scotia.

Nov 1, 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

LUCKY CHOPS Brass trio from New York City. Nov 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on

CAREERS Stitch International Alteration Centre Inc. is hiring Alterations Seamstress. Job location: Stitch International store, 2002 Park Royal South, West Vancouver, BC V7T 2W. F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Wage - $ 17.00 CAD per/hour.

Skills requirements: 1-2 years of previous experience; Good English. Education: Secondary school. Main duties: Mark, cut and sew fabric; Alter and repair garments; Replace defective garment parts as required; Operate sewing machines or sew by hand. Company’s business address: 208-1201 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 2V2 Please apply by e-mail: stitchalterationcentre@gmail.com

Eurohouse Construction Inc.

is looking for Carpenters. Greater Vancouver, BC. Permanent, Full time.Wage - $ 30.00 CAD per/h Skills requirements: Experience 3-4 years, Good English.Education: Secondary school Main duties: Read and interpret blueprints and drawings, prepare layouts;Measure, cut, shape and assemble the framing lumber; Build floor beams and subflooring, walls and install partitions; Fit and install trim items as required;Operate power and hand tools; Supervise helpers and apprentices.

Company’s business address: 2474 Marine Dr., West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1L1 Please apply by e-mail: admin@eurohouse.ca

HOSPITALITY/FOOD SERVICE Solodko Ukrainian Bakery Inc.

is hiring Food Counter Attendants. Perm, Full Time, Shifts, Weekends. SALARY: $ 14.80 /hour BENEFITS: Company-paid Extended Health Benefits.

No experience required, training will be provided by employer. SKILLS REQUIREMENTS: Good English.

EDUCATION: Secondary school. MAIN DUTIES: Greet and serve customers at food counter, Provide customers with our productsdetails, Take orders and manage cash register,Heat and portion different food, package take-out food, Stock refrigerators, Keep working area clean,Keep records of the quantities of food used.Job location and business address:444 Sixth St, New Westminster, BC V3L 3B3 Please apply by e-mail: employment@solodko.ca

MIND BODY SOUL

AESTHETICS $30/30min Deep Tissue Massage 410 E/Broadway 604-709-6168

CASTING

CALL

CERTIFIED MASSAGE

THE PARK SHOW A Tribe Called Red and Charlotte Day Wilson are featured at the first Vancouver Mural Festival concert.

Suna Studios Rehearsal M-F 6-12, Sat/Sun 12-12 East Van Hourly ($16.66/hour) & L/O, www.sunastudios.ca 604-563-5460

SUMMER SPECIAL Bodyscrub $65/70min. Waxing 20% off. Massage $28/half hour 8 - 4287 Kingsway 604-438-8714

REPAIRS

SUPPORT GROUPS

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION Looking to start a parent support group in Kitsilano.

Please call Barbara 604 737 8337 Battered Women's Support Services provides free daytime & evening support groups (Drop-ins & 10 week groups) for women abused by their intimate partner. Groups provide emotional support, legal information & advocacy, safety planning, and referrals.

For more information please call: 604-687-1867 BC Balance & Dizziness provides information & support for persons with balance, dizziness & vestibular disorders.

Bi Monthly info meetings @ St. Paul's Hospital.

Call for info. 604-878-8383 www.BalanceAndDizziness.org

MUSIC

REHEARSAL SPACE CHARTS MUSIC

Lockout available & $20 Hourly 604-436-9397

www.chartsmusic.com

“AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE”,

an original play inspired by the poetry of William Blake.

VENUE: The Cultch Historic Theatre PERFORMANCE DATES: September 6-16 ROLES:

WILLIAM BLAKE - early 19th Century Romantic poet, painter, and engraver. 30 - 70, male.

CATHERINE BLAKE - Blake’s partner in love and art.

EMANATION - a movement/dance/ritual poetic role. 20 - 60, female.

SOL - a caustic, self-destructive writer. 40-65, male ERIN - Sol’s eviscerating but caring ex-wife. 40-65, female

Send reel, resume, and photo to: nembulon@gmail.com

SKOOKUM FESTIVAL Three-day music festival features performances by headliners the Killers, X Ambassadors, and Florence + the Machine, plus Metric, Arkells, the War on Drugs, St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Blue Rodeo, Mother Mother, Chromeo, Bahamas,

(30MIN

INCL. TIPS)

10AM -8PM HIRING

2639 W. 4th Ave. Kitsilano MATURE MAGIC TOUCH DEEP RELAXATION MON-FRI

Kitsilano 604-739-6002

Anorexics & Bulimics Anonymous 12 Step based peer support program which addresses the mental, emotional, & spiritual aspects of disordered eating Tuesdays @ 7 pm @ Avalon Women's Centre 5957 West Blvd - 604-263-7177 Anxiety? Depression?

Free Mental Wellness Support Group held on Saturdays (10:30 am – 12:30) Promotes a holistic approach to healing (body, mind & spirit). Networking and interactive learning experience in a safe, non-judgmental environment.

For more information call 604-630-6865 or visit www.mentalwellnessbc.ca

80

ASIAN LADY LULU

778-708-4966 Surrey Centre

PERSONAL SERVICES

I Spa

DATING SERVICES MILANO DATING SERVICES FIND YOUR LOVE 604-805-1342

19+ SWEET GIRLS

Robert 604-857-9571

ORIENTAL STRONG HANDS

E. Vancouver, Kingsway area. Mature * Good ServicE & Massage *Ultra Enjoyment * Discreet shave avail. In/Out calls for good time.

9AM - 9PM 778-989-2128 JOHN

Asian m4m

10AM - 10 PM Hiring

604.568.9238

$80/30 min.(incl.tips) #3-3490 Kingsway NEAR JOYCE NEXT DOOR TO SUBWAY

Lily’s Relaxation Massage

1050 Marine Drive (by McKay) parking at rear

Massage + Grooming Services for Men Safe ★ Clean ★ Discreet

Healing for Sexual Problems Control Ejaculation, Maintain Erection $120 herbalbathclinic.com 604-271-4148

Exquisite Tantra Massage Mature Beauty~Sensual Mastery Shakra. 604-783-3483 Kitsilano www.shakra.ca

Tantra Massage

Absolutely Wonderful, Healing & Joyful!

Zara 604-222-4178 Jericho

BODYWORK

ROXANNE'S DAY SPA

RELIEVE ROADRAGE

3272 W. Broadway

Reg 120

$

NOW $

70

(& Blenheim)

604-558-1608 WWW.

COMFYSPA .CA

Massage Done By An Experienced, Mature Sexy Lady SENSUAL SESSION Mon- FriI 10am-6pm 604-540-0082

Japanese J Fullbody Fu Relaxing R Massage M

$60

MASSAGE

JAPANESE $60

4095 Oak St. Vancouver 604-266-6800

Princess & E. Georgia Body Massage!

604-442-9526 HONG KONG STYLE MASSAGE

Perfect & Relaxing massage! Free parking.

1blk East from Kingsway & Knight. Nice & Quiet.

45min/ $80 30min/$60 (incl. tip) No FS!

Lini 7 7 8 - 6 6 8 - 2 9 8 1

MERIDIAN SPA LTD.

New Staff! Relaxation Massage.

604-985-4969 HIRING

$100

C o Coquitlam

TERRI 604-363-7518

JAPANESE

EMPLOYMENT

4095 Oak St. vancouver

778.321.2209

Call 604-438-7119

$100/45mins

SERVICES

10:30am-8pm Daily 5336 Victoria Dr. Vancouver

The Luscious Scent of Delilah www.pantiewaste.com

PRIDE 2018

A/C AVAILABLE 604.327.8800

PRIDE 2018

www.STEAM1.com NEW WEST

778.513.5008

(all incl.)

BATH HOUSES

60 MASSAGE

/30 mins (incl tips) On E. 49th Ave & Victoria Dr.

YOUNG GIRLS

Seeking all nationalities 19+ No experience necessary.

STEAM 1

$

Lotus Beauty Spa

CoverGirlEscorts.com is now Hiring.

202-1037 W.Broadway 604-739-3998 Hotel Service

430 Columbia St.

604.540.2117

On 6 St. & 12 Ave. Bby

778.512.6500

On 12 St. & 8th Ave. New West

778.881.5588

COCO'S THAI MASSAGE BBY. $40 & up! No F/S 10am - 8pm 604-619-7453

Filipino E/Indian (48) Van incall & Hotel Services

604-512-3243 No text!

1743 Robson St, D/town.

MARIA Downtown & Kitsilano No text. 604-771-2875

www.straight.com

MATURE EUROPEAN North Shore www.anitasmassage.com 604-808-5589

604-682-1278

TIME OUT MUSIC LISTINGS are a public service provided free of charge.

Submit listings online using the event-submission form at straight.com/AddEvent. Events that don’t make it into the paper due to space constraints will appear on the website.

COMFY WELLNESS SPA

Servicing North Van for 18 years!

10am - 8pm

TANTRA

75 MIN

PEARL JAM Legendary Seattle grungerockers, featuring frontman Eddie Vedder.

Aug 8 & 10, 7 pm, Safeco Field (Seattle).

Tix from US$92-$112 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

Pls. call 604-649-3572

604.986.8650

PERSONALS

(Incl. 45 min. Hot oil massage)

2THIS WEEK

HIRING

MASSAGE In a peaceful setting in Langley Because you deserve it! 9am - 8pm

SUMMER SPECIAL BODY SCRUB

OUT OF TOWN

Attractive & Friendly Girls of All Races (19+) for Relaxation Massage. Richmond.

GAY PERSONALS

BODYWORK MASSAGE

WESTWARD MUSIC FESTIVAL Multiday arts and music showcase features Blood Orange, Kali Uchis, Rhye, Poppy, Angel Olsen, Honne, Kelela, Metz, Saba, Ravyn Lenae, Ella Mai, Mudhoney, Odds, We Are the City, Tei Shi, Ramriddlz, Pell, Duckwrth, Buddy, Fatima Al Qadiri, Roni Size, Hannah Epperson, and Close Talker.

Sep 13-16, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.westwardfest.com/.

SAFE & SOUND MUSIC FEST 2018 Two-day festival features performances

by Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, Vince Staples, Alina Baraz, Sabrina Claudio, Goldlink, SonReal, Rico Nasty, Anders, Tobi Loum, Lndn Drgs, Trill Sammy, Manila Grey, So Loki, Angst, Kandy K, Sophia Danai, Side, Goldstepz, Hedspin, and host Flipout.

Aug 24-25, Westminster Pier Park. Tix from $59.99, info www.safeandsoundfest.com/.

Massage Special

$

Stereophonics, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Cold War Kids, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Matt Andersen, Matt Mays, Current Swell, Dear Rouge, Said the Whale, Yukon Blonde, the Zolas, and Hey Ocean!. Sep 7-9, Stanley Park. Tix at www.skookumfestival.com/.

PNE SUMMER NIGHT CONCERTS Featuring performances by Boyz II Men (Aug 18), Air Supply (Aug 19), Dean Brody (August 20), Goo Goo Dolls (Aug 22), Wilson Phillips (Aug 24), Marianas Trench (Aug 25), 112 (Aug 28), Kool & the Gang (Aug 29), Jann Arden (Aug 30), Burton Cummings (Aug 31), Chicago (Sep 1), Village People (Sep 2), and Cyndi Lauper (Sep 3). Aug 18 to Sep 3, PNE Amphitheatre (2901 E. Hastings). Free with PNE admission; reserved seats available at www.pne.ca/.

778.636.2882

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Does someone else's drinking bother you?

Al-Anon can help.

We are a support group for those who have been affected by another's drinking problem.

For more information please call: 604-688-1716

604.330.8133

EMPLOYMENT

STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS American indie-rock band, with guest Soccer Mommy. Aug 3, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings).

BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL The 19th annual celebration of blues and roots music features headliner Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Aug 11, 3 pm, Deer Lake Park (Burnaby). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

Aug 11, 6 pm, Jonathan Rogers Park. Tix $30/4-packs $100 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

AUGUST AUGUST22––99//2018 2018 THE THEGEORGIA GEORGIA STRAIGHT STRAIGHT 25

TS Dream

36D 29 36 7FF

778.316.2660 In Call or Out BUR/COQ/VAN

Transexualdreamscape.com

CLASSIFIEDS ................................................................................................................................................................

HOT EAST INDIAN

ASIAN + CAUCASIAN in calls

Try the best Massage!

604-459-8068 Servicing Tri-Cities, Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge

Emax Massage

604-568-5255

604.207.9388 www.atlantisspa.ca

$80 Package

HIRING NEW GIRLS

incl. tips!

#3 - 3003 Kingsway @ Rupert, Van. - N/E Corner

604-681-0823

4th Floor orr - 59 595 Hornby St, St Van. Van Mon-Fri • 10am-Midnite Sat-Sun • 12pm-Midnite

www.theswedishtouch.com di h h

Always Hiring | Accepting all major CC’s

NOW

HIRING

JAPANESE, CAUCASIAN & CHINESE GIRLS!

BoBo’s Massage

438-8979 (Across Macpherson Ave)

604.428.2002

30 3 0 min/$80 m

NOW HIRING

1090 – 8580 Alexandra Rd. Richmond

HIRING

Japanese $100 Close to Patterson Skytrain Stn. Kingsway & Wilson

2583 Kingsway, Vancouver

THAI RELAXATION MASSAGE

J i Jessica Burnaby

604-

(604)

761-8355

336-4601 GOOD DEEP TISSUE

MASSAGE

Chinese Girl…

Great Service!

EAST MMa VAN Massage Table | Easy Parking

Nana 778.918.7335 49 E. Broadway

@ Quebec St. open 7days/9am-midnight

778.379.6828

3041 Main St & 14th Ave

604-568-2248 NOW HIRING

SEA SIDE SPA Relaxation Massage Deep Tissue Thai

604-535-9908

7-15223 Pacific Ave White Rock

Variety of Masseuses

(Including Tips) Every Day New Beauties Private Location & Luxury Room

MING, Nice & Mature.

close to IKEA

VARIETY OF GIRLS (19+) V.I.P. ROOM $80/30 MIN INCL. TIPS

604.433.6833

3519 KINGSWAY, VAN NEAR BOUNDARY • HIRING

604-671-2345

NEW HOT ASIAN GIRLS No Restrictions. Good Service!

Joyce & Kingsway & Vancouver 24 Hrs.I In/Out calls

778-960-7875

604.270.6891

GENTLEMEN DISCREET ATTRACTIVE MATURE EUROPEAN LADY OFFERS DELIGHTFUL RELAXATION SESSIONS.

604-451-0175 EuropeanLady.ca www.EuropeanLady.ca

ORGANIC TOUCH HEALTH CENTRE

NEW

STAFF

have joined

15244 Russell Ave. White Rock

$58/Happy PKG! Saturday, Monday & Tuesday 22yrs, Young & Busty & two new girls joined!

Kingsway, Vancouver East

604-353-3288

World Class Breasts

Genuinely Spectacular NATURAL G CUP! Come visit Hooter Heaven! Canada's #1 Erotic Destination.

Private 778-838-9094

SE X Y

SOCCER

604 998.7831

MOM

5PM TILL 2AM

604-243-4119

RAINBOW MASSAGE

$80/30 MIN (INCL. TIPS)

6 0 4

604.430.3060

4969 Duchess St. Van. Just off Kingsway Between Earles and Slocan NOW HIRING CHINESE, THAI, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESE & CAUCASIAN GIRLS

BUTTERFLY 11am MIDnight MASSAGE 4536 Hastings St. Burnaby near Willingdon Ave.

Sa Sa Massage

BEAUTIFUL OLDER WOMAN 36D - 26 - 36. 36th@ Victoria

778-951-1133 604-957-1030

3286 Cambie St.

604.872.8938

FANTASTIC ASIAN GODDESS 604-569-2685 604-568-6623

Body Rub $80/40mins

ALL DAY SPECIAL OFFERS

NOW HIRING

BEST MASSAGE Daily Different New Girls!

Discount Price!

3322 Main St. 604-872-1702

Blossom

All New Models & Rooms

dragonspa.ca dragonspa a .ca

604-440-1802

$80/30 min F/S! Joyce Station

#1 Friendly Service & W. 17th, Van. 10am – 10pm

Amy (25yrs) - BBY/Metrotown. Ind. & Upscale.

604 879 5769

OPEN 7 DAYS 10AM -10PM 12551 Vickers Way, Richmond (NEAR YVR)

Rose Body Massage

Free trial for men, always free for ladies.

10 AM TO 10 PM

Massage

778-297-6678

HIGH CLASS FEMALE ESCORTS & INTIMATE COMPANIONS

Who are you after dark?

3488 MAIN ST. @ 19TH AVE

101-5623, Imperial St. BBY

GRAND OPENING

C OV E RGI R LE S C ORT S .C OM

BEST

604

SPASIA WELLNESS centre

INTERVIEWS DAILY

than

NEW MANAGEMENT!!

WEEKDAYS 5PM-7PM

BETTER

HOT & NEW ASIAN & CAUCASIAN GIRLS!!

HOT & NEW

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL HAPPY HOUR

City

Massage

10am-11pm 8080 Leslie Rd, Unit 140, Richmond

Monday - Friday 10am - 2pm & Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 4pm

TOKYO PROSPER Body

Atlantis

New Opening

Hiring BACK ENTRANCE + FREE PARKING

V I C T O R I A

7 1 5 1 3 9 4

Sugarbeebodywork.com

604-299-1514 COMPANION Sweet & Petite Hot Mature Female loves to pamper!

REASONABLE RATES!!!

In/Out calls. Early risers welcome!

Kayla 604-873-2551 Exotic Swedish Massage! Full Service, Accompanied Shower & MORE! Czech Female 30 yrs.

778-714-0824 NEW..NEW..NEW..MASSAGE Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese & Philippines Girls (19+) In/Out calls

604-600-6558 BUSTY PERSIAN PLAYMATE Zara (26YRS) BBY/Metrotown. Private & Classy

778-751-4224

1 HOUR FREE

1-604-639-3040 MORE NUMBERS: 1-800-550-0618 INTERACTIVEMALE.COM

1-604-639-3011 More Numbers: 1-800-700-6666 Redhotdateline.com 18+

TALK MEN OFF GET TALKED OFF 26 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018

savage love I’m gay and have been dating a guy

for 10 months. He’s great, overall, and I would say for the most part we both want it to work out. But I am having a problem with his friends and other lifestyle choices. All of his friends are straight, and almost all of them are women. All of my friends have always been gay men, like me, so I find this strange. I don’t have any problem with women, but I don’t hang out with any women, and neither do most of my friends. He makes dinner plans for us with his straight friends almost every week, and I grin and bear it. They’re always old coworkers, so the whole conversation is them talking about old times or straighty talk about their children. It’s incredibly boring. He’s met my friends, and he likes some of them but dislikes others. It’s obvious that he is not comfortable relating to gay men, generally speaking. He does not seem knowledgeable about gay history or culture. For example, he strongly dislikes drag queens and never goes to gay bars. There is one woman in particular he makes dinner for every Friday night. It’s a standing date that he’s only occasionally been flexible about changing to accommodate plans for the two of us. Now he’s planning a weeklong vacation with her. When he first mentioned this trip, he asked if I would want to spend a week camping.

I said no because I don’t like camping.

He immediately went forward with planning it with her. I’m pretty sure the two of them had already hatched this plan, and I don’t think he ever really wanted me to go. I think it’s weird to want to go camping for an entire week with some old lady. He does other weird things too, like belonging to a strange new-age church, which

> BY DAN SAVAGE his spiritual beliefs—you’re contemptuous of them; it’s not just that his gayness is expressed in a differentthan-yours-but-still-perfectly-valid way—you’re contemptuous of him as a gay man. Because he doesn’t watch Drag Race or hang out in gay bars. Because he’s got a lot of female friends. Because he’s happy to sit and talk with his friends about their kids.

(There’s nothing “straighty” about kid conversations. Gay parents take part in those conversations too. And while we’re in this parenthesis: I can’t understand why anyone would waste their time actively disliking drag queens. But being a gay male correlates more strongly with liking dick than it does with liking drag.)

This relationship might work if you were capable of appreciating the areas where you two overlap—your shared interests (including your shared interest in each other)—and content to let him go off and enjoy his friends, his new-age church, and his standing Friday-night dinner date. A growing body of research shows that divergent interests + some time away from each other + mutual respect = long-term relationship success. You’re missing the “mutual respect” part—and where this formula is concerned, HOMO, two out of three ain’t enough.

Here’s how it might look if you could appreciate your differences: you’d do the things you enjoy doing together—like, say, each other—but on Friday nights, he makes dinner for his bestie and you hit the gay bars with your gay friends and catch a drag show. You would go on vacations together, but once in a while he’d go on vacation with one of his “straighty” friends and once in a

is definitely at odds with my strongly held antireligious views. He has asked me to attend; I went once, and it made me extremely uncomfortable. The fact that I didn’t like it just turned into a seemingly unsolvable problem between us. He says I’m not being “supportive”. I need some advice on how to get past my intense feelings of aversion to the weirdness. How can I not let our differences completely destroy the relationship? > HOPELESSLY ODD MAN OUT

Differences don’t have to destroy a relationship. Differences can actually enhance and help sustain a relationship. But for differences to have that effect, HOMO, both partners have to appreciate each other for their differences. You don’t sound appreciative—you sound contemptuous. And that’s a problem.

According to John Gottman of the Gottman Institute (a research institution dedicated to studying and strengthening marriages and other interpersonal relationships)—who says he can accurately predict divorce in 90 percent of cases—contempt is the leading predictor of divorce. “When contempt begins to overwhelm your relationship, you tend to forget entirely your partner’s positive qualities,” he writes in Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. Contempt, Gottman argues, destroys whatever bonds hold a couple together.

You’ve been together only 10 months, HOMO, and you’re not married, but it sounds like contempt has already overwhelmed your relationship. It’s not just that you dislike his friends—you’re contemptuous of them; it’s not just that you don’t share

multiple times per week and I don’t know what to do.

while you’d go on vacation with your gay friends. On Sundays, he’d go to woo-woo church and you’d sleep in or binge-watch Pose. You’d be happy to let him be him, and he’d be happy to let you be you—and together the two of you would add up to an interesting, harmonious, compelling “we”.

But I honestly don’t think you have it in you.

PS I have lots of straight friends, and I’m a parent, and sometimes I talk with other parents about our children, and I rarely go to gay bars, and I haven’t gotten around to watching Pose yet, or the most recent season of Drag Race, for that matter. It’s devastating to learn, after all these years and all those dicks, that I’m terrible at being gay.

PPS If a straight person told you, “I don’t have any problem with gay men but I don’t hang out with any gay men, and neither do most of my friends,” you’d think they had a problem with gay men, right?

> HE’S EXHAUSTED AND LOST

There’s only one thing you can do, HEAL: put this relationship on hold— take it back to off-again status—and make getting back together contingent upon her seeking help for her mental-health issues. You’ve made it clear, again and again, that you want to be with her. By finally seeking help—by actually taking the plunge— she can make it clear that she wants to be with you.

I have a very sexy German boyfriend, and he is not circumcised. His otherwise beautiful dick is a problem. It smells—sometimes a little, sometimes it really stinks. After he showers, the smell is still there. He says he uses only water. Is there a better way to wash an uncircumcised penis? Can he use some kind of soap? > GIRL ASKS GAY4 GROOMING INTERVENTION NEAR GENITALS

I’ve been in

an on-again, offagain relationship for the past four years. My girlfriend has an assortment of mental-health issues—anxiety, depersonalization episodes, depression, paranoia, among others—that make it very stressful and tiring to be with her. Despite my best attempts at getting her to seek help, she refuses to take the plunge. Whether it’s a result of her illness or not, she refuses to believe that I actually want to be with her. I do care deeply about her, and the good days are wonderful. But nearly every time we go on a date or have sex, it ends in tears, and I have to endlessly reassure her that I do really want to be with her. I’m exhausted by having to defend my feelings for her

Yes, GAGGING, there is a better way: he needs to wash that thing with motherfucking soap. If the soap he’s got is irritating the head of his penis or the inside of his foreskin, he needs to try other soaps until he finds one that cleans his dick without causing irritation. And you should make allowing that otherwise beautiful German dick anywhere near you contingent upon him learning how to clean it properly.

There’s no excuse for stank-ass dick. On the Lovecast, a biblical recipe for abortion: savagelovecast.com. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage. ITMFA.org.

............................................................................................................................................................... CLASSIFIEDS

AFFA

HOT H LATINA L B BABE

I have a smile that welcomes you!

20 YR OLD SURREY CENTRAL

Come C o see me!

604.217.5845

WWW.ASIANFIERYFLIGHTATTENDANT.COM

Seductive Priya

20yr old Fijian Surrey Central

778-242-5914

$100

Petite Oriental Beauty East Vancouver

19yr old East Indian Beauty Surrey Central

604-644-0601

778.926.1000

New Star Massage Grand Opening • $30/30min.

Open from 10am

604-780-6268

HIRING

3468 E.Hastings/Skeena. Van. Front & Back door entrance. Free Parking

Harbor Wellness Centre

For polite gentlemen Accompanied shower Submissive or curious also welcome Discreet,North Burnaby location Parking available Actual Recent Photo.

Fluent in English.

My beautiful slender body will not dissapoint you.

604-762-2921

Exotic Sania

INDEPENDENT CHINESE PLEASURE PROVIDER

TEXT NOW

+ 778.402.4890

Surrey Central

604.767.1005

FULL SERVICE

Good Time Good Service

19yr old playful E/Indian babe

BOOK NOW • OUTCALL ONLY

Juicy Booty Stacy

NEW D/TOWN

ANGELA

778-317-3888

$100/30 I am a student so limited appointment times.

Pls. text for more info

778.709.0339

relaxation massage SUMMER PROMOTION

$30

30min

+

$60

60min

+

$90

PHONE SERVICES

Burnaby Marpole Richmond

FREE 2 TRY LIVE CHAT! 1-855-538-8866 1-900-783-5446

100% verifi ed

MOBILE #4565

MORE GIRLS

www.riza.ca

90min

604-558-2585 • 10AM – 7PM

WEBSITES

www.classymiko.com

har bor mwc.c om

555 West Hastings St. Vancouver

NationwidePersonals.ca/call

stay connected @ GeorgiaStraight

www.sugarbeebodywork.com

www.CarmanFox.com

PHOENIX MASSAGE

New Back Door Entrance from Underground Parking

Fully Air-Conditioned www.greatpharaoh.com

5-3490 Kingsway, Van.

10am - 2pm $50/half hr.

Mon - Sat 10am - Midnight Sun Noon - Midnight

ESTABLISHED 1993 HIRING: 778.893.4439

Best Relaxation

EAST VANCOUVER

10am 5281 VICTORIA DR. - 10pm

604 . 998 . 4885

HIRING G

1st Time Visit FREE

SPECIAL!

604.436.3131

spa

Serving Van. for 19 years! Best Experience! Best Service! Best Choice! Steam Room and Sauna!

Free underground parking.

NOW

HIRING

2070 2070 7 W. W. 10 10thh A Ave v V ve Van an an

60 4 7 604 738 38 3 3302 3 02

HIRING

FOR NEW CLIENTS Mon - Fri 12pm - 6pm

2263 KINGSWAY

FREE PARKING HOTEL SERVICE

@

NANAIMO

6043770028

50% OFF

FREE Hot Stony Massage FREE Birthday Massage FREE Massage after five FREE Shower

604-564-1333 AUGUST 2 – 9 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27

Happy B.C. Day from

YOUR LIBERAL MPs: JOYCE MURRAY

HEDY FRY

RON MCKINNON

TERRY BEECH

Giving BILLIONS of your TAX DOLLARS to a TEXAS OIL COMPANY. So we can win SEATS in ALBERTA and keep LOBBYISTS HAPPY. Something something MIDDLE CLASS, blah blah REAL CHANGE.

PAM GOLDSMITH -JONES

JONATHAN WILKINSON

JODY WILSON - RAYBOULD

HARJIT SAJJAN

... and more!

StopTheBailout.ca 28 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 / 2018