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CONTENTS
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STRAIGHT TALK
This month, a federal panel will hold hearings in Vancouver on Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, which would triple the company’s oil shipments to the Lower Mainland. > BY CARLITO PABLO
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COVER
By highlighting many aspects of Vancouver’s history and culture, Pokémon Go manages to inspire players to explore their city. > BY K ATE WILSON
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FOOD
The Fanny Bay Oyster Bar and Shellfish Market bills itself as “tide to table” cuisine, and there’s no arguing that claim. > BY GAIL JOHNSON
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THE BOTTLE
A dramatic shift in temperature from day to night in the Okanagan preserves grapes’ natural acidity, resulting in great Chardonnays. > BY KURTIS KOLT
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ARTS
When Will & Grace star Eric McCormack takes the stage here, it will be with the same tennis racket he used as a guitar when he was a teen. > BY JANE T SMITH
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TIME OUT 20 Arts 28 Music
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MOVIES
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straight talk KINDER MORGAN REVIEW COMING TO TOWN
A federal panel will hold hearings in Vancouver on Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Based on monitoring by Stand, an environmental advocacy group formerly called ForestEthics, more than 80 percent of people who attended hearings elsewhere in B.C. last month oppose the project. Stand director Karen Mahon expects opposition to grow even stronger at the upcoming hearings. Mahon recalled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement during the last federal election campaign that while governments issue permits, only communities can grant consent on natural-resource projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “If he [Trudeau] wants to hear from the communities, then the communities are making it clear that they do not give their consent,” Mahon told the Straight by phone. “If he’s going to follow through on his words, then it looks to me like he would have to turn the pipeline down.” In May, the National Energy Board granted conditional approval for the project, subject to 157 conditions. The panel is holding three days of hearings at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown in Burnaby from August 9 to August 11. Another three hearings will be conducted at the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver from August 16 to August 18. A hearing will also be held at North Vancouver District Hall on August 19. Former Yukon premier Tony Penikett, ex Alberta deputy minister Annette Trimbee, and former Tsawwassen First Nation chief Kim Baird are on the three-member panel, which was appointed to engage local and indigenous communities in B.C. and Alberta. The review panel is expected to submit a report to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr in November. The Trudeau government is expected to issue a decision on the Kinder Morgan project by December 19. “This is a real test of his promises as our new prime minister,” Mahon said about Trudeau. Kinder Morgan plans to twin its Trans Mountain Pipeline originating from Edmonton, and expand the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, where the pipeline ends.
The expansion will triple pipeline capacity to 890,000 barrels per day. It will also lead to an increase in the number of oil tankers moving through Burrard Inlet from around 60 to more than 400 per year. > CARLITO PABLO
EBY SEEKS PROBE INTO FOREIGN-BUYER TAX
Vancouver–Point Grey NDP MLA David Eby wants to know if advance information on B.C.’s new foreign-buyer tax was shared with a major player in the Vancouver real-estate industry. During an August 2 news conference in his constituency office, the B.C. NDP housing critic was referring to condo marketer Bob Rennie, who had told the Globe and Mail that he knew an additional property transfer tax was coming ahead of the government’s announcement. Rennie, who chairs a B.C. Liberal party fundraising committee, later declared in a statement that he “did not have or was given any advance knowledge on the Foreign Buyer Tax”. Eby said that he has written Premier Christy Clark seeking an investigation. “We’ve asked the premier to look into this assuming that she didn’t just tell him herself that this was happening,” he said. He added that he raised several questions in his letter to the premier. “Who told Mr. Rennie in advance of the public announcement?” Eby asked. “Why was he told, whether it was in relation to his capacity as chair of the fundraiser committee for the B.C. Liberal party or a major donor? Why was he told? “What possible benefit could there be in him having personal knowledge as someone uniquely positioned to profit from this information?” the NDP MLA continued. “And did he act on this information? Did he engage in real-estate transactions based on this insider information? Or did he tell his clients about this information and encouraged them to act on it?” Eby also said that Finance Minister Mike de Jong should resign if details about the tax were leaked. “Parliamentary tradition in the British system of government is that the finance minister is personally responsible for leaks of tax information or budget information that comes out before the official announcement,” Eby said. “And so
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the tradition is that the finance minister has to resign.” On July 25, de Jong announced that the B.C. government will collect an additional 15-percent tax on home purchases by foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver. Based on Ministry of Finance, foreigners accounted for 9.7 percent of home transactions in the region during a five-week period from June 10 to July 14. > CARLITO PABLO
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After 10 years of public pressure, Downtown Eastside advocates and the City of Vancouver have reached an agreement on low-income housing. On August 2, Mayor Gregor Robertson signed his name below the following statement: “We commit to 100% welfare/pension rate community-controlled social housing at 58 West Hastings, working with the community to develop a rezoning application to proceed to council by the end of June 2017.” The city-owned site is a vacant lot occupied by a group of campers staging a protest. That demonstration marks its one-month anniversary on August 9. The same site was home to a larger camp of homeless people in 2010 in the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics. This year’s protest was loosely organized by members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. In a telephone interview, VANDU’s Aiyanas Ormond said the deal reached on August 2 does not mean that the campers will be leaving anytime soon, simply because many of them have nowhere else to go. But Ormond said the camp likely won’t remain there for the long term. “I don’t think there will be community support for people tenting on a lot that is going to be developed as housing for people in the community,” he said. Maria Wallstam, coordinator with the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), was in the room at the meeting with the mayor. She told the Straight that one building of lowincome housing doesn’t make up for the number of low-income units that the Downtown Eastside has lost to upscale developments in recent years. “This was our minimum demand,” she said. > TRAVIS LUPICK
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or years, organizations like Tourism Vancouver have wrestled with the problem of how to get locals to explore their city. After the runaway success of the world’s newest viral app, the solution seems simple: just add Pokémon. Pokémon Go is an augmentedreality game that casts players as urban surveyors. As users walk around town, various characters pop up on their smartphone screens. The aim of the game is, as the show’s theme song suggests, to “catch ’em all”. Gamers use their fingers to fling virtual balls at the monsters until they stop breaking free, and then send them into battle with other users’ characters to find
out which is the strongest. True to the original cartoon, different Pokémon hide in a number of locations. Looking for a Growlithe or Taurus? Head to Main Street. Got your heart set on a Jynx? Try hunting around Deep Cove. Water-type Pokémon can be found by the beach, while fighting-type Pokémon have been spotted outside bustling gyms. Encouraging people to check out areas well beyond their own neighbourhood, the record-breaking game has motivated thousands to discover new parts of Vancouver in their quest to find strong Pokémon. Various tourist destinations have been taking advantage of the craze, setting up in-game “lures” that attract the monsters—and dedicated players—to their locations. A hot
spot for budding Pokémon masters, the Vancouver Art Gallery has seen hundreds of people visit the site during Robson Square’s DanceSport open-air lessons and peak hours for the Picasso exhibition. Stanley Park’s totem poles—one of the most visited attractions in B.C.—have become a tough battle station to conquer, with players heading to Brockton Point to enter digital fights with other gamers until their opponent’s Pokémon “faints”. And Queen Elizabeth Park, a haven for vacationers, fills up with Vancouver natives in the evening as users hunt for rare characters near the Bloedel Conservatory. By providing an incentive for locals to explore landmarks they would never normally see, Pokémon Go inspires see next page
players to become tourists in their own town. And the app isn’t just an excuse to visit the city’s top attractions. Much of the game relies on finding “PokéStops”: local markers or buildings with a particular cultural significance. Placed by the game administrators at intervals all over the Lower Mainland, these designated sites encourage players to re-examine their familiar surroundings as well as discover new ones. PokéStops include everything from murals to clock towers, park clubhouses, and fountains, offering gamers an intimate tour of their neighbourhood’s historical features. Using a modified Google Maps screen to locate the marker, Pokémon players walk up to the site, tap its icon on their phone, and collect in-game items. And there’s no cheating. A PokéStop can only be activated when players are standing close to it—so it’s definitely in a user’s interest to visit their local heritage building.
As well as giving away useful game objects like “razz berries” and “super potions” to help players catch and battle Pokémon, many of these PokéStops also display historical information. If a player clicks the header at the top of the screen, their phone brings up a larger image of the site and often some interesting facts about the landmark. Creating an interactive way to engage with the city, Pokémon Go does the same job as an audio guide in a museum— but by letting Vancouverites explore over weeks and months, the game provides a much more long-lasting educational tool. It’s no surprise, then, that the app has been adopted by a diverse demographic. Children and their parents hunt Pokémon together in the afternoon. Nostalgic 20-somethings travel in groups to spots known to lure rare characters, and office workers assemble on their lunch break to walk until they hatch their in-game “Pokémon eggs”. Sure, you might get lucky and
have an endless stream of Eevees spawning in your living room. But it’s impossible to progress beyond the early stages of the game without dusting off your sneakers and hitting the streets. Travelling to new locations pays off in the game. As players collect different Pokémon, their avatar gains levels. A higher-level gamer encounters stronger Pokémon— and catching powerful monsters grants entry to the city’s “Pokémon Gyms”, battle arenas where users can test the clout of the characters they have caught. Players compete to control the site. The strongest gamers are entitled to leave one of their Pokémon at the Gym to defend the location, earning Pokémon items and personal prestige in the process. Located at cultural centres like the PNE’s Momiji Gardens, the orca statue at Coal Harbour, and various branches of the Vancouver Public Library, Pokémon Gyms attract players to important artistic and educational settings.
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The Vancouver Police Museum offers a glimpse of the dark past of the city. History buffs with a taste for the macabre will find it an interesting place to visit. It’s housed in a heritage building that was once the coroner’s court, morgue, and crime lab. Two autopsy tables and different preserved body organs are among the more grisly exhibits. Displays include weapons confiscated from crime suspects, counterfeit currency, samples of forgeries, a burglar’s kit, and drugs like cocaine. There are exhibits about some of the city’s most notorious murders. One display deals with youth crime since the 1950s. The museum also highlights the policing history of the city, through its collection of uniforms, guns, and handcuffs. Some of the objects in the museum date back to the 1870s. In addition, the museum provides walking tours that recall illegal activities in the early days of Vancouver. Details are at vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/. STANLEY PARK HORSE-DRAWN TOURS It’s always interesting to see
familiar parts of the city from new perspectives, and these tranquil horsedrawn carriage tours may take you to places in Vancouver’s 405-hectare outdoor jewel that you’ve never seen before. While you’ll learn about the park from the tour guide—including highlights such as Deadman’s Island, the RMS Empress of Japan figurehead, and the Brockton Point First Nations totem poles—you’ll learn about the trusty ol’ horses as well. Prices range
This weekend’s Richmond Maritime Festival is one family-friendly option for hometown tourists. Jennifer Strang photo.
from $20 for children to $40 for adults. If you can foot the bill, you can even consider private carriage tours, in conveyances ranging from a white limousine-style coach to a Cinderella pumpkin coach. For more information, visit www.stanleypark.com/. BEATY BIODIVERSITY MUSEUM
This is one of Vancouver’s best-kept secrets, but it isn’t through lack of trying to get the word out. The gem is tucked away inconspicuously (mostly) underground on the UBC campus, like an iceberg. Also like an iceberg, the top part attracts your attention, in this case with a glassed-in atrium holding a suspended 26-metre-long skeleton of the world’s largest living creature: a blue whale. Get close for best effect. Take a selfie, if you must, then head below decks to 20,000 square feet of shelves, drawers, and cabinets in 500 exhibits holding two million specimens of biological wonder: birds, plants, insects, fossils, mammals, fish, reptiles, and more. This is what rainy days are meant for. And this is Vancouver. Marriage made in… You know. And
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Clockwise from left, at the Drake General Store: Point Two Maps print, Forest & Waves Northwest-inspired throw blanket, and Explorer’s Press fed-up pennant.
Canada by an in-house team of artists. “We always look for pieces that kind of start a conversation, pieces that resonate with people but also have a bit of humour,” says Lo. “We try not to take ourselves too seriously.” Holding steadfast to Drake’s earnest roots, Lo takes care to tailor each shop to its locale. In Vancouver, you’ll find artfully coloured civic prints by the B.C.–born Point Two Maps, Pacific Northwest–inspired blankets from Forest & Waves, and silk-screened pennants inscribed with irreverent phrases like “Fuck it” and “Not today” by the Riley Park–based Explorer’s Press. Other Vancouver-made items include handcrafted, peppermintspiked soaps by Woodlot, locally harvested honey from Mellifera Bees, and
hibiscus- and chai-flavoured cocktail syrups by Cahoots. “Almost all of them have a connection to nature,” Lo observes of the boutique’s B.C.–sourced stock. “With the mountains and the oceans, there’s a lot of inspiration there.” And while Drake’s growth has also allowed it to expand its borders, incorporating goods from the U.S., Japan, and Denmark, the shop’s focus will always be the Canadiana. The company has even teamed up with Etsy to find cool, homemade curios to produce in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday next year. “We’re looking for a little bit of everything,” says Lo, “things for kids, for the home, things you can wear—just something unique.” -
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down your meal choices to just a few. Get a sampling of oysters, maybe some petite Fanny Bay, briny mattaki, and firm kusshi, all served with cocktail sauce and freshly microplaned horseradish, brought to the table with glass bottles of house-made mango-habanero and watermelon-chili sauces. (Be prepared to wait if you happen to visit during the daily happy hour, when freshly shucked Fanny Bays go for a buck each. On a recent weekday visit, the place was packed.) If you’re squeamish about raw oysters, opt for the fried version. Pankocrusted medium-size Fanny Bays are served with a piquant house-made tartar sauce and coleslaw. The geoduck is a must, even if you are repulsed by the clam’s odd appearance, with its large neck, or siphon, that can reach a metre in length. The flesh
of the extra-large mollusk is dipped in boiling water for exactly eight seconds before being plunged in ice water. Chef Chris Andraza (also formerly of Rodney’s) slices it and serves it sashimistyle, presenting the ivory meat in a pretty white shell alongside spoonfuls of horseradish, fuchsia-coloured watermelon radish (more pungent than the former), and pickled ginger. The oceanlike flavour resembles that of a cherrystone clam but with more crunch. Andraza wisely applies an equally light touch to other dishes, letting the seafood star and never overfussing. Crab cakes are a dense threesome with chipotle aioli and a heap of arugula. Perfectly plain roasted sockeye salmon, served with broccolini and potatoes, has a crispy skin. Ceviche consists of scallops, shrimp, and lingcod with a bright pineapple pico de gallo. Meaty grilled scallops rest on pork-belly mats topped with minted-pea purée. For those in the group who don’t eat seafood (there’s always one), there’s a triple-A sirloin accompanied by chimichurri sauce and thick fries or a pasta dish with sautéed oyster mushrooms and arugula in a tarragon cream sauce. B.C. wines dominate the concise wine list, but the few from other regions are smartly chosen. (A bottle of Ferrari-Carano Fumé Blanc with that platter of smoked seafood or bowl of Salish mussels and Manila clams? Yes, please.) If you have a sweet tooth, you’ll want to share a piece of chocolate cheesecake with a graham-wafer base and honey-marshmallow topping. Dinner-menu items range from $9 for seafood chowder to $25 for bouillabaisse. FANNY BAY OYSTER BAR AND SHELLFISH MARKET 762 Cambie Street; 778379-9510. Open Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. and weekdays from 11 a.m. until late. (The retail shop closes at 6 p.m. daily.)
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efore Danny Fazio and Ernesto Gomez started running a large-scale outdoor food festival every summer in the Olympic Village, they threw block parties in a parking lot at the Waldorf Hotel. One of the events they organized was a Canada Day party a few years ago, and all of their favourite food trucks were invited to the East Hastings venue. They immediately recognized that these vehicles attracted huge crowds. “We noticed that the trucks were getting a lot more attention than the music or the entertainment that we were booking as well,” said Fazio, who is also director of the Arrival Agency with Gomez, in a phone interview with the Straight. So, they decided to create an event that was wholly dedicated to food trucks. And that was how the Food Cart Fest was born in 2012. Vancouver is known to be a haven for foodies, who have embraced the city’s diverse foodtruck options. But going into its fifth anniversary, there are a lot of big changes to this year’s festival. The food scene in Vancouver is constantly changing, and it was clear to Fazio and Gomez that the Food Cart Fest was limiting because the street food scene was evolving beyond food trucks.
Previous editions of the Food Cart Fest have focused on food trucks, but the newly rebranded YVR Food Fest includes speakers and an open-air market.
“There’s lots of other young food entrepreneurs that don’t have a truck but are doing stuff, and there’s lots of restaurants that are interested in being part of the street food scene and want to come in and do street food,” explained Fazio. “We wanted to expand some of the additional ideas we had for programming within the festival, and the food cart umbrella didn’t really work with that, either.” In order to include all the other elements that are growing within this culinary sphere, the cofounders of the Food Cart Fest decided to rebrand the annual event as the
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YVR Food Fest—a two-day festival on Saturday and Sunday (August 6 and 7) in the Olympic Village, with a launch party on Friday (August 5) at the Fox Cabaret. What does this mean for long-time supporters of the Food Cart Fest? An array of food trucks will still be participating, including favourites such as Mom’s Grilled Cheese, Tacofino, Vij’s Railway Express, and Yolks. Fazio also suggests checking out some of the newer food vendors, such as Nice Vice Creamery, Mr. Arancino, and Bao Down. However, guests can also expect brand-new elements at the newly
rebranded foodie extravaganza, including the Food for Thought speaker series at Science World on Sunday (August 7). “We’re bringing together some of the brightest minds in the Vancouver food scene and they will be talking about ideas they are passionate about,” said Fazio, before listing names such as the Straight’s Kurtis Kolt and chef Trevor Bird of Fable Diner Kitchen. Other highlights at the YVR Food Fest include an open-air market operated in partnership with East Side Flea; food booths by brick-and-mortar restaurants like Nuba, Bao Down, and the Flying Pig; and ticket options to give you full access to over 80 food carts, restaurants, breweries, and wineries at the festival. One such option is the VIP taster ticket ($30 plus tax), which allows guests to have small bites from each food vendor. This ticket includes entry to the festival from 11 a.m. onward, four tasters, and two drinks (alcohol or nonalcohol). “As a customer, you’ll be able to walk around to all the different trucks and restaurants and carts to get little tasters. So you’re going to be able to try tons of stuff, which is a really fun experience,” explained Fazio. He insisted that music is another
important part of the food festival. (Fazio and Gomez also run the Fox Cabaret.) “We’re bringing in awesome DJs like Flipout, My Gay Husband, Marvel, and more,” said Fazio. “We have a lot of really, really talented DJs who know how to get a party going.” The two are no strangers to putting on successful and entertaining bashes. The Arrival Agency puts on events that range from a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Hotel Vancouver to programming at the West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party. There are a lot of outdoor festivals in Vancouver during the summer— because folks in the city clearly enjoy sunshine and the summer breeze— but Fazio hopes that the YVR Food Fest will stand out. “I think it’s a great way to check in with the Vancouver food scene to see what’s happening,” he added. “It’s also a good way to experience summer in Vancouver and to enjoy being outside with your community.” The YVR Food Fest launch party is on Friday (August 5) at the Fox Cabaret (2321 Main Street). The YVR Food Fest takes place on Saturday and Sunday (August 6 and 7) in the Olympic Village. The Food for Thought speaker series is on Sunday (August 7) at Science World.
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Meal ticket SCOOPS FOR CHARITY When you get to indulge in frozen treats while helping others out, it’s the best of both worlds. JOEY Restaurants (various locations) recently launched its Scoop of Care initiative, where $1 from the sale of each of its spun-daily ice cream ($6) will go toward a local charity chosen by JOEY employees. Organizations include B.C. Children’s Hospital, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and Kitsilano Neighbourhood House. As for the frozen dessert, it is made in-house by combining liquid nitrogen with a house-made ice cream base. Guests can choose from flavours that range from Tahitian vanilla to salted caramel, sour cherry and chocolate to espresso. For more information, visit www.joeyrestaurants.com/. -
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BROWN PAPER PACKAGES ICE CREAM (Pazzo Chow, 620 Quebec Street) Creative flavours like lavender ice cream with a lemon-blueberry cookie will make you drool.
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INNOCENT ICE CREAM (various locations) Delicious hand-made gluten-free ice-cream sandwiches, made fresh to order in its food truck at English Bay.
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BEAUCOUP BAKERY & CAFÉ (2150 Fir Street) Offering a seasonal PB & J ice-cream sandwich filled with house-made strawberry ice cream.
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HUGO’S CHURROS (66–7899 Templeton Station Road, Richmond) Mario’s Gelati sandwiched between fresh and tasty Mexican-style churros.
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720 SWEETS & ETC. (3278 West Broadway) Ice-cream sandwich flavours that range from classic to milk’ee (milk tea), vanilla to matcha.
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SPRING INTO GIN Vancouver’s fixation on gin continues to gain ground, as evidenced by the release of a new small-batch spirit from Surrey’s award-winning Central City Brewers + Distillers. Handcrafted using B.C.–sourced juniper berries and Vancouver Island spruce tips, the Queensborough Gin ($39.49 for 750 millilitres at B.C. Liquor Stores [various locations]) offers a local spin on an Old World favourite. Try it with tonic or in this juicy mix of elderflower cordial, dry vermouth, and apple cider. See the full recipe at Straight.com. -
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Juniper barman takes it Straight, No Chaser > BY AMANDA SIEBERT
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WHO ARE YOU
My name is Shaun Layton. I’m the bar manager at Juniper restaurant.
MY PARENTS MIXED
Screwdrivers, caesars, and rum and Cokes! I still love having rum and Cokes, especially up at their cabin in the Cariboo! Even really bad beer tastes great up there. Also, rum and Cokes are a really cool way to try different rums; just go easy on the Coke and don’t forget the lime.
BEST DRINK I EVER HAD
Mint julep made with Maker’s Mark at the home of Bill Samuels, whose father created the brand. I was invited to Kentucky to spend a week with Maker’s Mark touring around bourbon country, and we got to go to a black-tie event at the Samuels house. We got to make cocktails with Bill in his basement, and the bourbon selection was impressive.
by friends all over the world; over 15 different bars have had it on their menus. Also, locals ask for it everywhere in Vancouver now. It’s easy to make and based on the classic Red Hook. I made the avocado gimlet when I was at L’Abattoir. It’s a really West Coast, almost healthy cocktail, and the bartenders there now probably secretly hate me… as I don’t think it will come off the list anytime soon.
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The American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London: perfect mix of class, eleJuniper’s bar manager, Shaun Layton, spills his secrets. Amanda Siebert photo. gance, and topnotch service. Also, the THE CREATIVE PROCESS or inspiring character may result in birthplace of many great classics, like There are many different ways drink a cocktail. Sometimes I may really the Hanky Panky and the White Lady. creation happens. Sometimes we like a particular spirit and build will feature a new product and make something around its flavours. Also, SIGNATURE CREATION a feature with it on a weekend, and if something may come into season, like I’d have to say my Meat Hook cockit sells well we may just put it on the blood orange, and that will inspire a tail, or my avocado gimlet. The Meat Hook has been featured on menus list. Sometimes a funny TV show new recipe.
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Keenan Hood, general manager of the Keefer Bar. They have been successful and busy forever! They have a killer team, and he is the guy that never gets the credit. -
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ast week, I had the oppor- TOWNSHIP 7 2015 UNOAKED tunity to attend the Inter- CHARDONNAY ($17.97, www.town national Cool Climate ship7.com/) I fi nd tropical fruit Chardonnay Celebration notes are generally abundant in in Ontario’s Niagara wine region, heavier Chardonnays, so I’ve found myself a little taken the irony being aback but pleasthat the event’s antly charmed setting featured by this lively and temperatures Kurtis Kolt crisp serving of well above 30 degrees Celsius each day, well into papaya, mango, and young pinethe evenings. The annual event, apple, with just the slightest hint of casually dubbed i4C, offers many a sage. Winemaker Mary McDermott seminar, tasting, dinner, and party only came to the Okanagan from where both consumers and the wine Niagara a little under two years ago, trade revel in delicious Chardon- but the wines she’s crafted in that nays from an array of cool-climate short amount of time have been showing she has a fi rm handle on regions around the world. Now, unlike terms like organic the lay of the land. and biodynamic, the term cool climate isn’t something that’s regu- TANTALUS 2015 JUVENILES lated or certified in the world CHARDONNAY ($17.30, www.tanof wine. It undoubtedly appears talus.ca/) From the younger Charcheeky when we refer to a region as donnay vines on Tantalus’s Kelowna “cool-climate” when, to use British property comes this pristine take Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as an on the grape, bursting with Granny example, some wines are literally Smith apple, guava, and Asian pear, growing in a desert with temper- with a light graham-wafer note atures that can hit the early 40s. rounding things out wonderfully. It requires a step back to (loosely) Everyone loves to go bananas over the define a cool-climate region, look- Rieslings from Tantalus, and rightly ing at the broader picture. Sticking so, but winemaker David Paterson’s with the Okanagan as our illustra- Chardonnays are always damn delition: while those days can be ultra- cious and worth seeking out. hot, the nights can be quite chilly; that diurnal temperature shift can CEDARCREEK 2014 PLATINUM be upward of 30 degrees on some “BLOCK 5” SINGLE VINEYARD days. This allows the grapes on the CHARDONNAY ($27.99, www.cedar vine to cool down during the night, creek.bc.ca/) A drop-dead gorgeous which keeps them from ripening Chardonnay laden with Ambrosia too quickly, preserving natural apples and lemon pith, and gleaming acidity in the process. That pres- with minerality; it’s well-woven, with ervation is also kept in check by a light lashing of French oak and an where we’re sitting latitude-wise, incredibly long finish. This wine has and the resulting short growing been nabbing plenty of awards, both at season. Acidity keeps wines fresh home and abroad. It’s easy to see why. and lifted on the palate, and is a hallmark of wines we refer to as POPLAR GROVE 2015 CHARDONNAY ($19.05, www.poplargrove.ca/) “cool-climate”. The original cool-climate Char- This is the “biggest” wine of this donnay region is Chablis in France, week’s selections, a sturdy, broadan area that has far less heat ac- shouldered version of Chardonnay cumulation over a growing season that has become the classic style of than we do here in the Okanagan the long-respected Okanagan winery. Valley. It’s certainly not a place we With 80 percent of its fruit from down expect Chardonnays to be overripe, in the Osoyoos desert and 20 perheavy, or lacking in all-important cent hailing from the winery’s home acidity. If we look at a wine like in Naramata, it was harvested over Garnier & Fils 2014 Chablis ($37.99, five different days to guarantee optiEverything Wine, North Vancou- mum ripeness and balance of acidver), it carries an elegance, with ity of each vineyard block, and then white floral notes, a flurry of citrus mostly vinified in stainless steel, with notes like grapefruit, pomelo, and 20 percent fermented in new French Meyer lemon, and then a nice little oak. It’s complex, with a multilayered stoniness toward the fi nish. It’s light richness; the first thing that popped on its feet, lifted all the way through into mind as I swirled, sniffed, and sipped was pineapple upside-down with that key acidity. As mentioned, though, it’s in- cake, perhaps with a little Honeycrisp deed possible to have cool-climate apple and quince in tow. This wine is Chardonnays come from hotter appealing, and with its quite-ripe parts of the world, like right here in character, it certainly ain’t shy. What B.C. Here are four recommended I like best is its cool-climate nature, examples, listed from lightest to which brings a nice lift of juicy acidity, heaviest, that’ll settle into mid- preventing it from being too cloying or heavy. summer with ease.
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Eric McCormack was the star of one of
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the most popular sitcoms of the past couple of decades, and he’s travelled in the most glamorous circles of Hollywood. But there’s still a lot of the kid from Scarborough, Ontario, in the former Will & Grace actor—and it may come as a surprise that he is still very much connected to that awkward teen. Look no further than the title of his new live production: The Concert I Never Gave… (except for, like, 2000 times in my bedroom). “It was the most honest title I could possibly give it,” the affable actor says, talking to the Straight at a Yaletown café, having just driven up on his Vespa. He’s in town shooting a new Netflix Canada sci-fi series called Travelers, splitting his time between a home here and one in L.A., and threatening to move here if you-know-who wins the presidency. He goes on to explain the premise of his live show, a kind of greatest hits of his misfit teen years, accompanied by a kick-ass band and featuring some very funny stories: “When everyone was discovering beer and cigarettes and girls, I was still in my bedroom dressing up like Freddy Mercury. And my parents stopped, after a while, saying, ‘Turn that down!’ “So the concerts that I gave between 13 to 19 to nobody in my bedroom are, I have come to realize, a big part of who I am as an actor and as a person,” he continues. “They’re not just the childish fun stories. They’re a piece of me. They’re the most me I’ve ever been.” McCormack, who performs the show here as a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer Canada, has continued to sing for charity events over the years (not to mention for his karaoke machine at home; he and his wife currently boast 280 discs). But more recently, he discovered he had the makings of a larger show, which has gone on to play in Los Angeles and Toronto.
Channelling his inner teen
Movie and TV star Eric McCormack tells stories and fronts a serious band in The Concert I Never Gave... (except for, like 2,000 times in my bedroom).
on in his room. “Almost Maybe it’s where he grew up, and maybe it’s every guy that comes just who he is, but McCormack has also always up to me after the show done more than his share of good deeds. At the Actor Eric McCormack is still in touch with the kid who used to sing says, ‘I had that tennis café on this day, he’s genuinely worried when he racket,’ ” he notes. sees that a businessman has dropped his credit in his suburban bedroom—and now he’ll perform his greatest hits “This is one of those cards, so he jumps up to return them to the guy. “I realized, ‘Well, there’s a story here,’ and the shows where people don’t know what it is till it’s The moment of unspoken recognition that folstory was that I’ve slowly but surely gotten to know over—or at least till they’re halfway through,” he lows the “thank you” is priceless. and become friends with almost every musician adds with a smile. “Because they think I’m singing That sense of responsibility extends to tirethat I pretended to be in my bedroom,” he relates, for charity, which is, yes, part of what I do, but… less charity work. He says it started with Will & referring to everyone from Elton John to Burton You know Horton Hears a Who, where the little Grace, when he played one of prime-time TV’s Cummings. “There are funny stories about how thing on the speck is yelling, ‘We’re here! We’re most beloved, bitingly hilarious gay characters, that happened—and they happened because of this here!’?” he says, breaking into a squeaky falsetto. and the show’s cast took on Project Angel Food sitcom, because of Will & Grace and the fans it had “It’s like this little me inside of me going, ‘This is (a charity that delivers meals to people with HIV, and the people that came on the show. So this kid the essence of who I am.’ And this is why I AIDS, and other critical illnesses) as a spefrom Scarborough got to go up to someone and, don’t get cynical, because that 15-yearcial cause. “That really opened my eyes just as I’m going to tell them how much they mean old kid gets to do his dream and gets to how much you could do,” he says. Check out… to me, they turn to me—as Barry Manilow did, to meet the people that inspired him.” Since then, he’s done much more STRAIGHT.COM as Pete Townshend did—and say, ‘Oh, love your Geez, and we thought Hollywood work—nowadays with the very perVisit our website show,’ ” he says, in a perfect Townshend accent. stardom might make a person jaded. sonal tie-in to cancer, a disease that for morning-after You’ll hear all those stories, and the fact that his Part of McCormack’s embracing of took his mother in 2006. His father reviews and local arts news Elton John connection comes in part from having his awkward teenage self is just the died of prostate cancer two years later. gone to high school with his husband, film direc- way he’s wired. (“It’s in my DNA,” he So when he sings his songs and plays tor–producer David Furnish, during The Concert I says.) Even one of his old friends from his racket in Vancouver, it’ll be for the dad Never Gave. And you’ll also hear the songs, many high school, he admits with a laugh, has asked who stopped telling him to turn it down and let him of them carefully chosen B-sides from the big stars him, “How do you remember all this shit?!” But express himself. And rest assured, he’ll be having as (ever heard Cummings’s “Sour Suite”?), backed by a he says there is also something about being Can- much fun as he did in the bedroom of his Scarbordream band pulled together with the help of some adian that keeps you in touch with your roots and ough home. “I get to be the lead of a rock concert more of McCormack’s connections: Loren Gold, the self-effacing (“or self-defecating, as my friend put each night,” he says. “It’s wish fulfillment.” keyboardist who tours with the Who; Tyler Stewart, it,” he jokes). He suggests there may also be somedrummer for the Barenaked Ladies; and Murray thing in the water in Scarborough, a nondescript Eric McCormack’s The Concert I Never Gave… Foster, bass player with Great Big Sea. ’burb Torontonians throw shade at as “Scarberia”, (except for, like, 2000 times in my bedroom) is at Best of all, you’ll also see the original wooden but which has also produced stars such as Mike the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage on Friday and Saturday (August 5 and 6). tennis racket McCormack used to play air guitar Myers and Jim Carrey.
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Editor’s choice BALLET IN BLOOM The lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—and you’ve got to hand it to the landscapers, florists, and dancers who are going to try to re-create them on the Queen E plaza this weekend. Ballet BC will be presenting ethereal, site-specific dance in the lush setting, including a sneak preview of work by visionary Barcelona-born choreographer Cayetano Soto (whose haunting audience favourite Twenty Eight Thousand Waves is shown here). Set under the August evening sky, it should be magical and botanical—aided by floral-themed cocktails, of course. Ballet BC and Social Concierge present Babylon on Saturday (August 6) from 6 to 10 p.m. on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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TITUS (At the York Theatre to August 27) The darkly funny Fringe hit amps up the new Fakespeare Festival.
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HARMONY ARTS FESTIVAL ART MARKET (By the West Vancouver waterfront from August 5 to 7) Art lovers go nuts for this sprawling exhibit/sale.
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SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND HARPSICHORD (At Christ Church Cathedral on August 4) Ingrid Matthews and Byron Schenkman bring the Bach bliss.
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LALUN (At the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden on August 4) Flamenco guitar meets erhu and percussion in a gorgeous outdoor setting.
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ASHES, ASHES, WE ALL FALL DOWN (At Hot Art Wet City from August 4 to 27) Six fab female artists riff on nostalgia.
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CREATIVEMORNINGS Our guest pick this week is from Rob Maguire, marketing and communications manager of the Museum of Anthropology, where you can currently see Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man. “I love to jump-start my brain each month by taking part in CreativeMornings. Much more than a free breakfast lecture series, CreativeMornings is an active community of engaged and creative folks who challenge and inspire me. This Friday’s talk by actor and filmmaker Shauna Johannesen—who wrote a musical comedy about bedbugs, of all nasty things—promises to be a doozy.” CreativeMornings takes place at SFU Woodward’s in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Friday (August 5) at 8:30 a.m.
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magine a multiplex, except with live plays going on in each theatre instead of movies, and a bar and patio instead of a concession stand. That’s the best way to describe Rumble Theatre’s ambitious Tremors Festival, which aims to showcase new plays and some of the city’s most exciting young artists. “The idea is shows running all the time, so you can see more than one a night, and between shows you can go to a bar and hang out and listen to music,” explains Rumble artistic director Stephen Drover to the Straight over the phone, stepping outside his East Side headquarters for a break in planning the three-show festival. “It’s difficult to find a venue, because we really want them [the productions] to be close together, in somewhat soundproof rooms.” For 10 days, the event will take place in spaces throughout the Italian Cultural Centre, with three scripts— Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Better Angels: A Parable by Andrea Scott, and Bull by Mike Bartlett—brought to life by emerging directors, designers, and actors. Drover says the facility provides the rooms (seating an intimate 20 to 50 people) as well as easy access to transit. But to really understand the oneof-a-kind theatre party that will happen next week, it’s important to understand where it’s coming from. When Norman Armour and Chris Gerrard-Pinker founded Rumble 26 years ago, boosting emerging talent was always part of their mandate. In those days, names like Adrienne Wong and Maiko Yamamoto would be invited to hang out and work with its artists—and Rumble witnessed those talents becoming major innovators in the theatre community here. As Drover puts it, “We’re old enough as a company to have seen those investments pay off.” Later on, Rumble formalized the program, eventually— under Craig Hall, who took over in 2006—launching the Tremors Festival, which would focus on the work of emerging companies. But Drover, who took the reins in 2012, saw a need to renew the programming once again. “That was at a time when Vancouver really didn’t have a whole lot of young companies,”
Dry Land ’s Anais West and Shauna Griffin are two of the young actors who get to show their stuff at this year’s reimagined Tremors Festival. Tim Matheson photo.
he explains of the older version of Tremors. “I think we’ve come out the other side and now there are a lot of young companies. I’m not convinced the community needs to help build small theatre companies anymore, as much as it needs to build artists.” The result, under Drover’s vision, is a fest that offers those upstart talents a chance to collaborate with mentors and have their work seen. Under the new Tremors banner, Rumble is the only company producing the shows, with Drover curating the mix of 45-minute to one-hour plays and assembling the creative teams. The scripts Drover has found all centre around searingly contemporary issues. Bull (written by the same Brit playwright who penned Cock, a hit for Rumble last year) immerses its audience in a toxic corporate office where three coworkers battle it out to keep their jobs. “It’s this idea that bullying survives the playground, and it’s about larger questions about survival of the fittest,” Drover says. “I’m taken by his work because it really gets down to the actors’ experience. There’s something very immediate and visceral about the interrelations between the actors— something animalistic and tribal.” Dry Land, whose writer was only 21 when she created it and which scored a prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize last year, centres on two teen girls in an empty locker room, and takes a harrowing look at the abortion issue. And Andrea Scott’s Better
Angels: A Parable focuses on a girl who moves from Ghana to Canada, only to find herself caught in a situation of modern-day slavery. “After they were all selected, I said, ‘What do they have to say about today?’ And I think that’s the experience of the outside, the other, the odd person out who’s kind of watching their dreams fade in front of them,” Drover says. “Maybe this is the optimist in me, but though all three of the plays are dark, hope is the way around that, and the only way to combat that loneliness is empathy.” He adds, “I hope that the experiences are related enough that, even though we are producing three plays, we try to look at it as one big play.” Under Drover’s new direction, there’s one other major difference to the Tremors Festival: it’s held in August, whereas the last installment of the biennial event was held in November at the Russian Hall (which is now under renovation). Definitely no patio bars at that time of year. “It was so cold! I remember I had to take the ice off my motorcycle each night to get home,” Drover recalls with a laugh. “So this will be very different. A lot of places do well by summer theatre, and we’re hoping a summer festival will do well here, too.” The Tremors Festival runs from next Thursday (August 11) to August 20 at the Italian Cultural Centre.
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are theories about whether she might have composed some of these pieces or had a hand in arranging them, but the evidence is inconclusive. I think the most fascinating thing is to think of her as a competent musician who wanted to be able to enjoy, say, a big cantata and didn’t have the resources at home. So you have things like the little excerpt from Ich Habe Genug!— the cantata that was arranged so many times for different voices and finally becomes this wonderful aria. It’s within the domestic realm but still has the taste and the appetite for the rich music Bach was writing for the church.” For Anna Magdalena Songbook, Hargis and Bagan are joined by harpsichordist and organist Michael Jarvis and lutenist Lucas Harris, and choreographer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière performs dances of the time. “Some people may wonder about dancing to Bach,” says Lacoursière, reached at her Montreal studiohome. “But he was greatly inf luenced by French music and one of his best friends was Jean-Baptiste Volumier, a dancing master as well as a violinist and composer. I’m performing to some of the Suites Françaises in the notebooks, which are French dances, though they weren’t named.” Lacoursière will dance the minuet, the gigue, and the rigaudon—and a courante by Sylvius Leopold Weiss. “There’s also a burlesca that I’ve choreographed for an harlequine [a female harlequin], and a dance interpretation of one of the pieces that’s a sarabande. I’m presenting it in a more modern style, and I’ve kept just a bodice and tights for the costume so people can see the complete leg movements—which are concealed under skirts in the other dances. I want to give the baroque material more of an interpretation.” Mrs. Bach and family would be greatly entertained. -
he concert program Anna Magdalena Songbook: Home Suite Home sheds a fascinating light on the domestic life of Johann Sebastian Bach—and takes some creative liberties, too. The great composer’s second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcke, was herself a musician, a soprano singer who was able to appreciate his genius and transcribe his works. A few years after their marriage, Bach gave her two “notebooks”— the “Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach” of 1722 and 1725—filled with keyboard and vocal music. Bach wrote most of these compositions—minuets, rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes—but there were also compositions by friends. Pieces from the “Notenbüchlein” make up the core of the program for Anna Magdalena Songbook, put together by harpsichordist and organist Christopher Bagan. However, according to soprano Ellen Hargis, in order to paint a broader musical picture of life in the Bach household in the 1720s, Bagan also chose other works by Johann Sebastian, his sons, and associates. “It starts with the wedding,” she says, reached in Portland, Oregon. “And it looks at domestic music-making and the adaptation of some of Bach’s bigger pieces for household use, so there’s more of a narrative rather than having a random selection of the nicest music. It’s a much more interesting way to listen to music that in its time wasn’t presented in a concert format, but was more part of the fabric of everyday life. If we can create that kind of context for the audience with our program, we think it enriches the experience and humanizes it.” Sadly, not much is known about Anna Magdalena. She was 16 years younger than her husband, and sang at the court in Köthen, where Bach was the director of music. As for her character, the music that he wrote and Anna Magdalena Songbook: Home Suite Home is at dedicated to her provides the best insights. “The look we get of Anna Magdalena from the Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday (August 6) as part of notebooks is sweet and tender,” says Hargis. “There the Vancouver Bach Festival. 18 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUGUST 4 – 11 / 2016
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f Myles McCarthy is extra excited about the idea of playing Saint Jimmy in the musical version of Green Day’s American Idiot, it’s for a good reason. As every rock ’n’ roll fan knows, you never forget your first live concert. McCarthy was lucky enough to see one of the biggest acts in the history of punk rock at the height of its powers. “It’s the first rock concert I ever went to as a kid, so I’m pretty familiar with the aesthetic and everything that they are trying to convey,” says the young Lower Mainland actor, calling the Straight from his home in Port Coquitlam. “I saw them at B.C. Place back in the day—it was a huge show. Everything after that was held up to that standard. And I’ve only seen two shows that have kind of measured up.” For those curious, the two shows are Roger Waters’s tribute to The Wall, and Muse’s tour for Drones. “Those shows were also for concept albums, so apparently I really like concerts for concept albums,” McCarthy says with a laugh. Given his fandom, he unsurprisingly has zero trouble breaking down what he loved, and still loves, about American Idiot. A concept album dubbed a punk-rock opera, the record centres around a character named Jesus of Suburbia, an antihero who’s come of age in the time of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the Walmart-ization of America. Raised on “soda pop and Ritalin”, Jesus of Suburbia bails on smalltown USA for the big city, at which point his swaggering, angry, drugshooting alter ego, Saint Jimmy, enters the picture. “The original Green Day album is kind of a musical,” McCarthy says. “The way that they present it is kind of a hybrid between a rock show and a musical, and I really enjoyed how clear their ideas were watching it. Now that it’s a play, a rock opera, it has a through line that you need to get the approval of theatre critics. But you still have to appeal to Green Day fans, and I think they’ve found a way to bridge that gap.” The stage version of American Idiot, produced locally by Fighting Chance Productions, chronicles three friends attempting to escape the soulsucking confines of suburbia. Those friends have various degrees of success. Johnny (aka the album’s Jesus of Suburbia) starts out raging against the man, and ends up learning that addiction isn’t nearly the glamorous party it seems from the outside. Will is held back in small-town America by a pregnant girlfriend, while Tunny quickly abandons the city for the military and a life-altering stint overseas. Calling Saint Jimmy an “obvious manifestation of his [Johnny’s] drug-addict self ”, McCarthy says:
Clockwise from top: American Idiot ’s Tristan Smith, Elaine Bevans, and Myles McCarthy. Allyson Fournier photo.
“It’s such a delicate balance of finding this antagonistic character, but also this really fun character that people can relate to and have a good time with. Because Green Day is so sophomoric, that’s kind of how you go about it—you make everything fun and a joke until it gets to the point where it’s not funny anymore.” He continues: “That’s when you get this dangerous, volatile, you’renot-sure-what’s-going-to-happen character. Because Saint Jimmy is not a real person, it’s really interesting how you can use that to go a little bit overboard. That’s really fun to play with. I’m having a blast with this and I’m not going to lie: it’s fun being a rock star.” And what he loves is that he’s not the only one in American Idiot who feels that way. If that Green Day concert taught him anything, it’s that there are few jobs that look more fun than getting to strap on a guitar every night. “We’re playing with a full-on great live band in the show,” McCarthy says. “I play in the show a bit, and then at the end everyone plays an acoustic guitar, so everyone involved is really musically inclined. It was funny—we came into the production on the first day and everyone has either been in a band or has been playing music their whole lives. So we can all go to the beach and have one of those hipster, circle-jerk guitar things and not feel ashamed about it, because it’s just what we like to do.” American Idiot runs at the Waterfront Theatre from Wednesday (August 3) to August 27.
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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Alchemy Theatre and Vagabond Players present William Shakespeare’s famous play. Aug 4-21, 8-10 pm, Bernie Legge Theatre (Queen’s Park, 1st St. and 3rd Ave., New West). Tix $13/15, info www.vagabond players.ca/.
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JAG AND THE AMERICAN Play based on Ernest Hemingway’s short stories “Hills like White Elephants” and “Cat in the Rain”. Aug 5-6, 7:30-8:30 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $20/15/10, info www.thecult ch.com/events/jag-and-the-american/.
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THEATRE 2JUST ANNOUNCED BUTT KAPINSKI: DICK ON THE FRINGE Celebrate the opening of the Vancouver Fringe Festival with a one-night performance that sees a private detective get to the bottom of a seedy world of sex, sin, shadows, and subterfuge. Includes a preshow reception. Sep 6, 7 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $50, info www.vancouverfringe.com/ openingnight/.
2OPENINGS THE FAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: LIKE SHAKESPEARE, ONLY BETTER Two Canadian shows that turn some of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies into uproarious comedies. Plays include Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet and Titus: The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of Titus Andronicus. Aug 3-28, York Theatre (639 Commercial).
MARCEL (THE PLAY) Kim Selody directs a reading performance of a new play about Marcel Duchamp and his circle of friends in 1918 New York City. Aug 9, 7-8:15 pm, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver). Free, info www3.gordon smithgallery.ca/. THE FOREIGNER Beach House Theatre presents the play about a man who is mistaken for someone else while on vacation. Aug 9-14, 8-10:30 pm, Under the tents at Crescent Beach (3136 McBride Ave., Surrey). Tix $34.50, info www.beach housetheatre.org/. AESOP’S FABLES Beach House Theatre presents a family-friendly production illustrating famous tales like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Aug 10-14, 11 am, Under the tents at Crescent Beach (3136 McBride Ave., Surrey). Info www.beachhousetheatre.org/. HIPSTORY: I’D TELL YOU, BUT YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF IT A play about hipsters, starring Joanna Rannelli and Ira Cooper. Directed by Bronwen Marsden. Aug 10-13 & 17-20, 7:30 pm, Studio 504 (504-2050 Scotia). Tix $20/18, info www.spectheatre.wordpress.com/.
2ONGOING BARD ON THE BEACH Annual outdoor Shakespeare festival features performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor (to Sep 24), Romeo and Juliet (to Sep 23), Othello (to Sep 17), and Pericles (to Sep 18). To Sep 24, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut Street). Tix from $20, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.
THEATRE UNDER THE STARS Outdoortheatre event has performances of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story on alternating nights. To Aug 20, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix $20-40, info 877-840-0457, www.tuts.ca/. ENSEMBLE THEATRE FESTIVAL The Ensemble Theatre Company presents performances of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain, and William Wycherly’s The Country Wife. To Aug 20, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix from $10, info www.ensembletheatrecompany.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS TREMORS Rumble Theatre presents Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Better Angels: A Parable by Andrea Scott, and Bull by Mike Bartlett. Aug 11-20, Italian Cultural Centre (3075 Slocan). Tix $15/10, info www.rumbletheatre.org/.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON Broadway Across Canada presents a musical comedy that follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. Aug 23–Sep 4, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix at www.ticketmaster. ca/, info vancouver.broadway.com/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK ROBSON SQUARE SALSA Highlights include a salsa-dance lesson (3 pm), dance shows (5 pm), and an after party (7:30-10 pm). Every Sunday. To Aug 28, 3-7:30 pm, Robson Square (800 Robson). Free admission, info www.sundayafternoonsalsa.com/. AUDACIA Seville-based flamenco ensemble Fin de Fiesta presents a production that takes the audience from
flamenco’s roots to its contemporary forms. Aug 4, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/26/15, info www.findefiestaflamenco.com/.
BABYLON Ballet BC’s entire company takes the stage at an indoor-outdoor garden party to perform highlights of recent and upcoming new works, as well as improvised movement and site-specific choreography inspired by the evening’s verdant theme. Aug 6, 6 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $55, info www.thesocialconcierge.com/tickets/babylon/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE OPEN HOUSE Annual event offers the chance to sample a host of dance styles in a day of open classes and studio showings, culminating in an evening performance of contemporary dance by Ziyian Kwan and Vanessa Goodman. Sep 10, 11 am–5 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Free, info www.thedancecentre.ca/event/ scotiabank_dance_centre_open_house/. SIMILE An evening of contemporary dance choreographed and performed by Ziyian Kwan and Vanessa Goodman. Sep 10, 8-9:15 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $25/20/18, info www. thedancecentre.ca/event/ziyian_kwan_ dumb_instrument_dance_vanessa_good man_action_at_a_distance/.
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DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Sing classic and contemporary rock, pop, and indie songs with a community choir. Aug 4, 11, 7:30-9 pm, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $10, info www. impromptumusic.ca/. J.S. BACH’S MASS IN B MINOR Early Music Vancouver presents J.S. Bach’s crowning masterpiece as the Vancouver Bach Festival headline event. Aug 5, 7:3010 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $18, info www.earlymusic.bc.ca/. DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Sing rock, pop, and indie songs with a community choir. Aug 9, 7:30-9 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/.
COMEDY 2JUST ANNOUNCED MARGINALIZED: A COMEDY SHOW Evening of comedy takes aim at Donald Trump and the general state of disarray that is America. Aug 20, 8 pm, The Emerald (555 Gore). Tix $20, info www. marginalizedcomedy.com/.
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2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER BACH FESTIVAL Early Music Vancouver presents a series of concerts featuring faculty and guest artists from all over the world in a celebration of the works of classical composer J.S. Bach. To Aug 12, 7:30 pm, Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard). Tix $18-67, info www.early music.bc.ca/tickets/summer-festival/.
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EAST VAN COMEDY Improv and standup comedy with Instant Theatre Company (every Sun at 8 pm) and Graham Clark’s Laugh Gallery (every Mon at 9 pm). Every Sun and Mon, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $5-10, info www.east vancomedy.com/. THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2PATRICK MALIHA Aug 4-6 2TIM NUTT Aug 11-13 2DJ DEMERS Aug 18-20
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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/ vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); OK Tinder (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Aug 3-10, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK THE BIG PICTURE: AN IMPROVISED MOVIE The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an improvised adventure that pays tribute to the mega movie. To Aug 27, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix from $10, info www.vtsl.com/.
at the latest headlines in politics and pop culture. Aug 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $23 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/.
ERIC ANDRE American actor, comedian, and television host takes his comedy show on the road. Aug 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CHUG-A-LUG COMEDY Vancouverites Stefan MacNeil, Brad Dorion, and Jenny Toews host a new improvcomedy show. Aug 8, 8-11 pm, Yagger’s Restaurant & Sports Bar (433 W. Pender). Tix $5, info www.facebook.com/ events/280278542332111/. MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY Comedy by headliner Chris James, with support from Kathleen McGee, Mark Hughes, Roman Mancini, Carl Turnbull, Dick Darrow, Matty Vu, Aren Scott, and Jonny Paul. Aug 8, 9 pm, Yagger’s Restaurant & Sports Bar (2884 West Broadway). Tix $5, info www. facebook.com/events/985043994956224/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS THROWING SHADE: LIVE PODCAST Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson present a live version of their weekly podcast and web series, which take a comedic look
AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING Alix Born, Burcu Ozdemir, Carmy Stubbs, Christina McDermott, Don Simpson, Ilana Labow, Jenny Pearson, Mark Bondyra, Marylee Stephenson, and Skye share original stories. Aug 9, 8-10 pm, Cottage Bistro (4470 Main). Tix $5, info www.face book.com/events/1225277687501883/.
GAD ELMALEH Paris-based comedian, actor, and writer performs a new standup show entirely in English. Sep 6, doors 7:30 pm, show 8:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/.
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T.J. MILLER Just for Laughs Live and JFL Northwest present Denver comedian on his standup tour the Meticulously Ridiculous Tour. Sep 7, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/.
PEMBERLEY GARDEN PARTY Come celebrate Jane Austen with afternoon tea and engaging conversation with Austen scholar Miranda Burgess. Aug 14, 4-6 pm, Hycroft Manor (1489 McRae). Tix $25/20, info www.uwcvancouver.ca/.
TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST...FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME English comedians and Monty Python alumni John Cleese and Eric Idle give a performance that blends scripted and improvised bits with storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage, and aquatic juggling. Oct 20-22, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $69.5099.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
DR. MARTINE REID: BILL REID COLLECTED Martine Reid gives an illustrated presentation about her new book Bill Reid Collected, which features a completely new system of classifying the artist’s work. Aug 16, 7-8:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info vpl.bibliocommons.com/.
FIRECRACKER! The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents evenings of improv comedy that explore what it means to be a woman in Vancouver. Guests include Briana ANJELAH JOHNSON American actor and comedian known for her viral video Buckmaster (Aug 4), Sadie Campbell (Aug 11), Burgundy Brixx (Aug 18), Beverley Elliott “Nail Salon” and her roles on MADtv. Oct 26, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue (Aug 25), Morgan Brayton (Sep 1), and Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $45 (plus service Nicole Oliver (Sep 8). To Sep 8, 9:15 pm, charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/. DANNY BHOY Scottish comedian known for performing at the Edinburgh Festival, OK TINDER Vancouver TheatreSports the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and Just League presents an improv-comedy for Laughs. Oct 27, 7 pm, Vogue Theatre show inspired by Vancouver’s notorious and ludicrous dating scene. Aug 3–Sep 15, (918 Granville). Tix $45.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.hahaha.com/. 9:15 pm, every Wed, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info AMY SCHUMER American standup comwww.vtsl.com/. edian, writer, actor, and star of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer performs PATRICK MALIHA Vancouver comedon her world tour. Dec 2, doors 7 pm, ian performs a solo show. Aug 4-6, The show 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, Way). Tix $109/39 (plus service charges info www.thecomedymix.com/. and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SUNEE DHALIWAL Canadian comic tapes his new live special Broken LITERARY EVENTS Dreams. Aug 4, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10, info www.facebook. 2JUST ANNOUNCED com/events/1021901104573514/. ONE HITTER QUITTER COMEDY SHOWDOWN 9 Comedy show emceed by Stephen Peever features headliner Erica Sigurdson. Aug 4, 9-10:30 pm, Seven Dining Lounge (53 W. Broadway). Tix $5 at the door, info www.sevendininglounge. com/event/one-hitter-quitter-comedyshowdown-9/.
AN AFTERNOON WITH JOSEPH BOYDEN As part of the Harmony Arts Festival, Canadian author Joseph Boyden discusses his journey as a writer. Aug 4, 4-5 pm, John Lawson Park (16th and Argyle, West Van). Free admission, info www.harmonyarts.ca/fiction/afternoonjoseph-boyden/.
WORD VANCOUVER Highlights of the annual celebration of the written word include a marketplace, readings, panel discussions, workshops, entertainment, colouring and typewriter stations, and family-friendly activities featuring Canadian authors and book, magazine, comics, education, and literacy exhibitors. Participating authors include Lynn Johnston, Joy Kogawa, Anosh Irani, Ujjal Dosanjh, Paul Yee, Ronald Wright, Yasuko Thanh, Jen Sookfong Lee, Bif Naked, Carmen Aguirre, bill bisset, Daphne Marlatt, Wayde Compton, Caroline Adderson, Lorelei Bachman, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, and Faith Erin Hicks. Sep 21-25, various Vancouver venues. Free admission, info www.wordvancouver.ca/.
2THIS WEEK INFINITE JEST VANCOUVER Read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and talk about it with other readers. To Sep 30, 7-9 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.infinite jestvancouver.tumblr.com/. POETRY IN THE PARK Free outdoor poetry. Includes an open mic. To Aug 31, 6-8 pm, Queen’s Park Bandshell (529 Queen’s Park Ave., New West). Free admission, info www.poetryinthepark.com/.
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13TH ANNUAL NEW WEST CULTURE CRAWL Browse the studios and ask questions, purchase a one-of-a-kind art piece, or just enjoy learning about the creative process. Aug 13-14, 11 am–5 pm, various New Westminster venues. Free admission, info www.newwestcultural crawl.com/. A MAKESHIFT SPACES ART SHOW: I LOVE VANCOUVER Local artists display works that showcase their love of Vancouver and capture the spirit of the city. Aug 22-28, 10 am–4 pm; Aug 26, 6-9 pm, Makeshift Spaces (89 Smithe). Free admission, info www.makeshift spaces.ca/artshow/. SHANGHAI NIGHTS: A DREAM JOURNEY The Shanghai Acrobats present a Cirque du Soleil-style performance. Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Sep 1, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $22-75, info www. vancouversymphony.ca/.
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2THIS WEEK HARMONY ARTS FESTIVAL Ten-day festival showcasing visual, performing, literary, and culinary arts features over 55 acts on three stages, art markets, artist workshops, pop-up restaurants, drop-in kids activities, and nightly movies. To Aug 7, West Vancouver Waterfront (1564 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver). Free admission, info www.harmonyarts.ca/. FLOOR 9 SALON SERIES: PACIFIC POST MODERN A quarterly interdisciplinary arts and cultural showcase of local and visiting artists who have roots in the Asia Pacific. Aug 4, 5:30-7:30 pm, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (900-675 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www. asiapacific.ca/events/floor-9-salon-seriespacific-post-modern/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE: PERICLES SFU’s Paul Budra delivers an in-depth exploration of Shakespeare’s play, going beyond the story to explore the Bard’s inspirations and influences. Aug 13,
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VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL Create Vancouver Society presents the inaugural event that celebrates over 35 new murals around Main Street in the Mount Pleasant and False Creek Flats communities. Participating artists include Kashink, Bicicleta Sem Freio, LowBros, NeverCew, Ola Volo, DEDOS, Tim Barnard, Andrew Young, Corey Bulpitt, and Scott Sueme. Other highlights include performances, interactive art exhibits, community projects, markets, a lounge, and music at five outdoor stages. Aug 20, Main Street (between Prior and 16th). Info www.vancouvermural festival.com/. VINES ART FESTIVAL Free communitydriven event features visual and performing artists along with herbalists, urban farmers, woodcarvers, and eco-consciousness community leaders. Aug 20, 12-7 pm, Trout Lake Park (3350 Victoria). Free admission, info www.vinesartfestival.com/. THE SALON SERIES Vancouver theatre professionals reveal how they take the page to the stage. Includes discussions and Q&A sessions on acting (Aug 29) and designing (Sep 5). Presented by Bard on the Beach. Aug 29; Sep 5, 7 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix $15, info 604-739-0559, www.bardonthebeach.org/.
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MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver. ca/. 2ALL TOGETHER NOW: VANCOUVER COLLECTORS AND THEIR WORLDS (exhibit explores the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects, which tell the stories of 20 diverse, local collectors) to Jan 8, 2017 THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouver-based artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and reflect the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty) to Oct 16
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MOVIES REVIEWS OUR LITTLE SISTER Starring Suzu Hirose. In Japanese, with English subtitles. Rated G
Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda made his
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mellow magic realism (After Life, Maborosi) and biting social commentary (Distance, Nobody Knows). These interests blend beautifully in Our Little Sister, bittersweet Japanese naturalism based on Akimi Yoshida’s serialized manga, Umimachi Diary. The story is as simple as both titles (umimachi means “seaside town”), detailing the gradual adjustments of the wonderfully appealing Kôda sisters—ranging in age from 20 to not quite 30—to a sibling they barely knew they had. After the death of an estranged father whom she calls “kind, but useless”, eldest daughter Sachi (Haruka Ayase) travels
The plot thins as hearts race
Four appealing siblings and an almost total abscence of conflict is all it takes to turn writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Our Little Sister into one of the year’s best films.
New Jersey, for the green, not to mention goyish, pastures of Ohio’s fictional Winesburg College. (Taken from the 2008 novel, that name is an autobiographical nod to Sherwood Our Little Sister haunts with a modicum of drama; Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, perfectly wrought Indignation brings deep rewards so influential in Roth’s own with trouble-prone Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa, youth.) Logan’s lucky to escape the draft at the onset the teacher from I Wish) and goofy, carefree Chika of the Korean War, and from the suffocating protec(Kaho) to his funeral in a faraway town. There, they tion of his kosher-butcher dad (Danny Burstein), meet 15-year-old Suzu (adorable newcomer Suzu traumatized by the still-recent Holocaust. The levelHirose) in her manga-esque school uniform. She’s headed family leader is Mom, movingly played by their dad’s child with his second wife, who died Linda Emond (like Burstein, a top theatre vet). Determined to concentrate on pre-law studies, earlier, leaving the orphaned Suzu with another Marcus drops baseball, refuses to join the only Jewish family that doesn’t care much about her. Since their own mother took off when the first fraternity on campus, and ignores his roommates—a marriage tanked, the levelheaded Sachi essentially loutish hothead (Philip Ettinger) and a closeted theraised the other girls while nursing at a small hos- atre major (Boardwalk Empire’s young Ben Rosenpital. She impulsively asks Suzu to come live with field). Of course, that’s before he meets a blond beauty them in coastal Kamakura, where they share the called Olivia Hutton (Canada’s Sarah Gadon, on the kind of big, ramshackle house that haunts nostal- brink of real stardom). She’s from a whole different gic anime efforts like Only Yesterday and When social register and brainy as hell, so on their first date, Marnie Was Here. They all agree, enthusiastically. when Olivia gets flirty like it’s 1999, Marcus is even Viewers expecting dramatic conflict to arise more freaked out than he is turned on. This single event determines the rest of the dark, from this development may be surprised to find that you can make a superb, two-hour movie sparely told tale, utterly allergic to honeyed nostalgia. about people being kind to each other. But even The deeply rewarding film is bookended by hints of after being warmly welcomed by her new school war and, further in, a pair of unforgettable prizefights (what?), budding soccer star Suzu still has kinks to between the articulate, if squeamish, lad and the work out from her roustabout childhood. And the school’s smilingly dictatorial dean (playwright turned others know they can’t live this idyll forever. That’s actor Tracy Letts), who thinks chapel is the most imdrama enough. Often compared with Yasujirō portant part of a solid education. Undercurrents of Ozu’s domestic tales, Koreeda’s films share that racism, class snobbery, institutional militarism, and Chekhovian vibe, but his movies have more cine- fundamentalist frenzy electrify their debates. And if matic fluidity and highly tactile surfaces; he makes that doesn’t sound like 2016, what does? > KEN EISNER you feel things you might otherwise forget. > KEN EISNER
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LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD
recollections of the Internet’s 1969 birth, when the first computer-to-computer message, from UCLA to Stanford, failed to complete the word LOGIN, maxing out at the biblical LO instead. Amusingly, original users of the WWW were catalogued in a thin phone book. And if everyone on the web today were listed in print, Herzog says, “The book would be seven miles thick.” This proliferation isn’t all roses, of course, and the famed director delves into darker aspects, including hacking, AI, game addiction, and robotic issues unknown to our forebears. He makes an odd digression into cyberbullying, with one suburban family—dressed in black, with numerous pastries in the foreground—recalling the horror of one member fatally crashing Dad’s Porsche, and the rest later receiving grisly photos and worse in their emails. No context is given for this weird story, and it’s unrelated in style to the rest of the 98-minute film, in which Herzog’s off-screen (and idiomatically Teutonic) voice interrogates amiable people in their own comfortable settings. Standouts include an unusually thoughtful Elon Musk, contemplating life in space, and brightly tattooed astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz, who wonders why we prefer claiming other planets to making our current home more habitable. Her specialty is solar flares, and she posits the notion that our entire infrastructure could be fried in one oversized “event”. Another scientist asks how many survivors “would even remember how we lived before everything got wired”. Google that!
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ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES Starring Sarah-Jane Dias. In English and Hindi, with English subtitles. Rated 14A
You can figure that there’s going to be some
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around 30, reunited on the islands of Goa. But what begins as a loosely made girls’-night-out lark gradAlmost nothing that unfolds in this perfectually turns into the feel-bad movie of the season. By no means a comprehensive overview of the ly modulated Philip Roth adaptation would That’s because writer-director Pan Nalin (a man, biggest technological movement of the 21st we must mention) loaded up the flick’s 100 minutes get a college student in serious trouble today. Still, the directorial debut from James Schamus, known century, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected with almost every hot-button issue of the day. These especially for writing and/or producing Ang Lee World is just the kind of offbeat treatise you’d expect do need to be addressed, but Angry Indian Godclassics like Brokeback Mountain and Crouching from Werner Herzog, asked to ponder the main ele- desses is already breaking Bollywood ground simply Tiger, Hidden Dragon, asks us to overlay the stif- ments of how we communicate today. by being a female buddy flick, without tackling popThere’s little cinematic about his approach here, culture sexism, caste conflict, absentee motherhood, ling conformity of the early 1950s onto our own which involves chatting with a dozen or so scien- environmental devastation, tribal rights, gay sex relative freedoms and ask what they mean. Former child star Logan Lerman (from The Perks tists and industry leaders around the world—most- and marriage, and official turpitude, not to mention of Being a Wallflower and the Percy Jackson movies) ly male, many in California—about the roots and (gulp) gang rape and vigilante violence. plays Marcus Messner, who leaves postwar Newark, the future of the wired world. Things begin with see next page
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LIFE, ANIMATED Roger Ross Williams’s doc tells the story of Owen Suskind, whose relationship with Disney classics like The Lion King provided a way out of the isolation of severe autism. Life, Animated begins its Vancity Theatre run on Friday (August 5).
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DGC MASTER CLASS: CATHERINE HARDWICKE Following last month’s
Queer film festival SUMMERTIME (LA BELLE SAISON) Get the party
started when Summertime opens the Vancouver Queer Film Festival at the Vancouver Playhouse next Thursday (August 11). Catherine Corsini’s warm and sexy drama drops a French farm girl, Delphine, into the feminist underground of Paris circa ’71. Liberation, in this case, includes a love affair with Spanish teacher Carole, rendered with affecting honesty by actors Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France. For the lineup of over 60 films, playing until August 21, visit www.queerfilmfestival.ca/. -
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Film noir
sit-down with Rachel Talalay, the DGC brings Catherine Hardwicke, director of the mighty Thirteen (plus a little thing called Twilight), to the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (August 6).
THE ELEPHANT MAN/VERONIKA VOSS A killer double brings together David
Lynch’s underappreciated, Victorian-era bio with the penultimate film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, both in glorious black and white, at the Vancity Theatre on Monday (August 8).
KISS OF DEATH As the vicious Tommy Udo, Richard Widmark did about as little as you possibly could to advance the rights of the physically disabled. Along with Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, Henry Hathaway’s hard-assed 1947 thriller begins the Cinematheque’s latest and always welcome film noir series on Thursday (August 4). The series runs until August 22 and includes Shadow of a Doubt and Underworld U.S.A. among its other grimy delights. AUGUST 4 – 11 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 23
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All this crisis-crunching is doubly disturbing since Nalin shoots the first hour in a happy-go-luckyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some might say amateurishâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;style, with old friends sharing laughs, wine, wedding plans, and some really good songs. Some tunes come courtesy of resident rocker Mad (Anushka Manchanda), joining a conservative housewife (Pavleen Gujral), a half-British thespian (Amrit Maghera) trying to make it in Mumbai, a harried business executive (Sandhya Mridul), and her small daughter (Nia Dhime) at the Goan family home of a disgruntled photographer (former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias), slated to get married. Also around are a low-born maid (Rajshri Deshpande) with a troubled past and the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activist friend (Tannishtha Chatterjee), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you know itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is helping to organize against the execâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mining concern. Taking cues from the goddess Kali, forever sticking out her tongue
at adversity, the group embraces its freedom and differences, in giddily improvised-looking scenes at the beach and in the rambling house. Then someone finds a gun and the whole thing goes to hell. Again, everything that occurs is a real-world problem, but so many happen to this one group, it ends up feeling like those old-school novels in which uppity heroines were punished for forward-thinking transgressions. Here the audience pays, as well. > KEN EISNER
JASON BOURNE Starring Matt Damon and Tommy Lee Jones. Rated PG
With a title like Jason Bourne, you might think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually getting a character portrait more than a decade into Matt Damonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action franchise. After all, amid all the car chases and fuzzy flashbacks over the years, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been waiting to find out who the amnesiac CIA defector really is. The film opens with the rogue agent saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember every-
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thing.â&#x20AC;? But, if anything, we get less Jason Bourneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Damon has never suppressed his charisma with such grim determinationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and much more of the relentless chase scenes that have become a signature of the franchise. To a breathless metronome-tick soundtrack, Bourne races by motorcycle through Athens, runs through crowds in London, and bolts up stairways in Las Vegas. The only relief from the action is the stagnant shots of the suits at CIA headquarters who track every detail on high-tech screens. That superhuman surveillance ability makes the central crisis in this tired sequel seem all the more ridiculous. Evil CIA boss Dewey (a wearily menacing Tommy Lee Jones) plans to access all the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal data through a social-media network built by a tech baron (Riz Ahmed). There are nods to Edward Snowden and WikiLeakstype intrigue, but never enough to build any real sense of doom. Meanwhile, stern, ambitious CIA newcomer Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander, as tightly wound as her hair knot)
tries to bring Dewey down, and bring Bourne in. She adds a bit of fresh tension to the sequel, but too often director Paul Greengrass subs vertigo-inducing handheld sequences for real suspense. Hell, just getting through the dizzying chaos of Bourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first chase, set amid a protest in Athens, and trying to follow him through darkness, crowds, and exploding Molotov cocktails is exhausting. You start to feel as tired and beaten up as Damonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bourne looks. > JANET SMITH
BAD MOMS Starring Mila Kunis. Rated 14A
While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surely one of the bet-
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season, the plotting and direction are so inept in this summer comedy, the intended audience will need to double its Chardonnay dosage to make even the barest sense of Bad Moms. Mila Kunis plays Amy Mitchell, married young, with two preteens attending a snooty public school in suburban Chicago. They live in a small
mansion, even though she works parttime for a hip coffee company, and hairy hubby (David Walton) is a mortgage broker whose career is in escrow. You have to buy her doing-it-all clichĂŠs to get just how frazzled Amy is before finally snapping in the face of one too many â&#x20AC;&#x153;emergencyâ&#x20AC;? PTA meetings called by local queen bee Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate). Aiding Amyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belated bid to get real on the school front are Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell, as a loudmouthed troublemaker and mousy good girl, respectively. While these three get to riff about men, sex, and overwork, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny stuff. But the script by directors and noted non-moms Jon Lucas and Scott Moore is bigger on raunch than insights into modern motherhood. And the editing and even basic characterization are so incoherent, you have to wonder if the story line was being changed on the fly. Stay for the credits, though, and some warmhearted chats between the leads and their real-life mothers. > KEN EISNER
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At the risk of disagreeing with the person BY MIKE US IN G ER
who probably knows best, “boring” is not a terribly apt description of Julien Baker. Over the course of an hourlong phone conversation with the Straight, the Memphis-based singer and songwriter proves endlessly fascinating, expounding on everything from the early impact of all-ages punk-rock shows to her battles with depression and anxiety. Baker is happy to talk about how her strippedraw debut album, Sprained Ankle, became one of the most critically celebrated records of 2015, and to discuss the way luck can be as important to a career as God-given talent or a bullheaded work ethic. The tribal followings of ’80s hardcore bands like Minor Threat and Rites of Spring amaze her. And she opines eloquently that the best thing about success is that it enables her to support the DIY musical community that she’s proud to be from. Whatever topic she’s discussing, Baker is not boring. The party that defined her teenage years has stopped, but that doesn’t make her any less interesting. “I have the predilection towards anxiety and darkness or what have you,” the 20-year-old artist says as a Memphis thunderstorm crashes away
Working out some issues
Sometimes Julien Baker lies to stare off into the middle distance and see how long she can go without blinking. And she describes herself as boring !
happens is that you choose how you are going to confront the daily challenges and obstacles that you face. Songwriting is a cathartic exercise for Julien Baker, You can choose to try and turn your brain off with whose Sprained Ankle LP was one of 2015’s best substances and hide from in the background. “But it doesn’t get out of hand your problems and not address them. Or you can anymore because I’ve learned that just gives you cas- stick things out, grit your teeth, and try to make the cading issues that only make your situation worse. day the best possible day that it can be for yourself There is no escape in that path. And that’s particular and others around you.” That philosophy is one Baker took a while to my circumstance—I have tons of friends who’ve experienced the same issues of substance abuse at to embrace. She grew up going to church in the various levels, whether it was alcoholism or a serious Christian South. And as much as the church in drug habit. And I’ve got tons of friends who can have America is beyond crazy sometimes, when Baker one beer with dinner. You have to know your per- came out as gay it was members of the church who sonality type. All the creative people that I know are were there to listen to her and accept her. Learnvery extreme. But I’m not even going to introduce ing to accept herself, however, took a while longer. “I hadn’t learned the lesson of ‘The world is actthat variable into my life now. I’ve made that choice. ing on me and I’m helpless,’ ” she recounts. “You Which is why I’m a boring person.” A better way of putting things is that, after have to come to the realization of ‘I’m running away spending years drowning out her demons with with something that I haven’t dealt with yet.’ And mind-altering chemicals and liquids, Baker you have to choose to be bigger than these things.” Music helped with that. Baker’s father took her to has discovered a better way of dealing with the traumas of everyday life. That’s abundantly clear all-ages shows, which taught her that anyone can be on Sprained Ankle, for which the singer came up in a band, and that the best shows are the ones where with an admirably cathartic set of solo songs, performer and audience come together as one. That notion would be solidified when she joined her first plugged in a guitar, and then rolled tape. The result was one of the most stunning dark- band, the emo-leaning agitators known as Forrister. horse records of 2015, at times leaving you won- And it’s something that’s stuck with her as crowds dering exactly how bad things got during Baker’s have embraced her as a solo artist. “I come from a scene where the shows are all lost years. At odds with the bright-eyed guitars on “Brittle Boned”, the singer declares, “I know I’m a floor shows—the performer isn’t elevated above pile of filthy wreckage you will wish you’d never the crowd, so physically you’re on the same level,” touched.” Darkness and despair rule on the dis- Baker relates. “That puts you emotionally on the cordant indie rocker “Good News” as Baker wrings same level—there’s no separation between perevery bit of drama out of “I know I shouldn’t act former and observer. That’s something that I realthis way in public/I know I shouldn’t make my ly like. The bigger the gap gets between the stage friends all worry/When I go out at night and grind and the floor, the more uncomfortable that I get.” The challenge is to accept that those gaps are in my teeth like sutures.” Anyone who’s ever been through a devastating breakup will have zero prob- all likelihood only going to get bigger. Because if lem relating to “I know you left hours ago/I still Julien Baker is discovering anything, it’s that a record she arguably made for herself has a growing list haven’t moved yet” in the skeletal “Something”. The singer had some issues to work out on of admirers. Predictably, she’s anything but boring Sprained Ankle, through lyrics so personal that when breaking down what she’s accomplished. “Self-esteem is tricky. For a while I wanted to be she admits she sometimes feels funny singing self-effacing, because part of my personal moral them now that she’s in a happier place. “I talk with a friend of mine about how code is to put less emphasis on me as a person, and we don’t like the term It gets better,” she of- to use what success I have to promote a general posifers. “It doesn’t ever really get better. What tivity. As cheesy as that sounds, I feel like that’s the
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BURNABY BLUES + ROOTS FESTIVAL As everyone who’s ever bought a Black Keys or Gun Club record knows, at some point the blues stopped being exclusively about artists with Mississippi Delta mud on their guitar case. It makes sense, then, that the main attraction at this year’s Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival won’t be a hologram of Robert Johnson, but instead local veteran Colin James (pictured). Ruthie Foster, Lee Fields & the Expressions, and Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas are among the heavy-hitting imports, with hometown heroes including Colleen Rennison and Jim Byrnes. Gates open at noon on Saturday (August 6), with things ending at 10 p.m. With Vancouver real-estate prices where they are today, God knows there won’t be a better time to hang out with people who have the blues. -
Julien Baker plays the Cobalt on Tuesday (August 9)
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On life: “There’s some of my history in the songs—honestly, there were times when I wasn’t the best person that I could be, and that I made some choices I’m not necessarily proud of. Let me put a disclaimer here: every time I think I’ve got things figured out, I’m proven wrong. Understanding the futility of nailing down every aspect of your life is in fact a lesson.” On going to Europe: “I just spent a month overseas for my first time. It never worked out for me to go on a mission trip or to study abroad. I just figured, ‘I’m going to be a poor student who never gets to travel.’ Now all of a sudden I get to travel, and to play music.” On meeting fans: “Sometimes people will come up after the set, and even though you’re on the road and you do get tired, I never get dismissive or try to avoid talking to people. That’s one of the greatest parts of touring, to be playing in a different place every night and meeting strangers. You don’t even know their first names, but you end up sharing some of the most intimate details of your life with them.”
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responsibility that comes with making art. But it’s dangerous to always deny, deny, deny, and to discount your own self-worth. So I really have to be mindful about telling myself ‘Your record is not a piece of crap that’s the worst thing ever.’ But I equally don’t want to be overly proud or seem arrogant. “The challenge is to practise accepting that maybe things won’t work out the way I think they will, and to be content with that. I think that contentment is a lot more precious than achievement. So if I play a show and it’s sold-out, I’m overjoyed. If I play a show and it’s halfway to selling out, I’m amazed that even that many people care what I have to say. And if one person shows up, then it’s me and that person, and we get to hang out and sing some songs.” -
NEJ TACK Kanye West told BBC Radio 1 that he wants to work with a Swedish giant. “Yo IKEA, allow Kanye to create,” he said. “I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes.” IKEA reps said nothing is in the works, possibly due to West’s disturbing habit of speaking about himself in the third person. DIFFERENT STROKE Nick Valensi of the Strokes has started a new band called CRX, which Honda disciples will recognize as the name of a sports-compact car manufactured from 1983 to 1991. Music fans, meanwhile, stopped giving a shit about anything Strokes-related after 2001’s “Last Night”. SMASHING NEWS Billy Corgan has hinted that the original edition of the Smashing Pumpkins might be getting back together. And if that doesn’t work out because of the band’s long history of infighting, there’s always Zwan.
Fresh and local LEO TIDXLS Leo is Amy Williams, a 16-year-old highschool student from North Van with a musical vision belying her youth. TIDXLS is a maturesounding effort from the singer-songwriter, all breathy vocals and down-tempo electronics. Imagine Purity Ring minus the grisly lyrics and trap-inspired production, or a less out-there FKA Twigs. It’s a great overall sound, although taken individually, the water-themed songs (titles include “Swimming Pools” and “Drowners”) tend to wash over the listener without leaving a huge impression. One exception is the title track, a millennial-generation anthem that boasts the album’s most buoyant hook. -
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Royal Southern Brotherhood has a message
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n the Royal Southern Brotherhood’s website, the New Orleans– and Nashville-based outfit says that, despite significant turnover in its membership, “the mission of the band has never changed.” So what, exactly, is that mission? “The message is that music is a healing force that crosses racial, political, and gender barriers,” says singer and percussionist Cyril Neville, who’s in Louisville, Kentucky, waiting for a flight to his Big Easy home. “At our shows you can let your hair down, or take it off, while you dance and make a joyful noise with us. And our lyrics give you something to think about, while you’re shakin’ what your momma gave ya!” As the youngest of the legendary Neville brothers, Cyril has already enjoyed a storied career: melding funk and rock with the fabled Meters, bringing atmospheric storytelling into the mix with his eponymous family band, and helping revive the New Orleans “Indian” tradition with the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the hard-partying crew led for years by his uncle, George Landry. The Brotherhood might seem a somewhat more straightforward affair—on the surface, at least. With guitarists Bart Walker and Tyrone Vaughan joining drummer Yonrico Scott, bassist Darrell Phillips, and Neville, it’s essentially a rock band—but one that brings a strong element of social consciousness to its gritty guitars and muscular rhythms. On the quintet’s recently released fifth fulllength, The Royal Gospel, Neville rips into the consumer society on “Hooked on the Plastic” and then ends the album with a plea for unity in the face of hard times with “Stand Up”. Both, he says, reflect social and musical lessons that he learned in church, from records, from friends, and most of all from his own tight-knit band of real brothers and sisters. “Two churches come to mind: Sunlight Baptist Church on Coliseum Street in my
“I feel Bart and I have an amazing spiritual bond when it comes to songwriting,” he says. “We see the world around us similarly and express our mutual thoughts through our music.” As for the Brotherhood as a whole, Neville couldn’t be happier with its latest incarnation. “These guys are like Red Bull for me; they give me wings!” he says. “I’m out in front much more, and that’s where I like to be.” > ALEXANDER VARTY
The Royal Southern Brotherhood plays the Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival at Deer Lake Park on Saturday (August 6).
The Royal Southern Brotherhood likes to see which member can pose the most awkwardly.
neighbourhood and the Lastie family’s church in the lower 9th Ward,” he explains. “Allen [Toussaint, the late New Orleans soul kingpin] was and still is a huge influence on everything I do, from writing to playing and performing. Getting a chance to sing his songs at several tributes to him has helped immensely with coping with such a loss. We had become very close.…I learned harmony from my brother Aaron and my sister Athelgra, and I learned music theory from my brother Charles, but my brother Art literally dove into the Sacred Funk with me on his back. He’s the reason I’m the entertainer I am.” Now, the 67-year-old musician adds, he’s able to impart some of those lessons to his protégés in the Royal Southern Brotherhood—but that exchange is far from a one-way street. Walker, in particular, has rejuvenated Neville’s songwriting with his own complementary take on the gospel of rock; between them they wrote half of the dozen tracks on The Royal Gospel.
DIY queen Molly Nilsson’s songs work on many different levels Molly Nilsson is from Stockholm and
2 currently resides in Berlin, but when she
best or that I feel are the most representative or something. But there’s a lot of songs that just go into some kind of private bank of notes. They’re not bad, maybe. Sometimes I go back and I find ones that I wonder why I didn’t put them on the album, but at the moment it just didn’t make sense. For every really great song, I feel like I have to make three bad songs also.” Based on her output to date, Nilsson has an uncanny knack for picking the keepers. The bittersweet “1995”, from last year’s Zenith LP, is a wistful meditation on the addictive sadness of nostalgia (“So what’s wrong with living in the past?” Nilsson ponders in her signature detached style. “It just happens to be the place I saw you last”), employing Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system as a metaphor. “I Hope You Die” (from 2011’s History) is a romantic fantasy about spending your life with that special someone, but that reverie is undercut by a matter-offact reminder that we’re all just going to die anyway. Oh, and it also equates being in love with being a football hooligan. There is never just one layer to Nilsson’s lyrics, and they are always spiked with her deadpan, sardonic wit. “I’m always close to having a sense of humour, even in really bad times,” she says. “I think it’s a part of who I am or how I see the world, but also, if I was writing a song that was just sad, I couldn’t even listen to it myself, I think. I try, in the lyrics, to always put a twist in there. And after a while that twist just becomes a part of the song; I don’t even hear it. Sometimes I’ve written things and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll throw that in there. That’s really funny.’ And afterwards it’s not funny anymore, it’s just a part of the statement.”
reaches the Straight, she’s not calling from either of those European capitals, but from somewhere a lot closer to Vancouver. “I’m in Penticton,” she reveals. “Just hanging out for a few days. Just relaxing and not doing very much at all, basically. Drinking wine. It’s really hot, but nice.” The singer is on a summer holiday, taking an all-too-rare break from the full-time business of doing pretty much everything. Nilsson produces her moodily shimmering indie synth pop by herself, runs her own label (Dark Skies Association), does all the album art herself, books her own tours, and performs live as a solo act. She’s also a very prolific songwriter, and the six full-length albums she has released since > JOHN LUCAS 2008 barely scratch the surface. “If every record has 10 or 11 songs, more or less, I’ll probably have 30 or 40 for that period,” Nilsson Molly Nilsson plays the Biltmore Cabaret on says. “But I just take 10 that I think are the Saturday (August 6).
Luke McKeehan on top tracks and hot gigs
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here aren’t many jobs in the globally recognized Nordic Trax music industry that local record label, one of the few local powerhouse Luke McKeehan imprints to weather the storm of the hasn’t done. Variously work- digital era. ing as a label head, club-night proDespite his busy day-to-day at the moter, venue manager, and produ- label, McKeehan remains dedicated cer—and, first and foremost, as a to the decks. A true pro on the turnDJ—McKeehan views each platform tables, the performer has opened as part of “the same for David Bowie, ball of wax”. MakBasement Jaxx, So Many DJs ing house and and the Pet Shop electronic music Boys. And trust Kate Wilson accessible in Vanus, no one can top couver since the early ’90s, McKeehan his story about watching Jamiroquai has been employed professionally in ride around backstage on a mini the music industry since his mid-20s. motorcycle. His dedication to electronic music led him to create two popular Van- BEST GIG EVER I once ran a club couver clubs, the Chameleon Lounge night in Madrid, and I ended up bein the basement of the old Hotel Geor- ing booked for a show by that progia, and Gastown’s famed Sonar—a moter a while later. This was about venue that was fittingly named one 12 years ago now, at a venue called of the “best clubs in the world” by the the Room. The performance went Ministry of Sound’s monthly maga- really great, but what made it so spezine. Using a fax machine to track cial is that I met people there who’ve down his artists (this was the ’90s, become friends for life. I actually folks), McKeehan had a knack for live for some months of the year now getting past major-label gatekeepers in Spain, and that’s definitely due in to book some of the biggest names in part to the guys I ran into at that the genre, including Groove Armada, show. I’ve DJed gigs that have been bigger draws or better-known nightLee “Scratch” Perry, and Carl Craig. Not one to be idle, McKeehan clubs, but a great night is about more used that success to launch his than the music.
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at all, but if I’m playing, it’s usually already going to be busy. I’ve definitely done it—we all have—but it’s not normally due to the song. Even a great track can clear everybody out if the DJ has misread the crowd. FAVOURITE VANCOUVER PRODUCER There’s a few—but the up-
Luke McKeehan proudly rings up another CD sale. Michael Benz photo. TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW It’s ac-
tually one of our own records. Nordic Trax is about to release a new song from Gavin Froome, who’s collaborated with Golden Ears from Vancouver. It’s called “Don’t Come Home”. I’ve listened to it about 500 times through production, and I still love the track, plus the remixes by the Revenge are really exciting too. There’s a lot of people who ask when Gavin is going to be putting music out again, so it’s nice to be able to get this track into the world.
SONG THAT CLEARED THE DANCE FLOOR I’m actually trying to think of
the last time I did clear the dance floor! I don’t want to come across as cocky
and-coming guys are really the ones to talk about. Iain Howie has sent me a bunch of music recently, and I’m hopeful we’ll find something that fits Nordic Trax’s style at some point. Matt Dauncey, too, who DJs under Neighbour, has done some really exciting things for our label. Some of the stalwarts would be Rennie Foster and Jay Tripwire. WHAT’S UP WITH OPENING FOR DAVID BOWIE? I was actually
too intimidated to introduce myself to him backstage. I thought he’d be thinking “Why is my warm-up act an electronic-music DJ?” In retrospect, it was actually really cool that he booked me. Mötley Crüe and other bands like that were using DJs as openers at that time too, but it always seemed more opportunistic. Bowie’s always been influenced by dance music—his album Let’s Dance is all about that—so
it always felt a lot more organic. It was an interesting show to work, because I was playing jazzy drum and bass and a little bit of hardstep, and the crowd just wanted rock music. I don’t think most of the audience got it, but Bowie just went with it. ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED This is less of a request
and more of a memory. Myself and Gavin Froome were playing at the giant HMV superstore in Toronto together, back when you would do inshop appearances to promote a CD. We were set up near the electronicmusic section, on the counter where you would usually go and pay for your records. My turntables were underneath, and Gavin had a drum machine, a controller, and a lot of other gear which he was playing live. Right when Gavin was doing his thing on the drum pad, a guy came up to us and asked us to ring up a CD. This guy thought Gavin was there to be on cash. On reflection, it’s a good thing he didn’t request a song. -
“Don’t Come Home” by Gavin Froome, featuring Golden Ears, will be released on Nordic Trax on Friday (August 5).
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FLUME Australian electronica artist performs in support of upcoming album Skin, with guests AlunaGeorge and Mura Masa. Aug 7, 4 pm, PNE Amphitheatre (2901 E. Hastings). Info www.facebook.com/ events/1546287752342518/.
MAC MILLER American rapper tours in support of upcoming release The Divine Feminine. Nov 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Aug 5, 10 am, $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
MARISSA NADLER American singersongwriter tours in support of upcoming release Strangers, with guests Wreckmeister Harmonies and Muscle and Marrow. Aug 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
MS. LAURYN HILL American rapper, record producer, actor, and former Fugees member. Nov 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Aug 5, 10 am, $125/75/55 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. DAUGHTER London-based indie-folk band tours in support of latest studio album Not to Disappear. Nov 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Aug 5, 10 am, $36.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF American folk-blues band tours in support of new album Small Town Heroes, with guests the Moondoggies. Aug 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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SONGS OF THE SOUL International classical, world, and jazz musicians play the songs of Maestro Sri Chinmoy. Participating artists include Mandu, Pranlobha and Bhoiravi, Kanala, Ashru Dhara, Shamita’s Strings, Agnikana’s Group, and Paree’s International Singers. Sep 2, 7:30 pm, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Free admission, info 604-704-2720, www.songsofthesoul.com/.
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COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2THE CAT EMPIRE Aug 2 2THE MAVERICKS Aug 4 2FOALS Aug 7 2AWOLNATION Aug 11 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP: A NATIONAL CELEBRATION Aug 20 2ERIC ANDRE Aug 23 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 For up-to-the-minute, searchable 2JAKE BUGG Sep 7 2ACTION BRONSON Music Time Out listings, visit Sep 12 2ATMOSPHERE Sep 14 2LEE SCRATCH PERRY Sep 15 2BLOC PARTY www.straight.com Sep 16 2AIRBOURNE Sep 17 2THRICE Sep 18 2SAINT MOTEL Sep 20 2THE TEMPER FOALS British indie-rock band tours in TRAP Sep 21 2TRITONAL Sep 22 2ECHO support of latest album What Went Down. & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 2ST. PAUL Aug 7-8, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, AND THE BROKEN BONES Sep 25 2JACK Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). GARRATT Sep 26 2KT TUNSTALL Sep 29 Aug 7 show SOLD OUT, tix for Aug 8 2DINOSAUR JR. Sep 30 2PENNYWISE Oct $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at 1 2DJ SHADOW Oct 2 2SQUEEZE Oct 3 www.livenation.com/. 2TOKYO POLICE CLUB Oct 5 254-40 Oct 7 2PHANTOGRAM Oct 9 2GROUPLOVE PASSENGER British folk-rock singerOct 10 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 songwriter tours in support of upcoming 2NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE studio album. Aug 9, doors 7 pm, show PEOPLE Oct 12 2I MOTHER EARTH Oct 14 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix 2STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Oct 19 2YOUNG $20 (plus service charges and fees) at THE GIANT Oct 26 2BOY & BEAR Oct www.ticketweb.ca/. 29 2MAJID JORDAN Oct 30 2ANDRA DAY Nov 8 2SHOVELS & ROPE Nov 9 JULIEN BAKER Memphis indie singer2YELAWOLF Nov 13 2JAMES VINCENT songwriter tours in support of debut release Sprained Ankle. Aug 9, doors 8 pm, MCMORROW Nov 24 2JULY TALK Nov 25 show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus 2THE DANDY WARHOLS Dec 6 service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. 605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic HIBRIA Brazil power-metal band performs soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. a 20th anniversary show, with guests W.M.D. and Gatekeeper. Aug 10, 8 pm, FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards). Tix 604-569-1758. 2BABA ALI LIVE Aug 18 $20, info theinvisibleorange.tunestub.com/ 2WENCY CORNEJO AND INTROVOYS event.cfm?cart&id=241960/. Aug 27 2SKYE & ROSS Aug 30 2STEVE GUNN AND THE OUTLINERS Sep 23
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FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2RYLEY WALKER Oct 7 2ANDY SHAUF Oct 15 2RACHAEL YAMAGATA Oct 18 2KISHI BASHI Oct 19 2HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Oct 29 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2THE WANING LIGHT, PRECIOUS DUDES, HOLD THE LINE, GANGLYON Aug 5 2SAINTS IN HELL (JUDAS PRIEST TRIBUTE), OMEGA CROM, ANARCHEON Aug 6
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LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-6874424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat.
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-569-1144. 2BROODS Aug 16 2STURGILL SIMPSON Aug 18 2COLVIN & EARLE Aug 20 2FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Aug 24 2THE GIPSY KINGS Aug 26 2PARQUET COURTS Aug 27 2BRIAN REGAN Aug 28 2ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS Sep 4 2GAD ELMALEH Sep 6 2T.J. MILLER Sep 7 2BOYCE AVENUE Sep 10 2NOTHING BUT THIEVES Sep 14 2DAVID CROSBY Sep 15 2BAND OF SKULLS Sep 16 2TA-KU (LIVE) Sep 26 2ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Sep 27 2DANNY BROWN Oct 6 2GOJIRA Oct 9 2GHOST Oct 13 2ZIGGY MARLEY Oct 16 2PURITY RING Oct 18 2MATTHEW BARBER AND JILL BARBER Oct 22 2ANJELAH JOHNSON Oct 26 2DANNY BHOY Oct 27 2THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Oct 28 2CHARLIE PUTH Nov 4 2MAC MILLER Nov 6 2LUKAS GRAHAM Nov 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2MØ Nov 23
MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. 2BARNS COURTNEY Sep 3 2ECHO NEBRASKA Sep 9 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 2ROB THOMAS Sep 2 2MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND Sep 30 2GREAT WHITE & SLAUGHTER Oct 14 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2BAND OF HORSES Aug 20 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Sep 17 2SHARON AND BRAM Sep 18 2LINDSEY STIRLING Sep 28 2JAMES BLAKE Oct 13 2OPETH Oct 26 2PASSENGER Mar 25, 2017 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-6653050. 2SIGUR ROS Sep 18 2TEGAN AND SARA Oct 5 2GLASS ANIMALS Oct 12 2ALICE COOPER Oct 19 2PET SHOP BOYS Oct 24 2IL DIVO Nov 6 2MS. LAURYN HILL Nov 8 2DAUGHTER Nov 25
WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR Aug 9 2FRANK YAMMA Aug 11
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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS LEGENDS VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL Performances by Sublime With Rome, Dirty Heads, the Sheepdogs, Bif Naked, Daniel Wesley, Forgotten Rebels, Randy and Mr Lahey (Trailer Park Boys), the Boom Booms, Redeye Empire, Vince Vaccaro, Mat the Alien, the Librarian, Good for Grapes, Los Furios, Antipolitic, Dope Soda, Powerclown, Bocephus King, Dirty Mike and the Boys, and Phono Pony. Aug 26-28, Lake Cowichan, B.C.. Tix from $30-270, info www.legendsvalleymusicfestival.com/.
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whopping 90 percent of Metro they’ll account for 1.25 percent of the roughly Vancouver residents support the 40,000 residential real-estate transactions in region’s new 15-percent tax on for- 2016 and an estimated three percent of the eign buyers of residential real es- value that changes hands in those deals. tate. At the same time, only three percent of While those numbers are small, Davidoff respondents to the same poll, conducted by suggested that eliminating the QIIP could still the Angus Reid Institute, say the tax goes far have a noticeable effect in B.C. With a rough enough, and 71 percent describe it as simply calculation, he estimated that removing those a step in the right direction. buyers from the market could bring prices While the region waits to see what kind of down by between four and 10 percent. impact the new tax will have “It would be a helpful on the market, pundits are step,” he said. debating what additional The QIIP is what remeasures the government Travis Lupick mains of two programs should take. That’s turned a that once comprised inlot of attention to the Quebec Immigrant In- vestor-class immigrants. The QIIP’s federal vestors Program (QIIP), a path exclusively for counterpart, the Immigrant Investor Prowealthy immigrants that, despite its name, lets gram (IIP), stopped accepting applications newcomers settle in B.C. Some observers argue in 2012. Applicants trickled in for a few years it deserves much of the blame for driving up after, but were down to just 84 in 2015. the price of a home in Vancouver. The IIP and QIIP permit a foreign national On July 28, Premier Christy Clark revealed to move to Canada in exchange for a five-year she’s approached her Québécois counterpart loan of $800,000 to the federal or Quebec govand opened discussions on the issue. ernment. With the IIP eliminated, the Quebec “We’re going to work together on it,” she told program now accounts for virtually all immiGlobal News. “We’re going to try and support gration counted under the investor class. him [Premier Philippe Couillard] in finding In 2014, there were 2,080 principal appliways to make sure their program, their in- cants admitted to Canada under both the IIP vestor program, is for Quebec and for Quebec and QIIP. Then 1,547 in 2015. And now a proalone. And that when people come into Que- jected 1,072 for 2016. bec, that’s where they stay.” Jonathan Cooper, Macdonald Realty’s vice But eliminating this source of wealthy im- president of operations, told the Straight that migrants might not have as sizable an effect on it’s hard to gauge what impact ending the QIIP Vancouver real estate as some have suggested. would have on Vancouver real estate. According to the latest Citizenship and “It’s not a market-breaking effect, but I Immigration Canada data, during the first think it would have some effect,” he said in a three months of 2016, there were just 268 telephone interview. “If most of these people principal applicants admitted in the immi- coming in are of a higher net-worth category, grant-investor class. which I think they would be under the QIIP, Projected out to the end of the year, that’s you would see a discrete effect in the higher an estimated 1,072 people. According to a 2014 end of the market.” federal evaluation, two-thirds of them will setBut Cooper cautioned that shutting the QIIP tle in B.C., which equates to about 700 home should not be viewed as a solution to Vancousales in 2016. ver’s affordability crisis. Tom Davidoff is an associate professor at “There are significantly more immigrants the UBC Sauder School of Business who’s from other categories coming here,” he exproposed improving housing affordability by plained. “And the fundamentals, in terms of shifting more of the tax burden from income low supply, low interest rates, and positive to property. Using a slightly more conserva- population growth, those would still remain. tive estimate of 500 QIIP immigrants making And I think that would suggest we would not their way to B.C. this year, and assuming all of see a big correction in prices [if the QIIP were them settle in Metro Vancouver, he calculated eliminated].” -
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savage love I can’t believe this is why I’m finally writing you. My husband is using Pokémon Go as an excuse to stay out until 5 a.m. with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome. Our work schedules don’t match up, and he always wants me to meet him in the wee hours of the morning after I’ve worked a full day shift and done all the work looking after our pets. I can give him the benefit of the doubt and be totally fine with him wanting to stay out after work for a few drinks with friends, even though I’m too tired to join them, but Pokémon Go until 5 a.m. alone with a twentysomething for four straight weeks?! It’s driving me crazy. I told him how I feel and he says it’s my fault for “never wanting to do anything”. (I don’t consider walking around staring at a phone “doing something”.) I told him I feel like he doesn’t even like me anymore, and he didn’t even acknowledge my feelings with a response. With the craze this has become, we can’t be the only couple with this problem. I don’t think me enabling his actions by joining the game is the answer, but I’d be absolutely gutted if this game was the straw that broke up our 10-year relationship. Please help.
I am currently separated. A few months after I moved out, my estranged wife found out that I cheated on her before we got married. I was a CPOS. I feel horribly guilty and would like to think I’ll never do it again. The question is: when and what should I disclose to future partners?
> POKÉMON GO MEANS NO
> NO CLEVER ACRONYM
Second Life, SimCity, Quake, CounterStrike, World of Warcraft, Minecraft— it’s always something. By which I mean to say, PGMN, Pokémon Go isn’t destroying your marriage now, just as SimCity wasn’t
There’s no need to disclose this to future partners. Everyone makes mistakes—and the mistake you made, while a deeply painful betrayal of your then-girlfriend and, presumably, a violation of a premarital
destroying marriages 15 years ago. Your husband is destroying your marriage. He’s being selfish and inconsiderate and cruel. He doesn’t care enough about you to prioritize your feelings—or even acknowledge them, it seems. When a partner’s actions are clearly saying “I’m choosing this thing—this video game, this bowling league, this whatever—over you,” they’re almost always saying this as well: “I don’t want to be with you anymore, but I don’t have the courage or the decency to leave so I’m going to neglect you until you get fed up and leave me.” Let him have his ridiculous obsessions—with this game, with this girl— and when he comes to his senses and abandons Pokémon Go, just like people came to their senses and walked away from Second Life a decade ago, you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to leave him.
> BY DAN SAVAGE monogamous commitment, is a thoroughly common one. Human beings aren’t used cars—we aren’t obligated to disclose every ditch we drove ourselves into before we resell ourselves. You didn’t fuck around on your ex habitually; you’re not a serial cheater; and you never violated your marriage vows. So there’s that. Resolve not to make this mistake again—make only new ones—and stuff that incident down Ye Olde Memory Hole.
I hooked up with this hot mar-
ried couple. We’d done it before, and my expectations were shaped by previous (fun) experiences with them. But the sex wasn’t good this time. That would be fine—sometimes it just doesn’t work, and I am an adult about it—but for the specific reason it wasn’t good: the husband came on my face after I specifically told him not to do that. I used my words. He still blew a load in my face and then sheepishly kinda apologized afterwards. He said he didn’t mean to do it and that he was aiming at my boobs. I do not believe it for a second. It was an “ask for forgiveness, not for permission” kind of thing—I could see that on his face. He looooves facials. So that sealed my decision to not sleep with them again, which I told them about. I consider a load in my face against my will to be a big violation of my trust/friendship. The couple thinks I’m overreacting and that a load in your face should be a forgivable offence. I’m not going to change my mind, but I am curious
what you think about sneaky facials.
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Sneaky facials are sneaky, and I don’t approve of sneakiness in the sack. People should be straightforward and direct. They should communicate their wants, needs, and limits clearly, and we should all err on the side of solicitousness, i.e., drawing new sex partners out about their wants, needs, and limits because some folks have a hard time using their words where sex is concerned. You used your words, USA!USA!, and this dude violated your clearly communicated wants, needs, and limits. I’m glad you let them know you were upset and why you weren’t going to see them again. Single women who want to hook up with married couples are hard to come by and in—that’s why you’re called unicorns—and his selfish disregard for your limits, his clear violation of your trust, cost them a unicorn.
I have two questions. (1) I saw a sex worker for a legit sensual massage that turned into fooling around. Once that happened, he mentioned “making” straight guys have sex with him, wanting to give massages to teenagers, and he talked dirty about younger boys. I know this could all be provocative fantasy talk, but I had a weird feeling about him before meeting. Who would I even disclose this to if that were the right thing to do, and how would I do so while protecting his (should be
legal) right to trade ass for cash? (2) Furthermore, I’m a thirsty genderqueer girl plotting her escape from a suburban town. I’m not going to be here long enough to look for an LTR. How can I satisfy my lust safely? It seems like every time I hook up with someone, they disclose intense drug use or other risky behaviour after the fact. > FANTASIZING LECHEROUSLY ABOUT GOOD SEX
(1) There’s no licensing board for sex workers—there’s no accrediting organization, no sex-work equivalent of the legal profession’s bar association (and most sex workers would oppose the establishment of one)—so there’s nowhere you can go to report this guy. If he confessed to an actual crime, FLAGS, you could go to the police, and they might even do something about it. But the police are unlikely to get involved if he was just fantasizing; it’s not against the law to engage in dirty talk, even extremely fucked-up, ickily transgressive, not okay dirty talk. (2) Masturbation is the safest way to satisfy your lust until you get your ass out of that druggy suburb full of risky-sex junkies and to the big city, where we urbanites drink only hot tea, snort only in derision, and use only condoms religiously. On the Lovecast , Dan chats with MTV’s Ira Madison III about sex and race: savagelovecast.com . E-mail: mail@savagelove.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fake dansavage/.
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Living in the Past Recently made a visit to UBC. I haven’t seen the main campus for few years and was astonished by the construction and all the changes being made. They’re turning it into fucking Metrotown! How depressing...
Ex Gloming-On to Friends Surprised to see so many closed stores on W. Broadway in Kits. The city really has to make it easier to maybe open a funky little bar...gives life to neighborhoods.
constantly bailing I’m sick of friends who make plans but then never keep them. If you had a valid reason for cancelling, I’d be more understanding, but I know it’s only because I’m not a priority. Unfortunately, it seems I’m not a priority to anyone in this city.
No Prize I’m no prize I realize and am grateful for my spouse being with me as I’m not easy to be with.
Can’t Get Over My Ex Struggling to get over an ex. They want to remain friends, but every time I see their social media posts I get really upset and hurt. I considered deleting/blocking them, but I can’t stop looking them up anyway. They are a good person, and I’d like to stay on good terms, but it’s making it so hard to heal. I miss them so much, and don’t know what to do.
My ex cut me out of his life completely, but then went and added a few of my friends to his social media accounts-- even one who I recently had a falling-out with. He didn’t hang out with these people ever when we were going out, and even went as far as to say that he didn’t respect how they treated me. Now that we are broken-up and I’m blocked,he’s expanded his social circle to include them. It’s been very painful for me (feels like he’s kicking me when... (con’t @straight.com)
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My ex bf joined the same online dating site I am on. His profile has the wrong age and two other statements that are untrue. I wish I could warn the women of Vancouver about him. Instead, I am reliving the anger from our breakup and how awful he treated me. I thought I had moved on but I can’t seem to shake him.
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They don’t work. The written word and a few pix is no way to meet someone.. Attraction is much more complex than a few visual slices of time edited for success, a somewhat plagerized collection of words and a series of statically charged digital minty reactions of thought ( sent in real time! ) to random hearts whose imaginations are either optimisticly or pessimisticly destroying any chance of a connection. Real, real-time works. Live action works. Sensing someone’s energy, attraction works. Never again. You awkward clowns go ahead! I’m done.
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ercury has recently entered Virgo and on Friday, the opening day of the Olympics in Rio, Venus will do the same. While the sun in Leo shines a brighter light on life, love, pleasure, and fun, Mercury and Venus stay focused on the not-there-yet task sheet. Concerns regarding pollution, health, safety, attendance, and revenues are sure to stay front and centre, but the Games must go on. Let us cheer the athletes who’ve worked so hard and risked so much to participate. Saturday morning, Mercury is on a push-it with Saturn, but once it’s faced, the day perks right up. Saturday evening, Venus moves past it with Mars. Both these transits get us over the hump and onto something fresh. Sunday morning, Mercury and Neptune would rather be asleep than awake—or better yet, aroused by a lover’s embrace. Enjoy the outdoor festivities or let the music play in your own back yard. Easygoing Sunday is the smoothest-running day of the weekend. The first half of Monday can deliver peak activity of the day. Other than that, it comes and it goes. Tuesday/ Wednesday, get at the romance or finance. The transiting moon in Scorpio turns on the creative and productive tap. Mercury in trine aspect to Pluto favours Wednesday, but both days are optimum for meetings of the mind, exploring, probing, and negotiating.
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If you haven’t gotten around to it yet, you’ll gain momentum. As of Friday, Venus treks into Virgo. Saturday’s Mercury/Saturn also puts you in the mood to get out the broom, clean up your desk, and get onto a better health routine, too. While Sunday’s ideal for easing your way along, it’s also the start of a fiveday run of fruitful stars.
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Mercury is already in Virgo. As of Friday, Venus will also help you to clean up and spruce up. Home matters and family keep you busier now. Saturday, you’ll finish off and/or push past it with someone or something. Sunday, sleep in, conjure it up, and love ’em up. The week ahead keeps you pleasantly immersed.
> BY ROSE MARCUS
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Venus leaves Leo on Friday but you’ll continue to derive benefit. The sun in Leo helps you to enhance it, while Venus and Mercury in Virgo help you to improve it, stretch your resources, and streamline down to your better picks. Looking good, sounding good, and hitting it right, Sunday through mid next week keeps you working it out mighty fine.
By all means, aim to claim the attention that you so rightfully deserve. While the sun is in Leo, it’s your time to shine. Saturday, there can be something or someone to get through. Sunday, don’t push, ease into it. Monday at the top of the day has more going for it than the rest. Tuesday/Wednesday, you’ve got it going on. Express yourself and you’ll win.
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Thursday/Friday and Tuesday/Wednesday, you’re in full swing. Saturday/Sunday can need a push to start or finish. Proceed one step at a time and all is fine. Places to go, people to meet, things to say—the next few weeks give you a good social and opportunity boost. Monday’s soso; Tuesday/Wednesday, you’re on and you’re hot! January 20–February 18
Whether it’s required or it’s a choice, both Mercury and Venus in Virgo turn your attention to getting a better handle on it, whether it’s health, finances, or relationships. Saturday’s stars include an element of strain or force, but Sunday onward, it’s a smooth go. Wednesday, renegotiate with the bank or the boss. February 18–March 20
In addition to an ideal weekend to get your relaxation fill, Thursday through Monday keeps you working your way through a relationship or financial matter. Take time to observe and allow, and watch for the missing blanks to fill in naturally. Progressively, you’ll gain the confirmation you need. Tuesday/Wednesday, it falls into place for you very well. -
Both Venus (heart) and Mercury (mind) have a bit more sorting out to do before they give you the all clear, but you can rely on Mars, freshly into upbeat Sagittarius, to give you good mileage and to keep opportunity alive. Saturday gets you over the hump. Sunday, relax. Tuesday/Wednesday are optimal; con- Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s nect, convey, create, sway, or seduce. free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. The words and ideas come readily.
> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < ATTRACTIVE WOMAN AT JJ BEAN, MAIN AND 14TH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 1, 2016 WHERE: JJ Bean, Main and 14th You were enjoying your coffee at JJ Monday afternoon (BC Day). I sat at the table across from you, just outside the store when I noticed you there. I struck up a very short conversation (a few questions, really). We exchanged a few more smiles while we drank our coffees. I would not have an issue with asking to join you and chat some more but I was distracted by some things that were going on and I had somewhere to go shortly after that. If you see this and would like to meet up, exchange some smiles and perhaps more, reply and let me know a little more about our exchange (where did you say might be going after the coffee?) so that I know it’s you. :)
TUESDAY @ TRAGICALLY HIP SHOW IN YOUR 50 MISSION CAP
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Rogers Arena Section 116 Armed with will and determination, and grace, too. You were sitting in the row below me with your buddy, you had on a white tshirt and baseball cap. Shy but courageous enough to ask for my number then disappeared before you got it. Tell me how we started talking and you can have the number :)
AT CORA’S FOR GAY PRIDE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 31, 2016 WHERE: Cora’s
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Wow girl you are beautiful. I wish I had the nerve to keep talking to you more... I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to keep it up? ...or let it go... I understand, had your hands full with your crew... I really enjoyed our small talk...
A BEAUTY ON DENMAN WHO FOLLOWED ME
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: Denman St
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I was in an orange t-shirt and shorts, with a backpack, carrying some plastic bags with groceries. You’re a beauty with a backpack and a cute lip piercing. You approached me when my thoughts were flying elsewhere, so I acted silly. Let’s redo the whole thing?
BLACK SWAN @ PRIDE
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TO T FROM ALBERTA LISA
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 31, 2016 WHERE: Davie Street @ Thurlow, we first met.
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: The playhouse on Thurlow and English Bay encounter
You gave me your steel finger and I want to return it too you. Davie Street Celebrities Sunday evening
T we danced, we flirted, I wondered. Flygirl wildfruit party at playhouse. Why didn’t I get your info for future dance adventures...You’re from Surrey, bumped into you again Saturday English Bay sunshine visit...
CHANCE ENCOUNTER ON YORK BIKEWAY IN KITS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: Cycle Track @ York & Maple
STUDYING FOR GMAT AT JERICHO
Our eyes met across the cycle track. You - a playful passerby and I, a sophisticated grad student. You were racing to a bike fitting, but generously slowed for my smile and droll one-liner. Convinced of the noble nature of our venture, you unselfishly graced my colleagues and I with your presence for 10 short minutes, tossing out witty replies and generally brightening up the place. Then you flitted off - out of sight - and seemingly gone forever. I’m intrigued and smitten. You have blonde hair, and were wearing a light coloured skirt (or dress) and riding a well-crafted road bike. I, an athletic-looking brunet, was “decked” out in a black v-neck t-shirt and tan shorts. Meet me so I can find out the most important answer: did you make the fitting? :)
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: Jericho Beach
CANNA CLINIC ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2016 WHERE: CANNA CLINIC COMMERCIAL I work at Canna Clinic. You came back in the store to give me your number, bumped into me with my boyfriend, and tripped and almost fell over the sign outside. I like your moves. I’m single now. Giant date?
CRYING TOGETHER OVER CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: 33 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9 Hi...Many thanks for reaching out and offering me your hand when I was leaving. You beautifully surprised me and I enjoyed holding your hand tightly. I would have liked to stay and chat about what made us cry so much during the movie. I returned and looked for you, but you were gone...If you happen to see this, drop me an email. I would love to get together for coffee or a drink sometime. Thanks for showing your vulnerability and for daring to touch me. You were braver than me.
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A Sunny Friday afternoon of the long weekend at Jericho beach. We started chatting about how great it is to study at the beach, because, like you, that is where I studied when I did my nursing degree. I was there with a friend and we went swimming and then left. I thought you were really cute and I wish I had asked for your name and number. If you need a break from studying, let’s grab a drink!
DAVID OUTSIDE ST. AUGUSTINES
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YOU READING, ME WRITING ON THE SKYTRAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2016 WHERE: Expo/Millennium Skytrain to downtown You were readingoing a book and I was journaling, on the Expo/Millennium line skytrain to downtown. We exchanged a smile, you asked me about my writing and I asked about yours (and about your book). Our conversation was cut short when you had to get off at Stadium-Chinatown station. I’d love to read one of your stories sometime, or just have a coffee chat! To verify, what book were you reading?
SKYTRAIN JULY 29 AT 11:30PM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 30, 2016 WHERE: sky train from downtown You: dark hair and beard with headphones and grey backpack, got on at Granville. Me: shaved head, reddish beard. Wondering if you are interested in meeting up?
YOU LOOK LIKE ART
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Drive
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2016 WHERE: Commercial & Broadway
You’re the tall, blond, recently divorced fellow who grabbed my hand and gave me a hug out of the blue outside St. Augustines. After checking my brain to see if I knew you and wondering if maybe you were on mdma, I concluded that you were simply being unconventional. I must say that your approach, unorthodox as it was, made my day. Good luck to you in life and love, David! Perhaps I’ll see you around the drive.
Shaved head, silver septum, tattoos down the right arm, dressed in flowing black. You turned back and waved when I got on the bus. Who are you?
LATE NIGHT BANTER WITH J ON 84 TO AND FROM UBC!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 28, 2016 WHERE: To and From UBC I was silly goof and never asked if we could trade info to hangout! I had lots of fun talking to you tonight. As we said Vancouver isn’t the most openly social city so it was refreshing getting to bust a gut with a stranger over “Train operator Larry getting crushed by a sandbag in a freak testing accident.” You mentioned you have a gf and I have a bf so it’d be great to just hangout or trade books since we live in the same area! If you don’t see this I bet I’ll see you in the area or on some late night bus ride. To verify what is my name or what phonecase do I have or what country is Larry from? Cheers!
MAIN DREAM SUSHI
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Dream Sushi
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2016 WHERE: Bachelor Bay
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You are the vivacious brunette that made my jaw drop as you and your slight bikini jumped on your red paddle board. I stood on the beach agape at your beauty and athleticism. Dumbstruck and frozen, all I could think was: If this girl can sauté an onion, I'll marry her.
JOGGING ON THE SEAWALL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2016 WHERE: Coal harbour
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HARRIS ROAD ANGEL IN A RED TOYOTA
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2016 WHERE: Harris Road Pitt Meadows 8:40ish, stopped at the light at Harris Road and Lougheed Hwy, you in a newer model Red Toyota, Me, Blue Mazda 3. I could only see you in my side view mirror but I couldn’t help but keep looking back. You must have heard something funny because you smiled and it was like amazing. Don’t know if you could see me or not but I’m wondering if you live in the neighborhood and if you would like to go for coffee sometime.
SUSHI BANG CUTE BLONDE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2016 WHERE: Sushi Bang on Broadway near Cambie I was the tall Asian guy in my gym outfit that walked into Sushi Bang on Broadway and Cambie and saw you sitting with your two guy friends. Your one friend was talking about vending machines very enthusiastically. We caught each other’s eye three times and I found myself finding you very attractive. I thought about you all through my walk home. I hope you get a chance to see this and we can get to know each other. Cheers!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Tofino
STEVESTON POKESTOP SPORTY ASIAN!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 26, 2016 WHERE: Steveston tram station I might be a little bit of a hopeless romantic for trying this... We were walking our dogs/hunting pokemon? At least I was. ;p I thought I saw a small smile so I tried to start a conversation. (The sun was in my eyes so I could be way off.. haha). We chatted for a short time before my dog decided to be a jerk and bark like a maniac. I instantly regretted not chatting for a bit longer. Hope this finds you!
RUSSIAN BEAUTY ON 135 SFU
We both recognized each other as you jogged by on the sea wall. I can’t remember where we know each other from and it is driving me crazy!
BONFIRES, BATS AND ROOM SERVICE
I was having sushi with a friend, have weird hair, and unless I’m mistaken you made eyes at me several times. Terrifying, and electric. Chop stick skill test soon?
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CURVY BRUNETTE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 24, 2016 WHERE: 135 to SFU
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I was sitting at the back corner of the bus. You were sitting on the side bench on the opposite side of the bus from me. We kept exchanging glances and smiles. I’m sorry if I was staring, but you really are a very beautiful Russian girl. Your name starts with an S, mine starts with a B. I got off at Rosser Ave. You stayed on, so I have no clue where you got off. In the unlikely event that you do see this, coffee/ dinner/ drinks?
HOUSEBOAT IN VANCOUVER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 25, 2016 WHERE: Vancouver
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You might have my email address wrong, it is dot net, not dot com. Was great meeting you, would like to carry on the conversation. Wish I had joined you at Cactus Club... If you don’t have my card, drop me a note here with info about how we met.
We shared coffee and croissants on the beach with our bikes. I watched you tame a rare and mystical creature. Wondering if you’d like to run away and have bonfires and room service forever. ;)
FIRE WORKS
GC RIDE IN PORTLAND
I was with my family (daughter, mother and her partner) and you were sitting next to us with a lady friend. We mad eyes a few times. I gave you a smile -you gave one back. I got such a warm and easy going sense from you. I’m sure you’ve gotten remarks on being Paul Rudds’ blonde doppelgänger in the past. I’d say he has nothing on you, though. In true cliche, “I’ve never done this before” but if you see this, I’d love to get together for coffee or a drink sometime.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 23, 2016 WHERE: Portland OR
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Jeff from Victoria, it was lovely chatting with you during the ride and before dinner. But then you dined with family and I dined with friends...and the evening was over. Care to meet up for another beautiful ride in our home province?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 23, 2016 WHERE: Fireworks: between Sunset Beach and English Bay
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